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13 June, 2007 | No comments

Sandra Lyng Haugen

18 år gamle Sandra Lyng Haugen fra Mosjøen ble norgesberømt da hun dukket opp i TV2s Idol-konkurranse i 2004. Sandra Lyng Haugen her. Alle elsker søte Sandra Lyng Haugen (20), men slik har det ikke alltid vært. Som barn ble hun utsatt for nådeløs mobbing. Hun forteller om sine skrekk-opplevelser i kvinnebladet [mag]. I intervjuet forteller hun at det var en tøff overgang for en 16 år gammel jente å bli rikskjendis. Sandra Lyng Haugen er nå rikskjendis de luxe og soler seg i glansen. Hun kan å synge ingen tvil om det.

10 June, 2007 | No comments

lån

Attrition is the restrictionists’ fallback plan, a wishful equation that with enough enforcement, mass deportation will happen by itself: Misery plus time equals no more illegals. Small-bore ideologues in places like Hazleton, Pa., and Suffolk County, N.Y., have bought into this approach, adding layer on layer of hostile legislation to drive people out.
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. There are many sites on the web where you can loan money these days. One such site is “lån på internettet”
. If you need big money or small money, this is just the place where you can get the greatest advices. The first advice regarding this loan business would be not to get a smslån. So take care and spend your money well.10 years and was put on some kind of hormones which caused her to gain weight and she was never able to get it off. She also said the hormones ruined her skin and her hair. She was taking them for a few years with no result when she finally got pregnant with my friend but by that time she was so overweight that her period had almost stopped and she did not even realized she was pregnant until she was 7 months along. Very scary story… Just thinking that she got so overweight from the hormones terrifies me. Of course, that happened over 20 years ago but still…

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The price of this strategy is high — far more government intrusion into daily lives, with exponential increases in workplace raids, detentions and deportations; continual ID checks for everyone, citizen or not; immigration police at the federal, state, county and local levels; bureaucrats and snoops keeping an eye on landlords, renters, laborers, loiterers and everyone who uses government services or gets sick. The strain on agriculture and service industries would be devastating. And all the things that everyone agrees are the perversities of the status quo — exploited workers, depressed wages, a huge undocumented population within our borders — would persist for an indefinite period until the last illegal immigrant goes home.

5 June, 2007 | No comments

Davinci Code

he course of true love never did run smooth-Shakespear I decided to start off today with a qoute for no particular reason. You can inturprate the qoute howerver you want to.

I’ll give you the “411″ (lmao. “411″) of the past few days in snips….sort of…

Well anyway. First of all Kim’s Batmitzvah (sp?) is Saturday. I got a dress over the weekend for the par-tay. I got it at Wet Seal, and it’s a black-ish-charcole-ish color, with pinstripes and a fake rose on it. It’s um, cocktail dress kind of style? I think that’s it. I like it so that’s all that matters…
I went to the Library today because I had a hold on Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (author of the Davinci Code..I didn’t read that one, but my mom reccomends it so i’ll eventually read it,)
Patient Dies

Shares of Ireland’s Elan Pharmaceuticals plunged 57 percent in overnight trading after the drug company and its partner, Biogen Idec, suddenly suspended sales of its widely trumpeted new multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri following the death of a patient. The drug makers decided to halt sales after finding one confirmed and one suspected case of a rare central nervous system disorder called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. All clinical trials involving Tysabri were also suspended.
Analysts said the drug — expected to emerge as the leading seller in its category — would be required to undergo extensive testing before it could return to the marketplace. Elan had placed much of its turnaround hopes on Tysabri, and Biogen Idec had seen the drug as a replacement for its aging MS pharmaceutical Avonex. Biogen Idec saw its stock price melt 40 percent while Serono, which makes a competing medication, saw shares soar 17 percent on the news.

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400 degrees for about an hour till its soft and browned. But the best part was my salad–I had two tiny tomatoes (I have to eat them quick those hydroponic tomatoes which really don’t taste great go bad quick),fat-free feta crumbled,scallion,and this italian parslye yours truly grabbed thinking it was cilantro, ripped up with some oilve oil, vinegar, orengo and basil and black pepper! YUMMMM! The ricotta thing was a iittle better tonight bc I didn’t spill 1.2 the can of chocolate into it, and i used more vanilla.

Maybe I should just slug the bottle of vanilla down and call it a night.

