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Genuine Compassion Is Possible
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First of all, we must be clear about what we mean by compassion. Many forms of compassionate feeling are mixed with desire and attachment. For instance, the love parents feel for their child is often strongly associated with their own emotional needs, so it is not fully compassionate. Usually when we are concerned about a close friend, we call this compassion, but it too is usually attachment. Even in marriage, the love between husband and wife—particularly at the beginning, when each partner still may not know the other’s deeper character very well—depends more on attachment than genuine love. Marriages that last only a short time do so because they lack compassion; they are produced by emotional attachment based on projection and expectation, and as soon as the projections change, the attachment disappears.
Compassion without attachment is possible. Therefore, we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment. True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Because of this firm foundation, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the needs of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for their problem. This is genuine compassion. For a Buddhist practitioner, the goal is to develop this genuine compassion, this genuine wish for the well-being of another, in fact for every living being throughout the universe. Of course, developing this kind of compassion is not at all easy! Let us consider this point more closely.
Whether people are beautiful or plain, friendly or cruel, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself. Like oneself, they want happiness and do not want suffering. Furthermore, their right to overcome suffering and to be happy is equal to one’s own. Now, when you recognize that all beings are equal in both their desire for happiness and their right to obtain it, you automatically feel empathy and closeness for them. Through accustoming your mind to this sense of universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others; you wish to help them actively overcome their problems | {
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While the Fair is still months away, Nevada County’s youth in agriculture work tirelessly all year in order to show animals at the Fair. Here’s to all the hard-working students out there already busy preparing for the 2018 Fair.
Don’t forget to get your tickets to the Fairgrounds Foundation’s All-You-Can-Eat Cioppino and Pasta Feed on Saturday, March 3, at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Tickets are $40/person and includes all-you-can-eat Cioppino, pasta, salad and garlic bread. There’s also a silent dessert auction, a live auction and a no-host bar. For tickets, visit here or stop by the Fairgrounds Office.
Are you interested in being a vendor at the 2018 Country Christmas Faire? Last year’s event had more than 10,000 visitors! If you’re interested in being part of this unique holiday event, the application is available here. Photo by @sweetpickensreno.
For the event, the Foothill Lions Club will create and serve chef Arnie Romanello’s special 100-year-old recipe for all to enjoy. Dinner includes antipasto, all-you-can-eat Cioppino, pasta, salad and garlic bread. A no-host bar will be available, and there will be a silent dessert auction and a live auction.
Tickets are $40 per person. If you’d like to purchase a table for 8, it is $400 and includes two bottles of wine. Tickets are available by visiting the Nevada County Fairgrounds, calling the Fair Office at (530) 273-6217, or downloading an order form here.
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Nevada County Fairgrounds Foundation and its mission of supporting and improving the community’s Fairgrounds, and supporting youth in agriculture.
Tickets are on sale now for the Nevada County Fairgrounds Foundation’s All-You-Can-Eat Cioppino and Pasta Feed, March 3, at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Get your tickets at the Fairgrounds Office or by downloading this form. This has been a sold out event each year, so get your tickets early. Did we mention it’s all you can eat?! | {
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[Firewall] Arno's script and openVPN
Dear all,
I am trying to figure out how to best organize openVPN access fro the
wilderness.
Currently i have a virtual machine set up for this having respective
port forward on the router (protected by Arno's script).
I am still not decided whether to keep it as is or to move openVPN to
the router.
In order to have openVPN working, I have the following iptables rules
set up on the VM (10.8.0.0/24 being the virtual network for the
outside users):
iptables -v -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -v -A INPUT -s 10.8.0.0/24 -j ACCEPT
iptables -v -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
iptables -v -A FORWARD -i tun0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -v -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o tun0 -j ACCEPT
How could look the same additional rules (what has to be set up) in
case I decide to move it to the router with Arno's script? For the
case of router - i have to build a mutual trust between tun and
internal IF (eth1, for example), haven't I?
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2008-09 (Junior) - Scored seven points in 11 minutes on 3-of-4 shooting against Western Washington ... scored 12 points to go with five rebounds and two blocks against Cleveland State ... played a career-high 22 minutes against the Vikings ... went-3-for-3 from the field and hit only three-point attempt against Montana ... scored seven points in six minutes against Seattle University ... went a perfect 2-for-2 from the field with a three-pointer and 2-for-2 from the free throw line.
2007-08 (Sophomore) -- Played in 25 games and started the home contest against 12th-ranked Pittsburgh ... went 19-for-47 (.404) on the season from behind the three-point arc ... made six of nine free throw attempts ... perfect offensive outing at California with 17 points on 6-for-6 shooting from the field, 4-for-4 from the three-point line and 1-for-1 from the free throw line ... scored 12 points at Stanford two nights earlier for a 29 point total in the Bay Area road trip ... played 20 minutes against Texas A&M in Madison Square Garden and scored 12 points to go with four rebounds ... grabbed seven rebounds against Syracuse ... averaged 8.2 points and 4.2 rebounds during the Huskies' five-game preseason tour of Greece ... first game of the trip was his best as he tallied 17 points, including two 3-pointers, and six rebounds in a 93-81 win over Ment.
2006-07 (Freshman) -- Planned to play, but a stress fracture issue recurred in his right foot ... Underwent surgery during the spring of 2007 ... Received the Hec Edmundson Most Inspirational award at the team banquet. 2005-06 (Red-Shirt) -- Utilized red-shirt season ... Practiced with the team, but did not participate in games in order to preserve a year of eligibility.
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Cable management ties up infection control in hospitals
It is well documented that the number of available beds in UK hospitals has been in decline for quite some time. Less well known, however, is the role of cable management solutions in the fight against infection prevention at the point of care.
As it stands, bed designs can vary significantly from hospital to hospital, yet the need for robust infection prevention measures in hospitals remains the same. For this reason, Richard Rands of HellermannTyton explores how cable management can play an important role in the fight against the spread of infection within hospitals. He writes:
“A report from the NHS Confederation found there were 16,252 million total hospital admissions in 2015/16, up 28 per cent from a decade before. The sheer volume of patient traffic raises several issues, with few more pertinent than that of the transmission and prevention of infection. As microorganisms become more resistant to drugs designed to prevent the spread of bacteria, the role of the physical design of hospital beds comes into sharp focus.
Growing number of devices around hospital beds
“The growing number of devices – medical or otherwise – surrounding hospital beds present a variety of challenges for healthcare providers. The electrical cables used to power these devices, as well as the tubes and pipes that are commonplace in medical equipment, are a potential breeding ground for bacteria. If standards of cleanliness are not adhered to, they can increase the likelihood of infection.
“In accordance with the Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infection and related guidance under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, one of the key clinical priorities of the NHS is to protect patients, visitors, and staff from the risk of healthcare-associated infections caused by bacteria. In 2015, 5,500 NHS patients died due to E.coli alone, placing the already cash-strapped health service under additional strain, without even mentioning the impact of superbugs such as MRSA and C.difficile.
“By understanding exactly what we were looking to achieve, this gave us a basis to evaluate the suitability of each of the potential options on offer. When one patient vacates a bed, a routine discharge clean is undertaken to prepare the bed for the next occupant. For this to take place, equipment needs to be detached and removed prior to cleaning, therefore the ideal system needed to be quickly releasable, saving time, and boosting productivity.
“Furthermore, a system would need to be re-usable, providing the correct cleaning procedures were strictly adhered to. It would also need to be able to withstand the powerful cleaning agents used in hospitals as chemical corrosion could reduce performance and create rough surfaces which harbour bacteria and increase the risk of contamination and infection. Many cable management solutions contain markers, for safety and asset management purposes, and these would need to remain intact for the solution to be effective.
“Several options were considered, one of which was a J-hook solution, whereby a hook is attached to the bed and cables are looped through the hook, which secures cables in place. For a system like this to work, a bed frame with a flat surface is required to allow for the hook to be attached, a feature of some NHS beds but not all of them.
“Unless all the beds were replaced with beds featuring at least one flat surface, a J-hook system was unfit for purpose. Any potential solution would have to be adaptable to any bed type and so a several alternatives were considered. While in principle conventional cable ties would keep cables secure and in place, the serrations in the design would be a potential bug trap, somewhat defeating the intended purpose of the solution.
“Following extensive trials, the concept of the Cable Koala was born. This is a cable management solution which addresses the requirement for ease of use, featuring in-built magnets which can be fastened directly to any metal bed, irrespective of its design or looped around an opening, bed frame or rail and attached to itself. Manufactured using a soft, flexible TPE (Thermoplastic Elastomer) material, the Cable Koala is compatible with the typical cleaning agents and chemicals used in hospitals; and with its quick release design, can be constantly reused once cleaned, making it a cost-effective solution for hospitals.
“Infection prevention remains a critical issue in hospitals and should be addressed through more intelligent bed design. Until cable management is consistently factored into the design of hospital beds, however, solutions such as the Cable Koala play an important role in the fight against infection in hospitals.” | {
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With this Ball Gown Strapless Floor Length Taffeta Prom/Quinceanera Dress, which is sure to make a good impression to others. This seductive sexy floor length prom dress is your perfect choice. The strapless design of this little ball prom dress...
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Set a budget for your ideal and perfect prom dress. Formal prom dresses do not have to be expensive to look nice. You can find great prom dresses at eBay, clearance sales, garage sales, discount stores, and online closeouts stores. You can also make your own perfect prom dress. Bargain prom dresses and discount prom dresses can be found by shopping at the right places and the right time of the year
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Just as American culture celebrates the importance of a girl's16th birthday as a symbol of her transitioning from childhood to adulthood, Latin and Hispanic cultures celebrate the Quinceanera, or 15th birthday, as the year that a girl makes the transition. The Quinceanera celebration involves family, friends and elements of religion in a big, often costly, celebration. Dresses can be quite expensive, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Since the celebration is just a single day, you might need some help with figuring out how to get more use out of that dress.
Use the dresses as gowns for bridesmaids or any members of the wedding party of any upcoming wedding.
Donate your Quinceanera dresses to charities like "Donate my Dress" or "Princess Project," which distribute dresses to girls who can't afford such garments for special occasions.
Frame your dress by arranging it against a large 5-foot-by-8-foot backing and placing glass and a decorative frame on it. Hang your pressed dress as wall decor.
Purchase a dressmaker's dummy and position the dress on the dummy. Display the dress and dummy on a high shelf, mantel or on top of a cupboard in your home as a form of decor, if you have high ceilings, such as the kind in a loft. If not, place the dress in an empty corner as a splash of color in a bedroom or home office.
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NATO ministers to fine-tune readiness on Russian, Middle East threats
Alexei Nikolsky / Associated Press
Russian Pacific Navy ships sail near Sakhalin Island during military exercises in July 2013. In spite of looming recession, Russia has significantly increased its defense budget this year to speed up production of new aircraft, tanks, missiles and warships.
Russian Pacific Navy ships sail near Sakhalin Island during military exercises in July 2013. In spite of looming recession, Russia has significantly increased its defense budget this year to speed up production of new aircraft, tanks, missiles and warships. (Alexei Nikolsky / Associated Press)
NATO defense ministers gather Thursday in Brussels to decide key elements of their "Readiness Action Program" aimed at strengthening the alliance's ability to respond to security challenges emanating from Russia, North Africa and the Middle East.
The military chiefs will determine the size and composition of the emerging rapid-reaction force that can be deployed in response to threats to the security of any of the alliance's 28 member states, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said in a statement posted on the alliance website.
The meeting is the first opportunity for the defense chiefs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to evaluate progress toward creating the so-called spearhead force that can quickly respond to security challenges from a newly aggressive Russia or from Islamic militants south and east of the Mediterranean Sea.
NATO officials have accused the Kremlin of supplying arms and fighters to the pro-Russia separatists who occupy two large industrial regions of eastern Ukraine, involvement that Moscow denies in spite of satellite imagery showing Russian convoys entering Ukraine. The separatists have lately advanced toward a vital Sea of Azov port at Mariupol, which could deal a further blow to the Kiev government in its 10-month-old fight to hold the country together.
European security monitors in Ukraine have reported increasing movements of military vehicles from Russia into separatist-held Ukrainian territory. The reinforcements appeared to have helped the separatists seize the shattered Donetsk international airport last month after an eight-month battle that inflicted heavy casualties on both sides.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had an opportunity to lobby for easing international sanctions against his country last month when European and Asian leaders gathered for a summit in Milan, but for his most crucial meeting — a sit-down with German Chancellor Angela Merkel — he showed up four hours...
Russian President Vladimir Putin had an opportunity to lobby for easing international sanctions against his country last month when European and Asian leaders gathered for a summit in Milan, but for his most crucial meeting — a sit-down with German Chancellor Angela Merkel — he showed up four hours...
(Carol J. Williams)
U.S. and European Union aid to Ukraine has so far been limited to nonlethal equipment and supplies, like food rations and night-vision goggles. But as Russia is seen to be boosting its support for the separatists, some influential U.S. security figures have called on the Obama administration to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs to defend itself.
Ashton Carter, the administration's nominee to succeed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, said during his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that he was "very much inclined" to provide lethal assistance to Ukraine.
Ivan Sekretarev / Associated Press
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Victory Day parade on May 9, 2014, in Sevastopol, site of Russia's Black Sea fleet base on the Crimean peninsula that Russia had seized from Ukraine two months earlier.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Victory Day parade on May 9, 2014, in Sevastopol, site of Russia's Black Sea fleet base on the Crimean peninsula that Russia had seized from Ukraine two months earlier. (Ivan Sekretarev / Associated Press)
Other NATO states, including Germany, have opposed sending more weaponry into the Ukrainian conflict, which has taken more than 5,300 lives since April. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called instead for more pressure on the combatants to negotiate an end to the war.
NATO aid to Ukraine wasn't mentioned by Lungescu in her outlining of the defense ministers' agenda but seemed likely to come up, at least during the two news conferences that alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg has scheduled Thursday.
Whether it is addressed by the NATO ministers, Russia is expected to be angered by any moves to bolster embattled Ukraine's armed forces. The Kremlin seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula nearly a year ago, within days of the Feb. 21 ouster of its loyal ally Viktor Yanukovich from the Ukrainian presidency.
Yanukovich was driven out by a rebellion sparked by his attempt to block Ukraine's pursuit of alliance with the European Union and eventually NATO. That political shift westward is vehemently opposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who sees former Soviet states as within Russia's traditional sphere of influence.
The NATO meeting will include Defense Minister Mindia Janelidze of Georgia, another former Soviet republic that the Kremlin wants to prevent from becoming a NATO member.
The spearhead force was conceived and authorized by alliance leaders at their summit in Wales in September in response to calls from Poland and Baltic member states for improved defenses against potential threats from Russia.
An interim force of German, Norwegian and Dutch troops stands ready to respond to any security threat from the east, Stoltenberg told reporters in Berlin last month. A permanent force expected to number in the thousands is proposed to be in place next year. | {
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E-Sens Gets Sentenced to Prison for Smoking Marijuana
Rapper E-Sens, who was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison last July for possession and ingestion of marijuana, lost his appeal in an attempt to commute his sentence on November 26.
The Seoul Appeals Court affirmed the ruling from the Seoul Western District Court, and maintained the 18-month penalty. Although the court considered the various mitigating circumstances, including the fact that E-Sens was in charge of his family as his father passed away, and the fact that E-Sens was going through conflicts with his management agency, it was not enough to reverse the decision. The Appeals Court said that as E-Sens has undergone trials for the same crimes in 2011, it was not reasonable to reverse the decision.
In 2011, E-Sens was put under two years of probation for having smoked marijuana with his friend in a parking lot. | {
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Thursday, 27 January 2011
We have done it and finally ordered our polytunnel the company we went with in the end are first tunnels link here to see what we bought http://www.firsttunnels.co.uk/
The tunnel measures 10 feet wide by 25 feet long and we have upgraded cover to thermal anti fog as it was only an extra £15.00. Ordering was the easy bit now we have to put it up, I think now is the time to start calling in favours although in all fairness James my allotment neighbour has offered to lend a hand. I have wanted the tunnel for some time as not only is it a place you can grow tender crops and extend the season it means with the British weather being the way it is we can still go down and work on our allotment when it is piddling down with rain. The bit I also liked was 5 to 10 days delivery so I am hoping the weather will be kind this coming Monday and Tuesday when I am off work so I can clear area where tunnel is going and prepare. We both have some annual leave the following week so hopefully we will be building the frame then, the cover will not go on though until we have our first warm dry day of the year I am guessing by previous years that will be around April. The reason for this is so the plastic stretches better and you get a tighter fitting cover, I am really excited and can't wait to get going patience is not one of my strong points. I wiil post pictures of the build as soon as we get going until next time goodbye from a very excited allotmenteer.
Monday, 24 January 2011
Lovely day at plot today fire roaring, hot soup on stove and finished building my beds so all in all a good days work at our allotment.
The two pictures above show the 3 beds I have built today to the left, the first 2 are in fitting with the rest of plot and the big one top left is roughly 12' by 7' as I have come up with an idea. The big bed I have decided to add perrenial flowers and rose bushes all in the middle and around the outside where I can reach I am going to put my herbs like rosemary, lavender, sage etc and maybe some rocket which I hope will self seed.
All the beds have been covered to protect them until I use them to stop vital nutrients being washed away.
I was hoping to add more pictures but blogger or my computer does not want to play so thats it for now!
Oh one more thing the polytunnel in the background is something similar to what I want it belongs to my neighbour James who was also at plot today and I got some useful tips on how to put it up when I get some bloody money. Once I purcahse tunnel and erect it the plots will be laid out and all that will remain is to grow lots of lovely fruit, herbs and vegetables unless I think of anything else, umm maybe some chickens?
Friday, 21 January 2011
I have just sown my first seeds of the new year they were all from Wilkinsons and they are as follows pepper hot pato sizzle, sweet mini red, hot cayenne and hot halbenero. I have put them in peat pots in heated propagator underneath velux window in loft(see picture below) which is south facing for maximum light at this time of year.
That got me to thinking I have a face tanning lamp(dont ask I am vain I guess) and was wondering when the seeds germinate I could use that as extra light. The trouble is I dont know if it is the right kind of light if it is bonus, the down side is the local police force may think I am growing something else and kick my door down. I was reading in the paper the other day about a lady who had similar lamp in her garage and used it to keep her hamsters warm during recent cold spell and the police smashed her door off the hinges in a drug raid.
You can just make out lamp to right of picture, anyway I will update you all on progress of peppers and anything else I do. The gardening bug is back and I love it speak to you all soon and please feel free to leave comments and any hints or tips.
Swedes so many lovely and sweet variety invitation from http://www.dobies.co.uk/ They are my favourite seed supplier always have good germination with all seeds.
More winter greens unknown.
The Plot Our allotment.
A lovely day tidying and pottering managed to clear Nan's shed no rats so no need to wipe. Lost quite a few spuds they had gone mushy the rest are now in kitchen in big box with newspaper.
Did not manage to start peppers and chillis off so that is the plan for tomorrow, did go to Waitrose this evening and bought a lovely book by Nigel Slater called tender vloume 2 which is all about growing and cooking fruits.
I want volume one now which is all about vegtables.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
I have to admit I am looking forward to day off tommorow(actually today) so I can go down plot and have a good tidy up and start my planning for 2011. Dreading going in Nan's shed (metal shed I had from Nan's garden when she passed away) as I have stored my spuds in there and when I visited the other day it appears rodents of some description have chewed through hessian and been munching on said spuds. Looking at how much they have munched they must be the size of small dogs by now, I have a phobia of rats for some unknown reason yet I had a pet rat called Roland when I was a teenager!
Another pest problem I have discovered on our allotment are moles they seem to be digging quicker than Steve McQueen in The great escape. Moles were a problem in my old house which is about 1/4 mile from allotment I tried everything I could to get rid of them but to no avail, I guess I will just have to live with them and take advantage of the lovely soil they produce in their mounds.
Jobs for today are as follows clean and tidy plot, rescue spuds from nan's rat infested shed followed by wiping brown residue from underwear, bonfire, washing out seed trays coming home and starting my chillis and peppers in heated propagator.
Not forgetting to take some pictures and post them on here for all to see.
Friday, 14 January 2011
After the coldest December on record we are now experiencing very wet and very mild weather, although we did have snow in Bristol it was relativley light compared to the rest of the country. I visited the plot on Tuesday and harvested some parsnips, celeriac and swede and have made a soup and a beef stew. The garlic I planted at the end of autumn has all sprouted, we are using two types one is what I grew last year and saved and the other is called music from http://www.reallygarlicky.co.uk/
Our big project this year will be to purchase and erect a polytunnel we are looking at getting one 10 feet wide by 25 feet long. The main problem I have at the moment is who to buy it from currently first tunnels are winning on price but premier polytunnels won the award for best tunnel supplier in GYO magazine. The differnce in price between the two suppliers is about £60 so I think I will have to do a little more research before deciding.
I love this time of year deciding what we will be growing this season and what we won't, today I have been browsing through seed catalogues and getting enticed by everything I see. My new year resolution is to keep this blog more up to date so hopefully after I finish my dreaded run of 7 straight night shifts I will go down plot and take some photos of things in ground also I hope to start my first seeds of the year off very soon.
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Welcome to our blog
We are newish to allotment gardening and acquired our plot June 2009, we are at Stapleton allotments Bristol. Our allotment site has a country feel as we are surrounded by small holdings and are on the north east boundary of the city.
This blog is a way of keeping photographic and text information of the things we have done. We hope you find it interesting and welcome any comments and tips you may have.
