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Accelerating Tremors May Indicate the Coming Financial Quake
Is the world rapidly spinning towards a monetary and financial quake never seen before?
A 48-hour snapshot of earth-moving news appears like a procession of dark grey swans.
The delays in Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke' reconfirmation and Paul Volcker's victory in major parts of the banking reform are the most visible signs of unprecedented strains in the financial system. Add in that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner may soon retire from his post for his role in the AIG scandal which must be stinking like fish in the sun after 3 days.
After all the SEC and the NY Fed mulled nothing less than "national security status" for AIG in order not to disclose the final receivers of $182 billion in government bailout money. Geithner was NY Fed president during this time, conferring frequently with his predecessor at the Treasury, Henry Paulson. Geithner and Paulson will testify today befor a House Committee on oversight.
Barry Ritholtz has a final conclusion:
Perhaps it would be best if someone showed Timmy to the door . . .
Fed Meeting is Bernanke's Last Chance to Shake an Ace Out of his Sleeve
Fed head Bernanke has today a last chance to shake an ace out of his sleeve in order to gain the necessary 50 Senate votes for his reappointment. Latest reports from Bloomberg say 49 Senators have declared to vote for him:
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke juggled an interest-rate meeting with phone calls to senators as he rolled up more support for a confirmation vote Majority Leader Harry Reid said may occur tomorrow or Jan. 29.
"He has the votes to be confirmed," Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, told reporters in Washington.
Forty-nine senators have said they would vote for the 56- year-old Fed chief or were inclined to support him, while 20 were opposed. Republicans were split 13-13 on a second term for Bernanke, while Democrats favored the Fed chief by a 35-6 margin, according to a count by Bloomberg News. Thirty-one senators were undecided or declined to comment.
IMHO Bernanke will remain at the top of the Fed. Or would you, let alone anybody with real insider knowledge of America's debt problem, want to jump in his shoes?
Oh, and the outcome of today's FOMC meeting? Expect a continuation of ZIRP and few verbal changes with an emphasis of steady low inflation but worries about the job market.
US Overspends to the Tune of $4.38 Billion Every Single Day
To put the US deficit disaster in a few simple numbers, Stewart Dougherty, a specialist in inferential analysis,comes up with a mind-boggling claim. Even if the government would confiscate all private property to repay debts the nation would still owe a staggering $66 Trillion. A look into 2009 disastrous spending figures makes you look for the next man-hole. "Putting Fiscal Year 2009's $9,000,000,000,000.00 ($9 trillion) deficit another way, 17% of America's private wealth, accumulated over a period of 235 years, was wiped out by just one year's worth of government deficit spending insanity," Dougherty wrote.
Excerpts from his article published on kitco.com:
One stark and sobering way to frame the crisis is this: if the United States government were to nationalize (in other words, steal) every penny of private wealth accumulated by America's citizens since the nation's founding 235 years ago, the government would remain totally bankrupt.
According to the Federal Reserve's most recent report on wealth, America's private net worth was $53.4 trillion as of September, 2009. But at the same time, America's debt and unfunded liabilities totaled at least $120,000,000,000,000.00 ($120 trillion), or 225% of the citizens' net worth. Even if the government expropriated every dollar of private wealth in the nation, it would still have a deficit of $66,600,000,000,000.00 ($66.6 trillion), equal to $214,286.00 for every man, woman and child in America and roughly 500% of GDP.
If the government does not directly seize the nation's private wealth, then it will require $389,610 from each and every citizen to balance the country's books. State, county and municipal debts and deficits are additional, already elephantine in many states (e.g., California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York) and growing at an alarming rate nationwide. In addition to the federal government, dozens of states are already bankrupt and sinking deeper into the morass every day.
The government continues to dig a deeper and deeper fiscal grave in which to bury its citizens. This year, the federal deficit will total at least $1,600,000,000,000.00 ($1.6 trillion), which represents overspending of $4,383,561,600.00 ($4.38 billion) per day. (The deficit during October and November, 2009, the first two months of Fiscal Year 2010, totaled $296,700,000,000.00 ($297 billion), or $4,863,934,000.00 ($4.9 billion) per day, a record.) Using the GAAP accounting method (which is what corporations are required to use because it presents a far more accurate and honest picture of a company's finances than the cash accounting method primarily and misleadingly used by the U.S. government), the nation's fiscal year 2009 deficit was roughly $9,000,000,000,000.00 ($9 trillion), or $24,700,000,000.00 ($24.7 billion) per day, as calculated by brilliant and well-respected economist John Williams (www.shadowstats.com). Fiscal Year 2010's cash- and GAAP-accounting deficits will likely be worse than 2009's, given government bailout and new program spending that is on steroids and psychotic.
Putting Fiscal Year 2009's $9,000,000,000,000.00 ($9 trillion) deficit another way, 17% of America's private wealth, accumulated over a period of 235 years, was wiped out by just one year's worth of government deficit spending insanity.
And you think this is gonna end like a Hollywood movie?
Europe's Banks Need €83 Billion Capital
But those were only the most imminent problems of the US financial sector. Don't think Europe fares any better.
FT Alphaville cites Morgan Stanley's Huw van Steenis who reckons Europe's big banks will need to find €83bn by 2012, or shrink their risk-weighted assets by 11 per cent, or €1,000bn.
van Steenis key expectations are bleak at the best:
We think the market has underestimated the impact of Basel proposals on distributions and this, plus political uncertainty, means dividends will be very constrained. We cut dividend forecasts for DBK, CASA, CSG, GLE, BBVA, UCG, ISP, BNP, POP & KBC.
Even with what banks view as the "obvious" amendments (eg minorities) the proposals could still hit European banks hard – and hence we think revisions or "national interpretations" are likely...
We think banks would be likely to reprice loans and reduce credit further – we already model less than 1% loan growth for European banks in 2010. We think Basel 3 and US proposals could mean – unless amended – corporates face a higher cost of credit and need to take on more liquidity risk, as the banks are asked to shed risk.
Europe Eyes Record Deficit Borrowing Around €2.2 Trillion
Banks will encounter a mighty competitor in credit markets though. FT Alphaville, one of my favourite newssites, tells us that,
European governments will need to borrow a record €2,200 Trillion from capital markets this year to finance budget deficits, according to Fitch Ratings. The projected borrowing is a 3.7% increase on the €2.120 Trillion raised in 2009, as governments continue to issue sovereign bonds and short-term bills. Fitch said France would be the biggest issuer this year, raising an estimated €454bn, then Italy at €393bn, Germany at €386bn and the UK at €279bn.
So we will see record borrowing and no reductions in deficits as European governments keep hanging on to their old way of deficit spending, guaranteeing a rise in European yields across the board. After downgrading Greece ratings agencies might for once try to spot payment problems in the next endangered EU countries like Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Austria and Spain. Find the full Fitch report here (PDF).
Japan Outlook Negative
Funding worries have a tendency to appear hand in hand with insatiable funding needs. In times of globalisation nobody seems to get away unscathed. It is again blog-style FT Alphaville bringing us the news that Standard & Poor's has downgraded Japan's outlook to "negative", focusing on fiscal consolidation:
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today revised to negative from stable its outlook on the 'AA' long-term rating on Japan. At the same time, we affirmed our 'AA' long-term and 'A-1+' short-term local and foreign currency sovereign credit ratings on Japan.
The outlook change reflects our view that the Japanese government's diminishing economic policy flexibility may lead to a downgrade unless measures can be taken to stem fiscal and deflationary pressures.
At a forecasted 100% of GDP at fiscal year-end March 31, 2010, Japan's net general government debt burden is among the highest for rated sovereigns. Moreover, the policies of the new Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government point to a slower pace of fiscal consolidation than we had previously expected.
Combined with other social policies that are not likely to raise medium-term trend growth and with persistent deflationary pressures, we forecast that Japan's net general government debt to GDP will peak at 115% of GDP over the next several years.
The affirmation of the 'AA' sovereign ratings on Japan rests on the country's strong net external asset position, the yen's status as a reserve currency, the financial system's resiliency throughout the recent global recession, and the economy's diversification.
