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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
6 comments:
- preeti said...
You have made an amazing quilts and these all are made from stash fabric. Double sided quilts are so heavy but make beds so nice.
- 9:06 pm
- NATURE said...
very good
- 9:15 pm
- Helen said...
WOW - that is so much a perfectionist project !
congratulations on finishing it and not having a nervous breakdown on the way.
Helen from Hobart
- 10:44 am
- Heather said...
What a wonderful quilt and what an achievement. I love seeing other people's quilts but haven't the skill or patience to tackle one myself, though I have done very simple patchwork. There is too much maths involved for me! Congratulations on a beautiful piece of work.
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- ozjane said...
That quilting is fantastic.
A friend needed some pansies recently and I got out my pansy crate. I was a little disconcerted to discover 37 color ways of the large marcus bros Faye Burgos Pansy prints. The large ones.
That would be perfect if I ever get to use them in a quilt.....lol
I fear I am a collector and pretend P & W person.
But that quilt re inspires me.
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- DoesItRequire2toTanGo? said...
A beautiful quilt Bernadine. Perhaps you could bring it for chantelle at 2Q sometime? I'd love to see it!
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Nyong'o wore the dress to this year's Oscars. While on the red carpet, the 31-year-old said that the dress was her homage to Prince, the musician, and that she was just wearing her pearls and diamonds. She wanted the dress to be a "homage to the sea," and there were talks about it being liquid and fluid. It is clear that the dress means a lot to her.
For some experts, the crime is not that surprising. Mary Alice Stephenson, a fashion commentator, said that similar stories have occurred over the years. It is not that shocking that it occurred in Nyong'o's hotel room, especially when it cost so much money. The style expert once had her Fendi bag stolen and it was held for ransom.
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While that may be the case, it could be difficult to get the full amount knowing that the dress is stolen. Bryan Abbott, director of Los Angeles Auction House, said that it would be problematic getting the best amount on the black market. People there are looking for something cheap, and it is much harder to prove that Nyong'o's dress had received celebrity status; that is where the extra value comes in. He believes it will be difficult to sell such a dress right now. It would need to be buried for "a hundred years."
On their own, Nyong'o's pearls would not even have that much value. There may be 6,000 of them, but pearls no longer have a large resale value unless manufactured by someone famous. If that manufacturer was used, the dress would be worth millions of dollars and not $150,000.
However, that will not stop the police from searching for Nyong'o's thief. Right now, nobody has been apprehended, but it only happened on Wednesday. There is still time to find the person who stole the $150,000 dress that Nyong'o wore to the Oscars this year.
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Will Cedric marry Mrs. Quickly? Or will he realize Evangeline is his true love? Will the children turn into model kids? Will it snow in August? All of these questions are answered in due time, in a movie that embraces eccentricity as a social value.
Watching the movie, I reflected that the difference between American and British children in the movies is that the American kids tend to run their families and the British kids (Harry Potter excepted) tend to require, and deserve, many hard lessons in life. It is also refreshing that British kids do not succeed because they find out they are good at sports (Quidditch excepted). In American movies, the kids end in triumph, pumping their fists into the air and chanting, "yes!" In British movies, they end as well-behaved miniature adults who have come to see the truth of all the wisdom bestowed upon them.
All of this is connected somehow with the decision that Cedric Brown makes to admit Nanny McPhee into his house in the first place. If a formidable and terrifying female, dressed in black and banging a lethal walking stick, should arrive at an American door all covered with warts, the residents would push the panic button on their security systems. Only in this world (based on the Nurse Matilda books by Christianna Brand) would such a creature be welcomed.
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GAFFNEY, S.C. - The University of Mount Olive men's soccer team fell 4-1 to No. 7 Limestone College Sunday afternoon in the Championship match of the Conference Carolinas Men's Soccer Tournament.
Match Information
Score: Limestone 4, Mount Olive 1
Records: Mount Olive (10-7-2); Limestone (15-2-2)
Location: Gaffney, S.C.
How It Happened
First Half
- Mount Olive went toe to toe with the No. 1 seed Limestone for the first 23 minutes of play before a hard challenge by a Saint resulted in a red card and LC played a man down.
- The Trojans were unable to register a shot for the remainder of the first half and the two teams went into halftime scoreless.
Second Half
- Limestone despite playing with 10 players did not falter as the Saints connected off a miscue from the Trojans and corralled a rebound to break the tie in the 51st minute.
- Wasting no time the Saints, just three minutes later, scored another goal off a bicycle kick to extend their lead.
- Following a red card for the Trojans, and both teams playing a man down, Limestone added two additional goals in the 72nd and 73rd minutes respectively.
- Mount Olive did not allow a shutout as Trevor Knight was fouled in the box and a penalty kick was awarded at the 87:37 mark.
- Grant Conybear took the shot for the Trojans and placed it in the back right corner of the net to decrease the deficit to 4-1.
- The comeback fell short however and Limestone took the victory.
