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[ "Tuesday, 18 August 2015\n\nPower of interpretation", null, "Don’t take everything as it is. There’s always something that is not given to you. The truth is always related to the information you have.\n\n“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”\n- Friedrich Nietzsche\n\nSo, in relation with this concept, when you fail; you can always find something useful from it. So, a fail can become a success just because you didn’t took it as it.\n\nA fail could become a success just because you didn’t gave up and find a way to turn it around.\n\nYou have the power to give up or keep going on. Your choice will influence the final result." ]

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[ "Wednesday, June 8, 2011\n\nSummer Layout!!\n\nHello my crafty friends,\n\nHope evryone is having a great week so far.  I've been busy doing some Father's day cards for couple people. Im also trying out something new.....Im selling Avon and thats been keeping bme busy since im new at it lol. If anyone is interested on buying some Avon you could do it buy going to my online webstore. If you are interested please let me know and I will give you my online address. I will try to post it on my blog soon. I also made a summer LO for a  blog hop challenge at http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com/ .  Hope you guys like it!!", null, "Posted by Mommy's Crafty Creations at 6:18 PM", "Chloe and Her Clip On Koalas said...\n\nGreat layout! Love the way the water splashes off the words! Good job. x\n\nJune 8, 2011 at 8:58 PM", "girlia said...\n\ngreat job!\n\nJune 10, 2011 at 6:39 PM", "Missy said...\n\nCute layout, love the splashes!!\n\nJune 10, 2011 at 9:13 PM", "Visits to MCC", "Past Design Teams", "Challenges I've Won in 2014", "Little Scrap Pieces", "Challenge # 226", "Challenge # 227", "Challenges I've Won in 2012", "The Stinkin Cute Blog Award", "Thank You Patty", "The Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award", "Thank you Patty", "My First BFF Award", "Thank you Tami", "My First The Versalite Blogger Award", "Thank you Heather", "A Thing of Beauty Award", "Thank You Patty and Sandy S." ]

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[ "Sunday, June 27, 2010\n\nElectric horseman of the apocalypse\n\nRegular passenger service had only just begun in Shukuzu when the first murmurs of discontent could be heard from the populace.  Already dreaming of the day when they could begin an orderly queue to board the local at their as-yet-to-be-built station, they have begun to call for something to help get them around their square mile of reality even faster.  Little do they know, dreams of folly often lead to doom.", null, "A sleek devil in blue and grey has been seen lurking on the viaducts, the electric hiss of its motors restrained by the overly sharp curves of the Shukuzu main line.  The desire to get nowhere even faster will mean the end of Shukuzu v2, this electric horseman of the apocalypse riding in to town on a straighter, faster rail with broad sweeping curves that will tear down everything, including mountains.\n\nWhat was a quaint bi-level mainline winding through the burgeoning metropolis will become a hectic tri-level of efficient people moving power.  With the Shinkansen going up, the mainline will be going down, burrowing beneath the city to form Shukuzu's first subway line.  It only seems appropriate in the end, as what kind of Japanese city doesn't have a subway?" ]

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[ null, null, "The guest post below was written by peter b kaufman of intelligent television — when the open courseware movement first started – its big bang probably took. Download the opencourseware course finder 10 at aptoide now virus and malware free no extra costs. Explore mit opencourseware's 1,829 photos on flickr. Educommons provides access to educational materials more commonly known as opencourseware. One of the greatest benefits that the internet has provided me was the opportunity to teach myself a new career when my old one grew tiresome.\n\nMit opencourseware (ocw) is a large-scale, web-based publication of the entire mit curriculum educational materials range from undergraduate core subjects to the. Open courseware finder: type in the genre or subject matter of courses you're interested in and you can find loads of links to courses from all over on this search.\n\nCourse finder topic mit course number mit opencourseware makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of mit's subjects available on the web. It is unlikely that you will find oer that perfectly fit your needs ocw is open and available to the world and is a permanent mit activity. Course # course title level find courses find by topic find by course number find by department support for mit opencourseware's 15th anniversary is provided by. Opencourseware (ocw) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the internet ocw projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after.\n\nRegardless of where you find ipl2 was formed from the merger of two prior academic the opencourseware consortium includes courses offered freely. The opencourseware finder organizes and lists open (read:free) university courses with materials that you can access online. Mit opencourseware lways find the best solutions mit ocw is awesome and i wanted to say thanks all the professors who is providing best quality of education. This document provides the help for the utah state university opencourseware site in the form of a list of frequently asked questions and university ocw what is.\n\nSupporting open through mit opencourseware making their schools more effective students find additional resources to help them succeed.\n\nCourse finder topic mit course number department topic sub-topic mit opencourseware makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of mit's subjects. The johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health has a big mission: protecting health, saving lives – millions at a time. Open courseware according to the open courseware consortium, an open courseware is free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials. Welcome to merlot’s opencourseware (ocw) portal opencourseware (ocw or opencourseware) is defined as:a free and open digital publication of high quality. Add / refresh your ocw seo by royal marketing attend march 26 future directions online meeting. Mit opencourseware (ocw), available at , makes the course materials used in the teaching of all mit undergraduate and graduate subjects available on.\n\nGeneral create a file in word that consists of tabular and graphical communications, along with accompanying text that compliments their meaning. 25 colleges and universities ranked by their opencourseware - best graphic art and design opencourseware - biological sciences opencourseware rankings." ]

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[ null, "Pranamasana (Prayer Pose)\n\nPranamasana was an interactive projection installation wherein each user was represented as a single wave in a larger ocean of waves. You could flap your arms around and cause shallow ripples in the ocean, but I designed the project to encourage users to stand still with their palms pressed against each other near their sternum -- imitating what is known as the Prayer Pose. When you interact with it in that way, it causes your wave to grow larger and the infinite feedback loop effect in the background to twist into a really trippy spiral.\n\nWe attached a caption to the piece when we installed it which I think helps to explain the metaphor:\n\n\"When we look at the ocean, we see that each wave has a beginning and an end. A wave can be compared to other waves, and we can call it more or less beautiful, higher or lower, longer lasting or less long lasting. But if we look more deeply, we see that a wave is made of water. It would be sad if the wave did not know that it is water. It would think, 'Some day, I will have to die. This period of time is my life span, and when I arrive at the shore, I will return to nonbeing.' These notions will cause the wave fear and anguish. We have to help it remove the notions of self, person, living being, and life span if we want the wave to be free and happy. When the wave touches her true nature -- which is water -- all her complexes will cease, and she will transcend birth and death.\"" ]

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[ "Nov 1 God Always Comes Through\n\nRyan Huguley\nDiscipleship, Prayer\n\nBig Idea: Today's insurmountable obstacle is tomorrow's testament to God's grace.\n\nMy journal is filled with desperate prayers concerning what have often felt like daunting problems.\n\nA few weeks ago I woke up one morning knowing the day before me held the possibility of a handful of these daunting problems. I immediately felt the all too familiar anxiety and apprehension surrounding what I hoped to accomplish and what needed to be done.\n\nBut suddenly I was struck by a very different reality...\n\nThe Holy Spirit graciously reminded me of the many instances when I had felt this uncertainty on one day, only to wake the next morning and have the previous day's fears eclipsed by the powerful way God had come through.\n\nGod gave me the courage and compassion for the conversation, He provided for my needs, and sustained me through the circumstances I could not control - GOD ALWAYS CAME THROUGH!\n\nHere was the big idea:\n\nToday's insurmountable obstacle is tomorrow's testament to God's grace.\n\nYou may wake up this morning feeling like there is no hope, no way you'll make it through the day, no way you can put up with anything more, but by God's grace, you'll wake up tomorrow realizing God's grace carried you over yet another seemingly insurmountable obstacle.\n\nBut don't take my word for it. I pray Psalm 121 would give you much faith in our gracious God who always comes through...\n\n\"I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.\" - Psalm 121\n\nThis post first appeared here on  October 22, 2012.", null ]

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[ "Wednesday, April 29, 2015\n\nRabbi Receives Rare Reward (Arthur Schneier is Knighted)", null, "This does not belong on this blog, but since Havdala conscience blogging buddy bray has not touched this topic with his golden sceptered pen, I have opened the discussion here." ]

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[ "Wednesday, December 19, 2012\n\nScatter Merry Christmas Joy ♥\n\nRoller coaster of \"Emotions\",   it is an internal workout this time of year.  Sewing machine is clipping along, glitter is flying everywhere, knitting needles magically working correctly, oh my,  where is this, where is that, the constant question ringing out daily.  What better way to wrap up yet another challenging year.\n\nLittle sister to my rescue*** once again.....\"smile grumpy duck.....remember when WE                                                                                      were whimsical ?!\"", null, "\"Mischievous grins,   devilish....\"No I didnt peek!\"\n\"When;   for a very brief moment ...you  (prudence puddleduck) were taller than me....lololol\"\n\"You love handmade \"...( says little sister Charlotte)   \"well here you go...WHO WHO WHO\nlikes handmade NOW!!!!!!\"\nOh my sister is clever and funny.....yes Charolette believes in balance as well.", null, "What would I ever do without my little sister...\n\nPuddleducks will decorate the Christmas Tree this year.  Yes,  I am letting go of my \"watch, dont touch\" decorating technique.  Inherited I might add.", null, null, "Great job my helpful puddleducks!    Aunti has had one of her \"Feelings\" and knew that treats were required this busy weekend.....yippy....now the work has come to a screeeeeeching halt.\n\nI will start to hang my handmade cards from?.....well.....lets see!", null, "www.rosalily.blogspot.com  You guest it...Penny !", null, "All work and NO play, makes any puddleduck cranky....  Off to roll in the snow and spread reindeer food .....................", null, "Hot chocolate & with extra marshmallows please .....Nana Puddleduck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", null, "Quietly,   I sneak off  to give thanks, gratitude and prayers.  I miss my family that is not near,  wishing them health and joy,  humbly grateful for all my blessings, and pray for many more glorious memories.\n\nSpeaking of memories.....dont you just love the vintage disco ball decorations....oh my...\n........ what memories...\n\nI am still waiting on one more Doll Dreams Ornament from the previous swap I mentioned.  I couldnt wait to share the ones I have recieved from North Carolina and Iowa......but more about that when the final one arrives.", null, "One Last Comment.....for 2012....from Prudence Puddleduck.....\n\nHold on tight....... to what is truly real in our hearts   this Spiritual Season,   I pray, our civilization has been slapped out of the daze of mediocre existence.  My celebration will hold back the tears of sadness and my celebrations prayers will be for all families suffering .\n\nPosted by Debi at Wednesday, December 19, 2012", "I hate talking to myself, Please comment ♥ Thank you for your visit!\n\nInsomniac's Attic", "Alberta Canada!", "Blog EVENT 2017", "Shop With Ease", "Easel. &. Quill", "My other Twin #", "Doll Master", "Autism Awareness", "World of Fun!", "\"Blessed are the curious For they shall have Adventures!\"" ]

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[ "Monday, December 29, 2014\n\nCracker & Camper Van Beethoven - True Grit In Frisco - Gig Report", null, "What a great way to end 2014. There's so much to tell about this show that I'm almost at a loss as to where to begin....\n\nLet's start with the music - that is, after all, why we were all there. This is the tenth annual Christmas thru New Years jaunt through California for this tour, and the capacity crowd at The Independent in San Francisco stated quite loudly that they got it right. Both bands played headline length sets with Cracker opening the show, Camper Van Beethoven closing, then Cracker coming back for a show ending encore, and both put on shows that clearly defined why both are so revered, respected.", null, "Cracker came out sporting an extended lineup which features non-regular members Victor Krummenacher on bass (who earned an honorable mention for playing with both bands), Thayer Sarrano on keyboards and vocals, Jordan Shapiro on steel guitar, and returning drummer Michael Urbano, he of the band's original lineup. These additional players were brought along to bolster and replicate the arrangements from the band's new double album, Berkeley To Bakersfield, and in these times of lean tour budgets, Lowery and Hickman are to be commended for spending the dough so wisely.\n\nDavid Lowery is fast becoming 'Activist David Lowery', and while he's doing better work than anyone in the world when it comes to the battle for fairness in recording artist royalties, he's also one of the best American songwriters of the last thirty years. He straddled the line to start the evening with a stark solo rendition of \"Torches And Pitchforks\" from the new record after walking on to the sounds of Ennio Morricone's theme from the movie classic The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, and this was his only overt reference to his new found role as spokesman for every man who ever wrote a song, before he stepped into the role of frontman for two of the finest touring outfits to be found.", null, "Lowery's longtime Cracker stablemate and partner, Johnny Hickman, played some of the tastiest guitar this side of Mick Taylor's days with the Stones, sang his ass off, and in an act unbeknownst to 90% of the audience put on a tremendous example of the term 'true grit'. I had the pleasure of talking to Hickman as he came out to collegially add some background vocals to CVB's set from the side of the stage, and after I told him how much I enjoyed his band's set, he looked at me, smiled, and stated that he was happy about that because he wasn't sure. When I looked back at him rather confusedly, he showed me a heavily bandaged left index finger, and told me a gruesome tale of how he nearly severed the finger's tip just before the band was set to hit the stage. I had seen Cracker's set from the back of the hall so I hadn't seen, heard, or noticed any evidence of said misadventure - evidently he had gotten through most of the set by working around his injury, but at some point he had thrown caution to the wind in going for a string bend which he says he has done a thousand times, but this time he knew he shouldn't have, and it had resulted in his completely reopening the wound, resulting in copious amounts of blood running down his arm into his sleeve and covering the neck of Lucky #7, his faithful 1977 Gibson Les Paul Standard. He even came back out after CVB's set to perform a two song encore with Cracker to end the evening. Yes, this is the very definition of true grit.\n\nCracker played a fiery set that featured no less than nine songs from Berkeley To Bakersfield, and it says much about the band and their fans that despite the fact that the record hasn't been officially out for a month, the crowd was singing along with every chorus - this is made easier by the fact that the tunes are so damned engaging, but the crowd's performance points to an agreement that this album may be the band's crowning achievement to this point. How many bands can come out blasting four brand new songs to start a show, and have their fans sing them right back at them? The presence of drummer Michael Urbano was a huge contribution to not just the sound onstage, but also to the obvious looks of joy on the faces of Lowery and Hickman as they locked in on a nice collection of classics from the band's catalog. The addition of the supplemental musicians brought much to the sounds and songs, especially Shapiro's tremendous steel guitar vocabulary, and Sarrano's hauntingly sweet background vocals.", null, "Not many bands would welcome going on after such a lovefest between band and fans, but Camper Van Beethoven were more than up for the task. David Lowery's songwriting with CVB becomes almost completely another beast from that which he does with Cracker when it is combined with the instrumental interplay of multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Segel, Krummenacher, and guitarist Greg Lisher. Whereas Cracker may evoke thoughts toward Americana, roots rock, and early Brit rock guitar fire power, CVB embraces a headier, more eclectic musical world view, at times making the mind flash back to Lowell George's Little Feat, psychedelic pop, and a definite nod to Northern California's musical reign in the sixties. Jonathan Segel put on a fantastic display of tonal wizardry as he bounced from violin to electric guitar with equal mastery, and Greg Lisher played chorus after chorus of melodic lead guitar from across the stage. They are also joined on this tour by Michael Urbano on the drums, and even though he could be seen reading charts to follow the the tunes, his sheer musicality would at times take over, and he would lead the band to even greater heights with his commanding fills and thoughtful accompaniment.\n\nI mentioned up top that David Lowery is becoming quite well known as an activist and educator, but that should not overshadow the fact that in the last several years he has managed to write and release no less than five albums of A-list material (his solo Palace Guards, two albums with CVB, and the Cracker four sider). It's a bit mind boggling to think that a guy could function as a well known activist, a college level instructor (he teaches music business courses at the University of Georgia), and to write, sing, and perform with two successful bands, but he does it. That he manages to do so without ever seeming to step on the toes, or detract from the quality of any of these pursuits only makes the act more impressive. A stern, sober version perhaps of Tom Petty, he's one of our finest songwriters, with a distinctive voice that is equally impressive in any of his musical guises, and if you ever want a lesson on how to play rhythm guitar you need to watch this guy, and his band commanding right hand. The fucking guy should run for president.", null, "So, what did we learn?\n\nFirst, we learned that it is the music that matters - I am a jaded fifty-five year old who can still drive five hours back and forth in a day to once again become in my mind a fifteen year old lover of rock, and all its possibilities. Then we learned about true grit and responsibility - it would have been easy for Johnny Hickman to pack it up and go home after a severe injury, but he suited up and played instead of causing the cancellation of a large block of work for a dozen or so co-workers, venues, and thousands of adoring fans. And, he did it with a smile on his face. We also were again reminded that Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven are two of the best American rock bands of the last quarter century, and appear to be gaining strength in a time in which some fools would proclaim rock dead. Then there is the lesson of David Lowery - it's all about putting in the work, living out your passions, and staying in the game.\n\nTwo great bands, a great venue (kudos to front of house sound man Xifer Forteeay, his mix was wonderful), a superb audience, and a great night of music. There are three more shows remaining on the West Coast Run 2014 (Santa Barbara, Solana Beach, and Denver) - if you have a chance, do catch one of these shows, it is an incredible bargain.\nPosted by Tony Conley at 11:03 AM", "The Johhny got a boo boo tour.\n\nDecember 29, 2014 at 3:04 PM", "Great and detailed review Tony. Thanks!\n\nGoing to see them tonight in SB. Never saw Cracker but did see CVB backing up Dire Straits in San Diego in 1985. Been a while. BTW, the spelling on Solano is actually Solana .....\n\nDecember 29, 2014 at 3:36 PM", "Lisa said...\n\nBlessings to Johnny and thanks for the grit last night... we didn't linger after for either show... precisely due to two factors: one, we were in the 10% who knew what happened and we didn't want to bother you and two, we were both sooo tired! Wishing David and the beautifully talented Thayer, Jonathan, Greg, Mike and everyone else, the best year ever for 2015. God bless you all! Lisa up on the Mendocino coast :)\n\nDecember 29, 2014 at 5:58 PM", "etoo said...\n\nSaw Cracker a several times a few years back, the first time coming in in the middle of a set at a festival, not knowing who they were and being blown away. Once in a small club where they rocked the place, and then once at their own (now defunct??) festival, CampoutEast. Where they ruled. David is great, in all the ways specified here and probably more, but so is Johnny Hickman. 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[ null, "In the morning of 9 November the police paid a visit to the apartment of the observer at the Shklou District Election Commission Mikhail Kucharenka. They were trying to figure out why Mikhail Kucharenka and other publica activists from the Shklou district were collecting signatures against the transfer of local water bodies to private entrepreneurs this summer.\n\n’The Local residents are very concerned about this issue since they have almost nowhere to go to relax with a fishing rod, and have to pay money for it. We collected more than three hundred signatures under the petition and then sent it to different authorities: prosecutors, the State Control Committee, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, etc. All of them answered that the rulings of the Shklou DEC were lawful and didn’t violate the law,’ - says Mikhail Kucharenka.\n\nThe police tried to find out where the activist had learned about the facts that had been drawn in the address, who helped him collect signatures and had supplied him with the necessary information.\n\n’They stayed in my apartment for about an hour and drew up a report. I refused to answer most of their questions, because I had the impression that the police were not interested in violations of the law during the transfer of water in the lease, but why we had decided to collect signatures against the decisions of the Shklou District Executive Committee concerning the transfer of water reservoirs in the rent and who helped us. Such actions of the Shklou police can also be aimed at pressurizing me as an observer,’ – said M. Kucharenka.\n\nBear in mind that the observer Mikhail Kucharenka submitted to the Shklou District Executive Committee a series of protests against violations that in his opinion were committed by members of the campaign team of Aliaksandr Lukashenka while collecting signatures for his nomination.\n\nHuman Rights Defenders for Free Elections\n\n10.11.2010 Tags: presidential elections-2010\n\nFreedom of peaceful assembly\n\nPenitentiary system\n\nLatest news\n\nHuman Rights Situation in Belarus: September 2018\n\nUN Rapporteur Miklos Haraszti presented a report on Belarus" ]

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[ "I have no idea why I'm calling you to complain about these uncooked fries. I don't like fries at this place anyway. Still it bothered me that your fries were uncooked. Could you please ask the people at the location beside the Canadian Tire to please cook their fries? No. Not the location beside the Home Depot. No not that location. No not the location on brimely Avenue. No. Not that location. Could you please just tell them to give me a receipt next time? No I have no further concerns. Sure I'll give you my e-mail address. Sure I'll give you my street name. No it's not a crescent, it's a boulevard. No it's not an avenue, it's a boulevard. Good night mister customer service representative guy. I wonder if I'll ever hear your voice again. I wonder what city you're in... in the same way I wonder why everything seems to make so much sense one moment and so little the next. What did he sing that one time? Oh yeah, \"how time can move both fast and slow, amazes me.\"\n\nJust like I'll wonder about the teenage roommate at the hospital. The one with a million stab wounds, a punctured heart. How romantic it is for us to say our hearts are broken, until they actually are. Until we have to be cut open from the neck down for open heart surgery. Until our lungs collapse because of some stupid fight at 16.\n\nJust like I'll wonder about A's parents. How is it that they are so strong? Seeing their daughter go through chemo for years only to lose her. How do you deal with a loss so great?\n\nHow is it that people can be so resilient, so brave, when they're pushed to the limit, but remain so weak, sad, uninspired, when faced with no dilemmas?\n\n\"[Is] heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid? The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.\" -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)\n\nPosted by Amélie at 7:17 PM 2 comments\n\nLabels: sick, words, writing\n\nWednesday, July 22, 2009\n\nI would like to share my excitement with you, the few lovely readers that I have, regarding my electives next year. Next year for the first time in 2 years I get some flexibility in my course selection and I've of course used that opportunity to take as many random, awesome courses as possible. Here are two of the courses I'm taking and their selected readings. I saw the book King and King on the list and thought it sounded very familiar. Then I remembered it being used in a prop 8 advertisement to scare conservatives.\n\nHorror and Terror: Variations on Gothic\nReading List:\n\nBram Stoker, Dracula (Penguin);\n\nSigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (trans. Strachey, intro by Peter Gay); Charlotte F. Otten (Ed),\n\nThe Literary Werewolf (Syracuse University Press);\n\nAnne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (Ballantine Books).\n\n20th-century Children's Literature\n\n(Revised July 2, 2009)\n\nBarrie, J. M. Peter Pan (Bantam) (ISBN: 0553211781)\nBellairs, John. The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Puffin) (ISBN: 0142402575)\nBlume, Judy. Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret. (Yearling) (ISBN: 0440404193)\nDahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Puffin) (ISBN: 9780142410318)\nDehaan, Linda, Stern Nijland, King and King (Tricycle) (ISBN: 1582460612)\nKatz, Welwyn Wilton. False Face (Groundwood) (ISBN: 0888990820)\nLewis, C. S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (HarperTrophy) (ISBN: 0064404994)\nPullman, Philip. The Golden Compass (Yearling) (ISBN: 9780440418320)\nRichardson, Justin, and Peter Parnell, And Tango Makes Three (Simon & Schuster) (ISBN: 0689878451)\nRowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Raincoast) (ISBN: 1551924781)\nSnicket, Lemony. A Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the First. The Bad Beginning (HarperCollins) (ISBN: 0064407667)\nWhite, E. B. Charlotte’s Web (HarperTrophy) (ISBN: 0064400557)\n\nAll I have to say is, I CAN'T WAIT to enjoy learning again. : )\n\nPosted by Amélie at 8:32 PM 2 comments\n\nMonday, July 20, 2009\n\nSo I had my hearing.\n\nIt was very intense and they made me wait an hour and a half before they told me their decision. The good news is, I'm back in the program. The bad news is... well I'm back in the program and I have a managerial exam tomorrow.\n\nPosted by Amélie at 5:02 PM 4 comments\n\nThursday, July 16, 2009\n\nAhhhh one night to write two essays. One on Irish monasticism and the other on the role of women in medieval Ireland. AHHHH.\n\nPosted by Amélie at 12:35 PM 4 comments\n\nWednesday, July 15, 2009", null, "My hearing is on Monday. Now you may ask, what the fuck is a hearing? What did you do Amelie? Are you going to jail? Well... no, not quite.\n\nYou see, I attend a school that regards itself as highly prestigious. Most of its activities occur in a small, gray building, deceptively surrounded by plant-life. Inside, you can find concrete gray walls in the style of brutalist architecture, large glass windows, plenty of sound-proof study rooms, lecture halls, and of course random art work. The random artwork confuses most people, even its students. It took us two years to realize that the huge ass billboard beside student services that read \"DAVE & SONS LAUNDRY, CLOSING BUSINESS, 'DAD WE MISS YOU SO MUCH'\" was not about anyone's dad dying but just part of the school's decor.\n\nAnyways, as I was saying, this school is one that regards itself in a very high light. It puts a lot of emphasis on its global ranking. In fact, I've come to the conclusion that the people running the school care more about their global ranking than their students. The school is brutal to its students. The workload is insane, there is no room for slack or flexibility in course selection and a fail grade in any course leads to a process of appealing, which involves something known as a hearing.\n\nThe hearing involves you, the student, writing a letter explaining yourself, explaining why you failed a certain course, explaining any extenuating circumstances, and then going in front of a panel of 8 \"judges\" to explain yourself. After explaining yourself, you're grilled for some time. \"Why do you want to be in this school?\" \"What will a BBA do for you?\" \"Why should we let you stay?\" etc.\n\nThen you're sent out of the room, and after some time and deliberation by the judges are told whether or not you are allowed to stay in the program.\n\nI wasn't worried about this. I believed my appeal was strong, but in the past two days, 6 people I know got kicked out of the program, so now really I don't know what's going to happen.\n\nSo yes, that is what I have to look forward to this coming Monday. I can't wait!\n\nPosted by Amélie at 5:20 PM 9 comments\n\nSaturday, July 11, 2009\n\nDinner time.", null, "I made dinner tonight. I don't know many complicated dishes, but I made this relatively simple Iranian rice dish. It's rice, tomato paste, spices, string beans, and ground beef cooked/fried together and then added to rice to further simmer in a rice-cooker. If anyone wants to know how to actually make it, let me know.", null, "For desert I made this yogurt dish. It's pretty much plain yogurt with grated cucumbers, dried mint, and some salt for taste.", null, "Also, I found something funny while eating dinner. There was a menu for a take-out place on the table, and an item on the list stood out for me. I don't know... maybe I just have a dirty mind.", null, "I'll finish off with a pretty picture of the backyard. It's green and pretty this time of year. Now I'm going to attempt some managerial accounting for a little while... er.. hopefully (That is if certain people don't distract me too much).", null, "Posted by Amélie at 5:44 PM 4 comments\n\nThursday, July 9, 2009\n\nI love you dad.\nEverything will be fine...\n\nPosted by Amélie at 9:14 PM 4 comments\n\nWednesday, July 8, 2009\n\nChipped paint.\n\nHere we are, it's July and I'm still in school. I only have 2 classes but I feel like I'm going insane. With a paper for tuesday, and an exam in 2 weeks for managerial I don't know how I'm going to do this. Friday and Saturday will be spent at the hospital, which really leaves me a lot less time for everthing that needs to get done. I can't focus. This week was probably the worst for me attention span wise. I sat in class for 3 hours and heard nothing, understood nothing. I sat through the lab and didn't absorb anything.\n\nThe appeal process for school is taking so long. Every time I think I'm finished appealing, they tell me I need to do something new. Now they want proof of my dad's brain surgery, and I don't know how to get that without asking them. They have enough on their plates as it is and I don't want to bring up school right before a surgery.\n\nGetting out of the car today I opened the door without thinking and slammed it into our other car parked in the garage. I chipped some of the paint off and came home to glares. Mom's face forms into a permanent frown when she looks at me.\n\nHe tries to be understanding, but I don't think he understands how this feels. I feel like a burden on everything and everybody and I don't want to be comforted either.\n\nI leave the house in the morning and come back at 11 p.m to everyone either asleep or away in their private worlds. I haven't really seen dad in days and on friday he goes to the hospital. I havent' even gotten to have dinner with him before we all scatter around hospital rooms. He got so angry at the chipped paint, but all I could think about was how insignificant it was compared to everything we've been through in the past year. All I could think about was how insignificant it was to the pain and hardships of surgery, chemotherapy, death.\n\nPosted by Amélie at 7:49 PM 7 comments\n\nTuesday, July 7, 2009", "I had very weird dreams all night. I think it was one long ass dream, parts of it were sad, parts of it were scary as hell. I remember someone lecturing us about the effects of rape, I remember someone blaming me for the death of their little brother, I remember hanging out with a bunch of vampires. I remember having sex with Eric from True Blood. My brain feels weird.\n\nPosted by Amélie at 7:15 AM 4 comments\n\nFriday, July 3, 2009\n\nMaybe this blog is doomed to be a boring food blog.\n\nI have made up my mind.\n\nNo more junk food. EVER.\n\nOk maybe once in a blue moon, but I'm cutting that shit out cold turkey. I used to be fine eating nearly all healthy, I don't know what happend. The food I'm eating is leaving me feeling gross and unattractive. It's probably not doing my organs much good either.\n\nToday I ate no junk. I had my home-made pancakes, and the home-made soup, and the home-made rice dish, and my fruits and veggies, with some random walnuts thrown in for randomness' sake. I went for a run, which was sadly interrupted by the wind and intense pain in my ears... but all that was still way better than I've been treating my body as of late...\n\nWe'll see how this goes.\n\nPosted by Amélie at 9:43 PM 2 comments\n\nWednesday, July 1, 2009\n\nIrish History & a Vaccum Cleaner.", "I have taken note that the majority of my entries in this blog have had to do with food. This was all very unplanned. In fact, I have no idea how it all happend at all. I will attempt to write some entries that are about something other than food. Especially since I don't really plan on this blog being a full out food blog...\n\nRight now, I'm just trying to delay the shitload of work I have to get done. From reading hundreds of pages on Irish history (St. Columba, St. Augustine, St. Patrick, St. etc) to getting my shit together when it comes to Managerial Accounting, to vaccuming the entire house, to taking a shower, to cleaning up the mess that has accumulated in my room for the past few weeks.\n\nMy school, as usual, has decided to fuck me over come enrollment time, and I'm waiting for their douche-baggery to run its course.\n\nI pulled some kind of hip muscle during fun times yesterday. I cannot walk without limping, and it's hard to explain to people how I acquired such an injury.\n\nI think that's about all I have in my head for now. I'll return for some more purging of disconnected thoughts soon." ]

