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Searcy (LP) Searcy High is always getting new technology in East, but the new technology they received is going to change the way they make projects. East has been a part of Searcy for a long time and has made and finished big projects around the community. For instance, the new firehouse project and walk-through history project was a very big success! The new technology they have is called Ollie and Sphero! These little robots are going to make a big difference on how East learns to program. Sphero is a spherical robot toy designed by Sphero, previously Orbotix. It is a white orb wrapped in polycarbonate plastic, capable of rolling around, and controlled by a smartphone or tablet application. They also make the BB-8 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as the toy, called the Ollie. Sphere allows you to program its movements and learn to code from watching it. This way you can program it to go forward and backward and to do maybe a few tricks!
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Through much of last winter Chris Carter, available because of his seasonal employment, carried a sign "Children's aid destroys families" outside the Waterloo CAS office on Hespeler Road in Cambridge. He got much support from passers-by, and no police harassment. But on February 10 he moved to the Cambridge courthouse. The vocal Mr Carter was soon surrounded by over a dozen listeners and four police cruisers. He refused their request to cease and desist on charter grounds, and continued. Within the hour, acting on complaints from Kim Putman and Virgina Torrance, Mr Carter was arrested. He was let out of jail the next day with several pending charges. Months later he sent insulting, but not threatening, emails to Putman and Torrance, and was again arrested, this time for violating bail conditions and several additional charges. He has been at Maplehurst Correctional Complex ever since. His trial is scheduled for September 8 and 13 at the courthouse in Cambridge. As it is a purely criminal matter, the public should be admitted to the courtroom. Supporters within range of Cambridge are encouraged to attend on those days. This paragraph comes entirely from Mr Carter — anyone having personal knowledge of inaccuracies is invited to notify fixcas (contact info on home page).
Mr Carter will have a rare opportunity to cross-examine two children's aid lawyers, his accusers. He is open to suggestions on what subjects to explore while they are on the stand. Here is one suggestion. Ask for the profession of each (lawyer). As such, they can hardly be the kind of delicate women who would fall to pieces under insult. And to follow up, what is the kind of law they practice? Taking children from mom and dad. Not everyone can do that job. It requires someone with special human qualities, not including sensitivity.
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This is Part II because Part I was a while back during a 10K.
Oh, the things that bounce around in your head during a run. Well, my head, anyway. Usually I can't figure out how they got in there to begin with. But this was a little different. Those things sometimes include music of various sorts. Today, for no immediately apparent reason, I started singing Folsom Prison Blues to myself.
But there was a reason. It's just that that reason registered itself in my consciousness about a minute after the song began. Yes, there really was a train coming. Isn't it funny that my subconscious knew it first? There was no danger of being hit by a speeding locomotive; I was safely on the road away from any tracks. But I was scared nonetheless.
The incident occurred 7 and a half miles into my 16-miler this morning. It was the first time I'd run this course in something like a year. Not that I haven't been putting in the miles; I did two tough 9-mile loops at Hinckley on Sunday, and then of course there was My Run With Scissors last week. The reason I haven't been doing this run is because until today, is that I haven't been able to get out the door early enough. I love those rural Medina County country roads, but not when there's even a little traffic. There's never all that much, but it is certainly reduced at 4 to 5 am compared with 6:30 to 7:30 am. The cars that I do see go very fast, and there isn't always a lot of room to get off to the side of the road. Today traffic wouldn't be a problem; I started at about 4:10 am.
And, sauntering at about a 9-minute pace, I was enjoying my run. Until that train started a-coming and made me a little afraid. The course crosses the tracks three times after going underneath a train bridge for a fourth. I had gone under the tracks and was now on the other side for the first of two times. Now maybe my irrational fear is becoming apparent: I fear getting "trapped" on the outer side of the tracks.
I understand how irrational it is. If I got caught:
a) I could simply stop and wait the train out. They are never that long.
b) In this case I could also run back the way I had come, and go back under the train bridge.
But I also wanted to complete this course. What to do? Run fast, of course. Try to get past the next set of tracks before the train comes so as to be back on "my" side. It worked. I beat the train. And I finished the run as planned. Thank God for small victories.
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Mexico's Gulf Coast Town Taking Major Jobs Hit as Oil Work Dries Up (CGTN America)
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said that 140,347 new jobs were created in March of this year, meaning that, "We are reaching a record figure for job creation during this administration: 2.7 million jobs," as he inaugurated the Peñafiel Group's Tecámac Plant.
• The number of jobs created in March is also a record figure, and the largest number of jobs created in the month of March since monthly figures began to be recorded 30 years ago.
• 378,000 new formal jobs were created between January and March of this year.
"Never in a month of March have so many jobs been created as the figures released [April 10] show. This means that the first quarter of 2017 has also seen the highest number of jobs registered since 1997, when employment began to be measured monthly."
In four years, foreign direct investment (FDI) has reached nearly US$135 billion, also a record figure for a comparable period in any administration.
"The average FDI we had as a country was two billion dollars per year in the 1980s, and eight billion dollars annually in the 1990s. Today we have figures of close to $30 billion dollars per year, which without doubt reflects the significant increase in the confidence Mexico continues to project."
The structural changes and reforms promoted by this administration are designed to enable Mexico to keep growing and achieve conditions of greater development.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Hitting UK On 16th September
Lee Youn- hee executive Vice President Of Samsung Mobile has revealed in an interview that the Galaxy Note 3 is going to hit the markets on the 16th of September. This has been reported in The Korea Times. Another device in offering would be the Galaxy Gear smartwatch at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin on the 4th of September.
