text:
Download EBOOK Coyote's Mate PDF for free

Download EBOOK Coyote's Mate PDF for free Category: Fiction
The author of the book: Lora Leigh
Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX
The size of the: 27.15 MB
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780425226339
Edition: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
Date of issue: 4 March 2009

Description of the book "Coyote's Mate":

For six years Anya Korbin worked with Del-Rey Delgato--the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost--to free a group of coyote women kept in her father's lab. As Anya matured into a woman, she and Del-Rey grew close...but then he broke his promise and killed her father. Now she must deal with her animalistic desire for the one who betrayed her.

Download EBOOK Coyote's Mate PDF for free

Reviews of the Coyote's Mate

Thus far with regards to the e-book we have now Coyote's Mate feedback people haven't but eventually left their own overview of the experience, or you cannot make out the print yet. Although, should you have already read this book and you really are wanting to create the studies well require you to take your time to go out of a critique on our website (we could post both negative and positive critiques). To put it differently, "freedom of speech" We wholeheartedly supported. Your responses to reserve Coyote's Mate : various other viewers is able to determine with regards to a ebook. These assistance is likely to make us additional United!

Lora Leigh

Regrettably, at present and we don't have information about the particular designer Lora Leigh. Nevertheless, we might take pleasure in when you have any kind of info on the item, and so are willing to present this. Deliver it to us! We also have every one of the look at, if every detail are generally correct, we are going to submit on our web page. It is significant for all of us that every true in relation to Lora Leigh. All of us thanks a lot in advance to be able to visit satisfy all of us!

Download EBOOK Coyote's Mate PDF for free

Download EBOOK Coyote's Mate for free

Download PDF: coyote039s-mate.pdf Download Coyote's Mate PDF
Download ePUB: coyote039s-mate.epub Download Coyote's Mate ePUB
Download TXT: coyote039s-mate.txt Download Coyote's Mate TXT
Download DOCX: coyote039s-mate.docx Download Coyote's Mate DOCX

Leave a Comment Coyote's Mate


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Truncated: length

WARC-Type: response

text:
Finding “The Next Great Book” – Part 2

Posted by on September 10, 2013.

This is part 2 of a 2-part blog post. For part 1, click here.

Trust me. As the Children’s Book Buyer at Bear Pond Books I’m right there with kids in the search for the “next great book.”

Lucky for me, poring over publisher sales catalogs and getting advanced reader’s copies of books in the mail whets my appetite—a wonderful perk to my wonderful job.

Look for some of these standout books on the shelves of your local library or bookstore next time you’re there:

  • That Is Not a Good Idea! by Mo Willems: a picture book as homage to silent film dressed up in classic fairy tale-style villainy. Perfect as read aloud, reader’s theater, or read alone, Willems builds the excitement to just the right pitch.
  • The Penny books by Kevin Henkes: these early readers remind me of such classic storytellers as Russell Hoban or Arnold Lobel. Henkes is an author who really understands the minds of small children.
  • The Bink and Gollie books by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee: another series of early readers that take delight in the whimsical and comical side of friendship and adventure.
  • Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo: she is a master storyteller, folks. Her latest novel is infused with screwball comedy and quiet sensitivity: the story of a girl who is obsessed with superhero comics and a poetry-writing squirrel. For ages 8 and up.
  • The Al Capone books by Gennifer Choldenko: these are wonderful novels of a boy growing up on Alcatraz in the 1930’s. They are full of all sorts of true life facts about the island’s infamous inmates and what life was like for the Alcatraz employees. For ages 9 and up.
  • The Templeton Twins series by Ellis Weiner: a new series for middle grade kids who love puzzles and humor a la Lemony Snicket. The wisecracking narrator is the perfect hook. For ages 8 and up.
  • The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud: one of my favorite authors (remember the Bartimaeus Trilogy?) is back with a new series in which three kids operate a supernatural detective agency. Chilling and smart. For ages 9 and up.

Leave a Comment

warcinfo:
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-50
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for November 2016
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf


text:
Last Day of School!

Posted by on June 14, 2013.

Nine months ago I sent my newly minted kindergartener off to school with a fresh set of markers, perfectly pointy crayons, a brand new clean lunchbox, and an excitement to be a part of something bigger, a community of kids with their own job and a place to do it. She was nervous and thrilled.

And she had a great year. My daughter really blossomed. She loved her teachers and her classmates and soaked up new ideas like a sponge. It was wonderful…

…but also a bit like running a marathon. Here we are, coming into the 26th mile, and we are limping and tired. The markers are mostly dried up, the crayons long ago reduced to stubs, and the lunchbox unrecognizable.

In the same way we longed for structure and routine in the fall, we now long for freedom and the type of laziness that is permitted only in summer. After school today we are going to sit down for five minutes and look at each other and say “phew.” And then SLOW WAY DOWN.

In summer we like to eat meals on the fly, take a little more time for each other, use up all the sunlight in a day, and pass out happily in bed at night with dirty feet and ice cream stomachs.

But we won’t leave it all behind because the real miracle of this year – and the thing that my daughter will take with her into every lazy summer day and into every day for the rest of her life – is that she learned to read.  We all know what an awesome thing that is to do!

And this is the beauty of the summer vacation. Work hard all year, learn as much as you can, practice, practice, practice, finish the school year strong…and relax.

Summer is the time to try out all those newfound skills on your own and as you wish. Swing in a hammock and read books you don’t have time for during school – or that are just too silly for the classroom. Lie on your back and look at the stars, catch a cricket, or grow a cucumber. Buy an ice cream with your own money and see how much you have left. Take time to ponder all the things you’ve learned and heard and practiced.

Mmmm, I can’t wait.

My daughter is sad to leave school but thrilled to take her ability to read and her newfound confidence out into the world and make it her own. I can’t wait to see what she does with it all.

Thank you, school, for the gifts we are about to enjoy. Now, let’s get out there and have some fun!

2 Responses to “Last Day of School!”

  1. Diana Dull Akers

    That’s a great accomplishment, learning to read! Congrats! It was a challenging kindergarten year for my five year old who loves books but struggles with reading. We now use both ebooks and print books, especially after she had her first ah-ha reading moment with the former, which I wrote about here:

Leave a Comment


text:
Blog Archive

Monday, September 10, 2012

Bill Blakemore: Junk Journalism on Climate, or Too Big to Cover?

