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HELLO!!! I know it has been a very long time but now I'm free to blog as much as my heart desires. I just graduated with my bachelors degree on the 13th of June and Ben with his Masters on the 12. We are both currently free as can be. I have decided to take a new method to blogging. I will now only blog about what I want to blog about in the moment instead of feeling like I have to catch everyone up on every little detail. It is when I start thinking that I have so much that I should be blogging about that blogging starts to feel like a chore and then I just don't do it.
Currently Ben and I are looking for summer employment. I actually got offered a job in the humanities division at the U of C. Unfortunately, I had to turn it down because Ben and I recently realized that we may be moving very soon. Even though I wasn't able to accept the position, it does give me a boost of confidence to know that I do have the skills necessary to get hired now that I'm officially in the real world. I also felt really bad letting such nice people down after they were so kind and complimentary to me. Anyway, so I am back on the market for short-term employment. There is one position that I would be willing to stay in Chicago for, but it is because I have worked there the last three years and love all of the kids. Unfortunately, given the current economy they may not have the budget to hire me on, which means I will be leaving Chicago.
Ben also has his own exciting plans stirring around, but seeing as I have yet to gain his approval to share his plans to the blogging community, I think I will have to wait a little longer to announce his plans in cyberspace.
On a different note, today his Father's Day so HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! I just want to say a word or two about my own father. When I was younger I did not always give my dad the credit he deserves in raising me. My parents are both really young, which means that they had to do a lot of raising themselves while they were raising me and my sister. I often times question the legitimacy of their methods when raising me and I know that they look back and question those methods too now that they are raising two more kids. What I do know is that I can't deny that I am largely a person of strength because of them. Both my parents are strong people but I don't usually realize the type of strength that I get from my dad. My dad has given me the ability to demand the best of myself. I know that my own personal best has no ceiling and through constant perseverance my personal best and what is considered to be the best can be one in the same if I want it enough. My dad has taught me to take responsibility for my own actions and responsibility for the things that I allow into my life. My dad drove into my sister and me the importance of integrity through strength and endurance. He taught us the importance of taking the initiative and completing a task above and beyond the requirement. All of these qualities have allowed me to reach my goals, graduate from one of the best schools in the world, and become a person whose integrity, strength, and perseverance allows me to stand out from the crowd. I love that my dad instilled in me the importance of these qualities, while also making the hard choices necessary to provide for his family. My dad is a man of strength. I see it in all that he does. I see it in the values that he gave me and my sister and his current willingness to reevaluate himself as he raises my younger brother and sister. I also see it in his ability to sacrifice by working under less than ideal circumstances. I love my dad for his strength as well as my own.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
I'm Back! Jobs and Father's Day
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Lunch at Mel's Diner
Michelle Alton 11/10/2011 2:05:38 AMGREAT find and capture, Jill. #1421834
Jack Gaskin 11/10/2011 5:38:25 AMTHOSE ARE SOME TATS Wonderful Capture
Jack #9795606
Linda L. Ruiz 11/10/2011 6:39:30 AMI remember this. The lighting was fantastic. great shot Jill #9795747
Emile Abbott 11/10/2011 8:23:29 AMNice leg work. Excellent lighting to capture this so well. #9795928
David Phalen 11/10/2011 10:43:27 AMLove late nights at a Diner. Meet some very interesting people.
The light, colors and clarity are excellent!! #9796153
Susan M. Campbell 11/10/2011 12:29:35 PMI remember this girl. This is a great shot. Wild tattoos!! #9796348
Susan M. Campbell 11/10/2011 12:29:44 PMI remember this girl. This is a great shot. Wild tattoos!! #9796350
Marilyn K. Lincecum 11/10/2011 12:35:00 PMCheck out those tattos..great shot, nice light, color and detail. #9796367
Michael G. Marshall 11/10/2011 6:29:05 PMFascinating candid, Jill! Really cool! Michael #9796980
Heather Loewenhardt 11/12/2011 6:47:28 PMWhat a wonderful story telling image. Love the fabulous lighting and the way this scene was framed. #9800839
Neal D. Hatcher 12/14/2011 4:58:48 PMCongratulations-Good luck next round #9866452
Stan Kwasniowski 12/14/2011 6:18:00 PMJill, congratulations what a neat shot #9866709
Mary Timman 12/14/2011 6:46:13 PMCongratulations Jill and good luck. #9866880
Terry Cervi 12/14/2011 9:26:53 PMCongrats on this wonderful finalist, Jill! #9867424
Tiia Vissak 12/14/2011 10:47:36 PMCongratulations! #9867555
Jeff Robinson 12/15/2011 3:20:39 AMCongrats Jill on this Fantastic Finalist! #9867851
Mary Dimitriw 12/15/2011 4:21:30 AMAwesome Finalist Jill! Congrats! #9867947
Emile Abbott 12/15/2011 6:41:18 AMCongrats Jill on outstanding finalist. Your leg work paid off. #9868241
David Hurt 12/15/2011 10:00:48 AMCongrats Jill and Happy Birthday. #9868847
Joannie Bertucci 12/15/2011 3:56:46 PMWTG birthday girl! :-) I have to say that this just might be one of your best images...very high quality fashion! Exceptional lighting and colors! Congrats on your finalist princess! #9869500
JO ANN CLEVELAND 12/15/2011 4:48:16 PMCongratulations on this outstanding finalist Jill!
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Ken Smith 12/15/2011 6:02:24 PMThis turned out well, Jill. Congrats on your silver!! #9869881
Renee Doyle 12/16/2011 1:25:25 AMWell seen and captured Jill!! COngratulations! #9870519
Susan M. Campbell 12/16/2011 9:15:56 AMCongrats girl....this is a great shot. #9871276
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Renee Doyle 12/16/2011 8:34:06 PMCongratulations on this excellent winner Jill! #9872984
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Mary Dimitriw 12/16/2011 9:21:04 PMSo glad to see a gold winner on this image Jill! Excellent! #9873058
Michelle Alton 12/17/2011 3:37:16 AMThis was so quirky and wonderful, and so beautifully presented, Jill. Warm congratulations! #9873418
Neal D. Hatcher 12/17/2011 3:51:03 AMCongratulations on your well deserved Gold #9873439
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Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna 12/17/2011 11:13:41 AMWTG on this wonderful winner, Jill! :-) k #9874171
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Emile Abbott 12/18/2011 12:21:03 PMHi Jill this one had enough legs to go all the way to GOLD. Congratulations on outstanding WINNER. #9875997
Rob Bishop 12/19/2011 10:35:36 AMGreat to see you get a winner, Jill. I always liked the feeling in this perfectly captured moment. #9877673
Merna L. Nobile 12/30/2011 11:19:47 AMWhat could be more important in life than to know in our hearts that in everything we have tried to do, we have done our very best?
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Memorial Day awakens old memories of loved ones who gave their lives in service to their country. Almost every family can lay claim to an ancestor or a recent family member, relative, friend or acquaintance that was lost to the ravages of war. Most often we think of them as soldiers, sailors and pilots who served in the Armed Forces.
However, there also needs to be included on this day of honoring and remembrance, a group of citizens and civilians who often took on some of the most dangerous tasks of all to aid in the battle against enemy forces. These are the secret mediators, spies and undercover agents who risked and sacrificed their lives in pursuit of valuable information that often was the impetus that could turn the tide of battle from probable defeat to unlikely victory.
Often, these cloak and dagger types were never recognized by the general public for their contributions because of the nature of the business they were involved in.
One such individual was Hungarian born Ehrich Weisz who at a young age immigrated with his parents to Appleton, Wisconsin. For a while young Ehrich lived a normal childhood and soon gained his American citizenship. His early pride and patriotism for America would later lead him to serve his country in a way no man had before or since.