We believe that these strengths will keep the government's rating in the 'AA' category, even if further fiscal consolidation leads to a one notch downgrade. A strong net external asset position and the yen's key international currency position provide ample external liquidity and good access to global capital markets.
Japan is the world's largest net external creditor in absolute terms with projected net assets of an estimated 309% of current account receipts at the end of 2009. The country's current gold and foreign exchange reserves of over US$1 trillion are second only to China's. Standard & Poor's expects Japan's net external assets to rise further in the coming years due to continued current account surpluses.
The ratings on Japan could fall by one notch if economic data remain weak and measures to boost medium-term growth are not forthcoming, given the country's high government debt burden and its weak demographic profile.
Another intercontinental act of desperation is in the line. Reportedly Greece is going on an Asian roadshow, trying to raise $10 billion there. Today Greek government paper traded up to a record spread of 331 basis points compared to German Bunds.Find the details of Greece's intentions in the Wall Street Journal.The European Central Bank is still complacent despite banks on the brink all over the world.
In an interview with the WSJ, published on the ECB's website, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet again tried to promote trust in a world full of banks on the brink. Here an excerpt:
Question: What lessons have you learned from past crises as you deal with the fallout of the current one?
Mr. Trichet: Lesson number one: We have to considerably reinforce the resilience of the financial system. I understand the infuriation of our public opinion because the global financial system was much too fragile. That being said I would guard against scapegoating. As a matter of fact the full system has to be improved and redressed and not only some parts and parcel of it. To fix a systemic failure, you have to fix the whole system.
Another lesson of those crises is the necessity of rapid decisions when and where needed. The ECB proved a capacity to decide rapidly when the crisis started and I have to say hat the central banks all over the world avoided the depression because we, together did not lose time. It was a matter of weeks and, at certain moments a question of days.
A third lesson valid for all crises and particularly for the present one is that institutions and individuals have to remain calm and never to lose sang-froid. Keeping composure in very demanding circumstances is always necessary to handle correctly the unfolding of a crisis.
Question: Do you think that it might make sense to have some kind of mechanism within in euro zone to allow the ECB or some other body in the EU to take more control of a country's budget as a way of giving the markets more confidence and helping guide that country, such as the case of Greece?
Mr. Trichet: The Governing Council of the ECB has always been very vocal, very strong in defending the Stability and Growth Pact at a time where some governments were opposing the Pact and wanted to dismantle it. We call for a rigorous implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact by all countries. We also call for all data, facts and figures to be audited appropriately at national and, when judged necessary, at the European level by Eurostat. I expect the European Commission to take very soon a number of proposals in that sense
As an example at the moment we see one government – the Irish government - is looking energetically at what it has to do. Ireland was in a situation that was difficult and a number of courageous and convincing decisions have been taken.
I expect and I am confident that in the demanding situation in which Greece is, its government will also take the right and necessary decisions to implement the goal which has been fixed, namely to have a public deficit below 3% (deficit as a share of GDP) as early as 2012.
Question: Do you think that's realistic?
Mr. Trichet: It is what the Government has committed to do. I trust it is not only realistic but also necessary in the present demanding circumstances to take the right decisions to meet the goal. I approve the ambition. I approve the 2012 deficit target of below 3 %.
Is this the next case of a central banker being too optimistic, blaming future different problems on an unforeseeable changes?
One prediction is highly likely to come true: A toned-down Davos World Economic Forum, overshadowed by the death of the security chief in the night before the opening, will not come up with the bold resolutions it will take to reform the global financial fiat money system which proves one more time in the last 300 years that unbacked money has never been working.
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Pacific Relations? Immigration and Exclusion in American Foreign Relations
Dr. Cees Heere, Postdoctoral Researcher
The notion that the United States is a "nation of immigrants" (as the title of a 1958 book by then senator John F. Kennedy had it) remains a touchstone of American national identity. Kennedy argued that what made the United States unique, and what gave it an edge as a global power, was its universalism: its ability to bind its citizens together by a common adherence to political and civic ideas, rather than by appealing to ties of blood. In practice, however, the history of American immigration has been rarely so straightforward, as Kennedy himself acknowledged: his book was an appeal to revise the highly discriminatory immigration law that the United States had enacted since 1924.
Beginning in the 1880s, the United States became one of the first modern states to establish a comprehensive system of immigration restrictions and border controls, designed to filter prospective immigrants through an interlocking set of social, economic, and ethnic criteria. Yet the catalyst for this process did not lie in the Atlantic, which Kennedy's own ancestors had crossed, but in the Pacific. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which categorically barred Chinese migrants from entering the United States, marked the first occasion on which the federal government had sought to regulate immigration of any kind. Exclusion was gradually extended across Asia. The 1917 Immigration Act explicitly designated most of Asia as a "barred zone" 1924 successor, finally, categorically prohibited Asian immigration, a provision that remained written into American immigration law until Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, repealed it in 1965.
Historians have generally viewed the making of immigration policy as a domestic political issue, made by internal political forces. Yet framing rules for the entry of foreign nationals by definition resonated internationally. Building on recent work that has analysed the global resonance of the African-American struggle for Civil Rights, this project makes the case that the evolution of American immigration policy needs to be read, similarly, in relation to U.S. foreign relations. Its focus is on the Pacific, Pacific, where the severity of Asian exclusion, and its transnational diffusion between (aspirationally) white settler societies (the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and much of Latin America all came to exclude East Asian migrants), gave immigration a particular international resonance. Contemporaries often referred to a 'Pacific problem': the apparent difficulty of establishing an regional order built on peaceful interaction, both between states and across racial boundaries. Immigration restrictions, however, consistently complicated such efforts. The persistence of racial discrimination at the American border scarred the legitimacy of the Wilsonian system in many Chinese and Japanese eyes. This corrosive effect also flowed in the other direction: in the United States, as well as in Australia and Canada, Japan's revolt against the international order in the 1930s made Japanese immigrants (and their descendants) politically suspect, ultimately culminating in their forced internment during the Pacific War.
The project thus stands at the intersection of several historiographies: the fractious history of American-Japanese relations; the rise and fall of internationalism; and the history of migration restriction; and seeks to draw out the connections between them. In doing so, it makes an intervention in two major historiographical debates. The first is on the nature of the international system in the aftermath of the First World War, where historical still wrestles with the rise of multiple, apparently contradictory phenomena: the rise of a new 'international society' on the one hand, and on the other by economic deglobalisation and the rise of new, more aggressive manifestions of imperialism. The disputes over migration offer a distinct, and thus far unstudied, perspective on this issue. Second, the project investigates the changing international role of the United States, and the ways in which this development shaped (and was shaped by) its domestic political arrangements.
The project is based on original archival research, combining the archives of governments, international organisations, and individuals. It specifically seeks to incorporate those non-governmental actors, e.g. the missionaries, businessmen, local politicians and intellectuals, who intervened on both sides of the migration debate. In a wider sense, the research engages with several of the key themes that define (and challenge) the concept of a "Rooseveltian Century": the expansion of the US's international role, and the often erratic, contested construction of a more equitable, inclusive American democracy at home.

