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Produced by the company responsible for the singularly vicious Rette Sich Wer Kann (the original version of Lifeboats), this similar game has each player trying to get their pirates to the end of the river, while trying to stop the other players from doing the same. The boats that players use have spaces for two pirates, and each time one of the occupants decides to row the boat, the rock-paper-scissors aspect of the game kicks in. Players have the option of rowing, tossing the other player out of the boat, or attempting to beat the other pirate with a club. Players usually cooperate at the beginning of the river to overcome the current, but as the their ship nears the end of the river watch your back!
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A transition towards peace in Syria that involves President Bashar al-Assad is "impossible" as the country's opposition will not accept him, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.
Cavusoglu also confirmed Turkey had prepared an agreement towards a ceasefire.
Turkish state media earlier said Turkey and Russia had agreed on a proposal toward a general ceasefire in Syria.
(Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz and Ece Toksabay; Writing by David Dolan; editing by John Stonestreet)

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To make this sympathy card use a folding board and bone tool to fold a piece of black card. I have made this card DL sized. DL is a popular size because the front of the card is not too big so you will not have to use up much of your craft supplies to decorate the front of the card.
It is also a size that you know can be posted without having to take it to a post office to have the size measured so it is a good size to use and you will have no problem finding envelopes to fit the card.
Find a piece of paper that is not bright in color and is fitting for a sympathy cards theme. In this case I have used a floral design. The paper itself has a lignin feel rather like lace so the card will have a texture once created.
Next, cut around the flowers so the background can no longer be seen. Use very sharp cutters and remember to keep hold of any off cuts so that they can be re used for other ideas for card making you may have.
Use glue or sticky dots to attach the paper to the front of your sympathy card. To avoid the glue showing take extra care and place the ink on the patterned paper rather than the front of the card before fixing it in place.
You can use peel off stickers for the sympathy card wording. Here I have placed the words onto black card then mat and layered it onto silver card. I used 3d foam to give the sympathy messages some depth. Rub-ons would work just as well or even a quote that is to do with loss.
If the card is for someone close to you, you may want to make it more personal by writing your own sympathy message.
You can then attach the sympathy message to the card. I used double sided tape in this instance but if you wanted to give your sympathy card wording even more depth you could add in another layer of 3d foam to make it stand out.
The idea for this card could easily be used for another occasion by simply changing the wording and adding some embellishments.


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Book – Gates of Thread and Stone is the first book in a series by Lori M. Lee.
Kai is different, she lives with Reev, her 'brother' that has kept her safe and alive in a world that is littered with dangerous people and ideas. In this world only one person is allowed magic. So Kai has to hide her ability to twist the threads of time. With Reev's help, this hasn't been a problem, until people start going missing and Reev is one of them. Now desperate to find him she has to trust the shopkeeper's son, Avan, and a slew of people that do not have her best interests at heart.
I don't often do this, but I gave this book a 5-star rating on Amazon and Goodreads. This was a fantastic balance of dystopia, magic, brutality, romance, and familial strife. I loved this book and am even more excited that I can share it with my teen daughter. There is romance in the book, but it doesn't tip into what I feel is inappropriate for my young daughter to be reading about. The first in a planned trilogy, Gates of Thread and Stone is a must read.


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--Lokkie's banned (I wish he wasn't, but this is a fact regardless)
--Mystic/Cardon are on vacation
--Kiaya's away (surgery)
Haven't the boards been . . . different . . . as of late?
4 posters gone. But the level of activity is HUGELY different. Better or worse, I'll reserve my thoughts.
Wait. It's a blog. D'oh.
@e kinda likes it without so much trolling and general cuteness all over the boards.
But I still dig Lokkie, and wish he were back. :-(


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Fall 2018 Ready-to-WearThe Attico
Giorgia Tordini might have mentioned the name of the architect behind this season's Attico apartment. If so, it didn't register above the internal-emergency appropriateness Klaxons sounding at full volume in this reviewer's skull.
There is a lot of pretending to be sophisticated, clumsily vulgar "sexiness" in Milan's outlier womenswear labels: stupidly exposed breasts, skirts more split than America's voter base, that type of thing. This bunga bunga brassiness can be viewed (then serenely looked away from) with equanimity by a straight male eye in the room on business. It's so anachronistically not hot.
There was no such T&A crassness at Tordini and Gilda Ambrosio's presentation this afternoon. Far more problematically, this collection of typically vintage-inspired mostly eveningwear whose references ranged from the '40s to the '80s was—and in 2018 this feels tricky to write without anguished qualification—very sexy.
Whether it was Tordini's own darkly liquid velvet lamé bow-hemmed paper-bag pants and ostrich-fronded top, a silver sequin wrap dress tied with a turquoise velvet belt worn by one model lolling in the hallway, or the strapless fuchsia minidress garlanded with more ostrich and teamed with scarlet printed crocodile thigh-highs, most of the looks here were stimulating. This was not just some heavy breather's subjective imposition, it must be added. Tordini stressed that the collection, entitled Bellisima and loosely inspired by Luchino Visconti's filmic feminine vision, was supposed to be "romantic and dramatic." She said, "That's why we have a guy in our lookbook—we wanted a male presence to explore romanticism and the relationship between a woman and a man."


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Cinco de Mayo is one of the All American Rose selections this year.
By Cindy Haynes
Extension Horticulturist
Iowa State University
As I sit in my cozy office and watch the students trudge through the snow, I ponder the upcoming gardening season. I am excited about the possible additions and changes to my landscape -- who wouldn't be dreaming of spring already?
This time of year brings a flurry of catalogs and magazines with pretty pictures of plants and announcements of award winners. While you might think that these "award winners" are ways people in the industry get together to sell more plants (this is true enough) -- the evaluations are generally rigorous. Only the best of the best can successfully "jump the hurdles" to become an award winner.
Perennial Plant of the Year
One such award winning plant is Golden Hakone grass (Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'), the 2009 Perennial of the Year. Every year members of the Perennial Plant Association vote for a winning plant entry. Perennials that are nominated must be attractive, suitable for many areas across the country, low maintenance, pest and disease resistant, and readily available to the public. This year's winner is the latest in a long line of good perennials for the garden.
Other past winners you might recognize include: 'David' Phlox, 'Karl Foerster' Feather Reed grass, 'Goldsturm' Rudbeckia, Russian Sage, 'Becky' Shasta Daisy, 'Magnus' Purple Coneflower and 'Moonbeam' Coreopsis. Winning this award puts Hakone grass in good company and is guaranteed to garner attention from gardeners and landscape professionals.
Hakone grass has glowing, yellow-green leaves with a cascading effect and grows to about 18 inches tall and wide. It prefers partial shade and fertile, well-drained, moist soils. This grass is striking as a specimen or small grouping when combined with other shade-loving plants. The textural contrast of the narrow golden leaves next to a bold, golden-edged hosta makes for a stunning combination. Mass plantings are equally effective, in particular when used as an edging arrangement in the border.
Golden Hakone grass has few pest or disease problems and is not favored by deer. Matching this plant to suitable conditions, however, is a major consideration prior to planting. For best performance in Iowa, Golden Hakone grass should be located away from exposed sites with strong winter winds. It is considered hardy to zone 5 (central and southern Iowa), but some protection in winter increases chance of survival. Hakone grass also insists on a good, fertile, well-drained -- but moist -- soil. Sites with too little or too much water, such as a heavy clay soil, are quick ways to kill it.
All American Selection Winners
Another of the plant evaluation processes is the All-American Selection Winners program (AAS). Every year several new annual flowers and vegetables are selected as winners. Flowers and vegetables are tested and judged on their performance across the country. Plants are promoted in a number of garden catalogs – many times they are featured within the first couple of pages.
This year's winners bring variety to the vegetable garden. 'Honey Bear' squash is an acorn squash with a sweet flavor and compact plant habit. Unlike other acorn squash 'Honey Bear' is resistant to powdery mildew, so even the later-bearing fruit tend to ripen fully since the plants don't succumb to this disease. As with any acorn squash, 'Honey Bear' stores well and can be enjoyed months after harvesting.
'Lambkin' melon, another AAS winner, is a gourmet melon noted for its sweet, aromatic, juicy, white flesh. This oval shaped melon produces several two to four-pound fruits per plant. The thin yellow skin, early ripening and excellent keeping quality make it worth trying in the garden this year.
'Gretel' eggplant is another vegetable award winner from AAS. Gretel produces pure white, elongated fruits – not the dark purple fruits like many eggplants. The compact plants can be grown in large containers and are noted for ripening early. The fruits also are more forgiving for harvest, remaining tender even as they mature beyond the typical three to four-inch fruit size.
All American Rose Selection Winners
Several All American Rose Selection (AARS) Winners are named each year. This year, the quest for low maintenance, long-blooming roses brings us 'Carefree Spirit'. This rose is a relative of the popular 'Carefree Delight' rose, an AARS winner in 1996. Carefree Spirit is the first rose to endure the new "no fungicide spray" policy for AARS shrub roses and come out a winner! The cherry red, two-inch diameter blooms have a whitish eye and fade to pinkish red in the summer. The compact habit (five feet tall) and long blooming characteristics are likely to continue the fondness consumers have for the Carefree series.
Words fail me in describing the coloring of Cinco de Mayo. This floribunda rose celebrates its place in the sun with large flower clusters that I can only describe as a blend of rusty-red and lavender-smoke. Its five-foot habit, fruity fragrance, glossy foliage and quickness in repeating blooms make it a great garden addition -- then you can attempt to describe the flower color to your friends.
Another rose winner is notable for its elegance and charitable purpose. Pink Promise is a hybrid tea rose selected by the National Breast Cancer Foundation to represent the continued compassion and promise for those affected by breast cancer. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this rose will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for education and early detection. Apart from the motivation to grow this rose to support a worthy cause, Pink Promise holds its own as a worthy garden plant as well. Plants are vigorous upright growers with excellent disease resistance and continually bloom during the growing season. The flowers are a blend of pinks with lighter outer petals and darker centers. And to top it off, the flowers also are highly fragrant. What more could you want?
All of the plants mentioned hold promise for stunning landscapes this year. Now you have to decide which (or how many) you want to add to your garden this spring. Good luck!
Contacts :
Cindy Haynes, Horticulture, (515) 294-4006, firstname.lastname@example.com
Four high-resolution photos are available for use with this column. Captions are provided below.
CincoDeMayoA.jpg CincoDeMayoB.jpg Caption: Cinco de Mayo is one of the All American Rose Selection winners for 2009. The floribunda rose offers fruity fragrance, glossy foliage and repeated blooming. Please credit the rose photos to Gene Sasse (c) 2008 used courtesy of Weeks Roses.
HakoneGrass.jpg Caption: Golden Hakone Grass has been recognized as the 2009 perennial of the year by the Perennial Plant Association.
HoneyBearSquash.jpg Caption: Honey Bear Acorn Squash is one of the All American Selection winners in the vegetable category for 2009.
LambkinMelon.jpg Caption: Lambkin, a gourmet melon noted for its sweet, aromatic, juicy, white flesh is another All American Selection for 2009.


