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Cal Cavendish, the 'Mad Manure Bomber,' tells his story | CBC News Loaded
Cal Cavendish, the 'Mad Manure Bomber,' tells his story
Cal Cavendish wasn't getting anywhere in his music career and decided to take out his frustration on an unsuspecting Calgary, with the help of some records and an awful lot of manure.
Frustrated by his music career, former Calgary musician had a seriously impressive tantrum
CBC News · Posted: May 07, 2015 4:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: May 7, 2015
Cal Cavendish even flew lower than the observation deck of the Calgary Tower on his mad manure run back in 1975. (Submitted by Mark Salkeld)
The Mad Manure Bomber struck without warning one spring day in 1975.
One minute, everything was normal on Ninth Avenue. The next minute Cal Cavendish was screaming over the street in his airplane, pouring 100 records and 100 pounds of cow manure out the side door.
Musician Mike Tod joined the Calgary Eyeopener last week to talk about Canadian folk music and spoke about the incident, prompting questions for listeners.
So the Eyeopener tracked down Cavendish to get his first-hand account of the events.
Hear the entire interview in the audio above
"I was a pretty good pilot," said Cavendish from his rural Montana home.
"So what I did, I held the door open with my right foot and I leaned the bag over with my arm and just dribbled it down the side of the airplane as I went flying down Ninth."
Career frustration taken out on Calgary
Cavendish was upset, looking at his cousins who were lawyers and doctors and then looking at his own moribund music career. He was living in Calgary at the time, and thought he would share his anger.
Most of the poop ended up in the business district downtown, while the records spread mostly throughout Inglewood, where "the RCMP and the city police had all kinds of helpful people pick up the broken records and they showed me them in court."
Cavendish carried on flying east, and as darkness fell and his gas gauge dropped. He managed to land on a dark highway before taxiing in a hurry through an open gate in the Old Dutch potato chip plant near Brooks.
'Fuzzy' plans
"I was going to go into town," he said. "It was pretty fuzzy what I was going to do, and sure enough there was a Mountie waiting for me there."
Cavendish informed the officer, who was looking for the crazed pilot who had buzzed Calgary, that he was responsible for the stunt but the Mountie didn't buy it at first.
After a second attempt, Cavendish was taken into custody.
"They fined me $4,000. And my licence was already gone, so they made damn sure that it stayed gone for years and years and years," said Cavendish.
Daybreak May 03: Mike Tod

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A: This might be an obvious answer, but have you indexed your database? If you're new to indexing, here's a pretty good rule: just put a unique index on all the columns named "id", such as folders.id or projects.id, then put a standard index on all the columns that reference a foreign id, such as folder.belongs_to_folder_id or folder.record_type_id
Another thing I would change is to try and select only the columns you will actually use rather than your huge list of f.*, ts.*, fo.*, ft.*, p.*, u.*, c.*, co.*, ct.*, fs.*, etc...
You also have TONS of joins, which are very expensive in terms of processing time. Do you really need all those joined tables?

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Since 2002 the Brazilian government has used a complicated quota system as a form of Affirmative Action for State and Federal Universities. Depending on the University, the system provides approximately 30-50% of spaces to Afro-Brazilian students from a public school background. Its implementation has been largely unsuccessful due to the lack of preparation for Afro-Brazilian students in early education and their subsequent inability to pass the Vestibular—a complicated entrance exam which varies based by University and Major of application. My research focuses on how the quota system and the vestibular are structured and why they have been so unsuccessful in reaching their goals, specifically for impoverished and marginalized black communities. During my time in Brazil I will be working with community activists, students and professors in Bahia to brainstorm ways in which first generation black students can achieve access to these University spaces and be more prepared during early education to pass the Vestibular.


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The ONE and ONLY event showcasing the wines of 30+ member wineries in one location!
Culinary creations from over fifteen winery and local restaurants and caterers.
Mix and mingle with winery owners and winemakers at this most anticipated walk-about tasting of culinary delights and award-winning Temecula wines! Featuring Kai Kalama for live entertainment.
This event sells out quickly, so get your tickets early! Cheers to 50 Years!


1. I ________ had time to do it yet.
4. Stop acting ________ a fool.
5. The thief was caught as there was a camera on the building.
6. I feel ________ a holiday.
7. ________ you learn it when you were at school?
8. They were late ________ usual.
9. We ________ done it yet.
10. I'll do it ________ agreed.
It is a disease that millions of people in the US live with everyday. Some clergy even live with HIV! One of our bloggers is a clergywoman living with HIV who openly discusses her experiences in faith communities. Many people believe that churches should be the leaders in the fight against HIV in their communities. Also, many theologians are wrestling with how agood Christian should respond to the HIV epidemic.


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NDL Group, Inc. provided general contracting, project management, construction supervision, and design-build services for the Ainsworth Game Technology Showroom and Restrooms project. Recommendations and assistance was given with the initial space planning and finish selections. Special attention was required to maintain the strict project schedule and final completion was achieved on-time with no days added for the additional work requested by the client.


Brief Biography: Robert is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from Bishop Amat HS in La Puente, CA. He attended Dartmouth College and upon graduation worked with the Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project in Cabarete, Dom. Rep. He went on to study at the Univ. of Chicago Law School and subsequently practiced as a debt/finance attorney in NYC. Robert left private practice to participate on a Massachusetts congressional campaign during the 2012 election cycle and is currently working on a healthcare IT startup while pursuing a masters in finance.
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Dr. Nutt grew up on a farm near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he first discovered his love for horses. He earned his undergraduate degree at Cornell University, where he majored in Natural Resources and Business. After working in the environmental field for several years, he attended the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Veterinary Medicine. He received his veterinary degree in 2004 and then completed a rigorous surgical internship at Hagyard Medical Institute in Lexington, KY, where he developed an affinity for the Thoroughbred industry and an affection for foals. Following completion of another yearlong surgical internship at the New Bolton Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Nutt spent three years in a Large Animal Surgery residency at North Carolina State University, where he became skilled in all facets of equine surgery. Until coming to Rhinebeck Equine in March 2010, he was the staff surgeon at Peninsula Equine in CA.
Dr. Nutt has a strong interest in sports medicine and diagnostic imaging, including nuclear scintigraphy and MRI. He particularly enjoys the challenges of colic surgery, fracture repair, and arthroscopy, and has a special interest in laparoscopy and lameness. His areas of research while at the university included complicated fracture repair, transfixation casts, and external fixation. He has authored a number of scientific articles published in professional journals.
Dr. Nutt is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, and a member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners and the American Veterinary Medical Association.
In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, hunting and fishing, dog training, and falconry.


40% of your electricity cost comes from heating and cooling -- two activities that are active throughout the year, irrespective, or rather, dependent on the type of weather and climate you are living in. To add to it, around 50% of the energy used to heat or to cool your home can leak out, in absence of proper insulation.
Without any active heating equipment, you can opt for a smart way out -- passive design. It can be done via insulation, draught proofing, and installing shades. This will help you to reduce the amount of energy required for heating. You can insulate the walls, ceilings and floors; buy a house such that it is sunlit, and seal the draughts around the windows and the doors. But be sure that it is in sync with the Australian climate!
After taking steps to smartly design your home, you need to opt for appropriate heating options. Your heating bill is affected by the climate, type of the heater, usage of the heater, and positioning of the heater. You can save on the power bill by choosing the correct size of heater for your room and house - Central Heating for the whole house and Space Heating for a particular room.
Central heating keeps the whole house warm via ducts or pipes and uses gas, boiler, or heat pump for its power. It uses a LOT of energy because it tries to keep all the rooms warm. You can control which areas you want to heat by shutting off heating in a particular room. It uses efficient energy sources and tech, per your climate. The output of this heating system also matches your need so you will be able to reduce the cost.
Gas Space Heaters are mostly used to warm the living rooms. All the gas heaters need to be serviced every 2 years by a licensed gas fitter.
As compared to conventional electric heaters, if you were to opt for reverse-cycle air conditioners, they use just 33% of the power consumption and produce less amount of greenhouse gasses. Other options that you can consider are split systems, electric portable heaters, electric column and flat panel heaters, convection heaters, radiant electric heaters, fan heaters, and radiant lamp heaters.
This is not an energy-efficient option when it comes to heating, even though many Australian homes use it. An open fireplace is very inefficient as a heating option because 90% of the heat is lost via the chimney. As opposed to this, you can opt for slow combustion heaters as they produce a lot less pollution. Along with a wood heater, you can also use a heat shifter so that you can get distribute the heat throughout the house is an organised manner.
Which of the above discussed heating options would you consider? If you need any help with setting up your home's heating system, then please know that our team of efficient and licensed Perth Electricians are just a call away.


