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Two plans for major intersections in Jacksonville have been tabled, according to city officials.
Two plans for major intersections in Jacksonville have been tabled, according to city officials.
A separated interchange at Western and Marine boulevards and a half clover leaf interchange with circular ramps off the main roads at Piney Green Road and Marine Boulevard have been removed from the books and area officials will be looking at alternate plans over the next six to eight months.
�This is a good thing for our community,� said Anthony Prinz, the transportation services administrator for the City of Jacksonville.
Prinz said that the two projects were included in a 2008 map presented to the Jacksonville City Council in a request to adopt a corridor protection map that would limit the ability of property owners to build new construction or rehabilitate their property for three years. While the council rejected the plan, the map still exists because it was publicly visible.
Prinz said there were several concerns with the project, including the price � $70 million for the Western and Marine boulevards interchange and $49 million for the Piney Green Road and Marine Boulevard interchange. Of that amount, $43.7 million and $32.5 million were for right-of-way costs, or buying the property for the interchange. Another concern was spending the money on roadways that might not meet future traffic demands, he said. Prinz said officials now will look at ways to maximize the roadways already in place.
For example, one possibility is to build an additional lane in all directions at Western and Marine boulevards, which would decrease the number of light changes drivers would sit through at the intersection to one. Included in that possibility is the chance to improve surrounding intersections, including Commerce Road and McDaniel Drive, and even build a new roadway behind the Walmart on Western Boulevard to alleviate Western Boulevard traffic.
Officials will also look at alternative planes for Piney Green Road, including seeing how the widening project scheduled for completion in 2016 affects traffic and improving as needed �with a more realistic project,� Prinz said.
And during the process, they will also look at a way to continue the U.S. 17 bypass north of Jacksonville, making it a �true bypass,� he said.
While officials have yet to look at cost estimates, Prinz expects them to come in much lower than $70 million if for no other reason than they could eliminate the $43.7 million and $32.5 million right-of-way costs.
�That is a substantial expense,� he said.
While the projects have been tabled, the Jacksonville Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has maintained the possibility to work on the locations to ease congestion in the area. They have also retracted the proposals on the 2008 map, which will aid area property owners who want to invest in their properties, and asked the N.C. Department of Transportation to aid them in looking at new options.
Prinz said that once alternatives are selected, public input will be sought.
�This has to go through a public process � If the community doesn�t support the concept, we shouldn�t be out there building it,� he said.
Amanda Hickey is the government reporter at The Daily News. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Friday, July 29, 2011
Friday Etsy Faves
1. Miniature Ad Lib White Sign Letters by Sweet Love Vintage
2. metal barn wood arrow light fixture by West Vintage Trading Company
3. Chalkboard United States Map by shop dirtsa
4. Vintage Fabric Dilly Tote by pouch
1. 3 x Tag Notebooks by Present & Correct
2. High 5 - Hand Screen Printed Card by Mary Kate McDevitt
3. Bold Geometry Print by twoems
4. Wish Bracelet by Just Be Jewelry
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Labels: etsy finds
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The girls little ballet class has ended & they started gymnastics a few weeks ago. No big deal really, just an inexpensive class at our rec center. It's something fun for them to do once a week. Claire really, really loves it. It is fun for her & she's pretty adorable to watch.
Sadie on the other hand has had some stress when it comes to gymnastics class because she started off not knowing how to do a cartwheel. She would make excuses about why she couldn't go to class. "My shorts got a hole in them, Mom. I just won't go today."
Even after we'd explain to her that it was all for fun, that the reason why she was going was to learn new things like how to do a cartwheel & that she was one of the youngest in the class and the other kids have had more time to learn these things, she'd still show signs of anxiety. Well, yesterday she was brave & went happily to class & not too long after starting, we could see in her facial expressions that she was having a great time & that she was feeling proud of herself. She was doing an awesome job at everything! Cartwheels, back bends, round offs. I felt so proud of her.
It makes me sad how early this feeling of not being good enough shows up in kids. Almost just as soon as they are exposed to peers.
Anyway, the girls have had fun experiencing these new classes. They want to do karate next. :)
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Labels: the girls
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Vintage Baby Doll Changing Table
Last night Dylan & I were able to get away for a few hours on our own. It's been a while since we've been able to go on a date, so we were excited to get a few hours to ourselves. We grabbed some dinner & sat for a while chatting about this & that. Then we decided to hit a thrift store on our way home.
I spotted this vintage baby doll changing table & it stole my heart. Priced only at $6.99 + the 20% discount we got that day for donating & few items when we walked in the door. I led Dylan to it & asked his opinion. Should we get it?
He was not immediately sold. It was dirty & the bigger issue was if we had space for it. We are limited with space while we're still living with my parents. But I just knew that I would have a hard time forgetting this piece had I left it there at the store. In the end I won & it came home with us. I just love the cute animal decals & plus, what little girl wouldn't love playing with this gem?!
I got it as clean as I could, but the insides of the shelves still seem dirty. They may need a new coat of paint. But just as I imagined, the girls flipped out over it & have been quietly playing with it in their room. They are pretending to be sisters with babies & they are hanging out while their husbands are at work. :)
Yay for sweet little one of a kind vintage finds. :)
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Labels: thrifting
Monday, July 25, 2011
Grocery Bag Dispensers
A new batch of grocery bag dispensers made from vintage sheeting fabrics (of course) have been added to the shop. Pretty, pretty.
Now I'm moving on to making something else. :)
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Labels: sewing, shop update
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Saturday Song
Happy weekend! I took a little trip up to the mountains to spend some time with the 12-18 year old girls from church. Maybe I'll have some stories to tell when I get back. :)
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Claire's Haircut
Oh my goodness, it has been so difficult to post lately. Summer is keeping me busy!
Last weekend when I was getting my haircut (from my sister-in-law), Claire decided to get hers cut too. Short. She's been talking about a short haircut for a few weeks & so when my sister-in-law asked if she'd like her's cut, Claire responded with a definite, "Yes!". There was no hesitation & this girl has been happy as can be with herself ever since.
We love the new 'do on her. My daughters are complete opposites in every way. Older sister wants to grow her hair to the ground & this one wants it short. I love that they have their own personalities.
Claire's short cut looks super cute with a headband. So more headbands are now on my crafty to-do list. :)
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Labels: the girls
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
July Sponsors
Have you checked out all of our fun sponsors this month ---->
Here are a few of my favorite goodies from their awesome shops:
1. Tiny Yellow Bird
2. le petit cardinal rouge
3. Daffodils and Daisies
4. Supreme Beings
5. Stella Grace Boutique
6. Sand & Starfish
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8. 3 Ring Circus
Daffodils and Daisies is offering a 10% discount to Sparkle Power readers when you enter the coupon code SPARKLE10 at checkout.
Sand & Starfish is currently running a shop wide sale of 25-50% off.
Also, I still have a few $10 ad spots open for the month of August. Please e-mail me if you are interested in sponsoring next month.
Here are a few of my favorite goodies from their awesome shops:
1. Tiny Yellow Bird
2. le petit cardinal rouge
3. Daffodils and Daisies
4. Supreme Beings
5. Stella Grace Boutique
6. Sand & Starfish
7. le petit cardinal rouge
8. 3 Ring Circus
Daffodils and Daisies is offering a 10% discount to Sparkle Power readers when you enter the coupon code SPARKLE10 at checkout.
Sand & Starfish is currently running a shop wide sale of 25-50% off.
Also, I still have a few $10 ad spots open for the month of August. Please e-mail me if you are interested in sponsoring next month.
