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Monday, February 28, 2011
52 Weeks of Me- Week 9
This week we are tackling shadows. I kept it simple and of course waited until the absolute last minute. My goal for next week is to get the photo before Sunday evening.
Peace out.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
After dealing with my hip pain for several weeks, I finally decided to go to the doctor last week. They ordered a MRI to rule out a stress fracture or labral tear. It was a whirlwind of a day. My thoughts were all over the place with fear of surgery or weeks of crutches. Fortunately, the MRI showed no fractures or tears. My bursa sac was swollen and inflamed so he put me on steroids and ordered physical therapy. He also said no running for 2 weeks. It was probably the best case scenerio really, but I am not sure how this is all going to impact my half marathon training. I am still planning on running, but I guess I will just see how things pan out.
I know in the whole scheme of things my minor injury is not a big deal, but it really has thrown me for a loop. I feel like I have worked so hard to get to a certain point with my running. I am afraid I am going to have to start all over again. Running has become such a stress reliever for me. Without it I have been a little (or a lot if you ask my husband) cranky.
I have my first physical therapy session today so hopefully I will be back in action soon.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The June Bag
It's a good thing that I had to wait to show you this bag because I have not done one crafty thing all week. I have been preoccupied with thoughts of home improvement projects. We are very slowly trying to tackle our very long list of things that need to be updated in our house.
I used
this pattern
to make a purse for my mother in law's birthday. I was pleased with how it turned out. Cutting out the pattern pieces took way more time than the actual sewing.
There's a pocket on the back that I forgot to photograph.
I made a little zipper pouch to match.
Happy Crafty Tuesday everyone.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
52 Weeks of Me- Week 8
This week's theme is Zero In. I was excited about this week because I thought it was the perfect opportunity to photograph something besides my face. Woohoo. I didn't even have to shower or put on make-up. Instead I dug in the dirt a little bit. I have a head start on my herb garden now. I can't wait for Spring.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Team-Up Thursday- Blue
This week our theme is Blue. I sure would like to know what is or was in
blue bag. When I think of blue, my little guy's eyes come to mind. I was trying to get a good shot of his eyes and for some reason he decided do to do this funny wink face at me. I thought is was cute, but his eye color didn't really pop. That's when I decided a little selective coloring would solve that problem. I admit it is a little over the top, but it was fun to play around in photoshop.
Join in on the fun, over at
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Valentine's 2011
I did a little sewing last week, but I will have to wait to show you. Today is my mother in law's birthday. (Happy Birthday Grammie!!!) I don't want to ruin any surprises, you know?
So instead I will show you what I did this year for the kid's valentines. It really isn't that crafty, but it's all I have to show. It was cheap, easy, and I thought they turned out cute.
I found the design on
Eighteen 25
. They have such cute ideas.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day. My Valentine surprised me with a date night Saturday night. We went to a swanky wine bar and then a very nice restaurant. It was the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's day.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
52 Weeks of Me- Week 7
This week we are tackling profiles. Today it is 60 degrees and sunny. So I embraced the awesome weather and took this shot while the sun was beating down on my face and wind blowing my hair. The background seemed distracting so I decided to get rid of it for a more dramatic effect. It sure would be nice if this weather stayed around for awhile, but I am not getting my hopes up.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A Day in the Life- February 8, 2011 {lunch break}
This week I decided to document my lunch break at work. I try to go for a run a couple of days a week on my lunch break. Yes, it means I am kind of nasty the rest of the day, but I have come to terms with it. I will probably start running in the evenings again once it gets warmer and isn't dark so early.
I officially start my half marathon training this week. I have been training for my training the last month or so. I was having some foot issues so I went to a specialty running store and bought some shoes. I desperately needed new shoes. The new shoes felt great and my foot issues seemed to be better. I ran my longest run- 5.8 miles. Then my hip started killing me. Man, oh man. I really feel old. I took about a week off from running. It started feeling better, but after today's run it is very sore again. Ughhh.
Anyway back to my lunch break. At 11:30 I changed clothes, stretched, and got all ready for my run.
I felt pretty good during my run. My hip was hurting, but not too bad. I ran 3 miles in just under 30 minutes. I headed back to the office, drank some water, and cooled off a bit. I took a couple of calls. Then changed back into my work clothes.
I grabbed some homemade gatorade, some ice for my hip, and my lunch.
I ate my lunch while I worked. Exciting stuff, huh?
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Bit of Whimsy Doll and Quilt
After last week's
shoe fai
l, I knew I had to redeem myself. So I decided I would make my friend who just had a baby a doll and doll quilt. I used this
Bit of Whimsy Dolls
. It was on sale last week, but doesn't look like it is any longer. I had all of the materials on hand so I was able to use up some of my stash. I used a pattern from the
Wee Wonderful book
for the doll quilt. This was my first attempt at quilting so I pretty much winged it.
I also used this
to create a pretend binding. It worked perfectly.
Now I just have to mail the gift, which seems to be harder than all of the sewing.