Chile declared its independence from Spain on Sept. 18, 1810. The South American country has a turbulent history — and one of the richest literary traditions in the world.
• The only Latina to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1956) is best known for her poems that touch on the subjects of children and motherhood, such as in the book Ternura (Tenderness). Mistral is the subject of her own children's book, My Name Is Gabriela: The Life of Gabriela Mistral, written by Monica Brown.
• Pablo Neruda's (1904-1973) love poems have made him one of the most beloved poets in the world, winning the Nobel Prize. He is featured as a character in Antonio Skarmeta's Il Postino, which was made into a 1994 Academy Award-nominated movie, and is the subject of Roberto Ampuero's excellent The Neruda Case, which shows him in the last days of his life as he reflects on his past loves and President Salvador Allende's government is about to be overthrown.
• Besides Il Postino, Antonio Skarmeta has written some other memorable works, including the children's book The Composition, named one of Scholastic Parent & Child's 100 Greatest Books for Kids, and the play El Plebiscito, a story about the advertising campaign against President Augusto Pinochet that became No, a 2012 Oscar-nominated film.
• Isabel Allende has won worldwide acclaim for her books that depict life in Chile, including The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune and her most recent novel, Maya's Notebook.
• The novels of Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) — such as 2666, winner of the National Book Critics Award — have become more popular after his death. He also won the Romulo Gallegos Prize for The Savage Detectives.
• Winners of the Cervantes Prize, given to Spanish language writers, include Jorge Edwards, Gonzalo Rojas and Nicanor Parra. Other contemporary Chilean writers include Alejandro Zambra, right, author of Ways of Going Home.
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• Just released: In The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story, Alisa Valdes recounts her relationship with a man with opposite views. In an intriguing article in Salon, Valdes said the relationship was abusive. In The Tragedy of Fidel Castro, Portuguese writer Joao Cerqueira imagines how Jesus Christ would settle the battle between Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
• Jan. 8: Chilean Alejandro Zambra depicts life in the Pinochet-era Chile in the novel Ways of Going Home.
• Jan. 10: The Miniature Wife and Other Stories is a quirky collection of 18 short stories from Tejano Manuel Gonzales, whose work has appeared in The Believer and Esquire.
• Junot Díaz (right) and Francisco Goldman will speak at "A Benefit Evening of Latin American Storytelling," Feb. 5 in New York City, with proceeds going to Radio Ambulante. Radio Ambulante's executive producer, Daniel Alarcon, will moderate.
• The literary magazine BorderSenses is taking submissions until March 31 for its next issue. The publication will take short stories, poetry and book reviews in English and Spanish, as well as artwork. Write to editor@bordersenses.com.
• Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco will read a poem at President Obama's inauguration later this month, becoming the first Latino to hold that honor, NPR reports. He was also profiled in The New York Times.
• In a much-discussed article, The New York Times wrote about the lack of Latino-oriented books for children. In a follow-up article, Aurora Anaya-Cerda of La Casa Azul Bookstore in East Harlem, N.Y., gave her reading recommendations. Many small publishers felt they were not represented in the article, and Publishers Weekly featured those presses, including Lee and Low Books and Arte Público.
• Arte Público books, which recently moved into new headquarters, was recently profiled in The Houston Chronicle.
• ABC News/Univision marked the 50th anniversary of the Latin American Boom in literature.
• Book editor Marcela Landres delivered her list of the best in Latino literature for 2012.
• Junot Díaz talked with NBC Latino about how he found his literary voice. He also discussed his love for libraries, politics and the greatness of Star Wars on the TV show Moyers & Company.
• Joy Castro talked to the Lincoln Journal-Star about the prospect of her 2012 book, Hell or High Water, being optioned by actress Zoe Saldana for a possible movie or TV show.
• Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist are among the 30 selections for World Book Night, in which volunteers will give out books April 23. Sign up to be giver by Jan. 23.
• Cisneros remembered Mexican singer Chavela Vargas, who passed away last year, in The New York Times.
• Chilean Roberto Ampuero, author of The Neruda Case and his country's ambassador to Mexico, was profiled in The Wall Street Journal.
• The film version of Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima is coming to the big screen, reports the Huffington Post.
The Hispanic Reader will be taking a long hiatus, so here's the new releases, events and holiday books to keep you entertained for the rest of the year. See you in 2013.
• Nov. 13 – Woes of the True Policeman is the last book Roberto Bolaño wrote before his death. The novel follows a Chilean professor as he undergoes several personal crises.
• Nov. 30 – In the children's book The Poet Upstairs by Judith Ortiz Cofer, a young girl makes friends with a writer.
• Dec. 4 – Raised From the Ground, by the late Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, is a reissue of a book – published for the first time in English – that depicts the lives of Portuguese peasants.
• Dec. 11 – The children's book The Beautiful Lady: Our Lady of Guadalupe by Pat Mora features the iconic Mexican figure.
• The National Book Awards announced its nominations, with Junot Díaz's This is How You Lose Her shortlisted in the fiction category and Domingo Martinez's The Boy Kings of Texas making the non-fiction category. Martinez spoke to NPR about how he learned about his nomination. Winners will be announced Nov. 14.
• The second issue of the literary magazine Huizache, produced by CentroVictoria – the Center for Mexican American Literature and Culture at the University of Houston-Victoria, is out. Contributors include Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Luis J. Rodriguez, Michele Serros and Gary Soto.
• The Miami Book Fair Festival International takes place Nov. 16-18. Featured authors include Malin Alegria, Roberto Ampuero, Joy Castro, Sandra Cisneros, Jeanne Cordova, Junot Díaz, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Reyna Grande and Justin Torres.
• Sandra Cisneros discussed her newest book, Have You Seen Marie?, to NBC Latino, CNN and the LA Review of Books.
• Junot Díaz talked to Wired magazine about the science-fiction book he's writing, Monstro, and to LA Review of Books about his current book, This Is How You Lose Her.
• Luis Alberto Urrea's Into the Beautiful North has been named a 2013 Big Read selection by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos will be featured in Symphony Space's Artful Dining fundraiser Nov. 12 in New York City. Sonia Manzano will lead the discussion.
• Mexico City celebrated the 50th anniversary of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez's move to that city by putting up posters honoring him, according to an article by Héctor Tobar in the Los Angeles Times. Tobar also wrote about a MacArthur Grant-winning Orange County barbershop that features a bookstore and is teaming up with Chapman University to promote Latino literature.
• Ploughshares magazine talked to Aurora Anaya-Cerda, owner of the La Casa Azul Bookstore in East Harlem, N.Y., that is devoted to Latino literature.
• Voices of New York wrote up about the Las Comadres Para Las Americas writer's conference last month, with some interesting insights about Latinos in publishing.
• Want a blog that features the poetry of Pablo Neruda with pictures of cats? Here you go.
• Celebrating birthdays in November: The late Carlos Fuentes, right, and Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.
• Celebrating birthdays in December: Sandra Cisneros, Nobel Prize winning poet Juan Ramon Jimenez and Manuel Puig.
• Looking for gifts for the holidays? Here some some Christmas books for children and adults.
Already released: Rigoberto González's Mariposa Gown – a sequel to The Mariposa Club –depicts the friendship between three teenage boys who want to make a splash at their high school prom with the titular outfit.
Brazilian writer Jorge Amado's The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray and The Discovery of America by the Turks have received new translations from Gregory Rabassa. To mark Amado's 100th birthday, Rabassa and writer Rivka Glachen will discuss Amado's work Sept. 17 at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, reports the Shelf Awareness newsletter. The Millions website also wrote about the two new releases.
• Sept. 11: Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz will release a collection of short stories, This is How You Lose Her. Here's a cool Pinterest board by blogger Poornima Apte that shows the town and other details from the book. (She did the same for Roberto Ampuero's The Neruda Case and other books.) Díaz has been all over the media: dressing up in Edith Wharton-era clothes for a Vogue fashion spread; discussing his love life in New York magazine; sharing his reading habits with The New York Times; and compiling a playlist to NPR's alt. Latino website.
• Sept. 25: In the novel The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo, Mexican writer F.G. Haghenbeck writes about the life of the iconic Mexican artist.
• Sept. 27: Spoken word poet Carlos Andrés Gómez discusses how masculinity is evolving in Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood.
• Sept. 15: Houston Librofest will play host to Gwendolyn Zepeda (right), Javier O. Huerta and Sarah Cortez.
• Sept. 22-23: The National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. will feature Sandra Cisneros, Junot Díaz, Mario Vargas Llosa, Justin Torres and Maria Dueñas. Mexican-born, California-based Rafael Lopez is the festival artist.
• Sept. 23: The Brooklyn Book Festival will include Carlos Andrés Gómez, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Reyna Grande, Esmeralda Santiago, Luis Alberto Urrea, and graphic artists Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez.
• Sept. 28-30: The Baltimore Book Festival will feature Caridad Pineiro and Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban.
• Several Latino-oriented literary magazines are out with new issues. Acentos Review, edited by Bonafide Rojas, focuses on music on its August 2012 edition. The bilingual BorderSenses published its 18th volume. Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rigoberto Gonzales and Andrea J. Serrano are featured in the latest issue of the Mas Tequila Review.
• The fall issue of Zyzzyva magazine, which is devoted to West Coast writers, features works by Dagoberto Gilb and Luis Alberto Urrea.
• Sept. 21: Librotraficante, which was founded earlier this year to protest the state of Arizona's ban on ethnic studies, will host a 50 States of Freedom of Speech event in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins Sept. 15.
Las Comadres Para Las Americas will host a writer's workshop Oct. 6 in New York City. Speakers include Sesame Street actress and children's book writer Sonia Manzano, author of the just released The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, as well asLyn DiIorio, and Caridad Pineiro.
• NPR featured the latest work of graphic comic book artist Jaime Hernandez, creator of the Love and Rockets series.
• The El Paso Times has marked the 40th anniversary of the Rudolfo Anaya novel Bless Me Ultima with essays from Rigoberto González, Denise Chávez and other writers.
• Argentine writers will now receive a pension, according to The New York Times.
• Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us, talked to the Zyzzyva website.
• Junot Díaz was among the writers at the Edinburgh World Writer's Conference who condemned Arizona's ban on ethnic studies.
The Hispanic Reader is one year old today!
It's The Hispanic Reader's one-year anniversary! Since my first post, I've talked to eight authors, marked 18 writers' birthdays, reviewed 37 books and written 117 posts. To celebrate, I'm giving you a couple of presents.
Second, I've created a trivia quiz about Latino literature from my posts and book reviews in the past year. (You can find more information about the answers below the quiz.) Good luck and have fun!
1. The answer is D. In the 2001 movie, the flighty Sara (Kate Beckinsale) writes her name and phone number in a copy of Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera and tells Jonathan (John Cusack), who she just met, that if their love is meant to be, he will find that copy in a bookstore. Appropriate book since Cholera is about a man who waits 50 years for the woman he loves.
2. The answer is A. Although he is considered one of the top storytellers in Latino literature, Borges never won the Nobel. Only 12 Latinos have, including Paz, Saramago and Vargas Llosa. But Borges did get a Google doodle on his birthday.
3. The answer is B. Luis Valdez began directing plays on a flatbed truck and union halls during the Delano Grape Strike of the 1960s. His theater company is aptly named El Teatro Campesino. Considered the father of Latino theater, he wrote the play Zoot Suit and the directed the movie version and La Bamba.
4. The answer is C. In Il Postino, Pablo Neruda helps an Italian postal carrier woo his love. The 1994 film, based on an Antonio Skarmeta book, earned a Best Picture nomination. The other answers were books – by Laura Esquivel, Isabel Allende and Carlos Fuentes – that also were made into movies.
5. The answer is B. Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chávez takes place in the tiny fictional town of Cabritoville, near El Paso.
6. The answer is B. Malín Alegría dons the elaborate dress in honor of her book Estrelle's Quinceañera, one of many books about the popular Hispanic tradition. Veronica Chambers wrote the Magdalena and Marisol books; Diana López penned Choke; and Lorraine López authored The Realm of Hungry Spirits.
7. The answer is D. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig is considered one of the most famous works in Latino literature of the last 50 years.
8. The answer is A. Hanks read Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in the classic comedy caper.
9. The answer is D. Quiara Alegría Hudes won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2012 for her play, Water by the Spoonful. Hudes, who also wrote 26 Miles and co-wrote the Tony-winner In the Heights, is one of the few Latinos to win the American award for literary arts and journalism. Although they have not won the Pulitzer, Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros and Cristina García have written novels that have received strong critical acclaim.
10. The answer is C. Pablo Neruda knew Gabriela Mistral when he was growing up in Temuco, Chile. Fuentes and Paz are from Mexico. Allende is from Chile, but a generation younger than Neruda. Her uncle, President Salvador Allende, was friends with Neruda, a relationship depicted in Roberto Ampuero's The Neruda Case.
Pablo Neruda was born July 12, 1904, and died Sept. 23, 1973. He is Latino literature's best known poet, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
He grew up in Temuco, Chile, where he knew future Nobel Prize-winning poet Gabriela Mistral, and started writing as a young boy. He wrote his poetry while serving as a diplomat and in the Chilean Senate. While best known for his love poems, Neruda's Communist viewpoints are reflected in works such as Canto General.
His popularity has made him the subject of two novels. In Antonio Skarmeta's Il Postino, he inspires an Italian postal carrier to write poetry to woo a young lady. The book was made into the 1994 Academy Award-nominated movie. (The DVD includes a 30-minute feature about his life, with celebrities such as Madonna and Samuel L. Jackson reading his works.) In Roberto Ampuero's excellent The Neruda Case, Neruda is shown in the last days of his life – reflecting on his past loves as he is dying of cancer and the Chilean government is about to be overthrown.
If you want to introduce children to Neruda, check out Monica Brown's Pablo Neruda, Poet of the People and Pam Muñoz Ryan's award-winning The Dreamer.
Read more about Neruda on the Poetry Foundation website and the Poets.org website.


