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The original Miura never quite received a follow-up, despite design icon status.
Lamborghini CEO is open to a modern Miura, but not too soon
Stefano Domenicali discusses marque's post-Urus plans
June 23, 2017
The variety of Lamborghini's current lineup and its stature in the automotive world tends to obscure that the company churns out far less than 10,000 cars a year, and there is still room for expansion even if the production numbers won't grow by that much. Lamborghini CEO Stefano Domenicali dropped a few hints about the long-term lineup plans of the still-small company following the launch of the upcoming Urus SUV in a conversation with Automotive News this week.
One possible direction mentioned by Domenicali is a four-seat sports car in the fairly distant future, in the 2025-2030 time frame. Such a model could allow Lamborghini to field a challenger to the successors of the large grand touring Ferraris, but not necessarily the high-end luxury sedans from marques such as Aston Martin. Lamborghini already previewed something like this in the form of the Estoque sedan concept at the 2008 Paris motor show; that car received interest at the time but was promptly shelved.
A second option mentioned by Domenicali could see a modern reinterpretation of the classic Miura, which was never really received a follow-up as Lamborghini turned its attention to wedge-shaped rear-mid-engined coupes and roadsters. Lamborghini had previously hinted at a Miura comeback with a 2006 concept car unveiled with little fanfare outside of a major auto show: The concept was purely a design study, one that departed little from the Miura's original design, with Lamborghini curiously unwilling to give it a more prominent role.
The 2006 Miura design study was never really given a proper stage.
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As far as timing for a possible Miura comeback, Domenicali stressed that he is open to the idea "but not in the next five years." Right now, the automaker is focused on launching the Urus, its first truly mass model with expected annual sales of 4,000 units. For context, Lamborghini sold just 3,457 in 2016, split between the Huracan and the Aventador. The company is aiming for 7,000 cars annually by 2019, which will allow it to approach Ferrari's annual volume of about 8,000 cars per year.
"We used to be very polarizing. People loved us or hated us," Domenicali told Automotive News about the company's direction. "Now we are trying to be more cool, younger but, as always, different."
In a lineup of cool cars past and present, the Miura already stands alone, but we can certainly understand the company's hesitation for revisiting such a storied design and name.
Lamborghini Huracan Performante: Five things to know
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The 54th annual NARI present will feature about 250 exhibitors with concepts starting from how one can benefit from your basement to easy methods to produce a backyard that's a neighborhood showpiece. Now: After 'Home Improvement,' Bryan had numerous small spots in television exhibits like 'Veronica Mars' and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' Recently, in addition to enjoying Thor in a Syfy TV movie known as 'Hammer of the Gods,' Bryan's focus seems to be on producing. The Home Design and Remodeling Show has been bringing the most profitable Home Shows to South Florida for over 40 years. Many of the reveals about home-shopping for and promoting, resembling HGTV's 'œProperty Brothers,' don't emphasize how long it takes to seek out and shut on a brand new dwelling.
Since 1995, as a consequence of its recognition, reruns started airing on The Disney Channel , Channel four and ABC1 within the UK. Originally, Home Improvement was aired on Channel four and then later the Disney Channel ; nonetheless, in 2005, it started broadcasting on ABC1 On September 26, 2007, ABC1 ceased transmissions and no official announcement was made as to which channels can be broadcasting ABC1's previous programming.
Show hours are from midday to eight p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 10 a.m. to five p.m. Sunday. As Tim Taylor's sidekick, Karn spent most of his time on and off the set hanging out with Tim Allen, who he mentioned is not that similar to the character he performed on the show. On this Independence Day, we revisit a few of the best home enchancment calls Andy has fielded over the previous few months. Dan Aykroyd makes a guest appearance as a blues-loving minister, the character he was presently playing on the time in the series Soul Man , a sequence that was also created by the creators of Home Improvement. The shows brings collectively vendors offering superior services for owners seeking to renovate, beautify, or just enhance the appearance of their houses. Former MTV VJ turned TLC superstar, Genevieve Gorder (Trading Spaces), is just like the fairy princess of house makeover exhibits.
Home Improvement had been within the works between Tim Allen and the writing/producing team of Carmen Finestra , David McFadzean and Matt Williams for the reason that summer time of 1990. With all regional papers and radio stations working massive advertising campaigns in addition to a highly focused social media and online campaign, the advertising carried out will guarantee a robust return for the companies who reserve locations. Tim felt very father-like to the children and I assume it harm his feelings that Jonathan did not show up," Karn mentioned concerning the finale.


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WTF is FYC?
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Waiting in line over an hour is de rigueur for most FYC events and parking is typically challenging anywhere in L.A., so I factored in an extra half-hour for this one. Luckily, I nip into a spot on the 3rd floor just as a car pulls out. Sure enough, the line stretches around the front entrance and deep into the bowels of the parking garage. I'm tired today. It's Sunday, a day for rejuvenation, so I'm in an energy conserving mode and not motivated to engage in zippy chatter with anyone more animated than I am right now.
After checking in, those of us who opt to claim our seats, face a rather uncomfortable gauntlet of multiple party-people lines waiting for drinks converging with a single 30-foot snake hoping for coffee and sweet treat wake-me-ups. Poor planning for such a small space, but I sense opportunity in this mayhem.
I recognize the inside of this room as the broadcast center for The Golden Globes and it's nice to soak in that kind of professional ambience for a moment, but I pointedly make my way to a seat I see perfectly positioned to serve my purpose. Perhaps because it was billed as a Sunday Gospel Brunch, I note that several attendees have dressed in something other than weekend jeans and tee shirts. Good job! Now, I'm thinking, what if I leave my sweater on my seat and pop in the mimosa line from the inside? I go for it. Very small lines in front of 4 bartenders. Well done, Heather Lea. Who cares about a 30 peep deep flour and sugar fix right now when it's this easy to belly up to the bar?
Acoustics! Acoustics! Acoustics!
My perfectly positioned seat not only has an unobstructed view, but I'm directly below a speaker in what I'm convinced is part of one of the more powerful audio system arrays I've encountered in an FYC venue to date. Of course, I must mention that our newly renovated TV Academy Theater, renamed as the Saban Center for Media's Wolf Theatre, boasts state of the art sound and picture. It's to be the flagship for Dolby Laboratories' continuing innovation for the next ten years. The lights dim and Jason McGee and the P.S.A.L.M.S. Choir take the stage for soulful renditions of Ride On, King Jesus, and Walk Over God's Heaven.
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I'm shivering. Sure the choir has everything to do with it, but I'm also freezing in this room! Apparently, music is a driving force for this show. We prepare to watch an episode when to my surprise, contemporary sound cut against period images of slaves on the run a la music video fills the room and the screen. I see John Legend listed as a producer and the connection to music becomes clear. This series takes several opportunities to weave R&B and soul sounds of today into the historic story of plantation slaves and those who attempt a perilous journey to freedom. If it's a creative choice to modernize this story, I give it that, but it's distracting and makes me uncomfortable. Perhaps this is the intention? We all know the subject matter is uncomfortable.
What is undeniable is the portrayal of absolute dominion over slaves showing them both physically and mentally brainwashed ... those in the fields at the backbreaking work of cotton picking ... those just above field service tasked with maintaining control over the workings of the plantation and fellow slaves ... those chosen to serve inside the master's home ... fear and mistreatment rule in Underground.
Slaves appear to have been internally segregated. Many, after years of service, act as if strangers to one another, afraid to step beyond routine, afraid to bond and trust fellow slaves, afraid to believe in the promise of flight ... a promise, thematically, literally carved in blood within the lyrics of a song on a tattered shirt.