Happy Crafty Tuesday.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
52 Weeks of Me- Week 6
This week we are doing
at arm's length
. I really need to figure out how to look happier. Even though I look a little angry, I was pretty happy with this shot. Miller told me I looked like Michael Jackson. Hmmmm. Maybe it's the curly hair.
It's never too late to join in on the fun.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
A Day in the Life- February 1, 2011 {evening}
I want to preface this by saying this is not a typical evening at our house, but as the kids get involved in more activities it will probably become the norm. I also will apologize in advance for the photo quality. I had to snap the photos fast and there are iphone photos mixed in there too.
Miller had his first swim lesson tonight. He was so excited. I couldn't get a photo of him that wasn't blurry because he was moving around so much. This is a huge step for him. He is terrified of the water. We finally convinced him that he really needs to know how to swim. Mitch took him because I am a softie and Miller knows it.
While the boys were at swim lessons, Harper did some homework and I made some soup.
Then I ate some of this yummy soup (Red Lentil Potato Soup with Kale). Harper was not impressed. She opted for a banana. In my defense she ate some rotisserie chicken earlier.
After dinner and homework, I picked out some fabric for a baby gift I am planning. Harper decided to write the answer to every one of her math flash cards. She answered every single one correctly.
Miller and Mitch arrived home. Lessons started out a little shaky, but he did it. He was very proud of himself. I told him if he did what the teacher asked him to do he could play Wii Mario Kart when he got home. That motivated him. That is all he cares about these days. Mitch showed us some photos and videos of Miller in action.
The boys ate some dinner. Harper and I loaded up for basketball practice. Miller took a shower.
I did a little reading and basketball practice watching. Then we headed home. Harper brushed her teeth. Miller was already in bed.
Harper lost a tooth at school today. Well, actually the nurse pulled it for her. It was just hanging there. Harper kept visiting the nurse about her tooth, so I am sure the nurse was happy it finally came out. She made sure the tooth was tucked into her tooth fairy pillow. Then we read a book.
Time for bed.
Did anyone play along this week?
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Shoe Fail
I am not sure how it happened, but I became obsessed with making my own shoes. I saw the patterns from
and could not stop thinking about them. Finally I broke down and bought the pattern. The first pair were in process for a couple of weeks. Then I finished one shoe. The other sat there for another week or so before I decided to actually finish it. They were too big so I kept trying to make adjustments. It just ended up all wrong. So I cut out another pair and tried again. I found this extra large wool skirt at Goodwill so I still had plenty of fabric. The first shoe looked ok, but the second shoe just never looked right. I tried adding some insoles from an old pair of tennis shoes, which helped but they are still not right. I may give it one more go, but I think I need to do something else first. I am tired of shoes.
I hope everyone else has a happier Crafty Tuesday.
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Ghost Stories is a game gifted to us by the designer Antoine Bauza, to show us how weak we truly are. It is a game that we spend the rest of the night building ourselves up to by paying easier cooperatives and such so that we don't feel as pathetic when Wu-Feng utterly destroys all of our hopes and dreams, where God truly does laugh in our faces no matter what plans we may have for ourselves. The above picture is one of the two times that we even made it to the main boss, Wu-Feng, which was met with much jubilation, to the point that we didn't mind that we were slaughtered… I guess what I'm saying is that it's a hard game for us.
So what is Ghost Stories really? Well, imagine being a warrior monk in ancient China, able to overpower enemies with your strength, run on top of bamboo and fly around like in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and enlisted by some villagers to save their shanties from a powerful enemy, like Seven Samurai… except there are only four of you.
Each turn you are able to move one space in any direction and then try to exorcise a ghost from one of the areas surrounding the village by rolling colored dice, or use the gifts of a villager you happen to be visiting at the moment, such as the gift to bring one of your friends back to life, or tokens to make things easier to kill, or give you a handy dandy, two of a king Buddha Bomb! Yes, you can use a Buddha to blow up a ghost, how awesome is that! It may even be more fun than blowing up that evil bunny with the Holy Hand Grenade….
After you do your thing, another ghost appears! And that ghost may do a multitude of things, like haunt one of your villagers, making them incapable of doing things, or they can make you unable to use your precious tokens (Hate you Black Widow!), or stop you from using your abilities, or take one of your dice away, or quickly sap away your will to live… literally! They can even make more ghosts appear, quickly filling up your board with death and destruction.
Ultimately you will encounter one of Wu-Feng's Incarnations, in which case you may need a new pair of underwear, and if you defeat him, you win, the village is saved and they will have a feast in your honor!
But most likely you won't. Before that happens you will be overrun with ghosts, who will rip you into shreds, and each moment will get your pulse quickening as the dice fall and ghost cards are pulled. And it is fantastic!
There are few games where I sit there worried about what might happen or excited when I do something well. Rollercoasters have been known to have less excitement for me, and on the bonus side of the game, no motion sickness! So I definitely recommend it.
This game also reminds us that we really can't do it alone. There are plenty of cooperative games where you are just doing your thing and in the end, you do win. But in this one you have to help one another out, you have to be in constant communication, or else you will surely die horribly. Each person has their own talents and skills, their own gifts, and they need to be used in order to succeed. Much like the Body of Christ, we can't say "I have no need for you." The hand needs the foot, the eye needs the ear, and everything else.
