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2012 is fast coming to a close, so I thought that now would be a good time to reflect on my 50 favourite photography posts from the year, covering tutorials, tips, news, videos, photos, inspiration, and more.
I tried my best to order them by content, rather than quality, but to be honest with you, I gave up.
When you browse through the very vast array of content, I think you'll agree that it would be near impossible to rank them by quality. Like apples and oranges.
Also, with 50 tutorials to browse through, the last thing you want to do is read more from me (I'll be surprised if you're even reading this), so I've tried to keep my summaries short and sweet.
Without any further adieu, here's my top 50 photography posts from 2012…
15 Photography Mistakes I Made All the Time As A Beginner
I'm a big believer in learning from other people's mistakes, rather than my own.
So when a post like this comes along, I'm always interested in seeing if there's anything I can learn. Fun little post.
50 Quick Photography Tips
This is from Kai at DigitalRev, where he lists 50 Quick Photography Tips in less than 15 minutes. Quite amusing as always, and good content too.
RAW vs JPEG (JPG) – The Ultimate Visual Guide
Shooting RAW vs JPEG is a question that every photographer faces at some point. This is basically everything you need to know about making the choice.
Hint: you want to shoot RAW.
Common photographic mistakes by beginners, amateurs and pros – and how to avoid them
Beginners: Ever wonder why your photos don't look 'professional?' Amateurs: ever wonder why you lack consistency?
Pros: Ever wonder why you lose your edge or drive? Wonder no longer.
10 Ways To Improve as a Photographer
This post comes from by Jim Goldstein, a very well known landscape, nature and travel photographer, and he offers up some really useful insight into what he believes it takes to improve as a photographer.
Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Glamour Photography
I've seen a lot of posing guides this year, and this one in particular seems to be quite popular, as glamour and fashion photography is on the rise.
This Great Summary of Exposure
Understanding Exposure – ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed Explained. When you think of the craft or art of photography, you must immediately think of exposure.
Exposure is a critical element that determines what is actually recorded on film or the image sensor.
The Ultimate Beginner's Introduction to Exposure
This is a very long post, so be warned. But it's one of the best guides that I've come across as it covers everything you need to know, and there's good diagrams too.
99 Common Photography Problems (and how to solve them)
These are 99 of the most common photography problems and offered solutions to get round them, so you never have to be in doubt ever again!
They've offered a mix of camera tips, explanations, definitions and more to help answer your questions.
The Simplified Guide to Getting Started in Photoshop
When photographer Devon Mikale was in high school, he created this lengthy manual for his newspaper class to help others learn how to get started in Photoshop.
Here he's shared it online for free. It's great.
39 BS-Free Tips To Change Your Photography Forever
It's something I wrote on a bit of a rant, and it came out great.
How Lens Focal Length Shapes the Face & Controls Perspective: A Lighting Tutorial
The lens or focal length of the lens you choose has a profound impact on the image. It effects the perspective, background and features of the subject.
This is an important lesson.
A Behind-the-Scenes Glimpse of Matthew Albanese's Magical Miniature Worlds
These amazing images appear to show beautiful outdoor scenes, but were actually shot on a tabletop in his studio.
He creates extremely detailed dioramas that take months to complete, and then uses various photographic techniques to make the scene look like the real world.
BeetleCam vs the Lions of the Masai Mara
These guys basically strapped a Canon 550D and a Canon 1Ds MK III to a couple remote controlled cars, and got up close and personal with some lions in the wild.
Some really cool shots, definitely worth checking out.
Photographing the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima
VICE accompanies photographer Donald Weber to the buffer zone at Fukushima, Japan, where the eerie silence mirrors that at Chernobyl, and follow him as he attempts to document the unfolding nuclear crisis.
Gotta love VICE magazine.
Get Some Perspective
It's good to have a little perspective—to know where you stand and just how big (or small) your world and the things in it are.
Most pictures we see include something we recognize—a person, a house, a car, or something else that we already know the size of.
102 Things I Have Learned About Street Photography
Eric Kim has been doing street photography for five years, and he's learned a lot through trial and error during that time. Here's a list of 102 of those lessons.
You can read my interview with him here.
Kite Aerial Photography 101
In this post you will be shown how to build a quick and easy rig to get your camera flying (without any magic wands and jumping from nukem driven airplanes).
6 Portrait Lighting Patterns Every Photographer Should Know
In classical portraiture there are several things you need to control and think about to make a flattering portrait of your subjects, including: lighting ratio, lighting pattern, facial view, and angle of view.
This is one of your first steps.
Give Yourself an Honest Portfolio Review
Portfolio reviews are incredibly important because it allows you to see your work through someone else's eyes who are seeing your work for the first time.
This will help you to see where you can improve.
Behind the scenes at a McDonald's photo shoot
Isabel M from Toronto asked "Why does your food look different in the advertising than what is in the store?"
The answer? An exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of a McDonald's Canada photo shoot.
Futuristic Family Reunions with Skype
In Singapore, it is a common practice for entire families to gather on special occasions for a formal picture, often at a studio, with the resulting image framed and prominently displayed at home.
The growing tendency of younger family members to take jobs abroad, however, has left many modern portraits missing a relation or two.
So the Singaporean photographer John Clang devised a solution, piggybacking on the video-calling technology that already helps ease the dislocation of separated family members: Skype.
How To: Photograph a Stranger, by Jimmy Hickey
This video goes over the process of taking photographs of strangers while traveling the world, or walking to the local convenience store.
The idea, the approach, creation, and closing are the four main points presented here.
How To Shoot A Liquid Flow
If you like waterdrop photography, then you're going to love this. It's creative, colourful, and very impressive photography, which you can do at home by yourself.
How to Manually Create an HDR Photo in Photoshop
Here's a tutorial on how to do non-automated HDR for real estate photography using Photoshop CS5. I hate HDR which looks like a clown has thrown up on it. This is much better.
The Photographers You Idolize Are No Better Than You
Think you're rubbish, and you don't know what you're doing? Don't worry, you're certainly not alone. Pros are just pretending anyway- fake it til you make it!
12 Things You Didn't Know Your DSLR Could Do
Your digital SLR is a picture-making powerhouse. It likely has additional capabilities you may not know about—features that can improve your photos and make for a more enjoyable shooting experience.
You may be surprised at the clever elves lurking in your camera body.
Famous Photographers: 225 tips to inspire you
Here are some insightful words of advice from more than 50 DCW interviews. Famous photographers from a wide range of disciplines offer their top tips and photo ideas, as well as provide insight into the best practices that helped make them famous.
An Expert Guide to Matting and Framing a Photo
Photos live in the print, and this is a really tremendous guide about how to matt and frame them yourself, with lots of photos to guide you.
Sure, you can pay someone else to do it for you, but I enjoy this sort of thing.
Almost (I'll make ya) Famous
This is probably a photo you've all seen before. Read the story about how the photo was taken, and the response the photographer has had since he first published it.
Inspirational Photos by Neil Armstrong
As the primary photographer of that first successful manned lunar mission in 1969, Neil Armstrong, was responsible for some of the most iconic images of the modern age.
Come have a look at some of them.
100 Things I Have Learned About Photography
This is similar to the other post listed by Eric Kim above, only it is much more broad, covering photography as a whole. My favourite point is: Travel and photography are the perfect pair.
20 Things I Wish I Knew About Camera Lenses
People often think that the 18-270mm lens is a really great choice, because it does so much. False. It sucks.
This post will teach you plenty about camera lenses.
10 DIY Photography Projects to Save You Money
Whoopsies, here I am again. The post I listed previously was my best post of the year, this is the post that's received the most visitors, so I figure it's only fair to include it.
Plus finding 50 different posts is harrrrd. It links to 10 different posts, so don't go giving me the credit.
50 Great Photographers You Should Know (With Portfolios)
Being a good photographer is not easy, let alone getting to that professional level. Here are some of the greatest photographers around the globe and their awesome portfolios.
