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monicaleeartfulrecrafterhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124508693896688849.post-78352707821401583352016-05-23T15:51:21.303-07:002016-05-23T15:51:21.303-07:00I certainly can!I certainly can!Pamela Gerardhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124508693896688849.post-91064887170372915212016-04-12T09:16:20.869-07:002016-04-12T09:16:20.869-07:00Hi Monica! I came over from Pamela's blog, and...Hi Monica! I came over from Pamela's blog, and am looking forward to checking out some of your other posts! I love book sale events, but yours seems even more spectacular than the ones hosted by my local libraries around here. Very cool panoramic photo, by the way. If you are ever in the mood to swap some mail art with someone new, you can reach me at email@example.com, or through my blog at http://andria-drawingnear.blogspot.com. Pamela can vouch for my love of mail art! :-)Andriahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124508693896688849.post-46329489913592321452016-04-07T19:47:40.857-07:002016-04-07T19:47:40.857-07:00This looks like an amazing event, so much fun &...This looks like an amazing event, so much fun & you got some great books. I'm in awe about the standing in line for an hour and the # of books that they have - here in my small town, our book sale isn't nearly as big.Tammyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124508693896688849.post-68912413453441557572016-04-04T08:01:34.818-07:002016-04-04T08:01:34.818-07:00We did score! And I LOVE that panorama photo, Moni...We did score! And I LOVE that panorama photo, Monica. I can't seem to make it work on my phone -- I need a lesson. Fun post.Pamela Gerardhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8124508693896688849.post-73842797122019009572016-04-03T16:02:23.922-07:002016-04-03T16:02:23.922-07:00love a good book sale~looks like you two really sc...love a good book sale~looks like you two really scored!
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Inside Llewyn Davis ambles into cinemas this week, the latest in a long line of Coen Brothers classics boasting yet another cast of complex and quirky individuals.
Though it features several of the same faces repeated throughout, the Coen character roster spans an impressive 30 years: the criteria for inclusion is simply to be interesting, well-spoken – and hey, if there's a mad hairstyle in the mix too, then that probably won't do them any harm either. Let the Coen countdown begin, and let us know your favourite in the poll at the end of the feature.
25. Jesus Quintana (The Big Lebowski)
A brilliant example of a single-serving Coen character, 'The Jesus' is at once sublime and ridiculous: a bowling aficionado and pederast clad only in the brightest purple. When he's not polishing his balls for show at the Dude's favourite alley or celebrating to the sounds of The Gypsy Kings, he can be found going door to door to explain his predilection to the neighbourhood. The creep can roll, but it's as Walter flatly says: "Eight-year-olds, Dude".
24. Ed Tom Bell (No Country For Old Men)
The righteous heart at the centre of the Coen Brothers' most sinister tale, Tommy Lee Jones lends the world-weary West Texas sheriff all the facial crags the Cormac McCarthy character requires. With Anton Chigurh leaving a trail of corpses across the state and Llewelyn Moss vying to be the next, all that's left for old Ed Tom to do is clean up the mess with a sigh and a shake of the head: "The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure."
23. Leonard Smalls (Raising Arizona)
A bounty hunter played by granite-chinned ex-boxer Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Leonard Smalls is the cartoonish representation of evil in the Coens' goofiest movie to date, that Woody Woodpecker tattoo on his arm the perfect indicator of his mental state. Eventually he comes a cropper before he's able to steal the baby of heroes H.I. and Ed, blown to smithereens by his own grenade, but if you will wear them as fashion accessories then mistakes will be made.
22. LeBoeuf (True Grit)
It was always going to be hard to draw focus from Jeff Bridges in the Coens' adaptation of the Charles Portis western, but Matt Damon at his most pompous is not something to be missed. A Texas Ranger who takes far too much delight in flashing his badge, LeBoeuf picks up the reins and joins the adventure but even a lacerated tongue can't stop him from bickering with his nemesis – truly he is the cock to Jeff Bridges' Rooster.
21. Professor G.H. Dorr (The Ladykillers)
How often do you get to see Tom Hanks really cut loose as a bad guy? Knocking his 'hitman with a heart' from Road To Perdition into a cocked fedora, Hanks' eccentric Southern professor is a total sod, planning on robbing a casino with his gang while under the supervision of his suspicious landlord. The Ladykillers isn't the most popular Coen movie, but can any film in which Tom Hanks demands "waffles... forthwith!" really be all that bad?
20. Tom Reagan (Miller's Crossing)
Hell hath no fury like a henchman scorned: Gabriel Byrne's ice cold assassin doesn't take kindly to being kicked out of the employ of his mob boss, playing him off against another up-and-coming gangster as revenge. Byrne has only worked with the Coens once, but it was enough: he plays the quintessential hitman with a heart (sorry Tom), expertly selling the soul behind those dead eyes while betraying nothing except those who cross him.
19. Wheezy Joe (Intolerable Cruelty)
You won't find much fan love for Intolerable Cruelty out there, because... well, it's not up to the Coens' usual standard. However, there are a few saving graces, one of which comes in the delightful form of asthmatic assassin 'Wheezy' Joe – a man for whom a hand-gun and an inhaler really should be more distinguishable from one another. Clooney and Zeta-Jones bring the rat-a-tat charm, but Joe hacks up that trademark Coen quirk.
18. Loren Visser (Blood Simple)
No one writes scumbags quite like Joel and Ethan Coen, and private eye Loren Visser (as played by M. Emmet Walsh) was their first and arguably their scummiest. A sick, double-crossing son-of-a-bitch, Visser tries to lie, cheat and kill his way to a fortune ("If the pay's right, I'll do it!"), but at least Blood Simple's narrator has a sense of humour. "Gimme a call whenever you wanna cut off my head," he growls. "I can always crawl around without it."

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Ever wondered why your computer mouse cursor points slightly to the left?
There's a reason for that, going back to a 1981 research paper published by Xerox. (Xerox famously invented the rolling ball mouse, an idea that was later developed with more success by Apple.)
Turns out that the arrow looks sharper when the pixels are stacked in such a way as to create one straight, vertical edge to the arrow head. Here is the schematic from the 1981 Xerox paper:
This little snippet of history was explained recently by Bart Gijssens, a Belgian software developer, writing on Stack Exchange, the site for coders:
The mouse, and therefore the mouse cursor, was invented by Douglas Englebart, and was initially an arrow pointing up.
