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The bestest Christmas gift
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I delayed posting this entry until I could add pictures, so here goes.
My dear husband bought me the most wonderfulest gift for Christmas. I usually don't ask for gifts, for any occasion, but I'd dropped a hint or two this year. I wanted a spinning wheel. Thinking he didn't pick up on it, or wouldn't know what to get (the choices are dizzying), I put together a list of good wheels and discreetly "hid" it on my desk. Imagine my surprise when a spinning wheel arrived early, a week before Christmas. Not just any spinning wheel, but a Schacht Matchless.
I hadn't even put the Matchless on my list because it was too nice. My husband, who doesn't quite get my fascination with fiber, and calls my hobby "playing with string," did his own research and bought me the wheel he thought was best, before I even made up that list. If that's not a keeper, I don't know what is. So, thank you, dear. Thank you, thank you.
Here it is:
Lovely, is it not? Here's the first yarn I made with it, spun from merino wool from a Swell Yarn Shop, purchased at Renaissance Yarns.
This actually didn't turn out as well as my attempts on my mother-in-law's wheel (here and here). I overspun it a bit on the new wheel, and, of course, the thickness is still all over the place. I just need some practice!
And because I didn't post this before, this is the last one I spun on the borrowed wheel, with some Louet Northern Lights wool top in the Toffee colorway:
I just bought some more fiber, too. Let's see what I can come up with.


