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In other words, you're talking to wrong person, because i'm not Randy Orton, nor i pretend to be Randy Orton, i'm just his fan, that's it.
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Imaginary Theater: Music of Handel and Rameau
February 23, 2017
On Sunday February 26th at 3:00pm, the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments will present the next concert in its annual series with a performance by the early music ensemble, House of Time. Their program, titled "Imaginary Theater: Music of Handel and Rameau," consists of instrumental selections from the baroque opera stage.
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Friday, June 5, 2009
Gay community and government in uneasy compromise
Publicly scorned and officially illegal, Kenya's stigmatised homosexual groups have opened a Nairobi centre that is now driving behind-the-scenes action to change policy and attitudes towards gay rights and HIV/AIDS awareness.
With many Kenyan gays locked into cover-up marriages to hide their sexuality, secrecy itself has led directly to HIV infection in the home. The country's gay groups are now mobilising in an effort to stop this hidden spread.
Under the banner of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK), launched in May 2006, four independent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organisations are now engaging with Kenya's government to raise gay issues in an effort to counter the spread of AIDS that is being caused by the repression of homosexuality.
The largest of the four groups within GALCK is ISHTAR MSM, a community based organisation with around three hundred active members working on improving HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infection (STI) awareness in the gay community.
GALCK itself is now three years old, but it has only been in the last year that it has secured funding and a full-time centre with four paid members of staff.
The funding followed from the World Social Forum, held in Nairobi in January 2007, when Kenya's gay organisations "came out in large numbers" and gained public exposure, says David, the GALCK centre manager.
The centre, a large single floor open-plan office, is not openly advertised and is shrouded in secrecy. Although it has an informative website, GALCK does not publish its Nairobi address. David, who declined to give his full name and age, emphasised the importance of this secrecy as "a matter of life and death".
However, the secrecy of the GALCK centre location has not hidden its activities from the local police, who have been known to bear down hard on Kenya's homosexuals. "There is no point hiding it from them, but luckily they are always joking about it," says David.
The maximum sentence of 14 years imprisonment for gay sex in Kenya is rarely enforced.
However, the danger of public hostility is real. A 2005 poll in Kenya showed that 96% of respondents felt that homosexuality was an affront to their beliefs.
Along with religious intolerance, Daniel, a gay Kenyan in his late-30s working in the Media and PR industry, feels there is an overwhelming cultural stigma towards homosexuality. "I think African men are brought up with an over exaggerated focus on masculinity. This tends to mean that anything that would portray someone less of a man is frowned upon," he says.
There is no official census of the number of Kenyan gays, but numerous studies worldwide conclude that statistically one in 10 people are homosexual.
The mismatch between such statistics and public perceptions in Kenya is driving the gay community to be more organised in now raising what is sees as the real issues.
"We have played a close part with some sectors of the government," says David, naming the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and the National AIDS Control Council among others.
The groups argue there is also now some kind of tacit official acceptance of homosexuality in Kenya. In the past former president Daniel Arap Moi declared that "Kenya has no room for homosexuals and lesbians".
But David argues that current Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki would not publicly speak out against homosexuality.
Against this backdrop, the most driving issue for the lobbyists is reducing STIs.
David claims that many secretly gay Kenyans are often married with a straight wife, but also have a gay partner, increasing the chance of HIV/AIDs being transmitted and spread across the family.
Many men and women succumb to the social pressure of wedding into a straight union against their sexual inclinations and "are not happy and wish they could turn the clock back," says David.
"Even now younger people who should know better are going into it…it doesn't occur as an option not to get married."
The GALCK coalition is trying to combat the generalised idea that people can choose to be gay and are thus choosing a 'sinful' practice. This has been hard through the mainstream media.
"They focus mostly on the idea that all gays are effeminate, which is not true. This column I read last year in The Daily Nation says that homosexuality it is a disorder that results from rejection. Truly hilarious," says Haiku, a gay 21-year-old student.
Overall, progress is slow, says GALCK. "We are very much an ignored group, many organisations work with us from a distance," claims Maurice, a 23-year-old GALCK volunteer. "They don't want to get involved with us publicly."
Yet most believe that some progress is being made.
As part of its ongoing community work, the centre is now opening a part-time STI centre, visited by a resident doctor twice a week. The centre also offers space for member organisations, a library, HIV/AIDS counselling, computers with internet, as and a TV/Movie space.
"It is easier to be open here," says Mike, a 22-year-old gay student visiting the GALCK centre, as he says it is "very rare" for any Kenyan to be open about homosexuality in the outside world.
The internet has also opened up debate. Many of Kenya's outspoken gays have now taken to the blogosphere, helping to debunk the myths associated with homosexuality.