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[ "This week's Challenges are all about finding information from an unusual perspective.\n\nOne of the biggest problems people have when searching for information is that they get locked into thinking about their search in one particular way.  By asking these questions, I'm trying to make the deeper point that sometimes you have to have a different point-of-view.\n\nLet's look at the Challenges:", "1.  I was in Los Angeles (CA) the other day, and I happened to notice something unusual attached to the back of each letter on the famous \"Hollywood\" sign.  Once you see it, of course they'd need to have this on the back of each letter--but I'd never though about it before.  What's on the backside of each of the letters?\n\nIt's an interesting point-of-view problem.  Literally.\n\nGoogle Earth won't give you this;  neither Streetview nor satellite view in Google Maps will do.  What else can you do?\n\nWhen I thought about this, I immediately thought about Google Images.  \"Surely someone has taken a recent picture of these letters... and almost certainly from the backside as well.\"\n\nThis is a bit of knowing that there's a sub-culture of people who love to take pictures of things they're forbidden from visiting.  (Witness all of the picture of people you love urban exploring.)\n\nMy query was simple:\n\n[ Hollywood sign back ]\n\nAnd here's what I got:", null, "From this vantage point you can see that there's a support structure (which you'd expect) and a set of ladders to climb up each letter (which I did NOT expect).  I assume they're for maintenance, but the point here is that everything has multiple points-of-view.  It's not hard to search for them, but you have to keep your mind curious and remember this.", null, "2.  The aurora borealis  (or aurora australis) is one of the most amazing sights on the planet.  When you look at it, you see vast sheets of colored, translucent drapes moving across the sky.  In appearance, it's just colored lights--but when seen from above, what shape are the Northern (or Southern) Lights?  Can you find a picture that shows the overall, planet-wide shape of the aurora?\n\nWe've all see these pictures of the aurora--they're gorgeous (and I hope to see them in person one day).  They're generated when the charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth's atmosphere, causing electrons in the atoms to move to a higher-energy state. When the electrons drop back to a lower energy state, they create the glowing curtains of light we see as auroras.\n\nBut to figure out the pattern of the aurora on a planetary-scale, we have to find an image that's taken from WAY out in space.\n\nHere, my query on Google Images was:\n\n[ deep space aurora ]\n\nbut I ended up accidentally finding lots of science fiction images (who knew that \"Deep Space\" is the name of a science fiction television show AND a 1988 horror/science-fiction movie?).\n\nSo I modified my query to pull up only reliable images:\n\n[ deep space aurora site:nasa.gov ]\n\nthis is our old friend site: being used to limit my results only to NASA.gov images. 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From the Earth’s surface, the ring would appear as a curtain of light shimmering across the night sky.\"", null, "3.  We know that some plants move to follow the sun.  Can you find a video of a sunflower following the sun?  How about some other plant?  What do they do to follow the sun across the sky?\n\nThis was a slightly trickier question.  Since I already knew the word for \"sun following\" (it's heliotropic) I used that to find a video of a sunflower in motion with the query:\n\n[ heliotropic sunflower ]\n\nIt's not hard to find them.  (But be careful--there are at least a couple of animations of sunflowers that look good, but are completely synthetic!  Careful what you accept as evidence.)\n\nAs I looked through the videos, I learned from the Indiana Dept. of Biology website that many people are under the misconception that the flower heads of the sunflower (Helianthus annuus) track the sun. When you see a field of cultivated sunflowers, the flower heads face in more-or-less the same direction. However, if you check out a field of sunflowers in the afternoon, it will be apparent that the flower heads are mostly facing east, where the sun rises each morning.  And if you look at them in the morning, they're still pointing east.\n\nImmature flower buds of the sunflower do exhibit solar tracking and on sunny days the buds will track the sun across the sky from east to west and by dawn the buds will have returned to face eastward, like the leaves in the movie above.\n\nSo I modified my query to include:\n\n[ immature sunflower heliotropic time lapse ]\n\nand found this video of immature sunflowers sun-tracking during the day.\n\nHowever, as the flower bud matures and blossoms, the stem stiffens and the flower becomes fixed facing the eastward direction. Flowers of the wild sunflowers seen on roadsides do not follow the sun and their flowering heads face many directions when mature. However, their leaves exhibit some solar tracking.\n\nBut that left me wondering:  What DOES a sunflower do during the day, if not tracking the sun?\n\nThe query:\n\n[ sunflower time lapse ]\n\nbrought me the following very satisfying (and beautiful) video of a sunflower making small, fascinating movements during the day, but notably NOT tracking the sun!\n\nUnlike the sunflower flower, the flowers of some plant species track the sun across the sky from east to west. 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[ "I recommend taking the business plan one item at a time. For example, I share my love of zombies on my about page right here! A good course will save you loads of time and enable you to get the results that you want much more quickly.\n\nA survey is definitely a good idea to help gather information on your ideal client.", null, "Art Supply Store Owner Or if you want to use your love for art and creativity to help others showcase their own talents, you can open a store that sells various art supplies and creative materials. Your e-mail list plan. Let yourself flick back to this reminder when you feel yourself steering off course.", "What are your routines for your projects? Which is really important creative business planners you want to be a savvy business owner. You just need a keen eye for art and enough resources to procure some artistic pieces. But if you have the skills and the patience, you can make money selling your custom quilts to those who want really special gifts or customized items.\n\nA simple, standout design creative business planners this gets their attention but keeps it where it should be: You can design your own cards and sell them online or in local paper goods stores.\n\nNo need to be stuffy, you are a creative and the person you are presenting this business to will already know that.\n\nWrite down your specific marketing strategies for: Will you do administrative tasks like email on Wednesdays? How much did you spend on supplies? Mobile App Designer For those who are at least somewhat tech savvy, app creation has turned into a huge field in recent years.\n\nThink about both online and offline ideas! The basic elements of a business plan 1. What is your profit for the year? What social media profiles are they on, are they bloggers, do they read certain blog, do they attend conferences?\n\nAirbrush Artist Airbrushing is a popular artform that can translate to a lot of different mediums. Write yourself a personal note at the back of the planner. And you can get really creative customizing the scents and even colors of different candle products.", "A simple, standout design like this gets their attention but keeps it where it should be: So be sure to grab your roadmap by clicking right here.\n\nYou can offer your services designing apps for businesses or even create your own apps to sell. You can offer your services as a voice-over artist for advertisements or other materials.\n\nYou want to be able to show an investor why and how your business is going to make money, so be realistic. Operations — this is where you document how to get the job done in the most efficient way. Record ALL the goods that you might like to create, yo!\n\nThe planner is undated, so start anytime of the year! Do you want them to feel happy?A business plan is a written description of your business's future, a document that tells what you plan to do and how you plan to do it.\n\nIf you jot down a paragraph on the back of an envelope. Oh um, I created a pretty planner especially for bloggers and online business owners that includes a section for your business plan right here!\n\nThe two main things I'd recommend would be: Make it so that you can modify it throughout the year. How to Write a Creative Business Plan In Under an Hour. A marketing pro shares her “pitch first, plan second” approach to business planning that’s short, sweet, and pretty painless.\n\nBy Caroline Cummings Aug 15, Tweet; Pin It; Photo by AmyWalters. Most people view writing a business plan as an arduous process or a necessary evil. Business Plan for Creative People Template created by Monica Davidson of Freelance Success It’s not actually possible to create a perfect template for a creative person’s business plan – a business plan is unique to each creative endeavour, and unique to the person building their business.\n\nStarting your own business is so stressful, with so many things to be done, that it’s easy to convince yourself that doing the bare minimum for a business plan is enough. There are a ton of. It's hard to believe that we are already sharing our first roundup of new planners." ]

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[ "The Sundre Community Choir is comprised of male and female singers between the ages of 16 and 80 from Sundre and the surrounding area. New members most welcome! Previous singing experience is helpful, but not required. No audition necessary. We convene mid-September for the fall sessions and end of January for the spring sessions.", "Sunday, January 7, 2018\n\nKick Off for Spring Choir", null, "Who wants to sing or ring?\nBells starts February 1\nChoir starts February 13\nTuesday, Feb 06 at the United Church in Sundre, across from the Credit Union.  Remember to use the back door to the church. It’s on the west side.  New people are most welcome.   Make sure you bring your binder with you. If you have not yet returned your old music, you will need to allow enough time to do that.  If you have any music from previous sessions, please bring it back.\nPlease be prepared to pay your $25 registration fee for choir and/or bells. You will receive your music that night.\nEmail me if you are not joining this year or if you can not make the Feb 06 evening.  Pauline  [email protected]\nLooking forward to making music with you!\n\nPauline Blech\nSundre Community Choir Manager", "EMAIL: [email protected]\nPosted by Pamela (a.k.a. The InfoJunkie) at 12:53 AM", "Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment, we love to hear from you!\n\nPrevious Concerts on Video can be found here:", "Posts to refer to:", "The Choir 2017", "Our Director is", "Jennifer Day 403-638-6929", "Our Hand Bell Director is", "Cheri Jahnke 403-638-4807", "Our Choir Manager is", "Pauline Blech Contact her with any questions or inquiries.  Our email is [email protected]", "Contact us at:\n\n- Our Email is: [email protected]\n- Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/sundrecommunitychoir/\n- This page is designed and maintained by Pam Schrock. You may contact her with questions or comments at [email protected]." ]

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[ null, "I remember the first time I made panzanella at home: it was a revelation. Who could have thought that a salad made with stale bread would be so delicious? The Italians, of course. :)\n\nAs much as I love Italian food – half of the blood in my veins is Italian, after all – I have added a couple of Spanish touches to my panzanella: crispy chorizo, chickpeas, sherry vinegar in the dressing. The salad turned out wonderful and it is a beautiful idea for lunch or dinner in the really hot days we have been having in Sao Paulo (to make it even fresher, add 1 thinly sliced small Japanese cucumber sliced to the salad). It is also great for lazy weekends, like the one I plan to have. :)\n\nPanzanella with a Spanish touch\nown recipe\n\n½ red onion, peeled and cut in half\n1 tablespoon sherry vinegar\n2 cups stale bread cubes (approximately 2cm each cube)\n3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided use\n2 large ripe tomatoes, seeded and coarsely chopped\n1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved\n100g chorizo, chopped in small cubes\n¾ cup (127g) cooked and drained chickpeas\n½ teaspoon Dijon mustard\nsalt and freshly ground black pepper\nhandful of fresh basil leaves\n\nThinly slice the onion, transfer to a small bowl and drizzle with the vinegar. Set aside for 15 minutes or until you get the other parts of the salad done.\n\nPreheat the oven to 180°C/350°F. Line a medium baking sheet with baking paper or foil. Spread the bread cubes over the paper/foil and drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Bake for about 8 minutes or until bread is crispy and golden. Remove from the oven and set aside.\nIn the meantime, heat a nonstick frying pan over high heat. Add the chorizo and cook, stirring now and then, until crispy. Drain the chorizo over paper towels.\n\nTransfer bread, chorizo, tomatoes and chickpeas to ta large bowl. Drain the onion (save the vinegar for the dressing) and stir into the salad. To the bowl with the vinegar, add the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil, mustard, salt and pepper and whisk well. Pour over the salad, toss to combine and set aside for 30 minutes. Stir in the basil leaves and serve." ]

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[ "Welcome to Verve's March Diva Inspirations Hop. It's the 5th of the month and that means it's hopping time! This month we've got a fabulous challenge that's sure to put a string in your step! So in addition to a comment prize hidden along the hop, you can play along with the challenge and link up your creation for a chance to win another prize!\n\nOur March challenge is Spring Has Sprung:", "It's time to ditch the winter blues! Create a card that sings Spring using inspirational quotes, pretty colors and florals or themes that celebrate new life. Whether you draw inspiration from the graphic or blaze your own trail, just show us what spring means to you!", "I love this challenge just because it gives me hope that spring is around the corner! I used the stamp set Blue Skies for this challenge (such a great stamp set! such great sentiments!!!) and stamped the sentiment onto the notebook image stamp in this set and followed the sketch for the Mojo Monday challenge #335 (holy moly - 335 sketches!) Here is my take on the sketch and this challenge:", null, "Here is a close up of my spring card - a little flower, some pearls, twine and some lacy pennants (from the ek success border punch)- I highlighted the one with a blue copic:", null, "Card Ingredients:\nStamps: Blue Skies from Verve Stamps\nInks: London Fog, Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa\nPapers: My Mind's Eye\nAccessories: pearls, heart punch (mini), prima fairytale roses (teal), lace ribbon, foam dimensionals, ek success border punch, white sharpie gel pen, twine\n\nI loved making this card - I seriously LOVE Julee's amazing stamps with these gorgeous fonts, sentiments and sweet images! Need a little inspiration? Check out the blogs linked below to see what the other Divas did with the challenge! It's sure to be a treat, and speaking of treats, we've got a prize for one lucky commenter along the hop! Check out the Verve Blog today for all the prize info and deadlines.", "Posted by Sankari W. at 3/05/2014 06:00:00 AM", "Labels: Dream card, verve, Verve stamps, VerveDT", "Casandra Bennett said...\n\nWhat a beautiful saying, and what a lovely card. Wow.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 6:28 AM", "very beautiful!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 7:40 AM", "grandmato19 said...\n\nLove the vintage, old-time look. So beautiful!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 8:27 AM", "Stacey Schafer said...\n\nso shabby and spectacular, Sankari!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 8:34 AM", "Marisa said...\n\nBeautiful soft colours and card.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 10:18 AM", "Andrea Unidea said...\n\nGorgeous card!! You did a great job with embellishments, and loving the sentiment!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 11:44 AM", "Sharon said...\n\nBeautiful card - love the soft colors and all the layers and details!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 1:08 PM", "Karen Day said...\n\nSuch an elegant card!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 1:47 PM", "Diana Nguyen said...\n\nWow, thought the card was pretty fabulous and then I saw the close-up. Love how you double stamped it for the shadow effect!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 2:40 PM", "Amy C. said...\n\nSuch a pretty card! I love all the different textures and elements and that sentiment is lovely!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 2:43 PM", "Sue D said...\n\nvery soft and pretty.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 3:08 PM", "Bill Ali said...\n\nSimply beautiful\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 3:27 PM", "Rosemary said...\n\ngorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 5:03 PM", "Annheidel said...\n\nSo sweet! I recently got this set and your card is just wonderful.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 5:12 PM", "Penny Nichols said...\n\nBeautiful card! So elegant and Victorian. Thanks for sharing.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 5:36 PM", "The colors are muted but very pretty. Great touch to only round one corner. Great card.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 5:56 PM", "Rachel B said...\n\nBeautiful card! Love your banner.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 6:16 PM", "Jean Bullock said...\n\nGosh what beautiful layers. I like how the note paper is loose on the top edges and is inked to give it an aged look. The color palette you chose is wonderful and your paper pattern mix works so well. Love the bling you added. So pretty.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 6:33 PM", "Maryleva said...\n\nLove the softness of this beautiful spring card.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 8:48 PM", "Love the soft colors and myriad of details on your card. The draped edging and perfect pearls are lovely, and I adore the sentiment!\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 8:53 PM", "JoAnn said...\n\nLove the sentiment and your gorgeous card.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 9:16 PM", "Julie S. said...\n\nThis card is so pretty, I especially like the row of pearls.\n\nMarch 5, 2014 at 11:56 PM", "Cheryl said...\n\nStunning! I adore all the distressing and that pretty mint green flower against the kraft.\n\nMarch 6, 2014 at 11:42 AM", "This is so beautiful!! I love the soft subdued colors and that gorgeous blue rose! I love the \"Blue Skies\" set, too, it is really fabulous.\n\nMarch 6, 2014 at 8:17 PM", "Emilou said...\n\nYour card is wonderful, with the pearls and small touches of accents. Thanks for sharing. Blessings and smiles, Emilou :-)\n\nMarch 6, 2014 at 10:17 PM", "Becca Whitham said...\n\nUm...YUM! I am in love with the banner that you ran through a paper crimper. What a fabulous way to add even more of a fluttering feeling.\n\nMarch 7, 2014 at 8:42 AM", "Miriam Prantner said...\n\nThis is so pretty! I love the soft colors! Gorgeous embellishments!\n\nMarch 7, 2014 at 1:03 PM", "Sue Crease said...\n\nJust love this card, great sentiment and use of stamp sets.\nSue. C\n\nMarch 7, 2014 at 5:11 PM", "Darlene Gabriel said...\n\nOh this is so beautiful and soft. Love this sentiment and the sweet rose. I love the little heart and sequin you tucked in too. I just keep looking at this and seeing more I love about it. Gorgeous card.\n\nMarch 8, 2014 at 10:35 AM", "Kris B said...\n\nGorgeous! Love the vintage look and the soft colors! The notebook look is wonderful! Love all the pretty details!\n\nMarch 8, 2014 at 9:48 PM", "Anita in France said...\n\nOooh, gorgeous and subtle, Sanketi ... and such a wonderful sentiment! Anita :)\n\nMarch 9, 2014 at 5:04 AM", "You can Subscribe to my Blog here and get the latest updates", "Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen", "I Design for Taylored Expressions", "Taylored Expressions Baker's Dozen Design Team", "I Design for Verve", "Verve Divas Design Team", "Previous Design Teams\n\nSo grateful to have been on these wonderful Design Teams!", "Paper Craft Planet (2009-2011)", "JustRite Stampers (March 2011 - Jan- 2012)", "2 Sketches 4 You - Fall and Winter 2009-2010", "Flourishes Limelight Designer", "Guest Designer for FireCracker Designs", "FEEDJIT Live Traffic Map", "Guest Designer for Verve", "Featured Color Throwdown Sampler for this Layout", "Paper Crafting Challenges\n\nSome of my Favorite challenges :)" ]

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[ "Tuesday, October 28, 2008\n\nOn Saturday Caitlen had Homecoming. She looked so beautiful. She went with a bunch of friends in a huge group. They had a blast ! Here are a few shots of my girlie all cleaned up.", null, null ]

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[ "Things are often not what they seem...\n\nRecall this week's Challenge:  We're trying to understand what's causing this gap around the plants up in the chaparral on Black Mountain (in the Santa Cruz range).\n\n1.  What causes the odd, plant-free gap around the plants in these photos?", null, "What struck me about each of these pictures is that there's a noticable gap between the green plant and the grassland next to it.  Oddly, this doesn't happen ALL the time, but it does happen a lot.", "The plants here are chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum), but I'm pretty sure I saw gaps like this around coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis) in the same area.\n\nWhat's going on here?\n\nI began my search with:\n\n[ plant free zone OR area near chamise OR \"coyote brush\" ]\n\nbut these results weren't especially good.  I learned a lot about how to create \"plant free zones\" around houses, especially those that are built in chaparral or near fire-prone plants like chamise.  I also learned a great deal about chamise, such as:\n\n\"Under natural conditions, dormant seeds accumulate in the soil until stimulated by fire to germinate [66,126].  Chamise seeds are unpalatable and seedbanks apparently are not subject to heavy predation [111]. Consequently, chamise seed densities increase over time [133].  Seed density in the seedbank beneath 9-year-old stands was estimated at 2,000 seeds per square meter while in 85-year-old stands, seed density was approximately 21,000 seeds per square meter [132].\"  (From the Federal Fire Effects Information system, which includes descriptions of plants like chamise.)\n\nReading through these articles was interesting, but not especially useful.  (Or so I thought.  See below...)\n\nI modified my query to focus in on just chamise:\n\n[ plants not grow near chamise ]\n\nand I had a bunch of new, additional results about chamise.  But one result struck my eye, a PDF from the Santa Cruz County Parks Department that said (in the snippet) \"...chamise uses allelopathy, altering the soil as it drops leaves...\"  This sounded as though it MIGHT be relevant, so I clicked through to the landing page and found these lines that sounds like our solution...\n\n\"Some plants engage in chemical warfare, or allelopathy. Chamise accumulates toxic, water-soluble compounds as a result of normal metabolic processes. Fog drip and rain carry these toxins to the soil, where they inhibit the growth of competing plants.\"\n\nNow this sounds like the right mechanism--this very well might cause a zone around the chamise that would be pretty barren.  However, this paragraph uses a word that's new to me: \"allelopathy,\" so...\n\nI looked it up: \"allelopathy\" means\"the chemical inhibition of one plant (or other organism) by another, due to the release into the environment of substances acting as germination or growth inhibitors.\"   This very well could be exactly what's happening to cause the plant free zone around the bushes.  Broccoli and black walnut, for instance, both exude substances that kill (or prevent from growing) plants living nearby.  So, maybe we've found the answer.\n\nAnd now that I know this word, I remembered seeing it before--in the first set of results!  Now I know what that word means, and I see in retrospect that my first hint was actually in the first search I did, if only I'd known.\n\nThis is now officially interesting, so I dug a little deeper into the \"allelopathy\" vein.\n\nI thought what I'd do is to search for \"allelopathy\" for chamise, with the obvious query:\n\n[ allelopathy chamise ]\n\nNot only did I find a lot of new results, but I found myself in the middle of a scientific battle of explanations!!\n\nLook at the results page here:", null, "As I read the first result, I was astonished:  this link gives you an idea about what's going on.  In that article, published in 2004 (in the oldest botanical publication in the US) the author calls into question the idea that chamise is allelopathic.  So I did a bit of searching and reading of these pages.  Here's what I found:\n\nOn the \"allelopathy side\" are publications that argue that chamise IS allelopathic, and causes the plant-free zone around chamise:\n\nKeeley, J. E., Morton, B. A., Pedrosa, A., & Trotter, P. (1985). \"Role of allelopathy, heat and charred wood in the germination of chaparral herbs and suffrutescents\"  The Journal of Ecology, 445-458.\n\nMcPherson, J. K., & Muller, C. H. (1969). \"Allelopathic effects of Adenostoma fasciculatum, \"chamise\", in the California chaparral\"  Ecological Monographs, 39(2), 177-198.\n\nMuller, C. H. 1953. \"The association of desert annuals with shrubs\" Am. J. Botany 40: 53-60.\n\nMuller, Cornelius H., Hanawalt, R. B., McPherson, J. K. \"Allelopathic Control of Herb Growth in the Fire Cycle of California Chaparral\" Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 95(3)  (May - Jun., 1968),  225-231\n\nNotice that these publications are all a few years old.  Science marches on.  We should look for more recent work.\n\nThere are a few more recent publications that argue this is all wrong, that allelopathy isn't really what's going on here (at least for chamise):\n\nHalsey, Richard W. \"In search of allelopathy: an eco-historical view of the investigation of chemical inhibition in California coastal sage scrub and chamise chaparral.\" Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society (2004): 343-367.\n\nWeidenhamer, Jeffrey D. \"Distinguishing resource competition and chemical interference: overcoming the methodological impasse.\" Agronomy Journal 88.6 (1996): 866-875.\n\nAfter reading a bunch of these papers, it becomes clear that the idea that chamise is allelopathic originated in Muller's original paper from 1953.  But that since then, the idea that chamise actively emits chemicals (or, more likely, that the chemicals are leached off in rainwater over the plant) has been called into question.\n\nThere's no doubt that some plants do emit compounds that suppress nearby growth, the question being debated here is whether or not chamise is one of them or not.  The articles are fairly detailed, with long sections describing how to test one idea or the other. Fascinating reading, if you're into details of methodology (which I actually quite enjoyed, but maybe that's just me), but I'll just summarize it by saying these folks are still trying to figure it out.  However...\n\nA very nice summary of this entire debate is contained in a relatively recent book, Perspectives on plant competition (2012) by James Grace and David Tilman.  They conclude that allelopathy by chamise and other chaparral plants is \"...overrated... if not altogether fictitious...\" (p 146).\n\nWhy this might matter is because some botanists are trying to figure out ways to harness plants natural allelopathic capability to do weed suppression in fields, and perhaps farm without using any weedkiller sprays on the crops.  In essence, if chamise IS allelopathic, might it be possible to breed (or genetically engineer) a food plant that needs no weedkiller, but can grow just fine on its own?\n\nHOWEVER.. while reading Perspectives on plant competition, I looked up each of the citations of Muller's work, and in particular each reference in the text about allelopathy.  In the process, I found this remarkable phrase on page 145.\n\n\"... experimental evidence supporting an alternative explanation for the bare zones around chaparral shrubs.  Batholomew (1970) demonstrated that halos around some shrubs in the soft chaparral might be maintained by herbivory from animals inhabiting the shrubs. Successive attempts to test the relative importance of allelopathy versus herbivory in both the development and the maintenance of bare zones showed that chemical inhibition occurred in some species, but not in others and that the herbivory of unexclosed seedlings could be an intense as 100% (Halligan, 1973, 1975, 1976; Christiensen and Muller, 1975).\"\n\nI know that's dense prose, but WOW!  If you decode this text, they're saying that animals are eating the small plants around the shrubs.  (That's what \"herbivory\" means--animals eating plants.  \"Unexclosed\" means there's no animal-excluding fence around the small plants just outside of the shrub.)  And not just some of the plants, but up to 100% of them!\n\nLooking up the Bartholmew reference (Bartholomew, B (1970), \"Bare zone between California shrub and grassland communities: the role of animals\"  Science 170, 1210-1212), we find that\n\n\"...Previous studies have emphasized the role of volatile inhibitors of plant growth in producing this bare zone. However, there is a concentration of feeding activity by rodents, rabbits, and birds in this zone; if this activity is prevented by means of wire-mesh exclosures, annuals grow in the bare zone. Thus, animal activity is sufficient to produce the bare zone.\"\n\nAmong other things, we now have a technical term for this region around the outside of chamise and coyote brush:  bare zone.  My next query was:\n\n[ \"bare zone\" chaparral shrub ]\n\nand--voila!-- we have a lot of articles on the bare zone around chaparral plants, just as we're seeing in the photos.  The consensus of opinion now seems to be that the bare zone is caused by animals that are foraging near the clusters of chaparral shrubs. (Bartholomew, 1970; Halligan, 1974; Bradford 1976; Barbour et al., 2000, etc)\n\nIn this long list of articles, there's a wonderful (and very readable) one from Bay Nature magazine entitled \"A Landscape Shaped by Fear on Mount Diablo.\"  In it, the author writes:\n\nMuller’s work was later challenged by researchers who argued that his work glossed over the role of hungry seed and plant eaters. “In California, the chaparral and coastal sage shrubs form excellent cover for rodents, rabbits, and birds,” Stanford graduate student Bruce Bartholomew wrote in a seminal 1970 paper.\n\nThese small animals leave the shelter of chaparral in search of food. But they don’t go far, lest they themselves become a meal for hawks, bobcats, mountain lions, coyotes and other predators. That’s why the bare zone is also called the “scurry zone.”\n\nWhere Bartholomew set up cages excluding small animals, the bare zone largely disappeared. That and followup experiments led to the view held by many field biologists today, that wary little animals play a huge role in keeping chaparral-grassland borders free of vegetation. In their view, the bare zone is not so much a strip of dirt poisoned by plant chemicals, it’s a landscape shaped by fear.\n\nThe article is well worth a read.  In it, you meet UC Berkeley botanist Lindsey Hendricks-Franco and a great picture of the exclosures she's set up to test her hypothesis about small animal herbivory at the margins of burned zones in the chaparral causes bare zones there.\n\nOf course, not being satisfied with what I'd read, I decided to go back out to my local chaparral and do a few of my own observations.  Here are two photos that are pretty suggestive of what's going on:\n\nAbove you see a bare zone next to a large stand of coyote bush.  So far as I know, there hasn't been any report of allelopathy for coyote bush.  If that's true, what's causing the bare zone next to it?  Probably the small animals that live within.  Meanwhile, just down the trail I saw this:\n\nAnd here you see a bunch of grass growing right next to a small patch of chamise.  If it was truly allelopathic, why would the grass be growing there?\n\nNote that the stand of chamise is pretty small.  I noticed that small patches of chamise  OR coyote bush don't have bare zones, while large patches of chamise OR coyote brush do have bare zones.\n\nI speculate that a smallish-stand-alone chamise bush just can't provide the cover that large patches can.  That's why small bushes don't have a bare zone--if you're a mouse, there's no protection.  But a big stand of any kind of chaparral brush will do:  chamise, coyote bush, or even manzanita (another common California chaparral bush).\n\nThe Google Earth photo (from March, 2013) shows this gap effect quite clarly.  Each of these clumps of bushes (some are chamise, some are coyote brush) has a small zone around each that clearly shows the effect of either the allopathic effects of chamise, or the herb grazing effects of small mammals near the bushes.  (Note also the change in the color of the soil near the bottom of the image; it really does change to a very light color down there.  I checked it out in person--this isn't an artifact, it's really a color shift.)", "And, if you look at many of the clumps of bushes, you can see a pretty clear effect of the presence (or absence) of a bare zone depending on the size of the clump of bushes.\n\nOnce the clump gets below a certain size, the bare zone seems to disappear.  (Note that I haven't field-checked this, but I'll run up there this week and measure some of the bare zone widths to see if this really holds. More data when I have some to report.)\n\nSearch Lessons\n\nWhat I found so interesting about the comment thread this week is that Regular Researcher Remmij first found one explanation for the gap (\"Shrub cover subsequently increases numbers of rabbits and small mammals (and birds too) that reduce herbaceous vegetation and favor shrub development [25,54]. Thus, well-established coyotebrush stands generally have depauperate understories [30].\")\n\nRemmij's quotation is from Point Reyes National Seashore and North District of Golden Gate National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), Fire Management Plan: Environmental Impact Statement (2004), and leads directly to the \"animals in the bush are causing the bare zone\" interpretation.\n\nBut then everyone seized on the allelopathic effect for chamise, probably because that's the first explanation that pops to the front when you do the obvious search.   But note that this is true only for chamise, and doesn't hold for coyote brush and other plants in the area.\n\nI suspect that what ALSO happened is a kind of piling-on: we all saw the first explanation (allelopathy) and thought \"that must be it.\"\n\nIf that's what happened (and I'm curious about your thoughts, Regular SearchResearchers), then this is an example of confirmation bias at work.  That is, the tendency (when doing research) to latch onto a plausible explanation and then search for reinforcing evidence.\n\n1. Be careful about confirmation bias!  In particular...\n\n2. Look for another explanation, or at least another point of view.  In this case, it turned out that allelopathy IS a real thing, but it's probably not what's going on here.  I found the \"animals cause the bare zone\" story because I noticed that these articles were all a few years old.  So I looked around a bit more and found...\n\n3.  It's a good idea to find a recent reference to see if current belief is the same as older beliefs.  And in this case, they weren't.  Botanical thinking had changed since the first allelopathic explanations were written.\n\nSorry this took so long to publish, but I was busy reading and having a great time looking for examples of this effect.\n\nHope you had as good a time as I did with this Challenge.\n\nThis week's Challenge will come out tomorrow (Thursday)." ]

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[ "Tuesday, October 16, 2012\n\nConference Tea Grandpa Style\n\nMy third and last conference for this month is at the historic Palace Hotel in San Francisco.  They appear to keep the water hotter than other venues with a canned flame underneath so I was encouraged to bring leaf tea on my second day for a bit of grandpa style.", null, "I chose Hoffman's 1995 Large Leaf Maocha from Emmett as large leaf tea tends to be more tolerant of overbrewing. I also wanted a little bit of novelty. I rinsed the leaves at home and tested the initial brew which was surprisingly smoky and astringent.  Even taking into account extra-dry storage, 1995 is a stretch for me.\n\nI took the wet leaves in a stainless canister to the hotel and brewed three cups or until the leaves gave out. The Sterno flame under the hot water dispenser apparently only gave the illusion of water being kept hotter as I didn't get a piping hot brew in all cases.\n\nWas it worth the effort? The initial two speakers were so stimulating that I was really too distracted to notice anything but a vague youngish sheng taste. In a slower afternoon session, I thoughtfully savored two cups of a delicious roasted oolong that Wilson sent me. Roasted oolong definitely performs better in conference conditions than pu-erh. I'm a serious introvert so all the people milling about plain wore me out. My taste buds tend to be desensitized in such settings.\n\nI brought the spent leaves home to do a full inspection - it's hard to do this sort of leaf shot at the conference site. The teas look darker than they did early this morning as they have oxidized a bit.  Maocha tends to age much faster than compressed sheng so I'm still dubious these here green leaves were sprouted in 1995 but there's just no point calling shenanigans on Hoffman. Life is short my friends. Life is short.", null, "The Palace Hotel incidentally has a famous afternoon tea service which is more for tourists and ladies who lunch than for serious tea lovers; puerh is definitely not on the menu nor will it ever be.  I've only tried their service once during Christmas season long ago.  I'd rather enjoy the simpler pleasures of having a scrumptious Tropezienne at the neighboring La Boulange. A Tropezienne is sliced brioche with cream inside and is my latest dessert fad.  Scones can be pretty good but can never compete with a well done french pastry involving cream filling.  I enjoyed a delicious Tropezienne two days in a row and now don't know how I'll cope tomorrow!", null, "(Those are just some random rich people who happened to be caught in my photo.)" ]

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[ null, "Well Poop Deckers, Its been another busy month here in the shop.... and with spring shining bright, we are very excited about the prospect of\n\"New Beginnings\"\nIn fact, winging their way over to us as we speak are a selection of Beautiful, High Class Indian Carpets... A natural compliment to any household, these carpets and rugs will brighten up a room and add a touch of spice to your home!\nSpring is the time when we get to celebrate the end of another long winter and look forward to the approaching presence of Summer. We are extremely lucky to have experienced an early taste of summer over these past few weeks. With beautiful sunshine and wonderful warm weather, the days have seemed full of possibility and the promise of things to come....\nWith this in mind, we are pleased to present, our\nSpring Garden Window\nHere at The Poop Deck, we cater for all garden types. Whether you're looking for decorative stoneware to jazz up a plainer area or furniture to make the most of your garden space.... We will find something to suit your tastes!\n\nIf its home wares your searching for, we always have a selection of original pieces to add a creative touch to any room. We have just had a delivery of our ever popular Oyster Plates. They have just arrived in from France...\n\nso get them while you can!\n\nAnd whatever preparations you are doing to get yourself in the spring garden mood, remember its important to relax and unwind too...", null, "Because Summer is on its way, and there's\nnothing we can do about it!\nLazy days spent lying in hammocks or reclining on comfy summer cushions... THAT'S what we're looking forward to!\nWhat are you looking forward to this Spring?\nCome into The Poop Deck today & find your inspiration!\nPosted by The Poop Deck at 09:45 1 comment:", "The Poop Deck\nFind us on the Coast Road! We have everything for your home, garden or gift needs and can source items for you as required through our \"customer wish list\" service." ]

