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Concern is mounting about the environmental dangers of fracking – fracturing subterranean rock to get to the oil and gas.
The oil and gas industry is a bit touchy these days about the subject of hydraulic fracturing – better known as fracking. Too much misinformation is being put about in the media by folk with an axe to grind against the resources sector, they say.
So let's go to one of their own for a straightforward description of how fracking works. Here's Drew Cadenhead, chief operating officer of Canada-based Tag Oil. The company is aggressively expanding its operations in Taranaki, and has permits over vast areas of the North Island's East Coast, stretching from Te Puia Springs to southern Hawke's Bay, where it is searching for oil held in deep shale rock.
You drill down, he explains, and then "you turn the bit and you drill horizontally. And you start drilling, drilling, drilling. You've got a kilometre of hole going along here now. Then you go to the end of that hole, and you start fracturing it. Crack! And you do it again. Crack! Crack! And you do it all the way along that whole thing. You've just busted the shit out of a kilometre of the stuff, and all of a sudden seven, eight thousand barrels a day is comin' through that hole.
"It's called an unconventional oil play, and it really is at the forefront of what we're doing down on the east coast of New Zealand right now."
Cadenhead's enthusiasm for busting open fuel-rich shale rock – described by geologists as the earth's "kitchen" where oil and gas are cooked – has been matched by executives at Wellington-based L&M Energy, which told the sharemarket in June that it planned to explore "shale plays" in Canterbury and Southland, where there was "significant shale gas potential, analogous to some of the most productive shale acreage in the USA".
No wonder they're excited. In the US and elsewhere around the globe, the development of horizontal drilling and fracking as a way of unlocking the oil and gas held in shale and other impermeable rock is revolutionising the energy market. The industry calls it unconventional with good reason. "Conventional" gas and oil accumulates over millions of years in porous rocks, which give up their riches upon simple drilling, but the fuel in shale and other "tight" rock does not flow readily and was long thought to be too difficult and expensive to extract.
Fracking has changed all that. As conventional oil and gas sources dwindle, it's expected that 70% of the world's future reserves will come from unconventional resources, according to Tag's website. And shale rock is not the only candidate for exploitation using horizontal drilling and fracking; other "tight" rocks include sandstones and coal seams. The technique has already turned the US energy industry on its head. A few years ago, it was on the verge of having to import natural gas; now it has so many fracking rigs producing so much gas from the continent's vast shale beds that it could end up becoming an exporter of the stuff. Other countries keen to join the fracked-gas rush include China, Poland, the UK, Ukraine and Australia.
The Government wants New Zealand to become a net exporter of oil and gas by 2030. But some other countries are slamming on the brakes, as controversy mounts over the environmental cost of fracking. Moratoriums have been imposed in France, South Africa, New South Wales, New York, New Jersey and Quebec in response to allegations that the practice can contaminate groundwater and leave a legacy of hazardous waste.
To fracture the deep fuel-rich rock, huge volumes of water (between seven and 18 million litres for a single shale well, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency), laced with a cocktail of chemicals and sand, are pumped underground at enormous pressure. The chemicals help ensure the sand is transported into the cracks, where it props open the gaps and enables the gas or oil to flow. Some of the fluid comes back up and has to be disposed of, and some stays in the ground. The process is controversial. In drilling regions of the US such as Pennsylvania and Wyoming, locals allege that fracking fluids and gas have migrated into their well water.
The documentary movie Gasland popularised these concerns with graphic images of residents holding cigarette lighters up to their running taps, causing the water to explode in a ball of flame. Many recounted stories of illness in their households, and sick and dying animals. Some said their water had turned brown and smelt foul, and they were forced to truck in water after their wells were ruined.
Thanks to the so-called "Halliburton Loophole" ushered through Congress in 2005 by then Vice-President Dick Cheney – one-time chief executive of energy giant Halliburton, one of the big names behind the fracking revolution – the industry is exempt under the US Safe Drinking Water Act from disclosing the chemicals it uses in fracking. However, a recent study by the US House of Representatives energy and commerce committee found that between 2005 and 2009, the industry used 29 chemicals that were either carcinogens or posed other risks to human health, or were hazardous air pollutants. Among them were benzene, toluene, xylene and ethylbenzene – known collectively as BTEX – of which benzene is a carcinogen.
And in the face of consistent denials by the industry that it is damaging groundwater, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported last month that chemicals associated with fracking had been found in groundwater in Wyoming. The EPA is in the middle of a major study of the risks of fracking, the results of which are expected at the end of the year.
In Australia, landowners and gas companies are in conflict over access to precious water supplies as drillers tap into huge reserves of coal seam gas. A recent Senate inquiry recommended a moratorium on coal seam gas projects in the Murray-Darling basin because of fears for the water resources of the Great Artesian Basin.
The industry has consistently denied the charges against it, insisting that fracking fluids can't infiltrate groundwater because drilling takes place hundreds or even thousands of metres down and is separated from aquifers by dense layers of rock. It claims the flaming tapwater seen in Gasland can't be attributed to fracking, and instead blames poorly encased water wells into which methane has naturally migrated.
In New Zealand the headlines about fracking have been full of reassurances. The resources sector here insists that the nasty scenes shown in Gasland could not be repeated in this country because of our excellent environmental regulation and high-quality industry practice. In addition, the scale of fracking activities in the US is unlikely to be replicated here.
John Pfahlert, chief executive of the Petroleum Exploration and Production Association, says the BTEX cocktail is not used in modern fracking. He says the chemicals used by frackers in New Zealand – for instance antifreeze, glutaraldehyde, guar gum and biocides – are also found in common household products, including ice cream. Moreover, they are at such low concentrations – around 2% – that they're non-toxic.
Solid Energy, which is experimenting with fracking for coal seam gas in the Waikato, says it decided not to use BTEX even though its Environment Waikato resource consent allowed it. Steve Pearce, Solid Energy's general manager of gas developments, adds that coal seam gas extraction doesn't involve the huge volumes of water required for shale gas, and the water that Solid Energy uses is saline, drawn from deep underground. Pearce says the operation is heavily monitored under its Environment Waikato resource consent. "I can state we have had no effect at all on the water table. Everyone sees the Gasland video and assumes that's what's happening here. It's not."
Indeed, the whole industry says it's as clean as a whistle. "There has never been water contamination in New Zealand as a result of fracking, or an oil and gas operation generally," states a position paper put out by Pfahlert's group, in concert with Solid Energy and resources lobby group Straterra.