by Bill Blakemore, ABC News, Nature’s Edge Notebook #35; Observation, Analysis, Reflection, New Questions, September 9, 2012
A number of the world’s professional climate scientists are perplexed by — and in some cases furious with — American news directors.
“Malpractice!” is typical of the charges this reporter has heard highly respected climate experts level — privately, off the record — at my professional colleagues over the past few years.
Complaints include what seems to the scientists a willful omission of overwhelming evidence the new droughts and floods are worsened by man made global warming, and unquestioning repetition, gullible at best, of transparent anti-science propaganda credibly reported to be funded by fossil fuel interests and anti-regulation allies.
As scientific reports about the speedy advance and devastating impacts of man made global warming have grown steadily more alarming, surveys have shown most mainstream American news organizations covering it less and less over the past two years.
Even during this hot summer, when inescapable bad news about the warming climate from around the United States and the world has forced its way into main stream media coverage, it has usually been reported only in a reactive and literal event-coverage sort of way.
There’s been little of the persistent probing analysis and regular coverage scientists say is urgently needed for a grave planet-wide crisis — reporting of the kind surveys show there was much more of in mainstream coverage up until two years ago.
Why this decline in persistent coverage?
It seems unlikely to last; all responsibly sourced reports from around the world — “as solid as science ever gets,” say eminent climate scientists — suggest the increasing impacts will soon force news directors to offer more coverage and explanatory reporting to a public that will appreciate getting it.
It may be that many of our mainstream news directors are, in effect, in the final stages of getting their act together as they get ready to cover this unprecedented story.
Elements that have stalled American coverage appear to include a cynical disinformation and intimidation campaign — as reported in detail by a handful of professional journalists and academics including Steve Coll, Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway, and Ross Gelbspan (as we’ve reported before on Nature’s Edge) paid for, so the reporting says, by multinational fossil fuel companies, often based in the United States, that are fighting a rear-guard action to prevent inevitable regulation on carbon emissions as long as possible.
A Crime Against Humanity’
A number of climate scientists have told this reporter they agree with those, including NASA scientist James Hansen, who charge fossil fuel CEOs are thus guilty of a “crime against humanity,” given the calamity that unregulated greenhouse emissions are quickly bringing on.
But there’s another aspect of the global warming story that is challenging and upsetting everyone — fossil fuel CEOs, environmental activists, presidents, high school teachers, their students, bus drivers, economists, cartoonists, chefs, Kansas wheat farmers and Chinese rice farmers, MIT philosophers,  amateur chess players… and political strategists in every party.
That aspect is its scale.
At this point in reporting this story, this reporter feels it may be helpful to simply stop for a moment and focus briefly on this one, most obvious and unprecedented aspect of this story.
It may be psychologically helpful simply to name it — to recognize the full size and complexity of this problem.
One reason — though not an excuse — for journalistic hesitation on this story may well have been that, in its unprecedented immensity, it is simply so psychologically daunting.
This reporter would respectfully suggest that any reporter who hasn’t felt this hasn’t been paying attention.
And there is still hardly a day, after eight years covering it, that I don’t find myself being pulled once again back out of natural, even healthy, denial about it.
Psychologists Charles B. Strozier and Robert J. Lifton report finding what they call a sort of pragmatic “professional numbing” in several professions that deal with traumatic or frightening events or information.
The Elephant We’re All Inside Of… and a New 4th Category of News
One metaphor I came up with when first grappling with this story eight years ago (journalists love to find a good new metaphor) was that “This isn’t the elephant in the room, it’s the elephant we’re all inside of.”
Global warming, we’re barely beginning to realize, is actually… global.
There may, in a way, be something new under the sun here — a new fourth category of news: “global news”… as something quite different from “foreign news.”
Traditionally, we’ve spoken of three categories of news — local, national and foreign.
As news consumers, we may all, perhaps unconsciously, have been influenced in some degree to tend to sort the world’s events each into one of these three concentric rings.
But the world’s constantly swirling and mixing air has no borders, and the molecules of any one puff of invisible greenhouse gas such as carbon dioxide are quickly, the scientists tell us, dispersed around the entire globe.
Thus, everyone on the globe is affected almost immediately by any one greenhouse emission. Global.
Most corporate news divisions at the national level — including TV network news divisions — have tended to sort news into two major parts — domestic and foreign. When calling in from the field, we have phoned either “the domestic desk” or “the foreign desk.”
There are no global desks, so to speak — yet. But their embryonic precursors may be glimpsed, for example, in desks focusing on “Technology” … which is inexorably a global phenomenon and business.
Junk Journalism — Sorting Phonies From True Professionals
Whatever junk journalism there may have been on the climate story in American and other media seems to this reporter to be starting to fade, unable to stand in the reviewable definiteness of digital print as the scientists’ long standing predictions continue to pan out.
The overt disinformation propaganda of the so-called “Climategate” emails has been largely exposed — for those able to read the exposures — however successful it may have been in forestalling American legislative action on carbon emissions.
Even the CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, in an on-the-record speech to the Council of Foreign Relations that is publicly available online, has now said that it is clear that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.
Tillerson added that he felt sure humanity would be able to adapt to the higher temperature.
Several journalists and other analysts saw this as the latest calculated step backward in a slow retreat, signaling that fossil fuel industry leaders have decided a feint, pretending no fault in the warming, is no longer supportable as the visible impacts of manmade global warming worsen dramatically.
Thus, it appears, the climate story is slowly but surely sorting phony journalism that abuses the professional label for purposes of paid-off or narrowly ideological advocacy, from truly professional journalism — the kind that tries constantly to be open about what it thinks its biases are and then constantly and openly explores them.
Some Honest Mistakes
Inevitably when a story so big and so new appears, there will be early missteps in reporting.
There will be well-meaning, often young, journalists who are eager to prove themselves, still, perhaps, unaware of the way their bosses may be tempted to use that eagerness to get them to say what they want… or, more often perhaps, to not say what these executives might fear could lose them ratings or circulation.
Nor does it make sense to berate any reporter or news director for worrying that delivering seriously bad news might lose them credibility. Credibility is all any professional journalist ever has to justify your attention, and it can be carelessly lost.
And it is only sensible to ask whether any journalist claiming that a story is enormously important may be motivated to do so at least partly for self-promotion.
But it is not our job as professional journalists to let the parties in a story determine how we frame it.
Our job includes making sure that they don’t.
And when we perceive that parties in a story are trying to fool us into accepting their definition of terms and their framing of the argument, it is also our job to report on those efforts to control the debate, if those efforts seem somehow newsworthy.
Too Big to Cover — Almost
The unprecedented scale and complexity of the crisis of manmade global warming is obvious, but it would seem to need stating clearly — perhaps, for example, to make it easier for honest activists, working in good faith,  to assess the matter, take its measure, catch their breath, and get on with dealing with it.
Manmade global warming is, according to the world’s climate scientists,   solidly on track to be far bigger than history’s biggest atrocity so far (“atrocity” here defined as manmade, as discussed in another Nature’s Edge Notebook about “Horrible Things.”
Obviously, manmade global warming would seem to physically envelope and affect almost everything on earth, with each affected part then possibly changing its affect on other parts, producing a complexity of change no computer could ever fully track.
These affected “parts,” to put it generally, have already been reported to include various aspects of, for example, agriculture, biodiversity, religion, public and private health, politics, world finance, local finance, national intelligence priorities and funding, prioritization of scientific studies, war, energy plans, cultural psychologies, communications technology, legal tactics and jurisprudential trends, media funding and management, education, food and water distribution practices, diplomatic norms… etc.
This is only a partial list, but long enough to indicate a critical aspect of this story — the size and complexity that not only any journalist but any news consumer faces when trying to grapple with this story.
It’s only natural to hope that, once stated at least, this size and complexity may be a little less daunting, and offer a few new places to get a handhold.
The Many Findings at Nature’s Edge
In our “Nature’s Edge” reporting at ABC News, begun several years ago with the aim of getting our arms around the daunting climate story by putting it in the context of all sorts of “news from where nature and human nature meet,” we have found some delightful and surprising new avenues opening up.
One of the basic premises of the Nature’s Edge reports, in both video and digital print, is that the global warming story is clearly a story about the question, “What will the humans do?” — and therefore a story about the need to understand human nature better — even overall collective human nature, as a species, so to speak — for upon it may rest any success in dealing well with this immense crisis.
When asking computer modelers to identify the biggest unknown they put into their computers when trying to predict how the warming will progress, their answer is simple: What will the humans do?
Approached on the basis of this enormous scale with many complex interconnections — as opposed to only a science-based story of rising temperatures, rainfall measurements and sea level rise — fascinating elements that we’ve discovered for exploration include:
  • The explosion in the new sciences of animal intelligence, which, as explained by author and expert Eugene Linden in a number of our Nature’s Edge video segments, such asone dealing with animal sarcasm, are finally giving scientists and philosophers new common conceptual ground on which to try to describe human nature.
  • A related increase in the scientific study of play behavior, which, as scientists, psychologists and psychiatrists including Stuart Brown, Jaak Panksepp and several others have explained, is key to survival in many species… and certainly to how we successfully handle (when we do) enormous problems… such as, perhaps, global warming.
For a quick taste of Brown’s new ideas, here is a recent emailed comment, highly condensed, maybe puzzling at first, but worth a ponder and to the point:
“Play, with its capacities to instill early embodied empathy, followed by the kind of moral teaching necessary to keep it vital, is, in my view, our only hope for long term survival, based on who we are as biologically based social beings wired for care-taking.”
You can see and hear his more conversational explanations in the short video and print at this nature’s Edge link and others
Other new stories we’ve discovered include Gloria Steinem explaining how global warming is especially a women’s issue (no surprise to humanitarian relief workers around the world), nature-sensitive architecture — including adult tree-houses, science as a superior form of diplomacy to prevent war … and many other subjects you may explore via the three Nature’s Edge links at the end of this article.
NOT Too Big to Cover
And how do professional journalists deal with something so big — once we see the size?
Simple. By doing what we’ve been doing.
We just keep at it, and start to figure it out.
We keep coming back again and again, until we get it right, or at least better.
The very word “Journalism” implies that’s what we do:
Jour is the French word for day… implying daily — or some form of regularly repeated service such as a regular deadline reliably met.
We try to get a fix on whatever new psychological barriers the latest story has presented to us and to our news directors, much less to our readers and viewers.
An excellent college professor (Tom T. Tashiro) told this future reporter and his classmates that “All genuine learning is frightening. It’s new, and therefore unknown, at first, and we’re naturally frightened of the unknown.”
It’s much the same with a truly new story — what we mean by real “news.”
Any big new story worth its salt always has new psychological barriers, by definition.
Manmade global warming appears, so far, to have the biggest of all.
We invite you to follow our weekly Nature’s Edge Notebook on Facebook and on

No comments:


text: On this page you can download free simple trees clipart. The clip art is classified as nature clip art. Simple trees clipart added 30 January 2013. This clipart viewed 294 times and downloaded 1 times. Also you can find similar clipart images via tags: Trees, Plant, Flora, Nature, Green. If you like this clip art, share them with you friends!


text:
Customer’s impression:
Create Review

Share your reviews,
photos and videos here!

  • Great Little Performer

    posted by SATMASTER119 on 09/28/2010
    0 0

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    This cannot be beat for price to performance. Functions cleanly and properly out of the package. No problems or concerns.

    Great transfer speed, and solid USB connections to my various PCs and laptop computers.

    The device is wide, so be sure you have space to each side in whatever computer you plan on plugging it into.

    The hinged cap that covers the area where you plug in your SD/XD etc card is flimsy at best and expect it to break off any day. The would have been better to just design it with a removable cap on that end, similar to the one that covers the USB connector.

    Aside from the weak rear cap on this device which can be easily overlooked, this is a fantastic little card reader.

    If you need XD/SD/MMC or MS compatiblity, then this device will do the job for you and give you good performance.

    Completely intuitive to use, this is probably the best 3 bucks you'll spend should this be a device you have a need for.

Post comment

DX Everywhere


text:
Customer’s impression:
There are no customer's impression yet.
Create Review

Share your reviews,
photos and videos here!

  • good for really lightweight cameras

    posted by pyrocks on 05/03/2010
    0 0

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    It has 3 flexible legs that give you the ability to position the tripod the way you want.
    you can separate the part that connects the tripod to the camera (with a screw) from the tripod and permanently attach it to the camera. After doing so - in order to connect the tripod all you need to do is slide it into the connector.

    Although it says it supports 275g Max Load, it really isn't stable enough on 240g+ cameras, such as my Panasonic TZ5 which weighs about 245g with battery. It is designed to work with really lightweight cameras.

    If your camera's tripod hole is located on the middle of the camera's body - it might work better than with my TZ5 since it's tripod hole is on the bottom left side of the camera.

    get this if you have a small and light point and shoot camera. nothing more.

Post comment

DX Everywhere


text:
Centara Grand West Sands Beach Resort & Villas Phuket

Contact Details

Centara Grand West Sands Resort & Villas Phuket is located on the west coast of Phuket, only 15 minutes away from Phuket International Airport.and set in 47 acres of land with 500 metres of pristine beach frontage on Mai Khao Beach, the longest and quietest stretch of beach on this side of the island.

The design focus of the resort is an extensive water park with swimming pools, a lazy river and waterslides, including a huge Super Bowl slide. All rooms, suites and villas are of modern design and are carefully sited to take advantage of the stunning views of the Andaman Sea and Phuket’s dramatic hinterland.

01:00 PM

12:30 PM

November - March

April - October

Deluxe Room

Deluxe room is ideal for couples or individuals. A full-length window offers views either of the garden, sea, pool or the water park, and many rooms have a furnished balcony. Featuring signature twin beds, this unit can accommodate up to 2 adults and 1 child. Every room is equipped with spacious private bathroom, flat-screen TV with international satellite TV channels/programmes, DVD player, complimentary wireless Internet access, energy-efficient and silent air conditioning, in-room safe, minibar and refrigerator, tea and coffee making facilities, hairdryer, and IDD line telephone.