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[ "The FARGO HOUSE gallery presents the work of artists, architects and designers whose work explores the collective imagination of places.", "2016 - 2017. David Schalliol. Telescope Houses of Buffalo.\nThe telescope house is a distinct vernacular building type that was often begun as a wood frame worker's cottage, usually developed and designed by outsider architects.  Such houses were typically produced from designs in pattern books or other standardized development tools by German and Polish immigrants or the companies that employed them.  But they did not stay as designed for long. The combination of small residences, narrow but deep lots, growing families, and limited resources led to a distinctive expansion pattern: buildings that were enlarged through rear additions that incrementally reduce in scale. This has resulted in houses that seemingly can be collapsed into themselves like a telescope or \"spyglass.\"  On the East Side of Buffalo, where once dense streets are full of derelict lots, small fields now flank many of the telescope houses. The resulting wide-open views make the special design of Buffalo's telescope houses visible, but they also reveal the tenuous condition of many of the buildings and the neighborhoods as a whole.\n\nDavid Schalliol is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College who explores the transformation of urban centers through mixed-methodology projects. His writing and photographs have appeared in such publications as Social Science Research, Places, and The New York Times, as well as in numerous exhibitions, including the inaugural Belfast Photo Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Photography's Midwest Photographers Project. His book, Isolated Building Studies, was published by Utakatado in 2014. Schalliol has also contributed to documentary films, including \"Highrise: Out My Window,\" an interactive documentary that won the 2011 International Digital Emmy for Non-Fiction. He is currently making an ethnographic film about the displacement of more than 400 families on Chicago’s South Side. Schalliol received his bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College and his master’s and doctoral degrees from The University of Chicago. http://davidschalliol.com/", "2014 - 2015.  Caitlin Cass. Rathbun Builds Buffalo.\nCaitlin Cass makes comics, drawings and counterfeit museum exhibits that folklorize historic failures. Her current work tells the story of Buffalo’s great capitalist, Benjamin Rathbun, a 19th century developer who is said to have erected 99 buildings in the year 1835 alone. Through comics and drawings, Cass commiserates with Rathbun as he builds Buffalo, buys Niagara Falls, forges bank notes and ends up imprisoned in a building of his own making.\n\nCass’s work has been exhibited at The Corcoran College of Art and Design, The Burchfield Penney Art Center, The Niagara Falls History Museum, and The Print Center at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, China.  She was Artist-In-Residence at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium and an Artist Fellow at The Contemporary Artist Center Woodside in Troy, NY. Her comics have appeared in The Chicago Reader, Artvoice, The Public and on Toronto's subway monitors (presented by Art For Commuters). Cass holds a BA in Great Books from St. John’s College and an MFA in Visual studies from The University at Buffalo. She lives and works in Buffalo, NY.", null, "2013 - 2014.  Daniel Salomon. Metathesis Hardbound.\nMetathesis Hardbound is a visual narrative surrounding the collection of forlorn fragments of architecture. On his 2011 tour of the US, Daniel Salomon compiled building-parts in a room-sized box builit on the bed of his pickup.  After returning home, Salomon covered his box with a patchwork of pinhole apertures in order to capture the box's contents.  Re-assembling the fragments to accommodate a complex array of perspectives, he finally used the box as a primitive camera device, exposing its interior to a range of natural light conditions. This exhibition presents his phantasmagoric exposures, as well as the means to their making." ]

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[ "Tuesday, October 23, 2012\n\nBowl 26: David", null, "He's reading as I approach -- it's book about how we're all connected . . .\nthoroughly researched, including interviews with numerous physicists and other scientists . . .\nit sounded interesting, but I've already forgotten the title and the author.\nHe wants to know if the shape of the tea bowl has a functional purpose\nand why I call them tea bowls and not cups . . .\ninteresting questions.\nI reply that the shape is serendipitous, there only to make the hand feel comfortable . . .\nand that for me bowls have gravitas -  evoking ceremony and offering,\nwhereas tea cups seem flighty, somewhat lightweight, frivolous even.\n\nI find myself explaining the process of inscribing the lines and inlaying the slip\n. . .  he tells me that he's writing a play.\n. . . and he is trying to devise a way for someone to put a secret message on the back of the Rosetta Stone . . . a message that could be revealed at a crucial moment . . .\nwe speculate about clay and glue and tar and acid . . .\nand what would stick to stone and what would look like it belonged.\n\nThen we talk of making art for the love of it--\nplays to be seen by friends and family,\ntea bowls to be given away\nsharing a joy in the process\nthen sharing the process with the world.\nI walk away, embraced by the warm sun and the brilliant colors of the day,\nfilled with the contentment of a shared moment in time and space --\nfeeling connection.\nPosted by Joan Schwartz at 7:54 PM No comments:", "Wednesday, October 10, 2012\n\nBowl 25: David", null, "It's a circus of sound, color, movement.\nThe steady beat of Brazilian drummers holds the space.\nOnlookers bounce in rhythm with the band.\nEven the Tai chi players seem somehow in sync.\nChildren running, trailing brilliant streamers.\nWhile overhead a giant kite/banner/origami thing snakes its way through the space\ndefining it. . . sheltering it . . .without really enclosing it.\n\nHe is drawing bowls as I approach -- with black charcoal on white paper.\nBut he is sitting on a blanket with three colorful paintings arrayed beside him.\n$15 each, he tells me.\n\nHe's studying fashion at MassArt,\nthe child of Columbian immigrants who came here to build a better life,\nand he is grateful for the opportunity to study art, to live among museums,\nand to draw inspiration from artists both living and dead.\n\nI offer him a bowl. Not for a painting, just for his photo.\nHands smeared with charcoal against the pale glazed surface.\nthe drawing of his bowls behind.\nThe image, and the trade, are just right.\nperfectly in sync with the rhythm of the drums\nand the spirit of the day." ]

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[ null, "Born to Caroline and Willard Christopher Smith Sr., Will Smith became one of the most commercially successful actor in Hollywood. He is the only actor whom consecutive eight films gross over $100 million in US box office. Smith first started his career as a musician and won his first Grammy Award in the Rap category in 1988. The sitcom \"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\" where he basically played himself which gives debut to his acting career. After promising acting in there he played some major movies like Six Degrees of Separation and Bad Boys followed by huge hit Independence Day and Men in Black. He is now married to Jada Pinkett Smith and they have three children named Trey, Jaden and Willow Smith. The following contains all Will Smith movies that he aced and involved with.\n\nWill Smith complete movies lists:\n(Movie Title | Released Year| Character)\n\nWill Smith's TV movies/series:", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "\"It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. \"\n\nCategories Navigation Menu\nHome » Featured » Taipei 101 – On The Inside\n\nTaipei 101 – On The Inside\n\nPosted by Jonny on May 4, 2013 in Featured, Travel | 0 comments\n\nHere are a few pictures I took on my trip to Taipei. I went to Taipei 101 and it was quite fun. Although. admittedly, the place is suited towards those with money. It has all the big brand names in there, and I don’t mean Nike, Adidas or Puma. This place is well catered for people who buy expensive things like GUCCI, Rolex, Tommy Hilfiger etc. Anyways, it was great. I didn’t realise that so many Japanese people travel to Taiwan. There were hundreds of them inside!", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Some of these pictures are old and have been taken with my FZ-28." ]

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[ null, "Finding Vacuum Cleaners on the Internet Today, many of homeowners are thinking about after recognizing their advantages obtaining vacuums. Nonetheless, it is necessary to ensure that the solution you are considering to purchase will have a way to meet up with your requirements. Here are a few helpful suggestions before purchasing quality cleaners products online you have to contemplate. Choose the type of vacuum you want. Simply because they are available in two types i. e. the erect edition and the container, you have to understand which may match you. This may rely on the kind of cleaning you will be undertaking. An excellent vertical vacuum will be the best fit for you personally in case your home is wall to carpeted. When the area to become vacuumed is hard, pick the canister. Consider the surface area of cleaning. A portable system is likely to be sufficient when the kind of cleaning entails small areas to get little contaminants and never the whole ground. There are numerous designs offered to pick from. They may be corded or uncorded (battery-operated) items. Make certain that it’s an extended battery life; at the very least 15 to 20 minutes of continual usage, should you select the battery-powered one.\nA Simple Plan: Equipment\nDetermine the cleaning methods. If you are allergic, you need to prevent dust at all price. During draining products without series, bags often eliminate a lot of dirt. Consequently, when you have the conditions this kind may not be the best choice. To test the air filtration, several newer cleaners versions come with HEPA filtration which will be ready to eliminate lint and pests from your oxygen if it experiences it.\nA Quick Overlook of Products – Your Cheatsheet\nLook at the price. Cheap does not usually mean you will obtain top-notch appliance. Present developments claim that products that are cheaper often last 24 months or less keeping in mind they include 12 months guarantee. This means that you are prone to save money once you get a cheaper alternative than if you get a quality system that may last for anything between 3 to 7 years. Determine whether the vacuum has spare parts. Make sure that the spare parts can easily be bought available on the market before investing in a vacuum from the internet. This can be found in practical if at any one time you want to substitute anything. Many nearby stores do not share the parts that are spare nevertheless from the manufacturer’s websites or other retailers; although they can easily be bought online. Nevertheless, it’s critical to ensure that they’re there before purchasing. The principle is always to grasp the kind of jobs you will be revealing the solution to. You will get a device that will serve your needs without any problems in so doing." ]

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[ "Monday, November 18, 2013\n\nSomething's Up\n\nA woman feels it in the air, a feeling that something's up. A man feels it because he's read it in the newspaper and the local weather man said it's today. Big November full moon in Taurus.  She knows it was yesterday but his voice is louder and certain of the date. She daydreams to the background noises of his muffled words. The feeling came in waves with traffic flow and warm fresh towels that needed  folding. It peeked its head again at mid lunch when the phone started ringing. Women on the machine wanting answers from each other because they had a feeling too, something's up. A woman knows others won't hear what she has to say when the feeling is in the air so the phone went unanswered. Time for space where the heart is tender in a labyrinth that's shadowed by bits of this and bits of that and a woman knows it will pass as feelings often do.\n\nThe man wants to prove today is the full moon and lucky for the woman, Google agrees with  her. His confusion makes her smile as he leaves the room amazed that he and the weatherman were wrong. How did she know without looking at the news? It came in waves, with thoughts of being nine dressed in a Christmas dress, riding in a dark car on the way to watch the Russian children dance ballet  in a small town in Mexico where the rain pours and the streets smell of fresh earth. Shadows of a sweet tamale with big raisins that she loves where another shadow lies on top of this one but it won't talk, only breathes. A hot breath of giggly cousins in clicky sounding shoes, famous dancers, grandma is so pretty and everyone loves her. Who's drunk? Not grandma, she loves the little girl and sings the words, pretty baby all the way home letting the child's memory relax into visions of wet clicky shoes in a town that glows with Christmas lights and plastic Santa's in the store front windows. Did the Russian children fly to get there?\n\nThe man is hungry and joins the woman for an intimate dinner of split pea, carrot and potato soup with a crisp salad. He notices the house is clean and asks how did she know the full moon was yesterday.\n\n\"It feels good in here,\" says the man.\n\" There's something about full moons that makes me want to clean,\" replies the woman.\n\"So that's how you know?\" he asks.\n\"Guess so, just a feeling,\" she whispers.", null, "To contemplate is to look at shadows.Victor Hugo\nPosted by Sandy Jorgensen at 11:24 PM No comments: Links to this post", "Saturday, November 16, 2013\n\nThe Funeral", null, "We're a tangled bunch of actors on the same road\nof twists and turns in a world of surprises and my heart\nbeats loudest before my turn to be center stage\nfor your funeral that's twenty years too soon...\n...You've gone from sight and left with Gaia's last season\nbut new winter winds have arrived today and the show goes on\nfor me with veins that pump the blood\nmy heart beats loudest before my turn...\nsilent strangers in a crowd with roots and strength\nThe cast in a production that remains live\nwithout a script, a tangled bunch we are in a room\nthat holds a space for you with unified love,\nmaking my task one of honor, praised by angels\nwho hold us together in one clumped mess\nsuspended in the Universe, a sphere of Love that pumps\nand beats and carries on the promises of the dreamer\n...I am so glad I wore pink for you today...", null ]

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[ "Thursday, 20 July 2017\n\nSailor Moon Crystal Book Tag", null, "Ok, mini backstory. I was chatting to Luna from Luna's Little Library and went \"Has there been a Sailor Moon Book Tag?\" (there are but we didn't realise this till much later!). Luna wasn't sure so I wrote up some ideas and went \"You know Sailor Moon better than me, what do you think of these?\" and Luna read and made her own questions. So, Luna and myself would like to welcome you to our Sailor Moon Crystal Book Tag!\n\nSo, how does this work? Well, each Sailor Scout has a question that you have to relate to a book you have read or are going to read. Now, you can answer all the questions or you can just do barring the last four (so you can ignore Sailor Star Fighter, Sailor Star Healer, Sailor Star Maker and Sailor Cosmos). It really depends on you!\n\nOh, before I start, I know my Twitter handle is wrong on the image/gif. Luna made it then I decided to drop the numbers from my Twitter handle. So, it was correct when Luna made it and it was correct when I started writing this post. It's just not correct now at the time of posting the post!\n\nAlso, Luna tagged a few people on her post, so I suppose I better do the same. Let's see... I would like to tag @ChouettBlog, @LoveMikaylaEve, @MaddieandBee, @bedtimebookclub & @betterwordspod.\n\nSo, now we've done that, IN THE NAME OF THE MOON, LET'S GET STARTED! (... see what I did there...)", "The Sailor Moon Book Tag\nCreated by The Pewter Wolf & Luna’s Little Library\n\nYou can join in with a blogpost, video, tumblr, podcast or however else you’re creativeness kicks in. And you can do as many or as few rounds as you fancy. I and Luna are doing all the rounds but you can do as many or as little as you want. It’s up to you what you fancy doing (plus, with so many characters, it’s easier to split them up, we found)!\n\nAt the end TAG someone (or multiple someone else’s) who love Sailor Moon, reading or a mix of the two.\n\nHave fun!\n\nSailor Moon\nA book that has an unlikely hero/friendship at its heart:\nOf course the first question we ask is the one I get the most stumbled on! Most of the books I enjoy reading have unlikely heroes or friendships at their heart. And seeing as I am deseperate not to mention Harry Potter, let’s say Artemis Fowl. He’s an anti-hero who, over the course of the series, becomes a hero.\n\nSailor Mercury\nA book that made you think:\nI think most of the books I hold dear to me made me look at the world differently and made me think. Harry Potter, the Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games, Sabriel all made me look at how I saw something and question it. Let's say Sabriel as, when I first read it, it made me question how I look at death and what happens after death...\n\nSailor Mars\nA book that has strong feminist themes:\nWe Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This was one of the only few questions I knew the answer to without a moment’s thought.\n\nSailor Jupiter\nA book that made you fall in love with food:\nThis is another hard question. Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve read this, but seeing as I’m not allowed to use cookbooks as my answer, am going to say The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman. I remember that there are two chapters in here that tackle food - Vodka and Marzipan. One of these chapters is vital to the overall story so I have to pick this, right?\n\nSailor Venus\nA book you wish there was a prequel for…\nOh! WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN?! Nearly every book series I love needs a prequel. But since Harry Potter is having the Fantastic Beasts movies and His Dark Materials has the new Book of Dust trilogy, am torn between two other series: The Hunger Games and The Old Kingdom series… Let's say The Hunger Games as I am curious over what happened to Pamen to create the Hunger Games in the first place...\n\nSailor Uranus\nA book that has LGBTQIA+ character/relationship:\nThe last few books I’ve read with LGBTQIA+ characters/relationship are Release by Patrick Ness and Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green, and I have a load of my TBR (physical and ebook). Hopefully, will be blitz-reading them soon…\n\nSailor Neptune\nA book that made you want to make a playlist for:\nThis is weirdly easy as, when we came up with this question, I started (then put on pause due to publication date) A Shiver of Snow and Sky by Lisa Lueddecke. Within the first 100 pages or so that I read, I could only read it while listening to Florence and the Machine, mainly the songs “Various Saints and Storms”, “Queen of Peace” and “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful”.\n\nSailor Pluto\nA book you want to go back in time and read for the first time again:\nHARRY BLOODY POTTER! (Like I was ever going to say anything else). But, if you guys want a different answer, I might say The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith. But only if I can erase the knowledge of who Robert Galbraith is. I put a lot of pressure on this book because of who the author was and I think, if I went in knowing nothing, I would be more honest with how I felt about the book.\n\nSailor Saturn\nA book that has a heartbreaking sacrifice:\nGabriel in Half Lost by Sally Green. Am going to say nothing else.\n\nSailor Chibi Moon\nA book that has family angst/drama:\nI REALLY want to say Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green. But I’ve used that as an answer already so shouldn’t push my luck. There’s a book on my TBR that sounds family angst and that’s All About Mia by Lisa Williamson.\n\nTuxedo Mask\nA book with a secret identity:\nAny of the crime/thriller books can cover this. I mean, the killer trying to keep his crime secret, all the while pretending to be that nice chap from down the road… No? Ok, another TBR read - Defender of the Realm by Mark Huckerby and Mark Ostler. It’s basically putting the superhero genre and turning it on its head by throwing in the Royal Family. Now, how many of you are imagining the Queen wearing a cape and kicking butt like Captain Marvel or Wonder Woman?\n\nA book of transformation:\nThis question has me stumbled as I’m not 100% certain what it means by “transformation”. But am going to say the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy by Laini Tayor. If you have read the trilogy, you understand why I decided on this answer in the end....\n\nA book that featured animals at its heart:\nBecause I recently reread this, Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. I got this when in New York last year at the New York Public Library and the idea of a book loving lion makes me feel very happy.\n\nName a childhood book that brings you joy:.\nA lot of childhood books bring me joy. The Tiger That Came To Tea, Omg: The Forgetful Cat, Peter Rabbit, George’s Marvellous Medicine, The Fantastic Mr Fox…\n\nSailor Star Fighter\nName a book that you are tempted to read just because of the cover:\nI think this happens to all of us. We buy a book or get it out of the library because of how pretty the cover is. And I have a few to go to. But am going to say The Iron Cast by Destiny Soria. It’s a simple yet eye-catching cover.\n\nSailor Star Maker\nName a book where a character’s loyalty never wavers:\nOk, I am going to call my Harry Potter Card and say - no, not Ron - Hermione. Throughout all seven books, Hermione stayed with Harry & Ron, and helped them. Even though she was in love with Ron, Hermione stayed with Harry to destroy the horocruxes, even when Ron left. Basically, Hermione is a badass friend and those two boys don’t know how lucky they are!\n\nSailor Star Healer\nName a book with a unreliable narrator:\nAm trying to think of a book with an unreliable narrator that I have read. The only book I can think of is Entangled by Cat Clarke. But it’s been so long since I’ve read it, I can’t tell you how unreliable a narrator the lead character was…\n\nSailor Cosmos\nName of book or character who redeems themselves:\nI suspect a lot of people will say Snape for this. But I don’t think he redeemed himself. He did one good thing, but he did a lot of things that are unacceptable to me. The same with Draco, though I think I forgive him for his actions in Cursed Child (I know! Even I didn’t see that coming!) so maybe I will say Draco Malfoy - if we’re going to include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. If not…\n\nJust had a thought. What about Ian and his brother, Kyle, from Stephenie Meyer's The Host. It's a long shot but am stumped. Ian does have a very fast turnaround when it comes to what he did when he first met Wanda to where the story ended, but with Kyle, it's a lot slower pace...\nPosted by Pewter Wolf at 12:00:00" ]

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[ "Saturday, January 06, 2007\n\nFamily Picture Time!", null, "We made it through Christmas and into the New Year! It was so much fun having two of my sisters here with their husbands and babies. We were able to celebrate a late Christmas with them at my parents' house. Chloe, of course, got tons of cute girl clothes!\n\nHere are some pictures of the last few weeks with our little Chlo-sters!", null, null, "Chloe in the NICU under the lights for her jaundice.\nThis was so difficult to see. I can't imagine how it'd would have been if she were really sick. We thank the Lord we were only there for 24 hours.\n(The goggles were to protect her eyes from the lights.)", null, null, "Our first official doctor's appointment.", null, "We call this picture \"What's up, Dawg?\"\nNone of her hats fit so she tends to get lost in them. :)" ]

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[ "Drum major / section leader audition requirements 2018 evergreen ‘cougar pride’ marching band application & interview (all student leadership candidates) all drum major and section leader candidates must complete an application package and. Must audition on may 2nd, 2016 with routine and music must attend must fill out the back page of this form and turn it in signed, with your essay, in a sealed envelope you may attach a resume, but this is optional drum major entails: being present at all band functions must be responsible to the director for the. Interpret quotes from dr martin luther king, jr's speech the drum major instinct learn with flashcards, games, and more — for free. 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Great essay i am trying out for drum major this year also, and i have to write an essay also i like your essay and if you don't mind i am going to use some of your key points in mine. In today’s field pass podcast, dan potter talks with dci board member kathy black on the efforts of the women in dci committee and carolina crown drum major elayna youngson on her recently-published essay addressing #metoo in drum corps as a microcosm of society.\n\nA formal audition is required for acceptance into the music major program there is no audition requirement for acceptance into the music minor completed audition forms must be received by the music department two weeks prior to the audition date to obtain forms or additional information on music major auditions, contact the auditions. Drum major - serves as top student ambassador for the allen band program o constantly provides the best example of what we expect to. 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[..] The last decade certainly saw an increasing demand among cinephiles for films that are slow, poetic, contemplative\"\n(Jonathan Romney; S&S, Feb 2010)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM", "\"Part of the critical orthodoxy I have complained about has been the dominance of Slow Cinema [..] The bargain the newer variety of slow films seem to impose on the viewer is simple: it’s up to you to draw on your stoic patience and the fascination in your gaze, in case you miss a masterpiece. [..] Slow Cinema has been the clear alternative to Hollywood for some time, but from now on, with Hollywood in trouble, I’ll be looking out for more active forms of rebellion.\"\n“Passive Aggressive”, editorial by Nick James, Sight & Sound, April 2010\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:20 AM", "\"Duration is a crucial issue here, and some of the recent discussion about slow (if not boring, at least to some of us) films revisits arguments over what has previously been termed Slow Cinema.\"\nManohla Dargis (NYT, 17 June 2011)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:24 AM", "\"And while I derive great pleasure from some movies that might be described as slow or tedious, I also find food for thought in fast, slick, whimsical entertainments.\"\n(AO Scott; NYT; 3 June 2011)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM", "\"To me, the success or failure of one of Kois' cultural vegetables always comes down to a matter of form following function. Anyone can make a slow, contemplative art film, but if you're not contemplating anything in particular, you're wasting everyone's time.\"\nDown Into the Roots of Cultural Vegetables (05/10/2011;Matt Singer)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:32 AM", "\"Certainly in Hollywood the idea that movies should not be boring has taken a particularly tenacious hold.\"\nWhy boredom is still a bad thing (3 June 2011; Tom Shone)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:35 AM", "\"Slow or fast; these things don't mean anything much. It is more about the potential friction between what you expect to happen and what happens in a film. We must never make the mistake of assuming that slowness is synonymous with profundity.\"\nGeoff Dyer\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:39 AM", "\"We have a polarized film culture: fast, aggressive cinema for the mass market and slow, more austere cinema for festivals and arthouses. [..] For the historian, the polarization between fast pop movies and slow festival films asks to be explained. [..] From the 1940s through the 1960s, certain directors developed a new approach to telling stories. Antonioni, Dreyer, Bergman, and a few others opted for a style that relied on slower pacing and even “dead moments” that seemed to halt the narrative altogether. [..] Today, directors who persist in long-take, slowly-paced storytelling are aiming chiefly at the festival market. [..]\nSo Kois may assume that “boring” films have persisted in today’s film culture because of snobbism, but there are deeper reasons. The competition among filmmakers to push an aesthetic horizon further, the narrowing of audience tastes, the search for a budget-appropriate niche that could stand in opposition to the visual spectacle of the New Hollywood–these seem to me important factors in making slow movies a ghetto for cinephiles. [..]\nThe problem has haunted me for decades, ever since the 1970s when I took an interest in Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, and Mizoguchi–all filmmakers felt, at the time, to be slow. I failed to come to grips with the problem in my 1981 book on Dreyer; I even anticipated Kois in calling Gertrud (another item that would never grace theatre screens today) boring–but I took that to be a good thing, as a challenge to conventional viewing habits.\"\nGood and good for you (David Bordwell; 10 July 2011)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:45 AM", "\" Atmen and Hors Satan reminded me that a lot of European art films, despite their reputation for being slow, have a crisp, laconic style. Abrupt cuts open and end scenes, while an unexpected close-up can accentuate a moment. This sort of precision meshes with other conventions of this tradition: delayed exposition, long scenes without dialogue or music, routines that structure the plot, and a demand that we let things unfold at a rhythm different from that of the goal-driven Hollywood cinema.\"\nIf it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium (David Bordwell; 19 July 2011)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 10:47 AM", "\"My feeling is that British film reviewers must stop pretending to represent the norm and take a more prominent stand against the Hollywood machine and its avalanche of poor films, and to stand for a broader view of film culture such as you see in the examples of good criticism that follow this article. But it's easy for me to say this.\nI am to some extent echoing the most famous essay on criticism this magazine ever published. In 'Stand up! Stand Up' (S&S, Autumn 1956) Lindsay Anderson took issue with the dispassionate English school of film reviewing.\"\nWho needs critics? (Nick James, S&S, Oct 2008)\n\nif only he could use his own advice in his own magazine...\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 7:57 PM", "\"For these new movie lovers, old divides like trash versus art, Hollywood versus the world have given way to an expansive inclusion of cinemas from around the globe.\"\n(Manohla Dargis, NYT, 14 Nov 2004)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 8:01 PM", "\"[..] the troubling signal of the emergence of an international arthouse-festival formula, variant from film to film but adhering to an established set of aesthetic elements: adagio rhythms and oblique narrative; a tone of quietude and reticence, an aura of unexplained or unearned anguish; attenuated takes, long tracking or panning shots, often of depopulated landscapes; prolonged hand-held follow shots of solo people walking; slow dollies to a window or open door framing nature; a materialist sound design; and a preponderance of Tarkovskian imagery. [..] Has this uniform international aesthetic been nurtured by the festival circuit[..]? And how can such films be considered discoveries when they cnform to such a familiar style?\"\nThe Sandwich Process (James Quandt; Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals; 2009)\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 8:43 PM", "\"There are times, as you watch someone trudge up yet another woodland path, when you feel an implicit threat: admit you're bored and you're a philistine. Such films are passive agressive in that they demand great swathes of our precious time to achieve quite a fleeting and slender aesthetic and political effects: sometimes it's worth it, sometimes not.\"\nNick James; S&S; April 2010\n\n\"'Contemplative cinema' is in danger of becoming mannerist, and the routine reverence afforded to its weaker films by critics is part of the problem. [..] This emerged particularly in response to my use of the word 'bored'. Leigh seems to think that I was 'encouraging the idea that it's OK to dismiss or walk away from anything you initially don't get'. I don't believe I was; I was merely standing up for the right of anyone -critics included- to say 'I'm getting nothing from this'\"\nNick James; S&S; July 2010\n\nJuly 20, 2011 at 9:01 PM", "Matthew Barrington said...\n\nSomeone once said if America spoke Spanish then we (England) would have a national cinema. Considering films like Time that Remains, Le Quattro Volte or the English film Archipelago silence creates a levelling factor where the barriers created by language are temporarily replaced by the power of images.\n\nJuly 29, 2011 at 11:46 PM", "\"Connectedness has brought glut. In a group of n people, the numbers of possible telephone conversations or dinner-party seating arrangements or sexual-disease transmission vectors grow combinatorially, and combinatorial growth is much faster than geometric growth; it's generally exponential, in fact. Much of the human experience (knowledge, disease) spreads by proximity, and for any one person the number of fellows in proximity has exploded. In past times, even in the most crowded city, we lived close enough to only a few people to, say, read their journals or track the temperature of their hot tubs. Now, in hordes, they put that information on line. The multiplication of information pathways leads to positive feedback effects in the nature of frenzies. The more people talk and write about the occasional mass phenomena that grab the hysterical attention of American culture-O. J. Simpson, El Niño, Monica Lewinsky, Y2K-the more people want to hear. The more journalists hear, the more they feel able-even obliged-to keep talking and writing. As fluid pressure rises (you learn in high school physics), molecules collide faster and more often, and so the temperature rises too. Close packing and transmission speed are two sides of a coin; that is why sound travels faster through dense crystals.\"\nin Faster, the acceleration of just about everything (James Gleick; 1999)" ]

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[ "Saturday, February 14, 2009\n\nWhere are they?", null, "Few days ago APDP (Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons) staged a sit in protest in the heart of Srinagar pressing for their demand of whereabouts of their relatives subjected to enforced custodial disappearance by the various security agencies, troops and police mostly since the break out of armed rebellion from 1988, and appealed the C.M Omar Abdullah of setting a truth and reconciliation commission of which he has remained a vocal supporter before and during his election campaign.\nAccording to APDP more than 10000 people have been subjected to custodial disappearance and C.M being Chairman of Unified Command Council has moral duty to look in to their genuine and humane demands. Subjecting people to custodial disappearance is worst kind of human rights violation and it has been mostly seen the relatives of disappeared persons suffer from the mental trauma and remain in dilemma about the safety of their near and dear ones which is horrific to say the least. After the shocking discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir mostly from Uri many including the relatives of disappeared fear about their loved ones who have gone missing under the custody of troops. Even a stone hearted will get softened as their demand is nothing but to show them the graves of their dear ones if they have been killed or let them a chance to meet them if they are alive.\n\nIn many cases where the perpetrators of human rights violation be that custodial disappearance, custodial killing, fake encounters or other violations have been identified they have got away from any kind of accountability by the draconian laws powered to them through which they enjoy total impunity from the law of land. Indian prime ministers assurance on the soil of Kashmir about ‘Zero tolerance’ to human rights violation and assurance by any other leader will continue to remain as mere rhetoric as long as these draconian laws are not withdrawn. Recent statement of Mufti Sayed (former C.M) merits attention where in he also stressed on this fact that investigating these violations on case to case bases will be inadequate. Recently a news report in various media sections carried the statement of Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Alliance in which they demanded abrogation of Disturbed Area and Armed Forces Special Power Act as these laws are a hindrance to get foreign tourists to Kashmir, hence a major stumbling block to the tourism sector.\n\nIn 2004, a Manipuri women Thang Jam Manorama was abused and killed by Assam Rifles and after the protests erupted to repeal the AFSPA then in November that year the then Prime Minister of India A.B.Vajpayee constituted a committee to review the provisions of the AFSPA and the said committee submitted report in which it was reported that “the act, for whatever reasons has become a symbol of oppression, an object of hate and an instrument of discrimination and high hand ness”. But unfortunately this report was made to appear like as north-east centric view and missed J & K where violations are much more and according to average mentions about J&K by the US state dept in its country state report on human rights violations and killings in conflict areas from 1993-2002 are 56.4 and combined seven states of north-east is 36.2 which is far less than J&K. It is the oppression unleashed by Indian troops backed by these black laws which have alienated the people of Kashmir more and more and in the words of South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) this alienation among the people of Kashmir is complete and irreversible.\nThe brutal tactics employed by the India. forces here to suppress the movement for unfettered right of self determination have always backfired as this have provided the necessary ammunition to the freedom struggle to move forward with renewed vigor and this was witnessed by whole world during the agitation here few months back. Kashmir dispute will continue give sleepless nights to the Indian leaders and policy makers and this dispute if left unresolved will continue to remain as major threat to peace and progress of South Asia. Hence a multi pronged peace offence is needed to start tripartite talks for its final resolution. To make the atmosphere conducive for meaningful talks India has to initiate steps to remove the deep mistrust which she has created by its denial mode and time gaining policies, first and foremost these draconian laws should be repealed, troops should be moved back to barracks in a phased manner and a impartial commission should be made to look in the violation of human rights as demanded by ITHB and APDP and let them know where there near and dear ones are for which they have been protesting from a long time.\nPosted by waseemyousuf72 at 7:57 AM", "javed said...\n\ni agree with you.there is indeed repression in the valley .we are being targetted .\nit is good that people like u are taking to the net to express your feelings.", null ]

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[ "In many ways we are very lucky. We get to travel around the world looking for mystery animals, and then write books about our adventures. Of course it isn’t quite as simple as that, because there is a whole slew of mundane administration and stuff, but on the whole doing what we do is a heck of a lot better than having a proper job. We live in Woolsery and we run The Centre for Fortean Zoology – the world’s largest mystery animal research group, and once a year we invite devotees of the weird and wonderful here for the internationally famous Weird Weekend.\n\nWe also write a monthly column for The Bideford Post and we decided that it was about time that we introduced Weird Torridgeside to the blogosphere..", "Friday, 9 January 2009\n\nOll Lewis", null, "The Croyde Carcass\n\nWhen I walked into the CFZ office this morning I was greeted by Jon who seemed to be in a particularly excited mood.\n\n“What do you make of this!?” he exclaimed and gestured at a photograph on his computer screen.\n\nThe photo was of a rotted carcass that had been found on a local beach, and had been emailed to us by the local newspaper. Apparently, the newspaper was concerned that the animal might be a local big cat that had fallen off a cliff and died before its body was washed along the coast.\n\n“Can you zoom in on the dentition?” I asked and Jon obliged.\n\n“Well,” I said looking at the animal’s teeth “It’s definitely a carnivore.”\n\n“Tell me something I don’t know.” Jon replied.\n\n“Well… If you look at the nasal cavity it looks like it is far too large to be a cat or dog.\nThe shape of the skull is completely wrong too.”\n\n“Could it be a seal?” asked Jon\n\n“I’d say that’s definitely the most likely candidate.” I said cautiously before I hunted out some photographs of seal skulls just to be sure. The photographs confirmed our suspicions and it was decided it would be a good idea to try to find the carcass so that we could make our own examination and collect samples. Graham and I were to go to Croyde, where the body had washed up, picking up Matt Osborne on the way, and attempt to locate it.\n\nAnd so for the second time since I joined the Centre for Fortean Zoology I found myself looking for a decayed body on a beach. The first time had been the on Gambia expedition in 2006 where, armed with a map of a burial site and small spades, we had attempted to unearth the body of a sea monster that had supposedly been buried right next to a nightclub owned by the presidents brother. Considering the recent case in Gambia where two British missionaries have been sentenced to one year of hard labour and ordered to pay a £6000 fine for just writing disparaging things about the Gambian president on a postcard, it was quite lucky we were not caught not everyone would have believed we were looking for a sea monster. The conditions could not have been more different this time though. The heat in the Gambia had been stiflingly hot, but on Croyde beach the temperature was colder than zero degrees Celsius.\n\nWe gingerly picked our way across the jagged rocks on the west end of the bay, taking care to avoid slipping on the ice or putting our feet though the icy crusts of frozen rock pools. Once we made it across the rocks, without breaking any bones, it seemed our search would be much easier because most of Croyde beach was covered in sand and there would be few nooks and crannies for the carcass to be hiding in. This search proved to be fruitless and as we made it back to the cars Matt phoned Jon to see if he had uncovered any more information that could aid our search. Jon said that he had found out that the carcass had been found in a spot called the ‘Down End rocks’.\n\nWe located a map of the beach on a sign near the slipway we had entered the beach from but could not find a place called Down End Rocks, we did find the Down End Road so it was pretty obvious that it was the area to check out. It was the opposite end of the beach.\n\nWe drove the car around to that end of the beach and searched for an access point. We found one and scanned the rocks from a vantage point atop the cliffs hoping to spot the carcass. We couldn’t see it so elected to split up to cover a larger area in the hope of finding the body before the light failed. After a while Matt appeared over an outcrop of rock in the far distance and started waving wildly at me. This could only mean one thing; the body had been found!\n\nI clambered over the icy rocks, swearing to myself that if this was a practical joke on Matt’s part then he would be in serious danger, but finally I made it to the outcrop. From the top of this rock I beheld a marvellous sight. Never before had a putrid pinniped looked so good! We examined the corpse took photographs and removed several samples for study back at the Centre for Fortean Zoology (the head and the back right limb) and had to leave the beach quickly as the sun was setting. Icy rocks, incoming tide and darkness do not mix well together.\n\nWe drove home though the freezing night with all the windows open to stop the stench from the samples overpowering us and reflected on a good days work. Over the next few days we will be emailing photographs of the skull to several experts for their opinion on what the animal is." ]

