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This past week was definitely a week of learning and growth.
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I learned a great lesson about obedience and its affect on our work here in the field. I learned first hand about choosing the harder right and not the easier wrong. Here on the mission, obedience really is everything, with out obedience we have no space to ask or expect for the promised blessings here in the field. I wish that each one of us could have an eternal perspective in all things. Its something that I have grown to learn about here on the mission, eternal perspective. Obediência is the answer to all of our problems, but its probably the hardest thing to do or want to do because of our agency.
Heavenly Father has given each one of us a plan, a path that will no fail. A path that will lead us to blessing we cant even imagine, a path that will bring us back to our Heavenly Father. That plan is explained and revealed in every chapter of the Book of Mormon. The gospel of Christ…five simple steps! Faith, Repentance, Bapstim, Recieving the Holy Ghost and Enduring to the end. That last step is what usually gets all of us.
As Ive been studying the scriptures more, I begun to recognize the way that Satan works. And if you look through out the Book of Mormon and Bible the word "Blind" or "Blinded" tends to pop up every once and a while. Its always describing the way Satan hows power over us, the way he affects us. Just as we knew Jesus Christ before this life, we knew Satan as well. And vise versa they know us better than we know ourselves. Anyways many times he talks about "their hearts were blinded" or "their minds were blinded". It just makes me think how many times we let our emotions get the best of us, when we say things out of spite or anger or frustration. Its at those moments that OUR minds our blinded or OUR hearts our blinded.
Anyways I LOVE YALL! Thank you all for the updates on your life and checking up on me!!
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Rain Barrels Make a Difference
You may see rain barrels around your neighborhood and wonder if they really make a difference. The simple answer is YES!
- Rain barrels keep the rain from running directly into lakes and rivers, which helps prevent stormwater pollution*.
- They're a great way to water flower gardens and lawns when it's dry. In fact, rain water is preferable to city water (which may be chlorinated) or well water (which may have excessive mineral content).
- Rain barrels can also reduce the risk of basement flooding by directing water away from a home's foundation.
For every inch of rain that falls on 1,000 square feet of a roof, about 600 gallons of water can be collected.
To see a rain barrel in action, check out the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HamURhj_S3E
What should I know?
Rain barrels are placed at the bottom of downspouts to collect rain as it runs off a roof. They should be installed only on level surfaces and elevated using concrete or cinder blocks or a sturdy wooden stand. Elevating a rain barrel increases pressure so, when you're ready to use it, the water flows more quickly.
Most rain barrels have a lid or mesh screen on top to prevent leaves and insects from getting into the barrel; spigots for easy drainage; valves that can be used to connect multiple barrels together with hoses; and overflow valves to direct excess water away from sensitive areas – like a house foundation.
Many cities and towns offer rain barrels for free or a nominal charge so check with them before you visit a store.
*Stormwater runoff is rain that's picked up garbage, dog poop, lawn chemicals and other debris as it washes across driveways, parking lots and neighborhood and city streets. This polluted water is feed directly into our natural waterways without being treated or cleaned.

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Saturday, July 03, 2010
Chicago Tea Garden First to Import New Zealand Tea
Chicago Tea Garden First to Import New Zealand Tea to the USA
(from a press release)
Tea lovers in the United States will have their first chance to try New Zealand's only tea, Zealong, beginning on June 29, 2010, when Chicago Tea Garden makes it available to its retail and wholesale customers.
Zealong began in 1996 when its owners planted imported Taiwanese seedlings on their New Zealand farm. Only 130 of the original 1500 imports survived the strict 10-month quarantine period, and from these hearty plants, over 1,000,000 tea bushes now grow on Zealong's 120 acre farm.
Zealong is a fresh, floral oolong with tremendous staying power: Drinkers can expect to get 8 steeps from each pot of tea brewed. Zealong is grown without the use of chemical fertilizers or sprays, and is picked and processed on a farm and tea processing facility certified as meeting the ISO22000 food safety management standard. The result is a tea that is not only delicious, but that is unmatched for purity.
Zealong Oolong will be available for sale on Chicago Tea Garden's website beginning June 28, 2010.The Chicago Tea Garden also welcomes wholesale inquiries from retailers.
For more information on Zealong New Zealand Oolong tea and Chicago Tea Garden, click here.
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Loch Ericht
I have now recovered from my first fishing trip of the season and feel good now that we have the rest of the season to look forward to. I would just like to state that I am not an angling snob. My first trip of the season did not involve flies or fly rods. I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to have a blog entry about ledgering for trout as my blog is all about fly fishing and flytying etc.In some quarters it is perhaps frowned upon to ledger with worms for trout but I don't really see the harm in it as long as those participating in it are responsible and enjoying themselves.
My day out at Ericht began at 3 am. Tam and I arrived at Dalwwhinnie about 6 30. The weather wasn't the best but off we went along the track along the east shore of the loch until we came across a suitable area to fish. We set up camp then Tam went about getting the breakfast cooked. After some nice rolls on sausage and haggis we set about fishing for Ericht's trout. As the day progressed we caught a good number of fish . Some were returned while others were kept to be cooked in Tam's smoker.The weather did brighten up enough to make it a pleasant day out. I don't normally bait fish as I soon get bored after catching a couple of fish however it was a very enjoyable day out in a wild fishing location in the company of a friend and making plans for the rest of the season.
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Lokks like you had a great day fishing despite what looks like inclement weather.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 March 2010 at 00:52
Impressive brace of fish for so early in the season! Certainly a very successful trip! And mighty fine effort for bearing what I presume was a very cold day!ReplyDelete
Have never fished Ericht myself - might just give it a go now. How does it generally fish on the fly?
Don't really know how well it does with the fly. I had a few casts on it last year in April. No fish! but didn't really spend enough time fly fishing to have any real opinion on how it would fair with the flee. I would be of the opinion that there are far better lochs to explore with the flee.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comment , Allan.
- Anonymous17 March 2010 at 18:38
Thanks for the info! The sheer size of the place is a bit of a worry, tend to bank fish mainly...ReplyDelete
Out of interest, ever fished the north calder? I live in Coatbridge and have always thought about trying it! Might even have a go tomorrow, might be early but one can live in hope!
- Anonymous17 March 2010 at 18:42
I feel silly, I've just realised I'm talking to a fellow WFF member! Sorry for not realising!ReplyDelete
I have fished the North Calder.I fished it a couple of years ago behind Caldervale school. Caught wee bandies. once met a bloke with a good halfpouder maybe a little bigger.ReplyDelete
The area has a bit of a ned population during the summer as they tend to like drinking there tonic etc down the Glen. So I wouldn't recommend it. Dont get me wrong I have never had any bother . I just dont like being down there on my own. I'm making my first trip of the season to Hillend tomorrow. I will be fishing at the narrows/ Boathouse bay. I'll be there after I finish work about 4PM If you are in the area perhaps you might like to cast a flee there.
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The New Zealand Transport Accident Investigation Commission will take a second look at its inquiry into a fatal 2010 plane crash at Fox Glacier.
All nine passengers on board, including two Australians, were killed when the Fletcher FU24 plane crashed shortly after take-off at the end of the runway at Fox Glacier airport on September 4, 2010.
Last month, TV3's 3rd Degree program questioned TAIC's investigation into the crash, which was completed in May 2012.
Former TAIC investigator Andrew McGregor told 3rd Degree the original investigation was flawed, and he felt there was enough evidence for the inquiry to be reopened.
The program questioned why parts of the plane were released to the owner and buried following the crash – suggesting authorities had not properly investigated the crash.
Among the parts buried was the plane's control stick and cables.
At the time of the program, TAIC stood by its original investigation, but has since backtracked and decided to look into the matters raised at an inquest and by 3rd Degree.
TAIC's communications manager, Peter Northcote, said the commission had taken custody of the wreckage and said how the process proceeded would depend on what the review finds.
He said the parties to the original investigation and the families of those killed in the crash would be kept informed and consulted where appropriate.
The original TAIC report found aircraft modifications and a failure to complete weight and balance calculations contributed to the fatal crash.
A coroner found the cause may never be fully known, but unrestrained passengers who shifted the balance in the overloaded plane probably contributed to the crash.
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It was our very first family trip overseas and it was very exciting for us. We booked our flight about 10 months earlier and I have been counting days since. As the travel dates get nearer, I googled for tips for travelling with a toddler. So these made us survive our trip.
I brought along my carrier/sling because I know Babycakes won't want to sit in the stroller all the time and I won't be able to carry her in my arms for a long period of time. This carrier is a life saver. It can be folded and kept in the bag, it has no ring, hooks whatever thus making it lightweight yet durable. It's from pupsikstudio but I bought mine at Mothercare for only RM99. It is much cheaper than other carrier/sling that are available. Unfortunately when I bought it (when Babycakes was 2 months+), they only have this colour.
Even though it is ergonomically made i.e. it does not strain your back, one can only carry a 9kg+ baby on her back for so long. Think carrying a baby while walking from one place to the other. It eventually gets really tiring and you gotta give your back a break once in a while too. And your baby would want to run and walk and stretch herself as well.
That is when this thing comes in handy. It's called a harness. I am a sucker for all things pink and girly so obviously I chose this pink butterfly for Babycakes, which is freaking adorable. It's from Bumble Bee, btw. There are other designs too e.g. monkey, cow, bee etc. You would want to give the freedom to your child yet you have to still be in control. God knows where she would run to if I let go off her hands for just one second.
See, Babycakes was as happy as can be and she wanted to walk but you can't expect us to be chasing after her all the time, do you? It's tiring! We do get mixed reactions from the people around. Some were curious looks, some were weird stares while most were friendly smiles but we couldn't care less. As long as we have our baby close to us and as long as we can keep our baby safe, we will do whatever it takes. Of course there are times we played tug-o-war with her but at the end of the day, we won. Haha.
After all that walking and running and a game of tug-o-war, they are bound to be tired and needed their naps so you still have to bring a stroller with you. But make sure you bring a lightweight stroller, like this one. This is an umbrella stroller and it is only 3kgs if I am not mistaken. It is not bulky, it folds easily and it is durable. We bought ours from Toys R Us for less than RM200. It's Hauck brand.
There are certain places that are only accessible by stairs so you will be very glad that you bring a lightweight stroller. It makes going up and down buses, trains, ferries so easy. Don't worry, you don't have to carry the stroller down the stairs, just get your hubby to carry it. :D And do you see the bag hubby is carrying? That is Babycakes' diaper bag during the holiday. Yes, a backpack is the perfect choice for traveling. Don't bother carrying a sling diaper bag. Apart from extra clothes, diapers, wipes and other essentials, contents of the diaper bag include a thermos, a bottle brush and a small bottle of liquid soap for washing your baby's bottle. Unless you want to carry a few bottles with you, I suggest you bring a bottle brush and liquid soap. You can always wash the bottle after using it.
If you haven't been to Australia, please be informed that they are very very strict when it comes to customs check. Make sure you declare every single food item you carry with you because trust me, they will check your luggage thoroughly, especially if you have a baby/toddler/child. We already knew this so we didn't bring any foods for us, except for a few packets of 3 in 1 coffee mix. When the customs checked our bag, we showed them everything that we brought along i.e. milk powder, cereal and biscuits for Babycakes. We told them they're all for the baby. So when he saw our coffee mix, he asked, "Does the baby drink coffee too?" Not sure if he was being sarcastic or joking though. We just answered sincerely that the coffee are for us (duuh). I feel like rolling my eyes but of course I'd be stupid to be sarcastic with them so whatever, just go with the flow and move on. Since we didn't bring the most essential i.e. instant noodles, we had to buy at the supermarket. Finding halal instant noodles ain't easy but thankfully they sell Indomie. Instant noodles can never taste so good at that time. We also bought tuna, cream cheese and bread to make sandwiches.
When traveling with a baby/toddler, make sure you bring her medications too, just in case especially if there is a change of weather. When we were in Sydney, it was autumn and weather forecast showed temperatures between 17-22 degrees celcius but there are days when it gets chilly and there are days when it was just as hot as Malaysia. I brought along paracetamol, minyak yu yi, vicks baby balsam and gripe water for Babycakes. These items also went into the diaper bag so hubby got quite an exercise there. Anyway, due to the cold but dry weather, Babycakes got her nose stuffed and it was so hard to get the booger out because they were dry. She would also scream murder everytime i try to pick her nose. I went to the pharmacy and bought a saline spray. This spray literally saved our lives and kept Babycakes' nose clear. Let's not talk about the struggle to place the nozzle into her nostrils but whatever it is, I managed to spray the saline water into her nose and it cleared her nose and helped her breathe easily. I am not sure I've seen any saline spray selling in local pharmacies though.
So there you go. If you plan to travel with your baby/toddler, I hope you find this post useful. It helped me so it can surely help you too. :) Now where shall we go next?


