Well, if you need a red colored cheese: Cheese made with port wine is red.

Other than that a little more info about size and scope would be useful.

Maybe ask everyone to wear red, it'd make photos fairly nostalgic if people dressed to a theme. Ladies in red, gentlemen in black w/ red accents?

Oooh, my favorite is the Stars' album, Heart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(Stars_album)

I listened to it non-stop the year I was in grad school in a very snowy place, and it will always remind me of the snow.

Hey Griffin,

Ok,
Protestant is a hard one - (for me especially). Episc & Baptists; you can always get them music and make them happy ;). I take issue with the protestants' Sola Scriptura doctrine especially (as much as Catholics were wrong to sell salvation, protestantism hasn't really righted all the wrongs that the 5 Pillars are supposed to)- Sola Scripture is, roughly, the idea that holy books are to be the law of the religion, and interpretations are suspect. Yet Sola Fide, the other prime protesant rule, says faith alone saves you - not works. Sola Fide doesn't reconcile if you a) believe the bible is the only law or literal law, - and b) read Matthew 25:31 through about 46 to see that Doing Good Works is absolutely essential to performing the essence of 'good' and getting the fastpass to the Disneyland Heaven Adventure.

Sorry, I digress, sorry... Gift! yes, well:

Every pastor needs vestments. They are damn expensive and ,well, what good pastor is secretly a stock broker, right?? (A good alb alone runs about 100 bucks!) So vestments, or a gift certificate for Kaufers.com at the bare minimum are good. You could also get a liturgical book, like 'Pastoral Care of the Sick' (depressing but perhaps useful if she somehow doesn't already have one).
But then you're in danger of just getting a gift for the sake of getting a gift. Give your sis something for HER, from the heart, and everybody wins.

A thought: being as she's working the VA (damn hard job to do btw, send her kudos for that choice alone), a selection of warrior's prayers might be fitting... or even something like a piece of art with proper soldiers-in-mind inspiring words.

The soldiers of old (I mean, like, Crusades-era old) used to inscribe Loricas on their shields - little songs/prayers/chants to recite before battle. Soldiers recovering in VA hospitals are in many ways 'battling' still, each day they try and heal: A lorica-inscribed shield for her office, (or even a customized plexi/clear clipboard? to take on rounds?) with a lorica printed on it would be a thoughtful way to go, if I were in your shoes.

St Patric's Lorica was/is particularly well known as a soldier's incantation. http://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/patrick.htm

Note; some pastors will frown on it, as incantations are, to some eyes, spells/enchantments... To them I say: prayers are as well. So are Hymns. And no woman or man of the cloth should have shame in singing hymns. And besides, The Lorica of St Patrick was made into a hymn, conveniently enough.

But go from the heart. It doesn't have to be a present catering to her profession/calling. It can just be something for Your Sis.

Bernie Whitebear

http://www.unitedindians.org/about_history.html

My first guess would be Cost Plus World Market. It might be worth calling one of their stores to check.

Just so they know what you are dealing with, invite them over for a cup of coffee at night and be sure the lights are activated. You can then demonstrate what you are dealing with in your home from their lights. Experiencing it firsthand will go a long way to getting cooperation for adjusting the aiming of the lights.

Hump-Two-Lips takes the cake - especially considering mcNutt road, big bottoms, flatbottom crk, humptulips valley dike road, and all the other fun names in that area.

these are all WA towns of a sex or bodypart vein--
Horlick
Climax
Mount Brook (okay, if she asks nicely)
Hump-Free (Humphrey)
Ryderwood
Grand Mound (next to Es-sex)
Blewitt
Chumstick
Longbranch
Azwell
Asotin ( down the road from buns o' steel?)
Proebstel
Chiwaukum (chew what, now?)
Newuakum (from NJ)
Ki-tit-ass
Rimrock Retreat has always sounded dirty to me (Spiral Butte is 10 mi east of Rimrock)
Surprise Valley
perenneal favorite Cherry Valley
and Coal Canyon -the flip side?

substance abuse--
Pysht
Stoner
High Rock - high point - highland
Mushroom Corner
Cokedale

None of which are anything compared to-
Wanker's Corner, Oregon
and Maggie's Nipples, Wyoming.

From the US Flag Code (United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 — The Flag), Section 7, subheading K.

