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Everyone who knows me knows that I wear heels 90% of the time, that I only wear flip flops at the beach, and I rarely go with out a pedicure… case in point, reasons to wear strappy sandals. My problem is that I love tennis shoes; sometimes I wish I was a boy just so I could buy tons and tons of limited edition sneakers… alas.
Above are some of my current favorites… that I would buy IF I actually wore any of the sneakers that I buy. Ha. Top to bottom: Ash, Volley & Adidas.
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"I can literally feel the Holy Spirit right now…"
Those were the words my roommate, Emily, said to me last night as we relaxed in her bed, watching a video of Cynthia Erivo sing "I'm Here" from The Color Purple on The Late Show. As Cynthia lets the notes leave her body, she shares a part of herself. To hear (and watch) this performance feels like a true gift. As my roommate and I lay horizontal in her bed, smiles crept across our faces and breath returned to our lungs. I looked over to Emily and said, "Isn't she amazing? Wasn't that so good?!" She simply nodded, nearly having tears in her eyes. I crawled off the bed, knelt down and with eyes closed said "Ugh! I just…I will say this over and over again until he returns, but I'm just so thankful that God created music. He didn't have to. It's for our joy! And the fact that Zephaniah says that he sings over us?! I can't. I really can't."
If you've ever hung out with me in person while music was playing, then you've heard me say similar sentiments before. You've seen my body contort or simply go limp because of particular notes and lyrics in songs. You've heard me scream over an unexpected harmony. You've seen me immediately get up and dance because the bridge of a song is just so catchy. You've seen close my eyes and lip sync the mess out of "Big Girl's Don't Cry (Personal)." I can't help it.
There is something about the experience of listening to music that is truly euphoric. In the same way that poetic diction enhances a story, the notes on the bass and treble clef scales enhance the way we see the world. Music has a way of taking an ordinary sunny day and making it feel like it's the best day you've lived so far. It also has a way of making a break-up feel like you're drowning in the flood while your ex is sailing away on The Ark. How can it do both?! Maybe even in the same day! Music changes the way we watch movies, get through the work day, recover from trauma, study for finals, pick out an outfit, take a road trip…
As Christians, I think music also changes the way we understand the person and character of Jesus. Psalm 51:8 says this, "Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice." To give some context, this verse comes in the middle of David's lamenting and repenting after having been exposed in raping Bathsheba. I don't know about you, but the last thing I want to do after having been exposed in my sin is to beg God for my broken bones to make noise. But he's a God who will always woo us back. As his children, there's a melody that's just for us.
In re-reading verse 8 this week I was struck with the auditory language–hear and rejoice. I started thinking, what exactly does joy and gladness sound like? If broken bones could literally rejoice, what would they scream? I'm no theologian, but I'd like to believe that joy and gladness sound a lot like singing and rejoicing bones sound symphonic. I imagine the harmony of salvation and forgiveness is like that one time Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson sang together on Soul Train.
How kind is it of the Lord to let music be a means to point us back to him. He could call us to himself or back to himself in so many other ways, ways that are far less enjoyable. But God! Throughout Scripture the Lord calls his people to sing together, to shout, to dance, to play the harp, to blow the horn, to beat the drum, to praise the name of Jesus for all that he's done. The King gets all the glory and we get drenched in joy.
Gosh. I'm so thankful for music. I'm thankful for the ways it allows me to know Jesus better. I'm thankful for the ways it's fostered beautiful relationships with friends (and strangers!). I'm thankful that it lets me feel seen. I'm thankful it consistently moves me to tears. I'm thankful that sometimes it communicates what "just words" can't. I'm thankful that with music,"the LORD [my] God…will rejoice over [me] with gladness…he will exult over [me] with loud singing" (Zephaniah 3:17).
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Dance, Gladness, Harmony, joy, Music, Sing, Thankful
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December 18, 2013 the Friends stuff., the Makeup stuff.
Makeup for the traveler's soul. Or, my beautiful friend Bethany.
I've had the privilege of meeting some extremely talented, inspiring, and creative girls over the past couple years. I've also managed to make friends with more than a few ladies that have the most bold sense of adventure and calling in their lives. There's a running joke between those who know me that if I meet a girl that I click with, that means she's going to leave the country in less than a year (whether she knows it or not). I'm serious. The past few new girlfriends I've made have left for Germany, Japan, South Korea, Uganda, and even just a different states, all within a year or so of becoming closer. Some have returned (and then relocated again!), and others have remained at their new homes. But what all of these ladies seem to have in common is a sense of righteous restlessness; the need to meet people, truly use their five senses, and do good things. I'm in great company when around my friends, and Bethany just might be one of the most inspiring of them all.
At the core of Bethany's heart is a love and need for adventure. There's a thirst there that I both admire and envy; I just love how desperately she wants to see everything. It's moving, and it's taken her to places like Iceland, South Korea, and Turkey. The following is a beautiful video done for her photography website, and I can't explain how perfectly it captures her essence. Just these two brief minutes left me smiling and whispering saying aloud, "Yep, that's her". Insane props to Two Spoons Productions for seeing the details of a person, and the intricacies of a spirit. That takes more than camera skill. And that whole Celine Dion thing is no joke.
I had the pleasure of doing Bethany's makeup for this video, and my main focus was her eyes. I used Chanel's Illusion D'Ombre cream eyeshadow in Illusoire, and a more alluring pair of false lashes ensured you wouldn't miss them. Some light contouring with MAC powder blush in Buff, and some highlighting with my NARS cream shadow in Thebes kept things light but defined. Bethany uses MAC's Mineralize Moisture SPF 15 foundation, and I topped it all off with a dusting of Hourglass's Ambient Lighting Powder in Mood Light. We chose a light pink lip gloss and I left her with a Revlon Super Lustrous Lipgloss in Rosy Future to keep for touch-ups. Bethany had originally asked me to do her hair as well, but as soon as she took it out of the soft bun it had been in, I realized the texture was perfect. There was no need to do anything to it, and so I didn't.
Video credit to Two Spoons Productions. Photo credit to Bethany Carlson Photography.
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I have decided to add a new section to my blog. I'm calling it "Conversations from the Minivan."
Like most "modern" families, we spend a lot of time in our minivan traveling between schools, extracurriculars, and home. Sometimes, the minivan becomes the place where deep, meaningful conversations happen. Sometimes it is a place where downright hysterical conversations are overheard - like this one. Other times, it is a place where I am bombarded with question after question after question. That's what happened tonight on our way home from children's choirs and dinner at church.
1) How old do you have to be to drive a motorcycle?? Do you have to have a special kind of driver's license??
2) Can black people and white people get married to each other?
3) Why do some kids have to wear uniforms to school?
4) Will we be in the same choir next year? What about the next year?? The year after that??
5) Who invented Twinkle Toes shoes? When can we get some?
6) (Emily screaming and crying in the background) Mom, do you think moments like this will scar me??
I swear I did NOT make up that last one!! She actually said that!!
O.K. I'm going to bed now - I have a headache!
