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Oh dear Chitlins, even in the New Year I'm sucking at this holiday post thing! I'm so sorry, I was just so thrilled to have the day off yesterday (what a surprise!) that I spent all day doing nothing (well, except running 6 miles for that pesky half-marathon in March). Otherwise, The BF and I had a lovely and relaxing New Years weekend in Vermont, despite the whole no snow issue.
So did anyone else make those dreadful New Years Resolutions? I did, but I think it's a totally achievable goal: complete 3 half-marathons. I'm all signed up for two Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathons, the first on is on St. Patty's Day in DC. I'm running to support the American Cancer Society and if you'd love to start your New Year off right make a donation to my run. 🙂 Peas and thanks to you!
Anyway, despite all the goodies I made for the holidays, I only photographed a few of them and many of the things I made I didn't even have time to experiment with (although that will hopefully change this evening). So what you have here is some delicious, delicious English toffee that I made for The BF's parents as part of their Christmas snowman tin of goodies.
This is another one of those recipes that was floating around Pinterest and let me tell you, it is addictively tasty. I had figured it would be really sweet (which surprisingly it isn't) so I had only reserved the the snowman's hat part of the tin for the treats before I realized that would not be nearly enough, so I packed another tupperware container full of the stuff to bring up to Vermont.
Good thing I did, because with 8 people in the house, that stuff flew like hotcakes. The BF's mom even tried to save a little stash for herself but I sadly gave her away in attempting to be generous (sorry!) and now I think I owe her at least this recipe if not another package full of tasty toffee.
So I say whip up a batch of this toffee to help cheer you up, if you too are anxiously anticipating snow for the slopes (which appears to never be coming) since it only takes a total of 20 minutes to make (though several hours to cool) and about 3.2 nanoseconds to consume.
In the meantime, enjoy some of photos I took with my fancy new camera that I got for Christmas (Thanks Mom and Dad!). I'm still getting the hang of it, it's a Cannon G12 super fancy point and shoot, but you can get an attachment that lets you convert the lens it comes with so you can attach fancier lenses. I'll get around to it. I'm still learning how to use this fancy thing since it's obviously nothing like my iPhone, so bear with me folks.
Happy New Year!
*Just a Note: Just like last time, DO NOT attempt to make this on a rainy day, it will take ages for your caramel to caramelize (turn amber) and dry out and the chocolate on top will not totally set. I suppose to offset this you could try using candy melts on top since they are a little more reliable in setting properly.
English Pecan Toffee
Adapted ever so slightly from Red Couch Recipes (as is always the case, this is a family recipe passed down through generations so you know it's a goodie, which also explains why I didn't want to change it too much)
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut in chunks
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tbsp water
1 cup pecans, in pieces and toasted
3/4 cup chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate but I have a feeling that good quality dark chocolate would be just as tasty, I would avoid semi-sweet though)
Pre-heat oven to 350°F. Line an 8x8in pan with parchment paper.
Spread the pecans evenly in a single layer on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for about 10 minutes, or until fragrant. Remove and let cool completely. Once cooled scatter evenly across the bottom of the pan. Try to keep the nuts in a singly layer, if it's too thick across the bottom the toffee layer won't hold them together and your nuts will crumble off the bottom of your toffee. This is a case where more is not necessarily better.
In a medium sized heavy bottomed sauce pan (I used my dutch oven) melt together the butter, sugar and water on medium high heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Your mixture should appear bubbly and thick through out this process.
Keep stirring until your mixture turns an amber color, starts to pull away from the sides of your pot, is smoking and appears drier than when you started. On a rainy day this took me well over 20 minutes, however with ideal conditions it should take anywhere between 7-15 minutes depending on the type of stove you have (gas or electric).
Immediately remove the mixture from the heat and pour over the nuts in the pan, smoothing the top with a rubber spatula to make sure it is evenly coated and reaches all corners of the pan. Let cool for about 8-10 minutes.
After the mixture has cooled slightly scatter the chocolate chips evenly across the top and let melt slightly, it won't take long. Carefully spread the melted chocolate chips over the top in an even layer to the entire top has a coat of chocolate. Let cool on a wire rack for several hours (I suggest overnight if you can wait that long).
This stuff keeps forever, I've had mine for a week now and it's still good.


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Oklahoma Bass Fishing – How to Catch Catfish in Oklahoma – Best Spots, Tactics, Tips
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Note: This is a guest post from Max of Inner Gladiator. It's a great post of taking responsibility. In life, you're bound to mess up and make mistakes. Then you can either start blaming others or man up to it. I've personally fallen out with a bunch of friends who were too pussy to admit their flaws, something I'll never respect.
That being said, you wanna achieve your dreams? You want to start living the life you want? Take responsibility for everything around you first. No excuses.
A couple of years ago, I went through a dark period in my life. My typical day looked like this: hit snooze on the alarm 5 times, wake up, smoke a cigarette while dragging myself to class, devour a bacon egg & cheese sandwich, take a 2 hour nap, wake up, watch TV, eat another hoagie with salt-and-vinegar chips, drink with some friends, and then to top it off, I'd take a shot of Nyquil so I could fall asleep to do it again the next day.
So I moved abroad for the summer to get my stuff together, and I started to think about why things had gotten so bad. I thought I figured it out and initially blamed all of my unhappiness on my friends, which of course, isn't the real reason.
The real reason is that I had failed to take responsibility for the direction of my own life.
Little did I know that this mini-revelation of mine would deeply offend some of my friends…
So to share my newfound knowledge with my readers, I wrote an article entitled "Why People Are Mirrors And How To Learn More About Yourself."
In the introduction, the article described how my friends weren't "all bad" but that I saw a lot of negativity in them. I came out and said that they were bad influences on me and that they were the reason for my demise.
And when my friends read this part…they got PISSED.
Of course it isn't true – in fact, later on in the article I emphasize that what I thought about other people was just a reflection of myself.
But it didn't come across that way to my friends.
How did I find out that it was offensive? I got a message from an ex-girlfriend who was pissed that I wrote it, and another message from another person who told me to go kill myself.
When that happened, it really hit me.
It was the first time in a while that I realized the gravity my actions had a substantial impact on the people in my life and the people I write to.
The Regret Phase
After getting this "hate mail", I felt like a complete shit.
If only I knew I had to take responsibility for my actions instead of just brushing it off…
But I was pissed at myself. How could my writing upset so many people?
I went through a huge self-doubt marathon where I felt terrible for putting people down, and I felt that I was turning into the person that I never wanted to turn into.
I couldn't even get my work done without thinking about it. Although I knew that shit happens, it was still causing me a lot of emotional pain.
I tried to get rid of the feeling. I tried to reframe the situation and say that it didn't matter because what's done is done. But that didn't do anything.
Then a simple act of a little puppy changed the way I looked at taking responsibility…
A couple of days ago, while I walking back to my apartment from class, I ran into a friend who was walking her little puppy dog. Puppies are cute as hell, so I went to pet it. It got really excited and jumped all over me…and who doesn't love that?
Then my friend said "oh my gosh…I'm soooo sorry".
"She got mud all over your pants."
I looked down to see a bunch of dirt all over my jeans.
"Oh…whatever she's just a puppy"
Then I had one of those aha moments:
Sometimes a puppy shits all over the carpet. But that doesn't stop it from being a cute little puppy for the rest of its life. It might get scolded at for droppin' a deuce on the top of your Comcast remote, but the puppy doesn't get depressed for the rest of her life. She just learns her lesson to not do it again, and moves on. And at the end of the day…she's still a cute little puppy dog.
Okay, so I don't consider myself a little cute female puppy. But this reminded me that it's okay to screw up as long as I learn from the experience and don't continue to shit all over the place.
"Regret only belongs to experiences that don't facilitate growth."
How To Take Responsibility From Screwing Up
I met up with one of the pissed off friends to have a talk. By talking through it we were able to get on the same page, and instead of blowing off the situation as a loss, I'm able to grow from the situation instead of getting depressed about it.
So here's what I learned about the entire situation…
If you screw up, it's okay. Don't use this as an excuse to do whatever you want without any regard to other people's feelings, but as long as you take responsibility and own up for what you've actually done, it's a great learning experience and will prevent you from screwing up in that area later down the line.
It's not easy to take responsibility, I know. It takes a lot of energy to admit that you messed up even if you did it unintentionally, but when you do, you'll be able to learn from your mistakes instead of brushing them off. It took me a while to own up to my actions regarding the article, but now I know to be more careful with how I say things. It's less likely to happen again in the future.
You just have to own up and be honest with what you've done and how you want to move forward. People will understand, and everyone will feel better as a result.
You don't have to dwell on it, but you do have to act on it. Stay strong, make mistakes, take responsibility, learn, and move on.
Max Nachamkin is his own Inner Gladiator, a man dedicated to mastering his career, his health, and his relationships. He's a writer, a world traveler, a paleo advocate, and a nationally ranked Rubik's Cube solver.