Evidence of an internal document has been leaked by the mobile operator Three UK to a reputed technological blog stating that the tablet cum phone is scheduled to hit the UK markets on the 16th of September and this is going to be followed by the Xperia Z1 on the 24th of September.
There is no news on whether Three will begin taking pre-orders or the exact date on which the operator will release the phone. Three is also one of the shortlisted mobile operators in the UK that is scheduled to get the Galaxy Note 3 when it comes into the market. It is going to be the first to launch the device however there is another rumor that this device will be placed for pre-order in Taiwan on the 16th of September with its release scheduled for the 27th of September. Taiwan is always one of the first regions to get flagship smartphones by Samsung.


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Baku. 11 July. REPORT.AZ/ Today, the price of the Azerbaijani oil "Azeri LT CIF", transported via the ports of Supsa and Batumi and Ceyhan and sold on the world markets, decreased by 0,46 USD or 0,76%, Report was told in the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR).
At the moment, the price of oil brand "Azeri LT CIF" makes 59,94 USD per barrel.
At the end of last week Azerbaijani oil made 63,29 USD and yesterday 60,40 USD per barrel.
The minimum price of "Azeri LT CIF" brand was recorded in December 2001 (19.15 USD), and the maximum value of the brand was registered in July 2008 (149.66 USD).


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CNN knows they are wrong for allowing this to happen on live television!
Diana Nagy somehow broke through the gate of life and made it all the way to a national stage to belt out her version of The Star Spangled Banner. Problem is that Big Dee-Dee said to hell with a musical scale and belted it all out in her own key of J-flat.
Imagine the unnecessary hand movements of Mariah Carey meeting the vocal prowess of William Hung. It's clear to me that the Tea Party does NOT love America letting Ms. Nagy hold that microphone. And she had the nerve to try and throw a gospel run in on the "home of the brave" part?! O____O The hell?
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First experience here and the last. The service was very very poor. All food ordered together but the burger for one of the party came out separate to the rest of her meal so she just had fries and when it eventually came it was...More
Hooters is one of our favorite places to eat when we travel and this was our second visit to this location. The service was good and the food was divine, as usual. There is plenty of parking at this location and they restaurant has plenty...More
I have stopped here a couple of times, as I love hooters wings and be able to watch some big screen sports while I eat lunch. First couple of times I was here have to agree with the other reviews, service was not very good,...More
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Stopped by here to watch UFC 205. Service was great from all the staff encountered. Close to the hotel I was staying at and easy to get to.
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I only ate here once, it was too noisy for my liking and the service was slow. The food was ok but I wouldn't eat here again
Came here for our supper and the workers were all very friendly. The food was tasty. Again this place had been updated and is very nice inside.
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We don't buy a huge number of packaged cookies as I like to bake when I'm stressed. (Yes, we do eat a lot of cookies; Yes, if you follow that to its logical conclusion I should get back to my T'ai Chi or change jobs.) When I do buy store cookies, I usually try to choose ones that I can't make easily at home or the weirdly coloured and textured things my children like best. For years, there were certain high-fat cookies I just wouldn't buy. However, once a year, I would buy a pack of Oreos for my husband to dunk in milk. I used to get them for his birthday, till the children joined us and I realized that Oreos always go on sale for Father's Day.
Hiding somewhere in the house right now is a family-size pack of
Double Stuf Oreos. They cost $1.88: a considerable cost-saving over the regular price for the large bag of Oreos. But why do the stores consider Oreos a good loss-leader for Father's Day?
Do most men like icing-filled cookies? Or only men with children? Do they want to have cookies and milk and it's more socially acceptable if they are Oreos which need to be dunked?
I may never know. What I do know, though, is that if you are trying to save money, buying packaged cookies is usually not the right choice.
Which Is Cheaper? A Box of Those Foil Bags Each Containing One Serving of Cookies or Baking Your Own Batch?
My children succumb to peer pressure sometimes just like normal people's children. So one day I got asked to get a box of 6 single-serving packs of miniature chocolate chip cookies.
Because it's my kid we're talking about, my child had no trouble understanding that I wouldn't be buying them until they were on at least partial sale. So when they were priced at 2 boxes for $5 I caved and bought one. (You have to watch which store you're at: At Sobey's a 2-for-Price is usually the same as a 1-for-Half-that-Price. At Longos, there's usually fine print that says "or 1 for 2.99" or something similar.)
As I walked home, I read the box. There were 6 packs inside and the boxed weight was 180g. Yikes. For most cookies around here if you pay a $2.50 sale price you get 250-350g of high-caloric junk. Right away you can see these little "lunch bags" of cookies are over-priced.
Some fast math would suggest it's still cheaper than buying the ingredients to bake, say, chocolate chip cookies. After all, the sale price for a one-batch bag of Chipits was also $2.99 that day.
But, as I remembered, that's a 350g bag of Chipits.
What Does a Batch of Chocolate Chip Cookies Cost to Bake?
I inherited, unfortunately, a kitchen scale a couple of years ago, so when I got home, I weighed out the 2 cups of flour that would go with the Chipits. Then I weighed the other stuff to make a batch of cookies.
- 337 g Chipits (yah, sure, YOU never eat a handful out of the bag when stirring the batter: I'm an HONEST Crooks)
- 214 g flour (that's my approximate 2 cups. YMMV)
- 65 g white sugar
- 130 g brown sugar
- 155g butter; plus
- 42g eggs
equals 943 g of ingredients
I'm refusing the weigh the baking soda, salt, vanilla extract and secret ingedient.
