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Legendary Seattle band Pearl Jam will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Friday. And they have not only inspired others over the years musically, but in other forms of art.
When Barry Ament and Coby Schultz create art, they just want to make something that looks 'cool.' But there is a much deeper meaning when you are surrounded by their work at Ames Bros. in Seattle.
The duo has been involved with album covers and posters for Pearl Jam since the band got their start in the early 1990s.
"It's been a great relationship, it's lasted a long time, said Barry. "Longer than most."
As you'd expect. Barry, is the brother of Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament.
"Our relationship has always revolved around art, and that's still true today," he said.
The band has always been heavily involved in the process when it comes to album covers. But while Pearl Jam was on tour, it was Ames Bros. job to create posters and art that could help promote the band from city to city.
"It was our job, literally our job for us to come up with things to offer their fans," said Schultz. "The band is very passionate about how it's going to look."
They estimate there are around 300 posters in all over the years.
Now that Pearl Jam is being inducted into the Hall of Fame, Ament and Schultz are reflecting on their career too.
"It's been fun," said Barry. "The guys have a lot to be proud of right now."

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At a recent Silver Linings Playbook screening in Los Angeles, Jennifer Lawrence talked to MTV about how well Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin are getting along while filming Catching Fire.
Jennifer also spoke to E! Online about her two co-stars:
"[Sam] and Josh are in love," Lawrence told me last night at the special screening of her new movie, Silver Linings Playbook, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. "It's the most adorable thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
"They're crazy about each other and they're inseparable," she continued. "It's incredible.
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Farewell ELECTROMACH
By: Jan Wijnen
After more than 42 years, I concluded my career at ELECTROMACH on March 31. In April this year I celebrated my 65th birthday and I officially retired.
With pleasure I look back on my career at ELECTROMACH, which started in 1967 as a Junior Sales Engineer and also as ELECTROMACH's first employee. In 1983 I joined the board of directors and 10 years later, in 1993, I promoted to General Director. In 1998 the shares of ELECTROMACH were sold to the R.STAHL AG by Hans Roerink.
Within the R. STAHL Technology Group ELECTROMACH developed and evolved over the years into a major player in the market of explosion proof systems. This only was possible due to our customers' confidence.
It is remarkable to see that customers to whom I delivered in 1967/68 for the first time, now today, after more than 42 years, are still a very important group of our customers. This says everything how ELECTROMACH is positioned in the market. I would like to thank all relations of ELECTROMACH for their confidence they have given to us over the years.
I would also like to thank all ELECTROMACH staff for their commitment and cooperation. I have often asked a high performance of the staff and sometimes perhaps too much. This was of course to benefit our customers but it was necessary to continue our growth in the market. Without their support and commitment it would not have been possible to let ELECTROMACH grow to a major producer and supplier of components and systems for hazardous areas with gas- or dust explosions.
Exactly one year ago, we relocated to our new plant. There is plenty of room to grow and logistic processes are significantly more efficient. ELECTROMACH will seize the opportunities offered by the market to realize this growth. All the ingredients are present for this. Customers who have faith in us, a highly motivated and skilled staff, an excellent facility to produce efficiently and last but not least a parent company that allows us space to grow.
I wish my two successors, Peter Boers and Robert André de la Porte, the best of success to lead ELECTROMACH into a new decade.
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mid-14c., "of the female sex," from Old French femenin (12c.) "feminine, female; with feminine qualities, effeminate," from Latin femininus "feminine" (in the grammatical sense at first), from femina "woman, female," literally "she who suckles," from root of felare "to suck, suckle" (see fecund). Sense of "woman-like, proper to or characteristic of women" is recorded from mid-15c.
The interplay of meanings now represented in female, feminine, and effeminate, and the attempt to make them clear and separate, has led to many coinages: feminitude (1878); feminile "feminine" (1640s); feminility "womanliness" (1838); femality (17c., "effeminacy;" 1754 "female nature"). Also feminality (1640s, "quality or state of being female"), from rare adjective feminal (late 14c.), from Old French feminal. And femineity "quality or state of being feminine," from Latin femineus "of a woman, pertaining to a woman."


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Sweden's grey seal was once terribly endangered, its population thinned almost to nothing in the 1970s from pollution and hunting in the Baltic Sea. But then the seal population began to bounce back in the 1980s. And today, in the coastal waters off Sweden, there is a pitched battle going on between the restored ranks of grey seals and the Swedish fishing industry. A new study reveals that the seals are eating as many fish as the fishing industry brings in each year, and that they're doing it in part by stealing from fishing boats and traps.
Marine biologist Karl Lundström, a researcher with Sweden's University of Gothenburg, recently published the results of a long-term study of the grey seals' diet. Like their human counterparts in Sweden, the seals are mostly eating herring, but they're also chomping on salmon and pretty much every other fish they can. They are, as Lundström put it, "fish-eating predators at the top of the marine ecosystem." And by "top," he means above humans. Though the Swedes have built fishing nets that are supposed to be humane and seal-proof, the seals turn out to be fairly ingenious at figuring out new ways to steal fish from them. As you can see in these videos, taken over the past several years, the seals do everything from jumping inside the nets and back out, to just ripping the crap out of them.
According to the University of Gothenburg:
Some seals have learned to hunt at the push-up trap that has been developed for the small-scale fishing of salmon and whitefish in the Baltic. The trap has a seal-safe chamber in which the caught fish are collected, supposedly safe from the seals. Despite this, damage caused by seals has not been fully eliminated. Some seals, quite simply, have managed to figure out the equipment, and overcome it. By filming seals who hunt close to the trap, the scientists could identify ten individuals who had become specialists in hunting in the trap. These seals returned to the site over a long period.
[University of Gothenburg marine ecologist Sara Königson says] "Since we now know that it is only certain seals who are responsible for the damage, we have the chance of limiting the damage in a certain region, simply by removing these individuals."
So it's humans vs. seals, and the seals are currently winning — unless the scientists and fishing industry get their way and "remove" the smartest of the seals.
For people who fear the extinction of cute seals, this is weirdly heartwarming tale of how these fierce but cute predators fight back with strength and smarts. It's also a reminder that when humans don't play dirty by murdering other animals with guns, we're not the only apex predator in the ecosystem.
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I had a chance to be awesome the other day.
I was at a playdate with Awkward Moment Mom and the the Mommy Politics Moms.
It was hosted by AMM and she had also invited one of her friends who has a slightly older girl than the rest of us; a peek into the future for the rest of us. And boy, the future looks pretty freaking adorable.
The MPMs and I were having a conversation about friends, couple friends, pre-kid friends, and post-kid friends. Our revelations? That before you have kids you make people work harder at being interesting before you let them into your "friend circle"; once you have kids, however, you have automatic ice-breakers and perhaps you make it easier for other people to enter your life.
Given the fact that I've spent more time with my mom friends in the course of one week than I did with my pre-kid friends over the course of one month, this just seems entirely true.
