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Are you on edge when wine shopping? Is it hard for you to determine what is different between a Merlot and a Burgundy? Fortunately, you have found an article that can help you to feel better about buying wine through knowledge. Continue reading to learn great information that will help you choose the best wine.
Know the store where you purchase your wine. That's because each shop is different. Each shop offers you unique selections and varied pricing. Besides, a novice would do well to avoid a pricey, ultra-exclusive spot. Find the perfect shop for your needs.
When you store your wine properly, you enhance the flavor it can produce. Temperatures to any extreme can damage your wine's taste. Let the flavor continue to develop by storing wines at 50 to 55 degrees for the best results. You can buy wine refrigerators or put them in the basement.
Do not avoid joining wine forums. There are many great ones that are great places to get ideas from and interact with others that are passionate about wine. Check the forum out first before registering to see if it's what you're looking for.
Red and white wines have their own separate style of glassware. Whites are best in a narrow wine glass to prevent warm air from making its way to the surface. Reds, on the other hand, like to be served in a wider glass, with a large mouth. That allows for plenty of air to touch the wine surface, warming the wine and developing flavor as it works with the air.
Get a screw top bottle if buying wine for tailgating. These tops are much easier to remove than the standard corks. The best part is that there is less risk that your bottle will spill when you are transporting it back home.
Don't believe the word that white wine must be chilled. White wines have different textures, and can be served at various temperatures. Sauvignon blanc tastes best cold, but chardonnay and pinot gris are best served a little warmer.
Not all wines age well; make plans for this when you put wine up for long periods of time. Make sure that the variety you have chosen will store well before you buy more than a couple bottles. Bordeaux is an example of wine that ages well.
Keep your wine cellar well stocked. Limiting your options to only one type of wine does not make for much variety when company comes over. Be a good host and have a variety of wines available, including red, white, sweet and sparkling.
Understand the choices offered at your favorite restaurants. This is especially true if you hope to impress your company. Order something different and off the beaten path in order to do so. This will create a fun atmosphere when it is time to taste the wine.
There are many message boards online dedicated to wine. You can benefit a great deal from the expertise and experiences of others, and as you progress you will likely be the one giving out advice. You may find a new wine that becomes one of your favorites from a suggestion made by another member.
Drink just the wines you truly enjoy. Certain venues will promote their favorite bottles, but don't feel pressured if you already have a selection in mind. Generally speaking, many of these labels are marked up drastically. A high price is no guarantee of a high quality wine. Drink what you enjoy, not what you are told to like.
It's easy to start becoming absolute in ages and the flavors that you like, but don' be afraid to step out of your comfort zone. You will develop new preferences as you taste different wines and mature as a wine connoisseur. Try that bottle recommended by the clerk for a welcome surprise.
Go to a class on wine history. Wine is something you may get passionate about it. Having a rich history can boost your appreciation of it. Learning about its origin, the various types, and how it's created can broaden your basic knowledge.
Given your familiarity with the information above, your confidence level about wine should be greatly increased. When you shop, use this article. You can pull it out and read it when row after row of wine is staring you in the face. With the information here, you can select the perfect bottle of wine.


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Tomorrow's Scottish Cup quarter-final draw will be one of the strongest ever with five of the top six going into the drum.
St Johnstone are the highest placed casualty although one more club will make way when Kilmarnock visit Ibrox next Wednesday in the only replay.
Aberdeen booked their place today with a 4-1 win over Queen of the South with Hearts joining city rivals Hibs in the draw after beating Auchinleck Talbot 4-0 today.
Yesterday Hibs, Partick Thistle and Dundee United emerged victorious from their ties with the final match taking place tomorrow when Ross County host Inverness Caley Thistle.
Rab Douglas and Billy Dodds will make the draw just after 9pm tomorrow with the matches scheduled over the weekend of March 2 and 3.
Celtic's win over St Johnstone today made in 24 successive victories in domestic cup ties for Brendan Rodgers' side, a new Scottish record.

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George Brandis may not be everyone's idea of a really good time, but this bit of argument deserves a round of applause.
CSIRO is the Australian government's research organisation. It gets about $1 billion per year of taxpayers' money. In recent years, quite a lot of that has been spent, not in doing any research, but in proselytising on the subject of climate change. We see for example this on their website:
There is less than 1 chance in 100,000 that global average temperature over the past 60 years would have been as high without human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, our new research shows.
Published in the journal Climate Risk Management today, our research is the first to quantify the probability of historical changes in global temperatures and examines the links to greenhouse gas emissions using rigorous statistical techniques.
Our new CSIRO work provides an objective assessment linking global temperature increases to human activity, which points to a close to certain probability exceeding 99.999%.[1]
Now, I used to be a scientist. That was a long time ago, when I was a student. Since then, as a lawyer, I have spent a great deal of time looking at the evaluation of technical arguments in construction cases. My experience in both of these areas leads me to the same conclusion: that to say any probability in an area like this exceeds 99.999% is just plain silly.
