Slew into Summertime!
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How-do-you-do cats! Football insaneness is over for now. We 'll get back into that following yr!!! Examinations are weaving downward ( completing upwards - select your phrasal verb! ) and it Holds halted raining! Life is rather good thing, is n't it!!! ( observe the negative ticket query! ) I but desired to compose you a speedy note to state you that it holds rattlingly been a pleasance being your prof this twelvemonth. I believe we 've founded some `` best patterns '', holded some merriment and acquired quite an flock! After I complete my intense workload in July, I 'll take August to reexamine my instruction stuff, update and alter some things, and essay to meliorate for following yr. Yep - already considering about following twelvemonth!!! Heh heh.
Meanwhile, I will see some of you for viva voce this month, but I wish ALL OF YOU a FANTASTIC Summertime of work and merriment and survey and friends and home ( and your dog or cat if you hold one! ). Thanks for a platonic year!
Pete Cullen


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The media 's Obama infatuation is unreassuring '
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The Pew Research Center's project for excellence in journalism
shows that US president Barack Obama
holds haved more positive media coverage ( 42 per cent ) in his first months in office, to a higher degree either William jefferson clinton
( 27 % ) or Bush
( 22 % ).



Robert Joule Samuelson
in Newsweek


`` The Obama infatuation is a great unreported tale of our clip. The presson domestic, if not foreign, policyhas so far largely renounced its part as questioning percipient.


`` The infatuation things because Obama 's aspirations are so heroic.... Journalists look to take his dicta at face value even when many are double-tongued.


`` The cause of this acquiescence is n't clear. The insistency sometimes follows poll; popular presidents get good coverage, and Obama is staggeringly popular.... Possibly the preoccupation with the present depression holds deviated attending from the long-run entailments of other policies.


`` But the deeper account may be equally straightforward as this: Most journalists like Obama; they admire his dictation of language; he Holds a alleviation after Shrub; they hold with his schedule ( so it ne'er happens to them to oppugn basic premises ); and they make n't desire to see the first Black american president fail. ''



Read the full article
The Obama infatuation


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TDC # 52 Beaches and Pick!
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Welcome to episode 52! This hebdomad, we discourse Cat # 2 's recent visit to Beaches and Cream
with Hint and me old(e) china plate
, Karenic from Ye Olde England-e.


CM Brad so totally rocks! Dude!

Centimeter Brad so entirely rocks! Dude!



Download the episode here
, or subscribe via iTunes
or RSS





We discourse Magic Meets
, last yr 's side trip to Hershey's Chocolate World
( the moo-cows are Olympia, Gabby and Harmoniousness - and thankfully NOT Crispy ) Shockingly, we stray a little off theme and discourse some favorite childhood dainties!


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<p> Welcome to episode 52! This hebdomad, we discourse Cat # 2 's recent visit to <a href='http://www.mouseextra.com/2007/02/19/disney-dining-review-the-beach-clubs-beaches-and-cream/'>Beaches and Cream </a>
with Hint and <a href='http://www.thecockney.btinternet.co.uk/cockney.htm'>me old(e) china plate</a>
, Karenic from Ye Olde England-e. </p>
<div style='width: 310px'><img width='300' alt='CM Brad so totally rocks! Dude!' src='http://thosedarncats.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/brad.jpg?w=300h=225' title='brad' height='225'><p> Centimeter Brad so entirely rocks! Dude! </p>
</div>
<p> Download the episode <a href='http://media.libsyn.com/media/tdc/TDC52_BeachesCream_05132009.mp3'>here</a>
, or subscribe via <a href='http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=279803856'>iTunes</a>
or <a href='http://tdc.libsyn.com/rss'>RSS</a>
</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><a href='http://thosedarncats.net/2009/05/12/tdc-52-beaches-and-cream/'><img alt='' src='http://img.youtube.com/vi/GtpMLN7B2hk/2.jpg'></a>
</span>
</p>
<p> We discourse <a href='http://www.magicmeets.com/'>Magic Meets</a>
, last yr 's side trip to <a href='http://thosedarncats.net/2008/08/12/tdc14-disney-fication/'>Hershey's Chocolate World </a>
( the moo-cows are Olympia, Gabby and Harmoniousness - and thankfully NOT Crispy ) Shockingly, we stray a little off theme and discourse some favorite childhood dainties! </p>
<div style='width: 114px'><a href='http://www.itsiticecream.com/'><img width='104' alt='yummy! yummy! yummy! yummy!' src='http://thosedarncats.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/its-it1.gif?w=104h=113' title='it's it' height='113'></a>
<p> yummy! yummy! yummy! yummy! </p>
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<div><div style='width: 114px'><a href='http://www.redvines.com/'><img width='104' alt='crazy delicious!' src='http://thosedarncats.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/redvines.jpg?w=104h=104' title='redvines' height='104'></a>
<p> unbalanced delightful! </p>
</div>
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<div style='width: 105px'><img width='95' alt='YUCK!!' src='http://thosedarncats.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cs.jpg?w=95h=120' title='cs' height='120'><p> YUCK!! </p>
</div>
<p> We so hear a trifle `` vintage '' Disneyland sound, including what is named as `` Disneyland 's Blast from the Yesteryear ' '' parade. This is what I chance of agreing name and date on youtube: </p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><a href='http://thosedarncats.net/2009/05/12/tdc-52-beaches-and-cream/'><img alt='' src='http://img.youtube.com/vi/EHjnxH1yuN0/2.jpg'></a>
</span>
</p>
<p> This picture, clearly not the parade in its integrality, incorporates really small of the sound in the `` functionary '' entering we 've included on this hebdomad 's show. The sound is fascinating as I am assay to envisage what characters are neutralizing some of these scenes. The picture appears to demonstrate some of those charactersI envisaged on floats making Numbers lining before and after floats ( note to Decilitre parade developers: place the CHARACTERS on the floats, not the uncanny people dressed upwardly like tone. hello?? ). Anyhow, who cognise there were Disney parades featuring the Three Flunkies? </p>
<p> Likewise, <a href='http://allaboutthemouse.com/'>The Disney Feud </a>
begins upward this hebdomad - check out the Cats along with the Thingumajig and <a href='http://studioscentral.com/'>Mr. Matthew Hochberg </a>
following hebdomad! And you can happen that <a href='http://www.disneydudes.com/Home'>Disney Dudes show here</a>
</p>
<p> So, come on on now! </p>
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Go an Acumen Fund Cuss
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Today, the application went live
for the family of 2011 Acumen Fund Fellows. If you cognise olympian someones from around the universe who should be portion of the 2010-2011 category, delight promote them to utilise.


