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It's been kind of fun seeing this race evolve each year. I've run it since it's inaugural and I can say it's leaps and bonds from what it started out to be.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Rock-n-Roll: Brooklyn, a race recap
It's been kind of fun seeing this race evolve each year. I've run it since it's inaugural and I can say it's leaps and bonds from what it started out to be.
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Way to power through girlie! GREAT RUN!ReplyDelete
Great job, Abs! I'm super impressed! What do you do with your race stuff when you tack on miles to a race?ReplyDeleteReplies
I only have my essentials with me- so no bag check. Everything I need can usually be carried on my body (which might account for why I'm so slow ;)Delete
I tied my long sleeve around my waist for the subway ride home.
Usually, I just leave my bib on, but I put it in my water belt after the race. I wasn't in the mood to attract attention.
The medal went in the waistband of my shorts (lulu's astro crops- the overlapping waistband makes for awesome long run storage!)- which didn't give me any trouble last year, but it did this year. It would've worked but RNR medals are so heavy! haha. I was carrying a plastic bag to put my running stuff in on the commute home (water belt, gymboss, ipod, etc) so I put the medal in that and then it stopped slipping.
I also have a shoe holder for my house keys and metrocard that I got at a race. . .it's awesome!
Did that answer your question? haha!
Aww I miss Brooklyn and Prospect park!! This recap made me feel so homesick!ReplyDelete
Congrats on the race and hope your knee feels better!
Fabulous job on the race...way to get your mileage in!! That's awesome! Sorry about your knee, hope it feels better soon! Great recap!ReplyDelete
Man, you get such cool race opportunities! Whenever I get to come visit I will have to do it when there is a fun race going on. Nice job on getting yourself to do all the miles!ReplyDelete
What's Pam's trick???Replies
Definitely! Just let me know ;)Delete
The trick is to just put an obnoxious amount on. I usually just put a thin layer on, but she made me put so much on, it squished in my shoe, which made me laugh hysterically, but there was no more hot spot!


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Meningitis is an infection of the membranes (meninges) that protect the spinal cord and brain. When the membranes become infected, they swell and press on the spinal cord or brain. This can cause life-threatening problems. Meningitis symptoms strike suddenly and worsen quickly.
Bacteria or a virus can cause meningitis. Viral meningitis is more common, but bacterial meningitis is more serious. It can lead to brain damage, paralysis, or stroke. In some cases, it can be fatal.
Many different types of bacteria can cause meningitis. Vaccines are available that target many of these bacteria. For this reason, it's important to know what's causing meningitis. Even though all types affect the same area of the body, they can have different outcomes and need different treatments.
Experts don't always know why meningitis happens. Some people get it when their immune system is weak or they've recently been sick. A head injury may also increase risk.
Bacterial meningitis is more common in infants under 1 year of age and people ages 16 to 21. College students living in dorms or other close quarters are at increased risk. Also at risk are adults with certain medical problems, including those without a spleen.
The most common symptoms of bacterial meningitis are:
These are symptoms to look for in children:
Symptoms typically come on quickly, in as little as a couple of hours or up to a day or two. If you think you or your child may have meningitis, go to an emergency room right away.
To diagnose this condition, a healthcare provider will do a spinal tap (also called a lumbar puncture) to take a sample of fluid from around the spinal cord. The fluid is then tested for bacteria. The healthcare provider will also ask about your symptoms and do a physical exam.
Other tests may include:
Prompt treatment of bacterial meningitis is crucial. It can save your life. Once the type of bacteria has been identified, you'll start taking antibiotics.
Antibiotics are given through a needle placed into a vein (usually in the arm or hand). They may also be given along with a corticosteroid to help reduce inflammation and swelling. Treatment also includes plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration.
With quick treatment, many people with bacterial meningitis don't have any permanent problems. However, even with prompt treatment, some may battle seizures, brain damage, hearing loss, and disability for the rest of their lives. Meningitis can be fatal and some people with this infection will die.
Vaccines are available to help prevent bacterial meningitis. Children now routinely get a meningitis vaccine around ages 11 to 12. A booster shot is given at age 16. Ask your healthcare provider if you or your children should be vaccinated.
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When you have an adorable crochet mitten garland (from anthropoligie) Assorted washi-tape + wooden clothes pins and a handful of beautiful Christmas cards.
What a fun way I thought would be to display them over our office fireplace mantel.
I wanted an eclectic, colorful look in my office. Its one of the first things you notice when you walk in. I spend a lot of hours in here, and so does my husband so its nice to glance over your friends and loved ones. With some vintage books, picture frames, blocks, vases and pine cones. This display took me less than 5 minutes to create and now so can you!
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It's been a long time coming but the steady progress of x64 technology from both Intel and AMD has finally impelled Microsoft to drop future support for Intel's variant Itanium 64-bit processor family.
Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last version of Windows Server to support the Intel Itanium architecture. SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010 are also the last versions to support Itanium.
Current support for Itanium remains unchanged. Each of these products represent the state of the art of their respective product lines. Each fully support Itanium, support the recently-released Itanium 9300 ("Tukwila") processor, and Microsoft's support for these products will continue – following the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy. Mainstream support for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems (and R2) will end, in accordance with that policy, on July 9, 2013, while extended support will continue until July 10, 2018. That's 8 more years of support.
Why the change? The natural evolution of the x86 64-bit ("x64") architecture has led to the creation of processors and servers which deliver the scalability and reliability needed for today's "mission-critical" workloads. Just this week, both Intel and AMD have released new high core-count processors, and servers with 8 or more x64 processors have now been announced by a full dozen server manufacturers. Such servers contain 64 to 96 processor cores, with more on the horizon.
Microsoft will continue to focus on the x64 architecture, and it's new business-critical role, while we continue to support Itanium customers for the next 8 years as this transition is completed.
Once upon a time, Windows NT (the precursor to Windows Server) supported a variety of microprocessor architectures, but they have been steadily whittled down over the years. Itanium remained as long as it did because of its early promise of an industrial strength 64-bit Intel architecture. Now it mainly exists to power some Hewlett-Packard HP-UX (Unix) servers.
The final version details for Windows Server 2008 were revealed today at the Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona by Bob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Infrastructure Server Marketing. To anyone familiar with Microsoft's past server operating systems, there isn't much that's particularly novel except in regard to the new Viridian virtualization capability which has now been formally named Hyper-V:
Yesterday, Microsoft released the February Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows Server Longhorn to select beta testers. So far there is no word on whether it will be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers as was the December CTP. The ostensible plan is for a public beta around midyear and shipment before the end of 2007, hopefully without the eccentricities of the Vista release.
Update 2/21: David at Microsoft's Windows Server Division Weblog reports that MSDN and TechNet subscribers will have access to the CTP shortly. Also:
This build also marks the appearance of many of the various editions in which we will release Windows Server "Longhorn". The list of editions shouldn't come as a surprise to most people, with Windows Server "Longhorn" Standard, Windows Server "Longhorn" Enterprise, and Windows Server "Longhorn" Datacenter, each being available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. One other change where the SKUs are concerned is the availability of a separate Windows Server "Longhorn" for Itanium-based Systems edition. This is different from what we did with Windows Server 2003, where we had separate Itanium versions of the Enterprise and Datacenter SKUs, but as disclosed before, this edition will focus primarily on the Application Server and database workloads.
We expect to release one more CTP before Beta 3 and we hope to have it soon.
It's not clear whether the Web edition that appears today in Windows Server 2003 is being dropped or is just not in the CTP.
This week both Gartner and IDC announced their server sales rankings for 2005 and there was a variety of news. Stephen Shankland at CNET:
Windows narrowly bumped Unix in 2005 to claim the top spot in server sales for the first time, according to a new report from IDC.
Computer makers sold $17.7 billion worth of Windows servers worldwide in 2005 compared with $17.5 billion in Unix servers, IDC analyst Matthew Eastwood said of the firm's latest Server Tracker market share report. "It's the first time Unix was not top overall since before the Tracker started in 1996."
And in another first, fast-growing Linux took third place, bumping machines with IBM's mainframe operating system, z/OS. Linux server sales grew from $4.3 billion in 2004 to $5.3 billion in 2005, while mainframes dropped from $5.7 billion to $4.8 billion over the same period, Eastwood said.
On the hardware side, Shelley Solheim at InfoWorld:
Worldwide server revenue rose in 2005 driven largely by increased sales of x86-based servers, according to figures released by market research firms Gartner and IDC Research this week.
Worldwide server revenue in 2005 grew 4.5 percent to $51.7 billion, while server shipments grew 12.7 percent to 7.6 million units from the previous year, according to Gartner. IDC estimates revenue grew 4.4 percent to $51.3 billion, while shipments grew 11.6 percent to 7 million servers.
For the 4th quarter, Gartner had somewhat slower growth year to year while IDC estimated a slight decline.
Although the two research firms' numbers vary, the overall message was the same: lower-end servers based on x86 microprocessors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices continue to outpace sales of midrange and higher-end enterprise servers.
Revenue for the x86 server market grew 11 percent year-over-year to $25.7 billion, while shipments were up 14.3 percent to 7 million units, according to Gartner. Revenue for RISC-Itanium Unix servers remained about flat year-over-year, increasing 0.5 percent to $15.4 billion, while shipments were down 5.3 percent to 460,000 units, said Gartner.
IBM continued to lead the server market with 32.1 percent revenue share followed by Hewlett-Packard, at 28.2 percent, Dell, with 10.5 percent and Sun Microsystems Inc. with 9.6 percent share, according to Gartner. IDC reported similar figures, with IBM accounting for 32.9 percent of the market, HP with 27.7 percent, Dell with 10.3 percent and Sun with 9.5 percent.
Jeffrey Burt also has more at eWeek.
None of the above are really surprising – they reflect longstanding trends in server software and hardware commoditization. Windows would have reached first place some time ago if not for Linux which takes server OS commoditization one step further.