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The late architecture critic Martin Pawley once explained Britain's tortured relationship with mass-produced housing in an interview by holding up a banknote. To convince the bearer that this piece of paper has value equal to the quantity of gold it once represented, it is dressed up with antique typefaces, scrolls, swags and cartouches, giving an impression of continuity and historic grandeur. The note is interchangeable and mass-produced, and when economic crisis hits, is hardly as reliable as it looks – so that appearance is all the more important.
As with cash, so with houses. Since the 1940s, it has been obvious that factory-made houses can be mass-produced as much as any other consumer object. The price of most other things, from food to cars, have reduced as production processes become more ruthlessly efficient, but housing has become more and more expensive, taking up an ever-larger chunk of real incomes, creating ludicrous property bubbles and spurring on a tedious, if symptomatic national obsession. Might factory-made housing still be the way out of this?
Some might laugh off the prospect of Ikea estates with jokes about missing screws and instruction manuals, but if so, it's as a means of trying not to think about the threat they might represent to the home as castle and/or investment. News that the furniture manufacturer is planning an exurban, airport-side district of Hamburg has been met with incredulity and ridicule, as has its plan to build an estate on part of the Olympic site – but its prefabricated "villages" are in fact already here. St James Village in Gateshead is an Ikea estate built in 2006, for instance, and outwardly quite interchangeable from any of the dozens of executive estates built in that decade – though being Ikea, it was the wood cladding and wonky roofs version of boom housing rather than the pediments and Georgian detail type.
As a product, St James Village was successful – its units sold out entirely. On the face of it, that's unusual, as the estate is entirely system-built – and system-building is a swearword in British housing. That's largely because of the prefabricated estates of the 1960s, which mostly used another Scandinavian prefabrication method – the Larsen-Nielsen system, brought to the UK by engineer Ove Arup. The system was used for thousands of dwellings in Denmark and elsewhere that were entirely uncontroversial, but in the UK they became notorious after the collapse after a gas explosion of Ronan Point, a Newham council tower block built from the kit by Taylor Woodrow (as was). Larsen-Nielsen was supposed to go up to eight storeys – Ronan Point was 22, and that wasn't the least of the liberties taken. BoKlok, Ikea's system, is so far used for small houses rather than towers, so is unlikely to become quite so negatively stereotyped – nearer, perhaps, to the often well-loved Prefabs built in the aftermath of bombing in the 1940s. Mass production might be easier to deal with if it comes with a house, garden and car-parking space.
However, systems are still used abundantly in the UK – not for the house, but for something more transient. The thumpingly banal hotels of Jurys Inn, the clustered towers of student hutches built by Unite – both are entirely system-built. Anywhere you might be expected to live in for more than nine months must preferably be built in much the same way as a house was built in the 18th century, in case anyone gets scared, whether builders or buyers.
John Prescott's "£60k houses" were supposed to work against this, but their fate is instructive. While Richard Rogers' flats for billionaires at One Hyde Park sold easily; his Oxley Woods prefabricated houses in Milton Keynes were considered unsuccessful by their builders – the successors to Ronan Point's contractors, Taylor Wimpey. When the estate was expanded, Rogers was not re-hired, and traditional building advocated.
The reason for this persistent failure to rationalise housing, to make it into a product like any other, might be because it tries to rationalise something – the property market – that is inherently irrational. Homes can't be products, they're too important to a dysfunctional economy. If they stopped being quite so archaic and mythical, but became instead something easy and cheap, then the entire bubble might finally burst.