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Italian Chefs Make World's Largest Gluten-Free Pizza
Lara Hata/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Is it a sign of the apocalypse? The world's largest pizza has been baked in Italy and it is gluten-free. The mega-pie was put together by five Italians chefs.
According to foodbeast.com, it contains "19,800 pounds of flour, 10,000 pounds of tomato sauce, 8,800 pounds of mozzarella cheese, 1,488 pounds of margarine, 551 pounds of rock salt, 220 pounds of lettuce and 55 pounds of vinegar."
The humongous pizza weighed in at a whopping 51,257 pounds. It was made with 5,000 batches of dough and took 48 hours to bake.
The old record for the largest pizza didn't even come close to this one. It measured 122 feet in diameter and was created in South Africa in the 1990s.
The chefs named their creation Ottavia to pay tribute to Rome's first emperor Octavian Augustus, who enjoyed a good slice of pizza every now and then.
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 4:47AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
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The atheists are at it again and the levels of illogic in this scheme are astounding... and yet so many people believe this group is on to something. Click here to see a news report on their most recent ad campaign.
The real problem is not the atheists, but Catholics and other Christians who are not willing to defend Our Lord and the Church from such attacks by reforming their own lives. The solution to this problem is NOT saying "Merry Christmas" as often as possible during the Advent Season (and then to stop saying it during the Christmas Season). Rather, we need to become ardent believers in the Incarnation, which will mean a radical change in how we live our lives every day of the year. Every churchgoing Catholic needs to rediscover the beautiful Season of Advent, which does have penitential overtones in its Joyful Expectation.
This coming Sunday, St. John the Baptist will call us into the desert to repent and reform our lives, not to cram into malls and spend large amounts of money. St. John wants us to prepare for His Coming, not for a party and exchange of expensive gifts. If you truly believe that Jesus is the Reason for the Season, then repent now and reform your life. Anything less feeds the atheists' illogic, and puts a big smile on Satan's face.
The sad reality is that most so-called believers also think Christmas is about the jolly fat guy in a red suit and lavish gift giving. If you truly believe that Jesus Christ came in the Flesh 2000 years ago, that He died for our sins and rose from the Dead to open the gates of Heaven for those who believe, and that He will come again to judge the living and the dead, then give up living the lie that has become "the season" and embrace the Truth. "Prepare the way of the Lord. Make straight HIS paths."
It is time for every Christian to fall on his or her knees and adore our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!


Medication security is an especially essential part of your parent's daily lives and you'd be smart to assessment their medications with them regularly. This information helps be sure that sufferers use their medications appropriately. As I discussed above, many of the studies concerned a comparison of "old" and "new" medicine, showing no difference in heart attacks and strokes for the 2 varieties of drugs. In different instances, docs will prescribe medication primarily based on their private opinion and their personal experiences with different patients.