So for $2.99 we get about 943 g of chocolate chip cookies.
Rats. You spotted that did you? Sigh. The things I do for this website.
Ok. Here are some more costs:
- Chocolate chips, on sale, but not the best sale ever, and not as good as a sale on the bulk-size bag, and for Chipits not no-name chips: $2.99
- Flour $0.50
- White sugar $0.10
- Brown sugar $0.30
- Butter $1.00, plus
- Eggs $0.50
I'm not adding in the baking soda, salt, vanilla extract and secret ingredient here either. So there.
Ok, the actual retail value is $5.39. So call it $5.50 including the vanilla. You can get this total MUCH lower if you shop the sales carefully.
That's $5.50 for 943g of cookies.
(You see how much cheaper it would be to make Oatmeal Cinnamon with no chocolate chips, by the way? Or lemon sugar?)
Rats. I guess there's also some electricity cost for baking them. Although I could make rum balls without an oven….
Let's lie and say the electricity is $0.50 until I can figure out some easy way to get a real number.
[Ok, I checked and at off-peak rates baking two trays at once, it's about 13-53 cents, so I'll stick with this number. The BC Hydro number of 13 cents is probably more accurate. You can optimize oven costs by using an oven already hot from roasting something, etc., too, but that should be in an article on reducing electricity costs.]
That makes it $6 for 943 g of chocolate chip cookies.
That's about $1.15 for 180 g.
The little foil pouch ones are $2.50 plus HST for 180g.
That means it costs about $1.35 more to buy the ready-made ones.
Saving $1 doesn't sound like that much until you consider just how many cookies the average children eat in a typical year. Especially when you remember one of those boxes of foil pouches gets you to Wednesday if you have two children. The batch of homemade gets you through three 5-day school weeks for two.
(For best results, bake only a few days of cookies at one time. Shape the rest of the cookie dough into cookies on a baking sheet, freeze them, freezer bag the little unbaked cookies, keep frozen till almost ready to use, thaw the desired number for 15 minutes, then bake as if freshly stirred. Fresher cookies for almost no extra work. Yum!)
Note: I could say the homemade ones taste better. But children don't always agree: they agree they taste different, but they like both. Just as I actually like KD. I would NEVER call it macaroni and cheese, though, which is an entirely different thing including, among other things, real cheese. The two kinds of cookies are like salmon and tilapia. They both have their own textures, smells and flavours. (And adults usually prefer salmon.)
Does White Sugar Also Go On Sale Every Father's Day?!
One thing I noticed reading through the flyers to get some item costs is that almost every store has 2 kg of white sugar on sale this week for $1.97. That's a reasonable price, though not amazing. Does it always come on sale this week? I'll have to remember to start checking every June. If so, perhaps there are some weird psychological decisions being made in Marketing Land about gifting sweetness to Fathers?
Or maybe it's just because these first local strawberries tend to be a bit tart?
A Thank You To Readers of Financial Crooks from my Well-Treated Husband
By the way, my husband thanks you for inspiring this article because now he's getting Oreos AND chocolate chip cookies for Father's Day. (You didn't think I'd measure out all of those ingredients and then just put them away did you?!)
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SEX SELLS – at least that's what the ruling party candidate is hoping as she seeks to rescue her fading chances in Mexico's upcoming presidential election.
Sitting well behind the frontrunner, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the National Action Party (PAN) has appealed to female voters to use their wiles to ensure their husbands vote on July 1.
First she urged them on her Twitter account to withhold "cuchi cuchi", or hanky panky, for a month if their husbands do not vote. Then, challenged by a disgruntled man, she upped the ante on Monday.
"Today a man wrote to me and said: Josefina, why the negative? What's the prize? Why not a month without hanky panky for those who don't come out to vote, and double rations for those who do?" the conservative, usually serious Vazquez Mota told a rally in the city of Atlixco, in the state of Puebla.
"If the woman wants to, that depends on each individual. But the thing here is we all take part (in the vote)," she added.
Support for the conservative PAN, the party of incumbent Felipe Calderón, has been hurt by a mounting death toll in the government's war on drug cartels, and a failure to create enough jobs for the growing population.
Most polls place Vazquez Mota third in the race, well over 10 points behind front-runner Enrique Peña Nieto of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party. – Reuters


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Sookie pulled up outside of the Moon Goddess Emporium and parked the BMW a few doors down from the store front. She made sure to lock the doors behind her with the remote attached to the key ring, and walked the short distance to the shop. If she didn't know any better she would think it was closed. Sookie wondered how Marnie was able to make a living by running such a shop, but there were always people desperate enough to try anything when the chips were down.
A bell rang overhead when Sookie entered the store, and she barely had time to look around before a middle-aged woman appeared from the back of the shop. Sookie immediately recognized her as Marnie from Yvetta's memories, and she was even wearing a dress that was oddly similar to the one Sookie had seen her wearing then. The interesting thing about Marnie was that she didn't look at all threatening or intimidating. She actually seemed rather shy and introverted.
"You must be Sookie," Marnie said as she approached, but her tone was rather lifeless.
"I am," Sookie stepped forward with a bright smile on her face and extended her hand to Marnie. "Holly told me so much about you."
Marnie didn't take Sookie's hand, but she did stare awkwardly at it for a moment. Slowly Sookie lowered her hand and decided to glaze over the awkwardness. She lowered her shields and listened for anything of import while she jabbered on and on about how fascinating she thought it would be to be a medium, or be able to practice magic. Sookie said nothing about her telepathy, but did mention the recent death in her family.