Furthermore, as both an ex-scientist and a lawyer, I am a firm believer in looking at the actual evidence, from both sides of any argument. And the other side of the argument is that there are some really quite good reasons to think that human activity was not the major driver in the temperature rises that we saw in the final decades of the last century. In particular: –
- Carbon dioxide emissions – which the CSIRO identify is the major cause of that temperature rise – have continued to rise this century. Conversely, global temperatures have not. The jury is out as to whether global temperatures this century have remained static, or whether they have gone up a little bit. What is not in contention (apart from in the barking mad imaginations of the near religious nutters) is that the global temperature rises this century (if any) are a country mile short of the sort of runaway catastrophic global warming that was predicted by tub-thumping zealots like Al Gore and Tim Flannery.[2]
- There is also the small matter of the historical record, if you go back a bit. It was much warmer than today in the Minoan warming period. It was good for civilisation, spawning Greek culture. It was also warmer than today in the Roman warming period. Views vary about quite how good the Romans were. What did the Romans ever do for us? Yes, yes, there were the roads. But they also brought extraordinary brutality. And most of their decent art was nicked from the Greeks. But anyway, like them or not, the period of the Roman Empire occurred during a period when it was a lot hotter than it is today. And then, course, you get the Medieval warming period – the famous episode that Michael Mann tried to conceal in his infamous "hockey stick" graph (I do find it rather curious that he hasn't even been sued for fraud, let alone imprisoned). Again, quite a bit warmer than today. And the thing about all of these periods is that they occurred when carbon dioxide levels were much less than today. So the notion that warm weather (good, incidentally, for humankind) is caused by carbon dioxide is, to say the least, decidedly dodgy. To put a 99.999% prospect on a dodgy horse is not good science.
Anyway, the way that the warmists deal with these sorts of points is to stifle debate – to say that "the science is settled". Personally, I side with the lukewarmers. In common with most of the scientists whose views I respect, I think:
- Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide do increase global temperatures, but not by much.
- Unlike the alarmists, I think there is probably a negative feedback in this mechanism. In other words, the planet has a tendency to accommodate modest increases in carbon dioxide (which is what we are talking about – still fraction of a percent) and is highly unlikely to fall off its perch like a dead parrot. Past changes in climate and conditions have been far more extreme than the current modest increase in carbon dioxide, and the planet seems to have survived just fine, thank you very much.
- Global warming is a good thing, not a bad thing. The balance of the historical evidence is that civilisations tend to thrive in warm periods, and to regress in cold periods. That is not surprisingly really. The biggest experience of global warming is by people who move from cold, boring places like Scotland to warmer, more fun places like Florida. I'm not saying that a lot of people move from Scotland to Florida. People from Scotland tend to move to the south of England, and in particular, into the Houses of Parliament and the offices of the BBC, where they whine on at interminable length. It is people from the northern part of the United States who tend to move to Florida. Here in Australia, people move from colder parts to Queensland, seeking more warmth. Given that so many people with common sense, and a few dollars in their back pocket, actively uproot themselves to go and live somewhere warmer, it is bizarre that the climate change nutters still maintain that even a fraction of a degree of global warming is going to see is all going to hell in a conflagration of self-righteous puffery.
- Sooner or later, the world will run out of oil and gas. But really, it's more a question of "later" not "sooner" – there is still plenty of the stuff left under the ground, and my personal opinion is that oil is not the product of rotting plankton, but rather is continually produced from the centre of the earth, just as hydrocarbons are continually produced on other planets and moons in our solar system that had never had any plankton, rotting or otherwise. Windmills are not the answer. They've been around for hundreds of years, and have never been very efficient. Nuclear power is a far smarter way of producing energy in the future.
- A much bigger problem is that the next ice age is just round the corner. Our best prospect of postponing it might well be to burn all the hydrocarbon we can possibly find.
Now you might agree with this stuff, or you might not. Anyway, what to do about the billion dollars a year. Enter George Brandis QC is the Attorney-General, and leader of the government in the Australian Senate. He says that it would be a smart idea to cut the funding for the CSIRO. Logically, he says, the socks and sandals brigade ought to support this cut. After all, if they think the science is settled – and that is what they say all the time – what would be the point on spending a shedload more money on the CSIRO trying to settle it some more?
His logic looks good to me.
Unhappily, the issue is no longer one of science, but one of neo-religion. If you are believer, and think the "science is settled" why spend more money trying to prove it? And if you are a sceptic, and think that the CSIRO are a bunch of tree-hugging proselytisers, then again, the sooner CSIRO's funding goes, the better.
One thing is clear – spending lots of money on the CSIRO and its ilk is not going to convince anyone of anything – everyone is already tucked up in their respective spititual homes. You might as well spend lots of money trying to persuade the Catholics that a wafer and a cup of cheap wine is not really the flesh and blood of someone who died 2000 years ago. Leave them to it, I say, as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.
Now some people say that there should be no cuts to the CSIRO budget until the government changes its policy on all sorts of other things, and has us running around weaving our own knickers and hoping like hell for a nice, sunny windy day to make up for shutting down all of the proper power stations. But it does not work like that. Given that real people these days are pretty sceptical about the scaremongering of the warmists, and do not want to turn off the proper power stations, thank you very much, what advantage would there be in the CSIRO continuing to bleat in our ears like some deranged Welsh nanny? For the cognoscenti, the CSIRO have been caught with their fingers in the till far too often fiddling data, in order to try to prove their messianic point, that they have no credibility. For the ignorami, they are just a bunch of tiresome dole dodgers. They are not now going to persuade anybody of anything.
So, good for George, I say.
[1] A close reading of this quote suggests that there really not saying very much at all. So, if global temperatures rose by about half of the degree centigrade in the latter part of the 20th century, and if 1% of that very small rise was due to carbon dioxide emissions by humans, the statement would be literally true. But that is not what the CSIRO all about. What they have been trying to convince us of is the scaremongering line – that the human impact on climate is an existential risk to mankind.
[2] If you are moved to comment on this post, please do not tell me blah-blah of the hottest recorded years have been in the last blah-blah years. Of course they have! It got a bit hotter, then it stayed a bit hotter. But still not nearly as hot as the times before people started measuring and recording temperatures.


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Lately, we've heard some politicians in Washington talking about making changes to Social Security such as cutting the benefits we've earned to reduce the federal budget deficit.
