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Spring Break Photos
We had such a great time. It was so beautiful and restful and so nice to get away. Can you believe I didn't even bring my lap-top? I was truly disconnected except for the occasional Instagram shot. My husband had a terrible deadline due a few days before we left so he was in an urgent need of some rest and relaxation. The break was ideal. We saw whales, dolphins and many blue footed booby birds. Mix these fun sightings with the perfect sunny weather, many margaritas and those people you love most and you have the perfect getaway.
I'm going to start with my pom-pom hat. I got a lot of questions about it when I posted it on Instagram. It is a fun, cheap and easy DIY. See the full post here.
Next topic of conversation- The Goldfinch. Who has read it? I know many of you have or are in the middle of it. I could right a whole post about it but don't want to give it any of it away. I think it is beautifully written and the start was fabulous but I was let down toward the end. Hmmmm.
Meals and drinks by the pool....aahhhh. And then more Margarita's at dinner. 'm paying for it now trying to lose all the vacation weight gain.
I adore Mexican architecture and design. There were such lovely pieces all around.
I loved getting to finally wear my new Sail to Sable tunic. it has fast become one of my all-time favorites. I wish a I had a link for my earrings but I got them a year ago in New York in a little shop on Lexington not too far far from Bloomingdales.
I grew up very close to the sea, going to the beach on weekends and have always lived in cities by the water and miss it terribly since we have been here in Dallas. The sea is something I crave constantly so being reunited is a special treat. It is very strange that my daughter's upbringing is proving so different than mine or my husband's in this regard.
Witnessing sunsets is one of the highlights of being alive in my opinion.
And here are some photos of Monterrey. It is surrounded by such beautiful mountains.
Back to regular programming this week. Happy Monday!

