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I have been using Soleado since Patricia Martin published it in 1995. The author invites us to travel with a cast of Canadian characters through the Hispanic world; the book helps make my classes lively, fun, and true voyages of discovery.
Patricia Martin introduces the Spanish language with an array of activities using dialogue, grammar, vocabulary, cultural facts, and fun songs from the Hispanic world. No matter what age or level I am teaching, I know I can count on Soleado to help me make learning Spanish easy and fun!
Soleado follows the steps of listening, writing, repeating and speaking in order to teach Spanish- and my experience has been that this method absolutely works! Action and fun take the front seat in your class. With Soleado you will discover the magical Hispanic world. I most sincerely recommend Soleado as an amazing method for learning the language, culture, and history of Spain and Latin America.
Anamaria Espinel
I am currently a senior Spanish instructor and Assistant Curriculum Developer at the University Of British Columbia for the department of Continuing Studies, where I have taught for over thirty years.
I have had the good fortune to use " Soleado" course since 1995, when it was first published up until the current edition.
In my personal experience, I have had much success in the classroom with this fantastic teaching method, as it is easy to follow for both the instructor and the student, full with humour, cultural information and well-organized grammar.
The students thoroughly enjoy the dialogues and the different characters of Soleado, who constantly travel to different Spanish speaking countries. Students personally identify with their own traveling adventures and very much enjoy the story lines.
If you are teaching a class for working adults after a long day's work, Soleado is the book for you. It is interactive, keeps the student involved, and constantly uses the target language.
The students enjoy the CD very much, as they practice their pronunciation, improve their listening skills and enjoy singing along to Spanish songs, appropriate to their level, while driving or at home.
Moreover, the transition from one level to the next is facilitated by following the lives of the characters with more advanced language into the next level. Taking into account my many years of teaching experience, it is an honour for me to highly recommend this book to instructors, teachers and students.
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Television fandom is based, very much, on the enjoyment of, or at least weathering of, a state of constant anticipation.
You want to know if that show you heard about will be picked up, or renewed, or if a rumored star cameo is happening, and what in heaven's name will come of the cliffhanger involving your favorite character.
PaleyFest, the Paley Center for Media's annual actors-and-creators panel party, is very much built on the anticipation principle. We don't necessarily need to anticipate when PaleyFest will happen -- it's springtime -- nor if it'll happen -- it has been around for 33 years, and remains the starry stalwart among celeb-packed panels, at least from the TV side of things (with all due respect to Comic-Con International, which is also known for movie panels, too).
The announcement of the March 2016 dates -- March 11 through 20 -- arrived not long after New Year's Day, and on Tuesday, Jan. 12 PaleyFest made an initial reveal as to what shows'll be filling out the stage at The Dolby Theatre during that string of nights.
"Empire" from Fox is part of the big program, and Taraji P. Henson, the inimitable Cookie, as well as Terrence Howard, who stars as Lucious Lyon, will be part of the panel (along with several other stars from the series). "American Horror Story: Hotel," "black-ish," "Scream Queens," and "Power" all scored slots in the TV-tastic line-up (with each landing upon their own night).
This is, as mentioned, the initial reveal; there are more nights to fill during PaleyFest, and more shows to come in the coming days. It's not uncommon, also, for PaleyFest to announce more stars, or changes in who's attending a panel, as the dates draw quite near.
Tickets? They go on sale to the general public on Friday, Jan. 15, though Paley Center members can make their purchases the day before.


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3286 Cramlington Drive Gibsonia, Pennsylvania 15044
This natural gas engine was found sitting in a flower garden
near the city of Butler, Pennsylvania. I have not been able to find
it in C. H. Wendel's book. I have seen many similarities to the
design of the engine's base, but nothing that matches the
cylinder design. The engine has been shown at the Coolspring Power
Museum summer show, the Rough and Tumble Show in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, and the Drake's Oil Well Museum in Titusville.
During all three appearances, nobody could identify the engine.
Could you please shed some light as to who might have built it?
Until someone can positively identify the engine, I will take
the liberty and call it a prototype. There is no serial number and
only one casting number on the crank's throw, C-412. Other than
this one casting number, the engine is devoid of any markings. The
base is similar to early steam engine bed plates, the typical 1920s
Victorian curve is absent. It has a cross head shoe with a five
inch stroke. The piston has only one ring land with two rings
present in the same land. An expander ring is under the rings, this
could have done it at a later point in time, I don't know.
The Coolspring staff commented that the studs were 12-thread,
which could possibly date it some time around 1905 to 1910. When
did manufacturers start using 12-thread bolts and studs? The
connecting rod is hollow and looks to be made of steam pipe, the
wall thickness inside is at least inch-plus. One central grease cup
supplies grease to both the cross head wrist pin and the connecting
rod bearing. The cross head bearing is bronze and is one-piece with
a split at the top to tighten a bolt to close the bearing around
the wrist pin.
The connecting rod bearing is of a two-piece design but is
threaded vs. the typical smooth hole commonly found on connecting
rod bearings. The valve chests are removable, although I have not
taken them out. They appear to be threaded into the cylinder head.
The engine utilizes hot tube ignition. The hot tube screws into a
bronze ignitor plug, which screws into the back of the cylinder.
This ignitor plug is located above the cylinder and is a common
chamber with the atmospheric intake valve for natural gas. Access
to the valves is gained by removing one or both screwed in plugs.
Each plug has a six sided nut machined onto the plug for easier
The flywheels do not have a counter balance section. Each wheel
has only five spokes. One wheel has a crowned surface, possibly to
hold a governor belt or operate a small lathe. One side of the
crank shaft has been made to accept a starting crank that is placed
inside the shaft, not on the outside where it would grab a piece of
key stock.
The inventor was thinking when he mounted the intake and exhaust
valves above the piston. Should a valve spring break and the valve
be sucked into the gas chamber, the engine coasts to stop. The
valves appear to be tapered, not flat sheets like on an Able Auto
Power. A small reservoir surrounds the cylinder and holds
approximately one-half gallon of water. The engine is tank cooled.
The engine utilizes a crude, possibly homemade, mixer. When I got
the engine, a one-inch nipple threaded into a one-inch pipe Tee was
the mixer. On top of the Tee, air is regulated by reducing the
one-inch down to ? inch pipe. The bottom of the Tee has been
reduced down to inch pipe where my propane is regulated by a ball
valve. Yes, when you turn on the natural gas, gas free-flows out
the air side of the Tee. And yes, it has caught fire from the hot
tube burning. I am speculating that this engine could have had a
small two-ball Gardener governor mounted where the one-inch nipple
enters the engine. This is the same side in which the flywheel is
tapered. I am searching for a inch Gardener steam governor to try
on the engine.
I am currently operating the engine with propane, and since
propane is a heavy fuel, starting can be 'iffy.' Does
anybody offer natural gas bottled? Pro pane is just too violent for
this engine. Would you recommend using hydrogen like some of the
early Crossly used?
If any of the readers have any ideas as to who built this
one-of-a-kind, please drop me a line or send a letter to me at the
above address.