Hopefully you'll be able to get some sort of inspiration from their work.
How to See If Your Photos Are Being Used On Another Site
People steal photos all the time, because they're selfish, or they're tight, or they just don't get that it's stealing.
Using this technique, you will be able to see for yourself if anyone has taken your photos.
Rules for Perfect Lighting: Understanding The Inverse-Square Law
This is a rather technical post, all about lighting, and the inverse-square law. You may find it a little heavy if you have no experience with lighting, but I assure you it's worth the read.
14 Ways To Significantly Improve Your Photography Today
Here is a collection of tips you can go out and try today to improve your photography and creative eye.
Pay no attention to the order, they are all completely random and spontaneous.
Ian Ruhter – self-taught tintype photographer making the largest wet plate print ever
Ian has created some truly amazing wet plate photos using a tintype camera, which he's made in the back of a van.
This interview and video discusses how he did it, and the amazing results he's produced.
The majority of us carry a camera with us everywhere we go. And the best camera we have is the one we have on us.
The one on our phone. Learn how to improve your phoneography.
The world's 25 most beautiful travel destinations
Photography and travel go hand in hand, and if you're looking for inspiration, and beautiful places to take photos, then this blog post covers a really cool selection of locations.
lebron, wade, and i
I love seeing behind the scenes photos like these, especially when they're this good. The style is really candid, and expressive, and they capture the atmosphere of a professional athlete.
Well worth a look if you haven't seen them already.
10 Tips for Improving Your Wildlife Photography
More and more people have become photography enthusiasts, and more and more photography enthusiasts have started venturing into a genre previously reserved for only a select few…Wildlife Photography.
Tips From The Pros: Follow Three Photographs From Shutter Press to Finished Images
In fine-art, advertising, fashion, even landscape photography, the distance between a single press of the shutter button and the final image has never been greater.
Here's an inside look at what some master manipulators do to create their work.
Seven Things I Wish I'd Have Known When I First Became A Photographer
Scott Bourne wants to tell you seven things he wishes he'd known before becoming a photographer. Why would you not read this? My favourite point is number 4.
28 Resolutions from 28 Seasoned Photographers
Lots of outstanding insights, commitments and lessons can be found in their goals for 2012.
And one thing is clear – regardless of their niche, these photographers are determined to get serious about marketing.
Online Hue Recognition Test
How good is your hue recognition? It's important to know, because 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency.
Best photos of the year 2012
The conflict in Syria escalated as the pressure to oust President Bashar al-Assad intensified. Hurricane Sandy struck the U.S. Northeast leaving heavy destruction a week before the country re-elected Barack Obama as President.
In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year.
How do you think I did then? What have I missed? Leave me a comment and let me know. Thanks – Josh.
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Events & Festivals
26. August - 01. September
A competition involving local and foreign grilled meat (ćevapčići) makers, along with professionals and hotel management students. The event is accompanied by cultural and entertainment activities.
14 - 18. August
Belgrade Beer Fest™ is on average, the biggest beer festival in Southeastern Europe. Within 5 days, over 500.000 people visit the festival. The large number of visitors is mostly due to basic festival principles: free entrance, an exceptional music program, and a wide range of foreign and domestic beer brands.
29. June
Danube Day in Serbia is huge! 29 towns and cities are celebrating the day with over 100 fun and inspiring events.
05 - 11. August
The Guča trumpet festival, also known as the Dragačevo Assembly, is an annual brass band festival held in the town of Guča, near the city of Čačak, in the Dragačevo region of western Serbia. Guča is a three-hour bus journey from Belgrade. 600,000 visitors make their way to the town of 2,000 people every year, both from Serbia and abroad.
Novi Sad, Serbia
Exit (also known as State of Exit) is an annual summer music festival in the Petrovaradin Fortress of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. It is staged annually since 2000 and since 2003 lasts four days.
31. July - 03. August
Gitarijada (trans. Guitar fest) is a musical festival held in Zaječar, Serbia in order to promote demo bands. Held since 1969, Gitarijada is one of the longest lasting festivals in Serbia and in South Eastern Europe and the largest festival of young and unsigned bands in South Eastern Europe.
15 - 18. August
NIS, Serbia
This jazz festival was re-established on January 19th, 20th and 21st, 1995 after four years of pause following the death of one of its original founders, Bata Anastasijević. Today's Nišville main award is named after him. The re-established festival was held on two stages at the Niš Army Club and it was international.
19. July - 19. August
LJUBOVIJA, manastir Sv. Nikolaj
The event "Moba", held in Soko Grad Monastery in the Diocese of Sabac, where young people gather in the Diaspora in various countries. Their stay is a new opportunity to socialize, but also to actively participate in some activities in the monastery. During mobe they have classes Serbian language, history, culture, sports, cultural and artistic events, visiting shrines in Serbia.
24. July - 09. august
The TID, or the Tour International Danube, is the most important tourist regatta in Europe, which takes place at the end of July.

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- May be installed with mortar or silicone, or from inside or outside with nailing flanges
- Installation at any temperature when using nailing flanges and sealing with silicone
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Patient visit volunteer needed to offer visits to terminally ill patients and their families in South King County, for companionship, conversation, reading, socialization, singing, playing music, and/or handholding.
Come make a difference and help to improve someone's quality of life, while gaining experience and skill, by providing compassionate presence and care to Kindred Hospice patients and their families.
Come join our team! Volunteers are an essential part of our dynamic interdisciplinary team (of nurses, doctors, spiritual care providers, social workers and home health aides). Our Patient Care Hospice volunteers help to provide support and comfort to our hospice patients and families, by visiting them during a time of need.
Kindred Hospice of King County Volunteers may serve in a multitude of ways, including offering patient companionship (such as reading a book, engaging in conversation, actively listening by the bedside, playing card games, singing or holding someone's hand). Volunteers may also provide caregiver/family respite, or light household work, running errands or engaging in arts/crafts activity. Volunteers may also assist with special events such as memorial services and veteran pinning ceremonies for our hospice patients and families. Kindred Hospice of Seattle volunteers drive to visit and offer support to hospice patients and families.
We provide free extensive training and ongoing education and support for our volunteers. We value and nurture our volunteers as essential members of our interdisciplinary team. We seek a diverse volunteer team that reflects our multicultural community. Volunteer trainings occur in our office in the Northgate area. Our patients and families are located throughout King County. There is particular need for volunteer support in the South Seattle area.
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I worked in fast food and at greasy spoons from the age of 14 all the way through college, so I sometimes get a little picky when it comes to how my food is prepared. The thing I get most picky about is my Tex-Mex… I rarely order a fast food burrito (a fast food burrito is a burrito from Taco Bell or Taco Cabana… please understand that a burrito served on a plate and smothered in sauce and cheese is an entirely different animal) simply because no one employed at these places can seem to assemble a burrito correctly.
Fact: a burrito (by design) is not supposed to fall apart… if it didn't matter if it fell apart, it'd just be a big damn taco, right?
Also, a fast food burrito is not to be folded in on both ends; doing so takes away from the total usable fold-able area of the tortilla and only results in more rapid burrito self-destruction.
In an effort to contribute to the overall worldly good, I now present an easy and dependable method of reducing the dreaded Burrito Fallout Syndrome:
|1. Position your tortilla.(12-inch tortillas are suggested. If you can find bigger, use them!)
|2. Place your filling.(No suggestions from me… I made a SPAM burrito once, so anything is fair game.)
|3. Fold the bottom flap up. Do not be stingy with the amount of tortilla devoted to the flap… it's the only barrier between your filling and your lap!
|4. Bring the side up and over your filling. Tucking the edge of the tortilla under your filling is an excellent extra step.
|5. Create a small fold with the remaining side of the tortilla. This is the KEY to maintaining burrito integrity. Failure is a given if you do not follow this step!(The small, diagonal flap is an extra "lock" for the bottom flap of the tortilla… without it, the weight and viscosity of your filling has the power to force your bottom flap right out of itself.)
|6. Bring the remaining tortilla flap over the filling. Eat with confidence.