Social Security hasn't contributed to the current deficit, so politicians shouldn't be considering cutting benefits to fix it. Instead of targeting Social Security for unfair cuts, Congress should cut down on waste, close tax loopholes, and get rid of pork-barrel spending, which, if you don't remember your early Civics classes, refers to bills overloaded with special spending and projects designed to appeal to a particular politician's constituents.
The politicians are right, however. We need to make some changes to keep Social Security strong. Any changes should be made to ensure future generations can collect on the money they contribute, not to fix the budget mess Washington has created. If you pay into Social Security, you should receive the full benefits you've earned over a lifetime of hard work.
Companies can dissolve. Pensions can be terminated. The stock market can crash. But Social Security benefits have always been there. It's time for Washington to take Social Security benefits off the chopping block and focus on the true drivers of the federal budget deficit.
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When he says this both Jordan and Lawon said "Wooooo!"
Lawon's weakness is pizza.
Adam: Boy...me too. I used to go to Pizza Hut, the lunch buffet with my buddies and they would get salad and pizza. But I would go for the pizza. All the pizza--every kind. And the cinnamon sticks!
Adam gave up soda first, and just drank water. Then he stopped eating pizza. Even just two slices are bad for you. There is a pizza place he can walk to from his house that just started serving whole wheat pizza, so he will have some of that.
Lawon: Pizza and beer were my problem....it's a lifestyle change. You can't just lose the weight and stop.
(Lawon said in his preseason interview that he has lost a lot of weight. You can read about that here.)
Jordan talked about watching some sort of Ultimate Weight Loss challenge, where you follow someone for a year and see their progress---it is inspiring to her.
Adam: Yeah, when I was outside doing my key ceremony, that's what everybody thought I was doing.
BB cut the feeds for a minute. I guess he means when BB came to shoot the footage of Adam receiving his key for BB...
Jordan's slop almost boiled over when she wasn't watching it---she used a pot that was way too small, and made enough for a week.
Adam came over to help and put it in a larger pot.
Jordan: Me and cookin' don't mix!
WTF is Rachel wearing? No wonder she can't get a science job....
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Adam's Top Weight was 330
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The stock market has had some fun pullback as of late, and I'm all for it. There are quite a few things occurring from a macro level with the sudden tragedies of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, followed by other catastrophic storms occurring within the world. Even outside of those events, Amazon also is continually changing the landscape among retail and we are starting to see those that will thrive and those that are being negatively impacted in the short-term. Since I always have my ear to the floor to what companies are being impacted, I have decided to compile my quick, short list of dividend stocks that have caught my eye.
This will be a very short summary for the dividend stock ideas that are on my mind, in order to provide names out to the community, receive feedback sooner, as well as to perform a deeper evaluation on the names that have pierced my eye. I'll try to keep it interesting, but these are primarily stocks I am considering to add or increase my position within the portfolio. There have been quite a few names on my mind that aren't listed below, such as Disney (DIS), Smuckers (SJM) and others, due to ex-dividend dates or yield preference. However and without further-ado, here is the dividend stock watch list below!
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AT&T (T): Yes, they are back on the dividend stock watch list. How could they not be? Their stock price has plummeted from trading at $38.35 on August 10th, down to $35.59 over the September 8th weekend, a drop of 7.2% in that short, one-month time span. They have a dividend increase coming up in November (or some time in the 4th quarter), which (more than likely) will be around that 2% growth rate that they have had. At this current price, with a current dividend of $1.96 per year, their yield is a wonderful 5.51% and is easily two full percentage points higher than my average yield on my portfolio. At an expected $2.94 earnings per share for 2017, their price to earnings (P/E) ratio is 12.1, very low at this current point in time. I own quite a few shares, but given that other positions have grown, this position doesn't stick out as much of a sore thumb anymore and I'd be interested in adding more at these levels. I know that quite a few people love AT&T as a prime dividend stock in their portfolio, and I agree, hence why I also consider them a top 5 foundation stock.
Delta Airlines (DAL): I purchased DAL back in mid-August at a price point of approximately $50 per share. However, they now trade at $47.45 or a 5.1% decline since my entry price. We know I usually have a rule that if I bought it at "X" and if it drops 5%, why wouldn't I now buy it at "Y" if the fundamentals didn't change. I can see the increase in gas/oil having an impact on the cost of DAL, as well as lost revenue from the catastrophes that are occurring within the US, causing the decrease in share price. I still am a fan of Delta, whole heartedly, and with a current dividend of $1.22, their yield is now at 2.57%, not too bad, given their historical 50% dividend growth rate. Expected earnings next year is at $5.90 currently (aka, a very low payout ratio to boot, allowing ample room for future increases) and that equates to a P/E ratio of 8. I'll fly with the stock at the moment and am looking to purchase a few more "seats" in my portfolio for DAL.
Hormel (HRL): HRL is down 9.2% this year and is considered one of the longest dividend aristocrats out there. They have a dividend growth streak of over 50 years and this year they increased their dividend a whopping 17%. Their forward yield is $0.68 per share and at a share price of $31.60, this equates to a yield of 2.15%. Not a large yield, by any means, but their growth rate more than makes up for it. Additionally, they have brands such as Jennie-O, Justin's nut spreads, Wholly Guacamole, Skippy, Muscle Milk and that's not to mention their chili and pepperoni products. They are making a big investment and push into the natural foods and organic selection as well. Analysts expect $1.56 earnings this year, for 2017, which produces a p/e ratio of 20.2. Slightly higher than I would like and would prefer that to top out at 18, i.e. a $28 share price is preferred. I'll keep my eye on them in the near-to-mid term.
