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Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, an explorer of the 1830s and 1840s, once wrote of the cockatoos that are named for him; "few birds more enliven the monotonous hues of the Australian forest than this beautiful species whose pink-coloured wings and flowing crest might have embellished the air of a more voluptuous region". While I might disagree with his aspersions of "monotonous hues" in the Australian bush, and have no idea what a "more voluptuous region" might mean, I otherwise agree with his sentiments. The Pink Cockatoo is certainly one of the more exciting and eye-catching birds that we're lucky enough to find locally.
There has been a small breeding population of this species in the area around Honeymoon Gap and Roe Creek for many years and they can still often be found on an afternoon drive down Bullen Road. You might also find them near Red Gum lined river beds where they tend to nest, and anywhere there might be Callitris pines or Desert Oaks for them to feed off. The pair in the picture this week, were spotted tending a nest hollow in the Hugh River.
This week an Australian Pratincole was sighted out at AZRI. This is not a particularly uncommon species but we haven't seen many this year, so perhaps there are more on the way. Land for Wildlife uber bird-spotter Uwe Path, is hosting a covey of Brown Quail in his yard after his herculean assault on the buffel grass infestation on his property.
It's almost time to start farewelling migrant birds which will be heading back north of the equator in March/April. Keep your eyes peeled for these species as they depart from down south and pass through our neck of the woods on their way home.
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Ok, so the summer steelhead run on the North Umpqua is not what it has been in the past. I get that. Everyone has not felt the love yet, I get that too, I've been there. Stepping into certain runs that you should see fish rolling in and not seeing any, is pretty disheartening, for sure. Going a week without a touch, been there too. That's the North, it's always been tough and will continue to be so. What is that quote you hear?, " the North Umpqua is the graduate school of steelheading", this is still true. The word on Highway 138 is that, anglers want the ODFW to start planting hatchery smolts throughout the "fly-water". Is this the answer, I think not. I'm a young man, but within the reading I've done, and the life I've dedicated to these fish and the good older friends I've talked with, hatcheries are not the answer. Can we not still learn from the past. Name a river where hatcheries have helped the wild steelhead in that river.
Of course, we look to what is happening to the north of us on the Columbia, they're having stellar returns up there, of historic proportions. But if you take a look at the data, you'll see that most are hatchery fish. The northern Pacific Ocean is having really good conditions for fish. And hatchery fish fare really well in good ocean conditions. But from the information I've gathered, our North Umpqua fish turn south upon entering the salt. And when the northern waters are having good ocean conditions, down south we are on the flip side.
Another thing to think about, we had an extremely wet June here. The North Umpqua rose higher in June, than throughout the winter months. June is when a lot of our fish move up. And as I'm sure you know the majority of our fish spawn in Steamboat Creek, that is where they want to be. And normally there is a thermal block at the mouth of Steamboat Creek by the middle of June. Typically why the the "camp-water" is so famous. And the refuge pools on Steamboat Creek are holding the same numbers of fish if not more in some.
If you look at the numbers of fish, we should be getting more than last year. But, I really believe our slower fishing is due to our high water June. There is already more fish than last year, and last year was decent.
Total Percent of
YEAR Period of Through Total Run By
Jun. 16-30 30-Jun Count 30-Jun
2001 2,576 4,147 11,331 36.6%
2002 1,791 3,041 9,175 33.1%
2003 2,544 3,720 7,997 46.5%
2004 2,499 3,650 9,157 39.9%
2005 1,696 2,793 6,987 40.0%
2006 1,656 3,131 7,669 40.8%
2007 817 1,424 4,552 31.3%
2008 2,022 2,773 6,674 41.5%
2009 933 1,548 4,993 31.0%
2010 1,442 2,125
2001-02 3 17 110
Believe me, I'm feeling the pressure. I'm a guide, I'd love to get a hatchery fish a day. But, " Do wild fish need hatcheries, or do hatcheries need wild fish?"
I've been guiding the North Umpqua for the majority of the summer, and for the most part we've had success, not epic by any means, but success. And for the anglers out there that are complaining about not jumping fish and wanting hatchery fish in the "fly-water". Try fishing water out of your daily routine. The first sign of insanity, " to do same thing day in and day out, and expect a different result"
Can we not just roll with the punches?, it's not a good run this year on the North Umpqua. Wild steelhead runs fluctuate through the years. It's not like the bait guys are slaying'em down at Swiftwater Park, right? (where the hatchery is). Let's not jump to what seems like a quick fix, because it's not. If ODFW plants hatchery smolts, it'll still be four years before they return,... what if our wild runs rebound?(which I'm sure they will).
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How to Feel Heiter After a Long Day
A long day at work, traffic on the way home. You're supposed to cook dinner when you get back and bring out the recycling too. I know, it's exhausting and I can imagine that all you want to do is go to bed. Not so fast! Why? I believe we should make the most of the time that belongs to us, after all, it is what we work so hard for. Our time should be used to focus on the heiter side of life. The fact of the matter is that we only live once and it would be a shame to let life go by with negative thoughts or the feeling that we didn't get anything out of it.
The first thing we need to do is to change our perspective. Try revisiting points in your day and identifying what was good about it. Let's give it a go:
- Yes, your day at work was long but perhaps you learned something from the task you needed to do. Maybe the way you had to communicate your ideas in a meeting was great practice for pitching your future creative business.
- Due to the traffic it took you 30 minutes longer to get home. It did however mean that you had those 30 minutes needed to listen to a great podcast.
- You're supposed to cook dinner. Isn't that great? Mindfully chopping the vegetables can be therapeutic and the good vitamins and minerals you're feeding your body will bring you more energy.
- You have to bring the recycling out. Yay to recycling! You can really make a difference and work towards a better world by joining in.
How did that feel? Did I manage to cheer you up a little? Good! If you need more Heiterkeit (cheerfulness) there are a few more things I can recommend.
- Make yourself a soothing cup of tea.
- Get some fresh air. If it's a walk with your dog or some quiet time in the garden, a few minutes outside really can make a difference.
- Have a bath. Essentials oils are always a good addition, or if you have a bit more time and all the ingredients try out the Calming Rose Bath by the lovely Becky Cole.
- Listen to your favourite song(s).
- Meditate, even if it's only for a few minutes. I use an app called Insight Timer for my daily mediation and I can highly recommend it.
- Phone someone you love and talk about a lovely memory the two of you share.
- Write down three things you're grateful for. I use The Grateful Now journal.
- Light some candles, wrap yourself in a blanket and relax.
- Read a poem or a good book before you go to sleep.
I hope this post helps you and makes it easier for you to find #heitermoments in your everyday life. Keep me posted on how you get on and if you have anything to add to the list above, let me know.
Be heiter!
Words: Katharina Geissler-Evans, heiter magazine
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I am an information addict. Yes, I admit it. Most all my information comes to me online. Emails. Twitter updates. Websurfing. And sometimes even ranting late night chats on anonymous message boards. So much information, in fact, that it becomes impossible to distinguish what out there actually rings of truth.
Friday morning, for instance, I received a Twitter update from @nytimes about how Europe's recession is deeper than expected. I followed the link to read the following sentence:
According to the European Union's statistics office, the economy of the 16 countries sharing the euro currency declined by 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter. On an annualized basis, that would indicate a contraction of 6 percent - considerably deeper than the 3.8 percent annual rate of decline in the American economy in the same quarter.
Overlooking, of course, the fact that this article was oddly dated February 14th, 2009 even though Friday was actually February 13th, does that make any sense to you at all? Seriously. If you just skimmed that sentence, please go back and read it again. The damn thing makes my brain twist.
I'm no economist. In fact, I'm quite the economy-idiot, but I'm pretty sure you can't just add up projected percentages of economic shrinkage and present that as some sort of sign of anything? Let's say we went back to 2007. Would the last quarter's dollar loss or gains have been an adequate representation of what would happen in 2008?
Then, when I returned to the article this morning, I found the story has changed.
The economy of the 16 countries sharing the euro currency declined by 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter, according to the European Union's statistics office. That is even worse than the 1 percent decline in the United States economy during that period, compared with the previous quarter.
Am I alone in finding just a tinge of the Orwellian in this?
Now yes, that could just be that the editors realize the problem and fixed it. Good for them. Applause! Applause! But it doesn't account for the fact that the current text is still imprecise. The sentence seems to be comparing the Euro based in the economies of 16 different countries to the American economy. Sure, we can assume they actually meant to say dollar, but since I have no sources for this information, how can I be sure?
You can call this nitpicking, grasping for straws, maybe even paranoia. In this world of constant information with tidbits about economy, war, terrorism, pleas for fundraising to provide clean water, support the victims of tsunamis, earthquakes, war and endless other bytes flying in from every direction, shouldn't we be asking questions? Lots of them?
I can pinpoint the moment I stopped trusting the press. September 11, 2001, around 3:30pm. We didn't leave the house that day. We couldn't, unless we wanted to brave an enormous plume of smoke and the charred debris that rained down on our neighborhood for days after the attacks. I sat on the couch listening to the radio and hearing a news stories, then waiting for updates. As the day wore on, the stories changed. There was one in particular. Ten men were found on an airplane in Newark airport. They were thought to be terrorists as well. A bit later in the day, the story changed to five men and a woman. I waited all day long with the radio on, waiting to hear what happened. The story simply disappeared.
The same happened with a truck found near the George Washington Bridge, thought to be filled with explosives. And a few months later, when I got stuck in a cab on the Brooklyn Bridge, traffic backed up for hours on both sides. There were police everywhere, some with sniffing German Shepherds. When I finally arrived home, I turned to the news. Radio, online, TV. Nothing. Silence.
When I turned to my friends who worked in media for answers, no one knew a thing. How is this possible in our world of constant information, blogging, video cameras and recorders?
My thoughts, once again, return to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited:
Both [religion and entertainment] are distractions and, if lived in too continuously, both can become, in Marx's phrase, "the opium of the people" and so a threat to freedom. Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures.
So let us be vigilant, shall we?
It seems that we have our autonomy. Any of us can write, record and speak as we will. Each of us has and develops an audience. Yet, we are still forced to rely on the information we receive from those around us.
How many news reporters rely entirely on AP and Reuters as the basis of their stories? Then we must ask ourselves, what do they add to those stories to make them more readable, more likely to capture the attention of the masses?
Effective rational propaganda becomes possible only when there is a clear understanding, on the part of all concerned, of the nature of symbols and of their relations to the things and events symbolized. Irrational propaganda depends for its effectiveness on a general failure to understand the nature of symbols, says Huxley in his chapter on The Art of Selling.
So I refer back to last week's NYT article. What is it, exactly, that we are meant to buy? Are we meant to feel relief that the European Union is in as dire straits as the United States, economically speaking. Perhaps a way of saying, we're all still in this together. The US has not lost it's edge. Or is it meant to further deepen the already omnipresent and perhaps omnipotent sense of doom and gloom we keep hearing from the United States. We're all going down at the same time!
Find some common desire, some widespread unconscious fear or anxiety; think out some way to relate this wish or fear to the product you have to sell; then build a bridge of verbal or pictorial symbols over which your customer can pass from fact to compensatory dream, and from the dream to the illusion that your product, when purchased, will make the dream come true, he continues.
Our symbols here are economy, dollar, euro, recession. Each word strikes a specific meaning for each individual. Perhaps you hear these words and you worry about your child's college fund. Another of us just lost a job and is now desperately fighting to meet payments on his house? Or perhaps another is simply relieved that her vacation plans for the South of France this summer are not quite as dashed as she'd originally thought, because it seems there's hope the dollar won't be quite so weak against the Euro.
Even the question of when will this recession offically be declared a depression? Are these definitions as supplied by The Economist -- can we agree this is a fair source to define terms -- really so distinct that we can draw a fine line between the two and say, yes, not to worry, it's still just a recession. Recession just isn't quite as scary as depression. No one is starving on the streets, throwing themselves out of windows; no one has lost everything. Right?
Even more disturbing, the information we put out there for general consumption is quickly usurped for other purposes. Facebook, I'm looking at you. Did you really just revise your Terms Of Service -- TOS for those who aren't up on the lingo -- so that now you own every image, piece of writing and bit of information we've posted on your site? What are you going to do with it?
Side note: I'm here thinking perhaps I should take down that nifty automatic link I have that serves my blog entries directly into the Facebook information catcher's mitt.
Let me now qualify, my own information. I'm sure you want sources, proof, definites. Of course you do!
I found this information first on @ZAGrrl's Twitter profile page. The link there takes you to an Adrants blog entry for more information on the same topic, complete with a list of all Tweets on the subject. Adrants source for this revision comes from another blog, Socialized. Socialized, finally, sends us on to the Facebook TOS so we can read for ourselves.
Another side note: May I take a quick time out to point out that ZZGirl's original comment is made to @yokoono. Is that really Yoko Ono? Quick, let me take a break from writing to follow her. OK, I'm following her now.
Of course, I have to admit, I didn't read the TOS when I first signed up for Facebook. Did you really read it in it's entirety? Now or then?
I have no way of knowing that they actually changed except to simply accept that what all these others are saying is true. After all, it is a lot of people saying the same thing. It must be true, right? That, and even if it has indeed changed -- as I would assume Facebook would pitch a legal fit if all these bloggers, twitters and the rest were slinging TOS slander -- I'd be willing to bet that the original Facebook TOS included something that allowed this sort of change. That bet, by the way, is based on my legal dealings when I worked at MTV. In my experience, large companies of the 300-pound-gorilla variety cover their asses for all time in perpetuity.
So there you have it. I've added my voice and opinion to this swirling pot of information. I, too, have included sources. I have cited my terms. I have even been so clear as to say when and where my statements are based simply on my own opinion and experience.
Are you all now as confused as me? I? Me? Eh, fuck it, I give up. Let me end simply by citing Huxley's quote of Thomas Jefferson:
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.... The people cannot be safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.
So there you have it. All is safe.


