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In my short bloging life I have met many interesting people. You all have given me many things to think and laugh about. For that I am very grateful.
God bless you all. Happy New Year. I look forward to reading many more of your posts next year.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Happy New Year
In my short bloging life I have met many interesting people. You all have given me many things to think and laugh about. For that I am very grateful.
Monday, December 25, 2006
Merry Christmas
Merry Chrstmas to everyone!!! Peace be with you all and God bless
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Did You See Me
I saw you hug your purse closer to you in the grocery store line.
But, you didn't see me put an extra $10.00 in the collection bucket at the store.
I saw you pull your child closer when we passed each other on the sidewalk.
But, you didn't see me playing Santa at the VA hospital.
I saw you change your mind about going into the restaurant when I was already there.
But, you didn't see me attending a meeting to raise more money for the hurricane relief.
I saw you roll up your window and shake your head while talking on your phone when I drove by
But, you didn't see me driving behind you when you flicked your cigarette butt out the car window.
I saw you frown at me when I smiled at your children.
But, you didn't see me when I took time off from work to run toys to the homeless.
I saw you stare at my long hair.
But, you didn't see me and my friends cut ten inches off for Locks of Love.
I saw you roll your eyes at our leather coats and gloves.
But, you didn't see me and my brothers donate our old coats and gloves to those that had none.
I saw you look in fright at my tattoos.
But, you didn't see me cry as my children were born and me having their name tattooed on my skin and in my heart forever.
I saw you change lanes while rushing off to go somewhere.
But, you didn't see me going home to be with my family.
I saw you complain about how loud and noisy our bikes can be.
But, you didn't see or hear me when you were changing the CD and drifted into my lane.
I saw you yelling at your kids in the car.
But, you didn't see me pat my child's hands knowing he was safe behind me.
I saw you, reading the newspaper or map as you drove down the road.
But, you didn't see me squeeze my wife's leg when she told me to take the next turn.
I saw you, race down the road in the rain.
But, you didn't see me get soaked to the skin so I could honor the memory of a fallen solder.
I saw you run the yellow light just to save a few minutes of time.
But, you didn't see me trying to turn right.
I saw you cut me off because you needed to be in the lane I was in.
But, you didn't see me leave the road.
I saw you, waiting impatiently for my friends to pass.
But, you didn't see me. I wasn't there.
I saw you go home to your family.
But, you didn't see me, because, I died that day you cut me off.
I was just a biker and a person with friends and a family.
But, you didn't see me.
In memory of Tim Neeley (PGR Member, Father, Grandfather, Husband) of Indianapolis, IN. Killed October 11th, 2006 when hit from behind while ridding his motorcycle near Knoxville, TN. This is his childrens first Christmas without their father.
Excerpt from Knoxville paper
An Anderson County grand jury indicted pick-up driver last week. 51-year-old Barry Lynn Brummett was indicted on two counts of vehicular homicide and one count of aggravated vehicular homicide in connection with an October 11th accident in which he struck a motorcyclist from behind on Seivers Boulevard and killed the rider. The accident occurred near the I-75 interchange and killed 49-year-old Timothy Neeley of Indianapolis when Neeley was dragged some 80 feet under Brummett's truck. Brummett told police after the wreck that he had been sipping a beer shortly before hitting Neeley and several witnesses told police that his truck had been speeding and driving recklessly in the moments leading up to the crash. Brummett, who has two previous drunk-driving convictions, is accused of being drunk. He was served with the papers on Wednesday at the Jail, where he remains in custody without bond.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Spread Some Christmas Cheer
So, I'm wondering around the blogosphere this evening and came across Nancy's Garden Spot. She seems to have hit a low in life journey and according to some other posts I read to get there, she could use a few dollars. So, if you haven't put all of your spare change in the Salvation Army buckets, give her a dollar or two. I did. Merry Christmas, and God bless you all.
Born to Ride
I must be nuts.
As you may (or may not) know. I bought a new scooter December 3rd. I work a full time job and remember it's December. I just checked the odometer; I've put a little over 1,100 miles on it. Yes, eleven-hundred miles.
What do you think, am I nuts?
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
150 Things - #150
I kinda thought this would be one of the items I would be explaining. Janet asked about my life saving experience so, here it is.
I was 11, my brother was 7. The whole family was headed to our Grandmothers for summer vacation and had stopped at a motel for the night. Back then, my parents took 2 days to drive from Pittsburgh to Savannah. They said it was just easier, but now that I've been a parent, I have come to learn that it is WAY less stressful on the parents to stop after 5 – 6 hours of driving, spend a night in a hotel, then finish the next day.
We were all at the pool. Mom and dad were sitting by a table talking and my brother and I were swimming and splashing around as kids do. Hehe (that's what I called him for years because I couldn't pronounce Iain) was jumping in the pool near the 5' level using one of those round floatie things. Every time he'd kick back over to the edge, jump out, throw the floatie back in and jump again. The last time he jumped in he went straight through the ring. When he came up, he was in full panic mode, coughing, spitting with arms flailing all over the place. I lunged for him and grabbed him around the waist and thrust him up out of the water. Now remember we were kids, little kids. This action abruptly sent me to the bottom of the pool with him hugging the hair off of my head. I started bobbing up and down towards the shallower end trying to breath myself with each bob. Once I got to where I could breathe without bobbing he calmed down and grabbed for the pool edge.
Keep in mind all of this happened in about 5 seconds. As soon as my mom and dad saw this unfolding my dad dove in and swam over to us. So, as I was helping Hehe get onto the edge my dad was basically throwing both of us out of the pool (it was an adrenalin thing).
Looking back I'm sure my dad would have made it in time to have saved him. But everyone said I did it.
150 Things
Found another meme out surfing the sphere the other evening. EDog says everyone has seen this one. Guess I'm too new to have seen it. Funny thing is, I don't see it on any of my daily reads.
I'll tag Freddie and Janet
Rules – copy the list and bold face the items you've done. Wait for some comments then answer the questions.
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Driven anything over 100 MPH
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said "I love you" and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse of the moon.
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours - Good Drugs
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life
Friday, December 15, 2006
21 Thursday, 22 Saturday
I rode Thursday with the Patriot Guard Riders to my 21st funeral since March 19th, 2006. I was prompted in March by services for SSGNT Ricky Jones (also here) in Kokomo Indiana. I remember watching the news and seeing people there protesting… "protesting what", I thought. "the war? OK guess they have that right." Then I heard something about the protesters believing the family was at fault and that the solder and my country deserved it. "Hey, wait just a fu@#ing minute, how can the family be at fault?" I like to think I am open minded and give a great latitude when accepting someone else's beliefs or opinions. I also believe that our right to freedom of speech is one of our most cherished. BUT, I also believe in the honor and respect deserved by the family of a fallen solder. The longer this goes, the more I believe this.
I heard about the Indiana part of a national group, the Patriot Guard Riders, was going to be there to protect the family. "Great, a motorcycle gang to protect a solders family. Sounds like a fight in Kokomo." At this point I was about to walk away, but I thought for a moment, "What if that was me?? What if that was my son? (my son is a Marine, currently in the reserves and my brother, a Corpsman, spent a year in Iraq - Ramadi) Would I welcome them?"
I did some research. I found their web page, and within a few minutes I joined.
It was easy. It was a no brainer. The mission statement is:
Patriot Guard Riders Mission Statement
The Patriot Guard Riders is a diverse amalgamation of riders from across the nation. We have one thing in common besides motorcycles. We have an unwavering respect for those who risk their very lives for America's freedom and security. If you share this respect, please join us.
We don't care what you ride or if you ride, what your political views are, or whether you're a hawk or a dove. It is not a requirement that you be a veteran. It doesn't matter where you're from or what your income is; you don't even have to ride. The only prerequisite is Respect.
Our main mission is to attend the funeral services of fallen American heroes as invited guests of the family. Each mission we undertake has two basic objectives.
1. Show our sincere respect for our fallen heroes, their families, and their communities.
2. Shield the mourning family and friends from interruptions created by any protestor or group of protestors.
We accomplish the latter through strictly legal and non-violent means.
(I'd like to draw your attention to the first statement of the second paragraph, "We don't care what you ride or if you ride", that means you don't have to own a motorcycle to join and attend. Just come dressed for the weather, bring a flag and have respect for the family.)
Within a week I was attending my first funeral. Not an Iraqi vet, a Vietnam Vet, in his 50's, died of cancer. His brother came out to where we were standing and thanked us. In tears, he thanked us for coming. I cried like I haven't cried before.
Since then, I have cried a lot. And I have seen honor, and I have seen gratitude where none was expected. I watched the mother of a 19 year old Marine walk up and down our line, shaking ever hand and thanking each and everyone of us for coming. It is our honor. I have looked into the bloodshot red, tear filled eyes of a young solders father, shook his hand, neither of us saying a word then hugged him. It is our honor. And I cried.
Saturday is my 22nd funeral. I've been to more this year than in my entire life up to this point. Too many. But I would go to them all wishing there were none, I would stand, I will stand, I will honor. I thank them for buying my freedom. I will cry for them, I will hug them. I will be there for them.
