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Susan works is a Vice-President & Wealth Advisor and holds the Personal Financial Planner (PFP) designation. After graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mount Allison University, she joined RBC and has enjoyed a 27 year career including positions as Manager of Royal Trust, and Manager of Financial Planning. Susan believes a customized investment strategy works best and should be based on an individual's specific need for capital growth, investment income and capital preservation, as well as their retirement income needs and existing tax situations. Through her professionally managed portfolios, risk is managed via a strategic diversification of asset classes between equities, fixed income and cash. Committed to a personal approach to wealth management, Susan begins with an in-depth discovery of each client's current situation, future goals and upcoming milestones. A firm believer in the financial planning process, her process includes an insurance analysis and estate planning through her extended team of specialists. Susan has two children, and is an active volunteer for Lakeview Manor Nursing Home and The Friends of the Moncton Hospital. She loves the outdoors, spends winters skiing at Poley Mountain, and summers on the tennis court and her bicycle. She enjoys yoga and travel.
Tammy has 21 years of experience in the investment and financial services industry, including roles in insurance and at a full-service brokerage firm. She has completed the Canadian Securities Course and the Conduct and Practices Handbook course. Tammy plays a key role on the team, helping clients with administrative inquiries, scheduling client meetings and managing the administrative side of the business. She is often the first point of contact, and client engagement and communications are her main priorities. Married with two sons, Tammy loves the outdoors, running, skiing and canoeing. She is bilingual in French and English.
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yes, yes using up some of the frozen goods and dry staples such as wheat meal, steel cut oats, brown rice, lentils..and then a few canned goods, but i had several winter squashes in the basement, so had to uses these, and they were large..and carrots also..
then came a neighbor with a large tub of deer parts and ham shanks and whatever else did not fit in his freezer. meat saw in hand and fillet knife at ready, i donned my trusty apron, put on the butcher block and went to business on the free game. 't'is hunting season in the land.
needless to say that my plan to become full fledged vegetarian has been temporarily postponed…winter protein is reduced to stew meat packages and ground venison for chili and soup. gratefully so.
have avoided all temptation by walking away from shops, turning pages of adverts on library mags, and focusing on the few green blogs which i faithfully read for inspiration maintenance.
Mrs. Green! You're doing GREAT!! I'm soooo proud of you!
I've bought take-out and beer. (Sigh.) And it's barely half way through the very first month!!
I was SUPER impressed with you writing and asking for an interview instead. Genius!!
P.S. Matt thinks food shouldn't count in the need vs want plan. Though take-out isn't a "need" in my book, Matt says it's still food and should count as a need. Hmm….we need a middle man on this one!!! 🙂
I'm going to have to write a post up about how we're doing so far. I'll add in a link to this post because it's so interesting! Keep up the good work, woman! I am so proud.
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Yes, the problem with the RI budget problems and we do have those, are the pensioners and poor children. That's what Sen. Stephen Alves, Senate finance chair, URI Professor Maureen Moakley, and RI rich kid and corp. executive John Hazen White, Jr. (wearing all his gold "bling" to make sure we know he's "cool" and he's rich) said this morning on PBS' "Lively Experiment".
Imagine. These people all think it is a hard thing to do, that is cutting services and pensions of RI's neediest, but they are advocating, indeed proposed, that we do it. Hazen White was beside himself praising Carcieri and the Democratic legislature coming together to finally screw children and pensioners and balancing the budget on their backs rather than raise taxes...on corporations.
Even Alves noted that there are HUNDREDS of RI corporations making profits of over $10M per year who pay the minimum tax of $500.00. Yet these people pass laws (Alves) or support passing laws (Moakley, Layman, Hazen White of Tacky, Inc.) that will reduce pensions for pensioners and cut THOUSANDS of poor children from the RI Ritecare (health insurance) roles.
RI constituencies, voters, unions, Hispanics, academics (Hazen White flaunts his money by donating to places like URI), public workers, and firefighters and policemen ( whom this group of VERY UNREPRESENTATIVE Rhode Islanders attack unmercifully as underserving of pensions and health care they negotiated in good faith with the state and or cities and towns) should come out in force to make sure they are all "thanked" for their concern about our first defenders and Rhode Island's working classes and the poorest of our children.
What is wrong with these people? Heartless ... what is government for anyway, if not to help those in need...and yet they support corporations and the state's wealthiest by cutting their taxes and adding to the burdens of our citizens...who actually work for a living.


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What with a recent hype-up of their (as of this writing) upcoming album Blood For the Master, and my having tickets to see them play on Feb. 6, I revisited Goatwhore's previous LP, Carving Out the Eyes of God, playing it on tank-like, if outdated speakers, at jet-engine volume.*
At its best, in other words.