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Today we met Bruno outside the Metro Line 2 Loushanguan station. Walked west on Tianshan Lu, turned right on Gubei Lu. On our way to Changfeng Park, we passed a couple auto detailing shops:
Gubei Lu turns into Daduhe Lu where you turn right on Guangfu Xi Lu, and you will see the entrance to the park across the street.
We were greeted by multiple Haibaos in Changfeng Park:
An island in the lake:
And feet-running bota retails (pedal boat rentals):
These were electric boat rentals:
Of course, the playground is full of kids:
I went back later in the week to find this thing and get a real photo:
Plaza with weeping pagoda trees and guardian lions:
You can get a combination ticket with the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, so Jackie Chan was there to promote that:
We exited the park and turned left toward Zaoyang Road, a food street.
Birds in cages on the sidewalk:
The unidentified bird was "showing off:"
Later a right turn onto Jinshajiang Lu.
Sidewalk bicycle repair shop:
University = student incubation:
Dome construction:
This seemed like an odd place for Old World European vehicles:
Nice painted stools for $2.36:
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
A few more photos from my Changfeng Park follow-up.
Purple streetlights on Jinshajiang Road:
Petunia tree and bushes:


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Grandma Bailey and my mom
Last year my moms stake announced they would be having a temple day for all the sisters called, "Sisters in White." We then decided that we would make it fit our schedules. As a mom with young kids I find myself not making it a priority like I should. So I was glad to have this day on the calendar. I haven't been to the temple with my mom and grandma since I was married (5 1/2 years ago). It was so fun to share that spiritual and fun time with them. I couldn't believe how many sisters from the Delta West Stake showed up. The temple presidency said it was the largest group they've ever had. Before we did our temple work the temple President spoke to us. He is such a great man!! He seriously had us all laughing then crying and back to laughing. He is definitely a servant of our Heavenly Father. The feeling in the temple that day was unforgettable. Thanks so much mom, grandma & Delta West Stake for making this day possible/happen!!!