The series examines historic roles played during the time of the Underground Railroad. Christopher Meloni is unnervingly unapologetic as bounty hunter, August Pullman. Aldis Hodge is all-in as Noah, who's determination to escape is unwavering. Jurnee Smollet-Bell, as Rosalee, a house slave inexperienced in life, finds love and the promise of the outside world with August. Using her wits to down the trackers' dogs is just as wondrous as her first encounter with fireflies, as the series weaves life on the run swings between their small band of runaways, to those chasing them, to those committed to helping them. For Jessica De Gouw and Marc Blucas, who play Elizabeth and John Hawkes, helping the cargo is not without the obvious danger of discovery, but not every runaway understands the the couple's higher purpose. Reed Diamond is the smug, moneyed plantation owner, Tom Macon. Ever the narcissistic politician, he enjoys war and power as much as his entitled and demanding wife, Suzanna, played by Andrea Frankle. Amirah Vann, is Ernestine, the key slave in the master's house. She runs a tight ship with a tight lip, having managed to set her daughter (Rosalee) up for house service as well. Alano Miller, plays Cato, the plantation's overseer, a man not to be trusted or might he be the most instrumental figure in the run to freedom? Miller grew up in Florida, the son of an educator and an architect. I wonder what it was like for him ...
The actors deliver fine performances in the Louisiana heat ... something else that makes me uncomfortable. My grade school through high school years were lived out in that sticky, cicada song filled heat. Florida, for better or worse, provided safe haven for our family during a tumultuous time, only I didn't expect such culture shock on top of it. Manuals outlining what species of spider, frog, snake, alligator, ant, berry, or plant that could kill you were part of our introductory class on Florida history. I won't discuss the roaches, but they crawled and flew and were everywhere. But nothing prepared us for the racial discontent that was still a part of life there.
Negroes were bussed to schools. Clashes between races were common. In middle school, word of gangs from the high school walking the halls wielding broken bottles, pipes, and bats swinging at anyone who was white became somewhat common. Cliques of privileged white girls were no better, often demanding ill treatment of others. This included a female "black soldier" whom they'd "sick" on you if they felt a confrontation or beating was warranted. Yes, I talked this gal down in the bathroom, alone, after everyone fled. She was 3 times my size. Why me, you wonder? Well, the one and only time I experienced hormonal growth in my bra-size was at this time. This clique was convinced I was stuffing my bra and the soldier was sent to find out if I was. Good Lord.
We were organized in the classroom and lockers alphabetically by last name. In the 6th grade, I was set upon by two African American boys whose last names flanked mine. Although they never scared me, they never left me alone. I talked to them in an effort to reduce their relentless preoccupation with me ... grabbing and touching me under my dress ... always in my personal space. Overly laden with heavy books and late for my bus after school one day, I had to drop some of the load in my locker or be left behind. It was not good to be left on school grounds alone.
One of the guys was in the locker area when I came around the corner. The other arrived shortly after. They came at me, holding my arms, and I knew what they wanted to do. I don't know how, but I managed to get one off balance, throw my books in the locker, slip out of the grip of the other and run like the wind for the bus. Did I tell my mother, who was a working teacher in that very school system? I have no memory of anything else related to this incident, except for another involving one of the same boys.
Being a very studious young person, I'd checked out a TIME LIFE (hard copy back then) book, Early Man. The cover depicted part of a drawing of the transformation from ape to upright homo sapien. I was seated by myself on a bench outside in the commons area within full view of the administration's office - a ground to ceiling expanse of glass about 15 feet away - when this boy sat ridiculously close to me. I scooted away and he followed. I moved again. He followed. Then he reached for the book. Upon seeing the cover and commenting on my reading a book about naked men, he took it from me. I stood, facing him, tugging at the book, "Give me back my book." He held it tightly and when I gave it good pull, his grip released, but not before the edge of the hard binding grazed his cheek. Unaware of this, I turned and began to walk away.
Suddenly, I was spun around, pushed, verbally attacked, "B****, look what you did to my face." Then, a slap. I held the book up for defense, as he continued to yell, push, and move me away from the administration's view. Surely someone had witnessed this? I must have struck back. I couldn't let him repeatedly hit me. A crowd circled, but no one did anything to help. My mind raced, how am I going to get out of this? Then I heard voices over his. Two guys had stepped inside the ring and were challenging him. They were protecting me. Oh, the relief and gratitude I felt. While one tried talking him down, the other took my shoulders and asked if I was all right. And these weren't just any two boys; they were the two most popular boys in school. Girls I knew had a crush on one or both of them.
The next thing I remember is sitting in the Principal's office waiting for my mom. This was a big thing that had happened, since my mother was a teacher in the school system. Imagine the indignation I felt after being told that no matter what I wasn't to hit "them" back. "Am I just supposed to stand there and get hit?" Such was the fear back then - the all around fear - and the absolute powerlessness I felt in this riotous environment. Hostile and relentless, that was public school in the south. Yet, my mother and our own family upbringing never harbored any sides.
My mother told me that she'd taken jobs teaching migrants, because they were the jobs nobody wanted. She needed work. She was a divorced single mother with three kids at a time when it just wasn't acceptable to have this status. Mom told me that schools were integrated, but all the principals were white. Years later, when I went to high school, we had an African American principal ... a man we all adored.
When I began writing this post, I didn't intend to travel into or share these particular personal experiences, but they came pouring out. It saddens me that young people are still being subjected to some of the harshest realities of inhumanity against humanity: crimes against the mind and body perpetuated by fear and the illusion that power makes it go away. For me, this kind of slavery stains and chains the soul throughout life with no preference for minority, race, or gender. I suppose we all need someone to step inside the ring and ask, "Are you OK?"
"Freedom is not a stick of wood to be presented to obedient dog. It is a thing all men deserve."
As spoken by Spartacus on STARZ
Briefly discussing the post panel reception now seems fitting, because writing this post pushed personal memories into the heart of the piece. So let's just get it out of the way and wrap it up!
Entrapment. Lines that don't move. The same narrow passage going in is in play on the way out. The brunch buffet service is dispensed on several long tables, but a single line is the only way to them, and for me, the wait isn't worth it. You may know by now I prefer organic and fresh fare, but this is a cafeteria-style breakfast for those who eat mystery eggs, bacon, sausage, muffins, pastries. There is some fruit, which I accept. Is it organic? Probably not. I did go for another mimosa, however, and find some friends out on the patio. Why didn't we have the food service out here, I wonder?
Softly at first, Stevie Wonder's As rises, beckoning me back inside. The choir is rocking it. Oh, they are so good!
I spy director Anthony Hemingway nearby as I'm belting it out with the choir. I linger for a chat and a congratulatory handshake on a job well done. Having worked his way up from assistant directing, this young man's list of directing credits on high profile television shows is impressive. There's no moss growing on this guy!
On the way out, WGN has gift bags for us! My favorite is a wooden journal I've written about before in my Earth Day post:
''Last season for Manhattan and again this season for Underground, WGN thoughtfully offered a bag of swag for attendees to their FYC events of these shows. I will tell you that we're rarely treated to swag at these events, so when we get something to take away, it's a nice perk. At least I think it is.
Inside WGN's bags have been nice tee-shirts (sized appropriately) and small journals made in the USA by Woodchuck. These books, bound in wood, etched with the show's name, are special. They are part of Woodchuck's Buy One. Plant One. … a tree-planting initiative that helps our Earth! A beautiful card, the latitude and longitude of where your tree is planted etched on a wood strip and signed by Benjamin Jo VandenWymelenberg, Woodchuck's Founder and CEO is thoughtfully inserted in the journal. I love this company!"
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If you need help staying on tract with your new year health goals then join me on a 21 Day Protein Crunch Challenge designed to help keep you motivated and energized.
I have a confession to make folks. So far this year I have had zero motivation to tackle any new projects. That is changing today though. Increasing my daily activity is at the top of my list. tbh honest I am not accustom to being active during our recent winter weather. In Arizona this time of year is perfect for outdoor activities. Not so much in Columbus, Ohio. Temperatures topped out at around 16 degrees this weekend! So part of my 21 Day Protein Crunch Challenge is to find ways to work on my health goals inside. Including adding Oikos® Protein Crunch Yogurt from Walmart to my daily fitness routine.
