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The last week of July Foster went to a soccer camp at Soccer City! Foster is going to play soccer this fall so we thought it would be good to get in some practice before the season starts. :) He was lucky enough to have 2 good friends in his class, Nicolas from school and Brody from church!
Brody and Foster
Emma was a supportive big sister and watched for 3 of the days.
Brody's mom and I just about died when we saw this. We thought Foster just had his arm around Brody. Upon later investigation we found out that they were playing a game where you had to "connect" with someone. Still pretty cute though.
Brody and Foster's little brothers are about the same age… we weren't sure they would be able to endure sitting through 3 hour camp so we got a babysitter for them for a few of the days. On Friday when Braylen showed up, he and Cash were dressed exactly the same. :)


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Honorable Mention - Natural
Title: Snowy Landscape in a Spherical Icicle Covering a Dogwood Bud
This picture shows the snow covered landscape of my backyard through a spherical encasing of ice covering a Dogwood bud. An ice storm entrenched this entire tree in ice covering every bud and branch. The spherical icicle acts as a double convex, converging lens which shows the real, inverted image of the snowy landscape behind it. Light rays from the distant landscape converge to form the small, real, inverted image of the snowy landscape. The landscape is much smaller when seen through the icicle because the icicle is farther away than twice the focal point of the object, which is the point at which the inverted image would be the same size as the object. Because the ice is fairly smooth, it produces a clearly defined image. The image ?wraps around? the icicle because the edges are slightly rounded.

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Onsite Renovation Group Meets in Marietta on November 15, 2016Posted on November 14, 2016 by
Hands-On Learning "Onsite" at Real Renovation Projects
Tuesday, November 15th at NOON
3131 Vandiver Dr, Marietta, GA
Please join us on Tuesday, November 15th at NOON for the Atlanta REIA Onsite Renovation Group (ORG) to learn all about finding, funding, fixing, and flipping houses for big profits. This month's meeting will be held at Don DeRosa's property located at 3131 Vandiver Dr, Marietta, GA. Come join us onsite and learn how we will turn this old run down house into a profitable deal!
The Atlanta REIA Onsite Renovation Group (ORG), hosted by Don DeRosa and Dustin Griffin, is an educational and networking group that focuses on the acquisition, renovation and retail resale (fix and flip) of single family residential homes. The purpose of the group is to allow both new and experienced rehabbers and investors to meet, network and share knowledge and experience with "hands on" access to real property.
The Onsite Renovation Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday each month at NOON at an active renovation site, build site or rental property which will vary from month to month. As always, there is no charge for Atlanta REIA members to attend. Guests & Non-Members can RSVP Online for Only $15 or pay $20 at the door.
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By: Jay Kristoff
Overall Rating: ★★★★
Mia Corvere is the daughter of an executed traitor. She manages to escape her would-be killers and ends up under the tutelage of a retired assassin, who teachers her all his murder-y ways.
She joins the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church – and tries to out-assassin a bunch of other rude, angsty, stab-y teens so she can become a Blade and get the revenge she desires. But of course, nothing is ever that easy and Mia has to deal with her feelings and an unknown murderer that keeps offing a bunch of students. Think Hogwarts, but for assassins instead of wizards.
Theme Song
The Good
The Characters
No one in this story can be considered "good" and yet I still find myself rooting for these ruthless killers. Mia, Tric, Mr. Kindly and even Lord Cassius all toot my horn. Who wouldn't want to be friends with a bunch of assassins and a demon cat? Let's just say after you read this you're going to wish you knew how to sword fight, mix up a poisonous elixir and be a pickpocket…and you wouldn't think any of it was morally unacceptable.
The Writing
I felt like I was living in a Roman drama, but at the same time found myself laughing at the most inappropriate times. Like, am I reading about the downfall of Caesar if it was set in the Mean Girls world? I'm pretty sure I was, and I'm not mad about it. The dad jokes and sarcasm just made everything so much more amazing…Kristoff put literal book worms in the library. What did we do to deserve such a great story?
It took a while for things to get really good. But oh. my. gosh. that ending took me by surprise. You think the story is going one way and then BAM! it takes a sharp turn into "what the EEEFFF is going on now?!" It was a bit like a Game of Thrones plot twist, blood and gore included.
The Bad
The Footnotes
Literally the only reason I didn't give this book 5 starts is because of the footnotes. I LOVED the added sass by whoever the narrator is, but those footnotes were the death of me. I got through this book way more slowly than I would have because I kept having to backtrack and re-read after pausing mid-page to go down to the footnotes. Dense books just aren't my thing.
The Ugly Truth
Nevernight was an amazing book. The story, the characters, the writing, the everything was SO. GOOD. My only wish was that it was slightly less dense. I would have even preferred if it was written in more of a play-style setting. It was halfway there anyway. I'm definitely recommending it to friends, but will hold off on a re-read until I get through the entire series!
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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
I'm not sure what happened with this one. It was a great one for setting–Frazier gives us some fabulous descriptions of North Carolina. And it's not just the area around Cold Mountain itself–Inman walks away from the hospital where he is recovering, across much of the state. But I lost interest in the story pretty early on–both Inman's and Ada's–and really didn't regain it.
I am reading my way across the USA–5 or so books set in each state, with an emphasis on those where the setting becomes another character or is integral to the story, or where we learn something about the geography, history, and/or people of the state. We are almost finished with North Carolina.
Cold Mountain was very good for our challenge–at least in terms of setting. The descriptions of the flora and fauna of central and western North Carolina are wonderful. There are birds (including one mystical heron imitating Zeus from the Greek story of Leda and the swan):
The brightening sky was busy with resident birds and with traveler birds moving south ahead of the season: various patterns of duck, geese both grey and white, whistling swan, nighthawk, bluebird, jaybird, quail, lark, kingfisher, Cooper's hawk, red-tailed hawk.Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain
There are trees, flowers, and insects:
Her mind marked every mantis in a stand of ragweed, the corn borers in the little tents they folded out of milkweed leaves, striped and spotted salamanders with their friendly smiling faces under rocks in the creek. Ruby noted little hairy liverish poisonous-looking plants and fungi growing on the damp bark of dying trees, all the larvae and bugs and worms that live alone inside a case of sticks or grit or leaves. Each life with a story behind it. Every little gesture nature made to suggest a mind marking its life as its own caught Ruby's interest.Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain
And there are lots of creeks and mountain paths, sometimes with comparisons between the regions.
The water ran down the hill in a series of white riffles broken now and then by quiet bends and little pools where the land terraced or curved, so that if one were not too careful about the particulars it might be taken for a mountain stream. … But looking on the creek as it made its snaky way down the hill, he saw such notions to be just airy thoughts. The creek's turnings marked how all that moves must shape itself to the maze of actual landscape, no matter what its preferences might be. When it reached flat ground, the creek gentled and became a watercourse little better than a muddy ditch and displayed no further reference that Inman could find to a mountain stream.Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain
There are also some wonderful historical bits about subsistence farming, cooking, and living off the land. And there's lots about depending on others in small communities as well as the isolation inherent in frontier living.
If you've read my review of Where the Crawdad's Sing, you might remember that my husband felt that Owens' descriptions of the marsh were a little too idyllic–with nary a mention of biting insects! That's not the case with Frazier's Cold Mountain.
The sun climbed the sky and turned hot, and all the insect world seemed to find Inman's bodily fluids fascinating. Striped mosquitoes hummed around his ears and bit his back through his shirt. Ticks dropped from trailside brush and attached themselves to him at hairline and pant waist and grew fat. Gnats sought out the water in his eyes. A horsefly followed him for a while, troubling his neck. It was a big black glob of buzzing matter the size of the end joint to his thumb, and he longed to kill it but could not, no matter how he jerked and beat at himself as it landed to bite out gouts of flesh and blood.Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain
So, the settings were great, and I can see the appeal of the storylines, but this book just didn't do it for me. Perhaps it had something to do with the Odyssey parallels–I feel as though that's where my interest waned–which is odd, because I usually enjoy parallels and modernizations of classical literature, as well as a bit of magical realism. I think where it broke down for me here was the exaggeration of hillbilly stereotypes–and perhaps the lack of humor to offset the most distasteful parts. There was quite a bit of humor in Ron Rash's Serena–much of it gallows humor to be sure–and much more humor in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? (As mentioned in my review of Serena, Rash retells the Greek play Medea by Euripides, while O Brother also follows Homer's Odyssey.)
There were also a few oddities that snapped me out of the reading experience–mainly dated vocabulary that was difficult to parse in the context, like "gudgeon," or "boomer," which from the context could have been just about any small to mid-sized woodland animal but seems to have been a squirrel (particularly a red squirrel). Or a comment about a wounded Union soldier who "sat up and said something in an Irish accent so thick the only understandable word was Shit," which made my inner editor protest that the Irish say, "shite" with a long I, which wouldn't necessarily be all that understandable.
But there was also the occasional historical fact that seemed so out of place or unlikely that it jarred me until I had to look it up. Did you know that the range of the American bison extended into the North Carolina mountains? Or that there was a flaring of the aurora borealis that was visible as far south as Fredericksburg, Virginia on the night after the battle there? There was also a mention of persimmon trees that threw me, but apparently there is a species that is native to the eastern United States–it's mentioned in several texts from the colonial period and the name "persimmon" is based on the Algonquin language spoken by Powhatan's people in the 1600s in Virginia (meaning "dry fruit").
And I was totally confused when Inman very briefly mentioned an odd uniform: "To Inman they looked like they were wearing the oriental pantaloons of the Zouave regiments, whose soldiers looked so strangely bright and festive scattered dead across a battlefield." According to this snippet from the Smithsonian Institute website, volunteer Civil War soldiers–on both sides–briefly wore this uniform.
I think it was the brevity and casualness of the inclusion of these historical bits that was jarring–I had no idea what he was talking about and it was not explained at all. That is the only time the uniform is mentioned, and there's no context at all–even to say Zouave regiments "of the Federals" or alluding to that first year when they were more prevalent or… something. It came across as if they weren't from the Civil War or North America at all. But it is definitely an interesting tidbit.
Another area where this brevity and casualness kind of fails the reader is with location–especially for Inman. Now, I get that he's walking home and that there aren't road signs. But Frazier is a little too vague at times. He indicates that wounded soldiers were sent to hospitals in their home states to recover, and Inman mentions seeing the "capitol dome" several times at the start of his journey. But Raleigh is never mentioned by name, and his participation in battles in Virginia makes the comment about the "capitol" ambiguous.
The only town that's mentioned (other than those where Civil War battles were fought), is Salisbury, which Inman names when asking directions. It looks like Salisbury is located halfway between Charlotte and High Point–or about halfway between Raleigh and Waynesville (the county seat of Haywood County where Cold Mountain, Serena, and Over the Plain Houses all take place). Waynesville is not mentioned by name, though I assume that's the town Ada mentions visiting to see Inman before he heads off to war.
Even the location of Cold Mountain itself was a bit of a mystery–it wasn't until near the end of the book when Ruby told the young soldier that he'd have to go around the base of Cold Mountain in order to get home to Georgia that I realized the mountain was to the south of the farm rather than the north as I'd assumed.
One location that is named is the Cape Fear River, though it's unclear where the crossing described takes place. My guess, based on the map from the Wikipedia page for the Cape Fear River, would be below where the Deep and Haw Rivers meet to form the Cape Fear River, and above where the Little River joins in (above Fayetteville). I found information about several historical ferries in North Carolina, but the only one still existing on the Cape Fear River is further south and has only been in operation since 1905.
In a departure from most of the books I've read related to the Civil War, Frazier seems reluctant to take a position, at least on the question of slavery. He mostly seems to feel that the war was a grievous waste of men's lives, on both sides, and discusses both the initial enthusiasm that often accompanies the beginning of a war, and the eventual war weariness.
He guessed the promise of [change] was part of what made up the war frenzy in the early days. The powerful draw of new faces, new places, new lives. And new laws whereunder you might kill all you wanted and not be jailed, but rather be decorated. Men talked of war as if they committed it to preserve what they had and what they believed. But Inman now guessed it was boredom with the repetition of the daily rounds that had made them take up weapons. The endless arc of the sun, wheel of seasons. War took a man out of that circle of regular life and made a season of its own, not much dependent on anything else. He had not been immune to its pull. But sooner or later you get awful tired and just plain sick of watching people killing one another for every kind of reason at all, using whatever implements fall to hand.Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain
For the characters in the book–mostly poor white mountain folk, albeit from a Southern state–Frazier contends that slavery didn't really have anything to do with their lives. The slave owners were the rich plantation owners of the lowlands, who pulled the common mountain folk into their conflict. Frazier says the rest of the southern folk didn't care about slavery one way or the other. He doesn't go so far as to justify it, but the closest he comes to condemning slavery is with the goat-tending woman, who offers this opinion:
What I want to know is, was it worth it, all that fighting for the big man's nigger?—That's not the way I saw it.—What's the other way? she said. I've traveled a fair bit in those low counties. Nigger-owning makes the rich man proud and ugly and it makes the poor man mean. It's a curse laid on the land. We've lit a fire and now it's burning us down. God is going to liberate niggers, and fighting to prevent it is against God.Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain
But despite the goatherd's invoking God, Frazier has Inman criticize Lee for an extension of the same idea.
What troubled Inman most, though, was that Lee made it clear he looked on war as an instrument for clarifying God's obscure will. Lee seemed to think battle—among all acts man might commit—stood outranked in sacredness only by prayer and Bible reading. Inman worried that following such logic would soon lead one to declare the victor of every brawl and dogfight as God's certified champion.Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain
At the same time, the main "enemy" in the book is the Home Guard–local men hunting deserters from the Confederate Army. Not that the occasional Federal soldiers who appear are heroic–and Inman makes a comment that, "Anyone thinking the Federals are willing to die to set loose slaves has got an overly merciful view of mankind" (although he never clarifies what he thinks they were fighting for). The two groups of soldiers seem to be equally deplorable in their depredations of the common folk just trying to get by–but the setting within Confederate territory means the Home Guard are more numerous and therefore more of a threat.
Overall, I'd say that Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, was a good addition to our reading list for North Carolina. I still feel that Over the Plain Houses wins my vote for best overall, but this is a good alternative.
I am working on Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy, which starts off in a small Cherokee community much like the abandoned one that Cold Mountain ends in. In Cold Mountain, the characters wonder briefly and somewhat poignantly, about the former inhabitants who were removed, but we don't see what Glancy's main narrator, Maritole, sees when she is briefly allowed to return to gather a few items–namely the immediate possession of her cabin and its belongings by white folk. In Cold Mountain, the village was empty and abandoned–which perhaps highlights the pointlessness of the removal, but ignores some of its cruelty.
I'm moving on to Texas next, which made it ironic that this quote and theme popped up several times among the characters of Cold Mountain:
I've saved more souls than there are fingers to your hands and toes to your feet. But I've foresworn it now and I'm going to the Texes and start fresh.—Many are.—There's a place in Judges where it talks about a time when there was no rule in Israel and every man just did what was right in his own eyes. I've heard the same of the Texes. It's a land of freedom.—That's the tale that's told of it.Charles Frazier in Cold Mountain
We'll travel the Trail of Tears first, then move on to Texas.


