So we get to the entrance and wait to pay for admittance. It was a shame we were downwind of an apparent horse, pig, skunk slaughter house. Or maybe that's just how a fair smells. Since I live next to a sewage treatment center I'm used to it and continued to wait in line. Once we got in I was amazed. This isn't some little tiny county fair. This was something pretty neat. There were lots of lights, games, rides, and food. The food was good and decently priced. The games were a plenty, with some being harder than others. The rides were impressive, from the two rollarcoasters to something and flips and drops and basically makes elephant ear vomit. Now the people working those rides and and games were a bit creepy to put it mildly but maybe that's part of the charm. The highlight of the evening was watching an eight year old work her way through a plexi-glass maze. At one point she was walking full speed and SLAMMED into a wall. Ouch! The three of us adults watching fell down with laughter, the attendant actually got up to see if she was OK. Priceless. So it was actually fun, I'll go next year. It's weird walking past a game and hearing someone say "Wanna play, it's only a dollar" and their voice sounds like a synthesizer. Ummm I'll pass, but maybe next year.

Come and have a trip on my carpet
It is embroidered, smooth like a cushion
I could make you discover Brooklyn
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Lay leisurely on my free magic carpet
It is fair, tacit, fantastically velvet
I wove it alone in a forgotten wood
Take a sit on it, even if a falsehood

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Well, the Texas Stat Fair is great site for gameday and a  great Football Game, But it was really hard to see the signs this wee, those nets ESPN uses to shield Corso from rotten tomatoes, was like having cataracts this week!  AND the show was moved into the stadium for the 2nd hour. So any help you have to contribute this week will be appreciated! I saw the WAzzu flag again, Chik Fil A is getting good at their sign placement, and i saw no love for Erin Andrews this week anywhere, perhaps she accepted a proposal that I saw in LA or Vandy- and signed the pre nup. And texas tech is starting to bark, but who have they beaten ?  WHERE ARE THE Political signs ? You do know there is a presidential election soon, and KIRK or CORSO are not running!!  BTW , guys the coros-Merkin sign i saw was repeat from last year-sorry!

Again these are the best I saw, tell me the best ones I missed!

 There will IS STILL REWARD for ANYONE who gets a "FOOTBALL JESUS Las vegas" Sign on TV...or HI football Jesus Blog ,  be creative!  we need a good clear shot of it!!

Here is the list:

1. Kirk Herbstreit brought to you by Planet Tan
2. Stoops is a Hockey Mom
3. I had to walk to the fair , Phil Fulmer ate my car
4. Corso Wheres the Neck meat?  ( ??)
5. V Slice Born Born   (corrected)
6. Sam Bradford washed my Car
7. GSU HAIL SOUTHERN
8. UT the way the south was won
9. WE LOVE BOB
10. OU SUX

Thats all i could see clearly, and im not sure of these !!

http://footballjesus.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/best-signs-at-espn-college-gameday-vandy/

http://footballjesus.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/best-signs-at-espn-college-gameday-auburn/

http://footballjesus.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/dirty-sanchez-escapes-espn-sign-police/

http://footballjesus.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/best-signs-at-espn-college-gameday-los-angeles/

http://footballjesus.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/best-signs-seen-on-espn-college-gameday-gainesville/

Minneapolis: http://footballjesus.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/best-sign-at-republican-convention-msnbc/

Atlanta: http://footballjesus.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/best-signs-seen-on-espn-college-gameday-atlanta/

One of the presidential candidates wants more governmental intervention than we have now, and that leads toward socialism. In my opinion, there's too much government in the lives of ordinary citizens now and we should begin a move to downsize immediately. I am not advocating doing away with government, just having less of it.

There are several measures we could enact right away that would take quite a financial strain off the American taxpayer. This is not an all-inclusive list, it's just something my wife and I have been discussing for a long time. Perhaps you could add items to the list, too.

First, pay members of congress and senate what they are worth. I am not trying to be flippant here, just making an observation. I have always contended salaries of those who serve (themselves, mostly) in the congress and senate are greatly overpaid. My view comes from the years I spent in the military. It is difficult to imagine the soldier who defends this great nation, sometimes with the ultimate sacrifice, being paid far less than what is deserved, while members of the house and senate receive their inflated salaries and benefits.

