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- Longmont Hackathon winner to finish calendar app this summer
- Jester's trying to liven up Friday nights in Longmont
- Take Two: Longmont man's medical problem leads to legal run-in
- Carbon Valley Coffee Roasters' owners hope downtown Frederick will become destination
- Take Two: Scott Fraser's work reaches new heights
- Longmont's Crossroads School to move this summer
- Boulder County 'Coffee for Carpoolers' program reduced Diagonal traffic
- Take Two: Longmont says new detectors helped winter road clearance
- Take Two: Longmont teen teaches music, attends Front Range Community College
- Take Two: Frederick High School's main office hole repaired
- Take Two: Fitness for all ages at Frederick's Xtreme MMA
- Longmont's Burch Lake now has 1,800 muskellunge; more to come this year
- Take Two: Niwot High School mascots dedicated to increasing spirit
- Longmont Surgical Mission's free surgeries help uninsured
- Items from Lafayette outhouse show class differences among home's residents
- Take Two: Pacific Auction's new site creates new opportunities
- Longmont musician finds new rhythm after Novus Folium folds
- Longmont lawyer Brandon Shaffer plans to stay in city
- Mead High School graduates take on college at CU, CSU
- Longmont's Tyler Hoog continues to make physical strides; eyes college in the fall
- Longmont woman who robbed bank is looking for work, hoping for second chance
- Take Two: Barefoot runner who visited Longmont completes her cross-country trek
- Emma Wallingford: Idol crown propelled singing career
- Boulder County artisans honor champion Hygiene-area cottonwood tree
- Lyons native Rick Hammans carves out masterpieces in new Berthoud home
- Take Two: Longmont to review trash pickup now that some alleys are clear
- Longmont's long-shot presidential candidate withdrew his bid weeks before Election Day
- Longmont man still recovering from pit bull attack in May
- Longmont Symphony Super Conductor William Benedict reflects on stepping up to podium
- Longmont teenager's suicide prevention foundation reaches milestone
- Niwot High custodian faces new health challenge after cancer surgery
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Times-Call's series Take Two revisits people we have written about in the past year. Take Two stories will run on Mondays.
FREDERICK -- In April, the 9-foot rainbow trout was just a few pencil strokes.
Now it's one of Frederick's local landmarks.
The big catch is part of a literally off-the-wall mural and sculpture by Longmont artist Mario Miguel Echevarria. Finished at the end of November for the newest part of the Frederick Recreation Area, it shows a young woman chasing butterflies while a boy is knocked off his feet by the giant fish at the end of his line.
Key details -- the bent pole, the fluttering net, the soaring trout -- pop out and above the top of the "canvas," a 60-foot by 12-foot wall of an old pump house near Milavec Lake. In the background sit the familiar homes and buildings along with ... the Pantheon?
Smiling, Echevarria points out some other hidden details. A tightrope walker crossing Niagara Falls. A profile of comic book speedster The Flash. A concealed guitar, his signature touch that represents his admiration for the visceral power of music.
"I knew there was going to be a playground here, so I wanted to make it kid-friendly," Echevarria said. "And most of the kids that come here see it immediately. 'Look, there's a guy on a tightrope!'"
Echevarria's been doing pieces like this for about 14 years. When he first came to Colorado, a young recent graduate in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design, and had a chance to be part of a Fort Collins mural.
"I was hooked," he said. "It's not a throwaway in a magazine, or a T-shirt that's going to be passé in a few years. It's something that's going to endure."
It's also something that takes a lot of time and effort.
The Frederick mural alone required 500 tiles. And the clay for just one easel's worth of tiles can weigh about 500 pounds, dropping to 300 pounds once the assortment has dried out and is ready for the kiln.
On top of that, last summer was something like working in a kiln. The drought-stricken summer rapidly heated the south-facing wall, a condition that can create a thin "skin" over the wall's surface.
"I had to work really quick and keep everything shielded, because if there's a skin, it won't have a good hold and the tile drops off," Echevarria said. "That probably doubled my installation time."
Add in the challenges of allowing for expansion and contraction in the wall ("I use a flexible adhesive on those areas"), of making sure there're no air pockets in the hand-sized tiles before firing ("It blows apart like a hand grenade in the kiln"), and of getting the shades of colored glaze just right on the trout ("Do it wrong and you get a mess of gray"), and you realize it's amazing that the piece was finished at all.
But finished it is. And Echevarria's proud of it. Now he can move on to a project that has him even more nervous, a gigantic Denver mural that includes, among other pieces, an 18-foot frog.
He can't wait.
"It's kind of fun to go out and do something that's a little beyond your comfort zone," Echevarria said. "You're terrified, but you get through it and you're a little bigger internally. You've gone where you feared to tread."
Scott Rochat can be reached at 303-684-5220 or email@example.com.


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Rock n' Roll Forever
For 23 years, Ed Sullivan hosted an American institution, "The Ed Sullivan Show". Every Sunday at 8 o'clock, America turned on their televisions to CBS to watch his live variety show, not only hoping to catch a glimpse of the established stars of popular music but also to discover new trends and up-and-coming stars. One thing that everyone could be counted on was you'd witness legendary performances that would be riveting to watch and exhilarating to hear.
Although Sullivan started his career as a journalist, he would eventually become television's most powerful host. His stage was the Promised Land for aspiring talent. A handshake or a few kind words from Ed could make or break a career. Featured performances by The Jackson 5, Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley, The Doors, Ray Charles, James Brown, Roy Orbison, The Beatles, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Mamas and The Papas, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Young Rascals, and Janis Joplin.
Narrated by Michelle Philips (original member of The Mamas and The Papas). Originally aired on CBS
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2) Bill Haley and His Comets- "Rock Around The Clock"
3) Elvis Presley– "Don't Be Cruel"
4) Ray Charles- "What'd I Say"
5) Jackie Wilson- "Lonely Teardrops"
6) The Beatles- "I Saw Her Standing There"
7) James Brown- "Please, Please, Please"
8) Roy Orbison- "Oh, Pretty Woman"
9) The Lovin' Spoonful- "Do You Believe In Magic?"
10) The Doors– "Light My Fire"
11) The Temptations and The Supremes- "(I Know) I'm Losing You"
12) The Young Rascals- "Good Lovin'"
13) The Mamas and The Papas- "Monday, Monday"
14) Creedence Clearwater Revival- "Fortunate Son"
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Originally published as Opening up climate science can cut off the skeptics as a guest post on the Guardian's Lay Scientist blog.
It's not uncommon to find lists of scientists who hold alternative viewpoints being promoted by those who disagree with established scientific theories. Minority groups use these lists as part of the 'proof' that the vast body of evidence in support of a theory is somehow wrong, or to imply a greater amount of controversy or confusion within academia over a topic than there is in reality.
In my belief, this comes from the mistaken view that the scientific community need to agree on a single world view for a theory to have a solid grounding. After all, most people's education of science is of established principles in a school textbook, which are then examined in
a situation where there is usually a single correct answer. This, in turn, leaves those outside of the community to see even a small division of belief on controversial theories as evidence that the leading explanation does not hold up to scrutiny.
Of course, this isn't true: those in academia are constantly debating and modifying their ideas over time as new evidence comes to light, and those who hold minority viewpoints are valued for their opinion, but only when they can provide evidence for their stance, not for their ability to sign a petition.
The body of science is like a branching tree of concepts and theories: those at the trunk of the tree are concepts for which there is little debate, such as the existence of gravity or that the world is round, while the periphery of the tree is where the research happens, where new ideas develop and grow or die, and as the evidence gets stronger so the branch thickens.
In contrast, issues are presented to the public as if they are black or white. Headlines often read as if scientists have proved or disproved a whole subject in a single study. In reality, topics are sets of theories that evolve over time with the advancement of knowledge. The important thing to understand, though, is that the core of the research is generally a constant; it's the fine details that keep developing and moving forward.
Of course, sometimes, a result will shatter preconceived ideas, but this is incredibly uncommon. When it does happen, it is also normally the result that will define an individual's career, not something to be covered up. For example, Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity eventually superseded the concept of the luminiferous aether.
If we want people to respect the scientific community and understand its own confidence in its output, we have to also accept that it's not the individual scientists or skeptics who hold weight. We need to tear down the ivory towers of the past and remove the walls dividing the public and academia. Journals need to be open, and in complex cases, such as the evidence for climate change, we need to provide the skills and tools that people need to discover the answers for themselves. If we ask them to to accept our viewpoints just because we are the experts, we have already lost. We would be no different than anyone who stands on a pedestal and proclaims the truth.
Climate change is a massively complex topic and it is often assumed that dissemination of the body of evidence is beyond the understanding of the public. Professor Andy Parker, who is leading the ATLAS project in Cambridge, recently stated "[We should] give the public a bit more credit, they may not have the mathematical training, but they have the desire, interest and logic to understand". If Andy believes he can explain the theories behind something as complex and abstract as subatomic particle physics to a lay audience, we should take note.
Scientific inquiry will not always provide the right answers first but, unlike other methods, it will eventually get there even if it has to admit its mistakes. There is plenty that we don't know yet, but what we do know is that, given the same resources, tools and time, there is no reason for the public to disagree with the established consensus.


