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By David Postic, a member of the Rotaract Club of Norman, Oklahoma, USA, and a member of the 2013-14 Rotaract and Interact Committee
Baseball is a sport so historically beloved in the United States that it is called "America's pastime." Yet few Americans I know actually watch baseball on a regular basis. Why? Because when you really look at the game, it can seem slow, boring, and it can get old pretty quickly. Most people love the idea of baseball; they just don't love watching it.
Similarly, there are many young people out there (like me) who love the idea of Rotary. But when you really look at any given Rotary club it can seem, well, slow and boring.
I had the luxury of growing up around Rotarians, so when I see Rotary I see something groundbreaking, something transformational. Yet of all the Rotary meetings I have been to, never once have I heard someone say, "Did you know that, through Rotary, you can change the world?" That is Rotary's most powerful message, and it is the one young people need to hear. And if they do not hear it, I can guarantee you they will not be engaged in Rotary.
Generation gap
The problem boils down to this: there can sometimes be a generational gap in Rotary clubs. There are older Rotarians who see it as a social club and younger people who see it as a retirement home. As a result many young people choose not to join those old clubs and instead form new ones. New clubs are by no means bad things, but when all the young people are creating new clubs the math says those old clubs will eventually die.
How do we fix this problem? As a near expert on 22-year-olds, allow me to offer two pieces of advice for any Rotary club looking to recruit young people like me:
First, wake up. If your meetings or service projects are not more exciting than going to the mall, watching the latest episode of American Idol, or even spending an hour on Facebook, young people will not be engaged and they will not join. Get out into the community and serve. Develop innovative projects that truly make a difference. Writing checks is not enough to keep us interested.
Second, let go of your club. Give up control. People my age want to feel like they are making an impact. Give young members responsibilities. Listen to their ideas. Most importantly, make them the leaders and let them change things. If you make it a habit to continuously evolve as a club, you will continue to engage young people and flourish. And when clubs flourish, Rotary flourishes. It is as simple as that.
Rotary is a great idea, and I want to be a part of it. There are millions and millions of young people like me who want to be a part of it too. But as long as Rotary, like baseball, seems to be slow and boring, what reason do we have to join? If you want to engage young Rotarians, wake up and let go. We think that's awesome.
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Holiday Recipes from Midwest Inns
Pork 'n' Pippins Quiche
Round Barn Farm Bed and Breakfast and Bread in Red Wing, Minnesota, serves this sweet-and-savory quiche with a dollop of sour cream and seasoned, broiled tomato halves on the side.
Gingerbread Waffles with Hot Lemon Curd Sauce
The B&B Southmoreland on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, shared their recipe for spicy waffles.
Swedish Lemon Pancakes
A delicate crepelike pancake folds like an envelope around tangy lemon curd in this pretty brunch dish from Abilene's Victorian Inn in Kansas. The whipped sour cream topping is a breeze to make.
Mini Egg Pastries with Bearnaise Sauce
The Cold Spring Inn in Hubertus, Wisconsin, served these elegant brunch pastries with cinnamon rolls and fruit. The herby bearnaise sauce is a bit fussy to make compared to purchased hollandaise sauce, but you'll notice a real difference in flavor.
Spiced Pumpkin Bisque
The Inn at Irish Hollow in Galena, Illinois, serves this creamy, curried soup throughout the fall and winter. You can make your own crème fraîche for the garnish, or use purchased crème fraiche or sour cream.
Butternut Squash and Apple Salad
Sweet squash and apple pair with sharp Gorgonzola and tangy dressing in this autumn salad from Black Star Farm in Suttons Bay, Michigan. The dressing calls for verjus, a tart pressed grape juice. You can order verjust online or find it as specialty stores, but wine vinegar makes a good substitute.
Pumpkin Bread
The innkeepers at Burchell's White Hill Farmhouse Inn in Minden, Nebraska, make this moist spiced bread using homegrown heirloom pumpkins, but this version of their recipe uses canned puree.
Hot Holiday Apple Cider
This rosy cider simmers for just 10 minutes, making a great choice for drop-in visitors or last-minute parties. The recipe comes from Burchell's White Hill Farmhouse Inn in Minden, Nebraska.
Hudson Bay Bread
This dense, chewy calorie-packed bar has long been the portable food of choice for trappers and now campers canoeing Minnesota's Boundary Waters. For a boost of protein, smear the bar with peanut butter. Our version comes from the Gunflint Lodge in Grand Marais.
Mystery Cookies
You won't believe the secret ingredient in these moist spice cookies: canned tomato soup! The recipe comes from the Inn and Spa at Cedar Falls in Logan, Ohio.
Oreo Truffles
These easy candies look elegant but are simple to make. This holiday dessert recipe comes from the Inn and Spa at Cedar Falls in Logan, Ohio.
Pistachio Cranberry Icebox Cookies
These cookies from the Inn at Cedar Falls in Logan, Ohio, make a colorful treat anytime of year.
Fruit and Nut Granola
At Abilene's Victorian Inn in Kansas, guests might eat this granola with milk or layered in a parfait with yogurt and fruit. We love how the recipe lets you customize the nuts and fruit to your taste.
Pork Tenderloin with Mushrooms and Onions
You can have this comforting winter supper dish on the table in less than an hour, but it's nice enough to serve to company with steamed veggies and mashed potatoes. The recipes comes from Gunflint Lodge in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

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Firefighters and the Situation of "Merit"
Posted by The Situationist Staff on July 16, 2009
The following excerpted op-ed, "Trial by Firefighters," co-written by Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier and Columbia Law Professor Susan Sturm, was published in the July 11, 2009, edition of The New York Times. They are also the co-authors of "Who's Qualified: A New Democracy Forum on the Future of Affirmative Action" (Beacon Press, 2001).
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STANDING on the steps of the federal courthouse in New Haven, the lawyer Karen Torre reveled in her clients' victory in a recent case before the Supreme Court. She anointed her clients — the white firefighters who scored well on a promotion test — "a symbol" for millions of Americans who are "tired of seeing individual achievement and merit take a back seat to race and ethnicity."
But the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision last month — that New Haven should not have scrapped the test — perpetuates profound misconceptions about the capacity of paper-and-pencil tests to gauge a person's potential on the job. Exams like the one the New Haven firefighters took are neither designed nor administered to identify the employees most qualified for promotion. And Ms. Torre's identity-politics sloganeering diverts attention from what we need most: a clear-eyed reassessment of our blind faith in entrenched testing regimes.