As our knowledge of growing fruit, vegtables and flowers grows we also hope to become more informative and share our tips with you. Enjoy our blog and happy gardening to one and all. | {
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Fire consumes over 200 acres
Wednesday, September 5, 2012By Melonie Roberts and Murray Bishoff
Tower of smoke
Democrat Photo/Murray Bishoff
A massive plume of smoke towered over the east end of the fire on Highway BB east of Farm Road 1090 on Wednesday, dwarfing the firefighters' vehicles as they began arriving and circling the flames.
Between 200 and 250 acres burned in a massive fire that started around 1 p.m. on Aug. 29 in Barry County between Pulaskifield and Farm Road 1100 along Highway BB near Midway.
The blaze started after a vehicle became unsecured from the trailer it was being hauled on and dragged along a four-mile stretch of Highway, sending a shower of sparks into nearby fields. Flames were driven by an east wind, complicating efforts by firefighters to extinguish the fire.
The vehicle, which was reported stolen out of Pierce City, was being taken to a local recycling center to be sold as scrap.
James Wogoman, 24, whose last known address was Aurora, was arrested and is being held in the Barry County Jail pending the filing of formal charges. Barry County Sheriff Mick Epperly is asking that Wogoman be charged with knowingly burning and receiving stolen property in excess of $500.
"We had 13 agencies responding to this fire," said Nick Mercer, of the responding firefighters. "There was approximately 20 acres of land consumed by the fire east of Highway 37, including the remaining 200 or more acres west of 37 along Highway BB."
Complicating the firefighting efforts was a railroad line that dissected the impacted area.
"The minimum amount of damage to the railroad so far is $15,000," said Barry County Sheriff's Detective Doug Henry. "The railroad fire marshal is coming in to conduct an investigation as early as tomorrow. We'll have a better idea of the total amount of damage after his investigation."
Mark Mueller, from the Arkansas-Missouri Railroad, traveled to the scene from Springdale, Ark., to make an initial determination.
"We're looking at about three-quarters of a mile of track that has been damaged," Mueller said. "I have a train sitting in the yard that needs to get through. We're going to let him come through here at about 10 miles per hour as long as there are no hazardous materials on board."
At 4:44 p.m., the train had safely navigated the damaged track.
According to Monett Fire Chief Tom Jones, the crew on the initial responding Monett city truck reported the fire was much closer. Jones arrived right behind the first truck and called for more help.
"The number of brush trucks we had on scene made all the difference," Jones said. "We may not have saved all the buildings otherwise."
There was little hay and no cattle in the adjacent fields. Jones said the strategy in fighting the fire was to get in front of it and chase it.
"We were trying to keep it away from the railroad tracks," Jones said. "The wind blew it straight to the tracks. It wasn't easy. It burned really fast."
During the firefighting effort, an unrelated blaze broke out at around 3 p.m. in East Purdy, which resulted in six brush trucks and four tankers disengaging from the scene of the first fire to respond to that structure blaze, which was located at Farm Roads 1120 and 2085.
"We have the fire fairly well contained at this point," Mercer said at approximately 4 p.m.
Firefighters from Monett, Aurora Rural Fire Department and Purdy Fire Protection District remained on the scene for several hours to monitor the area for hot spots.
The American Red Cross deployed volunteers to provide water and aid to firefighters. Two other American Red Cross representatives were dispatched to the fire in East Purdy where eight people were displaced when their home burned.
Monett city firefighters returned to their stations by 6 p.m.
Wogoman was previously convicted of knowingly burning or exploding charges in 2006, receiving stolen property in 2007 and two separate felony stealing charges in 2007 and 2008. | {
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Potato Waffles – Perfect for Any Meal of the Day
We love eating waffles, especially when we do breakfast for dinner. But we can’t help feeling guilty when we do that, since it can feel like eating dessert instead of a meal. So we were delighted to find this savory compromise, courtesy of SORTEDfood! Taking inspiration from a classic kugel recipe, these waffles are made out of potatoes and have bacon and cheese mixed into the batter. Does it get any better? We think not! Check them out and see for yourself.
Oh, these waffles look good! We love this savory take, and we really will eat them any time of day. What do YOU think of them? If you want to give them a try, grab the full recipe over on SORTEDfood’s site and tell us how they turn out! | {
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That’s the gist of a new lawsuit filed by Mats Järlström, who was fined $500 by an Oregon agency after he suggested that the standard formula for timing yellow lights could be improved.
Mats’ interest in traffic-light timing began four years ago when his wife got a ticket from a red-light camera in Beaverton, Oregon. He soon became fascinated with the math behind traffic lights. According to Mats, the formula behind the timing for yellow lights was limited to driving straight through intersections. But the formula, which dates back to 1959, does not account for the fact that drivers slow down when making turns. As a result, Mats claims the formula is “misapplied” when used on turning lanes, ensnaring many guiltless drivers.
According to an investigation by local TV station KOIN 6, Beaverton issues up to six times as many traffic tickets as similar-sized cities:
Until 2010, the city only issued tickets to drivers who ran red lights going straight. That year 1,759 tickets were written. But in 2011, when Beaverton began handing out tickets for right hand turns, that number skyrocketed to 5,653 and then 7,955 in 2012. In 2015 the ratio was still lopsided: 2,062 tickets for drivers going straight and 5,538 for those turning on red.
In a display of civic engagement, Mats emailed the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying in the hopes that they could help him raise public awareness and asked for their “support and help to investigate and present the laws of physics related to transportation engineering.”
He got the opposite.
After curtly informing Mats that they do not regulate traffic lights, the Board warned him that without an engineering license from the state of Oregon, Mats would be breaking the law if he even referred to himself using the word “engineer.” Then, the Board launched an investigation into Mats, which lingered for nearly two years and culminated in a $500 fine. According to the Board, Mats engaged in the unlicensed “practice of engineering” when he spoke publicly about his “critique and calculations” for the yellow-light formula. Moreover, only Oregon-licensed professional engineers are allowed to use the word “engineer” to describe themselves.
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Although Mats is not a licensed professional engineer (and never claimed to), he has a broad background in math and science. In his native Sweden, Mats earned a degree in electrical engineering, and worked for the Swedish Air Force and Luxor Electronics. Mats even presented his research on traffic-light timing at an Institute of Transportation Engineers conference, and he corresponded with one of the physicists who developed the original 1959 formula.
Working with the Institute for Justice, Mats has now engineered a lawsuit, arguing that the Oregon’s engineering laws violate his right to free speech and his right to petition, as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
“I was fined simply for speaking out and was told that I can’t truthfully call myself an engineer,” Mats said in a statement. “The board has not only silenced me, it has silenced many other people who want to talk about technical issues.”
Mats is not alone. The Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying has issued fines against an activist who criticized a proposed power plant and against a retiree who wrote the Board to complain about his flooded basement. The Board even investigated and sent a “letter of concern” to a Portland City Commissioner candidate who called himself an “environmental engineer”; the candidate has engineering degrees from Cornell and MIT but wasn’t an Oregon-licensed professional engineer.
Licensing laws in other states have also censored ordinary citizens. Tour guides in New Orleans, Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia can only lead tours—in other words, talk about their cities’ history—after they procure a license from the local government. The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition once stopped paleo blogger Steve Cooksey from giving online dietary advice without a dietician license. Only after a three-year long legal battle, did the Board relent and adopt new guidelines to allow Steve and others to speak freely.
In Kentucky, the state psychology board issued a cease and desist letter to John Rosemond, a syndicated advice columnist, since he committed the “unlawful practice of psychology” by running a nationwide newspaper column in which he answered a reader’s question. Kentucky also censored John because he called himself a “family psychologist,” even though he was licensed in North Carolina. Two years after he filed a First Amendment lawsuit, a federal judge slammed the Board’s “regulatory zeal” and ruled in John’s favor.
“You don’t need a permission slip to criticize the government,” said IJ Attorney Wesley Hottot. “Licensing boards across the country think the First Amendment doesn’t apply to them. They couldn’t be more wrong.”
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All families have a secret but not many have a book in them as good as as Ben Watt's
We never think our parents are entirely real.
We go from depending on them when we’re young to patronising them when we’re teenagers to depending on them again when we have kids of our own and then patronising them all over again when they’re getting properly old. At no stage do they ever quite emerge from our shadow. That’s the way we prefer it.
We also tend to assume that our horizons are broader than theirs and our experiences are somehow deeper and more profound than theirs. This must be particularly the case if you’re any kind of celebrity and have had the experience of being asked what you think and feel about just about everything.
Romany and Tom is Ben Watt’s book about his parents. Mother was an actress turned magazine journalist and rather grand. Father was an underemployed jazz musician and rather Scottish.
It starts in their later years, in retirement flats and care homes, and goes back through their individual stories and on into their strange romance. It’s not a comforting story. It’s got very few “aw, sweet” moments. That’s what I like about it. It’s closely observed, brilliantly written and unsparing in making Romany and Tom real, even at the cost of making them likeable.
I was enthusing to my wife about it, misquoting the old Alan Bennett line about all families having a secret and the secret being that they’re not like other families. I was speculating you could write a book as arresting as this one about any family. She didn’t think you could. Maybe she’s right. I still think all families are equally strange. Most of the time we’re on the inside. When you're on the inside you can't see it. It's afterwards that you see it. | {
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Filip Boyen first got his start in the hotel business by working as a commis chef in a hotel kitchen in Belgium. From this experience, he learned that the hotel business would allow him to discover new countries and cultures. Three decades later, he’s the new CEO of Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH), and he’s inviting travel agents to discover SLH’s new agent rewards program.
TravelAge West sat down with Boyen to hear more about what’s buzzing at SLH.
How does Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) set itself apart from other independent hotel collections?We call ourselves the “anti-brand” because we think that it comes down to the independent characteristics of each of our hotels that ultimately unites them. Our hotels offer an element of surprise and are consistently of high quality. It’s the element of discovery and unique sense of place that sets them apart — even when the curtains in the guestroom are closed.
SLH recently launched a new agent recognition program: Small Luxury Heroes. Why did you decide to shift the focus to agents? We’ve created a program that rewards agents with SLH gift cards and complimentary room nights, among other things. Two-thirds of our reservations come from travel advisors, and the lion’s share of that is from agents in the U.S. We are very loyal to agents because they are very loyal to us. They know we’re not trying to go around them to get direct bookings. We respect them for what they do and for the support they give us, and so we wanted to continue that relationship.
How has Small Luxury Heroes fared since its December launch? We have already had 800 agencies join, although we still have a lot of room for improvement. We’ve also been adding sales representatives in the U.S. market and recently opened a West Coast office in San Diego.
Will SLH’s new iPhone app impact agent bookings? I think we will see guests who have traditionally booked via tablet or through our website use the app much more. But we expect that those who have reserved through travel advisors will continue to do so.
How does your past experience at Orient-Express Hotels (now Belmond) help evolve SLH?I understand hoteliers — what makes them tick, their frustrations, their challenges and what makes them happy. That’s very important in this business, which is very much based on relationships. | {
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request for Lamb recipes
In the past we've always done our own butchering...this time (probably our last larger animals) we took our two lambs to the local butcher. Not ideal, as the trama for both us and the sheep increased a lot...loading in the back of our subaru and driving an hour trying to calm the sheep on the way.....
So, we pick up an assortment of cuts next week and I've never cooked lamb before (goat, yes...and chicken, rabbit, etc). They were well under a year old and that, I understand, still qualifies them as 'lamb' not 'mutton'. The male was wethered young.
I could use some help with recipes for this meat. Thanks!
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Roast leg of lamb - great prick the leg all over and insert Rosemary into the skin full length leaves about a hundred ( 180 c twenty mins per lb plus twenty mins)
Lamb curry either Indian style or as they do in Jamaca
Lancashire hot pot basically a stew with lamb cooked a long time with potato forming a crust on the top.
Dublin lamb chops for breakfast
there is Also an Irainian dish I like with lamb and dried limes
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Lamb is a favorite in our household. It has a distinct flavor that goes well with savory and tart marinades. Many lamb recipies use olive oil combined with lemon, wine,or mustard.
My favorite personal recipes, for lamb, are posted on a friend's website
Since her organizational skills are far better than mine, I'll give you the link to that site. She's taken my post-it-notes and napkin scrawlings, and converted them into proper recipes.
(With actual amounts other than "some", "a little bit", etc.)
We bought a half lamb from a neighbor, similar in age, best meat ever. I keep telling them how much I like it, but they are appalled that we are eating the chops rare. Apparently they like to put everything in the dutch oven for hours. One thing we noticed is that it doesn't have a muttony taste at all when we cook it, but it can develop if there are leftovers. Since I'm cooking only for 2, I usually strive for leftovers so I don't have to cook every night, but with the lamb, we just make enough for one meal.
I made tiny lamb meatballs the other day, sautéed then braised in chicken stock and red vermouth. A bit of cream would have been good in the sauce. Or mushrooms. Boiled potatoes I'm trying to use up, forked up with some basil puree frozen in olive oil, oven roasted carrots.
Lamb shanks braised with lentils and chopped tomatoes and a bit of onion and/or garlic, some mediterranean herbs, is good. Or do the lentils and tomatoes on the side if you are having chops. Unless you like your meat like my friends.
my first try wasn't a 'recipe', just a test to see if we liked lamb....package of ground with onion, celery, tomato, cayenne, turmeric and hominy over kale greens....pretty tasty I'll branch out a bit eventually.....
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subscribing to this thread as we should have ~20-25 lambs in the next 30 days or so
We just harvested our first lambs we have ever raised on our homestead. I made our first dish with their meat for dinner...lamb chops! I basically made them like a steak but added a garlic, rosemary, thyme infused them into EVOO. | {
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Chris Rock is usually the funny man in most movies, well it seem like he wants to try something new!
The comedian is linking up with Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures for the next Saw movie. Yes! Horror! Chris has written a story that is being adapted to the big screen by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg, with Chris executively producing.
“When Chris Rock came to us and described in chilling detail his fantastic vision that reimagines and spins-off the world of the notorious Jigsaw Killer, we were all-in,” said Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group chairman Joe Drake. “Saw is one of the highest grossing horror franchises of all-time and it’s one of Lionsgate’s most successful film series. This upcoming film will still be as mind bending and intense as all the previous Saw films. Chris conceived this idea and it will be completely reverential to the legacy of the material while reinvigorating the brand with his wit, creative vision and passion for this classic horror franchise.”
“I’ve been a fan of Saw since the first film in 2004,” said Rock. “I am excited by the opportunity to take this to a really intense and twisted new place.”
The film is has been given a date of October 23, 2020
This is definitely not Chris’s first time writing a movie or producing. His credits include Head of State (directorial debut), Down to Earth (co-wrote), I Think I Love My Wife (wrote & directed), Top Five (wrote, directed & starred in), and, of course, Pootie Tang, among others.
Plus we all watched Everybody Hates Chris, which he co-created and narrated.His Netflix special Tamborine is currently streaming.
In the fall, he heads into production for season 4 of FX/MGM’s Emmy-winning drama series Fargo. | {
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BlizzCon 2015 Announced: November 6th and 7th
BlizzCon 2015 was just announced! It takes place on November 6th and 7th, with tickets on sale April 15th and April 18th via Eventbrite for $199 each. The link for purchasing tickets is here, although it will not be active until April 15th.
Blizzard has also published a Ticket Purchasing Guide which has some 2015 changes.
More information will follow in upcoming weeks, including the BlizzCon Benefit Dinner, Virtual Ticket, and the Wowhead Party!
Full details below:
Blizzard
You’ve been summoned to Southern California for BlizzCon 2015! Blizzard’s ninth epic gaming convention and community celebration is returning to the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7, 2015. Form a party with your fellow members of the Blizzard community and get ready for two days of in-depth discussion panels with our developers, hands-on play time with the latest Blizzard games, and intense eSports tournaments featuring top pro gamers from around the world.BlizzCon 2015 tickets will go on sale in two batches on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. PT and Saturday, April 18 at 10 a.m. PT through the online event ticketing service Eventbrite, priced at $199 each (plus applicable taxes and fees). Check out the BlizzCon Ticket webpage for all the details.In addition, we’re once again planning a special pre-BlizzCon Benefit Dinner the evening of Thursday, November 5 in support of Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), where guests will have a chance to meet and chat with developers, artists, community team representatives, and others from Blizzard. Attendance to this special event will be limited, and we’ll have more information on ticket pricing and availability at a later date.If you can’t make it to the show in person, you’ll be able to watch from home with the BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, offering comprehensive live coverage of the event via a multichannel Internet stream. Further details on the Virtual Ticket, including pricing, availability, and programming information, will be announced at a later date.See the full press release or check out the BlizzCon Ticket page for more information, and be sure to visit www.blizzcon2015.eventbrite.com at the dates and times above for a chance to purchase a ticket to the show. We hope to see you there!
Ticket Purchasing Guide
Blizzard
The first batch of BlizzCon 2015 tickets goes on sale Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. PT. When the time comes, hit the link below for your chance to snag some.Get BlizzCon 2015 Tickets Here Tickets usually go fast, so if you want to attend this year’s show, it pays to be prepared. Ticket sales are once again being handled through Eventbrite this year, and a few things are different from 2014. It’s worth reading our BlizzCon Ticket Info page to get an overview, but if you want more details on how it works, check out this handy guide. What Information You’ll Need to ProvideYou’ll want to have the following information handy when you’re buying BlizzCon tickets:
Your information: First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Character name (optional)
Your friends’/family’s information: First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Character Name (optional)—note that you’ll be able to go back and change these until August 14.
What’s New for 2015A few changes are in store for ticket buyers this year, including updates to how tickets are delivered based on BlizzCon 2014 feedback, as well as some changes to the Eventbrite purchasing process.Barcodes Delivered Immediately—This year, ticket buyers and attendees will receive the bar-code emails used to claim their badges immediately after purchasing tickets. In addition, bar codes will be accessible via the ticket purchaser’s Eventbrite account, where they’ll be available to view or reprint at any time. Buyers should note that bar code emails will also be sent to whoever you assign your tickets to, so if you’re not yet certain who’s coming, you might want to assign tickets to your own email address for now. (You’ll have until August 14 to make attendee changes.)Eventbrite Updates—Eventbrite has made some updates to their waiting room that should help make the experience smoother for BlizzCon hopefuls. This year, people in the waiting room will no longer be sent back to the event page if their turn comes up but the number of tickets they requested is not available. Instead, they’ll remain in the waiting room and retain their position in line until another order for the quantity of tickets they requested is released back for sale. For example, if you requested 4 tickets and reach the front of the line, the next time an order for 4 tickets is released, you’ll have first dibs. (Keep in mind this also means you won’t be able to select a different, lower ticket quantity if you reach the front of the line and the ticket quantity you requested isn’t available.)Step-by-Step GuideStep 1: Head to the Eventbrite ticketing page, and choose the quantity of tickets you wish to purchase from the drop-down menu (4 ticket per household limit).
*UPDATED FOR 2015* Step 2: Click Order Now. If all tickets have been claimed, buyers may find themselves in line in a “waiting room” while others complete their purchases—see the “What’s New for 2015” section above for more details. Keep in mind that being in the waiting room doesn’t necessarily mean you’re guaranteed tickets.Step 3: Once you’re in the checkout and registration process, you’ll have 8 minutes to complete your purchase. A countdown will be displayed on-screen so you know how much time you have remaining. After 8 minutes, the tickets will be released for others to buy, drawing from those in the waiting room.Step 4: Fill out the Ticket Buyer information (your name and email) to purchase the tickets. Make sure you enter a valid email address that you use regularly, as important event communications (including your badges) will be emailed to this address.Step 5: Enter your credit card information. Remember, you will need to have this card at the convention if you need to make changes on-site. See the Badge Information page for more information.Step 6: Enter your name and email address for the first ticket (or your friend/family member’s information if you’re purchasing a ticket for someone other than yourself), and character name (optional). If you don’t have that information now, just enter your own name and email for now—you’ll have until August 14 to make changes. *NEW FOR 2015* When entering attendee names and emails here and in Step 9, keep in mind that tickets will be sent to both the purchaser’s email address as well as the email addresses assigned to each ticket immediately upon completing your purchase.Step 7: Check the box to agree to the waiver. If you do not agree, you cannot proceed with purchasing BlizzCon tickets. Remember there is a 4-ticket-per-household limit for General Admission BlizzCon tickets.Step 8: Enter your friends’ or family members’ name and email address for each additional ticket. Again, you’ll have until August 14 to make changes, so just enter your own for now if you need to sort out who’s attending later.If you do not have that information at the time of purchase, use the drop-down menu to auto-fill the ticket with your own name and email address—or, you can manually enter your own information. Remember you need to do this separately for each additional ticket you’ll be purchasing.Step 9: You will need to agree to the waiver for each additional ticket you’re purchasing.Step 10: Once you’ve entered everything, click Pay Now.Once you click Pay Now, you will be sent to a “processing order” page. Once your order is complete, you’ll receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite—be sure to check your Spam folder if you don’t see it. *NEW FOR 2015* Emails containing bar codes to claim badges will be sent immediately upon purchase. All tickets will be sent to both the purchaser’s email address as well as the email address assigned to a ticket.Congratulations! You have successfully purchased tickets to BlizzCon 2015!
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Comment by Aarkan
I look forward to walking by the mile long line to your party at the Annabella this year! It was super entertaining last year.
Comment by perculia
on 2015-03-12T14:59:31-05:00
Working on getting a larger party space this year, so the lines may be better!
Comment by TiberCOD
on 2015-03-12T18:44:06-05:00
Yay!
Comment by Jazzism
on 2015-03-12T19:25:53-05:00
It doesn't seem to be 2015 number of changes for this year ...
