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Join us on Thursday, February 4 for a special charity night to benefit Amadeo's Army, a community dedicated to promoting awareness of Becker Muscular Dystrophy and fundraising in support of Austinite Amadeo Andrade, who was diagnosed with the disease seven years ago, as well as the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).

Patrons have the opportunity to contribute to such a great cause by simply enjoying dinner at the restaurant. Twenty percent of the day’s sales during dinner will be donated to Amadeo’s Army. We will be serving our dinner menu, which includes new dishes such as the pork belly brûlée (mole verde, apple jam, carrot/radish salad, peanuts, chili pequin) and the braised jicama (miso glaze, sesame crumble, tangerine, chili puree).

Special beer by Left Hand Brewing Company will be available for only $4, with all proceeds going directly to Amadeo’s Army.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Hey Australian Jonas Brothers fans! If you're reading this, you heard about this website from our Twitter ( or somebody kindly told you about it. I (Hiba) have created this blogging place for Maggie and I to blog about things which you Jonas fans can read and comment any time. This will not only be all about Jonas, but not all about us either. We're going to do our best to write blogs that will interest you and keep you coming back for more! :)

Twitter's character limit is very annoying, and because we post Jonas news on that Twitter, we will also do it at the end of each blog we write.. just to make things easier. YES, we are still running our Twitter and we will not stop. We'll keep you updated with Jonas news. :)

So, tell your friends about this blog spot. We are excited about being able to write what you read. Thank you so much! -Hiba

  1. well Hiba. this is a very smart idea!

    Bri - (twitter) flyyywithme :D

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    i remmbered my username, it was the email i use to use when i was in primary school

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Tom Scott Launches Website

Authentic Connecticut conservative legend Tom Scott has launched a site that's sure to be informative and easily even more opinionated (and further to the right) than this one!

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Second Month of the Year

How are you doing with your goals for this year?

Funny, I spent hours coming up with goals. Yet a little bout of the flu threw me off course for a week.

Not that I can't recover. It just amazes me how one little event can throw off your well laid plans.

Time to revise,

CherylStJohn said...

I just re-evaluated my page count goals, found I'm a little ahead !! and adjusted my projected delivery date. Always good to reassess.

About Me said...

You are awesome. So glad to hear you are ahead of the game.


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Michael Shank Racing faces big penalties after the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona: Autoweek TV | Autoweek

Michael Shank Racing faces big penalties after the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona: Autoweek TV

January 31, 2013

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Also in this episode: Mercedes kicks up the C63 AMG with its Edition 507, and the FR-S will drop the top in Geneva.

-- Grand-Am throws the penalty flag.

-- Mercedes sprints to the goal line with the C63.

-- And Toyota clotheslines the FT-86.

I'm Jake here to wrap up the week of Autoweek TV. Down, set, hike!

Michael Shank Racing, which crossed the finish line third at last weekend's Rolex 24 Hour race, was hit with a $35,000 fine yesterday after its Ford-Riley was found to be illegal.

According to the rulebook, the engine had mechanical adjustments resulting in performance levels outside the documented maximums. The top three finisher's cars have all been impounded and transported to NASCAR's technical facility in North Carolina.

The team, the drivers and the manufacturer were all docked championship points for the infraction. Next race is the first weekend in March.

Mercedes introduced the C63 AMG Edition 507 overnight. The small sedan puts out 507 hp and 450 lb-ft of torque from its 6.2-liter V8, and will debut this summer.

It can sprint to 60 mph in just 4.1 seconds. That's three tenths faster than the current C63 and two ticks faster than the version with the AMG Development Package. Pricing hasn't been announced, but you can bet it will be higher than the $62,330 for the current C63.

It was only a matter of time until someone dropped the top on the Scion FR-S. We just thought it would be a So-Cal tuning company, not the Japanese giant itself. But at the

Geneva motor show, the manufacturer will show a convertible version with the FT-86 Open nameplate.

Toyota said that the show car will help gauge interest in the idea, as well as carry out engineering tests. We definitely would not be surprised if Toyota decides to build this one.

That's the news for the week. Thanks for being with us. Be sure to check out our video section at autoweek.com, and come back on Monday after the big game.

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Former World Rally Championship star Marcus Grönholm continues to rest after he was injured Saturday in a scary crash during practice for the X Games in Los Angeles.

Grönholm, winner of two Global RallyCross Championship events this season, was hurt after his Ford Fiesta crashed into an exposed light post base on the downtown street circuit. He was knocked unconscious in the crash, and medical personnel transported him to a local hospital.

Grönholm's public relations team on Monday issued the following statement:

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“Following the accident, Marcus was for a period unconscious and accordingly one area of medical focus has been to monitor for any repercussions from this injury. Other precautionary checks including a full body scan and related tests confirm that Marcus has full limb mobility, but a bone compression which requires treatment. Consistent with this type of accident, Marcus sustained a number of other injuries that have also improved since his admittance. Accordingly, Marcus will remain in hospital under medical supervision to continue his recuperation.”


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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

wiggle hell

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The wiggles. I decided moments ago to do a quick search for the string "i hate the wiggles"... and it turns out i am not alone. Hate is a strong word but let's just say i hate that autumn loves the wiggles so much. I have been sick for about a week now and when up at 1-3am I find myself singing wiggles songs... believe me I would rather humm along to a quality jjcale tune or elizabeth mitchell at the very least... but now- "i think dorothy is doing some mowing guys" .... runs through my head!

Originally we decided autumn wouldn't watch ANY tv... now, that she is almost 20 months, I will admit- she often watches about 20-30 minutes in the morning- this let's me get something done ... in taking a quick poll of the other moms i know there is no need to feel guilty about this- but somehow i do. perhaps if autumn would be willing to watch something other than the wiggles the guilt would subside.

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If you think the Wiggles are bad you ain't seen nuthin yet! They're not half as annoying as some other kiddie "entertainers" (I'm talking to you, Barney!!). So count your blessings if that's Autumn's choix du jour.

Me, I don't mind tv as long as you're there talking to your child about what they're watching. And, sad but true, Liam has advanced his knowledge of phonetics and the alphabet from SuperWhy and Word World. So I'm in the appropriate-doses, age-appropriate, with-parent-interaction camp re tv.

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Friday, March 07, 2008

This election year

This is going to be a really interesting election year, I think. This is a massive generalization, but I think that creative people tend to be democrats and more business-like people are republicans.

In other words, Democrats are content creators and Republicans are content producers. Thus, we get a meme that the press is liberal, when the press is a huge corporation that is most definitely not liberal. So the new York Times, a huge corporation that owns more than just the times, can be both a left wing paper and one of the biggest cheerleaders for the War in Iraq at the same time.