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Mediafly Recognized with 2018 MarTech Breakthrough Award
By Ameya Dusane Aug 23 2018 | 12:05 AM	| 3 Mins Read | Read Mode
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Chicago: Sales enablement platform, Evolved Selling™ solution provider, and technology company, Mediafly, today announced that it has been selected as the winner of the "Best Content Sharing Platform" award by MarTech Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global marketing technology industry today.
SALES ENABLEMENT IN THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY: STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR B2B ENTERPRISES
Seismic is the recognized leader in sales and marketing enablement, equipping global sales teams with the knowledge, messaging, and automatically personalized content proven to be the most effective for any buyer interaction.
The mission of the MarTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of marketing, sales and advertising technology-related categories, including marketing automation, market research and customer experience, AdTech, SalesTech, marketing analytics, content and social marketing, mobile marketing and many more. This year's program attracted more than 2,000 nominations from over 12 different countries throughout the world.
"With the relentless pace of content distribution in today's world of content marketing and sales enablement, tracking, measuring and evolving the actual content workflow and true impact of the content efforts can be extremely difficult to manage," said James Johnson, Managing Director at MarTech Breakthrough. "Mediafly goes well beyond content distribution, helping marketing and sales professionals access critical information that represents the impact of content in terms of company revenue. Congratulations to Mediafly on their significant achievements in 2018 and for this MarTech Breakthrough Award designation."
Through its Evolved Selling™ solution, Mediafly utilizes sales engagement methodologies and technology to enhance how brands engage with prospective buyers. By utilizing technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, Mediafly helps align marketing and sales teams through its sales enablement platform to ensure sales reps have customized content for each sales presentation. Through its successful sales solution, team and more, Mediafly has gained several accolades in 2018 including, Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces of 2018 and Inc. Magazine's 5000 Fastest Growing Companies its fifth consecutive year.
"With the B2B buyer becoming increasingly savvy at a rapid rate, it's important that our solution helps sellers find the right content, at the right time and for the right customer," said Isabelle Papoulias, VP of Marketing at Mediafly. "The MarTech BreakThrough Award for Best Content Sharing Platform validates that Mediafly helps sales teams create successful customized sales experiences through content for each customer interaction. We look forward to continue enhancing our platform to provide the best for our customers. "
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Fresh from performing at Science Gallery in Dublin last night during the opening of Hack the City, an English group of urbanists, technologists and architects who created GPS-enabled quadcopter drones, were held at London Southend Airport on suspicion of terrorism and recorded under the UK's Terrorism Act.
The group, known as Tomorrows Thoughts Today, had been performing their Electronic Countermeasures robotic ballet in the sky show at Science Gallery for the opening of the three-month Hack the City exhibition in Dublin City.
The trio, headed up by Liam Young, had created the robotic drones from components that were originally intended for police surveillance.
It was just as the three performers were disembarking from their Dublin flight in London that their suitcases were swarmed in upon by customs officers at the new London Southend Airport.
"We were returning to London with our suitcases full of drones, batteries and wiring equipment. Customs scanned through the suitcases and their eyes widened," said Young.
He said the officers then decided to call in the special branch, whose officers began questioning the three performers about their projects and asked them to describe what the electronic drones were all about in layman's terms.


See also: Carolina Hotel; Golf; House in the Horseshoe; Resorts.
Moore County, located in the Sandhills on the border between North Carolina's Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions, was formed in 1784 from Cumberland County and named for Alfred Moore, a Revolutionary War captain who later served as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Early inhabitants of the area included the Saura (Cheraw) and other Siouan Indians, followed by Highland Scot, German, English, and Scotch-Irish settlers. Carthage, the county seat, was incorporated in 1796 and named after the ancient North African city. Other communities in the county include Aberdeen, Cameron, Robbins, Seven Lakes, Eastwood, Hill Crest, Eagle Springs, and Parkwood. Notable physical features of the county include Pine Lake and Drowning, Herds, Sugar, Big Juniper, and Little Crane Creeks.
The Moore County economy benefits greatly from a thriving tourism and recreation industry centered on the resort towns of Pinehurst and Southern Pines-home to some of the nation's finest golf courses. The Pinehurst Golf Club, with its world-famous Number Two course, was established in 1903. Pinehurst hosted the 2005 U.S. Open Championship and annually hosts the Pinehurst Men's North/South Amateur Golf Tournament. Pottery is a vital part of the local economy; Jugtown is in Randolph County, but many of the craft's pioneering families lived and worked in Moore County. The health care and retirement industry in the county also has grown significantly over the years. Agricultural goods produced on Moore County farms include tobacco, peaches, strawberries, and poultry. Machine tools and furniture are manufactured in the county, and amethyst, zircon, copper, and quartz crystals are mined there.
Moore County landmarks and historic sites include the House in the Horseshoe State Historic Site, scene of a 1781 Patriot-Loyalist skirmish; Aberdeen Historic District, featuring 96 historic buildings; and the stately Carolina Hotel (1901), today part of the Pinehurst resort complex. Cultural institutions include the Campbell House Galleries, Sandhills Council Garden Clubs, and the Tufts Archives, located within the Given Memorial Library. Festivals and annual events held in Moore County include the Moore County Agricultural Fair, the Carthage Buggy Festival, the Pet Parade and Bark-in-the-Park Festival, and the North Carolina Playwright Festival. Moore County had an estimated population of 79,300 in 2004.
Manly Wade Wellman, Story of Moore County: Two Centuries of a North Carolina Region (1974).
Jugtown is in Moore County not Randolph!
I love the county Moore because its my brothers last name!


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Nevertheless, Polk, who occupied the White House from 1845-49, has left his own indelible mark on the United States and the presidency. During his administration, the United States grew enormously, adding almost 800,000 square miles. By comparison, the Louisiana Territory, gained by treaty and purchase in 1803, was 827,000 square miles.
That massive expansion, which Polk championed during his single term in office, certainly justifies the recent effort by Congress and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, to have Polk's home in Columbia, Tennessee, declared a national treasure.
A bipartisan energy bill passed the U.S. Senate late last month and contained a provision that directs the Secretary of the Interior to study the feasibility of preserving the Polk home as part of the National Park Service.
The home is a two-story brick structure built in 1816 by Polk's father, Samuel Polk, while the younger Polk was enrolled at the University of North Carolina. The home contains more than 1,300 objects and original items from his years in Washington. Those items include furniture, White House artifacts and political memorabilia. The home and a nearby museum are owned by the state of Tennessee and the James K. Polk Memorial Association, which acquired the property in 1929. Placing the home with the Park Service would give a federal imprimatur to the site and help with funding.
Polk began his legal and political career after he returned to Columbia in 1818. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1825 and was Speaker or the House until he was elected governor of Tennessee in 1839. Nicknamed 'Young Hickory' for his loyalty to Jackson, Polk's rise to the presidency also conjures up the title 'dark horse candidate.' The Democratic Party deadlocked over the three major hopefuls. All were more well-known than Polk, who won the 1844 election with a campaign that favored annexation of Texas in the Southwest and acquisition of the Oregon territory in the Northwest.
Despite some initial bluster, Oregon came in peacefully, but Texas was another matter. The war with Mexico, 1846-48, ended with the U.S. acquiring not only Texas but territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean, including California. If Polk drew praise for expansion, he drew criticism for creating the opportunity for slavery to expand westward.
All of this should make Polk's presidency more interesting to the average American, who might want to know more about the nation's 11th commander in chief. As Alexander said, there is no better way to encourage the study of American history 'than to make sure our presidential homes are properly cared for.'
And, as the senator also noted, having the house become part of the Park Service would bring Polk's legacy full circle since one of his final acts in office in 1849 was to create the Department of the Interior, which includes the National Park Service.
That would honor Polk and Tennessee. It also would honor the presidency and the American people.


It's "spring", the weather is deceptively nice and my heart wants to plant the garden. But my head knows Michigan better than that…finally. It's taken quite a few years of frozen failures, but I've finally learned to trust the conventional wisdom to postpone planting until Memorial Day. This garden cake was very fun to make, with plenty of parts that need little people's help.
The cake itself is built by arranging 4 small sheet cakes, two side-by-side, then two on top. You could bake this in 2 big sheet pans…but it gets really big and unwieldy. It would be a disaster. The 'dirt' can be Oreo cookies crushed up, or homemade chocolate cookie crumbs.
Now the veggies…let your imagination take flight. I bought some bags of Laffy Taffy, Airheads and Starbursts…and just starting creating. I have a Wilton gumpaste tool set and some gumpaste plunger cutters (never let those 50% Jo-Anne's coupons go to waste!) which were fun to use. The candy was a bit hard, kinda hard to shape but 3-4 seconds in the microwave softened the pieces right up. Have fun!
1.) Preheat oven to 350, and prepare two small jelly roll pans (12 3/4 x 8 3/4) or two 9 x 13 cake pans, by spraying the sides and cutting parchment paper liners for the bottoms.
2.) In a medium bowl, mix soy milk and vinegar together and set aside to thicken. Add sugar, oil and vanilla.
3.) In a larger bowl, wisk the dry ingredients together.
4.) Pour the wet stuff into the dry stuff and mix until most of the lumps are gone.
5.) Pour into the two cake pans, dividing the batter as best you can.
6.) Bake for 20 minutes or until the center of the cakes are set, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry.
7.) Allow the cakes to cool a bit before removing from the pans.
4.) Once all the powdered sugar is almost all mixed in, you can start adding soymilk until you get the frosting thickness you want.
2.) Add the powdered sugar slowly. You can add a little of the soymilk as you are trying to mix in all the powdered sugar if things get too thick.
4.) Once all the powdered sugar is mixed in, you can start adding soymilk until you get the frosting thickness you want.
1.) Transfer the first set of cakes to a cardboard cake board, or a cutting board that is nice enough to serve from, side by side. This isn't a pretty affair, but you can figure it out. Usually, I'm flipping the cake upside down in my hands, muttering under my breath, and placing it on the cardboard upside down. Peeling the parchment paper off and calling it good.
2.) While the second set of cakes is baking, spread a thin layer of frosting on the first layer of cakes and roll the gummy worms up. Make sure to mark little dashes on your cutting board so you'll remember where to cut after the cake is all built.
3.) Place the second layer of cakes on top.
4.) Spread a nice layer of frosting over the whole cake, no need to be neat, you're going to cover it all with cookie crumbs.
5.) Spread the cookie crumbs over the cake and edges, spare the area you plan to put your grass.
6.) Pipe the grass (Wilton tip 233), or use green colored sugar.
7.) Plant your veggies and you're done!
Roll the gummy worms up, and make little dashes on the cardboard so you'll know where to cut the cake once the top layer is on to ensure one suprise worm in each piece of cake.
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WOW! That's beautiful! And inspiring.
This is too cute! I love the gummy worm surprise. Now I just need to figure out how to make one of my grandchidren want a garden birthday party so I can recreate this. Thanks for the inspiration!