According to the Sioux City Journal, a rank and file member of congress has an annual salary of $169,300, the speaker of the house gets paid $217,400. The house majority and minority leaders have a salary of $188,100. The article suggested life as members of congress wasn't that great in comparison to some small business operations. Let me just lay this out for anyone to read: members of congress are way overpaid for what they do. Add the many perks to their salary, and you get an idea why so many choose public service.

Secondly, fix the "anchor baby" problem. America is the greatest nation on earth, and one of the reasons is because we extend a helping hand to those in need all over the world. Here's a video that explains the problem, but so far, a solution to this growing problem has yet to be enacted.

I am not trying to be mean or un-Christ like, but I do advocate becoming a citizen of this great nation in the correct manner. Apply for citizenship and wait your turn. The 14th Amendment wasn't enacted in order to fill this nation with so many babies until it puts untold strain on an already ailing economy. An article from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) suggests a problem that continues to add an increased tax burden on American citizens.

Perhaps we could enact policies which could alleviate some of the excessive burden on nation's economy. Allow a baby to become a citizen if the parents have already applied for citizenship and are well on their way to realizing that dream. I have no problem with decent people wanting to become citizens of this great nation; my family came from elsewhere a long time ago. However, scores of people skirt our laws, and we are left holding the bill.

One more big leak is the area of energy. We are far too dependent on foreign oil. Congress recently passed legislation which is supposed to give oil companies the ability to drill for more oil. Well, the bill was just for show, and doesn't allow drilling in the areas that hold the most potential for obtaining great amounts of oil. There are more details here. We need alternative energy, and need it NOW. Many in congress and the senate have fought against measures that would ensure energy independence for many years. Why?

It will take more to fix our economic woes that what has been written here, but if we find ways to enact some of the ideas suggested here, I'm certain it will help ease some of the burden on average taxpayers. For another perspective, look at my article Economic Crisis: We Need God. What are your thoughts?

Could any of us take the scrutiny that so many take in the media these days? 

From a mother disciplining her child in what she thought was private; to whether a FEMALE candidate should have her young family with her; to a mother so divided between so many duties, wife, mother, housekeeper, executive that she would forget her own newborn, these are ordinary people thrust into the limelight.  Being judged as if there was no humanity and that they should have never made a mistake or done that, shame on them.

Have you compared them with the Hollywood elite that all the media root for to do better, Brittany, Paris, Lindsey?  Seems they can make repeated mistakes, vowing to do something better with their lives and...well, you know the rest...they are rubber and we are glue.

Feel left out as an ordinary person?  What if it happened to you?  Which category would you fall into? 

It makes one wonder if "us worker bees" are being set up to work as computers with nary a mistake to be made and those that are deemed by the media as "queen bees" get passes for being "human." 

Makes a difference as to how the media depits it all, doesn't it?  Bias in the media?  Oh come on...they are all fair and balanced.

So which island will you land on?   THE ISLAND

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Graduate Select is only a few days away and so here is another juicy piece of advice from one of our resident expert Careers Advisers on how to avoid looking stupid in front of exhibitors at the event...

‘So, what do you do then?’

‘Do you have any jobs for me?’

‘Do you take on people who require work permits?’

‘How much do you pay?’

‘What sort of roles do you have available?’

Those are a few — there are lots more. They are questions that make employers on stands at events like Graduate Select grind their teeth.

Some questions demonstrate your lack of research. Don’t ever ask anything you could have found out by rooting around on their website or by looking through their recruitment literature.

Some questions are presumptuous. They make the assumption that the recruiter already wants to employ you. It’s a little bit like asking a complete stranger what side of your bed they would like to sleep on before you even know they fancy you. Not recommended.