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Did God Curse Hillary/Kaine 9-5-2016 Ohio
by Beverley Russell – Op-ed columnist Trumpville Report
Hillary Clinton's holiday treatment is not going to work thanks to, "Patriot Politics" on Sirius radio channel 125, "Trumpville Report", and intelligent Americans, interested in the fate of our country. When you can't watch the news, and you can't be on mobile devices to read Trumpville, you can listen to Patriot Politics.
As I was driving today I switched to patriot politics station, and listened to Hillary Clinton's speech in Ohio.
Hillary's running mate, Tim Kaine came out touching lightly on unions and labor, then turns straight to praising Hillary and putting down Trump. Not sure just who this guy reminds me of, but he's definitely not VP material.
Excerpts from Battle of the Vice Presidential Candidates, on Trumpville report:
((Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine took advantage of the state's lax gift laws to receive an $18,000 Caribbean vacation, $5,500 in clothes and a trip to watch George Mason University play in the NCAA basketball Final Four during his years as lieutenant governor and governor, according to disclosures he filed.
Now as VP pick , Hillary Clinton's running mate, Kaine reported more than $160,000 in gifts from 2001 to 2009, mostly for travel to and from political events and conferences, according to disclosures compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project.))
He comments how Hillary's running against a guy who's been sitting up in a penthouse and doesn't understand the lives of everyday folks, and he's not focused on making the lives of everyday folks any better. Excuse me, isn't Hillary worth over 400 million (when you combine, Hillary's, Bill's, and the Clinton Foundation dollars), and doesn't she have several mansions everywhere?
He says he's proud to be on a ticket with the most qualified candidate. Hillary has been in public life over 35 years and doesn't have one single accomplishment to her name!
He continues with , can I tell you something that really makes me mad, Donald Trump put out a tweet today, about our nominee for president, and the tweet essentially said; she doesn't look presidential does she fellows? Kaine says at the end of Hillary's 2nd term as president, Donald Trump will be Hocking bottle water somewhere. Man is it gonna feel great when Pence mops the floor with this bozo!
Kaine's most hilarious line, Hillary is gonna be the, "you're hired president", while Trump will be the "you're fired president". Lol, you can't make this stuff up.
Kaine even tried to say Trump wouldn't pay contractors that built things for him, that Trump would just stiff them. If I were Mr Trump, I'd consider slander charges against Kaine for that one!
Before introducing Hillary, he was practically pleading for volunteers, saying all you have to do is text "together" to 47246, that's all you got to do, he repeated it a couple of times, almost begging. Lol, I found this hysterical and very unprofessional for a presidential campaign.
Did God Curse Hillary when she lies about Mr Trump?
Hillary makes it to the stage, holding tightly to the hand railing. I was so surprised, she was in black slacks and a gray top, not her usual "Foreign Made" matching atrocious pantsuit.
She started with , happy happy labor day, then coughed! Did God Curse Hillary so she couldn't speak? She thanked the councilwoman for hosting, and then the coughing rolled, followed by gulps of water, cough,,,, I've been talking so much, cough, trying to immediately make excuses. The first several minutes she coughed in between every word. After 3 minutes, she was handed cough drops or mints. At 4 minutes she barely got out, allergic reaction, (God's making her cough every time she tells a lie, better than her barking). The small crowd tried to give her an out by starting a chant, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, the unenthusiastic clamour, was not loud enough to drown out Hillary's coughing. During the remainder of her "speech" she sounded as if she'd been crying, or she was a loaded junky, sniffing and clearing her throat, and speaking in a very deep tone.
After her coughing fit calmed down a little, she had the audacity to say that Trump leaves out all of our troops on the front line, that he leaves out the police officers, firefighters, doctors, nurses, teachers, educator's, he leaves out everybody except him. She's referring to a speech Trump gave at the RNC saying, I alone can fix it. This line was taken out of context, the complete line in this sentence is talking about the difference between a Clinton administration VS a Trump administration fixing problems we are facing here in America.
As I continued listening, the radio host commented, that Tim Kaine was Hillary's puppy dog, he would sit behind her, twirling his thumps, clapping on queue, and running to fetch her a copy of their "book".
This " book" she's referring to is "stronger together", a 295 page blueprint, she co-wrote with her running mate, Tim Kaine. In this "book", she explains how you can read everything "WE" plan to do. The book is set to go on sale the day after labor day.
Wait on sale? Yep, to find out the "plan for America" on the Democratic ticket for the presidency, you have to purchase their book for $15.99. And they criticize Donald Trump for being vague on his plan? At least we don't have to buy it!
Get your wading boots out, Here comes the BS.
Tim and I will not only respect our men and women in uniform, we will protect them, and we will ensure that they are given the resources that they need to do the dangerous missions we ask them to do one our own behalf. This from the Butcher of Benghazi, a title pinned to Hillary about her roll in the deaths of 4 Americas asking for help, that they did not receive, while Hillary was secretary of state.
Roughly 18 minutes into Hillary's speech of coughing, sniffing, and throat clearing, Hillary decides to say, Trump does not have the right temperament to be our Commander and Chief, she chokes out a nasty train of coughs, before she could completely finish the sentence coherently, (see God cursed her, she lies about Trump, she coughs). How do I know she's lying, you ask? See; Trump's Temperament, Trumpville report.
She points out that between Kaine and her, they have had a lot of years, a lot of years of public service. Yet Hillary or Tim can neither one list any of their own accomplishments. Years of, no change, in years of public service between the pair! This is what the Democrats are trying to spoon feed us? Even Hillary can't choke this one down.
Its unfathomable that these two could be in control of the United States of America. Its like watching a very badly aged "Poison Ivy" spluttering on her own poison, and a lazy "Robin, Boy Wonder" as her pet.
Compared to Trump & Pence the dignity level is, well quite frankly, incomparable. While Clinton/Kaine looks like horrible actors with a very bad script, Trump/Pence looks Stately, polished, Patriotic.
Trump/Pence 2016 let's get our dignity back. I can't help but wonder, "Did God Curse Hillary", when she lies about Mr.Trump? You decide.
Want to see the plane interview and the curse in action? Watch this!!!
by Beverley Russell – Op-ed columnist Trumpville Report


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I've been on such a high the past month, it has me reflecting about where my life was two years ago. I felt directionless, lost, and hopeless. I swore I would never survive that summer. Yet here I am, two years later, happier than I've ever been. I didn't die.
And neither will you.
We've all been through it at some point in our lives. Some of us multiple times. Others, more recent. It matters little. Every time the going gets rough and it feels like God has forsaken you, you come out on the other side a bit weathered, but stronger and wiser.
If you're in the midst of a struggle and you think you can't go on, remember these five things.
This too shall pass.
It always does. It may not pass in the way you want, but life is full of seasons and what you're enduring right now is one of many. Remember that nothing lasts forever, and just beyond the horizon, good times await.
Your thoughts lead your actions.
If you're in a struggle, your mind is your greatest weapon. It can haunt you and keep you awake at night, or it can send positive vibes and happy thoughts throughout the duration of your storm.
There are blessings in the struggle.
It can be hard to see in the midst of the pain, but when the storm has calmed, the rainbow emerges. Maybe you lost a job, but found a much better one to replace it. Maybe a falling out with a friend has led to the revelation that it was a toxic relationship. Whatever is happening to you now may be the best time to evaluate your life and where you are heading. Every struggle has a blessing hidden inside. You just can't see it yet.
Everyone has problems.
You may be tempted to compare yourself to everyone else during this time. DO NOT! You should never compare your life to others. We've all seen that quote that every person is fighting some kind of battle. Nobody has a perfect life, and if they do, it won't last long. Struggles come to us all.
Count your blessings.
Even when life has gone to crap, there's always some blessings to be found. Search for them, marinate yourself in them, and say thank you. There is always something to be thankful for. Now pick yourself up and keep going.
I don't mean to sound presumptuous or undermine people's hardships in this post, but if we're honest with ourselves… There are always better things to come – even if they're not what we want. Life does get better. I hope that anyone hurting or suffering or just having a really bad day can take these bits and help themselves through the rough patch.