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Join children's entertainer Marky Monday for this unforgettable spooky Halloween evening filled with music, singing, dancing, and fun for the whole family! On this special evening Marky Monday will be sharing new songs from his new rock musical "Marky Monday's Adventures In Space" as well as introducing new characters, and secret guest stars!
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This evening is a fundraiser for the new rock musical "Marky Monday's Adventures In Space" being released on September 21, 2019 at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Audience members will get a sneak peak at new characters, new songs, and will have an opportunity to contribute to the creation of this wonderful work of art that many families and friends will enjoy in the future.
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It was a useful and interesting day, very well organised by Matthew Wheeler at CILIP. The best part was of course, getting to know more new professionals, whose enthusiasm was uplifting.
You can read more about the day and the other sessions here.
Matthew will also be speaking at the CILIP Cymru Wales FREE Information day and AGM , booking is open now.
Mandy Powell, CILIP Policy Officer, Wales
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How depressing … Nothing lasts forever … not a Universe, not a Mulitverse, not a Volt, not a Car, not a Tesla, not a Star, not an Empire, not a State, nor even a Mind … … never mind Where was I ? Oh yeah … nothing lasts forever … not a brief moment in time, not a brief history of time, not an idea in my mind and surely not this brief excursion to the Empire of the Rising Sun Cause it's all about to implode … T minus 14 and counting … tick tock tick tock … I'm locked and loaded and ready to explode, so before I shoot skyward let me unload … Things are really revving up around here … alien propulsion systems are functioning flawlessly My internal combustion engine is feeding fabulously and purring like a kitten … it's nonstop orgiastic eating that would even evoke the envy of Sardanapalus … from the heart I cross my heart and hope to die ! Just last week … Miyasaka (again, excellent), Kirakutei (again, sort of, since he has now indeed moved to a swank spot in the Ginza, and that bastard is now slinging 5000 JPY glasses of sake towards sweet little Chambo ... like is that even possible ?), Shinohara (a super easy ressie for a guy like Chambo and impressively this guy actually knows how to cook and run a resto), Kurosaki (handsome fellow, although he was a bit jealous and shouted "Crazy Japanese" to the 2 young hotties that I left with that night #iaintdeadyet) … hahaha … With time running short, things are about to get very, very serious … we're accelerating … with insanity back to back … and on and on … and why not Nanba yet again … Onwards and upwards … faster than the speed of light … to Infinity and Beyond !
What would YOU have done with these little guys ? And are they indeed the "real McCoy", that is the "Jewel of Toyama Bay" aka shiroebi ... I think so, but I'm gullible and I want to believe ... and it's still March so I'm a bit confused ...
Pras, you know I have VERY good reason to be VERY upset at you ... but I'm not really the type to hold a grudge ... especially when you were doing your utmost to help a poor, lost soul like sweet, little Chambo Please note that Akebono does NOT seem to make kuromame senbei anymore ... or at least that's what I believe I was being told ... at a minimum, the Ginza store surely did not have them. I asked (or at least I tried to ask, many times and many different ways) if they were just out of stock or it was a seasonal thing or whatever, but I was being told that they simply don't make them anymore. It sounds strange to me, but whatever Being one who prefers to turn lemons into lemonade and not wanting my Akebono adventure to result in a big goose egg, I opted to get some of their other snacks for serious reading ... nevertheless I was now even more desperately seeking senbei a la kuromame ... Oh man, do those little squid suckers (bottom row middle) look good or what ! Pras, you are oh so CORRECT ! and they are called menbei ... at least by people in the know, like Chambo I made a trip to Fukuoka for the sole and express reason* of seeing whether you were right or not on this one (cause I was slightly losing faith in you, given the "Akebono Incident") and you came through like a total champ, Pras ! and as you can see, I have made some progress on the kuromame senbei situation * and I also wanted to do Ev a solid Open and ye shall find ... a bunch of packets ... each containing 2 menbei ... the Japanese sure love to package things, don't they ?
Italy Solidarity Supper And a dorayaki for dessert, deservedly ... cuz supper without a little sweetness is not a supper worth supping ... Tis true for life too ! Anyone like my literary placemats ?
Any recs for Hiroshima ? Looking for a casual meal for Sunday and I could be convinced to do fine dining on Monday if anything is worthy Last night when back at Gem by Moto (Tokyo) after having a couple of glasses of wine at a very calm Winestand Waltz after having done a flyby of Ode and passing the tiny but packed Ta-im Israeli joint after having bought some Ethiopian coffee beans at Fresco coffee roasters in out there Asagaya after enjoying a double shot cappuccino there after having munched on a Taiyaki while strolling the long, covered-passageway Asagaya market after doing a flyby of Nanba's less chic sushi spot after having meandered thru the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace again, I sat next to this very with it Japanese gentleman who lives in the hood and Gem seems to be his local. We chat baseball, he's moaning that the Japanese aren't real fans like the Americans cuz they don't like to discuss RBIs, I tell him that yeah RBIs are a bit meaningful but boasting about batting average and HRs are good enough, he mentions his son goes to Berkeley School of Music, I follow that BSofM is a great school and note that I used to live in Back Bay way back and ask him if he likes the Green Monster, and he does, big time and now he's getting excited and we're bonding, NY comes up, he's heading to the Golf Masters Tournament next month flying via NYC but he said New York just said Japanese must quarantine for 14 days (is that true ? I told him that I didn't see that and it's surely not US national policy ... at least at the moment) blah blah blah blah blah TL;DR I ask him for a Hiroshima resto rec and he mentioned the casual Suishin, which has the advantage of being open on Sunday but that's the only advantage that I'm aware of. He said to consider oysters in Hiroshima but they like to cook their oysters so focus on dishes like cooked oyster with rice, for example. Well, that's a start at least ... Re the high end, two of Bobby Brown's fave 2014 meals were 3* Nakashima and 2* Tempura Tenko Honten (but now it seems to be a 1* hence not a great sign) Any Hiroshima thoughts ? And here's a LONG shot, I got 8 minutes in Kobe, starting at the train track. Any good ideas ? I'm hungry and I need feedback within the next half hour ...
COME ON, Tubbs ! Geesh ... I'm disappointed in you ... a great man like yourself shouldn't be paralyzed with fear like a deer in the headlights ... you know what happens to dem deer ? Yep, roadkill What is this thing going to do ... kill ya ? Highly unlikely ... that said, those Northern Italians are dropping like flies ! Come on, Tubbs, man up ! This is just nature's way of weeding out the weak ... live you life and let the chips fall where they may ... follow my lead, Tubbs ... And remember ... when the going gets tough, Chambo ... ahem ... heroically heads to the hot zone ! Alrightie ... enough of that ... heading out to Ueno Park now ... to see if any blossoms have blossomed yet ... you never know unless you go
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Chambolle replied to Rail Paul's topic in Italy and Elsewhere in EuropeLOVE the Osteria (La Subida) ... my 4th time ... I'll return
Still fine ... as of last night ... but who knows now ... I'm long done Everyone knows the major sites ... which are awesome and awe-inspiring (this is an F-ING swamp people ! Imagine pounding a million pilings to keep a church afloat) ... but there's just so much more ... I come to this ultra-touristy place each year for the New Yesr to recharge and reset my batteries and my ⏰ ... oxymoronic ? moronic ? ironic ? iconic ? You decide And you eat well (enough) if you know what you're doing And if you leave the lugubrious lagoon behind what awaits you in front of you can be awesome eats ... awesome ^ Max !
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Chambolle replied to Rail Paul's topic in Italy and Elsewhere in EuropeOff Topic ... Glory goes to the virtuous … patience is a virtue … I'll spare you the gory details but do note the following … My PECA and not your PECA was all over la CARTA de LA PECA oggi … and that's a good thing A glorious thing ? … Pffft ! … Who am I to decide what is glory and what is not … but it was a very good thing … and it's in the middle of F-ing nowhere
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Chambolle replied to Rail Paul's topic in Italy and Elsewhere in EuropeDecided to go back to La Subida ... no wifi notwithstanding (what's wrong with these people ???) ... but only for 2 days due to such treachery Will eat at the Trattoria at La Subida ... which is a 1* Mich of course ... don't let that name fool you ... and it probably has the best wine list in the world for these unusual wines with a somm (the son) who knows them (and the winemakers) inside and out Tastings with Sasa @ Radikon and La Castellada ... may try to return to Princic ... on verra ... @Bonner - You know you want to eat at Agli Amici in Udine and not Argine, right ? I"m happy to say that I'm off to Gostilna Pri Lojzetu in Slovenia where I have yet to eat ... and then I'll swing by Vodopivec to snag some Vitovska (the best V in the world, by the way) when returning ... may even re-swing by Caffe Vatta for, yes, a coffee and they have very fair prices for Gravner* too ... then again I saw Gravner Ribolla G for 59e in Padua ... which is more than fair * Fuck Gravner ! "We're closed for the Holidays" ... "I understand ... but I'm asking about a date well past January 1 ... like the following week ... is that possible ? are you guys around ? I don't get to this neck of the woods very often ..." ... "We closed for the Holidays" ... Fuck Gravner !!!
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Post-Thanksgiving, Chambo's Shaping the Battlefield Twas Black Friday ... Black Hawk Down, maybe so ... but Black Swan Chambo is up ... But up to what exactly ? That's the key question ... up to no good ? up to his eyes in alligators ? up to his eyes in a bathtub filled with an overflowing river of champagne and drinking non-stop just to avoid drowning ? Or is he still drunk and beyond help ... beyond your imagination ... beyond Beyonce ... for it is there that lies Chambo's champagne-filled flights of fantasy ... to attempt understand any of this, try this ... Enter the mind of madman ... as he imagines his feelings to be those of a woman ... a woman in love with Champagne ... and now play the video and listen carefully ... because in Paris, as I've told you, all we ever do is drink champagne ... ... but is there more to it ... is the woman in the tub or on the tube ... is Chambo bored with surfing or bored with board games ... or is he playing games ... could he possibly be off-point ... at this point no one really knows for sure ... as it's all still one big blur ... Make Love not War ! and don't make shit up !
When planning a revolution and toppling an impostor, it is essential to know thyself and to know the opposition ... that is the basics of Master Sun's The Art of War ... but there is much more in store in order to succeed as any true warrior knows Victory goes to the prepared ... and preparation must start well in advance ... months, if not (light)years, in advance and far away ... and they always do chez Chambo ! It's called Shaping the Battlefield and it must start from the get go ... if done correctly and with wisdom the war is won before it is even started ... pay close attention ... for that's what Chambo's doing here in order to undertake the revolution foretold in the final words of this significant post I'll also note that in order to topple an established order, it is best to be a God (just ask Zeus) or to have the right Gods on your side (consider the Trojan War) ... in fact, having / being both is best and as fate shall have it, Chambo is so blessed We take you back to Tokyo ... the evening of October 4 to be exact ... too late for a real meal ... but had already eaten and drank a bunch of nibbles and liquids ... hence something simple, quick yet good was in order ... those paying close attention shall note one friendly hurdle that Chambo cannot seem to overcome with a great foreign Goddess ... that is, improving her English ... after years and years of trying and discussing and giving examples and examples and elaborating on the exceptions etc, Chambo now simply gives Goddess the good words and goes forward into the night ... And when I told you previously that the powerful Princess-Tigress-Goddess's Gresca dinner was semi-disastrous because she is so adventurous when eating and she'll snarf down just about anything, I bet some of you were skeptical ... to the skeptics, pay close atttention ! Finally I shall also note that what was communicated to me as pork tongue was pork but not tongue ...
During the holiday season there's always something unexpected, if not highly SHOCKING, that occurs … at least that's my experience And it proved to be the case once again this Thanksgiving as I came to the sad realization that ... I had … fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentle people … made an ERROR ! Yep it happens … it's extremely rare .. but it happens These are called Black Swan events for those versed in such matters HOWEVER, unlike so many others here, I admit my errors when they come to my attention … and I attempt to correct them …. and, if and when necessary, I apologize Hence … @Seth - I want to apologize for being wrong re prices during our discussion about your beloved Beaux Sens champagne I'm sorry as I should have had my facts in order but I didn't I could make excuses … things like ... I was traveling at the time … or running on very little sleep … blah blah blah … but excuses are for losers ... and those are NOT remotely acceptable excuses in my book nor in my mind So once again, I am very sorry for being wrong and using inappropriate words during our prior discussion … and being a bit harsh with you I'll also note that I have been drinking A LOT recently … non-stop champagne since yesterday … continuing thru to this very minute (Drappier Brut Nature at this exact second, to be exact, but it changes every handful of minutes or so) … had to even go and buy a quick re-stock this afternoon in prep for placing a MAJOR order … anyway before I start rambling incoherently I'm going to end it here as I have to stumble out into the wilderness now and head to dinner somewhere where festivities will sadly, undoubtedly continue and continue and continue… but please do accept my apologies ! And Happy Thanksgiving to all ! I'll try to explain the errors of my way when I sober up … but here's the context for you until then … and thanks for giving me a chance to make amends ... I think I'll feel better about myself after doing so ... And look at me here ... I'm such a son of a bitch ... And then when tuning in from Tokyo, I was totally lit up when writing this post as I was recalling an extremely eventful day in my life and at the bottom of that post when I addressed you as shown below I probably could have chosen my words better if I knew then what I know now ... so once again, I apologize !
Milan, Piedmont, Turin ... and boom ! I've blown 2 weeks so, now being short on time with only one week left, I gotta rush east to feast near Padua, otherwise Max will be bumming, and after that I'm juggling multiple reservations cuz I have reservations about Venice where I go every year anyway (for the New Year and much more) ... spoke to La Subida and can redirect there for a bunch cuz they are indeed open as is Radikon and Sasha is happy to see sweet little Chambo again but Gravner is growling about their vacation time and those daughters don't want to be doing Chambo a solid, witches ! Dario is cool to see Chambo again and an interpreter will be required again etc etc ... but the Subida houses are still without wifi (WTF !) and cell service is stupendously spotty to the point that you can't rely on it ... and even though she said that she'd give me the best located option for cellular data, I'm not convinced ... so I'm scratching my head about what to do ... but I don't have time to research anything cuz I'm too busy posting here and running a global empire* ... hmmm ... decisions decisions ... made the difficult decision to skip Florence this year for the first time in many, many years (I usually arrive Florence perfectly timed to do some scouting and then hit the winter sales on the exact day that they start ... I have all this stuff down to a science) ... but I do love love love being in Italy over these Xmas NYE holidays cuz it's so festive and fun and hence I do some version of this trip every year, always including Piedmont cuz life's not worth living without a major winter white truffle mid-December blizzard (which is a bit late but still fine if you go to fine places) ... well I don't do this EVERY year ... that's an exaggeration ... but every year for the last 7 years, yes * FYI the Asian work trip was a WILD success ... bot manufacturing is now up and running ! ... the Kimchi Princess, who's quite the Asian tiger, convinced me to skip China and setup operations in Seoul ... so I did ... and it's proceeding better than I could have ever imagined ... all the stars are aligning and everything is falling into place such that I've decided that I've earned the right to celebrate a bit and sneak in a little vacation because 2020 is going to be a blockbuster success story ... stay tuned ... Chambo is on the verge of total Universal domination and I think it's now unstoppable ... but it's going to take time ... I'm feeling good Oh look above, there's my good friend mitchells ... or at least he was, until he started slandering me and my champagne en Chine, the bastard ! Remember The Bastard, mitchells ? You need to learn how to live a little cuz your comment demonstrates a lack of knowledge in that important department ... as we shall see at some point in the future ... at a time and place of my choosing ... game on ! and don't forget that you started this war ! As always, it's never Chambo that starts any of this stuff ... for Chambo received a blistering, sarcastic assault on his good taste ... you should have made love to me mitchells when you had the chance ... it's too late now ! I have made it abundantly clear in the past to you that you know nothing about my lifestyle choices ! To wit ... mitchells, please be careful talking about things of which you know virtually nothing ... ie The Chambo Lifestyle. I'll have you know that that September ie in 2016 I was there, mitchells and I didn't like the place AT ALL. Total nouveau riche ! Way too much money with too little taste was poured into the place. Met a good buddy there ... he's a NYC Greenpoint-loft-based artist friend (he's been in GP since before it was trendy and his big canvas totally out there mostly abstract w some tiny human-ish figure-oids interspersed among the colors seems like a good Green fit) ... who has a place outside Montpelier up in the hills where doth grow the vines ... and he looked at me funny upon arrival at the Castel and said "You really wanted to come here ?" and I grimaced and said "Sorry, man, was given bad info. I'll take care of the 50 euro Pibarnon rosé and we'll make the best of it and then blow out of here ... and so we sat, we chat, we drink and we keep on moving ... and went to where I really wanted to go which was the brand newly opened Terminal#1 pop-up from the bros, where I was invited and we had a great time hanging outside, tucking into tons of tapas and drowning our blues in some reds and whites ... and that was our night, mitchells


