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Friday, May 16, 2008
Hope you have a lovely weekend (a lovely long Victoria Day weekend if you're in Canada). For me it's the end of a long and stressful week of work (yay!), but sadly brings another kind of stress instead -- a family funeral. It'll be a few more days before I can truly relax, so I hope you'll enjoy a little bit of happy sunshine for me as well as for yourself over the next couple of days or so. The serene photo above features the work of stylist Tanya Goodwin.
P.S. I'll probably be a bit slow responding to comments because of all this, so I hope you won't take it amiss. See you all for sure on Tuesday ....
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The Groovy Family
From the Sköna hem website, a look at the groovy Swedish home of Stefan and Annette Tellevi and family. This is just a selection of photos, too -- you can find more of the Tellevi home here. A nice lesson in stylish but easy living ... and I am seriously coveting all that gorgeous mid-century modern teak furniture ...
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Araz Bakery
1646 Victoria Park, Scarborough, 416-757-6767
Arz Fine Foods and Bakery
1909 Lawrence Ave. E., Scarborough, 416-755-5084
Lebanese Bakery and Fine Foods
1792 Birchmount Rd., Scarborough, 416-441-9907
On a recent trip to Istanbul, one of the many culinary wonders we encountered was fresh lahmacun — a thin flatbread hot off a wood-fired grill, light and crisp, but strong enough to sustain a layer of ground meat mixed with finely chopped vegetables and spices. It was savoury, yet slightly sweet; substantial, while nearly weightless.
Where to find a reasonable facsimile of this Turkish delight in the GTA?
Thankfully, lahmacun, or lahmajoun as Armenians call it, is not only made by people all over the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East — Syrians, Lebanese, Iranians and Georgians, to name but a few, it's also prepared in Scarborough by their respective diasporas.
Following the advice of a local Armenia-born sage, our lahmacun hunt took us first to the family-run Araz Bakery. There's no place to sit down here, so we took a dozen to go (along with a bag full of other regional treats, including olives and Greek honey).
Reheated in a 350F oven for about five minutes, the crust was like a delicate pita, crisp with small spots of charring, indicating they'd spent just enough time over a flame.
Lahmacun is usually topped with a finely diced mixture of beef, tomato, onion, parsley, garlic, bell peppers and spices. In the Araz version, the beef and onion were most prominent, but the parsley stood out, too.
Next up was Arz Fine Foods, an impressive Lebanese grocery emporium, its aisles crammed with eye-catching Middle Eastern specialties. We headed for the café, where fresh flat breads were rolling off the line, made to order. We sampled the wonderfully salty, cheese-topped mana'eesh and another type of bread our server could only identify as "meat pizza." Similar to lahmacun, its base was ground beef mixed with tomatoes and spices. But it was taken up a notch with the addition of pine nuts, fresh mint leaves and wedges of lemon to squeeze on top.
Lahmacun, though, was nowhere to be found at the café. Instead, it was only in the store's fridge. We bought a package to take home. Here, the handmade crust was softer and the topping slightly more herby, a hint of sweetness from the vegetables coming through.
The final stop was Lebanese Bakery, where a raft of mana'eesh was available to eat in, including a lahmacun.
The crust on the take-home version was firmer and more uniform than the others we sampled. Visually, ground beef dominated the spread, but on the tongue, a tangy, citrusy herb made itself known.
It might not be getting it hot off the grill from a street-side kebab vendor in Istanbul, Yerevan or Beirut, but being able to come close, in a city thousands of kilometres away, is a marvellous thing.
Approximate price per packaged lahmacun: $1. Eat-in lunch for two: $10.

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What Are You Really Asking?
A high percentage of the communications that I receive from others in "Church Communications Land" are asking me about conversations they're about to have with their leadership. Things like "I've never been given a budget, how do I ask for one?" or "My Pastor keeps announcing things from the stage before letting the staff know it's coming. How would I ask him to let us know beforehand at staff meeting?"
I don't think the answer you're looking for from me is "May I have a budget?" or "Would you let me know what you're going to announce before you announce it?" but that's the answer I often give. Why? Because when you respond back "It's not that simple" it bring something else to light, which opens the door for me to ask "What are you really asking?"
If you're honest, you might really be asking "Why am I not trusted on the team enough to make a decision about spending money?" or "Why is my leadership not allowing me to have access to resources?" or "Why doesn't my Pastor trust me to have confidential information before it's public?" or "Why is my Pastor so selfish that he announces things as if they're planned and then forces our team to follow through on them because it's public?"
I don't know yet what you're really asking, but I know it's not about a budget worksheet or about the content of your staff meeting each week. Before you make up what the other person is thinking and live like that's the truth, ask them in a way that opens to door to hearing their genuine response.
I wouldn't ask "Why don't you trust me with a budget?" I would say "Having a written budget would be helpful for me for ( this reason ) primarily. Would that be possible?" This is the start of your conversation.
"Knowing what's coming before it's announced would help me prepare graphics for Social Media. Would that be possible?"
"Having a key to the building would allow me to stay a few minutes after work if I'm in the middle of a project. Would that be possible?"
"Removing other admins from our Facebook page so we're not all posting at the same time would help stream line of communication. Would that be possible?"
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Sadly I missed last Friday's LV Cup semi-final between Harlequins and Newcastle. Newcastle won 20-21 with a last play try (Check out the full match details here) I have just watched the highlights and the game looked like a real classic. Full credit goes to Newcastle for the way they defended and the sheer commitment they gave to the game. Newcastle made 157 tackles to Harlequins' 70 and won only 49 rucks to Quins' 116. It's extremely rare that a team wins a game with statistics like that.
The biggest shock for me though was the ability of a team who have hardly won a game all season to show the nerve to score a last gasp winning try. I don't wish to take any of the credit for this away from Newcastle, they were patient and composed, but a closer inspection of that final play shows that Quins were the architects of their own downfall.
|Newcastle were allowed to build a patient, low-risk attack
I don't know who made the call to not compete at the rucks, but whoever it was made a massive error of judgement and in the end cost Harlequins a place in the LV Cup Final.
The build-up to Newcastle's winning try lasted for 1minute 45seconds, 13 phases of play. That's 12 rucks (an unbelievable 25% of the rucks they won all game). In 11 of those 12 phases Quins failed to commit a single man to the breakdown. I can only assume that this was a deliberate tactic, but frankly it was suicidal.
Quins had had little problem dealing with Newcastle in the previous 79 minutes of the match. They were also more than 3 points clear and so didn't need to fear conceding a penalty. In the end Newcastle had to do very lttle to score their try. They just creeped forward 1 yard at a time knowing that when the ball carrier was tackled they would get it straight back.
Here's the footage of the final couple of minutes of the game, notice how Harlequins don't commit any players to the tackle area.
I don't know who made the call to not compete at the rucks, but whoever it was made a massive error of judgement and in the end cost Harlequins a place in the LV Cup Final.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Former world number one Rafa Nadal will miss the ATP World Tour Finals next month after opting to have surgery to remove his appendix.
The Spanish 14-times grand slam champion told reporters after losing to Croatian teenager Borna Coric at the Swiss Indoors in Basel on Friday that he would have surgery on Nov. 3.
"I'm not going to play Paris or London, I'm not competitive enough," said the 28-year-old who has been treating his appendicitis with antibiotics.
The eight-man London season-ender begins on Nov. 9.
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These are some of the new pictures that will be in it. I'm doing a blow by blow account of all my daily chores, describing items I use and how I've modified my entire environment to suit my own needs. I think I really understand now why the Mongolians call it a "different universe" inside. I also got a copy of the History Channel's show on The Great Khan and of the Terror he inflicted on all of Asia, the Middle East and into Europe. There are always teepees depicted in ancient Mongolian movies. Why did I ever assume only the American Plains Indians used teepees? :)
And, you know who I think the experts are on building ancient style dwellings? The set makers in movie land! I see gertees in so many historical movies it's amazing. In the History Channel version there's a big yurt on a platform being hauled by 20 oxen! And lots of teepees....
Right now I'd like to say there are 3 things I FOR SURE would hate to get caught without a stash of if the market/dollar/world collapsed. 1. plastic garbage bags, 2. baby wipes, and 3. candles.
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Breaking NewsElmore Leonard -- the legendary writer behind "Get Shorty," "3:10 to Yuma" and "Justified" -- has died, three weeks after suffering a stroke ... TMZ has learned.
We're told Leonard passed away at his home in Detroit ... the city where he lived since 1934.
E.L. is a legend -- dozens of his novels and short stories have been transformed into movies or TV shows ... including "Out of Sight," "Be Cool," "Hombre," "Mr. Majestyk" and "3:10 to Yuma."
Elmore's researcher broke the news on the author's Facebook page ... writing, "The post I dreaded to write, and you dreaded to read. Elmore passed away at 7:15 this morning from complications from his stroke. He was at home surrounded by his loving family."
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Just wanted to note some updates to the Scrapyard...
The Faraway Press downloads are now in compressed zip files. Download with ease here, herehere. You are also going to want to buy these. Check out these distros for Faraway Press material.
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New photos for the Submission and and Saiten In Flammen posts. I've also gone back and dated a number of releases from older posts and will continue to do this in the future.
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Motorola recently launched its cheapest and probably the best budget Android phone out there and I'm really making my mind to buy one. As can be seen with my work and tweets I'm not an Android fan but I don't despise it either. I tend to like near stock Android provided by Motorola and with latest Android version and cheap price Moto E is certainly and great deal.
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Moto E is here! Will it be my first Droid…probably…
ReferIt 1.1.0 :)
Update (June 29): v1.1.0 with "Word of the day" feature is now submitted on Nokia store for QA.
Finally I felt like working on online dictionary app of mine, ReferIt, and have added "Word of the day" feature to it. Don't worry about where these words come from because I don't think that is of much importance now 😛
Here is how first screen looks like now on opening the app
Isn't it look cool now!
I've also made some performance updates to it such as fixing addition of in-existent words to history and problem of not showing definitions for search text with space character.
I'll be submitting it to store soon, once I'm done with some testing myself. Will update here once app update will be available on store.
Hoping users will like this new update 🙂
Just a thought after reading about Nokia Lumia 510
So here it is, yet another over-priced, good for nothing, outdated, 'so–called affordable' WP 7.5 device from a company I once loved called Nokia. Anyone reading this article and is a Microsoft, Windows Phone, new generation Nokia fan please close the current tab unless you are using one of Read more »
Bumblr is a Qt/QML based Tumblr client for Symbian and MeeGo devices. It supports almost all the features that are provided by current Tumblr public API i.e., posting, reblog, editing like, unlike follow, unfollow, tag search, etc. Available on Nokia store here
A little download problem with FlickrUp
Short and sweet! There is a problem with FlickrUp in downloading photos that don't allows to download maximum possible available resolution image on Symbian devices. The download menu pops up only the half of its original size on first appearance, like this
Because of this user can't download a better res image. I don't know the reason for this problem and neither I've the solution for it right now but there is a way around for this that is just rotate the device once and the result should be something like this,
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Phew!!! Finally….after almost a long 4 months I'm able to bring a major update to FlickrUp. A lot of users were mailing me and writing reviews requesting for certain features that FlickrUp was lacking, I hope I invested my precious time in the right direction and I'm able to satisfy many of them. Read more »
eBay with Qt
My cousin sister wanted to learn Qt/QML so I thought it would be better if she starts with some project after learning some basics. I suggested her to try some tutorials from ZetCode. But after hearing about Symbian 2012Q1 contest from me, she insisted me to help her make an entry for the contest. After doing a lot of search and brainstorming we decided we will make a eBay app for Symbian devices. Read more »
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CutePress available on Nokia Store
Too much with Flickr, so I decided to work on a new app, something that I can use myself. While looking for other apps found WordPress client for Nokia available on Nokia store. It was useful and working fine but didn't get along with new QML UI Read more »
As awesome as anything Nokia N950 with Meego Harmattan is but currently it lacks landscape mode support on home screens and many other installed apps. And like many other developers, this intrigued me to try to enable landscape support. I searched and found LandscapeEnabler on My-Meego.com to enable landscape mode for home screens but later Read more »