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Paul Walker, best known for his role as Brian O'Conner in the Fast and Furious film series, died yesterday in a car crash. A later report that Walker's death was yet another internet hoax turned out to be fake, as both his official Facebook page and verified Twitter account have now confirmed his death at the age of 40.
From Twitter:
It's with a heavy heart that we must confirm Paul Walker passed away today in a tragic car accident…MORE: http://on.fb.me/1bzn8gD – #TeamPW
From Facebook: "It is with a truly heavy heart that we must confirm that Paul Walker passed away today in a tragic car accident while attending a charity event for his organization Reach Out Worldwide. He was a passenger in a friend's car, in which both lost their lives. We appreciate your patience as we too are stunned and saddened beyond belief by this news. Thank you for keeping his family and friends in your prayers during this very difficult time. We will do our best to keep you apprised on where to send condolences. – #TeamPW"
Walker's publicist Ame van Iden confirmed his death, but said she could not elaborate beyond statements posted on Walker's official Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Walker was a passenger in a friend's 2005 Porsche Carrera GT and both were attending a charity event for his organization, Reach Out Worldwide, in the community of Valencia in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles north of Hollywood. The website for the charity said the Saturday event was intended to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Speed was a factor in the crash, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office said. The wreck took place about 3:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET), about 300 yards from the office park where the event was held. The speed limit there is 45 mph.
Deputies arrived at the scene to find a vehicle on fire, the sheriff's department said in a statement.
Once fire crews put the flames out, they found two occupants, both of whom were pronounced dead at the scene. Saturday evening, all that remained was the burnt mangled metal of the red car and a light pole that had been knocked down.
Walker was, of course, best known for his role in the "Fast and Furious" franchise, appearing in five of the six films released so far. Though some insensitive neanderthals are already focused on how Walker's death will affect the seventh installment, which is due out next year and was already filming, I would like to skip such insensitive foolishness and focus on how Walker's death should serve as a wake-up call to us all.
First, this should not only cause us to cherish every day, but to also be more positive. Don't all the child-like comments disparaging the "Fast and Furious" franchise look petty now? It's an enjoyable franchise that has seen its last two installments - when most franchises have long run out of gas - surpass 70% on Rotten Tomatoes and $200 million at the domestic box-office.
This was due in large part to Walker, who appeared in all the instalments except the third. Vin Diesel and Walker were the two linchpins of the franchise. But there may not have been a franchise for Vin Diesel and the other stars that would come later to return to if Walker hadn't carried 2 Fast 2 Furious. It should be noted that the franchise was reinvigorated by the return of Diesel and Walker in the fourth film, setting the franchise up to rocket to new heights with the fifth and six films.
To those who scoff at the Fast and Furious franchise, who can't wait to replace Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Damiel Craig as James Bond almost as soon as they start getting comfortable in iconic roles; who laugh at the idea of another Rambo movie with Sylvester Stallone and so on, let this be a reminder that all these actors, like all of us, are on this mudball for a really short, limited time. Being part of a truly popular, iconic franchise is a rare thing. So let's enjoy them while we can.
Also, it seems many on the internet like to tear apart celebrities for sport. It is worth remembering that most are very decent people who donate their time and money to all kinds of philanthropic endeavors. The thing that makes Walker's death even more tragic is that he was leaving not a popular nightclub or strip club or award show party, but an event held by an organization he founded, with the event's proceeds targeted at victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
In the end, Walker's death should drive home just how fragile life itself is. How fleeting. Maybe that will remind us to stop obsessing over things that are trivial and really don't matter. Just for a little while.


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Be Responsive and Available to Your Customers
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You need to make it easy for customers to contact you, either through email or phone call, it is vital that you make that information available. A contacts page Is the easiest way to ensure that you have all the correct information on your site as well as making it simple for your customers. To enhance your online presence further, having a 'live chat' area available on your website gives your customers the chance to have instant contact with you.
Optimising Your Online Presence
To ensure that your online presence is successful and available to your customers, it is important to follow these handy tips, as having an online presence that is accessible and responsive to customers will build brand loyalty and trust- the underpinning to any successful business.


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Shane Long's beauty downs World Champions Germany and guarantees play-off spot
What a night, what a magical night.
Just when we all needed a reminder that Ireland's national soccer team have heroes to cherish after all, Shane Long's 70th minute goal that secure an epic victory against world champions revived memories of all that was great about this game.
Big Jack's glory nights were like this, as were the few Mick McCarthy oversaw and for a whole new generation, this is what it feels like. Get in!
The scenes at the final whistle brought a tear to the eye. The stands were alive again. Come on you boys in green. Ok, we all got a little carried away, but why not. This was special.
Quite how this happened is a story that is hard to explain, but the final scoreline of this game and the 2-2 draw between Scotland and Poland in Glasgow means we are in the Euro 2016 play-offs at the very least. Now we only need a point on Sunday in Poland to qualify for real.
With Ireland boss Martin O'Neill selecting Burnley's Stephen Ward to contain the threat of Mezut Ozil on the left side of his defence and Cyrus Christie charged with containing Marcos Reus on the left flank, the notion that this Euro 2016 qualifier was anything more than a horrible mismatch and the opening exchanges did little to dampen that pessimism.
The huge roar that echoed around a packed Aviva Stadium as a green shirted player got a touch on the ball 117 seconds into a game that started with predictable German domination summed up the mood of the occasion. We all knew Ireland were out of their depth here, but this was still an occasion to savour.
It's not often that the reigning world champions come to Dublin with qualification for a major finals very much in Ireland's grasp with two games left to play and as new filtered through that Poland had taken at lead against Scotland in Glasgow, the bigger picture could be appreciated despite the gulf in class between the two sides on show.
A defeat for the Scotland against the Poles was enough to give Ireland a place in next month's Euro 2016 play-offs at the very least and if another full-house gathers for that fixture next month, we need not fear that the opposition will be anywhere near as fearsome as this.
Quite how Ireland were not behind in an opening 16 minutes that saw Germany boast an 81% possession rate was a mystery. Jerome Boateng missed a free header in the box after some woeful defending from a set-piece, John O'Shea's despairing challenge defected Ilkay Gundogan's effort over the bar and Richard Keogh's despairing leg denied a certain German goal after 16 minutes.
It was backs to the wall stuff, as we knew it would be and after Ozil was adjudged to be off-side after 19 minutes when the ball finally found a way into the Irish net, the fantasy that mission impossible could yield some reward was floated.
You could not fault the Irish effort. James McCarthy was turning in a terrier like performance in the heart of the midfield, Wes Hoolahan was the one player who looked to have the ability to hold onto the ball for an length of time and while the gulf in passing ability between the two sides was horribly evident, Ireland were still level.
Ozil flashed a shot past a stranded Shay Given four minutes before half time and it quickly became evident when the veteran keeper had not moved towards the ball, as he was stretchered off moments later with what appeared to be a leg injury.
O'Neill decision to send on Darren Randolph in his place and not David Forde – who was wearing the No.1 shirt on the bench – came as something of surprise, with the Millwall keeper appearing to share the surprise as the TV cameras panned to him as the substitution was completed.
News that Scotland had drawn level against Poland was just as significant as the half-time whistle at the Aviva and somehow, Ireland's clean sheet had remained intact.
Andre Schurrle missed a glorious chance to break Irish resistance when he found himself in space on in the box after 54 minutes, but his failure to keep his effort down fuelled Irish hopes that they could survive. Dare we say, they could even imagine more was possible.
Murphy's stinging shot after 64 minutes was well wide of Manuel Neuer's goal, but at least it was a glimpse of glory that Ireland needed to bolster their ambition and the hopes of the 50,604 fans packed into a stadium that confirmed it can produce an electrifying atmosphere for a soccer international when the time is right.
Then the impossible happened, as Long's goal rocked Germany onto the ropes and the Aviva Stadium erupted in a manner that sent shivers down every spine. What a moment. This was Jason McAteer against Holland in 2001 all over again, but we still had 17 minute to hang on. Surely not.
Thomas Muller missed a glorious chance to draw Germany level after 77 minutes, replacement keeper Randolph was pulling off ridiculous saves to push us to the brink of euphoria and as the clock ticked down through towards the 90th minute, we all dared to dream.
News that Poland had equalised against Scotland made this perfect night even more perfect, if that was possible.
For those fortunate to witness this drama, it was moment they will never forget and now we have to hope we can have a final push over the finish line in Warsaw on Sunday.
Come on Your Boys in Green.


