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This week in Santa Fe Craigslist shopping, the "barter" section yields pay dirt. ... Or rather, magical luck dirt.
I have a small box of spell supplies, still quite useful to one who would use them. These items have been opened and partially used. They are commonly used by practitioners of urban folk magic in casting spells for various purposes.
I'm willing to swap these with someone who'd be interested. Trade items might include other old/used spell supplies, used books (I especially like spellbooks and history books), unwanted gift certificates or whatever else you think might be worthwhile.
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Earthwatchers investigated how and why the meerkats of South Africa's Kalahari region cooperate in raising their young.
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Professor Tim Clutton-Brock spent more than a decade studying meerkat society in the Kuruman River Reserve in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. The study focused on the evolution of cooperative behavior among these charismatic animals.
The meerkats in this study were accustomed to human beings, and as a result Earthwatch volunteers were able to walk with the groups as they foraged and run with them when they fought with neighboring groups, to accurately record data such as births, deaths, pregnancies, and changes in dominance status. Volunteers also documented group contributions made by individual members, such as babysitting, pup feeding, sentinel duty, and burrow renovation. Volunteers also worked with individual meerkats, which were trained to climb onto top-pan balances (using boiled egg crumbs) to be weighed three times a day.
The Kuruman River Reserve is home to the meerkats of the television show Meerkat Manor, and the series is filmed on site using one of Professor Clutton-Brock's habituated family groups. Part of the income from this has been used to improve the living conditions of families living on the reserve, including providing electricity and running water to every house and education to their children.
Data collected by Earthwatch volunteers and resident researchers helped answer questions about the costs and benefits of group living.
This long-term project enabled researchers to explore the impact of cooperative breeding on animal populations.
Kalahari meerkats care for one another's young, an unusual behavior called cooperative breeding. Researchers know little about the outcomes of cooperative breeding for species—they wonder, for example, if cooperative breeding makes it easier or more difficult for groups of animals to grow and thrive.
These researchers used meerkats as a model for investigating such questions. They recorded the growth, breeding success, and survival of all individuals in the 20 meerkat groups in the study area, and compared that information with daily records of precipitation and temperature and weekly records of plant cover and food availability. In addition, the group measured predation, the incidence of tuberculosis, rates of animals joining or leaving the study population, and the frequency of group establishment.
Meerkat appearing from burrow.
In addition to investigating the larger outcomes of cooperative breeding, the researchers explored the question of why animals like meerkats work together. Long-term data and specific individual data collected by Earthwatch volunteers and researchers helped to answer a number of questions on the costs and benefits of group living and to answer the question of why some animals live in cooperative groups.
The project was based in the Kalahari region of South Africa, near the Botswana border. The Kalahari is called a desert, but in fact it's a semiarid savanna covering 350,000 square miles (900,000 square kilometers) of southern Africa. It is home to many of Africa's most iconic animals, including giraffes, baboons, leopards, and cheetahs.
Scattered across the region are dry river beds, acacia trees, and several extensive game reserves. The meerkat populations that were studied lived mainly in the Kuruman River Reserve, along with such animals as blue wildebeest, eland, and mongoose. The birds included social weavers and the world's smallest bird of prey, the pygmy falcon.
Outside the reserve, where meerkats also live, are ranches owned by Afrikaans-speaking sheep and cattle ranchers. The closest village to the reserve is a small settlement that provides services to the farmers and their workers.
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Earthwatch volunteers were broken into groups and partnered with project interns. Each group worked together to establish meerkat group composition (essentially, a sort of roll-call of meerkats in a particular group); take note of any signs of pregnancy, lactation, dominance interactions, aggressive encounters, etc.; and keep a sharp lookout for injuries or signs of disease (e.g., tuberculosis lumps).
The members of each team spent six full days helping to collect data on cooperative and foraging behavior, actually walking and running with groups of meerkats as they interacted throughout the day. They also spent two or three days monitoring the distribution of plants and animals. The volunteers also participated in outreach to the community and visited the local school. Whenever possible, volunteers were offered the opportunity to take part in projects such as ongoing habitat clearance.
During their recreational days, the volunteers took unguided walks within the reserve or socialized with other volunteers and staff. Other activities included a picnic on one of the big dunes in the reserve and excursions to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park and the Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve, which are home to an extraordinary range of wildlife, including lions, cheetahs, and leopards.
Volunteer tracking meerkats.
Dr. Clutton-Brock studies and writes about the ecology of mammals.
Camp consists of several simple buildings erected on a large clearing in Budongo Forest. You'll stay in a single room that contains a bed, beddings, mosquito net, reading desk and a chair. All rooms are connected to solar electricity. There are three pit latrines on site which are shared by all. You'll have access to a warm shower, every evening after a long day's work. Water used at camp is harvested off the roofs or taken from the Sonso River so frugal use is necessary.
Evening meals are prepared by cooks who will prepare dishes including rice, chapati, potatoes, spaghetti, beans, beef, fish, ground nuts (peanuts), cow peas, assorted fresh vegetables and fruits, eggs. There are other local foods such as cassava, stewed bananas (locally known as matooke) and maize bread (locally known as ugali or posho). Breakfast will be western style.