65 sq.m

  • Remote Control Television
  • Minibar
  • Laundry Basket/Clothes Hamper
  • Fire Alarm
  • Electrical Adaptors
  • Desk with Lamp
  • Desk
  • Bathroom Amenities
  • Satellite/ Cable TV
  • Television
  • CD player
  • Hot water
  • DVD player
  • Air Conditioned
  • Tea and coffee making facility
  • In room safety
  • Telephone connections
  • Refrigerator
  • Hairdryers

  • 24 Hour Front Desk
  • Accessible parking
  • Elevators
  • Interior corridors
  • Lobby
  • Parking
  • Security

Business Facilities

  • Business Center
  • Internet access

  • Bar
  • Garden
  • Gym
  • Indoor Pool
  • Indoor recreational facilities
  • Jacuzzi
  • Outdoor Pool
  • Outdoor recreational facilities
  • Playground
  • Sauna
  • Swiming pool

  • Baggage Hold
  • Buffet Breakfast
  • Children's Nursery
  • Coffee Shop
  • Concierge
  • Continental Breakfast
  • Fax/Email Facilities
  • Front Desk
  • Health Club
  • Housekeeping
  • Late Check-out Available
  • Laundry service
  • Limousine Service
  • Restaurant
  • Room Service
  • Safe Deposit Box
  • Sauna
  • Spa
  • Transportation
  • Wake-up call service
Dining and Entertainment

• The resort’s Splash Jungle water park ensures non-stop good times to guests of all ages with 12 waterslides, including the utterly exhilarating Boomerango, the Super Bowl slide, a wave pool and 225 metres of lazy river

• Extensive kids facilities with Centara signature Kids Club (Camp Safari and E-zone) and oversized children’s water play area

• The beachfront swimming pool overlooks the Andaman Sea and has a separate children’s pool, while a circular swimming pool is located near the guest facilities, with separate Jacuzzi and jet streams

• Great range of sport facilities including a fitness centre

• The resort provides guests with daily international newspapers and magazines as well as complimentary wireless internet access throughout the resort

• SPA Cenvaree offers a choice of therapeutic treatments, aromatherapy and traditional messages

• Business centre with an executive meeting room suitable for accommodating up to 15 guests

Submit inquiries and request for more information for this event:


text:
Thursday, September 13, 2012

DHS MRAP - A Video Tour

Tactical Supervisor Robert Whittaker gives us a tour of the DHS MRAP vehicle based out in El Paso.

Pay attention. He points out specific details that could be exploited with the right know-how.

  1. Random thoughts: cool. It has a "Cummings" turbo diesel engine.

    -Why is it every one of these goons slurs their speech?

    -And why are they such fast talkers? Is it because they have lots of important shit to say and not a lot of time to say it because they have more important and pressing shit to do than talk to mere mundanes?

    Or what?

  2. So, it's heavy, doesn't pursue well against automobiles and trucks. Back door is a murder hole so you can either pick off the jbt hanging on the runners or when they stop concentrate on the rear.

    15 tons is A LOT of weight! Surely a disguised trench or trap can be improvised or make them drive across ground that will bog them down.

    That gun position atop isn't armored all around...

    Also a HESH warhead (high explosive, squash head) isn't hard to make if you have C4 and a contact detonator of some kind:

    / *

    Plastic casing, explosive, detonator at the base of the warhead. Can be propelled by a rocket or shell but when the warhead makes contact with that SMALL ARMS proof armor the C4 plastique SPLATS and milliseconds later the contact detonator hits the armor. Massive spalling inside as the armor is turned into shrapnel and bounces about inside.


text:
Powered by WebAds

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The Dress -- Part II

This Sunday, one of the topics covered in my shiur (Torah study class) was the prohibition of ta'avot (desires).

I publicly declared that I was in the midst of a major struggle with my ta'avot, regarding The Dress.

Since the previous Wednesday, I could not stop thinking about The Dress.

I kept thinking of ways to justify the expense:
  • I have not bought myself a new dress in at least ten years.
  • The price per year is reasonable when it is divided by ten!
  • Though the dress is elegant, it is simple enough so that I can wear it to other smachot (celebrations)
  • I would also wear the dress on chagim (holidays), including Rosh HaShannah.
But, these calculations would be irrelevant if I gained back the weight I lost.  And, if they put me back on steroids, I could gain that weight back fairly quickly.

On the other hand, I really do not want to regain that weight. So, it does not make sense to make a decision based on a possibility that I am hoping will not happen.

I decided to ask the store to hold the dress for me, for a day.

When I called the store, the saleslady told me they sold the dress!

My heart plummeted!!

I asked if they could get another dress.

The store owner made a few calls.  Her supplier had another dress in my size and would deliver it to her store.

Then I learned that all the stores at the mall were having a three day stock sale.  On Wednesday, after we left the store, my friend went back and told them about my "situation;" the store owner offered to sell The Dress to me for 1,600 NIS. With the stock sale, The Dress would be 1,326 NIS -- still way beyond my budget, but significantly cheaper than 2,000 NIS!

Meanwhile, the store had the same dress in bordeaux (maroon). I asked a friend, who is a seamstress, to come look at the dress and tell me if she could copy it.  My friend was fairly confident that she could make a similar dress.  Clearly, her dress would not be exactly the same, but it would be close.  We even went to a fabric store and found the same fabric.

I should have felt relieved but, instead, I felt anxious.

What if she put in all the work and her dress did not meet my expectations?  What if it was not as comfortable?  Or not as pretty?

I needed to decide, because the stock sale ended today.

Yesterday (Tuesday), I spent all afternoon looking for a dress.  I found nothing that fit right.  My body is shaped funny because of the hernia (I actually have two abdominal hernias.  Lucky me.).  So, I really need something that is cut right for me.

I consulted my husband, my mother, my father, and several select friends.

I wondered if I was crazy for even considering The Dress.

I learned that in Tel Aviv, similar dresses can cost twice as much, or more!  So, what?

Almost everyone encouraged me to get the dress.  Still, I hesitated.

I felt torn by my natural frugality versus my extreme desire for The Dress.

Today, on my way home from Beit Natan's Spring Retreat, as I rushed home for a scheduled phone consultation with an oncologist in the US, I did it.

I stopped at the mall, went to the store and paid for the dress (so I could get it at the stock sale price).  I had no time to think, because I needed to get home for the consultation.

I made one more quick stop at the photo shop to get an album for my daughter's Bat Mitzvah.  Because of the stock sale, it cost half the price.

I was in and out of the mall in less than 15 minutes!

I did not have time to think about my decision.

I arrived home just in time to place the call.

Deliberating over The Dress was difficult enough.

Deliberating over my next treatment makes my head spin!

Please daven (or send happy, healing thoughts) for RivkA bat Teirtzel.

With love and optimism,

Anonymous said...

Good for you! You also got your dream dress and also on sale!! How many dreams get to be realized? You deserve it :)

Anonymous said...

SOOO glad you bought that dress!! What a great tribute to your daughter and her Bat Mitzva celebration.

Bernie said...

I agree you did the right thing when you bought your dream dress. You will look and feel beautiful for your daughter's Bat Mitzva. I am very happy for you.....:-) Hugs

Anonymous said...

I am so proud of you!!! You totally did the right thing.

Anonymous said...

Yay!!!!! Good for you. You deserve this splurge. Waiting for you to post a picture of yourself in it so we can kvell.

Nomi Lemberger said...

Good on you! You really do deserve it! Waiting to see you in it at the Bat Mitzwa!

Anonymous said...

Yay! I don't this The Dress counts as a "taava" at all. Your kavanna is clearly to enhance the special occasion of your daughter's bat mitzva. After all, being Jewish and doing mitzvot is something worth dressing up for =)

Anonymous said...

You did the right thing! Titchadshi!

Sarah said...

Now I'm more motivated to WAKE UP EARLY on shabbat to come to the bat mitzvah to SEE THE DRESS! Yay! I'm so happy for you! (and for your daughter, of course!)

Baila said...

Now, the shoes!!! (staammmm)

Is there anyway you can post a picture, I really want to see this thing....

Bee said...

pretty please is there any way you'd let us see a picture???? and look at the number of people you have made happy on your blog, that's got to count as another blessing. You will look fabulous and you will feel so good - I can see that huge smile already. Your daughter is going to be so proud of her mum.

Shelly said...

I am so glad that you bought the dress! Looking and feeling beautiful is a wonderful thing and you really deserve it.

Andrea said...

Go you, RivkA!!!!! So glad! <3

Leah G said...

Yay! you got the dress. Being a woman and fashion is not always about logic or finance! Looking good IS feeling good. I'm so happy you gave into that instinct (not of desire), but to look like a hot mama at your daughter's bat mitzvah! translation: you are going to look like a million bucks and you only had to spend a thousand some NIS to do so. Seems like a bargain. GO YOU!

Anonymous said...

I can't wait to see it!

(Lots of people have been telling me how wonderful I am to have taken you shopping...it must be some other CV who has more fashion sense than me!)

LeahGG said...

Enjoy! And be glad you didn't buy it that first day - you would have paid so much more!

and the above Leah G is an impostor ;)

Rahel said...

Good for you, RivkA! I can't wait to see you in the dress!

Gila said...

Cannot wait to see the dress!!!!

RivkA with a capital A said...

I might have built up all your expectations too high...

I love the dress.

At the end of the day, that's all that really matters.

Batya said...

Wear it frequently, in good health. Enjoy it! That's the most important thing.

ps would you believe word verification is "hanger"

Saul Mashbaum said...

Enjoy the dress, and don't look back. It sounds like a great purchase.

I hope you wear this dress at many s'machot in the coming years.

Ilana said...

As we say in our family - money is for spending!

faith/emuna said...

so glad you bought the dress! echo the bracha that you should wear it at many smachot and chagim.

Anonymous said...

Enjoy the dress! It's wonderful to find something that makes you feel good, especially for a simcha.


text:
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Gayle Rosengren & Fiona

Who is in the photo at right?

I'm Gayle Rosengren and I'm a children's author. My debut book, a middle grade historical fiction novel called What the Moon Said was just published by Putnam/Penguin on Feb 20th, so I need plenty of coffee to keep me hopping from one bookstore/school/online interview to the next and still have the energy to work on my next book.

My adorable companion is Fiona, my 3 year-old Bichon Frise. She is quite the darling little girl, don't you agree?

What's the occasion for Coffee with a Canine?