(STATS) - FCS All-America quarterback Eli Jenkins of Jacksonville State could have a domestic violence charge dismissed if he complies with measures set forth by an Alabama judge Tuesday.
Jenkins, 21, entered a not guilty plea before Judge Joseph M. Maloney in Jacksonville Municipal Court for his Jan. 20 arrest following an argument with a 22-year-old woman. He is charged with a Class-A misdemeanor offense.
The Anniston Star reported Maloney put Jenkins' case on hold under the conditions that he remain in school or work full-time, maintain documented counseling with or separate from the victim and avoid further trouble.
Jenkins is scheduled to reappear in court June 7, at which time Maloney will determine whether to dismiss the case or send it to trial.
As a junior last season, Jenkins helped Jacksonville State to a 13-2 record, a second straight Ohio Valley Conference title and a national runner-up finish to North Dakota State. He captured the OVC's offensive player of the year award and finished sixth in voting for the STATS FCS Offensive Player of the Year.
Six days after Jenkins' arrest, Jacksonville State officials said an internal investigation indicated he did not violate the university's code of conduct.
The Gamecocks were scheduled to begin spring practices Wednesday. Jenkins will not participate in them after having surgery last month for a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder. He suffered the injury in August and played through it last season.


Do your bitcoins really exist?
The answer might seem like an obvious "yes," but the brewing "Proof of Keys" movement, launching today, argues the answer is not so clear.
How in control a person is of their coins depends on where and how the bitcoin is stored. So participants will be taking their money out of third-party bitcoin services, moving it to accounts only they themselves control.
As described by Mayer, the motivation is simple. Many bitcoiners leave their bitcoins on exchanges. This is risky, as millions (er, billions) of dollars have been stolen from exchanges by way of hacks over the years. Not to mention, it means users don't really have full control over their money — a fact many might not realize.
The movement debuts on the 10th anniversary of bitcoin's first-ever block, the day bitcoin's anonymous creator turned his or her theory into a living, breathing digital currency.
Proof of Keys has been compared to a "bank run," where a flood of people withdraw their money from a bank, worried that the institution is going under. But unlike old-fashioned runs, this one is pre-planned and deliberate.
If enough people pull their money off exchanges, advocates argue, it'll expose, and perhaps topple, the ones that are operating like fractional-reserve banks (i.e. keeping only a sliver of depositors' cash on hand and available for withdrawal).
Big names such as former Symbiont president Caitlin Long, smart contract pioneer Nick Szabo, Coinbase CTO Balaji S. Srinivasan, and CoinKite CEO Rodolfo Novak have all etched the Proof of Keys symbol prominently in their Twitter profiles. Even bitcoin companies like Shapeshift and Casa have thrown their support behind the effort.
So, what do participants have to do? Not much or a lot, depending on the user's point of view.
The first task is for users to take control of their private keys. While bitcoin is "trustless," most users hand their bitcoin to a third party who takes care of it for them. The risk is, if this service is hacked (or goes down for another reason), all their bitcoins are lost.
"Proof of Keys" advocates argue users need to move their private keys to a device, such as a secure hardware wallet, where they actually have full control of their money.
If this sounds like a mouthful, some users have already done it, posting their results to Twitter. And advocates argue the learning experience (however time-consuming) is worth it.
"Learning how to do this will teach you about private keys and monetary sovereignty," tweeted Srinivasan.
Mayer takes this a bit further.
But participating users need to be careful.
"There is some legitimate concern that some people will withdraw their funds from exchanges without knowing how to store them properly" pseudonymous bitcoin subreddit moderator Bashco wrote, posting a few tips for a safe transition.
You might be wondering, how much of an impact will this day have?
One confusing aspect is that while today is the official "Proof of Keys" day, not everyone is participating on the same day. Some users have been taking control of their keys leading up to today, posting their results on social media.
But, the way some users talk — calling Proof of Keys "bitcoin's independence day" and a "monetary sovereignty war-cry" — it sounds as if the end goal is for all cryptocurrency users to suddenly move their keys to a device they control and spin up full nodes on fancy hardware device, making bitcoin exchanges all but obsolete.
But Mayer is expecting the result to be less subversive – and more of a bonding experience.
"I think most companies and individuals will operate normally with no significant interruptions, the bitcoin network will be strengthened in its decentralization properties, and many individuals and the community will have a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie," Mayer told CoinDesk.
And other Proof of Keys advocates admit that many users cherish convenience, not necessarily having the time or enthusiasm to store their bitcoins securely and spin up a full node.


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Give God Everything
If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].
—1 John 1:9
I don't know about you, but every day I tell the Lord, "Father, You are looking at a desperate woman. I need You, Lord. Without You I can do nothing."
The Bible teaches us that if we admit our sins and confess them, He will forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Start by freely admitting all your faults. Hold nothing back. Admit them to God and to people. Don't make excuses or place blame elsewhere. As you do this, you will experience a new freedom, and your relationship with Jesus and with people will improve greatly. I have found that if I tell people my faults before they find them on their own, neither one of us is as bothered by them. Be open with people. Most people respect and admire honesty and openness. It is what we try to hide that comes back to haunt us.
Invite Jesus into every area of your life. Don't hide your faults from Him. He knows all about them anyway. Don't hold anything back; give God everything!
Lord, I ask You to come into every area of my life. I confess my sins and faults to You and ask Your forgiveness. Cleanse me from all unrighteousness and make me whole. Amen.
*Originally published by Joyce Meyer
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#SaturdayStamps: Clyde McPhatter
Clyde McPhatter possessed a unique vocal instrument, a lively high tenor that captured the promise and fervor of the teenage Fifties. McPhatter was one of the first singers to cross over from the church to the pop and R&B charts. He was a Baptist minister's son who was born in North Carolina and spent his teen years up north, in New Jersey and New York. He made the crossing from sacred to secular at age 18, when he was invited to join singer Billy Ward's vocal group, the Dominoes, after turning heads with his performance of Lonnie Johnson's "Tomorrow Night" in an amateur show at Harlem's Apollo Theatre. McPhatter was initially billed as "Clyde Ward," and it was claimed that he was Billy's brother.
McPhatter's radiant, gospel-trained tenor exploded onto the R&B scene in the early Fifties on "Do Something for Me," "Have Mercy Baby," "The Bells" and other of the Dominoes' dozen R&B hits. On "Have Mercy Baby," which topped the R&B charts for ten weeks in 1952, McPhatter worked himself to the brink of tears. By recasting gospel's fervid emotionality—a style known as "sanctified" singing—in a rhythm & blues setting, he presaged what would come to be known as soul music.
Chafing under Ward's discipline, McPhatter left the Dominoes in 1953 and was quickly offered a recording contract and star billing with his own group by Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records. Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters cut a string of hugely popular R&B hits, including "Such a Night," "Money Honey" (the biggest R&B hit of 1953), "Honey Love" and a timeless doo-wop version of "White Christmas."
A stint in the army cut short his tenure with the Drifters, but he resumed his career as a solo artist upon his discharge, enjoying another successful run at Atlantic during the latter half of the Fifties. (The Drifters continued without him, recruiting a succession of lead singers.) In 1958 McPhatter scored the biggest hit of his career, "A Lover's Question," a doo-wop/R&B classic that captured his voice at a peak of ripeness. He had a dozen more R&B and pop hits during the later Fifties at Atlantic, including such highlights as "Treasure of Love" (his first Number One as a solo artist) and the sublime "Without Love (There Is Nothing)." His last Atlantic hit, "You Went Back On Your Word," came late in 1959, at which point his contract expired.
After a brief stint at MGM, which yielded a minor hit, "Let's Try Again," McPhatter moved to Mercury Records, where he spent the first half of the Sixties working with producer Clyde Otis. At Mercury he scored such hits as "Lover Please" and "Little Bitty Pretty One" and recorded some highly regarded albums, including the urbanely conceptual Songs of the Big City (1964). He also recorded five critically prized but commercially unsuccessful singles for the Amy label in the mid-Sixties. In 1966 a disillusioned McPhatter moved to England, where he was still revered. He returned to the States in 1970, marking the event with an album entitled Welcome Home (1970). Sadly, it turned out to be his last recording. McPhatter's career had been in steady decline due to mounting personal problems, including a debilitating alcoholism, and he died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 39.
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Dating From A –> Z (literally!)
Need some date ideas? From A to Z, here are some things you can suggest for a fun evening out –
A – aquarium, arcade, art gallery
B – biking, brewery, bonfire, B&B, boating, bowling, batting cages
C – camping, cook, comedy show
D – dancing, dinner, dive bar, drive-in movies, dog walking
E – escape room, exercise
F – football, fishing, festival, fondue restaurant, frisbee golf
G – game night, go-kart racing, ghost tour, garden, greenhouse
H – hiking, happy hour, hockey game, horseback riding
I – inline skating, ice cream, ice-skating
J – jazz music, splurge on junk food
K – karaoke, kayaking, kickboxing
L – line dancing, live music, laser tag
M – massage, museum, mini-golf, music
N – new restaurants, new experiences
O – opera, open theatre, anything outdoors
P – picnic, photoshoot, paint, progressive dinner
Q – a quadruple date
R – road trip, race track, rock climbing, read together
S – scavenger hunt, watch a sunset, stargaze, staycation
T – theme park, top golf, touristy stuff, trampoline park, play tennis
U – unplug, hear a university lecture together
V – volunteer, vineyard, volleyball, visiting with others, vintage shopping
X – eXploring
Y – yoga, peruse yard sales
Z – ziplining, zoo