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Labels: etsy finds, sponsors
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
5 Things
I'm 30 weeks along now. I feel large & in charge. Well, mostly just large. Really large. The summer heat has been really hard on me. I'm trying not to be a total grouch all the time, but man. I get cranky when I'm hot, pregnant or not. Trying to drink lots of water & make sure that I take my vitamins. I'm wearing elastic waist skirts & maternity t-shirts every day w/ no makeup & my hair pulled back in a pony tail.
My belly aches at times as things continue to stretch, mostly on the sides. My legs are really tired by the end of the day. I feel like they're telling me that they can't go on any longer. I feel particularly weak in my knees & ankles, but that's just at the end of the day. Braxton hicks have been in full effect for this whole pregnancy. I definitely feel like I feel them stronger this time around than I did the last few times. Those tightening contractions are much stronger & much more frequent at the end of the day as well.
I'm feeling fat, but I'm actually okay with my weight gain so far. I'm up 25 lbs. from my pre-pregnancy weight. 10 more weeks to go & hopefully I can keep the weight gain under control. I'm a little concerned about fitting into my maternity clothes through the remainder of my pregnancy. This is definitely my most challenging pregnancy physically (I think just because I'm older this time) but I'm hanging in there & trying to be the best I can. :)
I could not resist these little sneakers from the GAP for the baby. Sometimes boy clothes shopping is not so bad after all.
I made tie-dye shirts with the girls yesterday. It's a summer activity that I've been looking forward to for a while. They were so, so, so, so excited to make these. I have no photos of the process, because it was quite messy. After dying the shirts they had to be washed & these little cuties sat in front of the washer & the dryer waiting for them to come out. They were beyond excited. Fun stuff.
Claire's little comfort item, her "little pillow" has seen better days. It used to look like this. It's been hugged to death & is just disintegrating. She's slept with this pillow since she was a little baby & I've already repaired it once before. Now, after 4 years of love from that little girl, it was just not repairable. So she picked out some new fabric & we whipped up a new "little pillow" for her. Nothing fancy, but it works. She was happy to hand over the old one in exchange for this new, plump one. I'm going to put the old one away in her memory box. I think it's so sweet.
I made something new for the shop recently. Pretty cloth napkins from vintage sheeting fabrics. They are double sided with a different fabric on each side of each napkin. I think they are darling & charming & I just love them. I have a couple of sets available in the shop right now.
Hope your week is going well. Thanks for sticking with me through this long mish mash post. :)
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Labels: motherhood, sewing, shop update, the girls
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Lost Tooth
It's been a while since Sadie last lost a tooth. She's had a wiggly one for a while, but on Friday it suddenly got a whole lot more wiggly & loose. That girl worked that thing all day long. I'd see her checking in the mirror quite often to see just how loose it was getting. She really wanted the perks of getting that thing out!
When Dylan came home from work he insisted on doing his daddy duty of yanking it out with floss. This was amazing to me because loose teeth give him an extreme case of the gross outs. (Yep, Sadie is totally wearing a witch costume.)
Well, the tooth came out & we were able to make use of the tooth fairy pillow once again. It stays on her bed all the time waiting to be used. The tooth fairy left a few dollars & some candy. The tooth fairy left me candy when I was a little girl too. I'm realizing now that that may be a little strange & that not all kids get candy from the tooth fairy. Perhaps she did it so that we could have something to share with our siblings? Oh well, somehow the tradition continues for my kids. :)
And, I can't resist the cuteness of a smile with a missing tooth gap. :)
Since my mind has been on this childhood right of passage, I've added a few more cute little tooth fairy pillows to the shop.
Posted by Candace at 1:08 PM 3 comments
Labels: shop update, the girls
Monday, July 11, 2011
We went bowling this weekend. It was so fun. The kids were super excited & super funny to watch. I enjoyed every minute of it.
There was a time, not all that long ago, when we couldn't afford to go spend $20 on a weekend activity like this. Although it may not seem like such a big deal, I am so very grateful that we able to do fun things like this. I love my family so much.
Also, it may be shocking, but this pregnant lady totally won! Somehow I beat Dylan by a whole 11 points. :)
Posted by Candace at 11:15 AM 1 comments
Labels: family life
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Saturday Song
I always get a good response from you guys when I post about Mates of State. Here's the video for Maracas, the first release from their new album due out this fall. I'm excited! :)
Posted by Candace at 7:41 AM 2 comments
Thursday, July 07, 2011
A Peek
Last weekend I had an evening alone at home while the girls were spending the night at their grandparents house & Dylan was out with the guys. I took the opportunity to piece together the top of a quilt for our baby boy.
I cut & pieced the squares months ago, before we even knew the baby's gender. I wanted to make something physical that I'd have to remember those early days of pregnancy. Those in between days, where there was so much uncertainty & excitement of what was to come. The days where we couldn't believe all that had changed so quickly. Years of longing & hoping & praying that I'd get pregnant had abruptly come to an end & we didn't know what to do with ourselves. I didn't want to forget where we'd been. I didn't want to forget that feeling of being simultaneously terrified that the pregnancy wouldn't last & so full of complete joy that our family was growing. So I started a quilt for the baby.
I thought that I had chosen gender neutral colors, though it does lean more towards boy. I would totally wrap a girl in this quilt though, I just love blue. Well, the quilt never got finished in those early days & that's okay. I was happy to finally finish the top recently. Now I just need to get to the rest of it. Unfortunately my neighborhood fabric store closed down & I'm still really upset about it. This means that I have to drive across town to pick out a backing & binding fabric. So annoying!
Anyway, I don't know if I've ever been more in love with a quilt & it's not even finished yet. :)
Posted by Candace at 11:05 AM 6 comments
Labels: sewing
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Itzbeen Baby Care Timer Winner
I'm sorry for my absence lately. I came down with the flu & it's been pretty rough. I'm on the mend, but feeling pretty weak. Trying to take it easy & rest up as much as possible. Getting sick is horrible, but when you're pregnant on top of that...It's the worst!
Anyway, I'm popping in real quick to announce the winner of the Itzbeen Baby Care Timer...
Congratulations to The Knapps! Check your inbox for an e-mail from me. :)
Anyway, I'm popping in real quick to announce the winner of the Itzbeen Baby Care Timer...
Congratulations to The Knapps! Check your inbox for an e-mail from me. :)
Posted by Candace at 1:27 PM 1 comments
Labels: giveaway
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Independence Day SALE!
Happy 4th of July weekend! We are feeling patriotic & all that stuff. So we thought we'd offer a discount in the Sparkle Power shop!
Receive 20% off your entire purchase when you enter the coupon code BOOMBOOM at checkout.
Thank you & God bless America!
Posted by Candace at 10:19 AM 2 comments
Labels: shop update
Saturday Song
The Girl by City and Colour. Sweet. :)
Posted by Candace at 8:00 AM 3 comments
Friday, July 01, 2011
Grocery Bag Dispensers
I've added a few cute grocery bag dispensers made from colorful vintage sheeting fabrics to the shop today. They make me smile, plus they are useful. So that's good. Even though I put in a really good effort to use reuseable shopping bags, I still seem to end up with plastic bags floating around & I use them to empty our small wastebaskets & such. So it's nice to have a cute & handy little dispenser like these to keep them organized.
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Restoring the UN: Take 2
With the UN's promise unfulfilled and environmental issues at the top of the international agenda,a critical opportunity is approaching.
Nineteen years ago this summer, I headed off for vacation with my first major World Watch feature article tucked in my bag. The headline for the article, "Restoring the UN," optimistically proclaimed that "after four decades of ideological turmoil, the UN is proving that international cooperation works." Nearly two decades later, I am once again vacation-bound, with a short essay to write before departure about how well the arguments set forth in my first major piece have withstood the test of time.