This is a mostly normal morning for Fiona and me. She is never far away from me (although not usually seated at the table; this was a special occasion for her online debut!). Whether I'm at my laptop with my first cup of coffee or heading up to bed at night, she's somewhere in a two-feet radius of me. She loved being invited onto the chair next to me to share this coffee moment but she especially loves hopping up on the couch to watch a movie with me at night.

What's brewing?

Our favorite home-ground beans topped off with Italian Sweet Cream. Mmmmm! The house smells wonderful for hours afterward.

Any treats for you or Fiona on this occasion?

Fiona always gets a few "accidentally" dropped Cheerios. I sometimes treat myself to chocolate biscotti. I'm also addicted to the scones from my favorite bakery and try to sneak one in at least once a week. My first choice always is their chocolate chip scone, which comes with the expected chips inside as well as a drizzle of dark chocolate and a drizzle of white chocolate frosting on top. Yum--they're to die for!

Are there any dogs in your fiction who are inspired by Fiona?

There is a dog in What the Moon Said who is more reminiscent of a German Shepherd I had many years ago and loved dearly. But the dog in my next novel (tentatively titled Joanna's Cold War) is definitely modeled after Fiona. She is small and white and cuddly and always gives excited welcomes to the main character when she comes home. Her name is Dixie.

Does Fiona do more to help or to hinder your writing?

I'd have to say a little of each. When she wants a walk and I'm in the middle of a writing streak, it can be a little frustrating to have to stop. But she also gets me out into the fresh air for a while, which gets my brain firing on all cylinders, and that’s a good thing.

How did Fiona get her name?

Fiona was named by the woman who rescued her from a Milwaukee humane society shelter. The woman runs a Bichon Rescue agency outside of Madison, Wisconsin, where I live. Most of the dogs she saves come from auctions of puppy mill victims. Fiona was one of the lucky ones. Somehow she ended up on the streets, but it seemed pretty clear she'd been well taken care of prior to that and she was very well-trained. She couldn't have been on the streets for long. Why no one claimed her is beyond me, but their loss turned out to be my great good fortune. She's a sweetheart. I could have changed her name to anything I wanted, but I loved it. She really is a Fiona.

Cat, postman, squirrel...?

She'll bark at any critter and try to chase it if she's outside--whimper and yelp and bark if she's inside viewing them through the window. She barks at delivery people and friends who arrive, but she stops as soon as she sees they're being invited inside.

Ball, squeaky-toy, stick...?

She loves to play, and if I'm too busy to play when she's in the mood, she'll flip her stuffed bunny or owl into the air and then pounce on it and run around with it, then flip it up again and repeat. She does love the fact that the bunny squeaks and the owl hoots (although in kind of a spooky way!).

Does Fiona have a favorite place to go for outings?

She loves to go to go anywhere in the car, but her favorite place to stay for any length of time--especially without us, if we have to travel without her--is her former temporary home with the woman who rescued her. There are generally at least fourteen other Bichons there at any given time, awaiting adoption, so there is no lack of playmates and there are no cages. All the dogs are treated like house pets. Luckily, it's a good-sized home out in the country and there's a big deck and fenced in yard. We joke that we're taking her to doggie sleep-away camp. She's always happy to go, but she's even happier to be taken back home where she is not only Top Dog but Only Dog.

Who is Fiona's best pet-pal?

Her best pet-pal is Reggie, my daughter and son-in-law's beagle-mix. They live only a mile away and when they have to go away for a weekend they bring Reggie to our house, and if we're only going away for a night or two, we take Fiona to their house. The two of them get along well, except for always wanting to steal the other one's food! Talk about the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence!

What is Fiona's best quality?

Hmmm… She has lots, so it's hard to choose just one. Her Best quality, though, would have to be her very loving personality. She a cuddler and a snuggler and looks at me with such adoration it's embarrassing sometimes (but awfully nice!).

If Fiona could change one thing about Wisconsinites, what would it be?

She'd probably wish they weren't so darned devoted to exercise, so they wouldn't go jogging past her house so often. She wants to chase them in the worst way but can't, so it's very frustrating.

If Fiona could answer only one question in English, what would you ask her?

This is an easy one: Sweet little Fiona, how did you come to be separated from your first family and lost in the scary city?

If Hollywood made a movie about your life in which Fiona could speak, who should voice her?

Jennifer Lawrence! I can hear her now--so funny!

Visit Gayle Rosengren's website.

--Marshal Zeringue

  1. What a pretty lass you are, Fiona.

  2. You sound like such a sweet little girl, Fiona! If I were in Wisconsin, I would love to meet you.

  3. Love the concept of this review site so very much! Terrific interview! And totally loved this book, WHAT THE MOON SAID!! Has just a wonderful, fully-realized main characters, the vibrant & lovable Esther. The historical background (Depression Chicago and incredibly challenging farm-life after the move to rural Wisconsin) blends in perfectly with Esther's story, And the book has just the right voice for someone of Esther's age and has a marvelous structure (flowing seamlessly from scene to scene, chapter to chapter), with just beautiful use of language. A great mother-daughter relationship book. Also, because it is written so well and at an age-appropriate level for Middle Grade minds, would be a terrific "read out-loud" book for home or the classroom I'm sure. A++++


text:
Savath and Savalas

(Warp; 2004)

By Peter Hepburn | 26 January 2008

I must admit that I started listening to Scott Herren relatively recently, making last year's pair of Prefuse 73 albums something of a revelation. Both the anguished One Word Extinguisher and almost-equally-brilliant Extinguished: Outtakes showed why Herren earned such a strong reputation for his unbelievable beats and terrific sampling and added an emotional weight that has rarely been seen in hip-hop, especially of the instrumental sort.

The emotional purge of One Word Extinguisher and his subsequent move to Barcelona (seemingly brought on by the former and the weight of never meeting his Spanish father, to whom the album is dedicated) have inspired a much more guarded Herren on his latest project with Savath & Savalas. Although much of his work has never been overly accessible, Apropa't seems to be taking pains to be well-removed from the listener.

To start things off, this is by no means a Prefuse 73 record. There are some interesting beats, programming, and instrumentation but this falls much more in the world music bin than in hip-hop. Inspiration comes largely from afro-latin jazz and focuses on vocals, whereas Herren's strength has always been making the vocals become secondary, or at least equal, to the beats. The record's star is really Eva Puyuelo Muns who shares songwriting credits with Herren on all the original compositions and who takes lead vocal duties throughout the album, singing in Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan. Herren, credited on the album as Guillermo Scott Herren, sings back-up vocals and does an impressive job with production and arrangements, but never really lets his beat-making abilities shine.

This album seems to be less about lyrical content or technical mastery than tone, and in that it succeeds quite well. There is something distinctly cold and sterile about the album -- Puyuelo's delivery is clear but removed and Herren's whispered back-up vocals don't seek to add any intimacy to the songs. The whole album is drenched in atmosphere but unlike a Loveless or Oh, Inverted World where this served to drag the listener in, here it just serves as another layer of noise, albeit gorgeous, well-played noise.

Apropa't begins with a deceptive burst of glitch in "Introducción" but then settles into the lightly plucked guitar lines that tend to dominate the album. "Te Quiero Pero por otro Lado…" builds in some nice drum grooves in it's second half but you begin to realize at some point that they aren't building to anything-there are, with few exceptions, no climaxes to these tracks.

The first half of the album all flows together well, but the lack of differentiation becomes apparent. "Balcón sin Flores" sets itself apart somewhat with a good horn section at the end, but the tracks generally fade into each other. The standout on the record is without question the sole cover, "Um Girassol da Cor de Seu Cabelo." The song of course also doesn't fit for the most part with the formula of the rest of the album-here Herren lets the beats ride a bit deeper and throws things into a minor key, building the track into a darkly sinister groove.

The distortion and delays on vocals for "Radio Llocs Espacials" make it a bit more interesting. Herren's strong lead vocals on "Víctima Belleza" add to the otherwise dull track. The album ends with "Sigue Tu Camino (No Sabes Amar....)," a declaration of the unloving nature of a partner who is leaving.

That, of course, is kind of the central idea of the album. Years of education in the Spanish language finally paid off for this review (we here at cokemachine are all required to have fluency in at least one foreign language; word is Goldstein mastered German for the Franz Ferdinand review only to be horribly surprised by the Anglophonic nature of the album) and through careful review of the liner notes (and even precursory listening to the album) it becomes exceedingly clear this is another quasi-break-up album from Herren. Any track titled "Déjame" (literally "leave me") can't be overly upbeat or love-filled. The lyrics are overwrought with emotion and the subdued, dark textures of the album eventually come off as not much more than listless depression on Herren's part.

This is not to say that Apropa't is not an interesting and worthwhile album. Puyuelo shines throughout the album, and the arrangements and productions that Herren has devised are quite impressive. However, the lack of ingenuity (surprising considering ingenuity is something we've come to expect from Herren) and rather set tone of the album certainly detract from the overall effect. I'm curious to see Savath & Savalas live (they are touring North America this spring) so as to better judge the project, but all in all I'm hoping Herren hasn't permanently left Prefuse 73 and that brand of magic behind.


text:
Tips And Tricks For The WoW Auction House, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Gifts For Gamers & More

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Are You Catering To Shoppers Or Purchasers?

Today's post here at Cold's Gold Factory is brought to you by BlackFriday.Info.  Here's a word from our first official site sponsor:

Are You Catering To Shoppers Or Purchasers?

Remember there are different types of buyers on the World of Warcraft auction house, both shoppers and purchasers, and they buy items off of the auction house in different ways.  In short, purchasers buy the finished crafted products from the auction house, while shoppers buy the materials and have the item crafted for a tip or fee.  You can profit off of both shoppers and purchasers.

Walnut Stock Sold Incoming Mail

An example would be shown in the above image.  Not only do I sell the Patch 4.2 crafted Engineering epic gun, Extreme Impact Hole-Puncher, but I also sell the Hair Trigger and Walnut Stock on the auction house.  Why?  Well, Purchasers will go to the auction house and buy the epic engineering gun.  A Shopper will look for the materials and have it crafted in person to save some gold.  Usually a pre-crafted item already has some profit figured into the purchase price of the item.  By providing the materials themselves, a shopper can often save some gold on the purchase even with the fee or tip figured into the new cost.

What I have found is that these vendor bought items do sell on the auction house.  They are mostly likely sold to someone who found the materials listed in someone's Engineering profession link that was just shopping for all the required items via the auction house.  This buyer was probably also unaware that the items were available from a vendor or were too time consumed to gather the items themselves.  Either way, there is gold in flipping vendor items for those shoppers that gather all the materials from the auction house.