For starters this 21 Day Protein Crunch Challenge is not a structured plan. We all have individual activity levels and overall health goals. My focus is on sharing the concepts that are working for me. Plus ways you can stay motivated towards your personal goals. We both know threes isn't that long a period of time, but can feel like eternity when you are going at it alone!
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One way I try to stay strong physically and mentally is by practicing Bikram yoga in a 100+ degree room. I was attending classes regularly until the holidays when life got in the way. Now driving 20 miles in ice and snow isn't really appealing! Free online yoga classes and apps I can follow along with at home have been a great substitute.
We don't have a fitness facility at our new place, but there is a gym about 100 yards across the street. Close enough I can walk even with cold temperatures. It's open 24/7 which has been great for my busy schedule lately. One way I've been motivating myself to go every day is knowing I have a delicious Oikos® Protein Crunch Yogurt waiting for me back at home.
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Indigo Salmon Part Duex
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Sister's Oregon Outdoor Quilt Show 2014 Block Contest entry
9.5" x 9.5"
My bathroom is decorated in commercial fishing imagery. I don't have any of my own art in there. This just screamed for me to change that. So, the idea for a wall hanging is born.
Next is to think about size. I also have an idea of entering it in the Project Quilting Triangles challenge so I had a thought of a background of triangles. HSTs, equilateral - I have been working with both lately. Maybe some flying geese, hmm.
While that percolated I gathered some scrap fabric and just started cutting and sewing strips. I liked the results, so I elected to do HSTs out of those strip blocks. Originally I thought the lines should contrast and be opposing on each block. But I really liked the lines staying the same direction just offset in different colors.
Once I had several blocks I put a set together in a size that will work for my above the door reserved spot. Then I added a frame in a chocolate fabric. I did not have enough chocolate fabric in my scraps to do the whole frame, so I added a little bit of the cutaway strips from the HSTs as pseudo corner blocks.
I had a few pieces left over so I elected to piece the back and match it to the front seams. When sandwiching it all that was an interesting challenge involving a lot of pins and eventually just saying 'whatever, lets go'.
Once sandwiched I added the fish fusable pieces. Then I added the outline quilting to stabilize the whole piece as I worked on free motion quilting and moving it under the needle. At this point I decided to try a filler design I have seen used but never tried - the back and forth curves. I really loved how it came out. Very free form and organic and easy to edit for the space needed.
Last, finished up the filler quilting in the blocks around the fish. This is where the ability to edit this design for a varied space came in VERY handy.
Love how this turned out. I like the HSTs so much and how the colors came together I would make a quilt in this design/pattern. The lines and HSTs create so much movement nothing else would be required. For this piece I am excited that it will be lovely on my wall, or be equally fabulous as a table runner.
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Project Quilting Season 5 Triange Challenge Entry
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The ex-world finalist — now a Sky Sports pundit — reckons gamesmanship is set to escalate because of the £5million prize money involved in the sport.
Adrian Lewis has been reported to the Darts Regulation Authority for allegedly "stamping" on the stage to make it move during his match with James Wade a week ago.
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Free training makes promotion a pizza cake for employees
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'Blackout': Britney Is Back, Not That You'd Notice
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
That Britney Spears maintains a busy schedule, no? There's the rehab; the carousing; the wig fittings; the Taco Bell runs; the ongoing custody battle over her two sons with ex-hubby Kevin Federline. Perhaps it's no wonder, then, that Spears doesn't have a lot of time anymore for the thing that made her such a cultural phenomenon in the first place. No, not her infamously flashed private parts; her music.
In the four years since Brit-Brit released her last studio recording, the sexualized "In the Zone," she's become better known as a walking personal disaster than as the seller of 83 million albums worldwide. Now comes the return of Britney Spears, pop singer. Her new mediocre studio album, "Blackout," opens with a declaration: "It's Britney, [expletive]!" Dripping with attitude, it's a star move of a statement -- but it's also an outlier. Britney isn't really Britney on "Blackout" -- her voice has been digitally distorted to the point that she sounds like a cooing cyborg.
She also sounds like a supporting player on her own comeback album. With studio software manipulating her voice and stripping it of any real human characteristics, it becomes a somewhat faceless digital instrument for "Blackout's" sprawling team of producers to sprinkle between the album's pounding programmed drums, squiggly bass lines, synth stabs and such. Were "More Vocoder!" T-shirts being passed out in the studio or something? The end result is (mostly) state-of-the-art dance-pop in which the singer is secondary. This is fine if you're a random Euro-pop singer; not so much if you're Britney Spears and you're attempting to resurrect your brand.
Spears mostly sat out the songwriting process after becoming increasingly engaged in that element over the course of her two previous albums. Nobody will ever confuse her with Carole King, but one would think that Spears might have some thoughts of her own about K-Fed or her life in the boiling water of the celebrity fishbowl. And yet, her name is nowhere to be found on the writing credits for the "Blackout" songs that address those topics as she instead relies on others to get in touch with her innermost feelings.
Those feelings apparently include (but are not limited to) disappointment, defensiveness and defiance. In the sinewy, shifty "Piece of Me," Spears "sings" that she's "Miss-bad-media-karma/Another day, another drama/Guess I can't see the harm in working and being a mama." She's also "Mrs.-oh-my-God-that-Britney's-shameless" and "Mrs.-most-likely-to-get-on-the-TV-for-strippin-on-the-streets-when-getting-the-groceries." Repeatedly, she asks in the refrain: "You want a piece of me?"
"Toy Soldier" is a hopped-up K-Fed kiss-off in which Spears announces, "I'm so damn glad that's over . . . I'm sick of toy soldiers." In the wretched album-closing ballad, "Why Should I Be Sad," Spears reflects (via a ghostwriter, of course) on her failed marriage. "My friends said you would play me/But I just said they're crazy/While I was crying, praying/Was it true?"
Britney's absence from the majority of "Blackout's" credits certainly makes one wonder whether she sounds like a strangely disembodied diva here because she just wasn't fully committed to the project. (She certainly looked like a disembodied diva during that catatonic performance of lead single "Gimme More" on the MTV's Video Music Awards last month.) There was no shortage of talent willing to work with her: The credits for "Blackout" include roughly two dozen songwriters (including heavyweights Sean Garrett and Kara DioGuardi) and more than a half-dozen producers or production teams, from Timbaland protege Nate "Danja" Hills to Bloodshy and Avant, the Swedish tandem behind Britney's earlier hit "Toxic."
Mostly, they've created slinky, synthy come-ons constructed for the dance floor, from the exhilarating Euro-disco song "Heaven on Earth" to the futuristic funk of "Gimme More." Not that Britney herself has anything else to give. No time.


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Over 600,000 people in the UK have epilepsy, with 87 new diagnoses happening every day. Yet because it's an invisible condition, awareness is limited.
"Epilepsy affects people's lives in so many ways. Low self-esteem, social isolation and gaining employment can be just some of the issues which people with epilepsy have to deal with," a spokesperson for Epilepsy Action tells HuffPost UK.
"As a result, many people feel uncomfortable talking about their condition for fear of discrimination or feeling embarrassed."
To coincide with International Epilepsy Day (12 Feb) and to help educate the wider public, here's how to tell if someone's having a seizure, as well as what happens after diagnosis.
Epilepsy can start at any age, but more commonly occurs either in childhood or after the age of 60. It's often lifelong, but can sometimes get slowly better over time. Epilepsy Action estimates that with the right treatment, the majority of people with epilepsy (70%) could be seizure-free.
The only visible symptom of epilepsy is recurrent seizures caused by bursts of electrical activity in the brain. There are roughly 60 different types of seizure and a person may have more than one type. Some people remain aware throughout their seizures, while others can lose consciousness. For some, epilepsy can be life-threatening: 1,000 people die in the UK every year because of it.