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This week's photo challenge is guest hosted by Quintin Lake of Quintin Lake Architectural Photography. Read on for more about this…
Beautiful composition and colors…
This week's photo challenge is guest hosted by Quintin Lake of Quintin Lake Architectural Photography. Read on for more about this…
This week's photo challenge is guest hosted by Quintin Lake of Quintin Lake Architectural Photography. Read on for more about this week's theme and his photography tips!
Geometry. This challenge is about the shapes and rhythms that make up the geometry of our world. Many photographs of any genre have an underlying sense of geometry, but I often like to make this the main subject of my work. I think it's the most important aspect of a photograph's success. This could be the patterns of the natural world up close and personal, or the rhythm of your local buildings. The above photograph, "Positive Negative," depicts the Paula Rego Museum in Lisbon where the sky created an equally strong element of the composition as the building. The image has a totemic quality, softened by the passing cloud. I had waited for this cloud to move into the perfect position within the frame. The colour, light, and form of the image emphasize this geometry.
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jewels that only half captured my attention:
once upon a time, magical rings, heroes, kings, Sinbad the Sailor
and Disneyland
not to mention Adam and Eve, the evil apple
and Noah's ark
vague noise in the background
which no forest or quiet afternoon ever knew
a great hullabaloo raising dust
to obscure what seemed forbidden
all the world a stage
leaving who for an audience?
my role accepted
in emptiness everything is the center of everything
the play goes on
vastly entertaining
a Hindu temple with overflowing denizens
sculpted towards heaven
but still
comes the faint echo of what played
in times before antiquity
a real jig danced to simple music
a waft blown on subtle breezes
yet the stuff of budding scripts
my half captured attention must grant
a drift of inconsummate yearnings
Abe Lincoln studied by firelight
I have a flashlight
purchased from Publishers Clearing House
partly on the delusion of winning millions
years ago
falling into the slot: technical writer
which fit as well as anything else
I chafed at the bit
golden chains
seeing who held the reins
not quite visible to most
and certainly not a right livelihood
now I prefer this clipboard
propped up on pillows
as a writing desk
vowing to slip out of the harness
I bided my time
burning up the years of my probation
for being set up and "caught" with a lid of dope
how sweet it wasn't
but when the day came
and gainful employment eminently provable
had fulfilled claims on my time
I became
the gardener
another slot
but this time taking free rein
if you have the guts
and some luck
you, too, can kick over the traces
though it won't be easy
are you in?
then hear the next step
rather more difficult
thing is
no one else will take it for you
or can
good thing is
you find out for yourself
forget books, friends, priests, parents or politicians
it's you already
traces of all you thought you are get unhitched
you become yourself again
so if you've come this far
maybe you're ready
you can do it
sit quietly
don't dwell on thoughts
who is this?
to begin with a footnote*
might seem perhaps
suicide before the firing squad of posterity
as editor, I find it just marginally tolerable
please adjust your goggles
*the standard dictionary has been used
sounds of everyday speech
birds, insects, horses, muni busses
common sense nudging by imperceptible degrees
to the rarified atmosphere
of elephant ears flapping amicably
flies swatting safari jeeps
steamboat river spaceship
going nowhere
yet finds an oak tree hung with mistletoe
melba toast placed tranquilly
on a windowsill overlooking Niagara Falls
and cinnamon tea
lovely as this spider's web
seen first thing on a rainy morning
leprechauns are tumbling
Shakespeare is snoring
kids post intuitively
riding merry go round horses
at the boardwalk
in Santa Cruz
zippity do da!
forgotten during zazen
a moment without footnotes
what could be plainer than this sheet of paper
more audacious than putting words upon it
let them return to nowhere
which brings us to right here
does a flower surrender
each one blooms without authority
there is no decision
no guide
the roots of our maple tree grow mercilessly
pushing boundaries of the patio
mounds of knotted fingers are jutting knuckles
mocking arthritis in their virility
calling for the weighted axe, loppers, and iron pry bar
why worry about silence
or the soul's trajectory
just chop!
hack and hew
do the job
breathe deeply and take all the air needed
all is forgotten
the slate is blank
like this sheet of paper
before these intrusions
in a pot on a porch in Santa Clara
mute as mittens
minders of their velvet space
a rain of financial advisors
lost in combat
never made it to my porch
a cup of green tea steaming
shadows on the fence
sharp silhouettes of hedge leaves
a gathering of ballet motions
chopping carrots and broccoli
somehow like pruning trees
all natural ingredients of the world
quiet shadows
now far beyond what is gone
a mind unpopulated
just itself
broccoli is like our camphor tree
bulbous in miniature degree
and carrots are like fingers
best pay attention
how can the question be reduced
to chopping carrots
and then laughter
surely such questions are crazy
along with their answers
purple clover in its delicate shade
ultimately the universe
and its privileged perception
are momentary
hey Buddha!
we got your tree
right here in Santa Clara
near the back fence
at El Real Nursery
well, a pine tree actually
carefully trained to look like a real pine tree
loved that tree
and out by El Camino
for the delight of children
a rusted tyrannosaurus rex
and then they went out of business
heartless, is it not, to recall plain facts
purple clover wilting
days of water and roses
a sort of fiction
is it not
though some of it actually happened
as does imagination from time to time
and so
let's have a cup of tea
fact, folly, fiction
shadows on the fence
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Contest can open doors
At the Numismatic Literary Guild panel discussion last Thursday during the American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money, I was asked about my beginnings as a numismatic journalist.
My first bylined article appeared in the June 1971 issue of Coins Magazine as the result of a monthly contest it held.
Who knew then that 44 years later I would still be writing numismatic articles?
The contest made me think outside the box of my daily life.
I was better off for having done so.
Now it might be your turn to think outside the box of your daily life.
I had a telephone call yesterday from Certified Acceptance Corporation.
The firm that has made green oval stickers on slabbed coins famous, is sponsoring a contest.
It might be life-changing.
It might not be, but you won't know until you enter it.
The contest asks participants to "create and submit a video describing the best numismatic item you have ever found at an ANA show."
These videos can be made with a smartphone, tablet, computer camera, or video camera.
Once it is made, CAC says upload the video to https://www.wetransfer.com/.
When uploading, put email@example.com in the "Friend's Email" field.
Videos should be no longer than 60 seconds.
Submission deadline is 11:59 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time Sept. 10.
What follows then will be a period of voting beginning Sept. 17 to pick the top three videos.
This selection process will continue to Oct. 15.
The top three winners will be given a one-year Gold membership to the American Numismatic Association.
Fourth to sixth places will earn numismatic reference books as prizes.
Video is a powerful medium.
Numismatic hobbyists are highly capable people.
Who knows what bringing the two together will achieve?
Buzz blogger Dave Harper is winner of the 2014 Numismatic Literary Guild Award for Best Blog and is editor of the weekly newspaper "Numismatic News."
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Cherry blossoms are Jontaro's birthday flower.
The blossom is even more special to his family because mom is from Tokyo, Japan.
Reminds her of home.
So of course, the cherry blossoms in Ault Park had to be our backdrop.
But in Cincinnati, the backdrop of the backdrop could be snow, rain, sleet, or blazing sun. Lately it's been rain and cold. One just never knows what the weather will bring in April. 😉
Turns out the birthday boy brought us luck, and we end up with a gorgeous day filled with beautiful blossoms, birthday balloons, and the happiest one year old I've ever met…