"Yes, Holly did mention the death of your grandmother. Why don't we have a seat over there?" Marnie pointed to the table near the window with a crystal ball at the center.
"Sure," Sookie flashed a sad smile, and then made her way to the table.
"Now, I can't guarantee that I'll be able to reach your grandmother, but I'll give it my best shot. You wouldn't, by any chance, have anything with you that belonged to her, would you?" Marnie asked after taking a seat.
"As a matter of fact," Sookie reached into her purse and pulled out a handkerchief that had been Gran's. "This was Gran's. I like carrying it with me; it makes me feel close to her."
Marnie nodded with understanding, and took the piece of cloth that Sookie handed over. She kept her palm turned up with the cloth resting on top of it and said, "I need your hand, dear."
"Oh, right," Sookie set her purse aside and held onto Marnie's hand.
Just like with Lafayette there was a curtain in Marnie's mind, and as soon as Sookie's hand touched hers, the curtain fell away. Marnie closed her eyes and began to chant in another language that sounded an awful lot like Latin. Sookie, meanwhile, gently pushed her way into Marnie's mind. There wasn't a whole lot of note going on in there at the moment. She was concentrating too hard on trying to reach the spirits for Sookie to find out what sort of plans she had in store for the vampires.
But then, all of a sudden, Sookie heard Gran's voice and she gasped. Marnie's eyes opened and focused on Sookie. "Your Gran… her name is Adele?"
Sookie nodded and tears filled her eyes. "You found her?"
Marnie nodded and said, "Yes, she is with us."
Sookie, Sookie, my sweet girl is that you?
"Yes, Gran, it's me," Sookie answered, and Marnie's eyes went wide at the realization that she hadn't had to translate for Sookie.
It was a careless mistake, on Sookie's part, to jump the gun like that but just hearing Gran's voice again was such a relief that she couldn't help answering.
"How did you-" Marnie started, but was cut off by Gran.
Oh, I've missed you, honey. Don't cry, Sookie.
It was too late. Sookie was weeping, but trying to pull herself together.
"I've just missed you so much Gran. There are so many things I want to tell you, and I have so many questions. Are you with Hadley?" Sookie started there.
Yes, I'm with her. She told me of the trouble you're in, and she told me about her talk with Lafayette. I don't know how she found him so fast. I know you must be angry with me for not telling you the truth about your grandfather—
"I'm disappointed, Gran, but not angry. I would have understood. I'm sure you had your reasons," Sookie said, and much to her amazement Marnie remained quiet.
We just wanted children so badly. It was the only way. Fintan was good looking, intelligent and very sweet on me. He understood that he could never play the role of a father to Corbett and Linda. He knew I wasn't in love with him, and that I would never leave Earl. Yet, he was willing to give me the one thing your grandfather couldn't. I will forever be grateful to him for that, Sookie. After all, if it wasn't for him, I would have had you, Jason and Hadley as well.
"I understand, Gran, really I do," Sookie said, even though there was a part of her that had a difficult time wrapping her head around it. "Did Granddaddy know?"
Of course he knew. At first he had a hard time accepting it, but he wanted children as much as I did. In the end, it was the only solution we could come up with. Read the letters, Sookie. They will tell you so much more than I can right now. My time is limited.
"Gran, what do I do about Bill?" Sookie asked, since that was her second most important question.
You have always had a good head on your shoulders, Sookie. You have good instincts, a big heart and more insight to the world than you should for your age. Use those things to your advantage. Listen to your heart and follow your instincts, and you can never be led astray.
"That's just it, Gran, I'm not sure about anything right now," Sookie sighed.
Yes you are, child. You know the right path to take, but you are afraid to let true love into your life. I'm proof that nothing goes on forever, Sookie. If you have a chance for happiness, you reach out and grab it with both hands and don't you dare let go. You deserve to have everything you want, and you can have it if you don't run from it because you're afraid. Open that heart of yours to the right one and it will always be safe.
Sookie sobbed quietly, her eyes squeezing tears from her eyes, her shoulders shaking as she cried. "I miss you so much, Gran."
I know you do, honey. There's something I need you to know. The night I was murdered… I don't blame you for my death. What happened to me is not your fault, and I don't like you carrying that around. This is important so I need you to listen to me. Are you listening, Sookie?
"Yes," Sookie sniffled, feeling a bit lighter for having heard Gran absolve her of her guilt. "I'm listening, Gran."
I felt cold hands on me, Sookie. I didn't see the killer's face, but I know it was a man, and I know he was wearing khaki slacks. I don't think it was Rene that killed me. I only saw the man as he left, and he did so at a speed that was much too fast for a human. Sookie, I think the man who killed me was—
"Gran? Gran?" Sookie stood up, and tried to push deeper into Marnie's mind, but Gran was gone.
The only good thing about it was that Sookie saw flashes of vampires with slit throats, drinking a concoction with silver flecks in it. The silver would burn the vampires from the inside, and Sookie watched as these anonymous vampires writhed in agony, too weak to fight back against the affects of the silver thanks to their slit throats. Eventually the pain became so great that they either staked themselves, or met the sun. It was a horrible, awful way to die and it seemed Marnie had worked out a plan to make this happen one vampire at a time, if necessary.
Sookie snapped out of it in time to see Marnie staring up at her suspiciously, and she took back Gran's handkerchief before reaching into her purse to pay Marnie for her time.
"How did you do that?" Marnie asked in a mystified tone.