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'Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story' arrives on Apple Music to poor reviews
Apple Music-Exclusive documentary on Bad Boy Records — "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" has been released, but early reception to the film appears to be not good.
The film is centered around record label Bad Boy's owner Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs, the rise of the label during the '90s, and efforts to put together 20th-anniversary shows in 2016. The documentary includes behind-the-scenes moments and interviews with industry executives, such as now-Apple Music head Jimmy Iovine.
"I went to the [Bad Boy Reunion] concert and thought it was incredible," Iovine told Billboard in April. "I think Puff and Bad Boy's story is incredible and one that a lot of people can relate to in any genre or in any business. His story is powerful. He really overcame a lot to get to where he's at today and the documentary shows that."
Early critical responses to the feature call it "shallow and dull" and "a vanity project strictly for the fans." More positive returns from some critics say that the feature is "intimate and revealing than these sorts of artist-approved self-mythologies usually are." At present, the average rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 2 out of 10, with a 43 percent "Tomatometer."
An advance screening of "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" happened at the TriBeCa Film Festival at the end of April. Apple will hold onto exclusivity of the feature for at least a year.
Apple may have up to 10 original shows and documentaries planned for 2017 according to recent reports. Known to be in production are "Carpool Karaoke," "Planet of the Apps," and documentaries about Clive Davis and Cash Money Records.
The film is available to Apple Music subscribers now.


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Sleep on the Great Wall of China in a once-in-a-lifetime experience
The Great Wall of China is one of the world's most awe-inspiring attractions, but its ancient allure means that massive crowds flock to the site every day for a glimpse. But there's a new opportunity to experience the wall in relative solitude, as Airbnb has launched a new competition that will let four lucky travellers spend a night there.
A new Airbnb will be on the Great Wall. Image by Airbnb
Winners will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to call the historic fortification their home for a night, due to a collaboration between the Beijing Tourism Development Committee and Airbnb.
A Unesco World Heritage Site and a must-see tourism spot in China, this will be a totally different way to experience the walls and the first time travellers will be able to stay overnight.
A magical sleeping experience on the Great Wall. Image by Airbnb
The company describes the wall as "a redefined boundary that connects people and culture. By putting the Great Wall on its platform, Airbnb is celebrating the symbolic joining of people from around the world, while spotlighting the rich Chinese heritage and culture." If it sounds like a place you want to explore, then travellers must describe "why it is more important now than ever to break down barriers between cultures, and how they would want to build new connections through this experience."
Have a unique experience on the Great Wall. Image by Airbnb
The four winners will enjoy a day and night of events between 4 and 7 September. Each will get to spend a night on the Great Wall, as well as having a sunset dinner, a classical music concert and a calligraphy experience. After that, they will get to take a sunrise hike through the Chinese countryside, and learn about the history of the wall and protection efforts from an official historian.


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This stone staircase located near Nezu Shrine is very spooky. Climb up to the top counting each step, then you get a count of 40. But count the steps again on you way back down, it is 39. Weird. You try again and again, doing your simple math. No matter how many times you try, the uphill and downhill counts never match.
Some people claim that the direction of a flight of stairs from the landing in the middle changed. Others testify that they came to an impasse in the middle. No wonder this spot is called "Spooky Staircase". The route is surrounded with a mysterious ambiance, and the best time to try is when the staircase is deserted.
Note: We do not take any responsibility for any damage caused as a result of using information on this website. Reverse your path if you feel any danger. (The photograph is not a real image.)
Purposethrilling,haunted places
Airport/Sta.Tokyo International Airport (about 19.1km) Google Transit


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I scored this rug for a tenner at a Sydney op-shop two years ago. Paddy never really warmed to it and so it never made an appearance in our old apartment. But I did manage to sneakily squeeze it into the removalist's truck when we moved up here. Since then it's been leading a rather dismal existence - banished to storage under the house along with other various furnishings that we can't agree on.
But hey, while the cat's away... this mouse is having a play! So far, my favourite home for it is the kitchen - completely impractical, I know. I wonder how long I can ignore that minor detail.
Oh, and please excuse the dark, obscurely angled images. It's grey again today (hmph!) and I
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You might call me a unique hybrid of my parents. My mom is a former journalist and my dad works as a computer consultant. The result? I'm a multi-platform journalist and social media enthusiast. I ask questions and tell stories. I recognize journalism in its purest form, but embrace the technological changes in the industry.
This blog began when I started my adventures as an intern in Washington, D.C. Working at National Public Radio Social Media Desk(@NPRInterns) was amazing (I got to ride an elevator with Madeleine Albright).
But in March 2010 I was offered the opportunity to return to the Nation's capital for a real [read: paid] job.
Now I work at Fight Crime: Invest in Kids as a communications associate. My daily endeavors involve media monitoring, clip filing, assisting with national and state press events, video editing and "fighting the good fight" to encourage social media efforts.
Thanks for visiting!
Views or positions shared on this site do not necessarily reflect the views or positions held by any of my employers or affiliates.


