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UPDATE 11:00 A.M. APRIL 11 – Two University of Florida basketball players were arrested early Sunday morning and charged with third-degree felony burglary. They have been suspended from all basketball-related activities by head coach Billy Donovan.
According to the St. Augustine Police Department, junior forward Erik Murphy and redshirt freshman forward Cody Larson entered Scarlett O'Hara's Bar and Restaurant in downtown St. Augustine just before close.
The two players were standing near an employee counting cash and looking suspiciously around, and bouncers asked them to leave the establishment, according to police.
They then went across the street to a parking lot and attempted to break into a car. A bouncer standing outside recognized the car as a coworker's, and bouncers chased the players from the parking lot, police said.
Police said a third man, Joshua Adel, was nearby and surrendered to police when they arrived. He told police he was associated with the team and convinced the players to return to the scene, where they were taken into custody and brought to the St. John's County Detention Center.
"I'm aware of Cody and Erik's situation and very disappointed with the news," Donovan said. "The two are currently suspended from basketball-related activities. I'm not going to comment further until I have more information."
According to booking records, the players were booked just after 4 a.m. Sunday. Adel was charged with principal to burglary.
All three have been released on $5,000 bond.
Larson is currently on probation for a drug-related incident that occurred when he was in high school.
Murphy had been previously cited for underage drinking in Alachua County on July 23, 2010, but the charges were dropped because of insufficient evidence.
Murphy, a 20-year-old, 6-foot-10, 229-pound forward from Rhode Island, averaged 4.3 points and 2.3 rebounds per game in 2010. Larson, 19, redshirted in his first year in Gainesville.
News4Jax.com was the first to report the story.


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Debunking the Myth of the 'Second Term Curse'
Respected historian Douglas Brinkley walks us through what to look for in the second term of the Obama presidency and debunks the myth of the 'second-term curse.'
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I'm not sure what can be done about it soon became IPO claims that they want to ... go into China and a second term and may be doing the mix and seventy two bit of diplomacy you don't want to do that in the first reviews are being seen too close to China ... write in votes in Ohio ... they're from auto workers ... that ... they have been or is this sense you get that that whatever kind of grand visions of present Obama may have for his time in office whatever time that was going to be ... some of those had to be put on hold as you just have to do with the financial crisis that cycle of the oxygen out of the room ... maybe that's not true a second term ... will the new look and one signature achievement of domestic policy what do you like it or not is Obamacare yes ... it's can be seen as Medicaid or Medicare social security entitlement or ... it might become a perk of birth right ... regardless the keel was present Obama that they wouldn't get on the show ... by having a second term he can solidify ... that also agreed sum of conservation these presidents don't like citing executive order saying that ... could save us wall or deserter something a national monument ... of Dwight Eisenhower in the end of the second term said boy I don't have much of a conservation legacy ... so we treated him more ... in Alaska that were cut signed in nineteen sixty on the way out in a ... seat you can use executive authority do things so ... from a legacy perspective you would hear you can read all of us headed to is not really true that second term presidents don't care whether their pocket or I think they care very very much because you're playing not for the next election ... but for the history books of the legacy of popularity ... with the people around the country matters awful lot ... couldn't agree more ... with ... the public doesn't think about sometimes is that he never stopped running ... because these people to the top of the mountain ... to be the snow leopard in politics ... you got it you're campaigning for your like to see that the U we you've got a fundraiser presidential library and try to write ... ten million dollars the more ... you try to protect your reputation you try to prevent unrest across presents the ... these these people keep keep going their probes and ... of no no ex president only if you're ... 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Buffett's Berkshire to Buy Rest of IMC, and More
What's News: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway agrees to buy the remaining stake of IMC International for $2.05 Billion. The FDA lowers the age restrictions on Plan B. The U.S. private sector adds 119,000 jobs. Joanne Po reports. Photo: Getty
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Hey All,
Just relocated out here recently. Have been playing tennis since age 10 and competitively until early 20's (i'm 34). Took a serious break and have been playing once a month for the last year+...need/want to play more! Slowly getting back to my normal level (4.0+). Weekends or evenings only. Don't know where much is so I'm open to suggestion!
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Depending on if my racquet is ready or not, how bout Thursday or Friday evening in Carlsbad? Ill be looking for your reply!
Thursday might work. I work in Vista and travel back to Carlsbad. Let me know where a good meeting point is. 5:30 or 6 would be ideal. I'll shoot you a text Wednesday and we can figure it out, and see if you have your gear back. thanks.
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10 Favorite Roasted Recipes
This is obviously our most favorite time of the year to roast. And when we say roast, we mean we will roast anything. There's something about the way the whole house fills up the aromatics and the food is fall apart before it even reaches your mouth!
One of our favorite aspects of roasting is that you can transform common, everyday foods such as a vegetable platter into something really spectacular. Sure, we love steamed vegetables, but when the temperatures take a serious drop and you're looking for a way to warm up — crank the oven up and throw in some food! Curl up in front of the tv with a complete roasted meal and you'll thank us later.
• Roast Garlic Cloves Inside Squash
• Absolutely Brilliant Idea: Roast Grocery Vegetable Platters
• Recipe: Lechón Asado (Cuban-Style Roast Pork)
• Basic Recipe Template: Weekend Pot Roast
• Tip: How To Roast and Peel Beets
• Recipe: Rosemary Roast Potatoes
• Roast Chicken: In Praise of Crispy Skin
• Tip: How To Roast and Peel Chestnuts
• Recipe: Caesar-Roasted Asparagus
• Party Recipe: Spicy Oven-Roasted Chickpeas
What's your favorite food to roast?
Related: 10 Winter Dinners from the Slow Cooker
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Summer Camp Wordpress Instructor - San Francisco
- Various, San Franscisco, CA, us
- Full-time
Company Description
At Edventure More (EDMO), a 501(c)(3) non-profit enrichment organization, we create school year and summer camp programs for Pre-K-8th graders where learning is experiential, personalities shine, collaboration is key, and no one ever gives up. Our unique and culturally rich environment builds the social, emotional and academic intelligence kids need to become the makers, shakers and amazinators of tomorrow! Visit campedmo.org to learn more.
Job Description
The PRO Wordpress Instructor is responsible for running the PRO Maker room and instruction for 5th-8th grade campers. They train on all PRO Maker & Wordpress curriculum and teach every day, bringing this hands-on curriculum to life for our campers. Instructors should be prepared for a summer filled with personal and professional growth, classroom management practice and a whole lot of FUN!
Main duties include:
- Approach education with passion and excitement and build positive model relationships with campers
- Set-up, organize and manage the technology classroom including supplies, curriculum and classroom management
- Lead lessons each day on various themes and projects as assigned through the curriculum
- Manage Counselors while in the PRO Tech classroom
- Refine curriculum and add personal contributions as seen fit with guidance of the Camp Director
- Work closely with Camp Director and other staff members to create fun camp games, songs, skits and activities - and participate in all
- Assist in daily camper check in and check out procedures
- Interact with parents in a professional and energetic manner
- Help cultivate healthy self-esteem and a natural love for learning
- Instill the EDMO Vibe of kindness, respect, honesty and FUN in all campers
Position reports to: Camp Director
Manages: Counselors
- Bachelors Degree (or degree in progress) in a related field and/or relevant experience
- Experience working in and using Wordpress as well as experience with photo, film and design
- Passionate about writing and self expression
- Classroom teaching experience preferred but not required
- Be creative, patient, positive and willing to problem solve
- Experience (and a love for!) working with kids
- High sense of responsibility and dependability
- Previous camp experience preferred but not required
- Strong team player
- Experience facilitating groups of children and/or working youth programs with proven classroom management is preferred
Note: Do not be discouraged if you only have experience/expertise in one subject area. We love teaching like-minded humans!
Additional Information
- $12 - $17 / Hour Based on Location and Experience + Overtime at 1.5 x hourly rate
- 7:45 am - 4:15 pm: Monday - Friday
- Additional Assigned Overtime until 6pm.
- This is a Full-Time Summer Position running 5 - 10 weeks from June - August depending on location. Please visit our website at campedmo.org to see specific dates for each location.
- Training: Staff training will take place the week prior to the start date of the assigned location as well as mandatory curriculum training TBD.
- Extended weeks and school year work are also available for qualified candidates. Ask for more info!
Application Details:
- Resumes are accepted on a rolling basis until positions are filled. The sooner you apply, the better your chances.
- Please attach your resume and cover letter in a PDF form to ensure compatibility.
Alumni Staff:
- If you have worked for us in past summers, please use the alumni link emailed to you to submit your application for 2018.
We look forward to receiving your application! If you have questions about our job opportunities please contact Greg Nelson at 415.282.6673.
CAMP EDMO is powered by Edventure More, a year-round 501(c)(3) non-profit enrichment organization. 5% of summer camp proceeds and 100% of donations support camp scholarships and subsidized science, maker and technology programs in local schools.