"When delegates from around the world convened in San Francisco in 1945 to charter the United Nations," I wrote in 1988, "two global wars had recently claimed millions of lives and strewn destruction throughout Europe and Asia. Devising a saner system to resolve conflicts was the top international priority." I went on to say that "while this goal remains vital, major new threats that demand attention have since emerged.... Extensive fossil fuel use, for example, has resulted in the devastation of forests by acid rain and threatens to cause atmospheric warming by the middle of the next century. Chloroflourocarbons released into the atmosphere by industrial products and processes are destroying the earth's ozone layer, imperiling agriculture and human health."
I got one thing wrong: the effects of global warming are being felt earlier than anticipated, with potentially devastating consequences for human and ecological welfare. On the other hand, I got the overall story right: environmental issues in general, and climate change in particular, have risen higher on the UN's agenda than anyone could have imagined at the time. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon is calling climate change "one of the most complex,multifaceted, and serious threats the world faces." In a bid to jumpstart international negotiations on a successor agreement to the beleaguered Kyoto Protocol, Ban hosted a high-level meeting on climate change in September that he told the Japanese daily the Asahi Shimbun was "one of the most important…initiatives in the history of the United Nations." Some 75 heads of state or government attended...


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Salomon is Big in Japan
Or they will be, thanks to this latest announcement. Takaharu Nakai is the latest member of the team. Here's the full release and video.
PORTLAND, OR. (Oct. 2, 2009) — Takaharu Nakai brings his big technical riding to the already stacked Pro team at Salomon Snowboards including Wolfgang Nyvelt, David Benedek, Louif Paradis, Annie Boulanger, Josh Dirksen, Jenny Jones, Sylvain Bourbousson and Scotty Arnold.
"Takaharu's ill. I heard he filmed his part in the Alterna movie in just more than a month. I've seen it and it's heavy. He's on some next level shit and it won't be long for the world to see that. He is a loose individual and I'm so psyched to have him on the team.  Welcome Takaharu," said Global Team Manager Java Fernandez.
See for yourself here:
Takaharu Nakai grew up riding the legendary powder of Hokkaido, Japan and first gained international notice at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. He currently rides the varied terrain of Whistler Blackcomb where he combines technical precision with big lofty airs all over the mountain.
"I decided to join the team after really enthusiastic talks with Rio Tahara, Bonfire and Salomon's Sports Marketing Manager in Japan. He helped me see a bright future with both the brands. I look forward to riding and hanging out with the international team and the team in Japan. It's an awesome crew," said Takaharu.
His departure from Burton and Analog was based on his decision to ride for Salomon Snowboards and Bonfire Outerwear.
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When filmmaker Darren Aronofsky started scouting locations for his biblical flood epic, "Noah," he had two potentially competing needs.
The landscapes on which he would shoot exteriors needed at first to look like an uninhabitable wasteland, and, after the deluge, a new garden of Eden, where Noah, his family and his ark of animals could begin to repopulate the earth.
The writer-director's production team considered Death Valley, deserts in Mexico and the Canary Islands. But when they visited Iceland, "Noah" found its port of call.
"The landscapes are surreal — practically of another world," said Scott Franklin, Aronofsky's longtime producing partner.
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Thanks to a generous production rebate, eager film crews and a striking geography of dramatic black sands, glaciers and lava fields, Hollywood is warming up to Iceland as never before, turning the remote Nordic island nation into an unlikely hot spot for film and television production.
In the last two years alone, the country with a population of just 325,000 has seen a record level of production activity.
In 2012, Iceland hosted the popular TV series "Game of Thrones" as well as the movies "Oblivion," "Thor: The Dark World," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "Noah," the Paramount Pictures movie that debuted last weekend. The science-fiction movies "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "After Earth" also shot scenes there.
Last year, Iceland also attracted crews from the next "Transformers" movie, Andy and Lana Wachowski's film "Jupiter Ascending" and Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar," which also has been filming in Los Angeles and marked Nolan's second stint in Iceland. (His 2005 "Batman Begins" also shot there.)
"We've been quite busy these past two years," Icelandic Film Commissioner Einar Tomasson said in an interview in Los Angeles, where he was attending the annual Locations Show hosted by the Assn. of Film Commissioners International.
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Tomasson said he had been meeting with executives at most of the major studios to drum up even more business.
Production in Iceland ramped up after 2009, when the country boosted its film rebate from 14% to 20%. Now, a film that spends $100 million in the country can get back $20 million, once filming wraps, in the form of a rebate from the government.
Aside from a brief lull in activity in 2010, after a volcanic eruption scared off production, filmmakers flocked to the country the following year. They were led by director Ridley Scott, who used Europe's biggest waterfall, northern Iceland's Dettifoss, to replicate a prehistoric, extraterrestrial landscape for his sci-fi movie "Prometheus."
To be sure, some of Iceland's film rivals, including Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, offer higher incentives to lure the film industry.
But the country's natural assets are a big draw, offering a wide range of locations and topography that for many moviegoers are fresh and unfamiliar.
"We're a small nation but a big country — we have easy access to very beautiful locations," Tomasson said. "We sometimes say before God created the rest of the world, he was practicing in Iceland."
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Iceland's versatile landscape, which includes black sand deserts and snow-capped mountains, has allowed it to represent many other locations, including alien planets, the Himalayas, Siberia, Minnesota, Greenland, Scandinavia and even a Pacific Island.
A glossy brochure published by the country's film commission includes testimonials from Hollywood luminaries, including Scott, Joe Kosinski ("Oblivion") and Clint Eastwood.
On the Reykjanes peninsula, close to the international airport and the capital, Reykjavik, Eastwood found the ideal replica for the black sands of Iwo Jima for his 2006 epic film, "Flags of our Fathers," where he recreated one of the major battles of World War II.
For "Noah," filmmakers behind the $130-million production traveled from New York, where an interior and exterior ark were built, to Iceland. The crew filmed for five weeks in 2012, mainly in a black sands area in the southern part of the country near Reykjavik.
Thanks to the series of movies that have recently shot on the island, there are ample crews, Franklin said.
"The people are fantastic," he said. "I'd go back there in a minute."
But "Noah" faced one Icelandic challenge: finding clear skies.
"We were always chasing the weather," Franklin said. "We would be shooting a scene of Noah and his family walking through desolate lands, and then there's a rain cloud. You can't really have storm clouds before Noah learns there is going to be a flood."
Nature provided other natural advantages, though. Because they were filming so far in the north, the "Noah" team had almost limitless daylight — as much as 22 hours a day.
And the "golden hour," when low, warm sunlight at sunrise and sunset is considered the most beautiful and cinematic, would last for as long as three hours, rather than the 15 minutes filmmakers might enjoy in California.
"The sunsets and sunrises," Franklin said, "were unbelievable."
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When U.S. President Barack Obama looks at the dangerous euro wasteland that once was a prosperous region driving nearly one-fifth of the world economy, he probably has flashbacks of repeated rebuffs he got from German Chancellor Angela Merkel when, in late 2011, he asked for more economic growth and less austerity.
Schadenfreude (German word for delight in misfortunes of others) and "I told you so" are probably not even crossing his mind because he suspects that he might soon have to move to save Europe from the resurgence of its old demons.
I hope he does feel that way, because a real sense of urgency should prevail at the time when America's perhaps only and truly reliable ally is sinking deeper into an intractable recession and politically flammable problems of joblessness and poverty.
(Read More: Remember Euro Breakup Fears? They Are Back)
Indeed, just four days before the Holy Week came this heartbreaking report from Caritas (one of the world's largest humanitarian organizations): more than 3 million people in Spain currently live in extreme poverty (families with an income of less than $390 per month), and more than one million are barely surviving on charitable donations – an increase of 150 percent from the pre-crisis levels.