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While extension of the income tax return (ITR) filing deadline may have brought relief for tax assessees who had delayed filing till the end, there is some pain in store for them. They may have to re-fill their ITR forms in case these had been filled but not submitted or uploaded on the income tax department's e-filing website.
The latest notice on the e-filing website states: " Consequent to changes made in Income tax return filing utilities on account of due date extension and schema changes for AY 2018-19, Please note the below 1. Saved Drafts will not be available in case of Online ITR 1 & 4. 2. In case of Offline utilities, XML has to be re-generated using the latest utilities and to be uploaded. "
Income tax return forms 1 and 4 could be filed completely online and this method allowed users to save drafts of partially/fully filled in forms before submitting. This would allow the filers to review and re-check the information filled in before final submission. However, as per the notice put up on the e-filing website on August 1, all income tax return filers who have saved drafts of partially/fully filled in ITR 1 or 4 online but not submitted/filed them till July 31, 2018, will have tore-fill new/updated forms, says Abhishek Soni, a chartered accountant and CEO, Tax2Win, an income tax return filing website. These new/updated forms have been made available on the e-filing website with effect from Aug 1, 2018, as indicated on the site.
Tax returns could also be filed by downloading the forms in excel/Java utility formats, filling up the same, generating an XML file from them and then uploading the XML file in the concerned tax assessee's account on the e-filing site. As per the e-filing website, if a tax assessee has filled such a form and generated XML file but not uploaded it in his/her account till July 31, 2018, then he/she would now have to re-do the exercise using the new/updated forms and generate XML from these from these updated forms, says Sachin Vasudeva, a practising chartered accountant.
It appears that the extension of the ITR filing deadline from July 31 to August 31, 2018, meant that consequential changes had to be made in the forms and therefore all those who were half-way through the exercise will have to now re-do it using the updated forms.
An individual who is a Resident and Ordinarily resident (ROR), having income from salaries, one house property, income from other sources (other than winnings from lottery, maintaining race horses, etc.), and having total income up to Rs 50 lakh is eligible to use ITR 1.
ITR 4 is meant for individuals, HUFs and partnership firms having "Income from business or profession" on presumptive basis.


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text: OLLI_S 0 Posted May 10, 2016 Hello, Normally CCleaner Cloud logs in the "Events" section when I install new applications or update existing applications. But some updates of existing applications are not logged in the events section. Here is a complete list (includes all applications that were reported in the topics bellow) of applications and games where installations are not logged in the events section: Amazon Music App (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1001067901) Battle.net Launcher (battle.net/app/) Drakensang Online (http://www.drakensang.com/) Epic Games Launcher (https://epicgames.com/) Franz (http://meetfranz.com/) GOG Galaxy Client (https://www.gog.com/galaxy) Norton Security Deluxe (http://www.norton.com/norton-security-antivirus) NVIDIA GeForce Experience (http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience) Oculus (https://www.oculus.com/en-us/setup/) Skype (https://www.skype.com/) Star Citizen (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/download) Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/) TeamSpeak (http://www.teamspeak.com/) Uplay (https://uplay.ubi.com) vorpX (http://www.vorpx.com/) I wrote this already to the support staff. But I decided to add this forum posting, so other users can extend this list of applications, where updates are not logged in CCleaner Cloud. Greetings OLLI Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch Cherry Bomb!
I went to see the movie The Runaways about Joan Jett's first band last weekend, and I can't get this song Cherry Bomb out of my head. It may seem like a stretch to find something Shakespearean to say about Cherry Bomb or The Runaways, but I can't get it out of my mind. So, here's what I've been thinking about.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a very funny play. It's silly, there are fairies, there's magic, the four teenagers are great sport to watch, and the ending is happy. But as I pointed out in my post about Titania, there's darker stuff here, as well.
It boils down to this: misogyny. As Picture This director John Fisk points out in his video about adapting a Shakespearean play, "The world in which Shakespeare lived was a world of misogyny." Women were made subordinate to men.
This is so true when you start picking through A Midsummer Night's Dream. Hippolyta is tamed. Titania is tamed. Hermia is her father Egeus's property and he can do with her as he wants! Theseus advises Hermia:
To you your father should be as a god;
One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
To whom you are but as a form in wax
By him imprinted and within his power
To leave the figure or disfigure it.
This is the law of Athens and Theseus says Hermia will be put to death or forced to become a nun if she doesn't subordinate herself to her father's wishes.
So what does all this have to do with Cherry Bomb? The Runaways were an all-female band trying to break into the mostly-male rock and roll world. Manager Kim Fowley cherry picked Cherie Currie at age 15 for lead singer of the fledgling band due to her blonde bombshell looks. She inspired the song Cherry Bomb because that's what she represented—jailbait.
It's a catchy tune, but the situation these girls were in was exploitive and misogynist. The band members start out just wanting to play rock n' roll. During rehearsals, Currie wants to do slower songs and isn't comfortable with the graphic lyrics or the gyrations. But they all do what Fowley tells them they have to do to get noticed. In an odd way, the girls in The Runaways are tamed in the same way that we see Hippolyta and Titania tamed. They do what they have to do to get by in a male-dominated world.
I see other themes from A Midsummer Night's Dream in The Runaways… defiant youth, impulsive youth, the chaos of youthful love. So, as blog reader Chris pointed out, yes, it all comes back to Shakespeare. 400 years later, the universal themes and issues in his plays are all around us still.
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Tue Sorensen said,
OK, if you're BLAMING Shakespeare for STARTING negative gender roles and contributing to perpetuate them, the I most certainly must protest. First, since Shakespeare is dead, it is the rest of culture that perpetuates his work, because the culture itself is like that, and Shakespeare just played into it. Second, the manager of this band was a woman herself, right? And I hope you are aware of the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, who demonstrates that some of the worst perpetuators of the traditions that oppress women are… women? A whole lot of women are themselves drinking the patriarchal kool-aid. Often they don't even realize it; they just think that this is the way the world works. In fact, most people just adapt to whichever standards the curent culture sets forth.
Still, I am certainly in favor of gender equality and will argue to my dying day that Shakespeare is, too – despite the apparent fact that he uses seemingly misogynist elements here and there (only in a very few places, I'd argue). But he's writing allegorically, and quite logically has to disguise his works using the acceptable norms of his time. When you get to As You like It, I trust you will find no trace of misogyny there.
But the real question of the gendered human condition is this: is there a *reason* for societies mainly being patriarchal? And if so, is this a *good* reason? I know this will be hard for women to swallow, but I'm afraid the answer is yes. As both Shakespeare and many other artists are saying, women are more emotional and men are more rational. It's a *general* rule, not necessarily an absolute one. It harks back to the physical fact that women bear the children, nurse them, and therefore need protection during pregnancy and nursing. Since women are nurturers and men are protectors, the division of emotion and reason has to be assigned this way: women become primarily emotional and men become primarily rational. It's a result of natural selection. And in later societies this manifests as patriarchies for several reasons. When cultures are in competition for survival, they need to survive on superior reason. Superior inventiveness, superior war technology, etc. Emotion and passion are dangerous to these processes and so must be suppressed. Humanity is passing from being purely emotional animals to being animals in rational control of themselves. This control is absolutely necessary for our survival and cultural development. Emotion is always there and will be freed once again when it has become fully understood, so that it can be engaged in without losing control; without concomitant insecurity. But as long as it hasn't been understood, it will remain dangerous because there's always the risk of it getting out of control. Of course, it often does get out of control on the individual level, but on the cultural level reason/man continues to dominate. And until we achieve full self-knowledge and totally understand our own nature (both its emotional and rational compionents), it is actually a good thing that reason predominates. When we eventual gain full self-knowledge, the genders will be truly equal. In fact, the women will probably dominate, for several reasons, including men's earnest regret (which I can assure you that I feel very strongly already) at women's erstwhile oppression and suffering.


