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SUBHEAD: This is a decision that will be made in this community, by this community.
By Joan Conrow on 22 June 2011 for Honolulu Weekly -
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Hawaii has very strong and nationally recognized protections regarding stream flows and Native Hawaiian rights. That stands to be completely wiped out by what KIUC is doing, and it seems they're doing it for that purpose. Isaac Moriwake COVER Farmer Jerry Ornellas bristled when he read in the local newspaper that Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) was looking to develop a hydroelectric project on the Wailua reservoir. It was the first he'd heard of it, and that rankled, considering he was president of a water users cooperative whose system includes the reservoir.
"They know who we are," Ornellas said. "You'd think they would have given us the courtesy of a call. But they never said a word." The Robinson family was equally vexed to discover they had not been consulted on plans to study hydro on land in western Kauai they have owned for more than a century. Conservationists, meanwhile, were outraged to learn that a twice-bitterly-beaten-down plan to dam the Wailua River apparently had been resurrected.
Thus began KIUC's clumsy foray into hydroelectric development under a federal process that allows investors to stake a claim, gold rush-style, on rivers and irrigation ditches. The utility actually followed the lead of Free Flow Power (FFP), a Massachusetts-based consortium of consultants and investors that filed the permit applications that created a community uproar.
The utility became embroiled when it bought Free Flow's permits and hired the firm to guide it through a hydro development process administered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington, DC. It's a process that has been attempted in Hawaii, but never completed, and Sen. Daniel Akaka has unsuccessfully sought legislation to prevent its use in the Islands. The core concern is whether the FERC process will respect the state's progressive water code, particularly its instream flow standards, which determine the quantity, flow and depth of water required to protect the various uses of a specific stream.
Others wonder if federal bureaucrats–given their unfamiliarity with Hawaii's unique cultural, environmental and historical characteristics–can be reasonably expected to set the right standards. Whether or not Hawaii residents can effectively participate in a proceeding based in Washington, DC has yet to be determined. For all those reasons, KIUC's decision to take the FERC route has raised suspicion and resistance. But the secrecy surrounding the initial applications, and uncertainty about exactly what might be developed, has also fed the opposition.
KIUC claims it is too early to discuss project plans, and regardless of what Free Flow wrote on the applications, it is not going to build any dams. "These permits just give us the right to do feasibility studies," says David Bissell, chief executive officer of KIUC, a member-owned utility cooperative. "We are just at the very preliminary stages of trying to see what's possible."
Hindu Monks Oppose
Not everyone is convinced. "All we have to go on is what's in their applications," said Rev. Easan Katir, a monk at Kauai's Hindu monastery. The monks, who normally eschew political activism, are vigorously opposing the utility's proposed hydro projects on the Wailua River, which runs through the monastery's grounds and feeds the East Kauai Water Users Cooperative they helped to form. FERC opponents are leery of both Free Flow and the process that brought it into a relationship with KIUC. "Free Flow Power has never done hydro development," said Adam Asquith, a taro farmer and Universiy of Hawaii Sea Grant extenson agent on Kauai.
Keeping the Flow
Bissell maintains that the non-profit utility cooperative will benefit from having FFP manage the process, which he says offers insurance that KIUC will not be edged out by a private developer who would charge more for any electricity generated. He also says that without FERC, hydro has no future at KIUC. "I would not recommend we go forward investing possibly millions of dollars without the FERC process because a for-profit developer could jump in front of us," Bissell said. To stake its own claim, KIUC purchased the shell companies that FFP formed to file six applications on waterways from Hanalei to Kekaha.
FERC has already approved three, giving KIUC preliminary permits that carry the exclusive right to study hydroelectric development for three years. Bissell said no specific price was placed on the applications, which were purchased as part of a larger consulting contract. The utility has refused to disclose the full value of the contract, which includes an incentive for delivering completed projects, but KIUC attorney David Proudfoot said FFP will be paid "several million dollars if none go past the first stage."
In response, Asquith led a petition drive that is forcing KIUC to put its FFP contract to a vote of its members, with ballots being mailed out this week. Although FERC opponents have little money for advertising, the monastery funded a full-page informational ad in the Kauai newspaper, and citizens have used social media and the Island's community radio station and public access television station to take their message to co-op members.
Navigating the Waters
Meanwhile, the East Kauai Water Users Cooperative, County of Kauai, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) and State Agricultural Development Corporation filed formal petitions to intervene in the FERC permits, and the state attorney general's office apparently plans to take similar action.
"Why go to Washington, DC, to decide how Hawaii streams are managed?" said William Tam, deputy director of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resources and Management. "It is hard to understand some facts when you're 5,000 miles away. Written statements do not always tell the whole story." Tam has taken no stand on the current KIUC permits. The matter may come before the Water Commission, and he has not thoroughly reviewed the applications. But he is familiar with FERC from his earlier tenure in the State attorney general's office.
Between 1989 and 1991, the State opposed FERC jurisdiction over three proposed hydroelectric projects for the upper and lower Wailua River and the Hanalei River. The State objected on the grounds that the projects were not located on "navigable waters," as provided under the Federal Power Act, and that FERC would assert its authority over in-stream flow standards.
The State Water Code vests that authority to the State Water Commission, which is charged with managing Hawaii's stream water–a public trust resource–for cultural, ecological and economic purposes. While a California court recognized FERC's authority to set instream flow standards and another court upheld the State of Washington's right to set Clean Water Act standards, those questions remain untested in Hawaii, because no FERC hydro project has ever been built in the Islands. However, the issue of FERC jurisdiction has been addressed, at least in part.
On June 2, 1989, FERC ruled that it had no jurisdiction over a proposed "lower Wailua" project–a diversion dam about 1,000 feet upstream from Wailua Falls with a powerhouse about .9 miles upstream of the Fern Grotto–because "the Wailua River has not been shown to be a navigable water at the site of Island Power Co.'s proposed project." On July 18, 1991, FERC issued an order stating that federal licensing was not required for Island Power's proposed "upper Wailua" project–again because the site was not on "navigable waters."
License to Flow
In 1990, however, FERC ruled that it had the authority to issue "voluntary licenses" for a proposed project on the Hanalei River because it constitutes "Commerce Clause waters." These are defined as "any waterway within the United States…where…water will ultimately end up in public waters such as a river or stream, tributary to a river or stream, lake, reservoir, bay, gulf, sea or ocean either within or adjacent to the United States," which is true of virtually all streams in Hawaii. Developers ultimately dropped all three projects, leaving unanswered the question of whether federal or state interests prevail. In light of these decade-old orders, Tam said, it is not correct for KIUC to claim that the FERC process is required for the Wailua River. Nor is it accurate to claim that FERC is the only way to secure priority for a project. "The applicant will have to obtain an option or a lease from the landowner at some point," he said. "Do it up front. No one else will be able to use the property." Asquith said the KIUC Board could "level the playing field" simply by passing a resolution refusing to buy electricity from any project developed under a FERC permit. KIUC officials say it is too early in the process to sign a lease or obtain an option, because they are uncertain which locations may bear fruit.
Besides, they say, FERC offers the benefit of a clear roadmap for developing hydro, which is lacking at the state level. "It's a well-defined, transparent process that requires intensive involvement by all stakeholders," Bissell said. "It gives stakeholders a seat at the table on these important resources people feel very passionate about. It's really not a way to circumvent the state process."
KIUC board members also have vowed to secure all the state permits needed for a hydro project. While the FERC process is relatively common in the western United States, Tam does not believe it is appropriate for Hawaii. First, the methodology for determining stream flows on the Mainland is "very different" than what is used in Hawaii, he said. There is also the distance factor. "There just is not a similar ability to participate.
You have to go to Washington to participate in hearings about what is happening in Hawaii streams. We think those kinds of decisions should be made here." Isaac Moriwake, an Earthjustice attorney who has litigated water use issues on Maui, agrees. "Hawaii has very strong and nationally recognized protections regarding stream flows and Native Hawaiian rights. That stands to be completely wiped out by what KIUC is doing, and it seems they're doing it for that purpose," he said.
A Matter of Trust
The (DHHL) raised similar concerns in its intervention request. "Hawaii law grants DHHL priority over other users of the State of Hawaii's water resources, including water in the East Kauai Irrigation System, which encompasses the Wailua Reservoir. In addition, a preliminary permit would afford [KIUC] certain priorities that may interfere with DHHL's current and future development of the area's hydrologic resources." Asquith was also disturbed by that prospect. "Water in Hawaii is a highly provincial resource, hydrologically, socially, culturally–even the rain has a different name in each valley," he said. "It is impossible to convey the depth of the value of water to someone who hasn't taken time to understand it. The FERC bomb was just this horrific breach of protocol that was shocking to me."