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Q: SAM lambda deployment - [ERROR] Runtime.ImportModuleError: Unable to import module 'app': No module named 'pydantic' [ERROR] Runtime.ImportModuleError: Unable to import module 'app': No module named 'pydantic'

I use chalice and used this guide here to deploy container version of lambda: https://github.com/aws/chalice/issues/1598#issuecomment-917511355
This is my Dockerfile
FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/python:3.9

COPY requirements.txt ./

RUN python3.9 -m pip install -r requirements.txt -t .

COPY deployment/ ./

CMD ["python3.9", "app.app"]

Checking deployment folder and requirements.txt I can see pydantic directory

And pydantic directory does exist within deployment directory. (root directory)
So why can't lambda find pydantic module?
opening docker built image in bash to run python and importing pydantic works fine.
It just seems that when the image is pushed to ECR and when lambda tries to run app.py it can't find the module.

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I often see students writing long introduction hoping to have a better score in writing task 2.
Writing a long introduction is more likely to harm you than making your writing better. The more time you spend in your introduction the less time you have in writing good main body paragraphs.? Remember, the main body is far more important than in any parts of your essay. It is the key of getting a high score.
So what should a student do?
Spend less time in both introduction and conclusion.
Spend more time planning the main body paragraphs.
Be familiar and prepare ideas for common IELTS topics before you take the exam.


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Branko Hrg (26 September 1961) is a Croatian politician and former leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS). He was a member of HSS from 1992 to 2016 and serves as a mayor of Križevci since 2001.

In January 2012 intra-party elections, Hrg beat former Croatian Minister of Tourism Damir Bajs with 555 votes over 374.

On March 19 2016 he lost, with 188 votes, in the first round of intra-party elections, against Krešo Beljak who got 339 votes and Nenad Matić who got 225 votes, making him no longer the President of HSS.