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Featuring Casting Crowns Posted on November 22, 2011
New orchestrations are here! Don't miss Jesus Friend Of Sinners from Casting Crowns (you can hear the story behind the song here) and For All The World by Phillips, Craig and Dean. See a live performance here!
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- 43 Versions of Silent Night
- Technical Geniuses Love Music Too!
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June 14, 2014 10:50:22 PM
This week, Chris and I attended a party celebrating the marriage of our dear friends, Meagan and Clare. They had a romantic destination wedding, saying their vows under a vine-covered gazebo in New York's Central Park.
The reception, in a stunning Starkville home, was a gathering of friends and well-wishers in our area who did not travel to The Big Apple. Many of us "attended" the New York ceremony via Facebook photos. Everyone looked so enormously happy in those pics.
That joy was still evident Saturday evening. Although Chris and I knew almost no one at the Starkville celebration, we felt embraced in an atmosphere of love from everyone.
We met people who we instantly knew would become a part of our lives. My favorite new friend is a delightful lady named Dottie, with sparkling, azure eyes. She teaches a class on healing touch at The W, which I had wanted to take, but too late -- the class was filled as soon as it was announced.
I think this party felt so great because it was given for a happy reason. So often, people don't come together until there is a funeral, or an illness, or some other sort of heartbreaking happening.
The rest of the week was a jolting emotional crash. We learned of the death of Joe Higginbotham, only four months after loosing his amazing wife, travel writer, Sylvia. What a loss for our community.
The news has been filled with more shootings at schools -- 74 since the Newtown tragedy, just 18 months ago (Huffington Post, June 10, 2014). (No, guys, this is not another anti-gun column.)
And, less significantly, our car is still not working. Cross your fingers on that one. There are overwhelming reasons to feel depressed.
On another note, you may have noticed that every possible means of communication is overflowing with homemade videos with Pharrell Williams' song "Happy" playing in the background. I have seen dogs (along with one cat) romping in the surf, Detroit school children, cartoon characters and people in Third World countries, all dancing to this bouncy melody. The song actually seems to have magical properties.
In case you have been on another planet, some of the lyrics are, "Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth, because I'm happy, clap along if you know what happiness is to you." Of course, it's just not the same without the music.
This raises the question, "Do you know what happiness is to you?" My list is quite long. Some entries would be love for my four-legged children, the moon, red wine and, most importantly, my wonderful husband. I suggest that everyone make their own inventory of attitude-elevating thoughts.
Pharrell Williams sings, "Here come bad news ... give me all you got, and don't hold back. I should probably warn you I'll be just fine ... don't waste your time." His optimism is contagious and therapeutic. "Happy" is sort of like an analgesic -- temporarily effective, but it eventually wears off.
Maybe The W will re-open Dottie's class on healing touch. I need a bit of healing for my psyche. Until then, I will view any version of the "Happy" song on YouTube. That should work for a while.
Adele Elliott, a New Orleans native, moved to Columbus after Hurricane Katrina.
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The partition key of an item is also known as its hash attribute. The term "hash attribute" derives from DynamoDB's usage of an internal hash function to evenly distribute data items across partitions, based on their partition key values.
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Holdridge, DeNudt crowned Blissfield Coming Home royalty
Baily Holdridge, seated at right, and Miles DeNudt, standing at right behind her, were named Blissfield High School Coming Home queen and king respectively Friday, Feb. 15.
Four boys and four girls, all seniors, were candidates for king and queen of the Blissfield High School Coming Home festivities Friday evening, Feb. 15. Standing from left to right are the king candidates, Branden Curtis, Zach Fredenburg, Nate Wold and Miles DeNudt (who was named king). Seated in the front row are queen candidates. Kennadi Auth, Taylor Cambal, Holly Meszaros and Baily Holdridge (who was named queen).
The Blissfield women won their game, defeating visiting Onsted 57-46, for a happy Coming Home evening. The Royal men fell to Onsted 63-36 in their game.
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DJs have hundreds and thousands of songs in their libraries nowadays. What's more, thanks to CDJs and digital DJing technology, they can bring them all to the club. While it's great to have such a broad choice of songs, it makes it almost impossible to remember them all.
Wouldn't it be great to be able to look at your song's listing during a gig and instantly know:
Why this way?It was a lot of hard decisions, but I concluded that these are the crucial requirements for the notation:
The very basic DJ notation example. This track starts with a melodic sequence with no beats and ends with beats only. Conclusion: the track might be difficult to beat-match into, but on the other hand it will be easy to transition from this track to the next one. A good start of a set, maybe?
The other extreme: a very elaborate example of DJ notation. This track starts with hits (beats with discrete, sporadic notes). When the CDJ or DJ software shows -6:08 remaining, the riff comes on. (In most cases, you want to be full on with this track by now.) Between -2:57 and -2:27, there is a short sequence with no beats and only a melody. When this ends, we go back to the riff. Then, after an unspecified time, the riff starts fading out into beats only. By -0:15, only beats are playing.
You would read the example above out by saying: "hits, six oh-eight riff, two fifty-seven melody, two twenty-seven riff, fade to oh fifteen beat".
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Sometimes when you try to connect to a server using Remote Desktop (RDP), you might receive this error:
("The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.")
This message means that there are at least 2 other active RDP sessions on the server (unless it's a Terminal Services server, and that's another story.). Since you can't log on, you can't easily find out who else might be logged on. One or both of these sessions may be inactive (someone logged in and forgot to log off), and if you're working on a large team, it may be a hassle to find out who is connected. Luckily, there's a built-in tool in Windows Server which will tell you who is connected to your server: qwinsta.
Here's how to use it:
1. Log on to another server using an account that has administrative access to the server which is generating the error message.
2. Open command prompt and type in the following:
qwinsta /server:%SERVERNAME%
where %SERVERNAME% is the name of your server.
More details about the syntax: qwinsta /?
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Another method is to use query session command instead of qwinsta. The syntax is exactly the same.
You can also use Terminal Services Manager to connect to another server and see RDP sessions.


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This was my first year attending the 2016 ESRI International User Conference, and there was so much to learn, see, and do! There wasn't a dull moment with a variety of things to attend from lightning sessions to social events. Listed below, is what I consider to be the highlights of this year's conference.
- ArcGIS Pro-I attended several sessions related to Pro to gain an understanding of where ESRI is heading. This relatively new product will continue to be the focus of innovation within ESRI. One person gave good advice on how to transition projects into ArcGIS Pro. Import your current projects into Pro and utilize ArcMap where Pro has not yet advanced (i.e., parcel editing, georeferencing). More features will be developed within ArcGIS Pro in order to make it more comprehensive and adaptive, but there will be limited new development within ArcMap in the future.
- Apps- At the plenary session, apps were broken down into three categories: office, field, and the community. By having community outreach, cities of the future will become smarter on problems that need to be addressed. An example of this is the Coty of New Orleans has created an adopted a storm drain program. This allows citizens to volunteer to clean out storm drains prior to storm to reduce local street flooding.
- Drones-With the addition of the Drone2Map app it is making the use of drones becoming even more infinite. A new element of research can be conducted with the use of drones giving a wealth of knowledge to the end user.
- Free Training- Jack Dangermond announced during the plenary session, that ESRI will offer unlimited access to self-pace web courses, seminars, videos, and resources on the new ESRI training website. The site will launch in August, and is available to all customers with a qualifying ESRI product that has a current maintenance subscription. I am personally excited to explore this new site to continue my learning!
- Green Infrastructure- Green infrastructure was one of the topics discussed during the plenary session. The intent of this is to identify fragmented natural areas and to connect these fragments with natural corridors to create a more continuous natural world in order to combat continuous land development worldwide. It played on the overall theme of the conference that everything is connected.
- Networking- Individuals from all over the world gathered in San Diego to make the event a great opportunity to meet and talk. I met a lot of new people who are passionate about what we do for a living. By having these new connections, I gained a new perspective on how to approach projects as well as how to grow in knowledge outside of how I am currently using GIS.