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Join us for the Re-Opening of Ranchwood BBQ
The College Area Business District invites you to celebrate the long-awaited Re-Opening of Ranchwood BBQ. Enjoy some beers and wines from Next Door Craft Beer & Wine Bar while you grub on your favorite BBQ Parfaits. Mix & mingle with business owners and neighbors in a relaxed social atmosphere.
Grand Re-Opening Mixer:
When: Thursday, May 25th, 2017
Where: Ranchwood BBQ & Next Door Craft Beer & Wine
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Saturated Fat
Foods with saturated fat are extremely atherogenic. Most of these come from animal sources, but some plant foods have saturated fat. These include palm oil, palm kernel oil sometimes called "tropical" oil, coconut and coconut oil, and cocoa butter. The main animal sources are beef and beef fat, pork, veal, lamb, lard, poultry fat, milk, butter, cream, cheeses and other dairy whole milk and 2-percent milk products.
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Trans fats and saturated fats are high in low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol. LDL is the "bad" cholesterol. The top contributors to this cholesterol consumed from nonprocessed foods in the United States are beef and other red meats, egg yolks, organ meats, shellfish and poultry fat. For example, the average egg yolk has some 184 milligrams of cholesterol. About 3 ounces of beef liver has, on average, 309 milligrams of cholesterol, according to the USDA National Nutrient Database.
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Fast foods, especially foods that are fried, are highly atherogenic. Commercial shortening and deep-frying fats are made by a process called hydrogenation, in which trans-fatty acids are formed. That means foods made with these shortenings and fats will contain saturated fat and trans fat. Processed food and baked foods are common in the Western diet. Doughnuts, cookies, cakes, crackers, french fries, muffins and pies are some examples.
Excess sodium is one factor leading to hypertension, one of the inflammatory responses that contributes to atherogenesis. In the Western diet, people get up to to 75 percent of their sodium from processed foods, including soups, tomato sauce, condiments, canned foods and prepared mixes. Monosodium glutamate, or MSG, is a significant source of sodium in canned, packaged and frozen foods. It's also found in restaurant cooking.
Excess Sugar
Added sugars contribute to high blood glucose levels as well as cholesterol. Too much sugar is converted by the body to nonessential fatty acids and cholesterol. If you get more than 10 percent of your daily calories from added sugars, you have a greater risk of dying from heart disease, according to the February 2014 issue of the "Journal of the American Medical Association -- Internal Medicine."
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Heart Disease Facts
- Circulation: Markers of Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease
- USDA National Nutrient Database: Egg Yolk, Raw, Fresh
- USDA National Nutrient Database: Liver, Beef, Pan-Fried
- Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine: Added Sugar Intake and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Among US Adults
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This past weekend my boys went to Mackinac Island for a boys weekend. They swam in the pool, took the ferry to the Island (under the bridge!!), visited the fort, and had a great time! And, they brought me back some gifts. (yay!)
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But, even better...(and what could be better than fudge??)...they brought me back some house blend coffee from Java Joe's. This place is in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn in St. Ignace. They have pizza, and omelets, and crepes, and COFFEE!!! They have WHITEFISH PIZZA!!! and they have LOBSTER PIZZA WITH WHITE SAUCE!!!! they have some seriously yummy food. Including OREO PANCAKES!!! (Yes, I realize that I can't eat anything that I just yelled about, but they sound so yummy!)
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She has a growth on her back that won't go away. And won't heal. And won't stop oozing. And won't stop growing. I brought her in a few months ago, and the vet cleaned it up and gave me some medicine for it. And….it didn't work. The growth came back.
So, I brought her in last night, and the vet took a look and said "We can remove it." And of course, I asked the inevitable question…"Could it be Cancer?" He said no, not likely. He said it looked more like a cyst, and it didn't seem to have any roots, so he thinks removal outright will be the best solution.
So, the proposed plan is for pre-surgery blood work done in the next 2 weeks, then full anesthesia surgery after that. And a chunk of change out of our wallet. But, she is our baby…and our FIRST baby. I want to do the best for her. I'm scared.
Borrowing Books...
Instead - Little Joe and I went to the Library. Firstly, to pay a late fee for one book that I forgot to turn in. All of 10 cents. Secondly - because it was raining, and I felt like I HAD to get out of the house. So, off we went. I love the library - so many books...so many possibilities for learning about new things. And...Little Joe loves the library too! He more so likes the idea of picking encyclopedia-type books...but hey - they count, right?
So - as we are checking out...I ask the lady at the desk "How old do you have to be to get your very own library card?", (thinking at least 10 years old....) She says "old enough to sign your name!".
So....guess what Joseph got today:
His very own library card. Yup.
yummy easy butternut squash lasagna in the crockpot
mixture 1:
2 packages of frozen butternut squash (or roast a big one in the oven) - thawed
1/4 tsp. nutmeg (or more...I used 1/2 tsp)
mix in a bowl
mixture 2:
32 oz. cottage cheese or ricotta cheese
2 cloves garlic minced
S&P to taste
6 cups fresh washed spinach
mix in a bowl
1 package uncooked lasagna noodles (I used GF ones!!!)
1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese
12 oz (or more) of sliced mozzerella cheese
layer in a crockpot -
mixture 1
noodles (break to fit)
mixture 2
several slices of mozz cheese
mixture 1
noodles (break to fit)
mixture 2
more mozz cheese
continue layering, finish with parmesan sprinkled on the top.
cook in crockpot on LOW for 4+ hours, until noodles are done.
I'm still alive!!!
- Joseph started 2nd grade yesterday. Wow. I can't believe he is already that grown up. I remember my 2nd grade year so well.
- Big Joe is in Vegas. He is visiting Sid Wright, whom many of you may know – He had a stroke a few weeks ago, and isn't able to fly back to Michigan yet. Joe decided to go and visit him in the hospital. He is leaving this afternoon, flying home on Saturday.
- I love teaching. It is tough and challenging – but it is so cool.
- My garden is dwindling. Tomatoes didn't fare too well this year – except the blasted cherry tomatoes – they are out of control. The heirlooms were OK, and the Better Boys didn't perform at all. Very disappointing for tomatoes. However – the zucchini are on steroids. I can't get a zucchini under a foot in length. ARGH!! Peppers did really well – wish I knew what to do with all of them!
- Little Joe has got to be one of the most independent kids I know. He scares me sometimes, how much he wants to go grow and be an adult. He does things HIS way.
- Another batch of wine is brewing - an Australian Shiraz. Yumm.
- I went running earlier this week....and hurt my hip. Badly. the same one I had surgery on...I'm a little scared that I did something to it.
- Dax turned 12 a few weeks ago. She is getting old, and I am worried about that. And, she has this weird growth on her side that won't go away, and won't heal. Ew.
- Why is it that I feel incredibly unorganized all the time??
- And I feel disconnected from myself...like I'm watching myself going through the motions. Hmmm...kind of philosphical, but I think I need to center myself.


