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Public policy intended to make layoffs less painful actually made layoffs cheaper and more common.
Why has the labor market contracted so much and why does it remain depressed? Major subsidies and regulations intended to help the poor and unemployed were changed in more than a dozen ways—and although these policies were advertised as employment-expanding, the fact is that they reduced incentives for people to work and for businesses to hire.
You probably heard about the emergency-assistance program for the long-term unemployed that ended only a few months ago after running for almost six years. But there is also the food-stamp program. It got a new name and replaced the stamps with debit cards. Participants are no longer required to seek work and are not asked to demonstrate that they have no wealth. Essentially, any unmarried person can get food stamps while out of work and can stay on the program indefinitely. Continue reading
On Feb. 17, 2009, President Obama promised the sun and the moon and the stars. That was the day, five years ago, when he signed the $800 billion "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act." President Modesty called it "the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history." He promised "unprecedented transparency and accountability." He claimed the spending would lift "two million Americans from poverty." Ready for the reality smackdown?
The actual cost of the $800 billion pork-laden stimulus has ballooned to nearly $2 trillion. At the time of the law's signing, the unemployment rate hovered near 8 percent. Obama's egghead economists projected that the jobless rate would never rise above 8 percent and would plunge to 5 percent by December 2013. The actual jobless rate in January was 6.6 percent, with an abysmal labor force participation rate of 63 percent (a teeny uptick from December, but still at a four-decade low). Continue reading
"Will we, before it is too late, use the vitality and the magic of the marketplace to save this way of life, or will we one day face our children, and our children's children when they ask us where we were and what we were doing on the day that freedom was lost?"
by Scott L. Vanatter
Before he was elected president Ronald Reagan delivered a series of speeches on various aspects of the American experience. He focused on core principles: our founding, our freedoms, our economy, and especially and repeatedly on the great promise of our being the Shining City on the Hill.
Thirty-five years ago this month, on November 10, 1977 , the future president spoke at the Ludwig Von Mises Memorial Lecture at Hillsdale College, Michigan. His remarks were titled, "What Ever Happened to Free Enterprise." Continue reading
by Andrew Stiles
President Barack Obama appears to be doubling down on his policies of using taxpayer money to finance green energy investments despite an increasingly spotty track record.
"We've got to control our own energy, you know, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in, but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but 10 years from now, 20 years from now," he said during Tuesday night's presidential debate. "That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy-efficient cars." Continue reading
Let's fact check President Barack Obama's debate statements. He spent a lot of time since the first debate and during the second debate complaining that what Gov. Mitt Romney said wasn't true. Yet, the facts do not support Obama's claims. Here is the proof on Obama's poor record on truthfulness during the second debate:
The attack in Libya — a terrorist attack? Or a spontaneous protest that got out of hand because of an offensive internet video?
On the issue of Libya, Obama said, that the day after the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, "I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime."
Romney challenged Obama's characterization that he had identified the Benghazi attack as terrorism on day one. Obama doubled down. Just as Romney was about the snare Obama in his lie, the the moderator erroneously sided with Obama and claimed that he had identified the attack as terrorism. After the debate, the moderator admitted that she was wrong and that Romney was correct. But let's not rely on her retraction and correction, let's go straight to the record. Continue reading
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Obama narrative is that he inherited the worst mess in memory and has been stymied ever since by a partisan Congress — while everything from new ATM technology to the Japanese tsunami conspired against him. But how true are those claims?
Barack Obama entered office with an approval rating of over 70 percent. John McCain's campaign had been anemic and almost at times seemed as if it was designed to lose nobly to the nation's first African-American presidential nominee. Continue reading
Every American voter is approaching a critical decision. Of the two presidential candidates before us, who is best suited to lead our nation through the next four years?
The answer to that question is a simple test: can they ignite economic growth? The economic crisis we face is our greatest threat, affecting every American. For investors – and today over half of Americans are investors in some form – this issue is particularly pressing as it impacts not just their financial situation today, but also their retirement and other long-term goals. Economic growth is the only ingredient that will help pull the country out of its present funk and allow us to solve our pressing issues. Continue reading
During the debate, Vice President made history by surpassing Al Gore for bad, boorish, and rude behavior. He laughed uncontrollably, signed, groaned, and laughed some more and engaged in generally childish antics throughout the debate. Biden's rude and unprofessional behavior overshadowed the substance of what he said.
But as bizarre and unbalanced as his behavior was during the debate, the substance of what he actually said was perhaps the most troubling. Here are a short list of several of the most obviously false things that Biden said:
1. Afghanistan and Iraq: Biden accused Rep. Paul Ryan of putting two wars on the "credit card" and then bragged that he voted against both of them because he understood America could not afford them. "I was there, I voted against them," Biden said. "I said, no, we can't afford that." But the truth is Sen. Biden voted for the Afghanistan resolution on Sept. 14, 2001 the Iraq resolution on October 11, 2002. It takes some brass to tell whoppers like this one! Continue reading
Lack of Desire, Knowledge and Confidence
by Scott L. Vanatter
Why was Obama just not that into it (the debate)? Three possible reasons include a lack of desire, a lack of knowledge of basic economic principles, and being intimidated by Romney's real world expertise.
Obama sounded so disjointed in the first debate that mainstream media supporters such as Chris Matthews and Andrew Sullivan nearly had an emotional breakdown on camera and online. They are only two who wondered aloud why Obama seemed so incoherent. Obama's bizarre manner that night almost resembled the infamous beauty pageant contestant of a few years ago or the reporter who had a mini-stroke on camera, so rambling were some of his answers. Surely in the next debate, Obama will up his game. At least he will appear to want to debate. Continue reading
We knew Mitt Romney would be prepared — his campaign has had him doing only one rally per day most days, spending hours and hours on debate prep. From watching the primaries, we knew Romney would come out and be aggressive and generally look good, but we have also seen Romney be stiff, or awkward, or turn to the moderator when attacked. Not tonight.
The "zingers" line appeared to be a bit of chaff; Romney did offer a few good lines — "You don't pick the winners and losers, you just pick the losers," "trickle-down government" — but he never seemed to force them or shoehorn them into lines. Continue reading
We already knew that the economy is sluggish and in trouble. But now we learn that the economy is far weaker than previously understood. But that is not the only unflattering truth that has come to light. Our foreign policy and national security are also in far worse shape than we understood even a few weeks ago.
It isn't just that job growth isn't even keeping up with population growth. It isn't just that the Federal Reserve has effectively thrown in the towel and admitted that there is no recovery. Continue reading
"Name a single thing that has improved under [Obama's] rule….
"Almost the entirety of the Muslim world is now rioting against an American president who promised that his olive branches to Muslims would secure peace….
"Domestically, our debt has increased by 50 percent in just four years, by some $5 trillion, with not a single observable benefit from the spending. Our bond rating already has been downgraded….
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden never miss a chance to tell us that the economy is moving in the right direction. They claim they need more time to pull the nation out of the recession that began in 2008.
There are several problems with this line of argument. First, Obama said he would solve this problem in his first term and cut the deficit in half. He told us if he didn't solve the problem, he would be a one-term president. Second, Obama ran for office knowing the economy was bad and he won because he convinced more voters that he would fix it. Obama got everything he wanted in his first two years because he had a compliant Democrat Congress. He spent hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus and bailouts. The only verifiable result is massive debt that saddles the economy and slows future growth. Third, the biggest problem with claiming that Obama is moving us forward is that it is not true. In fact, things are getting worse. Continue reading
by Bernie Woodall and Paul Lienert and Ben Klayman (Reuters)
Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid, GM is still losing as much as $49,000 on each Volt it builds, according to estimates provided to Reuters by industry analysts and manufacturing experts.
Cheap Volt lease offers meant to drive more customers to Chevy showrooms this summer may have pushed that loss even higher. There are some Americans paying just $5,050 to drive around for two years in a vehicle that cost as much as $89,000 to produce. Continue reading
President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That's good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again. The company is once again losing market share, and it seems unable to develop products that are truly competitive in the U.S. market.
Right now, the federal government owns 500,000,000 shares of GM, or about 26% of the company. It would need to get about $53.00/share for these to break even on the bailout, but the stock closed at only $20.21/share on Tuesday. This left the government holding $10.1 billion worth of stock, and sitting on an unrealized loss of $16.4 billion. Continue reading