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Francesco Lipari
Architect, OFL Architecture + Cityvision
in Rome
Francesco Lipari is an Italian architect working between Rome and Sicily.
Recipients of several prizes, including eight Maker Faire Europe merit and the Architizer People Choice Award 2014 – 2015 with the interactive garden Sainthorto and a small auditorium for insects and humans named Wunderbugs, Francesco has been recently awarded with the first prize for the New parish complex Saint Barbara in Licata (AG) and the Oscar Green 2016.
He's founding principal of OFL Architecture, an interdisciplinary architectural practice established in 2009 and focused on emergent design processes through a methodology that integrates architecture with other disciplines, redefining the relationship of the significant modern city and its current urban conditions (e.g. Memoria and Zighizaghi).
He is also founding partner and artistic director of Cityvision, a printed magazine and architecture platform with the aim of generating a dialogue between the contemporary city and its future image.
Francesco was formerly senior architect at Fuksas in Rome, Mad in Beijing and 3gatti in Shanghai.
He is part of the Community of Founders of Farm Cultural Park and one of the first architects involved in this sociological project which which has as a goal to turn, through contemporary art and architecture, the whole historical centre of Favara into the second tourist attraction after the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento.
Francesco has also lectured in several schools, institutions and festivals such as Woodbury Architecture School in Los Angeles and San Diego, Escuela Libre de Arquitectura in Tijuana, Maxxi and Macro Museum in Rome and curator of several architecture projects.
He has also served as reviewer and member of the jury panel for the annual course of Woodbury in Rome during 2014 and 2015.
His work has been internationally exhibited and published including MoMA NY and WUHO Gallery Los Angeles that held the first international exhibition of Worlds of Cityvision. He is currently running the Pecha Kucha Night in Rome and Agrigento and since 2013 has written for Wired Italia.


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Perry gets bitten, bites back
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - You know how to tell when you're leading the pack? All the other dogs are trying to bite you on the butt.
Which is why Texas Gov. Rick Perry got his posterior attacked but good in a Republican debate Wednesday night. Anybody who bit him got bit back, however.
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Though atop most polls for the Republican presidential nomination, Perry is not known to many Americans. Those who watched the debate, the first in which Perry has participated as a national candidate, saw a guy with square shoulders and a gunslinger squint, a man who likes to drop his "g's" when "speakin' " his mind.
He sent one clear message: Nobody attacks Rick Perry - - not even with his own words.
"I feel like a piñata here," Perry said at one point.
"I don't care what anyone says," he said at another.
And he didn't. For a good part of the 90-minute debate sponsored by NBC and POLITICO, Perry not only answered the questions he was asked, but those he was not.
Asked why he used "provocative language" to attack Social Security, Perry replied: "Maybe it's time to have some provocative language in this country and get people workin' again!"
What his answers sometimes lacked in logic was made up for in enthusiasm, and after some initial nervousness - - he gripped the sides of his podium as if he were hanging onto a life raft - - Perry settled down to his talking points.
Asked why, under his governorship, Texas has the lowest percentage of people in the nation with health insurance, Perry replied: "What [Texans] would like to see is the federal government get out of their business!"
When Perry and former front-runner Mitt Romney attacked each other with ready sets of statistics, NBC's Brian Williams said, "Nice to see everybody came prepared."
Of course they did. That's what debates are about.
Debates, like much of modern politicking, are TV shows, and like many "off-the-cuff" shows, they require careful rehearsal. Candidates study thick briefing books with questions and answers, and their handlers, huddled in staff rooms off-camera, breathe deep sighs of relief when their candidates regurgitate the answers as prepped.
A former political handler, who has no candidate in the race this time but who showed up in the press tent anyway, told me: "It is so relaxing to watch a debate and not have to worry about how your candidate is going to screw up all your hard work."