Yet, despite this openness on the internet, some bloggers still emphasise the risks of coming out publicly in Kenya.
"Many gay Kenyans are not open about their sexuality. I for one cannot be open even to my friends because of my profession and also due to the fact that my family's business interests may be threatened," says Tamaku, a 38-year old blogger, working in PR.
"Kenyans would be surprised to find that work colleagues, husbands, sons, fathers are gay. I have never been threatened but I understand the possibility of blackmail to be very real," he adds.
Unlike many gay Kenyans, Daniel, also a prolific blogger, is open about his sexuality to his family and believes that living as a homosexual in Nairobi has become easier in the past few years, but concedes that "there was a time when it was really hard".
"I was blackmailed eight years ago and that's the reason I came out to my family to avoid being in that situation again. Ten years ago, a friend of mine was set up by the police. Seeing that no Kenyan court will actually convict anyone for being gay, the threat of blackmail is very low today."
It does happen though, says Tamaku, who recalls an incident where two of his friends were arrested last year after embracing while dancing together in a bar along Tom Mboya Street in central Nairobi.
"The threatened charge was indecency in a public place but it turned out to be a ploy to extort money. They parted with Ksh10,000 in exchange for their freedom," he says.
Indeed, to some it seems that the main motive for repressing gay Kenyans revolves around money.
"They just want money…if you are an idiot they will suck your money faster than a straw," argues Haiku.
Yet in the current limbo over the government's stance and the courts' enforcement many younger Kenyans genuinely do not believe that homosexuality between men was outlawed.
Among the gay community, this greater tolerance among younger Kenyans has even fed hope that over the next decade liberties and rights for Kenya's homosexuals will change for the better.
"Kenyans are grasping the concept of universal rights as a result of their obsession with politics. If they are sincere in this pursuit then the battle against these discriminations will be shorter than some imagine," says Tamaku.
However, it will be an uphill struggle says Haiku. "If they are not tolerating it now what makes you think they will tolerate it in the future? There are a lot of misconceptions" and ingrained attitudes can be hard to change, he claims.
But there is a lot to be positive about says Maurice. "It is just a start, but now we have got a centre and maybe something else will happen."
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Good article. I am pleased to see the progress.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 6, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Suddenly blackmailing has become rampant in Kenya you have people in gaydar,gayromeo even in tagged and facebook you get guys to meet them in shady lodges and walla guys storm into the room and handcuff you and the partner and boy they get you to pay was recently swindled 60k then I discovered they were blackmailers.Had to change my phones but still waiting for their next moveReplyDelete
Hi Mama Shujaa,ReplyDelete
I'm privileged to publish Chris Kay's work on my blog.
Hi Anon,
So sorry to hear what happened. Of course blackmail thrives under conditions of fear and mistrust. Have you contacted GALCK? They may be able to offer practical assistance. Good luck fella.
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Well written article. Having spent some time in Kenya, and being 'forced' back into the closet (so to speak) I find this encouraging. That said, it will take an effort from goverment to change perceptions and attitudes. Even with SA's liberal constitution I still expereince bigotry sometimes, but it is getting better by the day!ReplyDelete
My heart is with your fight for equality!
Hey Billy,ReplyDelete
It's this effort from government that we are looking for. However ours lacks direction and focus even in far more pressing matters, god knows when the gay issue will even make the agenda. Meanwhile we continue to stick our heads above society's parapet. xx xxx
- firstname.lastname@example.com 25, 2009 at 12:57 PM
An exceptionally well researched piece of work. Kudos! I'm totally impressed by the content's voice of reason, interlect & lobbyism. Indeed, with all the wrangles, impunity & misdirection in govt. it's a wonder when the gay issue will ever make the agenda. Still, we're making baby steps & by gettin folks talking about homosexuality we'll open up society to gradually accept us.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 5, 2012 at 4:48 PM
How amazing! we now have gay africans! wow! great!ReplyDelete
I love sex with everything including my cat! thinking of a cow someday, i hear its owesome!!
i like sex with both men and women and yes i love singer parties!
am agnostic too!
Hey you, leave a comment but don't just be an asshole about it - try to be decent. That said you are welcome to heap abuse or ridicule if it makes you feel better. However in order to get published it must not be homophobic, racist or sexist. OK?


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Since 2007, Monterey Peninsula College Printmakers (MPC) have devoted the first Saturday in May to fine art printmaking. Ten years later, what began as a local event in the greater Monterey Bay Area of California has become a worldwide celebration of printmaking.
