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To my readers on this blogsite…
I have made a serious error and this note is to apologize for it. On Dec, 28 on this blog I published an anecdote about my son's class of young school children giving a Christmas Concert nearly 20 years ago, with children holding up letters that spelled out CHRISTMAS LOVE. The story went on to say that one little girl had held her sign…the 'M"…upside down by mistake…and so the words spelled out CHRISTWAS LOVE.
I want to tell you something now that is remarkable to me…and somewhat sad. I have been contacted by the author of that story, Her name is Candy Chand and it is a true story. She is a published author, and the story is hers. How could I have remembered it and written it as if it was my own?
The story itself was not typed up by me just the other day. In fact, it has been in my computer file for at least seven years. I went into my back-file the other day looking for the perfect copy to share on my blog a few days after Christmas. When I came across this story, it was written just as you saw it here in this blogspace on Dec. 28. That is, it was written in the first person, describing an experience that occurred with my son 20 years ago. As I read the old story I smiled, actually experiencing it as a memory in my mind, from my own life.
Now Ms. Chand has contacted me to inform me that the story is hers, has actually been published by her in more than one place (including a book), that it has been circulated around the Internet, sometimes with credit to her, sometimes not, for something like ten years, and that she would like due and proper credit for her authorship. I am embarrassed to say that her story and the "anecdote" that I attributed to my own life have apparently the exact same wording except for my personal introductory sentences.
All I can say now — because I am truly mystified and taken aback by this — is that someone must have sent it to me over the internet ten years or so ago. Finding it utterly charming and its message indelible, I must have clipped and pasted it into my file of "stories to tell that have a message I want to share." I have told the story verbally so many times over the years that I had it memorized…and then, somewhere along the way, internalized it as my own experience. I am aghast at how improbable this sounds, even to me, yet I can find no other explanation for how this story came out of my mouth in Candy Chand's words.
I certainly have no desire or reason to intentionally or deliberately pass off anyone else's work as my own. Obviously in a blog that is widely read, on a website that is a global portal drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors hourly, I could never hope to "get away with" something like that. Nor would I have a motivation to even try.
I have heard of the mind playing tricks on us, and memory, too, but I have never experienced anything quite like this. I have nine children and I attended many Christmas concerts as a proud parent through the years as they each made their way through elementary school. I can see, much to my astonishment, that what I apparently did here a long time ago was remember this story as something that must have happened to me. Otherwise, how did the story get into my mind? It's been there for many years, and I've told it for many years as an example of how a "mistake" can actually reveal great truth.
As a published author myself, I would never use another author's words as my own. Yet I have apparently done just that — although with no deliberate intent to do so. As evidence of my state of mind in this regard, I have shared other stories on this blog and on the forum on my personal website, where I have actually said that I did not know where the material originated or who the author is, but that it was such a wonderful story I had to pass it on, just as it was passed on to me.
I did exactly that in my Dec. 24 blog here. Often, I have even asked the readers of my blogs if they know who the author is, and if so, if they could tell me, so that credit might be given. I did exactly that on the Forum on my personal website on Dec. 27. So I have a history of acknowledging when a story has come to me from another source, known or unknown. These things fly around the internet, as we all know, and a few years ago I encountered exactly the same experience, when something that I wrote actually came back to me five weeks later as the writing of the Dalai Lama. That does not excuse what happened here. And I am shocked to find that my re-telling of Ms. Chand's anecdote over ten years' time has made it seem, indeed, as if it happened to me.
My apologies to a fellow author. I take passing off someone's else work as one's own as a serious matter, as does Ms. Chand. I hope that she will accept my personal deep regret that such a thing occurred. I never would have believed it could happen. A thousand apologies. Abject and real. To you, my readers, as well. And to myself, an invitation for me to look at how the mind works. I am astonished at my own mental failing here.
In view of this error, I have offered to Beliefnet to discontinue my blog, effective immediately, as I certainly never wished to cause any embarrassment for them, nor discomfort or displeasure for Ms. Chand. I have enjoyed my blogging experience here and will miss it, as it offers a wonderful opportunity to place thoughts before a very wide audience. However, I do understand that Beliefnet needs to be able to rely on the accuracy of its bloggers' postings, and in this instance I have failed to meet that standard.
Thank you all for your understanding, and I hope that you will continue to visit the Beliefnet.com site to engage in many lively explorations and discussions with its many fine bloggers.
Neale Donald Walsch
I hope and trust that you had a wonderful New Year's Day! And today we move into the third part of the Triad Formula, which is the First Step in a Three-Step approach to dealing with change in one's life.
In the third part of The Triad Formula I decide that I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is. This may all seem circular, but there is a method to the madness.
I have a vivid memory of a woman who spoke up once at one of our Conversation with God Foundation's ReCreating Yourself retreats. She had been sexually abused as a child by her uncle, and she spoke about it in very calm terms. She spoke also about a woman's support group that she had attended on a regular basis, and remember how, when she told that group about her experience, its members raised their voices in concern. "You should be furious about this!" they told her. "How can you speak so calmly?"
"Well," she had said, "that was a long time ago, and besides, I understand why he did what he did, and I've forgiven him. So I'm not angry anymore."
"Not angry anymore?", they protested, "How could you be not angry anymore? Don't you know what happened to you?" Then they told her that she had apparently "sublimated" her feelings and buried her rage, and was angrier than she knew. "A walking time bomb," they called her. The only problem was, she didn't feel that way. Her experience is what she said that it was, and she became unwilling to "buy into" the way others in her group told her that she was supposed to be feeling.
I never forgot this example of Personal Creation. The exterior experience of this woman was not different from the experience of many other women who have been abused as a child, but her interior experience was remarkably different. She simply chose to hold the experience in another way.
In my own life, when something crazy or unwanted happens, I never ask myself, "Now, why did that happen…?" Rather, I ask myself, "If I could give that a reason for happening, what would it be?"
I assign everything a reason, rather than looking for one. And I decide how I am going to feel about things, rather than looking to see how I feel. And I choose with great deliberation my responses to everything, rather than watching my responses from the sidelines as if I was not the major player in my life.