So what does everyone think of the dividend stock watch list this month? Do any of them fit into your portfolio? Will an add of one of them help you reach your goals and help take back control of your time? Additionally, feel free to check out Bert's list of stocks to increase their dividend this month when you have a chance, as you may be able to snag a dividend stock before their announcements. Lastly, what are your favorite stocks that you are seeing out right now? Please comment and share your thoughts below! Thanks again for stopping by everyone, good luck and happy investing!


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First off, I didn't coin this term, so I can't take credit for it. While I have no idea who said it first, it's been floating around on Twitter for a while...
"Cloudpocalypse" has loosely been termed as the point at which Cloud Computing causes a catastrophic failure.
For the sake of this post, let's assume that this has to do with enterprise computing, Intellectual Property (IP), and the damage created from intense confusion.
For many enterprises and SMBs alike, their intellectual property is what keeps them in business. The customer lists, the secret formulas, and latest design plans are what propels them over their competition, and allows them to live to fight another quarter.
The heart of the cloudpocalypse comes from the fact that increasingly, enterprises are losing sight of their intellectual property either through data sprawl, technology sprawl, or simply from the blistering fast pace of business. No matter what the vector, the threat to your business is real.
Picture this, even in reasonably tightly-controlled environments where technology is centrally managed, ITIL processes are followed, and procedures are at a premium it only take a credit card to stand up a cloud-based computing platform, commonly the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at a service like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Take just a second to think over what that means to the security posture of your business.
While you may have absolute control over your enterprise's technology (or at least you fool yourself enough to believe it) while the data is 'in house', you have to acknowledge that there is no such control today when the critical IP leaves your organization's technical boundaries. Unstructured data and even structured data is at risk of being extracted, packaged up, and moved out of your control at any given time.
Whether the sales guy emails himself that quarterly report to his GMail account for access from home, your customer service team starts to store their contact and customer data on a service like Dropbox, or one of your project managers has gotten fed up with your well-orchestrated, tightly controlled processes for project release - it's easy to imagine how quickly your critical, can't-live-without-it corporate intellectual property can walk out into the cloud.
There are many legitimate avenues that will lead you to a Cloudpocalypse...
- SaaS-a-frass- Your organization may very well be legitimately moving some of your data to cloud-based Software-as-a-Service providers like SalesForce or others. There is absolutely nothing with this type of strategy, since it enables your business to grow faster, not have to buy software and all the other tangible benefits.
- Cloudpocalyptic end: In this scenario, service levels and not properly vetting your provider is your downfall. Failing to set expectations around service levels, not carefully reading agreements searching for the word "liability", and other non-technical due-diligence can be your undoing. Remember that you need to know what your vendor is responsible for, and what they will try and wash their hands of. Data corruption, service outages, and service degradation - or worse yet - data leakage/breach... make sure you know who's responsible and for how much.
- Public Cloud Confusion- This scenario is probably most common. As described earlier someone gets the notion to stop using your own vetted, controlled IT infrastructure and to hastily move to "the cloud". Misunderstanding the basic principles of multi-tenancy, service availability, service resiliency, and other core functions will lead to disaster and most likely a state where your expectations for a public cloud service clearly don't match up with what your vendor is supplying ...and you probably have no recourse. Next stop, Cloudpocalypse-ville.
- Cloudpocalyptic end: This generally ends badly for those that haven't taken the time to understand just what cloud computing actually is. Yes, there is a data center (or more) somewhere that has your data running on physical hardware that can and likely will fail. How you prepare for, and handle that failure is what separates Cloud Computing from the stuff in your corporate data closet.
- Private Disaster - There are plenty of organization that have started building private clouds. I can name a few, and you probably can as well ... and this isn't a bad thing. Provisioning and orchestrating a cloud environment is critical to the way that cloud succeeds in delivering IT as a service. The problem comes when we start to give too many people the power to virtualize and move things around. While the concepts of self-service hold numerous benefits to the business user, this can also spell disaster on an epic scale. Drawing from experience I witnessed one organization private cloud itself to death... bringing up and tearing down platforms, infrastructure and applications at blurring speeds. When things are so abstracted from the physical, it can be relatively easy to lose track of what's really going on, especially when what you're looking at is a dashboard with a bunch of 'service names' rather than physical systems and such. So you can see how easy it is that when someone brings up an instance of an application to test based on a template, then pushes real data to it for 'testing' and replication of the real environment, how easy it is to get confused and mis-label things. In a self-service model there aren't IT people to stop you from nuking your own data... months of your own data.
- Cloudpocalyptic end: The comes for many self-service portals when they fail to stop users from causing destructive actions against themselves. When spinning up 'IT' is so easy a caveman can do it, they often will... and will later regret decommissioning that giant database-application pair they spent a month working on. Oops.
There are other scenarios here but what it generally breaks down to is that we haven't rationalized our capabilities, liabilities and uses of cloud computing yet. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop our co-workers, project managers and business owners from consuming these services faster than IT can realize what's going on.
In the end, you want to avoid a Cloudpocalypse where you've bought into a cloud service, neglected to understand what you're buying into (service level, liability, etc) and then are left crying onto your keyboard as your cloud provider tells you "sorry, we've lost all your data... but you have a backup somewhere, right?"
Cross-posted from Following the White Rabbit


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The following announcement came to us from an anonymous post to the Brockway gmail site:
Dave Sherman of Middletown R.I. has passed on. 01/16 /2014 He loved his
Brockways . Bringing his Red 1974 .361 truck to the show was a great event.
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Archmage Vasa
Vasa Gwynnwy Amgarn was the elven dynhysbys of Ildrad Zinthys. His assistant was mithren-cel-edrych.