Saving Europe From Itself
And there seems to be no end to this, Chancellor Merkel says that at least five more years are needed to put this horrible human suffering behind. But five years sounds like a short time to produce a German euro area. And a more important question is whether that objective can be achieved without tearing apart the social fabric already stretched to the breaking point in France, Italy and Spain – to say nothing of smaller countries like Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, Slovenia, etc.
For the U.S., the euro area chaos is not just an issue of bleak outlook for one-fifth of American exports going to Europe. It is a question of political stability of its key ally and a pillar of the largest and, arguably, the most successful military alliance in history.
(Read More: Cyprus Bailout Won't Be Euro Zone's Last: Poll)
It is also a question of the viability of America's new security doctrine, founded on the concept of sharing with allies the political and military responsibilities for world peace, and freedom of global commerce and finance. Yes, for reasons of its own budgetary problems, Washington wants its allies to do some heavy lifting, too.
But how can Washington square euro area's deep and continuing budget cuts for basic public services with the requirements of their military and political burden sharing?
Mission impossible, no doubt. America's new security doctrine is, therefore, just a pipe dream at a time when the world is confronted with serious challenges to peace and stability in the Middle East, Central and East Asia and parts of Africa.
(Read More: Euro Zone Overrates Ability to Curb Contagion: Moody's)
What can the U.S. do? To begin with, President Obama might wish to forget and forgive the uncooperative attitude of the German Chancellor. He would probably get the same answer again in the run-up to German elections next September. But only President Obama can free Europe from being hostage to German politics. As a leader of the Euro-Atlantic community, he should ask for the euro area fiscal consolidation in the context of growing economies and declining unemployment.
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Such a gesture from President Obama would get an enthusiastic support from French and Spanish leaders, and from whoever will be in charge of the Italian government in the months to come. That would be a formidable coalition.
(Read More: Italian President at Center of Storm as Deadlock Continues)
Probably kicking and screaming, the German, Dutch and Finnish advocates of austerity would have no choice but to go along. Especially since their push for brutal spending cuts, tax hikes and confiscation of bank deposits has hit a dead end and seriously damaged the credibility of the euro area financial system.
The inability of Spain and France to drastically cut budget deficits in a recessionary economy is a clear proof – if one was needed – that the German austerity mantra is nonsense and has always been. These two countries are the "declared" cases of budgetary slippages, but others will follow.
Confiscations of bank deposits are a much more dangerous nonsense. A failure of financial authorities to supervise the banking system is a failure of public policy, a failure of people whose salaries are paid by depositors as taxpayers to provide an essential public good: a sound and a reliable financial system. By reaching into depositors' – taxpayers' – pockets to pay for errors of public policy, the German-Dutch-Finnish disciplinarians are not only violating the rules of public service, but they are also running afoul of basic principles of social equity and justice.
(Read More: Bank of Cyprus Big Savers to Lose Up to 60 Percent)
In fact, the whole euro area crisis is a comedy of public policy errors paid for by taxpayers and wasted lives of millions of unemployed. Cyprus is the latest example. The German idea that there could be a water-tight cordon sanitaire around the destruction of a small island economy of one million people is a grave error of judgment in a monetary union whose weak financial system continues to be damaged by a worsening recession and soaring unemployment.
Just like in cases of Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy, Germany failed to lead – or simply could not lead - in a timely and effective manner, allowing again relatively simple and minor problems in the Greek Cypriot state to develop into a crisis of major proportions.
The Euro Crisis Is a Threat to Peace
I hope Washington will take all this very seriously. Surely, some Beltway pundits will probably gloat about German incompetence. And they might also like the fact that the U.S. is benefiting from the flight of capital to its safe, deep and broad financial markets – as shown by the dollar's 5.3 percent gain against the euro since the Cyprus crisis entered its acute phase in early February.
But that would be wrong and short-sighted. This large capital outflow from euro assets is a sign of major distress that can easily spill over into other markets and damage institutions of systemic importance.
More ominously, recessions, rising unemployment and the difficulty of seeing an early end to all that are leading us back to security problems. The euro area economic fault lines have now become serious political fissures. Resentment of Germany, recent Italian elections run on anti-German themes, vicious invectives, pervasive hate talk and ghosts of the Nazi past are now flying around a continent that was supposed to swim in solidarity and brotherly love of an ever closer European Union.
Here is what the Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker – the man who accused Germany of playing domestic politics on the back of the euro - told the German magazine Der Spiegel on March 11, 2013: "Anyone who believes that the eternal issue of war and peace in Europe has been permanently laid to rest could be making a monumental error. The demons haven't been banished; they are merely sleeping … I am chilled by the realization of how similar the circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago … In 1913, many people believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great European powers were economically so strongly inter-twined that there was a widespread opinion that they could no longer afford to engage in military conflicts. Primarily in Western and Northern Europe, there was a complete sense of complacency based on the assumption that peace had been secured forever."
(Read More: Hands Off Our Banking Sector, Luxembourg Tells Euro Zone)
The late French President Francois Mitterrand said the same thing more bluntly, and more directly, in his speech to the European Parliament on January 17, 1995: "…we have to vanquish our history…nationalisms lead to war! The war is not just part of our past; it could also be part of our future."
Clearly, a wake-up call for Washington. Or as the astronauts were saying when calling their base: "Houston, we have a problem."
Michael Ivanovitch is president of MSI Global, a New York-based economic research company. He also served as a senior economist at the OECD in Paris, international economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and taught economics at Columbia.


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Recovering Overwritten Data
(This article does not discuss recovering deleted data, recovering bad data, or things that 'not' been overwritten.)
Can data be recovered from a hard drive after that data has been written by 35 passes of random information? How about a single pass of zeros?
Whether or not such data can be recovered has been a question of debate for decades. Unfortunately, there have been few hard facts published.
Prior Work
The Gutmann Paper 1996
The most widely known paper in this area is Peter Gutmann's 1996 classic, Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory, Proceedings of the Sixth Usenix Security Symposium. The original paper can be downloaded from [1]. An extended version of the paper appears on Peter Gutmann's website. [2].
In this paper, Gutmann discusses techniques using an electron microscope that might work for recovering overwritten data. He then proposes a series of erasure patterns that can be used to overwrite data from hard drives that use different kinds of encoding schemes. A total of 35 patterns are proposed, although, as Gutmann notes, there is no reason to ever use all 35 patterns (because the patterns are designed for use on different kinds of magnetic recording technology.)
It's important to realize that this paper, written in 1996, discusses a magnetic recording technology that is no longer widely available. In 1998 Gutmann added the Epilogue to Gutmann's 1996 paper. The gist of that epilogue is that two passes of random data should be enough for today's disk drives.
ActionFront's Drive Independent Data Recovery 2005
In August 2005 ActionFront Data Recovery Labs presented a detailed paper at the IEEE 16th Annual Magnetic Recording Conference (tmrc.nanointernational.org) in which they discussed the current state-of-the-art of recovering information from hard drives without using the drive's own read/write heads. [3]
One of the key points that the paper makes is that there is a high degree of variability between individual modern hard drives. Manufacturers exploit this variability to increase drive densities. Unfortunately, this variability makes it dramatically harder to perform drive independent data recovery---that is, a single recovery approach that will work on multiple drives.


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This award couldn't go to better and more influential composers! Since their first composing gig (Dangerous Minds) to their current Television work (The Witches of East End), Lisa and Wendy have inspired and encouraged both women and a new generation of musicians to consider the art of movie and television composition.The Shirley Walker Award honors those whose achievements have contributed to the diversity of film and television music. Shirley Walker, an ASCAP member, was the first prominent female film and TV composer. As the first female composer to get a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture, she is remembered as a pioneer for women in the film industry."Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman are two of the finest composers working in film and TV music," said ASCAP Vice President of Film & TV/Visual Media Shawn LeMone. "Their music sets new standards for excellence, and their achievements have inspired a generation of female composers looking to follow their lead. I can think of no more deserving recipients of ASCAP's very first Shirley Walker Award."