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Issues like that is probably while "IDEs" like Vim aren't going anywhere, anytime soon.


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Candid Wines represents Francuska Vinarija, an organically farmed winery in Roglievo, Serbia.
Members of the trade in Illinois can find our entire portfolio with current pricing on SevenFifty.com.
Read more about SevenFifty here.
Click on the below for more specific information about Francuska Vinarija.
Serbian and French speakers can learn more at the winery's website:
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It's time for another local "mompreneur" feature! This time I'm introducing Kimberly Briner, a very talented designer and creator of Pink Pineapple Prints and Design. I've never met Kim in person, but after emailing her some and learning more about her through questions I asked, I can tell she is super sweet! And, to prove my point – she has generously offered to give one of you a fabulous prize! Read on for more details!
Website: www.pinkpineappleprints.com
How long have been in business? I'm celebrating an official start – my 1st anniversary is tomorrow (9/4)!
So, tell us a little bit about what Pink Pineapple Designs is all about? I offer professionally press printed, custom designed cards, announcements, stationery, invitations, photo cards, calling cards, canvases, labels, etc.
There are collections of pre-designed items on my website as well (and more being added continually as I complete new designs). My goal is to offer complete customization and upscale cards at a reasonable price. I love working one on one with the customer, starting the design process from scratch and seeing the original ideas that were in my head move to the computer and ultimately to the printed final product!
Are you married? Do you have children? I'm married to my college sweetheart, John. We just celebrated our 10th anniversary in July. We have 2 beautiful daughters: Julia (7) and Lillian (Lilly) (3.5)
When you're not designing, where can we find you? Chasing after my two children and shuffling them to their various activities. Spending time with friends and family, reading books, cooking/baking and of course enjoying a cocktail or glass of wine while relaxing on my couch!
Do you twitter? Facebook? I LOVE Facebook! It keeps me connected and enables me to share designs and special offers quickly and easily. I try to Twitter- pinkpineapplepd
What is your:
- guilty indulgence? Watching Big Brother over the summer. What a time waster, but fun and mindless entertainment!
- favorite getaway? Best time ever without kids was St. John. With kids (which is hardly a "getaway") wold be Ocean City, NJ or OBX, and of course Disney World. Our girls are counting down till the next trip!
- favorite family ritual? Spending time at the beach together, reading before bed, baking with the girls.
- favorite thing in your closet? Definitely my heels! They make me feel pretty, never tell me I've put on a couple pounds and always look fabulous!
- current reading material? Getting ready to begin Philippa Gregory's new release – The Red Queen
How did you get into this business? After a few years of designing all sorts of invitations, announcements, cards, templates, etc. for friends and family for fun, I decided to go for it (after a gentle push from my husband, John). I jumped off the deep end and started a small print and design business. A few have asked about the name- Pink: I have 2 sweet little girls and therefore A LOT of pink in our house. And Pineapple: A traditional symbol of welcome and hospitality.
What inspires you as a designer? Color combinations, seasons, pattern trends, and most importantly the individuals I am designing for. I try to incorporate their personal style and what they want to "say" when sending out the final product to friends and family.
What advice would you give to other moms who are looking to start their own small business? Go for it! Trust yourself, trust your instincts and trust your support system of friends and family that surround you.
I was browsing through her website, Facebook page, and blog and I just love so many of her designs! As a photographer I have looked at many design sites – most of which don't impress me. But, Pink Pineapple is delightfully different! Her designs are laid out so beautifully, and they all have such lovely colors and adorable graphic elements. What is so great about her business is that she will completely customize a design just for you!
Here are some lovely card designs I found…
And I *loved* this! Custom designed gallery wraps! I can think of so many possibilities!
And of course there is much more on her site – magnets, backpack ID tags, note cards, stationary, address labels – AND it looks like she is working on a new website! I can't wait to see what new things she has in store!
And now for the FREE giveaway that Kim is graciously giving us! One of you can win 1 set of 25 monogrammed note cards with envelopes….completely customized for the winner!
These are the rules:
1. You must live in the United States to enter.
2. To enter, hit the "share" button on my Facebook page to tell your friends. Then come back here and leave a comment telling me you "shared."
3. To enter a second time, visit her website and then come back here and leave a comment stating which of Kim's designs are your favorite.
4. A winner will be chosen by random.
5. The deadline to enter is Sunday, September 19th at 10pm. The winner will be announced on Monday, September 20th.


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Hickory, NC (PressExposure) July 03, 2008 -- The Catawba Valley Community College Alexander Center will present two workshops in July that are designed to help local small business owners develop effective e-mail ad campaigns and set up their own websites.
Sponsors are the CVCC Small Business Center, the Alexander County Chamber of Commerce, the Alexander County Economic Development Corporation (EDC), and telecommunications leader, EMBARQ.
These workshops will be hands-on, interactive, working classes led by John Geiger of WSI Internet Consulting and Education in Hickory. Geiger is a professional webmaster who specializes in turn-key, e-commerce business solutions for small and medium-sized companies in the Unifour area.
Proficiency in Windows and Internet use is a must for these workshops.
The first workshop, "Build a Better Ad Campaign," will be held on Thursday, July 10, from 9 a.m. until noon. Using a trial version of popular, web-based contact management software and their own email address lists, student companies will develop and launch email ad campaigns and measure their effectiveness during the class. They craft messages that will catch the eye of their target customers, and they will learn how to build effective lists, optimize open and activity rates and minimize opt-outs. The fee for this seminar is $49.
The second workshop, "Build a Company Website" will be presented in two, interactive sessions, on Thursday, July 17 and 24, from 9 a.m. until noon. Using a free, web-based design application, student companies will build a company website during the class. They will select appropriate templates, insert pages and content, import photos and graphics, create hyperlinks and email accounts. At the end of the two sessions, information will be provided about purchasing domain names and hosting services for company websites. The fee for this class is $99.
To facilitate the learning process, EMBARQ will provide temporary hosting services for a 30- day period after the last class. Companies can use this time to continue refining their sites for eventual paid residence with Embarq or a provider of choice.
The CVCC Alexander Center is located off Highway 16 in Taylorsville, NC
For additional details, contact the CVCC Small Business Center at (828) 327-7000, Ext. 4112. To register for the workshops, call the CVCC Alexander Center at (828) 632-8221, Ext. 310.


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Springwood Park, Kelso, Scottish Borders, UK. 8th September 2017. 5411 rams were sold for over a total of £3,000,000. One Texel fetched £23,000.Add to Cart Add to Lightbox
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Soon, I've got some reviews coming up – Ice Pop Joy and Lifefactory 22-Ounce Beverage Bottle. Today, however, I'm running behind, so here are some links to keep you busy…
I'm loving – Night Owl Paper Goods' new brightly colored designs (shown above). They've always had cute designs, but the new brighter colors really make these sustainable greeting cards pop.
Emo link – USA Today is running the world's most depressing series – Saving Childhood. This series, all week, is covering issues like early puberty due to chemicals, consumerism, kids and nature and more. I've been following the series, because this is what parents should be focused on, but it is kind of making me want to grab Cedar, and all the other kids I can carry and move to a cave in the middle of nowhere.
I've been considering a patio garden this year, but have been a little lazy about it. Hopefully, this affordable, small space gardening piece at Mother Earth News will motivate me… maybe.
The INSANELY stupid link o' the week – plastic companies are now suing reusable bag makers. Really?
Super, extra, ick-factor scary – All the Stuff You Don't Want to Eat…But You Do Anyway. By scary, I mean beaver's anal glands in vanilla ice cream. Ugh… P.S. the organic ice cream we buy is 100% beaver's anal gland free!
The second season of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution is kicking off tonight. I don't love much current TV, but I do love this show, so I'm excited. Sadly, since we don't have cable, I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow. Hopefully the show will be on the Internet by then.
Homemade, on the cheap, mac n' cheese for kiddos (and adults). Cedar just recently decided that mac n' cheese is an okay dish to eat, so I was happy to see a homemade version. This recipe looks super easy and would make a nice side dish – remember to use organic ingredients though.
CUTE! Hello Hanna 'Yum Yum Bakery' Eco Sticker Book.
A little off topic but… Why B**ch Isn't a Selling Point. This post isn't so much green, but being an avid blog reader, I don't love when I run across blogs that use a mean attitude to sell said blog. I don't think it's so bad to be nice; you know?
What are you reading and loving this week?