The Triad Formula is the first of three steps in The Change Process. That is, it is one of those teachings that, once internalized and utilized, can turn around one's entire life. Yet it is clear that understanding, accepting, and integrating the three statements of The Triad Formula into our lives is not easy for many people.
Those three statements again are…
1. Nothing in this world is real.
2. The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it.
3. I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is.
In order to embrace and effectively utilize these truths, you would have to change everything in the way you look at, and experience, life.
Tomorrow, we continue our exploration of The Change Process.
On the final day of this year, as the calendar page changes, let us talk more about how we can use spiritual principles to deal with changes in our life.
Yesterday we explored part one of a three-part Change Process derived from the messages in Conversations with God. Today: Part Two.
This second part puts you firmly in command of your experience. You may not have changed anything in your outward reality, but remember, it is the experience of it that we are out to change.
You, and you alone, decide what anything means to you. You, and you alone, get to choose what matters and doesn't matter, what is "good" and what is "bad," what is "okay" and what is "not okay." You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something–or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.
"That's not true!" you may protest. "I don't want to feel bad, I just do." Yet this is not so–and the sooner you understand this, the sooner you will move to mastery in your daily living. You do want to feel bad or you wouldn't. The trick is to look deeply into the moment to see why you want to feel bad. The answer to that question unlocks everything.
To reiterate, you decide, and you alone decide, what something means to you, and how you are going to respond to it. Yet this is a decision that most people make based upon past feelings, experiences, understandings and desires, or future fears, apprehensions, wishes or desires.
None of this has anything to do with what is going on right here, right now.
The idea, as Eckhart Tolle made so brilliantly clear in The Power of NOW, is to stay in the moment. I have come to see the real power in this in my own life.
When I "come from yesterday," I frequently overlay meanings on things that are happening right now that are not in those things inherently, but that I have placed there as a result of a previous thought about them–or about something similar to them–from my past. (Going to the dentist might be a good example.)
When I "come from tomorrow," I overlay an idea about some imagined future (and usually some imagined fear) on the events of today. These future realities may never come to pass (in fact, my life has shown that they rarely do), but what they often do is ruin any chance I had to maximally profit from the experience of the moment.
Only when I get out of my past and stay away from my future can I genuinely experience what's happening right here, right now, within the context of just that: what's actually occurring in the present moment. And–free from the interpretations of the Past and the Future–I can give that occurrence any interpretation I desire.
This was the greatest liberating lesson of my life. When I learned this, I understood at last that my experience of everything that is going on, is going on in my mind. I can stare into the face of events and I can choose to be whatever I wish to be with regard to them. I can be "okay" or I can choose to be "not okay." I can be "happy" or I can choose to be "unhappy," I can be "optimistic" or "fearful," "powerful" or "powerless," "complete" or "incomplete," "destroyed" or "reignited".
The decision is all mine. The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it.
Tomorrow, New Year's Day, I'm off. You take the day off, too! And we'll meet here again on Friday! Oh, and…HAPPY NEW YEAR!


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McGee wins CoSIDA District writing award
March 21, 2006
Mark McGee, director of media relations for athletics at Lipscomb University, has won a district award in the 2005 College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest.
McGee won third place in District IV in the "General Features" category for his story "The Game of Love" which told of the engagement of former Lipscomb golfer Lisa Renneke and Nashville Predators hockey player Scott Hartnell.
District IV consists of all colleges and universities in the states of Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan.

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Date(s) - Thursday, January 11, 2018
10:00 am - 11:45 am
Networking with the Job Developer meets every Thursday at 10:00 at the Goodwill Career Centre located at 2387 Trafalgar Road, Oakville. The group meets regularly to discuss job efforts, provide support, share job leads and improve job-seeking skills. Networking helps you master your job search skills and stay focused on your job search. Consistently those who participate in networking activities find jobs faster than those who do not participate. No reservations needed.


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Groupon Inc. saw its shares take a hard tumble Wednesday – down 8% during the regular session – with some speculating that the harsh effects of Hurricane Sandy on local business on the Eastern Seaboard will hurt the company's results in the fourth quarter.
However, another factor was also at play. A sharp drop in third-quarter revenue from arch-rival LivingSocial was noted in regulatory filings late Friday afternoon, but the two-day market hiatus delayed any read-through impact on Groupon until today.
The data came courtesy of Amazon.com , the online retail giant that invested $175 million in LivingSocial back in late 2010 for a 29% ownership stake.
In Amazon's 10-Q filing late Friday afternoon, it disclosed that Living Social saw revenue of $372 million for the nine-month period ended Sept. 30. While that is up 120% from the same period last year, it reflects third-quarter revenue of just $124 million – down 10% from the June period.
If that sequential drop reflects an overall weakness in the daily deals business for the third quarter, then it implies potentially disappointing results for Groupon when it posts its own results for the period next week, on Nov. 8. Wall Street's consensus revenue forecast for Groupon's third quarter projects a 4% revenue gain from the June period.
LivingSocial is showing other signs of trouble, with an operating loss of $753 million for the nine-month period compared to a loss of $340 million in the same period last year. In a Heard On The Street column on Wednesday, Rolfe Winkler speculated that LivingSocial's diminishing business – and the lack of liquidity for its shareholders – may force it to consider a consolidation move with Groupon, which is down about 80% from its IPO value but still sitting on a pile of cash worth about $1.2 billion.
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Creating trail connections among open-space parcels on the Peninsula will be the next great focus of local land preservation, says the new president of the Peninsula Open Space Trust.
Walter Moore, who on Friday (July 1) took the helm of the nonprofit following the 24-year tenure of Audrey Rust, said cuts in public funding for parks leave it to groups like POST to finance trails and parking so visitors can access open space lands.
In its 34-year history, POST has helped save 64,000 acres in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties by raising private funds to facilitate deals between private landowners and public agencies.
For example, in the case of Palo Alto's 609-acre Arastradero Preserve, POST in 2002 bought "the hole in the doughnut" -- a 13-acre privately owned parcel -- and held it for three years, allowing the city to raise funds from the California Coastal Conservancy and others to buy it.
"Otherwise you could have had a very large single-family home right in the middle of a preserve, and now it's beautiful additional space," Moore said.