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We didn't stay more than a half hour.
But it will go down in our memories like it was hours and hours.
I couldn't figure out the pay-by-phone system on the parking meters in the tiny lot at the 1st street access to Cocoa Beach.
So my son and I wandered down to the water's edge to catch the sunrise with the specter of a parking ticket hanging over my head.
We arrived exactly seven minutes before it was scheduled to appear, according to the weather app on my phone.
The sun was set to rise from the cold Northern Atlantic Ocean horizon at 7:12 a.m. on Christmas Day 2014.
And I damn-well wanted to be there to witness it.
My middle son, Carson, got out of the rented mini-van and walked straight to the beach.
I took my time, fumbling with the keys and trying to figure out the pay-by-phone parking meters through the foggy remnants of a small panic attack that set in about twenty miles outside of Orlando.
I left my Xanax pills in my wife's day bag, the one she brought with her to Disney's Magic Kingdom the day before.
And though I don't need to take the pills, there is some comfort in knowing they are available should I ever need to take one.
It's ridiculous in many ways. My wife tells me so regularly. And I understand the ridiculousness of it all.
Yet I still work myself into a lather when I know in my head that those pills are not accessible for some reason.
This mostly stems from a reporting incident that occurred when I was covering the beginnings of the Orange Revolution in Kyiv, Ukraine, where I got caught up in a crowd of a million people, and I was unable to get myself out.
But this was a little panic attack, and I was feeling a little better as my feet hit the cool sand of Cocoa Beach and the air and salt hit my face with the intended reality of facing the great, wide ocean.
I was in shock, as is the case when your body and mind are not in sync, so I had the chills and shivered boldly in my hoodie.
My son didn't seem to notice. Or, if he did, he didn't say anything. Which is just as well. I don't want to put anything into their heads if this is hereditary. And if it's not, I'd still rather not show weakness.
I like to go to the ocean when I need to find my center.
Some people like to go to the mountains, and I enjoy that too, but my soul craves big bodies of water where powerful waves wash upon the shore, that great meeting place where the land subdues the sea and the sea claims the land millimeter by millimeter over millennia.
I've loved the Pacific Ocean since I was a child. I have no idea what my first memory of it was, but many of my early memories include watching the surfers at Rockaway Beach near Pacifica, California and the big-wave riders at Mavericks, just down the coast at Half Moon Bay.
My grandfather would take us in his Oldsmobile station wagon, and he'd collect cans, while my brother and I watched surfers and dreamed of one day riding waves of our own.
I once had an intense spiritual experience along the shore of the Black Sea in Odessa, Ukraine. I can't really explain it other than to say it was mystical and powerful, and I've not had a similar experience since that day when I was 16-years-old standing along some cliffs on that anciently beautiful body of water.
Years later as a working journalist, I was able to travel to the shores of the Arctic Ocean while covering the release of a Snowy Owl back into the wild in its native habitat outside of Barrow, Alaska. On another assignment, we were told to strap ourselves to the cargo bay of a C-130 as members of the U.S. Coast Guard lowered the ramp at the back of the plane to do ice quality surveys and count polar bears.
I stood with my feet in the icy waters looking into the maw of great gray whale skeletons whose bones lined the bare beaches of Barrow.
I've stood on the ice at the edge of the Bering Sea and peered into its icy depths, and I've landed in a sea plane upon its choppy white caps. I walked on the edge of the ice flow in Norton Sound.
I've been stung by a man-o-war's tentacle in the warm Mediterranean Sea near Rome, I've searched for amber along the shores of the Baltic Sea, and I've eaten clams dug from the sand and mud along the Sea of Cortez and floated on my back in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
I've stood in the sand on an atol in the Koro Sea in the Fiji Islands, and I poked at sea creatures in tide pools in the Caribbean near Havana, Cuba.
I've driven across sand dunes marching away from the Tasman Sea on the north side of New Zealand's North Island.
I've crossed the Gulf of Bothnia on a ferry, daydreaming of viking ships as we sat on the chilly leeward deck in the late summer sunshine.
I swam in the warm Adriatic with my first-born son when he was a vivacious, toe-headed, two-year-old. And I've watched Orcas hunt in the temperate waters of the Puget Sound.
I've crossed many large bodies of water by boat, airplane and hovercraft.
I have many seas to visit yet.
I couldn't pass up the 70-mile trip from Orlando, Florida to see the Atlantic Ocean up close and personal for the first time.
Carson and I stood there with almost no one else in either direction.
It was a cold Christmas day for Florida. Temperatures hovered just above 60 degrees, and the ocean was calm with little one or two foot swells coming in at five-minute intervals.
The sun climbed up behind some clouds, but you could tell the moment when it rose from he way the water changed from that dark grey steel to a warmer blue steel.
The sky above the clouds lit up like a flash, announcing the new day, and we ran down to put our feet in the water, to say we've stood in the Atlantic Ocean.
We walked around for about 20 minutes just taking in the sites and feeling the salt and wind on our faces.
It wasn't unlike other beaches, and the Atlantic doesn't look much different than the Pacific, other than the orientation of the sun coming out of its surface rather than sliding into it.
We walked barefoot for a while, listening to the birds and looking at dead crabs, the skeletons of which washed up in the surf and picked clean by seagulls and bugs.
Then we drove back to Orlando with a blast of sunshine at our back. Carson slept almost the whole way, and I thought about all the oceans and seas I still want to see.


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EDITORIAL: On keeping up appearances for polling day
Television can be a cruel medium – especially to those people who are not photogenic. And in the TV world all too often image is seen as more important than substance or competence, and being before the camera is perhaps not an ideal way to be chosen as a leader in an election.
In the context of American presidential elections, "debate" is arguably a misnomer. Granted, these debates are more like staged performances, where the answers to all possible questions have been rehearsed endlessly with teams of coaches and advisers.
Unfortunately, the candidates' performances are scrutinized less on the substance of their arguments than on their presentation, body language, facial expressions, gesticulations and so on.
Still these "optics" may be of great importance. After all, Richard Nixon's race against John Kennedy in 1960 is said to have been lost on television.
In 2000, Al Gore, in the debate with George W. Bush, vacillated so much that he seemed indecisive and inauthentic, even appearing arrogant to patronizing. Mr Gore had the better arguments, but he lost the "debates" (and the election) nonetheless.
It is being suggested that the current debates between President Barack Obama and the Republican challenger Mitt Romney might decide the election. Again, this is not a question of who has the best policies, or the soundest ideas; it is all about presentation. That's the modern way of the world.
Apart from character, the most important qualification should be ability and experience. It should not be a popularity contest as is relentlessly pursued by some analysts.
The matter ought to be who is best able to lead the country in these perilous times.
According to a Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll late yesterday, Mr Romney would have gone into the presidential debate number two last night with a slight edge over Mr Obama among "likely" voters (49 per cent to 47). Seemingly, the missteps the president made in the first 2012 presidential debate three Wednesday nights ago brought Mr Romney what many determined was a rare turnaround.
In the first showdown, "a very close race shifted ever so slightly from narrowly favouring President Obama to narrowly favouring Mitt Romney", the poll indicated.
As NATION readers muse upon this Editorial, Mr Obama may have acquitted himself understandably well; or Mr Romney may have kept putting the image pressure on – or maybe it remains a close call. Whatever, today's rating will have had much to do with presentation and oration.
You may say that with about three weeks or so to go before Americans hit the polls, Mr Obama and Mr Romney will be constrained to keep up appearances. They will gain or lose substantially by it.
In the United States presidential debates have become a political convention, notwithstanding the supremacy of image over substance, and promotional glitz over intellectuality. Here in Barbados we will boast our Government-Opposition debates are of a quality of the reverse. May it always be so.


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>Recently we uncovered original copies of what we called WTIT Newsletters. We only did them for a short while in 1967-1968. We thought we'd share them. It might shed insight on how we really thought everyone listened to WTIT. Though you'd have to be in our studio (to this day) to hear it. But back then, we were in high school and we played a lot of tapes at parties. Here's a piece of trivia: We always note that our original DJ staff was Bud Weiser, Galloping Gary, Bouncing Billy, Johnnie Walker and Killer Joe. And that was the first true staff that carried the ball from 1968 to 1973. But in our first year in 1967, Bud, Gary and Billy tried out a ton of guys who were given a shot before we settled on Joe and Johnnie. They literal joined WTIT on the same night in June of 1968. Johnnie and Bud are the only two original DJs that are still with the world's first and longest running Tape Radio Station.
A new jingle player, please! Our last show had no jingles because our tape deck that we use for them crapped out! We asked for donations, but our fans say they hate the jingles even more than the shows. If you'd like to voice you opinion call the WTIT Fun Line at 232-1936.