It's the playgroups, and wanting our oblivious little children to have BFFs when they're 6 months old, that encourages, promotes, and forces these friendships on us.
AMM's friend, with the adorable little girl, then remarked: "I think it's been hard for me to make those parent friends, because I work. I'm not 100% time, only 70% or so and I'd like to cut it down to about 60% time, but I miss out on those playgroups and playdates and opportunities to create and maintain friendships with other parents."
This comment provoked a paradigm shift for me, a parenting Copernican Revolution. I almost always view myself as the odd-parent out: the dad, the dude, the one without traumatized nipples or concussed vagina, the one who has to work hard; at fitting in, because in my mind the other moms are almost auto-friends, and I'm just tagging along.
But now, I realized, I have no monopoly on fringe-dwelling. Here was a smart, funny, charming mom who also had to work harder at these friendships. And it had nothing to do with dangly bits or lack thereof, and everything to do with opportunity.
I was stunned by my realization. And I was, like Kant, woken from my dogmatic slumber and inspired to do something. This mom had not asked for help, and perhaps didn't need any, and maybe didn't want any. But she had expressed a dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and I could do something about it, in some small way. For her. For my wife, who has to work too much. For the other working parents who feel a little excluded because of circumstance. For the other at-home parents who wished they could do more to help.
And so, on the heels of her confession, my mind raced around and I tried to think of the best, most helpful, inviting, friendly, and caring thing I could say. Because here and now, I could make a difference in this woman's life and it would cost me nothing and would probably mean a lot to her.
I couldn't think of anything to say.
No. That's not true. I could think of something, and it was entirely inappropriate and I don't even know where it came from.
"Oh. Well. That must be hard."
I wasn't going to say it. Because it was trivial. And it was precisely the kind of dismissive comment that I always fear hearing from moms when I offer some participatory remark. Like "Oh, it's nice of you to try to engage us, Dad, but really you couldn't possibly have anything interesting to add to our mom-versation. Just sit quietly and we'll let your daughter play with our kids. Because that's really all the consideration you deserve."
So there was no way I was going to say the only thing that flashed through my mind. I was never ever going to subject another person to the kind of trauma I was paranoid about enduring.
But, because I was so focused on what I wasn't going to say, I never thought of anything I was going to say.
So I sat there. Looking at her. Perhaps prompting her to say something else with a semi-encouraging look. But she had said what was on her mind, and now, four seconds later the conversation had died and needed to move on.
Sorry folks. I am not awesome. But maybe I will be, next time.


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The National Restaurant Association has you pegged. Or at least pegged into one of four categories. It turns out that people who go to restaurants have one of four worldviews, divided equally among "Adventurous, Health-Conscious, Carefree and Tradtional". And each group wants to hear a different story.
One group looks at strawberry baked alaska and wants to hear more because they've never had it before. The next person at the table would never ever consider ordering it for exactly the same reason.
Unscientific research published by the group goes as far as talking about which words work best with each group. Today's quiz: match the four words below to the group that'll go for it:
That one was easy (they were flipped, first to last).
Let's try one that's a little subtle:
Still not so hard (they were in the order of the groups). What's salient here is that the very same dish could have been described with any of these four words.


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We are standing across from Freeport Hospital during the 40 Days for Life action (Sept 27 - Nov 5). The pro-life protestors sign up to be there in one-hour chunks, from 7am-7pm daily. We are trying to be there as much as we can during those hours, too.
We are there to show SUPPORT for choice. We are NOT there to engage, argue, or debate with those who are taking part in the anti-choice action. Those aren't the things that change minds, anyway.
Please remember to be kind.
Some things we ask:
- Please try not to swear (at least within earshot of others) :)
- If you smoke, please do so away from our signs and group
- Keep hydrated
- Stay safe
There will be extra signs, so you can just come. If you want to bring your own signs, here are some tips regarding what we have found that works best for the cars zooming by are:
- PRO CHOICE is prominent on the sign
- Short and concise
- Bright
- We have found the foam board or a very thick Bristol board works great in the wind.
- Big bold letters.
- Bright and colourful is good to also differentiate our signs from the anti-choice ones.
Edited to add: Please also be aware there aren't really washroom facilities around, and the ground is quite uneven and not super accessible. There is a small shoulder on the road, but that's not super safe.
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Health-care muni bonds.
President Obama's 2010 health-care overhaul cast a pall of uncertainty over hospitals. Among the biggest fears: the hit from looming cuts to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates as the government moves to squeeze costs out of the system. For John Loffredo, co-manager of the $970 million MainStay Tax Free Bond Fund MTBAX, +0.10% that's meant a buying opportunity. As details of the law become more clear, he says lower rates are coming to seem less severe than initially feared. At the same time, hospitals stand to benefit from the law's insurance mandate by having to treat fewer people without any insurance at all. "Few patients will fall through the cracks," he says. While health-care bonds are considered riskier than those issued by, say U.S. states or big cities, consolidation in the industry is steadily improving many operators' balance sheets. Although spreads have narrowed in the past year, health-care bonds' 3.41% average yield is still about 0.17 percentage point higher than other munis.
—Ian Salisbury
Read more: Investors chase yield as central banks plot next move.
Oil, industrial stocks that pay solid dividends
Strong demand for defensive stocks—the consumer staples, cyclical and telecommunication shares that typically pay high dividends—have made these income favorites fairly pricey. Estimated price-to-earnings ratios for 2013 average 17 times for defensive sectors compared to 13.5 times with cyclicals, or sectors including energy, natural resources and financials. That makes it even more imperative for investors to be "a bit more selective," Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, said in a recent note. Stovall's picks all pay dividend yields of 3% or more and have a STARS rating of 4 or more. STARS is an S&P Capital IQ ranking system from 1 to 5, where 5 is equivalent to a "strong buy" while 4 is a "buy." While many of these favored dividend plays draw from traditional defensive sectors, including tobacco company Altria Group Inc. MO, -1.72% and food company General Mills Inc. GIS, -4.45% others fall into the cyclicals camp, including Chevron Corp. CVX, +0.23% and General Electric Co. GE, +0.49%
—Wallace Witkowski
The dollar as best of the bunch
Liquidity injections from central banks tend to drive investors to high-yielding and high-risk currencies. But the slowdown seen in the euro zone and China will lead to dollar strength, because "there's no other place to put your money," says Steven Englander, global head of G-10 strategy at Citi. "Atypically, we expect the dollar to do well because the growth disappointments will offset the liquidity impact that you've been seeing," he said. He says to take a look at the U.S. equity market's outperformance of the Chinese stock market, which is characterized by higher risk and higher growth. A normal hunt for yield would signal a willingness to go up the risk curve, and away from U.S. assets, but this typical situation doesn't hold currently because of global growth concerns.