What other vendor items that have a sole use as a crafting material have you sold for a profit on the auction house?  And the Twilight Highlands Inscription vendor items don't count.  Think harder!

Enjoy The Posts Here at Cold's Gold Factory? Check Out Cold's Mysterious Fortune Card Mastery Gold Making Guide Or Check Out My New Favorite All Around WoW Gold Making Guide.

Zygor Guides Has Launched 3 New Products And Is Having A Great Sale!
Check out the Zygor Guide Sale .

  1. I like all the advertising in this thread...

    But on a more serious note: who goes to twilight highlands anymore? It's all in the Capitol cities.

  2. The Twilight Highlands Inscription materials have not been added to the major cities vendors. It was the only profession that didn't havwe the items moved to the main cities (because there are no trade-ins for recipes like all the other profession vendors).

All comments are welcome. If reading in a feed, please visit the main site for comments.


text:
Jon Embree

Ex-Buffs coach sees race as reason for Embree’s dismissal

This past Sunday was, as is usually the case following the last major weekend in the college football season, a bad day to be a coach on the hot seat. Among the coaches fired on Sunday was Colorado’s Jon Embree, who had completed only his second year at his alma mater.

On Monday, Embree held an emotional press conference in which he was visibly hurt and stunned. When asked if he thought the next coach could be successful at Colorado, Embree replied sternly “How long does he have?” It was a not-so-subtle shot at the university’s administration, which was only re-enforced when athletic director Mike Bohn took the microphone next and stumbled his way through a Q&A with reporters over exactly what was wrong with the football program.

But now Embree’s dismissal has shifted into a discussion about whether race played a role in the manner in which he was terminated. That conversation gained intensity when former Buffs coach Bill McCartney said on a local radio show Tuesday that he was given more time to build the program — McCartney coached at Colorado from 1982-’94 and has a long history with Embree — than Embree because of the color of his skin:

“Honestly, I believe it’s because I’m Caucasian. I believe black men have less opportunity, shorter time if you will. It’s just like, Dan Hawkins got five full years. Why not give Jon Embree five years? You signed him to a five-year contract.

“Men of color have a more difficult road to tread. It didn’t happen to me. Why should it happen to a black man?”

McCartney also read an open letter on the air to the university’s fans and admins, which you can read HERE, and criticized chancellor Phil DiStefano:

“I heard the chancellor said it didn’t matter what color Jon was. I think that offends every person of color out there. This guy can match wits with any white guy out there. He’s the real deal.”

DiStefano said during the Monday press conference, “We didn’t hire Jon because he’s an African-American, and we didn’t fire Jon because he is an African-American.”

Technically, Embree was fired because he didn’t win enough, fast enough. The Buffs were victorious just four times in Embree’s two years. For the sake McCartney’s comparison, Dan Hawkins, the coach who preceded Embree, had 19 wins in almost five seasons at Colorado. McCartney himself had just seven wins in his first three years in Boulder before matching that win total in 1985 and going on to have a successful tenure with the program. That was a different era though, one when coaches generally had more time to get things moving in the right direction.

This week, Gene Chizik was fired two years removed from winning a national championship. Ellis Johnson was shown the door after one winless season at Southern Miss. Both coaches are white. That’s  not to say there isn’t a point to be made about the uphill battle minority coaches face in the profession, but winning is the most crucial metric for judging a coach’s success, not the color of their skin. Or, at least that’s what you hope.

Yes, Embree may have been in over his head from the first day he stepped foot back on to campus, but he certainly didn’t run Colorado football into the ground. This is a program that hasn’t had a winning season since 2005 and will now be looking for its third coach since then. Judging by Monday’s press conference, Colorado athletics has bigger problems than Jon Embree. The fact that Bohn admitted as much shows just how bad it really is in Boulder.

The question is did Embree have a fair chance to turn Colorado around with those issues taken into consideration? If not, why?

Mark Dantonio won’t lose long-time assistant to head-coaching job at Div. II school

DETROIT, MI - NOVEMBER 12: Head coach Mark Dantonio of the Michigan State Spartans leads his team onto the field before a college football game against the against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Spartan Stadium on November 12, 2016 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Dave Reginek/Getty Images)
Getty Images
Leave a comment

At least for now and when it comes to one particular assistant, Mark Dantonio won’t have a hole to fill on his Michigan State coaching staff.

Earlier this week, it was reported that Spartans offensive line coach Mark Staten was one of five finalists for the head-coaching job at Div. II Northern Michigan. On his Facebook page Thursday, by way of, Staten indicated that he will be staying at MSU.

Left unsaid is whether Staten withdrew from the search process because he wanted to remain in East Lansing or if he became aware the program had decided to go in a direction that didn’t include him.

Decision was made after a lot of prayer, talking with family, friends and mentors. I appreciate all of those involved as I will continue to battle on as a Spartan. God Bless and Go Green!

Staten has been a part of Dantonio’s coaching staff for the past 13 seasons, the first three at Cincinnati and the last 10 at MSU. He’s been the Spartans’ line coach for the past five years.

Charlie Strong, Temple have reportedly spoken as USF talk heats up

DALLAS, TX - OCTOBER 11:  Head coach Charlie Strong of the Texas Longhorns at Cotton Bowl on October 11, 2014 in Dallas, Texas.  (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)
Getty Images
1 Comment

Temple lost its head coach to an FBS program in the state of Texas. Could the Owls find his replacement in the form of the former head coach at that state’s flagship university? Or, as is looking more and more likely, could they “lose” him to a fellow AAC school?

According to at least one report the former could be the case as the Philadelphia Inquirer, citing a source familiar with the situation, reported that Strong and Temple officials have spoken about the vacant head-coaching job. How strong, so to speak, the former Louisville and Texas head coach’s interest is in the AAC football program is something the source couldn’t gauge, the Inquirer noted.

That said, “[t]hey had a conversation with Strong, that is a fact,” the source said.

The strongest, so to speak, competition for Strong may very well be coming from USF, with Roy Cummings of Florida Football Insiders reporting that “[i]t is believed that USF has already begun negotiating a contract with Strong.” A subsequent report from the Tampa Bay Times noted that USF spent Thursday in heavy pursuit of Strong.

The 56-year-old coach had previously been connected to the USF job, and his deep ties to the fertile recruiting grounds in the state that makes a marriage almost a no-brainer for both sides.

Strong was fired by the Longhorns in November after going just 16-21 during his three seasons in Austin. UT currently owes Strong roughly $11.2 million as part of his buyout. Per the terms of his contract, Strong must make “reasonable efforts” to obtain another job. If he does, USA Today wrote, “Texas’ obligation to him will be offset by an amount equal to 50% of the total compensation Strong receives from his new job.”

Matt Rhule, who left Temple for Baylor earlier this week, was paid just north of $1 million for his final season with the Owls, a figure that was eighth amongst AAC coaches. Willie Taggart, who created the USF vacancy by leaving for Oregon, was the fifth-highest paid coach in the conference at $1.7 million.

Strong’s salary final salary of $5.2 million was sixth nationally.

Lamar Jackson, Jonathan Allen among those to win 2016 college football awards

LOUISVILLE, KY - NOVEMBER 26:  Lamar Jackson #8 of the Louisville Cardinals throws a pass during the game against the Kentucky Wildcats at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium on November 26, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky.  (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Getty Images
Leave a comment

The college football world gathered in Atlanta on Thursday night as nearly a dozen of the sport’s most prestigious awards were handed out from the College Football Hall of Fame.

While a few of the winners were announced before the televised ceremony, here were the players who took home some hardware at the annual awards show:

Walter Camp Player of the Year — Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson

Maxwell Award as national player of the year — Lamar Jackson

Chuck Bednarik Award for defensive player of the year — Alabama’s Jonathan Allen

Davey O’Brien Award for best quarterback — Clemson’s Deshaun Watson (his second in a row)

Doak Walker Award as best running back — Texas’ D’Onta Foreman

Biletnikoff Award for best receiver — Oklahoma’s Dede Westbrook

Outland Trophy for outstanding interior lineman — Alabama’s Cam Robinson

Rimington Trophy for best center — Ohio State’s Pat Elflein

Jim Thorpe Award for best defensive back — USC’s Adoree’ Jackson

Lou Groza Award for outstanding place kicker — Arizona State’s Zane Gonzalez

Ray Guy Award for best punter — Utah’s Mitch Wishnowsky

John Mackey Award for outstanding tight end — Michigan’s Jake Butt

Butkus Award for best linebacker – Alabama’s Reuben Foster

Wuerffel Trophy for community service — Texas A&M QB Trevor Knight

Home Depot Coach of the Year — Colorado’s Mike MacIntyre

Nick Saban says transferring quarterbacks will stay at Alabama through College Football Playoff

ARLINGTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 03:  Cooper Bateman #18 of the Alabama Crimson Tide prepares to take on the USC Trojans during the AdvoCare Classic at AT&T Stadium on September 3, 2016 in Arlington, Texas.  (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
Getty Images

Alabama is busy preparing to face Washington at the end of the month in the College Football Playoff but news surfaced this week that two of the team’s backup quarterbacks are looking to transfer out of Tuscaloosa in the near future.

Redshirt sophomore David Cornwell announced on Twitter Wednesday that he will be headed elsewhere and redshirt junior Cooper Bateman did the same a few days prior. While there was a little concern that neither of them would be around for the Peach Bowl to backup starter Jalen Hurts, head coach Nick Saban confirmed the two transfers will be staying with the team through the semifinal and possible national title game berth.

“Absolutely. They have every intention of finishing the season,” Saban said in a press conference at the College Football Hall of Fame on Thursday. “I think these are situations when a younger guy won the job this year that these guys want to play someplace, and we want to — Cooper is a graduate, so he’ll be a graduate transfer, and we’re very supportive of these guys. They’ve done a fantastic job for us, and we hope that they get a good opportunity and a chance to play someplace. But they will be with our team, and they’re all anxious to finish the season with us.”

While Saban was very supportive of all the transfer decisions, the clearing out of the quarterback room probably isn’t what he had in mind in terms of roster management. Remarkably, Cornwell and Bateman are only two of the four signal-callers who have moved on from the Crimson Tide in 2016 alone. Blake Barnett actually started the season opener for Alabama but left school shortly after losing the full-time job to Hurts and is headed to Arizona StateAlec Morris transferred to North Texas back in January.