All that I just wrote is arguable, but this is my point. Democrats as content creators no longer need the okay of large businesses to run their content. in this new media era, people can throw down a slick video and let the internet spread it.

And the great part is, we're going to see a lot more people do this in the coming months. Especially when all the content created will be for one candidate, whoever he or she is.

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

No Fifth Meeting!

On Tuesday night the Envision Transportation Working Group held what was suppose to be it's final meeting. Only four were scheduled for the Working Group.

Now there is a move to hold a fifth meeting, with the request coming from (ahem) John Moss, Chairman of the extremist Virginia Beach Taxpayers Alliance (VBTA). The VBTA wants to present a proposal for a follow-on transportation effort. Yeah, that's the same VBTA that has opposed each and every proposal to build new roads, while calling for the dismantling of mass transit. Given their track record, to reconvene for the primary purpose of hearing from them would be tantamount to entertaining an offer from a pedophile to provide security services for an elementary school.

The Envision Transportation initiative is partly funded by the City of Virginia Beach, to the tune of $63,000. The Working Group meets at the Municipal Center, in Building 19. Considering the source, any proposal originating from the VBTA would be DOA across the street at City Hall.

If the VBTA had something to bring to the table, they could have come to the fourth meeting. While Moss himself was in sick bay that night, certainly others from the VBTA could have brought the proposal in for discussion. Zero VBTAers were at the fourth meeting. In typical VBTA arrogance, they demand center stage for themselves at a fifth meeting, rather than being one among many at the fourth meeting.

Your tax dollars are funding this initiative. Speak up and make it clear there should be no fifth Working Group meeting. It would be a waste of resources.

Jessica Clark said...

If AND ONLY IF the vbta is willing to pay for the meeting (including all costs)

Yes, i know: Reid will Ride the Tide before they fund a 5th meeting (meaning fat chance for those who don't get it)

Anonymous said...

Don't forget, John Moss was the one who stopped the Witchduck/Princess Anne project when he "represented" that area on council.

Now 10 years and millions more in tax dollars later, it is being built.

Amanda Jennings said...

Moss's Folly!!

Ride the 25 from Military Circle at 5:07 PM any weekday to see in in action.

Thanks John Moss!

Avenging Archangel said...

On the Outbound 25, "been there, done that."

I've been waiting for a candidate running against John to run an ad with an aerial photo of that intersection at rush hour.


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

It's been almost three weeks of Kay being catatonic, semi catatonic? She still swallows if I feed her, but she wouldn't chew so I've had her on smoothies and vegetable juice, stuff like that. I was too scared to bring her to a hospital. The Slender Man has agents everywhere right? So I've been taking care of her here. How much of a triumph would it have been for one of those assholes to off her while she was completely helpless?

And it's good thing I was here. We get attacked almost daily. No one particularly capable. Morons that try to get me to open a door for them mostly. The Slender Man doing his normal loom outside the window. He still hasn't come inside her house. I found a gun sitting in her dresser drawer. Looking back over her blog I guess its the same one that her boyfriend gave her, that Spender guy.

Not much else to report. The only reason I'm even posting right now is to let you proxy assholes know this. She's protected. After everything she has done and everything that those other proxies and bloggers like that Morningstar and Elaine pair did to her, and most of all after what I did to her, I'm making sure that she is safe until she wakes up. And she is going to wake up. She's too damn strong not too.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Oh shit

Ryan again. Brought Kay home from the hospital the day after I posted what happened to us. Kay still won’t talk. Its like the person I’ve gotten to know over the past few weeks just isn’t there anymore. It feels like I’m interacting with a machine. Everything is completely mechanical with her.

Until this morning. God I made a huge mistake. I really thought it would help her, but I should have at least thought to read what was going on. Maybe one of these days I’ll make my own account that way I can look at things beforehand.

I convinced to Kay to go on the computer. Not to post, just to look and see how things were. Try and get her to reconnect with the world a little bit.

Well right now the world seems out to get her. That kid who she was fighting has apparently been “rescued”. Only hours after he was here. I was sitting in the living room, trying to give her some privacy in case she wanted to try and talk to someone. She let out this moan, like a hurt animal and fell out of her chair onto the floor. I ran over and after I got her laying on the couch I took a look at what she was reading that made her do that. Some chick named Elaine. I have no clue who she is, but she was on Kay’s list of blogs.

I think this is really bad. She’s not even being mechanical right now. I think she might be catatonic. Well maybe not that bad. She drank the water I gave her. But she won’t look at anything. She just stared at the ceiling. I think she fell asleep. Her eyes are closed at least.

I’m not sure what to do.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Ryan here. Things are pretty bad right now. We got attacked last night by someone who was supposed to be one of Kay’s closest friends. I didn’t really get to see what happened. We’re both alive. Kay is hurt pretty badly, physically and mentally. I missed out on half the mess and she won’t talk to me about what happened. I’ll give you guys what I know at least.

We’ve started getting along a lot better in the past few weeks. There was a huge hurricane that came through the area. Knocked out the power and internet for over a week. Her basement flooded and a tree came down on her garage. Between wading through water up to our knees and watching her laundry basket float around like a little boat, it gets hard for two people to stay pissed at each other.

We were sitting in her living room enjoying actually having lights and hot food. She was smiling and even laughed a few times, something I haven’t seen her do since the night I took her out to dinner and she found out who I really was. We were suddenly interrupted by a rock smashing through her picture window and into my head. I didn’t knock out immediately, but my vision and my brain went a bit blurry so this where things get kind of woozy.

She ran out the door, shrieking about proxy bastards. I stumbled over to the smashed window just in time to see Kay stop and stare at the woman leaping at her with a knife, shrieking at Kay like some kind of an animal. Apparently this woman was Melly, the mother of her deceased godchildren. At the time all I saw was Kay being attacked and not defending herself.

Melly sliced her across the face. She’s gonna have a pretty nasty scar. The doctors keep making noise at her about plastic surgery and she just stares at them like they’re not speaking English.

Sorry getting ahead of myself here. But I can’t tell you people how hard it has been to watch this pretty vibrant woman just deteriorate over the past few weeks. It seems like there is nothing left of the strong survivor I first read about when Olivia disappeared.

This was the point where I blacked out. I did my best to try to get out to them, but according to the doctors I’ve got a pretty nasty concussion from when that rock wacked me. I was probably only out for a minute or two, but I got up and looked out the window to see a scene that should have been something out of a movie, not real life.

Melly was laying on the ground with some kid standing over her, holding a knife, and laughing his head off. There was blood everywhere and Kay was holding a knife, screaming at the top of her lungs. No words, just this agonized sound. It reminded me of the sound my ex wife made when the police told us Olivia might never be found. She leapt at that kid and let me tell you he was quick. Dodged out of the way of that knife still laughing, screaming about Morningstar’s greatest triumph before stabbing out at her.