In the later part of his years, he was senile and sent adventurers on a quest to form an alliance between Tir'Ein and the lizardfolk of the Hightide Swamps.
His successor was Archmage Athro. Was the mentor to Kieran Book.
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Brad Panovich's 2018-2019 Winter Forecast
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Submit an application to present a showcase in the official programming of the 19th CINARS Biennale (International Conference and Networking Organization for the Performing Arts) which will take place in Montreal from November 9 to 14, 2020.
For the first time since the creation of the conference and in order to better serve certain disciplines, we will only present for the 19th edition Theatre, Dance and Circus/Multi-Disciplinary Arts showcases in their ENTIRETY as part of the official programming. We will no longer present excerpts, except in Music for which we keep the 25-minute presentations.
The call is open to artists from all countries. Please note that applications must be sent earlier than usual, before OCTOBER 27, 2019, and that a non-refundable CA$125 processing fee will be charged for every submission.
- Learn more about the CINARS Biennale by visiting CINARS' website;
- Read the official programming policies;
- Fill out the application form.
Don't miss one of the most important international showcases and networking events which has made a name for itself as a must-see multidisciplinary performing arts event. Today, the CINARS Biennale brings together more than 1900, hailing from 54 countries, who discover, over the course of a week, more than 250 performances from Canada and abroad and participate in workshops, conferences and networking events.
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The Craziest Thing You've Ever Seen Her Wear
I have nothing but love, admiration, and a healthy amount of envy for the stunning and so, so sexy Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. I mean, why wouldn't I? She's talented, she's undeniably gorgeous, she's sophisticated, and she has a really amazing sense of style. Until she doesn't. Or, rather, until she makes you scratch your head in confusion and amazement over her most recent outfit, wondering whether it's just downright awful or somehow amazing because she's the one wearing it. Which is exactly what happened with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at Spring '15 Paris Fashion Week when she showed up to the CR Fashion Book Issue No. 5 launch party on Tuesday evening.
Wearing a look fresh from the Spring 2015 collection that hit the Balmain runway just days ago, the supermodel donned an outfit that was both jaw droppingly seductive and, well, borderline "What were you thinking?" insane. Featuring black, white, and yellow stripes from head to toe, the halter-neck, wide-leg jumper was certainly an eye-catching party piece that I'm pretty sure only someone as smoking hot and practically perfect as Huntington-Whiteley could pull off with confidence in real life. (Kind of like that time Jennifer Lopez's puzzling dress-jumpsuit hybrid totally rocked at the Versace Fall 2014 Show.)
Of course, it probably doesn't hurt that the British beauty chose to wear this look without the bandeau seen on the runway, which meant that its daringly low-cut neckline added just that much more sex appeal to the always-sultry model's look. Plus, with legs that are a mile long and a lovely face that can make up for pretty much anything from neck down, the model was bound to stun in this atypical red-carpet ensemble.
So yes, this outfit would probably make 95 percent of Hollywood stars (and pretty much every real-world woman) look like circus clowns if they wore it on the red carpet or just out and about for a casual stroll, but you have to admit: Huntington-Whiteley is totally rocking it with confidence. And when you're wearing a striped jumpsuit like this one, that's a must.
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GTA V Next-Gen Launch Trailer
The launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, ahead of its November 18th release window.
With the re-vamped visuals, extra activities and wildlife, and the inclusion of first person view. This game is still heavily on my list to get.
But as the game is only a year old I think I will wait for a good moment to get it. Will have The Master Chief Collection to keep me happy for the next few months if I am lucky 😀
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Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into an inescapable place that fuels their animosities.
After Once Upon a Time in Anatolia won the Grand Prix, Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan captivated the Cannes jury once more with this Palme d'Or winner: a rich, Chekhovian drama flush with exquisite beauty.
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But not all mortgages work this way. Many just have you make your exact mortgage payment and remain responsible for paying your homeowners' insurance and property taxes on your own. If you fall into the latter category, you'll need to budget accordingly so you're not caught off guard when these larger payments roll around. The average U.S. household spends $2,127 on property taxes each year, but in many states, that number is much higher. official websiteTake New Jersey, for example, whose average annual property taxes exceed $7,000 and, in some counties, can easily top the $15,000 mark.Most homeowners pay property taxes quarterly, and if yours are $4,000 a year, that's an extra $1,000 check you'll need to write every three months. Rather than scramble to come up with that money, be sure to budget $333 a month for property taxes. Along these lines, the average annual homeowners' insurance premium in the U.S. is $952. If you're required to make that payment all at once, you'll need to set aside money each month in anticipation.my blog
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We actually had a meeting scheduled for the day after he passed away. It was very tough on us, most especially Blake and Henrys family. So we put the show on the shelf. However, during that time, he went back and had an opportunity to think about all the things that he and Henry discussed while they were formulating the project. Hes managed to keep all those threads alive, but all these characters, it really was always about these characters and the journey and the world. Theres a very, very vibrant mythology that he and Henry co-created back then. You spoke about Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directing the pilot and creating the template for the dreams. It really captures the surreality of dreams I have that are just off enough. Like youre in a public place that should be crowded and no ones there.
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The Rain.
Hi guys. Today I'm booking in after a long break.
I've gotta say, 4 days really makes you feel like Army isn't a thing.
But well, good things always come to an end don't they?
So I'm writing down my thoughts on my last week in OETI. Well, I would say I miss will miss it a lot because I'll be posted to camp which… well doesn't have the best of reviews according to everyone I've met who's been there.
I would say this time that I'm truly sad to leave a place in the Army I've grown so attached to.
The canteen food is delicious, the cookhouse has its moments of fail but not much..