After Hurts, only a walk-on quarterback is listed on the Tide’s roster behind him heading into next season (not counting any incoming freshmen who have yet to enroll). Guessing that’s why Saban has been busy hitting the recruiting trail ahead of the upcoming dead period this week.


text:
Skip to content
print page header

The University of Iowa Libraries

Guide to the Iowa Byington Reed papers

Collection Overview

Date Span: 1872-1936
Creator: Reed, Iowa Byington (1851-1936)
Extent: 2.25 linear feet.
Collection Number: IWA0555
Repository: Iowa Women's Archives
Summary: The diaries of an Iowa City woman who supported herself as a seamstress prior to her marriage in 1896.

Access: The papers are open for research.

Use: Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to The University of Iowa.

Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 984) were donated by Helen and Bill Byington in 2005.

Preferred Citation: Iowa Byington Reed papers, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.

Repository: Iowa Women's Archives
Address: 100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-5068
Curator: Kären Mason

Iowa Byington was born on July 23, 1851 to Mary McCollister Byington and LeGrand Byington. She was the second of six children: Charlie (born 1846), Robert (born 1854), Mahaska "Hattie" (born 1857), Otto (born 1859) and Lee (born 1862). Byington grew up in the Iowa City area. She taught for a while in both Iowa and Illinois, but spent the better portion of her unmarried years earning money sewing. Byington was an accomplished seamstress. She also embroidered, knitted, and tatted lace. Iowa Byington married William "Will" Reed on May 12, 1886 in Iowa City. According to his obituary, Will Reed engaged in farming with conspicuous success. Will Reed died on December 10, 1918. Iowa Byington Reed died February 13, 1936.

The Iowa Byington Reed papers date from 1872 to 1936 and measure 2.25 linear feet. The papers consist of Iowa Reed's diaries, with daily entries covering her life from age twenty to just a few weeks before her death at age eighty-four. Also included is the diary of her brother Robert Byington, covering the last year and a half of his life, April 1893 to August 1894.

Iowa Byington Reed's diaries are filled with information about housekeeping chores, entertainments, the rituals of birth, marriage and death, holiday practices, illnesses and the weather. Reed writes about family and friends, as well as local and national news. She writes of family birthdays and deaths, including the death of her brother Robert in 1884 at age thirty, and the death of her niece Edith at age seventeen in 1898. She writes about her lengthy courtship with Will Reed, the months of preparations before their wedding, their married life, and her inconsolable grief at his death. Reed also writes about local fires, deaths and politics. On the national front, Reed and her brother Robert attended the World's Fair in St. Louis just months before his death. She writes about Grover Cleveland's election to President, President McKinley's assassination, the deadly theater fire in Chicago in 1903, and World War I.

Robert Byington's diary complements Reed's from April 1883 to August 1884. Byington writes about the family's business ventures. His entries provide information about the family's farming operations, their finances, and their position in the Iowa City community. Byington writes about meeting former Confederate President Jefferson Davis during his visit to St. Louis during the World's Fair. He also writes of his illness.

A small vertical file contains loose items that were interspersed throughout Iowa Reed's diaries. The items include Will Reed's 1918 obituary, Robert Byington's 1873 teaching certificate, a Halloween card, Christmas card lists, and an 1890 souvenir ribbon celebrating Iowa's first two capital cities of Burlington and Iowa City.

Browse by Series:
Series 1: GENERAL
Series 2: DIARIES

  • Series 1: GENERAL
  • SCVF:
  • Loose items from diaries - 1873-1931
  • Series 2: DIARIES
  • Box 1: - 1872-1878
  • Nos. 1-5 - 1872-1878
  • Box 2: - 1878-1884
  • Nos. 6-11 - 1878-1884
  • Box 3: - 1885-1892
  • Nos.12-13 - 1885-1892
  • Box 4: - 1893-1902
  • Nos. 14-18 - 1893-1902
  • Box 5: - 1902-1909
  • Nos. 19-23 - 1902-1909
  • Box 6: - 1910-1919
  • Nos 24-26 - 1910-1919
  • Box 7: - 1920-1928
  • Nos.27-30 - 1920-1928
  • Box 8: - 1929-1936
  • Nos. 31-35 - 1929-1936


text:
Pasir Ris Park

Pasir Ris Park

Address: Pasir Ris Avenue Singapore 519736

Getting there:
Take the MRT towards Pasir Ris MRT Station (EW1), board bus 403 at the adjoining bus interchange and alight at the bus stop before Pasir Ris Way.

Operating Hours:
Lighted Hours: 7.00pm-7.00am

The term Pasir Ris is Malay for 'beach bolt-rope', implying that it is a narrow beach. In the park, you can enjoy several modern park activities, like pony rides, water sports, cycling, inline skating and barbeque rental. Simultaneously, there is also a carefully preserved 6-ha mangrove forest full of interesting inhabitants, with boardwalks leading visitors around. Within the mangrove forest, you can also observe birds from the 3-storey high Bird Watching Tower. If you are looking for something active to do, there are giant space-nets, cableways and innovative play stations at the popular Children's Playground, which proves to be popular among both young and old. Click here to download Pasir Ris Park brochure. View Fullscreen Map

Search ComeSingapore for articles, events and directories matching your keywords.


text:
IceHogs’ Ross Headed To Court

Garret Ross’ days with the Blackhawks organization might be numbered.

Reports surfaced over the weekend that Ross is the focus of a criminal investigation in DeKalb County involving the “Revenge Porn” law. He is due to appear in court next Monday and a preliminary hearing is reportedly scheduled for April 22nd.

According to Chris Block, it was Chicago management that pulled Ross from the lineup, and his jersey from this weekend’s auction.

A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed it was Chicago Blackhawks management who ordered that Ross be removed from the IceHogs lineups on Saturday and Sunday.

Ross, 23, is in the final year of his entry-level contract with the Blackhawks. He has 97 points in 204 career AHL games.

15 thoughts on “IceHogs’ Ross Headed To Court

  1. Ernie,

    Sorry for my ignorance, but what incident are you referring to that happened in August?

  2. This doesn’t mean that they knew about it in August. Rather he committed the act then. And someone finally saw it.

  3. Before we begin citing the site Ernie offered as gospel (they’re far from that – or journalism for that matter) let’s pause for facts in this case. But it certainly appears that Ross has made a decision personally that could have drastic consequences on his relationship with the Chicago Blackhawks organization.

  4. I linked that because they had the Dekalb County Circuit court case file shown.

    I agree though that I should have used a better source as it’s far from reputable. Im usually critical of others using less than stellar sources.

    According to the guy who broke the story (who’s twitter was linked to in the original link) Ross was arrested and charged back in February. He also states other Icehogs players could have been involved, but Ross the only one charged. It’s possible the Hawks didn’t know.

  5. Yep, same same, sort of a odd sexual pattern developing maybe? Hawks have an opportunity to address and take some sort of “symbolic” action if not real action.
    As most know Hawks Female Fan base is the biggest in the NHL if not all of sports.

    I was not and I’m still not a Fan of snot nose, brat boy KANE but he was innocent, but innocent of what? A few weeks the NHL said all clear? As if the investigation was still on going? Odd?

    anyway the Hawks do need to address these “events” quickly, these guys might think they get away with it or worse keep their mouth shut?

    these are big issues for SPORTS, NHL and HAWKS, more so than simple minded lame salary cap chatter.

    go hawks
    do the right thing

  6. Mook- The NHL operates independently of law enforcement, They don’t need guilt to determine something suspendable happened. They needed to find out for themselves do determine what actually happened with Kane. They came to the conclusion that nothing did.

    These issues are big regardless of sports or celebrity status. This is not something that is festering in the Hawks organization exclusively. Snapchat, Twitter, hell even text messaging wasnt around 10-15 years ago. What appears happened is the young man was upset over a breakup and posted photos online that he shouldnt have. Half of the country doesn’t have this “revenge” law. Was Ross in the wrong if he did what he’s being brought to court for? Absolutely. I personally didnt know it was illegal. I doubt Ross did either. This could be a case where he knew it was morally wrong to do it, but was unaware if it was legally wrong.

    This isn’t an issue to be taken lightly. However, an issue like this will not noticeably affect the demographic. Its just way easier to nip it in the bud immediately than to keep having to talk about it.

    To the ladies out there. DON”T SEND NUDE PICTURES OF YOURSELF.

  7. It’s too bad our laws aren’t based on morality. That’s crazy talk.

    This guy deserves everything he gets. It’s not different than taking pictures of someone through a hotel peephole. It’s too bad she won’t see millions for it, as the pictures are now going to be hot searches.

  8. Kane’s like, “‘Dat’s my boy right there. Treatin’ women like trash and being brought in by the cops! Like it!!”

  9. Ross professional hockey career was at a cross roads anyways. Im sure this doesnt make things better. You wonder if this has effected his on ice production. Just 2 years ago Ross seemed like he had a bright future. Thats ashame

    We all know the wicked powers if a woman’s body and subsequent heartbreak. Some of us just can be a man about it, and some can’t.

    This is extra shitty on his part, as the story says he was caught messing around yet takes it out on his girlfriend when she finds out. Clearly not a player/person with good character.

  11. I enjoy what you guys are usually up too. This sort of clever
    work and exposure! Keep up the awesome works guys I’ve included you guys to
    our blogroll.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


text:
Saturday, December 19, 2015

The depth of Jew hatred in the middle east is astounding. Read this and tell how we are going to deal with them?