New Haven used a multiple-choice test to measure its firefighters' retention of information from national firefighting textbooks and study guides. Civil service tests like these do not identify people who are best suited for leadership positions. The most important skills of any fire department lieutenant or captain are steady command presence, sound judgment and the ability to make life-or-death decisions under pressure. In a city that is nearly 60 percent black and Latino, the ability to promote cross-racial harmony under stress is also crucial.
These skills are not well measured by tests that reward memorization and ask irrelevant questions like whether it is best to approach a particular emergency from uptown or downtown even when the city isn't oriented that way. The Civil Service Board in New Haven declined to certify the test not only because of concerns about difference in scores between black and white firefighters but also because it failed to assess qualities essential for firefighting.
As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted in her dissent, tests drawn from national textbooks often do not match a city's local firefighting needs. Most American fire departments have abandoned such tests or limited the multiple-choice format to 30 percent or less of an applicant's score. In New Haven, the test still accounted for 60 percent of the score. Compounding the problem, insignificant numerical score differences were used to rank the firefighter candidates.
What should a city do when its promotion test puts a majority of its population at a disadvantage and is also unlikely to predict essential job performance? People who excel on such a test may expect to be promoted. But testing should not be about allocating prizes to winners. No one has a proprietary right to a particular open job, even if that person worked hard preparing for a test.
When a city replaces a bad test, as New Haven wanted to do, the employees who did well on it do not lose their right to compete for promotions; they merely need to compete according to procedures that actually identify people who advance the mission of saving lives and property — and enhance the department's reputation in the community for treating all citizens with respect.
Yet many Americans believe so strongly that tests are fair that they never question the outcomes, especially when those outcomes conform to stereotypes about people of color. Such preconceptions lead to the conclusion that blacks or Latinos who don't do well must lack individual initiative or ability.
As the plaintiff in the New Haven case, Frank Ricci, declared, "If you work hard, you can succeed in America." His lawyer went further: White officials who voted for a better assessment system must have been lowering "the professional standard of competence," she said, "for the sake of identity politics." Yet, in New Haven, no one was promoted instead of the white firefighters.
In fact, many fire departments with a history of discrimination, like New Haven's, still stack the deck in favor of candidates who have relationships to people already in the fire department. Those without $500 for the study materials or a relative or friend from whom they might borrow the books were put at a disadvantage.
Moreover, it was the firefighters union — which sided with the white firefighters in the Supreme Court — that negotiated the contractual mandate giving disproportionate weight to the multiple-choice test. Those negotiations occurred two decades ago when the leadership of the department was virtually all white. Taking this into account, after five days of public hearings, Malcolm Webber, one of the white members of the New Haven Civil Service Board, said: "I've heard enough testimony here to give me great doubts about the test itself and the testing — some of the procedures. And I believe we can do better."
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To read the entire op-ed, click here. For a collection of previous Situationist posts discussing how situation influences standardized test scores, click here. For those discussing Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sotomayor, click here.


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Today Microsoft announced the general availability of all of the software and services related to its Office 2013 platform. This includes the Professional and Pro Plus versions of the Office client suite as well as on-premises and hosted versions of its Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync server products. The company also announced the availability of an update to its Office 365 software-as-a-service for businesses, with three new subscription plans.
Office 2013 Professional Plus includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, the Lync chat and conferencing client, OneNote, the Access desktop database, Publisher, and InfoPath designer and Filler for creating SharePoint workflows. It also includes SkyDrive Pro, which can connect to SharePoint libraries and personal storage space, synchronizing files between the cloud and the user's PC.
In addition to its existing Office 365 for Business plans, Microsoft has launched three new service subscriptions:
- Office 365 ProPlus is a subscription version of Office Professional 2013 (similar to Office 365 Home Premium), which allows the subscriber to run "streamed" copies of Office Professional 2013 on up to five PCs. The installation uses application virtualization and can run alongside locally installed versions of Office without conflicts. The service costs $144 per user per year and is included as part of the update to Office 365 Enterprise premium versions as well as a new midsize-business service offering.
- Office 365 Midsize Business is a new mid-size offering designed for companies with up to 250 employees. It provides integration with on-site Active Directory services, along with online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and Lync. The plan, which also includes phone support, costs $180 a year per user.
- Office 365 Small Business Premium is a new plan for companies with up to 10 employees. SBP includes Exchange, SharePoint and Lync services as well as streamed office applications, but it doesn't include the enterprise features of the backend services such as e-discovery. It's priced at $150 per user per year.
We'll be publishing full reviews of the new Office 365 and Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Lync 2013 servers over the next few days. It's clear from the pricing and packaging of the plans—along with our experience with Microsoft's latest offerings—that they've been tuned to be more competitive with Google Apps for Business, while accelerating adoption of the new Office client suite. The additional security and e-discovery features included in the latest release of Exchange Online and the Exchange 2013 Enterprise server, for example, are an answer to Google 's Vault, part of the $10-per-month-per user premium version of the Google Apps for Business service.


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WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne - Patch 1.17
From Liquipedia Warcraft Wiki
Patch 1.17
Patch Information
Release Date:
- Two new Neutral Heroes, the Firelord and the Goblin Alchemist, have been added to the game.
- Balance Updates
Chronology (Balance Updates)
- Two new Neutral Heroes, the Firelord and the Goblin Alchemist, have been added to the game. For further information on these exciting new Heroes and a listing of their abilities, visit http://www.battle.net/war3.
- A "Profile" button has been added to the Battle.net toolbar. You can now look at your profile from the Battle.net news page without ever entering chat.
- Replays now display their version number in the Replay selection screen.
- Designating a new clan chieftain now includes a confirmation dialogue.
- 9 maps from our Bonus Map program including:
- (8) Funny Bunny's Egg Hunt
- (8) Shamrock Reef
- (8) Dragon Falls
- (8) Deadlock
- (8) Gold Rush
- (8) Slalom
- (8) Copper Canyon
- (8) Rolling Hills
- (4) Predators
- Fixed a problem with Burning Oil that caused the effect to not be created when buildings were attacked directly.
- Fixed a problem that caused some instant spells cast after a targeted spell to execute before the targeted spell.
- Fixed problems with the Melee AI when it attempted to use certain instant spells.
- Fixed a problem with Morphing units re-executing commands that were interrupted by the morph timer expiring.
- Fixed an exploit that would allow players to track enemy units under the fog of war with queued move commands.
- Fixed a problem with units following enemy units and never proceeding to the next order when they moved underneath the fog.