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I was thinking this morning about how people say the Bible has been altered and tweaked and how now there is confusion about meaning and intent.
I wrote this little story this morning with that in mind, thinking about how it is human nature to utilize slippery slopes and lame excuses to our moral detriment.
I am particularly pleased to share this because I feel that it is a valuable, thought-provoking tool for everyone, whether one has a religious faith or not, because it addresses the moral issue of following spirit of the law as opposed to letter of the law.
It Wouldn't Be Fair!-A Kafleen the Donkey Allegory
said the note on the refrigerator when they returned home from school.
They gathered round it and stared at the obvious handwriting of their
father. They were hungry, foraging for snacks, and that pie beckoned
like a lusciously-dressed siren.
"DOOOO EAT THE BOSTON CREAM PIE," Evelyn repeated in a
chant-like tone, her nose close to the note, eyes crossed, bugged out, as though scrutinizing closely.
They sniggered wildly.
Obviously, they knew deep down, father had somehow accidentally
omitted the "NOT" in his haste-perhaps to go to the grocery store?-as there was not much in the refrigerator.
The exquisitely made-with-mother-love pie beckoned sweetly.
"Frij," snickered Adam. "What's a frij? Makes no sense!"
"Sounds obscene, even," Another added.
They tittered nervously, staring at the pie. Its chocolaty goodness
seemed almost to vibrate.
"There's one in the REFRIGERATOR," one of them said. IT must be a
DIFFERENT pie,"
"Couldn't hurt to sniff it…"
The BC pie was carried to the counter. Their noses and eyes scrutinized it closely.
Tittering, commenting and questioning snarkily, they circled the pie like hyenas.
"It DOES demand that we eat it!", the Other said. "And we SHOULD
be obedient children!" (nervous twitters again) "How FAIR would it be if we were punished for following the instructions?" (hands on hips, huge
innocent eyes punctuated this line of logic)
After a period of similar justifications, they soon found themselves picking at the pie.
They weren't really eating it. Just …testing it. Why, if something brushed against it in the refrigerator, or fell on it, accidentally, the same marks
could have been made.
"Hell," said one, "might as well have a SLICE now."
They were almost finished with their innocent law-abiding deed, the pie
plate empty, their stomachs full, when their father suddenly appeared in the kitchen, groceries in hand, the smell of their favorite take-out dinner
food guilty pricking at their full stomachs and empty consciences.
Their smeared, chocolate faces stared in horror, frozen, mid-bite, at his furious, shocked, hurt, and disbelieving face.
Scalding, hot shame now ran through their bodies. Not a single voice
dared look in that face and smartily cry, "But you told us to do it!" Deep
inside their guilt swam boiling through their veins.
There was hell to pay.
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Ohai,kafleen, glad I came over here after seeing about your quest for endorsements for the ichc job.. I think I know you much better from reading your blog here and agree that you could be a good moderator for us. I was suggesting to yesplis that she might have fun in the tshirt design category, maybe even just a project basis. She hasn't replied on that. She alreay lives in Seattle, I think less than 5 miles from ichc. She has been underemployed lately too. In any case, the best to you. I cant really properly invite you to stay with her if you go up there to interview but maybe if you talk with her she'll respond??? I think she plans to do the snobal fite Sunday so she'll be easy to find.. schmooz. m
I am impressed—you have gotten to the heart of the matter, and i hazza prowd ob yoo! As always. I hold you close in my heart, beloved, and pray for the strength you need to get through the current trial.
All my love —janey
very apt parable–you're doing it write!
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Sunday Sevens is a weekly series in which we share some pictures from our week and yak a bit about what we've been up to between blog posts. See Natalie from Threads and Bobbins for more info.
Just a few photos for you today–it has been a MOST un-photogenic week around these parts. A lot of time was spent running down boxes for my mother to pack her stuff in for the carpet installation. Then she discovered that her water heater was leaking, so a day was spent going through the contents of the closet and tearing out moldy carpet. The whole week has felt like a bit of a struggle, to be honest.
But enough about that, let's get to the important stuff: FALL PASTA. I'm in full fall cooking mode now and wanting all the hearty pastas and soups I've been avoiding all summer. This was a delicious dinner and helped clean out the vegetable bin; I also threw in some Italian sausage, and we both gobbled it down.
I appear to have acquired another project (just what I needed). I grabbed this wool suiting at SCRAP ($15 for 3 1/2 yards with my volunteer discount!) with the idea of making some sort of cycling jacket for my honey with it.
My initial thought was to surprise him with it for Xmas, but I remembered how particular he is about his cycling clothing–and couldn't come up with a way of getting his measurements without him noticing–and decided to do it with his input.
He ended up being quite excited by the project and I've ordered Kwik Sew 4017 to use as a basis for the jacket. It's going to need several changes, though . . . this could turn out to be quite an ambitious project. Adding zippers to welt pockets–um, there's gotta be a YouTube tutorial somewhere, right?
On Saturday, my partner and I had planned to take another hike with the MeetUp group, this time up Badger Mountain and IN COSTUME. Alas, though, the weather turned out to be just ghastly–rain showers and wind of 30 miles per hour–so we decided to skip it. That left time for sewing, though.
I've been stuck on the next step of my Cozy Afternoon table runner, as I was a little intimidated by doing setting triangles for the first time. I set a goal to have the top done by the end of the week, though, so I finally pushed myself to work on it on Saturday. It's been slow going with all kinds of problems–triangles too small, fabric shortages, etc., etc.–but I got the sashing on and the whole thing pieced together.
Here's part of it before I got it sewed together:
That's just part of it, because this sucker is HUGE. My table is 6 feet long, and the runner hangs over the edges. The top is in two pieces now, and I think I'm going to try to QAYG so that quilting it is less of a wrestling match.
The good news, though, is that the farther I get on it, the more I like it. I just love those colors against the wood of the table, and I think the finished runner is going to be beautiful.
Plans for this week: get outside, now that the wind has finally died down. Appliance shopping, as in addition to my mother's water heater, our stove also met its maker and our microwave is on its way out as well. Oh, and my iron died today, too.
On the bright side, I plan to make myself a turkey tee this week. Because I just happen to have a happy yellow sweatshirt that I've been meaning to refashion and happy yellow is exactly what I need right now.
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Luke 11:5-8 "Then Jesus said to them, "Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.' 7And suppose the one inside answers, 'Don't bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can't get up and give you anything.' 8I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacitye he will surely get up and give you as much as you need."
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For only the second time, ICANN tells the GAC to get stuffed
ICANN's board of directors has decided to formally disagree with its Governmental Advisory Committee for what I believe is only the second time in the organization's history.
In a letter to new GAC chair Thomas Schneider today, ICANN chair Steve Crocker took issue with the fact that the GAC recently advised the board to cut the GNSO from a policy-making decision.
The letter kick-starts a formal "Consultation Procedure" in which the board and GAC try to reconcile their differences.
It's only the second time, I believe, that this kind of procedure — which has been alluded to in the ICANN bylaws since the early days of the organization — has been invoked by the board.
The first time was in 2010, when the board initiated a consultation with the GAC when they disagreed about approval of the .xxx gTLD.
It was all a bit slapdash back then, but the procedure has since been formalized somewhat into a seven-step process that Crocker outlined in an attachment to his letter (pdf) today.
The actual substance of the disagreement is a bit "inside baseball", relating to the long-running (embarrassing, time-wasting) saga over protection for Red Cross/Red Crescent names in new gTLDs.
Back in June at the ICANN 50 public meeting in London, the GAC issued advice stating:
the protections due to the Red Cross and Red Crescent terms and names should not be subjected to, or conditioned upon, a policy development process
A Policy Development Process is the mechanism through which the multi-stakeholder GNSO creates new ICANN policies. Generally, a PDP takes a really long time.
The GNSO had already finished a PDP that granted protection to the names of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in multiple scripts across all new gTLDs, but the GAC suddenly decided earlier this year that it wanted the names of 189 national Red Cross organizations protected too.
And it wasn't prepared to wait for another PDP to get it.
So, in its haste to get its changing RC/RC demands met by ICANN, the GAC basically told ICANN's board to ignore the GNSO.
That was obviously totally uncool — a slap in the face for the rest of the ICANN community and a bit of an admission that the GAC doesn't like to play nicely in a multi-stakeholder context.
But it would also be, Crocker told Schneider today, a violation of ICANN's bylaws:
The Board has concerns about the advice in the London Communiqué because it appears to be inconsistent with the framework established in the Bylaws granting the GNSO authority to recommend consensus policies to the Board, and the Board to appropriately act upon policies developed through the bottom-up consensus policy developed by the GNSO.
Now that Crocker has formally initiated the Consultation Procedure, the process now calls for a series of written and face-to-face interactions that could last as long as six months.
While the GAC may not be getting the speedy resolution it so wanted, the ICANN board's New gTLD Program Committee has nevertheless already voted to give the Red Cross and Red Crescent the additional protections the GAC wanted, albeit only on a temporary basis.
Oops! Cock-up reveals ICANN survey respondent emails
An ICANN contractor accidentally revealed the email addresses of almost 100 people who responded to a survey related to a review of the Generic Names Supporting Organization.
An invitation to participate in a follow-up survey was sent out to respondents today with all the email addresses in the To:, rather than BCC:, field.
Westlake Governance, which is conducting the survey for ICANN, quickly sent an apology:
We have been sending invitations in batches, and regret that we included your address in the only set of invitations that was copied inadvertently in the "To" line as addressee, rather than as a "Bcc."
We sincerely apologise for this breach of our internal protocols and potentially of your privacy.
The misfire revealed that 15 out of the 98 listed respondents have @icann.org email addresses, suggesting roughly 15% of the responses came from ICANN staffers.
While the survey certainly anticipated responses from within the organization — one question gives "staff" as an option for the respondent to state their affiliation — some are not happy anyway.
Neustar vice president Jeff Neuman tweeted:
Should #ICANN staff be providing feedback on GNSO review? I see value in that; but results should not be grouped in with other responses.
— Jeff Neuman (@jintlaw) November 1, 2014
The massive, 93-question survey (pdf) was designed to kick-start the next cycle in ICANN's interminable reviews of its policy-making bodies, in this case the GNSO.
The results of the survey will be used to inform a review of the GNSO's structure, which could potentially re-balance power within the organization.
Unanimous support for new ICANN appeals process
The Generic Names Supporting Organization has issued an "unprecedented" statement of "unanimous" support for a new way for ICANN community members to appeal ICANN decisions.
All seven constituency groups signed onto a statement that was read by representatives of registries, non-commercial users and intellectual property interests at the ICANN 50 public forum last week.
"It only took us 50 meetings, but I think the rarity of what you're witnessing this afternoon sends a very strong message about our views," the Registries Stakeholder Group's Keith Drazek said.
This is the meat of the demand:
The entire GNSO joins together today calling for the Board to support community creation of an independent accountability mechanism that provides meaningful review and adequate redress for those harmed by ICANN action or inaction in contravention of an agreed upon compact with the community.
Rafik Dammak of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency added that the creation of such a mechanism is "a necessary and integral element of the IANA stewardship transition."
"The Board's decisions must be open to challenge and the Board cannot be in a position of reviewing and certifying its own decisions," he said.
"We need an independent accountability structure that holds the ICANN Board, Staff, and various stakeholder groups accountable under ICANN's governing documents, serves as an ultimate review of Board/Staff decisions," said Kristina Rosette of the Intellectual Property Constituency.
What they're basically looking for is a third way to appeal ICANN decisions beyond the existing Independent Review Process and Request for Reconsideration mechanisms.
IRP is considered too time-consuming and expensive for anyone other than well-funded commercial stakeholders. It cost ICM Registry millions in legal fees to win its IRP in 2010.
RfR, meanwhile, sees the ICANN board review its own decisions, and is only successful (in 15 years it's only happened once, a week ago) when a requester can bring new evidence to the table.
What the GNSO seems to be looking for is a third way — independent review of ICANN decisions that doesn't cost a bomb and can be used to reexamine decisions on the merits.
In many ways the demand represents the low-hanging fruit of the amorphous "accountability" discussion that took place at length at the London meeting last week.
ICANN accountability is being examined simultaneously with the proposed transition of the IANA stewardship functions from the US Department of Commerce to a yet-undefined mechanism.
There seems to be broad community consensus that the transition should be linked to improvements in accountability.
During the "constituency day" sessions on Tuesday, during which the ICANN board visits in turn with each GNSO constituency, accountability was the theme common to each and every session.
Time and again, CEO Fadi Chehade pushed the constituency he was addressing to provide some specifics.
"What is accountability and how accountable are we today?" he asked the RySG. "Who are we accountable to for what? We need to get precise before you ask us to answer a question that says when you finish accountability, then you can move to the transition."
The GNSO statement two days later, which still needs fleshing out with details, appears to be the first step toward providing the precision Chehade wants.
Chehade said multiple times that the accountability review and the IANA transition discussions are "interrelated" but not "interdependent."
If one were dependent on the other, it would be easier for opponents to stonewall the IANA transition by delaying the accountability review, he said.
"There are people in this community would like the transition from the US government to never happen," he told the RySG. "They won't admit it, but there are several, in this room even, who want this to never happen."
He later told the NCUC that these bogeymen were "not in this room", highlighting perhaps his belief that one or more gTLD registries is preparing to throw a spanner in the works.
Suspicion immediately fell on Verisign, forcing Drazek to issue a separate statement at the public forum on Thursday denying that the company (his employer) opposes the transition:
VeriSign supports NTIA's March 14th, 2014 announcement. VeriSign supports NTIA's four key principles. VeriSign Supports the bottom-up multistakeholder process that is now under way and that we have already been very much engaged. VeriSign supports the target date of September 2015 for transition. We support these things provided the multistakeholder community recommendations for ICANN's accountability reforms are accepted by NTIA before the final transition, and sufficiently implemented by ICANN subject to measurable deliverables.
It's not much of a denial, really, more of a clarification of where Verisign stands and confirmation that it wants, as Chehade alluded to, accountability reform prior to the IANA transition.
In my view, accountability is the more important of these two threads.
The Department of Commerce doesn't actually do much in terms of its hands-on role as steward of the IANA functions as they related to domain names. It merely checks that ICANN's proper procedures have been followed before signing off on DNS root zone changes.
If sanity prevails in the ICANN community's transition discussions (and I have no reason to believe it will) whatever replaces the US should be similarly mute and invisible.
However, Commerce's arguably more important role has been to act as a constant Sword of Damocles, a threat that ICANN could lose its IANA powers if it goes rogue and starts acting (in the US government's view) against the best interests of the internet community.
That's a very crude accountability mechanism.
What ICANN needs in future is not a direct replacement of that existential threat, but a mechanism of accessible, independent third-party review that will give the ICANN community and internet users everywhere confidence that ICANN isn't a loose cannon with its hand on the internet's tiller.
GAC rejects multistakeholderism, tells ICANN to ignore the GNSO
The Governmental Advisory Committee has advised ICANN to do as it's told and stop listening to the views of other stakeholders, on the issue of protection mechanisms for the Red Cross.
In a barely believable piece of formal advice to the ICANN board this morning, part of its London communique (pdf), the GAC said:
the protections due to the Red Cross and Red Crescent terms and names should not be subjected to, or conditioned upon, a policy development process
That's the GAC telling the ICANN board to do what the GAC says without involving the rest of the ICANN community, specifically the multi-stakeholder Generic Names Supporting Organization.
Some in the GNSO have already informally expressed their anger about this. More, and more formal, responses are expected to follow.
It's a baffling GAC move given that most governments have spent much of the ICANN 50 meeting this week professing how much they support the multi-stakeholder model of internet governance.
Now the GAC is explicitly telling ICANN to ignore anyone that isn't the GAC, on this particular issue.
That's unprecedented, though many would say that GAC statements often sound like the existence of other advisory committees and supporting organizations is little more than an annoyance to members.
During a meeting between the ICANN board and the GAC on Tuesday, UK GAC member Mark Carvell expressed some of that frustration, saying ICANN's approach to the issue has been "completely unacceptable".
Carvell said:
we're talking about names that are protected under international law and implemented in national legislation
So, for example, if you go down Pride Street around the corner, you won't find Red Cross Burgers. You won't find Patisserie Croix Rouge in Paris anywhere, or in London, indeed, because it's against the law to use those names.
So the response that we've had from the Board is equating these names to trademarks by referring to the GNSO response, saying that this is a matter for incorporation of policy development that would use the trademark clearinghouse.
So I just wanted to make the point here that this is completely unacceptable to us. We're in a position as governments and administrations in implementing national law. So our advice continues to be that these names need to be protected and not subject to some policy development process that equates these names to trademarks
and brands.
That point of view seems to have translated directly into the GAC's communique today.
The GAC statement is doubly baffling because the Red Cross and Red Crescent already enjoy protections in the new gTLD program, and the GNSO has voted to make these protections permanent.
The GAC has been pushing for protections for the Red Cross for years.
It's a noble effort in principle, designed to help thwart fraudsters who would use the Red Cross brand to bilk money out of well-meaning internet users in the wake of human tragedies such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
The ICANN board of directors first agreed to adopt such protections in 2011, when it approved the new gTLD program.
Red Cross protections were added to the program rules then on a temporary basis, pending a formal GNSO policy on the matter.
The GNSO took a while to get there, but it formally passed a resolution in November last year that would protect a list of Red Cross organizations at both the top and second levels in the new gTLD program.
So what's the GAC's problem?
ICANN director Chris Disspain asked Carvell during the Tuesday GAC-board session. Carvell responded:
I'm talking about our advice with regard to protection of national entities at the second level. So, for example, British Red Cross dot whatever. That protection does not exist, and is not agreed as we understand it.
The original list of Red Cross/Red Crescent strings for which the GAC demanded protection includes strings like "redcross" and "croissant-rouge", but it does not include strings such as "americanredcross".
There are 189 national Red Cross organizations that are not currently protected, according to the GAC.
Why are these strings not on the list?
It appears to be because the GAC didn't ask for such protections until March this year, six months after the GNSO concluded its PDP and close to three years after the temporary protections were originally implemented.
The GAC communique from the latest Singapore meeting (pdf) contains a request for national Red Cross organizations to be protected, but I can't find any matching GAC advice that predates March 2014.
The GAC seems to have screwed up, in other words, by not asking for all the protections it wanted three years ago.
And now it's apparently demanding that its new, very late demands for protection get implemented by ICANN without a PDP and with no input from any other area of the ICANN community.
The GAC spent a lot of time this week talking up the multistakeholder process, but now it seems prepared to throw the concept under a bus either in the name of expediency or to cover up the fact that it seriously dropped the ball.
Nobody can deny that its heart is in the right place, but is abandoning support for multistakeholderism really the best way to go about getting what it wants, at a time when everyone is claiming governments won't control the newly liberated ICANN?
GNSO says dot-brand rules "inconsistent" with policy
The ability of dot-brand gTLDs to limit how many registrars they work with is "inconsistent" with the GNSO's longstanding policy on new gTLDs, ICANN's GNSO Council has found.
At the end of March, ICANN approved a set of Registry Agreement opt-outs, such as the ability to avoid sunrise periods and approve just three hand-picked registrars, for dot-brands.
They're designed to make life easy for single-registrant zones where the gTLD is also a famous, trademarked brand and it would be silly to enforce open access to all accredited registrars.
But the GNSO Council resolved last week that the registrar exception is inconsistent with the GNSO policy that first kicked off the new gTLD program in 2007, which called for non-discriminatory access.
It had been asked specifically by the ICANN board's New gTLD Program Committee to comment on whether there was a conflict. The Council said:
the language of this recommendation of the final report of the GNSO does not stipulate any exceptions from the requirements to treat registrars in a non-discriminatory fashion and (ii) the GNSO new gTLDs Committee discussed potential exceptions at the time, but did not include them in its recommendations, which is why the lack of an exception cannot be seen as an unintended omission, but a deliberate policy statement
However, the Council also decided that it has no objection to ICANN going ahead with the so-called Specification 13 exceptions, saying it "does not object to the implementation of Specification 13 as a whole".
No GNSO members bothered to object when Spec 13 was open to public comment.
While it's certainly a pragmatic, reasonable decision by the GNSO, it does highlight a situation where ICANN seems to have overridden a hard-fought community consensus policy.
That's likely why its resolution also warns the ICANN board that its decision "may not be taken as a precedent". Which of course it now is, regardless.


