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Least Family-Friendly Holiday Movies
The 12 Least Family-Friendly Holiday Movies
Most Christmas movies, or at least the ones aimed at kids, are pretty lame. Tasked with teaching children valuable "lessons," they're packed with more syrupy-sweetness than an entire package of candy canes. The Night Before is not one of those movies. That's because The Night Before is a Christmas movie for grown-ups. Or at least grown-up man-children.
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anthony Mackie as three lifelong friends whose annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery culminates in one last, final blowout, the movie's got lessons, sure. About family, friendship, and the magic of the holiday season. But by balancing those with hard-R humor, the result is more akin to a drug-, booze- and dick joke-fueled version of A Christmas Carol.
So, inspired by The Night Before, we've come up with 12 days' worth of holiday-themed options that won't make you feel like you're drowning in Hallmark moments and visions of sugarplums. And if you find yourself looking for a more adult upgrade on your annual It's a Wonderful Life viewing this holiday season, it's not too late to add a few of these to your Christmas list. Just don't invite Grandma. (Or do. Who knows, maybe she's a big Harold & Kumar fan.)
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
This one earns an honorable mention not because of its content — Martians abduct Santa hoping to bring Christmas cheer to their home planet — but because in order to properly "enjoy" the '60s B-movie that's widely considered to be one of the worst movies of all-time, you'd have to ingest almost as many drugs as Rogen's character does in The Night Before.
A Christmas Story
The original holiday counterprogramming classic, A Christmas Story has become almost as much of a yuletide staple as It's a Wonderful Life. But don't let the annual 24-hour TBS marathon fool you. The movie still has some bite, even if it isn't quite as subversive some 30+ years later as it originally was back in 1983. But as a more darkly comic (and honest) take on the holidays than its saccharine Capra-inspired counterpoints, it's the classic Christmas movie for people who hate Christmas movies.
The Hebrew Hammer
Forget the handwringing about the so-called War on Christmas, this blaxploitation-inspired spoof features a literal war on Hanukkah after Santa's murdered and replaced by his evil son Damian (Andy Dick), who sets out to destroy both Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, leaving Christmas as the lone December holiday. Starring Adam Goldberg as the titular hard-boiled Jewish hero tasked with saving the day, The Hebrew Hammer skewers both Jew and Gentile alike, making this goofy Hanukkah-themed Shaft parody decidedly — and proudly — un-PC.
Friday After Next
Just to be clear, Friday After Next is not what you'd call a great movie. In fact, it's arguably the weakest of the trilogy. But dropping Ice Cube and Mike Epps' Craig and Day-Day and rest of the Friday crew into a Christmas season setting still earns it a place on our list. When the pair gets their presents stolen by a burglar in a Santa suit on Christmas Eve, it kicks off another round of familiar antics that, even if it's not up to the original's standards, still makes for welcome counterprogramming to listening to your uncle read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" for the hundredth time. (Unless your uncle happens to be John Malkovich.)
Rare Exports
Many a Christmas has been ruined by kids finding out the "secret" behind Santa Claus. But this 2010 horror/comedy from Finland takes parents' worst nightmare and ratchets it up a notch, after a yuletide archeological dig unearths the truth about the man (or, well, being) behind the myth. Turns out, Santa's actually a terrifying, vengeful ancient demon with a legion of white-bearded little helpers, making Rare Exports a clever, twisted origin story for the "real" Saint Nick. Sort of like the Nightmare on 34th Street.
Anything by Shane Black
Lethal Weapon. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. The Long Kiss Goodnight. Iron Man 3. Shane Black and Christmas go together like eggnog and rum: good on their own, but way more fun mixed together. But with the exception of Iron Man, none of his other Christmas movies have exactly been family-friendly. They have, on the other hand, all been uniformly great, and together, make for a pretty solid alternative holiday movie marathon. Once the kids are in bed, of course.
Die Hard
OK, so maybe it's not technically a Christmas movie the same way as something like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but that's exactly what makes Die Hard one of the best holiday movies of all-time. And body count aside, the Bruce Willis action classic about the most exciting company holiday party ever thrown otherwise checks off all the right boxes: it's set on Christmas Eve, features a holiday-inspired soundtrack, and the best Christmas villain since the Grinch in Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber. Someone even says "Ho ho ho."
With the cute, cuddly Gizmo and its PG rating, well-meaning parents in 1984 could be forgiven for thinking Gremlins was ostensibly a kids' movie. But just add water and a midnight snack and those adorable mogwai quickly turned into nightmare fuel for any unsuspecting tyke, as the mischievous little green monsters wreak havoc on the movie's Norman Rockwell-esque small town. Along with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, parental backlash against Joe Dante's Christmastime horror/comedy inspired the creation of the PG-13 rating, to warn prospective parents that this holiday classic isn't quite as family-friendly as it might look, no matter how many fuzzy Gizmo dolls and toy lines it spawned.
Black Christmas
Nowadays it seems like just about every holiday has its very own slasher movie, but back in 1974, this Canadian cult classic was among the first of its kind, predating John Carpenter's iconic Halloween by four years. Loosely based on a series of real-life murders in Montreal, Black Christmas tells the gruesome tale of a deranged stranger who terrorizes a sorority house over winter break. And while a 2006 remake upped the Christmas-themed kill count, the original will forever remain a part of holiday horror lore.
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
A Christmas-themed threequel for the Harold & Kumar franchise — in 3D, no less — sounds like exactly the type of terrible idea that would earn a studio head a stocking full of coal (or worse). So the fact that A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas actually turned out better than expected is something of a Christmas miracle. That said, thanks to the series' signature blend of stoner comedy and raunchy laughs, it's not exactly holiday fun for the whole family. Unless you want to be the one to explain to your nieces and nephews why Santa's doing bong hits.
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Maybe it's just the stress of holiday shopping or all that extra family time, but Christmas seems to have inspired the most horror movies of any holiday. There's ones about Christmas-hating serial killers, slash-happy Santas, possessed snowmen, demonic elves — you name it. And while 1984's Silent Night, Deadly Night wasn't the first to feature a Santa suit-wearing killer carving up the names on his naughty list, it's certainly one of the most infamous — inspiring protests from angry parents and even being pulled from theaters thanks to a controversial ad campaign that played up the ho ho horror. "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" never sounded so sinister.
Bad Santa
Packed with more eff bombs than a dad tangled up in Christmas lights, Bad Santa takes our top spot as the ultimate hard-R Christmas movie thanks largely to Billy Bob Thornton's take on an alcoholic, sex-addicted, less-than-jolly old Saint Nick. But despite the gleefully offensive, endlessly-quotable dialogue and Thornton's concerted efforts to make the Grinch look like a lightweight by comparison, this Terry Zwigoff-directed tale of a self-destructive career con man who disguises himself as a mall Santa actually ends up being kind of — dare we say — sweet.


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The final wheeze of Obamacare news that crossed the wires in 2013 was a New Year's Eve emergency injunction granted by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for a group of Catholic nuns who operate nursing homes in Denver and Baltimore.
At first blush, Sotomayor's ruling looked like, well, a Hail Mary victory for opponents of the Affordable Care Act, specifically the ACA's mandate that contraceptive coverage be provided to all insured persons at no cost.
But first blushes can be deceiving. In the first place, the injunction was good only until Friday--Sotomayor required that government attorneys file a reply brief before the clock strikes noon, as they did. Their brief is here. Second, it applies only to the plaintiffs, who are the Little Sisters of the Poor, and their insurance administrator, Christian Brothers Services.
Third--and as a federal judge and two appellate judges in Denver have already ruled--the plaintiffs' arguments are absurd. What they're objecting to, when you boil it down, is to signing a form stating (truthfully) that they're exempt from providing contraceptive coverage to their employees.