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Women Into Housing Now Initative Underway
Portland Housing Bureau's Director Traci Manning joined Multnomah County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury; Shannon Singleton, Day Shelter House Manager at JOIN; and Keith Thomajan, CEO of United Way of the Columbia Willamette to give a presentation to Portland City Council on new funds for the Women Into Housing Now (WIHN) initiative.
WIHN is a special allocation of $300,000 to assist 92 women experiencing homelessness to find permanent homes. The program will support women as they gain and maintain housing stability through rent assistance, street outreach, shelter diversion and housing placement. The funds will help to shorten shelter stays and free up capacity in existing shelters.
This is the result of a longstanding partnership with Multnomah County and our partners who deliver services to women experiencing homelessness: Human Solutions, JOIN, Northwest Pilot Project and Transition Projects. This new funding, and an upcoming ask of the Council for an additional $1.7 million for to reduce homelessness, is the result of our community's 10 Year Plan to address homelessness, "A Home For Everyone".
These additional funds will provide an array of services aimed at reducing shelter waitlists, providing permanent housing placements and services for women.


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From Conservapedia
Teeth are used for eating with and can also be used for protection. Some animals have teeth that are made to chew on animal flesh while other animals have teeth that are made for chewing on plants. Some creatures don't have teeth at all.
Adult humans normally have 32 teeth. Humans have baby teeth that fall out as children grow, and are replaced by adult teeth.


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Understand Greatness
When I was doing the Goldwell/KMS/Arrojo On Tour in NYC, one of my favorite people, Maggie Mulhern, asked me what my favorite movie was as a professional hairstylist. I had two answers at the time – Vidal Sassoon: The Movie and Unzipped (the Isaac Mizrahi movie) both for different reasons.
Then a couple nights ago I stumbled upon a movie, Jiro, or more specifically Jiro Dreams of Sushi on Netflix. I started watching the movie with my family – it's about an 80 year old Japanese man who owns a 3 Star Michelin Rated Sushi Restaurant in Tokyo. Jiro is in The Guinness Book of World Records for being the oldest 3 Star (the highest rating) working chefs in the world. But what makes Jiro unique is not only his high standard for making sushi, but the standard he holds himself and his team to - apprentices work for 10 years, and for that, he teaches them all he knows. Before that, it's years of massaging octopus for four hours by hand so that it's more tender than everyone else's. The apprentices work for years only making rice, before they are able to make the grilled egg, and ultimately after 10 years, sushi. And then Jiro said something that stopped me cold. He said that the team needed to eat great food, as you watched the apprentices and chefs sit down and eat what would be the same highest quality fish/food they would be serving to their guests when they opened. To give some perspective, there are only 10 seats in the restaurant, the dinners start at $300 per person and require one year for a reservation - and the team is eating the same food!
What Jiro explained is that you can't make great food if you don't know what great food tastes like.
Okay stop, at this point my wife turns and looks at me and says, "Does that mean you have to have great hair to do great hair?" I swallowed hard as I said, "No?" Heck, my hair is often all over the place when I'm done working (I have grown and donated my hair three times so far in the last 10 years) and I come from a camp/tribe where the stylist hair has nothing to do with what they can do, i.e. Christian, Guido, Arrojo/Cutler Salon in NYC…and I know a lot of great bald stylists too. But, there was something here I just hadn't figured out yet, then it came to me...for us it's SERVICE.
I realized why I had had challenges in building team members in the past. I could train them on how to do great hair, because you can see great hair, but like the taste of great food, how do you know what great service is? Especially if you have never experienced it. Wow, BAM there it is! I realized challenges I've had in the past were because there was not the experience of being serviced, with great service, and without a 5 star experience, how would you know what that could be?
So, I started to ask friends and co-workers and realized quickly that there is a correlation between the service experience we create for our guests and the service experiences we have had in our lives.
Here's what I have learned:
1. Training someone on good service by servicing them at work is still work. You learn what great service is when you experience it outside of where you work because it's not expected.
2. If you want to up the service experience you provide, one of the fastest ways is to have more great service experiences yourself outside of work.
3. As an owner, one of the questions in our interviewing process is now, "Tell me about your most memorable or favorite service experience."
I have been very lucky throughout my life, I have experienced life/services with no stars and 5 stars (the equivalent of Michelins 3 stars) and it is always the highest rated experiences that give me ideas for my salon/guests. What Jiro made me remember is that it's not just technical abilities we need to invest in to provide a better experience for our guests to grow our businesses, we need to invest in the service experiences we have outside of work for ourselves, so we can understand better what great service should feel like when we are doing it at work.- P