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Come try some of the best craft beer in the state (I'm not kidding), at Alvarado Street Brewing Company warehouse location in Salinas just off the 101. Cheyenne Skye will be accompanied by Brian Coe on percussion. Music starts at 5PM.
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I'm still thinking about all the glamour from the Oscars this past weekend, and it had me thinking of other places to add some glitz, so of course, the eyes have it! Whether you're going with chunky bits or some subtle smudges, adding some glitter will liven up even the most minimal of outfits.
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The UCF women's basketball team's broadcast schedule was released on Wednesday, letting fans know when and how they will be able to watch the Knights play.
UCF will have 12 games aired during the 2014-15 season, and six of these games will run on the American Digital Network, which is available for streaming online completely free.
The Knights will also have four games aired on ESPN3 and one on ESPNU. As well as these regular season matchups, ESPN3 will also show several American Athletic Conference postseason games during the conference tournament in March.
The other regular season televised game will be aired on SportsNet New York on Jan. 21 when UCF hosts the defending champion UConn Huskies.
Of the 12 televised games for UCF, six are going to be played at the CFE Arena.
The full broadcast schedule is as follows:
Date Opponent Time (ET) Affiliate
Dec. 27 @ Houston 3 p.m. ADN
Jan. 7 Memphis 7 p.m. ESPN
Jan. 21 UConn 7 p.m. SNY
Jan. 25 @ SMU 2 p.m. ESPNU
Jan. 27 Temple 7 p.m. ADN
Jan. 31 @ Tulsa 4 p.m. ESPN3
Feb. 3 @ USF 7 p.m. ADN
Feb. 10 @ Tulane 8 p.m. ADN
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Feb. 24 Houston 7 p.m. ESPN3
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I'm not much of a cook, but I love making desserts! They're so pretty and nice to look at. I like chocolate flavored cupcakes best of all. What about you?
Did you know that the cupcake trend took off after the latest recession?
Smart business owners saw the appeal of a tasty product made from basic and cheap ingredients. Take for instance, Candace Nelson from Sprinkles. Or Allysa Torey and Jennifer Appel from Manhattan's Magnolia Bakery, later immortalized in Sex and the City.
Here are some amazing cupcake designs I thought I'd share with you!
Have a lovely day, dolls! 🙂