The bunk, though small, is relatively clean compared to other camps.
The friends I've made, despite our differences, were good friends.
So I'm sad to leave. It's just the case.
So on my last week, I wanna do my best to experience everything my camp has given me properly before I leave.
It's sad, but happiness and sadness always come together I guess.
Hence the song. HAHA.
Well, there's nothing much to say, other than that I'm arranging a maid sama song. MEHEHEHE. Gonna be fun, if I don't give it up halfway I guess.
So for one last time in OETI,
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Yes You :)
How you doing?!
Hope you are all well
Well I am a whole week late with this card,but I kinda thought that it would serve as a midway reminder that you have one more week to join us over at the
Our theme as always is
Anything Goes
You can see what my teamies have done HERE
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I coloured her with markers and cut her on a nestie, I attached the nestie to the card with a little acetate so she has some movement. The sentiment is from my digi stash, sorry cannot remember where from :( and the papers I have had forever...................
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Privacy policy
This policy was last updated in July 2019
Flying for Freedom SA takes its responsibility to protect your data very seriously.
The following questions and answers are intended to help you to understand how we collect, use, store, and protect information about you.
It refers to personal data, i.e. any information which identifies you or which can be identified as relating to you personally.
Contact us
If at any time you have a question relating to this policy, wish to change your preferences (for example to unsubscribe from emails you have previously opted into), or exercise your data protection rights, please don't hesitate to contact us in one of the following ways:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: +27(0)82 440 0457 (our usual office hours are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday SA time)
Who we are
Flying for Freedom SA (FFFSA) is a registered charity, number 2016 / 179524 / 08. This means that Flying for Freedom SA is registered with CharitySA.
With regards to protecting your data, FFFSA is a data controller, subject to the The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 ("POPIA") .
What personal data do we collect?
The following section describes the types of personal information we collect as a charity and how this data is collected.
1. Personal data you provide
The data you provide may include personal information, such as your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, date of birth, or signature, as well as financial information, such as your bank or credit card details when processing a membership application, donation, or purchase. It could include your taxpayer status for claiming Gift Aid, and employer details (e.g. for payroll giving).
You might provide this through our website, via email, in paper form, or verbally.
Examples of times you might actively provide data to us are:
- buying a membership
- making a donation
- purchasing a product from our shop
- answering a survey
- registering for an event
- through communication with our staff via phone or email.
Data may sometimes be collected at FFFSA events, but you will always be informed about this and be asked to opt in or opt out.
You may have also told us about your interests and preferences, such as the type of conservation programmes you are most interested in, or the ways that you would like to be involved with the charity, or you may have given details such as your company or employer, which will help us build up a picture of the types of activities you might be interested in hearing about in future.
If you are volunteering for us we may ask for additional information from you, for example emergency contact details or details required to conduct a reference check, but you will be aware of the data being collected as we will ask you specifically for this.
2. Personal data generated by your activities with Flying for Freedom SA
When interacting with Flying for Freedom SA online, some of your data may be collected.
Examples of times your personal data may be generated by your activities are:
- Your IP address logged when you visit our website. This is analysed by the Google Analytics service. Using Analytics helps us to better understand how people use our website and how we can improve our site for the future, however, you can opt out of Google Analytics by downloading an add-on to your web browser. Read Google's privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Your IP address is also logged when you sign up to our email newsletter. This information is recorded as part of our record of your consent to receive emails from Flying for Freedom SA.
- Our website uses local storage such as cookies. Please see more information here.
In addition, records of how you have been involved with Flying for Freedom SA in the past, for example through donating, volunteering, or taking part in FFFSA events, are kept on our database as a record of your support.
Regarding payments, FFFSA will record details such as the transaction amount, the payment method, and the date of your transaction, so that our accounts can be reconciled and audited.
3. Information from third parties
We sometimes receive personal data about individuals from third parties. We may receive your personal details from third party organisations, such as from corporate partners, where you have provided consent for your personal details to be shared with FFFSA. This may be in relation to a joint membership scheme, fundraising activity or a co-hosted event.
Personal data could be information such as your name and contact details, and/or financial information if it is a transaction. This will be data that you have provided to the third party, as in section 1.
Details such as your age group and location may be provided through your activity on our social media pages as it is analysed by Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. This data is used to ensure that you are receiving relevant and timely information about our work.
In instances where we are receiving information from a third party organisation they will have informed you via a privacy notice; please check the relevant websites for their privacy policies and to set your data preferences.
We may also obtain information about you from a family member, friend, or contact who contacts us on your behalf or if a fundraiser passes on your details to us.
4. Special categories of personal data
We do not normally collect or store special categories of personal data (also known as sensitive personal data). However there are some exceptions and situations where this will occur. In these instances we will always ask for your consent before collecting the relevant information. For example we may collect health information on dietary allergies or 'mobility-access' requirements if you sign up to attend an FFFSA event.
5. Accidents or incidents
If an accident or incident occurs on our property, at one of our events, or involving one of our staff or volunteers we'll keep a record of this (which may include personal data and sensitive personal data).
6. Partnerships
If you are an employee of a company, charity, Charitable Trust, or Charitable Foundation we work with, we may have a record of your name and work-related contact details (including telephone, address and email), and your signature relating to any contracts In instances where we have a contract with an organisation, such as a corporate partnership, it may be necessary for FFFSA to process the personal information of your name and work-related contact details to enable FFFSA to carry out the contract requirements to which your organisation is a party.
How do we use your information?
This section describes the purposes for which we would process and store your data.