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Bob posted a Member Map marker in California Ghost Towns and Abandoned Places,This is the location of the famous Mojave Phone Booth. Unfortunately not much is left today, but it's still a cool location to visit with an interesting history.
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South Pass City WY
Andy-Carrie added South Pass City WYSouth Pass City, approximately 90 miles north of Rock Springs, is a historic site administered by the state of Wyoming. It consists of over 30 log, frame, and stone buildings, along with the Carissa Mine and Stamp Mill.
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Surprise Canyon, California
David A. Wright posted a topic in Travel and Trips,Recently, I've been going through my old VHS video tapes and digitizing them to DVDs. These tapes contain my travels and explorations between 1995 and 2009. I thought I'd start releasing some video shorts of my early travels on this forum.
The back story for this particular video is as follows. On March 30, 1996, I made a short hike of about a mile and a third up the lower third of Surprise Canyon, on the western slopes of the Panamint Range, Inyo County, California. This canyon is just outside of Death Valley National Park. This canyon has running water running year round through the stretch shown, fed by substantial Limekiln Springs, and the canyon is a water wonderland. For those not familiar with the area, refer to the two maps. The first one shows the canyon in relation to the region, the other a close up of the canyon and the ghost town of Panamint City. The blue line in the close up image shows the route that was taken.
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Exploration Field Trips - March 31-April 2, 2000 - Into the Nevada Triangle with Lew Shorb
David A. Wright posted a topic in Travel and Trips,My next series of videos will be based on a trip in 2000 that I took with Lew Shorb. Lew is a board member here, as well as owner of the popular website http://www.ghosttownexplorers.org/ghost.htm
In breaking with my past habit of culling out historical sites and ghost towns and creating short videos dealing with these, I decided to keep the exploring part of Explore Forums in and create videos of each day of my travel and exploration, including our camps. Scenery, travel, camping ghost towns and wide open spaces.
Part one of this series, as well as subsequent videos, will all appear here within this same thread. Part I will start in my garage, where I was finishing up with the packing my truck. The following day, after work, I begin my travels to meet Lew Shorb at Rhyolite, Nevada ghost town.
Our three day, two night travels prowled about the "Nevada Triangle" section of northeastern Death Valley National Park; and will include such sites as:
1. The Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad
2. Gold Bar
3. Phinney Mine
4. Strozzi Ranch
5. Currie Well (LV&T RR)
6. Mud Springs Summit (LV&T RR)
7. Happy Hooligan Mine
This video, that of March 30th and 31st, will start off this series; and is brief, only being 3:28 long. Nevada-Triangle_Shorb-2000_Part-1.wmv
So, below is my narrative of part one of this series to give full context of what is seen in the video. It will probably take longer to read than the video is long.
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Exploration Field Trips: May 1-3, 2000 - Trip with Alan Patera and Alan Hensher into Death Valley
David A. Wright posted a topic in Travel and Trips,Exploration Field Trips:
May 1-3, 2000
Trip with Alan Patera and Alan Hensher into Death Valley
What do you do with three authors, two 4x4's, two two-way radios, three cameras, and camping supplies? Send them to Death Valley, of course. For three days in the first week of May, 2000, fellow authors and historical researchers Alan Patera, Alan Hensher and myself explored Death Valley north and south.
Alan Patera writes and publishes the WESTERN PLACES series of monograph books. Alan Hensher has been published in several periodicals as well as authoring several books, centering primarily on the history of Mojave Desert sites.
Alan Patera, who hails from Oregon, came south to California and picked up Alan Hensher; then the two came my way. At the time I was living in Ridgecrest, California. After overnighting with my wife and I, the three of us took off for Death Valley. Alan was busy researching and photographing for a future edition of WESTERN PLACES, this time centering on the camps of the Funeral Range, which forms the eastern border of east central Death Valley. Circumstances and changes of our journey lead Alan to plant the seeds of two more future books, this time centering just outside the northernmost section of Death Valley.
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Wearing: Tina R top, thrifted skirt and belt, H&M wedges and coral rings, Deichmann socks, Meli Melo rings
April 22, 2012
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Wearing: Tina R top, thrifted skirt and belt, H&M wedges and coral rings, Deichmann socks, Meli Melo rings
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Such a fresh color mix! The blouse is lovely, the skirt so very cute and I had my eyes on those H&M wedges too! :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful and bright! :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful combo!Love your make-up!ReplyDelete
OMG! I am in love with these colors.ReplyDelete
you are amazing
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amazing! love pink combined with mint green!ReplyDelete
Lovely!Like your outfit!ReplyDelete
Cred ca asa ar trebui sa arate fiecare fata cand vine primavara ! Esti superba, as always xx Iar topul & pantofii ma terminaaaaa :*ReplyDelete
I like that the pieces are classic but the color combo is so bold and so "now". you look great in this shade of green ofc!ReplyDelete
e superba tinuta ta! imi place foarte mult topul de la Tina RReplyDelete
I love it!ReplyDelete
You look simply fabulous!! I adore the top and the colors are amazing :DReplyDelete
Ce-mi place ca esti asa colorata...ReplyDelete
M-ai binedispune daca te-as vedea pe strada...
I wear scarfs the same way, as headbands.The only problem I encounter is finding textured socks.Lovely outfit and colour mix as usually <3ReplyDelete
ador cioareii cu sandale! superb,superb totul! puupReplyDelete
Great color combination. This outfit suits you.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous outfit! I love the colors and the shoes with the socks :DReplyDelete
topul e super cute si de sandale nu mai zic nimic!! <3ReplyDelete
omg all those colors! instant love! definitely buy more scarves to wear as headbands, they are so feminine and cute and looks great on you! the shoes are to die for! you look very pretty! <3ReplyDelete
You look amazing !! This color matching really looks great on you :)ReplyDelete
Este extrem de frumoasa a treia fotografie!ReplyDelete
Pink is a dream on your. This outfit is precious and you look beautiful in it.ReplyDelete
imi place esarfa purtata ca si headband ;)...in rest, culorile sunt foarte dragute, insa sosetele ma omoara...nu vreau sa spun de cine imi aduc aminte...funny,oricumReplyDelete
E intr-adevar superb topul si l-ai asortat de minune!ReplyDelete
Abia asteptam sa te vad cu platformele :X. Si noua ne-a placut bluza cu dantela, e SUPER faina. And a big YES to headscarves si din partea mea!ReplyDelete
Lovely colourful look! It all goes so well together. XReplyDelete
You do remind me of candy in this outfit.Colorful and sweet!ReplyDelete
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That scarf in your hair is so cool.
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Every day this week it gets better and better! Love the pink and green together...that touch of yellow is brilliant to break up the contrast...one of my FAVES hun!ReplyDelete
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Fantastic colours in this look!ReplyDelete
You look gorgeous on your candy outfit! Love the yellow belt and the red skirt.ReplyDelete
Perfect outfit.The touch of yellow is brilliant.ReplyDelete
I definitely want your skirt and shoes, ahhhhhhhhhhhh
This is extremly cute and the colours look tasty. <3ReplyDelete
such beautiful colours! love your hair too! xReplyDelete
To a read head like you with skin white as milk those colors (top, skirt, belt, sandals) look perfect.ReplyDelete
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|National K-12 Grade Champs Underway in Florida
|December 13, 2013
National K-12 Grade Championships (December 12-15) are now underway in Lake Buena Vista, Florida near Disney World.
Results of Thursday side events are in the books, with bughouse teams of Sam Schmakel and Jimi Akintonde (1st on tiebreaks) and Nathaniel Kranjc and Max Zinski prevailing.
In the K-12 blitz: Nicky Rosenthal took clear first with 10.5/12 while the K-6 blitz saw a three-way tie between Cole Frutos, Franklin Zhou and Bryant Lohr with 10/12 each.
Patricia K. Smith, USCF's Director of National Events, said she was delighted with the tournament atmosphere, the weather and the attendance. "The event got off to a great start with Jean Hoffman (our new executive director) introduction and announcement of her "meet and greet" on Sunday morning and Allen Priest singing the National Anthem for us. NTD Mike Hoffpauir has done an impressive job so far and we are looking forward to working with him again in the future."
Many young stars including NMs and Senior Masters are participating in the Main Event, which kicked off this morning. Schmakel and Rosenthal top the 12th grade section, while Arthur Shen and Varun Krishnan lead the 11th grade section. The 10th grade section features four masters: Josh Colas, Justus Williams, Patrick Chi and Issac Barayev. Christopher Wu and Andrew Liu are top seeds in the 9th Grade while Alexander Crump is the only NM in a non-high school section.
See Melinda J. Matthews tournament preview here. Stay posted for more photos and news from the event, and feel free to share games and photos with CLO via email ([email protected] ) or on our facebook and twitter pages.


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Sandra and I have recently returned from a two-week trip to Europe. We spent time in Northern Ireland researching Sandra's family, a week in Switzerland, and then a day and a half in Lincolnshire, where the Stephensons and Woulds lived. In Lincolnshire we met up with Pat Stephenson and his wife Eve who live in Essex, England. Pat and I are descendants of George Stephenson, our 3rd great-grandfather, and Elizabeth Would. We are 4th cousins and after meeting through this blog, have shared e-mails and phone calls for some time. Because we would only have a short time in Lincolnshire, Pat and Eve spent several days there earlier and scouted out the area. When we arrived, they became our guides in a whirlwind tour. We enjoyed being with them tremendously and hope that we can meet again in the near future.
I don't think we learned anything really new on our trip, but the opportunity to visit areas where our ancestors had lived, see the churches they had attended, and the cemeteries where they were buried was very rewarding. We took lots of pictures and will share some of them in the blog.
Burial records before 1813 are very limited and are maintained in archives in Lincoln city. The archives were closed during the time we were there. The grave stones in this area have not survived the weather well and most are illegible. We were excited to find a few where the name Stephenson or Would could be read, but often dates or other inscriptions were not readable. Still, we enjoyed the time in Lincolnshire and our visit with Pat and Eve tremendously and we feel that the trip was very worthwhile.


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Counseling and Student Development Center offers help to manage distressUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Mar 16, 2011
For students, especially those who have family and friends living in regions affected by the recent earthquake, it can be distressing and overwhelming to hear about and see news coverage of the devastation that has occurred in Japan. Everyone responds differently to a traumatic event - shock, denial, depressed mood, irritability, and anxiety are all normal responses to a disaster of this intensity and whatever you may be feeling is understandable.
If you are having difficulty sleeping, concentrating in class, or feeling sad and need someone to talk to, please do not hesitate to contact the UH Mānoa Counseling and Student Development Center – they have trained counselors on staff who are here to help in a confidential environment.
Please call (808) 956-7927 or you can walk in to the Counseling and Student Development Center located at the Queen Liliʻuokalani Center for Student Services Room # 312 and let the receptionist know that you would like to see a counselor immediately.
The following tips for managing distress have been adapted from the American Psychological Association (APA; http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/distress-earthquake.aspx)
- Take a break from the news. Watching endless replays of footage from the disaster can make your stress even greater. Although you will want to keep informed – especially if you have loved ones in earthquake-affected areas – taking a break from watching the news can lessen your distress.
- Control what you can. There are routines in your life that you can continue such as going to work or school and making meals. It is helpful to maintain these routines and schedules to give yourself a break from constantly thinking about the earthquake.
- Engage in healthy behaviors. Eat well-balanced meals, engage in regular exercise like going for a long walk, and get plenty of rest. Bolstering your physical well-being is good for your emotional health and can enhance your ability to cope.
- Keep things in perspective. While an earthquake can bring tremendous hardship and loss, remember to focus on the things that are good in your life. Persevere and trust in your ability to get through the challenging days ahead.
- Find a productive way to help if you can. Many organizations are set up to provide various forms of aid to survivors. Contributing or volunteering is a positive action that can help you to make a difference.
- Strive for a positive outlook. Many people who have experienced tragedy find that they grow in some respect as a result of persevering through the hardship. Over time, people can discover personal strengths and develop a greater appreciation for life.
Strategies such as these may be enough to help you get through this difficult time. However, it is also extremely common for students to have difficulty managing their reactions to events such as the recent earthquake.