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Later this month, Jordan Brand will be delivering another new option of the Air Jordan 1 Retro '89. The mash-up makeup here sports the heralded Black/Fire Red-Cement Grey look, having been done up in nubuck with a mesh overlay. The midsole as well as collar detailing bears a nice speckled effect, while the fiery outsole draws attention to the bottom of the sneaker. Tonal laces accompany the forthcoming Jumpman offering, which will be hitting at select JB dealers on September 21. Are you looking to cop?
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Film placement!
It looks like my version of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" will be used in the forthcoming film Finding Joy. Here's a link to the trailer:
Means I'll be releasing a new iTunes EP very soon with some similar classical pieces, as the film will be released in 2012.
WID show went well but a gas leak in a lab on the fourth floor cleared the building, and we had to push the show start back a half an hour. Probably the best show I've done for quite a while, with dancing by Koala Yip and Cool video mash-ups by Dale Kaminski, and it was woefully under-attended...
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Comptroller Audit: Taxpayers Paid Too Much/
By Andrew Wroblewski
An audit of the Commack Union Free School District released by the Office of the New York State Comptroller Friday states that, for three years in a row, taxpayers have paid more than necessary to fund the district.
Commack officials disagreed with the audit's findings, citing "philosophical differences" in budgeting practices.
The audit, which examined the 2011-12 through 2013-14 school years, found that the district artificially stayed within state-mandates that limit districts to carrying a fund balance of no more than 4 percent of the next year's total budget. The district budgeted about $24.8 million to the fund balance during that time, the audit states. However, because adopted budgets had overestimated expenditures during each of those years, the district's end-of-year surpluses resulted in fund balances ranging from 5.9 to 8 percent of the ensuing year's budget.
The district overestimated expenditures by about $6 million during the 2011-12 school year, by about $9.9 million during 2012-13 and by about $8.9 million during 2013-14, the audit states.
"As a result, taxpayers have been paying more than necessary to fund District operations," the audit states. "Had District officials used more realistic budget estimates, they could have avoided the accumulation of excess fund balance and possibly reduced the real property tax levy."
Across the three school years, the district's total revenues exceeded expenditures by as much as $3.7 million, while only $1.8 million of the about $24.8 million of fund balance was tapped to finance operations. The majority of these overestimated expenditures were for employee benefits and regular and special education instruction.
The comptroller's office recommends that the district develop procedures to ensure it adopts more reasonable budgets to avoid raising more real property taxes than necessary and to discontinue practice of adopting budgets that result in the appropriation of unrestricted fund balance that will not be used to fun district operations.
Commack officials disagreed with the findings of the audit with a statement posted to the district's website on Friday.
In the statement, district officials stated that they've utilized budgeting practices – which are openly discussed at annual budget meetings – in order to maintain fiscal and academic stability through difficult economic times. The statement says that the amount saved each year through these budgeting practices is returned to tax payers the following year and that none of the unspent money is retained or put into reserve funds.
"The areas mentioned in the report demonstrate that there are philosophical differences regarding budgeting practices," the statement reads. "We go to great efforts not to spend the money the residents of this community entrust to us."
From the 2012-13 to 2015-16 school years, the district's tax levy increases have come in at 2.96-percent, 1.585-percent, 1.96-percent and 0.95-percent, respectively.


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Homemade Spudnuts
I can honestly say that I don't think there is anything better than a fresh hot doughnut. I can also honestly tell you that my family has hold of the best spudnut recipe on planet earth. They are easy to make, but do require a time commitment. They make a great Sunday or holiday treat. You'll need around 3 hours to whip these babies up.
1 C. Milk, Scalded
1/2 C. Shortening
1/2 C. White Karo Syrup
!/2 C. White Sugar
1 Tsp. Salt
1 Egg, Beaten
1 Tbs. Yeast, dissolved in 1/2 C. Warm Water
1/2 C. Mashed Potatoes (1-2 small potatoes will be plenty)
1/2 C. Potato Water
5-6 C. Flour
Scald milk. I put mine in the microwave for 5 minutes. Add milk to shortening, sugar, karo, and salt. Mix and when lukewarm, add the yeast mixture. Add beaten egg, mashed potatoes, and potato water to mixture. Mix, then add flour gradually until dough is stiff leaves the side of the bowl. Knead dough for 5 minutes, then move to an oiled bowl. Let it rise until it has tripled in size. Mine took 2 hours. Roll dough out until it is 1/3'' thick on a floured surface. Cut out doughnuts and allow to rise for another hour. Heat oil and fry doughnuts. Place on a paper towel to get off excess oil, then immediately dip in glaze. **Use an electric egg beater when mashing your mashed potatoes so they are smooth and not lumpy.
1 1/2 C. Powdered Sugar
1/2 C. Evaporated Milk, warmed in microwave
1/2 Tsp. Vanilla Extract
1/4 C. Melted Butter
Pinch of salt
Add all ingredients to a bowl and mix well until smooth.
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It's a Seattle Freeway Revolt of a different sort and now the city has the money to execute an engineering and financial feasibility study of the potential benefits "for covering more of the I-5 freeway trench in central Seattle."
The $1.5 million in funding from the Washington State Convention Center expansion's $83 million public benefits package is now available to the City of Seattle and an advisory council has been formed, the Lid I-5 community group announced last week:
The study funding enables OPCD to procure an expert consultant team with qualifications in civil and structural engineering, economic analysis, urban design, and environmental mitigation. The study is expected to last through 2019 and will inform the next steps in lid design, planning, permitting, and capital funding. Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) staff will be engaged during the process. Recent and ongoing freeway lid projects – including in Bellevue, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Dallas, and Philadelphia – provide helpful case studies and a pool of experienced specialists that Seattle's effort can draw from.


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- Published: 17/11/2006
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Aucklander Glenn Inkster retired from Leg 1 of the Propecia Rally of NZ after reportedly losing a wheel in Special Stage 2 in the western Waikato.Unconfirmed reports said Inkster's Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6.5 lost a wheel after the hub studs sheared.
He had been 33rd after SS1 near Pirongia, having completed the test 3.2 seconds quicker than multiple world motorcycle champion Valentino Rossi (Subaru Impreza WRC 2005) who was one place behind.
Inkster was seeking permission to restart in Leg 2 on Saturday morning.


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Let's officiate dis blog by reminiscing about my holidays. I love to travel but it's more to shop for great stuff rather than sightseeing. In December 2006, my family & I went for a holiday in London & Paris. The trip was great although it was freaking cold that time.
If you happen to be visiting London, I would advice you to stay @ the hotel near to the Victoria Station. It's easier for U to travel using public transportation (tube & bus). Believe me, it's nothing like the public transport in Malaysia. 1 thing is dat you juz have to learn how to read the guide.
Hmm shopping? I didn't shop in Paris coz it was expensive but we went to Le Champ Elysees for window shopping. In London, mostly we shop @ Oxford Street. Harrods? Emm... we only shop sounvenires there.
This is my sis & I at the heart of London.
This is Adam. He was staying there at that time & kind enough to take us sightseeing. Now he's already back in KL. Behind us is the 'London Eye'. I didn't ride it though coz I reckoned it was expensive. Would rather save my money for shopping. As usual, typical me.
@ the Horseguards. Managed to watch the change of
guards. Simply adore the horses. They could juz stood there quietly for hours.
We went to Chelsea coz it was the nearest from our hotel. I don't watch football ok. So save ur comments bout Chelsea.
In Paris. Recognize this so-called pyramid? Yes, it's in 1 of the scenes in Da Vincci's Code movie.