"Apocalyptic Havoc" the lead single (see below) opens with all-out Venom/Celtic Frost 32nd notes, updated for this year (which actually is pretty good synopsis of the entire album), and contains the immortal line "Who needs a God, when you've got Satan?!"
"The All-Destroying," next, is blastbeats then D-beats then flat-out downbeats and contines the tradition thusfar of grimly-satisfied-nodding-to-riffs, rather than out-and-out funky jams… and I love every time singer Ben Falgoust says "Ooooh!" à la Tom G. Warrior.
"Carving out the eyes of God," has a cool, melodic blastbeaten chorus (and is pretty hummable), and on the right sterio/headphones, the triplet bass drum patterns are Alex Van Halen on "Hot For Teacher" cool.
"Shadow of a Living Knife," in its middle section fires up a great triplet-bass-drum blast beat and segues into a sweet semi-sweep-picked solo… "Provoking the Ritual of Death" opens with tribal drums and sludge riffs before its blastbeaten percussion returns… "In Legions, I am Wars of Wrath," with its refrain of LIES! is fucking Epic… "Reckoning of the Soul Made Godless" slows down and rocks out in 4/4, "Razor Flesh Devoured" is pure fury, blastbeat to D-beat to-blastbeat, ad infinitum, wherein it fades out (officially ending the album), although…
"To Mourn and Wander Forever Through Forgotten Doorways," a bonus track, comes up next, ominous minor-chorded arpeggios leading to a spoken-word invocation, easily the moodiest track here, not unlike "Lucifer" from Behemoth's Evangelion. I can see why it wasn't on the official LP, but it probably should've been: it's might've worked well in the middle of the released album, as a high-velocity-tempo breather….
The entire album is perfect "blackened death metal," i.e., the guitars are detuned (i.e., bass-y as hell) and there are as many hyper-kinetic D-beats as there are blast beats, but the lyrics and imagery is occult/Satanic.
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Beginning with the 2017 tax year, three new deductions related to transportation facilities can be claimed. These deductions are: Water Port Facility or Airport Cargo, (Section 143.2105, RSMo), International Trade Facility Cargo (Section 143.2110, RSMo), and Capital Investment in International Trade Facilities (Section 143.2115, RSMo).
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Subtraction (HB 2030-2016 session)
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- Standard deduction for the following statuses increased to:
- Single - $6,350
- Married filing combined - $12,700
- Married filing separate - $6,350
- Head of household - $9,350
- Qualified widow(er) - $12,700
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- Married filing combined or qualifying widow(er) - $313,800
- Head of household - $287,650
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Justin Bieber won a BRIT award!!!
OMG gooood news!!! Justin has won a BRIT award. Congrats Justin!!! <33 If it wasn't for all his great fans(including me) for voting a trillion times I dont think he would be in that position. When his named got called you could see it in his faced that he was just so surprised and happy and also blessed to be where he is today. I also have to say that Justin..... you look HOT in leather!!! LOL :D Wht did you think???
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Saying farewell to a happy home
Deborah Schmidt's Lakeview property was built c. 1830 for George W. Mead, Sr., as a country home for his brood. Schmidt spent 20 years updating the structures and tending to the land.
"I was living in Amsterdam 20 years ago, and while back here visiting a friend in Bedford, I saw an ad for this place in the real estate office window," says Deborah Schmidt. "I realized I had just enough time to see it before I headed back to the airport, so I called the agent, and we walked around the place. It needed a lot of work, but the property was beautiful, and I just thought, 'I could do that.' I'm always that way; I see the potential in everything."
Schmidt, a designer and single mother to eight-year-old Julian, returned briefly to Amsterdam where she had lived and worked for three years with her first husband, artist Eric Staller. She negotiated the sale of this historic Waccabuc property while abroad and didn't see it again until the closing.
Built circa 1860 by George W. Mead, Sr., the nearly six-acre property, known as "Lakeview," included the 2,300-square-foot main house, a two-story guesthouse, and a dilapidated pole barn. Schmidt and her son settled in on the first and second floors of the main house, as the third floor was not yet habitable. They slowly fixed what they could. "It's been 20 years of tiny fixes," the designer says.
As she repaired the old house, Schmidt, who early in her career designed interiors for architect Edward Larabee Barnes, infused a modern sensibility into its décor. "The juxtaposition of old and new always interests me in design. After living in a 1500s canal house in Amsterdam, this old place felt like a fit," she says. "I love mixing modern, which is super comfortable, with small spaces from the 1800s." Once she made her mark indoors, she then turned her attention to the lush, overgrown property.
Having lived in urban settings for most of her adult life, Schmidt was a novice in the garden. When she started, she planted scores of Dutch tulip bulbs and learned quickly about the perils of sharing her outdoor canvas with hungry deer. She responded by teaching herself about deer-resistant plants which resulted in a fabulous perennial garden. Eventually, she installed deer fencing to expand her planting options and then added an extensive vegetable garden, privet hedge, and later grape vines, too, with which she and her second husband, Cal Crary, made Lakeview Vineyards wine.