"When used on a speaker's platform, the flag, if displayed flat, should be displayed above and behind the speaker. When displayed from a staff in a church or public auditorium, the flag of the United States of America should hold the position of superior prominence, in advance of the audience, and in the position of honor at the clergyman's or speaker's right as he faces the audience. Any other flag so displayed should be placed on the left of the clergyman or speaker or to the right of the audience."

This appears to indicate the flag is on speaker's right (audience left) and the other flag to be displayed is then placed on speaker's left (audience right), presumably at the same height. When the US flag is displayed on a pole with other flags on separate poles they are all flown at the same height.

I am sure you know this but will mention, that when the flag is on stage (pole or flat) it is to the speaker's right but when it is located on the floor level with the audience it is on the audience's right.

When people shut down the streets of Seattle during the WTO, we succeeded in the goal of disrupting that meeting - I remember how awesome it felt to be a small part of that as an individual. But there was a least one year of serious organizing before the protests, both here and in other cities. Also there were people working within the WTO trying to reform the structure. Afterwards, everyone thought change was really going to happen because so many lefty groups had successfully worked together, and it blew up when people from different groups came together and tried to define more specific goals for future organizing.

I guess I'm jaded, but I think Occupy Seattle is going down the same path with much less organization. It seems like a lot of people are on a "protest high" and are just totally focused on staying in Westlake to spite the mayor and the cops. I can't see how this is going to help bring about affordable health care, for example.

I don't think I agree with anything the tea party believes in, but they have been successful in pressuring elected officials to make promises to never, ever raise taxes. I would like to see the Occupy movement hold our elected officials accountable, but it seems like a lot of Occupistas don't vote or want to work for reform within the system.

I'm really hoping an established non-profit will start a related campaign I can do something with, because I don't have time or energy to go to a general assembly every day and bring these issues up.

I did a search online and found some ecommerce sites that carried them. I looked at the Sutter Home & Hearth site but it had no accessories displayed on its site.

I would probably order online, or see if the manufacturer's website lists retailers.

This question reminds me of the question that was posed to Ford Motor CEO Alexander Trotman back in the 90's when asked why Ford was making a particular new car to sell in Europe. "We're doing it to make money," he said. The press, dumbfounded by the point blank response, struggled to come with a follow up question to that.

I think you hit the nail on the head. They're doing it to make money. Charge $12 for shipping, pay FedEx $6 and pocket the difference. I'll tell you this much though, I once worked in the corporate HQ of a Seattle-area based company, and I learned something about shipping. Using the Post Office can cost a fortune for large organizations because it requires a tremendous amount of staff time to prepare, weigh, package, address and label mail and deliver it to the post office.

For companies doing high volume, UPS and FedEx cut huge discounts, and provide pre-prepared (is that a word?) labels and shipping boxes or envelopes, plus they pick up at the office. When time is money, it makes way more sense for large organizations to pay higher postage and spend less staff time preparing shipments.

So, there's that. But in short, yeah they're probably just screwing you. Your best option is to try and find a local retailer that has your product, or find a website that offers free shipping. http://www.freeshipping.org/ offers a searchable list of several thousand websites that ship for free.

Bummertown is just a short ferry ride away but you'll have to go almost to the ocean if you want to see Scabberdean.

GoJo Orange will take even the smell of diesel and old Honda motorcycles out of my hands.

Thanks for answering my question and checking in, Russ.

The vet thinks Gus Gus has a fibrous tumor. Gus Gus also has heart arrhythmia. They're giving him some medication to even out his heart rate and he is going to have surgery on Saturday to remove the tumor. The vet thinks the tumor will be pretty easy to remove.

I'm not sure about putting him through surgery because he's pretty old (2 years and 8 months). But I've had rats live to be 3 or 4 and if the tumor is in a good spot, it seems worth it.

We always called it "Sink the ship" or "Sink the Bismark", (depending on whether the song had played recently or not.)

If you just want to watch something fly with the least amount of worry or fuss, get yourself one of these. There's no parachute, they glue together very quickly, and if it gets stuck in a tree/shatters on landing/is otherwise unrecoverable, you're out under $10.

It's been awhile since I've flown any Estes stuff, but all of their rockets are graded by skill level, starting with 1 and moving up. Definitely start small and work your way up--you will lose rockets, and in my experience, it's much less upsetting to lose a big rocket that you're spent a lot of time on after you're already lost smaller ones because you know what to expect. That, and the big ones look a lot cooler when they explode on liftoff/shatter with a bad landing, so seeing small ones die primes the pump of "this will look really cool when it flies, but it'll also look awesome when it explodes." It kinda becomes half of the fun.