- Fixed a problem with spells that can target a point or unit (like Shockwave) failing when the selected target dies. If the selected target runs under the fog or teleports, the spell is intended to fail.
- Fixed a problem with Envenomed Spears wearing off too early if the affected unit was also affected by Slow Poison or the Orb of Venom.
- Fixed the invisibility transition time for levels 2 and 3 of Wind Walk.
- Fixed the orb air attack speeds for the Blood Mage, Pit Lord, and Firelord.
- Fixed the armor upgrade values for Human, Orc, and Undead shops.
- Fixed a problem preventing Phased Faerie Dragons from teleporting.
- Fixed an issue with Faerie Dragons that could cause them to become unresponsive to most commands if you Phase Shifted just as the unit was attacking something.
- Fixed Doom so that the spell now has a maximum creep level.
- Fixed an issue that caused Crypt Fiends to deactivate Web when they unburrowed.
- Fixed a problem with Cleaving Attack that would prevent it from working when Orbs were equipped.
- Fixed an issue with Cleaving Attack that would cause Thorns Aura to reflect damage on targets that took splash damage.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Orb of Annihilation's splash damage to ignore armor.
- Fixed a problem that could cause Metamorphosis to cancel the effects of a Staff of Teleportation.
- Fixed Devour such that devoured units now give experience to the owner of the Kodo Beast if it gets polymorphed/hexed and instantly digests the unit.
- Fixed rally points such that friendly units will no longer cancel rally orders to Heroes that teleport, Blink, or Mirror Image.
- Fixed illusions so they now get correct damage, armor, life, and mana bonuses consistent with the original units.
- Fixed an issue with morphed units that could cause them to cost food when revived by Animate Dead if they had died in their morphed form.
- Fixed the Storm Pandaren (from the Pandaren Brewmaster's ultimate) so it now correctly displays Wind Walk's backstab damage.
- Fixed a problem with Flame Strike that wouldn't allow Blood Mages to become invisible after they finished channeling the spell. Prior to this fix, the Blood Mage would become visible for as long as damage was taking place, despite the fact that he was no longer casting the spell.
- Fixed upgrading buildings such that they now receive the correct hit point bonus from the Masonry upgrade.
- Fixed a problem that could cause manually cast arrow abilities to occasionally fail.
- Fixed racial shops so they no longer block line of sight.
- Fixed multiple units' casting the same spell so they now distribute the load more efficiently.
- Fixed creeps so that missile spells no longer wake them when launched. Instead, the creeps now wake when a spell hits.
- Fixed channeling units so they will auto-queue orders issued to the entire selection except for Stop and Hide. Orders issued to the selected subgroup will break channeling (so you can teleport out of the area while channeling).
- Fixed units in the middle of a non-channeling spell such that they will now auto-queue all orders until the spell is complete.
- Fixed Hero icons so their order is now consistent throughout the game.
- Fixed replay speeds so they can once again be changed while the replay is paused.
Expansion - Frozen Throne[edit]
- (4) Turtle Rock
- Top right and bottom left creep camps now drop equivalent items.
- Top right and bottom left creep camps now drop equivalent items.
- (4) Twisted Meadows
- Added some trees near the south Mercenary Camp to prevent mercenary purchase without engaging the creeps.
- Added some trees to prevent item purchase from Goblin Merchant without engaging creep camp.
- Added some trees near the south Mercenary Camp to prevent mercenary purchase without engaging the creeps.
- (6) Demon's Crossing
- Removed the two Dragon Roosts and their accompanying creep camps from both sides of the map, then altered the creep camp guarding the remaining Dragon Roost.
- Rebalanced most of the creep camps to be more player friendly.
- Removed the two Dragon Roosts and their accompanying creep camps from both sides of the map, then altered the creep camp guarding the remaining Dragon Roost.
- (6) Monsoon
- Added some trees near the water line to prevent units from moving behind them.
- Added some trees near the water line to prevent units from moving behind them.
- (6) Typhoon
- Added some trees near the expansion gold mines to prevent the creeps from harassing players when they pass by.
- Added some trees to start locations and moved bottom middle start location closer to trees to help with initial harvesting.
- Added some trees near the expansion gold mines to prevent the creeps from harassing players when they pass by.
- (6) Upper Kingdom
- The two center creep camps that are guarding gold mines have been pushed back from common pathing areas.
- The two center creep camps that are guarding gold mines have been pushed back from common pathing areas.
- (8) Mur'gul Oasis
- Center creeps pushed further back away from common pathing areas through the middle.
- Center creeps pushed further back away from common pathing areas through the middle.
- (8) Gold Rush
- Fixed missing Tavern from the bottom left corner.
- Fixed missing Tavern from the bottom left corner.
Classic - Reign of Chaos[edit]
- (6) Dark Forest
- Cleaned up some trees to provide wider areas for larger groups to path through.
- The creep camp guarding the top middle expansion gold mine no longer attacks units that path nearby.
- Cleaned up some trees to provide wider areas for larger groups to path through.
Balance Updates[edit]
- Haunted and Entangled Gold Mines are now indicated on the minimap.
- The experience bonus for having a single Hero and owning a tier-2 or tier-3 town hall has been increased to +15%/+30% from +10%/+20%.
- Line damage spells such as Shockwave, Carrion Swarm, Breath of Fire, and Breath of Frost no longer damage a targeted friendly unit.
- Default autocast spells (like Abolish Magic or Bloodlust) that require research will now have autocast enabled when the research completes.
- Arrow abilities set to autocast now override Orb effects.
- Repairing an upgrading building now uses the repair time and cost of the original building.
- Harvesting, building, and repairing workers are the only units left behind by a teleport.
- Hexed and polymorphed units now have the same statistics as the normal units except for movement speed and the model. Previously, these abilities were changing the armor type and hit point regeneration type.
- Constructing Peasants are now included in group selections. A constructing Peasant will automatically queue all orders unless it is the only unit selected, or until it receives a Stop order.
- Channeling ultimates now cancel invulnerability. If an invulnerability spell is used while channeling, channeling will end.
- Damage-capped AOE spells now have a seperate cap for friendly, enemy, and neutral units.
- Enemy units now take damage from Lightning Shielded illusions.
- If a unit is rallied to a unit/Hero that dies, the rallied unit will now continue to move towards the last spot the rally target occupied.
- Defend has been reworked. Piercing damage is still reduced by 50%, and there is now an additional 30% chance that a defending Footman will reflect unit attacks back on the source for full damage. Piercing damage building attacks have a 30% chance to do no damage.