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Q: Why Imageview always stretched show image stretched iOS? I am using an imageView and it contains different images, but some images are stretched. How do I display the images without any stretch? I have set the contentMode to aspect fit. However, the images are not in the size of the imageView, and it is in different sizes. I want to show the images as the same size without stretching.
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A: If you want to display each image without stretching and of same size, than set contentMode property of UIImageView's instance to UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill. For instance-
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Our current President has defined his core economic tenets on the assertion of fairness, or to be more accurate, the unfairness of our economic system. Equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity is the root principle. A forced re-distribution of wealth will act as an equalizer for the past sins of Capitalism.
The administration, the Congressional majority, and an agreeable media are systematically dismantling the free-market mechanisms and installing a centrally regulated, command economy all for the sake of fairness. Evidence over the last fifteen months is overwhelming: Government takeovers of major industries and individual companies, massive ramp-up of government regulations on industry, tax changes to force re-distribution of wealth, and lectures on behavior by our Grand Arbiter of Fairness, the President. The consequences on all 330 million Americans are enormous.
But where is the clear, unemotional evidence of either how bad it was under capitalism or how many more people will benefit under the new system? What is the alternative system? Where is it working today? All we have seen are a string of anecdotes and a parade of victims. Wall street bonuses are bad, out-of-work people are victims, millionaires don't deserve their wealth, change will make it better.
Facts are rarely useful in debates with ideologues and religious zealots. Yet we cannot allow partisans to make unchallenged, generalized claims about the free-market system with such consequential implications. Using comparative data over the long-term, we can find objective conclusions on the comparison of free-market capitalism to more regulated economies. The last twenty-five years, virtually a generational view on economies, gives us a broad perspective of market performance during a relatively stable period.
Let's compare countries side-by-side, answer claims of economic unfairness with facts, and decide which economy we would like for our children.
Data source: The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a 30 country member group1 that provides unbiased, consistent economic data comparisons. Please note: For purposes of balance, comparisons are made of the U.S. economy compared to the top five western democratic economies, and the OECD average where data was available. 1987 through 2007 were selected only for completeness of data.
Our economy has been weak for the last decade. Our problems have only been covered up by deficit spending and cheap credit.
The U.S. has out-performed all economies over a 20 year period, out producing goods and services, worker for worker. In terms of annual growth rates, our free-market system has more extreme highs and lows but has climbed out of recessions faster and provided more sustained growth periods.
Rising tides lift all boats. Economic growth of goods and services means more jobs, higher wages, and more opportunities for all citizens.
Yes, but the U.S. uses more than its fair share of resources. Our rampant consumerism is unsustainable.
It is not a zero-sum game. If the U.S. produces less, Canada and Indonesia do not automatically get more. More importantly, our economic growth benefits workers across the world. Our economic engine creates opportunities for progress for individuals in poor countries and developed countries, alike.
We continue to ship jobs over seas to China. The economy is not producing new jobs. There are no new opportunities for young people coming out of school. The government needs to create jobs opportunities, private industry isn't getting it done.
For a generation, we have had the lowest unemployment rates of any developed country other than Japan. (Note, every 1% of U.S. unemployment equals approximately 1.5 million workers.) Free-market capitalism is more dynamic. Industries and job opportunities change more frequently forcing people to change, but the jobs are there.
France and Germany have been experiencing our current "high unemployment" levels since 2003. Germany has approximately 2.5 million permanently unemployed workers on the federal "dole", not counted in the numbers. That is out of a total population of 82 million people.
Our unemployment may be lower than other countries, but the quality of jobs created is decreasing, wages are lower, factory jobs are being replaced with fast food jobs. We are failing to help workers train and adapt to new jobs, they are falling behind other countries. Corporations retain larger profits while the workers lose salaries and benefits.
We have maintained the highest hourly wage rates, and it continues to increase not decrease. Over most of the last decade, the U.S. has maintained the highest median incomes in the developed world. Again, job types are constantly changing but overall the wages are increasing.
Our workers are also very productive compared to other developed countries averaging 2.2% labor productivity growth per year over the last twenty years and out-growing other developed western countries, 8 out of the last 10 years.
The tax structure must change. The government must raise taxes to provide the programs for job creation and support those that are out of work and in need of benefits.
Taxes simply take money out of the market, consuming economic value. Governments taking money away from the wage earner hurts everyone in the economic food chain and reduces the worker's lifestyle. Could there be a clearer connection between higher growth, growing wages, lower unemployment, and better productivity vs. punishing tax rates than the results of the last twenty years?
Virtually every individual and family experiences economic hardships over a lifetime – job losses, companies going out of business, bad luck, loss of a primary wage earner, bad financial decisions, starting over. Every family experiences such bad times. But that's not symptomatic of the economic system, that's called life.
There is no perfect system. People get left behind. Many will earn more than you will. We have been spoiled by a generation of economic success. Prosperity allows us the intellectual leisure to imagine a perfect world where no-one is stressed and everyone succeeds. Our government is currently run by self-proclaimed intellectuals who foolishly believe they can actively manage the incredible complexities of our economic system. While they experiment, all citizens pay the price of lost opportunity and individual pain.
Yet, it is indisputable that sustained economic growth and prosperity benefits all citizens. Free-market capitalism has proven to help the most people achieve personal fulfillment, creates the most opportunities, hires the most people, and provides the economic engine for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
1 http://www.oecd.org The 30 member countries of OECD are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
This entry was crafted by, David Nathaniel, a friend of 'dadofmultiples'. David holds a masters degree in Business from The Ohio State University. He has spent the last twenty years in international business.


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World CupEngland Women: Laura Hemp believes we have yet to see her best
England Women: Laura Hemp believes we have yet to see her best
England Women boss Laura Hemp believes that her best is yet to come as the team prepares for their quarter-final against Spain at Euro 2022. She has started every game in the tournament so far and scored her first goal in the 8-0 win over Norway. England Women are based in the Lensbury resort in London and are enjoying the downtime when there is no training.
"It takes time. It's my first major tournament with England, in front of so many fans and it's nerve-wracking, I'm not going to lie. It's just being consistent as well, it's something I'm striving towards," England Women forward Laura Hemp said. "Personally, I don't think you've seen the best yet, it takes time and it will take a while. I'm still learning and I need to remember that I'm still so young. I'm taking it all in my stride. I've got a great group around me who are supporting me and are doing amazing as well. It's important that we continue this run, everyone has taken confidence from the recent games and it's important that we take that into the quarter-finals."
"I'm so lucky to be given an opportunity to play a massive role in recent games. I'm just thankful to be part of this fantastic squad," she added. "We've got such an amazing depth as well, anyone can come on and change a game. You've seen that in recent games as well… and it's important we carry that on. I'm enjoying being here and love playing in such big games and long may that continue."
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SF Sups pass resolution supporting 'Occupy SF'
Tuesday evening the Board of Supervisors passed a non-binding resolution, authored by Supervisor John Avalos, by a vote of 8-3. It supports the occupation and also calls for the city not to use force to disperse the occupiers. However, there was another meeting that took place across City Hall that was just as important.