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1961 births
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'Sleep well gentle giant': Family pay tribute to tragic binman who was crushed to death by his own truck trying to stop it rolling out car park
MAURICE Willis died when he was pinned against a wall by the bin lorry he drove after it careered across a busy main road.
Jane Hamilton
Maurice Willis
A BINMAN was crushed to death by his own truck as he worked a weekend shift.
Tragic 58-year-old Maurice Willis was pinned against a wall after the bin lorry he had just stepped out of careered across a main road and mounted the pavement.
Witnesses said brave Maurice had tried to stop the seven-tonne truck from rolling ourt of the car park at the famous Hawes Inn.
But as he selflessley put his own life on the line to protect members of the public, the truck crushed him to death.
The unstoppable bin lorry then burst through metal fencing and was left dangling over Hawes Pier in South Queensferry, near Edinburgh.
Police were yesterday understood to be looking into the possibility the handbrake may have failed on the Biffa truck.
Dad-of-three Maurice, who was known as Mo, died on Saturday night in hospital from his injuries.
His devastated family took to social media to pay tribute to the driver who they described as a 'gentle giant'.
Son Paul Willis posted a picture of them at a wedding and wrote: "Yesterday the toughest, wisest and bravest man I've ever known was taken from us.
"I learned so many life lessons from you dad. Sleep well you gentle giant.Xxx"
And his other son Mike wrote: "The one and only my Dad x Love you old yin xxx"
Bin lorry crash at Hawes Pier Edinburgh
Sister-in-law Elaine Willis, who is married to Maurice's brother Kevin, wrote: "Such tragic news yesterday. My brother-in-law Maurice was taken too quickly from his loving family. A clever and witty man.
"Numb and devastated. Night night dear brother in law sleep tight. My love to you."
Councillor Norman Work, who represents Edinburgh's Almond ward, said: "It's a tragic accident. It appears that the driver was trying to prevent the accident from happening.
"It's tragic but could have been a lot worse. We are grateful no one else was injured, because it's a very busy area round the whole promenade.
"Obviously our thoughts go out to the family of the driver."
A spokeswoman for the Hawes Inn said: "Our team helped out as much as they could in the moments after the accident happened and contacted the emergency services.
"We are fully cooperating with the police investigation and our thoughts are very much with the driver's family."
Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident, which happened on Saturday afternoon shortly after 1pm.
Maurice Willis (Right)
It's understood Maurice, who worked for Biffa, was collecting refuse in the area with a colleague when the accident happened.
Sergeant Brian Smith, from Police Scotland's Edinburgh Road Policing Unit, said: "This tragic accident happened as the driver tried to stop his lorry from rolling out of the car park of the Hawes Inn.
"He was crushed against the wall by the lorry, which then hit a parked Jaguar car before rolling across the road and mounting the pavement. demolishing a bench and fencing before it came to rest hanging over the edge of the pier.
"Although this is a busy road, with a number of pedestrians in the area at the time, fortunately no one else was injured.
"We are carrying out a full investigation and I am appealing for any witnesses who have not already spoken to us, to call Police Scotland on 101."
A Biffa spokesman said: "This tragic incident has shocked everyone at Biffa and we send our heartfelt condolences to the family and close friends.
"Naturally, we will work with the police to try and understand the circumstances behind the incident, whilst also carrying out our own full internal investigation."
Earlier this year it was revealed Glasgow City Council had been fined £20,000 after a pensioner was knocked down and killed by a bin lorry.
The driver of the lorry which killed 71-year-old Malcolm McCulloch in the city centre in August 2010 was not fully trained.
Glasgow city council admitted health and safety breaches at a court hearing in April this year.
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Lowville Academy graduate Kalani Zehr, who attends St. Lawrence University, has pitched for the Watertown Rapids of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League this summer since he joined the team in late June. Chris FITZ GERALD/WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES
Collegiate baseball: Lowville's Zehr grateful for unexpected chance to help Rapids
By CHRIS FITZ GERALD
cfitzgerald@wdt.net
Chris Fitz Gerald
WATERTOWN — A college student, Kalani Zehr has spent most of the summer moving lawns for a landscaping company.
Then while at the movies one night, he received a text from Watertown Rapids coach Mike Wood, also Zehr's pitching coach at St. Lawrence University, which changed Zehr's summer.
"I was driving by one night and I saw the lights on (during a Rapids game) and I wondered 'How's Coach Wood doing and stuff?'" Zehr, a Lowville native, said. "And he actually texted me that night and told me he needed a relief guy."
Zehr said the opportunity presented to him, to pitch summer baseball in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, was a surprise to him.
"I was shocked," Zehr said. "I was like, 'Yeah, do you think I can compete in that league?' It says a lot that he had a lot of confidence in me, it gave me a lot of confidence in myself I guess pitching at this level."
Zehr, a Lowville Academy graduate, who completed his sophomore year at St. Lawrence in the spring, joined the Rapids in late June.
"I wasn't around here before, I work during the day and I was playing fast-pitch softball at night and I was trying to throw bullpens and stuff, keeping my arm loose," he said. "And then this came, I was excited."
Zehr has welcomed the chance to pitch in a wooden bat league for the Rapids, playing with and against some talented players.
"It's great to be out here playing against really good competition," Zehr said. "A lot of D-I and D-II guys, so it makes you pitch at a higher level. You get a lot of experience playing with a lot of young guys, rising sophomores, juniors, seniors, so it's really cool."
Heading into the final day of the regular season, Zehr has made eight appearances, all in relief, for the Rapids.
"Some of these guys we play against are from big SEC schools, like Alabama, guys like that," he said. "I don't see them at all when I'm playing during the summer or past years I've played. So it's an eye-opener."
Zehr made his debut with the Rapids on July 1 in a game against Adirondack in Watertown at the Alex T. Duffy Fairgrounds. He has totaled 10 strikeouts in 15 1/3 innings, posting a 5.28 earned-run average while walking eight.
"Kalani was a midseason pickup here and he's done pretty good," Wood said. "Tonight (July 25), he kind of bounced back in (his) second inning and after finding the zone, and he did really well."
"I've done all right," Zehr said. "I'm not any standout or anything, I'm just trying to get my innings in and get better and develop my second and third pitches. Get more control with it."
He continued: "I feel when you play against good competition, you pitch better and you pitch at a higher level. I always feel that way and it's fun playing against these guys, against good hitters. You can't make mistakes and when you do, you pay for it."
During his sophomore season, his first playing for St. Lawrence after he recovered from a knee injury, Zehr made nine appearances for the team, all in relief.
He recorded one win in his only decision of the year, in a 9-8 home nonconference victory against SUNY Canton on April 11.
Zehr pitched 8 1/3 innings for the Saints this spring, registering a 4.32 ERA, striking out seven and walking eight. Four of the 11 runs were unearned.
"He was probably one of our best bullpen guys up there this year," Wood said of Kalani's season at St. Lawrence. "So now he's kind of in transition, hopefully learning some stuff and getting better for next fall."
Wood hopes Zehr's time with the Rapids will pay dividends at St. Lawrence as well.
"It looks like he's going to hopefully gain a couple miles an hour of velocity and that will help big time at the Division III level at St. Lawrence," Wood said. "Getting a little more velocity and work on a couple breaking pitches. If he starts to develop a slider and a breaking ball, I think he'll be really effective.
"Right now he's going to rely on his fastball."
While his fastball has been his strength, Zehr, who stands at 6-foot-2 and is listed at 230 pounds, continues to work on other pitches to sharpen and improve his arsenal.
"My fastball, curve ball," he said. "My curve has developed a lot, I had a lot of trouble with it this year in locating it. Some days it's on, some days it will be off. But this summer, I definitely feel like I've been consistent and a lot better than I was. So that's great for me, developing offspeed pitches."
Kalani, a three-sport standout at Lowville, who captained the football, basketball and baseball teams there in his senior season, hoped to play football at St. Lawrence as well. But he suffered a knee injury, tearing the meniscus in his left knee, during the Saints' preseason camp in August 2017.
He underwent successful surgery that November and "I was probably moving and running by April or May up at the school," he said.
But this prevented him from playing baseball at St. Lawrence in his freshman season last year.
"Getting in strength and mobility and jumping, athletic things like that, it takes a while," Zehr said after the surgery. "Then this past summer, I decided I wanted to pitch, and so I pitched over the summer, worked at it and I tried out for the team."
While he likely won't play football again, he considers baseball his favorite of the three sports.
"Definitely baseball, 100 percent," Zehr said.
Zehr is thankful that Wood has been accommodating in working around Zehr's schedule for his day job.
"It's awesome, he's so lenient with me," Zehr said. "I'll tell him, 'I can't make it tonight, but when do you need me to throw again and I'll try and get off work.' So he's really flexible with my schedule and knows I'm busy working, trying to make some money over the summer and still trying to get better."
"He's a great kid," Wood said. "He's always looking to learn, he's always looking to get better. So he's a stand-up kid, somebody like that you're proud to have on your team."
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listener User defined callback function that is called when server is up.
The connection listner is called with these arguments.
connectionId DOMString Unique identifier of a server.
service_name DOMString Service name of a provided service.
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unique_name DOMString Unique name of the application or spacelet providing the service.
Every provided service server can have a separate listener but one listener is enough if the service_name and isSecure arguments are utilized.
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Once in a while, I do things just because they're a challenge -- just because I can.
Sometimes this urge even drives me to art.
The 24-Hour Comic (more information here) was conceived in 1990 by Scott McCloud as a thought exercise: Produce, from scratch, a finished 24-page comic in 24 hours. No mean feat, when you consider all of the work that goes into a comic (not just drawing, but planning, layout, inking, and coloring/shading). Scott, naturally, called his own bluff, produced a 24-hour comic of his own ... and started a trend.
One bleak Friday in September, I leapt on the bandwagon. (Which is poetic, but not entirely true. I live in Seattle, and the sun was shining, so it was about as un-bleak as it ever gets around here. It was also not a Friday, but that's neither here nor there.) If you were to ask me why I decided to do a 24-hour comic, I would probably shrug and tell you something like, "Because it was a stupid idea." Which is not to say that the 24-hour comic is dumb, just that me doing one was a move of questionable sanity. The sum total of my artistic output in the previous two years had been one (1) dragon picture, some routine editing of scanned photos, and a few Tomorrowlands site images.
On the other hand, this also meant that no matter how dire the finished product, I had an excuse for its suckitude. So all I had to lose was sleep, and my two remaining brain cells.
To make a long story short, I sat down and drew.
I kept a record of the day's events here, if you want my mindset and observations as the deadline neared. As the clock ticked toward 7 AM Sunday morning, I aborted gracefully, finishing the story at the 13-page mark -- a "noble failure" variant of the 24-hour comic known as the "Gaiman Variation", after Neil Gaiman's "Heliogabolus" (14 pages in 24 hours).
The only other thing you should really know before reading the thing is that the story is set in the Tomorrowlands universe. Everything else relevant is in the endnotes following the comic -- so, don't let my blathering hold you back any longer.
Page created Sep 25, 2001. Design © 2000 Tad "Baxil" Ramspott.