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This is not a long blogg posting, I just want to point to the simple libmysqld demo application for Windows that I have created. It's available on sourceforge as as I said, this is Windows only so far. I might well go ahead and do a Linux version of it eventually, but right now, this i sfor windows.
But I don't think that matters much, this is not meant to be a terribly useful application in and of itself, rather, this is a minimal application built to demonstrate a concept.
If you are interested in libmysqld, then have a look at the webinar I did couple of weeks, and if you are at the MySQL User Conference, then pop by my talk on the same subject.
Cheers from the database dude
I am Anders Karlsson, and I have been working in the RDBMS industry for many, possibly too many, years. In this blog, I write about my thoughts on RDBMS technology, happenings and industry, and also on any wild ideas around that I might think up after a few beers.
Monday, April 6, 2009
libmysqld demo application
2 comments:
- Vlad said...
I have downloaded the sample and run it but it fails in mysql_library_init
Pls notice that I have built it in VC++ 2008 EE and I should have bypass the afxres.h problem. So I have changed it to windows.h and tweaked IDC_STATIC. Don't think it changes something for mysql.
I have installed mysql 5.1.40
Pls tell me if you have an idea.
- November 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- Vlad said...
Sorry. It was my mistake - forgot the language.
- November 21, 2009 at 10:37 PM
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While many people today think that "purpose" is an ill-founded biological category, most people aren't aware of its historical significance in the history of biology. The "doctrine of creation" has been a formalized version of the idea of purpose in biology, and is at least in name still adhered to by theistic evolutionists (hence why they are now calling themselves "evolutionary creationists"). In the case of the evolutionary creationists, their use of the doctrine of creation is primarily a post-hoc mode of storytelling.
However, historically, the doctrine of creation has been foundational to the making of modern biology.
It is difficult to see, given its historical pedigree, why all-of-a-sudden trying to use the idea of purpose within biology is somehow a science-stopper, when it has actually started so many branches of biology.


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A few weeks ago I posted a challenge to come up with a $2-per-serving menu to challenge the notion that healthy food is "too expensive" or that you need to resort to convenience foods to have time to sit down with your family for dinner. Ironically, what with trying to run holiday-related errands after work most days, and having a plethora of parties, shows, rehearsals and other stuff, I haven't been cooking much! (I did make a big batch of lamb & bulghur stew last weekend and have been pretty much subsisting on those leftovers all last week, but it wasn't particularly blog-worthy.)
The other night I was staring at the fridge with the glazed-over and rather desperate look of a person who hasn't been to the grocery store in recent memory, when inspiration struck. I had a bag of frozen shrimp in the fridge, a package of pasta, and enough pantry items to make said shrimp and pasta into a quick and very flavorful dinner. Crisis averted.
Let me detour here to say that I do regret that my $2 meal was not more local– apparently there is a shrimp farm in Okemos but my shrimp were from Trader Joe's. I don't eat a ton of shrimp because of the overfishing issues, but as a person who lives alone, there is a great advantage to a food which you can keep in the freezer and remove a few at a time for a single serving. This recipe may also not fall under some people's definition of "healthy", but it does use all natural ingredients and that's my usual guideline. As I had not been to the store I didn't have any fresh vegetables in the house, but I would certainly encourage adding a green veg to make this a more balanced meal.
Here's my cost breakdown: Shrimp: ½ bag @ $8.99/1-lb bag= $4.50; butter: 2 oz @ $2.89/lb= 36¢; 1 lb spaghetti= 99¢; 1 lemon= 50¢ (mine actually cost less since I had bought a bag of them, but I think that's how much they are if you buy a single one); 4 cloves garlic= approx. 25¢; 1 tsp red pepper: negligible, but let's say 15¢ (or get it free next time you order pizza!). Total= $6.75 and serves 4, so $1.69 per serving. That leaves $1.25 to spend on 4 servings of the veg of your choice- a plain green salad, some sautéed zucchini, or some steamed broccoli, perhaps?- and still keep it under $2.
Garlic Shrimp Pasta
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1 lb. dried spaghetti or linguini
½ lb. shrimp (should yield 4-6 shrimp per serving depending on shrimp size)
4 Tbs butter
4 large cloves garlic
1 lemon, halved lengthwise
1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes (or to taste)
1 handful chopped flat leaf parsley, optional
kosher or sea salt
Notes: Feel free to embellish and throw in other random items you may have in your pantry or refrigerator… a spoonful of capers, perhaps, or some grated Parmigiano. I happened to have some parsley in the fridge so in it went. This recipe is also very easily divisible/ multipliable- I originally made 2 servings, not 4- so it's a good recipe if you're just feeding 1 or 2 people. The dish can be prepared in about 30 minutes, and 10 of that is just waiting for the water to boil. You'll want to work very quickly to get the sauce on the pasta before anything gets cold.
Directions: Put a large pot of well-salted water to boil. Rinse and pat dry the shrimp, salt lightly on all sides and set aside. Mince the garlic. Juice half the lemon; cut the remaining half into four wedges. Chop the parsley, if using.
When the water comes to a boil, add the pasta and cook according to package directions, probably 8 minutes or so. You'll want to try to time it so the pasta and shrimp are just getting done at the same time.
Select a saucepan in which the shrimp will just fit in one layer. Melt the butter over low heat. Add the garlic, keeping the heat as low as possible. Cook for about 2 minutes, stirring and making sure the garlic does not brown. (If the butter is foaming too much, add a splash of olive oil.) Add the pepper flakes and stir.
Add the shrimp to the pan in one layer. Cook gently until they appear opaque halfway up the sides, then flip and continue cooking until fully opaque. Remove with a slotted spoon and place in a covered dish on the stovetop (so they remain warm).
Meanwhile, drain the pasta when done, reserving about ¼ cup of the cooking water. Add the juice of half the lemon and a little of the pasta water to the butter/garlic mixture and increase the heat slightly, stirring. Cook for 30 seconds or so, stirring to emulsify. Toss the sauce with the cooked pasta. Add any other ingredients at this time such as the parsley, capers, etc. Taste the pasta for salt, adding as needed. If it seems too dry, add a bit more of the pasta cooking water, and/or a little olive oil.
Plate the pasta in warmed shallow bowls or plates, garnishing with the shrimp and a wedge of lemon.


