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My mind, crazed by a long to-do list of commitments, was anything but tranquil. I felt hollow and restless. Christmas at the church and at the mall and at my house all felt the same to me: complicated, loud, busy and futile.
I was ready to bolt when I noticed shadowy figures illumined by the hallway's exit sign. I recognized them immediately: the holy family huddled in uncanny silence. The sweetly painted ceramic faces of Mary and Joseph radiated love and unexplained wonder.
Their gaze pierced through the shadows into the painted eyes of a tiny baby lying in a chipped manger. They appeared so real I almost felt I'd disrupted an intimate family moment. I stopped, gently touched the well-worn figures, and fell to my knees. This baby Jesus, made of clay, wasn't on center stage. He'd been abandoned to the darkness.
My backdoor encounter compelled me to consider Christmas in a new light. Maybe Jesus didn't come for the show. Perhaps He came for the darkness, to dispel the shadows.
At the foot of a neglected crèche, I began questioning what truly mattered. I wondered why my soul felt empty even though my calendar was full. Do the activities that capture my time, money, energy and devotion come close to what Jesus intended when He gave up a heavenly throne for a bed of straw?
To understand how to celebrate His birth, I returned to the Gospel of Matthew to study His life, priorities and values. It wasn't long before I sensed that my outrageous gift lists and my frenetic activity would fall short of His main concerns.
Trading the list for the light
Throughout His teaching, three concepts took precedence: justice, mercy and faithfulness. While railing against religious excess, He extolled the life of humility, gentleness and compassion. He said the Kingdom of God is filled with those who love and trust like little children. And it's of such high value one should be willing to give up all he has to gain it. Jesus cherished solitude, quiet reflection, contemplation and prayer.
He modeled unconditional love by literally touching people with hands of compassion and healing. He cared for the sick, poor, neglected and the outcasts in His community. He embraced and blessed little children and comforted widows. The King of Kings came to love and to serve.
Sounds good, but how does quiet contemplation work in my crazy "One-Day Sale" world? How do I care about justice, mercy and faithfulness when I'm struggling to survive? How am I supposed to trust simply like a child when I'm overpowered by choices at Toys R Us?
Though the sounds of pain and brokenness constantly surround us, at the holidays those sounds are amplified. "Merry Christmas" seems hollow and distant if one is hungry, in prison, desperately ill, or when one's only clothes are in shreds. Yet these are the very ones Jesus asks us to love. What would Christmas look like if we took Jesus' priorities of justice, mercy and faithfulness to heart?
It took a small, worn and discarded crèche to remind me of Jesus' priorities. The Old Testament prophet Micah said it best: "Mankind, He has told you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8).
Leona Bergstrom is director of Re-ignite.net ministry. She and her husband Richard have six grandchildren and live in Seattle. This article first appeared in HomeLife magazine. Learn more about LifeWay's family magazines at LifeWay.com/magazine.
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#32 wrote:Mike Dunleavy Jr is, quite possibly, the 2nd most hated sports figure in the Bay Area (behind Armando Bennitez). I can't imagine anybody still liking the poor slob. We all hope for the best... but hope is one thing and reality is another.
Wow, that is hating! People hate Benitez more than Bin Laden.

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Celebrate America's hidden treasures from all 50 states in part 1 of this two-hour special, with finds such as a Thomas Hart Benton oil on tin, a Kentucky sugar chest, and a 1960 inscribed "To Kill A Mockingbird." Which is valued at $125,000?
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Once upon a time, my brother and I entered a Power Rangers/VR Troopers trivia contest on Prodigy. TV junkies that we were, we handily answered all the questions, but, sadly, when our names came up in the drawing, we received the inferior VR Troopers action figures instead of the much cooler, dino-centric Power Rangers dolls. It's probably a good thing that my 13-year-old self didn't have access to one of these custom-made Power Rangers hoodies, or she would have spent the next four years dressed as Trini.
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Last year's winning crews for the two coveted collegiate trophies were Harvard in the Copley Cup (men's division) with its first title here since 1994 and their ninth overall win, and USC in the Jessop-Whittier Cup (women's division) which has won back-to-back titles and its fourth victory since 2007.
The 2013 Copley Cup field includes Gonzaga, Oregon State, Stanford, University of California (Berkeley), University of Pennsylvania and University of British Columbia. The Jessop Whittier Cup field: Duke, Purdue, University of California (Berkeley), UCLA, USC, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Washington State.
About 4,400 athletes from more than 125 universities, clubs and high schools from across the United States, as well as the world, participate in this legendary, premier spring regatta. Athletes, ranging in age from 14 to 84 years, compete in more than 100 races in various divisions.
From its modest beginnings in 1973, the Crew Classic has matured into one of the largest regattas held primarily for eight-oared rowing shells. Today, it is a two-day, nationally acclaimed regatta for juniors, collegiate, masters and even Olympic-level competitors, set in the picturesque waters, sandy shores and green lawns of Mission Bay Park. More than 25,000 spectators watch the races from the shoreline and the popular Jumbotron on site. San Diegans can be proud of the strong influence the regatta has had on the sport.
Against the backdrop of the San Diego skyline, spectators at the Crew Classic can enjoy music, food, art exhibit, alumni and corporate tents and the Karl Strauss Beer Garden and Brew Classic for that "feet in the sand" or "beer in the hand" experience. The San Diego Zoo and Safari Park Family Festival offers activities for children, like inflatables and rock climbing.
The massive Jumbotron provides spectators with the perfect view of the start of the races and is located just south of the Championship Stage, sponsored by American Specialty Health.
With the explosive power of eight athletes, races start near the SeaWorld towers and pass the Ingraham Street bridge, head north along Mission Bay for 2,000 meters, and finish at Crown Point Shores — all while being cheered on by fans, families, coaches and college pep bands.
Racing is tentatively scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. each day. The racing action continues until about 6 p.m. on April 6 and until about 3:30 p.m. on April 7. The Jessop-Whittier Cup heats begin early in the morning on April 6, followed by the Copley Cup heats. The Jessop-Whittier Cup final is set for April 7, followed by the Copley Cup final.
Ticket prices for the 2013 San Diego Crew Classic and Family Festival are $12 in advance and $15 on the day of the event. Admission is free for active military with ID and for children under 12 years of age.
Parking is $15 per car at Crown Point Shores. There is free parking at Ski Beach, off of Ingraham Street and across from the entrance to Paradise Point Resort, with free shuttle service to the regatta.For more information about the 40th annual San Diego Crew Classic and Family Festival, visit crewclassic.org. The site includes information for competitors and spectators, as well as the race schedule and results.


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A healthy, wealthy, sustainable worldActivity by Tim Reynolds | added on Sep 13, 2011 | Belgium
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Dr. John Emsley talks about his latest book – 'A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World' in Brussels on 19 September. The book was specifically written for International Year of Chemistry 2011 and describes the importance of chemistry in everyday life and the benefits that chemical science currently brings to society.
