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Get away for a few euphoric hours during your Santa Barbara vacation. The city has plenty of spas that offer a fantastic range of accommodations from massages to facials and pain-relieving acupuncture therapy.
Cielo Spa Boutique
Cielo Spa Boutique is a warm, comfortable and inviting spa located Downtown, only 2 miles from Hotel Milo. The blissful heated tables, calming, tranquil music and excellent professional massage techniques offered make it a local favorite. Get down and dirty with a re-energizing mud treatment or freshen up with a wild lime hair treatment. No matter what you pick you will walk out feeling revived and happy.
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Whether you are looking for a Mother's Day treat, a place to host a bachelorette or bachelor party or just want to get away with your significant other, Float Luxury Spa is an excellent destination. An inviting waiting area with a roaring fireplace greets you as you first enter. The grounds also feature plenty of comfortable seating and a beautiful private garden with fountains and a reflecting pool. Float offers couples massages, sea salt scrubs, hand massages and so much more, all of which can be accompanied by delicious bubbly if you choose.
Evolutions Medical and Day Spa
Whether you are looking to relieve pain or just want a day of utter relaxation, Evolutions is a top-rated day spa waiting to help you escape. The massage therapists at Evolutions offer a wide range of services that include hot-stone, deep tissue, mommy-to-be, warm-oil and shiatsu. With such a variety, your only regret will be not being able to try them all! The spa, as a whole, provides everything you could ever need from sauna relaxation, laser treatment to simple calming face scrubs. Evolutions even offers vibradermabrasion and microdermabrasion treatments.
Alchemy Wellness Spa
Alchemy Wellness Spa is a happy, vegan-vegetarian-friendly place that also offers sensational spa treatments. Ionic detox foot baths, vitality wraps and therapeutic soaks are just a few of the specials that this spot has to offer. Whether you're looking for a healthy breakfast, a fresh sushi roll, hand tossed salad or fresh pressed healing tonics, Alchemy's cafe has the best and tastiest options possible, check out their menu here!.


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"I got to know Hartwarmers, through a good friend of mine, and was very delighted to purchase something unique, for a close cousin of mine, bearing her first kid! The speed and services were impressive, and the diaper cake I ordered was gorgeous. It gathered lots of attention from family and friends.I would not hesitate to order again with their creative ideas and unique gifts, that can't be found in the cliches of shopping centers, the diaper cake was loved and did excite me, beacuse my gift stood out from the rest :)"
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Offer highlights
Zafiro Mallorca is set within beautifully landscaped gardens, in a quiet area of C'an Picafort.
- Excellent children's club
- Splash park with pirate ship and slides
- Adults only pool
About the hotel
Here you'll find yourself close to the picturesque white sand beach and near to the resort's amenities. On-site there's an inviting pool area complete with an adult only pool and splash park with pirate's ship. Caprice, the main buffet restaurant, serves up a selection of international themed dishes, while La Palapa pool bar is the perfect place for a midday snack. There are a range of room options available including One Bedroom Privilege apartments that feature a private garden area and One Bedroom apartments with Royal Terrace that come with a terrace and outdoor whirlpool. Zafiro Mallorca is a great choice for families wanting Self Catering or All Inclusive accommodation in Majorca.
About the location
A former fishing village, C'an Picafort is a small, low-key resort with glorious white sandy beaches and a spectacular mountainous coastline. Snap postcard-perfect pics of the breathtaking scenery, try out some traditional Majorcan cuisine or meander at your own pace around the village.
- Close to C'an Picafort resort centre
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- Approximate transfer time 1 hour 45 minutes
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- Return flights from Belfast
- Premium one-bedroom apartment
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This week marked the first time the Phoenix lander saw the sun set since landing on May 25th.
Summer is over in the Martian arctic; gone are the 'sols' of 24.6 hours of sunlight, time to start getting ready for winter.
August 25th would have been the end of the mission too, had mission managers not extended it through late September. This is good news for Phoenix as it allows for some additional sampling and testing before the winter sun gets too weak to power the mission.
Yesterday, Phoenix collected a sample from a 7-inch hole – the deepest yet – to deliver to the Microscopy, Electrochemistry, Conductivity Analyzer (MECA). The sample is from the rocky area between two polygons, a patchwork ground pattern that is typical in permafrost after many freeze-thaw cycles. MECA has four soil analysis chambers: The first was used for a surface sample from the middle of a polygon and the second analyzed from the soil ice interface 2 inches down in the middle of a polygon. The samples turned out to be very similar, and now the team hopes to get a unique sample by digging in the trench between polygons where lots of material can get trapped.
Ice Cold Sunrise on Mars [NASA JPL]
Digs Deeper as Third Month Nears End [NASA JPL]
See Also:
- Frost Sparkling on Mars Phoenix Lander Mirror
- Mars Phoenix Tweets: "We Have ICE!"
- Wired Science Scores Exclusive Twitter Interview with the Phoenix Lander
Photo courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona


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Reporter Cosmo Garvin's wife is a teacher in the Sacramento City Unified School District.
In Sacramento City Unified School District, the same schools often lag behind on the alphabet soup of standards that schools are measured by these days: the Academic Performance Index, the California Standards Tests, the Early Assessment Program, the list goes on. And these struggling schools tend to cluster in low-income neighborhoods.
But last year, SCUSD's Superintendent Jonathan Raymond launched a plan to turn around the failing schools.
Out of the 80-plus elementary, middle and high schools in the district, Raymond declared the seven with the worst test scores to be "priority schools" and candidates for an array of reforms.
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The Muskoka Watershed Council has developed a Best Practices Program aimed at the general public and local businesses to provide hands-on advice on how to live, work and develop properties in our watershed while protecting the natural values we all love and enjoy.
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I am gonna jump on the bandwagon of hate for the new DC movie universe or "DC Extended Universe" as its called. Why? To establish the problems, so future installments, and unavoidable reboots, may avoid these issues.
I will first point out what I belive to be the flaws of the DC Extended Universe, then I will compare DC movies with Marvel movies, and then I will give suggestions for improvement and damage control. Just so I just dont become a complainer, but also a constructive problem solver. We can all bitch, but that won´t fix.
NB! There will be spoilers, mostly from DC Extended Universe.
The problems of the new DC cinematic universe
The main problem I have with the new DC movie universe is that they took all the parts of the established DC world, put it in a box then, threw it out again to change it up. Change is all well and good, but they changed it up BADLY. In the prossess of whatever idea they had, they removed the charm of the established characters and they removed the sympathy.
An example of this can come from Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Why did they choose to make Jimmy Olsen a CIA spy that they killed off? Why?
Fine, "everybody loves" the "anyone can die" fad that came with Game of Thrones (2011) (I hate it), then why couldnt they just have killed of the original Jimmy? The good naive photographer. BAM, dead.
No they had to make him completely new, with a untold backstory. What happens then is that I dont care. I dont know this Jimmy Olsen. I know the original one, not whomever that guy was.
I have observed a reaction by the people wanting to like the DC Extended Universe on this. They try to say "That wasnt really Jimmy Olsen" or "That wasnt really Lex Luthor. Its his son". But it probably was both those characters, cuz everything is different in this new DC Extended Universe. And its not for the better.
Same with the Man of Steel (2013) thing. They changed up the elements. Everything happens in strange new ways. The result is, we dont know them, but they think we will like them cuz they are named after the original ones. But I dont care for the new Lane. I dont care for the new Superman. One can´t just change characters characteristics and backstory and expect us to still know them.
Another problem with these DC Extended Universe movies are that they try to cram in too many things in one film. They cant keep focus.
Best example may be Batman vs Superman. It wasnt really Batman vs Superman – Dawn of Justice, but more like Batman vs Superman vs Lex Luthor vs GiantOrc – the Death of Superman with special guest star EVERYONE IN DC COMICS.
And I am amazed that there are fanboys out there claiming its "smart". Its not smart, its mind numbing. You can see they tried to be smart… I guess.
Too much is going on, and the "complexity" that the DC movies wants to have is but a percentage between over the top action scenes. Here I would like to mention Man of Steel.
Man of Steel (2013) wanted to portray Clark Kent/Superman has this dark character. But all we got was a mopey guy, with some real anger issues. For most of the movie is goes around like a drifter, doing nothing heroic. Not even random "save the cat" moments is seen. Just him looking gloomly at things, trying to find himself.
That would have been okay, if we still felt that he was good. But not only is there no scenes of kindness and understand, but we do see the polar opposite. An almost psychopathic Superman destroying an assholes truck just because he can.
We needed to see Superman do some good, but I guess that wouldnt be "dark" enough? "Complex" enough? Yes, it would! As Man of Steel is portrayed he is an unsympathetic emo asshole we (at least I) feel nothing for. That´s not complex. Complexed would be him struggling by both doing good and bad things. Saving a cat and destroying a truck. Not really knowing what to do. As I remember he did one good deed. That was to save a busload of children in a memory from his childhood. The rest of the time he glooms and destroys. He destroys trucks and he destroys cities.