When the XEROX PARC machine was built, the cursor changed into a tilted arrow. It was found that, given the low resolution of the screens in those days, drawing a straight line and a line in the 45 degrees angle was easier to do and more recognizable than the straight cursor.
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Newly installed "Historic Town" signs now inform motorists that the quaint town of Makawao is just a few miles away.
The large, brown signs along Haleakala Highway were installed recently by the state Department of Transportation in coordination with Councilmember Mike White, who represents the district, and Mayor Alan Arakawa and staff.
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- What factors allow some international courts (ICs) to rule against the express preferences of powerful member states, whereas others routinely defer to governments? While judicial independence is not the only factor explaining the strength of a given international institution, it is a necessary condition. The paper first develops three sets of competing explanatory variables that potentially can explain variations in the judicial independence of ICs. The causal effects of these explanatory variables upon variance in judicial independence are investigated in a comparative analysis of the ACJ, ECJ, ECtHR and IACHR. It is found that the threat of governmental noncompliance and the strength of the constituency possessed by an IC have the most explanatory power, although there is still a significant residual that can only be explained by looking at factors relating to judicial choices and agency.
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In America, the land of the free, a great debate arose about the nature of freedom. Was freedom the right to be morally excellent without constraint on one's conscience? Or was freedom the license to do whatever one wanted without *any* constraints? Evangelical Christians decided it was the former and organized to fight against what they believed to be grave moral evils in society, hoping to use the law to limit some smaller freedoms in promoting the greater cause of moral freedom. So they fought to outlaw things ranging from public indecency to a situation where they believed that human beings were deprived of legitimate personhood. The latter situation was a multi-billion dollar industry that the entire economy had come to depend upon, and the evangelicals were in the minority. People called them religious fanatics who were trying to force their morality on other people and establish a theocracy. The evangelicals in turn argued that their opponents were forcing their immorality on Christians, and that they were just trying to protect the basic human rights of those being deprived of them.
This was the situation in America in the 1840s and 1850s, and the issue was slavery.
The other day, the Susan G. Komen Foundation announced that it will stop funding Planned Parenthood–temporarily. The cessation is not because of pro-life pressure. It's not because Lila Rose showed PP is fraudulently taking money from Komen to provide "free mammograms" that it doesn't actually provide or even refer to. It *is* because Komen won't fund organizations that are under investigation, and there are federal and state level investigations against Planned Parenthood inspired by Live Action's work (and while I'm among those who questioned the ethicality of Lila Rose's work, I never questioned its efficacy).
This has led to an uproar among the feminazis. Interestingly, when it was, until a few days ago, pro-lifers who said, "We won't fund Komen if our money is being passed on to Planned Parenthood," we were horrible people who didn't care about women's health because we should put aside our petty concerns about abortion to support the more noble cause of fighting breast cancer. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, the same people are *still* accusing pro-lifers of not caring about women's health, but they're the ones saying they won't give money to Komen. And I never saw any pro-lifers attacking Komen per se, only its policy of supporting Planned Parenthood, but the pro-deathers are putting up Internet images of a "No" sign over the Komen logo, etc. See the following example:
How about supporting all women equally by not getting into a controversial area that has nothing to do with breast cancer? (Except that abortion causes breast cancer, if you believe the majority of studies done on the subject, versus one exception that is touted by the Population Control establishment). There are lots of places women can go for free health care, and Planned Parenthood doesn't even provide free "health care". It provides abortions for profit, and its own reports show that that is 99% of its activity.
And, of course, the other big news in the pro-life community is the HHS mandate that all insurance companies, including religious employers, not only provide coverage for contraceptives and abortifacients but actually provide them for free. The US Bishops are finally taking a stand, after sitting by while contraception was legalized, and sitting by while abortion was legalized, and sitting by while no fault divorce came out, and sitting by while IVF was invented, and sitting by while gays were allowed to adopt, and not speaking out against same sex marriage until after it was already allowed in several states–NOW they decide to take a stand in the Culture Wars other than "both parties are right in some respects and we don't endorse politicians," even while they actively endorse Democrats.
What really gets me in these situations is how people don't respect our right to protest what we believe to be grave evils.
Liberal anti-war protestors throw fits at Ft. Benning and other places. Liberal OWS protestors "occupy" poor people's apartments. PETA activists shut down Mepkin Abbey's organic chicken farm because, they admit, they want it as a symbolic gesture to work towards banning all chicken husbandry.
All this is noble activists working for the common good, but when pro-lifers protest something, they're horrible religious fanatics forcing their moral views on other people.
If pro-lifers compare abortion to slavery or the holocaust, we're told that the comparison is offensive, that it's violent political rhetoric, etc.
At least in the case of slavery, however, it's an extremely valid comparison. As _Roe v. Wade_ notes, abortion was legal in the colonies and later US until the mid-1800s. It's not so much that abortion was legal that matters, though; it's why abortion became illegal.
The antebellum era, as noted, the situation was much the same as it is today. Evangelicals were politically active, fighting evil on a variety of fronts, including trying to outlaw slavery, a practice where African Americans were being deprived of basic human rights, denied legal personhood, for the sake of the economy.
The abolitionists were unpopular in their day, a very vocal minority, who, again, were criticized for trying to force their morality on other people–nevermind that the slavers were forcing their "morality" or lack thereof on the slaves, nevermind that the slavers were forcing everyone to participate in an economy based upon slavery. That situation, as far as the latter, was nowhere near as bad as abortion. At least the slavers were arguing purely for their "freedom to own slaves", states' rights, etc. The so-called "pro-choice" movement today is not merely arguing for the liberty to kill babies at will–they're arguing to make it a right that we have to pay for with our tax money and our insurance money, and they've now achieved that end through President Obama, whom many Catholics and African Americans voted for because they thought, somehow, he was "pro-life"???–or at least they argued that he couldn't be any worse on abortion than a lame Republican like McCain: yeah, right.
In terms of individual liberty, Abortion is now a worse threat than slavery was, because it's no longer "just" about the personhood of the unborn babies; it's not just about the conscience rights of medical practictioners; it's about the conscience rights of every one of us who don't want to pay for other people's abortions. The supposed advocates of "freedom" and "choice" don't seem to care about that.
Again, what really irritates me is that the people who support PETA protestors and boycotts, the people who support anti-war protestors and boycotts, the people who support their *own* protests and boycotts, will not support *our* right to protest and boycott on issue we feel is of grave importance. They accuse pro-lifers of not really believing in the cause we claim to believe in but rather having ulterior motives (such as oppression of women), which only casts doubt on their own commitments, if that's what they think. They accuse us of trying to force our morality on them even on a matter such as asking them *not* to force theirs on us.