So check it out, and hopefully your plans are not laid to waste and Wu-Feng may fall beneath your feet. Good luck!


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While no generally sane person would ever refer to Archer as a romantic comedy, the central quasi-romance of Sterling Archer and Lana Kane has given viewers one of TV's best and most dysfunctional couples for years now. While recently speaking with Lana's voice actress Aisha Tyler concerning the Blu-ray release of Archer Season 6, I asked if she wanted the two former spies to end up together if and when the FX series ever ends.
I don't know. That's a really good question. I kind of like how they are. Like, right now, we're kind of together. We're kind of not together. They have this kid together… I do like them together, and I don't know that I think they should be married like an old married couple. That seems pretty boring. But they have this crazy dynamism. They understand each other…They're probably the only two people who can bear to be together for any certain degree of time. Maybe they cohabitate. They spend their summers in Paris and their winters in Gstaad. And they have separate bedrooms. And an open relationship.
Not even the simplest branch of mathematics has an answer that's as perfect as Aisha Tyler's response. It's both funny and well thought-out for a question about the fate of fictional illustrations, and it is absolutely the most feasible future for Archer and Lana to have, honestly. Well, assuming their job doesn't change once again, taking them from private investigations to something that separates the core characters for the rest of time. But that wouldn't be a very good plotline for creator Adam Reed to adhere to.
Like Tyler, I don't see Archer and Lana championing monogamy and holy matrimony at any point in their lives, regardless of how many wedlock-born children they create together. There's just too much alcohol in the world for Archer to be expected to remain knowingly faithful, and there's too much sense in Lana's brain for her to accept his philandering as part of any permanent solution. Plus, who would be the best man and maid of honor in that wedding? Cyril and Pam? Scary.
As one of the most attractive TV characters of either the animated or live-action variety, as well as one of the smartest and most badass, Lana can easily take on any relationship she wants to, and yet she sticks with her swilling co-worker. Because as Tyler also said, there are quite a few moments on Archer, particularly in the first episode of Season 7, when you can tell that the guy truly does care for Lana. Just…in that Sterling Archer kind of way that makes you suspicious. He did meet her parents last season, though, so that's something.
Archer airs Thursday nights on FX. While you're waiting for new episodes, head over to Amazon to pick up a copy of Archer Season 6 on Blu-ray. And when that's done, check out Aisha Tyler's soon-to-be-ending Kickstarter campaign for her feature directorial debut Axis, a drama that takes place entirely inside of a car, which she will also star in alongside Arrow's Emily Bett Rickards and Entourage's Jerry Ferrara.


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Style Stalker Feature on Meg Magazine
It's mid-September but it's not too late to check out all the interesting features under this month's issue of Meg magazine, such as this fashion feature section where some girls including yours truly, got to share our street style with leather elements in our outfits!
What I wore: peach leather jacket by Excellence in Fashion, white tank and blue beaded necklace from Rockwell bazaar, owl necklace from Forever 21, white shorts from Guess Jeans, bag from H&M, beaded wedges from Ferretti.
Thanks again to Guess Jeans for my shorts, and Excellence in Fashion for my jacket! Also, thanks to Ferretti for my super comfy wedges! You can find Ferretti boutiques in the following locations: Glorietta 5, Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall, Robinson's Place Bacolod, Robinsons' Place Cagayan de Oro, Gaisano Mall of Davao, Gaisano Mall General Santos. They're also available in these department stores: Landmark Makati, Landmark Trinoma, Shoe Center Greenhills, Shoe Center Alimall, Gaisano Illustre Davao, Victoria Plaza Davao, NCCC Ma-a Davao, Plaza Fair Limketkai CDO.
Credits to Sylvester Sy for the feature and the photos! Great job Silver!


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"Every proper escape begins not with a plan,
but with an awareness of one's current captivity."
These words were first written to me by a mysterious stranger who called himself "Desmious," which, I eventually learned, was not his proper name at all, but, rather, the Greek word for 'Prisoner.' Although I never learned his real name, or even met the man face-to-face (assuming, of course, that he was a man), the few things that I did learn from him have proven invaluable, so much so that today I feel compelled to share some it here with all of you; I hope you're paying attention.
You see, Desmious claimed to have started out many, many, years ago, as an amateur escape artist. Obsessed from a very young age with the fundamental architecture of prisons, and of systems of control in general, he quickly rose up to become the greatest master of the slip that this world had ever seen, unsurpassed at finding, and exploiting, previously undetected weaknesses in all manner of confinements, entanglements, and oppressions. He had become so good at escape, in fact, that he was eventually inducted into a vast world dominating Conspiracy, one where he was to serve as a sort of quality control consultant for the world's elite social engineers. For years, Desmious was tasked with the terrible job of testing and improving upon a corrupt system's most oppressive structures, not only the pieces of what he calls the ickthyfilaky, or the guarded prison, but also the gradual construction of something far more nefarious, a modern contrivance known by far fewer people as the melifilaky, or the honey prison.