That is one of the things Batman vs Superman does a hell of a lot better. It shows Superman being Superman. He saves people. He does good.
But then New DC movie universe fans may say "But that is the point! To show how a god can be indifferent. To show the destruction that such power could bring. You are just too dumb to understand it."
Well there already is a character like that. He is called Mr Manhattan. And I did not see enough full frontal nudity to belive Superman was him.
Let´s compare DC Extended Universe with Marvel Cinematic Universe
(or; Is AndyAce83 a Marvel fan boy?)
You may think I am a marvel "fan boy" just because I prefer the marvel movies? Hell no! I love Batman (1989) Batman Returns (1992), even Batman Forever (1995) and I dont hate Batman and Robin (1997). I love The Dark Knight (2008). I love the Reeve´s Superman movies. In retrospect (after watching Man of Steel) I can appreciate Superman Returns (2006) too.
Its not a DC vs Marvel thing. Its just BAD movies. They are. They really, really are.
I am amazed that people defend those movies. They lack charm, they lack plot, characters, any sense really. In fact I loved BvS compared to Man of Steel cuz Superman did at least to do some good there. The plot still made no sense but at least Superman was SUPERMAN.
The argument I often get when I talk about the problems with this new DC franchise is that DC is darker than Marvel. And darker always equals smarter, to some. But DC isnt always dark.
Although I prefer the darker versions of DC there has been lots of campy DC versions to. Like the Batman TV show from 1960s. The movie is awful, in my opinion. Campy nonsense. Batman fighting a shark bomb from a helicopter is what I remember.
We also have the Batman: Brave and the Bold show. And the old Reeve Superman movies were colorful, with lots of comedy.
Same goes with Marvel. Although they have been very lighthearted, there has been lots of dark elements too. Like the death of Gwen Stacey in Spiderman. I still remeber that from reading it as a kid. Gwen died, and Spiderman becomes angry. He goes to his friend, and the son of the man who killed Gwen, who I think had a drug habit. The friend is on his feet begging Peter Parker for help, but Peter Parker turns a could shoulder.
Amazing! I wish THAT would have been the story from the new Spiderman movies. But no… "Just bland, lets cram, all we can"– type movie.
BvS is far better than Man of Steel. And it has its moments. I saw elements I liked, but then I also saw a giant orc thing and a plot that didnt make sense.
Its better that a movie sucks completely than a movie that taunts with great moments combined with utter idiocy. BvS should have been rewritten LOTS. I dont know how hard it could be to do that? Writing is the cheap part.
Why don´t the scriptwriters do a better job? Perhaps I should find the BvS script and see how it was? Perhaps it would have been better than whatever I saw.
I liked Afflecks Bruce Wayne. I didnt mind the eccentric (again) Lex Luthor. What I minded was the stupidity of the plot.
I am not a "fanboy", I just stat my opinion. I voice a very real concern that for the next decade we are gonna get sub-par DC related movies cuz they decided (come hell and high tides) to continue a DC film universe that is very flawed.
One can compare any movie with any other movie based on certain elements. One can also compare certain movies with other certain movies based on genre.
Although one can´t compare DC Superhero movies with Marvel Superhero on style alone (which I dont) and say "DC is dark therefor boring. Marvel is colorful therefor fun". That is not what I am saying.
But as superhero movies go, we can compare them on certain elements. I.e Plot. The plot of the DC movies do not make sense. Characters motivation is unexplained, they do stuff for no reason. Take BvS. The core of the movie was suppose to be Batman fighting Superman, right? This is the "main story". And what were their motivation for doing this?
Superman gets this "elaborate" (but not smart) staging from Luthor and Batman… For some reason? He had a axe to grind? It was very unclear. And then the BIG resolution is that Superman says his mothers name. That isnt clever. And then the giant orc comes, right? Why? Why was doomsday there? Luthor created him, right? Why? Reason?
I think Lex says something like "If man can´t kill God then the devil may". Fine, but didnt he create Doomsday, during the battle between B and S? I think so. I cant remember, I only seen the movie once. Then WHY? Why did he create Doomsday, while his first plot still where in action?
Here is the problem: BvS crams TOO many things into the same movie. The doomsday or "death of Superman" plot should have been its OWN SEPARATE MOVIE. But no… Cram it in at the end.
Then we can compare it to Marvel movies. I would perhaps use The Avengers: Age of Ultron. A movie I also just seen once.
That movie, to me, didnt either make much sense. Ultron appears and then he wants to destroy humanity. He has a monolog, and then he goes on a killing-spree.
And then the avengers start battling him in grandiose battle sequences. I didnt like Age of Ultron much… But, unlike BvS… Its lighthearted tone makes it more entertaining. The style of the movie, makes the nonsensical plot easier to swallow.
So this in an example of how the style of Marvel movies works better as a superhero movie, than this new series of DC movies.
Since DC movies are more "dark", "serious", "heavily themed" then it also DEMANDS better SCRIPTS, PLOTS, CHARACTERS etc.
But they dont. And that is the problem. Nolan´s Batman, was good, not just because it was dark and heavily themed alone, but because they were WRITTEN WELL.
I prefer the campyness of Marvel. At best I get depressed by DC, at worst I get bored and suicidal. I remember watching Man of Steel and wishing I was in one of those 1000 crumbling buildings. hahahahoooo… But seriously… New DC movies suck. I still have hopes for Suicide Squad though. Not watched it yet… Gonna wait for the 4 hour edition 😉
How can we fix this?
If I was creatively in charge of this new film series, I would have decided to do a soft reboot. Ignore Man of Steel, and perhaps also BvS. How? I dont know.
Make a Sandman cameo and reveal it was "all a dream". This is how the DC universe would have been if a emo dreamed it. Perhaps add that there may have been some real prophetic parts in those dream (have the events reoccur in the new movies, only better.
Keep the stupid parts away (like giant orcs and lex luthor being an idiot) and keep the great parts (like Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent having a real problem with each others philosophies).
Yeah! That sounds brilliant. Have Dream come in and retcon. Being that the character is a DC character it could work. REBOOT. Superman lives. He is not a emo. Lane is not a cardbord box character, but a bitchy besserwisser journalist fighting to get her voice across in this new media landscape where important voices are drowned by PEWDIEPIE.
So it was all a dream. It was Bruce Wayne´s dream based on events before. That is that Superman really fought Zod. But he took the fight to the nevada dessert (as he should). But Zod destroyed metropolis, but NOT with the help of Superman.
So the evidence of how kryptonians could destroy the earth is still in the continuity. And Bruce Wayne can still be afraid of Supermans power.
Zod may have gotten killed, but NOT directly by superman or atleast superman had to do it for the sake of humanity, not a family in a corner.
Lex Luthor is a megalomaniac but NOT a joker without the makeup. He did not create a orc thing. He just stays in the background, paving way for criminals all over the world. He only cares about money and power. On the surface he is nice. Very concerned about nature, and wants to help in nature disasters he created etc. He wants to rule the world as he feels he is entitled. "He is the smartest man on earth, why do only stupid people rule", he thinks.
So we want Superman to be dark. Fine. But lets make him completely good non the less. But lets explore that he cant be many places at once. He has god like powers, but he isnt every present. He is bound by is body and time.
I have this scene where he is with Lane. She knows he is Superman, but since Man of Steel is a dream, she learned this over some time.
They have an argument as she smokes. Cuz she should smoke. She is stressed out constantly. Daily Planet is not doing well, and her latest piece… perhaps on Lex Luthor was refused as she didnt have the evidence or something. She bitches to him about something mundane. Could it be he didnt do the dishes?
As she does that Superman hears 3 pleads for help 2 children are in mortal danger in Metropolis. She bitches, he knows he cant save them. He just knows they need help. So in a fit of frustration he does what many would do, and would usually be harmless. He hits is hand on the table. But since he has super strength the entire table gets smashed. Lane gets scared, but so does Superman.
Yeah… It was aaaaalll a dream. Thanks Sandman. You saved the DC universe. He is the true hero.
I would describe the new DC movies as having "prosopagnosia*". Its the disorder where you see the familiar faces, but the emotions are not awoken by it. Like seeing your daughter but not feeling that she is your daughter. Its a real condition. Same her. I know its suppose to be Superman, but I dont feel anything. I dont know him. Its not really Superman.
Less is MORE! It should be written on the door of the scriptwriter room of DC film universe.
(*Blog update 29 of april 2017 – Its called capgras syndrome when one recognize someone but there is no emotions towards it. I knew it was wrong when I called it prosopagnosia I just couldnt find what it was really called.).


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Woodworking is much more than just a simple hobby where you attach a couple of random things and call it a project. This craft has created wonderful artifacts and continues to produce marvels of beauty. But, what are the things that we need to know about it?
We always recommend people to read about the woodworking as much as possible. Absorb the ideas about it by watching videos, reading books and spending time online. The more you learn in the beginning, the better woodworker you will be.
You will avoid a lot of mistakes and pitfalls that occur in this job if you know more about this profession in an early stage. In this article we will show you 12 woodworker tips that you need to know to avoid some issues.