The award ceremony will be held June 25th, 2014 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Unfortunately, for us fans (who would love to be there), the ceremony is by invitation only. Hopefully, ASCAP will either provide video or a great description of the ceremony.
Again, CONGRATULATIONS to the dynamic duo! This is an award that is well-deserved and couldn't go to more talented musicians.
Billboard also released an announcement that you can read here: Wendy & Lisa to Receive ASCAP's Inaugural Shirley WalkerAward


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New Orleans has no lack of museums, and as always, they celebrate the city's renowned diversity. For starters, there's your traditional art museum, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. That is our flagship art museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art in City Park. It's under new leadership in the person of Susan Taylor, and is proudly moving into its second century. NOMA's holdings include a significant collection of decorative arts and photography as well as painting, but for its second hundred years, it's widening the spectrum of pieces in the permanent collection in its new show, NOMA 100.
You might want to check out the Ogdcn Museum of Southern Art, on Camp St. in the Warehouse/Arts District in downtown . The Ogden not only boasts a rich assortment of Southern art, including painting, photography, ceramics (such as fascinating pieces by George Ohr, "The Mad Potter of Biloxi," and Newcomb pottery, originated by the Woodward brothers at Newcomb College ), but also sponsors a happening live music show called Ogden After Hours most Thursday evenings from 6 until 8 PM, with performances by Southern musicians. You can get a drink (there's a newly-invented cocktail special each month), mingle with your friends, and listen to all kinds of Southern music–including Cajun musicians, jazz, old-school rhythm and blues, rockabilly, Delta-style blues, New Orleans funky piano, etc. etc. Just a brief listing of the performers over the last few years- Troy "Trombone Shorty" and James Andrews, Theresa Andersson, Henry Butler, Leah Chase, Hackberry Ramblers, Steve Riley, Joe Krown, Little Freddie King, Red Stick Ramblers, Coco Robicheaux, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Amanda Shaw, Ivan Neville, David Egan, Jon Cleary, Stanton Moore (of Galatic), and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. During the intermission, the museum's staff members or musical authorities in town interview the musicians for the Museum's archives. Several of the artists listed here have died since their performances; fortunately, the interviews live on.
But for a couple of quirkier museum outings, you might want to check out another local offering-The Southern Food and Beverage Museum–the only food museum in the United States, located on the third floor of Riverwalk at the Mississippi River. SOFAB, as it's known, has over 35,000 visitors a year and educates the curious about Southern food, defined loosely as whatever food Southerners eat-whether that's Lebanese, Vietnamese, Tex-Mex, or the more familiar fried chicken, okra and collard greens youmight imagine. It contains exhibits about po-boys, snowballs, Cajun food, sugar, MRE's and abandoned refrigerators in the immediate post-Katrina era and our famous cocktail culture, showcasing the historic absinthe. It boasts the original 1859 bar from Bruning's (originally the West End Hotel) on the lakefront , lovingly reassembled after it was damaged by Hurricane Georges in 1997. SOFAB also presents live cooking demonstrations at the Museum itself, as well as at the French Market, so the curious can actually see how to go about cooking gumbo the Creole way, or macquechoux, or St. Joseph's Day cookies. It's a wonderful way to learn about what makes New Orleanians the happiest – food!
There's a museum devoted to Mardi Gras Indians, another oddity of the cities cultural life. It's called the BackStreet Cultural Museum, and you can see photographs of Mardi Gras Indians and actual elaborate beaded costumes. It's located in the historic Faubourg Treme' at 1116 Henriette Delille Street in New Orleans. BackStreet Culturual Museum promotes the cultural traditions of the African-American community in New Orleans through its exhibits, of course, but it also sponsors programs such as the Mardi Gras Indian Sewing Program, to teach youngsters the old ways of sewing Mardi Gras Indian costumes, and opens its doors on Mardi Gras Day for visitors to catch the Indians themselves, the Baby Dolls, and everybody else in their finery.
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Letter, S. C. Pomeroy to Dear [Thaddeus] Hyatt
Author: Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
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I discovered very early on that obligations are an integral part of being a father.
And when I mean early, I mean literally minutes after becoming a father.
In the hospital when my daughter Shannon was born in 2001, they cleaned her up and brought her to the recovery room. I was basking in the joy of the birth of my first child, holding her and welcoming her into the world.
In the midst of my bonding, I felt Shannon let loose with a mighty bodily function in her tiny-tiny diaper. I was thinking what a cute moment, as I attempted to hand Shannon off to one of the nurses to get changed.
But instead of taking care of what felt like a massive deposit, the nurse looked at me and said. "Daddy gets the chance to change his first diaper."
Now, I have nieces and nephews, along with quite a few friends who've had babies, and this wasn't going to be my first poop roundup. So, I happily made my way to the changing table, eager to show that this new daddy could handle the situation.
However, when I opened Shannon's diaper I was overwhelmed with a mess that looked like something from a horror movie. I don't know what was worse, the look of the stuff or the smell of it. It was sticky, black goo that reminded me of something that is found the La Brea Tar Pits. And the smell almost knocked me over.
I had no idea that newborn infants store up waste in their systems and evacuate it shortly after birth. It's called Meconium, and it is the most vile, gag-reflex-inducing stuff on earth.
Needless to say, I survived my first fatherly duty, which was only one of many to come. It was then that I realized that my obligations as a dad were just beginning.
Along with Shannon, who will be 9 next month, my wife and I also have a son, Grant, who is 6. Throughout my years as a father, they have provided me with more joy than I could have imagined.
In the sports realm, both seem to enjoy being active. Grant tried his hand at soccer recently, and has switched to tennis, a sport Shannon has played for years. In addition, both take swim lessons, and Shannon is a regular Aquawoman.
One of my obligations as a father is to try and attend as many as their sporting events as possible. That is one of what I call the "regular" obligations. But there are other responsibilities that I've discovered also come with being a father.
One is that I'm obligated to give up my food for the good of the kids. If we go out to a restaurant and my babyback ribs or barbecue-bacon-burger looks better than their chicken fingers or macaroni and cheese, they get dibs.
Some restaurants really do make good mac and cheese.
I'm also required to have the skill of Kobe Bryant, the luck of a leprechaun and the deep pockets of Donald Trump. Nowhere is that more evident than when we take the kids to a fair or carnival.
The youngsters have no idea that most of the games of skill that line the boardwalk are rigged. All they see is an oversized Tweedy Bird stuffed animal or pretty goldfish in plastic Baggies and they want one. That leaves their daddy to shoot basketballs, throw ping-pong balls, toss rings or heave baseballs at rag dolls — trying to win anything.
Most of the time it's just an exercise in frustration and humiliation. However, every now and then good old dad gets lucky, and ultimately I'm the one who has to carry around SpongeBob SquarePants or a giant inflatable hammer the rest of the day.
While my wife and I share the duties with Shannon and Grant on family outings, I have to shoulder the biggest responsibility on the way home.
After a day at Disneyland, Sea World or the beach, the rest of the family settles into their seats, relaxes and ultimately fall asleep. While everyone else is snoring and drooling, I have to make sure we get back home safe and sound.
It can be rough sometimes, as I keep myself awake by listening to classic-rock radio. I never realized how many times Boston's "More Than a Feeling" or Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven" are played in a few-hour span.
Unfortunately, some times a father has to fulfill an obligation that saves his children from heartache or harm.
I had to deal with such a situation recently when our beloved dog, Simba, a 14-year-old Shih-Tzu-Lhasa Apso mix, who had to be rushed to the animal hospital emergency room in the middle of the night.