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Lauren Alaina Mobbed While Trying to Score Black Friday Deals
Lauren Alaina found out one of the pitfalls of fame over the weekend. While trying to take advantage of Black Friday deals at Walmart and her local mall, the 17-year-old was mobbed by fans who recognized her, despite her every woman look.
In an interview with WUSY in Chattanooga, Tenn,. Alaina talked about her shopping nightmare. The singer was quick to defend her fans and pointed out that she was not angry with them. At the end of the day, she was only playfully upset with two friends who left her in a crowd of autograph seekers outside of Victoria's Secret.
The morning began at Walmart, where Alaina's friend Taylor was hoping to score a $19 printer. The blonde thought that wearing no makeup and jeans would be enough of disguise to let her get some shopping done."Wrong!" she said. "The security at Walmart came and escorted me out and stuff. They were like, 'Come on, we'll get you out.' And I didn't have to stand in line or nothing. I paid for the printer and got to leave."
At the mall, fans outed her more quickly. "It was like I was leaving bread crumbs and people were picking them up or something," the singer joked of the trail of fans in her wake.
Finally, when she was surrounded outside of Victoria's Secret, her friends decided not to wait.
"My friends left me there," Alaina said. "They were like, 'We're going to shop, see you later.'" Alaina joked that they could have at least helped take pictures.
Perhaps she would be better off taking advantage of Cyber Monday deals from the comfort of her own living room.