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Where no cat has gone before
If everything goes according to plan, when Steve Munt walks outside his home in Lake Oswego and gazes at the sky with his high-powered binoculars, he'll soon be able to search for a tiny speck floating off in the distance.
It won't be the speck itself that Munt will be looking for, though. It's the much tinier object nestled within the satellite that will draw his attention — the orbiting remains of Munt's beloved cat, Pikachu.
When the satellite comes overhead, Munt says, he and Pikachu's sizable contingent of fans will be able to fondly reflect on the cat's short life.
"To me that's comforting. I can look up and I can know that he's up there," Munt says. "And other people who have shared the love of Pikachu can do the same thing."
It's easy to tell that Munt would do practically anything to protect and honor his collection of cats, which was reduced to six when Pikachu recently died at the age of 7. When a veterinarian told Munt his cat Zee had kidney disease and only nine months to live, for example, Munt paid for Zee to receive stem cell therapy and acupuncture. Despite the grim prognosis, Zee remains alive to this day and enjoys an avid Twitter following of more than 12,000 fans.
Pikachu was initially a neighbor's cat, but he would frequently gravitate toward Munt's home. And when Munt and his daughters would interact with Pikachu, the cat would often touch their nose with his paw.
"It was very endearing. We would pet him and he would actually reach up to touch our noses. It was very unique," Munt says.
With more time than their neighbors to take care of Pikachu, the Munts opted to care for the cat for the last few years of his life.
"Pikachu decided where he wanted to live," Munt says.
"Pikachu wanted to live with us, and they (the neighbors) had actually acknowledged that."
But unlike Zee, Pikachu's illness proved too debilitating. The cat had contracted pancreatitis, his blood sugar had reached an alarmingly high level and it had gotten to the point where he would stare at a water fountain in Munt's home without actually drinking.
A veterinarian recommended that Pikachu be euthanized, and Munt came to agree with him.
"It was an incredibly difficult decision," Munt says. "He had already been through two hospitalizations. But this was the first day I felt he was suffering."
When Pikachu passed away in January, Munt simply told him he was a "good cat" and that he would be remembered for his elegance and affection, among other reasons.
"He was just a loving cat and an adorable cat and a very comforting cat," he says.
After Pikachu's death, though, Munt thought about other ways to honor him. The space exploration idea, he says, was largely inspired by Zee's Twitter account.
In posts on the account, Munt personifies Zee as a highly intelligent creature that uses proper grammar, is a steadfast supporter of the Oxford comma and is a quantum physicist.
"Most of these Tweets where someone is making it (so) the cat is Tweeting, they kind of make it like the cat is stupid," Munt says. "They misspell everything and the grammar isn't right. I made Zee an intelligent cat because Zee is an intelligent cat."
Pikachu often made appearances as one of Zee's apprentices. On one occasion, he was tasked with rescuing Munt's cat Mowgli, who was said to be lost in cyberspace.
"Every time Pikachu was featured on the Twitter feed, the numbers went up. I think part of it is that people are attracted to ginger cats," Munt says. "There's something majestic about him. He was different. He was special."
Munt remembered hearing about how "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's ashes were hoisted into space and he also says he used to write software for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
So he thought: Why not honor Pikachu by sending his ashes into space?
He contacted Celestis Memorial Spaceflights to inquire about the mission.
According to its website, Cellestis "is the only company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight missions, the only company to have been selected by NASA to honor one of its scientists, and for more than two decades an iconic pioneer and global leader of the commercial space age."
Munt says Celestis told him that Pikachu's ashes will be the first cat's ashes it has sent into space, and he showed text messages that substantiate that claim. However, Cellestis didn't respond to a request for comment from The Review.
"They mainly do it for people. They've done it for dogs," Munt says. "Pikachu is the first cat."
Among Celestis' options, Munt could have had Pikachu's ashes transported to the moon, released into space or sent into space and then transported back to Earth. But Munt thought the Earth-orbit option would be most appropriate because he will have the ability to track Pikachu at any given time.
And because of the trajectory and positioning of the orbit, Pikachu will fly above every spot on the Earth's surface at some point, including Lake Oswego. The satellite will travel for an undisclosed amount of time and then re-enter the Earth's atmosphere before "burning up in entirety, blazing like a shooting star" in a final tribute, according to the Celestis website.
"I and followers can track the satellite. We can basically know where he is overhead," Munt says. "If I (buried) Pikachu in the backyard, I would know he's there. But if I put him in the sky, everyone will know he is there."
Prior to the launch, Pikachu's ashes will be kept secure in a bank safe deposit box and stored in a flight capsule. Then, Munt will attend a ceremony with other families who are sending ashes into space and watch as a rocket blasts the satellite into orbit.
The launch will take place sometime in the next 18 months, though Munt says he was told not to reveal more information about the flight.
"I can't tell anyone when it's going to be launched," Munt says. "I can tell them after it has gone up."
After Pikachu passed away, Munt says he received an outpouring of support from his Twitter followers, including a user who posted a drawing of Pikachu looking down at the Earth with a smile on his face and surrounded by a heart-strewn sky. To Munt, the picture represents the role Pikachu will continue to play in everyone's lives.
"Pikachu is a guardian angel," he says, "showering the Earth with love."
Munt says the trip will cost him about $5,000 and he has set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for it. To donate to Pikachu's ascendance, visit www.gofundme.com/lovingPikachu.
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Friday already?! Not a bad thing I guess. This is something I wore a couple of weeks ago, it was actually the day we went for scan where we find out we were having a little girl, who says you can't still look chic when attending baby scans?!
I feel quite strongly lately that we are living in a time where freedom of speech and freedom of thought feels as though it's diminishing as we enter a time of "the offended"! Whilst I love how social media gives people a voice and an opportunity to be heard in ways that we have never been able to have been heard before, it's also a place of self important idiots where so many people almost seek out to be offended just so that they can play the part of "standing up to injustice" when so often it's just their warped perception of a situation, seeing and hearing what they want to see and hear just so that they can take the opportunity to feel like they're part of a some kind of movement!
I feel so many people are having to monitor what they say to a point that's almost unnatural. It's good to have a filter, to make sure that what we are saying isn't hurtful to others and it's great that we are evolving to be more considerate of our words and how we treat people and especially the minority's of society. But we are also still only human and I feel that sometimes we need space and freedom to say what we feel directly in a moment. So easily someone is labled a racist, a sexist or targeted for saying something stupid in a moment. I'm not saying racism or sexism doesn't exist, in fact I feel so strongly about the fact that there are very real cases of it happening every day that it makes me feel even more concerned about how easily those labels are being thrown on the wrong people in misunderstood instances. I feel it is desensitising the very real nature of when discrimination, racism, sexism or injustice is actually happening.
So many people like to assume the worst and put their own perceptions on a situation and see it as the truth and spread it as though it's the truth and then so many simply jump on the bandwagon to make themselves feel as though they're doing something important, standing up for injustice without really looking or trying to understand the situation or form an opinion for themselves, I don't know whether this is naive or just stupidity. But it can be damaging. Just because a comedian said something controversial on twitter and someone responds by having a go doesn't make that person morally secure, if they really want to stand up to injustice, get out there and find a cause worth fighting for because they're very real injustices happening each and every day to kids, animals, people of certain ethnicity, people suffering with misunderstood illnesses, woman just because they're woman and men just because they're men.
It's not that I always agree with what people say but I belive we all have the right to say it. I want my nephews and my future daughter to not have to worry about expressing themselves in fear of someone perceiving their words wrongly and labelling them because of that.
I dont know maybe I'm thinking out loud in today's post but what's so wrong with that?! I'm not here to offend and my views may not necessarily be right in everyones eyes but to simply express and convey how I'm feel in an authentic way that feels true to what I'm currently feeling, is something that I belive we should all practice.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Sending you love and light, Daniella x
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For the last 35 years the Stewpot has been serving meals to homeless and at-risk people in Dallas, along with providing medical assistance, child enrichment and job training. And for the past six years its support group, the Stewpot Alliance, has hosted the annual fund-raising Soups On! luncheon and art sale.
This year the shindig will be held at the Omni Dallas, on January 30, 2014. The event will include live music from Shoot Low Sheriff and include over 50 works of art from the Stewpot Open Arts Program.
See also: Trucks for Tots Brings Some of Dallas' Best Food Trucks to Park Lane on Saturday
The keynote speaker this year is Liz Murray, formerly a homeless teenager and now the subject of the TV film Homeless to Harvard and author of Breaking Night. Stewpot has also tapped 10 high-profile Dallas chefs to serve signature soups, including Chef Brian Luscher of the Grape acting as Chef Chairman of the luncheon and Matt McAllister of FT33. The other eight chefs are Bruno Davaillon of The Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, Omar Flores of Driftwood, Danyele McPherson also of The Grape, Chad Kelley of Café Pacific, Janice Provost of Parigi, Abraham of Salum, Salum, Nathan Tate of Boulevardier and Jason Weaver of the Omni Dallas.
Stewpot is also working on a new project called Encore Park, an expansion that will include an amphitheater, community garden, a Museum of Street Culture, an Art Gallery for the Open Art Program, and expanded space for its partner agencies and its own programs.
Tickets are available at 214-746-2785 ext. 234 or www.SoupsOnDallas.org.