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How does one memorialize the life of a chicken? Our Truffle Hen, a source of great joy, laughs, and surprise went to live in Chicken Heaven on Easter Sunday. Of all days, the target of a determined canine.
Truffle was faithful to our yard and disliked deeply by the three sister-hens. Aside from nights in the coop, she preferred to wander the yard alone, living truly off the land, free to pick and peck through each day, of her own accord. Since escaping the fox and sacrificing her toe, she had been venturing bit by bit away from home base. More dog than chicken, when she had a request, she made her pleas known through getting underfoot and chirping until we received her messages. Often, we talked back, engaging in a discussion that seemed to mean something. She routinely cocked her head in understanding, peering out of the corner of her eye as if to say I get it, I totally understand. Now, would you please provide me with some scratch? I could really use a treat.
The other three hens do not challenge our yard system. They go about their days eating, drinking, laying, pecking, in the fenced yard safe from predators. Truffle was not to be contained. She, if she remained in the fence, was targeted, chased and under-appreciated by her own kind. Her puppy-like skills were not treasured. She was required, for her own survival in the system, to leave. The three sister-hens were not going to be reasoned with, especially the broody one. She was determined to let Truffle know her place in the pecking order.
The benefits of our chicken's freedom will be remembered. The nutritional impact of her eggs – priceless, small but perfect, the yolks a deep, almost fluorescent orange from foraging through fresh grass, fertilizing in the process.
Could we have forced her to stay in the fence? Sure, we could have reinforced and fashioned a ceiling of sorts, but at what price? Truffle's only chance for a happy, healthy life was to leave the comfort of the coop and the fence. She had no other choice.
I'm not sure how much I believe in past lives or reincarnation, but if I could, I will go so far as to say, she was sent here to be my example. Not only to show me that chickens have personalities too, but to reveal the beauty and risk in living as an outlier. All of us are outliers. To assume there is a "normal" does us all a disservice. How many layers of masks do we have to wear to appear normal?
Most of us prefer the comfort of our fences, our friends, families. Some of us are thrust out into the world whether we want to be or not…but we are given a choice, to continue our safe, comfortable lives, or to seek out our calling. There is no wrong or right answer. The lives of the other three hens are deeply appreciated, also. Their eggs better than anything out of the grocery, their unique personalities also known to us. The comic relief not present, but their faithfulness to the needs of our home and life? Absolutely noted.
It seems, in our culture of extremes, that a life lived "extraordinary" is better than that which is loyal or simple. Not true! There is no formula for a life lived well. All of us are called to different things, based upon our unique abilities, our life experiences, suffering, joy. I want to live into my calling. Do I wish I was okay with choosing a safe life, sequestered and cloistered in the predictability of my days, the comfortable tasks, the ease of regular roles? Of course, sometimes, but when I see the fruit of lives lived challenging assumed norms, the deep grooves in the lines around eyes, the tears that have run the lengths of those furrows, this is what I want…a life lived by feeling, through knowing, scared to death, believing, daring.
Our Truffle. We kept a regular eye on her. We were surprised by her and clearly she brought many stories and laughs to our lives. The Easter Sunday morning we were gone, she died.
Will she resurrect? Probably not again as a chicken…but maybe, just a little bit…in me.


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Fresh organic blueberries are out of season now, but you can use frozen organic blueberries for this recipe and that is what I recommend. Frozen organic blueberries are much cheaper than fresh and perfect for baking!
I love using plantains in baking, because they provide a nice amount of resistant starch that feeds our microbiome and, pragmatically, they help hold grain free baked goods together.
Gluten is like a glue (not something I want to eat) – that is why gluten grains are so easy to use in baking. But we know the dangers of using gluten and grains in general – going grain free helps so many health issues.
Using other safe starches in baking can be more challenging, but once you do it a few times you will know what to expect.
Plantains also contain loads of potassium, vitamin A, folate and all the B vitamins as well as minerals such as calcium and zinc. Wow! What a powerhouse of nutrition!
Blueberries are a good source of dietary fiber, vitamin A, beta carotene, potassium, calcium, magnesium and manganese.
Anthocyanin (the pigment that makes blueberries blue) contains naturally occurring plant chemicals called polyphenols which have very high antioxidant characteristics. The darker, deeper blue fruits have the highest anthocyanin values, thereby supplying the most potent antioxidant sources.
Antioxidants consist of a group of vitamins, minerals and enzymes that help bind up harmful metabolic by-products called free radicals that can lead to tissue and DNA damage, cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other age-related diseases.
Free radicals are highly reactive compounds that are formed from normal metabolic functions in the body and also when our cells are exposed to a variety of substances such as radiation, chemicals, pollution, smoke, drugs, alcohol, pesticides and the sun.
Compounds in blueberries protect us against free radical damage.
The USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging in Boston has developed an assay called ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity), which rates the antioxidant capacity of foods. Fresh blueberries have a high level of ORAC, at 2400 per 100 grams. Researchers have found that blueberries rank #1 in antioxidant activity when compared to 40 common fresh fruits and vegetables.
Another great reason to have blueberries in your diet!
Tip: Taste the batter before use to make sure it is sweet enough. I use these as a more savory item and most times I do not add the honey, but that is a personal preference.
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Influenced by Psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud's exploration into the unconscious mind, I feel as though it would be interesting to focus attention to the state of automatism. Individuals experience a hypnagogic state of consciousness every day before sleeping, where they may experience lucid thought, dreams and hallucinations. It is in this gap between reality and subliminal thought where involuntary actions and processes are made.
An abstracted short film could be made to focus on this void, depicting the constraints of the rational mind. Altering the pace and freezing frames with accompanying intense music would help to create an uncanny sensory experience for the audience. The film could depict an individuals' thoughts through the consideration of lights, textures, memories and motion.
Rene Magritte's work La Décalcomanie, 1966, references the destruction of the ordinary, where the audience becomes curious, provoking thoughts of imagination and mystery. Magritte stated that "if (a) dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream." This quote challenges the ideals of reality and is an inspiration for this concept of a lacuna. I have also been influenced by the feature film, Inception and surreal short film, Mr. Carnival Man. Both make allusions to the subconscious mind during a dream state. The mind is not only vulnerable and fragile, but also authentic and powerful.
Inception Caffeteria Scene, 2010
Mr. Carnival Man, 2008
La Décalcomanie, Rene Magritte, 1966
Adrijan Arsovski 2010, Inception Caffeteria scene slow motion explosion, video recording, YouTube, viewed 7 April 2017, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNE2hNmmT3A>.
AnOther 2016, Ten Remarkable Facts About Surrealist Master Rene Magritte, viewed 7 April 2017, <
Bell, V. 2016, 'The Trippy State Between Wakefulness and Sleep', The Atlantic, April 20, viewed 7 April 2017, <https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/deciphering-hypnagogia/478941/>.
Fetus Films Inc. 2008, Mr. Carnival Man, short film, YouTube, viewed 7 April 2017, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8KiuXCf3U>.
Rene Magritte 2009, Rene Magritte Quotes, viewed 7 April 2017, <http://www.renemagritte.org/rene-magritte-quotes.jsp>.
The Mind Unleashed 2014, The Conscious, Subconscious, And Unconscious Mind–How Does It All Work?, viewed 7 April 2017, <http://themindunleashed.com/2014/03/conscious-subconscious-unconscious-mind-work.html>.