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just kick it the way you feel comfortable even if its with ur front foot just keep ur arms straight and spin the bike with ur hands in a circular motion and then when you feel like the bike is right under you start geting over the frame and then start spotting ur pedals
really? if i kick with my backfoot its the complete opposite way i would like to spin it though? and thanks guys i have got a lot closer now thanks
youre leaning way too far back get over the bars. and its gonna take you years if you plan on kicking them off your front foot goodluck
just keep your bars down and the bike will spin more level and faster, then just spot your pedals and stomp it.
thanks guys :D yer i hav the problem of the bike gettin away from me and it landing in a upright possition if you know what i mean
pop out of the quarter do go flying foward. kick it and the most important thing to me is just staying over and just look for pedals coming around. its a easy trick when you have it.
When your in the air hold the bike closer to you and push your arms almlost straight down with the the handle bars under you very controlled. You want your feet above the bars so that when the bike comes around you have plenty of time to spot the pedals and land. Good luck.
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Canada is a country without studios and broadcast networks striving to build a vibrant production industry. Virtually nothing gets made without handouts from governments who appear equally disinterested in doing more than is absolutely necessary to shore up the appearance that there's a real film industry here.
And most of that largess goes to producers with a long track record of failing to find audiences.
Hardly anybody truly steps up to give an untried writer or director with a vision a shot.
Oh, there's certainly a boom going on. Almost everybody's working as a result of a weak dollar and generous tax credits to anybody wanting to make a Lifetime, Syfy or Superhero movie North of the 49th.
Meanwhile, our own stories continue to languish. And our brightest story tellers seldom get the opportunity to even hint at what they can do.
But if you live in BC or Alberta, there's a ray of hope. It comes from Telus which, despite its cable footprint, is primarily a phone company.
Telus have called their initiative "Storyhive" -- a community funded program for emerging content creators. I'd call it the Canadian equivalent of Roger Corman, the Hollywood producer who launched more major careers than almost everybody else put together.
Storyhive just released it's winning short film. "The Dishwasher" by Vancouver writer-director Matthew Johnson.
It's a masterful creation, revealing a film-maker who truly gets how cinematic story-telling works. It hooks you from the first frame and doesn't let go of your emotions until well after the last.
If the industry were still run by Hollywood moguls, one of them would be telling his money guys, "This kid knows what he's doing. Just give him enough money and stay out of his way".
I give you "The Dishwasher".
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So what do you do when the cute little mint plants in your herb garden exponentially grow until they threaten to highjack the whole flower bed? Why, you make a plethora of mint-infused simple syrup, of course. And what do you do when it's a summery Friday night and you have a jar of said syrup staring you down every time you open the fridge? Well, I say you invent an adult beverage to make use of some of that minty goodness. Introducing…the Mint & Lime Sweet Tea Martini!
[pinit image_url="https://fivehearthome.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Mint-and-Lime-Sweet-Tea-Martini-by-Five-Heart-Home_700px.jpg" description="Mint and Lime Sweet Tea Martini ~ made with sweet tea vodka, mint simple syrup, and a squeeze of lime | {Five Heart Home}"]
The obvious cocktail choice to incorporate mint, of course, would be mojitos. And while those are certainly on the rotation around here, drinking the aforementioned mint syrup in my iced tea made me think it might be fun to come up with a spiked version. If you're from the south, odds are you have sweet tea coursing through your veins. And I don't know if you've tried sweet tea vodka yet, but it's the perfect cocktail base for those who like sweet tea and, well, vodka. The only problem is that it tastes like the former more than the latter. So pace yourself with these and don't say I didn't warn ya!
[pinit image_url="https://fivehearthome.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Mint-Simple-Syrup_700px.jpg" description="Mint Simple Syrup | {Five Heart Home}"]
While the minty sweet tea flavors could certainly stand on their own, I think that a kick of lime adds a nice dimension. All that sweet can benefit from a little tart.
These would be delicious by the pool, at a barbecue, or even just relaxing at home at the end of a long day. And while I coined this concoction a martini and strained out the ice with a cocktail shaker, I think it would be equally refreshing served in a tall glass with lots of ice. You know, like sweet tea!
Enjoy your Friday, enjoy your summer, and enjoy your Mint & Lime Sweet Tea Martinis! I'd love to hear what you think of this recipe in the comments section!
This refreshing cocktail features sweet tea vodka, mint-infused simple syrup, and a squeeze of lime.
- 1 ounce sweet tea vodka
- 1 ounce Mint Simple Syrup (see recipe below)
- 4 ounces seltzer, chilled
- Ice
- Quarter of a lime
- Fresh mint sprig, optional
- Chill your martini glass by placing it in the freezer.
- Add vodka and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker, fill halfway with ice, and shake for about 30 seconds.
- Strain mixture into chilled martini glass. Top with seltzer (more or less, to taste).
- Cut lime quarter in half. Squeeze lime juice from one wedge into drink.
- Garnish glass with other lime wedge and, if desired, sprig of fresh mint.
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup mint leaves
- In a small pot, combine water and sugar.
- Set pot over medium-high heat and bring to a boil.
- Stir until sugar dissolves and then remove from heat.
- Add mint and allow to steep until syrup has cooled.
- Strain and discard mint leaves, pour syrup into an airtight container, and store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
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Sunday, 23 April 2017
A magical place!
To me it is always full of surprises - we try to visit a new part each time we visit as well as returning to old favourites.
To many it is the Eiffel Tower that is the focal point - to me it is the first sight of the Sacre Couer cathedral as we enter the city by train - hopefully with the sun shining on it!
The background started with some Distress Oxides but I added quite a lot of stencilling and stamping to it.
The Sacre Couer stamp is an old Elusive Images one.I cut the macarons from some paper I kept from a bakery in Orleans a couple of years ago! I haven't had macaron for years so maybe this time I will treat us to one! I was using a TH clear text stamp when I spotted the quote in the same set, which seems very apt at the moment and I will be pleased to be taking some rest time while we are away!
Hoping to link to
Art Journal Journey - where Hazel has chosen 'Magical Mystery Tour' as her fantastic theme
More Mixed Media's theme is Anything goes - with optional yellow
Thanks for looking, I will be home soon with lots of photos hopefully! Chris
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- Valerie-Jael said...
Lovely page, have fun in Paris, and thanks for joining us at More Mixed Media, hugs, Valerie
- 23 April 2017 at 08:12:00 BST
- Helen said...
I was right in my guess! hope you're having a fabulous time. Look forward to seeing the photos.
- 23 April 2017 at 08:14:00 BST
- Crafty She said...
Gorgeous page Chris, I hope you have a wonderful time in my favourite city. Sacre Couer any day for me is the focal point...My most favourite place..xx
- 23 April 2017 at 10:31:00 BST
- froebelsternchen Susi said...
Your PARIS page is amazing - no wonder -- you were totally inspired of your upcoming visit there- I hope good weather, wonderful food and all the romantic moments will be with you there! ENJOY dear Chris and
keep in mind to make sure that you return home happy, healthy and with lots of unforgettable memories.
You are such an angel to support us so much with your wonderful art over at Art Journal Journey!
This is much appreciated!
- 23 April 2017 at 12:49:00 BST
- chrissie said...
Wonderful Paris page again Chris. I hope all is peaceful there at the moment.
Enjoy your stay and stay safe.
Love Chrissie xx
- 23 April 2017 at 14:10:00 BST
- Little Artbee said...
Wonderful Paris Page. Great tribute to a nice City.
Dear Greetings
- 23 April 2017 at 15:42:00 BST
- Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...
Happy Birthday, dear T. Hope it's as magical as the city you and Chris are visiting right now.
And of course, the Paris inspired journal page is most impressive. What a fabulous and fascinating way to celebrate a birthday.
- 23 April 2017 at 16:23:00 BST
- Meggymay said...
Hope you are having a great time in Paris and that you did get some macarons.
Yvonne xx
- 23 April 2017 at 21:16:00 BST
- Redanne said...
How wonderful to be in Paris again Chris, it is such an inspiring city! I hope you were not near any of the troubles... Your page really is beautiful!
I see from Elizabeth's comment that it is your birthday, I hope you have had a wonderful day! Hugs, Anne xx
- 23 April 2017 at 21:20:00 BST
- My name is Erika. said...
Hope you are having a wonderful time!
- 24 April 2017 at 01:29:00 BST
- hazel said...
I hope you are having a wonderful time in Paris, your page is beautiful.
xxx Hazel.
- 26 April 2017 at 09:37:00 BST
- Jeannette said...
wow,your paris page is lovely,i love this so much.
happy rest week.
hugs jenny
- 26 April 2017 at 11:14:00 BST
- Let's Art Journal said...
What a wonderful Paris page to remind you of your favourite place! Have a wonderful time and Happy Travels! J🙂
- 26 April 2017 at 13:05:00 BST