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Monaco by Stanford exhibited at this years London Classic Car show at Excel. We showcased our latest Monaco Mercedes Sprinter conversion and Monaco Mercedes V-class conversion. We also displayed our 1969 MK1 Ford Transit, converted in the rear to make a it the perfect vehicle for adventures and exploring.
Luxury Mercedes Sprinter at The London Classic car show
Monaco by Stanford are going to the London Classic Car Show! In February we will be at London Excel for the best classic car show showcasing our latest Monaco demos the Mercedes V-class and Sprinter. Of course we cant go to a classic car show without our own classic beauty, we will also have our 1969 MK1 Ford Transit with us!


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Hope you are liking the new look of the front of the store! We're just waiting on the landlord to do some plaster work on the outside and we will finish up the step (new indoor/outdoor carpet). There should soon be some scaffolding up and when and while it is, please be careful around it.
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Friday, April 15, 2005
Israeli Policeman Honored
This seems a link well worth preserving! (Hat tip: LGF.)
A Russian immigrant turned Israeli policeman has won the Jewish state's second-highest military honor.As an IDF veteran, this speaks to me strongly. Israeli soldiers don't get many decorations; there are no Good Conduct medals or Expert Rifleman medals, nor Purple Hearts for being wounded in combat.
Known only by his initial, Y., the commander of the Border Police undercover unit called Yasam was awarded the Medal for Courage on Tuesday for a string of deadly counterterrorist missions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Yasam is the Hebrew acronym for Police Reconnaissance Unit.
"I just did my job as best I knew how," Y., a 30-year-old father of two, told Ma'ariv before the awards ceremony. "I wasn't expecting a decoration." Yasam usually seeks out recruits among Sephardi Jews who can pass for Palestinians and handle the rough world of covert operations.
It might seem an odd home for Y., the piano-playing son of Muscovite academics who immigrated to Israel when he was 16. But he now has two dozen confirmed "kills" of terrorist fugitives to his name.
In the Israeli military, one ribbon means one war... with very few exceptions. Check out this picture, for example, circa 2000 or so:
All three men are generals. Note how "undecorated" they look (at least by American standards).
The man in the center is then Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz (in American military symbols, a three-star general, as high as Israeli generals go; only one Israeli wears that rank at any given time). On his left is a Major General (two-star); on his right is a Brigadier General (one star). All three wear the colorful Operation Peace For Galilee campaign ribbon (1982) over the left breast pocket; Mofaz and the Brigadier also wear the Yom Kippur War ribbon (1973), and Mofaz wears the Six-Day-War ribbon (1967) as well.
NONE of them wear any of the three solid-colored special decorations; they are extremely rare, and usually granted posthumously. (See here for a look at the special decorations.) As the Jerusalem Post article points out, the solid-red Medal of Courage has not been awarded to anyone in 23 years. (More detailed statistics can be found here.)
The guy clearly knows what he's doing, too, and why he's doing it:
Y. described Yasam as his Zionist calling. "Even in the worst of times, we always knew Israel was the place for us," he said. "The same went for the military. Even back in Russia, we would hear about the Israeli military. For me, it was a personal challenge to serve in it."In other words, he earned his award by going deep into the terrorist nests that the Palestinian Authority foments, seeking out terrorist leaders, and killing them:
"The Holocaust is very deeply ingrained in me. With time, I understood how terrible it was, and understood that we, the Jews, must know how to protect ourselves without asking questions or permission."
Drafted into the Border Police, Y. performed so well that the commanders asked him to become an officer despite his faulty Hebrew. Then came the outbreak of Palestinian violence in 2000, and Y. found Arabic to be just as useful.
According to comrades, he is first to volunteer for the most dangerous missions in the grim alleyways of the refugee camps favored as hideouts by Palestinian gunmen. "There is something wrong with his fear instinct. It does not exist," one said.
Once inside Tulkarm, Y. and his comrade found their target. When he resisted arrest, they shot him dead, waking up all the other gunmen in the camp.
So Y. decided to use the commotion to their benefit, driving out at full speed and shouting "Army! Army!" in Arabic. The Palestinian locals, thinking the two undercover cops were gunmen on the run from Israeli special forces, made way, letting them escape.
Y. "was the only one who said the mission was possible," said Col. Tamir Heyman, a West Bank brigade commander. "And he made it so."
Such courage deserves to be recognized and remembered. I'm glad he's getting the recognition he deserves... even if we may have to wait many years before we learn his name.
NOTE: An earlier version of this post mistakenly referred to Y.'s medal as the yellow Medal of Valor, the IDF's highest decoration. Sorry for the error.
And if you're curious to know what such a man looks like, well, the Israeli press knows better than to publicize his face! But here's a snapshot from his awards ceremony, in which Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon (right) proudly pins the medal on Y.:


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The EUROCONSTRUCT Report, 23rd November 2018
Data, analyses, forecasts and overview 2019-2021 for 19 countries in Western and East Central Europe. Present forecast: 2019-2021 (November 2018).
The package includes:
- Survey 2015-2021: Detailed, documented analysis and forecasts for countries and construction subsectors
- A comprehensive picture of future market conditions in 19 key countries
- Overview in single page format of each of the 19 countries 2015-2021
- Overview in single page format of each significant subsector in each country 2015-2021
Details on The EUROCONSTRUCT Report
1. Country Report section:
Analyses + detailed tables for trends up to and including 2021 for 19 countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
A total of around 450 pages, with 10-20 pages on each of the 19 countries (including 6 pages of standard data and forecast tables for each country)
EUROCONSTRUCT Country Report Nov. 2018: Table of Contents & List of Network Members
Demo of Nov. 2018 Country Tables
2. Summary Report section:
The big picture, with thematic analyses, eg. new residential construction in Europe and tables covering all countries for each theme. Around 180 pp.
Includes about 60 standard tables, covering developments in one factor (e.g. New residential construction) 2015-2021 for all 19 countries, in a half- or one-page format.
EUROCONSTRUCT Summary Report Nov. 2018: Table of Contents
Table overview Summary Report Nov. 2018
3. Extensive data files:
Around 10.000 single data points, in an elegant table format. Ideal for analysing your specific future markets based on the EUROCONSTRUCT data & forecasts.
Note: All data in these reports are confidential.
The Report may be bought from CIFS. Please contact senior executive consultant Anders Bjerre, firstname.lastname@example.com
Note that purchase from one of the other countries in the Euroconstruct network must be from the local partner (unless your company is represented in Denmark). You'll find links to the other partners on the euroconstruct.org website.