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Creating Professional Civil Service to Serve the Citizen
Azerbaijan experienced high rates of economic growth in 2003-2008, notably due to significant hydrocarbon revenues. While the influx of new investments into Azerbaijan's young economy bore a promise for improved infrastructural services and social policies, it also heightened the pressure for good governance and civil service reform in country, critical for sustaining the economic development and translating the economic gains into reducing the poverty. Thus, one of the country's main challenges was to ensure that its civil service was composed of competent, professional staff capable of managing increased resources and providing adequate services to the people of Azerbaijan.
UNDP has been providing support to the Civil Service Commission (CSC) since its establishment in 2005 to pursue reforms and improve the overall delivery and quality of public services. With support of UNDP the Civil Service Commission achieved significant results in formulation of unified state policy in the area of civil service, in the introduction of a competitive and transparent centralized recruitment system for the civil service, in re-training and professional development of civil servants. Specifically, the project worked towards:
- Supporting key civil service reforms
- Strengthening the Commission's operational capacities, and the capacities of civil servants
- Current recruitment policy implemented by the Civil Service Commission is based on a modern and transparent process for the selection of civil servants in Azerbaijan. This process has significantly increased public confidence in the fairness and objectivity of the public administration system.
- A total of 28,070 applicants applied and 1,585 were appointed to the positions in different government institutions through the competitive recruitment process
- 1,300 civil servants from national and local executive authorities have attended training events both in country and abroad;
- Collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated statistics on women participation in civil service has become routine practice.
The major breakthrough in implementation of the civil service reforms was introduction of the competitive, transparent and merit-based entry examinations into civil service centrally managed by the Commission on Civil Service. For the first time, vacancies were publicly advertised and accompanied by clear job descriptions. Testing system is fully computerized to minimize human interference and ensure transparency. With support from the project, the Commission has designed a comprehensive portal providing easy access to information including legal acts, recruitments, tender notices, annual reports and other. The Commission also provides a number of e-services to the citizens via SMS and emails including receipt of application for vacant posts, invitation to the test, results of the test and others.
Within the joint project of UNDP and the Commission, about 1300 civil servants from national and local executive authorities have benefited from training events both in country and abroad, on subjects varying from human resources management in public sector to international best practices in civil service management. The CSC representatives had official visits to South Korea, Canada, France, Ireland, and other countries to develop professional linkages with respective public administration agencies. In a comprehensive study on Civil Service in Azerbaijan, UNDP and the CSC took stock of the progress in civil service reform, analyzed its effectiveness and efficiency for the achievement of national development goals, and identified areas for improvement. In order to boost greater transparency and accountability in the civil service, newly adopted regulations on performance appraisal of civil servants are being implemented across all government agencies.
UNDP and the CSC have also prioritised ensuring gender equality in civil service recruitment and extending the opportunity of employment in civil service to a greater number of women. The number of women applicants has risen from 584 in 2009 (or 24.7% of all applicants) to 1,496 in 2011 (or 28.32%), with the majority (74.4% of women applicants in 2011) applying for higher level vacancies in public offices.
When Shola Akbarova was a starting young lawyer at the OSCE office in Baku, the reforms were just rolling out. She recalls: "As the recruitment process to civil service changed, I applied for a head consultant vacancy in the Human Resources department of the State Committee for Securities." Today, Shola is the Head of that Department, and her story tell-tales many other successful young careers affected by civil service reforms.
During the past years, in partnership with UNDP, the Civil Service Commission has grown from a fledgling government structure into a strong institution steering the nationwide civil service reforms. It has achieved significant results in formulating civil service policies, streamlining competitive, transparent and meritocratic recruitment process, and in re-training and professional development of civil servants. Today, the Commission continues the momentum to improve the accountability and ethical behaviour in service delivery. The increasing number of young applicants for civil service bears a testimony for the improved trust and interest of citizens in public services in general.


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Thousands of Ohio voters have been falsely notified that they are not registered to vote due to a database error in Ohio's voter rolls. An Ohio voter advocacy group alerted Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) to this major system problem on October 30. But instead of fixing it, Husted issued a directive instructing local boards to use the same flawed search method to count provisional ballots after Election Day.
Ohio's computer search of the voter registration database will only find exact matches, meaning that voters could come up as unregistered due to typos, abbreviations, or partial entries. This flawed search mechanism missed huge numbers of registered voters in Franklin and Cuyahoga Counties, incorrectly rejecting 33,000 requests for absentee ballots. These two counties corrected the error, but thousands of others may have slipped through the cracks in the rest of the state. These voters were told they are not registered to vote and may be forced to use provisional ballots at the polls.
But if they do decide to file provisional ballots, along with a growing number of other legal voters in the state, the very same search method could disenfranchise their vote entirely. Husted has ignored warnings that the system is missing large numbers of registered voters. As the Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates, who first discovered the problem, explain:
Worse yet, Sec. Husted last night released a Directive with a proposed search method for Boards of Elections to verify registration status on provisional ballots. Yet Sec. Husted's latest recommendations for search are entirely inadequate, likely to miss thousands of voters because of mis-spelling of names, variation in form of ID, failure to use all available tools for a reasonable search and other reasons. Once again, our warnings and suggestions, sent this morning, have gone unanswered. Unless this inadequacy is corrected, several thousand provisional ballots could be wrongfully rejected as "not registered." If the election is close, this could be a source of endless legal battles.
NOVA has outlined an alternative, more accurate search method that will result in far fewer mistakes. Husted's office has not yet responded.
Husted's directive also jeopardizes legal ballots by shifting the burden of proof on the contested voter, even though Ohio law requires the poll worker to fill out the form. A federal judge will hear the case the morning after Election Day.


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What does a game of chess have to do with supply chain management? More than you might think, says Luciana Echazu, an assistant professor in the School of Business, who teachesIndustrial & Supply Chain Economics. The innovative new course is required for undergraduates majoring in Global Supply Chain Management at Clarkson. Making smart supply chain decisions require the same kinds of strategic thinking you need to win at games like chess. And, in fact, Echazu has made playing chess and other strategy-based games a key component for learning in her class.
"I want all of my students to learn to think strategically," explains Echazu. "And often an effective way to introduce them to the logic they need is to begin with a game. It really gets them into the right frame of mind." Tackling the complex challenges that can arise in the supply chain typically requires students to apply mathematical formulas, so calculus is a prerequisite. "But solving these kinds of problems," she observes, "is really an art."
Echazu's expertise in game theory, a branch of mathematics that deals with strategic thinking, has blended well with specializations in industrial organization and behavioral microeconomics in teaching her Industrial and Supply Chain Economics overview course.
Since supply chain issues largely involve interactions with other firms, especially partners and competitors, she points out, managers must address these relationships strategically to make the most rational choices. "Game theory is about trying to anticipate the actions of your opponent. We study a variety of games from inconsequential ones like rock-paper-scissors to others having to do with political science, wars and markets. Some have a probabilistic component." She introduces every new topic with a modeling game that simulates the kinds of logic and behaviors involved.
Echazu earned her B.A. at Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina; her MBA at East Carolina University; and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Memphis. She came to Clarkson in fall 2007. "I have been impressed by the high quality of my students," she says, "especially their willingness to work hard without complaint in a class that is very challenging."