There was a meeting between Mayor Ed Lee and the protesters, union leaders, and clergy that lasted about an hour and a half. Both sides said they were satisfied with the progress that had been made. The mayor said religious leaders are considering supplying food to prevent occupiers from cooking on open flames, a violation of the fire code. Lee also said the costs of cleaning up the camp by public works crews will also be funded privately.
"They have to allow us to clean it up. Labor is indicating that they'll pay for that expense," said Lee.
"Occupy SF" member Carl Berger hopes the ongoing dialogue will prevent the use of force by police. He said it was important to prevent what happened two weeks ago when police came and removed tents, tarps and personal possessions.
"There is a general good feeling that this will be able to continue and were working with each other to make sure that happens," said Berger.
There was one significant concession by protesters.
"They were occupying the actual bocce courts that we spent monies on. By this weekend they moved off that," said Lee.
Protesters have pledged to extend their occupation by taking over the plaza in front of City Hall before the elections. The growing encampment may influence the outcome of the mayoral elections. Veteran political observer Alex Clemens says candidates have to be extremely careful with the position they take.
"There's always a danger when a local elected official decides they going to manage a national issue. Pandora's box comes into play and the law of unintended consequences is frequently invoked," said Clemens.
Berger is also an EMT who treated a woman who came to the camp's first aid station Monday night with stab wounds. He says the woman told him she received those stab wounds, not in the camp, but in the Tenderloin. The woman sought help at Occupy SF knowing the first aid station was there. More on that story here: Woman seeks help at Occupy SF encampment after stabbing
Another footnote: it looks like from now on these meetings with city agencies will be conducted with smaller groups, committees if you will, formed by the protesters. As long as their talking, the city has promised there will be no force.


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Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn
Wendy W. Fairey
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Wendy Fairey grew up among books. As the shy and studious daughter of famed Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham—F. Scott Fitzgerald's lover during the last years of his life—she began as a child reading her way through the library Fitzgerald had assembled for her mother and escaped into the landscape of classic English novels. Their protagonists became her intimates, starting with David Copperfield, whose sensibility and aspirations seemed so akin to her own. She felt as plain as Jane Eyre but craved the panache of Becky Sharp. English novels squired her to adulthood, and Bookmarked is a memoir of that journey.
In a series of brilliant chapters that blend the genres of personal memoir and literary criticism, we follow Fairey, refracted through her reading, as student, wife, professor, mother, grandmother, and happily remarried writer. E. M. Forster's Howards End helps her cope with a failing marriage; Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Ramsay teaches important lessons about love and memory. Like Eliot's Daniel Deronda, she learns only as an adult of her Jewish heritage (and learns also the identity of her real father, the British philosopher A. J. Ayer). In this intimate and inspiring book, Wendy Fairey shows that her love of reading has been both a source of deep personal pleasure and key to living a fulfilling and richly self-examined life.
Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Wendy W. Fairey holds a doctorate from Columbia University and teaches English literature and creative writing at Brooklyn College, where she was also formerly a dean. She is the author of One of the Family (Norton 1992), a family memoir, and Full House (SMU Press 2002), a collection of linked stories. Fairey is married to Mary Edith Mardis with whom she lives in Manhattan and East Hampton. She has two children and four grandchildren.
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The Scream Queen | 28 November 2013 | Indie Reviews, Movie Lounge | David Lambert, Indie Film. Coming of Age, Kristen Bell, Martin Starr, The Lifeguard | 0 Comments
Starring: Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, David Lambert
Written & Directed By: Liz W. Garcia
The Lifeguard is a completely heartbreaking and honest indie gem. It attracted me initially as an interesting character examination and something a bit different for Ms. Bell. It exceeded expectations. When embarking on the journey with our characters it held so much more raw emotion and grim and unsettling perspective. You go from witnessing a rough patch to having complete empathy for our characters, feeling it all with them as the anxiety and dread build. It's almost unbearable to see how things pile up and only seem to be getting worse for our already very lost and scared characters. We realize this is life. This isn't just our confused protagonist; it's everyone, young and old. No one really knows what's right, but we all struggle for the answers among the chaos.
Leigh (Bell) has always had everything figured out. She graduated as the valedictorian of her class, thriving and ready to grab hold of the future. Fast forward 10 years she's a journalist in New York City, coming far from her small town upbringing. It all means nothing without her happiness or any sense of understanding. Knowing she needs a change Leigh abandons her job and city life to move back in to her parent's home at 29. She holds on desperately to having the remainder of the year before she's 30. She knows she's backtracking out of confusion, but the thought of simply remaining where she is without trying to find something more is more terrifying than how this might look like failure to others. Her parents aren't thrilled about this, but try to allow her some time.
Leigh reconnects with her old high school friends and even takes on her old high school job as a lifeguard at the local pool. She even befriends some new friends, including 16 year-old Jason (Lambert) and his restless high school buddies. They're very much in the same place she was, desperate to get out of town and start their lives. She wants to guide Jason, to share her melancholy wisdom so he doesn't make the same mistakes she did. Leigh and Jason seem to connect out of sadness and feeling misunderstood. Leigh jokes that she's "sucking up his youth like a vampire". It's partially a chance for her to revisit her youth, but it's cathartic and reflective for them both. They're there for another in a very unexpected way.
This was a fantastic move for Kristen Bell, very different from roles that she's played recently. It's a stripped down, back to basics, painfully emotional role for her. I would argue it's her best since Veronica Mars. There's something about her character and the film that feels very organic and genuine, which makes it that much more painful to watch as it's a fairly bleak tone throughout. It was wonderful to see Martin Starr in such strong, dramatic material. It showed his range and that he can be far more than just the awkward comedic sidekick. This just adds another layer to his potential as an actor.
Bell and Lambert in "The Lifeguard"
Mamie Gummer's performance is full of rich subtly to show us even once you do "figure things out", holding it together can be so very fragile. Her character is trying to play her part and put on a happy face, but it just makes her realize she's just as lost as Leigh. David Lambert (The Fosters) does an incredible job and hits so many crucial elements as Jason. He comes off as the typical rebellious and angry teenager, eager to get away and never look back. Most of us have been there. There is a lot more pain and darkness surrounding his friends and him than it seems at first glance. He shows a certain spark in him with equal amounts of wreckage within. There's an odd energy between Bell and him that almost shouldn't be there, yet has a way of feeling so fitting. He definitely holds his own again Bell, which is pretty impressive among this material.
There has been a lot of criticism on several elements of the film, which is a bit troubling to me. I hope people are able to take the film for what it is and soak it all in. There are complaints that it could have been better as a quirky comedy, but to me that would have been wasting the film's potential. The dramedy is not an easy balance to tackle; often one element is sacrificed for the other. This is a dreary film with little peaks of light throughout. The whole point is that people are struggling to be more carefree and lighthearted and can't seem to find their way back there. It is a bit depressing, but it's refreshing that it is an honest exploration. There is hope and compassion in sight. It just takes a while to sort through everything to get there. Another major complaint among viewers is the taboo relationship between Leigh and Jason. I don't think it is condoning this type of relationship or claiming it's healthy, but it also isn't treating it as black and white. The film recognizes it as something ultimately not right for either of these characters, but it's also necessary in finding themselves again. In some ways, it's a way to reverse the roles. At times Jason shows more maturity than Leigh does and they're indulging in each other as they try to figure out the rest.