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Maandag, 30 Juli
Did my last full day in Antwerp. Got up, got the bus, and then just walked around. Bought all my chocolates, visited the sights one more time, and just generally chilled out. Went back to the house, did as much packing as I could (just gotta buy one more thing and I can finish), ate, and watched the Olympics. Later in the afternoon the four of us went to get coffee/tea/dessert, hung out a bit, watched more Olympics, and then I went to sleep. Time is moving too quickly now :/


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Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
From Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior is a 2003 Thai martial arts film directed by Prachya Pinkaew and starring Tony Jaa. The film was a critical hit, and was followed by two prequels, both starring Tony Jaa, although both set in ancient times and having little in common with the original film.
The following weapons were used in the film Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior:
Beretta 92FS Inox
Someone in the crowd at the boxing match forces Ting (Tony Jaa) back into the ring with a Beretta 92FS Inox.
Colt M1911A1
The M1911A1 is among the weapons used by Komtuan´s (Suchao Pongwilai) thugs.
Beretta 92FS
The Beretta 92FS is used by multiple thugs during the shootout at the gas station and by the lead villain.
One of the men outside of the cave towards the finale appears to hold a M16A1.


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Happy Pulaski Day!By Claire Zulkey
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Happy Pulaski Day!By Claire Zulkey
Go Casimir, it's your birthday. We gonna party like it's your birthday.
Chicago Poles, I assume you're already drunk by this point but if you're not, remember--today is YOUR day!
Sure, we may not get the river dyed a certain color in our honor or enjoy a big annual city parade or a semi-annual kind of messy South Side parade nor do our baseball teams wear red in honor of St. Joseph's Day, but guess what: We have our own holiday where schools and libraries are closed along with City of Chicago and Cook County offices!! (But all federal and state courts remain open. Banks and the post offices will remain open, and postal service is unaffected. Public transportation will run on normal schedules.)


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How Does the United States Compare in Key Determinants of Health
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- Provide a brief description of the two health indicators you selected, citing specific sources.
- Explain how the U.S. ranks on these indicators compared to other nations.
- Explain two factors that might influence those rankings and the relative standing of the U.S. compared to the other nations.
- Determine which two states rank the best and which two states rank the worst for those indicators. Describe factors you believe might contribute to those relative rankings among the states.
References Readings
- Wilkinson, R., & Pickett, K. (2010). The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.
o Chapter 4, "Community Life and Social Relations" (pp. 49-62)
- Centers for Disease Control. (2011, January 14). Health disparities and inequalities report—United States. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 60(Suppl.), 1-116.
o Pages 3-17 are required; the remaining pages are optional.
- Bezruchka, S. (2010). Health equity in the USA. Social Alternatives, 29(2), 50-56.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
- Central Intelligence Agency. (n.d.). The world factbook. Retrieved February 19, 2014, from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Review selected pages below:
o Country Comparison: Life Expectancy at Birth
o Country Comparison: Infant Mortality Rate
- Gapminder. (2013). Gapminder world offline. Retrieved from http://www.gapminder.org/world-offline/
- National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). (2013). Retrieved from http://www.naccho.org/
- United Health Foundation. (2013). America's health report: About the rankings. Retrieved from http://www.americashealthrankings.org/About/AboutRankings
- World Health Organization. (2014). World health statistics. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/en/index.html
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- Provide a brief description of the two health indicators you selected, citing specific sources.
Life expectancy is directly tied to a country's overall quality of life, and the life expectancy at birth ealt indicator attempts to analyze and accurately compare the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year across the world. The objective is to ascertain if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. Life expectancy helps identify countries that have the best quality of life.
Infant mortality rates sare a direct indicator of a country's health ...
Solution Summary
Just under 400 words discuss the determinants of health in the US.


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- Money - don't have any. Won't have any.
- Time - if I take a week to go somewhere, that's a week without any income. Which, as stated above, I am lacking in.
- Company - no-one available. This used to be a non-issue since I preferred to go to the beach on my own, but after 10 years of doing so, the novelty has worn off and after 3 or 4 days I get bored on my own. And even if there was a friend available to go, I don't have any friends that I'm close enough to to be confident of a fun time after the first 24 hours. I'd love to go with my sisters and their kids, but they already went to the beach together back in the spring. Without me.
*sigh* I guess I'll take a 4 day weekend and go to my Grandmother's in the Armpit of the Universe, Batesville. There, I will take naps, shop at the Super Wal-Mart, and sit and watch Wheel of Fortune and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire at 6 pm. If there's anything else to do there, somehow, it just won't happen. There's a movie theater there. Do you know how many movies I've seen in Batesville in the last decade? Two. I get in that house, and barely leave it for 3 days.
And the conversations? *sigh* I love my Grandmother, but...
Could this BE any more of a pity party? I think not.
[cheerfulmentalreinforcement] Be glad you have your health... your home... your family... your friends... steady work... Project Runway... [/cheerfulmentalreinforcement]


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We have 2 weeks to go until the big event! So far we have raised $5,712 with our target being $8,000. If anybody would like to donate to help us reach our goal, please visit our fundraising site [1] and donate to the Beyond Bank team. All donations over $2 are tax deductible.
Everybody is welcome to come and show their support over the weekend, and for those that would like to drop by the address is listed below. Come and say hi to the team and have a look around at the tent sites. It will be a fun weekend with live music and kids activities on the Saturday.
Relay For Life Rockingham-Kwinana
23-24th May 2015
Village Green, Rockingham
We hope to see you there!
Update following the event
Congratulations to our WA staff for their efforts over the last 8 months in fundraising for Relay For Life and their awesome effort last weekend.
The team raised a total of $11,186.65 and came second with the highest fundraising, what a great achievement!
We didn't win the best baton, but a huge thank you to Carole and Frank for their outstanding work and time into making such a gorgeous pig and Trolley.
A special thank you to the Priceline girls for the hamper raffle, to Debbie for working a miracle getting the West Coast jumper on short notice and Carole for making loom bands for the second year in a row.
We did have another prize winner, Kim Wolvers who won the best PJ's on field and won herself a stuffed dog!
Well done to everyone who participated!


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Next week I head to Matera for Brainstorming at the Spa 2012. I really feel like I need this after the last couple of weeks I've had. I don't really have a concrete idea to brainstorm, but I think–with the help of my fellow brainstormers–I will have figured out a skeleton of my next project by the time I return to Stockholm on the 26th.
I'm looking forward to being in the company of my wonderful Matera friends who've cheered for me, given me pep talks and advice. And when I return I will let you know what sparkly ideas I've managed to come up with. I'll be thinking about a new novel or novella and planning (already) for Nanowrimo 2012.
Before I leave, I'll write another post and I hope to have an author interview (or two) ready for April.
Also: if you've already purchased The Melanie Chronicles and enjoyed it, please post a review on Amazon or BN.com. Your support means a lot to me! 🙂


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The Carpal Tunnel is a narrow passageway on the palm side of your wrist, made up of bones and ligaments.
Carpal Tunnel happens when the median nerve, which controls sensation and movement in the thumb and first 3 fingers, gets pinched and compressed. This causes the numbness, tingling, weakness and pain commonly felt with this condition.
Your Carpal Tunnel can swell or become narrowed for a variety of reasons. Aside from rest and ice, a wrist brace is another solution that may assist when you have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, as it keeps your wrists in place to prevent further aggravation whilst providing the necessary compression to bring the inflammation down. Choose a brace that :