As a young lad, he became interested in magic, specializing in picking locks and escaping from handcuffs and locked containers. Once while performing a show in England, he was invited to visit Scotland Yard by the inspector who would eventually create the famous spy unit known as MI-5. Thus began a career of aiding war-torn countries around the world.
One of his first enterprises involved helping Algeria in quelling an uprising by forces that wanted to overthrow that country's government. As a world famous travelling entertainer, Ehrich was often able to travel inconspicuously to countries that would normally be unreachable. He often performed behind enemy lines where he was able to obtain valuable information.
On a more practical level, he often trained spies and other military special forces in the art of escaping not just handcuffs and restraints, but also prison cells. As a civilian, he was often hired by police units to both teach and at times utilize his skills in the battle against crime. He often demonstrated the limitations of the restraints the police used and showed how they could be overcome.
During his short lifetime, Ehrich worked both for and against Germany, aided Russia during the Anarchist's uprising and spent considerable time collaborating with his old friends at Scotland Yards. But it was his adopted country of America where he did most of his performing and spying and earned the right to be called America's First Superhero.
Although he died on Halloween Day at the young age of 52, few men lived as full and adventurous a life as the legend that became known as Harry Houdini, famous magician and American spy.


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Normally in the database a relationship is defined through a foreign key, either from the source table to the target table (ManyToOne), or from the target table to the source table (OneToMany). However, sometimes a relationship is more complex, and involves a comparison or computation. The JPA specification only allows relationships to be defines using foreign keys (JoinColumn), but EclipseLink also provides and extended Expression criteria API to allow complex relationships to be defined.
Consider a Department that has a "manager" relationship to Employee. Instead of having a foreign key to its manager, the Employee has a foreign key to its Department, and an additional field that defines the Employee's position. EclipseLink does not currently define an annotation to define an Expression relationship so a DescriptorCustomizer can be used.
Example of Expression criteria relationship
@Entity @Customizer(org.acme.persistence.DepartmentCustomizer.class) public class Department { @Id private long id; @OneToOne private Employee manager; @OneToMany(mappedBy="department") private List<Employee> employees; ... }
@Entity public class Employee { @Id private long id; @ManyToOne @JoinColumn(name="DEPT_ID") private Department department; }
import org.eclipse.persistence.config.DescriptorCustomizer; import org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.ClassDescriptor; import org.eclipse.persistence.expressions.*; import org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.OneToOneMapping; public class DepartmentCustomizer implements DescriptorCustomizer { public void customizer(ClassDescriptor descriptor) { OneToOneMapping mapping = (OneToOneMapping)descriptor.getMappingForAttributeName("manager"); ExpressionBuilder builder = new ExpressionBuilder(); mapping.setSelectionCriteria(builder.getField("EMPLOYEE.DEPT_ID").equal(builder.getParameter("DEPARTMENT.DEPT_ID"). and(builder.getField("EMPLOYEE.POSITION").equal("MANAGER")); } }


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Written by Jeff Bullas
I came across some interesting statistics that has me quite concerned about the dental hygiene levels on this planet.
Apparently there are 600 million more people that own a mobile phone compared to those who own a toothbrush.
Some research reveals that there are 4.8 billion mobile users but only 4.2 billion people with a toothbrush.
Does that mean that every mobile should be sold with a free toothbrush or should you need to produce your toothbrush before you are given possession of your new mobile phone to ensure that future personal close encounters are engaging and pleasant?
Another interpretation of those statistic is that toothbrushes are too expensive.
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AHS_Damien needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 80 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
Logo for business selling animal health supplies for sheep, goat and cattle and expanding into the pet market.
Animal Health Supplies
We want a logo for our new business. The logo will be used for a new website (we will probably have another contest for the web page soon after we choose the logo). The logo will also be used in stationery (more contests!)
We have a business that manufactures trace mineral supplements (copper, selenium, cobalt supplements) for sheep, goat, cattle as well as some products for assisting animal reproduction. Animal Health Supplies will be selling direct to customers (farmers, technicians, pet owners) through a new website. We also hope to attract distributors for our products through the website.
The current product range is fairly niche. In time we will increase the range of products available to include more mainstream pet products, for example flea/tick/worm treatments for dogs/cats.
Based in Australia, we sell products across the globe, mainly into North America, UK, Europe and Middle East currently. We expect to expand this to Latin America, Asia.
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- want a professional look
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- photos of animals
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- out of entries submitted so far, we don't like a cross in the design
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SAN DIEGO -- A typical boot camp-style workout enhances aerobic capacity and promotes significant calorie burning while also improving muscle fitness, according to a study released today by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), San Diego. The exclusive study on the benefits of boot camp workouts was conducted at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse through its exercise and health program.
The study tested men and women between the ages of 19 and 29 years old. Researchers used a 40-minute video to measure the effects of boot camp-style workouts called The Method: Cardio Boot Camp with Tracy Mallett, which incorporated a balance of aerobic exercise and strength training.
The study concluded that the average exerciser burns approximately 9.8 calories per minute during a typical boot camp-style workout. This equates to about 400 calories during a 40-minute video or 600 calories per hour.
Based upon the data collected in this study, subjects were exercising within industry-accepted guidelines for exercise intensity. Study participants were observed to achieve an exercise heart rate that ranged from approximately 70 percent to 90 percent of maximum heart rate and 60 percent to 80 percent of maximum oxygen uptake, which corresponds to a moderate- to high-intensity level of exercise.
"From a cardiovascular and calorie-burning standpoint, the boot camp-style workout evaluated in this study compared favorably to traditional aerobic activities like group cycling, aerobic dancing and cardio-kickboxing," says ACE's Chief Science Officer Cedric X. Bryant. "During a boot camp workout, you can burn up to 600 calories per hour, which is obviously going to help with weight loss. But in addition to a great cardiovascular workout, you are also getting the muscular fitness benefit from exercises such as push-ups, squats and lunges that you wouldn't get from a typical aerobic exercise."
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After overcoming the many barriers to breastfeeding in the early weeks and months of breastfeeding, many women are understandably proud to continue nursing into toddlerhood and beyond.*
But instead of a fist bump and words of encouragement, some moms instead find themselves on the defensive with their health care providers.
While there are countless supportive providers who share words of encouragement, we too often hear stories from moms in which their providers say:
"He'll never learn to eat solid foods."
"You don't want to end up like one of those moms, do you?"
"Your milk has no nutritional value past a year."
"Continuing to breastfeed is going to cause an unhealthy dependence in your child."
"When are you going to stop?"
In Breastfeeding Older Children, author Ann Sinnott shares many of these stories. She quotes one mother as reporting, "even a fairly progressive pediatrician tried to shame my son into giving it up at the age of three." Sometimes it's even implied that mothers are only doing this "for themselves."
Mothers' fear about talking with their providers about sustained breastfeeding isn't unfounded. In an American Academy of Pediatrics survey of members who wanted to improve their breastfeeding office support (and so might be considered supportive of breastfeeding) fully 25% of participants discouraged breastfeeding after 2 years.
In another study of health care providers attitudes (which included a large number of medical students) only 61% of respondents agreed with the statement "I think that it is acceptable for 1 or 2 year old children to be breastfed by their mothers." That number dropped to 22% for children 3 to 4 years of age. 35% of respondents said that they would encourage a woman breastfeeding her 1 to 2 year old to wean, and 65% said they'd encourage a woman breastfeeding her 3-4 year old to wean. 35% of respondents agreed with the statement, "In general, I think breastfeeding a child of 3 years or older could cause psychological damage to the child."
The fear of judgement or discouragement is strong enough that one paper on the topic (unpublished) by Kathleen Kendall Tackett and Muriel Sugarman is entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: What Women Say to Doctors about Extended Breastfeeding." In it, the authors note that "previous studies have found that women who continue to breastfeed frequently do so in secret, a phenomenon described in the literature as 'closet nursing.' Women and doctors participate in a conspiracy of silence."