I really wish they could just give us that much credit–but, again, that just proves their own hypocrisy.


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By Jesse Maruschak
Search for uncrowded parking lot puts author across hollow from taxidermy bill.
My 2010 season began as a comedy of errors, though I wasn't laughing.
At first light on opening day of Missouri's archery season, I drilled the biggest buck I'd ever seen. But after 12 hours of trailing in the rain, I reluctantly gave up the search, which was a first for me. I'd never lost a deer.
In mid-October, I had an opportunity at an 8-pointer that was bigger than anything I'd ever shot. But it appeared too late. I couldn't see through my peep sight.
Three weeks later, I missed a doe when my bow's upper limb hit my bow hanger.
So much for 50-something hours of sitting in stands on land about an hour and a half from my driveway!
I usually went with Eric, my best hunting buddy, and we'd hike at least a mile in before climbing our respective trees. Every trip into the woods with stands and climbing sticks. Every trip out of the woods with stands and climbing sticks.
It was tough, both physically and mentally, on me and my family. Yet I was all the more determined, even looking forward to the rifle season and hunting with my lever action, which I hadn't carried afield for two years.
The day before the Nov. 13 rifle opener, Eric and I met four fellow Christians at our campsite. We gave them a tour of the property during a light drizzle, hung our stands, and then set up our tent city before the real downpour commenced.
While we were making camp, a man who owns the land south of the public tract drove by on his four-wheeler, a buck skull tied to the front. Turns out, he'd actually shot the 10-pointer two weeks earlier, but had just found it. It was the same deer I'd stuck on opening day, bigger than anything any of us had ever shot.
Seeing that rack sure got our juices flowing for the following morning.
It rained so hard that night, we got an inch of water in the bottom of closed coolers. My insulated bibs absorbed it all, too. Fortunately, a buddy who showed up at 4:15 a.m. just happened to have an extra set of bibs that would fit my 6-foot, 4-inch 280-pound frame.
We all prayed and left camp at 5 a.m.
While sitting at our familiar spots until 9:30, Eric and I had guys walk all over us. Some even sat down 40 yards away before being encouraged to move. Guys walked through areas we were watching, and some shot deer that were headed toward us. Ah, the joys of public-land hunting!
Eric and I were loaded for venison. Since we're on missionaries' budgets, we need the meat. And because we could shoot only one deer at that property, we'd formulated a backup plan for a different public access area where we could fill doe tags.
We'd never set eyes on the backup place, but we'd done a ton of Google-Earth scouting the previous week.
After the 45-minute drive, we looked for parking lots that had less than two trucks in them. Well, every lot had tents, RVs, pop-up campers, coffee wagons and hot dog vendors (okay, maybe the coffee and hot dogs were made up, but it's not that far a stretch).
We eventually found one place that had only a tent and a single truck parked in it. We pulled in and shoved some turkey-and-cheese wraps into our bellies while looking at aerial and topo maps.
We walked in and each sat on the edges of deep hollows, hoping to see deer running up the hollows to thicker cover, away from the orange army. By 12:15, we were in place.
This was old school — deep hollows, mature hardwoods, fallen trees to sit on — just like I remember from growing up back in Pennsylvania. I sat on a root wad that gave me a shooting rest. I then texted Eric to say I was settled in and liked the spot's potential.
Just as I put my phone in my pocket, two big deer came running up the hollow. One was a shooter buck, the other a doe.
Truthfully, we were there to meat hunt, but the buck got my full attention. It headed up the far side of the hollow, and I still had my scope dialed at 2.5-power. But the hammer was back and ready for the 100-plus-yard shot.
When my crosshairs found the running deer, I squeezed the trigger for the first time in more than five years.
I lost sight of the buck afterward. I think the doe ran back down the hollow, but the buck stopped moving. Then I saw it through the scope, standing still and facing up the opposite hill not far from where I'd shot at it. Trees blocked the view of its head and rump. All I could see was the deer's midsection through small twigs in the tree tops, but I knew that I had to sling lead on public land before the deer bounded off to the next guy in line.
When I found it in my scope again, the buck was walking slowly across the opposite hillside. I scanned ahead for an opening in the trees, found a spot and waited for the shoulder to come into view. When the deer obliged, I fired.
I thought I saw the buck mule-kick, but I wasn't sure. It ran up the hill until I lost sight of it. A minute later, I heard it thrashing leaves.
I moved around on my root wad and saw it belly up, feet flailing. My crosshairs remained on it until it stopped moving.
Based on previous experiences etched in my Pennsylvania public-land upbringing, I knew I needed to hurry over and put my tag on the buck. But I first texted Eric: "Get over here NOW!" It was 12:20, barely 10 minutes into the hunt.
The mud and leaves made climbing the slope difficult. When I finally reached the crest, the deer's white underside came into view. As I looked at this huge bodied deer lying there, I thought it must've tangled its antlers in a small tree, but then I realized the mass was antler.
I was looking at its 7x7 rack.
I just started saying the same phrase — Oh, Lord — over and over as I walked up to it. I fell to the ground and just stared up to Heaven and thanked Jesus for blessing me.
Because we had no cell phone reception, I couldn't call Eric. Text messages stacked up and were delivered about every 20 minutes. He went old school and found the root wad where I'd been sitting when I shot. In my excitement, I had forgotten to pick up his camo pad.
We first made eye contact when he was at the bottom of the hollow. I held up my arms like a victorious Rocky, and he did the same. He got about halfway up the hill, still trying to be quiet, when he saw me holding the rack in my hands.
I will never forget what he yelled at that point: "Is that a rack?"
"YES," I yelled, and then I ran down to him, sliding in the mud, and we hugged. We also jumped up and down like little girls before clambering back up to admire the buck.
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To be completely truthful, anyone can use some extra help when it comes to learning a new subject. The study process can often involve late nights, sitting in front of a ridiculously heavy textbook, and a tall can of your favorite energy drink.
Cram is a simple and easy-to-use study and testing tool that can be your go-to study buddy when you room mate is out partying. By simply entering a set of questions and answers into the application once, Cram will help you review for the upcoming exam with flash-cards. Afterwards, take a practice test, apply the knowledge, and see how much you have remembered.