The Lifeguard captures fear among nearly every character no matter their age or their stage in life. Everyone is so scared; of life, of failure, of being trapped, of not rising to their own expectations. It's easier to make excuses than to really face it and let yourself be vulnerable. We only have one life to live. To make that a life worth living isn't always an easy task. Actually it hardly ever is with so many burdens and things crippling your carefree joy and ambition. We forget that happiness in life is really the most important thing, more so than our job, income, or others' perceptions of you. That isn't always something easy to come by and everyone has a different route to get there. Sometimes we have to take several steps back before we can move forward and tackle life again. The Lifeguard allows us to take this journey with our troubled, but good natured characters and gets us to step away from the film with some added perspective.
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Tomorrow is bread making day: brioche, "pains au lait" for breakfast, ciabatta and I wanted to be ready to have something to spread on our breads when they came out of the oven. There it is: strawberry-rhubarb jam, blueberry jam and coconut honey (which separates while cooling, but is so good on croissants and such).
The recipe for the Coconut Honey comes from A Spoonful of Sugar and is really easy to make. The difference with hers is that I like to make mine on the stove and let it boil/cook for the same length of time. It is delicious.
Place all the ingredients in a 2.25L bowl (I used a 3L bowl, I'd suggest using this size or larger as it will boil) and stir well. Leave uncovered and cook on full power (750 - 800W depending on your microwave settings) for 18 minutes. Stir four times during this cooking period.
Reduce the power to Medium (550W or as close as possible depending on your settings - I had to use 450W and extended the cooking time) and cook for 25-30 minutes, stirring four times, until the mixture is thick and curdlike.
Allow to cool to lukewarm (it will thicken even more on cooling) and ladle into warmed jars. Top with waxed discs and leave until cold.
Cover with lids or cellophane and label the jars.
Store in a cool, dark place for up to three months. The curd may separate out into two layers on standing, but just stir it around before use and all will be well.
This looks wonderful and so home-made=the best!


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I'm revved up about the start of the NFL season and eager to see how well the rookie quarterbacks, as well as a couple of veterans in new situations, perform.
Of all the positions in the NFL, quarterbacks face the most pressure — whether it's from a blitzing linebacker, fans, or the media. The ability to stay composed while under fire and execute the game plan is crucial to success.
First, let's look at the five rookie quarterbacks who were 2021 first-round draft picks, and what we can expect from them this season.
Trey Lance, San Francisco 49ers
Lance is a talented player and Kyle Shanahan's system is very quarterback friendly. I know, because I played in the same system under Gary Kubiak in Houston. They're going to basically tell you where to throw the football.
You go through your route progressions — one, two, three, four. Based on the preseason games I watched, Lance is very good at that and, interestingly, this is where Jimmy Garoppolo has struggled. Lance quickly decides where to throw and lets it rip with accuracy. I think the 49ers saw this on film and that's why they drafted him. His ability to run the football also gives the 49ers a lot more flexibility in their offense.
In the last preseason game, we saw a platoon system. So, the question for the 49ers is, do we want to hand a very good team over to the kid who is still learning? Or, recognizing that the 49ers play in a tough division, do they stick with Garoppolo as the starter because they can still get a lot of production from him?
It's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out. For now, Shanahan is saying the 49ers will use both quarterbacks.
Rookie Mac Jones displayed an advanced level of play during NFL preseason games. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Mac Jones, New England Patriots
Jones came out of college basically ready to go, and now Bill Belichik believes he's ready to go. It was just a matter of seeing if his skill-set would translate over to the NFL Could he take the field and have the ability to understand the Patriots' system and then process what he's seeing?
He's been great. I never saw a moment during the preseason where he appeared rattled. He was clear about his decisions, his footwork was sharp, and he threw his receivers open, which is an advanced level of quarterback play.
For the Patriots, it means going back to the same offense they used with Tom Brady. I'm not saying Mac is Tom Brady. But he has the kind of charisma and leadership qualities that Tom has.
As weird as it sounds, I don't think Mac and Cam Newton were competing for the same spot. Cam is a completely different player, where's he almost a running back, and Belichik has always had this fascination with dual-threat quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson because the Patriots have struggled against them. Now, the experiment is over.
The NFL is a crazy world. Things happen fast. In Newton's case, you can go from being the MVP six years ago and the Patriots' starter one week ago to not being on the team at all.
Trevor Lawrence, Jacksonville Jaguars
Lawrence showed in the last preseason game against Dallas why he was the first player taken in the draft. His talent level is off the charts, and he's more than ready to start. Coach Urban Meyer recognized that, which is why the Jaguars traded Gardner Minshew to Philadelphia.
The challenge for the organization is putting the right pieces around Lawrence so that he and the team can flourish. The challenge for Meyer is putting together a system that will protect the young quarterback. This will require a commitment to the running game and a quick passing game to take the defensive pressure off. I think Meyer will do that.
When you're the No. 1 overall pick, you know your team's not very good and you'll have an uphill battle. The key for Lawrence will be not picking up any bad habits because his protection breaks down, which it will. I want to see him progress and be ready to take the Jaguars places when they surround him with better players.
Trevor Lawrence is a big talent who faces big challenges in his rookie campaign with the overmatched Jaguars, says David Carr. (AP Photo/Derick Hingle)
Zach Wilson, New York Jets
Wilson was my favorite player coming out of the draft. I loved what I saw on film from him. He made plays with his arm and his legs. The concern is, would this translate to the NFL because he didn't play against the top competition in college. Then we started hearing that he's not having great practices with the Jets. However, I saw an interview in which he explained that his goal in practice was to push the envelope, and really do what veterans do in practice.
That impressed me because not a lot of rookie quarterbacks have that attitude. They want to keep things clean and simple. But Wilson was learning how early he could throw the football — and the limitations of the Jets offense. We saw the results in the preseason games. He played as well, if not better, than any of the rookies, especially on third down and in the red zone.
Just like with Lawrence, Wilson will be as good as the guys around him. There are questions about his size and durability, and those could be a factor. We just won't know until he goes through an NFL season.
On the plus side, the Jets sacked Adam Gase as their coach and hired Robert Sala. I've known Sala since he was basically an intern in Houston, and he'll provide the leadership that's been missing there.
Justin Fields, Chicago Bears
Although veteran Andy Dalton is the Bears' starter, Fields is the team's future. The problem is, everyone knows it, including the fans.
Fans and coaches that may soon be fired are inherently impatient. I would encourage both to "pump their brakes." Having watched the last three weeks as Fields has tried to navigate an ever collapsing pocket and tried to stand in there and make reads and throws has brought back bad feelings.
I remember being a young QB with the Houston Texans and running for my life so often my rookie year that I started to abandon reads and route concepts for my own survival. I was using my legs or in a scramble drill so that we could get some production as an offense.