The authors tell the story of one mother whose fear of judgement led to adverse health consequences for her child:
Stephen D. (age 21 months) was seen by his doctor because of severe diarrhea and vomiting. The mother was quite concerned and made repeated office visits and telephone calls. The doctor did not initiate treatment because Stephen was not dehydrated and was not losing weight. The doctor did not realize, however, that Stephen was breastfeeding approximately six times per day and at least two to three times at night. After 17 days of daily vomiting and diarrhea, Stephen's doctor prescribed Flagyl. The symptoms lessened within 24 hours, and were gone within 48 hours. Stephen's mother never told the doctor that Stephen was still breastfeeding because she feared that the doctor would be critical. Stephen's mother was an active and outspoken proponent of breastfeeding, yet in this situation, even she felt she could not reveal that she was still nursing. In retrospect, she feels that the doctor not knowing this information may have delayed treatment.
Psychologists are particularly undone by the idea of sustained breastfeeding, says Sinnott. Of psychologists in the UK she says:
Sustained breastfeeding runs so counter to the training of psychologists that it was difficult to get most of the UK psychologists with whom I spoke to countenance even the mere notion that long-term breastfeeding could be anything other than pathologic… All of the psychologists I spoke to were surprised and sounded distinctly worried to hear that large numbers of children are currently breastfed in the developed world.
What's the source of this discomfort?
Many of our providers don't know much about sustained breastfeeding, and as a result view it as potentially harmful in a variety of ways. This isn't too surprising, since providers' knowledge of breastfeeding even in the early months leaves a lot to be desired. And since sustained breastfeeding is less common, and some is 'closeted' for fear of judgement, providers may be further thrown off when they encounter it. (In this sense, are we complicit in the "conspiracy of silence?")
It also results from the prevalent view of breastfeeding as solely, or primarily, nutritional and immunological in purpose, and discomfort with the idea of breastfeeding as a normal part of psychological development. Fear of creating an "unhealthy dependence," can lead mothers to be discouraged from comforting or connecting with their children through breastfeeding past infancy. Our providers are also subject to the same cultural messages we are about the the breast as sexual object, and can become concerned about nursing past infancy as somehow sexual in nature.
Are we expecting too much of our providers? In Mothering Your Nursing Toddler, author Norma Jane Bumgarner writes, "Doctors and nurses are trained in identifying and treating illness. It is not fair to them to expect them to also be experts in all aspects of child care and family living… Their advice on child care tends to be no better and no worse than that of other reasonably well-informed adults. That is as it should be, and it is a mistake to expect more."
That would be fine if, at a minimum, our providers treated our choice to breastfeed long-term as they would treat our choice of diaper bag – an individual choice. But repeated reports from moms and studies of provider attitudes suggest that their response is often far from it.
"Long-term breastfeeding is a growing phenomenon (in developed countries) and healthcare providers are lagging behind," says Sinnott:
Health providers must overcome personal and cultural prejudice and inform themselves… It is imperative that health professionals acknowledge that their certainties are founded on nothing more than myth and received opinion, and understand that sustained breastfeeding has been integral to our species for 95% of all human existence, and is today still a normal practice in much of the world.
*In the absence of a perfect phrase, we refer to breastfeeding past infancy as "sustained breastfeeding" (as used in Breastfeeding Older Children) in this post. It's our wish that someday it will be known simply as "breastfeeding."
Did you breastfeed into toddlerhood or beyond? How did your health care providers react to your choice? Did you feel uncomfortable telling your providers?


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"Taj" GC1A91Y GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – January 17, 2010
Geocaching doesn't have to take a vacation when you're on vacation. There are more than 1.2 million geocaches around the world, including "Taj" (GC1A91Y) on the doorstep of the crown jewel of Indian architecture.
More than 200 geocachers visiting the Taj Mahal have logged a smiley on this cache.
The difficulty 1.5, terrain one cache was hidden back in 2008. You need to do your homework to log a "found it" on this cache though. GPS receivers are not allowed past security. The cache owner, mapadula, suggests reading the hint on the page before beginning your treasure hunt.
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Yesterday I observed that Republican congresspeople literally are not offering any substantive ideas to create jobs.
Now, leading Republicans are coalescing around an substantive idea … for the Federal Reserve to stop trying to create jobs.
It is currently the law for the Federal Reserve to pursue that both restrain inflation and full employment. The Fed's recent
move to buy $600 billion of government debt was intended to lower longer-term interest rates and spur job growth.
Seeing the Fed try to create jobs has been too much for leading Republicans to take. Now they are demanding we strip the Fed of its mandate to strive for full employment.
House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Mike Pence is introducing legislation to strop the Fed of its jobs mandate, and his call was echoed by Senate Banking Committee member Bob Corker. The Huffington Post reports the Sen. Minority Leader McConnell signaled his support, and that incoming House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Paul Ryan has long held the anti-jobs position.
We already knew nearly every Republican opposed the Congress using fiscal policy to create jobs. Now we know they oppose the Fed using monetary policy to create jobs.
As economist Mark Thoma noted yesterday, that's it. That covers everything government can do to create jobs. Republicans simply oppose using the tools of government to create jobs.
I would be less offended by this position if they just copped to it.
It would be far more honest for conservative Republicans to say: We don't believe government should do anything for jobs. Recessions happen. People lose their jobs. If they couldn't figure out how to stay employed, that's their problem.
Instead, conservative Republicans are claiming they want to create jobs, but just aren't bothering to offer any policy ideas that have any remote connection to the creation of jobs.
Just repeating over and over that "getting government out the way" magically creates jobs doesn't even qualify as an argument, especially after what we saw in the last decade.
And now that Republicans are raising the ante, coming up with policy ideas to make it harder for our government to help government jobs, it's way past time someone press conservatives to explain how is it exactly they plain to follow through on their promise to help create jobs.


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Fed Ex beef straight to your front door
It will be a murder scene
I'll turn Pink Friday into Friday the 13th
Alright you Little Kim clone clown
All this buffoonery, this shit stops now
Time for you to lay down, I'm sick of the frauds
I put hands on this bitch like a spa massage
We all know your last name is what got you your job
You a put together gimmick, something like a collage
Since you puttin on a show, you gon get the applause
Clap, clap, lift ya frame like a fucking garage?
This hood shit you and Drake ain't built for
This the shit this other bitch almost got killed for
I still counting what Hardcore generated
Bet my shit keeps spinning like its syndicated
Corny broad I'll leave you bloody like you menstruated
Your hot air ass, should have been deflated
This ain't a championship fight I been the greatest
See the fact is what you doing... I did it
Lames trying to clone my style and run with it
Thats cool. I was the first one with it
Yous a Lil' Kim wanna be, You just hate to admit it
I'm the blueprint, You ain't nothing brand new
Check ya posters and videos, You will always be number 2
I seen them come. I seen them go. Still I remain
Sweety you on your 14th minute of fame
Im over 10 year strong still running the game
Cut the comparison, I'm in the legendary lane
Fighting for a spot... Child please I'm solidified
With my hands tied, you couldn't beat me if you bitches tried
Either you high or sippin that shit Wayne on
I get top dollar for whatever my name on
Go stick your head in a tornado- Brainstorm
I drop bombs- Flex, Napalms
Black and yellow, we'll pull up in your ghetto
Giuseppes when I step out, posted up in stilettos
Pussy so pink like my kitty sayin hello
If I whistle they'll pistol whip you in all 5 boroughs
I'm from Brooklyn I be everywhere comfortably
Now who pumped you and told you to come romp with me?