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A Handy List of Web Worker Holiday Excuses
Realistically, how many of your family members really understand what you do as a web worker? I've already written a couple of holiday posts about how hard it is to answer the dreaded question, "what do you do?," along with providing some humorous suggestions for creative ways to answer. Spending time with non-techie family members can cause some stress over the holidays for those of us who don't want to completely disconnect from the Internet for business or personal reasons. In many family situations, you can probably use this lack of understanding about what you do to your advantage.
Want to get a little work done or check in with your friends on ?Twitter? Here are a few handy excuses that you can use when you want to escape your family for a little work or online play:
- Just give me a few more minutes to watch this software compile.
- It only looks like I'm checking Twitter. You can't see the other work I'm doing because it happens inside the computer.
- I'm finishing a job for a very important top-secret client, but shhhh, it's a secret.
- Wait, don't look! I'm buying presents online, and you don't want to ruin the surprise.
- I need to check Twitter / Facebook / other social networking website because I have important business clients that I need to keep track of.
- I'm not playing this game for fun. This is research for some work I'm doing for another top-secret project.
- I need some quiet time alone in a room to write this blog post. If I get interrupted, I might lose my work and have to start over.
- I need some airplane reading for the trip home, so I need to stay online until these books finish downloading. They're kind of big; this might take a while.
- I was just looking up some new cookie recipes to surprise you with something new for dessert.
- I'm working on something terribly boring. Trust me, you don't want any more details.
- It may look like web surfing, but I'm really looking for new clients. You wouldn't want me to run out of money and move home, would you?
What are your favorite excuses for getting in a little extra online time during the holidays?
- Yes, these are meant to be humorous suggestions, not serious ones.
- Dear mom and other family members: No, I would never use any of these excuses with you.
Photo by Jacob Enos used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
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More people are checking in on their favorite websites and blogs from their phones, tablets, e-readers and other devices that aren't laptops or desktop computers. WordPress users have a number of themes available that have been specifically created with mobile visitors in mind. Its efficiency as a CMS keeps on increasing with introduction of new themes, plug-ins and applications thereby making it more popular.
Today we will share top quality mobile friendly WordPress themes, WP mobile themes collection of 2013 with you. All mobile friendly WordPress themes design and development from ThemeForest authors. Ensure that your readers can get a cutting edge experience while browsing and reading your blog or website from their mobile devices.
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sea turtle, name for several species of large marine turtles found in tropical and subtropical oceans. These turtles are modified for life in the ocean by having flipperlike forelimbs without toes and lightweight shells. Their heads are too large to be withdrawn into the shell. They spend most of their lives in the water, but come ashore to lay their eggs. Nearly all species have a circumglobal distribution although there are differences between the Atlantic and the Pacific populations. Most sea turtles are found in North American waters as far N as the U.S. S Atlantic coast and Baja California.
All sea turtle species are declining in numbers, owing in large part to the destruction of the eggs, which are widely used as food in tropical regions. Sea turtle meat is also eaten, and there is a market for turtle oil, hide, and shell. In a few places, such as Sarawak, harvesting of eggs is regulated by law to insure propagation of the species. The size of sea turtles has also decreased, owing to the hunting of large specimens.
The green turtle, Chelonia mydas, with greenish to brownish skin and shell, formerly reached weights of 1,000 lb (450 kg); the largest now found are about 4 ft (120 cm) long and weigh about 500 lb (225 kg). The green turtle feeds chiefly on marine vegetation and is most abundant in shallow water. The loggerhead, Caretta caretta, is a large-headed brown to reddish turtle. Chiefly carnivorous, it ranges from open oceans to coastal salt marshes and stream mouths. Like the green turtle it sometimes comes ashore in uninhabited places to bask.
The hawksbill, or tortoiseshell turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, may reach 30 in. (75 cm) in length and weigh 100 lbs (45 kg). The horny plates of its shell are translucent and have a variegated color pattern, chiefly brown and yellow. These plates have long been valued for the making of ornamental objects. Although tortoiseshell has to a large extent been replaced in many applications by plastic, a renewed demand for the genuine material poses a serious threat to the hawksbill.
The ridleys, the smallest sea turtles, inhabit shallow offshore waters. The 2-ft (60-cm) long, gray Kemp's, or Atlantic, ridley, Lepidochelys kempii, breeds only in the Gulf of Mexico, although the young are often carried by the Gulf Stream to the Carribean Sea and Europe. The slightly larger, greenish olive, or Pacific, ridley (L. olivacea), also known as the oliveback, is found in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The leatherback is the largest of all turtles; it belongs to a separate family from the other sea turtles.
All sea turtles other than the leatherback are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Chelonia, family Chelonidae; the leatherback belongs to the family Dermochelidae.
See J. R. Spotila, Saving Sea Turtles (2011).


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On Thursday, November 17, 2011 in San Francisco at The Commonwealth Club, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III spoke on "Changing Threats in a Changing World: Staying Ahead of Terrorists, Spies and Hackers." Mueller was introduced by Willrich Mason, Chair of California ISO Board of Governors and interviewed by Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Co-Director, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation.
Mueller became FBI Director in September 2001 and talked about how the world has changed over the past decade. There is as much government and corporate espionage activity in the United States today as there was during the Cold War. Globalization allows terrorists and hackers to disrupt governments, corporations and ordinary citizens. Mueller says the national security priorities are counterterrorism, counterintelligence and cyber security. The FBI is strengthening cooperation with law enforcement from international to local agencies and developing technology to respond to these threats.
Covering the event were Deric Fujihara of ABC KGO-TV, KC Leung of Papi TV, Suzanne Manneh of New American Media, Joseph Menn of the Financial Times, Josh Richman of Oakland Tribune Louis Trager of Warren Communication News and Tom Whitaker of Fox News. Also present were John Crew and Laura Saponara of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC).
My thanks to the Commonwealth Club's Caitlin, Sweety Ghuman, Gungun Kapoor, Wendy Wanderman and John Zipperer.
Copyright 2011 DJ Cline All rights reserved.