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The Enchanted Book Tour ends next week. I hope you entered the giveaway. The grand prize consists of a signed paperback, signed "Hear Your Calling" print, signed postcard, Arthur's Round badge, and a bookmark handmade by me specially for Henge!
Review highlights:
"The characters are amazing, especially Morgan. This is easily one of my favorite books ever."--I'm an Eclectic Reader
"I loved that there was a lot of action and the book kept my attention. I definitely want to read the next book in the series."--karen writes stuff
"Morgan is a vivid, strong character from the moment the book starts. The author has a way with character description that really thrusts you into the story."--Long and Short Reviews
Editor Charlene interviews me on writing!
Research trip to Avebury stone circle
Meet Lancelot!
I'm seeing a new steady trend for Henge sales and I hope that's good news for the series. (It's typically up and down spikes.) I'm really hoping to continue to find new readers and any help from you to spread the word would be highly appreciated!
Remaining stops:
January 27th: Book Excerpt @ NaYa Books
January 29th: Book Review @ PRATR
February 1st: Book Review @ Editor Charlene's Blog
Stay tuned for Wednesday! Dun dun dun...


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In lyrical poetry, the Romans can boast of one of the greatest masters of any age or nation. The Odes of Horace have never been transcended, and will probably remain through all the ages, the delight of scholars. They may not have the deep religious sentiment, and the unity of imagination and passion which belong to the Greek lyrical poets, but as works of art, of exquisite felicity of expression, of agreeable images, they are unrivaled. Even in the time of Juvenal, his poems were the common school books of Roman youth. Horace, like Virgil, was a favored man, enjoying the friendship of the great with ease, fame, and fortune. But his longings for retirement, and his disgust at the frivolities around him, are a sad commentary on satisfied desires. [Footnote: Born B.C. 65. The best translation of his works is by Francis; but Horace is untranslatable.] His odes compose but a small part of his writings. His epistles are the most perfect of his productions, and rank with the Georgics of Virgil and the satires of Juvenal, as the most perfect form of Roman verse. His satires are also admirable, but without the fierce vehemence and lofty indignation that characterized Juvenal. It is the folly rather than the wickedness of vice which he describes with such playful skill and such keenness of observation. He was the first to mould the Latin tongue to the Greek lyric measures. Quintilian's criticism is indorsed by all scholars. " Lyricorum Horatius fere solus legi dignus, in verbis felicissime audax." No poetry was ever more severely elaborated than that of Horace, and the melody of the language imparts to it a peculiar fascination. If inferior to Pindar in passion and loftiness, it glows with a more genial humanity, and with purer wit. It cannot be enjoyed fully, except by those versed in the experiences of life. Such perceive a calm wisdom, a penetrating sagacity, a sober enthusiasm, and a refined taste, which are unusual even among the masters of human thought. It is the fashion to depreciate the original merits of this poet, as well as those of Virgil and Plautus and Terence, because they derived so much assistance from the Greeks. But the Greeks borrowed from each other. Pure originality is impossible. It is the mission of art to add to its stores, without hoping to monopolize the whole realm. Even Shakespeare, the most original of modern poets, was vastly indebted to those who went before him, and even he has not escaped the hypercriticism of minute observers.
In this allusion to lyrical poetry, I have not spoken of Catullus, unrivaled in tender lyric, and the greatest poet before the Augustan era. He was born B.C. 87, and enjoyed the friendship of the most celebrated characters. One hundred and sixteen of his poems have come down to us, most of which are short, and many of them defiled by great coarseness and sensuality. Critics say, however, that whatever he touched he adorned; that his vigorous simplicity, pungent wit, startling invective, and felicity of expression, make him one of the great poets of the Latin language.
In didactic poetry, Lucretius was preeminent, and is regarded by Schlegel as the first of Roman poets in native genius. [Footnote: Born B.C. 95, died B.C. 52. Smith's Dict.] He lived before the Augustan era, and died at the age of forty-two by his own hand. His great poem "De Rerum Natura," is a delineation of the epicurean philosophy, and treats of all the great subjects of thought with which his age is conversant. It somewhat resembles Pope's "Essay on Man," in style and subject, but immeasurably superior in poetical genius. It is a lengthened disquisition, in seven thousand four hundred lines, of the great phenomena of the outward world. As a painter and worshiper of nature, he was superior to all the poets of antiquity. His skill in presenting abstruse speculations is marvelous, and his outbursts of poetic genius are matchless in power and beauty. Into all subjects he casts a fearless eye, and writes with sustained enthusiasm. But he was not fully appreciated by his countrymen, although no other poet has so fully brought out the power of the Latin language. Professor Ramsay, [Footnote: The translation of Lucretius into English was made by I. M. Goode, Evelyn, and Drummond.] while alluding to the melancholy tenderness of Tibullus, the exquisite ingenuity of Ovid, the inimitable felicity and taste of Horace, the gentleness and splendor of Virgil, and the vehement declamation of Juvenal, thinks that, had the verses of Lucretius perished, we should never have known that it could give utterance to the grandest conceptions with all that self-sustained majesty and harmonious swell, in which the Grecian muse rolls forth her loftiest outpourings. The eulogium of Ovid is -
"Carmina sublimis tune sunt peritura Lucreti,
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Our Board of Directors is comprised of farmers with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. So that you can get to know us a bit, here is some information on the members of the Board.
Not sure who your GrassWorks Representative is for your area? Click to view our Board of Directors regional representation map.
Peter Arnold
Edgar, WI
Since moving to Marathon County, the Arnolds have been mentors and educators to other dairy farmers, hosting numerous events such as pasture walks, parlor and facility tours, and educating over 700 participants about their pasture-based research, facility modernization and farm management. They are progressive managers who utilize superior pasture management along with new parlor technology, TMR feed supplementation, low-cost freestall housing, and improved genetics. They strive to be true stewards of the land and comply with all state performance standards for manure management, diversion of clean water, erosion standards, and buffers. Their farm has not seen tillage equipment since their pastures were planted back in 1999 and they boast a soil erosion rate of a mere 0.1 ton per acre. The Arnolds were one of the first farmers in Wisconsin to be accepted into the NRCS-Conservation Security Program and have been certified organic since 2014.
Jason Cavadini, Secretary
Marshfield, WI
Jason Cavadini is an agronomist and the assistant superintendent of the University of Wisconsin Marshfield Agricultural Research Station. He grew up on his family's farm in the hills of La Crosse County, Wisconsin. It was there that he became intrigued by conservation farming practices such as no-till planting, cover crops, and grass-based agriculture. He obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Soil Science from UW-River Falls, and a Master's in Agronomy from Purdue University where he focused on the use of cover crops as a soil conservation practice. At the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station, Jason has been dedicated to integrating the practices of no-till and cover crops into Central Wisconsin. He operates a small pork, poultry, and beef grazing operation near Stratford with his wife and five children.
Cheyenne Christianson
Chetek, WI
Cheyenne and Katy Christianson and their eight children run a 70-cow organic dairy and have been successful using managed rotational grazing and feeding no grain for 12 years. He has used annuals such as oats, turnips, Japanese millet, sorghum sudan, rye, and triticale to fill in and extend the grazing season in order to maximize forage quality for his cows and young stock. The Christianson's bought a run down farm in July of 1993 and started grazing in 1994. Improving soil fertility has been a work in progress, and is a vital component of growing quality forage. The Christiansons converted the farm to organic production and began shipping organic milk to Organic Valley/CROPP in 1999. Northern WI suffered sever drought for several years and annuals were a key to having something to graze and keeping cows in shape through this time. Cheyenne also writes articles for Graze Magazine and shares what works on his farm to all that are interested.
Dave Heidel
Random Lake, WI
On a farm where biodiversity, environmental concerns and sustainability are of equal importance, a herd of 58 New Zealand Friesian milking cows graze contentedly among green blades of orchard grass and white blossoms of clover. Cows, along with unconfined laying hens and a few pastured pigs, have grazed for more than 20 years on Heidel Dairy, a 294-acre farm operated by David and Angelita Heidel and their daughter and son-in-law, Thelma and Ricky. With a M.S. degree in chemical weed control from UW-Madison, grazier David especially enjoys being an owner member of Organic Valley.
Andy Jaworski, Treasurer
Green Bay, WI
Andy farms in Green Bay, WI on 216 acres that he rents from his parents. He began to handle management and operations of his parents' organic beef and crop farm in 2008. With an interest in Dairy, he began working as a relief milker at Full Circle Farm in Seymour, WI. In 2011, Andy entered into a share milking arrangement with Full Circle Farm where he furthered his knowledge and understanding of how to manage and operate a rotational grazed-organic dairy. In March of 2014 he moved his herd of 65 milk cows to his parent's farm where he has set up a one-unity robotic milking facility to see if high tech milking technology has a place in the world of grazing. He continues to manage the herd organically with rotational grazing as a key element to his business model.
Dan Olson
Lena, WI
Laura Paine, Vice President
Columbus, WI
Laura Paine and her husband raise and direct market grass-fed beef on their 82-acre farm near Columbus, WI. Laura is an agriculture educator, having held a number of positions in WI over the last 20+ years. For eight years, she served as Grazing & Organic Agriculture Specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protections, assisting producers in developing and marketing organic and grass-fed products. She has done grazing research and education at UW-Madision and worked for seven years as an Extension agent in Columbia County. Laura is currently program director for Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship, which places aspiring farmers on working dairy farms in eleven states for a two-year on-the-job training program. Laura was previously a GrassWorks board member in the early 2000's, and has served as a board advisor for more than 10 years.
Jim Quick
Green Lake,WI
Jim & Ginger bought their farm in 1982. It was Ginger's childhood home. In 1994 Jim attended his first GrassWorks Grazing Conference in Stevens Point and says he has never looked back. They raise grass fed North Devon beef, pastured American Mule Footed Hogs and a selection of gourmet garlic that are all direct marketed. He was a co-founder of the Fox River Local Foods Network serving Green Lake, Fond du Lac, and Winnebago counties. Jim was a board member when GrassWorks first became a membership organization and served as its third Board of Directors President.
Wally Sedlar, President
Fremont, WI
Wally Sedlar with his wife and two daughters have a grazing farm near Fremont, WI. Their operation is organically operated to raise Texas Longhorn beef cattle, chickens and horses with a grass/legume rotation with periodic no tilling of the pasture and cropland. All livestock are grass fed/finished. The woodland on the property provides a small Maple Syrup operation for a few families. He has a BS from UW Stevens-Point and a MS from Marian College. He is a grazing specialist, TSP for grazing and CCA and County Conservationist with the Adams County Land and Water Conservation Department.
Larry Smith, DVM
Lodi, WI
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Larry Smith farms are near Viroqua, WI. The farms have been rotationally grazed since 1979. He has a BS and MS from the U of W-Madison and a DVM from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Larry was in veterinary practice in Lodi from 1965-1990. For the last 30+ years, Larry ran a 700-1,000 head stocker operation at Viroqua and does clinical or discovery studies for pharmaceutical companies on internal and external parasites, growth promotants, vaccines and antibiotics.
Dave Vetrano
Bangor, WI
Dave is a retired WI-DNR fisheries biologist with more than 32 years of cold water stream management in the Driftless Area. He firmly believes and has demonstrated the benefits of grazing on & near trout streams in Southwestern WI.