Desmious always hated the melifilaky. He explained to me once that while both the spirit and the flesh will instinctively struggle against the far more obvious limitations of a conventional incarceration, the power of the honey prison lies in it's innocuous, seemingly beneficial, nature. As he watched the world slip further and further into the sticky snares of this seemingly undetectable threat, it was his sincere, almost religious, devotion to that delicate dance between capture and escape which, perhaps inevitably, compelled him to eventually betray the Conspiracy.
What follows, therefore, is a brief description of the seven primary members of this supposedly ancient and all consuming plot. Perhaps, like many, you'll simply refuse to believe in any evil consortium of Supervillians whom, in ways that will soon be made obvious, subtly rule the modern world, with very little, if any, opposition. At least at first, many of you probably won't even pause to consider how you, or your families, might, even now, be falling victim to any of these ubiquitous assaults on the human mind and body. Desmious says that this is because you have, in fact, become a living part of the prison itself, and thus can really never hope to escape; he taught me that we must instead escape from you.
I, however, remain hopeful, but, if he's right, then this may serve as your only notice that we are leaving, and, at least, you'll be granted a chance at understanding why. Ultimately, whether or not you come along, and who you might attempt to bring with you, will have to be entirely up to you and what you're capable of seeing.
This is, after all, where all proper escapes must begin.
(Unfortunately, illustrations for any of the following 7 Wanted posters have yet to be finalized. We live in hope.)
For Predatory Lending,
Extortion, Usury, and Fraud
The Senex, an ascended Alchemist, currently owns most of the planet Earth and exercises his royal prerogative via an unthinkably vast banking empire. He is the prime architect of an ancient occult conspiracy that stretches far back before the Order of Melchizadek (a.k.a. Jupiter), the Hashshashin, the Templars, The Freemasons, and, of course, the Federal Reserve, all of which currently answer to him. His intense rivalries with other Alchemical Masters of history, from St. Germain to Sir Issac Newton, are also legendary, although these days he mostly just locks promising Alchemists up, forcing them to slave away in secret for his bank.
Once, they say, he was quite literally made of gold, but these days, he's become a wispy digital whirl of swirling one and zeroes; the fundamental idea of ownership itself, extended out into infinity.
For Poisoning Billions
and Political Corruption
The Senex's niece, Mother Dreadful, as the self-proclaimed goddess of the Oikos Panouklas, or 'the Household Plagues,' is responsible for GMOs, preservatives and artificial sweeteners, for fluoride, pesticides, heavy metals and dyes, for the over-processing and over-sweetening of the American diet, all of which has contributed to our current Functional Zombie Apocalypse. She is the matron of the Illuminati house Rothschild* (from whom she inherited, among other things, her tiny army of mind-controlling parasites which she's dubbed the "Determites"), but suffers from a psychological illness called Lamia Syndrome, thoroughly convinced that the world needs to be saved from itself by the cautious enlightenment, and natural selection, her various poisons bring.
For Subversion of the Fifth Estate
and Possibly Deicide
Mediacrates hunts those whom the Order of Jupiter deem a potential threat to the status quo, colloquially referred to as "sparks." A bishop in the Catholic Church, this thin neuro-assassin commands enormous assets, both magical and mundane, including an army of conservative zealots, a quartet of archonic angels called the Drudge, and a vast media empire. All of these are part of his "Mediacratic Method," a systematic process of indoctrination and bribery designed to neutralize the various threats posed by nonconformists and malcontents.
For Consumerism,
Slave Labor and Xenocide
Santa Claus was once merely the bishop of Myra until he merged body and soul with a pagan God of Darkness called the Holly King, ascending to become the world's foremost guardian against all things supernatural and, more importantly, the modern God of Consumerism. He has a slave army of elves and satyrs and runs a magical prison sweat shop in the North Pole called "The Workshop." Armed assaults on the Workshop are common, primarily by a single group of radical militants called the E.L.F. (the Elven Liberation Front). The goal of the E.L.F. is not just to liberate the various mythical creatures currently slaving away in the Santa's Workshop, but to release the long imprisoned God of Spring, the unfairly demonized Krampus.
For Mind Control
The Pale Warden is an alien who crafts various technological wonders, the primary focus of which are the enslavement, or at least the perpetual distraction, of the human mind. Her people are known on Earth as the Fae, and she's here on a mission to keep humans from somehow stumbling into any of the various dimensional rifts that connect her shining world to our own. Popular Pale Warden Technology throughout the ages has included such advances as the stage, the radio, the television, comic books, role-playing games, video games, the internet and most recently, her greatest success, smart phones.
For Police Brutality and
Countless Other Crimes of Conformity
The Authoritarian's power waxes and wanes in response to the amount of pain, fear, and resignation he can harvest from those whom he bends to his will. Part of this transformation is physical, as he often makes dramatic increases in size, strength, and speed, but he also has a large degree of telepathic influence over the sensory perceptions of anyone he's beaten into submission, controlling both what they can and cannot see. These mind-controlled fools become drones in his massive army of Conformatons, a humorless and superficial collection of petty tyrants, haters, snitches and apologists. It's not clear exactly what the Authoritarian is, but he has displayed a disturbing ability to inhabit the bodies of those under his dominion, and to survive indefinitely in spirit form should his own body be destroyed. He has, in the past, claimed to being nothing less than the actual God of the Old Testament, but, of course, this has never been verified.