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Review: 'Happy End' is a severely unhappy movie
If you've ever seen a Michael Haneke movie, then you can probably guess that his latest, Happy End, is anything but happy. While the Austrian director doesn't quite plunge us to the hopeless depths reached in his previous work, his look into the life of a wealthy French family and the air of death surrounding them unnerves throughout.
Happy End probably won't be considered a horror movie, but it's not without some disturbing elements. To Haneke, this is realism, and his story is approached with a sense of distant objectivity.
We open on a Snapchat-esque smartphone video, comments by almost-teen Eve Laurent (Fantine Harduin) popping up from the bottom of the screen. They relate a sense of detachment omnipresent in the movie: Eve steals some of her mother's antidepressants and tries them out on her hamster, who we then watch slowly die from the young girl's perspective. There's little to-do about what we're witnessing, as Eve expounds on her dislike for her mother. Soon it's the mother we see collapsing from Eve's viewpoint.
While her mother tries to recover in the hospital, Eve goes to stay with her father, Thomas (Mathieu Kassovitz), and his side of the family. They all live together in a Calaisian mansion: Thomas' current wife Anaïs (Laura Verlinden) and their newborn son, Eve's grandfather Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), aunt Anne (Isabelle Huppert), and Anne's son, Pierre (Franz Rogowski).
At this point we explore life and death via two more storylines. Anne and Pierre, who run the family's construction firm, must deal with an onsite accident and injury to one of their workers; meanwhile Georges, who is fighting a battle with dementia, keeps searching for ways to kill himself.
Such is the cheery backdrop of Happy End. Haneke, who has described his films as "an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions," sticks to his word. There's no grand meaning in the end, nothing really even posited. Instead, the three intermingling stories line up next to one another, situational contrast causing us to evaluate the differences inherent in various forms of death, and question—specifically in the case of murder—what is right and wrong.
Haneke's films tend to needle the audience, and Happy End is no different. Eve's actions hang over our heads, and we wait for some semblance of justice that likely won't come. Meanwhile we're forced to watch the odyssey of an old man who begs strangers, his hairdresser, anyone who will listen to give him the means to an end. It's a late conversation between Eve and her grandfather that ultimately gives us a final perspective on the film, though we're left with even more questions.
Happy End isn't an enjoyable watch, and it's not supposed to be. Its goal is to make us stop and reflect—on death, human agency, the difference between taking a life out of selfishness versus selflessness. There are no easy answers here, and to that effect, Haneke fulfills his mission.
Happy End
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz
Rated: R
Theater: Now showing, Edina Cinema

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My personal view on anime, as it is become a visible media niche in the world. Just like any other media, it has its share of pukes and good ones....this is my view on it. Whimsical? Informative? Overly serious? Too silly? Why the hell am I still watching anime? Thoughts like this runs through my mind here.
Thursday, September 17
Mai Mai Shinko to Sennen no Mahou / マイマイ新子と千年の魔法
Madhouse and Black Lagoon director (Sunao Katabuchi) is collaborating on this novel by Nobuko Takagi adaptation into a movie, soon to be premiered in Japan on 11 November 2009. Premise is set around 1950s, somewhere in a town located at southwestern Japan, where a nine-year-old girl named Shinko has an ancient family connection to a 1000 year old province of Suo which full of legends. Shinko joins Kiko, a transfer student from her school, on a magical adventure based on their imagination or it could be real. The novel is based on her autobiography.
If anyone wondered why this movie looks like Miyazaki, perhaps it is worth remembering that Sunao Katabuchi used to work with Studio Ghibli on Kiki's Delivery Service and Sherlock Hound the TV series. The trailer has good soundtrack, I have to say. I might check this out due to the fact I liked Black Lagoon a lot despite it feels and looks like children fantasy stuff like Eragon.
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Solid Snake is real!
Embarrassed officials were at a loss to explain how Jean-Pierre Treiber, 45, a double murder suspect, managed to elude detection in the box he had built himself at a workshop in the high security prison of Auxerre, Burgundy.
With its hidden human cargo, the box was loaded with dozens of others onto a lorry for delivery to the Yonne region, southeast of Paris.
Metal Gear Solid rocks. LOL
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text: We know you're checking out this 1932 Ford Hi-Boy roadster because it looks like it could be that perfect one with all the features you want for less than the price of building it yourself. And you'd be right, because who doesn't like classic roadster with low miles and a powered by a 350 performance V8? Oh yeah, and this one was also signed by a drag racing legend.You're looking at a quality Gibbons body that was assembled less than five years ago. The Buttercream Yellow shines amazingly in the sunlight thanks to a deep clearcoat, but once people at the cars shows are drawn in, they'll spend plenty of time looking at the two-color custom pinstripe. It's in very cool places like across the hood, on the rear gas tank, and it even goes along the split in the doors. The caramel color in the pinstripes even coordinates nicely with the folding convertible top. This one skips the fenders and shaves the door handles to get that smooth look that all the top hot rods have. Of course it wouldn't be this cool without all the chrome in the right places such as the tilting windshield frame, headlight pods, front suspension, and the wide ARE Torq Thrust style wheels.The neatly stitched tan leather bench is the kind of quality you love to see on the interior. It's a great place to sit and grab the custom wood and chrome three spoke steering wheel. Attached to this is a big tachometer. A billet aluminum panel in the center of the dash houses the rest of your full set of Classic Instruments...And yes that cool pinstripe pattern from the exterior is repeated around your gauges. Just below that is an AM/FM/CD stereo so you can play modern tunes in your retro ride, but that's not the most important thing on your dashboard. You might have noticed that the passenger side has the real signature of drag racing pioneer Don "Big Daddy" Garlits.Reliability and performance? This car has both in spades. The 350 cubic-inch Chevy is the choice for the best hot rods because it has the most parts available to upgrade for show and go. This one already has a Weber four-barrel carburetor, performance air filter, and a custom stainless Magnaflow exhaust system with awesome-sounding chrome trumpets at the tips. Plus, you must have already noticed how the engine bay looks great painted to match the chrome and yellow on the rest of the car. It holds the road like a '32 Ford hot rod should with a dropped I-beam front axle with coilovers and a four-link out back. It also grips well thanks to front disc brakes and modern BF Goodrich tires on all four wheels. But as much as this might look like a pure performance machine, it also has all the makings for a nice cruiser. It's running a 700R4 four-speed overdrive automatic transmission that drives driving a Ford nine-inch rear with versatile 3.08 gears inside. Traditional in all the ways that matter to you and fully finished in a way that makes people sit up and take notice, this is a fantastic Deuce roadster you can own today. Call now!!!


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The accelerator is delivered by Nwes, the largest not-for-private-profit enterprise agency in the UK, in collaboration with founding partner Deutsche Bank, through its social enterprise programme Made for Good.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Staying Warm on Twelfth Night
Dear Folks,
One of the best ways to keep warm this winter is to host a party! Last week end I hosted my annual Twelfth Night party and, even though travel was at a minimal, the house was full of family and friends.
We filled the kitchen with pot luck food carried over from house to house along with my cavatini!
We talked and laughed and then cut the coconut cake where a token had been baked. He or she who receives the token is king or queen for the night. My son, Aaron, was the lucky winner and happyily wore the Burger King crown atop of his DNR uniform. We played games, listened to the wind blow and turned off the Christmas lights at midnight, thus ending another season.
By Saturday morning my lovely tree was set out by the bird feeders to spend the rest of the winter. What party is next? Why they 250th birhday party for Robert Burns, of course!
Lou Ann
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On July 10, Girls' Generation YoonA uploaded a photo of herself on SM Entertainment's official Facebook page along with the message, "It gets depressing when it rains like this every day… But we need to perk up in time like this. By listening to 'LOVE & GIRLS,' which was released recently in Korea, or by listening to 'Mr. Go's' OST by Taeyeon unnie. Let's cheer up together. Fighting."
In the released picture, YoonA looks adorable with the "Apple hairstyle." With a beautiful smile and a victory pose, YoonA looks gorgeous in this selca.
Fans that saw this photo admired, "She always looks lovely no matter what she does," "I thought it was Taeyeon," and "She does look like Taeyeon in this picture."