Ten years in, she decided to address the biggest project: rehabilitating the barn. "The wood siding was falling apart, there were openings in walls where windows had once been, but I wanted a work space, and the barn offered the potential for high ceilings and lots of light." The renovation took nearly two years, but it was well worth the wait.
After two decades at Lakeview and despite her love of the "the whole package," Schmidt recently decided it was time to downsize. The property sold to a young couple from New York who will undoubtedly write a new chapter for this storied home and land. Just weeks before the closing, we took a final tour with Schmidt.
Inside the automated gates, a gravel drive leads first to Lakeview's main house, known among the 19th-century Meads as "the incubator." An undated cupola tower addition to the original structure houses the present-day main entrance. Inside, a doorway leads to the dining room and kitchen, and a three-foot-long Princess telephone sits at the base of a staircase that rises to the second floor. The dining room features vintage geometric floor tiles and picture windows that frame the vistas of meadows to the west and the south. Schmidt completely updated the kitchen which now boasts custom cabinetry, Japanese granite counters, and balcony doors to the terrace.
The second-floor living room and library showcase Schmidt's love of blending old with new. While the walls are white, the woodwork is a warmer shade. Schmidt explains, "InAmsterdam, they painted the woodwork in old houses with oil paint, and the oil would yellow over time. So I did white walls here with a linen white trim to mimic that look." With the neutral walls as a backdrop, the designer then added a whimsically colorful décor, including one of Staller's photographs and a sculpture by Tulio DeSantis. The cozy library is replete with vintage millwork—beading, columns, and bookshelves—and punctuated with colorful art, as well.
Schmidt comes from a creative family. Her brother, Daniel Schmidt, is a stained-glass artist (his work is installed at Lakeview as both panels and lighting) and another brother, Phillip Schmidt, is a woodworker who has crafted custom doors not only for his sister, but also for her clients. His handiwork can be found in all the home's exterior doorways, including the original front entrance that faces Chapel Road. Beside this door, a narrow flight of stairs leads to the third floor where two bedroom suites overlook the gardens, meadows, and Lake Waccabuc.
Just a few feet from the main house is a charming two-bedroom guesthouse that Schmidt renovated to host family and friends, and at the base of the driveway is the barn. "Everything is new in here except the framing—even that was greatly repaired," Schmidt explains as she slides open wooden barn doors to reveal a pair of glass doors. Inside, original overhead beams mix seamlessly with replacements that were added to complete the graphic in the family room that doubles as overflow party space. There are two light-filled work spaces where Schmidt displays photos of the site-specific installations she created with Staller as well as her own sculptures and three-dimensional works of art.
Downstairs, the old horse stalls were repurposed as a kitchen that overlooks the sunken gym (featuring a teak hot tub) and leads to a covered terrace. As she steps outside, Schmidt notes that among the many things she will miss about Lakeview are the hot tub, the outdoor shower, the vegetable garden, and the house, as a whole—"I've touched and painted every wall myself." And then she points west, "I'll also miss this view," she says. "The seasons change, and from here I can watch them endlessly."


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In October 2003, Jason and Karen had their daughter, Allie. Jack and I loved her like she was our own. We were lovingly named Uncle Jack and Aunt Carrie. And in December 2004, Jack and Jason graduated from Southeastern. For a bit we thought that God might actually be calling Jack and Jason to the same church in Florida- FBC Orange City. While we were in seminary, Jack and I were members of Faith Baptist Church where Jack taught a young married Sunday school class. James and Shana Hilton were members of this class and our good friends. James finished his PHD at Southeastern and went to pastor FBC Orange City in 2003. When Jack and Jason graduated we thought we might all end up at FBC, but God had other plans and Jack and I went to Georgia.
In the 8 years since then, we've seen the Wilsons a handful of times- once we visited them in Florida (2005) when I was pregnant with Caleb and their twins, Anna and Ethan, had just been born, then once when they were in South Carolina visiting Karen's family- July 2006
Anna, Caleb, Ethan
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Ethan, Caleb, Anna
And then in January 2010 when they were in town again for Passion. This time they just had their youngest, Abby, with them, who was born one day before Josiah- August 26, 2009.
Josiah and Abby
Those were really quick visits, and we were so looking forward to seeing them for an extended time in Florida. In the 8 years since Seminary, Allie has been joined by a combined 8 children- Anna and Ethan in 2005, Caleb in 2006, Noah and Eli in 2008, Abby and Josiah in 2009 and Eden in 2011. That's right- together we have 9 children between us. We were so excited to get them together.