Comment by icheat
on 2015-03-12T20:36:21-05:00
One of these decades, I'll find a way to attend one of these.
Comment by Sas148
on 2015-03-12T23:29:37-05:00
Working on getting a larger party space this year, so the lines may be better!
Woo, less work, more party this time! :)
Comment by Rankkor
on 2015-03-13T09:38:56-05:00
A heads up for those considering purchasing a Virtual Ticket this year. I normally have purchased a VT every year it is available. I have been very happy with doing so each year. However, last year, for myself and what appears to be many, many others, the cost was just not worth the pay off. There was nothing shown via the VT that I wanted to view that I could not have viewed via You Tube or Worldofwarcraft.com for free. Some of the panels I wanted to view were not even recorded.
Then there were the chronic technical issues for the second year in a row to boot.
The companion pet was the best I took from it this year.
As well, many felt bait and switched by the months of pre-hype about being able to view the first footage from the upcoming Warcraft feature film. Soon after Blizzcon started, it was revealed that only people who were in attendance would be allowed to view anything connected to the film.
In other words- be very aware this year. I am sad that I am not going to purchase the VT this year- because I do love the little things- like the unique pet each year. But they are not worth the price of the VT.
Bear in mind however that THIS blizzcon will reveal the next expansion of wow, and at least for me, that alone justifies the price tag :)
Comment by Rystrave
on 2015-03-13T10:09:10-05:00
Working on getting a larger party space this year, so the lines may be better!
Woo, less work, more party this time! :)
I waited in line for like 2 hours last year... I want in this time!
Comment by Lindseysig
on 2015-03-16T04:17:12-05:00
ya..I got in the last 5 mins of it..line was horrible and I was even stay at same hotel
Comment by jagerdave
on 2015-03-16T08:25:35-05:00
Where's the WoWHead Contest to win a free ticket or two? I actually won several years back, and had to give them up because of an illness in my family and couldn't make it, but this year, I'm ready to go and nothing is going to stop me! :)
Comment by Strafer
on 2015-03-17T08:32:33-05:00
Hell yeah, my body is ready.
Comment by zerowolf021
on 2015-03-21T13:05:36-05:00
I am excited for Blzzcon! I would like to try and go this year, but if I can't, I hope the online coverage is better than last year's...
Comment by pyrz
on 2015-11-06T17:44:06-06:00
A Christmas for blizzard gamers, before the Christmas.
Comment by Levandekossa
on 2015-11-06T20:54:12-06:00
Looks awesome! :D
Comment by jd575964
on 2015-11-07T06:56:29-06:00
ZOMGOODNESS this is an old post way back here on the Blizzcon page haha
Comment by bloodrafe
on 2015-11-08T04:33:48-06:00
I’m an ESL League Admin for SC2 in the NA and soon SEA region I already feel a part of the “Extended Blizzard family”. I live in Australia so making it to BlizzCon is something I am unable to do. As a family we have been playing Blizzard games since the start, and with the opportunity of been a Virtual ticket holder for BlizzCon makes our gaming life complete. And the in-game goodies are always a welcome treat. As a family we watch the streams in our own time zone and re-watch the ones we love the most cheering and bantering no matter what game it is we are watching.
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I will have some brand new items to sell at the event. Here is a list so far. If you want more information about each product or are interested in buying feel free to pm me.
NIB Dangerous Power Revi- 850
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Best Place to Exercise St. Louis 2001 - Forest Park
You can't ask for much more, or much better, compared with the blaring Top 40 and mechanical torture devices at indoor gyms, than Forest Park. There's its 6-point-something-mile track that circles much of its perimeter, available for runners, cyclists and Rollerbladers (who tend to take up more than their share of both the path and the supply of spandex in the city). On the north side, you can avail yourself of either a slightly dilapidated par course or the picnic shelters to do your squats, push-ups and dips. And the scenery can't be beat: If it's early enough in the day, you'll catch all manner of woodland creatures taking their morning constitutionals as well. The trails through the John F. Kennedy Forest allow for more privacy and shade, and sometimes even an X-rated show. Clearly more interesting and therapeutic than the hyped-up, super-air-conditioned über-gym you've been hauling your ass to. | {
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Saturday, March 28, 2015
Chinese Food Festival at Swissotel Kolkata
Chinese Food Festival at Swissotel Kolkata
Kolkata's connection with China goes back to the 18th century. Having grown up in a city where most people would declare that 'Chow mein' the stir fried noodles are one of their all time favourite dishes it is of no wonder that the prospect of a Chinese Food Festival got me all excited.
My own brush with this cuisine extends a bit beyond the usual Chinese dishes which are served across this city. The Inod Chinese cuisine. The erstwhile Calcutta had a Chinatown right in the middle of the city and much later was the new Chinatown formed.
Those of us who are used to and love the cuisine from Old Chinatown would think of silky soft wonton soup, Chimney soup, mild flavours and dishes which are a perfect balance of meat and greens.
Imagine that its the weekend and you are bored and need a much needed break. How does a long drive and a stopover at a sophisticated hotel which is hosting a Chinese food festival where the Chefs have come all the way from Kunshan in China sound?
Let me give you a bit of details of what you might expect once you walk into Cafe Swiss, the 24 hour coffee shop between 26th March 2015 to 29th March 2015. Well as usual Swissotel's courteous staff is sure to put a smile on your face and make you feel very special and then comes a whole range of dishes which is not just utterly delicious but the variety itself is quite a reason for joy.
China much like India has many regions and each region has a regional cuisine to boast of much like our own country, India. This Food Festival focuses on Schezwan, Cantonese and Jiangnan cuisine.
For someone such as myself who believes in the immense power of a well made stock the very idea that some of the dishes rely on a well made stock is quite comforting. The wonton soups had something very familiar interspersed with a delicious unfamiliarity. The silky wontons are something that Old Chinatown in Calcutta is used to but the way it is served is delightfully unfamiliar. The wontons are skilfully made by our Chefs and it is served with some well made chicken stock and then you choose your condiments from Chinese pickle made of root vegetables , soy sauce, vinegar, a chili condiment which is extensively used and this chili paste is one where the chilies are soaked in vinegar for over a year. Chef Yao told me that in China the usual preferred meat for wonton is pork meat. Well here in Calcutta we are no different but the chicken used for the wonton soup for this event is equally delicious.
If you prefer meaty dishes there is plenty of options to choose from be it the delicious braised beef fillet in chili sauce or the delightful cold chicken with chili and vinegar where the chicken with its skin makes for a delightful texture along with mild yet amazing flavours but I would highly recommend that you do not miss out on the vegetarian items as well for these dishes are sure to delight you in the most unexpected way.
Take the example of the raddish pie. Flaky and crispy on the outside and creamy inside. The steamed baby bok choy in chicken broth is probably not technically vegetarian but the mild sweet flavour is an absolute delight when the heat is knocking on our doors.
The hot and sour soup is entirely different from any hot and soup soup we get in the Indian sub continent. Here the soup is mildly sour and the heat comes from black pepper.
Quite honestly I would highly suggest that you do not leave out one single dish because every dish will make you taste flavours which are familiar yet completely and delightfully unfamiliar.
And with all the steaming boiling and braising its one of the lightest meal on your stomach which means you can indulge without feeling guilty. The good news is that some of these dishes would be included in Swissotel's regular menu which is indeed something to feel joyous about. | {
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The Amazon Pink Dolphin’s Voice: Facing disaster: the little things that rule the world
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Facing disaster: the little things that rule the world
One-fifth of the world’s invertebrates, “the little things that run the world,” may be heading for extinction, according to the Zoological Society of London.
The society (ZSL) suggests that about 20 per cent of the world’s insects, spiders, worms, crustaceans, molluscs and other animals without backbones are endangered, for reasons ranging from pollution and over-harvesting to the effect of invasive species.
The report, entitled “Spineless”, and produced in conjunction with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which compiles the Red List of threatened species, is the first attempt at estimating the global conservation status of invertebrates.
Invertebrates constitute almost 80 per cent of the world’s 1.9 million known species and display staggering diversity, ranging from microscopic zooplankton to giant squid which can reach 18 metres in length.
But much less attention is paid to them than to vertebrate animals, which include mammals, birds, fish and reptiles, and are far fewer in number (totalling about 60,000 species).
And this is the case even though invertebrates are crucial in maintaining ecosystems – without insects, for example, we would lose much of the pollination services upon which agriculture depends, and without earthworms, the processes that spread organic matter through soil would be disrupted.
Two years ago, an earlier study suggested that a fifth of all vertebrates were facing extinction, and today’s report puts the conservation status of the smaller and more numerous invertebrate animals at the same level.
Threatened species in Britain include the brilliantly-coloured ladybird spider, once thought extinct and clinging on in Dorset and the freshwater pear mussel, famous for its pearls and now confined to a handful of rivers. Also at risk is the white-clawed crayfish, which has been ousted from many of its haunts by an American crayfish species. Others at risk in the UK include the shrill carder bee, the tansy beetle and the bog hoverfly, found only on Dartmoor.
The new report was carried out by analysing the 12,000 invertebrate species whose conservation status has been investigated and assessed by the IUCN, and projecting the threat across all species. It found that the highest risk of extinction tends to be associated with species that are less mobile and are only found in small geographical areas.
For example, vertebrate amphibians and invertebrate freshwater molluscs both face high levels of threat – around one third of species. In contrast, invertebrate species which are more mobile like dragonflies and butterflies face a similar threat to that of birds, and around one tenth of species are at risk.
“Invertebrates constitute almost 80 per cent of the world’s species, and a staggering one in five species could be at risk of extinction,” said Dr Ben Collen, of the ZSL.
The society’s director of conservation, Professor Jonathan Baillie, added: “We knew that roughly one fifth of vertebrates and plants were threatened with extinction, but it was not clear if this was representative of the small spineless creatures that make up the majority of life on the planet.
“The initial findings indicate that 20 per cent of all species may be threatened. This is particularly concerning as we are dependent on these spineless creatures for our very survival.”
At risk: Bugs’ lives
Bog hoverfly(Eristalis cryptarum)
A rare hoverfly that in recent years has been found only within a restricted area of Dartmoor.
Shrill carder bee(Bombus sylvarum)
Threatened by loss of the extensive flower-rich areas and suitable nesting sites of long tussocky grass it needs to survive.
Freshwater pearl mussel(Margaritifera margaritifera)
Facing threats from illegal pearl fishing – 75 per cent of the species’ sites have been damaged by criminals.
Tansy beetle(Chrysolina graminis)
Once widespread, but dependent for its sole food source on the tansy plant, which is declining.
Source: The Independent
Editorial: SELVA-Vida Sin Fronteras
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Mariana Almeida
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The Weekly Standard is the latest organization to be approved by Facebook to join its fact-checking initiative, despite its political bias, record of serial misinformation, attacks on nonpartisan fact-checking institutions, and dismal fact-checking track record.
In December 2016, Facebook announced its plans for an initiative to partner with the journalism organization Poynter and with fact-checking organizations to help address the problem of fake news and hoaxes on its platform. These third-party fact-checkers would need to be vetted by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and would need to meet five principles: a commitment to nonpartisanship and fairness, a commitment to transparency of sources, a commitment to transparency of funding & organization, a commitment to transparency of methodology, and a commitment to open and honest corrections.
After finding substantial fault in the Standard's fact-checking process, the ICFN verified it on the basis of just three weeks of new fact-checks that met it standards, despite Poynter's own three-month requirement and over the concerns of its own assessor. MMFA reviewed over 40 pieces of content tagged as fact-checks since early 2011 and found that:
One piece fact-checks a post from a website that describes itself as satirical.
One piece fact-checks a meme. Most of the websites the Standard took to task for sharing the meme noted the possibility that it was a hoax.
Only 12 pieces feature the byline of the Standard’s official fact-checker, Holmes Lybrand. Of those 12, only seven appear in the section that the Standardpresents as its formal fact-checking operation (of those seven, it seems three were published within five minutes of each other).
One piece labeled a fact check was written by a Standard opinion writer.
The Standard has a long record of misinformation and its catalogue of fact-check attempts are no exception; in his November 2017 analysis, the assigned Poynter assessor stated that he would recommend approval only “with several edits and revisions.” But the Standard’s Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hayes toldThe Guardian that the outlet considers its formal fact-checking operation to have started six months ago and that “the work really does speak for itself.”
Hayes also touted the hiring of fact-checker Holmes Lybrand as proof of its fact-checking bona fides. As of this writing, Lybrand has published 12 pieces, only seven of which actually comply with IFCN’s requirement that fact-checks be archived on their own page. The rest can be found under its old “fact-checks” section alongside opinion columns.These hard-hitting pieces include a fact check of a claim it isn’t clear anyone was contesting, a non-answer ruling saying “it’s complicated” (in which the author also fails to disclose the conservative/libertarian leaning of one of the sources used for the analysis, the Pacific Legal Foundation), and a piece that included a correction for an inaccuracy.
Before its sudden interest in developing an actual methodology to correct misinformation, the Standard’s attitude toward fact-checking was very different. Its website tag “fact-check” houses a bulk of articles dating back to 2011 in which a popular theme of commentary is “fact-checkers are bad at their jobs.” At least 14 articles under this tag are criticisms of fact-checking organizations over perceived liberal bias. And, as if it’s already not hard enough to find the official “fact-checking vertical,” there’s also the wildly confusing existence of a third website tag called “fact checking,” housing more anti-fact-checker rants similar to those found under the “fact checks” tag, but not available there. The categorization fumble makes it clear that even the outlet itself has a hard time differentiating between its partisan and its purportedly objective content, raising the question of how a reader should know the difference.
Facebook’s decision to include an explicitly partisan outlet like The Weekly Standard in its fact-checking fake news initiative shows that Facebook is more concerned with appeasing right-wing fury than with combating propaganda and fake news.
Conservative news outlet The Weekly Standard has been approved by Facebook to partner in fact-checking "false news," a partnership that makes little sense given the outlet’s long history of making misleading claims, pushing extreme right-wing talking points, and publishing lies to bolster conservative arguments.
The Weekly Standard’s history of publishing false claims on topics such as the 2012 attacks on diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, the Affordable Care Act, tax cuts, and the war in Iraq, among many others, raises doubts that Facebook is taking the challenge of fact-checking seriously.
As The Guardian reports, The Weekly Standard is the first “explicitly partisan” outlet to partner with Facebook in their effort to fact-check fake news. The decision by Facebook raises concerns over the decision to give a conservative opinion outlet with a history of misinformation unearned influence over the fact-checking process. From the December 6 report:
A conservative news organization has been approved to partner with Facebook to fact-check false news, drawing criticisms that the social media company is caving to rightwing pressures and collaborating with a publication that has previously spread propaganda.
The Weekly Standard, a conservative opinion magazine, said it is joining a fact-checking initiative that Facebook launched last year aimed at debunking fake news on the site with the help of outside journalists. The Weekly Standard will be the first right-leaning news organization and explicitly partisan group to do fact-checks for Facebook, prompting backlash from progressive organizations, who have argued that the magazine has a history of publishing questionable content.
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“I’m really disheartened and disturbed by this,” said Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, a progressive watchdog group that published numerous criticisms of the Weekly Standard after the partnership was first rumored in October. “They have described themselves as an opinion magazine. They are supposed to be thought leaders.”
Calling the magazine a “serial misinformer”, Media Matters cited the Weekly Standard’s role in pushing false and misleading claims about Obamacare, Hillary Clinton and other political stories.
Facebook, a platform plagued with fake news, is reportedly looking at teaming up with the conservative outlet The Weekly Standard despite its shoddy history on getting facts correct.
Quartz White House correspondent Heather Timmons reported that Facebook plans to enlist The Weekly Standard “as a fact-checking partner, according to several people briefed on talks between the two companies.”
As Media Matters has documented, Facebook has served as a conduit for the flow of fake news stories to spread. The platform has recently faced scrutiny for having such lax advertisement policies that a Russian company was able to buy political ads during the 2016 election. The tech company has partnered with fact-checkers such as Snopes, PolitiFact, and the Poynter Institute to combat its fake news problem (though the implementation of that process has faced numerous problems).
Timmons quoted a source saying the move to bring on The Weekly Standard was an effort to “appease all sides” by adding a conservative outlet to Facebook’s stable of fact-checking partners. The platform’s past attempts to respond to conservative concerns have gone poorly, however. Last year, Facebook fired the human editorial staff responsible for writing summaries for stories in its “Trending” section after they were accused of being biased against conservatives. Shortly thereafter, as The Washington Post noted, Facebook was boosting false information and “trending fake news.”
And The Weekly Standard would hardly suffice as a reliable fact-checking partner given its history. Stephen Hayes, the editor in chief of The Weekly Standard, was a leading misinformer about the Iraq War. He authored a 2004 book with a glaringly false premise: The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. Reporter Spencer Ackerman wrote of Hayes:
Hayes, in the Standard, has made a career out of pretending Saddam and Al Qaeda were in league to attack the United States. He published a book -- tellingly wafer-thin and with large type in its hardcover edition -- called "The Connection." One infamous piece even suggested that Saddam might have aided the 9/11 attack. Hayes can be relied on to provide a farrago of speciousness every time new information emerges refuting his deceptive thesis. Unsurprisingly, Cheney has repeatedly praised Hayes's work, telling Fox News, "I think Steve Hayes has done an effective job in his article of laying out a lot of those connections."
William Kristol, the publication’s founder and current editor at large, is also notorious for his disastrous punditry about about the war. He once stated that American and alliance forces would be greeted as “liberators” in Iraq and that “we'll be vindicated when we discover the weapons of mass destruction and when we liberate the people of Iraq.”
More recently, The Weekly Standard was forced to add an editor’s note to a February piece that attacked Rumana Ahmed after she resigned from the National Security Council. The outlet falsely claimed that Ahmed was a “political appointee in the Obama White House” who was given a “civil service position” right before Obama left office. As The Atlantic noted in response, “Ahmed held a term appointment that was not set to expire until the summer of 2018,” and her type of appointment “‘would not ordinarily be described as a political appointment.’”
The publication itself has expressed skepticism of fact-checking. Senior writer Mark Hemingway wrote in 2012 that he has “serious problems with the very idea of independent media ‘fact checking’ organizations, but compared to their peers, PolitiFact has distinguished themselves as being particularly bad at what they do. Ignoring them, or failing that, constantly reminding people they should be skeptical is a good place to start.”
Media figures roundly criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for campaigning on his claim that Mexico would pay for a border wall, then subsequently admitting he “didn’t discuss payment of the wall” when meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
A conservative national security expert and Weekly Standard writer responded with horror to a report that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly asked his foreign policy advisers, “Why can't we use nuclear weapons?"
During an August 3 interview with former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough relayed how “a foreign policy expert” advising Trump told Scarborough that Trump had asked the adviser three times, “If we have [nuclear weapons], why can’t we use them?” According to the network, Scarborough only learned of Trump’s baffling approach to the United States’ nuclear arsenal “in the last few days” before reporting it. From Morning Joe:
Conservative national security analyst John Noonan -- who periodically writes about national defense issues for The Weekly Standard and previously served as an adviser to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and to 2016 presidential hopeful Jeb Bush -- slammed Trump on Twitter. Noonan’s nuclear expertise stems from his U.S. Air Force service, including work as a missile-launch officer at a nuclear silo in Wyoming. Noonan wondered if Trump understands “how F’ing dangerous” his foreign policy stances are, hit the nominee for “undoing 6 decades of proven deterrence theory,” and lamented the position of officers down the chain of command who are “[w]ondering if they’ll soon answer to a madman”:
1. I cant get this in one tweet. So bear with me as I air some laundry here on Scarborough's claim Trump's interested in nuclear First Use
Noonan was not alone in criticizing Trump’s reported interest in using nuclear weaponry. Steve Breen, an editorial cartoonist for the right-leaning San Diego Union-Tribune, mocked the nominee with a depiction of a hypothetical President Trump being physically restrained from launching a nuclear assault in response to criticism from a constituent in Wichita, Kansas:
The focus of the first day of the Democratic National Convention was how to “build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top,” but right-wing media breathlessly attacked the Democratic Party for failing to mention ISIS.
Media figures have raised questions about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's connections, financial and otherwise, to Russia after he told The New York Times that he would honor NATO obligations to defend a member nation from a potential attack by Russia only if the member nation had “fulfilled their obligations to us.” Media figures have called the remarks “downright frightening,” possible evidence of a “non-tacit alliance” between Putin and Trump, and a possible cause for “an urgent investigation into whether Putin is interfering in the current American election.”
Several media outlets falsely reported that the final report released by Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi contained “new information,” when in fact all of the “key findings” in the report had been previously reported. Committee Republicans reportedly released “embargoed ‘exclusives’” strategically to manipulate reporters into presenting details in the releases as new information.
Prominent voices in conservative media are holding on to the hope that delegates will block Donald Trump as the GOP’s presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention (RNC). Some have made the case that a close reading of the RNC rules shows delegates are not officially bound to vote for Trump, while others are openly calling for him to be set aside in favor of an alternative conservative nominee.
Media figures responded to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) announcement that he will vote for Donald Trump with derision, characterizing Ryan’s action as a “shotgun wedding,” “caving to Democrats,” and “sad.”
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who has long advocated for a third party alternative to the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, announced his desire to recruit National Review writer David French as his chosen candidate. French’s coworkers and some core Never Trump figures supported the possible candidacy, while many other right-wing media figures called it “embarrassing” and “preposterous.”