If you want to know more, all you have to do is read on.
1. Idea – Have a Project in Your Mind
The first thing every woodworker needs to remember is to start any project with an idea. Knowing what tools you will need, what kind of wood you are going to use and having a plan, will ease the job. For example, you maybe want to make a guitar if you like them, or tobacco pipes if you need it.
The only limit you have is your imagination. Woodworking is all about doing and making what you really want and something you are going to use or sell. So, always start with an end in your mind. That maybe sounds strange, but the success is guaranteed. Let that be your compass for all the things you really want to make.
2. Have Your Woodworking Mini Library
Books about woodworking are very valuable and necessary if you are a beginner. Investing in good books about this craft is a great way to start your project and learn everything you need to know about it. Tutorials and step – by – step instructions will help you build your project easier and answer all your questions.
You can bring them in your workshop whenever you need some useful information. Look for deals if you want to save money, because let's face it, good books are a little bit pricey.
3. Check the Price of Tools
The quality of woodcraft that leaves the shop is determined by the woodworker, not his machines. Some of the best craftsmen can create fantastic things using just a pocket knife and a box of pipe cleaners. On the other hand, lazy and poorly trained woodworker that has a million dollar workshop will never produce items that you can use or look with admiration.
So, the point is that you need to know everything about the tools you are using and what to do with them. After you have mastered every machine, you will create marvelous wooden pieces. If you are a beginner, try to start with the tool's smaller version. They have almost the same functions, and they are less expensive.
4. Build your Tools
One of the best things you can do to save your money is to create your own tools…lots of them. Of course, we are talking about jigs and smaller hand ones. You can learn a lot of stuff about woodworking by creating your own gadgets.
You will learn how to make one and not just that, you will also learn how to use it. Look online or buy a book to find some easy tools you can create. It doesn't matter if they don't look nice, what's important is that you can use them for your next big project. You will treasure them more than any other tool you have bought in the store.
5. Buy Tools That Enhance Your Project
Assuming that you don't have an unlimited budget, you should spend your money wisely. Buy tools that are specified for the things you create. For example, purchase a panel bit set or a working-class router table if you are producing cabinets, or buy a carving device if you are a wood carver.
Having tools that you won't need will only take the space in your shop, and you will spend a lot of money on them. And when it comes to developing your skills, it is essential to have machines which will allow you to work correctly so you can move forward in your woodworker career.
6. Safety Comes First
People often forget how safety is crucial until the worst happens. To worry less and stay healthy, you need to take every step to protect yourself and people who are working with you. Read books and manuals that come with your machines and read everything about safety equipment.
You should always be wearing hearing protection and safety glasses if using a machine. We recommend all woodworkers to use a face shield, a dust mask, a respirator for finishing and a fire extinguisher. Sawdust and friction can cause heat which can turn into a fire, but having safety equipment, you will be able to react and prevent some disaster.
7. Wood Types
Wood comes in many exciting and different varieties. Go to a hardwood store, spend some time there and learn what type of wood is available. You can find it in almost all densities, patterns, figures and colors.
There are some of them that are black entirely, and there are woods that are light colored. To see all the types, it can take you years, but the easier way is to find pictures of them on Pinterest and Google. When you find wood that you like, go to the hardwood store and look for it.
8. You Need to Be Open Minded
Some woodworkers are stubborn and think that their way to make things is the only way. If you create something differently, don't let someone tell you it is wrong. For almost every item you want to create, there is more than one technique to make it.
If you understand and learn everything about your tools, you will come up with many interesting ways to create marvels of beauty. And what is essential is that at the end of your project you will have the same result. Another good way to learn how to make thing using different method is to search it online and read all about it.
9. Have a Sturdy Bench and a Dedicated Space
Most beginners don't have the area for their woodworking. They usually end up creating things on the floor, and that is not the best idea. If you don't have a bench and space, it would be wise for you to find some room or part of your home where you can work and set up a table.
You don't need a large space. What matters is that you are comfortable in it, regardless how small the area is, and that you can work without interruptions. Be consistent, and if your business starts to grow, one day you might own a woodworking shop!
10. Woodworking can be Expensive and Addictive
Sometimes, if you are not careful enough, you can end up making every expensive item you see. Creating every little thing will take you time and money. If you want to challenge your skills and make something new, we recommend creating only one item and then maybe a few more.
But, when you start something, always finish it. You don't want to have a dozen projects that are not finished. The best thing is to create one project at the time and enjoy your success.
11. Make the Process an Enjoyable Experience
Woodworking process should clear your mind and bring you enjoyment and peace. It is important not to hurry with it as some people do. You should know that it can become frustrating and difficult when you are missing some important piece.
Something is wrong when your back hurts, you are sweating profusely, and laboring very hard. Either you need to use a different tool, learn a better technique or practice more. The thing that is crucial in these situations is to look carefully at your project, determine what went wrong and slow down.
12. Finishing the Project
The most important part of the woodworking project is its final hours. Many beginners think that they can skip or rush through some of the few steps in the end, but this is not the case. On the contrary, if you want to make your creation look great, you need to take that extra effort and pay even more attention to it.
If you don't have enough time or you just want to rush things up, we recommend you to leave the project for tomorrow. You will have time to clear your head and relax so that you can finish the task the best way possible. You don't want to have a reputation of a lousy woodworker.
As we said already in this article, the more you learn in the beginning, the better woodworker you will be. Follow our guide and learn more about this profession in the early stage. We recommend you to read every step we mentioned so you can avoid some mistakes and be better at your job.


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Hi ACC-tion heroes! Today we have a blog interview with Cayti Bourquin, the writer behind the wonderful Kickstarted comic, Paradox Girl! Check out the Kickstarter for issues 4-6.
Marty interviewed Cayti about her process, her inspiration, and Paradox Girl's origin story. But the first question was from Cayti herself.
CB: What's your favorite thing about comics? Not mine, just like, why comics?
MG: Comics are a medium that you can do amazing things with–amazing stories and art that transcend nearly everything else. Capes and cowls are the new mythology and you can do pulp/noir in an age when those movies would not get green lit. I just love the ability for comics to tell whatever stories the team wants to tell!
CB: Cool, yeah. I agree. It's a great visual medium and I love that it's like a halfway point between traditional narrative prose and motion pictures
MG: Yeah, totally agree. And it just goes off into new and interesting places.
CB: Yeah, and what you said about 'new mythology,' it's very much a curse and a boon at the same time. Like the belief in these mythic figures keeps them around (Spider-man, Superman, etc) but it also reduces them in a way. They become iconic in a way, and that icon changes over time, but still transcends the actual continuity and story of the character.
Which is sort of a curse, because like, even fictional characters – especially fictional characters -need endings. Closure isn't a real thing that we often see in life, and stories give us that. They give us 'happily ever after.' For as great as the new Star Wars movie was (in my opinion) – it stole Han/Leia/Luke's happy ending.
MG: I'm not a writer – at least not of fiction – so would you tell me why you think, other than the happy ending, that fictional characters need endings? Is it just the happily ever after?
CB: No, no, there's a lot of reasons for needing that ending, that closure. I think the happily ever after is-a component of that. That's as much for the audience as it is for those characters.
I think endings give a 'story' its purpose and its meaning. Even outside comic books we see the effect of non-endings all the time. Western TV for example. We renew a show if it's getting good ratings, kill it off if it doesn't, so hey if the story is interesting and doing well, then it gets dragged out. It doesn't follow Freytag's Pyramid, it has to introduce new twists, escalate things but then hey, eventually cancellation, and if we're lucky we see an ending.
But sometimes those characters, those plots end up in limbo and it's unfair to those characters to be in that limbo forever. but you asked about why the fictional characters 'need' endings, and it's because for us, the audience the reader, we know where endings go. We have a treadmill of entropy in our lives.
Endings give meaning to the story and make it matter. Canonizes the emotional impact in a way.
Like, now, every time Jean Grey or Captain America dies people shrug, "They'll be back." Wolverine's dead 'it's okay, he'll be back,' the emotional significance of loss, of success of – well anything, is lost without some sort of ending-good or bad. Catharsis, release of that emotional buildup to feel the weight and then return back to our own entropic lives.
MG: You've mentioned a lot of Marvel folk so far – want to move on to PG?
CB: Certainly! I just reference other Marvel/DC stuff cause it's 'mainstream' and sort of the template that people expect. You mentioned noir earlier and it's hard to like, talk about noir and not bring up Maltese Falcon and such but yes, PG!
MG: Oh man, that would be great. Bring up the Maltese Falcon!
CB: My favorite scene is hands down where Peter Lorre corners Humphrey Bogart in his office and demands to search it, Humphrey Bogart takes the gun from him and they have a nice chat, it's all smooth and pleasant and when he gives the guy the gun back he still demands to search the office and Humphrey just laughs and laughs. It's such a brilliant scene.
I think there's probably a PG Noir out there somewhere, it'd be making fun of the genre more than anything else – we have a parody of the spy genre specifically coming up in the next Kickstarter "The Paradox Who Loved Me."