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The Observatory at Frieda and the Moon
England / Lanreath, Cornwall
Frieda And The Moon has a vision beautifully captured in the Ted Hughes poem 'Full Moon and Little Frieda' - a celebration of life's small and wondrous moments. The Observatory is all about revelling in nature, beauty, and romance.
You'll find this unique hideaway for two nestled in a private wooded paddock amongst thirteen acres of a lush, hidden Cornish valley.
Clad in gleaming copper and zinc, and showcasing six stained-glass portholes that each represent a different phase of the moon, your first impression is sure to be one of childlike wonder!
Rich in extravagant comfort and warm colour, the craftsman-built, oak-and brass interior is peppered with indulgent touches, from cosmos-themed books and antiques thoughtfully collected over the years by the friendly owners, to a crackling woodburner and a stunning wallpapered ceiling.
All those essential holiday facilities are covered too, from a bespoke, well-equipped kitchen area with a gas hob, and a window-positioned dining table, to a themed ensuite shower room with a 'proper' flushing loo.
But the real gem here has to be the downy kingsize bed, gently crafted from oak, and featuring an intricate engraving that represents the swirling galaxies. Not only is your curtained sleeping space deliciously comfortable, with a luxurious 'four poster bed' feel, but you can also enjoy endless views of the heavens from the window above.
(With almost zero light pollution in this little slice of Cornwall, who knows what else you'll catch sight of in that enormous star-studded sky?)
Even more luxury awaits you outside, in the form of a dreamy cobbled patio that's home to a wood-fired chiminea, an al-fresco dining table and Adirondack chairs...oh, and a cedar wood hot tub complete with spa jets and bubbles! Simply equip yourselves with a glass of something lovely, then sit back and enjoy far-reaching country views across the sheep-dotted valley. It's the perfect setting for a couple to fall in love all over again.
In fact, you may also fall so headlong in love with Frieda and the Moon, that you dream about getting married here. And with a separate, licensed boutique venue available on site - complete with an exquisite Italianate ceiling and a stained-glass Ocean Window - your dream can come true!
If you're in the mood to unleash your creative spirit (surely there's no better backdrop?), you can arrange a bespoke drawing and painting holiday, or simply stroll through the surrounding ancient woodland for divine inspiration. Further afield, there are many famed Cornish delights within easy reach, including Fowey, Lostwithiel, Looe, and Polperro within a short drive. The owners website has a fascinating blog - "The Art Of Small Adventures", which directs you to a range of "hidden delights" in the local area - the gems that the locals know - which the serendipitous traveller may happen upon. Each is illustrated by Paul, the owner, with the originals on sale in the studio on site, which you are welcome to visit.
But for now, it's time to well and truly hole yourselves up in this wondrous part of the world. Dine al fresco and carefree, as you look up at that awe-inspiring evening sky, and try to "tempt a first star to a tremor".
Things to note
Pets are not permitted. No smoking or vaping. Arrive after 4pm, depart before 11am.
Tried and tested
"If possible our stay at Frieda and the Moon was even more magical than our stay a year ago. The Observatory is exquisitely decorated and the location, in such an idyllic setting, is the perfect escape. We would give it 6 stars if we could."
"The Observatory exceeded our expectations in every aspect. It was the perfect getaway. The hosts Paul and Babs were wonderful. We would highly recommend this place - it is out of this world."
"We have had the most perfect time. A unique and exceptional experience. The accommodation was spectacular, and we agreed the bed is the most comfortable we have ever experienced. Kind and helpful hosts who left us to it. The surrounding area is beautiful..."
The basics
Region: Lanreath, Cornwall
Cost (from): £95 per night
Sleeps: 2
Bedrooms: 1
Bathrooms: 1
Minimum stay: 3 nights
Property ref: 1135
FacilitiesBespoke-crafted, cosmos-themed copper-and-zinc cabin for two. Open plan living space with kitchen, dining and bedroom with skylight. Wood-burner with logs, 2 ring gas hob, fridge and kettle. Double bed (5'). Ensuite shower room with flushing WC and wash-basin. Outside: cobbled patio with lounging chairs, dining table with chairs, chiminea, and cedar wood hot tub with massage jets.
Local Activities
Woodland walks, cycling, market towns, watersports, fishing, cafés, village life, beaches, shopping.
At a glance
- An imaginative and lovingly bespoke-crafted couples' hideaway, privately secluded within a thirteen-acre smallholding in Lanreath, near Looe, Cornwall.
- The cosmos-themed hideaway is self-contained, with full kitchen facilities and an ensuite shower with flushing toilet. Bedding and towels are provided.
- There is a private cobbled patio for al fresco dining, and a spa hot tub with massage jets.
- Bespoke drawing and painting holidays can be arranged, and there is a separate licensed venue on site for small weddings of up to 20 guests (a pop-up campsite with facilities can be provided for guests staying over, and there are plenty of nearby B&Bs).
- Personalised hampers, including Champagne Breakfast, Prosecco Picnic and Vintage High Tea, can be arranged on request - and kept a surprise for your loved one if preferred!
- Close to the village of Lanreath (the nearest pub is 2 miles away) with Looe and Polperro accessible in a short drive.
"If possible our stay at Frieda and the Moon was even more magical than our stay a year ago. The Observatory is exquisitely decorated and the location, in such an idyllic setting, is the perfect escape. We would give it 6 stars if we could."
"The Observatory exceeded our expectations in every aspect. It was the perfect getaway. The hosts Paul and Babs were wonderful. We would highly recommend this place - it is out of this world."
"We have had the most perfect time. A unique and exceptional experience. The accommodation was spectacular, and we agreed the bed is the most comfortable we have ever experienced. Kind and helpful hosts who left us to it. The surrounding area is beautiful..."
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text: The Three Queens Hotel in Burton has been closed by Public Health England after two guests contracted Legionnaire's disease. The legionella pneumophila bacteria were found in samples taken from the hotel's plumbing. The Burton Mail reports the first guest was from Nottingham and was diagnosed in January this year after staying at the property for three days. The second guest was diagnosed in September and also stayed for three days. Both of the guests have since made a full recovery. Dr David Kirrage, consultant with PHE West Midlands health protection team, said: "Isolated cases of legionella infection are reported toRead More... →