- Banish now costs mana 75/60/50 by level, and has a 0-second cooldown at all levels, down from 5/3/1 seconds.
- Siphon Mana drain per second has been reduced to 15/30/45 from 18/35/55.
- Siphon Mana has been reworked. It now transfers mana from an enemy to the Blood Mage, or from the Blood Mage to an ally. Additionally, Siphon Mana can push the Blood Mage's mana up to as much as twice its normal maximum value, though mana gained in this way drains off rapidly if not used.
- Blood Mage attack speed increased by 30%.
- Flame Strike damage cap set to the equivalent of 6 targets, up from 5.
- Knight hit points increased to 835 from 800.
- Arcane Towers now deal 20 bonus damage per attack to summoned units.
- Divine Shield can no longer be deactivated.
- Phoenixes no longer regenerate life from a Fountain of Health.
- Death Knight base armor reduced to 3 from 4.
- Banshee attack range increased to 600 from 500.
- Units raised by Animate Dead are now invulnerable to dispels as well as damage.
- Destroyers no longer regenerate mana from a Fountain of Mana.
- Unsummoning an upgraded building now provides resources for the original building in addition to the cost of the upgrade (before it was just the cost of the upgrade).
- The Nerubian Towers' frost attacks now properly affect magic-immune units.
- Devour Magic now dispels the owl summoned by Sentinel, but does not give mana to the Destroyer.
- Since we have corrected the splash damage bug with Destroyers, we have reverted Destroyers to their old 1.14 statistics. Destroyers now have mana regeneration of -3/sec (down from -6/sec), Orb of Annihilation now costs 25 mana down from 50 mana, and Devour Magic restores 75 mana per unit dispelled, down from 150. Note that Devour Magic no longer gives health or mana when a player devours friendly buffs.
- Wind Walk now allows the Blademaster to walk through units.
- Wind Walk's backstab damage reduced to 40/70/100 from 50/85/120.
- Chain Lightning will now jump to sleeping targets if the primary target is also asleep.
- Tauren Chieftain base Intelligence increased to 15 from 14.
- Troll Batrider build time increased from 25 to 28.
- Unstable Concoction primary target damage increased to 600 from 550.
- Troll Batriders can no longer use Unstable Concoction while Banished.
- Experience granted for killing the Spirit Wolves summoned by the spell Feral Spirit increased by approximately 40%.
- Spirit Walkers now appear before Raiders and Kodo Beasts in the group selection.
- Spirit Link can now be used to affect illusions.
Night Elf[edit]
- Abolish Magic no longer auto-dispels hero spells.
- Abolish Magic no longer removes positive buffs on friendlies or negative buffs on enemies when manually cast (it already did this for autocast).
- Rejuvenation can now target magic immune units
- Faerie Fire armor debuff reduced to 4 from 5.
- Archer hit points increased to 245 from 240.
- Faerie Dragon damage increased to 14-16 from 13-14.
- Level-1 Entangling Roots base duration reduced to 9 seconds from 12, but level-3 Entangling Roots damage increased to 25 per second from 15 per second.
- Ancient Protector's attack now uses a homing missile.
- The Huntress' bouncing attacks will no longer bounce back to the initial target.
- Shadow Strike is no longer removed by Banish.
- Taunt now affects only the 10 closest units. It is also now disabled by Banish.
- Naga Sea Witch speed reduced to 270 from 300.
- Cluster Rockets mana cost reduced to 70 from 75.
- Voidwalker mercenaries now cost 2 food, up from 1.
- Hydras spawned from a splitting parent are no longer considered summoned units.
- Targeting an unwalkable location with a Scroll of Town Portal will now try to place units as close to that location as possible. If no valid location can be found, the units will be teleported to an area around the town hall.
- All Orbs now affect magic-immune units.
- Orb of Corruption debuff can no longer be dispelled.
- Orb of Fire now deals Spell damage instead of Magic damage.
- Mechanical Critters are no longer displayed on the minimap.
- Mechanical Critters no longer teleport with you.
- Amulet of Spell Shield no longer blocks physical skills (e.g., Ensnare).
- Replays are incompatible between major game revisions (1.16 replays cannot be viewed with the 1.17 version of Warcraft III). Custom save games will not load from version 1.16.


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The Pittsburgh Pirates racing pierogies continued their 4-game visit to Nationals Park with a set of relay races against the Washington Nationals racing presidents. Last night's game featured a traditional baton relay, with Tom and George pacing the field over sets of hurdles placed along the warning track.
Tonight, the teams were switched, as each racing president was paired with one of the Pittsburgh pierogies in a comical and painfully slow 3-legged race. Teddy and Sauerkraut Saul pulled into the lead before tripping and falling along the first base line. Pittsburgh favorite Jalapeño Hannah was tied to Abe Lincoln and positioned to take the lead when Teddy and Saul collapsed.
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The first thing I noticed when visiting Pompeii ten years ago was the smell of sulfur in the air. The scent serves as a current reminder that Mount Vesuvius is still an active volcano prone to eruption. If you have ever visited LACMA on a hot summer day by way of the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, you can imagine a similar repugnant odor—at times you can even witness the asphalt bubble up from the grass and seep up through the cracks in the sidewalk around the area.
The natural elements surrounding the areas of Pompeii and LACMA share a common thread: the volcanic ash from Mt. Vesuvius and the asphalt from the Tar Pits helped preserve the objects trapped in their respective areas for thousands of years. Fortunately for us, these finds help today's public learn about the art historic and prehistoric past.
The asphalt from the imperceptible Tar Pits aided in maintaining the bones of the animals as the sticky residue trapped and encompassed any living thing unfortunate enough to get stuck in it, allowing modern archaeologists to examine the remains and piece together a timeline of the past. For example, the wall full of Dire Wolf skulls at the Page Museum next to LACMA reveals that a number of this species thrived in this area at a given time, perhaps even preying on the smaller animals stuck in the pits.
Similarly, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD caused layers upon layers of volcanic ash to fall on the towns around the Bay of Naples, virtually encapsulating the city of Pompeii. The mounds of ash shielded the city, stunting its deterioration from the outdoor elements until modern organized excavations began in the 1700s.