I also remember having a conversation with a receiver of mine about when we were in the red zone, just dropping back and finding an escape out of the pocket before it broke down. In other words, we would just backyard football it. That actually worked and I threw him several touchdowns doing so, but that is NOT a habit you want to develop.
I would hate to see Fields have to revert to backyard survival tactics. If their offensive line and scheme frankly can't improve, the Bears shouldn't even allow him to step foot on the field. Thankfully, Justin has WAY more athletic ability than I ever had and perhaps he can still manage to keep his eyes down the field, remain a passer, and progress naturally without devastating effects. I'm hopeful he can do so because the reality is, he does give them the best chance to win. You just have to consider how much it will cost in the long term.
If the Chicago Bears rush Justin Fields into the lineup, they could damage his long-term prospects of success. . (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
The Veterans
Matt Stafford, Los Angeles Rams
Full disclosure: I'm a big Matt Stafford fan. When I watched him in Detroit, I saw a guy that did things a lot of other quarterbacks would love to be able to do in terms of talent and toughness. He has all the qualities you want in a great quarterback. But Detroit is a rough place to play. There's been coaching turnover, a failure to sign big-time free agents, and, in general, a culture of failure.
The Rams provide Stafford with the opportunity he's wanted to be in for a long time. He's even said it: "I just want to play in big games, you know? … I want to have opportunities to make big-time plays in the fourth quarter against really good teams, in big moments, rather than a one o'clock game on a Sunday somewhere."
I think what the Rams saw, and it's pretty clear, when you watch Sean McVay's offense, they had one real weakness. They get in obvious dropback pass situations and their route concepts aren't as great as some of the stuff that they do on first and second down. Jared Goff struggled in those situations and they lost games because of that. So, McVeigh looked for a quarterback who can make dynamic plays in tough situations. A QB who can step in the pocket, make the read, and complete the pass downfield.
Talk about being on the hot seat. Stafford is where he wants to be — a team that doesn't have a lot of negatives and has five prime-time games on the schedule, including the opener against the Bears, a team he knows like the back of his hand. And McVay has the quarterback he coveted.
I've spent some time with the Rams and they expect to be in the Super Bowl. They're not shy about saying that. We'll see what happens.
Jameis Winston, New Orleans Saints
This season, the Saints begin life without Drew Brees and his Hall of Fame ability to complete nearly three out of every four passes.
In Sean Payton, they have one of the best offensive minds in the NFL, so the Saints will remain fun to watch. With Winston, they'll be able to open up the offense, which they couldn't do because of Brees' limited arm strength in recent years.
Winston is infamous for his last season in Tampa Bay when he passed for more than 5,000 yards with 33 touchdowns with 30 interceptions. That turnover number, as well as Winston's knucklehead plays in the red zone, reflected poor decision-making. But they also were the result of Bruce Arians' "no-risk it, no-biscuit" coaching philosophy. Winston is the last quarterback you need to encourage to throw the football when nobody's open.
The Saints will pull the reins in and have him making good decisions. I expect that Winston's passing numbers will be way down, but he will have a good year.
But if there is more bad Winston than good Winston, Taysom Hill is pacing the sidelines and ready to go.
David Carr is a former Fresno State quarterback, NFL No. 1 overall draft pick, and Super Bowl champion. Now he's an analyst for the NFL Network and writing a weekly column in collaboration with GV Wire's Bill McEwen. The column is sponsored by Valley Children's Healthcare.
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School board votes to lay off hundreds of teachers
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education voted Thursday night to lay off more than 1,500 district employees, including about 700 teachers.
Board members Kevin Beiser and Scott Barnett voted against the interim budget proposed by Superintendent Bill Kowba, which included the layoffs. Board members Richard Barrera, John Lee Evans and Shelia Jackson voted for it.
"I'm going to be voting for the superintendent's budget, but doing so goes against everything I believe in," Barrera said. "I don't think doing this is right, I don't think doing this is smart."
District staff determined the layoffs would be necessary to resolve an estimated $120 million budget shortfall for the next school year.
In addition to the layoffs, 60 temporary teaching positions would not be continued next year, according to Sandra Huezo, the district's chief human resources officer.
Hundreds of protesters, most wearing red T-shirts that read "Together We Are STRONGER," gathered outside the Eugene Brucker Education Center at 4100 Normal St., where the meeting was held.
They held signs, blew horns and encouraged cars to honk their horns as they passed by. A television was set up outside to broadcast the meeting, so the crowd cheered when public speakers at the meeting made a point with which they agreed.
Before the board's vote, district staff and Kowba outlined their reasons for why the layoffs were necessary.
Because 92 percent of the district's expenses originate with personnel, the cuts are required, Kowba said.
Kowba warned the board that failure to vote for the layoffs would keep the district from earning a "positive" certification from the San Diego County Office of Education.
Without this certification, the district would have trouble borrowing money and would risk greater county controls and possibly state intervention.
"I'm trying with this proposal to avoid our district losing control over our own destiny," Kowba said.
By contract, the district is required to notify teachers of potential layoffs by March 15.
Because the state's budget has not been finalized and a potential June ballot measure could bring more money to public schools, the school district officials will not know how much money it will have to spend for the 2011-2012 fiscal year until the end of June, Kowba said.
This uncertainty could mean some of the instructors who receive layoff notices in the upcoming days will not lose their jobs.
Actual education layoffs are almost always substantially less than the initial amount of layoff notices issued.
Kowba called this a "totally disconnected and dysfunctional time line."
However, he warned that no action from the school board "leaves us with some incredible possibilities."
"I'm not trying to paint doom and gloom, this is just fiscal reality," Kowba said.
If the potential June ballot measure were approved, 342 certificated full-time positions and 18 staff positions would need to be cut, said Sandra Huezo, the district's chief human resources officer.
However, Huezo warned the board that choosing this lesser layoff option would not earn the district a "positive" certification.
The need for this positive certification made the decision to layoff teachers necessary, Barrera said.
"We will surrender our ability to meaningfully participate in the system if we don't take these actions tonight and I can't do that," Barrera said.
However, Barrera said he hoped many of the layoffs would eventually be rescinded.
Barrera and Jackson added an amendment to the budget that directed district staff to find an additional $4 million in administrative cuts.
"Even though the superintendent and staff have gone through everything, there is a notion that even more cuts can be found," Barrera said.
Evans said the choice facing the board was to "seriously damage education or reach the point very quickly where we can't pay our bills and give up control over our schools."
"We really need to do whatever we can to salvage our next school year," he said.
Barnett, who voted against the budget, said he believed there was a "slightly less horrible decision that is a better decision than what staff recommended."
Barnett proposed shifting $30 million in cuts to maintain the equivalent of 400 full-time employees by eliminating middle management, area superintendents and other staff positions, including landscapers, custodians and bus drivers.
"We have to have a darned good reason to keep every manger, director and supervisor in between," he said.
Because the other board members voted for Barrera and Jackson's amendment to the budget, Barnett took back his suggested cuts.
Beiser said even if the district shut down its entire central office, it would only cut $52 million from the budget.
However, the effort to retain teacher jobs is not over.
"February was the second inning, and this is the fifth inning," Beiser said. "This goes until the end of June."