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Having watched Meerkat Manor on television I was so excited to have the chance to spend two weeks following the different Meerkat groups.
Home for the two weeks was an individual roundel hut with a bed and small sink. Although basic we were provided with a kettle to heat water for washing and a small fan heater which was much appreciated when getting dressed in the cold mornings! The coldest it dropped to was -4 degrees C but it soon warmed up.
On a couple of the mornings we did vegetation surveys but all other times we went out in teams of two volunteers with a researcher to follow and record the behavour of the Meerkats. They are weighed at the beginning and end of each day to determine how much food they were finding. One of our activities was to collect data on how successful their foraging was and record what they were catching and eating.
We had talks every evening from various researchers on the reserve after a delicious meal cooked for us by a local woman. The kitchen and store cupboard was available at all times so we were never hungry!
One evening we were taken for a night drive around the reserve and saw a wide variety of wildlife including porcupine, bat earred foxes and an ardvark as well as countless springbok, eland and wilderbeest.
One of my fondest memories is watching the Meerkats at the end of the day relaxing around their sleeping burrow. And then there's the Merrkat that stood on my head to get a good lookout position...what a great photo!
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The offseason is a worrisome time for NFL players, even when they're not NFL players any longer.
According to Jim Kleinpeter of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, former Patriots and Saints cornerback Randall Gay was arrested after a disturbance at a Baton Rouge bar.
Gay was charged with entry or remaining on premises when forbidden, two counts of simple battery, resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by public intoxication. Which is a lot of words for what sounds like a bar fight.
Police also arrested a woman, Desha Penco, for interfering with police officer and simple damage to property when she tried to kick out the window of the police car. Penco is listed as Gay's wife in his Saints bio.
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Earth Balance, one of my favorite companies when it comes to butter replacement, has just announced their expansion into the snack category with the creation of four grab-and-go snacks: Vegan Buttery Flavor Popcorn, Vegan Aged White Cheddar Flavor Popcorn, Vegan Aged White Cheddar Flavor Puffs and P.B. Popps, a sweet and salty popcorn treat.
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According to the company, the four new Earth Balance® snack items will launch nationwide early this year and will be available exclusively at Whole Foods Markets. These snack items are made with all-natural, USA grown non-GMO corn, expeller-pressed oil and delicious flavor, these snacks are vegan, gluten-free and free from trans-fats and artificial ingredients of any kind.
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Masters of acrobatic antics
Snapping a spine under their thorax helps Eastern eyed click beetles turn right side up. It also gives them part of their odd name, which describes the loud click made by their flipping maneuver.
The eye in the name comes from the two white eyespots on the tops of their upper bodies. These eyes make the beetle look a bit like the head of a snake, to scare away predators. If that fails, it has a couple of other tricks.
One trick is playing dead, curling up its legs and saw-toothed antennae until a predator loses interest. If the predator is persistent and flips the beetle onto its back or tries to snatch it up, the beetle uses another trick.
Lying on its back, it can bend the front part of its body backward and suddenly recoil into a straightened-out position. This motion produces a click to startle the attacker and hurls the beetle several inches into air, possibly enabling it to get away.
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Sorry for the delay in sending this out but the leaded gas fumes must have got to me!
At first I thought a trip to Sydney would be the bomb, but after staying in the middle of suburbian hell I have now changed my mind. Aside from the usual fringe benefits of a warm climate (weather was OK, I got a good tan) my stay could be compared with that of an Australian being dropped in Van Nuys, and being told to go train! Not fun!
Race day was quite normal with me looking at everyone else and thinking, "boy am I fat compared to these guys!". There were three riders missing from the top 50 so the tempo was hard from the get go. Playing passive wimps were, Shamoe, Rolli, and myself as we filtered into the thirties for the first time up the climb. The tempo was being torked by any one of the six French riders that finished in the top 12 (and Dr Dre). Slowly we picked our way through the field with Shamoe continuing his attack all the way to the finish. Not only did Shamoe stomp mud holes in the Euros' asses, he dug deep in the end to ride Tinker off his wheel and end up in thirteenth (Arrrr well done lad)! Dre rode well in the top 15 till the last lap where he fell back to 20th. Like those two I progressively moved forward after my nasty start, and climbed up to 19th....and then I said, "hey I don't need extra money", and tumbled back to 28th. Actually I needed the money, but when you hit the wall with a lap left there's nothing you can do. "C'est la vie".
The highlights of riding and motor pacing in Sydney included: being fingered, spit on, called a pansy, or pussy in tights (these two were quite popular), and also being chased by a three legged dog! What a fine country! If you thought the land of leather skin was a good place to train think otherwise. I would feel safer riding naked through a trailer park in rural West Virginia with "I'm easy" markered on my back than training in Sydney!
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I've placed a moratorium on buying more books for myself until I've read all the ones I haven't read yet!
Congrats to Parma and Silwen and the degree and the job.
*fingers crossed* for striderchick and the results, although I'm sure they'll be fine.
Hobby, are you referring to the fact that Oxford is less than a week away? I can't believe it, really. But hurray!


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 50 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
ITS Exchange is to be a b2b marketplace for traffic information and a community for the traffic industry.