This is perhaps the best, most surprising and fascinating 'about' I think I have read. All in four words.
oh . . . do you know me?
Maybe, Maybe not. Like most people, I am a reflection of what you want to see. The sky reflects blue or red light from the sun. I reflect what you think you see or perhaps want to see. So … there you go.
Hello Betty! Just wanted to say thank you for visiting my blog, and I've really enjoyed your poems on here! I like your very short ones, they seem to make a lot more sense than most I see, they have meaning and feeling I can relate to! And I shall be back again to read some more!
Thank you Suzy. I am glad to hear you can relate to what I am writing about. I like to think I am making connections.
Why, hello Betty. I will get to know you.I am liking your windows.
Thanks for the follow over on my blog.
Thank you and your welcome. I really enjoy looking at your travel pictures. I can only travel vicariously right now, but I want to put together a year of pictures outside one window to watch the seasons change. So in a way I am time traveling. te he.
Thank you Seth. I hope I do not disappoint either. I have just started learning and experimenting and become completely hooked on haiku.
Brilliant "About". Makes me want to get to know you. I love how haiku challenges you to minimize your words. Thanks for following me!
I feel like I do already know you. Thanks for following my blog.
I used to do the haiku-with-picture thing too, but I found myself using photos as a 'crutch' for my haiku, rather than letting the words tell the story. So my haiku blog has been picture-less since mid-September of last year. It's definitely more challenging, but sometimes I miss using my photos that way.
hi Betty! thanks for visiting and following my blog. nice blog you have here.
Hi Betty, thanks for stopping by my blog, I appreciate the like and follow!
Hi! Thanks for stopping by my blog, and for deciding to follow it. I appreciate it very much, and I hope you will continue to enjoy my posts.
Great blog! I really enjoy your haiku. Keep it up!
There is such beauty and wisdom in your words. Magnificent. So glad I found you.
What a lovely image on your cover page and your 'About' is beautifully minimal. Thank you for stopping by my blog and allowing me to find yours in return. I look forward to following your richly minimal approach to life!
You are a reflection? Maybe so. How well can you reflect the sun?
Very much enjoying your haiku.
Thanks for finding my blog, liking and following. I do like the bedroom window postings. Nothing remains the same, it is always in a state of flux. I like the way these posts reflect that.
Hello Betty, from Betty! I'm glad you visited my blog, which made me aware of your great poetry. Thank you!
Hi Betty, Love your window series. Looking forward to enjoying more of your work. Thank you for visiting and following my photography blog.
Thank you. I love your photography. It is stunning and incredibly artistic.
So simple and I love this page.
Your following my "Randa Lane…" blog makes me feel GREAT! Glad you liked "Haiku With a Smile" — I usually try to include my haiku in the blog several times a week. I've just begun to explore your writing but already see evidence of true talent!
A very cute introduction of you.
Thanks for following my blog.Hope you enjoy reading my poems.
Have to go through your blog which looks fascinating.
Just stopping by to thank you for your recent visit on Shift Key and to peruse your interesting site. Well, you know I know who knows us both. Enjoying your haiku.
Ah… only one name comes to mind who knows us both and knows our hearts, and heals hearts, and that is Jesus. I know that because he has healed me from horrific childhood abuse from 8 to 12 years of age, these many years later.
Thanks for visiting my blog and following. I've enjoyed visiting your blog as well.
Thanks so much for visiting and following my blog! Glad you enjoyed my haiku. It hasn't been long since I've been experimenting with the form and it's sooo addictive hehe :) I enjoyed reading your haiku and look forward to reading more! Best wishes to you!
Thank you as we'll. I look forward to following your blog as well.
Wow! What an inspiring site! I'm just learning to know you and it's an interesting trip. Thanks for sharing.
like your blog Betty. Been following you for some time. Enjoy it very much.


Residencies and Master Classes - Charged Particles: Jazz with a Spark!
For student musicians, Charged Particles can conduct residencies and master classes, in which the students play their own music and group members comment and make suggestions in order to illustrate general principles of performance. These sessions can be open to the public, because the process of learning is quite understandable.
The group can also conduct open rehearsals, in which they work on new material they plan to perform or work at polishing material already being performed. This can be a fascinating process for general public audiences, to see how the group works the "kinks" out of a new work and how an initial rough reading of a piece can be transformed into a finished product. This is particularly interesting when group members rehearse their own original compositions.