The insensitivity displayed by KIUC and FFP, both of which failed to consult key players before filing permit applications, and the prospect of working through a federal process that he termed "more procedural than substantive" motivated Asquith to mount the petition drive. In addition to forcing a vote on the FFP contract–ballots must be cast by July 8–the petition drive also required KIUC to host a general membership meeting, which was held June 4.
More than 100 people attended. Most expressed concerns, grievances and reservations in testimony that spanned the better part of a day. "I support hydro, but in good conscience, how can I vote yes when I don't know what it's going to entail, is all I'm saying," testified Mark Sueyasu, who identified himself as a west Kauai hunter. Puanani Rogers said the utility should have met with Native Hawaiians before moving forward, prompting Bissell to reply that such consultation "is very high on our priorities."
"You've run off down this road in secret…without having the community on board, and I think that's the core of your problem," said Les Brosnan, who noted that in its earlier forays into alternative energy, KIUC "chose weak partners that are still flailing around and have failed to deliver." Some, however, urged KIUC to move ahead. Among them was Councilwoman JoAnn Yukimura, who said she believes that ending the Free Flow contract "will stop our in-house efforts to develop hydro."
That spurred others to address Bissell's desire to "get the discussion out of the FERC process and into hydro," which apparently prompted the utility to distribute hand-held paper fans that read "hydros" on one side and "yes!" on the other. "KIUC has successfully blurred the reason for this meeting," said Elaine Dunbar, who helped collect petition signatures. "It's not about hydro. It's about secrecy and an improper process." Criticism about the process spilled over into KIUC's approach to the upcoming vote, including its preparation of a "voter guide" that focused on hydro, with no reference to the petitioners' concerns about FERC. Petitioners said it seemed unreasonable that KIUC had written the pro and con arguments. KIUC attorney Proudfoot disagreed.
"The Board voted for [the Free Flow contract]. They are entitled to support it. They are not required to help others who don't support it with the member's money. That's why it's clearly labeled 'KIUC voters guide.'" Despite edging petitioners out of that particular process, and acknowledging past failures with consultations, KIUC officials said they are fully committed to carefully considering public concerns as they explore hydroelectric development. "This is a decision that will be made in this community, by this community," said KIUC director, Jan TenBruggencate. Bissell offered his own exhortations at the meeting.
"I encourage everyone to have trust in KIUC, have trust in your elected board, have trust in me and, most importantly, have trust in yourself. The only way these projects will go forward is through overwhelming community support."Therein seems to lay the crux of the conflict. "If KIUC cannot conduct a single meeting in a manner which addresses the acknowledged intent of the petition and the clear interest of the people attending, how can they possibly conduct complicated community interactions on hydro?" Asquith questioned, in a widely circulated email. "If they cannot refrain from shameful ballot propaganda that completely distorts the intent of the petition and vote, how can they possibly deliver a balanced presentation on hydro?" Or as Kapaa resident Glenn Mickens noted during a break in the meeting:
"There's only one reason we're here. It's a matter of trust. From the get-go, there's this underlying mistrust for KIUC.And overcoming that mistrust ultimately may prove more difficult for the utility than successfully developing hydroelectric under any process.
Plenty water but no kokua
With one of the world's wettest places at its summit, Waialeale receives 424 inches of rain each year. Many of Kauai's numerous streams derive from the lush hilltop, feeding sugar and pineapple plantations and generating the hydroelectric power that ran the plantations' mills and camps. McBryde Sugar Co. built a plant on the north shore's Wainiha River in 1905 that continues to generate about 3.6 megawatts of power for Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, while also serving the needs of Kauai Coffee. Seven smaller systems–five of them privately owned–produce another 5 megawatts for the utility. Together, they account for about 15 percent of the island's total power generation. While several hydro projects were proposed for the Wailua and Hanalei rivers in recent decades, they were all stalled by environmental concerns, community opposition and funding problems.


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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The Court of Arbitration for Sport has upheld Skenderbeu's 10-year ban from UEFA competitions for widespread fixing of domestic and European matches.
The court says its judging panel "found to its comfortable satisfaction that Skenderbeu was responsible for match-fixing activities."
The judges agreed UEFA's 10-year ban and 1 million euros ($1.13 million) fine "were proportionate and justified."
The club's appeal was heard at CAS in April in relative secrecy after UEFA investigators received death threats during their work.
Using evidence of betting patterns, UEFA investigators found suspected fixing of two Champions League qualifying games and two Europa League group-stage games in 2015.
UEFA also suspected Skenderbeu of helping fix around 50 domestic matches since 2011.
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Officials in New York City and New Jersey faced heavy criticism after a snowstorm on Thursday afternoon wreaked havoc on roads, leaving schoolchildren stranded on buses for hours, crippling commuter routes home and contributing to thousands of motor-vehicle accidents.
In New York City, several buses serving special-needs students struggled to get through the city's traffic-snarled roads. Five children spent more than 10 hours without a bathroom break or meal because their school bus got stuck in Manhattan and the Bronx on Thursday, according to New York City Council member Ben Kallos.
In a separate incident, Varda Steinhardt said her 16-year-old son, Jacob, who has autism, didn't get home until 10 p.m. after seven hours on a school bus that kept getting stuck in the snow as it traveled north from the southern part of Manhattan.
Buses and cars became snarled in the evening commute on unplowed roads. PHOTO: SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES
At times, she wanted to get on a subway to retrieve him but was afraid that, if she was out of cellphone reach, he would grow more upset. He kept calling her. "He was crying and screaming for about three hours on the bus," she said in an interview Friday. "He has a tendency to think things are his fault, so he kept saying 'Mommy, they're going to arrest me!'"
The bus didn't come to pick him up on Friday morning and she wouldn't put him on it anyway. "It was so painful to be on the phone with him," she said. "He's OK today but will be talking about this for months."
A city Education Department spokesman said in an email about 700 routes were reported as delayed yesterday, a little less than 10% of all routes.
"We've worked closely with bus companies and across city agencies to keep students safe, comfortable, and getting to and from school as efficiently as possible," the spokesman said.
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson called for an investigation into the city's handling of the season's first winter storm, which dropped 4 to 6 inches of snow across the five boroughs.
"There are many council members and New Yorkers who want serious answers before we get into the later winter months so this cannot and should not happen again," he said.
Rail commuters were also hit hard, particularly in New Jersey, as downed trees and track-related issues caused cancellations and lengthy delays.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy acknowledged Friday that state agencies had failed to respond quickly enough to the weather threat, which contributed to 1,000 road accidents and stranded almost 2,000 vehicles. "We could have done better, and we will do better," he said during a news conference Friday morning. A spokeswoman for NJ Transit, the statewide rail and bus operator, said transit police are investigating the cause of a fatal crash in which a car was hit by a train at a railroad crossing in Murray Hill during the height of the storm, killing Susan Brown, 61 years old, of New Providence.
Grateful to the bus drivers, dispatchers, mechanics, and all who worked tirelessly throughout yesterday's storm.
Usually, public agencies deploy an army of plows and salt spreaders ahead of storms. But this time, city and New Jersey officials appear to have been caught flat-footed. In contrast, New York state, which deployed 1,500 dump trucks and 175 plows in advance of the storm, reported few problems. "We were ahead of this," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday morning on an Albany radio station.
New York City's Department of Sanitation was in charge of snow removal. A department spokesman Vito Turso said that almost 700 salt spreaders were deployed across the city by 12 p.m. Thursday, a few hours ahead of the first heavy snowfall, but many plows and snow-clearing vehicles became stuck in traffic caused by fallen tree limbs and already congested roads.
The subway, which runs mostly underground, fared well. But buses and cars became snarled on unplowed roads. "Our buses were held hostage to massive gridlock citywide," said Jon Weinstein, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city's buses.
Thousands of commuters were stranded at Port Authority Bus Terminal. PHOTO: LEV RADIN/ZUMA PRESS
Mayor Bill de Blasio, in a radio interview Friday morning, said forecasters had predicted up to 2 inches of snow for the city. Instead, he said, it was pelted with "a particularly fast, heavy kind of snow" that coincided with the evening rush hour. By late Thursday night, the National Weather Service reported 6.4 inches of snow in Central Park. "We gotta learn some lessons," Mr. de Blasio said.