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Marcos Bretón
If you want a wall, make an argument, but leave a cop killing out of it
The "debate" over President Donald Trump's morally bankrupt campaign to build a "wall" on America's southern border isn't a debate at all.
In a true debate, opponents verbally spar over established facts. In his demand for a wall, Trump has created his version of reality based on unwarranted fear, has relied on conclusions not supported by his own government's data, and again has invoked the threats of rampant crime, citing a recent fatal shooting of a police officer in California's Central Valley.
But Trump and all those who swallow his lies, distortions and half truths about the alleged need $5.7 billion for a border wall are not motivated by facts. They hate facts. They hate nuance. They want to be mad. They want it so badly that they are willing to go along with a government shutdown that Trump created as a ransom to get his wall funding when he said countless times along his slime trail to the presidency that Mexico would pay for it.
His base loathes and fear the "browning" of America so much that it goes along despite his lies. Trump shrewdly made this calculation in 2016 and rode its wave of hate and ignorance all the way to the White House.
Trump has openly said that when he felt himself losing the crowds at his presidential campaign rallies, he would start yelling about the wall and they would respond with fervor and zealotry. Not every Trumper responded this way. Some try to hide these feelings in plain sight, only to reveal themselves on social media by the intolerant memes they share or by choosing the Trump gospel over established facts.
For Trump and his extreme followers, the "wall" became a weapon to be deployed against an America they couldn't stand, one filled with Hillary Clinton supporters, Mexicans, Muslims, feminists, Black Lives Matter, Nancy Pelosi, Jews, gays, transgender people, the disabled, liberals, artists, intellectuals, movie stars and outspoken black celebrities.
They all repeat the mantra of the "wall" as a symbol of law and order when such an assertion is pure bunk. They argue that those who oppose the wall are for "open borders" and that is the type of outright lie best described by word that's best left unsaid here.
Here is a spoiler alert: America's borders are not open. America's borders are militarized right now. They are fortified. Border crossings from Mexico into the U.S. are at the lowest levels in nearly a half century. And yes, there are Trumpers who would call that last statement "fake news" and they would refuse to acknowledge that the statistics behind that statement were compiled by Trump's own U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Factcheck.org reported "Fiscal year figures, show total apprehensions for fiscal 2017 (that) were the lowest since 1971.."
And it doesn't stop there. The libertarian Cato Institute has published social-science data on how all immigrants – including the undocumented – commit fewer crimes than native born Americans.
But in his televised address on Tuesday, Trump cited a handful of heinous crimes committed by undocumented people and tried to inflate that handful into a crisis of danger that can only be stemmed by his border wall. Trump specifically cited the killing of a Newman Police Cpl. Ronil Singh as evidence of "illegal aliens" running amok.
"America's heart broke the day after Christmas, when a young police officer in California was savagely murdered in cold blood by an illegal alien ...," Trump said. "The life of an American hero was stolen by someone who had no right to be in our country."
Singh's heartbreaking story of Fijian immigrant who dedicated his life to law enforcement – and had a young family when he was gunned down in the line of duty just after Christmas – was not only politicized by Trump. It was politicized by Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, who used his last days in office before retiring this week to blame California laws for Singh's death. Specifically, Christianson alleged that legislation wrongly dubbed "sanctuary state" laws make it easier for dangerous "Illegals" to menace American citizens.
Authorities say that Paulo Virgen Mendoza (who also went by Gustavo Perez Arriaga), the suspect in Singh's killing, is undocumented and from Mexico. I was on vacation when Singh's killing hit the news and in the two weeks I was away from the office, my email was littered with missives about "sanctuary" laws. One gentleman suggested that if I had any guts, I would tell Singh's family to their faces how I supported "illegals."
Mind you, if Singh's alleged killer had been an American born white man, nobody would have written to me.
But this horrible crime fit the narrative of Trump and his followers.....except for those pesky facts. It turns out that Paulo Virgen Mendoza had been arrested twice before on DUI charges. He was arrested before California's "sanctuary" laws were enacted and again, these laws are not about sanctuary for anyone. That's a label that anti-immigrant ideologues gave them.
In truth, the "California Values Act" is about making sure that state and local law enforcement officers do not become de-facto immigration agents. The law, authored by former state Senate leader Kevin De Leon, basically says: It's the job of federal immigration authorities to enforce the law and we want them to do it without deputizing state and local cops.
And you know what? A series of exceptions allow cooperation between the locals and the feds when dealing with dangerous criminals.
In the truth, the unanswered question in the Singh case is why wasn't his alleged killer already incarcerated? Why wasn't he previously deported? Was he deported? Why was he free the night he allegedly killed Singh because there is nothing in California law that prevented his arrest.
"There were two active warrants for (Paulo Virgen Mendoza's) arrest," De Leon said. "He should have been in custody before this tragedy occurred. This is a tragedy that no one should exploit."
But these are facts that are inconvenient, Trump and Trumpers use the wall as a political tactic to intimidate their opponents by brandishing a handful of horrible deaths to promote their cause.
All Trump has left is his base and he is playing to them while 800,000 federal employees remain unemployed. Meanwhile, the idea of a wall is not politically popular.
There are far more efficient ways to fortify the border that are more effective and less costly.
"We can build the infrastructure and roads at our ports of entry," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday night. "We can install new technology to scan cars and trucks for drugs coming into our nation; we can hire the personnel we need to facilitate trade and immigration at the border; and we can fund more innovation to detect unauthorized crossings."
If Trump were a normal politician, he would make a deal with Pelosi that would further fortify our border with Mexico while putting federal employees back to work. But he's not normal. He built his presidency on racial and ethnic animus and outright racism. He appealed to divisions and anger, disregarding facts.
He's mobilized an army of aggrieved people by selling them on the lie of the "wall." Those who bought the lie are less interested in governing and more interested in vendettas against people who frighten and anger them.
How do you negotiate against anger fueled lies? You don't. You stand back and you let Trump and his army of grievances implode. The lie behind the president must be exposed and discredited so that a government based on divisions and disruptions does not survive a people yearning to be free of it.


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According to Ayurveda, the sense of taste is a natural guide map towards proper nutrition. Ayurveda identifies six taste by which all foods can be categorized: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent. By having a balance of the six tastes though out the day, all of your dosha have been given the nutrients needed to function correctly. In addition, including all six tastes in your diet contributes to feeling satisfied at the end of the meal and minimize cravings. Cravings are often caused by not having all of the six tastes in your daily diet. Many people omit the bitter and astringent tastes, but when having these tastes at the end of the meal, it reduces your desire for sweet, thus eat your salad at the end of each meal instead of the beginning.
The six tastes offer us a user-friendly guide map for how to nourish ourselves. Rather than looking at nutritional labels for X amount of protein or Y amount of carbohydrates, the six tastes naturally guide us towards our body's dietary needs. Each taste feeds our mind, body, senses, and spirit in its unique way. From a modern nutritional perspective, the six Tastes satisfy each of the major nutritional building blocks.
Sweet foods, for example, are rich in fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and water, whereas Bitter and Astringent foods are high in vitamins and minerals.
The brain sends the body signals when it requires energy in the form of food. By incorporating all six tastes into each meal, we ensure that these signals are adequately met, thus avoiding food cravings or the over-consumption of certain foods.
Including the six tastes in each meal doesn't need to be a daunting task. Adding a squeeze of lemon to cooked dishes, for example, can quickly satisfy the sour taste, while adding a side salad will fulfill the bitter and astringent tastes. Examples of each tastes responsibility in the body and food sources are listed below:
Sweet (decreases Vata and Pitta, increases Kapha)- Builds tissues, calms nerves: grains, rice, bread, sweet fruit, beets, potatoes, sweet potatoes, milk, oils, meats, nuts.
Sour (decreases Vata, increases Pitta and Kapha)- Cleanses tissues, increases absorption of minerals: citrus fruits, yogurt, alcohol, vinegar, cheese, tomato, raspberries, strawberries.
Salty (decreases Vata, increases Pitta and Kapha)- Improves taste to food, lubricates tissues, stimulates digestion: Natural salts, sea vegetables.
Bitter (increases Vata, decreases Pitta and Kapha)- Detoxifies and lightens tissues: coffee, rhubarb, turmeric, most green and yellow veggies, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, leafy greens, cabbage.
Pungent (increases Vata and Pitta, decreases Kapha) Stimulates digestion and metabolism: garlic, onion, ginger, wasabi, black pepper, cloves, cayenne pepper, horseradish, salsa, jalapenos.
Astringent (increases Vata, decreases Pitta and Kapha): Absorbs water, tighten tissues, dries fat: fruit peels, unripe banana, leafy greens, blueberries, cranberries, beans, legumes, peas, green tea.


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Already half a year has past in which CreaTe students have been busy with sketching, programming, fiddling with arduinos, hitting deadlines, making working project prototypes and writing pages-long reports. University life can be hard – but we here at Proto.ink are going to make your life easier! We set out to ask students their tips on surviving CreaTe. Enyo Ahovi, Robin Fabianek, Laura Kester and Abel Gerritse were kind enough to provide us with their advices.
CreaTe students are supposed to be 'T-shaped professionals'. And while passing your subjects will ensure that you have a little bit of knowledge in every field, every CreaTe student is unique and needs to find their area of interest to specialize in. As Abel put it: 'You need to find what you are good at and become awesome at it. The study will help you doing that but if you just follow every courses' minimal requirements you will not have any valuable skill at the end. It doesn't have to be a specific technical thing, it can be management, or public relations for example. However, Do what you want to do, don't bother about what you should do. Think about who you want to be, figure out what makes you happy and focus on that. The university is made to explore. (Don't be stupid either, but keep in mind that you should not force yourself too bad). ' Robin had similar advice: 'Really put your attention on the topics you like, and pass the subjects you aren't that interested in. But don't put the whole focus on these. Focus on that what you want to become in the future because in the end your whole education is about you and you developing yourself. It's not about getting in everything a ten or a nine. If you dislike a subject it's enough to get a six or a seven – you will pass.'
One constant in CreaTe life will be project work: one every module! It is therefore obvious that being able to navigate these is a key cornerstone in surviving CreaTe. One thing you should focus on is making sure you have a good group. Laura advices to 'avoid the group where all the leftovers are. Be active and try to form a group before the start of the module!' And Abel advises that 'If there are difficulties in a project, you need to communicate about it. It is ok not to be able to do something but you should let you team know. The faster you communicate about it, the easier it will be to resolve.'
Clashes with teachers can be hard to avoid. Complaining about the unfairness of tests, deadlines or assignments is a common conversation topic. Abel advises to always consider the opposite viewpoint before you accuse a teacher of unfairness: ' If something goes wrong, think about it and do not just complain. There is a chance to fix a lot of things with CreaTe staff but, before raging, ask yourself why a course or a test was done the way it was done. This will help you getting a constructive point of view.' Enyo also asks students to be considerate. 'A positive attitude is always recommended. They have pretty tight schedules, too. If a teacher seems not to like you for some unexplained reason, just treat them with respect, show up to their lectures and tutorials and try to show your involvement.'
Once piece of advice given by Robin is that it can be very helpful to talk to older students who have already passed the subject. ' You can get a lot of insight from them. In the first year you get a lot of stuff you probably already had in high school So if you know this stuff you don't need to attend the lectures. But first make sure you actually know all the material and then decide to go there or not. Because if you're just not going to all lectures and then in the end find out you don't understand anything – that's not good. In case you have doubts just go to the first few lectures and see what they are like.'
And where would you find all these older students? Well, the ideal place would be Protopolis! Laura is a former board member, and as a result has many tips and tricks for getting the best out of Protopolis: 'There is often free food in Protopolis after the Creec evaluation and after free lunches. The sauces cabinet in Protopolis also hides free stuff to put on your bread if you forget your lunch or don't have money ( peanut butter, hagelslag, …) And there is a mountain of electronics behind the stairs in SmartXP which are free to use for any projects.'
Alfred is someone who seems to approach a god-like status in CreaTe. And according to our interviewees this isn't without reason! One of the advices Abel gives is 'become best friends with Alfred: just say hi and ask questions about your project. He is busy but he is here to help you with stuff so don't hesitate.' Laura also gave the same advice: 'In SmartXP Alfred is a god, befriend him and it will pay off. He can fix all sort of technical problems, help with your project logistics and also generate crazy good solutions. PS: he loves coffee and stroopwafels'
So there you have it! A helpful selection of useful tips and tricks to survive this crazy study of ours. But if you think we missed anything don't hesitate and leave your tip in the comments!