You the type to run your mouth and then run from me
Im poppin off in your hood with no company
C'mon, Queens ain't showin you no love
I was there the other night poppin bottles with the thugs
You like Washington heffa I'm Benji
You got a buzz right now, I had a frenzy
Oh yeah welcome to the fam Fendi
You need to stop, you're not hot you're a burning match
That means the end is near soon, copy that?
Oh I see they really got you gassed, like Im a thing of the past
Betta slow down dummy, you about to crash
Stank pussy ho, Im givin you a bath
Thermometer in hand and I'm comin for you ass
Who you think you gettin passed?
I see right through you your whole shit is made of glass
[Clip of Nicki Minaj's 'Right Through Me']
I draw back
I'm a Brooklyn thorough bitch, rep for my borough bitch
Never been the type to have beef and try to settle shit
I ride out til the wheels fall off
And my niggas squeeze til the last shell go off
Fuck your whole team all I see is a bunch of wierdos
You'sa airhead bitch- scarecrow
Ain't nothin old but my money bitch
This is grown liquid assets
Benjamin's my daddy you Young Money bastards
You and Diddy- sorry bunch of swagger jackers
I mothered you hoes I should claim you on my income taxes
Bobby Fischer in the flesh, taught by the great
So on my next move I'm yellin' checkmate
I smell a massacre
I'm Charles Manson, you don't stand a chance with her
Jeffrey Dahmer and you lookin like lunch to me
Bout to kill all you bitches like Ted Bundy
Leave your whole head red like Pegg Bundy
You're hilarious... thanks for all the laughs
You're garbage, so I'm takin out the trash
You? Shit on me?
C'mon baby girl- Ain't enough ass shots in the world
You're a nuisance, you'd probably steal my new shit
But you could never fuck with me
So chuck it up deuces
All around the world I ball like a ball team
I stack chips, call me Miss Rothstein
Tricks is for kids silly rabbit you're my offspring
Kim more anticipated than a Lebron ring
Lil' Kim disses Nicki Minaj (amongst others) over Pharoahe Monch's "Simon Says" beat
Black Friday premiered on New York's Hot 97 radio station on Thanksgiving 2010, just a few days after the release of Minaj's Pink Friday
Nicki ain't gonna love this (trust me)


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Sat 14th May – 7th XI v Nat West Amblers
7s without credit as the Bank calls the shots
Nat West Amblers 294-4 (40 overs) beat Dulwich 133 all out
With much anticipation the 7s – formerly and forever known as the 6s despite the recent Great Name Robbery – rolled up against Nat West for their first game of the season in a metaphorical Triumph Stag and bounded out with a spring-like Terry-thomas gait and a cheery wave. Within an hour and a half of the start the 7s were already rolled over and heading for a sound thrashing. 'I say', indeed.
The team was skippered by the brave David Straker, with the regular duo of John Smith and Jimmy Gibson absent. John was on a trip to the Midlands and vice skip Gibbo acting in a medical role-play. Reports that it was prostate s(t)imulation have been vigorously, though not too forcefully, denied by his agent.
David's wide-eyed enthusiasm and positivity – generated through many years playing in higher teams – was soon broken by the realities of an early season Dulwich 7th team. The opposition openers, hitherto not known as calypso cricketers, started quickly in the face of indifferent bowling and reached a total of 184 before Pratish Solanki made the breakthrough.
The bowling was generally patchy with numerous wides, perhaps some overzealously called as if an IPL match, slapping into the gloves of a frequently diving and increasingly exasperated Steve Choney. Perhaps the single-minded careerists Hawes and O'Higgins, called up at the start of the new season for the higher teams (and therefore possibly treading the path of upwardly-mobile former 7s alumni such as Nanda, Osborn and countless others), would have made a difference.
The bowlers were not helped by some fielding mishaps that should have been accompanied by music that is usually heard at Billy Smart's Big Top. That said, Nat West's subsequent mid-order batsmen provided no respite for Dulwich's toiling bowlers. The formerly teenaged opposition middle order – once wiry and callow but now young men – greedily devoured the pies and sent the ball to all parts of Beckenham as they fell only just short of the magic 300.
The situation demanded a response from the 7s top order.
The response was forthcoming. But it was to wave flags as big and as white as witnessed on any Italian tank. John Cross with his mind on his newborn, a returning Clarky with his thoughts on smashing them out of the ground and Simon 'Sparky' Peters dreaming of his fuses and screwdrivers all promised much but failed. Griffiths, Rochford jnr and others surrendered even more tamely. Notable exceptions were Solanki with bat (and earlier, to some extent, with ball), a late contribution from Ward and the skipper, generous to a tee, batted at 7 and gamely and skilfully amassed an invaluable 37 as Dulwich narrowly avoided an ego-shattering 200 run defeat.
So, one of the 7s worse cricketing days, but hope, and beer, springs eternal and next Saturday sees… wait, who are the visitors at the DSG? Why, it is the Nat West Amblers and the second in The Series. Another weekend, another match…I say!


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Cablevision Systems Corp. has signed a long-term distribution deal to carry broadcast and cable networks owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal unit.
The agreement includes broadcast networks NBC and Telemundo as well as cable channels USA, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC and NBC Sports Network. Cablevision has more than 3 million subscribers, primarily in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The NBCUniversal accord is Cablevision's third in recent months with a major content supplier. It has also signed agreements with CBS and Walt Disney Co. All the deals were reached without customers losing any signals, which often happens during these negotiations, including when Cablevision and News Corp. had a particularly nasty feud a few years ago.
For NBC, beefing up its revenue from distribution of its NBC network is key.
-- Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times


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Anusaya 2004-2014
Thank you to everyone that has ever read these pages, offered suggestions, written for Anusaya, discussed a new band, supported the site, or shared their music with me. All was appreciated.
I want to walk into a concert and not think about the set list.
Music is life. An adventure. A discovery of artistic visions and soundscapes, new languages and old favorites. It is my life. But when your focus becomes reporting – listening, really listening becomes secondary.
I want to explore every nuance of an old find's discography.
Readership has never really been a factor, but even that has dwindled with my waning focus on the site. Reinvented numerous times, this has been a long time coming. And though it has taken a year to come to this conclusion, this music blog, this Anusaya (obsession) has run its course.
I want to listen to a new album till it becomes an old friend in rotation.
Thanks to Keikaku.net for giving me a place to express my elitist tendencies. Simon, who made late night slsk sessions a must. Elena and Tatayana who took a tired ghost and revitalized this site years ago. Finally to Paul Wheeler, who's Rock of Japan inspired me to step up and report, along with Anusaya both shall be archived side by side on this server till you remove it.
Life is sweet, and it's better with your own hand picked soundtrack. Be bold, be adventurous, and support all musicians. Go indie – You'll never go back.
I just want to make love to my music library again.
Denise Testosterone Buying Online


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Millions of dollars in penalties slapped on some of the world's biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) by U.S. regulators are the result of policing powers established after the 2001 collapse of Enron Corp.
Within the past month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, acting on recommendations from a 200-person enforcement unit assembled in the past three years, proposed fines on Barclays Plc (BARC) and Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) for manipulating energy trades. The agency this week revoked J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corp.'s right to trade power for six months next year — the first such sanction for an active market participant.
I wouldn't say that we're picking on the banks," FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff said in an interview. "We're going after anybody who's involved in manipulative or fraudulent activity in these markets."
FERC didn't always wield such muscle. Its authority expanded after the California power crisis of 2000-2001, when Enron traders' actions triggered rolling blackouts. In 2005 Congress enacted a sweeping energy law that gave the FERC the ability to go after fraud and manipulation. It also gave the agency the authority to impose fines as high as $1 million a day for those who tamper with electric-grid reliability.
The FERC enforcement unit is led by Norman Bay, a former U.S. attorney in New Mexico, and includes a former general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as about 40 analysts who focus on market-manipulation violations.