The Master Speaks and The Grasshopper Sits in Awe
Look Look – This is NOT bold
And THIS is bold.
(jumps up in cubical farm and does happy dance)
(quickly sits back down before any body notices)
Many thanks to The Master a.k.a. my blog dad…
Thursday, December 14, 2006
To Bold or Not to Bold
This is really a test post to see if I can make my template stop BOLDING everything...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
To Meet Such a Man
A very dear friend e-mailed this to me today. One of those e-mail spam things, you know the kind. Promises of good luck or great fortune, but you must forward before some time limit. I hate those things, I NEVER forward them… This one however, has a great story and it touched my heart. I hope it will touch yours too.
Merry Christmas everyone, and God bless.
I sat, with two friends, in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just off the corner of the town-square. The food and the company were both especially good that day.
As we talked, my attention was drawn outside, across the street. There, walking into town, was a man who appeared to be carrying all his worldly goods on his back. He was carrying, a well-worn sign that read, "I will work for food." My heart sank.
I brought him to the attention of my friends and noticed that others around us had stopped eating to focus on him. Heads moved in a mixture of sadness and disbelief.
We continued with our meal, but his image lingered in my mind. We finished our meal and went our separate ways. I had errands to do and quickly set out to accomplish them. I glanced toward the town square, looking somewhat halfheartedly for the strange visitor. I was fearful, knowing that seeing him again would call some response. I drove through town and saw nothing of him. I made some purchases at a store and got back in my car.
Deep within me, the Spirit of God kept speaking to me: "Don't go back to the office until you've at least driven once more around the square."
Then with some hesitancy, I headed back into town. As I turned the square's third corner, I saw him. He was standing on the steps of the store front church, going through his sack.
I stopped and looked; feeling both compelled to speak to him, yet wanting to drive on. The empty parking space on the corner seemed to be a sign from God: an invitation to park. I pulled in, got out and approached the town's newest visitor.
"Looking for the pastor?" I asked.
"Not really," he replied, "just resting."
"Have you eaten today?"
"Oh, I ate something early this morning."
"Would you like to have lunch with me?"
"Do you have some work I could do for you?"
"No work," I replied. "I commute here to work from the city, but I would like to take you to lunch."
"Sure," he replied with a smile.
As he began to gather his things, I asked some surface questions. Where you headed?"
Saint Louis. "Where are you from?"
"Oh, all over; mostly Florida."
"How long you been walking?"
"Fourteen years," came the reply.
I knew I had met someone unusual. We sat across from each other in the same restaurant I had left earlier. His face was weathered slightly beyond his 38 years. His eyes were dark yet clear, and he spoke with an eloquence and articulation that was startling. He removed his jacket to reveal a bright red T-shirt that said, "Jesus is The Never Ending Story."
Then Daniel's story began to unfold. He had seen rough times early in life. He'd made some wrong choices and reaped the consequences. Fourteen years earlier, while backpacking across the country, he had stopped on the beach in Daytona. He tried to hire on with some men who were putting up a large tent and some equipment. A concert, he thought.
He was hired, but the tent would not house a concert but revival services, and in those services he saw life more clearly. He gave his life over to God
"Nothing's been the same since," he said, "I felt the Lord telling me to keep walking, and so I did, some 14 years now."
"Ever think of stopping?" I asked.
"Oh, once in a while, when it seems to get the best of me But God has given me this calling. I give out Bibles. That's what's in my sack. I work to buy food and Bibles, and I give them out when His Spirit leads."
I sat amazed. My homeless friend was not homeless. He was on a mission and lived this way by choice. The question burned inside for a moment and then I asked: "What's it like?"
"To walk into a town carrying all your things on your back and to show your sign?"
"Oh, it was humiliating at first. People would stare and make comments. Once someone tossed a piece of half-eaten bread and made a gesture that certainly didn't make me feel welcome. But then it became humbling to realize that God was using me to touch lives and change people's concepts of other folks like me."
My concept was changing, too. We finished our dessert and gathered his things. Just outside the door, he paused. He turned to me and said, "Come Ye blessed of my Father and inherit the kingdom I've prepared for you. For when I was hungry you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me drink, a stranger and you took me in."
I felt as if we were on holy ground. "Could you use another Bible?" I asked.
He said he preferred a certain translation. It traveled well and was not too heavy. It was also his personal favorite. "I've read through it 14 times," he said.
"I'm not sure we've got one of those, but let's stop by our church and see" I was able to find my new friend a Bible that would do well, and he seemed very grateful.
"Where are you headed from here?" I asked.
"Well, I found this little map on the back of this amusement park coupon."
"Are you hoping to hire on there for awhile?"
"No, I just figure I should go there. I figure someone under that star right there needs a Bible, so that's where I'm going next."
He smiled, and the warmth of his spirit radiated the sincerity of his mission. I drove him back to the town-square where we'd met two hours earlier, and as we drove, it started raining. We parked and unloaded his things.
"Would you sign my autograph book?" he asked. "I like to keep messages from folks I meet."
I wrote in his little book that his commitment to his calling had touched my life. I encouraged him to stay strong. And I left him with a verse of scripture from Jeremiah, "I know the plans I have for you, declared the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you; Plans to give you a future and a hope."
"Thanks, man," he said. "I know we just met and we're really just strangers, but I love you."
"I know," I said, "I love you, too." "The Lord is goo d!"
"Yes, He is. How long has it been since someone hugged you?" I asked.
"A long time," he replied
And so on the busy street corner in the drizzling rain, my new friend and I embraced, and I felt deep inside that I had been changed. He put his things on his back, smiled his winning smile and said, "See you in the New Jerusalem."
"I'll be there!" was my reply.
He began his journey again. He headed away with his sign dangling from his bedroll and pack of Bibles. He stopped, turned and said, "When you see something that makes you think of me, will you pray for me?"
"You bet," I shouted back, "God bless."
"God bless." And that was the last I saw of him.
Late that evening as I left my office, the wind blew strong. The cold front had settled hard upon the town. I bundled up and hurried to my car. As I sat back and reached for the emergency brake, I saw them... a pair of well-worn brown work gloves neatly laid over the length of the handle. I picked them up and thought of my friend and wondered if his hands would stay warm that night without them.
Then I remembered his words: "If you see something that makes you think of me, will you pray for me?"
Today his gloves lie on my desk in my office. They help me to see the world and its people in a new way, and they help me remember those two hours with my unique friend and to pray for his ministry. "See you in the New Jerusalem," he said. Yes, Daniel, I know I will...
Seasons Greetings
For My Democratic Friends:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
We also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2007, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great.
Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere . And without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of their wishes. By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms.
This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.
For My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Monday, December 11, 2006
Found this...
Found this "What Clasic Movie are You" over on Chromed Curses.
Kinda crazy, don't take any sh!t, live wild when I'm about 75% sure I'll win and alwasy keep a loaded automatic wepon at my side... That works.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
My first Meme
Freddie tagged me with the 6 Weird Things About Me meme.
Being the curious George guy that I am, I went to the all knowing Wikipedia and asked for 'meme'. This is what it says about that.
The term "meme" (IPA: /miːm/, not /mɛm/ or /mimi/, to rhyme with "theme"), coined in 1976 by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene (the unit of genetic information). Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.
The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, achieving a degree of penetration into popular culture rare for a scientific theory.
Proponents of memes suggest that memes evolve via natural selection — in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution — on the premise that variation, mutation, competition, and "inheritance" influence their replicative success. For example, while one idea may become extinct, other ideas will survive, spread and mutate — for better or for worse — through modification.
Meme-theorists contend that memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes which replicate the most effectively spread best; which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts.
WOW, perty cool huh? So, If you are still here, great here are the 'rules'
"Each player of this game starts with the "6 Weird Things about You." People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says 'you are tagged' in their comments and tell them to read your blog!"
I don't know how weird these things are, but here are 6 things.
1 - I laugh like Mutly.
2 - I can't stand stupid drivers. Slow in the fast lane, talking on cell and not driving, leave your turn signal on. There should be a law!
3 - If I have an appointment, I have to be early. I can't stand to be late. Have been an hour early for meetings.
4 - I have to use a cotton swab in my ears after a shower. I will roll up TP to make one if I do not have any.
5 - The smell of worm guts makes me gag. You know, how they all decide they have to cross the road during a thunder storm and get crushed.
6 - My finger nails on a chalk board sound is chewing ice. (shudder) My teeth are very sensitive to hot and cold (shudder).. I have to stop talking about this… (shudder) Just don't do it around me, k?
My taged blogers are;
Kathi on MailCall
L Tart
OK, so it's only 5, I don't know that many blogers yet and I'm sure somone is going to gripe about picking people that have already played, so sue me. The links will take you to their answers if they have already palyed.
Wreaths Across America
I stole this from Devil Dog Marines. The video is about 7 min. If you are a crier you may need a tissue.
Arlington Project
This is a link to the Wreaths Across America website. On that site click on Video On Demand and watch the video that was made of about the Arlington Wreaths Project. Beautiful video and song that I'd never seen or heard before.