A healthy, wealthy, sustainable world
The world stands at a crossroads. What route to the future should we take? Dr John Emsley is a well-known champion of chemistry and works to help people get a better appreciation of the role of chemistry in daily life and its essential contribution to a future sustainable world.
John will be in Brussels on the evening of 19 September to talk about his latest book – 'A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World'. His latest work was specifically written for International Year of Chemistry 2011 and describes the importance of chemistry in everyday life, the benefits that chemical science currently brings to society, and how this can continue on a truly sustainable basis.
The route to a sustainable city beckons, but what effect will this have on chemistry, which seems to be so dependant on fossil resources? Its products are part of everyday life, and without them we could regress to the world of earlier generations when lives were blighted by disease, famine, dirt and pain. In fact, the chemical, agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries could be sustainable and not only benefit the developed world but also be shared by everyone on the planet and for generations to come. This talk will show how this could be achieved.
Dr John Emsley is the author of a series of highly readable best-selling popular science books about everyday chemistry. He has also published in national newspapers and magazines, and he has written chemistry text books and booklets for industry. Following his PhD research at Manchester University, John pursued an academic career in the University of London, before becoming science writer in residence at Imperial College London and then the University of Cambridge. In addition to his popular books and articles he has also authored over 110 original research papers.
Dr. John Emsley on "A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World"
Monday September 19th at 19:45 for 20:00
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Drinks and nibbles will be available after the lecture and there will be an opportunity to meet and talk with John.
Registration is not essential but if you do intend to come please email RSC Belgium with the number in your party, so we can make sure we have an adequate stock of refreshments on hand.
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Attorney General Bill Lockyer to Review San Diego Priest Sexual Abuse Cases
(SAN DIEGO) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced that his office will review for possible prosecution several San Diego County cases alleging sexual abuse by clerics in the Roman Catholic diocese. The Attorney General agreed to accept the cases at the request of San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis.
"Sexual assaults by priests are among the worst crimes because they are not only violent, they also involve a violation of the victim's trust," Lockyer said. "My office will do a thorough and fair review of the alleged sexual abuse incidents by a number of priests in San Diego County and do everything possible to provide justice."
The San Diego District Attorney's Office referred three separate cases to the Attorney General for prosecutorial review. Before deciding whether to prosecute, the Attorney General's office will review the cases over the next several weeks and consult with prosecutors and investigators in the District Attorney's Office, as well as local law enforcement agencies that investigated the cases.
In addition to the three cases referred by District Attorney Dumanis, numerous other Diocese-related sexual assault investigations are currently being conducted by local law enforcement agencies throughout San Diego County. The Attorney General's office also will be responsible for making prosecutorial decisions on any cases referred to his office by local investigating agencies.


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NEW YORK — Please. Can we stop this nonsense about a phony wild card and "playoffs?"
You have a team with a $175 million payroll trotting out the likes of Daniel Nava and Pedro Ciriaco as designated hitters. It's embarrassing and it does not deserve to be rewarded with excuse making and silly playoff dreams.
Red Sox fans are not stupid.
The Sox lost again Friday night, 10-3, in the Bronx. Since Sept. 1 the Sox are 56-71, yet still cling to the preposterous notion that they are part of baseball's elite class. They make excuses about injuries and they try to keep you interested because they still have a chance at a one-game playoff and then . . . well, anything can happen, right?
No. Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe, and Johnny Damon are not walking through that door. You now have tin soldiers Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, and Jacoby Ellsbury.
From 1962 through 1968, there were 10 teams in the American League and 10 teams in the National League. Finishing last meant finishing 10th and only one team from each league made the playoffs, a.k.a. the World Series.
The baseball world is very different now. We have six divisions, one featuring only four teams. Ten of 30 major league teams will make the playoffs and you can finish in last place in the AL West and still say you are a fourth-place team.
The Red Sox of the 1960s finished eighth twice and ninth twice. Sox fans were blessed to have the Washington Senators locked in the AL basement.
If the old rules applied today, the Sox would be in 11th place in a 14-team American League. And there would be no hope of playing October baseball.
Instead, they wrestle with their identity, after 100 games (hmm, wonder if they sang "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall''), still not sure if they are buyers or sellers as Tuesday's trading deadline nears. They cannot decide if they are World Champion hopefuls or enduring yet another bridge year.
Bobby Valentine Friday talked about this team possibly getting to 20 games above .500. That's 42-20 the rest of the way. Is there anything to indicate that the Sox have a stretch like that in them?
New York has won six of seven against the Sox this season. Boston has lost six of seven overall, sits in last place, two games under .500 and a whopping 11½ games behind the Yankees (12 in the loss column).
In the midst of this horrible play, Sox ownership says nothing. CEO Larry Lucchino has appeared on team-sponsored/owned networks, but soccer obsessed John Henry and chairman Tom Werner continue to demonstrate that baseball doesn't matter much anymore. Hope you caught the big AS Roma win over Liverpool at Fenway Wednesday night.
Perfect. The Henry entity can't even win a Friendly at Friendly Fenway.
There was nothing friendly about the Sox' reception in the Bronx. Boston failed to turn a routine double play in the first and it cost three runs. Aaron Cook had a very loud four innings — Raul Ibanez and Russell Martin each hit two-run homers.
Into the breach Saturday we get smilin' Jon Lester, who is 5-8 with a 5.46 ERA and allowed 11 earned runs in his last outing. Good thing Boston's dueling pitching coaches, Bob McClure and Randy Niemann, are around to straighten things out.
Stop the madness. Can everybody please stop pretending the Sox are about to go on a big run?
The Yankees are so much better (and so much better run) than the Red Sox it makes your hair hurt. Fox and ESPN are here for "big rivalry" games Saturday afternoon and Sunday night, but the notion of a rivalry has become little more than a reflex response. Many Yankees beat writers took the night off Friday. The Sox just aren't worth it anymore.
Your Red Sox have not won a playoff game since 2008 and are about to miss the playoffs for the third straight season.
Injuries, right? Hard luck, right?
The Yankees lost the greatest closer in baseball history for the season. They have lost Brett Gardner for the season. They never had Michael Pineda, the pitcher they acquired for Jesus Montero. CC Sabathia went on the disabled list. Andy Pettitte broke his ankle and Alex Rodriguez broke his hand.
"This group has been through it before and been able to overcome it,'' said manager Joe Girardi.
Unlike You Know Who, scuffling in the cellar, waiting for the return of the varsity.
"There's been a lot of stuff going on,'' Valentine acknowledged in an exhaustively long pregame presser. "But I think we're headed in the right direction. I don't see things going backward.''
"A lot of stuff going on."
There's an understatement. There was a fire in the Red Sox front office at Fenway during spring training and on Friday Boston police reported that somebody stole Wally the Green Monster.
