It's pretty easy for most "car guys", but I removed the mudflap and thought I would post some photos incase someone else was searching for it. The mudflap is attached to a metal bracket support that is attached to the frame of the truck. Unscrew that support. Mine started to unscrew and then broke off due to the rust on my truck. I used an 8mm socket.
The second place the mudflap is attached is behind the plastic flare with what I think is called a "christmas tree screw"? I could be wrong about that but it is the kind of screw that goes in easy, but is hard to pull out. It is also plastic. Tugging, wiggling, and using a flat head screw driver to get some leverage snapped it right out.
The rubbing stopped except for a very specific angle, at slow speed, in the front driver side. There is a small part of the bumper that hooks back under the truck that will occasionally hit it. It does not happen on the passenger side. It is rare and "OK" for now. On my list of improvements is a black front bumper that works with existing tow hooks. Changing the bumper will probably correct the issue.
Vincent has new kicks! One of the first things I wanted to do was purchase new tires. I was once fearful of stoplights, on a hill, in the rain!
Because I was able to get a great deal on the tires, I picked up a 5th full size tire to rotate in as a spare. This should prolong the life of the tires. The spare will live on the roof of the car eventually.
After installing the tires, I noticed a slight "rub" coming from the front when I turned sharp and slow. My truck seems to have a TBar lift on it, not a body kit. After circling a parking lot a few times, I determined that it was due to the mudflap on the front. Removing those is next on the list.
Just posting a few photos here of what the truck looks like with the console removed. The top armrest cracked and the bottom of the armrest broke off and would not stay. I removed it, but didn't like what the console looked like without it, so I removed the whole thing. The plan is to use a Ram Mount to replace it, hold several radios, switches, etc.
Vincent, the black 2003 Ford Ranger XLT, FX4, Level II, 4.0 SOHC, dual stick!
I am excited to start this series of blog post. I am back dating this one to when the photos were taken. July 3rd, 2013.
I am NEW to working on vehicles. Pretty sure I just heard several of you say, "This should be good." Yea. I know. We all have to start somewhere. Haha. No one in my family was into cars and I never grew up working on cars. So now I'm 33 and want to figure out how to work on cars. I'm a late starter, but at least I am starting!
What did you drive before this?
1999 first car was a 1980 Nissan Datsun 280 ZX GL model straight 6. It was so fast.
2000 the little Datsun kept stalling, so we got a new 2000 Toyota Celica turbo four cylinder that I drove into the dirt.
Then I got a new 2012 Subaru WRX who was pearl black and appropriately named Black Betty. She was sooo sleek and sooo fast. I loved that all wheel drive beauty. I sold it to help pay down the debt.
Now, 2003 Ford Ranger XLT, FX4 Level II, 4.0 SOHC, dual stick.
I purchased the truck from a broker in the north so there is more rust under the truck than I am used to. It had about 156K on it and I paid about $5500 for it after taxes and shipping.
Was there anything wrong with it?
I discovered it wasn't as good as it looked in the photos. But it would get the job done.
The truck bed had a cover over it and they had spray painted some sort of gray/black inside of the truck to cover up rust and some small holes in the bed and 4 weird bolts sticking up from the tailgate. No real definitive answer on what those were for.
Those small rust holes have increased significantly in size.
They also coated all the plastic with something that kept it black for a short time. Those pieces are now all gray.
The tires looked OK when I got them, but were significantly worn.
The driver seat adjusting thing is broken. If I stop fast or put too much pressure on the back of my seat, it falls back. Embarrassing in traffic.
The AC went out last summer. Mechanic said "evaporator coil"? He wanted $800 for it. I drove with the windows down for 2 summers.
The battery died and took the radio with it. I don't think the radio is completely dead, but I don't have the security code to get it to work again and the local ford dealer here won't help. They just tell me to bring it in and they will charge me $150 to "see" if they can fix it plus additional $$ to actually fix it. Huge rip off.
The console arm rest cracked no the bottom side. I didn't noticed until I had to stop suddenly and the whole thing disintegrated. That stunk, but I was thinking about putting in a new console anyway. I would love to have a Ram Mount type of console and be able to mount a CB radio, ham radios and some other electronics with drinks, change, and some switches for lights and such.
There is some significant rust on some parts. I might have to replace?? Mechanic said they will last for several years. My plan is to clean them, stop the rust, and hopefully maximize their life until I am ready to do a mod around it that I would have to change them out anyway.
What do you want to do to it?
Number 1, I need to fix most of the above. Then I can do some other stuff.
I am a Realtor by trade and this project truck will also be a very recognizable work vehicle around town, so I will have to keep it a little proper, very clean, but I want it to be off road capable. The full list is yet to come. The goal is for the truck to look nice, clean, black, and aggressive and have some accent LEDs. More on the full mod list later.
Yea. I got the truck shortly after Vince Flynn passed away and the name Vincent just seemed to fit. I realize it is a guys name, but after driving Black Betty, this truck just doesn't feel very lady like.
Take a look at the photos below. I know I am oversharing, but I really wanted to catalog the entire journey. If you notice anything not stock or mods/problems that a n00b wouldn't, please tell me. Thanks for checking out the thread!


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On the weekend a did some experimenting with Google App Script. I first looked at Google App Script during its brief pre-release phase but aside from following the tutorials I never did something useful with it of my own.
Of course there are lots of useful things Google App Script can help you out with, especially now that Google has added additional APIs for accessing more services. Workplaces using Google Apps (like my company) should especially find a lot of use for the script for automating common tasks.
To get my feet wet again with Google App Script I chose to work on something very simple (single function simple) and marginally useful to me. I wrote a Google Spreadsheet function that would pull a new 64 character high-quality random password from grc.com whenever it runs. Aside: GRC stands for Gibson Research Corporation; I listen to Steve Gibson and the Security Now netcast each week.
See below for the script itself. It is very simple. To try it, open a google spreadsheet, open its script editor and paste in the script. In a spreadsheet cell, use the formula '=getGRCPassword()'. Whenever the cell recalculates, a new password will be retrieved.
Note that I pull the password out using basic text searching. A more robust approach would be to use forgiving HTML parser. As it stands now the approach below is easily broken by a minor page update. I did not use a HTML parser since I could not find an appropriate one to use given the environment. I will keep looking.


Discussion in 'Modding and Customization' started by zhaoyi, Sep 17, 2008.
Anyone has a way to mod the bluetooth into One without soldering?
No I don't think there's way to add it by not soldering it.
Should just learn how to solder. Its not expensive to learn and you can practice on some old dead components to get better at it..
But anyway, you have 3 USB ports, do you use them all? I think an external BT is better, because you can remove it when not in use and not eat the battery.
I am currently using the micro bluetooth dongle. Althought I have all the tool and parts, but don't have the skill and guts to solder on those tiny spot. ( my hand shakes.... ) I think I am just too an@l about everything being inside.
Anyway, any "master" out there can think of a way? Please help, I believe alot ppl wants to do this mod.
Yeah, that picture tnkgrl posted makes it look ah not that hard! Then you open it up.. the main hard part is soldering it to the usb section of the mini pcie slot, as they're so close together.
Of course, my solution was to get a co-worker to do it using 30guage wire. It helps to work at a semiconductor r&d facility. Almost everyone there knows how to solder stuff that small and you have the esd free labs to do it in.
Well, what you can also do if you really want is to get an USB hub, run a wire from one of your USB ports to the hub, then back from the hub to the USB port, so this way you will still have 3 free ports on the hub to use. It should be easier to solder, but you will have to cut the PCB traces around the USB port.
To complicated Believe me or not but is much easier to sold cables to miniPCI pads using standard Weller or any temperature regulated soldering gun. Important is only to have right tip to do that.
I have a 10W soldering iron (got it specifically for SMD stuff) and I might give it a try when I decide what I want to put inside.
Btw, a little bit unrelated, but do you think you can put stuff (usb sticks, BT, etc.) on the sides of the monitor? It seems there is a big unused space, but I didn't open it so I don't know what's inside.
Can someone post a pic of how the micro dongle looks, I would love to see how far it sticks out.
OMG! That thing is tiny, well that solves my problem. I'm going external; that way I can always utilize the internal spot for a touchscreen or other future mods; plus I'm not that good at soldering.
Thanks for the pic Dude!
I'm pretty good at soldering but I thought the mini dongle was very small and wouldn't involve losing the warranty for such a trivial thing.
will this work by replaccing the current wifi card?
a while ago, i wanted to add internal bluetooth, and none of the guides were that good back then, so I just piggybacked it onto the back of a usb port just to see if I could actually solder it.
Try having a look at the way i did my bluetooth mod on the AA1 i am sure that you could fit a tiny usb hub in the place i put the female USB connector.
xfce crashed. how do i move files to my sd card without GUI?
How to get command-line updater working without errors?