1. Administration
In order to carry out the work of the charity we may:
- Keep your personal data such as name and contact details alongside records of your involvement with Flying for Freedom SA so that we can work effectively with our volunteers, members and supporters and acknowledge your support
- We may need to keep certain personal data to fulfil a transaction (such as a purchase or contract) or to manage an event
- We will keep records of financial transactions, such as donations, and information such as Gift Aid instructions (however we do not keep records of your payment details once the payment has been processed by Flying for Freedom SA)
- Write to you or email you regarding a donation, membership, or product you have bought to confirm receipt of funds and to let you know about the impact of your donation
- We will keep information that allows us to respect your choices and preferences (e.g. if you ask not to receive marketing material, we'll keep a record of this)
2. Marketing
As a charity we rely on fundraising to achieve our objectives and therefore keeping in touch with you about our work and activities is an important activity. However we want to make sure that we are doing this in line with your preferences and choices and that you are not receiving any information from us that you do not wish to. You are always in control of your data.
We require your consent to send you emails that contain marketing and therefore we will only send these to you if you have specifically opted in to receive them by signing up to email newsletters.
Our emails generally contain information such as news and updates about our wildlife and the illegal trade in rhino horn, updates about Flying for Freedom SA's work, and links to or information about our fundraising, such as appeals, campaigns, events, and products. You can change your email preferences at any time by contacting us (see below).
Our emails and/or postal mailings may occasionally contain information about our partners, or third party products and services, but these communications will always come from Flying for Freedom SA and will be incorporated into our own marketing materials.
If you wish to change your preferences please contact us:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: +27(0)82 440 0457 (our usual office hours are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday SA time)
3. Research and analysis
We may use your data to tailor our communications with you. For example, details we hold within our records such as your location may be used to send you more relevant information. This might include tailoring an email to contact only locally-based supporters regarding a particular event. In addition, information about you is gathered when you use external sites, including social media, that links to our page. Your data is analysed by these sites and may then be used by Flying for Freedom SA as a way to ensure you are receive interesting and relevant content. By understanding your interests, we can tailor the updates and posts that you see. Using data in this way allows us to gather feedback and better share information with you. Please remember your data sharing preferences on external sites are not controlled by Flying for Freedom SA and we would advise that you check the privacy policies of all organisations you engage with.
We may also analyse your data in other ways to assist with our fundraising work. For example, where we have identified that you may have the capacity or affinity to support at a higher level, or to get involved in different activities with Flying for Freedom SA, we may use the information we hold about you to get in touch, or to identify connections between you and our existing circle of supporters.
4. Sharing your data
We will never sell your data.
We may share personal data for a specific purpose related to the administration of the charity, for example, with a courier carrying out a delivery, or when partnering with another charity or company on an event. We will ensure that partners and suppliers we work with are treating your data appropriately and complying with GDPR. We will be sure to inform you in each of these instances.
We may disclose your personal information if we are requested or required to do so by a regulator or in order to comply with any other applicable legal obligation.
What is our legal basis for processing data?
The legal reasons that we are able to process your personal data are the following.
- It is in the legitimate interests of the charity. Flying for Freedom SA's legitimate interests include administration of the charity, keeping in touch with our supporter base, tailoring our communications, and sending out our supporter magazine.
- It is necessary to complete (or prepare) a contract with you. A contract does not only refer to a formal signed document in this instance but also refers to Flying for Freedom SA fulfilling a transaction, through our website for example if you purchase a product from our online shop.
- We have a legal obligation. We have certain legal obligations to retain data, particularly relating to financial information.
- You have given us your consent. This will always apply to email marketing. We will only send you email newsletters if you have specifically given us your consent.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Back to Taking Photos!
The first alarm is at 5:30am when my Love hits the shower. The second alarm is at 6:00am when I wake Elijah to shower. Then I go down to the we-will-pee-on-the-floor-if-you-don't-hurry POS dogs and take them outside. Then it is either make coffee or heat up a cup of yesterday's coffee while they do their business. Feed Roscoe, feed the pups and then make Elijah's lunch. Same thing every day. And don't talk to me while I do it because I'm not a morning person.
Yes, they are all locked in that teeny tiny space. Yes, the three females are in heat. No, they can't come out until they are no longer in heat. Sorry.
Dad heads off to work and I drive Elijah 1.5 miles to the bus stop. At exactly 6:45am every single day I drive back home. I love that bus driver. It is so dark.
I sat by the fire sucking down coffee because I stayed up until 2:00am the night before. I enjoyed the local paper (aka see who got a DWI and beat their wife). Then I went out and loaded the wood Nick chopped the day before and brought it in.
Then I sat by the fire (really I was dozing) for half an hour before doing more chores. By-the-way, it is my opinion that the dishwasher is one of the greatest inventions of all time. I really really really despise washing dishes.
I let this guy sleep until 8:30am and then woke him up to do his online classes. This semester he is taking only science at school. Online he takes consumer math, both first and second semester of US History (since he was misled by the school counselor as a Freshman and is all screwed up as a Junior), Journalism and a PE Course. Three days a week he goes down to the school between 11:00 and 1:00 for lunch and his class. Two days a week he doesn't go at all. This "alternative" method to school really suits this kid. He's really laid back and not a schedule type of guy. He gets in a little social time, does the bulk of his work at home with my help and then gets to spend a lot of hours doing whatever he wants. (The best part is I get to spend more time with him!). I'm so glad we are doing this.