The Wally heist turned out to be a misunderstanding. But Fenway this year really is where amazing happens. Just not a lot of winning.Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The following is a piece that ran on NPR last week about the orphan situation in Haiti. I thought this was an even piece showing the complexity of the problem, and revealing the disparity between UNICEF ideology and application. They also allowed someone to speak that is rarely given a voice in this discourse: the affected orphan. Read to the end . . . it's heartbreaking, and there are no easy solutions.
March 9, 2010
Debbie Elliot Haiti is a country of children. Half the population is under 18 years old. And since the earthquake, it seems kids are everywhere — carrying water buckets, pushing wheelbarrows full of rubble, flying kites and playing with toy cars amid the tents that are now homes. There also are many children who are alone, orphaned since the Jan. 12 quake that killed more than 200,000.
In a park near the airport road in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, a group of teenage boys are huddled around a radio, listening to Creole rap music. They are not related, but have formed a brotherhood in the disaster. Five of them are living in the park without shelter — or adult supervision. "After the earthquake, all of us came here to sleep," 16-year-old Luckson explains through a translator. Their homes and neighborhoods collapsed in the earthquake. "All my family died," Luckson says. Jean, also 16, can't find his family. "Me, I heard they are somewhere, but I don't know the place," he says. The boys do odd jobs to earn money, like fixing cars that break down on their way to the airport. They share food and try to survive with what little they have, washing out the same clothes they've been wearing since the earthquake. UNICEF estimates that more than 20,000 children lost their parents in the quake and its aftermath. Relatives or neighbors are caring for many of these children. Others, such as the boys in the park, are fending for themselves. Humanitarian groups are working to track the separated children and reunite families when possible. The children's names are entered into a searchable database with information about where they used to live and whether they have relatives in the countryside. Registering Children, Reuniting Families Late on a recent Friday afternoon, a team of social workers came to register the teenage boys living the park. The workers took photographs and promised to return Monday morning to take them to an orphanage, where they would be cared for and would be able to resume their studies until caregivers can be found. UNICEF officials say they have registered more than 300 children so far and reunited about a dozen families. It takes detective work, says Marie de la Soudiere, coordinator of UNICEF's program for separated children in Haiti. Until caregivers are located, the agency tries to place kids temporarily in orphanages or designated child-safe tents in the spontaneous camps where earthquake victims have settled. Soudiere says there is danger in the chaos of disaster. "You can take children [who] are lost, and nobody will even find you," says Soudiere. And you can take advantage of desperate parents "who don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, because their lack of knowledge that aid is coming … then they just say, 'Take my child,' " she says. Even before the earthquake, Haiti had more than 300,000 orphans. Destitute parents gave up some, and in the worst cases, handed the children over to wealthy families as servants, known asrestaveks in Creole. Since the earthquake, the government has tightened its watch on child trafficking and temporarily halted adoptions, a move supported by key humanitarian groups. "No one has the right to take a child out of this country," says Caryl Stern, president and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. She says good intentions don't always result in what's best for a child. "You hear frequently in the States, especially, 'Well, but we can provide for them so much better.' Where do you draw that line then? So this summer, when it's really hot and the kids in the ghetto or neighborhoods where they don't have air conditioning, are we going to pluck those kids and take them to parents who have air conditioning because they can provide for them better?" she asks. "No one has the right to decide where a child should be except that child's family," Stern says. No Safety Net For Families But some say the crackdown on adoptions is misplaced. "In a perfect world … I would love to see international adoption stopped," says Dixie Bickel, who runs the orphanage God's Littlest Angels, about 45 minutes outside of Port-au-Prince. "I would love to see Haitians take in and adopt a child without making it a slave in their home," she says. Bickel is an American nurse who has lived in Haiti since 1991. There are about 60 children staying at the orphanage now, mostly infants and toddlers she has taken in from other orphanages that were destroyed by the earthquake. Bickel is frustrated by what she sees as hostility toward orphanages like hers. "Nobody says a thing because mothers give up their kids in the U.S., because we know they can't take care of their kids," she says. "But in Haiti, it's made to look like it's an illegal trafficking situation because the mother says, 'I would rather give up my baby than see it die in my arms.' " Bickel says that until the cultural system in Haiti changes to support families with children, institutions like hers are crucial. Some U.S. senators, including Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, believe the influx of international aid after the earthquake provides an opportunity to build a modern child welfare system in Haiti. "The problem is there's no safety net of support services in Haiti," Landrieu says. "And it causes many parents to want to or to be forced to or encouraged to abandon their children." For now, UNICEF's Soudiere says her agency is trying to get emergency assistance to families in crisis. "If it's a bit of food and a tent so be it, because it's criminal that money should be spent on a child in an orphanage, separated from the family, where a quarter of that amount of money could maintain that child at home," she says. Shattered Hopes On Monday morning, the teenage boys living in the Port-au-Prince park are up early, backpacks on, waiting for the social workers to return for them. "It makes me so happy that I have a chance today," sings 15-year-old Steve. He says the group wanted to get back to school so they will have a future. "Me, what I would like is every one of us to have something to do," he says. "Like if this one could be an engineer, this one could be a doctor, it would be great." But something is amiss. Two of the boys do not show up. Over the weekend, they left with foreigners offering food and money. The others didn't have details, but think they went to a hotel downtown. They are surprised their "brothers" did not return to meet the social workers. The social workers arrive late, and with bad news. The orphanage won't take the boys because they are too old. The plan now is to give the boys a tent in one of the settlement camps throughout the city. The smile fades from Luckson's face. He doesn't like the idea. "We will always stay [here] until we find someone [who] is not lying so they can help us really," Luckson says. He sits down on one of the brick garden walls that has been his home since the earthquake. In his pocket is a folded piece of notebook paper, with a poem neatly written in English:
My name is Luckson
I'm sixteen years old
My mother and father's dead
I don't have no one to help me
I don't have nobody in haiti
My sister and my brother's dead
I'm sleep in the street
I don't have no one to take care me
Please lets me go whith you
I need adoption.
Please help me.


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Hi Namasthe,
I had a dream mostly early hours around 4PM-5PM recently where a women dressed in while cloths asked me to do a shivling pratishta under a tree where there is already one linga exists. after that she has asked me to perform pooja for that shivling with yellow flowers which will enable me to get a desired husband. Saying so that lady was becoming weak, or she fell unconscious.
I'm scared why that lady went unconscious. Yesterday morning I again had a dream where one lady asked me now its time lets pray to shiva. I saw one spatika linga this time in dream.
Between these two dreams I have seen Shivling twice or thrice in dreams. common thing in these dreams are they were always during early hours of the the day.
Please suggest me what does these dreams mean, what shall i do?
more concerning thing is why that lady fell unconscious or said i'm leaving soon. I'm worried about my mom's health.
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(Reuters) - The New York Giants trailed to two Washington touchdowns but fought back to claim a 24-17 win over the Redskins on Sunday that kept their playoff hopes alive.