Some questions just miss a trick. It is possible to show the recruiter that you are an intelligent person who has done some researching and thinking. For example, ‘I know that forensic accountancy involves looking at the financial aspects of legal or criminal situations, but I would like to get an idea of the typical cases that a recent graduate might end up working on. Would you be able to give me a couple of examples?’ Or what about, ‘I know that you ask for candidates to demonstrate drive, focus and a commitment to deliver results. Could you give me an idea of what that means in practice and what sort of examples you look for in candidate applications?’

So, it’s not just a case of avoiding stupid questions. If you really want to make the most of the event, you need to be ready to ask some intelligent questions.

This is just a taster of the kind of advice you can expect to get at the pre-event Careers Coaching Session at this year's Graduate Select. This session promises to be a great final step in your preparation for the event, so don't miss out! The session starts at 12pm (limited places, so get there 10-15 minutes before...), with the Hall open at 1pm.

Be part of it

www.gradselect.co.uk

DOOOM! DOOOM I TELL YOU! RUN TO THE ARMS OF UR APOLOGETICS SAVIORS!

their is the first page.It is about halloween.here is a message you get if you put your mouse over the igloo.

Their is the message.Here is the second page.

It is about the new play coming tomorow.Here is the third page.

It is a review of the awsome fall fair.And here is the last page I am going to show you.

It is about club penguin turning 3 and the events that are going to happen soon.That is it for the newspaper.

• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Fried Olives Stuffed with Cheese and Salsa
• Fried Mac & Cheese Bytes
• Fried Green Beans
• Chocolate Dipped Bacon
• Corn on the Cob, not fried
• Alligator Jerky
• Stromboli (The Coach only)
• Pumpkin Pie (The Coach only)
• Pork Chop Sandwich (Dr. Disenchanted only)
• Buckeyes (The Coach only)
• Tree Bark (Rod pretzels dipped in white chocolate)
• Apple Cider (which we brought home for later)

This year though, this year there wasn't so much dread.  "Why?" you ask.  I'll tell you why.   Because of Misty.  Yes, Misty of Misty is Foreverlost.  She talks of fair-fudge.  Her whole fair-purpose is the fudge.  Not the rides, not the animals, not the people.  No, her fair-purpose seems to solely be the fudge.  I had never seen fudge at our fair.  This year, I did not dread the fair because I had a mission.  I had a fudge-finding mission

I had everyone looking for this so called fair-fudge.
We looked high.

We looked low.

I tried to ask some that had spent all day at the fair if they had seen or heard of any fudge.

"Fudge? Someone say fudge?"

"Who needs fudge when you have an awesome ribbon?"

I'm sure you know what this one went on and on about. It's wasn't fudge.

We wandered about the grounds some more, looking all around. Until finally we spotted it. A choir broke out in the standard "AAAahhhhhhhhhh" as time stood still, all went dark and a light from nowhere shone upon the beauty that is fair-purpose.

That's right. Funnel Cake. The fudge forgotten, we looked that the 1500% profit confections.

Now, try as I might, I was unable to resist. I forked over the cash and received my warm sugary goodness. The family and I shared one of these delightfully messy treats before heading out.

We were covered in white flecks but were content.
It was a good time.

On the way out, though, I could have sworn I heard someone yelling out.
I wonder what that was all about...

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"What about the fuuuuuudddgge?"

Gonna go the JWAR meeting with my small group this Saturday. I should really relax this weekend. Although, just because it has the word 'lax' in it, it doesn't mean that I should lower my standards in the things I do. I will bring out the best in me and hopefully score that first golden card in the near future!

Book 2 nights accommodation with us from Monday to Thursday in November and receive a 25% reduction off the room rates. Special offer includes en-suite rooms as well as a full English breakfast. Take advantage of this great offer to coincide with some of the local attractions and activities for the surrounding Worcestershire and Herefordshire area in November:

• Autumn walks in the picturesque surroundings
• Good local pubs and restaurants
• The Malvern Hills and British Camp – numerous easy walks
• Eastnor Castle, Ledbury
• Mappa Mundi in Hereford
• Worcester and Hereford cathedrals