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The Outsider Ch. 29bycaligula97236©
Chapter 29 -- June in Davenport
Parking Officer # 036's life at work returned to normal as soon as the summer semester started. There were not quite as many students crowding the campus during the summer, but there were more visitors, which meant meter payments continued unabated. Mike kept himself very busy, trying to keep up with the pace of meter collections, replacing defective meters, doing the paperwork needed for repairs, and issuing tickets to chase the freeloaders away from his source of income.
Once he moved off campus, Mike's illicit earnings became more important to him than ever, because there was no way he could have afforded his apartment on just his normal salary. Additionally, there were tuition, dentist bills, car maintenance, food, and trips with Ruthie. His lifestyle was not extravagant; to him his daily life seemed comparable to most of his classmates. However, very few of Mike's peers were able to live a "pay as you go" existence. Either they had to borrow, or they had to rely on their parents for spending money. Mike was one of the very few students who were able to pay for everything on their own, without going into debt.
Mike continued to change as the weeks passed and he continued to steal his daily bucket of coins. It was ironic that he was working very hard and became good at his job precisely because he was stealing. He never missed a day of work; no matter how sick he was, because the last thing he wanted was for someone else to touch "his" meters. Sometimes he worried about his boss deciding that maybe he should have some help. However, the manager was such a cheapskate that he was content to leave Officer # 036 working his shift alone, given that he seemed to have everything under control and there were no problems.
As much as he could, Mike stayed out of sight and never complained about anything. He was reserved around his co-workers, listening to gossip but never contributing anything to the rumor mill. Whenever he was with the other student employees, he was constantly on the lookout for signs that someone might suspect what he was doing. He was careful to monitor all radio traffic when making his rounds. As for the campus police, he viewed them as a threat. When he was around the campus cops he was nervous, but learned to hide it. He bought a pair of sunglasses to wear with his cap: having his eyes covered always helped him stay calm when around the cops.
Apart from constantly being on the lookout for any sign that he might get in trouble, Mike changed in another way. He had decided that he would stay with the Parking Department as long as he could. He would not worry about a TA position, or internships, or scholarships, or anything else related to his major. To hell with political science. That was a fool's major, guaranteed to force him into a life of poverty. He would continue with his studies, but only to maintain his status in the university so he could hold onto his job and continue raiding the meters.
Parking...that's where the money was, and where his future lay. Mike's experiences convinced him that the only way he could ever have wealth would be to take it from someone else. The days of a little honest hard work being sufficient to pay one's expenses had passed. He knew that because being honest had gotten his father nowhere. The US had become a zero-sum society that had "haves" and "have-nots". The "haves" were the people who learned how to exploit and extract money from the "have-nots". So...what was a good way to take money from other people? Parking. Having seen first-hand how lucrative parking was, he decided that he wanted a piece of that action. As Sam had said, it was "It's 'money for nothin' and your chicks for free.' You don't have to build anything, make anything, feed anyone, do nothing useful...just pave over some Mother Nature and start taking money."
As abruptly as he had reappeared in Ruthie's life, Jake Burns vanished again. Ruthie did not hear from him after telling him that she wanted to stay in California. It was possible that she had offended him but, knowing him, it was much more likely that his current girlfriend was the culprit. She suspected that his newest girlfriend was making demands on his time and money that he had not anticipated when he made the offer for his daughter to study in Lincoln. She suspected that his interest in her already was waning when they had their last phone conversation.
Ruthie had been badly hurt by her father six years before, so she did not trust him. She tried to figure out his "game" by discussing the situation with Dr. Hartman. The counselor heard her out; then made some observations that allowed Ruthie to assess Jake's behavior. She knew that her father was a very spontaneous person, which attracted a certain type of woman to him. That spontaneity made him "fun" to go out with, but it also made him unpredictable and caused him to be inconsiderate of his family, especially of his kids. He would see the newest "shiny object", whether that be a new woman or a new motorcycle, and chase it, not worrying about the needs of his family. Knowing that about him explained a lot, including the relationship he had with Ruthie's mother. It also explained what happened to Ruthie herself. Jake kicked her out because she was inconveniencing him. Ruthie felt bad for her half-brother because undoubtedly he would get the exact same treatment. It would suck to be that kid, thought Ruthie to herself, because neither Jake nor Debra really wanted him. Each had their newest partners and Jake Jr. had no place in either relationship. Ruthie realized that she was luckier than Jake Jr. When her father kicked her out, at least she did have a place to go and a parent who wanted her.
So...why, after six years, would Jake suddenly want Ruthie back in his life and pay several thousand dollars for her to stay in school? It seemed that for a few months he was sincere about wanting to get back together with her. Ruthie simply thought that he wanted her to become his house-keeper and babysitter. However, Hartman pointed out that his brief resurfacing fit the pattern of his personality. Yes, at the moment he was sincere about reconciling with Ruthie, because he was between relationships and had enough time to think about her. However, he did not anticipate that Ruthie at age 18 was not the same girl he had sent away at age 12. She was an adult with different needs and a life of her own, and thus more complicated to deal with than her father had expected. Jake did not like complicated situations. In the meantime he got more involved in his new girlfriend and eventually lost interest in his daughter.
Ruthie realized that it was very fortunate that she never seriously considered leaving California, because her life would have sucked had she gone to Nebraska. She would have given up her studies, her relationship with Mike, and the small freedoms that made her life somewhat bearable. She would have been forced to re-enter the grim existence that she endured over the six months that followed her grandmother's death, living in competition with the woman who shared her father's bed. It would have been life with Debra all over.
There were times that she hugged Mike and held onto him, not out of love but out of gratitude. It was only because of him that she had not been forced to return to that messy and unpleasant situation in Nebraska.
By the middle of the summer, Mike knew that there was not a chance Ruthie could afford to pay her tuition in the fall if she had any other expenses whatsoever. If she was going to stay enrolled in school, he would have to help her. He had no idea whether or not she would simply let him pay her tuition or "lend" her the money. If he had asked her directly, she probably would have reluctantly accepted, but such an arrangement would have made both of them very uncomfortable. He decided that the best way would be to help her indirectly, by giving her a free place to stay and paying for things such as food. That would give her the chance to save her paychecks and allow her to pay her fall tuition on her own account.
At the end of June, Ruthie nervously asked her boyfriend how much she owed for her portion of the rent. He replied that she owed nothing. He lied by telling her the rent was not any more than his dorm room and that he already had budgeted for the following year. Actually the rent was a lot more than his dorm room, but as long as he could continue raiding the meters on campus, he would have no problem paying it.
At the beginning Ruthie objected to not having to contribute to the rent, but Mike told her that if she kept up the place while he was gone and cooked for them, then they would be even. Mike paid for all the groceries as well, and for Internet service, and for Ruthie's text books. Freed from having any living expenses, yes, Ruthie would be able to afford tuition. She quietly deposited each week's salary to her bank account and calculated that she would have what she needed to pay for fall enrollment, given that she didn't have to pay for anything else. Being able to write her own tuition check gave Ruthie the illusion of being self-sufficient.
Ruthie was relieved that living with Mike did not mean that she was forced to have sex with him round-the-clock, as she had feared. He was no more demanding of sex than he had been in the dorm. It seemed that he needed to have an orgasm once every 48 hours. She liked the massages she shared with him and tolerated being entered. His muscular, sweaty body was a turn-off for her, but she kept that to herself.
About once every three weeks Mike spanked his girlfriend with the leather paddle. Being spanked was the one sexual activity she did very much enjoy; something that was guaranteed to arouse her. She liked the sharp sting of the leather, the intensifying heat on her bare bottom, and the fact the paddle never left any bruises that lasted more than a day or so. When she was being spanked Ruthie closed her eyes and was able to fantasize about submitting to Mrs. Peters or to Jen. She bit her lip and escaped into her own world as she endured the sharp smacks and hot sting coming from the leather.
Mike enjoyed spanking Ruthie, but he never approached her about it. She was the one who always told him that she wanted a spanking. There were a couple of times that she simply went into her dresser (actually it was a dresser from the Sinclairs' house) and took out the paddle. Then she handed it to him and waited for him to tell her to bend over his bed or a chair. There were other times she did do a minimal amount of play-acting, usually by pinching him or doing something to irritate him, and then smiling and asking him what he was going to do about it. When she became "naughty", Mike knew that she was asking him to spank her.
Ruthie resumed her counseling sessions with Dr. Hartman during the summer. According to the rules of the counseling office, Hartman should have concluded her sessions with Ruthie a long time ago. However, the girl's suicidal fantasies gave the counselor justification to grant several extensions. Hartman had a very bad scare the day that she diagnosed her client with non-verbal communication disorder. Ruthie openly admitted that the only reason she did not commit suicide was because she didn't have enough time to write a decent goodbye note to Mike. Her state of mind remained fragile and subject to outside events, none of which were going well for her. There was the ongoing issue of both her parents. There were the constant slights and frustrations she had to endure at her barista job. There was the reality that she had no friends and was totally dependent on Mike. Finally there was another difficult issue: her sexual orientation.
Hartman was not about to risk being too direct about Ruthie's sexual orientation, because she did not want to risk another suicide attempt. Instead, she took a more indirect approach by encouraging the student to talk about her sexual fantasies. Over time it was obvious that Ruthie's sexual fantasies focused exclusively on other women, never on men. It wasn't hard to figure out what that meant. However, Hartman understood that her client was in an impossible situation. The girl had failed to connect with anyone apart from her boyfriend, a boyfriend who clearly loved her and was the only person who cared about her. It was only by pure luck that she managed to connect with a person as caring as Mike. She just as easily could have ended up in another disastrous encounter like the one she had in high school.
Hartman's job included trying to help her clients find alternatives for their lives, but Ruthie Burns really didn't have any alternatives. She was in a stable situation for the time-being, so the counselor had no motivation to encourage her to attempt to develop other relationships at the expense of the only one that seemed to be working. Given her personality and her past experiences, there was no reason to expect that she would connect with anyone else, especially when she was having a bout of depression. Perhaps Hartman would have wanted her to not be so dependent on her boyfriend and, in an ideal world, seek out a partner who was more compatible with her sexuality. However, to hope for such a change would be unrealistic. Ruthie could not reach out to other potential partners because she was trapped inside her personality.
Ruthie talked at length about her boyfriend's father during her counseling sessions. Her pessimistic outlook on life made her certain that there was no hope that Mr. Sinclair's situation could possibly have a happy ending, an assessment to which Hartman agreed. That was another reason Hartman never brought up her thoughts that Ruthie should reconsider her relationship with her boyfriend, because undoubtedly Mike would face a severe crisis of his own the moment his father's house was foreclosed upon. When Hartman asked Ruthie what she thought was likely to happen when the notice was served, with no hesitation she responded:
"I think Mr. Sinclair's gonna kill himself."
The conversation shifted towards Mike and how Ruthie thought he would react. Ruthie gave an assessment that very much impressed the counselor. She explained that Mike was too close to his father to see to what extent he had given up hope of ever having a useful life. Other people might have been able to adjust, but not Mike's dad, because his entire identity was wrapped up in the lost family business. Mike didn't really comprehend what that year of unemployment did to his father. That desperate and frustrating year of job-hunting was topped off with the humiliation of working at a Fast-Mart under a Pakistani immigrant, for only a fraction of what he had been earning before Sinclair Pharmacy closed. It wasn't just the debt or the loss of his business or even the loss of his marriage that had taken the life out of Mr. Sinclair. His entire world had disappeared, leaving him with no hope for the future. Ruthie concluded:
"I never had anything, except my grandma, and that was a long time ago. So even if my life sucks, it's not any worse than what I've always been used to. But Mr. Sinclair did have a decent life, and it's gone, and he's never gonna be good for anything again, and he knows it. Maybe my life sucks, but his REALLY sucks, and...I really don't think Mike gets it...and I don't know how to tell him what's going on, 'cause he gets pissed at me...and I can understand where he's coming from, 'cause it sucks to see something like that happening to your dad and know you can't do anything about it."
"Have you thought about what you'd do if Mr. Sinclair does do something drastic?"
"Be there for Mike. Listen to him. Maybe try to get him to calm down. He's done it enough times for me...so...I guess...I'd try to pay him back...I guess that'd be what I'd try to do for him. What else would there be for me to do?"
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Serbian Orthodox delegation meets with Pope
January 19, 2016
Pope Francis met with a delegation from the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate on January 16.
According to a Serbian television news report, the patriarchate's delegation expressed opposition to the possible canonization of Blessed Aloysius Stepinac (1898-1960), a Croatian prelate whom St. John Paul II beatified as a martyr in 1998.
The delegation also said that Patriarch Irinej would not object to a papal visit to Serbia in his capacity as head of state but that "other forms of his visit require the green light of the Moscow Patriarchate," according to the report.
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Now that the weather is downright cold, our eyes need a little extra TLC. Chilled air dries out the delicate skin around your eyes, which makes wrinkles appear more pronounced and your eye makeup can look chalky and flakey.
The first thing I recommend is to step up your skincare routine. Make sure to use a really rich and creamy eye balm every night. During the day, pat it on again before applying your makeup. This will keep your skin nice and hydrated and help your makeup go on smoothly.
Switch out your powder eye shadows for cream formulas which will prevent your skin from looking parched. If creasing is a worry, keep creamy highlight shadows under the brow and in the inner corners only. Also, dab a darker cream shadow on your lids, but stop short of the crease to avoid creasing.
Try a pot of gel eyeliner to line your eyes. Use a liner brush to precisely paint it on and also give your lashlines a shot of hydration. Switch up waterproof mascara for protein-rich formulas that condition lashes like Sally Hansen by Carmindy's Lift and Define Mascara. Lashes can really take a beating this time of year, so treat them gently.
With these tips, you should find that the little lines around your eyes will look less noticeable, your makeup will look smooth and you'll be able to face the harsh winter with confidence!
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A video of one of Baha'u'llah's prayers: "Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, and the sea, and the island, and the meadow where mention of God hath been made, and His praise glorified."
Youth find meaning in teaching children's classesDec 1, 2009 News
Every Thursday at 4:30pm, you can find five devoted youth heading off to the Cedar Hills Grange. Sure, this was not how we envisioned our afternoons to be spent this year; running like headless birds straight from school directly to the Cedar Hills Grange, skipping cross country practice and numerous after school activities just to [...]
Weekly Sunday school open to all childrenNov 13, 2009 News
West Side Bahá'í School is dedicated to the spiritual education of children using the Bahá'í teachings as its basic foundation. In a nurturing environment, children of diverse backgrounds can come together in fellowship to gain an understanding of their spiritual identity and to learn how to apply spiritual principles in their daily lives.
Children celebrate World Citizen DayNov 10, 2009 News
On Sunday, November 8th, 2009, the Beaverton Baha'i Center was filled with families celebrating the 2nd annual World Citizen Day for the Westside Baha'i School fun day commemorating the Birth of Baha'u'llah. (For current Beaverton activities, click here.) The day started with a Spanish Baha'i prayer, yoga from India, music from the Philippines and "We are Drops of One [...]
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Baha'is in local communities around the world hold weekly children's classes to develop virtues, learn the history and principles of the Baha'i Faith and to create a strong moral framework in which they can achieve excellence in the material, intellectual and spiritual aspects of life.
Blessed is the Spot VideoAug 26, 2009 News, Bahá'í Writings, Perspectives, Videos
Uplifting animated video for children based on the prayer by Baha'u'llah, Blessed is the Spot.
Children's Coloring PagesAug 26, 2009 News, Perspectives
Printable letter-size coloring pages for children. One is about "Showing Loving-Kindness to All Creatures" and another about "Praying for your Parents".