I have this other idea out there in my head (non-PG related) for mixing Mythos with Noir, having the unknowable and mythic sitting across from calm, unflappable detectives.
MG: Sounds similar to Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald"
CB: Ooh, I'll have to check that out.
MG: Very neat little short story. But, the next PG Kickstarter mention leads to a very important question: Have any favorite panels we can use to show off PG?
CB: Oh, uh, certainly. I'd have to ask the editor but Paradox Girl is well it's a story of it's own, but it's all super meta, right? Like it's satire-not particularly biting satire, but it's there. In the sixth issue, 'The House of MMMMMMMMMM' we did a recreation/tribute of the Scarlet Witches' famous scene from like the end of that arc?
MG: I love it, awesome!
CB: Anyway, I love the page, it's such a great recreation. Yishan did such a great job, so yeah that's one of my favorite panels/pages of the next, uh, 3 issues.
MG: She really did. Thank you for letting us use this page! So, on reddit, you mentioned that PG gets her origin on City of Heroes – can you go into more detail about her origin (sidenote – 3/4ths of ACC hung on out WoW [World of Warcraft], so this is a neat cross over for us)?
CB: I played plenty of WoW in my day too. PG's origin goes back further than that really, she was sort of a fictional version of myself, sort of some of that mid 20s self angst, a way to express and explore that. A demon named Lily who had reformed and turned Catholic and, you know, crosses still burned her, but she thought the only real 'chaos' was unpredictable, so she was making an active contradiction of herself.
Anyway, all that nonsense aside, I made a version of her in City of Heroes and the name was taken, so Paradox Girl became the name, and she got a lot more light hearted and goofy but that's her real world origin, is just sort of a young woman in her 20s dealing with existential self hate, and finding a way to sort that out. Powersets were Kinetics and Shadows for those who played CoH (miss that game!).
MG: Has there been a base of support from CoH for your PG projects?
CB: Oh, no no. City of Heroes was dead before the idea of even publishing a comic about PG really came to light. I've never been very active in any social aspects of an MMO, about the only place/story people might know…CoH allowed you to build like missions? Which I made a Paradox Girl themed one, the name escapes me, but it was played a lot and highly reviewed. It had the players facing down dozens and dozens of paradox girls who were all fighting amongst themselves.
MG: That's a really clever use of the idea!
PG: Axiom Man is a page that still exists out there. I don't think I ever made a Virtueverse entry for PG now none of that stuff is cannon in the comics that's just all relics of previous incarnations.
MG: What has been the biggest obstacle to getting your stories out?
CB: Not having any idea how to market. Hana Comics is a sub-company of Hanako Games which is a company doing really well for itself, knows its market, knows how to sell games, etc but taking on comic books has been a big challenge of finding fans, how to bring it to market, how to let people know it exists.
I call myself the reincarnation of Scheherazade (because I'm so obviously humble). I have 1001 stories burning their way out of my head, and it's just a slow crawl trying to find a process by which I can deliver those stories. I'm humbled that Hanako liked my idea enough to start up Hana Comics, and there's several more titles that I'm working on with them for but it's not as easy as just making it, trying to get it in front of people is pretty challenging.
Especially so for PG, because there's no, I don't know, "cliffhanger?" There's no 'dun dun dun!' and the end of an issue to get you to come back to buy the next issue. Every issue is 'self contained' but connected to each of the other issues in lots of obscure (frequently contradictory ways). [People in the industry] were pretty insistent that for comics stores to want to stock our book we'd need to have that 'dun dun dun!' to be continued sort of thing.
MG: Ugh, [People in the industry].
CB: I'm trying to do more than that with PG. I'm actively avoiding doing that. I want the reader to have that experience of that closed loop, to have something they can re-read four times before they get all the jokes.
So, we moved to Kickstarter, which, was really really successful the first go around. I'm hoping the second one will be even stronger. For me it's more about the numbers of people than it is the dollar amount. I want to give people something better than a lot of what I see that's out there. I want them to believe in stories and the medium as something better than it's been treated.
That said, I understand Saga is doing like 90% of that work for me, so maybe I should shut up
MG: The new Image books – they're really changing a lot of the medium. Usually for the better. It's pretty amazing for those of us who remember the Liefeld Image era.
CB: I don't really blame them, I mean, they know the business better than I do. I just hate that that's the world we live in, where market has an expectation and violating that expectation is hard to do (thus our hundreds of reboots and sequels in Hollywood).
We actually submitted PG to Image before we did the Kickstarter to see if they wanted to pick us up. I would sort of rather believe it got lost in the piles of submissions than that they looked at it and actively rejected it. Issue 1 is too good for anyone to read and think 'meh.'
MG: You've mentioned 'we' a couple of times – can you give our readers a quick run down on the PG creative team?
CB: Certainly! It's mostly Peter Bensley and myself. He's the editor/publisher/long time friend who's part of Hanako and made the initiative to make Hana Comics. He's the one who started going to comic conventions to find an artist that he felt was good enough to match the script I'd written for A Day in the Life of a Paradox.
That's where he met Yishan Li, who he commissioned to do some character design, check her interest; this was pre her work on Blue Beetle and Buffy. That's really it, it's the 3 of us. Yishan has a lot of other titles she's working on for more mainstream publishers, but is still really invested in making PG a real thing and getting it out there and puts in a ton of extra time doing extra art and assets for us to use for the Kickstarter and such.
She's amazingly talented, she really brought PG to life. She is great at producing my vision when I write the script-though because i'm never explicit about left to right inside a panel, it's almost always flipped, It's cute. I'll picture some scene with PG on the left and the other person on the right, and I'm not explicit in the script and then when she draws it, it's almost always reversed, ALWAYS. It's sort of amazing
MG: The art in PG is beautiful. She does the lines and the color?
CB: She does the lines and inking. She colored issue 1, but because her time started to get to be valuable with those other mainstream projects, we outsourced the coloring to Alexa Fox of Challenging Studios (ed note: they manage the coloring team.) For issues 2-6, although Yishan does provide input on the coloring process as well, so that it matches her vision of my vision.
MG: PG's panel layout – and the how PG plays with the panels – is really cool. Was that something you and Yishan came up with?
CB: That's all me. All part of the original script in issue 1. I had wanted to be in comics for quite a while – I'd written a pilot for another story called Heaven and sent the synopsis to Dark Horse and never heard back from them (ugh rejection), but one night I woke up in the middle of the night, just laughing to myself about all these gags of PG, being able to dance back and forth between panels since a panel represents time and location tracing her path, repeating pages violating causality loops you could express all that in a 'static' visual medium in a way that you really could do properly in either a written or a moving one.
So the script is pretty explicit about PG teleporting and leaving pink traces between panels when she's doing those jumps. That said, it is Yishan who makes the panels look as good as they do and she is really good about changing the layout or the width of the described panels to make the joke more effective or give more room for dialogue and such. Not that I'm very reliant on dialogue, I sort of hate text box heavy panels that seem so predominant in things people send my way
MG: The lettering and panel work is very clever. Kudos to you and Yishan!
CB: It was a big part of what I wanted to show comics could do. I don't know if you're familiar with House of Leaves. It's a book, but it's so much more than that. It's meta and plays with the medium, so that the story isn't just words on a page, it is the page itself and the book itself.
MG: What's one thing you think gets left out of the limelight when we talk about PG?
CB: That it's satire ultimately? It's not very biting, but really, I'm making fun of characters who don't get endings. Superman, Spider-man, Wolverine, they get new beginnings all the time but they're too iconic to let go. Paradox Girl is parody of that. We jump the shark immediately and say "oops no origin story, 'cause we've rebooted too many times." She is the result of infinite retcons. There's a deeper, more personal side there as well about the process of time and how that affects us, but I think issue 4 will bring that to people's attention enough on its own.
MG: Very cool. Very cool indeed. I want to shift a bit from PG to your creative process, if that's ok? Can you tell us a bit about your creative process for writing?
CB: I don't know how to answer that really. For scripts I tend to start with a page by page outline so that I can make sure to have good page turns on the even pages. So that you have like, either something interesting, or a new development happen on a new page. I just briefly outline the story and how each page impacts it and then go about fleshing those in.
I don't think about it too much really, it's more intuitive and reactionary. Where it all comes from? I don't know, the ether? Obviously I'm influenced by things I see around me, media I expose myself to, stories that I love find ways and remix with other stories to tell new ones. One of the new titles we're working on, LEGND, is like Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Gossip Girl for the Tumblr era.
MG: Oh! How far along are you in scripting that project?
CB: We have a preview of it. A four page teaser-but the artist had a conflict and couldn't stay on the project. I have 1 full script written that another artist is now working on, and an outline for the second script.
Another title 'Warning: Dead Inside" is being worked on as we speak, I just got back some inked pages for another 4 pager, i'm very excited about that title. And we're pushing towards doing an Axiom Man comic as well, of which issue 1 is about halfway done in the art phase, scripts all done.
I usually knock a script out in a couple of days when motivated
MG: Oh, calm and straight-forward Axiom Man.