Even under extraordinary and unpredictable circumstances, we have to do better. Six inches of snow shouldn't have this kind of impact on our city. And it won't next time.
New York Police Department Chief of Department Terence Monahan said the NYPD fielded 20,882 emergency calls from 2:30 p.m. to midnight, a 79% increase compared with the same period last year. There were 1,915 traffic collisions, a 116% increase compared with last year.
"I've been doing this 37 years," Chief Monahan said. "This was one of the most challenging nights I've ever seen with the way traffic hit, especially in the Bronx and Manhattan."
Mr. Murphy said that his administration would review New Jersey's storm response to determine what went wrong. "The buck stops with me, period," Mr. Murphy said.
He said the forecast through midday Thursday only projected about 4 inches of snow for the state. The state Transportation Department sent trucks out salting roads but didn't have plows prepped and ready to go because the forecast didn't call for that, he said.
The National Weather Service reported snowfalls of between 6 and 8 inches across northern parts of the state.
By the time it became clear plows needed to be dispatched, schools and workplaces began sending people home, snarling roads and highways and making plowing almost impossible, said Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, commissioner of New Jersey's Transportation Department. "We got behind the storm," Ms, Gutierrez-Scaccetti. "We are not happy with it."
Mr. Murphy said he also asked the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for an explanation about why it stopped bus passengers entering its Midtown Manhattan bus terminal during Thursday evening's rush hour. "It's unacceptable, Mr. Murphy said.
Rick Cotton, the Port Authority's executive director, said the agency had no choice. About 125,000 commuters use the terminal every weekday. During Thursday evening's peak hours, only 232 of the regularly scheduled 1,429 buses showed up because they were stuck on roads outside the city, many of them in New Jersey, he said.
As a crowd of thousands built up across the terminal's three floors, Port Authority staff walked the building with megaphones urging people to take other forms of transit, such as ferry or rail system home. "It was a bus supply problem," Mr. Cotton said.
The Port Authority started letting people into the building again once the crush subsided. Chris Pernell, a doctor and New York University professor, arrived home to Montclair, N.J., more than three hours later than usual, at around 11:30 p.m. "It was horrible," she said.


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Extreme or unnatural paleness.
[Middle English pallour, from Old French palor, from Latin pallor, from pallēre, to be pale; see pel- in Indo-European roots.]
a pale condition, esp when unnatural: fear gave his face a deathly pallor.
[C17: from Latin: whiteness (of the skin), from pallēre to be pale1]
pal•lor(ˈpæl ər)
unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death.
[1650–60; < Latin: paleness <pall(ēre) to be pale]
Pallorof nightwatchmen—Lipton, 1970.
See Also: FACIAL COLOR, GRAY, RED, WHITE
- Pale as cardboard —Paige Mitchell
- Pale as white wine —Sir Kenelm Digby
- Blanch like conscious guilt personified —Charlotte Brontë
- Bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus —Herman Melville
- A face like paper —J. B. Priestly
- Face like parchment —G. K. Chesterton
- (His long, pendulous) face looked as if it had been dusted with white talc —Aharon Megged
- Face … pale as a Chinese mandarin's —Nadine Gordimer
- Face … pale as a dead man's —Ivan Turgenev
- Face … pale as a fish —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Face, pallid and simmering like a milk pudding over a slow flame —Julia O'Faolain
- His waxy pallor was touched along the underside of his jaw with acne, like two brush burns —John Updike
- Look [pale] like Yom Kippur before sunset —Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Pale as a silkfish —Diane Ackerman
- Pale and dirty as a pulled root —George Garrett
- Pale as a birch —Louise Erdrich
- (A scar) pale as a fishgut —Davis Grubb
- Pale as a ghost with pernicious anemia —Anon
A twist on the cliche, "Pale as a ghost."
- Pale as a hyacinth grown in a cellar —Edith Wharton
- (Looking as) pale as a magnolia blossom —Sarah Bird
- Pale as a primrose —William Shakespeare
- Pale [after donating a lot of blood] as a princess after a date with Dracula —Kenzaburo Oë
- Pale as a prisoner —Carlos Baker
- (Always cool and) pale as a root —Jayne Anne Phillips
- Pale as a shell —James Wright
- Pale as a smooth-sculptured stone —John Keats
- Pale as a white rose —Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Pale as bleached clay —Z. Vance Wilson
- Pale as candles —Reynolds Price
A more specific version by McKinlay Kantor is "Pale as a tallow candle."
- Pale as china —Sylvia Plath
- (The desert looks) pale as death —Henry Chettle
According to Stevenson's Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases, Chettle was the first to use the simile in his seventeenth century play, Hoffman. The earliest linkage to the complexion is variously attributed to Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Henry James' The Madonna of the Future.
- Pale as distemper —Miles Gibson
- Pale as his shirt —William Shakespeare
- Pale as ivory —Ouida
- Pale as junket —Christina Stead
- Pale as milk —William Shakespeare
The similes from masters like the Bard are often used "as is" or with minor additions such as "Pale as cold milk" seen in Davis Grubb's novel, The Golden Sickle.
- (Face) pale as sand —Stevie Smith
- Pale as straw —William Evans
- Pale as the bottom of a plate —Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Pale … as the mist that hangs over the river —Oscar Wilde
- Pale as the soap in the dish —Jean Thompson
- Pale as the tenant of a tomb —Edgar Allen Poe
- Pale as waxworks —Maxine Kumin
- Paler than ashes —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Paler than grass in summer —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- (Thighs) pale and soft as snow —Lyn Lifshin
See Also: SOFTNESS
- So white she was almost transparent —Jonathan Gash
- The transparent pallor of her skin was luminous like a sea-shell in green shadow of the pine-trees —Elinor Wylie
- Turned white as a tablecloth —Rudyard Kipling
- Wan as the Polar snows —Stephen Vincent Benét
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noun paleness, whiteness, lack of colour, wanness, bloodlessness, ashen hue, pallidness Her face had a deathly pallor.
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pallid(ˈpӕlid) adjective
unpleasantly pale (usually suggesting ill-health). He looked pallid and sickly. bleek شاحِب، شَديد الشُّحوب блед pálido sinalý bleich bleg χλομός, αρρωστημένοςpálido kaame رنگ پریده kalvakka blêmeחיוור पीला विवर्ण blijed, bez boje sápadt pucat fölleitur, fölur pallido, smorto 青ざめた 창백한, 핼쑥한 išblyškęs, išbalęs (neveselīgi) bāls pucat vaalgustenblady پيكه، الوتى رنګ، تت pálido palid бледный bledý bled bled blek ซีดเซียว benzi atmış, solgun 蒼白的,病狀的 блідий پھيکا، بے رونق xanh xao 苍白的,病状的ˈpallor noun
unpleasant paleness. an unhealthy pallor. bleekheid شُحوب الوَجْه бледност palidez bledost, sinalost die Blässe bleghed χλομάδα palidez kahvatus رنگ پریدگی kalvakkuus pâleurחיוורון पीलापन, फीकापन bljedoća sápadtság kepucatan fölvi pallore 青ざめた顔色 핼쑥함, 파리함 blyškumas, pabalimas (neveselīgs) bālums pucat vaalheidblekhet (chorobliwa) bladość پيكه والى، تت والى، پيكه توب، خپ توب palidez paloare бледность bledosť bledica bledilo blekhet ความซีดเผือด solgunluk 臉色蒼白 блідість بے رونقي، زردي vẻ xanh xao 脸色苍白
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There are lots of great ideas for plant markers on the web, from re-writable chalkboard ones to hand pained ones. These are very cheap and easy to make – all you need is oven-hardening polymer clay, paint (which is optional) and an indelible pen.
Roll out your clay so it's flat, even and large enough for your shapes. Score a mark every 1cm with a sharp knife at both the top and the bottom making enough to suit – I did five.
Cut out your shapes, then cut a V-shape at the bottom of each one and round off the tops of each one too.
Cook these at 150C for 30 mins.
Once they were cool I decided to paint them using white gloss paint to make them just a little brighter and cleaner. I then wrote on the names of the herbs I needed to mark (yes, I should have been a doctor with that handwriting).


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The courage of his convictions is something David Blunkett comes by naturally. Blind from birth, sent to a boarding school at four where he was desperately lonely and steered toward becoming a piano tuner, he learned to ride a bike, play cricket (the ball had a bell) and toboggan madly down hills; broken bones were just a cost of doing business. He remembers the smell of his dad's rotting flesh as he slowly died after falling in a vat of boiling water at work, for which his employer refused compensation, driving him and his mother into "bread and dripping" poverty.