Creating Tests
Before you can start studying, you need to enter in the information about the test that you want to study for. Cram allows you to randomize the questions and answers, a nice feature that for those who want to ensure a full grasp of the concepts being learned. If finishing in a timely manner is essential, Cram is also able to accommodate your needs with timed testing.
Adding Questions to Your Tests
Creating questions in Cram is a straightforward process which includes support for up to five multiple choice answers, or answers supplied through a pre-defined "answer bank".
Cram is also able to display images and audio that may help you learn quicker, a feature that is excellent for visual and auditory learners.
The downside to entering information is that only one question (and it's answers) can be filled in at a time. There is no next button that will present you with a new blank window to enter another question without having to click the New question button after entering each and every single question.
Studying in Cram is a very simple process, and allows you to focus entirely on getting your head around the material at hand.
Clicking the Study icon, you are presented with flash-cards based on the questions and answers you previously entered. The flash-cards can play audio and show images, in addition to the questions and and/or answers.
Taking a practice test in the application is uncomplicated and very traditional as well.
After you finish the test, your results are shown, along with the correct answers for questions answered incorrectly.
Doing More with Your Tests
Cram also allows you to share your tests with other Cram users, and download their tests as well – a nice feature for those taking generic courses.
Another useful feature in Cram is its ability to print out a copy of the tests, for those times when you prefer to practice the old fashioned way.
Overall, Cram is a great tool that has the ability to enhance your study workflow. However, a drawback for me is the task of entering test questions into Cram. It seems like a tedious task that outweighs the benefit of being dynamically tested by the application.
It isn't perfect, but is one of the best study-aid applications I have seen so far. An alternative to Cram is a simple flash-card application called iFlash for Mac by Loopware, but is solely for studying in the flash-card format.
Cram is developed by SimpleLeap and is available for download as a free trial, while the full version goes for $34.99.
We'll be giving away 5 free copies of Cram later this week, so be sure to follow us on Twitter or via RSS to ensure you don't miss out!


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UPDATED with important information that being the PENN STATE ALUMNI that support this feral black (color of feces) rapist are part of a FOUNDATION…say NATEPARKERFOUNDATION (2 of them) and guess who the FOUNDER IS… lol… no mention of that including the RACE OF THE "WHITE WOMAN" these to animated by Satan savages RAPED! Oh well…go to "newnation.org" and see just how "civilized" this race is…NOT!
Add to this reality…Native Americans have suffered at the hands of African descendants…say BUFFALO SOLDIERS and most ALL "pimps" of Native girls and women are BLACK BEASTS in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and KKKanda… read "Shattered Tears"… and in talking with the authors of stated that ALL THE PIMPS were BLACK which means…"BIRTH OF A NATION" Nate Parker's drug, beat, and RAPE NATIVE FEMALES FOR FUN, PLEASURE AND MONEY…as did the BUFFALO SOLDIERS of Native women when working for their "Jewish Railroad Masters" i.e. US KKK Government!
Lots of LINKS in this blog…read and learn….
and I have to give a shout out to Nate Parker…
Hey You RAPING DOG…I OWN YOUR LYING SOUL and until you confess and come clean…consider your eternal demise to be with your father the DEVIL in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone with all your RAPING MURDERING DRUG DEALING HOMIES!
Foreword: More BLACK SPIRITED supporters of Nate "The Rapist" Parker jumped on the "Shit happens (White) bitch" band wagon saying this animated by Satan rapist is INNOCENT and they graduated from that Sodom and Gomorrah Pedophile infested cesspool of "higher education" PENN STATE where "Raping and Sodomizing" is a "spiritual and physical norm" on the part of staff, students, alumni and coaches and taught and demonstrated in their "sex education courses".
WOW…they be ALL BLACK too! I am really surprised 🙂 AND AND AND…this group of PENN STATE ALUMNI RAPE SUPPORTERS OF THE RAPIST are a part of….ya ready…ya sure…which was NOT reported (click HERE) by not so bright Breitbart…shame shame.
And their business motto is "Transforming The Lives Of White Women By Rape"!
And I will give you ONE GUESS who the CHAIRMAN IS?
"Birth Of A Nation Of Rapists Of White…
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For this one, you have ten seconds to grab a spectator's attention and sell them a dragon egg.
TEN SECOND MONOLOGUE #2 (any gender, mid teens through late life)
In this extra-large egg that I'm selling
A fierce unborn dragon is dwelling
When she hatches, she'll kill
All your rivals at will.
With... a MINIMAL chance of rebelling?
Copyright 2016 by Matt Haynes. If you would like to use this piece, please credit: "Courtesy of Matt Haynes and The Pulp Stage"


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Parenting can be tough, and in all the toughest jobs, it's important for our moms and dads to keep a healthy sense of humor. Click through to find out these 15 parents who maintained their humor by trolling their kids.
1. "My apartment lost power for two days. I complained to my dad, and minutes later, I got a text: 'They're on the case!"
2. "So my parents took a beach vacation with their dog and sent me this picture."
3. "Friend went to Disney World and posted this picture. His parents responded."
4. "My sister and her friends challenged their dads, and here's the result."
5. Very overprotective father.
6. "What I love about my parents is that after 41 years of marriage, they still know how to embarrass their kids."
7. "My dad thinks he's pretty clever."
8. This dad who threatened his daughter's boyfriend in photoshoot.
9. "There's an escaped murderer near where I live, so I texted my parents to see if they are Ok. Their response:"
10. So my parents thought this would be funny this Christmas.
11. "My boyfriend moved out of his parents' house last year. He's been replaced already."
12. "This is how my friend's dad greeted her at the airport yesterday."
13. "I bought a phone case online but didn't realize it was for a 6 plus so I gave it to my dad. He loves it."
14. "Graduation gift from dad."
15. "My Dad said he found a rock that looked like a face and I came home to this."


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Robin highlights some of the great stuff that comes out of running and attending a .NET University:
The Roanoke Valley .NET User Group (RV.NUG) is using .NET University for their September meeting. We had to make a few adjustments from the normal monthly meeting but it has received great reviews and benefits. Check out .NET U here. A big thank you to the .NET U Team for providing us with an easy way to grow the User Group.
- Separate presentations on an introduction to each component of the .NET 3.0 Framework: Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and CardSpace.
- Really cool PowerPoint slides (animation was especially cool).
- Hands-on-lab for each of the components that can be completed in 30 minutes. The labs are simple, but you can quickly see how easy it is to use the 3.0 Framework.