He spoke in an interview Friday in a glass-walled conference room at POST's downtown Palo Alto headquarters. Hanging throughout the building are photos of spectacular local scenery from POST-affiliated lands.
In addition to Palo Alto's Arastradero piece, POST had a hand in saving the popular Windy Hill in Portola Valley, Bair Island in Redwood City and the Phleger Estate in Woodside, among many projects.
Just last week, the nonprofit sold nearly 100 acres along Skyline Ridge to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, making way for a future trail connection between Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve and Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve.
POST had acquired the parcel for $3.09 million last December, and sold it to the open space district for the same price.
"We are working closely with (the open space district) to plan a potential new parking and trails staging area at this site to make it easier for the public to enjoy the phenomenal trails and views from this beautiful spot along Skyline Ridge," Moore said.
POST also has saved more than 13,000 acres of agriculture and grazing on the San Mateo County coast through buying land that was subject to development, obtaining conservation easements to restrict future land use, and then selling the parcels to farmers.
A recent POST project opened to the public just last month is Little Basin, purchased in 1963 by HP founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard and used for decades as a site for company picnics and retreats.
HP transferred ownership of Little Basin to POST and the Sempervirens Fund in 2007 and the property recently was added to Big Basin State Park.
The HP facilities -- including campsites and picnic tables personally designed by Hewlett -- are still there and available to the public, Moore said.
Rosemary Young, wife of former HP CEO John Young, was among the local leaders -- including venture capitalist Ward Paine, Sand Hill Road developer Tom Ford, and Sunset magazine co-owner Mel Lane -- who formed POST back in the late 1970s.
"They looked at the hills and the setting around them and thought it would be wonderful if there were a private, nonprofit partner to complement the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District," Moore said.
"It would be able to raise money and work confidentially with landowners.
"And the open space district thought, 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if, in 10 or 20 years, POST could raise $1 million.'
"Well, we've raised hundreds of millions," Moore said.
As of June 30, 2010, POST had net assets of about $227 million. It runs on an operating budget of about $15 million, according to financials posted on its website.
POST frequently has partnered with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, which reaps annual revenues of about $15 million from property tax and is governed by an elected board.
Moore, a real estate lawyer, joined POST in 1995 as general counsel.
Asked about taking over from the nationally known Rust, he said simply, "I'm not going to fill those shoes.
"Audrey has put POST in a position of strength and shaped our vision for what comes next."


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Whether we do indeed live in the future or not, we can certainly agree that The Future — the one with hovercars and jet packs — isn't here just yet. Today, we want to know what your favorite unrealized vision of the future is.
Are you waiting hopefully for a robo-maid a la Rosie Jetson or to borrow Marty McFly's hoverboard? Or is star-gazing from the bridge of the Enterprise more your speed? Tell us in the comments below just what the future you are waiting for looks like. Pictures too, please!
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Don't think you have what it takes to become a runner? Think again. A study published in the Aug. 5 edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reported that running as little as five to 10 minutes a day could reduce the risk of all-cause mortality by 30 per cent, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by 45 per cent, and add three years to your life.
Not a bad return for picking up the pace to a jog, especially if you're finding it hard to put in the recommended 150 minutes of exercise a week to improve health.
The study, which reviewed the running habits of 55,157 adults over a 15-year period, also revealed that faster runners didn't enjoy greater health benefits than slower runners, which is good news for the plodders who are impressive more for their dedication than their fleetness of foot.
The researchers classified all study subjects into one of six groups — non-runners and five levels of runners based on speed, running frequency and number of minutes and miles accumulated per week — and then monitored their health status over a decade and a half.
"Runners across all five quintiles of weekly running time, even the lowest quintile of (less than) 51 min/week, had lower risks of all-cause and CVD (cardiovascular disease) mortality compared with non-runners," said the study authors, who hail from Iowa State, Louisiana State, the University of South Carolina and the University of Queensland.
Even runners who gave up the habit sometime during the 15-year period under study had a lower risk of all-cause mortality than those who never ran. But by far the most impressive reduction in mortality risk was among those who ran consistently.
These impressive results jibe with other recent studies suggesting that short bouts of high-intensity exercise offer surprising benefits, calling into question recommendations for 150 minutes of moderate-intensity and 75 minutes of high-intensity exercise per week.
With conservative estimates stating that half of Canadians don't meet those recommendations, and with lack of time being the reason most often given as to why they fall short, the idea that health can be improved in so little time is especially attractive.
The only caveat is that you need to pick up the pace from a walk (moderate-intensity exercise) to a run (high-intensity exercise) — a scary proposition for some.
Does that mean walking is no longer the exercise of choice when it comes to improving health? Not necessarily. The benefits of five minutes of running per day are equal to those gained from walking 15 minutes a day, with the only difference being the amount of time needed to improve overall health.
Keep in mind, however, that when it comes to getting the biggest health bang in as little time as possible, running for five minutes offers twice the benefits of walking for the same amount of time. Boost the time spent running to 25 minutes, and the benefits would take four times longer to accrue by walking.
This is particularly good news for runners who have reduced their mileage with age and for those who are prone to injury as the miles add up. Runners don't need to be marathoners or even half-marathoners to improve their life expectancy.
What if you've never run longer than it takes to catch a bus or get out of the rain? Don't fret: Working up to five minutes of running a day is easy. Start with 30 seconds of running, followed by 60 seconds of walking. Repeat 10 times. Keep it up every day for two weeks. On Week 3, increase your running interval to 45 seconds, walking for 60 seconds before you start to run again. Repeat eight times.
Continue to increase the running interval by 15 seconds every two weeks until you're running for five minutes. Remember: You don't need to run fast to reap the health benefits. Keep the pace somewhere between easy and manageable, which will make your progression from walker to runner more enjoyable.
For those already comfortable running for more than five minutes, keep in mind that even a short run has benefits. So on those days when time constraints make it impossible to get your normal run in, even five or 10 minutes at lunch or after work is worthwhile.
The alternative, of course, is to continue sitting on the couch, which leads to a 25-per-cent increased risk of heart disease and a 45 per cent increase in all-cause mortality risk. Don't forget about the 10 per cent increase in the incidence of cancer and diabetes among those who choose to stay sedentary over those who exercise regularly. With the benefits so great and the time commitment so little, it's easier than ever to get moving.