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She is loved.
Four words: Long Distance Relationships. Eeesh.
I've rocked an LDR before. For two years. It ended pretty well. We're married now, so....
Here's what it looked like....
For those of you who are unfamiliar with what an LDR feels like, read EVERY WORD in this paragraph:
Long Distance Relationships are the best. Anyone can do them. They aren't draining or frustrating at all. Hard work? Nah. Everyone who gets into a long distance relationship either gets married or engaged, and LDR participants practically never cry ugly face when they long for and miss their significant other. Making out too much never happens. Ever. LDR's are just as romantic as Rachel McAdam-y movies.
Now forget that paragraph, it lies.
Thanks to Brett and I's LDR, I'd like to think I have an amazing perspective on what it is to choose patience and trust, to work through deep frustration, and to choose present over future. But what I so intimately have learned from Long Distance, is that my desire and yearning to see Brett at the end of every four to five months, was, and is, nothing compared to the Fierce Love God has for me every second of every day. To me, everything comes back to the love of God.
During those two years of LDR-ing I wrote something that contrasts the love I had for Brett with the love God has for me, and it gives me peace and gratitude tonight as I re-read it again:
Patience is one of the most difficult virtues in light of passion and love. Miles away turns into light years. Heart beats move beyond pitter-patter to soul-deepening Cello strokes. Eyes close not wanting to open until one's love is standing before them. Motivation for all else is a flickering light, threatening to leave me in darkness.
But there is a Light that is Greater, a Motivation that is Stronger, a set of Eyes that see beyond me, a deeper Soul Melody, and a Friend that is so close I feel them inside me. The Someone who created passion, who holds more passion for me and the rest of the world than I could ever have for just one person on this earth.
Jesus. He saved me and gave himself for me. He has more patience with me than I know.
These are words from a woman in love...
...because she IS, SO loved.
Do you believe God is fierce for you? That He screams love at you and for you? Do you get what that means? The intensity of it? Do you long for some sort of love like that?
I do.
"God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.


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Construction on the project began in February 2018 and is expected to take about two years to complete.
In a design-build project, construction contractor and engineer-designer join forces to work concurrently on design and construction plans. This is different than the traditional design-bid-build process, in which an engineering team designs the contract, the owner bids out the construction work and a contractor builds the project.