I grabbed the phone and called the cops while the two of them circled each other, him trying to stab her and her dodging while that Morningstar kid screamed at her about how she destroyed Melly, how worthless she was. I ran outside just in time for the sirens to start ringing.

The kid looked at us and glared at me before running off into the trees still laughing his head off like he had heard the best joke ever.

Kay won’t talk to me. She won’t tell me what happened while I was out cold. But whatever it was ended up with Melly dead. And I wasn’t sure she could take another emotional blow as it was.

I’ll try to make her talk to me. Or at least update here. She used to say it was good for her to be able to get her pain out on the blog. Maybe I can remind her of that.


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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘After Earth’ and ‘Now You See Me’ Can’t Catch ‘Fast and Furious 6′

How rare is it for a Will Smith sci-fi blockbuster to not open at number one at the box office? Also, how horrible must it feel for a Will Smith sci-fi blockbuster to not only get beaten by the second week of a long running franchise about fast cars, but by a magician thriller headlined by Jesse Eisenberg?

Film Weekend Per Screen
1 Fast and Furious 6 $34,538,000 (-64.5) $9,370 $170,377,000
2 Now You See Me $28,050,000 $9,590 $28,050,000
3 After Earth $27,00,000 $7,939 $27,000,000
4 Epic $16,400,000 (-51.1) $4,212 $65,161,000
5 Star Trek Into Darkness $16,400,000 (-56.0)
$4,575 $181,156,000
6 The Hangover Part 3 $15,930,000 (-61.8) $4,468 $88,086,000
7 Iron Man 3 $8,006,000 (-58.6) $2,765 $384,751,000
8 The Great Gatsby $6,265,000 (-53.7) $2,378 $128,256,000
9 The Croods $615,000 (-49.6) $1,215 $180,538,000
10 Frances Ha $552,000 (+0.4) $4,150 $1,578,000

For the past fifteen years, Will Smith has been guaranteed box office gold, but that $27 million opening for ‘After Earth‘ is more evidence of a seismic shift for the world’s biggest movie stars (see also: Tom Cruise and ‘Oblivion‘). Five years ago, ‘After Earth’ would’ve opened huge just because it starred Smith. But now? Oof. This was an expensive film, so you know the studio isn’t happy. This was also something of a vanity project for the entire Smith clan, so you know Hollywood’s most famous family will be nursing some bruised egos in the coming months. Also in trouble is director M. Night Shyamalan. ‘After Earth’ is his latest in a string of bombs and weak openings, so we may see the once-great filmmaker behind ‘The Sixth Sense’ vanish into director jail for the foreseeable future.

$27 million may be bad news for ‘After Earth,’ but $28 million is great news for ‘Now You See Me,’ a movie that’s had a big question mark hovering over it for the better part of a year. A thriller about magicians starring a bunch of likable (if not necessarily bankable) actors? Up against a Will Smith movie?! No one saw this one coming out on top. Since it cost about half of what ‘After Earth’ cost, ‘Now You See Me’ should be able to make a profit in the coming weeks, especially if word of mouth is good.

While ‘After Earth’ struggled and ‘Now You See Me’ surprised, ‘Fast and Furious 6‘ took the top spot for the second week in row, gobbling up another $34 million for a $170 million total. If it maintains this speed, the film will surpass ‘Fast Five’ in about two weeks to become the highest grossing film in the franchise. No wonder Universal fast tracked ‘Fast and Furious 7.’

In fourth place, ‘Epic‘ took in another $16 million for a $65 million total. That’s not bad for a non-Pixar, non-DreamWorks animated film, especially since this is the kind of movie that didn’t cost too much and will have a long shelf life on DVD. Right below it, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness‘ is poised to break $200 million very soon, but it looks unlikely to match the gross of its predecessor. Still, breaking $200 million is enough save face, but it’ll mean a cheaper ‘Star Trek 3.’

And that brings us to sixth place and ‘The Hangover Part 3,’ which took in $15 million for a grand total of $88 million. For most comedies, that would be a terrific gross. However, this is a franchise that shattered records with its first two entries. Although ‘The Hangover Part 3′ will have what appears to be a respectable final gross, it’ll actually be massive disappointment.

In seventh and eighth place, ‘Iron Man 3‘ and ‘The Great Gatsby‘ kept on trucking, with the former up to $384 million and the latter at $128 million. They both exceeded expectations with their opening weekends, so now it’s all about adding frosting to the cake, so to speak.

And finally, ‘Francis Ha’ broke into the top ten, taking the token indie spot that has belonged to ‘Mud’ for the past few weeks. We’ll see if it has the same longevity.

Next week sees the release of ‘The Internship’ and ‘The Purge.’ With competition like that, can ‘Fast and Furious 6′ hold the top spot for a third week?

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Whitney Houston Back In Rehab

It was reported that 47 year old singer Whitney Houston is back in rehab and this time her ex husband Bobby Brown is terrified. Sources says that Bobby Brown stated he was terrified and worried that his ex wife "might not pull through"
The singer relapsed after going on tour and began to shut everyone out. Could it be her own stress? Or stress of her daughter making headlines stating that she to has been doing cocaine?

Although Bobbi Kristina has spoken about the recent pictures leaking on the web of her snorting cocaine her explanation might not be to accurate. She stated that the pictures were leaked by and ex boyfriend because he was in love with her money and the relationship grew sour. She also stated that the pictures were made to seem like something it wasn't, well here are the pictures... you tell me.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

In lieu of proper (non-cricket) posts, some links:

1. This is lovely: DV posts a picture of, and a poem about, Nunhead Cemetery, one of the seven great Victorian Cemeteries in London, where dignatories and commoners were united by (if nothing else) being covered in the same soil dug by the same gravedigger.

The picture is splendidly hauntological – a ghostly apparition, hovering somewhere above Croydon, breaks through the trees and shakes the headstones. And the poem is well-chosen, evoking the dislocation which the graveyard (and the experience of bereavement) causes. The visitor to Nunhead Cemetery cannot be sure which century he is living in, never alone which city or suburb he is in.

2. We have become so disconnected from the past, that history is now only a commodity of the present. We visit museums, castles and historic sites; we take cheap flights to cities whose pasts are preserved in aspic (but which always feel upsettingly caught up in the present); but we can no longer consider the passage of time between the past and present as a continuum (albeit one that sometimes proceeds with abrupt qualitative shifts).

These photos on Leningrad / St Petersburg (found via Kosmograd, who sees in them “the past bleeding into the present”) are uncanny for this very reason. They are assembled with scrupulous precision, so that the past fits perfectly with the present (spatially if not temporally) – but they still don’t make sense.