Here's a quick canter through the background.
The case arises from the government's solution to the dilemma created by the ACA's contraception mandate for certain religious groups. The government finesse, you may recall, was to exempt church-based employers from providing that coverage directly. Instead, their insurers were to provide the coverage, which is to be reimbursed by the government. All that was required was for the religious employers to give the insurers a form stating that they were exempt, and therefore the contraception ball was in the insurers' hands.
The Little Sisters, however, maintain that because the third-party insurers that inherit the responsibility for covering contraceptives can't do so without receiving the signed form, then their signing the form itself is tantamount to their participating in the provision of contraception. And that violates their religious beliefs.
In their application to Sotomayor, the plaintiffs cited "the sheer enormity of the government's pressure on them to forgo their religious exercise of not providing coverage for the drugs and devices at issue and not authorizing or helping others to do so." They calculated that failing to sign the form would expose them to fines of $6,700 a day, which would break them.
Amanda Marcotte of Slate.com put her finger on the spectacle of plaintiffs "trying to weasel out of nothing more onerous than signing a piece of paper." Yet there's one crowning absurdity she missed, but has been noted by the government: The sisters' insurer is also exempt from the mandate, because the health plan isn't governed by ERISA, the federal law under which the mandate is imposed. In other words, signing the form doesn't lead to contraceptive services either. That's acknowledged by the feds.
This is the point at which the lower court plainly lost its patience. The plaintiffs' claim "reads too much into the language of the Form, which requires only that the individual signing it certify that her organization opposes providing contraceptive coverage," wrote District Judge William J. Martinez. And in this case, he added, the form "does not authorize any organization to deliver contraceptive coverage to Little Sisters' employees.
He said that requiring an organization merely to certify that it opposed contraception under circumstances hardly rose to the level of a burden on anyone's religious beliefs.
For all that, the case does present another example of the dilemmas faced by religious organizations that want to keep one foot in the secular world, but also want the right to withdraw it of their own volition. Fulfilling their calling means hiring people and providing pay and benefits within the bounds of the law.
It's natural, one supposes, for some employers to try to place limits on how that compensation is used, but how far do the limits extend? As has been pointed out in the Hobby Lobby cases--the lawsuits now before the Supreme Court in which private employers are objecting to the contraceptive mandate as infringements on their owners' beliefs--the employers can't keep their workers from spending their wages on anything they choose, even if it offends the bosses' religious sensibilities. But that's because there's no way to impose such limits, not because they don't wish to. (Some employers would probably do so if they could.)
The Little Sisters are a special case. They, or their lawyers at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, seem to have kept themselves up nights worrying over infringements on their religious beliefs that appear from the court record to have been conjured out of thin air. They won last year, when the government exempted religious organizations from covering contraceptives directly. But they're still digging deep to find, somewhere in a law designed to bring health coverage to millions, grounds to object.

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This show's pretty good. There are many better shoujos this season, but this one still gives a laugh every Wednesday, and can be legitimately adorable at times as well.
i lyk dis anime. soo far its goin gd 4 me........i give it 2 thumbs up!!!!!!!!!
I really like this anime! :D
Too bad CR didn't get though!
Just living life
Ahhh Episode 6
I was cracking up a lot and we got to see abit of of Tomoe's past . I would really love to meet Kishio san now that he is doing Kurama's character but i met him couple years ago at Kawaii con but he was sick so we couldnt hear his cool voice but he is silly.
Lots of silly moments in this one
I sure love the Op song
My Avatar is seiyuu Morita san and Me cosplaying at AnimeExpo
This is at the top of MY list; this and Blast of Tempest are the only ones that peaked my interest so far this season.
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on
too bad CR doesnt have this one, it would probably get more viewer if it did
My Avatar is seiyuu Morita san and Me cosplaying at AnimeExpo
I reallylike thisanime-watch it every wk when it comes out on animeseason(sorry Crunchy).It's lighthearted and has enough of a plot and love interest to keep you going, sometimes you just don't want to watch something too intense or deep.The demon guys are really sexy and appealling-unlike real-life demon guys.At least deserves one thumb up.
I think i'm stuck in a time loop
Episode 8 was not bad.
Another demon character who has an issue with Tomoe... well he was a bad Fox demon anyway . i wish this one goes beyond 1 season
My Avatar is seiyuu Morita san and Me cosplaying at AnimeExpo
Episode 13
The end...
Simple it maybe but its cute, its funny, its got demons , a bit of folklore , and love...its also a bit of a harem but in a good way
this one makes me giddy inside
too bad CR never got this anime ,so not everyone has watched it ,
but overall it is very enjoyable
but everytime Kishio san character Karas comes into play , I would just crack up because I met the seiyuu at Kawaii Kon and he is far from being cool but I still love him. He is very silly ....lol
My Avatar is seiyuu Morita san and Me cosplaying at AnimeExpo
I'm not into romance genre but checked it out because of the fantasy aspect. Didn't really expect too much from it ....but was really pleasantly surprised and greatly entertained.
I don't really care for AMVs. Always skip them but for some reason, really like them in this series: OP - Kamisama Hajimemashita and ED - Kamisama Onegai. The Kurama version of the ED in episode 11 just cracked me up.
Highly recommended for a low-key series. Check it out for some pleasant entertainment which may bring a smile to your face.
Overall, it was a cute series. That's all there's to it imo for this series with the lighthearted comedy, drama, and romance. I might give the manga a try in the future but it's not a priority. This show was medicore and weaker than some of the other shoujo/romance series from Fall.
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"Zero Dark Thirty," A Heroine's Tale
WASHINGTON – It's the big story so many are missing in all the reviews tumbling out about Zero Dark Thirty. The hero in Zero Dark Thirty is "the girl." Played by Jessica Chastain, who won the Golden Globe Sunday night for Best Actress in a Drama, what plays out on the screen is being overshadowed by high pitched squeals from critics whose fervor misses the movie's genius and ultimate message completely. The American movie industry has never had a female so fierce; a woman who crashes a party where men have reigned almost exclusively. A female leader whom everyone is inspired to follow because of the force of nature that she is.
Why is it that whenever fierce females step up to take history by the reins and tell the story in which a woman has proven to be a leader beyond parallel in her field, which applies to Bigelow and Chastain, there are always individuals, particularly on the left, who feel it necessary to strip what the woman is doing to the bone? Something is always wrong with the intent of the woman involved. She's never sufficiently cognizant of progressive sensibilities, as both Bigelow and Chastain are being charged, even at a time when women are still trying to prove we can be members of male dominated clubs or even lead them.
If Kathryn Bigelow's stunningly crafted war movie, thriller and epic historical storytelling by Mark Boal was being seen without the blinders of agenda and ideological myopia, the first thing you'd have to say is this is a feminist tour de force and a partnership of epic magnitude. Having a woman at the helm of the greatest war story of modern time is no small thing, but to have her at the helm in a story whose driving force is a female is nothing short of a history making moment.
Instead of taking the film as a whole, the caterwauling critiques have centered on the "enhanced interrogation," otherwise known as torture, that appears at the top of the film. Bigelow's unflinching bravery, combined with her unblinking ability to depict the savagery of the time, which occurred during the Bush era, has been subjected to heinous allegations. The worst of which is Naomi Wolf comparing Kathryn Bigelow's direction to Nazi Propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. The critics who have latched on to the torture scenes and see them as the whole film have worked to take all the oxygen out of the discussion in order to sabotage the film's success. It's their right to do so, but they are wrong in their assessments. It also didn't work, as the film opens wide number one. [Also see this piece over at Huffington Post.]