Key Stats
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The team responded to a centuries-old battle between rival ethnic groups lead by their champions Volkvhy and Ember in Slorenia. The cyborg mercenary Black Brigade was also involved, battling Iron Man. The team was successful, ending generations of one side enslaving the other.[4]
The Rigellian Recorder was revealed to be corrupted, and was soon defeated by Century. Tension in the ranks began as Scarlet Witch, the nominal leader, was countermanded more and more by Iron Man.[5]
Iron Man began acting strangely due to the influence of Immortus.The ruthless Cybermancer became a member, and the team was ordered to capture Hawkeye, their former leader as West Coast Avengers chairman, who had been framed for the murders at Avengers Mansion. Public Relations director Amanda Chaney was murdered.
The mysterious Moonraker was confronted about his sudden appearance on the team. He claimed he was actually Libra shortly before being abducted.
Iron Man and War Machine battled and destroyed most of The Works. It was revealed that there were chronographic weapons in a hidden sub-basement programmed to bombard the planet. Scarlet Witch, USAgent and War Machine managed to disable them despite the building going into Defense Code Mordred, and sending hardlight holograms to attack them.[6]
Soon after this the team were confronted by an alternate reality version of Wonder Man. Facing trauma from this encounter as well as the continuing leadership struggle, the team quietly disbanded.[7]
A new incarnation of the team named Force Works was formed as the Iowa division of the 50-State Initiative after the superhuman "Civil War".[8] Cybermancer (Suzanne "Suzi" Endo) was a member of the new Force Works.[9]
Equipment: Hex-Mainframe Computer, PLATO
Transportation: Hex-Ship Pegasus, Hex-Ship Chimera, the Works Wagon.
- The name "Force Works" has been adopted the Iowa Initiative.
The group was adapted into the supporting cast of the 1994–1996 Iron Man animated series. For the series, Hawkeye appeared in place of USAgent (though he did appear in the 8 issue adaptation of the cartoon). Shortly after the characters were written out of the series, Force Works was cancelled at issue #22 (April 1996).
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- 46 Appearances of Force Works (Earth-616)
- Minor Appearances of Force Works (Earth-616)
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- ↑ Force Works #1
- ↑ Force Works #1-3
- ↑ Force Works #9-10
- ↑ Force Works #11-12
- ↑ Force Works #13-14
- ↑ The Crossing crossover.
- ↑ Force Works #21-22
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STS-95 Crew Interview with Curt Brown, commander
STS-95 shapes up to be one of the busiest flights in shuttle
history, also one of the most historic for obvious reasons: your
thoughts on the mission and its complexity?
Well, 95 is
a very complex mission, we do have a lot of payload activities --
about 83 the last I counted. Some of those will be operated from
the ground, some of them will be operated by the crew, but it is
a very tightly-packed mission with an ambitious timeline. We want
to go up and be able to accomplish as much as we can, without any
really dead time; so we plan as much as we can get into the mission.
I think you're going to see that's the way missions are going to
be in the future with the shuttle program. We're doing deploy and
retrieve operations, we're doing a lot of science, real hard-core
science, in the payload bay in the SPACEHAB -- it's just a big team
working together, and I think that's the way you're going to see
it as the International Space Station progresses. It'll be a tremendous
number of different operations happening all the time, and 95 is
kind of an exposure to that multifaceted flight.
of the space station, between the science and the proximity to the
start of station operations, do you see your flight as the real
stepping-stone to that program?
Well, true,
we are just before the first flight to start the assembly of the
space station, but we also have a large comparison in the space
station era even without looking at just the flight order. We have
an international crew -- we'll have the first Spaniard to fly in
space, Pedro Duque; we have Chiaki Mukai, her second flight, from
Japan; so we have an international team. We have a lot of experiments
ranging from protein crystal growth to life sciences to hard-core
science. So we have basically everything that you'll see on the
International Space Station, other than we won't be staying up there
for four, or five, or six months; we'll be a nine-day mission. We'll
be a little bit higher on 95, we're goin' up to 300 nautical miles
above the Earth for some Hubble testing. So we definitely have a
wide variety of activities, and like I said, we are going to see
a lot of flights like this in the future when we start looking at
space station.
flight is very much underscored by the diversity of scientific experiments
-- to get a little bit more in detail, discuss the multidisciplinary
nature of this mission in terms of the types of science that you
all will be covering.
Well, I'll
try to give you just a kind of generic overview. We have some operational
objectives -- the deploy and retrieval of the SPARTAN; also another
little satellite we're deploying, which is basically an operational
type. The SPARTAN will be conducting solar science, looking at solar
winds while it's free-flying. We have a bridge structure called
International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, which is going to
be looking out at deep space -- at different objects in the extreme
ultraviolet range of the spectrum. In the SPACEHAB we have almost
everything you could imagine -- plant biology, which Pedro will be
operating. A furnace that will be looking at producing new metals,
new alloys, and the way that works in microgravity. Trying to learn
better how we can do that on the ground and take advantage of some
of the properties that microgravity give us. Senator Glenn will
be busy collecting a lot of life science data on the aging process
through an experiment called Protein Turnover During Spaceflight.