- FREE T-Shirt and certificate 🙂
- Maintain current members by providing a totally different meeting format and an opportunity to work in Visual Studio for members that have not convinced their employer that .NET Rocks.
- Recruit new members. We had 7 - SEVEN - attendees that had never been to a UG meeting before!
- Increased involvement of current members. The .NET University had slide decks with notes and a prepared lab. We were able to recruit a different member to present each topic.
- Worked with a local community college. Not only did they provide a lab, they created virtual machines and loaded all the workstations - BIG THANKS to Gilbert at Virginia Western Community College.
- Scheduled two meetings for the month. The first one occurred on our regularly scheduled night (Topics of WCF and WF). The second occurred one week later (WPF and CardSpace).
- Extended our normal meeting length from 2 hours to 3 hours. We started 30 minutes early and ran 30 minutes late (we always run late anyway).
- Obtained names and T-shirt sizes on night 1. This made it easy to submit T-shirt sizes and have them for "graduation"
If you haven't checked out the .NET U site, you should. As my colleague Doug Turnure (who came up with the whole idea) just announced, they've added BizTalk courseware to the .NET U repertoire. So now there's even more reason to jump on the .NET U bandwagon. Coming soon will be Sharepoint and Silverlight materials...so stay tuned!


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Weekly Recap 7/29 – 8/4
It's been a busy week on CRM Audio. We're recuperating from the Microsoft Business Application Summit and getting ready for this week's CRMUG Virtual Service Summer Camp.
Here's what happened on CRM Audio this week, in case you missed it:
1. Universal Resource Scheduling with Dan Gittler from Microsoft
Dan joined us at the Microsoft Business Apps summit and shared the history and future roadmap of URS.
2. Starting a Dynamics 365 consulting business with Ken Farmer
Ken Farmer joined Mark Smith for a great interview about how he went from running a restaurant to running a successful Dynamics 365 consultancy. Ken has some great insight about how to know what your strengths are and when you should partner with somebody else.
3. PowerApps Roadmap with Charles Lamanna
Charles Lamanna, General Manager for Microsoft Business Applications, stopped by to share some news about the future roadmap for PowerApps and Those Dynamics Guys announced the PowerApps bank, where you can share your PowerApps with the community
4. Productivity at conferences and wearable technology
On ProdCast, Matthew Anderson and Joel Lindstrom talked about how to stay productive while at conferences, how to pace yourself, and effective strategies for maximizing your conference learning. We also debated whether or not wearable technology was a productivity gain.
5. Using planning poker to estimate your Dynamics 365 project backlog
Poker, it's not just for Vegas anymore, says Neil Benson. Niel talks about what planning poker is from a scrum perspective, who should play, how to play, and the benefits that you will see from using planning poker for backlog estimation.
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While abstract, the term 'future of work' is about harnessing smart new technologies to make work smoother, easier and quicker. It's often seen as an aspiration or distant ideal, but for many the future of work is very much in progress. Here are just 9 of the tools that are helping to deliver it.
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Creatives are a rare breed. They're brimming with ideas and eager to solve new challenges. But getting them to work together effectively requires a certain art. Use these five winning approaches to maximize your team's creative collaboration and offer clients your best creative ideas – every time.
In the constant quest to become more productive, we often hold ourselves back. Whether it's trying to get more done by multitasking or prioritizing small tasks, tons of our daily work habits limit our productive potential. Here are 9 things that killing your productivity and how you can avoid them.
Whether you're an independent contractor or work with an agency, your profitability depends on effective time management. But achieving that shouldn't come at the cost of your own productivity. It's exactly why we designed Timely – the first fully automatic time tracking tool for contractors.
Project management is a notoriously tricky business. Costs, risks, resources, deadlines; just staying on top of them is a job in itself. But there are a few things you can do to avoid the most common difficulties. Minimize risks and lead more effective projects with these 20 project management tips.
The easiest way to increase your productivity starts with outsourcing work. But how do you go about it? And what software can you trust to do a good job? To shorten your search, here's our definitive list of all the low-value tasks everyone should outsource, and the best apps available for the job.
As an accountant, good bookkeeping is par for the course. But you don't want to waste any billable time doing your own. It's precisely why we developed Timely – the first time tracking tool to automatically capture all the time you spend across multiple projects and clients for you while you work.
How do you welcome, set up and train an employee who you never actually meet in-person? As a company that has worked 50% remotely for years now, we think we might have just nailed the winning approach. Here's how to onboard remote employees the right way for long-term remote success.
Time tracking provides essential structure and visibility. But that doesn't stop it from being the bane of employees' lives. It's exactly why we designed Timely – the first time tracking tool to automatically track and log hours while employees work. Everyone can focus on what they were hired to do.
While technology can facilitate project management, many heavy-weight tools just add to the burden. A saturation of features and complex interface can disengage employees entirely. So choose simplicity: here's our pick of the best simple project management tools out there – no training necessary.
We all want to become more productive – but how do you do it and how long will it take? Once you realize that there is no single version of "productivity", things actually get a bit easier; you just need to grasp the main principles. Master these golden rules of productivity to get there faster.
Client expectations are notoriously unruly. It can be hard to find the balance between going the extra mile to appease clients and being taken advantage of – but luckily there are some things you can do to manage expectations from the start. Here are 4 golden rules to managing client expectations.
Time tracking provides remote teams with essential structure, visibility and transparency. But that doesn't stop it from feeling wildly unproductive. It's exactly why we designed Timely – the first time tracking tool to automatically track and log hours for all your remote employees.
You don't have to work for free to break into the design industry. It's a staggering misconception that discredits your skills and undermines the value of design work. You don't need to get noticed by selling yourself short. Here's how to build a design portfolio without working for free.
We like to think we're open-minded and impartial, but a ton of different biases are constantly distorting our thinking. To protect workplace diversity and make the best choice in any situation, we need to control them. Here are 8 common biases affecting your decision making and how to master them.
Whether you work in an agency, in a small team or for yourself, time tracking is a necessary evil for every marketer. But it isn't going away any time soon. It's exactly why we designed Timely – the first automatic time tracking app for marketers that can track all your hours for you while you work.
Too many agencies fall into the production house trap, churning out the same flat template again and again. It drives away creatives and ages your clients. But how do you stop it? We explore different strategies to overcome creative conservatism and get your clients to give you more creative work.
In an age of overwhelming innovation, technology is quickly superseded and forgotten – and our work tools are no different. But some inefficient work technologies just won't seem to leave us alone. Here are four still-existent work tools that have outlived their value that we think will go next.