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Kyle Evans had a cracking weekend at the Birmingham Euro round , after a couple of tough days of racing Kyle came away with 2 wins, and with Tre Whyte getting 4th it is just going to show that UK BMX is heading in the right direction.
Kyle and the rest of the UK squad are definitely the ones to watch at the moment after their great performance at the SX in Berlin they are at the top of the Euro game.
A few photos of Kyle courtesy of Spencer Moret, SJS photography & Abi Taylor photos.
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Filmmaker Nancy Meyers has been known for showcasing several romantic-comedy movies such as Something's Gotta Give, The Parent Trap and The Holiday. We have always loved how she makes us feel happy and sad, and end up with smiles on our faces after watching her films. What's even better is that we get lessons out of them and actually apply them in our lives.
Her latest film, The Intern starring Anne Hathaway and Robert de Niro, is a story the revolves around a 70-year-old retiree, Ben Whittaker (de Niro) who tired of his same old boring routine, takes up a Senior Citizen Internship Program in Jules Osten's (Hathaway) company. Ben Whittaker is later assigned to Jules Osten's office, and even though their age and thought differences made it hard for them to actually get along, Whittaker's likeable attitude helps him become Osten's confidante. Later on, their work relationship blossoms into a beautiful friendship where they are able to help each other in facing their personal problems regarding marriage, work and family.
The Intern is one film from which we can surely get life lessons from, especially for the youth who are planning to take an internship program in a company. Let me share with you some of these lessons while trying my best not to reveal too much from the movie.
Age Is Just A Number
There have always been different stereotypes when it comes to age. When you're young, people look at you as somebody who doesn't have enough experience, a rookie, and naive – somebody who can easily be manipulated. When you're old, people look at you as somebody who doesn't know how to use technology, is traditional and old-fashioned and cannot generate fresh ideas. Just like in the movie The Intern, where Jules thought that Ben was only going to make things slow-moving. What most people fail to realize is that there's always going to be something that we can learn from these people, whether young or old, and that it will always come in handy when it comes to work. As much as we can get new ideas and innovations from young individuals, we can also learn a lot from the wisdom that thevelders have to offer.
Eventually, both of the characters in the movie are able to see that there are a lot of things that they have learned from each other – from making right decisions at work and home, to the steps in putting up a Facebook page. In this case, all that we need to do is open our minds to the possibility that different generations have their own stories to tell, own knowledge to share, and own experiences where we can all benefit from.
Friendship Makes Everything Easier
Being an intern is being one-step closer to the world of salaries, employments and everything else in between, and just thinking about these can make a greenhorn feel thrilled as well as terrified of the imminent future. Thinking about and performing at work is already stressful; but we can all agree that having friends in the workplace make everything happier and a little less tough. Making friends with your employer and co-worker make it easier for everybody to communicate, contribute ideas, and share thoughts about work. In the movie, when Jules stopped being too uptight to her subordinates, their workplace became lighter, more productive and healthier. Ben was also able to give Jules the advice that she needs to help her manage her workload well. Friendship also breaks the tension in the already stressful environment in the office.
Initiate and Impress
The moment you step into the office is the same moment you should start seeing your internship as a real job. This is going to be the start of your career. The result of your internship program will reflect on how your future employers will view you as a future employee. If you're looking into getting good feedback and recommendations, and the possibility of being absorbed in the company, take the initiative and impress.
You will be judged according to what you are delivering to your employers. As much as Jules hesitated in trusting Ben because of his age, he proved himself to everybody that even though he didn't know a lot when it came to technology, he could contribute in so many things using the knowledge that he already had. Because of this, he was able to change how Jules once thought of him, and was even given more tasks to do.
What they initially think of you wouldn't matter when you start taking the initiative to change their views of you. So always give your best, even if it's just an internship program. You'll never know what lessons you'll get from it.


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Paris is only a 3 hour train ride or a 1 hour flight, so finally I made this short trip to see some family visiting there. It was an extremely short weekend with so much to see, looks like another trip is in order.
Pictures include:
- Outside Notre Dame Cathedral
- Outside the Louvre
- Arch De Triumph - In 1806, Napolean, the French emperor who conquered most of Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, decided to build a very big arch of triumph which stands at the top of the Champs-Elysées. The purpose: To gather his Army and have them walk through the arch in front of cheering Parisians after a victorious war… The only problem, the event never happened because Napolean was defeated at Waterloo. What would make a ruler like Napolean bring on this kind of inspiration?
- Pompidou Modern Art Museum - Jamie and I checked out an exhibit on modern architecture then scoped the works by, Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, Dali, and many more. I'm actually becoming a fan of modern/contemporary art, because seeing the main man Jesus and Mary all the time is becoming a little redundant.
- The Pantheon - Is now a burial place for famous French heroes. Includes Geneva born, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's tomb. His most popular work is 'The Social Contract', which was a major influence during the time of the French Revolution.
- The Basilique du Sacré-Coeur (Sacred Heart) - Fantastic views where Claire and I overlooked the city.