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Hey guys!
Excuse me for I am about to be incredibly politically incorrect, but I am what I (and only I as I just made it up) call a hobby hoe.
That is, I am constantly scouring the internet for ideas for new hobbies and activities to occupy myself with, but things like knitting, cross stitching and painting have never really floated my boat as I am not creative.
Seriously. My main artistic achievement happened this past weekend when I was studying with AFA and successfully drew a stickman doing a jump squat. And even then, my stickman grew in height while doing his exercise.
I have tried over the years to get good at things, but apart from stringing words together and writing (I hope anyway) and successfully writing in my journal now every single night since September, I'm just no good at making things stick.
However, my darling father gave me a camera not that long ago (sorry not sorry, he gave me the one he originally bought for his partner, but she didn't use it so wheeeeyyy now it's mine), and in the last few weeks, I've started to try and take in my surroundings – especially being in a country that is not my own-, playing about with the settings on the camera, and have come to find I really enjoy taking little snapshots of things.
I've got a Polaroid camera, which I use a lot, and snap photos all the time on my phone, however, there's something a little bit more different when you successfully navigate how to take a photograph of a skyline at nighttime and it coming out as more than a black backdrop with two or three dots as the twinkly lights. Or take a photo of your back garden and have it 'post-card worthy'. (Mr OneBigStressball's words, not mine.)
So, I'm going to really try at this one.
It's already December, so a bit early to start any major projects, but I don't believe in making New Year's Resolutions because a) why wait till New Year to do anything new? and b) It sets me up for failure and disappointment when I ultimately stray from my goals.
So before New Year, I'm going to participate in week long challenges to see if I can stick with the habit of using my camera 7 days at a time, and then afterwards, if I'm successful, I'll start a project365 in the new year. That is, for a whole year, I will take one photo every day in response to a prompt on a special calendar.
Fingers crossed!
Ps, I also am trying to give up chocolates. I am on day 2 right now so let's see how long I can keep this one up for.
pps, the featured photo on this post is one I took myself. Don't ask the type of flower, I only know they are pink and that they exist on my porch.
ppps, Don't laugh at Steve my squat-jumping stickman. I am extremely proud of him and the fact that it only took me one go is something I will never let go of.
C x


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ADVENT EVENSONG at GRACE MADISON
WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 17, at 4 pm
WHERE: Grace Church, 4 Madison Ave. at Kings Rd. Madison NJ
ADMISSION: The event is free and open to the public, a reception follows.
For more information call 973-377-0106x17 www.gracemadison.org
Along with Evensong canticles, responses and Advent hymns, the service will feature Bach's Cantata 140, Wachet Auf, with an orchestra of oboes and strings. Featured soloists include Susan Goodman of Summit, Ted Roper and Eric Roper and Katie Hendrix of New Providence, and oboist Teddy Love, of Mt. Tabor.
Directed by Dr. Anne Matlack of Madison, who is also Artistic Director of Harmonium Choral Society, the Grace Church Choirs have sung in residence at Winchester Cathedral in the UK.
Image: Grace Church Choir at Winchester Cathedral in 2015.


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Coast Mountain Bus Company route 746 'Haney Place / Albion'
|Service Area
|Maple Ridge
|Haney Place
Jackson Road at 103rd Avenue
|Port Coquitlam Transit Centre
|Girardin G5
|746 Haney Place
746 Albion
746 Haney Place via Port Haney Station
(peak hours only)
746 Albion via Port Haney Station
(peak hours only)
746 Port Haney Station (few trips)
746 Haney Place/Albion is a Community Shuttle route operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Route Details
This is a west-east Community Shuttle route in Maple Ridge. Trips depart Haney Place heading west on Dewdney Trunk Road, south on 222nd Street becoming Haney Bypass, north on 225th Street, east on 116th Avenue, south on Lougheed Highway, east on Tamarack Lane, west on 105th Avenue, south on Lougheed Highway, north on 240th Street, east on 102nd Avenue, north on Jackson Road to 103rd Avenue, where it continues as a 745 Haney Place. Westbound trips come off of a 745 Cottonwood and continue as a 746 Haney Place.
During peak hours, trips go via Port Haney Station. 746 Albion trips go via regular route to Haney Bypass, south on 223rd Street, east on River Road, north on 227th Street, then via regular route. 746 Haney Place trips do the reverse routing. 3 morning trips and 5 afternoon trips on weekdays departing from Haney Place and 7 morning trips and 4 afternoon trips on weekdays terminates at Port Haney Station while two trips in the morning peak, one from each terminus, terminates at Port Haney Station.
Points of Interest
- Haney Place Mall
- Maple Ridge Municipal Hall
- Haney Place (Bay 4)
- Memorial Gardens
- Maple Ridge Public Library
- Port Haney Station (Bay 2) (peak hours only)
- Brickwood Park (peak hours only)
- Douglas College
- Planet Ice Sports Entertainment Complex
- Samuel Robertson Technical School
- Thomas Haney Secondary School
- April 2006 - Select peak hour trips diverted to service Port Haney Station[1]
- April 2008 - Service on Sundays and holidays introduced running every two hours[2]
- June 2018 - Community Shuttle branding dissolved: route renumbered from C46 to 746; northeastern portion of the C46 replaced by the 745 Haney Place/Cottonwood and southwestern portion of the C46 replaced by the 746 Haney Place/Albion[3]
- ↑ The Buzzer April 24, 2006 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 23-04-2010
- ↑ The Buzzer April 11, 2008 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 23-04-2010
- ↑ https://www.translink.ca/-/media/Documents/rider_guide/Buzzer-Vault/2010s/2018/Buzzer_06_15_2018.pdf The Buzzer June 15, 2018 Issue] translink.ca, retrieved 22-06-2018


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So a couple weeks ago I gave you a peek at the beginning of my applique project for Island Batik. I've wanted to attempt an applique design based on Hungarian Folk motifs for a while so I thought this would be the time.
To be honest, I think my eyes were bigger than my sewing needle with this project. Or, some of those pieces were smaller than I was really willing to applique. So I decided to just keep the main part of the tulip design.
I've done needle turn applique before, and I really like the process and how it turns out. I've also used fusible interface but I did not want to machine applique this project. So this time I used a light weight interfacing that I sewed to the batik fabric in the desired shape. After trimming around the shape, I cut a small slit in the interfacing and turned the piece right side out. After this I hand stitched the pieces to the background fabric. This process gives the pieces a really smooth finish.
Without the additional flourishes, I feel like the tulip design seems more modern. The red and green batiks from Island Batik are the perfect shade for a Hungarian folk design.


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Sitting on an armchair, 40 years later, when another Indian from another era wins a test match for India, we will celebrate the win just as we did today. Giving high-fives and celebrating every thing Indian about the victory. Yet when the euphoria goes down, the mind will travel back in time to another day when another mortal saved the day. The memory won't remember the runs he made, but the class he show-cased and the joy of having the privilege of watching it live.
For under the toughest conditions, he answers every challenge that is thrown at him not with a sledge-hammer but with a painter's brush. Watching him bat is poetry in making. The ball like words dance of his blade in divine rhythm. He does not play cricket. But he is an artist performing on a stage. A regal performance befit only for the kings, yet it is on display for public viewing. Batting in fourth innings is tough. Ask the other ten who were in the team. Australia was like an angry dragon. Every breath smelled of the fire within. The short-ball was their occasional fire-ball whose frequency increased as the innings progressed. They were determined and disciplined. The Indian chase started like the Chemistry practicals - effervescence of CO2 (virendra sehwag) which soon died out as during the practicals. Then the grind that a test match is began.
When he came out with India 5 down which soon became 8 down, it looked another golden opportunity lost for India except for the lone hope. The hope, that if anyone can save India against the marauding Aussies, it was him and that was a big honor which hardly any batsman can boast of in this world. Australians on their part knew their adversary very well not to lower their guard. After all he had bugged them more than any other had done before. (They call him the bugger.) Yet when you look up to see him play his shot, you don't see the past. You don't see the 167 or the 281. But only the natural order of the things. That the delivered ball had a destiny and when it hit the sweet spot of the bat it was on its way to achieve its destiny. Where is our hero in this natural order of things? Well he is there, neither to smack the ball nor to dominate the bowler. He is there to help the ball achieve its destiny. He is only the Guide.
No opposition would get intimidated by his demeanor on or off the field. The silken grace, the elegance all point towards a monk-like personality. Yet this demeanor becomes an unintended deception for the opposition. Beneath the lazy elegance lies the most disciplined warrior. A warrior hardened by the many wars he has fought, the pain he suffered (was unceremoniously dropped from ODI squad) hiding everything behind his smile. A fierce warrior, who holds his ground when the ground beneath him shakes. The opposition never gave an inch, but he drove the ball like he is driving on a 6-lane expressway.
He still misses out on lot of people's all-time best eleven even though he has saved or won test matches for India against the best in the world. But he shrugs-off it just as he would to a well-directed bouncer. After all, the Indian top-5 boasts of the bests that cricket can offer to the world. You have a butcher, who rips through bowling attacks tearing them and their plans to shreds, the wall who stone-walls everything right at his toes and the little master who is the un-official God of Cricket. Yet with all these Gods in, for his class, his big smile and his tenacity, he still remains Very Very Special. Hats off to Laxman!