Even so, he put himself through university, became a Sheffield city councilor at 22, an M.P. at 40, and shed a left-wing past to become a key ally in Tony Blair's overhaul of the Labour Party. Now, as Home Secretary, he is at the heart of the government's toughest issues: not only crime but immigration and asylum, drugs, British identity, freedom of information and the fight against terror. In a crowd of increasingly Identikit politicians, he stands out to voters as a whole human being, confident in his unvarnished views � and permitted by Downing St. to utter them.
His politics defy easy categorization, a tough-love combination of compassion, anger at injustice and old-fashioned Yorkshire uprightness. Critics on the right think he is too enamored of imposing targets on those who deliver government services. Critics on the left detect too much bossiness too, shading into intolerance and a willingness to pander to right-wing populism.
Blunkett has regularly offended many in his own party: saying immigrants should meet "British norms of acceptability," offering Afghans $3,750 to return to rebuild their own country, sending police into a mosque to arrest a family of asylum seekers, suggesting that asylum seekers' children kept in remote accommodation centers would be in danger of "swamping" local schools.
He says he takes no pleasure in offending his colleagues, but is convinced they are out of touch. "I have a particular view that the left has missed the boat in not grasping that unless there is stability and order, progressive politics cannot flourish," he says. The crime bill is for him a good example of where his critics miss the point: "It's very difficult to get a conviction in this country for anything. My upbringing and my constituency tell me there's an audience out there that wants the balance restored." If it is not, he suggests, the hard right will gain.
Late at night and early in the morning he churns through documents in Braille and listens to sped-up tapes of memos and correspondence. His discipline and ambition could one day propel him to Downing St. For now, he must hope his chief rival, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, will let him fund more police and auxiliaries, more probation officers, more cells to absorb more prisoners. He will happily scrap for it all. "He figures he only gets one stab at being Home Secretary," says an aide, "and that he might as well get stuck in."


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LAURA'S LOVE LIFE ADVICE: Is It Safe To Date A Guy Who Has A Type, Like ScarJo Is Doing With Jason Sudeikis?
Jason recently broke up with January Jones — who resembles Scarlett in more ways that one. Should she be seeing a guy who may not really like her for her?
It's hard enough wondering whether or not a guy is really into you without bringing his 'type' into the equation. That said, Jason Sudeikis' latest rumored lady love, the recently separated Scarlett Johansson, distinctly resembles his recent ex, January Jones. Should ScarJo keep her heart safe so she's not just another one of Jason's typical women?
Ordinarily, I would say that Scarlett needs to be careful, but this is a special circumstance. If she is getting hot and heavy with the Saturday Night Live star, then he's just going to be a rebound romance. She's in a vulnerable place after splitting from husband Ryan Reynolds, and most likely wants to have some fun and have a casual fling with a man who makes her laugh — and Jason most definitely fits the bill. Additionally, because Scarlett and Jason are BOTH going through breakups, they're probably on the same page in that they don't want to rush into another serious relationship.
However, given that you're not going through a heartbreaking split, I'd be wary of dating a guy like Jason for several reasons. First and foremost, a man that dates to type is bringing in the baggage of girlfriends past. He may not necessarily like you for the right reasons; namely, he likes the way you look and may not be focusing as much on your brilliant personality.
January and Scarlett are both statuesque blonde actresses with mass amounts of sex appeal. Although they both may be hilarious intellectuals with an extensive knowledge of stamps, they both LOOK like bombshells. Jason may or may not be focusing on their finer points, and instead seems to be focusing on their finer physical attributes.
In essence, beware of a man who dates a type…unless you, too, just want to be a girl just having fun. He may fall in love with you, but will you really ever know it's you — and not his physical ideal — that he loves?


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After 4 1/2 months of searching and dozens (and dozens) of job applications, we are thrilled to tell you that Mr K has a job!
It happened quite suddenly. Within only a week, he applied, had 3 interviews and got a job offer. We don't personally believe in "chance" ... we believe that God directs our lives by giving us opportunities (doors) that open and close. And this door opened for us! The job is a great fit for his abilities and we hope that this commission-based job will offer some great future benefits.
The most exciting (and daunting) part of it is that we will be moving. This weekend. Yes ... we have a week to get packed and ready to move. Actually, we still own a house -- that little "fixer upper" we bought but haven't finished fixing up. We will close it up and leave it behind for now while planning to come back at a later time and finish it enough to sell. Our move will take us to live near family in Denver, CO, which this Grammy is very excited for! In the first weeks, we will stay with family while we hunt for an apartment.
We have many details to handle and much to be done before Mr K starts working March 19. Because we don't really know what our apartment will be like, we're only taking the bare necessities for now -- but what are the necessities? I'm not sure what would have been easier -- packing the basics or packing the whole house! The idea of "necessities" has been hard to define with many decisions being made in the packing process. Sleep is optional. ;)
We are grateful for those who have prayed for and supported and encouraged us these last few months. It's been awesome to see God work! Thank you if you have prayed!
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Got a job!!
After 4 1/2 months of searching and dozens (and dozens) of job applications, we are thrilled to tell you that Mr K has a job!
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Monday, February 24, 2014
Fallen of the face of the earth
At least, it seems like I have fallen off the face of the earth.
Let's just say that in the last few months, my life journey has had some bumps in the road. The biggest bump has been that on Oct 28, my husband lost his job. No warning. No notice. No severance. They were unnecessarily harsh. This is not some big corporation -- this is a "mom and pop" business -- and "pop" was supposed to be my husband's closest friend. My husband had taken the job to manage the business, but that never materialized and poor management by the owner lead to cutbacks. We were stunned at the loss of the job and have grieved the loss of the friendship.
As difficult as it's been, God has been faithful to provide. Somehow, when we really need something, the resources are there. Some things have been little, some have been big -- but all needs have been met.
Mr K has been looking for work and that's been tough. There are a lot of people out there without jobs and he's not as young as he used to be. He's applied for at least 80 jobs with few nibbles. We do battle discouragement from time to time but we also know that God has a plan. It's a test of patience some days but there IS something out there for us. Can't give up the hunt.
I've also applied for several jobs, but no doors have been opened for me. For our first 3 months, we both looked exclusively in the area where we live but in the past couple weeks, we've begun looking in the areas where our children live. There have been some wonderful jobs here -- but nothing resulted from our applications -- so maybe God is trying to move us along.
We've been asking those of our friends who pray to keep us in mind -- can use all the prayer cover we can get! Specifically, one or both of us need jobs and we need continued provision for our needs. Unemployment is nice but it's less than half of what he was bringing home from his job and it doesn't cover everything.
We appreciate your prayers -- more than I can say. I'll try to keep you posted as things develop. Thank you.
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Freaky Friday
Yep ... it's Friday the 13th! I'm not inclined to be superstitious .. so I almost didn't even notice. But just for fun, let's make today's coupon code especially for Friday the 13th. How about using the code "FreakyFriday" to get 13% off your order of $13 or more??!! Have fun with that!!
And the offer still stands on Facebook ... if you "share" the post I make about today's special, you'll get an entry into a drawing for a free pair of earrings. But remember that you have to be following my page in order for me to see your "share".
If you make a purchase, you'll get 3 entries into the earring drawing .. which will be Sunday.
This is my last coupon day .. so don't miss out!!
Have an awesome weekend ... and a great Freaky Friday!!!
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Thriller Thursday
For those of you on Etsy, how do you come up with the names for your coupon codes? I personally like alliteration. MondayMania. WednesdayWhimsy. But coming up with something for Thursday kinda stumped me. ThankfulThursday? Well, I'm thankful every day ... so maybe not. ThoughtfulThursday? Once again, it's good to be thoughtful every day. I wanted to communicate excitement ... enthusiasm. A trip to the dictionary (yes, I actually looked through the "th" section) .. and voila!! Thrill! An excellent word! Because I also have a sense of rhythm, I went with ThrillerThursday.
Today's special in my Etsy shop? Get 10% off your purchase of $25 or more!! Use coupon code ThrillerThursday. Go to:
Like me on Facebook and share today's post, you'll be entered a drawing (Sunday) for a free pair of earrings! If you place an order, you'll get 3 entries!
Tomorrow will be my last coupon day ... so don't delay!