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History Of 24 News Broadcasting Networks
What would life be like if we could not turn on the television to a channel that keeps us updated on what is going on in the world live. Twenty four hour news broadcasting changed the face of the world. It made an impact on what people believed and saw. Founded by Ted Tuner CNN, which is an abbreviation for Cable News Network, was the first major cable news network to hit television back in 1980. If it was not for twenty four hour news broadcasting networks, we would never get the live in your face action that we get when something in happening at the moment.CNN has several slogans such as "The Most Trust Name in News" and another one of their slogans is "The Best Political Team in Television". When Ted Turner launched CNN, he originally launched it for people like him who came home too late from work to catch the 6:30 PM news. Ted Turner had a vision for CNN to be the first news source to fill in the holes that other new sources did not. He wanted to do what the New York Times did for the newspapers, but on the air. Before Ted Turner launched CNN he promised that CNN will not go off the air until the world would come to an end."We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event. . . . And when the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer My God to Thee' before we sign off" (Wikipedia, CNN).The New York Times has been around for over hundred years and is the most respected newspaper company in the United States. It is respected because of the amount of material it covers and its accuracy on what it reports. Also, The New York Times publishes fifth teen other news papers just how CNN has many different stations that air worldwide. CNN became the most respect new broadcasting network in just twenty years.The CNN broadcast station is located at the CNN Center in Atlanta, the Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. CNN has been available for viewing in 88.2 million plus U.S. households and more than 890,000 hotel rooms. In Canada the U.S. Version of CNN is televised. Worldwide, CNN airs through CNN International and has joined branded networks and services that are available to more than 1.6 billion people that are spread in over 212 countries and territories.The Cable News Network was first aired at 5:00 PM Eastern time on June 1st, 1980. Since then, CNN has expanded its ground to many of the cable and satellite television networks, many web sites, CNN Airport Network, and two radio networks. CNN has expanded as far as having thirty six bureaus (twenty six international and ten domestic), more than nine hundred affiliated local stations, and multiple regional and foreign-language networks around the world.CNN has always been rated as America's number one cable news source. Most of the time CNN is usually the first news broadcast network to either report an accident or be at the scene of a developing story. CNN was the first network to...
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Overnight French Toast Casserole topped with a brown sugar crumble and berries. A delicious spin on french toast and perfect for holiday gatherings or Sunday brunch!
This french toast bake is one of my absolute favorite dishes to make when serving a big crowd. It's easy, delicious and can be assembled the day before. Quiche, cinnamon rolls, breakfast casserole and German pancakes are also go-to dishes as well.
One of my favorite parts about the holidays is the food. I love cooking for family and friends and enjoying a delicious meal together. However on days like Christmas morning, the last place I want to be is in the kitchen.
While I'm a big fan of classic french toast, I love that this overnight french toast bake is SO easy and convenient. The best part about this overnight french toast is that you can make it the day before and pop it in the oven the next morning. It's perfect for days like Christmas, when you want to just put something in the oven and enjoy time with the family. It's a great recipe for company and always a crowd pleaser.
Check out the ingredients for the french toast casserole recipe below.
This simple overnight french toast bake starts with a French bread base (I like to use a thick, day old bread, so that it doesn't become soggy). Then you'll beat together the milk, eggs, brown sugar and cinnamon and pour it over the top. This will sit overnight and soak up nicely into the bread.
Then you'll add a brown sugar crumb topping and berries to the top of the bread right before baking. I also love adding frozen mixed berries to the top, because we always have them on hand in the freezer. The berries make this french toast casserole extra delicious. I love the sweet flavor they add!
I love to cook my french toast casserole the full hour so that the top of the bread becomes a little caramelized/toasted and the center is cooked through. If you'd like the center more of a bread pudding texture, I would take it out about 15 minutes sooner. Either way it's delicious!
I like to use thick, day old French bread. This prevents the french toast bake from getting soggy.
Sourdough and challah bread work great too.
I typically always add fresh or frozen berries to this overnight french toast recipe, however you can leave them out if you'd like.
Feel free to use other types of fruit, like peaches or apples.
If you want to omit fruit all-together, try adding some chopped nuts (like pecans or walnuts). Or check out my eggnog french toast bake.
When serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar or drizzle with maple syrup. Sometimes I'll add a drizzle of homemade caramel if I have it on hand.
Should you toast bread before making French toast? For this overnight french toast recipe, I don't toast the bread before assembling. Because I use thick, day old bread, it's already on the hard side. If your bread is feeling a little too soft, try toasting prior to assembling.
How do you store french toast overnight? To store overnight, simply cover french toast casserole with foil and place in the fridge. It needs to chill for at least 3 hours, but preferably overnight so that the flavors blend together nicely.
Do you cover baked French toast in the oven? No, you don't need to cover this french toast casserole when you bake it in the oven.
How long do I cook French toast casserole? For a toasted and caramelized french toast casserole, cook for about an hour. For more of a bread pudding texture, cook for around 45 minutes.
Grease a 9×13″ casserole dish and set aside.
Cut the french bread loaf into cubes and layer evenly in the pan. You should have about 2 layers. Beat the milk, eggs, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a medium size bowl. Then pour evenly over the bread, making sure it covers each piece. Cover with foil and refrigerate over night, or at least 3 hours.
In a medium size bowl, mix together the butter, flour and brown sugar with a pastry cutter or two knives. Use your hands if needed to make crumbs. Cover and refrigerate.
When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350°F. Add the crumb topping on top of the bread and then evenly disperse the berries on top. Bake uncovered for 50-60 minutes, or until the top is lightly browned and the center is cooked through.
Enjoy by itself or topped with syrup.
Hope you enjoy this french toast casserole! It has definitely become one of my family's favorites to make over the years.
This recipe rocks! Made for Sunday morning….cut in half, since there is only 2 of us. Puffed up nicely, and adding warm Maple syrup made this dish a keeper!
PS: No fruit was added in my version, next time raisins…….
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for leaving a comment and review!
Oh my goodness! This is SO good! I made It to try first before taking it in a family ski trip with 11 people, and it turned out really well. No syrup needed! I will Be making two casseroles and couldn't be happier to find this recipe to try. The women always make a breakfast and dinner each and I'm always looking for new recipes to try! This was a great find! Thank you!
My kids love French toast and this recipe is perfect for them. I will modify the fruit though.
Can't wait to make this for Christmas morning breakfast!
Hope you enjoy as much as we do! Love overnight recipes for Christmas morning!