You're probably thinking, "this is the dumbest thing I have ever seen on-line". That may be, but I think this is slightly less dumb than dancing hamsters. In all honesty, I'm so adept at wrapping burritos that friends and co-workers would often have me work my magic for them when we ate at Taco Bell, right at the table… strange but true.
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Former Ronald Reagan speechwriter and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan had only harsh words to share about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's speech on Israel Tuesday, saying he looked like a "cheap, base-playing buffoon."
Noonan criticized the GOP presidential front-runner for undermining President Barack Obama when the United States was in a particularly tough spot at the United Nations, saying Perry shallowly tried to exploit the Palestinian statehood threat for personal political gain.
Perry accused the Obama administration of "appeasement," a loaded word in international diplomacy, and of being "arrogant, misguided and dangerous."
She wrote:
This was meant not to defuse but to inflame. It does not seem to have occurred to Mr. Perry that when you are running for president you have to be big, you have to act as if you're a broad fellow who understands that when the American president is in a tight spot in the U.N., America is in a tight spot in the U.N. You don't exploit it for political gain.
Perry competitor Rick Santorum responded: "I've forgotten more about Israel than Rick Perry knows about Israel," he told Politico. Mr. Perry "has never taken a position on any of this stuff before, and [the media is] taking this guy seriously."
The Israeli newspaper Ha'artez likened Mr. Perry's remarks to "a pep rally for one of Israel's right-wing politicians, and a hard-liner at that," adding that the governor "adopted the rhetoric of Israel's radical right lock, stock and barrel."
I'd add only that in his first foreign-policy foray, the GOP front-runner looked like a cheap, base-playing buffoon.
As I said, Mr. Obama can't win this election, but the Republicans can lose it by being small, by being extreme, by being—are we going to have to start using this word again?—unnuanced.


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You've got to hand it to Cartoon Network's MAD. They took a heaping handful of inscrutable internet memes, plopped it on top of their new Thundercats show, and made this surrealist smorgasbord that should be all but impenetrable to anyone not in the know. All they need is a guest appearance by Xzibit as Mumm-Ra, bellowing about "shoting" web.
See also: Batman versus memes, Superdickery on Brave and The Bold.
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Suppose we have a smooth dynamical system on $R^n$ (defined by a system of ODEs). Assume that:
(1) The system has an absorbing ball, that is every trajectory eventually enters this ball and stays in it.
(2) The system has a unique stationary point, and this stationary point is locally asymptotically stable.
(2) The system has no period orbits.
Can we conclude that the stationary point is in fact globally stable?


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The basics:
180k miles
~1.5" lift
Limited 4.30 gears & rear e-locker
Magnaflow muffler
AirRaid intake & deckplate mod
Cooper Discoverer ST/MAXX, 235/85
custom sliders
The Story:
Late last year the wife and I were scheming of getting rid of two of my vehicles (96 Volvo 850 and 79 Toyota Pickup) and buy a new Taco. We settled into a responsible budget and were making progress toward a sizeable down payment. Then, a friend of mine decides to sell this 4Runner he'd had for a few years and done some work on. So, out with the plans for the Taco, and picked up this instead. All of the 'build' has been done by my friend, I've just inherited it at this point. Only real modification I've made was to switch to Contura switches for the e-locker and driving lights.
The Pain:
Remember kids, don't text and drive!
Was parked in front of my house, about 11:30pm a rainy early March evening. 20-year old girl driving down the street, looking down at her phone, ran through the neighbors trash/recycling cans and straight into the back of the 4Runner She was going fast enough that she pushed it forward a little more than the length of the wheelbase. The hitch took all of the impact, but that resulted in the wrinkle in the frame at the front of where the hitch connects to the frame. Quote from the repair shop was $8200 to *replace* the frame. As expected, her insurance totalled it. After the loan was paid off and I bought it back, I was left with a bit over $500 to set aside for having the frame straightened, when I finally sell off my Volvo and Pickup that will fund the rest of the repair.
Other than that excitement, this thing has been rock solid for me. Have been able to take it out into the woods a handful of times, mostly overlanding trips, but a few where I got to flex it a bit.
The 'build'?:
I don't really plan on building this thing up much more than it is. Owning an older home and having an almost-one-year-old daughter means there's no real budget to spend on that. Hoping that I can convince the wife that a set of bumpers would be a good purchase, coordinating with having the frame repair done.
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Ernie M. sent me a link via email that is of interest for those who are researching the Baca family. Somos Primos publishes an online journal. In its 141th online issue, there is an article titled Origin of The Cabeza de Baca Family in Spain by Dr. Eric Beerman, Madrid. The article is about half-way down the page.
I have done research on the Baca family, and I agree with the history that he wrote in this article.
Click on this LINK to view the article.


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Day six: How'd you get your hair like that?
For day six, I combed through Colfax in Capitol Hill to see what kind of hair I'd come across. Enter D: a 26 year old Denver resident. D's hair styling process is every woman's dream: he wakes up everyday and does nothing to his 'do – literally, nothing – and it looks perfect.
He doesn't comb it. He doesn't brush it. Doesn't use mousse, wax, gel or spray. He cuts it himself, sometimes. And yeah, he'll wash it when he needs to. His Afro is a low maintenance masterpiece.
You know, some people – like young women with short, blonde, thin hair, who need to put it in a Betty Cooper ponytail all the time – spend at least twenty minutes in the bathroom everyday with hairspray and a teasing comb. And it still doesn't come out right. But D just gets to wake up to that beautiful, natural head of hair every morning that requires zero effort.
Sigh. He's a lucky guy.
Follow my series here and on Twitter, with @notajappycamper.com and #denverhair.
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Ruby Wax: How To Be Human
Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone.
Ruby Wax: How To Be Human
Based on her bestselling book, Ruby's new show How To Be Human answers every question you've ever had about evolution, thoughts, emotions, the body, addictions, relationships, sex, kids, the future and compassion.
We can't stop the future from arriving, no matter what drugs we're on. But even if nearly every part of us becomes robotic, mechanical fingers crossed we'll still have our minds. Hopefully we'll use them for things like compassion, instead of just chasing what's ?better' like a hamster on a wheel. If we can do that, we're on the yellow brick road to happiness.
This show is the follow up to Ruby's sell out shows Sane New World and Frazzled and incorporates what she discovered whilst writing her latest book, including finding out about how the mind works with monk Gelong Thubten and learning from neuroscientist Ash Ranpura where everything that makes us 'us' can be found in the brain.
Outrageously witty and smart, blending brilliant comedy and insightful life lessons, How To Be Human is the show you need to help you upgrade your mind as much as you've upgraded your iPhone.
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Google denied its Google Street View team ran over a donkey in Botswana as it snapped pictures.
A photo emerged from Google Street View in Kweneng, Botswana of what appeared to be a "helpless donkey," according to the Atlantic. Then the image went viral and the accusations mounted against the driver and Google.
"Our Street View teams take the safety of people and donkeys very seriously," a Google spokesperson told Australia's The News. "A review of our imagery confirms that we did not cause any harm to the donkey."
Google's version of events is that the donkey was lying in the road and got up as the vehicle approached, which happened off-camera. Twitterers denied this, saying that it appeared the donkey was hit by the Google vehicle and left on the road.
Looking at the photos (and the writer grew up around horses) we can safely say that horses, mules and donkeys like to roll around in the dirt. (It's usually called a dust bath.) A donkey is a also a large animal and if a vehicle hit the animal head on, there would be some major damage to the vehicle -- not to mention that the vehicle would have to be a tank to have run over it. If the vehicle hit the donkey, the donkey would have been tossed across the road from the impact rather than flying underneath the wheels. Instead it looks like the vehicle slowed or stopped and the donkey got up and left -- much like Google suggested.