The Giants, who started the season 0-6, have now won five of their last six and are just two games behind NFC East leaders Dallas and Philadelphia.
"We're almost accustomed to putting ourselves in bad situations and coming out of it," Giants defensive end Justin Tuck told reporters, of the team's knack for late-season rallies.
"At 0-6, it would've been easy for us to point fingers. That we didn't talks about the leadership."
New York (5-7) fell behind 14-0 to hosts Washington in the first half but showed the kind of resolve that has kept them firmly in the playoff hunt.
Eli Manning responded with a pair of scoring drives to end the half with Andre Brown breaking away for a 23-yard touchdown before Brandon Myers caught a 22-yard score to tie the game 14-14 at the half.
Manning's lone interception in the third quarter led to a Washington field goal, which put the hosts up by three, before New York closed the game with 10 straight points in the fourth.
Brown added a second rushing touchdown while Manning finished with 235 passing yards.
Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III started red hot by completing his first 12 passes but flamed out. He threw for 207 yards, one score and ran for 88 yards, but the Redskins' (3-9) offense stalled in the second half.
Griffin was harassed all game by Tuck who finished with four sacks.
Washington's last drive ended when Pierre Garcon caught a pass for a first down but had the ball stripped away by New York safety Will Hill.
The Redskins have now lost four straight.
"(This season is) so frustrating to the point I can't tell you," Washington wide receiver Santana Moss said.
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Terrible day, terrible awful stooopid day. So in order to share my misery I felt the need to post a pointless stooopid thread. I figure most of the peeps will comment and talk shit which may make me feel better, or make me commit suicide. 50/50. The only thing that gives me comfort today is something my Grandmother told me a long time ago. "Dark Blue" she said, "its better to get pissed off then pissed on." Grandma was a wise woman.


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9 Amazing Tipping Stories
Last month, a waitress at a Waffle House in North Carolina was given a $1000 tip from a generous customer—but she had to return it due to the restaurant's policy on large gratuities via credit card. However, after some light online uproar, the waitress finally got her tip when the customer wrote her a check.
Add this to the list of rare instances when we hear about excessive and genuinely kind tippers. Fortunately, such people are out there.
1. A $500 Tip As A Last Wish
Aaron Collins always felt sympathetic toward those who worked in the service industry after he worked in a pizzeria and watched his best friend put herself through school as a waitress. That's why he added a stipulation to his will: He asked his family to leave a huge $500 tip at a restaurant. The 30-year-old died unexpectedly last year, and because he didn't leave any money to his relatives to complete this last wish, his brother, Seth, put up a website, aaroncollins.org, to collect donations. What he didn't anticipate was that the donations would keep coming, allowing Seth to leave $500 tips at restaurants around the country, starting in August of last year. All of the events are documented on YouTube videos that are linked to on Aaron's memorial website.
Since the website was set up, Aaron's family has collected $65,000 and given back over $22,000 in tips. The restaurants are chosen randomly and servers receive the tip no matter how good the quality of service actually is. Of course, while the family enjoys surprising their servers with the amazing tips, they still prefer to have a home-cooked meal on occasion. "Some weeks I may be able to take a break from going out to eat," Seth said. Even so, the family intends to keep giving out these tips on a weekly basis until the donations are completely expended.
2. The $500 Pizza Dinner
Rhode Islander Kristen Ruggiero is a single mom of three who has had a tough time making ends meet by working the restaurant job she's held for the last 15 years. One day last year, a couple came in and ordered a pizza, a salad, and a pitcher of beer only to settle their $42 bill by leaving $500 on the table. At first, the waitress thought they made a mistake and accidentally left the five hundreds thinking they were ten dollar bills. So Kristen set the money aside until the pair returned to the restaurant and tried to return it to them. That's when they assured her that the $458 tip was no mistake. "He said no it was absolutely not a mistake, you deserved it," Kristen said.
Grateful for the tip, Kristen took the opportunity to pay off some of her bills and then spent the remainder on a trip to Six Flags with her kids.
3. The $500 Memorial Tip
Shea Mower paid most of his college tuition with tips he earned working at a restaurant, so when he was killed in a DUI car crash, his friends decided the best way to honor him would be to pay it forward by giving one lucky waitress a $500 tip. The group all chipped in for the tip and on Shea's birthday, they had dinner at Outback Steakhouse. At the end of the meal, the group donated the entire sum to their waitress.
Prior to their big tip, the group also gave a high school student a $500 scholarship in Shea's memory to raise awareness about drunk driving.
4. The $5000 Tip
Greg Rubar was a waiter at D'Amico's Italian Market Café in Houston for 16 years and had been waiting on one particular couple at the restaurant for eight years when the customers handed him fifty $100 bills. The man told Greg, "I'm not going to be giving you a tip for a while. Take this money. Go buy yourself a car. "
The instructions to buy a car weren't just random—the couple knew that Greg recently lost his car when it was flooded in a thunderstorm a few weeks prior. In fact, the waiter had to take taxies and borrow his restaurant's catering truck just to get to and from work.
Greg tried to return the money to the couple, but they refused, insisting he get a car with the cash.
5. Johnny Depp Continues To Be Awesome
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As if we need another reason to admire Johnny Depp, it turns out that he's also a fantastic tipper. While filming Public Enemies, the star visited Gibson's steakhouse in Chicago many times and, on one particular evening, he and his group arrived at 11:30 p.m. and stayed for three hours while they ordered bottle after bottle of $500 wine. When they left, Depp left the server a $4000 tip for his efforts.
"I have worked with a lot of stars like Sean Connery and Robert De Niro but Johnny Depp is my favorite. He is a very soft spoken guy who is very charming and sweet—when I wait for him he doesn't like to be too fussed over and is not in any way demanding," said server Mohammed A. Sekhani. "He may be one of the most famous actors in the world but he is a very humble guy and a really cool dude."
6. Nice Gals Don't Always Finish Last
Most waiters who received a $12,000 tip wouldn't report it to the IRS, let alone turn it in to the police. But Stacy Knutson is a very honest woman, and after customers left her one of the most generous tips in history, she turned it in to the police, worried it was stolen or tied to some crime. The mother of five was told that she could keep the cash if no one claimed it in 60 days, but after the waiting period ended, officials told her she couldn't keep it after all because it smelled like marijuana and had thus been seized under state law. To compensate her for her honesty, police offered her $1000.
Knutson refused the offer and filed suit to get the full sum back. The police quickly changed their minds and returned the full amount to the waitress.
7. The World's Largest Tip
Here's one of the most famous tipping stories of all time. In fact, this story eventually became the basis of the movie It Could Happen to You, starring Nicolas Cage.
In 1984, police detective Robert Cunningham had been a regular at Sal's Pizzeria for eight years. As Phyllis Penzo waited tables there six nights a week for 24 years, he and the waitress got to know each other pretty well. One day, when Robert was settling his tab, he asked the waitress if she'd be interested in splitting a lottery ticket with him instead of receiving a tip. She agreed and helped him choose the numbers. Robert called her a few days later to let her know he just won $6 million and that half of that was hers.