This morning I had a ham, cheese and onion omelet. It was kind of a flashback. A few years ago I lost 50 pounds in 3 months on this very diet. For breakfast I had this omelet and toast, coffee with Extra and creamer (I won't give up creamer for anyone). Lunch and dinner was one can of vanilla Slim Fast. I went to Curves for the 30-minute circuit (but actually did 45 minutes), no alcohol and voila...50 pounds gone. Sure wish I could motivate myself like that again! :)
After breakfast I decided to work on my resolutions and read. Nope. Heavy sweater, blanket, hot fire does not equal reading. Instead I got back up and went to see Daisy. Stinky Daisy. I think I've reached a point where I want to sell her. Sheep have ZERO personality (sorry to those of you with sheep that do, but mine does not). She is a lot of work and really stinks all the time. I would rather have a couple dwarf goats. Now they have personality. We'll see what Spring brings.
Was it really that long ago we were swimming right here? We sure haven't had much snow this year, but I imagine we'll get dumped on in March right before it is supposed to melt.
My poor poor greenhouse. We knew the visqueen would fall apart. That's what happens in the cold. We'll just have to clean it up and recover it. It is something like $1200 to side the greenhouse, but it only takes $100 worth of visqueen. Like I said before, my money tree died so until I grow another one we'll just recover it each year.
Looking forward to seeing leaves on these trees.
Roscoe ran around with me today. You have no idea the package of energy he is. It's dangerous to say the least.
I did some sewing today. Just thought I'd let you know that sewing doll clothes for my daughter's doll is NOT nearly as rewarding as I had hoped. In fact, it completely sucks. My arthritic hands do not like the tiny detail. Tomorrow I'll finish up Emily's matching pajamas. Oh, and I knitted a bunch on a blanket while we watched a movie. All in all it was quite the productive day considering I only had four hours of sleep. If I hurry I can get 5 hours tonight! :) Night all!
7 comments:
- Lori Skoog said...
Glad to see you taking pictures again.They tell a real story, and I can see that you are loving your stove.
- January 7, 2010 at 3:11 AM
- stace41971 said...
I don't know how you can function on that amount of sleep...I NEED 8 hours...I can get by with 7..but 8 is ideal. If I don't get it...just don't talk to me...ever...
I like the alternative schooling that Nick is doing...I wish more schools would offer that...my boys would do well with something like that I think.
I hope you got some rest :)
p.s. not all of my sheep have personalities either...and they ALL stink :-P lol
- January 7, 2010 at 6:13 AM
- Queen-Size funny bone said...
I can tell you are enjoying the wood stove and so are the pups.
- January 7, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- Corey~living and loving said...
nice post about your day. When did the little ones get up?
- January 7, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Little Black Scrap Cat said...
OMG!! I can hardly manage the 6:30 wake up I have for my DD. I'd be fine with 7:30. But I thrive on the night hours when everyone else has gone to sleep and I have the house to myself. I have to make myself go to bed at a reasonable hour, but usually I'm just getting started on something right about then.
LOVE the close up of the fence segment with snow on it!! FAB picture!!
Goats are kind of fun. More active and entertaining than sheep. But I think they are still stinky!
Enjoy that fire!!!
- January 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM
- Martha said...
I'm tired... I get up early every day because, I am a morning person, trouble is, I'm a late night person too - 4-5 hrs of sleep is about it for me!
I too love the "artistic" photo of the fence!
My daughter does 100% virtual school. She does not miss the drama of school. She has friends all over the country/world that she interacts with on online! Straight As -first time EVER!
- January 7, 2010 at 5:20 PM
- Janie said...
Roscoe looks like he's having a great time, but the greenhouse doesn't look nearly as cheery in the snow!
- January 9, 2010 at 4:26 PM


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03 Aug a penchant for olives
What plans have you for dinner?
I am imagining olives, walnuts, leaves, roasted tomatoes, goats cheese. It sounds a lot like Bruschetta.
It is too good not to share with you!
1 roma tomato
good pinch of dried rosemary
1 handful of spinach
1/2 cup of walnuts
6 olives
tsp olive oil or coconut oil
Roast halved lengthways cut roma tomato drizzled in olive oil for 15 – 20 minutes at 200 degrees or until cooked through and fragrant.
Saute spinach in couple of tablespoons of water until wilted.
Grind walnuts in food processor, until crumbed.
Add olives and process until mixed.
Add roasted tomatoes and process a little to mix. Mix through with spoon.
Add spinach and process lightly until combined.
To serve.
I am wondering how to eat this nut pate. It would be nice wrapped up in leaves, I have none. What about with vegetable sticks as an entree?
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Dear Ed,
You are the man of my dreams and the best father and stepfather in the whole wide world. How blessed we all are. Positive dreams and thoughts and wishes can really come true. Thank you for believing in our boys and respecting them for the wonderful people they are. The boys and I are so fortunate to be able to share life with you. Thank you for your love and creativity and for all you do for us and so many others.
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I slept in....I was tired from all the driving. I had planned to head down to the border and walk across but just couldn't muster the energy. Around 12:30 I decided to WALK there. Not sure what I was thinking. :-) I made it about 3/4 of a mi and turned back, so at least I got a little walk in. I decided I deserved a break and a day of rest and just watched Doctor Who and read and whatnot.
For dinner I fired up the Instant Pot
and made a fabulous stew. I used 1 can salsa style diced tomatoes, 1 bag of the frozen brown rice, 1.5 cans water, 2 chopped zucchini, some sliced dried garlic (love that stuff in soups), some onion soup mix, turmeric (for health benefits and it hides well in stuff like this :-), one bag of frozen mixed mushrooms (I think I got them at Walmart a while back and they were good in this soup), and chopped up one of those links of deer sausage the neighbor gave us. I added some other herbs and spices while tasting, you know how it is. Since the salsa tomatoes were a bit sour I put a little maple syrup in. Probably wouldn't have to with better tomatoes. Threw it in the pot, hit "Soup" set timer for 10 minutes, and left it alone. It was great. Would work great in a crockpot too I think.