Remote working has never been more popular, but as a very young working structure, it's not without its teething problems. As a company whose workforce is 50% remote and 50% in-house, we think we might have just cracked the code. Here are the eight essential tools you need to set up a remote team.
In business, time is the key to competitive advantage, and the only way to know how to use it better is to track it accurately. But it's not just a measurement of profitability; it's a means of essential self-discovery. Regardless of trade, here's why time tracking is important for every business.
Crossing jobs off your list feels great, but it's actually wonderfully unproductive. Our inbuilt preference for little tasks provides a huge sense of progress with very little substance. Here's all you need to know about small task addiction – and why meaningful achievement always beats easy reward.
Whether you're freelance or agency-based, at some point you'll run into a bad client. From endless demands to creative conservatism, some client relationships seem unsalvageable. But how do you respond to them? We've broken down three common examples and solutions for dealing with bad clients.
While many companies grasp the benefits of hiring remote workers, few consider the infrastructure they'll need to actually sustain them. From measuring employee progress to building team relationships within a virtual space, here are our tried-and-tested pointers on how to manage remote workers.
Do you ever feel like your day just evaporates? While technology is usually a large part of the problem, it can also provide the solution. From virtual assistants to automatic timesheets to self-policing activity trackers, here are eight of the best time saving apps for busy professionals.
Want to become more productive? You don't have to struggle alone. From measuring productivity and setting realistic goals, to removing obstacles and showing us where to improve, technology has our back. To help you cut through the noise, here are some of the best productivity apps available in 2019.
Free design work is by no means a new concept – it's been kicking around the creative industry for decades. But why hasn't it gone away? Why do designers still wrestle with entitlement to their labour? What is the real value of free design work? And should designers ever work for free?
Time blocking could be the answer to your productivity problems. In our hyper-connected era, more people are using it to fend off routine distraction and focus productive energy. So it's no accident that some of the busiest people on Earth – like Bill Gates and Elon Musk – use it to get work done.
Time tracking is an essential practice for every architect, but few actually have the spare time and cognitive energy to do it accurately. It's precisely why we developed Timely – the first time tracking tool to automatically capture all the time you spend across multiple projects while you work.
Effective collaboration is easier said than done. While we all have an innate need to connect with our colleagues, a ton of obstacles stop us from doing so. And investing in collaboration tools alone is not enough to solve the problem. So why does collaboration fail? And how can we protect against it?
While more of us increasingly work remotely or offsite, mobile work isn't always plain sailing; unreliable Wi-Fi, heavy design and slow load times can kill efficiency. Thankfully, there a ton of brilliant native iPhone apps that keep it simple. Here are six of the essential business apps for iPhone.
Time tracking is not just about getting paid. It's essential for anyone looking to improve their productivity, efficiency and profitability. Since few people grasp the sheer amount of self-knowledge you can glean from it, here are the most useful things everyone can learn from time tracking.
Resource management can make or break projects. While using your resources to maximum effect can seem like an impossible task, it's well within every project manager's grasp. The trick to good resource management is to keep things simple – following a few key principles and choosing intuitive tools.
While making good use of time is crucial to staying profitable, for small businesses it's a basic matter of survival. So, you shouldn't have to waste any time understanding where it goes. It's exactly why we designed Timely – the first fully automatic time tracking tool for small businesses.
Project control is an essential part of project management, crucial to every stage of a project's lifecycle. To help you repeatedly deliver successful, valuable projects, we break down exactly what it is, how it fits into project management and the project control tools that keep it simple.
Mobile work is becoming increasingly normalized with every new tech development. And the sheer amount of it we can do from our phones is insane. From capitalizing on travel time to moving projects forward, here are the six of the best Android apps for business you should keep in your pocket.
In business, self-knowledge is everything; you can't function or grow without it. Going beyond the obvious information – like knowing your cash flow situation and target market – this list shines a light on the less overt, but equally important factors that every business should know about itself.
While being your own boss can sound like a dream, freelancing comes with a unique set of new challenges. They can be terrifying to navigate and as a freelancer you're pretty much alone in solving them! We break down the biggest freelance problems we've encountered and how to go about fixing them.
When it comes to performance, every detail matters. Task tracking can provide you with a ton of practically useful insights to help improve essential project management and profitability. While there's no one hack for mastering your workflow, task trackers are pretty much the next best thing.
Maintaining a fair team workload is no mean feat – but failing to do so can absolutely kill team productivity and morale. This practical guide breaks down how to approach team workload management and the team management tools that help you support and enable a vibrant team of motivated specialists.
While we all have a hunch that admin hold holds us back, the degree to which tasks like accounting, expensing and time tracking limit our work productivity is staggering. With excessive bureaucratic processes swallowing up to 25% of a company's productive power, it's time to take back control.
Agency time tracking is boring, unnatural and wildly unproductive, but without it nobody can get paid. As much as we hate time tracking, it isn't going anywhere. It's exactly why we built Timely – the first automatic time tracking app to track and log hours for all your employees while they work.
Starting any business is daunting, but for small businesses it's even harder. Luckily, the software market is saturated with tools to help; the hard part is choosing them well. We've put together our choice of small business software – managing everything from communications and projects to taxes.
Client communication is an essential but almost invisible task. Few of us track the time we spend on client emails, calls and meetings; fewer consider it to be billable. But communication is just as valuable as any other time-based service you provide. Here's why and how you should charge for it.
Timely is an automatic time tracking app designed with the active consultant lifestyle in mind. We caught up with a few who already use the tool to see how they use it to bill honestly across clients, create profitable estimates and improve their own efficiency.
Time tracking provides teams with essential work transparency. We designed Timely as a tool employees can actually trust, to help everyone in your team become the master of their own performance. By tracking all your team's time automatically, everyone can just get back to what's actually important.
Poor project planning is dangerous and can cost far more than your profit margin. But you don't need to invest in heavy project management tools to improve project estimation. We break down the only project planning technique you need to master to consistently scope and deliver profitable projects.
AI is becoming an increasingly normal feature of the workplace, with thousands of professionals integrating AI apps into their workflows to automate and simplify tasks. We explore how AI increases workplace productivity and the essential AI apps every professional should have.
Pricing your work shouldn't involve a standoff between flat rates and fixed fees. Fair and sustainable contract-based business depends on a combination, and you need to be ready to quote for both. We've broken down how to choose the most profitable rate for your work, including examples of when to use flat rates and hourly fees.