Unlike the movie version, the two were both happily married to other people, and Robert's wife was more than happy to split the money with Phyllis—but let's be honest, without the two falling in love, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
8. It Could Happen to Someone Else Too
History repeated itself in 1995, when John Steele, an auto parts worker in Toronto, left a lottery ticket as a tip for his favorite waitress, Tracy Dalton. He asked her to let him know if she won anything and she agreed to share any prizes from the ticket. A few days later, the ticket ended up being worth $184,700, meaning both parties got a cool $92,350.
9. Pick A Number
While skeptical Redditors point out that this could easily be the customer copy of this receipt and not the legitimate merchant copy, the story behind this image is pretty wonderful if it is true. Supposedly, the customer asked the server to pick a number between 1 and 10 and when the server picked 7, this is the tip he got.
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I forgot to add that at 60mph, you're traveling at about 88 feet *per second.* Which means you have 3.4 seconds to stop before impact. And part of that will be lost to varying reaction times.
Though I'm very much for this kind of vehicle in principle, I'm not convinced of their safety, at least in heavy traffic.Comparing a driverless ground vehicle to an airplane on autopilot isn't really a valid comparison, since the flight safety regulations are far more stringent than traffic laws are. For example, aircraft are required minimal lateral and vertical distances from the nearest other aircraft, substantial distances, particularly horizontally (three miles, as I recall a commercial pilot telling me, I think). I suppose if a driverless vehicle was programmed to maintain a safe distance between itself and the car in front of it (in any lane, where more than one lane flows in the same direction) I might feel better, but I haven't read about any such feature. (It may be there and I simply don't know about it, true.) Bettering the rule of thumb, I'd say a minimum of 1.5 average car lengths for each 10mph speed, with a vehicle moving ever slightly back as its speed picked up, rather than a sudden increase after 10 more mph have been added. 2X's would be even better, IMO, a not entirely uninformed opinion, as I drove an 18-wheeler after taking a three-week training course, one driving on a converted airstrip, another week devoted to over-the-road driving with an instructor, plus I took high-speed driving training when I was in police-security work years ago. Stopping a fully-loaded 18-wheeler from 60mph with just six 18-wheeler lengths between me and a vehicle in front of me is a very iffy matter, if it's even possible. In that case, we're talking in the range of 100 yards.
I have read of potentially using driverless engines to pull elevated trains and subways at the city level, and that makes considerable sense. Especially if such a system includes constant human monitoring by someone with the ability to shut down the train immediately should the "autopilot" fail in any way. That might help us gradually increase our comfort level with the idea.
Good article, Mr. Ho -- thanks.
Well said, Mike. I constantly encourage people with views that differ and even oppose my own to speak up, loud and clear, as is the right of all of us. and by "all of us" yes, my specific reference is the American one, since I'm an American, but it is also global -- as I strongly believe speaking up is a downright genetic human right, period. Screw the dictators and their lackeys.
Is Minister Teows former U.S. Co-President Dick Cheney's evil-as-Dick brother, or what???
Time to summon white hats to mau-mau these folks at Takedown. Some good guys should band together to constantly takedown Takedown, letting the b*st*rds have multiple overdoses of their own medicine.
Phaps they'll come to understand the concept of restraint once the corn cob is swiftly ascending their posterior nether regions. . . .
Maybe it's something in the air or water back in his district, perhaps combined with noxious gases wafting north from the refineries along the Gulf Coast. After all, the water table tilts south and east from Smith's district -- right into, by the way, Rep. Ron Paul's. That would explain why Smith's (and Paul's) constituents keeping sending him back to the Capitol, and why Smith appears to have a serious learning disability or something. (Paul's just plain weird, but I guess polluted water and air could account for that, too -- mild mercury poisoning maybe?)
Thanks for a nice chuckle there, @Hephaestus!
Right off, let me say that I am not myself any sort of computer expert at all. However, I do know and have known some over the years, including a few with cybersecurity in both the civilian and [U.S.] military spheres.
Apparently, it *is* possible to penetrate these systems, though if they're established as closed intranets, entirely disconnected from the global World Wide Web, they are harder to penetrate than would be the case were they connected to the global network. But not impossible, not by a long shot.
It's a matter of public record and many news reports that there have been a number of cybersecurity breaches of our government networks, including defense and intelligence networks. My impression, and it could be incorrect, that the majority and most alarming have apparently been caused by other nations' agencies; China is the usual suspect, with good reason, though one wonders just how "inert" even some of our ostensible allies -- Israel, Britain, France, and Germany all spring readily to mind -- actually *are.* While HUMINT (human intelligence) can be invaluable, especially coming from a long-term, deep-cover mole within a defense, intelligence, security-law enforcement agency, so can be intelligence gained in other ways. Further, if a hostile actor finds a way to defeat or circumvent defense barriers on networks, he can go on the attack, including -- potentially -- taking a network down. Or so I understand.
My point is that while this legislation is yet one more abomination coming out our increasingly abominable Congress and should go right straight down the toilet (along, metaphorically, with certain Senators and Representatives, by the way), if my understanding that we are at risk is correct, then perhaps -- but ONLY perhaps -- something by way of legislation needs to be done, though we need to ride herd -- hard -- on the critters under the Capitol Dome, with whips close to hand to be sure they don't make further encroachments on the Constitution.
If they persist, thought elections aren't far away, in the first place, only 1/3rd of the Senate will be facing re-election, assuming the currently-sitting Senator plans to stand for office again (and I think a few are retiring), so the second place becomes reasonable: start recall-election drives. Even if state laws make it impossible to have such an election prior to November's general one, the negative publicity could hurt a candidate hard, perhaps even causing him or her to go down in utter flames -- and shame. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!, IMHO. Let 'em burn. Few currently on the scene, on either side of the aisle, deserve anything better anyway.
It's now about 11:00 P.M. (EST) Sunday, February 19th and I just tried to go to the company's web site, but got the message "The connection was rest." Then I tried jetform.net, and got a 403 Forbidden error message. And I tried both several times each, with the same results every time.
I don't have any idea if this is relevant, but I am in Bangkok, not the U.S. However, I didn't get any messages from any Thai government agency, though I sometimes do. (Internet laws here are broad and liberally used by the authorities.)
This takedown is just one more in an increasing parade of "Sins of Shame" by our government. (Yes, I'm an American long resident abroad.) My Thai friends sometimes ask me if the American government is striving to "out-Thai Thailand," or even to surpass China. I have no answer. With each new act of sheer idiocy -- this one apparently at the behest of the *Secret Service* for gawd's sake! -- it appears increasingly likely that I'm going to have to start answering those questions from my local friends with a mournful, disgusted "HELL yes!"