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Here's something to consider if a discharged disabled employee who simply could not do her job sues, alleging disability discrimination. Check to see if she has applied for disability benefits and get a copy of the application.
If she didn't qualify her disability by claiming she could perhaps do some work if reasonably accommodated, she may have killed her chances to argue she was qualified for her old position, too.
Recent case: Nancy worked as an administrative assistant for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. She suffered from a number of ailments including morbid obesity, diabetes, congestive heart failure and chronic anemia. She missed considerable work over the years, exceeding her FMLA and other available leave. Sometimes, she was approved to borrow time from a bank of leave other employees had donated.
Then her supervisor assumed new duties, changing Nancy's job, too. Over the next year, she continued to miss work, using all her leave. When she asked, her boss approved her for more leave-bank hours, but warned her that her job would not be protected. When her leave was up, she was terminated and a replacement was hired.
Nancy then applied for disability retirement benefits and swore under oath that she was totally disabled and unable to perform any work. Her doctor provided a similar assessment.
After being approved for the benefits, she sued the parks department, alleging that she had been discriminated against due to her disabilities and that she should have been accommodated with more leave or other accommodations.
The court dismissed her complaint. It reasoned that because she never qualified her disability benefits application by stating that she could work with some accommodation, she could not now argue that was the case. (Texas Parks and Wildlife Department v. Gallacher, No. 03-14-00079, Court of Appeals of Texas, 2014)


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As announced in early 2007 Borealis (Vienna / Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) has started up its LDPE plant in Stenungsund / Sweden at the end of January 2010. The line, which came at a price tag of EUR 370m and replaces an older PE facility, has production capacity of 350,000 t/y. Following its start-up, Borealis is now able to produce some 700,000 t/y of PE in Stenungsund.
The new line mainly is supposed to manufacture the "Supercure and "Visico brands, mostly aimed at the growing market in wire and cable applications.
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Bama Shuts Out LSU To Claim #1 Ranking
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Alabama's renowned defense once again dominated LSU as HC Nick Sabin beat his former club for the fifth consecutive time. This time it was a shutout as the Bama D limited LSU star running back Leonard Fournette to only 35 yards on 17 carries. Crimson Tide freshman QB Jalen Hurts actually won the game with his legs with 114 rushing yards on 20 attempts and the lone critical TD in the game. Hurts displayed great poise in his first game in Death Valley where the Tigers are almost unbeatable. He threw for only 107 yards on 10 completions of 19 attempts against a very stubborn Tiger defense. The game entered the 4th quarter scoreless with neither offense able to muster an effective passing game.
Hurts finally broke the deadlock on a 21-yard TD run early in the final quarter. #1 Alabama remained unbeaten with the 10-0 shutout and a strong position as the nation's defending champion. Saban praised his physical defense which did not let LSU run a play from inside the Crimson Tide 30.
The Crimson Tide improved to (9-0, 6-0 SEC, No. 1 AP) won for the sixth straight time against LSU (5-3, 3-2, No. 15 AP). They remain alone in first place in the SEC West, one game ahead of Auburn.
"He has great poise. I don't think the stage is too big for him at all," Saban said about Hurts. "He expects a lot of himself and we expect a lot of him because he's in a role that has tremendous responsibility. He has handled that very, very well."
LSU had its share of big plays, though virtually all on defense that forced Hurts into an early interception in Bama territory. They also stopped him on a 4th-and-goal play and forcing him into a 3rd-quarter fumble. The Tiger's offense could not capitalize against menacing defensive end Jonathan Allen and LB Reuben Foster on the talented Tide unit.
"We played our butt off on defense but we lose as a team," LSU interim coach Ed Orgeron said. "We just couldn't get anything going on offense."
The Tigers finished with 125 total yards. Alabama had five sacks, one more than LSU's offense had allowed in any other game this season. Allen, linebackers Foster, Rashaan Evans and Ryan Anderson and end Dalvin Tomlinson all harassed young LSU QB Danny Etling. Edge rusher Tim Williams applied consistent outside pass pressure.
"We're just dominating the line of scrimmage," Allen said.
Etling completed 11 of 24 passes for 92 yards and 1 interception by Minkah Fitzpatrick in the 4th quarter while under pressure. The turnover led to a late Alabama field goal. The offense also looked flustered at times. LSU had to burn two timeouts early in the 2nd half to avoid delay-of-game penalties, then was called for delay of game on third down in Alabama territory later.
"We just had some miscommunications on what we were trying to do. Unfortunately, that was kind of what bit us," Etling said. "We did some stupid things and made some inaccurate throws."
Leonard Fournette was again the focus of the Tide defense where he has struggled in this matchup annually. Last year, he was held to 31 yards on 19 carries in Tuscaloosa. Saturday night he had only 35 yards on 17 carries. This was with a bye week to prepare and only two weeks after TD sprints of 78, 76 and 59 yards vs Ole Miss. His longest run against the Crimson Tide was just 9 yards.
Saban explained his team's success against Fournette this way: "When you play a great player like that, everybody has to really focus on doing their job. Our guys did it last year. We played a lot of the same stuff that we played a year ago."
Coach Nick Saban improved to 8-3 against his former team since taking over the Crimson Tide in 2007, the result clouded the future of the coaching position at LSU. Ed Orgeron had won his first three games since taking over for Les Miles who was fired in late September.
Michigan is one of only five Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools that are still undefeated this season. The Wolverines are off to an 9-0 start for the first time since 2006 and the fourth time in the past 40 years. Michigan recorded a season-high 660 yards of total offense last Saturday vs Maryland. The Wolverines also had a 300-yard passer (Wilton Speight-362), 100-yard rusher (De'Veon Smith-114) and 100-yard receiver (Jehu Chesson-112) in the same game for the first time since Oct. 19, 2013, vs Indiana.
Ohio State QB J.T. Barrett was responsible for four TDs last Saturday against Nebraska, giving him 94 career touchdowns responsible for, one shy of the Big Ten record set by Purdue's Drew Brees from 1997-2000. Penn State has scored 103 points in its last two games, the first time the Nittany Lions have done that since 2008 and the first time in consecutive conference games since 2002. Penn State's 599 yards of total offense last Saturday vs Iowa were its highest total in a single game since 1995 (661 vs. Rutgers) and the most the Nittany Lions have recorded in a Big Ten game since 1994 (653 vs. Michigan State).
Frank Coyle is a long time scout with nationwide ties with coaches, scouts and player agents. He is a long time member of the FWAA and voter in College player awards - Heisman, Outland, Nagurski, Lombardi, Thorpe, Biletnikoff etc for the past 20 years. He writes College Football Mondays weekly during the season. He is a longtime scouting consultant for the Senior Bowl, the nation's premier postseason All-star game. He does sports radio shows for ESPN, Fox Sports and Sporting News on a year round basis related to College Football especially during the postseason team and All-star Bowl time. He has worked for CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Yahoo and Rivals sports publications and web sites