It was my obligation to take Simba myself, as not to worry the children. If fell on be to be one to hopelessly watch as the doctors tried to keep the little guy alive. They weren't successful.
Ultimately, it was my duty to hurry back home, delicately tell Shannon and Grant that the dog they loved so dearly had passed away, and take them to the hospital to give Simba a final hug and a kiss goodbye.
It was also my obligation to tell them that Simba went on to a better place, and that they will be able to see him and play with him again some day.
There is much about being a father that is extremely difficult. But in retrospect, despite all the obligations, there are so many more rewards that ultimately far outweigh the bad.
Being a father is the hardest job I've ever lived.
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How often is prostate cancer misdiagnosed?
The headline is worrying: "half of prostate cancer misdiagnosed".
It came from a Cambridge University study which followed hundreds of men who were given a prostate cancer diagnosis.
Half of the men who were told they had a less serious form of the disease, had in fact more serious cancer.
Media reports suggested men with prostate cancer were being given 'false hope' by tests that underestimate the severity of the disease.
But cancer specialists have said diagnostic techniques have 'moved on' considerably in recent years.
Determining severity
Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer in the UK with more than 40,000 new cases each year and nearly 11,000 deaths.
Many men can live with the disease for years without the need for surgery and radiotherapy to remove the walnut-sized organ - treatment which carries the risk of serious side effects such as erection problems.
The difficulty is separating less serious prostate cancers, often called 'pussycats', from the aggressive 'tigers'.
All the men in the Cambridge study had undergone needle biopsies - guided by ultrasound. This technique means the medical team have to guess roughly where the abnormality might be when getting a tissue sample.
But things have moved on considerably since the study ended in 2008.
Current best practice, at centres like Addenbrookes in Cambridge - where the study was carried out - and University College London Hospitals, is for patients to have an initial MRI scan.
'Blind samples'
This can often rule out any abnormality in the prostate meaning there is no need for any invasive tests.
If a biopsy is required, the MRI scan is used as a template to accurately guide where to place the needle.
Professor Mark Emberton a consultant urologist at UCLH said in no other cancer would specialists take 'blind samples' of tissue, and there was now no need for it in prostate cancer.
He said diagnostic accuracy using MRI targeted biopsies was now in excess of 95 per cent, so men should be confident that they would get the best treatment.
Guidelines on prostate cancer treatment in England commissioned by NICE revealed that around three quarters of cancer specialists now use MRI for the detection of prostate cancer.


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Wimbledon without tennis: 10 things to do
For the thousands of fans who descend upon the All England Club every summer, Wimbledon means one thing: tennis, namely The Championships, where the world's top stars slug it out on the lawns of the All England Club (June 23-July 6).
But few realize that the charms of this chic southwest London "village" extend beyond the ball courts.
What's there to do in Wimbledon when you're not watching tennis?
1. Cannizaro House
Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Alfred Lord Tennyson are among the illustrious guests who've stayed at this opulent but friendly 300-year-old country house hotel.
The historic property alone is worth visiting, but it also contains the new Orangerie restaurant, with gorgeous views of the manicured lawns and flowerbeds of Cannizaro Park through its floor-to-ceiling windows.
Completing the quintessentially English scene is the afternoon tea on the menu: scones, pastries, finger sandwiches and strawberries, served with tea or champagne.
Cannizaro House, West Side Common, Wimbledon; +44 20 8879 1464
2. Wimbledon Common
An oasis of woodland, heath, ponds and bird life, the vast common -- all 460 hectares of it -- is the green lung of Wimbledon and a great place to spend a few hours getting mildly lost.
In the middle of the park is the cheap and cheerful Windmill Café, with coffee, ice cream and snacks; next door is a museum devoted to windmills and local history.
3. Buddhapadipa Temple
Few Londoners know of this Buddhist temple on a leafy residential road in Wimbledon, the first to be built in the United Kingdom.
Inside (it's open to all) you'll find gardens -- with a "philosophy path" meandering across wooden bridges and through stands of trees -- and a white gabled temple filled with murals depicting episodes in the life of the Buddha.
Buddhapadipa Temple, 14 Calonne Road, Wimbledon Parkside; +44 20 8946 1357
4. Wimbledon Books
This small, independent bookshop -- the only one in Wimbledon -- has a strong selection of mainstream and specialist fiction, a nice range of children's books and stationery and comfy chairs to curl up on.
The latest titles are temptingly displayed, so it's an excellent place to discover new authors.
Wimbledon Books, 40 High St., Wimbledon; +44 20 8879 3101
5. Diane Von Furstenberg and Question Air
Wimbledon Village high street is stuffed with desirable fashion boutiques.
Sample merchandise at high-end DVF includes a "Jessi all over sequins" dress at £1,689 ($2,610), a Tonda Crustal Clutch bag for £280 ($433) and bestselling lace frocks.
A little further down the street, Question Air has plenty of designer denim among its hip fashion finds.
Diane Von Furstenberg, 38B High St., Wimbledon: +44 208 605 9156
Question Air, 77-78 High St., Wimbledon; +44 208 946 6288
6. The Lawn Bakery
The Lawn Bakery opened in 2012, a sibling to the pricier Lawn Bistro a few minutes walk from it.
Aside from the decent range of freshly made snacks, light meals and pastries, the bakery does a good breakfast -- everything from fry-ups to boiled eggs and soldiers, porridge, croissants and muffins.
The pistachio meringues and rhubarb tart crumble make for terrific dessert.
Unusual for a bakery, the shop sells wine and beer, but only the good stuff -- this is Wimbledon Village, after all.
The Lawn Bakery, 9 High Street, Wimbledon; +44 20 8946 3774
7. Bayley & Sage
You'll find plenty of ingredients for a gourmet picnic on the Common at this up-market delicatessen, including artisan breads and cheeses, pates, wine and old fashioned lemonade.
For dessert, the hazelnut cannoli and Apolline pastries from the charcuterie counter are especially good.
Bayley & Sage, 60 High St., Wimbledon; +44 20 8946 9904
8. Wimbledon Village Stables
Taking a riding lesson at this Wimbledon stables is an exciting way to explore the Common. No need to buy or bring along gear: you can hire boots, gloves and helmets.
Wimbledon Village Stables, 24A/B Wimbledon High St., Wimbledon; +44 20 8946 8579
9. The Mint Source
Fragrant soaps, bath oils and hand washes, alongside jewelry, gardening kits and scarves, are among items on sale at this shop in an old artisan's cottage, which has been likened to an over-stuffed English drawing room.
Jazz plays while you browse.
The Mint Source, 23 Church Road, Wimbledom; +44 (0)20 8944 9580
10. Polka Theatre and New Wimbledon Theatre
Polka is one of the few theaters in the UK to stage plays uniquely for children.
A few minutes' walk to the north, the New Wimbledon Theatre (which opened in 1910) stages crowd-pulling musicals and dance performances.
The standard rivals the West End but without West End prices.
Polka Theatre, 240 The Broadway, Wimbledon; +44 208 543 4888
New Wimbledon Theatre, 93 The Broadway, Wimbledon; +44 844 817 7646
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Mar 25, 2015
This must be the most awesome skirt ever. It has such rich details and work. The illustration made by the sequins is amazing. Emma Mulholland is a master of the sequin. I have been a fan of hers for quite a while now. I got the chance to buy this ridiculously amazing skirt thanks to a super mega sale up at the online store The Graduation. It goes with everything and the zig zag on the front of the skirts makes it feel really fun to wear.
Mar 18, 2015
This dress is just magic waiting to happen. FOR REAL... the thing that is most amazing about it, is that when the lights go off, the ghost on the dress glows real hard! Somewhere Nowhere has everything I could ever have asked for in a collection, they have tons of furry, mesh, quilted pieces. They are truly a magical brand.