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And they also sell these crap jewellery too...
They call this - QuestNet Science from ALIENS!
2nd. sapa la bakal2 student uni tu nanti ye.
3rd.... student di wajibkan membeli biodick.. untuk kecardasan minda... tampal kat dahi...
Faculty of Medicine? QNet University?
kena war-war kan. kalu idak kesian ker bebudak yg tak tau menau latar belakang universiti internasional ni. btw setau saya bukan senang nak dapat taraf universiti. fasiliti pun tak dak, tup tup jadi universiti. ada internasional lagi. nampak benor menipunyerrrr...
lama2 sedap pula gua makan bahasa lu bro...keh3
nice info, mohon share :P
tak sabar nak tengok artis mana pulak yang akan jadi duta kolej ni...
duk sebelah babi utan tu.. kekekeke.. nak nak babi utan gile meroyan.. keje belajar nyondol aje le.. lepas nyondol2 je semayang, nyondol2 aje semayang.. sembah gue.. solat tobat..bagi nak berkat belajor...kekekekkekekeee..itu lah penganut Qnet..
university pertama yg mengajar org jd penipu!
welcome welcome!
paling tak menahan tang abang gosok batang paip petrol...
haiyooo... yennadei karavaley...
Bro aidid.
Tak baik fitnah2 cani. Bro ni tak belajar ke? Pernah dengar "Green Concept"?
Kami di QuestNet sedang memperjuangkan "green concept" tersebut.
Oleh itu, bagi mereliasasikan impian kerajaan yang mahu kita semua go green, jadi kami di QuestNet buat kelas kami di hutan2 dan semak samun.
Tahukah bro aidid? 70% dari diri kita ini disebabkan oleh faktor persekitaran.
Orang meleis bebal2 skrg ni pon sebab duduk di kawasan bandaraya.
Oleh kerana kami tak mahu jadi bebal, kami memilih hutan sebagai university kami.
Pakaian seragam kami juga back to nature. Pakai daun2 dan rumput2 sahaja.
Kerana kami tak mahu jadi bebal macam meleis lain.
Yang Benar,
Budak QuestNet yang tak bebal
Celaka btul, kakak aku macam nak rak mintak approval utk bukak an actual established med school kat Johor nih, sampai skarang tak dapat2. Yg ni dah terang2 nampak sangat si QNet ni dah duk sogok gomen kan. Bagus btul semua duk telan duit haram jer keje.
huyoooo...dah ade universiti...student mungkin dapat bio disk,,boleh convo pantassssss!!!!
Praise Lord Krishna & may he blesses Qnet's noble effort in giving back to the society. This exemplary display of corporate (keparat) social responsibilty should be emulated by more conventional businesses.
The millions channeled towards the establishment of this university will provide those "unfortunate" the opportunity to be even better Meleis. Future to come it will produce world class Meleis of(scam) artists/entremanures and medical (quack) practitioners who will revolutionise & change the landscape of retail/MLM and health (& also.. errr sex related businesses- i see bionic dicks grabbing headlines) industries. I can see da brighter friggin' future of Malaya. Hell-lelujah!
Awesome entry bro. Dope! Totally rad! Love the write-up, love it!
universiti tu beb--medic course plak tu wohooo!
ahahhaha..terbaiklah bro
internasionaley ler sangatt universiti tu...~
cam harreemm..
Oh lupa..top 20!
kali neh universiti mana nak approve ijazah penipu depa neh..University of Dr Mickey Mouse?
pttla aku nampak ada orang pasang lampu liplap2 bawah air , rupanya benda dari qnet, sian pakcik tu, baca bismillah pastu mtk dijauhkan penyakit pun dah bgs, tak yah la nak letak lampu ultraman bwh air
The scene at petrol station..the DUMBEST ever seen.
How in the world by doing that crazy move, your fuel consumption become less?
Macam gaya meraba-raba badan je aku tengok
teringat satu episod Pawn Star, barang dia ala2 macam biodisc jgk..cumanya pakai kaca, hala ke cahaya n nikmati sinaran yg sihat (LOL)..
harap2 mythbuster team boleh try eksprimen pasai benda2 magic dalam dunia MLM..hehehe :D
ya..satu lagi bro aidid..kot boleh di 'highlight' kan..agak pelik takdak sekor pun set2 geng Qnet (fans group Q-Face ke?) bagi komen pasai pendant Allah tu..senyap sunyi je..takkan pasai duit, benda haram boleh buat tak tahu je..kasi terjah bro aidid :D
aku dah check nama unibesiti ni kat MQA. mmg unibesiti tak diiktiraf! dasar scammer!
ce kome pulak try.
http://www.mqa.gov.my/ klik kat online service MOR
Hehehe Odah,
Ko memang da bomb.
Ape dorang ni tgh pre-commercialization stage ke? Market dulu, recruit/intake student kemudian? Takpun skang baru siap business plan, tgh cari core management team.
Teringat kat kes Dr Fazley. keh keh keh...
lepas ni boleh mengajar budak2 dia bela rambut afro mcm sai baba.... pakai jubah kunin, pastu buat scam kasi emas kat orang2 lalu lalang kat bandaraya ipoh....kah kah kah
Isk.. Isk.. Isk.. Ni yg aku nak marah ni, patut lah aku kalah lawan raksase ari tu... lampu oltraman aku dah kena rembat ngan bebudak Asskram Qnet.!! Mangkuk!!
New university huh? Might apply for a job there, then. Am looking for greener pastures and it doesn't get any greener than that! Hehehe...
Eh lupa lak nak cakap thanks kat Ms Odah. TQ yek Ms, sebab share info sangat berguna. Sangat suke!
quest uni ni depan my workplace je. its a one shared building. 1 building pun dah boleh kira universiti. memang hebat la kan.
dah ada student pun since june 2011. pastu kalau tengok kain rentang iklan dia, it says that for some courses, it's 100% n scholarship . ada courses yang dapat 50% scholarship. Pastu dia letak lambang negeri perak besar besar sebab nak menunjukkan yang this so-called uni ni memang valid.
setahu i, before it was a quest uni, it's a local college called kolej premier. suddenly dia revamp, jadi kolej premier yayasan perak. tiba2 dah jadi quest university. bukan kolej university, tapi terus jadi uni yo!
buat malu i sebagai orang perak je kalau this is really a scam.
anyway, i tengok perkerja dan pelajar UNI tu mostly adalah kap lam ya nga. hehehhehe
bro..quest international uni tu...sebeno2 nye dah 4-5 tahun abandoned project nye...baru je start tahun ni..itu pun now situated kat bangunan buruk je kat ipoh...students pun ada la berapa kerat.... sadis!! like u mentioned...rejected students je yg enrol there....
This is what happens when even educators are no longer doing it for the actual profession. And org marah bila aku ckp that walaupun cikgu sekarang dpt mcm2 and lebih dari cikgu2 dulu, the quality and passion aren't just the same
lepas satu..satu lagi muncul..macam cendawan tumbuh...
Org maleis pun suka sgt memender macam ni sebab memang dr dulu suka percaya mender-mender mcm ni..macam pakai tangkal..etc2..haish.. bila ntah nak bukak mata dan hati nih....
sian pada yag dah berabih duit....tchk!!!
pasai u ni penah majalah mastika highlight..tajuk dia agak funny la..celah jalan pasar seni boleh ada U..
so kalo share buliding tu still kira U ni power la (tangan ke dada, mata ke atas)..
mcm mana kerajaan negeri perak boleh invest sama ni? Hindu vijay ni adik beradik zamree ka?
I think these people are hell abides. Why are they crying out loud taking QNet's name everytime? These people are so greedy that they do not understand the business structure and join just to make money. They do not work hard to grow their network and then when they fail to achieve the targets, they shout that the company is fraud. I am in QNet MLM business for 2 years now and have achieved more than I would have ever being a small business owner. One should not just spread confusion about such a good company.
2 years? THEN... FUCK YOU TO HELL YOU FUCKING QUESTNET SCAMMER!
Those people below you are not Indians huh? So, you don't fucking care if they lose tons of money? No sense of patriotism to your own people? Hey you know, that is just like Vijay Eswaran too... he's Indian. He get rich scamming his own people. He sleep soundly at night. Selling junk on a pyramid-scheme marketing plan... no remorse whatsoever.
Hey asshole... your biodisc glass is useless. It's worth about a dollar... although I'd buy it from you only if you sell it to me 50 cents. You know what it is good for? You can throw it at a stray dog... that could work.
Asshole... who's the hell abides? Ko tu yg akan masuk neraka jahannam jadi bahan-api utk bakar org lain samdol... jgn la perasan scammer bongok bingai oi! You're a real fucking nitwit aren't ya? Hey, do you understand what I was saying... retard?
Tak taw cakep meleis ka samdol? Can't also understand quite simple economics huh? That figures... useless dumbass.
One may complain everything,everyone at anytime but not himself, claiming established organisation with goverment involvement to be a fraud but not even taking a look at himself via his own piss how stupid he is. One may not stay long enough and hardworking enough before the tree becomes fruitful and subsequently conclude that the tree can not grow fruit, i wonder how stupid these people can be. Try looking at yourself prior to judging other people.
you r just like him>>>> <(-00-)>
Building university is nothing to do with success. It is not the way to measure success.
In Questnet case, they kick-start their business journey with MLM. If you think MLM business is not a scam, then you should provide enough evidence/fact to table here. If you couldn't...then you just another species of him: BABI
Chris anak sakai baru keluar hutan...
Brader... pekabor wei? Waras ko eshol dol?
Mesti la nak komplen fucker woi... hindu scammer Hong Kong tu nak mencemar duli kat negara aku dol... what the fuck is wrong with you sakai? Kat hutan tarak sekolah ka? Dah panas bontot kepalejadah haramjadah ko dah erk? Dasar scammer kapiaq... tahu nak duik ajo, tak kesah halal-haram... fuck man, what is fucking wrong with you boy? Oh aku dah tanyo tadi... mintak mahap tanyo dua kali. Eleh... cubo lah poei cari mana2 mamat gayboi, mintak dia tolong kasi usap bontot hangat pijar ko tuh... kasi sojuk.
Cubaan si kapiaq nak berfalsampah... macam haramjadah... HAHAHA!
Kalau dah scammer... scammer jugak samdol.
Dey kichi.... mana maw larik?
I can c quite number of people with the cognitive dissonance problems: the fox and the grapes (^_^)
Try to think logically people before screwing up ur own blog Aidid, u r so angry with ur MLM or network marketing, but find out what u so dislike about working as a team? Or is it u r d one that has not put enough effort to achieve what u want? Has any of the network ask u to invest a very very large sum amount of money without giving u anything or any investment return opportunity?
Aidid of coz u can write all those bad & rude words, write what anything u want,whatever & however u want, it is ur blog, but u r so closed minded, u r like people from stone-age concluding that the earth is a cube in shape, u r like people from few ages ago saying the phone or car or any technological items wont work. U all may keep complaining but try to evaluate where u r before splitting out those rubbish .(^_^) If u r irritated means that u termakan chili hahahaha, u may keep writing all these bad words....(^_^)
Of course I can write whatever the fuck I want - you scammers@assholes don't have to remind me that, you know. Duh!
Why am I so angry with MLM and network marketing? Seriously? You asked me that question samdol? You have an IQ of 75 or what boy? Or you just ate shit for breakfast just now... your mom cook it just to feed you so that you'd have shit-for-brain? Or you just got out of the jungle? It's so damn easy for all those MLM fuckers to brainwash people like you huh... because you probably failed so bad in your secondary school level mathematics. Can't even understand the number games the played upon you... hopeless ass.
But anyway... who the fuck do you think you're talking to, you dumbass? Do you think your intellect is at the same level as mine? You don't read that much, do you. Too busy scamming other people huh? You can't even understand simple things like MLM/network marketing/pyramid scheme/scam... duh! And here you wanna assert that your intellect can exceed this blog-writer? What is fucking wrong with you boy? Do you know who I am and what I do?
Stone age huh? I'm the one with the blog samdol woi, that had >2.6 millions hits so far... and it is filled with all sorts of scientific, mathematical and economics informations available for my people perusal... MY PEOPLE. If you feel outta place in here - GET THE FUCK OUT YOU FUCK! I write so that these Malay kids can understand the game that scammers@fuckers like your kind play on them for the sake of the littlest money you can get via your scams and economic lies... You wanna talk crap, go talk to the monkeys. You can't talk shit to me... remember that next time.
Come on, you really wanna tell me that you just came out of the jungle huh boy? Fuck man... must be hard to have shit-for-brain, to get you by thru' the day. What a fucking dumbass. Get the fuck outta here boy. Shoooh! Go do your network marketing a.k.a. pyramid scheme... HAHAHAHA! Korang mana kesah pasal duit halal-haram pun kan? Dasar kapiaq haram-jadah... elok humban masuk lubang jamban jek. Kalau tak lubang neraka laaaaa....
OH EM GEE!!! Oh Lord in heaven... Mother Mary, Mother of God!
Those politicians did not know yet that the money for building the university comes from a company that do PYRAMID SCHEMES to get their millions. A scam company that has been banned from one country after another... meaning? Once the shit hits the fan... things will unravel. You wanna bet? Malaysia is after all... a muslim country. Kita org kat Malaysia, ambik kesah duit halal-haram samdol woi!
But anyway... a company that promote a product, which is a piece of one dollar glass sold 500 times it's value, with promises of transforming normal tap water into magic snowflakes, based on non-existent science made-in-India (or wherever fuck the scam originated in the first place) and that magic water can cure diabetes, cancer, hypertension and... the disease low IQ (like this scammer boy Chris) - and now they wanna build a medical university in Perak....? Whaaaaaaat......?
Vijay Eswaran is so fucking hilarious... you know, stupid clown hilarious!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What the fuck boy? Duh again...
I can c a guy who feels irritated by a work of a great man trying to spread knowledge to the man's own people since this directly intervene in his scamming business.(^_^)
Try to think logically chris before screwing up other people's blog. u r so angry when you find out the malays can see the scam in ur MLM or network marketing, and they have began to spread the word around decreasing your prospect base? Or is it u r d one that has not put enough effort to scam your own people? Has any of the network ask u to scam only the malay race without giving u opportunity to try to scam your own race?
u r so closed minded, u r like people from stone-age concluding that the earth is a cube in shape, u r like people from few ages ago saying the phone or car or any technological items wont work. come on chris this is 2011, how much longer do you think the malay will stay dumb. the chinese always make noise even when they made some 'bad investment', when the truth is actually they are just as greedy and won't think twice to scam / steal / lie / cheat other people just to get rich.
U may keep commenting but try to learn how to construct a proper english sentence first, while you're at it, why not learn a proper malay language as well, you know, since this is malaysia .(^_^)
Why don't you go fuck yourself with your fucking shit smiley asshole and pig-snout face <(-00-)>
you and your people will always try to look and sound smart to CONvince other people whom are vulnerable and may be a bit gullible
look at point no. 10, that is, if your pig snout hasn't grown so big that it obstruct you from reading the article which was not written by a malay
awat depa brani sgt no tipu org?...RMRMRM..USD USD USD...YEN..YEN..YEN...i forgot. urat2 haluih kat otak bsimpoi kena putaq belit, neuron2 terkujat nampak benda pelik...statik proses otak. peh tu, menurut ja apa samseng2 kikis duit kata...without prejudis beb. woii...aku tidoq 2 jam ja gara2 hg aidid..salah aku gak tak boring2 menelaah tutorial bersihkan otak hg ni...mcm nak kena buat thesis dh ni...weiiii!!!blh demam urat aku..apa pon aku dh jd fan hg....cayalah!!!
Hg bleh dak siasat
1. TABITA (produk kosmetik INDON) harga dia sama taraf Clinique,dia tak jelaskan ingredient, sumber bhn mentah. mcm satu misteri produk gitu...claimed that AYU RAUDAH, artis2 indon yg cantik2 pakai brg depa. hihi...tu pon klu hg bminat la...sbb tu penjagaan kulit kn, biasa pempuan yg guna.
2. Walit Gold - sbb jenama POLLENEY yg juai kt Giant tu RM2.60 , Walit Gold plak RM5 ++, ingredient asas sama sarang burung walit plus gula batu , cuma tambah CoQ10..
sekian, trima kasih Aidid.
how come! jadi snowflakes? canggih gila.. x lm lagi malaysia turun salji la jwabnye..