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Blue Zones Project inspires resilient responses to COVID-19
The headwinds of 2020 blew us all off course — whether we contracted the coronavirus, felt the pain of losing a loved one, experienced financial setbacks, or were fortunate enough merely to have our plans for the new year put on hold.
But while the pandemic may have disrupted all our lives, it presented an opportunity to overcome and demonstrate our collective commitment to community resilience.
Based on research from the world's longest-lived people and supported by ongoing research from our Community Well-Being Index, Blue Zones Project by Sharecare transforms community well-being outcomes by making healthy choices easy choices for all. By refocusing people, places, and policy on the factors that most influence well-being, Blue Zones Project has equipped more than 50 communities around North America with the tools to develop resilient, healthy, happy and long lives.
Throughout the pandemic, each Blue Zones Project community banded together to support one another and make available resources that would mitigate common challenges.
Three communities in particular stood out for their efforts.
Monterey County, Calif.
During the early stages of the pandemic, Blue Zones Project Monterey County, a partnership between Sharecare, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System (SVMHS), Taylor Farms, and Montage Health, worked with SVMHS and the Alliance on Aging to identify and address cases of food insecurity. The team reached out to more than 400 residents of a local affordable housing development for seniors and asked them a series of questions related to isolation and access to food and medication. Those in need were connected to support resources and given the opportunity to receive a regular check-up call free of charge from the SVMHS Telecare program.
Following up on their early success, the Blue Zones Project team later supported efforts to ensure children in another affordable housing development had access to food. The local school served as the usual distribution point for students in need but was too far to walk. The local team worked with the school to coordinate delivery of the meals to students in their community.
Corry, Penn.
While concerns had been raised in the past that not all students in the Corry Area School District had equal access to the internet at home, the pandemic added new urgency to the problem. The lack of service areas within this northwestern Pennsylvania school district prevented a full 40 percent of the student body from accessing the internet, making distance learning virtually impossible.
The lack of internet access also impeded other essential activities in Corry, such as remote working from home; access to virtual health care providers and services; and maintaining social connections while in isolation, such as staying in touch with family and friends and taking part in virtual Blue Zones Project engagement activities designed to support well-being.
The Blue Zones Project team leveraged its relationship with the county government to address this gap by helping local community development nonprofit Impact Corry to secure $750,000 in federal CARES Act funding, permitting the community to create a publicly accessible wi-fi hot spot in downtown Corry and allowing for the purchase of 47 miles of fiber optic internet cable to be installed throughout the county.
With most Fort Worth students transitioning to distance learning, the normal "back-to-school" routine was anything but routine in 2020. What didn't change, however, was the need for school supplies. In fact, that need was greater than ever in 2020 due to the economic impact COVID-19 had on many families and schools.
Instead of its traditional employee school supply drive, Fidelity Investments – whose local office was designated a Blue Zones Project Approved™ worksite after it successfully adopted the project's key tenets, or Power 9 — provided a grant that allowed for the distribution of 3,000 backpacks filled with an assortment of pencil pouches, folders, glue, erasers, and other school materials — 10,000 items in all. Blue Zones Project Fort Worth acquired the supplies and coordinated their distribution to underserved campuses via drive-thru events across the community. A collaboration with Kroger grocery stores helped place 500 additional school supply packs with students at five area elementary schools.
In addition to the grant, Blue Zones Project Forth Worth and its local partners donated 2,000 items for use in the classroom, including innovative school supply "cakes" of tissue, markers, sanitizer and other classroom items creatively bunded in towering cake-like layers. The team also provided supplies and activities to area community centers.
While the pandemic has tested us all, community efforts have demonstrated people's care and compassion for one another. In every town, neighbors have stepped up to lend a helping hand to those who need it. In the remaining stages of the pandemic, let's all commit to doing our part to build back stronger, more resilient communities. To learn more about Blue Zones Project by Sharecare and how it transforms health outcomes at the community level, visit Blue Zones Project online.
Michael Acker
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I have designed a lot of sofas in my time, some more successful than others but there is no doubt in my mind that the Petal is the prettiest. From it's petal shaped arms and the gentle curve of its continuous outside arc, to the single button in each of its back cushions and the delicate turn of its conical feet it really is lovely to look at from any angle. This beauty does not come easy as the Petal is the very devil to build demanding the highest levels of skill and attention to detail from our framemakers and upholsterers. The result is a sofa that is not only very comfortable to sit on but also very comfortable in its skin and able to carry off almost any fabric from the strictest of grey wools to the softest of pink velvets.
Rume sofas are not available to purchase online for good reason. We build them one at a time from scratch to the highest possible standard, to the individual specification of our clients, in our Sussex workshops. Our sofas are an exceptional blend of tradition and innovation with frames from first grade kiln dried beech with glued, screwed and dowelled joints, legs in a timber and finish of your choice and with upholstery employing the finest modern materials and techniques. Rume design and make beautiful timeless furniture that is built to last and as such represents good value for money. If you are interested in our sofas and unable to visit our lovely Hove showroom then why not drop us a line via the CONTACT US button above and we can advise and provide you with a provisional quotation. Based on your preferences we can then send you a range of fabric, leather or timber samples and guide you through the process of final selection by correspondence. Our lead times are approximately ten weeks and we can deliver anywhere within the United Kingdom and international transport can be arranged on a case by case basis.
Upholstery: Blind seams, curved outside back, button detail optional.
Cushions: Duck feather over reflex seat. Duck feather/fibre blend backs.
Legs: Solid hand turned ash, oak or walnut natural or stained, low sheen.
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Morning Depression: Definition and Treatment
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Morning depression is common among people with major or severe depressive disorder. The severe symptoms of morning depression are more prominent in the evening or afternoon, including anger, frustration, extreme sadness, and fatigue.
Moreover, morning depression is best known as a daily variation of depression symptoms or daily mood variation. Before, morning depression was considered as the clinical diagnosis itself, but today, experts believe it as part of depressive symptoms.
A study in 2013 revealed that most people who suffer from depression have disturbances in circadian rhythms which is known to be the primary cause of depression.
Circadian rhythm is the body's normal sleep and wake cycle. Typically, the body works in 24 hours, so you feel sleepy during the night and alert or awake during daytime. The normal body clock or circadian rhythm controls your body's temperature and heart rate. It can influence your alertness, thinking, mood, and energy as well. It's also responsible for stabilizing your mood and maintaining good health.
The production of hormones like melatonin and cortisol aids in preparing your body for specific events. For instance, the production of cortisol happens during the daytime. Cortisol releases energy to help you stay alert and active during the daytime.
Conversely, during the night your body produces melatonin, a hormone responsible for putting you to sleep. If an interruption in your circadian rhythm occurs, your body's response is to produce hormones at an incorrect time of the day. Hence, it can have a negative effect on your emotional state and physical health.
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Q: How to store form data in a swift app I'm working on my first app and I need some help understanding what kind of data storage I need. I'm familiar with PHP, SQL, and databases but I don't know where to start with this project.
The app is pretty much a basic form with text fields, pickers, and uploaded images. At the end, the user will press submit and all of their data will be sent in an email.
What is the best way to store their data, so the user can go to previous screens and have their previously entered info still there. And then what is the best way to store the data after they press submit to send it in an email?,
Thanks so much for your help!

A: If it's just form data that you're storing once for submission, for simplicity sake, I recommend just stuffing it in a global dictionary that you can access from different views. Swift makes this easy by just adding an empty swift file and defining your dictionary at the top:
var myFormData: [String: AnyObject]()

You can now access "myFormData" form anywhere in your app, add and remove stuff from it.
You shouldn't technically need to "reload previous views" because of the way the navigation stack works. Anything you go back to should hold it's info.
If you really need to save the data to allow the user to close the app and then pick up where they left off much later, then I recommend simply kicking your dictionary to NSUserDefaults. It doesn't sound like something that needs to involve a database.

A: You can use a class called NSUserDefaults
var defaults: NSUserDefaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults() //make an instance
defaults.setObject("Bob", forKey: "myName") //storing a value
defaults.synchronize() //synchronize data
println(defaults.objectForKey("myName")!) //retrieve the data


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Annie Duke may not have won her first World Series of Poker Bracelet until 2004 but she is still one of the most feared poker players around the ring games at The Bellagio in Las Vegas. Annie's long-overdue WSOP bracelet came with a win at the "forgotten game" of Omaha Hi-Lo.
Some players have learned how to mark cards as a way to help them win the game. Depending on the skill level of the cheater, marked cards can be obvious, or unnoticeable.
My family viewed emotion as a form of manipulation. Crying meant giving up. With the exception of stubbornness, anger and criticism, there was very little touching, kissing, embracing or spontaneous emotive behavior. For me, growing up was like walking an angry Chihuahua on a very short, heavy leash.
We are all susceptible to impatience; it is an inner enemy when playing cars. But I have seen thousands of times when in the first couple of hands, players have their whole stack on the line with AJ suited after the flops comes Jack high. Yes, they do win often, but lose just as much to someone on a silly draw, or a made set. It goes along with the philosophy of needing to double up early, or just not play the tournament. This is simply foolish.
We're all different, but we all know sex is the best motivator. Its absence (as well as its excess) hinders progress and stifles productivity. It follows that the sex life of a startup is of vital importance to it's success.
That's a really good question. The answer is that it's an enhancement because it doesn't replace A&R. If we look at the charts today, if we look at the most popular songs in the world today, you'll see that they are largely made up of artists that are found through traditional sources. And yet, we do have some talent that is developed from TV reality contests, but for the most part, it hasn't changed much.
I play on 3 teams (one BCA and two APA) and an occasional weekend tournament. I will be shooting in the BCA singles in Las Vegas May 10th to the 13th and then I will be playing in the open Team event for the next several days.
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'American Music Awards' 2013 nominees, winners – complete list
By Andrew Sims | 8:13 pm EST, November 24, 2013
The 2013 American Music Awards were held on ABC Sunday evening live from Los Angeles and put a new episode of Once Upon a Time season 3 on hold.
The American Music Awards are being hosted by Pitbull. Katy Perry opened the show with a live performance of "Unconditionally" off her new album PRISM.
AMAs 2013 winners
Favorite Band, Duo or Group, Pop/Rock
Favorite Male Artist, Country
Favorite Artist, Electronic Dance Music
Favorite Album, Soul/R&B
Rihanna/Unapologetic
Robin Thicke/Blurred Lines
Justin Timberlake/The 20/20 Experience
"Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line, featuring Nelly
"Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, featuring Wanz
"Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke, featuring Pharrell and T.I.
Favorite Female Artist, Country
Favorite Male Artist, Soul/R&B
New Artist of the Year
Favorite Album, Pop/Rock
One Direction/Take Me Home
Taylor Swift/Red
Favorite Artist, Latin
Favorite Artist, Alternative Rock
Favorite Artist, Rap/Hip-Hop
Favorite Album, Country
Luke Bryan/Crash My Party
Florida Georgia Line/Here's To The Good Times
Favorite Female Artist, Soul/R&B
Favorite Male Artist, Pop/Rock
Favorite Album, Rap/Hip-Hop
Jay Z/Magna Carta…Holy Grail
Kendrick Lamar/good kid, m.A.A.d city
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis/The Heist
What did you think of the 2013 AMA winners?