The statistic shows the results of a survey in the United States concerned with the interest of virtual reality, by age group. Four percent of the respondents between the ages of 14 and 19 years said that they were not interested in virtual reality at all. The VR market is set to grow at a very fast rate in the following years, with the revenue from virtual reality products forecast to reach 5.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2018.


The Besant Arundale Senior Secondary School was founded by Rukmini Devi in 1973. With a strength of about 500, the school has a Montessori environment for ages 2 ½ to 5 ½ years and CBSE system for classes I-XII. It is based on the philosophy of education without fear and aims at providing education by striking a fine balance between traditional and modern methods of teaching and learning. Apart from the regular courses in science and humanities it is one of the few schools that offer dance, music and visual arts at the Senior Secondary level as main subjects, enjoying the advantage of a highly qualified staff base as part of the Kalakshetra family.
From its inception, the Besant Arundale Senior Secondary School (BASS) has been affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum, allowing children to participate in an all- India system. The primary medium of instruction is English. Tamil, Sanskrit and Hindi are also taught.
In keeping with Kalakshetra's tradition of Indianess in the approach to education, students wear simple South Indian clothing, pavadai and davani for girls and pyjama-kurta for boys and footwear is removed before entering classrooms and other work spaces. The day begins with prayers from all religions and all classes have dance, music and art and craft as a part of their curriculum, apart from formal academics. Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities are also encouraged. Regular inter-school sports and cultural competitions, club activities and quizzes, debating etc form an integral part of the students' experience in the school. The Besant Arundale School is committed to the its founder's vision of holistic learning in an ambience of art and culture.


Just under a quarter of technology workers say they are particularly drawn to jobs at companies that have been embroiled in a scandal such as privacy breaches or sexual harassment allegations.
Higher salaries, more employee benefits and improved workplace culture are the top three initiatives used by Australian CIOs to attract and retain top IT talent.
The biggest barriers thwarting Australian businesses' digital transformation efforts are a lack of change management capabilities, inadequate collaboration between IT and business lines, lack of skills and a risk adverse culture, according to an Infosys survey.
Almost nine out of every ten CIOs in Australia have ambitions to become the CEO or managing director of their company, a survey by recruiter Robert Half has found.
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[ARCHIVED] Town Approves New Planning Code for Downtown Hampton Bays
At its meeting February 25, 2020, the Southampton Town Board approved the Hampton Bays Downtown Overlay District which paves the way for the revitalization of the downtown area while retaining local character.
The vote follows four years of planning, many public meetings and the creation of the Pattern Book that will help guide the architectural styles/materials and sustainable landscape designs with future development. It also enhances the ability of developing the downtown into a walkable area with mixed use zoning for businesses, residences and open spaces.
The new overlay district encompasses 54.8 acres from Ponquogue Avenue to Springville Road extending south to Good Ground Road and north to Good Ground Park.
The next steps include an engineering report for the sewage treatment plant funded by a $50,000.00 grant from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation.
"The overlay district codifies the desired forms of future development that we arrived at through an extensive community participation process," said Janice Scherer, Town Planning and Development Administrator.
"We are so excited to see sustainable and beautiful re-development within the Hamlet Center that will complement the park and provide new uses and experiences that the community desires. This is smart growth at its finest."
Supervisor Schneiderman applauded the Planning Department for taking the time to work with the Hampton Bays community in developing a vision for the future of its downtown and helping enact a legislative framework for realizing that vision.


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Robert Wagner Refuses To Speak To Authorities About Natalie Wood's Death
By Emma G. Gallegos
Published Jan 17, 2013 11:00 PM
Actor Robert Wagner at the TCM Classic Film Festival held on April 12, 2012. (RoidRanger / Shutterstock.com)
There's been one person who has refused to talk to authorities since an investigation was opened into Natalie Wood's death just off the coast of Catalina Island more than 30 years ago: her husband at the time Robert Wagner.
The original investigation determined that Wood's drowning on November 29, 1981 was accidental, but the case was reopened last year. A recent coroner's report changed her cause of death from its original "accidental drowning" to "drowning and other undetermined factors." The new report says marks on Wood's body suggest she was assaulted before she drowned.
But still the 82-year-old Wagner does not want to speak to authorities about what happened on that night three decades ago, The Los Angeles Times reports. Authorities said they've spoken to everyone else who was on the boat that night, including actor Christopher Walken and the captain Dennis Davern.
Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. John Corina told the Times, "We reached out through his attorney and got rebuffed. We went to his home and he refused to talk us, and we sent him a letter, so I say it is fair to say he has declined to be interviewed, repeatedly."
Wagner cooperated with authorities during the original investigation, but authorities note than both Wagner's story and Davern's have changed over the years.
Wagner's attorney, Blair Berk, said in a statement that his client has been cooperative with authorities but he had nothing new to add: "After 30 years, neither Mr. Wagner nor his daughters have any new information to add to this latest investigation, which was unfortunately prompted by those seeking to exploit and sensationalize the 30th anniversary of the death of his wife and their mother."
An anonymous source close to the family told Fox News that reopening the case has been painful for those who were close to Wood: "It is all very sad and painful for them to have to relive this again more than 31 years since Natalie's death. I think most families just wish it could be let go so everyone could really move on."
New Evidence Uncovered in Natalie Wood Death Probe
Natalie Wood's 1981 Drowning Case Re-Opened


Winstrol is one of the most popular steroids in the market today, which is mainly used to boost muscle gain and strength. Before you use any steroid, it is extremely essential to understand its potential, use and overall side effects. All anabolic androgenic steroids are to be sold on prescription only, at least in the US, and it might not be always legal to buy these products online. In this post, let's talk about Winstrol in detail.
Winstrol is the trade name for the steroid Stanozolol, which is also sold by other names such as Winstrol Depot. Winstrol is mostly used for veterinary purposes to treat animals. If you are a new user, you should know that steroids are not meant for everyone. These are synthetic compounds that mimic the effects of testosterone and can work in a different way on every person. For those who intend to use Winstrol, they should always consider the side effects and overall impacts before taking the final call.
If you are wondering how much oral Winstrol to take in a day, it largely depends on a lot of factors, including your age, gender and previous experience with steroids. For medical treatments, doctors usually suggest anywhere between 2 and 6 mg twice or thrice a day, depending on the condition, but only for a limited period. On the other hand, bodybuilders take Winstrol in much higher doses, usually from 15 mg to 25 mg per day. If you are injecting the steroid, you can choose a dose of 50 to 75 mg every three days. Please note that increasing the dose also increases the possible consequences.
To be honest, Winstrol is not always a safe steroid, but with responsible use, you can easily minimize some of the side effects. It is also important that you consider your fitness levels, and if you are just starting with stacks and cycles, you might want to take some advice and help from experienced bodybuilders. All steroids, regardless of the type and name, will impact the liver at some point, especially with long term use, and it's important that you consider additional remedies to reduce these bad effects. Also, if you have any sort of liver ailment, do not use steroids in the first place!
If you are smart enough, Winstrol can give you good results. Just start with a low dose to see the effects.


No problem. Thanks very much for the prompt help on the Gig Set Viewer! FYI, I was finally able to upgrade by using the "updates" tab in the App Store.
Exiting did not work, but creating an empty set list did. Thanks! I also updated the iOS to 10.3.2. Still cannot upgrade. Checked settings and I am indeed on 4.9.1. App Store offers "OPEN" button only.
When I select the Gig Set Viewer it exits iGigBook. It worked fine the last time I used that feature. I'm using an iPad Pro. Version 4.9.1. I can't seem to figure out how to upgrade to a newer version. Apple Store only allows "open". Thanks!
Topic: How to delete old book indexes?
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Issue solved. I was able to adjust the PDF file instead of the index. Thanks Phil for your time.
There was a duplicate song entry early on in the list and it made the offset incorrect for the remaining songs.