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Ah, Scotland! Land of haggis, neeps and tatties!
I've long wanted to venture north and cross the border, fight White Walkers and save my kingdom from the Long Night but alas, that's quite a different north. Instead, we enjoyed miraculously sunny weather, a lot of walking up hills and minimal swordplay.
Here's a few of the things we got up to while travelling around Edinburgh, the Trossachs and Glasgow, and that I whole-heartedly encourage you to try. If you dare.


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Day After Election Fox News Implodes
Once the shock of President Barack Obama's reelection wore-off at Fox News the grief set in. Pundit Bill O'Reilly blamed minorities, as did Dick "Dick" Morris, saying the "traditional America" is dead. Others at the unfair and bullshit news network blamed the rest of the media, especially for their coverage of hurricane Sandy because everyone knows any hurricane that makes landfall in the northeast instead of the south must be a liberal.
Goldline Charged With Fraud
Goldline International, Inc. has been charged by the Santa Monica city attorney with "bait and switch" tactics, the Los Angeles Times reports (and coincidentally the story has an ad for Goldline embedded in it). The charges state that Goldline advertised the sale of gold bullion, but then convinced customers to buy gold coins at a huge mark-up over market cost.
Goldline has long been represented by media personalities such as Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and some guy named Mark Levin. Financial gurus like Bernie Madoff and Michael Milken also call the company "a solid source of income for myself".
While Fox News would be the first to call for the resignation of journalists in the liberal media, say at CNN, who associated themselves with fraudulent business activities, no one expects the same standard to apply to Fox's own commentators. "We've been reporting fake news for years, so what's the big deal?" asked Fox head Roger Ailes.


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Program to change the permission of files present in an Amazon S3 bucket
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The program below gives read permission recursively to all the files present in an S3 bucket.
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The program below gives read permission recursively to all the files present in an S3 bucket.
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S3 is a storage service provided by Amazon. We can use this as a place to store, backup or archive our data. S3 is a storage which is accessible from the public network. So the data reaches S3 through internet. So while doing the data transmission to S3, one important thing that we have to ensure is the correctness of the data. Because if the data gets
corrupted while transferring, it will be a big problem. So we have to ensure the correctness of the data. This is possible only by comparing the S3 copy with the master copy. But how to achieve this ???
In local file system we can do the file comparison by calculating the checksum. But in S3 how we will perform this ?.
Calculating checksum involves reading the complete file. But do we have a provision to calculate the checksum in S3.?
Yes we have. We don't have to calculate again, but use one of the properties of an S3 file to compare it with the source file. Every S3 file has a property called ETag. This etag is a checksum that is calculated while the file is transferred to S3. The tricky part is the way in which Etag is calculated. Etag can be calculated in different ways. So the Etag of a file may be different depending upon the way we transfer the file.
The funda is simple. The Etag of a file depends on the chunk size in which the file gets transferred to S3. So for validating a file, we have to find the etag of the S3 file and calculate a checksum of the local file using the same logic that is used to calculate the Etag of that file in S3. The etag calculation of files uploaded to S3 in normal way is simple and it will be equal to normal md5 checksum. But if we use multipart upload, then the Etag differs. Now the question arises, what is multipart upload ??
Inorder to transfer large files to S3, it is divide it into small parts and upload the parts in parallel and assemble at the S3 side. If we transmit a single large file directly, if some failure happens, the entire file transfer fails and restartability will be also difficult. But if we divide the large file into smaller chunks and transfer it in parallel, the transmission speed increases, the reliability also increases. If the transfer of a chunk fails, we can retry that chunk alone and hence improves the restartability.
Here I am giving an example of checking the Etag of a file and comparing it with the normal md5 checksum of the file.
Suppose I have an S3 bucket with the name checksum-testand I have a file with with the name sample.txt which is of 100 MB inside the checksum-test bucket in a location file/sample.txt
Then the bucket name is checksum-test
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March 2: This Day in The Bold and the Beautiful History
Monday, March 2, 2015 – Episode #7026
Quinn Warns Brooke to Stay Away From Deacon
It's one thing to slap me but to waste my vodka?
Stay away from Deacon, Quinn warns. We have a daughter together, Brooke saysAn adult daughter who lives in another country. Everyone else has rejected Brooke now she wants the man she's been shunning all these years. Do you think you can take Deacon away from me? Quinn yells
Obviously you do, Brooke states.
Quinn becomes more reasonable . She offers to help Brooke up off the floor, but Brooke yells at her to not touch her. Brooke tells her to leave. You're psycho Brooke says.
Deacon wants to be with her and Quinn isn't going to let Brooke take Deacon away from her.
Brooke tells Quinn she doesn't desire Deacon but if she wants to hang out with Deacon she'll hang out with Deacon. Brooke tells her to go. Brooke locks the door behind Quinn. Brooke pours another vodka and cries.
Wyatt Warns Quinn about Deacon
Deacon knows Quinn went to Brooke's but Quinn will be banging on the door. Brooke was so wasted she would sleep through it. She was that wasted. Taking her home was a good decision.
Wyatt warns Deacon about what Quinn is thinking. Deacon says nothing happened as he remembers kissing Brooke. But Wyatt knows his history with Brooke. His mother hasn't cared about another man like this since his father. Do not hurt her, Wyatt warns.
Quinn arrives home. You wouldn't leave me for her would you. Deacon assures Quinn he wouldn't leave her for anyone. He loves her. That's why I told you. I didn't want to hide it from her.
Did she go to Brooke's? What happened Deacon asks. Quinn got her to stop drinking – she knocked some sense into her. Quinnsays Brooke Logan doesn't don a swimsuit for no reason. She has any number of people in her life. Anyone can drive her hope and tuck her into bed at night. Any man but Deacon. Deacon and Quinn hug.
It Could Work…
Steffy encourages Ridge to get on board Liam's plan. Ridge can't stomach Rick being in control for a while year but he's not comfortable with Liam's plan either. Ridge says he needs to check the legals with Carter, but he's open to it. Maybe they can make it work.
Ridge says his kids are too far away. But he's not making a business decision to fix her love life. Ridge says he's going to talk to Liam tonight. Steffy thanks him.
Steffy is on the phone when Ivy walks in. She's making this more complicated than this has to be Ivy says. If Liam wants her stock then being with her is part of the package, Steffy says.
Ivy says Liam's not going back to her. Steffy knows Ivy is nervous. You know what Liam and I had and dating you for a couple of months doesn't compare, Steffy tells Ivy. Steffy says Ridge is with Liam now. If they come to a deal, Liam will be coming back to Steffy.
Ridge Meets With Liam
Ivy and Liam kiss. Hearing Liam defending their relationship to Steffy today meant a lot to her, Ivy tells Liam. Another shot with Steffy must have been tempting Ivy says.
Not in the way you're thinking Liam says. There are a lot of what ifs. He has her and wouldn't have it any other way.
But Icy says being with her is going to cost him Steffy's Forrester shares. Ivy hopes Steffy can rise above what she wants and do what's best for the company.
Ridge arrives. His offer could work out well for everyone, Ridge says. Rick would be out and Steffy would have the life she's always wanted. Why aren't you jumping on Steffy's offer Ridge wants to know.
Liam trusts Ridge and Steffy to elevate Forrester to where he knows Forrester can be. Liam is pumped. They can make it happen. Not without Steffy's 25%. If Liam's not making his daughter happy, Ridge will wait out the year. But he doesn't want to wait a year. Liam needs to think about it. Because Ivy can't be in the picture.
Ridge has reiterated Steffy's condition for the takeover. He's with Steffy and they takeover Forrester Creations or Ridge waits out the year til Eric steps in and sends Rick to the basement or Paris or wherever…
Ridge leaves. Liam has a choice to make…
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At long last, the Seattle City Council has unanimously green-lighted a wide-reaching ban on disposable plastic shopping bags — not just at supermarkets but at farmers markets, department and convenience stores, home improvement centers, and even food trucks.
Produce, bulk, and dry cleaning bags along with plastic bags used for take-out orders at restaurants will still be provided to customers free of charge under the new ruling which will also require retailers to charge customers a minimum of 5 cents if they require a paper shopping bag. The paper bag fee, which will be waived for low-income residents, will go directly back to the retailer to help cover the costs of stocking the bags. Once signed by Mayor Mike McGinn, the new law is expected to go into effect in June 2012.
As mentioned, the ban has been a looong time coming for Seattle. In 2008, the city became the first in the nation to approve a fee (20 cents) on both plastic and paper shopping bags. That game-changing measure was met by a $1.4 million campaign-of-protest by the American Chemistry Council and was repealed by voters in 2009. In the years since the failed measure, Seattle residents have blown through 292 million plastic bags annually (only about 13 percent are recycled) while other cities both local (Bellingham, Edmonds and Portland, Ore.) and further afield (Washington, D.C.; San Francisco) have enacted similar bag fees and outright bans. The Seattle ban is directly modeled after the ban in Bellingham.
Council member Mike O'Brian tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that "the hope is by passing this legislation, we can help shift behavior and get more people to use reusable bags instead of disposable bags." He adds: "I think we've gotten to a place where it's really going to work for the environment, businesses and the community in general."
Naturally, not everyone is pleased that Seattle is back in the plastic shopping bag exiling game. Mark Daniels, vice president of sustainability and environmental policy at plastic bag manufacturer and recycler Hilex Poly, laments to The New York Times: "Moving consumers away from plastic bags only pushes people to less environmentally friendly options such as paper bags, which require more energy to produce and transport, and reusable bags, which are not recyclable."
I hear you loud and clear, Mr. Daniels, but I have to wonder: were there any reusable or paper shopping bags found in the trash-filled stomach of a grey whale that beached itself in Seattle in 2010? Negatory. Also, some folks who use free plastic shopping bags scored at retailers for household purposes such as lining garbage cans and backyard poop scooping have complained about the new measures as well. The ban is fully supported by the Northwest Grocery Association.
Any Seattle residents care to chime in about the news? Here's hoping that the ban is infectious and heads down south to my hometown of Tacoma in the very near future.
Also on MNN:
- Infographic: How different areas of the world handle bag bans
- What's the story with wrapping paper: Recyclable or not?