At the bottom of the page is a link to a PGR escort. http://www.wreaths-across-america.org/escort.html
Man, I wish I could go on this... Wonder if my boss would miss me.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Special Letter Request
This was just posted on the PGR site by one of our members, Dale.
I just received a phone call from Sgt Cindy Barnard whose son is in Iraq. Sp Grant Johnson is in her sons Company and has been there for some time. Her son told her he has not received so much as a letter and wanted to know if we could send him a package. Sheri is sending him one today and I thought maybe we could post his address some how and have letters sent from us. He loves Zombie movies and is a IT person
Several PGR members are 'bombarding" him with letters and cards.
So, if you guys have any old zombie movies or books can you send them? I'll pay postage if it is an issue. Or if you can just drop him a letter, I'm sure he would appreciate it. E-mail me and I'll give you his address. (trying to reduce the undesirables)
Can you imagine getting nothing from home… it breaks my heart. It should NEVER happen!!! Thanks for your help!!! And please pass this around the blog-o-sphere.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Bikers Delima - Solved
My new baby. Picked her up Sunday.
Friday, December 01, 2006
6 Degrees of Blogeration - Clarified?
OK, let me try this again… sometimes I just can't explain things clearly. The idea was to expand my reading circle. Get outside my rather limited blogosphere.
On the left are some of my daily reads. From their blogrolls I picked another blog. I wanted the selection to be random, so I used the seconds on a digital clock once the page said 'DONE'. Counted down that many in the blogrolls and picked. I repeated this 3 times.
For example: Ordinary Janet's page loaded and the clock said 08 seconds, count down 8 and pick Dragon's Den. Once that page loaded the seconds were 02, so count down 2 and pick blah blah blog etc., etc.
Dazd ---- > It's a Raggedy Life ---- > beyond the crossroads ---- > Clear Candy Daily
Warts 'n All ---- > BaneRants ---- > Chromed Curses ---- > Random Bits of Pomposity
Mrs. JoseGoldbloom ---- > Lori's Place ---- > Kirsten Namskau's blog (no blog roll…)
Ordinary Janet's ---- > Dragon's Den ---- > blah blah blog ---- > The Jundland Wastes
Dragon's Den ---- > The Lisa Life ---- > Slices of Stacy ---- > Laid Off Dad
Tony ---- > The Hatemongers Quarterly---- > Cake or Death ---- > THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
6 Degrees of Blogeration
Well, ok, only 3 this time. Maybe I'll try 6 another day.
This didn't work like I had expected. I tried picking some favorites Dazd, Warts 'n All, Mrs. JoseGoldbloom, Janet's Ordinary Life, Dradon Lady and Tony. Then using the seconds on a clock (random number generator) after each page loaded. I picked the corresponding blog on each blogroll. I tried to do this 3 times. (go 3 levels deep) Some ended up back at one of the original 6, one ended up on mine (how freaky was that?). One did not have a blogroll and one site's blog roll had bad links. (I did find the referenced site through Google though). So, with a few hic-ups along the way, this is where I ended up.
Dazd ---- > Clear Candy Daily
Warts 'n All ---- > Random Bits of Pomposity
Mrs. JoseGoldbloom ---- > Kirsten Namskau's blog (no blog roll…)
Janet's Ordinary Life ---- > The Jundland Wastes
Dragon's Den ---- > Laid Off Dad
Tony ---- > THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS


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Visual Art
Occupational hazards
Geof Oppenheimer's politically charged new show at Ratio 3 juxtaposes polyphony with cacophany
Houdini's fascinating magic endures at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
Uncomfortable truths
The SF Arts Commission's "SHIFT" asks America to put aside its discomfort and talk about race
The sight of sound
Punting audible obsolescence with Christian Marclay's cassette-based photograms and Fran Herndon's poetic echoes.
Caves of forgotten dreams
Brice Bischoff's "Cave X" and Colin Christy's "Wild and Scenic" turn the outside inward
Vision statement
FALL ARTS PREVIEW: Our visual arts column Hairy Eyeball sizes up fall's gallery and museum shows
The persistence of objects
Dadaist hybrids breathe remarkable new life in Berkeley Art Museum's "Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage"
Just say no
HAIRY EYEBALL: "Negative Space" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts transforms pessimism into something unexpected
California dreaming
Metal quilts and radical piss-taking marks YBCA's Bay Area Now
A minor place
The Mission school resurfaces with shows by Margaret Kilgallen and Chris Johanson
Crying in public
Being brave through site-specific choreography on Market Street
Art fair city
Can artMRKT and ArtPadSF validate this city's role as a haven for visual arts?
All that glitters
Jamie Vasta updates Caravaggio for the literary queer
Exercises in style
Former SF resident Will Yackulic explores painting in a new show at Gregory Lind, while Camilla Newhagen sculpts fabric at Jack Fischer
Lucky charms, safe journeys
Yukako Ezoe reimagines the nature of self-portraiture in "Bahama Kangaroo"
Touching from a distance
Song Dong's work at YBCA radiates an electric current of emotions
Holy paint rollers
Mission street art takes a turn for the sainted
The line, the line
A rare screening brings Philip Guston's art to light
The unseen enemy
HAIRY EYEBALL: Trevor Paglen photographs the invisible, and Deva Graf sculpts contemplation
Not forgotten
The SF Arts Commission Gallery's "Afghanistan in 4 Frames" brings together images from a quartet of photographers. SFMOMA's mammoth exhibition "Exposed" errs on the side of excess.
Every little star
Now and then
Lauren DiCioccio remakes the stuff of everyday in revelatory ways
La Frontera
Hairy Eyeball: Tracey Snelling's 10-year retrospective at Rena Bransten haunts the edge of town, while Max Cole's show at Haines gets geological

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Screw assembly
The face vise screw mechanism is all DIY. Here are the piece parts. The hand-wheel has been kicking around my basement for 15 years. I remember buying it on Ebay for a project I never completed. It was too nice to throw away, so it waited and waited until now to find a purpose. The acme screw and nut I picked up on Ebay more recently. I cut the screw to length and drilled the hole that holds the hand-wheel setscrew. I found a 5 inch brass plate 1/2 inch thick also on Ebay which seemed ideal for this application. No idea what it was used for originally. I drilled and tapped 4 screw holes so it could be mounted to the chop. The leather washer protects the brass from the steel hand-wheel. For a garter, I put in a 1 inch metal set collar that is held in place with a setscrew. It sits in a recess in the chop behind the plate and pulls the chop back when releasing the clamping forces.
The nut for the screw is welded to a pipe flange and a 1" black iron pipe is used as a guide to keep the screw from sagging. As a side note, welding galvanized is not a good health idea and stainless needs fancier gear. I am not a great welder, but I picked up a HF flux welder and this is my second project using it. I overdid the weld and then used an angle grinder to get it back down to a reasonable shape and also to round over the hex corners. Welders would laugh, but for the forces involved in wood working it will hold. The biggest challenge was to keep the flange flat as I ground things away. If welding is out, cutting a hex hole for the nut in the leg and screwing down the flange over it would also probably work (maybe some JB weld (no affiliation)?). I cut the sides of the pipe flange off a little with a cut off wheel on the angle grinder to allow closer mounting of the chain mechanism. The nut sits in a recessed hole on the back of the front leg. I made a small wooden plate with a larger hole to accommodate the weld area. This eliminated the need to make a larger recess in the leg. The other end of the pipe is held in place on the back leg using a wooden bracket. I considered a second flange, but decided that cutting and threading the pipe to exact length was too complicated and wood is much cheaper. The bracket also helps to align the screw. There is some play in the flange and locking down the other end stabilizes everything and also can be used to make sure the linear bearing shaft and screw are on the same plane.
Linear Bearing
The linear bearing consists of a few piece parts purchased on Ebay. The shaft and bearing are both one inch. I could not find a cheap 1 inch version of the flanged shaft support block, so I picked up an aluminum 25mm one, loosened it and drilled it out to an inch. I also cut off one of the legs of the flange (no functional reason I thought it looked wrong when used this way). Both the acme screw and the bearing shaft are as long as I could fit between the legs. This gives me a lot of clamping space, but more realistically, I thought it would help keep the chop from sagging by providing some balancing weight at normal working distances and give the pipe something to hold on to.