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I'm eagerly anticipating reading a book by one of my favourite... make that my only favourite, Canadian author. David Adams Richards writes from north-eastern New Brunswick but writes about humanity. He has recently published a book called "God is". Simple but thought provoking and I've only read the front cover so far. I'm in the queue at the library and getting to the top of the list. Apparently there are more David Adams Richards fans out there than I knew. This is not a post about that book.
Its more about country music.
Yesterday I got some unexpected news affecting our future. Not bad, just unexpected. It got me wondering. I do that now and then. Wondering what was next, mostly.
Post-haste from that point to a free concert with Diamond Rio. We walked in a couple of minutes late, just in time to hear "Beautiful Mess" begin, and Sabrina and I both had to acknowledge that the song was written about our lives. From there they soon launched into a song reminding us that "God is there". Now sadly at this same time a woman right behind us collapsed and was taken out by a nurse in a wheelchair and the juxtaposition of that situation with the words of the song literally made me cry. I had to close my eyes and soak in the wonder of God. He was there when a woman faced a medical crisis and He was there as I faced the struggle of what next fall should look like. Through it all, God is. God is there. Don't forget it. I'm talking to me.


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A year ago this month I moved to San Francisco to start working at Wired. My wife couldn't come out from New York for another three months (job commitments), so I put off finding an apartment and stayed in one of those "guest suite" places. (Really a glorified hotel room.) Wired issued me a laptop–my first!--and since I didn't have any friends yet (sniff), my nightly self-entertainment routine shaped up like so: eat, drink half a bottle of wine, glance at Behind the Music on VH1, listen to Art Bell on the radio, and cruise the Internet for millennial-themed e-mail discussion groups–also known as "listbots."
My initial motivation was simple: spamming the globe with news of my book and Web site. But along the way I started signing up for all the listbots, including ones devoted to Y2K, Christian prophecy, Earth Changes, UFOs, general paranormal topics, the quest for physical immortality, out-of-body travel, militias, Nazis, and racial separatism.
A year later, Behind the Music is but a dim memory–except for the one in which Leif Garrett tearfully comes to terms with his drug-addled past–but the fringe e-mails are still with me. I get about 300 a day, and have about 20,000 stacked up unread at any given moment. They range in intensity from Mitch Battros' "Earth Changes Breaking News" ("Finally the weather phenomenon we are experiencing is being acknowledged beyond cutsie names like 'El Nino' and 'La Nina.' This is a 'Mega Cycle' related to … an escalation of solar flares, gamma ray blasts, CMEs, Class M flares, and X-ray bursts") to that very special week last fall when premillennial Christians in coastal Florida were pray-bombing Hurricane Floyd to please go away.
They were serious, too. As it turned out, Floyd didn't come ashore in the Electrocution State, causing a man from Daytona Beach to crow: "Hey, guys, is the Lord God or is he God?? He has put his hand out and told Floyd, 'Up to here, and no further!' So Floyd made a right turn when he was practically at my front door, and went north. … My Dad (God, my father) is Big Bad John."
This week I've been dipping into the archives, trying to decide which listbot theme, artifact, or moment is my favorite for 1999. Among the top candidates: an ongoing debate about whether babies who haven't been baptized are eligible for the Rapture (consensus: hard to say); an attempt to organize a joint out-of-body soul-flight mission to escort the souls of Columbine victims to Heaven; a 40,000-word musical drama about Waco; and speculation that floating coffins dredged up by Floyd's floods might be a portent that the Last Judgment is coming soon.
But in the end I gotta go with "Dear Karen," a periodical online advice column penned by Karen Anderson, doyenne of a Texas-based group called Y2K for Women. Karen set up shop around this time last year, offering Heloise's Hints advice for the Y2K preparation set–with a special focus on "the distaff side."
I snickered when I first ran across Karen, then I thought again and realized: Well … she's probably providing a useful service. Back then Art Bell was running a stentorian ad every night warning that Y2K would be the worst human disaster since the bubonic plague, and terrifying Y2K journalism was all over the place, including the cover of Time. If you know Middle America at all, you can imagine how this talk inflamed the built-in tool-purchasing lust of the typical Bible Belt dad. No doubt, Karen was/is trying to cash in with her service–she sells stuff–but I've always felt that she's also sincerely trying to help women get through it all the low-impact way, without having to set up a diesel generator in the living room.
These days, the "Ask Karen" mood is best described as "cozy hunker." Preparations are still advised–no way is she buying the government's "We're OK" pronouncements–but there's no underlay of stark terror like there used to be, when Karen issued an advisory about timing pregnancies to avoid risky Y2K delivery-room episodes. Now it's more like: A nasty winter storm is coming; you're prepared; so enjoy it, even. The latest newsletter is full of Christmas gift hints from readers. Barbara from Texas is sending family and friends Y2K gift baskets that contain "a first-aid kit, a multipurpose camping tool, two flashlights with batteries, four emergency candles, butane, lighters, a manual can opener, plastic cups, paper plates, plastic silverware, a liter of water, a can of Spam, a roll of toilet paper, and CRASH, the millennium bug (a stuffed toy sold through Hallmark, for the kids)."
That's pretty generous, and as Barbara points out, "nothing in the kit is useless, and it is better than the usual stale crackers and weird cheese."


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Following a rather long period of development, Motiga's Gigantic is about to take one gigantic step closer to release. Motiga has announced that the open beta for the MOBA-like Gigantic will officially kick off on December 8. With its start, anyone will be able to jump into the game and give it a whirl on Xbox One and Windows 10 as Motiga seeks further feedback and testing ahead of release.
The open beta will kick off as a part of Microsoft's Game Preview Program with cross-play between platforms. Throughout the course of its run, player will be able to pick from a weekly rotation of six heroes out of a total roster of 16. Three maps will also be available to play. From Motiga:
Each hero features a unique playstyle that can be further customized via skill trees during each match. Teams work together to attack enemies while claiming points on the map to summon powerful Creatures. Players can power up their team's Guardian by controlling the battlefield and defeating enemies. Victory is awarded to the team that overpowers their opponents' Guardian.
Curiously, some may note that Gigantic actually quietly hit the Windows Store earlier this month. However, December 8 looks to mark the "official" start to the open beta period with Xbox One joining the fray.
There's no indication on how long the open beta will run, but it's a great opportunity to try out what looks to be some unique and intriguing MOBA-style action. In any case, if you're interested in giving Gigantic a shot, the open beta will officially commence on December 8.


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Although the cost associated with credit card processing grows each year, Otterbein wants to continue to offer the option of paying by credit card. However, the University cannot continue to absorb these costs.
Therefore, Otterbein has contracted with TouchNet PayPath, a third-party company, to provide credit card processing services for student accounts. Through this new service, a 2.75 percent convenience fee (minimum $3.00 charge) will be charged to cover the credit card transaction costs assessed by credit card companies. We are working hard to contain our expenses in order to keep the cost of attending Otterbein affordable for everyone.
To allow students and families an opportunity to prepare for the change, the credit card convenience fee will begin January 15, 2016. Please note that the convenience fee only applies to student account payments made via credit card. Additional services, such as the bookstore, coffee shop, and Marketplace, are not included.
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Natural Oat Cakes
Please note that there are no amounts listed with the ingredients below. This is because this is a recipe that is designed to be done by eye, feel and taste.
The consistency needs to be that of an Xmas pudding - not too moist by not too dry!
This recipe is flexible and is designed as a starting point for inspiration. You can incorporate any flavours and ingredients you wish, including the flavours below to personal taste.
- Coconut oil
- Rolled oats
- Mixed lemon and orange peel
- Currants (optional)
- Chia seeds
- Mixed fresh (or frozen) summer fruits
- Fresh lemon juice
- Fresh orange juice
- Honey
- Cinnamon
- Preheat the oven to 160 degrees.
- Pour a little coconut oil into a flapjack tin and place in the oven to heat.
- Simply put all of your ingredients into a large mixing bowl and combine.
- Add your ingredients to your flapjack tin and place in the oven for 20 minutes.
- Turn the oven up to 200 degrees and cook for a further 5-10 minutes to make the top of your dish crispy.
- Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly and enjoy!