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[ "Monday, 27 February 2012\n\nDon't believe everything you read\n\nI've got my serious face on tonight, yes I can be serious sometimes!  I just want to really bring to your attention that you know the saying \"There's always one\" well blogger is no different.\n\nRecently a friend of mine on blogger has been accused of doing something by another blogger.  I won't go into any too many details but suffice to say the poster, although she didn't name her, made some accusations and the ensuing comments I can only describe as a witch hunt.  I was absolutely stunned to read comments from people who knew NOTHING about my friend nor had been shown ANY evidence of her 'crime' whatsoever but took this posters word at face value.  I know we do try to see the best in people, hell I'm as gullible as they come, but I was actually incensed reading comments that she should be thrown of DT's and forced off blogger.\n\nI've followed my friend since 2004 as she is a well established crafter with so many publications under her belt and she's such a lovely person I was so shocked to see people talking about her in this manner based on the ramblings of one blogger who as I said offers absolutely no evidence whatsoever.\n\nI know in the past I have been quite challenging of certain people and would probably have jumped in and commented similar stuff myself in the past but I'm a lot older and wiser nowadays and tend to not believe everything I'm told.  I just want to say PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you see any postings anywhere that makes accusations against someone whether they name them or not then please think before you type out a \"Burn them at the stake\" response as the person being accused will read that and imagine how upset you would be should it ever happen to you?\n\nBlogger is such a wonderful community and theres lots of great groups out there too but now and then you'll see something like this and people just dive onto the thread in support of the 'hero' poster, well please stop and think next time that it might be about you or a friend too and the effect that can have :)\n\nThanks all x", null, "Posted by Vixykins at 22:51", "Glennis said...\n\nHear Hear!!\n\n28 February 2012 at 02:12", "Kim x said...\n\nThank you Hun, you don't know how much this means to me.\nEveryones kind comments have certainly cheered me up a little.\nhugs Kimx\n\n28 February 2012 at 05:33", "Sue W said...\n\nI am also a friend of the person who is being 'witch hunted' and am incensed by what is happening to her.\nIf anyone should be stopped from blogging it should be the accuser who is obviously jealous of someone elses success and will stop at nothing to discredit them.\n\n28 February 2012 at 07:29", "I am also a friend of the person who is being 'Witch Hunted'.\n\nI am incensed with what is happening to her and know that it is unfounded. She has been an inspiration to me for many years.\n\nI just hope that the person behind it has the guts to apologise for what they have done and not go round slandering peoples good name.\n\n28 February 2012 at 07:36", "Susie Little said...\n\nNeedless to say this is why the blogger in question wasn't prepared to \"Name and Shame\" as she had no proof!\n\nA few years back I was accused of trying to obtain digital goods without paying for them. Some clever put rather unscrupulous person had used a forum name and email address almost the same as mine to ask for these things. Unfortunately this has stuck with me and regardless of what I said I was and still am presumed guilty, just because of the spite of one person!!\n\n28 February 2012 at 11:10", "Sandra H said...\n\nl totally agree:)\n\n28 February 2012 at 14:35", "Lau W said...\n\nsome people are jealous. I also saw horrible things written about some very nice people. the fact of winning a challenge or small things like that can make people jealous. it's so bad !\n\n28 February 2012 at 15:30", "Shazza said...\n\noh dear this sounds nasty, hope your friend keeps blogging and ignores the culprit x\n\n28 February 2012 at 17:50", "Gill Till said...\n\nThank you for supporting our friend Kim. She is a continual source of originality and I am amazed at her talent. The other blogger seems not to have left the school playground and is playing to the crowd. Kim is above these people and the jealousy is obvious.\n\n28 February 2012 at 19:35", "Couldn't have put that better myself Vix. Sadly, way too many people are believing the accuser without any evidence. If she truly had this evidence she would have produced it by now. But can the sheep who all fall into line to yell 'off with her head' see that, nope! As my Mum used to say 'there are none as blind as those who will not see'\n\nLin xx\n\n28 February 2012 at 20:14", "debs29blue said...\n\nHi Vix\nHave just started to follow you and I'd like to congratulate you on your post about the awful treatment of the fantastic Kim. You are spot on with what you say. Kim is so very talented and for her to be treated so badly is just plain wrong. I visit Kim's blog all the time and I find her work incredibly inspiring and I am so glad so many people are fighting her corner. Hope this other individual feels very ashamed.\nDebs x\n\n28 February 2012 at 21:58", "Anne-Marie said...\n\nWell said, Vix!\n\n28 February 2012 at 22:21", "Vixykins said...\n\nShame the accuser chooses to delete the comments in support of Kim and then has the audacity to make out WE were leaving nasty messages which is all untruths yet again. Shame on you!\n\n29 February 2012 at 19:49" ]

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[ null, "Originally uploaded by Washington State Dept of Transportation.\n\nOn July 29th a mudslide west of Rainy Pass closed SR 20 in both directions at the east- and west-side closure gates. They had about 300 yards of mud and debris in a 10-foot-deep swath across the highway to remove, and needed to ensure the slope is stable before they reopened the road.\n\nWhere is Rainy Pass? www.wsdot.wa.gov/Traffic/Passes/NorthCas cades/map.htm.\n\nThe gates were closed on the west side just east of Diablo (milepost 134) and 14 miles west Mazama (milepost 171) on the east side. The gates were manned overnight to make sure anyone camping or hiking in between the gates could get out.\n\nThe slide was reported about 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, and responding crews began bringing in equipment and working last night. They stopped at dusk because it was too dangerous to work in the area in the dark. Crews were back early this morning. How quickly they can safely remove the debris and ensure that the slope is stabilized will determine when the highway reopens.\n\nThis area (nearly a mile high) had been hit with fast moving thunder, lightning, rain and hail storm cells all week. The slide was triggered by a thunderhead that passed through Wednesday afternoon which went on to start some 20 fires from there to Loup Loup Pass, 60 miles further east.\n\nThe road was reopened on July 30 at 3:15 p.m.\n\nYou can also check the North Cascades Web page for more information - www.wsdot.wa.gov/Traffic/Passes/NorthCascades/.\n\nWorking in the heat\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan on Wednesday, July 29, 2009", null, "When it comes to the weather, sometimes we just can’t win.\n\nDuring the winter, it’s hard to get much road work done because it’s either too wet, too cold or both. And if you look back at our winter blog posts, we were waiting impatiently for the warm, dry summer weather.\n\nWell, it’s summer. And, depending on the day, it’s either been warm and dry or painfully hot and humid. This week has been mostly the latter. For the most part, we’d rather be working in this weather. But the heat and humidity come with their own set of challenges for our crews.\n\nThe most obvious challenge for crews is simply working outside for eight to 10 hours every day on the hot pavement. If it’s 90 degrees outside, it feels even hotter for crews standing on a road that’s just soaking up the heat. And for paving crews…well, you can imagine how scorching that must be.\n\nNeedless to say, keeping hydrated is key for everyone. Crews are drinking tons of water before they start their day, during the heat of the day and after they’ve finished work. And everyone stays on high alert for signs of heat exhaustion: disorientation, profuse sweating, nausea or dizziness.", null, "Another less-apparent challenge for crews is compensating for the effect the heat and humidity have on asphalt and concrete. We know what you might be thinking: Aren’t you always worried about bad weather? Isn’t this hot weather a good thing? Yes … and no.\n\nWhen we pave with asphalt, that asphalt goes down at 300 degrees. And at that temperature, it’s a lot like cookie dough when it gets taken out of the oven: soft and gooey. Naturally, we have to wait until it cools down before we can let traffic drive on it. That’s where the heat and humidity come into play.\n\nWhen we put down hundreds of tons of 300-degree asphalt, it’s a very concentrated mass of heat. Consequently, it takes a long time for that heat to dissipate and the asphalt to reach a temperature suitable for traffic – 150 degrees or cooler. When the surrounding air is 80 or 90 degrees, it’s much harder for that heat to dissipate. Add in the humidity, which makes the ambient air temperature feel even warmer, and the asphalt will take even longer to cool.\n\nConcrete has exactly the opposite problem: It cures too quickly in the heat. Unlike asphalt, concrete needs humidity to cool and cure properly. When it’s too hot out, water evaporates out of the concrete too quickly and can lead to cracking. Typically, crews blanket the fresh concrete with visqueen (they look like giant white tarps) to help trap the moisture. When it’s extra hot, crews have to work at warp speed to cover up the concrete before it gets too hot. They’ll also layer burlap rags soaked in water atop the fresh concrete and then cover it with visqueen to trap even more moisture.\n\nSo while we may have to do a little bit of extra planning when it’s this hot out, we’re taking advantage of the summer weather to get as much work done as possible.\n\nYes, you can shrink-wrap an entire bridge\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan on Friday, July 24, 2009\n\nNo, we’re not kidding. We’re shrink-wrapping an entire bridge on SR 542 (Mount Baker Highway) in Whatcom County. It looks a bit like a giant Twinkie.\n\nBefore you start thinking that we’ve lost our minds, there’s method to the madness. Crews will spend three months cleaning, repairing and repainting the Nooksack River bridge on Mount Baker Highway just west of the town of Glacier. Built in 1931, the bridge gets repaired and repainted every 15 to 20 years.\n\nThe giant sheets of shrink wrap swaddling the bridge help keep any debris from falling into the river and keep crews on schedule, regardless of the weather. Plus, it looks really cool. This is the first time we’ve used the industrial-strength shrink-wrap method as a way to contain debris.\n\nWrapping up two years of construction on SR 20 near Burlington\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan on Wednesday, July 22, 2009\n\nCrews are wrapping up two years of work between SR 536 (Memorial Highway) and the SR 20/ I-5 interchange in Burlington. Last week, local officials and electeds celebrated completion of construction on the project, while crews continued completing minor tasks throughout the project zone.", null, "The week of July 20, crews began removing barrels on the last two lanes of the widened highway. A new signal at Pulver Road is yet to be turned on. That is expected to happen in about a week.\n\nThe majority of crews will begin packing up their gear and heading to their next job, or maybe some well-deserved time off. Some workers will remain to complete minor “punch list” items for the next month or so. Crews are completing the project almost two months ahead of schedule.\n\nWSDOT’s $118-million project, funded by the 2003 gas tax package, widened a five-mile stretch of SR 20 between SR 536 and the I-5 interchange and transformed the congested two-lane highway with a history of collisions into a wider, safer four-lane highway.", null, "The project completes a vision that started more than 30 years ago. The stretch of SR 20 from Anacortes to Memorial Highway (SR 536) was widened in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nCrews began in spring 2007, working to widen and improve the highway near its intersection with SR 536. Opening the new I-5 on- and off-ramps in June was the last major milestone for crews.", null, "SR 20 to the west of I-5 serves several communities including Anacortes and its ferry terminal, the main transportation access to the San Juan Islands. SR 20 provides the only road-based access to Whidbey Island. Along the route are many smaller communities and important tourist, agricultural and business interests, such as the March Point refineries, Whidbey Naval Air Station and Deception Pass State Park. On an average day, more than 22,000 vehicles use the highway.\n\nDuring construction, crews:\n\n- Widened the highway from two lanes to four, with two lanes in each direction from SR 536 at Fredonia to the I-5 interchange (ten lane-miles).\n- Installed a new signal at Higgins Airport Way.\n- Divided 2.5 miles of the east- and westbound lanes with a 32-foot median and cable median barrier (from SR 536 to Pulver Road).\n- Improved the on-ramps and exits at the I-5/SR 20 interchange.\n- Permanently closed access to and from SR 20 at the intersection with Peterson Road and Goldenrod Road in Burlington.\n- Built new roads to join Peterson Road and Nevitt Road to SR 20.\n- Installed a new signal at the SR 20 intersection with Pulver Road in Burlington.\n\nBetween 2001 and 2006, there were 384 collisions on SR 20 between SR 536 and I-5 that involved almost 800 vehicles and resulted in eight fatalities.\n\nThe True Risk Senior Drivers Pose\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan on Thursday, July 16, 2009\n\nA series of recent traffic-related incidents in Massachusetts involving senior drivers have thrust the issues of senior licensing and the danger senior drivers pose on the road into the national spotlight. While these incidents were certainly tragic, the truth is that while seniors may appear to be a threat on the road they are actually less of a threat than you or I. In fact a recent AAA Foundation study that was published in the Journal of Safety Research analyzed government data on fatal crashes from 1999-2003 to estimate the risk that drivers of various ages would be involved in and be partially responsible for a fatal crash. The study revealed teenagers are the most at risk group to be involved in a fatal crash and that seniors, while they do pose some threat, are actually much more of risk to themselves then other drivers or pedestrians. Nevertheless, the study has confirmed that the risk of being involved in a fatal crash increases around age 65, and over 3,000 drivers in that age category are killed each year.\n\nIdeally, getting a drivers’ license should be based on whether an individual has cognitive and physical functional abilities necessary to drive a car. There is no denying some of these abilities are affected with age, but this doesn’t mean senior drivers can’t maintain these abilities at the level necessary to drive. And, given the demographics associated with the baby boom, our society is getting older, and thus, now more than effort we need to emphasize the programs to extend the safe driving experience for older drivers. Fortunately, I am excited to announce that a new computer program (interactive game) called DriveSharp™ is now available that can do just that. The Drive Sharp program uses computer exercises to help seniors improve things such as divided attention, reaction time or “useful field of view” – factors that are directly correlated with being a safe driver. And, from my perspective, the most exciting aspect is that Drive Sharp has been shown to reduce the risk of at-fault crashes by up to 50%. For those seniors who want or need to improve their functional abilities needed to drive this is an outstanding tool. A free screening test and information on the program, including a free is available at www.drivesharpnow.com\n\nFinal journey for massive bridge joints\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan on Friday, July 10, 2009", null, "Posted for Jeff Switzer\n\nTo be honest, I'm feeling a little jealous of the two new expansion joints bound for the I-90 floating bridge. They've already seen more of the world this year than I will!\n\nThey were created in Ohio, painted in Pittsburgh and assembled back in Ohio using special Teflon bearings made in Turkey. They were hauled thousands of miles across the U.S. to the Seattle waterfront where they waited until the big moment.\n\nFriday marked the final journey for the joints (pdf 720 KB), each weighing 65 tons and measuring 65 feet long. The two joints got a pretty sweet tour of Seattle before going to work on the I-90 floating bridge. It was no Argosy Cruise past Bill Gates' house, but there's no stopping the barge Los Angeles, tended by the tugboats Crown II and Redwood City. Instead of the longer-than-advertised three-hour tour on Gilligan's Island, the trip was expected to be a more dependable six hours from the Seattle waterfront to the I-90 floating bridge.\n\nAlong the way, the joints followed the Duwamish and gave tourists an eyeful as they climbed through the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks to Lake Washington. News helicopters planned to film the trip from high above the city streets. Drawbridges across Seattle saluted as the barge and joints passed beneath at a 4 mph walker's pace.\n\nLike putting a heavy box of holiday decorations away on a top shelf, it’s no easy feat to lift the giant joints from Lake Washington onto the I-90 floating bridge. It takes a massive barge 250 feet long and 75 feet wide to haul the joints and a seven-story-tall behemoth of a crane to the I-90 work zone.\n\nThe crane stretched its even longer 173-foot boom to deliver the joints to crews on the bridge. After hours of maneuvering, the joints sit in a cradle of rebar and are locked into place with tons of concrete.\n\nThese stronger, thicker joints allow the floating bridge to flex with the wind and water and span the westbound lanes of the I-90 floating bridge and the bicycle pedestrian path. They replace their lesser cousins that began cracking soon after they were installed 20 years ago.\n\nIt's a complicated choreography for construction. At the same time, drivers face their own two-step as they slog through the construction bottleneck we put in the I-90 freeway to get 70,000 daily drivers around the work zone.\n\nIn about a week, we'll all start pummeling the new joints daily. The road reopens by July 20, and for the next 50 or more years the joints will signal their presence to millions of everyday drivers with the familiar “vrrrp – vrrrp” as they drive across Lake Washington to Seattle.\n\nIt took months to create these special 65-foot-long joints for this special bridge. Pieces were bolted, welded and connected with strong rubber gaskets meant to last. Despite their long journey from the Midwest, they never traveled I-90. Instead, tractor trailers opted for I-70 and I-75 out of Ohio, I-80 from Cheyenne to Utah, and later I-5 from Vancouver.\n\nAnd when the autumn winds pick up, storms again will paint whitecaps across the lake. The joints will flex with every powerful surge, but keep the bridge deck connected to Seattle and Mercer Island, and traffic will continue to flow safely. Whenever I drive my kids across the bridge, I'll tell them, \"did you know what it took to get these joints into place? Let me tell you ...\"\n\nFor updated travel information during I-90 construction, go to www.wsdot.wa.gov/construction/2009/today.\n\nScheduled Web site outage\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan\n\nWe have site maintenance tonight from 11:30 p.m. and scheduled to end at 5:30 a.m. on July 11, 2009.\n\nFerries and most of the Web site will be unavailable during this outage, however, the 5-1-1 information line will still be available. We will have one page in place which has links to our external sites, like this blog, Twitter and our Flickr account available but that is about it.\n\nAAA Foundation co-hosts traffic safety culture summit…\n\nThe AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and Western Transportation Institute co-hosted the first National Rural Summit on Traffic Safety Culture on June 22 in Big Sky, Montana. Attendees represented a cross section of individuals and organizations in the transportation community.\n\nThe goal was to generate dialogue about traffic safety culture, its meaning and the influence it has on public attitudes and behaviors. I was extremely pleased with the issues we were able to address. It is imperative that we consider the cultural factors that define our values and govern our behavior to improve transportation safety. This discussion of traffic safety culture’s role in society among industry professionals is a step in the right direction.\n\nKnow before you go to avoid \"Are we there yet?\"\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Fourth of July, roadtrip, tourism, Traveler Information, vacation on Wednesday, July 1, 2009\n\nI have to give some \"props\" to a reporter at The Seattle Times. He’s working on a story about our Fourth of July travel information and wanted to give the story a bit more depth. So he asked me what I would do if I had a child and we were going to be stuck in traffic.\n\nWell, yes, I do have a little one to entertain. We have our hand-held video games and portable DVD player. Technology today – spoiled kids! Okay, so Transformers was good the first three times, but I really really don’t want to watch it again.\n\nI think back to my own childhood and car trip games like I Spy, the license plate game (oh! oh! I see Hawaii) and find letters on the highway signs (yeah – Z is tough). No video games but we had fun. Don’t forget those “old school” games are still great ways to teach the kids.\n\nToday, with that Internet thingy, we can even get some great information that’s fun and educational about what they will be seeing outside the car window.\n\nGoing over Snoqualmie Pass? On our I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East Web page, you can find an award-winning activity book about the wildlife that call Central Washington home." ]

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[ "Monday, August 17, 2009\n\nSamsung Launches new digital compact cameras ST550 and ST500", null, "The new digital compact cameras ST500 and ST550 record HD video in 1280x720p resolution at 30 frames per second in H.264 format. The ST550 also features HDMI connectivity via an optional adapter, so you can see your HD video creations in glorious HD on an HD TV.\nThe ST550 and ST500 are expected to be available in the US in September 2009 at a suggested price of $349.99 (Rs. 16,867) and $299.99 (Rs. 14,457) respectively.\nWhat's special about them is that they help you take self-pictures - thanks to its dual LCD (one each at the front and back). The ST550 and ST500 are the two camera models that will feature this technology.\nBoth cameras feature a 12.3 megapixel sensor and a 27mm wide angle Schneider Kreuznach lens with 4.6x optical zoom.\nThe 1.5-inch TFT LCD located on the front of the camera is common to both camera models. This display can be used for shooting self, with self-timer, for shutter info, function info as well as children modes. In fact, while taking self shots, there is no need to even press the shutter button just a big smile will trigger the cameras to take the picture, says Samsung.\nAt the back, the ST550 features a 3.5-inch wide touch screen LCD while ST500 comes with a 3-inch Wide LCD. The touchscreen LCDs on the camera rear feature Smart Gesture User Interface technology, enabling users to tap and browse through features.\nPosted by rajinfo at 2:20:00 PM No comments: Links to this post", "Labels: Samsung Launches new digital compact cameras ST550 and ST500\n\nQuality eyeglass For your children", "Have you ever check out the video about Zenni Optical on TV!!! This gives more information about this product. If you are planning to buy a fashionable glasses for your children at affordable rate then this is the right place for you. here They offer $ 8 Rx eyeglasses, which is of high quality. This kind of product can make you proud if your children wearing it.\nThis is why people always give High Five to Zenni Optical. certainly they attract the global customers by offering high quality eyeglass at very low price.\nFor more information just log on to their website." ]

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[ null, "The top 100 hip hop and rap songs downloaded at the itunes music store chart of the top hip hop and rap hit songs of 2018 is updated daily. In this essay i am going to discuss and take an in-depth look at the topic of the role and importance of the lyrics in rap music, which are often. Unlimited free eminem music the slim shady lp, which won a grammy award for best rap album lyrics play without me lyrics. Large collection of r&b lyrics, rap lyrics, hip-hop lyrics, gospel lyrics, soul lyrics & reggae lyrics lyrics sorted by album, tracks or in alphabetical order for easy searching. 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Using a qualitative content analysis and online survey, this research examined how college students perceive and respond to the portrayal of women when exposed to misogynistic lyrics based on cultivation theory, this study analyzed the lyrical content of popular rap and hip-hop songs (n=20) on.\n\nLyrics on demand - song lyrics, lyrics of songs, free lyrics, free song lyrics, rap lyrics, country lyrics, hip hop lyrics, rock lyrics, country music lyrics, music lyrics. Courts routinely admit defendant-authored rap music lyrics as substantive evidence in the adjudication of criminal cases in doing so, courts fail to recognize. Posted in: beat of the drum: the music issue the evolution of rap this reliance on agents contributed to the streamlined message seen in ‘90s rap lyrics.\n\nHumbled to be able to say that this course is the number one rap course on udemy for 3 and naturally write amazing rap lyrics fans of hip hop and rap music. 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We're not just another lyric site songmeanings is a community of thousands of music lovers who contribute song lyrics, discuss interpretations, and.\n\nOddcast can configure almost any song or melody to work with this technology or the sung text along with background music type your lyrics and hear it sung. Deadpool rap lyrics: they call me deadpool, i'm hella fast came to merc the bad guys, and get some ass got blades for days, got guns galore got combo moves, evades and more with bear traps and hand grenades pull the pist. The best place to write and share rap all the lyrics you write on rappad can be exported in one click and you artists use rappad to share their music,.", null, "Rap music lyrics translated into english lyrics: first things first, i poppa, freaks all the honeys dummies - playboy bunnies, those wantin' money. The 10 best battle rap lyrics are from some of the best beef-elevating hip-hop songs of all time these examples of the 10 best battle rap lyrics turn words into bullets, and in some cases the battle spilled over not only to the radio and mixtapes but to the street. American academy of pediatrics impact of music lyrics and heavy metal and “gangsta rap” music lyrics the american academy of pediatrics. Alphabet lyrics provides you with all song lyrics for today's artists.\n\n[intro:] i've never really had a religious experience, in a religious place closest i've ever come to seeing or feeling god is listening to rap music. Find karaoke song lyrics, watch music videos and listen to recordings created with smule's music-making apps.\n\nRap trivia quizzes and games now we really want to see scholarly language written as rap lyrics rap music artists slideshow ii. Sorry, youtube music is not optimized for your browser check for updates or try google chrome. 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[ "In Tokyo Shoigu intend to ask about \"appropriateness\" Russian military presence on the Kuril Islands\n\n2017-03-20 05:00:17", null, "Today your visit to tokyo, starting with the Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu. He will join the Russian-Japanese negotiations, which started last week, and which have previously participated representatives of the foreign ministries of the two countries. Official representative of Russian defense ministry major general igor konashenkov told the media about the agenda, the discussion which will be attended by the head of the defense ministry of Russia. Igor konashenkov was quoted by \"Interfax\":the heads of the foreign and defense ministries of the two countries will discuss military-political situation and security issues in the asia-pacific region, the prospects for further development of relations between Russia and Japan. And confidence - building measures in the field of security. A separate part of the visit will be the talks of Sergei Shoigu with his Japanese counterpart tomomi indoi.\n\nActually recovered a Russian-Japanese dialogue at the foreign ministry and the defense ministry, which was in a \"Frozen\" state for more than 3 years. We will remind that earlier it was discussed the joint activities on the four islands of the South kuril islands (shikotan, kunashir, iturup and habomai). In particular, we are talking about the introduction of a single electronic currency that will be used in the archipelago. Noteworthy is the fact that the proposals made by the Japanese side.\n\nDuring the talks between Sergei Shoigu and tomomi with indoi, as reported by the press service of the defense ministry, among others, discussed the problem of the Korean peninsula, in particular, the missile tests of the dprk. The Japanese side also trying to raise the issue of the \"Undesirability\" of the Russian military presence on the kuril islands. And about the undesirability of the us military presence on okinawa, the Japanese authorities do not want to talk?.", null, "Britain will purchase a thousand missiles \"Hellfire\"\n\nAgency for management of defense contracts (Defense Security and Cooperation Agency, DSCA), under the Ministry of defense approved the sale of British military authorities, thousands of Hellfire missiles (Hellfire), according to W...", "The Minister of defence of Germany did not agree with trump about the \"immense debt\" to NATO\n\nThe Minister of defence of Germany Ursula von der Leyen expressed their disagreement with the President of the United States Donald trump about the great debt of Berlin for NATO, reports TASS.In NATO there is no account debtor, Le...", "The defense Ministry released a video in honor of the Day of sailor-submariner\n\nProfessional holiday sailors is celebrated in Russia on March 19. On this day in 1906 by decree of Emperor Nicholas II in the classification of ships of the Navy included a new class of submarines.After the great October revolutio..." ]

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[ "Wednesday, September 8, 2010\n\nRecapping the (amazing) 2010 Decatur Book Festival\n\nBelow you will find a quick recap of each author talk I attended at the Decatur Book Festival. I'll include any news about future books or projects the authors might have mentioned either during the talk, the Q&A or in the signing line. By camera is having some issues so the pictures are all somewhat fuzzy. Also a few others didn't work at all. (Some Penderwick's news near the bottom of this post. Don't miss it.)", null, "The first author I head this year was Bob Shea. He was at the Book Festival to promote his new picture book Dinosaur vs. The Potty. Fans of Dinosaur vs. Bedtime can probably guess how this one turns out. Needless to say Shea has written another winner. While he signed my book I asked him when we might see Dinosaur vs. Kindergarten (now that his son/dino-muse is 6 years old). Shea responded with a quick \"Be careful what you wish for.\" He told me that he had only sketched out Dino vs. Kindergarten but before that we should be on the look out for Dinosaur vs. Library. I can't wait! During his talk Bob read Dinosaur vs. Potty (with some audience assistance for the roaring). He also shared his super secret jelly bean style of animal illustration in which he creates any animal imaginable from the same jelly bean shaped starting point. He made it look so easy.\nNext up was Michael Buckley. Buckley drew a very large and enthusiastic crowd. The audience was split about 60-40 between fans of the Sisters", null, "Grimm series and fans of Buckley's new N.E.R.D.S. series there was, of course, considerable overlap as well. I haven't read any of the Sisters Grimm books but after hearing Buckley talk about it I'm excited about giving the first one a read. Buckley's talk featured both series spending a lot of time answering fan questions. Sisters Grimm fans should be excited to hear that Buckley will start working on the 8th and final installment of the series at the end of the month. He also informed the audience that there would be a total of five N.E.R.D.S. books with each book focusing on a seperate member of the team. There is also a chance we might see a book focusing on Hyena (the assassin want to be for the first N.E.R.D.S. book) sometime.", "Buckely was followed by the local Atlanta author (and potential 2011 Newbery winner) Deborah Wiles whose Countdown received praise by authors all weekend. Wiles shared the stage with fellow N.B.A. runner up and Coretta Scott King Honor recipient Shelia Moses to speak about writing historical fiction. Both authors did a wonderful job. During the Q&A Wiles shared a little about the rest of 'The Sixties Trilogy'. Wiles said there would a different casts of characters in each of the novels. The novels will have some overlapping characters though. Wiles also said that we will see Jo Ellen (Franny's older sister) in 1964 Mississippi (which I'm guessing will be the next book). Wiles seemed delighted to be in Decatur and sat in on many of the author talks on both Saturday and Sunday.\nQuick aside: While attempting to escape the heat for a few minutes I browsed through Little Shop of Stories (the independent children's book store who was responsible for bringing all these great children's authors to town) where I ran into Scholastic editor and author David Levinthan. (he was Deborah Wiles editor for Countdown but could not attend Wiles' talk because his YA talk was at the same time) I of course first asked him about Mockingjay. He said he first read it over a year ago and had to keep everything secret for that long. I asked him if Collins is working on anything new and Levinthan said she is really busy promoting Mockingjay right now but has a few different ideas she is considering. Sounds like it will be a while before we get anything new from the Hunger Games scribe. Oh, and while I was in the bookstore, I read Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer's new picture book collaboration The Odious Orge. It is pretty awesome. Hope it's not another 49 years before they do another one together.", null, "The last talk of the day featured Marie Rutkoski author of The Cabinet of Wonders and its sequel The Celestial Globe. Rutoski did a short reading from The Celestial Globe and then spoke about the role her professional background as a researcher plays in her writing. Rutkoski said that Jewel of the Calderosh [no doubt mutilated the spelling] scheduled to be published fall of next year will be the final book in the Kronos Chronicles. She is also working on a YA novel currently titled Me and the Shadow Society. Rutkoski also tangentially mentioned that When You Reach Me is one of her favorite recent reads and is using in the courses she teaches! I looked it up, she teachers children's lit. at Brooklyn College. I bet it's an awesome course!", null, "Sunday I made it back to the festival just in time to hear author Tom Angleberger talk about one of my favorite books of the year, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. Angleberger shared the stage with Star Wars illustrator and toy designer Chris Reiff. Needless to say the tent was packed with kids all eager to hear the authors speak and check out the costumed Star Wars characters who filled the stage (see the picture). After briefly discussing The Strange Case of Origami Yoda's premise Angleberger read from chapter two (the wet pants problem). Then it was time for the main event. Volunteers started passing out small green pieces of paper so that everyone in the audience (all 300+) could make their very own origami Yoda. Angelberger instructed the audience, with the help of one brave volunteer, using a giant piece of paper. The adults and kids in the crowd all had a great time. As I waited in the signing line, I mentioned to a few parents that they should also hunt down Angelberger's first novel The Qwikpick Adventure Society (published in 2007 under the pseudonym Sam Riddleburger). Like Origami Yoda it is a hilarious story (2 words: Poop Fountain) featuring a group of misfits.", null, "Unfortunately I didn't hear any of the presumably hilarious talk by Eric Wright (Frankie Pickle series), DJ Steinberg (Adventures of Daniel Boom AKA Loud Boy series) and Josh Lewis (Super Chicken Nugget Boy). The talk also featured a life size Super Chicken Nugget. It sounded like both the kids in the audience and the authors on stage were having a great time. Laughter and chanting could be heard all the way across the square. I did manage to get a shot of Erick Wright signing some Frankie Pickle books. I'd bet the Frankie Pickle series books are the most circulated items in our school library. Our students just love them, I guess I should give them a try at some point. Both the Loud Boy series and Super Chicken NB also look like a lot of fun so I need to track them down. Can anyone vouch for them?", null, "The next up was Newbery Honor author Ingrid Law. Law got a very warm welcome from the fans in attendance (including author Jeanne Birdsall!). She spoke about writing both Savvy and her newest book Scumble which she called a \"companion not sequel\" to Savvy. Talked about her writing process and how nervous she was starting Scumble. Law's love for language was easily apparent as one listened to her read from the new book and after hearing her I feel like I need to move Scumble a bit higher on my to read list! Fans will also be happy to know that Savvy film rights have been optioned by Walden Media (Holes, City of Ember, Narnia, etc.) for a major motion picture.\nNext up was the event I was most excited about. I knew from watching Jarrett Krososka's hilarious video in which she plays Jarrett's agent that Jeanne Birdsall was a funny lady. The video has once again disappeared from the interwebs but you can see a deleted scene featuring Birdsall about one minute into this video. Once the discuss, which also featured local author Laurel Snyder (Any Which Wall and Up and Down the Scratchy Mountain) Birdsall's humor was impossible to miss. Both authors share an affinity for the novels of Edward Eagers and Enright, Nesbit, C.S. Lewis and Betty MacDonald. Works which take place in a magical or seemingly magical world where characters are safe to explore their own worlds. The two talked eloquently about their works and seem to be kinder spirits. At one point during their discussion about writing fantasy and how characters might deal with magic, Snyder brought up the \"Susan problem\", which is the idea that Susan Pevensie grew up and forsake magic for lipstick and therefore could not return to Narnia (and beyond) in the final book. Snyder mentioned that this was a problem she considered when assembling her characters for Any Which Wall and a problem she plans to confront in her next novel. I can't wait to read it.\nIn other news, Birdsall confirmed that there would be five Penderwicks books and gave us some much desired info regarding the third book, The Penderwicks at Point Mouette, which Birdsall said would take place in Maine. The author also said that in this story neither Rosalind nor Mr. Penderwick would be around so it's Skye's chance to be in charge. Birdsall did not spend much time talking about her new picture book Flora's Very Windy Day but I'd like to give it a mention again anyway. I have read it a number of times now and as I wrote in my review, I think it is the best picture book of the year.", null, "Birdsall on the left, Laurel Snyder on the right.\nPosted by Eric Carpenter at 5:10 PM", "Sam said...\n\nSure was glad to see you there! I told you it was going to be fun. Wasn't that volunteer awesome?\n\nThanks for promoting Qwikpick, too!\n(Maybe someday that will be Qwikpick 2...)\n\nI hope you're going to like the next one, Horton Halfpott.\n\nThanks a lot!\n\nSeptember 8, 2010 at 9:35 PM", "Terry Doherty said...\n\nWow, what a whirlwind weekend. I am in the midst of Laurel Snyder's latest Penny Dreadful ... just wonderful stuff." ]