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I just spoke with Lexmark tech support. On the phone - no luck, printer no longer covered for phone support, on live chat, was told it was a defective printer and that they can't do anything. also sent an email to which I'm expecting the same answers. I'm not going to change the unit.... it does everything i need, specially since i don't use color... just a drag coz i dropped ~70$ for the black and color cart's, when i could've bought 2 black ones....
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Now than Johnny Manziel has left for the NFL, the rest of the SEC will finally get a look at how well A&M performs without a freak on the team. The Aggies ran up impressive offensive numbers with Manziel triggering the attack, but didn't stop anyone on defense – a situation that must change, or Texas A&M won't ever be a consistent contender in the SEC, which prioritizes stopping the ball over doing something dynamic with it. Losing six starters and virtually every key playmaker from the 2013 team won't help.
This has been anything but a quiet offseason for the Texas A&M Aggies, who were hoping to mount a national title challenge in their second season in the SEC. The Aggies might still do it, but they'll have to do it amidst a circus that would impress even P.T. Barnum. Texas A&M's star quarterback has been the subject of more intrigue and scrutiny than the WikiLeaks case, and he hasn't been the only one who has run afoul of team policy. And then there are the football questions, such as whether the wide receiver corps can be rebuilt, whether the offensive line will jell quickly and whether the secondary can be improved.Continue reading …


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Description: These meetings are hosted jointly by the SOC Unit and the Colorado League of Charter Schools and occur bi-monthly on Fridays during the school year. Each meeting includes the Business Manager 101 course for those with less than three years' experience, networking and troubleshooting for more experienced managers, and Responsive and Technical Expert presentations on key issues of relevance to all business managers.
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Forento New Zealand specialises in customised bird watching tours throughout New Zealand. With professional guides and local ornithologists you will see rare and endemic bird species such as wattlebirds and parrots in some of our country's most magical locations. On boat trips you will see albatrosses and mollymawks, the highlight being the royal albatross with a wingspan of close to three metres. Along the Southland coast yellow-eyed penguins are every bird watchers treat. In our majestic podocarp forests there are whiteheads, rifleman, tomtits, robins, bellbirds, tui, kaka. In the Southern Alps there is the intelligent and mischievous kea, and rock wren, in fact there is always a new experience to be had in every region of New Zealand.
We will ensure that you leave with more than just lasting memories by providing a tour booklet, map, field guide and a checklist of New Zealand's bird species.
For further information on tours and costs see our tour itinerary page. For enquiries contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or use our enquiry form.
Below we include snippets on some of the bird watching hot spots that you will visit on tour. Visit our New Zealand birds page for more information.
Birding hot spots
Offshore island reserves
Tiritiri Matangi Island Wildlife Sanctuary is where the Department of Conservation species recovery programme with threatened endemic birds has been a success. Rare birds such as the saddleback, stitchbird, takahe, and forest parrots are very common on the island.
This is a trip that takes you back in geological time, along magnificent coastal cliffs, where past seismic events have uplifted and revealed 5 million year old rocks and fossils. The highlight of the trip is a visit to New Zealand's largest mainland gannet colonies.
Mainland island reserves
The Department of Conservation is undertaking pest and weed control measures to permit forest regeneration and the re-establishment of endangered wildlife to reserves of ecological importance throughout New Zealand. During your tour you will visit one of these mainland reserves, and see the work and restoration gains that have been made by the Department of Conservation. There will be plenty of time to observe some of New Zealand's more uncommon, endemic bird species such as bush robins and the kaka.
Miranda Naturalists' Trust is one of New Zealand's most important feeding areas for visiting migratory waders, situated along the Firth of Thames coast. Common bird species are bar-tailed godwits, knots, dotterels, sandpipers, and in winter the endemic wrybill.