• Hereford’s festive lights switch-on has been set for Sunday, November 26
• Shoppers in Herefordshire can gain top tips and clear, practical consumer advice at a range of events being held across the county during National Consumer Week, which starts on Monday (November 20).
• The wraps are set to come off Hereford’s latest public work of art on Tuesday, November 21, when the new sculpture outside the city’s All Saints café is due to be handed over.
• Ross Heritage Centre has a bumper pack of activities and exhibitions organised for November.
• Fireworks spectacular, Sixways, Worcester Rugby Club. Gates open 5.30pm for 7.30pm start. In Advance: Adults £5, Junior £2.50. On the day: Adults £6, juniors £3. Music in east stand bar, bars open and fast food available. Covered seating. Free limited parking on site.
• Hanbury steam rally: 100s of vintage and classic cars, motorbikes, tractors, military and commercial vehicles, fair organs, period caravans, fairground, stalls, refreshments, an auction and lots lots more. 31/10/2008

• Stunning opera singing partnership between Rebecca Knight and Karen England. Classical music made more accessible to a wider audience backed by an exceptional string quartet and pianist. Malvern theatre 01/11/2008

• A taster day of treatments and therapies. Refreshments available. In aid of Country Air Ambulance. Upton Mind, Body and Spirit Fair 08/11/2008

• A charity walk through the City Centre. Part of World Zombie Day. Sign in at 11am. Worcester 26/11/2008

• 90 minute walk around the spooky sights of Worcester. Walks every Friday and Saturday and on Halloween, from late September until the end of April. Meet outside the Guildhall

• Walk amongst the ghosts and ghouls on the site and trick and trea at the historic buildings. Spooky fun for everyone. Admission by pre-booked timed tickets only. 30/10/2008 at Avoncroft museum

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If you are a thoughtless, careless man about your soul, you will take no interest in the subject of this tract. Faith and assurance are mere names and words to you: they are neither land, nor money, nor horses, nor dress, nor meat, nor drink: like Gallio, you care not for them. Alas, poor soul! I mourn over you. The day will come when you will think differently.

Reader, if you really desire to go to heaven, and to go there in the Bible way you will find the subject of this tract of the deepest importance. Believe me, your own comfort in religion, and your peace of conscience, depend exceedingly on understanding the matter about which I am going to speak. I say then, that faith in Christ, and a full assurance of being saved by Christ, are two distinct things.

A man may have saving faith in Christ, and yet never enjoy an assured hope, like the Apostle Paul. To believe, and have a glimmering hope of acceptance, is one thing; to have joy and peace in our believing, and abound in hope, is quite another. All God's children have faith: not all have assurance. I think this ought never to be forgotten.

I know some great and good men have held a different opinion: I believe that many excellent ministers do not allow the distinction I have stated; but I desire to call no man master. I dread as much as anyone the idea of healing the wounds of conscience slightly; but I should think any other view than that I have given a most uncomfortable gospel to preach, and one very likely to keep souls back a long time from the gate of life.

I would not desire to make one contrite heart sad that God has not made sad, or to discourage one fainting child of God, or to give a soul the impression that you have no part or lot in Christ, except you feel assurance. I do not shrink from saying, that by grace a man may have sufficient faith to flee to Christ, really to lay hold on Him, really to trust in Him, really to be a child of God, really to be saved; and yet to his last day be never free from much anxiety, doubt, and fear.

"A letter," says an old writer, "may be written which is not sealed; so grace may be written in the heart, yet the Spirit may not set the seal of assurance to it."

A child may be born heir to a great fortune, and yet never be aware of his riches, live childish, die childish, and never know the greatness of his possessions.