At first I thought I could do the same with King’s Cross – interleave photos of the new development with those of the streets and the railway lands which held out until the turn of this century (and which I never saw). But such an exercise would be both impossible and undesirable – impossible because the streets have simply been erased (many of them ran along what is now Paperchase or WHSmiths or the taxi rank outside), and undesirable because my obsession with re-creating a (fictional) past in the area is slightly unsavoury. I am drawn back to it always (I often stand listlessly outside Marks and Spencers imagining where the impassive old facade of the German Gymnasium used to stand), but it is a fraught and pointless obsession. I should really move on.

3. More here [NS link] on a set of buildings which “represent an ambiguous future or a reviled past,” but “cannot make sense in the present.” The Leeds University campus was built by the trio responsible for the Barbican Centre and the Golden Lane Estate. It is a sumptuous complex, Brutalist and sci-fi, which refutes the claim that rational, modern, monumental buildings are necessarily cold – or rather, the claim that coldness necessarily equates to violence or social destruction.

Owen claims that Leeds University has compromised the original vision of the architects by smattering it with “street furniture.” This may be true (I have only visited Leeds once since I left in 2001), but I think it is more likely that, as Fredric Jameson has said of postmodernist architecture (though for different reasons), human beings never metamorphosed into properly Modernist subjects who were capable of inhabiting such structures. This is regrettable, but the economic shift from Fordism (where, for all the pressures placed upon them to spend their improved salaries on mass-produced commodities, people were still bound by a degree of class-consciousness) to neoliberalism, where the limits of human subjectivity are bound only by their aptitude for shopping, has left us stranded in a postmodern world.

I won’t make it to what looks like an affecting exhibition. But I shall buy the book – there is no cap to the number of black and white photos of the campus one can devour. From what I remember, it was always black and white anyway.

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January 7, 2013 – The Arizona Small Business Association (ASBA) will offer a forum for Arizona small business owners and supporters of the small business community to discuss the critical issues facing small businesses this year at the 2013 Small Business Outlook.  ASBA’s annual event will be highlighted by a panel of industry leaders whoâ€¦ Read More â†’


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Scottsdale Living Magazine – Winter 2012

Winter 2012 Issue Health | Beauty | Lifestyle Oh So Retro Only in Arizona will you find people stocking up on sunblock and tanning by the pool — in April. And at the Hotel Valley Ho, it was evident during our swimsuit photo shoot in March, which couldn’t have arrived soon enough as the OHâ€¦ Read More â†’

Business Incubator AZ TechCelerator Works To Create Viable Companies In The West Valley

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In an effort to boost its economy and shake its reputation as a bedroom community, the city of Surprise has launched AZ TechCelerator, a business incubator for budding entrepreneurs. The incubator offers well-below market rent, administrative support and access to experts who can help the entreprenuers “graduate” in three to five years, and thus bringâ€¦ Read More â†’


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Top Ten Sports Bars To Take Dad For Father’s Day

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  After all they have done for us, our dads certainly deserve a fun-filled day in their honor. So what better way to show them a good time than to sit back and enjoy some of America’s favorite pastime? This Sunday is Father’s Day, and the Dbacks are playing the White Sox at Chase Fieldâ€¦ Read More â†’


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Boone named interim dean of School of Sustainability

Sustainable Energy in Arizona - AB Magazine November/December 2011

Christopher Boone, professor at Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability (SOS) and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, has been named the interim dean of the School of Sustainability, effective July 1, 2013. Boone has served as the associate dean for education of the school since July 2010. “Chris Boone is an outstanding scientistâ€¦ Read More â†’


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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

In class today we talked about the differences in AD multipliers. In theory, the tax cut multiplier is less than the government expenditure multiplier. The empirical evidence is somewhat different. As part of their economic research, the San Francisco Fed published an Economic Letter on June 19th that look at the research into the size of the multipliers. The results are interesting.

Regarding the impact of tax cuts on the level of real GDP one year after the change in taxes, the three studies predict a multiplier of roughly 1.2, as shown in Table 1. Moreover, Table 2 shows that, in contrast to theoretical predictions from the simple Keynesian framework, the analyses found that government spending had less bang for the buck than tax cuts. For instance, one year after the increase in spending, the impact on the level of real GDP is less than one-for-one, partly reflecting a decline in investment.

What this says is that our model is at odds with the observed data and hence needs to be changed. It also says that from a policy perspective, tax cuts work better than spending increases.

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Sunday, August 09, 2009

Free Market versus Government Provided

One definition of economics is that it is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. Scarce simply means that we don't have as much of something as we would like. Because we don't have as much as we would like, we have to make choices in order to allocate what we have.

There are a number of different ways to allocate stuff. One way is to use the free market and let the pricing system and people's incentives take care of it. Another is to have the government provide the stuff, and then allocate it another way, usually by waiting.

A John Stossel video report (start at about 5:40) presents the difference between the two systems when it comes to CT scans in Canada. If you want one for yourself, it is government provided, but you get to wait a month. If you want one for your pet, you get to pay for it, but it's next day service. Pick one.

Update: Apparently when it comes to health care, it's better to be a dog than an human in the UK as well.

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Former Playboy Playmates Start Massive Brawl With Strippers — Go On, We’re Listening

When we think of girl-on-girl action, we do not exactly imagine a wild-eyed drunken brawl between ex-Playboy playmates and a room full of strippers – but it definitely ranks in at a close second.

Interestingly enough, that is exactly what happened over the weekend at a North Carolina strip club, when former Playboy playmates Sarah Satterfield and Vicki Satterfield went on a T&A kicking rampage with a half dozen strippers, according to reports from the Lorain County Sheriff’s Department.

The two sisters were featured along with their other, less rowdy, sister (yes, they are triplets) in a 2007 cyber playmate edition of Playboy Magazine.

A call to 911 from Sarah Satterfield initially led officers to believe that the two sisters were the victims. “A lot of girls attacked us and ripped all of our hair out and stuff, and we can’t find our cell phone or anything, and all of the girls like laughed and just thought it was funny that people attacked us,” said an allegedly drunken Sarah Satterfield on the phone with 911.

However, according to the police report, a review of dressing room surveillance videos showed that Vicki Satterfield actually started the fight and that both girls opened a fiendish can of washed-up playmate violence on the club manager. Come on girls, what would Jenny McCarthy do?

Incidentally, these bare-knuckle beauties were cuffed and stuffed and charged with assault. Court documents not only reveal that this was not the sisters’ first run in with the law, but they also indicate that the two girls are claiming indigence, which essential means that they are too broke to afford legal council. They are scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on December 13.

The good news is the women’s prison calendar is looking forward to having the sisters on board next year.

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Join #B2BChat on Twitter every Thursday at 8:00 PM EasternInbound marketing is a clear trend in B2B marketing. In fact, Sirius Decisions, a research firm focused on B2B markets, predicts more than 75% of leads will be sourced through inbound channels by 2015.