I've e-mailed both my Senators and my Congressman (Texas). One Senator is that rarest of creatures, a fairly moderate Republican, but she'll be retiring, so I don't look for any meaningful help from her. The other is a staunchly conservative Republican and not favorably disposed towards such complaints. My Congressman, though he has served since well before the Tea Party movement arose, has since closely identified with that movement and is even less likely than my conservative Senator to look on any such complaint with anything other than pure disdain. I've also written the White House and the FCC. I've also commented far and wide in forums such as this, and e-mailed countless letters-to-the-editor. I write an irregular, infrequent blog and have railed against this sort of cr*p there.
I would do more, if I could figure out just what that might be, given that I'm on the other side of the planet.
It's bad enough that these takedowns happens entirely "approval-free" as far as our judicial branch is concerned, since it has been excluded from even an ounce of review, never mind any actual, meaningful oversight of such nefarious activities. It's even worse that various amendments to the Constitution apparently have been unilaterally declared by the Executive branch not to be applicable in such cases:
Fourth Amendment: the entire amendment -- "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Fifth Amendment: the penultimate sub-provision therein -- "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Sixth Amendment: if the reason behind the government's action was based on alleged *criminal* activity, then the entire amendment applies, particularly the "Confrontation Clause" -- the right to face one's accusers. This right was enshrined even in *Roman* law. In looking up the texts for these amendments, I was reminded that the Supreme Court has justified this right by citing the Bible itself -- Acts of the Apostles 25:16 (commonly, "The Book of Acts," or, simply, "Acts"). The right's thread continues unbroken right up to our contemporary law. Or did.
I hope my fellow Americans continue to bring pressure to bear on both elected and other governmental representatives at *all* levels of government of this abominable, unjustifiable behavior. In the instance of such officials mouthing platitudes about "I'm a Christian," remind him or her of that passage from Acts as well as the Constitutional amendments. And I urge any of my fellow Americans who haven't done anything to start becoming engaged in our public civil life, and not just in this instance, but across the board.
Where is the basis in the Constitution for the Executive or Legislative branches of government to make end runs around the Constitution itself, effectively neutering it?
No, I'm not some sort of constitutional lawyer or scholar. In fact, I'm not a lawyer at all. But I CAN read.
Please act now. Raise holy hell.
Good point about perhaps Iranian law does indeed have a provision similar to ours banning individuals from having access to specified technologies for a court-imposed period of time. I thought of that angle, too.
Anonymous Coward, I've seen quite a few of your comments here and there and enjoyed reading them, even when we don't precisely line up in terms of point of view.
Here, however, I have no idea why you made your original criticism, nor what impels you to keep defending it when it has been pretty well shot down in flames. Consider the following response fro @Donnicton:
Donnicton, Feb 11th, 2012 @ 9:16am
Actually, I'm pretty sure that technology played a pretty damn big factor in this guy's story getting out of Iran.
I would take that observation a level higher, considering that this article is, after all, in techdirt.com. That is, had the Iranian made his film using traditional Hollywood-style equipment somehow, technologically speaking, this wouldn't be a story. Had that happened, the story would have been focused not on the technology itself, but on the question of how in the hell he managed to use such bulky equipment despite his being banned from making films, period. But he didn't. He used a smart phone. Smuggled the film out on a thumb drive concealed in a cake. (I bet the Iranian authorities are x-raying the dickens out of cakes exiting the country NOW!)
And *that's* what makes the tech part of the story.
Yes, there would have been a story regardless of the technology, and in this case, one worth telling in whatever fashion possible, including plain old typing it out to read. Or writing it in a journal by hand. After all, Iran is very much at the top of the news these days, and while nuclear issues dominant at this particular moment, it has and continues to offer other important stories.
Remember Neda Soltan, the lady shot to death in Teheran in 2009? In her case, technology *was* part of the film -- it wouldn't have been possible *without* a smart phone -- who would have died before a regular film crew could have set up. Further, the shakiness, blurriness, uneven focus and lighting give the short film a gripping atmosphere created BY the very technology in the hands of an ordinary -- i.e., not trained in making films -- person.
@Anonymous Coward, in this case, I part ways with you. Especially given that your criticism descends, at times, to near the level of spurious ad hominem attacks on Mike. I don't know Mike, so I have no idea if he's a great guy or nit, but that doesn't matter: he's a tech journalist, and as best as I can tell, he has brought us a newsworthy incident to consider.
This one's a real head-scratcher, A.C. . . .
I just shared this on my Facebook Wall, with this comment:
I keep getting contradicted in comments sections on news stories about the pending SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in the U.S. House of Representatives and the companion pending PIPA (Protect Internet Property Act) over in the U.S. Senate, but this story clearly shows why those telling me I'm an idiot -- and who imply I'm at best disloyal to my country -- to worry and should just trust the government to "get it right." Yeah, sure. In the story below, all this crap happened that SOPA and PIPA would enshrine in law if passed (and signed by the President, of course). And guess what? -- it happened over Thanksgiving weekend in *2010.* If existing laws THEN allowed this trash to happen, then why in hell do we NEED SOPA or PIPA, or whatever monstrosity comes out of a House-Senate Resolution Committee??? And why do we have such laws anyway? I don't see how anyone can possibly argue they pass Constitutional muster -- read the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments, for starters.
I wrote my Senators and Representative about these proposals, telling them I completely oppose them in ANY form. Got a tinned response from one Senator that completely ignored what I had e-mailed her and made it clear -- but implicitly, not explicitly; she's clever -- that she thinks this kind of abuse of the American citizenry is hunky-dory. So, I wrote her back and told her it's a damned good thing she's retiring, as far as I'm concerned, because not only would I not vote for her again (as I have before) were she to vote for it, but I would do whatever tiny little bit I could do from nearly 9,000 miles away to campaign against her. As I will tell my other Senator and Representative should they respond similarly, as I fully expect them to do, if they bother to respond at all. And they ARE up for re-election, and standing.
This story makes a joke of the American concept of freedom and of our faith in our Constitution.
I'm no lawyer or Constitutional scholar, but I CAN read, and this crap violates the Constitution numerous ways. Plain and simple.
Imagine if a policeman shot and killed someone with dubious cause then said, "Don't worry -- trust me." THEN the court bought that "defense."


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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Haul & Swatches - Icing & Claire's Magnetix, Glitter Crackles, Etc
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lol Those are the exact two Warpaints I picked up!! XD So jealous of your hauls.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2012 at 10:26 PM
wow, awesome haul!!ReplyDelete
Great video, although you don't sound like you should even be out of bed, LOL. However, I was amused at how the instant you started talking polish, your entire face lit up and you were instantly reenergized! I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about polish. :)ReplyDelete
Not trying to toot my own horn, but I do a series called "weekly blog news" on my site where I post about interesting stuff I've seen that other nail philes might have missed. Among the news I'd share with you is:
-The week of 2/12, Sinful Colors will be $1 at Walgreens.