"It isn't important. Thank you for your time, Marnie," Sookie said, and dropped the cash on the small table before running out of the shop.
She didn't look back.
Sookie stopped at the Grab-It-Kwik on her way home to pick up some extra TruBlood since both Eric and Bill would be there later. She grabbed a frozen pizza from the freezer section for good measure since she hadn't taken anything out for supper, and she was starving. When Sookie arrived home a short time later she went to the kitchen to start the oven warming, and then went upstairs to take a quick shower and rinse the smell of the bar off of her.
By the time she came back downstairs the oven was ready for her pizza, and after popping it in Sookie sat down at the kitchen table with a glass of iced tea, a notepad and a pen. She sat there thinking about the things Gran had said, specifically the last part about the night she was murdered. Gran hadn't had the chance to say it, but Sookie was pretty sure what Gran was going to say.
"Bill couldn't have done that to Gran," Sookie whispered, but her gut rejected that notion.
Bill had lied, concealed things and he had killed Uncle Bartlett after Sookie told him what the dirty old man had done to her when she was a child. Rather than coming to her, or asking her permission first, Bill had simply committed another murder in Sookie's name and tried to hide the body. Sookie thought about how much blood was on her hands as a result of Bill's actions. How many unnecessary deaths had there been because Bill murdered people who had hurt her?
The Rattrays, Long Shadow, Uncle Bartlett… now maybe Gran? The body count was mounting, and if it was true that Bill had killed Gran then it was safe to assume that Bill would do anything to get to Sookie. But why would he have killed Gran? Gran hadn't tried to discourage Sookie from seeing Bill. If anything, Gran had been supportive of Sookie and Bill's relationship. Just when Sookie thought she was getting somewhere, she found she had a whole new series of questions to consider.
With that in mind, she picked up her pen and started to make up a list of questions. She dedicated one page to each person she planned to address, and started with her questions for Eric, since she was counting on him arriving before Bill. She wanted to hear what he had to say so she could compare Bill's answers against what Eric said. The realization that she trusted Eric hit her like a ton of bricks. It was floating on the periphery, but as she was writing she realized that Eric had been truthful with her so far. He was blunt a lot of the time, and she didn't always understand why things had to be the way they were, but Eric didn't make any attempts to hide who he was from her.
He laid everything out in the open for her to examine, like it or not. It was refreshing, but also terrifying.
From there Sookie moved on to Bill's list, writing up many of the same questions a second time, but adding a few new ones that pertained to Bill's position with the Queen. Hadley's 'testimony' wouldn't hold up in a court of law, but that didn't matter. Sookie had no reason to believe that Lafayette was lying to her, and with her own mind she had heard Gran confirm the things that Hadley said. If Bill lied to her again, that would be the end of their relationship once and for all.
Finally, Sookie was writing up her questions for Lafayette and Jesus when the timer went off on the oven. Sookie set aside her pen and went to the oven to remove her pizza. The sun was starting to sink for the day, which meant it was only a matter of time before the vampires arrived. Sookie sat down at the kitchen table with a plate full of pizza, picked up her pen and resumed writing.
She had a lot of questions. More importantly, she needed the answers.


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Check out my Recent Posts links to see what I was up to this week.
On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 I received my 1,000th Like for my posts on this site. This is small potatoes to some, but every little bit counts to me. I only wish I could have been free and focused to acknowledge it when it happened, but I can't complain too much.
I started out the week with Sample Sunday 32- Eternal Curse: Giovanni's Angel, chapter 5.1
On Monday, I posted my Top 5 music genres.
On Tuesday, I added to my character files the preferences for Bletsian.
On Wednesday, I posted my monthly contribution to the Insecure Writers Support Group where I introduced, "How do you woo?"…
But of course that means I forgot about my WWW Wednesday post, until later that evening.
On Thursday, I posted a Tea and Conversation about eagles.
And yesterday, I posted a very special Friday Forecast.
-Today, I spend time with family. It's where I need to be.
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Since Britpop's highs in the 90s, British bands haven't had quite the same overwhelming effect on the world. So when there's a bright and shining new talent hailing from the United Kingdom, it is hard to not get excited. But what happens when the talent is comprised of a handful of 18-year-old boys? It feels a little unnerving, right? "Can they really be that good?" you ask yourself.
When first listening to Forest's Sweetcure EP (Tip Top Recordings), it's exactly that experience. The collection of four songs is mature and catchy, fast-moving, and confident. So when listeners learn that the lead singer is a newly crowned 18 year old, it's quite jarring. Not only are the songs lyrically and structurally well written, but the quality of the recordings is also promising (there's a note on the SoundCloud page that the record is self-produced).
The EP begins with the upbeat track "Good People." The song floats through fuzzy guitar riffs and Strokes-like vocals. It's the kind of track you'd want to listen to while flying through a European city during the summer, dodging opposing cars like bullets.
Track 2 is where the EP shows the most promise. "John" is a killer song–something Germans would tag as an immediate "Ohrwurm," or, a song that gets stuck in your head. The constant electric riffs accompanied by the backing guitar and cheerful, storytelling lyrics and back-up oohs all blend together to form a sincerely energetic track. This song sounds so much beyond the boys' time. There's a quick moment in the song when the vocalist recalls, "Since I was 9, I liked looking at…" and you realize the guy who is singing is referencing his childhood and recollecting his pre-teen years. In that second it's apparent that YES, these musicians aren't too far from their youth, despite how impressively mature this song sounds.