Looking at how your body actually handles protein buildup and breakdown
differently while you're in space versus on the ground, and how
that affects, or how that's related to, aging. We just have a tremendous
operation, plus we're also testing some systems that we will be
using on International Space Station. Some of our vision systems
which are artificial -- a virtual reality way of working in space
without being able to look out the window directly at what you're
primary objective of the mission obviously is the deployment and
retrieval of the SPARTAN satellite. Discuss what your crew will
be doing during the deployment and the initial separation from the
satellite -- give us a walk-through as to how that's all going to
Well, the actual
deployment operation will have a four-person team, and I will be
watching the satellite out of the overhead windows as we actually
deploy it and while waiting for it to maneuver. It'll do an initialization
maneuver to let us know that it's alive. But getting the satellite
to that position will be a team effort. Steve Robinson will be my
prime arm operator, we call that R1, and Scott Parazynski will be
the backup, R2. They will be working together taking the SPARTAN
spacecraft from its cradle in the payload bay, moving it up, initializing
the spacecraft, which is very important, and getting it ready to
be released. Once they get in the correct attitude and everything's
ready to go, then we'll release it and back away. Steve Lindsey,
my pilot, will be sitting in the Commander's seat, and he will be
taking care of the orbiter -- changing the autopilot, changing the
way we maneuver, changing our attitude. Then once it's a free flyer,
as we move away from it, people change jobs … then we turn into
more of a data-gathering group. We will take photos, use a hand-held
laser to shoot out the window at the SPARTAN to get range and range
rate from the SPARTAN -- Scott Parazynski will be doing that along
with Steve Robinson. And we'll be doing a few maneuvers after we
release the spacecraft -- we'll be separating away from it, and
then later on doing another little maneuver to gain the correct
distance from it so the SPARTAN can open up its doors and start
the science.
pilot, Steve Lindsey, was on board Columbia last November when things
did not go right with the SPARTAN. What measures have been taken,
both from a crew training and preparedness perspective and from
the spacecraft itself, to ensure that the spacecraft will be activated
Well, anytime
we run into some anomalies, or problems, we obviously learn something.
And that's one thing neat about the space program: we never quit
learning -- and we did learn a lot from STS-87. We probably needed
some different specification requirements for our end effector camera,
so we have a new camera on the end of the arm which works in all
light conditions. They had a little trouble on 87 with the camera
blooming and not giving a good image back to the crew, so it made
flying and manipulating the arm and the grapple a little bit tougher
than normal. We've also looked at the SPARTAN software and re-engineered
it a little bit … changed some things so the SPARTAN spacecraft
itself will give us more feedback when it's ready to go. On STS-87
we sent a few commands to the SPARTAN and assumed they all got there
-- which they did not. So now, after the SPARTAN receives a command,
it's going to communicate that back to us. That's pretty much the
major changes that we made; a little bit on the camera requirements,
a little bit on the software, and obviously, as I said, we learned
a lot from 87, so we've trained a little bit differently.
two days of scientific operations for SPARTAN, it will be time to
pick it up again and put it back down in the cargo bay for the trip
back home. In terms of going back and getting it, how far will you
be separated from SPARTAN? Walk us through the ultimate retrieval
We will maneuver
out in front of SPARTAN about 40 to 60 miles or so, and that depends
on a bunch of different things. But we'll be out in front of it
a number of miles, so it can do its science. We don't want to contaminate
any of its optics or get in the way, and the orbiter, if you get
too close it can do that. So we'll be stationkeeping out in front
to allow SPARTAN to gather the science that it's required to get,
and then we'll start. We do a little burn to raise our orbit up
a little bit so that we start moving back towards the spacecraft
…At some point we'll actually fly over the top of SPARTAN and
have SPARTAN between us and the Earth and we'll coast back to about
eight, nine miles or so behind SPARTAN. At that point we'll do a
little burn to basically stop our separation or our travel behind
the aircraft, and then start a closure into the final rendezvous.
We call that the TI burn or terminal initiate burn but that burn
will start us heading into SPARTAN to do the final rendezvous. We'll
do three or four or so midcourse little correction burns to make
sure we're on a good trajectory; during that time we'll be picking
up information about the spacecraft from our radar, its range and
range rate, and any movement to make sure our navigation is good.
As we move in closer we'll we'll basically be rendezvousing from
underneath SPARTAN. In other words, we'll be between the SPARTAN
spacecraft and Earth, we'll be coming up what we term the R-bar
and moving up to the rendezvous position to grapple the SPARTAN.
We are doing some VGS tasks, which is a a Video Guidance System
that we'll be testing from about 600 feet on in to a couple hundred
feet and then we'll back out; we'll be doing that if we have the
propellant to allow us to do that to gain some test data on that
system. And then finally we'll go on in to the grapple range and
and again, Steve Robinson will use the robotic arm to grapple SPARTAN
and put it back in the cargo bay.
attached tests will follow with SPARTAN I believe in the next day
or so that follows its actual retrieval so SPARTAN serves a variety
of purposes for you and your crewmates, doesn't it?
That's true.
We we obviously deploy SPARTAN to get the critical solar science
that it's designed for, but also we've attached numerous dots on
the target; you'll see those as the spacecraft's out flying around.