According to the NHS, a seizure might cause a person to: uncontrollably jerk and shake (a "fit"), lose awareness and stare blankly into space, become stiff, collapse or experience strange sensations (such as unusual smells or tastes, and a tingling feeling in the arms or legs).
You should call 999 for an ambulance if someone: has a seizure for the first time, has a seizure that lasts more than five minutes, has multiple seizures in a row, has breathing problems or has seriously injured themselves.
A seizure can be a one-off event, however in other cases it might be a sign of epilepsy. To determine which it is, your doctor will often refer you to a neurologist who can provide further tests. Between seeing your GP and neurologist, the NHS advises to avoid activities that could put you or others in danger, such as driving and swimming.
The neurologist will likely perform an electroencephalogram (EEG) or a brain scan to test brain activity. They may also ask you for more information about your seizure, such as: when you had it, what you were doing when it happened, and how you felt before, during and afterwards.
Epilepsy treatment aims to reduce the amount of seizures people have or stop them completely. According to the NHS, the main treatment options are:
:: Anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). Epilepsy Research UK warns people to be mindful of the side effects of some AEDs which can include weight gain, sleepiness, confusion, unsteadiness, lowered efficacy of the contraceptive pill and harm to an unborn baby.
:: One third of people with epilepsy are unable to control their seizures with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs), if this is the case, surgery might be advised. Surgery involves removing the small part of the brain that's causing the seizures.
:: A procedure to put a small electrical device inside the body can also help control seizures, this is called vagus nerve stimulation (VNS). The device is hooked up to a wire under the skin which connects to a nerve in the neck. Bursts of electricity are then sent along the wire to the nerve, which help change electrical signals in the brain.
:: Following a ketogenic diet - high in fat, low in carbs and protein - can also help control seizures. It is usually advised as a temporary solution for children but not for adults, as a high-fat diet is linked to issues like diabetes and heart disease.
Some people need treatment for life whereas others might not need treatment at all if they know what triggers their seizures. Triggers can be anything from stress, lack of sleep, waking up or drinking booze, to menstruation, flashing lights and some medications and illegal drugs.
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As one of the leading festivals in the UK and celebrating its 38th year in 2014, the prestigious St Magnus International Festival brings international orchestras, recitalists, theatre, dance and literature to the Orkney Islands for a week around midsummer and is renowned for its unique blend of world-class performance and community participation.
The Festival attracts audiences from across the UK and beyond to events. Interwoven with the Festival there are courses for young professional composers, conductors and writers with participants drawn from all over the world and open sessions for festival goers to watch.
Founded in 1977 by Orkney's distinguished resident composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the Festival has developed from small beginnings to become one of the UK's most innovative and highly regarded arts events whilst retaining its roots in the local community.
The Festival's vision is to enrich people's lives through the arts. Its aims are to present and promote arts of the highest quality; to be creative and innovative in programming and presenting new work; to enable and support year-round activity in Orkney; to provide and add value to education in and through the arts; to attract, stimulate and retain audiences of all ages and backgrounds; to disseminate the Festival's work outwith Orkney and to be sustainable, artistically, managerially and financially.


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When Raj (Shahrukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) first met on an inter-rail holiday in Europe, it wasn't exactly love at first sight … But when Simran is taken back to India for an arranged marriage, love makes its presence felt. Encouraged by his father, Raj decides to fly down from London to not just win his bride but her whole family and the blessings of her father. All this while the celebrations for her wedding are in full swing. On 25 October 1995, history was created. And this year, on 12 December 2014, celebrate 1000 weeks of timeless romance and the longest running film, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (DDLJ).
In October 1995, DDLJ was released and it received many, many accolades. To commemorate the continuous running of the film ever since then, Yash Raj Films will be doing several activities to do so from 12 December onwards. Let's take a look at the newly-released trailer:
Oh, the magic of DDLJ never fails to make my heart leap a little inside. I am so excited about this celebration of DDLJ! How do you feel about the release of this trailer? Share your views here!


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When you hear "wine in the United States," what comes to mind? Napa? Sonoma? Yes, those are huge wine destinations. But you might be surprised to hear that Antler Hill Winery at the Biltmore Estate has its own claim to fame. It's actually the most visited winery in the country!
Helping contribute to this top spot is that fact that a visit to the Biltmore comes with a free visit to the winery. Given the cost of admission to the North Carolina estate, it isn't "free" so much as it's "included" in your ticket. But, you need to get your money's worth!
If planning a trip, there's no reason not to stop in to sample the estate grapes.
History of the Biltmore
The Biltmore is located in Asheville, North Carolina. Some may recall it as a staple of Grace Kelly's 1956 movie The Swan, but Millennials will know it as home to Richie Rich. It has cameos in many other movies over the years, primarily due to its ostentatious grandeur. It's a modern-day castle!
It should be no surprise to those with U.S. history knowledge that the home was a brainchild of the Vanderbilt family. George W. Vanderbilt conceptualized the home, which became America's biggest when it opened in 1895. It boasts 250 rooms and 8,000 acres in a classic French Renaissance château-style.
Visitors can experience the gardens, outdoor activities, and equestrian center, along with the four-star Inn and Antler Hill Village. The Village is home to several restaurants and small shops, along with, of course, Antler Hill Winery!
History of Antler Hill Winery
A good segue into Antler Hill Winery is a quick discussion on agriculture at the Biltmore, as it's really this focus that led to the grape-growing. George Vanderbilt had a vision of making the estate completely self-sufficient. Even the gorgeous fields of sunflowers were planted for a reason – to feed the deer and birds. Sustainability at its finest!
A key piece this self-reliance was the growth of dairy at the Biltmore. They needed dairy for milk, manure, and money. As a result, the Vanderbilt family grew a huge dairy business in the area, delivering it in vintage milkman fashion. When that industry began to decline in the 1950s and 60s, it was time to sell it.
And what better to do with a dairy operation than turn it into a winemaking business? True to its dairy roots, Antler Hill Winery now lives where the dairy operation used to be. The tasting room even used to hold cattle. But I promise, it doesn't smell like a farm!
In the 1970s, George Vanderbilt's grandson, William A.V. Cecil, began pioneering winemaking at the Biltmore. It was his dream to have a winery. All the best French châteaus have wineries. So, too, should the Biltmore!
The first grape he planted was Moscato. When it came time to sample the fruits of his labor, it was disgusting. He gifted it to his friends but didn't give up. A trip to France later, the Biltmore Estate had a seasoned winemaker and a robust operation.
After changing the location of the vines on the estate, they were able to grow a solid batch. Chardonnay, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Cabernet Sauvignon were the first harvests that survived.
Fact is, the area isn't perfect for grape growing. For such a large winery operation, the on-site vineyard is only 94 acres. Thus, only 15% of the grapes now come from the area. The rest are from California. And through this partnership, Antler Hill Winery is able to produce over 170,000 cases of wine per year.
What to do at Antler Hill Winery
First, Get Your Free Samples of Wine in the Tasting Room
This one's a given. It's free! Or…included.
You'll enter the winery through chilly stone tunnels that help set the tone. As you make your way up the stairs, you'll come to an expansive shop with a huge wine bar. Continue through the shop to the tasting room.
The best part about the complimentary tasting is that you can try as many of the wines as you'd like. This isn't always common at wineries. So, take advantage and sample any you think you might like. Or some you might not usually try. My favorites were the Limited Release Sauvignon Blanc, Limited Release Tempranillo, and Syrah.
You'll be amazed by the options! And if you happen to have children, a designated driver, or someone who prefers not to imbibe, they can always ask for the grape juice.
The wine hosts are entertaining and knowledgeable, despite the look on our guide's face (below). His dry sense of humor complimented the wines perfectly! We had a great time.
In addition to complimentary tastings, Antler Hill Winery provides several upgraded wine tour options.
Here are a few to give you a sneak peek:
Behind-the-Scenes Winery Tour & Tasting
You can get a more in-depth lesson in Antler Hill Winery's operation on their behind-the-scenes experience. For only $10 per person, you can take a guided tour of the production facility with a private tasting at the end.