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Aaron Rayment-Davis
Trainee estimator
Aaron wasn't sure what career he wanted to pursue when he was picking his GCSEs, but when he got good grades in maths, he knew he wanted to do something involving numbers.
College helped him narrow down his choices to construction, specifically quantity surveying or estimating.
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|Albany School in Hornchurch (GCSEs)
|Havering College, Rainham, level 3 Extended Diploma
|McLaren sponsored Higher Education
|South Thames College (Level 4 Apprenticeship in Construction Management)
In his second year of studying for his level 3 in construction and the built environment, his next choice was to study full time for a higher qualification at university or look for an apprenticeship. The college encouraged him to find an apprenticeship and combine practical experience with study. He applied to about 15 companies, large and small, attending assessment days and interviews for quantity surveying and estimating roles. After his interview with one of our estimating directors, he was offered an apprenticeship with a trainee estimator role at McLaren.
A typical week sees Aaron at college on Mondays and in the office for the rest of the week. He goes out on site visits when he can, usually tagging along with other trainees to share the experience. Aaron's mentor keeps an eye on both his college assignments and his McLaren work, answering any questions he has or finding someone in the office who can help. At college, the lecturers make sure that Aaron and his fellow students are applying themselves to the detail and using the right terminology, which all helps with his work as an estimator.
Now that he works in construction, he views buildings differently. "I like seeing what's behind the whole process and having an idea of how much a building costs," he says. Soon he'll be spending an extended period on site, seeing some of the work he's already done being put into practice.
Aaron's aspiration is to go into commercial management. As he approaches completion of level 4 of his apprenticeship, he's looking for a university place to do a degree in quantity surveying or construction management, with McLaren's help.


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Mexico's Mextrópoli 2019 explores cities and architecture across generations
At Mextrópoli 2019, Mexico City's annual architecture and city festival (9-12 March 2019), many questions were posed around the theme 'Where the City Ends'. During a round-table discussion between international architects David Chipperfield, Guillermo Hevia, Frida Escobedo and Mariam Kamara, Chipperfield addressed the topic of how the next generations could improve the life of cities.
'The profession has to consider how we can be societally effective,' he said. 'Architecture doesn't sit in a gallery or on a bookshelf. We are a service dependent on societal engagement.' It's a sentiment that a group of students confronted head-on at the festival's outdoor-installation activation at Alameda Central, Mexico City's oldest public park, where 18 projects were presented by various studios and architecture and design institutions.
One of the most popular ones, a collection of 31 doors placed in various sequences that allow entry from one to another in a haphazardous, free-flow manner, was the idea of three fourth-year architecture and urbanism students from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, aided by peers from the Faculty of Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 'We're presenting a city without limits,' said Daniel Carvalho Mendonça, one of the Brazilian creators. His collaborator, Felipe Ross de Mattos Oliveira added: 'Political limits in a city aren't real. When people open doors, they're transforming these limits.'
The doors were fitted with peepholes, displaying tiny photographed images of daily life in the city, blocking the real vista until one opened the door to discover that such a constricted view does not exist. Rather, one was confronted by the vibrant city park, its towering spring-time jacarandas, and a smorgasbord of citizens from all walks of life.
By sourcing doors from various suburbs in the city, each with its own economic and social implications, they were uniting contexts not often integrated, transforming Mexico City's story to one where, as co-creator Gabrielle de Almeida Maia da Silva said, 'architecture contributes to breaking barriers'. Besides its main two-day conference, where Chipperfield and Kamara formed part of the prestigious speaker line-up, Mextrópoli hosted workshops, discussions and film screenings, and included a variety of exhibitions openings, many of which will be running into the coming months.
Independent architecture platform Liga presents The Horizon is Ours! (until 31 May) by Pedro&Juana, again talking to the city's imagined limits. Their 'diorama' presents a 'window into the city', where each object inside this scene represents an element of daily life in Mexico City, its scale and false perspective questioning the power of the subject and its ability to contain, compose and fragment a constructed world.
In addition, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) – a global architecture, interior design, engineering and urban-planning firm that has defied city limits (it's responsible for Dubai's groundbreaking Burj Khalifa) – is also exhibiting in Mexico City. 'SOM: Art + Engineering + Architecture' (on until 9 June at the historic Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso) is a display of over 30 structural models of projects that have created new dialogues within their urban environments – from the United States Courthouse in Los Angeles to Poly International Plaza in Beijing. Supported by sketches, sculptures and videos that demonstrate the company's ethos of uniting engineers, architects and visual artists in its more than 80-year history, this exhibition provides next-generation architects even more lessons to learn from. §


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If this move made by Hollywood currently baffles you, don't worry, we aren't sure what to make of this move either.
Yesterday (8/26), the wildly popular actor Vin Diesel was honored in a ceremony on the famed Hollywood Boulevard amidst friends, family and fans. The 46-year-old star, who first burst on the radar in 1999's The Iron Giant, became the 2,504th star to be inducted onto the Walk of Fame.
Joined by his Fast and Furious co-stars Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster, the former was quoted giving praise to her racing co-star, saying, "I love Vin Diesel. On top of just being one of my best friends… this man dares to dream when people forget to dream. This guy, he looks at the impossible and says, 'When do we start?'"
Take a look at his star on the Walk of Fame below:
Another seemingly "impossible" journey is his inclusion in the space age Marvel adventure, Guardians of the Galaxy, directed by James Gunn. The voice actor will play the role of Groot, a tree-like alien who joins a team of aliens to fight against a cosmic enemy. In addition to that, fans can see the badass in the upcoming films The Last Witch Hunter and Fast and Furious 7, which just added Tony Jaa in an unlisted role.
If you cannot wait to feast your eyes on the New York City actor, Diesel will next be seen in Riddick, alongside Keri Hilson, which will be the third installment of the popular The Chronicles of Riddick sci-fi franchise. You can see the new trailer below.
Riddick will be landing in theaters next week on September 4th.


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The Small Business Administration reports that there are 22.9 million small businesses in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) states that 90 percent of all net job creation from 1996-2007 came from small businesses. There is of little question that if the US is to recover from this recession and if unemployment is to be driven down, small business will lead the way.
Any business school you can attend will teach you that the cornerstone of our capitalist system is to build a companies value and have an ever increasing shareholder value.
Why would anyone ever put the brakes on a viable growing company. Surprisingly there are 3 good reasons to do this.
1. To maintain lifestyle and avoid risk. I know a building contractor who has reach a level of $3 million dollars per year income. My friend takes out of this income enough money to live a very nice lifestyle for himself and family. At the level his company is operating at he has plenty of time for a personal life. He spends his time going on vacation and tending to hobbies he loves.
He is a well respected local business man who could easily double his companies income. He has decide not to go that route. He is comfortable and any expansion would put to a halt the lifestyle he now enjoys. He has a business he can handle and doesn't want to take on anymore responsibility.
2. To avoid regulation. Another building services company in the area has chosen to cut back on expansion plans because of complex and expensive regulation that will kick in when the number of employees reaches 50. After gaining a thorough understanding of the complexity of complying with the "FMLA" (the Family Medical Leave Act), the President of the company made a conscious decision to stop the growth of his company. Job creation came to a screeching halt. The president wasn't opposed to extending the benefits of FMLA to his employees. Rather, he made an informed decision to avoid the considerable cost associated with the complexity of maintaining records and making judgments about what qualified for FMLA.
It was determined that his company could not absorb the costs of this regulation. Naturally, larger company's with thousands of employees and millions of dollars of revenue could integrate these costs into their spreadsheets.
I know many companies that do not want any employees because of complicated and expensive regulations. Companies like this chose to outsource and hire sub-contractors for all necessary personal needed.
3. Keeping a one man band effect on the company. There was a company that was in manufacturing and it had 35 employees. The owner of the company kept the entire business in his head. He daily told everyone what to do. There was no office staff. The host of employees did the manufacturing, ordering , billing, and customer installation. The owner would not hire any help to staff an office. All office duties were put on the manufacturing employees.
The company lacked a complete organizational section. Not having any office employees and having everyone doing everything was chaos. This owner by his own lack of business knowledge kept his company from growing.
Whether it's satisfaction with the status quo, a desire to avoid the burden of regulation or not understanding how to delegate, many small business owners have implicitly or explicitly made a decision not to grow their businesses.
It's completely reasonable for business owners to make an explicit decision not to grow because they are satisfied with the current size of their enterprise. That's their choice.