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Today's Special
When I was growing up, I lived near a very small town. My mom frequently shopped at the little A&P grocery store in town. They often ran a series of daily specials ... usually something fresh. Maybe it was overstocked or maybe they just wanted to know what their shoppers were most interested in .. I was too young to analyze these things. But it was always called "Today's Special".
Well, Gentle Adornments is running a series of specials this week ... and "Today's Special" is free domestic (US) shipping with a purchase of $20 or more! Use coupon code "WednesdayWhimsy"!
I'll be posting this on my Facebook page ... if you "Share" that post, you'll be entered in a drawing for a pair of earrings.
In order for me to see the "share", you have to "like" my page.
The drawing will be Sunday and orders placed this week will all be shipped on Monday.
So go! Shop! These special offers won't last long!! Check it out at:
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Special Special Week!
I don't have a craft show this Saturday ... and since I don't want to sit around and get bored *cough* I think I'll offer some special deals!
Starting today at noon (US eastern time), I'll post a new coupon code for my Etsy shop. Today's special will be 5% off everything in my shop and the code is:
Are you following me on Facebook? I'll post the code there too. And just to sweeten the pot, I'll be doing a giveaway this week! "Share" my code post and get 1 entry into a drawing for a new pair of earrings ... but you have to be friends with me in order for me to see the "share". So stop on by my Facebook page:
Share the code, then hop over to my Etsy shop and do a little browsing:
One entry per person per day for sharing. I'll post a new coupon code every day until Friday ... so don't miss out!
If you'd like even more chances to win a pair of earrings, I'll be giving 3 entries to everyone who makes a purchase! The drawing will be Sunday and all orders placed this week will ship on Monday.
So y'all have an awesome week, ya hear!!
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Friday, August 9, 2013
Here I go again...
Well, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth ... but some days I've felt like it. It's been a hectic summer for me ... much more so than I'd expected. And even today, I'm between shows and things are crazy. I just wanted to pop in and tell you that I'll be around more in the coming weeks. I'll try to bring everyone up to speed on some of my adventures and I've got a couple specials in the works for my Etsy shop (so if you're looking for a great deal, stay tuned!). My garden is kicking in, I'm trying some new recipes and I have a little epic news to share (but I'm going to make you wait for it!!). So help yourself to a tall glass of ice cold tea and meet me on the front porch, where we'll set a spell and catch up!
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Apple sued over iTunes software interface
Apple Computer, Inc. has been slapped with a lawsuit over iTunes, AppleInsider has learned.
The suit, filed on June 13th in Vermont District Court, alleges that Apple\'s iTunes software design infringes on Contois\' six-year old design patent (US Patent No. 5,864,868) entitled \"Computer Control System and User Interface for Media Playing Devices.\"
The Essex Junction, Vt.-based Contois is seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining Apple from further distributing its iTunes software in its current form. The company also asked the Court for an unspecified amount of monetary damages resulting from Apple\'s \"copying and willful infringement\" of its design patent as well as reimbursement of legal fees associated with the lawsuit.
In the 10-page suit obtained by AppleInsider, lawyers for Contois said that David Contois conceived of and developed a computer interface for playing music on an internal or external computer-responsive music device, which he then exhibited at the 1995 COMDEX trade show and the 1996 NAMM music industry trade show.
According to the suit, persons who were at the time employed by or later became employed by Apple were present at both trade shows and viewed Contois\' software. The suit charges Apple later \"copied\" the invention and used the design ideas in the interface for its iTunes software.
Specifically, Contois documented 19 interface aspects of the iTunes software that it claims are in direct violation of Contois\' patent. These areas include iTunes\' menu selection process to allow the user to select music to be played, the ability of the software to transfer music tracks to a portable music player, and search capabilities such as sorting music tracks by their genre, artist and album attributes.
Contois claims to have notified Apple in writing of its patent in September 2004 but believed that Apple became aware of the patent on its own more than 18 months earlier in January 2003.
\"By reason of Apple\'s infringing activities, Contois has suffered, and will continue to suffer, substantial damages in an amount yet to be determined,\" the suit reads. \"On information and belief, Apple\'s infringement has been and continues to be willful.\"
Since its launch in Jan. 2001, Apple\'s iTunes software has grown to serve an installed user-base of millions and is distributed free-of-charge via Apple\'s website as well as with each iPod digital music player the company sells. The iTunes software is also the primary access point to Apple\'s industry-leading iTunes Music Store, which is available in 19 countries and has served more than 450 million downloaded songs worldwide.
Lawyers for Spink & Miller, PLC, the Virginia-based firm representing Contois, were out on business and did not respond to inquiries for comment by press time.
Contois is seeking a trial by jury.


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Around Town
Get started with College Greenlight to compare the Tufts University weather with your hometown!Create an account now!
The school is in Boston...Read More
There's a lot you can do at Tufts. Join the facebook group and keep yourself updated on events to check out. Since we're so close to Boston, there's a lot a student can find and spontaneously go to!Read More
There are many things to do here for fun! If theater is your thing, Tufts offers a wide range of group performances, from African Dance Collectives to Acapella groups. If you are more of a party person, you can find some around campus on the weekends! Many clubs will sometimes get together and organize trips into Boston. Honestly, your fun is up to you and what you make of it!Read More
There's always something going on on-campus- if you're part of a few clubs, you probably have something going on any given night- but if you want to get away from Tufts for a while, Davis square, a fifteen minute walk away, is where you'll find most of the students' favourite restaurants and small shops. Don't forget that Boston and Cambridge are both right there, in and around which are a number of other college campuses. Boston is, understandably, a huge destination for bands and artists of all varieties. Big acts often come through town, though you can find a plethora of great musicians playing smaller venues all over the city. Make sure to get downtown at least once or twice a month: a common regret among upperclassmen seems to be that they haven't yet gotten off campus on the weekends frequently enough.Read More
Clubs and similar activities are really the way to get involved and enjoy yourself at Tufts. Some standouts would be TDC (Tufts Dance Collective), TMC (Tufts Mountain Club - they organize a bunch of fun things including outdoor activities), all the acapella groups, drama, intramural sports, but it really depends on what you're interested in. It's also always pretty easy and fun to go to Davis Square or into Boston downtown.Read More
Boston Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins....all accessible with a T-Ride or hop the Tufts Joey shuttle. Medford and Somerville are OK. Mostly yuppie venues, but worthwhile when you're looking for time to kill without tripping in to Boston. Boston....Harvard Square, Copley plaza shopping, Faneuil Hall eateries and shops, more museums than you can count and most are free (MIT museum is way cool). Tufts sports aren't much to get excited about. In fact efforts to get students excited (Fan the Fire) are pretty lame. But it's small and not overhyped. Did I say Tufts was all about the academics? Actually, Tufts is less a spectator school than a participant school. There are plenty of teams and clubs and ad hoc games and sports to get involved in.Read More
Step 1: find someone who is currently enrolled at Tufts Step 2: get on their facebook Step 3: go to their events page Step 4: be stunned by the sheer mass of facebook events they are invited to Step 5: randomly click on one event Step 6: attendRead More
On campus: sports games; plays and musicals; a cappella concerts; dance performances; bands, comedians, and speakers Tufts brings for students; political debates; relaxing on the Prez Lawn. Off campus: a short subway ride to downtown Boston and then amazing restaurants; concerts at the House of Blues; games at Fenway Park; a stroll down Newbury Street; a performance at the Wilbur Theatre; the list goes on.Read More
There are plenty of things to do for everyone. I personally do breakdance as well as Taekwondo.Read More
There's always something going on be it a frat party, a free dinner, or just an open get together with one of the cultural centers.Read More


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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Today is the twenty-first anniversary of my mom's death. It feels so weird to say that number. I still remember when it had been just a few months and I couldn't talk about it without crying. There was another girl on my soccer team--she told me her mom had died two years before. I still remember her telling me that, as she kicked the ball hard into paint chipped wall at school.
I couldn't imagine being in her place. I couldn't imagine two years from then. Now it has been twenty-one years.
I used to think a lot about forgetting. I used to feel bad that whole weeks would go by without thinking about her. But I don't worry about that anymore. I am just grateful for the nurturing she gave me for eleven years: for the the knowledge I have that I am a child of God; for my domestic kitchen goddess skills, which surely came down through her genes; for her openness to alternative healing; and for all the things I do remember.