Taking off from where the first track left off, track 3's "The Great Greens" brings back a faster-strumming sound and an incredibly singable chorus. The song is vocally reminiscent of the Swedish pop band Peter Bjorn and John, with double vocals and other similar delivery techniques. It's a driving song that never slows down, even during the instrumental breaks.
"The Travelling Circus" rounds out the EP with a stronger "rock" sound, heavy with jagged guitars and a different lead vocalist. The drums feel a bit more prominent on this track because they're so hard-hitting. This song really shows a different side of the band that wasn't evident in the first three tracks, resulting in a broader debut.
Cambridge's Forest is accurately categorized on their label's SoundCloud page as "fuzzy-rock/pop" music. At first glance I wouldn't necessarily be intrigued to listen to another band that claims to carry such a sound; it seems as if the industry is saturated with groups that use this adjective today as a go-to means of self-categorization. But Forest truly delivers and they're worth every listen, especially considering that the band members are just 18. It's exciting to consider what's to come for this young band.


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Magnus Ismail
I have a semi-deep mellow voice that I can make animated and inviting. It is not car salesman type but i can make it sound that way if required.
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will he be a good president? I don't like him tbh
Most Helpful Girl
Although I strongly believe media outlets put out what they want you to know about topics and people. I don't think he is the right person for the job , I don't think any candidate is good because I get the feeling its going to come down to him and Hilary. I will be filling out someone else because to me there isn't a good choice. that being said if we want a change and things to get better in our country we can't just change one politician we have to change them all.. basically clean house of the senate and the house too. this government has their hands in everything locally and nationally what ever happened to working for the people. I mean after al we are the reason they're in the positions they are... they want to cut funding to education and all these budget cuts... here's an idea take it from their wages. Do they really need million dollar homes and their Mercedes vehicles..00|00|0
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A kind of Mussolini
Sounds like sam I am lol
That last one is how he usually answers questions. "How will you bring back the American Dram?" All that talk and never did he say how. And ended talking about a red hat. Mental case.


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California State Treasurer's Office
John Chiang was elected on November 4, 2014, as Californias 33rd State Treasurer. As the States banker, he oversees a bank that processes trillions of dollars in transactions every year. One of his top priorities is to conduct the States business in the most transparent manner possible.
Chiang sells Californias bonds, invests the States money and manages its cash. In addition, he manages financing authorities that help provide good-paying jobs, better schools, improved transportation, quality health care, more affordable housing and a cleaner environment. He handles those duties while sitting on the governing boards of the nations two largest public pension funds the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS).
Prior to being elected Treasurer, Chiang served from 2007 through 2014 as State Controller, during which time he:
Took steps during the Great Recession to preserve cash to meet obligations to education and bond holders. His cash management decisions which included delaying payments and issuing IOUs -- were cited as instrumental in keeping the States credit rating from plunging into junk status, which saved taxpayers millions of dollars.
Worked to ensure the fiscal solvency of the States pension plans, and was a leader in pension and corporate governance reform. He proposed a plan to address the unfunded liability of providing health and dental benefits for state retirees, and successfully sponsored legislation requiring all State pension systems to adopt disclosure policies regarding board members and placement agents. He also has sponsored bills to curb pension-spiking, require placement agents to register as lobbyists, and require CalPERS and CalSTRS board members to file more campaign contribution disclosure reports.
Aggressively used his auditing authority to identify more than $9 billion in taxpayer dollars that were denied, overpaid, subject to collection, or resulted in revenues, savings and cost avoidance.
Ensured that $3.1 billion in unclaimed property was returned to the rightful owners. He also led the effort to reform the States Unclaimed Property Program, which currently holds about $7.1 billion in bank accounts, utility deposits and other property that businesses have deemed abandoned by their owners.
Chiang was first elected to the Board of Equalization in 1998 where he served two terms, including three years as chair. He began his career as a tax law specialist with the Internal Revenue Service and previously served as an attorney in the State Controllers Office.
The son of immigrant parents, Chiang graduated with honors from the University of South Florida with a degree in Finance. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
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For this pork and beans dish, Im inspired by the Berber classic from North Africa, named for the earthenware pot traditionally used for simmering lamb or chicken stew. Tagine also refers to the stew itself. Here Moroccan spicing brings out the best in boneless blade chops, which are from the loin nearest the shoulder. These thick chops are well marbled, full-flavored, and often called Boneless Pork Loin Country-Style Ribs".