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Sir Norman Hartnell (1901-1979) is probably the most famous royal fashion designer to date. He was responsible for the revival of the crinoline, after Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother caused a sensation wearing the new silhouette on a state visit to Paris in 1938. Of course, Hartnell also created Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress, as well as the gown for her Coronation as Queen in 1953.
The couturier's streamlined, heavily jewelled, fitted dresses became firm favourites of film stars and actresses, as well as the aristocracy. And, as it happens, Hartnell's 1938 Spring collection wouldn't look out of place today:
With just two days to go to the Royal Wedding, you may be wondering how to accessorize your outfit for the auspicious occasion. ShopCurious has just the thing – a Fake London limited edition royal print wrap-scarf, featuring a curiously elegant illustration of a royal dress design by Norman Hartnell. The couture gown in question looks as though it may be the one Her Majesty is wearing in the photograph above, taken on a royal visit to Ghana in 1961.
Norman Hartnell received a Royal Warrant for his services as royal dressmaker from 1940 onwards…not unlike the curious warrant awarded to Fake London as suppliers and manufacturers of knitted merkins to Her Gracious Majesty the Quirk.
Anyway, herewith sending best wishes to William and Kate for their wedding day… Let me know if you're doing something special to celebrate the event.
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The most common cause of intraoral pain in patients presenting to dentists is odontogenic and rarely presents a diagnostic challenge. However, pain in the oral cavity that is not dental or periodontal in origin may be difficult to diagnose and treat.
Neuropathic pain in the orofacial region, such as post-herpetic neuralgia, post-traumatic painful peripheral neuropathy ('phantom tooth pain'), idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux), or chronic orofacial pain ('atypical odontalgia') can be defined as pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system. The presentation of neuropathic pain in and around the mouth has been extensively reviewed.1,2,3
If neuropathic pain is suspected a thorough clinical evaluation is necessary to assess this type of pain and its mechanism. Dental treatments that are irreversible and potentially harmful to the underlying dentoalveolar structures must be avoided when the diagnosis is uncertain.
Dentists are often asked to exclude the likelihood of pain of odontogenic origin contributing to neuropathic pain. They need to be aware of the drugs patients may be taking as well as making themselves available to assist in the management of these patients within multidisciplinary pain clinics.
- Bennett GJ. Neuropathic pain in the orofacial region: clinical and research challenges. J Orofac Pain 2004;18:281-6.
- Merrill RL. Intraoral neuropathy. Curr Pain Headache Rep 2004;8:341-6.
- Vickers ER, Cousins MJ. Neuropathic orofacial pain. Part 1 - Prevalence and pathophysiology. Part 2 - Diagnostic procedures, treatment guidelines and case reports. Aust Endod J 2000;26:19-26 and 53-63.


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Macon Baptist Association
Sunday, February 24, 2019
47 Churches working together to Empower Kindgom Growth
From your Director of Missions:
Matthew 9:11-13 King James Version (KJV)
And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master eat with publicans and sinners?" But when Jesus heard that, he said to them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice; for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
There has been and still is much talk about our hospital in Franklin. No more baby deliveries, and the plans to build a new one, and on and on.
Church is much like a hospital. It's where people who are sick, broken, bruised, beaten and battered with life because of sin and unrighteousness can come for help. It's ok if you are here and don't have all your life together. I imagine if you do have it all together you wouldn't need to be here. Hospitals do not tolerate sick people hanging around who don't want to get better. What if someone said, I've decided to stay sick and I'm going to put my name on the door and live here. You would condemn such a person for a misuse of the hospital, because a hospital only exists to give life.
That is what the church does. Just as people are born and go in to a hospital to get equipped to live, you are born again to come into the church.
Go, and sin no more.
God Bless you,
Gary Holland
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Shortoff: Highlands Men's Meeting the 1st Monday night of each month at 7:00 PM at the Shortoff Baptist Church. This is a non-denominational meeting that is inspirational and offers a great time of fellowship. All men are invited.
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The sun is out today. It will be nice on my daily walk. DLJ and took a nice walk last night through a neighborhood we had walked through before on a dark and rainy night. It's very forest of Endor. Lots of huge trees, snug, cozy, but so very DARK. I love visiting and walking through it, but so many of the homes get only shade most of the day…a great place to visit and relax, but not stay.
I really hope Christmas is at our place this year. I am traveled out, and I haven't gone anywhere yet. I like travel but not a lot. A big trip a year, max and I'm good. I love local travel, and this year there's CT, NYC, Japan, and a resort down in Southern CA at Thanksgiving. So I really hope we can stay home for Christmas. But we might end up in the Bay Area. Too much!
Speaking of Japan, I had a small side-job offered to me a few days ago that has to do with Japan, and I am going to give it a test run. It requires very little work on my part, and nets a small chunk o' change for that minimal work. If the first try goes smooth, I'll keep it up, and hopefully it will grow over time. It sounds so shady! But it's not. I'm just helping out a friend and his family far away, and in thanks they cut me 10% plus cover all expenses involved. I'll get to meet them all this September, which will make the trip all the more interesting.
Too much travel.
The contractors called for the bathroom work, I will call them back and schedule the day today. DLJ and I might split babysitting the contractors, one half day each. I'm looking forward to it being completed, then we can go peruse the land for a new pedestal sink and fixtures.
This week gets busier as time progresses. Gym tonight, working on websites tomorrow, gym and beading with a friend on Thursday. Saturday is the Japanese plant sale at the Japanese Garden, and the member's only hour before the public can go to the sale is the hour before our tour of the garden's stone lanterns that we signed up for. And we have to put the front shocks on the car to match the rear ones we did on Sunday.
I still need to slow down. Less stuff. More time to do stuff with DLJ when I am home. I love our walks, as long as we do those regularly, then I'm happy. I have always loved walking, and we have so many nice pockets and streets and hiking trails right around us, walkable from home or a short drive, if we want to hike waterfalls and stuff…I am so glad he enjoys it, too. When I ask him he almost never says no.
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PAN-FRIED FISH {forthcoming in MMM Vol. X.}
By Kate Rogers
Scrumptious mahjong
clacks its ivory teeth
the sound a Sunday imperative
in Hong Kong. Decisive
as the pile driver
in the huge hole on the corner.
Pan-fried fish is never arbitrary, either,
pungent as sex and that ocean
we swam in my bed for five days.
No need to jog for exercise that week.
Though we did pause enmeshed
like the rogue orchid
colonizing the crack on my
concrete roof, sweating nectar.
BioKathryn (Kate) Rogers has twice been short-listed for the Winston Collins Best Canadian Poem Prize by Descant Magazine (Toronto) in February 2009 and January 2008. Her poetry, essays and reviews have been published in anthologies and literary magazines in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada and the UK including the Asia Literary Review, Dimsum, Pressed, The New Quarterly, Contemporary Verse II, Canadian Woman Studies, The Mad Woman in the Academy, Blood and Aphorisms and Orbis International.
Kate is co-editor of the international women's poetry anthology Not A Muse (Haven Books, Hong Kong, March 2009); her poetry collection, "Painting the Borrowed House", debuted at the Man Hong Kong Literary Festival in March 2008. It is available on Amazon.com and from Proverse, Hong Kong.
Originally from Toronto, Kate has been teaching writing, literature and English for Academic and Professional Purposes for colleges and universities in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for the past ten years. A bi-lingual Chinese and English collection of her essays about conservation, bird watching and culture in Taiwan, The Swallows' Return, was published in June 2006.
Kate teaches in the Division of Language Studies at the Community College of City University in Hong Kong.


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The R 43 from Gansbaai to the east mysteriously ends in the middle of nowhere. It does not even continue with a dirt-track. This road to nowhere ends exactly at the eastern extreme of the Gansbaai area.
However, if you turn right towards the sea a few km before the end of the road to nowhere, you end up at a secluded place immediately at the beach: "Buffeljagsbaai" (Buffalo-hunt bay). It is a small settlement of one street and a bit. The residents live from the sea as they always have. Trucks loaded with kelp can be seen leaving Buffeljagsbaai on a regular basis. Buffeljagsbaai is neither a place of luxury nor of facilities for the day-visitor, yet its raw beauty and seclusion makes it an attraction in itself.
On the other side of Buffeljagsbaai is Jessie se Baai (Jessie's Bay), named after the ship with the same name that was wrecked here. The impressive solidified sand dunes towering over the beach are the reason that the locals know this place by another name: Die hohe walle (The high walls).
At the end of Jessie se Baai is where the land-mass of Quoin Point begins. Quoin Point is the second most southern point of the African continent and one of the most densely packed shipwreck graves of the South African coast. Quoin Point is empty from man-made things, apart from a small light-tower and few fishing cottages here owned by the Schipper and October families of Elim. These families were granted the right of use of this small peninsula by Queen Victoria. After the wreckage of yet another English ship, the English government thought it was a good idea to have people living here permanently. The document granting this right to the respective Elim-people was signed by Queen Victoria herself.
If you would round Quoin Point (which you cannot do since this Cape Nature Reserve is closed to the public) you would bump into another small group of bungalows at the coast : "Die Dam". Die Dam -admittedly- is connected to the absolute end of the R 43.


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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Folkart to decorate your homes and nails
This is my attempt at russian inspired folkart. I wish I have time to paint the walls of my room, but I guess it's much easier to paint it on nails.
Posted by Catherine Wong at Saturday, October 18, 2008
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- Eileen said...
I love this look! Oh how I wish I could be taught by you. You have such a wonderful gift. I am in love with your work. I have been going through each page of your blog enjoying every moment of gazing upon your fantastic creations. Thank you for sharing them with all of us.
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Spessartite garnet belongs to the large and varied mineral group of garnet. Garnet comes from the Latin word "granatus", which means grain, because many garnet deposits are small grains of red crystals in their host rock. The fiery sunny-orange stone is popular for its very good hardness (7.5 Mohs scale) and its brilliance due to its high refractive index. Until the recent discovery mines in Namibia and Mozambique, spessartite garnet was rarely seen in jewelry. Its name is derived from former occurrence in the German "Spessart" forest. Garnet is a January birthstone.
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yewtreedigital needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 28 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
Yew Tree Digital
Yew Tree Digital is a parent company that has a number of child companies including i-phone-repairs.co.uk.
We currently have a logo at yewtreedigital.com but as we are now getting away from design and hosting we wish for this to change. We have a number of child companies that have their own logo. We like the logos from the following sites:
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Release date: 24th Nov 2008
Build number: 7322
Release announcement
The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 2.1.11, which includes two major new features! OpenID: log into other websites using your Launchpad identity -------------------------------------------------------------- How many website usernames and passwords do you juggle each day? Your Launchpad account now includes an OpenID identity, meaning you may be able to reduce the number of website login details you need to remember. OpenID is an open standard that lets you use one online identity to access many different websites, such as SourceForge, Blogger, LiveJournal and thousands of others. Look out for the OpenID logo next time you log into or register for a website. You can see the logo and find out more about how OpenID works on our help page: https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/OpenID Get in touch with any other Launchpad user ------------------------------------------- Ever wanted to contact someone you've come across in Launchpad only to find they've hidden their email address? Launchpad developer, Barry Warsaw, has the solution: You can now email up to three other Launchpad users or teams per day using the new "Contact this user/team" link on profile pages. Launchpad preserves the privacy of the recipient's email address -- unless they respond, when it becomes a normal email conversation -- and you can choose which of your registered email addresses the message comes from. To give it a go, try it on your own profile page: https://launchpad.net/people/+me For more about contacting people in Launchpad and receiving email that's sent using the contact form, take a look here: https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople That's all for this month -------------------------- To get the full details of the Launchpad 2.1.11 release, have a look at its milestone page: https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.1.11 Launchpad 2.1.12, our final release of 2008, will be out on the 17th of December. In the meantime, join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the launchpad-users mailing list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users


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Who would have thought that Matt Bonner, a former UF basketball standout, had these kind of extreme fans?
Bonner has always been a productive player in the NBA. Good to see he has fans who admire his play on the court and his success in the classroom while at UF.


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In Spoo4k, (pronounced just like Spook), you're a lone adventurer in a spooky house which is inhabited by ghosts. All of your friends are also in the house, but they've been paralyzed by the ghosts and their life energy is slowly being sapped. Because you're an adventurer so full of vim and vigor, you're much more tempting to the specters than your poor friends. You must use this to your advantage.
Your job is to go near the other people to lure the ghosts off them, then bring those ghosts to an effigy to make it disappear. Careful, though, because if a spirit touches you, you will lose life force, just like the powerless victims. If you lose all your life force, then you collapse, and all hope is lost.
But you've got a secret weapon - your Magic Adventurer's Lantern. While the lantern is on, you've got extra visibility and the ghosts will run away instead of coming close to you. By going back and forth between the lantern, you can keep the ghosts following you but also at a safe distance. Disperse all the ghosts at the effigy to win (it's in the bottom right corner.) When you get rid of the last ghost, your score is equal to the number of victims who are left alive.
Your life is measured by the red bar, and your remaining lantern juice by the yellow bar. The green bar represents how many ghosts you've led away - when it fills up, you win. If your red bar drops to nothing then you lose.
Press [ARROW KEYS] to walk around. Press [SPACE] to turn on your flash light. Press [ESCAPE] to quit. Press [R] to restart.
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This game actually went through a very interesting evolution. I wasn't at all sure what I wanted to do for the 4k competition, and finally decided (since I've been playing around with it so often lately anyway) that a velocity/attraction game would be pretty cool. I was thinking some sort of puzzler/action game where a missile gets shot at you and you need to arrange black holes intelligently so that the missiles get flung back at the rocket launcher. So I started coding that, and ended up with a pretty cool little gravity engine that could fling missiles around in a nifty fashion. Then I experimented with repelling fields as well, which were straightforward and would probably be good for the gameplay. Because at that time I was having one gravity well follow the mouse around, I realized that the missiles actually seemed to behave sort of like some sort of critter when I repelled them. So I decided maybe a game where you need to get a bunch of mice out of a maze would be cool, and your mouse would represent either cheese or a cat. But then I realized that I still had the possibility to have more than one "black hole" in the level at one time, so after noticing that the "mice" would sort of attract to the other ones until the stronger black hole got closer, it reminded of ghosts or something floating around a person. And the rest is history, of course.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
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|Return to Shirley Plantation by Carrie Fancett Pagels
What a nice discovery this morning! This would have been my mother's 83rd birthday had she survived her Whipple surgery three years ago. I like to think Mom is smiling down from heaven at this Five Star review by Sylvia. Thank you to Sylvia for reading and reviewing Return to Shirley Plantation which is a story about obedience to God and His direction.
Where the past & present collide,
July 25, 2013
In Return to Shirley Plantation I was swept back in American history to the Civil War in the south. As the novella unfolded I felt like I stepped onto Shirley Plantation experiencing the full depth and breadth of the characters emotions, smells, and how the war affected the Shirley Plantation family, soldiers, and the soldiers families.
For those who doubt God has a greater plan read this book and see how our lives are entwined. How God hears our wishes and desire and how faith, patience, and obedience on our part help those plans to unfold.
I adore Angelina Scott! Some may see her as a beautiful deceiver pretending to be a widow mourning while guarding her heritage and her sister's children. I see her strength, patience, and obedience in God. Her love for her family. I see the love of family overcoming the experiences associated with war between the north and south.
How lives who are meant to meet do meet and how protected secrets revealed face to face our more alive and full of meaning then words can ever express. Just when I thought I knew a character another secret was artfully revealed.
I wanted the book to never end I want to follow Angelina through old age. Bring on volume 2!


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For the past weeks, the election fever has started to heat up. The advertisements are starting to build up. Positioning one name, be it Villar, Noynoy or Gibo, requires research to see the strength of the name, as in marketing – a brand. In this case, the brand is the name of the candidate. Similar to a product, careful positioning is required to match the strength and unique proposition of the brand with that of the current needs of the consumers. In this case, the consumer is the electorate – the voting public.
Archive for January, 2010
The underdogsWednesday, January 27th, 2010
For the past weeks, the election fever has started to heat up. The advertisements are starting to build up. Positioning one name, be it Villar, Noynoy or Gibo, requires research to see the strength of the name, as in marketing – a brand. In this case, the brand is the name of the candidate. Similar to a product, careful positioning is required to match the strength and unique proposition of the brand with that of the current needs of the consumers. In this case, the consumer is the electorate – the voting public.
Dreams and aspirations of small and big negosyantesMonday, January 25th, 2010
This 2010 is the year of the Tiger, as per the Chinese calendar. It so happens that the Chinese New Year falls on Valentine's Day, so that may be a good omen.
2010 is a year of change. We have had PGMA for nine years, so many are anxious to see change. This ushers renewed confidence and hope for those who feel that the old leadership has not done enough. We would like to see more entrepreneurs succeed in 2010, both big and small. There are definitely a lot of things to hope for this year.
Thief in the nightThursday, January 21st, 2010
Early this week, my wife was leaving for London to visit an ailing aunt. She promised to see her as the illness is terminal. Our two year old daughter who slept with us was crying for her mom not to leave anymore because she would be sad. My wife could not help but to also cry.
Sometimes, we take things for granted. Someone's absence, whether temporary or permanent, makes us realize the importance of that person. This makes me think of the countless of OFWs who leave their children and spouses to seek a better future for themselves and their family. Think about the pain on both sides. Seeing the bond between a mother and a daughter reminds me of the sacrifices of the many overseas workers. Imagine how it would be like for a permanent loss in life. (more…)
A Go Negosyo yearThursday, January 14th, 2010
We spent our weekend in Baguio right after the long Christmas break to feel the cold. I normally go to Baguio every year, and I notice the Korean population increasing. This year, I was amazed to see the number of Koreans that have invaded Baguio City. When I went to SM Baguio to get a feel of the consumer spending there, I noticed that even the band playing was a Korean band. Starbucks in Camp John Hay was full of Koreans. When I took my two-year old daughter horseback riding, a busload of Korean students arrived to go riding as well.
If the Filipinos have raised the Pinoy flag in Daly City, California, the Koreans have surely raised their flag in Baguio City. This phenomenon is happening all over the Philippines. Pretty soon, more Asians will find it cheaper to live in the country. It is not only the cost of living but the good quality education that we have here, particularly when it comes to learning the English language. We have the best English teachers at a fraction of the tuitions of schools in Asia. Also, the cost of owning or renting a house or a condo here in the Philippines is far cheaper than in Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Japan etc.
Entreps ExposedMonday, January 11th, 2010
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Partners in business, partners for lifeMonday, January 11th, 2010
Today, microentrepreneurs are mostly women. We observe this in our caravans in the regions and provinces. Winners of the Citi Microentrepreneur of the Year Award, National Livelihood Development Corporation SIPAG Award, and our very own Most Inspiring Microentrepreneur Award are mostly women. Eventually, as the business becomes bigger, the husband normally joins in and helps manage.
Roland and Rosalinda Hortaleza started a business that was originally named RBH Cosmetics, now popularly known as Splash. Their business is an example of a husband-and-wife team's entrepreneurial success. While it might be challenging for couples to work together in business and manage their own relationship at the same time, many of them are able to do so.
Our New Year's ResolutionThursday, January 7th, 2010
When we were kids, my father would insist that we prepare our New Year's Resolution not later than a week after January 1. He would also write down his own.
It is very easy for us to write a resolution, especially if it's about trying to lose weight, trying to be more patient with subordinates, or trying to devote more time for family and health. But, how much willpower do we have to ensure that our New Year's Resolution will be achieved.


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I tried to do one of your tutorials, " How to use MQTT by adding one block to your application"
When I try to build I get a compilation error with
"import com.gaborcselle.persistent.PersistentQueue;"
How do I get further
Regards Sukanto
Thank you for your question.
It seems our buffering library uses persistent queue Java API that is not linked with the corresponding block.
To fix the problem, you can choose one of the following two solutions.
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We have updated the buffering library to include PersistentQueue API. So, you can update yours and rebuild your application.
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You can also update the classpath to include the missing Java class.
Feel free to contact us for further assistance. :-)
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We cashed out from the fast life in Colorado to live slowly and simply in rural Utah. We live for adventures during all seasons here in Escalante, Utah. I blog to share these escapades from our local area.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Leisurely Snowshoeing
Yesterday I strapped on a pair of snowshoes after a brief hiatus. The first thing I recognized: I wasn't skiing. The snaillike pace forced me to look around for my stimulation. Changes were happening fast in this isolated canyon: rocks were weeping, ice covered smooth boulders, strained-striped walls dripped like tar. The steep cliffs narrowed as I stomped through crusty, shaded snow. Birds (Juncos?) hopped in and out salt bushes or ventured up a towering Ponderosa tree. Sage scents wafted around me as the snow evaporated. Yep, time was not moving very fast snowshoeing. Now, if I was a snowflake...
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Jeffrey Collins was born in Luton on 22 April 1930 and educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford.
After a BSc in physics, an MSc in mathematics and a DSc from the University of London, he began his career as a junior technician at Guy's Hospital Medical School before gaining further experience at GEC in Wembley and Ferranti in Edinburgh.
Shifting into higher education, Professor Collins worked as a lecturer at the University of Glasgow (1957-66), teaching and researching microwave devices, and then joined the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University as a research engineer.
He moved back to Scotland in 1970 to take up the position of professor of industrial electronics at the University of Edinburgh, although he spent one day a week working on similar projects as technical director of Microwave and Electronic Systems.
A specialist in the emerging field of surface acoustic wave devices, Professor Collins managed to attract substantial financial support to the university. In an era before digital signal processing, such devices offered the best means for implementing complex receiver designs. One that was delivered to the UK Skynet military communication system synchronised 100 times faster than the existing design.
Since much of his research was based on identifying or acquiring signals being passed around the airwaves, one of Professor Collins' papers almost fell foul of censorship restrictions during the Falklands War in 1982. It was eventually cleared by a Ministry of Defence expert with the comment: "I only wish the Russians wrote such clear technical expositions."
As chair of Edinburgh's Wolfson Microelectronics Institute and professor of electrical engineering from 1977 to 1984, Professor Collins laid the foundations for Wolfson Microelectronics to become a highly successful spin-off company with 400 staff. He left a longer-lasting legacy in the form of the 140-person research institute in signal and image processing, run jointly by Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University, which remains the largest in the UK.
A great lover of American life who hoped to visit all 50 states and get a miniature flag from each, Professor Collins took up a new challenge in 1987 as the founding director of the Automation and Robotics Research Institute at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 1991, however, he came back to Edinburgh to act as consultant to the council on business development.
An ardent sports fan, Professor Collins often travelled over the Scotland-England border to Berwick-upon-Tweed to watch the FA cup final in a pub or club – and in one case through the window of the Currys electrical store. He died on 23 September and is survived by his wife, two sons and three grandchildren.


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In response to Chhoun Nara, who wants to be a comedian, Perk Mi, a comedian at Cambodian Television Network (CTN), gives suggestions for how to be a successful comedian.
To get a good laugh, Nara should possess three important things. "First, he must have natural talent," said Perk Mi. "Comedians cannot only follow what other people say and read from scripts. Comedians must be flexible, innovative and be able to think of silly jokes on the spot."
"My second tip is about group work. No comedian can perform alone. They need to work in groups," he continued adding that the team should help each other and work in good harmony when performing.
Last but not least, Perk Mi talked about the importance of the skits. "There should be a person who can produce an easy skit to perform. Some comics may have their own talented troupe, but that doesn't mean the audience is bound to laugh."
Besides those three main points, Perk Mi added that the TV station, face, behaviour and speech are also things all great comedians must pay attention to.
Perk Mi recommended that all young people who want to be comedians to practise by reading comic books and learning from senior comedians who have experience in the field.


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Although i am not a coffee drinker myself, I love going coffee houses. I love everything about them: the environment, the people, the aroma of freshly roasted coffee beans, the laboratory-like tools used in certain coffee and the smell of freshly prepared food.
At the moment i stepped into Ona Coffee House (68 Wollongong Street, Fsywick (02) 6162 3320), i loved it. The place's decor is simple but it has a few stand-outs such as the lovely clock with Roman numbers, the barista-to-be room, the display of fresh artisan bread by Brasserie Bread and the various awards that Ona has won (including one for latte art). If you are a coffee aficionado, you should try their siphon, pour over filter or cold drip from 'The Brewery' selection.
We happily sat down by the window and it didn't take long for the friendly waitress to serve us. We wanted to order the specials of the day but since they'd ran out, we picked our dishes from the normal menu. We got the Roasters Breakfast, the Oriental Duck Burger (served with fries) and a Mocha. The portions are generous and filling. The Roasters Breakfast consisted of mushrooms, asparagus and eggs folded with dill & fetta on sourdough bread. I loved the huge and succulent mushrooms as well as the sourdough bread, but didn't fancy the slightly undercooked asparagus and the overcooked eggs - I was expecting them to be soft and fluffy so that they would go well with the slightly-melted fetta.
The Oriental Duck Burger was a twice-cooked shredded hoi sin duck in a fresh Turkish bread with mushrooms and Asian vegetables. I was slightly disappointed with this dish because it wasn't the type of duck burger i was expecting. The shredded duck contained too much sauce which made the burger soggy and the duck itself didn't taste all that fresh. On the other hand, the complimentary fries were deliciously light and crispy.
My Mocha had a nice aroma and was surprisingly velvety *thumbs up.
My time at Ona Coffee House was quite nice and pleasant, apart from a few food mishaps. I enjoyed my lovely cup of mocha and it was very satisfying to have my brunch while witnessing the beautiful aromas of coffees and freshly baked breads coming together. Lovely place, I'd say!


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I doubt this will surprise anyone.
According to Foursquare, foreign tourism to the United States is rapidly declining while tourism to other parts of the world is increasing.
America's share of international tourism has dropped 16% in March, compared to the same month in 2016, according to Foursquare data released Wednesday. [...] From October to March, tourism-related traffic has fallen an average of 11% in the US, compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, tourism in the rest of the world has increased 6% year-over-year during the same period.
You may or may not care what the rest of the world thinks of America, but their view of us can have very real economic consequences. Foreign tourism to the United States is a nearly $11 billion industry and our most frequent visitors travel from Canada and Mexico, two countries that Trump has picked various fights with.
Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck says tourism from the Middle East and Central American countries has declined the most. I would think the reasons for that are obvious. Trump and the GOP have decided that brown people are bad even though the greatest threats we face today, both here in and U.S. and in Europe, are homegrown threats.


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since I haven't posted in awhile I decided to show you a few pictures I took on my phone last month. This picture is from a shopping trip I had a few days before I left Dublin. The top and skirt are both from River Island. I bought the top to wear out that night. Im tempted to buy the skirt now because its been reduced. I also tried on this off the shoulder bodycon dress but I thought the material was really heavy for summer so I didnt buy it
amazing shoes (^‿^) The middle one is a mixture between white sandals and jellies. I've wanted a pair of white sandals for ages. There are pretty cool white platforms and sandals at asos.
River Island fluffy bags <3
american apparel shiny co-ords, no matter how I feel about their advertising they do make nice clothes
my topshop hawaiian shirt
urban outfitters yellow raincoat
I went to see the 20th anniversary screening of pulp fiction, it was pretty cool to see it in the cinema seeing as I was still a baby when it was first released
I went to see Palma Violets a few weeks ago. I had a good night out but tbh I was a little disappointed with the Palma Violets, they weren't as good as I expected them to be
I went to see Panic at the Disco with a few of my old friends from school, they were my favourite band when I was like 14 so its pretty crazy that I seen them live. They were good despite the fact that there is only one original band member remaining. They played a lot of songs from their first album and their most recent album. They only played one song from the 2008 album Pretty Odd, I don't know whether that is because of legal reasons or personal choice. We arrived at the gig super late so we had really crappy view of the stage but one of the guys who was with us managed to sneak into the private boxes so me and another guy decided to join him. The view was amazing...
we got kicked out like 5 minutes later when a photographer in the next box complained about us :( its the most lame concert story ever hehe
I also went to see Neutral Milk Hotel. I thought they were good but I prefer them on record. They didnt allow any photography at all so I have no pictures to show you
some dvds I bought recently...
Cleo from 5 to 7 is very new wave. Its directed Agnes Varda and has a cameo with Jean Luc Godard and Anna Karina. It is about a sixties pop singer who wanders around Paris as she awaits her biopsy results. It is shot in real time and the cinematography is beautiful. The beginning reminds me very much of Vivre Sa Vie
Smithereens is 1982 a movie directed by Susan Seidelman. It is about a runaway who desperately wants to become involved in the New York punk scene (I can relate haha). She gets involved with another runaway and a band member who just so happens to be played by Richard Hell, she ultimately has to decide between the two guys. It reminded me a lot of Breaking Glass, however breaking glass has a better soundtrack and more substance. I still really liked this film
I bought this film because it had the coolest cover ever hehe It is about a deaf runaway who moves to San Francisco to look for her brother who is known as "the seeker". She becomes involved with the guitarist of a psychedelic band who is played by Jack Nicholson. I think there is a recurring theme of runaways and band members in the films I watch :L This film is basically like watching hippies get high which is fun for what it is.
Im using a really good movie site now called letterboxd. It allows you to create and share watchlists, write reviews and rate films. Im pretty much going to chill out and watch films this summer, try and post more outfits and maybe just maybe learn how to drive


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Professor Maximilian Poireau realized that while Europe was putting effort into the advancement of the tank, such a vehicle would be of little use in the mountainous jungle terrain of the Congo.
Guides assured him the only way to get deeper into the interior and up the mountains was to walk.
Therefore the solution was simple.
A walking machine was required to get to the locations they needed for exploration and to defend the Great Apes from poachers. And thus the Greystoke was envisioned.
When the BLA takes the fight to Europe, these machines should prove quite valuable as a weapon of war.
I made this from a R.A.T. from West Wind Productions.
I didn't do much converting as you can probably tell.
The hull has an exposed cockpit with a driver. The driver is fine, (though it didn't seem to fit without a lot of clipping of his arms) but I decided to make a closed cockpit for a few reasons:
1. Versatility: now I can use this in the BLA, or for my Quar, or as a 15mm sci-fi vehicle.
2. I just like how it looks better this way.
Overall, I love this model. The design is fun with just the right balance of menace & quirky for my tastes.
The only problem is the construction design. This was very annoying to assemble. Not recommended for people who are not comfortable with pinning. The holes for where the leg pieces are supposed to slot into were half-filled from casting errors, and even when excess metal was removed, the hull is so heavy it creates far too much drag on the leg joints: sturdy pinning is required. Similarly the hull attaches by a flush contact with the plate at the end of the 'body piston'. If it was plastic or resin it might be enough to glue it, but not a solid chunk of metal. I sunk two pins all the way through the connector plate, so they'd look like bolts on the back end. The cockpit roll-bar was also very badly mangled when I got it, but managed to get it to the right shape. The metal seems a bit soft: thin parts like the arms seem to bend quite easily. It will take some gentle care to keep those arms from someday breaking. So I mounted it on a 60mm metal base.
Even with the assembly issues, I'm very happy with this unique model.
Here it is with a BLA soldier for scale:
And here it is next to a 15mm mini.
With the closed cockpit it works well either way, maybe only a difference of 1 crew or 2.
For 15mm I plan on using it for my as-yet-to-be-started British Lunar Marines as a Churchill S17 to face the Nazis on the Moon for the sci-fi pulp setting.


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No Responses to "Hey, Knitting Progress!"
cynthia Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 9:17 am
I'm sooo jealous – I'd love to go to Rhinebeck (maybe next year).
The kilt ho is coming along really well. Looks like you're almost finished with it!
Jess, of the Bugs Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Send me a postcard, 'kay?
cari Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 10:29 am
After all these years, finally we meet! Can't wait, darlin.
Carolyn Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 10:31 am
I'm afraid of your floor. But the hose are SO PRETTY!
bonnie Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 11:26 am
The hose looks lovely, but it just now occurred to me that this means we won't get as much "leggage" in your kilt photos. Poo.
Have fun at Rhinebeck…I'm envious.
(oh, and Carolyn: hahaha)
Marianne Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 11:31 am
The kilt hose is looking really great, and yeah, about that bit of floor? it is just a bit scarey.
Susan Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 11:53 am
I can't believe you didn't tell us you were going to Rhinebeck last night!!! Is it because you knew we'd strangle you then ask you to bring us all gifties?
janna Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Are you doing Rhinebeck Blogger Bingo? Because you'd be easy to recognize – unless, of course, you go incognito and wear pants.
Stephieface Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 7:11 am
I love Janna.
Have you checked your stats at Utilikilt lately?
Stephanie Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Rhinebeck? Buddy. I'll buy you a beer. Where ya stayin?
Michelle Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Dude, you are so up there on my heroes list. My sock is taking foreeeeeeever…
You rock. See you Sunday (?).
Annie Says:
October 30th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Love the socks! Color me impressed. They're lovely.


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Philip Wolfhagen: Proposition - Art Collector
|Philip Wolfhagen, Second Proposition: chromatic scene for autumn twilight, 2013. Oil and beeswax on linen, 5 panels, 320 x 151cm. Courtesy: the artist and Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
|Capturing landscapes that appear to be in a constant state of sunset, Philip Wolfhagen's works evoke the transience of time. He visualises an intrinsic romanticism in nature, echoing moments and stories of his childhood. Wolfhagen's vertical paintings, often diptychs and triptychs, reference a collective anxiety in an increasingly urbanised society.
|Opening: 6pm Thursday 27 June 2013
|Exhibition closes: 3 August 2013
|Location: Dominik Mersch Gallery, 2 Danks Street, Waterloo NSW 2017
|Contact: 02 9698 4499
|Email: email@example.com


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AURORA, Colo. (Reuters) - The man accused in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area premiere of the new "Batman" film received a high volume of deliveries at work and home over the past four months, police said, parcels they believe contained ammunition and possibly bomb-making materials.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates revealed the shipments as local and federal authorities worked to make safe suspect James Holmes' apartment, which was found to be booby-trapped with sophisticated explosives following the massacre at a multiplex theater several miles away.
Oates said residents of nearby buildings who were evacuated would likely be allowed to return home on Saturday night.
"We've become aware that the suspect over the last four months received a high volume of deliveries to both his work and home addresses," Oates said at an afternoon press conference.
"This begins to explain how he got his hands on all the magazines and ammunition," Oates said. "We also think it begins to explain some of the materials he had in his apartment."
A gunman armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol and wearing a full suit of tactical body armor, a helmet and a gas mask set off two smoke bombs before opening fire in the dark theater early on Friday morning, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.
Officers who arrived at the scene within 90 seconds of the first emergency calls quickly took Holmes into custody in a parking lot behind the cinema, where he surrendered without a fight, Oates said.
Holmes, a graduate student who authorities said had dyed his hair red and called himself "the Joker" in a reference to Batman's comic-book nemesis, was due to make an initial court appearance on Monday.
Authorities used a remote-controlled robot and controlled detonation on Saturday as they began to neutralize what they said were a series of booby traps in Holmes' apartment.
The bomb squad used a robot to place a tube — known as a "water shot" — near an explosive device in the apartment. The water shot was then detonated to disable the explosive.
Photos of the apartment, taken by a camera raised up to the third-floor window, showed jars of ammunition on the floor and "things that look like mortar rounds," Oates said.
There were also bottles filled with an unknown liquid and what appeared to be trip wires laid out across the apartment, he said.
Aurora Police spokeswoman Sergeant Cassidee Carlson said the device had clearly been "set up to kill."
"We have been successful in disabling a second triggering device," she said. "Although not certain, we are hopeful we have eliminated the remaining major threats. We will not know this until we enter the apartment."
Police evacuated five nearby buildings and created a perimeter of several blocks around Holmes' apartment, the top-floor unit of a three-story red brick building in a run-down section of Aurora.
Of the 58 people wounded in the shooting, hospital officials said some patients had sustained serious head injuries and chest injuries.
The University of Colorado Hospital, which treated 23 victims of the shooting, said 10 people had been released and five remained in critical condition.
The Medical Center of Aurora said of its seven patients — ranging in age from 16 to 31 — four remained in the intensive care unit and three other patients are on the main trauma floor.
"The initial adrenalin rush of having something like this happen, both for the families and the patients themselves, is starting to wear off," said Dr. Bob Snyder, a trauma surgeon at the Medical Center of Aurora. "There is going to be some realization that there are going to be some serious, long-term issues that people are going to have to deal with."
A memorial of flowers, candles and stuffed animals has been set up at the Aurora shopping mall where the shooting rampage took place. A handwritten sign read: "7/20 gone not forgotten."
President Barack Obama called the shootings a reminder that life is fragile and promised that the federal government stood ready to do all it could to seek justice for the "heinous crime.
"Even as we come to learn how this happened and who's responsible, we may never understand what leads anyone to terrorize their fellow human beings," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, which was broadcast on Saturday.
Witnesses at the movie theater told of a horrific scene, with dazed victims bleeding from bullet wounds, spitting up blood and crying for help. Among those taken to hospitals as a precaution was a baby boy just a few months old.
"I slipped on some blood and landed on a lady. I shook her and said, 'We need to go; get up,' and there was no response, so I presumed she was dead," said Tanner Coon, 17.
The suspect may have blended in with other moviegoers who wore costumes as heroes and villains, and some witnesses said they believed at first that his appearance was a theatrical enhancement to the film.
The shooting evoked memories of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, 17 miles from Aurora, where two students opened fire and killed 12 students and a teacher.
The gunman was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and a Glock .40-caliber handgun, Oates said. Police found an additional Glock .40-caliber handgun in his car, parked just outside the theater's rear emergency exit, he said.
Holmes had purchased the weapons legally at three area gun stores in the last 60 days and bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition online, including a 100-round drum magazine for an assault rifle, Oates said.
Additional reporting by Keith Coffman, Stephanie Simon and Dan Whitcomb; Writing by Edith Honan and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Eric Beech and Stacey Joyce


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Handre Pollard replaces Morne Steyn as the only change to the South African side that went down by a single pint to Australia last week in Perth. The axe falls on Steyn because his penalty kick did not make touch which allowed the Aussies to run in a last minute try and squeak home by a single point in a match where both teams looked distinctly average.
More surprisingly is the omission of Bok hard-man Bismark Du Plessis. The much looser Adriaan Strauss retains his place, despite not producing any thing of great substance last week. No doubt Du Plessis will be utilised early in the second half against New Zealand, even though he is generally not seen as an impact player.
South Africa – 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Cornal Hendricks, 13 Jan Serfontein, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Handré Pollard, 9 Ruan Pienaar, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Marcell Coetzee, 6 Francois Louw, 5 Victor Matfield, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Jannie du Plessis, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Tendai Mtawarira.
Subs: 16 Bismarck du Plessis, 17 Trevor Nyakane, 18 Marcel van der Merwe, 19 Lood de Jager, 20 Warren Whiteley, 21 Francois Hougaard, 22 Pat Lambie, 23 Damian de Allende.