CB: Yeah, we get to see what his 'powerset' and job is like, and how, he really is the counterpoint to PG's contradictions. Axiom Man is truth and the search for truth.
MG: Is this in a connected PG World or all different universes?
CB: AM's is obviously part of PG's world, but the others are all in their own universes. Different genres. LEGND is very pop horror/comedy. Warning: Dead Inside is dark and brooding and cold psychological horror.
Definitely don't fit together.
MG: Got it! Okay, last question: If you can't get Gillian Jacobs in a PG TV show, how else would you bring her out of comics and into a new medium?
CB: Animated would be great. Obviously we have an amazing voice actress in Janna Polzin who did the KS videos for us. It'd be great to see her bouncing around on Cartoon Network or just a regular youtube animated series.
Or action figures. Pow Pow! Buy 10 PGs! Have a fight between all of them!
Mg: Now that would be awesome Well Cayti, thank you so much for taking the time to work with us? Have any words about PG or your upcoming Kickstarter?
CB: Thanks very much for your time and uh, I guess for those of you who don't know PG yet, check out that first issue, and I'm sure you'll fall in love. The upcoming issues are just as amazing so don't miss out!
The Paradox Girl issue 4-6 Kickstarter drops today! Issues 1-3 are available here!


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Veterans' Seminar & Resource Fair
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Green Activities Center
The Office of Congressman Bucshon (Indiana's 8th District) would like to invite you to his Veterans' Seminar and Resource Fair. Informational tables will also be on site-specific to veterans.
The presentations this year include:
- National Archives and Records Administration's Military Records Process
- VA Mission Act
- Indiana Department of Veterans' Affairs programs
- Blue Water Navy/Indianapolis VA Regional Office current operations


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Study Design (I is for Investigation, Session 2)
This presentation developed by Sarah E. Pfau, MPH and Kim Brunette, MPH and recorded by Jennifer A. Horney, MPH gives you an overview of the development and testing of hypotheses, study designs - specifically the selection of a study design and its implementation - and sampling.
Target Audience
These learning modules are applicable to all public health, medical, veterinary, pharmacy, emergency management, hospital and other professionals interested in public health preparedness. These modules are created by faculty and guest lecturers at the UNC-CH School of Public Health and are equivalent to graduate level content.
Educational Objectives
Understand the differences in methodology between various study designs
Be able to describe the advantages and disadvantages of alternative study designs
Know how to assess which study design to apply during an outbreak investigation
Understand how to select cases and controls in a case-control study design
Understand sampling
This course is provided by the North Carolina Public Health Preparedness Center. You will need to complete a separate registration to have access to this course. Click the course title, then choose register on the course page. When you have finished, print off your certificate from North Carolina, then return to the LMS and choose Mark Complete from the action menu in the Learning Plan in your Workspace.Launch


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(Toronto: Guernica, 2004) Among those who read and liked Building Cities That Work was Patrice Dutil, who during the 1990s created and became the first editor of the Literary Review of Canada. He approached me to write a review article … Continue reading
(Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001) (edited with David Siegel) My courses on local government and on urban studies at Glendon College as well as my active involvement in local planning issues were part of my motive to ask David Siegel … Continue reading
(Boston: Little Brown, 1971) (with A. Lupo and F. Colcord) This book grew out of a case study of inner city expressway politics in the late 1960s. Community groups partnered with advocate planners and other sympathetic professionals to stop an … Continue reading
This book has emerged from a university course I taught for over 25 years, originally with the historian of science Martin Fichman. The seminar discussions and papers from that course were provocative and lively, and they helped to shape the … Continue reading
(Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992, 1993 pb) My interest in the politics of urban planning was stimulated by the Boston study, and I discovered Jane Jacobs' book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I became determined to test … Continue reading


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As readers of My St Margarets Magazine will already know I'm about to welcome my first guest – Damon Hunt – who cooked the finest barbecue I have ever eaten earlier this summer. The man is a grilling hero. My barbecue is a feeble foldable affair like the one below, whilst Damon's would require an extension to my garden. If you want to capture the last days of summer, get out in the garden and fire up your coals for his wonderful recipes…
Asparagus wrapped in prosciutto
This all-time favourite can be pre-prepared and only takes minutes to cook. It is a great starter whilst the steaks are cooking! Cooking time, just 3 to 4 minutes. Serves 4 to 6.
- 16 fresh asparagus spears
- 16 slices of prosciutto
- 1 cloves of minced garlic
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- Black pepper
Preheat the BBQ to medium-high heat. Trim the ends off of the asparagus. Take two asparagus spears and wrap them tightly in one slice of prosciutto around the middle. Brush lightly with the oil, minced garlic and black pepper mixture. Place them onto the grill and cook them until the prosciutto goes crunchy. Don't overcook them or the asparagus will go limp! Serve straight away.
Grilled quail on a rocket salad
Cooking quail on a BBQ can provide stunning results. They don't take long to cook and only need a little extra bit of preparation to make sure the birds remain succulent. Serves 6.
- 6 fresh, oven-ready quails
- 1 litre of fresh chicken stock
- Handful of thyme and rosemary sprigs
- Olive oil
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 3 minced garlic cloves
Truss the quails through their legs with a small bamboo skewer. Bring the chicken stock to the boil in a large saucepan and add the thyme. Place 3 of the quails into the boiling stock and then reduce to a simmer. Carefully remove the quails after 3 minutes. Bring the stock back to the boil and add the remaining quails.
Drain the quails in a colander and then pat dry with kitchen paper. Brush lightly with olive oil, salt, black pepper and garlic mix. Insert the rosemary sprigs. Cook the quails on a hot BBQ for about 7-10 minutes. Continue to baste and turn the quails whilst cooking until they are golden brown. Serve them on a rocket salad.


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How Twitter Can Help Online Marketing and Tips
Twitter has been around and popular in the U.S. for more than a year with millions of users. The iPhone is coming to Canada in a few weeks and I am sure Twitter will become more mainstream and adopted in Canada. Why? Because the iPhone can host the already popular Twitter application, it can be integrated with your Facebook and your blog, and it is very accessible to input your tweets anywhere, anytime.
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How to Advertise on Facebook to Increase Website Traffic
I tested out Facebook Ads recently and thought it was an effective strategy as well as very easy to set up and maintain. If you ever want to test out online advertising to increase your website traffic and get more customers, I'd recommend starting with Facebook Ads.
Facebook advertising is an effective way to attract targeted customers. That is, if it complements your business and you can segment out your target audience (your ideal customer) within Facebook. Compared to Google Adwords, MSN Ad center and Yahoo paid advertising, it is more simplistic and less time-consuming. Facebook can be a good way to get your feet wet and test the waters and also be on the forefront of online marketing.
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Curriehull (Inglis: Curriehill, Scots Gaelic: Cnoc a' Churraich)[1] is a suburb o Edinburgh, the caipital o Scotland. It is north-wast o Currie.
Curriehull railway station is the wastren terminus of the Edinburgh Crossrail. These trains continue tae Glaesga Central via Wast Lowden an North Lanrikshire.
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Help! My Cat Hates Me, NVR
So my kitty, Hibiscus, that is her on the left as my avatar, is my baby. I have had her for 7 years and moved her all over in all sorts of situations. A few months ago, I moved in with my boyfriend, and his 1 and 1/2 year old Weimaraner. It took a few days, but the two got along ok, and after a while, Hibiscus would sit on my lap whenever I was on the couch, and sleep on top of me at night.
Ok, on to the hating. So I got another dog from the Humane Society, 4 weeks ago. A 60 pound Shar Pei/ Doberman. My cat now lives on a folded towel on top of the dryer in the basement. She sometimes will sneak upstairs and sit on the dinning room table, but it is short lived, and then she is back to her towel. I have tried to do some research on this, but everything I read is how to create a positive association for the dog. That is not the problem. I give Moxie treats and make her sit when she sees the kitty, things are fine. But how do you train a cat? Is there a way to convince my cat that the dog isn't so bad and she can come sit on my lap again? I feel terrible for her :'(
So, any of you guys out there successfully gotten a cat to like a dog? And if so how? Help!!!
No ideas. Just support. Poor cat. Hibiscus was okay with the Weimaraner, but not with the Shar Pei/Doberman. Could there be bad interactions between the two that occur when you're not home? That happened on the one Dog Whisperer show I've seen.
You actually can train cats (although I never did). Just like a dog, dolphin, etc. there is clicker training where click or mike some kind of noise with a bridge word, like good, and then give them a treat. When the cat goes on the table which would be positive, because she is not on the dryer, you would click, good, and treat! :o
You don't need a clicker you can just click your tongue or something. If you have any questions just ask!
This happened with my mom's cat. She was 'okay', i suppose, with one dog but when my mom rescued another... Furball hated life. Now she lives on top of the tv or in the top drawer in the spare room. I don't have any advice for you, sorry.