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EVO's Album Release Trailer
It's finally here! Be the first to buy our debut album at the Red Brick Café Album Release Party! Get there early to secure good seats.
Here is the trailer for our debut album, "Last Chance To Dance." We'll start selling the CDs and Vinyl Albums in September, 2017. It shows footage from the band recording the album, plus a few takes of our "Saved" video. Thank you to Nathaniel Deshpande for putting this together for us with such care, and TurtleShell Studio for the awesome recording experience!


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Reservations / Details
Mark Lewis is master of the alto sax, baritone sax, flute and piano; author of approximately 1,700 compositions; and has recorded and produced more than twenty albums. His latest album, The New York Session, features piano legend George Cables, veteran bassist Essiet Essiet and drummer Victor Lewis. A well-traveled saxophonist and flutist, he's been a part of jazz scenes from Seattle and San Francisco to Rotterdam and Paris. Rotterdam, the Netherlands was Mark's home base for many years. He toured and played throughout Europe, and taught jazz theory and improvised music classes in several music conservatories. He has performed and recorded with pianists George Cables, Willem Kühne, Mark Levine, Overton Berry and Ted Gioia; drummers Victor Lewis, Candy Finch, Frans van Grinsven and Eddie Moore; bassists James Long, Hein van de Geyn, David Friesen, Larry Grenadier and Chuck Metcalf; saxophonists Noah Howard and Art Foxall; trumpet player Randy Brecker; and vibraphonists Bobby Hutcherson and Lodewijk Bouwens. Mark often subbed for Stan Getz and John Handy during his time in San Francisco.
Featuring: Mark Lewis (saxophone, flute), Adam Shulman (piano), Peter Barshay (bass), Alan Hall (drums)


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Free recreational family swim time each Sunday!
Community Swim, All Ages
Free to all current YMCA members, Hopewell Valley YMCA offers recreational swim time at The Pennington School each Sunday. Bring the family! One lap lane is provided. Lifeguard on duty.
Upon arriving at the pool, members will be asked to sign in, to help keep track of members in attendance. Any cancellations will be displayed on the YMCA website home page.
Dates: Sunday, September 15, 2019 – June 21, 2020
Day: Sunday
Time: 2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Fee: Free to all current members
Location: The Pennington School


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By Ian Randall, Science. For GSS Energy Flow chapter 2 and Energy Use chapter 3. Excerpt: Hydraulic fracturing in western Canada can prime faults for earthquakes that strike months after fracking ceases, reports a new study published this week in Science. Although it has long been known that the injection of wastewater into disposal wells can trigger earthquakes by increasing pore pressure and destabilizing fault lines, rarely has fracking itself been identified as the source of tremors. ...Looking at seismic records near Fox Creek, in northwest Alberta, where there are six drilling sites, researchers found an intermittent set of induced earthquakes between December 2014 and March 2015, clustered around fracking operations. The majority of seismicity occurred during fracking as the elastic response of the rock caused mounting stress. However the largest quake, which had a magnitude of 3.9, struck on 23 January 2015—2 weeks after fracking had been completed. ...In the future, they say, drillers should take account of such risks, especially when they fail to recover fracking fluids.... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/fracking-can-prime-faults-subsequent-quakes
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Caesar Salad with Poached Egg
I have been so busy with the Bay Area Blogger Holiday Party that I really feel like I am running behind.
I mean, I haven't even really been on Instagram lately because I've just been promoting this event!
Speaking of the event, are you a foodie in San Francisco? Then you're invited!
We will have an amazing line up of food, beer, and wine for you!
Featuring The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, We the Minis Cupcakes and more!
Last week I made one of G's favorite meals.
A Caesar Salad with a poached egg to make it creamier when you mix it up.
I know that this salad sounds weird, but the egg is so perfect on it, you will never want any other Caesar Salad again.
We first had a similar salad when we went to a friend's wedding, it was one of their appetizers.
It was love at first break of yolk.
I mean, just imagine the vibrant green lettuce, the slightly salty and tangy dressing, and the creamy egg yolk. It's just an explosion of flavor and texture in your mouth.
It is literally one of the best things that I have ever made.
Caesar Salad With Poached Egg
What is your favorite salad?
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Are you in San Francisco and love food? Join us at the 1st Annual Food Blogger Holiday Party! There will be a few giveaways, great local food, beer, wine, and some goodie bags to take home!
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Computer Forensic Guide To Profiling USB Drive Enclosures on Win7, Vista, and XP
There has been much talk about USB Device Forensic Analysis. Many assume that analyzing a USB Key will be the same as analyzing a USB Drive Enclosure (e.g. USB Key Analysis = USB Drive Enclosure analysis). This is inaccurate.


text: As every Dubuque resident knows, heavy rain and flooding can be a disastrous problem. An elderly woman experienced this during a severe rain storm that caused her home to flood. She wisely called ServiceMaster of the Key City in Dubuque for help cleaning the water in her basement. When the team from ServiceMaster of the Key City arrived to assess the water damage, they discovered it had reached over 8 feet in height! It was so deep that the Dubuque Fire Department's help was needed to pump most of the water out which then allowed ServiceMaster to clean up the remaining damage and get the woman's home restored.


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Low-cost Sollutions For Web Utilizing T1 Line
Q: Which 802.11n packet aggregation modes will the Cisco Aironet 1250 Sequence IEEE 802.11n draft 2.zero radio modules assist? Fonts (fonts) : control fonts It is all been a lot the identical story with music. CDs have been an enormous step forwards and the invention of MP3s has modified every part without end. Notice, that the command requires a transit ?router ID? moderately than an IPv6 prefix; the ?router ID? is the ?router ID? of the distant router.
Developed by Vincent Van Gosh and remodeled right into a digitally interactive interface courtesy Petros Vrellis (Greek digital artist and electrical engineer) the Starry Night interface (hyperlink: ) is awe-inspiring. The system is accompanied by a MIDI interface which gives a very clean ambient tone to assist the multi-contact input by the person. All you need to do is drag your finger on the display and the patterns will change as when you've got set colors on motion within the night sky. Have a look on the video demonstration under to learn more.
Know-how and IT is one of the most stimulating and revolutionary industries that you possibly can be part of. To be coping with leading-edge technology is to do your … Read More