Still, fracking is a delicate subject if the response of L&M Energy is any indication. Having bullishly talked up the potential for a shale gas "play" in Canterbury and Southland and extolled the virtues of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in its June statement to the sharemarket, L&M told the Listener in late November it had no plans to frack. Managing director Kent Anson says the company's exploration permits in the South Island are for coal seam gas, not shale, and it shouldn't be assumed that coal seam gas extraction requires fracking. He warned he would demand a retraction if our story said it was fracking, or intended to do so.
And Tag Oil's exploration partner on the East Coast, Texas-based Apache Corporation, freely acknowledged it was unhappy when it discovered the colourful fracking video Tag's Drew Cadenhead had prepared, which included the statement that the method was at the "forefront" of the company's plans in the region. Apache spokesman Alex Ferguson says fracking may not even be required on the East Coast, where the rock appears to be naturally fractured. Indeed, despite Tag's corporate communications referring to the East Coast permit areas as a "shale play" comparable to America's most prolific shale fields, Ferguson says "it's probably not shale at all", and is more of a "tight sandstone play".
"It's probably a misnomer for Tag to have put that on its website. In its defence, internationally in the oil and gas world, if you can promote your material as a shale of any kind you usually get a lot more interest," says Ferguson. So it depends on who the audience is? "Pretty much."
But if oil and gas companies can appear to indicate one thing to the sharemarket and another to the public, how much trust can communities have in their word? That's one of many questions that have been occupying the mind of Taranaki woman Sarah Roberts since August last year, when Tag Oil came knocking with news that the company intended to "aggressively move forward" with the expansion of its Cheal A and B well sites at Ngaere, about a kilometre from her husband's family farm. They were asked to sign a consent form allowing Tag to develop 16 new wells, which would bring the Cheal operation to a total of 30 wells.
Roberts and husband David Morrison – whose family have owned the farm for two generations – were reluctant to sign until they could be confident the operation would be tightly monitored. In particular they were worried about the safety of their water, which comes from a spring near the well site. In her hunt for information, Roberts discovered Tag had been fracking at the Cheal site – without the knowledge of the locals – at the relatively shallow depth of 1750m. And although the Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) and the oil and gas industry were issuing public assurances about the quality of regulation surrounding the industry, it turned out that fracking operations didn't even require resource consent.
After receiving a legal opinion, the council has recently changed its stance, and companies are now required to obtain resource consent to frack – but the council has made it clear these are likely to be non-notified, which means objectors will have no opportunity to be heard. Roberts also discovered that "power fluid" – used to heat wells to improve the flow of oil – had been leaking for two years from the Cheal site, but no enforcement action was taken by the council.
The resistance of Roberts and Morrison to Tag's plans became a major local controversy. Their refusal to sign forced Tag to a contested public hearing over land-use consents for the expanded Cheal operation, and they faced accusations that they were holding up progress and jeopardising the jobs of over 40 drillers.
The hearing commissioner recommended that the land-use consents be granted, but Roberts and Morrison have not given up and have taken their complaints to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. In the meantime, Tag Oil has told the community it's not planning to frack again at Cheal, despite earlier telling the Vancouver stock exchange that the wells were "fracture-stimulation candidates". At the Morrison farm, however, they are not taking chances and have started trucking in water for household use. They are still waiting for the council to test their water for the presence of drilling contaminants.
In the midst of the debate over Cheal, the council published a review of the history of fracking in the region, which concluded that out of 43 fracking operations on 28 wells between 2000 and 2011, there was "no evidence of related environmental problems".
"If hydraulic fracturing operations are carried out properly, it is unlikely that contaminants will reach overlying freshwater aquifers in the Taranaki region," said the report, which relied heavily on information provided by the oil and gas companies and has been celebrated by industry group Straterra as giving the "green light" to fracking. Yet just half an hour down the road from the Morrison farm is the Kapuni gas field, where fracking has been going on since 1991, and where there is evidence of long-standing contamination of groundwater caused by well fluids seeping through unlined storage pits.
In a report published by the TRC in June last year, groundwater beneath well "blowdown" pits at five Kapuni well sites was described as unsuitable for drinking or stock use, and unsuitable for irrigation at two sites. Benzene, ethylbenzene, xylene and petroleum hydrocarbons at levels above Ministry for the Environment guidelines were recorded at several sites, many of which are close to farmhouses. The pits have been used to temporarily hold "clean-up" fluids that come to the surface when a well is brought into production. This mixture also contains hydrocarbons that are flared off. Until 2006, the pits were used without resource consents.
Rob Jager, general manager of Shell Todd Oil Services (STOS), which owns the Kapuni operation, says some of the pits have been used to receive fluids from fracked wells, but that this is unlikely to be the source of the contamination. He says STOS no longer uses the pits, and describes the contamination as a "legacy issue" about which the company is seeking advice. He says STOS plans to frack five wells over the next two years – at depths of about 3500m – as part of a campaign to try to extend the life of the Kapuni field. Steel containment tanks will be used instead of the unlined pits.
Aside from being asked by the regional council to remove the well fluids from the pits and obtain resource consents, no action was taken against STOS over the contamination. However, the South Taranaki District Council, which knew nothing of the issue until it was raised by Roberts in early December, has decided to start testing the Hawera water supply – fed by the Kapuni Stream, which runs close to some of the contaminated sites – for traces of BTEX.
Doesn't the evidence of contamination at Kapuni cast doubt on the regional council's claims that the region's groundwater is safe from fracking, and that current regulation is adequate to manage any environmental effects? Fred McLay, TRC resource management director: "You've picked one particular case. There are many more cases where monitoring has shown absolute compliance. So I think you're dealing with a bit of a one-off here."
McLay says the Kapuni example should not be taken "as a case study as to the way we regulate the oil and gas industry. The company found there was an issue, it has resource consent, we've got regulation around that … We actually have a reputation here for using the enforcement powers of the Resource Management Act more than any other council in New Zealand because we think that provides integrity."
But neither McLay's assurances, nor those of the oil and gas industry, appear likely to hose down public concern about the prospect of more aggressive fracking operations in the future. The Green Party is circulating a petition calling for Parliament to impose a moratorium on fracking and direct the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright, to mount an investigation into the practice. And late last year the Christchurch City Council passed a motion calling for a moratorium until the risks have been independently examined.