ITS Exchange
The ITS Exchange (ITS=Intelligent Transport Systems and Services) is b2b service on the internet where the traffic industry (air/sea/land) can
• sell traffic related information to interested parties
• securely share traffic information with their partners
• discuss traffic related issues in a community
We feel that the ITS Exchange provides a smart new way to exchange transport and traffic related information (road traffic, air traffic, sea traffic) and want to convey that in the logo.
We want two deliverables:
1. A logo
2. An iphone style version of the logo (for mobile applications etc). This version does not have to include all the elements of the large version of the logo
- A web 2.0 look and feel
- A professional look
- A clever yet simple design
- Good looking in large versions (e.g. on printed banners) as well as in small versions (e.g. on the website)
- Created primarily for white background
- All artwork must be delivered in Adobe Illustrator CS3 vector file format
- Since the url has a dash "-" between ITS and Exchange, we'd like the logo to include that as well. In other words "ITS-Exchange" and not "ITS Exchange"
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Medfield is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1650 and was previously called Dedham. It can be found in Norfolk county. For more information, contact the county at 459 Main St., Medfield 02052. On the attached map, Medfield is shown as 9 in Norfolk county.
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Cape Cod Noir
When I think of cities that inspire noir, Cape Cod is certainly not at the top of that list. I think of New York, Chicago, Baltimore even, but never would I have thought of Cape Cod. In the ongoing series by Akashic Books, they've visited almost fifty cities across the United States, and around the world. It's a compelling series to say the least. Once I started to get into this collection, though, I understood the appeal of Cape Cod. Any place where you have the rich surrounded by the middle and working-class, the permanent residents dealing with entitled tourists, there's bound to be a simmering pot of angst and violence waiting to overflow.
Editor David L. Ulin speaks to the concept of noir in the opening of this book, and the reasons that Cape Cod came to mind. What is noir to him?:
"…that air of desolate clarity, of a character staring into the abyss as the abyss stares back…a cry in the darkness of a world that is, as best, apathetic, and at worst, in violent disarray."
Twelve pages into this collection of thirteen stories by authors such as Paul Tremblay, Dave Zeltserman, Jedidiah Berry and many other dark visionaries, I found myself nodding my head. David gets it, I thought. This is going to be good. But how is he going to make this work in Cape Cod? He elaborates:
"…my experiences on the Cape suggest…that noir is everywhere. You can see it in the desperate excitations of the summer people, the desire to make their vacations count. You can see it in the tension of the year-rounders, who rely on the seasonal trade for survival, even as they must tolerate having their communities overrun…And after Labor Day, once the tourists have gone home, it is still a lot like it has always been: desolate, empty in the thin gray light, with little to do in the slow winter months. You drink, you brood, you wait for summer, when the cycle starts all over again."
Sounds like noir to me. I was sold.
What kind of noir can you expect to find in this collection? It's a wide range of stories for sure. You have ex-cons out on parole trying to stay out of trouble, some of them on a reform school island, chopping wood and ducking bird poop. You have variations on revenge—for being fired, for taking a father away, for spouting off at the mouth. You have a series of pictures that add up to a realization, and bizarre puppet shows where a witch disappears at the end—the flesh and blood one, not the puppets. Whether you are in Martha's Vineyard or Hyannisport, Sandwich or Buzzards Bay, if you gaze out into the darkness and scan the choppy water there are bodies to be found—violence and regret filling the air.
When it comes to noir, or really, any good story, the best way to get my attention is with an opening line, or narrative hook, that really piques my interest. This one is from "Bad Night in Hyannisport by Seth Greenland:
"I was dead. That was the main thing. And I never saw it coming."
And this one, from "Twenty-Eight Scenes for Neglected Guests" by Jedediah Berry:
"In the illustrations of the crime scene, the full moon is high and small over the sea, shining through a halo of clouds."
In the first example you get the quirkiness of a dead man telling you his story, so we know this is going to be a bleak tale. In the second story, we can picture the setting vividly, the mood and tone set, the crime committed. Both examples let us know that things are not going to go well—in fact, the deeds have already been done. But how we get there, and what that journey may entail, that has not been revealed yet.
Of course, once you're hooked, one of the most important aspects of noir is the setting—the tension and atmosphere that must be maintained throughout the story—that sense of foreboding and clenched gut as we wait for the unspeakable to unfold. This example is from William Hastings and his story "Ten-Year Plan":
"There's a lot of coke on the Cape, bad during the summer, even worse during the winter. It's cold and there's no one. You lose a lot of line cooks that way. You lose a lot of college girls that way. I got lost that way."
Or this example from Elyssa East and her story "Second Chance":
"I never meant to be in the car that killed that girl. It was like that was someone else, not me. Like I wasn't even there. But I was."
Or this vivid description from Lizzie Skurnick and "Spectacle Pond":
"The black sky over the pond was a lid, he suspended in its jar. Through a conflagration of circumstance and other people's will, he was floating alone two miles from a small, dark road smack in the center of a barely populated peninsula, with nobody to know or care. He was not angry or murderous. He was lonely, merely lonely—or at least, he thought, lonelier than anyone like him had a right or reason to be."