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"I knew all the answers, but I was full of secrets," says former porn addict Dusty Ogelsby
For as long as he can remember Dusty Ogelsby felt a pressure to measure up to everyone around him, to be better; to perform. "No one ever told me I wasn't good enough," he says. "I just never felt that I was."
Having grown up in church, Dusty was known as the good, solid, Christian leader at school— liked by everyone and with seemingly everything going for him.
"I grew up a southern Baptist preacher's son," he says.
"I learned at a very early age that I could either rebel against that, or I could perform. I chose to perform.
"I watched my dad do it as a pastor every day. Whatever thing he might be struggling with, it didn't matter. When we walked into church and he stood behind the pulpit, he just smiled, and he preached, and he did it well. He preached, and he performed."
On the inside, Dusty says he was empty and screaming.
"I knew all the answers, but I was full of secrets."
His secrets included sexual relationships with girls and an addiction to pornography, which he kept hidden all the way into theological college.
He struggled every day to maintain the image of the "perfect Christian" he had created for himself while continuing to do things he knew were wrong.
"I was flat out living a lie to everyone around me," he says.
"I felt more alone every single day of my life."
On the outside, his life was better than good. He became a part-time youth minister at the young age of 18—the same time he met the woman who would become his wife, Brandy Burten.
"I walked into a sorority party and saw the most beautiful girl I had ever seen," he recalls dreamily. Two years later they were married.
Dusty says he felt hopeful marriage meant he would no longer feel he needed to look at pornography.
"After all, I would be married to the most beautiful woman in the world. Why would I need that?"
But by then Dusty had already wired a habit in his brain that would not be easily broken, and he would struggle with his addiction for the next five years.
"While ministry was good, my wife was alone with a husband who was emotionally, physically, and spiritually unavailable and she couldn't figure out why.
"I continued to look at pornography on a daily basis, sometimes even while my wife slept in the next room," he confesses, his voice shaky.
"My pornography addiction and desperate need to fill my pain eventually led me down a road to full sexual addiction and paying for sex on a monthly basis."
Finally, in May 2005, Dusty and Brandy separated. Dusty spent the next two years in and out of relationships with women while continuing to feed his sex and pornography addiction.
Until one night, after watching a pornographic movie in his apartment, he broke. "What in the world have I done?" he cried.
"And God, where in the world are you?"
The next day, Dusty caught up with a friend and, for the first time in his life, opened up about his struggle.
His friend convinced him to attend Celebrate Recovery, a Christian-based recovery program, for at least a month.
Dusty says by that point he "was done and desperately needed help", but says he made it clear he was only going to listen, not participate. That promise did not last long.
"At the start of the [second] meeting I felt as if God sat down next to me," he recalls. "And finally I heard Him say, 'It's okay, you're in a safe place. It's time. You need to stop, and you need to stop now.'
"I was so overcome with emotion I could barely speak. But then things broke and I sat and told these 15 people I had never met before the whole truth."
Over the next eighteen months, Dusty healed, he forgave himself, and he made amends to the people he had hurt.
He tells how, by God's grace, he and Brandy were reconciled. Six years after their divorce, they remarried.
"And I married way out of my league," he says proudly.
Dusty confesses he still struggles, but today he "struggles well, and with hope".
His relationship with his wife is stronger than it has ever been, because, he says, their hope "does not lie in each other, but rather in a Savior who forgives, redeems, and restores".
In 2010, Dusty got a call that broke him to his core—his father, the pastor who had always managed to keep up appearances, had taken his own life.
Like Dusty's, his father's testimony is proof that what your life looks like on the surface is irrelevant; it is your heart, your mind, your soul, what is going on inside of you that truly matters.•


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Maybe on the MOON! Costa Rica doesn't have street names or numbers. EN SERIO! The address would be something like this:
From that tree that was there 15 yrs ago, head north about 100 meters to the white house with black little dog. From there turn left and walk south-east 200 meters until you see a Pharmacy. My house is the pink one with white columns.
Early in the morning after having a cup of delicious Costarican coffee and a plate of gallopinto (rice and beans) I went for a short walk. Good thing I remembered that I passed a random green house and our house had white flowers in front. If not I would be still walking in the neighborhood of San Jose until someone would ask if I were lost. And even then I would never be able to explain where I lived… NO IDEA!
I guess it's time to learn my north, south, east, and west.
Tomorrow is a big day! I am going to start a Spanish class at 8 am. The biggest thing is that I found a DANCE class!
DANCE CLASSES IN SAN JOSE: Merecumbe http://www.merecumbe.net
SPANISH SCHOOL SAN JOSE: Epifania
HOMESTAY SAN JOSE: Ask me


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I'm starting to feel like we are settling into our new normal. Realizing that my thoughts and plans for summer are gone and replaced by scheduling around chemo and the week after when Neil feels the worst. Being able to plan and schedule things out a few months are gone and replaced with things like "chemo if his ANC and other lab work is acceptable" I have lots of stickers for my planner that are now replaced with washi tape and a sharpie pen because they are removable/repositionable. Heavy yard work is tabled for now, replaced by watering and mowing–weeds the same height are better than dirt, right?
I'm not comfortable here, and I'd leave it in a heartbeat if I could. I can't. I'd have a garden, hopefully a few trees I was babying and trying to get some lawn going. I'd be working the beginning of one week and the end of the next and planning fun stuff in the middle. Tweaking my camping totes to take weekend trips far enough up the mountain to be cool. I'd be picking up extra shifts at work to help cover our being short staffed and complaining when we were busy and I craved a break.
None of that is happening.
I have learned a few important things though. Nice quotes with a pretty picture in the background don't fix anything. Some of them are entirely annoying. With all respect to Walt Whitman, this one is the top of my frustration list.