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Poyang Lake
- Title Poyang Lake
- Released 16/09/2016 10:00 am
- Copyright Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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Southern China's Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the country. Located in Jiangxi province, this lake is an important habitat for migrating Siberian cranes, many of which spend the winter there.
The lake is also home to the endangered finless porpoise, a freshwater mammal known for its high level of intelligence. Amid fears that it would soon become extinct, the porpoise made headlines last year when the Chinese government moved eight of them from Poyang Lake to two secure habitats in an effort to increase the population over the coming years.
One study found that, without action, the current rate of population decrease would likely mean extinction by 2025.
For the human population, Poyang is one of China's most important rice-producing regions, although local inhabitants must contend with massive seasonal changes in water level.
Local scientists collaborating with ESA through the Dragon programme have identified an overall drop in water level in the lake over the last decade, but the El Niño weather phenomenon earlier this year caused precipitation levels to increase and water levels of the lake to rise.
Radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission have been used to monitor the evolution of the lake, including this image which combines two radar scans from 7 and 19 March.
This image is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
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This is kind of embarrassing: After way too long of working at home in yoga pants or sweats, a few months ago I finally learned the lesson that my appearance affects my ambition. guess what? lazy clothes make me feel lazier, and work clothes make me feel like working. Groundbreaking, I know.
A few months ago, a friend very graciously shared with me that she was reading this :
and after many half-hearted attempts since I've started working from home, I decided to give it a real honest effort. I was truly surprised by the difference it made! Unless I'm sick or truly having an off day (then I try to wear workout clothes instead of lounge clothes, at least they feel somewhat productive), I really do make an effort with my appearance now, and I feel so much better about myself, I'm thriving in my work, and overall I just feel better off.
Some days I get really invested and dress up in business attire or a pretty dress. Most days, though, (especially in this summer weather) I'm quite casual- still making an effort to at least put some cute jeans on, apply some simple makeup, give my sometimes-unruly hair a little love, maybe put on a piece of jewelry and some sandals. I also try to hang a blazer, cardigan or a cute pashmina off the back of my chair- even if it's too warm to need an extra layer that day. The whole concept of 'getting dressed for the day' is obviously totally basic , but unless you regularly stay home all day, it might be hard to understand that 'getting dressed' for a long time felt optional to me! If I'm not careful, every day for me can feel like the 'day off' of someone who works outside the home.
Several years ago I worked at a call center where we had to dress business formal. like, suits. It sounds crazy, but the theory was that it came through in our attitudes and behaviors. And now that I am making an effort to dress for work at home, I think they were on to something. In all seriousness I work alone all day, yet I make more money when I wear a blazer. Kind of remarkable.
A few other benefits to ' dressing up to stay home,' are that my husband gets to see me looking nice every day, and I have a truer sense of my current weight and of the clothes in my closet that fit best at any given time.
Now I know that many people who stay home during the day are busy parenting (which is some seriously important work) and this may or may not apply in that situation, I don't know and it's not for me to say. The only life I know how to live is my own {for the record, this sentiment applies to any and all topics discussed on this blog}, and I have no babies (yet) – just a home-based career that needs me to be focused and professional, and dressing for it helps me to do that.
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About the Show
The Prequels is a one-man show about those three Star Wars movies most people hated. About how art can mean something different at different ages, discovering the limits of one's own nerddom, the thrill of watching a movie stoned, the final massive cultural event before social media took over, telling the elder at synagogue you think the anti-Semitic character is comedy gold, and the warmth of loving a certain movie trilogy that is so universally hated.
For over ten years David Lawson has performed one-man shows such as Flyer Guy (about working on the streets of Times Square), Insomnia in Space (sleeplessness and outer space), Floundering About (9/11 from a Washington, DC perspective), No Oddjob (video games), and more. His one-man show about porn, VCR Love, has been published by Original Works Publishing. Lawson has performed on the popular storytelling shows Mortified, Kevin Allison's RISK!, and Mara Wilson's What Are You Afraid Of? and on comedy shows with performers from SNL, The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight.


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Sarcastic Sticker Emojis for iMessage Creative Mischief
Dallas, Texas, November 10, 2016 (Newswire.com) - Emojis are great for expression, but why did it take so long for Apple to introduce the middle finger Emoji? The demand for it was clearly peppered all over the Internet on forums. Prickmojis wants to increase the capabilities for the sarcastic thirsty texter. Thanks to the most recent update of Apple's operating system iOS10, expression received an extension and quite the moving upgrade. Welcome animated "Stickers".
"Stickers" will eventually become more integrated into the text message channel. It essentially opened the door for designers, and programmers armed with a plethora of amazing creative software, to translate their creativity onto the text screen. A texter can add stickers on top of pictures, texts, stretch them out, send individually, and sending them is intuitive with one click away from the keyboard once installed. It allows designers and programmers the ability to add functionality as an extension into iMessages' native messaging platform. Apple is crowd-sourcing creativity and giving the platform for people to sell all while taking a cut from it. Brilliant move. Prickmojis hopes to be fortunate to understand this opportunity early and cater to like minded texters. Animation, and good (free, for now) animated sarcastic emojis, are the result.
Gianni Secchi, Prickmoji's co-founder, speaks a little bit about how it came around, why it makes sense, and future plans.
"My extremely smart business partner, Varghese Mathew, downloaded iOS10 before it was available to snoop around and see if there were any opportunities. He quickly noticed the stickers, and had the coding ability to configure. I'm a nerd with a dated animation hobby in my back pocket armed with a self-deprecating sense of humor. Drooling began. We wanted to make friendly insults more effective, and creative through animation. The group chats that make us smile the most are those with your friends that have a little bit of history together, which you're making fun of each other. We researched tons of text chats, applying emotions to conversations with ridiculous characters, and tried to add "hip" phrases all these darn kids saying these days, cause us white boys always trying to stay fresh. We think it's raw, and put out what we think may be popular with full intention of changing it with our fans guidance. The cool thing is, once we make this our full time operation, we can update new animated emojis daily and make sure it's keeping our fans laughing. To do so we've got to build a bit more steam. We're looking at it as an obligation. In the end of the day, it's not what we think is hilarious (even though we are hilarious, duh); it's what our fans do.
The future of the product and potential capabilities is what gets us the most excited. We've got plans to add audio directly with the stickers, which is hush hush for now. It's easy to look to future plans, but since these are branded characters the progression of Virtual Reality makes us the most excited. Imagine throwing out a dancing goofball politely passing gas (with audio) as a hologram on your friends phone sitting in his living room? That's cool in my book! Who am I to speak so far ahead though, nor have I ever passed gas, ha! We are just trying to get more people to join the journey with us. A journey we want our fans, If they think it's worth being a fan, to have a voice and tell us what animation emojis they want. That's why we are offering it for FREE for a limited time. It will most likely push the borderline of shock value if I'd put a guess out there, but we hope to see with time. Lastly, if you download it, be sure to snapshot funny text conversations and send it here. We will post it to all our social media accounts (Instagram/Twitter @prickmojis) and give you guys a little anonymous love. Thanks for reading my poor English!"
You can check out Prickmojis by simply searching in the Apple App store, and download it free. For now. If you are having issues seeing the Prickmoji app in the iMessage dashboard, be sure to enable the app in the manage tab of the iMessage store.
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Categories: Humor, Emerging Businesses, Telecommunications
Tags: animation, art, chat, emojis, fun, Gianni Secchi, imessage, iOS10, iphone, prickmojis, texting


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SR Sweet Potato Whoopies
Sweet Potato Whoopies
Whoopie Cakes:
1 box white cake mix
1 cup flour
1 cup canned sweet potato pureed
Whoopie Filling:
1 cup butter, softened
1 jar (1 lb) marshmallow fluff
1 pkg. ( 1 lb.) confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup canned sweet potato pureed
Whoopie Cakes: Preheat oven 350 degrees. Prepare one box of cake mix as directed on box. Add flour and sweet potato to the mix - stir. Drop by tablespoon full onto greased/floured cookie sheet. Bake 5-7 minutes. Cool on wire rack
Whoopie Filling: On medium-high , beat butter until fluffy, 2 minutes Add marshmallow fluff and sweet potato, beat 30 seconds. Gradually beat in confectioners sugar and vanilla until combined. On medium-high, beat 1 minute Assemble pies:Spread a generous rounded tablespoon filling on flat sides of half of cakes and top with remaining cakes. Credits: Mary Peddycoart.


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"I can't believe that the information revolution can go any further than this."
Not that the IOW is behind the times or anything. Thanks to Newsbiscuit for that 'story'.
From the depths of the Internet's formative years comes MrDaveo's distinctly 1990s webpage on Digitiser. More proof that the cult spread far and wide across the land, beamed into the front rooms of tens, nay thousands of television owners. That purple text is beginning to hurt my eyes.
Elsewhere, Mr Tanilsoo has another edition of his Estonian teletext up at Youtube:
From one of these news stories at least, it seems some parts of Estonian society are a little bit 'anti-digital'. Good on them.
And finally, I have to admit I was a 'ziner'. That is, I sent at least one letter to the Mega Zine, a surreal pre-Internetisation forum. Much like Digitiser this had a cult following but was created by its readers rather than an editorial team. It was the definitive teletext magazine service but It's all disappeared now. Everyone has moved to the Internet.