The film has stirred so much controversy over the opening scenes that McClatchy reported that the Senators Feinstein, Levin and McCain have written a letter demanding to know details to Acting CIA Director Michael Morell demanding details on what the C.I.A. told the filmmakers of Zero Dark Thirty.
The film not only isn't about torture, but it in no way glorifies or implies that torture led to the capture of Osama bin Laden, UBL as he's called in the film. The bulk of the film centers around the agonizing tedium of intelligence work that takes place well beyond the enhanced interrogation, aka torture, that was sanctioned during the Bush era.
More importantly, at the very beginning of the film the torture they're conducting proves futile from the start. The first detainee tortured in the film refuses to help his C.I.A. interrogators, the result being a terrorist attack happens while agents continue to try to get information out of the detainees.
Maya's dogged belief that the key to finding Osama bin Laden revolved around Abu Ahmed, believed to be bin Laden's courier, took 10 years of painstaking work to confirm, which is compressed in the film. She believes the importance of Abu Ahmed's is given credence, not by what the detainees are saying about him, but by their refusal to mention him at all. Meanwhile, Maya's C.I.A. colleagues remain very skeptical. [Also see this Huffington Post piece by an assistant law professor at Drexel.]
It can be argued that the editing of the torture scenes confuses the specific lineage of what happened, even the manner in which torture was done, but there is never one "aha!" moment in the film from torture that leads to bin Laden, quite the contrary.
Instead, the opening intense torture sequences seem meant to throw the audience back in time. When President Bush and V.P. Dick Cheney and the administration made the "war on terror" revolve around "enhanced interrogations," because they didn't want to admit outright what they were doing was torture. The filmgoer is thrown into the room where torture is being conducted in all manner of ways, going beyond what even the Administration documented happened, reminiscent of Abu Ghraib, with the Bush administration's account of the torture done one of detail, doctors and due process. We've suspected this is false and in Zero Dark Thirty what you see is detainees being subjected to haphazard treatment and torture, pulling the viewer back to a time when it seemed we'd all gone mad and when confusion and ambiguity ruled.
Kathryn Bigelow's brazen treatment of the audience through the opening torture scenes slaps us into submission. That Sam Pekinpah is reportedly a director Bigelow admires becomes obvious here. It forces us to watch what the U.S. did, at a time when few Americans protested and in fact our country reelected George W. Bush to a second term in spite of it.
And nothing could be clearer in the film about how UBL was caught. It's the "trade-craft" of intelligence work that leads Maya and her team to UBL. The reason by the end of the film that torture seems so far away is my design. It's a turn of directorial purpose, because torture was a faraway crime by the time President Obama gave the word for SEAL Team Six to go.
The order by President Obama is what hovers invisibly over the entire film at the end, when Maya leads the UBL team to keep going, while no one had her certainty. But yet this boys' club not only ended up trusting her implicitly, but followed her lead. This went all the way up to President Obama, who obviously had to be told that the leader behind the manhunt was Maya. The woman who had been following every piece of evidence and never let go, even when the best in the C.I.A., with more experience, still weren't 100% committed, but only a "soft 60%." Yet she stood firm. Bigelow and Boal only let Maya back down to 95% to make the guys happy, because surety made them uncomfortable.
The change that you see in the film in Maya through Jessica Chastain's gritty performance is the guts of serious acting, as she relentlessly and ruthlessly trudges on day after day, evolving from novice to seasoned UBL hunter, the only thing she's done since coming to the Agency straight from high school. It's a heroine's tale in a film that depicts American sadism when it was codified in policy by President Bush's lawyers, which took a toll on the agents who administered it.
This is a spectacular ride, without the red, white and blue bravura, because Bigelow keeps the drama clamped down and brewing, the film's score haunting us as we watch. Delivering a haunting requiem to the murdered on 9/11, as we are reminded of who we became after the terrorist attack. There are plenty of questions to ask of ourselves, but none of them can be answered by filmmakers.
The oddest critique of the film comes in the wondering about Maya's reaction at the end of Zero Dark Thirty, some speculating that she looks alone and empty, while attempting to imply a deadness to her.
When she gets on a military cargo plane the pilot comes out as she boards. "You must be pretty important," the pilot says to her. "You got the plane to yourself. Where do you want to go?" They take off, with the area behind where Maya is seated, the webbing of the plane, having coloration that mimics the American flag.
Maybe it's not just exhaustion you see on her face. Perhaps it's relief. Or perhaps it's gratefulness that all the work paid off. That after 10 years she can finally rest because the deaths on 9/11 have been avenged. Her eyes fill with tears and she begins to cry.
It's not hard for your heart to break when Zero Dark Thirty ends. Shedding a tear for America, because in hunting Osama bin Laden we changed and our country changed, too.
Taylor Marsh, is a veteran political analyst, a former Huffington Post contributor, Broadway babe and talk radio dabbler, and is the author of The Hillary Effect, available at Barnes and Noble and on Amazon. Her new-media magazine www.taylormarsh.com covers national politics, women, foreign policy, and culture.


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however, after the new update, i found a problem that i cannot define the shortcut. in the old version, there was a "Shortcuts" option in Preferences, but it seems there is no such one in the new version. what does it mean? ain't i allowed define my own shortcuts or i should do it in some files?
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http://docs.xfce.org/faq or http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start which opens when you press F1.
http://docs.xfce.org/faq or http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start which opens when you press F1.
Thank you very much.
I use
A number of Xfce applications (Xfce Terminal and Thunar for
example) support the standard GTK+ way of changing
shortcuts: simply hover over the menu option with the
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Southern Wake Faith Community in Action is looking for volunteers to work on client intake from 9-11:45 a.m. Thursdays and Tuesdays at St. Augusta Baptist Church's Family Life Center offices, 605 Bridge St., Fuquay-Varina. SWFCA is an emergency financial nonprofit. No experience is necessary. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Cary Presbyterian Preschool
Cary Presbyterian Preschool at Cary Presbyterian Church is registering students ages 18 months to 5 years for 2014-15. The church is at 614 Griffis St., Cary. For details or to schedule a tour, call Angie Keith at 919-469-2229 or go to www.carypresbyterian.org.
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Vacation Bible School
•Woodhaven Baptist Church
will host Vacation Bible School for 3-year-olds through fifth-grade students from 6-8 p.m. Sunday, June 15, through Thursday, June 19, at 4000 Kildaire Farm Road, Apex. Registration for Vacation Bible School and optional dinners at 5:15 p.m. is open atwww.woodhaven.org
•Sunrise United Methodist Church
will host Vacation Bible School for 4-year-olds through fifth-grade students in the evenings Monday, June 16, through Friday, June 20, at 5420 Sunset Lake Road, Holly Springs. This year's theme is "Weird Animals: Where Jesus' Love is One-of-a-Kind." For details and registration, go to
The church is looking for more than 60 volunteers to help. If you are interested, email Sherry Barker at email@example.com or Eric Prenshaw at email@example.com.