I remember once she threw a temper tantrum when all four of us kids were being impossible. I don't remember what we did, but it probably involved sweat, dirt, (maybe blood) an electronic that was once in one piece and some wailing and shouting. We were out in the back yard with the dirt hill rising behind us, and she just started jumping up and down and literally throwing a tantrum. Whatever she was ranting probably had something to do with how we should just behave. We all stopped and stared at her in shock and awe. I am grateful for that memory too.
I used to have a lot of fear about dying young. Now I spend that energy thinking about how to be healthy.
It was becoming a mother that really shifted things for me in terms of accepting and feeling at peace with not having a mother. It's weird, this anniversary is sometimes very sad, but today I just feel so much joy at being a mother.
This morning in the car, my daughter asked me, "You didn't have a lot of traffic?"
I wasn't sure what she was talking about, but since it was 7 a.m. there was no traffic in our neighborhood and I said, "Nope. No traffic."
She said, "Yay! I said a prayer for you in my bed."
And then I remembered that last night I left her with a babysitter so I could go to Speechcraft class. As I ran out the door I said I had to leave early because traffic was going to be horrible. And Phoebe must have heard me and decided to say a prayer that traffic wouldn't be so bad. I remember the traffic seemed normal (which means not good) but we got there quickly, and Patrick, my carpool buddy, even commented that it was the fastest we have ever made it to class.
I don't know why but that kind of thing makes being a mom so amazing. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to make my child's life wonderful, and it was so sweet to see she also wants that same ease and goodness for me. And I realize that my mother is also still involved in this. A few weeks ago, while in hypnosis, I felt her come and gently touch my hair and tell me to use hypnotherapy to help motherless mothers transition to motherhood. So I am figuring out what needs to be done here as I create this specialty.
I know this post is totally all over the place, but I guess what I want to say is that even though my mom died 21 years ago, we still have a relationship. Sometimes I feel lucky to get get actual visits from her, but often it is with and through my daughter that I feel her presence. And I love that.
I would love to hear from women who lost their mothers early (before 30) either to death, mental illness or abandonment. What has been most difficult about transitioning to motherhood? Most wonderful?
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My mother abandoned me when I was 13.ReplyDelete
Now, at 28 and a mother of two, I have two thoughts about her. First, how could a mother possibly do that to her children?! Second, I have fears that I am like her in more ways that I realize. And third, I am comforted by her "presence" when I do the things she used to do with me, with my own children. Things like making bread, play dough and dancing in the rain. I guess regardless of how you lose your ma, she really does live on in us. To me that is both scary and comforting. The brilliant thing is that I get to mold the kind of mother I am going to be, and my children will help be the sculptures.
I'm so excited to hear more about your motherless mother hypnotherapy specialty. Beautiful post.ReplyDelete
I just found this quote and thought that it went so perfect with what you said. I thought maybe you could put it in the part in the book that is talking about Motherless mothers. I have the book so don't worry I have the title page and stuff.ReplyDelete
"Using her body as the primal home for her unborn child, the woman teaches us the true example of total sacrifice through the cares she takes with herself and the unborn child; her preparation in the home in joyful anticipation of its arrival; her months of discomfort and anxiety; her fulfilling daily responsibilities to her family and to others without complaint; her serenity in waiting; and her glorious expectations. It is from her own mother's love and example that daughter receives the desire, the hope, the courage to become a mother herself.
Although it is true that not all women are mothers each of us was born of a mother and is therefore the benefactors of a mother's love and teaching. And while it may be the lot of some persons to be denied a mother's love and/ore teachings following birth, all who are born into this life may know that a woman risked her life to bring hem into the is wonderful and necessary sphere called mortality."
-Elder Rex. D. Pinegar, "Woman As Teacher" in Woman, Deseret Book Company. Salt Lake City, Utah. 1980, pg 22
Your journey is amazingly well conveyed. I enjoy reading your thoughts... even if they are "all over the place". But I totally followed your spaghetti (I hope you've read Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti!). :)ReplyDelete
Felice, Thank you for such a beautiful post. I lost my mother at 13 to Ovarian Cancer, it has now been 10 years since she died and I like you can't believe I am writing that number. Before becoming a mother I often would think about all of the things I have missed out not having a mother physically, But now that I am a mother I am able to see how much she was leaving behind as she left this earth and her children. My love is even greater for her as I now understand the pain she must have gone througb saying goodbye to us in her last days.ReplyDelete
I would say the hardest part about not having her around is that I can't call her about my son's milestones and it will take more effort and persistence to explain her to him. But the most wonderful part is that I know that she already knows him and he knows her and that she has spent many years with him and my future children.
My husband and I waited over 4 years to have our first child and I would often say to people the reason was my Mom wasn't done with them yet and needed more time. While I did say it partially joking to get people to leave us alone, I do trully believe that she is enjoying everyday with her grandchildren right now.
Thank you for these comments. I had not considered some of these things and I thank you. Meleah I like the thought of my mom hanging out with my future children. Something to definitely include...ReplyDelete


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Humorous Cursed Item No.2
Belt of Your Momma's Purse
This large pouch acts like a small bagof holding, but everything the player
puts into the pouch will have a
permanent cheap perfume smell to it.
When the player goes for a item, there
is a chance that he or she will pull out a
random item ( 1 in 20 chance )
Random list ( roll 1d10 )
1- 15 coupons to a local food vender.
2- A string of fake pearls( worthless).
3- A pair of cheap and ugly earrings
( worth 5 gp )
4- A small metal tube. When opened a
bright red wax is inside. The tube has a
twist at the bottom to push out the red
5- A black pair of granny glasses.
6- Two tan silk panty hose (worth 5 gp)
7- 20 pieces of odd colored corn
( candy corn, that has gone past being
good )
8- A small mirror in a case with a small
brush. A hard tan powder sits at the
bottom of the case.
9- A hair brush ( worthless)
10- A clear tube with a clear jell inside.
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The Haunted House
One night, two men and a woman hide from a storm in an abandoned house. However, strange things start happening there: an image of someone— probably the owner—appears on a painting on the wall; the chairs start disappearing; their table is served by itself and the house is eventually tipped. A giant image / ghost of the owner eventually takes the three people and transports them from their bed to the forest.
One of the unknown pioneers of the early cinema, Segundo de Chomon advanced the possibilities of film by using stop-motion tricks and a more dynamic camera, picking up something from Melies but also adding a lot of his own, which makes it more of an oddity that he is barely taught at film classes. Even though his 6 minute short "The Haunted House" is somewhere disputed because it is a French remake of Blackton's "The Haunted Hotel", which basically tells the same story, and sometimes carries even identical scenes (the ground-breaking stop-motion moment where a knife cuts food on the plate and a coffee is poured in a cup all by themselves)—it is still a prototype example of rudimentary horror, one of the first editions of the 'haunted house' genre. De Chomon has a good build up of mood (the opening establishes a creepy feeling when the three wanderers enter an abandoned house one rainy night, all in just two scenes), even though some moments today seem more amusing and comical than scary (the house tilting while the people are in bed; a transparent, giant image of an unknown man appearing), yet in both cases they constitute a fine little cult classic that is easily watchable and engaging.
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How to Collect Free Energy from Radio Waves and TV Towers
Here's a quick view of a very small-scale proof-of-concept that shows how the energy of radio waves (EM) can be harvested from a simple antenna. So what else could be possible, if we start with this simple premise? In a world built on Tesla's AC, is there still a possibility of realising his much greater dreams and visions of Free Energy? This little proof of concept points to a way of thinking about power that breaks down our bonds to chemical energy and slavery to fossil-fuels and electrical grids.
Possible Points to Consider:
- Why not start by trickle-charging a spare laptop battery, with an off-the-shelf circuit to begin?
- What are the chances of frying this circuit with a lightning strike though…If the capacitors aren't big enough to store that as well!
- How much more energy could be collected with a larger antenna arrays?
- What if the metallic frames of solar panels could be specified to lengths that acted as highly resonant (pre-tuned) EM antennas as well?
- Are there any larger steel structures who's conductive lengths match up with radio frequencies that can be tapped for added energy?
- Most importantly…Can this idea be tied into Tesla's experiments at Shoreham, Long Island and Wardenclyffe?
- Anybody want to consider tapping into the Quantum Jiggle as well?
Or are the energies from radio broadcasts mere child's play compared to Tesla's experiments with the low-frequency energies of the magnetosphere flowing back through the Earth?
"Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels." —Nikola Tesla
Thorium Revival? A historic look at Alvin Weinberg's Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
A ridiculous and short-lived US military requirement to build a "nuclear powered bomber" resulted in the most astoundingly safe and innovative nuclear power source ever invented. So why has this revolutionary design been almost entirely forgotten by history? What happened to the Molten Salt Reactor and the people who spearheaded this radical tangent in nuclear research? Kirk Sorenson and associates continue to peel back the layers of time from this gem in the history of atomic energy that was buried so long ago…
Eco-Terrorism Has a New Weapon
Iran has put out a call to Hackers everywhere to join in combat with the "Iranian Revolutionary Guard" and has amassed the second-largest online army to counter the 'Stuxnet' attack that has crippled their nuclear program. This malware is now freely available online, and has laid the foundation for creating industrial-grade cyber weapons that can infiltrate the systems of energy producers, utilities, and even traffic control systems and factories the world over. This malicious software is highly sophisticated and can even generate false instrument readings to mask destructive processes that would go undetected by hapless operators until it's too late. This is just the tip of an ice-berg….
There's rampant speculation that this malware was developed and unleashed by U.S and Isreali operatives as a weapon against Iranian nuclear infrastructure and enrichment capabilities. However the real twist in this story is how this technology has now become widely available to anyone with an agenda for infiltrating and manipulating industrial systems.
It's become obvious to everyone in the general public that the future of cyber-warfare has now arrived, and we're sure to see the environment taken as it's first hostage.
Guelph Hydro Clears a Path to Sustainability!
Not only did Guelph Ontario, top MSN Money's Next Most Livable Cities list this year, it's also paving the way for sustainable cities to properly secure their energy futures as well. In a time when so many organizations are blowing alot of hot air about their sustainability practices, Guelph Hydro is actually taking a clear, visible and (most importantly) measurable public stance on how it expects to achieve such goals. With its 2010 Sustainability Report, Guelph Hydro Inc. not only became one of the first electrical utilities in Ontario to publish a such a report, but it also became one of the few utilities in the entire world to actually measure its performance according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). This thrusts Guelph Hydro into a valued leadership position – as Ontario's municipalities map out their own paths towards sustainable futures.
So what's in this for you?
Since this report outlines Guelph Hydro's efforts to balance its environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic success to benefit ALL stakeholders, there are all sorts of opportunities here to discover unique challenges, beneficial lessons, and innovative solutions for other businesses and municipalities. This report can also foster greater public understanding and stimulate future considerations and conversations around the enormous impact that can be made at the community and municipal level – in terms of assuring sustainable energy practices.
So feel free to post your concerns and questions below, and share your resulting thoughts, because the people behind this report are eager to see where all this can go!
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AECL: Don't Sell It Short!
In his last State Of The Union address, Barack Obama repeatedly emphasized the critical need for America to do what it does best and inspire the world with bold ideas and innovations. Not only to invigorate existing industries and the domestic economy, but also to lead the rest of the world into new phases of growth and prosperity. Meanwhile here in Canada, we've long claimed to no longer be just a source of primary resources, but rather a knowledge and technology based economy that can claim leadership in such progressive fields as communications, aerospace, and biotech. Yet these claims of leadership need to be supported in order to remain true. Take for example the leadership demonstrated by Canada in supplying medical isotopes to the world, and providing the planet's safest nuclear powerplants with the world famous CANDU reactors. This isn't just some historical reference though or a legacy technology, but rather one that is poised to lead an entire industry into the future as well…If it can first survive the short-sighted dangers of politics.
BioMass: Waste Not – Want Not
Ontario is well ontrack to be one of the first industrialized jurisdictions in the world to eliminate coal-fired electrical generation. The original plan was for Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to transition to a lower carbon future by phasing out the use of coal at its four remaining coal-fuelled stations by the end of 2014, but things are proceeding ahead of schedule already! This possibility is due to wide a variety of contributing factors, with one of the most compelling ones being a clear option to convert these plants to burning BioWaste – if indeed the cost of natural gas proves to be too volatile or costly by comparison.
Of course, there's a whole range of other considerations to factor into this decision, and alot of due-diligence still to be performed. But the considerable economic and ecological benefits to converting bio mass and waste into usable fuel has everyone at OPG considering the very real possibilities of a BioWaste fueled future.
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Niagara Tunnel Project: Power at All Costs
The 'politics of power' is an age-old conundrum where controlling people and capital often becomes more important than actually managing that power to produce the original and intended results. Take 'public works projects' as a fine example of how more energy can go into bickering, back-room deals, and bloated bureaucracy than into just getting the job done. The ambitious Niagara Tunnel Project here in Ontario isn't just a remarkable feat of engineering, it's also a fine example of how politicians and bureaucrats are able to kick a ball around for as long as they want, because they know that the public purse will get stuck with the bill for any overtime costs.
All of which begs the question; how can the public truly demand more accountability from it's public servants and politicians, or has this type of wrangling simply become an accepted feature in our over-financed plans to try and build a sustainable future?
If we consider just how much energy gets wasted in process and procedures, and how much capital gets siphoned off into padded margins and under-scrutinized overruns, we can start to see scenarios where short-term benefits can actually hurt long-term outcomes. The answer to our public accountability question could be a defining force in whether that future actually gets built or not.
The Empire Strikes Back?
In a rare demonstration of a nearly non-Leftists bias, the Toronto Star printed an article that shows that it's still capable of presenting slightly balanced views of contentious issues. In this case, it offered some visibility for a realistic presentation from the Organization of CANDU Industries (OCI) which offered clear insights into the effects of replacing two proposed nuclear reactors with the equivalent in renewable sources. In particular, the OCI demonstrates the physical scale of both the solar and wind turbine installations that would be required to match the energy production available from a nuclear site measuring 1.6 square-kilometers. In the end, the Star's article simply took this issue as another opportunity to discredit nuclear energy, by (indirectly) claiming that the facts aren't complete.
So in an attempt to right the scales abit, we'll off our own slant on the subject as well…
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Conservation: A Promissory Note?
So…After having to endure so much more global ennui this past month, EnviroNauts are going to try and take a more local approach to plotting-out sustainable Futures for ourselves…
- Earth Hour 2011
March 26th saw Earth Hour come and go here in Toronto, and astoundingly for a city so bent on demonstrating its political correctness, the initial visibility enjoyed by this annual event is showing signs of flickering right out.
What started as an easy way to for armchair environmentalists and idealists of all types to make a token, yet satisfyingly visible gesture about kicking their energy habits (even just for an hour) has now seemingly fallen right off the radar for most people…at least for this year anyhow. See pics below;


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Thankful Things Thursday: Winding Down From Disney
Date: July 7, 2011 at 1:57 pm- by Ali- Comment(s): 26
I didn't forget that today is Thursday. I'm just way late in posting due to traveling. At 4 am, when my alarm went off, I wasn't feeling very thankful. But I am now, so let's get to it. Here's what […]
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I Don't Want To Leave Orlando
Date: July 6, 2011 at 6:45 pm- by Ali- Comment(s): 26
This will be my last "I'm having the best time ever in Florida" post. I promise. I have to go back to NYC on a very early flight tomorrow. The trip has been pretty great. Today was a total work […]
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Orlando Day 3: Universal Studios & Margaritaville
Date: July 5, 2011 at 6:15 pm- by Ali- Comment(s): 18
I'm sure these updates are getting a little boring. I'm still in Orlando. I'm still waking up early and going running. My alarm went off at 5 am today so I could cover six Coach Cane-prescribed miles. Of course, at […]
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Disney Day 2: Conquering The Parks
Date: July 4, 2011 at 11:04 pm- by Ali- Comment(s): 10
It's been one heck of a long day and my big hotel bed is calling my name. A quick recap: I woke up at 6 am to get a run in. Four miles, nothing special. The rest of the day […]
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Date: July 3, 2011 at 9:57 pm- by Ali- Comment(s): 17
These guys came along, too. Life has been super hard today. After a fast, easy, I-slept-the-whole-time-and-we-even-arrived-early flight last night, I'm happy to say my work-but-feels-like-play trip is off to a fantastic start. Last night involved a trip to the hotel […]
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Date: July 2, 2011 at 10:26 am- by Ali- Comment(s): 19
Seven hours until I'm on board a JetBlue flight headed for Orlando, FL! So naturally before I can even think about hitting the air, there's entirely too much to be done. Good thing I got that massage yesterday! Stress be […]
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Thankful Things Thursday: Comeback Time
Date: June 30, 2011 at 8:03 am- by Ali- Comment(s): 39
Confession: For the past month, I've dreaded Thursdays. With that whole lame Crohn's Disease thing coming at me full force, I found it difficult to push past how my body was feeling in an effort to think happy thoughts. But […]
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(Boise) – Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has announced an eastern Idaho man was sentenced Monday, January 29, for one count of Diversion or Misappropriation of Fiduciary Funds.