One of the most impressive things you'll learn is the continued focus on sustainability. For example, the mulch produced at the end of the fermentation process is used out on the farms. And when barrels reach the end of their lifecycle, they're sold to breweries and distilleries. I think it's safe to say that George Vanderbilt would be happy with his continued legacy.
Vine to Wine Tour
On this tour, you actually get to visit the vines and learn about how they make it into the bottle! And, of course, you get a grand tasting to accompany your new-found knowledge.
Offered on Saturdays and Sundays, this will run you a little more, as it's an exclusive experience. Be prepared to pay $85 per person in addition to your admission to the Biltmore.
Wine & Cheese Hour
A relatively new addition to the offerings, this event takes place on Friday and Saturday evenings. For $25 per person, you can taste wine and cheese pairings in a social environment at Antler Hill Winery.
Red Wine & Chocolate Seminar
An extra $20 for wine AND chocolate? You know you want to! With this experience, you'll learn the science behind the pairing and have a lot of fun doing so!
Celebration of Sparkling Wine
Get a tour of the champagne bottling room and a tasting of all available sparkling wines – with pairings! You can book this offering Sunday through Thursday evenings. But space is limited, so make sure you reserve ahead. It's only $25 per person!
Plan Your Visit!
Whether you choose to simply sip on the delicious wine at the complimentary tasting, or you decide to book a more engaging experience, Antler Hill Winery is sure to impress. Make sure you take the time to check it out on your next trip to the Biltmore!
To plan your Biltmore Estate visit, check out their website for all the details.
To plan your Antler Hill Winery visit and tours, we recommend you start here.
Interested in more wine on the East Coast of the United States? Check out our post on Virginia wine to find out why Virginia is for wine lovers! Cheers!
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We can't thank Antler Hill Winery enough for their support during our visit. While our admission to the Biltmore Estate was self-funded, our behind-the-scenes tour was complimentary. As always, views and options are solely our own.
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With 23andMe's new update to its ancestry, the results for my family have changed. Not for me, since I'm not of European descent, and this looks Euro-focused (no surprise). But my wife and kids are different.
My wife has two great-grandparents who were born in Norway. 23andMe is picking that up immediately. It also picks it up in my children, from left to right, my daughter, my younger son, and my older son. With more than 3 million in their database 23andMe has knowledge of which haplotypes are unique to Norway, and which are not. When you click "Norway," it says "We predict you had ancestors that lived in Norway within the last 200 years." That's telling me that they detect IBD segments uniquely found in Norwegian populations of a particular length threshold.
My youngest is on a new chip, but I'm not sure I believe some of the European admixture estimates. The two boys exhibit very little drop off in Scandinavian. But my daughter is way lower. This is not unreasonable, but they exhibit differences in East Asian ancestry. I've looked but I can't detect this on PCA plots. My daughter is in fact more distant from Han Chinese than my sons.


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SQL Injection
In March 2005, I contributed an article to the newly re-designed ITnow magazine published by the British Computer Society ("BCS"). Entitled "SQL Injection", the article covered in brief some of the security risks associated with websites featuring dynamic content sourced from SQL and non-SQL databases.
Briefly, the developer of a software applications designed for consumption and use by actors outside of an organisation, actors that may be anonymous, must be alert to potential attacks on the integrity of the application: every interaction between a client and server must be scrutinized for validity.
The article concluded with a simplified methodology for the development of such applications: the constrain, reject, sanitize methodology:
- Constrain - validate the length, type, range and if necessary the format, of data passed as a parameter to the application;
- Reject - filter data known to be bad from any input passed to the application, possibly raising application exceptions on detection of bad data; and
- Sanitize - convert any remaining input that could potentially be malicious by, for example, escaping characters.
More recently, in an article entitled "Defending against cross-site scripting attacks" (IEEE Computer, March 2012), Shar and Tan discuss solutions to cross-site scripting ("XSS"). Whereas in SQL Injection the target for malicious code is the database sitting behind the website, XSS exploits poor input sanitization of a target website for the purpose of exploiting features of the client browser. Falling into three main categories: reflected XSS, stored XSS and document object model ("DOM") XSS, XSS risks range from denial of service ("DoS") attacks, to obtaining unauthorised access to user information stored in cookies to manipulation of the client DOM.
Shar and Tan identify four main defences: defensive coding practices, XSS testing, vulnerability checking and runtime attack prevention.
Defensive coding practices broadly relate to the constrain, reject and sanitize model introduced above expressed in terms of four input sanitization approaches:
- Replacement - which replaces blacklisted characters with alternate characters;
- Removal - whichsimply removes blacklisted characters;
- Escaping - which identifies characters that have special semantics for client-side interpreters and modifies the input to remove those semantics; and
- Restriction - which attempts to limit inputs to known good values.
XSS testing may involve specification-based testing, code-based testing, fault-based testing.
Vulnerability testing involves identifying volunerabilities in server-side scripts through a combination of static and dynamic-analysis. Briefly, static analysis involves identifying vulnerable inputs and tracing the flow of that data throughout the application to databases or output procedures ("sinks"). Dynamic analysis involves analysing the constraints governing the inputs, generating test cases involving both valid inputs and inputs containing exploit code and comparing and differentiating the output.
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April 14, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Michael Quinlin/ MassJazz
617 696 9880
International Jazz Marathon this weekend in Boston and Massachusetts
(Boston) - When world-class marathon runners from around the world come to town for the Boston Marathon this weekend, they will get to enjoy an international line-up of jazz musicians performing in some of the area's top jazz clubs and concert venues.
"Boston is the place to be for world class runners each April, and it's also a gathering spot for great jazz musicians all year long," says Michael Quinlin, head of MassJazz, a group that promotes the vibrant jazz scene throughout Massachusetts.
"There is a terrific array of American jazz and blues taking place this weekend, along with a host of amazing musicians from Brazil, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Korea, Japan, Germany and Canada," Quinlin says.
Among the highlights: American jazz guitarist John Abercrombie, blues guitarist Ronnie Earle, sax player Dick Johnson and drummer T.S. Monk; Puerto Rican percussionist Eguie Castriollo; Pipa performer Wu Man; Brazilian singer and composer Filo Machado; Japanese pianist Yoko Miwa and many more.
For a complete list of jazz clubs, concert venues, campus events, Sunday brunches and jazz festivals taking place year round in Massachusetts, visit www.massjazz.com.
For tourist information, visit MassVacation.com and BostonUSA.com.
Sample of Jazz Performances the Weekend of April 15-17, 2011
Friday, April 15
T.S. Monk
Scullers Jazz Club
Doubletree Hotel
400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston
Eguie Castriollo & Orchestra (Puerto Rico)
Regattabar at the Charles Hotel
Harvard Square, Cambridge
Gonzalo Grau (Venezuela)
The Beehive Club
541 Tremont Street, Boston
Sooim Cho: Muzikholic (Korea)
Berk Recital Hall
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street, Boston
Kronos Quartet/ Bang on a Can / Wu Man
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kresge Auditorium
77 Mass Ave. Cambridge
John Abercrombie
Johnny D's Uptown Club
17 Holland Street
Davis Square, Somerville
Saturday, April 16
Berklee Spring Fest (International)
Featuring El Frente, Bob Marley Ensemble, Grace Kelly Experience, Foxtrot and more.
Prudential Center
800 Boylston Street, Boston
Michael Borgida & Company
Café Luna
403 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Filo Machado (Brazil)
The Beehive Club
541 Tremont Street, Boston
Manguito Latin Band
Darrly's Corner Bar
601 Columbus Avenue
South End, Boston
Wilson Jazz One (Canada)
Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Harvard Wind Ensemble and Sunday Jazz Band
Lowell Lecture Hall
Harvard Square, Cambridge
Dick Johnson: All Start Tribute
Highland Jazz Series
Newton South High School, Newton
Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters
Blue Ocean Music Hall
4 Oceanfront North, Salisbury
Yoko Miwa Trio (Japan)
Les Zygomates Wine Bar + Bistro
120 South Street
Sunday, April 17
Jazz for Japan
Featuring Richard Stoltzman, Bert Seager Jazz Trio, jazz pianist Yoko Miwa and more.