Friday night we spent the night at the Wilsons. The kids hit it off and had a great time playing together. We enjoyed a night of worship at their church and then after the kids went to bed, the four of us enjoyed a steak dinner and stayed up until 1:00 am talking. It was so great the ease with which we talked, even after all these years. It really felt like nothing has changed and we still live next door. I was overwhelmed during the church service by the goodness and grace of God to have blessed us with such friends and allowed us to be together again.
All 9 kids eating pizza before church. Clockwise starting with Eden in the highchair- Eden, Anna, Allie, Josiah, Noah, Caleb, Ethan, Abby, Eli
All the kids in their pj's on Saturday morning
We visited other friends on Saturday (another post on that later) and then Sunday went back to FBC Orange City for church. We got to be led in worship by Jason and sit under our friend James' preaching. It was seriously awesome. We tried to get a group picture after church- ever tried to get a picture with 9 kids?!? Nearly impossible.
Noah, Josiah, Caleb, Allie, Ethan, Anna (missing Eli and Abby who were in Sunday School and Eden who did not want to cooperate!)
And then after church we all went back to the Hilton's house for lunch- a smoked pork boston butt, so delicious. In the 9 years since they left Southeastern, James and Shana have had 4 children- Josiah in 2004, twins Gracelyn and Hailyn in 2006, and Ansley in 2009. Yes, if you are keeping count, on Sunday there were 13 children between the three families. The kids had so much fun playing and we loved, loved, loved visiting all afternoon with such sweet friends.
All the kids, except Eden, watching a movie
Jack, James and Jason
It was such a wonderful refreshing time. I don't know when we'll do it again- maybe every Fall Break?!?!- but I do know we are not going to let it be so long again.


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let-method. In general, current Sagittarius adds generic method globally even whenever it's defined. So if the
load loads a script with
define-method then the generic method is added to the global binding. Thus the effect is globally done even though it's loaded in child thread.
This is not a good behaviour I believe so I've changed it. Current head has following behaviour;
- If a method is defined in main thread - adds method globally
- If a method is defined during importing a library - ditto
- If a method is defined in child thread and not library importing period - adds thread local storage.
- Generic functions are inherited from parent thread but child thread can't contaminate parent.
remove-method and
compute-methods. There are slight change of slot accessor of generic function as well but this is trivial.
The change of
compute-methods is not a big one. It now just considers generic methods of current thread. Like I mentioned above, generic methods are located two places, one is generic function's methods slot and the other one is thread local storage. Thus
compute-methods needs to get all methods both the slot and storage.
add-method and
remove-method are a bit more tricky. First it needs to detect whether or not it's running on main thread or during library importing period. If the definition is executed on that term then it adds the methods to generic function's slot. If not, then it adds thread local storage with some more information. (currently maximum required argument number.)
Now following piece of code runs as I expected.
(import (rnrs) (clos user) (srfi :1) (srfi :18) (srfi :26)) (define-generic local) (define (thunk) (thread-sleep! 1) (let-method ((local (a b c) (print a b c))) (thread-sleep! 1) (local 1 2 3)) (local "a" "b" "c")) (let ((ts (map thread-start! (map (cut make-thread thunk <>) (iota 10))))) (for-each thread-join! ts)) ;; may prints some of the value ;; then raises an error.The solution itself might be a bit ugly (treating generic function specially) but behaving properly is more important.


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Welcome to an exciting new season of Arts On Air.
Many changes are underway as the UBC School of Journalism partners with the Faculty of Arts to produce the show. Ira Nadel will remain the show's host. However, journalism students Nicole Gibillini and Linda Givetash will be joining on as producers to fine-tune the final product.
As the show returns to the airwaves, expect a more diverse range of guests including students within the Faculty of Arts. The format of the show will also change week to week from the typical one-on-one interview to include more voices in each episode.
As new elements of the show are released in the coming weeks, we look forward to hearing feedback from out listeners along the way. Nicole and Linda will be manning the show's new and improved online presence to better connect and collaborate with listeners.
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Spring is in the air (not really, it is going to snow tonight) and I'm dressed to enjoy the 40 degree sunshine (We'll take what we can get).
Panther made such beautiful clothes in the 70's. Of all the long-gone brands, I miss them the most as I could count on the sizes to run true, and the fit to be flattering.
Outfit Particulars:
JC Penny jacket, .98 cents Thrift World
Panther floral cotton skirt .99 cents Goodwill
Red cinnabar bracelet-Hand-Me-Ups Store
Enamel Floral Pin-Hand-Me-Ups Store
Earrings-Thrift America
Black 3/4 sleeve top K-Mart
Tapestry handbag (70's I think) Hand-Me-Ups Store
Now for the real excitement of my day-there's a live bat trapped in my cupboard. For the bat's sake, he'd better not be dropping guano all over my vintage clothing, but we have someone assessing the situation as I type. The bats are protected at certain seasons, and you're not just allowed to dispose of them. For reals, people. It depends on what sort of bat you have, and some bats are bigger than others and some bat's mothers are bigger than others...