Install thinking
My biggest concern was alignment of the screw and bearing. If out of wack, the bearing starts racking and locks up. This was my original intent in adding the linear bearing. Keeping it parallel should keep things smooth, non racking and non-sagging. Drilling the holes for the linear bearing seemed to have the most potential for problems. I finally decided on the following steps. I did all the drilling before assembly, so I could work with the leg and chop on the drill press. I used carriage bolts to keep the leg in place so I could put it on and take it off as needed. I drilled 1/8" oversized holes in the leg and chop, and 1/16" oversized hole in the brass plate for the screw. I then drilled a precise hole for the linear bearing in the leg and installed the bearing. I centered and mounted the pipe flange with the nut. With the leg installed in the bench, I mounted the hand-wheel assembly on the chop and screwed it into the leg. I made sure the chop was hanging down the same way it would in use. This meant the brass plate on the chop was touching the screw at about the 11 o'clock position due to the 15 degree angle. I then clamped the chop to the leg and used the linear bearing hole in the leg to align the hole for the shaft in the chop. I then drilled a precise 1" hole 2/3 of the way through the chop on the drill press. In spite of this there was a little drag at the brass plate as the chop moved. A little file work on the plate at the touching point eliminated this. I then screwed in the pipe and used the bracket on the opposite leg to make sure that the bearing shaft and screw were equidistant and aligned. Still not sure why but the bearing hole I drilled in the chop was not perfectly square to the chop face and one side of vise closed before the other by about 1/16". I took some wood off of the side of the hole in the chop to get it to line up better. This created a slight side to side taper in the hole. The bottom of the hole did not move and was still at the correct position for the screw to bearing hole distance in the leg. As a last step, I was going to clamp the chop tight and epoxy the shaft in at the correct angle. As mentioned earlier, the chain mechanism eliminated the need for this and leaving it loose with a slight taper appears to work well. Not sure if a pinned parallel guide has the same issues or is inherently a little looser so alignment is not such a big deal.
I was a little surprised by how little info is available on how a face vise works. Which holes should be oversize? How do you keep it from sagging? What are the alignment issues? The conclusions I reached are as follows (but I could also be wrong since this is a sample of one). The screw is held precisely in the leg by the nut only. The hole in the wood should be oversized to eliminate friction. The parallel guide in the leg should only allow perpendicular movement with as little friction as possible. Both the screw and the guide need to be in the same plane. You can't have one swinging left and the other right for example or up vs down. On the chop side, the screw holes are loose (friction again) but the chop rests on the screw at a single point which affects the height and possibly the angle of the chop. The parallel guide should be tight and square to the chop face vertically, but some looseness in side to side movement in conjunction with the looseness at the screw seems to help even out the clamping pressure. I wonder, if you built the chop with a slot at the nut and a hinge at the linear guide, if this would allow you to clamp odd shapes better hmmm.
I am still a little uncertain about the sagging. I have two places that prevent sagging, so they need to be aligned to prevent racking. In other designs, I am not sure if the sagging is eliminated at the screw, the parallel guide, both, or either. One conclusion, regardless of how it works, is to leave the chop long until everything is done and settled down before cutting it flush to your table top.
-- Jonas


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Tom recently posted about graduate students mentoring undergrads at Johns Hopkins. Graduate school offers many opportunities to mentor, whether that means chatting with your undergraduate students during office hours or introducing new graduate students to your department. Here are a few things I've learned about mentoring during graduate school.
1. Treat the person you're mentoring as a less-experienced peer.
One of the things that most impresses me about my own mentors is how well they do this. They show respect for my ideas and projects, but they also offer wisdom about areas where they have more experience.
One of the best things you can do for someone you're mentoring is to communicate your respect for their work, and within that context explain things that person may not know yet. When I'm open to learning from the knowledge and experience of those I'm mentoring, I'm more able to pass on my knowledge in turn.
2. Remember the ways that life and work intertwine.
I've also been impressed because my mentors are skilled at recognizing the interaction between life experience and study. They recognized that the context of my life experience made a difference to how I would learn in a particular semester of graduate school. In advising someone you're mentoring, it helps to keep in mind how their life experience enriches and complicates their work. For instance, if you're advising a student who has just moved across the country to start your program, the advice needed might be different than it is for someone who grew up in the community where your program is located.
3. Invite others into community
One helpful thing mentors can do is to invite other people more deeply into community. Invite a gifted undergraduate to a department lecture and introduce him or her to a few professors who are teaching interesting courses next semester. With other graduate students, arrange coffee with a senior graduate student who might have similar interests or initiate workshopping groups. Don't underestimate the value of just hanging out with other graduate students. One of the reasons I felt comfortable asking a more experienced grad student for advice in my first year was that he and I both went to Dr. Who viewings hosted by another student in the department.
4. When you're learning about a task someone else will have to do, keep that person posted on your process in a relaxed way.
This thought is more relevant to mentoring interactions with fellow graduate students than with undergrads, but I've found it helpful. Graduate school has many tasks that everyone will have to face eventually – writing grant proposals, prepping conference talks, and of course ultimately producing a dissertation. While the advice of professors is really helpful, sometimes a note from a fellow graduate student a bit further along the curve can be even more useful in sorting out a difficult task.
I had signed up for my department's grad student mentoring program, so when I was writing my dissertation I was also mentoring a talented graduate student several years earlier in the program. Whenever I noticed something important to my own growth in dissertation writing, or realized something I should have done differently about the process, I would send him an email describing it. I started out with a note introducing the idea and explaining that I didn't expect him to read or respond to every email, and that he might have thought of many of these things already in the course of other projects. But I also articulated that it was sometimes nice to see someone else's process, and that describing my process helped me to understand it as well. Those notes turned out to be helpful to both of us.
5. In addition to being a source of answers, be a source of questions. When I think about my own mentors, their questions stand out to me even more strongly than their answers. They've given me incredibly helpful advice over the years, but their ability to frame questions was even more formative. Helping someone else articulate his or her central questions is one of the best things you can do as a mentor. The questions that I remember shaping my life had several things in common. They rarely needed an answer right away, though they invited one if I was ready to give it. They were specific enough to elicit a concrete answer, but they were open-ended enough to be a springboard to my own ideas rather than just a vehicle for the questioner's expectations.
A few examples of questions that might be used in this way:
- How do you see your faith and your field interacting?
- How have you grown as a teacher/researcher/student over the last semester?
- What books have been most helpful to you over the past year?
- What are you central questions in this project/in your field/in general? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this method of teaching/approach to research/etc.?
As I wrap up this series, I'm struck by the generosity of those who have mentored me. I'm also struck by how that generosity continues to shape my life over time. Many things I didn't even realize I was learning from my mentors have grown to become very important elements of my life and study.
What are some of the things you have learned from your mentors? What are questions you've found helpful in mentoring and being mentored? What would you hope to pass on to those you are mentoring?
Also in this series: Finding Mentors as an Undergraduate, Finding Mentors Who Share Your Faith, The Art of Being Mentored, The Art of Learning Wisdom from Mentors, The Art of Maintaining Relationships With Mentors.


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Last week, Teen Mom OG fans were shocked when Farrah Abraham's dog died , and they were so upset when she posted a video of her and Sophia grieving over Blue, their 5-year-old Pomeranian. But now that we have more details about the story, it sounds like this situation just keeps getting worse. Apparently there's a chance that Sophia is responsible for the dog's death, and this new information is pretty horrifying.
From the original story, it sounded like the dog was found dead after he went outside to use the bathroom, but it sounds like there was more to it.
While talking to Radar, Abraham said that Blue's death wasn't so much because of the tossing, but because he was stressed.
Farrah said everything happened so fast.
And as for Sophia's comments on Musical.ly?


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The Wind Business
It can take years to plan and engineer these state-of-the-art wind farms. It's a problem-solving process that draws on an understanding of algebra, geometry, kinetic energy, etc. to turn one of our most abundant resources into a viable business.
Running time 06:32 minutes
Running time 06:32 minutes
Powering the Planet - The Space Solar Power Concept
The idea of solar power from space touches on science, technology, engineering, math, energy, the environment, and more. Pose this concept to students to stimulate critical thinking about these issues and get them involved in the conversation.
Running time 19:00 minutes
Running time 19:00 minutes
Recycling Computers
Go inside Electronic Recyclers to see how they break down millions of pounds of electronics every month. Everything from computers to cell phones, TVs to Xboxes, comes through their doors to be crushed, shredded, melted down and reused.
Running time 05:17 minutes
Running time 05:17 minutes
Calculating the Power of the Wind
Want to show your students specific real world examples of radius, area and algebra? Wind Analyst Emily Hardy does just that... in under two minutes!
Running time 01:53 minutes
Running time 01:53 minutes
The Forester
For Tami Sabol, the forest is her office. As a Forester for Plum Creek Timber Company, she is responsible for the health of hundreds of thousands of acres of trees. Using math and science is a routine part of her work.
Running time 05:18 minutes
Running time 05:18 minutes
Indicator Species
Indicator species are used as an early warning of pollution or degradation in an ecosystem.
Running time 01:55 minutes
Running time 01:55 minutes
Each person in the U.S. generates about 25 pounds of garbage a week. That means the nation's population produces nearly two hundred million tons of residential garbage every year. Fortunately, up to 80% of that can actually be recycled....
Running time 03:24 minutes
Running time 03:24 minutes
Solar Power: Photovoltaics
There are a number of methods of generating electricity from solar power. In this movie, engineers Beth Richards and Miguel Contreras demonstrate the most widely used method today, and break down the math and science behind this renewable energy source.
Running time 04:36 minutes
Running time 04:36 minutes
A Wildlife Refuge
Near the Gulf Coast of Texas extends a 44,000-acre refuge full of alligators, armadillos, coyotes, and lots and lots of birds. Show your students the science and math wildlife biologists use to maintain a safe haven for these animals.