—Saumya Vaishampayan
Juice left in junk
High-yield bonds are a favorite debt investment for Ad van Tiggelen, investment strategist at ING Investment Management. He points to a chart that shows high-yield spreads versus Treasurys are still quite high in an historic context, especially considering high-yield default rates remain low. The so-called "carry," or current yield assuming prices are static, remains attractive, he says, and "we do not expect default rates to become a problem in 2013 or 2014."
"Where we still like below-investment-grade investments in fixed income, our preference elsewhere clearly lies with equities with a reasonable dividend yield (2% to 3%) which is sustainable and can rise further. In this sense, the pharma sector is by far our preferred investment category."
—Barbara Kollmeyer
Emerging-market bonds
Emerging markets are no new entrant to the high-yield sector of the bond market, but credit quality makes them an increasingly safe investment, according to Jennifer Vail, head of fixed-income research at U.S. Bank Wealth Management. "Credit quality in emerging markets is on an incline whereas credit quality in emerged markets is on the decline," she said. One such indicator of credit quality could be the ratio of public debt to gross domestic product, according to Joyce Chang, global head of fixed-income research at J.P. Morgan. Back-of-the-napkin calculations show public-debt-to-GDP is around 35% for developing nations, and closer to 100% for developed nations, she said at a talk last month. And the returns are nothing to shrug at: the Barclays Emerging Markets Local Currency Index returned 25.12% over the last 3 years and its counterpart, the Barclays Emerging Markets Hard Currency Index, returned 31.9% in that same time-frame.
—Ben Eisen
A natural-gas rallying point
Natural-gas prices have come down significantly over the past few years, and the resulting increase in demand has been a boon to companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States, according to Skip Aylesworth, portfolio manager of the Hennessy Gas Utility Index Fund GASFX, -1.51% at Hennessy Funds. In fact, an index containing publicly traded member companies of natural-gas distribution group American Gas Association has continually outperformed the S&P 500 Index. In the first quarter of 2013, the AGA Stock index had an annualized return of 14.41% compared to the S&P's 10.61%. And with substantial natural-gas reserves available, this rally is likely to continue, said Aylesworth.
—Ben Eisen
Mortgage-backed securities
The $1 trillion residential-mortgage-backed-securities market provides relatively attractive yield in this low-interest-rate environment, according to Matt Bass, vice president for securitized management at AllianceBernstein. But since more than two-thirds of non-agency RMBS are floating rate, rising interest rates would support stronger performance.
"Mortgage-related securities have exhibited low historical correlation relative to other fixed-income and equity investments," says Bass, making them one way to diversify a portfolio. As the fundamentals of the housing market improve, the rate of default for mortgage borrowers that ultimately back the securities is going down, as the chart at left shows.
—Ben Eisen
Hidden growth trades
Drill down to find out what's driving gains in dividend payers: That growth could be coming from non-defensive plays. Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG, doesn't buy into thinking that sectors like consumer staples or utilities are rising just because investors are afraid to take risks on more growth-oriented stocks. "Defensives leading for defensive reasons is inaccurate," Greenhaus said.
Take health care, which is the leading sector year-to-date. When people think of health care, Greenhaus said, they think of big names that do well no matter what, such as big pharma and managed-care companies. But one of the major drivers in the sector currently is biotech, not a particularly defensive play. Compare the performance of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund XLV, -1.26% versus the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index Fund IBB, -1.00% The XLV has grown 22%, while IBB has advanced 31%, year to date. Consumer staples, another defensive sector, is also leading the pack, but it's not just about the attractive dividend yields, Greenhaus said. The sector is also filled with potential M&A targets like Beam Inc. US:BEAM and WhiteWave Foods Co. US:WWAV which are getting price support for non-defensive reasons.
—Wallace Witkowski
Real estate
Frances Hudson, global thematic strategist at Standard Life Investments, suggests that real-estate investments are worth a closer look.
She points to a chart showing the initial yield on a real-estate index called the Investment Property Databank, or the annualized rents (income) of the property expressed as a percentage of the value of the property. This yield has been well above benchmark British bond and stock yields for the last five years. "Real estate is in a part of the cycle where all the income is coming from the income side in terms of rental yields, which is an attractive yield compared to government bonds," she said.
Additionally, if there's inflation in the financial system, real-estate prices tend to rise with the broader economy, providing a sort of inflation protection, she said. Focus on the better properties, the so-called prime sector, and avoid segments under pressure, such as U.K. retail real estate. Hudson also says high-yield corporate bonds are attractive, as they offer higher yields than government bonds, are likely to be less indebted that governments and currently don't suffer from high default risks.
—Sara Sjolin
Paywall yield
Ken Crawford, a senior portfolio manager at St. Louis-based Argent Capital Management, highlights media company Gannett Co. GCI, -1.12% as an income-producing member of the firm's Dividend Select portfolio. The stock has a 3.7% dividend yield and a 10.5% free cash flow yield, and it trades at 10 times forward earnings. As a catalyst for the stock, Crawford notes Gannett is implementing a pay wall for its online print content.
"Argent believes if GCI's pay wall were to work and GCI were to stabilize its readership, there is considerable upside in the stock. In the meantime, shareholders are enjoying the yield GCI is delivering and the safety GCI's cash flow affords. He points to a chart that shows how the stock has done relative to the Russell 1000 RUI, -0.12% for the past year, the period Argent Capital has owned the stock. (The chart has both price points indexed to 100)
—Myra P. Saefong
Blue chips
Blue-chip companies that pay dividends are a safe bet for investors given the current investing climate, says Phil Orlando, equity market strategist at Federated Investors.
In sizing up three major asset groups, Orlando notes that cash is yielding nothing, a scenario in play for about five years. "And, on the basis of interest rates and inflation, and what the Federal Reserve has told us, that's unlikely to change anytime soon. With core inflation at 1.3%, and unemployment where it is, it's unlikely the funds rate is changing, so the practical implication is you are getting less than zero on cash, because there is some inflation out there."
With the benchmark 10-year Treasury note US:10_YEAR yielding less than 2%, and the average yield on the S&P 500 SPX, -0.12% at 2.13%, Orlando argues for yield-centric products, or dividend payers, such as the Federated Strategic Value Fund SVAAX, -0.71% which is made up of a bunch of blue-chip companies and offers a 5% gross yield.
—Kate Gibson
Blue chips
Blue-chip companies that pay dividends are a safe bet for investors given the current investing climate, says Phil Orlando, equity market strategist at Federated Investors.
In sizing up three major asset groups, Orlando notes that cash is yielding nothing, a scenario in play for about five years. "And, on the basis of interest rates and inflation, and what the Federal Reserve has told us, that's unlikely to change anytime soon. With core inflation at 1.3%, and unemployment where it is, it's unlikely the funds rate is changing, so the practical implication is you are getting less than zero on cash, because there is some inflation out there."
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and then there was light, valentine red tights, chipotle, and frozen yogurt.