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Making Things Happen
1/20/16 Making Things Happen
Military OneSource Blog Brigade
4/18/16 Looking Up: Phones Down, Family First
2/29/16 Making It Happen: A Real Life MilSpouse Entrepreneur
1/19/16 Budgeting With Dollars and Sense
12/4/15 Military Mommy Must-Haves
9/24/15 Adjusting to a New Job
9/2/15 5 Tips for Planning a Last Minute Road Trip
6/11/13 How to Work It at a Job Fair: Five Mistakes to Avoid
12/18/12 Scrapbooking Military Memories
11/21/12 Thankful for Military Life
11/15/12 Navigating the Job Market: The Milspouse Edition
11/8/12 Seasonal Friendships
11/5/12 Sending Your Love in Letters
10/26/12 Fall Activities that Won't Break the Bank
10/15/12 Think Twice Before You Blog That
10/8/12 Going the Distance: 5 Ways to Research Your New Installation
9/28/12 Full Speed Ahead: Supporting an Overachiever Husband (or Wife!)
9/17/12 "Wait" is Not a Dirty Word
9/6/12 A New Milspouse Perspective: Care Package 101
8/27/12 Creating Community through Social Media
8/20/12 The Dos and Don'ts of Virtual Employment
8/13/12 A New Milspouse Perspective: Adjusting to Life After Combat
7/18/12 Couponing 101
7/12/12 Summer Fun: Party of One
7/6/12 Deployment Dollars & Money Mistakes
6/28/12 Friendcations: Having Fun While Keeping it Real
6/21/12 Long-Distance Love: Weekend Getaways on a Budget
6/13/12 Road Trippin' with Pets
6/4/12 What Milspouse Blogging Means to Me
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3/20/14 Insta-what? Insta-who? 10 Must-Follow MilSpouses on Instagram!


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Are you wondering if you should automate your routine day-to-day approvals? You'd be amazed at the Return on Investment. Let's do a quick analysis. Approval workflows are usually at least 3 steps long and, often quite a bit longer. For now, let's consider a 3-step workflow:
- Performed by an Employee, for example, asking for a Travel Authorization or Purchase Requisition. Maybe a Salesperson is trying to get a PO from a Client and needs Manager approval for special pricing. Let's say this employee costs $80,000/year including benefits, vacation, taxes and other costs. Typically this would translate to a salary of about $60,000.
- Performed by a Manager who essentially checks the request, approves it if it is valid or sends it back for corrections. Let's say the manager costs $100,000/year inclusive of all costs.
- Performed by an HR or Finance person who essentially updates an internal system and does the equivalent of filing the request away (email folder, network drive, paper filing cabinet, document management system). Let's assume this person costs $60,000/year inclusive of all costs. Maybe they work part-time.
Now, assume that the time savings are 10 min, 3 min and 3 min respectively in each step. That's pretty conservative given there's no printing, signing, scanning etc. involved. Finally, assume that there are 400 approvals per month of all kinds (Vacation requests, Sales Orders, Time Sheets, Travel Authorizations etc.)
How much do you think you will save in costs? You might be shocked:
You'll save ~$50,000 every single year or 57% of your costs and see net positive ROI in just a bit over 2 months.
It's amazing how much the paper/email process actually costs you – close to $85K per year. And that doesn't even take into account the time spent trying to track down emails, chasing down managers for signatures or, perhaps of greater importance, the Opportunity Cost of delayed approvals.
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In this TOP SECRET memo from 1944 addressed to the Commander of Naval Air Bases, Eleventh Naval District, San Diego the plans for a target specifically for "special bombing" tests at Salton Sea are laid out. "Special bombing" refers to testing the aeroballistics of atomic bomb shapes and forms as part of the development of the atomic bomb. The memo points out that Captain W.S. Parsons, K.B. Brode and Lieutenants T.C. Allen and J.P. Ruhman all visited "Sandy Beach" (code name for the Salton Sea Test Base) to inspect the site to construct a bombing target.
You can see the code-name for the Salton Sea Test Base, "Sandy Beach" (the actual original name for the beach area where the Naval Station was constructed) hand written in the upper right.


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N-Space, the studio behind Sword Coast Legends, has shut its doors after 21 years of operations on 31 March. Founded in Orlando, Florida in 1994 by Erick S. Dyke, Dan O'Leary and Sean Purcell, the developer was known for its GameCube shooter Geist as well as multiple Call of Duty adaptations for Nintendo DS.
Ben Leary, an artist at n-Space, confirmed the closure in a tweet along with a statement saying the decision followed several rounds of layoffs. He also thanked n-Space president Dan O'Leary for "his efforts and transparency during the process".
"The in-house staff has worked long and hard to keep this from happening," Leary wrote. "Through all of it, the team stayed focused and passionate. The fact that the news of this situation has been kept in-house all this time speaks to the testament of class, respect and professionalism of the n-Space staff. Something I'm honored to have experienced first hand."
Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast said that they will be looking to the game's PC publisher, Digital Extremes, to work out the future of the role-playing game's DLC and its upcoming release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
"Yes, N-Space is shutting down, and we are super-sad about it. We are proud of everything they did in bringing Sword Coast Legends to D&D fans, and we sincerely hope everyone at N-Space lands on their feet," a Wizards of the Coast spokesperson told GamesBeat. "As for Sword Coast Legends going forward, it is unclear at this time, but we are working with Digital Extremes, the official PC publisher, to make sure everyone has the best possible experience with the game. Right now, we believe the Rage of Demons DLC will be released for PC, but we are confirming with Digital Extremes."
N-Space's Sword Coast Legends was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in 2015, but was met with mostly mixed reviews from critics and players alike, receiving criticism for its weak dungeon master mode, lack luster combat and adaptation of D&D rules.


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Pavel Nikanorovich Iakovlev
Iakovlev, Pavel Nikanorovich
Born June 28 (July 10), 1898; died Sept. 9, 1957. Soviet breeder and fruit grower. Student and follower of I. V. Michurin. Academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1948). Member of the CPSU from 1942.
From 1935 to 1957, Iakovlev directed the principal division of the I. V. Michurin Central Genetic Laboratory in Michurinsk. During that time he was also a professor at the Institute of Fruitgrowing. Iakovlev specialized in the selection and genetics of fruit and berry plants. He developed several new types of pears that are now widely cultivated (Osenniaia Iakovleva, Liubimitsa Iakovleva, Severianka). Iakovlev received the State Prize of the USSR in 1941.


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One Love Manchester
In historic fashion, Telescope acted as the global Facebook broadcaster for multi-platinum recording artist Ariana Grande's One Love Manchester benefit concert.
In the wake of the terrorist attack after her concert at the Manchester Arena, Grande organized the benefit performance, inviting, amongst others, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Coldplay. Telescope, with its award-winning experience in delivering production and streaming capabilities for high capacity events, powered the global Live feed and donation mechanic on Facebook using its end-to-end streaming management platform, Live Studio.
With only 72 hours to execute a highly effective solution, Telescope coordinated across multiple stakeholders, including the BBC, LiveNation, Facebook, and Ariana Grande's team, meeting tight deadlines while ensuring quality and stability throughout.
Telescope provided its production expertise and support across multiple areas, from feed pipeline management and on-site stream encoding, to broadcast graphics design, all produced within a matter of days.
Turning awareness into action, Telescope's Live Studio platform allowed more than 22 million live viewers to donate to the victims and their families while sharing and driving more support globally across Facebook.
The broadcast was a historic success – with more than 22,500 people raising upwards of $450,000 directly on Facebook via the Donate Button – with a $20 average donation. This far exceeds the industry standard.
Although Live+Donate is relatively new, the total amount raised from Facebook represents approximately 13% of all funds raised during the benefit, highlighting the power of the Facebook platform.
Peak concurrent viewers totaled almost 570,000 people, one of Facebook's highest numbers for a single stream. 80M+ total VOD audience.


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Barney video isn't much of a workout for kids
If your children like Barney, and millions love him, this is a good video for teaching the importance of healthful eating, exercise and regular checkups. But if your kids really like Barney, they've probably already seen the material here on television.
The video contains two episodes of "Barney," the popular PBS children's show featuring the purple dinosaur, his two dino friends, BJ and Baby Bop, and neighborhood children.
The first episode deals with the importance of visits to the doctor and dentist. Punctuating the skit-type material with song and dance is a great way to keep the interest of even the smallest viewer. Songs such as "The Doctor Is a Friend of Mine" and "Yum, Yum, Yum," a song about healthful eating, are fun and catchy.
The second episode deals more with exercise, as the youngsters on the show are surprised to learn from Barney that they are exercising while playing ball and leapfrog.
The last part of this episode brings rain, and the children move indoors. Barney teaches the children how to work out inside, including a lesson on the importance of warming up before exercise as Barney leads them through a series of stretches before a mini-workout. But a lot of time is spent on things that aren't really exercise: drawing, reading and playing dress-up.
The video offers a fun way for kids to learn about important health topics, but it's more about learning than doing, as the opportunities for exercising with the 50-minute video are few.