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More than 9,400 Miles Traveled with Love: Americold, Kraft Heinz and Feed the Children Partner to Feed Struggling Families
April 28, 2022 - Feed the Children - Oklahoma City, OK
With a shared heart for serving, Americold, Kraft Heinz and Feed the Children have been working together to deliver nine semi-truck loads of Ore-Ida Frozen Potatoes to families across the nation living below the poverty line. In total, more than 9,400 miles were traveled to bring 125 tons of frozen potatoes to Calif., Washington, Okla., Illinois and surrounding areas.
Families who were already struggling to make ends meet before the pandemic have since faced compounding variables that have made daily life even more challenging--from surges of new COVID variants, devastation from natural disasters, and worsening of food access, to possible job loss, decreased public transporation options, and increased food costs. According to a report[1] released in April, grocery prices rose by 8.8 percent during the last 12 months, impacting millions of families. Kraft Heinz, Americold and Feed the Children have been working together to bring hope, love and nutritious food to families whose lives have been severely impacted during this unparalleled time. By collaborating, the organizations have been able to distribute food more quickly to those who need it.
It is estimated 1 in 6 children are food insecure due to the economic affects of the pandemic. That's why Feed the Children works with public and private partners to help families gain access to the safe, healthy and nutritious food they need. By working with a vast network of community partners, like Partners in Hope, Feed the Children provides food and essentials, support for educators, and disaster response to help children and their families achieve stable lives, while providing food and resources to help them today.
"Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the risk of food insecurity has risen in our service areas," said Keith Sharp, president of Partners in Hope. "Receiving a donation such as this is such a blessing for our communities. Providing our low-income families with food has a dramatic impact on their lives. The benefits to their physical and mental health are incalculable."
Atlanta-based Americold has a passion for defeating hunger. Playing an integral role in the food supply chain, Americold owns and operates 250 temperature-controlled warehouses around the world, with approximately 1.5 billion cubic feet of storage. Its facilities connect food producers, processors, distributors and retailers to consumers, ensuring that food is preserved and protected on its journey from farm to fork.
"Our partnership with Feed the Children is incredibly meaningful because it is one way that we show our commitment to fighting hunger. We're proud of the unique ways we are able to support their efforts to provide for families experiencing food insecurity. By sharing our supply chain expertise and donating temperature-controlled transportation, we are reducing the time it takes to get food to those who need it. While families across the country face ongoing challenges related to COVID-19 and disasters, we remain committed to supporting the communities where our associates live and work in any way we can," said George Chappelle, CEO of Americold.
Americold has been a generous partner of Feed the Children for more than five years. During its partnership, Americold has donated critical funds, and travelled hundreds of thousands of miles providing complimentary temperature-controlled transporation services of chilled and frozen goods that have helped feed hundreds of thousands of families across America. The organization also provides volunteer opportunities for their associates at Feed the Children community events.
"Kraft Heinz is committed to providing nutritious meals to those in need – and, as a company, aspires to deliver 1.5 billion meals to those in need around the world by 2025," said Rashida La Lande, Global General Counsel and Chief Sustainability and Corporate Affairs Officer of Kraft Heinz. "We've seen unparalleled suffering during the COVID-19 global pandemic, and we are grateful for partners like Feed the Children who continue to help meet the needs of families and communities across the United States."
Kraft Heinz and its predecessors have been a valued partner of Feed the Children for many years. Through this partnership, Kraft Heinz has donated food and committed to supporting hunger relief efforts across the nation by providing critical resources to those who need it most. Kraft Heinz continues to share its resources to help generate the most impact for families facing devastation through natural disasters or to combat food insecurity.
"The Americold and Kraft Heinz partnership means so very much to Feed the Children, and more importantly, to the families we serve," said Travis Arnold, president and CEO of Feed the Children. "Those living paycheck-to-paycheck do not have a safety net. Our partners are a critical part of providing compassionate support to those who are facing tough decisions about how to care for their families."
Feed the Children believes it takes everyone - the nonprofit sector, corporations, community organizations, government officials and food suppliers - to come together to do good for those who need it. When efforts are combined, a greater impact is achieved.
About Americold
Americold is the world's largest publicly-traded REIT focused on the ownership, operation, acquisitions and development of temperature-controlled warehouses. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Americold owns and operates 250 temperature-controlled warehouses, with approximately 1.5 billion cubic feet of storage, in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. Americold's facilities are an integral component of the supply chain connecting food producers, processors, distributors and retailers to consumers. Visit www.americold.com for more information.
About The Kraft Heinz Company
We are driving transformation at The Kraft Heinz Company (Nasdaq: KHC), inspired by our Purpose, Let's Make Life Delicious. Consumers are at the center of everything we do. With 2021 net sales of approximately $26 billion, we are committed to growing our iconic and emerging food and beverage brands on a global scale. We leverage our scale and agility to unleash the full power of Kraft Heinz across a portfolio of six consumer-driven product platforms. As global citizens, we're dedicated to making a sustainable, ethical impact while helping feed the world in healthy, responsible ways. Learn more about our journey by visiting www.kraftheinzcompany.comor following us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
[1] U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm)
About Feed the Children
At Feed the Children, we feed hungry kids. We envision a world where no child goes to bed hungry. In the U.S. and internationally, we are dedicated to helping families and communities achieve stable lives and to reducing the need for help tomorrow, while providing food and resources to help them today. We distribute product donations from corporate donors to local community partners, we provide support for teachers and students, and we mobilize resources quickly to aid recovery efforts when natural disasters strike. Internationally, we manage child-focused community development programs in 8 countries. We welcome partnerships because we know our work would not be possible without collaborative relationships.
Visit feedthechildren.org for more information.
Americold, Feed the Children Partner with Atlanta Mayor's office to Provide 8,000 Ready-to-Eat Meal Kits to support Hunger Relief during Holiday Break
December 1, 2022 - Feed the Children - Atlanta, GA
Celebrating the Magic of the Holidays: Feed the Children Kicks Off Its No Hunger Holidays Campaign with Corporate and Community Partners
November 3, 2022 - Feed the Children - Oklahoma City, OK
Amanda Rodriguez Joins Board of Directors at Feed the Children
Feed the Children Works with Corporate, Community Partners to Provide Critical Food, Supplies to Families Following Hurricane Ian
September 29, 2022 - Feed the Children - Oklahoma City, OK
Frito-Lay, Feed the Children Serve Nearly 1,000 Families in One Day
Feed the Children Names Chris Gard as the New Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Creative


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The big one es el 59º episodio de la serie de televisión norteamericana Gilmore Girls.

Resumen del episodio
Con motivo del bicentenario de Chilton, el director Charleston les asigna a Rory y a Paris para que ambas den el discurso. Aunque Paris sigue algo molesta por lo de Francie, va a casa de Rory para poder armar el discurso. Paris le cuenta a Rory que ella y Jamie tuvieron sexo el día anterior y le pregunta si a ella le pasó con Jess o con Dean y Rory lo niega; esto hace que Lorelai se sienta bien por su hija. Kirk se está dedicando a ser cartero, aunque con desastrosos resultados; camino hacia la casa de sus padres, Lorelai se encuentra en una farmacia de Hartford con Max. Sookie tiene un extraño comportamiento, sobre todo con la comida, y pronto descubre que está embarazada, aunque Jackson se preocupa sobre cómo hará para poder mantener al nuevo bebe. Ya en el día del bicentenario, Rory espera a que Paris llegue; momentos después ella aparece pero no da su parte del discurso, sino cuenta sobre la negación de su entrada a Harvard y su pérdida de la virginidad. Rory intenta calmar a Paris y le dice que si no la aceptaron en Harvard, puede empezar en otra universidad. Cuando Lorelai se vuelve a encontrar con Max, ahora en Chilton, intenta explicar por qué no se casó con él, aunque después ambos se besan. Finalmente, Rory recibe las solicitudes de ingreso de más de una universidad.

Curiosidades
Cuando el director se desconecta de la comunicación, es imposible que Rory y Paris hayan seguido hablando.
Tras el discurso, Paris afirma que 5 generaciones Geller fueron a Harvard, pero en Rory's birthday parties, dijo que fueron 10 generaciones.

Gilmore Girls

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Q: Pure CSS solution to stacking columns of divs I want to float a sidebar div to the right beside two stacked divs, both floated to the right.
You can find the code here:
http://jsfiddle.net/okcomputer82/ED4WJ/2/
I'm sure I can do this by grouping the left divs, but I would like to know if there is a cleaner way.
Thanks.