Particularly in terms of art history, the archaeological finds of Pompeii disclose a fascinating look into the life of ancient Rome. As our current Pompeii exhibition focuses on aspects of the Roman villa, the viewers are privy to the finest quality of art produced at the time since the wealthy patrons who could afford lavish dwellings could also sensibly afford to decorate them. Through frescoes depicting exotic birds signifying opulence, mosaics reflecting admired Greek philosophy, drinking vessels, sculpture, water fountains, and several other villa-related objects, today's audience can get a glimpse into a flourishing, complex civilization approximately two thousand years prior defined by social rank, aesthetic, and cultural function through its art—and yet still vulnerable to its environs. While the show presents a vast amount discovered, it's telling that with portions of Pompeii still unexcavated, there is still so much to learn.


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Guest Blogger: Imperial Coconut Stout
I've not had the best of news this week. I won't say what it is, but its not good.
Funny thing though, when bad things happen my mind tends to get creative. I'm now thinking about making an imperial coconut stout as my next batch of beer.
I toyed with the idea of a brown coconut ale, but something kept saying imperial style, and so I've decided to go with my gut, and make it.
This will be the third beer I've used coconut in, and I love using it. Its just so challenging to get the flavors right, and the right amount of toasting as well.
Part of the joy of making beer for me is not making something I know how to, but making something I could royally mess up. This could be one of those times. I have no idea if the alcohol might over power the flavor of the coconut, or if I use too much, or too little coconut how that will make the beer taste.
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Kid television actor turned go-to comic straight man Jason Bateman makes a – shall we say surprising? – feature-directing debut with 'Bad Words.' Written by Andrew Dodge, it's a wicked, fairly straight-faced and unapologetically foul-mouthed comedy about a 40-year-old jerk, Bateman's Guy Trilby, who enters children's spelling bees on a technicality and works his way up to the national finals. Shot at such Los Angeles landmarks as the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City and Hollywood's American Legion Hall, the low-budget laugher/cringer was made with all local talent except for New Yorker Rohan Chand, who plays the friendly young competitor Guy bonds with. Like his sister, 'Family Ties' star Justine Bateman, 45-year-old Jason was inspired by their producer-director father, Kent, to enter show business at an early age. He was a regular on series such as 'Little House on the Prairie,' 'Silver Spoons' and 'Valerie' in his youth, and before making a comeback with 'Arrested Development,' he became the Directors Guild's youngest member ever when he shot a few episodes of 'Valerie.' A long list of roles in mostly funny movies ('Juno,' 'Horrible Bosses,' 'Identity Thief') came before he got back into the director's chair, but he's already planning to do it again. He's helming and co-starring with Nicole Kidman in 'The Family Fang' later this year. Q: How old were you when you directed your first TV show? A: Eighteen, I believe. I don't know if it still stands, but at the time, they called me on the set in the middle of that week, and they said, 'You know, you're the youngest director in the history of the DGA. You beat Malcolm-Jamal Warner by a few months and Steven Spielberg by a few more.' Q: So, why did it take so long to get to a feature film? A: I did a handful of television episodes in the interim and was actually pointed in that direction before 'Arrested Development' happened. But even a couple of years before that, I'd constantly be getting (acting jobs) in a pilot or a movie-of-the-week or something like that. You kind of have to pursue directing full tilt, and 'Arrested Development' yielded a lot of good opportunities for me. But the stuff that followed 'Arrested Development' set the table even better for me to kick this door open as a director. Q: Was directing a feature as difficult as you'd expected, or easier? A: It was as challenging as I'd hoped it would be and it was as comfortable as I'd hoped it would be. It certainly wasn't easy, but I was hoping that it would be as involved as it was. Q: Did you ask your dad for any pointers? A: He doesn't live in the city anymore, so he wasn't around to lean on for pointers and whatnot. But he was very influential in me wanting to get into the business initially. He would take me to movie theaters when I was a kid, as opposed to the park, so my love of movies started very, very early. He was the one who'd explain to me which ones were good and which ones weren't, and oftentimes that would lead to a conversation about the director and what a director does. Q: You hadn't initially planned to act in 'Bad Words.' A: I went to a couple of actors that were real big shots, and they were either not interested or busy. Then I said, why don't I play this part, because it's a tricky tone to hit, and I felt like I had a fairly good chance of hitting that. I also felt, just selfishly, it would kind of lighten my load as a director; I wouldn't need to direct the lead actor. Q: Why did you choose this rather alarming and subversive thing for your debut? A: This had a comedic tone that really appealed to me. I have a very dark sense of humor and there was a challenge to do something as prickly as this and still make it appealing. Q: Was it fun to say so many bad words? A: Yes and no. I can't remember how many bad words I actually say in this thing. It's certainly not up to something like a 'Wolf of Wall Street.' The spelling bee words were rather difficult. I had to have them written on boards. Q: Talk about working with the kids – and their parents. A: Rohan and his father, and all the other kids in the movie, read the script, they knew what was coming. I have no idea what kid actors there were that found it too offensive to participate, since they obviously didn't come to auditions. But those that came were on board. They didn't demand an explanation as to what the tone would be and what the taste level of execution would be, but I offered it. I would want, as a parent, for the director to say 'OK, this is going to be a challenging scene for your kid to listen to and take part in, from nudity to profanity and all of these things, but let me try to give you a context for how I'm going to try to present it to the audience.' Q: How did your own experience as a child actor influence how you worked with the kids? A: I remembered the way I liked to be treated. You want to be treated as an adult, but you also need to be able to act like a kid sometimes. I made sure the set was a fun place. Any actor is going to give you their best performance if they're feeling safe, so for a kid, that's a different package of things. I was part friend, part colleague and part director. Q: Was it all shot in Southern California? A: Yes. Q: Did you get any money from the state tax incentive program? A: No. Our budget was so low that any sort of rebate would be pretty insignificant, and would probably be gobbled up by travel if we shot anywhere else. So I made a decision to change the location from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles. And because we had a very small budget, a lot of actors and crew members I was going to ask to do me a favor and slum it in a small movie live here. When you're asking them to take a fraction of what they usually make, it's nice to add the incentive of you get to sleep in your own bed. Q: Overall, did this make you want to continue directing? A: Yes. I would love to do it nonstop.
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Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave
Musical preparation: Enrico Dovico
Conductor: Martin Leginus
Stage director: Arnaud Bernard
Sets: Alessandro Camera
Costumes: Carla Ricotti
Chorus master: Adolf Melichar
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Premiere: October 5, 2006
Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, to the libretto based on Alexandre Dumas's novel La Dame aux camélias, about Marie Duplessis, the famous courtesan and idol of Parisian society in the 1840s, is actually the very first significant opera to a contemporary social theme. The work's premiere in 1863 in Venice was, however, a fiasco: the audience was appalled that the lead role had been assigned to a courtesan who, what's more, was portrayed in a positive light. Yet Verdi's opera soon started garnering plaudits and is now one of the most popular repertoire titles the world over. La traviata has been staged by the opera house (today's State Opera) in Prague since the very beginning of its existence, when it took over the production from the German Estates Theatre.