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Tour through East London with two brilliant actors. We improvised a break up that spreads out throught the course of a whole day, until the last dance in the night club Passing Clouds.
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The Fourth Circuit today vacated a judgment issued against the former trustees of an ERISA plan. Judge Agee wrote the opinion in Plasterers' Local Union No. 96 Pension Plan v. Pepper, which was joined in by Judge Duncan and Senior Sixth Circuit Judge Damon Keith.
After losses in the 1970s and '80s, the former trustees adopted a very conservative investment plan and refused to consider deviations from it. Consequently, the plan generated lower returns than it would have adopted had it followed a more aggressive strategy.
The opening paragraph of the opinion:
Edgar Pepper and James Lertora (collectively "the Former Trustees"), former trustees of the Plasterers' Local Union No.96 Pension Plan ("the Plan"), appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in favor of the current trustees of the Plan ("the Current Trustees"). The district court's judgment was based on its finding that the Former Trustees breached their fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., regarding the investment of Plan assets as set forth under 29 U.S.C. § 1104(a)(1)(B) and (C). On appeal, the Former Trustees challenge the district court's determination as to liability, its method of calculating damages, and the award of attorneys' fees. We conclude that the district court erred as to each of these issues, and therefore vacate the judgment and remand the case for further proceedings.


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Routine immunization of children has dropped by 40 percent in some areas of Yemen, leading to outbreaks of polio and measles and reflecting a growing collapse of public services in a country that is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster, two senior UN officials warn.
"Yemen is on the verge of a true, deep humanitarian disaster," Geert Cappelaere, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative in Yemen, told journalists in Geneva on 24 October. "Every day we have hundreds of thousands of people who become food insecure."
He and his counterpart from the World Food Programme (WFP), Lubna Alaman, painted a bleak picture of the situation in Yemen, which he called "a chronically underdeveloped country".
Yemen has the world's second highest rate of chronic malnutrition, after Afghanistan, and about half the population live in deep poverty. More than half the children under five years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition.
According to UNICEF, preliminary findings of a September nutrition assessment in Abyan Governorate - a battleground in ongoing fighting between government troops and Islamic militants since 28 May - estimates global acute malnutrition (GAM) prevalence at 18.6 percent, which is beyond the emergency threshold, of which 3.9 percent are severe and 14.7 percent moderate cases. In Sa'dah, high malnutrition rates continue to be identified and children referred for treatment.
According to the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos, conflict, poverty, drought, soaring food prices and collapsing state services have created a daily struggle for survival for millions of people – including 100,000 displaced by recent fighting in the south, thousands of refugees from the Horn of Africa, and 300,000 displaced by previous conflict in the north.
|It will take us many, many months, even in certain sectors several years, to undo the huge impact that the last several months have had . A political deal is, for the humanitarian community, not the end; it is just an element in a process of addressing the huge humanitarian needs
In some parts of the country, one in three children are malnourished – among the highest malnutrition levels in the world, she said on 11 October. Hospitals and clinics are overcrowded or not working at all, and access to safe water is becoming increasingly difficult. Tens of thousands of children are losing their education due to school closures.
"The message is very clear, the humanitarian situation is deteriorating, and very fast," said Alaman.
On 21 October, the UN Security Council urged President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. The non-binding resolution, passed unanimously by the Council's 15 members, backed a Gulf-brokered plan that would end Saleh's 33 years in power.
The Council also condemned human rights violations and the excessive use of force by the Yemeni authorities against peaceful protesters as well as violence by other groups and said that hundreds of people - mainly civilians, including women and children - had died in the violence of the past months.
According to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Adviser on Yemen Jamal Benomar, security has deteriorated "very dramatically" in Yemen with five or six provinces out of government control, a large area in the north controlled by Al-Houthi rebels, Al-Qaida militants holding three cities and an important geographic area in the south, and Sana'a, the capital, split between rival forces.
"We need an immediate ceasefire by all parties in the conflict, a political solution to the transition in line with the Security Council resolution," said WFP Middle East director Daly Belgasmi. What is needed, he added, "is humanitarian stabilization, a political solution and recovery".
Both WFP and UNICEF officials stressed that the road to recovery will be slow and arduous.
"It will take us many, many months, even in certain sectors several years, to undo the huge impact that the last several months have had," said Cappelaere. "A political deal is, for the humanitarian community, not the end; it is just an element in a process of addressing the huge humanitarian needs."
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Making your own fortune cookies is a lot of fun. As always, when making something from scratch, I love how you can control the ingredients. Most fortune cookies are made with wheat, so many unlucky people are unable to enjoy them.
With fortune cookies, though, making your own is just so much better than that because you can also control your fortune!
How fortunate, right? 😉
Valentine's Day is the perfect time of the year to be making fortune cookies because they make a really cute non-candy valentine. Plus, Valentine's Day is conveniently near the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
If you are being even more strict with your diet, and grain free isn't good enough, you could even make these out of paper, craft foam, or felt as a cute way to leave someone a note, or a fun way for kids to make their own valentines.
I've been wanting to try to make these since last year when I finally achieved a good grain free combination recipe for a type of cookie that would get crisp and hold its shape when well baked. I developed it for my grain free ice cream cones and bowls, but imagined that it would work just as well for fortune cookies since the method to making them is very similar. While I waited to try them out until closer to Valentine's Day, I think they are really fun project for any time of year.
How did I make my fortunes?
I used Google Docs to make a spreadsheet template for my different fortunes. When I printed it out on a regular sized sheet of paper, which was automatically oriented to landscape mode, they printed out to be a decent size for my cookies. You are welcome to use my template if it will help you.
A quick google search for fortune cookie fortunes and templates should also help you get your creative juices flowing. My favorites for Valentine's Day were these, because I'm a bit cheesy and a bit of foodie, so fortunes like "I love you more than bacon," and "If you were ground coffee, you'd be Espresso because you're so fine" amuse me, but there are plenty of ideas all over the internet, so have a look if you're in the need for some inspiration.
A good pun is always fun, too, so you could always remind your significant other of how "fortunate" they are to have found you!
Once you have your fortunes ready, you are ready to make your grain free fortune cookies.
Before I share the recipe, I'll explain the different methods that I used to make them.
At first, I used my pizzelle maker to make my cookies.
This was by far the fastest and easiest way to make them. The problem with this method, though, is that the fortune cookies ended up having a waffle texture which keeps them from looking like a commercially made fortune cookie. If that doesn't bother you, and you have a pizzelle iron, by all means use this method as it really does work the best!
The cookies are heated from both sides so they are quickly and evenly cooked to the right stage needed for making your fortune cookies. Because they have been heated evenly, the cookies are less likely to break as you form them into the right shape. Plus, the iron presses the batter into shape, so the cookies end up thin enough for making fortune cookies without having to work at getting the thickness right.
Next, I tried using the oven.
For the oven method, you take a spoon and spread out about a tablespoon of batter into a thin circle, as evenly as possible, onto a baking tray covered with baking/parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Working with two or three circles at a time, you bake the cookies until they begin to brown around the edges.
Once they have become a golden brown, you take one circle at a time and fold it into shape. Then, moving quickly, you finish with the rest of your prepared circles and repeat the process until you have made all of your cookies.
This method gives the best looking cookies, but it is also the trickiest method and the most tedious.
It takes a while (like around 10 minutes or even more) to get the cookies browned enough so that they will hold their shape once formed and cooled. In the oven, the cookies don't bake as evenly either, and they brown more on the edges than in the center. While that gives a nice looking effect in the final cookies, it makes it trickier to form the cookies because the edges are crispier and more fragile, meaning they are likely to break when you try to fold them into shape.
To help solve that problem, I tried only lightly baking my cookies in the oven, and then flipped them and finished browning for a minute or two on a skillet over the stove.
That did seem to help make the process a bit quicker and easier, and resulted in less broken cookies.
Finally I tried using the skillet method.
I figured that on the stove, the cookies would bake more quickly and evenly, making it much easier to make the cookies.
While that is true, I wasn't completely happy with making them this way.
It was tricky to spread the dough out quickly enough to get the dough thin and even on the hot skillet, and even when I did, the cookies took on a sort of pancake-like appearance. The browning on the cookies is spotted all over the cookie, rather than just browning the edges, and the texture isn't as smooth because the dough has a tendency to bubble up on the griddle just like pancakes do when you cook them.
To make matters worse, they have a tendency to roll up on the edges, making a less perfect looking fortune cookie.
So, what method do I recommend?
It really depends on what your priorities are.
If you really want a more perfect looking fortune cookie, I'd suggest using the oven method, or a combination of the oven method and stove method where you finish browning the cookie over the stove.
If you want like having a textured cookie or at least don't mind it, the easiest and quickest method by far is to use the pizzelle iron. I didn't have any fails at all with that method.
So, with all of that said, let's make some grain free fortune cookies!
I hope I haven't intimidated you. They really aren't that difficult to make!
Grain Free Fortune Cookies
- 2/3 cup almond flour
- 1/3 cup tapioca flour
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 3 Tbsp. butter melted
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- the zest of a lemon or orange (Optional, for added flavor)
- Preheat your iron, oven (around 400F), or skillet (medium heat), depending on the method you are using to make your cookies. (See above)
- Blend all of the ingredients together well.
- Spoon about a tablespoon of the batter onto the hot iron and close. If you are using your oven, spread the batter in a thin, even circle (around 2 1/2 -3 inches in diameter) on a tray prepared with some parchment paper or a silicone mat. If using your stove, quickly spread the batter in a circle on your hot griddle. The batter has quite a bit of butter in it, so I didn't need to add oil to the pan before making each cookie, but depending on the type of pan you are using, you may need to. (I was using a stone based non/stick pan.)
- Close the iron and wait a minute or two before opening it to peek at how the cookie is looking. Once your cookie has browned, carefully remove it and form it into a fortune cookie shape (see next step). No matter which method you are using, you want to achieve a golden brown color. If the cookie doesn't reach this stage, it won't crisp up enough to hold its shape or have the texture of a fortune cookie. If you are using the stove, you want to bake the cookie until it begins to brown; the edges will be a darker color than the center. If you use your stove, cook until the top of the cookie is no longer sticky before flipping it like you would a pancake. Your cookie is ready when it is lightly browned on both sides.
- To form the fortune cookie, begin by placing your fortune in the center of the circle, then fold the cookie in half over the slip of paper.
- Immediately fold the cookie in half again, this time by bringing the folded edges together. This can more simply be done by bringing each edge down on either side of the rim of a glass or a bowl.
- Once you have achieved the right shape, place your cookie in a muffin tin to help it keep its shape until it cools. Once cool, it will harden enough to be crispy and hold its shape on its own.
- Eat immediately or store in a well sealed container to prevent the humidity from reaching your cookies and making them soggy!
- Enjoy!