A: remove "clear: both;" from css class .left, and it will be ok.
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update class .left to "clear:left;"
.left {
    float: left;
    clear: left;
    background: yellow;
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and put your right div to be at the first place like below

example : http://jsfiddle.net/ED4WJ/5/

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    Float:left;
    width:960px;
    height:100px;

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.left
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width:40%;
height:100%;
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  height:100%;
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Conversa com o Vizinho é um quadro do pintor português José Malhoa, criado em 1932, que retrata uma rapariga jovem inclinada sobre o parapeito de uma janela. Pintura a óleo sobre tela, mede 31 cm de altura e 27,5 cm de largura.

O quadro está no Museu José Malhoa nas Caldas da Rainha.

Pinturas de José Malhoa
Pinturas de 1932


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The Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas  (PLA) is a megaport currently under construction in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The project aims to convert the current Port of Ponce into a value-added tax-free customs-free international shipping hub similar to, though not as large as, the megaports located in Singapore and Rotterdam. The Port of the Americas is Puerto Rico's main Caribbean port, and, at a depth of 50 feet, it is also the deepest port in the Caribbean.

The port was originally overseen by the Port of the Americas Authority () a defunct government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico. As of December 2012, it was overseen by the newly created Autoridad del Puerto de Ponce. The Authority reported that when completed, the new port will have a storage capacity of 2.2 Million TEUs. The Authority also reported that the port handled an estimated 504,044 short tons of cargo in 2007, and projected it to handle over 1.5 million in 2012.

On 12 December 2011, the government of Puerto Rico transferred control of the port to the Ponce municipal government, when governor Luis Fortuño signed to create the Ponce Port Authority (APP) an independent government-owned corporation ascribed to the Ponce municipal government.

Port of Ponce (current port)

The current port, named the Port of Ponce, is located in the southern tip of the city of Ponce, 1.5 miles south of the intersection of PR-52 and PR-12. The port was created on 28 February 1789, through the Royal Decree of Spanish King Carlos IV de Borbón. It started operating commercially in 1804.

History

1800–1950
During 1800–1850, the Port of Ponce became the heart of Ponce's economic control. During this time the Port, with its adjacent massive construction of commercial buildings, stores and warehouses, "became more important to the national [Puerto Rican] economy than San Juan's. By 1890 the Port was exporting 33.2% of the national production, compared with 21.2% exported from San Juan."

The port has been operated by the municipality of Ponce since 1911, when then-mayor Moret received from the Government of the United States of America a franchise for the city of Ponce to operate the Port of Ponce in perpetuity. The port has been an important part of the island's economy, especially to the sugar cane and coffee industry during the first half of the 20th century. In 1913 the municipality completed a covered pier of concrete and steel with ample depth of water and railroad connections.  In 1918 almost 20% of merchant traffic into and out of the Island occurred through this port. The Ponce port is currently the only port in Puerto Rico that is operated as well as owned by a municipal government. The port has 8 piers, numbered 1 through 8.

1950s
Operations at the Port of Ponce were significantly reduced during the second half of the 20th century, mainly due to the decay of the agricultural industry of the Island and the fact that the government shifted most shipping imports and exports to the San Juan Port located in the island's capital of San Juan. The Port of San Juan became Puerto Rico's main shipping port during this time, experiencing significant expansion projects and heavy traffic year-round, while the Port of Ponce was left to handle mostly local operations. It is estimated that 90% of all goods exported or imported in Puerto Rico passed through the Port of San Juan. It has been reported that the Port of Ponce handles about 40% of Puerto Rico's "loose shipping traffic." These situations led the mayor of Ponce to seek the transfer of Port of Ponce facilities and operations from the government of the Commonwealth to the Ponce municipal government.

1990s
Following these ownership changes, several improvements were made to the Port of Ponce, most of them under the administration of late mayor Rafael "Churumba" Cordero Santiago. These improvements included repaving worn-out roads, the addition of the short Port of Ponce Railroad system for transporting oil and chemicals from ships to holding tanks via tanker cars (although it is now rarely in operation), and a cruise ship terminal. The port had one quay side crane in operation before the Port of the Americas project got under way, and a second crane was acquired soon after the project began in 2004. The design and addition of a free trade zone within the Port of Ponce has also been studied.

2010s
On 12 December 2011, the Government of Puerto Rico transferred control of the Port of The Americas to the Ponce municipal government, when governor Luis Fortuño Burset signed Senate Bill #2393 to create the Autoridad del Puerto de Ponce (Ponce Port Authority) officially.
 The administration of the Port of Ponce was to also administer the Port of the Americas.

The port seeks to position itself into the international shipping hub. The city continues to search how to best make use of its port's potential, and various business models have been studied. Some have met with strong opposition from San Juan, as was the case in 2003, when there was significant opposition from the International Longshoremen's Association there to moving freight traffic from the San Juan port to the Port of the Americas. The city also seeks to position itself into the cruise ship terminal space. To this end, facilities have also been developed to accommodate cruise ships. Two cruise lines, Holland America and Celebrity, make occasional stops in its port. The municipality is seeking to build a new tourist wharf at Avenida Hostos with a total length of 1,200 feet and a width of 160 feet. This will allow two mega cruise ships to dock simultaneously. The estimated cost in 2011 was $57.6M USD, with the expected creation of 600 jobs. Historians have located records showing cruise ships docking at the Ponce port at least since March 1979. With the goal of increasing tourism and improve the local economy, the city has toyed with the idea that Mercedita Airport could be use as a fly-in destination for passengers that would then depart for a cruise vacation from its cruise terminal at the Port.

Port of the Americas (future port)

History
Records show that at least by the mayoral administration of José Tormos (1977-1984), a group of municipal officials had visited Washington in September 1979 seeking $23 million to finance the megaport project. By then Puerto Rico's economy was highly dependent on an export manufacturing industry, which in turn relied on substantial federal and commonwealth government tax subsidies. Political and business leaders alike agreed that, in order to secure Puerto Rico's economic future, the island had to diversify its economy and improve its attractiveness to manufacturers and similar businesses since it could not rely solely on tax benefits. Therefore, the government decided to invest heavily in developing tourism areas, such as new passenger cruise ship terminals at the San Juan Port, and to initiate plans to convert Puerto Rico into the leading manufacturing and shipping location in the Caribbean. During the late 1990s, the megaport project obtained significant support when the US federal government decided to phase out most of the federal tax subsidies awarded to manufacturing companies in Puerto Rico, and after the neighboring countries of Jamaica and the Dominican Republic announced plans to create megaports of their own.

Potential locations
The Government of the Commonwealth soon began researching the viability of a megaport in Puerto Rico by conducting land studies throughout the island, economic studies both in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, and visiting existing megaports, such as the Port of Singapore and the Port of Rotterdam, in order obtain an idea of a megaport's operations and impact on local economies. These studies revealed the need for a large transshipment port in the Caribbean region to facilitate distribution from the emerging markets in Asia and the US west coast to the eastern coasts of North, Central and South America. The government also found that Puerto Rico had several advantages over its Caribbean competitors, which included first-class infrastructure (such as highways and several airports), strong economic and political ties with the United States, and the island's close proximity to the Mona Passage (a large and deep channel between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic through which most ships sail when traveling between the Panama Canal and the US eastern coast). During this research stage, three potential locations were considered for the megaport

 San Juan Port – This consideration contemplated moving most local shipping operations to other ports on the island and expanding the Port of San Juan into an international megaport.
 Ponce/Guayanilla/Peñuelas Port – This option contemplated leaving most local operations in San Juan, while converting the Port of Ponce into an international megaport with additional port facilities in the nearby towns of Guayanilla and Peñuelas.
 Roosevelt Roads (RR) Port – This possible location came into consideration after the US Navy closed its Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in the town of Ceiba. The naval station had adequate piers and quay side, a small airport, and large sections of undeveloped lands. The plan envisioned leaving local operations in San Juan and other local ports while expanding the naval station's port facilities into a megaport.  This option was complicated by the fact that the area was not under the jurisdiction of either the Ceiba municipal government or the government of the Commonwealth, but under that of the U.S. federal government, and would have required either a land concession or a low-cost sale to make the option viable.