-Spoiled nail polishes have arrived at my local CVS, I've linked to a blog that has a bunch of swatches. It's a CVS exclusive, but you can also order it online.
-Jordana has a new series of glitters out at KMart. Libby's Pink Vanity has them, so I'm assuming they're widely available. I plan to visit my Kmart this week. It's a Kmart exclusive, but you can also order it online. (The Nouveau Cheap blog swatched a lot of them!)
-There is a Clarin 230-like polish that's only available in Europe by Max Factor.
Sorry for the length of the comment, but you did ask for polish news!Replies
The Max Factor polish is called Fantasy Fire, BTW.Delete
Thx for the inspiring haul & swatch vid. You do an awsome job with these recordings and editing, I know how time consuming it must be! Just wanted to let you know It's appreciated.ReplyDelete
I got DS Temptation about two months ago..it IS quite gorgeous! You'll love it. It DOES need like 3 coats at least and a good topcoat but still beautiful!ReplyDelete
Just watched your marble vid on You Tube and had to come and have a look at your blog. I'm an OPI addcit and am really into different nail finishes at the moment. You have so many great ideas.ReplyDelete
I love your haul posts! Those ULTA exclusive China Glazes are so pretty! Can't wait to see those on your nails.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Hey Colette thanks again for sharing your recent haul. Do you have a posting of any previous glow in the dark polishes? I just didn't want you to do a video simply on that one polish. I am looking forward to your Nailogy haul and I pray you're feeling better.ReplyDelete
AMOUR - back around Halloween I did a post on one of OPI's glow in the dark polishes & got some really good shots of it actually in the dark =)ReplyDelete
I wasn't able to get to Ulta in time to snag the exclusive China Glaze's but I managed to get Fireside Glow and Ultamate Holiday off of eBay. Now just need to get my hands on Mistletoe Me. They really need to build a new Ulta closer to me, lol.ReplyDelete
I love the comparison you did, on the magnetic polishes, of one coat versus two. I really prefer the two coats, makes the contrast much more noticeable on the design.
Me encantan los Magnetix de Claire's. A ver si también llegan a España.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2012 at 2:46 PM
I'm not sure whether you know that Claire's has the Magnetix polishes in silver, gold, pink, blue and green...at least that's what my local Claire's has.ReplyDelete
I've been following your blogs since last summer, but this is the first time I've commented. I love your blogs!!
yes there is a GREEN at Icing and Claire's as well as the other colours that u picked up. It looks great too ;)ReplyDelete
GINA - I've since picked up the green, its very pretty =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2012 at 9:00 PM
Is the matte topcoat part of their permanent line? Thanks(:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2012 at 2:10 PM
Your sooo lucky! Im from Ireland, Monaghan (a place you've probably never even heard of!) and the only shops that sell good nail polishes is 'Blacks', 'Dolan's', 'Ronaghan's' and 'Boots'. All are pharmacies and quite expensive! :'(ReplyDelete


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"Breaking Bad" is finally over. What, you hadn't heard? The show may be gone, but one Albuquerque-based fan group has said goodbye in style. They've purchased an obituary announcement in Mr. White's hometown paper, the Albuquerque Journal.
The paid announcement, featuring a small pic of Bryan Cranston as Walter White and a brief recap of the character's death — "died Sunday after a long battle with lung cancer, and a gunshot wound" — appeared on page A4 of Friday's edition of the newspaper.
The obit was paid for by the group "Unofficial 'Breaking Bad' Fan Tour," led by Albuquerque area high school science teacher David Layman.
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Yes, you read that right - a 10" Computerized Dobsonian telescope that collapses, and it's manageable. Sky-Watcher has coupled their well-built Dobsonians with an advanced Synscan computer drive system, making this scope an outstanding value for the level of light gathering and functionality that it provides. Deep space views are simply stunning.
The computer drive system is rather clever. If you nudge a traditional computerized telescope, the computer has no clue that you moved it, and how far. Not so with this dob.
The closed-loop system incorporates motor drives and high resolution optical encoders coupled to each axis providing accurate slews, while registering all movement - even if you push the telescope out of position.
This Dobsonian collapses by running up and down on three vertical bars fixed to the top section, reducing the need for collimation upon setup, which can be an issue for truss-tube Dobsonians.
As an added bonus, if the instrument is collapsed slightly, binocular viewers will come to focus and can be used without the need for a Barlow or image amplifier - a big plus for deep space binocular viewing.
Sky-Watcher computerized Dobsonians come with a GPS receiver. This plug-in module will set your time, date, longitude and latitude automatically based on the Global Positioning Satellites orbiting the Earth.
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PALMDALE — It isn't Hump Day, but a camel escaped from its pen and did some carousing in a rural area south of Palmdale today, injuring a neighbor who unsuccessfully tried to corral the animal.
Deputies and firefighters were sent about 8:40 a.m. to an area near Soledad Pass Road, where the animal was causing some concern for motorists and passersby, according to sheriff's Deputy John Cereoli.
A man in his 70s who lives in the area tried to corral the animal, which responded by biting and knocking the man to the ground.
Skylar Dossenbach, the man's daughter, told ABC7 her father was recovering at a hospital.
Animal control personnel were notified, and the animal was corralled, Cereoli said. The camel was being kept legally on a nearby property, Cereoli said.
Dossenbach said animals being kept in the area occasionally escape their pens and wander in the area.
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Sugar can kill! The director, Andrea, is diagnosed with gestational diabetes. She must avoid any form of refined sugar. That soon proves impossible though, because she finds sugar everywhere and in everything. Why is sugar so ubiquitous? Fear for her unborn baby changes the eating habits in Andrea's family and motivates her investigation of the sugar industry. Confronting doctors and scientists,
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Sugar is more than just a sweetener for the children in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic. For these children of sugar cane cutters, sugar is the reason they can survive. But it is also sugar that keeps them in their impoverished condition. In the batey where the sugar cane cutters and their families live, the children run around in the midst of tiny shacks and garbage heaps, exposed to mala
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Highlights from 13 college football games during the 1955 season. It begins in late summer with Georgia Tech versus Miami. We see Maryland beat UCLA; Jim Swink leads TCU over Alabama. Oklahoma beats Texas on its way to an undefeated season and the Orange Bowl. Michigan State beats Paul Horning's Notre Dame; Auburn upsets the Sugar-Bowl-bound Georgia Tech, Maryland beats Syracuse, Navy loses to N
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Ted finds himself on the wrong end of an ancient Polish curse intended to end his bloodline. It's been transferred into some pure sugar, but now to get something or someone to eat it. A pig can eat all the sugar and be slaughtered, ending the curse. Don't eat the sugar and don't eat the pig!
One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
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Badlands Off Road Park - BadlandsPosted in Events on July 1, 2009
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We've been to a lot of off-road parks across this great country. It is, after all, what we do for a living. Over all those wheeling miles, we just seem to have the most fun out in the Badlands in Attica, Indiana.