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World champion Paula Radcliffe's seasonal cross-country debut will now be on Tyneside in the Great North event after she pulled out of a planned race in Switzerland due a slight injury to a tendon behind the knee.
However, if she expects an easy ride in the Exhibition Park - she was a lonely figure when she won last year's event at Consett - on December 29, then she is in for a big surprise.
For busy organisers Nova have brought back to the region Kenya's Susan Chepkemei who will be seeking a North East double after winning the BUPA Great North run back in September.
And while the German-based African showed her prowess on the roads, she is no mean performer when it comes to cross-country having finished fourth behind the Bedford runner in this year's World Championships in Ostende.
"I've had the upper hand over Susan in our last few contests including the World Championships and the World Half-Marathon Championships," said Paula, who will have only one more outing over the country before next year's Worlds in Dublin.
"However, you never can tell with the Kenyans and I've no doubt Susan will be out for revenge."
Chepkemei won't be the only one who will be seeking a chink in the armour of Britain's No 1 endurance athlete, with Bedford team-mate Liz Yelling currently in superb form.
In the European Championships in Switzerland last weekend, Liz led the British team to second place behind Portugal with a superb fifth place and will gauge her fitness against Paula before the major races in the new year.
With Paula in the field it is sure to be a big attraction for the North East public, and while she won't have as easy a ride as she had in Consett, the men's race is building up to something special.
Already in the line-up is the world champion Mohammed Mourhit of Belgium, together with Sergy Lebid of the Ukraine who was crowned European champion just five days ago.
Sheffield's Jon Brown heads the domestic entry with North East interest centred round the fit-again Stewy Bell and a trio of Morpeth athletes Terry Wall, Steve Platts and Craig McBurney.
Morpeth are also represented in the 4k event with Mark and Ian Hudspith together with newly-crowned North East senior and junior champions Andy Caine and Nick McCormick are also among the line-up.
BRITISH GAS are to sponsor the Great North Cross-Country which will be featured on BBC Grandstand will now be called the British Gas Great North Cross-Country.
Paul Waite, British Gas area manager, said: "We are delighted to support this highly-prestigious event which underlines our continued commitment to the city of Newcastle and the North East."


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Rob Ellis, PGA
Head Golf Professional
Originally from Oklahoma, Rob has been in the Golden Isles for 15 years. He and his wife Abby have three sons, Sutton 12, Conner 9, and Griffin 4. His career began at Jekyll Island in 2004. He then left for an opportunity at Sea Island Golf Club, where he spent almost 4 years as an Assistant Golf Professional. His next step led him to TPC Sawgrass and the PGA Tour Academy, where he honed his teaching skills. In 2010, Rob was offered the Teaching Professional position back at Jekyll Island, and the circle became complete. He then became the Director of Golf and Tennis for the club. Rob loves teaching players of all ages, but he has devoted the majority of his instructional time to juniors from all over Coastal Georgia. Rob has guided the local PGA Junior League All-Star team for the last 5 years and lead them to the Regional Championship 2 times, coming up one win short of a birth at the National Championship both years. Rob has been named
Honorable Mention three times for the US Kids Top 50 Instructors and is a Certified US Kids Instructor. He was elected to PGA membership in 2008 and was recognized as the PGA Junior Golf Leader for the East Chapter of the Georgia Section of the PGA in 2012 and 2016. He was also recognized as the Resort Merchandiser of the Year for the Georgia Section in 2014.
John King V
PGA Apprentice Assistant Golf Professional
John King V is a PGA Apprentice Assistant Golf Professional at Osprey Cove. He became a member of the Osprey Cove team back in March of 2016. John has come to Osprey Cove after working as the Assistant Golf Professional at Laurel Island Links from 2014-2016. After a successful amateur career, John turned professional and has started working towards obtaining his PGA Class A Professional Card. As a member of the professional staff at Osprey Cove, John is focused on your experience as a member and customer of the club. He will be running MGA, WGA, club tournaments, and the weekly member play days. John will also be conducting clinics and group lessons throughout the year.
Paul Meridith
Golf Course Superintendent
Having had 30 years of regional golf course maintenance experience working with southern turf grasses including TifDwarf (our greens), and TifEagle. From his days just out of college as a course crew laborer and golf construction apprentice at TPC Sawgrass, Paul has, for the past six years, held the position as Golf Course Superintendent overseeing the four courses -Indian Mound, Great Dunes, Oleander and Pine Lakes – that comprise the 63 hole Jekyll Island Golf Club. Paul's working knowledge in the Golf Course Maintenance field is highly diverse, ranging from improving overall turf and playing conditions to implementing construction, drainage and irrigation projects to developing and managing course operating budgets.
Paul describes his management style as, "a team builder, hands-on and proactive which centers on communication as the cornerstone component." As Paul recently emphasized to our course maintenance crew during his introductory remarks to them, "It's all about the golf course – each and every day."


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The Apple Product Report: Too Much Hype?June 7th, 2007
You know, wherever I look online, there seems to be a story about Apple. Of course, that's also what we do here, but even places where you expect to read about politics, the rush release of Paris Hilton from prison and other more traditional coverage, there's something about the iPhone. If it's not the iPhone, it's the alleged slip of the tongue from Sun Microsystems president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, in which it was revealed that Mac OS X Leopard would include support for their ZFS file system.
Of course, none of this is any accident. Even that revelation from Schwartz is most likely part of a carefully calculated marketing program ahead of next week's WWDC and the forthcoming release of the iPhone.
You know, for example, that over a million prospective buyers have contacted both Apple and AT&T about being first in line for an iPhone. How many will actually buy one — assuming there are enough on hand to fill such a huge initial demand — is anyone's guess.
This week, the low-key release of a new version of the MacBook Pro, complete with chips from Intel's new "Santa Rosa" processor family, still got a fair amount of coverage. Sure, I have no doubt the new note-books are up to 50% faster than the first generation models released over a year ago. It's probably true that the new 15.4-inch LCDs with LED backlighting operate more efficiently and are more environmentally pure than the fluorescent lighting previously used. All well and good.
But that's nothing earth shattering. It's just a natural evolution of the MacBook Pro, in the same fashion that the MacBook was updated earlier this year.
Now there is talk about some new stuff next week, perhaps even an iMac revision with a new case, adorned with brushed aluminum fittings, and an updated line of Apple displays. It is even possible that the Mac Pro might receive its first real upgrade, except for that eight-core processor option, although a new case design doesn't seem to be as important to professional content creators.
The real attention next week will, of course, be on Leopard. At long last, the complete feature set for Mac OS 10.5 will be revealed, and developers will receive a near-final beta to take home with them and pound on to help Apple find and squash the final bugs.
That may be the most important event — aside from the iPhone's impending arrival of course — because it will signal Apple's future operating system direction. What we've seen so far doesn't amount to more than bread crumbs. Sure, Time Machine is a neat way to back up your files and recover the stuff you trash by mistake, but it's nothing earth-shattering. Spaces, which provides extended desktops, is simply a feature that's already available in third-party software without the Apple-inspired eye candy.
The under-the-hood stuff described so far, such as improved 64-bit support and core animation, seems to represent nothing more than natural development of an advanced operating system. None of it is particularly innovative.
So is Apple going to do something special to better compete with Windows Vista for the holiday season — or is that even necessary? What about improved collaborative features, an enhanced Finder, and all the other wish list items Mac users have been clamoring for over the years?
In all, the typical Mac OS X upgrade needs to contain from 150 to 250 new features. Of course, some will be simple enhancements to an existing system application, such as the various and sundry changes to Apple Mail and iChat. You'll also see the shape of the final version of Boot Camp, and, no, I do not expect that it will offer virtualization in the fashion of Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion.
It is possible, of course, that Apple will outfit Boot Camp with something similar to the "Fast User Switching" option, which will allow for speedier double-booting. Then again, with that notoriously long startup time for Windows Vista, I can't see where Apple can gain much ground there.
One area where Apple can certainly make a difference is with improved multiprocessing support. Consider that eight-core Mac Pro. The reviews have been tepid at best. Paying $700 extra for eight-cores over four cores doesn't do much unless you are using a small subset of 3D rendering applications.
In the not-too-distant future, you will see note-books with four-cores, and future developments include even more processors on a single chip. All that will go to waste unless the operating system is especially tuned to use all that horsepower, and simple tools are made available for developers to provide support where necessary. It may not make a difference with Microsoft Word, but what if Photoshop could run separate rendering operations in each core? Consider the possibilities.
To be sure, Apple's employees indeed have their work cut out for them. Can they fulfill all these exceedingly inflated expectations? Or will anything they do come up with strike all of us as profound letdowns, regardless of how significant those products and features really are? Friends, I am not taking any bets, but I the await the developments with heightened curiosity.
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Take A Kid Fishing,Its Fun
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This is my Grandson Aiden, he is almost 4 years old. He fished his second club tournament with me last week. He can cast a spinning reel with a five ft. rod as well as most adults, but doesn't yet understand about feeling the bite and setting the hook. I hooked these two and eight others and he reeled all of them in for poppy to net. He and especially me (poppy) had a great day.