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Atlanta Adult Studies Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions about getting or finishing your degree with Belhaven University's programs? Then let's keep talking. See if our answers below shed more light on your concerns. We want you to feel comfortable with the education plan we have to offer. If you have any additional questions, please call our office at 404-425-5590 or email@example.com.
- Can I go to school while having a full-time job and a family?
- How is Belhaven different from other schools?
- Is Belhaven University accredited?
- Am I just a number, or will I receive individual attention?
- Will my college credits count - even from 30 years ago?
- I'm not as young as I used to be; is it too late for me to finish college?
- Aren't there less expensive programs out there?
- How can I pay for this?
- What does it mean to be a Military Friendly School?
- When do the classes meet? How long is a term?
- Is child care available during classes?
- How will I obtain my textbooks?
- Where is the Atlanta - Dunwoody campus located?
- Will I get help in planning my class schedule and developing a graduation strategy?
- Will I need to have a computer in order to complete my classwork at Belhaven?
- What are the office hours for the Atlanta - Dunwoody campus?
Can I go to school while having a full-time job and a family?
Yes. Some students have worked 50 hours a week while enrolled and done well. Others have worked third shift remaining active at home and at church. Graduates have completed the program who were single moms. Your success depends on your motivation and willingness to do what it takes to excel.
How is Belhaven different from other schools?
What really sets Belhaven apart from other schools is our commitment to the Christian worldview and our reputation for personal attention. We believe an education is part of God's plan for your life. Belhaven instructors provide a biblical foundation for examining all of life, including education, work, and family. From the day you enroll to the day you graduate, our full-time professors and advisors are never too busy to answer your questions, return your calls, or do what it takes to help you graduate. You'll notice the difference immediately!
Is Belhaven University accredited?
Yes, Belhaven University is regionally accredited and is consistently recognized as one of America's Best College Buys. You can view more information about Belhaven's accreditation by visiting our Accreditation page.
Am I just a number, or will I receive individual attention?
Your professors will know you by name. Your classmates will be like family. So will the friendly Belhaven staff. Does that sound like "a number" to you?
Will my college credits count - even from 30 years ago?
Yes. It doesn't matter how long ago you took the courses. You may be surprised how much of your previous work applies to your academic plan. Of course, we will need to evaluate your official transcripts to see exactly what will transfer. Download the Transferability of Credit Notice.
I'm not as young as I used to be; is it too late for me to finish college?
No. It's never too late for you to finish your degree. Many graduates are parents. Several have been in the workforce for 30 years and found themselves a victim of downsizing. Adult students are usually enthusiastic about learning and find great encouragement from their contemporaries. You can't do anything about getting older but you can do something about whether you will get there with a degree in hand!
Aren't there less expensive programs out there?
Frankly yes, but when it comes to a college degree, you often get what you pay for. So for the price of a small car, with a degree you can boost your lifetime earning power by about $1 million. That's how much more a typical college graduate makes than someone who never finished college. Don't chance your professional future or your family's future on the cheapest or quickest program. Choose the one whose reputation precedes you into the interview.
How can I pay for this?
Many area employers reimburse tuition expenses so check with your human resources department. Scholarships, Pell Grants or Stafford Loans are also available through the Belhaven University Office of Financial Aid. See financial aid for more information.
What does it mean to be a Military Friendly School?
Belhaven University has designed our programs with the military in mind. Military personnel can attend classes at one of our six campus locations or participate in our online program. We offer a tuition discount for military and participate in the Yellow Ribbon program. We also participate in other veteran's benefits programs.
When do the classes meet? How long is a term?
Classes meet one time a week for four hours each evening. Sometimes, classes are offered on Saturdays to accommodate the needs of the students. Evening classes start at 6:00 pm. Undergraduate classes will take five or six weeks to complete - depending on the individual course. Graduate courses meet for five to ten weeks - depending on the course. There will also be team project meetings outside of the classroom where class members work on group projects.
Is child care available during classes?
No, we are not in a position for provide quality child care while you attend class. This is one area where the support of your family is critical.
How will I obtain my textbooks?
One of the unique and most cost effective aspects of a Belhaven University education is that your tuition charges also cover the use of the required texts used in your classes. You will be loaned your textbooks prior to the start of class so you can prepare for your first night of class. When the class is over, just return your textbooks and pick up the textbooks needed for your next class! When comparing the cost of a Belhaven University degree with other schools, remember to factor in this valuable benefit!
Where is the Atlanta - Dunwoody campus located?
Belhaven University's Atlanta - Dunwoody campus is two blocks south of Perimeter Mall on Ashford-Dunwoody Road - just inside Loop 285. We are within a few blocks of the Dunwoody MARTA Station. Classes are held in Suite 130 of the Ashford-Perimeter Building. Parking is free. For complete driving directions visit the Location page. You will need to be able to get to the campus by 6:00 pm for the start of weekday evening classes.
Will I get help in planning my class schedule and developing a graduation strategy?
Yes! Our Student Services professionals will help you get registered for your classes each term. One of the first services we provide is the development of an Academic Plan that outlines which courses you will need to complete in order to receive your degree from Belhaven University. Before you enroll in your first class, you will know how much of your previous college work will transfer to Belhaven and which classes you will need to take in order to graduate. How quickly you graduate will depend on your time availability and willingness to work.
Will I need to have a computer in order to complete my classwork at Belhaven?
Many of your classes will require a computer in order to complete your assignments. However, if you do not own a personal computer or do not have a program required to complete work in a particular class, we have you covered. There is a computer lab on the Atlanta - Dunwoody campus that can accommodate up to 12 students at a time. These computers are available to Belhaven students anytime the offices are open. That includes both normal business hours and during instructional time!
What are the office hours for the Atlanta - Dunwoody campus?
The office is open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 am until 6:00 pm. On Friday, the office is open from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm. Just call us at 404-425-5590 to set up an appointment time with an Admission or Student Services professional. We will be happy to accommodate your busy schedule as much as we can. We are here to help!