Jew-hating airline cancels flight rather than allow Israeli passengers

The airline says they cannot allow Israelis on the planes because the Middle Eastern kingdom prohibits it citizens from doing business with citizens of the Jewish state.
“On December 15th, Kuwait Airways informed the United States Department of Transportation that they will be eliminating service between JFK and London Heathrow,” said a department spokesperson.
The airline has at least twice refused to let customers with Israeli passports buy tickets on flights from New York to London because of the Islamic state’s ban on trade with Israel.
It did not say when its last flight on that route would be.
Politicians who had pushed for the feds to nix the airline’s permit say they are glad the company decided to end the flight.
Modal Trigger
Queens Councilman Rory Lancman marches with his family in the Celebrate Israel parade in 2010.Photo: Robert Kalfus
“If you’re so anti-Semitic that you would rather cancel a flight than provide service to Israeli passport holders, then good riddance,” said Councilman Rory Lancman.
Lancman said it was unconscionable that Kuwait, who the United States helped liberate in the early 1990s with the help of Jewish soldiers, would continue to discriminate against Israelis.
“They should show some gratitude that they even have their dictatorial little half-assed country,” said Lancman.
The airline will still run its New York-to-Kuwait flight from JFK, but since Israelis are not allowed in the country, the feds cannot require them to allow Israelis on that flight.
The lawyer for Eldad Gatt, the Israeli citizen who tried to buy a ticket on the New York to London flight in the fall of 2013 and was denied, said he does not plan to drop his suit against the airline and that he would like a formal ruling that the airline is discriminating against Israelis.
Kuwait Airways officials did not return calls for comment.

No comments:


text:
Retro Fish

Looking for that special stick? Post an ad in here for things you are after!

Retro Fish

Postby Rattz » Fri Jun 21, 2013 2:06 pm

Not surf, to display, doesn't have to be water tight?
User avatar
Posts: 329
Joined: Thu Jan 01, 1970 12:00 am
Location: South Wales

Return to Wanted

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest


text:
Community Central

Wreck-It Ralph's Awesome New Trailer

19,031pages on
this wiki
Add New Page

Ad blocker interference detected!

Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers

Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected.

From Ign

Description Edit

See more of the world of Wreck-It Ralph in this second trailer for Disney's animated video game valentine.

This image file was uploaded to be used on a user namespace page, a user subpage, a user talk page, or a user blog page, under the images for user pages policy.

Appears on these pages

See full list >

Appears on these wikis

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

current01:31, September 15, 2012Thumbnail for version as of 01:31, September 15, 201202:30640 × 359 (36 KB)Nadia1148created video
00:24, September 14, 2012Thumbnail for version as of 00:24, September 14, 201202:30640 × 359 (36 KB)Wikia Video Librarycreated video

Also on Fandom

Random Wiki


text:
Company summary

ljnet consultants is REGISTERED BUSINESS company incorporated in South Africa with identification number of 1999-041349-23. Company was incorporated on 1999-07-19, so the age of company is approximately 17.41 years. The type of company is Close Corporation. ljnet consultants detailed status is In Business. Registration address: 33 GLENGARRY CRESCENT HUMEWOOD PORT ELIZABETH 6001. More details...

Subscribe to updates

Get notified when we update any of this information about LJNET CONSULTANTS! We will send you all the updates directly into your inbox absolutely for free!

Company ratings and reviews

South Africa company LJNET CONSULTANTS was rated 4.4/5 stars out of 5 (by 15 voters)
Click to vote

Company information

Basic status information:

Business code:

Business title:

Business form:

1. Close Corporation
2. Primary Co-Operative

Contact number:

Click to reveal

Contact fax:

Click to reveal

Click to reveal

Click to reveal

Contact e-mail:

Click to reveal

Legal capital:

Click to reveal

Office hours:

Click to reveal

South Africa

ZIP code:

Click to reveal

Click to reveal

Date of registration:

before 6353.58 days

Other business codes:

Click to reveal

Facebook page:

Click to reveal

QR code and social networks

QR code of LJNET CONSULTANTS (1999-041349-23)
This QR code represents company listing of LJNET CONSULTANTS (1999-041349-23) in our website:

If you have not found what you were looking for, we are suggesting you on trying these links:

Financial data and company documents

Sample data
Document type Document date Comments, notes
Annual Return 2012-12-30
Return of Allotment of shares 2011-07-05
Change of office address 2011-06-21
Articles of company 2010-01-24
Company incorporation documents 2010-01-22

Directors, Secretaries and employees

Sample data
Full name Date Comments, notes
Mr. John P****o 2012-11-02
Mrs. Sarah O**s 2011-08-05
Mr. Greg K******i 2011-06-18
Mr. David T*****a 2010-01-26
Mr. Andrew M******o 2010-01-26

Found something wrong or incorrect?

If information you see in this page is not valid or you need to update it or have any doubts about it, fill out contact form or use alternative e-mail method: support@companylist.co.za

Have not found what you were looking for?

Data disclaimer

The information provided on this website was collected from a variety of public sources. We aim to provide the most comprehensive data however this is dependent on the level of information filled in the public domain. Information are provided as a guideline and can be used for curiosity only. Also, data might have changed since the last database update! We strongly advise our visitors to express caution if in doubt, and to search for professional advice before commencing legal action, based on any information contained here. We can not take any responsibility for the consequences of inaccuracies. Some of the advertisers and web analytics that are used on this website may save tracking cookies in your browser's memory.
Google+ profile of COMPANYLIST.CO.ZA Facebook profile of COMPANYLIST.CO.ZA Twitter profile of COMPANYLIST.CO.ZA Contact COMPANYLIST.CO.ZA administration
Go to top


text:
New Haven Man Indicted In Virginia ‘East Coast Rapist’ Case

By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A suspect in a series of rapes along the East Coast has been indicted in Virginia and could stand trial this summer.

A grand jury in Prince William County returned an indictment Tuesday that charges Aaron Thomas with abducting three teenage trick-or-treaters on Halloween 2009 and raping two of them.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert says the indictment includes two counts of rape, three counts of abduction with intention to defile and three counts of use of a firearm during a commission of a felony.

A trial is scheduled for July 31.

Thomas was arrested last year in Connecticut and had been held there on charges connected to a 2007 sexual assault.

But Connecticut officials agreed to extradite him to Virginia to face charges there first.

(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

Leave a Reply

Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

More From CBS Connecticut

At The Box Office
Ski Card

Listen Live


text:
Comparison of avalanche survival patterns in Canada and Switzerland

Haegeli, Pascal; Falk, Markus; Brugger, Hermann; Etter, Hans-Jürg; Boyd, Jeff
April 2011
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal;4/19/2011, Vol. 183 Issue 7, p789
Academic Journal
Background: Current recommendations for rescue and resuscitation of people buried in avalanches are based on Swiss avalanche survival data. We analyzed Canadian survival patterns and compared them with those from Switzerland. Methods: We extracted relevant data for survivors and nonsurvivors of complete avalanche burials from Oct. 1, 1980, to Sept. 30, 2005, from Canadian and Swiss databases. We calculated survival curves for Canada with and without trauma-related deaths as well as for different outdoor activities and snow climates. We compared these curves with the Swiss survival curve. Results: A total of 301 people in the Canadian database and 946 in the Swiss database met the inclusion criteria. The overall proportion of people who survived did not differ significantly between the two countries (46.2% [139/301] v. 46.9% [444/946]; p = 0.87). Significant differences were observed between the overall survival curves for the two countries (p = 0.001): compared with the Swiss curve, the Canadian curve showed a quicker drop at the early stages of burial and poorer survival associated with prolonged burial. The probability of survival fell quicker with trauma-related deaths and in denser snow climates. Poorer survival probabilities in the Canadian sample were offset by significantly quicker extrication (median duration of burial 18 minutes v. 35 minutes in the Swiss sample; p < 0.001). Interpretation: Observed differences in avalanche survival curves between the Canadian and Swiss samples were associated with the prevalence of trauma and differences in snow climate. Although avoidance of avalanches remains paramount for survival, the earlier onset of asphyxia, especially in maritime snow climates, emphasizes the importance of prompt extrication, ideally within 10 minutes. Protective devices against trauma and better clinical skills in organized rescue may further improve survival.

Related Articles

  • Case Study in Review: Discussion Q&A. Bezubiak, Ian; Weselake, Todd // Avalanche Review;Dec2008, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p13

    The article presents a case study on the successful rescue of an avalanche victim after a large slab avalanche buried him in Fernie, British Columbia. It discusses the process of beacon searching and the beacon tracker used during the rescue. Also described are the shoveling technique...

  • HOW EFFICIENT IS COMPANION RESCUE WITH MINIMAL TRAINING? Genswein, Manuel; Eide, Ragnhild // Avalanche Review;Dec2008, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p14

    The article examines the efficiency of companion rescue in multiple avalanche burial without training. A field test was conducted with 30 participants provided by the Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education and Outdoor Life Program of Volda University College in Norway to verify the claim that...

  • Survival Facts.  // Popular Mechanics;Aug2005, Vol. 182 Issue 8, p69

    The article presents certain facts and statistics on search and rescue (SAR) operations in the U.S. 50, 000 is the estimated number of wilderness SAR missions in the U.S. each year. 36 percent is the portion of SAR operations launched to help people who have become lost. 40 percent if the...

  • Backcountry Skier Killed In Avalanche At Grand Teton National Park.  // National Parks Traveler;Mar2013, p3

    The article offers information on the death of skier, Jarad Spackman, 40, of Jackson, due to an avalanche, while ascending Apocalypse Couloir near the mouth of Death Canyon. It states that Spackman and a companion were heading up the couloir about 10:30 a.m. to access an adjacent narrow and...

  • Grand Teton National Park Rangers Recover Body Of Skier Killed In Avalanche.  // National Parks Traveler;1/28/2013, p1

    The article reports that rangers of Grand Teton National Park discovered body of Nick Gillespie from Jackson, Wyoming who was killed in an avalanche. It informs that Gillespie was caught in an avalanche on the southeast face of Survey Peak in the northern Teton Range and died as a result of...

  • A Brief Mathematical Note On MULTIPLE-BURIAL LIKELIHOOD. Shefftz, Jonathan S. // Avalanche Review;Dec2008, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p16

    The article presents a brief mathematical note which focused on the likelihood of multiple-burial avalanche accident. The author explains the reasons for considering a multiple-burial likelihood. He mentions the potential confusion that can arise from the added complexity in the user interfaces...

  • WHEN SHOULD WE DIG? Jarry, Frédéric // Avalanche Review;Dec2008, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p16

    The author analyzes the French data on multiple-burial avalanche situation and advances in avalanche beacon technologies. The author cites the data on 259 avalanche accidents recorded by the French National Association for the Study of Snow and Avalanches (ANENA) between October 1999 and...

  • DIGGING DEEPER: Uncovering the Real Issues in North American Multiple Burials. Edgerly, Bruce // Avalanche Review;Dec2008, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p18

    The article focuses on real experiences in multiple burial avalanche rescue operations in North America. The author discusses the importance of shovelling techniques in real multiple burial situations. According to the data from the www.avalanche.org database, from 1995 through April 2008, just...