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Disney have released a new promotional shoot featuring Jessie ahead of the new album 'We Love Disney'. Check out the new addition in the gallery!
Disney have released a new promotional shoot featuring Jessie ahead of the new album 'We Love Disney'. Check out the new addition in the gallery!
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12th Sept | Shenzhen, China
14th Sept | Hangzhou, China
16th Sept | Tianjin, China
18th Sept | Shanghai, China
20th Sept | C3 Plaza, Taipei
22nd Sept | AsiaWorld-Expo Hall, Hong Kong
1st Oct | The Warfield, San Fransisco
3rd Oct | The Vogue, Vancouver
4th Oct | McMenamins Crystal Ballroom, Portland
6th Oct | Showbox SoDo, Seattle
8th Oct | The Depot, Salt Lake City
9th Oct | Gothic Theater, Englewood
11th Oct | State Theater, Minneapolis
12th Oct | The Riviera, Chicago
14th Oct | Royal Oak Music Hall, Detroit
16th Oct | Rebel, Toronto
17th Oct | MTELUS, Montreal
19th Oct | Hammerstein Ballroom, New York
20th Oct | Electric Factory, Philadelphia
22nd Oct | House Of Blues, Boston
23rd Oct | The Fillmore, Silver Spring
25th Oct | Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta
28th Oct | House of Blues, Houston
29th Oct | House of Blues, Dallas
31st Oct | The Van Buren, Phoenix
1st Nov | The Wiltern, Los Angeles
4th Nov | The Warfield, San Fransisco
8th Nov | De Montford Hall, Leicester
9th Nov | O2 Academy, Bournemouth
11th Nov | O2 Academy, Sheffield
13th Nov | Royal Albert Hall, London
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16 Nov | Manchester Academy, Manchester
17 Nov | New Theatre, Oxford
19 Nov | Corn Exchange, Cambridge
20 Nov | O2 Academy, Birmingham
22 Nov | The Nick Rayns LCR (UEA), Norwich
23 Nov | Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
25 Nov | Empire Theatre, Liverpool
26 Nov | O2 Academy, Leeds
28 Nov | O2 Academy, Glasgow
29 Nov | O2 Academy, Newcastle
1st Dec | Dublin National Stadium, Dublin
3rd Dec | AFAS Live, Amsterdam
5th Dec | Cologne Palladium, Cologne
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ADM to end commercial alliance with bioplastics company Metabolix
Archer Daniels Midland Co. announced on Jan. 12 that ADM Polymer Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of ADM, will end its commercial alliance with Metabolix Inc. on Feb. 8. As a result of this decision, Telles LLC, the sales and marketing commercial alliance created to commercialize the trademarked Mirel, a biobased plastic, will be dissolved, and Mirel production on behalf of Telles will end. Under the terms of their commercial alliance, ADM Polymer Corp. may provide polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) fermentation services for Metabolix during a three-year period following termination.
"We have analyzed our business portfolio, identifying areas that are not delivering sufficient results now or are not expected to deliver sufficient results within a reasonable timeframe," said Mark Bemis, president of ADM's corn division. "We have had a good working relationship with Metabolix, and the fermentation technology performed well at our facility. Unfortunately, uncertainty around projected capital and production costs, combined with the rate of market adoption, led to projected financial returns for ADM that are too uncertain. Therefore, we have decided to exit the business as permitted by the commercial alliance agreement with Metabolix."
ADM Polymer has been producing Mirel at ADM's integrated corn processing complex facility in Clinton, Iowa. There are currently approximately 90 full-time ADM Polymer employees at the Clinton polymer plant; in addition, there are a small number of ADM employees supporting the Telles sales and marketing efforts in Europe. ADM is currently evaluating the impact on staffing, and will make decisions on its needs as quickly as possible. For colleagues whose positions are affected, the company will offer severance packages, including outplacement services, and there may be opportunities for them to apply for positions at Clinton or other ADM facilities.
As a result of the change in circumstances and its decision to terminate the commercial alliance, ADM is evaluating other commercially viable uses for the fermentation assets in Clinton, but has not yet made any firm decision on alternative uses. As a result, ADM will record a one-time pretax charge in its second quarter of between $300 million and $360 million, primarily for impairment of the related production assets. ADM anticipates the cash portion of the total charge to be less than $5 million.


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Southeastern Virginia has developed a well-deserved reputation for producing the large-seeded, good-tasting peanut type that bears the state's name.
But there is some thought now that at least part of the Virginia peanut crop might ought to be planted with runner type varieties.
As Pat Phipps, Virginia Extension plant pathologist, explains, field trials in Virginia of runners in comparison to Virginias show that the medium-kerneled type associated with Georgia might offer some advantages in the Old Dominion.
Among them:
"Less TSWV — In years of high incidence of tomato spotted wilt virus, the new runner-type varieties have shown significantly less infection.
"And less CBR — Like TSWV, incidence of Cylindrocladium black rot was also lower in runner types than Virginias, especially GA-01R, GA-02C, and GA-03L.
"No more leafspot than Virginias — Early and late leafspot were similar for the two types except for some occurrences of more early leafspot in Virginia type varieties such as VA 98R, NC-V 11 and Champs. But Sclerotinia blight tended to be higher in the runner types, except GA-03L.
"Less landplaster needed — "The cost of landplaster and application ($35 per acre) may be eliminated where runner-type peanuts are grown in soils with medium or higher levels of calcium," says Phipps. "Even if lower levels of calcium are present, a lower rate of landplaster may be needed."
Where calcium levels are below the M-level, a half rate of landplaster should satisfy the need for calcium in most runner-type varieties.
"Lower seed costs — Seed counts per pound are higher for runner types due to their smaller size. At seeding rates of 100 pounds per acre for runner types and 120 pounds per acre for Virginia types, seed costs for runners compared to Virginia types can save an additional $20 per acre when runner types are planted.
Phipps noted that recommended seeding rates in Virginia are lower than in Georgia because of Sclerotinia blight. Seeding rates of up to five seed per foot of row are recommended for runner types in Virginia, whereas higher rates increase plant height and the density of vine growth, favoring Sclerotinia blight.
"Tillage economies — Strip-tillage on sandy textured soils has been tried successfully by several growers in Virginia. Runner varieties lend themselves better to strip-tillage because of greater vine strength and smaller pods. But Virginia types that maintain good vine strength such as Perry and Wilson can be successfully used. Virginia types like VA 98R and NC-V 11 that have weaker vines at digging should be monitored carefully for maturity and vine health as harvest approaches.
A major advantage of strip-tillage is a reduction by $30 or more per acre for equipment, labor and fuel.
Another advantage of strip-tillage over conventional-tillage is that it can reduce soil erosion by wind and water when used with a cover crop. The cover crop also improves moisture retention and water penetration since runoff is reduced.
Strip-tillage is not going to work in every situation. It is better suited to soils with a sandy texture that allows digging and inverting with minimal loss of pods. It is not suited for fine textured soils that can cause heavy losses of pods when digging and inverting.
A side benefit — "Planting a winter cover crop and using Roundup to kill it prior to strip-tillage and planting may offer some suppression of TSWV and leaf spot disease," Phipps says. But the primary benefits are reduced wind erosion, which causes sand blasting of emerging seedlings, and reduced runoff, which conserves soil moisture.
"Higher yield — The newer runner-type varieties often yield equal to or better than Virginia-type varieties.
They are less likely to go Seg 2 — Comparisons in Virginia have shown that runner types have less concealed damage and damaged kernels that can grade Seg 2, says Phipps. "Some of our large-seeded Virginia type peanuts are more at risk of Seg 2 grades, especially if you can't dig them in a timely manner."
While the state of Virginia provides a highly favorable environment for growing Virginia type peanuts, there could be some advantage to planting runner types, especially in years such as 2004-2005 when market supplies of Virginia type peanuts exceed demand.
It won't surprise Phipps if no great conversion to runners takes place in 2008. "Right now, contracts for Virginias are better," he says. "But we can grow runners here. I am confident of that. They offer a means for Virginia to maintain its infrastructure for our peanut industry whenever contracts for Virginia types are limited or fail to offset production costs."
A final note: Whatever type you are growing, a four-year rotation is one of the most effective ways to reduce the cost of disease management, says Phipps. "Diseases showing significant reductions in incidence and severity with extended intervals between peanut crops include CBR, early leaf spot, web blotch, Sclerotinia blight and crop damage by northern root knot nematode."