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sounds like an amazing time!! LOOOOVE froyo!!!ReplyDelete
Dialog in the Dark. To be honest, I was terrified for the entire hour I was in there. The best part though was sitting at the restaurant at the end drinking a diet coke and listening to our guide tell stories. I will never ever forget that as long as I live. Sounds like you had an amazing Valentine's Day! I'm so glad you got to spend it with Ryan. :-)ReplyDelete
Dialogue in the Dark makes me think about a scene from the movie My Best Friend's Girl. They go to a restaurant where it's pitch black and you have to get through dinner using your other senses. Kind of weird!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a great V-Day lady!
You are too adorable! Sounds like a great night to me :)ReplyDelete
I have always wanted to go to Dialogue in the Dark, maybe I will one day now that I know it truly is fun!
xoxo Meghan
sounds awesome! totally different date-- which are the best kinds! i love doing new things. got yourself a great Valenitne, for sure!ReplyDelete
So sweet - sounds like a wonderful day!ReplyDelete
cool day. :) Where do you live in SC...there are Chipotles in Greenville, Spartanburg, and Columbia.:)ReplyDelete
What a unique Valentine's date. I'm so glad you were able to spend it with your guy. I'm sure that was a gift itself :)ReplyDelete
By the way I love your book of notes so lovely.
Fun! Red tights are awesome. :)ReplyDelete
Happy Valentines Day!
love that you went to chiptole!! best place ever :)ReplyDelete
This looks like such a fantastic way to spend Valentines Day! I love the red tights with the black lace. Dialogue sounds really interesting!!!ReplyDelete
How neat that he took you to Dialogue in the Dark! I have thought that would be very interesting to do. Love H&M- we dont have one where we live either so it's always a treat to find one :)ReplyDelete
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could you & Ryan BE any cuter?!ReplyDelete
i think not.
happy late vday. <3
MMM Chipotle! Of course I just moved to a down where they dont even know what Chipotle is. Coming from Orlando where there is one on every corner I am dyinggggg.ReplyDelete
Seriously so happy you guys are together this week. What an awesome thing. When is your wedding??!!ReplyDelete
so glad you got your man back!ReplyDelete
you are a strong lady to go without him when you need to, and a special lady to consider phone book reading fun!
but seriously, God blessed you on this day. and i'm so glad. love is such a remarkable thing!!
Whoa, Dialogue in the Dark sounds amazing. At first I thought it was one of those dinner in the dark places. Have you ever heard of that? The waiters and waitresses are blind and the room is in complete darkness. It's supposed to help heighten your senses to enjoy the smell and taste of food more. I think it sounds freaking awesome, ha! I would love to go some time. And I would love to go to Dialogue in the Dark! Sounds so interesting!ReplyDelete
I've never had Chipotle! It's weird how there are SO MANY places that Canada just doesn't have! Haha. WHY?! At least we're finally getting Target in 2013!! hehe. :) And our frozen yogurt places are different! You get vanilla yogurt & pick a couple of toppings, then they blend it together!
Glad you & Ryan had such a great time together!! :)
we had chipotle for date nite last week. they are all over our town, fortunately.ReplyDelete
very unfortunate for my thighs and waistline.
happy valentine's.
glad your's was one to remember! awwww...
What on earth is dialogue in the dark? I'm going to have to look this up.ReplyDelete
Aw! looks like you had one great V-day girl! :D I lOVE Chipotle!! and I agree.I'll take it over a fancy restaurant anyday also :DReplyDelete
Ah sweet friend! You Valentine's Day sounds like so much fun! Love your tights. Obvi.ReplyDelete
SO lovey! and i love that you were in atlantic station. that h&M is like shopping on steroids right?! i mean three stories of fashionable inexpensive clothing! awesome.ReplyDelete
love your tights girl with that lace skirt....let me know next time you plan on wearing it out in bft.....i have about 30 magazine i need to get rid of that you will probably need. AMAZING!!!
That dialog in the dark sounds intense and rather scary--think I would be terrified that someone would jump out at me and scare me to death--I am quite a jumpy person.ReplyDelete
aw. this is super sweet and i love that he got you a gift that catered to your like :) It's always the best when men get it right haha.ReplyDelete
this is very happy :) glad you got to spend Valentines with you man! Mine was in another state than me : /ReplyDelete
my man went out and got sushi for a picnic on the floor, and surprised me with breaking dawn! i think any guy that chooses to watch it with us must be a keeper :) glad your day was awesome! and i, too, love h&m :)ReplyDelete
Dialog in the dark sounds like a great experience. I am a teacher for the blind and vision impaired, so I like hearing that people want to experience what some of my students experience. I hope you learned from the time you spent there and enjoyed the rest of your Valentines Day :]ReplyDelete
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Haha! I was just telling Eric that I had a serious hankering for Panda Express (there's one up the street from our house, and I've never been to it in the 8 months we've live here!) I think I better hop on that train next Friday :) Nothing better than a cheat day (with noodles)!ReplyDelete
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The dark experience sounds soo cool! I want to make a special trip to Atlanta just to do it! haha. Oh and eat Chipotle of course! :)ReplyDelete
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Jeld-Wen, which has 260 employees at North Carolina plants in Davidson and Marion, made it official Thursday after months of speculation about the company�s interest in Charlotte.
The Portland, Ore. Business Journal reported in September that Jeld-Wen planned to keep its global headquarters in Klamath Falls, Ore.
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The active galaxy Hercules A was given that name because it is the brightest radio source in the constellation of Hercules. Astronomers found that the double-peaked radio emission corresponded to a giant elliptical galaxy cataloged as 3C 348. Unusually, this behemoth galaxy is not found within a large cluster of hundreds of galaxies, but rather within a comparatively small group of dozens of galaxies. The 'active' part of the galaxy is the supermassive black hole in its core, which spews out strong jets of energetic particles that produce enormous lobes of radio emission. Some astronomers suspect that Hercules A may be the result of two galaxies merging together.
This video envisions a three-dimensional look at the combined visible light (Hubble Space Telescope) and radio emission (Very Large Array) from Hercules A. The size of these radio lobes dwarfs the large galaxy and extends throughout the volume of the galaxy group. This visualization is intended only to be a scientifically reasonable illustration of the three-dimensional structures. In particular, the galaxy distances within the group are based on a statistical model, and not measured values.
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In 1908 Lois Link left her home in Thomasville, Tennessee, to accept a teaching position at the Holland School in rural northwest Georgia. She only taught there one year, but Holland would become her home and the center of her family.
Her daughter, Mary, wrote an article for The Chattooga County Historical Society Quarterly (September 20, 1993) describing the Holland School:
One of the county's oldest schools was built in the Holland-Chattoogaville community just south of New Hope South Baptist Church in the early 1890s. The names of some of the teachers who worked in this first Holland school were: Miss Hugh Lee Knox, Miss Mary Hemphill, Miss Sarah Meroney, Miss Lula Worsham, Miss Daisy Davidson and Miss Maude Sewell.