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In Which Gordon Convinces Me To Get A Brushon September 6, 2011 at 12:01 am
CALLBACKS: Chilling At SPACE With Gordon McAlpin, The Never-Ending Quest for Relevance
In the webcomics community, Gordon McAlpin is almost as notorious for taking things literally as he is for consuming art supplies. This is totally for real, and not a thing that I just made up.
I would also like to reiterate that I am looking for guest strips to cover my vacation from 9/10 to 9/18. Would you like to do a guest strip for Sketch Comedy? There are two simple requirements: A) 900px wide or less, and B) keep it appropriate for your ten-year-old cousin to read. If you've got something for me, just send it in by September 8th to jackson at thesketchy dot com.


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We're all looking for a quick and simple way to wear our hair. We want something easy yet still sexy.
Sometimes, we're just not in the mood to do the whole blow out thing. Or, our hair is dirty and we just don't feel like washing it. Come on, you know you've been there...
Well, here's a great style that's super easy, fast, and absolutely fabulous! After all, Springs about minimizing your makeover time while still looking fierce!
Actress Shiri Appleby showed off her new Summer do at our friend Wells Butler's (owner of the amazing clothing line Primp) engagement party. It's a contemporary take on a favorite hair style: the bun! This bun, however, got a little makeover: a french braid!
Shiri says, "I love this style because it's modern and chic, yet still classic. Having your hair away from your face is somehow freeing." (not to mention it allows her natural beauty to shine through!)
In a collaborative effort, Shiri and I put together this style in a matter of minutes! Shiri did the braid, I did the bun.
Here's how to achieve the look in a five, quick steps:
1 - Separate the front corner section of your hair from the back.
2 - Take the back bit and wrap it into a messy bun (pin up dangling pieces with a few bobby pins).
3 - French braid the front section from the left ear to the right.
4 - Take the tail of the braid and attach it to the bun with a bobby pin.
5 - Spritz a little hair spray for added hold.
It's that easy!
This is a style that you can rock anywhere at anytime and still look super sexy!


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Deploying Node Apps with Spark
HEADS UP! This article was written for an older version of node. More up-to-date information may be available elsewhere.
This article will go through building a simple RESTful key/value store using Connect. Then I'll explain my favorite way to host apps on Ubuntu Server. This will use upstart and Spark. We'll setup the node.js environment using the super easy Ivy distribution.
Quick Node Install using the Ivy Distribution
Ivy is a my simple node distribution. It contains pre-built node binaries and several node modules bundled with it.
On the Server
Assuming you have a fresh host with Ubuntu Server 32bit, we'll get a node environment up and running in a matter of minutes. Just install git and run the Ivy installer in your home directory.
sudo apt-get install git-core
wget -O- http://github.com/creationix/ivy/raw/master/utils/setup.sh | sh
Now for this to work correctly Ivy's
bin folder needs to be in your
$PATH. Add a line to your
.profile file to make it automatic on login.
Then source your
.profile file to get the new settings.
. .profile
Test it by launching node and inspecting the
require.paths. Make sure ivy's lib folder is in there.:
tim@TimBook:~$ node
Type '.help' for options.
node> require.paths
[ '/Users/tim/.node_libraries'
, '/Users/tim/ivy/lib/node'
On your Development Machine
For developing I like to write apps on my laptop and then push them to my server using git. The steps are the same here with the exception that OSX has
curl instead of
curl -# http://github.com/creationix/ivy/raw/master/utils/setup.sh | sh
Writing an Application
Ok, now to get some real work done. In this tutorial we'll make a simple RESTful key/value store.
First create a basic app structure like this.
|-- app.js
|-- memory_bank.js
`-- public/
`-- index.html
Stack it up with Connect
Connect makes it easy to build fully features HTTP servers complete with logging, gzipping, smart caching, and all the other goodies that Connect provides out of the box.
// Define a simple connect app stack using the new createApp helper
module.exports = require('connect').createApp(require('./memory_bank'));
That's it, one line!
RESTful Interface
Now lets build the
memory_bank.js file mentioned in the Connect setup.
This app will provide the following RESTful interface.
GET /:key - Retrieve a value based on key.
PUT /:key - Update or insert a value based on key.
DELETE /:key - Remove a value by key
Here we'll write these three request handlers. Since we set the
Last-Modified header, we'll even get 304 response support through the Connect stack.
module.exports = function (app) {
// Read a value from the database
app.get("/:key", function (req, res, next) {
// Load from the database
var item = data[req.params.key];
// 404 if it doesn't exist
if (!item) { next(); return; }
// Serve the item to the client
sendItem(res, item);
// Save a value to the database
app.put("/:key", function (req, res, next) {
// Create/insert the item in the database
var item = data[req.params.key] = {
value: req.body,
mtime: new Date
// Serve the item to the client
sendItem(res, item);
// Remove a value from the database
app.del("/:key", function (req, res, next) {
var key = req.params.key;
// Load from the database
var item = data[key];
// 404 if it doesn't exist
if (!item) { next(); return; }
// Delete it
delete data[key];
// Send an empty OK response
res.writeHead(204, {});
See the actual file for the definition of
data and
Web Interface
Connect will serve the static files in the
public for you. There is no need for Apache or Nginx. Even if you use those for deployment, this makes development easy.
Launching the App with Spark
To test the server on your laptop, simply
cd into the directory with
app.js and type
spark. Type
spark -h for options.
tim@TimBook:~/memory_bank$ spark
Spark server(42611) listening on http://*:3000 in development mode
To deploy this, copy it to your linux server. My favorite way is to push the code to github, and then clone it on the server. This way you have backup of the code and two-way synchronization.
Add a Connect Config File
I like to specify a config file instead of using command-line args in the
spark command. Create a
config.js file like this:
module.exports = {
port: 80,
user: "nobody",
env: "production"
You don't want this config file on your development environment. The easiest way is to create a
.gitignore file and remove
config.js from version control.