Simplicity is the beauty of the fixed rate. But while you don't need to record every second of your working life to get paid, it still makes supreme sense to do so. We explore why time tracking is essential for running a fair and sustainable flat rate business, and how you can go about it with minimal effort.
Forget about spreadsheets – all the activity and time you spend on your projects can now be tracked automatically while you work. There's no more need to log project time manually or cross-reference multiple documents: capture, review and manage projects performance from one place.
As an essential lightweight project management tool, you're going to want to get a project time tracker set up. Project time tracking helps improve every aspect of project performance – from estimation and management, through to accurate reporting and invoicing. See how to do it without wasting any of your own time.
Despite working in highly irregular creative flows, developers can get a ton out of time tracking. See why Timely is the time tracking app of choice for developers looking to continuously improve their productivity, efficiency and profitability – whether freelance, remote or agency-based.
Freelancers, look no further. If you're taking on more clients and wondering how to keep all your projects on-track, take a peek at this handy guide. We lay down the key project components you need to keep in order, as well as the tools which make managing multiple projects second nature.
In business, making good use of time is crucial to staying profitable. But the focus on our bottom line often leads to a crude valuation where billable time is the only time well spent.
Most project managers already use task tracking tools for organization. But few actually know what's going on operationally. Time tracking helps managers turn lists of project tasks into meaningful data they can actually learn from – keeping projects efficient, profitable and to schedule.
Project task tracking reveals a whole host of insights which help you improve project management, budget estimation and timeline scoping. And it doesn't need to require any extra administrative effort. We explore just how project task tracking helps you run efficient projects and how to go about it.
Project dashboards are lifesavers. From weekly project status reports and stakeholder updates to real-time project monitoring, dashboards quickly show you everything you need to know. We explain how to create a killer project dashboard without fiddling around with confusing segmentation rules.
Team effectiveness relies on a few core principles – whether you manage a fixed in-house team, freelancers or remote employees. We break down the five key areas you need to nail to get the most out of every team member.
If you only track billable hours, you're only tracking half your work. Understanding where you spend non-billable time enables you become more efficient, more economic and a better employer.
Timely is the first automatic time tracking tool to be created by a designer. Track design project budgets, performance and profitability all in one place using a simple and beautiful interface. From Sketch to Photoshop, Timely tracks all the work you do in your favourite digital design tools.
Tons of billable hours never make it to your timesheet, because it's nearly impossible to accurately remember everything you do in a day. We explore the most common unreported billable hours across industries, and show you how to capture all your billable hours – wherever and whenever you work.


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Even though I was born and raised in Southern California, it still amazes me to this day how beautiful the weather is all year round. This weekend was no exception, and yesterday I spent the day on Surfer's Knoll Beach in Ventura.
Surfer's Knoll Beach is located on Spinnaker Drive, across the street from the Ventura Harbor Village. This beach has amazing views of the coastline and the Channel Islands, and is a perfect spot for tanning and surfing. Swimming (unless you are an experienced surfer) is not recommended because of strong riptides, which is perfect because it keeps the crowds away.
At the far end of the beach, where the mouth of the Santa Clara River empties into the Pacific, you'll find a natural bird estuary, teeming with pelicans and other bird species.
Look, I spotted a bird watcher!
If you keep walking past the bird sanctuary you'll come to a sandbar, with the river to the left and the ocean to the right.
Just look at that view, not a cloud in the sky…
It couldn't have been a more perfect November day. To find out more about Ventura Harbor Village and its beaches, click here.


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It's a new year
Honestly I don't feel any change but I hope it will bring the best for all the world inshallah
I have no plans for the new year except to work for the same goals I have in my head which I still didn't achieve.
I am still going to physiotherapy sessions and I feel a little improvement in my finger alhamdulilah , I also bough exercising ball ( I named it Balla ), I keep it with me all the time and use it everywhere ,even the consultant of the unit I work at now caught me playing with it during the round ,I don't knwo I can't stop playing with Balla I love the sensation of squeezing it's very relaxing, sometimes even while driving I find it in my hand without knowing and squeezing it , I am addicted to it .
This is lucky the laziest cat in the world , I am not used to having cats wandering around because my dad never liked having any kind of animals at home his excuse was I already have too many , I was at my friend's house that day and I slept there and while dreaming I started to feel something walking on me I thought it was with the dream till I opened my eyes and screaming like a girl i found lucky was standing on my chest , I wonder how cat owners live their lives having somebody always walking around the house I think people with cats or pets get robbed more than people who don't have any pets , it makes sense that the slightest abnormal sound will wake me up in the middle of the night but if I had a cat I will think oh it's just the cat.
now time to go back to my miserable life routine


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I am supportive of those who choose to grow organic food and those who choose to buy it. However, I do not accept the organic industry's attack on new tech agriculture. It is entirely without justification.
If the roles were reversed and conventional agriculture engaged in similar "black marketing" against organics, the regulatory authorities and consumer groups would come down like a ton of bricks.
One wonders why, then, this multibillion-dollar industry gets a free ride to propagate negative and false advertising denigrating the livelihood of the vast majority of America's farmers.
It's time for it to stop.
JOHN R. BLOCK was U.S. secretary of agriculture from 1981 to 1986. On the Academic Review report John begins with this
As someone who has dedicated his career to agriculture, I've often wondered what drives the now double-digit growth in the $35 billion U.S. organic products industry. Why are so many people willing to pay premiums up to 100 percent or more for items that carry an organic label, and do they really understand what that label means and — even more important — what it doesn't mean?
Many of these questions have now been answered in a blockbuster report by the scientific-integrity watchdog Academics Review. The report examines the last 25 years of academic and organic industry market research, public statements and often questionable marketing practices.
What they have found should be raising red flags for all of us.
The organic industry likes to project a friendly image of small farmers and contented cows. But as this report extensively documents, the behavior of this multibillion-dollar industry is considerably less benign.
Among the other findings is the extent to which the large organic food corporations engage in what it describes as deceptive advertising linked to scientifically baseless scares about conventional food.
Worse, this "black marketing" takes place with the implied approval of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Organic Seal and the silent acquiescence of the regulatory authorities charged with ensuring that all labeling and advertising be "truthful and non-misleading."
As a leading consultant warned the organic industry in the 1990s, "If the threats posed by cheaper, conventionally produced products are removed, then the potential to develop organic foods will be limited." Since then we've witnessed a remorseless campaign based on junk science or no-science attacking food grown with modern fertilizers, pesticides, GMOs and other technologies.