  • Fight for food & seat in copter.  // Telegraph (Calcutta, India);4/30/2015, p11

    The article reports on the fight for seats in rescue helicopters and for food by many trekkers from Israel who were stranded by an avalanche in Nepal after the February 2015 earthquake. Topics covered include death of more than 5000 people and 250 missing after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit a...

Read the Article

Sorry, but this item is not currently available from your library.

Try another library?
Sign out of this library

Other Topics


text:
Javier Dugal

Javier Dugal - Minor persona of Yissith

Javier, the third son of a fictitious minor nobleman, insinuated himself into Katheer’s premier magic academy for financially gifted youth nearly 20 years ago. The academy was little more than an expensive day-care run by hedge wizards with more business sense than magical ability, but access to their extensive library was well worth the tuition and inane lectures. By the end of the first year he had already taught himself enough magical theory to breeze through the academy’s programs with respectable marks. So, he used his remaining time there to befriend the local noble’s offspring and establish himself as a gentleman of leisure.

Yssith-Atil spends most of his leisure time as Javier, either returning to the academy’s library as a decently liked alumni or to one of the pubs frequented by his former class mates.

About a month ago he simply disappeared, but this isn’t entirely out of character. After a few months one or two of his old acquaintances may start asking around, but they will find no trace of him.

Javier Dugal

Conscientious Objectors tbug Grifta


text:
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Cruz Challenges 'Coward' Obama To One-On-One Smackdown

After calling Barack Obama a coward, Ted Cruz issued the following challenge: "Lets have a debate on your refugee policy and if you’re so certain that allowing tens of thousands of refugees, including potentially ISIS terrorists, is a good idea, if you’re so certain the American people are with you...

Continue Reading

No comments:

Post a Comment

Posted By: Chris Carmouche


text:
Thursday, March 5, 2009

Bi Kere O Eli Bi İndir

Through the media, which can be hardly found any reliable, I already red the reactions regarding the approach of Turkey to Arab-Israeli conflict. This approach was loudly pronounced in WEF/Davos .

According to the news, especially Iranians were delighted by the daring, unequiocal and capital words of Erdoğan saying Shimon Perez "You Know Well How To Kill". It makes sense when the media expounds Iran is rejoiced by this happenning. But yesterday I witnessed this rapture personally, a couple of Iranians somwhow extended their feelings about our Prime Minister. The adjectives used to refer David Ignatius were the hardest ever.

Actually, I believe that the physical contact started by Ignatius was strictly wrong, since it means "shut up". A prime minister is existing there represnting a country, not on his behalf like an academic, thus, those leaders have to be approached with maximum care. The next step of a body language expression meaning "shup of" could be coming to blows meaning "no I wanna go on!!!"

This ONE MINUTE stuff is something else, that I'll get there too ;)

*Keep Tuned~Consti Reports*

No comments:


text:
Ioda Peterson

FAIRFAX – Ioda Peterson, 89, of Fairfax, died Monday, July 28, 2014, at the Fairfax Community Home.

Memorial Service will be 2 p.m., Wednesday, July 30, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Fairfax with burial in Swedlanda Lutheran Cemetery, Palmyra Township, Renville County.

Arrangements are with the Hauser-Hantge Chapel in Fairfax.

Visitation is one hour prior to the service at the church on Wednesday.

0 0items

Your shopping cart is empty.

Items/Products added to Cart will show here.


text:
Dorothy Jones

Dorothy “Dot” Jones, (nee) Burghardt 89, received her angel wings on Thursday, (Feb. 7, 2013).

She leaves behind four children: Thomas (Elizabeth) of Treasure Island, Fla; William (Tammy) of Lake George, N.Y., Cyn D. Gailey, of Sunset Bay; Sandy (Richard) Eggleston of Rochester, N.Y.; eight grandchildren: Matthew (Sarah) Jones, Logan (Jacquie) Jones, Whitney Jones, Cameron Jones, Briana (Isaiah) Loveless, Ian (Kara) Loggans, Chelsea (Charlie) Bender and Trevor Eggleston; 6 great-grandchildren; brother and sister-in-law, Donald and Phyllis Burghardt; several nieces and nephews and her feline friend, DUFUS. She was predeceased by daughter, Beth Ann Jones and nephew, Mark Burghardt.

Born in Kenmore, N.Y. and raised in Sunset Bay, the daughter of William and Dorothy Burghardt, she was a beloved member of the Sunset Bay community for more than 70 years.

Dot is a World War II veteran, serving in the Navy. Later, she worked in the family-owned Sunset Bay Amusement Park and was owner of the Sun-set Bay Deli (The Little Store), a realtor, and CEO (Creator of Extraordinary Objects) of Creation Station stained glass in Silver Creek. Known affectionately as: Mummy, Mumsy, Oh Hot Gram, and our Fearless Leader, she loved to watch people from her front deck, and enjoyed backyard bird watching, stained glass, crafts, sewing and especially chocolate!! She was a member of the Sunset Bay association and the Silver Creek Seniors.

A memorial service will be held at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 165 Central Ave. Silver Creek, NY on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 11:00 followed by a celebration of Dot’s life at the Sunset Bay Fire Hall. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sunset Bay Fire Department, 12798 Alleghany Road, Irving, NY 14081, or Silver Creek Volunteer Emergen-cy Squad, 162 Central Avenue, Silver Creek, NY 14136.


text:
Bad Medicine

MAYVILLE – The issue of a dramatic increase in the number of teenagers and young adults abusing prescription painkillers took center stage at the most recent meeting of the Chautauqua County School Boards Association.

On Thursday, several Chautauqua County school superintendents and board members gathered at Mayville’s Chautauqua Suites to hear a presentation about the dangers of prescription drug use among area youth both inside and outside of the school system.

The presentation, called “Painkillers Kill More Than Pain,” featured two speakers: Rob Kubiak, marketing manager of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York, and John Craig, vice-president of education and outreach with WNED and WBFO. As representatives of their respective organizations, which are sponsorship partners, Kubiak and Craig outlined several statistics of prescription drug abuse in Western New York, as well as initiatives taken by their organizations to raise awareness.

“At one point, (the issue) was alcohol or marijuana,” Kubiak said. “But when I was talking to Gretchen Fierle, (vice-president and chief communication officer of BCBS of WNY), she said if you go to a party and have to choose, you’re safer with marijuana or alcohol. It’s sad because it’s gotten to that point. And what kids are doing is they’re saying to their friends, ‘Take this. It’s got the same effect, and your parents can’t smell it.’ It’s a silent killer.”

Kubiak illustrated the scope of the problem by providing global statistics.

“This is an important topic because we all know someone who has been affected by prescription painkillers,” Kubiak said after an overwhelming number of attendants indicated they had, or knew someone who had, been prescribed painkillers previously. “A narcotic painkiller overdose kills more than 45 people every day. In the entire world, the United States consumes 95 percent of prescription painkillers. That’s important to know because it’s happening in every community and every neighborhood.”

Craig provided additional statistics, including: 2,500 Upstate New York young adults addicted to pain medication; 100 deaths per day due to prescription medication misuse or recreational use, with the aforementioned 45 deaths per day being due to painkiller addictions; a 400 percent increase since 1995 in the number of pain prescriptions issued; 475,000 emergency room visits in 2009 due to painkiller addiction issues; 20 percent of teens taking prescription or addictive medications not prescribed to them; and 40 percent of these users believing painkillers are safer to take than street drugs.

In order to raise awareness about the gravity of the situation, BCBS of WNY and WNED-TV have taken several initiatives. Kubiak said the organizations have thus far succeeded in securing $1.1 million in donated media and resources to address the issue, as well as $300,000 in out-of-pocket funding.The most substantial initiative taken was the filming of a 30-minute documentary, of which a 6-minute segment was aired at the CCSBA meeting.

The documentary focuses on the stories of several young adults and their struggles with addictive prescription drugs. The documentary is currently scheduled to air in simulcast at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 22 on WGRZ-Channel 2, WKBW-Channel 7 and WNED-TV.

Kubiak and Craig also asked for the support of area school districts in raising awareness of the problem, and the effects associated with it.

“We need your commitment to air the documentary,” Kubiak said. “We want it to be seen by all middle and high school students. We just really want you to make that pledge to show it, advertise it and make the parents watch it. And that’s half the battle. It’s not just for the kids, it’s for the parents, too. The issue is with the kids, but if the parents aren’t aware, they need to know what to do. And, more importantly, talk to your friends, colleagues and families about it.”

The CCSBA is a consortium of all 18 Chautauqua County school districts, as well as Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES. To learn more, go to its new website at

The next CCSBA general membership dinner meeting will be held Oct. 17 at Moonbrook Country Club. Beginning at 6 p.m., the meeting will look at the NYS Campaign for Fiscal Equity and will feature special guest Michael Rebell.


text:
Change Of Venue Requested In Murder Case

MAYVILLE A motion for a change of venue has been filed in the murder trial of Anthony R. Taglianetti II.

A clerk in the Rochester-based Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court Fourth Judicial Department confirmed Friday a motion has been filed by Ned Barone, Chautauqua County public defender. The clerk said there is no date set to hear the motion as of yet.

Taglianetti, a former Dale City, Va., resident is charged with driving to New York and shooting Keith Reed Jr., Clymer Central School superintendent, over an alleged affair between Reed and Taglianetti’s wife.

Police named Taglianetti a suspect in the Sept. 21, 2012, homicide of Reed. He was taken into custody days later in Virginia, and in December was extradited to Chautauqua County. On Dec. 19, 2012, Taglianetti pleaded innocent to a second-degree murder charge. Taglianetti appeared in court in July for pre-trial hearings on evidence and identification.

Jury selection on the case was scheduled to begin Sept. 17, however it was delayed when information was revealed by the district attorney that the public defender had not heard. After another hearing Sept. 18 – in which it was determined the information could be used – jury selection began Sept. 19.

So far, only six jurors are confirmed to have been chosen as a part of jury selection. It was previously indicated that four alternate jurors would be selected in addition to the 12 regular jurors. Jurors have been questioned privately by the public defender, district attorney and Judge John T. Ward.

Barone had no comment regarding the motion. A phone call to David Foley, district attorney, was not returned.