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It transpired that he was in a coalition with another former employee who had left the company several years earlier. The information that was exposed gave the Directors of the business a demonstrable reason to suspect more fraudulent activity from the former employee.
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A class for students with no experience on an orchestral string instrument. Students will learn to care for, tune, and proficiently play one of the four orchestral string instruments: violin, viola, cello, or double bass. Orchestra students will also learn to read music as well as critically analyze the music they will be playing and listening to. A wide variety of music is explored, as well as theory, music history, and ear training. There are two performances per year, one in December and one in May.


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When someone asks me for a quick pick of my favorite movies, I have a stock answer. It's a short list that includes the 1984 Bill Forsyth film Local Hero. At this year's Denver International Film Festival, I finally had the chance to meet Peter Riegert, star of Local Hero.
Even if you don't know Riegert's name, you probably recognize his face. He's been in supporting roles (more on that later) in such high-profile films as Animal House, The Mask, and Infinity. He also starred in the final episode of Seinfeld. You'd have to have been living in a cave not to have seen his face somewhere.
Riegert recently moved from acting into directing, starting with a short film in 2000 that earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short. Now in 2004, he is making the festival circuit with King of the Corner, his feature directorial debut. Look for it in theaters in spring of 2005.
My interview wasn't long enough to cover Local Hero, but we did talk about acting, directing, and what it means to be a "supporting" player in a movie.
I did a very interesting satire about gangsters called Coldblooded that Wally Wolodarsky wrote and directed -- he was a writer on The Simpsons.
Joan Silver directed Crossing Delancey, and a film called Chilly Scenes of Winter.
I'm a huge Buster Keaton fan. Charlie Chaplin fan. Preston Sturges -- I could watch those over and over again. Orson Welles, I love Orson Welles. I always loved 400 Blows, the Truffaut film. Kursawa films are always pretty amazing to sit and watch again and again.
Peter Riegert: I directed a short film called By Courier about four years ago, based on an O. Henry short story, and had good fortune with it. It got nominated for an Academy Award. I wanted to [direct], and I directed a short in college. [But] I was having enough success as an actor so I could procrastinate.
MM: I've heard there's a story about the short film having production problems...?
PR: We were going to shoot on a Saturday and Sunday at a friend's farm up in Rhinebeck, New York. The Thursday before we started shooting, a tornado — which is really rare in upstate NY — wiped out the whole electrical system in the area. My cinematographer, a fellow named Tom Houghton, had suggested I bring a generator. I thought "what do we need a generator for?" Well of course we used the generator.
Then Saturday, the first day we were shooting, it rained all day and I hadn't prepared for cover for the cast, and everybody was dressed in these very delicate 1930s outfits, so I rewrote the opening and used the front of the farmhouse and the barn for safety.
It was one of those lessons you learn in miniature about moviemaking essentially being problem-solving, because every day something crazy happens, whether it's equipment failures, actors getting sick, costumes getting lost, whatever it may be and you just have to make your day. So it was actually a great trial by fire. A tornado and a rainstorm, that's a first good dose of movie reality.
MM: King of the Corner, of course, a much bigger project. Did that catch you by surprise?
PR: It didn't, actually. I wanted to make a short and at least I would have it as a something in a portfolio. We started showing it in September of 2000, and 6 months later I found this book that was given to me by a writer named Gerald Shapiro who lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he's a professor of literature. So I read the book, called him the next day, and we were on our way.
MM: I was going to ask if you were friends with Gerald Shapiro beforehand, but I guess not.
PR: No, he had written me. They [the Shapiros] were at a symposium in New York City. He wrote a note saying "I'm a fan and I'm sorry you're not there, and here's a collection of my short stories. I think we might share a sense of humor. However, if we don't, just consider it a thank-you for what you've meant to me." Very moving. Very sweet. The collection is called "Bad Jews and Other Stories" and I thought, "if this is half as funny as the title...." Almost two years to the day, we started shooting, which is pretty quick.
MM: Were you out looking for a movie to direct?
PR: Well he's the guy that started all this going, because he introduced us. He had come up and said "look , I really like this show, will you bring it to Lincoln?" I said, "yeah, when?" "In the spring." I went there for one reason, to take this movie [By Courier] and give it a little bit more of an audience, and then here it [Shapiro's story] was. It came to me in an envelope.
MM: You co-screenwrote. How do you collaborate with someone who has written the source material? It's their baby.
PR: One of the things that's interesting about this was that Gerry had never written a screenplay, so I was able to talk him through the difference [between] dramatic writing as opposed to fiction, in which the author controls everything. In a way, it helped me articulate what I believe about good acting and good moviemaking.
And he was completely open to changing things, but I was obviously interested in the essential aspects of the story. We put our two experiences together over the course of two years of working on the material. It just evolves generally. He's a writer so he gets up every day and he writes. I'm not disciplined like a writer, I haven't trained myself to be a writer. So I do a lot of walking around and he sits and types. We communicated quite a bit over the phone, through the internet, and about 2 or 3 visits in person where we'd spend about 7 to 10 hours a day, real chunks of intense work.
PR (cont.): And then we did a reading that he came to in New York, and a reading that he came to in Los Angeles.
PR: Just actors, but in the first reading, Beverly D'Angelo read, and Eli Wallach, Eric Bogosian, Dominic Chianese, and Harris Yulin — they each, independently of each other, came up and said "if this ever happens I want to do it." So once I heard that, I knew I was gonna get a cast. I was pretty confident I would because I've always believed that actors will definitely take a leap for good material. And because I was an actor I could say to Gerry, "this won't work, no actor's gonna want to do this, it's not interesting enough," so I had that kind of comfort with him and he could understand.
I needed a really experienced group of actors to do what would be considered somewhat demanding, because I like longer takes and more complicated film setups instead of a lot of closeups — largely out of necessity because I only had 20 days, so something has to go, but I prefer a more... I like to see more of the body and the background, the depth of focus in a shot.
MM: Some people would say that's a comedic framing.
PR: Well it could be, but I think that you can accomplish a lot more when people are in proximity. Instead of shooting you this way, (indicates cutting from him to me), I bring you closer and we just shoot like this. But I think you have to learn how to use closeups, and I in all honesty didn't know how to use them as well as I would the second time. But I'm still less partial to them because I think body language is so interesting, and on film, that's what you're looking for. I don't need to watch you talk. If you notice, a lot of my back is in the movie because I'm trying to establish the other characters.
MM: You also acted in this one. Was it tricky to balance directing and acting?
PR: I don't want to sound flippant, but it wasn't, in the sense that most of my experience is acting. So I'm going from the lesser experience of choosing camera positions, angles, and lenses, and once I left the lens and walked around the camera, I was in a more comfortable position. But I was prepared. I understood the character. I was as prepared for it as I could be. And the great thing was, I could do it the way I wanted to do it. Take chances in ways that some directors might not.
MM: You've made a career out of supporting roles.
PR: ... Well that's just for political reasons because it wasn't fair to ask people to work for nothing and then give billing to people, so it's alphabetized that way. But I think that when I was working with Gerry I said look, as soon as the camera is on somebody, they're the lead. That's just the way it is. So you can't write less interestingly for supporting actors. That's why I was sort of editing what you were saying. That's the way it looks to the public, but I promise you most actors, if not all actors, don't think that they're anything but the lead.
MM: ... What's the Orson Welles film where they talk about him for half an hour and then he shows up?
PR: That's The Third Man — and most people think he directed and wrote it, that's how powerful he was. So I think that's an actor's lot. You're in service to the story.
MM: I wonder if you turned down any lead roles because the movie or the cast wasn't as interesting.
PR: I have. There have been parts. I tried, when I started, to be as selective as I could possibly be because I think it's important to have a point of view. Most of the stuff an actor gets in the beginning of their career is pretty much crap. You have to be careful about being exploited in the wrong way. And when people are young and starting out in the business, their eyes are so big because they see something that probably isn't there. That's the nature of the beast. But I don't think anybody in their right mind thinks of themselves as a supporting actor. That's just the way it might work out in terms of the job they did.
Tom Stoppard wrote a play called Rosencranz and Guldenstern Are Dead. And the whole premise of that piece is that those two guys think the play [Hamlet] is about them.
Col Freeman: Just briefly; I am 1950 vintage, a musician, not a movie buff and rarely find contemporary movies that I can enjoy. Very fussy/over-critical maybe. However, Rich's msg prompts me to let you know that 'Local Hero' is also my all-time favourite movie. So there is at least one other 'hard-core' fan in the world! I interpret the movie as Rich does, and possibly - certainly, the fact that I am an English guy who has spent most of his life in Australia is relevant. This movie contains some sort of magic.
Peter's acting is indeed wonderful. I saw him by chance a couple of years back in only part of a movie I caught where he was playing a fast-talking bad business-type guy, and I was super-impressed by him then too. Riegert is without a doubt, charismatic, to say the least.