Intercontinental Hotel
510 Atlantic Avenue, Boston
Sushi Spectacular for Japanese Disaster Relief Fund
Be-Bop Guitars
Shalin Liu Performance Center
37 Main Street, Rockport
Big Band of the Helmholtz-Gymnasium (Germany)
Boylston Schul-Verein
8 County Street (Route 109), Walpole
Traditional Jazz Jam Session
Wally's Jazz Café
427 Massachusetts Avenue
South End, Boston
Tribute to Frank Sinatra
Al Vega Trio
Lucky's Lounge
355 Congress Street, Boston
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"Lost & Found" Youth Group
WSV Youth is a time where Jr. and Sr. Highers have the freedom to be themselves. We love our youth and want to provide a fun place where they can show up just as they are and be accepted. We want to help them connect with each other and even more so, offer an opportunity to connect with God! We know that Jesus is an amazing guy that has so much to offer all of us and we feel the youth need to be included. We want them to do all the things that us as adults should do... pretty much everything the Bible says we should. We belive that youth with the power of the Holy Spirit can heal, can serve, and can hear words for each other from God. And we simply want to provide a place where they can learn about everything Jesus has to offer them, and how he wants to use them to spread his love to others.
The WSV Youth group meets Thursday nights from 7:00-8:30 at the Westside Vineyard location. You can show up once in a while or come every week. We love having new faces and old friends. A typical night includes, well, there is no typcial night. But you will find some sweet music, great games, opportunities to learn and serve, cool kids, and yes, even cheeseballs. More importantly, you can come as you are and meet this Jesus guy. He's pretty cool once you get to know him.
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Devon, England
chitter and dither and chirp
seems much the same, but who is that
gleaning bugs off the roof tiles?
It wags its tail flick-flick, flick-flick,
small and black and white.
The bird book introduces
Pied Wagtail, so I walk outside again
and introduce myself.
trees in bloom, trees blushed light green, house sparrows
carrying grass to weave their nests.
Devon, England
still with greening buds
these ancient English oaks claw sky in all directions.
Gnarled and twisted branches grow thoughtless gardens
of lichen and of moss, and bark all algae green
is ruts and furrows carved by the task
and joy of capturing the sun.
Devon, England
An ancient
chestnut tree,
its leaves just spilling from the bud,
five leaflets on each dangle down
before the moment to unfold.
The trunk is wide and muscular,
so large it takes time to walk around,
branches spread a circle out as wide as time.
The grass beneath is daisy-sprinkled white.
Stonechats sing from branches low,
and high above a song from singers I don't know.
4.12.99 Devon, England
In the old gardens
I sit beneath an enormous apple tree.
The tree embraces a round of a hundred feet.
Its trunk is short and thick,
roots buttress the weight and dive.
Remove all leaves.
The green you see is algae on the bark,
and lichen bits. The tree is Spring in bloom.
All is white, save the steady gold of bumblebees.
Above, clouds swim fast; here, a breeze
pulls petals from the blossoms,
a steady warm enchanted snow,
which soon be-petals me.
4.13.99 Devon, England
This rainbow spans half the sky.
It arches high above its center
where the sun will fall into the sea.
I understand none of this, but
as I look up, the cloudless blue
rains into my face,
and I am blessed twice in mystery.
Took a lovely long walk through fields and
woods yesterday. The wooded bottomlands near the River Dart
are filled right now with blooming ransoms and wood anemone.
"Ransoms" are a kind of wild garlic that forms large
colonies of what look at first like lilies. They carry a stalk
with a double white star on top, and a pair of broad lily
leaves. The wood anemone is the same as we have in the American
East and Midwest. It blushes pink as petals emerge from the
bud, but when it opens fully into sun, it's white, except
for fine gold pollen in the center.
4.14.99 Devon, England
Outside the Garden
Here, traveler, is a strange universe
of pure white stars,
and they are all twinned
trumpets pushing out fragrance that pulls
us who wander green interstellar spaces
into their throated fires.
In this Ransom Galaxy,
Against dark columns, I am enormous,
for I can reach down through space and pluck
a double white star, and pop it in my mouth
and chew.
My whole cosmos spirals into Garlic
that forces wide the buds of taste
and leaps them into flowers burning white--
pure sharp nebulae of heat swirling
in my enormous tongue.
I've been chewing ransom flowers in their
own galaxy,
a fine garlic flavor that leaves sharp pepper in my mouth.
It is such a miracle to eat this directly from the earth,
without the garden's intercession.
4.15.99 Devon, England
The little robin perches on a bush
and sings at me,
and I am deeply pleased
to clearly see this bird.
His beak and mine are inches close.
Why does he dare so near?
And then I see.
in the bottom of the bush,
another robin sits their nest.
He defends the eggs from me.
And so I leave.
The American robin was named after the English
robin, which is nothing like the American robin. The English
robin is small and perky, goldfinch sized, and does not feed
on lawns. It perches in shrubs and trees, and gleans its food
there. Both male and female sport a bright orange bib, and
both sing.
4.16.99 Devon, England
England's Evensong
It is how the blackbird sings
as the sun falls down.
It is how his throat is liquid green
as buds emerge..
It is how he sings the sun into
loving the other side.
It is how the green is blackbird
the blackbird green.
It is how his throat swells mine
and yours.
How this has always been, here,
in Spring, when the sun falls down.
The dawn chorus of birdsong is so lovely that
I forget to celebrate the gentler beauty of the twilight song.
The English blackbird is a cousin of our American Robin which
also has a fine evening song. The male is solid black with
a bright yellow beak.
4.19.99 Cornwall, Britain
A garden is a journey through Time's mystery.
Each seed contains a universe of wild
ready to emerge.
Each seed clasps secrets to its germ,
holds pattern, root and leaf, waiting
water and warm sun.
Each seed we plant contains the universal history,.
Wildness ready to break forth,
drive down root and open green,
But each windchild seed we do not plant
is our Mother
healing green a patch of skin scraped bare,
Witness to how life
again and again scrambles up Time's tree.
I'm thinking today of seeds and gardens, and
what amazing mysteries each seed contains.
4.20.99 Cornwall, Britain
In Spring old women everywhere renew
their bargains with the soil
that we call gardens,
the old wise women who
for all these centuries
have woven nets of brush and string,
of rags and vine,
to catch the tender fruits of Earth,
They move with slow economy,
bend from the waist to plant a seed
or pluck a greening weed,
and mutter softly as they rise.
The question is:
Would we know Spring without them?
4.21.99 Cornwall, Britain
All Our Hungry Mouths
The rook flies quickly from the trees
in its beak a large white egg,
something wonderful to eat,
as every egg is wonder-filled.
If a bird can smile with its wings,
this rook smiles.
The rook smiles off into another tree
perhaps to feed its own
hungry wide-mouthed nestlings,
recent from the egg.
It is hard to accept sometimes
that we earthlings love to eat each other,
and that we enjoy it while we do,
our own hungry mouths wide open,
even when it's eggs that we must eat.
A rook is a large black bird of Britain, close
cousin to the crow, but with a prettier voice and a large
gray beak. Rooks, like crows and jays, are both predators
and scavengers, and are vigorously chased by smaller birds
during nesting season. Rooks live in colonies known as "rookeries."


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Thanks to my awesome writing buddy Patricia Lynne, who got the idea from our other awesome writing buddy, Marie Landry, I present to you today:
~ GREED ~ What is your most expensive book? What is your most inexpensive book?