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[ null, "Free essay: the theme of racism is clearly apparent in two short stories “berry” and “blackout” and will be discussed and compared blackout is the story of. Check out our top free essays on blackout to help you write your own essay. Disclaimer: this essay has been submitted by a student this is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers you can view samples of our professional work here any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do .\n\nJoin callie feyen to write blackout poetry from new and unfamiliar material home this essay, i believe, was the work that led him to charlotte’s web if you . Blackout along the path of the august 21st solar eclipse, there live almost no african americans the peculiar trajectory of the moon’s shadow illuminates racial isolation and compromise, past and present. Blackout: heroism in huck finn essayshuckleberry finn has the great advantage of being written in autobiographical form this secures a unity in the narration that is most valuable every scene is given, not described and the result is a vivid picture of the scapegrace of a hero [huck fin.\n\nYou are here: blog / archives for newspaper blackout poems newspaper + marker = poetry buy the book the cruelest month a few hours after i made this blackout . ‘blackout’ is a short story by roger mais it is set in jamaica and is about racism and the contrast of two different races, sexes and cultures the story starts off explaining the blackout in the city and the general atmosphere of uncomfortable and tense over the city. Blackout essays during the blackout of 2003 i was home trimming the hedges at my house i had only been doing it for about 10 minutes before the trimmer just seemed to die.\n\nThe great northeast blackout began at the height of rush hour, delaying millions of commuters, trapping 800,000 people in new york’s subways, and stranding thousands more in office buildings . His essay comes a day after nba stars kevin love and demar derozan detailed their struggles with mental health in a public dooling went into a blackout rage, and the memories all came . The pictures aren’t actually of the blackout, which is invisible negative space her essays have appeared in ghost proposal, essay daily, the normal school, . Free essays, research papers, term papers, and other writings on literature, science, history, politics, and more. Please provide a one page executive summary on the blackout of 2003 your summary should not exceed one single spaced page and should include who, what, when, where, why and how the situation could have been handled or perhaps how the situation was handled correctly.", "Using narrative to tell the blackout story reporting from inside a power plant helped to tell the dramatic story of decision-making when the lights went out. The new york city blackout of 1977 was a huge electricity blackout that had a huge economic, political and social effect on most of the city between july 13- july 14 1977 as we all know many neighborhoods were affected by this blackout but there were also a few neighborhoods that were not affected . Make blackout poetry is a collection of texts that you can repurpose for your own poems make your own ingenious remix of words by shakespeare, jane austen, oscar wilde, and victor hugo make your own ingenious remix of words by shakespeare, jane austen, oscar wilde, and victor hugo. Essays related to the blackout 1 blackouts in south africa when he says even if there is a blackout, he is referring to an emotional blackout, but this phrase .\n\nBlackout summary & study guide includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis, quotes, character descriptions, themes, and more. Use the 'google custom search' below to search for the essay you want labels: loss of power, blackout, power cut, power failure, . A one-week blackout in san jose this essay a one-week blackout in san jose and other 64,000+ term papers, college essay examples and free essays are available now on . Free essays on blackout at home get help with your writing 1 through 30.\n\nOn august 14, 2003, more than 50 million people across eight us states and parts of canada were left without power for days in the most widespread blackout in north american history. Blackout and chaos • without warning, the mrt train jerked to a halt and everything turned pitch dark panic invaded the carriage i was in some of the commuters screamed at the top of their voice and burst into tears. Free essay: so what is a blackout policy it states if a team that is a part of the national football league doesn’t sell out of their ticket sales 72 hours. At salon, where for years i edited personal essays, or simply: let’s get blackout it signifies a romantic oblivion, a cannonball dive into the open mouth of the night.", null ]

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[ "Pygmalion eliza doolittle table of contents character analysis eliza doolittle the character of eliza is best seen by the progression which she makes from . It is clear that the protagonist, zack siler is influenced by ‘henry higgins’ whilst laney boggs’ character is created from ‘eliza doolittle’ the film is almost a mirrored resemblance of the film at the beginning where clear distinctions are made between zack and laney in their social stance, just like in pygmalion at covent garden . Themes of pygmalion the truly important transformation eliza goes through is not the adoption of refined speech and manners but the learning of independent and a . The transformation of eliza doolittle in pygmalion hatchery park stage setting and stage directions describe the setting in act ii in ovid's narrative, pygmalion the transformation of eliza doolittle in pygmalion was a cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory.", "Eliza doolittle makes the transition from uneducated cockney flower girl to elegant duchess in george bernard shaw's play, pygmalioneliza's transformation from a girl of the streets to a beauty . Therefore, the transformation of eliza doolittle is most marked and obvious on these two scales in regard to both these senses, pygmalion stays faithful to the most clichéd formula of the standard rags-to-riches stories, in that the heroine changes drastically in the most external ways. Eliza doolittle: poor flower girl turned linguistic protégé headstrong and coarse street urchin taken into professor higgins care on a bet that he cannot transform her into the verisimilitude of a duchess.\n\nGet an answer for 'describe the transformations eliza doolittle undergoes in pygmalion how do these transformations affect the ways that others think about her and behave towards her' and find . The reappearance of alfred doolittle in the last act of pygmalion further reinforces that marriage is not the main emphasis of the play, but transformation the dustman too has been transformed with the help of higgins. Pygmalion : eliza's transformation significant quotations # 1 eliza states the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves , but how she's treated.\n\nPygmalion was written by bernard shaw in 1914 the play tells the story of a man called henry higgins a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with a friend colonel pickering that he can successfully pass of a low-common cockney flower girl, eliza doolittle as a sophisticated lady by teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and an improvement in etiquette. 'pygmalion' is the story of a london flower girl, eliza doolittle, who is turned into a lady by professor higgins, an elocution teacher this essay will analyse whether or not 'pygmalion' is a sad play and whether or not 'pygmalion' has any humour in it at all. Transformation rediscovered in pygmalion eliza doolittle, higgins’ newest pupil, represents galatea, the product of the meticulous efforts of her creator allow herself to live under his . Pygmalion: transformation of eliza in ”pygmalion”, henry higgins is shaw’s pygmalion and eliza doolittle is his galatea henry higgins teaches eliza how to speak proper english and shapes her to fit into the middle class morality from a ”guttersnipe” just as pygmalion creates a beautiful statue from an ugly piece of rock. Pygmalion transformation quotes what seems like an honest attempt at looking respectable to eliza seems merely pitiful to pickering not all transformations .\n\nPygmalion alfred doolittle table of contents eliza doolittle the comedy connected with doolittle is his transformation during the course of the play . The central theme of education in shaw’s eliza’s transformation demonstrates that social distinctions such as accents, age, class eliza doolittle is . 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[ null, "Hey everybody! KK here to tell you all about her Beats Solo 3 Headphones. NOTE: This is not a sponsored post and I am in no way getting money for this review. I am OBSESSED with these headphones.\n\nWhy did I get them?\n\nLike a materialistic fool, I got the Iphone 7, which does not have a headphone jack. People aren’t too happy with that feature but I figured I would just make it work because I wanted the larger Plus size. I had bought the Jaybird X2s first, which were fantastic but unfortunately, they hurt my ears and would not stay in. I would still recommend them though because Jared uses them now and he loves them. I just have weird ears, apparently.\nI needed headphones that could connect to my phone AND my computer for video and podcast editing. But I also didn’t want to disturb people at the coffee shop. I decided to give the Beats a try.\n\nWhat are the features?\n\nThe Beats Solo 3 Wireless Headphones work via Bluetooth but also come with a wire to connect directly into an audio jack. There is a Q1 chip to make sound seamless between iPhone and headphones and a built-in wireless mic, which is useful for my conference calls. It has 40 hours of battery life but also a feature called Fast Fuel. For 5 minutes of charge time, it gets you 3 hours of play. There is a battery fuel gauge on the bottom of the right side so you know where your charge is at. You can also control music and manage calls directly from the left side of the headphones. They are foldable and super portable for travel. It comes with a carrying case so they are protected in your bag.", "What do I think of them?\n\nI was pleasantly surprised! With such a big name brand like this, I felt a little hoity-toity but this is one of those cases where you definitely get what you pay for. The phone call sound is amazing and I cannot wait to try it for video conference calls. Pro tip: remember to put them on correctly. If you have them on backward, you will sound muffled to whoever you are speaking to. There are L and R markers on the headphones to help keep you oriented. Another pro tip: Move your hair, long-haired people. Dr. Dre wants you to hear all that sound. Personally, they are a little tight on my head. Granted, I have a huge ass head. These are great for every day but I may stick to my default pair of apple headphones while I work out because I really don’t want to get these sweaty and dirty.", null, null ]