Wright's office has received a steady stream of requests for an investigation, and she says her office is doing some scoping work. In the meantime, other communities are taking a wary attitude to the arrival in their midst of companies with designs on the energy riches deep beneath their feet. Apache – which is involved in North American fracking operations and has committed $100 million to its partnership with Tag Oil on the East Coast – has been meeting local iwi and other community groups in a bid to ease their concerns and explain the exploration programme.
One who remains unconvinced that the economic gains outweigh the environmental risks is Gisborne District councillor Manu Caddie. "The industry says nothing bad has happened in New Zealand, but should we wait until something bad does happen? Or should we take a precautionary approach and really investigate it before we open this country up?" Even if the fracking process itself does not cause problems, Caddie says, there is the issue of dealing with the toxic waste afterwards – "a legacy you have to deal with for generations" – and the risk of failures such as well blowouts. He argues that a moratorium is the only sensible option. "We have limited knowledge, and when you have whole countries overseas [putting moratoriums in place], it seems prudent to have a proper investigation."
Even Apache's Ferguson – a former British Columbia oil and gas regulator – urges New Zealand communities to think carefully about the issue, and concedes that there are problems in the US gas industry. "The States are near and dear to Canada … God bless them, especially in this industry, my experience always has been [that] they're like the cowboys next door." New Zealand, he says, needs to do its own research, figure out the rules it wants the industry to abide by, and identify "the values you hold dear and decide this is how you're going to make sure they are not negatively impacted.
"There is no easy answer. I don't expect people to believe Apache or any other oil company that comes in here. We're here to do our business, so you don't want to believe us. But on the other hand don't believe arbitrarily some of the other things that are out there either. I don't think there is an easy shortcut."
Does fracking cause earthquakes? In Canterbury, where L&M is exploring for coal seam gas, this question is at the forefront of the fracking debate. The answer, according to a US geophysicist who specialises in induced seismicity, is yes. American geophysicist Michael Hasting told a Christchurch public meeting late last year that the injection of fluids deep underground under huge pressure – in the order of 7000 to 10,000 PSI – causes the rock to fracture, producing "induced" earthquakes.
"You basically need these earthquakes to produce the fracture system and permeability in reservoirs." Most are too small to feel at the surface, with 95% smaller than magnitude 1. But Hasting says fracking can cause large earthquakes in seismically active areas. "If you're injecting high-pressure fluids into a fault or near a fault that is active and near failure – that's stressed to the point where it's near to going – the fluids can lubricate the fault and cause it to slip."
It has happened. "In Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, they were injecting fluids along a fault over a period of a few years and they noticed increased seismicity in the area. On August 9, 1967, they had a magnitude 5.5 event." The project, which was to dispose of wastewater, was shut down as a result.
In the Swiss city of Basel, fracking at a geothermal project is claimed to have triggered several earthquakes in the magnitude 3 range between December 2006 and January 2007. It, too, was subsequently shut down. And in 1979 through to the late 1980s at a geothermal field in Baja California, there were several magnitude 5 events allegedly triggered by fracking, with the largest measuring 5.4. So, should fracking go ahead in Canterbury without first checking the earthquake safety of the region?
"No," says Hasting, who stressed he was a supporter of fracking if it is done well. "You shouldn't do it. It would be absolutely irresponsible to go out in an area like Canterbury, which is a known area of tectonic fractures, and start injecting fluids without understanding the reservoir, the system, and where you are injecting these fluids. You want to determine where these faults are and how close they are to failure before anything is done. You can't 100% guarantee that you won't induce a large event in a tectonically active area like New Zealand."
A series of small earthquakes last year near Blackpool in England has been linked by the British Geological Survey to a fracking project run by Cuadrilla Resources. A subsequent study commissioned by Cuadrilla confirmed the link. There have been suggestions that a recent series of earthquakes in Oklahoma – including a magnitude 5.6 – may be linked to fracking in the state.


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Calling all foursquare lovers! Following on the heels of last week's update for legacy devices, Foursquare rolled out an a new version for BlackBerry 10 which brings it to v10.0.1.3486. It offers enhancements, bug fixes, and new features to make sure you get the most out of your check-in experience. One of the more notable additions is the ability to sync your credit card to your Foursquare account to quickly redeem the specials. To view the full change log, be sure to hit the jump.
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Since 2004, Richard Reynolds has been stealing out at night in London, gardening tools in hand, and reclaiming the city's sidewalks, medians, and ditches into flowerbeds, vegetable patches, and orchards. At the same time Reynolds started a blog about his exploits, which eventually formed into the crossroads of an extant world-wide movement of guerrilla gardening. Last year he published a manifesto on gardening where you're not supposed to. The self-defined guerrilla gardening movement has its roots in the histories of migrant workers and agrarian communists, yet the modern movement's motives take it not towards the disruption of its society (as in the case of the Diggers—the agrarian communists), but the beautification of it. What defines this movement above other "guerrilla" movements is its vivacity, rhetoric of growth over upheaval, and above all, art. Continue reading
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The Victory of the White House Garden – by Emmett
There were some stirrings in the news this week about Michelle Obama planting a vegetable garden in the White House grounds. According to the Huffington Post, she broke ground on it today. Arguing that the White House's main ambition in gardening is a public stunt to illustrate their commitment to all things "green" is perhaps the first inclination of the critic, yet there is a whole lot more going on here. Continue reading


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Perhaps they aren't the only answers, but Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says three things could be done to get this economy turned around and get businesses large and small hiring again.
"One get this deficit under control, two, stop the biggest tax increase in the history of the country from happening on Dec. 31, 2012," Grassley said. "And lastly, a two-year moratorium on regulations."
That last idea is one that more than 75 agricultural groups, farmer co-ops and agribusinesses have asked leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to suggest to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. Grassley says it does not mean undoing regulations already on the books.
"I don't think it includes that at all, it only includes regulations that are proposed that haven't gone into effect yet," Grassley said. "For agriculture one of those is the fugitive dust rule. That's what we're up against, the lack of common sense in thinking that a farmer combining soybeans can keep the dust from his combine within his property lines. I think it is safe to say it isn't just agriculture but I think a moratorium would help."
Grassley says he would not favor an elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency, noting it's important to have someone administer the rules that do exist. But he believes things could be done to make EPA more reasonable, which is why he's co-sponsoring legislation to give Congress some say in certain regulation decisions.