The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol Pushes National Review's David French To Enter Presidential Race
Wash. Post: "David French Is Urged To Enter Presidential Race As Independent." On May 31 TheWashington Post reported that Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, sought to recruit National Review writer David French as a third-party conservative presidential candidate. French has not stated whether or not he will run:
Tennessee attorney David French, who in recent years has become a prominent right-wing writer, is being urged by some conservative leaders to make a late entry into the 2016 presidential race as an independent candidate, according to two people close to him.
William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard magazine and a former Republican White House official, is at the fore of the draft effort. A group of well-known evangelical leaders and GOP operatives is also involved in the discussions, the people said, requesting anonymity to discuss private conversations.
[...]
When reached by phone Tuesday, French’s wife, Nancy, declined to comment. David French did not respond to multiple calls and emails over the past weekend. [The Washington Post, 5/31/16]
Some Never Trump And National Review Figures Support A French Candidacy
National Review: "French Is Preposterous? This Year?" National Review blogger Mona Chen defended Bill Kristol's selection of French for a third party bid, calling for "an honest man in this contest." Chen asserted that since “the Democrats are about to nominate a woman who may be indicted” and the Republicans “a reality star who knows nothing of policy, but ... threatens to undermine" the GOP itself, French has a viable opportunity to enter the presidential race:
Twitter tittered with a combination of contempt and amusement yesterday when word leaked that it might be our own David French who is considering an independent run for president. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” — that great “herd of independent minds” — the same tone prevailed (except for Mark Halperin, who noted that much would depend upon whether French could get financial backing). Mika Brzezinski scoffed that Bill Kristol needed a vacation, and the assembled crew were unanimous that French lacks the stature to enter the race.
In any normal year, they would certainly have a point. But look around people. This is the year when the Democrats are about to nominate a woman who may be indicted. The Republicans are nominating a reality star who knows nothing of policy but excels at schoolyard taunts, and threatens to undermine the one party that, until recently, stood (broadly) for the Constitution. But David French is out of his league? French is a graduate of Harvard Law. While Trump was bedding married women and allegedly defrauding strivers who signed up for Trump University, French was earning a bronze star in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He’s a major in the US Army Reserve. He’s a bestselling author of, most recently, The Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can’t Ignore and countless brilliant articles. He is past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and has worked for the Alliance Defending Freedom and the American Center for Law and Justice. [National Review, 6/1/16]
National Review Editor Jim Geraghty: “If A David French Candidacy Gets All Of America To See The Alt-Right Clearly, He’s Done A National Service.”
If a David French candidacy gets all of America to see the Alt-Right clearly, he's done a national service. https://t.co/VqdXHuKfE8
RedState's Leon H. Wolf: "French ... Will Easily Get My Vote." RedState.com writer Leon H. Wolf wrote that French “will easily get my vote over any of the options that are currently on the ballot.” Even though Wolf conceded that French has little realistic chance to win, he asserted that he will never “bow before the con man who bragged that I would support him even after he destroyed my party.”
I guess some are determined not to give French a shot on the basis that he can’t possibly win. Personally, I could not care less. A realistic chance of anyone who deserves the office winning left the building a long time ago.
I don’t have a duty or obligation of any kind to vote for a candidate who might win. The only duty I have – to myself or anyone else – is to vote for the candidate who is most deserving of my vote. Hell, by the time election day of 2008 rolled around, McCain had no chance, and we all voted for him, didn’t we?
If French really does run, he will easily get my vote over any of the options that are currently on the ballot, in addition to my help gathering signatures and whatever spare money I can afford. Not only will he deserve it, but I won’t submissively tuck my tail between my legs and bow before the con man who bragged that I would support him even after he destroyed my party. [RedState.com, 6/1/16]
Erick Erickson: “I’d Gladly Vote For David French Over Either Hillary Clinton Or Her Donor Donald Trump.”
I’d gladly vote for David French over either Hillary Clinton or her donor Donald Trump.
Others In Right-Wing Media Ridicule The "Embarrassing" Potential Candidacy Of French
Hot Air: Bill Kristol Is "Now Pulling Fans Out Of The Stands To Play QB." Conservative blogger Allahpundit ridiculed Kristol's choice of French in a May 31 blog post on HotAir.com:
This was who he had in mind with that much-hyped tweet this weekend that had everyone wondering if Romney had reconsidered? An … NRO writer? Trump fans are forever deriding #NeverTrump as a “movement” consisting of, like, six guys at National Review and the Weekly Standard. And now here we are.
[...]
As it turns out, Kristol actually touted French as a potential independent candidate in a piece published in the Standard just a few days ago. No one put two and two together this weekend, though, presumably because, um, no one thought he could possibly be serious.
[...]
There’s a sense that, having exhausted everyone on the team’s depth chart, you’re now pulling fans out of the stands to play QB. I’m not sure either what the value is in picking a conservative challenger to Trump who’s even less well known than Gary Johnson is. [HotAir.com, 5/31/16]
Breitbart News: “It’s Likely This Will End Up In The Ash Heap Of Kristol’s History Of Inaccurate Positions.” Breitbart News dismissed Kristol’s selection of French, writing in a May 31 post that “it’s likely this will end up in the ash heap of Kristol’s history of inaccurate predictions”:
Kristol created a media firestorm after tweeting that an “impressive” third party candidate would run with a “real chance.” If David French is all Kristol can come up with, it’s likely this will end up in the ash heap of Kristol’s history of inaccurate predictions. [Breitbart News, 5/31/16]
Guy Benson: French Candidacy “Will Represent An Embarrassing Fizzle For A ‘Never Trump’ Movement That Once Seemed Potent. Or At Least Relevant.” Townhall political editor Guy Benson called French’s selection by Kristol an “embarrassing fizzle” for the Never Trump movement in a May 31 post:
And the grand reveal is...National Review writer David French? And it's not even confirmed? Don't get me wrong: French is a decorated Iraq war veteran, a strong writer, and a principled conservative whose stalwart commitment to religious liberty is admirable, even if one disagrees from time to time. … He's an impressive man. The impressiveness of his team -- if this presidential run ever actually comes to pass -- remains to be seen. But the notion that a relatively little-known writer could parachute into this race at such a late juncture and have a prayer of winning even a single state is, frankly, preposterous.
[...]
So with due respect to the potential candidate, and with strong sympathy for its most prominent backers, I must say that if the French report proves accurate, it will represent an embarrassing fizzle for a 'Never Trump' movement that once seemed potent. Or at least relevant. Instead, it will have roared in like a lion after Indiana, then trotted impotently and inexorably toward the political abyss ahead of California. [Townhall, 5/31/16]
Hot Air's Ed Morrissey: "I Like And Respect David, But This Can’t Be Right.”
Conservative lawyers are warning Republicans against supporting presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump because of potential vacancies on the Supreme Court during the next presidency, saying that he would nominate “cronies,” is incapable of making “sound judicial selections,” and “hasn’t given a moment’s thought to the Constitution.”
The editor of one of the conservative establishment’s most influential magazines is now lashing out at the nation’s most prominent right-wing newspaper editorial board over whether conservatives should run a third-party candidate if Donald Trump is the Republican presidential nominee.
With Trump on the verge of clinching his party’s nomination, the conservative movement is in shambles. Dozens of right-wing commentators have come forward to say that they will never vote for Trump, either due to his bigotry and authoritarian tendencies or because of his alleged progressive positions. Those conservatives have said they will stay home, vote for the Democratic candidate, or support a third-party candidate.
Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard and a prominent conservative activist who bears significant responsibility for Sarah Palin ending up on a national ticket, is part of that faction. In February, he said that he “would try to recruit a real conservative” to run an independent campaign if Trump became the Republican nominee.
But a large group of conservatives are either openly rooting for the New York businessman or have come to terms with the likelihood that he will be their party’s standard-bearer.
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board joined that final group this morning, with a piece criticizing any effort to enlist a third-party candidate (Rupert Murdoch, the paper’s owner, has said that the party would be “mad not to unify” around Trump). The editors write:
Readers know our doubts about Mr. Trump, on policy and as an autumn candidate. His nomination still isn’t guaranteed, and the polls show him badly trailing Mrs. Clinton, despite her many flaws. Third-party advocates say the right candidate would give conservatives an honorable alternative to Trump-Hillary. They say a third-party candidate could win enough states to throw the election into the House of Representatives, which would then presumably choose the non-Trump Republican.
This isn’t impossible, but then again it almost never happens. The usual presidential result is that the party that splinters hands the election to the other, more united party.
The editors conclude that a third-party conservative candidate would be devastating to the party’s House and Senate candidates: “[D]ueling presidential candidates would put House and Senate Republican candidates in a perilous spot. Do they support Mr. Trump or the third-party conservative? If they are forced to choose, they could alienate enough GOP voters to ensure defeat.”
Hours later, Kristol threw down the gauntlet at the Journal. Pointing to Trump’s “crazed” comments this morning linking Sen. Ted Cruz’s father to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Kristol declared that “serious people, including serious conservatives, cannot acquiesce in Donald Trump as their candidate.”
Kristol savaged the Journal for prioritizing “political prudence,” concluding that regardless of the political implications, “Donald Trump should not be president of the United States. The Wall Street Journal cannot bring itself to say that. We can say it, we do say it, and we are proud to act accordingly.”
The Journal and Kristol may both be right: Giving conservatives no choice but to support Trump in the general election may be better for the party’s congressional candidates (though it also makes it impossible for them to distance themselves from their incredibly unpopular nominee). But supporting Trump in spite of what the Journal gingerly describes as their “doubts” about his candidacy is quite obviously an act of raw political cowardice.
It’s only May, and the looming Trump candidacy is already dividing even the establishment’s stalwarts. Who knows what the next six months will bring. But it will surely be fun to watch from the outside. | {
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QardioBase: Wireless Smart Scale Review
As a health conscious woman who developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy, tracking my prepartum weight gain and postpartum weight loss has been important. The QardioBase does just that. This scale is beautifully designed with the aesthetic of an Apple product (see: glass top and an un-intrusive electronic display screen.) It records the weight of multiple users, includes a pregnancy mode to track progress week by week, and automatically syncs all measurements with your smart phone. Overall, the product is pretty nifty.
I love tracking my progress in the mobile app, where the use of graphs and visuals makes the data more exciting. However, despite an overall positive experience, there are improvements that Qardio can make in order to make this product accessible to those who are less tech savvy.
When I received this product, I was really excited to try it out. I took it out of the package and noticed that it needs eight AAA batteries to power the scale. After pulling the tab to activate the batteries, I followed the instructions to download the app and sync my profile. Everything worked just fine until I added my husband’s profile to the scale. At that moment, my profile disappeared and his took over, even though my phone and profile stayed connected. In my opinion, the multi-user feature does not work well. It took us a while of syncing, un-syncing, and contacting customer service before we finally figured out how to add my profile back. But oops, guess what? Now the scale stopped recognizing my husband’s profile.
Overall, I like the concept of this product, but I can only give it 3 stars. Since it has a higher price point than a regular scale, this product has a few of features it needs to improve on.
What I loved:
The design: It’s sleek, beautiful, and makes a nice addition to your bathroom.
The concept: How cool is it to have your scale sync with your smart phone to display graphs, muscle to fat ratio, and progress automatically?
The Pregnancy Setting: While there clearly could be so much more info in this section of the app, this is the only scale I’ve seen that ties “weight gain” to my pregnancy.
The firmware update: The scale was not very accurate at first, but the firmware update fixed everything within minutes.
What I’d change:
The battery requirement: This product requires eight AAA batteries. I’m only three months into using this scale and I’m receiving an alert that it’s running low on power.
The inability to have multiple users with ease.
The app experience: First of all, the app is not very intuitive, and the configuration instruction is also not very clear. But the most frustrating thing is when something is wrong with the scale, it tells me that “QardioBase is not in the required state,” but does not tell me how to get remedy this.
While the firmware update improves accuracy, it was not an easy task getting the update to happen.
All and all, I’m pleased with the product. I’m hoping that future updates will improve the overall experience.
Winnie McCrea is a San Francisco Bay Area native. Her hobbies include drawing, oil painting, crafting, classical ballet and theater. She spent 6 years as a TV personality on a local late night TV show on KOFY TV20 where she injected comedy into critiquing B horror movies. She is mom to three dogs, two cats, two quails and chickens, and has recently become a first time mom to a little human. She loves writing reviews to help others discover new products to enhance everyday life and make more informed purchases.
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Holy Week--The Resurrection
From a guard's point of view.
It’s so dark out. No moon. Must be cloudy, because there’s
not even a cloud. It’s been a long and boring night guarding the black edge of
a black cave in a black garden, but it wouldn't be black much longer. The dawn had begun to blush in the east.
I don’t know what the centurion had in mind.
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strong men to move it. And who were they guarding against? A few rag-tag
disciples of this wandering Jew?
The high priest and the former high priest, Caiaphas and Ananias,
insist the disciples will try to steal their Master’s body. Why? Who would
care? Stupid Jews, the whole lot of them. Well, except for the lovely Ninah. And
if it hadn’t been for this last-moment guard duty, I, Quintus, would be with
her now. If only…
What’s that? A light behind the stone, rimming it with
silver? Almost as though the sun were shining behind it.
No! That cannot be. Unless someone were in there, lighting a
thousand lanterns. What’s that sound? Oh—that’s right, the clouds. It must be
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was it. Wasn’t it?
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not possible. Two large men—their robes shining white.
“Decius! Are you awake?”
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shook.
“Tribune Rufus will not believe us.”
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Quintus. Draw your sword.”
“True. I’m right beside you.”
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ominous sound, one that usually makes strong men quake with fear, especially
when the swords are carried by two such soldiers as we are, but the two men in
white don’t even look disturbed. They’re smiling. One of them holds up a hand,
palm toward us.
Paralyzed. I…can’t…move… Blackness is returning, all around
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Bond set at $1.22 million for Saudi airman accused of raping teen on New Year’s Eve in Strip hotel
Mazen Alotaibi appears in Las Vegas Justice Court for a hearing at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Thursday, January 17, 2013. Alotaibi is charged with burglary, first degree kidnapping, two counts of sexual assault with a minor and sexually motivated coercion.
Inside a Clark County courtroom Friday, bail was set at $1.22 million for the Saudi air force sergeant charged with raping a teenage boy New Year’s Eve on the Las Vegas Strip.
Outside the courtroom, the airman’s attorney disputed police reports and maintained the teen approached the Saudi and his fellow airmen and offered to perform sex acts for money.
Justice of the Peace William Kephart also scheduled a Jan. 31 preliminary hearing for Mazen Alotaibi, 23, who has been charged with two counts of sexual assault with a minor under 14 years of age, two counts of lewdness with a child under the age of 14, first-degree kidnapping, burglary and coercion, according to an amended criminal complaint filed Friday.
Alotaibi’s attorney, Don Chairez, called the defendant a “model citizen in Saudi Arabia” and asked for his bail to be set at $5,000 to $10,000 for each count — significantly lower than what Kephart imposed.
Kephart, citing the seriousness of the charges and Alotaibi’s alleged admissions to police, sided with the prosecution, which asked for a bail of at least $1 million.
“I know that Saudi Arabia has considerable assets, but I don’t know if (Alotaibi) has access to that,” Kephart said. “If he does make bail, as a condition of that bail, I’m going to require that he surrender his passport and that he remain in the United States.”
The incident, which has become an international news story, came to light after the alleged victim, a 13-year-old boy visiting Las Vegas on vacation, contacted hotel security at Circus Circus, according to an arrest report.
The boy, who was a guest at the hotel, had been walking down a hallway the morning of Dec. 31 when Alotaibi allegedly made contact and forced the boy into his room, where he sexually assaulted him, the report states.
The boy eventually escaped the room and briefly met a friend at a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop to calm down before notifying authorities, the report states.
When detectives interviewed the defendant, Alotaibi “repeatedly changed his story” but then allegedly admitted to performing two sexual acts on the boy, although he called one incident an accident, according to the arrest report.
Chairez disputed the police’s version of events, instead offering a different explanation about how the boy came into contact with Alotaibi’s group, which included several other Saudi military officers.
“This teenage kid was trying to buy marijuana off our particular client,” Chairez told the judge. “…We’re not talking about an innocent kid walking around the casino going to Krispy Kreme doughnuts.”
Chairez also said Alotaibi was intoxicated at the time and had just returned to the hotel after spending hours at a Las Vegas strip club with his friends.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Mary Kay Holthus dismissed the defense’s argument about the defendant’s alcohol consumption and asked the judge to consider the facts known so far, including the alleged victim’s young age.
“The likelihood of a conviction is tremendous,” Holthus said. “I don’t see this as just a ‘no big deal, get drunk and have fun’ (situation).”
Outside the courtroom, Chairez said he respected Kephart’s decision and would recommend Alotaibi remain in the Clark County Detention Center until his preliminary hearing. Any potential bail funds should be used instead to hire investigators and pay to fly people from Saudi Arabia to eventually testify, he said.
Chairez also reiterated his stance about how the situation unfolded — arguing the boy pursued the group, wanted to buy marijuana and then offered to perform sexual acts for money. He said the incident was not “forcible rape.”
“At most — if there was any sexual contact — it was consensual sex,” Chairez said.
Chief Deputy District Attorney James Sweetin, who is prosecuting the case with Holthus, said the pair was pleased with the judge’s bail decision for what he called a “very significant case.”
Alotaibi, who appeared Friday in shackles and wearing glasses, bounced his knees up and down while sitting on a courtroom bench before the hearing. He then stood and listened silently as a court interpreter translated the proceedings in his native Arabic.
If convicted of the sexual assault charges, prosecutors said the defendant could spend 35 years to life in prison.
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Is it ok Saudi Arabia for an adult male to have sex with 14 year old boy even if the sex was initiated by the teen? If I remember correctly homosexuality is punishable by death in most of the middle east.
Marijuana, the kid just asked for it, sounds like the lawyers are trying to pollute the jury pool.Lets hope for a speedy trial, conviction and long prison sentence.
So what if the boy wanted some pot, And so what even if the boy offered to do sexual acts for it. Which I don't believe either case. That doesn't relieve the adult from being an adult and just because his lawywer claims that it was a bi-lateral agreement doesn't make it enforcable either on account of it's unlawful here in America and in the country the accused is from to have sexual relations with kids.If I was an attorney there is no way I claim that it was consensual nor would I say one of the acts was an accident.How the heck do you accidently put your hands and or other parts on someone?And no to the deprotation thing until he has served his time if convicted, There seems to be a misconception about this "Deport Him" that the other country will put him on trial for a crime that wasn't committed in his home country, No all you will be doing is setting him free.Get this his defence is I went to a strip club got drunk and excited and I was in a need and accidently had sex with a BOY CHILD. | {
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Sri Aurobindo says that the Brahman manifests itself in the universe as values. Values are the expression of the Spirit in life. To live spiritually is to live a life of values. Values are powers for accomplishment. There is a gradation and hierarchy of values corresponding to different levels of accomplishment from physical to social to cultural to spiritual. Physical values such as hard work and organization are the essence of material accomplishment. Social values support civilized living. Cultural values make the full development and psychological flowering of individuality possible. Beyond this lies the realm of Spiritual living.
A German story by Heinrich von Kleist beautifully depicts the power of cultural values triumphing over social circumstances. The Marquise of O is a young French widow of noble birth living with her two children, parents and brother in an Italian castle town, which is governed by her father, a Colonel, during the Franco-Prussian War. When Russian troops overrun the castle, the Marquise is attacked by foot soldiers and nearly raped, before a Russian Count intervenes to rescue her and return her unharmed to her family. The Marquise is given a sedative to make her sleep after the harrowing experience. The Count, who calls on her to ensure her safety, is overcome with passion for her beautiful sleeping form and, unknown to the woman, rapes her while she is asleep. The Colonel’s family is deeply grateful to the Count for saving their daughter and completely unaware of his sin against her. They are heartbroken when they hear that he was killed in a battle shortly after leaving the castle.
Months later, the Count, who has recovered from a near-fatal wound, suddenly reappears. Eager to compensate for his secret transgression, he pleads for permission to immediately marry the Marquise. While the Count is warmly welcomed by this affectionate, cultured family and found both noble and attractive by the Marquise, she clings to an earlier vow not to remarry and her parents fail to understand the urgency of his plea. When his persistence in courting the Marquise threatens to damage his career and reputation, both the daughter and parents consent in principle to a future marriage, if only the Count will return to his professional duties. Satisfied by this promise, the Count departs.
Soon afterward, the Marquise experiences the early symptoms of pregnancy. Bewildered, since her husband died three years before, she confides in her mother and insists on consulting a physician and a mid-wife. When both confirm that she is, in fact, pregnant, her mother concludes that her daughter has taken a lover and is only feigning innocence. Despite the Marquise’s denial of any wrong-doing, she is rejected by her parents and banished from the family home.
The Marquise retires with her children to her country house, where she lives in total solitude and refuses to receive any visitors. Months later the Count returns and forces his way into her presence in order to confess his sin and plead that she accept him in marriage. Too ashamed of her situation to face one whom she believes so pure and noble, she escapes into the house before the Count can confess.