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Hawk eye views from cliffs on high
Hawk Cliff might trump Sorrento House for sea views
The famed Sorrento House on Sorrento Terrace in Dalkey - currently on the international market for €10m - is estimated by many to have the best views of any home in the capital. Thanks to its incredible vantage atop a jutting headland, Sorrento house looks out in all directions across Killiney Bay to Bray Head House and the Wicklow Mountains.
The name 'Sorrento', along with many other Italian name-checks around these parts, comes from the Victorian notion that the views from here compare closely to the spectacular Bay of Naples. They weren't far wrong, and on the sorts of rare sunny days we've been enjoying lately, you could easily imagine you were in the Med.
But perhaps Sorrento's top view credentials are trumped by Hawk Cliff, named for its own precarious and dramatic perch atop the cliffs, albeit a little nearer to the city on the Killiney side of the coast.
Because Hawk Cliff not only catches the very same visuals as Sorrento, but its views also include the dramatic addition of the elegant pastel-coloured Sorrento Terrace itself in which Sorrento House is located - itself a key visual feature in the Killiney/Dalkey coastal landscape.
With its wrap-around raised balconies and long expansive decks, Hawk Cliff may therefore be the true contender for the capital's supreme home vistas. Hawk Cliff also looks over Dalkey Island, Killiney Beach and to the white-peaked Sugarloaf.
The house is named after the stretch of cliffs and the public bathing area located far below on the seafront carries the same name. The monicker followed from the long-time former usage by hawks of these cliffs. The birds of prey tend to select high, inaccessible sites with the widest views. Lately, bird watchers have noted the return of the peregrine falcon to these cliffs and old quarries of this area.
In addition, there have been regular sightings of pods of dolphins. And adding to the wildlife and yellow gorse-coloured rockscapes, there's the regular visual interest provided by pleasure boats and shipping passing by.
Built in a white modernist flat-roof style in the 1960s, this house on Vico Road is all about the views. The original builder must have had to go to great lengths to install it into the precarious site it sits on and the house truly does have a hawk's grasp on the edge of the cliffs which also add so much to the visual drama of the raised train or Dart journey out this way.
The gardens at Hawk Cliff are also tiered into the steep-sloped site. The front has a lower deck area and a sandstone patio continuation that runs for almost 50ft and is 14ft wide for maximum access. The upper raised viewing deck is accessed from the front steps and from both the dining room and the sitting room, and runs 7ft wide and 46ft long.
Better still, indoors the floor to ceiling picture windows on every level bring the sea and the islands into almost every room for those more typical Irish days when the weather is dark and blustery.
The property is entranced into a hall with timber flooring, recessed lighting and an overhead skylight. Timber flooring also runs through the living room which has full floor to ceiling views across the bay. There's a fireplace here with a granite surround and a door leads out to the balcony.
The dining room is similarly equipped, also with balcony access. There's a kitchen/breakfast room with Neff appliances and these include an oven and grill, dishwasher, a four-plate hob, and a double sink with chrome taps. This room also has views across Killiney Bay.
There's a study, utility room, a shower room and a family room with double doors to the rear of the property. The house has four bedrooms, only one of which isn't ensuite. The master chamber comes with his and hers walk-in wardrobes and a Jacuzzi bath from which you can soak and see the very best of the sea views the house has to offer. Savills wants €2.145m.
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This Monarch butterfly
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red, yellow and orange
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By Donal Mahoney
Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. Read more of his poems in Eye on Life Magazine here.
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When you write what the Spirit whispers, all the hosts in the heavenlies bend to listen and adore to the praises of their King. On coal-burnished lips they whisper holy over the soft sound of beating wings. The word echoes through eternity in unending repetition, holy, holy, holy.
But in the shadows where the light has cut the line and fenced the darkness, the hosts of hell take up arms. It is not their habit to let a battle-cry go unanswered, and you have raised the colors of an enemy King when you wrote His words.
This is war, whether you realize it or not. The battle rages in highest heaven and deepest earth and you have been uniquely equipped for a place in the battle by the power of your pen. It is a pen that shreds the veil and open eyes because they are not your words, they are His, and His words have the power to ruin and restore with a single thrust.
Do you take that task lightly? It is no light task to listen to what the Spirit whispers and to write "Thus sayeth the Lord." When you write those words, eyes are opened and swords are drawn.
God's Word is powerful. Effective. Game-changing. It is no less powerful in the hands of little-known writers or back-woods pastors.
And that is the truth that makes the underlings rise when you dare to lift your pen. Because oh, if you realize how sharp is your sword and how mighty is He who is on your side, their ruin would be sure.
Their ruin is sure.
So they respond with the coarse whispers of those who must crawl on their bellies and grovel at the gates of the Kingdom. They must speak in lies and half-truths because there is no truth in them, and no love. Where there is no love there is only fear, so it is with fearful words they speak.
You must not listen.
But then, you will not hear them, not with your ears. You will feel it with your heart and with your emotions and even with your will. And if you listen, those lies will work their fear into you and fell you. They will keep you on the ground when God has called you to arm yourself.
They will keep you from your sword.
You have been there, perhaps more often than you wish. You have been crushed by something you cannot see. But it is no less real.
When you cannot get up, when you cannot write more, it is because deep inside, you heard the cadence of lying tongues and in your weakness, you believed it, and they won.
Listen, Writer, from your place on the ground and know this: the power they hold over you is nothing like the power that lifts you up.
That is what they fear, those demons who lurk in the shadows, working the truth over forked tongues and causing you to believe you are nothing more than a writer with a word. They fear that one day, you will come to understand the truth of your calling.
You are a writer with The Word.
You are armed with a sword that always hits its mark. It has never returned to its sheath in shame, and it never will. When you pen truth, you thrust that sword right into the den of the liars.
They will claw and fight when they find you there, and you will feel the blows.
But this is not the time to shrink back. You must get back up. Secure your armor, take up your pen, and write.
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Marysia Stronska was thirteen years old when her family was deported from Poland to Siberia in 1940. Her family history has many parallels to that of my grandmother's, going through a similar migration through Siberia, Kazakhstan, and - after her father died in Uzbekistan, and was buried in the same cemetery as my great-great-grandmother - eventually ending up in a refugee camp in Uganda. An outspoken and tough young woman, she often had trouble with authority, whether in the Siberian forced labour camp she was sent to at thirteen, after being caught making a joke about the Soviet Union, or while challenging the "toughness" of her Polish boy classmates in Uganda.
Like my grandmother, Marysia ended up in England when the refugee camps were closed, where she frequently had to stand up to xenophobic comments from her new neighbours and colleagues. She eventually married and settled in Montreal, Canada, where she went on to start a family and become a natural leader within the Polish community. She was not only a Polish teacher, but an organizer of Polish-African refugee reunions, and very active within the Polish church community. Having survived everything she went through during WWII and aftewards, she expresses a perpetual obligation to do something useful with her life.
Today, at ninety years old, she is philosophical about her time as a young refugee. Despite extreme hardships that she survived in Siberia and the Soviet Union, she doesn't resent the Russians, stating that the people themselves were actually quite hospitable, considering how little they had. Her opinion of Churchill and Britain however is not so rosy. She felt betrayed as a young woman when the promise of going home vanished when England agreed that Poland would fall under Soviet control. Although she has made Montreal her home, she maintains close connections with other Polish-African refugees around the world, and serves as an inspiration to her community through her resilience and strength in the face of profound adversity.


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Trent Clayton is a werewolf whose own run-in with the Alberich a hundred years before took his wife and nearly destroyed him. Now, he must help Sophie work through her traumatized state and reveal to Sophie that she possesses an unusual gift—one that connects her to him.
Broken Heart is right in the vicious sights of the Alberich, but the creatures have never faced a whole town of parakind willing to defend their borders, and each other, with fur, fang, magic, swords, guns, and zombies.
With two werewolves leading the charge, the citizens of Broken Hear must win the battle against the Alberich. Or die (um, again) trying.
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ANKARA, Turkey (June 5, 2017) – TaleWorlds Entertainment will offer hands-on demonstrations of its upcoming title to press at the E3 expo in Los Angeles, June 13-15. Attendees will experience Mount & Blade's deep and intuitive combat system firsthand in an epic, large scale battle, featuring hundreds of on-screen combatants; supported by an all-new tailor made engine. Multiple gameplay videos will be shared during the event, giving fans a detailed look at the game's field combat.
"We are excited to see how attendees react to playing Bannerlord and receive feedback on the game. Putting the game in the hands of players represents another major milestone as we work towards a release."
Ali Erkin – Managing Director, TaleWorlds
This will be the first time Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord has been available to play outside of the TaleWorlds studio. A team of TaleWorlds developers, led by company CEO / Founder Armagan Yavuz, will be on hand to guide attendees through the demo and answer questions.
"Last year E3 was a tremendous success and learning experience for us as a company. This year, we have a great hands-on demo lined up and are thrilled to be giving visitors their best-ever look at Bannerlord."
Armagan Yavuz – CEO / Founder, TaleWorlds
Demonstrations will be given by appointment only, conducted at TaleWorlds booth in the Concourse Hall (Booth Address: 8613/8712); those attending E3 this year should contact Jesse Radonski ( firstname.lastname@example.com ) for a press appointment.
About TaleWorlds Entertainment
TaleWorlds Entertainment is an independent video game development company, founded in 2005. Having grown from the initial two founders, TaleWorlds now employs over seventy developers including a self-publishing team. Mount & Blade has received numerous accolades since its release, including multiple placements in PC Gamer Magazine's "Top 100 PC Games of All Time" list. The team is currently developing the much anticipated sequel, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
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A Which? report reveals nine in 10 people want greater transparency around the calculation of energy prices.
Our research also found that four in five people (83%) think there should be a Bank of England-style base rate for energy prices so they can compare their energy tariff and see whether they're getting a good deal.
If you're not sure whether you're getting the best value from your energy supplier, use the Which? Switch energy comparison service to see how much you could save by switching gas and electricity companies.
Energy base rate?
Which? warns that introducing an energy base rate would be of little use without greater clarity over how wholesale prices are set. Pricing is a particular concern when it comes to 'vertically-integrated' energy suppliers that generate their own energy and then sell it on to individual customers.
Which? wants energy industry regulator Ofgem to be able to scrutinise how these vertically-integrated energy suppliers pass on generation costs to consumers.
Competition in the energy market means you can shop around to get a better deal from a supplier.
Clearer gas and electricity costs
Which? is also calling for transparent energy prices, with an end to unsubstantiated claims about the link between wholesale and retail prices and a moratorium on tracker tariffs.
Which? chief executive Peter Vicary-Smith says: 'Energy suppliers are always quick to blame wholesale prices for rising bills but it's all but impossible for an ordinary consumer to find out if such claims are true.
'Greater transparency over how retail prices are calculated is needed if people are to believe that they're paying a fair price for their energy.'
With just one in five consumers considering energy suppliers to be trustworthy, greater transparency is vital if people are to be convinced they are paying a fair price for their energy.
The Which? Switch energy satisfaction survey has customer satisfaction scores for major companies including British Gas, EDF, Eon, Npower and Scottish Power. Have a look at our customer satisfaction survey results to see how energy suppliers compare and how they were rated for bills, value, customer service and support.
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