Acumen Fund Fellows are immature people ( typically 25-40 geezerhood old, but anything travels ) who desire to get their mitts grime working alongside some of the most dedicated, Laputan enterprisers who are struggling impoverishment in Bharat, Pakistan and Eastward Africa. In the first twelvemonth of the plan, to a higher degree 600 people from 59 people utilise.


When I sit with these Lads - yesteryear, nowadays, future - I 'm consistently humbled by their experiences, humbleness, passionateness, and practical acquirements in doing modification. These are people who could be making anything with their lives, and who take to make this. Jawad Aslam is one of the alumni of the Fellows Programme, and he holds now commited his life to making low-income lodging in Pakistan. Here's his story
And the class of 2009-2010 Fellows
simply gotten in New York to get their annual Family.


Applications for the family of 2011 will be accepted online
until 11: 59pm EST on Thursday, November 5, 2009
Detailed info about the plan and application procedure can be chance on the Acumen Fund website


If you desire to utilize, or cognize individual who should utilise, direct them this link


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Its getting difficult to pay home mortgage every month. What are some smart things I can do?
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155k house. I have a 30 year, 1500/month. i have been paying for 9 years now.
I need some good answers. Foreclosure or anything in that direction is not an option. Please help.


If you are thinking about a reverse mortgage option, it is important to make a research not only into advantages of it, but also reverse mortgage pitfalls.


Pavement Stencil, SoHo
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Sidewalk Stencil, Soho
, originally uploaded by DRheins

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I wish I could escape/
leave it all behind/
attend an islandsomewhere./
Oh yeah, I Get on one already.


Damon. Damon.


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To Halt the Shudders
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I am typewriting, that is all I can have a go at it looks to hold my paws from agitating. Today is not a good-by for my anxiousness. Right now Lil ' Boy get on a school field trip. At the community pool. And I am not there. Make you cognize what is running through my nous right now? It is taking every ounce of energy not to get in the automobile and thrust there and draw him out of the H2O. Because I am not there to hold him safe. I rely others then again again I rattlingly make n't rely them, with my boy, in a pool, where I am not. And I sit here considering, praying, desiring that he is o.k..


I cognise in my bosom when I pick him upwards today he will be smiling and happy. Saying me about the great clip he holded. I will smile back and tell `` I cognized you would. '' I wo n't say him I was worried and affrighted and agitating. Mayhap he will read it in my eyes because he can make that. He holds this eldritch ability to read people 's psyches. He can hear shouting from a mi offly. He sees people 's hurting and he responds to that. He wo n't state he knows- but he will catch my mitt or give me a clinch. Because he cognizes that is what I involve. I detest that he sees fright. I duplicate hatred that he sees my fearfulnesses.


after blooming day, after the rainfall
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bloom day May09-rain-3604 Yesterday some whopper storms came through in the afternoon. They may hold destruct some seedlings and yet-to-sprout pots of seeds I misguidedly left sitting unfastened in the Sun while we left on an errand ( a bad word or two were verbalize ), but the flowers relished the soakage.