And we'll use those dots to to get information, actually the dots
on the payload, we'll move the payload around in relation to some
cameras and and different sensors, and that will be the virtual
reality system that we'll be testing, the Space Vision System that
we'll be testing, and hopefully getting as much data as we can because
STS-88, the flight right after ours, will be using that system on
the assembly of the first parts of the space station.
touched on it earlier -- one of the major payloads in the cargo
bay is a suite of instruments that will be tested for a variety
of reasons for the third servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope
a couple of years down the road. You're not a stranger to flying
at high inclinations, but flying at this altitude should be quite
a treat for you and your crewmates I would think.
Well I'll have
to be honest with you. There's one drawback to this flight, and
I say this jokingly, obviously, it's a low inclination flight --
this is only 28-and-a-half degrees. All my other flights have been
39 or higher, so they've all been high-inclination, I've gotten
to see a lot of the world, so I've been very, very fortunate in
my past
flights. This flight will be a 28-and-a-half degree inclination,
because we had to put all our energy into getting the altitude.
We're going up to 300 nautical miles above the Earth's surface;
the normal shuttle mission is somewhere around a hundred and sixty,
maybe a hundred and seventy nautical miles, but we will be going
up to 300 nautical miles which should give us a view of the Earth
that I haven't experienced before; it should be more round, more
of a globe, the horizon -- the limb -- should be more arched so
that will be quite a treat. And the reason we're going up there
is for the HOST payload, the suite of instruments that we're testing
for the next Hubble servicing mission. But we'll be taking it up
to the radiation environment, the magnetic environment, the thermal
environment, that that equipment needs to be tested in, make sure
it's going to be good for the Hubble mission.
in the summer of 1997, on your last flight aboard Discovery STS-85,
you tested another complement of experiments called the International
Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker. It's back with you again -- some
of the same experiments, some different; what is this, this thing
in the cargo bay, this truss and all that's that's involved with
the so-called IEH?
Well, it's
it's actually a suite of pretty complex, hard-core science-type
experiments; again it'd take a long time to explain them all, but
we flew it on STS-85, as you mentioned, it's out of the Goddard
Space Flight Center and a lot of really great folks up there to
put all those instruments together, and they worked like a champ
on STS-85 and we're looking forward to the same performance on 95.
What they're doing is they're looking out at objects in space and
looking at their emissions in the extreme ultraviolet spectrum.
And in that spectrum we can gather data about the objects that we
cannot get from Earth because the atmosphere of the Earth filters
out that spectrum. So the only way you can get that information
is to do it up above the Earth's surface so, it's kind of a, a neat
system because it's a bridge structure and you can put a suite of
different instruments on board, and then we use the orbiter as a
platform and point the instruments at the different objects in deep
space and gather the data. So it's a very robust system in that
you can get a lot of data for not much effort and and we're glad
to have them on board again.
Glenn -- your name will be linked in the history books as his commander,
thirty-six years after he etched his name in human spaceflight history
as the first American to orbit the Earth. When you found out that
you were going to command this mission, what was your initial reaction
and your thoughts on what his place in history is, and what this
flight was about to evolve into?
I have to admit
I was very excited when I found out that I was being considered,
and then finally got assigned STS-95. But let me be real honest
with you: any of the commanders in the office could've taken this
mission and done a fantastic job with it, so I think in, in all
honesty, I think that I just got lucky and and anyone in the office
could have done a good job, so let me make sure that everybody understands
that first. But then we make a little joke about this: we say either
it's congratulations or condolences, because congratulations meaning,
"Hey, you got another flight!" and all that stuff, but
the condolences a little bit because of the the attention of the
media, which I think is good, don't get me wrong there, but that
is not a small distraction from my crew training. We have we have
done a lot of media activity between February, when we had our first
press conference, and and up to the launch standpoint. And I think
it's very important that we do that and we get the word out; I wish
every flight in the shuttle program and the International Space
Station program, I wish all flights were covered like this because
this is what we need. The American people, the people of the world,
need to understand what we're doing in the space program, and unfortunately
we don't get the coverage every flight. This one is special because
we have Senator Glenn on board, and so we're thrilled to have that
coverage, we're thrilled to have him on board. How I feel about
being the commander of Senator Glenn -- I'll be honest with you,
I kind of put that aside, I don't think much about it I know that's
probably a boring answer but I try to keep that separate and my
job is organize the crew and plan for the mission, get the science
done and when I get back I'll kind of think about what's really
happened and put the emotional side into it. But we're trying to
focus and keep the crew focused and go do the mission, but it's
not always easy to keep everyone focused with the media.
not; uh, does that also place additional pressure -- not necessarily
that you're not focused all the time as you'd like to be -- but
that because there's so much attention, because so many people are
watching, because so many people will be at the Cape and here during
the flight that things have to go right, that you feel an extra
sense of responsibility?