"What they call a major rule, which would be generally a rule I think that costs more than $100 million to the economy, once it's proposed could not go into effect until it was actually adopted by Congress," Grassley said. "We delegate this authority, maybe we don't have the expertise to fill in the details, but once experts have had an opportunity to fill in the details, then subject it to Congressional review and let us find out if common sense has prevailed."
Grassley says Congress could then consider the economic impact of the rule as well.


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GM to Issue Debit Cards for Overstating Miles per Gallon on Select Vehicles
Drivers who purchased a 2016 Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia, or Buick Enclave will soon be receiving a debit card worth up to $1,500. General Motors is issuing these cards as financial compensation for overstating the fuel economy of those vehicles by 1-2 miles per gallon.
Approximately 135,000 drivers in the United States and another 11,000 in Canada may be eligible to receive the debit cards, including those who are leasing one of those vehicles. People who actually purchased the vehicle also have the option to get an extended protection plan instead of the card—48 month/60,000 miles, instead of the factory 36 month/36,000 mile warranty.
GM predicts most cards will be valued anywhere from $450 to $900, depending on the make of the vehicle and whether it was purchased or leased. The company will issue a letter to qualifying customers on Wednesday, May 25th, to notify them of the reimbursement. Those who choose to get the debit card should receive their cards in the mail within a few weeks.
The mileage discrepancies were discovered when GM engineers were working on the 2017 models. The adjustments varied between front wheel drive and all-wheel drive models, which is why some people will be getting more on their debit cards than others.


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After some much-needed R&R, we're back at our desks and ready to take on 2014! To get us motivated, we've drawn up a brand new list of resolutions that translators, editors, and anyone else might want to adopt this year.
Translation Resolution #1: Avoid the word "fail" unless you actually fail a test. Even then, you might want to avoid it for humility's sake!
Translation Resolution #2: Put your printed dictionaries out to pasture and subscribe to online ones that are up to date. The bonus of an online dictionary is that you always have the most recent version.
Translation Resolution #3: On the flip side, give up on Thesaurus.com and all its obnoxious ads. Dust off your old Roget's. It's way better anyhow.
Translation Resolution #4: Brush up on your native tongue by visiting sunny, distant lands.
Translation Resolution #5: Put down that grammar guide and read at least one book for fun.
Translation Resolution #6: Become a translation expert in fields that involve food, tourism, and fashion. Make sure you get first-hand experience.
Translation Resolution #7: Read your translations out loud. If something sounds terrible . . . it probably is.
Translation Resolution #8: Learn to shrug off the assumption that all translators master many languages. Speaking of polyglots, how about that kid, Timothy Doner?
Translation Resolution #9: Make a list of the Top 10 words that stump you and their possible translations. Stick it on the wall next to your desk.
Translation Resolution #10: Let go of your ego. If you need help with a tricky translation, ask for it.
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Michelle Payne's brother begs: 'Give up racing'
The Melbourne Cup winner's family is desperately urging her to retire from racing after a potentially fatal fall at Mildura Racecourse left her in hospital on Tuesday.
It has been reported that Michelle is expected to remain under the watchful eyes of doctors for at least a week following pancreatic surgery.
Thankfully, the jockey is said to be in 'high spirits' after the operation – which required several stitches to her pancreas – and even managed to update her Twitter followers on her progress.
'Thank you for all the well wishes. Off to the Alfred tonight to check out pancreas and liver,' she wrote.
Michelle's brother, Patrick revealed her family has tried to convince her to retire before, but their concerns have fallen on deaf ears.
'She is a pig-headed little bugger,' he joked.
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Mustang Launches Ocean Commander Immersion Suit
Mustang Survival is pleased to launch an improved Ocean Commander immersion suit to the Canadian marketplace; the first immersion suit to receive Transport Canada, MED, and SOLAS approvals. After research and tests, this launch also marks the return of the long-trusted Ocean Commander immersion suit for sailors, offshore boaters, fisherman and other commercial marine workers alike.
The new Ocean Commander (Model #OC8003 HR) is constructed of a high visibility fluorescent yellow-green shell material, building off the findings of a recent study led by Mustang Survival's research department. The study, titled On-Water Visibility, found fluorescent yellow-green to be up to four times more detectable in rescue conditions than other common immersion suit colours.
In addition to its new color, the Ocean Commander is feature-laden to provide the highest level of protection. Donning is made easy with a full-length zipper, neoprene wrist seals and removable neoprene mitts. The Ocean Commander is also lighter and more durable than conventional neoprene suits, and provides unhindered mobility for both work activities and strenuous abandonment procedures.
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After it was reported Monday that Maria Menounos suffered two broken ribs during a recent dancing rehearsal for Dancing with the Stars, it wasn't clear if Menounos would be fit to compete this Sunday at WrestleMania XXVIII in the Divas Tag Team Match pitting herself and Kelly Kelly against Divas Champion Beth Phoenix and Eve. The entertainment personality, however, assures fans that she will be competing at the event in spite of her injury.
When asked on Twitter whether she will team with Kelly at WrestleMania despite being hurt, she responded, "Wouldn't miss it!"
The Extra host is taking several precautions to ensure the injury doesn't become more serious.
"I'm icing when I get home," Menounos told US Weekly. "My friend Joe drives me from rehearsals and I have a pedicure station with ice in it in my car, so I ice my whole body down.
"Once I get home, I get in a hot tub and in an Epsom salt bath. I can't believe how dangerous dancing is! I told Derek, 'I don't understand! I played ice hockey, football, basketball -- when did I get so fragile?' Unfortunately the Hough's too rough!"


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Business Lunches are Weird
So one of our clients came to the office this week to discuss some things with the boss. He spent a good deal of time in my office as well, talking about everything from how exactly I do my job to the former Playboy bunny he used to be married too. Yeah. I thought he was finished with the meetings and left town yesterday but he walked back in today and invited the two sales guys for my program, myself and our IT consultant out to lunch.
To be honest, I didn't really want to spend part of my afternoon rehashing things we'd already discussed this week buuuut…free lunch. So I went.
I don't do lunches like this often and I think I would have enjoyed it more if I'd had a cocktail or two. Most of the discussion was shop talk and most of the talking was done by the guy who was treating us. He was actually trying to pitch us some new ideas and services and while that's not a bad thing, none of us are the ones who get to make the big decisions. That all comes from the boss man himself, who was not present. So there was basically a lot of nodding and smiling and "mmm-hmm"ing. It was definitely an extended lunch (especially since most of the time I work through it and just eat at my desk) but I didn't have to feel guilty since half the team I work with was with me and it was all work-related.