And certainly this desolate picture painted by David L. Ulin in "La Jetée":
"Standing on the jetty, watching the sky grow pale and silver-pink at sunset, he drifted back to that moment, emptying his drawers into a trash can, realizing that nothing he'd gathered in the last five years, nothing he'd accumulated, meant anything at all. In a weird way, he felt hardened, kiln-fired…Not purified, though, never purified. Not unless purity could be defined in terms of rage."
But not every story is your typical tragic noir. There is a bit of humor sprinkled here and there, as in the uniquely strange story "Twenty-Eight Scenes for Neglected Guests" by Jedediah Berry. In this fractured tale of puppets, witches and love lost, we are treated to this scene where the three Widows of North Varnish laugh at their losses with glee:
"'My husband died because he ate too much,' says the first of the three Widows of North Varnish. 'Too much poison, that is.'
'And my husband died because he hit his head,' says the second widow, 'against the skillet I was holding.'
'And for my husband,' says the third widow, 'he died of natural causes.'
'Is that so?' asked the first widow.
'We were standing together on the edge of a very high cliff, just admiring nature, and then he fell right into it.'
One other unique structural element of this anthology was the use of numbered sections—stories broken down into bite-sized pieces, a mathematics of betrayal and deceit that adds up to death, voodoo, and the ever-expanding darkness of the Cape. The aforementioned "Twenty-Eight Scenes for Neglected Guests" jumps back and forth between a myriad of characters, each of them jilted and desperate, as they put together a macabre puppet show. Love is buried and revealed; witchcraft is employed; all the while the puppets rehearsing in the background, morbid as they tell their sordid tales.
Another story broken down into subsections is Paul Tremblay's slow reveal in "Nineteen Snapshots of Dennisport." A young boy carries his camera around on the family vacation, taking the usual blurred pictures of faces and hands, the action out of the shots just as revealing as what is captured on film. A hotel room opened to a curious eye only shows shadows when the film is developed. Memories of a beautiful, exotic Italian girl, Isabella, are mixed with family photos gathered around tables, faces frowning, something wrong—an affair, a mistake, strange men at the periphery wanting some time from father:
"Look closer. Over his left shoulder. See that huge guy two storefronts away, hiding under an awning, but not hiding? He's watching behind reflective sunglasses, and he's wearing a tight white polo shirt, wearing it like a threat…"
For those that are unfamiliar with Cape Cod this is a fascinating collection of tales that reveal the underbelly of a quiet vacation spot, taking you out into troubled waters, back into the alleyways and forever bending forests, freezing moments in time for you to retain for future reference. For those that have spent time in these locations, it is a haunting trip back to a place that may hold fond memories for you, or perhaps simply confirms your own ideas that something was happening just out of sight. And for those that are simply fans of noir there are plenty of dark nights for you to embrace—hushed voices and smeared lipstick, fists that are eternally clenched in anger. Akashic Books knows what they are doing with this series, and David L. Ulin has put together a malicious collection of short stories that will stay with you long after you return home safe.


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Unemployment Extension – The Senate voted 59 to 39 Wednesday to restore emergency jobless benefits to millions of people who have been out of work for more than six months.
House leaders said they will ratify the measure Thursday and send it on to the White House, where President Obama plans to immediately sign it.
The bill would authorize states to provide retroactive support to an estimated 2.5 million people whose unemployment checks have been cut off since federal benefits expired June 2. It would also make available up to 99 weeks of income support through the end of November to millions more who have exhausted state benefits, which typically last for 26 weeks. Advocates for the unemployed say it could be several weeks in some states before the checks are in the mail.
The vote comes after a months-long battle over whether to pay for the $34 billion measure or add that sum to the nation's mounting national debt. Both parties have agreed in the past not to pay for emergency jobless benefits during periods of high unemployment, in part because cutting spending or raising taxes to cover the cost could depress economic activity.
But the recent recession, coupled with public spending to revive the economy, has pushed government debt loads here and abroad into dangerous territory, sparking a crisis in Europe and heightening public anxiety in the United States.
Republicans have been playing to those fears in hopes of regaining control of Congress in this fall's midterm elections. With unemployment at 9.5 percent, they agreed that jobless benefits should be extended but said the cost should be covered with unexpended funds from last year's economic stimulus package.
Democrats have accused the GOP of playing politics with the lives of millions of unemployed workers, noting that Republicans want to extend tax cuts for high-earners that would add nearly 20 times as much to the nation's debt over the next decade.
In the end, two Republicans — Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine — voted with a virtually united Democratic caucus to extend jobless benefits without paying for them. One Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted no.
The measure now goes to the House, which has already approved an extension of jobless benefits but must vote again for procedural reasons.
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The UEFA Champions League playoff is like a very long series of NCAA
Play-In Games Opening Round Games; scrappy champions of small leagues and barely-qualified major league losers clash heads for the right to face the real "Champions" in the group stage.
Those playoffs are underway in full-force this week, and here's a fellow who supports Spanish side Malaga, fourth-place finisher in La Liga last season and paired up against Greece's Panathinaikos. Malaga took the first match of the tie 2-0 in an outcome that surely put big, fat smiles on the faces of Los Boquerones supporters. Our featured fan has a long way to go before he can match this fellow's enthusiasm, though.