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The temps were well over 100 degrees that day and the wind was so strong that we had to close the garage door to keep the saw dust from blowing around and blinding us. It was like a sauna, but we were not daunted as we sweat over each board, and cut, and screw, and nail. The basic construction was simple and with the help of my husband's collection of DeWalt tools, the chair took shape pretty quickly...until we hit a snag.
Remember that I had purchased the lumber for one chair, but we had decided to make another? Well, when it came time to cut the boards for the back of the chair, we didn't have enough of the right size of lumber. This didn't stop my friend. We marched into her house, passed her husband sleeping in the recliner, and into her bedroom. There, I watched with my mouth open as she pushed her bed away from the wall, grabbed a section of baseboard, and ripped it from the wall. Seriously. I could barely suppress my giggles as we tiptoed back to the garage carrying this "reclaimed" piece of lumber. Her husband woke up briefly and asked what we were doing. Her reply: "We just grabbed this from the bedroom." Seriously.
I am faced with the dilemma of what to do with my beloved, classic, hand-built-from-reclaimed-lumber Adirondack chair. Do I attempt to take it apart and replace the damaged wood? Do I give it another coat of paint and hope for the best? Do I convert it to some kind of planter for my flowers? Do I just give in and burn it in the firepit? What would you do with a classic?
I faced that question last weekend, too. Hubs sent a text and asked if I wanted to go out to dinner with friends. On the high of a freshly mowed lawn and flowers blossoming on the patio, I suggested that they come over to our house for a simple cookout. Awesome. Plans made. Then I panicked. People coming over in just a few hours? Yikes. What to make?
I settled on grilling burgers and hotdogs, slices of watermelon, a "pizza" salad with pasta, veggies, pepperoni, mozzarella, and Italian dressing, baked beans, and Frog Eye Salad. Two little girls would be in the mix, and I had hoped they would like the sweet pasta salad made with Acini di Pepe. (I was wrong, but oh well. haha) As I trolled the internet for an exact recipe, the first ones that came up were the classic versions with homemade vanilla pudding requiring eggs and all. Even though I had made this several times before, I was feeling a bit frazzled for time and decided to go with a short-cut instead of the classic. A recipe using instant vanilla pudding grabbed my attention. I messed with the classic Frog Eye Salad and came away with something that was still every bit as good...at least if you want to take the opinion of my Hubs. He had 2 large helpings...as if that is anything but classic for him. :-)
1 (20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained (reserving 1/4 cup juice)
1 3/4 cups milk
1 (3 1/2 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
2 (12 ounce) cans mandarin orange sections, drained
3 cups mini marshmallows
Bring a large pot of salted water to boil.
Add the pasta and cook 8-11 minutes (or according to package directions).
Rinse with cold water to cool pasta.
Drain well.
In large bowl, beat reserved pineapple juice, milk, and pudding mix for 2 minutes.
Gently stir in pasta and remaining ingredients.
Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour, but preferably over night. (Serves 12)


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First Caller Of The Day: Caitlyn's Diarrhea Wishes -- December 11th, 2018
This morning, our first caller Caitlyn #TBT-ed to the tip her Mom called in and wished diarrhea upon her high-school Spanish teacher for failing her... and the whole School heard. LOL!
First Caller Of The Day: Brittany from Amazon -- December 3, 2018
This morning we chatted with Brittany, who works at Amazon!
First Caller of the Day: Akeelah the 21-year-old National Guard
Our first caller of the day Akeelah, who recently turned 21, talks about drill and how she has off of work next week!


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You can't faze Doc
CLEVELAND — Those clubbies sure do have a sense of humor. When newly acquired Blue Jay Kevin Mech arrived at Progressive Field today, he found his locker inside the clubhouse was situated directed next to one Roy Halladay.
It was Mench who drilled a line drive back up the middle on July 9, 2005, breaking Halladay's leg and ending the ace's season. Halladay might've been on his way to a second American League Cy Young Award that year.
It was obviously an attempt by the Indians to try to get into Halladay's head.
So, Mench and Brad Wilkerson — both picked up by the Jays today, in case you hadn't heard by now — were both on hand and in the lineup today. Mench can play outfield, spend time at DH and maybe man some first. Wilkerson can play outfield and first, as well.
This begs the question, though, who's the odd man out when David Eckstein and John McDonald come off the disabled list? Jorge Valendia is probably headed back to Triple-A when one returns, but another spot will have to be cleared. I guess that makes this a two-week evaluation period of sorts.
Would the Jays dare rid of Shannon Stewart after giving him the job over Reed Johnson at the end of spring? Would Toronto move either Eckstein or McDonald and risk thinning out the infield depth? Or, will it be one of Mench or Wilkerson to go when that time comes? It's certainly a topic of debate for now.
Today's lineups:
TORONTO (17-19) at CLEVELAND (16-18)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Progressive Field
Alex Rios, RF
Aaron Hill, 2B
Scott Rolen, 3B
Vernon Wells, CF
Kevin Mench, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Rod Barajas, C
Brad Wilkerson, LF
Marco Scutaro, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Halladay
Grady Sizemore, CF
Franklin Gutierrez, RF
David Dellucci, LF
Victor Martinez, C
Jhonny Peralta, SS
Travis Hafner, DH
Ryan Garko, 1B
Asdrubal Cabrera, 2B
Casey Blake, 3B
PITCHING: LHP C.C. Sabathia
COUNT 'EM: 31 different Jays lineups in 36 games
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Why are the Jays picking up OF? I know that the Jays have been after Mench for years. I have never understood why. His stats are very average.
Have the Jays given up on Lind? What about Snider?
This must be part of a bigger plan. Maybe Overbay is on his way out of town?
It looks like Stewart's days in a Jays uniform are numbered. This moves him down to 6 on the OF depth chart.
I say it's a trial period for Mench and Wilkerson to see who plays best to platoon with Stewart. My money is on Mench.
Unless lind starts tearing it up again in AAA I say his days in a Jays uniform are numbered. This year they will obviously try and fill the LF void with the options in place now, as for 09 who knows… Hopefully Snider is ready! He is the long term solution.
If one of the new guys could hit I would say good deal JP but they cant and comeing to TO. wont make them any better so why bring them here.
Maybe I'm looking at this wrong both of these guys might see this as their last chance and play like the devil I sure hope so.Oh and one game wont tell the story.
Doc looks good tonight.
Holy ca moly! They are already in the lineup? What is with that? Not too much of a vote of confidence for our regulars. That is moving pretty quickly, don't you think?
Halladay always looks good. It is the Jays bats that are the biggest problem. The starters must feel they have to pitch a shutout to win. Alot of pressure on the Jays pitching staff.
I think the Tribe will be very tough this year. There starting pitching is very good. No Westbrook, he'll be back though.
Jays got lucky, no Cliff Lee this weekend. He has been the best in the A.L. this year.
J.P. needs to focus and gets Gibbons a bat or two. Perhaps Mench and Wilkerson will help. Sometimes a change of scenery does wonders for players.
So far the bats are not working,We face a pitcher who is having trouble until we come to town and we make him look like the ace he was last year and at the same time kill Doc.
It doesn't matter who the hitting coach is. Brantley or Jordan, lol. Overbay is a guy that needs to get his bat clicking, look like the Overbay of the past. In 2006 he was excellent. His wrist injury must have really messed him up.
Look at Boston. Dave Madagan was the hitting coach in San Diego and they couldn't hit. In Boston, Magadan looks very smart. Anyone with a half of a brain could look good as the hitting coach in Boston.
Vernon will be done for season as are the Jays now…….Bet ya JP will be putting a call in to Barry Bonds no later than tomorrow……….only chance to save the season!!!!!
Well bosox with Wells out now what.
I meant gsumner where are you.