But it was still weird.
I know people have these sort of lunches and meetings all the time but it's not really for me. Even though I am technically a businesswoman (I do manage a national marketing campaign for the nation's largest bankruptcy firm), I still feel like the little girl who wore a milk jug on her head when she dressed up like a recycling bin on Halloween. Oh well, at least the food was good and I got a chance to get out of the office. Now if I could just figure out a way to get free lunch every day without having to sit through sales pitches I'd be all set!


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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Weis, Margaret
(1948- ) US writer, known mainly for her novels and short stories in collaboration with role-playing-Game designer Tracy Hickman. The earlier of these fall into various game-tie sequences: the DragonLance Chronicles – Dragons of Autumn Twilight * (1984), Dragons of Winter Night * (1985) and Dragons of Spring Dawning * (1985) – assembled as DragonLance Chronicles * (omni 1988); the DragonLance Legends – Time of the Twins * (1986), War of the Twins * (1986) and Test of the Twins * (1986) – assembled as DragonLance Legends * (omni 1988); and associated volumes such as DragonLance Adventures * (coll 1987), The Magic of Krynn * (anth 1987), Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes * (anth 1987), Love and War * (anth 1987) – the last three titles gathered in DragonLance Tales * (omni 1991) – The Reign of Istar * (anth 1992), The Cataclysm * (anth 1992), The War of the Lance * (anth 1992), The Dragons of Krynn * (1994) and DragonLance: The Second Generation * (coll 1994). The considerable commercial success of the early DragonLance books encouraged MW and her collaborator to venture out of the realm of game ties and to essay a similar type of light fantasy adventure in series format, beginning with the Darksword trilogy – Forging the Darksword (1988), Doom of the Darksword (1988) and Triumph of the Darksword (1988) – continuing with the Rose of the Prophet trilogy – The Will of the Wanderer (1989), The Paladin of the Night (1989) and The Prophet of Akhran (1989) – and concluding with the lengthier Death Gate Cycle – Dragon Wing (1990), Elven Star (1990), Fire Sea (1991), Serpent Mage (1992), The Hand of Chaos (1993), Into the Labyrinth (1993) and The Seventh Gate (1994). Without Hickman, MW next tried her hand at a form of fantasy-flavoured space opera (in the vein of the Star Wars movies) in the Star of the Guardians tetralogy – The Lost King (1990), King's Test (1991), King's Sacrifice (1991) and Ghost Legion (1993) – and, with the aid of a new collaborator, Don Perrin, its follow-up Knights of the Black Earth series, commencing with The Knights of the Black Earth (1995) and Robot Blues (1996). [DP]
other works: Endless Catacombs, as Margaret Baldwin Weis (1984); Riddle of the Griffin, as Susan Lawson, with Roger E Moore (1985); The Art of Dungeons & Dragons, as Margaret Baldwin Weis (1985), nonfiction; Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home: The Complete Krynn Source Book, with Hickman and Mary L Kirchoff (1987), nonfiction; A Dragon Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (anth 1994).
Margaret Edith Weis
This entry is taken from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) edited by John Clute and John Grant. It is provided as a reference and resource for users of the SF Encyclopedia, but apart from possible small corrections has not been updated.


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Where are you safest applying the 5-second rule for dropped food:
- Toilet Seat
- Dirty Carpet
- Clean Carpet
Would you pick a potato chip off your toilet seat and pop it in your mouth? If you saw one of your children picking a piece of dropped candy off the commode would you rush to stop them from putting it in his or her mouth?
The very thought of eating off a toilet seat is a little sickening, but probably not as sickening as eating off a dirty carpet. Research conducted by Philip Tierno Jr., Ph.D., a microbiologist and immunologist at New York University Langone Medical Center and the author of The Secret Life of Germs indicates your carpet is likely to be 4,000 times as dirty as your toilet seat.
"Your carpet probably contains about 200,000 bacteria per square inch, making it 4,000 times dirtier than your toilet seat. "Rugs are botanical and zoological parks," says Tierno, who says hundreds of thousands of different types of species live there. These invasions occur because the average person sheds about 1.5 million skin cells every hour; these skin cells hit the rug and serve as food for germs. Add in food particles, pollen, and pet dander, and you have a gratis buffet, he says. And since a vacuum cleaner's suction and rotating beater brush don't usually reach the bottom of the carpet, you're bound to have communities of E. coli, salmonella, staphylococcus, and other bacteria down there. Every time you walk on the carpet or roll around on it with your kids, you disrupt the bacteria, bringing some closer to the surface… Your cleanup: Hire a company to do a deep steam-cleaning …" – Daniel Braff in "Eliminate Germs in Your House," for Men's Health Magazine
Unfortunately, if you've had your carpet professionally cleaned, you might be better off eating off a dirty floor. Most professional carpet cleaning companies use chemicals on your carpet that you wouldn't ever want on your skin, much less in your mouth.
Even carpet cleaning companies that advertise their services as "zero-residue" or "green" can leave behind poisons that can harm you, your family or your pets. When professional carpet cleaners refer to residue, they usually mean soaps or detergents left behind in the normal cleaning process. But the real danger comes the chemicals left behind when they treat spots or stains. Most spot treatments leave no soapy residue because they contain no soap. But some contain chemicals so dangerous that if you called the fire department and told them you spilled some on the driveway, they'd show up in haz-mat suits.
Many "dry" carpet cleaners are now referring to themselves as "green" because they use no water. But like the dry cleaner you take your suits to, they use chemical solvents that can have lasting effects.
The basic ingredients of carpet cleaners are perchloroethylene (used in dry cleaning) and naphthalene … The fumes given off by rug cleaners can cause cancer, damage your liver, and have been known to cause dizziness, sleepiness, nausea, loss of appetite and disorientation… Be sure to use these products in well ventilated area and try not to breathe the fumes. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Another problem with dry cleaners and "zero-residue" low moisture cleaners is that they don't clean your carpet all the way to the backing. Both are good at making the surface of the carpet look clean, but only hot-water extraction (commonly called steam cleaning) removes the dirt, germs and skin cells that accumulate at the base of carpet fibers.
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|November 2010 – Graduation Day – the NY Court Officer Academy
After he showered and threw himself on the sofa, I demanded to know what happened.