•Christ the King Lutheran Church
will host "Gangway to Galilee: Amazing Grace Adventures" for 3-year-olds through fifth-grade students from 9-11:30 a.m. Monday, June 23, through Friday, June 27, at 600 Walnut St., Cary. Registration costs $30 for one child and $25 for each additional child in the family, including one CD per family and a T-shirt for each kid. For details and registration, call 919-467-8989, firstname.lastname@example.com
or go towww.christthekingcary.org
•Westwood Baptist Church
will host Vacation Bible School for kids who have finished third through fifth grade from 5:30-8 p.m. Sunday, June 22, through Wednesday, June 25, at 200 Westhigh St., Cary. Registration is free; donations will be accepted for dinners. To register, go towww.westwoodbc.org
•Cary First Baptist Church
will host Vacation Bible School for kids who have finished kindergarten through fifth grade from 5:30-8 p.m. Sunday, June 22, through Thursday, June 26, at 218 S. Academy St., Cary. For details or registration about the free event, contact Kristin Kitchens at 919-467-6356 firstname.lastname@example.com
, or go towww.caryfbc.org/children
•White Plains United Methodist Church
will host Vacation Bible School for 3-year-olds through fifth-grade students from 9 a.m. to noon Monday, July 7, through Friday, July 11, at 313 SE Maynard Road, Cary. This year's theme is "Weird Animals: Where Jesus' Love is One-of-a-Kind." Registration costs $15 per child, up to $45 per family. To register, call Beth at 919-467-9394 or go towww.wpumc.com/children
•Saint Francis United Methodist Church
will host Vacation Bible School for preschool through fifth-grade students from 5-7:45 p.m. Monday, July 14, through Friday, July 18, at 2965 Kildaire Farm Road, Cary. The church also offers a Bible study for adults. Register for $10 by Sunday, June 29. For details and registration, go towww.saintfrancisumc.org/vbs
Greenwood Forest Children's Center
Greenwood Forest Children's Center at Greenwood Forest Baptist Church has openings for ages 2 to 5 for the 2014-2015 school year. The children's center is also accepting enrollment for preschool and elementary school children in summer camp for the week of Monday, June 23, through Friday, June 27. The church is at 110 SE Maynard Road, Cary. For details, call Sandy Duncan at 919-469-0140 or go to cc.gfbccary.org.
First Baptist Weekday Preschool
First Baptist Church - Cary's First Baptist Weekday Preschool has openings for children ages 18 months to 5 years for 2014-15. Summer camp is also available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, July 7, to Friday, July 11; and Monday, Aug. 4, to Friday, Aug. 8. The preschool is at 218 S. Academy St., Cary. For more information, contact Aliza Travis at 919-467-6356, ext. 114, or firstname.lastname@example.com, or go to www.caryfbc.org/weekday.
Peace Presbyterian Children's Center
Peace Presbyterian's Children Center at Peace Presbyterian Church has openings for ages 2 to 5 for the fall. The church is at 1777 W. Chatham St., Cary. For details or a tour, call 919-415-1733, email email@example.com or go to www.peacepca.org/ministries/ppcc.
St. Paul's Preschool
St. Paul's Preschool at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cary is accepting registration for the 2014-15 school year. The church is at 221 Union St., Cary. For more information or to schedule a tour, contact Brooke Bowersox at 919-467-3788 or email@example.com.
Singles worship night
Hope Community Church will host a worship night for single adults at 7 p.m. Friday, June 13, at 821 Buck Jones Road, Raleigh. Author Aliene Thompson will speak. There will be a worship band and game night. For details, email email@example.com or go to www.gethope.net/singles.
Lake Junaluska Singers
The Lake Junaluska Singers will perform at Genesis United Methodist Church at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 15, at 850 High House Road, Cary. The 14-person professional ensemble performs classical and contemporary music. For details, go to www.genesis-umc.org.
Raleigh Christian Women's Connection
The Raleigh Christian Women's Connection will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, at the N.C. State University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. Kate Leser and Karin Williams will speak. Lunch costs $16. A free nursery is available. Make a reservation by Friday, June 13, by calling 919-337-8003 or emailing email@example.com.
Food giveaway
Johnathan's House Christian School will host a food giveaway with OCx2ON (One Church! One Can! One Night!) for anyone who needs food from 10 a.m. to noon at 15 Randy Court, Fuquay-Varina. For details, go to ocx2on.wordpress.com/events.
Durham Bulls game
White Plains United Methodist Church Family Ministries will organize a trip to a Durham Bulls game on Friday, June 27. Order tickets for $30 for ages 14 and older, $20 for ages 4-14 and free for children younger than 4 by Sunday, June 1, at bit.ly/1ombU51. The group has reserved a picnic shelter for a buffet.
Bridge Mission Week
White Plains United Methodist Church of Cary will host Bridge Mission Week, four days of local mission projects and activities, for fourth- through ninth-grade students from Monday, June 30, through Thursday, July 3. Registration, including lunch, costs $25 per day or $80 for all four days at goo.gl/vKxL6R.
First United Methodist Church - Cary will host GriefShare meetings at 7 p.m. Thursdays, July 10-Oct. 9, in room 125 at 117 S. Academy St., Cary. There will not be meetings on July 17 or July 31. The workbook costs $15. For information about the church, go to www.fumc-cary.org. To register, go to bit.ly/1sEsFba.
Summer writing camp
Peace Presbyterian Church will host a writing camp for ages 8-12 from 9 a.m. to noon Monday, July 14, through Friday, July 18, in room C106 at 1777 W. Chatham St., Cary. Register for $120 by Tuesday, July 1, or $125 after that. The registration fee includes supplies. To register, contact Katharine Parrish at 919-467-1924 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Christ the King Preschool registration
Christ the King Preschool of Christ the King Lutheran Church is accepting registration for ages 2-5 for the 2014-15 school year. The church is at 600 Walnut St., Cary. For more information, go to www.christthekingcary.org/Preschool/Registration.aspx.
Contemplative worship service
Woodhaven Baptist Church offers a contemplative worship service with meditation from 8:30-9:15 a.m. Sundays at 4000 Kildaire Farm Road, Apex.
Worship services at The Cary
First United Methodist Church - Cary hosts worship services at The Cary theater at 9:45 a.m. Sundays at 122 E. Chatham St.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Holly Springs United Methodist Church hosts "There is a Solution" Alcoholics Anonymous group meetings from 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 108 Avent Ferry Road.
Sisters in Support
White Plains United Methodist Church hosts a support group for women who had or currently have breast cancer from 7-8:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at 313 SE Maynard Road, Cary. For more information, email Lee Heathcoat at email@example.com.
Family support ministry meeting
A family support ministry organized by Mary Williams-Farrington and the Pardoned by Christ Ministry meets the first, second and fourth Tuesday of every month at The Point Church, 1503 Walnut St., Cary. The ministry provides support for people who have been incarcerated or who have or have had an incarcerated family member. For details, call 919-272-3045 or 919-255-5883 or go to www.pardonedbychrist.org.
Overeaters Anonymous
Fuquay-Varina United Methodist Church hosts Overeaters Anonymous meetings from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Wednesdays in room 126, 100 Judd Parkway. The group's supportive meetings don't include weigh-ins, diets or fees. For more information, call 919-557-7712 or 919-771-1393.
Celebrate Recovery
Summit Evangelical Covenant Church will host Celebrate Recovery meetings for people recovering from hurting, hangups and habits at 8 p.m. Wednesdays at 590 Westhigh St., Cary. For more information on Celebrate Recovery, go to www.celebraterecovery.com. For more information on the church's program, go to www.summitnc.org or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Labyrinth meditation
Cary Presbyterian Church offers a labyrinth meditation walk from 5:30-7:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month at 614 Griffis St. For details, call 919-469-1337 or visit www.carypresbyterian.org.
Cancer support group
A cancer support group meets the second Wednesday of each month from 7-8:30 p.m. in Room WC108 at Colonial Baptist Church, 6051 Tryon Road, Cary. Details: Phyllis Travers, 919-233-0355.
Prayer study
Author and speaker Sarah Bush will host a 12-week study on prayer with her book, "The Invitation – Come Boldly to the Throne of Grace," from 10-11:30 a.m. or 7-8:30 p.m. Thursdays at 708 Town Side Drive, Apex. For information or registration, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Knights of Columbus Council 12119 hosts jackpot bingo at 7 p.m. Thursdays at St. Bernadette Catholic Church, 1005 Wilbon Road, Fuquay-Varina. Doors open at 6 p.m. Food and beverages available. Details: Al Munno, 919-557-7718, or Sonny Butler, 845-797-0830.