If this team keeps treating Doc like this I wouldn't blame him if he asked to be traded because this team sucks I't is worse than last year by a mile.
What happened to Wells ?
He turned his wrint on a web gem play.
The pitchen tonight was garbage from the starter to the bullpen Doc put the runners on base and it cost him 4 runs the bullpen was just as bad and we have the worst offence in the majors.We will finish in last place this year the only good thing is the Jays may clean house.
I meant his wrist.
I agree, unfortunately that we will finish in last place this year. A major shake up need to happend to get this ship right. The pitching for the most part has been outstanding, but with little to no offence to speak of, how long can the pitching keep it up.
It is not the hitting coaches fault, we switched coaches and same result. JP and Gibby must go….. '
Realy can't beleive how this season has gone. We need someone to come in and light a fire under them.
I am speechless.
you guys are foolish. Last place? I'm pretty sure with the 12 pitchers we have, we will win more than we lose, regardless of whos hitting. Does anyone really believe Baltimore and Tampa Bay (and frankly New York), all three of whom have horrendous pitching, can all finish ahead of us?
Horrible Move by the jays, NOW I DO BELIEVE THAT WE JUST NEED TO TURN THIS LINEUP AROUND, IF NEEDED TRADE HALF THE PLAYERS AND A FEW PITCHERS FOR GOOD HITTERS….
DOC'S GONNA BE PISSED and like someone said I wouldn't be surprised if he asks to be traded if this continues…but then again he did take a salary cut a few years ago to stay in the jays uniform…
Whats's wikerson and mench gonna do? They are worse than what we have…
Our problem isn't hitting, its hitting with runners in scoring position
Now that wells is gone, I FINALLY THINK THAT BONDS IS THE WAY TO GO…SEE WE SHOULDN'T HAVE GOTTTEN RID OF THOMAS…EVERYHTING HAS GONE DOWNHILL FROM THEN ON…MAYBE A TRADE SO WE HAD SOMETHING IN RETURN WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER…ANOTHER BONEHEADED MOVE BY JP
I am seriously thinking about stopping to watch all the Jays games…is there any point left…just watch the highlights the next day to see another Loss for the Jays and another great starting effort go down the drain….
We NEED a hitter like, UTLEY, HAN RAM OR HOLLIDAY OR SOMEONE WHO CAN HITT.
Wells is gone…another waste of money, overbay is not gonna be the same again…another waste of money, Thomas released…another waste of money, singing Bonds…once again a waste of money (unless he produces),
I say GIVE LInd one more chance and bring out all our young ppl maybe they have better luck, can't believe i am going to do this but if they don't start winning in the next 10 games then our season is gone for good, injuries once again start mounting up…
The problem with the Jays is they go into Cleveland where they have lost more than they have won with the mindset oh we can't win here and last night we face a pitcher that was 1 and 5 and they let him walk all over them who is the person or persons responsible for this kind of thinking find them and get rid of them.
As far as Wells goes a 7 yeas 126 mil. contrac was way to much a 4 year 48 mil. deal is all he should have been offerd and if he said no to bad this team did the same thing with Delgado and where did that get us not to the playoffs thats for sure.
Im with Harry start playing better than 500 or I will find another pastime.
Not that it cost them the game last night but I think it's time that Accardo be relegated to the back of the bullpen. Give Frasor higher leverage innings.
I continue to believe that Barry can help the Jays immensly. Why give up our most valuable assets (pitching) for offense when arguably the greatest hitter of all time can be had for nothing but money.
Where will they get the money for Bonds JP spent it all on big contracts and garbage players and one bat wont do the job the last two players he picked up are a waste of skin that nobody wanted anymore.
Who do you think will help this team.
You guys lost a good one when they traded Hanley Ramirez,I wish we had two or three players like him.
The only players that we have that are any good not counting pitchers are Rios-Wells-Rolen-Mac-Hill-maybe overbay-we don't have a good catcher or Left Fielder or a good DH, Or manager or GM,pretty sad case what do you think.
Wow are you guys negative! In one way I understand.. but holy crap it's just a game.There are a lot of teams sucking at the plate this season without the benefit of first class pitching like the Jays.Gibbons isn't doing as bad a job as you guys let on.He can't bat for them.I've seen him do more managing this year because of scuffling offence.Heck if this club was 27-10 and running away with the division some of you would want Gibby's head.The manager can't swing the bats and throw the ball guys…..Just ask Jim Leyland.
In my view Halliday should have never been sent back out in the 7th inning. He had already thrown 101 pitches against a very difficult lineup. In my view if we keep pressing him like this, he will either go through a dead arm period for 6-8 games or risk injury. Halliday has already pitched 63 innings or about 8 innings per outing. If he continues on this pace, he will total about 260 innings, BEFORE we get to the playoffs. If anyone thinks that is going to happen without injury or assume he'll have anything left for the playoffs if we get there, they're dilusional. Mark my words on this post.
I will reserve judgement on signing Mench and Wilkerson until the next shoe drops. The fact is our problem is not hitting LH pitching, it's hitting with RISP-neither of these two guys will solve that problem. All 3 of these guys ( including Stewart) hit well against LH pitching, BUT they're all either below or around the Mendosa line against RH's. My preference of the 3 is Mench. Stewart ( against Tampa Bay) looks like he's done, particulary against rh pitching. In the last game against TB, he was serioulsy overmatched against a rh throwing only 92 mph.
I think Mench is an upgrade both offensively and defensively to Stewart and if they dump Stewart and recall Lind (who has always hit rh pitching well, except the last 6 games) then we'll have a really good platoon situation in LF.
But none of this solves the real problem, which is hitting with RISP. This team is about to set a new low level standard for that stat and no one player or two player change is going to solve it. I think everyone of these guys are pressing. Abner needs to call a club house meeting or two and take the pressure off, and remind everyone HR's are not needed, what's needed are opposite field singles to move the runners along. It seems to me every one is going up there trying to yank it over the fence or accomplish too much. As a result pitchers are playing them on the outer part of the plate, no one is hitting to the opposite field but instead are hitting these soft dp ground balls or swinging so damn hard trying to hit a hr, they strike out.
Maybe the manager can't swing the bat but he should be able to motivate this team just look at him when he walks out to the mound he's like an old man maybe it's because he can't make a move without JPs permission I don't know what it is but he has had a good team for the last three years and has went nowhere,Also would you like to see Cito back.
Is there anyone who would like to see Cito back.
Gsumner what happend to small ball the Jays started to use it at the start of the season but have since dropped it.
I agree with the small ball. I have no idea why we stopped playing that way.
JP said me don't like small ball because me have small balls LOL.
You are right…we are being a bit negative , for a team spending 95 million+ the amount of hitting getting from that money is ridicously low.
The only good bats that I consider on the Jays are:
Wells (gone for sometime atleast)
Rios (Slumpint a bit)
Hill (Too Streaky of a hitter)
Rolen (Injury Prone)
and as you see each one has a problem…
And as I mentioned before hitting isn't the problem its hitting with runners in scoring position,
The team isn't the problem its the management…
Signing Wilkerson and Mench isnot going to solve our problems and giving up gustavo chacin and sergio santos (not that useful but still) doesn't help either
We need to have a whole new turnover of the Lineup, they can no longer put up numbers they did in the 2006 season…
We need to do with the lineup the same thing we did with the rotation, keep a couple of players and bring everyone else in and get rid of present players…
And man Frank Cattalanato when he was here, he was great at hitting to the opposite sides of the feild and really helped the offense in small ways…
I'm not sure Chacin is a loss. In Dunedin, (A+), his era was 7.0, so it certainly didn't look like he was making it back.