Yesterday (May 6) was this year's Print Day in May. Artists from 45 US states and 46 countries rolled out some ink and made prints wherever they were: home, studio, school or on the road.
Since art-making (for me) is a generally solitary endeavor, it's nice to have a virtual printmaking atelier at least once a year. I didn't get much done that was exciting, but here's the quick rundown:
|Reduction linocut in progress: Step 1 rollup
It's time to add another piece to the Underfoot series! After all the larger 18" x 18" squares I've been working on recently, this 12" x12" seems totally reasonable.
In addition to printing, I messed around with shooting some video with my phone/camera. This rollup image is a screen shot. Seems like I got the camera in the right place, eh?
|The big reveal of Step 1
Aaaaaaaannnnnd... the big first step reveal was completely anti-climactic, since it was just a very pale transparent ochre. Just enough to tone down the white of the paper.
|Step 1 printed
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Step 2 was much more fun. I took the remains of that transparent ochre and threw some nice yellow into it. Oooh... daffodil-ish!
Another dramatic reveal.... (Can you tell I worked into the evening? Natural light in the studio is now... not so natural.)
|Step 2 reveal
There's still not a lot to show for the work, but I've been focusing on an illustration project lately and it's been several weeks since I've had something other than single-color prints drying in the rack. My world just seems better when the rack is full.
I still have much work to do on the illustration commission, so it will be a bit of a dance in the studio to try to keep both things going simultaneously. Let's see how well I can keep up!
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Paris Hilton May Not Serve Full Sentence
Sometimes I wonder if I should create a BS category on this blog just
for stories like this. Is it even possible for this to be any kind of
surprize? Another celebrity type with a major rep and lots of money
manages to get out of serving the full time that folks like you and me
would NEVER have a chance of serving even one day less than the maximum
thrown at us by the judge.
I say she needs to be made to serve the full time. Yah, I know, the
jail is overcrowded, state policies, yada yada yada. I think one of
the reasons that people don't get as worried about jail time these days
is that there's so many ways to cut the time short so that very few
people actually serve all the time they were sentanced to. There's
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He wasn't so concerned with the poor bastard falling from the window (who, incidentally, looks like he's had a run in with Batman -- POW!).
It was the "reasonable insect" that got him. He was really incensed about it.
WH: What is an unreasonable insect? Is it judged by size? Or is judged by aggression? Either way, it seems like whatever they expect it to be, it can go through the metal screen.
WT: I guess so.
WH: And what is a reasonable insect? Is it reasonable because you can reason with it? "Sorry, we don't like your kind around here . . ." and they leave? Is it because they're cute and you don't mind them around your house? Whatever the reasonable one is, it seems like I don't mind having the reasonable insect around. It's the unreasonable insect that I don't want around, so what's the point of the screen?
WT: You're probably right.
WH: I can just see the cockroach sitting on the windowsill, looking in. What happens, I offer him a sugar cube and say, "I'm sorry, you're not welcome here. Please leave," and he says, in an Irish accent, "Righty-o!" and leaves? What's an unreasonable insect? He just gives you the finger and comes in anyway?
WT: The cockroach has an Irish accent?
WH: Sure, why not.
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WH: Are we living in the Amazon? Rude, ugly, dangerous, dirty . . . that's unreasonable? Seriously, let's look at this. When all those lawyers sit around in a confernece room to write the liability sticker, what did they think is a reasonable insect? I'm not joking now. Maybe they thought a ladybug is a reasonable insect, it's cute. Maybe a butterfly is a reasonable insect, it's pretty, you get happy when you see it. Now, same way, let's think about what they consider unreasaonable. Tarantula? A very large hissing Madagascar cockroach? Again, I want the unreasonable insects to stay out. If something can chew through the metal screen and come in, I guess it's a good thing the screen cannot stop a person jumping through, because I will jump out. They come in, I go out. In fact, what would be your reaction if you're sitting and enjoying a warm sunny day and all of the sudden you see an unidentified being sitting on your screen chewing the metal to come in? What would you do? You can see some hair, long antennae, but if it's up here [we live on the fourth floor] you know it can fly, because it's up here out of nowhere, and it can chew through metal. If lawyers came up with that warning, they must know something we don't know. It has to exist. I live in Washington, D.C., not the Amazon rainforest.He's got a point. Who writes these things? And what is it that they actually mean? They're sitting in a conference room somewhere that probably doesn't even have windows, coming up with this very poorly worded warning. It really isn't clear. Sure, we get it from the graphic that the screen won't keep a human in, but it might've been more helpful to have a graphic showing what exactly the screen might keep out. It must be clear to them, but not so clear to us. At any rate, I'm going to think twice before opening the windows from now on. I don't want to have to reason with any insects.