Running time 05:37 minutes
Running time 05:37 minutes
Forest Rangers
Forest rangers describe some of the techniques used to keep hundreds of thousands of acres of trees healthy. Featured: Arnold Wilson, a forester U.S. Forest Service; Brad Washa, fuel specialist, U.S. Forest Service.
Running time 1:44 minutes
Running time 1:44 minutes
Project Engineer
Project Engineer for Horizon Wind Energy, Johnny Goff, describes problem solving and engineering.
Running time 3:01 minutes
Running time 3:01 minutes
Creating a Campground
Creating campsites in the New Mexico wilderness calls for a knowledge of ratios and proportions. Featured: Charlotte Minor, landscape architect, U.S. Forest Service; Tessa Archuletta-Krause, civil engineer, U.S. Forest Service.
Running time 4:28 minutes
Running time 4:28 minutes


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This series consists of talks in the area of Quantum Gravity.
I offer a personal perspective on the causal dynamical triangulations approach to the construction of quantum theories of gravity. After briefly introducing the approach's formalism and results, I illuminate this perspective with 3+1 vignettes of recent and ongoing research.
A quantum isolated horizon can be modeled by an SU(2) Chern-Simons theory on a punctured 2-sphere. We show how a local 2-dimensional conformal symmetry arises at each puncture inducing an infinite set of new observables localized at the horizon which satisfy a Kac-Moody algebra. By means of the isolated horizon boundary conditions, we represent the gravitational fluxes degrees of freedom in terms of the zero modes of the Kac-Moody algebra defined on the boundary of a punctured disk. In this way, our construction encodes a precise notion of CFT/gravity correspondence.
We will discuss our work on (1) the global food crisis and the implications for how we can address hunger and social unrest around the world, (2) the financial crisis and the implications for the role of regulation in economic market stability, and (3) the Ebola epidemic and the vulnerability of global civilization to pandemics.
I will review recent work on tensorial group field theories (TGFTs). The renormalization methods being developed in this context provide more and more control over their field-theoretic structures, and for models which increasingly resemble loop quantum gravity. Perhaps surprisingly, some of these models are asymptotically free and can therefore be made sense of at arbitrary values of the (abstract) scale with respect to which they are organized. They define in this sense UV complete quantum field theories.
It is by now well established that black holes emit a thermal radiation and undergo an evaporation process. The original Hawking evaporation scenario, based on quantum fields on a classical background geometry, has been vastly extended and improved, in order to take into account in particular the backreaction of the radiation on the geometry. This can be done for example in a semiclassical setup, where the Einstein equations are sourced by an effective stress energy tensor.
I present a proposal for a worldline action for discretized gravity with the same field content as loop quantum gravity. The proposal is defined through its action, which is a one-dimensional integral over the edges of the discretization. Every edge carries a finite-dimensional phase space, and the evolution equations are generated by a Hamiltonian, which is a sum over the constraints of the theory. I will explain the relevance of the model, and close with possible relations to other approaches of quantum gravity, including: relative locality, causal sets and twistor theory.
I present a proposal for a worldline action for discretized gravity with the same field content as loop quantum gravity. The proposal is defined through its action, which is a one-dimensional integral over the edges of the discretization. Every edge carries a finite-dimensional phase space, and the evolution equations are generated by a Hamiltonian, which is a sum over the constraints of the theory.
We study in the context of loop quantum cosmology the effect of the analytic continuation that sends the Barbero-Immirzi parameter to a purely imaginary value. We show that this construction leads once again to a bouncing scenario, in which however the contracting and expanding phases on each side of the bounce are not symmetrical. Moreover, the minimal volume reached by the universe and the critical matter density become naturally independent of the Barbero-Immirzi parameter.
I will discuss why the search for B-Mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is very important for early universe cosmology, but that a discovery of such a polarization mode is in no way a confirmation of inflationary cosmology.
We isolate an important physical distinction between gauge symmetries which exist at the level of histories and states, and those which exist at the level of histories and not states. This distinction is characterised explicitly using a generalized Hamilton-Jacobi formalism within which a non-standard prescription for the observables of classical totally constrained systems is developed. These ideas motivate a `relational quantization' procedure which is different from the standard `Dirac quanization'.


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We're still around!
Hello all,
I know it's been some time, so i wanted to do a brief post to tell you, as the title says – We're still around..
Due to lots of real things going on for both myself and Saxxy, Unfortunately we are not able to post as we use to right now, but i want to let you know that our blog stay's important to us and hopefully at some point we will both back more often.
My personal situation; With my dad passing away at the start of year i have had to help my mum out loads more, as she has horses stables and not to mention help her with all the general things you have to deal with when someone passes away so that takes up at least every other afternoon for me.
I'm also working on me, Getting fit, I have lost 28lbs so far this year, so a lot of my spare time is spent not just sitting on my ass on a PC lolll.. Swimming, walking etc.. I want to lose about 100lbs so you know.. I 100% feel fitter already but not near to where i wanna be.. so just have to keep at it i guess.. hopefully all this will help me get pregnant also 😀 so it really is important for me too focus on this ..
All that being said ..
I do feel that after 2 months of my dad passing away things are starting to fall into new routines now so i should be able to put some time into blogging again soon.. I do really miss parts of it.. but i can not promise anything right now.. but i will always make sure i appear that is for sure.. so for now all i can say is that i will see you when i see you, it may be sometimes more than other times.. but i do promise neither Saxx or myself have stopped caring about the blog, land or anything else – we just have real circumstances taking over right now
We love you and appreciate all of those of you who come to our blog and follow us, or just have a quick nose x
Skyla ♥
Hair: The Steamer Hair – Naturals Olive @ The Kawaii Project
Skin: Rose – Desert Rose America Glam Affair
Necklace: Popcorn Addict Necklace Quirky (Wayward Hunt)
Tattoo: Alvarrez Reckless (Wayward Hunt)
Nails: Le Spring Figure (Wayward Hunt)
Top: Wild Top with Hud Mag<3.B
Pose: Mora 6 .Mien. (Wayward Hunt)
Post 932
Hii, I know me and Saxx have not been around as much, Saxx has some computer issues which hopefully at some point will get sorted but as we all know money does not fall from the trees, and I myself – Still dealing with the lost of dad of course, which means helping my mum alot more, firstly with the many horses she has and the mounts of paper work my dad had & has left to be sorted, its stressful and hardwork but we will get there, gotta look after my mum!
I called this post; Post 932 as i just noticed we are nearly at 1000 posts and that's pretty cool, we may not blog as much as some or always the same cool outfit everyone else is wearing or even been the most popular but we have done amazing since we started, and we do it cause we enjoy it that is the main thing right? We could blog every day and night in all the latest gear but what would be the point if we hated what we did 😀
so anyway enough waffle.. a quick cute look – Hope you like it – Sky ♥
Hair: The Grace Hair – HUD 1 Olive @ The Kawaii Project
Skin: Rose – Desert Rose America Glam Affair
Top: Slogan Tee Black (With Hud for word Change) {Curve.it}
Tattoo: Live Your Life Body Tattoo Pimp my Shit @ Rock Attitude Fashion Fair 2 (28th March)
Shorts: Itty Bitty Shorts – Black Pimp My Shit (Store Release)
Time can do so much
Back again, got a couple of evenings to myself so what to do but blog haha..
Its nice after everything that's been going on lately to just play dress up and take pictures plus i owe some sponsors although they have been great and noone has expected me to blog at this time, Its nice to be able to chill and show off some of the amazing things i received!
Hopefully tomorrow i will be doing a blog with my beautiful sister Gerty! If not tomorrow defo soon! Over due!
See you again soon!
Sky ♥
Hair: The Daisy Hair – Noir Olive @ The Arcade
Skin: Sora <Alabaster> – Special Edition Pink Fuel
Eyebrows: Black PMS (Pimp my Shit)
Lips: Melisa Lips Raspberry Bamboo @ The Gacha Mania
Nails: Gemstone Minds @ The Gacha Mania
Earrings & Necklace: Wish Collection Cae @ Oneword
Dress: In the Woods Dress Black with Hud Dear Deer @ Oneword
Shoes: Souburn pumps /w straps Imperial Blue Deesses @ The Gacha Mania
Location: Less Than Three
Lil Miss Piggy!
Back! Told you i would be, Maybe again not sure i got another 3 pictures done to post lol
This one is close to me right now, everything is about my battle to lose weight, I'm eating so well, yet when i only lose 2lbs in 2 weeks this time i do feel like lil miss piggy, and i swear i did not pig out, i know there was over issues (health wise) that were out of my control so i couldn't exercise as much, but i still ate good, You still feel Bleh though when its not as good as u want!
Everything is back to normal now so another 2 weeks before my next weight in (even though i stand on the scales EVERY DAY at the moment, it keeps me motivated though!) so I will really going for it this next 2 weeks i have lost 18lbs since the start of the year and i know that's still good… i just want it to be better, i want to get to the point people start to say have you lose weight – at the moment i can see it myself but i want everyone to notice hahaha I WILL get there i'm so determined this time i'm proud of myself and i rarely say that to myself but i am – i like the feeling of being proud of myself as well so that spurs me on too!