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Thirty-six hours in and Iceland is unforgettable. Saturday, May 21, four hours after checking into the well-located and very friendly Hotel Odinsve, the Grimsvotn volcano spewed a plume of ash 60,000 feet into the air, its largest eruption since 1947. Keflavik Airport closed and a no-fly zone went up around the island. Now, we wait and see, literally, which way the wind blows.
The locals are taking this in the same stride that Upstaters take massive snowfalls, and the tourists are chatty with the novelty. A novelty that will surely wear thin if this is a repeat of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption of 2010. READ MORE


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Sunday, November 21, 2010
'Icycle'(2010), Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Warkworth.
Icycle (2010)
Fibreglass, stainless steel, paint, cedar.
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail,
Snell's Beach
www. brickbaysculpture.co.nz
Icycle is a whimsical work that plays with scale to combine two objects not normally seen together that come from two opposing scales. This work is also a curiosity, an iceberg presented as a form of confectionery which entices the viewer to approach the work for closer inspection. The slick, white, shiny surface is reminiscent of snowy mountain peaks, and icebergs, but on a model-like scale. In the context of Aotearoa, it is a reminder of the rapidly melting icebergs that passed our southern shores not so long ago.
Although strange and quirky, this sculpture is also alludes to some serious environmental and political issues. Global warming and changes in the ozone layer threaten our safety and even our existence. The excitement of the unusual event of the passing icebergs in 2006 was mixed with the anxiety of its meaning. The concept of melting is also associated with loss, in particular loss associated with both the environment and land. It reminds us of the impact we have had historically in Aotearoa, and that we have on the world today.
'Sky Mirror' (2010), Art in the Dark, Ponsonby, Auckland.
Fibreglass, nylon, thread, plastic,lights.
Sky Mirror is a colourful, dynamic light work that allows us to reflect on our perception of space as we look down on the work to see what is in reality overhead. The process also alludes to the traditional placement of knowledge and diagrams to be viewed on a horizontal plane when in this case the reality is vertically above the viewer.
The surface image shows an activated diagram of the October night sky with its thousands of stars, including the Milky Way and the major contellations. When installed Sky Mirror will be orientated for the correct reading of the diagram for October 2010.
Art in the Dark (2010) is a new initiative of lightworks by designer Celia Harrison.
Art in the Dark is an interactive community event that was held in the dark in Ponsonby's Western Park on the 15th and 16th of October 2010.
Art in the Dark transformed the park into a temporary community hub, illuminated by installations, projected short films and performances along a walk throughout the park. The entire event is eco-friendly, and all projects were powered by clean energy, with minimal waste. Art in the Dark aims to develop new forms of sustainable practices within the community with a view to inspiring other events and businesses to follow suit.
Long term, the Art in the Dark vision is to not only make the event in Western Park annual, but also to develop and grow community and environmental awareness via smaller events, providing constant opportunities for artists and progressing an artist collective.
'Greensleeve'(2008), product design.
Products and Services Part 2
curated by Catherine David, designer and architect.
1-17 December 2008.
Room 103
Archilles House
In the present economic climate there is rising interest in the need to conserve our natural resources. Greensleeve is a nifty product that changes the way you use water in the home and saves you money. The product restricts the opening of a bathroom or kitchen tap to reduce water usage, and unlike other similar products on the market, the Greensleeve can be applied to any water faucet by anyone, anytime, anywhere.
'Snowpads' (2007) Waitakaruru Sculpture Park and Arboretum, Waikato.
This delicate, white, feminine work emphasizes the flatness of the pond surface to make it seem almost illusionistic. The work makes us question our own senses and perceptions as it appears as a perfect geometric form both in the water and with the reflection –also in the sky.
In this way the form seems quite alien, quite out of place, like a spaceship form collaged into the landscape. This feeling of a misplaced form is both disconcerting and alluring.
The Sculpture-in-the-Park show is being organized by Carole Shepheard, as guest curator. Carole is curating this as a group show. She says that ' The setting for sculpture is outstanding and without rival and can cater for up to 90 works, however the curatorial position for this exhibition is looking for works that integrate, reflect, challenge and consider this unique environment and which provide audiences with challenges, intrigue and enjoyment.'
Waitakaruru Sculpture Park and Arboretum,
'Bung' (2007) Connells Bay Sculpture Park, Waiheke Island.
Bung (2007) is located at Connells Bay Sculpture Park, Waiheke Island and is part of the Sculpture Trust's permanent collection.
Initially shown beside a natural rock basin in the ocean at Sculpture on the Gulf in 2007, Bung is a work that can make sense in a range of sites. Situated at the end of the white jetty at Connells Bay, it extends the visual language of the land and architecture of the tranquil bay. As it extends beyond the limits of the land, the sculpture operates as a punctuation mark - the dot of an i, or the end of an exclamation mark. Oram particularly enjoys the challenge of designing and making work for dynamic environments. The water, change and the flux of the natural environment has been an on-going interest in her art practice. Bung was developed through researching materials and design in the boat building industry. The colour and materials reference modern boats and the materials used can withstand extreme salt water conditions.
Julia Oram's art can be seen as political as well as conceptual and she is currently working on a body of work that explores notions of loss, both personal and global. For her it is essential that her work makes a social or political statement, but that it balances this with aesthetics. The tension between these aspects; essentially between reality and beauty, has been an interest and focus for Oram over the past five years. She was both inspired and awed by the sublime appearance of the iceberg flotilla that passed the South Island in 2006, which was a timely reminder of the proximity of the issues around global warming. Changes in the ozone layer and global warming threaten our safety and even our existence. The concept of ice melting is associated with loss, particularly with reference to both the environment and the land. By extension it reminds us of the impact we have had historically in Aotearoa, and that we continue to have on the world today. In a similar vein Bung alludes to environmental and political issues. Oram's work is serious and thought provoking but also quirky and entertaining. What exactly is this bung doing – is it keeping the water in or out?
'Bung' (2007) Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
Bung, fibreglass, stainless steel, chain and anchor.
2 metre diameter, .7m depth.
Bung was initially designed to sit beside a natural rock basin in the ocean, beside Waiheke Island. It was part of the Sculpture on the Gulf outdoor sculpture show on Waiheke Island in 2007, which has been renamed Headland: Sculpture on the Gulf.
Bung alludes to the amusing but impossible notion of attempting to plug or control the vast ocean in which it lies. Although at first appearing frivolous it also provides a discourse around island life, in particular the availability of drinking water on the island during summer. The local residents are dependent on tank water and are conscious of the need to preserve, control and plug their precious resource over the hot, dry moths of summer. Although these are serious issues Bung's main purpose is to provide humour and light relief, by surprising visitors on finding a large domestic object floating in the open sea.