I guess you are right Chacin isn`t a loss but we still had to give him and santos up…for ppl like mench and wilkerson…thats not reassuring
I swear, the next time JP or Gibbons make a preseason comment like "Well, so long as we stay healthy, we'll have a shot at the division" I'm going to throw my shoe at the television. So that's 6 regulars (including Jmac, who should be a regular) on the 15 day. Nice Jinx folks! Someone needs to remind the reporters in about a month when these guys start trickling back into the lineup to "Give the lineup/bullpen a shot in the arm" that the team was losing *before* this happened. (Janssen excluded from this argument of course). I feel like I'm about to see the baseball equivalent of "The Replacements" without the warm fuzzy ending or the hot cheerleaders. All I wanted to see was about 2 games when I get back to T.O. this summer, now I'm not so sure.


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Look at what I just found on EBAY!! BRENCHAL fans definitively should go look!!http://www.ebay.com/itm/Big-Brother-13-BB13-Winner-Rachel-Brendon-Autographed-Empty-Patron-Bottle-/170721140988?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27bfc5e0fc#ht_630wt_932
Yes people have bought tons of stuff that was autographed by them and others. In fact this season Brendon & Rachel were talking about a guy who has a monster collection of BB stuff.. guess what I know him he's a really nice guy and his collection is HUGE!!
How did Brendon's cast switch arms?
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I have heard about "The Elf on the Shelf" tradition for the past few years, however this is the first year we have had an elf. Our elf showed up on December 8, 2009. Hannah was thrilled to see the elf, but was worried that he would eat all of the cookies that I have been baking. She had heard some stories about these elves from her friends at school and from Aunt Kelly & cousin Noah (who has an elf named "Quirky"). Hannah has named our elf "Buddy" (wonder where she got that from?), but today I was told that he also goes by an alias – "Peppermint". When Hannah went to bed last night, Buddy was happily hanging out in the kitchen getting his shoe fixed by Aaron. When we woke up this AM, Buddy was hanging out somewhere new:
He stationed himself where he could keep an eye on Hannah & Jon and then report back to Santa.
If you haven't heard the story behind "The Elf on the Shelf" here is some info for you to read:
From My Family to Yours,
This charming tradition began for our family when my children were very small. Like most children through the ages, they wanted to know how Santa really knew who was naughty or who was nice. Their answer, as in my own childhood, came in the form of a small pixie-elf.
The first time the elf arrived at our home, my children officially adopted him by giving him a name. Each year he would arrive around the holidays, usually at Thanksgiving. His sole responsibility was to watch the children's behavior and report it to Santa each night. The next morning after the children awoke, they discovered the elf had returned from the North Pole and was now resting in a new and different place. My children would race each other out of bed to try and be the first to spy him in his new position.
Over the years the tradition was perfected and rules were introduced. For example, to better preserve his mystique the children were not allowed to touch him but talking to him was a different matter all together. My children shared many secrets with the elf, and while he was under strict orders not to talk to them, the elf was under no such orders where grown-ups were concerned.
Unwittingly, the tradition provided an added benefit: it helped the children to better control themselves. All it took was a gentle reminder that the "elf is watching," for errant behavior to be modified.
I never dreamed this simple tradition would lead to so many treasured Christmas memories for our entire family. It is my earnest desire that The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition will bring as much joy to your family as it has to mine.
Enjoy this tradition, and MAKE IT YOUR OWN!
With my best wishes for you and those you love,
This letter was written by the author of "The Elf on the Shelf".
We can't wait to see where Buddy (aka Peppermint) shows up tomorrow!
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Semi-finalist Michael "Big Mike" Lynche has been cut from American Idol because his dad told The St. Petersburg Times that his son made it to the top 24.
According to American Idol's confidentiality policy, those in the know must keep the weeks's results a secret until they are broadcast.
Lynche has already been replaced, The St. Petersburg Times reports.
Lynche is not the first Idol contestant to get booted for technical violations. Last season, Joanna Pacitti was replaced by Felicia Barton after FOX deemed she was, "ineligible to continue in the competition."


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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
New Videos Out by APG
I'm really looking forward to watching the new videos from APG. The inaugural videos from last year by Mary Penner, Heather Henderson and Elissa Scalise Powell were wonderful. I think we are being spoiled by having so many extra to view this year. Thank you APG for posting these online thus making them available publicly.
If you are a professional genealogist, or even just considering taking a step in that direction then you will get a tremendous benefit from watching the videos. They cover topics that address core business skills which professional genealogists need to know.
This year's lineup includes Leslie Albrecht Huber ("Get Published in Magazines"), Elissa Scalise Powell ("Choosing the Best Continuing Education Opportunities"), Paula Stuart Warren ("Niche Planning and Marketing"), Donna Moughty ("Expand Your Revenue: Produce and Sell Your Lectures in Video Format"), and D. Joshua Taylor ("A Key to Success: Your Online Presence").
The toughest decision is going to be which one to watch first!
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Faced with an embarrassment of riches in this week's singles sack, we have cheated and chosen two favourites.
Single of the Week! Although this week there are two!
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – 'All In One Sixty Dancehalls EP'- (Greco Roman)
There are few labels able to maintain that peculiar singularity of vision, where everything - from the smallest pin-badge to the shoutiest box set - makes a delicious sort of sense. Labels like Heavenly or Warp, whose attention to detail is somehow all of a piece, no matter how huge they become. Now, with Greco Roman, I am glad to say we have another, and it is fair to say that they could release a 12" double-A side of Werner Herzog saying the word 'DOOM' over and over and over again, and I would buy it and cherish it and confer upon it a special corner of the rack. Even so, with all that admitted, this is a Giant Peach of a single - a perfect statement of elated intent which does not sound like Germany's hardest working, full of foreboding, film director. And which does sound like the sort of victory music you would wish to hear to congratulate your rescuing of a princess, after weeks misspent on a console. We are told 2-stepper 'Bournemouth' is a tale of seaside teenage pregnancy but I suspect this will be missed amidst the dripping sweat, aching soles and general, gurning joy. 'Moon hits the Mirrorball' on the other hand, takes one and a half fidgety minutes before jumping in with some wonderfully understated vocals which are as calm on the ears as Alexis Hot Chip's tender tones, and just as sincere and affecting. Greco, it should be remembered, are only on release number 5 - and yet they already feel like an old friend. Albeit one who wants to take you out all the time and douse you with booze and naughtiness, but who will also hold your hair your hair back when you vom, and then make you a bacon sarnie in the morning.
Single of the Week #2!
Matt & Kim – 'Lessons Learned' (Artwerk)
Quite apart from the brilliant Final Destination stylings of the video (which you are hereby commanded to watch to the end), this is a pop record that comfortably confirms Matt & Kim's DIY credentials via the 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)' list-y vocals and a side order of Broadcast/Feist-y (and deceptively cute) da-da-dah-ing. And then occurs a quite magnificently climactic chorus that tumbles into capturing exactly how you feel when you've 'Stayed. Up. All. Night.' and can't see either the wood for the trees or how exactly tomorrow is likely to be any better than (horrible) today. It's a beautiful contradiction, at once pure uplifting pop and sad, tired dejection.
Wave Machines – 'I Go I Go I Go' (Neapolitan)
In any normal week a perfect little summery shit of a record such as this one would have strolled, unencumbered, to the top spot. But as everyone in music appears to have released perfect bits of plastic, and - what with this being a re-release - the Machines will have to make do with bronze. Merseyside's art-poppers are cheery in ways that remind you of things like the Beta Band's 'Easy'. And like 'Easy' I am happy to report that though it sounds like idiot-grin pop, Wave Machines have deeper layers of messiness and melancholy up their sleeves.