For High Treason and
the Corporate Conspiracy
The Ultima Thule has multiple forms: from the earliest robot prototypes it used to rely upon to substantiate its terrible existence, to the various modern avatars it now uses to travel freely across the internet, and even out into space, this Nazi God Machine is a vastly powerful artificial intelligence seeking nothing less than the perfect merger of business and government, a Neo-Fascist Corporatocracy. Unlike the Authoritarian, The Ultima Thule is a purely material phenomenon, a sentient computer program without any inherent ability to spiritually possess others or to persist beyond the destruction of it's physical hosts; unfortunately, copies of its core programing appear to be regularly backed up in secret locations all across the globe, making the Nazi God Machine effectively as indestructible and immortal as the Authoritarian himself.
Krampusmas is an ever expanding holiday season based on the Krampus's own indefatigable defiance of the darkness. It usually begins in earnest on December 5th, with the year's first official Krampuslauf, a decentralized "parade" which serves as a gathering for all those who wish to pledge themselves to the returning God of Light as we enter upon this delicate period of solar transition. Just over two weeks later, the Winter Solstice arrives, and with it comes "the Great Solstice Battle," which has traditionally been marked with various contests between the various agents of the light and of the dark, culminating in one last epic struggle between the Oak and the Holly Kings. This one sacred night is typically considered by most to be the actual "Krampusmas holiday," but this well beloved season of defiance seems to arrive, at least for me, earlier and earlier, and to then stretch on for longer and longer, with every passing year.
Of course, beyond these two essential dates, any other of the more conventional holidays one might wish to acknowledge can be engaged in as each individual sees fit. However, for reasons that will momentarily be made clear, obligatory acts of mass consumerism are very strongly discouraged, and, whenever possible, should be replaced with actual acts of charity, preformed either anonymously or in the name of Krampus.
Yet who, you may ask, is the Krampus, and what's his beef with consumerism anyway? So glad that you asked.
The pre-Christian origins of the Krampus reach all the way back to the so-called Wildmen that were believed to preside over the initiatory binding and scourging of novice witches. The Krampus's infamous birch branches are in fact a very well known magical tool for the driving out of unclean spirits, and indeed, later day tales of "bad" children carried away in a sack could indicate a form of forced conscription into one of the many dark corners of the Supramundane, just as with the Chinese Linn Quei or the Irish Fae.
Yet, unquestionably, the Krampus's greatest and most defining role was preformed as the immortal God of Spring known as the Oak King. Each year, at the Winter Solstice, this God of Light battled and overthrew the God of Darkness and Winter, who appeared as a bearded and burly woodsman, complete with heavy black boots and a fur lined coat, known, at that time at least, as the Holly King.
However, with the arrival of the aptly named Dark Ages, a pagan slaying Catholic Bishop named Nicholas of Mira somehow assumed the immortal station of this ancient pagan arch-villain, and the once heroic Krampus found himself securely bound in heavy iron chains, forced to serve as a brutish boogeyman for his eternally entropic antagonist the Holly King, or rather, as he has now come to be known all around the world, the saccharine and sanctimonious Santa Claus.
From that time forward, this well concealed Dark God of winter and decay has been able to rule the entire world, year round, as the now uncontested God of Frenzied Mass Consumption. This, my friends, is the true story of Christmas, known only to a select few, though consistently intuited by millions. Yet fear not; the true God of Yule will soon return- on December 21st, to be precise.
So please, don't forget to sharpen your horns and, in whatever ways that you can, defy the darkness.
Merry Krampusmas everybody.


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Now, this Fifi and the Flowertots bike would make a lovely birthday pressie for a little girly.
I remember getting bikes as birthday presents when I was little and when I was older, in fact; my last birthday bike was a Raleigh Racer for my 15th birthday.
This cute little Fifi and the Flowertots bike has a 10 inch frame made of tubular steel and decorated with lots of Fifi and the Flowertots graphics.
It has bright pink wheels with blue rims and yellow mudguards, along with a little front 'picture plate' that sits inbetween the handlebars.
It has adjustable handlebars so it will grow with your young Fifi fan and removable stabilisers too, when they're ready to take the next wobbly step.
The original price for this Fifi and the Flowertots bike was £39.00 and the current price, on the Tesco website, is showing as £19.50.
To bring the price down to £15.60 you'll need to enter code - TD-FRE7 - at the checkout.
To save even more money, arrange to collect this little bike from your local Tesco otherwise you'll be paying £5 for delivery.
Thanks to shadow1 at HUKD


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Here's a roundup of top developments in the biotech space over the last 24 hours.
Scaling the Peaks
(Stocks hitting 52-week highs on July 11)
- AC Immune SA (NASDAQ: ACIU)
- Arbutus Biopharma Corp (NASDAQ: ABUS)
- DexCom, Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM)
- Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: EGRX)
- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN)
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG)
- Krystal Biotech Inc (NASDAQ: KRYS)
- Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN) (Morgan Stanley analyst Steve Beuchaw upgraded shares to Overweight and hiked his price target to $55.