Hmm probably my copy of The Tale of Genji. It was purchased for my Japanese Literature class and I want to say is was $30+ bucks. It's also super long and can be used to knock out home invaders. Most inexpensive? I received a bunch of free books when I went to BEA, do those count? Free is cheapest yet! Hah
~ WRATH ~ What author do you have a love/hate relationship with?
Oooh it's probably Charlene Harris. You had such a great thing going with the Sookie Stackhouse books and instead of ending it when you should have, you dragged it out and put out some painful stuff (in my opinion anyhow) before finally deciding it needed to come to an end. Yet….I still own them all and have read most of them repeatedly. Stephanie Meyer gets an honorable mention here as well.
~ GLUTTONY ~ What book have you deliciously devoured over and over with no shame whatsoever?
I'm not sure with this one as I re-read a lot of stuff. I guess I'll say the Mercedes Thompson series. I tend to re-read all the books before a new one comes out, so I've gone through them a couple of times.
~ SLOTH ~ What book have you neglected reading due to laziness?
The Book Thief ! Must read it before the movie comes out! I have plenty of others too. Not sure why they sit, probably just because my TBR pile is so huge.
~ PRIDE ~ What book do you talk about most in order to sound like an intellectual reader?
Haha! Probably The Master and Margarita but it's more because I really enjoy the book and love the story inside a story aspect and I want to turn others onto its greatness.
~ LUST ~ What attributes do you find most attractive in male or female characters?
I do so enjoy a bad boy with a secret heart of gold (*cough*Judd*cough) and a kickass female who can take care of herself but isn't so hardened that she won't ask for help when she needs it.
~ ENVY ~ What books would you most like to receive as a gift?
Hmmm I would love early copies of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I think only two dozen original 1865 (?) first editions of Alice (just Wonderland, through the Looking Glass came later) still exist. Maybe some wealthy book lover will gift me some day! Haha!
I'd love to see your take on the Seven Deadly Sins of reading! Leave your responses in the comments or link me to your own posts!


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October 10, 2009
Amanda Hartnack, a Colorado State University veterinary medicine student from Bakersfield, Calif., has been awarded the 2009 American Association of Bovine Practitioners, or AABP, Foundation-Pfizer Veterinary Student Scholarship. Hartnack received a $5,000 scholarship awarded on behalf of Pfizer Animal Health and AABP toward her education in large animal medicine.
"This scholarship will allow me to explore food animal practice outside of Colorado and provide an opportunity to find my niche in food animal medicine," said Hartnack.
Hartnack, has served two terms as secretary of the local AABP chapter. She has completed four bovine veterinarian externships in California, Texas and Colorado, and two dairy externships with operations in Vermont and Pennsylvania. She is a certified artificial insemination technician.
Developed by AABP and Pfizer Animal Health, the scholarship program offers veterinarians and animal health suppliers the opportunity to make donations through purchases of eligible Pfizer Animal Health products. The scholarship, offered to third-year veterinary students in the United States, seeks to support students interested in food animal medicine careers. Applicants were required to provide information regarding their cattle industry background and provide answers to several essay questions pertaining to the role of large animal veterinarians in today's society.
"With fewer than 10 percent of graduating students from U.S. veterinary schools interested in large animal medicine, this scholarship program reinforces the need for the younger generation's interest in our field," said Roger Saltman, DVM, MBA, director of cattle veterinary operations at Pfizer Animal Health.
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In October 2003, the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Oral History Project launched Phase One of its three-part study of the evolution of CIP in the United States. The first phase will document the history of critical infrastructure protection policy from its roots up to the unveiling of Presidential Decision Directive 63 (PDD 63) in 1998. The two subsequent phases will look at later CIP developments, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. At the heart of all three phases of the project will be a series of face-to-face and telephone sessions with key CIP policymakers and those responsible for implementing and assessing critical infrastructure initiatives and programs. At the same time, we're eager to collect information and insights from visitors to our web site. We hope you'll take time to contribute to the historical record yourself by completing our online survey. The form is easy to fill out and will require only a few minutes of your time.
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On Wednesday, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced that the administration's infrastructure proposal would be released in the new year. At the same time, Special Assistant to the President for Infrastructure Policy DJ Gribbin joined a bipartisan infrastructure conversation that featured House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR), manufacturers, farmers, truckers and infrastructure financiers. Making manufacturing more competitive by advancing an infrastructure package that increases certainty was at the center of one panel discussion, titled "Rural America and an Infrastructure Package."
Shop floors are commonly located in rural areas and rely on the same vital infrastructure needs as manufacturers in urban areas. Manufacturers look forward to a 2018 infrastructure package that advances and invests in energy, water, broadband and transportation infrastructure projects. Regardless of whether it is a rural or urban area, if ports are clogged, trucks are delayed, power is down or the internet has a lapse, productivity and customer service are impacted.
That said, rural infrastructure faces different challenges in funding and delivering projects given low population levels. They are often not suited to public–private partnerships. During the event, Gribbin outlined that President Donald Trump's plan would include a special rural component or set-aside to ensure that rural infrastructure is not overlooked.
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Dr. Jeremiah Lewis history before coming to Maundbury is unknown. Attempts have been made to find out more but only rumors exist.
He became a student at Oxwain Occidental College in 1900, where he excelled in every subject. His professors spoke very highly of his study habits and ability to rationalize any problem given to him. He was active in the sports teams on campus, and president of many clubs.
After graduation, he set up a small practice on Main Street. He became famous for opening his practice on Saturdays for free. In 1915 he sat up a joint practice with St. Mary's Home . A couple of accusations that he killed many of the poor that he had seen could not be proven. All the deaths were label accidental.
Although he did see many of the town's destitute, his reputation as a doctor made him popular with the women of the upper class. There were rumors that his popularity may have been linked to some infidelities, but nothing was every proven.
After the death of her husband, Maribell Tompkins became one of his main patients. As she closed herself off from the world, he was one of the two people she allowed to see her. Dr. Lewis never discussed Maribell's hermitage with anyone else. He was the first discover her body when she had died during the blizzard of 1945.
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Throughout The Car Industry
Bonhams Sells "V12 NUT" UK License Plate For Over $4k. What A Bargain!
Like cricket (the game) and Marmite (whatever the hell that is) there are just things they do in the UK that I can't get a handle on. I always thought it was a production assistant goofing around with the more apt license plates you see on Top Gear's test cars but no: people actually have to pay for those. A LOT. Like the four grand for "V12 NUT" Bonhams got recently.
And before you think this is an isolated incident—and/or skip to the fun "Top Five" lists I've painstakingly copied from another site—I provide you with a roster of offerings to be, um… offered at Barons' "Annual British Heritage Auction & Other Classics" sale somewhere on the island today (September 17) (with plates offered in quotes and auction estimate averages in greenbacks):
[And I hate math more than you can imagine so appreciate what I did here, dang it!]
They are, as follows: "DB09 AML" [$8,315]; "9 BEN" [$34,880]; "Y12 FER" [$1,704]; "D8 GTS" [$3,448]; "W18 OND" [$2,434]; "EA51 CAR" [$1,866]; "V8 REG" [$3,488]. What, you don't see the perfectly good reason why "9 BEN" should cost more than a new Camaro? Oh, silly American. Because, as the description reads [EXACTLY], "Pre 63 Bentley? Any The ultimate Bentley registration" of course!
See, this is all thanks to the Rules of Motoring handed down from King Somebody to the guy who killed him and took the throne before he was dispatched by… look: this ain't Nightline, people, so if you want to know the intricacies of British motoring policies—especially whatever the hell the "V778" Bonhams mentions is—visit here. [But don't. TRUST ME.]
I can, should I want to for any particular reason, visit my local (Michigan) Secretary of State—which they call "DMV"s in secretary-free states—and get the plate "V12 NUT" in all kinds of styles for about 50 bucks. Plus tax 'n' stuff.