Note: you don't want to encourage rockets to explode on the stand, and if you're careful it doesn't happen often, but it does and you need to be prepared.

All the kits come with detailed assembly instructions, but most of what you do is glue balsa, plastic, and cardboard together and spray paint it when it's dry. Sometimes you have to cut out the fins from a sheet of balsa with an Exacto knife before gluing. The model specs will also tell you what engines you'll need and how high it can be expected to fly in ideal circumstances. There are also pre-assembled rockets, but what's the fun of that?

http://www.estesrockets.com/rockets has a lot of what you want to learn about right on the site. And take up Lilting Missive on the offer. Model rocketry is a lot of fun.

If she likes art the Henry in u dist usually has nice shows, and the turell sky space is pretty cool. You might want to call them and ask what's the best time to view it this time of year. Also the galleries at the tashiro Kaplan building ( 4 culture, soil, punch etc ) have younger artists. If she's down for art viewing note that galleries and museums are closed Mondays. If you know what her tastes are I can suggest some other stuff

If she likes comics the fantagraphics store in Georgetown is a comic geeks wet dream. They also have a record store in there. Note- the airport way bridge is out for a long time, you either want to take freeway or 4 th ave if you're driving. On that note- how is she getting around? If it's public transit what area of town will she be in? That might effect some of the suggestions.

Most likely skip the touristy stuff that costs alot ( space needle, science center emp) unless she really wants to go. She would probably rather spend the $ on food or music ( have her look through stranger to see if any bands she likes are playing when she's here)

If she's a fish eater she should get some of that in while she's here ( I sooooo missed the sushi in thins town when I was out east) if she likes any kind of Asian food a trip to the international district would be good ( even browsing at uwajamaia can be fun)

If she's into movies check out the northwest film forum or siff theater for thinks she might not be able to see elsewhere

And last but not least vivacce coffee, because they rock. Also good stump town, top pot ( some would add victrolla and vita in there but I'm more fond of the others mentioned)

I'll let someone else cover bars

The stickiness comes from the migration of plasticizer and breakdown of the surface of the material she is made from. UV light is very detrimental to the stability of these older plastics so be sure to protect her from sunlight or artificial light sources that have a UV component during long term storage.

You can clean and wipe the surface like you have attempted with some improvement but realize that you are removing the plasticizers that have become free at the surface and the process will continue. Various methods of cleaning, stabilizing, or sealing these plastics are being used by doll aficionados and a good search on the interwebs show the use of plastic cleaners, coating the area with vaseline and exposing to sunlight over a day or more (and then wiping and cleaning excess off), and another method of just simply dusting the plastic parts with talc powder (a mineral product) to reduce the sticky feel to the surface.

Sometimes it is not the stickiness that is the worse effect of this degradation. These aging plastics can also develop a pretty offensive smell in the process also. You are battling the natural breakdown and aging of these vulnerable soft plastics so try different methods and see what works best in your situation.

Unfortunately you probably have to move to 'preservation mode' and away from 'readily available for play mode'. Find a way to keep her available for a hug and a trip down memory lane, but otherwise protected for longevity.

To expand a little on sublevelthree's answer, they are indeed the current look of the Nellie Cornish Memorial Sculpture.

The sculpture (installed 1989) were originally a pair of tall active fountains made of steel and gold leafed bronze (see the description and photo at the link). The spraying water was later shut off as it interfered with the traffic on the bridge. The non-functioning fountains were later replaced by the original donor in 2003 with what you see now (placed on the original platforms that the fountains were on).

This Seattle Weekly article of 2005 tells the basic history facts and gives you much more about Cornish and her legacy.

Here is a closer water level view of them in bright sun for a better look.

The two events are separate phenomena, that is, where the Moon is in its orbit around the Earth and where the Earth is in its orbit around the Sun. The disk of Sun and Moon subtend approximately an angle of 1/2° (as we see them from the surface of the Earth) and the plane of the orbit is tilted about 5° from the ecliptic (plane of the solar system and of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun). So you can see how critical the alignment is to have that shadow line up just right to create the eclipse. There are approximately 13 cycles of the moon's orbit around the Earth for every full orbit the Earth makes around the Sun. Add to that mix that the tilt of the orbit of the Moon around the Earth precesses at about an 18 year cycle and the occurrence of the proper alignment depends on a lot of different features coinciding. The position of the Earth in its orbit for the solstices is just one of them.