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"Police is using their helicopter to threaten my life and that of my family" Governor Fayose
Governor of Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, on Wednesday raised alarm over aerial surveillance of the Government House, Ado-Ekiti by a police helicopter. According to the governor, the police chopper has constituted danger to his personal safety, his family, workers and visitors to the Government House.
In a statement released by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, the governor described the development as "brazen show of naked force and abuse of power by the Federal Government."
According to him, he sees no reason for the aerial surveillance of his official residence and office since the state governorship election is over. He also accused the nation's security forces of allowing themselves to be used to intimidate political opponents despite being funded with tax payers' money. His statement in part reads
"They continue to fly helicopters over the Government House and Governor's Office in a way that compromises the safety and well-being of residents and workers. The helicopter flies so low that it runs the risk of crashing into high-rise buildings and masts within the premises. The noise pollution this causes is enough irritation. This brazen show of naked force and abuse of power is as ungodly as it is undemocratic. If the security forces belong to all Nigerians and not to President Muhammadu Buhari and APC, it should not be biased in this blatant manner. It is unprofessional of the security forces to allow themselves be this debased, running APC errands when they are funded with resources that belong to all of us. They are obligated by the Constitution to be apolitical and not willing tools in the hands of the powers-that-be Once again, I say I will not be intimidated. I will stand on my feet until every injustice is upturned and the freedom and liberties of our people are restored. The thief runneth when no one pursueth. They are afraid of their shadows." Governor Fayose said
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Do you want to update Micromax Canvas Unite 2 to cyanogenmod 13? Then you are at the right place.In this post we will each you how to install Micromax cyanogenmod 13 on Micromax Canvas Unite 2.So lets start with updating Micromax Canvas Unite 2 to cyanogenmod 13.
CyanogenMod is a open operating system launched by Cyanogenmod community. It launches updates for smartphone and tablet computers.It is a free software based on Android google. It often give you some features which are not available in firmware rom.
Micromax Canvas Unite 2 was launched in May 2014. Micromax Canvas Unite 2 is a successor of Micromax Canvas Unite. Micromax Canvas Unite 2 currently runs on Lollipop and we are not sure when Micromax will launch a marshmallow update for Micromax Canvas Unite 2 .In stead of marshmallow official update for Canvas Unite 2 we will give you a marshmallow based custom ROM for Micromax Canvas Unite 2.
Micromax Canvas Unite 2 comes with a Mediatek chipset and 1.3 Quad core processor. Micromax Canvas Unite 2 also comes with a mali GPU.
Micromax Canvas Unite 2 comes with a 4.7 inch LCD screen with 16M color and 47.3% screen to body ratio. Micromax Canvas Unite 2 also gives you a 480x800 screen resolution and 199 pixel density.
Micromax Canvas Unite 2 is packed with 4/8 Gb internal memory and 1 Gb RAM.
Micromax Canvas Unite 2 offers you 5Mp primary camera and 2 Mp secondary camera.
Micromax Canvas Unite 2 is powered with 2000mAh battery.
This is the best custom ROM based on Micromax Canvas Unite 2.As we all know cyanogenMod is the most stable ROM for smartphone.
Charge your Micromax Canvas Unite 2 to 100% to install cyanogenMOd 13 On Micromax Canvas Unite 2.
Root your Micromax Canvas Unite 2.
Install Cwm on Micromax Canvas Unite 2 before installing cyanogenmod 13 on Micromax Canvas Unite 2.
Make back up of all the data.
First download cyanogenmod 13 for Micromax Canvas Unite 2 ROM from Here.
Now put the ROM in sd card.
Now choose the cyanogenmod 13 for Micromax Canvas Unite 2.
Installation of Micromax Canvas Unite 2 will take some time.
So this was our guide on updating Micromax Canvas Unite 2 to Cyanogenmod 13.


Hello! I'm Jessi from Sweetie Pie Bakery, and I'm so excited to participate in this round of Project Run and Play!
I've been a huge fan and loved seeing the different themes and creativity that each season would bring and can't wait to share my own projects with you!
I grew up around a mother and grandmother who sewed, so it was always a part of my life. I didn't begin really sewing myself until I had my first child. No longer working and having much more time at home, I felt a sort of lull that I needed to fill. I dug out my sewing machine and got reacquainted with it.
It didn't take long before I decided that I was not just going to follow patterns, but begin designing my own. As a former interior designer working with drafting all day, I figured that sewing would be a great platform to translate one skill to another. That's how my first line of felt patterns was born. I looked at each piece as a sort of miniature architecture project.
After becoming acquainted with so many sewing blogs, I decided I wanted to take it up a notch, and learn to sew more garments. I love being able to create things that my family and I can wear. There is nothing like designing something, creating it yourself, and then wearing it.
I'm very eager for this season to start and look forward to stretching my creativity and skills to share unique ideas with you every week!
I have been waiting for you to be announced here! So excited to see what you do! I've been following your blog for a little while now, ever since I bought some felt patterns from you on etsy! Best wishes on your adventures!


At Paradise Seeds we have the bags packed and ready for one of Europe's (if not the world's) biggest cannabis expos – the mighty Spannabis from 9th to the 11th of March.
Paradise Seeds will be making our annual pilgrimage to this long running expo which takes place in the beautiful city of Barcelona.
We are on Stand 25 (in the main hall) and we will have our full team at the event to bring some Paradise magic – with advice, special promos and of course an extensive range of merchandise and seeds for sale.
This will be the 15th edition of this famous event and as well as stands for all things cannabis there will be live entertainment and the latest innovations in the cannabis industry as well as the World Cannabis Congress featuring influential speakers from the cannabis scene.


Man United keen to land La Liga star before transfer deadline | The Transfer Tavern | Where football transfer rumours fly or die!
Manchester United fans occupying the sofas by the bar are praying for brilliant additions to the squad before the window slams shut next week and they seem to have been given exactly what they requested.
The Sun cite reports from Tribal Football that state Manchester United have accelerated their interest in Sevilla ace Ever Banega, keen to push through a transfer before the window closes on Monday evening.
26-year-old Banega has been in fine-form for the Andalusian side this season, scoring six goals in 16 appearances, but he could be forced out of the club as the back-to-back Europa League winners are struggling in La Liga.
United have been extremely quiet so far this window but a swoop for Banega would represent significant business for Louis Van Gaal's side, who are in desperate need of improvements to bolster their chances of landing a top-four finish.
Saturday's defeat to Southampton left United five points behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur and increase speculation on Van Gaal's future, with the club starting to turn against him.
Our landlord believes Banega would be a good purchase but doesn't believe only one addition will fix United's problems and has urged the board to get stuck-in.
United fans, how many signings do you want this week? Let us know in the comments below!


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Chris Christie's Bridgegate Fall Girl Bridget Anne Kelly Running for Office
By Phil Stilton
Chris Christie and Bridget Kelly during the 2012 Bridgegate scandal. Photo by Phil Stilton.
FORT LEE, NJ — It's time for some political problems in Bergen County. Bridget Anne Kelly, the senior aide to former Governor Chris Christie, who these days just goes by the name "Chris" is running for office. Kelly put her name into the ring seeking the Bergen County Republican nomination for County Clerk. Kelly, if you remember was the mom who Christ Christie hung out to dry and let take the brunt of the Bridgegate scandal squarely on her shoulders.
Some even say Christie's willingness to let Kelly take all the heat was one of the factors that kept him out of President Donald J. Trump's administration. That and the President's top advisor, son-in-law Jared Kushner probably didn't want him around the White House either.
In September of 2013, Kellly sent the infamous, "It's time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" text. Kelly, who served as Christie's deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, the executive director of the Port Authority were both charged and convicted for their crimes. The third criminal co-conspirator in the scandal was David Wildstein who also worked at the Port Authority. Wildstein, who now serves as the editor of the Florida-based "New Jersey Globe" political blog site turned state's witness and testified against Kelly and Baroni after pleading guilty to his charges.
Kelly testified that she was not part of a plan for political retribution against Fort Lee mayor, Democrat Mark Sokolich. She was eventually convicted, but her case was overturned in the U.S. Supreme Court, exonerating her.
She claims Wildstein, Christie, and others tried to destroy her by making her the face of Bridgegate.
Photo by Phil Stilton
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