Goddamnit, there's a bat in my cupboard.
Well, let's distract ourselves with some pictures of my two-day old pin-curl set. Still looking pretty good if I say so myself.
Here's a peek at Batman:
Poor Danny, he was sitting in the room, reading Moby Dick, minding his own business when he saw what he described as a "pipecleaner" moving in the crack. That was the wing, I guess. He's been taking a pretty strong steroid medication for asthma problems, and he said he was worried it might be causing him to hallucinate. The packet insert did have a warning about, "Frank Psychosis", so it wasn't impossible. But no, he's still got his marbles, there is indeed a bat. Imagine that!
I guess now we wait for the humane society people to show up. The office is only a few blocks from here, but I guess in a city full of feral dogs, an out-of-season bat isn't a priority.
At least life isn't dull!


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Temperature for August 1963
In August 1963 the average high temperature in Lake Charles, LA was 91.4°F, and this was 0.5°F cooler than the average of 91.8°F. The hottest day in August 1963 was 27 August when the temperature reached 95.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in August is 73.9°F and in 1963 the average overnight temperature was 0.7°F warmer at 74.6°F.


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Here's one thing that was really weird - absolutely no women in the bar we visited. Not guests, not servers, no where.
I learned that this is changing, but generally women do not go out on a Friday night, it is just not socially acceptable. So while women can hold high positions in business, and be very respected, they generally go home after work.
You learn something new every day. But more so when you visit a different culture - I highly suggest you try it.


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I did it. I committed. I'm going back to school (woah).
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the fancy dinners, countless friends and trips around the country that advertising has so kindly afforded me… but I'm not inspired. I can't say that I don't enjoy advertising. I do. And I love production, but I simply need more meaning in life. It's enjoyable to push an idea into fruition with major companies backing the agency's creative, but the content? Well, that area has much to be argued.
Some people would kill for my job. They love it. Eat it. Breathe it. Soak it up and f-ing bathe in it. But me? Naw. I don't think that selling companies that I don't believe in is getting me very far on the karmic scale. I need something greater. I'm craving some depth in my life, and you better believe I'm going to get out there and grab it.
I've decided to no longer sit in the golden handcuffs (good money, cool job, amazing people) without doing something for the world at large. I'm going back to school at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition to become a Certified Health Coach. Now, let's not stop there. Yes, this will afford me the chance to work with individuals and gently coach them into realizing their fullest potential (by examining their relationships, career, physical exercise, spirituality and foods they put in their body), but I will also be launching a new venture (!!!) in hopes to bring a healthier, happier, more balanced life to people around the world (while giving back to charity - check out dem apples). More to come on this business later. I can't spill all my healthy beans at once.
I'll be documenting the journey here as I coach myself to jump off the hi-dive of life. Wish me luck.


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The French Riviera is an intoxicating mix of sun, glistening blue water, romance, fast cars and beautiful people wearing oversized sunglasses and stylish clothing straight from the world's greatest designers.
Nice, Monaco, St. Tropez, Cannes, Villefranche-sur-Mer – the names trip off the tongue with hints of sun, money, romance and glamour. These are the cities that shine along the south of France along the Mediterranean Sea, where the rich go to play and we commoners go to observe.
But the beautiful French Riviera isn't just for the wealthy, even if tiny Monaco is filled with more sports cars and yachts than should be possible for this 0.75-square-mile principality.
It all started for the Cote d'Azur in the 1800s when English and Russian tourists flocked to this stretch of pebbly coastline where the foothills of the Alps lazily give way to the sea. The beautiful Promenade des Anglais stretches four miles along Nice's seafront, named from the days when wealthy British tourists filled this grand stretch of seaside. Today, Nice's promenade is filled with joggers, cyclists and strollers enjoying gentle breezes wafting in from the beautiful blue seas below. Sound like a tourism ad? Nice doesn't need much to sell its beauty.
But there's much more to Nice than a beautiful seaside and promenade. We only spent 24 hours there on our way driving east from Provence to Cinque Terre and the Italian Rivera. We strolled part of the promenade, spent a couple of hours lounging on the pebble-covered beach and enjoyed the alleys of Vieux Nice, the charming old part of the city.
Nice is much more than a beautiful seaside town. In fact, it's France's fifth-largest city and a true headache with a car. Of course on this Mediterranean road trip, a car was a necessity so I just dealt with that headache.
Nice sits at the heart of the Riviera but there is an abundance of villages and small towns that dot the seaside. If, like us, you only have a couple of days, spend it in Nice with a quick jaunt to Monaco. This whole region is an art lover's dream; it once was home to artists such as Matisse, Renoir, Chagall and Picasso. Nice has museums dedicated to Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall, and visiting at least one is a must.