Meawhile, I found out me and my drunken crew of friends, mostly men, are going out of town for the 4th which means:
a)I am going to have a hard time sticking on the plan. I guess if we go out I can do the proteina nd veggies
b)the friend we are staying with is tall gorgeous thin, and has a house full of pop-tarts,twinkies,doritos,etc.
c)I know I will end up drinking, last time we went there it was 72 hrs of insanity. Perhaps I shall drink till I puke ;_0
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tuesday, wish it were sundae
Sigh. Woke up in a tizzy, I was late per usual, the toilet overflowed, it was all i could do to get out of the house-but then i had to make that stupid egg! I was determined, as late as I was, not to not have breakfast. So I slapped two slabs of turkey bacon in the microwave and then I did the smelly microwave egg thingie==i must say it was mere sustanence. The turkey bacon sort of tastes like slabs of salt. Thank G-d for salsa.

Ten Drugs To Watch
Standard & Poor’s list of the top 10 drugs to watch in 2005 looks like a compilation of the hopes and dreams of beat-up Big Pharma stocks. Most of the drugs analyzed by the credit-rating firm belong to companies whose shares have been recently depressed, such as Merck (MRK:NYSE) and Pfizer (PFE:NYSE) , as well as companies trying to pull themselves out of a long-term trough, such as Schering-Plough (SGP:NYSE) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY:NYSE) . but it’ll takes forever to get it from the Library and I havn’t got the money to buy it…I got some other books to but I can’t rember them all of the top of my head. I only remember The Flip Side by Andrew Matthews, only because I read it today in. I like short books (if they are intrseting that is) then I read the first page and can’t stop….But it might be a strange book to some people because it mostly all these gender-bending issue-type things. Never the less it was a good read.
Ummm I know I have more intrsting things to say but they always slip my mind while I type other stuff. *sigh* well I can’t remember so I’ll tell when I remember.
-The Katie
Don’t rain on my parade.

5 June, 2007 | No comments

10.5 million metric tons annually

“I can’t remember exactly the point that I said, ‘I’m going to do this,’ ” Thompson says, his 6-foot, 6-inch frame sprawled comfortably across a couch in a hotel suite. “But when I did, the thing that occurred to me: ‘I’m going to tell people that I am thinking about it and see what kind of reaction I get to it.’ ”
Til Debt Do US Part

“People will forgive sexual infidelity before they forgive financial infidelity,” says divorce financial specialist Akeela Davis.

And those who do end up forgiving a financial philanderer end up being labelled “sucker,” adds Gail Vaz-Oxlade, host of the TV show Til Debt Do US Part, which airs on Life Network.
Something else people probably don’t know about is the company’s interest in about a hundred cogeneration facilities in more than thirty locations worldwide, generating some 4,300 megawatts of power. This capacity also reduces global CO2 emissions by more than 10.5 million metric tons annually. That’s equivalent to taking two million cars off the road in America.

Little known to the public is the extraordinary generosity of the company. In 2006, it made $9 million in grants through its Africa Health Initiative and more than $2.5 million through its Educating Women and Girls Initiative. Outside of the pharmaceutical industry, ExxonMobil is the largest private sector donor to malaria research activities. In 2007, the company became a founding sponsor of the National Math and Science Initiative, committing $125 million to encouraging this area of education.
Well, “sucker” is definitely written all over the forehead of this desperate caller to my TV show, Money Line.

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“Linda, what I can I do?” pressed John, who explained his work takes him away from home for weeks on end, and his bride gets bored. He went on to explain, “so she applied for all these credit cards, went on a spending spree, maxed them all out and secretly kept it from me. But then collection agencies began to call.”
His late start carries some problems but also “certain advantages,” he says. “Nobody has maxed out to me” in contributions, he notes, and using the Internet already “has allowed me to be in the hunt, so to speak, without spending a dime.”

Indeed. For what it’s worth, in Internet poll after Internet poll, you see Fred Thompson’s name either at the top of the list, or in the top three, but as far as national polls, he has his work cut out for him. His entry into the race is going to throw a monkeywrench into the campaigns of the “Big 3? (Rudy, Romney, and McCain) because what they are riding on right now is name recognition, but no real deep affection from the base (does the name Rudy McRomney ring alarm bells or what?).

3 June, 2007 | No comments

That was the last I saw of her.