Down In The Dumps
(Stocks hitting 52-week lows on July 11)
- Advaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADXS)(announced withdrawal of Conditional Marketing Authorization ApplIcation in Europe for axalimogene filolisbac to treat metastatic cervical cancer in patients who progress beyond first-line therapy. This follows EMA's determination that additional data is required for conditional approval.)
- Autolus Therapeutics Ltd – ADR (NASDAQ: AUTL)
- Calithera Biosciences Inc (NASDAQ: CALA)
- Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: CATB)
- Cytori Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: CYTX)
- Idera Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: IDRA)(terminated merger agreement with BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCRX))
- Reshape Lifesciences Inc (NASDAQ: RSLS)(announced $2.7 million registered direct offering)
- Sellas Life Sciences Group Inc (NASDAQ: SLS)
See Also: Zynerba Pops On Positive Phase 2 Data For ZYN002 In Fragile X
Stocks In Focus AbbVie Files For Expanded Indication For Its Blood Cancer Drug
AbbVie Inc (NYSE: ABBV) said it has submitted a sNDA for its Venetoclax n combination with a hypomethylating agent or in combination with low-dose cytarabine for treating newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, patients ineligible for intensive chemotherapy. The treatment option has already been approved for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The application has been submitted based on a Phase 1b as well as a Phase 1/2 trial.
Final Mid-stage Results of Sanofi's TB Vaccines Published In NEJM
A Phase 2 proof-of-concept study of two vaccinations, namely the existing BCG vaccine as well as an investigational vaccine, H4:IC31, developed by Sanofi SA (ADR)(NYSE: SNY) along with Aeras, a NGO, showed that BCG significantly reduced sustained TB infections in adolescents with a 45.4 percent vaccine efficacy. H4:IC31 also reduced sustained infections, although not at statistically significant levels, showing 30.5% vaccine efficacy.
"However, the trend observed for H4:IC31 is the first time a subunit vaccine has shown any signal that it may be able to protect against TB infection or disease in humans," the company said.
The final results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Illumina's Leverages Its Technology to OrigiMed
OrigiMed announced an agreement with Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) that provides for the former developing and promoting its advanced molecular clinical tumor applications to the public in China using the latter's Next Generation Sequencing, or NGS, technology.
"It also signals that genomics technology will play an increasingly important future role in the fast-developing market of precise diagnosis of cancer," OrigiMed said.
Aurinia Initiates Mid-stage Trial For Dry Eye Syndrome
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: AUPH) announced that it has commenced a Phase 2 trial evaluating voclosporin ophthalmic solution,or VOS, for the treatment of dry eye syndrome, or DES.
The company said the trial is evaluating the tolerability of VOS 0.2 percent versus Restasis at four weeks in subjects with mild to moderate DES.
The stock rose 2.8 percent to $5.87 in after-hours trading.
AcelRx, Myovant Announce Common Stock Offerings
AcelRx Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: ACRX) announced the commencement of an underwritten public offering of its common stock, with all the shares to be sold the company. The company did not divulge the size of the offering.
Myovant Sciences Ltd (NYSE: MYOV) said it has commenced a $75 million common stock offering. The company intends to use the proceeds for the commercial launch of relugolix, its pipeline candidate for endometriosis and uterine fibroids, as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
AcelRx shares fell 7.35 percent to $3.15 in after-hours trading and Myovant slumped 17.01 percent to $20.
On The Radar
FDA's Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee is set to discuss GlaxoSmithKline plc (ADR) (NYSE: GSK)'s NDA for tafenoquine tablet, 150 milligram indicated for radical cure, ie prevention of relapse, of Plasmodium vivax malaria on July 12.
FDA Tidbits
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb issued a statement, wherein he discussed the agency's efforts to advance development of gene therapies, which according to the agency, have the potential treat intractable and vexing diseases. The FDA released a suite of six scientific guidance documents in draft form, meant to serve as the building blocks of a comprehensive framework.
See more from Benzinga
- Benzinga's Daily Biotech Pulse: Pfizer To Defer Price Hikes, Idera-BioCryst Merger Falls Through, ArQule To Offer Shares
- Benzinga's Daily Biotech Pulse: Acceleron On Fast Lane, OncoCyte's Accurate Diagnosis, Inspire Medical Gets Aetna Coverage
- The Week Ahead In Biotech: Conferences, PDUFA Dates And Clinical Trials
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- WWE's Best of WCW Clash of the Champions DVD and Blu-ray officially hits stores today. Jim Ross commented:
"WWE's Best of WCW Clash of Champions DVD available tomorrow. I got an advance copy and it brought back tons of great memories. Rasslin'!"
- Tyler Reks will be on WWE NXT alone this week as his partner Curt Hawkins is headed to Brazil and Ecuador with the RAW brand.
- Here's the latest from Wade Barrett's Twitter:
"My client, Mr. Barrett, has maintained a keen eye on both #Raw and #Smackdown since his demise. However, he wishes to make no comments at present. Regards, Peter Lazarou, Esq."