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As in the World's Greatest Farrier ... Jaime came out on Monday. It's been one day short of six weeks since the last time he did their feet. Here are Sydney's before shots. Click images to enlarge.
And here are the after shots. Not much change. Toes are shorter, and that weird bulge in the middle picture is almost gone, but otherwise they look pretty much the same.
Here are Speedy's before shots.
And here are his after shots. Speedy's toes look a lot shorter, and it looks as though Jaime used a different type of shoe. The new shoe looks wider and heavier. I'll have to ask him about it.
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I saw a similar recipe to this in a vegetable cookbook a while back and kept it in the back of my mind until I had the ingredients readily available. Avocados, and some BRILLIANT avocados at that, are now abundant in weekend markets and I bought a couple of kilos a week or so ago and let them ripen fully at home. I peeled and sliced an avocado and placed the slices in a shallow bowl, added some peeled and sectioned pink grapefruit, made a simple vinaigrette with the juice of the grapefruit remnants, some good olive oil, some salt and dressed the fruit. A light sprinkling of Piment d'Espelette and some coriander leaves and it was done…
While the combination may strike you, as it did me, as being rather unusual, it was refreshing, tasty and incredibly easy to make and eat. I don't think I would go out of my way to assemble this salad again, but I would make it if I happened to have everything within reach. This is all part of a personal campaign to eat more vegetables and fruit — and while I am successful in that quest, I have also been eating lots of everything else, hence my current state of blimp. :)
"…hence my current state of blimp" — that is TOO funny!
Mar 3, 2015 | 6:04 pm
A healthy , photogenic and unusual combination, but IMHO, not really a winning assembly:)
Mar 3, 2015 | 9:43 pm
I like avocado. Waiting for the day our avocado tree bears it's first fruit!
Mar 4, 2015 | 8:21 am
I love avocado. I hope to try this someday. :)
Mar 4, 2015 | 1:32 pm
I love avocados! It's now in season and. I always have them from my suki.
Mar 4, 2015 | 2:15 pm
There is a variant of this I really like – watermelon and avocado with some acid in the vinaigrette (lemon or lime), cilantro and lovely ground black or pink pepper.
Mar 4, 2015 | 11:59 pm
If you have JAmes McNAir's cookbook, MM, try the pasta with the uncooked avocado tomato relish. it is so refreshing, and excellent if I may say so. I make it every summer when it is scorching hot outside. The sauce is similar to pico de gallo sans the cilantro and sub basil leaves instead. For the acid, you can use red wine vinegar if you don't have balsamic. Add some toasted pine nuts. Be generous with the cubed avocado. I mash up some to add creaminess to the spaghetti and the rest all cubed. For the cheese, I have used torn burrAta and sometimes feta. For those in my neck of the woods looking for good burrAta, Cioffi's on Hstings has the best burrAta. Phone ahead first and ask if they have the burrAta flown in from Italy in stock.
Joey from 80 breakfast also has pasta with avocado sauce. Excellent as well!
Mar 7, 2015 | 1:16 am
Will do your recipe Ms. Betty.
Mar 8, 2015 | 2:52 am
Off Topic: Congratulations to your Sister (and indirectly to you too, MM) for winning the 2015 Dalemain Marmalade Awards again!!!
Mar 10, 2015 | 5:10 am
congratulations sister.
Mar 10, 2015 | 3:43 pm
Sister, congratulations!!
Mar 10, 2015 | 10:21 pm
Congratulations sister!
Mar 11, 2015 | 2:35 pm
wow, belated congrats to Sister!
Mar 22, 2015 | 11:27 pm
I love avocadoes! Not sure though if I want them with graperfruit! But the photos make them look apetizing so might as well give this combo a try. Thanks MM!
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The historic waters of Lake Champlain stretch 120 miles north to south along New York and Vermont, with almost 600 miles of pristine shoreline and 435 square miles of surface area carving through the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Green Mountains of Vermont, making it one of the largest lake in the U.S.
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'Survivor: Game Changers' Announced, Returning Castaways Revealed (VIDEO)
Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X just wrapped, but we're looking ahead at Season 34 with a brand-new season of returning castaways! But this could be the biggest returnee season yet!
Survivor: Game Changers will bring together some of the biggest game changers in the history of Survivor for another chance at the million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor. Naturally, the show will be returning to Fiji, in the Mamanuca Islands, and Jeff Probst even announced some of the names we'll be seeing this season, bringing them out in front of the live studio audience at the reunion. They include Tony Vlachos, Tai Trang, Michaela Bradshaw, Caleb Reynolds, Ciera Easton, Cirie Fields, Sandra Diaz-Twine, and Ozzy Lusth, just to name a few. For a list of other rumored returnees, get the details here. And check out the logo for the new season below:
What do you think of the new theme for Season 34? Sound off in the comments!