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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Story is king by Terry Burns
Maybe that's what is important to them, but if the story doesn't work chances are someone is not going to read far enough to get the message. And the message should never overshadow the story if it's going to work. The story must be king.
I think most of us are storytellers. When my brother and I were young we might begin playing together by setting up a scenario something like this: "What if I was a Sheriff back in the old west?"
"And what if I was an outlaw?"
"And you robbed a bank."
"And you came after me but I was too smart and set an ambush."
"But I saw the ambush and . . ."
We'd go on and on, our imaginations setting scenario after scenario, often the planning for it taking more time than we actually spent playing. Other cousins would often join in.
That where so many stories come from, a character, a place, a thing or an idea and beginning to ask "what if?"
So many of us lose touch with that storyteller instinct. We forget we know how. Then again, being able to tell a story and being able to write it in a manner that it is worthy of publication are two entirely different things. We can learn the latter if we apply ourselves to it, but the ability to come up with and tell good stories, even if we all know how to do it, the ability to do it well can be an elusive gift.
I did a workshop for the school system in the little town of Groom, Texas. Students from the 5th grade through high school were in the session. We did the what if game they immediately jumped into the spirit of it.
I asked one student for a what if and she said, "What if I had a puppy?"
I asked the boy next to her and he said, "And what if that puppy was really a space alien?" Trust a boy to go that way with it. We went on for some time building our story and it was fascinating. The high school kids were a little "too cool" to really get into it, but it reinforced my idea that we all know how to play the game.
Have you ever gone shopping for a story idea and just focused on something, almost anything, and just asked, "What if?"
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- Timothy Fish said...
I agree that story is king, but there is no way to divorce a story from the message. A story without a message makes for a very boring story. Where we run into a problem is when we try to force a message into a story. A story should allow us to see the many sides of an issue. When we force a message into a story, the story and the message don't match up. So the story is showing multiple sides of another issue while the message we're forcing into the story is unsupported.
- November 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM
- Terry Burns said...
No, when the message we'd like the story to have overshadows the story itself, or is 'forced' into the story as you put it, it ends up being very 'preachy.' Thanks for commenting.
- November 15, 2012 at 10:21 AM
- Jennifer Major said...
I was doing some research online about New Mexico history and learned about the Long Walk of the Navajo, and was stunned and sickened by what I read. (I'm Canadian and just had never heard of that event)
As I read further, I had a whopper of a "what if" moment, and kaboom, it flowed like rain!
I cannot stand books that are SO obviously buttressed with an ill-fitting, obligatory Gospel message that the story lines diverge and never blend again. A good story has the message woven in, a great story has it woven in like silk thread in wool. The reader is warmed by beauty and never sees where the story ends and the message begins.
- November 15, 2012 at 12:26 PM
- Terry Burns said...
Good comment, Jennifer, I don't believe all story-lines will carry the same amount of faith content. Some require a very light touch while others will support a fairly strong message. As you say it does have to be woven in, and cannot overshadow the story itself.
- November 15, 2012 at 12:50 PM
- Rick Barry said...
As a boy, I rarely read Christian fiction because the adventure would be getting good and interesting and then--Wham!--the author paused the action to slam you over the head with a Gospel baseball bat. Of course, I wasn't a believer at the time, so I was already less receptive to the message. Still, even as a young person, it occurred to me that such a message would be better sprinkled naturally throughout the story, not piled high in just a few spots.
My current "What if?" game didn't start with me. An editor I used to write short stories for called unexpectedly and wanted a story that was "big." He said it could be science fiction. It could be fantasy. It could be both, or neither. Just so it was "big and different!" I had to start what-iffing big time. He loved and printed my three-part series, but now I'm expanding the whole concept into a YA novel and having a ball with it. Still what-iffing as I go along.
Thanks, Terry.
- November 15, 2012 at 3:09 PM


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Ashton Kutcher Can Only Be Defeated by Anthony Hopkins
In terms of acting legends going toe-to-toe, this was a battle to end all battles. In the end, Anthony Hopkins squeaked out a victory. Meanwhile, The King's Speech is enjoying more of a clear victory, heading toward mega-hit status.
1) The Rite — $15M
So it's kind of hard to be funny about Anthony Hopkins. One could despair about him spending the remains of his days, as he heads toward the shadow lands of eternity, wading through movies like this one, which doesn't look much better than whatever just came out of a dog named Howard's end, etc. One could do that. But then it stops there. I mean, I doubt if there's a fava beans and Chianti joke in all of Christendom that hasn't been made already. I dare you to figure out how some World's Fastest Indian joke might be related to this movie. So let's just say that this movie was in bad company this weekend, and that the first quarter of 2011 is on the edge of becoming a box office mess. Hopefully by the time summer is through, the industry will be back on the road to Wellville, just in time for the legends of the fall to dazzle us with their awards movies.
2) No Strings Attached — $13.6M
Well, it appears that no one listened to me last week. Did I not urge you all to stop seeing Ashton Kutcher films? I'm pretty sure I did. I don't care how much you like Natalie Portman or that in the end this movie was "surprisingly clever" or whatever. The fact of the matter remains that Ashton Kutcher is in this movie and therefore it must be burned and buried, the ground around it salted so that nothing may grow in that cursed place. And don't tell me it's because there wasn't much else in the theaters this weekend. I'd imagine that most of you, like me, have to do some Oscar movie catchup. Drag yourself to see The King's Speech, root out that one theater where they're playing Winter's Bone. You only have a few weeks left! And you're wasting them seeing Ashton Kutcher movies. Why, I bet some of you didn't even watch the SAGs last night. You were too busy shoveling popcorn in your mouth and giggle-sighing at No Strings Attached. (A movie that, of course, is to be watched from the shameful privacy of your house some hungover Sunday, because Pay Per View money doesn't seem like real money. This was done with Knight and Day, and it will be done with this. Duh.) It's just disgraceful.
3) The Mechanic — $11.5M
They did it! They fixed the problems. Just like the poster said they would. Or it said one of them would. The poster said "Someone has to fix the problems." I'm guessing that person is Jason Statham, rather than Ben Foster. I mean, I'm sure Ben Foster helped fix the problems, but he is likely not the chief "someone" mentioned on the poster. Do you agree? I think it's likely. I like the directness of that tagline. The next Fast & the Furious movie's line should be "Someone has to drive the cars." Or for The Dark Knight Rises: "Someone has to be Batman." Someone does! It's very true.
5) The King's Speech — $11.1M
This movie's doing crazy business! Experiencing a nice Oscar nominations bump, the movie rose about 40% in ticket sales from last week. To put it in perspective, this movie has made nearly twice as much as Gulliver's Travels (#20, $725k), and that movie cost about eight times as much to make. I suppose the whole "being good" thing really can make the difference sometimes. I know it's a bold new strategy, but if people endeavored to make more good movies, rather than ones that just threw expensive special effects shots at holes in the script hoping no one notices, then maybe people would go see those movies. Not always, of course! Sometimes there is no accounting for taste at all. But in general, I think it's not a bad rule. Like, maybe don't make a Clash of the Titans sequel? Just maybe? At least consider making a King's Speech sequel first. "Someone has to do the speaking." It's true!
17) From Prada to Nada — $1.1M
It would be easy to joke that this film skipped the Prada and went right to nada, but a closer look at the numbers shows that this movie had about the fifth-highest per-screen average of the week. (Highest goes to Gregg Araki's Kaboom, which opened on one screen with $13,700.) So that's not bad for this little fable-type movie. "Someone has to do the nada." Yup. No denying that. I'm looking forward From Jimmy Choo to Timbuktu, about a fashion obsessed girl who ends up forced to join the Merchant Marines and learns lessons about herself. But more importantly she meets a boy. "Someone has to meet the boy." Mmhm!


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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Will Appeal Court Ruling Allowing Same-Sex Marriage
No big surprise here. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie seems intent on standing on the wrong side of history. He announced that he'll definitely appeal a New Jersey judge's ruling that same-sex marriages must be allowed in the state.
According to LGBTQ Nation:
A spokesman for Gov. Chris Christie says he will appeal a state court ruling calling for same-sex marriage to be legalized. Spokesman Michael Drewniak says Christie "will let the Supreme Court make this constitutional determination" after lawmakers rejected his previous plan to have voters decide whether to allow same-sex marriage. A state judge ruled earlier Friday that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry beginning Oct. 21.
Is Christie just fighting the inevitable, Instincters? What's keeping him from letting this go?
I'm curious Bronson, what does it say about the person slinging insults? Personally I care little for political correctness when the person is right and has chosen colorful language.
Christie is nothing more than blowhard pig pandering to an uneducated base he hopes to solidify for a GOP Presidential nomination.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The Scottish government announced approval of construction of a 96-turbine wind farm that could generate as much as 288 megawatts of power.
Scotland said planning consent was given to the Kilgallioch wind farm, proposed by ScottishPower Renewables. The government said the project's generating capacity of 288 MW will provide enough electricity to meet the annual energy demands of more than 130,000 households.
The facility is to be built south of Barrhill in southwestern Scotland, the company said.
The company boasts of more than 1,200 MW of operational wind capacity in the region. Chief Executive Officer Keith Anderson said the latest project would help ensure a regional low-carbon economy.
"Kilgallioch is a very significant renewable energy project that will make a major contribution toward both Scotland's and the U.K.'s carbon reduction targets," he said in a statement.
Scotland has the ambitious renewable energy targets of 100 percent electricity from green energy sources by 2020.
In December, Edinburgh said figures from the British Department of Energy and Climate Change show it generated 15.2 percent more electricity from renewable energy during the first three-quarters of 2012 than during the same period last year.