The Marquise is heart-broken by the estrangement from her affectionate family, but even more concerned that her innocent, unborn child not be looked down upon by society as illegitimate. So she places an advertisement in the newspaper asking the man who has raped her to come forward and accept her hand in marriage. Seeing the ad, her mother decides to lay a trap to wring a confession from her guilty daughter. Believing that her daughter already knows who her lover is and has only placed the ad to deceive others, her mother goes to her daughter and tells her that the man has come forward. But when she sees that her daughter is so genuinely eager to learn the identity of the man, she realizes the girl has been telling the truth all along. Brushing aside the social outrage, she embraces her daughter and insists on bringing her back home. Although the circumstances make it difficult for anyone to believe her innocence, the Marquise’s values of psychological purity and genuine affection conquer the compelling evidence and values of social opinion. The Colonel too relents and embraces his daughter with overflowing emotion. The emotional highlight of the story is this point at which both parents withdraw their suspicion and reaffirm their faith in their daughter, before any evidence is available to vindicate her. Such is the power of the values she represents. And so great is that power that it compels life to not only vindicate her position but also to resolve the situation in a manner most acceptable to all involved.
Soon a second ad appears from an unnamed man claiming responsibility and offering to come forward a few days later. The entire family decides that the man should be accepted into the family in order to uphold the virtue of the Marquise and the legitimacy of the unborn child, provided the man is not of too low a social standing. To their utter amazement, the man who appears is none other than the Count. The Marquise is horrified to find the culprit is one whom she held in such high regard and is at first unwilling to fulfil the offer of marriage. Ultimately, her genuine love for the Count overcomes her reluctance, the marriage is consummated, and her reputation is redeemed.
Life is filled with so many possibilities that even the most obvious and reasonable conclusion may prove false. What protection can one find from untoward accusations and social condemnation? A life of higher values provided that ultimate protection, as ultimately it preserved the reputation of the Marquise, reunited her with her family and brought her a husband whose only sin in life had been that momentary lapse against her with whom he was passionately in love. | {
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Poll: Gender gap in views on Trump tape describing advances on women
Hillary Clinton leads in the key state of Ohio by four points (46 percent to 42 percent) and in Pennsylvania by a wider eight point gap (48 percent to 40 percent), a state that seems critical to Donald Trump’s electoral hopes. And Clinton also is ahead in Wisconsin 43 percent to 39 percent.
That polling was done prior to the news about Donald Trump’s comments on the videotape. Then respondents in Ohio and Pennsylvania were recontacted Friday night and Saturday, and were asked about the videotape. Eight in ten had either seen it or heard about it.
Slight majorities in each state, 54 percent in Ohio and 51 percent in Pennsylvania, said the tape did not change their view of Trump, while 44 percent in Ohio and 47 percent in Pennsylvania said it made them think worse of Trump, though most in the latter groups were not supporting him beforehand. There is a gender gap on this: in Pennsylvania, women are more likely than men to say it makes their view of Trump worse, by 53 percent to 42 percent.
Although it is too soon to tell if the tape will change votes outright the initial reaction to it suggests that it will certainly be on voters’ minds in tonight’s debate, and the response among women is notable in context because Trump was already facing deficits among women voters and in particular among women with college degrees, who give higher support to Clinton than they have to past Democratic nominees in those states, bolstering the overall numbers for Clinton.
But for Trump’s supporters in particular, the data suggests there isn’t much impact so far: Ninety-one percent of his backers in Ohio and 90 percent in Pennsylvania say it doesn’t change their view of him. That steadiness among current Trump supporters is in keeping with other polling we’ve seen through the year -- in which Trump’s voters conceded their candidate sometimes said controversial things, but his supporters remained with him, often focused on other items like changing Washington or shaking up politics. In this Tracker poll, before the release of the tape, Trump voters said that the idea of “ending political correctness” is one reason they are backing him: Seventy-eight percent of his voters say so in Pennsylvania, and 75 percent of his voters say so in Ohio.
Clinton continues in these states to be seen as prepared to be commander-in-chief but has low numbers on being seen as honest and trustworthy – just 33 percent in Pennsylvania – despite her lead in the state. Most voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin don’t think either candidate values or respects people like them.
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Federal Reserve: the challenges of a symmetric inflation goal
Core and headline inflation have picked up in recent months and the statement after this week’s FOMC meeting duly noted that “On a 12-month basis, both overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy have moved close to 2 percent.”
Mission accomplished it seems. Normally this would fuel anticipations of a stepped-up tightening cycle so as to avoid that inflation would continue to rise. The FOMC has addressed this risk by insisting that “inflation on a 12-month basis is expected to run near the Committee’s symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term”. The message is twofold. Firstly, it is confident that inflation will not rise too much. The chart shows that core inflation since 2000 has been fluctuating in a band of 1%-2.5%. At the peak of the previous cycle it was slightly below 2.5% so it is tempting to assume that moving beyond this level will be difficult. The view that inflation will not accelerate too much fits with the message from the March Survey of Economic Projections of the FOMC members: despite an unemployment rate running well below the long-term projection, inflation is expected to stay around 2.0%. Secondly and more importantly, there is the mention that the inflation goal is symmetric. To get the message across, the statement says that the “Committee will carefully monitor actual and expected inflation developments relative to its symmetric inflation goal.” The reference to symmetry echoes a comment by Fed chair Powell during his press conference after the March meeting.
Under an asymmetric goal, a central bank would try to have inflation converge towards the objective whilst avoiding to move beyond. Markets might very well expect that the central bank would react rather quickly when inflation is on the rise. This market action could lead to a premature tightening of financial conditions which might imply the risk that the inflation goal will never be reached. Under a symmetric goal, accepting some degree of overshooting allows to keep policy easier for longer which increases the likelihood that the goal will be reached. However, to some degree, this is merely postponing the problem: markets will want to know where the true limit is. This also implies a far higher sensitivity to inflation surprises when inflation is already above the 2% target with investors speculating on a more aggressive tightening. Whereas this higher sensitivity to inflation surprises is relevant for financial markets and not so much for the real economy, both would be impacted if the central bank would strongly react to an excessive overshooting. | {
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Ohhhhhhhhhhh Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
You know that sinking feeling you get when your latest knitting project gets pulled off the needle by accident?? Or when you finish crocheting a round on a doily and realize halfway around you missed a repeat and the whole row is lop-sided?
Well, I now know that you also get that sinking feeling when you discover your favorite yarn supplier is moving out of town!
Cry, whine, bottom lip stuck out.......
By June 1st, Elmore-Pisgah will have moved their yarn mill in Spindale, NC to Old Fort -- about 40 miles from where I live. They will still be in business -- so their threads, yarns and Peaches and Creme cotton will still be manufactured. Just not 6 blocks from my house.
The worst part of it is that the move also means that there are jobs that have been lost here in town. Spindale has lost a lot of its mill jobs -- and I'm always sorry when hard-working, nice people get laid off.
I'm sure they announced the move quite awhile back, but I just wasn't paying attention to the local news. I will really miss being able to drop in at the mill and pick up yarn. But, I can still drop in when I make trips up that way. It's a longer drive, but not so far away that I can't make it there 2-3 times a year.
I made sure to stock up yesterday....
And I'll drop in one more time before they close up shop completely and pick up some more. I got a lot of pretty colors and two cones of the Gumdrops variegated. :) That ought to keep me in dishcloths, towel toppers and all things cotton for awhile. :)
And my husband, the sweetie pie that he is, didn't say one word about my buying more yarn. :) My stash hadn't been fed at all in a month. I was going into a NYA tail-spin (No-Yarn-Acquisition).
There is nothing like new yarn smell to make a Fibrist (My new made up word for "One who dabbles in the fiber arts; a yarn addict; anyone with more than one unfinished knitting/crochet project and who owns more than 10 skeins of yarn") just giddy with delight. It's the Joy of Yarn. Cat-nip for Fibrists. Fiber nirvana.
Gotta have yarn. :) Essentially it's string.....and a world without string is chaos. :) To quote "Mousehunt''....a very cute movie! :) | {
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The first poster for Sony's comedy sequel Grown Ups 2 proves that summer isn't just for kids. Adam Sandler returns as Lenny Francis, who moves his family back to his hometown. Instead of the grown ups teaching their kids a thing or two, it's the adults who learn a lot from their children on a chaotic last day of school. Take a look at this poster featuring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, and David Spade cutting loose and having a good time.
@moviegeek The moviegoer public. Rather than making good movies that have potential to be successful (like the dead Bioshock film project), the audiences just want crap, just like I said on my Texas Chainsaw 3D review.
BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! This will probably be as stupid and as much of a waste of time as the first one. And it will make a bunch of money because families still haven't realized that it's only a stereotype that Sandler is funny, when really he isn't. | {
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Texas A&M Engineering Programs Continue To Rise In U.S. News Rankings, Other Programs Also Ranked
Texas A&M University’s Dwight Look College of Engineering continues to move up in rankings by U.S. News & World Report for the best graduate degree programs in engineering, now ranking in a sixth-place tie among public universities and tied for 11th place overall.
Texas A&M programs in public affairs, business, education, science and the social sciences and humanities also are ranked in the magazine’s annual spring ratings of graduate-level degree programs in a variety of fields.
U.S. News’s 2014 rankings, released Tuesday (March 12), show that Texas A&M graduate engineering programs overall moved up one place in both categories and into a tie with the University of Texas at Austin. Texas A&M’s nuclear engineering program is rated the third-best of its type in the nation among public universities and fourth overall. Its biological and agricultural engineering program is rated the fifth-best program of its type in the nation, and its aerospace engineering program is ranked sixth among public institutions and tied for ninth place overall with Princeton.
In response to a growing need for engineers in Texas and nationally, Texas A&M officials announced earlier this year plans to expand the university’s engineering enrollment to 25,000 by the year 2025, with both undergraduate and graduate students included in the “25 for 25” initiative. Texas A&M currently enrolls more than 11,000 engineering students annually, placing it among the largest in the nation.
Overall enrollment for Texas A&M surpassed 50,000 last fall and ranks among the top seven universities nationally in size.
University officials note Texas A&M’s graduate program continues to grow in size as well as improve academically, surpassing the 10,000 milestone last fall for enrollment of students pursuing doctoral or master’s degrees.
Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin cited two key factors that have contributed to the university’s enhanced standing in graduate education.
“Unquestionably the faculty reinvestment program — our successful endeavor to add more faculty, including many with world-class credentials — has had a highly positive impact at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and has also enabled us to significantly expand our research portfolio,” Loftin stated.
Texas A&M’s investment in research now totals more than $700 million annually, ranking among the leaders nationally and first in Texas.
The U.S. News graduate school rankings released in the spring complement those announced annually in the fall for undergraduate programs at U.S. colleges and universities. Texas A&M programs at that level, particularly in engineering and business, also fare quite well, university officials note. Also, they point out that Texas A&M placed second nationally in the magazine’s “Great Schools, Great Prices” category, which is considered a key assessment that ties academic excellence to affordability.
The graduate programs in Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, Mays Business School and the College of Education and Human Development also are once again ranked by U.S. News, along with several departmental programs in science and the social sciences and humanities.
Among public affairs programs at universities throughout the nation, Texas A&M’s Bush School is tied for 21st among publics and once again ranks 33rd overall — tied with three other institutions. The Mays Business School ranks 14th among full-time MBA programs at public universities and 35th overall. Texas A&M’s College of Education and Human Development ranks in a 35th-place tie among public institutions and in a 47th-place tie overall.
In the College of Science, the chemistry program is eighth among public universities and tied overall at 19th. In the inorganic chemistry field, Texas A&M places sixth in both categories. The statistics department is tied for third place among similar entities at public institutions.
The political science program in the College of Liberal Arts is tied for 14th among public institutions and is in a three-way tie for 25th place overall. The economics program is in a four-way 21st-place tie among public institutions and in a similar tie for 42nd overall. The psychology program is in a five-way tie among publics at 41st and tied with 11 others at 67th overall.
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Al-Qaeda linked jihadist group in Syria bestows award to Turkey’s İHH
A split faction of the radical Islamist terror organization al-Qaeda in Syria,Ha’yat Tahrir, organized an awards ceremony in Idlib for the ‘Secret Heroes of the Revolution’ and Turkey’s Islamist Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH) was also bestowed an award by the jihadist group, according to a report by Turkey’s Sol Haber news portal.
The first awardee to come up on the platform was the head of the White Helmets, an aid group also known as Civil Defense Team of Syria, which receives aid from both US and England. Despite of some allegations about White Helmets’s ties with al-Qaeda, the group has denied such claims.
According to the some reports, the Islamist non-governmental organizations like İHH, which had organized Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza under siege of Israel, are shells for Turkish Intelligence Organization (MİT) to cover up clandestine business dealings while others were heavily infiltrated especially among the leadership level, were used in this Jihadist drive. İHH is among Turkey-based NGOs that were publicly accused by Russia at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for smuggling arms to rebels in Syria. | {
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Would Romney be Worse for Medical Marijuana Than Obama? Ctd
Andrew Sullivan responds to my statement that, regarding medical marijuana, "I honestly doubt Romney could be any worse than [Obama] if he tried."
I don't. The man doesn't even drink coffee. His impulse when seeing a man with muscular dystrophy in desperate need of medical marijuana was to listen, ignore and then walk away. Obama deserves criticism on medical marijuana - but the notion that there would be no difference between his DEA and Romney's strikes me as ... well I can't help remembering how, in 2000, I thought Gore would be no different than Bush.
I do agree that Obama is almost certainly a lot less hostile to the issue than Romney is on a personal level. I could have been clearer that my point wasn't so much to suggest that they would definitely be equally bad on the issue, but rather that it's incoherent to defend Obama's actions based on the premise that Romney would obviously be worse. I've been told more than once that I should mute my criticism of Obama and instead encourage the medical marijuana community to support him for fear of Romney, and I think that's rather ridiculous.
What worries me is that Obama seems to be getting a pass on some things that I suspect would invite more vigorous outrage if carried out by Romney. When the President claimed that the raids were focused on groups that violated their own state laws, even Andrew Sullivan, an outspoken critic of the raids, agreed it was a fair point. He later went on to say, "I also wish some states had exercized more discretion and care in allowing for medical marijuana."
I understand Andrew's concern, but let's not forget what happened when states did exercise discretion and care in attempting to regulate medical marijuana activity. Obama's DOJ threatened to arrest not only the providers, but also the state officials monitoring them to ensure compliance with state law. Federal posturing stalled efforts to regulate dispensaries in Washington and Rhode Island, and resulted in the elimination of a strict plant-tagging program in California that was becoming a model for effective regulation.
What we've got now is the functional equivalent of chasing off the code inspectors and then claiming that our restaurants are dirty. Sure, there's been some excessive profiteering and other abuses in the medical marijuana industry, but to a large extent, those problems are a result of federal interference and not an excuse for it.
Any discussion of Obama's approach to medical marijuana is incomplete if it doesn't address the far-reaching implications of these efforts to thwart regulation at the state level. This is true not only because these events show how this administration has posed an existential threat to medical marijuana in states that are trying to launch programs, but also because they vividly illustrate the inaccuracy of Obama's recent suggestion that his DOJ is merely upholding local laws.
The fact that he's comfortable misrepresenting events that have unfolded before our eyes means that not enough pressure is being applied from Obama's pro-medical marijuana base, and I'm worried that fear of Romney is part of the reason why.
Update: To be clear, none of this is to suggest that Andrew Sullivan hasn't done enough to criticize Obama on this issue. He's done an awesome job of that.
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Gary Johnson is not going to win the presidency, he's running under the LP banner which means he'll get at most 10% of the vote (if he's lucky enough to get that much). But even more, he'd only address cannabis and leave the rest of the drug war intact.
Ron Paul, otoh, would dismantle the entire drug war at the federal level. Additionally, Ron Paul has an equal chance of gaining the GOP nomination as Romney. EVERY voter who wants an end to the drug war needs to be supporting Ron Paul (to each person's greatest ability), NO OTHER CANDIDATE is acceptable because no other candidate will end the drug war, not even Gary Johnson.
It is a difficult choice but that is exactly what the Feds want. If enough MJ smokers go for Johnson then Obama will win or if they can split us between Romney and Obama then Obama will probably win. I believe Obama had his chance and started out sticking by his word until he brought on Mitchell Lierheart then he became the worst prohibitionist ever. On the other hand if Romney would leave it alone and leave it up to the states the people will make this happen, so I must vote for Romney and take my chances.
Romney has no better chance at the GOP nomination than Ron Paul, and as Ron Paul would make the government obey the Constitution and end the federal war on drugs, he is by far the better choice. Don't believe the MSM when they try to tell you Ron Paul has dropped out of the race, he has not, he has just decided to put his scarce funds to better use than campaign ads in primary States. His delegate count is already enough to cause a brokered convention and at a brokered convention he has a 50/50 chance at getting the nomination. If we drug war reformers ALL get behind him, his chances of gaining the nomination increase exponentially.
Failing to understand political capital
I’m one who tends to be pretty open about the fact that different reform groups have different agendas and viewpoints and that’s OK. I rarely chastise a group or leader merely because I differ with their views or strategy.
I am, however, quite surprised and displeased with the quotes from Allen St. Pierre from NORML in this article. If accurate, they don’t serve St. Pierre or NORML (or any of us) very well.
Allen St. Pierre, executive director for NORML, which seeks to reform marijuana laws, says the president might have political as well as legal motivations for reversing his initial position on medical marijuana. St. Pierre argues that current laws prohibit the Obama administration from turning a blind eye to state’s medical marijuana legalization.
“In essence, the administration is sort of hamstrung,” St. Pierre says.
Most definitely not true. The original Holder memo was correct. The government does have significant discretion in how it uses its funds to enforce laws. And it could still enforce current laws without going out of its way to intimidate medical marijuana operations in the states.
The Obama administration has not been just doing what’s necessary. It’s been taking an active role in escalating the crackdown.
St. Pierre says letting states regulate marijuana as they please would burn up a lot of the president’s political capital, adding that Obama has to take action or he risks earning a reputation in 2012 election as soft on drugs.
I don’t think Obama has a chance in hell of being perceived as soft on anything. This is the guy who claims the power to assassinate American citizens with no judicial review. Even Bush wouldn’t go that far.
There may be political capital involved in the medical marijuana decisions, but it’s the definition of “capital” that means “cash,” not the implied “capital” meaning political will and votes.
It appears, unfortunately, that Allen is speaking as a supporter of candidate Obama and/or the Democratic Party, rather than in his role as executive director of NORML.
"I've been told more than once that I should mute my criticism of Obama and instead encourage the medical marijuana community to support him for fear of Romney, and I think that's rather ridiculous."
Who the hell is in charge of the medical marijuana community? And since when should the medical marijuana community be on Democratic autopilot when this party has been just as bad as the Republicans on marijuana? When are you mainstream people, fear of being labeled "conspiracy theorists," going to wake the f up? There is no difference between Obama and Romney, you knuckleheads! These people are funded by the same people, groomed by the same elite, and given center stage by an unfair and unbalanced media who keeps everybody outside who is not part of the system.
Obama is a hell of a lot smarter and craftier than Romney and has a head start; so I think that Obama would be worse on medical marijuana. Whereas Romney, at least over the first two years, will be trying to figure out what is going on. Obama would be a harsher drug warrior because he has had time to put things in place; Romney is 3 to 4 years away from being any worse than Obama.
Prohibition of ANY substance violates every individual's unalienable right to self-ownership and self-determination. All criminal and civil penalties for any part of the drug trade from cultivation/manufacture to transport/sale to possession/use MUST be removed in order for the government to be Constitutionally legitimate on this issue. The ONLY reason to pursue an end to the drug war is LIBERTY, yours, mine, everyone's. And the only way to get to that point in the next year is to get Ron Paul elected president, nothing and no one else will do it.
Three lashes of the whip, or 5? Four kicks to the kidneys, or seven? Sodomized with a PR-24 or an old fashioned nightstick? That is, in essence, the only political and social choice provided to cannabists. Who've caught Hell, no matter who's in power, for the past 40+ years.
Nixon: "Law n' order" upside the head, dirty hippie!
Ford: Ditto, quietly
Carter: “Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.”...Didja believe me? Suckuhs!
Bush 1 (Reagan never counted at all): Nixon, squared.
Clinton: I didn't inhale, so eff you! I'll arrest even more of your asses! And vote for me again! And for a final insult as I waltz out the door, I'll say that I thought it had been decrimmed long ago!"
Bush Too (not a typo, he was a replacement 'procreative member' used by his father to continue the rape) Duuuuuhhhhh? Uhhhhh, whuht Klintin sayed...
And finally, Mr. "Let science decide policy"?
We catch Hell no matter who resides at the White House or Congress. Let's hope what's happened in in Oregon makes it clear that we're the only ones who can save us...
Romney didn't pursue a Mormon cronyistic agenda as governor of Massachusetts, so I doubt he will do that as President especially when he needs the Christian folks in the Bible Belt to vote for him. Furthermore, you can't rely on any of the liberal Supreme Court Justices to defend states rights on marjuana policy as seen in Angel Raich vs. Gonzales. The only justices (O'Connor, Rehnquist, and Thomas) that supported Angel Raich's case were all Republican appointees. Republicans are far more likely to support state rights with all the rage over Obamacare and that's who Romney will be pushed to appoint to the Supreme Court.
All i hear on civl liberties issues is federal power vs states rights. this is a non starter since individual rights are the basis of our founding and constitution, with both the feds and states being limited in what they can do by enumerated powers, while individual rights go on, without need of enumeration, up to the point where exercising that rights infringes upon the actual rights of another. Now it seems that the only argument is between which government controls your life and stifles your inborn liberty, the federal or state one. Nothing on drug policy or any other invasion into our private lives and inherent rights will really be reformed until Americans once again accept that individual liberty is the final arbiter, against which all other concerns must be measured, and any balance struck must be weighted towards liberty.