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You could fit a Wal-Mart inside it.
Officials have broken ground for a $70 million recreation center in Williston they say will be the biggest in North Dakota and among the largest in the nation.
The 234,000-square-foot facility on the campus of Williston State College will include a water park and an Olympic-size swimming pool, four basketball courts, four tennis courts, a 200-meter running track, a golf simulator and other features.
"It's really big," Jeremy Ludlum, the city's recreation superintendent, told The Forum newspaper (http://bit.ly/OkMgMw ). "You could put Walmart inside of it."
City sales tax money is paying for the center. Construction is expected to be complete by March 2014.
The center designed by a Denver-based architecture company that has worked on sports facilities for four decades will be a big step toward attracting more families to Williston as oil industry workers consider making North Dakota their permanent home, Mayor Ward Koeser said.
"We realize how critical it is to have a quality of life here that attracts people and helps them to want to stay here," he said.
Several other communities in the booming western oil patch with growing populations also are working on recreation centers or expanding existing facilities. Officials in Crosby broke ground last week for a community center that will feature an indoor hockey rink and curling rink. Watford City is building a wellness center, and Dickinson is considering expanding its West River Community Center.


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No persecution or negative impact job or career as far as I know. I don't put 'atheist' on my CV or applications (unless they ask in the monitoring forms) but I do state my interests, which include secular humanism as well as science, philosophy and skepticism... I think that's cryptic enough that it will go under the radar undetected by most, unless they are inquisitive enough to look it up, in which case good for them, or it'll be not so in your face beacon to the well informed and likeminded comrade.
When I'm touring on my motorbike I have a Darwin fish on my left pannier, an FSM on my right pannier and a pirate fish on my spare fuel can, which is attached to the back of one of my panniers... I also have an FSM patch on my motorcycle jacket, and sometimes I wear the red scarlet A. When I'm camping I have a red FSM flag too, it helps me find my tent when I'm inebriated and it's usually a good signpost to meet-up with friends. So you could say I'm an out atheist - My blog: TheAtheistBiker, clears up any final uncertainties, LOL. So far so good, never been vandalized. The FSM paraphernalia, flag especially, is a great conversation starter because people don't know what it is or what it means.
Never had anything overtly threatening happen. I find most faitheads are a bit creepy to be honest... but I find that most people, especially work colleagues, are generally very surprised and actually quite interested as they usually have never met an out atheist let alone a vocal one. I do have friends of faith but I have also lost friends and acquaintances, of faith and none, from Facebook. Although, if I'm honest I didn't notice they were gone until I went to find them in my friend list. So no big loss.
Anyway, I have lost one friend on facebook who was a best bud in real life, (not 100% sure yet how it's impacted in our real life friendship as we haven't spoke in a while but that's reasonably normal). The weird thing is that unless he was a secret friend of Jesus, he was largely a non-believer as far as I knew... and he was either too stubborn, or apparently too stupid, to just hide my FB posts and links if he was fed up with seeing them on my own wall. Indeed, he was the only person whose friendship I would consider a loss, but if friends can't accept you for what you are, especially when you accept them for what they are, then they're not really worth it in my book.
Conversely, I have made some excellent friendships with other wonderful atheists and Skeptics that I would never have made if I wasn't an out atheist and as vocal as I am. The family, largely accept my atheism as part of my personality, some love to get into debates, so being out and vocal just adds an extra level of enjoyment for all concerned. Some of my family are likeminded, but most just can't seem to grasp the most basic rudiments of logical or rational discourse and tend to make the usual logical fallacies and cognitive biases. My journey of self discovery and what I think about coming out.
Kind regards
Great topic!
I am in the Navy, and I work as a military police investigator. When I made it clear in my office that I did not want to recieve their religious emails because I was atheist and had not time for it, I was instantly ostrisized. Since my line of work requires you to have a high moral standard, the attack on my character focused directly on my ethics and morals. Because the more religious people in my office think that "atheists" are the same as "Satanist", I have had an uphill battle trying to get the same fair treatment as my religious counterparts. I have had sprited debates with christians in the past, but this is the first time in my life that I have been discriminated against.
I've been "out" as an unbeliever all of my life. I remember discussions with friends in high school about religion and the feeling of utter disbelief that adults actually believe this stuff. One of my best friends in High School's parents were both unitarian ministers in town.
I haven't really cared much about atheism until I started reading about the horrors of the Catholic Church rapes in Springfield, MA (near where I live) and also in Boston (where I was born). Someone forwarded me a link to http://bishopaccountability.org and that's when I started getting angry. I was 44 at the time. That was 5 years ago. Now I am one of the most out-spoken atheists in my community.
I have had death threats by email, phone calls that were very frightening to my wife and family (we now have an unlisted number). Someone sent us 50 pizzas last year, and I've had my email registered at dozens of gay porn and fetish websites over the years. Thank goodness for Google, their spam filters are excellent. One of those people who submitted my email to a gay porn website unfortunately didn't know that her IP address was also included. I was able to track her down with some assistance from a skip tracer friend of mine, to a little trailer park in the mid west. One phone call put a stop to that nonsense.
I am a music teacher in my area. All of my students know my position on theism. Quite a number of them are religious or come from religious families. It's made for some interesting conversations over the years!
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Artist: Sandra Wilson
Biography: Raised in Alaska and North Ogden. Graduated from USU with BFA and MFA degrees. Exhibited paintings and weavings statewide. Recognized for volunteer service. Influenced Cache Valley children through art instruction at art camps and in public schools. Lives in Logan UT
Notes: Commissioned by Mayor Desmond Anderson in the 1970's. (He is depicted to left of banner in painting).
Description: Acrylic on masonite, 48x48, 1970's
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Reading these comments from an anonymous Conservative offical, you see a rare admission:
The official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named, said that the Conservatives believe Mr. Dion had a good July, with the launch of the Green Shift, but lately the balance has tilted
Dion did have a good July, easily his best patch since becoming leader. Don't take anything that follows as panic or doom and gloom, because the Liberals are fine as of today. My concern is more the trend, the Liberals just don't have the luxury to let up, it has to be push, push, push, all the time, everywhere. The opponent hasn't relinquished in the least, it's still daily offence. For all intent and purposes, the election has already begun, the Liberals simply can't afford to let Harper dominate the headlines without an effective counter. Idle media, with no real Liberal story to tell, allows for the Conservative attack machine to get maximum coverage. It is noteworthy, that Dion's high profile in the weeks prior tended to balance the hysteria. If Dion is on vacation, then Liberal strategists should be creative to keep their message in the news. Any "void" is risky, especially when you consider most Canadians haven't really developed a firm opinion either way.
The Green Shift is still malleable, the frame isn't completely established, which means its ultimate fate may come down to one simple reality, which side, the advocate or the detractor, works the hardest. This is no time to pat ourselves on the back for a pretty good release, this is the time to kick it into overdrive, every challenge met with a response. No dead air, complete overlap.
It's the middle of August, and I'm still waiting for anything Liberal in the province of Quebec. Fertile ground for The Green Shift, opportunity for Dion to get some traction. To date, no sense of any gameplan in this key province, if there is one, so under the radar to be irrelevant.
Again, the sky is not falling, in fact I see partly sunny skies. However, that current reality can change in short order, especially with rabid dogs everyone, primed to pounce.