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When Rosh Hashanah � the Jewish new year � rolls around, sugar, and specifically honey, often is on the menu. It's a kind of edible prayer, a hopeful way of attracting sweet things to one's life in the year to come.
When Rosh Hashanah � the Jewish new year � rolls around, sugar, and specifically honey, often is on the menu. It�s a kind of edible prayer, a hopeful way of attracting sweet things to one�s life in the year to come.
That�s why this salad is based on a sweet vegetable � the carrot � and flavored with honey and dates. But you don�t have to celebrate Rosh Hashanah to love this recipe. Refreshing and simple to prepare, it�s a great and healthy end-of-summer treat no matter what your faith.
Technique-wise, I borrowed a trick I learned for beets: I grate them.
For years, I hated beets. To me, they tasted like dirt. And the little devils start out hard as rocks, so hard you have to boil them for an hour before you can even think about cutting into them. One day it occurred to me that I might be able to make beets more user-friendly by running them through the grating disk of a food processor.
Much as I love my chef�s knife, I am not ashamed to reach for a more complex piece of equipment if it will make my life easier. So I peeled and grated some beets using the processor. And guess how long it then took me to saute them in a large skillet? Three minutes. My beet-loving husband was ecstatic, and I felt like a whole new world had opened up.
I started rummaging through the fridge and cupboard in search of additional candidates for the grater. The carrot was a natural. I grated a bunch, flavored it with hot pepper flakes and lime, then cooked it all in a large skillet coated with vegetable oil, just as I had the beets. Sure enough, 3 minutes later they were done. And delicious. Cooked shredded carrots quickly shouldered their way into our weeknight dinner rotation.
And it turns out shredded carrots are wonderful raw, too, especially in a salad. All they needed was some Middle Eastern flavoring � paprika and cumin and a spritz of lemon to balance their natural sweetness. Enhancing this basic line-up with a little honey and some chopped dates makes it a salad wonderfully fit for Rosh Hashanah.
Paprika, by the way, is one of my favorite ingredients these days. In this recipe, I used a mix of hot smoked and sweet Hungarian. Who�d have thought that the bright red powder my mom used to sprinkle on hard-boiled eggs and potato salad just for looks one day would become the sweetheart of cutting-edge American chefs?
As for the dates, I have a couple of tricks for dealing with their annoying stickiness, which makes them a pain to chop. If you spritz your knife with cooking spray before you start, you shouldn�t have any trouble.
And when it comes time to mix the finished salad, use your impeccably clean hands, rather than salad spoons, to make sure the dates are happily dispersed throughout the salad rather than clumped together in a sullen bunch. I will admit that I was a little worried about serving this salad to my husband because he usually does not like sweet mixed with his savory. But all the balancing ingredients must have worked. He loved it.
Start to finish: 30 minutes
Servings: 6
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon whole cumin seeds
1 teaspoon paprika, sweet, hot or smoked, or a combination
1 teaspoon honey
1 pound carrots
1/4 cup chopped pitted dates (about 4 whole)
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup shelled natural pistachios, walnuts or almonds, chopped
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon shredded fresh mint
In a small skillet over medium-low, heat the oil. Add the cumin seeds and cook, swirling the pan occasionally, until they turn a shade darker and become fragrant, about 4 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the paprika and the honey. Let the mixture cool to room temperature.
Meanwhile, coarsely grate the carrots, preferably using the coarse grating disk on a food processor. In a large bowl, toss the carrots with the cooled oil-cumin mixture, the dates, lemon juice, pistachios and salt, using your hands to incorporate the dates. Stir in the mint just before serving.
Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 180 calories; 90 calories from fat (50 percent of total calories); 10 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 21 g carbohydrate; 3 g protein; 4 g fiber; 220 mg sodium.


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Alan Swahn Named Vice President of Marketing for HPC Management Innovator
Boston, MA -- July 10, 2014 --Terascala, the industry leader in HPC management software, today announced that Alan Swahn, a former vice president of product management for Flexera Software, has joined Terascala's executive team as vice president of marketing. Terascala's software when combined with leading compute and storage systems from Dell and NetApp create the highest performance and most reliable solutions for processing big data.
Swahn has been appointed to guide Terascala's channel expansion and broaden its product portfolio. His leadership in startups and bringing new ideas to market is perfectly suited to manage Terascala's growth stage with an eye to making Terascala synonymous with high performance computing and managing big data.
According to Swahn, "There is transformation underway from all-about-the-app to all-about-the-data with the power to change our quality of life and how we operate in society through insights into personal medicine, energy exploration, security, competitive purchasing, and planetary change. Terascala is uniquely positioned to manage the largest HPC systems and their associated complexity. Our software identifies component problems—servers, disks, cables, network, file system—and initiates failover to keep workloads running at peak performance. Our system-level high availability is required to minimize downtime for these complex systems."
"Terascala is the gold standard in HPC management software and at the center of the big data revolution," said Steve Butler, CEO of Terascala. "Alan brings depth in marketing and business development to expand our OEM business worldwide."
Prior to joining Terascala, Swahn was vice president of marketing and business development at ManageSoft that was acquired by Flexera Software in FY2010. He also co-founded LightSpeed Semiconductor, where he was instrumental in defining a new market category for single mask programmable ASICs. Swahn was part of two startups that had successful IPOs—Viewlogic Systems and Daisy Systems. Swahn holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with High Honors from Rochester Institute of Technology and an AEET with Highest Distinction from Penn State University. Read more about Swahn at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanswahn.
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Terascala—the High Performance Computing (HPC) management company—has pioneered software that lowers total cost of ownership by managing and optimizing data, performance, and reliability. Savings is quickly realized through minimizing downtime, moving data very fast between scratch and inexpensive backup storage, and optimizing workload throughput. The company's TeraOS software provides system-level high availability to reduce costly degraded performance and downtime. It integrates workload, network, storage, and file system monitoring, analysis, pre-emptive failure alerts, and fast failover. Terascala's real-time analysis and automated phone-home support keeps these highly complex systems up and running at peak performance. Support costs are minimized with no HPC or parallel file system expertise required.


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Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Fayetteville/Greenville Expansion Project (Docket No. CP07-417-000)
Issued: March 7, 2008
FERC staff prepared a final environmental impact statement for Texas Gas Transmission, LLC's (Texas Gas) Fayetteville/Greenville Expansion Project. The project includes expansion of Texas Gas's existing pipeline system by the construction and operation of about 166.2 miles of 36-inch-diameter pipeline in Faulkner, Cleburne, White, Woodruff, St. Francis, Lee, and Phillips Counties, Arkansas, and Coahoma County, Mississippi (Fayetteville Lateral); 96.4 miles of 36-inch-diameter pipeline in Washington, Sunflower, Humphreys, Holmes, and Attalla Counties, Mississippi (Greenville Lateral); 0.8 mile of 36-inch-diameter tie-in lateral and 0.4 mile of 20-inch-diameter tie-in lateral in Attalla County, Mississippi; the 10,650 horsepower Kosciusko Compressor Station in Attalla County, Mississippi; and related aboveground facilities along both laterals.
FERC's environmental staff concludes that the Fayetteville/Greenville Expansion Project with appropriate mitigating measures, as recommended, would have limited adverse environmental impact.
Staff concludes the project would be environmentally acceptable action (with appropriate mitigation) because:
- Texas Gas would implement our Upland Erosion Control, Revegetation, and Maintenance Plan, our Wetland and Waterbody Construction and Mitigation Procedures, Best Management Practices, Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures Plan, Hydrostatic Test Plan, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan, Exotic and Invasive Species Plan which would minimize and mitigate impacts to resources during construction and operation of the proposed Project;
- The Fayetteville Lateral would be collocated along existing rights-of-way for about 90.5 miles, or 54 percent, of its length;
- Horizontal directional drill construction methods would be used to cross many sensitive resources;
- The appropriate consultations with the NPS, USFWS, USACE, state historic preservation officers, other affected land management agencies, Native American tribes, and any appropriate compliance actions resulting from these consultations would be completed before Texas Gas would be allowed to begin construction in any given area; and
- Texas Gas would implement an environmental inspection program that would ensure compliance with all proposed and recommended mitigation measures.
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Opening Day at ski area looked good, felt right
It's just not in the culture of Mammoth Mountain to miss an Opening Day — natural snow or manufactured, blue skies or gray, rain, snow or fire and brimstone.
This season was no different.
The ski area opened yesterday with five lifts ready to go, including the Lower Gondola.
It also opened with 13 terrain features, said Joani Lynch, ski area spokeswoman.
Working on a base ranging from 18 to 24 inches, the ski area opened Chair 1 (Broadway Express); Chair 6 (Thunder Bound Express); Chair 11 (Discovery Express) and Chair 3 (Facelift).
The first chair left Broadway at 8:30 a.m.
"I've been counting down the days since Fourth of July," said Jon Bessette, 31, of Rancho Cucamonga. "Opening Day here is bigger than Bear [Mountain] or [Snow] Summit all year."
"Opening Day here is a lot better," said John Deane, 33, of San Bernardino. "There's more than one run."
"We're here to snowboard with friends," said Justin Chapman, 32, of San Diego. And, of course, "for the bragging rights."
"Yeah, we get to brag to friends," said Deane. "They're all sitting at work."
The popular ski run "Face of 3" did not open, Lynch said, but the back run off Chair 3, Saddle Bowl, opened on schedule.
Snow conditions were favorable as of mid-week, with temperatures cold enough to run the artificial snow machines day and night.
Mother Nature is set to move in today and offer snow showers through the weekend, according to the National Weather Service. Accumulations are expected to be negligible, the weather service said.
It hasn't always been this way.
In the 1995-96 season, not only was there no natural snow for Opening Day, there was none at all for the entire month of November.
November snow totals for 1992-93 measured just a half-inch, while in 2007-2008, only 4.5 inches of snow fell during the month.
In mid-week this season, snow guns blasted away in the Broadway neighborhood, falling on top of a modicum of natural snow.
As is the custom, CEO Rusty Gregory officially greeted the Opening Day gathering with a champagne toast from the sun deck at Main Lodge.
Afterward, the après-ski parties began, the first of many party scenes planned this weekend.
Aleksandra Gajewski contributed to this report.