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Well hello there! Welcome back to my page! I've been gone for quite sometime but that's only because I've been super busy with work and school…oh and juggling my personal life.
Like all of you, well most of you, I've been staying at home attending to my duties of writing from home and pursuing my education. I'm hoping to graduate this fall, therefore I'll have more "time" on my hands. But before I jump to this hectic lifestyle we are all living in, I hope each and everyone of you is safe and sound at home. I continuously pray for those who are affected by COVID-19 and hoping this ends soon.
Ok, ok, back to business.
These past couple of weeks have been C-R-A-Z-Y to say the least. Don't get me wrong, I'm blessed and thankful to work from home. However, like most of you, I go crazy being at home! I get it, yes it's for our safety and I'm totally okay with that. But when you have 3 crazy kids running around, having to feed them every other hour, and having to yell at them like 100 times to separate them from fighting, um yeah, it gets hectic.
Sometimes, I feel like my head is going to explode. I seriously feel like a computer memory (RAM). Oh my apologies, for those who don't know what that is…According to crucial.com, computer memory or random access memory (RAM) is your system's short-term data storage; it stores the information your computer is actively using so that it can be accessed quickly. The more programs your system is running, the more memory you'll need.
Sheeesshhhh!!! I knew I wasn't crazy! I knew I needed a bigger head for all this craziness in my life.
Unlike most of these cool moms, I don't craft with my kids, I don't bake with my kids, I do homework halfway with them, I drink 2 cups of coffee in the morning to "chill," I absolutely have the TV on from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. (give me a break, the weather in Yuma is already in the triple digits), I do drink ONCE a week, I do shower everyday, I cook three meals a day (well, for the most part), I tend to go on walks with the family to release some stress, I am on my laptop 12 hours a day (between work and school), I have been saving more money, I have been eating LIKE shit for the most part, I don't play video games or board games. Diet? what's that? movies are my best friend, and I tend to go grocery shopping to get away from my family for at least an hour (trust me, you would do the same if you were in my shoes).
But I'm curious to know, how are you spending your life? What are you doing to cope and entertain yourself or your family?


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About Area 12
The mission of Area 12 of the Handbell Musicians of America or the Guild (formerly known as the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers or AGEHR) is to educate, motivate and nurture fellowship, joy and excellence in handbell and handchime music. The primary objectives of the organization are to educate and to promote the exchange of ideas relating to handbell and handchime ringing and to sponsor educational activities (excluding direct competition between choirs, ensembles and/or ringers).
Area 12 consists of members in California, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam. To best serve our membership, Area 12 has several regional coordinators within our region, who support local areas throughout Area 12. lThe state of Hawaii has its own regional coordinator. The state of California is broken out into five regional areas – Southern California, Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, Central California, San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California – each of which has its own coordinator. The state of Nevada is split into Northern and Southern regions. While Guam is officially a part of Area 12, there are not yet enough members from that region to appoint a local coordinator, so it is currently served by our Hawaii regional coordinator.
Area 12 was incorporated in 1979 as a 501c3 nonprofit organization and, as such, is run by a Board of Directors. Currently the Board's makeup consists of elected positions (chair, chair elect, past chair, treasurer and secretary) and non-elected/appointed positions (Communications Director, Education Director, Events Director, Historian, Membership Director, Webmaster, Vendor Liaison, Social Media Liaison, eight Regional Coordinators and a Regional Liaison). The Board meets at least twice a year (in the fall and in the spring) to approve the budget and conduct general business, as well as plan for area events in support of our membership.
In order to provide further opportunities for music education, Area 12 hosts an educational bell/chime loan program. Participation is open to members of the Guild in Area 12 who are involved in educational programs at private and public schools/universities, and instruments are loaned for a fixed period of time along with general instructions as well as access to a consultant to offer support to program leaders. For more information on the bell/chime loan program, see the Education & Scholarships section of this website.
Another way that Area 12 promotes handbell education is through several scholarships. Guild members who are first-time attendees to the biennial Area 12 conference or the National Seminar may qualify for scholarship funds, as well as new directors. For more information on the various scholarships offered by Area 12, see the Education & Scholarships section of this website.
Area 12 also supports and recognizes members in our area who go above and beyond to further handbells within Area 12 through our Honorary Service Awards.
As an Area 12 member, we want you to stay informed of what's going on. A great way to do that is to sign up to receive the Twelfth Tone e-newsletter. This monthly e-mail will alert you to upcoming events and new additions and changes to this website. To sign up for the Twelfth Tone e-newsletter, see the Twelfth Tone section of this website. We area also active on social media (Facebook – via our main page as well as various regional pages, Twitter, YouTube).
In addition to local and regional events offered throughout the year, Area 12 puts on one area-wide conference biennially. The location of this conference primarily moves around California, and is held in Nevada and Hawaii on a periodic basis. (To date, there has not been a conference held in Guam.) This conference is a great way to network with other ringers and directors, take amazing classes from some of the best teachers and clinicians in the country, and hear (and play) new and exciting music for handbells. To find out information about the next Area 12 conference, visit the Area 12 Conferences page on this website. To find out more about smaller, more local or regional events, visit the Events section of this website and click on your specific region.
The Area 12 Board hopes you find your membership in the Handbell Musicians of America helpful to you in making music with handbells. We encourage you to tell others about the benefits of becoming a member of the Guild and all the great things that are happening in Area 12.


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Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL)
The Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL) combines the richness of a liberal arts education with a solid professional training in law. The Law School offers a five-year B.A.-LLB (Hons) degree, fully recognised by the Pakistan Bar Council as a qualifying law degree. LUMS has been offering the BA/LLB since 2003; first as the Department of Law and Policy of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; and since 2012, as a one of LUMS' five Schools, housed in its own law school building, benefitting from state-of-the-art student services and facilities.


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ATLANTA — The charity arm of United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), announced Monday a new policy that will "cease all future funding to the Boy Scouts until gay Scouts and leaders are welcome within the organization."
The UPS Foundation has previously contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Boy Scouts, despite the organization's anti-gay policy.
In a statement on the Foundation's website, the company wrote:
"The UPS Foundation seeks to support organizations that are in alignment with our focus areas, guidelines, and non-discrimination policy. UPS and The UPS Foundation do not discriminate against any person or organization with regard to categories protected by applicable law, as well as other categories protected by UPS and The UPS Foundation in our own policies.
These include, but are not limited to race, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, pregnancy, age and religion."
Under the policy, the Boy Scouts of America is no longer eligible for grants from the UPS Foundation because of the BSA's ban on gay scouts and gay and lesbian scout leaders.
The UPS Foundation claimed the policy has been in development for several months, and that organizations that are unable to attest to having a policy or practices that align with the Foundation's non-discrimination policy will no longer be considered eligible for funding.
Prior to the UPS Foundation's non-discrimination language, the charity gave $167,000 to various Boy Scouts of America entities in 2010.
UPS has consistently received high marks on the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Corporate Equality Index, an annual survey that rates U.S. corporations on their non-discrimination policies and practices toward LGBT employees and consumers.
Zach Wahls, founder and spokesperson for Scouts for Equality, who last month launched a Change.org petition calling on UPS to end its donations to the Boy Scouts, called the decision "true bravery."
"UPS showed true bravery today in standing with the 80,000 Americans, including thousands of Scouts and Scout leaders, who oppose the Boy Scouts' hurtful anti-gay policy. That bravery is what Scouting is all about," said Wahls.
"Corporate America gets it better than most: policies that discriminate aren't simply wrong, they're bad for business and they're hurting the Scouting community. You would think that after all the Boy Scouts have lost as a result of this policy, they would understand that," he said.
In September, Wahls launched a similar petition calling on Intel to cease its financial support of the Boy Scouts — Wahls noted that in 2010, Intel gave nearly $700,000 to BSA despite its anti-gay policy. Within days, Intel announced it would no longer support the Boy Scouts.


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xorg-x11-drv-i810 is an Intel integrated graphics video driver for the X.Org implementation of the X Window System.
- Running a screensaver or resuming a suspended laptop with an external monitor attached may result in a blank screen or a brief flash followed by a blank screen. If this occurs with the screensaver, the prompt for your password is being obscured, the password can still be entered blindly to get back to the desktop. To work around this issue, physically disconnect the external monitor and then press the video hotkey (usually Fn-F7) to rescan the available outputs, before suspending the laptop.
The following notes apply to x86_64 Architectures:
- If your system uses an Intel 945GM graphics card, do not use the
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- On dual-GPU laptops, if one of the graphics chips is Intel-based, the Intel graphics mode cannot drive any external digital connections (including HDMI, DVI, and DisplayPort). This is a hardware limitation of the Intel GPU. If you require external digital connections, configure the system to use the discrete graphics chip (in the BIOS). (BZ#468259)


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1905 18 HP American Abell. Getting belted up to planer mill
before the crowds gather. Operated by Murray Lay and Eldon
OLD AND NEW: This is a strange sight a 1922 Sawyer Massey steam
traction engine pulling a 1997 Morris air seeder with a 2 7-foot
cultivator. But what seems to be two eras colliding is actually the
folks at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta,
Canada, seeding fall rye during the Harvest Festival in the fall of


