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Letting it all go!
Hi All!
Sometimes we all get so wrapped up in expectations. Expectations of where, what and how we THINK we should be, how we should live and how we should think. New York City is a tough place to just "be" sometimes. Before our honeymoon to Israel, I found my self so wrapped up in all things needed to lose weight. A therapist, a trainer, a gym, Weight Watchers, and 24 hours a day of thinking and planning of how I was going to make it happen. So wound up, that I lost sight of what I had learned at the Rice House. To let it all go.....
Israel gave me the ability to let it all go. I can imagine any vacation for 2 weeks could do that to a person. Everyone needs to get away. To reevaluate what is what in their lives. And I did just that....
I am not seeing my therapist anymore, I'm not seeing my trainer, I'm not going to Weight Watchers and I'm not thinking about "it" 24 hours a day. What I am doing is just "being." We got home on a Friday morning. Friday afternoon I had gone to a local bookstore and picked up a copy of The Rice Diet Solution. I figured if that is what worked in the past, why wouldn't it work now? The problem was, is that I HAD tried the Rice Diet since I've been back. The difference is, though, I was doing the program as it was in the clinic. After I read the book, I realized that they had adopted a "home version" that was similar, of course, but quite different as well. There was definately more food. The reason why I was failing at the program the past two years when I tried it was that I was too restricted. I was doing Phase I as they do it in the clinic for 2 WEEKS! The "home version" is that you do for 1 DAY a week! The Phase I in the book is really almost like a Phase III for the clinic!! There is completely no dairy at the clinic and in the first week it is suggested to have dairy. Now..I can kick myself all I want and wonder why hadn't I purchased this book before...but I'm not going to do that. In one week, I have lost 14 pounds...yes mostly water, I know (especially with all that yummy Israeli hummus!! :)...but I HAVE to tell you...the concept of eating a whole food diet (not being ON a whole food diet...note the difference) absolutely gives you so much more energy, makes you feel so much better on a daily basis and I can only imagine how my heart, lungs, feet and skin must be thanking me!!!
So throw away all of the processed/prepackaged "health" cookies, frozen dinners and low-fat junk food and make your way to the fruit and vegi aisle of your local supermarket or better yet..farmer's market! Get some whole wheat pasta, some sundried tomatoes and eggplant and squash and make yourself an amazing dinner!!!!!
Keep me posted!!
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Family Photography - The Wingard's - Downtown Decatur
This past weekend we got to shoot with Casey, Lisa, Charlotte, and Graham in downtown Decatur. When Charlotte was born, she was the first baby in our family so naturally...lots of photos. Poor Graham, I haven't taken a single session with him yet and told Lisa I felt like the worst Aunt in the world. So on Saturday we got to hang out together, catch up, eat some food, and shoot some photos of this amazing family.
Watching my niece and nephew grow, and their gorgeous parents blossom with them, has been such a rewarding thing. Casey & Lisa make parenthood look so easy, and I hope Thomas and I have half the patience and never ending calm that they do.


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Colorado's 208 Commission on Health Care Reform wrapped up its initial work in late May and will spend the summer figuring out how much each of the four health-care-reform proposals selected will cost us. Each proposal will take us a long way from the hands-off approach to the health care market we now have.
An unregulated, free market in health care is unlikely to function in the way we expect other markets to. The underlying product, private health insurance, is rife with "market failures," and our society has no willingness to accept the consequences of a free market.
When we say that a free market delivers the greatest efficiency and quality at the lowest price, we base this on the assumptions that the market in question is transparent (i.e., information is readily available), that market transactions don't concern others (i.e., no other people are affected by the exchange between buyer and seller), and that the incentives or rewards encourage sellers to minimize costs and maximize quality.
In the first instance, health insurance is plagued by information asymmetries. You know your health status, your health risks, and insurance companies don't. That's why they often exclude pre-existing conditions.
Insurance companies make a contract with you and your employer (if your employer helps pay for your insurance) to collect monthly premiums in exchange for the promise to pay "qualified" medical expenses. It would be great if insurance companies only thought, "Let's offer the best service at the lowest price."
Health insurance companies, however, can most easily increase profits by carefully selecting healthy families and individuals and avoiding the sick and frail. This makes it especially hard for small businesses and families to buy coverage if they have any history of medical problems.
Absent a mandate for individuals and families to buy health insurance, only those with the greatest likelihood of getting sick will approach private insurance seeking health coverage.
Unfortunately, this creates a "lemon's problem." Those requiring health coverage are also those who are likely to cost insurance companies the most. In short, there is a veritable fruit salad of failures in the health insurance marketplace.
American society doesn't want the health insurance market to function like the private markets for life insurance or automobile insurance. If you don't have insurance and you total your car, well, too bad for you. If you total my car, then in Colorado you might land in jail.
A life insurance company will not sell you a policy that makes you worth more dead than alive. So you cannot purchase $3 million of life insurance if you are only likely to earn $50,000 a year over your working lifetime. But we still require ambulances to pick up sick or injured individuals, whether or not they have health insurance. We require hospitals and doctors to treat the most desperately ill among us, regardless of whether they can pay or not. And most health insurance policies do not have lifetime maximums, meaning that many individuals receive far more in benefits that they will pay in premiums over their lifetime.
In other words, America has already implicitly agreed to socialize the costs of health risks.
The problem is that we have the most convoluted way of paying for this. We ask the sick to subsidize the care of the uninsured, and we ask the healthy to pay premiums above the level of benefits they receive. Of those who have no insurance, we ask them to forgo certain treatments and accept the risk that they might develop a condition that kills them too slowly to obligate a doctor or hospital to care for them, but too quickly for them to find any means of paying for care. An estimated 19,000 people die every year for want of health care because they don't have insurance coverage.
Finally, all the incentives for health insurers and health providers are misaligned. Since people change their coverage so often, there is little incentive for insurance companies or HMOs to offer and deliver preventive care. Fee-for-service medicine rewards too much health care. But capitated payments – essentially what we pay to managed care providers like HMOs – have incentives to provide too little care. You receive the health care, but your employer pays the premiums. So there is little incentive on anyone in the system to make sure it functions as efficiently as possible.
High-deductible health plans – insurance that only kicks in after you have spent a certain amount of money – have been promised as the solution to all these problems. Unfortunately, people tend to forgo necessary care when they have high deductibles, which can end up costing everyone more down the road.
And there is little evidence that such plans reduce overall health spending. Most of the dollars spent in the system go toward care in the last year of life, and for big-ticket items like angioplasty, knee replacements and organ transplants. Plus, as much as 31 cents of every dollar spent on health care goes toward administration and marketing.
A market-based solution to our health system's problems has limited curative potential – unless that market is carefully regulated and designed to encourage providers to compete on the basis of delivering the highest quality care at the most economical price.
Despite the broad acceptance today that regulation is bad and government inefficient, in health care there is a boat-load of data indicating that regulation and government involvement are the most effective and efficient means of addressing the most serious problems that plague our health-care system.


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Grammy Awards may return to New York, but not a done deal
TVC E. The organizers of the Grammy Awards are in negotiations with the city of New York to bring the annual music show back to the Big Apple, a source familiar with the negotiation said Tuesday.
After the New York Times reported that music's biggest night was headed out of Los Angeles to New York in 2018, the source confirmed that organizers were in discussions with the city, but a deal had not yet been finalized.
A decision on the matter may come as early as the next few weeks, the source told Reuters. The New York Times said New York mayor Bill de Blasio's administration made a bid for the ceremony, but that the Recording Academy, which organizes the awards, needed to overcome the extra costs associated with producing the show in New York over Los Angeles.
The Grammy Awards, the top U.S. honors for the music industry, were first held in 1959 at two simultaneous locations: the Beverly Hilton Hotel in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York.
Since then, the awards have moved mainly between Los Angeles and New York until 2000, when the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles became the home of the ceremony. An exception was made in 2003, when the Grammy ceremony took place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
The upcoming 59th Grammy Awards will give out gold gramophone records to winners in over 80 categories on Feb. 12 at the Staples Center. Nominations will be announced next week.


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ASK: Develop and present a lens that helps people understand and empathize with the walk of others in order to create positive change.
PROBLEM: There is a third world country within a first world country. Native Americans have been discriminated the most and the longest out of any race in America. They have a long list of struggles including; alcoholism and drug addiction, poverty rates way below the national average, wrongful imprisonment, extremely low high school graduation rates, inadequate health care, and the slow death of their native languages. So how do we choose one problem to focus on when their entire culture and community is in need of so much help?