Mar 11, 2015
THIS was a fun impromptu shoot. I was with some friends at a print shop, printing our comics and zines and on our we there we usually pass a school that has these amazing pastel walls. This time, becuase we finished while the sun was still out, we decided to stop and have some fun with the walls. Fortunately my outfit complemented those walls VERY well. Needless to say, we had a great time with these walls.
Mar 8, 2015
Check out the new pattern design I did for my collection at Print All Over Me! If you guys want a specific design in a another clothing piece let me know! :D
Mar 4, 2015
Feb 25, 2015
This time around I dug into my outfit file. I have a ton of outfits that I haven't posted from before I cut my hair. I just get really excited when I make new shoots and just want to upload them IMMEDIATELY. So! I just had to stop being such a maniac about that and post the outfits that are supposed to be next! In this one I'm wearing the very fun patterned pants from Lazy Oaf. Man but are they short!!!! My little butt cheek was peeking out, so I slapped some bike shorts on them and resolved! Besides, I kind of like the look of bike shorts under shorts. But shorts like this one... super hot pants! More on my blogs! www.supakid.tumblr.com
Feb 18, 2015
This shoot is special to me! Why? I designed the pattern on the pants!!! I've always had an obsession with patterns and last year my pattern making obsession took another step thanks to the guys at Print All Over Me. I found this platform while browsing patterns on the internet and just came across it in it's early stages. I am in love with the PAOM platform. I finally have a place to actually see my pattern designs come alive.The pieces may not be cheap, but what I love about them is the fabrics that they use, the awesomely well made pieces of clothing, but they really excel at the quality of the print. The pattern looks perfect.
I think my wardrobe will change a bit, because of this. I am uploading at least on pattern per week, so you can expect many new designs being uploaded ever week.
If you want to know more about my store at Print All Over me you can check it out here!
If you see a specific pattern that you like, but want it on a different piece of clothing, just contact me and I will upload it for you!!!
Feb 4, 2015
This week It's all about pastels and patterns. When is it NOT about patterns. these may be my favorite shorts yet. These Lazy oaf pattern shorts are really easy to pair up with anything. They do run a bit big, so I had to take them in quite a few inches. But once that's fixed they are comfortable and fun. The best thing about this look really It's the wall. I went to a local shopping mall and you can see that they haven't renovated sense the 90s and thank god for that because the tiles outside and inside the mall are crazy beautiful.
More on www.supakid.tumblr.com
Feb 3, 2015
Today was a big surprise for me. I got featured on lookbook's instagram page!!! That is a huge thing coming from Lookbook! I was annoyingly happy all day. Thank YOU, who hype and like my outfits and find me amusing enough to follow what I do. I will keep documenting my outfits, 'cause I really want to look back 50 years from now and say "OMG WHAT WAS I THINKING"
Jan 28, 2015
Where I live It's summer all year round. I live in Puerto Rico and as you can see, I'm limited to a certain type of clothing. Polyester is a sweat trap, velvet can suck your soul, and the fabric on THIS dress was death. I love layering so It's always a challenge to do that here when the clothes are probably going to end up with beautiful sweat stains. I couldn't keep this dress on for more that a few minutes at a time, BUT I LOVED IT. It's he perfect dress to go to the movies and snuggle up with that cold and just be as comfortable as you can. The only thing that I have to my advantage is that I get cold REALLY fast, so yeah, let's wear this to the office! thanks to my awesome boyfriend for the photos! More on the blogs! supakid.tumblr.com
Jan 20, 2015
What I love about this look is the skirt. I've had this skirt for a few years now and although I love all It's glitter attribute, It was a long, tight skirt, without both slits on the side,( I did that later ). So I rearly wore it for it being to uncomfortable. I don't really like being confined to my clothes. Although, I sometimes do like showing off in a tight dress, It's a rare occurrence. Specially sense anything tight around my waist gives me heart burn. So, after a while of the skirt hanging in my closet without any use, I decided to snip the sides and create the long slits so I could walk more freely and play with layers, tights and shorts underneath. For this look I decided to keep it simple and free, as you can see.
Jan 14, 2015
I know I'm a bit late, but here is the first look of 2015! Finally got my butt to post something! This was a colab shot my stephanie segarra and styled by me. The shoes are the best thing ever. Got them at the super big black friday sale at solestruck. A MAJOR bargain. I can't seem to be able to take them off, they are super weird and aamazing shoes.
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- The author addresses the ways that the age of terrorism is affecting American grand strategy. He contends that terrorism has made many of the basic concepts of international relations and national security obsolete. Declaring war on a tactic—terrorism—erodes the clarity necessary for coherent strategy.


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John Mayer is deeply sorry, and everyone is accepting it. Our society allows racism in people as long as there is an apology after. It's better if it is tearful and really should be accompanied by an icon like Rev. Al Sharpton or Bishop Desmond Tutu in your corner, like they have your back. Like they are gonna notarize your 'hood pass.'
I am angry about the hateful word he used. And I am super mad about the other thing….What does it mean that he has a "David Duke cock?" Is that supposed to mean that women of color are not sexy and beautiful? That women of color are unfuckable to him? That is rude and disgusting and I don't care if his music is good (I don't know it well, so I can't say. I only love Jon Brion and Garrison Starr and Ani Difranco and Grant Lee Phillips and Tegan and Sara and Cypress Hill and Billie Holliday and Doria Roberts and Fiona Apple and Joan Armatrading and MIA and The Cliks and Miles Davis and David Bowie and Ben Lee and Susie Suh and Rachael Yamagata and Andrew Bird and I don't know much about how John Mayer sounds).
What I do know, is to say you have a 'David Duke cock' is demeaning to women of color. What I know is it's a slap in the face to all beautiful women of color. And I must say, it's hard enough to be a woman of color in this world and feel beautiful. It's hard enough to live in this skin and feel good without having rock stars saying that you are not worthy. We feel unworthy enough. Society tells us enough we are not worth it, by not including us in anything. By not showing us in our glory. We are not presented in the movies or TV as much as beautiful desirable creatures. We are barely shown at all. And then you – John Mayer – rock 'god' tell us that we are not fuckable? I don't care if you don't want to fuck me. But keep this to yourself. Keep the idea that you don't like to fuck women of color to yourself. Keep it from our ears because we don't need to hear that the man who would say "your body is a wonderland" really only means it if our bodies are white, if our hair is blonde. If we are Jessica Simpson. And only if we are Jessica Simpson.
Keep this from the ears of all the young beautiful young girls who love you, who have your posters on their walls and now are looking at those posters and feeling weird because they are not white and now your music, which they so loved, makes them feel bad inside. Like you don't love them. Like you never did. Like if you saw them you would look the other way. Like they'd be invisible to you because they are not white. These young girls who are not white – they loved your music so much and you are paying them back for it with arrogance and blistering hatred that you don't even know would hurt like it did. I am glad not to have known your music before this and been a fan of it, because if I loved you before and you said that, it would make me hate myself even more than I do already. This revelation of yours would have crushed me. If I was a young fan of yours and you said that it would hurt me so much. Thank god I am not. Was not. But I am hurting now for the many many many many many young girls who are fans of yours. You wounded them and they will never be able to heal. Ever. I hope you read this. I hope you think about this part of it. it's not been talked about in press. But I hope you know that part. The young girls who love you who are not white. Think about them. So it keeps you from doing it again.
I try to think about Duran Duran, and how I loved them and how they always had women of color as objects of desire in their videos. In "Hungry like the Wolf," Simon was chasing down a beautiful black/asian mixed girl. In "Rio," she was latino with curvy hips and black hair and a bright bright smile. If they'd said something back then like what you said John Mayer, I would have killed myself. I would have died. If they said only white girls got them hard, it would have been the end of me.