And so also a man may be a babe in Christ's family; think as a babe, speak as a babe, and, though saved, never enjoy a lively hope, or know the full privileges of his inheritance.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ a man must have, beyond all question, if he is to be saved. I know no other way of access to the Father: I see no intimation of mercy excepting through Christ. A man must feel his sins and lost estate, must come to Jesus for pardon and salvation, must rest his hope on Him and on Him alone. But if he only have faith to do this, however weak and feeble that faith may be, I will engage, from Scripture warrants, he shall not miss heaven. Never, never let us curtail the freeness of the glorious gospel, or clip its fair proportions. Never let us make the gate more strait, and the way more narrow, than pride or love of sin have made it already. The Lord Jesus is very pitiful and of tender mercy. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross. "Him that cometh unto Me," He says, "I will in no wise cast out" (John vi. 37). 1

Yes, reader! though a man's faith be no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, if it only brings him to Christ, and enables him to touch the hem of His garment, he shall be saved: saved as surely as the oldest saint in paradise; saved as completely and eternally as Peter, or John, or Paul. There are degrees in our sanctification: in our justification there are none. What is written is written, and shall never fail: "Whosoever believeth on Him," not whosoever has a strong and mighty faith, "Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed" (Rom. x. 11).

But all this time, I would have you take notice, the poor soul may have no full assurance of his pardon and acceptance with God. He may be troubled with fear upon fear, and doubt upon doubt. He may have many a question and many an anxiety, many a struggle, and many a misgiving, clouds and darkness, storm and tempest to the very end.

I will engage, I repeat, that bare simple faith in Christ shall save a man, though he may never attain to assurance; but I will not engage it shall bring him to heaven, with strong and abounding consolations. I will engage it shall land him safe in harbour, but I will not engage he shall enter that harbour under full sail, confident and rejoicing. I shall not be surprised if he reaches his desired haven weather-beaten and tempest-tossed, scarcely realising his own safety till he opens his eyes in glory.

Reader, I believe it is of great importance to keep in view this distinction between faith and assurance. It explains things which an inquirer in religion some times finds it hard to understand.

Faith, let us remember, is the root, and assurance is the flower. Doubtless you can never have the flower without the root; but it is no less certain you may have the root and not the flower.

Faith is that poor trembling woman who came behind Jesus in the press and touched the hem of His garment (Mark v. 25). Assurance is Stephen standing calmly in the midst of his murderers, and saying, "I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God" (Acts vii. 56). Faith is the penitent thief crying, "Lord, remember me" (Luke xxiii. 42). Assurance is Job sitting in the dust, covered with sores, and saying, "I know that my Redeemer liveth" (Job xix. 25). "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him" (Job xiii. 13).

Faith is Peter's drowning cry as he began to sink: "Lord, save me!" (Matt. xiv. 30). Assurance is the same Peter declaring before the Council, in after times, "This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts iv. 11,12).

Faith is the anxious, trembling voice: "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief" (Mark ix. 24). Assurance is the confident challenge: "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Who is he that condemneth?" (Rom. viii. 33, 34).

Faith is Saul praying in the house of Judas at Damascus, sorrowful, blind, and alone (Acts ix. 11). Assurance is Paul, the aged prisoner, looking calmly into the grave, and saying, "I know Whom I have believed," "There is laid up for me a crown" (2 Tim. i. 12; iv. 8).

Faith is life. How great the blessing! Who can tell the gulf between life and death? And yet life may be weak, sickly, unhealthy, painful, trying, anxious, worn, burdensome, joyless, and smileless to the very end.

Assurance is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigour, activity, energy, manliness, and beauty.

Reader, it is not a question of saved or not saved that lies before us, but of privilege or no privilege, it is not a question of peace or no peace, but of great peace or little peace, it is not a question between the wanderers of this world and the school of Christ, it is one that belongs only to the school, it is between the first form and the last.

He that has faith does well. Happy should I be if I thought all readers of this tract had it. Blessed, thrice blessed are they that believe: they are safe; they are washed; they are justified. They are beyond the power of hell. Satan, with all his malice, shall never pluck them out of Christ's hands. But he that has assurance does far better, sees more, feels more, knows more, enjoys more, has more days like those spoken of in Deuteronomy, even "the days of heaven upon the earth" (Deut. xi. 21). 2

Reader, whoever you may be, I exhort you never to be satisfied with anything short of a full assurance of your own salvation. With faith, no doubt, you must begin, with simple, child-like faith: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." But from faith go on to assurance. Rest not till you can say, "I know Whom I have believed."