Hair: The cupcake hair Olive
Skin: Skye America Glam Affair
Top: Cutie piggy Sweater Mag<3.B (Group Gift)
Pants: Nancy Pants Emporium @ Fashion Fair 2015
Tattoo: Blossom Slink Tattoo Pimp my Shit (PMS) @ The Thrift Shop (Opens Today (Friday 6th) @ 12pmSLT)
Pose: New Year Purpose F3 (With Scale) Fashiowl poses @ The Gacha Mania
Location: Done wiv a Twist Estate
I can make your dreams come true
Hey, Sorry for my brief post earlier wanted to get it out, before i came back now.. and had to get some rl things done..
I'm loving this Oneword round with the theme of Dream, I'm a proper daydreamer dreamy person a lot of the time, i like the way a dream can be so obscure but can trying to tell you the most simple thing!
I read this poem online earlier i love it so me! i will share it with you!
P's i don't know why the writing went all big and pink and i cant change it LOLLLLL
A Bed Of Clouds
I sleep in the clouds, dream in the sky,
I'll keep dreaming as life passes me by,
I think my dreams keep me sane,
I dream of happiness, a life without pain,
some people say I'm stuck in this place,
and I'll never go anywhere,
but in my dreams I've already been there,
I know some day I'll have to wake up,
but I feel the real world is more like a nightmare,
I'm safe in my closed eye wonderland,
this poem goes to all the dreamers that understand,
no matter what they say…
keep your dreams but don't dream your life away!
~Now on too the fashion all details are below enjoy – Skyla x
Hair: The Melody Hair Glitter Crazy Olive
Skin: Elsa Skin Pure VIP Gift Birdy
Shape: My personal shape Skyla MP
Eye Make up: I Dream in Color 3 Wicked Peach @ Oneword
Earrings & Necklace: Dream Catcher Collection with Hud Cae @ Oneword
Dress: Dreams Dress With Hud Moon Amore @ Oneword
Sceptar: Dream Maker Pink Cubic Cherry @ Oneword
Tres Belle
Hi everyone! Ok so this may be my last post of the month it is undecided but if I do blog it will be tomorrow and will be fairly short. Thanksgiving is coming up and I plan on spending the majority of it with my family. I am stoked because Done Wiv a Twist made it in the Destination Guide. I promise to those who already know this is my last time bringing it up. I am just very excited about it because I thought we weren't good enough. I tend to be my own worse critic. I guess not only do I have Skyla, Ema, Ally, and Kodi to thank, but also the owner of anc…your RARE tent brought something alive in me and gave me a vision that is now being used for our current pic of the land. Before I move on, thank you readers as well…you may be like hmm why? Just ponder on that for a minute lol.
Bella Elephante released new nails for the Geeks 'n' Nerds event. The ones I am showing off are to represent Belle from Beauty and the Beast which happens to be my favorite Disney movie. Nothing better than a woman who stands her ground, loves to read, looks beyond the exterior of a person to love, and who appreciates the small things in life. To go along with the nails I picked up the "Belle" inspired dress from Noodles.
I decided to invest in the whole line of N-Core Feet because they look amazing and plus these gorgeous shoes were free to go with the Xtreme Feet. There are a few other shoes available as well but with the line just starting off, the choices are limited for now.
I want to go ahead and put my "What I am thankful for" list here. If I do not come back tomorrow, have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!
I am thankful for..
*My Health
*My Son
*RL/SL Friends and Family
*My wittle doggie
*Food and shelter
*Most of all, the love I receive every single day by some of you all!
❤ Saxxy
Hair: The Beauty Hair in Morning Coffee-Olive
Eyes:Promise Eyes in Chocolate-Ikon
Makeup: Juliette Eyeshadow in Dark Nude-Modish
Juicy Lips in Berry Tart-Panda Punx
Nails: Once Upon a Fairytale Combo-Bella Elephante@Geeks n Nerds
Jewelry: True Hearts Necklace and Earrings-Maxi Gossamer
Dress: Beauty Princess Dress-Noodles@Geeks n Nerds
Shoes & Feet: Xtreme Feet & Mules in Black(free)-N-Core
Poses: Jessie-Posetivity
Props: Fairytales – Beauty & the Beast – Dome(Gacha Rare)-O.M.E.N.
Candleish Holder-MishMish
Emerald Stars
Hello all I am back…I guess I am on a bit of a roll today because well the one thing I fear is disappointing my sponsors or falling behind on my blogging. This blog look is my favorite I have done in a while because it represents me and what I love to wear. At this round of Collabor 88 you can find a variation of gorgeous deep and light colored products and the theme is Spoopy Motel so expect some creepy stuff! Bella Elephante is participating at the Mystic Realm Faire and you can find these nails shown as well as makeup in which I am wearing the green eyeshadow from the Nightly Shadow pack there as well. Details are listed below and I hope you enjoy the colors surrounding me as well.
❤ Saxxy
Hair: The Beauty Hair in Brown Coffee-Olive
Eyes: Owls in Ash-S0ng
Makeup: Nightly Shadow in Green-Bella Elephante @ Mystic Realms Faire
Falsies Eyelashes-Mon Cheri
Smoothie LipColor in Burnt Umber-Mock Cosmetics
Jewelry: Lux Set gold white-Glam Affair @ Collabor88
Nails: Vine-Bella Elephante@Mystic Realms Faire
Dress: Sweet Pleats Dress in Ivy-Fashionably Dead@Collabor88
Shoes: Zest Pumps in Brown-Maitreya @Collabor88
Enjoying the Breeze
Afternoon from my end, so much is coming up this month it is a bit overwhelming! If I cannot be in SL it isn't because I don't want to be but my son and I have a lot of stuff coming up and I wouldn't miss it for anything.
So of course you guys are probably getting sick of me talking about the Cotton Candy Hunt but FFS there is so much cute stuff!! On top of that, there will be another hunt going on called the Pink Fusion Hunt starting on the 1st. More details about that hunt can be found here~depravednation.com Some stuff being blogged today are a part of these hunts. I have also been asked to blog for Salt and I couldn't help but wear these shoes! They are sooo hooker high heel looking but I love them lol. Thank you all for the free stuff btw, a lot of the designers I blog for and I have received stuff from TCCH are so talented! Make sure that if you receive a lm to their stores, you at least check them out!
❤ Saxxy
Skin & Shape: Evangeline in Cocoa-Panda Punx for the Pink Fuel Hunt(Opens the 1st of May, and each item is 5l)
Hair: Haruka in Blacks-Argrace
Eyes: Sunrise Eyes in Light Mint-Ikon
Makeup: Northern Lights Shadows in Barbie-Buzzeri
Black Eyeliner 4-Pekka
Kat Brows in Ebony-Soiree
Glossy Lip Highlights-Izzie's
Jewelry: Chunkeey Jewelry Set Silver-Mandala
Nails: Nice-MUA
Accessories: Woman's Keyboard Clutch in Mint/Silver-Olive
Summer Drink in Orange-Poche
Clothing: Lace Black Tank-Hucci
Dixie Shorts-Alyce
Kawaii Sweater-Cold Ambitionz for TCCH
Shoes: HOE Flip Flops in Black-.SALT
Location: The Trace
A Gamer's Girl Tragedy
Just a quick postie this morning, as Saxx got into the arcade already and sent me this rare unicorn Pug! LOVE! haha she sent me tons of stuff as well bless her (she is an arcade whore, shush dont tell anyone) lol she gonna kill me lmao.. I got another post planned to do today but i dont if i will post today or tomorrow might take a bit of putting together iam bit nervous it wont go how i see it in my head though, but we will see!
Anyway enjoy this cute quickie for now ❤
Hair: The Flutter Hair Tastey Pastels Olive @ The Arcade Gacha
Skin: Sora- Special Edition Pink Fuel
Make up: Eyeshadow Glamorous Hot Pink Mons
Top: Long Tank Forever Young @ Whore Couture
Shoes: Stickyz Pumps White Stickyz @ Whore Couture
Tattoo: Heart Slink Feet PMS
Pug: Puggles {Unicorn} RARE Birdy @ The Arcade Gacha
Mouthie: A Geek's Tragedy Pak Classic Geek @ One Word
Smexy Sunday
Hello everyone! Today Skyla and I decided to get together and snap a pic for these sexy rompers from Pimp My Shit(PMS). They come in two versions which are the prints and solids. Skyla is rocking amazing hair from Milk available @ Kustom 9 and I love the shoes I am wearing from an Essenz gacha available @The Feeling Event. Hope you guys like and the rest of the info is down below!