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Twenty-four-year-old Lance Capitano of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, is one of a growing number of millennial upstarts looking to strike gold from developing an innovative smartphone application.
"Its called Squad Up," says Capitano. "It's an app that will bring hoopers (basketball players) together to play the game and meet people. It's a social app."
One of the greatest advantages millennials have compared with previous generations is the ability to access heaps of information at any given time. Whether by phone, tablet or laptop, sharing content is more intuitive to younger users, who are capable of connecting to people throughout the world. This connectivity has allowed young entrepreneurs to capitalize, creatively and financially, from the platform without adhering to conventional standards of previous generations.
But potential anti-net neutrality laws could thwart millennial upstarts like Capitano and strip away what some say is an essential part of the Internet.
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should keep access to the Internet and its content open without favoring a particular product or website. It prevents ISPs such as Verizon Wireless, Comcast and AT&T from dictating what content is permitted on their servers or the content's download speed. This allows the Internet to be regulated equally and prevents providers from having an uneven amount of power.
However, ISPs are beginning to discover crafty ways of blurring the lines between what is and what isn't a violation of net neutrality, and this could have a serious impact on small startups.
"The Internet is great because it allows anyone to launch a business at any time," says Karl Bode, editor of DSL Reports, a website dedicated to sharing news and technological information. "If you truly appreciate free markets, then you would want net neutrality, because it gives everyone an equal shot."
One example is the Verizon Wireless application Go90, This video streaming app allows users to stream video content on their phones without the data counting against their monthly cap. Some argue this plan is a violation of net neutrality laws, as Verizon customers are more likely to use the Go90 service as opposed to Netflix or Hulu, since using the two apps would result in more data being used. Some say this gives the service providers an unfair advantage and grants them the upper hand over content providers.
"This dismantles what has made the Internet great," says Bode.
The advantage given to ISPs in regards to net neutrality violations may stem from a basic misunderstanding of what net neutrality really is.
"Honestly I don't even know (what net neutrality is)," says Capitano.
And it's not just young Americans who are unaware, as many politicians seem to be confused about the subject as well. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has likened net neutrality to Obamacare, and Donald Trump has said it shares similarities with the Fairness Doctrine of 1949. Meanwhile, former candidate Jeb Bush has compared it to the Communications Act of 1934, and Marco Rubio has written he believes service providers having different speed lanes "is not the injustice that it is made out to be."
Caroline Craig, site editor for Infoworld, a website specializing in enterprise technology, says she understands how important threats against net neutrality are for millennials and how the spread of misinformation, intentional or unintentional, could potentially determine whether or not the Internet as they know it will change forever.
"It's a case where politicians are not really listening to their constituents; they seem to be listening more to the lobbying dollars of cable companies," she says. "I believe it is dangerous especially for millennials, because they recognize how vital the Internet is to all aspects of our lives."
However, Craig does believe there are some candidates who fight for the issue.
"Bernie Sanders has always been a big advocate of (net neutrality)," she says. "He sees the Internet as vital to the free discourse of ideas. Hillary Clinton has also said she supports the net neutrality rules."
For millennial entrepreneurs in an election year, there are many issues to contemplate that will impact their future, from health care to civil rights to wage equality. It may be time to add net neutrality to that list as well.
"That may spark some controversy among small businesses," says Capitano. "I definitely need to do my research more."
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WIP 3 refine stages :)
Still have to make some adjustments and finish the the sculpt as well as the material tuning. It still feels plastic.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Another update WIP 02
This is just a dry color and normals test. No materials work yet and no real maps. I havent even finished sculpting yet :}This is a base work and I still have lots to do.
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Douglas Davenport
|Full Name
Douglas Orville Davenport
Evil Uncle Daddy (by Adam)
Unnamed Mother (deceased)
Donald Davenport (brother)
Terry Perry (ex-fiance)
Marcus Davenport (android son/deceased)
|First Episode
Mission: Space
|Last Episode
The Attack
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Jeremy Kent Jackson
Jeremy Kent JacksonDouglas Davenport. Douglas Davenport (Jeremy Kent Jackson) is the Lab Rats and Marcus' creator, Leo's step-uncle, and Donald's younger brother. In his
Douglas Orville Davenport is Donald Davenport's formerly evil younger brother and the brother-in-law to Tasha Davenport. He is the father/creator of Marcus Davenport, Adam Davenport, Bree Davenport, Chase Davenport, and Daniel Davenport. In "Sink or Swim: Part 2", when Krane wanted to destroy Adam, Bree, and Chase, he turned good and saved them.
Douglas created the "cyber mask", a mask that makes him look like another person. He also created Krane, his evil former sidekick who eventually turns his back on him in later episodes.
Douglas was once a cold blooded, ruthless, destructive, envious and diabolic villain from childhood, beating up his brother, Donald Davenport and stealing his father's money.
Douglas was basically always jealous of his brother. That is shown as he told Chase that he was being unappreciated and that his brother "steals the spotlight".
After Sink or Swim, Douglas has now got a change of heart, as he joined the other Davenports in being a hero and even tells Donald Davenport to go easy on the lab rats for their mistakes.
Appearances on Lab RatsEdit
Season 1Edit
- Mission: Space (cameo)
Season 2Edit
- Speed Trapped (cameo)
- Leo vs. Evil (debut)
- Bionic Showdown
- Avalanche!
- No Going Back
Season 3Edit
- Sink or Swim
- Taken
- Which Father Knows Best?
- You Posted What?!?
- Armed and Dangerous
- Brother Battle
- Face Off
- Rise of the Secret Soldiers: Part 2 (Forces Unite)
Season 4Edit
- Under Siege
- Bionic Dog
- Mission Mania
- Spider Island
- Spike vs. Spikette
- Bionic Action Hero
- One of Us
- Bob Zombie
- The Curse of the Screaming Skull
- Lab Rats: On the Edge
- And Then There Were Four
- The Vanishing: Part 1
- The Vanishing: Part 2
Season 1Edit
- Exoskeleton vs. Grandma (indirectly)
- Concert in a Can (hinted)
Season 3Edit
- The Jet-Wing
- Mission: Mission Creek High
- Scramble the Orbs
- Three Minus Bree
- Merry Glitchmas
Season 4Edit
- Bionic Rebellion: Part 2
- Space Colony: Part 2
Appearances on Elite ForceEdit
Season 1Edit
- Need for Speed
- The Intruder
- The Attack
Season 1Edit
- Follow the Leader (indirectly)
- He was never mentioned in Season 2.
- He use to be evil, until he turn good by helping in the episodes "Taken" and "Which Father Knows Best?".
- He is the Lab Rats's first villain to turn good. Second and Last, it was Taylor.
- He is the Disney XD's second villain to turn good. First, it was Lanny Parker "Pair of Kings". Third and fourth, it was Wallace and Clyde in "Mighty Med". And fifth it was Taylor in "Lab Rats: Bionic Island".
- He is the Lab Rats's first villain to turn good. Second and Last, it was Taylor.
- In "Bob Zombie", it reveals that his middle is Orville.
- In "And Then There Were Four", he reveals that he created four bionic super humans. Adam, Bree, Chase, and Daniel. He puts them in alphabetical order. A, B, C, and D.
- He is the fourth Lab Rats' character to appear on Lab Rats: Elite Force.
- Like Oliver, Douglas has a fear of needles.


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Michelle Nosal
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My dad always had great advice (as most dad's do), but these two pieces of advice have stuck with me over the years. "Do what you love, love what you do" & "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life!"
Finding the one thing you love is not always easy. I have found, I love many things, but childcare was my love for a number of years (25 yrs to be exact). However, as life changes, goals change & interests change…So, back in 2007, I made a huge decision to step away from the one thing I thought I would be doing for the rest of my life (teaching) and start a career in real estate. I am thankful for my time in childcare, as it was a wonderful experience and was very rewarding. Becoming a REALTOR® has been so rewarding as well and is truly something I love! In 2008, I partnered with another agent and was a top producer during one of the most challenging housing markets, but I gained valuable experience in short sales, REO's & Foreclosures! During this time, many "seasoned" agents in my office would complain that they were doing twice the work for half the pay. Fortunately, I didn't know any differently, so working hard was what I did. I also teamed up with my husband, who is a General Contractor and went into the "house flipping" business. I can say, we had a great time finding the "diamond in the rough" (and back then, there were MANY rough diamonds) and making it beautiful again! Although he now does mostly custom countertops, the experience I gained while working with him flipping homes was priceless.
I currently live in the Fair Oaks area near the American River. I am a country girl at heart, having grown up in the Wilton/Sloughhouse area of Sacramento. I attended a small private school out in Wilton and after college became a preschool teacher and eventually the principal of a large child care facility in the Elk Grove area. I have 3 wonderful girls and am married to my fabulous husband, Michael. I love spending time together with my family ~ going for walks along the many trails of the American River Parkway and Sailor Bar; traveling to Hawaii and Oregon where we have extended family. I also walk, train and raise funds throughout the year with the Komen Hand Up For Hooters Team. Every November, I and my teammates join the big "Pink Bubble" at the Komen 3-Day in San Diego and walk 60 miles over 3 days. We raise funds for research, studies, education and support for those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Go to www.handsupforhooters.com for more information.
My goals in real estate are to help my family, friends, and clients fulfill their dream of homeownership and work by referrals so that I can provide my clients with the first class service they deserve.
Member of:
National Association of Realtors®
California Association of Realtors®
Sacramento Association of Realtors®
Green Certification from NAR
e-Pro Certification from NAR
Master's Club 2009 - 2012
Lyon Referral Network 2013-2015
Team member for the annual Chili Feed supporting
the Salvation Army Can Tree Food Drive
Team Member for the Susan G. Komen 3-day 60 miles
Lyon Cares Foundation Supporter
I donate a portion of my commission of each home sold to the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Lyon Cares.