All i hear on civl liberties issues is federal power vs states rights. this is a non starter since individual rights are the basis of our founding and constitution, with both the feds and states being limited in what they can do by enumerated powers, while individual rights go on, without need of enumeration, up to the point where exercising that rights infringes upon the actual rights of another. Now it seems that the only argument is between which government controls your life and stifles your inborn liberty, the federal or state one. Nothing on drug policy or any other invasion into our private lives and inherent rights will really be reformed until Americans once again accept that individual liberty is the final arbiter, against which all other concerns must be measured, and any balance struck must be weighted towards liberty.
Obama has proven to be a liar and a hypocrite.Is it worse to crack down with a vengeance while claiming to be sympathetic or to act as hostile as you say you will?How much worse can it get?Romney,as a Republican,would have more difficulty interfering in States rights,yes?With Obama we now know what to expect and it's the exact opposite of whatever he says. | {
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Customers who had anxiously awaited the reopening of Sol Warrens Service Station got their wish last week when the beautifully renovated station was brought back online following a major upgrade.
Motorists preparing for the imminent passage of tropical storm Chantal were first to benefit, as even though the station was not completely ready at the time, management opened the forecourt so that anxious drivers could complete their storm preparations with a full-tank of Sol Go Further.
Warrens has become the fourth major Sol Service Station in Barbados to reflect the striking orange, blue and silver colours of the now prominent Caribbean brand, following similar upgrades at Wildey, Redmans, and Speightstown.
Located in what is probably Barbados’ busiest intersection, the rebranded station now offers customers access to Sol’s Go Further fuels, while motorists seeking a refreshing respite from the hustle and bustle of traffic can patronise the upgraded deli offerings.
Country Manager, Ezra Prescod, said he was not surprised that the re-opening had been keenly anticipated by motorists given the convenient location of the Warrens station, and the growing popularity and endorsement of the Sol brand.
“Warrens is our fourth major rebranding exercise in Barbados and continues to affirm our commitment to provide every Barbadian with the best value in fuels, such as our Sol Go Further, conceptualised and designed by Barbadians for our unique driving conditions,” Prescod Stated.
He added: “With eight years of industry experience since our inception in 2005, we believe we can be justifiably proud and passionate about the performance of our fuels, the qualities of which were just recently demonstrated as they helped our Sol sponsored drivers to top the list of local finishers in Sol Rally Barbados.”
While motorists have been quickly taking advantage of the newly reopened Station, the opportunity to officially mark the occasion will come later this week with an opening ceremony and special customer appreciation activities. Customers fuelling up will be treated to special giveaways, while there will be opportunities to spin-and-win for prizes, and product-sampling.
A major highlight of the opening will be the presence at Warrens of Roger “The Sheriff” Skeete, with his Subaru Impreza WRC S12, and Neil Armstrong, in his Suzuki SX4 WRC, their first public appearance since a successful outing in the recently concluded Sol Rally Barbados event.
Overall, since the commencement of the rebranding process in 2009, over 80 stations, marinas and Sol Shops have been opened across the 19 territories in which The Sol Group operates. | {
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I had contemplated writing an extended bio for my first blog post, but decided to concentrate on a major issue at hand.
The Jay Cutler-Broncos situation has now hit the irreconcilable differences stage. The more we hear about this story, the more it seems like we will never hear the complete truth. Each side continues to give us some truth, but inevitably contradicts the other in the end.
Though head coach Josh McDaniels said the team wasn’t trying to trade Cutler, he also admitted that he did listen to offers. Cutler took that as the team was actively trying to trade him, which has obviously bothered him to the point that multiple conversations with team to smooth things haven’t helped, and in fact may have made things worse. While Cutler is taking this as a betrayal by the team, he needs to understand that this is a business. McDaniels would not be doing his job if he refused to explore all options to make his team better. Last I checked, the Broncos didn’t make the playoffs last year, and McDaniels was hired to fix that, so is doing whatever it takes to do that.
On the other hand, McDaniels is a first-time head coach, and he needs to be more tactful as to how he handles the situation. During his introductory press conference, he definitely looked like a deer in the headlights, and it immediately made me wonder if he was ready for the added responsibility that comes with being a head coach. In New England, he dealt with X’s and O’s, and the environment was that of a very business-like atmosphere where “doing your job” was the philosophy. While I understand that coming from a successful franchise such as the Patriots was a good reason why he was hired, there needs to be a transitional period where there is some give and take. McDaniels needs to realize that while it is important to set the tone as to how things will be run, there is a way to do that while not alienating your star quarterback. The first impression he gave Cutler is that he wanted him gone, and wanted to bring in his own guy (Matt Cassel) to replace him. How is Cutler supposed to take that in stride? McDaniels made it worse by flat out lying that the team was trying to get Cassel. That is not how you establish a rapport with the most important player on your team. That is where McDaniels made his mistake and caused the rift that seems to be widening by the day.
At this point, I fully expect Cutler to be traded. Cutler has formally requested a trade, and McDaniels and owner Pat Bowlen are acknowledging that the situation may not end with a happy ending. Unless McDaniels and Cutler can sit down, and hash out their differences out without any agents or team management interfering, we have probably seen the premature ending to the Jay Cutler Era in Denver.
The Broncos have said they are not looking for picks, but with the way things are looking now, that might be all they can get since they have no leverage. With that said, Cutler is an improvement over 2/3 of the league’s starters, so whoever gets him would benefit the most.
Detroit should offer #20 in the first and one of their 2nds….they could then take a Tackle w/ their #1 pick…and w/ their free agency pickups on D they would be on their way to respectability…I’d like to see C.J. w/ Cutler…it’d help his fantasy value a lot…
Hope McDaniels has hired an experienced coaching staff – 32 is rather young to be handed an NFL franchise to run, and this endeavor doesn’t appear to be starting out real well. This looks more like Mike Shanahan in Oakland.
Charlie Weiss, Romeo Crennel, Eric Mangini, Josh McDaniels … there must be more to duplicating Belichek’s success in New England than hiring one of his assistants. This isn’t exactly looking like the Bill Walsh coaching tree.
Rex Ryan seems to be leaving a positive impression in New York, however.
what a jackas_! If he were AA, he would be gone already. This guy is a young jerk and again, I am a hater, hoping denver goes down the toilet! McDaniels should have never got the job in the first place. I am loving his flameout, arrogant nut, and Cutler, we know how big his ego is. LOL.. They deserve each other. You gotta know the young guys in the locker room are saying oh well, what about 2010!
Gotta agree PacFan. Belicheck coaching tree is doo-doo. These guys have done nothing but lose, with the exception and mangina’s 1st year. Looks like they didn’t learn anything from Big Bill. Its all about getting a good supporting cast. like Bill and Tuna do.
Look for Cutler to land in Tampa or NY. Jets need a strong arm guy in the windy Meadowlands.
Would Denver consider taking Culpepper and Picks…and hope that Culpepper or Simms + a rookie QB could do the trick. I hear Culpepper is impressing everyone with losing 20 lbs and a great off season work ethic. Culpepper on a team built to win now? BTW…what is up with the Buckhalter situation…drugs? | {
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
First post at Color Classic Web Server News
The Color Classic web server was offline for a couple of days recently. Our local electric company decided that the day we left for a weekend vacation would be the best one to install a new digital electric meter. Power was offline longer than the UPS could keep the cable modem, router, and Color Classic going, so I had to restart everything on my return. My Belkin UPS won't turn on anymore, so it appears that the battery may need to be replaced. | {
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One day, in the early morning during brahma-muhurta (one hour 36 minutes before sunrise, during arunodaya, when the sun has not yet arisen but the darkness is about to go), Premadasa Babaji Maharaja was sitting near Tulasi, who was very large and spread out. Babaji was sitting on a kusa-asana, an asana made of banana leaves, chanting his two lakhs of harinama. The holy name can be chanted whether or not one has taken bath. It can be chanted even while one is sitting on his bed or walking, but one should try to be seated. The chanter should have a pure, one pointed mind, and while chanting Hare Krsna, he should remember the pastimes of Gaurangacandra and Krsnacandra. Premadasa Babaji was doing this. He was thinking about Krsna and Radha, with Their many sakhis in Sanketa-kunja.
All the sakhis were serving Radha and Krsna in so many ways, in the early morning before sunrise. At that time, the old monkey of Radhika called out that Her mother-in-law Jatila was coming, and that they should all go to their homes. When he yelled, "Jatila! Jatila!" Radhika thought he was trying to say, "You are living in Your in-laws home, but You stealthily leave at night. You are unchaste and very tricky. Because you are a very great cheater, Jatila is coming to give you your just reward. Wait a little. She is coming with a bamboo stick. Be seated here and she will come." Hearing the monkey's call, everyone became disappointed and thought, "Oh, Jatila is coming! We must go to our homes right now."
Babaji Maharaja was hearing all this. There was no monkey, but he heard the monkey's voice and said, "Oh, Ananga Manjari is telling you to make this old monkey silent. He should not disturb. Radha and Krsna are sleeping here. Ramana Manjari, go and stop that monkey.'" It did not appear that he was speaking to anyone in particular, but Sannyasi Thakura was present and eager to hear. Therefore, when Babaji Maharaja said with his eyes closed, "Ramana Manjari, go and tell that monkey not to create a disturbance," Sannyasi Thakura knew, "My Gurudeva is directing me. My transcendental siddha-deha name is Ramana Manjari, and one of my duties is to serve Radha-Krsna Conjugal so that no one will disturb Them. My service is to fan Them with a camara, and to do all related activities."
Premadasa Babaji Maharaja then lost his external consciousness, and began to roll on the ground. This is the real process. Don't be like the sahajiyas who think they can have siddha-deha when they still have many worldly desires, and when kama and krodha, lust and anger, are still in their hearts. You cannot forcefully or artificially attain these perfections. Chant nama and serve your Gurudeva very patiently. When you seriously execute this service and are sufficiently qualified, Gurudeva himself will reveal all these confidential truths to you. On the other hand, if you are not qualified and you take siddha-deha artificially, you will achieve nothing. You will only be ruined.
Now the cuckoos were singing, peacocks were dancing, and the sun was rising. Sannyasi Thakura began to chant somewhat loudly, "Hare Krsna Hare Krsna," and these words entered the ears of Premadasa Babaji. Babaji Maharaja opened his eyes and asked, "Where am I? What was I doing?" He then began again to chant Hare Krsna. This is bhajana, and we should also try to enter that bhajana realm. Don't endeavor to collect money, position, or a lady friend or boyfriend. Don't go in that direction. You have already engaged in these activities when you were hogs and dogs, and those animals can enjoy better than you. Why try to imitate them? If you are married, no harm. Remain with your wife and be like a brahmacari; you and your wife or husband can do bhajana together.
Sannyasi Thakura wanted to ask his Gurudeva a question, and therefore he offered his pranama and said, "I want to know something. Please, if I'm qualified, then kindly give me an answer. The decision regarding my qualification or lack of it is yours. If I am qualified, then kindly answer." Hearing this, his Gurudeva became very happy.
After I joined the Matha and my spiritual life with Gurudeva, I was never silent. I continually asked Gurudeva questions, and he never became disturbed. He was always very happy to patiently satisfy me by his answers. He convinced me of his conclusions by using so many kinds of logic. He mostly used logic and not so many slokas, but the slokas kept running after him and following him. Paramapujapada Sridhara Maharaja and my Guru Maharaja always discussed with one another on the basis of logic. Sometimes Srila Sridhara Maharaja defeated my Gurudeva, and then my Gurudeva would answer his questions and defeat him. Sometimes the balance scale was up on one end, and sometimes it was up on the other. Hearing these conversations with utter attention, all the other devotees used to enjoy.
Sannyasi Thakura began, "There is one God, and all living entities have come from Him. Because God is one, there should be only one religion throughout the world. We are all souls, so our dharma should be one; but I see so many differences everywhere. So many very highly learned scholars preach about dharma, but their moods and teachings are different. I want to know what is really the dharma of all living entities, and why all these gurus and acaryas explain this topic in so many different ways. If religion is one without second, why is their preaching not one?"
Sankaracarya has taught one thing, Srila Vyasadeva has said something different, and Sad-darsana acaryas Jaimini and Kapila have said something still different. Why do Christians have different opinions, and why do we differ from them? Muslims kill all those who are not Muslim. They say, "These people are kafar (those who do not believe in the Muslim dharma), so it is best to kill them." Nowadays this is a big problem. Taliban and Bin Ladin want to make the entire world, and the entire universe, along with its Sun and Moon and everyone in it, Muslim; and they want to kill all those who will not become Muslim. This is the biggest problem at the present time.
After hearing the inquiry of Sannyasi Thakura, Babaji became very happy and said, "This is a very good question. You are extremely fortunate. I am not perfect, but I will answer you to the best of my knowledge." A bona fide guru will not say, "I am perfect." Rather, he gives credit to the All-perfect Krsna. Krsna has explained in Bhagavad-gita about the real, transcendental dharma for all jivas of the universe. There is only one dharma. Krsna never said there is any such thing as Hindu-dharma, Muslim-dharma, brahma-dharma, or any other. He has only said 'dharma,' the religion of all living entities.
[Pundarika dasa reads from Jaiva Dharma:] "Paramahamsa Babaji meditated upon the lotus feet of Bhagavan Sri Krsna Caitanya, and began to speak: 'O most fortunate one, I shall describe to you the principles of dharma as far as my knowledge allows. An object is called a vastu, and its eternal nature is known as its nitya-dharma, eternal religion. Nature arises from the elementary structure of an object. By Krsna's desire, when an object is formed, a particular nature is inherent in that structure as an eternal concomitant factor. This nature is the nitya-dharma of the object.'"
[Srila Narayana Maharaja:] Try to understand. There are two substances: jada and cetana, or conscious and inert. What we see with our eyes, what we feel by our intelligence, what we touch and what hear, are all jada, inert. They are not transcendental. That which is beyond the vision of these eyes exists forever, with no change; and those who have free will, or independence, are cetana, conscious. Ants are very small, and yet they have free will and they can realize happiness and sorrow - but the body can never. Due to the soul's presence we feel something, we walk and we do so many things. If the soul is not there, we cannot realize anything. Where there is free, independent will and the experience of sukha and dukha, happiness and sorrow, and suffering, there is consciousness.
There are two conscious entities; one is the soul and other is the Supersoul. All souls are eternal servants and part and parcel of the Supreme Soul; the Supersoul is the Supreme Lord Krsna Himself. There is a relation between the souls and the Supersoul, whether they are in India, or in America, Australia, Africa, New Zealand, or even in China or Russia. There are not many Gods, like an Australian God, Indian God, Christian God, and Buddhist God.
Actually, in the Buddhist philosophy there is no God and no soul. They have no idea how they are alive; they are like mad persons or mad dogs. A mad dog is always busy, but for what is he busy? He has no goal of life. As he very quickly runs on the road, I may ask him, "Where are you going?" and he will answer, "Oh, I have no time to tell you." Then he will go some distance and see a milestone (a large stone on the side of the road with information written on it regarding the mileage to any destination), and he will quickly pass urine and then quickly turn back and run the other way. Someone may then ask him, "Where are you going?" and he will again reply, "Oh, I have no time to tell." We are like that, and especially the Buddhists are like that. Buddhists have no goal, no life; nothing. Buddhism is popular because so many want sense gratification nowadays. They are like he-dogs and she-dogs, and they are thus attracted to the Buddhist 'dharma.' I pray that you do not go to the assembly of these mad persons.
So there are no separate Indian, English, or Christian Gods. God is one, and all living entities are souls. There is no difference between the souls in dogs, cats, rats, ants, or even grasses and creepers. The quality of all souls is the same. They have forgotten Krsna, they are in different species of life, and they are tasting the fruits of their past activities.
The relation between the Supersoul and the soul is called prema. It is only prema and nothing else. Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to give this love and affection to this whole world, and this is really the religion of the entire universe and all living entities. We have forgotten this, and that is why we suffer so much. We will have to suffer. So try to chant more and to associate more with pure devotees, so that in this life you can give up all material attachments and be happy forever. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has been explaining all these truths in Jaiva Dharma.
Caitanya Mahaprabhu came only to give this love and affection to all. He gave it to tigers and bears on the way to Vrndavana. He gave love and affection even to trees and creepers, and even to Jagai and Madhai. I have come to remind you that you can only be happy by following this very religion.
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Federal court OKs gender-reassignment surgery for murderer
Lisa Bul / Associated Press
Michelle Kosilek, who was born as Robert, lives as a woman in a Massachusetts prison, serving a life sentence for murder. A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling granting a taxpayer-funded operation that would help Kosilek complete the transition.
Michelle Kosilek, who was born as Robert, lives as a woman in a Massachusetts prison, serving a life sentence for murder. A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling granting a taxpayer-funded operation that would help Kosilek complete the transition. (Lisa Bul / Associated Press)
Matt Pearce
A federal appeals court has ruled that a convicted murderer in Massachusetts can get a gender-reassignment surgery while in prison.
In 1990, Michelle Kosilek -- who was born physically male, and who at that point still identified as Robert -- murdered her wife, Cheryl McCaul, a drug counselor at a volunteer treatment facility.
Kosilek was later convicted and sentenced to life in a medium-security prison for men. She legally changed her name, began receiving hormone treatment and began identifying as a woman, and has remained in the prison. According to court records, Kosilek, now 64, has believed from birth that she was a woman "cruelly trapped in a man's body."
The appeals court ruling, issued Friday, follows years of litigation that began in 1992, when Kosilek asked that the state provide an operation to help complete her transition.
Since then, prison officials resisted granting her the procedure while she was behind bars. A federal judge ruled in 2012 that refusing to do so violated Kosilek's 8th Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment.
While originally awaiting trial in the early 1990s, Kosilek twice attempted suicide and attempted self-castration, according to court records.
A three-judge panel from the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld the federal judge's ruling 2 to 1, holding that it wasn't enough for prison officials to provide some counseling and hormone therapy for Kosilek.
"As the district court found, there is a difference between treating the underlying disorder and only treating only its symptoms," the court wrote in its majority opinion.
"Receiving medical treatment is one of those rights" afforded to prisoners by the Constitution, the appeals court added, "even if that treatment strikes some as odd or unorthodox."
The court also noted that there was no evidence that the Massachusetts Department of Corrections withheld the gender-reassignment surgery because it was too expensive to the state. Such procedures have often come under public criticism for being funded by taxpayers.
According an American Civil Liberties Unionfact sheet, transgender-related healthcare is frequently denied to transgender inmates in state prisons, and prisoners are frequently assigned to the facilities that correspond with their genitalia.
In 2009, research showed that transgender inmates were 13 times more likely to get sexually victimized in prison. One study said that 59% of inmates classified as having "gender identity disorder" in California prisons had been sexually assaulted.
Some inmates have successfully challenged some state prisons that have resisted providing hormone therapy or surgeries for transgender inmates. The inmates and advocates have argued that denying such care violated the inmates' 8th Amendment rights, according to the ACLU, which filed a brief in support of Kosilek's case.
Jennifer Levi, director of the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders Transgender Rights Project, had also filed a brief in support of Kosilek's case, and hailed Friday's ruling.
"If she needed treatment for cancer or heart disease, this case would never have wound up in court," Levi said in a statement. "If we are to call ourselves a civilized society, there is a baseline of care that has to be provided to all prisoners, including prisoners who are transgender. We hope that Michelle will now get the treatment that she desperately needs.”
However, the Boston Globe reported that the surgery might not take place soon -- the state's Department of Corrections has not found a surgeon inside Massachusetts willing to perform the procedure. | {
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The iOS 11 Public Beta is the first beta OS I’ve installed from Apple. I did so in part because I want to help improve the OS by providing feedback and analytic data, but also because I wanted to test my aforementioned app that I’m building, and lastly I’ve wanted driving mode since very early iOS days.
I waited until the second developer beta (which was the first public beta I believe) was released before I updated my iPad. And I waited until the next developer release (or, second public beta release) before I updated my iPhone. I waited in hopes that there would be a great enough improvement in these builds that I didn’t have to worry too much about my iPad or iPhone not working at all.
I thought I’d jot down some observations during my use:
So far the “biggest” problem I had was charging my iPad. During the first public beta the only way I was able to charge my iPad was by first plugging the lightning cable into the iPad first and then plugging that cable into a power outlet. Weird, I know. But the next public beta has seemingly fixed that.
While there are minor UI niggles that could be easily pointed out, I’m going to refrain since they seem to be cleaning up the loose ends very quickly. This last public beta build fixed a slew of issues.
Driving mode is beginning to work very, very well. I’ve had trouble starting a song via Siri via Apple Music after a podcast episode in Overcast is finished playing – but perhaps that will get fixed in an upcoming release. Overall, this feature is going to be a lifesaver.
The style and controls aesthetic are much better in my opinion. Previous releases of iOS attempted to be too “elegant” (unsure if this is the term I’m looking for) by being overly thin and translucent. This latest release of iOS brings some sanity to the UI. Also, as I get older I’m beginning to appreciate the larger text sizes throughout.
The new App Store should prove to be a huge improvement over the previous versions. It remains to be seen whether or not Apple’s team will keep up with the editorial (since they’ve yet to update any content in there) but I’m hoping they’ll do this part great when the time comes.
Though I use iCloud Drive, Dropbox, and other file sharing platforms I’ve not put the Files app to the test just yet. Perhaps I don’t see the need for it as much as others will. I’ll report back after I’ve used it more.
The Notes app is incredibly good at this point. I switched to it from Simplenote and I’m loving it.
iOS 11 shines on the iPad.
The new keyboard on the iPad is particularly cool. You essentially pull down slightly on a key as you type if you’d like the letter you’d usually get by holding down the shift key modifier. Great idea.