The region's exquisite food is in nearby Provence, but the Riviera blends some of those same tastes with touches of seafood and hints of nearby Italian cuisine.
We only had a few hours to spare, but as we drove toward Italy on our second day we did drop down into Monaco for unmatched views of the Mediterranean. We visited the land of Princess Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier just a couple of weeks after the Grand Prix de Monaco sends F-1 cars screaming around the tight turns of the city's streets.
I drove some of those sharp turns near the grand casino of Monte Carlo, and gazed out at the ultra-luxury yachts at the harbor. Monaco is a playground, one that is for the world's elite who sit at a much higher income bracket than my own, but one worth seeing all the same.
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There is no justifiable reason to support illegal immigrants by giving them licenses or welfare or free schooling and free medical when we have needy families, job seekers and public institutions that need the money. Legal California residents, U.S. citizens and taxpayers should have the right to have their tax dollars spent on their needs, NOT the needs of illegals.
The solution? Round up all the illegals, put them on busses and drop them off at the door of Mexico's do-nothing president, Vincente Fox!
I can't take pity on illegals. They are diluting our way of life, taking money and services away from U.S. citizens, while contributing very little to the quality of life in California. If illegals can't make the attempt to obtain U.S. residency and citizenship by legal means, then they should be sent back home.
And since our lawmakers are lazy asses, and refuse to deal with the growing illegal immigration problem, citizens, once again, have to take matters into their own hands.
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I was in Vienna for 2 days, the end of March and the first of April, and it was a pity I could not really give much to look around and to enjoy as tourist. Little as I could, I tried my best. Generally, the city center was amazing. The buildings were so much different from other cities I have seen. I mean, the uniqueness, the solid structures and looks of the building all over the center and the nearby areas were really something that struck me.
About the food, nothingmuch to say. I don't know what's the traditional Wien food so no comment here. But mylunch wasnot good enough... the lunch from the Botschaft in the photo.
The delicacy, the choco-filled-layered mozartskugeln (mozart's bullets)is really yummy. Below are some of the personalphotos with colleagues and the city.
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A Few Vienna, Austria Experience: City, Colleagues, Food, Delicacies
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Getting a bit obsessed with moose/mooses. I did one of those which spirit animal are you quizzes and I got a moose and I've been researching them since.
They're amazing, I want to see one irl in the wild.
Are there any good documentaries on them?
This video is interesting, I think it's quite sad and a bit horrible to imagine but I can sort of see why the guy is like OMG COOLEST THING EVA.
what is my spirit animal?
You got: The Bear
The Great Bear is found on nearly every continent, in nearly every color. The magic of the Bear is extremely powerful and healing for others. Like the Bear, you have limitless strength. You are a guide for others on the river of life.
what state did you pick?
I picked California, no idea how I ended up with moose
alaska. was torn between that and new york.
probs would have got a very different animal.
nope! still a bear
guess it really is my spirit animal. used to have a bear as my profile pic too.
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haven't see it
what happens with a moose?
i saw one when i was in canada in september. seeing one in the flesh is quite rare.
it was on the side of the road in Ontario:
and this is the wee lake type thing she was in
Whenever I see the deer wild animals sign on the motorway I get really excited. In Florida they don't have a deer in the sign they have an alligator, which was exciting in the daytime but a bit sinister at night.
Did it stick around for a bit? They're really funky looking things
What *whatever* are you quizes
do them while you can.
What underwear are you?
Why, I'm y-fronts!?!?!?!?!?!
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There used to be one that lived on the uninhabited side of the mountain
that I used to teach snowboarding on in Canada. Formidable things to see. Only ever really got to see it from the ski lift. Massive thing.
Yeah, I can just imagine it's one of those animals where you'd be like,
jeez look at the size of it! I saw a buffalo in a zoo once and couldn't believe how big it wasElthamsmateOwen this'd this
they're pretty big, eh
avoided this thread for a while, thought it was gonna be a boring thread about mooses
then it got some replies so clicked on it ("maybe moose is now a name for some sort of the drugs?" I thought) but no
It's about mooses.
See ya later!
did you watch the video?
should i?
I think you should
Anyway aren't you moving to Canada? I can't believe your turning your nose up at moose when you're moving to Canada
when he was like 'omg what's this?!'
I though he was going to find a whole moose skeleton under the ground attached to the antlers, like it had been buried in a snow storm or something
Saw one when driving through Algonquin in Ontario.
It crossed the road about 100m ahead of us then stood by the side for a while. There were a few cars around, everyone pulled over and just got out and gawped. It was huge. Like the biggest cow you've ever seen, plus an enormous set of antlers. They're funny things, kind of majestic and clumsy at the same time.