In all of this we found one issue that first world Americans can commiserate with; Slow internet.
The broadband penetration rate on Indian reservations is less than 10%.
No, Native Americans aren't having trouble streaming the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Everything from applying to jobs, doing your homework, to paying your bills is done online.
INSIGHT: Wireless internet is the best way to provide broadband to large, sparsely populated areas, but large telecom companies buy the rights to wireless spectrum in these areas, but they don't build towers in those impoverished areas because they don't see it as cost effective.
OPPORTUNITY: Compel telecom carriers to develop the spectrum they own the licenses for or give them up.
SOLUTION: Harness mainstream frustration with the telecom companies to create momentum for change in the FCC rules.
BRAND MANAGERS: Juliana Clark, STRATEGIST: Erik Osburn, COPYWRITER: Scott Minniear, ART DIRECTOR: Matt Terrell, EXPERIENCE DESIGNER: Karl Giles


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Where Do Your County Tax Dollars Go?
When owners of real estate pay property taxes, the amount is divided among several government entities such as the county, a city or village, a school district and several others. br>
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# 2012-08-02 00:46
Although the new menus seem to make sense and after spending a few minutes trying them out, I was still able to find most of the pages I regularly visit. They do however represent a step backwards in at least one area, accessibility. For people with limited or poor literacy skills the icons that where on the tools menu helped with navigation, giving a visual indication of the words on the menu. I wonder if those who are responsible for advising on issues relating to access for people with disabilities were consulted on the change?
# 2012-08-06 08:53
Peter, thanks for bringing up web accessibility. I think accessibility is something the team has in mind but still has a lot to do to conform with accessibility guidelines. Thanks for your feedback.
# 2015-10-21 14:06
I am trying to sign in and report an issue, but have a problem doing so.
I am an Asst Clerk with responsibility to report and and check tghe building.
Whenever I check in things have changed.
What need I do?
# 2012-08-02 02:52
Here's some feedback (sorry, I dislike the feedback form; seems too bureaucratic)
Well, you seemed to have killed the concept of the color coding of pages. Now it's going to appear as if every page has a random color trim.
Having that low opacity on the menus causes them look like they have a large border on the top.
I too liked the icons on the tools menu; it allowed me to quickly select something without having to read the label. It would be nice to have them back, even if they were just 16x16.
I'm not sure putting the tools in the user menu is the best idea. Although it's easily discoverable (tools are seen when a user goes to login), it seems like strange place to put them.
# 2012-08-06 08:54
Jason, thanks for your feedback. I appreciate how specific you are in your comments. The LDS.org web team monitors this thread, so perhaps they will consider your suggestions in a future enhancement.
# 2012-08-02 09:37
I have noticed that this change is not uniform throughout the entire site. For example, when I go to "Calendar", the old menu/tools options are listed.
# 2012-08-02 13:01
For example, when I go to "Calendar", the old menu/tools options are listed.
LDS.org is made up of many separate projects. While we would love to roll out this change to all sites at once, it isn't practical. You will see more sections of LDS.org update over the coming days and weeks to the new navigation.
# 2012-08-02 09:43
I tried opening it on Internet Explorer 7, and the menu bar completely disappears, only the Church logo and the church websites button appear, everything else is missing in action.
Google chrome opens the page well.
I believe that you must have though of newer software while creating the page, but I can tell you that many people in my home country are still not as updated, and still use old versions of navigators.
# 2012-08-02 13:05
Quoting Josue Diaz:
I tried opening it on Internet Explorer 7, and the menu bar completely disappears, only the Church logo and the church websites button appear, everything else is missing in action.
With limited resources we have to make hard choices of what browsers to support. Unfortunately newer technologies required to support mobile devices and tablets, don't play nice with older browsers like IE7. In an effort to look to the future we have had to drop IE7 support. IE8 is still supported and will work. This too is regularly evaluated for support and will be dropped at some future point.
# 2012-08-02 09:47
I noticed that navigating away from the main website to say, one of the site under the "sign-in" menu, and then clicking on the "back" arrow would randomly sign me out of the entire site. Then, clicking sign-in again would let me back into the portal without presenting my credentials again. I was using Chrome.
I think this can potentially create a breach where someone who's logged in thinks that there are logged out and leaving the browser opened, someone else can gain access.
I do like the overall new look and navigation. The interface looks clean and I can get to my desire pages quickly.
I wish however, that you would remove the classic stake and ward website like since we've converted to the new format.
# 2012-08-06 08:57
Danny, thanks for the feedback about the login quirks. The team is still resolving some of these issues, so hopefully they should go away within the coming weeks.
Re the Classic Stake and Ward Website link, I believe that link will eventually fade away, though I'm not actually sure when. All the tools that were available in stake and ward websites have been fully replaced (now that Newsletter and Lesson Schedules has been released).
# 2012-08-02 11:17
I was using the website when the changes took place, so I went through some "page not found" messages and some confusion. I would suggest you don't implement changes in the middle of the day.
I was a big fan of the previous structure. It was very easy to use and extremely well organized. As somone else pointed out, the color coding and the icons helped a lot and were very clean and easy to understand. The new one not so much. For example, it took me a while to understand that to change language I had to click the "World", which didn't realize was an icon. Also, it took me a little bit to find out the "leader resources" which were under tools before, and actually I tought they were under "resources" which was not working properly yesterday.
So, honestly, don't understand why you changed something that was working well. Don't see the benefit, but another learning curve to go through.
# 2012-08-06 09:00
Federico, thanks for your feedback about the new LDS.org navigation. I don't have much insight about the color coding and icons, since I'm a technical writer rather than a designer. Some members of the web team monitor this thread, however, so your voice will be heard.
# 2012-08-02 12:02
I miss the icons. I'm okay with the new changes but please put the icons back in place, because I used to look for the icons to find what I want, and now I have to read the small text to find what I want. Please restore the icons!
# 2012-08-06 08:57
William, thanks for your feedback about the importance of the icons with the LDS tools.
# 2012-08-02 12:15
I noticed the new calendar still has a problem with date ranges when printing. If I select to print from August 2012 to August 2012 it prints the month of July 2012.
# 2012-08-06 08:51
Mark, if you could post this feedback in the Calendar section of the LDSTech forum, the calendar team would be much more likely to find it. I did just forward your comment to the calendar QA lead, though.
# 2012-08-02 14:04
There are always going to be new ideas in somebody's head, and techies like to constantly use new tricks and keep up their job security, but at some point, we have to stop being forced to get used to a completely new and different LDS.Org every few months. Pick something that works, and stick with it, so that people can use it well for years to come. The only things that should be changed are those that are not working well.
# 2012-08-06 08:50
Steve, thanks for your feedback. Websites continually evolve to try to meet the needs of users. LDS.org web designers are trying to make the content easier to find. The recent changes are based on feedback from many users whose main feedback is that they can't find what they're looking for. Hopefully the new navigation will quickly become easier and more comfortable once users become more familiar with it.
# 2012-08-02 14:30
I just tried the new 4-item pulldown.
Initially several linkns were 404 on me.
I also don't like having to wait for a page and large icons to load to be able to find the Clerk Resources. These should be available in the top most tab after selecting "All Callings".
# 2012-08-06 08:46
Clerk Resources should automatically appear in the Sign In menu once you are signed in.
# 2012-08-02 14:36
NAvigation a bit confusing.
Once I found the "Directory" under the "Sign In" tab, it went to the proper place.
But then I had two tabs, Main and Tools that contained the old lists. I love the old "Tools" list, but where did the new 4-item tabs go? And there was no longer a pulldown from the "Sign Out" tab to navigate.
# 2012-08-06 08:46
Damian, the old menu is still in place in various parts of the site, such as Directory. These other parts of the site will be updated over the coming weeks with the new header. Sorry for the inconsistency.
# 2012-08-02 15:59
Hi, I'm in Sydney Australia and I've been trying all yesterday and this morning to get into lds.org. I've just tried again and its crashed again. Any light to the problem? Feeling a bit disconnected(: Thank you.
# 2012-08-03 17:48
Thank you..I am so overjoyed to be able to get back into lds.org this morning!! Have a joyous day. Fellow Latter-Day-Saint in Syd, Australia(:
# 2012-08-06 08:45
Tina, I'm glad you were able to get back in. The issue may have been a browser cache issue, which you can resolve (if it happens in the future) by clearing your browser's history.