"A lot of people think you put a law in place and you're ready to go the next day," Wellinghoff said in a Nov. 7 interview. "Unfortunately it's not quite like that. It takes a substantial period of time to build up a team and to build up the expertise and the resources necessary to utilize the tools that Congress gave us.
Researching cases also takes time, and much of the office's efforts in recent years are now coming to fruition. Since January 2011, the FERC announced 11 cases of alleged market manipulation in the electricity and natural gas markets, and this year settled with Constellation Energy Group Inc. for $245 million.
The cases have been developed over years. Barclays' alleged violations, which drew a proposed record fine on Oct. 31, took place from 2006 to 2008. Barclays, which said its trading complied with the law, has vowed to fight the $469.9 million penalty.
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank Energy Trading LLC on Nov. 5 said it was protesting FERC's proposed penalties of $1.6 million for alleged misconduct during early 2010, saying the agency's legal position is "radical." The agency is punishing JPMorgan for producing incorrect documents in a manipulation investigation.
A spokeswoman for JPMorgan, which has apologized for what it has said was an inadvertent mistakes, said it is reviewing the decision and its next steps.
"This is a novel use of FERC's authority over market-based rates and is unsupported by FERC's own regulations," Jennifer Zuccarelli said in an e-mail.
While the violations during the Enron era involved traders using illegal practices to drive up prices which led to blackouts, the commission has seen a different type of manipulation violation in recent years, in which traders try to "play one market off the other," Wellinghoff said.
Without Hedging
Traders might take a loss in the physical energy markets, where electricity is bought and sold, in order to make money on financial exchanges "without any legitimate hedging purpose," he said. FERC alleges that this is what happened in the Barclays case. Wellinghoff said energy companies also are reporting misconduct by calling an agency telephone hotline.
"We're getting substantial information from other market participants" who may be losing money at a competitor's expense, he said.
Even though Wellinghoff denied FERC is targeting financial companies, the investigations are evidence that Wall Street firms have the savvy to game the system, according to Tyson Slocum, director of the energy program at Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer group.
"It appears as though Wall Street is playing a significant role in exploiting overly complex market rules," Slocum said in an interview. Regulators should revoke energy-trading privileges for all companies accused of alleged market manipulation, he said. "That's the most significant club that FERC can wield."
California Market
Separately, the California Independent System Operator complained to the FERC yesterday that the JPMorgan unit, which controls electric generators in Huntington Beach, is using its stake to block changes to plants that will be needed by the state next year.
The grid operator is seeking the FERC's permission to move ahead with the project, by removing JPMorgan's right to object to the changes. Asked about the filing to FERC, Zuccarelli in an e-mail today said: "J.P. Morgan's goal is to work cooperatively to help to find an economic and efficient way to make generation available in California."
Wellinghoff said he expects market-manipulation violations to decline as traders realize that the agency's enforcement division is operating at "full speed."
"The message is going to transfer through the industry that if you engage in this kind of activity you're going to get caught," he said. "If you get caught you're going to pay."
Wellinghoff said the FERC plans to "go after" individual traders as well as specific companies. And he's not concerned about whether this may spook the financial sector.
"Have you ever met any traders?" he said to reporters after the commission's monthly meeting yesterday. "Very few of them are scared or intimidated by anything."
Sourced from Bloomberg.com November 16, 2012


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California Department of Transportation
Headquarters - Public Affairs Office
Tamie McGowen
(916) 657-5060
April 18, 2007
Sacramento – At a speech tomorrow to the Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce, Caltrans Director Will Kempton will announce that – for the first time ever – Caltrans has broken the $10 billion threshold for projects under construction. The previous record level of construction was $8.8 billion in fiscal year 2001-02, adjusted to present value.
"This is truly unprecedented," says Kempton.
California's transportation revitalization began when Governor Schwarzenegger reinstated $2.7 billion in Proposition 42 (devoting state sales tax on gasoline) funds. Last year, thanks to the governor and the legislature's bipartisan leadership, voters approved two historic transportation measures: Proposition 1B, a $19.9 billion bond aimed at reducing traffic congestion, improving goods movement, and creating jobs; Proposition 1A permanently protects Prop. 42 funding, ensuring billions of additional dollars will be available for transportation.
At the end of the last fiscal year, Caltrans came within a whisker of delivering its overall goal of 174 projects valued. Caltrans moved 173 projects to the ready to list stage, the point at which they are advertised to attract bids from contractors. This fiscal year, Caltrans intends to move 286 projects to the ready to list stage and is aiming for 100 percent project delivery.
The $10 billion in transportation improvements now under construction include:
Los Angeles - U.S. 101/Interstate 405 - This is one of the nation's busiest interchanges. A $46 million project will ease traffic backups and eliminate the need for I-405 motorists to cross several lanes to access the U.S. 101 connector.
Bay Area – Third Street Light Rail – Caltrans is providing $64 million in funding to extend a San Francisco Municipal Railway line more than five miles to the San Mateo County line. This vital public transit project, which includes 19 new rail stations, will provide service for the first time to the eastern section of San Francisco.
San Diego – Interstate 15 Managed Lanes – This project is expanding I-15 with four new lanes in the median between State Route 163 in San Diego and State Route 78 in Escondido. A movable barrier will enable traffic to be "managed," meaning lane configurations can be changed to improve the traffic flow for morning and evening commutes, special events, etc. A Bus Rapid Transit System also will be added, providing motorists a transportation alternative.
Fresno - Highway 99 Widening - A $62 million project is converting Highway 99 from four-lanes to six-lanes between Kingsburg and Selma in southern Fresno County. This project will enhance goods movement and ease traffic congestion for commuters in Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties.
Bay Area – San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge – With $4.5 billion in construction currently underway, Caltrans continues making good progress on this landmark project. The west span is finished, and the east span's Skyway portion is 93% complete. Work begins this summer on the $227 million Oakland Touchdown Project, which will connect the bridge's Skyway section to the Oakland Toll Plaza.
Riverside - 60/91/215 Interchange Project - This project will unclog traffic bottlenecks for motorists and truckers traveling on three vital Inland Empire highways. Four miles of new HOV lanes are being added, all three highways will be widened, and a new truck bypass lane will be constructed.
Los Angeles – Eastside Light Rail Extension – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Gold Line is being extended six miles from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles to East Los Angeles. Eight new stations are being constructed. Caltrans is providing $240 million in state funding.
Orange County – Interstate 5 Gateway Project. This $206 million project is adding HOV, mixed-flow, and auxiliary lanes from State Route 91 to the Los Angeles County line. This will complete construction of an HOV network in Orange County and relieve traffic congestion for more than 172,000 vehicles that travel this area daily.
Note to editors: A complete list of Caltrans administered construction projects can be found by clicking on the "Restoring the Golden State" image on the Caltrans web site: http://www.dot.ca.gov


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Help a Midland Veteran Get the Hunting Trip He Deserves!
As you know, we are very proud of the men and women who put their lives on the line to protect all of us.
That's why we're hoping to get enough votes for Mike Ball of Midland to win a hunting trip from Lonestar Outdoors TV. His wife wrote a touching story about him which we've posted below.
Born in Midland, Texas, Michael Ball is a third generation Marine whose patriotism resonates throughout his daily life. After joining the Marine Corp, he was assigned to 1st Marine Division, 1st LAR, Charlie Company as a rifleman. Due to a shortage of men in the beginning of the Iraq War, he was quickly sent through sniper school. Shortly afterwards, he was placed on the frontlines as a scout sniper in a light armored vehicle. He then found himself making the first push of the war across the Iraqi border. On September 5, 2004, in the town of "An Najaf", while on top of a building in a firefight with insurgents, Michael along with ¾ of his team were wounded. Setting aside his own wounds, Michael administered aid to a fellow Marine whose femoral artery had been hit. This battle in "An Najaf" led to Michael receiving both a Purple Heart and a Navy Commendation Medal with a "V".