Oddly enough, the new multitasking capabilities on iPad don’t work as well yet for me as the old way. I’m sure I’ll figure it out and get used to it but the “dock” and dragging icons out of it, etc. does not work for me very well. It could also be that apps haven’t yet been released with support for that feature.
iOS 11 has “broken” a ton of my apps. Not beyond usability but I’m guessing that developers are scrambling to get new iOS 11 builds ready. Some of the oddities could be very difficult to fix.
coreML and ARKit are incredibly cool.
While I don’t yet recommend updating to iOS 11 Public Beta for most people – if you’re willing to deal with a few hiccups the driving mode feature may save your life. I can’t imagine going another day with out it. Apple can not get this version of iOS out soon enough in my opinion. | {
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WILMINGTON, Del. - A Delaware federal bankruptcy judge on Dec. 16 rejected a request by three people who were exposed to asbestos but do not yet have an asbestos-related disease to represent a class of similar claimants in the Chapter 11 case of Energy Future Holdings Corp. (EFH) (In re: Energy Future Holdings Corp., No. 14-10979, D. Del. Bkcy.).
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Chapter 11 debtor Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC and the Official Committee of Asbestos Personal Injury Claimants agree on one issue in their heated battle over Garlock's $500 million plan of reorganization - that the debtor's liability for non-mesothelioma asbestos claims is estimated at 17.65 percent of its aggregate liability for mesothelioma claims, according to a stipulation and order signed Dec. 8 by a North Carolina federal bankruptcy judge (In re: Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC, No. 10-31607, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.).
NEW YORK - The justice overseeing New York asbestos litigation issued an order to show cause Nov. 16 about why he should not quash a subpoena seeking to depose the author of a legal commentary published in Mealey's Asbestos Bankruptcy Report (In re: New York City Asbestos Litigation, All Weitz & Luxenberg Asbestos Cases, No. 040000/88, N.Y. Sup., New York Co.).
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The latest request for compensation by the financial adviser for the asbestos claimants' committee in the Chapter 11 case of Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC should be reduced by more than $104,000 because some of the adviser's work was not needed or duplicates work that was already done, Garlock contends in a Nov. 16 objection to the adviser's request for payment filed in North Carolina federal bankruptcy court (In re: Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC, et al., No. 10-31607, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.).
NEW YORK - A request by an asbestos personal injury attorney to impose sanctions against two attorneys representing an asbestos trust that filed a declaratory judgment action against him should be rejected and the trust should be awarded attorney fees because the request "amounts to a procedurally improper exercise in vituperation, made without legal or factual support," the trust says in a Nov. 12 opposition brief filed in New York federal bankruptcy court (In re Johns-Manville Corporation, et al., No. 82-11656 [Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust v. Michael J. Mandelbrot and The Mandelbrot Law Firm, No. 15-01296], S.D. N.Y. Bkcy.).
SAN FRANCISCO - A California judge on Nov. 5 ordered the end of the conservatorship of an insurer and authorized a final $3.1 million distribution to a liquidating trust (Dave Jones, Insurance Commissioner of the State of California v. Majestic Insurance Company, No. CPF-11-511261, Calif. Super., San Francisco Co.).
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The asbestos claimants' committee in the Chapter 11 case of Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC should be ordered to produce "nonpublic" communications its members have made with claimants about Garlock's proposed plan of reorganization so the debtor can determine whether the committee has been attempting to improperly discredit the plan, Garlock says in a Nov. 5 motion filed in North Carolina federal bankruptcy court (In re: Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC, et al., No. 10-31607, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.).
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania judge on Oct. 30 ordered the liquidation of an insurer following the consent to the liquidation by the insurer's sole shareholder (In re: Regis Insurance Company In Liquidation, No. 1 REG 2015, Pa. Cmwlth.).
PHILADELPHIA - With the Chapter 11 plan of reorganization for The Flintkote Co. and Canadian affiliate Flintkote Mines Ltd. becoming effective and the plan being substantially consummated, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 8 dismissed an appeal of the plan confirmation by Flintkote's former parent company at the request of all parties (Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited, et al. v. The Flintkote Company, et al., No. 14-3367, 3rd Cir.).
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Negotiations conducted after Jan. 16 between asbestos claimants and Chapter 11 debtor Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC on a plan of reorganization for the debtor will be kept confidential and out of the reach of discovery in the plan confirmation process based on a stipulation between the parties, a North Carolina federal bankruptcy ruled Sept. 23 (In re: Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC, No. 10-31607, W.D. N.C. Bkcy.). | {
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September 27, 2012
It has been said “As California goes, so goes the Nation”. This is true. America is on a financial cliff while California is heading toward a financial train wreck. California is 24 billion dollars in debt. Yet, California is going to spend about $70 billion more on a bullet train that no one will use. California and America should be encouraging business to raise revenue, putting people to work; using that money to balance its budget and pay bills while cutting wasteful spending.
We are in grave danger and one natural disaster away from bankruptcy as a state. For example, we live in earthquake country. Yet, many have lived comfortably for years, not feeling a single shake; but recent studies have shown that a 6.5 earthquake in the delta region of California will destroy the levees, causing a back fill of salt water from the San Francisco Bay into our levees. This will not only destroy the farm land and food supply; but contaminating half of California’s water supply. The effect on California and the nation will be devastating. The delta should be repaired and California needs to sustain a surplus of billions to survive such a major catastrophe in our state. This does not include the billions of dollars worth of infrastructure damage that would occur throughout the state.
Instead, we as a broke state are willing to become more in debt placing ourselves into financial ruin. Legislators are now trying to raise taxes, which ultimately forces more business out of the state, forcing more people on government assistance, which ultimately forces more debt in a troubled state.
We don’t have to release state prisoners, push government health care, cut Medi-Cal for the poor, or slash education. We just have to limit government intrusion on the people and business and make smart decision, such as eliminating a train to nowhere.
The working class is leaving California to less intrusive government states at the same time a surging number of legal and illegal immigrants call California home. Many of whom are leaching on the governmental services in California. California has become a state of big government, open borders, diversity, multiculturalism and Democrat controlled politics.
Likewise, President Obama is leading America toward its own financial train wreck with an expansion of government control, including ObamaCare, and an additional five trillion dollars of new debt, which has caused the first credit down grade of our government in history.
Many Californians are leaving to other states to avoid this financial train wreck caused by taxation and an intrusive and unwise state government. However, where will Americans run to when America become as California? “As California goes (broke), so goes the Nation”.
Frank Aquila is a Manteca resident and president of the South San Joaquin Republicans and also a 2008 McCain chairman and author of the book, “Sarah Palin Out of Nowhere”. He can be emailed at [email protected]
September 15, 2012
According to the British newspaper The Independent, the U.S. State Department had credible information of the attack on our embassy in Lybia at least 48 hours before it took place. However, even with that warning and with the anniversary of September 11, there was no instruction for diplomats to be on alert. The result of Obama’s lack of focus is the murder of the American ambassador in Libya, attacks against the US embassy in Cairo, the burning of the American flags throughout the Arab region, and the torching of American businesses in Lebanon. Obama response has been weaken our military, slashing our defense, which has placed our military in danger. The U.S. Marines sent to defend the American embassy in Egypt were not even permitted to carry live ammunition according to multiple reports of U.S. Marine Corps blogs stating that Ambassador Anne Patterson “neutralized any U.S. military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy.’” While the media has tried to portray a “You Tube” video as a reason for the violence, they cover up the coordinated terrorist attack in line with the anniversary of September 11, 2001. Obama not only dropped the ball. He has assisted the advancement of the Muslim Brotherhood’s power in the Middle East. Still, these extremists hate America even with our 1.5 billion dollars of tax funded aid we provide them this year. Obama has turned a blind eye to the crisis in the Middle East. His chair is empty once again, focusing on his reelection, fund raising in Las Vegas, and going on the David Letterman show rather than meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or paying attention to our National Security warnings. | {
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Excerpt from Indian Summer
“This is my dance, I believe, Señorita Deza.”
Manuel locked eyes with the next candidate for treading on my toes, who cowered under his look. Nodding rapidly, the little rabbit of a man retreated to the corner behind Clara and seemed to take her as his shield of defense.
I graced him with my sincere smile and said, “I promise the next dance is yours, señor.”
He bobbed his head rapidly again, retreating even further.
Manuel spoke from the corner of his mouth as we walked to the dance floor. “I don’t think you will have to honor that promise, my sweet.”
Chortling, I replied with a coquettish toss of my hair. “Why, Señor Enriques, do you intend to intimidate every man here?”
He chuckled secretively as he turned me in a circle under his arm. “If need be, my dear. If need be. I shall have you to myself.” He put special emphasis on “shall” as he spun me again and the music began.
Quiet at first, I listened with only half my attention. Suddenly, the orchestra erupted in a wave of the most exciting music I had ever heard! The guitars hammered loudly, the percussion began a beat I was familiar with. The music echoed the pounding of my heart. Manuel chuckled, seeing the surprised look upon my face.
“Do you like my choice? It’s a special request I gave them. A dance just for us!” He spun me again, three times in succession.
“I don’t know this dance!” I gasped. “I don’t know the steps!”
“Listen to the music, Bella. You know this. You feel it in your blood! Would I ever embarrass you? Follow my lead and you will be free!”
The music continued slowly, just a hint of notes on a single guitar. Manuel led me in a few gentle steps, ending in a deep dip. The tempo changed, accelerating into a fast, syncopated rhythm. He swept me into the most amazing dance! The music crashed into me in wave after wave of excitement. The power of it washed over us, setting my heart pounding in my chest with a beat at the same time unnatural, but as much a part of me as breathing.
We spun, stepped, dipped, clapped, stomped and when we got to the end I realized I had just danced my first Flamenco. I had seen this dance many times. The country folk in Spain danced this at their celebrations. The music and tradition had followed us to this new land, where they danced it at festivals. Manuel led me off the dance floor, both of us a little breathless and perspiring. It was then I noticed no one else had joined us in the dance. I looked up at him with a question on my lips. He shrugged casually.
“I asked for a dance alone with you. The gentlemen politely complied.”
I narrowed my eyes, feigning a glare. “How much did you threaten them?” I was teasing and he knew it.
He held his fingers about an inch apart. “Perhaps, this much?”
Our laughter filled the courtyard as the next dance began. The orchestra seemed rather let down after the Flamenco. I believe it had been the highlight of their evening as well as mine.
“I need something to drink.” My throat was dry and scratchy and I felt hot all over.
Manuel bowed, kissing my fingers, making his way to the punch. As rapidly as they could without being unseemly, my sisters rushed to my side.
“Bella,” Maria chirped. “Where did you ever learn to dance like that! My goodness, I’ve never seen anyone dance the way the two of you did!” Their eyes glowed with happy envy.
“I didn’t really know the dance, but Manuel is a strong lead. Was it really so exciting?”
“Exciting?” Maria grabbed my hand to her heart. “My land, girl, I’m all of a flutter! If a man were to ask me into the bushes now, I think I’d go willingly.” She giggled. “My insides are on fire.”
Irena didn’t speak, but she didn’t need to. Her blush from her cleavage to her hairline told me she felt the same way. “That was the naughtiest dance I’ve ever seen! And magnificent!” Irena’s eyes glittered. “I should feel as if I had lived a full life indeed, if only I could dance like that once! I don’t think Jason knows Flamenco.” She pouted, looking disappointed.
Maria nudged her. “Jason is a fine man, Rena, but he has no ‘Fire’ to him.”
Irena bristled at this. “He has plenty of fire!”
“Yes, if you like a slow burn.” Maria shrugged. “Now that Captain Du Pont, there is a man with fire blazing in his soul.”
I thought my sisters were about to come to blows, when Manuel approached us. He smiled warmly, extending a tray with three cups of punch.
“Am I interrupting something, ladies? If so, I’ll take my leave.” He made as if to walk off.
Maria grabbed his arm shaking her finger at him. “No you don’t, you naughty man! What a spectacle you made out there!”
She was teasing, I hoped he would be able to tell. In reply, he caught her hand and spun her around under his arm. Then he lowered her into a dip that had her nearly horizontal to the floor! All this with one hand, for he still carried the tray and didn’t spill a drop! Raising her slowly, hardly seeming to strain with her weight, he locked eyes with her and his gaze burned into her soul. | {
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A self-confessed workaholic (though he hates the expression), Elbaz explains he has only had three weekends off since August. The pace shows no sign of slowing, with a series of further anniversary celebrations planned, including a fashion show in Beijing on April 26.
For now, he is still basking in the afterglow of the Paris event, where—backed by retro orchestra Pink Martini—the designer took to the microphone to sing Doris Day’s classic “Que Sera, Sera,” winning a standing ovation from a crowd including Jessica Alba, Tilda Swinton and Pharrell Williams.
It was a song with a message in a season that saw fashion’s revolving door spin faster, with changes at the helm of Jil Sander and Yves Saint Laurent.
“I think it was a very relevant song for today in fashion, when everybody is very busy, or maybe too busy, in speculation,” Elbaz explains. “I thought it would be a nice song to sing also for all my colleagues, to tell them and to tell all of us: You know what? We cannot see the future.”
The performance capped one of his most flamboyant Lanvin shows in recent memory, which saw models vamping it up in cocktail dresses drowning in oversize frills and whimsical floral print dresses paired with brightly colored furs.
“It was about these archival pieces, and bringing them back with joy and freedom,” he says. “We are living in a controlled society today, and I didn’t feel like having control—I felt like having anything goes.”
The irony is that by the time Elbaz finished giving television interviews after the show, he had practically missed his own party.
“Pink Martini wasn’t there anymore, and the food was long gone,” he says. “So I asked to have a sandwich, and it was midnight and I left. And only the day later, they showed me the video with all the people dancing and having so much fun, and I loved seeing it.”
The public outpouring of affection that Elbaz provokes is a measure of his critical and commercial success. In his decade at Lanvin, he has transformed the label into a go-to resource for celebrities and professional women alike. Lanvin’s 2011 revenues, exclusive of licensing royalties, rose 24 percent to 204 million euros (about $270 million).
The designer says he felt he made his mark from his very first show for the house. “And it just went like an evolution, because I always say that I prefer evolution to revolution,” he notes. That incremental approach has sometimes put him at odds with a fashion system that’s always crying for novelty, but Elbaz shrugs off the criticism.
“I sometimes read bloggers, and sometimes they will say, ‘This looks too familiar because we saw it last season.’ But you know, it’s like the Chanel suit. I mean, it’s a Chanel suit, and an Hermès Kelly bag is an Hermès Kelly bag. This is a little bit my vocabulary,” he says.
His most recent coup was dressing both best actress Meryl Streep and best actor Jean Dujardin for the Oscars. Elbaz says Dujardin was a longtime fan of the label, but he has yet to meet Streep, for whom he was asked to design a dress made of eco-certified fabric as part of Livia Firth’s Green Carpet Challenge.
“The seamstress that made the dress worked for three days and three nights on the dress, and after she finished, she was sick for three days,” he recalls. “And you know, with the Oscars, you do the dress and you never know if they will wear it. I wanted so much for [Streep] to wear it, just for this woman that didn’t go to sleep for three days, and just put so much love into the dress.”
That self-effacing approach is one of the keys to his success.
“I always say that my job is to be like a concierge in a beautiful hotel,” Elbaz says. “At the end of the day, I need to go back home to Staten Island. I don’t want to live on Park Avenue, because if I did that, I would live the dream, and the dream would become reality. And I think that maintaining the dream is the most important thing.”
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The price of goods leaving factories grew at its slowest for more than 18 months in October as falling global energy prices brought respite to manufacturers, according to government figures released yesterday.
With exporters struggling to cope with the strength of sterling, the Office for National Statistics said output prices were 1.7% higher last month than a year earlier, down from 1.8% in September.
Cheaper fuel and raw materials helped manufacturers curb price increases, with crude oil down by almost 6% in October and by just over 7% on the same month a year earlier. Prices paid by industry for fuel and raw materials were up by 3.8% year on year in October, well down on the 13.6% inflation rate recorded six months earlier.
City analysts warned, however, that the drop in crude oil to below $60 a barrel last month was masking inflationary pressures elsewhere in the economy. Excluding food, drink, tobacco and petrol products, industry's output prices were 2.5% higher in October than a year earlier, up from 2% in the year to September.
Paul Dales, UK economist at Capital Economics, said: "October's producer prices data provided some evidence that core price pressures have started to increase, as the MPC has feared." He said it was too early to say whether this was the start of a "meaningful trend".
Separate data from the Department for Communities and Local Government showed growing inflationary pressure in the housing market. The cost of a home was up by 8% in the year to October, the strongest rate of growth in 18 months. Housing inflation has been rising steadily from a trough of 3.3% in March, with the official data mirroring lender surveys. | {
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"Way of the Hoof" Animator Competition
There's a new competition for the animators among you.
Six teams (of currently undefined size) of animators will be working together with a musician to demonstrate "the Way of the Hoof". Pony Martial Arts.
Once the teams are formed, there will be a timeframe of 12 weeks for them to make an animation for it from scratch.
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Noe Idea Studios and Golden Creation Productions are proud to announce that we are opening a competition like no other. Six teams of animators will be going head to head to create a series of animations that will leave you breathless. Drawing inspiration from the Hong Kong cinema and Anime, these animations will be demonstrating the “Way of the Hoof,” that is to say, Pony Martial Arts. Each team will be working with a musician to create a seamless experience of sight and sound that will show the height of creativity. Once the teams are formed, there will be a 12 week period for them to create their animations from start to finish. After that, the videos will be brought forward for public voting. Once voting ends, the winning team will all receive handmade plushies of their respective OCs or a canon pony of their choice, and the prizes may increase even more depending on the response this generates. We are now accepting applications for animators of all sorts, concept artists, sound technicians, musicians, and eventually voice actors! Animators are the main class we’re searching for right now since we already do have quite the roster of musicians to work with. Any type of animation is welcome, whether it be Flash, 3D, or even traditional frame-by-frame animation. We all look forward to the incredible works of art that this competition will aid in producing! | {
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Sustainable Transport Award Finalist: Lviv, Ukraine
December 21, 2012
Lviv, a city of 1.5 million in western Ukraine, was founded more than 750 years ago, and has an historic city center that is a UNESCO World Heritage site. In 2012, the City of Lviv has implemented a host of measures to improve public transport, walking and cycling as well as general mobility conditions in preparation for hosting the EURO2012 Soccer Championship. These activities will support a sustainable development process in the transport sector with lower emissions, less energy consumption and fewer traffic fatalities. The successes of Lviv demonstrates that the preparation for large-scale events can be used initiate a transformation process in urban mobility with long lasting and sustainable input.
Ukrainian cities are under immense pressure. Private cars are flooding cities, buses and trams are stuck in traffic jams, parked cars are blocking sidewalks and accident rates are increasing. Lviv is facing the same set of problems, compounded by the fact that the city is very dense and not built for private cars. In addition, Lviv is struggling to implement much-needed reforms: the new route network plan was heavily discussed and partially rejected by citizens, funds are not always released on time, and acceptability of new schemes and approaches are sometimes low. However, Lviv has made a commitment the long, sometimes adventures journey towards sustainable urban mobility, and is already today acknowledged as role model for other Ukrainian cities.
Improvements to Public Transport and Public Space
In 2012, Lviv initiated a new route plan to strengthen the role of its tram, trolleybus and public bus services. This includes preparation of a new electronic ticketing system and a new traffic control center. The traffic control center, which will include smart traffic lights, will serve the rehabilitated tram routes 2 and 6 and help to prioritize public transport vehicles and to reduce congestion at intersections.
Lviv also began the rehabilitation of tram lines and upgraded its bus fleet, with the support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Under new service contracts, second hand vehicles were procured that offer more space than the former “midi-busses”. In addition, more streets in the city center are pedestrianized, and traffic-calming measures are being continually introduced to reduce the speed of cars.
Promotion of Cycling
Lviv is using a systemic approach to develop cycling infrastructure and to improve the situation of cyclists in a comprehensive way. This approach includes the establishment of regular working group on cycling, the development of 9-year implementation plan for the set-up of cycling infrastructure, and an investment by the city council to cycling infrastructure. Beginning in 2011, 15 km of new cycling infrastructure, including bike lanes and bike parking, has been ongoing through 2012.
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If you look at Glenna C.’s page in Ravelry, you will see that she lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Then, when you look at her knitwear designs in Classic Color, you will appreciate the undercurrent of functionality. | {
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14 January 2012
Personal v Professional Physician Social Media
Personal use surpasses professional use when it comes to physicians on social media. Today, more doctors use two or more social media platforms for personal purposes compared with social sites used for professional purposes.
Almost 90% of physicians use at least one site for personal use and over 65% for professional purposes.
As a profession, doctors have a significant interest in the potential applications of social media to patients and other clinicians. They illustrate interest in online physician communities and patient communities that may facilitate doctor-patients interactions.
A small group of “connected clinicians”, use multiple social media platforms for both personal and professional use.
Key points from this QuantiaMD study ::
• The majority of doctors are already using social media. Facebook is the most popular medium for personal use, with online physician communities are more popular for professional use.
• Doctors who are familiar with patient portals or communities agree that they have a positive impact an individual’s health – but awareness of these social media sites is very low.
• 28% of doctors use professional physician communities, with the goal to confer, refer and learn from experts.
• Clinicians approve and see the benefit of electronic interactions with patients to improve access and quality of care, but many are concerned about patient privacy, liability and compensation for these activities.
• There remains a very significant need for secure and convenient forms of interactive communication tools that doctors can use to talk with each other and patients.