# 2012-08-02 17:03
I agree with Peter Weston. It throw you for a loop when you first see the new menu. It would be very helpful for the menu buttons to look more like something you should click on like buttons, instead of a link. It also would help to have the menu light up when you move the cursor over the options instead of the cursor changing to a hand icon. Thank You.
# 2012-08-03 08:20
I just got use to the last change I guess I will get use to this change, but how in the world do I access the scriptures I saved? My system seems to have a problem with the change.
# 2012-08-06 08:43
John, if you saved scriptures using the My Study Notebook feature, they are in the "Notes and Journal" option in the Sign In menu.
# 2012-08-03 10:38
The print option for the spriptures isn't working, however if I highlight print and right click you can get it to print.
# 2012-08-03 12:59
A little frustrated at being forced to sign in to access some content and then having access denied. Is the Church trying to limit us to what MLS says our calling is before allowing us to access certain content?
# 2012-08-03 13:00
Lauri, are you referring to the Facilities Issue Reporting option in the Sign In menu? My understanding is that this option will soon be removed.
# 2012-08-03 13:53
No. I tried to reach a video that was posted on the Teaching Responsible Behavior on the Primary page. First I got the sign-in screen and then it said "Access Denied."
# 2012-08-03 16:02
It was good the way you had it before. I think the new menu is actually less intuitive and user-friendly.
# 2012-08-03 23:00
My Internet Explorer still crashes when opening the LDS.org homepage yet Google Chrome and AOL Browser work ok. A lot of users around the world are not able to run the newer browsers, need to make sure the site works for them as well.
# 2012-08-06 08:42
Robert, I believe IE7 is no longer supported. Is there anyway you can upgrade to a more recent version of the browser?
# 2012-08-04 14:52
All of the comments above mine are far too kind regarding the quality of the changes and the action of the menus.
I design user interfaces for a living and this change is awful.
To quote my YM President (who works for Google) any web page that needs explanation (like this page) IS BROKEN!
# 2012-08-06 08:41
Clarence, thanks for your feedback. The web team is attempting to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for. Given the large, diverse audience, this is not an easy task. I'm sure the team welcomes constructive suggestions for improvement.
# 2012-08-05 09:54
The 'Tools For my Calling' link just redirects to lds.org it doesn't bring up a sign-in page. Also there is an issue with it knowing if I'm logged in or not even if I am logged in sometimes it shows the 'Sign In/Tools' option and if I select 'Directory' it opens up the Directory and then shows my name back at the top without having to have me log in.
ps is Tom Johnson or Aaron Barker monitoring this thread?
# 2012-08-06 08:38
Chad, I'll make sure the LDS.org team receives your comment. (I am monitoring the thread, but I haven't had a chance to respond to all the comments yet.)
# 2012-08-06 08:43
Tom I appreciate that. Can you also give them a heads up about the link in the top right hand corner that I mentioned on a previous thread?
# 2012-08-06 09:50
The Tools for my Calling issue is on our list.
We appreciate the difficulties that have come up as a result of the new header. We would naturally have loved for it to be much smoother, but that apparently wasn't in the cards.
We know there are a number of issues like links breaking, not going where expected, sign in not working, etc, etc. We have a long list of things we are still working through. Please don't take our lack of individual response to mean that we aren't hearing you. We are working through things as fast as we can, and hopefully things will start to stabilize soon.
Please be patient with us as we get through our list of issues. LDS.org is a very large and complicated site. There are lots of things for us to work through and we are working as fast as we can.
Thank you for your support. Bringing up issues/complaints at least let us know that you care :)
# 2012-08-06 12:41
Upon login, the Sign in drop down seems to have a relative link for "Tools for my calling." This link died on me. The url that displayed was "tools/?lang=eng" I simply added the www.lds.org/ in front of it and it worked just fine.
Using Firefox...current version
# 2012-08-06 15:01
I am having questions asked about the lds.org/mls option and how to use it properly
# 2012-08-08 02:09
I'm not sure why y'all hid the Tools list. I thought it was a glitch and was waiting for the "Tools" link to come back on the home page as before. It makes no since to me that no notification was given to anyone that Leadership Resources was now hidden under your login name. Trying to activate Temple Recommends yesterday but couldn't find the application link. Fortunately, I had the link saved separately in my favorites so I was able to get them activated. I stumbled upon Tools quite by accident last night.
# 2012-09-17 16:31
Just don't love it. The color-coded style, while somewhat overwhelming was quick and made sense. Now, there are way too many layers to delve into in order to find content.
For example, to find Gospel Doctrine manual lessons, the previous site only involved maybe two steps. Now, I must go to "Resources," then "Magazine and Manuals," then "All Manuals," then "Sunday School," and then finally to the Book of Mormon teacher's manual. Way way WAY too many steps to get places.
Overall, I feel like this is a step down. The previous site was ambitious and good, but this is a regression in terms of logic and style.
# 2012-10-05 06:32
Does anyone know anything new about Facilities Issue Reporting? In my stake, as the Stake Executive Secretary, I am responsible for all building keys. In working with the FM group, they have asked that I use F.I.R. for key and other building-related issues, but that option is not enabled under my login. I am correctly listed in MLS. My counterpart, the stake clerk, DOES have the F.I.R. option. Can this be adjusted so that I may use it as well?
# 2013-06-23 07:44
Regarding the selection of language and country:
I speak english, live in the united states, and use lds.org daily. A few days ago something changed and now whenever I go to lds.org the site comes up in a different language. I have to change the language to English *ever time* I access the site! It does not seem to remember that I want to view the site in English. Also, after selecting English, the "Local Content" selection lists a number of english speaking countries, but not the United States!
How do I get lds.org/my browser to default to English US? This is a real pain!
Thank you.
# 2016-05-16 09:35
I am having difficulties with the notes and adding them to my notebook. I can hightligt the passage, add a note, but when I go to save it to a specific notebook, it doesn't save to that notebook, it goes to unassigned, I then would go to the unassigned and edit and check a notebook I want the passage to go to, but it doesn't save there, it just saves in the highlights. What do I need to do differently?
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Book Review: Avalon by Mindee Arnett
Title: Avalon
Series: Avalon #1
By: Mindee Arnett
Author Info: Website| Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Science Fiction,
Publication Date: January 21st 2014
Pages: 432 pages
Format: ARC
Source: Edelweiss
Publisher: Balzer & Bray
Goodreads Summary
A ragtag group of teenage mercenaries who crew the spaceship Avalon stumble upon a conspiracy that could threaten the entire galaxy in this fascinating and fast-paced sci-fi adventure from author Mindee Arnett.
Of the various star systems that make up the Confederation, most lie thousands of light-years from First Earth-and out here, no one is free. The agencies that govern the Confederation are as corrupt as the crime bosses who patrol it, and power is held by anyone with enough greed and ruthlessness to claim it. That power is derived from one thing: metatech, the devices that allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light.
Jeth Seagrave and his crew of teenage mercenaries have survived in this world by stealing unsecured metatech, and they're damn good at it. Jeth doesn't care about the politics or the law; all he cares about is earning enough money to buy back his parents' ship, Avalon, from his crime-boss employer and getting himself and his sister, Lizzie, the heck out of Dodge. But when Jeth finds himself in possession of information that both the crime bosses and the government are willing to kill for, he is going to have to ask himself how far he'll go to get the freedom he's wanted for so long.
Avalon is the perfect fit for teens new to sci-fi as well as seasoned sci-fi readers looking for more books in the YA space-and a great match for fans of Joss Whedon's cult hit show Firefly
Confession: I grew up on shows like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and yes, even Buck Rogers. Movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars were absorbed by my teenage self like water to a sponge. So yes, I was pretty excited to have the opportunity to read an advance copy of Avalon by Mindee Arnett.
I'm happy to say I enjoyed reading Avalon and liked it's great sci-fi storyline. I would say that it's more of an action and adventure driven plot. It's teen characters have lots of great potential and give the story a fun and fresh feel, but it was the sci-fi elements, world-building, and twisty plots that made Avalon a fun read.