The Badlands is a pay-to-play park, like many of the places to wheel back east and offers a combination of mud, rocks, water, dirt roads and more. With a professional staff and even a shop on-site you can play as hard as you want to and likely still be able to put the Jeep back together once you are done.
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rich005 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 165 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
We are a young and fresh marketing firm that complete sales to small / medium businesses for a number of different business products in Australia. These products include: EFTPOS, Phones, Internet, Mobiles & now ATMs.
We aim to build a website that will act as a lead generator for our sales team to find business owners that want an ATM in their business premises.
If this is successful we want to go on to build additional targeted websites for the online sale of our other business products. It would be great to find someone who can go on to complete similar matching logo's for these other sub sites.
Small to medium business owners who are looking online to get an ATM in their store / service station / business place / pub / restaurant / hotel etc.
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This is a completely new brand, so we have no pre-requisites regarding colours. We require a bold, bright, quite large logo that will catch people's attention.
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The Da-Lite 17 RU Space Equipment Rack Cart with Keyboard Shelf is a stylish and utilitarian solution to housing A/V equipment.
The standard rack rails allow up to 17 components to be stacked within the unit. Additionally, there is a side, slide-out keyboard shelf for those who want to work right from the cart. Power is provided by a built-in 6-outlet strip with surge suppressor while the A/V gear is cooled by a UL-listed fan which draws air in from the bottom vents. Four 3" casters (front swiveling, back fixed) provide mobility and easy access to the front (plex-paneled) and rear locking doors.
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Physical Geography
Climatic water budget variability in response to global climate change in the Great Plains. Soil water balance models and GIS technology are used to explore the impacts of climate change on hydrologic conditions in the Great Plains. ( Keables)
Late Holocene drought reconstructions using Pinus aristata (Bristlecone Pine) trees in central Colorado. Living and dead bristlecone pine trees are used to investigate the duration and spatial extent of Medieval Drought in Colorado's subalpine vegetation zone. ( Kerwin)
Snow pack reconstructions near Aspen, CO over the past 300 years. Living Picea engelmannii (Engelmann Spruce) trees near Aspen Highlands are being used to investigate the natural historical record of snowfall at one of the premier ski resorts in North America. ( Kerwin)
Wildfire impacts on the fluvial system. This project is examining the hydrologic and hydrochemical effects of wildfire and stream runoff after wildfire. ( Hamann)
Snow hydrology in the Colorado Front Range. This project involves students in collecting and analyzing snowpack ablation and groundwater recharge in alpine basins using GPS and GIS. ( Hamann)
Landscape evolution and paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Portugal. Geomorphic mapping, sedimentologic analysis and pedologic evidence of landscape stability provide insight into late Quaternary environmental change and associated human occupation in coastal Estremadura. ( Daniels)
Hydrologic impacts of mountain pine beetle, Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado. Detailed channel surveys, large wood loading and hydraulic geometry document the hydrologic and sedimentologic impacts of on-going beetle infestation and associated forest mortality in low-order subalpine streams. ( Daniels)
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Hydrologic assessment methods. Hydrologic assessment methods are being developed to compare flowpaths and nutrient export in tropical forest watersheds in Panama, Borneo Malaysia and Ecuador. ( Hamann)
Measuring ecological footprints using nighttime satellite imagery. Exploring proxy measures of ecological footprints using impervious surface measures derived from global night lights data sets and population density. ( Sutton)
Estimating the value of storm protection services. Making spatially explicit estimates of the value of storm protection service (a non-marketed ecosystem service) of coastal wetlands using nighttime satellite imagery. ( Sutton)
Assessment of exurban fire risk. Identifying exurban areas of the West that are in regions of high fire risk using nighttime satellite imagery. ( Sutton)
NightSat. Exploring the potential of, and advocating for, the development of the NightSat Mission Concept: a higher spatial and spectral resolution satellite to observe the earth at night. ( Sutton)
People, Place, and Region
Guatemala?s violent legacy. This book project uses images from the Mesoamerican Studies Center in Guatemala to visually depict the violence that has sculpted Guatemala and Guatemalans. ( Taylor)
Capturing clouds for household water in Guatemala. Working with students and communities high in the Cuchumatanes Mountains of Guatemala combining community-based research with service learning to provide rural households with water in the dry months. ( Taylor)
Providing sustainable solutions to potable water in Guatemala's return refugee communities. This project uses community-based research and service learning classes to search for the best solution to provide rural households with a point of use system for potable water. ( Taylor)
Alternative sustainable livelihoods in southern Nicaragua. Working with community members we are finding ways to incorporate locals into the booming tourist economy. ( Taylor)
Migration and the land in Guatemala. Using household surveys and measurement of firewood consumption we are investigating the relationships between migration and changing patterns of natural resource consumption. ( Taylor)
Globalization and Maize Diversity in Guatemala. This project with Mike Steinberg at the University of Alabama investigates the impacts of the increase in cultivation of non traditional agricultural crops (like broccoli and snow peas) on maize diversity and maize culture among the Maya in Guatemala. ( Taylor)
Bridging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in Transport Geography. Re-examining recent transport-oriented research to assess the degree to which the qualitative-quantitative divide exists within transport geography and between transport and other subfields in human geography. ( Goetz)
Living In 'Aerotropolis': Attitudes of Residents Who Live in Communities Near Airports. Gauging the attitudes of residents who live near Denver International Airport (DIA) about their neighborhoods and the role of DIA in that assessment. ( Goetz)
Regional Development Impacts of Trade Corridors: Recent Experiences from the United States. Examining the general topic of the regional economic and environmental impacts of transportation corridors on nearby communities, with a specific focus on projects and plans in Colorado and the western US. ( Goetz)
Assessing Intermodal Transportation Planning at State Departments of Transportation. The practice of freight and passenger intermodal planning is assessed through analysis of previous studies, long-range and short-range plans, organizational structures, surveys, and interviews. ( Goetz)
An Evaluation Of Air-Rail Passenger Intermodal Access At United States Airports. Assessing the quality of intermodal linkages at US airports by developing and testing a typology of air-rail intermodal access. ( Goetz)
Evaluating Transit-Oriented Development in Denver. Establishing a baseline of transit-oriented development (TOD) in Denver for both the recently opened Southwest and Southeast light rail corridors as well as the new corridors proposed in the Regional Transportation District FasTracks initiative. ( Goetz)


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I took this photo a week ago at Huntington Lake, in the High Sierras outside Fresno, California. It was the last day of our summer vacation at our little rental cabin.
The lake was still and clear, like glass. The summer camps were all closed. Most of the tourists had gone home. I watched from the dock as an osprey rode the breeze.
It was so serene, here in this cool space just before sunset, between summer and fall.
— Tina of The English Muse
(The stunning photograph was taken by Tina with a Fuji Instax 200)