Joseph performed the Heimlich while Matt held the woman up. As Joseph is telling me the story, I can see how upset and nervous he is. After a few minutes, he was exhausted and asked for someone take over but still no one stepped in, so he had to keep going. "I wasn't going to let this woman die on me," he said.


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Hey Carrie fans! Danielle Cornwell here. As you all may know, or dont know. My husband and I have become full time missionaries with Youth With a Mission ( A Christian organization). We are located at the Turner Valley Alberta Base in Canada. We started out journey in July 2014 when I did my first Discipleship Training School. We took some time at home and are now back full time! I just wanted to share our exciting news, and post my Blog that we are updating frequently! God is doing some amazing things.
Our blog- https://thecornwellsywamjourney.wordpress.com/
More information on Youth With a Mission- Youth With A Mission Turner Valley, Canada
and here is the post I did on my school- http://www.carriefans.com/forums/my-...ta-canada.html (YWAM Turner Valley, Alberta, Canada)
The positions with Youth with a mission are all volunteer, and non paid, Our salary is based on those her donate or become a monthly sponsor. If you wish to sponsor My husband and I, give a one time donation or just get more information on our ministry you can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
our PayPal account is linked with my other email- email@example.com if you you like to give a direct donation
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thanks Carriefans! I will have a update this weekend on my blog about our 5 day backpacking trip and our treaching this week on evangelism. (:
If you wish to donate- here is a "Gofundme" for our journey http://www.gofundme.com/3p3erenw
carebearcarrie, I am so happy for you and that you are doing God's work. We so desperately need more of you in the world today. I am going to tell my parents about you and have them donate to your work. Unfortunately, I can not donate right now as I am still in college but you have my full support. Stay strong.......
oh my goodness! you just put a huge smile on my face! Doing this as a full time job is definitely hard, but knowing Im doing it for God is what makes it worth it all, and having my husband by my side! It is so awesome to share Gods love to others. thank you SO, SO much for your support! You made my day!
Life sure has been busy lately! My husband and I are back at our "base" in Canada and are both in new positions helping out where is needed. Our trip to Thailand was wonderful to say the least and cant wait to talk more about it! I haven't updated or blog in an embarrassing amount of months. :/ busy in Thailand and then went back home to Oregon for Christmas and forgot. will have a better up-to-date description of how our journey has been so far, soon!
on another note- I am so incredibly happy Carrie is coming to Spokane, Washington on the fall leg of The Storyteller tour! Now send up some prayers that my husband and I can get enough support to save that we can purchase tickets! A far out dream is if we received/saved enough We could possibly see her in Las Vegas; and shes performing on the 24th birthday! But that's just a cloud in the sky. LOL.
Thank you all for your love and support. keep the prayers coming.
- Danielle
Thank you!!! I hope so too! I don't want to miss the Storyteller tour!
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is it bad I'm still gonna look up tickets?
Spokane. Still about a 7+ hour drive for us. As much as Las Vegas would be awesome. Lol.
My mother in law has been asking many questions about the tour today... I think she's up to something!! Lol.
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Hope all is well with you and your hubby! I just read your blog and also looked at the YWAM website so I can learn of its ministry distinctive and values.
I would like to know more about the gospel work of YWAM as ultimately saving souls is what God desires (2 Peter 3:9). This information on your blog may also serve as an encouragement to your blog readers. Look for an email from me to your wamturnervalley email account soon.
^ thank you so much for your interest and consideration! The evangelism aspect in YWAM is focused heavily on the outreach for the Discipleship Training School. The 'lecture' phase which is a 12 week part is learning and understanding God in a deeper level, and outreach is the practice of all things learned. As some of our outreach and most of our core time is spent just helping our focus group (The Shan People) we evangelize throughout the time spent there. We incorporate God into all out English camps and teaching (Whether it be a whole camp focused around Creation, or teaching them Bible songs). Praying with people, going on prayer walks during markets that go on each night. we spend time in prayer, asking God to give us a specific person to talk to. We have been able to pray with local people and transform their lives. We also hand out many, many tracts. We pray for those with eyesight so bad that we cannot give them anything, and have seen healing! Sometimes its as simple as getting them engaged and interested in the love of Christ. The Buddhist faith is a tricky one. Many Buddhist who are interested in Jesus and want to know more about his love, want to know if they can be both Buddhist and Christian at the same time. So its definitely a relationship building thing to do, and to talk to them, and teach them. Ive had the privilege to speak to a woman named, AngKona, to a small village called Naplagad. Where if you read my blog, the infamous Pi Tio AKA 'Mama Spice' lives, and she is so interested in Christ and I've been able to go to this village 2 times in 2 years and visit and talk to her. But her family is Buddhist and she is afraid. But she is always asking. I pray for her constantly. But I have seen lives transformed and people changing their whole lives because of the love of Christ has become real to them on these missions trips. It many seem as though we only teach English or give out glasses, but it goes much deeper than that. which is incredible. Its hard to put every detail into a blog. lol. But the Shan and Thai People are so open, loving, and caring. I know God is doing some amazing work thoughout this country and people group.
The other schools, SBS, School of Biblical Studies, is when students come for 9 months to study The Bible intensely. Who the books where written by, why they were written, and to know the Bible more thoroughly. To gain the knowledge of which the Bible was intended for.
After SBS, in the hopes they continue in YWAM we have a 3rd school, Titus Project. In which those who have now studied the Bible for 9 months learn how to teach it, and then they go on missions trips to teach the Bible to those who may not have a bible in their language, or where it is illegal to be anything other than their countries religion etc, Its been incredible to see those go to these counties where it is even illegal to BRING a Bible or to even be a missionary- and those of Titus go through security and are searched, and the security guards are blinded by the bibles that are in the bags. But the people in these countries want to learn about Christ no matter what the cost, and they want to study the Bible and have the knowledge so they can teach and share the love of Jesus.
That is just some more small detail among the other amazing stories and lives changed. Thank you so much!
new post! this time its a video of me and my husband. click on my facebook link, and it should be the first thing on my timeline!
My husband and I recently returned from out trip to Thailand. We went to get video and film of out target people group, the Shan. My husband is the head of our communications department. He takes care of the website, and makes videos of various programs to keep people informed. This is his latest work. Many more videos to come, but this one is special to show the beauty that Thailand offers.
again if you wish to support us, links and others provided in first post. Thanks all!