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A Classic: Mac and Cheese

With the weather getting a bit cooler and drizzly, why not make this classic using Babcock’s finest cheeses?

  • 250g/9oz macaroni
  • 40g/1½oz butter
  • 40g/1½ plain flour
  • 600ml/1pint 1½fl oz milk
  • 250g/9oz grated cheddar
  • 50g/2oz grated parmesan (or any alternative)

  1. Cook the macaroni in a large saucepan of boiling salted water for 8-10 minutes; drain well and set aside.
  2. Melt the butter over a medium heat in a saucepan slightly larger than that used for the macaroni. Add the flour and stir to form a roux, cooking for a few minutes.
  3. Gradually whisk in the milk, a little at a time. Cook for 10-15 minutes to a thickened and smooth sauce.
  4. Meanwhile, preheat the grill to hot.
  5. Remove the sauce from the hob, add 175g/6oz of the cheese and stir until the cheese is well combined and melted.
  6. Add the macaroni to the sauce and mix well. Transfer to a deep suitably-sized ovenproof dish.
  7. Sprinkle over the remaining cheddar and the parmesan and place the dish under the hot grill. Cook until the cheese is browned and bubbling. Serve straightaway.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

The Dreaded Photo-Shoot

I took some pictures of the boys yesterday dressed in cute matching outfits for our christmas cards. I had been postponing it because Briggy has been a little under the weather, (runny nose, cough) but I wanted to make sure I would be able to design the card and get them in the mail by the end of november, so I could send them out the first week in december.
So I waited until after their naps, gave them yummy snacks....and still no love.
briggy is usually so fun loving and smiley, and I could not for the life of me get him to stop making mean, grouchy, bratty faces! then when I would threaten to not give him his "chocolate shake" (kids boost essentials) he really went off his rocker and was crying up a storm, which in turned Oliver into a baby beast!!!
Here are some of the *funny* bratty pictures that will NOT be on the christmas cards (however, the ones that I ended up using arent much better!)

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

BabyBelly #2: 18 weeks

Almost half way there!

How Far Along? 18 weeks

Weight Gain/Loss: From the last time I weighed myself I think I have only gained 2 pounds. So I am at a total of 12 pounds so far, which I guess isn't that bad but I still have over 4 months to go and I am very afraid of what I will be at the end. I am trying not to focus on that number though since I am pregnant. A coworker told me last week that in her opinion I have only gained in my stomach so that made me feel better. She also asked if I was having twins. That sort of surprised me since I have been thinking twins as well!

Feeling? Exhausted, sticky, sweaty, fat. I hate being prego during the summer months. There have been a few days that just have been brutal at work and its still early yet! I'm looking forward to summer holidays! If I can just get past the summer all will be well!

Maternity Clothes: I got a few more tops for maternity wear but what I really need I think is some lose fitting pants. I really don't want to spend anymore money on maternity wear though! If it was cooler I could just wear my yoga pants all the time but since its so hot out and they are sort of fuzzy material I would roast to death in those things. I can't wait to get back to my own clothes! I think I might buy a belly band though.

Sleep: Sleep hasnt been to bad but the other night I had a night were I couldn't get to sleep for the life of me and kept waking up throughout the night. I'm not sure why, it wasn't because I had to use the washroom or anything. The next day I felt like a walking zombie!

Food Cravings: No food cravings yet!

Movement? I think I have been feeling movement! Mostly on either the left or right hand side near the bottom of my belly. Sometimes up near my belly button. Although I'm not sure how much that is the baby (or babies!) or just gas. I look forward to feeling the little bean kick and punch.

What I miss? My skinny self :(. Being already overweight in the summer prego really sucks!

Best moments this week:  Monkey expanding her vocabulary. I definitely have to watch what I say in case she starts to parrot me!

What am I looking forward to? Long term I am looking forward to being on mat leave again. Short term, getting through this week since I have a week off!

Next appointment: Unfortunately for me I can't get into my OBGYN until early August so I have another appointment with my doctor mid July. I also have my ultrasound in the middle of July! I am looking forward to that so we can see how the little tyke is doing, how many there are and hear the heart beat! My doctor does none of that stuff so it really sucks.

Milestones: Almost half way there!

Gender: It will be a December surprise! (I'm hoping for a boy though. I think I am convinced that it is a boy and that it's twins. I don't know why. I think because I feel like I am showing so huge way early! All the random comments I have been getting from people as well that are surprised at how big I got is just convincing me more. I guess we will see in July! )

Visitors :)

Visitors: Grandma, Aunt Tammy, Missy and Steph come to visit.

My sister messaged me on Facebook yesterday to ask what we were up to on Sunday. She said that she thought mum was going through Monkey withdrawal. :) So they came up to visit us on Sunday along with Missy and Steph. It was a nice visit. Unfortunately Monkey didn't get put down for her nap at the normal time so she was cranky by mid afternoon. She surprised us since she was climbing around on the couch and climbed onto mums lap (I think she was actually trying to get to the end of the couch) but ended up cuddling and then falling asleep! I think that mum rocking her back and forth helped with that a lot. It was the cutest thing ever! She is pretty stubborn and will not fall asleep anywhere but her crib (or the car if she is really tired). Chris was even able to transport her from my mums arms to her crib without waking her up. Poor little thing. We got a picture of her passed out even though it wasn't the greatest shot. We love our little monkey.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

15 month needle

Monkey had her 15 month vaccine today. Thankfully I was reading and checking off the development list when she started giving it to her. I did look up when monkey started to cry. It's so horrible seeing her in pain :( but after a few sucks on a sucker and some milk she was okay. I'm so glad that Chris was the one to hold onto her when she gave it. He said after that it seemed like she had to push really hard to get it in the back of her arm. The next vaccine is in 3 more months :( To think I will have to go through this again with the new little one.

She also weighed her and she weighed in at 10.8kg which is 23.8 pounds. I still need to measure her length though since the nurse didn't do that. She also gave us a bottle of infant Tylenol and Advil which surprised me and a coupon for $3 bucks off another bottle of liquid infant Tylenol.

I have a friend who is a month ahead of me in her pregnancy and I was shocked when she told me that after talking to a friend of hers and doing her own research she was not going to vaccinate her child. I have mixed feelings about that and frankly I was shocked that there was even the option or that people actually don't! I always thought it was mandatory for your child to go to school. She said that she is hesitant in telling people because it is controversial and while I'm still not sure I agree with her. I'll still be vaccinating my second baby and any other children that me and Chris have.

So now I am curious, have any of you decided against vaccination? What made you decide against it? What are your thoughts on to vaccinate or to not?