Recipe courtesy of Grand Champion of the popular cooking competition, Chopped and recent winner of Iron Chef America Chef Madison Cowan on behalf of the National Pork Board
- Yield
- 6 servings
- 2 pounds boneless blade chops, (pork loin country-style ribs), cut into 1-inch cubes
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons sweet paprika, Spanish or Hungarian
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- 2 teaspoons ground turmeric
- 2 teaspoons sea salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Tagine:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, as needed
- 2 large leeks, white and pale green parts, thinly sliced and washed well
- 2 large carrots, sliced
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 (3-inch) sprigs fresh thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 cloves garlic , sliced
- 1 28-oz can chopped tomatoes, with their juices
- 1 cup chicken broth, canned low-sodium or homemade
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 15 1/2-oz can chick peas, (garbanzo beans), drained and rinsed
- 1/4 cup cilantro, coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh mint, coarsely chopped
- Couscous Cakes:
- 1 1/2 cup chicken broth, or stock
- 1 cup couscous
- 1/4 cup almonds, sliced
- 1/4 cup dried currants
- 2 tablespoons chives, coarsely chopped
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
- 2 large egg yolks, beaten
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 45 minutes Marinating Time: 3 hours For the pork chops: Put pork cubes in a large bowl and toss with oil. Mix paprika, coriander, turmeric, salt, pepper, ginger, and cumin, Sprinkle half of the spice mixture over pork and toss well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 and up to 3 hours. Reserve remaining spice mixture. To make the tagine: Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. .In batches, add pork and cook, turning occasionally, until browned on all sides, about 4 minutes. Transfer pork to a plate. Add more oil to the skillet if needed. Add leeks, carrots, cinnamon, thyme, chili flakes and bay leaves to the skillet and sauté together about 4 minutes, adding more by the tablespoon, if needed. Stir in the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in remaining spices and cook for 15 seconds. Stir in tomatoes with their juices, broth, and tomato paste and bring to boil, stirring occasionally. Transfer to a large sauce pan. Return to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until juices thicken and vegetables are just tender, about 20 minutes. Stir in chickpeas. Bury the pork in the sauce and cover. Simmer until the pork is just tender, about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, make the couscous cakes: Bring the stock to a boil in a medium saucepan over high heat. Add the couscous, almonds, currants, chives, lemon zest, salt, and pepper and stir well. Remove from heat and cover tightly for 10 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl. Fluff couscous with a fork. Stir in yolks. Press couscous mixture into six 3-inch-wide cakes. Transfer to a plate and let stand 5 minutes. Heat olive oil in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Fry cakes, turning once, until golden, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer to paper towels to drain. Remove bay leaves and thyme sprigs and transfer tagine to a serving dish. Sprinkle cilantro and mint on top and serve hot, with couscous cakes.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories922
- Carbohydrates65 g(22%)
- Fat57 g(88%)
- Protein40 g(79%)
- Saturated Fat15 g(74%)
- Sodium1272 mg(53%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat9 g
- Fiber12 g(47%)
- Monounsaturated Fat27 g
- Cholesterol185 mg(62%)


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I didn't expect to be writing this so soon, but after just two weeks, I had my first lucid dream through Andrew Holocek's lucid Dream Sculpting course. I have, however, had one lucid dream before five years ago, but wasn't able to again until now.
I'm not even halfway through and I've already learnt an incredible amount about lucid dreaming techniques from both eastern and western cultures (most of which was completely new to me), the science of sleep (not the film for those who've seen it), and how to access parts of my mind that previously weren't accessible. I've written quite a lot, so feel free to scroll to the parts that you're most interested in.
It's strange to think that when I was in Rishikesh, India where I was doing my yoga teacher training for three months, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to also learn to lucid dream regularly. I was eating healthy vegetarian food (not that this is a necessity for lucid dreaming, practising yoga for four hours a day and doing all my reality checks. I tried really hard!
But for pretty much the whole time I was there, I struggled to even recall my dreams. My dream journal from that time pretty much has 'I didn't remember my dreams tonight' scribbled on loads of the pages. The few dreams I did remember were just emotionless repeats of the previous day.
The last few weeks, however, have been a completely different story. I've remembered at least two dreams vividly each night; I feel more present in waking life; and I had my first lucid dream of the course which I really wasn't expecting to have so soon.
If you are interested, I'll be describing the dream further on in this article and what I learnt from it. For now though, I want to talk about why this is so important to me, and why bother to learn lucid dreaming at all.
Why lucid dreaming matters to me
Yes, I want to be able to fly, time travel, experience the sensation of going through solid objects and do anything I can imagine in my mind that isn't possible in waking life. But I also want to really push the boundaries of consciousness, improve my waking life and make lucid dreaming something I do regularly.
Whilst doing the course, I've realised how much lucid dreaming can actually be used for. Sure, you can have fun, but potentially, you could completely transform your waking life too, which is something that never occurred to me before.
Far too often I think we separate what happens in our dreams and what we do during the day, or we just don't give sleep the respect it deserves. We close our eyes, write off most of the night, and roll out of bed in the morning. It really doesn't have to be this way though!
I'm naming just a few things here, but I feel the potential of lucid dreaming really is limitless and the only constriction is your own mind.
Other than having fun, what else can lucid dreaming be used for?
- Getting in touch with your higher self and finding answers to problems you've been unable to solve in waking life. For example, chemist Friedrich August Kekulé discovered the structure of the Benzine molecule in a dream.
- Finding out profound truths about the world and universe.
- Using your dreaming time to accelerate your learning in an activity, sport or instrument you love playing in waking life.
If you're interested, the Journal of Sports Sciences recently published a study that provides evidence for the fact that skills practised in waking life can be enhanced in lucid dreams. The brain can't tell the difference between when you practise something in your waking state and when you practise in a dream. Is this not incredible? You can read the full study here:
Effectiveness of motor practice in lucid dreams: a comparison with physical and mental practice
You can also potentially, according to dream researcher Patricia Garfield Ph.D, use lucid dreams on an even deeper and more personal level.
By deliberately changing elements in your dream life, you can learn to confront many of your problems at their origin—in your own mind, rather than years later in the therapist's office. — Patricia Garfield
My lucid dreaming story
One dream that puts you in contact with yourself can change your entire life. — Andrew Holocek.
Before I had my lucid dream, I set the intention that I wanted to find out some great truths about life and the world.
Because of this, I was expecting to meet a wise old philosopher and have a profound 4am conversations in a victorian library, lit with candles, sipping tea from an oversized mug, sitting by a large window overlooking a starry sky with a full moon…enough with the descriptions. I was basically after a 'Waking Life' moment (if you haven't seen this film and you're into lucid dreams, watch it).