❤ Saxxy & Skyla
Saxxy is Wearing:
Hair: Esperanza-Truth
Eyes: Horizon Eyes in Hazel-Ikon
Makeup: Black Eyeliner 1-Pekka
Falsies Eyelashes-Mon Cheri
Galactic Lip in Red-Nox@Collabor88
Glossy Pout Lipstick(dark) in Red–Pink Fuel
Tattoos: Heart Slinks Hand Tattoos-Pimp My Shit@The Thrift Shop
Jewelry: Annutra Ring in Black/Silver-Mandala
Clutch: Fur Fold Clutch in Black-1992@Fi Friday
Clothing: Halterneck Jumpsuit in Solids-Pimp My Shit
Shoes: Jersey Black(in a gacha)-Essenz @ The Feeling Event
Skyla is wearing
Skin: Cara Ice fairy Al vulo @ Dressing room fusion
Make up: Eyeshadow Glamorous Mons @ Dressing room fusion
Earrings: Open Heart Hoop Silver [F]oil
Necklace: Zodiac Necklace Olive
Tattoos: Tribal Slinks Hands & Feet Pimp My Shit @ Thrift Shop


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Despite being under threat from the growing influence of compliance, a good risk manager is still an invaluable asset to any forward-thinking business.
Why bother with risk management? Most people are trustworthy, no one leaks data and the worst probably won't happen. You might as well put your energy into worrying about something more fun, like a new blend for the coffee machine or an office dog.
If that sounds naive (stupid, even), that's because it is. Risk management is a crucial part of any forward-looking business. When you add in how fast regulation is changing and the turbulence of current markets, it makes it even more important to get your house in order.
The changing face of risk
A risk manager's role is self-explanatory – they identify and assess threats to a business. These threats can come from anywhere: financial uncertainty, legal liabilities, management errors, accidents and even natural disasters. In some ways they need to see the future, and in the rare event they miss something, at least be able to quickly adapt to and limit any negative implications.
The role had changed significantly over the past 10 years or so. Whereas before the focus was very much internal, concentrating more on financial risks to companies, nowadays they spend more time looking outward. Liquidity, operational, compliance, regulatory and reputational risks now form a large part of the job.
IT security threats and data risks are also a much bigger issue, especially in light of GDPR. A risk manager's skills need to be varied.
Risk of compliance
The rising role of compliance is a risk to risk itself. With compliance teams growing in reaction to increasing legislation and harsh penalties if rules aren't followed, the authority and budget of risk managers have started to suffer.
Many CEOs would rather focus on ensuring they maintain the status quo whatever happens, rather than on the uncertainty of what might happen when it breaks.
The risk manager's traditional toolkit has also been undermined by unpredictable and hard-to-model factors like Brexit, which had a huge impact on currencies, or government policies on renewable energy, which have had a big impact on the way energy is traded.
Hire the best risk manager
Often the role of risk management is left to the employee who wears the most hats, but as your company grows, your assets do too, and this approach just won't cut it.
A risk manager doesn't have to be exceptional with numbers, but it helps. Quantitative risk management is important – your risk manager needs to know their way around a spreadsheet – but qualitative and communication skills are arguably even more so.
Spyros Maragos, manager of risk analytics at US-based Direct Energy, says: 'You have to ask the right questions – that is a trait of good risk managers. You need to be able to explain the numbers to management and have an understanding as to what impact market changes have on the company P&L.'
The perfect risk manager is a good communicator, able to explain complex problems to the most high-level executive, but also a maths and computer programming prodigy. They may sound rarer than hen's teeth but they're out there, and once you find one, you shouldn't let go. You can't risk it.


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My husband informed me this morning that today, May the 4th, is Star Wars Day.
You knew that, too, right?
I got the idea for Star Wars oreos from justjennrecipes.com. Jenn is my go-to resource for all things Geek and Food. I am so enamored of her creativity! Since I am married to a Geek, and am apparently raising a whole new generation of Geeks, and since I love to cook, I visit her site frequently (read: daily).
Star Wars Oreos
- your favorite sugar cookie recipe
- Star Wars cookie cutters from Williams-Sonoma
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare sugar cookies with Star Wars cookie cutters, adding food coloring if desired. While the cookies cool, prepare the filling:
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter while carefully adding the powdered sugar. Add the vanilla and beat until creamy.
- Plop some filling onto one cookie, and top with another. (Depending on the shape, you will put some filling on the flat side of the cookie). And there you have it. These aren't the cookies you're looking for.
Nice try, Obi Wan. These are precisely the cookies I'm looking for!
The last time I made these, I added green food coloring to half the batter for Yoda, and cocoa powder to half the batter for Darth Vader. I didn't take a picture, because I had no idea Star Wars Day would be here so soon! It just creeps up on you, doesn't it??? This time I only made Yoda and Boba Fett, because making one big green batch was, quite frankly, all the excitement I could take for one day.
Goodness, with the Royal Wedding, the bin Laden news, and Star Wars Day… this is turning out to be quite a week! I'm going to need a vacation after all this!
Speaking of vacations, my six-year-old wanted to know if cereal for grown-ups has alcohol in it. Mmmmm… Martini-O's! That might be just what the doctor ordered!
May the 4th be with You!
(that's the Star Wars Day slogan. Seriously. You can't make this stuff up!)


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DirecTV Aligns With Starz-Branded TV Everywhere Push
Keeping the ball rolling on TV Everywhere, Starz Entertainment announced that DirecTV customers who subscribe to the premium network's services now have access to its corresponding Starz Play and Encore Play websites and apps for no extra charge.
The satellite operator has previously offered Starz content online through its own DirecTV Everywhere service, under a deal reached in April 2012. DirecTV becomes the third affiliate to offer Starz Play and Encore Play, along with Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse TV.
Starz still trails rival HBO on the TV Everywhere front, as HBO has secured deals with operators representing more than 98% of the U.S. to offer the multiplatform HBO Go service. Starz also has agreements with Comcast, Dish Network and Verizon FiOS TV which offer Starz content through their respective online services.
Meanwhile, earlier this week DirecTV announced it added shows and movies from more than 30 networks available through the DirecTV Everywhere portal and apps.
Starz Play and Encore Play currently are accessible through Wi-Fi and broadband connections; the programmer is developed support for cellular connectivity and apps for Android phones and tablets and gaming consoles.
Starz Play offers approximately 400 monthly selections, including 300 movies from Walt Disney Co. and Sony Pictures Television plus 100 episodes of original series, including Spartacus, Magic City and Boss. Encore Play provides about 900 selections.
"We are very pleased to expand our relationship with DirecTV and add Starz Play and Encore Play to the suite of premium offerings provided by one of our largest customers," Ed Huguez, Starz's president of affiliate distribution, said in a statement.
Starz and Encore are included as part of DirecTV's Starz Super Pack, and Encore also is available in the DirecTV Choice Ultimate package.


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- Personalization is $10 for non-Insiders; Insiders receive it for free on leather and denim (!)
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- Fitted through the hip and thigh with a straight leg, our take on a classic.
- Leg opening: 14 1/2".
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
DJ Magnet on Best of Bootie 2007
My 'Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly' remix (available below) was selected as one of the top mashup bootlegs for 2007, by renown DJs A plus D, and included on the Best of Bootie 2007 CD along with a lot of other great tunes. Check out the whole album here!
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
DJ Magnet - Chicago Bump
DJ Magnet - Chicago Bump
(Amanda Blank/Spank Rock vs. Chicago, Bloodhound Gang, Greg Kihn Band and Detroit Grand Pubas)
Or alternate location at http://djmagnet.multiply.com/music
Caution: Explicit lyrics on this one!
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Labels: Amanda Blank, Bloodhound Gang, Chicago, Chicago Bump, DJ Magnet, mashup, Spank Rock
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Children with ASD often have superior visual-spatial skills and poor auditory memory skills. Visual supports (VS) provide concrete supports utilizing the strength in visual processing (Rollins, 2014).
Visual supports (VS) are concrete cues that provide information about an activity, routine, or expectation; they may also support skill demonstration. Visual supports can provide assistance across activities and settings, and can take on a number of forms and functions. These include but are not limited to: photographs, icons, drawings, written words, objects, environmental arrangement, schedules, graphic organizers, organizational systems, and scripts. Visual supports are commonly used to: 1) organize learning environments; 2) establish expectations around activities, routines, or behaviors (e.g., visual schedules, visual instructions, structured work systems, scripts, power cards); 3) provide cues or reminders (e.g., conversation and initiation cues, choice making supports, visual timers, finished box); and 4) provide preparation or instruction (e.g., video priming, video feedback).
Visual supports meet evidence-based criteria with 18 single case design studies. According to the evidence-based studies, this intervention has been effective for toddlers (0–2 years) to young adults (19–22 years) with ASD. Visual supports can be used effectively to address social, communication, behavior, play, cognitive, school-readiness, academic, motor, and adaptive skills.
Brief adapted from
Hume, K. (2013). Visual supports (VS) fact sheet. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Research Summary
|Ages (yrs)
|Social, communication, behavior, play, cognitive, school readiness, academic, motor, adaptive
|Home, school, community
|The information found in the Research Summary table is updated yearly following a literature review of new research and this age range reflects information from this review.