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Life in Christian County, Kentucky... More About Birds and Animals...
We made a pigeon trap today. As you can see, it's nothing fancy. It's just a box with a flap cut in the up-side (that is, in the former bottom of the box.)
The idea is that you prop the box up with a stick. When the bird goes under the box to eat the grain, you pull the stick out with the attached string. The box drops over the bird. Then you reach through the flap and hold the bird.
A helper then lifts the box a little and somehow, between the two of you, the bird is put into a cage. My idea is that we should slide something flat under the box and carry it to an enclosed area before making the transfer. We haven't reached that step yet because we haven't caught the bird.
He came close to the box a few times but he didn't go under it. He is finding fallen seed from the feeders and also the rice we threw on the ground for him yesterday. He doesn't seem interested in the grain under the box.
Tomorrow morning, I will rake that area and try to remove some of the extraneous food. Maybe then he'll be more interested in the food in the trap. I hope we can catch him soon because I have other things to do!
This afternoon, he was sitting on the roof (photo below.) I don't know where he is roosting tonight. I don't think he's in the tree where he spent the last two nights.
Dennis and his brother Steve had pigeons when they were kids. They didn't have racing pigeons, but they had rollers and tumblers (named for their distinctive flight patterns), kings, and fantails. Grandpa Netz fixed a pigeon loft in the barn, and the boys took care of them every morning before school.
That's why Dennis immediately realized this stray was a lost homing pigeon. I had no clue. I'd have guessed the bird was banded for some sort of scientific study.
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Title: 사랑도 돈이 되나요 / Can Love Become Money
Previouly Known as: 황제를 위하여 / For the Emperor
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 20 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: MBN
Broadcast period: 2012-March-03 to 2012-May-06
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 23:00
This drama is about a young CEO, Ma In Tak (Yun Jung Hoon) who considers MONEY is the most important thing in his life. He calculates everything in terms of MONEY and his success has also earned him the reputation of being a tyrant.
The CEO finds himself entangled in a strange conspiracy due to his obsession with MONEY and after that he found something which is more important than MONEY.
1. Early working Korean tile was "황제를 위하여" (literally "To The Emperor")
2. "Can Love Become Money" takes over the MBN Saturday & Sunday 21:00 time slot previously occupied by "What's Up?".
Yun Jung Hoon as Ma In Tak
Uhm Ji Won as Yoon Da Ran
Wang Bit Na as Hong Mi Mi
Jo Yeon Woo as Shim Jae Gyung
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Lee Seo-jin
To The World You Are Someone, But To Someone You Are The World!!!
i hope this drama will push through.
i love lee seo jin.
I love Lee Seo Jin!!!!!
Lee Seo-jin - Lee Min-jeong, will they face each other in 'For Emperor'
Will actor Lee Seo-jin and actress Lee Min-jeong finally meet?
Lee Seo-jin and Lee Min-jeong are two strong candidates for the main roles in the upcoming drama 'For Emperor', which will be started at the beginning of next year.
Both of them are positively considering this drama so there is a high possibility that they will appear in it. One official from 'For Emperor' said, "Both of them didn't write any official contract yet, but they showed high interest in this drama. So there is a pretty good chance that they will act together'.
The meeting of them are considered as the joining of 'Comeback Star' and 'Rising Star'. Lee Seo-jin was having a break after MBC drama 'HON – Soul'. Lee Min-jeong is on her peak after the success of 'Cyrano Agency'.
'For Emperor' is about a man, who think money is the best thing, fall in to a trap was set by his rivals.
To The World You Are Someone, But To Someone You Are The World!!!
Kim Hyeon-joo and Wang Bit-na in "For The Emperor"?
Actress Kim Hyeon-joo and Wang Bit-na are looking at the MBN drama "For The Emperor".
"For The Emperor" is a romance that tells the story of the future wife of young and successful CEO Ma In-tak, who gets an inheritance of 10 billion won. Producer Han Cheol-soo from "9 End 2 Outs" and writer Do Hyeon-jeong from "Que Sera, Sera" have come together to work on this.
Kim Hyeon-joo is Yoon Da-ran, a clerk in a department store customer care center who changes into a 'doenjang girl' after her fiancé Woo-seok passes the judicial examinations.
Initially, Lee Seo-jin, Lee Min-jeong and Park Jin-hee were cast for "For The Emperor". The drama had trouble in confirming its broadcast status and fell through with MBC quicker than expected. The casting has been about 60-70% completed.
"For The Emperor" will be shown after "What's Up"
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Wang Bit-na in "For the Emperor"
Wang Bit-na has been confirmed to star in the MBN drama "For the Emperor".
Pen Entertainment revealed on the 13th with News N, "Wang Bit-na has confirmed to star in the drama and Kim Hyeon-joo and others are still negotiating".
"It's true that we offered roles to Eom Tae-woong, Jeong Joon-ho and Lee Jeong-jin. Any drama will want them to be in the cast. However, they haven't been confirmed yet and because it's been taking a long time to prepare for the drama, we did have some difficulties in casting the leading characters".
"The production team has been put together and shape should form starting next week. We will start shooting as soon as the male and female roles have been set".
Meanwhile, "For the Emperor" is about the romance that happens when the wife of a successful and young CEO is given an inheritance of 10 billion won. Producer Han Cheol-soo from "9 End 2 Outs" and writer Do Hyeon-jeong from "Que, Sera Sera" are collaborating on this drama. "For the Emperor" will be shown on the 11th of February after "What's Up".
To The World You Are Someone, But To Someone You Are The World!!!
After played vampire prosecutor, Yun Jung Hoon plays a CEO in 'For The Emperor'
Wang Bit Na has been locking leading lady role for upcoming MBN drama titled For The Emperor, in which she will play a future wife of a CEO named Ma In Tak who received 10 billion Won inheritance.And today, the drama production team confirmed Yun Jung Hoon to play CEO Ma In Tak. His role is described as bit a tyrant.
This is a straight leading role for Yun Jung Hoon after earned popularity played edgy prosecutor who become vampire in OCN hit drama Vampire Prosecutor. Actually he got 2 drama offers after Vampire Prosecutor but finally picked For The Emperor.
PD Han Chul Soo (9 Ends 2 Out) and writer Do Hyun Jung (Que Sera Sera) will be the key person behind the camera for For The Emperor.
With leading cast is final, this drama will be in full throttle shooting as they have very short preparation to meet February 11 debut date, replacing What's Up.
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Eom Ji-won cast for "For the Emperor" MBS new drama.
General service channel MBC revealed that Eom Ji-won has been cast opposite Yeon Jeong-hoon for the drama "For the Emperor".
"For the Emperor" is about a man who thinks of everything as money but learns about the world and humanity as he becomes entangled in a scheme involving money.
Eom Ji-won will be taking on the role of Yoo Da-ran, who is persistent and optimistic with the qualities of a 'doenjang girl' [a girl who appears weathier than she actually is], and her partner in romance partner will be Ma In-tak (Yun Jung-hun), who is also known as a tyrant.
Eom Ji-won said, "I was attracted to the character of Yoon Da-ran, who lives life to the fullest despite the fact that she had a tough upbringing. I want to express her persistent optimist with the qualities of a 'doejang girl' as best as I can".
"For the Emperor" will be shown after the conclusion of "What's Up".
To The World You Are Someone, But To Someone You Are The World!!!
Characters stills for the drama Can Love Become Money (formerly known To The Emperor)
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'Can Love Become Money' press conference
Upcoming cable channel MBD drama Can Love Become Money held its press conference event on February 27. The session was attended by 4 leading cast Yun Jung Hoon, Wang Bit Na, Uhm Ji Won and Jo Yun Woo.
Can Love Become Money debuts March 3.
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Want to induce labor to be sure to have your fave doc on-duty or because you're just plain tired of being pregnant? Or want to schedule an elective cesarean section to make sure your hubby isn't away on business for the birth? If so, and you're a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, starting July 18th you'll have to look to deliver elsewhere than Banner Hospitals, which is banning both procedures in cases where the health of the mom or baby is not at risk, reports ABC15.
"We just had to draw that line in the sand and say, because of the data, that we've become convinced we know it's healthier for the baby and we know the mother wants what's best for the baby," Dr. Ken Welch with Banner Estrella Medical Center told ABC15.
Plus: Babies Born at 37, 38 Weeks at Higher Risk
Indeed, several recent studies, including one by the March of Dimes, have shown that babies ejected from the womb early spend more time in hospitals and have a higher chance of developmental issues. The March of Dimes recently recommended that no non-medical inductions be done prior to 39 weeks gestation.
Plus: 7 Common Preemie Problems
"The brain is much larger at 39 weeks than it is even at 36 weeks, the lungs, the gastric system, all of those things are maturing right before a baby would be due to be born," said Dr. Welch, highlighting the importance of allowing a baby to continue to grow in utero.
Plus: Special Delivery: The Perils of Premature Birth
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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - Broward Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed a serial bank robber Friday after they were forced to stop his getaway vehicle on Interstate 95 near Copans Road in Pompano Beach.
According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, about 11:21 a.m. Friday, the armed walked into the Chase Bank at 2285 N. Federal Highway, pulled on a ski mask, but then realized bullet proof glass had been installed at the teller windows since he last robbed the bank. The same bank was robbed on May 10 and on June 15.
"Between the last bank robbery and this bank robbery, they had installed bullet proof glass," said Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. "So, when he saw that bullet proof glass there, he said I'm getting out of here."
BSO said a bank employee called 911 and gave dispatchers a description of the vehicle and its tag. BSO then saw him driving east on Atlantic Boulevard, where the chase began.
The bank robber began heading north on I-95, where BSO deputy German Bickbau executed a PIT maneuver just north of Copans Road, causing the bank robber's truck to roll over and crash, said police. Bickbau, 48, was injured when his car hit a light pole.17243340
Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti said Bickbau tried the PIT maneuver four times but the robber tried ramming him off the road. Lamberti added that Bickbau recalled executing the PIT maneuver and hitting the light pole.
"He had his gun in his hand as he was coming out of his vehicle," said Lamberti.
BSO said two deputies shot the bank robber, killing him. They then dragged his body out of the truck, fearing it may ignite.
According to the FBI, the robber robbed at least two banks in Broward County, including a Bank Atlantic at 1299 S. Military Trail in Deerfield Beach three different times in August, six different times. He has served three years in federal prison for bank robbery.
"He's been convicted in other states and served time in other states. He was also arrested here in 1990," said FBI agent David Beall.
The bank robber's name was not immediately released.
Bickbau is a 12-year veteran with BSO. He was assigned to the Pompano Beach District.
Several BSO deputies arrived shortly after Bickbau was transported to the hospital. FBI agents also came to speak with Bickbau.
As of 4:45 p.m., three northbound lanes of I-95 were open at Copans Road. The Copans Road ramp to I-95 northbound remained closed. Traffic was backed up to Oakland Park Boulevard.
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Extension of Health Law Signup Period Worries Insurers
New Flexibility for Some Applicants Could Hurt Companies' Ability to Set 2015 Rates
The Obama administration's decision to let some consumers enroll in health plans beyond Monday's deadline sparked concern among insurers and prompted fresh attacks from opponents of the health law.
A surge of consumers is expected to hit HealthCare.gov before Monday's deadline to sign up for insurance and avoid a penalty under the Affordable Care Act. In the past, heavy traffic has stalled the federal site.