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ICIS 2010 : International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2010
Conference Series : International Conference on Information Systems
|Link: http://icis2010.aisnet.org/index.htm
Call For Papers
We invite submissions in all areas of IS research and specifically encourage submissions related to the conference theme:
Completed Research papers are full-length papers of completed research projects. Accepted completed research papers will be presented at ICIS 2010 and published in the ICIS 2010 proceedings. See individual track descriptions for topics of interest.
Research-in-Progress papers are papers of incomplete research projects that show promise and will benefit from feedback from ICIS participants. Accepted research-in-progress papers will be presented as posters at ICIS 2010 and abstracts will be published in the ICIS 2010 proceedings. See individual track descriptions for topics of interest.
Other Submission types: Panel proposals should be submitted to the Panels track. Teaching Cases should be submitted to IS Curriculum, Education, and Teaching Cases track.
1. (Conference Theme) Gateway to the Future
2. Breakthrough Ideas
3. Economics and Value of Information Systems
4. Engaged Scholarship through Design and Action
5. Global, International, and Cultural Issues in IS
6. Human Behavior and IT
7. Human Capital and Information Systems
8. Human-Computer Interaction
9. IS Curriculum, Education, and Teaching Cases
10. IS Philosophy
11. IS Security and Privacy
12. IT Project Management and Outsourcing
13. IT Services 14. Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
15. Online Community and Group Collaborations
16. Open Source and the Open Collaboration Process
17. Organization Theory, Strategy and IS
18. Research Methods
19. Systems Development and Alternative Methodologies
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We often think of deindustrialization as a phenomenon of the 1970s and 80s, but, as the recent announcement of the closing of the Carrier factory in Indiana reminds us, plants continue to downsize and close, and industrial workers continue to lose their jobs. No doubt, the decline in manufacturing represents a major economic loss, not only for workers but also for their communities. But the loss of jobs brings more than the loss of a paycheck.
Two new plays, both by African-American women, highlight the social costs of deindustrialization. Both are set in the early twenty-first century, in factories that are downsizing, and focus on how workers respond to the threat of losing their jobs. In Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew, as four African-American Detroit auto workers talk in the breakroom in their stamping plant, they express conflicting views of work, the union, and solidarity. Similar tensions emerge in Lynn Nottage's Sweat, set in a workers' bar near a steel mill in Reading, Pennsylvania. Over the course of a year, workers lose not only their jobs but also long-time friendships and hopes for the future when the company demands concessions, locks out the workers, and brings in new workers, immigrant and Latino-American, who will work for less.
In both plays, African-American workers have made gains in the workplace, only to find themselves caught between solidarity and opportunity. Each play includes a character who has been promoted to supervisor, promotions that seem to promise not just individual upward mobility but an important next step for black workers, who had to fight for equal treatment with both their employers and their unions. The two recently-promoted characters think they will be able to fight for, not with, their rank and file friends, but both discover the limits of their power. In Sweat, Cynthia is assigned the terrible task of standing at the entrance of the mill and turning the workers away, literally locking out her friends. When Reggie, in Skeleton Crew, stands up to his boss, who wants to push the most senior of the line workers to retire just months before she earns her 30-year-pension, he discovers his own vulnerability as a black man. Reggie comes away from the argument shaken, certain that his boss has been frightened by his behavior, that he thinks "I'm that nigga."
Morisseau focuses on African-American workers, while Nottage highlights the interconnections between race, gender, and class. Sweat focuses on a close circle of workers, black and white, female and male, across two generations. Two women who started working in the mill in the 1970s became best friends in part because they helped each other deal with the challenges of being some of the first women in the plant. Yet their experiences are not identical. While both Tracey and Cynthia remember how proud they were to get the job, for Tracey, who is white, that meant following her father into the mill and continuing a several-generations-long tradition of labor in the family. In contrast, Cynthia remembers how getting a job in the mill "felt like I was invited into an exclusive club. Not many of us folks worked there. Not us." Both of their sons also work in the mill, but Cynthia's son, Chris, wants to get a college degree and become a teacher, to continue his family's path toward the middle class, while his friend Jason sees steelwork as a good and reliable job.
Their friendships and lives are disrupted, first by Cynthia's promotion and then by the lockout, and loyalties built around gender and class fracture along racial lines. Tracey tells anyone who will listen that Cynthia was promoted because she is a minority, and she eggs Jason on when he starts a fight with Oscar, the Columbian-American busboy at the bar, who has crossed the picket line in pursuit of his own better life. While Sweat shows how the loss of work undermines solidarity, the play also reminds us that, in the end, no one is likely to win. By the time the play is done, the mill has closed, and everyone is struggling to get by, but now without the social network that had once been so important.
These plays are striking for several reasons. Both playwrights use plant closings as a means of exploring inequality and the continuing struggles of the working class, and each was inspired by the writer's personal interactions but also her political commitments. Morisseau told the New York Times about meeting a woman in Detroit who was living in her car. She was troubled to realize that "This is the Motor City. This is where people make cars. Now it's become a city where people are living in their cars." The program for Sweat describes how Nottage was inspired to write the play, in part, because of an email she received from a friend who was struggling financially. That message made her realize that "probably most of us are living two or three doors away from someone who is either in poverty or on the verge of poverty, and that's the nature of the culture we're living in right now."
Both plays reflect the writers' engagement with individuals and communities that had experienced the economic and social losses of deindustrialization. Nottage set her play in Reading because the U.S. Census identified it as the poorest city in the country. She spent two years interviewing locals, including the locked out workers at a steel mill, and collecting images and stories. For Morisseau, Skeleton Crew completes a three-play sequence focused on black lives in Detroit. In the program notes for the play, she writes that the talked with experts and United Auto Worker activists, as well as friends and acquaintances, about their experiences with the industry's decline. She describes the play as being "about the people behind the unions," and she acknowledges that "there is more to the auto world than I could ever capture," but she wants to "salute the story behind the play," too. By engaging directly and thoughtfully with working-class communities, these playwrights honor the experiences and voices of working-class people.
Finally, these plays fill some problematic gaps in contemporary writing about the long-term effects of deindustrialization. So many of the Rust Belt novels, stories, poems, and films produced in the last two decades focus on how deindustrialization affected white working-class men, and while there may be good reasons for that (especially the different histories of white and black industrial workers), we need to understand both the ways that deindustrialization has harmed African-American working-class people and how it influences the way race, gender, and class work together and against each other. Skeleton Crew and Sweat provide both, and they do so in ways that reflect the political engagement and attention to the lived experiences that are central to working-class literature.
Sherry Linkon


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Here are some of the benefits of cloud accounting:
• One of the main advantages of cloud accounting is that it is location independent; where the server serves a variety of levels (shared server) provides software, data, and resources or other services on demand.
• Cloud Accounting allows you to enable business partners and other companies to gain access and help with job tasks that need to be done. Moreover, most cloud-application has inbuilt features for backing up data automatically, eliminating the risk of data loss. You can find cloud accounting services at https://www.mmtaxaccounting.com.au/cloud-accounting/.
Many users on the cloud often alleviate security concerns; therefore you must ensure that the cloud-accounting tool is verified by a third party, the most common is Trustee and VeriSign.
• Small businesses often face an unlimited amount of data that needs to be tracked and automated systems that are efficient in cloud accounting. Automation also benefits where the manual entry of all purchases and transactions would typically include costly human errors and duplication of work eliminated.
• A good accounting solution will also allow you to automatically create and register earnings into invoices and accounting cloud features. Cloud-based accounting solution are here for a very long time despite security concerns.


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What are we going to watch?
Every Friday night it's the same question.
This past Friday we chose Evan Almighty, the hilarious comedy where Steve Carrol becomes Noah and builds and ark.
As I was sipping my wine, half paying attention, half thinking about my to-do's (still working on my squirrel brain being fully present 100% of the time.)
This part of the movie shook me.
When Evan's wife, Joan, is emotionally eating in the diner,
She took the kids to her moms because Evan made a fool of himself as Noah on TV and got suspended as a congressman.
God: [posing as a waiter named Al Mighty] I love that story, Noah and the Ark. You know, a lot of people miss the point of that story. They think it's about God's wrath and anger. They love it when God gets angry.
Joan: What is the story about, then? The ark?
God: Well, I think it's a love story about believing in each other. You know, the animals showed up in pairs. They stood by each other, side by side, just like Noah and his family. Everybody entered the ark side by side.
Joan: But my husband says God told him to do it. What do you do with that?
God: Sounds like an opportunity. Let me ask you something. If one prays for patience, do you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If they pray for courage, does God give them courage, or does he give them opportunities to be courageous? If one prayed for their family to be closer, you think God zaps them with warm, fuzzy feelings? Or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
Well, I got to run. A lot of people to serve. Enjoy. (Waves his arm and as he leaves Joan looks in shock to see her plate refilled without God having to leave and fill it).
What if we thought differently about the challenges in our life?
The team that's not preforming, the launches that don't go plan, the technology glitches, the bad online review.
We're so quick to call it a failure, but what if failure has a function?
What if failure grows character and teaches us a lesson?
I've never heard of a successful entrepreneur who wasn't told NO, or that they idea was stupid, or didn't make a fool of themselves,
When they were pursuing exactly the kind of impact and income they want to make in the world.
What if failure really is the success?
What if failure really is the path and we're not off course?
My mentor, Bo Eason, says the old way your dream won't come true (if you do the work and run the miles) is if you quit.
So don't quit.
We're launching our 1 year group coaching program in October that establishes your brand online, creates your first courses and products, and gets you into launch land and income online.
It's for the full time worker who needs to take a slower pace, but still needs to make money. We coach you every step of the way! Learn more about it HERE!