The opera primarily afforded the opportunity to host celebrated foreign singers, including the legendary Australian soprano Nellie Melby (18 April 1900). The most recent production was undertaken in 2006 by a foreign team headed by the French stage director Arnaud Bernard, with the music being explored by the Italian conductor Enrico Dovico. It is one of the most popular State Opera titles and has been performed to great acclaim abroad too (including Japan, 2007). You will have the opportunity to see only three performances of this production, within the Verdi Festival at the very beginning of the season. Subsequently, during the season you can attend Jana Kališová's production at the National Theatre.
The opera is staged in Italian original version and Czech and English surtitles are used in the performance.
Duration of the performance: 2 hours and 45 minutes with 2 intermissions
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Necole Sims: Don't let the madness take control
I read a Yahoo! article last year saying the weeks leading up to Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve are the busiest for online dating sites. Makes sense. People are looking for someone to spend those dates with.
For the women reading this, there is an event coming up that's much bigger. Be prepared for your Valentine dream date to turn into a March nightmare.
What can be so devastating to a new relationship? Two words: March Madness.
Ask anyone who has been married or with their boyfriend for over five years. If their mate is a sports fan, then March is pure madness. Even if the guy isn't a major sports fan, March turns him into a different kind of animal.
Sleep, work (hopefully), eat, tournament play, brackets. Rinse and repeat.
Still don't believe me? Just watch commercials between now and April 1. Every chicken wing or casual eating restaurant will highlight the fact that they are "the place" to watch March Madness with 8,000 TVs to capture all the action. Then again, you will see this up close and personal when your new love decides his idea of a great date is one of these eateries. He may even bring his buddies. Don't say I didn't warn you.
To be fair, some women are just as bad. I am a bracketeer. I've been known to turn down a date or two if Ohio State makes it to the Sweet 16 or Elite Eight. If they make it to the Final Four, I can get downright crazy. A guy once told me that I should have my testosterone level checked because of my trash talking when Ohio State beat his team. In response, I told him to go take a Midol and man up. Maybe not the most tactful comeback but hey, we're talking NCAA basketball.
One of my best friends fills out several brackets. She is a normal, functional woman who turns into an NCAA beast once play begins. It reminds me of Bruce Banner turning into the Incredible Hulk.
A possible solution is to watch the game with him. You may enjoy it. If not, he'll appreciate the fact that you tried.
My advice to those who are about to experience this? Relax. You can't change him. He is not going to miss a game to attend a home and garden show with you. Most men would rather have a biopsy on their prostate without anesthesia than go to that kind of activity in the first place.
Call up your girlfriends (the ones who aren't watching the games) and take them. Make a day of it. In fact, you may want to find something to do every weekend until the tournament is over.
Most important, don't take it personally. He is not trying to upset you or cause a fight. March Madness doesn't last forever, but hopefully your relationship will.


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Websearch.goodforsearch.info may not be as virus or malware infection. In fact, it is using a valid search engine application programming interface. The only thing that you must worry is the presence of the add-on or extension itself. The fact that your home page is hijacked to Websearch.goodforsearch.info, it is clear that this unwanted program has modified your settings without asking for permission. It has invaded you privacy and just like computer virus, it manipulates some settings for its own good.
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1. Download the tool called AdwCleaner from the location stated below.
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After the previous scans, you may have deleted Websearch.goodforsearch.info from the affected browser. This next step will ensure that no more module of adware will be left on the browser. This free tool scans and checks the browser for unwanted add-on and extension, and if found, Avast Browser Cleanup will give you a report and suggestion.
1. Download this free tool and save it to your desktop.
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Cleaning your internet browser from clutter and unwanted add-on/extension is a must when dealing with Websearch.goodforsearch.info. The procedure below discuss on resetting various browsers to its default state.
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We ask you to provide personal data and documents that may contain personal data. By giving us your personal data you are consenting to us processing it for the purposes stated in this Privacy Notice.
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Personalise any correspondence that we send to you
Conduct insolvency and CCJ credit checks, background checks and to verify your identity
Associate you with your online account.
Submit an application for you to be named as a Designated Premises Supervisor for the pub you are taking.
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Send you legal documentation relating to the site you are taking
Contact you in order to reset your password.
Other opportunities and events if requested
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|Conduct insolvency and CCJ credit checks, background checks and verify your identity.
send you correspondence relating to your application
Submit an application for you to be named as a Designated Premises Supervisor for the pub you are taking.
|Previous addresses
|Conduct credit checks, background checks
|Telephone Number
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Other opportunities and events if requested
|Personal licence number
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Submit an application for you to be named as a Designated Premises Supervisor for the pub you are taking.
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|A record of any criminal convictions
|Assess your suitability to enter into an agreement with us.
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To verify you have the required funds available to start up your pub business
Why do we need to collect your personal data?
We process your personal data on the basis that we have a legitimate interest in supporting your application and servicing your website account once you have given it to us. We need your business plan and proof of funding in order to comply with Pubs Code 2016 legislation. We will also use it to improve your experience of our organisation through our website and other business systems.
What consent options do we offer and how do these affect you?
You will be asked whether you would like to opt in to receive marketing information via email. This includes:
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How long do we keep your personal data?
If your application is successful and we enter into an agreement for a pub then your personal data will be processed according to the Publican Privacy Notice.
If your application is not successful we will keep your personal data for two years from the date your application is submitted.
If you complete your profile but do not submit your application we will keep your personal data for 12 months.
If you complete your registration but do not complete your profile we will keep your personal data for 12 months.
Who do we share your information with?
We do not pass your personal data to 3rd parties for marketing purposes unless you have given us your permission.
We may pass your personal data to the following companies and organisations:
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|Your full name, date of birth, national insurance number, current address and previous addresses
|Cask Marque
|To offer you free membership for the first year upon signing a substantive agreement with us.
|Your full name, email address and the name of your pub
|British Institute of Inn-keeping
|To offer you free membership for the first year upon signing a substantive agreement with us.
|Your full name, email address and the name of your pub
|Ignite Hospitality Consultants Ltd
|To offer you a free website for your pub upon signing a substantive agreement with us.
|Your full name, email address, preferred contact number and the name of your pub
|Flow Hospitality Training
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|Your full name, email address, the name of the Pub you are interested in and the letting status
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The best brokers charge fees through spreads and commissions, and while they may have commissions, they are not based on commissions, but on the money, their clients are trading. Legitimate brokers rarely charge withdrawal fees, at least not very high. For example, many fraudulent brokers charge high withdrawal fees that not only cover service fees.