Ponce chosen
Ponce mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago lobbied heavily for the location of the megaport to be in his hometown of Ponce before his untimely death in early 2004. He argued that Ponce already included adequate port facilities, a nearby airport, sufficient road and highway infrastructure, and the availability of approximately  adjacent to the port area for immediate development. Expanding the San Juan Port became unattractive as it had run out of land area for any further expansion, while locating the mega port in Guayanilla was abandoned because of environmental concerns in the area. In the end, the Commonwealth government decided to award the location of the Port of the Americas to the City of Ponce. As an act of remembrance, the Government of the Commonwealth signed into law the creation of the Port of the Americas project and named the Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas after the late mayor.

Management and operation
The Port of the Americas Project is currently owned and managed by the Port of the Americas Authority (APA, from its Spanish acronym), a joint venture between the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce and the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. APA's current executive director is Ramon Torres Morales, an engineer who is also the executive director of the current Port of Ponce. The Authority also has a board of directors.  Sitting on that board are Puerto Rico's Secretary of Economic Development, the Director of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO), Puerto Rico's Secretary of Transportation, and the mayors of Ponce, Guayanilla, and Peñuelas.  The Board also includes several other business and civic leaders. It is estimated the Port of the Americas will generate 100,000 jobs. Jorge Hernandez Lazaro served as executive director.

Project phases
The Port of the Americas construction project is divided into four main phases which will add  of quay side to the Port of Ponce, dredge the existing port entrance and nearby bay to a depth of , and develop adjacent lots into new container yards. This project would allow the actual Port of Ponce to handle three post-panamax vessels at any given time (Puerto Rico previously could not handle these types of ships due to relatively shallow depths) and increase its annual throughput to a total of . Final project costs are currently estimated at US$750 million.

Phase 1 - The first phase of the project adds 1,200 ft (365.76 m) of quay to the existing piers, which will then accommodate four modern quay cranes with a rail gauge of 100 ft (30.48 m). This phase finished two months ahead of schedule in late 2004.
Phase 2 - The second phase, which began in 2005, aims to dredge the existing Ponce bay near the entrance of the Port, the entrance channel and the piers to a depth of 50 ft (15.24 m), making them the deepest in the Caribbean. The dredging will relocate approximately 5.5 million cubic meters of marine soil . This phase also includes developing  adjacent to the current piers to increase its yard capacity by  of annual throughput.
Phase 3 - This phase plans to convert land adjacent to the current port into a 50 ft (15.24 m) deep canal adding  of quay side for additional vessels and developing other sections near the future canal to increase total annual throughput to .
Phase 4 - The final stage will add another  canal, adding  of quay side, and developing adjacent lands into new container yards, increasing the Port's annual throughput to a total of .

Development
On 21 January 2010, two huge post-panamax cranes arrived at the Port of the Americas from Shanghai, China. They were built by ZPMC at a cost of $22.7 million. In addition to the two post-Panamax cranes, the port's inventory consists of one Gottwald crane—used for "loose" freight—and seven Rubber Tire Gantry cranes, purchased in 2008 for handling container freight.

On 26 September 2011, the Governor of Puerto Rico transferred the entire governance structure of the Port of the Americas to the Ponce Municipal Government to be managed by an authority to be created at the municipal level, called "Autoridad del Puerto de Ponce" (Ponce Port Authority). As part of the transfer accord the commonwealth-level Autoridad del Puerto de las Americas (POTA Authority) ceased to exist.  The transfer was made pursuant to Mayor Melendez's "Solucion Ponceña". The transfer became law on 12 December 2011.

The post-panamax cranes were first put into commercial use on 21 December 2011 with the offloading of five containers destined to Campamento Santiago in Salinas, Puerto Rico. The operation required the support of the Ponce Municipal Police Marine Unit, Fuerzas Unidas de Rapida Accion (United Forces for Fast Action, FURA), the Ponce Municipal Office for Emergency Management, the Puerto Rico Police, the Puerto Rico Fire Corps, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Puerto Rico National Guard, and POTA personnel.

Gallery

See also
 Transportation in Puerto Rico
 Port of Mayagüez
 Port of San Juan
 Ship Transport

Notes

References

Further reading
 PLA: Elefante blanco en medio de recesión. Jason Rodríguez Grafal. Ponce, Puerto Rico: La Perla del Sur. 20 March 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2019.

External links
 Port of The Americas – Official Website
 Port of The Americas – Photo Album
 Management Plan for La Esperanza Nature Preserve in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Matthew Bourque, Drew Digeser, Stephen Partridge, Hussein Yatim. Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Worcester, Massachusetts. 2 May 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
 Dos sureños establecen astillero en las inmediaciones del Puerto de Ponce. (English: Two southerners establish shipyard in the vicinity of the Port of Ponce.)  Sandra Caquías Cruz. EsNoticia. pp.4-5. Issue 162. 28 January-10 February 2022. Accessed 28 January 2022. Archived.

Geography of Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ports and harbors of Puerto Rico
1804 establishments in Puerto Rico
Transportation buildings and structures in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Government of Ponce, Puerto Rico