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[ "A recent report by Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., directing analyst for data center and cloud, Infonetics Research, finds that \"Though WAN optimization revenue increased 3% sequentially in 3Q13, to $210 million, it remains on an overall downhill course, with revenue falling 9% year-over-year this quarter. Future WAN optimization revenue will increasingly come from the replacement of existing gear\n\nEU Courts can Order ISPs to Block Copyright Infringement Sites\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in blocking traffic, Copyright infringement, EU, ISP on Friday, November 29, 2013\n\nThe EU's Advocate General’s Opinion says that \".. Member States are to ensure that copyright holders or holders of related rights are able to apply for an injunction against intermediaries whose services are used by a third party to infringe their rights .. It is already established that internet providers can in principle be regarded as intermediaries and therefore as persons against which\n\nSandvine - $4M Orders from a New LATAM Mobile Group Customer\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Network Intelligence, Sandvine on Thursday, November 28, 2013\n\nSandvine announced that it has \"..received initial orders exceeding $4 million from several properties of a Tier 1 mobile service provider group that operates in most countries across Latin America .. This new customer will be deploying Sandvine’s Network Analytics product across group properties to provide actionable business intelligence about popular applications, devices and network quality\n\nVAS/Security Deployments [275]: Singtel Uses Fortinet to Protect Enterprise Customers\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in anti-virus, malware, security, SingTel, VAS, web filtering\n\nFortinet announced that it has \".. partnered with SingTel to immediately roll out secured broadband services to enterprises across Singapore. Running on Fortinet's high performance FortiGate® network security platforms and FortiManager® and FortiAnalyzer® centralised management and reporting appliances, the SingTel Business Fibre Broadband Security Suite intercepts security threats and\n\n[Infonetics]: VoLTE is the Accelerator for an Expected $1.9B SDM Market (2017)\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Infonetics Research, personalization, SDM, VoLTE on Wednesday, November 27, 2013\n\nA recent report by Shira Levine, directing analyst for service enablement and subscriber intelligence, Infonetics Research finds that \"After several years on the back burner, the concept of the user data repository, where subscriber data is consolidated in a centralized repository, is finally taking off .. Use cases such as revenue assurance, churn management, and opex savings have long been\n\nSpecial Post: My City, Tel Aviv\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Israel on Tuesday, November 26, 2013\n\nSights of my home town, Tel Aviv. By Noam Armonn.\n\nBandwidth on Demand - \"will not necessary translate to additional, new near-term revenue\"\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Bandwidth on demand, Heavy Reading\n\nDuring the years I had a number of posts covering the \"Bandwidth on Demand\" (BoD) use-case for traffic management - either as a vendor pitch or actual deployments. BoD has several formats - increasing the bit-rate for a limited period of time (known as \"Turbo Boost\" or \"Turbo Button\") with or without \"special QoS\" for a certain application (video) or top-up the quota (related to usage-based\n\n[Guest Post]: Femtocells, LTE and the Move to Personalization – The Evolution of Policy\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan on Monday, November 25, 2013\n\nBy Martin Morgan*, Director of Marketing, Openet\n\nAt the start of November this year, leading market research firm Infonetics released their survey on operators’ residential femtocell strategies. According to Infonetics, “operators are currently focused on quality of experience, leveraging femtos to deliver 5-bar voice coverage in the home and provide faster and more consistent broadband. The\n\nDiametriq Adds Support for Pre-Paid Roaming between 3G and LTE\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Diameter Router, Diametriq, LTE, Roaming on Sunday, November 24, 2013\n\nDiametriq announced the \".. addition of CAMEL/WIN [Customized Applications for Mobile enhanced Logic/Wireless Intelligent Network] to its Diameter Interworking System™ ensuring pre-paid subscriber roaming between LTE and 3G networks. Diametriq along with a Tier-1 operator, have taken the lead and developed the CAMEL/WIN specification solving a critical challenge of supporting subscriber\n\nQwilt: Our Customers See 50% Cache Hit, 80% QoE Improvement\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in caching, netflix, Optimization, Qwilt, Youtube on Saturday, November 23, 2013\n\nQwilt reported \".. new Worldwide Online Video Quality of Experience (QoE) data, compiled from analytic network performance insights from its global customer deployments. In its first annual report, the company measured the average bitrate of customer networks across North America [customers include Mediacom and Comway], South America, Europe and Asia, to determine actual viewer QoE during peak\n\nUlticom Deploys its DSC Technology with Technotree Charging Solution\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in charging, Diameter Router, Tecnotree, Ulticom\n\nUlticom announced the \".. deployment of the Ulticom Diameter Signaling Controller (DSC) to optimize Diameter-based charging traffic for the Tecnotree Agility™ Convergent Charging System.\n\nThe Ulticom DSC acts as a load balancer and provides intelligent distribution for Diameter-based transactions across multiple pools of servers performing Online Charging Services (OCS) .. Tecnotree product\n\nWe need your help preventing sign theft\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in blinker signs, sign theft, SR 7 on Friday, November 22, 2013\n\nby guest blogger Alice Fiman\n\nNot all of us can be crime fighters, but we can all report crime. Today, we are asking for those driving on State Route 7 near Eatonville to keep an eye out for criminals stealing or damaging a vital safety sign.\n\nAs you travel south on SR 7, just north of Ohop Valley, there is a sharp curve in the vicinity of milepost 31.5. You may notice the arrow signs light up, letting you know you are traveling too fast approaching the curve. These signs, part of a research project, are funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Washington is one of five states where FHWA is testing “blinker signs.”\n\nThe project team believes these signs can reduce single-vehicle run-off-the road crashes at curves, where nationally, 25 percent of all highway fatalities occur. Someone is damaging and stealing the solar panels that power the signs. Without power, the sign can’t perform its vital safety function.\n\nIf you see someone out there and it just doesn’t look right, call 9-1-1 and report the suspicious activity. Make this call when it’s safe for you.\n\nBe the hero.  Don’t let them get away and hurt someone you care about. Make the call to 9-1-1 or take note and fill out an online form later.\n\nThank you.\n\nSolve for X: Help us work towards a radically better future\n\nIf we’re going to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, we need more people and teams to take on \"moonshots\"—audacious projects that create 10x improvement, not 10 percent. Part of that involves encouraging and celebrating the audacity of the attempt. So last week we partnered with Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer to run a special session of Solve for X on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to discuss and debate audacious science and technology moonshots that could transform the world.", null, "Neil Gershenfeld holding up a \"Pop FabLab\" with Nadya Peek as an example of how 21st century manufacturing won’t just happen in large factories, but out of portable briefcases like this one.\nSolve for X is a community of individuals and organizations that work together to accelerate progress on moonshots—and what better group of people to work with than those already thinking about our country’s future? As Susan Molinari, our VP of public policy and government affairs, said at the event: \"Policymakers are trying to solve big, intractable problems—and so are engineers. Engineers are tackling challenges that have no answers to date, and so are our policymakers.”\n\nThe D.C. event brought together a group of exceptional technologists, entrepreneurs, polymaths-at-large, AAAS fellows, Members of Congress and their staff. Pioneers in their respective fields proposed moonshots in manufacturing, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, and access to natural resources:", null, "Majority Leader Eric Cantor (above) said in his opening remarks: “We work in a world of problems, that frankly, any given day somebody could tell you we’ve got a solution for—it’s just about summoning the will to try and actually accomplish it.”\nFollowing the moonshot proposals, we broke into small groups to brainstorm resources, technology and people that could help make the ideas better and happen faster. At Solve for X, brainstorming means two-thirds \"yes and\"—creating stepping stones to build on an idea—and one-third \"yes but—providing critical feedback on blind spots or suggesting alternate implementations.", null, "Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer told us: “You have a psychology of creation. A psychology of ‘what can we imagine?’ And then make it be reality. And that of course is the kind of thinking we need.”\nSolve for X co-creators Astro Teller and Megan Smith closed out the event reminding us that moonshots can come from anywhere—people of all ages and places, companies, academia, government, inspired experts, enthusiastic newcomers, even accidental discoveries. So join our 160 moonshot pioneers by submitting your own moonshot video, and contribute to our conversations on Google+ and Twitter—we'd love to hear from you.\n\nPosted by Puneet Ahira, Moonshot Evangelist and Project Lead, Solve for X\n\nMonday's Guest Post: Towards Business-Focused Policy Management\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in LTE, personalization, Policy Management\n\nA new guest post will be published on Monday - \"Femtocells, LTE and the Move to Personalization – The Evolution of Policy\" by my 31st guest, Martin Morgan.\n\n\"LTE is changing the speed at which operators do business. Increases in sophistication in customer behavior are radically changing how operators develop and market their services\" says Martin.Stay tuned!\n\nAmdocs Wants to Bring Together PCC, DPI, Optimization and Analytics Vendors\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in amdocs, charging, DPI, PCC, Policy Management\n\nAmdocs announced \"Amdocs PCC Ecosystem partner program - This expansion of Amdocs' Enreach partner program will address service providers' lack of integration in the network control domain by bringing together policy, charging, inline monetization, deep packet inspection (DPI), optimization and analytics vendor specialists. The program's goal is to create the industry's broadest ecosystem of\n\ncVidya Launches a Marketing Analytics Solution for MNOs\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in cVidya, Network Intelligence on Thursday, November 21, 2013\n\ncVidya launched a \"powerful Marketing Analytics solution that will enable mobile operators to maximize revenue from existing services, improve customer acquisition and retention, and break into new markets.\n\nAble to analyze customer information from multiple sources, Enrich™ offers a 360° view of cross-business key performance indicators, as well as packages of pre-modeled customer data\n\nCheck off your holiday gift list with Google Shopping\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in commerce\n\nThanksgiving is just a few days away, and if you’re like us, you still have loads of stuff to buy on your expanding holiday gift list. If you can’t imagine braving the crowds to get everything picked and purchased, don’t worry: our elves have made some improvements to Google Shopping in time for the holidays.\n\nFind the hottest toys and get inspired with our holiday shortlists\nWe’ve curated holiday shortlists for top gift categories including Hot Toys, Electronics, Google & Android Gadgets, Gifts for the Home, Gifts for Her and Gifts for Him. For those of you looking for something to delight the kids in your life, here are some of the top trending toy searches on Google Shopping this month:\n\nAnd for those of us wanting to relive our childhoods, we’re also seeing many nostalgic toys making a comeback this year:\n\nBrowse more quickly and easily\nA new shopping experience on desktop, tablet and mobile makes it easier than ever to browse and hone in on items you want to buy, whether it’s a camera, a ski jacket or an ice cream maker. Click on a product to preview details like sizes, colors and description, and find out if it’s available at a nearby local store. If you see an item that’s almost perfect but not quite, click to view “visually similar” items.", "Make your shortlist and check it twice\nShortlists help you keep track of products that catch your eye, compare them at a glance, and share ideas with friends and family. Your shortlist now also stays with you at the top of each page while you browse Google Shopping, so you can keep track of items as you go.", "Check out the product from all angles\nSometimes it’s hard to imagine what an item actually looks like from the online picture. Now, for many items on Google Shopping, you can see a 360° view of the products. These interactive images bring you the in-store feeling of holding and touching a product.", "Once you’ve got something for everyone on your shopping list, we encourage you to buy something for yourself. You’ve earned it.\n\nPosted by Karen Corby, Senior Product Manager, Google Shopping\n\nMajor OEM Deal to Ulticom's DSC in China (ZTE/Huawei ?); Initial Deployment in Asia\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Diameter Router, Ulticom\n\nUlticom announced an \"OEM agreement with a major Chinese Telecom Equipment Manufacturer (TEM) to supply Ulticom’s DSC product as an integral component of their Evolved Packet Core (EPC) product line\".\n\nJamie McArdle [pictured], VP Sales, Ulticom may have given us a hint: \"A leading global provider of telecom equipment and network solutions has selected the Ulticom DSC Initial deployments of our\n\nBringing hobbits, dwarves and dragons to screens everywhere\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in chrome, Mobile on Wednesday, November 20, 2013\n\nYou don’t need to be besties with a Wizard to share an adventure in Middle-earth—just point your favorite browser to goo.gl/TheHobbit on your laptop, phone or tablet to check out “Journey through Middle-earth,” the latest Chrome Experiment.\n\nInspired by the upcoming motion picture \"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “Journey through Middle-earth” brings the locations and characters from the movie trilogy to life with a mix of modern web technologies. It was developed by North Kingdom in collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.\n\nYour adventure starts on a beautiful, interactive map of Middle-earth. Zoom in to explore Trollshaw Forest, Rivendell and Dol Guldur (with more locations to come in the next few weeks). Click on each one to learn its history and meet the characters who inhabit it, or dive further to test your wits on a unique survival challenge.\n\nThe immersive 3D graphics in “Journey through Middle-earth” were built with CSS3 and WebGL, which you might recognize from previous Chrome Experiments. But “Journey through Middle-earth” is the first Chrome Experiment designed to bring this beautiful, 3D experience to mobile, thanks to support for WebGL in Chrome for Android on devices with high-end graphics cards.\n\nThe rich audio effects and sound manipulation are delivered through the Web Audio API, which is now supported on both Chrome for Android and Chrome for iPhone and iPad. Although WebGL isn’t supported on iOS, Chrome users can still experience most of “Journey through Middle-earth” on their iPhones and iPads. We can’t wait to see what sort of rich experiences developers will build as modern web technologies become available on more types of devices.\n\nCircle +Google Chrome to stay updated as more Middle-earth locations get released in the coming weeks. You can also check out the Chromium Blog and read the team’s technical case study if you feel like geeking out a bit more.\n\nAdventure is a click away. Just watch out for the trolls!\n\nPosted by Posted by Christos Apartoglou, Product Marketing Manager & Part-time Dragon-slayer\n\nNI Deployments [274]: Eastlink [Canada] Selected Astellia\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Astellia, eastlink, Network Intelligence\n\nAstellia announced a \"new contract with Canadian mobile network operator Eastlink. Astellia will implement its unified network performance management system. By integrating both RAN and Core data into customized dashboards for network planning, maintenance, and radio optimization, Astellia is able to provide 360° network visibility. This will enable Eastlink to further optimize their network and\n\nVSS Monitoring Adds Big Data Visibility Solution\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Network Intelligence, VSS Monitoring\n\nVSS Monitoring launched the \"Big Data Visibility solution ..  built on two new advances in the vMesh Architecture: vSpool™ and vNetConnect™:\n\nVSS' VSpool\n\nThe vSpool hardware module for VSS Monitoring’s vBroker™ chassis enables network data to be captured directly from the network infrastructure, and delivered to and analyzed synchronously or asynchronously by any network analytics, forensics\n\nRADCOM: $3.6M Order for Customer Experience Solution by Tier1 MNO\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in LTE, Network Intelligence, RADCOM on Tuesday, November 19, 2013\n\nRADCOM announced that it \"received new orders amounting to 3.6 million dollars with a tier 1 operator in Asia. This is an expansion of an existing deployment with this operator. RADCOM’s Customer Experience solution enables this service provider to provide its customers with extremely high quality service on their mobile devices .. With these new orders, RADCOM will provide this customer with\n\nRuckus Launched Wi-Fi Analytics\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Network Intelligence, Ruckus Wireless, Wi-Fi\n\nRuckus Wireless announced \"launch of Ruckus SmartCell™ Insight, the first carrier-class Wi-Fi analytics platform capable of archiving years of historical operational data that can be generated by up to hundreds of thousands of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi access points and millions of client Wi-Fi sessions on mobile network operator (MNO) and large enterprise Wi-Fi networks .. Available starting in Q1\n\nSee all five copies of Lincoln’s handwritten Gettysburg Address on the Google Cultural Institute\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Cultural Institute on Monday, November 18, 2013\n\nNot quite four score and seven years ago, I was an elementary school student, staring at a classroom map, gripped by the (mistaken) deduction that since Los Angeles was in the southern half of the country, Civil War battles must have clattered on the ground outside my home. While a teacher eventually helped me understand that California wasn’t in the Confederacy, the moment led me to understand the weight of history and that it has shaped the world into what it is today.\n\nToday, on the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, we’re helping make the past come a little bit more alive. Three new exhibits now available on the Google Cultural Institute focus on President Lincoln and the 272 words that shaped a nation’s understanding of its identity. Thanks to our friends at the White House, the Lincoln Library, Cornell University, Dickinson College and the Library of Congress, you can browse high-resolution digital versions of all five Lincoln-handwritten copies of the address. You can also:", null, "Comparing two copies, side by side\nYou can also contribute your own version of the Gettysburg Address to Learn the Address, a project by documentarian Ken Burns, who has also been reaching schoolchildren across the U.S. with Google+ Connected Classrooms.\n\nMost of us will never stand in the Lincoln Bedroom and see the handwritten draft exhibited there. But now anyone with access to an Internet connection can explore all these artifacts from this defining moment in history—perhaps a bit more accurately than when I gazed at that map.\n\nPosted by Amrit Dhir, Partner Development Manager\n\nFrom your CS class to the real world: a deep dive into open source\n\nToday marks the start of Google Code-in, a global online contest for pre-university students (13-17 years old) interested in learning more about open source software. Participating students have an opportunity to work on real world software projects and earn cool prizes for their effort.\n\nFor the next seven weeks students from around the world will be able to choose from an extensive list of tasks created by 10 open source projects. Some tasks require coding in a variety of programming languages, creating documentation, doing marketing outreach or working on user interfaces.\n\nParticipants earn points for each task they successfully complete to win T-shirts and certificates. At the end of the contest, 20 students will be selected as grand prize winners and flown to Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters. Winners will receive a trip to San Francisco, a tour of the Googleplex and a chance to meet with Google engineers.", "Google Code-in 2012 grand prize winners at the Googleplex with a self driving car\nMore than 1,200 students from 71 countries and 730 schools have participated in Google Code-in over the past three years. Last year, our 20 grand prize winners came from 12 countries on five continents!\n\nWe hope this year’s participants will enjoy learning about open source development while building their technical skills and making an impact on these organizations. Please review our program site for contest rules, frequently asked questions and to get started.\n\nPosted by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs\n\nNTT Data OEMs Procera's DPI Engine\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in DPI, NTT Data, Procera\n\nProcera Networks announced that their \"Network Application Visibility Library (NAVL) has been selected by NTT DATA Corporation for development of a network traffic analytics product.\n\nNTT DATA’s solution will provide enterprises with data forensics, network security, network monitoring, traffic analysis and Big Data processing. NTT DATA will be leveraging NAVL as the DPI engine of choice,\n\nPlusnet: Traffic Management/DPI is for your Own Viewing Pleasure!\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Broadband Traffic Management, DPI, Plusnet\n\nMartyn Hudson explains in Plusnet's blog how the UK ISP deals with major events generating spikes in bandwidth demand for several hours \"Red Bull Stratos\" (8M people watching live) or two weeks during the London 2012 Olympics games [see \"Sandvine and Procera Analyze the Olympics Games\" - here].\n\nThe games \"saw Internet usage skyrocket – no more so than from business users. As we can see from the\n\nAdax Partners with Agata to Offer DPI Probe\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Adax, Agata Solutions, Cavium Networks, DPI on Sunday, November 17, 2013\n\nAdax Packet Processing\n\nAdax announced \"..a new partnership with communications and networking specialist Agata Solutions. Agata have integrated their high-performance Packet Processing Software with the Adax Pkt2-PCIe, an intelligent Cavium-based Packet Processing Controller to produce the Agata DPI Probe product.\n\nThe Agata DPI probe and Packet Processing software is available\n\nGigaom Bandwidth Caps Watch (8 out of 15 ISPs on the Black List)\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in ATT, Cablevision, Cincinnati Bell, Comcast, Fairpoint, Frontier, GigaOM, ISP, Mediacom, quota, Suddenlink, TWC, Usage Based Billing, Verizon, Windstream on Saturday, November 16, 2013\n\nStacey Higginbotham (\"Over 60% of US Broadband Subscribers have Data Caps\" - here)  [pictured] explains that \"We’re not fans of ISPs capping broadband here at Gigaom, so we’re keeping a close eye on how those caps evolve and who they affect. Check out our updated list on who’s capping your broadband .. In most cases, the companies implementing caps maintain that 99 or 98 percent of their users\n\nEricsson: \"The largest and fastest growing mobile data traffic segment is video\"\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in broadband statistics, Ericsson, smartphone\n\nEricsson latest Mobility Report reveals \".. that mobile subscriptions are expected to reach 9.3 billion by 2019, and more than 60 percent of these - 5.6 billion - will be for smartphones. To support the smartphone user experience, WCDMA/HSPA networks are predicted to cover 90 percent of the world's population by 2019. Moreover, almost two-thirds (65 percent) of the world's population will be\n\nAustralian Police Seeks DPI Appliances @10Gbps\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in AFP, Australia, DPI, malware, security on Friday, November 15, 2013\n\nThe Australian Federal Police (AFP) \".. intends to expand upon its network forensics expertise to include new deep packet inspection capacity that will be able to capture and retain metadata. The agency is currently seeking tenders for an appliance that can accept a stream of TCP/IP traffic or potentially previously captured packets in PCAP format. The request for tender does not specify\n\nVodafone Shows Shared Data Plans Benefits (to Vodafone)\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Shared data plans, Vodafone\n\nPaolo Bertoluzzo [pictured], Vodafone's Group Chief Commercial and Operations Officer, highlighted \"Vodafone differentiation\" during Vodafone's 2013 H1 presentation (here).\n\nThe first differentiation factor seems to be Vodafone's RED - its \"worry free\" mobile plan [see \"Vodafone to Offer Multi-Device and Family Plans (End of 2013)\" -here] that includes shared family and device billing. The\n\nAvvasi Enhances Analytics with RAN-Aware QoE Visualization\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Avvasi, Network Intelligence, RAN, streaming video on Thursday, November 14, 2013\n\nAvvasi announced the \".. release of Xperium Maps, a radio network QoE visualization tool .. Xperium Maps offers unprecedented capabilities, allowing mobile network providers to visualize in real-time and historically the evolution of video QoE at the Radio Access Network (RAN) level.\n\nMobile service providers, when confronted with the growth of mobile video in their networks, are often at a\n\nSolar in California and Arizona: More of a good thing\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in green\n\nYou’d think the thrill might wear off this whole renewable energy investing thing after a while. Nope—we’re still as into it as ever, which is why we’re so pleased to announce our 14th investment: We’re partnering with global investment firm KKR to invest in six utility-scale solar facilities in California and Arizona. Developed by leading solar developer Recurrent Energy, the projects have a combined capacity of 106MW and will generate enough electricity to power over 17,000 U.S. homes. Google will make an approximately $80 million investment into these facilities.", null, "The 17.5 MWac/22 MWp Victor Phelan project (pictured), located in San Bernardino, Calif., is part of six Recurrent Energy developed projects acquired by Google and KKR. The six-project portfolio is expected to operational by early 2014 and will generate enough clean electricity to power more than 17,000 U.S. homes.\nThis investment is similar to one we made back in 2011, when we teamed up with KKR and invested $94 million in four solar facilities developed by Recurrent. Those facilities have since started generating electricity, and we’ve committed hundreds of millions more—more than $1 billion in total—to renewable energy projects around the world.\n\nThese investments are all part of our drive toward a clean energy future—where renewable energy is abundant, accessible and affordable. By continuing to invest in renewable energy projects, purchasing clean energy for our operations and working with our utility partners to create new options for ourselves and for other companies interest in buying renewable energy, we’re working hard to make that future a reality.\n\nPosted by Kojo Ako-Asare, Head of Corporate Finance\n\nWinners of BBTM Awards 2013: Oracle, Avvasi, ALU, Procera, Huawei, Skyfire and Flash Networks\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Alcatel-Lucent, Avvasi, Broadband Traffic Management, Flash Networks, Huawei, Oracle, Procera, Skyfire Labs\n\nThe Broadband Traffic Congress 2013 awards, shown with relevant links to recent posts in my blog (see 2012 awards here):\n\nBest Use of Traffic Management for Improving Customer Experience: Oracle’s Tekelec Policy Solution - Telefonica and Oracle Expand PCRF to Fixed Broadband\"\n\nBest Content Optimisation Tool for Managing Video Traffic on Mobile Networks: Avvasi Q-SRV - Avvasi Launches Video\n\nGovernment requests for user information double over three years\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in government transparency, privacy and security, Transparency\n\nIn a year in which government surveillance has dominated the headlines, today we’re updating our Transparency Report for the eighth time. Since we began sharing these figures with you in 2010, requests from governments for user information have increased by more than 100 percent. This comes as usage of our services continues to grow, but also as more governments have made requests than ever before. And these numbers only include the requests we’re allowed to publish.", null, "Over the past three years, we’ve continued to add more details to the report, and we’re doing so again today. We’re including additional information about legal process for U.S. criminal requests: breaking out emergency disclosures, wiretap orders, pen register orders and other court orders.\n\nWe want to go even further. We believe it’s your right to know what kinds of requests and how many each government is making of us and other companies. However, the U.S. Department of Justice contends that U.S. law does not allow us to share information about some national security requests that we might receive. Specifically, the U.S. government argues that we cannot share information about the requests we receive (if any) under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But you deserve to know.\n\nEarlier this year, we brought a federal case to assert that we do indeed have the right to shine more light on the FISA process. In addition, we recently wrote a letter of support (PDF) for two pieces of legislation currently proposed in the U.S. Congress. And we’re asking governments around the world to uphold international legal agreements that respect the laws of different countries and guarantee standards for due process are met.\n\nOur promise to you is to continue to make this report robust, to defend your information from overly broad government requests, and to push for greater transparency around the world.\n\nPosted by Richard Salgado, Legal Director, Law Enforcement and Information Security\n\nOptimization Deployments [273]: KT [Korea] the First MNO to Use Ericsson Acceleration\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Akamai, Ericsson, KT, Optimization\n\nEricsson announced that \"KT has entered into an agreement with Ericsson to launch a mobile content acceleration [MCA] service in its live LTE network. This will be the world's first commercial deployment of its kind, and it builds on technology provided by Ericsson.\n\nAccording to Ericsson's MCA product page - \"The Ericsson Mobile Cloud Accelerator comes pre-integrated with the global Content\n\nStreet View floats into Venice\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in maps and earth on Wednesday, November 13, 2013\n\nVenice was once described as “undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man,” and from these pictures it’s hard to disagree. You can now explore panoramic imagery of one of the most romantic spots in the world, captured with our Street View Trekker technology.\n\nIt was impossible for us to collect images of Venice with a Street View car or trike—blame the picturesque canals and narrow cobbled walkways—but our team of backpackers took to the streets to give Google Maps a truly Shakespearean backdrop. And not just the streets—we also loaded the Trekker onto a boat and floated by the famous gondolas to give you the best experience of Venice short of being there.", null, "Our Trekker operator taking a well-earned rest while the gondolier does the hard work", null, "The beautiful Piazza San Marco, where you can discover Doge's Palace, St. Marks' Cathedral, the bell tower, the Marciana National Library and the clocktower\nWe covered a lot of ground—about 265 miles on foot and 114 miles by boat—capturing not only iconic landmarks but several hidden gems, such as the Synagogue of the first Jewish Ghetto, the Devil’s Bridge in Torcello island, a mask to scare the same Devil off the church of Santa Maria Formosa and the place where the typographer Manutius created the Italics font. Unfortunately, Street View can’t serve you a cicchetto (local appetizer) in a classic bacaro (a typical Venetian bar), though we can show you how to get there.", null, "The Devil’s Bridge in Torcello Island\nOnce you’ve explored the city streets of today, you can immerse yourself in the beauty of Venice’s past by diving deep in to the artworks of the Museo Correr, which has joined the Google Cultural Institute along with Museo del Vetro and Ca’ Pesaro - International Gallery of Modern Art.", null, "Click on a pin under \"Take a tour\" to compare the modern streets with paintings of the same spots by artists such as Carpaccio and Cesare Vecellio", "Or delve into historical maps of Venice, like this one showing the Frari Church, built in 1396\nFinally, take a look behind the scenes showing how we captured our Street View imagery in Venice.\n\nThe Floating City is steeped in culture; it’s easy to see why it’s retained a unique fascination and romance for artists, filmmakers, musicians, playwrights and pilgrims through the centuries—and now, we hope, for Street View tourists too.\n\nPosted by Daniele Rizzetto, Street View Operations Manager (and proud Venetian!)\n\nKeeping Drivers Safe: Innovative state partnership wins national safety award\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in AIRS, automated infrared roadside screening, Commercial Vehicle Services, infrared camera, Transportation and Collision Data Office, washington state patrol\n\nBy guest blogger Alice Fiman\n\nAs one of the most trade-dependent states in the nation, Washington has many big trucks traveling its highways.\n\nIn early November, the Roadway Safety Foundation and the Federal Highway Administration honored our agency along with the Washington State Patrol for our joint project developing a new way to get big trucks with unsafe brakes off the road.\n\nIt was close to three years ago when our Commercial Vehicle Services and Statewide Transportation and Collision Data Office joined forces with WSP to develop the automated infrared roadside screening (AIRS).\n\nAIRS was first deployed at the northbound Interstate 5 DuPont weigh station.  Based on this success, we are scheduled to install the system at all 11 of Washington’s interstate weigh stations and ports of entry.\n\n AIRS starts when an infrared camera, buried in the center of the off-ramp lane, scans and analyzes the undercarriage of a vehicle entering a weigh station. A WSP Commercial Vehicle Officer can then see a display of each vehicle’s scan. Hot or warm brakes show up a reddish color, with colder brakes in blue. Good working brakes show signs of heat so, in this case, red is good. WSP’s Commercial Vehicle Enforcement staff use the information to determine if the vehicle needs closer inspection.\n\nDuring software testing, WSP took a total of 12 trucks out of service over a two-day period. One of those trucks was leaking brake fluid, another had brake drums that were full of rust, one had a flat tire and still another had a brake air can coming off.\n\nWhy an emphasis on the big trucks? Well, first, because these trucks can be pretty big, there can be more damage and longer traffic delays during a collision. Plus, we have a joint operating agreement with WSP and we often work together in many ways. It’s all about keeping drivers safe and traffic moving.\n\nSpecifically in the area of weigh stations, WSP operates all Washington’s weigh stations and ports of entry, while we provide the technical support, such as the computer systems AIRS.\n\nGlobal Impact Award to improve veterans’ higher education\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in giving\n\nWhen veterans return home, a college degree is often a great next step for a successful transition to civilian life. But college can be a tough place for veterans, especially when they’re juggling classes with personal, family and financial pressures. Unfortunately there’s very little data about what can help veterans thrive in school. We want to change that.\n\nToday, we’re granting a $3.2 million Global Impact Award to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Student Veterans of America, the Posse Foundation and Veterans of Foreign Wars to support data analysis of U.S. veterans’ higher education. The study will be made public and answer critical questions:\n\nBased on the report, we’ll fund the expansion of the veterans’ programs found to be most effective—whether it’s on-campus child care, access to dedicated mental health services or physical gathering spaces—and will also provide Googler support to make this project a reality.\n\nThis award builds on our work to train and mentor student veterans through the Google Veterans Network. We’re proud to serve those who’ve served.\n\nPosted by Jacquelline Fuller, Director, Google Giving\n\nNetflix CDN Customers have More Fun\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in broadband statistics, Cablevision, CDN, netflix, streaming video, TWC\n\nShowing Prime Time data. Source: Netflix\n\nNetflix (31.6% of US fixed traffic - here) has improved its \"ISP Performance\" reports [see \"Netflix - New Site Shows ISP Performance for US, UK, Scandinavia and more\" - here], by isolating the prime time statistics - \"so you know which Internet service providers (ISPs) deliver the best Netflix experience when it matters most\".\n\nJoris Evers,\n\nInfonetics: Embedded DPI Gets Traction\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Allot, DPI Market, Infonetics Research, Sandvine\n\nInfonetics Research provided some additional information from its recent DPI report (see previous post - here).\n\nShira Levine, directing analyst for service enablement and subscriber intelligence, forecasts that \"spending on standalone DPI solutions to grow 30% year-over-year in 2013, driven largely by the mobile segment.\n\nThe concept of “DPI inside” is gaining traction as manufacturers\n\nAttachments in Gmail, now with the power of Google Drive\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in apps on Tuesday, November 12, 2013\n\nYou're probably used to downloading email attachments, but each of those files takes time to download, eats up space on your device, and can get buried deep inside your \"Downloads\" folder. With today's update to Gmail, you can skip that whole process. Instead, you can view attachments and save files directly to Google Drive without ever leaving Gmail, making it easy to access them later from whatever device you’re on—computer, phone or tablet.\n\nThe next time you open an email with attachments, you’ll see new previews of the files at the bottom of the email, from photos and videos to spreadsheets and PDFs.", "When you click on one of those previews, a full-screen view of the image or document will appear. You can read, search for a particular phrase, and even browse through multiple attachments right in Gmail.", null, "You can now also save your attachments directly to Drive simply by clicking the Drive button that appears when you hover over the preview. Of course, if you prefer to download the attachment to your computer, you can—just click the arrow button.", null, "This new attachment experience is available on desktop and will be rolling out over the next week. If you’re one of the more than 120 million active Drive users, you know that saving your files to Drive lets you get to them from any computer, phone or tablet. And if you aren’t taking advantage of Drive just yet, give it a try with your next Gmail attachment.\n\nPosted by Scott Johnston, Director of Product Management\n\n(Cross-posted on the Gmail Blog and Google Drive Blog)\n\nAllot: $3M Order for Charging, Bandwidth on Demand and Analytics\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Allot, Bandwidth on demand, charging, DPI Market\n\nAllot Service Gateway\n\nAllot Communications announced it has \".. received a three million dollar order from a Tier One operator in APAC for the Allot Service Gateway .. The APAC operator will utilize the policy enforcement capabilities to implement charging plans that will provide notification and redirection when the subscriber is reaching close to his data volume quota [see chart below],\n\n[Sandvine] NA Fixed Traffic: Netflix+Youtube >50%, P2P < 10%\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in broadband statistics, netflix, P2P, Sandvine, Youtube\n\nSandvine's recent Internet traffic trends report, (based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 250-plus service provider customers) finds that “For the first time ever, peer-to-peer filesharing has fallen below 10% of total traffic in North America, which is a stark difference from the 60% share it consumed 11 years ago ..Netflix (31.6%) holds its ground as the leading downstream application in\n\nGrowing our support for veterans and military families\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan on Monday, November 11, 2013\n\nOver the past year, more and more Googlers have had the chance to meet service members and hear their stories through the Google Veterans Network—our employee resource group. These interactions have led to a greater understanding of the challenges the veteran community faces and have inspired many teams across Google to find additional ways for our technology to help.\n\nThis Veterans Day, on behalf of the Google Veterans Network and all Googlers, we’re proud to share some of the new ways we’re working with partners to support the military veteran community.\n\nOur professional development programs that pair Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with Google mentors continue to grow. This past summer, we hosted resume writing workshops for 350+ student veterans in 12 Google offices in partnership with Student Veterans of America and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Last week, working collaboratively with the Bob Woodruff Foundation, we welcomed more than 100 injured post-9/11 veterans and their loved ones to Google NYC for a tech immersion and mentoring day. Finally, VetNet, the Google+ career services platform we launched last year with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families and Hire Heroes USA, has helped thousands of veterans prepare for civilian careers.\n\nFollow us at google.com/+GoogleForVeterans to let us know how else we can help and to stay up to date on our activities througout the year. Happy Veterans Day!\n\nPosted by Carrie Laureno, Audience Evangelist & Founder, Google Veterans Network\n\nVolubill Entered Liquidation\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in PCRF Market, Volubill\n\nAccording to a report in BillingViews, and as can be seen here, \"Volubill is actually in the hands of a French receiver appointed on October 29 in a process known as ‘liquidation judiciaire’ (judicial or compulsory liquidation in English). The company appears to have been traveling OK up until 2010 as previously reported but turnover reduced to €11.35m and €10.75m in 2011 and 2012 respectively.\n\nProcera Partners with Avvasi; Prefers Partnerships over Allot's Acquisitions Strategy\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Avvasi, DPI, Optimization, Procera, Video\n\nProcera Networks continues to expand its partnerships with optimization vendors [see \"Procera Partners with Skyfire: Detects and Steers Video Traffic for Optimization\" - here], and announces a \"a joint solution and strategic partnership that integrates Avvasi’s industry-leading Q-VUE product [see \"Avvasi Launches Video Analytics Service Gateway - w/Location (RAN), Device and Subscriber\n\nNet Neutrality is \"a Dead Man Walking\"\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Discrimination, FCC, Net Neutrality\n\nAre we about to see stronger Net Neutrality in the US?\n\nGartner OSS Leaders: NetCracker, Oracle, Amdocs, IBM and Ericsson\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Gartner, NetCracker, OSS on Sunday, November 10, 2013\n\nNetCracker announced that \"Gartner Inc., the world-leading information technology research and advisory firm, has positioned NetCracker as a “Leader” in its October 2013 Magic Quadrant for Operations Support Systems ..\n\nGartner’s Magic Quadrant for Operations Support Systems “rates vendors that sell end-to-end solutions for service assurance and fulfillment, including network resource\n\nGigaOM: Over 60% of US Broadband Subscribers have Data Caps\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Comcast, GigaOM, quota, Usage Based Billing on Saturday, November 9, 2013\n\nStacey Higginbotham [pictured] writes to GigaOm about the recent developments in usage-based billing policies in the US broadband market:\n\n\"Comcast is expanding its usage-based broadband trials. Given the larger roll out, it looks like a 300 GB cap plus a $10 overage fee that gets you 50 more GB is the winner .. which translates roughly into 40 cents per hour of HD television streamed via the\n\nSecurity VAS Deployments [272]: TDS [US] Deploys Kindsight for Malware Protection\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Alcatel-Lucent, Kindsight, security, TDS TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VAS\n\nAlcatel-Lucent and TDS Telecommunications [see \"DPI Deployments: TDS Uses Sandvine\" - here] announced that \".. Kindsight security technology is powering TDS’ Hacker Alert service. The Kindsight Broadband Security solution enables TDS to continuously analyze Internet traffic for threats, inform subscribers and provide directions on how to remove ‘malware’ or other infections on a device. TDS\n\nDSC Deployments [271]: Telstra Selects Ericsson\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Diameter Router, Ericsson, Tekelec, Telstra on Friday, November 8, 2013\n\nEricsson announced that \"Telstra has selected the Ericsson Diameter Signaling Controller to expand its wireless network and meet the rapid growth in mobile broadband usage .. Ericsson Diameter Signaling Controller is implemented on Ericsson Blade System, a scalable, high-capacity platform that is involved in some 40 percent of the world's total voice and data traffic. It can be deployed as a\n\nSR 6 Willapa River Bridge: Past and Present\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in bridge, Menlo, Pacific County, SR 6, State Route 6, Willapa River Bridge on Thursday, November 7, 2013\n\nBy guest blogger Abbi Russell\n\n1929 was a heavy year. It was the year Herbert Hoover was inaugurated as President, the year that saw a catastrophic stock market crash and the first inklings of the Great Depression. It was the first year of the Academy Awards. 7-Up was invented that year, as well as the first car radio.\n\nWe can thank 1929 for bringing us Anne Frank, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Grace Kelly, Bob Newhart, Audrey Hepburn and Arnold Palmer (the golfer, not the confused beverage).\n\nOne other less glamorous but interesting fact about 1929: It was the year we opened a brand-new bridge carrying State Route 6 over the Willapa River.\n\nThe steel truss bridge, located near Menlo in Pacific County, was built using the most advanced engineering and materials of the day. But now, 84 years later, it’s time to say goodbye to early twentieth century construction and hello to the future.\n\nWe are replacing the Willapa River Bridge with a wider, more modern structure designed for today’s traffic and structural standards.  Next week, our contractor hits a major milestone as crews set 12 girders to span 275 feet across the Willapa River. Once the girders are set, crews will start deck construction with the aim of finishing and opening the new bridge to traffic in fall 2014.\n\nThe new bridge won’t have a graceful superstructure arching overhead; it will be a relatively plain structure with two 12-foot lanes of smooth, grey concrete. But it will carry two log trucks side-by-side, something the narrow 1929 structure struggles with. It will be built to survive earthquakes and floods, something we can’t guarantee with the 84-year-old bridge. And, with good care, it will last at least 50 years.\n\nThat’s where the old bridge is an overachiever – it has served drivers for 84 years, even though it wasn’t intended to. The new structure could last that long, and who knows? In another 84 years, maybe another young writer will marvel at the passage of time and the strength of those old and faithful structures.\n\nRoad Safety and Drowsy Driving", "Cache Deployments [270]: Mediatti [U.S. military bases] Selected PeerApp\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in caching, PeerApp\n\nPeerApp announced it has been \"..selected by Mediatti Broadband Communications to provide its UltraBand transparent caching platform. UltraBand enables Mediatti to deliver Internet video and data content with dramatically improved quality\".\n\nThis is PeerApp's 2nd cable operator customer serving US military bases in Japan (see \"Americable [Japan] Saves 33% Bandwidth with PeerApp\" - here).\n\nProcera 10% Customers - Shaw Communications and Others\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in DPI Market, Procera, Shaw Communications\n\nIn its SEC filing for Q3, 2013 (here) Procera Networks states the following (see also \"Procera: \"We have 16 direct trials with Tier 1 global service providers\" - here):\n\nFor the three months ended September 30, 2013, revenue from two customers represented 33% and 11% of net revenue, respectively, with no other single customer accounting for more than 10% of net revenue [Shaw Communications\n\nAmdocs Acquires Celcite for $129M; 2014 Expected Revenues (w/Actix):$68-103M\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in amdocs, Celcite, Optimization, SON on Tuesday, November 5, 2013\n\nAmdocs continues to expand its offering in the network optimization space - much close to the IP data plane compared to its legacy products.\n\nThe BSS/OSS vendor announced \".. it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Celcite Management Solutions LLC [see \"Celcite Updates SON with Responsibility Metrics and Accelerated Load Balancing\" - here]  for\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in DPI Market, Openet, Parental Control, Procera\n\nProcera Networks announced record-high revenues for Q3 ($21.3M, +33 Y/Y) bring it closer to Sandvine ($27.2M) and Allot Communications ($24.1M). The company also announced a new fixed Tier1 order (here) with parental control capabilities, and the selection of its DPI engine software, NAVL, by \"4 leading technology companies for inclusion in their products\" (here).\n\nThe 3 vendors total\n\nCitrix: Mobile Ads Generate 1.6% of iOS/ 2.2% of Android Data Volume\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Android, Apple, broadband statistics, Bytemobile, citrix\n\nCitrix Bytemobile published its \"Mobile Analytics Report, November 2013\" (here) that \"provides insight into subscriber behavior and related factors that affect subscribers’ quality of experience (QoE) with mobile data services\".\n\nMain findings:\n\nThree applications - Media Player, Browser and Google Play - generate 83% of mobile data volume associated with Android devices, with Media Player\n\nIntroducing Helpouts: Help when you need it over live video\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in google+ on Monday, November 4, 2013\n\nWhat if getting help for a computer glitch, a leaky pipe, or a homework problem was as easy as clicking a button? What if you could connect via real-time video to a music teacher or a yoga instructor from the comfort of your home? What if you could get someone knowledgeable to get you “unstuck” when you really need it?\n\nToday, we’re announcing Helpouts—a new way to get and give help over live video. Our goal is simple: help people help each other. We want to use the convenience and efficiency of the web to enable everyone, no matter where they are or what time it is, to easily connect with someone who can help.\n\nHelp might be a quick answer to a problem you’re having right now, like how to fix your garage door, or how to remove a computer virus; or it might be guidance completing a project, like building a deck. It might be learning a new skill, like how to speak conversational French or how to draw cartoons; or it might be general advice on how to improve your fitness or your writing (I could use this right now).\n\nWith Helpouts, you can choose who you get help from based on their qualifications, their availability, their price, their ratings and reviews. You can connect instantly or book in advance. You can get help from individuals or from brands you already know and trust, like Sephora, One Medical, Weight Watchers, Redbeacon (a Home Depot company), and Rosetta Stone. Once you’re in a Helpout, you can do more than just talk—you can share your computer screen, collaboratively edit a presentation, or record your Helpout. And if the experience doesn’t meet your expectations, we offer a full money back guarantee.\n\nToday is just the beginning. We’re starting small and in a few categories. The number of people giving help on Helpouts and the type of help available will grow over time. Helpouts may not be suitable for every occasion, and it will take time to get used to interactions via real time video. We hope that the efficiency, convenience and global reach of Helpouts will make people’s lives easier in the long term.\n\nWe hope you’ll give Helpouts a try and give us your feedback through ratings and reviews, or talk to us on Google+, Twitter or Facebook. And if you’re interested in giving help on Helpouts yourself, let us know.\n\nIt’s time to make getting good help a whole lot easier.\n\nPosted by Udi Manber, VP Engineering\n\nGoogle+: Explore the world, right from the classroom\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in education, google+\n\nWe all remember the days when we’d arrive at school, permission slips and bag lunches in tow, ready to venture forth on a field trip. Those were the days we waited for all year. Yet most field trips cost money, require lots of planning, and can only go as far as a school bus can take you.\n\nToday we’re launching a new initiative on Google+ called Connected Classrooms that enables students around the world to take “virtual field trips” through Google+ Hangouts, visiting places they would otherwise never be able to explore. We’re kicking things off today with field trips to the Seattle Aquarium, the Minnesota Zoo and the Solar Impulse hangar. Later, teachers can sign up to take their classrooms on virtual field trips hosted by organizations like National Geographic, Matilda the Musical, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and more than 20 other partners.\nTeachers are already using Google+ to make learning more relevant, collaborative and accessible—from exploring a world-class art museum to staging a play to venturing into space. Connected Classrooms aims to make it easier for teachers to access exciting educational content to share with their students. In addition to the virtual field trips, teachers who visit the Connected Classrooms site will have the opportunity to join a Google+ Community with other educators to collaborate on field trips and share best practices for using digital tools in the classroom.\nIf you’re a K-12 teacher, head over to the Connected Classrooms site and learn how your classroom can participate.\n\nPosted by Lisa Jiang, Google+ Education Partnerships Lead\n\nSurvey: Needs and Challenges of 10G Networks\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Network Intelligence, WildPackaets\n\nA survey made WildPackets \".. surveyed more than 100 network engineers and IT directors to determine where companies were with the state of migrating to 10G networks. Along with getting a better understanding of migration, the team also set out to get a better understanding of the challenges faced when deploying 10G, 40G and 100G networks and what network engineers needed in a network analysis\n\nADLINK Announces 40G Packet Processing ATCA Blade\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in ADLINK, ATCA, Cavium Networks, DPI on Sunday, November 3, 2013\n\nADLINK announced its \".. first network processing unit (NPU) product, the ADLINK aTCA-N700 AdvancedTCA® packet processing blade, featuring dual 32 core NPUs providing parallel processing and up to 320G switching capability. .. The ADLINK aTCA-N700 is compliant to the ATCA Base Specification and the ATCA Ethernet Specification\"\n\nTwo Cavium OCTEON II CN6880 processors, each with 32\n\nAdaptiveMobile Uses Big Date to Defend ISPs in Real-Time\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in AdaptiveMobile, Big data, monitoring, Network Intelligence on Saturday, November 2, 2013\n\nAdaptiveMobile announced the \"..launch of Tethra™, a Hadoop-based “Big-Security” threat analytics platform designed to defend service provider networks. Tethra provides powerful real-time continuous monitoring of threats, evaluating the billions of events occurring every day within the typical mobile and fixed line service provider. Unlike traditional approaches to network security, which\n\n[Israel]: The Parliament Approves Net Neutrality (Fixed and Mobile) Law\n\nPosted by Andre Tauladan in Israel, Net Neutrality on Friday, November 1, 2013\n\nThe Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, voted in favor (17:0) of a new Net Neutrality law. This is the first of 3 votes needed for the law to be approved (here, Hebrew).\n\nThe new law (a previous one referred to wireless services only - here) prohibits all licensed ISPs to limit or block any service or application provided over the internet netwrok and limit or block the customer's ability to use" ]

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[ null, "Space Art and the Exploration of Space\n\nThis Saturday October 29 I’ll be giving my presentation Space Art and the Exploration of Space at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst IL. It will actually be a somewhat modified version of my normal presentation because of the why of why I was asked to speak. I was contacted by a representative of the Elmhurst Art Museum after she read about the Bigelow Aerospace BEAM inflatable module on the International Space Station. She was looking for a way to connect ISS/BEAM with the museum’s BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art exhibit.\n\nUnfortunately inflatable space art is not a \"thing\". However I was taken up on my offer to give my presentation about space art – which would be modified to include artist impressions of inflatable space architecture – an idea that is much older than you might think.\n\nMany may remember TransHab, a NASA effort from the 90’s to develop an inflatable habitat for the International Space Station. While the project was canceled, all was not lost because Bigelow Aerospace had the foresight to purchase the rights to the patents developed as a part of that NASA project. This lead to the Genesis I, Genesis II, and now the BEAM inflatable modules – which makes very real the prospect for the commercial availability of private, inflatable space stations. Thank you Robert Bigelow for your vision.\n\nOthers may remember the Goodyear inflatable space station prototype from 1961. Much earlier references to inflatable space structures are to be found in the imaginations of science fiction authors. For example, from 1939 is the story Misfit by Robert Heinlein where he writes about covering an asteroid valley with a tarp-like roof and inflating.\n\nSo if you are in the area and are up for a presentation on space art, I invite you to attend my talk. Note that while there is no charge for my program, you do have to purchase a museum admission to get in. Museum admission is $8 for adults and $7 for seniors, but admission is free to all students and anyone under 18. For more about the Elmhurst Art Museum, visit the Elmhurst Art Museum web site. To learn more about my presentation, see Art and the Exploration of Space.\n\nProgram Description at Elmhurst Art Museum Programs\nSaturday, October 29, 2016 – 1:00pm\nJim Plaxco, President of the Chicago Society for Space Studies, will be giving a lecture which explores the development and evolution of space art from its beginnings in science fiction to its use as a tool to illustrate and promote space exploration. His lecture will demonstrate the large role that inflatables have played in the exploration of space as well as the creation of space art." ]

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[ "Where? Tervuren, Belgium\n\nRecommended by: Joanneke Elliot\n\nJoanneke said: \"I would like to tell you about a children’s book store, Treasure Trove, located in Tervuren, Belgium. After serving a loyal clientele for thirty years in nearby Moorsel, new owners moved the store to this cosy town in December 2008. It is the only English-language bookshop in Brussels that specializes in children’s books. I was a happy patron of Treasure Trove in its previous incarnation, but was so excited by the newly outfitted store that I applied for a part-time position there as soon as it opened its doors.\n\nThe new site is on a busy high street in Tervuren, an affluent, family-friendly area popular with Brussels’ thousands of English-reading and speaking expatriates, as well as with English-fluent locals. It is also conveniently close to several English private international schools. The new location is delightfully cosy, with comfortable areas to sit and read or linger to discover new titles. Treasure Trove has designated areas for babies to early readers, and junior fiction and non-fiction up to young adult. The different sections also include books on parenting, dyslexia and English as a Second Language for children and teens.\n\nThe staff is dedicated and very knowledgeable. With published authors and international school librarians among their ranks, they have strong connections to the English-language community in Brussels. At the moment they are developing an extensive website to accompany the personal and enthusiastic newsletter that is sent out every month. They also host several children’s events such as author visits, story-time, summer reading parties, and story contests.\"\n\nTreasure Trove, a specialized children's bookstore in Tervuren near Brussels, offers a very rare combination - enthusiasm, ambition and energy of the new along with the stability, experience and cherished tradition and reputation of the old. There's no doubt that it will be very interesting to follow the journey of Treasure Trove in its new locality and we are sure that it will soon find its clientele, both new and old. There is not much we can add to this informative and ample recommendation, just that it has definitely managed to convince us that discovering this bookstore may definitely be a true treasure to many parents and especially children.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Thailand has marketed itself perfectly, as a budget destination that has all the right ingredients for a typical ‘paisa vasool’ holiday.\n\nAlthough this destination is normally one of the first stamps on a number of Indian passports, I am sure that there are a number of people that aren’t even aware of the other side of Thailand and how great a  NO ‘exotic beach holiday’ to Thailand can be.\n\nThailand's northern capital Chiang Mai is a more relaxed escape from the whirlwind pace of life of its southern popular rival. I think this was one of the wisest destination choices and it was a perfect getaway and a fun family holiday.\n\nChiang Mai is a city in mountainous northern region of Thailand and it dates back to the 1200s .Popularly known as the trekking base of Thailand this quaint city is located at a 300 m elevation in a vast mountainous area.\n\nIt's province is known for its access to adventure sports , white water rafting , walks into the  relatively high mountain ranges , abundant flora- fauna, and cooler weather.", "Chiang Mai is popularly known for the mountaintop temple of the Wat Doi Suthep, the central shrine that houses the seated Buddha. You can reach the temple by hiking up the Monks trails across the  mountain road ,by renting the easily available bikes  or hopping into a songthaew , the local red truck – communal cab (basically a modified pick-up truck with a roof and 2 benches).", "Overlooking the city from its majestic seat , the Wat Phra That Doi Suthep is one of northern Thailand's most sacred temples.\n\nAs you arrive at the temple you are reminded that one needs to earn their blessings and are guided up a 400 step climb. This walk is pretty interesting, lined by giant snake idol railings and numerous local vendors along the way you get a great flavour of the local buzz.\n\nThe first view of the temple is truly therapeutic and one can definitely spend some time here. There is a dress code so do remember to carry a sarong to cover your legs before you enter the temple.", "Chiang Mai is a city in mountainous northern Thailand that dates back to the 1200s and is known as the trekking base of Thailand.\n\nThe number trails that take you through hidden waterfalls and dense paths, will also lead you towards the riverside where you can choose to spend the afternoon at a local shack taking a Thai cooking class , relax and watch the elephants being  cleaned or  even maybe fly through the jungle.\n\nWe chose the locally popular company called Flight of the Gibbon to plan our day.\n\nIt is a known fact that one shouldn’t encourage the elephant rides or the tiger petting zoos in the country and having said that we were glad to note that Chiang Mai houses the Elephant Nature Park, an elephant rescue and rehabilitation center in Northern Thailand where you can volunteer and visit to help and get to see the animals.", "Chiang Mai — “New City” in Thai — is actually more than 700 years old but was new when the capital was moved down to the banks of the Ping River from Chiang Rai.\n\nIts Old City area still retains parts of the wall and moats along with the original city  gates. The main gate, Tha Phae, is on the eastern side and facing the river Ping. The other gates are Chiang Mai Gate to the south, Suan Dok to the west and Chiang Puerk to the north.", "The Old City comes alive every weekend and turns into a walking street complete with a craft market, local bands and  musicians. If The night markets of Chiang Mai are a must visit to get a feel of the local delicacies, local art and get a buzz of the town.", "By northern Thai standards, Chiang Mai old city centre has a pretty active night-life scene, with everything from trendy riverside bars to student hangouts and karaoke pubs.\n\nIf the neon graffiti lining and lights leading to creepy and rickety staircases don’t confirm what kind of places are around the corner , then the throbbing drum and bass certainly will.\n\nRooftop bars in Chiang Mai are rather down to earth and have a perfect laid back backpacker vibe. We ended out exploring the popular THC Rooftop Bar as we following the music.", "You have not explored Chiang Mai until you have visited at least two or three markets and the city is full of them .You do not need to follow a recommended list but in fact ask the locals , there are markets cropping up and buzzing each season you will definitely find your way to a few.\n\nIn all I think this is a great getaway destination with bustling street markets and coffee shops on every corner, cozy quaint guest houses and an option to escape into the mountains and into the NORTH." ]