After leaving the Marine Corp in 2006, Michael returned to Midland, Texas where we married the following year. As with most veterans who return from the war zone, he struggles with the loss and sacrifice of so many friends. The war has impacted his life dearly. Michael's faith, strength, dedication and God's fierce grace has helped him become a wonderful, supportive and loving husband. He leaves his home every day to serve and sacrifice for his community as a police officer. Michael loves to hunt and fish; however, he rarely receives an opportunity to do so. Unlike most Texas men, he has yet to go hunting for his first deer.
Michael is the first to offer his home for friends and family. He loves inviting people over for a BBQ and frequently entertains overnight guests. His home is a vacation spot for many of his friends and fellow servicemen. His home is the "home away from home" for many of his friends. He is the first to help someone else in need and the last to ask for anything. He is a very humble man who lives his life serving others. Michael is a hero not only to the United States of America, but also to the community in which he lives and serves. Michael is my husband, the love of my life, my hero and he would love the opportunity to go on this hunt
So, what do you have to do? It's as simple as two mouse clicks. First, click the button below and then like that status update! Done, and you could help honor this local veteran! The catch is, voting ends at midnight tonight so don't wait!
On a personal note, for everything that our military men and women like Mike have done and given for our country, two mouse clicks is the least we could do. I invite you to share this with your friends and family and rally behind him to give him a day to relax. We all know there's little of that happening for the men and women serving overseas right now.


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The Effect of Temperature Control on the Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes
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The effect of thermostat configurations on the mechanical behavior of empty and butane (n-C4H10) filled (10,10) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is examined using classical, atomistic, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In particular, the influence of different types of thermostats, relative numbers of thermostat atoms, and rates of deformation are considered. The compressive forces on the atoms are calculated using the second generation reactive bond-order (REBO) potential.
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- Three stainless steel burners total 69,000 BTUs
- Stainless steel grilling grates and Ceramic Briquettes facilitate even radiant heat distribution
- Lift assist and fluid handle rotation make raising the hood effortless
- Welded construction eliminates gaps where grease and moisture can collect
- Blue LED control panel accents and ultra-bright internal halogen lighting
Sedona By Lynx 42-Inch Built-In Gas Grill - L700-LP: Experience premium performance and extraordinary value in this top quality BBQ grill from Sedona by Lynx. The 42-inch grill has two stainless steel tube burners with a total of 46,000 BTUs. Easily light the grill using the time tested spark ignition system with a battery backup for a reliable start every time. The ceramic briquettes click into place over the burners and distribute heat evenly across the grilling surface. The grill features stainless steel cooking grates with 728 square-inches of main cooking area and 321 square-inches of warming area, for a total of 1049 square-inches. The Lynx L700 gas grill on cart is made of thick gauge 201 stainless steel using continuous welded construction to eliminate gaps where grease and moisture can collect. The fluid rotation handle and hood assist kit help you lift the hood of the grill easily with just a finger. Blue LED control panel lights and internal halogen lights make grilling at night a snap. Bring the power and performance of Lynx innovation to your outdoor grilling with the Sedona by Lynx grill.
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grasshopper66 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
DanceLikeaChicken.com will be a site with primarily humourous content. The content will be written from first person perspectives, and will include commentary on current events and various news features. The content on this site will be content that people want (rather than content they need). It will primarily be blogs with a free newsletter, and may transform into distribution of content offline.
DanceLikeaChicken offers a special kind of humour - irreverent, sometimes political, but always poking fun at myself and others. The humour will be thought provoking and quirky. For people that enjoy this kind of perspective, it will make their mind 'dance like a chicken'.
To get a taste of this kind of poultry humour content that will be on this site, please sample these hors d'oeuvres:
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Friday, May 25, 2012 - Valeriy and Pavel - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Valeriy and Pavel - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Valeriy Vilemcuk is a newcomer who did a lovely solo. We persuaded him to come back to try some guy/guy action with Pavel Smidl. After a brief interview the guys begin to make out, with Pavel taking the lead. After kissing he works his way down Valeriy's hairy chest to his nice, hard cock. He sucks the big cockhead into his mouth and works on it a while before removing Valeriy's underwear. Then it is back to sucking his throbbing cock as Valeriy's hand guides Pavel's head. Pavel then moves up and kisses Valeriy again, before presenting his own hard cock for sucking. Valeriy takes it in his mouth and sucks it very well. Then the move to 69, both sucking cock at the same time. Pavel sucks on Valeriy's cock before moving down and spreading the ass cheeks. He rims that hairy hole and then inserts a finger. He works the finger in and out of that hole, and then tries a second. Pavel is rock hard and ready for more, so he positions Valeriy, on his back, legs in the air, and pushes his cock deep into that ass. He fucks Valeriy nice and deep, leaning over to kiss him too and after a while changes position. He lays on the bed so that Valeriy can sit on that cock and ride it. He takes it very well indeed, working his hole all over the cock. Another move sees them in spoon position with Pavel fucking Valeriy fast and hard until he is ready to cum. He moves up to Valeriy's chest and shoots a nice big load all over it. Valeriy then takes the cock into his mouth again to suck it dry while he shoots his own load. Pavel finishes the scene by bending to kiss Valeriy after a very successful screentest.
... more about Valeriy and Pavel - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT further in this newsletter
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We brought Honza Solar together with Jan Sadecky for a very good duo. Honza is kneeling on the bed, looking at himself in a mirror, as he rubs himself and feels his body. He is enjoying the view, and turning himself on. Honza removes his shirt and continues to feel himself. We now see Jan standing close by the mirror, watching Honza. He removes his shirts to and runs his hand over his body and groping his cock. Honza is now wanking on his cock and as he does so Jan opens his jeans and pulls out a long hard cock. Honza is now rock hard too. Jan moves over to him on the bed and feed him some of that big cock. Honza's mouth encloses Jan's cock and begins sucking on it. Jan's hand is resting on Honza's head as the cock is being sucked. Jan's jeans come down a bit and Honza begins to lick his big balls too. Licking up the shaft he starts sucking again as Jan's jeans are removed. Honza stands and the guys kiss as Jan takes both cocks in one hand and begins to wank them. Then they lay down on the bed and Jan starts to suck and wank on Honza's rock hard cock. He takes it in his mouth and works up and down on it. Then as Jan holds his mouth on the cock Honza fucks his cock in and out of it. That cock is so hard and the balls are so tight against the base of the shaft as Honza rams it in Jan's mouth. Jan is wanking himself hard as his face is being fucked. Honza then moves down the bed and Jan lifts a leg, his ass exposed. Honza happily rims that waiting hole, his tongue lapping at it. The guys wank themselves while Honza feasts on that ass. But Jan wants some ass too and Honza obliges by sitting down on that rampant dick. He rides it, up and down as long as he can and then holds himself in place for Jan to take over the fucking. His dick rams deep into Honza's hole, fucking him nice and hard. Honza twists to kiss Jan while is ass is stuffed with that cock. They change to doggy and Jan continues to deep dick that willing hole. He slams his cock in and out of that hole, stretching it as much as possible. Then they change to missionary and Honza wanks himself furiously as Jan continues to fuck him. Soon Honza is past the point of no return and lets his cum fly. He dumps a nice big load and Jan is ready to go too. He moves up and shoots his cum over Honza's chest and then lowers his head to kiss him again to end the scene. Well what a lovely time they had, and what enjoyment they created for us.
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We're approaching the 70th anniversary of assassination of Reinhardt Heydrich in Prague. Today, I read this excellent article and thought I'd share it with you.