• 20% of clinicians use 2 or more social media sites for personal and professional use. These so-called “Connected Clinicians” are very eager to use social media to improve health care. | {
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Error C00D0FFB occurs when you play a song from a playlist using the Zune software
Note As of 15 November 2015, the Zune service has been discontinued. This may cause errors when attempting to stream or download content or update the service.
You see the following error message when trying to play a song from a playlist using the Zune software:
Error C00D0FFB
This may be because the playlist was created as an autoplaylist, or songs on the playlist are using outdated links to Xbox Music.
A “bang” icon (an exclamation mark inside a yellow triangle) next to a song on a playlist signals that Zune doesn't have enough information about the song file's location to link it to your hard drive, or to stream it from Xbox Music.
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Solution
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Solution 2: Restore the unplayable song
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Introducing the Bot Shop
Today, we’re launching our brand new Bot Shop, a place to find bots to chat with in Kik. Bots provide you with fun, engaging, and useful services, all through chat.
The Bot Shop features bots from a list of our partners, including Funny Or Die,Riffsy,Sephora,Vine, andThe Weather Channel, with more to come. Find laughs, watch videos, get makeup tips, see the hottest GIFs, and find out if it’s going to rain tomorrow… You can do it all on Kik.
You can find the Bot Shop in Kik by tapping on the search magnifying glass, then “Find People.” On the web, you can visit bots.kik.com.
We decided to open the Bot Shop after noticing several big trends. For a start, people are downloading fewer and fewer apps. Two-thirds of U.S. smartphone users downloaded zero apps in the last month, according to a study by Comscore. Meanwhile, people are spending loads of time in chat apps like Kik. Last year, 1.4 billion people used a chat app, according toeMarketer, and they spend a lot of time in those apps. Our research has shown that people spend 35 minutes per session in Kik.
We wanted to find a way to get more out of chat without adding to the clutter or detracting from the simplicity of the experience in Kik. We’ve found that bots offer a great low-friction way to do that. There’s nothing to download, no new registration required, and you can use an interface you’re already familiar with: chat.
To coincide with the launch, we’re also releasing some new features that help make the bot experience smooth and enjoyable. Kik’s web bubbles (“wubbles”) provide a new way of displaying rich media in conversation threads. We’ve revamped “suggested responses,” which now take over the whole keyboard space and allow you to select options while chatting to a bot without having to type anything in. We’re also releasing a “mentions” feature, which allows you to call a bot into a conversation by typing the “@” symbol. That means bots can now be participants in your chats with friends.
These are just the early days for the Bot Shop, so you can expect lots more to come. We’ve also invited developers to start building bots for Kik using our new bot API, available at dev.kik.com. | {
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Pierremont OaksTennis Club
Nestled among tall pines and lush foliage Pierremont Oaks Tennis Club, with its 21 world class tennis courts, full service dining and lounge facilities, well stocked Pro Shop, Olympic size swimming pool, state of the art fitness center, men's and ladies locker rooms, awaits the pleasures of its members.
A limited membership, private club, POTC has grown gradually and sensibly over the past 50+plus years. We have earned the honor of hosting several professional and national tennis championship tournaments, affording our members the opportunity to see present and future tennis stars. Our emphasis is on the good life and family involvement. Our members represent a cross-section of Shreveport/Bossier's finest professionals, all interested in interacting with other members, athletically, socially and in business. Members and their guests find the many club tournaments and well planned social events fun for all ages.
During the long summer the swimming pool and youth center bustle with activity. Our professional staff oversees an excellent youth program enabling the POTC Swim Team to be one of the best in the area. After tennis or swimming, the attractive club house and lounge are an excellent place to relax and have a great meal.
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Cowam presentation
COWAM is both a network and a cooperative research programme running from the year 2000 with support from the European Commission.
In 2000-2003 the first COWAM project created a European network on radioactive waste governance. The first interest of the initiative was to establish connections between territories concerned by radioactive waste in Europe. Local actors have long been isolated in these issues. The COWAM seminars were a novel opportunity to exchange views, issues and good practices among local communities, all facing similar concerns. Local communities have a genuine interest in governance because they consider not only the issue of radioactive waste management as a technical problem, but as a key challenge for the development of their territories and the life equilibrium of the population. The network also included experts, implementers and regulators in order to elaborate a common understanding of the issues at stake, and to propose as far as possible a joint analysis by the major stakeholders commonly concerned by the quality of RWM decision-making processes. The practical outcome of this first project was to come up with a research framing of radioactive waste governance.
The plural COWAM network identified four strategic dimensions in the governance of radioactive waste management:
- the implementation of local democracy
- the influence of local actors on the national decision-making process
- the quality of decision making
- long term governance.
The second COWAM project (2004-2006) built a research partnership between stakeholders and research contractors on each of these four key issues, and supported continued networking efforts. With this partnership, stakeholders have had the opportunity to frame and feed the production of knowledge so that it better addresses the questions they identified as the most relevant to improve the robustness of decision-making processes in radioactive waste management.
- The “local democracy” group shared knowledge about local committee building, as a best practice to structure local democracy on nuclear related issues in Europe.
- The group on “influence of local actors on the national decision-making process” clarified effective mechanisms for local players to influence national decision-making processes
- The group on “quality of the decision-making process” worked out recommendations for designing and implementing a robust decision-making process or judging an existing decision-making process.
- The purpose of the “long term governance” group was to identify, discuss and analyse the institutional, ethical, economic and legal considerations raised by the existence of a site for longterm waste storage or deep geological disposal.
Alongside these transversal products, country-bound National Insight papers agreed by the range of participating stakeholders were published by COWAM 2.
The essential question raised by institutional decision-makers as well as by local communities concerns the implementation of these good practices and principles of decision-making. Significant steps were already taken in some countries during the COWAM 2 project. There is a need for a continuous and enlarged support to these efforts in Europe. The question is all the more relevant and pressing that having reviewed their past difficulties, many countries are now entering a new phase in RWM and attempting to implement innovative and inclusive governance approaches.
- Contribute to make actual progress in the governance of radioactive waste management (RWM)
- Follow up and analyse 5 national processes of RWM governance : Spain, United Kingdom, Romania, Slovenia and France
- Support stakeholders, particularly local communities, directly in their engagement
- Capture the learning from that experience for the EU 27
The originality of this project lies in a cooperative research approach, successfully experimented in the COWAM 2 project: with a direct participation of stakeholders in the research groups and in the Steering Committee, the architecture of the project is purposely designed for the stakeholders to effectively influence and feed the project throughout its progress. | {
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Monday, 10 October 2016
Of Love and Letters
When it comes to the pictures of the Floating World (Ukiyo-e), I've discovered through bitter experience that I am a man of firm likes and dislikes. Throughout my late twenties and early thirties, this picture above, 'The Love Letter' by Suzuki Harunobu (c.1725 - 1770), hung on the wall of the modest 'one room mansion' I used to rent in Kansai in central Japan.
I can't quite remember where I first came upon it, but in classic student fashion, I had no funds to frame it and hang it gracefully, but rather attached it directly to the wall with blue tack at the corners. It would periodically fall off and I would have to re-press it firmly to a slightly different section of wall, leaving brown thumb marks on the corners of the poster and bluish, frayed marks on the wall.
When I finally came to move home in my mid thirties, the poster alas did not survive the move: it was far too grimy for the pristine walls of my new palace and into the bin it went. Having now entered the 'Harunobu-less' years of my life, I began to pang for ukiyo-e and would periodically find myself excitedly visiting exhibitions and leafing through books. My mind being confused however, I would forget that it was Harunobu whose poster I used to gaze on every day and I would misremember that it was by another famous ukiyo-e artist, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) instead. But whenever I looked at Utamaro's pictures, I would be disappointed - they appeared to me to have less finesse, beauty and warmth - until I finally recalled that it was never him that I liked in the first place, but rather Harunobu.
Harunobu, Harunobu, Harunobu. I had to remember it was him that I liked, but then I forgot again and sat through Mizoguchi's film "Utamaro and His Five Women" (1946, thought by some to be a masterpiece - not in my opinion) and wondered once again what I had ever seen in Utamaro, until I finally recalled that I had misremembered it once again. Damn Utamaro!
Clearly I needed Harunobu back in my life. As recipients of my Facebook feed will be aware, I have been engaged in a restoration project of late on a 19th century mansion in the UK. One of its rooms I am naming the 'Arthur Waley Room' in honour of the great scholar, translator and popularizer of East Asian literature. This room will contain a writing desk and so it was a no-brainer what picture I would wish to have hanging over it: 'The Love Letter' by Suzuki Harunobu (in an even larger, framed version this time round).
In the ten years I spent looking at this picture while I was researching literature in Japan, a particular set of interpretations fixed themselves in my mind. As I will explain in a moment, this view was partly based on a misinterpretation of the picture, but I'll tell you first what particular meaning this picture of two people simultaneously reading a letter had for me and why I would wish to have it hanging over a writing desk.
Firstly, it reminded me that what you write should be capable of being read and re-read. It should be composed to last and to be mulled over. Second, it reminds me that the perspective of each person reading what you have written is different (which doesn't necessarily stop me winding up people of every possible stripe with ill-considered remarks).
Thirdly, it reminds me that if you communicate your passion on a subject, it will be of interest not just to your 'intended' audience, but to all kinds of other readers as well. In fact, it is this unintended 'secondary' readership that always provide me with the greatest thrill as a writer - those people in the farthest reaches of the world, or people with no particular interest in the subject, who somehow or other come upon what you have written and find their own interest sparked by it.
During the ten years I gazed at this picture in my room in Japan, I mostly spent my time at a Japanese university, preparing for a standard academic career. I contemplated the life of publishing articles in academic journals, producing books of academic research, tutoring graduate students - all very worthy and noble - but not, I concluded, one for me. I wanted to write things that would find not just the pre-ordained, 'intended' audience but reach out for that secondary, unintended readership. I wanted the scroll of scholarship to unfurl and land in unexpected, fascinated hands.
But when I came to order the half-remembered print after a 10 year gap, I suddenly discovered that it had a quite different meaning to what I had always assumed it to have. Knowing it only by its English title of 'The Love Letter', I had carelessly assumed it to be a picture of two female courtesans reading the same love letter, intended for the girl at the top, but also being read with interest by her friend under the blanket.
When I looked up its Japanese title however, I was startled to see it was 'A Man and a Woman Reading a Letter by a Kotatsu [A blanketed table])' The figure under the blanket is a man - you can also tell this from the hairstyle, which often reveals much information in ukiyo-e prints. This rather changes the dynamic of the picture and adds a sharp satirical edge.
But now, more than ever, I'm feeling this is a suitable picture to have hanging over a writing desk: reminding me than even the most familiar works of art have the ability to suddenly radiate in an unexpected light according to a new critical interpretation laid upon it. | {
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Have you won or been placed in a Homebrew competition lately? I know some of you have.
Are you happy to share your recipe?
If so then this section of the forum is where you can post them, let's see if we can get a good selection of successful competition beer recipes lined up, whether that be All Grain, or Kit brews, it would be good to know what you did to make the beer so good.
Full volume boil with 18g Styrian Goldings (3.8%) for 75 minutes. . . which was a balls up, it should have been Savinjski Goldings at 5.2% hence the lack of balance
Ferment at 18C with a good starter of WLP380 Hefe IV to get a nice balance between banana and clove.
OK so what needs to be done to take it from 31/32 points up to 45-50?
1) Get the right hops out of the freezer so you get some balance between sweet and bitter2) Modify the mash schedule to bring some more body into the beer, so 15 minutes at 38C, 30 minutes at 61C and 30 minutes at 71C3) Bottle it two weeks before the competition and naturally carbonate, not try filling a bottle from the keg with a length of 3/16" tube the day before you leave for the festival. so you get an appropriate degree of carbonation.
please note:The use of punctuation, bold, underlining, italics, and different sized type, follows the convention used in writing, for many years, to place emphasis on the point being made, and to highlight the importance of that point in the opinion of the author. It is not the intention of the author to shout, if that was the case the author would adopt the, much more recent, convention of using all capital letters.
Albert Einstein wrote:Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Don't believe I'm posting this, but the tag line for this section has here's spelt as her's (Won a competition with your beer and happy to share the recipe, her's the place.).Just thought i'd point it out before any one else did
Cheers, Jon
I enjoy a glass of wine each night for its health benefits. The other glasses are for my witty comebacks and flawless dance moves.
Oldstunty wrote:Don't believe I'm posting this, but the tag line for this section has here's spelt as her's (Won a competition with your beer and happy to share the recipe, her's the place.).Just thought i'd point it out before any one else did | {
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I am all alone, as I whine
and everything seems fine,
the sun hasn’t lost its shine,
the poems haven’t lost their rhyme,
the music hasn’t lost its chime
the world hasn’t lost its crime
and everyone does look fine.
This is what I always wanted when you were mine…
Why then O dear so I whine ?
I am all alone, no one to bother, No one to answer,
Master of my wishes and time!
I am all alone, as I whine
But if everything does seems fine
Why then O dear do I fright ?
Why is sun no longer bright.
Why is melody no longer in sight
and why does nothing feels right ?
I am all alone, as I whine,
Master of my own time,
but why is the that time stopped ?
Flowers now smell of the rot
and spirit seems wrought
But everything does seem fine.
I am all alone, as I whine,
No soul to talk except mine,
No memories to ponder except thine,
At.js is a Javascript library for having Github like mentions in an app. The library is here. It’s a very good library and simple to use however when I tried it, it didn’t work out of the box for froala editor. The problem is At.js surrounds the range with spans and since WebKit browsers insert spans, the editor accepts spans only if
data-fr-verified=”true”
is set to true. So to counter this, when initiating the function, a small tweak is required.
Hi,
There are many chrome extensions to take a screenshot. But recently, I was working on a project where we had to build an extension and also were taking a screenshot. So apparently, chrome provides an API called ‘capturevisibletab’ (doc) and it works. While coding, I referred to this git repo which works perfectly.
But then, as we tested, we found the image was cropped when using a macbook retina display machine.
It took us a while to understand that this is because the devicepixelratio (window.devicePixelRatio) is 2 in a macbook(with retina) display and 1 in others and hence the issue.
Thus, we had to adjust for scale which we did not account for earlier and we referred to this code for adjusting it.
Will soon post our whole code for completeness but the logic is pretty clear from the above code.
This is probably the most important thing one can do in a UNIX based system- Modify the PATH variable.
I recently installed Libreoffice on my mac for using its command line tools. It was working fine in the applications folder and showing up on spotlight as well as dock but the command line tool was not working
After some time , I figured that in Linux, I used “libreoffice ….” but in Mac I had to use “soffice…”. soffice command was not directly available to me on terminal and I had to specify the whole path to use it:
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice –help
To use soffice without the whole path, I modified my PATH variable :
nano ~/.bash_profile
(create this file using touch ~/.bash_profile if your system doesn’t have one!!)
Include the lines:
export PATH=”/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS:$PATH”
Save it and enter the command:
source ~/.bash_profile
And wallah ! The Path variable is modified and we can now use soffice directly in command line.
We all use ssh logins for server. May be production servers and may be deployment servers. We are all used to login using passwords but if we have many servers , remembering all passwords might be an issue. Hence, for ease of use, a small thing we can do is login to our servers without passwords. The logic behind this is putting in public keys for authorized users in .ssh/authorized_keys file.
This might help in security as well because the admin can do this procedure and authorize/ de-authorize a system from accessing the server. The passwords will remain only with admin and his/her team and hence risk of password leaking is less!
Step 1: Generate a public key:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
Step 2: Copy the public keyThe public key is by default stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file Open this file in your favourite editor and copy the key.
You can also use xclip for this.
Step 3: Login to your serverssh username@servername
Step 4: Paste the key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.A single line command to do this:
Recently installed ubuntu 12.04 on a fresh and clean system. While it works like a charm, a very irritating issue was that the inbuilt wireless card was not working. The ethernet connection using wire worked fine. Googled a lot and wasnt able to figure things out. Finally, backports saved my day. Here is the procedure I followed incase someone finds it useful.
Installing backports:
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-cw-3.8-precise-generic
Some generic headers and libraries:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential
Download this file and extract it at a location of your choice.
Navigate to the extracted directory using terminal and try: | {
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Pray for Stuyan, a 12 year old boy with no arms, July 2, 2017
This is Stuyan, a 12 year old Gypsy boy, accepting Jesus with me (his arms were ripped off in an electrical explosion when his father forced him to climb a fence to steal high tension cable).
This is Stuyan praying with Jacob Prasch to receive Jesus at a church in an impoverished Romani Gypsy village in Bulgaria on 28th of June. Stuyan is a Gypsy boy just turned 12 years old. Both of Stuyan's arms were just ripped off very recently in an electrical explosion when his father forced him to climb a fence to steal some high tension steel cable. His mother had two other babies. Immediately after birth she sold them both as new born infants on the Black Market in Greece.
Please pray for Stuyan and pray that the church can help him and that Moriel can help this needy church to help him. We indeed praise God for Stuyan's salvation. Jesus loves Stuyan. He is a nice boy. Now he has a future in Jesus because of Jesus. When he received Christ Jacob told him that 'today Jesus is giving him a new spirit and a new heart'. But "when Jesus returns He is going to give Stuyan new arms".
Our meetings are at a church in an unbelievably impoverished Romani Gypsy village here in Bulgaria.
Stuyan's mother had two other children but she sold them as new born infant babies in the black market in Greece. | {
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Crescent Bicycles Pin
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The Western Wheel Works of Chicago, Illinois produced this souvenir pin for its Crescent brand bicycle around 1896. First producing wheels for carriages, prams, and wheelchairs, Western Wheel Works turned its production towards bicycle manufacturing around 1890. In 1891 it introduced its Crescent model cycle, which was produced in a variety of models for men, women, boys, girls, and tandem riders until around 1897. A white celluloid button tops the stickpin that reads “Crescent Bicycles.” To the right is Crescent’s logo of, a waxing red crescent moon.
Bicycling boomed in popularity in the United States during the 1890s when the invention of the “safety” bicycle replaced the dangerous high-wheeler. The National Cycle Board of Trade held the largest annual exhibitions in New York and Chicago between 1893 and 1897. At these cycle shows manufacturers attempted to capitalize on the bicycle boom with exhibitions of their products to both the public and bicycle agents from other cities. At shows like these, manufacturers advertised their wares with pins and buttons made of tin and celluloid—cheap materials easily mass manufactured into trinkets and souvenirs. The Chicago Tribune’s account of the 1896 Chicago show speaks to the ubiquity of these kind of souvenirs. “Every visitor seems to have a desire to cherish its memory through some kind of a souvenir . . . anyone who does not look like a walking sign board is a rarity and every exhibiter goes after him and every available buttonhole has some kind of button in it, and stick pins are thrust at him from all sides.”
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From Portable Operating System for Unix Filesystems (POSIX), introduced first in 1988 to Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3), introduced in 2006, data persistence is experiencing a revolution. In 2013, AWS published the fact that their S3 platform housed over 2 trillion objects, and that the number was doubling every year. That would bring them to something like 16 trillion objects stored and if we assume that the average size of objects is only 256KB in size, the platform would currently house somewhere well into the Exabyte capacity range, putting the platform somewhere around 1% of all the world’s. | {
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OTRC: George Clooney freed from jail after arrest at Sudan embassy protest (Video)
George Clooney has been released from a jail in Washington D.C. after he was arrested on Friday, March 16, outside the Sudanese embassy at a demonstration to protest against the violence and humanitarian crisis in the African country.
The 50-year-old actor surrendered his shoelaces and belt before he was booked into the jail. He was placed in a cell with 16 other people who were also detained at the morning gathering. Clooney posted and forfeited a $100 bond, which means that he will likely not be charged - a common prodecure for civil disobedience arrests. He was released that afternoon, OnTheRedCarpet.com has learned.
"They were protesting the violence committed by the government of Sudan on its own innocent men, women and children," Clooney's spokesperson said in a statement obtained by OnTheRedCarpet.com. "They were demanding they allow humanitarian aid into the country before it becomes the largest humanitarian crisis in the world."
Sudan's embassy said the actor could win "yet another Golden Globe" for what it called the "show" that he put on outside the building.
It said in a statement obtained by OnTheRedCarpet.com that the rebels were to blame for the violence against civilians and that the African country's government has been "delivering humanitarian aid to the citizens in order to mitigate the impact while also taking aggressive measures against the rebels in order to ensure security of the innocents." (Check out what else Sudan's embassy said about Clooney.)
During his recent visit, which was videotaped for the Enough Project (warning: graphic material), he witnessed nearby rocket fire and visited survivors of attacks.
The protesters say Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, is responsible for provoking a humanitarian crisis and blocking food and aid from entering the Nuba Mountains in the county's border region with South Sudan.
Relations between residents of Sudan, which is mostly Muslim, and the oil-rich South Sudan, whose people are mostly Christian, have soured since a 2005 peace deal and violence in the region has risen, as have disputes over oil production and distribution. The peace agreement ended the country's longest civil war, which lasted for about 20 years and killed more than 2 million people.
On Wednesday, Clooney spoke to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the Satellite Sentinel Project, a group he co-founded that aims to raise awareness about the bloodshed in the region by capturing satellite images of "possible threats to civilians, detect bombed and razed villages or note other evidence of pending mass violence," according to its website.
"What is most striking and most devastating again is the absolutely vulnerability of a certain group of people," Clooney told reporters and activists at the protest, before his arrest.
"It is ethnic in nature and it is again, things that the Geneva Convention considers war crimes, which is indiscriminately bombing innocent civilians," he said. "We have satellite imagery to prove it, we have eyewitnesses to prove it, we have tons of reports and evidence to prove it and we also have ? film of it to prove it." | {
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