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Editor's Introduction Feitelson/Lundeberg Marc Straus: Art Poems
Tony DeLap Photo: COBA Images
Tony DeLap: A Retrospective
By Peter Frank
Tony DeLap: A Retrospective, installation view, Laguna Art Museum, 2018, photo by Chris Bliss
The history of modern Western art is dotted with anomalies. While the commonly recognized "mainstream" provides a spine for the structure of that history, it does not account for its flesh or sinew. The dialectical pattern of artistic movement and counter-movement provides some artists context but ill fits other artists—artists who, in their day or since, have come to be recognized as significant in their own right. In fact, these exceptional artists constitute the great majority of serious practitioners, particularly if one accounts for the spans of their output, though also even if considering a single body of work within such output. Artists do not seek to be consistent, only coherent; and they seek coherence in the context of their own studios, not in that of public—or certainly historic—discourse. When young, artists may want to influence the discourse with their inventions, and be open to influence in turn. However, the breadth of an artist's activity, no matter how focused, reveals constant experimentation and idiosyncrasy.
Tony DeLap has been making art for more than seventy of his ninety years, and for the bulk of those seven decades has been making art that reflects mature and complex thought. DeLap's development has been for the most part stepwise, building idea upon idea, decision upon decision with a thoughtfulness and steady pace that allows and absorbs random impulses and momentary deflections. It is only occasionally responsive to prominent currents in artistic practice, yet his work almost always seems current, reflecting intellectual and technical advance, within and especially beyond his own studio, more than it does fashion. And it always stands a little apart from contemporary mainstream discourse even while appearing to be part of it: the earmarks of minimalism, light-and-space, and even performance art, for instance, can be identified in DeLap's art, but as available forms and nuances rather than as dictates.
Tony DeLap Thauma II 1986 Wood, acrylic and canvas 69 x 50 x 4 inches
Laguna Art Museum, Gift of Mason and Elizabeth Phelps
If DeLap can be pinpointed in modern art history, it is less as an embodiment of a style and more as a representative of a place. A lifelong resident of California, he produces work that is singularly Californian—indeed, that somehow synthesizes factors in California art that would seem to resist synthesis. His formal vocabulary has been emphatically geometric, in one way or another, for nearly his entire mature career. However, DeLap's art is an approach to geometry that resists the obdurate factuality (not to mention facture) of New York–style minimalism even as it maintains a respectful distance from the relational constructivism that characterizes European high modernism. He was and remains influenced by the latter, though he never fully took it on. Rather, the elemental formulas of West Coast geometric artists, from Southern California's "abstract classicism" (or "hard edge") to the strains of post-cubist sculpture and, conversely, monochrome painting that could be found in mid-century Bay Area art, seem closest to DeLap's sensibility, closer even than New York parallels such as Ellsworth Kelly and Jo Baer.
Yet, DeLap's work has rarely fit comfortably even under these given rubrics. It bears witness to them, either directly or through shared sources, but it does not conform to them, temporally, geographically, or practically. Although later a close friend of John McLaughlin, DeLap was not identified as an "abstract classicist" in the early 1960s, as he was neither painting geometrically nor yet living in the Los Angeles area. On the other hand, DeLap's early sculptural work—the "step-down" boxes and other painting-sculpture hybrids—do not "perform" as do the early kinetic works of the then–Bay Area–based sculptors Charles Mattox and Fletcher Benton. The connections and the parallels are evident, but the overlap is slight. In fact, the compact self-containment of DeLap's early three-dimensional pieces and, in particular, their engagement of simple words make them appear closest to the Los Angeles–area "Pop Art" of Joe Goode, Billy Al Bengston, and above all Ed Ruscha.
Tony DeLap Esoterist 1990
Acrylic on canvas with wood 94 1/2 x 44 x 10 3/4 inches
Collection of Phyllis and John Kleinberg
In effect, with a couple of exceptions, we cannot deduce any direct chronological connection or parallel between DeLap's bodies of artwork and those of his friends and peers, only a general connection in style and attitude (however much this resulted from the postwar California Zeitgeist). His early small assemblages fit into the Bay Area (and indeed American) "junk sculpture" movement of the early 1960s (albeit uneasily, as they answer more to Joseph Cornell than to, say, Bruce Conner). And DeLap's several forays into public art performance came with the first surge of performance art in early 1970s Southern California (not least at the University of California, Irvine, among DeLap's students). But even in these responses to "the going thing," DeLap held on to a measured aesthetic that valued exacting technique and the manipulation of audience perception, in contrast to the gestural funk of assemblage and, a decade later, performance art.
If, however, we consider the prevailing tone DeLap has consistently displayed throughout his career—precise but not aloof, demonstrative but not expansive—he emerges as one of the leading practitioners of an overriding sensibility in the California art of his time: perceptualism. As identified by Robert Irwin, perceptualism denotes an interest in challenging the stability of human vision, "fooling the eye" into seeing things that aren't physically there, or seeing things in a certain way that belies their actual physical state. Perceptualism, as opposed to the forthright, anti-illusionist practices of East Coast minimalism and conceptualism, is an overarching rubric for several (especially Southern) California movements—including finish/fetish and light-and-space—that emerged in the late 1960s and have frequently recrudesced since. DeLap participated at best only tangentially in these movements. However, his artistic goals, driven by predominant interest in the non–"fine art" phenomena of architecture and magic, mirrored those of such movements and makes him unquestionably a perceptualist painter. And draftsman. And sculptor. And painter-draftsman. And painter-sculptor. . . .
Architecture and magic both rely, in various ways and to various extents, on the seeming continuity—but de facto discontinuity—of the viewer's perception. Room must flow into room and building must fit into site. Similarly, sleight of hand must be realized in a single flow before the eyes, and illusion must be thorough and uninterrupted—although compromised invisibly by a "discrepancy"—even as it subverts apperception. (As DeLap himself puts it, successful prestidigitation requires a "discrepancy," a seeming flaw in an otherwise stable context that allows the trick to operate without revealing its own mechanism.) Craft and material are crucial factors in the success of the endeavor. If DeLap's principal preoccupations are magic and architecture, his art logically elucidates elegant form and substance. From the first, to use Joseph Masheck's term, DeLap's art has been "shapely." One could also call it "seemly." And "uncanny."
Writing about DeLap's works on paper, David Gebhard, an architectural historian, notes that, "like the Naugahyde seat and back pads of [Charles and Ray] Eames's wire furniture, DeLap's paintings are in reality thin three-dimensional constructions. They become readable only when the viewer moves from one position to another and thence becomes aware of their subtle but complex three-dimensional geometry." That is to say, there is no single vantage from which to view a DeLap work "properly" and that, in many cases, it is only proper to view it from several different vantages. This is as true of the artists' many paintings on canvas from the 1980s whose stretcher bars have been torqued behind the picture plane as it is of the early-1960s step-down word boxes and freestanding paintings, almost all of which are two-sided. Even paintings from the past several years, flush with the wall, feature eccentric contours whose opposing sides contradict one another logically and stymie any recognition of pattern. Position determines perception.
For all the play and wit and gentle deviousness of DeLap's work, it does not pretend to be other than what it is. At the core of this trick-filled oeuvre beats a heart that cannot tell a lie, even as it spins a yarn. DeLap may tease our eyes, but he does so with a great gentleness and even deference, deference to the principles of modernism—particularly cubism and its nonobjective inheritors, as well as parallel movements in architecture—and even to the minimalist language of his own time, a language he helped, unwittingly, develop. DeLap incorporates magic into his work as much to honor that craft as to exploit it, to merge it with artistic modernism in a meeting of relatively recent but substantive traditions and noble goals. DeLap invests dogged handicraft into his work not simply because he likes to fashion form and solve visual problems manually, but because the heritage of the work merits the effort and expertise, because Frank Lloyd Wright, Pablo Picasso, Naum Gabo, and Dai Vernon were masters of their métiers and left legacies that DeLap seeks to fuse syncretically. DeLap may be the last modernist standing—and he's standing there with something up his sleeve.
Tony DeLap Lompoc 1963 Lacquer, wood, chipboard, Plexiglas, and stainless steel
23 . x 20 . x 4 5/8 inches
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Robert and Naomi Lauter
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
February 25, 2018 through May 28, 2018
Peter Frank is Associate Editor for Fabrik magazine. He is former critic for Angeleno magazine and L. A. Weekly, served as Editor for THE magazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly, and contributes to publications around the world. Frank received a B.A. and M.A. in art history from Columbia University and was art critic for The Village Voice and the SoHo Weekly News before he moved to Los Angeles. He has served as Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum and has organized shows for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museo Reina Sofia, the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and others. His published works include Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography; The Travelogues; and New, Used & Improved. Frank has written many artist monographs and catalogues, and has taught and lectured extensively throughout North America and Europe.