More than 50 people, most of them teachers, parents and students, signed up to speak at today's meeting.
Matthew Kalal, a performing arts teacher at Patrick Henry High School, rode up to the microphone on a scooter that supported his broken leg. He said cutting music teachers would "set San Diego Unified back 25 years."
"Over 25 years, that is how long it has taken for music education in San Diego Unified to recover from the last time teachers were cut," Kalal said.
"San Diego Unified is now nationally recognized for its outstanding quality of music education. If you cut these music teachers, all of that goes away."
Another speaker, a parent of a student in the school district, attempted to summarize the meeting with his public comment.
"I'm sorry you've been forced to become the morticians of the public schools," he told the board.
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Beleiv* (for Believ*)
Although Wikipedia, as well as most Americans, refer to him as "Leif Ericson," the name of the explorer who discovered the Americas (almost five hundred years before Columbus did) is spelled a number of different ways by our neighbors to the north. In Old Norse, it was Leifr Eiríksson; in Icelandic, Leifur; in Norwegian, it would be Leiv. Let's leave that be for now, however, and talk a bit about the man. Leif Ericson was born circa 970, most probably in Iceland. He was the son of Erik the Red and his wife, Thjodhild. Leif's father, who had been born in (and banned from) Norway, established the first permanent Norse settlement in Greenland. Leif first sighted Vinland (what later Europeans called the "New World"), after being blown off course en route to Greenland, where he intended to bring Christianity to its inhabitants. (He was able to convert his mother, but not his father.) It's believed that Leif and his crew built a small settlement in what is now Newfoundland. The painting shown to the right was commissioned for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and later given to the National Gallery of Norway in 1900. Beleiv* was discovered 25 times in OhioLINK and 433 times in WorldCat this morning. So remember: it's "I before E except after C"—except for when you happen to be a 10th-century Nordic explorer. Or all of the other times it isn't. Believe it or not.
(Christian Krohg's painting of Leiv Eiriksson discovering North America, 1893, held at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, from Wikimedia Commons.)
Devember (for December)
Pengiun* (for Penguin*)
Sufac* (for Surfac*)
Rebbeca (for Rebecca)
Hendrik* + Henrik* (for Henrik* or Hendrik*)
Sterotyp* (for Stereotyp*)
Facilt* (for Facilit*)
Pasttime* (for Pastime*)
Rachal + Rachel (for Rachel or Rachal)
Creatue* (for Creature*)
Prefect* + Perfect* (for Perfect* or Prefect*)
Breats (for Beast or Breast)


Are you in the market looking for a plumber? Getting overwhelm by the number of listings on google search to find the right plumber can be challenging for many of us consumers with little to no knowledge of the industry. Below are the top 5 plumbers we have contacted base on pricing and summary of their work.
one that provides laying, installation, alteration, repair or replacement of water pipes, tanks, taps and fittings in the drinking water supply system, for the conveyance of water supplied by PUB.
deals with sanitary discharge pipes and sanitary appliances (water closet or WC, urinal, sink, etc), such as installing, changing or relocating toilet bowls and sanitary piping system, for carrying used water from the premise/building to the used water system.
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Hassle free experience of searching since they are listed at the top of google. They provide island wide services within 30 minutes which makes it extremely impressive and charges $20 for transport which is a steal when compared to the many others for site inspection.
What we like about them?
Being able to provide island wide services on short notice is impressive especially when you are facing an emergency with either your toilet bowl / leaking pipe.
They carry a wide list of brands which means that they too have spare parts available for the brands you use. It is extremely important when repair works is involved. The last thing you want is a plumber coming over to say they need to indent parts which takes 3 weeks.
They operate around the clock even on Chinese New Year which to us was impressive!
They can provide an estimated instant quote over the phone which makes their pricing transparent and honest. This is important to us since we do not want a bill shock after service is rendered.
With their vast amount of experience of 25 years, it is hard not to take notice of this plumber. They provide island wide plumbing services around the clock and instant quote which is a plus to us consumers.
They operate 7 days a week, all day and night, and can assist to your need as quickly as 30 minutes.
It was nice of them to advise us on what we can do before their arrival to prevent further damages done. Great advise even if you do no engage them.
Without giving them a second look, this plumber can look rather unappealing since their website is built on blogspot. They are an established and well-respected company with more than 20 years of experience providing a wide range of plumbing services.
They offer relatively competitive price and offer cheap transport fees.
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It seemed inevitable that the major events of 2016 would have an effect on people's approach to financial planning and we wanted to get a clearer picture of just how much, so conducted research of our own.
The results were interesting, they showed 2016 had impacted people in different ways; some were put off making important financial decisions, while others were driven to become more proactive and take greater control, and for many, saving more became their priority as they looked to create a bigger buffer against any potential bad times ahead.
And when we asked "What are your financial goals for 2017?" it seems 2016 still played a key part in your decision making, with the top priority being to "save more than in 2016".
There was also a certain amount of belt tightening and budgeting going on, however it was not all just about cutting back, people want to enjoy life too and saving for big ticket items like a holiday proved popular.
So whether you've got a more general goal in mind or you're more specific in your needs, aiming to save more and build a solid buffer is always a good thing, and the start of the year is a good time to make a plan to see how much you can regularly tuck away.
But it's not just how much you save, it's where you save that's important too. So look for the best rates on savings accounts and ISAs, and look beyond traditional savings too, to the opportunities offered by investing.
And don't just focus on the now, also look to the future. It's encouraging to see that retirement funding made your list, as legislation has made it much more appealing for us to save towards it.
Whatever your goal may be, we wish you all the best for 2017, and we'll be here throughout the year with more news and top tips on how to make the most of your finances.


A crisis has engulfed one of India's premier airlines, Jet Airways with as many as 20,000 employees staring at unemployment. The board is considering suspending all operations.
New Delhi: As many as 20,000 employees of Jet Airways are on the verge of losing their jobs after the 25-year-old airline owned by promoter Naresh Goyal went belly-up. Employees of the airline staged protests on Saturday, demanding that they are paid their due salaries. On the same day, the board of Jet Airways met and urged public sector lender State Bank of India (SBI) to infuse Rs 1,500 crore as emergency funding to revive the airline.
While experts claim that the chances of the airline returning to its former glory are bleak, the question of what will happen to the airline's employees remains to be answered. Reports have also suggested that one of the lenders US EXIM bank has recalled its Rs 2,000 crore loan to Jet Airways. Other lenders have threatened to repossess the aircraft owned by the airline whose promoter Naresh Goel has been allowed to walk scot-free without any liabilities to the public sector banks or employees of his own company.
Speaking exclusively to Mirror Now, members of the National Aviators Guild, a pilot union body said that they had a six-hour long meeting with the chief executive officer (CEO) of Jet Airways on Tuesday. "The management is trying very hard to convince the SBI to release the funds," said one of the members adding that the board is considering suspension of operations if they fail to acquire emergency funding from lenders. As per the reports, while most of the ground staff and back office employees have not been paid their salaries for the past month, the situation is much grimmer for pilots and engineers who have not been paid their dues for the past three-and-a-half months.