Add an Upstart Config File
Then go to
/etc/init and create an upstart config file. In this file you want to set up the environment for spark to run and tell it to start your server using spark.
description "Memory Bank server for RESTful key/value storage"
version "1.0"
author "Tim Caswell"
# Upstart has nothing in $PATH by default
env PATH=/home/tim/ivy/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
# Keep the server running on crash or machine reboot
start on runlevel [23]
# Start the server using spark and redirect output to log files
cd /home/tim/memory_bank
exec spark --comment memory_bank > access.log 2> error.log
end script
Save this file at
/etc/init/memory_bank.conf and set it as executable. Now you can start your node server using upstart commands.
sudo start memory_bank
If all went well you should see a message stating it started successfully and give you the pid. Now hit your server on the port you specified and see your app.
NOTE - If you didn't design a front-end in
/public you'll just see the blank index.html page.
Ivy, Spark, and Connect are a powerful combination that has worked great for me. They are also useful on their own.
If you want to use Spark for a raw tcp server, go ahead, Spark works for any
net.Server or
http.Server instance as long as it's exported as
app.js. Connect even allows for embedding an
http.Server instance as a last middleware layer.
I've set up a few sites this way on more than one server and I find it very useful. I hope this article fits your use case as well, or at least gets you in the right direction.
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On the edge of Paris this week, a group of Wi-Fi experts gathered for a historic occasion – one they'll be able to tell their grandchildren about.
It was the 19th Roundtable Conference of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).
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We were sitting with Michael Dwyer from Hurst in a restaurant in London. Alex and I had just completed the manuscript for An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/al-Qaeda merge in Afghanistan, 1970-2010 .
"So what's next?" Michael asked. Nothing had been planned, or at least we didn't have any concrete ideas for a book we wanted to write. An Enemy We Created had been a grueling exercise in perseverance, and the idea of starting another project like it was something Alex and I avoided talking about.
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In 2012, Poetry of the Taliban came out. One of the first articles published about the book was by Julian Borger of the Guardian: "Taliban poetry book denounced by former British commander."
After that, things got a little bit crazy. There had been a lot of media interest in the book over the months we worked on it. After all, it was a new story about Afghanistan, and if we are being very honest, not many stories are published in the media world; we cycle through a dozen or so big stories that get repeated time and time again. Because of this, I suppose we expected to get a lot of attention. What we did not expect was that the book would become controversial news. Reuters and the AP published stories about the book and distributed them throughout the world, and Alex and I ended up giving dozens of interviews. We even made it onto TV. I ended up on a number of radio shows with the aforementioned former British commander who denounced the book.
CNN's TV news coverage was particularly interesting. The report had Alex reading out one of the poems over a Taliban propaganda video showing an attack on a Humvee. We went through the questions before filming the interview, but while the camera was rolling the interviewer dropped a new one in the middle and addressed it to me. It was something like "What is your message to the American people?" or "What is your message to the US government?" It caught me completely off guard and I think I ended up saying something completely random. It is horrific to watch, but here it is for your enjoyment, aptly titled by the uploader "Lovely: CNN Romanticizes Taliban Poetry," probably because they chose some incongruous romantic music and because of the part where they cut from me saying they can relate to it on an emotional level to a Kalashnikov being loaded.
Anyway, it's great TV, I guess.
All in all, it was a strange experience. No book is perfect, and there were some issues with ours. It turned out that some of the poems from the website that we published in the book were not written by Taliban members or even supporters. To me they are nonetheless just as relevant as the others, if only because they seem to have resonated with the editorial board of the website, which evidently saw this content as something they related to.
We later had a radio interview with Richard Kemp, the British commander who denounced the book and who had given Julian Borger the quote of all quotes:
"What we need to remember is that these are fascist, murdering thugs who suppress women and kill people without mercy if they do not agree with them, and of course are killing our soldiers. It doesn't do anything but give the oxygen of publicity to an extremist group which is the enemy of this country."
I ended up talking further with him over the phone, and we decided to meet up in person. The radio interviews were exhausting; the host would often try to bait us into attacking each other, or at least that was how it felt at the time.
We met at Paddington Station in London and had a coffee. I gave him a copy of the book and we ended up talking for an hour. It was good conversation and gave us both room to go beyond the one-minute radio-ready replies we had to give on air.
Poetry of the Taliban ended up as a controversial news story that really wasn't very controversial at all. What was remarkable, however, was the consistency with which interviewers posed the same question: "Aren't you humanizing the Taliban?" While this will be disappointing to my mother, who told me never to answer a question with a question, my answer was: "Aren't they being dehumanized all the time?"


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Groupon's daily deal in Paris this morning was 50% off a 40 euro coupon for Amazon.fr, Amazon's French website.
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in the United States. Ask the doctor about screening for lung cancer if you have a history of heavy smoking and you smoke now or have quit within the past 15 years.
Review Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2014
National Health Information Center - NHICU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Use these tips to start a conversation with a loved one about getting screened for colorectal cancer.
Review Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2014
These questions can help you start a conversation with your doctor about getting screened for colorectal cancer.
If you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, use this list of questions to ask your doctor about genetic testing.
Review Date: Thursday, December 18, 2014
Getting screening tests is one of the most important things you can do for your health. Talk with a doctor or nurse about scheduling important screenings.
Review Date: Friday, March 29, 2013
These questions can help you start a conversation with your doctor about getting screened for prostate cancer.
Everyone with Medicare qualifies for a screening colonoscopy. Learn about risk factors, how often screening is covered, and the portion of Medicare-approved costs you will need to pay.
Review Date: Thursday, March 03, 2016
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The American Cancer Society recommends these screening guidelines for most adults and what you can do to take control of your health and reduce your cancer risk.
Review Date: Friday, October 31, 2014
American Cancer Society
This page links to information on screening tests for various cancers.
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NIH National Cancer Institute
The most common cause of cervical cancer is infection of the cervix with human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV infections that cause cervical cancer are spread mainly through sexual contact. Women who become sexually active at a young age and who have many sexual partners are at a greater risk of HPV infection.
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Studies show that screening for cervical cancer helps decrease the number of deaths from the disease. A Pap test is commonly used to screen for cervical cancer. Learn more about the Pap test here.
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Colonoscopy is a procedure that can detect early signs of colorectal or colon cancer. Learn how colonoscopy is performed, how to prepare for, and begin routine screenings.