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Saturday, 17 November 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Life's better with a tour guide by your side! Let one of our trained and talented museum docents lead you through Florida's history from the Ice Age to the Space Age. Hop on one of our 2 pm museum tours. Museum tours are included with general admission. RSVP's are not required but are always appreciated.


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WASHINGTON - Lots of people lunged for bottled water after they were told last month that tap water in many U.S. cities contains traces of pharmaceuticals. "They wanted five-gallon bottles, half-liter cases - anything that wasn't municipal water," said Jennifer Brandon, who was taking phone orders for home-delivered Deer Park water the day the Associated Press story broke. Responding to the public alarm, Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., called for a hearing on the federal response to drugs in drinking water, now set for Tuesday. Despite the sudden clamor, however, many water-quality researchers kept doing what they had done for years about contaminants in tap water: nothing. They kept drinking local tap or well water, a half-dozen of them told McClatchy Newspapers. For one thing, they knew that bottled water is less regulated than municipal supplies are. In fact, Aberdeen's latest report on its drinking water showed no cause for alarm on any kind of contaminants. The big reason, however, was that researchers were less anxious than senators and a public jolted by another new environmental scare for which risk and remedy are both unknown. Plenty of contaminants: Goodness knows, there are lots of reasons to worry about the safety of drinking water. Contaminants now commonly found in drinking water include tiny traces of pesticides, herbicides, flame retardants, DEET, mosquito repellant, aircraft de-icers, lead, arsenic, mercury and esters, ketones and other chemicals found in personal care products. Not to mention additives in toothpaste meant to retard gum and tooth disease. The unending list of contaminants in water and elsewhere - now often called "micro-constituents" to scrub off the old word's onus - is a growing public burden. Asked if they faced more health risks than past generations, majorities of Americans polled in 1980 said yes. Asked a similar question in 2003, they said yes again. So why are experts relatively unfazed? Here are a handful of reasons:
- Improved detection technology means that we're concerned about levels of contamination that were undetectable in years past. In the 1970s, the best detection technology picked up compounds at concentrations of one part per million. Today, concentrations of one part per trillion or even quadrillion are detectable. With each zero of added sensitivity, "myriads of other chemicals are evident," in water, said Christian Daughton, a research scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency's National Exposure Research Laboratory in Las Vegas. Among them are many of the drugs now reported in drinking water. Given today's levels of detection, Daughton continued, what we consider to be clean drinking water resembles "a chemical sea of human-made chemicals and chemicals manufactured by the environment." That's alarming to a public whose definition of a trace hasn't changed since the 1970s and whose ideal, Daughton said, remains "pure" water. "It's a tremendous problem when you're interpreting risk for the public." he said. What causes his problem, however, is an unjustified worry. As Greg Kail, spokesman for the American Water Works Association in Denver, put it: "Just because you get a bigger telescope, that doesn't mean there are more stars in the sky. And better detection in water doesn't mean that the risk has increased."
- Even poisons are not always toxic. Toxicology's most basic principle, researchers explained, is the maxim that "the dose makes the poison." One margarita is fine for most people, in other words, but 10 could be fatal, depending on vulnerability and timing. Toxicologists apply this principle to all poisons, but the public doesn't, according to a landmark 1991 study that examined differences in how the two groups regard risks. Its lead author was University of Oregon psychology professor Paul Slovic, the founder of Decision Research Inc., a think tank for risk assessment based in Eugene, Ore. According to Slovic, people take an "all or none" view of toxicity when it comes to unwanted exposures. Unlike the government, academic and industry toxicologists he surveyed, they ignore key hazard factors such as concentration, exposure and dose. Nearly nine out of 10 lay persons, for example, told Slovic's interviewers that if exposed to a toxic chemical, you're likely to get sick. (Two-thirds of toxicologists disagreed.)
- Effects on animals may not predict effects on humans. In the case of drugs in water, reproduction in fin- and shellfish and amphibians seems to be the most affected, and the suspected culprits are natural and synthetic forms of the female hormone estrogen and substances that mimic them. In a widely cited experiment, fish in an otherwise pristine Canadian lake lost reproductive vitality when they are exposed to under six parts per trillion of a commonly used synthetic form of estrogen. The findings "raise a red flag" about other effects these drugs may be having on wildlife and possible risks to humans, said Karen Kidd, an environmental toxicologist at the University of New Brunswick's Canadian Rivers Institute who led the study. But it is important to realize, Kidd said, that estrogens are rarely found in drinking water.
- Scientists understand big numbers and use them to gauge risk. Most other people get lost in the zeroes. "There's no evolutionary reason for them to understand very big or very small numbers," said Ellen Peters, a colleague of Slovic's at the University of Oregon and at Decision Research.
- Most people think irrationally about risks. According to David Ropeik, a risk communication consultant based in Boston, people feel less threatened by health risks that they choose, such as smoking, than by risks that are imposed on them, such as contaminated drinking water. They accept familiar risks, such as riding a bicycle, more than risks that surprise them. They also tolerate visible risks, such as choppy seas, better than invisible ones, according to Ropeik. Drugs in drinking water earn mistrust on all those counts.
- News accounts of new environmental risks often overstate them. The Associated Press investigative report in March, for example, waited roughly 1,000 words before telling readers: "Many independent scientists are skeptical that trace concentrations will ultimately prove to be harmful to humans."