Believe me, believe me, assurance is worth the seeking. You forsake your own mercies when you rest content without it. The things I speak are for your peace. It is good to be sure in earthly things; how much better is it to be sure in heavenly things!

Make it then your daily prayer that you may have an increase of faith. According to your faith will be your peace. Cultivate that blessed root more, and sooner or later, by God's blessing, you may hope to have the flower. You may not perhaps attain to full assurance at once: it is good sometimes to be kept waiting; we do not value things that we get without trouble. But though it tarry, wait for it. Seek on, and expect to find.

FOOTNOTES:

1 "He that believeth on Jesus shall never be confounded. Never was any; neither shall you, if you believe. It was a great word of faith spoken by a dying man, who had been converted in a singular way, betwixt his condemnation and execution: his last words were these, spoken with a mighty shout 'Never man perished with his face towards Jesus Christ.'"  Traill.

2 "The greatest thing that we can desire, next to the glory of God, is our own salvation; and the sweetest thing we can desire is the assurance of our salvation. In this life we cannot get higher than to be assured of that which in the next life is to be enjoyed. All saints shall enjoy a heaven when they leave this earth: some saints enjoy a heaven while they are here on earth." Joseph Carlyle. 1658.

Since I don't get to hang out around downtown often, the scenery was a nice change of pace from the Tar Pits that I usually walk by.

Where the fair was held- downtown buildings

If you are just starting to think about grad school, a grad fair is an excellent place to start. When I had just started thinking about the grad school process a couple years ago, I'd go online and request information from every art history MA/PhD program that interested me. With a grad fair, participating schools are all at your disposal. You can pick up brochures on specific programs and applications, and speak directly with people to answer any questions.

Plus, they also usually give out some useful freebies such as pens, pencils, and post-its. It's an excellent way to get an extra set of office supplies if you're an economically-savvy student.

The panels were pretty informative as well. I was only able to attend one: "When to Go to Grad School and What to Study". I didn't know what to expect but what I got out of it was specifically related to the application process. Thanks to David Clark (UCLA), Marisol Gonzalez (USC), and Peter King (NYU), here are the most important things I learned:

1. Do your research!

It sounds like a no-brainer, but really look into the programs and check out the faculty. Try to see if the school is a right fit for you, program-wise. One of the panelists mentioned that the average applicant applies to 3.2 programs. If you're thinking of applying to 12-15, then it's a good indicator you obviously haven't done enough research into the programs, or have tons of money to spend because application fees can range from $50- $100 or more.

I thought about what he said and after looking into other schools and faculty, and have now narrowed my school choices. So thank you, grad school panel!

2. Start contacting your professors/professionals for letters of recommendation.

While writing letters of rec is a standard for professors, they do have other things going on--lecturing, doing their own research, holding office hours, and what not. They have a life too! And let's not forget that some profs take sabbaticals during fall/winter quarter. So start contacting professors now!

If you're like me who's been out of school for awhile, your professional letters of recommendation will come more into play. But even if you have a professor that you're worried may not remember you despite the fact you took their Soc 152 class of theirs last semester and sat in the front row, hand poised for a question, then it's best to contact your professor and see if he/she would be willing to write you a strong letter of recommendation.

You want your recommendation to reflect this:

Not this:

If they hesitate, then you know it might be better to ask someone else. Moreover, since most programs ask for an average of 3-4 recommendations, be sure to send the contacts you're asking a recommendation from your resume, the classes you took and what grade you received--anything that will help them jog their memory about you.

Also, if there's a certain area you'd like them to emphasize on (research skills, writing abilities, etc.), be sure to let them know and split those characteristics among your recommenders. That way your recommendations won't repeat themselves and will strengthen your character as a whole.

If you can do anything that will help to make your application seem like a strong candidate, do it!

Honestly, what's more appealing?

So all in all, it was a pretty informative night. If you get a chance, attend a grad school fair. You'll come back with a lot more insight and plan of attack for the grad school application(s!). I'm pumped!

Ld.

P.S. If you're looking for great Korean food on the way to downtown, Honey Pig on 8th and Kingsley is really, really yummy. Check it out!