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[ "Thursday, July 14, 2011\n\nBeacon Lights and Courthouse Steps\n\nI must have had a bad ruler day and will probably remake this Beacon Lights block, some of my little triangles are way tiny.  Maybe I will, maybe I won't.  But, it was a fun block to make!", null, "I also finished the Courthouse Steps block - I decided to use the 'made fabric' on the inside instead of the outside on this one.  Thanks for the tutorials ladies!", null, "Posted by tropicslady at 7:21 AM", "Labels: Beacon Lights, BLOCKS OF THE MONTH, courthouse steps, tropicslady", "CrochetnQuilt said...\n\nI love the color combination on your Courthouse Steps!\n\nJuly 14, 2011 at 7:42 AM", "sheila 77 said...\n\nThe way you have put these fabrics together is lovely. Sometimes I think quilt rulers are having a laugh." ]

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[ "Monday, October 22, 2012\n\nOld Wood Toolbox (Simplify)", null, "This is an old vintage, wooden toolbox that I've painted in a more prim look. It came to me in a faded whiteish' colored wood, totally covered in grease spots and the inside was terrible. I didn't even think to take a before pic because as soon as I got it home, I started cleaning and painting it.\n\nI painted it with a brush, with a flat black. Then I stenciled on the \"Simplify\" saying and the star. Next, I roughed it up around all the edges & handle with some medium grade sand paper.", null, "Then I sealed it with a light shade of varnish/stain combo. Let it dry and here it is. It's for sale in my Peddlers Mall booth for $24.99.\nUpdate: Sold", null, "I displayed magazines in this at my booth. It would be great for many other uses as well though." ]

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[ "Thursday, May 3, 2012\n\nBright Yellow", null, "Yellow with turquoise, sunshine and ocean.  Block #5 is finished in the color challenge.\nPosted by ellen gets crafty at 6:40 AM", "Willa said...\n\nThis is a color combination(turquise, yellow and white) that came to my mind too. It alwasy seems to work - I agree, ocean breezes and sunshine!\n\nMay 3, 2012 at 2:42 PM", "JaneB said...\n\nOoh very nice sunshine block. I like the turquoise . . . may have to add that to my mix. No problem finding lots of bright yellow." ]

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[ null, "President Fred Lawrence\n\nWatch video of the March 10 event.\n\nSince becoming president of Brandeis on Jan. 1, Fred Lawrence has been busy meeting in person as many students, faculty, alumni, parents and friends as possible.\n\nOn Thursday, March 10, all who have not been able to meet the university's eighth president face-to-face will have the chance to visit with him without leaving their home or office.\n\nFrom 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. EST Lawrence will participate in an online conversation through the Brandeis Alumni Association's Faculty Lecture Forum. After a brief introduction, he will field questions from online participants.\n\nFor more information, visit the Faculty Lecture Forum website. To register for the forum, click here. Questions may be submitted during the live event or sent in advance to [email protected].\n\nAn accomplished scholar, teacher and attorney, Lawrence is one of the nation's leading experts on civil rights, free expression and bias crimes. His formal inauguration will take place March 31.\n\nPrior to coming to Brandeis, Fred was dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School from 2005 to 2010." ]

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[ "Wednesday, September 28, 2011\n\nThis Thanksgiving, Pair Turkey with Craft Beer\n\n1:44 PM  Cory  No comments", null, "With Thanksgiving around the corner, why not opt for something a little more inventive than Pinot Grigio with the family turkey dinner?" ]

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[ "Thursday, April 14, 2011\n\nRedneck Night @ Church\n\nChels had this great idea a few weeks back to have theme nights in our youth on Wednesday nights. The kids love it!!  We have had tacky night, school spirit night, and redneck night so far.  Chels & I totally did NOT plan this, but we ended up in the same outfit!  The sad part is, I really wore those overalls (even in high school!).  My friend Laura said they're coming back in.....Gap has them right now! Guess I'm ahead of the game...", null, null, "Don't be jealous. You can get your own and look this cool too! :)\nAnd if you thought we were lookin' awesome, you shoulda seen Big Jon!  We didn't get a pic of his after outfit when I made him unroll his shorts and put a tee on under the \"vest.\"  I just thought the chest hair was a little too much for church.", null, "Happy Thursday!!\nPosted by *Butler, Party of 4*", "Amanda Jones said...\n\nI think it's an awesome idea to do theme nights for youth. It's a great way to make it fun for everyone, especially during a time of fellowship. Also I have to say I admire Mr. Butler for going above and beyond! He's like a handsome version of Larry the Cableguy :)\n\nApril 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM", "Jamie said...\n\nHow funny! I remember wearing overalls back in the day too :)\n\nApril 14, 2011 at 2:54 PM", "Dana & Ryan said...\n\nSeriously, Jon is a hoot! You guys are so hilarious! Glad you are serving the youth and making it fun for them! :)" ]

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[ "Thursday, January 9, 2014\n\nSomeone got a rather epic haul of pirate paraphernalia for Christmas this year.", null, "Ships, costumes, gun, sword, a treasure chest,  movies, books, legos.... it was a pirate explosion!  And I was worried that he would get it all, then be totally done with pirates.  Like, a pirate overload resulting in a new disinterest in the subject all together. But luckily...", null, "The love seems to be going nowhere anytime soon.\n\nThe battles with his new pirate ships are epic, commonly taking place on a blue rug that is OBVIOUSLY the high seas.  The treasure chest is hidden, then discovered after using the sword and gun to fight off bad guys, and the map, compass and telescope to find our way.  The hat is a favorite, replaced only to switch roles and put on his Link hat and shield.\n\nThen a new world opens up.  Still with pirates, but now he is the mighty Link, looking for treasure chests and using his shield for protection.  Always on the hunt for a princess.  Walking into a room with his green hat on, saying  \"Hi Mama, it's Link.  Where did Henry go?\"  and his face lighting up when I say \"Oh hi Link!  We have missed you!  Henry was just here... now where did he run off to??\"", null, "It's a fun time in the Bio Girl house.  His imagination is inspiring, and it has become one of my very favorite things about him.  I sit back, watching him so completely engrossed in his own make believe world, and I pray he never loses his ability to imagine, to dream, and to live in his own created moments.  How do you teach them to keep doing that?  If anybody knows, send the secret my way.  Because I want this stage, these imagination fueled days of pretend play, to go on forever.", "Posted by Sarah at 10:35 AM", "About our Sweet Missy", "Blogs I Love", "Way back in the archives" ]

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[ "4 July 2014\n\nThis spicy chana recipe is my personal favourite. Also commonly known as 'Sundal', it's mostly served as 'prasad' during the Navrathras. There are quite a few variations to the recipe and one gets to taste them in different households during the 9-days festival. But I'd like to be biased towards my mother's formula :)", null, "White Chick peas - 250gms  (Soaked overnight)\nCoconut bits - 1/4 cup (Or grated)\nSalt to taste\n\nTo be roasted & ground :\nOil - 1 tsp\nDhaniya seeds - 1 tbsp\nDry Red Chili - 1\nHing - 1/4 tsp\n\nFor Tempering\nOil - 1 tbsp\nMustard Seeds - 1/4 tsp\nHing - a pinch\nCurry leaves - a few\n\nMethod :\n\n1. Pressure cook the chana (chick peas) along with salt to taste, till soft.\n\n2. Heat oil in a pan, add dhaniya seeds, red chili and hing and fry for a minute. Remove and cool. Dry grind this to a powder.\n\n3. Strain the cooked chana in a large colander and keep aside.\n\n4. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a larger pan, add mustard seeds and let crackle. Add red chili and hing and fry for a bit. Add the curry leaves followed by the chana and mix well.\n\n5. Add the coconut (bits or grated) and the powdered spice to the pan and mix again. Check for salt, remove from the flame and serve." ]

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[ "As far as I am concerned you can never have too many lip balms in your handbag, on your desk or on your bedside table and it is a product that I use all year round whatever the weather, it is also a product I use every single day, multiple times a day.", null, "Balmkind is a lip balm which is formulated without parabens, mineral oils, petrolatum, lanolin, palm oil or phthalates and instead in their place, you will find rich skin loving ingredients which leave your lips feeling soft, hydrated, nourished and soothed. An interesting story behind the company rings true for me, I am under 50 and I do suffer from pesky cold sores which seem to appear when I am feeling run down or have been poorly. Balmkind state:\n\nA life-long battle with chapped, parched and troubled lips was the inspiration behind balmkind. We aren’t alone in that battle – according to the World Health Organisation*, two-thirds of the world’s population under 50 has the virus that causes cold sores, resulting in misery for lips.\n\nTaking two years to get the formulation right, Balmkind uses antioxidant-rich Alpine Rose and this gives the balm a beautiful delicate floral scent which I really really like. The balm itself is luxuriously rich and whilst it isn't sticky or tacky on the lips, it does have a fairly thick texture which melts onto the lips as you apply it. Making use of a slanted applicator for precise application, I have found that using this balm does help with keeping my lips hydrated and nourished.", null, null, "Other ingredients within this balm include soothing liquorice root, lipid-rich pomegranate sterols, vitamin E, oat lipids and Lysine (an essential amino acid) work to soothe and protect your lips.  It is also worth noting that Antioxidant-rich Alpine Rose, Lysine (an essential Amino Acid) and soothing Licorice Root contain properties which studies have shown may reduce the occurrence of cold sores, something I am always wanted to avoid the occurrence of.\n\nThis balm can be purchased for £12 from the Balmkind website and if you are in need of a new lip balm or simply want something that does nourish your lips, then this one is worthy of trying." ]

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[ "Monday, April 7\n\nBrownie bottomed cheesecake topped with fresh berries and a balsamic reduction.", null, "Husbands are pretty great. Or at least mine is. Want to know what makes my husband super?", null, "1) He goes to the store at 6:00 am to buy me tampons when I am  out. Seriously, as if tampon purchases are not awkward enough... try being a dude and having to do it.\n\n2) He tells me that I am  beautiful on days I am  too tired to care about makeup and clothes. He might even compliment me on the weird layered sun dress, yoga pants,  running shoes and sweatshirt look I rock. He also thinks it is super sexy when I wear red wool knee socks over my leggings with clogs. (Kidding... he actually makes fun of me for that one.)\n\n3) He spends at least an hour every night talking over my super duper exciting day filled with cupcakes and diapers. And he actually cares about the Asshat who left me a mean comment on Facebook.\n\n4) He goes to work every day to make a comfortable living so I can stay home and pursue my passions and spend time with the kids.\n\n5) He will eat all the food I prepare.... even when it is really shitty and gross. (I have at least 1 flub a week...)\n\n6) When I try showing off and kick the soccer ball over the fence, which then makes the kids cry because it was their new ball (soccer mom of the year!)... he will un-nail the privacy fence and climb through pricker bushes to retrieve it.\n\n7) He will watch hours of Special Victim's Unit and The Good Wife because he knows I love it.\n\n8) When I have an anxiety attack over my current work load, he tells me to take the weekend off and relax. When I get worked up there is no one that can make me feel calm again except for him.", null, "See? He is pretty much the best. Tampons. Seriously.", null, "To repay him for all the awesomeness he brings to my day. I made him this cheesecake. My thought was that I'd bring it into his work and share it with him... but then I remembered he doesn't like cheesecake. And then I messed it all up slicing and decided to keep it.\n\nWife of the year.\n\nFor the Brownie Layer:\n1/2 cup of butter\n2 oz unsweetened bakers chocolate\n2/3 cups granulated sugar\n2 tbs plain Greek yogurt\n1/4 tsp salt\n1/2 cup all purpose flour\n\nFor the Cheesecake:\n3 8oz packages of cream cheese, room temperature\n3 large eggs\n1 tbs vanilla extract\n1/4 cup greek yogurt\n\n1lb of fresh strawberries\n3/4 cup balsamic vinegar\n\nPreheat oven to 350 degrees.\n\nIn a small pan over low heat add the butter and chocolate for your brownie layer and melt. Remove and cool just slightly.\n\nIn a mixing bowl mix egg with, yogurt, sugar, salt until incorporated. Mix in the melted butter and chocolate. Fold in flower.\n\nSpread into the bottom of a lightly greased 9-10inch springform pan. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick is inserted and comes out clean.\n\nWhile the brownie layer bakes, prepare the cheesecake filling.\n\nIn the bowl of your electric mixer whip cream cheese with sugar until light and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time, mixing completely before the addition of the next.\n\nMix in vanilla extract and greek yogurt.\n\nPour and spread evenly over the brownie layer.\n\nReturn to oven and bake for 40-50 minutes or until the center jiggles just slightly. If it starts to crack you are over baking it.\n\nTurn oven off, crack and allow cheesecake to cool slowly to room temperature.\n\nRefrigerate over night.\n\nTo assemble, hull and wash berries, place on top of the cheesecake.\n\nHeat vinegar over low heat and bring to a low boil. Slowly cook until it has reduced in volume to about a 1/4 cup or is thick and syrup like.\n\nDrizzle over the top of cheesecake and serve." ]

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[ "Chuck Swindoll and Questions of Language", null, "I just watched Chuck Swindoll in person last night speaking to the students of Wheaton College. He is an excellent speaker and I have listened to him for years. He mentioned that this has been a tough year for him, so I thought I would search to see the problems he had been wrestling with. The only thing I found was questions about some of his language and illustrations. See the article called: Chuck Swindoll Dropped from Radio Network for “Crude, Vulgar, From the Gutter” Language\n\nThe Question at Issue\nThe question at issue here is one I have wrestled with recently at my church. How much should we go along with social norms in order to relate to society and influence them to do better versus how much should we strive for a high level of purity and lead by example?\n\nThis is not an academic question for me. I have eight kids, we home school and we do not watch TV. So one of the major external influences on the habits my kids learn is from the church.\n\nMy Answer\nMy answer is that we have decided to attend two churches. One church is excellent in that it teaches kids to act properly and respectfully (mostly home schooled families like ours go there). The other church is excellent in that they attract non-Christians and those in need of Christian growth (they have a good youth outreach and church for homeless on Sundays).\n\nIn a way, that is like what Young Life does. They have Young Life meetings for non-Christians, then Campaigners meetings for Christians.\n\nOne of the main problems with the church in our society is that Christians mostly do not stand out from good non-Christians any more because we don't make distinctions between the two groups (I'm sorry to say that if someone attends church and believes in theory that Jesus is God, but is not committed to actually doing all that He says, then they are not Christians).\n\nThe words used by Dr. Swindoll, while technically vulgar, are today not generally considered vulgar by a large segment of Americans. So, I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with Dr. Swindoll sporadically using \"common\" terms accepted by a large segment of society as a demonstration that Christians have freedom to talk using the common vernacular.\n\nBut I do have two problems with that tact. One is that the forum he said it in. Since that forum was intended for Christians and not non-Christians there should be no need to use such common terms in order to \"connect\" with the listening audience.\n\nThe other problem is that if he continues to use that common language over time, he will lose the ability to lead by example to more pure use of language. He may be using only minimally vulgar words, but others could use that as precedent to speak in even more vulgar terms.\n\nWhen Paul talks about \"becoming all things to all people\" in 1 Cor 9:19-23, he is specifically talking about how he handles the interaction of law and grace with Jewish Christians and Greek Christians. So that verse should not be used to justify going to the least common denominator in our increasing secular society in order to reach non-Christians.\n\nThis is just one instance of the larger question of what the Church should be and how it should relate to society." ]

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[ "Eggs, Any Style and a Really Good Caesar Salad\n\nYou have to love how versatile the egg can be. Boiled, fried, poached, scrambled, baked. On its own or mixed with other ingredients. The star of the show or an integral player in something grander. Eggs are truly a beautiful thing.", null, "The dozen eggs I picked up last week from Tawse Winery are definitely beautiful. Being a winery that practices biodynamic farming techniques, Tawse have their own chickens, allowing Tawse to sell fresh eggs to their patrons as well. With a beautiful, smooth outer shell, each egg was huge (and I mean huge). I couldn't wait to crack into them.", null, "The next day, I immediately enjoyed the eggs simply fried with some bacon for breakfast, allowing me to savour the egg itself and admire the gorgeous deep orangey-yellow of the yolk (you certainly won't find an egg as pretty as these in a supermarket). This past week, I also made myself a fantastic breakfast sandwich: glazed back bacon from Witteveen Meats in the St. Lawrence Market, Gruyère cheese, egg over-easy and Buster Rhinos barbecue sauce, all on freshly baked ciabatta. It was a messy affair, with yolk, sauce and bacon juice dripping all over the place, but oh-so-delicious!", null, "The fresh farm eggs also encouraged me to make Caesar salad with scratch, using the egg yolks. What resulted was a lovely yellow-hued, all-natural, creamy vinaigrette that's a thousand times better than any creamy-based dressing. Slightly tart from the lemon juice, super garlicky with a punch of anchovies, and naturally creamy from the egg yolks, it perfectly coats the lettuce without leaving clumps of dressing all over the leaves like a creamy dressing would. I served the salad with some toasted garlic ciabatta (Drizzle ciabatta halves with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper and bake in a 350°F until golden, about 3 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately rub cut-side with a clove of garlic.), pancetta crisps and lots of freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano.", null, "Really Good Caesar Salad Dressing\nMakes about 1 cup dressing\n\n2 large egg yolks\n8 to 12 anchovy fillets in oil, finely chopped (or to taste)\n2 large cloves of garlic, finely minced or grated\n1/2 tablespoon Dijon mustard\n1 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce\n1 1/2 to 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (adjust to your taste)\n1 teaspoon lemon zest\n2/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil\n1 tablespoon filtered water\nSea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste\n\nIn a salad bowl, combine egg yolks, chopped anchovies, garlic, mustard, lemon juice, lemon zest, and Worcestershire sauce with a fork until a paste is formed. Slowly pour oil into the bowl while stirring briskly. Add filtered water, combine, and set aside.\n\nImmediately toss romaine lettuce leaves with dressing and serve with garlic croutons and lardons, if desired. Or pour dressing into a clean jar and keep refrigerated for a few days.\n\nPosted by Bonita at 10:00 a.m.\n\nLabels: bread, caesar, eggs, farm, farm to table, recipe, salad, tawse\n\nAnonymous October 25, 2010 at 3:02 p.m.\n\nI just realized that I'm hungry and crave bacon. Mmm... pancetta. I like eggs as long as I don't think about what they really are." ]

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[ "Thursday, November 16, 2017\n\nDec. 7-10: \"The Giving\" Market!", "This holiday season, we cannot take you to Paris, but we can bring a little Parisian Christmas to you.  Our \"The Giving\" market on December 7-10 is the last of our 2017 \"Les Trois Fêtes\" year-end holiday festivals -- and it's focus will be on bringing holiday joy to those you love!   Our last holiday market of the year will feature all that shimmers this holiday season, including tons of  lovely handmade and vintage holiday gifts and crafts\nand -- as always -- lots of new treasures that we just shipped back from our beloved Paris and our other favorite destinations.  This December, you can shop like a Parisian, and live like the French!", "We'll kick off the market on Thursday, December 7th with our seventh annual Fete de Bon Hiver (Good Winter Fest), again featuring the wonderful live holiday jazz piano of Madison's Steve Banik in the lobby, as well as our traditional complimentary refreshments and holiday cheer!", null, "The market continues Friday December 8, Saturday December 9 and Sunday December 10 (see hours below).\n\nWe hope to see you soon -- remember, you can always RSVP here!\n\nSince this is our \"Giving\" Market, this year we will be donating a percentage of our revenue from this market to Disability Rights Wisconsin, which works to ensure the rights of all citizens with disabilities through individual advocacy and system change.\n\n\"The Giving\" Market December 7-10:", "Thursday, December 7:            5pm-8pm\n\nFriday, December 8:                 10am-5pm\nSaturday, December 9:            10am-5pm\nSunday, December 10:              Noon-5pm" ]

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[ null, null, "Chron Goblin booked to record fourth studio album at OCL Studios\n\nEmerging from the dank swamplands of their last album, Backwater (2015 Ripple Music), the acidic blues rock foursome known as Chron Goblin is poised to enter the next chapter of their destiny.\n\nReadily absorbing those warm solar rays and the truths it illuminates, the four friends have achieved some significant milestones over the past 12 months. From scaling the mountain ranges of Nepal to closing out Britain’s Desertfest with a bang, the enlightenment Chron Goblin’s members have received has not always been that which they were seeking, but that element of uncertainty is what makes life’s little twists all the more sweet.\n\nTaking that sense of gratitude and humility first to heart and secondly into the studio, Chron Goblin has generated a fresh crop of potent material based on their greatest triumphs and misadventures. The two facets of existence go hand in hand, not unlike the hard-charging rhythms and cathartic vocals that have come to define the band, along with spot-on percussion, intoxicating swirls of psychedelic stringwork and earworm spawning lyrics that’ll keep you coming back for round after round. Vocalist and lyricist Josh Sandulak describes the album as \"an amalgamation and reflection of all the experiences and growth we've had as a band and it's a celebration of that journey.\"\n\nStay tuned for more green-gold nuggets from the hardcore quartet with a penchant for creating arm-out-the-window rock anthems. Chron Goblin will be entering OCL Studios this summer to collaborate with Josh Rob Gwilliam, whose production and engineering skills has led to platinum records and Juno Awards. An incendiary new release is sure to follow.\n\nChristine Leonard", "We had an absolute blast on our most recent UK/ Euro tour!  Now time to hibernate and finish writing our 4th full lenght album!", "We are thrilled to announce our return to Desertfest London 2017!  We play on April 27 and are currently booking a UK/Euro tour around the festival peformance.  If you'd like us to play your city please email [email protected]", "We have a few left over tour Tshirts in our merch page!  Get em while they last!\n\nWe are overjoyed to announce that we’ll be playing in France, Germany and Switzerland with Ripple Music labelmates Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel this spring! This is a dream come true for us and we’ve been itching to return overseas since performing at Desertfest UK in 2013. Many thanks to Total Volume Agency for setting this up and cheers to Un Sang d'Encre for the wicked Beavers and Roosters tour poster.\n\nMay 31 - La Maison Bleue / Dirty 8 – Strasbourg (Fr)\nJune 1 - Rare Guitar – Münster (De)\nJune 2 - Immerhin Würzburg – Wurzburg (De)\nJune 3 - cassiopeia Berlin – Berlin (De)\nJune 4 - Rockpool eV – Halle (De)\nJune 6 - Bucéphale – Draguignan (Fr)\nJune 7 - Post Tenebras Rock - L'Usine – Genève (Ch)\nJune 8 - Gaswerk – Winterthur (Ch)\nJune 9 - Coq d'Or – Olten (Ch)\nJune 10 - Les Passagers du Zinc – Besançon (Fr)\nJune 11 - Warmaudio – Lyon (Fr)\nJune 12 - Le Klub – Paris (Fr)", "New Vannin' Baseball T-Shirt designed by Logan Morrison.", "New Limited Edition Burnout Patch now available in our merch store.  Limited to 20 per colour.\n\nWe are proud to present a new music video for \"Fuller\"! Check out the ill-fated pizza delivery action adventure featuring the lovely and hilarious CJ. Directed, edited, and shot by our very own Josh Sandulak.\n\nBackwater is now available worldwide on 12\" 180 gram coloured vinyl, CD, and digital via Ripple Music! Purchase the album through our merch store, the Ripple Music website, iTunes, Bandcamp, or visit your local record store.", "Beatroute AB features us on the cover of their November issue and they have also premiered another song \"Seattle\" along with an online feature article. Read the article here as well as a dictionary of Canadian slang written while recording Backwater in Portland.\n\nPopMatters has premiered the second track from Backwater, referencing Dazed and Confused and describing us as \"in command, but loose\". Check out the review here and give the track a listen below!\n\nWe're hitting the road in support of the release of our new album Backwater!", "Stream the first single \"Fuller\" from new album Backwater and check out the song on Exclaim! with a writeup by Sarah Murphy.\n\nNew album Backwater will be released Nov. 13th worldwide on Ripple Music! View the press release announcing details of the new album, including a streaming link to the single \"Fuller\". New tour dates, pre-orders and merch coming soon!", "Purchase any shirt and our trucker hat for $30!  Just enter \"Cheeseburger Locker\" in the coupon section during checkout." ]

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[ "Sunday, November 18, 2012\n\nSunny fall days\n\nSome pictures from today's run. Not always the smoothest turns but solid running in between. Need some leader training but the team doesn't lack in enthusiasm.", null, null, null, "Posted by Cobey Williamson at 9:43 AM", "Labels: Mushing, Training\n\nJoin the Team!\n\nBecome a Patron!", "GOAL: IFSS World Championships 2019 - Canicross", "ByDog Siberians are fueled by", "The Mushers" ]

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[ "How to build a hugelkultur (hill-culture) garden", null, "We spent last week up in Te Puke at my mother-in-law's place. Judy is a keen gardener and eats more vegetables than anyone I know, most of which she grows in her backyard. This year, alongside her traditional vegetable patches, Judy has also set up a hugelkultur garden to try and extend her growing season.\n\nI snapped some photos of her garden while I was there, and thought I would do a post on it for you as I have also successfully incorporated some elements of hugelkultur into both the raised gardens I've built - back in Hamilton and here in Wellington.\n\nWhat is hugelkultur?\nHugelkultur (German for hill culture) is the practice of composting large woody material to create a raised garden bed. It is a good way of dealing with woody garden waste such as prunings, hedge clippings and brassica stems.\n\nThe technique involves digging a trench in the ground and filling it with woody materials. Grass or turf (face-down) is then stacked on top, followed by layers of compost, well rotted leaves and manure, etc as available. The layers break down slowly, creating rich humus over four to five years.\n\nAs the years pass, the deep soil of the raised bed becomes rich and loaded with soil life. As the wood shrinks, it makes tiny air pockets - so your hugelkultur becomes self tilling. In the first few years the composting process will slightly warm the soil, extending the growing season in temperate and cold climates.\nThe wood also stores large volumes of water, making this an excellent gardening system for arid regions.\nIt's best to use wood that is well rotted down, to prevent it from sucking the nitrogen out of your soil. This is because new wood is high in carbon, so requires a lot of nitrogen to compost.\nHow to build a hugelkultur garden\n\n1. In autumn or early winter, choose a sunny spot in your yard.\n\n2. Dig a 1.5 metre wide trench, keeping the turf as you dig. Orient the trench north-south and make it as long as possible.\n\n3. Put your woody material at the bottom, eg. well-rotted branches and logs, or hedge clippings and broccoli stalks.\n\n4. Next layer in your turf, turned upside down with the roots facing up so the grass won't keep growing.\n\n5. Now layer in garden waste, leaves and grass clippings from other parts of your lawn.\n\n6. Next layer semi-mature compost over the curve.\n\n7. Cover the whole pile with a layer of soil you got when you dug your trench. Alternatively, if your soil wasn't any good (eg. full of oxalis bulbs), you may want to bring in good quality topsoil from another source for this top layer.\n\n8. Because the garden is mounded, you will need to plant it with a cover crop (eg. mustard) immediately to prevent erosion over winter.\n\n9. Your hugelkultur garden will be ready for planting with vegetable crops in spring.\n\nHere's a diagram I found over at The Simple Green Frugal Co-op Blog.", null, "How Judy's hugelkultur garden is going\n\nHow my pseudo-hugelkultur raised garden is going\n\nPosted by Emma at 10:42 PM", "Labels: Gardening, How to, Hugelkultur\n\nSearch Craving Fresh", "Welcome to Craving Fresh!" ]

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[ "Clones are incredibly important to the facilitation of genetic preservation, but all too often they can also be a source vector for pests and pathogens. We will try to cover the main pests and pathogens you should be aware of and also some symptoms associated with those diseases.\n\nFirst, it’s important to note the subtle differences between clones and seed grown juvenile plants. Clones are taken off a mother plant and seed grown plants are simply propagated from seed. Seed plants are generally much more vigorous than clones and typically have significantly less possibilities of contracting diseases that mother plants might carry. Clearly this is also codependent on the growing room cleanliness, but in general seed starts can be considered healthier with fewer problems. In this article we will be addressing the problems associated with clones, but the same analysis can be applied for seed grown plants as well.\n\nWhat to Look For", null, "A healthy rooted clone\n\nWhen looking at clones there are two areas to examine, the plants stems/leaves and the plants roots. On the leaf surface your looking for signs of pathogens and damage from predators, and the same analysis will be conducted on the roots.  Any reputable clone will have roots growing out of the bottom of its media. Seeing the roots is always an important aspect to this assay. Sometimes you can tug lightly on the stalk and see if it pulls up or out. If it does pull up then that clone is not very well rooted and might be more likely to die in adverse conditions before fully rooted.\n\nWhen looking for pathogens the most common fungal disease is powdery mildew.  It grows on the outside of leaves, forming a white or grayish powder of spores and fungal strands. It’s important to study this pathogen because it is the most ubiquitous disease affecting cannabis.  Many times growers will spray sulfur and other fungicides that leave a white residue; many times that white residue will be misinterpreted as powdery mildew. The key to identification is to always have a microscope handy.  A simple 30X magnification hand lens will suffice for ID.  The key is to look for fungal hyphae or strands that rise above off the leaf surface. Fungicide residue is simply “painted” onto the leaf surface, but powdery mildew is actually 3-dimensional and has fungal spores that rise above the leaf surface.\n\nOther plant pathogens like botrytis (grey mold) can occur if the humidity levels are too high and the plants are over crowded. Grey mold has some powdery mildew but typically affects stalks and leaves touching each other.  Grey mold is grey to black and can typically be found at the base of the stalk on clones, where high humidity levels and overwatering cause this disease to proliferate.  Leaf spot bacterial diseases are appreciably less common and usually not a concern for the home grower. We are studying these though as this industry progresses.", null, "Rookwool cubes with healthy white roots\n\nRoot pathogens are significantly more common and are definitely very detrimental to the health of clones. Again, it’s important to note that there can be subtle differences between identifying a pathogen and other external factors that affect the appearance of the roots. Ideally, when you buy a clone, the roots will be bright white and look healthy and vigorous. Many times, external conditions change that and can give the roots the appearance of blackened tips or white root with brown edges. Some of these factors would be the heating mat gets too hot, or the clone dries out too much and the exposed roots die back.  Sometimes growers over fertilize which can also lead to similar symptoms. These are generally acceptable and overall to do not detract from the health of the clone as long as proper care is taken. However, when root tips die back, that can cause infections to infiltrate those areas, and when the infected region loses its protective outer layer it can expose the inner root to other pathogens.  It really all depends on the sterility and cleanliness of the environment the clones are raised in. You have to examine the entirety of the plants health and make your analysis.\n\nRoot pathogens to look for are things like pythium and fusarium. In seed starts and clones, they can cause a condition called damping off. When observing clones, roots may appear rotted or show a significant reduction in mass or root hair production.  Pythium, when not properly treated, can rapidly spread in hydroponic systems and can still affect production in soil systems if all the clones are infected.", null, "Two Spotted Spider Mite -Adults & Eggs\n\nWe will try to identify the most typical pests that infest cloning operations. They are spider mites, russet mites, broad mites, thrips and root aphids.  When performing pest identification, it is imperative that you have a good understanding of what you’re looking at the right magnification microscope for the job.  Spider mites and thrips are very easy to spot on the leaf surface with the naked eye and both leave tell tale stippling and spotting. It’s really easy to see the damage because the browned and dead leaf matter is what they are eating on.  Spider mites typically leave sand like dots on a green leaf and thrips have larger white scars with black feces. A 30x magnification lens will be more than sufficient for spider and thrip ID.\n\nRusset mites and broad mites need a much higher magnification microscope for proper ID. Typically you will need a magnification of at least 100x but preferably 300x. There are plenty of good models you can buy on amazon at a reasonable price. We like the eFlex brand that ranges from 75x/300x and attaches to a computer for large screen observation.\n\nThe first step though, is to know how to look for the signs on the leaf surface that would indicate a problem. Russet mite damage will cause the leaves to begin curling upwards at the edges, like a taco.  Russet mites themselves have an elongate body and are pale in color.  Adult broad mites are pale white to almost translucent in color and they have hind legs that are somewhat threadlike in appearance.", null, "Root aphids on roots of clones\n\nBroad mite damage may make the leaves appear to be strap-like or cup downward.  Broad and russet mites can cause the browning and blackening of the calyxes. On healthy clones the calyxes are typically white. However, browning of the calyxes can also be caused by hot root temperatures from the heat mats and over fertilization, so that is not always a good indicator.  Broad and russet mites are very difficult to detect early and that’s why the important axiom of “know your grower” helps you feel better about where your plants are coming from. With broad and russet you want to scan all the clones and look for curling around the leaf edges. Ultimately a decent microscope and ID abilities will aid in you drastically on this quest.\n\nRoot aphids are another notorious pest being spread through clone propagation. In their case, they can easily be identified with the naked eye on the roots. They can be white, yellow, brown green or black in color. All you have to do is pull up a few clones out of a tray to get a representative sample and scan the root 360 degrees and look for little aphids. A 30x magnification lens might help but is not necessary. Root aphids are notorious causing much headache and confusion because they are underground and typically not identified. That is why it’s important to catch them on the clones first. Because they eat the roots, they leave openings for pathogens to infiltrate.", null, "When choosing clones and seeds, please spend some time asking the grower questions. You should be able to ask them, have you ever dealt with russet or broad mites? If they stutter or make up excuses like, you should be wary of dealing with them. You shouldn’t feel rushed or threatened to “hurry it up” when dealing with third party clones. The best advice is to find clones with lush green leaves and vibrant white roots. One final element to ask the grower is if they have sprayed their plants with banned or systemic pesticides or fungicides like eagle 20. Certain systemic chemicals can remain inside the plant tissue from a clone all the way through flowering!!! For commercial growers this can mean failed tests even if you’ve never sprayed anything. For home growers this means you might be smoking harmful pesticides unknowingly. The clone producer should always be willing to tell you what their using for pest and pathogen control.\n\nYou should always consider having your clones quarantined or a few weeks from your other plants if you have any doubt as to the cleanliness of the clones. This will give you time to run the proper pest management protocols to clean them up. Whether it be inoculating with beneficial biology, introducing predator mites, or simply spraying heavily with organic controls, do your due diligence and properly treat your plants to prevent any spread of infection. Trading seed starts and clones can be a fun way to facilitate the breeding of new genetics and proper ID and plant management can save you a lot of headaches in the long run. As always, KNOW YOUR GROWER!!!" ]