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I am very sure that out there in the big world are some of you who have a big binder or little (yet big) box of magazine recipe clippings, print offs, and disorganized recipe cards that are in an abundance. You either google, yummly, or even sneak your families secret recipes and shove them into your stash spot of great recipes that always come in handy for hearty meals and afternoon cake bakes with loved ones. I know I do, and am still in the process of organizing my binder. I knew that somewhere out there, in this great big world of the love of food, was some inspiration to getting my recipe book in tip top shape and actually into categories :D
I wish to share with you the top sites I've found my inspiration from, and when I get my external hooked up and out of the box in the basement, i'll share my own template I've been using :) I hope you all enjoy, and hey, if you have a cool idea or design that you, or someone you know or currently blog to, please, don't be a stranger and share share share! I would love to see what others have come up with and how it has given them a helping hand in the kitchen ;)
- Pretty Prudent
- Keeping Life Creative
- Etsy (search recipe binder) you'll find lots of amazing templates and inspiration for DIY
- Alaina Ann
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Dick Cheney's travel requirements were made public today on the Smoking Gun. Among the things he must have are all the lights turned on, the room at 68 degrees, decaffeinated coffee, four to six bottles of water, and four cans of caffeine-free Diet Sprite. Additionally, the room's televisions have to be preset to — wait for it, wait for it — Fox News. No mention was made of beef jerky, a shotgun, buckshot, a defibrillator, and a couple of floor mirrors to practice scowling and looking like a Dick. Apparently, he brings all that other shit himself.
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Potential Treason and Murder is followed by a Cover-up that looks to go all the way to the top.
The Gunwalker Scandal with Operation Fast & Furious have a far more insidious and sinister motive behind it than a stupid break in for campaign dirt. Not only was this whole operation of running guns via all the Alphabets of the Federal Government to Mexican drug cartels, an attempt by the Obama regime to blame the Constitution's 2nd Amendment as the culprit for violence in Mexico and our borders – but it was funded and paid for by Obama's Stimulus program – meaning we taxpayers funded this crime, and Obama signed that into law so it could be used to abolish our right to keep and bear arms.
But wait there's more. The hoped-for intent was that both the Mexican government and the Alphabets in the Fed would reveal that gun shows and gun sales in the U.S. were putting guns in the hands of drug cartels that then were being used to kill U.S. law enforcement officers. Obama prepped this narrative of blaming America for the gun and drug violence in Mexico way back in April of 2009, a few short months after taking office. Obama wanted to create a demand for renewed gun bans on all semi-automatic weapons in the hands of Americans, and push for a treaty to be ratified in the Senate to track and curtail arms in the U.S. It was after this that Porkulus money was apportioned to the alphabets to conduct gunwalking operations to get guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. The promise of increased annual funding and power over average Americans was a drug they could not pass up.
Not until those same weapons handed to the Mexican cartels were used to murder border patrol officer Brian Terry, did the moral weight of what was being done cause some whistleblowers in the ATF to go to public and ask Congress for help.
But as Senator Chuck Grassley is discovering – he is being stonewalled and stymied by Eric Holder at Obama's IN-Justice Department at every step and turn.
Like the idiots they are, the GOP made a fatal blunder in thinking they could negotiate in good faith with Marxists hell-bent on turning the country upside down. Like morons with no clue of the nature of a wolf, they thought if they spoon fed the beast – the beast would cooperate in the name of justice. Eric Holder's Justice Department that is. See, Grassley and his clueless cadre of Republicans on the Judiciary Committee actually believed that if they confirmed James Cole as Deputy Atty General, Eric Holder promised to stop the stonewall and provide the information they requested. Idiots, played for fools as they are finding out:
But Holder's Department of Justice has stonewalled since Cole was approved in June, the senior senator from Iowa said.
"We're getting inadequate answers," he said. "The inadequacy of the answers is a violation of the agreement that we have with the attorney general that we will get all of our questions and sub-questions answered fully, based upon the deal that we made that I would let the nomination for the deputy attorney general move through the Senate.
"Until they did that, I wasn't going to let it move and that leveraged them to make this agreement with us and they aren't even following their own agreement with us."
This is what happens when you negotiate in good faith with a wolf. It deceives you, then eats you.
Grassley better recognize this fact quick: the Obama regime WILL NOT provide anything that will be used against it. They will stonewall, obfuscate, destroy and delete anything that points to Obama and Holder being involved in this insidious plot. Minions will be forced to fall on their swords before any attempt at justice reaches the arms of those two. Bank on that.
You will need to follow the existing evidence Senator, even in terms of circumstance and timeline.
Obama began this odyssey when he blamed America for all the gun violence in Mexico back before he was even sworn in, and publicly when he met with Mexican Presidente Calderone in 2009:
The "90% of US guns were used in Mexican crimes" was a proven bogus number Obama pulled out of thin air, one that this Operation Gunwalker sought to pad in favor of Obama's insistence for the apparent purpose of shoving gun control measures down the throats of the American people. Obama and his regime probably figured that by showcasing cartel murders from U.S. guns used in Mexico and against border patrol agents, the American public would go along with new restrictions on firearms ownership inside the USA. They of course never being told that all those guns were sold by the ATF to drug cartels for the purpose of changing the political climate towards guns in this country.
Then, Obama and the Democrats actually earmarked money and use of taxpayer stimulus funds to purchase guns specifically for Gunwalker for the purpose of putting them into the hands of the cartels:
'For an additional amount for 'State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance', $40,000,000, for competitive grants to provide assistance and equipment to local law enforcement along the Southern border and in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the Southern border, of which $10,000,000 shall be transferred to 'Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Salaries and Expenses' for the ATF Project Gunrunner.'
Then Obama signed that into law – and the funds were used as appropriated – and guns flowed like water into the hands of the drug cartels in Mexico – all-the-while the ATF, FBI and other alphabets were ordered to let them go and pretend not to notice.
The motive, the conspiracy and the massive cover-up now ongoing, overshadows by exponential degrees, a little break-in that brought down the Richard Nixon Presidency.
Can we dare hope that a scandal even more insidious and treasonous would have similar consequences?