Around Tuesday evening, the Civil Aviation Secretary put out a statement claiming that Jet Airways has requested an emergency funding of Rs 400 crore from lenders. Meanwhile, Economic Times Editor Arijit Burman told Mirror Now that this is "the same old story where companies get bankrupt and promoters don't." Former Director of defunct airline Kingfisher Parvez Damania said that no one would pay a fortune for an airline which has no slots, no flying permits, 5 ATRs, and 2 Boeings because it is easier to start a new airline.
Meanwhile, defending the stance of the central government and the finance ministry which owns the PSUs which lent the money to Jet Airways promoter Naresh Goyal, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) spokesperson Bhaskar Ghosh said that constructive steps are being taken to deal with the situation and the focus is on restructuring and reviving the airline.


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Four Teams That You Should Not Want to Play in the Postseason
by Patrick Hoffman on 04/17/13 at 12:00 PM ET
With the Stanley Cup Playoffs right around the corner, every hockey fan is dreaming about the potential of their favorite hockey team.
Puckheads across North America are starting to think about 16 wins, big-time performances, clutch goals, big saves and some great hockey in general. As of this moment, the potential is limitless.
With that said, here are four somewhat surprising teams that you do not want to end up playing in the first round should your team clinch a spot in the postseason this year:
- New York Islanders
As a whole, the New York Islanders may not have a lot of playoff experience but boy, are they hungry to make some noise when it matters the most.
They are playing some of their best hockey at the crucial point of the season and are getting great performances from their young players. The Islanders are fast, they go to the net and they can score.
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Tags: alex+ovechkin, brian+elliott, columbus+blue+jackets, evgeni+nabokov, ken+hitchcock, new+york+islanders, sergei+bobrovsky, st.+louis+blues, washington+capitals
All About Second Chances For Flyers' Mason
by Patrick Hoffman on 04/17/13 at 07:00 AM ET
When looking at the NHL as a whole, it is easy to see that several NHL netminders thrive when given a second chance to prove their worth.
As an example, one can point out the likes of Ray Emery (Chicago Blackhawks), Carey Price (2010-11 with the Montreal Canadiens), Craig Anderson (Ottawa Senators) and so on and so forth. One can probably name several players in this particular category.
With that said, one player who really needs a second chance the most is Philadelphia Flyers' netminder Steve Mason. Mason, who won the Calder Trophy as the league's rooke of the year in the 2008-09 season with the Columbus Blue Jackets, has struggled to find his rookie form and is now looking to do so in the "City of Brotherly Love".
Mason, 24, burst onto the NHL scene in the 2008-09 season and dominated the league. That year, Mason went 33-20-0-7 with a 2.29 GAA, a .916 save percentage and 10 shutouts in leading the Columbus Blue Jackets to their first postseason.
While Mason did not play well in that postseason, the Blue Jackets thought they had their netminder of the future. Unfortunately, the team was wrong.
Tags: carey+price, chicago+blackhawks, columbus+blue+jackets, craig+anderson, montreal+canadiens, new+york+rangers, ottawa+senators, philadelphia+flyers, ray+emery, sergei+bobrovsky, steve+mason
A Common Theme This Season: Goaltending Controversies
This is something that seems to come up every season in the National Hockey League.
This season, however, it is something that is running rampant among NHL clubs, particularly the Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks.
When is there ever not a goaltending controversy with the Philadelphia Flyers?
This has been the norm for the past decade or so and as such, is running its natural course this season. This year, it is between Ilya Brzygalov and Sergei Bobrovsky.
The Flyers signed Bryzgalov to a 9-year pact over the off-season and thus far, the team has yet to see any real reward. In 33 games, the 31-year-old goaltender is 18-10-4 with a 2.99 goals against average (GAA), a .895 save percentage and 1 shutout, which are numbers that are far below what Bryzgalov posted with the Phoenix Coyotes.
The team's back-up, Bobrovsky, has performed slightly better and has been more consistent thus far. "Bob" is 11-4-1 with a 2.42 GAA and a .919 save percentage in 18 games.
It seems like Bobrovsky should be the main man instead of Brzygalov, right?
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Bobrovksy Can Still Be the Man in Philadelphia
Every single year, it seems like the Philadelphia Flyers have a goaltending problem.
That was obviously the case this season, especially when it came to this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs. Goaltenders Sergei Bobrovsky, Brian Boucher and Michael Leighton all struggled in between the pipes and ultimately, it led to the Flyers' being swept by the Boston Bruins in the second round.
With all of that said, and as a goaltender myself, I believe that Bobrovsky is still the future for this Flyers' hockey club. You may think I am crazy but before attaching that label to my name, hear me out.
For starters, Bobrovsky had a solid rookie season between the pipes for the Broadstreet Bullies. "BOB" won 28 games and posted a 2.59 goals against average, and a .913 save percentage, both respectable statistics, especially for a Flyers' netminder.
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Rangers Turn Table on Flyers With 3-2 Shootout Win
Almost a year ago, the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the New York Rangers in a shootout, sending their team into the playoffs and the Blueshirts home for the playoffs and off-season.
Today, the New York Rangers turned the tables on the Flyers and defeated the Broadstreet Bullies 3-2 in a shootout, giving them points 88 and 89 on the season. With the two points, the Blueshirts now find themselves in the seventh spot in the Eastern Conference with one more point than the Buffalo Sabres and three points more than the Carolina Hurricanes, who play each other this evening at 5:00 p.m.
Rangers' forwards Erik Christensen and Wojtek Wolski, two guys who haven't played great as of late, got the two shootout goals for the Blueshirts and goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, who made 32 saves on the afternoon, went two for two in the shootout in picking up his 34th win of the season.
It was a game in which the Blueshirts showed their mettle and played tough, blocked a lot of shots, were smart on the penalty kill and were not afraid to throw the pucks at Flyers' netminder Sergei Bobrovsky. They played a typical road-style hockey game and in doing so, picked up their 24th road win of the season, tying the franchise record they set back in 1994.
Tags: boston+boston+bruins, braydon+coburn, brian+boyle, bryan+mccabe, buffalo+sabres, carolina+hurricanes, daniel+carcillo, erik+christensen, henrik+lundqvist, new+york+rangers, philadelphia+flyers, ruslan+fedotenko, sergei+bobrovsky, wojtek+wolski


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As the songwriter behind the worship favorites ''How Great Is Our God,'' ''Our God,'' and ''Whom Shall I Fear,'' Chris Tomlin's songs have been a large part of the collective voice from the church for years. Holy Roar is a response to that collective... +
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10. I Stand In Awe
11. Praise Is The Highway
12. How Sweet It Is
As the songwriter behind the worship favorites ''How Great Is Our God,'' ''Our God,'' and ''Whom Shall I Fear,'' Chris Tomlin's songs have been a large part of the collective voice from the church for years. Holy Roar is a response to that collective voice. Featuring ''Resurrection Power'' and the new single ''Nobody Loves Me Like You,'' this brand-new album has songs written specifically for the church that run the spectrum of worship � from personal reflections to shouts of praise. Coming alongside Holy Roar is the re-release of the book of the same name, co-written by Tomlin and Darren Whitehead, pastor of Church of the City in Franklin, TN.