Well, I don't
think I worry about things having to go right. I have a very, very
capable crew, a very good group of people, and we have a lot of
payloads on board we've trained a lot. They've stayed focused --
I'm not sure it's due to my guidance or anything -- but they're
a good crew and they stayed focused and they've trained hard and
we've taken the Senator from Capitol area whenever we could to get
him down here to train, we've worked him very hard, so I think everybody's
ready to go fly and I think we'll do a good job. And I don't really
worry about not doing a good job because, again, I think everyone's
professional, ready to go; I just want to make sure everyone stays
focused and, and does the job and not get caught up in the excitement
of the event. I've not had to worry about that too much, but that
is one of my concerns when when we were training during the past
six, eight months.
know a lot of historians will say you may not like what we write
but you can't stop the flow of history. From an historic perspective,
what is the significance of John Glenn returning to space at this
moment in time, as a link between the origins of human spaceflight
and a bridge to what lies ahead with the International Space Station?
Well, you know,
I think, I think that's a personal comment, or a personal observation,
because, you know, each person is touched different way by events
in, in their life. When I see Senator Glenn, you know, I was about
five to six years old when he flew his first flight and I remember
that, I remember the newspapers because my dad was very interested
in science and the space program and so I remember that. So for
me personally it's something that I will obviously never forget
and it's a big, significant event in my life. Back when we were
trying to get the space program off the ground Senator Glenn did
something that got us going. You know, it got us on the track to
go to the Moon and land on the Moon. We were looking for successes
at that time and he was the first American to orbit Earth and that
was what we needed and away we went. Not to parallel it too much,
but we've been flying shuttles for a number of years now and International
Space Station's coming up, and in a few months we'll be launching
our first shuttle to go up and start assembling the space station.
It's really nice to have this kind of attention on the space program,
and Senator Glenn's, in a way, kind of helping us take that next
step -- to go on to the International Space Station era, and if
we can get the enthusiasm about our International Space Station
like we had during the early years of NASA. it's going to really,
really help us, and so I'm hoping everyone will get excited about
that. I'm not sure everyone knows about what we're doing, so I think
this will help get it out to the media, get it out to the general
public that we are taking a major, major step here in the next few
months to start assembling the station and put people on board and
start work. And it's not always easy for the general public to understand
why that's important, but as we learn more and more about our space
environment and how to do things better in space, those spinoffs,
those rewards, come back to the general public.
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ROFLCon and other news…
Sorry for not posting this sooner, but my air conditioner is broken and it's 90º in my house. So naturally I haven't been doing much these last few days besides plotting the death of the sun.
ROFLCon was very interesting and also very weird. One of the highlights for me was meeting Rob Cockerham of Cockeyed.com, a site I've been reading since the late 90s. Rob was incredibly cool and it was very surreal to meet him in person after having followed his internet shenanigans since high school. I briefly shook hands with Neil Cicierega of Lemon Demon (and countless other projects), who is almost certainly the most talented guy doing web content right now. I also hung out with Dan Walsh of Garfield Minus Garfield fame, who was awesome and I highly recommend following his Tumblr. I also had the incredible fortune of hanging out with Joel Veitch of Rathergood.com, who's been making awesome internet stuff since before awesome internet stuff existed. I also got to hang out with Ed Snow who does music for the Rathergood videos, and Ed Robinson and Matt Smith of the incredible Viral Factory, which has made so many great viral ads over the last decade.
There were dozens of other hilarious people I met at the conference (Charlie Schmidt is the King of the Internet) and there were some pretty interesting panels held, so it was a good time overall. The video for the panels, including the one I was on, will hopefully be online in the next week or so.
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Oh, there IS a pecking order. And said pecking order will be discussed tonight on The Real Housewives of New York . What's great about this show is that you can love a Housewife one week, and hate her the next. The alliances are constantly changing, in addition to who is being awful. Speaking of sometimes awful, Jill is back from Australia. Jill is ready to make a fresh start (renewal!) and she meets with Sonja, LuAnn, and Kelly to discuss that fresh start and What Happened in Quogue. I had almost forgotten about Ramona's "look at me I'm shaking" moment. Kelly, who already hates Ramona, has decided to have lunch with her. To prepare, Kelly practices with Sonja playing the part of Ramona. Sonja was kind of a monster at the March for Equality, but her impression of Ramona was hilarious. Read More... //www.buddytv.com/articles/the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city/an-education-from-the-real-hou-40208.aspx


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1) Select the button (design view)
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2018 Ocean Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program
I am enlisting your assistance in advertising the 2018 Ocean Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program at California State University, Monterey Bay to your students. We are now accepting applications for our 2018 summer program.
Students in our REU program can choose to conduct research in Monterey Bay in the following areas (the list of research topics within each area is not exhaustive):
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Harris, an Air Force Missing Persons Liaison assigned to the Air Force Personnel Center, and six other DoD representatives participated in the day's events, which included a closing bell ceremony on the exchange floor and participating in a N.Y. Yankees home plate tribute to service members past and present.
"When we walked onto the exchange floor, everybody quit working and turned toward us. They clapped and didn't stop until we were all on the podium," Harris Said. "It was amazing."
Representing the Air Force at the annual ceremony was an honor, the 28-year-old Wisconsin native said. But, she explained, the point of the trip and all the events was to remind people that 83,000 Americans are still unaccounted for from World War II to today.