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Hi everyone,
Happy New Year! I wish you lots of health and happiness in 2010!
Things are gearing up for the Shanghai World Expo, and I thought you may enjoy seeing where organizers are with the virtual component.
The below news report covers the virtual expo and even shows a sneak peak to the French Pavilion (made with 3DVIA Virtools).
What do you think?
Stay tuned as I'll be interviewing the French Pavilion developer soon for 3DPerspectives . . .


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Despite 77–62 Win, Basketball Game Ends In Tears (Of Joy) For ND Guard
Notre Dame's Matt Farrell scored 13 points in a winning game against Colgate on Dec. 19, but the real highlights came after the match was over.
Farrell must have felt victorious after seeing the 77–62 Irish win on the scoreboard, but his emotions would quickly change to surprise and excitement as his brother, Bo, appeared on screen.
Bo, a U.S. Army lieutenant, has been serving in Afghanistan for the past several months. Initially scheduled to return from deployment in February, the enlisted Farrell managed to surprise his brother, and the rest of the Purcell Center, when his voice boomed from the megatron.
"I've been watching you tonight," Bo said. "For us, home is wherever we're together, and I look forward to being home with you soon…really, really soon."
Irish guard Matt Farrell's brother Bo sent video message from Afghanistan... Except he wasn't in Afghanistan! He was in the arena! Watch! pic.twitter.com/ICXeSs3Bb0— Angelo Di Carlo (@angdicarlowndu) December 20, 2016
Joyous, tearful, and surrounded by exuberant teammates, the junior Irish guard met his brother at half court where the two shared an embrace in front of the fans in attendance.
WATCH:An unreal moment between two brothers.— Notre Dame MBB (@NDmbb) December 20, 2016
Matt Farrell thought his brother was coming home from Afghanistan in February... he was wrong. pic.twitter.com/kp8GVik7Si
As the Irish record climbed to 10–2, the Farrell brothers were the true winners of the night.
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hi guys!! finally...
please visit my new home..
see you there!!!
hi guys!! finally...
please visit my new home..
hi guyssss!!! i've been missing posting here :( i think i need to move to another blog site soon (no, i mean ASAP hehe), wordpress perhaps, medyo nangangapa pa ako hehe, im having some problem accessing blogspot eh :( how sad..
anyways i'll post na lang kapag ready na yung wordpress ko medyo busy pa din kasi me :(
hay problema ko nga kung pano mabitbit tong mga entry ko dito eh.. possible kaya yun??? waaaaa guys kung meron naman po makakatulong sa akin.. please help me naman po :(
anyways, stay tuned peeps :) and have a great day!!
last monday i was with my tita at the SSS diliman branch to check regarding her pension, and that is not the first time we went there, i think mga 3 times na pabalik-balik on last 4 months, imagine, as in sobrang pahirap, pension na nga ng tita ko yun papahirapan pa cya.. ay ewan ko ba! the positive part is that nakarating ako sa SSS main branch hehe, sobrang laki pala dun, at isa lang ang napansin ko... ang daming empleyado ng sss... grabe. well i never expected na ganun kadami lalo na dun sa building with 11 floors, maybe because main branch nga kaya sobrang dami, pero ang nakakadismaya wala naman silang ginagawa... ang daming lates na nagdatingan, tapos tsismisan, tapos breaktime na nila, tapos tsismisan ulit sila... ewan ko ba... as in nag-file up na yung mga tao na nangangailangan ng service nila, sila tuloy lang sa huntahan... tsk tsk tsk... at eto pa, after 2hrs waiting there ang sasabihin lang sa amin ay....
" bumalik na lang po kayo after a month.."
im on the night shift this week so i was planning last monday to wash all my stuff toys and to do a general cleaning of my room kasi mas mukhang bodega na yung room ko, books, magazines, shoes and bags nagkalat na... ndi ko nga alam pano pa ako nakakatulog sa room ko eh LOL... but seriously my room badly needed some good cleaning!! and i was supposed to do that last monday after the SSS thing... kaya lang malas yata talaga ang monday ko, when we got home my cousin and my other tita were very frantic and they were saying things na i cannot understand because they talk so fast and they keep on telling me bitin sentences, like..."nagkita na kayo ng mama mo??" "punta ka sa store nyo kasi si ano" "nandun si ano, bilisan mo punta ka na dun"
ang reaction ko tuloy, ano daw??? as in wala ako maintindihan sa sinasabi nila... tapos sabi ko teka, isa-isa lang hindi ko ma-gets sinasabi nyo... and they said
"punta ka sa tindahan nyo, kasi nandun si joanne, dala nya si bumbum, nahulog sa hagdanan, ang daming pasa sa mukha at natanggal yung ipin nya sa ibaba!" ( my tita pointing to her chin )
"at si mama mo sobrang nerbyos nahihirapan huminga"....
hay, natulala ako after hearing the news... i can't talk back. feeling ko nalaglag ang puso ko.
then when i got at the store they told me that they were already at the hospital, so pati ako sobrang nerbyos... buti na lang papa ko sobrang cool lang ( knowing na may high blood pressure pa cya ha ), so sunod naman kami sa hospital, pagdating namin dun wala na ipin si bumbum :( he already have 6 teeth, 4 sa taas 2 sa baba, unfortunately lahat nung ipin nya sa baba natanggal :( try pa nga sana ng doctor na i-save kaya lang hindi safe kasi baka malunok nya daw kasi talagang natanggal na, kapag 5 or 6 yrs. old na cya dun pa lang ulet tutubo yung 2 ipin nya :(
after cya mabigyan ng gamot the doctor told us he needs to eat an ice cream daw para maampat yung pagdudugo, luckily no actually miracle na walang nabaling buto at ndi naman cya nagkaroon ng head injury. ( thanks god talaga )
pagbalik namin sa bahay from hospital pinakain namin cya ng ice cream, ok naman, kumakain naman cya, tapos after nya maubos yung maliit na cup, he starter to cry... kasi nabitin cya! hehe lokong bata...
sabi nga ng doctor baka daw maapektuhan at humina yung pagkain at pag-dede nya, which is hindi nangyari kasi after nya mag-ice cream nakaubos agad cya ng 110z na milk hehehe.. and after that makulit na ulet cya, super sayaw at super beautiful eyes na ulit hehehe..