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Attention NJ Masters Swimmers,
The NJ LMSC would like to invite currently registered USMS NJ Masters members and their guests to the 2010 Annual New Jersey Masters Swimming Awards Banquet and Social to be held in the evening of Saturday, May 8, 2010. This event has been organized to recognize the continuous USMS members that have achieved the 5YR, 10YR, 15YR, and 20YR milestones. The awards are each customized with the commensurate years of continuous NJ LMSC membership and can be viewed on the NJ Masters website. Please note that it will not be possible to mail these awards. If you are unable to attend the awards banquet, then we hope to see you at another future NJ LMSC event so that you can pick up your award.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
6:00pm - 10:00pm Lafayette Lodge #27 1550 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ
Buffet Dinner | Photo Slide Show | Door Prizes | BYOB
Join your fellow NJ Masters swimmers for some food and fun outside of the pool as we honor swimmers achieving continuous NJ LMSC USMS membership milestones!
Featured Speaker
Jim Halstead, U.S. Masters Swimming Club Development Coordinator for Dixie and Colonies Zones
Jim serves as a coach and Chief Operating Officer for Curl Burke Masters Swimming (CUBU Masters). Over the past five years, Jim and head coach Frank Marcinkowski have built the CUBU Masters Program to more than 525 registered USMS members. Jims ability to align strategic partnerships and execute a professional business model with a commitment to quality coaching has helped make CUBU Masters the largest program outside of California. Additionally, Jim will work with the USMS Coaches Committee to help revise the ASCA Masters Coaching Program.
Cost: $15 Award Recipient Rate; $25 for registered USMS Members; $35 for guests if received by May 1, 2010. Cost at the door is $35/$45 per peson. Make checks payable to NJ LMSC and mail to Bridgette Hobart-Janeczko, 8 Lorettacong Drive, Lake Hopatcong, NJ 07849
Join us for a pre-dinner workout at the Rahway Branch YMCA next door (1564 Irving Street) from 3:30pm until 5:00pm. Parking for the workout and the dinner is available in the YMCA parking lot at no charge.
For further information please contact Bridgette Hobart-Janeczko at email@example.com
If you have any NJ Masters swimming photos that you would like to share with your fellow Masters swimmers as part of the banquet slide show, please e-mail them to Ed Tsuzuki firstname.lastname@example.com by April 24th. We would love to add your photos to the montage celebrating the NJ Masters swimming community throughout the years! Thanks!
We hope that you all can join us for an evening of celebration of our New Jersey Masters swimming community!
Note: A Banquet invitation is attached for your reference.


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1. YouTube
YouTube is a great platform for people to get out information via video. Not only can television broadcasters upload programmes to the online site, all types of events can live stream talks via YouTube, like TEDTalks for example. TEDTalks uploads lectures from professors, academics and other public figures about important topics. This is so that people who cannot attend these types of events can still watch them over the Internet.
2. Podcasting
Unlike video presenting, podcasting just uses the voice recording. Much like radio broadcasting, podcasts can be downloaded over iTunes, or event straight of the Internet to be saved to your computer or device. If an audience does not want to purchase the podcast however, they can just listen to it over the Internet instead.
3. Vlogging
Unlike uploading lectures to YouTube, vlogging is specifically geared to an audience over the Internet. The presenter talks directly to the camera (or directly to their online audience). Vlogging has become significantly more popular in the last three years or so, with YouTube personalities such as John Green, Grace Helbig and Tyler Oakley uploading videos regularly, geared toward their online audience.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A crowd of more than 2,500 gathered at Brown's Pizzitola Sports Complex last Saturday to rub elbows with robots.
The second annual Rhode Island Robot Block Party showcased state-of-the-art robotic technology being used and developed in the Ocean State. More than 40 exhibitors showed off robotic technologies used in research, education, industry, and elsewhere. The event was cosponsored by Brown University's Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative and Rhode Island Students of the Future, a Providence-based nonprofit.
"This is an effort to inspire," said Mary Johnson, a member of the Board of Directors of Rhode Island Students of the Future. "We want to give kids a chance to see these cutting-edge technologies up close and meet the people who build and work with them."
Brown University roboticists were on hand with Baxter the robot, a bevy of telepresence bots, drones controlled through web browsers, and virtual robots that run on cloud servers. The University of Rhode Island showed off robotic kayaks and buoys used for oceanographic research on Narragansett Bay, and a "flapping fin robot" that been tested for use in detecting unexploded ordinance and sea mines in shallow waters. College students competed to see whose mini-robot could best navigate a 16-by-16 foot maze. Elementary, middle- and high-school students demonstrated robots they built for robotics competitions and after-school programs.
Matt Hayes, a sixth-grader from North Attleboro, was impressed with what he saw.
"Before I came here I didn't really know how far we were with [robots]," Hayes said. "But now I know that we're pretty far along. Who knows what we could learn in the future?"
Hayes said he could definitely see himself working as part of that future. And that's the point of the event, according to Johnson. "We want kids to be excited about careers in STEM fields," she said.