Celebrate Recovery for Women
Celebrate Recovery for Women meets at 6 p.m. every Friday at the homes of members of North Cary Baptist Church. The group helps women with hurting, hangups and habits. Details: 919-469-8023.
Brown Bag Ministry
The Brown Bag Ministry, which feeds more than 1,400 people a week, is looking for middle- and high school-age volunteers. The group meets at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Apex about 9 a.m. Saturdays. Volunteers prepare bagged meals and hand them out in Raleigh. The group usually finishes by 1 p.m. Details: www.brownbagministry.org.


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Health Clearance Requirements Overview:
The following is a checklist for you to use as you complete the student health requirements. All sections must be completed BEFORE the start of class. This checklist is included in the admission packet (GSBS students do not receive an admission packet) that will mailed to you but may also be downloaded for you convenience from the Student Health Services (SHS) website www.umassmed.edu/studenthealth. Any documentation related to health clearance requirements will need to be completed by your provider on the Health Clearance Form. If you are unable to receive immunization from your doctor attached is a list of local immunization clinics. WALGREENS CVS OR CAREWELL If you have insurance coverage you can go to Ready Med on route 9 in Shrewsbury MA http://readymed.org/
**NOTE: If you are a GSBS student, immunization history without titers is acceptable.**
You MUST submit the enclosed documentation indicating that you have had a physical exam within the past year. Your doctor or nurse practitioner must sign this form.
You MUST attach official lab documentation for the blood tests required in addition to immunization history if you are school of medicine and graduate school of nursing students.
Measles: Lab documentation of positive serology or dates of immunizations.
Rubella: (German measles): Lab documentation of positive serology or dates of immunizations.
Mumps: Lab documentation of positive serology or dates of immunizations.
Hepatitis B: Lab documentation of positive serology and dates of immunizations.
Varicella: (chicken pox) Lab documentation of positive serology or 2 doses of Varicella vaccine.
Tetanus: A one-time Tdap (Pertussis component included) is required
2-Step Tuberculosis Skin Test (TST): Documentation of a 2-step Tuberculosis skin test or IGRA blood test is required within 3 months of the start of school. Please refer to Health Clearance Form for specific TST requirements.
**NOTE: If you have a history of a positive TST, results and documentation of treatment if any must be provided. In addition, a copy of a chest x-ray report taken anytime after the positive result must also be provided.


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Ultrasonic measurement
Prosonic FMU44
Cost effective device for sophisticated level measurement in liquids and bulk solids for up to 20m
- Sepete ekle
- Seç & Boyutlandır
- Konfigürasyon
Oturum açma ve yapılandırma sonrası fiyatlandırma
The Prosonic FMU44 sensor is suited for non-contact level measurement in fluids, pastes, coarse bulk material and flow measurement in open channels or at weirs. The two-wire or four-wire compact transmitter can be used in applications with storage tanks, agitators, on stockpiles and conveyor belts. The envelope curve can be shown on the on-site display for simple diagnosis. Linearization function (up to 32 points) for conversion of the measured value into any unit of length, volume or flow rate.
Reliable non-contact measurement
Quick and simple commissioning via menu-guided on-site operation with four-line plain text display, 7 languages selectable
Envelope curves on the on-site display for simple diagnosis
Hermetically sealed and potted sensor
Chemically resistant sensor out of PVDF
Calibration without filling or discharging
Integrated temperature sensor for automatic correction of the temperature dependent sound velocity
Uygulama alanı
Two-wire or four wire instrument for continuous non-contact level and flow measurement.
Process connection: Flange
Temperature: -40 to +80°C (-40 to +176°F)
Pressure: +0.7 to +2.5bar (+10 to +36psi)
Maximum measuring distance: Liquids 20m (66ft), Solids 10m (33ft)
Blocking distance: Liquids and Solids 0.5m (1.9ft)
International explosion protection certificates
Özellikler ve şartlar
Dokümanlar / Kılavuzlar / Yazılım
Aksesuarlar / Yedek parçalar
Önceki seri / Yeni seri
Önceki: DU41C, DU60Z, DU61Z, FMU671, FMU673Z, FMU676, FMU678Z
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Migrating a CVS module to Git.
This page provides some instructions on how to migrate a module from CVS to git using the parsecvs utility (which desperately needs UI work).
Prepare the community
The first thing to do is pick a reasonable time to make the transition. A week before a major release of either X.org or the module itself is probably not the best plan. With a timeframe in mind, coordinate with other major maintainers of the module and select a target date. Send mail to your mailing list announcing your intention and include the proposed schedule. You should also remind developers of the expected sequence of events so no-one is surprised (or at least the surprise will be their fault for skipping over your carefully delivered email). Here's the usual sequence of events:
- Send migration warning email (this mail)
- Wait for selected date
- Make the CVS tree read-only
- Convert the tree using parsecvs
- Stick warning signs in CVS
- Push exported tree to kemper
Make CVS tree read-only
Ask an admin to make the CVS tree read-only on kemper, and make you a tarball of the repository.
Convert tree using parsecvs
OK, this tool is primitive, but handles our broken CVS bits better than git-cvsimport.
- Ensure edit-change-log (from parsecvs) is in your path. This script takes ?ChangeLog-style commit messages and converts them to plain text.
- Create a directory for the module, cd to it.
- Create an Authors file, similar to xorg-Authors in the parsecvs tree.
- Run the import process:
- find cvsrepodir/ -name '*,v' | parsecvs
- Verify the results
- gitk --all
- git-checkout master
- diff -r .
- Prepare the git tree for publication
- chmod +x .git/hooks/post-update
- fix up the update hook, chmod +x .git/hooks/update
Stick warning signs in CVS
Edit configure.ac in the CVS version, adding this just before the final AC_OUTPUT call:
AC_MSG_ERROR([The $module is now maintained at:] [ git://git.freedesktop.org/git/reponame] [Please use that repository.]
Temporarily make CVS writeable
- Commit change
Export git tree
- Get the admins to create a new git repository for you.
git push --force --all ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/reponame


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The G-Shot, a surgical procedure available at medical centers across the nation, temporarily augments your (oft-debated) G-spot (the founders obviously lie in the "it exists!" camp) with collagen, allegedly engorging it to the size of a quarter and prompting spasms of orgasmic delight that, frankly, sound terrifying.
According to a pilot study, 87% of women surveyed after receiving the G-Shot reported enhanced sexual arousal/gratification. I was skeptical about those results, because duh, but after reading through some testimonials I'm less concerned about the women who didn't experience the intended results than the women whose injections were successful. For example:
"After my G-Shot I get sexually aroused performing yoga"
"I have quite literally never experienced anything quite like it … I had constant multiple orgasms which went on for hours … That first time, the whole thing was so intense I was actually a bit scared. I was so overcome, but thankfully the intensity is something I've got used to. I still have multiple orgasms every time I have sex, but they no longer leave me flat on my back."
"I was riding in the car with my partner and we went on this cobblestone road and I became sexual aroused which lead to uncontrollable laughter…guess what happened next?"
"During my spinning class I have this smile on my face and people think that I am enjoying my workout but actually I am sexually aroused."
The treatment takes 30 minutes, costs around $1,000, and lasts up to four months. But your memories of blacking out during yoga because you got a Botox injection in your vagina will last you a lifetime.
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Have you ever found yourself constantly giving and giving, only for your good deeds and actions to go unreciprocated?
Having people like this in our lives is draining and unhealthy.
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Dressing Tough Looking Tough Acting Tough Community Q&A There's a uniform, sure, but looking tough takes a lot more than a couple of skull rings and a leather jacket.
You can learn to not only dress the part, but adopt a tough person that will be believable.