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Algeria (Formal Arabic: الجزائر, al-Jazā'ir; ), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country on the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent, and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area.
It is bordered by Tunisia to the northeast, Libya to the east, Niger to the southeast, Mali and Mauritania to the southwest, a few km of the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara to the southwest, Morocco to the west and northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north. Its size is almost 2,400,000 sq km with an estimated population near to 35,000,000. The capital of Algeria is Algiers.
Algeria is a member of the United Nations, African Union, OPEC and the Arab League. It also contributed towards the creation of the Arab Maghreb Union.
Alternate versions of Algeria have been discovered in the multiverse:
- Algeria (Chaos)
- Algeria (1861: Historical Failing)
- Algeria (Concert of Europe)
- Algerian Mandate (Reoccupied France)
- Amazighia (Vegetarian World)
- Mauretania (Yarmuk)
- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (Federation of Nations)
- Region of Algeria (TV)
- Republic of Algeria (1983: Doomsday)
Alternate versions of Algeria have also been discovered to be parts of other nations:
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- Italian Empire (Axis World)
- Republic of Northern Africa (Samsu)
- Republic of Northwestern Africa (Zhou)
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The English women's cricket team has finally clinched the fifth and final ODI in West Indies to clinch the series at 3-2. In the fifth one day, the tourists played some dominant cricket. Some of the English bowlers bowled amazingly. Alex Hartley's 4-24 and Katherine Brunt's 3-35 superb performance helped the English team to restrict the hosts to a meagre 155. West Indies skipper Stafanie Taylor's gallant knock of 57 could not save her side.
When the English team batted they initially looked tensed at 56 with two wickets down. However, Nat Sciver's invaluable 58 (unbeaten) helped the visitors to reach their target with 67 balls to spare. After this fifth ODI victory, the English women's cricket team is just one game shy from World Cup qualification. Experts feel that this qualification would be achieved when the English teams tour Sri Lanka in November. There they will play three matches in the ICC Women's Championships.
This victory in the Caribbean happens to be the first victory for Heather Knight as a skipper in an overseas tour. Heather Knight after securing an ODI series win has also come to a step closer to securing a place in Women's World Cup in 2017 which will be played on their home turf. This performance by the English team is even more creditable because the team had inflicted a series defeat on the current Twenty20 champions without its experienced wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor (who is out of the game to deal with an anxiety problem) and also pace bowler (Anya Shrubsole) who is down with an injury.
The English victory was commendable because they played their game without being troubled by the hot and humid conditions and also the spin-friendly surfaces in the West Indies. These conditions in the West Indies were extremely difficult for run making. Hence the toss became a crucial factor in the game. It's interesting to note that all the earlier four ODIs were won by the side who had batted first.
In the fifth ODI, the tourists had to field first. The later sunshine in the afternoon made batting easier. The English bowlers had made sure that the run chase would be manageable. Soon after Brunt and Georgia Elwiss claimed the wickets of Shaquana Quintyne and Hayley Matthews respectively, spinners Hartley and Laura Marsh made short work of the middle order of the hosts. Hartley's superb bowling forced the West Indians players Deandra Dottin, Merissa Aguilleira and Shemaine Campbelle to play poor shots. However, the West Indian captain did try to consolidate the innings with a half-century. This happens to be Taylor's third half-century in the five-match ODI series. Taylor was not allowed to move further. She was stumped when Hartley was bowling. This happens to be Hartley's 13th wicket in the series which is also an English record for one-day internationals.


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New Emoji, Keyboard, and Font Coming to Nexus Devices Next Week
Recently Android lead Hiroshi Lockheimer has revealed that Unicode's new set of emoji will finally debut on Nexus devices starting next week. He also revealed that Google was able to share the fonts and tech details with OEMs, giving them the ability to include in future Android updates as well.
Look! New emoji coming to #Nexus next week. Fonts and tech details shared with OEMs to include in their updates too. pic.twitter.com/GwvKw2d67p
— Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) December 3, 2015
For those that need a refresher, Unicode 7.0 was the diversity themed update that allowed users to choose the color of specific human emoji, while Unicode 8.0 (the latest release), introduced new emotions like the middle finger, animals like the unicorn, and food items like the taco. I guess you can say it was a pretty big deal.
Just keep in mind that most OEMs like HTC and Samsung all theme up emojis with their own designs, so who knows how long it'll be before you see these new ones pop up on those devices. In the meantime, you'll just have to stare at blank boxes like this 🌭 and wonder what it is your friends are talking about. Unless, of course, you own a Nexus device.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
If you happen to be in the neighborhood . . .
Cellist Erica Lessie will be performing my Sephardic Suite on a faculty concert at the Sherwood Conservatory, 1312 South Michigan Avenue, in Chicago, Illinois this coming Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. This is the first concert of a new group called Cherchez La Femme, and admission to the concert is free.
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ELWOOD – A Michigan man died in a Friday afternoon collision with a semitrailer cab that ran a stoplight, police said.
The collision, which involved three vehicles, was at the intersection of Baseline and Arsenal roads, Elwood Police Chief Fred Hayes said.
Donald W. Lundberg, 51, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which happened at 12:03 p.m.
"Speed definitely appears to be a factor," Hayes said.
The cab was traveling without a trailer. Witnesses told police the semitrailer cab headed southbound on Baseline ran a red light and struck the driver's side of Lundberg's 2002 Chevy Impala, Hayes said.
The semitrailer cab then collided with a 2005 Dodge Ram pickup truck, which was stopped in traffic facing north on Baseline attempting to make a left turn on Arsenal. The cab crossed the intersection and came to rest in the Joliet Army Training Center property in the southeast corner of the intersection.
The drivers of the semitrailer cab and pickup truck suffered minor injuries but refused medical treatment.
Addison resident Siefeddin Khattab, 32, was identified as the driver of the semitrailer cab. He was cited for disregarding an official traffic control device and failure to reduce speed.