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LaVille falls short of 1st win vs Zebras
LAKEVILLE — There were plenty of things for LaVille fans to feel good about in the Lady Lancers' game with Rochester Friday night. It's just that a win wasn't one of them.
LaVille weathered an early storm to get back in the game after a slow start, broke Rochester's press with relative ease, played solid defense in a newly-implemented 2-3 zone, hung tough in the battle of the boards, worked the ball inside on offense.
But the home team couldn't overcome a 12-for-53 shooting effort from the field, and the Zebras retook their final lead of the night at the 4:56 mark of the fourth quarter, converting 11 of 14 free throws in the final frame to keep LaVille winless 45-41 at Dale E. Cox Gymnasium.
"We had a good defensive spurt in there. We've got some potential out there. The kids are still working hard," said Lady Lancers head coach Kevin McCullough. "The kids battled. You just can't shoot 12-of-53. We spend a lot of time shooting. We practice shooting.
"I told somebody if we had less than 19 (turnovers) today we would have won, but you can't shoot 12-for-53 and win the game. It just ain' t happening.
We just ran out of time. I'm giving credit to the other team."
The Lancers got off to a slow start, knocking down only one of 13 attempts from the field in the first quarter. Rochester forward Breanne Paulik went 4-for-5 from the field for eight points, meanwhile, and the Zebras put up six second-chance points to grab a 12-4 lead at the quarter break.
LaVille rallied back to within one with 10 straight points in the second quarter, however, as Amanda Carbiener sparked the run with a wing triple at the 6:07 stop and capped it off with a putback at the 2:42 mark to cut the deficit to 16-15.
The Lancers took their first lead of the night, 26-24, with 52 seconds remaining in the third quarter on a pair of free throws by Hannah Herbster after the junior forward grabbed her own rebound. The two teams swapped leads three times after that, but Rochester reclaimed the advantage for the last time on a Becky Malchow charity toss with 5:23 remaining in the game. The Zebras finally stretched the lead to two possessions with Paulik's one-and-one with 1:41 on the clock, and the visitors held off LaVille at the line to move to 2-1 with their second straight win.
Despite Rochester's fullcourt pressure throughout the night, LaVille turned the ball over a manageable 14 times compared to 25 turnovers by the Zebras. Rochester enjoyed a slight advantage in the battle of the boards with 39 rebounds compared to 30 by LaVille, led by Paulik's game-best 13 caroms.
"It doesn't feel any better than the 20 points we got beat last week or the 10 points we got beat the first game," said McCullough. "But we made some good plays out there."
Rochester was led by junior Paulik's double-double of 21 points and 13 rebounds.
"They were helping in with the guards (on Paulik)," said Rochester head coach Tony Stesiak. "I thought we did a better job of making the adjustment of moving the ball away and keeping other people involved. Murphy made some nice plays, skipped the ball over the top and looked for her. I thought she played almost like a senior. She kept her composure, especially at the end. She knew what to do with the ball. She may not have hit all her shots, but I thought she took good shots."
The Lancers were paced by a double-double of their own as Herbster scored 10 points with 11 rebounds.
"For the second game in a row she came off the bench and led us in scoring. She has a positive attitude, she plays hard when she's out there," said McCullough.
LaVille also saw double-digit production from senior forward Katie Berger, who put up 11 points, including seven during the decisive fourth quarter.
The Lancers won't have much time to dwell on the loss as they travel to Culver Academy for a game tonight at 7:30 p.m.
"We set this up because this happened to us once where we had to play Tuesday, Friday and Saturday to win the sectional," McCullough said. "We set it up early in the year to let the kids keep it in their mind. It's a way to get a game in. Because we do it like this last week we had three days of practice, this week four days of practice, so that's a positive. We've had two good weeks of practice. The kids are getting better. Now I expect them to keep getting better."
• ROCHESTER 45, LaVILLE 41
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Score by quarter
Rochester: 12 20 26 45
LaVille: 4 17 26 41
ROCHESTER (45): Rylee Holland 1 0-0 2, Keaton Stesiak 0 0-0 0, Becky Malchow 0 1-2 1, Breanne Paulik 9 3-5 21, Alexa Holland 1 6-6 8, Lindsay Mitchell 0 0-0 0, Riley Pfeiffer 0 0-0 0, Raeann Hunter 1 3-4 5, Karli Murphy 3 2-3 8; Totals: 15 13-15 45.
LaVILLE (41): Kelsey Gurtner 1 4-7 6, Paige Hawkins 0 0-0 0, McKenzie Leed 2 0-0 5, Kyla Coblentz 0 0-0 0, Hannah Herbster 3 6-10, Katie Berger 5 0-2 11, Lynae Hostrawser 0 0-0 0, Amanda Carbiener 2 0-0 5, Lauren Hostrawser 0 0-0 0; Totals: 12 10-19 41.
3-pointers: Rochester 0, LaVille 4 (Herbster 2, Berger, Leed); Turnovers: Rochester 25, LaVille 14; Rebounds: Rochester 39 (Breanne Paulik 13), LaVille 30 (Herbster 11); Assists: Rochester 8 (Holland 3), LaVille 4; Steals: Rochester 12 (Holland 3, Smith 3, Holland), LaVille 9 (Herbster 2, Coblentz 2); Fouls (fouled out): Rochester 15 (none), LaVille 16 (none).
Records: Rochester 2-1, LaVille 0-3
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Obama's Old-World Arrogance
When President Obama came to the U.N. General Assembly on September 25, his arrogance was on full display. He skipped meeting any world leaders, but did find time to sit down and talk about his lover moves on ABC's "The View." Topics included how he's a "romantic husband," how he "tucks in" his wife at night and how his first kiss with Michelle is now memorialized by a monument in Chicago.
Meanwhile, Israel is preparing for war against a soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. Yawn.
Obama also skipped the traditional luncheon, leaving U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon looking like "a jilted prom date," reported CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I think he must be busy with something at this moment," Moon said at the lunch, drawing laughs. "Or perhaps he must be stuck somewhere in traffic."
But the arrogance was also there in Obama's U.N. speech. In one passage, he flagrantly drew a straight line from blasphemers of Jesus Christ to his own critics, as if those two groups are similar in their willingness to offend messianic figures.
"Like me, the majority of Americans are Christian, and yet, we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs," he declared. Then it was all about him: "As president of our country, and commander in chief of our military, I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so." Anyone who has heard him diss the Supreme Court for the Citizens United verdict, affirming political free speech, knows that's baloney.
Our Obama-worshipping media played the second half of that clip as if Obama were somehow being humble, which thoroughly distorts the picture. The media coverage of Obama's speech overlooked Obama's bizarre statement that "we not only respect the freedom of religion, we have laws that protect individuals from being harmed because of how they look or what they believe."
No one in the liberal media thought it sounded ridiculous after the Obama administration doubled down on the Catholic Church with Obamacare, insisting that faithful Catholics must fund insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortifacients. No one blinked after the "filmmaker" who made the Muhammad-mocking YouTube video was suddenly jailed in California (perhaps for years) for, ahem, "violating probation."
The media certainly skipped the Obama sound bite that rocketed around Twitter within minutes, the pandering passage about Muhammad. "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam," he proclaimed.
Then he did his typical triangulating with religions: "But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated or churches that are destroyed or the Holocaust that is denied."
Our media failed to report the obvious: Obama is AWOL when it comes to condemning desecrations of Christianity. Where is he with the constant, obscene attacks against Catholics at home? Where is he on the assault on Christianity all across the Muslim world? How about Israel?
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) recently called on the president to "stand up for America's values and beliefs and denounce the 'Piss Christ' that has offended Christians at home and abroad." The urine-soaked crucifix image (funded by the National Endowment for the Arts) is once again being honored in a gallery, the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery on West 57th Street in Manhattan, a short cab ride from the United Nations.
Obama had nothing to say. There were no calls to the gallery the way Team Obama called YouTube and asked for censorship. There were no $70,000 advertising buys in Christian countries to pacify rioters. There was just silence.
But in his speech, Obama employed New York City as a model of religious tolerance. "For as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and every faith," except the Christians who are always fair game for mockery.
William Donohue of the Catholic League protested the exhibit at the gallery scene. He also made a video where he put a bobble-head doll of Obama in a jar with "faux feces" and asked for a federal grant like the one Andres Serrano received. "It's brown Play-Doh," he explained. "You get the point, right? The cultural and political elite are basically secularist. They don't believe in God. This is their god. Liberalism is their god," he said, pointing at the Obama jar.
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Mark Strong Sr. apologized for his actions and for the pain he'd caused ahead of his sentencing. He was convicted earlier this month of 12 counts of promotion of prostitution and one count of conspiracy in Kennebunk, a quaint small town next door to the Bush family summer compound in Kennebunkport.
Prosecutors were seeking a 364-day jail term, while the defense asked for no more than 14 days in jail. In addition to the 20-day sentence, the judge also ordered Strong to pay a $3,000. The defense asked the judge to stay the sentence pending appeal.
Prosecutors said the married Strong cultivated a relationship with Alexis Wright and controlled the business, receiving Google calendar alerts for her appointments, reviewing Wright's ledgers, watching the encounters and running clients' license plate numbers through the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles database. He used his status as a private investigator to check out the plate numbers, they said.
He even had suggestions for maximizing profits, like seeking higher-paying fetish clients and suggesting sex with multiple clients, prosecutors said.
From his office 100 miles away, Strong watched the sexual encounters live via Skype, not just because he was a voyeur but also because he was both monitoring the operation and acting as Wright's protector, prosecutors said.
"Based on his sophisticated crime, his calculation in committing these crimes, his utter lack of remorse, the court should impose a sentence that gives fair warning that this type of criminal enterprise is not tolerated in Maine," prosecutors wrote before the sentencing.
Strong, 57, of Thomaston, has acknowledged helping the 30-year-old Wright open her Kennebunk dance studio and having an affair with her. He says he loaned her money that was repaid with interest, and that he didn't profit from prostitution.
In court on Thursday, Strong apologized to his family and addressed prosecutors' claim that he had no remorse.
"I guess I'm the only who can know the remorse that I have. I do apologize for each of my selfish actions and the harm that I have caused many. Most importantly I want to apologize to my wife, my two sons and my entire family because I've caused so much hurt in so many ways, emotionally, physically and financially," he said, his voice choking.
His wife, Julie, arm-in-arm with their son Bradley, broke down in tears as she pleaded for leniency, saying her husband "suffers from an illness that is curable." She also said their marriage is better now that he's confronting his illness.
"What started as my worst nightmare I could ever imagine has turned into one of God's greatest gifts because God has given me a new marriage with a new man, and he is the man I always knew he was," Julie Strong told the judge. "When I first saw him and met him, I could see a kind and gentle soul. Nobody chooses to do what he does."
The judge ordered a recess, and the Strongs hugged each other.
Prosecutors said in their sentencing memo that Strong received 20 percent of revenues from Wright's operation, and email traffic between the two indicated paid sex acts continued even after police raided Wright's dance studio, office and home in Kennebunk.
All told, Wright is accused of bringing in more than $150,000 from prostitution over an 18-month period. She is due to stand trial in May.
Strong's attorneys described him as a community leader, husband and father who had no previous criminal record and poses no threat to society.
"Mark Strong is loved by his family and friends, who describe him as unfailingly generous, thoughtful, and extremely remorseful for how his poor personal decisions - and the resultant criminal charges and publicity - have negatively and perhaps irreparably impacted those closest to him," his attorneys wrote in a sentencing memorandum.
The case has drawn wide attention because of the scale of the operation and the reported number of clients - more than 150 of them. People who've seen the list say some of Wright's clients were prominent. More than 60 have been charged so far.
Wright, who now lives in Wells, faces 106 counts, including prostitution, privacy violations, tax offenses and welfare fraud.
Defense lawyer Dan Lilley said prosecutors and law enforcement were overzealous because they thought they were onto a large enterprise but ended up with two defendants and an international media frenzy.
"The state wanted Moby Dick but got fish bait. This is relatively minor case that has become, or did become, a media event. The simple fact is that the media ... has already punished Mark Strong," Lilley said.