If I'm approached by a man with an assortment of scratchy doodles across his skin, purchased on a stag-weekend whim, or a tribal armband he had inked in the early Nineties and which has proceeded to catalog his diminishing muscle tone ever since, I find it off-putting and unattractive.
But only because I don't find it visually appealing, not out of misplaced snobbishness on my part.
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il padrone wrote:I would consider stopping/moving off the road if there was a big B-double/road train on a narrow road, and it was not going to unduly delay me.
But it's always your choice.
warthog1 wrote:Having driven trucks for a number of years I would possibly not have gotten off the road there either, particularly if there has bee any sort of rain recently. The fact that there is green grass growing right to the edge of the road indicates that there is, or has been, a bit of moisture, around recently and that the shoulder is not driven on alot and therefore may not be well compacted. A triaxle grouping can carry up to 22.5 tonnes and there is a fair chance of it sinking through the crust and wrecking the shoulder of the road if it is not that firm.
Having said that it looks like he swung back across earlier than was necessary so he may have been a pillock anyway. I dont know though, I wasn't there
It would be a damn sight easier (and safer) for you to stop and pull off the road in the example you displayed, than it would be for a B-Double to drive on the grass. The driver obviously made a judgement call that it wasn't safe for him to drive on the grass. He moved over (granted it appeared he moved back a tad early) to give you room.
You, on the other hand, didn't.
Attack me all you like for not agreeing with your point of view, it matters not to me, but the only thing I can see wrong was the driver moving BACK too soon.
As IP said, it's your choice.
You can choose to share the road (or not) to your hearts content.


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madremissy wrote:
Dee, you know I am not good with words at a time like this but you also know how I feel about you and Kate. Just know that my thoughts and prayers for strength are with you right now no matter what your decision.
Kato and you have each other. Living in this world, or the next, will NEVER change that, THANK GOD! You will always be together.
Pit♥Bull wrote:Wonderful update Dee
CinderDee wrote:I was thinking earlier tonight about how I would feel if this were someone else's dog and I might feel the same way as many of you do. It's hard for me to say though. When Lisa stopped by to see him her mind changed as well. He looks good and seems pretty happy.
CinderDee wrote: On the flip side, he can't do the things he should be able to do and that's not ok with me.
CinderDee wrote:I just have a huge problem with ending a life because something's not ok with me. If he were in pain I wouldn't be as wishy washy about it. My worry is that I'm doing it for myself and not for him.
CinderDee wrote:I do think the time is near and I'm grateful that I have everyone's support even if I may make a different decision than you would. Please know that I'm doing the best that I can for this dog that means more to me than I can ever tell you.
Marinepits wrote:I just spoke to Dr Blabs -- she and Team Blabador are away at a dock diving event and Team Blab will be "Jumping For Kato" this weekend. They will make a donation to Chase Away Canine Cancer in Kato's name and will add $50 to the donation if any of their dogs come in the top 3 in their divisions.
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Alyce's Formal Dress
Added Nov 20, 2011
by natski
Sydney, Australia
My lovely sister Alyce asked me earlier this year if i could make her Formal Dress. Here in Australia, once your finish your final year exams you have a big dressy Formal to finish school.
In May we sat down and decided on a dress style- taking cues from Valentino's Spring/Summer 2011 collection, but with a few changes- incorporating a strapless sweetheart shape and including a corselette.
Alyce's style is refined and simple- she doesnt like a lot of bling or anything over the top, so we stuck to a dress that was simple and refined.
After making a trial that she was happy with we went to purchase our fabric from Tessuti , who i have always found to be extremely helpful and have a great range. We bought silk georgette and silk satin in a dusty rose and as we couldnt decide on the day we purchased over the phone our tulle in a latte colour.
The corselette was made from a cotton material (actually old sheets- it had a herringbone pattern and was very thick!) with steel boning and hook and eye tape finished with grosgrain ribbon.
The bodice was princess seam with five layers of material- tulle, silk georgette, silk satin, cotton material and silk duponi and plastic boning. The skirt was a half circle skirt made of tulle, silk georgette and silk satin. Unfortunately the silk materials were not wide enough to construct the skirt from two pieces- so these was made into quarters.
The flounces were constructed from tulle with an organza bias binding finish. It took me a bit of time to construct the front flounces because of the curved bodice.
The belt she wore is from Saba and her clutch is from Peep Toe shoes
While the dress took me a long time, as i am really only a beginner sewer, i am really stoked with the outcome. The idea was to have a dress that was simple, elegant and beautiful, just like Alyce, and i think, combined with her accessories, hair and make up, we nailed it. She got lots of compliments off her friends and the parents around.
I think she felt she looked beautiful and special- and on this alone, i am a really happy and proud big sister. I liked the fact that for one of her biggest moments in her life so far, i was able to help and bring her ideas and style to life.
Photos by Flutter and Click Photography
Material Notes
Silk Georgette
Silk Satin
Fine Tulle
Silk Duponi
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Mar 31, 2014, 04.19 AMby Holly H
Is the tulle silk?
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Apr 7, 2014, 12.59 PMby natski
No it wasn't, it was out our price range, however we bought the softest tulle we could without being silk
Oct 8, 2012, 01.52 PMby dmd1177
I know I'm a bit late in writing a comment, but I think this dress is amazing. The fit is wonderful and the finished look is impeccable. Well done, your sister must have stole the show on the night, but in addition she now has a dress that she can adore for the rest of all time, knowing that it was made by her big sister with love. Absolutely adorable.
Jan 11, 2012, 11.23 PMby gemmaclaire
This is absolutely stunning!!! Fantastic work! You are the best big sister ever!
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Mar 7, 2012, 07.09 AMby natski
Thats so lovely of you to say!
Dec 6, 2011, 01.22 PMby jennifermhall
I agree with everyone – you can well be very proud. Down the track you will make more I am sure. My daughters have asked me to help with theirs (2 so far) and my sisters asked me for their bridesmaids dresses and a bride gown after I made my own. With lots of time to dream and rework designs, plan the construction and make mock-ups (toiles) for good fitting, you will achieve anything. I have shared my recent grad dress for Tess. We are in Townsville.
Nov 28, 2011, 11.16 AMby chanel2005
This dress is beautiful, it has an elegant and classy look, I'm from Australia too, keep up the good work, are you self taught or you studied somewhere?
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Nov 29, 2011, 06.48 AMby natski
Thank you!
i am a self taught sewer
Nov 27, 2011, 03.53 PMby chased-away
this is beautiful!
Nov 25, 2011, 05.52 PMby Mikki mannings
Nov 23, 2011, 06.50 AMby smallone
you are no way a beginner sewer! valentino should hire you tomorrow much prefer you interpretation.
Nov 22, 2011, 09.33 AMby Dibii
Absolutely stunning! I also can't believe you are the begginer in sewing. I hope I can make something similar and find courage in me for making it. Great job, very inspiring!
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Nov 22, 2011, 10.33 AMby natski
thank you!
Nov 21, 2011, 07.22 AMby Ralf Schmitz
one word: ADORABLE!!!!
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Nov 22, 2011, 10.32 AMby natski
Nov 21, 2011, 04.01 AMby pambox
That is so ethereally beautiful, and really suits her in colour and cut. Incredibly well done!
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Nov 22, 2011, 10.29 AMby natski
Thank you!
Nov 21, 2011, 03.32 AMby kelepso
Great replica, based on the inspiration. The photos look great too!
Nov 20, 2011, 09.56 PMby infinite-plus-one
wow, this is absolutely gorgeous, i think i just feel in love
Nov 20, 2011, 08.50 PMby madebymeg
absolutely stunning! i cannot believe that you are a beginner sewist. amazing!