Bill Bryson wrote a great thing about moose:
dunno why but "like the biggest cow you've ever seen" made me laugh quite loud
that's great, love Bill Bryson, 'Neither Here Nor There' got me through some really manky hostel experiences
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the plural of moose should be meese
meese are alright.


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On my son's last day of school his teacher had just received her caterpillars and of course could not use them in the class room. She asked if we would like to take them home and hatch them into butterfly's so to speak. I will have another layout later with photos of the process. We had so much fun watching and talking about the different stages butterfly's go through. And of course came the day of release. This last butterfly needed a little more time to prepare for flight and sat on my son's finger for 20 minutes. He was so happy.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Pawleny is formally endorsing fellow Republican Tom Emmer for governor, while taking a swipe at Independence Party candidate Tom Horner.
In a statement released Sunday, Pawlenty says he has known Horner for 30 years and he's a decent man, but Pawlenty says Horner's proposals would take the state in the wrong direction.
Horner is a former Republican strategist. A key piece of his plan for handling an expected $5.8 billion budget deficit is tacking the sales tax on more items.
Pawlenty says any Republican who votes for Horner is not only helping Democrat Mark Dayton, but casting a vote to undo the tax and spending cuts Pawlenty championed.
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The MTA needs to get their act together. Two weeks ago approximately 15 students including myself were stranded by the MTA while waiting for the bus after attending late night classes at CSULA. We were waiting for the Bus at the Freeway station. The highway maintenance crews erected barriers and cut off the freeway going into downtown Los Angeles. This was at 10:10pm. We students some of whom are OSD students were forced to hike across the freeway to Ramona Boulevard and wait for MTA Bus #70 to ride into downtown. This is total lack of consideration for students who rely on public transportation. Many OSD students rely on public transportation.
On more than one occassion the elevator connecting the station to the freeway bridge has been out of order. This happens on rainy days especially. The only alternative to getting to the bridge to walk over the freeway is about four flights of stairs. This is a strenous walk. Some students who are senior citizens and OSD students are put at an extreme disadvantage by this. I have witnessed more than one elderly MTA passenger grasping their heart after walking up the stairs. I am afraid it will take a fatal heart attack by a passenger of some other type of serious mishap to get the MTA to improve their service to students at CSULA. The MTA needs to get their act together.
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Paul declared this truth in delivering solemn orders to Timothy (1 Tim. 6:6), his young protégé in service of God's great Moral Mercy Mission.
He explains why in verses 7 and 8, 'For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.' It is because this is an easily forgotten truism that we need to be reminded of it. All the comforts that we have around us, whether positive or positively harmful, must never be craved at the expense of lasting moral values, commitment and integrity.
Consider family, friends, recreation and resources. All of these can yield great benefits in our lives, but consider also the vast harm caused by those who crave them, or through them to be relieved of emotional deprivation, but at the cost of their morals. Once abdicated, the steady decline continues with the underlying assumption that the mutually agreed social norms of expected conduct (common decencies) do not impose a responsibility to reciprocate. What begins to matter most is cultivating an environment of social, material and emotional insulation: comfort that is geared towards one's individual satisfaction above all else. Paul is saying, once the means of basic food and clothing are available, that should be enough to keep at bay the thought of compromising integrity to gain 'creature comforts'.
None of the advancements accrued in this life are inherent to the human condition. We enter and leave life without them. Even so, most of us are hard pressed to understand why we shouldn't exploit and accumulate them to our maximum personal advantage. As the passage indicates, Paul's response is that maximum personal advantage involves greed. It's one thing to advance yourself and quite another to do so in a manner that carelessly deprives others. Rightly, many people work hard to improve their professional and social prospects. Paul did NOT say that 'godliness with destitution is great gain'. There is no virtue in deprivation per se. However, hardship experienced in furtherance of godliness is different from mere deprivation.
Achieving godliness involves the aim to be fashioned in the likeness of God, i.e. god-likeness: those traits that we can discern of God from our understanding of nature itself. His generosity, willingness to alleviate hardship and extend providence in spite of provocation are all discernible traits that we can imitate. In contrast, ungodliness is often manifested in propelling cruelty, slander and wrathful contempt towards those who might thwart our ambition to end our deprivations at all cost. Making other lives and emotions expendable in pursuit of our ambitions begins the dangerous process of acquiring a single-minded indifference, thereby replacing compassion and generosity with greed. We begin to lose the moral stamp of God: the defining traits of His character. We begin to justify and plan compromises with selfishness at the expense of others. In one phrase, describing the premeditated practice of withholding compassion and understanding in order to further our own ends: we become wicked.