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Perhaps you've heard: E-commerce is eating retail. One walk around your -- probably vacant -- megamall should be all the evidence you need. Or maybe a glance at the cardboard boxes piling up on your neighborhood's front stoops will convince you of the trend.
But as big as e-commerce has gotten, here's the scary part: it still accounts for 9.5% of all retail purchases in the United States. That means that there's still tons of room for growth. And the two companies facing off today are at the forefront of that movement: Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Shopify (NYSE: SHOP).
Image source: Getty Images.
While one company (Amazon) has created an Everything Store for people to shop at and created a fulfillment network to deliver all those packages, the other (Shopify) has created a platform that allows anyone to start a business with an online presence -- including on Amazon itself.
Which is the better buy at today's prices? Let's evaluate the question looking through three different lenses.
Financial fortitude
The first thing we want to do is check and see how safe our investment would be if tough economic times hit unexpectedly. Companies with large war chests and healthy cash flows not only survive such downturns but can actually grow stronger as a result. Those that are in heavy debt are in the opposite boat -- forced to narrow their ambitions to just stay afloat.
Remembering that Amazon is a $900 billion behemoth while Shopify is valued at "just" $16 billion, here's how the two stack up.
|Free Cash Flow
|$28 billion
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Data source: Yahoo! Finance. Cash includes short- and long-term investments. Free cash flow presented on trailing 12-month basis.
On the one hand, Shopify is in a very healthy position given its secondary offering was recently successful and it has absolutely no long-term debt. Until recently, Amazon was in a similar position, but the company shelled out billions to acquire Whole Foods.
That being said, I still believe Amazon is in the superior position. Not only does it have far superior cash flows, but if tough economic times hit, CEO Jeff Bezos could take his foot off of the reinvestment pedal and I believe free cash flow could explode -- albeit at the expense of long-term opportunities.
Shopify might be able to do the same, but because the company's Merchant Solutions division would likely suffer in a downturn as well, I'm not sure the effect would be as positive for the company's balance sheet.
Winner = Amazon
Next we have valuation. And I'll spill the beans from the outset: neither one of these companies is anywhere near "cheap" based on traditional metrics. In fact, they're downright expensive -- insanely expensive if you ask conservative investors.
|Trailing P/E
|Forward P/E
|PEG Ratio
Data source: Yahoo! Finance, E*Trade. P/E calculated using actual and estimated non-GAAP earnings where applicable.
The task, then, is to simply ask: Which stock is less insanely expensive? Based on every metric above, that is clearly Amazon.
It's not every day you'll see Amazon being viewed as the "cheaper" stock, but when lined up against Shopify, it earns the designation.
Winner = Amazon
Sustainable competitive advantages
Finally, we have sustainable competitive advantages. Because both of these companies have multiple moats, we'll evaluate how they stack up in terms of the four major sustainable competitive advantages.
The first moat can come from intangible assets -- in this case, the strength of a company's brand. Within the industry for creating an e-commerce platform for small to medium-sized businesses, Shopify has an excellent brand name. When compared to Amazon -- whose brand Forbes ranks as the world's fifth-most valuable at $71 billion -- however, Shopify has the short end of the stick.
The next major moat comes from high switching costs. This is right in Shopify's wheelhouse. Once a company begins using Shopify to meet its e-commerce needs, the pain associated with switching to another provider is enormous. Not only are there migration and coding costs, but businesses suffer downtime and have to retrain their entire workforce on a new operating system. That's what has helped Shopify keep revenue retention above 100% for every year it's been a public company. One could make an argument that switching away from Amazon Prime offers the company a moat -- but there are no real metrics to track this, and Shopify's lead on this front is significant.
Low-cost production is the next major moat, and here is where Amazon is the clear winner. Because the company has spent decades and billions of dollars building out its network of fulfillment centers, it can afford to guarantee two-day delivery at a fraction of the internal costs competitors would have to fork over. Shopify has no such meaningful advantages.
Finally, there's the network effect. This moat comes into play when each additional user of a service makes the service more valuable. Both Amazon and Shopify benefit. For Amazon, the site has become such a popular destination for shoppers that third-party merchants are incentivized to list their wares on the site and use Fulfillment by Amazon for shipping. Revenue for third-party services grew 36% last quarter.
Shopify's network effect comes from the fact that third-party app developers look at Shopify's 600,000 merchants as a huge pool of potential customers. As more apps are developed for Shopify's platform, the tools attract ever more merchants -- a virtuous cycle.
Put it all together and you can see that while both companies have strong moats, Amazon comes out ahead.
Winner = Amazon
And my winner is...
So there you have it: Amazon is cheaper, has a better balance sheet, and has a wider moat than Shopify. Don't let that stop you, however, from considering Shopify as well for your portfolio. I already have outperform ratings for both companies on my CAPS profile, and together, they account for 29% of my real-life holdings. While I clearly think Amazon is a better bet, they both deserve your consideration.
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$5.5 Million Recovery Against Silicon Graphics
Chavez & Gertler served as counsel for various categories of technical support employees at Silicon Graphics, Inc. ("SGI") in California who alleged that SGI illegally treated these employees as "exempt" under California labor law so it did not have to pay them overtime. The parties entered into a settlement resolving these claims that provided $5.5 million in restitution for the employees. Sweeney v. Silicon Graphics Inc., Case No. C-00-20731 (Santa Clara County Superior Court).
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MILAN, October 31, 2002 – The Armani Group today signalled its commitment to China with the official opening of Armani / Chater House, a new 3,000 square meter multi-brand store in Hong Kong's Central District, which will now be the company's largest retail space in the world after Armani / Via Mazoni in Milan. In the last month the Armani Group has also renovated its flagship Giorgio Armani boutique in Beijing and opened its first Armani Collezioni store, in Shenzen, as it begins to implement a retail expansion programme that will see the opening of between 20 and 30 stores in China's most important cities over the next three to five years.
Giorgio Armani, President and Chief Executive of the Armani Group, said: 'This ambitious new retail space is inspired by the energy and vitality that everyone associates with Hong Kong. It is my hope that Armani / Chater House will quickly become a destination for a cross-section of the city's diverse population, who are interested in fashion and style. The significant investment we have made in this project symbolises our strong belief in the future potential that China has to offer.'
On three levels, covering 3,000 square meters, Armani / Chater House brings together a world of Armani under one roof, including the Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani and Armani Jeans women and men's fashion and accessory collections, Giorgio Armani Cosmetics, Armani Casa (home interiors), Armani Fiori (flowers), Armani Libri (books) and an Emporio Armani Caffè. The store designs were realised by Giorgio Armani in collaboration with architects Claudio Silvestrin (Giorgio Armani), Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (Emporio Armani, Emporio Armani Caffè, Armani Libri and Armani Fiori) and the Armani Group's in-house team (Armani Casa).
The Armani Group is one of the leading fashion and design groups in the world today. It designs, manufactures, distributes and retails fashion and lifestyle products including apparel, accessories, eyewear, watches, jewellery, home furnishings and fragrances and cosmetics under a range of brand names: Giorgio Armani, Armani Collezioni, Mani, Emporio Armani, AJ|Armani Jeans, Armani Junior, A/X Armani Exchange and Armani Casa. The Group's exclusive retail network currently comprises 55 Giorgio Armani boutiques, 1 Giorgio Armani Accessories store, 12 Armani Collezioni stores, 113 Emporio Armani stores, 65 A/X Armani Exchange stores, 9 AJ|Armani Jeans stores, 4 Armani Junior stores and 10 Armani Casa stores in 35 countries.
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Weekend Plans!
Hey! Friday is here! Thanks for hanging in with me all week. If you are visiting for the first time this week, hey x 5! I hope your week was pleasantly eventful. Mine definitely was, so this weekend i am kicking back and getting in on some organizing projects (fun, bleh). What are you guys up to this weekend?
The rest of my weekend plans:
See "The Intern" with Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro
Make some awesomely moist banana bread
Shopping date with my friend, some fall boots are in order
Throw out most of my makeup
Go down town and check out the Sharwama in that little Meditterean restaurant
Ignore my pedometer (kidding)
Organize my email before Monday, I have altogether like 9000 emails across all my boxes, tut-tut-tut
Talk to somebody about Christ
Trying one of these
A bit of spring cleaning in September and some wall art shopping
Paint my nails an interesting shade of rose pink
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So, what are you doing this weekend?


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Age 83, passed on October 5, 2018. No public visitation prior to the day of service. The funeral service will be held on Saturday, October 13, 2018, with the family hour at 10 am followed by the service at 11 am at Second Baptist Church, 850 Red Oak, Ann Arbor, MI. Burial in United Memorial Gardens, Plymouth, MI. Please sign the guestbook below.
He was known to me as Mr. Stevens and my boys called him that too. Jimmie (if i may) was one of the hardest working guys on our block. A super dad and just such a fantastic neighbor. He will surely be missed. Heaven has received one of the best.
Did not Know Mr. Stephens but I know his son Milton. He had to be a loving, caring, and strong man to have raised my friend. I pray that God wrap his arms around your family and keep them strong. "This is not good bye but I will see you later."
For God has called another one of his children home. For all their work here was done and time to move on to the valley of love and peace. May the family have peace and comfort through God grace. Mr. Stephen will be greatly missed
Mr. Stephens, you and Ms. Stephens open your hearts and your home to everyone that came in contact with you. God lent you to us for a while and I just want to say thank you for the love. You will be truely missed. God wants you back now. Your job is done and a job well done. You're in a place where there is no more pain. There're no more tears. Rest well, Mr. Stephens. You're smiling now because you're up there dancing on cloud nine. We all will see each other again.
To my classmate Milton Stephens. I am very sorry for your loss. Remember all of the good times that you had and what he taught you. It will get easier in time. Keeping you in my thoughts.
Sorry so to hear of his passing if you ever need to talk let me know. Prayers and thoughts are with you Angie
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Tool Room Assistant
Tool Room assistant needed for local manufacturing company. Must have knowledge of measurement devices.
Duties include:
- Maintain control of tool room, issue tools and supplies to production personnel; return tooling to assigned tool room location and keep company property well maintained and clean
- Stock tooling and supplies
- Re-stocks the tooling dispensing machines daily or as needed
- Periodically, as scheduled, conduct inventory count of workstations
- Conduct inventory cycle counts of Tool Room inventories, as scheduled
- Correct any inventory deficiencies or discrepancies
- Issue test reports for testing of new tooling
- Checks boxes and verifies packing slip
- Additional Functions As delegated by the Tool Room Manager
- All other duties as assigned
Required Skills:
- Read Calipers, Gauges, Micrometers
- Follow instructions from Tool Room Supervisor
$11.00 - $12.00 depending on experience
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All About Industrial Truck Insurance
Industrial truck insurance is an indispensable requirement for the successful operation of any motor carrier, proprietor operator or other trucking company. It is especially underwritten to supply coverage for weighty cars. This coverage applies not only to a company's trucks, but can also be extended to cover other business cars such as light duty pickup trucks, vans, cars and SUVs. The calculation of industrial insurance prices is a essential aspect of commercial insurance, which can consider up a significant chunk of a company's price range.
Industrial truck insurance rates are established primarily based on a number of factors. In particular, a driver's accident history–both at-fault and not-at-fault–is utilized to help establish the probability that that driver will be concerned in an accident. Accidents, if any, will outcome in a larger premium. Traffic violations similarly affect the insurance coverage rates the better the quantity of violations, the increased the insurance coverage rates. Insurance coverage organizations share data on claims, payments and claims record with each other, and so are in a position to independently verify a company and its driver's driving and insurance coverage history
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The driver's many years of experience driving a commercial vehicle is not only a required job talent for most employment positions, but is also important element in determining the premiums that will be charged for insurance. Data have established that the lengthier a driver's expertise, the fewer the accidents the driver is very likely to be concerned in. As this kind of, the larger the number of years the applicant has driven, the reduce the premiums will be. A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) is an absolute necessity.
The age of the driver influences the insurance coverage premium rates. This is due to the fact figures have been compiled indicating that drivers who are very young or very outdated are a lot more susceptible to accidents although driving. For business driving, the ages of 30 to 65 are the perfect range for most expense conserving premiums.
The vehicle's value, yr of manufacture and problem are other rating variables that insurers use. Prior to a policy is issued, a licensed technician will assess these variables. Issue supersedes age if the truck is maintained in exceptional condition. A company's line of enterprise, cargo to be delivered and yearly mileage are other factors that are taken into account when calculating the cost of insurance coverage. The value of a certain cargo or delivery, the chance of theft and the number of miles logged in a day are facets that are figured into the calculation.
Normally, a gap in insurance coverage coverage will automatically outcome in a sharp boost in rates. This may occur if, for example, the company's policy expired or lapsed and was not replaced instantly. An exception is made if the cancellation was amiable or if a cancellation was not the end result of an excessive accident declare.
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Discounts are given for safety functions this kind of as anti-lock brakes, air bags and anti-theft products. In addition, an Knowledgeable Company Low cost is supplied to lower insurance coverage costs for organizations that have been in company in excess of 3 many years. An Knowledgeable Industrial Driver Low cost is also offered: the extended a driver has been in the use of the identical firm, or the fewer changes of employers inside of a given period, the greater the low cost provided. Employment history has also been proven to have an important correlation to a driver's dependability, specifically pertaining to his information of organization-established routes or organization delivery circuits.
The rating variables that are listed right here might differ from one state to the up coming. The suggestions and advice of a licensed insurance agent should be sought when buying for and buying commercial truck insurance.