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Nov 20, 2011, 08.55 PMby natski
I have been sewing for around 2 years- this was the most challenging item i have made.
Nov 20, 2011, 08.45 PMby gaviccaabri
Fabulous! She looks amazing. You made a fantastic job there :)
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Nov 20, 2011, 08.55 PMby natski
Thank you
Nov 20, 2011, 05.50 PMby natfraga
Nov 20, 2011, 05.50 PMby natfraga
Nov 20, 2011, 05.37 PMby Chrissie Bee
This dress is stunning! Great job.
Nov 20, 2011, 05.24 PMby claudinka
Beautiful. So elegant and natural (without bling-bling ;-) And thanx for the good description. I have a formal dress where ein want to change the skirt (it's way too small for me :-( into something similar. And I was thinking about how to do it in order that it has a nice fall. Maybe I am going to stick to a half circle as you did.
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Nov 20, 2011, 08.54 PMby natski
I fell in love with the skirt- its so flattering and soft
Nov 20, 2011, 04.24 PMby slinkykitten
A gorgeous dress for a gorgeous young woman!
Nov 20, 2011, 02.36 PMby patti-r
Alyce's Dress and she are both Lovely!!!!
Nov 20, 2011, 02.36 PMby patti-r
Alyce's Dress and she are both Lovely!!!!
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Thank you!
Nov 20, 2011, 01.41 PMby Priscilla Folley
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Thank you
Nov 20, 2011, 11.36 AMby natmarie
This is truly gorgeous! Great job. I hope Alyce decides to keep this dress for years to come. It looks like something that can be passed down.
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I hope she keeps it, otherwise i will!
Nov 20, 2011, 11.30 AMby Redsonia
What a beautiful dress!!! I am also a beginner and your story insipered me finally to move to the next level and try out something more difficult. Congratulations, you are very talented!
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Wow thank you! I love a challenge- so this was the perfect project. There are SO many resources here on the internet and in books so really you cant go wrong! Give it a try- its a great feeling at the end!
Nov 20, 2011, 11.06 AMby Louisa Wu
I'm from Australia too! She looks so beautiful congratrs for the finishing of the HSC
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Nov 20, 2011, 11.34 AMby natski
Thank you!
Nov 20, 2011, 10.41 AMby meggiemoo
Oh wow, that dress is stunning! I have 3 years until my youngest sister's formal, and I'd love to get my skills (and her confidence in my skills!) up to a level where she'd let me make her formal dress, or at least her awards night dress or something! Anyway, congratulations on a beautiful, beautiful dress, and congratulations to your sister for graduating!
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Nov 20, 2011, 11.33 AMby natski
I was lucky- there is 10 years between us! But i only started sewing maybe 2 years ago. She didnt want anything incredibly out of my skill range, so that was good- i just made sure i took my time with what i was doing! If i can do it, anyone can do it!
Thank you for your kind words
Nov 20, 2011, 10.14 AMby natski
Thank you so much for your lovely replies! She had a wonderful night and got quite a few compliments on the dress, so that made her feel special!
Nov 20, 2011, 09.45 AMby CationDesigns
For a beginner sewer (and even if you were advanced), this dress is a beautiful accomplishment. You totally nailed the simple elegant look. What a lucky sister Alyce is to have you!
Nov 20, 2011, 07.18 AMby nattyjane
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This season, WB has decided to cut out the middleman and staff its own teen horror franchise with the introduction of the new series "Supernatural." Jared Padelecki ("Gilmore Girls," House of Wax) and Jensen Ackles ("Smallville," Devour) star as a pair of brothers who unite to do the "Scooby-Doo" thing or the Ghostbusters thing or the "X-Files" thing--choose your own cultural reference point.
Seems that Sam and Dean Winchester are inheritors to some sort of mystical legacy. When they were just little tykes, mom floated up to the ceiling, started bleeding and then exploded in a demonic fireball of some kind. After that, dad went a little nutty, traveling the country, becoming an expert on the supernatural and destroying all sorts of ghosts, monsters and demons.
Years later, young Sam and Dean have developed into photogenic, college-age cover models for "Sullen Hipster" monthly. Sam has wandered off to forget his past and become a lawyer. But Dean is driving around the country in a battered muscle car, listening to AC/DC and helping dad bust ghosts. Unfortunately, dear old pop has vanished while scoping out yet another spooky mystery. Dean recruits a reluctant Sam, and the two sibs go on a weekly search for dad, who seems to have uncovered some sort of demonic conspiracy.
"Supernaural" is derivative of at least a dozen other shows. To the "Scooby-Doo" and "X-Files" list, you can also add "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Charmed" and "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" (making a comeback on ABC this season, coincidentally). The writers don't exert much effort coming up with original ideas. Most of the series' foes (the pilot episode's generic "Woman in White") seem culled from a handful of urban legend web sites. To cap it off, the show doesn't try very hard to establish believable supernatural "rules" for this world. (Shooting at ghosts, for example, seems fairly effective.)
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With weeklong activities leading up to Saturday's historic Auburn 43-24 win over Virginia at the Georgia Dome; Chick Fil-A Bowl players engaged in both community and leadership building with hospital visits to Egleston and Scottish Rite, friendly team challenges, and relatable words from civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis following a visit to the Martin Luther King Center. With leadership fresh in mind, Auburn's quarterback Barrett Trotter effectively steered the 'favored to win' team to a triumphant victory. Having assumed the role once held by Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton, Trotter impressively transitioned from "bench-to-MVP" passing for 175 yards and completing 11 of 18 passes during the game. As the nation's oldest ACC vs. SEC rivalry bowl, Chick-Fila-A Bowl set record selling to capacity for the 15th consecutive year and contributing $1.3 million to charities and educational institutions.


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ST. MARYS — For St Marys senior Tyler Rose, graduating from high school will be a bittersweet event.
Rose, who has been involved in sports and clubs at St. Marys Memorial High School, will miss having "the best of both worlds," he noted.
"(You get) that small town feel, and also at sporting events the whole town comes to support you," Rose said.
Rose plays baseball and football for the school, and is a first and third baseman and a tight end, respectively.
"My number is 14 (for baseball), but that's just because Pete Rose is No. 14," Rose said. "That's what I've always had."
In December, he will travel to New York with the business marketing class, DECA, of which he is an officer.
"We're going to go to different workshops and conventions, and also see a broadway play," Rose said. This will be his first trip to the Big Apple. He is also a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Outside the school's four walls, Rose is active in the Zion Lutheran Youth Group, works for Guarnieri Pizzeria and is an Eagle Scout. In order to be an Eagle Scout, a Scout must complete a project for which the hours completed total 100.
"I helped out my church — I redid a room in there — a storage room," Rose said. "(I) just built shelves and stuff for them."
Rose also has started planning for his future. College is the next stop on Rose's agenda, although he has not ruled out enlistment in the military.
"I really want to go to UC for criminal justice," Rose said. "I've applied, but they haven't gotten back to me yet. I want to maybe be a parole officer or a cop or a detective or something."
Rose is excited about the college experience, but will miss the lighter load of responsibility he enjoyed as a high school student.
"Once you go to college, there's so much more (to worry about)," he said.
— This is part of a senior feature series to appear in The Evening Leader, showcasing members of the 2012-13 St. Marys Memorial High School senior class.


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How did you get into yoga?
I started taking yoga in college. Although I felt a connection, I put yoga on hold as life brought a teaching career, family and a move to Europe. My search for yoga continued when I became ill about 9 or 10 years ago. Nothing that I was doing allopathically was helping, so I started looking for other ways of healing.
I've always been very athletic, participating in many sports throughout my life. After many injuries, my chiropractor said, "I think it's time you put down the weights and start using your own body as a weight." He suggested that I do yoga, and so my search began.