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Crown of Swords Read-Along, Week 3
Welcome to week 3 of our Crown of Swords Read-Along! This week, we read chapters 9-12. Remember that everything in this section as well as everything that's come before (6 books worth) are fair game for spoilers, so read at your own risk!
|Myrelle Sedai
Nicola may just be a very ambitious, somewhat foolish woman, but it should also be remembered that she joined up with Elayne and Nynaeve on their way to Salidar at the same time that "Marigan" did. So, there are other possibilities as well.
Egwene was very right in rejecting them. Yes, it could possibly damage her down the road, but I'm a firm believer that you should never let anyone hold anything over your head. Even if the consequences are dire, you'll still be in a better position than when someone is holding you hostage over something. We'll just have to wait and see if Nicola and Areina are bright enough or brave enough to follow through on their threats.
I can't say much about the dreams because I know what most of them turn out to be, though I'll admit there are a few I'm not sure about. Obviously Gawyn and Egwene have a lot of obstacles in the future. The ones about Mat and the Illuminator display, and about Logain were both interesting. Keep an eye on both of those. I don't remember what the significance of the one about the female eagle touching Egwene is, though. I have an inkling of what it might pertain to, but can't remember for certain. Anyway, I always love the dream sections. Always so interesting. :D
|Egwene al'Vere Source
I think this will be the tipping point one way or the other. Even if things don't actually "tip" yet, these powerful names will draw and sway others, which can only work in Egwene's favor. Though not sitters, the six were pretty much running things before Egwene was raised Amyrlin. Obviously the Hall, as well as other sisters, trust them. So this is a big deal.
Despite the amount of time it takes to read these books, Egwene is actually moving pretty quickly. The way she talked in the past about "one day" being the Amyrlin in reality as well as name made it sound like it might be years. Of course, finding the sisters doing things against Tower law certainly speeds up the process. Egwene's smart enough to use such things to her advantage. Go her!
Yeah! Okay, time to fangirl about Lan and Nynaeve. When I first read the series, I pretty much lived for their romantic scenes. As soon as Moiraine died at the end of book 5, I was very excited to see how this story line would play out. I wanted to throw book 6 against the wall--despite how awesome it was--because Lan wasn't in it at all except for that 1.5 page scene where he comes to Myrelle. So, I'm just gonna tell you that we will get some Lan/Nynaeve action in this book, albeit not for a few more weeks, and it's awesome. Kind of a famous/infamous WoT scene, actually. Very excited over here!
Is it just me or is the
creepiest picture EVER?
Yeah, I think the headaches must be Halima's doing. How could they not, knowing that she's secretly Balthamel? I never thought about them being Compulsion. Scary as that would be, it would also be kind of cool. It would mean that Egwene is somehow resisting it without even realizing it. But the Forsaken could also just be ingratiating him/herself to Egwene so s/he can manipulate things with the Tower in some way.
I gotta say, this is actually a pretty smart scheme for Balthamel. Because he was one of the first Forsaken to die, I never think of him as the brightest crayon in the box, but this is pretty smart. Of course, given the whole second-chance-resurrection-in-a-woman's-body thing, he's probably doing the DO's bidding, rather than his own, which means it wasn't exactly his idea. But we've already seen Egwene defending Halima, even if it's just in her own head, so it seems to be working well for the Forsaken.
I don't see how Egwene could ever figure out Halima's true identity on her own. They'll need a male channeler--Rand, or one of his Ashaman?--to realize it.
This has nothing to do with the actual story, but has everyone heard about the whole HUGO award thing that's going on right now? They've found a loophole that might allow the Wheel of Time series as a whole to be nominated for the prestigious award. It has to do with the fact that no single installment has ever been nominated or won, so they can present it as all one story in many parts. I haven't looked into it more than reading a few articles, but I think you can vote for it once the nominations come out, so we should all keep an eye on it. This is one of the most influential fantasy series since J.R.R. Tolkien was writing, so I really hope they give it the award. More information at THIS LINK.
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Ooo! So are you hinting that Nicola is a Darkfriend? Or possibly she hunts Darkfriends and the Forsaken and something about Marigan tipped her off. Hmm.....Now I will have to pay closer attention to her.ReplyDelete
I can see you jumping up and down about Lan and Nynaeve from over here! Now I just want to speed ahead with the reading to see what all the fuss is about.
Very interesting about tWoT and the Hugos. I wonder how that will turn out, and if it will reshape the Hugos a bit concerning lengthy series in which the books don't stand individually.Replies
Somehow I can't imagine Nicola hunting Darkfriends: she strikes me as full of bluff rather than real courage.Delete
I wouldn't get your hopes up for a steamy love scene - a bet it will be much like the one between Rand and Aviendha and fade to black far too soon! :D
1. Somehow I can't see them as Darkfriends: I'm not sure why but I don't get that vibe from them. I also doubt that they have the courage to actually carry out their threats, and they would probably be shot down in flames (possibly literally) if they tried.ReplyDelete
2. The repeated use of minor characters is one of the aspects that really impresses me about this series. I love how they pop back up when you least expect it.