Thursday, June 7, 2012

BabyBelly #2: 15.4 weeks

My belly part way through week 15. Almost half way there! It looks smaller here then it did last week for some reason but it might be becasuse I am wearing black?

I saw these questions on other blogs with the prego belly shots and I thought it was an awesome idea! Wish I would have thought to do that before. :)

How Far Along? 15 weeks and 4 days.

Weight Gain/Loss: I think so far I have gained about 10 pounds which really scares me! I don't want to gain as much as I did with monkey (50 pounds) and I still had 30 to lose when I got prego with #2. So I am battling image issues since being pregnant doesn't help with the feeling like a fat whale all the time. Summer also doesn't help because I can't hide in my sweater :(

Feeling?  I have good days and bad days. Some I feel totally exhausted but I don't get to bed until 12:30am at the earliest and having to get up with monkey in the morning doesn't help. I am a person that needs a lot of sleep. I have been napping on the couch when she naps so that helps a bit. My back is already starting to hurt all the time though and I am not even halfway there yet!

Maternity Clothes: I bought maternity clothes a few weeks back and have been wearing them all the time now. My jeans still fit but some were getting snug and my belt would dig into the bottom of my belly and since I started showing way earlier then I did with Monkey and it being hot and summery out I decided to make the switch sooner then I wanted to. It was worth it though since its more comfortable on the baby belly.

Sleep: I sleep when I can but work late and get up early. It is tough but I am looking forward to maternity leave and hopefully I will be able to go on it as soon as I can. Less then 4 months away!

Food Cravings: No food cravings yet!

Movement? I have felt no movement yet. Can't wait for that feeling again though!

What I miss? Being able to fit into my clothes! and being able to work my butt off when I felt like working out!

Best moments this week: Watching monkey jibber jabber and walk around all day long. Also the moments when she lets me cuddle her on my lap! She never wanted to be held for very long but there have been a few moments when she will sit on my lap for a few minutes.

What am I looking forward to? Being off of work, being able to stay home with Monkey and Chris at night and holding my new baby in my arms! I wish I could skip the whole labour and delivery part! Well and the growing a baby phase to!

Next appointement: Not to sure yet since my doctor just sent the papers to the baby delivery doctor. So we will see when they call me and book my next one. Probably not for another month anyways.

Milestones: being 15 weeks I finally made it out of the first trimester. So my risk of miscarrage has gone down a lot!

Gender: we are going to keep this one a surprise!

Doctor's appointment (baby#2)

I had my last doctors appointment with my family doctor today. I saw the nurse first who checked my blood pressure and urine. Everything was fine. She also went through my blood work and said everything looked good but they found that I would need a booster shot after the baby is born because I am not protected against Rubella or one of those. I can't remember exactly which one it was.  I found that shocking since why wouldn't they have found that in my blood the last time I was pregnant? I guess different testing place since the last time I still had my family doctor back home until we found this one here. Good they found it I guess. Other then that everything was good. I then went to another room and talked to my doctor. He just basically asked if I had any concerns and told me that just do what you feel you can and don't do anything you feel you shouldn't. I had asked him about overheating and lifting since I do some lifting at work (although I avoid it when I can) and now that its getting to be summer temperatures it's getting insanely hot in there!. He reassured me that I would be fine.

We also asked him about Monkey since I noticed that her smaller toes are starting to curl a bit, but she seems to walk okay. She isn't walking on her tip toes or anything. I was just worried it was because she walks around without shoes on most of the time. Can you believe that the weekend before we did try to find her some runners at Walmart but they had none in her size! The rest were all sandals or dress shoes. I was looking for sturdy soles without open toes because she does seem to trip on her sandals sometimes. He wasn't concerned about them and said that don't let anyone talk you into getting expensive shoes for your child because they say you need them. We also asked him about her head and ear scratching. I was afraid that she had an ear infection but recently she started scratching her head more as well. She always seemed to be picking at her ears but it's more scratching the backs of them. He said she has a bit of eczema and to try using aveeno baby soap and to dab a bit of 1% cortisone creme on any bad spots (I think it was that) and to put petroleum jelly on the backs of her ears after a bath to help lock in moisture so her skin doesn't dry out. I have noticed that she still seems to have scales on her head. So I have to research how to help that I guess. At least her hair covers them up since they look horrid and are like a yellowy colour.

I am disappointed again that he didn't use the doppler to listen for the heart beat. I am getting anxious to hear the baby's heart to know that the little tyke or tykes are okay or alive even. He is sending my files over to the ob-gyn that I had before so hopefully they call soon so I know when I go in again. I'm assuming it won't be for another month. I do have my ultra sound next month so I can't wait for that. LOL for some reason I have myself convinced I am having twins even though I really don't see why I think that. Maybe cause I was showing earlier then my last although I have read that you do show faster the second time then your first. Either way I just want reassurance that the baby is okay! I can't wait to feel movements but have felt nothing yet.

My doctor said he should rethink when he refers patients to the ob-gyn since they get to do all the fun stuff (listen to the heart, measure the uterus). lol I am so glad we found this doctor because both me and Chris really like him.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

winter flowers

 In my sun room a couple of lovely primulas that I bought last week with a cymbidium orchid and a pot of small bromeliads.
I love the sun room in winter as so much likes it in there, including Oscar and myself, in summer it does get a bit warm.
Just to prove that walking in the town along the bike track has its attractions as well, I did this this morning an easy walk but John is feeling not terribly well so I didnt go too far but was delighted with the slightly different vista across to The Bluff (photo 4) and also the grevilleas that were flowering (photo 3) . I couldnt catch a New Holland Honeyeater to photograph, they were diving in and out of the bushes getting the nectar so many of them but the minute I tried to focus they were gone.
I also love this banksia,(photo 2) I think it is a Western Australian one but is doing very well in the plantings, not the usual bush type but one who hugs the ground and sends up these lovely, very decorative flowers.
So amazing things along a suburban street.
I did see the specialist yesterday, he says another 6 months and I should be absolutely right and to see him in 12 months.Not quite as much bend as it should be but he is sure I will get there, just on with the walking and exercises
I wanted it all to be right today!!
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Mclaren Vale and Willunga

 I tried to post this yesterday but something happened and I coudnt get it up.
We went over yesterday morning to Willunga to collect some oysters from friends and then after a chat etc went on to the McLaren Vale visitors center to see an art exhibition that was n there. One or two really nice paintings I liked.
The top photo is of the pistachio trees underplanted with rosemary in the car park. I loved the shape of those trees.
I bought a coule of primulas at the garden centre in the Vale and then we headed back to Willunga, they were having their almond festival, although with all the wild weather the blossoms were not at their best but I took photos of the vineyards and the blossoms as we drove home through the township and out on the main road to go up Willunga Hill.
A lovely outing, but I was home tired.