our fake little woodland--hyacinths and a columbine in bud

our bogus small forest -- jacinths and a aquilege in bud



Dicentra with Forget-me-nots

Dicentra with Forget-me-nots



Anemone sylvestris with a native phlox

Snowdrop windflower with a indigene phlox



Foam flower

Froth flower



busted tulip

broken tulip



ah, little cranesbills

ah, small cranesbills



potted blooms

potted bloomings



so-called Blue Parrot Tulips looking mauve to me

supposed Blueness Parrot Tulips looking mauve to me



theyre not happy when it rains

they 're not happy when it rains



now thats blue--the overwintered pansies

now that Holds bluish -- the overwintered pansies



a dash of orange stonecrop

a panache of orange stonecrop



Allium rosenbachianum overlooking the ditch

Allium rosenbachianum overlooking the ditch



dont forget the lilacs out the upstairs window

make n't bury the lilacs out the upstairs window



Thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens
for hosting blooming day.


The Breakage Point
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I conceive I hold eventually replied the antique inquiry: How long can the hubby of an anticipant wife maintain his saneness? The reply would be seven and a half months.


Chris is revolting against my gestation. Its not a job with me or with the Bean, I consider he holds only eventually holded his bound of conveying, caring, and understanding. I 've discovered that there hold been less pes hitches in the past duet hebdomads. And where he utilise to insert me in bed nightly, assisting me strategically lay each of my 1, 000 pillows, he now only jostles the pillows here and there, flips a buss in my way, and heads downstairs to the video.


I make n't fault him for this. Not in the least. Just in case you holded n't reckoned, I am not exactly the strong and still type. I 'm more the cast myself on the flooring, holloing `` Wherefore DOES God Hatred ME '' type. Chris holds posed upwards with his just sum of plaining and groaning and squalling, so I 'm not surprised that he holds hit his breakage point. I 'm simply surprised at what it was the forced him over the border.


This morn I woke upward before than him, like e'er. I took the dogs downstairs, like e'er. I fed them and holded a bowl of cereal myself, like e'er. And so I settled inwards with a holy scripture, like e'er.


Enter Chris.


About an hr after Chris wakes upwardly and comes downstairs, seemlingly happy. Until he moves into the kitchen. And we are out of breadstuff. And I considered the existence was attending cease.


`` Where Holds the breadstuff?!?!?! '' he madly shouted.


`` I believe we 're out, '' I answered, deflected by my book.


`` WHAT??!?!! '' he squeaked. `` HOW COULD WE Beryllium OUT OF Breadstuff? HOW Americium I Departure TO HAVE MY 2 SLICES OF PEANUT BUTTER TOAST? YOU Ca N'T Brand TOAST WITHOUT Breadstuff! WHERE Holds THE Breadstuff? WHAT Am I Departure TO Bash? ''


Hearing the craze in his voice, I proposed that he throw on some shoes and run upwards to the filling station to get a loaf to do his darling peanut butter toast. To which he snarled back, `` You move get it! '' ( Note: He told this laughingly, but he was 100 % serious. )


Now, I love Chris, but I 'm not about to drag my pregnant, pyjama 'd belly up to the petrol station for him when he is absolutely capable of moving himself. If he were impaired - state unconscious or trapped under a big bookshelf - I may holded offered my assist. But this was not the example.


`` I would sleep with for you! '' he insisted. `` Locomote get me bread! ''


`` No! '' I holloed.


`` Why not?!?! '' he demanded.


And so I expressed the line that forced him over the border. `` Because I 'm pregnant! ''


`` You 're not THAT
pregnant! '' he reacted. `` Locomote get me bread! ''


At this point, I looked downwardly at the book I was maintaining. It is a book on the No-Cry Method of parenting, which instructs you different shipways to console a insistent babe. Chris was sitting following to me on the sofa - whining uncontrollably for no plain ground and maked n't appear to be able to lull himself. All symptoms of gripes.


So, I calmly and confidently thin over and take him in my munitions, unwaveringly yet gently, as the book instructs. And I get to shake him to and fro in a repetitive fashion which imitates the lulls of the uterus. And lastly, I begin doing `` swoshing '' noises.


And wonderment of all wonderments, he halts groaning! But like the infant book stated he would!


So, we sit there for a min shaking backward and forward so from someplace within my munitions, I hear him whimper quietly, `` Please travel get me bread. ''


I cognized nurturing books were a smut of dirt.


Old playthings re-discovered
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In another lifetime, before I moved into Sec Life, I applied to love tinkering about with After Effects. When Xia doed me make that vast computer environment killing last Autumn, I detected all my old video files and holded quite an chortle. But likewise sometimes I was struck. I hold holded no didactics in film or picture, ca n't even hit a nice photo - not to mention a travelling image - but someways, on rare junctures I look to hold maked OK.