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On the 18th October, the stage was adorned for a feast to remember. Our guests were the year group who had rocketed to entrepreneurial success in the Arthur Rank Fundraising Market Day. Under their famed brand, 'Rustico', the youngsters produced home-baking delights worthy of a Michelin-starred summer picnic.
Year 13 felt compelled to reward their feat of brilliance. Given that they had affirmed themselves as gastronomic gurus – only a cordon-bleu meal would cut the mustard. They were all seated elegantly on a star-studded stage, and served with an array of culinary delights. Rump steak, potato fries, onion rings, peppercorn sauce and halloumi and fig salad led the charge, followed by dark chocolate mousse, served with an array of luscious toppings– what a feast … all courtesy of Year 13. Most concluded that they were spending the next week dieting – which of course was the desired result.


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Our sweet and smoky bourbon barbecue sauce recipe is a quick barbecue sauce perfect for your grilled country style ribs or grilled barbecue chicken recipe for crepes.
This sweet barbecue sauce recipe starts with two of our favorite ingredients: bacon and onions, which gives it a savory smokiness.
Next, we add the sweet: bourbon, peach preserves, and brown sugar. Yumm!
It's the perfect addition to your favorite grilled crepe filling recipes!
North Carolina is home to some of the best barbecue on the planet. While pork is the meat of choice, opinions on the type of sauce literally split our state in half—east and west. Eastern North Carolinians prefer a vinegar-based sauce and those from the west prefer a sweeter, tomato-based sauce. This sauce is a combination of both of these traditions.
Sauté bacon until crisp, about 5 minutes. Add onion and cook until transparent and softened, about 2 minutes. Deglaze pan with bourbon and apple cider vinegar.
Stir in sugar, worcestershire sauce, preserves, tomato sauce and seasonings. Bring to a simmer and reduce heat. Let simmer for 5 minutes. Serve immediately over your favorite savory crepe filling recipes or reserve for later.
Yield: 2 ½ cups of sauce
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You remember last year, the rash of creepy clown sightings occurring in the US, and perhaps the resurgence this year, around the Carolinas? Well, it seems more are beginning to appear and these clowns are much more brazen and sinister in intention.
From a recent news report from CBS:
Authorities say two North Carolina children said they saw the clown, and one adult reported hearing the clown. According to the two kids, the clown was wearing white overalls, white gloves, and red shoes and had red bushy hair, a white face, and a red nose, according to CBS affiliate WFMY. They told police he offered them treats like candy if they would come into the woods.
From the bolded text, sure sounds like a clown to me, and not just any old clown either, but THE clown we've all come to know as children and fear as adults. That's right, the irresistible Pennywise from Stephen King's classic "IT". While some are speculating this to be some kind of viral advertising for the upcoming reboot, reports of attempts to lure children away from their parents doesn't sound like the kind advertisement strategy a major motion picture studio would want to be involved with. More than likely, these clowns aren't playing any games. So if you see one, best just stay away and call the authorities.
You can read the original CBS article here - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/clown-sightings-reports-of-clowns-luring-kids-expand-into-second-state-south-carolina-north-carolina/


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The Environmental Protection Agency has threatened two of its own attorneys over a video they posted at YouTube which was highly critical of pending global warming legislation.
This wasn't the first time the agency came down on its own people for having views contrary to the Obama administration, for in March it suppressed an internal report which challenged the connection between rising temperatures and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Somewhat surprisingly, the New York Times reported this incident Tuesday (video embedded below the fold, h/t Hot Air):
The Environmental Protection Agency has directed two of its lawyers to makes changes to a YouTube video they posted that is critical of the Obama administration's climate change policy.
The agency, citing federal policies, told the two lawyers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, who are married and based in San Francisco, that they could mention their E.P.A. affiliation only once; must remove language specifying Mr. Zabel's expertise and their years of employment with the agency; and must remove an image of the agency's office in San Francisco.
They have been told that if they do not edit the video to comply with the policy, they could face disciplinary action.
This is the video in question:
The couple published an op-ed in the Washington Post in October outlining problems they see with the pending legislation:
Sounds a lot like what NewsBusters has been saying about carbon offsets for years, doesn't it?
Cap-and-trade means a declining "cap" on total emissions, while allowing trading of pollution permits. Confidence in the certainty of declining caps is based on the mistaken assumption that cap-and trade was proven in the EPA's acid rain program. [...]
What guarantees failure of the proposed climate bills, however, are their provisions for carbon offsets, a concept not used in the acid rain program. Both bills allow all required greenhouse-gas reductions for almost 20 years to be met with carbon offsets rather than actual reductions in use of the capped sources. Offsets -- considered indispensable to keeping cap-and-trade affordable -- are supposed to be "additional" reductions beyond what is legally required. But experience with offsets in Europe and California has shown that ensuring real "additionality" is not an achievable goal.
Suppose, for example, that a landowner is paid not to cut his forest so that it can continue capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Purchasing this offset allows owners of a coal-fired power plant to burn extra coal, above the cap.
But if the landowner wasn't planning to cut his forest, he just received a bonus for doing what he would have done anyway. Even if he was planning to cut his forest and doesn't, demand for wood isn't reduced. A different forest will be cut. Either way, there is no net reduction in production of greenhouse gases. The result of this carbon "offset" is not a decrease but an increase -- coal burning above the cap at the power plant.
The couple correctly concluded:
And, as the New York Times reported last week, assist Al Gore in becoming the world's first carbon billionaire.
Carbon offsets create the illusion of "additional" greenhouse-gas reductions, but we are just getting business as usual. Untrackable shifting of economic activity and perverse incentives such as these are inherent problems for carbon offsets and cannot be solved by certification or verification processes. Since the most flawed offsets will be the cheapest, they will also be the most popular.The House and Senate climate bills are not a first step in the right direction. They would give away valuable rights in cap-and-trade permits and create a trillion-dollar carbon-offsets market that will not lead to needed reductions.


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