Avalon takes us deep into space, into exciting and frightening future where space travel across light years is possible by means of meta technology. Unfortunately it's manufacturing and control is held by ITA, the Interstellar Transportation Agency, a corrupt agency that fights to retain it's hold on the secret technology. This is the world Jeth Seagrave and his teenage crew of mercenaries function in. Their crime boss, Hammer, enjoys power and loves to thwart the ITA as often as he can, by stealing right under their noses by the use of the Malleus Shades, aka the Shades. Jeth, his younger sister Lizzie, and the Shades all work for Hammer. Mostly orphans taken in by him and joined together, each of their unique talents making up the crew. Jeth takes on these special jobs in hopes of buying back his ship, the Avalon, which was lost to Hammer when his parents died. Owning it means his freedom, as well as his sisters, and the Shades who are more like family than crew to him. Their latest job: enter into the Belgrave Quadrant and bring back a ship that went missing and return it and it's mysterious content to their crime boss, Hammer. Known across the galaxy as The Devil's Boneyard, this Bermuda's Triangle in space ends up being only one of the problems Jeth and the Shades will have to face before all is said and done.
In true space opera fashion, almost all of the action and setting of Avalon takes place within space which I really liked. The book does take awhile to get off the ground, with some back story, world-building, and twisty plot setup slowing it down a bit as the stage is prepared for Avalon's action and space adventure. There's plenty of futuristic tech talk and gadgets to please even the most enthusiastic science fiction aficionado. Once Jeth and the crew reach the Belgrave Quadrant, the story and pace really begins to pick up. This was really one of my favorite parts of the book. The Belgrave Quadrant had an almost otherworld/paranormal feel to it, and what Jeth and the crew discover in it kept me glued to the book. I liked the turn of events and new plot additions at this point and thought it added a whole new layer to the story. At this point, the plot and action shoots off with tons of plot twists, betrayals, and exciting discoveries all the way till the very end of Avalon.
Told from Jeth's point of view, the narration is in third person which was fun for me being inside Jeth's head, but at the same time his character, although likeable, felt somewhat detached. He's a bit of an adrenaline junkie, and loves nothing more than being in the thick of action and danger. He is also very determined to get back the Avalon (the last remaining thing he has left of his parents) from Hammer. He's sweet and protective over his younger sister Lizzie, as well as the other members of his crew. Sometimes he is too trusting, which ends up getting him and the Shades into dangerous situations, but he means well.
The other members of the Shades were all fun to get know know, each with a distinct personality and trait special to them. I really liked Celeste who is in charge of counterintelligence (she uses her femme fatale abilities to distract their marks) and piloting. She was pretty kick-butt and I liked her strong, self-assured personality. Shady's assigned role is ordnance office, and know as joyrider, who loves to shoot in real life as well as on his gadgets and games. Flynn's was the mechanical genius, known for having the appetite of someone three times his size. His job as engineer was fixing and building of the Shades ships and weapons. Then there is of course Lizzie, Jeth's baby sister, and at only thirteen she is already brilliant with computers, and joining the crew on their newest mission in the Belgrave Quadrant. She's super sweet and adds a lot of comic relief in tight situations.
There is a small romance that comes along the way, and although it was kind of cute, I really didn't feel much of it. This is one of the cases where the story would have been fine without it. I didn't feel a lot of connection between the two romantically. So no swoon.
I would recommended Avalon to readers who enjoy science fiction, and who are looking for a read heavy on the sci-fi elements, action and thriller aspect, rather than characterization. It was a fun read, the last half of the story really picking up the pace with some great action and plot twist along the way.
My Rating: 3.5 stars. I liked it.
A courtesy review copy of this book was provided by Balzer & Bray via Edelweiss in exchange for my fair review. Thank you Balzer & Bray for the review opportunity!


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Lots of new developments on the Fester Fish Front: Joe Murray featured it on the KaboingTV Indie Showcase! Canadian Animation Resources did a mini-interview with me! I'm also discussing pitching it to networks.
Now that the cartoon is done, I can finally relax, because now I actually have a tiny bit of free time. I've been taking the opportunity to catch up on a lot of movies and anime I've been meaning to watch. Sadly there aren't a lot of Western cartoons I'm really interested in watching at the moment.
I saw "Bridesmaids" recently, and liked it a lot. Kristen Wiig is great, and pretty much the whole cast was really funny. Just like all Judd Apatow-related movies, it sort of sagged a bit between the big comedy centerpieces, but even the non-funny parts were enjoyable. I just wish they'd picked a different destination for the plane trip. Even though we didn't actually see any of the trip beyond the plane scene, going to Vegas is such a worn-out comedy cliche, and it invites cries of "Hangover ripoff" beyond already being a gross-out comedy about people preparing for a wedding.
Last night I watched Paprika, which was pretty enjoyable, and re-watched some of Cowboy Bebop. I love the structure of that series-- it's fairly short (26 episodes) for an anime, and it's mostly episodic, although there is a larger storyline that gradually unfolds. My favourite thing about it is that it plays with different genres and tones from episode to episode, while still feeling cohesive. As with Lupin III, a series that was a big influence on Cowboy Bebop and also varied in tone, I tend to prefer the sillier episodes like the blaxploitation-themed 'Mushroom Samba', and the suspense/horror parody 'Toys in the Attic', but the more serious ones are great too.
May 17, 2011
Time to Rest a Bit
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May 11, 2011
Thanks for spreading the word!
I'm really happy with the reception Fester Goes Fishing has been getting, especially since it's only been online for two days. I was worried it might be too weird for most people. It's getting more views than I dared to hope for, mainly thanks to four people -- Jerry Beck for featuring it on Cartoonbrew, Christopher Signore for sending it to Jerry in the first place, Arin "Egoraptor" Hansen for 'liking' it on Youtube and Aaron Simpson for featuring it on ColdHardFlash. I can't express my gratitude to you guys for helping me out. And of course, thanks to everybody else who has watched it so far, commented on it and spread the word about it. I'm absolutely terrible at self-promotion, so I'm extremely grateful for all the help.
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May 10, 2011
Fester Goes Fishing
Whew... It's finally done. I'll probably talk a bit about it later.
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May 03, 2011
A Word from Fester Fish
It's almost done. Gimme about another week.
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UFC On Fox Predictions:
Velasquez/Dos Santos – This fight could really go any way, it's got to be one of the most unpredictable fight of the year. Velasquez has the advantage in wrestling, conditioning and possibly even mauy thai. But Dos Santos has the best boxing in the heavy weight division by far, possibly even in the UFC. He also displayed great takedown defence in the Carwin fight at 131. Prediction : Dos Santos via TKO (Round 2)
Guida/Henderson : This, along with the Velasquez/Dos Santos is one of the most unpredictable fights of the year. They're both very strong wrestlers, and both good grapplers. I would have to give Henderson the advantage in the submission games though.It's Also important to note that Henderson's stand up has looked very good lately.
Prediction : Henderson ( Unanimous Decision )


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The Polk County Jail releases arrest reports on weekday mornings. Click the attached PDF to find the Friday, August 16, 2019 report.
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Exams Information
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- November – includes 6th Form GCSE English Language and Maths retakes, BMAT/TSA
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- March - Some Y11 PPE's
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Some exams, such as online BTEC and Finance exams will also be taken outside these dates.
In addition, it is important to remember many subjects have other assessments that may take place during the year, especially in March/April, such as art, graphics, 3D Design, drama, music, GCSE and GCE language orals, catering, food and nutrition. Other subjects require controlled assessments to be undertaken during lesson time and these are throughout the year.
Exam overviews will be published on this site for the main written sessions nearer the time showing dates of the individual exams.
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We're always excited to let you know about our new flavours. But today we wanted to shine the spotlight on some of the flavours that have been in our macaron cases from day one (or close to!), and which are pretty much guaranteed to always be there. People come back for these time and time again, and we have to admit we're pretty partial to them ourselves! Read on to learn more about what goes into these Bon Macaron classics.
Nutella: This is one of our most popular—everybody knows and loves Nutella. We use Nutella and buttercream, and then we roast hazelnuts to sprinkle on top.
Rose: We use the roses from Happy Valley Lavender and Herb Farm as a decoration, and the filling is butter cream with rose syrup, and a little bit of rose jam.
Salted Caramel: The caramel sauce is our own simple recipe: salted butter, sugar, and whipping cream. And we have the sauce available to be purchased in jars!
Bacon Cream Cheese: This one is cream cheese, of course, with real bacon that we cook ourselves and grind into tiny little bacon bits.