On August 10, 1896, Mr. John Pinkney (Pink) Holland, father of Mary, Bertha, Housch and Foster Holland, gave the land for the second Holland school. It was a one room school located southeast of the third and last school built in Holland.
Mr. Pink Holland put an ad in a Methodist magazine for a teacher. Lois Link of Cheatham County, Tennessee, near Nashville answered his ad and was hired to teach in 1908. She was 21 years old. Mr. Pink Holland paid her salary for teaching that year. Miss Link later married Mr. A. M. Barker and taught in Holland following his death.
The attached photo shows the second Holland School during the 1908-09 session with Miss Link in the center of the back row of students.


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Well, I never got around to updating this post with everything else last week as I still wasn't feeling well. Still not 100% back to normal, but no fever finally. But definitely feeling better than last week. One thing I found while making this bread, pecan halves don't distribute that well in dough, just like sliced almonds. So I've changed it to chopped pecans in the recipe. Of course, almonds would also be a good substitute in this recipe, as they go pretty well with cherries too. You can use any kind of cherry you want, different kinds will give a different overall feel to it (sweeter or richer). With the cherries being somewhat large pieces, this one tends more towards the Satsuma bread than the Pear bread. You get less frequent, but stronger hits of the fruit.
Cherry Pecan Bread9 02 2010
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Chocolate Hazelnut Swirl Bread27 01 2010
While mulling on the idea of cinnamon swirl bread my mind drifted, as it tends to do, to chocolate and hazelnuts. I ate a square of gianduja, and kept mulling when it came to me, swirl bread with chocolate and hazelnuts! (Really, I'll add them to pretty much anything I can…) So… chocolate and hazelnuts as the filling for the swirl, but I also made 2 doughs (one with some hazelnut flour and one with cocoa powder) and folded them into each other to try and get a marbling of the dough itself! That didn't turn out as visible on the inside as I would've hoped, but it gave the outside of the loaf an interesting appearance.
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Multigrain Pain au Levain20 01 2010
Funny story with this loaf… It was intended to be a loaf made of almost completely spelt flour. This was a great intention, until I went to the flour freezer and noticed the bag was mostly empty. Well, that wasn't going to work. So I switched tracks and decided to throw in a whole bunch of flour types! I didn't have much direction in exactly how much of any flour I added, I just went by feel … and how much was left in the bag! So even though it was a rather random assortment of flours, it turned out really yummy. Some sweetness, and a lot of nuttiness in the flavor profile.
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Almond and Satsuma Bread6 01 2010
In my continuing quest to stick any fruit I can into a loaf of bread, I wanted to try adding some type of citrus to a loaf of bread. Pears, strawberries, and bananas worked, so why not right? I figured that if I left individual sections whole and was very gentle when handling the dough, they wouldn't add too much excess moisture. That meant I needed to use a rather small citrus, and since I happened to have satsumas around they got the nod. I made from zest from them to put in the dough too, and used an orange olive oil so the bread itself would also carry a bit of the citrus flavor. Almonds seem to pair the best with citrus to me, so I used some slices almonds in the loaves. In the future I don't think I'll use sliced almonds, they don't distribute quite as evenly in the dough, live and learn!
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Sandwich on Pear and Walnut Bread6 01 2010
I used some of my pear and walnut bread to make a really tasty sandwich the other night. Some toasted slices of the bread with roasted turkey breast, Beecher's Flagship cheese, and caramelized pears. (recipe here)
Really yummy combination! And then I followed it up with some caramelized pears by themselves as dessert…
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Pane alla Gianduja (Chocolate and Hazelnut Bread)30 12 2009
Although it may not have been readily apparent from this website, I am a chocolate fiend. If it is made from or with chocolate there is a good chance you can get me to try it. I like making chocolates truffles, filled chocolates, and chocolate desserts. I really prefer the term chocovore, to chocoholic… It isn't that I'm addicted, it is more just that is what I was born to eat! Now, in addition to chocolate, I love hazelnuts. Coming to the natural conclusion here, I love gianduja, if you've never had it you should really do your best to find some and try it. Gianduja is a combination of finely ground hazelnuts and chocolate. I may or may not have a shrine to chocolate and hazelnuts in my closet.
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Three Ways With Rustic Sourdough23 12 2009
So, it's the holiday season and everyone is busy, with work, shopping, making holiday goodies, etc. Not much time for making some normal everyday bread, right? Wrong! This dough is a bit tricky to work with if you're not used to wet doughs, or if you really want to get your hands into it. But leave it alone, just giving it the minimum handling and it is easy as pie. It is also pretty easy to make some minor changes to the recipe and give a whole different feel to the bread.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Sick, post and list of bacon parties coming.
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I've come across your website and I've noticed one very important thing missing. There is as far as I tell, no reference to, or even mention of that most important of internet memes, baconcat.
I'm surprised at you, John Scalzi's taping of bacon to his cat is a large reason I am such a baconite, and I know that I am far not the only one.
You may have covered him in previous years, in which case I apologise but if not it's a missing out of bacon related goodness.
- September 12, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- Emily said...
Bacon Day is December 30th.
Or perhaps, this is like Christmas, when Jesus wasn't born in December. But Bacon was. Bacon. Bacon Day. December. Thirtieth.
- December 23, 2009 at 10:20 PM
- dogimo said...
Bacon. Nature's perfect food.
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- February 14, 2010 at 4:28 AM
My roommate and I finally got an apartment instead of a dorm. we're moving in at the end of August..and it has a kitchen. we wanted to celebrate by having a bacon day..so I googled "bacon day" when we found this we had to celebrate! (by eating some bacon of course) now we're planning our bacon day for september so plan to add Kenosha, Wisconsin to the places having bacon day parties!!!!!
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- April 29, 2010 at 11:03 PM
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wow I love bacon and was just thinking of celebrating it by starting an international day of bacon and here we are there already is one!
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- May 17, 2010 at 2:13 PM
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A video for the day!
- September 4, 2010 at 11:50 AM
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- September 15, 2010 at 10:50 AM
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Bacon Story:
You walk into the kitchen and set down your briefcase, looking for a quick snack before you go to bed. It was a rough day at the office. You hear a wierd popping noise emanating from the stove behind you. Oh No! not another gas leak, you think and sigh. You slowly turn around to confront the problem, only to find a pan lying on the stove with the burner on. The popping and cracking noise continues. Drats! did i leave the burner on with an empty pan you think and you grip the handle of the pan only to look straight into the face of three sizzling strips of bacon and a fat chunk of butter. A single tear streams down your weary face. Without thinking you pick up each piece of bacon and devour all three one after another. When you are done, you pick up the pan and tilt it up to your mouth, letting the hot bacon grease slide down your throat. A wide grin cracks the edges of your mouth and you retire to your bedroom feeling completely fulfilled.