You'll probably find the situation the same in your state, unless it contains anyone that can afford a V12-powered car, 'cause then you're screwed. Still, I'll bet a fair amount that it won't take anywhere near as much to pry that plate from their clutches as it cost those that wanted the plates I've listed below in a UK and a World "Top Five" list courtesy of the folks at PlateMaster.com.
According to PlateMaster.com, the top five highest-priced UK registration plates, prices (as of 9/14/12) and stories are as follows:
5.) "VIP 1" [$462,356] "Currently owned by the Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich, this 'very important' cherished number plate was bought in 2006 with the billionaire tycoon's pocket change. This plate was once placed on the Pope-mobile for Pope John Paul II's papal visit to Ireland."
4.) "M 1" [$537,793] "Bought in 2006 by Mike McCoomb who had previously sold his mobile phones business to BT for around [$65M]. Apparently he bought this number plate for his son, who at the time was under ten! Sold at Bonhams Auctions, Chichester, this was the first registration number to be issued in Cheshire at the beginning of the last century."
3.) "1 D" [$571,716] "The record auction reserve price of [$32,446] echoed its desirability. Sold in March 2009 at a DVLA auction in Warwickshire to Nabil Bishara, a Lebanese property developer who bought this highly sought after private plate for his wife's birthday."
2.) "S 1" [$655,511] "Possibly Scotland's first ever number plate and certainly Edinburgh's first, was sold to an anonymous bidder at Bonhams in Chichester, West Sussex, in September 2008. The classic mark was first secured in 1903 by Sir John HA MacDonald, who at the time was the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland. The winning bidder claimed the cherished plate would be displayed on an old red Skoda!"
1.) "F 1" [$713,812] "Now let's step things up into top gear. The record price was set for a British vehicle registration number when businessman Afzal Khan paid a total of £440,625 for the Formula One initials. The Bradford entrepreneur assigned it to his Mercedes-Benz McLaren, which cost [$324,340] less than the number plate. The historic plate, first issued by the Essex County Register of Motors in 1904, was sold at a DVLA auction in January 2008."
The top five plates in the world, on the other hand, go from UK crazy to positively insane:
5.) Abu Dhabi, UAE: "12" [$2,011,652]
4.) Hong Kong: "18" [$2,530,788]
3.) Abu Dhabi, UAE: "7" [$2,563,234]
2.) Abu Dhabi, UAE: "5" [$5,678,050] "The top two had to come from the Arab world, didn't they? Sold to Talal Ali Mohammed Khoury of Abu Dhabi, for 25 million Dirhams (£3.5 million pounds) for this single number! Claiming that these numbers have no significance to him, he also blew [$1,297,360] on the private plate '55' too! How much money do you have to have to act and think like this?"
1.) Abu Dhabi, UAE: "1" [$11,761,675] "Surly [sic] the ultimate of prestigious number plates, this 'one' was procured by Saeed Abdul Ghaffer Khouri also from Abu Dhabi for the ridiculous price of £7 million, in 2008. We at Plate Master can't imagine this being topped but you never know!"
[I, however, do know, thanks to my patented Rich Douche Equation®: M+W-B=O (Money + Want – Brains = Overspending). Dangle any shiny object in the faces of rich people and the result will always be a bidding war wherein obscene amounts of money will be thrown at the seller, regardless of what that shiny object is. It's science, people. How else do you explain an $11M LICENSE PLATE?...]
Posted In: Aftermarket, Auctions, Car News, Classics, Miscellaneous, Reports, Safety, Special / Limited Edition
Tags: UK, license plates, bonhams, auction, registration, v12nut, abu dhabi, hong kong
DipStick | 11:17AM (Tue, Sep 18, 2012)
They should have called me firstI have an uncle that prints license plates for a living, he could have done for half of that!
dwalter | 12:06PM (Wed, Sep 19, 2012)
Delaware has collectible "black tags" that can go sell for thousands also
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This was last night! I need to take a picture next time. It was so good!
Pork Tenderloin in this marinade:
1/8 c. vegetable oil
1 T. molasses
1 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1 T. dry mustard
3 cloves minced garlic (1 T minced garlic)
1/4 c. soy sauce
My husband grilled it to perfection, but it's also great baked at 350 for 30-35 min or internal temp 145 in thickest part.
Green beans sautéed with a little butter, kosher salt and pepper.
Texas Toast
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As you may know, I have some roots in Dominica. I lived there for a few years and had the privilege to experience beauty at its best!
I haven't been back in years, but here are a few items about this Isle of Beauty, I remember like yesterday:
- Sunshine and warm weathers
- Going to Mero, Castaways, Coconut, Purple Turtle beaches on the weekends or Christmas day
- Travel to the boiling lake to attempt to hard boil an egg
- Drinking water from the sulfur springs and being told it is the cure of all illnesses
- Sliding around the rocks in the Emerald Pool and trying to avoid the prickly stuff
- Running off a jetty and jumping into crystal clear waters
- Mastering the pronunciation of "Waitukubuli"
- Wearing uniforms to school that included ribbons in hair, knee high socks and a cute tie.
- Eating mystery meat that was considered a delicacy then, and endangered today
- Remembering the one traffic light on a bridge and getting excited when it changed colors
- Going through years of hurricanes and not having to worry about losing a wig (I was too young then)
- Trying to count the 365 rivers
- Eating pizza at the ONE place that you could find it
- Watch my parents drive a left hand drive vehicle on the left hand side of the road
- Confused as to why a pickup truck is called a van, and a van is called a mini bus (see this oldie)
- Watching every possible TV station in the world (What happened to Cinnimax?)
- Being referred to <insert dad's nickname here> daughter everywhere I go
- Jumping up behind a band with colorful clothes and beads in my hair
- Eating tamarind balls, corn curls, peppermint, ice pops, and chicken bones (not what you think)
- Watching crabs come out of their burrowed holes when it rained
- Feeding our pet roster, Jigga Boots (he was such a chicken)
- Waiting for the mosquitoes, bats or fireflies to come out at night
- Watching the sun rise over the mountains and set over the Caribbean sea
- Riding in the back of a pickup (van)
- Going to Scott's Head and being mesmerize by the ranging unique line separating the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea (my favorite memory)
There are lots more to add, but one needs to go see for themselves what she has to offer. If you are a deep sea diver, hiker or adventurist, you would really enjoy Dominica. If you are looking for longevity, you need to check it out. If you are looking for a good party, November 3rd or Carnival days (Mas Dominik) are the best time to go. If you don't like to fly tiny planes, suck it up – its worth it!
Check out the Nature Island of the Caribbean
"Sweet Dominica, the land of beauty
The land of cocoa, grapefruit and orange
The land of rivers and glorious sunshine
We say, Oh yes, sure, that's a happy land…
So bring your parents, your sons and daughters
To a vacation in Dominica
We can assure you, when you return home
You will say O yes sir, that's a happy land…"
Happy Independence Day!
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Enjoy a realistic flying lorry simulator and be the best motorcar stunt race driver.
This game looks pretty funny and interesting, because where else can you see the flying machine on the old engine of the future.
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Living in London does not have to cost an arm and a leg. There are many comfortable lodging establishments available in the city that won't break the bank. You will, however, need to consider proximity and affordability, among other factors.
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Starting out as a young professional or as a student in a new city will surely be an exciting experience. However, one downside is that you have limited funds at your disposal. There's no need to worry though as there are safe and affordable accommodation options available in the heart of the city, including hostels. Here are some things you will need to consider when choosing a hostel to stay in:
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The State Police Computer Crimes Unit today charged a Livermore Falls man with possessing child pornography.
According to police, investigators and Livermore Falls Police arrested 36 year old Christopher Roy at his home at 73 Hunton Loop Road around 9:30 am.
Roy is charged with possessing sexually explicit material. He was taken to the police department, where he posted bail and was released .Roy is due in a Lewiston courtroom on November 9, said police.
Investigators seized Roy's electronic equipment from the house which will now be analyzed. Investigators with the computer crimes unit said they began investigating Roy two weeks ago after receiving a tip.