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Kyle Quincey, Tyler Bozak and Drew Shore among NHLers skating at DU
Former Avalanche defenseman Kyle Quincey of the Detroit Red Wings and former University of Denver standout forwards Tyler Bozak and Joe Colborne of the Toronto Maple Leafs are among those participating in this week's DU pro camp at Magness Arena. Others include Drew Shore of the Florida Panthers and his little brother and former DU teammate Nick Shore, who signed with the Los Angeles Kings last spring. A bunch of other former Pioneers currently playing professionally include Denver Cutthroats captain Aaron MacKenzie, a former Avalanche defenseman, and fellow "Fish" Luke Fulghum, Kyle Ostrow of the Colorado Eagles, Brett Skinner of the Calder Cup champion Grand Rapids Griffins, new Cutthroat Matt Glasser, plus Adrian Veideman, Anthony Maiani, Luke Salazar and former CC Tigers Colin Stuart and Curtis McElhinny.


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#1360 in England
#4145 in the World
Jumped 1,636 places in the World Ranking in a week
#1245 in England
#3843 in the World
FC loss and OD win see me break the top 4,000 in the world.
Originally Posted by Matteh
I'm still bitter about BBC2 showing the signing of the Good Friday Agreement instead of the Simpsons.
Manager XpertEleven side: BEST Indies FC: Won Champions Cup 1 season 5
Premiership Last Man Standing: headhunter 26/10-26/11/07 Agent TBY & headhunter (tied) 08/08-25/08/08
CW Blue - We are the Blues, we never lose.
#91 in West Indies
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How did we go up so much in 6 days? xD
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Beautiful Doors Around the World
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One of our favorite things to look for on Pinterest are beautiful and interesting doors. From ancient carved wooden versions to very contemporary steel and glass models, doors are an element that makes a huge design impact and set the tone for what awaits inside a home and add instant curb appeal. Here is smattering of a few standouts; check out our entire collection of favorites on our Pinterest Board, The Doors.
Ornately carved doors – Thailand knows how to get it right.
When Art Noveau design reigned in Paris, intricate designs didn't stop on the door itself but continued around the surround and integrated the entry into the rest of the building's facade. I love this building connects to and has a bit of fun with classical style while pushing avant-garde limits.
While Moroccan doors can be incredibly ornate, this one is now more about color and the simple arched shape. Of course it does show the decorative value that can be achieved with hardware, even when it's painted over.
1972 L.A. had some pretty cool doors – these have a sunburst pattern and are bronze. bronze, sunburst-patterned front door is original to the house.
This door punctuates the modern facade with shocking red color, making the point of entrance clear and welcoming, then surprising with the way it pivots open.
Wondering what to do with your existing door that may be a little Plain Jane compared to some of these? It's incredible what some paint and creativity can do. Why not go for an oversized lion's head ring doorknocker? Or shock your neighbors with a bold color?
I'm not saying you have to go Pepto pink, but the charm of this door (and bike-as-accent) in Dublin can't be denied.
Are you considering going brazen with your front door? Please tell us about it in the comments section.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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* I was gluttonous on my birthday. My mom took care of my boys during the day and I got a massage. And I didn't feel one bit guilty about it. It was blissful. Then I got my eyebrows waxed- not so blissful.
* After trying to make the children forget about the dying of the Easter eggs for a whole week, I finally caved and said that we could do it on Saturday morning. I'll admit that I had to type "How to boil and egg" into google. Beyond sticking it in water, I had no idea how long it was supposed to sit in the water. Remember- I don't eat eggs that can't have the squiggly thing pulled out of them. We now have a whole container of hard boiled eggs that look like this...
...because mama can't stand the smell of vinegar we don't keep it around and I forgot that it is a necessity for dying eggs. I went to three convenience stores looking for vinegar before I just gave up and told the kids that our eggs were remaining purists. So we struck out. BOO! #parentingfail
* Instead, we hunted eggs of the plastic variety with the cousins after church. (Inside- because we've had 300 feet of rain in the last week!) The kids had a ball!
* In case you are wondering, when you run out of vegetable oil while making brownies, do NOT text someone to tell them and especially don't try to shorten vegetable oil to veg oil. The resulting text will autocorrect to tell your friend that you are out of vag oil. Which- believe me -is NOT a good thing to be out of! Also on the autocorrect front, why does typing "awwwww" always change to "sewer". What about awwwww makes my phone think, " I know she typed awwww but she probably really meant sewer. Let's change it for her."
* My kids have gotten really into playing Mario brothers lately. Lucky for them I spent hours as a kid blowing on my nintendo cartridges and playing Mario. I still have my touch and the children think that I am the bomb dot com for being able to defeat the dragon. I love that stage where they are still young enough to think that mom knows everything. Wonder how much longer I have til that jig is up?
* Miles came up with this dance that makes him scream "hot dog" the whole time he's doing it. He has taught the others to hot dog as well. Today I leave you with the hot dog. Lucky you.