text: Roger Morse (Author), 1992, 127 pages. Hard cover, black and white. 5½" x 8". Not only how to make mead, but the science behind the craft. Mead is honey wine. It is made when honey is diluted and allowed to ferment. Mead is thought by many to have been the first alcoholic beverage made by humans. Learn about honey, the equipment for making mead, yeasts and fermentation, recipes and formulas, fermentation, racking and aging, bottles, closures, sparkling mead, proples with mead making and home analysis and judging mead.


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A Dog's Journey
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords
Financial tycoon and former triad member Yu Shun-tin tries to eradicate the drug market while 'Jizo' aims to singlehandedly take over Hong Kong's drug exchange as the number one drug…
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth…
Genesis 2.0
On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price…
In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weirdness is celebrated, strangeness is special and beauty is embraced as more than meets the eye. After traveling to the other side of…
P Feng bao
Minuscule 2: Mandibles From Far Away
In the conditioning unit of a small chestnut can factory in a quiet little country village as winter slowly settles, a young ladybug gets trapped by accident in a cardboard…
Fall in Love at First Kiss
The Shadow Play
Tang Yijie, the Construction Committee Director, falls off from rooftop and dies in a demolition riot. Yang Jiadong, a young police officer starts his investigation and finds that Tang's death…
The Crossing
Studying in Hong Kong but living in Shenzhen (the port city of Mainland China), Peipei has spent 16 years in her life travelling between these two cities. To realize the…
Triple Threat
The Knight of Shadows: Between Yin and Yang
The New King of Comedy
A background actor struggled to be a main cast but keep failing, until he met an extra actress, their life together changed..
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A monkey trainer whose act goes wrong after an alien crash lands on Earth and injures his monkey. Desperate to perform the act, he attempts to train the alien instead,…
Ash Is Purest White
Long Day's Journey Into Night
An old-time racing champion tries to come back to the race track.
The Wandering Earth
The sun is dying out. The earth will soon be engulfed by the inflating sun. To save the human civilization, scientists draw up an escape plan that will bring the…
Project Gutenberg
The Hong Kong police is hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter" (Chow Yun-fat). The gang possesses exceptional counterfeiting skills which makes it difficult to distinguish the…
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Love Off the Cuff
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The unlikely pairing of a spoiled millionaire venture capitalist scouting for extreme wedding tour locations and a grounded science photographer en route to chronicle the Aurora Australis lights face the…
The Chinese Widow
How Long Will I Love U
Go Brother!
Fat Buddies
Assassins and the Missing Gold
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Hello Mr. Billionaire
A pathetic minor league Soccer Goalkeeper was given a task – to spend 1 Billion in thirty days, if successful he will get 30 Billion. However, he's not allowed to…


text: It's better not to know, not to have a clue what is going on. Applying color and wondering what will happen, just asking over and over 'what is it?' 'what am I doing?' and not ever really knowing. Then sometimes something will present itself from within its own being, something from within the heart of the thing, and you will see it, but still have no idea what it is and not knowing is exactly the way you will know it.


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Who We Are
You don't really know someone until you know their story ...
More recently the journeys of these two friends have re-converged. They now both live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, excited to be partners in a professional coaching and consulting practice built upon their deep trust and shared values. Leveraging their diverse leadership and learning experiences, Mark and Matt are passionate helping leaders become more confident and compelling, having a greater and more satisfying impact in what they have been called to do.
The story of Invita Consulting has its roots in Ithaca, NY, where two friends—a PhD student at Cornell and a technology entrepreneur from MIT—spent time together regularly encouraging one another in their respective journeys through life. Under-girded by this season of mutual coaching, their friendship stayed strong even as career opportunities scattered them to different parts of the country over the years. But along the way, their early experience of mutual encouragement led both of them to grow as coaches to many others, both professionally and personally.
Founding Partners
Mark A Case, PhD
Mark has a unique blend of academic rigor (Cornell PhD in philosophy) and years of leading teams and developing leaders in academia, the non-profit sector, and the business world. He is an avid reader who is able to bring great ideas to bear on practical problems.
Mark is passionate about helping leaders come to know and lead themselves better in order to lead others more effectively. He understands the complex relational dynamics of leadership contexts, and thus is able to provide transformational coaching and consulting to leaders at all levels.
But to really know Mark, you'd have to catch a glimpse of his smile while fly fishing with an old friend, mastering a new board game, or entertaining friends & family around his large dining room table.
Matt Dorn
Matt is a process thinker (MIT aero engineer) with lots of leadership experience -- former USAF officer, corporate VP, consultant, entrepreneur, and board member of several non-profits. He understands people, technology, and organizational change.
Matt is a creative coach who loves to come alongside leaders to help them find their voice -their unique niche and style in which they can thrive professionally and personally.
He is also great at helping organizations design and implement multi-level learning approaches, believing that faster learning teams are the ones that win in the end.
Behind the scenes, Matt loves scoring 7-letter words in Scrabble, hiking the many great trails in the Bay Area, and playing Ultimate Frisbee.


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I visited PAX this year! So I'm enjoying the festivities and wonky nature of this nerdy phenomenon as much as possible. But my poor feet... >_<;
Hey guys, so I recently started up a Ko-fi for Berds & Nerds! I'm still new to it, so hopefully I'll be able to figure out how it works. However, I've been meaning to start this up since folks have been inquiring about sending donations to us. Just click below!
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If the average American walked as much as PAX attendees do on a daily basis, we'd probably solve this country's obesity epidemic.