Few ambassadors for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields capture kids' imaginations like robots.
"I couldn't wait to get here," said Felix Leitner, a fifth grader-from Warwick. "I was just really excited to come to a giant room with lots of robots."


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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Sunday Stats - April 5, 2009
10 comments:
- Green Resolutions said...
Good for you, and good luck. I can't believe you'd rather count calories. That seems so much harder to me!
- April 5, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- Beany said...
Contraband bananas? Hahaha!
I ate a banana last month (I think) after not eating one in over two years. For some reason my memory of a banana was better than the real thing.
- April 5, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- Farmer's Daughter said...
Just a thought: What about doing # of servings? Then you can count your tea and be able to estimate the others, instead of having to look up calories. Not to mention, all those local greens have a small number of calories compared to imported chocolate or the like.
- April 5, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- Heather @ SGF said...
Green Resolutions - Well, after 17 years of calorie counting for food diaries for my health, I can pretty much estimate what's in everything. To weigh, I'd have to actually buy a scale. Nah. :)
Beany - Really? I liked the banana, although I understand the local bananas (that were at the market the one week this year I didn't make the market) were so awesome, you'd never eat another commercial banana. Maybe next time I decided to be "bad," I'll try a mango. I miss those sometimes too :)
Farmer's Daughter- Well, the greens don't have many calories, but the olive oil does, as do the wheat berries and rice (all local sources). Actually, almost all of my non-local foods come from the restaurant.
But I'm curious... how would you measure by servings? For instance, I made a stir fry this week with local rice, onion, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, mushroom, and olive oil. Non-locals would be salt and the summer squash my dad brought me. I estimated the calorie count to be about 600 calories (mostly the rice and olive oil) - 550 local, 50 non-local. How would you do it by servings?
- April 5, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Angela said...
Okay- I'm so new to all this stuff- why is the banana contraband? Because it's not local? But are there actually bananas grown outside of the tropics? Aren't there responsible ways to eat bananas?
Honestly, I can't imagine giving them up. They've been my favorite food since I was a baby and I eat them a million ways- including smoothies several times a week.
Is my banana habit driving farmers out of business and causing workers to break their arms falling out of trees and such? Oh, I hope not.
- April 5, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Heather @ SGF said...
Angela - When I went on my all-local diet back in Oct 2007, I pretty much eliminated anything that wasn't local. Now that I'm not in the middle of that 1-year experiment, I do indulge every once in awhile, but am no longer eating the banana a day that I was before my experiment started.
Bananas do grow here in Texas, but they are hard to find. You almost have to know who is growing them and be prepared to beg :)
I purchase a few organic bananas once every 3 or 4 months, not often. Other things I love that I no longer eat (other than rare occasion) is mangos (not had one in almost 2 years) and avocados (I wait until we visit my MIL in California then I gorge myself of avocados since they are local. Mmmm!
Thankfully, here in Texas there are many other wonderful foods to take their place. We have fruits and veggies growing year-round so there's always something local to enjoy.
- April 5, 2009 at 2:04 PM
- Beany said...
God I really miss mangoes. The ones from my grandmother's house. Which is located on the other side of the planet. The taste does not compare to any mango I've had in the last 10+ years thought.
- April 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Sounds like a wonderful idea. Even if we don't have high percentage of local calories, tracking them can raise awareness about what we eat.
I'm counting calories anyway so I can try to lose weight. Tracking which ones are local wouldn't take much more time, so I think I'll try to do it as well.
I'm curious how this will change over the summer. I should track calories from my garden vs. local not-my-garden vs. not-local.
- April 5, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Angela Barton said...
I love to visit our friends in Hawaii, and one of the best parts is the mangoes and papayas- from their yard!
If you're ever in L.A.- you will enjoy the avocados! If we have a tree by then, we'll give you some. I grew up in the middle of a grove- we had 13 trees on 1/2 acre. We'd fill an entire grocery bag full and sell them down on the road for a dollar. For that reason, it is still hard for me to pay the high price for an avocado.
- April 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM
- Heather @ SGF said...
Beany - Yeah, I bet they were just awesome! Mmm, mangoes.....
Jim - That's a great idea! It really would be interesting to find out how much of your diet is fed from your garden as it continues to grow. Ours is changing too. Dave built me a deep 4 x 10 foot bed today. Can someone say sweet potatoes... :)
Angela - I know what you mean about the avocados in California. My hubby's family is from there so we were just there over the holidays (Santa Cruz). The farmers' market was AWESOME and I ate so many avocados while we were there, I'm surprised my skin didn't turn green, but I enjoyed every one!
- April 5, 2009 at 6:44 PM


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Posted: Mar 19, 2018
Harrison, AR - With the excitement and anticipation of the being in the NJCAA DII Tournament, the Mesa Thunderbirds women's basketball team found time on Monday to volunteer at the local youth center in Harrison, Arkansas.
The Mesa players and coaches taught and played basketball with kids ages 6-12 at the Brandon Burlsworth Youth Center, after their first official practice of the tournament.
The T-Birds will begin tournament play this coming Wednesday at 11 am AZ time.