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Every year my plan is to be done decorating by Thanksgiving so that I can kick back relax and enjoy the finished product for as many days as possible. Through the years I have only achieved this goal a handful of times. These days with 40 plus bins of inside decorations 3 large trees and 5 small trees and a substantial amount of outside lights it can be quite a daunting task. I do so love doing it though.
This year I have removed one major consumer of my free time as I have backed away from a model railroad club that I truly enjoyed. My leave of absence made a big difference in my train layout progress this year so we shall see if I can pull off Christmas 2010 between now and Thanksgiving.
I will post my progress and count down the days in this thread so you can follow along and see if I can reach my goal. I got my start this weekend by trimming bushes and trees and cleaning flower beds in preparation of the outdoor display. Today I cleaned the hardwood floors laid down the train board and erected my first and largest tree. Here are some pics.


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My friend over in the Air Force, Daniel Rawlings, is an ex-Mormon and out of the closet atheist. He drove hours to make it to many of our awesome MASH Fort Bragg meetings.
He has now been reassigned much further away to Travis Air Force Base, in California. Such is the transient nature of military life. But take a look at some awesome that he shared with us:
I am in currently in processing into my new squadron here at Travis AFB, one of the steps is a new issue of "Dog Tags" for my squadron.
The guy at the tag machine asks me what my religious preference is,
I say "Atheist"….
He pauses a minute and asks, "Do you mean 'No Religious Preference?'"I respond "No I mean Atheist"… he thinks about this for a second, and programs it into the machine.
Then he tells me "Good for you, so am I".
I love it when I grow a backbone, and make an unknown friend in the process.
I had quite an ordeal getting atheist dogtags myself, but they did actually make it onto wikipedia, so WHOOHOO!
I love it when people share these types of stories with me. If you've got one, hit me up. I can remove personally identifying information if necessary.
A facebook group of vocal foxhole atheists would really like to see yours. They are making a gallery, so post!


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The Importance of Building Your Own Brand
I teach at a university that has a large, active undergraduate population. Over the years, my students have often come to me seeking career advice: what courses best define their major? Should they have a minor field of study? What courses should they take that will prepare them for certain careers? and so on.
But increasingly, students have come seeking a different sort of advice, asking: how should I build my personal profile, or what do I need for a successful self-brand? Should I have a personal website, or a strong online presence? Questions that used to be framed as "Who am I, and who should I become?" are more and more "How should I sell myself?"


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The D.C. area has seen it all in the last four to five years: major blizzards, bitter cold, unseasonable warmth. And this year, Storm Team4 says to expect snow.
But not Snowmageddon.
Storm Team4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer issued his 2013-14 Winter Weather Forecast today on News4 at 5. We talked to him about how he develops his forecasts.
Q: How do meteorologists develop a model for a whole season's weather?
A: Our weather is controlled by many factors. I could list them all, the AO, PNA, ENSO, NAO, PDO, ENSO and many more. (For more on what each one is take a look here.)
But I'll focus on just two of those which I think play more of a role this year: ENSO and the NAO. ENSO is the the El Nino Southern Oscillation. ENSO has two phases -- the positive phase, or El Nino, and the negative phase, La Nina.
ENSO is focused in the equatorial Pacific Ocean close to the coast of South America. (If you would like to learn more about ENSO, here is a link.)
This year ENSO is in more of a neutral phase, although it has been leaning negative over the last year or so. Normally this state would mean an average winter for us.
But I have looked at this pattern going back about two years. I have found a pattern that I think has been seen before. By comparing that pattern to past winters, I have found a trend: four winters which have similar characteristics.
Those winters are the winters of 1961-62, 1962-63, 1967-68 and 1981-82. Each of those winters have similar trends to what we are seeing now in our weather pattern and each of those have similar ENSO patterns as well. To see what I am talking about take a look at this chart.
Q: What we all want to know: What does that trend mean for snow in the D.C. area?
A: During those winters we saw above average snowfall. In fact, the correlation is very strong with an average snowfall of 20.1" -- about 5" above average for D.C.
Places like Dulles and Baltimore saw an average of about 30" in those years. But most of the storms during those years were small storms, with a few 3-6" snowfalls.
If you're hoping for a big storm, the data just don't support that, but they does support snow.
Is a big storm out of the question? No, but don't get too excited. I am not predicting another Snowmaggedon!
Q: What about the average temperatures in the trend you identified?
A: Something else really sticks out from those years and that is the cold. All of those past winters were dominated by a negative NAO, or North Atlantic Oscillation, which I talk about in my Winter Weather Forecast. In its negative phase, cold air is able to move down from Canada.
At the same time, storms are able to move up the coast. With the two working together -- cold air and storms -- we get more snow, and I think that will be the case this year. For more on the NAO, click here.
Looking at the winter months of those years we can try to deduce what we can expect this year. Temperatures in December averaged out to be slightly below average. January though was just plain cold in all four of the years we discussed. February was cold as well, with March going back above average. So we are forecasting temperatures to be below average for most of the winter.
Yes we will have a few warmer periods too, but on the whole I think you will need your coat a lot more than you did last year. I also think you will need your snow shovel!
Have a great winter everyone, and if you have any questions, feel free to find me on Facebook at facebook.com/dougkammerer or on Twitter at twitter.com/dougkammerer.