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Fort Greene Park Holiday Tree Lighting
Sunday, December 3, 2017
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Please note: This event has already taken place. Please use the Search options on the right to find upcoming events.
Join Fort Greene Park Conservancy and Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership for our holiday tree lighting at Myrtle Avenue and Washington Park!
Stop by to take a picture with Santa Claus, enjoy free hot cocoa by Castro's Restaurant, and cookies provided from Brooklyn Sweet Spot and Peck's; gather with your neighbors, listen to Manifest choir, and watch the tree light up at 5:00 p.m.
Please bring new, unwrapped toys to benefit Fort Greene SNAP & Whitman Resident Association's annual toy drive.
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Title: Trader of Secrets
Author: Steve Martini
Martini, Steve (2011). Trader of Secrets. New York: HarperCollins
Date Updated: April 30, 2015
A review by John Weisman[1]
A Mexican killer for hire bent on vengeance, a top-secret NASA/ DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program with the ominous name Project Thor that has been penetrated by foreign powers, a willful daughter, a headstrong dog, a couple of American traitors and various single, double and triple agents working for Israel, Iran or themselves: These are all ingredients in "Trader of Secrets," Steve Martini's latest novel starring his franchise character Paul Madriani.
Like most other writers of commercially successful crime/adventure book series, Mr. Martini knows how to spin a tale. Unlike the schlock series writers, of which there are all too many these days, he doesn't lard his books with leaden prose, but unpeels the story onionlike—a boon to readers.
Of course, there are exotic locations—a must for James Bond movies and a growing imperative for thriller writers like Mr. Martini. Washington, D.C., figures largely in this story, with Bangkok and Paris making appearances (although I sure do wish that Mr. Martini realized that Paris taxis do have meters), as well as scenes in Ohio(?!) and a slam-bang, well-paced shoot-'em-up episode in Mexico that would do justice to a Cubby Broccoli or Michael Mann movie.
Despite a few hiccups along the way (Mr. Martini doesn't quite seem to know the mission parameters of the National Security Agency), much of his book is spot on when it comes to government bureaucracies and their modus operandi. He also gets his weapons right. Unlike his colleagues Lee Child and Noah Boyd, Mr. Martini understands that the Glock family of semiautomatic pistols does not have external safeties.
We even meet some interesting characters along the way. Mr. Martini's usual cast—his protagonist's law partner Harry Hines, his PI/security guy Herman Diggs and Paul Madriani's main squeeze, Joselyn Cole, and his daughter, Sarah—are all around.
So is Liquida, Mr. Martini's wonderfully drawn "Mexicutioner" and Paul Madriani's bete noir. Liquida's a bladesman. His luggage always contains "a cloth bundle about fourteen inches long … rolled and closed with laces that were stitched to the fabric and tied in a bow." The bundle contains Liquida's stilettos, "razor sharp … made in a small machine shop in Tijuana, no wood or plastic, just a single piece of high carbide steel sharpened to a point, a five-inch handle with a nine-inch double-edged blade. The blade was very thin all the way to the needlelike point. It was designed for probing and piercing vital organs and slicing major organs." In this book, Liquida is out for vengeance. Paul Madriani has cost him money. And so Liquida goes after anyone and everyone connected to Madriani.
We also discover some factoids having to do with weapons of mass destruction, missile technology, telemetry and command codes. Mr. Martini raises a serious issue as well, an issue that becomes the Hitchcockian MacGuffin of this book. What would happen, Mr. Martini poses, if a nation could replace nuclear deterrence with something else. Replace it with a technology that could "wipe an adversary off the face of the earth" and at the same time "avoid accountability for the act." In other words, use the cover of an immense natural disaster to bring an adversary superpower to its knees.
What if this technology, developed jointly and secretly by NASA and DARPA, were stolen? As Mr. Martini writes, "the public and political fallout would be cataclysmic."
Thrown into the mix are a bunch of Israeli commandos and a Mossad operative with the unlikely name of Adin (which in Hebrew means tender), a shady underworld expediter named Bruno Croleva, a couple of techno-thieves named Lawrence Leffort and Raji Fareed and a young but aggressive Doberman pinscher named Bugsy.
There are also some welcome politico/societal elements in the book, some of which challenge conventional wisdom and the sort of touchy-feely liberalism that Hollywood brings to all too many projects. Mr. Martini is obviously not too fond of the FBI, whose gumshoes tend to be slow and unimaginative thinkers. He is neutral to positive toward the Second Amendment: One of his characters starts out anti-gun in her thinking but comes to realize that a firearm can be a valuable deterrent when your life is in danger.
He is also, as we learn late in the book, rightly contemptuous of the way governments often overclassify documents, programs and other elements out of fear that their inadequacies, foibles or mistakes will be discovered, as opposed to the valid need to keep some information secure from our adversaries. "Near disasters," Mr. Madriani writes, "were always something that government leaders sought to downplay, especially if their own incompetence and possible corruption were contributing factors. It was one of the time tested reasons for classifying otherwise public information. People in positions of power always had to survive; otherwise the world might turn upside down. Doctors merely buried their mistakes. Presidents shoveled them by the ton into the constantly and massive dark hole of national security."
Amen. Well done, Mr. Martini.
[1] John Weisman, The Washington Times (June 10, 2011). Downloaded from http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/10/book-review-trader-of-secrets/ on April 30, 2015. John Weisman's latest CIA novels, "Soar," "Jack in the Box" and "Direct Action," are available as Avon paperbacks and on Kindle. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What makes great soul music? For fans of the legendary Detroit-based Motown, it might be the pristine production value and star power. Those passionate about horns and southern charm, look no further than Memphis' very own Stax Records. And, of course, the songwriting talents of Gamble & Huff and lush funk instrumentals helped put Philly soul on the musical map. All soul music is great soul music. Soul music, in its essence, is designed to fill in a hole in the listener; to make one complete. It's a very intimate experience. Oftentimes, that intimacy can turn animalistic.
Representing Austin and carrying on the rich tradition of Texas funk, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears skillfully craft their own brand of fierce and sexually-charged soul music. "Sugarfoot" off their 2009 debut album Tell 'Em What Your Name Is! is a testament to the energy of Texas funk amongst the contemporary music scene. With an arrangement of dirty, greasy horns, "Sugarfoot" is pure animal lust. Wham! Bam! Thank you, ma'am. No breakfast in the morning.
Lewis counts down the intro as the track opens and the band comes in on the mark without holding any punches. Playing hard and intense backing Lewis' screaming vocals, the band performs on point without missing a beat. The call and response between Lewis and the Honeybears is gratifying and playful. Controlled and disciplined, the Honeybears know what the listener wants and they're going to give it to you. You can feel the sweat rolling off the players as they recorded the song.
I've seen Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears perform twice. Both times in Chicago. As great as the band is in the studio, they shine even brighter live. Their energy is astonishing and the experience will leave you exhausted. If you're new to independent soul music, or if you want to broaden your funk horizon, check out this band.


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BBQ Marinade Gift Pack
This is the perfect gift for the BBQ enthusiast. It features a selection of sauces, marinades, BBQ rubs and a basting brush all packaged in a gift box meaning it looks and tastes fantastic.
Each Gift Pack Contains:
1x Pineapple & Rum Marinade 250ml,
1x Smokey BBQ Sauce 250ml,
1x Spice Splice BBQ Rub 50g,
1x Pepper Hit BBQ Rub 50g,
1x Wild Appetite brush.


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Nyhet: 2019-06-03
We hereby announce that one scholarship on Master's level for studies in Mammalian meiosis is available at the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg.
Meiosis research in mammalian model systems is currently undergoing rapid development because of the rapid spread of the Crispr-Cas9 technique for easy and quick KO mouse generation. This training program is aimed at developing the relevant skills in creating and analyzing mutant mice for the study of mammalian meiosis.
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MPAA, Pharma Demanding US Push Other Countries To Have Significantly More Draconian IP Laws Than The US
from the how-nice-of-them deptThe constant push to expand government granted monopoly privileges for those who benefit most from them never ceases. It seems like every other day or so, we hear about US lobbyists for those industries pushing for greater legal support around the globe. The latest is with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement that the USTR is currently negotiating. The MPAA wrote a letter, which was co-signed by the major pharmaceutical trade group and the US Chamber of Commerce, pushing for the agreement to include rules that go well beyond current US copyright and patent laws. This, of course, is part of the standard game of leapfrog that the industry plays: get other countries to push stricter laws, then complain that the US is not living up to "international obligations," and get them to bump up their own laws and continue the cycle. In fact, the Obama administration has apparently made it clear that they will not even consider allowing intellectual property rules to be decreased as a part of this agreement and will only look to ratchet up protections. This is, as KEI points out, even though many of the participants in the negotiations are developing nations, who would be greatly helped with lower intellectual property standards, and previous US administration have been more than happy to agree to such agreements:
After being told the Obama Administration would not consider anything that lowered IPR norms in the TPP negotiations, and only measures that raised norms, KEI reminded USTR has the Clinton and Bush Administration both were willing to lower IPR norms, when they were persuaded it was appropriate. This included:
For the Obama Administration to claim that it can only harmonize upwards is really disappointing, given the promises that Obama made during his presidential campaign.
- President Clinton's December 1, 1999 speech to the WTO endorsing new changes in U.S. trade policy to address concerns over access to medicines.
- President Clinton's Executive Order 13155 of May 10, 2000, concerning Access to HIV/AIDS Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technologies.
- President Bush's decision to agree to the November 14, 2001 Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health.
- President Bush's decision to accept the waiver to 31.f of the TRIPS agreement on 30 August 2003.
- President Bush's July 16, 2004 agreement between USTR and Canada to modify NAFTA to allow exports of medicines under compulsory licenses.
- President Bush's May 10, 2007 agreement on the bipartisan New Trade Policy, which eliminated patent extensions, eliminated linkage of drug registration and patents, and relaxed test data protection for the Peru Free Trade Agreement.
Filed Under: copyright, tpp, treaties
Companies: chamber of commerce, mpaa, phrma


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21 Nov Miss Carter
Posted at 02:18h in Cocktail Recipes, Portland Dry Gin 33 Recipes
- 1 oz Portland Dry Gin 33
- 1 oz Cocchi Americano
- ½ oz lemon juice
- ½ oz chamomile tea syrup (recipe below)
- Baerlic Brewery Invincible IPA
- 1 lemon wheel for garnish
Combine all ingredients except IPA in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until cold then strain into a glass of your choice and top with IPA. Garnish with a lemon wheel.
Chamomile Tea Syrup: Steep one heaping tbsp of chamomile flowers in 1 cup of water just cooler than boiling for 20 minutes. Strain the chamomile flowers and measure remaining liquid. Add an equal part of sugar and stir until dissolved.