- January 10, 2011 at 9:32 PM
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could really do with a bacon sarnie now, haha.
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The words of Freakazoid ring true - always ask for a percentage of the gross, not the net. Funny how certain truths got slipped into some of those old cartoons, like Scrooge McDuck giving economic lessons on Scarcity.
It's missing "For the children." Won't anybody think of the children?
As a gamer, I can be a needy prat, wanting to know things that I don't need to know. I don't blame many of them for not talking to us - a lot of us are jerks, even when we get what we want.
Overall, PR could be handled a bit better, but there's always room for improvement. I'm more interested in whether or not the games are worth buying than anything else.
Porn is a big issue. Rule 34 can get quite disturbing, especially for authors who see characters that are practically their own children put in situations by fans that the author would never put them in.
Wow, a link tag somehow got my comment borked (that I should have been signed in for).
Basically, it would have been nice if the article went into a bit more detail about the Derivative Works clause of US copyright law and how it affects fan works.
It's slightly more nuanced.
Windows RT is the ARM version of Windows 8 and the version that is locked up. The x86/x64 version isn't. On the x86/x64 side, Steam is going to get some hefty competition for once in the digital gaming marketplace (there are others, but they aren't as big) and are initially (although I doubt permenantly) locked out of the ARM version.
Bethesda Softworks has a long history of allowing mods for their Elder Scrolls series - heck, some mods still drive the occassional sale of TES3: Morrowind.
With TES5: Skyrim, they've worked with Steam to expand mod support by being the first game using Steam's new Mod repository, Steam Workshop. Things are still a bit bumpy, but it has turned out to be popular. I, personally, haven't used it much, but I see the appeal.
It's easy to be reluctent to support mods, though, when for every mod that fits nicely into the game world there are 20 mods of various fetishes, anime characters, nudity (which has caused media flak and changes in ESRB ratings), etc.
A box with round corners is not unique design.
And my response is "Horseshyte." At best, he's trying to force specific academic changes that cannot be forced upon people. At worst, he's trying to gain a cut of those expensive textbook fees, which would only drive the price up further and drive more students and professors to alternative solutions.
Unless his goal is to further drive students and professors to alternative solutions by making the normal solution even more expensive - becoming the villain to allow others to be the hero. In that case, well played, sir - but I doubt this is the reason for his actions.


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Not many countries can boast of having a kawaii (cute) fashion representative, especially when that rep is as unique as Kimura U. Her official government title is the Japanese Harajuku Fashion Representative from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Put simply, U is an official symbol of cute for Japan and she's Tokyo Journal's JapanCon Ambassadress. However, there's more to U than her sparkly pastel exterior. She's smart and ambitious — and it took hard work for her to achieve icon status. As her website boasts: "Kimura U does not stop." Tokyo Journal 's Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie is pleased to introduce you to his newest colleague, Kimura U.
While considered new to the United States' app market, user-generated romantic storytelling apps have had a solid place in Japan's mobile entertainment industry for over 15 years. Since its founding in 1999, Voltage Inc. has been the leading pioneer in the market for online drama and romantic storytelling. With user generated storytelling apps, such as My Forged Wedding and Be My Princess, aimed at a dominantly female audience created by a primarily female workforce, Voltage consistently ranks first in the entertainment category of app stores not only in Japan, but also 48 other countries including the United States. In addition to creating multiple award-winning romantic simulation games, Voltage has succeeded in cooperating with new communication platforms such as LINE, proving it can adapt to new technologies. In 2012, Voltage opened its first U.S. brand, bringing the Japanese virtual reality romance apps straight to a growing fan base. Tokyo Journal's Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie met with Voltage CEO Yuji Tsutani to talk about the business' success with female-oriented user games and the challenges of expanding into the U.S. market.
Japanese heavy metal band Loudness has long been an innovator in the Japanese music scene. They made history by securing a U.S. contract with Atlantic Records and were the first Japanese rock act to perform at Madison Square Garden. They stand out in their unique determination to become a truly international heavy metal band. They have released 26 studio albums, five of them in the U.S. The band's roster has changed multiple times since 1981, with the current lineup consisting of the original members — lead singer Minoru Niihara, guitarist Akira Takasaki and bassist Masayoshi Yamashita — and later joined by drummer Masayuki Suzuki in 2009. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie sat down with Minoru Niihara to learn more about his time with Loudness.
The International Art Event Design Festa, known as Design Festa, is a large biannual convention focusing on art, performance, fashion and music. Tokyo Journal discussed the event with Design Festa's overseas public relations coordinator, Sarah Feinerman.
Born in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, Justin Baldoni was raised in Medford, Oregon with a Jewish and Italian background. Raised in the Bahá'í Faith, Baldoni strives to make his work a form of service. He has appeared in television shows and films including Disney Channel's e Suite Life of Zack & Cody and NBC's Heroes, which led to a leading role in the award-winning TV show, Jane the Virgin. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie spoke to Baldoni about his experience taking part in the Youth and Leadership Panel at the Dalai Lama's Global Compassion Summit, the importance of his Bahá'í Faith and how it has become the basis for a few of his current and upcoming projects.
Congresswoman and U.S. Senate candidate Loretta Sánchez has represented California in the United States Congress for the past two decades. Her district in Orange County includes the cities of Anaheim, Santa Ana, Orange and Garden Grove. A graduate of American University's MBA program, Congresswoman Sánchez holds a senior position on the House Armed Services Committee and is the second-highest ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee. She is the founder and co-chair of the Women in the Military Caucus, co-chair of the Immigration Task Force, and also a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, and the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, preparing the U.S. for missile or nuclear attacks. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie caught up with Loretta Sánchez while she was in Washington, D.C., and talked with her about her role in the Global Compassion Summit.
Born in 1917, Walter Munk is an Austrian-born American geophysicist and oceanographer whose groundbreaking studies of ocean currents and wave propagation set the foundation for oceanography as we know it today. He is a professor emeritus of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, where he earned his Ph.D. in oceanography. Also holding a master's degree in geophysics and a bachelor's in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), his work in the science of wave prediction became part of the planning for the D-Day landings in 1944, and he has done pioneering research in ocean sound transmission, deep-sea tides and even climate change. He has won numerous awards during his research career, including the National Medal of Science in 1983 and the 1999 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences — the first time it was awarded to an oceanographer. He was the inaugural recipient of the Prince Albert I Medal in the physical sciences of the oceans, which Prince Rainier of Monaco created in cooperation with the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans. He even has an award named in his honor — and in 1993 he was the first recipient of the Walter Munk Award given jointly by the Oceanography Society, the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Department of Defense Naval Oceanographic Office. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie talked with Walter Munk about hisextraordinary career, the Dalai Lama's 80th ebration and the World Compassion Summit.