Advertising and promotional material — including "educational" materials developed for schools — suggest non-organic food is linked to almost every disease under the sun, including "developmental and learning problems such as ADHD," "high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, depression and cancer."
Tens of millions of organic marketing dollars flow annually to activist organizations such as the Environmental Working Group which spread misinformation and fear. Unsupported, provably counter factual claims are so habitual to the industry that they are even included in official statements: "Not only is organic safer, healthier and more nutritious," claims the Organic Consumer Association in testimony to USDA, but buying organic will "reduce food-borne illness and diet-related diseases."
The Organic Seal does not and cannot signify any health or safety criteria whatsoever. It merely certifies that products were produced using less modern inputs.


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Stars Hollow, Conn., would make a great "Twilight Zone" setting.
There is something unearthly about the adorable little town. The people are eccentric and hale and smiley — maybe too smiley. It feels cut off from the world — you can barely even get a cellular signal — as if, in the words of Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham), "The entire town was constructed in a giant snow globe."
But "Gilmore Girls," being revived with a four-part mini-series on Netflix on Friday, is the opposite of a horror story. It's a comfort story. For seven seasons, then an afterlife in syndication and streaming, it poured its audience bottomless refills of small-town quirk and the highly caffeinated repartee of Lorelai and her daughter and best friend, Rory (Alexis Bledel).
There's always the danger, with cultural nostalgia, that sweetness can tip over into something uncanny and eerie. There's a fine line between celebrating the past and exhuming it.
"Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" stays, mostly, on the good side of that line. So many things are much like we remember them: Miss Patty's ballet studio, the Sam Phillips "la la la"s on the soundtrack, the troubadour in the town square. But it really works because, for all its winks and callbacks and Netflix-y weaponized nostalgia, it also recognizes that things have changed.
"A Year in the Life" was conceived as a kind of do-over. The creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, left the original series after six seasons (along with her husband and writing partner, Daniel Palladino) in a contract dispute. "Gilmore Girls" sputtered on for one tongue-tied final season, but Ms. Sherman-Palladino wasn't there to execute the ending that she had planned down to the series' last four words.
Though the mini-series does end on those four words, "A Year in the Life" is not, and can't be, the final season we never got.
The biggest reminder is a change forced on the show: Edward Herrmann, who played the patriarch Richard Gilmore, died in 2014. His loss becomes the emotional engine of the mini-series, just as the original series was driven by the strain between Lorelai and her grande dame mother, Emily (Kelly Bishop), lingering from when Lorelai became pregnant with Rory at 16.
"A Year in the Life" begins in early 2016, four months after Richard's death, which has resurfaced bitter feelings between Lorelai and Emily. Rory, now a peripatetic journalist, comes home to figure herself out, see old friends and walk and talk with her mother through the town's tourism-brochure-perfect snowscape.
On the surface, little has changed. Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), Lorelai's old squeeze, is still haranguing the customers at his diner, though now over Wi-Fi abuse rather than cellphone use. The pop-culture references still fly, updated to include "Game of Thrones," "Outlander" and man buns.
But Rory is 32 now, the same age as Lorelai when the series began in 2000. (On one level, the entire mini-series is a "Wanna Feel Old?" listicle.) This is a time-conscious story, down to the structure — four feature-length episodes, one for each season. Rory is feeling her age; Lorelai is feeling her mortality; Emily is feeling both heartbreak and the opportunity to change.
The mini-series is sentimental but not maudlin, and Ms. Graham and Ms. Bledel quickly fall back into their Tracy-Hepburn comedic rhythm. "Wow. I'm winded," Rory says after their first verbal tap dance. "Haven't done that for a while," Lorelai answers.
There's more of that self-consciousness, and a parade of "Well hello, you!" cameos. You will likely be indulged no matter whom you consider the best supporting character. (The correct answer, by the way, is Paris Geller, Rory's former classmate played by Liza Weil, who gets an update that shows off her brittle imperiousness.)
"A Year in the Life" plays like a six-hour movie in four acts. The format establishes it, like Netflix's "Arrested Development," as something different from the series' network-TV seasons.
But there's some bloat, including a "Waiting for Guffman"-like community musical interlude, featuring Christian Borle and Sutton Foster, that runs 10 minutes and would have been better at 10 seconds. And elements of Rory's plot feel like they were intended more for a character in her early 20s — as Ms. Sherman-Palladino originally planned — than one in her early 30s.
Mostly, though, "A Year in the Life" succeeds at recreating the voice of "Gilmore Girls," which is what creates the world of "Gilmore Girls."
Like Lake Wobegon or Mayberry, Stars Hollow is a wish in the shape of a town, an idyll where everything is low stakes. Townspeople argue, but mostly over things like an international food fair or a proposed sewer system. They have decent, not overly demanding jobs, blue collar and white. Young adults who fail to launch can come home to their parents' cozy houses (a running joke in one episode). Stars Hollow is not just a safety net, it's a giant, fluffy featherbed.
This is an eternal fantasy, but it's well timed for the Thanksgiving weekend after an election that has made fractious Emilys and Lorelais of many relatives. (There are few political references beyond a quick allusion to "Brexit," but it's noteworthy that the story wraps in the fall, just as real America is about to head off to the polls.)
In that sense, there is something sinister hiding, "Twilight Zone"-style, behind its facade of quirky comity: our world. Call "Gilmore Girls" a bubble or, if you're a romantic, a snow globe. It's not a horror story, though, except that in the end the characters get to stay, and the rest of us have to leave.


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When something as big and heavy as a telephone pole snaps in two, it's normally a job for a builder. You're going to have to dig out the base, concrete in a new one, and then run the cables. Not so in China; all you need is tape.
Apparently China Telecom and the city bods couldn't agree on how much should be spent on fixing up the pole, so they just bodged it with a little tape and a bit of wire instead. I'm not a civil engineer, or a telephone pole technician for that matter, but I'm guessing this kind of thing needs a little bit more than a spot of tape and some wires -- it's not even duct tape for goodness sake. [China Buzz via Kotaku]


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Lil Zay is definitely making a lot of big moves and his music is beginning to show up everywhere. The popular rapper has put out a lot of records with Cruzer Santana. Adding to this list, "Copp A Bag" becomes their latest collaboration.
Listen to "Copp A Bag" by Lil Zay ft. Cruzer Santana below: