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The best Friday night of the high school basketball season is here.
The top teams from Northern California in one Open Division regional and the top teams from Southern California in the other.
Quarterfinals will be played Friday across the state, with semifinals to follow Tuesday.
The North champions will be crowned at Santa Clara University's Leavey Center on March 17, with state championships decided a week later in Sacramento.
This season, the North is taking a backseat to no one.
Salesian, the region's top boys seed, has only one loss on the season and is ranked No. 1 in the state by Cal-Hi Sports.
Led by Connecticut-bound guard James Akinjo, the Pride will play Folsom in the quarterfinals Friday at Albany High.
The North's top girls seed is Archbishop Mitty, which is undefeated, ranked No. 1 in the country and led by five-star junior Haley Jones, the West Catholic Athletic League's player of the year.
The Monarchs will be at home Friday against eighth-seeded Bishop O'Dowd, which outlasted Miramonte 75-71 last weekend for the North Coast Section's Division II title.
Mitty opened its season with an 86-52 win at O'Dowd.
When the teams met again, a month later at the West Coast Jamboree, Mitty won that one, too, 78-56.
Yes, O'Dowd faces long odds.
As it the case with the Mitty girls, Salesian's boys enter the state playoffs with a high expectations.
Does it feel any different?
After winning the NCS Division III title last weekend, Salesian coach Bill Mellis was asked if there's an even larger target on the back of his tradition-rich program given that it's now ranked No. 1 in the state.
"Honestly, we don't really talk about it," said Mellis, who recently won his 500th game. "We don't make a big deal out of it. We just play. I think our guys, we know that people come after us no matter. Rankings are what they are. They're for you guys, not us."
Bellarmine hopes a special era in its program does not end Friday night.
With Jake Wojcik and Kendall Stubblefield leading the way, the Bells have lost only one league game the past two seasons, celebrated the program's first Central Coast Section Open Division title and qualified for two state Open Division playoffs.
But as they did last season, the Bells will face a tall order on the road in the state playoffs.
One year after losing a heart-breaker at Sheldon, Bellarmine will travel to perennial Open contender Modesto Christian on Friday, the same Modesto Christian that ousted senior-heavy St. Francis in the first round of state two years ago.
"We know what it is like to go on the road for NorCal," Bellarmine coach Patrick Schneider said. "I think we're going to be ready to play a great game against a phenomenal team."
The O'Dowd boys got a measure of revenge from their 98-81 loss to Capital Christian at last season's MLK Classic at Saint Mary's College — yes, they really gave up 98 points in regulation — with an 80-73 victory over the Cougars early this season.
But, clearly, a win Friday at home would be much sweeter.
O'Dowd is even more formidable since Raymond Hawkins, a 6-foot-8 rim protector, returned to the rotation.
"When he goes out and does what we ask him to do, he's unlike anybody in Northern California," O'Dowd coach Lou Richie said Saturday after the Dragons defeated Las Lomas for the NCS Division II crown. "It's just a matter of getting him to the point where he can go out there and do that. He's had a long road this year with his own personal challenges, and I am happy for him tonight that he got a chance to play some minutes and win a game. It's good for him and his family."
The next challenge arrives Friday night, when the spotlight will light up for the state's top teams.


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And this is what I also found in the envelope: the most beautiful calendar for 2009 from Wales, actually I should have made 12 posts just to show the photos; they are gorgeous. I've been in Wales once, and I know the landscape is beautiful. Then I found a lovely card, 4 terrific fat quarterts, the November issue of Patchwork and Quilting and a box of peppermint chocolates......How did you know I love peppermint chocolate, Gina?? Thanks a lot for everything, I'm overwhelmed!!
If you like/love Labradors, and you haven't visited Gina's blog, please do. She has some wonderful photos and videos of Stanley there. I love them all - maybe because I'm the happy and sometimes frustrated Mum of a black Labrador??

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Dubois, PA -- Beaver takes down #1 seeded Dubois, 9-0, to advance into the semi-final game of the PSUAC Tournament.
Fresh off of a win last night, Beavers' bats were hot to open the game as Jake Debo (New Brighton, PA / New Brighton) hit a solo home run in the top of the first inning. The Lions opened up their lead in the top of the fourth inning as senior, Tyler Thellman (Beaver Falls, PA / Blackhawk) hit an RBI single to give Beaver a 2-0 lead. With a new pitcher on the mound, the runners advanced on a wild pitch, scoring Matt Capo (Moon Township, PA / Moon). Beaver added two additional runs in the inning as both Stephen Antolic (Freedom, PA / Ambridge) and Nick Casasanta (Moon Twp, PA / Moon) hit back to back RBI singles to give Beaver a 5-0 lead through four and a half innings.
After a 1,2,3 bottom of the fourth, Beaver kept the hits coming in the top of the fifth as they added another four runs on 2 more RBI singles capped off by a 2 RBI double off of the bat of Antolic. With a comfortable lead, Beaver went on to close out the game by a final score of 9-1, claiming the victory and advancing them into the semi-finals.
Leading the offense was Antolic, who went 2 for 5 with 3 RBI's. Also contributing, with outstanding performances at the plate were Debo who went 3 for 3 with 2 RBI's and Blaise McCarty (Beaver Falls, PA / Riverside) who went 2 for 3.
On the mound was senior, Matt Sweikowski (Zelienople, PA / Seneca Valley) who threw a complete game giving up just two hits and striking out 3 of the 23 batters faced.
Beaver returns to action tonight at 7:00 p.m. when they face Penn State Schuylkill at Showers Field in Dubois, PA.


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So, we're still talking down here in beautiful South Carolina about whether or not we'll impeach the philandering, lying, stealing governor we have now and replace with him with one who, many people swear, is a big old queen.
Cheater? Homo? That's the debate, ridiculous as it sounds.
And now comes word that the smear campaign aimed at Andre Bauer about whether or not he's a Friend Of Dorothy, was started by none other than the adulterer, the cheater, the liar, and the thief, Mark Sanford. Word has it that Mark Sanford thinks the people of South Carolina would rather have a Bible Thumping adulterer than a Bible Thumping homo-sexshul.
Of course, these are all just rumors, but, hell, rumors are fun.
Mark maybe didn't start the Gay Andre story and maybe Gay Andre isn't gay.
See, Jake Knotts, who loathes Mark Sanford almost as much as I do, swears that Andre Bauer isn't gay, but that Mark is spreading that rumor to keep people from begging the State House to impeach him. Knotts, a Republican state senator, wrote to fellow members of the state legislature last week and accused Sanford and his allies of spreading rumors that Bauer is gay—though that claim came from blogger Mike Rogers earlier in the week.
Says Jake Knotts: "As a former target of a false rumor started by the Sanford Camp I can tell you with absolute certainty this attack was orchestrated on behalf of Mark Sanford, either directly or indirectly, and financially subsidized by him or one of his many 'front-groups."
Knotts apparently has, ahem, first-hand experience with the fact that Andre Bauer is straight, because, as he says, "I have known Andre since he was eight years old. Ain't a homosexual bone in his body. That boy is a good boy. It's a just an attempt to prevent Andre from become governor."
Not a homosexual bone? I mean, I've heard of the gay gene but now we've got a gay bone? This homosexuality stuff is a lot of work, trying to remember all the rules and the bones, etc.
And why is that Knotts thinks Andre is a straight shooter because he's a "good boy"? Does being gay make you not good? See, from where I stand, looking up homosexual bone in the dictionary, gay is good, sometimes great, sometimes annoying, but it isn't bad.
Got that, Jake?
See, you can say Mark Sanford is trying to smear Andre Bauer's good, non-homosexual name by whipping out the gay card, but you, my dear fellow, are smearing the entire gay community.
And that ain't good.
Now, before I go, let's give Maybe-Gay-Maybe-Not Andre Bauer the last word on the gay question, or the gay bone: "I don't think it's a proper question. I think it's a little bit ridiculous and it's sad that politics has gotten to that. But if somebody had a question I don't have a problem with going ahead and airing it and getting it out of the way because I don't want that to linger, much like this other problem is lingering. I want to move forward. I want to talk about real issues, how to get improved job growth. How you get education to a better level than it is now, how you fix the budget problem that we've got — not continue to dwell on some silly question in the first place."
Now, this is where I have a problem with Andre. It isn't a silly question if, in fact, you are a closeted gay man who has spent his political career working to deny the same rights and privileges to gay Americans that other opposite-sex marrying Americans take for granted.
If you're gay, then shame on you for your self-loathing.
If you're not gay, then shame on your for your backwoods holier-than-thou attitude.


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The first one is called @roadstory_ and it shows the adventures of Jessica, between Los Angeles, London, Athens and more…
Beautiful photos, like fragments of life narrated through the caption..
Dreaming of last weekends's fish BBQ on the beach (trying to ignore the decommissioned nuclear power station on the horizon... Oh England).
A random act of violence. Last night, the young man on the right had his bike ripped out of his hands by a pack of youths wearing face masks.
When he tried to get it back, all 5 of them turned on him, on a well lit, busy corner in Dalston. He was thrown against the glass window where I was sitting
and then stumbled into the safety of the restaurant. The others ran off (with his bike). The youth, shaken up and hurt, was then looked after by staff and customers.
I sent these photos to the police in a hope we can figure out who these kids are. Sad, scary stuff and my heart goes out to this young guy who had his bike stolen.
Quiet corner from my time living in Cyprus.
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Srinagar: Last Monday's physical attack on Hurriyat Conference leader Abdul Gani Lone by a Shiv Sena leader in a Jammu
hotel may have evoked some anger in the public but the assailant continues to enjoy full official patronage in and outside Jammu
and Kashmir. Several ruling party and Opposition leaders have raised the alarm against the danger and political fallout of the
apparent appeasement of a fanatic. Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah seems helpless in this case because
Kalgi Maharaj (some call him Kalkiji Maharaj), the man accused of attacking Mr Lone, has strong connections in the corridors
of power in New Delhi and elsewhere. More shocking is the fact that the appeasement of Kalgi Maharaj starts right from the
seat of power in the state — the Civil Secretariat in Jammu or Srinagar to which he is a frequent visitor. Four Jammu and
Kashmir policemen protect the Shiv Sena leader round the clock. He has also been provided with government accommodation
close to the residences of ministers and bureaucrats in a posh Jammu areas. Dr Abdullah is also willing, if asked, to increase
Kalgi Maharaj's security cover from four to 12 PSOs. Dr Abdullah also tried to impress upon an angry ruling party legislator
how influential a person like Kalgi Maharaj was. Seemingly helpless even after Kalgi Maharaj took the law into his own hands
on Monday, Dr Abdullah told his colleague, "Aap ko shayad pata nahin ki uski pahunch kahan tak hai aur uske liye kis-kis kay
phone aate rehte hain (You perhaps don't know how far his reach extends and the important people who telephone him)." The
chief minister, who faced demands both from the ruling and Opposition benches to take stern action against Kalgi Maharaj,
hastened to add that the law would take its own course. "The whole world has seen him beating Lone Sahib right and left on
TV but the government and law enforcing agencies seem to be unmoved," complained CPI(M) state general secretary
Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami, who raised the issue in the Assembly. "One may not subscribe to the political view of Lone Sahib
but I think we live in a democratic country where the rule of law must prevail and every single citizen must use his right to
speech freely," Mr Tarigami said. But for senior police officials in Jammu, it is like the defence witness being more enthusiastic
than the plaintiff. One of them insisted, "Mudaee sust, gawah chust wala mamla lagta hai." Mr Lone did not lodge any complaint
after Kalgi Maharaj assaulted him soon after the former had addressed a press conference in Jammu's K.C. Residency Hotel
on April 1. "It is between two individuals and not cognisable," deputy inspector-general of police (Jammu range) Dilbag Singh
said. Mr Lone defended his decision not to seek action against the Shiv Sena leader and reiterated, "It seems to me that he did
this with the definite purpose of driving a wedge between Muslims and Hindus and to sabotage our effort to bridge the gulf
between Jammu and the Valley created by vested interests." Mr Lone, known as modern face of the Hurriyat, says he will be
the last person to give the Shiv Sena and like-minded elements such a chance. Who is Kalgi Maharaj and why is he so
important? It is widely believed here that the Farooq Abdullah government has turned a blind eye to Kalgi Maharaj's
high-handedness to buy peace with the Shiv Sena and like-minded Hindu outfits which often create trouble on the pretext of a
Muslim Valley and Hindu Jammu hypothesis. "He is a non-state subject yet he rules the roost," Mr Tarigami said. Kalgi
Maharaj's family is from Bihar but his father moved to Delhi where he was working in the civil aviation ministry. Kalgi Maharaj
then went to Maharashtra where he developed contacts with the VHP and Shiv Sena. He was also close to the RSS and shot
to prominence when Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray assigned him the crucial job of heading the Sena's Jammu and Kashmir
unit. Mr Thackeray apparently chose an outsider to head the Shiv Sena state unit to bring it out of hibernation. Ashok Gupta,
the former local president of the Sena, faced charges of corruption and malpractice. After a local Congress leader named
Balwan Singh attacked his car in the middle of a market, he felt it wise to quit and has not been seen since in active politics.
Kalgi Maharaj, who is in his late thirties, while in Jammu seized every opportunity that came his way to run others down. "He is
actually here to incite people and make issues out of nothing," said a Jammu journalist, adding that Kalgi Maharaj's pockets of
influence, however, remain confined to Jammu's Purani Mandi and some other localities. Jammu Shiv Sena vice-president
Sanjay Sahni said in defence of his leader: "He belongs to the Sangh Parivar and therefore you can't question the decision to
ask him to head the party in a state which is not his." Mr Sahni also defends the security cover provided by the state to Kalgi
Maharaj by saying he heads a radical Hindu outfit in a state hit by "Islamic terrorism" and thus needs extra protection. Kalgi
Maharaj's supporters reject the notion that he fled Jammu to escape arrest soon after he assaulted Mr Lone on April 1.
Reports said he boarded a Delhi-bound train the same evening and was on his way to Mumbai for consultations with his
seniors. His critics do not rule out a nexus between him and a section of police officers and bureaucrats in Jammu. Maharaj told
reporters in New Delhi that the attack on Mr Lone was a "sentimental reaction" to the terrorist strike at Jammu's Raghunath
temple. He claimed Mr Thackeray applauded his attack on Mr Lone when the Shiv Sena supremo spoke to him from Mumbai.
Dr Abdullah has repeatedly asserted that the government was not party to manhandling Mr Lone. "I've no love for that man
(Mr Lone), nor do I love such people, but still the incident is highly deplorable and condemnable," he said. A case under
Section 451 of the Ranbir Penal Code (local version of the Indian Penal Code) has been registered against Kalgi Maharaj. The
section refers to criminal trespassing. "It is amazing that instead of booking him for launching a criminal assault on a citizen, the
police has tried to downplay the otherwise grave incident and has provided scope for him to get away with the crime he has
committed," said Mr Tarigami, adding that he has received phone calls from a number of respectable people in Jammu praising
him for speaking out on the floor of the state Assembly about the machinations of a person who, they said, is bringing a bad
name to a place known for its high traditions. Mr Lone's personal security officer Gulam Hassan is reported to have lodged a
formal complaint with the Jammu police against Kalgi Maharaj and his associates involved in the assault. Mr Hassan's
complaint says he tried to do his job by quickly placing himself between the Hurriyat leader and the assailants but two members
of a paramilitary force seized him, providing the Shiv Sainiks an opportunity to beat up Mr Lone. Hurriyat chairman Abdul Gani
Butt tried to draw a parallel between the assault on Mr Lone and the arrest of their colleague, JKLF chairman Mohammed
Yasin Malik, following the recovery of $100,000 from a Srinagar resident and her fiancé. "We understand when the soldiers
with guns beat us but now when citizens from Delhi and Bombay come down to Kashmir and beat us, we take it as an insult
unacceptable to the people of Jammu and Kashmir," he said. Mr Lone' supporters and opponents are angry that he did not
physically react when Kalgi Maharaj was beating him up. "I don't like Mr Lone, but my blood started boiling when I saw it on
TV. Are we so weak and dead and gone," asked Mohammed Ashraf. "I wonder if he is the same Mr Lone who as an
Opposition leader would pick up a fight on relatively non-issues and today accepted such humiliation perhaps only to prove his
secular credentials," said Abdur Rashid Hajam of Sopore.
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>Debbie Reese revisits one of the more interesting events of my years here. In another recent entry she talks about author John Smelcer's aspirations to Indian-ness. Our review of The Trap didn't mention it, but the jacket flap does claim that the author is "of Ahtna Athabaskan descent," which apparently he isn't, although his adoptive parents are Indian.
Debbie asks if publishers or reviewers might vet an author's claims to Indian-ness. If I were a publisher, I would want to, but I would also want to trust the writers I published. As a reviewer, I don't think I'd know how to go about it. As Debbie acknowledges, it would be ethically dubious to do this for Indian claims but not for others, but forget the workload issue, who would you ask? What would constitute an acceptable answer? And as with all questions involving "authentic representation," who gets to decide?
I'm pondering the parallels and differences between Smelcer's claims (and he's certainly not the first white guy to "play Indian") and those of people who passed themselves off as white and/or male to get what they wanted, be it publication or remuneration or freedom. Your thoughts?


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Hiring faculty and leadership positions is one of the chief duties of the board of education or the school board in most cases. Equally—in most cases, it is a task for which they are supremely unqualified and may not have a clue as to how to go about it.
School reform in 2017. It's a big subject about which many people have spoken and commented. The problem is that when you actually read what they wrote, most of them didn't say a whole lot. It's difficult at best for teachers and school administrators to admit that they don't know. It's okay not to know.
Finding the right faculty for US school districts should be easy with today's technological advancements. Ironically, most of the time, job postings either go ignored or the school has to spend hours looking through resumes and scrutinizing potential teachers.
There has been a growth in parents choosing other educational options for their children's schooling. Parents are now offered more options when it comes to how they would like their children to be educated. These days there are a lot more options for your children as opposed to the days when you only had the option of public or private schools. Today, parents have the ability to choose from between magnet schools, homeschooling, traditional public schools, online schools, private schools, and charter schools. In what is called "the school choice movement", there are critics and a good portion of those voices come from the opponents of charter schools in specific. These particular critics quite often accuse charter schools of stealing away "their" needed resources as well as "their" students from the district and neighborhood schools.
It should come as no surprise that the number of high schools dropouts are greater within cities as opposed to dropout rates in urban areas. What you may not know and be shocked at are the numbers. The magnitude of the gap in dropout rates is probably a lot higher than you would have imagined. The fact of the matter is that in the country's 50 largest cities, only 53% of high school students graduate while urban high schools see a 71% graduation rate. That's an incredibly large gap.
A school administrator is a job entailing lots of responsibility. You are the head of the school and are responsible for each student's education and have to maintain and improve the school's reputation at any cost. You also have to decide on staffing decisions, which is why these many qualities make a great school principal.
A superintendent, when you get right down to it, is the CEO of a school district. Not only are they responsible for supervising and hiring other administrators, they also choose who will be the chief financial officer as well as who is hired to become the school principals. Although the superintendent is responsible for what happens within a school district, they are still answerable to the board of trustees. However, unlike principals and teachers, a superintendent isn't hired, they're elected into the position. So, what are the qualities that make for a great superintendent of a school district?
What makes a great principal? It shouldn't just stop at your love of education or your desire to improve the lives of the young people around you. There's more to being a principal than meets the eye. You should have qualities that cover a vast array of talents and abilities. After all, a principal is just like a president. Lead them well!
The public education system has changed quite a lot over the last 20 years. Not only do we see more technology in the classrooms lately, but we are also seeing more programs that help those children in need of it.
For those children that would have suffered through school and never even truly learned to read, we see that there are such things in place as "No Child Left Behind" and "IEP"(Individualized Education Program). There was a demand for improvement and as such, there have been many changes since the 90's.
One of the best ways to recruit teachers for your elementary, middle or high school is to use the name recognition of your school. The name recognition for educational institutions and their reputation is important to students who seek to attend the best and most affordable schools for their education pursuits. Networking is the key to finding and retaining qualified teachers. For some institutions they are more likely to have the reputation of being in a desirable geographic area and have additional benefits other than financial to offer prospective teachers. Schools that are in an area with recreational sites and away from large cities are one example of this.


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Shoes: Urban Outfitters, £6
I think it's safe to say that Scotland is my spiritual home, and one day in the not so incredibly distant future, I'd love to make it my physical home too. Living somewhere around Livingston would be a dream, a fairly decent sized town surrounded by tiny little villages, I'm not really cut out for city living - a country girl at heart - but it's close enough to Glasgow and Edinburgh (possibly the most glorious place on Earth) for frequent trips in. The only trouble is the house prices kind of match the awesomeness of the area... Sigh. Maybe a few years off yet. I just want my kids to grow up with Scottish accents, is that so much to ask?!
Where would you move to if you won the lottery tomorrow?
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[L]aw and the State are both conceptually and historically separable, and law would develop in an anarchistic market society without any form of State. Specifically, the concrete form of anarchist legal institutions—judges, arbitrators, procedural methods for resolving disputes, etc.—would indeed grow by a market invisible-hand process, while the basic Law Code (requiring that no one invade any one else's person and property) would have to be agreed upon by all the judicial agencies, just as all the competing judges once agreed to apply and extend the basic principles of the customary or common law. But the latter, again, would imply no unified legal system or dominant protective agency. Any agencies that transgressed the basic libertarian code would be open outlaws and aggressors, and Nozick himself concedes that, lacking legitimacy, such outlaw agencies would probably not do very well in an anarchist society.Here is the problem as I see it, with this idea of a "basic law code"...
Firstly: how detailed it this basic law code? Consider the two extremes:
- Broadly defined. "No one may invade anyone else's person and property". No more detail than that. ("Invade" and "property" are not given definitions... that is for the courts to interpret)
- Narrowly defined. The basic law code is identical to the libertarian law code, as developed by Rothbard, Kinsella, Block, etc... down to the details... like the basic law code is specific about IP, abortion, capital punishment, etc. (There is very little scope for interpretation of the basic legal code... the courts task is limited to applying the law code)
Rothbard says that the basic law code will be agreed upon by all reasonable courts. I take him to mean everybody except serial killers, rapists etc, i.e. 99% of the population. With such widespread agreement required, it seems hopelessly unrealistic to suppose that the basic law code is narrowly defined, down to the last detail. Even among libertarians, there is a disagreement over IP, abortion, punishments, etc. There is no way the entire population of reasonable people is going to agree on every little detail of libertarian theory. The entire field of economic analysis of law - how laws get produced and what kinds of laws get produced - is skipped over by making this supposition.
To Rothbard, there were two types of court: reasonable courts, which have signed up to the basic law code, and outlaw courts, which have not. Rothbard does not provide any analysis - any mechanism - of how reasonable courts and outlaw courts will resolve disputes between them. This may not be much of an issue if we assume 99% of courts are reasonable, but see above.
So maybe the basic law code is broadly defined, leaving a lot of scope for interpretation, so that widespread agreement is possible. But then how will disputes about things which might fall into the area of interpretation - say IP disputes - get resolved? There needs to be a mechanism to explain this... how disputes between courts which have both agreed to the basic (broadly defined) law code will be resolved, when their interpretation of that law code differs. Rothbard has not provided us with a mechanism for this.
David Friedman, in chapter 29 of The Machinery of Freedom, has described a mechanism for how courts which provide different laws (perhaps very different laws) will resolve their disputes: the bargaining process.
One can imagine an idealized bargaining process, for this or any other dispute, as follows: Two agencies are negotiating whether to recognize a pro- or anti-capital-punishment court. The pro agency calculates that getting a pro-capital-punishment court will be worth $20,000 a year to its customers; that is the additional amount it can get for its services if they include a guarantee of capital punishment in case of disputes with the other agency. The anti-capital-punishment agency calculates a corresponding figure of $40,000. It offers the pro agency $30,000 a year in exchange for accepting an anti-capital-punishment court. The pro agency accepts. Now the anti-capital-punishment agency can raise its rates enough to bring in an extra $35,000. Its customers are happy, since the guarantee of no capital punishment is worth more than that. The agency is happy; it is getting an extra $5,000 a year profit. The pro agency cuts its rates by an amount that costs it $25,000 a year. This lets it keep its customers and even get more, since the savings is more than enough to make up to them for not getting the court of their choice. It, too, is making a $5,000 a year profit on the transaction. As in any good trade, everyone gains.The same mechanism applies to all courts, so there is no need to call some courts "outlaw courts." Hence the idea of a basic law code dissolves. Each court is just producing laws, which may or may not be close to plumbline libertarian laws.


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The fight over the growing South Florida's drug recovery business is being waged on several fronts – from the halls of Washington to Tallahassee to the boulevards of Deer Creek public and other regions.
Criticizers have taken intention specifically at the production of sober homes, often the initial stopover for addict's fresh out of dealing who are looking for a substance-free atmosphere to begin once more. Some state that it's brought an unwelcome section to residential neighborhoods and put recovering addicts at the mercy of profiteers.
U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Boca Raton, alleged that it's a "top urgency" for her as nearly every mayor in every city she represents has protested to her office about this issue. She said she's at work on legislation and getting cities more control for harmonizing the needs of the those in retrieval with the wish to preserve neighborhoods' class of life.
"The aim of permitting a group home into a neighborhood is to allow the person to adapt into a personal type of atmosphere," she said. "But if you take a neighborhood and fill it with sober homes, you overthrow the drive of having a group home in a housing neighborhood."
But adaptable sober homes have been problematic because federal law treats addiction as ill health protected from housing discrimination. In the eyes of government and local laws, sober homes are not much dissimilar than a typical landlord-tenant connection – even if rental is as much as $30,000 per month.
Until today, though, domestic governments had no way of knowing just how many sober homes have set up workshop. However, an innovative law took effect January 1 that delivers encouragements for sober homes to register. So far, 227 statewide have done so, with 165 in South Florida.
And additional transformation could be coming as the state tries to clamp down on an industry that has been tough to control.
A bill funded by Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, would stopover drug treatment earners and sober home operators from making dishonest or deceptive statements about their achievement rates. They will no longer be able to practice call centers to advertise their services or split fees with the agency that makes an effective referral.
Revolutionizing the industry is "akin to moving a battleship," said Rep. Bill Hagar, R-Boca Raton, who planned last year's legislation. "This is the initial round, and I'm happy with the development so far."
Those pushing this transformation say they want sober homes to do a improved job of defending their clientele and the community from exploitations – and have some way for clients from afar to discriminate those homes adhering to national standards. But advocates for the industry say some of these measures amount to political pandering to people's worries about those with substance misuse problems.
"There are corrupt property owners who rent homes to people with substance abuse illnesses just like there are greedy landlords who exploit underprivileged people and immigrants with substandard housing," said James Kellogg Green, a West Palm Beach attorney. "Why hasn't there been a cry for imposing existing landlord-tenant laws? The real reason is that politicians have understood that going after people with incapacities is good politics."
Moreover, Florida has approved the Marchman Act, formally known as the "Hal S. Marchman Alcohol and Other Drug Services Act of 1993," to offer the opportunity for addicts to get assistance rather than endure fixed jail time.
- An addict may willingly pursue help for their addiction without the danger of imprisonment.
- An individual who is fronting drug charges may appeal for a drug therapy program in lieu of imprisonment.
If there is decent faith motive to believe an individual is substance-abuse impaired, and because of that weakening, has misplaced the ability of self-control with respect to substance use, that person may compulsorily get treatment rather than prison time, at the choice of the courts.


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Shell Commits To Yard In Repair Arrangement
Shell International Trading and Shipping (Stasco), one of the U.K.'s major tanker operators, has signed an Evergreen Alliance Agreement with Sembawang Shipyard, one of Singapore's big three repair yards, committing the repair and maintenance of Shell's Far East fleet for the foreseeable future. The agreement was signed over the Christmas period at Shell Mex by Heng Chiang Gnee, Managing Director of Sembawang Shipyard. The agreement is the first time that Shell has committed itself to one shipyard for general repairs operations, previously repairing ships on a ship-by-ship basis with yards in both the Far East and Middle East. Other major companies to have signed this type of agreement include Chevron with Jurong Shipyard Ltd. and Portugal's Lisnave, which was signed some five years ago. A spokesman for Shell said, "The decision to sign an Evergreen Alliance Agreement with Sembawang followed a detailed mapping of the fleet's trading patterns, the objective being to increase productivity in refitting Shell-owned and managed tankers. We are also looking to sign a similar agreement with a yard in Europe for those ships in the Shell fleet trading in the northern- southern European area. The agreement has been designated 'Evergreen' as there is no definite date of completion, the agreement also being non-exclusive as we have to reserve the right to drydock tankers in the Shell fleet at other yards in case of emergency. "Shipyards in Singapore were contracted but Sembawang, where many of the Shell fleet have been drydocked over recent years, were able to demonstrate the response most aligned with Shell's objectives. It is likely that some six to eight tankers will be due for scheduled drydockings during 1999.
There is one tanker, the 46,851- dwt Hatasia currently under repair at Sembawang, and many of the initiatives in the new alliance, especially involving health, safety and the environment, which is a joint Shell/Sembawang document, will be initiated." Heng Chiang Gnee added: "The shipyard will benefit from lower internal repair cost from economies of scale and operational efficiency from better forward planning of the committed work. We see this as the future direction for shipyards to develop long-term goals and working closely with alliance companies to meet higher quality and service standards. Sembawang is excited by the challenges which this alliance brings." Apart from the Shell contract, Sembawang is currently involved in two FPSO contracts, one involving the outfitting of the newbuilding Northern Endeavour, which will be operated by Australia's Woodside Petroleum, and the former VLCC Proster 11, which is being converted for Monaco's Single Buoy Moorings (SBM). Another example of the trend London's Andrew Weir, which will complete a four-ship deal with France's Arno Dunkerque during February. All four ships were due for mid-term drydocking.
Italian shipbuilding and repair specialist, T. Mariotti, has been awarded a contract to modify the Japanese-built, 17,113-grt Italianregistered passenger RoRo ferry Victory, owned by Italian ferry operator Grimaldi. The contract price has not yet been announced, but it is understood that the total value will be around $50 million. Cammell Laird (Gibraltar) Ltd. has announced that inquiries are still at an all-time-high, with the latest coming from Maersk USA.
Over the Christmas period, 13 ships were undergoing repairs, including Shell's 298,308-dwt VLCC Myrina and P&O Nedlloyd's 47,442-dwt containership Cardigan Bay.
Sweden's Oresundsvarvet has been awarded the contract to repair Stena Line's 38,756-grt Swedish passenger RoRo ferry Stena Scandinavia, which was expected to arrive at the yard during late January 1999.
Norshipco Nabs Argent Marine Contract Argent Marine Services of Yorktown, VA recently signed on with Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp. (Norshipco) to reactivate the LNG carrier Southern.
The vessel is scheduled to arrive in the yard this month, and undergo gas trials in October to begin operating under a time charter to Shell Bermuda (Overseas) Ltd


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1-Day Simatai Great Wall Hiking Tour (No Shopping)
Activities: hotel pick up, breakfast, hiking the Jinshanling Great Wall
This is seat-in-coach tour. Around 6:00am (Your tour guide will contact you for the exact departure time the day before your departure date) pick up from your hotel in downtown Beijing. We offer simple breakfast. Arrival at Simatai Great Wall around 9:00am. Hike the east section of Simatai Great Wall. Simatai Great Wall is located about 120 km from downtown Beijing. The Simatai Great Wall was first constructed built in the Ming Dynasty. the Simatai section was refortified by General Qi Jiguang during the reign (CE 1572-1620) of the Wanli emperor, Emperor Shenzhong of the Ming (CE 1368-1644) Dynasty.
The round trip hike is about 10 km and takes about 4 hours. Each tower has its unique feature and look. There are relatively less crowded here at Simatai Great Wall, it is a nice place to explore the Great Wall in Beijing.
Tips: Please wear comfortable shoes and sun glasses.
Activities: lunch time
Your tour guide will take you to a local Chinese restaurant nearby to enjoy the lunch time.
Activities: way back to your hotel in Beijing
After lunch, transferred back to your downtown hotel in Beijing.
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Location: Beijing
Duration: 8 Hours
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And comes with the optional theme "As theGarden Grows".
I am hoping a happy, garden-y theme and sketch will possibly change our sub-zero weather. I know it is a long shot but I can always wish.
And here are the cards from our team:
Well, if all these beautiful cards don't influence our weather, I do not know what will. I love the cards from our team and I am sure you do too! They are all so bright and cheery. Thanks so much, ladies, for being on our team.
Now, card makers out there, it is your turn. As always, you have two weeks to play along and you can post your entries below or as a post on our Facebook page. Happy crafting, all!


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My thoughts on eating seafood in land-locked states are justified. Although eating a different fish is better than eating a rotten fish.
The Chicago Sun-Times had DNA tests done on sushi described as red snapper or "Japanese red snapper" bought from 14 restaurants in the city and suburbs. Not a single one was really red snapper.
In most cases, the red-tinged flesh draped across the small mound of rice was tilapia — a cheap substitute. Nine of the 14 samples were tilapia. Four were red sea bream — nearly as pricey but still not red snapper.


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Advocacy group Rural Vermont is promoting its 2013 "Annual Celebration":
"Philip Ackerman-Leist," director of Green Mountain College's Farm & Food Project ... will be the guest speaker. Ackerman-Leist will share his first-person account of the recent international controversy involving Green Mountain College's pair of working oxen "Bill" and "Lou." This moving and disturbing story illustrates the profound lack of understanding and connection between contemporary American society and the source of our food. ... Special guest Philip Phillip [sic] will offer his ideas on how we can work together to bridge this divide.Rural Vermont is a fairly politically progressive organization unfortunately bound by a devotion to and reflexive defense of the exploitation of animals. Ackerman-Leist similarly is too gorged on the flesh of (and the profits from) his grass-fed heritage-breed cows to consider that he might be the one with a profound lack of understanding. What possible ideas could he offer to bridge the divide between those who think a team of oxen deserved retirement after 10 years of work and those who can only think about such animals as food?
It was precisely people who are connected with the sources of their food who were able to draw a line at killing Bill and Lou. Ackerman-Leist, who petulantly had Lou killed despite (or rather because of) the controversy, is like the slaughterhouse worker who recently posted a video of himself shooting a horse. There is nothing in his actions or words that suggests working together to bridge a divide. In fact, the bridge is already there, but he refuses to acknowledge it, stubbornly seething at the shoreline, still shouting impotent defiance after those who have left him behind.
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Day One
Easy Life
West Thebarton
Sloan Peterson
Maddy Jane
Drown This City
The Beautiful Monument
Dan Cribb And Friends
Fortitude Valley, Brisbane 05/09/2017
Words and iPhone footage: Matt Doria
Though we're pretty sure he didn't mean for it to be strewn positively, music journalism prodigy David James Young tweeted yesterday that BIGSOUND is "schoolies for people who refer to bands as 'clients'," which we (in the interest of not succumbing to the pressure of speaking in first-person, 'we' means I, Matt Doria, alone) kind of agree with – it's four days of drinking, chatting shit and losing our minds over some of the most exciting new tunes in the wider Australian music industry. Sure, there's a layer of professionalism slicked over it all, but at its core, BIGSOUND is meant to be fun.
With no conferences catching our eye today, our BIGSOUND '17 experience kicked off with a brutally sweaty and deliriously energetic set from UNFD newcomers Easy Life. The four-piece have kept a relatively small profile until now, but with cuts from their forthcoming debut full-length tearing the Crowbar to shreds, we're confident that won't be the case for long. They revelled in thick, djenty chugs and dangerously crisp screamed vocals – a little more on the predictable side of the UNFD-core spectrum, but their callous hardcore stylings made for a killer start to the festival, and a beatifully effective hype-builder for Adelaide punks West Thebarton.
Formerly known as West Thebarton Brothel Party, the now-somewhat matured (heavy emphasis on the 'somewhat') septet were the underdogs of our BIGSOUND '16 coverage – they were great, and we waxed lyrical about how tight they sounded in our printed recap, but this year, they were miles ahead of their former selves. The set was comprised almost entirely of new songs (fan fave "Red Or White" and recent single "Moving Out" the exceptions), and all of them boomed with the type of glorious messiness that only they can pull off without looking daggy. There was a lot going on in their short set – to be expected when you've got seven members jamming out to their heart's content – but the standout was easily multi-instrumentalist Brian Bolado, who traded seamlessly between bass, guitar, backing vocals, tambourine, maraccas and drums. With their debut album set to drop early in 2018, we're expecting to hear a lot about West Theb in the near future.
Thus brought us to one particularly stinging clash: would we see retro-pop gem Sloan Peterson, or indie-pop rising star Maddy Jane? Both shine with buoyant, groovy guitar lines and choruses that stick to your brain like whiskey to your liver, and both have produced some of the biggest lazy day anthems of 2017 so far – so, because decisions are too hard for us, we decided to catch the first 15 minutes of Peterson and the last 15 of Jane. Both sets were equally poignant, with Peterson's rollicking '50s pop stylings injecting her crowd with only the bubbliest of good vibes, and Jane's twangy folk-infused energy spurring a sea of bouncing shoulders. We chased both of those sets with the end of Drown This City's at the Brightside – the Melbourne fivesome were a far cry from the lowkey vibes we'd just spent the past half hour melting into, waking us right the f*** up with their course and crushing tinge of seven-string metalcore.
We've still got a hell of a lot of bands to suss over the next two days, but we'll be extremely surprised if anyone blows us away more than local punks WAAX did. The trailblazers were our #1 band of last year's festival, too, and it seems their prowess for surging bouts of shred and wail has only surged upwards with an extra twelve months of exposure under their belts. Cuts from the recent Wild & Weak EP had the outdoor mosh a heaving mess, but it was a new song – one that swayed and swerved between heavy, melodic and just downright danceable – that left us really polarised. We're fairly certain Marie DeVita is the best frontwoman in Australian music right now: the way she sinks herself into every biting verse and searing chorus is simply unparalleled, and met with Chris Antolak and Ewan Birtwell's driving riffs, she was at the very top of her game tonight.
Fresh out of Norway with their debut LP set to drop next week, punk-pop hellions Sløtface made a case for why we should be paying attention to them that was damn near impossible to argue. They didn't quite match the white hot insanity that WAAX nailed straight before them, but it only took a few seconds for the quartet to have an alley crowd thrashing like fish out of water. The collaborative dynamic between guitarist Tor-Arne Vikingstad and bassist Lasse Lokøy was unlike any we'd seen in recent times, and tied up with the most enigmatic vocals from frontwoman Haley Shea, their riffs bounded through the venue with resounding strength. We managed to catch the last song from The Beautiful Monument after – I'm The Sin standout "War" – and though it seemed like most partygoers had thrown in the towel by that point, the band crushed it with vicious aplomb. We're stoked to suss more of them out on Thursday.
Dan Cribb And Friends weren't technically on the BIGSOUND program, but their last-minute Brightside set was essential viewing at the end of the night: partially because they sounded like the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtracks of our youth – musical comfort food right there – and partially because their entire set was built on punk covers of choice cuts from The Simpsons. If you're not already across Cribb's continually-unfurling tribute project, Worst Tribute Ever, do yourself a favour and suss that out; the band mowed through an impressive amount of its gems, highlights coming in a Green Day-esque take on "Can I Borrow A Feeling?" and a riotous hardcore-ish spin on Hank Scorpio's theme, which featured guest vocals from West Thebarton frontman Ray Dalfsen.
Here's a handful of our iPhone-shot highlights, in order of the bands we spoke about above:
(There's only a few right now, but more will come once we figure out why the rest won't upload to Facebook)
BIGSOUND Festival – Complete Artist Lineup
Abbe May
Alex The Astronaut
Alexander Biggs
Amyl and The Sniffers
Andy Golledge
Angie McMahon
Annie Bass
Ara Koufax
Ariela Jacobs
Baker Boy
Belle Haven
Bespin (NZ)
Big White
Billy Davis and The Good Lords
Body Type
Braille Face
Caiti Baker
Camouflage Rose
Confidence Man
Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird
Cub Sport
Daggy Man
Dear Seattle
Donald Hugh
Donny Benét
Dream Rimmy
Driven Fear
Drown This City
Easy Life
Emerson Snowe
Endless Heights
Evan Klar
Fanny Lumsden
Fierce Mild
Golden Vessel
Good Boy
Good Morning
Haiku Hands
Hayden Calnin
Hockey Dad
Holiday Party
Horace Bones
Horror My Friend
IV League
jade imagine
Jess Locke
Jess Riberio
Jim Lawrie
Kardajala Kirridarra (Sandhill
Karl S. Williams
Kylie Auldist
Laura Jean
Lupa J
Machine Age
Maddy Jane
Mama Kin Spender
Manu Crook$
Merk (NZ)
Miss Blanks
Nice Biscuit (Unearthed winner)
Nick Hill
Obscura Hail
Ocean Alley
Oh Mercy
Osaka Punch
Paddy McHugh
Party Dozen
Peter Bibby
POW! Negro
Press Club
Resin Moon
Sloan Peterson
Slow Dancer
Spirit Bunny
Stella Donnelly
Suicide Swans
Taj Ralph
Tempest Rising
Thandi Phoenix
The Beautiful Monument
The Cactus Channel
The Comfort
The Creases
The Harpoons
The Teskey Brothers
The VANNS
Tia Gostelow
Tom Stephens
Two Steps On The Water
Vandetta (SIN)
Why We Run
Wild Honey
Willaris. K
Winston Surfshirt
Yoko-Zuna (NZ)
Ziggy Ramo
Speaker Announcement #3
360 – Artist (AUS)
Allysun Marshall – Sugaroo! (USA)
Alex Zaccaria – Bolster (AUS)
Amelia Jenner – FBI Radio (AUS)
Andy Kelly – Winterman & Goldstein (AUS)
Aniela Swiatek – Thinking Loud (AUS)
Anthony Zaccaria – Bolster (AUS)
Bec Sandridge – Independent Artist (AUS)
Brett Cottle – APRA AMCOS (AUS)
Brian Turner – WFMU (USA)
Charlotte Abroms – Hear Hear Group (AUS)
Chris McDonnell – Eventbrite (AUS)
Chris Scaddan – ABC (AUS)
Claire Riordan – Inertia Music (AUS)
Craig Spann – The Appointment Group (AUS)
Damian Cunningham – Live Music Office (AUS)
Daniel Dewar – Paperchain (AUS)
Danny Kier – Sound Diplomacy (UK)
Dave Faulkner— Freelance Artist/Journalist (AUS)
David Grice – Musitec (AUS)
David O'Rourke – Nightlife Music (AUS)
Denis Ladegaillerie – Believe Digital (France)
Dominic Furber – 1990 / Audiopaxx (AUS)
Eoin McCarthy – Hydric Media (AUS)
Gary Seeger – peermusic / Trackdown (AUS)
Glenn Dickie – Sounds Australia (AUS)
Hans van Vliet – 7bit Hero / IV Motion (AUS)
Helen Marcou – Bakehouse Studios (AUS)
Henry Compton – The Orchard (AUS)
Jack Ball – Hit 105 (AUS)
Jacqui Louez – Jaxsta (AUS)
Jacqui Walter – Stage & Screen Travel (AUS)
Jaime Gough – Native Tongue Publishing (AUS)
James Cheatley – Screen Producers Association (AUS)
Janine Morcos – Cooking Vinyl (AUS)
Jared Kristensen – Audience Republic (AUS)
Jennifer Taunton – Midnight Choir (AUS)
Jenny Valentish – Woman of Substances (AUS)
Jess Carroll – Inmocean (AUS)
Joel Edmondson – QMusic / BIGSOUND (AUS)
Joel King – Evolve Media LLC (AUS)
John Ferguson – Griffith University (AUS)
Jonathan Hermawan – Apakatjah (AUS)
Kate Ben Tovim – Arts Centre Melbourne (AUS)
Kate Bradley – Everywhere Roadie (AUS)
Kate Hennessy – Journalist (AUS)
Kathy McCabe – News Corp Australia (AUS)
Katie Cunningham – Junkee Media (AUS)
Laurence Plant – IBM (AUS)
Leanne de Souza – AAM (AUS)
Leko Novakovic – Novatech (AUS)
Luke Girgis – Seventh Street Media (AUS)
Maize Wallin – Maize Wallin (AUS)
Matt Walters – Parlour (AUS)
Matt Wilson – Novus Res (AUS)
Matthew Rogers – Unified Music Group (AUS)
Matty Woo – Macro Music (AUS)
Michael Crutcher – 55 comms (AUS)
Michela Ledwidge – Studio Mod (AUS)
Michelle Buxton – Buxton Walker (AUS)
Michelle Johnson – SuperMusicVision (USA)
Millie Millgate – Sounds Australia (AUS)
Mo Jalloh – Zimrii Music (AUS)
Monique Bour – MTV ANZ (AUS)
Namila Benson – Independent Freelancer (AUS)
Nate Auerbach – Versus Creative (USA)
Neil Robertson – Music Glue (AUS)
Nick O'Byrne – Look Out Kid (AUS)
Niriko McLure – Wonder (AUS)
Oliver Knust Restucci – IMICHILE (CL)
Rhianna Patrick – ABC Radio (AUS)
Rob Cannon – AIM (AUS)
Rod Yates – Rolling Stone (AUS)
Ryan Walsh – SST (AUS)
Samuel Bright – CLIPPED Music Video Fest (AUS)
Shaad D'Souza – Writer (AUS)
Sophie Roberts – 13 Artists (UK)
Stacey Piggott – Secret Service (AUS)
Stephen Phillips – PopGun (AUS)
Stu McCullough – AIR / Amplifire Music (AUS)
Stu Watters – Nightlife Music (AUS)
Stuart Field – Oztix (AUS)
Stuart Rogers – Sydney Festival (AUS)
Teresa Patterson – NZ Music Managers Forum (NZ)
Tim Shiel – Double J / Spirit Level (AUS)
Tom Hajdu – Sia Furler Institute (AUS)
Troy Sincock – Fresh 92.7 (AUS)
Triana Hernandez – Mellum PR (AUS)
Udaravi Widanapathirana – Mellum PR (AUS)
Wenona Lok – imagikai (AUS)
Speaker Announcement #2
Kenny Gates – PIAS (BEL)
Sadie Dupuis – Speedy Ortiz (USA)
Aminé Ramer – States of Sound (USA)
Ben Godding – AWAL/Kobalt Music Recordings (AUS)
Ben O'Connor – Chapter Music (AUS)
Ben Swanson – Secretly Group (USA)
Bill Wilson – Music Biz (USA)
Cameron Schaefer – Vinyl Me, Please (USA)
Carl Young – Vevo (UK)
Charles Kirby-Welch – Kartel (UK)
Chris Twite – Secret Sounds / Brisbane Festival (AUS)
Clémence Bizien – Super! (France)
Dan Rosen – ARIA (AUS)
David Sheils – APRA AMCOS (AUS)
Elspeth Scrine – LISTEN / Huntley (AUS)
Emma Calverley – Australian Cultural Fund (AUS)
Emily Kelly – Deathproof (AUS)
Farinoush Mostaghimi – SynchAudio (CAN)
Haley Connelly – Little Press (UK)
Heath Miller – Webster Hall & Excess dB Entertainment (USA)
Hugh McClure – Good Manners (AUS)
Jackie Nalpant – Paradigm Talent Agency (USA)
Jake Friedman – We Are Free Management (USA)
Jane Gazzo – Triple M (AUS)
Jeff Owens – Felte / Ghostly International (USA)
Jennie Sager – Twitter (AUS)
Jeremy Yohai – Imagem Music Publishing (USA)
Dr. Jess Carniel – University of Southern QLD (AUS)
Jillian Mapes – Pitchfork (USA)
Joe Greenwald – C3 Management (USA)
Joel Connolly – Blackbird Ventures (AUS)
Karl Richter – Level Two Music (AUS)
Kate Mills – Native Tongue Publishing (AUS)
Keith Tan – Slate Entertainment (SIN)
Lars Brandle – Billboard (AUS)
Leigh Treweek – The Music / Handshake MGMT (AUS)
Marshall Betts – Paradigm Talent Agency (USA)
Matt Fiedler – Vinyl Me, Please (USA)
Mel Yong – Village Sounds & Other Sounds (AUS)
Mike Sniper – Captured Tracks (USA)
Nic Warnock – R.I.P. Society Records / Repressed Records (AUS)
Paul Barclay – ABC RN (AUS)
Peymon Maskan – Media Arts Lab (USA)
Shelli Trung – QUT CEA (AUS)
Simon Napier-Bell – Pierbel Ltd. UK (UK)
Steel Hanf – WME (AUS)
Tom Taaffe – United Talent Agency (UK)
Zena White – Partisan Records (UK/USA)
Ziggy Ramo – Artist (AUS)
Speaker Announcement #1
Archie Roach (AUS)
Tina Arena (AUS)
Adel Hattem – D Music Marketing (Brazil)
Alison Wenham – Worldwide Independent Network (UK)
Andrew Jervis – Bandcamp (USA)
Ash Kerley – Girls Rock! (AUS)
Bill Roe – Trouble In Mind Records (USA)
Bob Van Heur – Le Guess Who? Festival / Belmont Bookings (NL)
Eva Trifonas – Ninja Tune (AUS)
Isla Angus – ATC Live (UK)
Ivy Yuen – Magnetic Asia Limited (Hong Kong)
James Clarke – Aeroplane Agency (AUS)
James Moodie – Vevo (UK)
Jane Abernathy – 4AD Records (USA)
Jenn Yacoubian – Goldenvoice (USA)
Lucy Wood – Festival Republic (UK)
Mary Ramos – Saturday Music Inc. (USA)
Mazin Tappuni – Communion Music (UK)
Mel Brown – Impressive PR (UK)
Melissa Woods – Third Side Music (USA)
Mike Ajayi – All My Friends (UK)
Nick Findlay – triple j (AUS)
Paul Adams – New Community Management / Roc Nation (USA)
Peter Berard – Domino Recording Co. Ltd. (USA)
Poppy Reid – Seventh Street Media (AUS)
Rebecca Young – Collective Artists (AUS)
Ric Leichtung – Adhoc (USA)
Roy Amar – Bear Parts Music (AUS)
Stuart Meyer – Sub Pop (USA)
Sullivan Patten – Sullivan (AUS)
Sylvie Piccolotto – Rock City (Argentina)
Zan Rowe – triple j (AUS)
Venue List
256 Wickham
Alehouse Stage @Woolly Mammoth
Black Bear Lodge
Empire Hotel
Heya Bar
Mane Stage @ Woolly Mammoth
triple j Unearthed @ Oh Hello!
Ric's Big Backyard
The Brightside
The Brightside Outdoor Stage
The Elephant Hotel
The Flying Cock
The Foundry
The TBC Club
The New Globe Theatre
The Zoo


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'The Bourne Legacy' Rolls Out 10 New Action-Packed Images
Now that Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight Rises' has reached theaters, we're starting to look past the year's most-anticipated film and prepare for the next blockbuster. Ah, summer. There's always a potential crowd-pleaser on the horizon, and the next one on our radar happens to be 'The Bourne Legacy.'
Due in theaters on August 10, 'Legacy' looks at the actions triggered by Matt Damon's super spy but views them through the eyes of a rival agent … Aaron Cross, played by Jeremy Renner. The movie shifted its release date back a week to distance itself from 'Total Recall' (and the lingering shadow of the Batman). But Universal continues to roll out promotional images and clips to let audiences know that Matt Damon's absent, yet the thrills should be a ramped-up as this franchise has promised.
Universal Pictures a slew of stills and behind-the-scenes images, which we're sharing with you below. Renner looks like a fine replacement for Damon, and having Rachel Weisz by his side means he'll have a formidable sidekick to bounce off of as they dodge bullets … literally. The movie opens on Aug. 10. What do you think of the new images?


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Would Like To Get Began In Massage? Here's What You Need To Know!
Massages may be oily, deep or on merely one body part. You can find deep tissue massages, Swedish massages, hot stone massages and more. It can be hard to take care of all of the various methods and methods. Just by getting some tips and tricks together, you are likely to be-ready for whatever you decide to encounter.
If you find yourself frequently plagued by muscle pain, choose a book about trigger points, or look for a masseuse that is well-versed in neuromuscular therapy. Tiny knots referred to as trigger points are common when muscles are tight. These trigger points are acknowledged to make pain and also other things exist in different parts of the body. You can learn the way to treat these painful points when you go to a massage therapist or reading books.
Even when you have never considered it before, massages may be an extremely good supply of pain alleviation. Should your back hurts chronically, or any other stress issues are troubling you, get regular massages. See if a friend or acquaintance is able to do the service for you personally, or select a professional therapist in your neighborhood.
Always employ a licensed masseuse. Licensed therapists have undergone plenty of training therefore, they may be better able to satisfy you. Utilizing a licensed masseuse means that you are currently working with a professional that is certainly well looked at in the business.
If you've got stretch-marks from recent putting on weight or fast weight loss, odds are you've tried several things to remove them. Massage your stretch marks using coco butter every single night before bed, and you will definitely soon see the marks disappear! Massaging the location stimulates tissue regeneration, lessening the appearance of stretchmarks.
Once you have a massage appointment, turn up early. Nowadays, our way of life are incredibly hectic therefore, losing tabs on time is easy to complete. While you are rushing, it is going to take you a lot longer in your massage to rest. Your objective is to hit the massage table relaxed.
If you give a massage, make use of healing oils like sweet almond oil or olive oil. A healing oil is far more beneficial than a simple lotion or gel because it can simply absorb right into a person's skin. Oil lubricates skin and hands to facilitate an effortless touch.
You should view your partner when giving an effective massage. Notice whether their muscles are tensing up or otherwise not, and tune in to everything they claim or what you are able please read on their face. This is something that will probably require serious amounts of master, however it is vital to as being a good masseuse. As an example, if their face explores a grimace, they likely are not happy.
As somebody who is definitely an arthritis sufferer, you already know full well how debilitating it really is. Although medicine can somewhat help, they often times do not treat the deep aching feelings of arthritis. If you're not getting relief from medication, a massage will help. Massages stimulate blood circulation in the body, improving flexibility and circulation, each of which help in reducing pain.
Since you now are better informed, you are able to relax and revel in getting massages more frequently. A small amount of education goes a considerable waysspa in mauritius Please read on and learn key information that can help you stay on the top of your massage knowledge..


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So my friend Lindley called me when she was about 30 minutes from Provo, and said her husband was coming for some Mechanical Engineering thing and had some time so I went up and met with her and we had lunch, and it was an extra fun lunch b/c Andrea and Katelyn were there too! It was awesome to catch up with them considering it has been quite some time... :) But here is a pic from like 2005? Maybe 2004. It was the New Years Eve Dance and we all got ready together! Check out the bright colors !!
Family pictures taken in Illinios 2013
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I wasn't planning on posting about any of my Christmas presents until after Christmas day, however last night my friend and I had our own early Christmas, and I recently treated myself to a few new items of clothing!
The tank top was one of the gifts from my friend, and I'm wearing it right now! It's so comfortable and oversized, and I have a secret love for tie dye so this is perfect for me. The hat is also courtesy of my friend, I already have it in cream but as I no longer have purple hair, I can now wear a red hat which makes me very happy.
The jeggings and boots were my own little present for myself and I love them. It's so unusual for me to wear anything but skirts and dresses, however these jeggings are so comfortable and versatile; I now own them in this wine colour and now in black too. I wasn't too sure on the boots until I tried them and I just couldn't resist. This outfit as a whole is basically what I'm wearing today (swap the jeggings for the black pair) and I really like how it is different for me but nothing something I feel uncomfortable in.
Is there anyone else who's like me when it comes to jeans...a bit too scared to wear them? It sounds silly but I always feel more exposed and body conscious in jeans than I do if I'm just wearing a skirt or dress!
Now for a photo spam...
|I love this necklace, it comes on a long chain and it reminds me of the steampunk style. The cogs turn and everything :D
|My friend's dad finds my slight irish background very amusing, so this was his doing!


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With all that recent talk about Hex-Crawls and Point-Crawls, I wanted to share a third variant (a hybrid, maybe) I use in my games: the Brain-Crawl (because maps are in the head, you know). I'm not really calling it that, but it was the first thing to come to mind ... Anyway ... Let me illustrate. I couldn't draw a nice picture to save my life*, so drawing beautiful maps to wow my players was never an option. I'd mostly try and get away with describing things and use maps done by others.
This changed when I started to blog, though. All that jazz about DIY made me think about ways to, well, circumvent my shortcomings and find a useful solution without the need to draw something. I tried to go the hex-crawl route, but for me it's lacking lots of information I'd like to have on a map. It's just not for me anymore (I have an idea where I use hex-fields to generate random regions, but that's for another day ...).
What I've done now (and used already) is still a work in progress, as there are several things I want to add in the future. Anyway, it worked just fine the way it is. Here we go:
|I know it ain't pretty, but it is functional and easy to randomize (I used Inkscape for this map)
Instead I use several landmarks to give the players orientation and just estimate how big and where the areas are, using the given proportions and position to each other (the only more or less fixed distance I got is the one between settlement A and B, which is roughly an hour travel under normal circumstances). Add weather, altitudes, mode of travelling and type of terrain and the result could be something like: Travel through the Merkwoods north of town (Settlement with A in the center), facing the highest peak of mount Knell (high landmark with the V) until you reach the Sea of Stones (local landmark I). Now you turn north until the forest get really dense. Beware of the fairies there (x3), I've heard they are at no good terms with the barons woodcutters (border between two terrain types) ... And so on.
With the alignments I know how hostile/civilized an area or road is to travel. There is enough room on the sheet to implement small Random Encounter Tables in them (like I did in the lower right) and one thing I want to add are sanctuaries. The rest is more random tables (like several reaction tables ...), a reference sheet with names, the locations marked on the map and this sheet I made about the status of an encounter.
Just a beginning
This is just the tip of the iceberg. A lot more is possible (still thinking about using ability scores to give those areas some character and a big question is how to make this a dynamic and random environment, stuff like that). And I still need to connect this with some of the other ideas I already wrote about (that whole Noircana brainstorm that's still hunting me in my dreams). For now I hope this could give you some ideas how I use maps in my games. If it's any useful is for you to decide.
Next up is a little something I'm working on to create complex random cavern systems on the fly using cards. For the Goblin-Tribe Simulator and whoever dares to use such a thing (but next weekend, earlier is highly unlikely).
* Funny story right there: In school, when we learned reading and writing, I had showed tendencies to be left-handed, but the teacher at the time forbid it because (I kid you not!) she wanted a unified look when her pupils where writing, which was, of course, all right handed. And I never quite got the hang of that ...


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Lucky Eighty Eight has finally made his way into the winners circle by claiming victory in the $100,000 Kyneton Cup in Victoria today.
The Lucky Owners gelding burst from the pack down the final straight to win the race by one and a half lengths ahead of Sertorius and Pergola.
Jockey Michelle Payne was aboard the Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra-trained Lucky Eighty Eight.
"He just was really going well on the corner," Payne said.
"He took me there so easy, I knew that I had a good kick under me."
Lucky Eighty Eight ran a disappointing ninth in the Herbert Power Stakes earlier this preparation, which is something Payne puts down to the 2,400 metre distance of the race.
"He felt spot on for the Herbert Power that day," Payne said.
"I think that 1800 or 2000 sees him out.
"On his day he's a great horse.
"He's been good to me.
"It was just great to win the Cup today."
This latest win has seen the six-year-old's win percentage soar to 35% and his prize money reach close to $300,000.
Lucky Eighty Eight will now be sent out to the paddock for a well-deserved spell over the summer months.


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I listened to a podcast of a friend of mine named Crystal. The Crystal Show is a wonderful talk show that discusses a lot of interesting topics and this particular one was on women who date jerks. I listened as the ladies on this show talked about how nice guys can be boring. I listened to them laugh as they told stories about nice guys who just didn't cut the mustard when it came to keeping their interests.
Being a nice guy is rarely going to bring you success when it comes to women.
Like everything else in life there has to be a balance. You sometimes have to maintain the right amount of gentleman and the right amount of caveman. Every guy has it in them, but some forget to express it at times and it can be a turn-off for women. I'm not saying that a man can't be sensitive and caring, but those are traditionally feminine qualities. Most women want someone who is different from them not just like them. That's why so many nice guys end up in "The Friend Zone" instead of "The End Zone." Heck, I've had to even give myself a wake up call on it.
I consider myself a nice guy. Because of that I'm sure to some ladies I've come off as a pushover or a "softie" and that's my mistake if that has occurred. If anyone has ever thought that of me then that means that I let my guard down and got caught slippin'. I'm a huge James Bond fan and the one thing Bond always does well is balance smooth with rough.
Relationships are all about balance. There's no such thing as "you complete me." That's garbage we picked up from the "Jerry Maguire" movie. You compliment someone, but you don't "complete" them. And to compliment someone you sometimes have to add something to the mix that they don't have.
That means that we nice guys have to gain or reclaim our swagger. Our edge. The thing that lets every heterosexual woman in the room know that we're a man. That doesn't mean throw away the nice guy. It just means not to lead with it. That's something a woman should discover about you. Don't put it out there on a silver platter from Day One. Maintain that balance. Be Bond.
The bottom line is this: you can be the kind of man who has an edge without being a jerk. You can be the type that has a kind heart without being a chump.
Find your middle and stick to it. Make it a part of your life and stick to it. Being nice can get you a woman, but it's not necessarily going to keep her. She will get bored.
Just like you crave the softness of a woman, give her the toughness of her man. And do it before something nice walks out of your life.


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For the last couple years now I feel like I've been walking through life without any real plan or understanding of where I was or what I was doing. Sure, I went through the daily activities out of sheer necessity but, I think the only thing that kept me from turning into a lethargic slug staring at the walls on some days was my family. They pushed me to get up and do things daily, even if it was the bare minimum. That feeling of just existing without any real purpose to life permeated everything. I didn't know how to process everything that had happened. I was angry, depressed, afraid, and I felt very guilty. The first three I could understand as a type of grieving process but the guilt really perplexed me more than anything.
The truth is that at some point in my married life, I ceased to be the optimist. It didn't happen overnight. Before I married him I was a very happy and "go-with-the-flow" sort of person. I laughed, made friends easily, smiled often, and despite all the turmoil and uncertainty in my single life at the time, I was pretty sure that I had the necessary mental tools to do things on my own. In fact, I was excited about life. Publishing my fiction was something that I was devoting more time to. I was painting and creating art in various forms. My efforts were even starting to get some notice and I was actually stoked about life. In six years time, all of that changed.
I recognize now that his leaving me for "her" was a gift from God and the universe. I'd really lost myself in being his wife. The dreamer, the artist, the confident woman that I had been for most of my life had gone into hiding. The scary part was that I didn't know how to coax her back out. For a long time, I didn't think that I was worth the effort.
Fast forward to now. It has become a challenge to find myself. To come out of that isolation and find the joy again. I do laugh more. I feel lighter – probably because I've dropped about 100 lbs since then. I don't feel so oppressed and I'm not barraged with negative energy anymore. I am working and have a steady income. I'm pursuing the artistic life again and trying to get in touch with the stronger woman that I was. I am attempting to explore passions that I once held dear. I am myself again and finding out what it means for me to be truly happy.
That idea of happiness has changed considerably from all those years ago. Some realizations had to happen for me. For example, I'm not going to have kids or a family in the way that I wanted. Accepting that, it becomes about building the life that I want for myself and being a little bit selfish in the process. Accepting myself as I am and deciding what to invest my time and energy into isn't easy. The possibilities are vast. In fact, it is far easier for me to say what I don't want to invest in.
This year I've chosen to invest in myself. I am finding the joy in being my own best friend while finding friendships outside of me. I'm branching out and exploring life again. Let me just say that it is exciting to be able to do that again. To know that I can create the life I want and I get to make the choices to change life into something awesome and fulfilling again is amazing. It is empowering when I see certain elements taking shape. It is also very scary to think about the risks you have to take in order to move forward in various areas of life without any guarantee of a good outcome.
I follow a particular author's blog who talks extensively about self-esteem issues. She created a workbook as a giveaway this holiday season that challenged people to choose a word for the year and create goals based on that. I went through the workbook. Every word that I had brainstormed revolved around change, acceptance, and progress. Breaking out of the shell that I'd put around me to heal is the running theme in all the journal work I've done. For me, that means being brave enough to take those steps outside of my comfort zone. To stretch my personal boundaries and take some risks. For me, that can be as simple as going to a group event with people that I don't know. It can also be a big thing like going back to school and starting a new career path.
The key for me is to remember that I cannot make different choices about the past. What I can do is make better choices going forward. I can choose to be brave and forge ahead to achieve my dreams. I can choose to be cautious with who I let into my inner circle just as much as I can choose to be friendly and have many acquaintances in life. I don't know all of the choices and decisions that I will have to make this year. There is no way to plan for everything. I just have to be brave enough to trust my instincts and myself again.


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Always a dreamer and hapless romantic, I have a thing for old-fashioned letters and pretty postcards sent to loved one's from far far away. We stocked up the London Shopette (Lot 405, Camden Stables Market for anyone interested!) with new yummy stock, including hundreds of delightful girly postcards.
I've listed a few sets of four postcards, thematically grouped: Dolly Girls, Gorgeous Redheads, Flirty Coquettes, and Romantic Dreamers.
Up in my etsy shop now!
Go on, send a gorgeous girl you know a sweet postcard...


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Assessment Criterion (glossary)
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A characteristic used to assess or compare system elements, physical interfaces, physical architectures, logical architectures, or any such engineering element. (Created for SEBoK)
This definition was developed for the SEBoK.
This definition is most relevant to the usage of this term in the SEBoK in the context of System Analysis. Also see the Analysis and Selection between Alternative Solutions article.
- Outline
- Table of Contents
- Part 1: SEBoK Introduction
- Introduction to the SEBoK
- Introduction to Systems Engineering
- Introduction to SE Transformation
- SEBoK Users and Uses
- Part 2: Foundations of Systems Engineering
- Systems Fundamentals
- Systems Science
- Systems Thinking
- Representing Systems with Models
- Systems Approach Applied to Engineered Systems
- Overview of Systems Approaches
- Engineered System Context
- Identifying and Understanding Problems and Opportunities
- Synthesizing Possible Solutions
- Analysis and Selection between Alternative Solutions
- Implementing and Proving a Solution
- Deploying, Using, and Sustaining Systems to Solve Problems
- Stakeholder Responsibility
- Applying the Systems Approach
- Part 3: SE and Management
- Introduction to Life Cycle Processes
- Life Cycle Models
- Concept Definition
- System Definition
- System Realization
- System Deployment and Use
- Systems Engineering Management
- Product and Service Life Management
- Systems Engineering Standards
- Part 4: Applications of Systems Engineering
- Product Systems Engineering
- Service Systems Engineering
- Enterprise Systems Engineering
- Systems of Systems (SoS)
- Healthcare Systems Engineering
- Part 5: Enabling Systems Engineering
- Enabling Businesses and Enterprises
- Enabling Teams
- Enabling Individuals
- Part 6: Related Disciplines
- SE and Software Engineering
- SE and Project Management
- SE and Industrial Engineering
- SE and Specialty Engineering
- Part 7: SE Implementation Examples
- Matrix of Implementation Examples
- Implementation Examples
- Commercial Examples
- Complex Adaptive Taxi Service Scheduler
- Denver Baggage Handling
- Global Positioning System
- Global Positioning System II
- Next Generation Medical Infusion Pump
- Medical Radiation
- Project Management for a Complex Adaptive Operating System
- Russian Space Agency Project Management Systems
- Successful Business Transformation
- Government Examples
- Combined Examples
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Intro by Mason. I. Bilderberg
If you're not familiar with the Solar Roadways discussion, you may wish to peruse our last article on this topic titled "Solar Freakin' Roadways".
Or i'll just give you the basics: There is an Indigogo fundraising campaign called Solar Roadways. There is a video for the campaign. The campaign has raised more than $1.7 million.
Problem is, many people are starting to question the legitimacy of the campaign. Why? Watch the video below.
I'm not the type to sit through lengthy videos (this video is almost 29 minutes long), but this one was an exception. I really enjoyed the tear down. I think you will too.
Enjoy 🙂
Via YouTube
From the video description:
Solar FREAKIN roadways is a nice idea, but then again is a pogostick that can hop to the moon as a cheap, reusable trans-orbital vehicle.
Is it plausible though. Well it basically proposes the union of 3 or 4 technologies. LED lights, solar panels, and glass roads.
Glass really isn't a feasible material to make roads out of.
- its too expensive. Just coating the US road system with roads would cost many times the federal budget.
- Its too soft. Even with a textured surface for traction, it will wear away too quickly. Dirt on roads is basically small rocks, which are generally much harder than glass. Imagine taking a handful of dirt and rubbing it a window. Now imagine doing that with the wheels of a 20 ton tractor/trailer.
- I have doubts about the physical properties of the glass to take the load and mechanical heat stress required of a road making material.
Solar panels under the road is a bad idea from the start. If they are under the roads, they are hard to maintain. They will have reduced light from parked cars etc. They are fragile. Not really congenial to the conditions you are likely to get on a road. In many ways building a shed over the road, or just having solar panels by the side of the road is a far better idea. However the power transport really isnt practical. One of the most efficient ways to transport electricity around is as high voltage AC. However to build those lines would probably double the cost of any construction. To bury the cables is even more expensive.
LEDs for variable road marking have been partially implemented. They are usually only cost effective in dynamic traffic management systems. For most roads its utterly pointless as the road markings almost never need to be altered. These LED are usually not easy to see (especially in full daylight when the solar panels are meant to be generating power).
However solar powered roadways has generated well over a million dollars for Julie and Scott Brusaw (a therapist and an engineer).
I'm still on the fence as to if they are just delusional dreamers or (now millionaire) con artists. A lot of this looks like just direct 'what if' daydreaming, but then you get the part of the promotional video where they are shoveling ground up coloured glass into a wheelbarrow, while narrating that they use as many recycled materials as possible in this project. It's very difficult to not see that as a direct lie. They must know full well that they did not use any of that material in the construction of their glass tiles.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The Webs SOME Weave (If you have no interest in The Hills, not for you)
I don't think all the crystals in all of the world could heal Speidi, Spencer and Heidi Pratt that is. This season on The Hills, (yes I watch the girls who coined the phrase "I feel like..," and have become famous due to their talent of sipping Starbucks and tanning, oh and driving BMW's, not going to lie - envy their lifestyle)...anyways this season it is official Mr. & Mrs. Pratt have checked into Crazytown.
Spencer wears more crystals than found in all the caves in North America combined, not to mention more obnoxious rings than all the Sopranos family members. Heidi has confessed that Barbie was essentially her model for her 10 plastic surgeries, which, as her step-father so clearly stated, left her looking frozen. Tonight the pair took their new found obsession of new age healing to a whole new level - let me just say they are one step away from being the Jehovah Witnesses who go door to door attempting to spread the story of Jesus. The only difference is Speidi decided to start preaching the miracles of new medicine at a club in Hollywood when meeting up with some of their "pals." (They are clearly great advocates for this lifestyle because their lives are the epitome of perfection and serenity.) They arrived not only drenched in mafia rings but LARGE crystals (note the plural) adorning them like ornaments on a Christmas tree - each carrying a different "power" with it. My favorite that Heidi mentioned was the one that protects you while you're in a war torn area, because clearly you need that in a club in Hollywood.
(Note in this picture the multiple rings, crystal in hand-obviously warding off all bad things/negative energy & spirits, necklaces, tye-dye shirt, hemp bracelets and serial killer-esqe eyes. Photo from: The Hollywood Gossip)
I think it is safe to say the events of Speidi no longer classify as "reality" TV, because they are so far away from reality. And I truly feel sorry for anyone who has witnessed them drift first hand the way we have seem them do on The Hills to fulfill our entertainment needs.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Since his comeback to the world of golf Tiger has been playing sub par (to do a little play on words) to his normal athletic abilities. He has dropped out of the The Player Championship because of his neck problems that could be a complication of his car accident in November. He has not had a history of neck problems, knee issues he has had, but he has not been shooting the ball as far and has finally figured out the problem....his neck issue is just now taking a precedence in his life since November.
He says that he has been playing through it and cannot do so any longer, yes I am still talking about his golf game not his personal life. But now that I mention it, I know that everyone says that what Mr. Woods does in his personal life does not affect him as a golfer and I absolutely agree. But now that his neck has been acting up, it may be time to examine all possibilities here. I mean logically, the car accident was in November, he has had multiple mistresses of many ages, he is 34 - I think it only proper to question the sexual practices of these rondevues with the mistresses. What exactly were they doing and at any point did Tiger say that a particular maneuver hurt his neck, something like "it just doesn't bend that way anymore" - (in relation to his neck). I'm just saying, it is possible he was doing some activities that compromised the mobility/health of his neck. And we all know Karma sure can be a bitch.
(Photo above from:http://www.obit-mag.com/media/image/tiger-woods-knee-injury-golf-pain-vl-vertical.jpg)
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Confession: Awkward
Well. Honestly, I am a little awkward, ok pretty awkward. I have recently moved to the east coast, and have been putting social mel in hibernation a bit while I look for work. Today was the first time I had the opportunity to go out socially with a group of girls for the first time. It was with a cousin and her friends about my age, I thought super, its Cinco de Mayo, why not. So I go. At first I fear I am giving the impression of a stuck up bitch from CA due to my lack of input into the conversation, in my defense I was voted softest speaker in 6th grade.
There was a moment of silence. At this juncture I take it upon myself to bring up a conversation topic, so naturally I bring up how it is unfair to compare Chicago deep dish style pizza to NY style pizza. I launch into to a rather detailed account of each of the pies and then into how they are two completely different forms of meal in and of themselves. Being a food connoisseur I was excited about the topic and did not realize I was dominating the conversation the entire time, while others at the table exchanged nervous glances with one another, with the expression of who the f is she in their eyes. I then decide it was best to quickly wrap up the conversation, but to do so I has to finish my points or else I would've have had no courage or gusto in my "profound" argument, and hence the theory would not have been spread to their friends.
Immediately after I took a large gulp of water wishing it was something stronger, I noticed how awkward it was to start a conversation about a pizza comparison with people who are practically strangers. Thus, I will not hold my breath waiting for "the girls" to call me this weekend - they must be thinking if I was like that sober I must be a horrible drunk.
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Surgery and diabeties
i am 12 yrs old and i have been through soooo much! i have had my gall bladder and my appendix out and i cant eat certain things wich makes it hard to manage my DB!
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I am a type 1 too. Became diabetic when i was 8 and had my 9th birthday in the hospital. It's not easy and every day is full of taking care of the sugars. I am now in my 40's and have had just a few surgeries over the years. I agree that it is hard to live with diabetes and that you have to be extra careful (it seems like alllll the time right?). It is worth it though, to take the best care that you can, each day. YOU are worth it!!! Hugs out there to you and know that you are in my prayers. Take it day by day, or blood sugar by blood sugar.:-)
Hi, 12 yr old! Sorry that you have had to learn to handle so much, but you are ahead of others in your age bracket! Sometimes it gives us more insight into understanding and helping others. No matter what your age, there is always so much to share so none have to feel alone!! Best of Luck and Prayers to YOU!! Pat r
Hello, I am sorry you have had to deal with so much at a young age. As a type 1, your diet is more restrictive than mine, but I hear within reason, and knowing how to work your meds, there are not that many foods that you have to stay away from. Just remember portion size. it might mean only a small taste. I have been known to take a bite of a chocolate brownie, chew it and let my taste buds have their full effect, then spit it out before I swollow any.
Good luck, If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
I am so sorry you have had to go thru so much already! You are right though, surgery makes it hard with diabetes, have to be extra careful…and yes eating different also..you should be a proud DB, so young and gone thru so much and still standing..great job!! Hugs! Sheila
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With the announcement of the genesis of Swope Park Rangers KC, the official number of teams in the USL has swollen to 30. Twenty-eight of those teams are now set to compete in the league next season. Barring an unexpected event, 28 seems to be firm and fixed for 2016. With this in mind, the time seems right to begin to speculate about conference alignment and scheduling.
With 28 teams, it would make sense to maintain the Eastern and Western Conferences created for the 2015 season (14 teams each), or double the number of conferences to four (7 teams each). Anything else results in an unequal distribution of teams in each conference, and StP promotes symmetry wherever possible.
There doesn't seem to be a straightforward and satisfactory way to divvy up the USL map into four equal conferences. This is why StP proposes that the league sticks with East and West for next season. Given that the league desires to move toward regional play in a national league, it would not be surprising if the USL somehow found a creative way to bisect itself again to arrive at four conferences or divisions.
The Mississippi River provides a convenient dividing line between USL Eastern and Western Conferences in 2016. It would mean Saint Louis FC would make the switch from east to west. The Western Conference would also welcome expansion sides Rio Grande Valley FC and Swope Park Rangers KC. The only other change to the left half of the map would be the subtraction of the Austin Aztex, who have suspended operations for next season.
The Eastern Conference would also lose one club while gaining three. The loss would be the defection of Saint Louis to the west. The new additions would include FC Cincinnati, Bethlehem Steel FC (does anyone really think another brand will be chosen?), and Orlando City B.
Two 14-team conferences also lends itself nicely to the scheduling format that the league adopted in 2015. USL has stated that the schedule will expand from 28 to 30 regular season matches in 2016. If each team plays a home-and-home series against all other teams in its conference, that leaves four additional matches to be played against neighboring clubs. Stop us if this sounds familiar.
Although some of the geographic rivalries that developed in 2015 seemed rather contrived, familiarity does breed contempt. For this reason, StP supports the notion of extra matches against nearby franchises. Allow the more closely bunched teams to play more often, and a legitimate beef will likely develop between fan bases that can easily travel to away games for an airing of grievances.
If StP's forecast comes to fruition, it will be a case of things staying the same the more they change. It is at once familiar and new.