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Patent Win for Google and Allies Crushes Vringo Shares
Live by the patent, die by the patent. That's frequently the fate of intellectual-property companies, with Vringo the latest to feel the pain.
The New York-based company has more than 500 patents and patent applications covering telecom infrastructure, Internet search, and mobile technologies. Rather than sell products and services, Vringo makes money by licensing patents to other companies or taking them to court if they don't play along.


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Newborn? Hate to say it, but depending on time of day, I have just held them bundled in my arms and rocked...My oldest three never got over-tired cranky but my youngest, 4 month old does. You can't worry about what you aren't getting done bc the baby isn't asleep at this stage. Hold them so they feel safe and loved. Nursing helps a great deal even if they aren't actually eating. Calm environment. Soft music. Lavender baths or just standing under the shower has helped many times. Older babies: we have had to put vibrating seat in crib, slow dance around dark room forever, rubbing soft circles around eyes and forehead til eyes close, breaking down and laying them with you, etc. I've never let any of mine cry it out, older babies maybe it's ok but couldn't do that great with any of mine. I have also discovered my newest will sometimes be happier trying to fall asleep on his side... Trial and error- each one has their own personality from day one :-)
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How do I get an overtired newborn to stay asleep?
Your newborn is definitely tired but is so tired that they can't stay asleep. What do you do to help them stay asleep?
First and foremost swaddle. It works wonders. Second make sure your baby has a full tummy. if you're breastfeeding and your baby only eats for a few minutes then falls asleep he/she is not getting full. Try stripping him down and turning a fan on while you nurse. This will prevent him from getting warm and cozy and falling asleep at the breast. It did it with my kids and they slept 6 hour stretches from day one. It sounds cruel but you need to sleep to be a good mommy.
The five S's.
Swaddle, wrapping tightly
Shushing, like the ocean or static in their ear.
Side, lay them on there side, almost stomach.
Sway, rock back and forth in quick motions.
Sucking, binky or your finger.
They taught this in my caring for you amazing new born class. You can do them in order until you baby calms down, you might not need all five.
http://youtu.be/XqGmBdH_oCs that shows you how to calm your baby and put them to sleep.
Babywearing. A good wrap is all you need. Being cuddled up close on your chest recreates the womb feeling, especially because they can hear your heartbeat. Once I've snuggled him up, I walk around for a few minutes or bounce gently on my birthing ball, and my little guy is out like a light. He'll sleep for several hours this way, no matter what I'm doing.
Try swaddling him/her like they do in the hospital suprisingly this works
Make sure baby is warm and wrapped up tight. Remember - they are used to being in warm tight quarters and fed. Birth is very traumatic for an infant ... why do you think they cry and flail their arms?
Been there done that....give your sweetie a massage. You know when you used to get growing pains, well think about all the growing babies are doing just in the first year! Try it with a lavender lotion.
This women is a great resource for help w/ sleeping issues:
She also invented a sleep swaddler that let's the baby's hands come to their mouth (instead of by their sides) and babies tend to sleep better with this positioning:
I had so much trouble with my 2nd's sleeping and learned a lot from sleep consultants :)
warm bath, swaddle, then nurse...you will get him or her to sleep for at least 3 hours...then about an hour and a half later swaddle and nurse...and keep that pattern up during the day..at night, just swaddle and nurse right away after he or she wakes up and keep that up. also, try changing his or her position after you nurse when you lie him or her down (for instance left side or right side) and you can belly sleep him or her without the swaddle if it is too hot.
my 6 week old has just today decided that she doesent want to sleep!! she has been amazn up till now , typicl 1hour up 2 hours sleep... good sleeps at night -4 hours. now she is doing 5-10 min cat naps...? arrrrg!! ive tryd all the usual things ....anythin new i could try? Tired mummy ;-(
My son is 9 weeks and I am going through the SAME thing!!
i feel for u, my son is 2 1/2 months old and i still have the same issue, good luck :)
Newborns shouldn't sleep more than 4-5 hours at most. They need feeding, changing and interaction every few hours. The only thing that worked for one of my kids though was a baby swing! Really, NOTHING else worked! Good luck!
Sometimes baby's get over stimulated. Try to make sure when it gets close to sleep time that you do calm things. No tummy tickles or play. A warm bath with lavender baby soap. A warm bottle while swaddled tightly in a blanket. Baby's feel safe and comforted when swaddled in a blanket. Just make sure they can still have circulation. Unfortunately, some times you just have to let them fuss and cry it out. Crying relieves stress, even at that age. I have raised 6 babies of my own. Its tough some times and you want to always make it "right". Baby's don't come with manuals so you just have to find what works best with you bundle of joy. Good luck.
Usually I'll do a clean diaper, warm bottle, then warm bath. If that doesn't work, we walk around for a bit, then he's out!
give him a light oil massage n a bath, the baby sleeps for a longer period.......
I let my baby lay in the crook of my back next to me.
Co-sleeping is an amazing way to help little ones sleep better but the position you described is not a safe co-sleeping position. It is much better to lay on you side with the baby facing you (while you have the bottom arm stretched out and the other arm snuggling your baby). This is a protective sleep position. I have co-slept with both of my children and love every single min. of it but it has to be done safely.