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Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) increased 32.9pc to 202 yen by the close, Chubu Electric Power jumped 9.59pc to 1,188 yen and Kansai Electric was up 17.6pc at 920 yen.
The huge surge on the Tokyo Stock Exchange came after voters on Sunday dumped Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), giving the pro-business Liberal Democratic Party a landslide victory.
Anti-nuclear sentiment has run high in Japan after last year's Fukushima crisis, with opinion polls showing a majority of voters wanted to phase out nuclear power.
However, that failed to translate into wider support for the DPJ, which had pledged to work toward a zero-nuclear country, or a group of small anti-nuclear parties which had little impact at the polling booth.
Premier-in-waiting Shinzo Abe, the LDP's hawkish head, derided the zero-nuclear goal as unrealistic and "irresponsible" - and hinted at keeping atomic power.
The LDP has said it would decide on reactor restarts in three years and the nation's "best energy mix" within a decade.
Major business lobby Keidanren said in a statement Monday that it "welcomes the LDP's landslide victory".
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.62pc at the open on Monday but fell back to close up 0.9pc at 9828.88.
In earlier Tokyo forex trading, the dollar soared to 84.30 yen, up from 83.52 yen in New York on Friday, and its strongest level against the Japanese currency in more than a year and a half.
Japanese exporters have also been suffering from a strong yen, which hit record levels around 75 against the dollar late last year and remains historically strong despite its recent weakening.
Mr Abe pledged to bolster Japan's defences in the face of a territorial spat with China while vowing to pressure the Bank of Japan (BoJ) into more aggressive policy easing measures in a bid to inject new life into the world's third-largest economy.
He wants the central bank to buy government bonds - effectively printing money - to generate inflation, in a bid to drag Japan out of the deflationary spiral that has haunted its economy for years.
Turmoil in the European market, an unsteady economic recovery in the US and a diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing over an East China Sea island chain, which sparked a consumer boycott of Japanese products, all weighed on the economy as it recovered from last year's quake-tsunami disaster.
Mr Abe also offered to boost spending on infrastructure at a time when much of the tsunami-wrecked northeast remains a shell of its former self.


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On each trip to Iceland, we are always struck by how often other travelers are -- or intend to be -- repeat visitors. Many come year after year, never exhausting Iceland's endless variations of magnificent scenery and adventure. Returning travelers immediately recognize the crisp, invigorating polar air, and what W. H. Auden called "the most magical light of anywhere on earth."
Iceland's astonishing beauty often has an austere, primitive, or surreal cast that arouses reverence, wonderment, mystery, and awe. Lasting impressions could include a lone tuft of wildflowers amid a bleak desert moonscape or a fantastical promenade of icebergs calved into a lake from a magisterial glacier.
The Icelandic people -- freedom-loving, egalitarian, self-reliant, and worldly -- are equally exceptional. They established a parliamentary democracy over a millennium ago, and today write, publish, purchase, and read more books per capita than any people on earth. Reykjavík, their capital, has become one of the world's most fashionable urban hot spots. In November 2007, the U.N. named Iceland the world's best country to live in, based on life expectancy, education levels, medical care, income, and other criteria.


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Thursday, 5 August 2010
I was asked to decorate one of the new blank Malibu bottles and this is the result. He sits nicely over the bottle He hasn't got a name, all I know is that he's been stranded on an island drinking Malibu for many years. Let's have a little competition. I'll will give him away (without the Malibu inside!) to whoever comes up with the best name for him. Get your thinking caps and leave your suggestions in the comments. I'll be picking a winner early next week. Get naming!
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That's fantastic! Certainly needs a name! Looking forward to it!
- 5 August 2010 at 15:24
- laurie pink said...
MacGregor Emilio Snowcone!
(Emeritus Professor of Grooming at Arctic Tech)
- 5 August 2010 at 16:02
- Robin Bell said...
Bernard Snigglebottom The 3rd
- 5 August 2010 at 16:08
- laurie pink said...
Peplow Solo, poet & sewing machine enthusiast.
One of his briefer works:
"Up down, shiny claw
You make holes through which we thread
Brother Bernina"
- 5 August 2010 at 16:16
- laurie pink said...
Solipsis Quaint, gentleman & pipe-smoke with a penchant for curlers.
- 5 August 2010 at 16:17
- Ben Steers said...
Left alone on a desert island with his bounty its "Mr Kariboo the Malibu Marauder"!
- 5 August 2010 at 16:26
- laurie pink said...
Reginald Sloot, lives in a hoot.
You can correct his pronunciation to "hut" as much as you like, he'll still say "hoot".
A typical Snootism:
"Cocktails at mine? It's a hoot in the hoot! Bring an owl! We'll have a hoot hoot in the hoot!"
- 5 August 2010 at 16:26
Malcom 'Mali-boom-boom' Wilson.
- 5 August 2010 at 16:28
- laurie pink said...
"I have pineapples, berries AND bananas! It's a fruit hoot hoot in the hoot! Do you like my trumpet? Toot!"
- 5 August 2010 at 16:29
- laurie pink said...
"Check out all my cool loot! I bought it off iwoot! The fruit hoot hoot in the iwoot loot hoot!"
I'm sorry. I'm giggling quite a lot now. Also, isn't it great that iwoot.com deliver to desert islands?
- 5 August 2010 at 16:32
- Dalekdoctor said...
Caractacus Malphonzo
- 5 August 2010 at 16:35
Alexander Selkirk, a famous castaway from long ago who was the inspiration behind the Robinson Crusoe stories.
- 5 August 2010 at 16:42
- bitsOfBobs said...
Stowbart finkle. I love this. My love for Malibu not so much :)
- 6 August 2010 at 00:05
- I. N. J. Culbard said...
Call him Maliboo!!
- 6 August 2010 at 09:57
- WJC said...
Lilton McBounty
- 6 August 2010 at 10:31
hehehe I think he should be called Uncle Merkin or Thomas T Tashen or Mack Monkston the Great White Dope or Dilbert Bridlington II maybe Old White Beard or "Frosty" White real name M. Ali Boo
- 6 August 2010 at 13:15
- Martin said...
Bubba. Or Mikey.
- 6 August 2010 at 13:29
- Argonautresins said...
Mr. Monstropolis
- 6 August 2010 at 14:07
- Kellie said...
Names Norton Bumbo, at least I think that's right... I have been hur so long no one's called me much of anything in a while.
- 6 August 2010 at 14:41
- v-town_songbird said...
Bob Snarley
- 6 August 2010 at 15:04
UbiLam (Malibu)from @millybird
- 9 August 2010 at 12:21
- Jason Bennion said...
My first thought was Jeff!
Then I thought Mel'i'boo!
He likes nothing more than mixing his favorite drink (Malibu) with the 'Milk of Human Kindness'
- 1 October 2010 at 09:16