First, I think your reasons for not confronting the neighbours are good ones and that it would be risky to do so. If the police do finally get off their backsides and do something about it, you will be squarely in the frame for having reported them. Bad.

So, my suggestions are:
Find out from the neighbourhood watch man who the community contact is with the police. If he is being unhelpful, ring up the local police station and ask for the contact details of the community/neighbourhood watch police officer and talk about it with him or her.

If that does not work, ring the station and ask to speak to the officer in charge, and ask what can be done, and what you can do.

I suspect, because I have a belief that generally the police are well intentioned etc, that it is a resources issue. Investigation of a house that is being used for selling drugs is time intensive (days of physical surveillance, by multiple officers), and difficult to prove (who is actually doing the selling? of what? how much?) and so the priority of it will be down the list. If you, by your regular observations of the events, can establish when it seems they have new deliveries, for example, then that may help the police target a raid to a time when there are drugs on the premises.

For your own observations to be of use, you would need to take detailed diary notes and be prepared to give evidence in court. And even then that would be difficult, as you cannot do 24 hour surveillance and further, you would be treated by defence (and possibly by the prosecution) as an interfering neighbour with an agenda who is making stuff up and so on. Not a fun feeling.

I know the advice to continue to get the police involved seems to be a bit of a cop out (har, a pun!) but we pay our taxes to them to do that job and save us the hassle.

If your efforts to get the police to do something continue to be wasted, maybe get a local journalist to do a piece, or you write a piece for or letter to the paper, without your address etc, about the issue. Bad press may get the police to act?

how about "SUM QUI SUM" ?
My latin is a bit rusty.

Hardwick's hardware store on Roosevelt has syringes. I saw perhaps five or six different ones in a case there today.

i recommend taking out and cutting 6 inches off and placing back in stand the tree heals quick and its best to re-cut the bottom right before placing it in the stand and never let the stand go dry or will have to cut again and if keep doing that you can go from a 8ft tree to 4ft tree by end of xmas last year i wanted to see how long i could keep mine alive it was 3 month before finally threw it out and was still green and not falling apart

Dream symbols, IMO, don't indicate goodness or badness, exactly, but your unconscious has you running from, rather than immediately confronting the snake. --Avoidance? The snake could symbolize your ex-, or male sexuality in general, or maybe even the friend you mentioned: "what more closure do you need? that snake is dead! don't step on it anymore!!" How did you feel about that advice? The snake could even just be a snake.

The synchronicity of finding the dead snake by your work.. what a trip! What to make of coincidental nonsense? I wish I knew, but at the very least, there's no doubt that coincidence/synchronicity happens. To me, it's evidence that we don't have it all figured out. Life is more than meets the eye.

Good luck w/ that issue of closure. The tricky thing is that your heart or mind might think there's a right way to achieve closure, but your heart/mind might be wrong. The drunken dial in the middle of the night, for instance, might be what you really, really *want* to do (haha-- if you're anything like me, post-breakup!), or letters, or deep convos w/ the ex-.. Where maybe a healthy amount of avoidance is good. Allow time to pass. Your friend might have had some good advice, and your unconscious will continue to process it all and give you that REM picture show of its workings. On a hippie dippy note, everything is connected. That dead snake was a gift from the universe. A little wink to say, "Hey, aquamarineat114, we're all in this together."

Lol.

It's not necessarily the flatware's fault. Some people's sweat reacts with various metals, giving that "sweaty coins" scent. See here for the specifics.

It could be that there was a coating on the flatware that has worn off, and now your hands are reacting to the metal, but your relatives hands don't react to steel. Hence, only you notice the smell.

I'm thankful for a stable job that allows me to put my wife through school and put food in our bellies. Though things are tight, I realize we're doing okay and we shouldn't take what we have for granted.

Oh, yes you can. Happened right next to me a couple weeks ago.

How do you want to improve it? Make it harder, easier, more interesting?

The toughest one I know in English is "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."

To be 'a mushroom' means to be kept in the dark and fed a line of shit.

See also some options here:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mushroom&page=2

not sure if this helps.

I always thought it was a Mario Bros type reference...