It might just take longer than expected. When I moved in with my boyfriend and his cat back in October, my cat wouldn't come downstairs for the longest time. If I carried her downstairs she would fight me until i let her go and then she would run as fast as she could back upstairs. I tried closing all the doors upstairs and bringing her downstairs but then she would only run under the couch or someplace to hide and would stay there for hours. I felt so bad because I was sure my cat was miserable. It's been 3 months now and she has only just started coming downstairs for a little bit. She still gets freaked easily and runs back up but she is s-l-o-w-l-y getting braver. Maybe the new dog was too soon for her, she was just getting used to the new house and new dog when another one came along. So it might just take a longer than you expected.
Remember that cats are territorial. The dog was in your BF's territory when you came in with Hibiscus, so that's OK, that dog is part of the furniture of the new place, so to speak, she accepted it as part of the deal...but bringing another dog in from outside, Hibiscus sees as an intolerable invasion of what she now sees as "her" territory. Especially if there's a lot of "dog interaction" involving noise and roughhousing. Even if they're not hassling her to play, she feels that her space has been invaded. Cats hate change and fuss. This will take quite some time. She may never love the dogs, but she will eventually forgive you....eventually.
Cats---gotta love em. ;)
As with introducing a new cat, it is important to keep the two animals separate until they can get used to one another. Use a baby gate or some other type of barrier to confine the dog to one area of the house or apartment – a room or two. This will enable the cat to take the initiative in approaching the dog, which is important, as the cat is the one that will feel threatened.
Cats are complex... there's no way to know why dog A was ok but dog B is not. I'd treat it as any other 'blended family' issue-- try treating the cat as an 'only child' sometimes again-- it may be a lost attention issue, relative to your affections... Put dogs in the bedroom, or send 'em out with the roommate, & play with the cat with a new 'catnip-mouse-on-a-stick' toy (or similar)... cats & other pets tend to associate yummies with specific areas; so get extra-special cat treats, make sure the dogs are otherwise occupied/ out of the way; then sit in the 'cat room' with a good book, doling out treats intermittently... then in a few days, after a bit move with book/ treats tot he hallway; then to the next room; etc etc etc until the cat is routinely following you for yummies & belly scratches into other areas of the house... shut the dogs out of your bedroom for an hour at the same time each evening, & just curl up with a book or movie or laptop (or whatever) & the cat. Be extra generous with chin-scratches. Little-known fact: cats are creatures of habit nearly as much as dogs... anything fun you can do w/ the feline near the same time each day (or most days) will encourage the cat to expect it/ participate in it (vs just laying on towel) the next day. Also-- cats often have more inscrutable (to humans) emotional lives than dogs, so allow more time for change & don't give up if attempted strategies don't work quickly. Finally-- maybe consider a vet check-up, to rule out health concerns that could cause lethargy/ social withdrawal...
That's all that comes to mind... hope it's helpful-- good luck!


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UPDATE: 2:45 p.m. Nov. 14
BARRHEAD - The remains of a missing Salmon Arm man have been found.
Several days after Alberta RCMP laid charges against three people in connection with the murder of Valentine Degenhardt, a medical exam has confirmed the discovery of his body. A news release from Alberta RCMP states a ground search on Nov. 11 roughly 65 kilometres northwest of where Degenhardt's car was found by hikers, a special operations team located what appeared to be human remains.
The remains were sent to the chief medical examiner in Edmonton, who on Thursday confirmed they belonged to Degenhardt.
Police say Degenhardt's family has been notified of the discovery.
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SALMON ARM - A Facebook page dedicated to finding a missing Salmon Arm man was filled with hope he would be found until yesterday when the title was changed to Rest in Peace: Valentine Degenhardt.
Degenhardt's family got the news over the weekend when Alberta police announced they arrested three people in connection with the 45-year-old's murder.
"It's pretty surreal, kind of like a sense of relief we finally have an answer. Not the one we were looking for," brother Tim Degenhardt says.
Val Degenhardt was reported missing in July and his family, with the help of Crime Stoppers, established a $5,000 reward for anyone with information. Tim says the family, including Degenhardt's newlywed wife and stepson, who still live in Salmon Arm, are devastated. Val was last seen July 17 leaving the home of an acquaintance in Barrhead, Alberta. A few hours later, his movements were captured on video surveillance at a gas station. Later, hikers discovered his truck in a remote area about two hours northwest of Edmonton.
It seemed the case had turned cold, but then last weekend police arrested Norman John Jerrett, 46, for first-degree murder, robbery, break-and-enter and indignity to a dead body. Norma McAllister, 45, is charged with accessory after the fact and break-and-enter. Carl McAllister, 29, is also charged with accessory after the fact. The three Barrhead residents are slated to appear in court Nov. 26.
Tim says his brother was a pot dealer and was scheduled to meet with the three people charged with his murder.
"I assume they were doing some kind of deal," Tim says.
He says his brother rented a home and lived part-time at a place in Morinville, Alta. He'd been involved in the marijuana trade for a long time.
"I don't know why he chose to do it (deal marijuana). I do know, seeing Val's association with people, he basically got along with everybody.... What made these three people do this I can't tell you," Tim says.
Sgt. Josée Valiquette, a media relations officer with the Alberta RCMP, wouldn't comment on the relationship between Degenhardt and the three suspects.
"In regards to a possible motive, I can't say. The details will be discovered in court proceedings," she said.
Tim describes his brother as instantly likable, funny and mischievous. He has fond memories of fishing with him in northern Saskatchewan.
"I don't think he had a mean bone in his body. I don't think he deserved what happened to him," Tim says.
Degenhardt's body has yet to be found, though police have narrowed in on a specific area.
"Until we actually have a body it'll be open-ended, but they (police) seem fairly sure he's been murdered," Tim says.
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Election Commission introduces mobile app for observers
The Election Commission has for the first time started using a mobile application that will help poll observers to submit reports.
The electoral body on Thursday held a meeting with more than 1,800 IAS, IPS and IRS officials, besides some others from the Central services, who are to be deployed as observers in the coming Lok Sabha and State Assembly polls.
"These officers are being deployed as general, police and expenditure observers," said the Commission. They will get all the important notifications, alerts, and urgent messages through the "Observer App". It will help them get their deployment status, download the ID card and update their profile.
As the observers will be closely involved in real-time disposal of Model Code of Conduct and expenditure violation cases received through another mobile application "cVIGIL", those details will also be available on the "Observer App." The observers can make a written observation after the flying squads have investigated the matter.
Reminding the observers of their role, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said they needed to ensure that no mistakes were committed in the process of conducting elections. He said in the recent State elections, it took only a minuscule percentage of slippages in following the laid-down protocol for EVM-VVPAT procedures or missing out on few names from the electoral roll to undo all the good work they did.
Mr. Arora said in the changed times, abuse of money power and the social media had emerged has major challenges.
Addressing the observers, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa said the cVIGIL app had helped empower every citizen. The Commission also could keep a close eye on Model Code violations through the mechanism and alert officials on the ground.
Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said the role of expenditure observers had become more crucial given the innovative methods of inducements being adopted to influence voters.
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Our menu changes so often at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink with new ingredients and specials here and there that it's easy for Chef's classics to stray from top of mind, especially if you follow our Instagram. With so many delicious distractions, it can be a challenge to keep up, even when it's your job to! That's why we've had an especially good time reacquainting ourselves with the flagship's bread and butter, many of them recipes from Michael's cookbook, and standardizing their preparation and presentation before getting Michael's Genuine Pub out of the shipyard. It wouldn't be a stretch to compare this process to being a tourist in your own city… a fun adventure when you take the time to do it!
It's almost time for Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas to set sail, so before our team heads to Bremerhaven, Germany to train a new crew of genuine staff, we're inviting you into the process here as we count down the days (38!) with a virtual tour of our menu. Today we begin with food and start at the top with the Snacks section and TGHG Special Ops Chef Thomas Tennant and Executive Chef Bradley Herron as our guides. It's amazing what you learn when you are tasked with teaching others what you know — or think you know! — like the back of your hand. Ever curious but never asked about the varieties present in Marinated Olives? What about the cheese used in the Polenta Fries batter? (Yes, there is cheese!) Join us as we break down each dish's setup, a few of which have their origins at Harry's Pizzeria, and maybe you will delight in hidden surprises in Michael's signatures, too.
Deviled Eggs: Hard boiled eggs are cut in half and then the yolks are removed and puréed with mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice, salt and tabasco. It is garnished with paprika and chopped parsley and served 5 to an order.
Crispy Pig Ears: Pig ears are braised for 4 hours in jus and chicken stock with mirepoix, bay leaf and thyme, cut into thin strips, deep fried to order, and seasoned with a blend of spices and garnished with a wedge of lime. The magic combination of coriander, cumin, salt, sugar, ground chipotle, paprika, garlic powder, ginger powder, mustard powder, and onion powder is a flavor bomb to the palate, and quite addictive!
Chicken Liver Crostini: Chicken livers are sautéed, puréed with caramelized onions, brandy and cream, then spread onto thick slices of toasted sourdough baguette that becomes amazing thanks to a mixture of butter, olive oil and garlic. Topped with caramelized onions, chopped parsley, and fleur de sel, and served 3 pieces to an order.