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Rightwing media outlet the Daily Express is the latest free speech publication to fall into far-Leftist hands after it was bought out by the Trinity Mirror group.
Last month, Daily Express owner Richard Desmond sold the publication along with the Daily Star and its publications including OK! magazine to far-Left Trinity Mirror group.
Trinity Mirror is the force behind Leftist mainstream media (MSM) publication The Mirror and a string of regional newspapers including the Manchester Evening Times and the Birmingham Post.
Along with international billionaire crime-baron, George Soros, the group also sponsor far-Left hate group Hope Not Hate which in turn backs domestic terror group Antifa.
Speaking on the BBC's Today programme, Simon Fox, chief executive of Trinity Mirror insisted that "the Daily Express is not going to become Leftwing and the Mirror is not going to become Rightwing."
So, there we have it.
But wait… since when have Leftists had the integrity or restraint to keep their Social Justice agenda from infecting everything they do?
Consider too that the political Left's pathological propensity to lie brought about its notorious double-speak – a policy of describing everything it does in opposite terms.
'Social Justice' is injustice, 'Political Correctness' incorrectness, 'Anti-Racism' is a racism and the list goes on.
The Trinity Mirror acquisition will now play out in either of two ways with the end result being the same:
• Trinity Mirror attempts to play both sides of the political divide with The Mirror continuing its far-Left reporting and having the Daily Express masquerade as a Rightwing publication while lacing it with Social Justice undertones.
• The inability by Leftists to be subtle will result in the Daily Express descending into a rabid fest of Social Justice reporting.
Either way, Britain loses one of its last remaining Rightwing newspapers.
The acquisition was accompanied by a menacing tweet from communist Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, in which he warned: "a change is coming."
His was a reaction to revelations by Rightwing MSM of Corbyn's collusion with Soviet spies.
In his video message, Corbyn inferred that under a Labour Party government, a Chinese-style mass media censorship banning foreign-owned press from operating in Britain would be implemented.
Publications targeted by Corbyn would include The Sun, Daily Mail, The Telegraph, Breitbart (online only) and others which all happen to report on the side of the political Right.
With one of the last remaining British-owned Rightwing newspapers falling into the hands of the far-Left, totalitarian control over the press would be assured.
The Trinity Mirror takeover has not gone through entirely without objection.
Last week, Breitbart reported that the aspirations of Trinity Mirror to monopolise the MSM in Britain was being investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
It's a last ditch attempt to fight back against the monopolisation of the MSM by the political Left.
These latest concerted efforts by Leftist organisations and Jeremy Corbyn should not come surprise anyone, history has warned us.
Every single totalitarian regime in history has shut down all political descent and free press – it's what they do!
The takeover further highlights the vital role alternative news media and independent reporters have in defending free speech and our hard-earned freedoms from those who intend to snatch them from us by force.


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At the end of an assured shorthold tenancy a claim for possession may fail because the tenant has given the landlord a deposit and the relevant landlord's notice under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 was served at a time when the deposit had not been protected under the tenancy deposit scheme and/or the prescribed information in respect of the tenancy deposit scheme had not been provided to the tenant as required by section 213(6) of the Housing Act 2004.
Section 215(2) of the 2004 Act provides that if section 213(6) is not complied with in relation to a deposit given in connection with a shorthold tenancy, no section 21 notice may be given in relation to the tenancy until such time as section 213(6)(a) is complied with.
The Localism Act 2011 inserted section 215(2A) into the Housing Act 2004 which sets out the circumstances in which a section 21 notice may be delivered, notwithstanding that the deposit was not protected within 30 days of the landlord receiving it:
"(2A) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply in a case where –
(a) the deposit has been returned to the tenant in full or with such deductions as are agreed between the landlord and tenant, or
(b) an application to a county court has been made under section 214(1) and has been determined by the Court, withdrawn or settled by agreement between the parties."
So if the deposit has been repaid either voluntarily or pursuant to an application to the court, then it's open to the landlord to issue the section 21 notice, even though the deposit may not have been protected within the prescribed period at the outset.
The Localism Act 2011 also amended section 214 so that if the deposit was not protected nor the prescribed information supplied within 30 days of the deposit being received by the landlord, the court 'must' make an order in respect of the deposit, and an order that the landlord pays the tenant an amount of between one and three times the amount of the deposit.
In the recent County Court case of Khuja v Chowdhury [2015] the Section 21 notice was found to be invalid because, though by then the deposit had been protected by the scheme and the tenant had received the prescribed information, the deposit had not been returned to the tenant.
The mandatory penalty was kept down to twice the amount of the deposit as the court found some mitigating factors including the fact that the landlord had acted honestly.
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A high school senior shared a touching photo of her father walking her to school on her last day of high school, recreating an image they snapped 13 years ago, on her first day of kindergarten.
Read: Veteran With ALS Stands to 'Tap Out' His Son During His Graduation From Basic Training
Jason Gayler of Alvord, Texas, walked his daughter, Brittany, to her first day of kindergarten when she was 5. Now 18 and finishing high school, he accompanied her again.
She posted the image on Twitter at the end of May where it has gained nationwide attention.
my dad walked me to school on my very first day & today he walked me to school on my very last day pic.twitter.com/70RmbI7oQ9— Brittany Gayler (@BrittanyGayler) May 25, 2017
"We found the picture and just decided that we were gonna do it over again just for memories," she told Inside Edition.
"I was all for it," she added. "Me and my dad just have that kind of relationship. He's my best friend."
Read: Teen Breaks Down in Tears as He Receives Special Birthday Gift From Dad, Who Died 2 Months Ago
Social media went crazy over the photo, where it has been shared more than 14,000 times on Twitter and liked more than 63,000 times.
Many pointed out how her dad has apparently not aged a day since the original photo.
"I've never gotten that many compliments or questions about my skincare," he joked.
Watch: Teen Recreates Graduation Photo for Parents Who Were Teens When They Had Her


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Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): Africa by Toto.
I did something daring and stupid. And fun. Over at The Last Word, I entered a contest to rewrite Twilight. You know, of the Stephenie Meyer persuasion. :) The contest was to write 500 words of a story using the first line from Twilight as inspiration. How could I pass up this challenge to tackle the mega-super-awesome-all-star of Stephenie Meyer?
But for all the Twi-hards out there, can anyone tell me what the first line of Twilight is? It's rather unextraordinary if taken by itself. Any guesses? Okay, I'll tell you. :)
My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down.
Yep, that's it. The book that started a firestorm of screaming girls out in mass droves started with those humble beginnings. And what an appropriate pre-start to the Halloween season! (besides all my nudges for filling Halloween with literary characters). ;)
There are nine entries in all, but I'm a bit hesitant to tell you which is mine for fear of sounding of tooting my own horn. There are some really good entries (#5 is my favorite - and no, that's not mine). One even tried to literally rewrite Twilight, setting up the same situation and everything. It made for an interesting entry.
You can vote for your three favorites by October 2nd (Friday) at 8:00 PM, central time. If you do want a hint, mine is in the same place where my last name would be. ;) Head over there for some fun entries. I certainly thought it was a fun spur-of-the-moment writing piece to create.
I took on the YA goddess of vampires. You can decide if I won that battle or not. :)