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Join the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle for Blossoms of Hope on April 22nd at 12:30 p.m. at Second Empire Restaurant and Tavern. You will be served five exquisite courses, with wine, prepared especially for you by Second Empire Restaurant and Tavern and our Culinary Job Training Program.
The 2018 Blossoms of Hope is sold out - thanks to everyone for supporting the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle!


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A 43-year-old Dutch national was today arrested on charges of rape and cheating a woman, a senior police official said.
The arrest was made in the International Airport Police Station limits here on the complaint by the woman hailing from Gurgaon in Haryana, who has accused him of rape and cheating, DCP North-East Vikas Kumar told PTI.
He said according to the woman, both of them came in contact through a dating site and subsequently they have been close to each other, following which he invited her to stay with him. She came here in February and stayed with him for 15 days.
During their stay he is said to have promised her of marriage and both have come in physical contact, he said. She had even conceived and subsequently got aborted, he added, quoting her complaint. On realising that he will not marry her, the woman has filed the complaint, he said.
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"Dinner Raffle"/
We are having an "11 Dinner Raffle". Eleven area restaurants have donated dinners or lunches, and we will have three (3) winners this year!
- 1st. Place: Longhorn Steakhouse, IHOP, Gold Star Chili - Ross, and Panera Bread. ($222 value)
- 2nd. Place: Frisch's, Cheddars, and Quaker Steak & Lube ($130 value)
- 3rd. Place: Outback Steakhouse, Sonic, and Angelo's Pizza ($90 value)
Tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. You can buy your tickets from any Ross Band member (5th - 12th gr), director, or from Leslie Ellis (Leslie's contact info: at email@example.com)
The drawing will be held on May 14th at the conclusion of Con-Z-Art in the RHS Performing Arts Center.


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It is undisputed that a dog is a wonderful companion, for adults and for children. It's almost Christmas and many people want to surprise their children with a dog. Such a great idea but please be careful. If you adopt a dog into your family and have children, make sure that they understand that certain behavior, sounds, and certain movements can trigger an animal's instinct to attack.
First and foremost let me state that newborns and toddlers should NEVER be left alone with ANY dog. Even if your dog knows the child, is a long-time companion, don't do it. An infant's cries and coos sound very much like a small, wounded animal in the canine's ears. A dog's instinct can take over to consider this "wounded animal" as a food source, and that's how bites happen.
Even if the family pet has never bitten or attacked, it can all of a sudden become very dangerous to newborns. As horrible as it sounds, please do consider that dogs are driven by their instincts and will bite and shake a baby as if they would do with a prey. If you already have a dog in the house, please be alerted that aggressive behavior between the dogs may occur which may cause even more problems.
The more the baby then cries the more aggressive the animal will become. Tragedies like this happen frequently and often end with the death of the infant and the dog being euthanized. At the very best, if the toddler or newborn survives, excessive plastic surgery is needed. One basic training you should never forget is to immediately train to recall your dog.
Toddlers that move very low to the ground and crawl on the floor/carpet are not to be left unattended with a dog. Because toddlers can't "tower" above the animal, it will consider the small child ranking beneath it. Dogs live in packs, and "ranking" is natural to them. Someone who is taller than the animal and can "tower" over him, will certainly rank higher than a crawling toddler that is "smaller/lower" than the dog.
More dominant dogs may view children or even other adults as rivals and try to establish a higher "ranking" for themselves. Try to suppress this behavior already at an early age by firmly discouraging it. Teach the dog that all humans are to be considered superior in rank to the animal. If the animal demonstrates problems, read this post and learn what to do!
Screaming and playing kids can also trigger aggressiveness and prey-behavior in the dog. The same applies to rough playing with the animal. If your child/children play rough with the dog, the animal will most likely respond more aggressive and use his teeth. This rough play can be compared to dogs playing with their littermates or other canines. Chained dogs are generally more aggressive, as are many dogs that get startled or are sick or injured.
About 400,000 children are bitten by a dog yearly and need medical attention. Dog bites are dangerous because compared to a cut or other wounds, the bitten area is 15 times more likely to become infected. In 40% of the cases the bite is not just a "scratch on the skin", it involves tearing skin, muscle and other tissues. Plastic surgeons are doing an incredible job and have very advanced techniques to make scars appear less pronounced or even disappear. Nevertheless, the scars inside a child that has been bitten by a dog will be felt for the rest of their lives.
Please teach your children how to treat a dog, how to play with it, to respect the animal, and not to startle or torture him. And don't let small children and dogs unattended at any time. Most dog bites/attacks occur by family dogs, dogs that belong to a relative, a neighbor, not by stray animals. Teach your children that a dog is not a toy but an animal with instincts!
Make sure your dog (ANY size, from mini to large!) is properly trained and, depending on age, get your children involved in these training sessions. Let them watch and learn! I hope all will go well with your new dog and that your Christmas will be a Very Happy Christmas!!!


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Exactly where in the event you buy a website name through is actually solely your personal choice. Even though variations within website name administration amenities tend to be couple of throughout various companies, the actual prices differs significantly. There are numerous elements (besides competition) that bring about this particular difference within prices. Understanding of these types of elements is essential within impacting on your final decision within how you can as well as through where you can purchase domains. Cost savings may vary from several bucks in order to actually $50 for each website name. This short article clarifies the reason why domains can be found from this type of inexpensive cost as well as the reason why occasionally this perhaps a good false impression in order to trick the client.
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The majority of website name companies provide a inexpensive cost with regard to website name registrations in order to appeal new clients for their support. Nevertheless, numerous companies deceive individuals in to purchasing from their store through exhibiting an incredibly low cost with regard to enrollment. They don't point out exactly what the cost with regard to renewals is going to be. Renewals can be found in the regular cost that the majority of companies provide, that will certainly end up being higher compared to the buying price of the very first 12 months enrollment. The majority of clients don't browse the small print during the time of enrollment as well as adhere to the cost carrot to the companies internet. This is sometimes a reason clients tend to be thrilled during the time of signing up the brand new site however tend to be discouraged the following 12 months whenever conclusion dawns on all of them. The clear web host may obviously show how the site prices increases in the following 12 months onwards, since the provide or even prices is just relevant upon clean registrations.
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A few web sites provide cut-throat prices with regard to Site Registrations, Renewals as well as Exchanges. This really is perhaps because of the fact they on their own get a large re-seller low cost through site registrars as well as can spread the actual low cost for their clients. Registrars don't generally market domain names towards the consumer inside a large method. Their own list prices is extremely higher as well as frustrating with regard to list customers. The simplest way to allow them to obtain clients would be to change the responsibility associated with client purchase about the resellers. The actual motivation directed at resellers is actually in proportion towards the annual obligations from the resellers. Therefore should you try to evaluate the reseller's cost along with the buying price of exactly the same registrar, it will likely be such as evaluating celery as well as grapefruits we. at the. they're uncomparable.
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Numerous serves provide large discount rates upon website name prices should you pack the website name using their web hosting deals. Should you quit to maintain their own additional services or products, your own site that is bundled up along with it will likely be restored from their own normal or even regular prices. The price of the conventional or even normal prices perhaps higher compared to reduced prices, however it is actually organic how the providers that provide this kind of discount rates may certainly provide a motivation to advertise their own services or products. Should you actually need the actual bundled up item, after that it might be smart to consider the actual bundle, however, many customers frequently purchase the pack simply due to the cost false impression that they're obtaining the website name free of charge. This isn't the situation, particularly because of the fact which the price of the actual website name has additionally already been factored in to the buying price of the actual pack. Likewise it'll provide a great viewpoint how a lot the main item should certainly price.