Crispy Hominy: Hominy are dried corn kernels from which the germ and hull have been removed by soaking the kernels in water. They are cooked in water, fried to order and seasoned with a blend of spices, then garnished with a wedge of lime.
Thick Cut Potato Chips with Pan Fried Onion Dip: Idaho potatoes are freshly cut in thick slices, deep-fried and sprinkled with sea salt. The chips are served along a side of caramelized onion dip topped with chopped parsley. The classic mixture combines mayonnaise, cream cheese, sour cream, caramelized onions, sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper.
Chili Chicken Wings: Deep fried and tossed in a sweet, mildly spicy chili sauce, the wings are served 5 per order and come with a side of creamy cucumbers. Their cooling crunch, a mixture of garlic, cilantro, mint, greek yogurt, and lemon juice, is the perfect counter to the punch of the wings. They hit the table showered with scallions cut on the bias & picked cilantro.
Falafel: Falafel are crispy little balls where consistency is key, especially in the grind! They are made from raw chickpeas, onion, garlic, cumin, coriander, parsley, mint and cilantro, deep fried, and served 3 to a plate with pickled red onions and tahini sauce.
Marinated Olives: An assortment of seven types of olives including Beldi (oil-cured,) Castelvetrano, Cerignola (both black and green,) Kalamata, Nicoise and Picholine are marinated in olive oil. The individual flavors and consistencies of the olives are enhanced by their marinate of garlic, fennel seeds, red pepper and citrus zests.
Pulled Pork Sliders: Slow roasted pork shoulder is seasoned with cinnamon, coriander, chili powder, crushed red pepper, and fennel seed then pulled into tender strips. The pork is made into a slider with toasted brioche buns, topped with pickled red onions, creamy cucumbers and parsley sauce. 2 per order!
Jar of Pickles: A variety of vegetables including red onion, radishes, cauliflower, carrots, and Kirby cucumbers are quick-pickled by heating rice wine vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, bay leaf and water and pouring the liquid over the vegetables. Served in a mason jar.
Greek Farro Salad: This dish features the components of a classic Greek salad — diced cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, bell peppers, Kalamata olives and French feta — with the addition of cooked farro, an ancient grain with nutty flavor. The mixtures is then dressed with lemon vinaigrette.
Homemade Organic Ricotta Crostini with Apricot-Thyme Jam: Organic whole milk is turned into ricotta by gently heating with buttermilk and finished with lemon and sea salt. It is served on a toasted crostini and topped with apricot-thyme jam and pea shoots.
Polenta Fries: Yellow corn polenta is cooked with milk, butter and grated parmigiano, cooled, cut into thick fries, then deep fried until crispy. They are served with ketchup that has been spiced up with sauteed yellow onion, garlic, jalapeno, and cilantro.
Fried Gnudi: Ricotta dumplings — taking their name from the naked or "gnudi" center of a ravioli — are poached then deep-fried until crispy. They are served with lemon crème fraîche and shaved parmigiano.
Tomato-Bread Soup: A San Marzano tomato soup is blended until smooth and velvety with sourdough bread, basil and olive oil, then garnished with a piece of Fontina Toast, bascially a mini griddled cheese sandwich!
Fennel, Orange & Arugula: This light salad is tossed with shaved red onion and fennel, radish, baby arugula, orange segments, and green olives in a lemon vinaigrette. It also features fregola sarda, a small pearl pasta from the island of Sardinia off the coast Italy, which binds it together and adds a touch of heartiness.
Smoked Fish Dip: This smoked whitefish dip is seasoned with old bay spice and green onions. Smooth and savory, it is served with a crunchy and refreshing celery salad and saltine crackers. Build your own perfect bite.
Country Pâté: Also known as Pâté de Campagne, is a rustic pate made from pastured heritage pork, eggs, onions and savory herbs baked in a terrine mold. It is served on a board with accompaniments including cornichons, pea shoots, Dijon mustard, toasted baguette.


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Hi again, Gentle Readers. Sorry we've been out of touch. Plenty enough has been going on, and now I have that horrible "I can't write now, because I can't possibly explain everything I've skipped saying," feeling.
So here's the plan:
We are now officially at the start of our first 2 week wait. For every day until Bionic Baby Mama either starts bleeding or peeing on new kinds of sticks, we'll get you caught up on one thing you missed out on in the last month.
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So… Here we are.
October on the Internet has traveled a long and bumpy road towards this day. Admittedly, the Scary Pic Contest didn't work out all that great, and there were a few weeks during which posts were few and far between. But overall, this blog accomplished what I wanted it to accomplish: I got to write some fun articles, and, even better, I got to read some fun articles written by my talented friends. Many thanks to Adam Blomquist, Ryan Sartor, Sam Greenberg and Monica Castillo for their great contributions.
I was thinking of devoting this last October post to John Carpenter's Halloween, but Monica beat me to the punch, which is kind of a relief; writing about movies you love can be a real pain in the ass. Instead, I'm going to share one of my own favorite Halloween memories: The time I got chased by a ghost. Continue reading


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Where to Stay, Eat, Shop, and Play in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
The 100-square-mile home of ship captains, celebrities, and everyone in between, this rich and varied New England island has farms, beaches, and the world's cutest gingerbread houses.
A recent trio of design-conscious small hotels has lit up the Vineyard's slumber scene like a beach bonfire. The Sydney, a refreshed 1892 ship captain's home, and The Christopher, a veritable lollipop of Caribbean color and design inside an elegant Victorian, both hold court in the village of Edgartown. In nearby Oak Bluffs, Summercamp has taken over the historic Wesley Hotel on the waterfront with playful interior design, nouveau-camp spaces including an AstroTurf Rec Hall, and a long porch lined with sea-facing rocking chairs.
RELATED: Insider's Guide to Martha's Vineyard
In Oak Bluffs, 20byNine is a whiskey-forward cocktail spot (and the home to Sunday's best brunch); its sister restaurant, Down Island, offers a five-course meal based on what's local and fresh. (The menu changes weekly.) Don't miss Vineyard locals' only choice for late-night cravings: Back Door Donuts. Normally low-key Vineyard Haven just took a step into the spotlight with the arrival of Garde East. The sophisticated waterfront eatery views local seafood through a creatively French culinary lens.
RELATED: East Coast Seafood Dives
There's more than just sweet grabs and savory sit-downs at Rosewater Market and Take-Away in Edgartown. The sunlit space is stocked by mercantile angels—curated cookout needs, cocktail-party ephemera, serenely beautiful pottery, and notes and cards to send glowing reports back to the mainland. The swag of the summer is prep-forward accessories from Chappy Happy (available at Rosewater Market, as well as Crossroads Gallery in Oak Bluffs).
RELATED: Harmony on High
Join MV-savvy locals and tourists alike who make it a summer rite of passage to jump from the small span between Edgartown and Oak Bluffs known as the "Jaws Bridge."
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If you're even remotely involved with social media right now, specifically Snapchat, you've probably seen DJ Khaled in some fashion.
Khaled, 40, is a hip hop producer based out of Miami, Florida. His songs are often akin to watching an all-star team warm up: radio-ready hook-driven songs packed with a who's who of popular hip hop stars.
Recently, Khaled began using the Snapchat app to post to his fans a series of messages about positivity. Khaled often refers to tips as a "major key to success," and encourages his audience to stay hydrated and get massages regularly.
Snapchat has jumped onto Khaled's buzz by making a series of filters with his visage on them. Their Christmas 2015 filter saw the man as a reindeer exclaiming his catch phrase "Another One."
Khaled's life is opulent, to say in the least: he lives ocean-side in a mansion with an elevator, a personal chef, and 15-foot tall closet for his shoes. He constantly flashes his lifestyle and hopes to inspire the masses to get where he is.
Like plenty of other people, I like to start my day with a cup of coffee and a recap of Khaled's day, which can be from one or two minutes to 5 or 6 (all of which comes in 10-second increments).
Having watched for a few weeks, I now see that Khaled's snaps reveal a very strange existence for the man who has everything:
1: It's lonely at Castle Khaled
Khaled's house is fairly sparsely decorated, and the whole thing is black and white and sleek looking. This unfortunately serves to highlight a distinct lack of people inside. Khaled's only constant companions seem to be his housekeeper, who seems more confused than anything when he decides to include her; and Chef Dee, his personal chef who makes him the same breakfast every morning (turkey sausage, egg whites, sometimes turkey bacon if he's feeling frisky).
Aside from these two, there's never anyone inside Chez Khaled. The man lives in a multiple thousand square foot palace alone. When I consider this, it feels like Khaled mostly makes his snaps because he's bored. I couldn't fault him for that, except that:
2. Khaled's visitors are weird, but I don't blame them
Khaled doesn't live entirely in solace: he visits his rapper friends along the waterline, often riding his jet ski over to Rick Ross's house or Diddy's place. Occasionally, he has over a series of random people, the most notable of which are Miami Heat Center Hassan Whiteside and shoe guru Benjamin "Kickz"Kapelushnik, a 16 year old known for outfitting hip hop's finest with the latest footwear.