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Harry Reid immediately went to the floor to say how it demonstrates how horrible the GOP is, almost instantly sock puppet accounts appeared deploring the entire republican party on twitter, the White House attacked. Even before the vote Chris Matthews was calling Ted Cruz "The Next Joe McCarthy".
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Related: The comeback of the American car
James Swanson, chief investment strategist with MFS Investment Management in Boston, noted in his firm's mid-year outlook earlier this week that rebounding auto sales were one of the brightest spots for the U.S. economy.
But the bad news for automakers is that worries about lower global demand seems to be the reason for falling oil and gas prices.
Investors are concerned that the escalating European debt crisis (will all five of the PIIGS wind up getting bailouts?) will lead to slower growth in China, the U.S. and the rest of the world. Needless to say, a worldwide economic slump will probably mean lower auto sales. And while auto sales were up in May, they did fall short of forecasts.
That has Morgan Stanley auto analyst Adam Jonas worried. Jonas wrote in a report Tuesday that if "auto sales don't improve materially in June" his full-year forecast for the industry will be "at risk." Jonas added that a more troublesome sign is that auto manufacturers may be reacting to near-term weakness by stepping up incentive programs and other initiatives to lower vehicle prices.
"A recent discussion with Ford management and feedback from publicly traded auto retailers suggest such incentives are damaging to the auto environment by putting volume ahead of value and customer service," Jonas wrote.
So automakers are, like the rest of the corporate world, in a tough spot right now. If they need more gimmicks to get people into the showrooms, that's not good. And any continued boost from cheaper gas prices can only go so far. Lower commodity prices are something to cheer ... until they get too low.
Remember the end of 2008 and early 2009? The average price for a gallon of gas nationwide was near $1.61 a gallon, less than half of what it was now. But those weren't exactly happy times for consumers ... or the Big 3.
At its 2009 low point, Ford's stock cost less ($1.50) than a gallon of gas. And GM and Chrysler were soon to be bankrupt. Nobody wants to return to those dark days.


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Hello Atheists, Christians, agnostics who don't know why they're here.
I tried becoming a member but the board keeps regaring me as "guest". Oh well.
I heard the interview with Sam Harris on Black Op Radio a while back. It was bitter sweet really. I was glad that he is addressing issues involving the Bible itself, such as passages that sound like something coming out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting as opposed to all the lovey dovey stuff that Christians keep talking about. Too many things about Christianity have been swept under the rug and now Christians are getting a good kick in the ass for it. But at the same time I was kind of bummed out that the interview was so one-sided. But I guess I can't complain 'cause it wasn't a trial or anything.
But if it was a trial, and we were the jury, judging Christianity among other religions, we would have to be completely unbiased. No matter what we thought before, we had to be open to all sides to be sure that it was fair. The prosecution in this case would of course be Sam Harris and his book, and the defense would be anyone's guess.
I think that there is nothing more complicated than religion. Even if you bought the Bible and read the whole thing, you would need several other books to give commentary on the historical and theological aspects of it. You might even want to get a different translation to get a more rounded view. This is why I think a lot of good questions Atheists raise should be addressed. Don't think that you're the only ones who ask these questions, there are many websites that address several Biblical issues.
If there's anyone who would want to learn about religion, for whatever the reason, I suggest you go to this website:
I need to warn you, this site has articles that are very long, and are reserved for only those who want to seriously take the time to learn about Christianity. But I highly recommend it because it addresses probably every serious question you could ask about the Bible itself.
I hope you all have an open mind!
If you really wish to learn about the bible, and really have an open mind, I suggest you start with studying about the origins of the "holy book." You may find it an exercise in futility to study the scriptures in detail when the sources are being discredited on a regular basis.
Take genesis, for instance. At least four authors, written in three different centuries, and based largely upon various folk myths. According to the FC's, it was written by moses inspired by the holy something or other. Two accounts of the significent events, and they conflict on major points.
I'm sorry, but I dont see how anyone who isn't deranged or on drugs could take this stuff seriously, let alone "study" it. It makes more sense to study astrology books, or witchcraft. What's the difference? Six thousand years old! Indeed! Get a grip!
Well Pete, think of it this way: if you wanted to convince people that religion was a waste of space, and some didn't agree with you, you could change their mind with your knowledge of religion.
Like if some guy said "Israel never killed women and children in the Bible!" You could say, "Yes they did. Moses ordered them to murder all the Midianite males and all non-virgin females in Numbers 31." The look on his face would be worth the research. I mean, that's what Sam Harris is doing.
Am I suggesting that people go out and look for nasty things in the Bible for the purpose getting the upper hand on Christians? No, I'm just encouraging an open dialog.
Nobody can deny that an open and frank discussion between opposing sides of a view is a good thing in the long run. You can only hope that your info is accurate and you're being objective. If others don't want to hear you that's their problem, but Sam Harris is trying to reach those who have no opinion either way, not those who agree with him automatically.
Which is why I also suggest http://religioustolerance.org/
Don't let the flowery title fool you, the site has no opinion whatsoever (though some have called it an Atheist website in disguise). You don't have to take it seriously; think of it as studying Greek Mythology.