Sixth District Judge Stephen Dunn sentenced 38-year-old Alan C. Rzeszutko, of Pocatello, after he pleaded guilty in October.
Judge Dunn granted Rzeszutko a withheld judgment and placed him on probation for four years. The judge ordered Rzeszutko to pay $6,201 in restitution to Farmers Insurance, and $1,043 to the Idaho Department of Insurance. He must also pay a fine of $750 and court costs of $245. The court also ordered 120 days of discretionary jail time to be utilized by a probation officer.
An investigation revealed that while working as an insurance agent for Farmers Insurance in Pocatello, Rzeszutko began diverting customers' premium payments to his personal accounts. While doing so, he also took steps to make sure clients were not receiving late notices on their accounts. Rzeszutko admitted his actions to investigators.
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Someone's gone and dug up footage of the canceled Star Wars game.
Star Wars First Assault was going to be a multiplayer Star Wars shooter, in development at LucasArts, to be used as a sort of testbed for the bigger Star Wars shooter that they would follow it up with- Star Wars Battlefront 3. Both games were ultimately canned, but while Battlefront 3 morphed into just Star Wars Battlefront, which is launching later this month, First Assault faded away into obscurity.
However now, Reddit user SumB1tchRaptor has pulled footage from a tech beta and posted it over on Reddit. The beta, he says, only contains the level you see in the video. Since it was a technical test, the player said he was unable to "spawn bots or add another player."
It is a little saddening to see footage of all of these games that were under development at LucasArts- undoubtedly, Disney's greatest sin when they took over the Star Wars brand was their gutting of LucasArts, and all of their projects.
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The Road to Polygamy
Putting Asunder: A History of Divorce in Western Society
If the rates of divorce remain fairly steady, as they have done throughout the 1980s, a half of all marriages in America today, and over a third in England, will end in the divorce court rather than the funeral parlor. Apart perhaps from Scandinavia, these two countries have the highest divorce rates in the Western world, far above those in the Mediterranean countries, where strong Catholic religious opposition to any divorce has only recently been defeated by the legislature. Only Ireland has no divorce law at all, a proposed bill having recently been defeated in a referendum by a combination of the Roman Catholic Church and fearful Irish women. During the referendum, an opponent observed that "a woman who votes in favor of divorce is like a turkey voting in favor of Christmas." Except in Ireland, therefore, divorce is now as much a part of our culture and our lives as death and taxes. But how and when and why did we get this way, and what have been consequences so far for human happiness, moral virtue, and social stability? These are questions inevitably raised by a reading of Roderick Phillips's Putting Asunder.
Phillips is the author of studies of divorce in France during the 1790s and in New Zealand in the twentieth century. His new book is the first in the English language to attempt an overall view of the history of divorce in the West, from the Reformation to the present day, covering in some detail England, America, and France, and more superficially the other European countries. It is the result of a prodigious amount of research into the now voluminous secondary literature. If not exciting, witty, or venturesome, the book provides a clear, intelligent, scholarly, and dependable general account of the history of divorce in the West.
The first point that has to be stressed is that the official rate of divorce may well, and in earlier times always did, bear no relation at all to the number of marital breakdowns and spontaneous separations. And yet the conditions in which marriages cease to work are what we should principally be interested in. Divorce is merely a legal condition; marital breakdown is a social fact.
Eight hundred years ago the highly restrictive moral code of the medieval canon law made divorce virtually impossible, except for the very rich and powerful who could lobby and bribe their way to annulments from Rome. By way of contrast, a few years ago a judge in America casually granted one woman no fewer than sixteen divorces in eleven years.1 Divorce today has become an administrative not a judicial procedure, and because of the huge numbers involved it is inevitably processed with conveyor-belt speed and impersonality.
If before the twentieth century, the Christian West was basically a non-divorcing society, why were there such intense and prolonged battles when changes in the divorce laws came up for discussion? The answer suggested by Phillips's book is that enormous moral, psychological, and social…
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Vaccines in Higher Doses Means More Infant Deaths
Although it is now recommended that everyone get the flu shot every 6 months, that is nothing compared to the amount of vaccines infants receive after coming into this world. The United States requires some 26 vaccines to be administered to infants upon birth, while Japan and Sweden issue 12 vaccines to be given to infants. The US experiences over six infant deaths per 100 births every year, while Japan and Sweden report less than three per 100 live births each year. With the US giving the greatest amount of vaccines to infants, something doesn't seem to be right.
A study published back in May of 2011 in the journal Human and Experimental Toxicology, evaluated the connection between infant mortality rates and vaccinations administered. The study authors looked at the immunization schedules for the US and 33 nations with lower infant mortality rates than the US. Then, the number of vaccinations given to infants aged less than one was determined for each nation. Finally, the nations were grouped into give different vaccine does ranges. The information was then compared and evaluated.
The study found that with more vaccine doses came a higher infant mortality rate. The preservatives and heavy metals are harmful enough to the fully developed person, but the negative effects are exponentially worse when a new-born undeveloped baby must suffer from them. Some researchers note that unvaccinated babies who die of sudden infant death syndrome most often die in the fall or winter, while vaccinated infants die of SIDS at 2 and 4 months. It just so happens that when a baby turns 2 and 4 months old that doses of a vaccine called DPT are given. The toxicity level is just too much.
Become educated if not for yourself, then for your child. The evidence backing vaccine dangers is overwhelming, and it's all coming to light now. Here are 3 reasons to reconsider flu shots.
Mike is the co-founder, editor, and researcher behind Natural Society. Studying the work of top natural health activists, and writing special reports for top 10 alternative health websites, Mike has written hundreds of articles and pages on how to obtain optimum wellness through natural health.


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What Is Reiki?
Reiki is an energy healing system that originated in Japan by Dr.Mikao Usui in the 1920's and was originally named by him as The Usui Reiki Method of Natural Healing. It is practised by channelling Universal energy primarily through hands by a Reiki practitioner onto an individual. Reiki energy is a gentle, soft yet a powerful energy that works on a mental, emotional, physical and a spiritual level.
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Chloe Dupes and Vintage Trenches
I hope you all have had a special week and relaxing weekend so far! This week went by in a blur for me. I started off the week pretty sick and that completely threw me off my mojo and from then on out I couldn't tell you what day it was or what was happening ahaha! It is still blowing my mind how close Christmas is, with so many things happening during the holiday times it always flies by so fast!
I just wanted to pop in today to share with you all probably one of my new favorite outfits. More importantly, this trench coat and that handbag.
Now, for the past few months, my cousins and I have been slowly picking though my Grandmother's closet to take advantage of all of the luxury fashion items she has and never really wears anymore! With this New York trip coming up, I had been on the hunt for a nice new coat. One day, my Mom brought me this trench from my Grandmother's house to see if it would do the trick and oh my goodness- a match made in heaven. For sure. I have never owned a trench coat before as the Texas weather doesn't exactly call for one. When I tried it on, it fit like a glove! I absolutely love wearing it now and it is so nice to just through over jeans and a top on a windy day and immediately elevate your outfit. Unfortunately, I could not find this exact trench anywhere because it is really just super vintage, google doesn't even know where to look for it! But this is such a classic look, I will link a few similar styles for y'all at the bottom!
As far as this handbag.. yes yes, it is a dupe of the Chloe pixi bag! I am soo not much of a knock off person when it comes to designer handbags. Personally if I were to purchase a designer bag I would want it more for the quality than the style and you will not find that in knock-offs. But let me tell you, when I saw this bag in the boutique I stopped in my tracks. The owner of the boutique saw the stunned look on my face and came over to ask what I saw in the purse because she had no idea it was inspired by the Chloe pixi bag! After further analyzing the bag and checking out the designer to see what the bag is all about, I had to have it. I love this bag because it has the urban style with unique hardware and it doesn't scream "I am trying to be a Chloe bag", it clearly has it's own designer's name embossed and I am just going with.. it is inspired ahahaha.
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I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend and a beautiful week ahead!!
Thank you for reading along,
Xoxo, Rose
All photos by the brilliant Addi Payne Photos
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Love the look!