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NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases - NIDDK
Talk to your health care providers about when to begin screening for colorectal cancer, what tests to have, the benefits and risks of each test, and how often to schedule appointments.
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Search for free and low-cost screenings in your state—use the interactive map to find local contacts for breast and cervical cancer screening.
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Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A review of the purpose of a lower gastrointestinal (GI) series, including general preparation for the procedure. The
lower GI series may show problems like abnormal growths, ulcers, polyps, and diverticuli.
Why do I need a Pap test? How often do I need to have a Pap test? I don't have health insurance, how can I get a free or low-cost Pap test? Read on to find the answers to these questions, and more.
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Office on Women's Health
Find out about the tests that are commonly used to screen for prostate cancer as well as the potential benefits of prostate cancer screening.
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What is screening? Screening is looking for cancer before a person has any symptoms. This can help find cancer at an early stage. When abnormal tissue or cancer is found early, it may be easier to treat. By the time symptoms appear, cancer may have begun to spread.
Medicare covers screening mammograms and digital technologies for screening mammograms to check for breast cancer before you or a doctor may be able to detect it.
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Most testicular cancers are found by men themselves. The testicular self-examination, or TSE, is a quick, simple, painless, exam that men can perform on themselves in the privacy of their own home each month.
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The Sean Kimerling Testicular Cancer Foundation
Unlike traditional colonoscopy, virtual colonoscopy doesn't require sedation or the insertion of a scope into the colon. Discuss your colon cancer screening options with your doctor to determine whether virtual colonoscopy is the right option for you.
Review Date: Monday, December 01, 2014
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
This document has answers to many questions women may have about preventing cervical cancer or finding it early, the Pap test, HPV, and the HPV test.
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Invent a better way to search the Web and you can conquer the world in a few years. Make better tools for communicating and accessing the Web and it's the same story. But come up with a better way to teach reading or math and … nada. Excellence routinely "scales up" in every field except education. Why?
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Where are you in the journey to better health? Are you just now finding the path, or is your route well established? With more and more people choosing organic, eating healthier food and striving for healthier lifestyles, the options to help us get there are expanding. We've come a long way since 1867, when synthetic baby food was first invented. Food products have been created to make our lives easier. The growth of fast food restaurants, convenient food products and frozen food items have changed the way America consumes meals.
How have discoveries in medicine and health affected our diet?
Take a journey down the Road To Wellness, a look at 200 years of inventions and discovery relating to our health and wellness by The Hartman Group.


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German wind turbine manufacturer Repower of Germany has signed up the newcomer to the wind business to provide steel tubular towers to many of its future developments across the UK.
Mabey Bridge, which is a specialist supplier of modular bridging and heavy plated steelwork, aims to be the biggest UK manufacturer of towers for onshore and offshore turbines.
It has purchased an industrial unit at Chepstow, south Wales, and lodged an application for consent to double the size of the factory.


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Alan Moore was right. There isn't a movie in his landmark graphic novel "Watchmen" -- at least not a really good one. What we get instead is something acceptable but pedestrian, an adaptation that is more a prisoner of its story than the master of it.
The difficulty is not with a lack of fidelity to this dark tale's narrative about an apparent plot to eliminate costumed superheroes from the alternative reality America they've protected and defended. The changes to the story, including updating its 1985 situations to include a subplot about the energy crisis, are so nonessential that you might wonder why Moore has, in addition to taking his name off the project, vowed to "spit venom all over" the film version.
Director Zack Snyder's nonstop public pledges of fidelity to the story notwithstanding, the core of what made "Watchmen" "Watchmen," what turned it into the only graphic novel to land on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels, is by its nature next to impossible to re-create on screen, even with a 2-hour and 41-minute running time.
For "Watchmen" on the page has the kind of structural denseness and complexity, a heft and texture that are difficult for film to deliver. Moore and his co-creator, artist Dave Gibbons, added layers on top of layers to the story, for instance ending each of the 12 chapters with different kinds of printed textual material, including book chapters and psychiatric reports. There is even a comic-within-a-comic, "Tales of the Black Freighter," now scheduled to become a separate animated piece with its own DVD release.
All these elements, and more, inform, expand on and comment about the core story in an almost Talmudic way. As Gibbons himself has said, the graphic novel "became much more about the telling than the tale itself. The plot itself is of no great consequence . . . it just really isn't the most thrilling thing about 'Watchmen.' "
To be fair, on the other hand, "Watchmen's" plot is in no way chopped liver, and reverentially sticking to the source material, as the first "Harry Potter" films did, is the only thing that gives this film what watchability it has. Even if you haven't read the book, even if your first exposure to the story is in this denatured form, you can at least sense the power of the original, and that's what will stay in your mind, not what's on the screen.
The story, as scripted by David Hayter and Alex Tse, begins, as all good mysteries do, with a murder. A man named Edward Blake, otherwise known as the superhero the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), is brutally killed in October 1985, and lots of people want to know why. This murder takes place in an alternative universe very much like our own but with key differences. Richard Nixon is an American president in both, but in the "Watchmen" world he's been elected to five terms. This universe has a tradition of masked crime fighters. A group of them banded together in the 1940s as the Minutemen, and another group was formed decades later.
Since the 1977 passage of the Keene Act, this new generation of so-called vigilantes has been forced to retire, and that's what Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman), Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) and Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) have done. Still active, each in his own way, are the most compelling of the group, Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) and Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley).
Dr. Manhattan, once physicist Jon Osterman, is the only being in the "Watchmen" world with true superpowers, courtesy of your standard scientific experiment gone horribly wrong. Often seen pale blue and naked (don't ask), the good doctor is a master of space and time, capable of bending matter to his will. He works for the government now, serving, among other things, as a one-man shield against the ever-increasing possibility of Russian nuclear attack.
At the other end of the spectrum is the hunted Rorschach, the sociopathic terror of the group, given to writing things in his journal like "the night reeks of fornication and bad consciences." With his face a mask of shifting inkblots, he is the first to suspect that "somebody's gunning for masks" and the first to investigate what that might mean.
Given that this is just the hint of an outline of "Watchmen's" complexities, it's not clear what any director could have done with the material, though many big names, including Terry Gilliam and Paul Greengrass, were given a shot. Though Snyder does not exactly embarrass the material, his selection has not had inspiring results.