3. I have been seriously impressed by Egwene as Amyrlin, but I agree that she seems to have matured very quickly. I had expected a much longer period where she was basically a puppet for the other Sisters.
4. I am expecting much braid yanking and stony faced gazing before they head off to have a very prolonged session of frantic sexytimes! :D
5. That Halima drawing does not have big enough boobs! I have to agree that I don't think of him/her as terribly bright: look at how he tried to channel at Mat. However, s/he is certainly sneaky, so I suspect that s/he will be around for quite some time to come.
Agreed: Lan is the epitome of coolness and I am glad to see him back.


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Maghull 2 - 2 Helsby
Saturday 5th December 2015 kick off 2pm
I really cant figure out Saturdays game.
It hit some heights, it had phases of obscurity,produced four goals and many talking points. But it just didn't make any sense. Then again when has football made much sense. At least it may not need any censoring this time !
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Maghull 3 - 1 Newton
Saturday 14th November 2015 kick off 2pm
What a grotty day, but a cracking game of football took place in the deluge.
Newton arrived having led the table for most of the season and of course they gave Maghull a whirlwind first half blast at their place earlier in the season. But with both sides in top form, this did have the potential to impress the large crowd not put off by the awful weather. And it lived up to it's…Continue
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Blacon YC 2 - 4 Maghull
Saturday 31st October 2015 kick off 3pm
I have a bit of a battle on my hands here. I am not one for praising individuals, but from that you may grasp there were a few on show who put in a bit of a performance. I will leave it there, but if you ask if one was you and I say no, don't be too disappointed. The team as a whole played very well.
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Hale 4 - 3 Maghull
Saturday 17th October 2015 kick off 3pm
In a nutshell, a weird game. Madness prevailed, but in the midst of it all a couple cracking goals and for the second week running, two teams who seemed intent on playing hard but fair.
Maghull should have had this game wrapped up within twenty minutes, found themselves staring a heavy defeat in the face and then should then have walked off with a share of the spoils. But more of that later.
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He's getting much more sturdy with his sitting, and he's spending a lot of time sitting on his own now. He loves it. Sometimes he gets all cranky if I put the boppy behind him as a safety guard. He pushes it away and wants to sit up on his own. Hmm. Reminds me of someone I know...
The standing is getting better too! He wants to stand a lot, and I've been letting him stand up against me and not really hold him up. He just leans on me with his butt and uses his core muscles to keep himself up. It's pretty impressive if you ask me, but I may be biased. His new pajamas make him happy when he's standing, because the bottoms have grips instead of the soft cloth. Yes, he's in 12 month pajamas already!
|Max, playing instead of going to sleep.
Reading time at night usually lasts 45 minutes to an hour nowadays. He's great for growling if he isn't done reading. I love my little book worm! Our reading time is my favorite part of the day. Having him get so excited at the turn of each page, watching him look around at each image and absorb it all, and smile when he hears the story, it's all just so amazing. His favorite book now is Hey! Wake Up! by Sandra Boynton. It's definitely his favorite, and we read it about four times a night. I'm looking forward to finding out what his next favorite will be!
Oh, and milestone! He opened his first present this week! We did a Secret Santa within my mommy group, and Max got to open his present Tuesday night. He absolutely loved tearing into the wrapping paper! He did a great job pulling and tearing, and getting all of the edges. It was fun to watch. He got some balls that roll around and encourage crawling, he loves them! Some of them are rattles, and one is a light. He has a great time with them. He also got one of those sorting tubs of different shapes, which was on his list for Santa. Great presents! Thanks again Ashley!!
|Here's Max, opening his presents!
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Thursday morning and training with J. It was a super chill session, for which I am actually quite grateful. I mean, I could always speak up and say "it's been a long, hard week; let's take it easy," but I never do that. On the other hand, I probably don't really have to speak up and say that; J tends to graze through my posts here, sees me in passing at the gym most days, and can probably pretty accurately guess with a curious glance how intensely I am pursuing practices. This is one of the things I genuinely appreciate about him.
So today was more review day with the Free Motion machine upstairs. We went through the original List once again with some refinements and subtle position changes and a couple of new things. Since I do not prioritize the cables as much or work as
hard often at those Lists, this was a lighter day than the last several.
I am starting my holiday weekend a bit early, if working from home on a Friday can be classified as a day off and starting the weekend early. Things in the office will be very quiet, with the majority of the staff either out or leaving early for the holiday weekend. This has been quite a week on the work front, I have had an auditor here most of the morning.
But back to the exercise. I am sort of exploring my thoughts and feelings about how much is too much or if there is even such a thing as too much. And I am not speaking of over training, because on my very best, most intense days I cannot fathom approaching such a boundary. I would be lying on the floor sound asleep before reaching anything close to over training.
This week has leveled out as the days have passed. Seeing TM over the weekend, meeting with RD on Tuesday, Pilates on Tuesday evening and again tonight (and let me just say – that shit is HARD!) mood and other things and the emotionally troubling relationship events in my life have faded and lost that desperate craving for resolution. Absolute reality of what I can control is limited to my own thoughts, feelings, and actions, and with that comes my reactions to other people and their behaviors.