Fees usually act as a disincentive, such as downtime fees that encourage traders to stay active or compensate the broker for the extra effort in the form of service fees, such as withdrawals via a payment method that the broker doesn't often use. The second important category for a broker to check is commissions, fees, and spreads. The problem with unregulated brokers is that they are untrustworthy and violate the rules.
Make sure you stay away from this broker as it is anonymous and may disappear at any time without warning. We do not recommend trading with 8Infx as this broker was suspected of being a scam. In general, the FCA advises UK investors not to invest with this broker.
However, the Forex broker does not have a compulsory FCA license to do this. The Forex broker is licensed by the VFSC, but this is not enough to offer financial services or products in the UK or Europe.
Low-level regulators have minimum requirements and controls and it is not recommended to register with a broker with a low-level license. Working with an unlicensed broker does not provide protection in the event of broker fraud. The most common sign of a broker scam or a Forex trading scam is that the broker is either not regulated at all or has a low-quality regulatory license.
Any 8Infx review will not only answer the question of whether the broker is licensed or not but will also give some insight into the regulatory body and show if the license is top tier or not. If 8Infx is a no-withdrawal broker, there will likely be problems with their license.
Unfortunately, many non-withdrawal brokers use these excuses as a cover to give the impression that they are not scammers. This is to prevent them from wanting to withdraw their money if they are scammers.
Don't just assume that 8Infx is legal, because it has a friendly chatbot that greets you the first time you visit the site, or because the broker has given you a lot of attention in the first few weeks. If 8Infx tries to keep your funds, it may try to force you to make another transaction when you request a withdrawal.
Some brokers who are not honest will be aggressive towards customers and encourage them to make certain transactions. When the broker gets your money, he can do whatever he wants, as long as it is not supervised. This does not mean you are discouraged-in many cases, trading is safe and reliable, but only if you trade with a suitable broker.
Traders should trade with well-regulated brokers such as UK or Australia brokers and reputable brokers. Submit your 8Infx broker review below and help other traders choose the right broker. Use this review to guide your trading decisions and also do your due diligence on 8Infx.
The above information is not enough to start trading with 8Infx. He can inflict huge losses on his clients and therefore, in our opinion, is a potential scammer.
This factor, however, requires a lot of attention because it is often an area where people can be fooled by brokerage scams. On the other hand, if the broker no longer provides communication methods such as email, phone, text messaging, and chat, and has a support team that does not seem to understand the trade or is evasively asking certain questions, this could be a sign that a scam is or at least a low-quality broker. Sometimes, in Forex trading scams, the fraudulent broker only offers their own platform, which may turn out to be fake.
If you have been contacted by a scammer, please visit our contact page. If you lose your investment in the 8Infx scam, you can use the chatbot to contact us. If you have already lost money from your broker without withdrawing money, please contact us for advice. You are not allowed to withdraw funds from your account. These are some warning signs for troubled brokers.
If you are interested in trading Forex, cryptocurrencies, CFDs or commodities, careful attention to the broker you trade with can prevent broker withdrawal problems and help you avoid broker scams. Many proprietary platforms of high quality brokers can provide a great trading experience. I am happy with them and recommend them if you are looking for a reliable broker.
I don't open many trades, I don't buy many stocks, but in my opinion the 8Infx are some of the best in this category. When I'm a more experienced trader, I might try to move, but for my first real options broker, these guys turned out to be good. My broker is very professional and really helped me a lot in understanding the markets, I also enjoy meeting analysts. I use their STP trading account for small volume trading and their ECN trading account for high volume trading.
When browsing 8Infx, the main problem was that the broker did not provide his physical address in the contacts section. We advise all investors and traders to avoid 8Infx and other Vanuatu brokers. We have a detailed article explaining the risks of trading with Vanuatu brokers.
For further reading, please see 8Infx: trading


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I think a lot about my beloved, dearly departed cat Pickles. Some of you who know me in real life had the distinct privilege of knowing the Divine Miss P. For everyone else, click on the image below for an idea of what she was like:
Pickles was unlike any other cat I've ever known. She was her own breed—a breed of One. Fiendishly smart, contrary, spoiled, overbearing, disdainful, and endlessly lovable.
I'd like to share a little of what our days together were like. Below is an example of a typical Saturday for us. The dialogue has been altered for creative purposes, but the events are all true.
I'm sleeping.
Pickles: Bored.
Me: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Pickles: BORED.
Me: Zzzzzz–sngh?
Pickles: BORED BORED BORED BORED BORED BORED BORED BORED
Me: What the fuck? I was sleeping!
Pickles: You were boring me. You will entertain me now.
Me: It's 4 o'clock in the morning.
Pickles: I fail to see your point. You will entertain me now.
Me: I'm not entertaining you now. I'm going back to sleep.
Pickles: Suit yourself. But one day I'll smother you. You'll be sorry.
Pickles is sitting on my lap. She peeks in my coffee cup and wrinkles her nose.
Pickles: Is that coffee?
Me: Yes.
Pickles: I don't care for coffee.
Me: I know. We go through this every morning.
Pickles: You insist on drinking coffee even though you know I don't care for it.
Me: I'm not asking you to drink it.
Pickles: (sniff sniff) What is that smell? It's foul.
Me: It's toast.
Pickles: NOXIOUS VAPORS. You're trying to kill me.
Me: Sigh. We do this every day, Pickles. It's toast. It won't kill you.
Pickles: VILE!!! ASPHYXIATING!!!!
Me: Oh stop, now you're being a drama queen.
Pickles: You should cook whatever you made yesterday. That smelled delicious.
Me: I didn't cook anything yesterday.
Pickles: Yes you did. That blue liquid you had in the kitchen. It smelled delicious.
Me: That was Windex.
Pickles: I don't care what the recipe is called. I want some.
Me: You're so weird. You don't like food smells but you like cleaning products.
Pickles: Don't judge.
I'm about to go out to run errands. I can't find one of my flip flops.
Me: Have you seen my other flip flop?
Pickles: No.
Me: It was right there. You must have seen it.