For one thing, Snyder has been unable to create a satisfying tone for the proceedings. While the graphic novel played everything as realistically as it could, the film feels artificially stylized and inappropriately cartoonish. That, in turn, undercuts the film's key point that these superheroes have very human flaws and limitations.
With only "Dawn of the Dead" and "300" in his feature background, Snyder does not have a lot of experience with emotional reality and, except for Haley's bravura performance as the lunatic Rorschach, that hurts everyone.
Unlike "300," which was visually striking (albeit moronic dramatically), "Watchmen" plays it safe cinematically. Despite being prematurely canonized by the film's publicity apparatus, Snyder stands revealed here as more of a beginner than a visionary in his uncertain approach to making an on-screen world come alive. His decision to up the novel's violence quotient to at times grotesque levels doesn't help.
Ultimately, however, it's hard to fault anyone for this "Watchmen's" disappointments. It's not a wasted opportunity; it never should have been turned into a film in the first place. But when hundreds of millions of fanboy dollars are at stake, that is not going to happen. Maybe in an alternative reality, but not in ours.
MPAA rating: R for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language
Running time: 2 hours, 41 minutes
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AmanSari Hotel City Centre in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
At AmanSari Hotel City Centre Johor Bahru in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, you won't need to spend a lot of time to experience the best retreat in the country's second largest urban city.
Found just a short distance from the city centre is the absolute comfort you desire. The hotel's amenities, services, and facilities will surely meet — if not exceed — your expectations. Each room features superb provisions, which include dining facilities. Some of our guest spaces are also fitted with a mini-refrigerator, delivering greater ease to your holiday. Furthermore, round-the-clock security, limousine/car rental, and laundry services are among the many conveniences you have access of during your stay.
From the hotel, you can easily reach and explore the state capital's most interesting attractions. For one, a quick 3-minute walk already brings you to City Square, a famous shopping centre and office complex in the Central Business District. Other places of local interest are also just some minutes away. Indeed, its excellent location paired with quality services and facilities make AmanSari an easy first choice for a hotel in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
Giving You Nothing But Supreme Comfort
Our 3-star accommodation in Johor Bahru includes convenient amenities for your satisfaction. When not outside exploring the city, you can relax in one of our 263 spacious rooms furnished with individually controlled air-conditioning system. To help you unwind even more is a 32-inch LCD TV with Astro cable, with which you can browse through numerous local and international channels. You may enjoy the atmosphere of our guest spaces even more with high-speed wireless Internet access. In addition, there is a private electronic safe at your disposal. Details.
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The hotel has 24-hour reception and concierge, laundry service, and handicapped room facilities. Furthermore, you can also loosen up in the cafe and lounge during your empty hours. If staying over for a conference, you can use the meeting room fully equipped with top-of-the-line facilities. Moreover, it should also be noted that the hotel has a CCTV system, so guests will always feel safe within the walls of our hotel. With these facilities and services, AmanSari Hotel City Centre Johor Bahru provides security and ease to your respite in the southern Malaysian state's capital city. Details.
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ENGS 151: Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Applications of fluid mechanics to natural flows of water and air in environmentally relevant systems. The course begins with a review of fundamental fluid physics with emphasis on mass, momentum, and energy conservation. These concepts are then utilized to study processes that naturally occur in air and water, such as boundary layers, waves, instabilities, turbulence, mixing, convection, plumes, and stratification. The knowledge of these processes is then sequentially applied to the following environmental fluid systems: rivers and streams, wetlands, lakes and reservoirs, estuaries, the coastal ocean, smokestack plumes, urban airsheds, the lower atmospheric boundary layer, and the troposphere. Interactions between air and water systems are also studied in context, e.g., sea breeze in the context of the lower atmospheric boundary layer.


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Actor Nick Name: Bharath
Mother Tongue: Tamil
Religion: Hindu
Nationality: Indian
Profession: Actor
Father: Srinivasan
Mother: Lakshmi
School: DAV
College: New college
Debut Tamil: Boys
Debut Malayalam: 4 the People
Debut Telugu: Yuvaseena
Favourite Actors:Vijay and Ajith, Russel Crowe and Mel Gibson.
Favourite Actress: Simran and Jyothika
Favourite Music: Hip hop, rock and Indian folk.
Favourite Movies:Nayakan,Indian
Hobbies: Dancing,music, gym, travelling, roaming
Bharath (born July 21st, 1983) is a brilliant Kollywood actor. A trained dancer by profession, his luck brought him into movies. He debuted in Boys directed by S. Shankar. The film was a musical hit and it fared well in box-office.
He then acted in the remake of the Malayalam film 4 the people, 4 Students which was a musical hit and was a blockbuster in Kerala. One of his recent movies Kaadhal by a debutant director (assistant of S. Shankar) and Produced by Shankar was a blockbuster of the year. Kaadhal was well received everywhere and his performance as the naive but sweet lover was highly praised. His film Pattiyal, brought him even more great recognition for playing a dumb and deaf lover.
His latest releases are Chennai Kadhal and Veyil both released on December 8, 2006. He has received great accolades and the film is a hit. He was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai.
His next projects are Killadi directed by Salem A. Chandrasekharan , Nepali, directed by Dhurai, and an untitled movie with director Ravikumar. Bharath's forthcoming Tamil release Khilladi is going to be dubbed in telugu too.


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Major Section: HISTORY
Example: :pe fn ; sketches the command that introduced fn and ; prints in full the event within it that created fn.See logical-name.
Pe takes one argument, a logical name, and prints in full the event
corresponding to the name.
Pe also sketches the command responsible
for that event if the command is different from the event itself.
See pc for a description of the format used to display a command. To
remind you that the event is inferior to the command, i.e., you can only
undo the entire command, not just the event, the event is indented
slightly from the command and a slash (meant to suggest a tree branch)
connects them.
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will print the above information for every such event. Here is an
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ACL2 !>:pe nth -4270 (ENCAPSULATE NIL ...) \ >V (VERIFY-TERMINATION NTH)
Additional events for the logical name NTH: PV -4949 (DEFUN NTH (N L) "Documentation available via :doc" (DECLARE (XARGS :GUARD (AND (INTEGERP N) (>= N 0) (TRUE-LISTP L)))) (IF (ENDP L) NIL (IF (ZP N) (CAR L) (NTH (- N 1) (CDR L))))) ACL2 !>


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By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — When Martha Chesley, a longtime volunteer at the Bristol food shelf, staffed the shelf's August distribution night a few weeks ago, something struck her as different.