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For someone who remembers all the details, Curt Kirkwood is a terrible historian of the band he fronts. He knows the facts (the Meat Puppets have been meat-puppeting since 1980) but puts no weight on the context. And there is a lot of context.
The Meat Puppets played grunge before there was grunge and have been an active participant in every phase of the alternative rock movement. They were signed to indie front-runner SST Records when punk was still underground. When punk broke, they were in the wave of bands that moved to major labels—and in the wave of bands that moved back to indies when the movement broke down. They were a key influence on that other Kurt's music and to countless other bands throughout the nearly 30 years since the release of the magnum opus Meat Puppets II.
Yet Kirkwood says he doesn't hear his influence on other bands. At least, it takes him a bit of effort and guidance to hear it.
"When Nirvana played our songs, I could put two and two together. But from their own material, it wasn't readily apparent to me," Kirkwood says.
It seems a little hard not to notice the connection. If Nirvana and their ilk learned about distorted guitars from Black Sabbath and Iggy Pop, they learned about song structure, harmony and tempo from the Meat Puppets. It took only the most blatant evidence to convince Kirkwood of his influence—Nirvana seamlessly integrating his songs into the live album Unplugged in New York with the Meat Puppets called onstage as guests, playing the backing instruments.
Kirkwood's inability to hear his own sound in others isn't a slight at any bands, or a sign of general thickheadedness. It's from a lack of perspective on his own band.
"It's hard to know exactly what you sound like," he says, something that would seem more reasonable had he not followed it up by explaining that it's actually closer to impossible for him to know what he sounds like.
"When I hear my band on the radio, I think, 'Hey, that's an interesting song,' before I realize, 'Oh, that's us,'" he says.
Maybe he'd have a better recollection if he gave himself more time to ponder the songs while recording. The new Meat Puppets album, Lollipop, was recorded in only eight days—not for lack of caring, but because that's just how the Meat Puppets do things. Their seminal album, II, was recorded in five days. The longest they've ever spent in the studio was a still-very-quick 10 days for Monsters ("The concept was to make an album that didn't sound like a Meat Puppets record," Kirkwood says).
"I always like the spontaneity of the first takes," he explains.
The Meat Puppets' audience likes that spontaneity, too; Monsters is often seen as a lesser album among the 13 the band has recorded. And there will be spontaneity: When Kirkwood hands out the songs, the band rehearses no more than a couple of days before recording. It has always seemed to work.
So maybe it isn't so important that a band approach its music with importance. The Meat Puppets have 30 years of fans to say otherwise. And while Kirkwood may not be weighted by his band's own gravity, that gravity still seeps its way through.
The Meat Puppets play Summerfest's U.S. Cellular Connection Stage at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 9.


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Table B.1. bridge_opts parameters
|Sets the time, in deciseconds, a bridge will spend in the listening and learning states. If no switching loop is discovered in this time, the bridge will enter forwarding state. This allows time to inspect the traffic and layout of the network before normal network operation.
|Sets the garbage collection time, in deciseconds, after which the forwarding database is checked and cleared of timed-out entries.
|Set to zero when sending a general query. Set to the IP multicast address when sending a group-specific query, or group-and-source-specific query.
|Enables bridge to forward link local group addresses. Changing this value from the default will allow non-standard bridging behavior.
|The maximum chain length permitted in the hash table. Does not take effect until the next new multicast group is added. If this cannot be satisfied after rehashing, a hash collision occurs and snooping is disabled.
|The maximum amount of buckets in the hash table. This takes effect immediately and cannot be set to a value less than the current number of multicast group entries. Value must be a power of two.
|Sets the time interval, in deciseconds, between sending 'hello' messages, announcing bridge position in the network topology. Applies only if this bridge is the Spanning Tree root bridge.
|Time, in deciseconds, since last 'hello' message was sent.
|Sets the maximum time, in deciseconds, to receive a 'hello' message from another root bridge before that bridge is considered dead and takeover begins.
|Sets the number of 'last member' queries sent to the multicast group after receiving a 'leave group' message from a host.
|Sets the time, in deciseconds, between 'last member' queries.
|Sets the time, in deciseconds, that a bridge will wait to hear from a member of a multicast group before it stops sending multicast traffic to the host.
|Sets whether the bridge actively runs a multicast querier or not. When a bridge receives a 'multicast host membership' query from another network host, that host is tracked based on the time that the query was received plus the multicast query interval time. If the bridge later attempts to forward traffic for that multicast membership, or is communicating with a querying multicast router, this timer confirms the validity of the querier. If valid, the multicast traffic is delivered via the bridge's existing multicast membership table; if no longer valid, the traffic is sent via all bridge ports. Broadcast domains with, or expecting, multicast memberships should run at least one multicast querier for improved performance.
|Sets the maximum time, in deciseconds, between last 'multicast host membership' query received from a host to ensure it is still valid.
|Boolean. Defaults to '0', in which case the querier uses 0.0.0.0 as source address for IPv4 messages. Changing this sets the bridge IP as the source address.
|Sets the time, in deciseconds, between query messages sent by the bridge to ensure validity of multicast memberships. At this time, or if the bridge is asked to send a multicast query for that membership, the bridge checks its own multicast querier state based on the time that a check was requested plus multicast_query_interval. If a multicast query for this membership has been sent within the last multicast_query_interval, it is not sent again.
|Length of time, in deciseconds, a host is allowed to respond to a query once it has been sent. Must be less than or equal to the value of the multicast_query_interval.
|Allows you to enable or disable ports as having multicast routers attached. A port with one or more multicast routers will receive all multicast traffic. A value of 0 disables completely, a value of 1 enables the system to automatically detect the presence of routers based on queries, and a value of 2 enables ports to always receive all multicast traffic.
|Toggles whether snooping is enabled or disabled. Snooping allows the bridge to listen to the network traffic between routers and hosts to maintain a map to filter multicast traffic to the appropriate links. This option allows the user to re-enable snooping if it was automatically disabled due to hash collisions, however snooping will not be re-enabled if the hash collision has not been resolved.
|Sets the number of queries sent out at startup to determine membership information.
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Well before the call was made to postpone President Donald Trump's Saturday re-election rally in New Hampshire, the warning lights were flashing red.
There were no signs of the typical throngs of supporters camped out days in advance for a good spot; the Republican governor said he would skip it, advising anyone at high risk to stay home over coronavirus concerns; fears of a repeat of Tulsa's disappointing turnout weighed heavily; and then came the stormy weather reports, which could have further stifled attendance.
By the time the campaign announced that the Portsmouth event was off, citing "safety concerns" over a tropical storm barreling toward the Northeast on Friday afternoon, people close to the campaign said fears over low turnout also motivated the decision to scrap the event.
The coastal town is not currently expected to be hit directly by the storm, but the decision to reschedule over bad weather is a "convenient excuse" for the Trump 2020 team, one outside adviser told NBC News.


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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his aides today struck a triumphant and self-congratulatory note as they attempted to show that they were moving into the recovery phase of the 2007 California fire disaster.
Schwarzenegger called cabinet members and agency heads to his Office of Emergency Services headquarters at the former Mather Air Force base for a 20-minute session in front of reporters to discuss recovery efforts. The governor, flanked by other state officials, then walked into a state operations center and thanked emergency services workers who helped coordinate the response.
"This is not over, I just want you to know," Schwarzenegger said. "I always say, this is the sprint. Now comes the marathon."
In a news conference afterward, Schwarzenegger and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi both said the state had dramatically outperformed its response to the southern California wildfires of 2003, losing fewer lives and property despite more fires.
"While there was a very good response to those horrific fires in southern California, the response this time was much, much better," Garamendi said. "The ability of the state government to learn from the problems and shortcomings of the 2003 effort is obvious. It's obvious that there was substantially lower loss of life, lower loss of property, fewer homes burned."
State officials have responded to criticism of the time it took to deploy air resources by pointing to local agencies who are the first responders and to outmoded federal equipment. Schwarzenegger said the state had not purchased all the new fire engines recommended by the Blue Ribbon Commission after the 2003 fires because of the state's budget crisis, but added that it is continually purchasing more.
The governor said there would be time to analyze how to make further improvements, but that time would come later. He spoke instead of the fire chiefs and evacuated residents he said had expressed their gratitude to him for the state's help.
"The fact of the matter is, I'm looking right now at the extraordinary work that was done and how many people's lives were saved," Schwarzenegger said.
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