White Truffle and Sea Salt: We use cream cheese for this one, too, and we get our truffle oil from Olive the Senses at Victoria Public Market.
Lavender: Like the rose petals, the lavender is from Happy Valley, and we simply grind it up and mix it with the butter cream.
Goat Cheese and Fig: Another really simple one. These are made with chevre that we mix with some fig spread. It's a good one for people who can't tolerate cow's milk!
Pistachio: This one is butter cream whipped with pistachio paste—a real French classic!
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Barbershop Guys Remember The Legend Of Jackson
Jimi Izrael, Arsalan Iftikhar, Ruben Navarrette and Eric Deggans remember when they first discovered Michael Jackson. They talk about his musical style and his extraordinary influence on pop culture.
TELL ME MORE: the death of music icon Michael Jackson. Here to share their thoughts and memories are freelance writer Jimi Izrael, civil rights attorney and editor Arsalan Iftikhar, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette and media critic Eric Deggans. Welcome, everybody. I may jump in here or there, but for now, take it away, Jimi.
JIMI IZRAEL: Thanks, Michel. Hey, fellas, what's up? Welcome to the shop.
ARSALAN IFTIKHAR: What's up, man?
RUBEN NAVARRETTE: Hey, hey, hey.
ERIC DEGGANS: Hey, man.
IZRAEL: It's a somber day, the death of pop icon Michael Jackson has fans mourning all over the world. You know, Michael Jackson, he didn't really pass the baton in any measurable way, but, you know, it's worth noting that, you know, all of his siblings kind of cashed in on the family name, including his older sister, Rebbie - of course, little sister, Janet. And even Tito Jackson's kids, his nephews, cashed in with the group 3T, which did quite well in the early '90s. Deggie.
DEGGANS: Yo.
IZRAEL: Put it all in perspective, man.
DEGGANS: Well, I mean, what - and as we've seen through the earlier broadcast, we have a guy who has two sides to him, and I think we haven't seen a performer like this since Elvis.
On the one hand, we had this tremendous artistic legacy that we'll be exploring for many weeks and months to come. And on the other hand, we have this very tortured and, you know, sorrowful personal life and some of the things, some of the choices that he made personally. And we also have a sort of a mystery as to why he died and whether the way he was living his life contributed to it. And that we will also explore over the weeks and months to come.
IZRAEL: You know, Michael Jackson was a complicated cat, but, you know, he had more than three sides. I mean, he had - he was singer-songwriter, he was a dancer. He was a label owner for a while. He had a label with Sony, the MJJJ - I'm sorry, the MJJ label, which he had Brownstone on. He was also a patent holder. He patented a device whereby he could lean forward, you know, kind of defy gravity. Well, he did that in the "Smooth Criminal" video that he did with Joe Pesci. Yo, A-Train.
IFTIKHAR: Yeah. Well, you know, I think that, you know, I remember in 1997 when Princess Diana died, the way the globe mourned for her. I think is going to be Princess Diana times 50, which is, you know, obviously fitting because she was the princess of Wales, and he is the king of pop.
You know, the one thing that I always found fascinating about Michael Jackson is that he transcended race, religion, socioeconomic status. So from, you know, the richest prince to the poorest slum-dog millionaire in the world, from goat herders in Azerbaijan to shoe shiners in Zimbabwe, everybody knew who Michael Jackson was. He somehow captured our collective, global, inner zeitgeist. And...
: I wonder why that is because I agree with you because I remember being in Egypt, you know, years ago, must be 20 years ago now, and I remember people saying - not knowing how to open a conversation with me, would say Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson.
IFTIKHAR: Exactly.
: And I remember being in all kinds of parts of the world where that was kind of the way people would open up the dialogue, I assume being an African- American. Why is that, Arsalan? I mean, in the American scene, you can sort of understand, but why globally, do you think?
IFTIKHAR: Well, the first thing is that, I mean, what's remarkable is that, you know, even though he passed away at the age of 50, this is a man who had a hit in five consecutive decades. So he started in '69, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, the millennium. I think that at some point or another, regardless of where you are in the world, there was some aspect of Michael Jackson that you could connect to.
So again, you could be the richest prince in the world or the poorest slum-dog millionaire in the world. It somehow - there was something that was universal about him. And it was something that I think that, you know, again, transcended all of the things that, you know, we have in conflict today. And I think that's what really brought the world together around Michael Jackson. And I mean, you know, from the Moonwalk to what Jimi mentioned, that ridunculous, 45-degree lean-in move from "Smooth Criminal." I mean, it was, you know we are going to talk about Michael Jackson in 400 years the same way we talk about Shakespeare in literature.
IZRAEL: I don't know about that, but what I will say, you know - not for nothing. He was a marketing genius, if nothing else. I mean, he had his hands in a little bit of everything, and even with "Moonwalker."
You know, "Moonwalker" became a video game, the kind that actually kind of sucked. But Ruben, my man, no disrespecting MJJ.
NAVARRETTE: Yo. Yo.
IZRAEL: You know, we know - what's kind of flipping me out is, you know, all the talk about Michael Jackson, nobody's talking about his kids. He had three kids. You know, you have Paris Michael Jackson, you have Michael, Jr., and, of course, he had Prince Michael Jackson, affectionately known as Blanket. You know, who's going to get custody of the kids? Now is Debbie Rowe going to get custody? You know, because we believe that she is the biological mother. Is she going to get custody, or is this going to be like the, another Jackson family circus?
NAVARRETTE: Well, listen, you know, you talked about people were drawing that comparison to Elvis, and certainly I think there's this - it's appropriate, given that, you know, the impact that somebody has in their life and after in their death. And likewise, Elvis was a money-making machine after his death. I mean, a lot of people don't know that most of the money that came out of the Elvis estate came after he died. He did not die particularly wealthy compared to what his estate is worth now.
IZRAEL: Right.
NAVARRETTE: And likewise, I think these children are going to be the vessel for that, and a lot more money is going to come into Michael Jackson's estate and a lot of it's going to be directed at the kids. And so I would not be surprised if you have similar kinds of wrangling down the line between, you know, Debbie and the family and whatever else. But, you know, just in terms of some of the words we've heard in the last 24 hours or so, they're words that are overused in our society like superstar, icon, genius. In this case, they all fit. I mean, this is a guy who earned it.
IZRAEL: Mm-hmm.
NAVARRETTE: Who earned each one of those words or those titles because he was a musical genius. He was somebody who never phoned it in, always delivered, had incredible shows. And one thing I just remember in watching the video recently, the videos of his youth, as the Jackson 5, people forget with all the, you know, all the bells and whistles at the concerts and stuff, that he had an incredible voice. This is a guy who couldn't just carry a tune. He could carry a bucket full of tunes.
IFTIKAR: Right.
IZRAEL: That's right.
NAVARRETTE: He had an incredibly beautiful voice that sometimes got drowned out in all the showmanship and the performance. But my favorite Jackson songs are the ballads, you know, because he could really bring it. And I thought it was, you know, it's appropriate that we take time to honor this guy because he was so impactful on our generation. And lastly, let me just say, I think a lot of what we bring to how we view things in our daily life, some of it comes from where we were born or our race or ethnicity or whatever. But I'm a big believer in the fact our generation plays a lot - plays a big role in how we see things, and clearly, he impacted our generation just like Lennon and Elvis impacted the generations before them.
DEGGANS: Hey, I...
: You know one of the things that I've been thinking about is that in his personal life, as extreme and bizarre as it clearly was by the standards that most of us live by, how some of his issues presaged or foreshadowed a lot of the things that other people experienced in not quite as an extreme way. And this whole question around having children out of a traditional relationships, these issues around skin and identity, and appearance - these kinds of appearance issues, it's just interesting to me the way we sometimes get frustrated by how much attention celebrities receive.
But his life was an example in which a lot of the things that celebrities do, we also experience in kind of a diluted way later on. Like this whole issue around appearance. You know, I had the opportunity to interview his parents and his siblings a number of years ago, and I had asked them about - when I worked for ABC News - and I asked them about the fact that all of them had cosmetically altered their appearance. And I asked them, why is that? You know, what is that about? And they said well, you know, our feeling is if you just don't like something about yourself, then you should just change it.
Now this is extremely controversial, obviously, for the ethic implications. But we now see that this is becoming more common among people of color as their, obviously, as their incomes increase. And it's just interesting to me the way that some of the things that we thought that he did were so bizarre, like - essentially Debbie Rowe, let's just be clear, was a surrogate - was a surrogate.