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Every now and then, a jury reaches deep into a defendant's pockets to punish it for its reprehensible conduct and to deter others from engaging in similar acts.
Such was the case in May, when a Colorado jury awarded 83-year-old James Sharon and his family $3.3 million after finding the nursing home entrusted with his care guilty of negligence.
Sharon's injuries included bedsores, skin tears and abrasions, dehydration, malnutrition, and E. coli and urinary tract infections – all because he did not receive adequate attention.
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Brent Moss, the Denver attorney who represented Sharon and his family, says it was pretty apparent to the jury that the nursing home had no good defense. "They argued that he was still living there, so he must be OK," Moss says. "But their expert admitted that his nursing home caretakers had deviated from the standard of care in all kinds of ways."
The jury's award included $300,000 for pain and suffering, the maximum allowed under Colorado law. The additional $3 million? That was the jury's way of punishing Belmont Lodge Health Care Center in Pueblo and its Atlanta-based parent corporation – and sending a big message to other operators of nursing homes.
Judging from some other punitive damage awards in the huge-to-astronomical range, juries seem to see negligence on the part of nursing homes as especially egregious.
In 2011, for example, a jury in West Virginia, finding that a nursing home in Charleston was responsible for the death of an 87-year-old resident with dementia and other age-related conditions, awarded her family $91.5 million, including $80 million in punitive damages. The case is now before the West Virginia Supreme Court.
Juries in other states have returned even larger verdicts – in one case awarding $1 billion in punitive damages – in negligence suits against nursing home operators.
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Arlington Storage Company, LLC
First Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 11/08/2009, Docket: RP10-67-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 126 Original Sheet No. 126
The amount of capacity allocated to the Replacement Customer(s) shall equal the original
released quantity less the recalled capacity. This allocated daily contractual quantity shall be used
for purposes of described in this Section, ASC shall not be obligated to deliver a combined quantity
to the Releasing Customer and the Replacement Customer(s) that is in excess of the total daily contract
quantity of the release.
(g) Reput Provisions. ASC shall support the function of reputting by the Releasing
Customer. The Releasing Customer may reput previously recalled capacity to the
Replacement Customer pursuant to the reput rights and methods identified in the
Releasing Customer's Notice to release capacity, as required by Section 4.1(g).
When capacity is recalled, such capacity may not be reput for the same Day.
The deadline for the Releasing Customer to notify ASC of a reput of capacity is 8:00
A.M. CCT to allow the Replacement Customer to submit timely nominations for gas to
flow on the next Day.
(h) Following the awarding of capacity to a Replacement Customer in accordance with the
procedures provided in this Section 4, the Releasing Customer's rights and ASC's
obligations under the Releasing Customer's Storage Service Agreement shall be modified
and subject to the capacity rights released and assigned to the Replacement Customer
for the term of such release. Effecting a release pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 4 shall constitute Releasing Customer's consent and agreement to such amendment
or modification of its existing Storage Service Agreement.
(i) The offer to release by a Customer under Rate Schedules FSS, NNSS, FP or FL must specify
the quantities of MDDQ, MDRQ, MSQ (or No-Notice Maximum Daily Quantity, Maximum Park
Quantity or Maximum Loan Quantity, as applicable), MDIQ, MDWQ or rights offered, and
actually available on the effective date of the assignment, and the exercise of which
rights, in conjunction with Releasing Customer's exercise of its retained rights, will
not violate any maximum or minimum quantity requirements or limitations applicable under
the Rate Schedule or the respective Storage Service Agreements. Releasing Customer shall
be responsible for ensuring that the Firm Storage Service quantities offered for release
shall be available upon the commencement of the release, in accordance with the terms
and conditions of the applicable Rate Schedule. A Replacement Customer under Rate Schedules
FSS, NNSS, FP or FL shall be responsible for arranging transportation to and from the
Point(s) of Receipt and Point(s) of Delivery consistent with its rights and obligations
under its Storage Service Agreement and Rate Schedules FSS, NNSS, FP or FL. The Replacement
Customer must comply with all obligations imposed under such Rate Schedule and its
rights to store, withdraw and/or inject Gas will be subject to the provisions thereof.
If the Releasing Customer proposes to, or requires a transfer-in-place of the portion of
its Storage Inventory in conjunction with its release and assignment of storage capacity
rights, it shall so specify in its offer to release and such transfer shall be implemented
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Ahoy there! Want to time warp into the 1800s?
Intended to preserve the block of buildings known as Schermerhorn Row from destruction, South Street Seaport Museum was founded by Peter and Norma Stanford in 1967. Now considered a historical landmark, the seaport is home to an upscale shopping mall which was formerly known as the Fulton Fish Market (where only fishy thing is how expensive some merchandises can be).
Visit and be transported to New York circa mid-1800s. Docked at the seaport are a few historical sailing vessels while the preserved cobblestone of Fulton Street will satisfy your appetite for shopping. Or you can just sit there by the pier and spend a lazy afternoon in the company of a good book and a good cup of coffee.
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What little girl doesn't love purple and pink butterflies? This card was inspire by (and made for) one of my little cousins who has a purple and pink room with butterflies. She's such a cutie!
The background was actually clip art. I printed it and added a border with a purple paper that closely matched the purple butterfly.
Then I added a couple of these little guys with dimensional adhesives to tie in the little guy below with the background.
I stamped the bug and then added the "happy birthday" sentiment below it. Then I used a paper punch to curve the edges. I did the same for the border piece which is the same purple I used to border the background. Simple!
***I used the "Love Bug" stamp set from Stampin' Up! and individual word stamps***
I'm linking at these great parties:
Mondays: Sweet Sharing Monday * Get Inspired Monday * The Girl Creative * Destination: Cutesy Monday * What's In The Gunny Sack * Etcetorize * Tuesdays: Riverton Housewives Roundup * Ta-Da Tuesday * Tuesdays Cute Crafts & Cute Parties *Happy Family Times * Show Me What You Got * Tuesday Time Out * Tuesday Tidbits * Wednesdays: Super Link Party * Show & Share * {Wow Me} Wednesday * Thursday: Pin'Inspirational Thursday * Recipe Roundup *A Crafty Soiriee * Creative Thursday * Fridays: Delicately Constructed Fridays * Flaunt It Friday * Financial Friday Link Up * My Crowded Kitchen * Saturdays: Strut Your Stuff Saturday * Once Upon A Weekend * Sharing Saturday * Dare To Share Saturday * Craft, Create and Inspire * Sundays: Nifty Thrifty Sunday * It's Overflowing Sunday Party * Cooking & Crafts Party


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Loss Of Service
Matt Richtel whines:
Technology is rendering obsolete some classic narrative plot devices: missed connections, miscommunications, the inability to reach someone. Such gimmicks don't pass the smell test when even the most remote destinations have wireless coverage. (It's Odysseus, can someone look up the way to Ithaca? Use the "no Sirens" route.)
Of what significance is the loss to storytelling if characters from Sherwood Forest to the Gates of Hell can be instantly, if not constantly, connected?
Plenty, and at least part of it is personal. I recently finished my second thriller, or so I thought. When I sent it to several fine writer friends, I received this feedback: the protagonist and his girlfriend can't spend the whole book unable to get in touch with each other. Not in the cellphone era.
Then Christopher Breen whines:
As you may have heard, areas of San Franciscos South Bay and coast lost their landline, cell phone, and Internet connectivity because an individual or individuals unknown deliberately sliced four fiber optic cables in San Jose, California. This action (currently termed "vandalism"), in addition to unplugging over 50,000 area residents, caused many businesses to shut down and threatened lives because 911 services were out for the better part of the day...
I had no Internet access. I couldn't call the office to alert my boss that I was off the grid. And my iPhone was no good with its constant No Service heading regardless of where I drove. I was completely unplugged.
Seriously, I'm actually very sensitive to this. Literature depends on communication technologies, from plot to medium. This is what I teach and write and think about all the time.
But it's ridiculous to whine that you can't make good stories because folks have cell phones. You might as well complain that you can't write stories because you can't use the direct intervention of God or angels or oracles. (GPS + Odyssey jokes aside, those guys actually had a LOT of information at their disposal.)
That's not a problem for David Simon, or David Chase. In fact, those two TV shows (The Sopranos and The Wire) should be required viewing for anyone looking to write or understand stories that are dependent upon these technologies. The key thing seems to be -- just like with the Iliad and the Odyssey -- to play with the possibilities of misinformation.


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Gerard Butler is set to replace Eric Bana in the diamond-heist thriller "Brilliant" at Lakeshore Entertainment reports Variety.
Gillian Gorfil's script follows a small-time criminal who partners with a female thief to pull off a daring diamond heist.
Filmmaker Robert Luketic, who previously worked with Butler on "The Ugly Truth", is helming the project which Gorfil, Sidney Kimmel, Gary Lucchesi and Tom Rosenberg will produce.
A female lead is now being sought for the project. Shooting kicks off this May in Boston.