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Pragya Dubey
To all the letters to self
To all the letters to self Old and new
You knew you'll never make the cut Despite being a treasure trove of all things that really matter
Every time you see reality panning out differently than the manuscript You only squirm a little in that tightly sealed envelope of yours
You probably find a wiggle room and try to push for the truth you stand for It must be devastating to never win
You must have a weave of your own voices Tired of being stifled all the time
Every word uttered must be a revelation A story veiled behind and buried under fascinating made-up 'facts'
You are acknowledged for bearing with the endless saga of trust and betrayal Something we consciously partake in only to always remain oblivious of
You stand for a lost opportunity to understand the true self Since surfaces are dreary and only present with the idealized versions of self
You pass these tests of dignity with great aplomb Continuing with life, unburdened with the past happenstances
To all the letters to self Old and new, if only I could learn the art of this trade for accord and discord, alike!
#MindlessMusings
The Ache for Home That We House Within Us
Photo by Sergey Nikolaev on Unsplash
Home, a word that stirs a smorgasbord of feelings. It is impossible to get nostalgic or think about a phase of my life without associating it with the place I called home during that time. I strongly believe that the homes I grew up in added so many dimensions to my personality. I have lived in multiple homes – with every home, my definition and understanding of what the word meant changed and evolved.
My earliest memories of childhood are always full of scenes from my home in a small town in Madhya Pradesh. That was the first place I called home! By then, my definition of 'home' was limited to a place synonymous with the safest haven one could have. Every morning smelt like the first rain of the season, courtesy my mom's routine of watering the plants early morning at six. My father had this huge circle of friends and our place was always bustling with people sharing meals and laughter. I also remember the first pangs of jealousy because after being the sole subject of mom and dad's affection and attention for five years, I was expected to share my spotlight with a little, chubby human.
The next home became special in the sense that I started bonding with that little, chubby human who soon became my favorite human and a confidante to turn to. Our garden was huge with two small cliffs. We were allowed to play near only one of the two cliffs because the other had snake burrows all over it. By this time, I was old enough to understand relationships and 'home' was no longer just a space that one inhabited. I started associating the feeling of home with the people I inhabited that space with – my parents and my brother!
Then came the third move! There was again a transition to new surroundings, new people, new school and a new 'space' that we were yet to call our own. This one became the hardest move for me and for many years I was uncomfortable in my own skin – it's not always easy to adjust to a bigger city, coming from a small town. Irrespective of how I felt amidst new people and the new surroundings, I felt at home with my family around. We came closer to the extended family but what still anchored me were the vestiges of memories that we made in the last two homes.
With stepping out of my home and away from the family for the first time in 23 years of my life, I knew what I classed as home would further change but I had kept my expectations at bay. I moved to a city for my first job, a different part of the country altogether with a lot of reservations about who will I share my space with, how well will I adapt to the changes and other, largely skeptical, thoughts that my mind never stopped churning. Thanks to the best flatmate possible, I was quick to have a 'home' in a new city. The shift in my definition happened when I realised that home turned into moments and places I belonged in, with the people who made that feeling of belongingness possible. I met some of the best possible people in this city and so many of them became family. In this phase of my life, the feeling called home became a deep longing for real and raw connections with people. Now when I think of that time, I brought no remnants that remind me of the physical home I had there but I earned so much more – people whom I call home now!
A few years later, new events transpired and I got married – a new home in its entirety! By this time, I was receptive enough to not hinge my feelings of belongingness to the idea of having my own physical space. With the new mindset, I swiftly found home in my new family – almost effortlessly. Now, it was more about the content feeling that I got by being with my growing family. As long as I had these old and new sets of families close to me, I felt at home.
The most recent move is our first home as a married entity. Being two travel freaks, we have spent much less time living in it than not living in it. The flat we possess is more of a sanctuary of stillness amid all the chaos that life brings with it. A new meaning got added to my ever-growing understanding of the word! It's now a blurred line between the self and the surroundings, where I can truly exist and feel that existence at the same time.
In 28 years of living in different homes, what I crave for are the memories I made in all those places. Memories, after all, are cued by the physical environments they were first lived in. A part of me has clung to the earliest notions of what made me feel at home and I often find myself sifting through the carousel of mental souvenirs from my time there.
Coming to the present day, 'home' has become a plethora of feelings, making it difficult to put a thumbtack on one. But it is surely that sense of belongingness and an abundance of overwhelming happiness that we earn by striking out the lines that we try to draw between who we are and where we are.
It's All in the Eyes. Now, Even More So!
Photo by Quentin Lagache on Unsplash
There's no doubt that the human race is heavily dependent on facial cues to communicate and understand feelings and emotions. Despite that, I can clearly remember the most profound moments of my life and associate those with a distinct kind of eye contact with someone. That plea of understanding I wished to communicate to mom on my first day of school to the look of longing when I was stepping out for my first job – these were all cursory eye locks that became momentous in so many ways and added another level of depth to those emotions.
With the world wrestling with a virus' unapologetic grip, all of us are forced in a situation – irrespective of what we opine – where masks are a must at public places or when stepping out even for the most trivial errands! This directly makes our eyes the primary source of contact with anyone in the outside world.
Just last week, I had stepped out to a nearby pharmacy store. There was this elderly woman who had helped me get through my order and I wanted to genuinely convey my gratitude for her work. I smiled and said a thank you, but quickly realized that she hadn't noticed my smile and the other facial expressions to see the genuineness underneath my words. I exaggeratedly crinkled my eyes and after a few seconds, she did the same – a proof that both of us received the intended message with the intended feelings.
As we get a window to reflect, reimagine and reset our ways of living and the world around us, we also need to be conscious of our mode of communication. I recently read that we can make and recognize around 250,000 facial expressions and that the verbal component of a face-to-face conversation is less than 35 percent and that over 65 percent of communication is done non-verbally. Now, this 65 percent of nonverbal communication constitutes both, our body language and facial expressions.
Eyes have often been regarded as the "windows to the soul" and our dependency on these windows has just increased manifold. Is that a fleeting smile, a smirk, a grimace or a mocking smile under that mask? Well, who knows! The facial expressions, especially those of the lower mouth are key to revealing nuances of the words we speak. With that part of our mouth covered, the burden of communicating the right intent falls heavily on the eyes.
Since all of us are just beginning to adjust our social worlds, it's about time we learn to give people the benefit of doubt! You might experience flubbed interactions, fraught with misinterpretations – but, it's okay! Give it some time and don't hit the wall already since it's still the very beginning of many changes (and, challenges) that will soon ensue.
Needless to say, our eyes need extra care and attention as our worlds squeeze into the virtual box! Both, during and off work, our eyes take the center stage – be it the never-ending Zoom calls or our steadily increasing screen time.
Like the many opportunities presented to us by this situation, we might want to become more observant and considerate to the fellow occupants of our completely-exhausted mother earth! It's not like we need to train ourselves for a completely new skill – we, as humans, are completely adept to be receptive to someone's eye contact. We just need to dust off that dormant superpower to read and understand microexpressions and put it to good use. :)
Unsouled While Ruminating the Meaning of Life
(Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash)
A rosy picture from the outside, But nothing more than a bed of thorns.
A few moments of happiness, Amidst a downpour of gloomy moments.
It lures you with irresistible temptations. Before you realise, it turns out to be just another bait.
Constantly living on tenterhooks in anticipation of what would unfold next, It amazes you with something least expected.
The moment you gain confidence and a sense of control, It thrashes your poise and brings you downwind to where you started.
This ultimate driving and a binding force called 'life', Inveigles us with guile. Traps us till the last breath, And laughs deceptively on our inability to understand the very purpose of being.
It dawns on me – The quest for life, the pursuit of happiness, the endeavor to find peace, Lead to nothing but to reasons for further dissatisfaction, dismay and sorrow.
Why we live our present in oblivion, despite of having full control of it, And delve into our past to make futile attempts of mending what was.
As I made a silent promise to myself, Of living in the very moment I smile on my ephemeral promise, Because the very next moment, I find myself brooding over the same rhetorical mystery which pushes me deeper into the cobweb.
Every Night Stroller's Dream
I, for one, am a huge fan of post-dinner walks.
Taking a long walk, breathing in clean air (whatever is left in our cities), soaking in the day's occurrences and briefly sulking for what could have been is my way of blowing off steam and going to bed with a clear mind.
It's that part of my day which is cathartic by all means – irrespective of who am I taking that walk with! It's that time of the day when the city is laid bare in front of my eyes. I finally get to see the 'human', softer side of the city – vulnerable and calm at the same time.
The night is much less profane than the day, giving our mind ample wriggle space to think about things that we truly hold close to us. The somewhat deserted roads, shadows of the street lights, the occasional howling of the dogs – all this and more, together, put up a landscape that makes you live in that moment. For a pensive walker like me, just the soft moonlight does the trick of transporting me to someplace where 'I' can 'be'.
In my 30-minute walking ritual, I live a fleeting but totally thrilling solitude.
Although I feel alive in the day, with all the agglomerative forces in full throttle and the complete chaos of coexistence, it's during these walks that I 'really' feel like 'living' and not just 'existing'. Another thing that I cherish about these walks is bickering and snickering with my husband. It's another thing that we spend almost all our time together, but there's something of an edge to our conversations while taking a stroll on our terrace.
During the lockdown, I have come to enjoy this time of my day even more. Those 30 minutes translate to a conglomeration of mirror moments – I assess what I see in the mirror and reflect on how can I make what I see look more soulful and course-correct if needed.
More or less, I like to think of these walks as a coping mechanism – a booster shot that lets me start my next day as a clean slate, without a piece of overwhelming baggage. It's difficult to decide though – whether I possess the time in that duration or the passing seconds possess me?
Of the enigma around stories…
A story within a story, further laying seeds for the next.
The deeper you go, a new one springs from a master story, narrating the bygone times and tales.
Where the past eddies around us, and the present becomes distant.
Once a cliffhanger, now meticulously adds to the eventuality.
A nexus between the manifestations of our mind and the memories we have lived, each leaves us with a lesson — bitter or sweet.
Each revisit unravels an aspect that we never fathomed or inadvertently overlooked.
Do the stories create us or do we create them?
Do the stories live in us or we live in them?
Do the stories make mortals, immortal?
While we rummage through the stories in the quest of serendipitously finding something, it might as well be life's just another way of ensnaring us in its labyrinths!
NOT Losing Ourselves While Finding Our True 'Self'
Lost more than ever, In our attempts to not feel lost ever.
There are trends and fads. And then there is the fabled road less traveled that nags.
Trends look cliched, yet enticing. The unconventional looks promising but frightening.
Torn between following the heart and the urge to belong. The mind plays games and stretches till it can prolong.
Overcome by a fear to be left alone. We end up in a crowd with all our hopes forlorn.
It's either here or there, But the yawning gap between the 'being' and the 'want to be' becomes a nightmare.
We start associating with things and people to set ourselves free, Only to later realise that disassociating was the key.
If at all we strive to find out more of who we are, The superficialities and pretenses will be freed at the earliest hour.
The tussle between what to do and how to be will cease to exist, And the true self will persist.
Letting My Inner Voices Out the Dampening Dungeon!
After a long while, I had nowhere to be. I was free from the abiding clamor of my routine.
After a long while, I had no rush to reach conclusive decisions. I could hear my mind thinking.
After a long while, The deep-rooted longings were no more lurking on the fringes of my mind. I could foresee them taking formidable shapes in the plausible future.
After a long while, I wasn't crying to take out my pent up frustration stemming from a myriad of reasons. I was crying my heart out because I could put a pin to what was in my heart.
After a long while, It wasn't just about the next thing on my to-do and the ensuing chase. It was about what to do next that will satiate my heart.
After a long while, It wasn't the pursuit of winning, no matter what. It was about realizing that the true victory lies in the gracious acceptance of my vulnerabilities.
After a long while, The ticking of a clock was more than an alarm of the passing time. The clock stood as a humble reminder of how much I had to feel grateful for each second.
After a long while, I wasn't just dwelling on my feelings, ranging on a spectrum of fear to anxiety. Hope had finally reared its head.
After a long while, The sharp vicissitudes of the world around were not driving me up the wall. Giving way to appreciating even the tiniest reasons for my happiness.
After a long while, I felt like my own self had taken over. After a really long while!
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Spaghetti squash is one of my favorite ingredients to work with, I was introduced to it last year. I made a Creamy Garlic Spaghetti Squash for my parents and they loved it too. My dad is growing spaghetti squash in their garden this year and it's great for me because it is a vegetable which is really thriving.
I made this recipe using half of a roasted spaghetti squash. You can freeze the rest and use it for another recipe later or just double the recipe.
Recipe adapted from the Comfort of Cooking.
In a large bowl, mix together all ingredients. Use half of the cheese.
Pour into a 9x13 pan.
I know this is an 8x8, I made one spicy casserole and one without peppers, that's where the rest of my squash is.
Top with the rest of the cheese.
I served this recipe at my parents house to a large group of people and everyone seemed to enjoy it. One whole pan was emptied and the other casserole had half of it eaten. The flavors in this were great, all of the spices gave this a good "taco seasoning" flavor without the store bought packet. This also had great color due to all of the fresh/canned veggies that were added. This might have been my favorite spaghetti squash recipe.