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25 years of
Pampering Pets
Pet Pals started in 1990 with a dream of providing unique, upscale boarding and grooming services for pets in Northwest Indiana and the surrounding areas. It was started by Julie Getz and Peggy Swain, long-time friends and animal lovers! It started out with a grooming facility located on 9th Street in Michigan City - a small space with enough room for a few groomers and the hard work needed to move to the next step of their dream.
The next step involved a brand new, innovative building dedicated to pet services of boarding, grooming, and retail. The building was 5000 square feet with a lobby, grooming room, 45 boarding runs, and an apartment for the full-time caretaker. Pet Pals provided something the area had never seen before - a business and facility that was solely dedicated to pampering pets. Julie and Peggy took their love of animals and desire to serve other animal lovers and their family members and created a comfortable, homey place for pets to stay while their owners were away. The boarding area was full of large, roomy runs with heated floors that sloped gently towards drains to keep the pets from having to lay in wetness. The runs were various sizes to accommodate all varieties of pets and pet families. The pets were fed a high-quality food and given their medications at no charge. Most of all, each pet was provided with individual attention that included multiple daily walks outside. This model was labor intensive and included lots of long hours. But the long hours were worth it, because Pet Pals quickly became known as the premier place to go for pet lodging and grooming in Michigan City and the surrounding areas.
The happy road Pet Pals was on took a sad turn in 1995 when Peggy passed away after a battle with cancer. After Peggy's passing, Julie took over as sole owner of Pet Pals. Although saddened by the loss of her friend, Julie was determined to keep moving forward with their dream.
The next phase of Pet Pals involved a remodel in 1996, and then a building addition in 2001. The addition provided 2100 more square feet of pet care space, with 20 additional runs, a new and improved 1200 foot grooming area, a separate and secluded cat boarding area, and a dedicated retail area.
In 2015 Pet Pals celebrated 25 years of providing unique, caring services for pets and their owners. Through it all, we have been dedicated to giving the community a warm, family-atmosphere to take their pets for a day of pampering or for their own vacation while their owners are away.
We are excited to continue to be the place where your friends stay with friends!


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Turf Health
Making your grass greener, healthier, and flawless.
With our prompt response, same-day service, and a team of technicians who are ready to go the extra mile on any job, our lawn care team is dedicated to serving your needs, your lawn, and your property in a way that makes your landscape a healthier, more beautiful space.
We understand that each lawn, property, and owner is unique, and one-size-fits-all lawn care is never effective. That is why we offer a wide spectrum of services that can all be tailored exactly to your budget and your lawn's needs. These include:
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With our 6-Step Lawn Care Program is tailored around your lawn and your expectations. Every lawn is different so we customize our 6-step program to fit what you lawn needs. With our optional grub control you will also help prevent the pesky grubs from destroying your lawn. Our team of technicians are college graduates that are state licensed, certified and trained in applying pesticides and fertilizers.
How, with what and when you need to fertilize your lawn depends on several factors that an experienced professional can fully analyze. At Four Star Lawns, we take the time to understand your grass, your soil, and the Kansas weather so that you can be sure that you get the most from your lawn fertilizer. We also have the experience needed to apply the right amount or fertilizer in the right way so your grass has an even, luscious green without producing any environmentally-harmful waste.
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Effective June 5th, 2014iAutomation is pleased to announce our partnership with FESTO Corporation. We are now an authorized provider within New England, Metro New York, Northern New Jersey, and Virginia.
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FIME 2019 | The Largest Medical Trade Fair across the Americas
We would kindly like to invite you to meet us during the world's largest event for the medical sector. Our representatives will present our factory, a wide range of our products and answer all your questions.
We will be deligted to welcome you on our booth no. C72.


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Cosmo magazine recently compiled a photo gallery of Kamasutra positions to give their readers new ideas to try with their partner while enjoying sex. Some of them didn't seem very easy to do, as you can see in this funny video of a real couple trying them out live in the street, wearing nothing but flesh coloured bodysuits. Watching the faces of the public is almost as funny as watching the couple trying to get their Kamasutra on!
With the positions of the Kamasutra you can increase your level of pleasure in the bedroom (or anywhere else, for that matter), but first have to make sure you have condoms with you, because most of you won't be wearing a full body suit when having sex, right? Talk to your partner about what both of you like best, then experiment together and have fun. Take away all your taboos and try out new things and every Kamasutra position you can master, but admit it: some of them are really weird!
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Episode #54: "I almost missed my third show in a row. Out of desperation. But I pulled myself together and took a twenty-five dollar cab ride to the studio with an arm-full of records and a head full of un-realized dreams"-KRAY
moritat - Santo Y Johnny
i see her pretty face - Grand Prix's
night of roses - Arik & The Einsteins
vol vist du gally star - Slim Gaillard
ching ching wong - Bernie Turner & The Amorettes
swamp girl - kay martin
trim the barber - king tubby & the aggrovators
i got a woman - trini lopez
i got a sweetie - Jo Stafford
a lonesome man - Bobby Womack & the Valentinos
the night they drove old dixie down - Herbie Mann
the time of man (played @45) - the limeliters
new religion - trifle
cabinessence - beach boys
ave gengis khan - os mutantes
Come Together - Tony Mottola's Guitar Factory
Heart - Cool Calm Pete
L'Adorable Femme Des Neiges - Christie Laume
The Young Knight - Nina Simone
a real slow drag - scott joplin
woh! woh! yea! yea! - the dynamos
space - galt macdermot
bwanina (pretty girl) - the tokens
i like it like that - chris kenner
i don't like it like that - the bobettes
flower of my heart - sparkle moore
memorial - Narlia Village Troubadour
schizzo - Coscia
ballgame - king curtis
you got me smilin' - sly and the family stone
only once in a while - hope griffiths
green toothed gardener - steve tilston
it's nothing to me - Harry Johnson
le bren d'herbe - Brigitte Fontaine
italian walk - john lurie
life is like a dice game - Nas
don't let me down - marcia griffiths
the fox - don randi
sex world - porn jam (unknown artist)
jacko homo - Lonnie & The Devotion
true blues - The Last Poets
Cav's Sick Rose - Cavalier
night beat - the phantoms
god is love (12" version) - marvin gaye
a man alone - billy strange


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The Crippling and Comforting Journey to Recapture Culture/
Most of my memories from my time in Pakistan, those first four years of life, are blurry and out of focus. In between dull, drowned voices and a few wobbly home movies, I can remember the occasional sipping of cooled chai from saucers. I can remember Mama's young hands and her cropped hair, the lush garden of her family home, the scattering of lizards across the flat concrete roof, but not much else.
Those four years in Pakistan—spent clinging to my mother's khameez in the thicket of dusty Gujrat City, Punjab—were the last I'd spend there before boarding a one-way plane to Toronto. I landed in Canada just under two months after the Twin Towers fell.
I didn't know it then, but there was more than just the sharp November wind in the air upon my arrival. There was also brewing the violently renewed and multiplied fear of brown people. I didn't know it then, but I would spend the next decade rejecting my brownness and wanting loudly and proudly to be white, seeking the validation of my new countrymen until I realized it just wasn't possible. Until I realized that being "enough" was a bar being endlessly, infinitely raised.
I spent half a lifetime forgetting. And now, I'm working hard to displace that energy—a lot of energy—with remembering, actively recapturing, and consistently embracing my South Asian, Muslim heritage.
My childhood passed in a flurry of tirelessly convincing others of my duality. Two lives, the heroic and attractive white and the orthodox and oppressive brown, lived next to one another but never crossing, kept mutually exclusive at all times.
Now, I'm on a long and healing path of giving into my complexity: a largeness of identities, always crossing paths and falling into one another, the brown being the largest and proudest among all. This recapturing, it's worth it. But it's hard. It's really hard.
In the fourth grade, my best friend's name was Melanie. She had silky blonde hair and blue eyes and her cheeks would turn the colour of pink bubblegum in the harsh Canadian winter.
When I invited her over to our townhouse in the suburbs for the first time, I wanted more than anything to convince her of my family's normalcy. Look at our cupboard full of Cheetos and canned peas! And my rhinestoned jeans and baggy crewneck and MTV still left playing on my television! Nothing exotic here!
That night, she called her mom to let her know she'd be having dinner with us. Mama had cooked a household Pakistani recipe: a thick, pungent okra curry with beef and boiled rice. The smell of spices that is so familiar to South Asian households ballooned in my home. In the hour of waiting for dinner to be set on the table, I bit my nails to the quick.
"It looks like garbage," said Melanie, contorting her small, doll-like features at the generous mound of curry that Mama had ladled onto her plate. She laughed. I could feel the lump in my throat grow tenfold as I laughed along with her.
The food our parents grew up eating and now made so lovingly for us, theparathas and rotis and naans carefully rolled out, the fingers burned on hot pans in the process, this food was overflowing with flavour and love and the stories of our homeland. It was the purest form of wanting the best for their child, being reminded of their searing sacrifice with every curry and spice and untranslatable word. And yet, countless times, I remember shaking my head and crinkling my nose and asking for something normal, something not brown.
How do you apologize for that? I don't know. But my — our— every step towards any degree of success in any area of this dual-cultured life is an emphatic, insistent "I'm sorry."
Today, I opened my lunch I had packed for work and microwaved my Mama's curry and the scent of it filled the office, where I work with a dozen other people. I can tell you it doesn't make me nervous anymore, such a loud act of brown self, but I still bite my nails with anxiety to "fit in" some days. Most days, though, it makes me proud—these gestures of brownness, these acts of leaning into my self-complexity—and this is my small but whole-hearted rebellion.
I started CherishChai.com in November of last year to pave a space where I could map this difficult journey to actively recapture my Pakistani, Muslim heritage after years of repressing and neglecting it as a kid. Cherish Chai captures me as I try my very hardest to live as myself in all my cultural forms, as belonging to no one country at once, with dualities and layers in my everyday life that transcend continents and languages and generations. Hopefully, it captures how, above all, I am unapologetically and deeply in awe of my brown womanhood and all the power it holds.
Sometimes, I'm afraid I'm now known as the "brown girl with the brown blog" among my circle of Facebook friends. Sometimes, I'm worried I shouldn't put Cherish Chai on my resume for fear that future employers will think I'm "too brown" for their jobs. Running a blog on my culture and identity doesn't immediately immunize me from the lasting trauma and self-doubt of the diaspora. But it's a step forward if ever there was one.
Just as the four-year old me, still living in Pakistan and teetering on the edge of a continent-sized shift, couldn't fathom the change ahead, the middle-schooler me would never have imagined this. The middle-schooler me — with her Pakistani dresses crumpled in the back of her closet and hours in the Walmart makeup aisle picking a foundation several shades lighter than her skin—would never have imagined that at 19 years old, I would be so proudly and so defiantly brown.
The sheer warmth of remembering almost makes up for the irrevocable cost of all those years spent forgetting.