He wanted to have children. He was not in a relationship that was traditional, and so essentially, he hired a surrogate. This is now something that middleclass people are doing. So it's just - I just think it's just interesting that even though a lot of his behavior did take an extreme form, there are things that the rest of us are thinking about in a different way.
DEGGANS: You know...
IZRAEL: Michel, do you - Michel...
DEGGANS: You know I wanted to break in. Can I break in just real quick?
IZRAEL: Oh go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead, Deggie.
DEGGANS: Because what's interesting to me, too, about MJ is that you know, I'm also from Gary, Indiana. I'm about - I'm 44. I came up right after him and knew a few people who knew him. I was in a band that was signed to Motown in the '80s and it's just, it's so weird. You know, my life could not be more different than Michael Jackson's right now.
But even - but I have so much in common with this guy, and I know from my friends in Gary and the people that I grew up with that we all felt that way. And I think one reason why he was - he touched so many people across the world was because you could see a little bit of your own struggle and see a little bit of what you hoped for yourself in him, especially before his life really got strange towards the end. And the other thing that strikes me about Michael is that he's sort of this cautionary tale in the same way that Elvis became in the end of his life...
IFTIKAR: Right.
DEGGANS: ...of the corrosive effects of fame.
IZRAEL: Yeah, let's not downplay that, either. You know, I mean, we all love Michael Jackson, but, you know, they're really is a serious cautionary tale. Be careful what you wish for and, you know, be able to handle it once you get it. You know, Michel, I...
: But also, though, Jimi, though, I have to take exception to something you said earlier...
IZRAEL: Sure.
: ...about these other siblings kind of piggybacking off of his fame. The fact is started out as a family group, as a member of a family entity. And so, you know, his parents, whatever you think of them and whatever you believe about what you've been told about them, did invest the money that they earned as a family group in such a fashion that members of that family have been able to live comfortably ever since. And so I guess I don't - I mean, the idea that he - you know, it's true that he became this huge individual star...
DEGGANS: Right.
: ...but he started out as part of a unit. You know, no you know 10 or nine-year-old is managing his or her own career, so.
IZRAEL: Your point is taken. Your point is taken.
NAVARRETTE: But Michel, I remember this interview with, of all people, an interview with La Toya Jackson right?
IZRAEL: Yikes.
NAVARRETTE: I was going to throw that name as someone who clearly didn't make it on her own, but rather because her last name was Jackson, right? But any case, she said something. She was just really blunt. She said my parents live off Michael. My brothers live off Michael. Then she said it like this, she goes: My brothers haven't worked in years, okay? They live off Michael. I mean, that's from the so-called horse's mouth, from the family, from the sister just calling it out and saying that Michael had become something so much bigger than the family and the brothers and the Jackson 5 that so many people were now piped into him. And if you think we're wrong...
: Mm-hmm.
NAVARRETTE: ...just wait to see what happens over those kids.
IZRAEL: Right. Yeah.
IFTIKAR: Well, you know, and another thing guys, one of the things, you know, one of my Facebook friends had a status update that said that we lost a major strand of our cultural DNA yesterday. And I do agree that although his reputation has been sullied in the last few years, his talent was not. And I think that because the last few years that we've known Michael, you know what were revolving around all of these controversies, I think now with his passing, we're able to look more holistically at his entire life, at the entirety of who Michael Jackson was and what he gave to the world. I mean, 50 million copies of "Thriller" sold. I mean, in the age iTunes now, that will never, ever happen again. Fifty million copies of a CD or an album will never, ever drop again. And I think that that is you know, an important milestone to note.
: Can I ask Eric about that? Why - you think that's true? Is that true that the - it's a set of standards that will never happen?
DEGGANS: It's incredibly true. But it's...
: Why? Why not?
DEGGANS: It's incredibly true, but it's not just true because of iTunes. It's true because back then, you didn't have a computerized system for tabulating sales. So there's always been a lot of question about how many of those 50 million records actually existed.
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IZRAEL: Back to you, Michel.
: Well, thank you all so much for joining us. Jimi Izrael is a freelance journalist. He writes for TheRoot.com and TV1 online. He joined us from Cleveland. Ruben Navarrette writes for the San Diego Union Tribune and CNN.com. He joined us from San Diego. Eric Deggans is a TV and media critic for the St. Petersburg Times. He joined us from St. Petersburg. And Arsalan Iftikhar is the founder of themuslimguy.com and a civil rights attorney, and he joined us from our studios in Washington.
Gentlemen, I thank you all so much.
NAVARRETTE: Peace.
IFTIKAR: Thank you.
DEGGANS: Thanks.
IZRAEL: Yup. Yup.
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Early detection.
Accurate diagnosis.
Proper treatment.
Is it wise to immunize?
If you are a woman with heart disease, you have a lot of things to think
about:prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, cholesterol, blood pressure — the list can seem endless.Now you can add one more item: vaccinations. These days it is fairly easy to wander into just about any supermarket and get a flu shot, but it's important to know what types of vaccinations (also known as immunizations) are safe for those with
heart disease. Here's a list of what you should know — then make sure to talk
your health care provider before you get your next shot.
Flu shots: Yes, a flu shot is a good idea for anyone with heart disease — and
even for
their family members, so that they don't unintentionally pass along any nasty
Heart patients are at greater risk for complications from influenza than the
public, possibly because the illness inflames the arteries. Most importantly,
you should
get a shot, not use the flu nasal spray (FluMist), because the spray is made
with a live
virus that can cause those with heart disease to actually come down with the
Pneumonia vaccine: Some women under the age of 65 may have never even heard
this vaccine, but it is generally recommended for anyone of any age who has
disease. The vaccine has caused some controversy because it has been tricky
determine if it actually decreases the incidence of pneumonia, but many
doctors believe
that it does and some research suggests that it may even significantly reduce
Smallpox vaccine: This vaccine was widely used until the early 1970s and
today is not
available to the general public. However, members of the military and some
and health care workers do receive the vaccine; concern about smallpox
increased a few
years ago in response to possible bioterrorism threats. The disease itself
was globally
eradicated in the 70s and today only exists in laboratories. No matter what,
people with
heart disease should not receive this vaccine unless they have actually been
exposed to
smallpox, because of the possibility of serious side effects.
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TRDL 2012 Series No. 60 - Pepper Potts
TRDL 2012 Series No. 60 - Pepper Potts
I've always loved the concept of Pepper Potts, and I actually quite like Gwenyth Paltrow in the role. I didn't see much sense in the platform heels, given her natural height, but whatever. This piece was done for the 'Marvel Cinematic Universe Minor Characters' theme for the TRDL Art Jam. Oh, and yes, that film version of the helmet is really hard to draw.
Want to participate in the TRDL Art Jam?
The TRDL Jam runs weekly but remains open indefinitely. It can be found on the Third Rail Design Lab R3 Forum here: viewforum.php?f=27
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June 4th, 2014
Every year, The Sandbox Project raises awareness of child and youth health issues by building the World's Largest Sandbox in Ottawa. The Sandbox Project invites Members of Parliament, Senators, Cabinet Ministers, media personalities, not for profit organizations and industry professionals in a large sandbox with local children and school groups where they will partake in a competition building sandcastles to raise awareness about The Sandbox Project. The goal of the world's largest sandbox event is to raise awareness of the importance of collaborating, investing and focusing on the health and well being of our youngest citizens.
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A new, decades-long study has found that early, preventative control of glucose during the onset of type 1 diabetes can lead to significant long-term health benefits. Specifically, the risk of kidney disease is cut in half by early glucose control, and the risk of kidney failure is seemingly decreased as well.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and used research originally conducted by the Diabetes Control and Complication Trial and the Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications Research Group. The original study, which took place from 1983 to 1993, followed people with type 1 diabetes who had only been diagnosed a few years earlier and had yet to develop significant complications.
Half of the subjects received at-the-time standard glucose control, which was one to two insulin injections a day with daily testing of either blood or urine. Randomly assigned patients for the experimental group were given intensive treatment, which required keeping glucose levels at close to normal as possible with at least three insulin injections a day or the use of an insulin pump, as well as frequent examinations of glucose levels. The DCCT study ended in 1993, and all the subjects attempted to maintain diabetes control after.
The new study followed up with the subjects decades later, and found that the group with the intensive glucose treatments had developed half as much long-term kidney damage as the control group.