Because I was a type A athlete I went straight to Bikram and, for several years, took weekly classes. Next, I studied Ashtanga and several other power yoga classes. I knew none of it was working. In fact, these classes were making me feel worse. I went from teacher to teacher. I knew that there was something missing for me in these classes, yet knew deep down that yoga was my path. I now realize I hadn't found my teacher. Then I found Todd.
How did you find Todd?
Divine intervention! My dis-ease had become so severe I could barely walk. I needed help with basic needs such as showering and going to the bathroom. When I could walk to my car I drove to a gym that had recently opened near my home. I had heard they offered yoga and asked if there was someone who taught a really gentle yoga class. They guided me to Todd.
I went into his class and, immediately, my whole body relaxed. I lay in Savasana for a month, not moving, just breathing. For the first time in a yoga class, I could finally be whoever I was. I didn't really know this then. All I knew was it felt good to lie down and breathe.
I continued taking classes with Todd and got to the point where I attended his classes every day he taught. Also, I did all his immersions and continued this way for several years.
What changed for you after a month of Savasana?
I could move! I could do one movement and then more and, finally, was able to do the entire class. At last I was finding my own way through yoga as opposed to being told what to do, and that's what hooked me. The path had been opened and there was no turning back.
How did you start teaching?
I'm a retired school teacher, I taught for 28 years, every level from pre-school through college through adult ed – so teaching is in my blood. I know that I'm here to be a teacher, something I knew from a very young age. After several years with Todd an idea sprouted – what would it be like to teach yoga? Then one day Todd asked me, "When are you going to start teaching?" I told him I was thinking about teaching at senior centers, but wasn't sure how to go about it.
I think that every yoga teacher has a story about how they became a yoga teacher. I believe we all have a definitive moment when the calling is clear. My husband and I had gone to, of all places, Las Vegas. My son and his ex-wife had invited us there. This was the last place on earth I wanted to go, but we went.
We were at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and I was going up and down some outside stairs, using them like a Stairmaster, and walking around the property. There was a woman sitting on the stairs. After awhile she said, "I should be doing what you're doing – exercising." I replied, "I have to move my body, that's the way I am. I just love to be in motion."
Every time I came by she had something else to say so I finally stopped and we continued talking. She asked what line of work I was doing. I told her I was retired but trying to figure out what the next phase of my life would be. She persisted by asking if I had any concrete ideas. I responded by saying, "Well, I've been thinking of teaching yoga at senior centers."
As we talked more we discovered we were both from Portland and I discovered that she was in charge of Senior Services for Oregon. Suddenly, without hesitation, she took out her phone, dialed a number, which was the Robison Home in Portland, and said, "I have somebody here who wants to teach at a senior center, are you guys interested?"
That was it! The path was made clear. I came back to Portland and started volunteering at the Robison Home, one day a week. I didn't want to commit to teaching for money yet. One volunteering day became one volunteer and one paid day. Then it became three paid days and one volunteer day. After a recent article was published in the Jewish Review, highlighting my work at the Robison Home, my yoga teaching grew even more. Every week I get at least one phone call asking me to teach at a senior center. There is such a great need for this kind of work.
At the same time I was teaching at the Robison Home, I started teaching a gentle class at The Yoga Space in Portland. That studio moved and Todd invited me to teach at his home studio, Sacred Onion. I now teach the Easy Does It class at OmBase on Monday and the Restore & Renew class on Friday.
What would you say your approach is as a teacher?
I took the teacher training course with Erich Schiffmann, who is Todd's teacher. What I learned from Erich was, the first thing you must do to become a yoga teacher is learn to meditate. From your meditation practice comes inspiration for a personal yoga practice, and from that comes inspiration for teaching. That's my approach. I use all my past yoga experience, along with Todd's mentoring and Erich's teacher training to guide my teaching. However, more than anything, I use inspiration that comes from daily meditation practice.
What I do at the Robison Home and other senior centers and at OmBase was not taught to me. I simply get online, open up and inspiration comes through. This is what I learned from Todd and Erich, to find my own voice. I believe a teacher, no matter what the subject, must find their own voice, their own inspiration.
What is it that draws you to working with seniors?
All I can say is the idea just came to me one day. Let's call it inspiration! This is what meditation does. It clears your mind. It sweeps everything clean so that creativity can come through. My belief is that inspiration gives birth to creativity.
I am 63. At the time I did my teacher training I was 60, so I'm a senior. I know what it feels like to age in our culture. Also, I saw the agonizing way my mother died and feel that if she had had something that was a support for her, her death may have been different. However, most of all, my work with seniors was inspired from a place deep within.
How would you describe your classes at OmBase?
Because of all the physical challenges I have faced throughout my life, I have learned about the body and I have learned how to adapt yoga poses to the needs of people who find it challenging to find a class that would meet them where they are. Students comment that they've tried what was labeled a gentle class, yet it wasn't gentle enough but that my class is.
I can truly tune in and understand – energetically, physically, emotionally – what the student needs and meet that need. I would say my strength lies in adaptive yoga, adapting yoga to the needs of people with specific health and emotional issues.
Do you have a general intention around what you hope your students get from your classes?
It changes as my own practice unfolds – as I understand myself more, where my physical challenges come from and the feelings they bring up. At first the classes were more focused on the dis-ease. Now it's more like, let's honor your scoliosis and also look underneath it. Let's look beneath the scoliosis and see what that brings up.
Students say that my class is the first yoga class that they've been able to do because of the meditative quality and the way I adapt poses to fit the needs of each participant. My class is not for someone who wants to work out. It's for someone who really wants to go inward and perhaps discover things about themselves that might make a difference as far as how they feel about their physical, emotional and spiritual body. This being said I have never felt stronger in my physical body as I do now. My sense is that this deep work – using asanas, meditation, and the breath – allows the body to function at an entirely different level which promotes healing, strength and peace.
My target population is made up of seniors, people with mobility issues, and people with specific physical challenges that haven't been met in other yoga classes or other exercise classes they've tried. Many have been fearful of starting yoga. Yet in my class they feel support and connection.
What I am truly trying to help people discover through yoga is their own innate wisdom. My experience has shown me that by tapping into our innate wisdom we come to know who we are and, in doing so, find purpose in life. How I plan a class, how I am inspired is by tapping into my innate wisdom. That's what I want to share with my students. Basically it's about finding that place of peace, that internal wisdom, and from there your life can change.
My hope is that students will develop a relationship with their physical, emotional and spiritual selves. As students develop this relationship, they come to see their bodies as allies and are able to work with and not against any physical/emotional challenge that come their way. Life becomes smoother somehow and with that comes an acceptance of the good and bad, the smooth and rough, the hot and cold. All experiences come to be seen as teachers along the path. Yoga becomes one's life and one's life becomes yoga.
What do you get from teaching your classes?
Much, much more than the students get! First of all, it allows me to tap into my innate wisdom, it allows me to completely shed everything and just be this vehicle, opening up to the universe and transmitting the gift of yoga that I've been given. For me yoga is not just about the asanas – that's part of it, but it's so much more.
All my life I've had physical and emotional pain, but when I'm teaching, I have no pain. When I'm not teaching the pain has been reduced to background noise. It's no longer roaring in the forefront. Most of all, I get the opportunity to see the same change that has happened within me, manifesting in others. I witness others tapping into their inner guidance and, as they do so, their lives change. This is the gift I receive every time I teach.


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Written by marylf on April 14, 2011 — 5 Comments
Cherry blossoms usher in spring for the Washington, DC area. My husband and I decided to go downtown and walk along the paths near the Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument among the cherry trees. We went early one morning trying to beat the crowds. When the cherry trees are in full bloom you walk beneath [...]
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