Instead, I found myself in Scarborough — a quaint English seaside town, near to where I grew up, that looked more like a fishing village in northern Norway. Before I describe my dream, my entrance into it is worth mentioning.
I was in a regular dream which consisted of being in this incredibly bright minimalist room with white lights glaring at me from all angles. And then suddenly, I felt myself flying forwards through one of the walls (It didn't hurt), and then moving at such an intense but exhilarating speed, I knew instantly that I was about to have a lucid dream.
I then found myself flying at what felt like lightning speed through this tunnel. It wasn't scary at all — but probably one of the greatest feelings of excitement and anticipation ever. If you're familiar with the film Lucy, it was a bit like the time travel scene. There's a short clip here, which is worth watching whether you've seen the film or not, but I'm still going to write…
After my flying adventure, I found myself in the Scarborough countryside in the garden of a very traditional English pub. Colours were incredibly vivid and I felt so lucky to have entered into this magical realm created by my own imagination, yet it felt more 'real' than waking life.
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare. — H.F. Hedge
What I'm about to describe is now going to sound really ordinary, yet how I felt inside and what I experienced in the dream was completely different.
I'm not an 'enlightened person' and I'm not sure in waking life I've ever met anyone enlightened.
In my lucid dream, however, all the dream characters were enlightened. And they weren't old wise meditating monks with beards and orange robes — they were regular people, going about their daily everyday lives, but with complete attentiveness, mindfulness and peace. I felt bliss all around me, yet this was the so called normal state of being in my dream.
So, back to being in the Scarborough pub garden — I met the landlady of the pub who showed me a level of compassion and kindness I've never felt from a stranger in waking life, but maybe that's because I'm not as good at reading people's emotional states in waking life.
In my dream, I felt I could absorb what my dream characters felt, as if this was just an extra sense I had that was perfectly normal, yet not fully developed in me in my daytime existence.
I compared this to my observation of people in my waking life and I really was experiencing a completely new world, yet from a surface level it was quite ordinary, which might explain why I haven't met anyone enlightened in my waking life, because maybe unless you are yourself, there's no way of recognising it in others.
The landlady of the pub garden I was in showed me so much kindness and compassion I almost felt tearful that a stranger who knew nothing about me could be so kind. It's not what happened exactly — but more about how I felt around her — which is something I'll remember forever, despite the fact it was just a dream. Her eyes seemed to go right through me and for a moment I thought, 'she knows I'm lucid dreaming'.
Clearly my dream self looked a bit bedraggled from flying so fast through the tunnel or maybe she was just sensing what my inner state was really like. Who knows. Outwardly I was in a t-shirt and she kindly offered me a jumper because it was autumn in my dream and cold by the coast.
As I left the pub garden, I looked back to write down the name of the pub so I could send the landlady a thank you card. But, staying true to lucid dreaming rules, when I looked back, the writing and letters changed shape. I pulled some paper out of my bag anyway, thinking if I wrote something down I would have evidence of where I'd been in the night when I woke up, which I then planned to Google to find the exact address.
Have you heard of the Danish word Hygge? There isn't a comparable English word, but it means something like feeling enjoyment from small pleasures such as sipping hot chocolate with a friend when it's snowing outside, reading a book by candlelight, or just walking in nature and feeling like you're exactly where you need to be in this moment.
So, in my lucid dream I felt Hygge, if this is the right context to use the word in. I walked peacefully and I observed the world around me. I saw people completely happy with their lives, not because of what they owned, or their status, but because they were just 'being'.
Some people were painting the sides of boat parts, others walked along the coast with their dogs, some were just working at the jobs they do every day — and I felt what all of them felt inside and it was such an incredible feeling of compassion, kindness and complete contentment with life's simple pleasures.
It actually made me feel a bit guilty. I've spent most of my 20's trying to escape everyday life, dissing the mundanity of it and chasing adventures instead. While all this is fine, this dream was a wake up call, telling me that while happiness can be found anywhere, true, real long lasting contented happiness can only be found in the fluid moments of everyday life. It's a fact I've never really wanted to face, because I want to see meaning in everything. I've often struggled to just let things be.
What next?
I've still got almost a month left of Dream Sculpting, so I can't wait to learn more and continue having lucid dreams. I've written loads already, yet I still feel there's so much more to say. My mind after just several weeks has really been blown in the best possible way.
As I skim through some of my notes from my Dream Sculpting workbooks to see if there's anything vital I've missed out, I see how each little nugget of information I've written could be expanded into an article or possibly a book in itself — this is how vast the lucid dreaming world is.
Usually when you read about lucid dreaming online — in my case anyway — you're introduced mainly to the western techniques such as the WILD or MILD methods and all the daytime reality checks such as looking at your hand and asking yourself 'Am I dreaming?'
Andrew's extensive science background and his years spent studying these Buddhist and dreaming practices in India, Tibet and Nepal, makes for an incredibly well thought out, mind blowing course.
Dream Sculpting has not only delved deep into ancient eastern dream yoga practices, but also provides the latest science on the subject — bridging these two worlds in a way that's rare to find.
There's a whole universe you've been sitting on and we're going to bring that universe into your conscious awareness. — Andrew Holocek
Finally, I am a Dream Sculpting affiliate. This means that if you join the course though my site I will make a commission which will go towards doing future yoga teacher trainings and courses.
You can find out more about Andrew Holocek's lucid Dream Sculpting here
or enrol in a free online lucid dreaming masterclass here


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