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'Wicked'-good performances by Cooper, Vosk
The Greeks employed a stage device known as a deus ex machina, used to lower and raise gods onto the playing area. And the thrill of watching such celestial comings and goings is available at Proctors, where the national touring company of "Wicked" is delivering a high-energy performance of the 2003 musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman (based on Gregory Maguire's novel).
There are other delights. Susan Hilferty's imaginative costume design and Eugene Lee's clever wheels-within-wheels scenic design (both Tony winners) and the nominated lighting design of Kenneth Posner make the evening a visual pleasure even when the story wanders and the score doesn't always hold your attention.
In his 1995 book, Maguire imagined the back story to L. Frank Baum's tale of Dorothy and her dream. Who are the two witches the young Kansan meets, and why is there such enmity? What's the history of the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Lion? Like Baum, who ultimately wrote 13 sequels to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," Maguire followed up his initial effort with three sequels.
Maguire neatly turns our sympathies on their ear by making the beloved Glinda (Amanda Jane Cooper) a ditzy, self-absorbed blonde, and Elphaba (Jessica Vosk), her green-hued college roommate, an outcast. Over the course of their relationship, both young witchy women struggle to find the better sides of themselves, not always with success. But as the famous duet "For Good" says near the end of the play, "[B]ecause I knew you, I have been changed for good."
The cast, under Joe Mantello's stage direction and Dan Micciche's musical direction, plays it loud and fast and funny. (Despite the ensemble's good efforts, their words are often drowned out by the orchestra, which otherwise is spot-on.) As headmistress Madame Morrible, Broadway pro Isabel Keating massages the proceedings with drop-dead line delivery, and the supple-voiced Fred Applegate makes the Wizard's "A Sentimental Man" a charming moment.
Andy Mientus scores as the lovestruck Boq; Harry Bouvy is touching as the doomed Doctor Dillamond; Kristen Martin's Nessarose is properly desperate and scary; and Jeremy Woodard credibly transforms Fiyero from a monochromatic pretty boy to someone worthy of the colorful Elphaba — fine work by both performers on "As Long as You're Mine."
Which part would you try out for — Glinda or Elphaba? If you're a comedic actress, go for the former. What Cooper does with Glinda is a sleight-of-hand: she has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon, sure, but her timing, gestures, and expressions come from some innate playfulness. Priceless. Or if you want to get the show's two biggest solo numbers — "Defying Gravity" and "No Good Deed" — and take a shot at delivering them as stunningly as Vosk does, Elphaba's your ticket. Either way, these are two great parts being given two terrific performances.
Literary critics often refer to the politically allegorical nature of the Oz books. On Thursday the audience had many chuckles with lines that seem to comment on our current political situation — one more source of the show's enjoyment.
WHERE: Proctors, 432 State St.
WHEN: through Mar. 12
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This pair has everything to win! Derek Klena, who stars as Dmitry in the Broadway musical Anastasia, and his longtime girlfriend, Elycia Scriven, are making it official! Klena and Scriven, who met while students at UCLA, broke the news of their engagement on Instagram on October 1. Klena shared details of their adorable proposal with Broadway.com.
"The actual engagement just took place in our apartment!" Klena told Broadway.com. "We had planned on heading out early Sunday morning to go apple picking, so I decided to whip up our go-to favorite breakfast, none other than the always delicious bacon avocado toast. When we were about ready to head out, I surprised her with a bouquet of sunflowers (her favorite flower) and a poem I wrote about the eight amazing years we had spent together and the many more to come. Then I got down on my knee and presented the avocado toast, perfectly made I might add, with the engagement ring perched on top. It was just us, our home, and avocado toast. Perfection."
In addition to his dashing performance in Anastasia, Klena has been seen on Broadway in Wicked and The Bridges of Madison County. His off-Broadway credits include a turn in Carrie and a Clive Barnes Foundation Award-nominated performance in Dogfight. No word yet on a wedding date, but there's no doubt that this pair will look stunning in their nuptial attire!


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Booneslick Trail Quilt Guild Day Chapter will hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. at Fairview United Methodist Church. Doors open at 9 a.m. for a Sit N� Sew. Guests and new members are welcome.
Prepared childbirth (Lamaze) class five-week session will begin at 7 p.m. Call 815-6400 or visit www.boone.org.
Orr Street Studios will present a weekly series called Hearing Voices at 7 p.m. at 107 Orr St. It will feature fiction, poetry, essays, creative nonfiction and playwriting from Missouri. The series is free and open to the public. Wine and snacks are served. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Columbia Kiwanis Club will meet at noon at Jack�s Gourmet Restaurant. Speaker will be Chris Belcher, superintendent of Columbia Public Schools.
Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families 12-step meetings will be at noon and 5:30 p.m. at One Day At A Time, 2400 Business Loop 70 E.
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Booneslick Trail Quilt Guild Starlight Chapter will hold their monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at Fairview United Methodist Church. Guests and new members are welcome.
Muleskinners will meet at noon in Stamper Commons at Stephens College. The Columbia Board of Education candidates will hold a forum.
Mid-Missouri Peaceworks will present a free screening of �Hearts & Minds� at 7 p.m. at the Peace Nook. For more information, call 875-0539.
Friends of Arrow Rock and the Arrow Rock Historic Site present Michael Dickey, speaking on the Missouri Indian Nation, at 10 a.m. at the Arrow Rock State Historic Site visitor center. For more information, call (660) 837-3231.


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Do you want this woman giving you beauty advice? To be fair, the woman pictured on the left has been called the Helena Rubinstein of India - mighty impressive if you ask me. She is Shahnaz Husain, Indian beauty entrepreneur whose Ayurvedic products reach the likes of yours truly from New Delhi to New York. Read about her empire in "Indian Beauty" from the Wall Street Journal.
I myself am a total sucker for "natural" skincare and beauty products, particularly if they are from reputable Indian brands, including Shahnaz Husain, Biotique, and Himalaya Herbal Healthcare. When it comes to Shahnaz, I've had pretty good experiences with the line's kajal eyeliner, moisturizer, and an occasional face "pack" or two. Don't know how I feel about the company's philosophy or business aspirations, but wouldn't it be funny if this was the face behind the latest addition to Sephora, QVC, or Whole Foods?
On a more serious note, I do think it would be a refreshing addition, and would be thrilled to find such products at popular stores rather than hunting them down in Little India or Jackson Heights in NY. Can't say the prices would be so pleasing, but let's see what happens.
Here's to Husain's rosy aspirations...
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Do you want this woman giving you beauty advice? To be fair, the woman pictured on the left has been called the Helena Rubinstein of India - mighty impressive if you ask me. She is Shahnaz Husain, Indian beauty entrepreneur whose Ayurvedic products reach the likes of yours truly from New Delhi to New York. Read about her empire in "Indian Beauty" from the Wall Street Journal.
Posted by Truckspotter at 4:28 PM
Labels: Beauty Tools, Face Paint, Random, Skin, Sub-Continental
7 comments:
- An Indian's Makeup Blog said...
Really! I am glad she will selling her products out here! I did try her oxygen mask once....it was hilarious. Was suppose to infuse oxygen into my face or something like that. I fell for it but it did nothing for my face :(
But I believe her facials are one of the best! They have nice DIY kits! Hope they are affordable for me...
- September 10, 2008 at 5:04 PM
- Kanan said...
When I get facials done, I go with her stuff. And I like it. Glad to know about her making it big. Thanks for the info.
- September 10, 2008 at 11:28 PM
- Truckspotter said...
Yes, this should be interesting. If you guys are into these things, you should also definitely try the Himalayan brand I mentioned as well as Biotique - they're actually better in my opinion. Shahnaz is all about the marketing/packaging.
- September 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM
- An Indian's Makeup Blog said...
Hey Shrooms!
I agree...I have tried both Himalayas and Boutique. My friend has this awesome face wash from Himalayan brand...its nice and green...love the smell and it makes your face squeaky clean.
I have this milk protein face pack form Boutique... its a mess but I guess the milk will help soften the face...their other masks are outta this world. Love em!
- September 11, 2008 at 4:54 PM
- Truckspotter said...
Of course I've tried the milk protein pack from Biotique! :) I also love their Honey Gel cleanser - so refreshing and nothing irritating about it. They really have some great products. I don't know where your from, but Butala Emporium in Manhattan carries both Biotique and Himalayan. Let me know if you try anything else from them in the near future!
- September 11, 2008 at 4:56 PM
- monica said...
i used to like vasanti because their concealer and face powder was PERFECT for my face, but the quality of the make-up is so bad that I gave up on them. are the other brands you mention better in quality, and where can i try them out?
- September 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- Truckspotter said...
For makeup, I don't know of any major Indian brands that are very good. Gala of London has some great eyeliners though, but it's hard to find. I've been wondering whatever happened to Lubna Khalid's Real Cosmetics (check out the website) - apparently the company is still around, but I never hear about any of its products. Will keep my eyes open...
- September 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM


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Blast from the Past #480: August 3, 2005: Re: Show 118 ("Future Shellshock") Second Draft and Show 120 ("Home Invasion") Outline
Subj: Re: Show 118 ("Future Shellshock") Second Draft and Show 120 ("Home Invasion") Outline
Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 1:29:57 AM
From: Peter Laird
To: Lloyd Goldfine
Here are my comments on the 118 second draft.
1.) Re: the following:
"REVEAL SPLINTER - His robe and walking stick are gone.
You don' t say. "
This is slightly less lame than the line it replaces, but it's still bad. It doesn't sound at all like Splinter. Let's just have him do a "take" as he realizes that his clothes are gone. Or just skip this bit entirely.
2.) Re: the following:
Forget the TV. The whole lair is gone!
No, more like it decomposed."
Don's line is worse than the one it replaced:
It's like the place suddenly... aged."
Why the change? "Aged" is far more appropriate to the situation -- and how the lair looks -- than "decomposed". And because "decomposed" generally refers to things that were once alive going through the process of rotting after death, it's really not appropriate, ESPECIALLY coming from science nerd Don.
3.) Re: the following:
What the shell just happened?
ON SPLINTER - heading for the exit.
An attack? We must inspect the damage."
Again, a line inferior to the one it replaces:
There is only one way to find out..."
The new line is weird and goofy -- Splinter thinks the lair has been attacked... so he goes OUTSIDE to "inspect the damage"?
I think there may be too much effort going on in this script to hold off the big reveal of the "surprise" -- that the Turtles and Splinter have been zapped into the future -- when in all likelihood it's not going to be too much of a surprise, given the clues that we are dropping. And there is a real danger of making the Turtles -- who have been through many weird adventures INCLUDING time travel -- look pretty DUMB if they don't at least have SOME inkling of what may have just happened. I mean, think about it -- they ALL recognize that they are in the same lair, but everything looks old. Hmmm...
4.) Re: the following:
Splinter and the Turtles make their way upwards, <HUFFING AND PUFFING>, their movements slow and lumbering.
Is it... just me... or is it... really hard... to breathe... all of a sudden?
And why does... my body... feel like it... weighs a ton?
Prob'ly all that... junk food, Porkins. "
I still feel this is a very poor introduction to the gravity/atmosphere zones concept, ESPECIALLY as, when you consider what happens a few pages later, it's really superfluous... on top of not making much sense. See my last set of comments for more detail.
5.) Re: the following:
"ON TURTLES AND SPLINTER - on their hands and knees, weighted down by gravity and breathlessness, barely able to move, while Splinter seems to be unaffected by it all."
I might -- MIGHT -- buy the idea that Splinter has better breath control than the Turtles and can thus resist longer the effects of the different atmosphere. But the idea that he can somehow not be affected by the gravity that is weighing down the Turtles is just dopey.
6.) Re: the following:
Quite the blaster buster, wot? Identification."
"Blaster buster"? If this is an attempt at "future slang", it's lame. It's also unnecessary.
7.) Re: the following:
Crumpets. Look high and low! They can t be far!"
"Crumpets"? See point 6.
8.) Re: the following:
All right, you got our attention. Talk --
Or we ll pass out all over his fine Corinthian leather?"
Why is Don doing a bad Mikey joke, and why is he phrasing it as a question? I'd lose this and go back to the original.
9.) Re: the following:
"Suddenly Mikey's descent slows as if he's light as a feather... which he is because there's hardly any gravity here. He takes a <DEEP BREATH>, overjoyed... but when he tries to speak &
* BUBBLES come out of his ears. "
Has the writer actually SEEN any of the TMNT episodes? Where, exactly are these ears the bubbles will be coming out of?
10.) Re: the following:
Dat s it! I m done with all this crazy alien no air Twilight Zone bunk! Talk!"
11.) Re: the following:
I think I still have blue smoke in my brain. We're still in New York... a hundred years in the future? And aliens live here? And buildings fly? And--?"
Another inferior substitution for this original:
You mean we're still in New York... a hundred years in the future?"
Please, let's remember that these Turtles ARE NOT STUPID!!! The idea that they might be in the future MUST have occurred to them, especially after just having seen the Empire State building in a previous scene. Leo sounds like a complete moron as written here.
12.) Re: the following:
(to Donatello)
Pretty Phat Boss , huh, Leonardo?
LEO - waves his hand and points to Don. Cody looks sheepish.
Uh, I'M Leonardo. That's Donatello."
As I said in my previous set of comments, these misidentification gags are painfully DUMB. Let's get rid of them and not waste time and lines on dopey stuff like this.
13.) Re: the following:
How did you ever tell them apart?
Color coded diapers.
Do they still have the saying TMI? Too much Information?"
This is an excellent example of "going over the line" with silly, dopey, inappropriate-to-character humor. This hurts my brain. Remember -- CODY IS THE BIGGEST TURTLES FAN IN THE ENTIRE FREAKIN' WORLD! HE KNOWS HOW TO TELL THEM APART! Jeez...
14.) Re: the following:
2105 is no place for a mutated turtle from the twentieth century! He ll be torn apart out there! Come on--!
SERLING - <WHIRS> over and blocks Cody's path.
Master, while I m certain you feel pity for these wretched things, you shouldn t just up and leave the house."
Again -- is Cody not PERMITTED to leave the house or is he too agoraphobic or timid to leave the house? I thought it was the latter. But whichever, it's important to decide now. I think it makes Cody a more interesting character if he has to fight his own fears about going outside.
15.) Re: the following:
(explaining to Turtles/Splinter)
Master Jones is the owner of O'Neil Tech, a prominent manufacturer of terran technologies
As in April O Neil? You go, genius!"
Don's line is dopey... more of a Mikey line, but I don't even think it would be good for him. It's also very obvious... we just saw a page or so ago that Cody is April's descendant. Why is Don then so surprised?
16.) Re: the following:
How hard is it to find three talking turtles and a rat in this place? "
Extremely dopey.
17.) Re: the following:
Good news. I'm tracking Michelangelo's temporal displacement signature -- (off of Raph s puzzled look) Funk that stuck to his shell from the twentieth century.
Mikey stinks. Check. "
While I am not in any way opposed to a good Raph jab at Mikey's bodily habits, THIS is just plain dopey and makes NO SENSE.
18.) Re: the following:
Mikey stinks. Check.
*WIDEN - All react to an urgent <KLAXON> as <ENERGY CRACKLES> out of the TIME WINDOW, knocking Raph on his shell!
*LEO AND DON help Raph to his feet &
It was just a joke --"
Dopey. Who is Raph talking to? Why would he think that his stupid little joke about Mikey caused anything to happen?
19.) Re: the following:
"ON HANGAR - The doors slide open, revealing THE HOVER SHELL - a sleek new Turtles-inspired hover vehicle.
You have way too much time on your hands."
Why is Leo being such an asshole here? Totally out of character, especially under the circumstances. Another dumbass "throw in a joke" bit -- who cares if it's not at all appropriate to the situation?
20.) Re: the following:
"MIKEY'S POV - The Alien Street Vendor is gone. The alley is empty, save for a HOVER TRANSPORT, parked at the end.
Great. Where am I now? Invisible town?"
"Invisible town" seems odd. Maybe "Invisible alien town" would be better.
21.) Re: the following:
And you guys shoulda mention the BIG UGLY ATTACK ROBOT!"
That should be "mentioned", not "mention".
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Fianna Fáil TD for Cavan-Monaghan and Chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade Brendan Smith has called for an all-island industrial promotion agency to ensure that key investment opportunities in Ireland are secured and developed.
Northern Irish companies have been involved in a number of trade promotion visits organised by Enterprise Ireland and the IDA over the past 6 years. Extensive links have also been forged between Irish State agencies and Invest Northern Ireland to further develop relations into the future and the establishment of an all-island agency would bolster those opportunities.
Deputy Smith commented, "I was extremely disappointed by the disparaging and untrue remarks made by Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster a fortnight ago when she accused the Irish government of talking down the Northern Irish economy. It has never been the case that an Irish government has had an agenda to sully the reputation of Northern Ireland in order to compete for jobs.
"In fact, the over the last 6 years, companies from Northern Ireland have been involved in at least 12 Enterprise Ireland trade promotion visits and 3 IDA missions. I have always been a strong advocate for intensifying relations between the various business and economic agencies North and South to enable them to sell an all-island product. This was something I was particularly conscious of during my time as Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Over many years there has been a close working relationship between the Agriculture Departments North and South of the Border.
"First Minister Foster's comments were designed to drive a wedge between economic and business relations on either side of the border, when what we need to attract investment to the island is a stronger bond between the various agencies and bodies. This approach will build on the foundations of the Good Friday Agreement and has the potential to reap huge rewards for the entire island", concluded Deputy Smith.