Wickedness can also cause us to destroy lives and reputations in an attempt to absolve our greed. It becomes a means of silencing critics who challenge our efforts to plunder, dismiss and misappropriate the rights of others (including God) to ourselves. All of us have participated in this to some degree. Yet, it matters that we can eventually point the accusing finger at ourselves for once and admit the wrong we cause to others, pleading to God, 'Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us' (Matt. 6:12)
As an alternative to greed, we can find a contentment that limits our desires to the sort of fair-minded choices that maintain our integrity. This may involve a measure of emotional restraint and physical discomfort, but the consistent commitment to integrity will yield a reward from God to our consciences and in the resurrection.
As Paul said, 'To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honour and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.' (Romans 2:7,8). It's not that the former are better in themselves. they may make terrible mistakes, as King David did. Yet they allowed themselves to be persistently challenged to moral greatness as measured by God's approval, whereas the self-seeking aim to clear nothing higher than the relatively moderate bar of mainstream social esteem, what the bible calls, 'respect of persons'.
So, for this life alone, we may indeed enjoy short-sighted privileges that harm other lives, near and far, lives that we deem to have a lesser worth than our own. Alternatively, we can open the grasping hand to those who thwart our progress and share kindness, ending the mad grab for personal gain, whether material, social, or emotional.
Beyond death, God will reward both remorseless harm and repentant generosity, but in very different ways.


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Your PAII is actively advocating now for YOU and your business.
In case you didn't know, Expedia (which also owns, Hotels.Com, Travelocity, Hotwire.Com, and Trivago.Com) is trying to merge with Orbitz.Com (which also owns (CheapTickets.Com). This could create a virtual monopoly (the only other major OTA Player would be Priceline - which owns Kayak.Com and Bookings.Com), and they could begin charging almost whatever commission they want. PAII believes that such a merger could be harmful to many B&Bs.
YOUR PAII, in coordination with the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AH&LA), has sent letters to the Department of Justice and several Congressman, requesting they block such a merger.
You can help stop this merger. Write your Representative and/or Senator and DOJ and tell them to block the merger. AND sign/send a letter to AH&LA for their campaign: email@example.com . You can use our letter as an example:
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The Honorable Loretta Lynch
U.S. Department of Justice
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Washington, D.C. 20530
The Honorable William J. Baer
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Attorney General Lynch and Assistant Attorney General Baer,
As a member of the Professional Association of Innkeepers International (PAII), which represents thousands of Bed and Breakfast/Inns (small businesses) serving millions of consumers around the country, I am writing to urge you to block Expedia's proposed merger with Orbitz,
Expedia and Orbitz are currently competing online travel agencies and are some of the resources B&Bs rely on to distribute room inventory to consumers. Currently there are only three major online travel agencies– Expedia (which also owns Travelocity, Hotels.com, Hotwire and Trivago), Orbitz (which also owns CheapTickets), and Priceline (which also owns Kayak and Booking.com). If this merger is allowed to go forward, then the competition between Expedia and Orbitz will be lost and 95% of all online travel agency bookings will be made through one of two companies, Expedia or Priceline.
This could jeopardize many B&Bs who already have difficulty reaching consumers directly. By limiting the choice of booking agents, B&Bs could face higher commissions and higher costs. For many B&Bs, already faced with the unfair and frequently illegal operation of short term rentals from Airbnb, that could mean they would have to close their doors.
The proposed merger would also adversely impact consumers who are blissfully unaware of the consolidation that already exists among these online travel agencies. A recent survey reveals that 82 percent of consumers who book hotel rooms online do not know how many affiliate brands are owned by either Expedia or Orbitz. Upon learning about the proposed acquisition, many indicated that they feared higher prices, loss of competition and a diminished quality of service.
This drastic consolidation will have serious and negative consequences for our businesses. The Expedia/Priceline duopoly creates substantial market power to raise commission rates on hotels. Industry statistics show that the average commission rate on Expedia is 11% higher than it is on Orbitz. Should this acquisition be allowed to occur, B&Bs will, at a minimum, lose the benefits of those lower Orbitz commission rates. Going from three to two competitors, and given the likely Expedia/Orbitz control of 75% of the market, would leave Expedia/Orbitz in a position to dictate commission rates and raise rates.
B&Bs, small independently owned Inns and Boutique Hotels, and economy hotels are particularly subject to the anticompetitive effects of this merger. In many markets, these small businesses and independent hotels rely on online travel agencies to fill 30-40 percent of their rooms, with some as high as 60-70 percent. Yet these smaller businesses face the most serious consequences because they often times pay in excess of 25 percent more in online travel agency commissions. They must do business with these OTAs but, unlike large hotel chains, have virtually no leverage to resist any commission rate increase imposed by Expedia.
These serious anticompetitive effects will substantially harm our country's small businesses which are vital to the economy of communities across the country. We urge you to block the proposed Expedia-Orbitz merger.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.