Outcomes: Evidence-based Emerging No evidence Comprehensive
Steps for Implementation
Step 1. Identifying the Target of Instruction
A. Refer to IEP or IFSP to identify the learner's goals.
B. Discuss goals with IFSP/IEP team members, including family and learner.
C. Select and operationalize an observable and measurable goal as a target of instruction.
Step 2. Collecting Baseline Data
A. Collect baseline data appropriate for the targeted skill.
B. Collect data on at least three occasions to establish an accurate baseline for the targeted skill.
Step 3. Identifying and Selecting Visual System based on Learner's Needs
A. Identify support personnel in the school/program building.
B. Identify available symbol systems.
C. Ask learners and their families about preferred symbol systems.
Step 4. Teaching How to Use Visual Supports to Others Who Support the Learner
A. Introduce the visual system to those who work with the learner at school and at home.
Step 5. Introducing the Learner to Visual System
A. Explain or model for the learner how the system will work.
B. Give the learner time to interact with the system while providing cues, feedback, and assistance.
Step 6. Providing Learner with Multiple Opportunities to Use the Visual System
A. Identify other opportunities at school and at home for the learner to use the visual system.
Step 7 Collecting Data on Acquisition of Target Skill
A. Collect data on the target skill in a format similar to baseline data collection.
B. Use these data to make instructional decisions regarding the targeted skill or behavior.


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The Book of Answers
An updated, repackaged edition of the bestselling divination tool and party favorite – ask a yes or no question, open the book, find your answer – with more than a million copies in print.
Should you ask your boss for a raise? Call that cutie you met at a party? Sell your Google stock? Tell your best friend her boyfriend's cheating?
The answer to these questions (and hundreds of others) is in this fun and weirdly wise little book that's impossible to put down. It's simple to use: just hold it closed in your hands and concentrate on your question for a few seconds. While visualizing or speaking your question, place one palm down on the book's front and stroke the edge of the pages back to front. When you sense the time is right, open to the page your fingers landed on and there is your answer!
Fun, satisfying, and a lot less time-consuming than asking everyone you know for advice.
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Men's Granite Climbing Pants
Function becomes fashion in this technical pant built of three stretchy fabrics - abrasion resistant knees and seat, durable front panels and breathable on the backside.
This is a technical pant built for climbers. Besides being stretchy, the crotch is gusseted and the knees are articulated for uninhibited movement. The stretch woven fabric for the knees and seat has an abrasion resistant thread woven into it for extra durability. The front panels use an elastic durable double weave fabric and the backside is a lighweight stretchy fabric. Front pockets are zippered to keep valuables in and there are two convenient wallet pockets on the backside. Did we mention these will attract jealous eyes? The shizzle!
- Gusseted crotch
- Laminated, zippered hand pockets
- Wallet pocket
- Reinforced, articulated knees
- Elastic waistband with integrated belt
- Microfleece interior waistband lining
- Button top front fly
- Drawcorded bottom hem
Tech Specs
- Main fabric: 75% Nylon, 12% PU, 13% Polyester Twill, 184 g/m2;4-way-stretch, double-weave, DWR
- Second fabric: 88% Nylon 12% Spandex plain weave with 4 way stretch, 175 g/m2 , DWR
- Reinforcement fabric: 76% Nylon, 11 PU, 13% Polyester
Ripstop, 225 g/m2, DWR
Reinforced fabric on articulated knees.
Webbing secured button top fly.
Elastic waistband with microfleece lining.
Drawcord at bottom hem.
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SAM 4E MCUs
High Performance and Advanced Connectivity for Industrial Applications based on ARM® Cortex® M4 Microcontrollers
SAM4E series of Flash microcontrollers (MCUs) is based on the high-performance 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M4 RISC processor with floating point unit (FPU). It operates at a maximum speed of 120MHz and features up to 1024KB of Flash, 2KB of cache memory and up to 128KB of SRAM.
The SAM4E series offers a rich set of advanced connectivity peripherals including 10/100Mbps Ethernet MAC supporting IEEE 1588 and dual CAN. With a single-precision FPU, advanced analog features as well as a full set of timing and control functions, SAM4E MCUs are ideal for industrial automation and building control applications.
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Best Buy Tries Laptop-Contract Model
Best Buy has begun testing a program in which it will sell laptop computers at a discounted price along with an Internet service contract, its CEO told Bloomberg News in an interview.
The model had been used previously for mobile phones and netbooks, by both mobile phone carriers and Best Buy itself.
In the interview, Brian Dunn said the offer is in place at "selected stores," with prices ranging from free to $399 with a service contract. It's part of the company's plan to compete with Walmart, the Web and other retailers.
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Pumped Up for Pumpkin
As Fall sets in and the leaves begin to change colors, the chilly weather signals one thing: really really really cold weather is coming. In a gloomy and sometimes arctic region like New England, it is necessary to find the bright spots that accompany the arrival of Fall. For us foodies, that would be apple picking, the abundance of certain root vegetables, and of course, our favorite group of foods: winter squash. If you can recall, we once packed a stuffing into a pumpkin, baked it until it was soft, and then took a trip to food heaven as we enjoyed one of the best meals ever (Happiness in a Pumpkin). Marnina jokes that I am so much in love with squash, especially butternut and buttercup, that I should have her engagement ring resized so that it can be given to a squash.
We have recently gone on a pumpkin craze, and we would like to share two recipes that have been indulgent but still relatively healthy due to pumpkin's nutritional content. For dinner on Friday night we made a dairy-free pumpkin custard, a light dessert that takes like pumpkin pie filling. Then, for Sunday morning brunch, we cooked up a baked pumpkin french toast dish that was off the charts good. While we enjoyed the smell of our apartment during the cooking process of both of these dishes, we REALLY enjoyed the buttery pumpkin sweetness that infused our custard and french toast.


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Does Lionsgate Want Robert Pattinson for Finnick Odair in 'The Hunger Games' Sequel 'Catching Fire'?
And so it begins. With Catching Fire heading towards a fall start date, casting has got to begin soon. And, sure enough, one of our first pieces of news has arrived, and it's a pretty bold statement. Apparently ThinkMcFlyThink.com got a tip that Lionsgate has its eye on Robert Pattinson for the role of the dreamy District 4 tribute, Finnick Odair.
Regardless of how I feel about The Twilight Saga films, I've seen enough of Pattinson's work to know he's a solid actor. However, good acting chops isn't the only factor at play here.
First off, Pattinson doesn't match the description of Finnick. I'll be the first to admit that Pattinson is a good looking guy, but Finnick Odair is much more the Abercrombie model-type - tall, tan, fit and handsome. Sure Pattinson could beef up, but I suspect he's just too naturally lean to look strong and athletic enough.
Then there's the Twilight factor. Again, this isn't to say Pattinson is a bad actor, but the guy certainly dug himself a hole with that franchise. There's going to be a lot of audience crossover between Twilight and the Hunger Games movies and it could compromise Catching Fire's believability to have someone who's basically the face of another franchise in the mix. And that's not to say Pattinson can never have another role other than Edward Cullen, but we do need a little distance from The Saga before that can happen.
Now for an obvious question: Is there even any validity to this story? I'm not particularly familiar with Think McFly Think, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Plus, it's totally possible that Pattinson's name could have come up in a conversation. He worked with Francis Lawrence on Water for Elephants, so perhaps the Catching Fire director simply threw his name out during a meeting. The one word I might question in this article is "chasing." Perhaps Pattinson is on some sort of "Finnick Odair Potentials" list, but I highly doubt this already wildly successful franchise is chasing him when there are so many other talented and more fitting options who'd jump at the opportunity to win this role.
What do you think?
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LWW x Bedales of Borough Closing Party
- 20/05/2018
- Free entry
We've teamed up with Bedales to host the official London Wine Week closing party!
- Address
- Bedales of Borough, 5 Bedale Street, London, SE1 9AL
- Date
- 20/05/2018
- Times
- 18.00-23.00
- Price
Free entry
In a fortuitous turn of events the last day of LWW18 also happens to be the final service of beloved Bedales of Borough before they close up shop for 4 months for a refurb. Naturally we thought this warranted a party…
With a complimentary glass of Crémant de Loire on arrival, amazing deals on wine as they clear out their cellar, and live music from the wonderful Lots Hollway (www.lotsholloway.com) it'll be a send-off to remember. It's also just round the corner from the Hub so there's every excuse to make a day of it and see out this LWW in style.


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You're nothing but the mushed, crushed pulp
of bloated, water-logged trees past help,
Pressed into thin sheaves that whinge and yelp,
Black barnacle spreading on it like kelp.
Nought but sheets of paper, ink bled through-
A potent drug of highs and torment. (Why aren't you taboo?)
Causing rich, drawn-out hallucinations untrue.
So vivid and lifelike- no wonder I'm addicted to you!
It's all a matter of fickle, fickle perspective.
Are you degenerative or miraculously corrective?
No doubt you're sweet, zealously addictive.
There's nothing I haven't done under your influence.
You lay so innocuously. Spine languid and stretched.
Mine too as I breathe you, consume your every inch.
To some, you may be wicked, or an inanimate wretch.
But to me you're pure awe-some-nothing more, nothing less.
You're awe-some as I flip your fresh and fine front cover,
As I finger past first one and then another chapter.
When I flip the last page and you're finally over,
You're still awe-some as you wait for another reader.