The Ducks never miss a chance to punish somebody. Turn your back to go in deep and chip the puck out, take a hit. Skate up the boards to take a chance on a 50/50 puck, get a shot to the chops. Get in close, get face washed by Pronger. It never stops.

This sort of game takes a toll one hit at a time and incrementally. While the Sens stayed disciplined tonight, I wonder how much longer that can last with the frustration building.

* Tonight’s 2nd period might have set the NHL back 15 years. After it was over I had to take a nap that lasted a full minute into the third period, and I was live blogging the game.

* Ray Emery is the only Senator playing worth a damn. He’s showing me something. If he ever gets some support, he can steal a game. As for his teammates, they’ve regressed over two games. All is lost.

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As the train sped along, her eyes closed as she leaned back against the door, rocking with the motion of the car. Slowly, slowly, her head nodded and then fell far forward. Just as the rest of her was about to follow, she snapped her head up, waking in time to pull herself up. Her mouth hung open.

All the way past Maverick and Airport she swayed, her head falling forward, eyes shut tight, nodding off and losing balance, then jerking upright. Just when I thought she’d collapse in a heap on the subway car floor, some internal force would shake her and pull her up. The other passengers either ignored her or pointed at her, laughing quietly among themselves. The woman next to me met my eyes and shook her head in disapproval.

I was about to stand to offer her my seat at least, insist she sit down, when some homing instinct alerted her that her stop was next. The train stopped, the doors slid open, and she stumbled outside onto the platform. As the doors closed, and the train pulled away, she stood looking dazed as if uncertain where she was and thinking was too great an effort. She leaned against a metal fence and sank to the platform, her eyes closed. That was the last I saw of her.

I was the only one who watched her leave.

For the rest of the ride home and well into the evening, and even now, days later, I asked myself what I should have done. I had sat there, watching as this woman, this girl really, my son’s age, placed herself in harm’s way. I had sat there, wondering what to do, paralyzed by indecision. A thousand things went through my mind. Did she need medical attention? How would she get home? Did she even have a home? Despite the rough-looking hands, her nails bore signs of a recent manicure and her eyebrows were painstakingly plucked. She must have had a home. But would she get there safely? In that state she was vulnerable–to sexual assault, physical abuse, worse. I wanted to do something, but I didn’t know what.
Live Blogging Game Two

Stop by the NHL Fanhouse around game time for some live blogging from me and Tom Luongo.

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The Ultimate Table Hockey Game

A couple of days back, I dedicated my column at NBC Sports.com to a look at the series of video shorts put together by the Knob Hockey gang.

But after kicking around YouTube this morning, I think I might have found the ultimate expression of the game Richard D’Alessio and the Jokers Hockey Club tried to parody:

The game in question costs an actual $495. Be sure to take a close look at the goalie. Back when I played table/knob hockey, there was no way the goalie had that much freedom of movement.

Think of it as a gift for the hockey fan who has everything. And while I’m sure plenty of folks would love to have their own electric bubble hockey set up, I can’t help but love the old school vibe I’m getting this is giving off.

3 June, 2007 | No comments

The head of strategy at IBM

“Yes, American workers are dislocated — perhaps permanently in the manufacturing sector and significantly among professional and white-collar employees whose jobs won’t return unless the country invests substantially in their retraining and education.”

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Separating Outsourcing Fact from Hysteria
TCS: Tech Central Station reports the debate over outsourcing and its impact on the US economy reached a high level of what can only be described as irrationality, and even hysteria.

Outsourcing is not a new phenomenon, of course. Strictly speaking, the term refers to the subcontracting of any business function to an outside supplier, but in the current debate outsourcing to other companies within the home country is rarely mentioned. It is the offshore component that is controversial.

Estimates of the number of jobs involved vary wildly. The head of strategy at IBM, Bruce Harreld, has estimated that the world’s companies now spend $19 trillion per year on sales and other administrative costs, and of this only $1.4 trillion is outsourced. The McKinsey Global Institute suggests that offshore outsourcing may increase by 30-40 per cent a year for the next five years, while Forrester Research predicts that 3.3 million white-collar jobs may be relocated overseas by 2015. The potential cost savings involved are certainly very large. McKinsey has suggested the multinational companies can lower their costs by 50-70 per cent through the reorganization of their production and administrative activities. In the white-collar area, IT services are likely to be the most affected. Already some 16 per cent of such work is done remotely, and perhaps half of such jobs may move overseas in the near future.Arnie Herz, who has been called “one of New York’s most highly skilled and gifted mediators” by United States District Judge Carl Horn III, will be putting his own unique stamp on Blawg Review at Legal Sanity, the blog Arnie created to help lawyers achieve work-life balance and find reinvigorated meaning in their work.