hay, afterall naman pala hindi rin ganun ka-malas ang monday ko :) yun nga lang ndi na ako nakapag-linis gaya ng plan ko... pero ok lang at least ok si bumbum pati na rin ang mama ko :) marami pa namang mondays na darating :)
i was tagged by michelle to do this meme.. so here it goes :) girl wala na akong utang sayo ha :) hehe4 JOBS I'VE HAD * Data Reasercher / Document Analyst (this is my 1st job kaya wala pa ako ma-share na iba) 4 MOVIES I'VE WATCHED OVER & OVER * Lord Of The Rings 2 * Spiderman 2 * In Her Shoes * Maid in Manhattan 4 PLACES I'VE LIVED * Caloocan * Pasay * Las Piñas * Parañaque 4 TV SHOW/STATIONS I LIKE TO WATCH * Pinoy Big Brother (super fanatic, haha - 1st season, celebrity ed, teen ed, 2nd season... grabe! haha) * Amazing Race * 24 * Princess Hours ( funny, hehe ) 4 PLACES I'VE BEEN ON VACATION * Hong Kong * Boracay * Palawan * Baguio 4 OF MY FAVE FOODS * Spaghetti * Beef sinigang * Chicken adobo * Kare-kare 4 PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW * Batanes - hay sobrang wish ko :) * Canada - to work hehe * Zambales - to relax under the moonlit sky.. panalo! :) * Davao - la lang.. pasyal lang 4 PEOPLE WHO WILL (hopefully) RESPOND TO THIS MEME * rhodora :) * tina :) * ferdz :) * eden :) ...at sa lahat ng hinde busy.. :)
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In Celebration of the National Flag Day (May 28) until June 12 (National Independence Day), let us put the Philippine Flag on all the Filipino Blogs out there. Lets declare that we are all proud to be a Filipino!
I AM SO PROUD TO BE A FILIPINO, no matter what! :)
been really busy lately and many things had happened and i hope i can write all of them here now :)
been in good times and bad times these past few weeks... emotions are from very high to very very low...
on personal...
got too many thoughts that racing inside my head that needed some answers but don't know how.. waaaaaaaaa too emotional.. just don't like it... kasi naman ang mga lalake madalas talaga sakit ng ulo :P (woppssssss... excuse me mga guys hehe)
though i feel a bit better now, still im on the low point of my life... maybe because of the rains.. lol. but seriously im hurting... im hurting for a lot of things that is happening in my life right now... sometimes i feel tired and readily to give up.. i just don't have the courage to end it... i wish i have.
at sabi nga ng kanta... YOU ARE MY SWEETEST DOWNFALL...=======================
on family...
my father was confined at the hospital because of diabetis and for possible amputation. it was a real shock to our family, i really prayed hard to please no amputation for my papa.. and luckily enough his wound healed faster that we expected and that his body reacted to the insulins, we were all relieved about his fast recovery.. we just need to stick on his diet, sometimes he seems to be stubborn but now he try to listen to us na, kasi he knows that it will do him good :)
actually we were suprised that he is a diabetic... diabetis doesn't run in our family, high blood pressure, yes. my uncles and lolo got a high blood pressure that lead to series of strokes :( pero they are still alive pa naman, yun nga lang si lolo medyo weak na and naka-wheelchair na, but mind you he's in his 80's, not bad :)
my papa had his stroke too, during the time FPJ got one too and went into comma.. gad i was so paranoid and so afraid that time... kasi feeling ko baka maging ganun din cya katulad ng kay FPJ, but God is good, he survived.
so ngayon naman, masyadong cyang nagpapa-baby sa amin, sus. but its ok, as long as he is there and whole :)
... and thanks so much jhames for the support :)=========================
on the lighter mode...
bumbum had his party well :) we are all happy that day :) as in super :) well at least may magandang nangyayari naman sa buhay ko kahit paano, lol... buti na lang i have my family who keeps me strong (gad!! ang drama ko!! kainis)
i'll post some pics soon... nagloloko kasi yung usb ko eh.. kainis.
it's my pamangkin's first birthday today :) my most makulet and super likot na pamangkin :) he's going to have a party on sunday pero today we will celebrate with the family lang :)
wish ko para sa kanya good health, maging mabaet at bibong bata :)


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|Ambiente, Hole No. 12 - Photo by Dave Sansom
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The Central Wine Bar Restaurant opened in 2007 and has proved to be a great success and an invaluable asset to Ballycastle. Local owners, Phillip & Gemma McHenry work here alongside their children Nichola, Aaron, Cara and Michael and a very enthusiastic and attentive team of staff. This energy and passion flows throughout the whole building from Bar to kitchen and enhances the welcoming, family atmosphere.
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Animated movies have been revolutionized since Pixar and 3d and advancement in technology. Rio is the latest animated movie coming out of Fox studios. It is the movie from the creators of Ice Age and its sequels and is directed by the same director Carlos Saldhana. Carlos who hails from Brazil has not left any stone unturned in showcasing his native land, its people and its culture.
Rio is actually about a rare species of Blue Macaws. Blu ( voiced by Jesse Eisenberg) is a clever blue macaw domesticated in Minnesota and has lived all his life with humans, has never seen a jungle other than books and loves his cage. But Blu is the last of the male of its species with last of the female Jewel (voiced by Anne Hathway) in Rio, Brazil. The story is about Blue visiting Jewel in Rio amongst the beautiful surroundings of the city Rio. The pair of Macaws meet, fight, run away, get captured by bird theives and rescued by their wonderful friends and helped by many other friendly animals and birds. The story shows every aspect of Rio's culture, its samba dances, bike ride through its narrow bylanes, its sunny beaches, its trams and mountain peaks and adventurous people paragliding around the Jesus Christ the Redeemer Statue, some rogue guys, bird-thieves, beautiful rain forest wildlife and in the end the extravaganza of the Carnival. The movie is set to superbly crafted rhythms and is as colorful as any movie can be. The aerial sequences and dances are worth the ticket price and the overall animation is top-notch. Rio is surely a magical place and made me feel like visiting it more after watching the movie.
The movie is an enjoyable ride for the kids of all ages and although the emotional quotient is not on par with many Pixar films but it is never dull or boring at any point either. The characters are all lovable. Some of the jokes are suitable for grown up audience although none being adult in nature. Get some kids along when you watch this. It is best watched in a large movie hall full of squeaking and screaming children.
My Ratings – 7/10 for the movie and 8/10 for colorful animation and superb voice overs by the leads.