A close personal student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Rajiv Mehrotra is the Trustee and Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility, established by the 14th Dalai Lama with the Nobel Peace Prize funds he received in 1989. In addition, he is a writer, television producer and director, and a documentary filmmaker. He is also well known as the acclaimed host for over 20 years of In Conversation: one of India's longest running talk shows on public television, that features distinguished interviewees including heads of state and Nobel Laureates. He has published nine books in more than 50 editions and a dozen languages. Mehrotra was educated at the University of Delhi, Oxford University and Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in film direction. He has been managing trustee, executive producer and commissioning editor of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust, which has produced more than 650 independent documentary films that have won more than 230 awards from 1,300 film festival screenings. He has also served on the Government of India's Steering Committees of the Planning Commission to recommend policy and strategies for information broadcasting and dissemination of information technology. He addressed two plenary sessions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, held earlier in 2016. At the Forum he was nominated "Global Leader for Tomorrow." Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie spoke with Rajiv Mehrotra on the occasion of the 80th birthday celebrations of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, about his long association with His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a student, and the lessons that he has tried to learn from his spiritual guide. Among the many issues that he discussed, particularly significant is the one on the challenges of practicing compassion.
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait's "City of Kindness" initiative was instrumental in His Holiness the Dalai Lama choosing the city of Anaheim to celebrate his 80th birthday in July 2015, as well as in bringing together thought leaders for the Global Compassion Summit in Orange County, California. With a juris doctorate degree and an MBA, Tom Tait has served 10 years on the Anaheim City Council and is in his second four-year term, which began in 2010, as the mayor of Orange County's most populous city, while also serving as the CEO of an engineering and environmental services firm. He spearheaded Anaheim's program to help the homeless and introduced "Drug Free Anaheim," a program that encourages chronic drug users to ask for help at Anaheim police stations in exchange for a free ride to a rehabilitation center. He has also worked toward improving relations between the Anaheim police and residents. Tait is known for standing up for what he believes in, even when this means holding his ground against the city's corporate giants. Tokyo Journal Executive Editor Anthony Al-Jamie talked to Mayor Tait about his trip to India to meet the Dalai Lama and Anaheim's celebration for the spiritual leader's 80th birthday.
DRUM TAO has entertained over 7 million people in 500 cities in 23 countries, performing at 120 locations around Japan every year. The wadaiko (Japanese drum) troupe combines the artistic visual elements of a Cirque du Soleil show with the dynamic energy of a rock concert performed with traditional Japanese instruments. The group reflects Japanese tradition through music and dance, while incorporating Maori, Korean and Indonesian influences, and mixing traditional Japanese songs with modern compositions created by members of the troupe. In addition to taiko drums, TAO uses other instruments including the shinobue (Japanese flute), bamboo marimba, gongs and the koto (horizontal harp).


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*The involvement of reunion contacts varies from class to class but basically, a Reunion Contact serves as the liaison between the Foundation and each graduating class at Wakefield. Some contacts are only active as reunions are planned, others are active each year. Basically, we ask that Reunion Contacts keep their classmates aware of the Foundation and events related to Wakefield in general. We ask that they keep the Foundation updated on classmates, in particular contact information for those classmates. The Foundation can provide an email address (i.e. email@example.com) and a webpage (i.e. http://wakefieldalumni.org/classes/2012.html) to each class.


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The twister hit Wessington Springs just before 8 p.m., the National Weather Service said.
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Lindsey Meyers, director of communications for Avera Health, said one person was brought to the town's hospital in good condition. She said her company's hospital and nursing home in Wessington Springs suffered only minor damage, including some broken windows.
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Gov. Dennis Daugaard activated 100 soldiers from the South Dakota National Guard to assist in the response.
Wessington Springs was hit June 23, 2003, by a tornado that caused significant damage. The town is about 50 miles by road northwest of Mitchell.
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When I read that Kleenex had released some skincare products I rolled my eyes…big roll…like really?! Nevertheless I was intrigued…
When the products arrived I was rather pleased; Kleenex didn't launch a range of facial washes or soaps, no, they stuck to what they know – tissue!
There are 4 products in the range all nicely packaged:
Facial Cleansing Wipes and Eye Make Up Removal Wipes £2.99 each for 24 wipes….
These wipes contain natural fibers and are supposed to be for effective cleansing.
I am not a fan of facial wipes for actually cleansing my face – unless you wear next to no make up I don't see how it can work but I do use them all the time for wiping my hands, products etc.
The eye make up removal wipes are so-so. They did not remove my waterproof mascara and liner – they did take off eyeshadow. They are handy but no substitute for a proper eye make up remover and pad.
The facial wipes are much better – nice and moist without being too wet and actually did a good job on my eyes:
Facial Cloths are quilted sheets – they are large and soft. They quite thick too – you can use these for cleansers, toner, removing face masks and nail varnish. Because of their thickness you can use them wet or dry and they won't tear.
These cloths are very handy indeed – I really like them for removing cream cleanser before washing again with some facial wash. They're quite good for polish as one square will cover more than one nail.
I don't like them to use with toner. They seem to suck up the liquid and I find the shape impractical for that.
Those are £1.99 for 30.
Finally there are Shine Absorbing Sheets. These are powder free and can be used for blotting. My skin is drier than it is oily so I gave these to my mum.
Mother likes these – I always keep her loaded on Oil Blotting sheets and she says these are great because they leave no residue, are light and blot quite well. The sheets are also thick and not too flimsy. She says they're a bit steep at £2.99 for a pack of 50 – I said, that's because you usually just get them free from me. Hmph.
Thefacial cleansing range is at selected stores from September 2011(looks like it's at Superdrug) and in all leading retailers from January 2012.
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On evolution, letter carriers, the federal deficit, spiritual life and fire prevention
Evolution is more than 'just a theory'
In her Oct. 7 letter to the editor, Tina Taylor makes numerous false statements regarding the validity of evolution by natural selection. Ms. Taylor appears to lack an understanding of evolution on its most basic level and of science in general. Simply stated, evolution leads to changes in organisms over time through the joint processes of random mutation and nonrandom selection. To deny that this occurs requires an ignorance of fact and scientific evidence.
When people argue that evolution by natural selection is "just a theory" they are misinterpreting the scientific definition of the word "theory." Rather than being a baseless conjecture, a scientific theory, as defined by the National Academy of Sciences, is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment." Evolution is the result of decades of research and experimentation, all of which support the idea that species change over time. Thus there is no "faith" involved, as Ms. Taylor declares: anyone can examine the evidence and reach their own conclusions.
One of the most egregious claims in the letter is that evolution impedes scientific progress. On the contrary, evolution is the unifying concept of modern biology and is the driving force behind countless discoveries across many scientific disciplines. The research describing "junk DNA" that is referenced was recently published in Nature. One of the researchers specifically discusses the evolutionary advantages of changes in protein-coding vs. gene-regulatory DNA sequences. Had Ms. Taylor bothered to consult the primary literature on the topic, she would have seen that an understanding of evolution informs the study of genomics, as it does all branches of biology, and in no way does it hinder discovery or innovation as she suggests.