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There are many families which consider relocation. They basically need a new home where they need a fresh start with a family. Situations like these have been applied also for a single person. Moving can be a struggle most especially when there are a lot of things to manage. You can also look for the best moving firms in Toronto to get the best moving services.
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People have found that moving out was not an easy thing. The home belongings and personal possessions and stuff should need to be organized properly. Hence, even the parents their selves could not handle it any longer.
This is where they need the assistance of professionals. These professionals are known as movers. They are currently employed under the moving companies. These people are skilled to do such organizing and managing things very effectively. Many people have relied upon them especially the clients, homeowners, and renters.
This kind of companies has been in the industry as of now. They too have been dealing with different clients. They provide services both for commercial and residential purposes. They never tend to focus only at the houses and apartments but also to workplaces and offices. The clients have been different from time to time.


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The Arctic Redpoll is a casual winter visitor in the UK, Isle of Man, and Ireland with around 16 records per year. It is most likely to occur in weedy fields and at feeders. The conservation status for this species is "not assessed" in the UK because it only occurs as a casual or rare migrant, and is not globally threatened.
Arctic Redpolll: Small finch, buff-gray, brown-streaked upperparts and brown-streaked white underparts washed pink. Head has red cap, black chin patch. Black wings with two white bars. Rump is pale gray or white with few or no streaks. Black tail is notched. Brown-black legs and feet.
Arctic Redpoll: Breeds in tundra birch forests across northern Canada, Greenland, and Eurasia. Some birds migrate short distances south for the winter. Rare winter visitor to UK and Ireland, with the majority of sightings along the eastern English coast. Found in forest clearings, open fields, and near bodies of water.
"che, che, che", "tsooee", "zzzzzz-chee-chee-chee-chee", "tweet"
Finches (Fringillidae)
Also known as perching birds, the order PASSERIFORMES (pronounced pas-ser-i-FOR-meez) is composed of one hundred and eighteen families of birds, among which are the insectivorous warblers and the seed-eating finches.
The Fringillidae (pronounced frin-JIHL-lih-dee) is a widespread bird family found on most continents and includes two hundred and seven species of finches in thirty-nine genera (IOC World Bird List, version 2.3).
Thirty-four species of finches in thirteen genera have occurred in Europe. These include familiar feeder visitors such as goldfinches and siskins, the crossbills, and the massive-billed Hawfinch.
Finches are known for their seed-eating behaviour and cheery songs; characteristics that facilitated and popularized the domestication of the Island Canary. Finches such as White-winged Crossbills are also known for their "irruptive" migrations in search of food sources that can make them locally common one winter and absent the next.
Finches are primarily small birds with stout, short bills adapted to cracking open seeds and have short legs for a mostly arboreal lifestyle. Many species also have slightly forked tails and long wings useful for the large amount of flying needed to find seeding plants.
European finches are generally plumaged in shades of red, yellow, brown, grey, and dull green. Male finches are more brightly coloured than females; the pinkish-red, grey, black, and white plumage of male Bullfinches being especially striking.
Finches in Europe occupy forest and non-forest habitats, coniferous forests being favoured by some species. The non-forest niche is filled by a variety of species including goldfinches, the Linnet, Twite, and the Trumpeter Finch.
Most finches are adapted to cold weather and only migrate when seed crops on their breeding grounds become scarce. An exception to this is the Common Rosefinch which migrates from north-eastern Europe to India for the winter.
Members of the finch family are very social birds typically found in flocks outside of the breeding season. Most finches forage for seeds in trees and bushes although a few species take some insects and forage on the ground.
While finches in Europe are doing quite well, most members of this family native to the Hawaiian Islands are highly endangered with many having already gone extinct and others in decline because of their high susceptibility to introduced diseases such as avian malaria and changes to the native forests they inhabit.
The aptly named crossbills have curious curved bills with crossed tips. Although it looks more like a bill deformity than a useful tool, this specialized bill shape is perfect for extracting seeds from pine cones.
Michael Oberhofer
Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.
The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters
of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus)
and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..
Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante
(2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42
(Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported
by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990 s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and
expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA).
To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html.
You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use
the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.


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Too Much
Baby Blue Sound Crew
Too much for money
Too much for cars
Too much for hoes
Too much for clothes
Too much for bar
Too much for clubs
Too much for thugs
Too much for drugs
Too much for much
Too much for love
Too much for haters
Too much for players
Too much for gators
Too much for paper
Too much for favors
Too much for saws
Too much for laws
Too much for raws
Too much for brawls
Too much for y'all
[Verse 1: Kwajo]
Breakdown niggas, run through niggas
Stay comin' through with my 7 Bills niggas
Make mad figures, my thugs pull triggers
Leave 'em with the cash and the stash, quick niggas
All day everyday
We do or die, serious
Pass up in the cut, these haters keep get in touch
Zig-Zag to Dutch, livin' it up
G.C., 7 Bills what?
Sharpen the cut
[Verse 2: Dolo]
My nigga pump all night
Do the goonin' all night
Bag a trick that blow dick
And twist that bitch all night
Got my ring, chain-swings
We got the drop word-life
Hamela, Hannibal cop
Put that in your pipe
The tough diaras mazara rap don't concern me
We cut your Beef Jerkey, Cold Turkey
Presedential, Oyster Iceberg jersey
Whatchu got ain't worthy
Four 50's, need a shift
Swallow your derby nigga
[Verse 3: Kwajo]
Yo the 7 Too Much were just too dangerous
We Off-The-Hook, we balterbus, all murderous
Outta the blue, get swept like Typhoon
Top 'coons, killin' these fools with brand new tunes
Ladies shake the middle (What?)
Fellas throw your guns up
Strictly thumbs up, when we come you get duffed up
Cuffed up, roughed up, 7 Bills, nigga what?
9-9, tucci, we erupt, just too much
[Verse 4: Dolo]
To all my Porto Rocks and Ice Cubans who lick shots
My Dominicans, makin' them ends and don't stop
To my stone-cold niggas who controllin' the blocks
And all my stone-cold bitches never blowin' up spots
I put it down for y'all
Let off a rhyme for y'all
Knowin', too much for much, but I'ma pound for y'all
Never see me at the Bar, got that Crown Royal
How that sound?
Mow y'all, everybody get ball, c'mon


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If you only come here for {Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real} please, please check out some of our other posts! I promise I don't just write about playing in the snow all the time!!! That being said, our little family does love snow, especially now that we don't have to deal with as much of it where we live :-)
Last Saturday night we had a surprise snow storm (we were only supposed to get a light dusting but we got much more!). After a napless Sunday afternoon (that probably had a lot to do with a large slice of cake a certain little girl ate at the post-Baptism party of our good friends' baby...we do love us a good Sacramental celebration 'round here!) we all bundled up and headed out...
Snow...glorious snow! This was a lovely sight to wake up to on Sunday morning.
She finally got her snowman...but he's still awfully tiny. She was mainly concerned that he have a carrot nose, though, so she was satisfied! Oh, and the picture on the right? Standing in front of her first snow angel :-)
Early on in our marriage, back when we were both starting out grad school, we quickly realized we needed to carve out family time lest we risk being swallowed whole by homework! Sundays have remained our family days, and the Abbot happily takes off work for the whole day. We're so grateful for the time we get together on Sundays!
"Pull? Out?" Sister Stinky is turning into a drama queen. Even when she's not stuck in the snow, or hurt, or anything, she has fun pretending and "fake crying." Surprisingly, this is more funny than annoying. I mean, it's not like she has a mother
who was notorious for being overly dramatic as a child or anything. Of course not!
In other fun news, I can feel occasional kicks but i can also feel my baby "lump".
Not sure if every woman feels this interesting sensation but I remember feeling
it with Sister Stinky, too..the feeling of a little hard lump of baby that shifts position
throughout the day and night. We have an active one, folks!