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When you're starting an online movement there's nothing more important than to be able to connect with the right audience as quickly as possible. For many online communities it takes years to build momentum.
The good news is we've spent a long time making HealthUnlocked searchable on the web. You can always choose to restrict your posts to the community (find out how here: bit.ly/1o6iLu1 ). But for those who want to help those beyond the community we've made it easy for people to find your posts through Google. Sharing in this way you reach more people as an individual and with other pioneers you build an online movement.
But that's only half the story. You can help more people find you by the way you write. Through a simple technique called 'Search Engine Optimization' (SEO) you can write in a way that massively alters how many people can find you.
4 tips that will radically change how many people see your posts.
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It may seem obvious but try to include the main topics of what you're talking about in the text. Imagine writing four or five shorthand words that completely summarize the post. Make sure they are all in the text. It makes a massive difference.
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Linking to relevant, useful resources makes a big difference to the way Google rates your post. The more useful the links to the reader the more likely Google will reward you. As an example here I'm going linking to a great post about the value of health blogging ihealthbeat.org/insight/201...
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Just as linking out makes a difference, so does add inbound links from other sites. You can do this easily by getting people to link to your post via your social media profiles (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) or even a website.
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Sounds obvious one but if you're setting out to educate others the best marker of success will be on the clarity and quality of your content to the audience. Lists often work well, so '4 tips to boost the searchability of your posts' is what we chose for this one!


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and I'm not sure that I will ever stop wanting one . Behold the beloved, Crux Blanket by Pia Wallén:home of designer::Frederic Mechiche
Of Impeccable craftsmanship and quality, it's made using traditional Scandinavian methods { by a small family owned company in Sweden } and the finest wool.photo:: inside out photo credit:: pia ullin
Every year, a new color is added.home of designer:: Orla Kieley
Also, the price is over $700.00 per. So there's that small detail.
But, would you buy it? Honestly?
photographer:: Alexander Crispin for Scandinavian StyleIn Swedish folkart tradition, the cross is a strong symbol for hope, a meeting point of heaven and earth. I wish I could say that made all the difference for me.
But really, it's just about the great design and artisan quality that goes into each one. And I really, really want one. big time.photo credti:: hus and hem
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