Wave Machines - I Go I Go I Go
Kasabian – 'Fire' (Columbia)
Did you read the marvellous Alexis Petri-dish Kasabian feature in Friday's Guardian? You really must, as it is an unintentional lol-athon of magnificent proportions. And isn't it curious how a band who insist on spending entire interviews banging on about how fucken' fucken' FUCKEN' MASSIVE they're going to (fucken) be, then ally themselves far too close for comfort with nitwit prawns like the Gallaghers, before suddenly wondering why everyone thinks they're laddites. Anyway, this being a bumper week we shall let the big, swampy, pace-changing rock thing that is 'Fire' speak (or perhaps, bellow) for itself. And will not forget to mention – especially as I have spent the week covered in axle grease, WD40 and wire wool doing up a couple of bikes – that it is a stroke of true, unadulterated genius to call a song 'Swarfega'.
Plastic Little – 'La La Land EP' (Half Time)
Sometimes it's difficult to keep one's principles in check, which is why there are more than a few retrograde and downright offensive anomalies in my record collection. So while I am happy for Dizzee to insist I let him get behind my backbone, or Mystikal to bark about performing all kinds of wrongness on my bits (the peerlessly sexist and yet peerlessly brilliant 'Danger (Been So Long)'), I am not happy for Plastic Little to peddle this sort of lazy. Essentially 'La La Land' involves them telling some unnamed woman to shut up and stick 'it' in their face, and I wouldn't usually mind for I realise (or at least, have been told on the press release) that this is - ha-ha! – 'comic' rap. But this is a) not nearly funny enough and far more importantly b) a strangely empty, hugely repetitive and boring 'jam'. And no amount of remixing (in this case – count 'em – four) is going to turn it into something worth getting terribly excited about.
Honorable Mentions!
The Mummers – 'Wonderland' (Big Bass Drum)
Impossibly lush fairground orchestral pop, the dizzyingly lovely 'Wonderland' demonstrates further evidence of The Mummer's ability to combine Ipcress File-era John Barry with Bjork-style vocal histrionics, and it is blissful hearing records as careful and complicated as this. EDIT: It's also now free to download, here.
Foxes! - 'Who Killed Rob?' (Catcutter)
Included mainly because they begin 'Who Killed Rob?' with the lines 'Bicycle I loved you so' / 'I guess he's metrosexual' and then later 'Where's my ambiguous neon vest?' – none which stand up to close scrutiny, but which made me smile. Anyway - pleasing levels of naivety from indie poppers who clearly live in toy town. Although warning: there is a man eating an ice cream, while wearing a comfy cardigan and riding a bicycle in the video. Then something very bad happens, before it all morphs into Shakespeare's Sister's 'Stay'. Or at least, how Shakespeare's Sister's 'Stay' might look were it made by the professionally twee.
Gang Gang Dance – 'First Communion' (Warp)
Backed by a remix by TVOTR, this spirals off beautifully, recalling the drums and angular jangle of !!! with The Slits' yelps slapped on the top. This reminds me not to be quite such a massive dick in dismissing things which are not instantly accessible or which are prone to noodle. Accordingly I have given myself a slap and will now go back and listen to the album. (Properly).
White Rose Movement - 'Cigarette Machine' 'Small and the Witches Revenge' (Domino)
Double A-side worth buying for the delightfully strange, urgent and vocal-free 'Small and the Witches Revenge' which manages to combine the found sounds of knives sharpening, a cat purring and a variously sexy/furious-sounding Fronch saucepot. I am somehow reminded of when I used to buy twelves by ROC and enjoy the gathering oddness, and also of records which make little or no sense, but still have the capacity to captivate.


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March 19, 1984
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John Pinkney
A Perth schoolboy claims that ugly alien beings tried to drag him from a tent on the front lawn of his parent's home.
While Mark Davies, 13, of Midland, had his brush with the unknown, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bell, who live only two streets away, were alarmed by a huge green and white cone, hovering over their garden.
The strange encounters came at the peak of a 12 hour UFO scare in January.
The flying saucer flap involved dozens of Perth famlies whose digital clocks stopped and car engines, refrigerators and ovens failed.
A police van cruising near the scene had a radio blackout. The patrolmen, Constables Tim Moffit and Mark Fleskens, later reported that an eerie white light had appeared inside the van, behind the driver's seat.
For Mark Davies, the ordeal began about an hour after he had bedded down for the night in a makeshift tent on the front lawn of his parent's house.
Mark's still in shock, his mother Eileen told me. "After that first night, when he rushed into the house screaming, he's clammed up completely and refuses to discuss it further.
"It was a hot, sticky night. Mark had asked if he could sleep outside, so we rigged up a rough tent for him with old sheets and steel posts.
"Soon after midnight, he burst into the bedroom, screaming. He told me and my husband Malcolm, that horribly ugly beings with guns, had been trying to tear off his blankets and drag him from bed.
"At that moment we knew nothing of the UFOs appearing right then in the district -- we naturally assumed Mark had been having nightmares. But it was impossible to calm him down.
"First I tried putting him in his own bedroom, but he screamed so much I finally brought him into bed with me.
"I noticed the clock radio had stopped. Next morning I discovered that the fridge had shut off, too.
"At about 1 am Mark seemed to be getting worse. He was shaking so violently and so much saliva was running from his mouth. I finally presumed something on the lawn had bitten him.
"We took Mark to a doctor, who told us it was probably a touch of the sun. But when he examined Mark, he was puzzled by a large red scratch on his stomach.
"When the doctor asked how he'd come by that, Mark replied that it was where the creature had clawed him during their struggle.
"We accepted the doctor's sunstroke theory until the next day, when the radio news was full of reports of strange lights over our suburb.
"We then started questioning Mark more seriously about what had happened -- but he totally refused to communicate.
"He burst into tears, saying the creatures would take his 12 year old brother Kevin if he said any more.
That same night of the alleged kidnap attempt, police were called to the house of artist Sidney Bell, two streets behind the Davie's house.
"I woke to see two forks of light coming out of the sky," he said.
"Then, in the middle, there appeared a huge green, white and blue light about 30 meters high and tapered to a point at the top.
The thing was sitting on the ground, on a base about 6 meters wide. An Alsatian over the road began moaning, as though it had been hit by a car."
Constable Moffit, 23, was assigned to investigate -- and he, too, saw the cone of light traveling north along the Roe Highway, he shouted to his offsider Constable Fleskens, 21, that he had spotted the extraordinary object hovering above Midland.
"A bright flash of white light then appeared inside the van," Constable Fleskens said.
I understand that, after the flash, the police van's radio failed -- severing their contact with the Perth communications center.
Theirs wasn't the only equipment breakdown on Perth's night of the UFOs.
Mark Meelas, director of WA's UFO Investigation Center told me, "Many people in the suburbs say their digital clocks (even those with battery backup) went off during the sighting.
"The remarkable thing was that all the clocks came back on several minutes later, showing the correct time, instead of flashing 12.
One woman told Meelas she religiously unplugs her microwave oven every night in case there's a power surge. During the sightings, the unplugged oven switched itself on. (!)
The UFO seems to have emitted some kind of force," Meelas said. "During the time it was seen, a fence was pushed over and two trees were bent to a 45-degree angle.
Mark Davies is not the first witness to describe an attempted abduction by clawed creatures.
During the 1970's two fishermen in Pascagoula, Mississippi claimed that beings with talons had wafted them aboard a hovering flying saucer. Hypnotists and lie detector experts were unable to shake the men's story.


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Banks get stress test results next week, public on May 4
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators will begin telling the nation's 19 largest banks late next week and the public 10 days later the results of "stress tests" designed to gauge whether the big financial institutions could survive a much deeper economic downturn, McClatchy has learned.
A senior regulatory official, speaking on condition of anonymity because details about the stress tests haven't been finalized, said that banks will be able to respond to the conclusions reached by federal regulators from April 24 and May 3. Then the results will be given to the public on May 4.
"What comes from regulators and what comes from banks is a matter (still) under discussion," said the senior official.
Regulators are likely to release late next week, on a number of government Web sites, the assumptions they've used in conducting the stress tests, which examine what would happen to bank capital in different economic circumstances.