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[ null, "If you're on the hunt for some cheap games for your consoles, Play-Asia rotates around weekly specials, and there are often some really great bargains to be picked up.\n\nAs a disclaimer, Digitally Downloaded is a Play-Asia affiliate, and we do gain some income from any games you purchase by clicking on the link below. It's win-win for you and us, as you get games cheap, and we get to eat (we tend to get cranky and write bad reviews when we're starving), so we thank you for your support. The affiliate arrangement in no way affects our editorial coverage.\n\nSo what's on for this week?\n\nPersona 4 Arena for a big discount! - I'm not sure what else needs mentioning this week. Persona 4 Arena is a superb game. If you don't happen to have a copy yet, now is the time to pick it up.\n\nInversion - I know very little about this game, but it's a couple of dollars. Buy it rather than a couple of coffees this week.\n\nResident Evil 6 - Ok, so this isn't exactly the finest Resident Evil game, but fans who were sitting on the fence should be able to get enough value out of the game to justify buying it at this rate.\n\nThank you again for your support, and enjoy the games! Just click on the image below to be taken to the Play-Asia website. We thank you for your support by buying your games through our Affiliates program.", "Item Reviewed: The week's Play-Asia specials; Persona for cheap! 9 out of 10 based on 10 ratings. 9 user reviews." ]

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[ "Regular readers will know that we here at Communicate Science very much believe in the old saying that 'a picture paints a thousand words'.\n\nWith that in mind, we sent our part-time roving reporter Daniel Lettice to Dublin Zoo recently to work his photographic magic and bring us some wonderful examples of the type of animals that the Zoo is home to.\n\nDublin Zoo was opened in 1831 and received all of its animals from the recently opened London Zoo.\n\nThe Zoo has had an interesting history since then: receiving its first giraffe in 1844; its first lions in 1855;surviving the 1916 rising by feeding some of the less fortunate animals to the lions; right up to the present day when it is one of the most visited attractions in the state.\n\nOur first photo is of one of the Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) - the smallest of all still existing tiger subspecies. The tigers are critically endangered in the wild. Around 400-500 were thought to exist in 1998 and their numbers continue to decline.", null, "Next, it's the Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiaca): an easily recognisable yellow-eyed bird. This guy is a male - the males are virtually pure white, while the females have dark markings.", null, "This hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) looks right at home in the water. Dublin's hippos are named Henri, Hoovie and Heidi. native to central and southern Africa, they are classified as 'vulnerable' in the wild.", null, "Finally, an Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus), from the herd at Dublin Zoo. they have smaller ears than their African counterpart and those ears (kind of) look like India! it's estimated that there are only around 35-50,000 Asian Elephants left in the wild.", "Dublin Zoo is open all year round; except for Christmas Day and St. Stephens Day. It's really worth a visit.\n\nPosted by Eoin Lettice at 11:05 AM\n\nLabels: DL, dublin, Ireland, Photo, Zoo, zoology\n\nHear me talk", "It's just a little bit of science!\n\nContact: [email protected]", "Wade through the scrivenery", "Subscribe for Free", "Tweet, Tweet", "Bits and pieces on the blog" ]

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[ "The Main Thing is to Keep\nby Stephen Covey", null, "The Main Thing The Main Thing.\n- Stephen Covey\n\nRelated topics: Wisdom Motivational Values Live-By Focus Attention Success Purpose", "Live out of your imagination, not your history.\n\nBegin with the end in mind.\n\nThe nature of life is to be\na study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.\nThe Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.\n\nEffective leadership is putting first things first.\nEffective management is discipline, carrying it out.\n\nWe are the creative force of our life,\nand through our own decisions rather than our conditions,\nif we carefully learn to do certain things,\nwe can accomplish those goals.\n\nThere are three constants in life...\nchange, choice and principles.\n\nA cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers:\nyou cannot continuously improve interdependent systems\nand processes until you progressively perfect interdependent,\ninterpersonal relationships.\n\nThe key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule,\nbut to schedule your priorities.\n\nIn the last analysis, what we are communicates far\nmore eloquently than anything we say or do.\n\nPublic behavior is merely private character writ large.\n\nManagement is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;\nleadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.\n\nOur character is basically a composite of our habits.\nBecause they are consistent, often unconcious patterns,\nthey constantly, daily, express our character.\n\nWe are not animals.\nWe are not a product of what has happened to us in our past.\nWe have the power of choice.\n\nIt's a fact that more people watch television and get\ntheir information that way than read books.\nI find new technology and new ways of communication\nvery exciting and would like to do more in this field.\n\nExample is not the main thing in influencing others.\nIt is the only thing.\n- Albert Schweitzer\n\nThe main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.\nThe soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.\n- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi\n\nThe main goal of the future is to stop violence.\nThe world is addicted to it.\n- Bill Cosby\n\nThe main thing experience has taught me is that one\nhas to sort of hone their relationship to time,\nyou know.\n- John Frusciante\n\nThe main facts in human life are five:\nfood, sleep, love and death.\n- E. M. Forster\n\nChild-rearing is my main interest now.\nI'm a hands-on father.\n- Sean Penn\n\nA perfection of means,\nand confusion of aims,\nseems to be our main problem.\n- Albert Einstein\n\nIf you have ideas, you have the main asset you need,\nand there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.\nIdeas are any man's greatest asset.\n- Harvey S. Firestone\n\nI am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through\neverything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting.\nThose were my main ways of controlling my weight.\n- Carre Otis\n\nI understood that if I wanted to work,\nthe saxophone was the main instrument.\nThe clarinet was what we call a double.\n- Lee Konitz\n\nI think it is necessary to sit down and work for years\nand years to get it right.\nI think that's the main thing, that's what the emphasis has got to be on:\nindividual work.\n- Larry Brown\n\nI think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.\n- Elizabeth Bowen\n\nYou get what you concentrate upon...\nthere is no other main rule.\n- Jane Roberts\n\nI think I'm in a really nice position,\nwhere I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one,\nbut right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.\n- Chris Isaak\n\nMy main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms,\nand to keep other people's books out of mine.\n- Samuel Butler\n\nI'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.\n- Ben Nelson\n\nThe main thing I do now is I coach kids,\nand all of these stories along the way are based in reality.\n- Craig Johnston\n\nI think the main thing was that the character couldn't\nspeak in regular language,\nso he had to be mimed.\n- Peter Mayhew\n\nOur main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,\nbut to do what lies clearly at hand.\n- Thomas Carlyle\n\nThough times have changed, it's a nice surprise to\nsee that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning\nonce more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.\n- Cat Stevens\n\nI have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment -\nbut you have to be positive.\n- Jean Alesi\n\nChiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.\n- Edward James Olmos\n\nThe main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings.\nI know for some this is a hard argument to accept,\nbut we're not built to eat a lot of meat.\n- Grace Slick\n\nIf you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor,\nthen it's not gonna work.\nJust go out there and have fun.\nThat's how I got sponsored.\n- Ryan Sheckler\n\nI still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy,\nbut I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is,\nin the realm of symphonic pops.\n- Doc Severinsen\n\nEvery action is seen to fall into one of three main categories,\nguarding, hitting, or moving.\nHere, then, are the elements of combat,\nwhether in war or pugilism.\n- B. H. Liddell Hart\n\nThe main thing I believe in is freedom.\n- Charles Evers\n\nBut the main thing is that medication,\ntoo, is not all the help.\n- Tanya Tucker\n\nThe main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.\n- Frank McCourt\n\nWell, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.\n- Jenny Craig\n\nWe regard intelligence as man's main characteristic\nand we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us,\nno inferiority for which it cannot compensate.\n- Henri Bergson\n\nPrivate property was the original source of freedom.\nIt still is its main ballpark.\n- Walter Lippmann\n\nThe Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.\n- Paul Theroux\n\nI have done almost every human activity inside a taxi\nwhich does not require main drainage.\n- Alan Brien\n\nMy main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle,\nbecause bicycles could move though the crowd.\n- John Pomfret\n\nStand-up comedy and poverty.\nThose were my two main endeavors.\n- Dave Foley\n\nAll the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.\n- Robert Cormier\n\nThe main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit,\nthat of the actor and his part, their joint feelings\nand subconscious creation.\n- Konstantin Stanislavisky\n\nLiterature does not exist in a vacuum.\nWriters as such have a definite social function exactly\nproportional to their ability as writers.\nThis is their main use.\n- Ezra Pound\n\nI'd read things, like people criticizing me.\nBut no one likes to read stuff about that,\nand probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.\n- Jack Osbourne\n\nThere's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure.\nAnd in a re - in an economy like this,\nwe don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.\n- Haley Barbour\n\nMy main hope for myself is to be where I am.\n- Woody Harrelson\n\nMy main mistake was to have made an ancient people\nadvance by forced marches toward independence,\nhealth, culture, affluence, comfort.\n- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi\n\nIt is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages\nand where it will continue;\nfor at these points -\nRichmond and Atlanta -\nthe enemy's main strength is concentrated.\n- Knute Nelson\n\nThe main part of intellectual education is not the\nacquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.\n- Oliver Wendell Holmes\n\nThe main problem was a pacing problem.\nI had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues,\nand I should have written it out as a full script beforehand.\n- Chester Brown\n\nMy main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang,\nlike Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.\n- Mose Allison\n\nThe main object of a revolution is the liberation of man...\nnot the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.\n- Jean Genet\n\nThe main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S.\ncontributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N.\nunless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate.\n- Cliff Stearns\n\nI like a girl who laughs a lot.\nThat's my main thing.\n- Cody Linley\n\nAnd that, to me, is the main attraction to comics.\nIt's an avenue to say what you want to say.\n- Bill Sienkiewicz\n\nWell, that our main concern is that Iraq should not\nbecome a divided country.\n- Bulent Ecevit\n\nQuotes and Sayings\n\nThank you for visiting: The Main Thing is to Keep by Stephen Covey.\n\nYou can also search my large collection of Quotes and Sayings." ]

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[ null, "Drinks after work at Club Lago tends to make us super hungry, if you can believe that! Even though Guido let us sample the new meatball sandwich he's working on, for the second time- we still needed more food. I blame our hunger it on the walk home in zero degree temperatures.... and the liquor.\n\nThe absolute quickest thing to make in a situation like this is a quick pasta dish; in the time it takes for the pasta to cook- you'll have the rest of your ingredients chopped and ready to go.\n\nThis pasta dish is really another variation of my mock macaroni and cheese dishes. So easy to change up the type of pasta, the cheese and the veggies being used. Using the pasta water helps give it a cheap 'sauce-effect.' You'll love the bites that have a warm crumble of goat cheese, mmmh good. And what's even better, this particular recipe works great as a cold salad as well.\n\nThe ditalini pasta is a tiny tubular pasta that works great in soups, and I like it on cold pasta salads as well. And it's real tasty after a couple of glasses of vino! Now that you know how easy and cheap it is to throw a meal together, you can afford to go out and support your local clubs with a drink or two. Keeping the neighborhood joints like Club Lago alive- that is the Fat and Happy way!\n\nDitalini and Olive Pasta\n\nBoil a large pot of water (always use more water than you think you have to when you cook pasta) add salt and cook according to package directions:", "2 cups of uncooked ditalini pasta\n\nIn the meantime, sautee in a oil oil until softening begins:\n\n1/4 cup chopped red onions\n1/2 cup chopped celery\n1/4 cup chopped carrots\n\n2 cloves garlic\n\nDrain pasta, reserving pasta water. Add a drizzle of oil oil to the bottom of the pasta pot, return to stove, but turn off the heat. Add the past back in. Add in the onion mix, and:\n\n1/2 cup chopped deli olives\n1/4 cup chopped parsley\n1/4 cup grated Romano or asiago cheese\n1 cup of the pasta water (add more or less to your liking)\nSalt and pepper to taste\n\nToss well. Add:\n1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese\n\nServe immediately with a hunk of bread.\n\n*if you want to make this a cold/room temperature dish, simply cool the pasta after draining and the toss with all ingredients, skip the pasta water but do add more olive oil with the sauteed veggies." ]

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[ "Wednesday, June 2, 2010\n\nThe First Zucchini of Summer in Deborah Madison's Penne Pasta with Green & Gold Zucchini and Ricotta", null, "One of the things I look forward to the most at the Farmers' market in the summer is Thane Palmberg's summer squash. It's beautiful. He grows and sells green and gold zucchini and a wide variety of patty pan-type squash. But the fact that he grows a wide variety is not what makes his squash extraordinary. Rather, it is the size. All of his squash are harvested while they are very small—zucchini about the size of my little finger up to squashes weighing maybe 3 or 4 ounces at the most. The patty pan squash that he sells is similarly small. Because summer squash is notorious for growing fast enough to produce baseball bat-sized specimens seemingly overnight, I know this means that his squash vines are tended with care and regularity. The care that goes into growing these beauties is also evident by the fact that they arrive at the market in pristine and unblemished condition (summer squash bruises easily).", null, "In addition to being beautiful, these squash are delicious. Since they are harvested small, their seed cavities are barely beginning to develop and their flesh is still fine-grained and firm. I am always looking for ways to use this exceptional squash—it can be roasted, steamed, blanched, baked in a gratin, added to summer stews (ratatouille!) or sautéed. The 3 or 4 oz. ones can be stuffed. I ran across a recipe for the classic Petit Farcis à la Provençale recently at Tartelette—definitely on my list to try out this summer.\n\nI think summer squash is particularly good sautéed. The light caramelization produced by properly sautéing accentuates the squash's natural nutty character. It is difficult to obtain this golden color with larger squash because the flesh tends to be soft and watery. As it cooks it gives off excessive amounts of water which inhibits browning.  Since the flesh is softer and more porous to begin with, it cooks quickly.  Unless you are fairly skilled with a sauté pan you end up with overcooked, pale squash. Zucchini that has been cooked to sogginess in this way is one of the reasons more people don't like zucchini.\n\nI am teaching a class next week about using the products that appear at the farmers' markets in the Midwest in early summer. One of the recipes that I will be teaching is a delicious pasta from Deborah Madison's Local Flavors", ". It is basically a dish of seasoned, sautéed squash that is tossed with penne pasta. I almost never teach a recipe that I haven't changed in some way, but this one will be taught as published—it is very good. Without the pasta and cheese, it would make an excellent summer side dish.", null, "When I arrived at the market last Saturday, the first baby zucchinis of the year had arrived. This pasta dish was a perfect showcase for them. Be sure to add the herbs and garlic to this dish—they really compliment the squash. I'm normally not a huge fan of marjoram—it can be almost perfume-y—but its aromatic quality is perfect with the squash. Basil is a good second choice. If you don't have any basil, thyme is also excellent with summer squash.\n\nOne last note: the way the ricotta is added to this pasta is a genius touch. If you have ever stirred ricotta cheese into a pasta, you know that it can create a thick, stodgy mass in short order. By simply spreading dollops of the room temperature ricotta over the finished pasta and serving family-style out of the sauté pan, the ricotta is blended into the dish just enough as people scoop out their individual servings.", null, "Penne with Green & Gold Zucchini and Ricotta\n1 c. whole milk ricotta (about 8 oz.)\n2 lbs. small zucchini, mixed green & yellow\n2 to 3 T. olive oil\n3 cloves garlic, minced\n3 T. mince marjoram or basil\nSalt & Pepper\n1 lb. penne pasta\nFreshly grated Parmesan or Pecorino\nRemove the ricotta from the refrigerator and spoon it onto a plate so that it will warm to room temperature.\nSlice the zucchini on the diagonal a scant 1/2-inch thick, then slice into strips so that each piece resembles the quill shape of the pasta. (Since the squash that I purchased were very small, I simply halved them lengthwise.)\n\nSet a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. When the pan is hot, add the oil. Add the zucchini and sauté until golden—about 5 minutes. The squash should be pleasantly al dente—definitely not mushy. If necessary, increase the heat to high to keep the squash from steaming.\n\nWhen the squash is done, add the garlic and herbs and toss to combine. Remove from the heat. Season well with salt and pepper.\n\nDrop the pasta into 6 quarts of rapidly boiling water seasoned with about 2 Tablespoons of salt. Stir to make sure the penne isn't sticking to the bottom of the pan. Cook until the pasta is al dente. Drain, reserving some of the cooking liquid. Add the penne to the pan of cooked squash. Toss, taste and season with salt and pepper if necessary. If the pasta seems dry, add a little of the pasta water. If desired, finish with a little bit more olive oil.\n\nDollop spoonfuls of the ricotta over the surface of the squash and pasta. Scatter the Parmesan over the top and serve from the pan. (Do not stir the ricotta in.) Serves 6.\n\n(Recipe from Local Flavors", "by Deborah Madison)", null, "Posted by Paige at 2:12 PM", "Labels: Market Inspirations, Ricotta, Summer Squash, Zucchini", "Yay for next week's class!\n\nJune 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM", "Kelsey said..." ]

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[ null, "Facing Forward is a series that shares the lives of people living with arthritis and other invisible chronic illnesses. The goal of the series is to see how we are similar and how we are different - and to remind us to keep moving forward because we aren't alone!\n\nName:  Megan\nLocation:  Australia\nDiagnoses: Fibromyalgia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Asthma\nAge at Diagnosis:  28 for the Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS. I’ve had asthma since I can remember…\n\nHow are you currently treating your condition?\nAt the moment I’ve come off all of my prescribed medications (except for my asthma medication) because I’m pregnant. For me diet hasn’t really made much of an impact on my Fibromyalgia or ME/CFS. The treatments I find most useful are regular acupuncture treatments for the pain, pacing techniques (limiting what I do and trying to have scheduled rest breaks), meditation, and heat in the form of showers and baths. Before becoming pregnant, testosterone supplements were also helping my pain levels.\n\nWhat are the biggest challenges you have faced since your diagnosis?\nSince the Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS, I’ve really struggled to maintain any sort of balance in my life. For the first few years I was unable to do anything I was doing before the symptoms hit. I had to stop working, stop exercising and my life seemed to rotate around medical appointments. I didn’t have the energy to do much socializing. I’ve slowly built some form of balance back into my life but working out a way to do this that lets me live a simple, sustainable, and meaningful life has definitely been a challenge!\n\nWhat are your favorite tips and tricks for managing everyday tasks?\nPace yourself and share the load with those around you if you can. I decide what’s most important to me on any given day and prioritize those tasks. If I have enough energy left over after they’ve been completed (with rest in between them), then I’ll consider doing other things. I’ve found it very useful to let go of unrealistic standards I may have been setting myself and to ask for help whenever I can.\n\nHow do you manage to keep facing forward every day?\nI try hard to focus on the positive things that are going on. Even on my worst crash day I’ll find one little thing that I can focus on as a positive. It may be time spent cuddled up with the cats, or being able to sit outside in the sun and just soak up the warmth. These days, it can be just feeling my little girl moving inside of me and remembering that this illness hasn’t taken away all of my dreams!\n\nI’ve also been focusing on helping others. I write on my blog when I’m able to (I’ve been less consistent lately because of everything going on) and I’ve written a children’s book to try and help explain invisible illnesses to those around me. Remembering that I can still make a difference, even if it takes me much longer than I’d like to, helps me keep facing forward every day.\n\nIf you could go back to diagnosis day and tell your past self one thing, what would it be?\n\nStay strong and remain focused on what you can change. Try not to worry about all the things that may or may not be part of your future.\n\nDo you have a blog you would like to share?\nYes, I blog over a liveken.com about my life with chronic illness and about living a simple, sustainable, and meaningful life." ]

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[ "Hosepipe ban in the UK came into effect on April 5,2012 although it has been raining almost constantly for weeks.\n\nThe weather predictions for the summer is Hot and DRY.\n\nPlants are like humans they need water to disolve, absorb and transport nutrients. Photosynthesis is the process used by plants and algae and other organisms called photoautotrops capture the sun’s energy to split water’s hydrogen from oxygen. The hydrogen combined with carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere to form glucose and release oxygen,\n6C02 + 6H02 = C6H1206 + 602\nI have always been careful not to waste water but I watered my garden whenever necessary.\nThere are a number of things we can do to ensure your gardens flourish during the hosepipe ban.\n\n1. Water butts\nButts can be purchased from the Local Council and DIY stores.\nIt is easier to access the water if the butt has a tap at the base and sits on a stand. Butts moulded to terracotta urns or recycled wooden barrels are more expensive.\nCollect rainwater into butts from roofs of houses, garages, sheds, any structure that is connected to gutters, drainpipes and downpipes.\n\n2. Greywater\nReusing waste water is known as “greywater.”\nSave and reuse water from baths/showers, washing machines etc. Household soaps and detergents are harmless to plants, however, bleaches, disinfectants, dishwasher salt and stronger cleaning products should not be used, as they can harm the plants and damage the structure of the soil.\nGreywater should be used as it is produced, if stored harmful organisms are likely to multiply\nThere are attachments available to divert outlet pipes into containers.\nWater from WC or septic tanks should Never Be Used in the garden.\n\n3. Add water retaining granules to your potted plants compost.\n\n4. Mulch your plants with anything from vegetable waste, grass clippings and leaves they will preserve moisture and add nutrients to the soil.\n\n5. Water when evaporation is minimal, early mornings or evenings. Do not water warm soil or during strong sunlight.\nA good soaking in a small area is better than a spray over a large area.\nBefore watering check approximately 3 inches below the soil for moisture.\nWater at the base of the plant this will ensure the water\ngoes straight to the roots.\nTrenches at the base of larger plants will prevent the water running off.\nWeeds are unwanted plants which will compete for water. It is important to weed regularly.\n\nMake your garden more drought resistant:\n\nApply fertiliser, as plants use water most efficiently where adequate nutrients are present, too much fertiliser will encourage too much growth requiring a lot more water.\nChoose plants which are suitable for the soil type.\nBefore planting soak plants in their pots in water until the bubbles stop rising to the surface. Thoroughly water in new plants until well established after planting mulch with compost\nor gravel. They will adapt to conditions and develop greater resilience.\nConsider planting drought tolerant plants the most well known are cacti but radishes, strawberries, blueberries, carrots,\nbeetroot, parnips and certain bean varieties, hostas, daylillies and iris will grow in sandy soil. Plants with silver and grey/green leaves reflects sunlight allows the plant to retain moisture", null, null, null, "More blog posts by alberta9\n\nPrevious post: Happy New Year\n\nNext post: Houseplants are beneficial to our health and the environment by counteracting chemicals and balancing humidity.", "Thank you very much for the information, lovely blog and plants! :)))" ]

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[ null, null, "It's not the best brand of dry shampoo out there to be honest. There's Fish, Tresemme and Boots that do better ones apparently without leaving a white haze but I don't care as Batiste is the only one I have got along with since the past few years. The others I find overtly strong or just too mild for my liking. Even with the added task of brushing away those white bits, I'd prefer Batiste over any other simply because it's so accessible, cheaper than chips (well not chips but say a burger?) and does the effort of bringing to us delicious new scents every month alongside funky packaging. The Graffiti one as the name suggests is quite cool and edgy looking and I've always been a fan of such prints so it's a staple on my dresser currently. Secondly, the scent is a perfect amalgamation of fruity and woody notes that aren't too overpowering to leave you in a sneezing fit each morning (Hello Fish Dry Shampoo!).\n\nEspecially as the colder months arrive, constantly washing of hair can be damaging to the roots causing the skin on the scalp to dry out and flake as well the ends, leading to more split ends. If you're obsessed with squeaky clean and voluminous hair like me, learn to fake it with Batiste.\n\nhair, Hair products", "Shikha S said...\n\nhow cute :-) I loved colors and packaging is so adorable\n\n24 October 2012 at 06:19" ]

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[ null, "Second division Central Rovers were forced to take the shootout route to victory by a game Harp United outfit when the sides contested a second round tie in the Murphy’s Stout City Challenge Cup at Monard on a sunny Sunday morning.\n\nHarp skipper Alan Molloy and strike partner Willie O'Brien had ran the Central defence ragged during the game itself but failed to deliver in the shootout where a save by Central keeper Paul McCarthy proved crucial. McCarthy had played well after an early error gifted Harp their opener.", null, "Central sub Darren “George” McCarthy was perhaps the unluckiest player on the field but he still managed to play a huge role as they three times came from behind to take the tie to extra time. George hit the post and bar as Central, in a spell of late normal time dominance, threatened to take victory without the prolongation.\n\nFavourites Central looked good early on. James Mullins was narrowly wide with a first minute low drive and then midfielder Dave Purcell saw his penalty box shot go wide off a colleague.", null, "Third division Harp got their noses in front in the 17th minute. The dodgy Central defence failed to clear a long free in by Harp full back Hennessey. It skidded off a defender’s head and surprised keeper McCarthy who failed to hold it. Molloy cracked it home from close-in.\n\nWillie O'Brien was then narrowly wide with a terrific 25th minute volley and then almost profited from another Central error but his 30th minute strike saw McCarthy make a decent save.", null, "Central lost midfielder James Russell to injury but came up with a 33rd minute equaliser, Tommy Mullins on target with a well placed far post header after a terrific cross from the right by James Mullins.\n\nHarp though restored their lead four minutes from the interval. Then after a good passing move, O'Brien made a great run towards the end line and pulled the ball back for the incoming Molloy to score, again from close range.", null, "Sub McCarthy was involved as Central squared the game ten minutes into the second half. A back-heel by scorer Mullins saw him threaten in the box and his hopes of a goal for himself were ended when David Wallace brought him down. Tommy Mullins stepped up to convert the penalty.\n\nChances continued at both ends. Following a 58th minute McCarthy free, scorer Mullins came close to a hat trick with a powerful far post header that flew just wide of the other stick. Minutes later, Molloy put O'Brien in at the other end but the drive was inches away.\n\nA sweeping Harp move led to them going 3-2 up in the 70th minute, O’Brien on target after a through ball by Molloy and a sweet touch by sub Cian Horgan.\n\nJamie Murray then put McCarthy in but the Harp keeper made a fine save in the 75th minute. Harp could have sealed it in the 84th minute. Then Denis O’Brien cut through on the right, racing from halfway before his shot was stopped brilliantly by keeper McCarthy.", null, "Central equalised three minutes from time. Jamie Mullins set McCarthy up for a penalty box shot that hit the butt of the near post. Tommy Mullins chested back into the six yard box and Mark O'Mahony touched it home to make it 3-3.\n\nThey could have won it with just over a minute to go. Then McCarthy got in a smashing header from a cross by Tommy Mullins but keeper Fitzgerald just managed to touch it onto the bar.\n\nIn extra time, McCarthy had a shot taken off the line by Molloy and Central keeper McCarthy saved well from O'Brien before going on to do the business in the shootout." ]

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[ null, "I've been working on a healthy life for quite some time now, and during this ride, I've traversed up the mountains and down into the valleys. It's hard to break old habits, do things the right way, and work against yourself when you've been doing things the same way forever. I'm finally on the right track towards getting my health where it should be and I've learned some things along the way. Today, then, I'm going to share what I've learned on my journey so far.\n\n1. Getting healthy is hard.\n\nNo doubt about it, getting healthy is a battle, and the battle is with yourself. You are your own worst enemy when it comes to getting healthy. Start small and work your way up.\n\n2. Over-eating is an addiction.\n\nConstantly over-eating is an addiction, much like smoking and alcohol abuse. No matter the root cause, you have to deal with it whether that's mentally with yourself or if you need to seek the advice of a professional.\n\n3. It's okay if you eat too much once in a while.\n\nDenying yourself indulgences doesn't serve any good purpose. If you never indulge you're more likely to fail. So, if you want to eat a bunch one day once in awhile, go for it. Just don't make it a habit.\n\n4. Dieting is temporary.\n\nDieting is temporary but being healthy lasts forever. Stop dieting and re-train yourself to be a healthier version of you.\n\n5. Consumption of alcohol should be kept to a minimum.\n\nWhenever I drink too much, I'm in terrible physical shape the next day. I find it hard to get any exercise and most often will just skip it. On top of that, I find myself feeling super-hungry and will turn back to all my old eating habits. Lastly, drinking alcohol just adds plenty of excess calories.\n\n6. Getting a good night's rest is vital.\n\nNot getting enough sleep does the same number on my body as the day after drinking, just not quite as pronounced. It also throws your entire bodily clock out of whack.\n\n7. Discipline is key.\n\nMy secret weapon to getting healthy? Discipline. I have to be my own coach, guide, cheerleader, and drill sergeant. If I'm not disciplined, I find that I fail.\n\n8. Nothing beats diet and exercise.\n\nThe key to long-term success is eating a well-balanced diet and getting regular exercise. All the fads, pills, and crazy diet infomercials cannot compete with treating your body correctly. Your body needs a healthy balance of foods that provide it with sustenance and regular exercise to keep your heart and lungs functioning healthily. This mindset doesn't stop when you've reached your goal. This is your goal...for life!\n\n9. Avoid stress if at all possible.\n\nLast, but not least, stress should be avoided if at all possible. Stress is a trigger and having good mental health is just as important as physical health. Avoid stressful situations and try to make time to decompress from everyday stressors.\n\nAnd, that, my friends, are some of the things I've learned on my path to a healthy life. As for myself, here's my progress thus far:\n\nAre you working towards a healthy life? If so, what are some of the things you've learned? Let me know in the comments.\n\nLabels: Lifestyle & Beauty", "Posted by H.A. Larson October 12, 2017\n\nA Profound Sense of Loss", "Posted by H.A. Larson January 27, 2018\n\nFor the Love of Good Food\n\nSubscribe to my Email Newsletter", "Lady of Glencoe, Scotland. No, really." ]

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[ "I've been on the hunt for FREE stock photos to use for my blog! A lot of websites that include stock photos can cost a ton of money per month, however, you can subscribe to an e-mail list o receive free photos every month from different websites.\n\nGet ready to find the cutest backgrounds for your next PINTEREST photo!!\n\nIf you love my tips, make sure to add it to your Pinterest page so more people can get in on the freebies, woo!\n\n1. Ashley Creates Things\n\nI love Ashley's free stock photos so much! They are very vibrant and bright. She has 10 freebies HERE and an additional 10 MORE freebies ! She is so generous to give people free range with so many beautiful photos.", "2. SC StockShop\n\nYou have the choice to purchase a few unique packages full of stock photos from this website. You can also subscribe to their e-mail list for more photos! I love all the branding options that can create a theme for your personal blog...such wonderful tips here!", null, "3. Twigy Posts\n\nBy subscribing to a monthly newsletter, you are given access to a few free photos each month! The free ones you get by subscribing (like this one below!) are soo perfect for Springtime.", null, "4. Pexels\n\nI use Pexels alll the time for my own use! Definitely search for \"beauty\" and \"coffee\" photos to find some super sharp images that work for improving your blog search-ability on Pinterest.", null, "5. Affordable by Amanda Photos\n\nHere are some of my own photos for you to use! They are taken from my personal INSTAGRAM page! Make sure to give me a quick follow for all the best updates.", null, null, "6. Pretty Stock Photos from Wonderlass\n\nPhotos with nice white backgrounds are all over the Wonderlass website for you to grab for FREE! I love all of these free images. They are so girly and easy to layer text over. Simple computers and planners can transform into the best stock photos to use for your own blog.", null, null, null ]

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