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Poquonnock Bridge Fire District board president asks state for help
Groton - The president of the Poquonnock Bridge Fire District board has written a letter to the state's Office of Policy and Management, saying the district is in financial crisis, asking for help and saying the situation threatens the fire and emergency services of its residents.
Board President Alan Ackley wrote the five-page letter on Monday to David LeVasseur, acting undersecretary for intergovernmental relations at the Office of Policy and Management and to Attorney General George Jepsen. The letter asks for a meeting with OPM's municipal finance services unit or its advisory committee that helps financially distressed municipalities.
"The board is concerned for the safety and welfare of district residents because the lack of funds available to support operations threatens the district's ability to provide basic fire and emergency services," Ackley wrote. "Without some form of relief, the district may be unable to continue operations as early as January 2014."
The letter also said the district would likely challenge a recent State Labor Relations Board ruling in favor of the firefighters' union to Superior Court.
A copy of the letter, which includes the proposed budget for the current fiscal year as an attachment, was also sent to the governor.
Ben Barnes, the secretary of OPM, wrote Ackley a letter also on Monday. Barnes wrote that he had become aware from news reports and other sources that the fire district was struggling with financial and budget issues.
Barnes told Ackley that the office's Municipal Finance Advisory Committee works with districts in financial distress and makes recommendations.
"I invite you and the Poquonnock Bridge Fire District's Board of Directors to avail yourselves of the technical expertise of the MFAC," Barnes wrote.
The eight-member municipal committee can require a district's chief executive officer to appear and discuss finances, to take remedial action to improve its finances and to submit written reports of what actions it has taken based on the group's recommendations. The commission may also review audits, budgets, accounting and other practices.
Fire District board members met in executive session for 2½ hours on Tuesday with its lawyer and special legal counsel to discuss options for dealing with the budget crisis. The board reconvened having made no decisions or taken any votes, Ackley said.
But the board is expected to act at its next regular meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Groton Senior Center.
Among the issues expected to be raised is whether to appeal a recent decision upholding a 10-year union contract that provides annual wage increases of 3 percent.
The State Board of Labor Relations ruled in favor of the firefighters' union Aug. 28.
"The board will likely appeal the decision to the Connecticut Superior Court," Ackley wrote.
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In the years that followed, he wrote: "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels nor by demons, heaven or hell."
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On Tuesday, popular French Linux vendor Mandrakesoft renewed its efforts to enter the business Linux space with the announcement that it will be releasing two new enterprise Linux distributions: Corporate Server and Corporate Desktop.
"These products have received specific development and testing efforts to make them as fit as possible for use in a business environment," said Gaël Duval, Mandrakesofts co-founder.
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I was there too. Pretty good conditions on Sunday. There's pretty much nothing in terms of facilities, you are essentially paying an entrance fee, which does seem pretty lame.
That said, it's probably the closest legitimate snow-kiting spot to the Bay Area, so I'd certainly consider going again. It was fun!


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Spoiler , putting it here so that it doesn't get lost in the message board ..Credits to Klick @ Blows for the lead and Slitter @ Survivor AddictBoth Teams....{ this challenge should be for EP10} `/~I blew up the challenge..still hard to read
Don't know Keeta..Spec that they split 4/4 for the challenge only..by the way we can see Janu's arm thanks to VG @ survivorphoenix and maybe Ians head or Caryns ..so we may know whos on whos team . Ian /Tom/Gregg/Janu and Steph/ Katie/Caryn/Jenn on the other .. just spec for now
biancaxxxRegistered User(4/14/05 12:48 pm)Reply ezSupporter Re: Compilation of actual spoilers-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a transcript of the radio program I heard it on hereHere is the part that mentions the spoiler:"DELEMEL: I'm sure they will because we exposed the production team to some cultural practices, and they filmed those. For example, one of the prizes called for a feast, a local feast with the chiefs. And that was done for them. So the contestants had the opportunity to enjoy a traditional feast and have one of the chiefs talk to them about Palau's culture, about Palau's history and the significance of the dances and the chants, the traditional chants and dances. "
QuoteMersaydeezThere is also supposed to be some beetle nut in the future. I've tried to do research on that stuff but didn't come up with much. I looked up both "betelnut" and "betel nut", found this http://moodfoods.com/betelnut/" Effects of Betel nut chewing on the central and autonomic nervous systemsbyChu NS.Department of Neurology,Chang Gung Medical Collegeand Memorial Hospital,Taipei, Taiwan, email@example.com Biomed Sci 2001 May-Jun;8(3):229-36ABSTRACT Betel chewing has been claimed to produce a sense of well-being, euphoria, heightened alertness, sweating, salivation, a hot sensation in the body and increased capacity to work. Betel chewing also leads to habituation, addiction and withdrawal. However, the mechanisms underlying these effects remain poorly understood. Arecoline, the major alkaloid of Areca nut, has been extensively studied, and several effects of betel chewing are thought to be related to the actions of this parasympathomimetic constituent. However, betel chewing may produce complex reactions and interactions. In the presence of lime, arecoline and guvacoline in Areca nut are hydrolyzed into arecaidine and guvacine, respectively, which are strong inhibitors of GABA uptake. Piper betle flower or leaf contains aromatic phenolic compounds which have been found to stimulate the release of catecholamines in vitro. Thus, betel chewing may affect parasympathetic, GABAnergic and sympathetic functions. Betel chewing produces an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, sweating and body temperature. In addition, EEG shows widespread cortical desynchronization indicating a state of arousal. In autonomic function tests, both the sympathetic skin response and RR interval variation are affected. Betel chewing also increases plasma concentrations of norepinephrine and epinephrine. These results suggest that betel chewing mainly affects the central and autonomic nervous systems. Future studies should investigate both the acute and chronic effects of betel chewing. Such studies may further elucidate the psychoactive mechanisms responsible for the undiminished popularity of betel chewing since antiquity. "
MersaydeezThere is also supposed to be some beetle nut in the future. I've tried to do research on that stuff but didn't come up with much.
Just a thought..( when I vacumn things come to me , lol ) what about this , theres been a rumor going around that Janu steps down or quits at TC , something ghostly . What if she loses the IC endurance whatever and falls first .. scenario " the first one that falls will be abandoned to an island" say Janu falls first and then Jeff says after the IC we go to TC and then Janu goes to Exile Island ..at TC she quits because she is afraid ! What do you think ?
I was thinking about the " the first person to fall will be abandoned to live on there own Island , does this mean they are safe from TC ]][ ? LOL, if so I would fall first..really I have no idea I'm just wondering how this will work?
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Paul Chambers
Pianist Sonny Clark sounds very much at home on this trio set with bassist Paul Chambers and drummerPhilly Joe Jones. Sticking to bop standards, Clark essentially plays his version of Bud Powell, carving out his own approach to the influential style. The CD reissue adds three alternates to the six selections and includes such gems as "Two Bass Hit," "Be-Bop" and "Tadd's Delight."


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This Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) is a comprehensive document outlining the safety steps, main hazards and controls associated with the safe operation of Elevated Work Platforms including scissor lifts, boom lifts, cherry pickers, aerial work platforms, articulating booms and vertical lifts.
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Being Charlie Sloth #24 - Life of an Independent British Rap Artist [Webisode]
Ara reports "In this weeks episode Charlie and the Manager go to New Skool Rules in Rotterdam, Holland. Charlie nails a strike at VIP bowling night with CL from Digiwaxx, Dion Summers from Shade45, Keinon Johnson from Interscope and the whole of Atlanta! Charlie is on a panel titled 'Distinguish Yourself from Everybody Else' with Chuck Creekmur from AllHipHop.com, Bishop Lamont, Fredro Starr and Jasmijn Rijcken (formerly Miskeen Originals). Chills with the legendary MC Shan who spits an exclusive New Skool diss. The Manger looks for a Red Light District and Charlie catches up with Fredro Starr."
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Cub Scout Baseball
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
Belt Loop Requirements
Complete these three requirements:
- 1. Explain the rules of baseball to your leader or adult partner.
- 2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing baseball skills.
- 3. Participate in a baseball game.
Sports Pin Requirements
Earn the Baseball belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- 1. Participate in a pack or community baseball tournament.
- 2. Demonstrate skill in two of the following throwing techniques: overhand, sidearm, underhand, and the relay throw.
- 3. Demonstrate skill in two of the following catching techniques: fielding a ground ball, fielding a pop-up, catching a line drive.
- 4. Demonstrate correct pitching techniques.
- 5. Demonstrate correct hitting techniques, including bunting.
- 6. Explain the rules of base running. Explain base coaching signals.
- 7. Demonstrate skill in the following sliding techniques: the straight-in slide, the hook slide, and the headfirst slide.
- 8. Play five games of baseball using standard baseball rules.
- 9. Draw a baseball field to scale or set one up for play.
- 10. Attend a high school, college, or professional baseball game.
- 11. Read a book about a baseball player and give a report about him or her to your den or family.
Webelos Scouts that earn the Baseball Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout also satisfy part of requirement 4 for the Sportsman Activity Badge.