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Wretched blogger

 It wouldnt put up my photos, I hope this works and you can understand from the post below.

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 I have been making more of these little paisley hangers, they are fun to make but I seem to only get about one a day done.
This morning John took me in for another walk. this time without my stick and to do that I need somewhere relatively smooth and around by Petrels Cove is the nicest.
I didnt walk terribly far but more than I have done so far so I was pleased but rather tired by the time we got back to the car.
There was a seal in the water again and this sea gull decided to escort us back along the path, at a walk!
Lovely as usual to be out in the fresh air and looking at the sea but I do have to wonder how long before I can do this easily.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

 The creek finally broke its banks, not a major flood but if we have even more rain than we have had in the last few days, 5 inches all up for July so far, finally above the average, it will flood well and truly.
We had a mini waterfall between the sun room and the hall yesterday, I could hear water running but thought it was outside until I saw the water. Our poor old house is quietly falling apart, it is a timber frame and has been added to over many years but things happen.
John got on the roof and found gutters were once more blocked, but more work really needs to be done on it.
Tomorrow when we hope the rain will stop we may be able to at least move things inside and dry them out a bit.
Last night we had a great big moon, I tried to take photos but they were not very succesful and I nearly fell over.
Not something I should be doing.
Only one more week to go of my 6 weeks rehab, not sure it will mean I will be able to go back to walking Max in rubber boots and in the wet but it is something to look forward to.

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

A cold and wild few days

 John took me over to Bashams Beach to see what the surf looked like, usually this is a safe haven for whales and their calves but not today.
There has been a lot of wind damage, John estimated that we had gusts up to 100 kms on Thursday, trees down, branches down every where.
When we went into the physio yesterday there was a lot of evidence of where trees had been across the road.
We havent had a storm like that for decades.
Our house being timber leaks like a seive and it was quite frightening hearing branches landing on the roof.
Last night I woke to hear hail pelting on the windows.
It hasnt warmed up much either, about 8 degrees C.
Any way it was nice to get out and see a wild sea and in a slightly different direction to where we usually go.
My knee is still a bit uncomfortable, perhaps the change in the weather!

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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Another airing.

John took me in for a short walk along by Petrels cove, it was cold and there was a brisk wind blowing but we did see a seal chasing fish and surfing on the waves.
On the way in, we went the back way we passed the old cottage that is nearly falling down by the big swamp, probably one of the last remaining large swamps left in the area.It is the brown area in the middle, lots of swamp grass on it at the moment.
The old boy who lived here died a few months ago so i dont know what is happening to the land.
We come down the hil loverlooking Victor Harbor before we turn off to the Bluff.
a few photos just to show that I had been out and a bit about.
I am rather fed up with not sleeping as I am lying on my back at night and then feeling tired through the day.
One good day, one not so good day.
Cant wait for the all good days!!

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Monday, July 15, 2013

Twenty tags

I have made 20 of these tags to take with me to the Dolly retreat at Coffs Harbor. Nothing very special I am afraid but I had to do something to at least give to some class mates. I had a heap of nice hand dyed wool felt and these little people appeared.
I havent been doing much else, walking, exercising, feeling tired and hoping there is more to life by the end of the month.
We did go out yesterday to a Bastille Day lunch in a local pub and it was nice but went on far too long and I couldnt get home fast enough, also i think I might have had a bad oyster as I feel rather as if I have an upset tum this morning.
Back to the exercises and walking.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

The back road home

I havent blogged for a while.
Nothing in particular wrong, it has just been busy, trying to get the bend in the knee right, more walking and exercising, and then not wanting to do much. I have caught up with the blogs I follow on the little notepad but it doesnt have the photos on it that I want.
This was taken the other day when I was taken out for an airing.
Yesterday we went to Adelaide for hair cuts. A long and tiring day but I managed it!
To day was the physio who seems to think I am coming along well, some days I think I am and others I am not so sure but I can walk un aided around the house now which is good.
Sorry this is a pretty boring post but at last I can see a way ahead.
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Sunday, July 07, 2013

Small bits of stitch

I havent done a lot while I m recuperating but I have managed to get two small pieces of stitch done.
Tumbled houses and a small seascape.
They have kept me busy in between not doing a lot.
I thought I would get so much done but I find even reading difficult.
To day it is freezing cold and it rained for half the night.
I do feel a bit as if I have turned a small corner, but am impatient for some larger ones to appear.
I need to get some stuff done before I go to Coffs Harbor in August and what I had hoped to get done isnt.
Perhaps next week I will be able to do some machine sewing.
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Saturday, July 06, 2013

Out for an airing

John took me along to the Kings Beach car park for an airing this morning.
A brilliant morning to take photos as the tide was very high and the waves were incredible.
The clouds were rather specrtacular too.
There were huge breaks of waves across from the land to the  island at times and huge amounts of water being thrown up along the cliffs and on the end of the Island.
My knee is still not bending enough and well I guess it will take time, more physio stuff to do.
Rather tiring.
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Monday, July 01, 2013

Balinese cooking class

Here are Margaret and I with Ketuts wife in her tiny kitchen in the midst of our cooking class. It was a fascinating introduction to the food and ingredients.
Trying to reproduce it here is not so easy as there are so many different spices, like I think three different chillies and some things I have never heard of, especially din this southern part of Australia.
All I can really say is it was colourful and delicious.
Just a taste of the spice base used in several Balinese dishes -
Green and red chillies
shallots (red not like ours)
salam leaf (no idea what this is, they grew it in the garden)
sesame seeds
candle nuts
shrimp paste
masako (optional, again no idea what it is)
This was all put together in a large pestle and with a huge mortar we ground this to a wet past, no photo of this unfortunately as it was interesting to say the least!
So a couple of photos of the ingredients. Dont ask what all of them were.
We made, Coconut satay, Chicken satay, tuna curry (very yummy) fried noodles.There were two other bases as well of spices as well.
Later we went upstairs to the family dining area to eat what we had cooked. A fascinating place upstairs over looking the street.
I have to say I was an awful failure at making satays as mine would not stay on the skewers.
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I dont look nearly as fat now, I have lost at least 5kilos, if no6t more.
I havent been a good patient and have to rest today as my knee has swollen and I am on stronger pain killers.
Doesnt do to think you are pretty smart and can push the exercises!

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Monday, April 25, 2011

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry

~Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
from Jubilate Agno

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having considered God and himself he will consider his neighbor.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day’s work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord’s watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness when God tells him he’s a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him, and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord’s poor, and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually—Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can sit up with gravity, which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick, which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master’s bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Icneumon rat, very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God’s light about him both wax and fire.
For the electrical fire is the spiritual substance which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, though he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Christopher Smart was in a lunatic assylum for several years, during which time he wrote this paeon of his sole companion, his cat, Jeoffry, but isn’t it wonderful? He knew and loved that cat.