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Ah, first post in a long while. I've read tons of things and I'm just now getting back into blogging. It's been a pretty crazy couple months with work and a little home renovation, but I should be able to be a little more regular about it. Also, Guild Wars 2 just came out, and what can I say? I was born to fight dragons! On the internet! While sipping Mountain Dew and eating chocolates of +7 Vitality!
Anyway, books.
A.C. Gaughen's debut novel Scarlet is a quick and fun read for anyone who thinks that Maid Marian needed a makeover. Will Scarlet is known about town as a slippery thief who is in league with Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to feed the poor. But only a few are privy to this thief's secret: she's a girl, and she's got some skeletons in her closet that are about to come out when the Sheriff of Nottingham calls in some infamous back-up. With only a few weeks until tax day and the citizens poorer than ever, Scarlet, Robin Hood, Little John and Much have a pretty impossible task on their hands.
I really liked this book as far as some of the other debuts that I've read. Scarlet is a well-rounded character, and I liked the progression that Gaughen uses to slowly reveal her past. It didn't feel too rushed or too slow, and I wasn't left feeling like the author had withheld important information just to be mysterious, that there was a purpose to it. I thought her slowly building romance with Robin Hood was much preferable to the confusing relationship she fudges together with Little John. Actually, can I just say that I almost didn't even like Little John as a character? He was loyal to the team and had his moments, but a lot of the time later in the novel I was left feeling like he just needed to move over and accept the whole Scarlet/Robin thing. Scarlet's actions toward Little John are confusing too; I know she's just troubled and that he's being kind to her, but she seems to know that she doesn't like him, and then it just irks me when she leads him on.
The other thing that I found to be immediately difficult about this book was the accent in which it was written. The author uses a phonetic spelling technique to create a sort of rough British accent, but the accent apparently requires switching up a lot of word order. I expected that it would pass and I would get over it, but it actually ended up being something that I struggled with for the rest of the novel.
Despite that, I was able to keep going to the end, and I have to say I wasn't disappointed. The author has some really great twists up her sleeve. I was able to guess one of the twists, but another of them was a really fun and exciting surprise. And though I can't say that I've ever been a huge consumer of Robin Hood stories other than various movies, I thought that the author did a great job in making a recreation of it that was fun to read. Robin Hood himself is nicely flawed in the way that he gets jealous of Little John, and it was nice to see a representation of him that wasn't all sporting, swash-buckling and always noble.
In all this was a good read, and it left off with a cliffhanger that I'm kind of hoping gets resolved or continued with a sequel. If not, I can totally accept it as a stand alone, as not everything needs to be turned into a trilogy. But I'm just saying. It would be fine with me if it was. You know.


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Neighborhoods - as the context of where life is lived - provide an extraordinary opportunity to alleviate poverty at a "cause" or "root" level. If a neighborhood is strong and thriving, its more likely neighborhood residents will enjoy these same traits in both their personal and community life. Unfortunately many neighborhoods face great challenges, poverty, crime, lack of affordable housing...etc. As a result of living in such environments, residents and families are denied many basic opportunities for life wellbeing and success. The work of strengthening vulnerable neighborhoods, then, provides our community the strategic window needed to stop poverty before it even starts. In response to this opportunity, inCOMMON Community Development unites and strengthens vulnerable neighborhoods. Through a variety of community-based initiatives, residents are finding ways to rebuild their neighborhoods together, as well as setting a Community new course away from poverty and toward sustainable futures for themselves and their families.
Mission: inCOMMON Community Development unites and strengthens vulnerable neighborhoods by listening, building relationships and empowering residents.
|Community Faith-Based Food Insecurity, Hunger


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Product Description
Relax and sit in peace right next to this mediating Buddha garden accessory. feature. This outdoor water feature comes in a seated Buddha design perfect for those tranquil garden and patio areas. The water feature has been created to require little maintenance and has a self contained mechanism which doesn't require a constant water supply to function. There is a pump and transformer included allowing this item to used right away, simply plug in and fill with water. This water feature comes with a British standard 3 pin plug and has a 10m mains cable for easy positioning. Strategically integrated LED lights help illuminate and enhance the statue during the evening.
- Sitting Buddha Design
- Self contained: no need for a permanent water supply
- Lightweight for easy installation
- Easy to maintain
- Pump flow rate: 180 l/h
- 10m length cable
- LED Lights
- British 3-pin standard plug
- Pump and transformer included
H55 x W27.5 x L27.5 cm
Fully Assembled.


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Ditch Cleanup Day In Valley Lodge
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Presented by Simonton Emergency Operations Committee
If you are interested in volunteering to help, meet at the park at 8am. Your EOC board members and volunteers will be making the rounds to assist neighbors with cleaning out their ditches. This will be a quarterly effort with residents to keep the ditches clear of debris!
If you would like to volunteer, or if you have resources (i.e. trailers, carts, rakes, etc),
Please log into the volunteer website at the following link:
Any questions, or if you know of someone that will need assistance with cleaning their ditches, please call city hall at 281-533-9809


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Making progress on clearing the bead board before the ball drops at the end of the year. Completed last night my herringbone Deco Medallion bracelet.
As you can see I used two different medallions for this one but I think a bracelet of either one of the medallions would be pretty too. When I get to writing the pattern I think I'll put all three styles in because it would just be the joinings that would be different. Of course I'll have to make two more bracelets :)
This was the first time I've used Delica 15/0s for more than just the small beads in a bezel but I felt these designs called for something delicate.
I'll probably try working them up in other beads too...maybe I'll be surprised :)
Anyway...that's one more UFO off the bead board and leave just one to go....not that I don't have a bunch more UFOs but there's only one left of the group I planned to be finished before the end of the year.
I'm hoping to finish the tutorial for the Corrugated Filigree Necklace today...six pages but I think I can do it. That would leave tomorrow free for one last tutorial....an easy one, the Embellished Corrugated Bangle which is also the last and current piece on my bead board...the second version, embellished with the new Twin beads.
And yes...."My name is Mikki and I'm a workaholic"


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CALGARY — The Calgary Flames say they were willing to contribute $275 million of their own money to a new arena before they ended negotiations with the city.
Calgary Sport and Entertainment Corporation's proposal released early Thursday morning included raising $225 million via a Community Revitalization Levy, which is tax collected from new development that springs up around the new arena.
CSEC repeated their position that have halted negotiations with city.
"After two years of discussions, the Flames see absolutely no basis upon which a new agreement can be achieved with the city and have concluded that there is no point to continue the pursuit of a new arena in Calgary,'' the Flames said in a statement.
The release of CSEC's financial numbers was a rebuttal to the city's offer revealed last week.
The city proposed a three-way split on the cost of a $555-million arena, with the city and the Flames each paying $185 million and the remaining third raised from a surcharge on tickets sold to events in the new building.
Nenshi revitalization plan includes arena
Flames president Ken King contended the city's plan amounted to the team paying the entire cost, or more, because the team considers a ticket surcharge paid by users revenue that belongs to the Flames and because they'd pay property tax back to the city.
Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is running for a third term in the Oct. 16 civic election. He has said his vision for a revitalized Victoria Park just north of the 34-year-old Scotiabank Saddledome includes an arena.
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I cannot believe our baby is going to be 1 in just a few days.... seriously, where did the year go??! I've been going through old photos and videos and I came across this..
Untitled from Heather Palmeri on Vimeo.
Veda is about 5 months old here. Andrew and I must have watched it 5 times last night- we were dying laughing. She's SO happy and excited. Can't believe how quickly they grow!
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Aug 21, 2009
The Black Hills
9 comments:
- blueviolet said...
My mom JUST came back from visiting that area this week. She had the best time! It's so beautiful there.
Have a wonderful time!
- August 21, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- angie said...
You're in the black hills? I was WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY off. :)
- August 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- Jenners said...
I should have known this! I know you have relatives in South Dakota ... just like me. We were talking about meeting out by the Black Hills next time and now I have some ideas on where to stay!!!
- August 21, 2009 at 8:28 PM
- Saundra@ItalianMamaGoneCrazy said...
Wow... I've never been to SD, but I sure love the gold there!!!
Enjoy, recharge, rejuvenate...
Woo hoo!
- August 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Debbie said...
I would so love to go there one day. And I am glad you are having a blast.
- August 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- Tiaras said...
too funny - my dad used to vacation there every year
- August 24, 2009 at 7:18 AM
- Oz Girl said...
Looks like an awesome fun time... hope you guys are enjoying! :)
- August 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM
- Honey Mommy said...
I bet it is SO beautiful there! Plus there is nothing like camping in a cabin (that's my kind of "roughing it!")!
- August 25, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- Live.Love.Eat said...
I went there when I was 23 while traveling cross country with my ex. That little town was awesome.
- August 31, 2009 at 12:24 PM


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Toby Guillette is a social media marketing Swiss Army knife -- he cuts through the chaos of the ever-changing social landscape to authentically connect brands and businesses with their customers.
With a combined 12 years of both in-house and agency experience, he has developed a systematic approach for creating and executing social media and content marketing strategies, as well as community management, social listening, customer engagement and social support solutions ranging from start-ups to enterprise-level brands.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the George Washington University, is a two-time 100-mile ultra marathon finisher, Ironman triathlete, mountaineer and all-around ambassador of the active lifestyle.