In this regard, I think Khaled would have an excellent opportunity to spotlight these men and help them to expand their brand. However, Khaled is more like a director, featuring everyone more as proof of "look at these successful people I align myself with" than as actual friends. All of the characters in his life just end up spouting their one catchphrase and then aren't seen again until the next time Khaled wants to hear it.
I can't count on both hands the amount of times I've heard this exchange:
"Young mogul Ben, how's business?"
That's it. There's never a plug for whatever shoes he's trying to move, there's never a "just got the new Jordan whatevers, hit me up." It's just enter, catchphrase, leave. It's surreal to watch: everyone becomes these one-dimensional cardboard cutouts.
I can't blame guys like Hassan and Ben: when you're hanging out with Khaled it's necessary to have a catchphrase, and that's partly because:
3. Khaled is constantly pushing the brand, for better or worse
Another One.
Another One.
ANOTHER One.
Tired of it yet?
Khaled has been using the sample of himself saying "Another One" since his releases pre-2010. Originally, it's used to indicate that the audience is listening to another hit from him, as part of his brand.
The above video is when the phrase hit a very strange, uncomfortable point: by the 13 second mark, I'm already a little repulsed by his repeated use of it. From there on, we get a series of cringe-worthy lines from him that any other person would never repeat again.
Khaled took it to the extreme, doubled down and has been churning out catchphrases left and right. Current staples include:
"Jus Know"
"Li-on" (generally exclaimed while he waters his garden and the lion statue that guards it)
"Bless Up."
These catchphrases are all emblazoned on to shirts and flip flops for purchase by Khaled's fans. I have to imagine he's making some kind of money from this whole deal, but there's a breaking point. Pop culture is a fickle beast: one week everyone can't stop talking about it, the next they've given up and moved on to the next hot topic. Under saturation can ruin one's popularity, but over saturation can sink a career just as quickly.
But Khaled isn't worried about his detractors, often referred to as "they."
4. Who are "They?"
Every day, Khaled's keys to success involve informing the viewer that "they" don't want anyone to do something (eat breakfast, be happy, drive a $100,000 sports car, etc). He constantly says "they" are looking to bring everyone down and to enjoy life as an affront to them.
Sometimes "they" is the law: Khaled routinely gets tickets while driving and riding his jet ski and will talk about overcoming those obstacles (by changing the laws, I assume). However, cops probably don't care if Khaled eats breakfast or not.
I have to wonder who Khaled considers his enemies: who are "they?" Clearly it's no one in the hip hop world, or he'd have a diss track with everyone on it in two days. Maybe it's a message to haters who are mad at Khaled for being successful. If that's the case, why even acknowledge them? The old wisdom is that replying to your haters is the clearest sign of you respecting and acknowledging their opinion as having validity.
I'm not going to come out and say Khaled is suffering from extreme paranoia, but if I were afraid of everyone, I would get a big mansion on the water front and never invite anyone inside…
Regardless, the weird "Truman Show"-esque adventures of the 40 year old are big news right now, and people are generally happy for his success. However, even a man who refuses to let "they" sully his good times has a clear dark spot on him…
5. The mystery woman is the key
Late at night, after all Khaled's friends go home, he will often sit in his hot tub and smoke a cigar or listen to reggae music (he's a big fan of Buju Banton, which I can get behind). However, he's not always alone.
There's a woman in Khaled's life who, through Khaled's need to document his whole life, shows us a very dark side of his life.
Khaled will talk to her about how he is providing for them and he wants her to be happy, but the mystery woman generally just asks him to leave her alone. He refers to her as "Baby," but she is constantly requesting that he not put her on Snapchat.
I'm not sure who this woman is: she could be his girlfriend or some kind of live-in companion for hire, but she clearly resents his new found success with Snapchat and the change that brings to his and her relationship.
She's physically trying to separate herself from him in the above video, and often yells at him to stop filming.
This woman, to me, serves as a reminder of the power of reality. For all his positive messages and his "I did it, you can too" mentality, the world can't always work that way. Everyone else in Khaled's life is content to spout their catchphrase like the "poor player" of Shakespeare's soliloquy, but she is not bound by the confines of image and branding. There's going to be tension, and no amount of "Bless Up" can make that go away.
The question I have now is "where does this end?" What happens next in Khaled's saga? I think everyone can make a guess, but only time will tell. In the mean time, take care of yourselves and always remember to Bless Up.


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You won't believe if I tell you how much I love positive people who's literally possessed with an original creative idea. Usually it's not even really an idea, but rather a vague vision they follow simply because they can't do any other way.
Being positive is a great strength for oneself. This strength automatically makes the person to face the problem in a more enthusiastic way without any regret. A person being built up with positive vibes makes the people around themselves to feel in a similar way. It is really a good sign. One can read more about this and get benefited here.
And, fortunately for me, there's quite a lot of such people and I still have something to be exited about 🙂
The story of Black Milk is fairly fascinating and if you like reading the success stories you definitely should give it a try. That will be a time well spent, partly because of these obviously care and dedication the Black Milk's founder James Lillis has written it with. Long story short: Black Milk was created sort of accidentally. In 2009 James Lillis was brilliantly broke and had no actual plans for his life. He was living in a flat he rented in Brisbane, Australia, working various odd jobs just to pay his rent and have at least something to eat. One day he just sold his CD-player, bought an old sewing machine, spent his last $6 on his first fabrics… and there was no way back for him from that day on. James was about to go a long way from a lone enthusiast who didn't even know how to sew up to the owner of a very interesting and successful alternative clothing brand he is now. Seriously, follow the link above and read it, may be it's going to be that magical kick up your butt that will make you stop dreaming and start doing things! Who knows?!
Ok, let's get to the clothing. The Black Milk has been started with leggings (a pair of leggings was the first thing James actually sold) and at some point it was the main brand's product, but now the product line is huge and very impressive.
Just look at the colors and textures, that's what definitely draws my attention. I remember I first saw some pieces of "Go Cosmic" collection somewhere online and thought to myself "Hm, that looks cool". Using primarily the bright and modern color schemes and very interesting materials Black Milk's clothing looks very young, positive and I'd say geeky. This impression is growing while I'm looking through such collection as "Halls Of Hogwarts", "Marvel New York", "DC Comics", ""Buff Monster" and of course "Doctor Who".
Though you shouldn't think it's all about comic books and sci-fi movies here, because on top of that Black Milk produces a lot of more serious clothing. Still it always looks very young, colorful and dynamic, often with an interesting and nicely-represented theme. For example, their new collection "Unplugged" is deeply influenced by 70's rock scene and hippie culture.


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Shastri Sisters 22nd August 2014 Written Episode Update
Shastri Sisters 22nd August 2014 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
The Episode starts with Alka asking Rohan not to feel guilty if his answer is no, as anyone would have done this. Rohan leaves. Alka thinks it will be a problem if Rohan says no, this will hurt dad. She comes to Anushka. Anushka asks what did Rohan say. Alka says I did a mistake, don't know it was right or wrong. Anushka asks did you tell Rohan about Rajeev. Alka asks why, is it wrong. Anushka says no, it depends on how he takes it, if he knows this relation can break, this can hurt dad too. She says I know you won't do this. Alka does not tell her and says what Rohan said her. They come home, Shastri ji asks them what did Rohan say. Alka leaves.
Anushka says about Rohan's secret. She tells him and he laughs. He says I was right about this guy, he told everything honestly, it proves he will keep Alka happy. Alka thinks about Rohan's meeting and is tensed, thinking what will Rohan decide now. Its morning, Anushka orders the flowers. She wakes up Devyaani and says it's the day to show Shastri sisters are so fast. Devyaani says yes, and to show how beautiful I m. Anushka asks everyone to get ready. Alka is still tensed. Anushka says Rohan is very nice, and he will love you a lot. Minty asks the girls to do all the arrangements soon. Devyaani sees Neil recording the video. She teases him. Neil gives a good reply and they argue.
Shastri ji comes and asks for his button. Peeya asks him to wear the new banyan. Peeya asks him to change and she will get the button. Minty asks Devyaani why is she shouting, talk slowly. She gets the call and shouts. Devyaani looks at her and shuts her ears. Minty slows down. Devyaani talks to Neil and he records her confession. He runs and she runs after him to get the camcorder. Anushka sees her dad ready and compliments him. Sareen comes to them. He brings the jeweler and asks him to see the rings. Everyone like some and its very costly rings. Their budget is low and they keep quiet. Anushka buys a cheap one. She shows to Alka and Alka agrees. Shastri ji pays the man. Rohan thinks what to do as he is in double minds.
Rohan thinks about Alka's words. Vrinda comes to call Rohan and he says he has to talk to her. Alka prays that Rohan comes on time. Everyone get ready for the engagement function. Peeya comes and says Papa is worried, as no one came, its 6pm now. The girls get tensed. Peeya says Rohan and his family did not come, and did not even call. Alka gets worried thinking Rohan said no for the engagement.
Anushka pacifies Shastri ji. Alka talks to call Rohan and apologize. Rohan does not take the call.
Update Credit to: Amena