It's sickening to think that we can exist in a world where these words of hate can be cast off quickly without repercussion or blame. People forget. But that doesn't make racism go away. It infuriates me because I can't cast off my ethnicity with an apology. These are people who have never been discounted because of their race. They've never been left out of a comedy show because they've already got an asian or a gay or a woman. They've never been passed over for a part because the producers decided not to 'go ethnic.' They've never had to endure the invisibility that people of color live with on a daily basis.
I am so used to being invisible it stuns me when people pay attention to what I say. I am so used to blending into the scenery that it's shocking that anyone cares what I do. I am so used to people looking at me like I am 'the help' that it doesn't even bother me. I just stay there and I try to help. And I don't care. These stars who toss about racist hateful speech have never felt what it feels like to be called something hateful – that they cannot deny. They've never been in that situation, when you are a victim of hate, but you have to agree. That is what racism is. What hate speech is. Why it's so terrible is that the word you may have called me – it's correct, in your racist estimation. It hurts because its meant to. That is why we don't use those words. Because of the history and the pain and the shame and the tears and the rage they have caused.
Even though I love Lenny Bruce, I do have to say, I disagree when he says that these words can't hurt you. I think they do. They hurt me. When people use hate speech, it hurts me. It hurts even though I am not that particular race. It hurts because I know what it feels like to be in an inescapable skin. I can't escape this color. I can't be the right color. I can never.
It could be hard too for those who are not 'of color.' I am never going to be white, and I'm never going to know what it feels like to have the responsibility of not being a racist. I guess I feel bad for white people sometimes because they do have to watch what they say, but then again, it really doesn't matter does it? Michael Richards is back on tv, and it's cool. Everyone's forgotten his terrifying, violent rant that to me sounded like what klansmen would say before they lynched someone in the 30s. I don't know him, and I don't know personally that he's a racist. All I know is that in the two times that I have seen him in public, close enough to touch, he has been screaming at someone, and those people were not white. I guess he was sorry because he got caught doing what he normally does and it was on TMZ and it made him look bad to the world. He was super sorry about it. Way super sorry. And that is nice that he was sorry. He even went to Mexico behind it, as if there was some special retreat for racists there where you could read bell hooks and Angela Davis and Cornel West all day and think about what is wrong with you and right with them.
Dog the Bounty Hunter never left the small screen. His racism was kind of just buried under that amazing mullet. I don't know if he is racist, but I think his hair is racist.
And Mel Gibson never had to stop making movies. He is even in a big one now. Really big. And no one mentions a thing.
Does racism hurt your career or is it good for it? I don't know. If I was white, I think I would try to be as racist as possible because it keeps you current. Keeps you relevant. People will tweet about you more. People will be outraged but you'll still be on the homepage of Yahoo and everyone will want to know exactly what you said, when you said it, and how you said it. And aint that showbiz?


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Per serving - 293 calories, 11 g fat (33% calories from fat), 8 g protein, 42 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 126 mg sodium


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Okay, Chuck Norris.
But the rest of us?
"Since copyright is property"
Until you cite something on that, I'm done here.
It says cannot be deprived of property. How are you tying property and copyright together? Cite something in the 5th amendment that says copyright and property are the same thing.
Here it is, in case you need it for reference:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
This lawsuit isn't even about the "latest version of Guitar Hero". The particular version he is griping about is several years old, with multiple GH games coming out since then.
As far as I know, this mostly deals with limiting the knowledge of the opposing teams before the game. They don't want the press leaking their new strategies, because they don't want their opponents to be prepared for their plans.
Sure, the Redskins have been absolute dicks many times in the past regarding fans, but this seems innocuous to me.
"People must first install the Bing Bar toolbar, have a Windows Live ID, be on a Windows machine and use Internet Explorer. No Chrome or Firefox, no Macs."
Hah... no. I considered checking it out to see what the program was, but if I can't use it on the platform I desire (within limitations, I understand they can't make it work with *everything*), then I'm not going to even try it.
this isn't related to the article itself, but the amount of links in the article did remind me of this...
could the style of these articles be changed ever so slightly to make external site links more apparent? i like clicking to your source articles to view the full details, and this article has 10 links, 9 of which are internal. it would be very convenient if i could, at a glance, know which links go to the original source and which go to other articles that i probably read when you first posted them.
Step 1 to me buying an eBook reader is complete. Step 2 will be publishers releasing a good quantity of books I am interested in without DRM. It has to be enough books to justify the cost. I really like the idea of an eBook reader, but previous experiences with pre DRM free iTunes and Audible have scared me away from any service that can lock my purchases to a specific device.
I have been with Verizon for over 6 years (LG VX-10, LG VX 8000, LG Chocolate and now Motorola Droid) and after this news broke, I went through 2 years of past bills (prior to getting the Droid, since that has a data plan) and I didn't see this charge a single time.
I don't know if I just never hit that button (I know which one it was) or if the issue is more complicated than thought. Someone commented "You are charged for data if you send a picture." and I never sent a picture on any of my phones.
To be honest, when I first read that article and say all the comments, I chalked it up to AT&T FUD to try and fight the Droid launch. I'm still not entirely sure what to think about this issue. Maybe I got lucky?
Blizzard has done this in the past - most notably with the Warcraft III collectors edition.


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Why Does InfoNewt Need a Blog?
I also author and publish the Cool Infographics blog, which highlights cool infographic and data visualization designs from designers all over the world. Occassionally, I publish designs from InfoNewt, but I've been running the CI blog for a lot longer than InfoNewt has been around as a design company. Part of the success of the CI blog is that it isn't company specific or meant as a company portfolio like some of the other infographic blogs out there.
I think it's finally time to start an InfoNewt-specific blog. Here, I'll have the opprtunity to post more details about the work that InfoNewt does with clients, thoughts around the InfoNewt business, behind-the-scenes information about different design projects and even some tutorial information about how we design great infographics.
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Proper staging and housekeeping practices play an important role in decreasing the number of work-related injuries for electrical contractors, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Ergonomics eTool: Solutions for Electrical Contractors, available at www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/electricalcontractors/materials/staging.html.
This Web page demonstrates following certain staging guidelines can increase productivity, quality of work, and profits because workers spend less time moving materials and more time performing skilled tasks. Poor staging, on the other hand, can result in workers lifting materials from awkward positions or carrying materials longer than necessary.
OSHA offers the following tips to prevent injuries related to poor staging and housekeeping:
Shelving placement. Place materials on stands or racks at a medium level between the average person's mid thigh to their mid chest to avoid the need to bend or reach for materials.
Proximity. The closer materials are to the point of use, the shorter the distance workers will have to walk, and the less likely they are to suffer an injury.
Pre-plan. During the bidding phase, plan where and how you will store conduit and spools of wire for easy access and easy lifting throughout the job.
Daily effort. Perform housekeeping tasks daily or more often, if necessary, creating a workspace that is easy to maintain.


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The puppy is so cute! He looks sad with those cute puppy eyes. If I put this on Tobey, I know for sure he will kill me... lol~ :X
I never was a huge fan of Hello Kitty growing up. I thought it was overrated. Now that I'm older, I just adore Hello Kitty! This is such a cute hair dryer!
I'm a huge fan of puzzles. I've always been and I think it's great for the brain. I think this would make a great piece to put together. Who doesn't love Noah's Ark!?!?
How gorgeous is the bed set! It's so simple, reminds me of spring, and it's blue (my favorite color).
I can go on, but it will be never ending since they have so much items! I will stop at that. I'm not too sure what I'm going to get, but you will find out when I review it! :)
Disclaimer: The products mentioned in this post are taken from WayFair website. This is a pre-review before I receive my free items to review. I am not affiliated with any company nor getting paid to advertise any products. This post is written with my honest opinion.


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