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ellaslist Puts An Inflatable Birthday Party Venue To The Test
By: Marie Ashworth, 07 November 2016
By: Marie Ashworth, ellaslist
It's the annual challenge. Organising a birthday party that your child will love without it costing you the earth and your sanity.
For my son's 4th birthday, I decided months ago that for I wanted to make things easier than last year. His 3rd birthday party involved an entire weekend of shopping and cooking and a last minute panic to find an indoor venue when the stormy weather scuppered our outdoor park party plans.
I knew at 8 months pregnant I was going to find hauling my bump around the shops and kitchen in the lead up to this year's party pretty exhausting and, even more daunting, the energy needed to keep a lively bunch of preschoolers entertained for 2 hours!
So, I started looking for somewhere that promised maximum enjoyment for my son and his buddies, while taking care of the hard work for me.
That's when I came across Cool Cats, a Randwick-based indoor birthday party venue and play centre for kids aged 4-14 years old. This huge hall on Randwick Boys High School campus transforms into an inflatable bouncing, jumping and sliding paradise for kids at the weekends.
Exclusive Or Non-Exclusive Parties
I enquired about the party around 6 weeks before. The super-friendly Janine who gave me the lowdown on the different options. I wanted to book a non-exclusive party and was keen to find out how this works. My biggest concern was my son's preschool friends feeling overwhelmed among older kids but as Jeannine explained, she always matches parties with similar age ranges. I had originally wanted to book for a Sunday but when she said there was already a booking with older kids, I decided to move the date to the Saturday.
Your Party, Your Choice
As I discovered, there really isn't much to organise when you book with Cool Cats. Most parents choose the catered packages that include snacks (popcorn, crisps, lollies), pizzas and water for the children. Self catering options are available, but frankly, why would you do that to yourself when there's an easier way! There are also a number of optional extras such as a Tattoo Bar, Tea & Coffee for adults and party bags. The only thing left to take care of is the invites and the cake. What a breeze!
Stress Free Enjoyment Beforehand
Last year, the most stressful part of our DIY party was the set up. It took much longer than we anticipated ferrying everything to the venue, finding a parking space, disabling the fire alarm we set off, putting up the decorations and laying out all the food. Needless to say our 1 hour extra venue rental was not enough time. People were arriving while we still at the top of ladders blu-tacking Happy Birthday banners to the wall.
Flip to this year and it couldn't have been a more different experience. There was a feeling of calm on the day of the party that happened to be on my son's actual birthday. That meant we really got to enjoy his birthday morning at home – watching him open and play with his presents and brunching with family – without any rushing around.
All we had to do was get there 10-15 minutes before the start, remember a bag of snacks for parents and the cake. There is ample free parking within the gates of Randwick Boys High School just in front of the hall so no mad rush to find a space or worry over whether you'll get a ticket.
We arrived to find the room full of inflatable equipment pumped up to the max ready for a troop of lively preschoolers to bounce and slide to their heart's content over the next 2 hours. The set up includes jumping castles of all shapes and sizes with slides, as well as a series of inflatable games including the Big Red Balls obstacle course, Basketball Challenge, Gladiator Joust and even a mechanical bull.
As well as Janine keeping a close eye on things, Cool Cats has a number of staff dotted around the room watching over the children and the equipment.
My son's partygoers started arriving and wasted no time in putting on a pair of Cool Cats grip socks and diving straight into the action. Before long, the whole room was full of bouncing, flying. slipping, sliding boys and girls with huge grins on their faces.
Refueling Station
Up on the stage there was a designated party table full of snacks and jugs of water (replenished regularly – bouncing sure is thirsty work!). Children made their own way up when they needed to rest and refuel. Around an hour into the party, the pizzas arrived and the staff went round letting everyone know.
The Perfect Party For My Son
My son is not a huge fan when it comes to being the centre of attention. He found his 3rd birthday a little overwhelming because of this. I knew Cool Cats would be different. All the kids are playing and having fun on the different equipment rather than gathering around the party boy/girl. My son can also find noisy environments just as overwhelming. I'm not saying Cool Cats is quiet – they have music playing and of course squeals of delight from kids but compared to parties I've been to at larger indoor play centres, the noise levels are nowhere near as loud and didn't bother my son at all.
So here's the thing. Our DIY party last year cost us heaps more than we'd budgeted. Once we'd paid for an entertainer, a last-minute indoor venue plus all the food and drinks we didn't see much change from $1000. The beauty with Cool Cats is there's a set price per child for a non-exclusive catered party – $29 per child (minimum 15 children) with some optional extra if you wish e.g. tea and coffee for parents ($50), tattoo bar ($50), party bags ($3). For an exclusive catered party (maximum 40 children), the cost is $1080.
The obvious enjoyment beamed across all the kids faces during the entire party
Hearing my son say it was 'the best birthday ever!'
Watching a bunch of 4 year olds ride the mechanical bull (the staff operate it super slow for little ones and the landing is soft if they fall off
Very little pre-party preparation required on my part
The most relaxed lead up to a party on the day
Not having to do anything apart from enjoying the party and catching up with other parents
Party Times - Saturday 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm; Sunday 10:00 am to 12:00 noon; 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Casual Visits – as well as parties, Cool Cats is also open for drop in visits at $14 per child per hour. It's essential you call in advance to confirm availability as hours do vary for casual visits due to exclusive parties. Saturday 2.30-4.30pm, 5-7pm & 7.30-9.30pm. Sunday 10am-12pm, 12.30-2.30pm & 3-5pm.
School Holidays – Cool Cats are also open during the school holidays Monday to Friday for casual visits and parties – don't forget to call ahead to confirm availability and opening times.
Disco/Glow Parties – perfect for a special occasion, the new Cool Cats Disco/Glow parties are proving to be popular with older kids
Cool Cats – The Essentials
What's On Offer: Kids Parties and Drop-in Play Sessions at weekends and during school holidays
Where: Cool Cats is situated on the corner of Avoca & Rainbow Streets in Randwick – entrance is via Rainbow Street into the Randwick Boys High School campus.
Find Out More & Book Now at www.coolcatsfun.com.au, phone 0413 772 771
or email [email protected]