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Special Fall Packages at the Omni La Costa Resort
Living in Carlsbad and driving by the Omni La Costa Resort nearly every day of the week is pretty much its own form of torture because it takes everything in my power not to put my signal on, pull up into that valet parking circle, and say, "Yes, I'm here to check in." Small things like budgets and bills hinder my ability to do that on a daily basis, however, I just found out that they are having a Fall SALE on their "Experience Package." A package deal that usually starts at $299.00 is now starting at $199.00, and you know, anything with the word SALE attached to it might as well say "sold" in my book.
The Experience Package includes $330 in Resort credits (plus room fee), which gets you:
- Accommodations
- Daily Breakfast for Two
- $45 Daily Spa Treatment Savings Pass (per adult)
- $90 Daily Golf Savings Pass (per adult)
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And did I mention that kids stay free with adults and get to do a boat load of activities like s'more roasting, haunted/holiday hayrides, family scavenger hunts, and much more? All of that in addition to their ridiculously awesome and kid-friendly pool, complete with slides and sand bar.
I'm pretty sure a staycation is in my future. Just haven't told my husband yet.
Oh, AND I found out that they began a new line of spa treatments that involve honey by which I am quite intrigued. I'll be trying one out soon and will keep you posted.
The Fall Sale is going on now through September 17th, 2013. Check out the Omni La Costa Resort website for more deets on the sale and to book your vacay or staycay today!
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12 March 2005
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8th seed and Tournament Host, Illinois State University Redbirds, played spoiler and best the #1, #2 & #4 ranked teams to win the Missouri Valley Confernce Hoops in the Heartland Tournament. In the final game today, the Redbirds bested the #2 seeded Indiana State University Sycamores by 2 points with a .8 second to go buzzer beater jump shot from the middle of the lane. The Redbirds get an automatic birth to the NCAA Tournament. The Redbirds last played in the NCAA Tournament in 1989. Hoops in the Heartland was held at Redbird Arena, Illinois State University, Normal IL
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People Who Usually Don't Go To Davos Won't Be There This Year
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a preliminary roster of no-shows and their excuses for sending their regrets, generally some form of "it's a ridiculous display of ostentation and an enormous waste of time."
The billionaire Warren E. Buffett has never attended. Neither has Timothy D. Cook, chief executive of Apple, the world's largest company by market value. (His predecessor, Steve Jobs, never went, either.) The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, stopped going a couple of years ago, as did Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chairman. Both companies do send other executives, though.
The leaders of General Electric and IBM, Jeffrey R. Immelt and Virginia M. Rometty, are not attendees either. "I don't go to Davos and places like that," Mr. Immelt once said dismissively….
In the avoider camp is Mohamed A. El-Erian, the chief of Pimco, one of the largest bond investors in the world, and someone who given his background would seem like the perfect Davos man — an Egyptian-raised, Oxford-educated global investor. He has rejected repeated invitations to Davos, skeptical of the value of speed-dating with so many clients in the Alps.
"For me, it has been and remains an issue of efficient time management," he told me in an email. "Our general preference is for more focused and less rushed meetings." Mr. El-Erian is so anti-Davos he once wrote an article for a magazine distributed at the forum called "Why I Won't Go to Davos…."
Others don't go simply for practical reasons. "It's inconvenient to get to. There's a lot of friction. It's cold. There are a lot of people there. The logistics of just going down the street can be very daunting," John Kao, chairman of the Institute for Large Scale Innovation and a longtime attendee, told Bloomberg News last year.
The WEF people did manage to turn one former hater, BlackRock chief Larry Fink, probably by placing him on equal footing with three major central bankers and the heads of the IMF and German finance ministry.
Mr. El-Erian's rival, Laurence D. Fink, the chairman of BlackRock, which manages more than $4 trillion, had been a skeptic, too — until this year. With such a large global business, he has become almost a head of state himself or, more precisely, as important as the head of a central bank, judging by the panel he is speaking on. Mr. Fink is the only business executive on an economic panel that includes Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank; Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England; Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan; Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister; and Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
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Last time we checked in on the Cathedral Point Condos things were pretty sleepy. However, that was a few months, and a few sawzalls back. As of yesterday the project appears to be somewhere between 'before' and 'after'. Now that we think about it, it almost seems the building has regressed and is a little bit before 'before'. The formerly pleasant foursquare now is
3/4 1/2 the building it once was. A new foundation is in, as is some plywood sheathing. We're looking forward to watching this one transform into the pagoda-esque foursquare the rendering promised.


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Because there are so many Sea Ray sportboats on the water it is little wonder that a large contingent of these owners want to move up to something a little bigger, with longer legs and more possibilities. The Sea Ray 330 was made to order for this trade-up market. She can seat 7 people in her cockpit and has two sleeping cabins below, a head and a basic galley. All of this makes weekend overnight cruising possible for a family with youngsters or two couples.


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This weekend is all about Run Disney. I am in Disneyland and ready to conquer my 8th half marathon of the year. Disneyland is so magical because you are surrounded by people who BELIEVE. Believe in what, you say? It depends, and is different for each and every person you come in contact with. What is the common denominator is that this is a place where dreams come true.
I love doing Run Disney for a couple of reasons. One reason is because there is a standard of excellence that is unprecedented when the Disney brand is attached to it. If you have ever been to one of the Disney parks you know exactly what I'm talking about. For the most part you won't ever see a piece of trash on the ground, everyone goes out of their way to help you with anything you might need, and if you are dressed as a princess then you are addressed as such. Every "t" is crossed and every "i" is dotted. From the firework start to the many Disney royalty and characters throughout the courses encouraging you and taking pictures with you, to the AMAZING medals draped around your neck as you cross the finish line, it truly is a magical experience.
The other reason is just that MAGIC. The magic that is created when you believe that your dreams are possible, that nothing is impossible if you dare to put action behind them. Run Disney welcomes and offers free online training and nutritional guidance for anyone who dreams of running through the finish line. When you look around at the start line you see every shape, size, color, and princess there is from Ariel, Snow White, Cinderella, to Mulan and everyone in between. You know that the thousands of women, and a few men, stand there waiting and believing that they can do the challenge ahead of them just as strongly as they have always believed in the characters of their childhoods and what they represent. Walt Disney said it best "If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it." In this case one step at a time.
This week on Live Big With Ali Vincent, airing Saturdays at 5:30 p/4:30 c, I'm experiencing a different type of childhood dream and aerial experience. Tune in and check out exactly what I mean!
Until next week,
Ali xo
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Men's Civic Club
The Men's Civic Club meets at the Factoryville Borough Fire Hall on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM. New members are always welcome!
Meetings do not take place June, July, or August.
The Civic Club seeks to improve the community through various service projects including repainting the Vanko Bridge at the Christy Mathewson Park, helping with Christmas decorations throughout the Borough, assisting with park clean-up days, and other opportunities that come up.
There are three specific events each year that are very popular within the community:
- The Easter egg hunt at the Christy Mathewson Park which will be held on April 11th this year.
- A Golf Tournament fund raiser which typically occurs the first week of June.
- A great fireworks display on Christy Mathewson Day located at the Creekside Park starting at dusk.
The Men's Civic Club also recognizes community members who go above and beyond to improve our hometown.
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It's the heart of summer, your friends are off catching tans in the tropics, and yet you're stuck in a cold, dark office devoid of sunlight.
Human beings are not adapted for such an injurious lighting dynamic. According to the U.S. Green Building Council, daylight is simply a higher-quality, healthier light than that from artificial sources.
Sundolier, a company based in Boulder, Colo., is capitalizing on the advantages of daylighting. The company has engineered a device, called the "sun harvester," which collects and concentrates sunlight on the roofs of buildings, and then channels and distributes it inside. Through this process, Sundolier generates the equivalent of about 40 fluorescent light tubes: enough to illuminate 1,500 square feet of windowless space.
Those high-quality photons ain't cheap. The price of a Sundolier system ranges from $20,000 to $40,000, depending on the amount of space needed to light. Nevertheless, one Sundolier client states that the technology provides energy savings within three years. Furthermore, studies have linked daylight to increased productivity and decreased absenteeism, two sure ways to improve a company's bottom line, according to the U.S. Green Building Council.
For those in modern work settings, who feel isolated from the sun's soothing rays, Sundolier offers hope. The first society of mole people will have to wait.