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Sunday, January 11, 2009
How safe is the US Embassy in Baghdad?
Last Monday, the US Embassy in Baghdad had its grand opening ceremony after cost-overruns and repeated building problems. US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker attended the ceremonies as did the former US Ambassador to Iraq and now Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
The US State Dept gave press briefings last week. Somehow, in all five, neither spokesperson Sean McCormack nor Robert Wood managed to address that. They never even gave it a single-sentence shout-out.
Maybe they were afraid of questions? While the official press release from the US Embassy insisted the cost for "the largest American Embassy structure to date" [!] was $592 million the reality was that the price was most likely close to $150 million more than that.
Though a ton of tax payer money was being spent to establish a US fortress in Iraq, there still appeared to be some security concerns. Leila Fadel (McClatchy Newspapers) noted that those snagging invites were informed, "No firearms, cameras, cell phones or other electronics". Excepting firearms (maybe they were afraid Jalal would show up with a six-shooter and, in a festive mood, fire a few rounds skyward) what those conditionals really speak of is insecurity.
All that money spent for the embassy, located in the relative safety of the Green Zone, and still the fear. And people wonder why the US diplomatic corps avoids assignments to Iraq.
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The Village of Pemberton may have to go to a second referendum on boundary expansion.
The last council meeting (May 18) saw lawmakers receive a report from chief administrator Daniel Sailland recommending that they move forward with steps three and four of the boundary extension process set out by B.C.'s Ministry of Community and Rural Development.
The process now requires the village to hold another referendum because the one held in tandem with the 2008 municipal election has not satisfied the statutory requirement for a vote.
"Essentially, they want us to go through the process again," Pemberton Mayor Jordan Sturdy said. "It was council's impression that this was going to meet those statutory requirements, but since that time the ministry has suggested that it didn't meet the requirements."
Step 3 of the boundary expansion process is a Ministry Review, in which the ministry acknowledges receipt of the Village's expansion proposal and reviews the submission by preparing an administrative report that provides the municipality with feedback.
Once the ministry confirms a complete boundary expansion proposal it is then referred to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure for review.
Step 4, Elector Approval, requires "municipal elector" approval of the proposed expansion. It can be obtained through a referendum or an Alternative Approval Process as mandated under Sections 85 and 86 of the Community Charter.
The Village of Pemberton has actually completed this process but, as noted above, it now has to go through it again because the Province was not satisfied with the initial vote.
The boundary expansion has taken on an added urgency in recent months as development at Hillside - one of 20 areas subject to the expansion - currently lies within Area C of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) and is subject to development approvals by a regional board with representatives from communities such as Squamish and Whistler.
The expansion would bring Hillside under the village's governance and allow lawmakers to make decisions on land use, rather than split those decisions with politicians from other communities.
Hillside is currently the subject of a battle over Sunstone Ridge, a proposed residential and recreational neighbourhood that includes an international private school being developed by GEMS International.
The regional board has thus far refused to endorse a Neighbourhood Concept Plan (NCP) that would allow Sunstone Ridge to start developing which in turn stalled developing of the school, which is expected to be an economic boon for Pemberton.
The developers of Sunstone Ridge are also the proponents of the school. They have chosen to move applications through the SLRD's zoning process together, which has stalled approval.
Other areas expected to be brought in under the village's current expansion proposal include the Rutherford Creek Power Plant, which alone could bring $135,000 in tax revenue to the village.
Council also received correspondence from the Lil'wat Nation, which initially wasn't sure about Pemberton taking over governance of the Hillside area. They worried it would mean the lands were being ceded to Pemberton but village lawmakers calmed those concerns by saying they would only govern it.
The Lil'wat Nation, a partner in Sunstone Ridge, now has no opposition to the village expanding its governance boundaries to include Hillside.


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Being a desk jockey may seem nice to some… enjoying a nice air conditioned building, not having to strain yourself with labor intensive work, working monday-Friday 9 to 5. Well I think everything but the latter is total crap!
I hate working a desk job. Don't get me wrong, the benefits and pay are amazing. And I work for an animal shelter. So what seems to be the matter? Well I hate sitting…. just sitting on my butt all damn day. It sucks. I feel so lazy and I feel my body already being affected by it. I have written about what sitting all day can do to the body, you can check it out.
Sitting has tightened my hip flexors which makes it really hard and uncomfortable to stretch and get into my splits. And with progressing into Level 2 aerial, I need my flexibility and strength which I am losing.
Here is what I have done to help with the dreaded "sitting disease" Quick side note, I have also written about The Importance of 10,000 steps. You can check that out too. However with the summer heat here in Southern California, it's a bit hard to walk and run in the heat.
Now on top of walking and running as often as I can and when the weather allows, I also train for aerial. What exactly does that look like?
Well about every other hour, (or hour if I'm in need for an extra stretch) I stretch at my desk. What kind of stretches?
- High Lunges
- Low Lunges
- Standing Forward Bend
- Wide Leg Forward Bend
- Triangle Pose
- Side Stretches
Now for those of you who practice yoga, most of these stretches will sound familiar. I usually take 5 minutes and run through these stretches. Now when the heat is hot and walking outside is out of the question I will practice yoga. I'll switch it up from flexibility to strength.
Now lets pause for a second. While I love yoga and it makes me feel good, I love aerial more. In order to regain body awareness that one needs in aerial, I have been strongly focusing on yoga to help me move forward in my aerial practice. Flexibility and strength are important and yoga plays a key role in aerial. I will also take time to do yoga when I get home anytime after an aerial class or conditioning session.
Now I have an pass for my local aerial studio. I switch up my days sometimes but I usually take 2-3 aerial classes per week, and another 2 "floor" classes a week.
- Monday – Circus workout (aerial class)
- Tuesday – Aerial Yoga (aerial class)
- Wednesday – Circus stretch ("floor" class)
- Saturday – Pilates ("floor" class)
- Saturday – Lyra/Trapeze/Silks (aerial class)
Now above is what I take currently but I don't go to every single class. one week I will only take 2 classes, another week I'll take all 5. I am actually going to be switching to mostly aerial 2 classes very soon which leaves more time for a personal workout.
Now since I cant be at the studio all day every day (I wish) when I'm at my local regular gym, I will usually condition for aerial. What does that look like?
- Pull-ups (all variations) on bars, trx straps and smith machine
- Negative Pull-Ups
- Hanging Leg Raises
- Straddle Leg Raises
- Pikes on a yoga ball
- Push-Ups (all variations)
- Back Extensions
- Side extensions
- Ab crunches (all kinds of variations)
- Assisted Pistol Squats
- Walking Lunges
- Step-Ups
And anything else calisthenics related that I forgot to mention. That's mostly what aerial is, using your own body weight to get yourself into poses, drops, and contortions.
So you can see I try to stay as active as I can. Always trying to move around and find a way to take the "scenic route" in a way. I don't feel like it's ever a chore to stay active. There are times when I'm tired and I take that feeling to relax and practice restorative yoga, not pushing my body too much. But otherwise, I'm always wanting to do things that'll work my body because it's good for it. Parking a bit farther than usual. Taking more trips to do things or get things to let my body take a break from sitting.