Since it's been awhile since I shared any thrifted finds on here I thought I'd make a post. My sister and I have stopped the weekly thrift shopping for awhile because the stores were just having a lot of the same stuff. We still pop in now and again, but do not go every week like we used to. So the stuff you see here is from the last three months.
The top photo is most recent. Thomas and I took a trip up to Penn State to help Kurt pack up his dorm room, put most of it in storage up there, and bring him back home for the Summer. Since next year he will be in an apartment in State College this could be the last Summer we have him home. It's really so strange to think about. The drive to State College is a little under three hours, so we made a stop when we saw a billboard for a big antique mall right off the highway. I found the bunka doll first and she was $15 but came with a doll stand. I justified buying her since I have never seen an actual bunka doll in real life, and they seem rather unusual to stumble upon here in the states. Then in another booth I found the kewpie doll for $3 and the bunny planter for $2. The whole booth was filled with items marked down really low. I am kicking myself for not buying the beautiful vintage umbrella quilt that was only $30. That one can live in my mental list of "ones that got away" along with the beautifully decorated metal tree stand covered in smiling snowmen. I had decided not to buy it at the time even though it was only fifty cents.
The set of doll dishes I bought on a day thrifting with my sister. It was the only thing I found that day, but totally worth the $5 it set me back.
The egg salt and pepper shakers were $2 and I found them the day Thomas and I went on an adventure.
The record and book were quite awhile ago, before Easter even-so I don't remember the details, but they had to be cheap. I don't like to pay more then $1 for books and $2 for records.
The next photo was from a really good day with my sister, again before Easter so I'm not sure about price details. Again I am cheap when it comes to cutesy knick-knacks so I am sure they could not of cost me too much.
And some final photos from the last couple months. More fun kids books, really cute atomic bowls, and a glass jar for iced coffee. I do remember the jar was only 25 cents because I figured you can buy them knew for about $1 so that was a wonderful price.
Besides buying up fun knew things I have done some cleaning out over the last 3 months. The first time I took 8 bags of goods to donate, and the last time I had ten. I like to think of it as a lovely cycle of always sending items off to be enjoyed by others, but still being able to find cute things to bring home.
Wednesday was the kick off of the annual Salvation Army Fabric Sale here in PA. I kind of debated going on opening day, but then the night before I realized I would really regret it if I didn't. So Wednesday morning I got up at 6am and my friend Crystal and I headed to stand in line (with lots and lots of other people) for a chance at some crafty supplies!
It was so much fun as always, and I was really restrained this year. I only filled two bags for myself, and one for my friend Molly who wasn't able to get off work. She just opened a online shop selling the really cute things she makes using vintage supplies, check it out here!
I'll take some detail photos to share of all the goodies I got, not much fabric this time-but goodness knows my fabric stash is not lacking.
The holidays between October and the end of December are my favorite times for thrift shopping. There is always a funny mix of Christmas & a little last bit of Halloween to be found around the middle of November. I always welcome Halloween goods no matter what time of year, so these little finds are extra sweet when the thrift shops declare them 75% off to make room for the next holiday.


Located at 1st floor of the Sheraton Saigon Hotels and Towers, the club is open daily 24 hours. A gaming lounge features slot machines with variety of games, Roulette, Baccarat and Blackjack. Platinum, gold and silver members inherited preferential and fabulous benefits, such as free air-ticket, free hotel rooms, free F&B and more.
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Q: windows 7 BSOD non paged error now all windows services hung at started Noob poster. Running windows 7, recently updated with all critical updates. Had BSOD with a non paged memory error on startup a few days ago. Otherwise, the system runs well, although I have noticed some problems with Chrome browser crashing, which I just attributed to the usual nonsense.
Tried to run windows update today and found the service was not running. Went to Control Panel > Adminsitrative Tools > Services and found Windows Update not running and all the other services hung at "started".
Started windows update. It hangs at "started" too. Tried to run it, says not runnning, try restart... which has no effect, naturally.
Any ideas? Is this a OS problem or a hardware problem? Virus?

A: Yes, very likely a virus. There's a few things you might be able to jimmy it with.
1) Microsoft update fix it. Download it off their website. it'll run a diagnostic set, maybe fix you up.
2) open up a search, look for .cmd. Right click on program cmd in pulldown, choose "run as admin". When you have the dos shell open, type
sfc /scannow
3) Download combofix off of bleepingcomputer.com(there are lookalikes out there that ARE viruses, which is why i recommend getting it there). Run as admin
good luck!

A: It appears to have been a bad stick of RAM. Memtest86 found a few thousand errors.
I pulled the bad stick, and my system has been stable and all services running without any hang ups.


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Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Ubaydallah Sadiq (), commonly known as Ali Daya (علی دایا), was a Tajik commander who served under the early Ghaznavid rulers, but later fell out of favor and was executed.

Biography
Ali Daya is first mentioned in 1030, when the Ghaznavid Sultan Mahmud died and was succeeded by his son Muhammad. However, the majority of the Ghaznavid troops, which included Ali Daya, mutinied again Muhammad, and joined the latter's brother more experienced Mas'ud I who was at Nishapur. Mas'ud eventually became victorious and Ali Daya was rewarded by Mas'ud's vizier Ahmad Maymandi as the commander-in-chief (sipahsalar) of the Ghaznavid army in Khorasan, thus succeeding the dishonored Turkic general Astightigin. Ali Daya was shortly sent with an army of 4,000 troops against the Seljuk Turks. In 1035, his comrade Begtoghdi succeeded him as the commander-in-chief of Khorasan.

Ali Daya was later present at the Battle of Dandanaqan in 1040, where the Ghaznavids suffered a disastrous defeat. Mas'ud, who blamed Ali Daya and his comrades for the disastrous Ghaznavid defeat, had them imprisoned and then shortly executed in India. The Persian poet Manuchehri is known to have composed one lyric to Ali Daya.

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