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Before I go into my answers, I must tell you my hair saga. I had long hair ever since I convinced my mom that "I could take care of it" (I was perhaps seven). I NEVER would have voluntarily gone short, but now that I have, I don't think I'll go back to long.
What caused me to go short?
CANCER! -- I was diagnosed with stage IIIc breast cancer on June 2, 2010. (Ladies -- do NOT ignore any lumps!!!)
I was destined for the works: mastectomy, chemo + radiation. Since it was all going to fall out anyway, and I knew post-surgery long hair would be a pain to deal with, I went with my pal Dez to her salon in Whittier. (Before and After pix at top).
The next day I was surprised to discover my dad's hair on my head! Same cowlick and everything! It was surprisingly thick.
I started chemo on July 27. Twenty days later, my hair started feeling strangely "crunchy" and dead and on August 18, my boyfriend shaved it all off for me (he's an expert, as you can see)
|if we had a band, we could call it Eight Eyes
It's growing back in kind of wavy, just like "they" said it would. It sort of looks like my mom's hair these days...
How often do you get your hair cut?
As often as I can. I've gone short with a vengeance.
Do you go to the same stylist each time, try someone new, go to the cheap hair cutting chains or live it up in a salon?
For my "first" cut (trim really) I drove 120 miles to my friend Leslie's. Good excuse to visit. And she's great at cutting short hair!
|"first" hair cut: 4-1
Do you color your hair? How often? What's your natural color?
Never ever colored or permed my hair. 100% virgin salt + pepper.
The one thing you always do to keep your hair looking great is:
Wash it with Neutrogena anti-residue and condition with H2O Spa Sea Marine. Used these both when it was long too. I'm very particular about the scent of beauty products - the Neutrogena is very neutral, the H20 pleasant (did not like the performance of H20 shampoo). Finding the right conditioner was difficult when my hair was long - I'd find one and then it would get discontinued. The H20 worked well keeping it straight, relaxed, smooth and shiny. Now it's not such a big deal but I still like how it smells.
What hair trend do you love and wish you could rock?
I actually briefly attained the short hair look I wanted when my hair was growing back: short pixie ala Jean Seberg or Mia Farrow
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|My mom saw this photo and said I looked like a prisoner
ok, maybe it IS a tad short
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Sell Gold in Milwaukee, What You Need To Know:
Honesty and integrity make Powers the best place in Milwaukee to sell your unwanted gold. Powers Jewelry Designers is a member in good standing of the Milwaukee business community, a part of Milwaukee for over 33 years. Powers pays the highest prices for gold, platinum, silver, diamonds, and precious gemstone jewelry. Do you have a kinked gold chain, a single earring, some out of style gold jewelry, or an unwanted engagement ring from Mr. Wrong? The highest price paid for gold and other precious metals is at Powers Jewelry Designers.
Powers Jewelry Designers turns your unwanted gold into something more useful. Bring in your unwanted gold, platinum, silver and diamond jewelry to Powers and receive the highest prices paid in the metropolitan Milwaukee area. With Powers Jewelry Designers right here in Milwaukee paying top prices for gold, why would anyone mail gold or diamond jewelry across the country on the promise of a fair price and a check in the mail? Why attend a "gold buying event" at a rented hotel room and sell your valuable items to a stranger when you have no assurance of their integrity, and no idea where they will be next week?
Powers Jewelry Designers are here to serve you, as we have been for three decades, at the corner of Broadway and Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee.
Some things to consider when selling gold in Milwaukee are:
Gold, platinum, and silver are traded on the commodities exchange market and their prices change daily. Powers Jewelry Designers will use the daily current market prices when purchasing jewelry.
Many places that buy gold in Milwaukee pay you for only the metal weight of the piece. Powers Jewelry Designers will also pay you for stones of value in your piece or dismount and return them to you if you wish.
Your gold, platinum, and silver fine jewelry is not pure precious metal. The precious metals have been alloyed with other metals for appearance and strength.18 Karat gold is is approximately 75% pure gold, 14 Karat 58% pure gold, platinum is typically 90-95% pure, sterling silver 92% pure. Purity depends also on where and when the piece was manufactured. Powers Jewelry Designers will test your jewelry for karat content and answer any questions you have on the purity of your items.
With the exception of some antique and high fashion pieces, most of the gold jewelry we buy will be melted and the pure gold will be recovered. You are under no obligation to sell your jewelry after we evaluate it for you. If a piece of jewelry has sentimental value to you, you can keep it, or pass it down to loved ones as a family keepsake. You might want to consider another option as well. Why not remake your older jewelry into something new that reflects your personal taste and incorporates the gemstones and precious metal that carry a meaning for you? Our artisans specialize in making your dreams a reality!
If you intend to sell gold, platinum or silver in any form, including dental gold, sterling silver flatware, gold or diamond jewelry, even loose diamonds, you will receive the highest price paid in cash in Milwaukee at Powers Jewelry Designers. Selling gold in Milwaukee? Stop at Powers today, you'll be glad you did.
Powers Jewelry Designers were recently on TMJ4's I-Team Investigation. In an undercover shopper experiment, the I-Team went to local jewelry stores in Milwaukee and tried selling a class ring. Powers Jewelry Designers had the highest offer by more than $100! Quality, Value, & Integrity are more than a slogan around here. If you can't even trust your jeweler to buy fairly from you, how can you expect them to make you a fair sale either? Whenever selling unwanted gold or diamonds, make sure you shop around...then shop at Powers.