Well, it was supposed to turn cold and rainy today. The reality is anything but. It's quite warm outside. Hope the fine weather holds up. Yesterday, we shot our June Wank Party. It's, I must say, a very, very good one indeed. I've prepared my first of three advance looks. Please give it a gander over on the Blog:
This afternoon, we had a perfect 10 show up at the Casting Couch, with his 10 friend. Boris is now trying to ambush both of them. That's a shoot I'll look at in the morning.
I have to say, I LOVE the shoot with Viktor Manda. I've watched it at least a hundred times, big ol' str8 Slovak Country Boy and Miro sticks a vibrator up his glory hole, and about three strokes and he's off to glory. Just love it.
Screentest with Valeriy Vilemcuk and Pavel Smidl is a great start to today's newsletter, followed up by Dmitry Karnik's session stills, Pavel Hepnar's erotic video, Viktor Manda's session stills and a very nice backstage video of Wank Party 2012 #2.
We also have three good guys in castings today, Anton Tvaroh, Mattaus Kolos and Anton Vavro. All three look good to me, but the outstanding one is Anton Vavro.
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At the time of writing this article, my husband and I have two debts: our car and our home. We have been working on getting out of debt for a while now and I would like to share how we did it.
Dave Ramsey calls it the debt snowball, Suze Orman calls it the rapid debt payment plan, Mary Hunt calls it the rapid repayment plan. You get the picture. It is not a new idea but maybe one you don't know of as of yet.
Here we go:
Get Out of Debt with the Debt Snowball Plan
from daveramsey.com on 01 Aug 2009
Myth: I should pay off the debt with the highest interest rate first to get out of debt quickly.
Truth: You should pay off the smallest debt first to create the greatest momentum in your debt snowball.
The math seems to lean more toward paying the highest interest debts first, but what I have learned is that personal finance is 20% head knowledge and 80% behavior.You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely. When you start knocking off the easier debts, you will start to see results and you will start to win in debt reduction.
Debt Snowball Plan
The principle is to stop everything except minimum payments and focus on one thing at a time. Otherwise, nothing gets accomplished because all your effort is diluted. First accumulate $1,000 cash as an emergency fund. Then begin intensely getting rid of all debt (except the house) using my debt snowball plan. List your debts in order with the smallest payoff or balance first. Do not be concerned with interest rates or terms unless two debts have similar payoffs, then list the higher interest rate debt first. Paying the little debts off first gives you quick feedback, and you are more likely to stay with the plan.
Build Momentum
Redo this each time you pay off a debt, so you can see how close you are getting to freedom. Keep the old papers to wallpaper the bathroom in your new debt-free house. The New Payment is found by adding all the payments on the debts listed above that item to the payment you are working on, so you have compounding payments which will get you out of debt very quickly. Payments Remaining is the number of payments remaining when you get down the snowball to that item. Cumulative Payments is the total payments needed, including the snowball, to pay off that item. In other words, this is your running total for Payments Remaining.
Debt Free!
You attack the smallest debt first, still maintaining minimum payments on everything else. Do what is necessary to focus your attention. Keep stepping up to the next larger bill. After the credit debt is taken care of, you are ready for the next Baby Step in your Total Money Makeover.
I have been broke. I know how scared I felt, and I know how fast I wanted to get out of debt. I know how you feel, and I have learned that what really works is unbelievably fierce, focused intensity.
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After 26 years in charge at Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson has decided to call it a day.
Ferguson will be remembered as one of the best club managers of all time but is he the best.
With a little bit of research we can reveal the top 10 Premier League managers of all time based on win percentage.
10. Kenny Dalglish - Win Percentage - 48%
The Liverpool legend started his managerial career at Anfield in a player-manager role which lasted six seasons before he retired in 1991 after collecting 10 trophies in six years.
Dalglish then went on to manage Blackburn Rovers with whom he won the Premier League in 1994. In 1997, Dalglish was appointed Newcastle United Manager where he spent one season before being sacked after a run of unsuccessful results. Kenny's final two managerial roles were with celtic (where he picked up the scottish league cup) and finally Liverpool in the 2011-12 season.
9. Andre Villas-Boas - Win Percentage - 52%
AVB had worked with legends such as Sir Bobby Robson and Jose Mourinho before he had gained his first big time managerial status.
Villas-Boas left his assistant manager role at Porto alongside then manager Mourinho, in the direction of Academica where he was awarded his first managerial job.
He took the club from bottom of the division with no wins, to an 11th place finish and ten points clear of the relegation zone. In June 2010, Andre Villas-Boas made his return to FC.Porto. After just two months at the job, he won his first trophy, the Portuguese Super Cup. Since handing in his resignation at Porto, AVB has managed Chelsea and is currently working at Tottenham.
8. Claudio Ranieri - Win Percentage - 52%
Claudio Ranieri first burst on to the managerial scene in 1986 with his firs role at Lametini. However, it was 14 years later when he was appointed manager of Chelsea that he caught everybody's eye.
Although Ranieri did not win any trophies with the Blues, he was making a name for himself in England as throughout his 199 game career with Chelsea, he won 107 of those and has since went on to manage Valencia, Juventus and is currently head coach at Monaco.
7. Rafael Benitez - Win Percentage - 55%
Benitez was awarded his first role as manager at Real Madrid B. Benitez caught the attention of Liverpool in 2004 after he resigned as Valencia manager.
He moved to Liverpool where he won four trophies in all before moving to Internazionale in 2010. Since then he has made his return to English football as interim manager of Chelsea in 2012.
6. Luiz Felipe Scolari - Win Percentage - 56%
Scolari was awarded his first job in England in July 2008 when he was appointed head coach at Chelsea. He became the first World Cup winning manager to manage in the Premier League after he won the cup with Brazil six years earlier.
Despite a relatively successful first season, the Brazilian was sacked in before the end of it in February 2009 after a poor run of games.
5. Arsene Wenger - Win Percentage - 58%
Arsene Wenger has been head coach of Arsenal for 17 years and in that time has racked up 11 trophies will the north-London club in that time.
The first two of which came in his second season when his side won both the Premier League and the FA Cup. Although Arsenal are not known for winning trophies in the more recent years, the Gunners won their last Premier League title in the 2003-2004 season whilst going all 38 games without a defeat and that sort of success has to go down to the manager.
4. Roberto Mancini - Win Percentage - 62%
Roberto Mancini was appointed manager of Manchester City in 2009 following the sacking of Mark Hughes. He signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with the blue side of Manchester and since then has reached his goal of winning the Premier League title in the 2011-2012 season.
3. Carlo Ancelotti - Win Percentage - 63%
Carlo Ancelotti replaced Guus Hiddink as the head coach of Chelsea FC in June 2009. Just two months after his appointment, Ancelotti gained his first honour in England when his side overcame Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United in the community shield final after a 2-2 draw lead to penalties.
On the 9th May 2010, the Italian led the Blues to premier League victory and only six days later, they were awarded the FA Cup after beating Portsmouth 1-0 in the final. Unfortunately, this type of form didn't show in the 2010-2011 season and Ancelotti was sacked less than two hours after a defeat to the hands of Everton.
2. Sir Alex Ferguson - Win Percentage - 65%
Surprisingly, Fergie (based on win percentage) is not the best manager in Premier League history although some would beg to differ. It is well documented that in a career lasting no less than 39 years, Ferguson has become one of the most respected and successful managers of all time. The Scotsman's first (and only) Premier League role was at Manchester United when he replaced Ron Atkinson in 1986. The Red Devils were awarded their first league title under Feguson in the 1992-1993 season and since then have showed no sign of stopping.
All in all, Sir Alex has won five FA Cups, four League Cups, 10 Community Shields, two UEFA Champions League trophies, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup,one FIFA Club World Cup and 13 Premier League titles all with Manchester United. However, he did not have the best win percentage.
1. Jose Mourinho - Win Percentage - 71%
Jose Mourinho ( AKA, "The Special One") has the best Win Percentage in Premier League history with a staggering 71% win rate. He is also the 6th Chelsea manager featured in the top ten.