For those of you who blog, if you’d like to help Arnie out and submit a blog post for his consideration as he prepares to deliver Blawg Review #108, here are the official Blawg Review submission guidelines.

In the meantime, Blawg Review #107 is hosted this week by the implacable Professor Kingfield. Sit up straight and make sure you’ve done your homework.

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Monday, April 30, 2007
May 1 is Law Day: how will you celebrate it?

May 1 is Law Day–Celebrate!Two weeks ago I published a post explaining why I would not be observing One Day Blog Silence today, April 30, when many bloggers will be observing a collective day of silence in honor of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings along with others who have fallen to violence throughout the world.

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Recruiting Overseas
Spokane Journal of Business reports American Industries International Inc., have been in the business of recruiting nurses, pharmacists, and high-tech engineers from foreign countries to work in the U.S. Though the 34-year Spokane resident says he has established business contacts in 35 countries, recruits so far have come solely from The Philippines and India.

“There is a dire shortage of nurses in the U.S.,” says Uddin. “At present, there is a shortage of 250,000 nurses in this country, and by the year 2020, the shortage is expected to jump up to 700,000 nurses. Washington state is currently short 6,000 nurses, and it is a proven fact that the higher the ratio of nurses, the lower the mortality rate.”

2 June, 2007 | No comments

cheesecake off the bottom

8-Milliners Gold Needles Size 10 #20936 $2.75

Remember all these things are available at Connecting Threads.com and they have been the cheapest and most reasonable quilting shop I have found out there yet.

Pray about it and then send in the above, you won’t be wrong in your decisison. After all, 911 is there to help you when you need them, won’t you help them now that they need you?

 

1.
To get the cheesecake off the bottom of the pan easily, grease the pan with cocoking spray, cut a circle from wax or parchment paper, line the bottom, then when removing, it will slide right off and you can just peel the paper away!
2.
If your cheesecake cracks on the top, try putting a baking dish on the bottom shelf 1/2 full of water below the cheesecake while you are bakinging it. Also, try adding a teaspoon of either flour or corstarch to the bater.
3.
To prevent lumps in the cheesecake, make sure your creamcheese and eggs are at room temperature when your mixing. Try setting them out for a few hours befor you make the cake. If you are mixing the batter and there are lumps, they will be in the cake, try leaving it for 1/2 an hour, then beat it again.

Any other questions, ask me and I can help! I have been making them so long to cure my cravings, I can fix just about any issue you may have when baking cheesecakes. Don’t be afraid, if they dont turn out looking like a professional baked it, taste it. Im sure it still has an amazing flavor. You can dress it up with a topping and then it looks and taste great.
I’m a little freaked out about ever having to have surgery. My mom suggested talking to a physician about it and to see if there is anyway to get tested. If I ever had to make the decision that Bev had, I would choose the same thing. The fact that she came through means that it is possible, it’s just a matter of will power.

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I’ve Fallen in Love…
… with a car! I was saddened to turn in my rental car earlier (yesterday now I guess). What joy! What freedom! I went all around the island and only used up half a tank of gas!

The car was a Ford Focus hatchback. Before this, I would never have considered buying a Ford, I mean, Found On Road Dead. However the car handled splendidly and had plenty of zip. The leather seats helped the experience as well. My phobia of driving over overpasses and emerging from the Pali tunnel nearly disappeared. Parking in the ubiquitous compact spaces here was super easy. Best of all, when I was parked next to Kealoha’s similar sized hatchback on Sunday I realized the Focus was long enough to hold a surfboard (I’m really trying to get up the gumption to try surfing and make it a life habit). My friend Leslee has the non-hatchback version of the Focus and she said that it is definitely not a lemon and very easy to maintain.

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A great BIG thank you from Mississippi

I thought it appropriate to show one of the recent thank you cards I recieved from a dispatcher who received one of my quilts. It is always a blessing to hear back from someone that recieved one of my quitls and knowing how very much they enjoyed it!

Though it may be difficult to read, rest assured it is a genuine card and not something I made up myself!

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