I was going to pick out my favorite lines, but that’s about a half of them. :-)

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Monday, 12 December 2016

Within Your Reach

I was flicking through my records on Saturday looking for something else when I found what I wasn't looking for but pulled it out and played it anyway- Hootenanny, the second album by The Replacements. Hootenanny is a halfway house, a stepping stone from the breakneck punk of their early years to the slightly more considered sound of Let It Be and Tim. Hootenanny is still ragged, a bit of a mess in places with some songs that sound tossed off for a laugh but it also has the first of what would become Paul Westerberg's signature aching, yearning guitar songs. Within Your Reach is just Westerberg too with a drum machine, flanged guitar and a trademark romantic lyric.

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Brian said...

An overshadowed album that everyone should have. Color Me Impressed, Buck Hill, Take Me Down to the Hospital... stupendous! Your choice today might just be the top of the heap.

The Swede said...

It's been a long time since I heard this one - thanks.


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Did you know you can die from a bad digestion?
But after reading this post you will find some really yummy foods from which I survived.

1. Thai food in Poland,from thai wok. I believe they have put too much of the food compared to the rice, and ON THE RICE. That means that the spicy sauce goes all over the rice,that becomes super spicy and there is no way to eat that...drink a lot of water with it.
2. Salmon salad,with smoked salmon,cabbage,cucumber,tomato and croutons. Now your mom can't complain about you not eating your fish and veggies.

3. A light dinner with a variety of salami and sausages. Best with some Bread,maybe cheese and some salad.
4. Sausage cooked on a big fire, I think I overcooked mine...but with mustard and ketchup it was yummy!

5. Pierogi z serem. Dumplings with white cheese! Polish food. It was somehow sweet,but really good.

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1336:Sacking of Aberdeen 21/22 July

Edward III announces that as soon as the truces expire he will once again invade Scotland in great numbers, he appoints Henry of Lancaster, son of the Earl of Lancaster to command. He leaves in May for the north, with a small force of 500 men-at-arms and more than 600 infantry. Edward, having added some 400 men to his forces from Henry of Lancaster's troops, leaves Perth and relieves the siege of Lochindorb, where the Countess of Atholl and her forces are down to their last quarter of rye. He then proceeds to destroy every bit of livestock he can find. Edward reaches the Moray Firth, and begins to pillage the area. The food stores at Kinloss Abbey were emptied, Forres was burned, and while Elgin's famous church was let stand, nothing else around it was. He also burns the crops as far inland as he can reach. Edward and his troops reach Aberdeen, descending on the city from the North. Edward and his troops spend the day burning the town, and demolishing what cannot be burned.  Edward soon returned to England, while the Scots, under Andrew Murray, Guardian of Scotland, captures and destroyed the English strongholds of Dunnotar, Kynnef and Lauriston, and carried on a harsh campaign of destruction in his own territories, ravaging Gowrie, Angus and Mearns, seeking to make them uninhabitable by the English.

In 1336, when Edward III. had ravaged a great part of the north country, he desolated Mar on his way south, and burned Aberdeen, killing a great number of the citizens, [It would be out of place here to enter into any lengthened defence of the historian Boece; but it seems necessary to notice that sometimes mistakes are imputed to him without reason, as in the present instance; Mr Thom in his History of Aberdeen, says, "Hector Boece mentions that Edward II. sent ships to Aberdeen, anno 1333, from which a party landed and burnt the town for six days; but this must be a mistake:" there is, however, no mention of this expedition in Boece's history. Considerable confusion prevails in the statements on this subject, some alleging (apparently on the authority of an incorrect expression in Froissart, where he says that, in 1333, Edward entered Scotland, ("qu'il foula gravement toute la plaine d'Escosse, et ardit et exillat moult de villes privées de fosses et de palis;—et coururent ses gens tout le pays jusques à Saint Jehanstone et jusques à Abredane;") that the town was burnt in 1333 as well as in 1336; and that on one or the other of these occasions, (for it is differently stated) the fire raged for six days. There does not seem, however, to be any good evidence for more than one burning; and it is by no means likely that the town was then of such extent as to require six days for its consumption, though possibly the work of destruction by Edward's soldiers may have been carried on for that length of time.  In revenge, apparently, for the death of Sir Thomas Roslyne, who had fallen in an attack on the town the year before. The town was within a few years rebuilt, and seems at this time to have received the designation of New Aberdeen; not in contradistinction to the Kirktown of Seaton, which is now called Old Aberdeen, but simply because it was then a newly built town. It seems certain that Aberdeen was a town of some note long before Old Aberdeen was any thing more than a hamlet with a church.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Kristen Suzanne's Sun-Drenched Sicilian Soup

Seeing as there are only 3 more weeks of summer left, I am determined to make as many raw soups as I can to enjoy the remaining bounty of garden-fresh produce. Not my garden, mind you. I gave up trying to have a veggie garden after 4 years of aphid-chewed crucifers, blighted tomatoes, sunburned basil, woody eggplants, and puny zucchini (hey, that sorta rhymes!) Now I enjoy the fruits of others' garden labors and save myself the agony of watering, mulching, and weeding a garden that fails me time and time again. Green thumb, I do not have. I can just imagine a little garden Yoda shaking his head at me.

As I've stated before, one of my very favorite summer foods is fresh, juicy tomatoes. I keep buying them by the bagful and they get used up in a variety of ways. Last night, I used 2 gigantic beefsteak tomatoes and some fresh basil from my Dad's garden to make Sun-Drenched Sicilian Soup from Kristen Suzanne's Easy Vegan Raw Soups.

This is my favorite kind of raw soup - just dump everything into the Vita-Mix...

And blend away! There are sun-dried tomatoes, fresh tomatoes, zucchini, fennel bulb (I subbed celery), EVOO, garlic, fresh basil, dried rosemary, oregano & cinnamon, sea salt & pepper, and apple cider vinegar in there. So fresh and tasty!

On the side, we enjoyed a simple spinach salad with chopped cucumbers, carrots, celery, pine nuts, chopped dates, lime juice, EVOO, and sea salt. I would have used lemon juice, but I only had fresh limes on hand.

We loved the soup! It was super thick and velvety, likely because there is no water added to the ingredients. It was full of fresh summer flavor and made a great meal on a hot night!

Hannah said...

I know this is an older post, but it has be craving summer like nothing else! I can't wait for all the produce to flood the markets... I'm saving this raw soup idea for warmer days.

Bethany said...

I completely agree...I can't wait for the farmers' markets to arrive! I'm curious and excited to see what I can get here in will be my first summer here. And you can't go wrong with Kristen's raw soups...they are fantastic!


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