Approximately 26 million Americans have diabetes, with type 1 diabetes making up 5 to 10 percent of the diagnosed cases.


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Don Drysdale
For his career, DD hit 29 home runs, drove in 113, and batted only .186. He did have some bad seasons at home plate.
1958-hit seven home runs with a batting average of .227; had 15 hits in 66 at bats.
1961-hit five home runs with a batting average .193; had 16 hits in 83 at bats.
1965-great hitting season coupled with a 23-12 pitching record; good justification for MVP; hit seven home runs, drove in 19; got 39 hits in 130 at bats for an even .300 batting average.
Don Larsen
DL had a losing lifetime pitching record of 81-91; his best season was 1956 with an 11-5 record; his capped this season of course by pitching a perfect game in the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers; it was the fifth game of the series at Yankee Stadium. Larsen's record as a hitter was quite impressive; he hit 14 home runs, drove in 72, and batted .242. His best hitting seasons were as follows:
1958-hit four home runs and drove in 13; Larsen went 15 for 75 in hitting for a rousing .306 batting average.
1961-Don Larsen started this season with the Kansas City A's and and was traded to the Chicago White Sox. Larsen hit two home runs and had 14 hits in 45 at bats; this was good for a .311 batting average.
Bob Gibson
Lifetime Bob Gibson hit 24 home runs, batted in 144, and hit .206. He was a tremendous athlete.
1965-Gibson hit five home runs, drove 19, and batted .240.
1970-Won the Cy Young Award with a 23-7 record. His pitching and hitting made him a valid pick for MVP. Gibson hit two home runs and drove in 19; had a batting average of .303 going 33 for 109.
1972-Batted only .194 getting 20 hits in 103 at bats; but Gibson hit five home runs and drove in 12.


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Okay, I know I a lot of my Christian friends probably think I push the envelope of Christian propriety because I watch what can only be called "gritty" television. My most recent foray into the land of fictionalized fallen humanity is the Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black. It is based on the memoir of a nice, upper-middle class woman who finds herself in a women's prison for transporting drug money. It has all the features you might expect - sex between inmates, semi-coercive sex between inmates and prison employees, strong language and the requisite Crazy Christian. And she's what I want to talk about. Or rather, I want to talk about why it is so difficult to find a media portrayal of either 1) a normal Christian or 2) actual Christian beliefs.
The Christian in the show is a meth addict who is in the prison because she killed someone at an abortion clinic - not because she was protesting abortion, but because while she was having one, a clinic employee "disrespected" her by commenting that she had been there five times already. She was not a Christian at this time. You know when she "became" a Christian? When a "Christian" law firm approached her and wanted to take on her case, because now she had all kinds of "Christian" fans who thought she was "defending the unborn" with her rifle.
Once she is in the prison she is constantly going on about the evil lesbians everywhere and telling everyone that she is God's prophet and surrounding herself with a bunch of minions who play along with her so-called healing powers. You won't be surprised to learn that she is not all that popular, nor does she ever proclaim anything resembling the actual gospel. The main character, Piper, somehow gets on our prophet's bad side (not hard to do) and in order to make peace, she says a prayer that satisfies the Crazy Christian enough to think Piper now warrants baptism. So, they clean out the muck sink in the laundry room to use for dunkin' the former evil sinner right into God's Kingdom. When the attractive blonde sees the murky waters of her salvation, she backs out and finally shares what she really thinks.
Piper: I cannot get behind some supreme being who weighs in on the Tony Awards while a million people get whacked with machetes. I don't believe a billion Indians are going to hell, I don't think we get cancer to learn life lessons, and I don't believe that people die young because God needs another angel. I think it's just bullshit, and on some level, I think we all know that. I mean, don't you?
Crazy Christian's Minion: The angel thing does seem kind of desperate.
Crazy Christian: I thought you was a Christian.
Minion: I am, but I got some questions.
Piper: Look, I understand that religion makes it easier to deal with all of the random shitty things that happen to us. And I wish I could get on that ride, I'm sure I would be happier. But I can't. Feelings aren't enough. I need it to be real.
In all my years as a Christian, I have never met another believer who 1) thought shooting abortion providers was "doing God's work" 2) called themselves a prophet and/or 3) thought they had healing powers. But I have talked to numerous non-believers who do equate Christianity with these doctrinally unsound fringe elements and absolutely do not know what the gospel is. They do ask important questions like, well, why do people get whacked with machetes if God is supposed to be good. But why haven't they heard that our faith is not based on feelings? Who told them dead children become angels? Why don't they know that people get cancer because we live in a fallen world full of fallen people, and so we can all expect to eventually receive that paycheck - the wages of sin, which is death.
There are so many problems with both the Crazy Christian character and Piper's understanding of the Christian faith. Are Christians really portraying the gospel as something it isn't, or are non-Christian creatives suppressing the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1). I suspect it is a combination of both. Someone doesn't have to believe in the Christian doctrine to present it correctly - well-known atheist Christopher Hitchens proves that. It's disappointing (but not surprising, I suppose) that people who can produce an otherwise thoughtful show would fall into depicting caricature Christians (and this is not the only one to do so). But shame on us if we are lending ourselves to being caricatured.
What is the reason for the hope that is in you? How would you answer Piper?


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Service: 4:30pm-6:45pm 'Stable Living is Stable Giving!' Fellowship and Food: 7:00pm - 8:30pm!
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There are certain unavoidable truths I have come to accept this time of year. First, mud season stinks. Second, any resolve I have to stick it out at the end of a two mile dirt road quickly disappears like steam from boiling sap. Third, mud season amnesia sets in as soon as the road is graded and the spinach seed pokes through the soil, sometime around early May.
This season has been more difficult than most. Not necessarily because there have been too many disasters. The sum total for this year is down over previous years. If I were an economist I might even say that while the dirt road still contributes to a sluggish recovery; over all, there is improvement, statistically, year over year. Given all the available data, our household has made it out of its own personal recession... er, depression.
However the cumulative impact of dirt road living has me repeating Einstein, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Another mud season leaves me questioning my philosophies. I am a single mother, on a modest income, living in the middle of nowhere. On good days I can be a rugged pioneer woman. Most days I am just frazzled and in a hurry to get somewhere.
Let's dig into the dirt of this narrative. Two weeks ago central Maine had two gloriously warm days. We even reached a balmy 60 degrees. This was a too sudden thaw. The road quickly went from a sketchy Braille texture to soup. One night we are driving slowly but without too many uh-ohs. The next morning we are driving what we hope is terra firma. Split second choices could have dire consequences. The secret to driving a very rutted road is to ride up along the sides of the ruts that previous drivers sculpted with their vehicles. A slow intentional approach nearly always guarantees success. This particular morning this strategy was not going to proves reliable.
We are nearly at the end of the road. We just have to climb a little hill. I could go to the left side. Any vehicle coming from the opposite direction will also go slow. As I am going up the hill, I trust to the good neighborly acquiescence that is common this time of year. Everyone knows that when you have the momentum you just have to go. But such a stickler for the rules of the road, I decide, perhaps, the right side of the road looks solid enough to get myself to the top. Bad choice. Half way up the top of the rut disintegrates under my car and I am in it. The road has eaten my passenger's side tire. It is too deep for my little Subaru Impreza. We are stuck.
No problem. My son might be a little late for school but we are not stranded. There is a guy on the road who has all manner of dilapidated trucks, jeeps, and 4-wheelers. He might be able to help us out. As we get out of the car another truck comes down the hill.
"Can you pull us out?"
" I don't have any chains."
In past years this would have been a real problem. However, prior experience informs future decision making. I had chains in my trunk. A slow tug from behind freed me from the quagmire.
If only this were the end of the story. I knew from past experience to go to the car wash after such a mud bath and give the wheels extra attention with the power hose. That weekend a horrible noise began emanating from the front of the car. On Monday I took the car to the tire shop to replace the front tires (they needed it). Tire guys took an air compressor to the tires to clear out any remaining mud. The noise was still there. By the time I arrived at the mechanic, the car has eaten through a brake pad, warped a rotor and nearly stuck a caliper. Three hundred dollars later I am driving safely again.