I would encourage Ms. Taylor and anyone else who doubts the validity of evolution to objectively weigh the evidence in support of this scientific theory. Evolution is a fascinating subject describing how over the course of billions of years, the processes of mutation and selection gave rise to the immense diversity of life that exists today. Anyone who refuses to consider learning about evolution is depriving themselves of understanding some of the most enthralling and awe-inspiring features of the natural world.
Jacob Hill
U.S. Postal Service a value to country
Your editorial on the Postal Service (Sept. 27), in which you asked whether taxpayers should support a full-service post office in small towns or rural areas, merits a response.
Taxpayers do not fund the U.S. Postal Service, which for 30 years hasn�t taken a dime of taxpayer money. The USPS funds itself through the sale of stamps and other products.
You ask why the government is in the mail business in the first place. The Constitution sets mail delivery as a duty of the federal government.
With Postal Service finances much in the news recently, I�d like to provide some additional information for your readers.
The financial woes have little to do with mail delivery, mail volume, e-mail or other factors related to the mail. In operational terms, the USPS has weathered the poor economy quite well. The 2006 congressional mandate that the Postal Service pre-fund future retiree health benefits � something no other agency or company has to do � accounts for 80 percent of all the red ink. Congress should fix the problem it created.
The Postal Service provides the world�s most affordable delivery service and does so six days a week, particularly important to small businesses � which are open on weekends and employ 1.6 million North Carolinians. Moreover, the USPS is the centerpiece of the national mailing industry, which employs 7.5 million Americans in the private sector, including 236,850 in North Carolina.
Letter carriers do more than deliver the mail. For 20 years, we�ve conducted the nation�s largest single-day food drive, replenishing food pantries in Kinston and Lenoir County � and throughout the country.
Because letter carriers know the neighborhoods and the families they serve, they know when something�s wrong � and they regularly help elderly residents who�ve fallen or taken ill, find missing children, put out fires or stop crimes.
Under a program started by President George W. Bush and continued by President Barack Obama, letter carriers � on a volunteer basis � have been trained in several cities around the country to deliver medicines to homes in the event of a biological attack. One reason so many have volunteered is that one-quarter of all letter carriers are military veterans.
The Postal Service does all this and more � with no taxpayer money. North Carolinians should make sure their congressional representatives maintain six-day delivery and address pre-funding � and that they do nothing to degrade services or dismantle this exceptional universal network.
Fredric Rolando, President
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Washington, D.C.
Deficit spending offers advantages
All the major political parties call for ending federal deficit spending and balancing the federal budget. But why? Just what is federal deficit spending anyway?
Federal deficit spending is defined as the U.S. government spending over and above the amount of its tax collections. Stop and think about that for a second; because federal deficit spending is over and above tax collections then, by definition, deficit spending is not paid for by taxes (therefore deficit spending is not paid for by taxpayers � it can�t be).
Those who demand an end to federal deficit spending apparently want all U.S. government spending to be funded from tax revenues. That means that either federal taxes must go up or federal spending must come down. Either way, if all U.S. government spending must be funded from tax revenues then, by definition, the U.S. government can no longer be allowed to borrow money.
The U.S. government borrows money by issuing and selling Treasury securities to individuals, corporations, pension funds, foreign countries (including China), and other non-federal investors. If the U.S. government were no longer allowed to borrow then it could no longer issue and sell Treasury securities.
If the U.S. government could no longer issue and sell Treasury securities, then private investors would no longer have the world�s safest investment haven for their excess dollars.
Without the haven of U.S. Treasuries in which to invest their dollars, investors would feel less safe holding US dollars.
If investors felt less safe holding U.S. dollars, then they would have less faith in U.S. dollars.
With less faith in U.S. dollars, investors would begin rejecting, avoiding and unloading U,S, dollars. Their excess dollars (currently $16 trillion) would have to be invested elsewhere (probably overseas) or dumped back into the U.S. money supply.
If investors began rejecting, avoiding and unloading U.S. dollars, then the value of the dollar would go down.
When the value of the dollar goes down, prices automatically go up. That�s inflation.
So, by deductive reasoning, ending federal deficit spending and balancing the federal budget would be inflationary.
So let me get this straight � politicians want to end federal deficit spending that is not funded by taxes and replace it with a balanced budget that is funded entirely by taxes and which is inflationary? I don�t know about you, but I�m not too excited about that prospect.
Jim Gaddis
Fix spiritual lives, rest will fix itself
On Oct. 2, a red SUV delivered political flyers in mailboxes. (It is illegal to do this.) The flyers stated, "Paid for by the Lenoir County Democratic Party. Not authorized by any candidate or committee." It listed all candidates and offices they are running for.
On another page George Graham Jr. describes what he has done to improve things, just like other candidates brag on wanting to get your vote.
I will carry the list of candidates with me to the polls so I will know who not to vote for. I will vote for the ones that adhere closer to my beliefs. Example: such as being against abortion of babies and same sex marriage.
I grew up in a more moral time, when the common offense in school was chewing gum and throwing spitballs made of paper at someone. Today, when your child leaves for school you don�t know if they will return home safely or not.
Men won�t stop using foul language if a lady comes around. Today you hear the same language coming out the mouths of women and children. Children repeat what they hear older folks say.
It is sad how people have become so depraved over the years. The Bible teaches when people turn from God in disobedience it stops His blessings upon our land.
In II Chronicles 7:14 It states: "If my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways: then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
Our country is in a big mess. We need, with God�s help, to turn things around. If people get their spiritual lives right, all the rest will work out, including the economy.
Alice Banks
City firefighters �came through�
I am writing this letter hoping the Kinston Fire Department will see this. I was home and had just placed my children into bed. I had taken some pain medications and changed for bed when I decided to cook for my brother. I placed a pot of grease on the stove put in some fries and sat in front of the TV watching "American Dad" when I fell asleep.
My smoke detector started going off like crazy and I awoke to the house full of smoke. In a panic I ran to the kitchen open the back door, grabbed the pot handle and raced to the back door. Instantly the pot burst into flames, causing me to drop it, and hot grease splattered on my feet and hands. I went into a frenzy and grabbed a towel, wet it and began beating the flames. That only made things worse.
I slid on the grease and fell and hit my head, causing my feet more pain, then I ran grabbed the kids and called 911 and passed out on the front yard. The response time was amazing and the fire department was a big help. They kept my kids calmed, took control of the situation, and helped me with my feet and hands. I was treated in the ER for third-degree burns but am doing fine now thanks to the Kinston Fire Department and, of course, God for keeping us safe through it all.
They really came through for us. Their compassion and professionalism will never be forgotten. I hope since this is Fire Prevention Month people will be more cautious about fires in the future, especially grease fires.
Thanks again to the Kinston Fire Department. Keep up the good work.
Latosha Bullock