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Fear of Riots As Tonnes of Food Lie Awaiting Distribution
Lara Marlowe, Irish Times (Dublin), January 25, 2010
There are heartbreaking scenes amid the picnic tables and golf tees of a former haven for elites
US ARMY specialist Juan Valencia stood on the hillside above the Haitian capital, watching the teeming camp below with binoculars. "I'm just making sure they don't have any weapons. They're allowed to have weapons, but not within range of our guys," said the spotter for the 82nd Airborne Division.
If one could for a moment forget the earthquake of January 12th, the 200,000 dead people and millions of Haitians in distress, the Pétionville golf club would be a beautiful place, with immaculate landscaping and vistas over the Caribbean. In the wake of the catastrophe, an estimated 60,000 Haitians rushed to its slopes, where they languish in tents fashioned from tree branches, bedsheets and rope.
Some 300 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division occupy the heights above the displaced Haitians, bivouacked in the clubhouse and tennis courts. The American actor Sean Penn, who with a former Bosnian refugee-turned-millionairess founded an instant NGO, is camping on one of the tennis courts. There are army lorries, Humvees painted desert tan from Iraq, and tonnes of food and water, waiting for distribution.
But crowd control remains an almost insurmountable problem. Word has gone out that the impoverished masses at the Pétionville Club will receive food and water, and the camp grows daily, with some aid workers saying it now numbers 100,000. Oxfam has done a heroic job of installing giant water bladders with taps, but this is insufficient.
The US Catholic Relief Service (CRS) was able to distribute 1,300 food kits late last week, but full-scale distribution has repeatedly been delayed for fear of food riots, while CRS divides the camp into A, B, C and D blocks and distributes a voucher to the mother of each family, in the hope of organising an orderly distribution. If all goes well, CRS will begin its distribution today. "If it takes an extra day to do it right, it's worth it," says Donal Reilly, the Dubliner in charge of food distribution for CRS.
The camp, one of the largest of some 500 in Port-au-Prince, is becoming infamous as a place where the displaced can find water and a modicum of security, provided by the US military, but no food. It's not entirely true; the 82nd Airborne gave away 10,000 meals each day until Saturday, making this camp the US military's largest distribution point in Port-au-Prince. But the Americans decided the food attracted too many people to a volatile site, and temporarily stopped it.
"The crowd has calmed down," Lt Brad Kerfoot said as he surveyed the tent city below us. Fights broke out the previous day when CRS tried to distribute vouchers–not even food, just vouchers. "We told them we wouldn't give any food away today, because of the way they behaved yesterday," says Kerfoot.
The military and CRS officials say there are no signs of starvation in the camp. Some of its inhabitants have enough money to buy food in the local market. And the soldiers say they see ration boxes hoarded in what they call "the village".
"Yesterday, they threw water bottles back at us and said, 'We don't want your water'," Lt Kerfoot says. "When we gave out high energy biscuits, they threw them on the ground and stomped on them when they saw they were cookies. My soldiers and I think they're ungrateful."
The displaced Haitians want food, not water, a Haitian woman explained to me. And in their culture, biscuits are not real food, but something given to children.
During the day, Lt Kerfoot positions two riflemen armed with M4s above the camp. After nightfall, there's an entire squadron. "There's people in the camp with guns," explains Donal Reilly of CRS. "There've been knife fights. The Americans told me last night the Haitians were selling drugs. It's turning into a typical Port-au-Prince slum, and there's not one policeman down there."
Nor is there a single toilet or shower, for 60,000 people. Piles of rubbish smoulder between the tents. Women fry fritters and fish on charcoal stoves beside their shelters. Reilly worries about sanitation and the fire hazard. There are no fire breaks, and the bedsheet tents are highly flammable.
Amid the picnic tables and golf tees in this refuge of Haiti's pre-quake elite, there are heart-breaking scenes. In dozens of tents, people told me they were hungry, thirsty and had nowhere to go. Several said they expected to die in the Pétionville Club.
But even in the worst deprivation, Haitians have maintained a sense of humour. One bedsheet tent bore a cardboard sign declaring it to be "Tikay O Beach".
Louissant Banningchton (26), a painter who wears his dreadlocks in a knitted snood, constructed a "Presidential Palace" of cardboard boxes stamped "Humanitarian daily rations. Food gift from the people of the United States of America". "Thank you Jesus," "Haiti 4 America" and "God Bless America" are slogans Banningchton painted on the "palace" before declaring himself president.
A few miles away, at Turgeau, the Irish aid group Goal was carrying out its second distribution of basic food supplies. By last night Goal was to have given a 15-day food supply to 9,000 peoples. Goal's emergency co-ordinator, Brian Casey, had carefully assessed the neighbourhood's needs, and co-ordinated the distribution with local leaders. The hand-out nonetheless started tensely, with Haitians from other neighbourhoods clamouring for food being held back by Sri Lankan UN troops.
For John O'Shea, the head of Goal who visited Port-au-Prince at the weekend, the Haitian relief effort is still too little, too slowly. "Up to 1.5 million people need all of their basic requirements seen to," O'Shea said. "There isn't an entity on the planet that can satisfy the needs of 1.5 million people. We don't have it because the international community hasn't established an international fire brigade."
O'Shea believes Ireland is the nation best qualified to established such an organisation.
In the meantime, he wants President Barack Obama, who has sent $100 million in aid and 12,000 military personnel, to be given overall authority–not the UN. "The one phrase I heard most here was: 'Who in God's name is in charge?' " says O'Shea.


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*Pharrell Williams is throwing his big hat into the fragrance game.
The Grammy winning producer has teamed with luxury fashion brand Comme Des Garçons to create a new fragrance "GIRL," named after his new album, and – despite the title – is being designed to be worn by both men and women.
The "Happy" singer has been working in collaboration with fashion designer Rei Kawakubo's Comme des Garçons Parfums and has had a hand in each stage of the creative process.
"I am so honored to be working with Comme des Garçons and cherish the education that I've experienced in this collaboration," said the 40 year-old artist.
Comme des Garçons CEO Adrian Joffe told Vogue Australia that Pharrell "knew exactly what he wanted the perfume to smell like right from the beginning.
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In the vast world of Bloggers, today, that George guy has got to be the very last one out of the gate! But, George has mitigating reasons. Good ones, too! Not just excuses, as you might expect.
1. Our checking account got screwed up. Overdrawn?! Impossible! Not the way George watches that account. Like an eagle, that George watches his checking account! But the checking account got overdrawn! Cash was not transferred from savings to checking in the right amount! Customer service could not address the problem because of a downed computer. After waiting for more than 20-minutes on hold, George decided to phone back later.
2. Cleaning the inside of Scampy somehow got screwed up too! Not done for several days! How could that have happened? Anyway, it's back to clean now.
3. Ordering Tevas. George's Teva Sandals needed replacement badly. Finding a nice looking pair of Tevas took quite a while. It's the color that was the hangup. Finally, after about an hour of looking all over the net, George found his [Here].
4. Señor Tránsito's driver's door has taken to closing on George's leg! Can you imagine that? The Ford dealer claimed that they fixed it. But! They did not fix it! So, this morning George decided to re-engineer Ford's door closer. You should see the smile on George's face as he tries to figure the thing
out! 😋
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Tránsito's Door Fix
After working on making a wood shim for Tránsito's door closer, it was determined that the wood shim was too thick.
We are now trying a 1/16" thick steel shim. But that shim is too short. Only 2" long. We need to buy a 4" long shim. So, off to the hardware store we go!
Isn't this a good time? 😋
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8th Grade
The movie "8th Grade" got very good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. So, I went to see it!
The movie is playing at the AMC in Missoula. The first thing that struck me as I went to go thru the theater entrance was the sign on the front door!
Then when going to buy my movie ticket, I was handed a menu and informed that all of this food on the menu is ordered from my theater seat! Imagine that?
The theater seat is like nothing I have seen before in a movie theater. It's electrically controlled to adjust in several directions! My waitress/usher is a young woman who handed me a several page menu.
I decided to take a flyer on this eating in a movie thing. And, I ordered
Southwest Chicken.
So, what's it like eating Southwest Chicken in the very low light of a movie theater? Well, first of all, it isn't possible to see the food clearly enough to know the difference between a chicken chunk and a hot chili pepper!!
I forked a hot chili into my mouth and blew my brains out! I gulped my freestyle Coke to cool my burning mouth. Very soon, all my coke was gone and my mouth was still burning like crazy!
Hitting the button in order to call my waitress did not bring a prompt reply. So I went out to the theater hallway looking for a drinking fountain and found the fountain in the lobby. I gulped the water. And slowly the burning in my mouth went down. Lord!
Popcorn is fine for a movie theater. You just stick your hand in the popcorn bag, find a popcorn kernel and put it in your mouth using your hand. A fork doesn't work for me in a darkened theater!
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23 June 2018 – Macau, China: The largest global sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship™ (ONE), returned to the glamorous entertainment capital of Asia with another evening of authentic world-class martial arts action. The packed Studio City Event Center in Macau, China played host to "ONE: Pinnacle of Power" featuring the absolute best in local and international martial arts talent.
Two-division Lumpinee Stadium World Champion Petchmorrakot Wor. Sangprapai made his ONE Super Series debut at "ONE: Pinnacle of Power." He emerged triumphant against French dynamo Fabrice Fairtex Delannon in a catchweight Muay Thai encounter.
Petchmorrakot proved his stature as one of the top pound-for-pound Muay Thai practitioners in the world. He finished the task at hand with a series of elbows that opened up a cut on Delannon's forehead.
The ringside physician was coerced to halt the contest just 43 seconds into the second round and Petchmorrakot was declared the winner. Here are the official "ONE: Pinnacle of Power" results:
- Bantamweight bout: Rin Saroth defeats Mario Satya Wirawan by TKO (Strikes) at 2:30 minutes of round 3
- Flyweight bout: Danny Kingad defeats Ma Hao Bin by Unanimous Decision (UD) after 3 rounds
- Featherweight bout: Li Kai Wen defeats Rodian Menchavez by Knockout (KO) at 0:10 minutes of round 1
- ONE Super Series Muay Thai flyweight bout: Yukinori Ogasawara defeats Rui Botelho by Knockout (KO) at 2:54 minutes of round 2
- ONE Super Series Kickboxing heavyweight bout: Tarik Khbabez defeats Alain Ngalani by Knockout (KO) at 1:49 minutes of round 3
- ONE Super Series Muay Thai flyweight bout: Lerdsila Phuket Top Team defeats Sok Thy by Split Decision (SD) after 3 rounds
- Featherweight bout: Narantungalag Jadambaa defeats Edward Kelly by TKO (Strikes) at 4:58 minutes of round 2
- Lightweight bout: Ev Ting defeats Koji Ando by Unanimous Decision (UD) after 3 rounds
- ONE Super Series Muay Thai catchweight bout (67.0kg): Petchmorrakot Wor. Sangprapai defeats Fabrice Fairtex Delannon by TKO (Doctor Stoppage) at 0:43 minutes of round 2
- ONE Women's Strawweight World Championship bout: Xiong Jing Nan defeats Laura Balin by Unanimous Decision (UD) after 5 rounds
- ONE Flyweight World Championship bout: Geje Eustaquio defeats Adriano Moraes by Split Decision (SD) after 5 rounds
Here is a clip from the bout between Petchmorrakot and Delannon:
For more updates on ONE Championship, please visit www.onefc.com, follow us on Twitter and Instagram @ONEChampionship, and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ONEChampionship.


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8th Grade Bible – Abraham's Greatest Hits
8th Graders in Morah Blum's Bible class culminated their in-depth studies of the Abraham stories in Genesis with a performance of original re-workings of popular songs, re-telling key moments from the Abraham narrative. New lyrics were written and sung by the students, to "Cherry Tree," "We're All in this Together," "Forget You," "In the Jungle" and many more. The students showcased their musical and textual talents as they used these songs to teach about these Biblical episodes.