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Letters to the Editor
Tesla + Legislature + STEM school + 'Dreamers'
Re "Legislators wouldn't penalize Tesla for operating in California. Would they?" (Editorials, Sept. 13): I was saddened by the action of our Legislature to inject itself into the Tesla Motors-United Autoworkers dispute. I would not be surprised to see Tesla leave our state, as there are far more business-friendly states that would welcome it and its many jobs. With the anti-Tesla, anti-business action, our Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown probably made California a non-starter in the location bidding for the new Amazon headquarters. Without jobs, our already high poverty rate will continue to increase.
Mike Gibson, Fair Oaks
Re "Here's a way to add diversity to sciences in California" (Viewpoints, Sept. 13): Our vision at the Sacramento City Teachers Association is to make Sacramento the destination school district for California, where parents want their children to attend; students are challenged and rewarded with a high quality, well-rounded education; and talented educators are valued and choose to spend their careers. That can't happen if bills like AB 1217 are passed. Assembly Bill 1217 would create private schools with public funds, robbing students of public resources. We're working hard to make sure students get the education they need. We are in negotiations with Sacramento City Unified School District discussing the resources and opportunities our students need to be successful. We are accountable and we're holding SCUSD accountable. In reading AB 1217, it's clear there would be no accountability.
David Fisher, Sacramento City Teachers Association president
Re "'Dreamers' would receive more financial, legal help under new California plan" (sacbee.com, Sept. 13): Our Legislature's leaders are proposing a free ride for "Dreamers" to go to college. So our taxes and tuition for our kids go up so DACA kids can dream for free. Is this a great country, or what?
Bill Jurkovich, Citrus Heights
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One way to deal with the problem of cars driving themselves is to use GPS and radar to manage traffic and avoid collisions. That technology has started to prove itself with Google's self-driving cars, but obviously not to the point of massive testing on regular city streets and interstate highways.
I still fail to see the point of cars that drive themselves, as I'd much rather take the wheel and steer. For those few times I don't want to drive, I prefer to take public transportation or bum a ride from a friend. That aside, though, autonomous cars are quickly becoming a thing, and now Volvo is testing an even more advanced way to handle driver-less traffic.
The Swedes' answer?


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Seussical the Musical
Cast List:The current Cast List can be found here.
Performances:Performances will start at 7pm on June 16-18,22-25,28-30, and July 1, 2011.
A 2pm matinee performance will be on Saturdays, June 18 and 25, 2011.
Toilet Paper Drive
Want to further help the organization and get a concession at the same time?
We help over 1,000 senior citizens each month by giving them a bag of donated paper good items. The objective of this program is to allow senior citizens to use their limited funds for other items such as utilities, food, and prescriptions.
Bring at least a 4-pack of toilet paper to the theater as a donation and receive a goodie bag.
Ticket Sales
All ticket sales are Final and No Refunds will be issued. Tickets purchased may be applied toward another night's performance if seats are currently available.Ticket Sales are currently closed for this year's production.


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Linnet and her husband Gabrielle live in an area called Sinoko, 20km from the main town of Kitale. Kitale is on the mains power network and hosts one large supermarket, ten small petrol stations, and a hotel for the occasional Westerner who passes through. Driving out of Kitale to the West on a good tarmac road you reach smaller market towns decorated with bright green and red houses selling mobile phone pay-as-you-go airtime. Since the arrival of mobile phones, this bold and attractive colour scheme has rolled out across the Kenyan landscape.
At one of these towns we turn off left down a single track lane, into an area of farmland with small plots of land dividing the green rolling hills. There are houses dotted around every 200m in each direction, some of which are clustered in twos or threes. Each house tends to have some sort of scrap metal or barbed wire perimeter, since after dark theft is common. This occurs despite the deep-rooted and strong ties that bind villagers together.
The people living out in this area, which is called Sinoko, are happy; they are motivated to work hard on the land and sell their produce at the market. In one of these houses we find Linnet, smiling away, excited about the prospect of answering our questions:
Q: Who lives here?
Me, my husband Gabrielle and our five children.
Q: What do you do for a living?
We are small scale farmers. We have a small coffee plantation which we harvest once a year in October. For the rest of the year we rely on selling maize and we also make bricks.
Q: What lighting sources did you use before Indigo?
We used to buy kerosene and burn it in lanterns.
Q: Do you prefer solar to kerosene?
Yes, it's inspirational, it's changed our lives. Because of the fumes, I used to cough with kerosene but now it's better with Indigo. Also with kerosene every evening I had to organise and go and get it at the market 1km away, or the kids would go if I didn't have time. Now that is not my trouble any longer and I can use my time better.
"The best thing is that I don't have to worry when I leave my children at home in the house. Kerosene was dangerous because it causes fires and if my young ones touch it they will get burnt".
Q: How has your life changed since buying an Indigo system?
Besides the money and time savings, the best thing is that I don't have to worry when I leave my children at home in the house. Kerosene was dangerous because it causes fires and if my young ones touch it they will get burnt. (At this point she shows me a scar on her left arm caused by kerosene).
Q: Have you noticed any improvement in the children's grades at school?
There has been a general improvement because before regular studies weren't possible because we would run out of kerosene about four nights per month. That's all in the past now we have permanent light.
Q: What do you use Indigo for?
For proper illumination of the house, to prepare the bed, cooking, things like that. The children use it to read. And now we can charge are phones at home too.
Q: Do you use it everyday? How long for?
Yes everyday, I don't switch it off! I turn the light off in the sitting room at 10 or 11pm, but in the bedroom we like it so much, we keep it on throughout the night.


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History Now
Are you a teacher or a student?
is for Students.
New content is added regularly to the website, including online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and issues of the online journal History Now, which features essays by leading scholars on major topics in American history.
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- The Americas to 1620
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585–1763
- The American Revolution, 1763–1783
- The New Nation, 1783–1815
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815–1860
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- The Progressive Era to the New Era, 1900-1929
- The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- 1945 to the Present
Topic: Literature and Language Arts
Verses on Norwegian emigration to America, 1853
Spotlight on: Primary Source
Thorvald A. Hansen
Foreign Languages, Literature, World History
Frederick Douglass's tribute to Abraham Lincoln, 1880
Spotlight on: Primary Source
Frederick Douglass


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Hannah Gamble
and if one is running, all objects
appear blurry. I do not understand
how I see some movements of your face,
and not others. I know
in each flinch, you are telling me
something. I have forgotten what to ask
because now there is nothing but
questions. In an ocean, I can't see
the drops of water and also,
not the salt. Once you described
my temperament as salty, and not
in a kind way. Similarly,
my nose is longer than yours
and I never knew to feel bad
about it. For I was born innocent
and stayed that way until only
recently. So I define innocence
in my own way and refuse to listen
to people who pay no attention
to how I like to be spoken to. I learned
to be demanding from the Lord, who asks
a lot of me. If I disappoint him, it is only
because at night, I'm too tired. It is at night
that the Lord wants my courage,
and he brings his creations to my door
to test me. I send them away
with words, but often I fear
that they will send me away
and live in my house where it's warmer,
since the human home is the envy
of creation. We use our homes to advertise
our blessings. Yet creation does not feel blessed
and someone told me that's our fault.


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