Pickles: I haven't seen it. (Pickles shifts position, revealing what appears to be part of a flip flop.)
Me: What are you sitting on?
Pickles: I'm not sitting on anything.
Me: Is that my flip flop?
Pickles: No.
Me: Yes it is. That's my flip flop.
Pickles: No it isn't.
Me: Pickles, I can SEE it. Get up, I need it.
Pickles: No.
Me: Get up. Come on.
Pickles: No.
Me: Don't make me take it from you.
Pickles: No.
Me: Come on, give it to me. (Tries to slide shoe out from under Pickles. She takes a swing at me and her claw snags on my arm.) Ow, you drew blood! Give me my shoe, you rotten cat.
Pickles: No. I'm keeping it.
Me: Sigh. (Puts on sneakers instead)
I'm in the shower. Pickles is curled up on the bed, sleeping.
Pickles: WAIL!! BLOODY MURDER!!!!!! HORROR!!
Me: (running out of the bathroom and almost slipping and cracking my head open) What??? What happened??? What's wrong???
Pickles: (sitting calmly on the bed) I want to go under the covers.
Me: That's IT? That's your emergency? It sounded like your tail was being hacked off, the way you were carrying on.
Pickles: I want to go under the covers. You will lift up the covers so I can go in now.
Me: You know very well how to go under the covers yourself. You do it when I'm not home.
Pickles: But you're home now.
Me: So what? You can still do it yourself.
Pickles: Not when you're home. When you're home, you do things for me. That's how it works. So lift up the covers and let me in. But if you don't make an interesting enough tent, I will come right back out and you will have to try again. And stop dripping on me.
Me: Sigh. (Lifts covers so Pickles can go under them. After three attempts, a satisfactory tent is created and Pickles is reasonably content.)
I have music playing. Pickles is sprawled on the couch. Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" comes on.
Pickles: This song is too loud.
Me: It's the same volume as all the other songs.
Pickles: I don't like it. Turn it off.
Me: Maybe you'll like this one. (Plays "Diamonds Are Forever.")
Pickles: No. I hate this one too.
Me: What is it with you and Shirley Bassey??
Pickles: I don't like her voice. Turn it off.
Me: No, I like this song.
Pickles: TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF
Me: Okay, okay. Relax.
Pickles: Yes. This song is acceptable.
Me: There's nothing playing right now.
Pickles: Yes.
Pickles is taking up a disproportionate amount of space on the bed.
Me: Time for bed.
Pickles: Whatever.
Me: Move over, you're in my way.
Pickles: Why can't you sleep around me?
Me: Because it's not comfortable.
Pickles: Yes it is.
Me: I can't ball myself up in a perfect circle the way you can.
Pickles: Too bad.
Me: Come on, shove over or I'll move you myself.
Pickles: (moving) I was going to move anyway.
Me: Good night.
Pickles: Good night.
Pickles: Stop that.
Me: Stop what? I'm not doing anything.
Pickles: You're in my area.
Me: I am not in your area.
Pickles: Look at your arm. It's on my blanket.
Me: So what? It's not in your way.
Pickles: It's on my blanket.
Me: Big deal. You drape your tail over me half the time and I don't get all bent out of shape about it. Or how about when you sleep on my head?
Pickles: That's different.
Me: How is that different?
Pickles: Because it's me.
Me: That's not an answer.
Pickles: Yes it is.
Me: (long sigh) Fine. I'll move my arm. Is that better?
Pickles: I suppose.
Me: Good night.
Pickles: Good night.
Pickles comes over and curls up against me.
Me: What is it?
Pickles: Nothing.
Me: You're right up against me, you know.
Pickles: I know. I was bored with my blanket and wanted to lie over here instead, that's all.
Me: I see. Okay. Good night.
Pickles: Good night.
Pickles rubs her face against mine, purring loudly.
Me: What's all this about?
Pickles: I'm—my cheeks are itchy. I'm just using you to scratch them, that's all.
Me: Is that purring? You're purring.
Pickles: No I'm not.
Me: Haaaaaa, you're purring.
Pickles: Shut up and go to sleep.
Pickles rests her head in my palm.
Me: You have your head in my hand, you know.
Pickles: Just in case my cheeks get itchy again. That's all.
Me: Mmm hmm. Good thinking. (Kisses her on the head)
Pickles: Stop that. (Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
Me: Good night, little Pickles.
Pickles: Good night, Mommy.


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Pilen Lyx: the Pragmatic Romantic
My one criticism of the frame construction, is that while there are details such as a braze-on for the front wheel stabiliser spring, there are no braze-ons for the shifter cable and it is attached along the down tube with black clips. Why not add a couple of braze-ons here?
Malilla." The word pilen means "arrow" in Swedish. The bicycles are designed and assembled in-house, with the frames built in Taiwan to their specifications.
here) will work with the Pilen rack.
An optional front rack is also available with the Pilen (shown and reviewed here), but I opted not to install it. This front rack felt excessively heavy, and at 47lb the bicycle was already borderline too much for me to handle without it. I was also told that installing the front rack scratches up the head tube and headbadge, so all in all it did not seem appealing. For all of my needs (workbag, grocery shopping, and the occasional transport of boxes and bulky packages) the huge rear rack was sufficient.
described here.
wrote earlier about all the different things people mean when they describe a bicycle as "stable," and the Pilen is pretty much all of them. It does not want to go down, no matter what - a factor that can be especially important to novices who are worried about faltering at intersections in traffic.


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Celebrity chef charged with intoxicated driving
SOUTHAMPTON – Celebrity chef Todd English, who has opened restaurants around the country and written multiple cookbooks, was arrested Sunday on a charge of driving while intoxicated, authorities said.
Police in Southampton said English was arrested Sunday morning on a county road on Long Island. He made a court appearance later in the day, and authorities said he posted $1,500 bail.
The circumstances of the arrest were unavailable. An email to English's representative and a call to his attorney were not immediately returned.
The chef, whose full name is William Todd English, is the creative force behind a number of restaurants around the country, including Olives, Figs and Fish Club. He also has been a regular on television programs including "Iron Chef USA."
English has written several cookbooks and has been honored by the James Beard Foundation for excellence and achievement in cuisine.
In September 2009, his former fiancee was charged with assault, and authorities accused her of hitting him with a metal wrist watch, leaving him needing multiple stitches. The couple had been scheduled to get married, but English called the wedding off.
A judge in January 2010 closed the case without prison or probation based on her going through anger management and performing community service.