On the 20th December 2016, the Group held a cocktail reception to celebrate its 35th Anniversary at the JW Marriott Hotel. The Ballroom featured two showrooms, which displayed products of S.A.S Electric Co. Ltd. and S.A.S. Lighting Co. Ltd., for guests to visit. The LED Chinese Lion Dance performance and the Toasting ceremony were the highlights of the event.
Our Group Chairman and Managing Director,-Mr Yim, Stanley ,together with the management team and staffs, witnessed the S.A.S. Group has been moving forward and continue to flourish over the years, which makes the Group laying a leading position in the Hong Kong electronics industry.
The show board recorded of development and achievements of S.A.S. Group's past 35 years. Mr. Yim was invited to be the guest speaker during the ceremony, There were over 800 guests joined the remarkable event, everyone had a pleasant and memorable evening.


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These 10 reality stars found themselves in headlines for the wrong reasons — because they were arrested!
By:Taneia Surles
Jan. 15 2022, Published 2:25 p.m. ET
Reality TV is a guilty pleasure for some.
Watching lives play out in front of the cameras provides an escape from their own life. It provides endless entertainment and there are plenty of different versions of reality TV on programming schedules.
But sometimes, the reality stars end up in front of the cameras for the wrong reasons. It's because they are in cuffs. Here are the stories of 10 reality stars who were arrested.
GEOFFREY PASCHEL
The former "90 Day Fiancé" star Geoffrey Paschel, was convicted on Oct. 8, 2021, for abusing his former fiancée in 2019 after attacking her and refusing to leave her house. According to10News, the ex-fiancee claimed Paschel grabbed her by the neck, slammed her head against the wall and took her cellphone. After police got to the victim's home, they saw a large bruise on her head with other bruises along her body.
Paschel faces 12 to 20 years in prison without parole for the convictions, including aggravated kidnapping, domestic assault and interference with emergency calls.
CHRIS SOULES
On April 25, 2017, police arrested "The Bachelor" star Chris Soules after a deadly car crash in Iowa. The fatal car crash, which Soules was held responsible for, led to the death of one victim, 66-year-old Kenneth Mosher. Soules was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious injury. He pleaded not guilty in November 2018. According to People, Soules accepted a deal to suspend a two-year sentence to serve two years of probation. In addition, Soules had to pay a $625 fine, a 35 percent surcharge, and any other court fees.
SHANNADE CLERMONT
One half of the notorious twin duo from the show "Bad Girls Club," Shannade Clermont, was arrested in July 2018 for debit card theft. As reported by the New York Post, police charged the former reality TV star after she committed identity theft on a man who was later found dead in his apartment from an apparent drug overdose. Around his death, Clermont met the man as part of her escort services.
She spent upwards of $20,000 on the man's debit card months after he died. Clermont was charged with one count of access device fraud and aggravated fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud. She was not charged with any involvement in the man's death.
On April 4, 2019, a court sentenced Clermont to prison time, plus three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay about $10,000 in restitution fees, as reported by PIX 11. On March 5, 2020, she was released from prison.
AUSTIN LEE "CHUMLEE" RUSSELL
Austin Lee "Chumlee" Russell of "Pawn Stars" found himself in some serious legal trouble after Las Vegas police officers allegedly found an abundance of guns and drugs during a search of his home. The raid, which happened on March 9, 2016, was due to an ongoing investigation in which sexual assault allegations were made against the reality TV star, as reported byUSA Today. As a result, Russell was held on a $62,000 bond while he awaited his first court appearances on a total of 20 charges on drug and weapon possession.
Austin Lee Russell
TODD CHRISLEY AND JULIE CHRISLEY
Stars of the "Chrisley Knows Best" show, Todd Chrisley and his wife, Julie Chrisley, were arrested after being accused of tax evasion between 2008 and 2016, totaling $2 million. The couple initially pleaded not guilty to tax evasion and other federal charges in their first court appearance, according to FOX News. However, the couple came to a settlement in which they agreed to pay $77,000 they owed in state taxes between 2008 and 2016.
The couple later sued the Georgia Department of Revenue's director, alleging he used their estranged daughter to disclose the couple's finances.
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Todd and Julie Chrisley
DRITA D'AVANZO
"Mob Wives" star Drita D'Avanzo was arrested in 2019 alongside her husband, Lee D'Avanzo, after a police raid on their home, in which handguns, a pound of marijuana and large amounts of hydrocodone and Xanax pills were allegedly seized. The couple was charged with several counts of gun and drug possession, according toThe New York Times. However, in February 2020, the charges related to the raid were dropped for the reality TV star, though the charges were kept against her husband.
Drita D'Avanzo
CHIKEZIE EZE
Former "American Idol" contestant, Chikezie Eze, was arrested for felony identity theft at a Neiman Marcus store on Feb. 25, 2010. As reported by MTV, Eze was caught by a retail employee after the "Idol" star attempted to use "fraudulent means" to pay for $1,200 cologne. Eze was promptly arrested by Beverly Hills police officers who held him on a $50,000 bond, though he was released the following morning. In August 2010, a court sentenced Eze to three years of probation for the incident.
MICHAEL SKUPIN
The two-time contestant on the hit show "Survivor," Michael Skupin, was convicted on Nov. 18, 2016, on four of six counts of possession of child pornography. In addition, he received larceny charges for his Ponzi-style scheme, "Pay It Forward." A court sentenced the reality TV star to four years of probation on the larceny and child pornography charges plus $31,800 in restitution, as reported byThe Detroit News. In addition, he received eight days in jail, had to register as a sex offender, participate in alcohol and drug treatment plans and use the internet solely for work purposes.
RENEE ALWAYS
Renee Always, the former finalist on the hit 2000s show "America's Next Top Model," was arrested for the second time in September 2019 and accused of domestic violence. In Palm Springs, California, police arrested the model on charges relating to assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of infliction of corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, parole violation. For an earlier felony conviction, according toTMZ. In 2018, Renee was released after serving five years of a 12-year prison sentence in connection to a stand-off with police.
JENNIFER SHAR
"Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" Jennifer Shar was charged by federal prosecutors in connection to a telemarketing scam, FrontPageDetectives previously reported. Officials say the scam included fraud and money laundering.
She now faces up to 50 years in prison.
The charges against Shar are pending and her arrest has been a focus on the most recent season of the reality show.
Source: NBC