Mourinho joined Chelsea from Porto in 2004 and brought with him several staff from his previous days at Porto which included future Chelsea manager, Andre Villas Boas who at the time was Mourinho's head scout.
The Italian led his side to back-to-back Premier League titles in the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 seasons and along the way picked up one Community Shield and one League Cup.
The following season, Jose's side conceded the Premier League title after a goalless draw at the Emirates, which led Manchester United to victory. In his final season at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea picked up the FA Cup and the League Cup for the second time before he left the club in September 2007. The Italian still has the best win record the Premier League has ever seen.
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Ever since the release of his critically acclaimed mixtape/indie album Section.80 in 2011, Kendrick Lamar has been well on his way to being the next Hip Hop "It" artist to emerge from indie success to mainstream prominence. Pretty much the poster child for both the Black Hippy movement and for Top Dawg Entertainment, Lamar is leading a charge of artists that include Jay Rock and Ab Soul that are continuously making strong name brands steeped in intricate lyricism and sincere yet diversified wordplay in new millennium Hip Hop.
Even though he had already recorded and released material through T.D.E., Section.80 was his coming out party to heads across the country. Now, having been blessed as the next big thing in Hip Hop by everyone from Dr. Dre to BET, Lamar just released his proper album debut with Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City.
Kendrick Lamar is the personification of Hip Hop in the post-Hip Hop generation: not confined by generational, cultural or regional boundaries yet still maintaining a brazen arrogance and pride that can only be a product of Compton, and a flow style that combines a plethora of different kinds of Hip Hop music from the last 10-plus years. From the sprinklets of social consciousness peppered throughout his rhymes that pays homage to old school East and West coast artists like Public Enemy and N.W.A., to the rapid-fire linguistics that remind listeners of Midwest rap heroes like Twista and Bone Thugs and Harmony, to the screwed and chopped voice manipulations that are a clear ode to the South. Kendrick refuses to have himself of his music marginalized into a box, and that desire to break away from the mold is constantly on display throughout Good Kid… .
Undoubtedly one of the best tracks on the album has to be "M.A.A.D. City" featuring West Coast O.G. MC. Eiht. Kendrick's jittery, quivering yet focused flow about a day in the life in the Cali streets paired with a beat that starts out simplistically enough, then rolls into a vintage low-rider banger that harkens back to the heyday the West's sometimes forgotten heroes Spice 1, Mack 10 and Eiht himself, will be enough to get even the most staunch Kendrick Lamar hater to nod their head. Also effective is "The Art of Peer Pressure", a standard romp-through-Compton adventure that quickly evolves into Kendrick detailing the elements of drugs, violence and theft that gets him engulfed in the street life, and how both sides of his guilty conscience try to pull him in conflicting directions as he struggles with both his own inner demons and the desire to impress his homies.
On Good Kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick does better than many of his peers at finding that ever-elusive balance between radio jams and introspective songs that are heavy on reality. The current radio favorite "Swimming Pools", along with "Poetic Justice" featuring Drake and "The Recipe" with Dr. Dre, will all bring the emcee more casual fans that may not have been following his career progress until now, while "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" finds Kendrick contemplating the questionable choices he's made and their impact on those around him, with his own brand of gut-wrenching self-deprecation and pity fully on display, and might just make believers out of those same casual fans.
Simultaneously, Kendrick pays more than enough homage to some of the West Coast's most well-loved Hip Hop institutions, from sampling Janet Jackson on "Poetic Justice", to the shades of 2Pac heard on "Sing About Me…".
The greatest thing about Good Kid, m.A.A.d city is not only that it's refreshingly cohesive and simultaneously multi-layered, but that it displays so many of the contradictions that Hip Hop too many times doesn't want to admit that it has. True, other artists like Drake, Kid Cudi, J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco and others have been effective at doing this as well, but many times they seem to revel in them. Kendrick realizes and embraces those contradictions, but he doesn't glorify them. He simply puts them on display as real as he knows how, and the end result is this body of work. While it's very much a departure from Section.80, Good Kid… stands on it's own as arguably the best concept album of 2012.
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Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Tickets on sale now!
Whistle Down The Wind tickets now on sale at the Carriageworks Theatre.
Posted by ST MARYS YOUTH THEATRE at 16:09
The objective of SMYT is to provide education in the performing arts for young people of all abilities and in particular to foster in them an appreciation and enjoyment of theatre arts and drama. They are taught team work and dedication and acquire self-confidence and a sense of belonging. A large number of the group go on to Performing Arts colleges and theatre schools.
A cast of 60+ with ages ranging from 8 to 22 auditioned for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, all were successful, no one was turned away. The show was rehearsed and performed in 8 weeks to thunderous acclaim in a church hall converted into a Pharaoh's tomb by a local artist. The following week they returned eager to find out what they were doing next. What began as a one-off production became the start of many shows to come.
A disastrous fire in 1995 wrecked their headquarters, destroying costumes, props and sets. This could easily have been the end of SMYT but as a result they have pulled together and grown stronger gradually replacing their losses. As members of the Leeds Civic Arts Guild they perform at the new, Leeds Carriageworks theatre which is in the Millenium Square, mainly musicals (i.e., Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fame, Children of Eden, etc.). The National Theatre Connections scheme gives the group the chance to perform new plays written by the very best writers. In 2002 they were fortunate to perform at the Royal National Theatre itself…what an experience! Their latest productions include Little Shop of Horrors, Honk, 17, Feather Boy,The Musicians,We Will Rock You, Rent, Our House, Les Miserables, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, The Passion, Our Cousin Flo, Scrooge, Peter Pan, Whistle Down The Wind and Annie.
SMYT are now based, rehearse and perform at Green Lane Academy and St Mary's Church, Garforth, Leeds and charge a yearly subscription fee of £40.


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Nearly a week ago, we began the second World Bank-Annenberg Executive Course in Communication and Governance Reform, which is being hosted at the University of Southern California. The last few days have been filled with interactive courses and engaging discussions between top notch researchers, communication practitioners, and program participants from Uganda, Yemen, Serbia, Zambia, Morocco, and Pakistan, among other countries. The participants of this year's program have all come together to pursue a similar goal: develop core competencies essential for the successful implementation of governance objectives, even in the most difficult reform environment.
This endeavor was launched a year ago with an inaugural course in July 2011 in Washington, DC through the partnership of the World Bank's External Affairs Operational Communication division, the World Bank Institute's Governance Practice, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California and the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. In the last year, these partners have focused on creating the 2012 Summer Institute, which continues to develop networks of specially trained communication practitioners that can provide effective implementation support to reform leaders and change agents.
On day one of this year's institute, leaders from the World Bank and Annenberg Schools set the stage for the course with discussions on the evolving media landscape and the central role of communication in promoting economic development, social change, and political reforms. They also asked participants to discuss what led them to the course and they gave varied responses, including changes in communication practices; evolving job responsibilities; the difficulty of measuring impact; lack of public awareness for reform; public resistance to change; communicating difficult messages; lack appropriate platforms; and high-level corruption.
The participants have been immersed in learning modules on communication and governance, case studies on effective procurement reforms, stakeholder analysis, coalition building, persuasive communication campaigns, and political economy analyses. Among these, one memorable exercise that demonstrated some of the real obstacles to reform was a group exercise in coalition building that involved balancing twelve nails on a wooden box. I don't want to spoil it for future participants of the program, but I will say that it took an amazing amount of persistence, willpower, and collaboration for one group to achieve the simultaneous balance of the nails.
Right now, we are halfway through the institute with forthcoming courses on organizational change, collaboration, negotiation, social media, and monitoring and metrics.
It's been a thrill to see the program participants working in the private sector, government, and multi-lateral institutions, apply the learning models to real world challenges within their organizations.
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