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Herald View: Sunak's intransigence over the public sector strikes
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ONE wonders what Mrs Thatcher, were she still around at the moment, would make of this relentless wave of public-sector strikes. Having faced down the miners in 1984-85, and witnessed much other industrial unrest, she set about reducing trade union power and curbing restrictive practices as part of her effort to turn Britain into an enterprise economy.
She noted with pride that in her final year in office, thanks to compulsory balloting, there were fewer industrial stoppages than in any year since 1935; fewer than two million days were lost during those last 12 months, compared with an average of 13 million during the dank days of the 1970s.
It is hard to keep track of all the current UK pay disputes, especially since they don't all necessarily affect the entire country. Nurses, teachers, Border Force officers, ambulance staff, rail workers, Royal Mail workers, university staff, driving examiners: all have signalled their intention to withhold their labour on selected days. Civil servants, and junior doctors in England, might yet follow suit.
The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association has announced a further day of targeted strike action, on January 11. Three airports that serve Scotland's remote island communities will be closed when staff strike for two days later this month. ScotRail warns rail users to expect significant disruption during the latest round of strike action by RMT members of Network Rail, even if the dispute does not involve ScotRail staff.
Across the UK, just over 205,000 working days were lost to strikes in September, and though this of course is considerably less than the record during Mrs Thatcher's final year (and a mere flea-bite when contrasted with the 11.7m lost during 1979, the peak of the'winter of discontent'), one senses that it is not the end of the story. Parallels have been drawn with the events of 1978-79, with the early 1980s, and even with the general strike of May 1926.
Some union leaders have recently admitted co-ordinating strike action for maximum impact. There are dark grievances in some Conservative quarters that their aim is to get rid of a government that, after 12 long years in power, is apparently bracing itself for defeat at hands of Keir Starmer. The fateful question as to who governs Britain has been raised again. Another general strike, however, is unlikely, thanks to curbs that were introduced after the events of 1926, and tightened up by Mrs Thatcher.
Rishi Sunak, responding to what he sees as trade union intransigence in seeking inflation-breaking pay rises, has promised tough new laws to make strikes more difficult. He insists that if union leaders cannot act reasonably then it is up to him to ensure people's safety and minimise disruption. But the Prime Minister cannot ignore the UK's international legal obligations and the fact that the right to strike is protected by the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter.
All of these might make it difficult for him to decide what is reasonable. Even a mooted parliamentary Bill that would seek to ensure minimum service levels during strikes might run counter to the international obligations. Should he seek to follow through, he will trigger fierce union opposition.
There is no doubt that with inflation of 10 per cent, millions of people are facing profound challenges – in heating their homes, paying their rent or mortgage, feeding their children, putting petrol into their cars. Wages have fallen behind in real terms. The disruption caused by strikes will be felt more keenly in some cases than in others, but the strikers themselves are ordinary people who have had enough and have run out of options. They cannot be expected to tolerate effective pay cuts year after year while the rich get richer.
The government has played hard ball, perhaps fearing that to do otherwise will open the floodgates. It hopes that inflation will fall dramatically by January and February 2024, and insists that agreeing to high pay demands now could lock in high inflation. A reported offer by the Department of Transport to rail workers, which would have been worth between 8% and 9% , was stymied by the Treasury. Mr Sunak claims that every family would have to pay £1,000 in taxes if he yielded to public-sector pay demands, but his figure has been disputed by, amongst others, the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The rail unions have been belligerent when it comes to defending pay and conditions, and there are concerns that not only are most rail workers well-paid as it is, but that strike action over Christmas might affect some £120m worth of long-planned engineering works. Their level of pay contrasts with that of the army of care workers, whose real worth to society really ought to be rewarded with higher salaries, and with people in the private sector, whose wages have signally failed to keep pace with inflation and who in many cases have lost their final pension salaries.
But public sector workers are at the sharp end of things, doing vital jobs and delivering services that the country depends upon. Poverty pay is a grim fact of life for too many of them. The regard in which they are held comes from the fact that, despite the multiplying inconveniences caused by withdrawal of labour, the public supports the striking workers. Uppermost in the public's mind are stagnant wages, the widespread use of foodbanks, the ceaseless disparities in wealth between top and bottom and, not least, the Conservatives' ingrained habit of starving many public services of key funding over the years.
Mr Sunak came to office determined to put the economy right, and made a point of his stringent fiscal conservatism. By channelling Mrs Thatcher he has shown that he is disinclined to seek a compromise with union leaders. He also scents an opportunity to wrong-foot the Labour opposition over such a sensitive issue. If the strikes go ahead, they will render a recession-plagued winter even worse, but Mr Sunak's intransigence is to be regretted. He has no sympathy for the plight of badly-paid public sector workers. One leader, Mark Serwotka of the PCS, says that 40,000 of his members are using foodbanks and that 45,000 have to claim benefits. Public sentiment is clearly on the side of the strikers. Mr Sunak would do well to heed this and seek compromise. It will be a missed opportunity should he decide otherwise.
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THE Scottish Government must prioritise the establishment of buffer zones outside abortion clinics, following this week's Supreme Court ruling. Intimidation of women outside clinics by anti-abortion protesters is utterly appalling. The protesters have every right to make their voices heard outside Holyrood, where laws are made. But women attending clinics need to be shielded from their contempt.
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How do I convert IGLD85 to CGVD28 for the area around the Toronto Harbour?

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Want Whitney Houston's Bible? It's Gonna Cost You $95,000
by Singersroom June 6, 2018
How much does a bible owned by the late Whitney Houston go for? According to one of her former landlords, a whopping $95K.
According to TMZ, Houston left behind a bible (among other things) in her luxury Newport Beach, CA rental property where she lived from 2009-2011. The owner of the property found the bible along with clothes and CDs in a box. He then contacted Houston's agent, who told him he could keep the abandoned items; he pitched the clothing and CDs, but kept the bible because he found it to be more valuable, calling it "interesting."
TMZ says the Bible contains Whitney's writing "all over it." The late vocal wonder manually documented life events such as her marriage to "Robert B. Brown" on July 18, 1992 on the "marriage" page and the birth of their daughter Bobbi Kristina in the "births" section with the date jotted down as March 4, 1993.
The bible is being sold through autograph dealing company Moments in Time.
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The shoreline rocks of Lake Superior dominated my attention as I walked the North shore of Madeline Island. Even above the water line they came in many shapes and colors but for reasons unknown to me, they were all about the same size.
Add the clear, cold water of Lake Superior and the colors explode. They become vibrant, vivid and brilliant, with a huge range of abstraction, from a hint of surface distortion to full blown nonrepresentational art.
Even the rocks above the waterline of Lake Superior had color. Although the red is the Autumn color of a Maple leaf.
Add water and the magic begins.
A note about Lake Superior. North America's largest lake holds 10% of the worlds fresh water. Now that's a whole lot of refreshing sips.
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