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Five Fabulous Bloggers
Thanks to Trop50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 Fabulous Wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to celebrate a friend with a refreshing attitude about looking and feeling fabulous!
fab·u·lous [fab-yuh-luhs] adjective
almost impossible to believe; incredible.
blog·ger [blawg-er] nouna person who keeps a Web log (blog) or publishes online diary.
I love finding fabulous bloggers! There are so MANY awesome bloggers out there! In fact, being a daily reader of some of my favorite blogs finally inspired me to start my own. I have more than five favorites for sure, but let me tell you about five that would definitely fall in the top 10!
Little Miss Momma is a fabulous blog because what she writes about is so real! Ashley gives us fresh and fun little insights into her life. She is so honest and it comes across almost like you are having coffee with her sitting right across from you! I love Ashley's photos too! She always adds the best photos to her posts, making it more enjoyable to read! She is crafty and hilarious! From how to get natural curls to stories of being a mom - I love reading Little Miss Momma!
I have recently become kind of obsessed with handmade items. So naturally, I just love Etsy! The fabulous blog A Little Etsy Love offers reviews and giveaways for all things Etsy! I love browsing through the reviews to find out more about the artists. And of course, I love entering the giveaways! When you receive something that is handmade you really do feel the love that was put into it! Check out A Little Etsy Love and see which handmade items tickle your fancy!
Shelley at House of Smith's has an eye for all things beautiful! Shelley and her husband started the blog to keep track of their home remodel and design. The DIY themed posts are full of beautiful photos that will leave you feeling inspired! I have a long to-do list of fun projects I want to create that I found on House of Smith's!
The name kind of says it all! Just Lovely Things is full of wonderful posts about just that - lovely things! From crafts to giveaways and from recipes to tutorials, Heather posts about lovely things. Things that are pretty and things that will bring a smile to your day! She is a talented crafter and photographer which makes for amazing posts. You can find posts about photography, pretty jewelry, home decor and more. Just lovely!
Less Cake {More Frosting} is a fun blog written by Lara. She posts about a variety of things from recipes, to craft projects to free printables! You never know what you will find and I love that! There are plenty of great photos in every post (I am such a visual person) that it keeps me coming back for more! And don't you just love the name Less Cake {More Frosting}?!
Well there you have it! Five of the many fabulous bloggers that I have come across! I hope you will go check them out and find them to be just as {fabulous} as I do! Tell me, which blogs do you find fabulous!?
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Now isn't that a nice way to start a Monday?
Or how about this one from Alice In Wonderland?
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So this deal would only be $3 - woo-hoo!
Meet Me On Monday
Hi and thanks for stopping by!
Please leave me a comment so I can come check out your blog!
1. What is your favorite bagel flavor?An everything bagel.
2. If you had an extra $100 right now, what would you spend it on?
A Vera Bradley bag in Lemon Parfait.
3. What is the last thing that you felt guilt about doing?
3. What is the last thing that you felt guilt about doing?
I rested all day and my house is a mess.
4. Soft serve ice cream or hand dipped?
4. Soft serve ice cream or hand dipped?
Soft serve for sure. Hand dipped is too hard. Unless you are at Coldstone, then yum.
5. Are you allergic to anything?
5. Are you allergic to anything?
Not really. Pretty lucky that way.
Follow Friday
This week's statements:
1. I always wanted to get an iPhone and I did it!
This week I got my first iPhone. Hey iPhone, where have you been all my life?!
2. One of favorite things about my spouse / significant other is how goofy he is.
He is always joking around and making me laugh. I could not be with someone that was always serious. I would be so bored!
3. The craziest (most daring) thing I did in High School/College skip lunch.
Yes skipping lunch in High School was my big daring thing. I was a goody goody and I did not break the rules!
4. I couldn't make it through a day without see #1.
Totally addicted to that baby.
Now for some hopping!
Welcome and please leave a comment so I can come say "hi"!
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{Giveaway}: Win A Roar and Explore Adventure Getaway in Columbus, Ohio! Fun For The Whole Family! (ARV $375) - CLOSED
Lions, Cyclones, and Dinosaurs, OH MY!!!
Have I got an affordable, exciting and fun-filled family vacation option for you!
And guess what? It is right here in my home state of Ohio!
As you may know, Columbus is home to the #1 Zoo and #1 Science Center in the US! Did you catch that? #1! Therefore, it is naturally the perfect place to go for unforgettable family fun this summer!
Experience Columbus just launched an incredible Roar and Explore Adventure Getaway, featuring both of those top-ranked experiences and packed with family fun!
Starting at just $375 plus tax for a family of four, a savings of $84, the Adventure Getaway allows guests to experience a trio of top Columbus adventures at a surprisingly low cost.
The package includes:
Four tickets to The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Four tickets to The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Rated the No. 1 zoo in America by USA Travel Guide, Zoo visitors can visit Polar Frontier, where polar bears frolic underwater and swim overhead. They can journey through the African forest, surrounded by leopards, okapis, and bonobos and visit the Zoo's beloved family of western lowland gorillas, featuring 54-year-old Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity.
Four tickets to Zoombezi Bay
The only water park adjacent to a zoo, Zoombezi Bay is home to more than a dozen water slides and features, including Cyclone, a spine-tingling 20-plus-mph water ride with a 55-foot drop. Zoombezi Bay will open two new waterslides this summer: Python Plunge and Anaconda Falls.
Four tickets to COSI
This summer, dinosaurs take over the science center that's rated No. 1 for families by Parents magazine. This special exhibition features life-like animatronic dinosaurs plus simulator pods where kids can hunt, eat and flee predators. Guests can also ride a high-wire unicycle, use sonar technology and much more in COSI''s more than 300 interactive exhibits.
Two nights of accommodations
(Columbus-area Drury Inn & Suites is the Roar and Explore preferred hotel.) Prices may vary with other hotels.
Packages are designed for a family of four, but additional family members may be added when booking. I know what you are saying. What an incredible value! All of that for just $375 for a family of four!? Yes.
Can you imagine all of the FUN that will be packed into 3 days for you and your family?! Wow!
Book It: You can book this amazing adventure
by visiting Columbus Family Fun or you can call (888) 795-3701.
Okay now buckle your seatbelts ladies and gentlemen.
You may just spot a GORILLA, or perhaps a DINOSAUR, or you could get WET!
It is about to get VERY exciting! Are you ready?
Columbus Family Fun is giving away
one of these amazing packages to one of my readers!
Can I get a woo-hoo?
If you can get your family to Columbus, Ohio this summer for an exciting adventure then read on!
Win It: One {LUCKY} reader will win a Roar and Explore Adventure Getaway for a family of four valued at $375!
That is four tickets to The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium,
four tickets to Zoombezi Bay, four tickets to COSI,
and two nights of hotel accommodations!!
Wow! Are you still with me? Now on to the important stuff! You need to enter to win!
Here's How To Enter:
Mandatory Entry: You must leave a valid email address if it is not listed in your profile.
1) Visit Columbus Family Fun. Then come back and tell me what part of this amazing getaway package you are most excited about and why!
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Giveaway will end 6/2 at 11:59 PM EST. Must be 18+ to enter. Winner will be randomly selected via random.org and emailed. Winner has 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be selected. Open to US and Canadian readers. Winner must provide own transportation. This package giveaway is for four people. If your family is larger than four and you are selected as the winner, you will be able to pay the difference for any additional guests.
Good luck to all of you who enter!
A special thank you to Columbus Family Fun for the getaway package provided for both myself and one of my lucky readers.
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Welcome to
OH! MEXICO & CHANCHALA restaurant
where you'll find the best of Mexican and Indian cuisine
Our restaurant and bar offer a tasty combination of your favourite dishes prepared by native Mexican and Indian chefs and some of the best cocktails this side of Acapulco!
original Mexican fun
We offer a range of Mexican and Tex Mex favourites including burritos, quesadillas, fajitas, enchiladas, baked nachos and guacamole. Our grill maestro offers tasty steaks, burgers and fish. We use the highest quality and freshest ingredients and only partner with original Mexican food suppliers. Choose a spice level to suit your taste: super hot, hot or mild the choice is yours!
flavours from northern & southern India
Our Indian chefs create truly authentic dishes, making full use of all the wonderful spices and flavours found throughout India. All of your favourites such as Korma, madras, masala, butter chicken, biryani, dall, jalfrezi and curry. Starters include samosas, papadum and dal lentil soup. We recommend a tasty mango lassi to accompany your food! Choose your own spice level to suit your taste: super hot, hot or mild the choice is yours!
Beach Bar
Are we in Mexico?!
Good drinks go hand-in-hand with good food. Our bar offers a great range of cocktails from Mexico and around the world. If you're feeling adventurous try our giant 'Maxi-Margarita!' We also have a good selection of non-alcoholic beverages, fresh fruit and vegetable juices, aqua frescas, soft drinks and virgin cocktails.
Take away
We are happy to pack your food for pick-up
Are you planning a company party or family celebration? We can prepare a Mexican fiesta or perhaps an oriental style feast!
We are happy to prepare everything for your event, including food, drinks and all decorations in Mexican or Indian style.


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Protests are meant to be disruptive. It stops people in their steps, demands attention and force people to have to deal with them. Any kind of protest at any non-designated area is by definition disruptive. That's why we have the Hong Lim Park, a dedicated place for public protest, a place where disruption can be tolerated.
With the internet we have now, we do have a lot of space to protest and voice out even if people claim we are being censored. These days I see more anti-PAP opinion then pro-PAP propaganda all year round. We all actually spend time reading these and discuss issues offline and we get their point. We really do not have to go out to the streets for demonstration.
Sometimes we forget that the pro-govt also have a voice. If public protests are legal, they will not just sit and watch forever. Public demostrations will lead to conflict, breed resentment, destroy the social cohesion, and divert our attention from nation building, economic progress to petty disagreements.


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Good Morning all! It is Monday Morning here in my neck of the woods and I just had some yummy waffles and fruit and of course my beloved coffee in my new sleek Marilyn Monroe mug my dad picked up for me. I am listening to the "XX" station on pandora and I am nice, calm, cool and collected. I am super sore from my attempt to do partially this Ninety Nine workout. Whew. I got to set 66 and had to stop.
My weeks have been so busy lately even though hours have been cut back since its slow before Halloween Season. My son, Matthias has started football and he is soooo cute in his lil practice uniform. (If you follow my Instagram, sorry you are seeing the same photos)
Between working out and running the kids around to practice, I have been working on my drawing. I am trying to draw at least one design a day even if its just lettering.
|ols sketch I found while cleaning from when I attended the Art Institute
I have an interview today at Sportsclips and I am excited not only because I need to get another job, but I really like the laid back atmosphere of the place. I think it will be a good place to get my foot in the door and also help me with my men's haircuts.
I just wanted to do a quick post! It's very rare for me to ask for anything, but I am trying to get enough money to take my state boards ($155) if you are in a giving mood, and want to donate to help a blogger out I would appreciate it! There is a link to donate in the top right corner of my blog! You dont have to by any means so dont feel pressured! Once I reach the amount or get it somehow I will take it down, because I do not want to take advantage! well, thanks for stopping by!
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