Although regulators frequently examine the banks, the current tests launched by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are designed to evaluate what would happen to bank balance sheets in gloomy scenarios where the unemployment rate reached 10.3 percent.
That's not the worst case possible to many mainstream economists, who think 10.3 percent unemployment, or higher, might be probable before the U.S. economy finally recovers from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
If regulators determine that a bank lacks sufficient capital, it'll get six months to seek private capital or face the government injecting its own capital into the bank and taking an ownership stake. Banks needing more capital can skip the search for private capital and appeal directly to Treasury for funds — and federal partnership.
The stress tests are controversial, partly because Treasury didn't reveal just what regulators are looking at and where the money will come from if future capital injections are needed.
This led to the view that the stress tests were a tool to force banks into putting up for sale the so-called "toxic assets" clogging their balance sheets. Treasury recently announced a parallel bank-rescue program in which the government would provide money to subsidize private investors who'll purchase the assets, which currently have few buyers.
"I think what we now know is they didn't have a consistent plan for the stress tests. They probably initially wanted to use it as a private source of leverage with the banks and a public source of approval for banking," said Vincent Reinhart, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy research center.
The problem, he said, is that banks wouldn't be allowed to differentiate themselves under the original plan. Some big banks such as Goldman Sachs & Co. already have announced that they're healthy and want to return their government bailout money. That puts pressure on other banks to do the same.
"By subtraction, you can figure out who the bad ones are," said Reinhart, a former chief economist of the Federal Reserve's rate-setting Open Market Committee.
Banks perceived to be weak could see a flight of both investors and depositors. That's why making results public is tricky for bank regulators, who include the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Following the March 2008 failure of investment bank Bear Stearns, investors immediately began fleeing the bank perceived to be the next weakest, Lehman Brothers. It eventually failed in September, a turbulent month in which other institutions perceived to be weak — such as Wachovia and Seattle-based thrift Washington Mutual — were merged into other institutions.
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Demonstrating Confidence When You Speak
Research consistently proves that you don't have to feel confident in order to act as if you are, and the more you act 'as if' the more confident you feel. Here's how you do it:
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Look others in the eye when you speak, open your chest to fill your space and hold your head still.
Speak as if you mean what you're saying. Grab hold of your consonants to project authority, pronounce your vowels clearly to carry the musicality of your message, and use language your listener can understand without having to refer to a dictionary.
Model the behavior of people who demonstrate confidence. By adjusting your stance, vocal tone and word of choice to match the people who display confidence, you come across as confident yourself.


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Homemade Kumquat Marmalade
We've been very lucky this year. Our kumquat trees have produced a bumper crop. Yesterday, the girls brought me a huge bucket filled with beautiful kumquats. When I tasted them, I found them a bit sour, so I decided to make a nice batch of marmalade.
As a child, I ate a ton of marmalade on my vacations to Great Britain, but I have to say the best marmalade I've had is made by husband's friend Laura. She adds a dash of vanilla extract to her marmalade which I think really brightens and accents the citrus flavor. She also makes great homemade vinegar.
Yields: 8 cups2 lbs kumquat
2 small limes
8 1/2 cups sugar
6 cups water
1 tsp vanilla extract
8 1/2-pint Mason jars
Squeeze the limes. Gather the juice and pulp.
Wash the kumquats and thinly slice them using a sharp chef knife. Discard all the seeds and the white center membrane.
Place the sliced kumquats, lime, water and sugar in a pot. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to a medium low and cook for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat. The content should be syrupy. Cover, set aside and let it sit overnight (at least 18 hours) at room temperature.
The following day, bring the kumquat syrup to a boil, then reduce a simmer for one hour. Stir every now and then using a wooden spoon. Bring back a boil. Skim any foam that develops on the top before pouring into the Mason jars. Add the vanilla extract.
Fill a big pot of water and bring to just under a boil. Place the Mason jars, lid, heat-proof funnel and tongs in the pot and let it boil for 10 minutes. Be sure to read the instructions that come with your Mason jars. They'll give you exact time and techniques.
Remove the jars from the water and fill with kumquat marmalade leaving about a 1/4-inch head space or whatever your canning directions say. Carefully place the lid on the jar. Tighten the collar around each jar. Bring your big pot of water to a boil and place all the sealed jars in it for 10 minutes.
Remove the jars from the water. If the top of the lid still pops, the vacuum didn't form and you'll need to consume the product in the next couple of weeks, storing it in the refrigerator. Otherwise you can store it in your pantry for up to a year.
This is a tartine (toast in French) made out of brioche that I slightly toasted and spread with butter and kumquat marmalade.
To insure a good sterilization of the product, I stack a dozen magnets together to create a stick and use it a gripper to place the lids on the jars without touching them. Just make sure the magnets are clean!
The next day, when you bring the marmelade back to a boil after simmering for an hour, your candy thermometer should read 220°F.
Another test is to place a drop of the syrup on a cold plate. After it cools down (2 minutes), if you tilt the plate and it stays in place, it's time to put the content in jars.
The marmalade will taste better if you let the sealed jar sit for at least a week before opening.
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To address that condition, and with no end to it in sight, we decided to break the log jam by introducing a process "for debtors and lenders to [mediate and to] reach consensual resolution when a debtor's residential property is at risk of foreclosure" by "opening communications between debtors' and [the] lenders' decision-makers."3 LMP §I Purpose, 1.
The Rhode Island Loss Mitigation Program was conceived as a case management tool designed to encourage the resolution of differences between residential mortgage lenders and their borrowers, and to provide a way for them to access the various federal housing programs available outside of bankruptcy, such as the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). The Loss Mitigation Program is intended to start a dialogue, giving the parties nothing more than the opportunity to discuss their respective positions. The alleged dire consequences of the implementation of such a Program, as predicted by PHH have not materialized, and if any do emerge, they will be judicially
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We spoke to Parrot at the CES Unveiled event in Las Vegas today, and were shown the firm's new AR.Drone 2.0 remote-controlled helicopter, as well as a range of dedicated in-car internet devices.
Get to the chopper
Parrot's AR.Drone - a small quad-propellor helicopter that can be controlled remotely via iPhone or other smartphone - always pulls in a good crowd. Sure enough, even at CES 2012's exceptionally packed Unveiled event this afternoon, Parrot's stand was noticeably better attended than most.
The successor to 2010's popular Parrot AR.Drone was showing off its usual acrobatic tricks, but more intriguing was the connected video feed. Ideally for the spy/film auteur crossover segment, the helicopter's camera now shoots in HD - or at least 720p.
A free app is available that lets users record HD video from the helicopter's camera and share it with others, and there's a 'travelling' feature that enables those previously mentioned film director types to set a particular aerial, moving shot - a direction and duration, basically - and then the AR.Drone 2.0 will do the hard work.
Parrot also reckons it's got the stability of the device improved, and the manoeuvres on show seemed to back that up.
The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 in action. Parrot's expanded range of Asteroid internet devices can be seen in the foreground
The AR.Drone has an optional indoor propellor guard, as seen in these photos.
Here's what it looks like in outdoors mode
We were told that the AR.Drone 2.0 will launch in the US in the second quarter of 2012, with a predicted price of $299; UK launch details were unavailable, but we'll let you know you as soon as we do.
Asteroids in-car internet devices
Parrot was also showing three new additions to its Asteroid line of in-car internet devices. The previous Asteroid model was integrated into a car's dashboard, but the newbies are standalone units that are fitted with brackets, in the manner of satnavs.
Nevertheless, the firm sees the units as dedicated to the car: a company spokesperson argued that it's better "to leave the smartphone at home" and maintain a device for accessing web services in the car.
There are three new Asteroid internet devices: the Asteroid CK, which has a 3.2in colour screen and a wireless remote, the Asteroid NAV, with a 5in multitouch colour touchscreen, and the Asteroid 2DIN, which has a 6.2in multitouch colour touchscreen. All three will launch this year, but pricing details are yet to emerge.