"I noticed people that I've never seen come here before," she said. And, when she later took a look at the food shelf's stocks, she and the other volunteers noticed that "things were pretty slim."
Chesley's gut feeling — that more families are turning out for food assistance, and that food shelves are struggling to keep up with rising demand — turned out to be more than just a hunch.
In a trend that reaches beyond Bristol, area food shelves are seeing increased traffic as more families — more new faces — turn out for food assistance.
"We've taken a jump," the co-director of Bristol's food shelf, Rebecca Price, confirmed. "Shelves are getting bare."
Last month, Price said, the number of families coming to the shelf for help jumped from a relatively steady 30 or 35 per month to 46 — a significant increase for a small, donations-only operation.
In Vergennes, at the much-larger food shelf in the Congregational Church, numbers have also been shooting up. (Unlike the Bristol shelf, which opens up just once a month to distribute bags of food, the shelf in Vergennes is open three times a week, serving families from as far afield as Orwell, Monkton and Starksboro.)
Between 2006 and 2007, the number of families using the food shelf at the Vergennes Congregational Church jumped 25 percent, and they've seen another 25-percent hike this year, according to food shelf coordinator Mary Ann Castimore.
Now, Castimore said, the shelf is helping feed around 125 households.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — The mother of the late Nicholas Garza has hired a forensics specialist to provide a second opinion on the circumstances surrounding her son's death, which state and local authorities are currently calling accidental.
It was May 27 that local officials found the remains of Nicholas Garza, a 19-year-old freshman at Middlebury College, near the base of the Otter Creek Falls. Garza had been missing since the evening of Feb. 5, when he was last seen on campus.
Middlebury police continue to amass information in their investigation of Garza's death, including toxicology reports and information from the office of the state's chief medical examiner. But information, to date, continues to lead authorities to the conclusion that Garza had consumed alcohol on a cold Feb. 5 and then accidentally fell into the frigid Otter Creek.
"There is absolutely no indication of foul play," said Addison County State's Attorney John Quinn. "I think we had a Middlebury College student who drank alcohol and probably wandered down the wrong path and fell into the river."
Quinn said he has reviewed investigators' reports in the case and believes "every possible lead was run down and every person rumored to have known something about (the case) was spoken to."
Quinn said he would, if given the opportunity, review any material that may be uncovered by an investigator recently hired by the Garza family to furnish a second opinion about the circumstances surrounding Nicholas's death.
That investigator, according to Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley, is Dr. Michael Baden, who is a medical doctor and forensic pathologist. He is also an author and former chief medical examiner for the state of New York.
Natalie Garza, Nicholas's mother, could not be reached for comment as the Addison Independent went to press.
LINCOLN — Lincoln author Louella Bryant's latest book fell into her lap — literally.
Or rather, it was placed there — in the form of an old box brimming with photographs, letters and a well-worn journal, delivered to Bryant by her husband.
"It was the book," Bryant said. "It was the whole book in this box."
"While in Darkness There is Light," which hits bookstore shelves this week, tells the fascinating story of a group of young, privileged American men who left the United States in the early 1970s. Disillusioned with American politics and blessed with the resources to travel the world, they set off for Australia and an agricultural commune in Far North Queensland.
One of these young men is Charlie Dean, the younger brother of Democratic National Committee Chairman and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Charlie would later disappear in the jungles of Laos and die at the hands of the communist Pathet Lao. (Charlie's name cropped up in mainstream media during Howard Dean's 2004 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, when Howard Dean spoke of wearing Charlie's belt every day.)
Another of these young men, as luck would have it, was Harry Reynolds, who would later become Bryant's husband.
Bryant stumbled upon the concept for the book in 2004, shortly after Howard Dean claimed his brother's remains, which had been unearthed in Laos and repatriated at a ceremony in Hawaii. The trip made the news, and inevitably cropped up in conversation one night while Bryant and Reynolds sat on the porch of their quiet home in Lincoln.
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Bourjois's newest foundation release is 123 Perfect, which I happened to spot when I was last in Boots – I didn't hear about it online which suggests it was released with very little fanfare!
When it comes to high street/ drugstore level foundation, Bourjois is one of the few brands I would buy and use – I mean I buff foundation into my face every day and I do prefer the higher end premium bases because I don't like putting cheap crap on my skin. I think Bourjois foundations are very good – they err on the yellow side which is great for my skintone!
123 Perfect Foundation is supposed to be a doer – like the over enthusiastic temp in the office, it kind of does a bit of everything.
They say it has:
3 correcting pigments for zero imperfections:
- Yellow pigments: Anti dark circles
- Mauve pigments: Anti dull complexion
- Green pigments: Anti redness
- 24hr hydration and anti-shine: cotton flower extract
- Medium coverage, yet lets skin breathe
- Soft and smooth formula for a second skin finish
Like Bio Detox this foundation dries quickly. It sets and then it is done, to a slightly powdery finish. It is not as bad as Bio Detox because you DO have time to play with it for a while and blend. I don't personally mind quick drying foundation, it reminds me of my beloved Diorskin Nude.
Pros of this foundation:
1. Light liquid texture
2. Covers well – good on redness, very good indeed, so so with circles
3. Dries quickly
4. Gives a semi matte even finish if that is your thing
Cons of this foundation:
1. Lacks glow and radiance, looks a bit dead on the skin
2. Sticks to any dry patches or bumps
3. No pore cover
It lasts fine, no complaints but I'm not wowed either. It seemed to stay in place for most of the work day.
On me:
There's almost a grey-ish-ness to it.
I don't know, I don't hate this foundation and I would by all means use it sometimes but I am not in love with it enough to recommend it or repurchase – it's just (despite being liquid) a bit heavy looking and makes me look a bit meh.
Buy it from – I got it when it was on the introductory offer (about £6.99 I think).
I have another Bourjois foundation review for you next!
Have you tried this base?!