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Friday, February 11, 2011
I agree with Chester Finn - Nobody deserves tenure
Nobody deserves tenure, with the possible exception of federal judges. University professors don't deserve tenure; civil servants don't deserve tenure; police and firefighters don't deserve tenure; school teachers don't deserve tenure. With the solitary exception noted above—and you might be able to talk me out of that one, too—nobody has a right to lifetime employment unrelated either to their on-the-job performance or to their employer's continuing need for the skills and attributes of that particular person.
Tenure didn't come down from Mt. Sinai or over on the Mayflower. Though people occasionally refer to its origins in medieval universities, on these shores, at least, it's a twentieth-century creation. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) began pushing for it around 1915, but tenuring professors didn't become the norm on U.S. campuses until after World War II (when the presumption of a 7-year decision timeframe also gained traction) and it wasn't truly formalized until the 1970's when a couple of Supreme Court decisions made formalization unavoidable.
I love the line: "Tenure didn't come down from Mt. Sinai or over on the Mayflower."
I totally agree, there is no reason why someone who worked for a couple years and kept their nose cleaned should have a job guranteed for the rest of their life.
(Hat tip: AngryVillagers.net)
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- Happy Elf Mom (Christine) said...
I think some people are concerned that if you get rid of tenure, that you also get rid of due process. And that's just not *necessarily* true. :)
Tenure is not a right but a privilege in universities given to professors to enable them to research risky topics without fear of retribution by administrators.
- Henry Cate said...
Jay, I think we see the fundamental issue very differently. I don't want to get into a big debate, but I would like to understand where you are comjing from better.
Do you think teachers from kindegarten to 12th grade should also be granted tenure? And why?
Why are universities different than company research labs? Top scientists work at places like HP Labs, and if they are performing they are kept. But if they don't perform companies will ease them out. Why do you think it should be different at a university?


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Andy Canino started out with a basic tattooing kit and a natural talent for art. He figured out how to tattoo on his own, and has been tattooing professionally for almost a decade. He is now co-owner of Dedication Tattoo. Westword recently sat down with Canino, who talked about making sacrifices, being honest with himself and the importance of confidence.
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Westword: How long have you been tattooing?
Andy Canino: I've been in a shop for about nine years now. I was tattooing prior to that out of my house, being one of those guys.
How did you get into tattooing? What drew you to the art form?
I started getting tattooed at sixteen up in Fort Collins. My godmother signed for me to get my first one. I just kept getting tattoos there and I kept asking a lot of questions. At one point, the guy I was getting tattooed by was like, "Hey, you're asking a lot of questions. Is this something you want to get into?" I'm like seventeen at the time, like, "Yeah, absolutely, man." He said to give him X amount of dollars and we would get me set up with everything I'd need. So I did, and he did, kind of. He got me the basics, though. I took it home, set it all up the best that I could, and realized I had no idea what I was doing. So I went back to talk to him and he was gone. He had essentially disappeared off the face of the planet. So I was stuck with all this tattoo gear and, being some dumb kid, I was like, "Well, I'll figure it out." Having roots in art my whole life -- my mom raised me to be an artist; she said, "Here's a crayon, figure out what to do with it" -- well, here's a tattoo machine, figure out what to do with it. So I did it to the best of my ability, a bunch of trial and error on myself and on my friends -- mostly error. I learned a lot of what not to do. Looking back on it, I'm surprised I made some of the tattoos that I did. But yeah, you know, here we are now. It worked out okay. It probably took longer that it should have, figuring out how to do everything, but I got the hang of it eventually.
What styles do you like to work in?
Preferentially, I like to do traditional stuff -- strong lines, black shading, dense color. But I like to do tattoos that look like tattoos. The first shop I worked at was more along the lines of a street shop, where people would come in and pick stuff off the walls. There was a lot on the walls to choose from in every style so, advantageously, that gave me the opportunity to expand my abilities as far as what kind of tattoos I can make. If someone comes in the door wanting a black-and-gray tattoo, I can do it. If someone wants Japanese style, I love doing Japanese stuff. It's a lot of fun. I would like to think I can accommodate most requests. But I try to stick with traditional as much as I can. A lot of my clients and return clients are typically getting traditional stuff from me. Mostly just tattoos that look like tattoos.
Continue reading for the rest of the Q&A with Canino.
What would you say are some challenges to being a tattoo artist?
Trying to continue to grow. Trying not to stagnate. I've worked around people in the past who have lost their passion for tattooing. And it's not a challenge for me to maintain passion, but it is a challenge to not get comfortable -- to continue to grow, continue to learn, continue to study different types of tattooing, the stories behind certain styles like Japanese or American or otherwise. Just continuing to constantly feed your brain and just live tattooing. You have to sacrifice a lot of stuff to do that. When kids are first getting into tattooing, I'd say, "You probably want to just dump your boyfriend or girlfriend right now, because you're gonna live this." Sometimes that's a challenge for a lot of people; it's sometimes a challenge for me. Sometimes I'll take my focus away from tattooing and put it into a hobby, then I need to reevaluate what I'm doing and put it back into tattooing because it's the most important thing to me.
When you were starting out, did you feel pressure about creating something so permanent?
Oddly, no. I did my first handful of tattoos on myself, and I would like to think I approached it with a certain amount of honesty with myself that, if I were doing just terrible tattoos, I would be able to say, "This isn't for you. This is not your strong suit. You already suck at this. Don't pursue it." I was able to do that with other mediums, like I'm terrible at sculpting, terrible at working on Photoshop and stuff like that. I know that. I wanted to approach tattooing with the same amount of honesty with myself, so I did it on myself and was like, "Well, I've seen worse coming out of shops, so this can't be that bad if I just keep with it." I had a lot of friends who were super-supportive of me, so they let me put almost certainly atrocious tattoos on them. But the sense of permanence never really concerned me. It was just a matter of approaching it with a certain amount of confidence and hoping for the best.
Do you work in other media?
Most of the art I do is tattoo related -- tattooable pictures, painting flash, stuff like that. Sam [Yamini] and I have taken on the project of trying to do one sheet of flash per week. So it's just like an 11 inch by 14 inch sheet of designs. I painted a back piece recently. Just things that can be tattooed on people because you need to stay fresh and everything. I'll do a little bit of portrait watercolor, but that's completely aside from tattooing. In no way, shape or form do I want to do color portrait tattoos. It's just a fun, weird, kind of perverted outlet for me because it's just paintings of dirty girls and stuff, being weird. So yeah, mostly tattoo designs, watercolor and a little bit of portraiture.
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Peleș Castle is a Neo-Renaissance castle nestled in the Carpathian Mountains, northwest of the town of Sinania, about 60 kilometers from Brasov. The castle complex is composed of three main structures: the castle itself, the Pelisor Chateau and the Foisor Hunting Lodge.
Built between 1973 and 1914, the castle stands on a medieval route that links Wallachia and Transylvania. Over three hundrer men worked on the construction of the castle and Queen Elizabeth of the Romanians wrote in her journal during the construction:
"Italians were masons, Romanians were building terraces, the Gypsies were coolies. Albanians and Greeks worked in stone, Germans and Hungarians were carpenters. Turks were burning brick. Engineers were Polish and the stone carvers were Czech. The Frenchmen were drawing, the Englishmen were measuring, and so was then when you could see hundreds of national costumes and fourteen languages in which they spoke, sang, cursed and quarreled in all dialects and tones, a joyful mix of men, horses, cart oxen and domestic buffaloes."
An interesting fact about the castle is that it was the first in the world to be fully powered by locally produced electricity.
The castle can be visited via a guided tour year-round exceptuating November, when the castle is closed every year for maintenance. The most notable rooms to see are the Honor Hall, which spreads over three floors decorated by glass panels, sculptures and carved woodwork on the walls. The Playhouse, which is decorated with mural paintings by Gustav Klimt and Frantz Matsch. The Turkish Parlor, which is full of Turkish Izmir rugs and other decorations and is used as a smoking room for men. The Moorish Salon, with an indoor marble fountain and decorated by elements of North African and Hispanic Moorish style. The Imperial Suite, believed to be a tribute to Franz Joseph I and decorated in an Austrian Baroque style. The Arsenal, which contains 1,600 pieces of weaponry and armor and one of Europe's finest collections of hunting implements. The Florentine Room, which features elements of the Italian Renaissance.


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