Metaphor is everywhere during mud season. The significance of a car stuck in the road is not lost on me. Spring brings this tension between earth and sky. While I gripe about the road, the travails of the car, the mud splattered on my work clothes, I can also recognize the wonder and gifts that a quieter life give me. I've noticed rhubarb poking out of an awakening earth. The maple sap is really flowing this year, a success I can taste. I can hear Canada Geese in the small pond in the woods. Life is always teaching you a lesson you have to learn, sometimes over and over. But at least I've have learned to carry the chains.


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SPRING, Texas (KTRK) -- You and your four-legged friends can beat the summer heat together at Rummy's Beach Club. At the unique outdoor facility in Spring, owners and their dogs take the plunge and swim together privately in their custom-built canine pool.
Whether your dog is a first-time swimmer or a pro, Rummy's offers a variety of activities like swimming lessons, warm water aerobics, dock jumping and diving.
"Rummy was my blind Siberian Husky and the inspiration behind this place," owner Lisa Goebel said.
Several of Rummy's regular visitors are dogs with arthritis or other injuries. The facility gives them the freedom to exercise and have fun with less pain.
Every Rummy's visitor receives underwater photos and video of their pup in action at no extra charge.
During the winter months, the pool is heated and covered with a custom designed, air-tight pool dome so you can swim with your dog all year long.
"The people have just as much fun as the dogs, it's great," Goebel said.
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As represented by the name, the arrival of each dish is like the curtain opening on a new act – authentic Italian cuisine, staged exquisitely. In addition to the open dining space, a classic Italian setting complete with Venetian chandeliers, there are two private rooms available. Enjoy views of the garden outside the windows.
Location: On the third floor of the hotel
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- Breakfast: 6:30 am – 11:00 am
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- Breakfast: 1,800 yen and up
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On October 16th, 2010 the first annual DOCTRID International Interdisciplinary Conference was launched after many months of planning. To mark the inaugural launch of the conference a signing ceremony kicked off the conference in which Daughters of Charity and five universities (Dublin City University, Michigan State University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, and University of Limerick.) signed a Letter of Memoranda launching the new Research Center for Intellectual Disability.
I had the great pleasure of being invited to this truly amazing conference to capture the story behind the conference and research institute in a short documentary. As a one man documentary crew I had to capture the best possible video and audio with very modest equipment and time. This filming was my first official documentary shoot, and it was a wonderful experience in both the personal interactions with the wonderful people involved as well as the technical challenge of filming and capturing the story of this monumental conference.
The Planning:
Since I knew going into this project it would be a one man job from start to finish I had to ensure that I planned as much of the shoot ahead of time as I could. I was able to work with conference organizers ahead of time to get an understanding of the flow of the conference and who would and would not be available for comment. Given the platform of the conference and the unique challenge of shooting such a highly mobile documentary on a one-day-one-take type of scenario I had to carefully choose my equipment. To meet the needs of the documentary and to also stay within my shoestring budget I had to choose very carefully the right tools for this job. More on the exact equipment used below. For this job I decided to go with a DSLR rig to ensure that I would get the highest quality images and sound with the maximum mobility needed for me to move from one area of the conference to another and setup quickly to capture the interviews and b-roll footage.
The Equipment:
The equipment I chose to take for this shoot was really simple, as that was one of the constraints and challenges of having barely any budget to accomplish the shoot. For this job I used a DSLR rig setup for highly mobile video and on board audio recording and a pocket full of class 10 SDHC cards and Nikon EL3e batteries.
The camera I used was my trusty Nikon D300s with the Zacuto Z-finder and Rode Shotgun Microphone. This setup allowed me to both hand carry and tripod mount the camera to capture an amazingly clear high def image at 720p and as well as capture high quality stereo audio without having to use wireless mics. The Zacuto Z-finder proved to be invaluable as it allowed me to ensure tack sharp pull focusing (since the D300s does not have auto focus on video) and magnified the LCD to 3 times its native size. The only draw back to the Z-Finder I had to deal with was one I caused myself by not ensuring I had the correct mounting bracket to work in conjunction with my battery grip, so I had to loose the battery grip while filming which turned out not to be too much of an issue but did mean that I had to carry a bunch of batteries in my pocket. The Rode Mic performed wonderfully, I am still amazed at audio quality that mic is able to capture, even at a distance. Being able to rely solely on a shotgun mic for audio was crucial given the fast paced, limited time I had with each interview, setting up each person with a wireless mic was not an option, nor did I have an audio controller to monitor the audio levels. While it would have been ideal to run a seperate audio capture the entire time with controlled audio levels etc. it was just not in the cards for this shoot, and I can't say enough how happy I was with how the Rode Mic performed.
The Challenge:
the biggest challenge for this shoot was that I only had one shot to get it right. Since this entire documentary was to be filmed on one day while the conference was going on live, I had to execute my filming plan without the chance to "redo" any of the shoots or interviews. While looking back, there are about a million things I would do differently, but that always seems to be the case. Fortunately I was able to get most of the interviews planned and I did not run into any technical difficulties.
The second biggest challenge was to edit all of the interviews I had gathered down to a reasonable 10-15 min time frame. This of course, took many hours of red eyed editing late into the night. After many hours and a few consults to the conference organizers I finally released the final version of the video.
I was thrilled to coordinate with the folks form Fegan Films in Ireland to supply them with a finished European version (PAL) of the video to be incorporated into a published DVD of the conference. I am very proud to have a finished piece of film on a published DVD along with the fantastic work conducted by Fegan Films. Hopefully this is the first of many more short subject documentaries to come.
For More information on DOCTRID conference please visit their offcial website at www.doctrid.com.


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The Sustainability Series: HARA founder on brand transparency and sustainable inspiration
Jul 16, 2018 | By Louise Squire
Apr 13, 2011
Delicate lingerie, tulle skirts, and pretty pales allow the natural beauty of model-of-the-moment Arizona Muse to shine in Vogue China's April editorial, "Sound of Silence." Nicoletta Santoro styles Muse in a variety of ballerina-inspired looks with foundation necessities by VPL, Jean Yu, Passion Bait and Jean Paul Gaultier for La Perla; socks by Maria la Rosa; and barre slippers by Chloé. The airy dancer ensembles, along with photographer Paulo Reversi's dreamy, romantic lens, perfectly capture Stylesight's Runway Roadmap theme, Swan Lake.
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Adam Ford talks with John Zerzan about Primitivism, Progress, the Transhuman & the Technological Avalanche.
Why can't we solve the problem of the progress trap with the use of technology?
It is through technology (i.e. computation) we really understand how fragile the environment is, approach understanding butterfly effects
Describe the incremental progress to Primitivism?
Were we ever purely biological? Without artifacts and instruments? Where do you draw the line…how primitive are we talking? where do you draw the line? what sorts of technology are ok?
is Primitivism an all or nothing approach? Can it co-exist with Transhumanism?
ability to encode ideals/philosophies with or without advanced language and recording?
Technological advancements in bio-engineering, nanotechnology, cybernetics, amongst others, have the potential to be progress traps, and the global scale of modern society means that a societal collapse could impact all of mankind.
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Normal to heavy rainfall has disrupted normal life in the city in the last 48 hours with the weatherman predicting rainfall at regular intervals in the next 24 hours.
From Wednesday 8 AM to 8 AM this morning, the island city recorded 84.7 mm rainfall, western suburbs recorded 95.89 mm, while eastern suburbs registered 76.27 mm rainfall, according to civic body weather stations.
"Heavy to very heavy rainfall at regular intervals are likely to occur at one or two places in the city today," a senior official at Met Department, Mumbai regional office, said.
The official informed that other parts of the state have also recorded adequate rainfall.
According to Met department figures, weather station at Dahanu Road recorded 111.5 mm rainfall, Alibaugh 72.8 mm, Ratnagiri 38.9 mm, Mahabaleshwar 106.2 mm, Harnail 218.9 mm, Nashik 11 mm and Satara 25.4 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours.
According to an official attached to Disaster Management Control Room at Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), no untoward incident was reported so far including instances of water logging.
Met department has also issued high tide warning at 3:56 PM and 10:11 PM on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the steady spell of rains has resulted in full supply stocks of water in all the seven reservoirs which supply water to Mumbai city.
"We are happy to inform that all lakes have reached upto the full supply level (FSL) marks and we won't be having water scarcity for entire year," said a senior official of BMC's Hydrological department.
Deputy Municipal Commissioner (General Administration) Sudhir Naik said transport services under BEST and suburban rail services were running normal and no major water logging was reported in the metropolis.
However, traffic snarls on few routes in the city was experienced due to rains.


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