My quest and struggle for balance continues, and will likely always be with me in one form or another. A better memory might really be nice as well.
To the best of my recollection, what we did today on the Free Motion machine included:
Lat pulldowns, single and double arms
Chest presses
Straight arm pulldowns
Split squats
Rows – regular, single arm, archer
Bicep curls – upper and lower positions
Single-leg kickbacks
Single-leg Romanian deadlifts
As I said, it was quite a chill session. I worked hard, learned new things, refined my form and technique. Always I love, Love, LOVE review days. In every training session I get food for thought, as evidenced by my perking, thinking face. In fact, I have of late been wondering if sweat head is not so much from the physical work I am doing versus the huge amount of brain cells I am burning thinking about all the small maneuvers of my limbs involved to make each exercise happen. Then I get home and realized those sweat-soaked clothes tell the real story of the level of my actual practice efforts. Just like I do not measure my success or progress with the amount of weight I am moving, I also do not worry at all about how much I am sweating (or not) during my practices and training sessions.
Exercise has provided an outlet for thoughtful processing about my life and times. Work. Relationships. Hopes and dreams. And of course my little head games to get shit done.
More than all that, though, is how I think, how I process, how I feel my way through my life. So many I know, have known, are driven by the same sort of negative emotions. People are stressed, depressed, anxious, fearful – all emotions and the accompanying behaviors I understand. Depression is not something I typically suffer from, but I have my funks and have written a great deal about my battles with anxiety and fear (and primarily just about my own brand of gym crazy).
I am nearing my first anniversary of training with J … as marked by our first meeting. Whatever I am doing right now, whether I am refining my technique or working out how intense and/or how frequently I exercise, it has done amazing things for my mental health and the way my head and thinking work. Success is measured on my own terms, not by the scale, not by the tape measure, not even by the things I can now do that once seemed so far out of reach for me. I am healthier, yes, but I am infinitely happier and more restful than I have been. Perhaps ever. In my own skin, just as it is right here, right now.
But with those type of happy realizations comes this even deeper understanding that stopping now or into the future is never going to be an option. J once characterized exercise as a big giant iceberg, of which we were barely skimming the surface. I may not always be doing resistance training as I am right now, but I will be exercising in some manner and form to keep moving along and enjoying life as I know it right now. I know there is no room for excuses or reasons or negotiating away from regular, consistent exercise for as long and as much as I am capable.
When I began with J our standing time was Thursday mornings at 8:30. His regular 9:30 appointment is a charming older gent that always makes me laugh and smile. He was away for a bit for health reasons, and now he's back. Out paths crossed the last couple of 8:30 appointments and I realize it is another highlight to my whole training experience. I have no idea about what his life is like, but it's nice to see him in the gym.
Negative girl has been trying her best to make me turn my head and look back over my shoulder, at the time that has passed thus far and what I have squandered. I am not listening and I am not looking back with regret, yet another wasted emotion for a life lived to the best of my ability. My litany of mistakes could consume way too many gigs of memories and consume much of the balance of my life to write. Right now, in the present and into the future, my gaze is forward and on the possibilities that exist for me.
It was a great training day, tomorrow will be practice and quite probably a go-round with the lower leg series that still has be in its fascination thrall. But because I have extra time, with my planned work-from-home day, I may have opportunity to try a few things we did today that both fascinate and vex me.
J had an interesting observation about exercises that are hard to do, and at first I misinterpreted his meaning. We were working on the single lead Romanian deadlift with the cable, and as has been typical, I was losing my balance frequently. He showed me how to do this with the rear foot resting like a kickstand, and was explaining how to train myself incrementally to balance rather than training me in how to fall over. Repeatedly.
Instead of grasping what he meant, I was instead thinking about how I become too affixed to and addicted to the props I use and must take off my training wheels before I actually feel absolutely ready. When he clarified what he meant, I absolutely got it. But it reminds me how easy it is to misunderstand with sloppy or lazy communication.
I am still struggling with these single-leg cable deadlifts and they are rapidly elevating to the top of my list of things to do a few of every day until I develop more mastery. But I want to do them correctly, not train myself how to fall over repeatedly. I love the way he explained that to me in ways I can absorb and understand.
My growing confidence comes from a strong understanding of what I am doing, why I am doing it. I experiment with form as we move along as well as listening to J's cueing and corrections, and I learn as much from doing things incorrectly as I do from repeatedly working at doing them correctly. As the weeks have passed I have gotten better at judging patience and cadence, going slowly to learn form and technique and then pepping up the pace to increase heart rate.
The richness of my life – it's abundant, has always been abundant. And I have to hope to always feel this optimistic and satisfied with every single one of my individual days that lie ahead. Regular, consistent exercise sharpened and enhanced that perspective. If I never lose another pound, never develop the skill to lift another ounce of weight, the perspective I have gained and the new friends I have made are worth all the sweat, pain, and teeth-gnashing frustration.
Imagine that sort of progress, for sure.