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Editor's note: The temperature gauge is a Bill James-created statistic that measures how hot or cold hitters are. We will spotlight Red Sox and opposing team temperatures on game days.
The Red Sox entered Friday's series opener against the Toronto Blue Jays on a torrid pace. A healthier version of the Red Sox lineup, bolstered by players returning from injury, had lifted the team to a pair of series victories to open the second half of the season.
The Blue Jays stifled the sizzling Sox on Friday, though, taking the first game of the weekend series 6-1.
But, although some of Boston's big hitters were shut down Friday, the team still boasts a handful of players who are clicking at the plate. Adrian Gonzalez, who went hitless on Friday, was tearing the cover off the ball earlier in the week. Cody Ross, meanwhile, came into the Toronto series brimming with confidence after a walk-off home run on Thursday.
Here are the temperatures for the Red Sox and Blue Jays for July 21.
Red Sox
Cody Ross 88
Adrian Gonzalez 88
Carl Crawford 75
Jacoby Ellsbury 73
Dustin Pedroia 73
Kelly Shoppach 72
Nick Punto 71
Pedro Ciriaco 69
Mike Aviles 64
Ryan Sweeney 63
Daniel Nava 62
Will Middlebrooks 61
Jarrod Saltalamacchia 35
Blue Jays
Edwin Encarnacion 86
J.P. Arencibia 81
Jeff Mathis 78
Adam Lind 78
Travis Snider 74
Yan Gomes 69
Omar Vizquel 62
Yunel Escobar 61
Anthony Gose 59
Colby Rasmus 58
Rajai Davis 58
Kelly Johnson 57
Brett Lawrie 54
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Karin HunterKarin is a monster hunter who can transform into a huge venomous snake at will. she comes across Kairak and Reana by accident after her brother introduces himself to Reana (and gets blasted across the street by Kairak). She figures out immediately that Kairak is a dragon and other hints point to her having a long lifespan where she worked with other dragon power users and dragons. She goes with Kairak and Reana on their travels to watch over them for her superiors and train Reana to use her powers in a way that wont destroy her body.
Karin is a slightly malicious woman who is a warrior leader to the core. She cares for her people, the Hwansoo Hunters, but has hate for humankind. As well she fears Kairaks potential for destruction. Like Didan and Leehalt she also mistakenly believes Reana is a disposable vessel that will be killed if she ever becomes a bother to the dragon.
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The Complete Engraver is a brand new book about engraving, print engraving, and stationery engraving. It will be on the bookshelves in September, so, Nancy Sharon Collins is going on a book signing tour to spread the word. (This project supports the book tour from late September through October.) Who's been involved? Want more information?
"Today, Nancy Sharon Collins brings crisp wit and undying love to one of history's most spirited printing processes. As the letterpress revival grips designers in its leaden thrall, we might ready ourselves to receive engraving's lighter touch." — Ellen Lupton
Why a book tour?
Its about de-mystifying this incredible printing process, discovering the history, sharing the craft, and reaching-out to visual culture nerds like you, people who know, or know nothing about engraving.
Who might be interested?
Designers, typographers, techies, book people, print history/letterpress/paper/letter writing/calligraphy people, picture people, cultural history people, heraldic and iconography people, people interested in monograms and ciphers, DIY people.
What's in it for me?
- Be part of a growing community of engraving nerds doing their part to revive this incredibly unique and beautiful art.
- Learn about what engraving is, how to design with it, and make gorgeous stationery.
- Learn to identify engraving from other forms of lettering, type, and printing.
- Learn the rudiments of how to engrave, the old fashioned way.
- Gain valuable resources for who/what/where/how engraving is done with old-school, by-hand methods as well as digital technology and the latest in photo-engraving.
- Gain first-hand knowledge about monograms, their history, and how to make them.
- Ask the author as many questions as you can possibly imagine, provided this project is successfully funded.
What cities will Engraving for Nerds fund?
September…Brooklyn (Powerhouse)
October…….Chicago (American Printing History Association)
………………New Orleans (Hermann-Grima House)
…….….….….Millerton, NY (Hunter Bee)
Where has the book already premiered?
July/Aug…….Seattle, WA (TypeAmericana)
………………New Orleans (Zehnder Communication)
…….….….….Milwaukee (TypeCon Conference)
Also...two digital fonts were created for the launch of "The Complete Engraver" by Terrance Weinzierl and Steve Matteson, Monotype Imaging. To share the enthusiasm for engraving, vintage type, lettering, and this project, download them FREE. The fonts "Feldman Engraver" (below left) and "JMC Engraver" (right) were based on real engraver's lettering styles.
About the author:
Author Nancy Sharon Collins is a well-known designer, educator, and stationer for clients such as Clinique, Revlon, Curve Fragrance, Williams-Sonoma, Martha Stewart Wedding, the Metropolitan Opera Shop and the Museum of Modern Art. She has been written about in many publications and blogs.
"This is for those who love everything fine." — Marian Bantjes
* Images shown in "The Complete Engraver" sample spread reproduced with permission from: E.A. McIlhenny Natural History Collection, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, La.; The Historic New Orleans Collection; Napoleonic Satires collection, Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library.
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I have a old 1969 Evinrude 18 horse Fastwin electric start outboard. I know the thing can't be more simple to work on. I replaced the lower unit by myself and I never had any mechanical education other than a small engines course in high school. The thing runs like a charm, but I'm not getting full speed out of it.
When I had the old lower unit in it, I got about 28 mph out of it. Now I only get about 15. I doubt that the lower unit replacement has anything to do with the present power loss. When I did the lower unit switch, I didn't touch the cable adjustments, the control box or the carb and settings.
If anyone can give me some assistance, please get back or e-mail me.
Thank you!
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The first things that come to mind are the gear ratio of the lower unit and the prop. If the gear ratio of the new lower unit is different. That could be the problem. If you also changed the prop at the same time, not unusual if you have hit a rock or somethin'. You may have used a prop with a different pitch or diameter.
If you still have the old parts, check then against the replacements. Now, just correct as necessary and you should get your old zip back, if that was the problem. ;-)
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ADWARE: Any software package which automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author.
BANDWIDTH: A measure of the "speed" of an Internet connection.
BHO: (Browser Helper Objects) Programs given full access to many features of Internet Explorer which redirect users to fake websites to capture personal information and redirect searches to commercial sites.
BROADBAND: A number of different methods used for high speed Internet access such as DSL, cable modems, fiber optics, and mobile wireless, all of which are permanently connected to the Internet through different means.
BROWSER TOOLBARS: Programs in a web browser to extend the browsers functionality. They often contain software conflicts, viruses, and spyware.
BYTES: A measure of computer memory equal to 8 bits.
- There are 1000 kilobyes in 1 megabyte
- There are 1000 megabytes in 1 gigabyte
- There are 1000 gigabytes in 1 terabyte
COOKIES: Small pieces of code used to improve navigation by storing browsing information on a computer. Tracking cookies are used to drive advertisements and are sometimes malicious.
CACHE: A form of computer memory that allows you to access stored information, such as web addresses you've recently typed into your browser, more quickly. Pronounced "cash."
DOWNLOAD: To copy files from one computer to another over the internet.
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line: A type of high speed internet using standard phone lines and the local telephone network.
E-MAIL: The computer version of mail sent between one or more parties.
FILE EXTENSION: The suffix at the end of a filename that indicates what type of file it is.
- Some examples are: .txt—this is a text document, .doc—this is a Microsoft
- Word document, .jpeg—this is a photo document.
FIREWALL: Hardware or software that keeps hackers from using your computer to send out your personal information without your permission. Firewalls watch for outside attempts to access your system and block communications to and from sources you don't permit.
HACKER: Someone who uses computers and the Internet to access other people's computers without permission.
HARDWARE: The mechanical parts of a computer system, including the central processing unit (CPU), monitor, keyboard, and mouse, as well as other equipment like printers and speakers.
INTERNET: Believe it or not, the Internet was created way back in 1969, during the Cold War, by the United States military. It was meant to be a "nuke-proof" communications network. Today, the Internet spreads across the globe and consists of countless networks and computers, allowing millions of people to share information. Data that travels long distances on the Internet is transferred on huge lines known collectively as the Internet backbone. The Internet is now maintained by the major Internet service providers such as MCI, Sprint, & GTE. Because these providers make huge amounts of revenue off the Internet, they are motivated to maintain consistent & fast connections which benefits everyday Internet users us.
LAN (Local Area Network): A network of connected computers that are generally located near each other, such as in an office or company.
OPERATING SYSTEM (OS): The main program that runs on a computer. An OS allows other software to run and prevents unauthorized users from accessing the system. Major OS's include Windows & Mac OS.
PUP: (Potentially Unwanted Programs) you didn't intend to install.
RAM: (Random Access Memory) The hardware inside your computer that retains memory on a short-term basis and stores info. while you work.
ROUTER: A device that connects two or more networks. A router finds the best path for forwarding information across the networks.
SOFTWARE: A computer program with instructions that enable the computer hardware to work.
- System software — such as Windows or MacOS that operate the machine itself
- Applications software — such as spreadsheet or word processing that provide specific functionality.
SPAM: Unsolicited commercial email; often sent in bulk quantities.
SPAMMER: Someone who sends unsolicited commercial email.
SPYWARE: Programs used to gather banking, credit, web browsing habits, purchasing, friend lists and other information for the use and benefit of the author of the spyware.
TROJAN (HORSE): Programs designed to breech system security and perform unwanted functions.
UPLOAD: To copy or send files or data from one computer to another.
VIRUS: Self-replicating piece of code that has a detrimental effect on the computer.
WORM: Standalone program that replicates itself and hijacks the user's computer to send spam, hack servers & infect contact lists. MALWARE: Generic term to describe all of the above.
WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW): An Internet system which distributes graphical, hyperlinked information through a browser. One function of the Internet.
Many people think the Internet and the Web are the same thing–They're not! The World Wide Web (www) is one of the many features of the "net". E-mail and Instant Messaging are also part features of the Internet.