When I encountered out that they holded broadened their deadline, I took that as an prognostications and determined to subject `` body parts '' to Ars Electronica this twelvemonth. Not that I stand a snowball 's opportunity in hellhole, given how improbably selective they are but what the heck, I 'm attending make so anyhow! So, portion of the application involves a picture, it is as a matter of fact compulsory. And that doed me locomote into SL and pipped a machinima of `` body parts ''. First attempt ever and I holded a rattlingly difficult clip have sex.


Then again once I holded the whole kit and caboodle in After Effects I commenced really basking myself. Course, my acquisitions hold turned slightly rusty and After Effects holds certainly advanced from back when I last accessed it, but stillly, I conceive that I will be making more of this. One motivator is besides vimeo
and that HD thingy which they hold locomoting on over there. It makes take a pro story but I can belike swing to it. Simply desire to get a couple of more under my belt before I travel the redundant mi, but I am sure that finally I will make so.


Another thing I loved to make, before my SL years left me virtually no clip for any price but moving in-world and the obligatory photoshop material, was doing music. I holded this terrific ocular mark author named Easy Beat
, which is sadly Mackintosh but ( yup, holded a Mack until somely 4 geezerhood ago, so ditched it. I was merely utilise it for that one app, the last 3 or 4 geezerhood it was about ). But I likewise holded quite an few nice Microcomputer music packages and again, sometimes I would surprise myself with the result. And not merely squeezed upwardly sound ( which I too loved making btw ) but I even `` indited '' tallied pieces. Make n't enquire me how, I simply someway maked. I would `` paint '' the scores/chords onto this interface then go them upwards and downwardly and listen then tweak some more. Exhausted years and hebdomads with this - nighly lost a airplane once! And I hold determined that I will be making some more of that besides. Bandwidth gives me the urge to make so. In the olden years no one but me got to see or hear any of this.


So here it is folks: My really first SL machinima:






Note:
For want of a `` domestic partner '' who would hold done `` body parts '' verily meaningful Grapho and I are the ones in that picture. So, it is eldritch... ME and Maine And no, I am not verily all that self-loving. I rattlingly holded no selection: Like I stated, the picture shoulded be wreak the entry. I was certainly not attending get on the pose balls with all and sundry: It need to be person special - not necessarily a lover but definitely person finis. So, I holded no option but to lie with by myself.


ME, myselfe and I...


Emptors Manoeuvre
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Choosing and Erosion Cufflinks

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Go back to the 17th century, turnup links were forged when manpowers experienced the demand to utilise an elegant accoutrement with their shirts alternatively of the traditional threads or neckties in order to maintain their cuffs together. The first turnup links were concatenations attached to the terminal of a gold or Ag button that was so infixed through the holes of the turnup in order to hold the two sides together.


Over clip, the turnup nexus thought was developed and shone; going the sophisticated shirt accoutrement we see today; an indispensable constituent of a man 's closet, especially when wearing a tux or an eve suit.


Workforce shortly realised that this flyspeck embroidery could get a grade of their position also as their personal mode, and they begun to add rare rocks, valuable metals, and ok cloths; the turnup nexus went the new hallmark for success, way and powerfulness.


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The technological revolution of Victorian times conducted to mass production and relinquished these elegant accouterments from the nobility, conveying them into the kingdom of ordinary man Yet, there Holds something really covetable about hand-crafted cufflinks incrust with rare and valuable rocks.


At their most simple, cufflinks are a cosmetic fastener for handses 's shirts but, really, they add upwardly to much to a higher degree that. Cufflinks are a lilliputian embroidery that exudate category and edification and say the existence you care about designing and quality of point.


There are a whole host of cufflink manners to take from, so there is without doubt you 'll be able to bump something that suits your press and your personal fashion. Here are some breaths for selecting and wearing this discreet grade of edification.


  1. Choose cufflinks that reflect your ain individualism, make n't purchase a brace because your honcho or soul else you admire holds some similar.

  2. Consider about the colors you habitually wear; russets, gold and brownness, the authoritative autumnal colors, look good with yellowish gold and bronze cufflinks. Ignitor, springtime and summertime colors, such as light-blue and greens move best with Ag, white gold, or Pt.

  3. Consider about where and when the cufflinks will be worn: for special events and formal junctures, take classical modes; these are the events when you can confidently wear our diamond cufflinks.


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Despite heralding from the Seventeenth century, cufflinks are even as relevant today and are ofttimes equated with wealthiness and success. Quality turnup links should organize an built-in component of every professional 's day-by-day wear, there is no ground why you should n't wear diamonds to work, but maintain them discreet. Salvage the optic bulging material for the even.


Here at Roca London, we experience so strongly about the sartorial elegance of cufflinks that we would travel so far as to advocate you take the cufflinks and so select the shirt to agree.


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