And for more Survivor news, relive the finale and find out who is the winner of Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X!


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This was the last leg of our Trans Mongolian journey. We traveled from Moscow to Irkutsk, Irkutsk to Ulaan Bataar and Ulaan Bataar to Beijing. The total journey crossed over six time zones and a distance of around 4,735 miles.
We started from the megacity of Moscow in Europe through cities in east Russia, Ural Mountains to the Siberian villages, steppe land of southern Siberia and northern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, northern China including the Great Wall on to Beijing.
Many are confused with Trans Mongolian and Trans Siberian Railways. The Trans Mongolian refers to trains that travel from Moscow to Beijing (westbound and eastbound). The Trans Siberian refers to trains that go from Moscow to Vladivostok Russia and the opposite direction. There's another not so popular route called Trans Manchuria traveling from Moscow to Manchuria.
Regardless of which route you are taking, all long distance trains travel from Moscow with a stop at Irkutsk and vice versa. To be precise whether you are going to Vladivostok or Beijing, the trains 'split' in Ulan Ude. So you can potentially take any train that travels between Moscow and Irkutsk and connect with an available train to either Ulaan Bataar or Vladivostok in Irkutsk. Unless you are not stopping in any city and your intention is to take the six-day journey from Moscow to Beijing. Or the entire trip from Moscow to Vladivostok without stopovers.
There are daily trains between Moscow and Irkutsk. Only one on Tuesdays (night) will take you from Moscow to Beijing without the need to change trains. Train 4 from Moscow to Beijing and train 3 from Beijing to Moscow.
We took train number 80 from Moscow to Irkutsk. Train number 80 was heading to Manchuria. That would be the train to take if you were not breaking your journey and heading to Manchuria. We had a two night stay in Listyanka and picked up another train, train number 362 from Irkutsk to Ulaan Bataar.
Daily trains are available westbound and eastbound between Irkutsk and Ulaan Bataar. There are only two trains per week between Ulaan Bataar and Beijing. This article is about the Ulaan Bataar and Beijing part of the journey.
For Moscow to Irkutsk please read Part 1
For Irkutsk to Ulaan Bataar please read Part 2
The train from Ulaan Bataar and Beijing
This time we were on a Mongolian train number 24 heading for Beijing China, where all train attendants were Mongolians. The set up for our four-berth second-class cabin was the same as the Russian trains but the windows were closed making it impossible to get fresh air from outside.
The Mongolian samovar (hot water) tank was different. It looked more like a water cooler except you get only hot water. Mongolian trains have one extra room with a sink for washing utensils located next to the attendants' cabin.
Our journey started at 7:15 am to the sound of music from a group of uniformed men and women on the platform next to the train. It looked like they were sending someone off. The majority of passengers in our car were Mongolians carrying boxes of instant noodles along with their bags of various sizes.
The scenery outside in Mongolia
Most of my photos didn't turn out good on this part of the journey. It was either raining or the sun was shining through and the reflection on the window made it difficult to have a good shot of the steppe land and yellow Gobi desert.
One of my favorite things about this part of the journey was to see how the train curved through the Gobi desert.
Prior to boarding the train our tour leader said we were going to have a great treat on this train because the Chinese dining cars are known to serve cheaper and tastier food. And he said the 'Chinese ladies' would go from car to car with their pushcarts filled with hot food.
We asked and waited and none of these 'Chinese ladies' came. Finally we walked to an empty dining car and realized it was a Mongolian train with Mongolian dining car and attendants. Breakfast per person was $14.88 (in US Dollars).
Thankfully, we had a few cup noodles purchased in Ulaan Bataar. We didn't check if they changed the dining car after crossing the border late in the evening.
Border crossing
By sunset we arrived at Erlian, the point of entry to China. Border crossing was relatively easy without the need to get out from the train. The uniformed officers came to the cabin and were not intimidating. Then the "ordeal" began as the train rolled into gauge-changing station – where we waited inside our cabin for almost five hours. And with the toilets locked. The wait was long but necessary and inconvenient for passengers who remained in the train and needed to use the toilet.
I watched as Chinese workers separated and raised each car. They removed each of the bogies and changed them to the Chinese bogies. Apparently the Russian bogies are bigger than those used in China. The only way for trains to travel between China, Mongolia and Russia is to go through this banging, shuffling and changing processes.
Welcome to China
Northern China's scenery was different from Mongolia. There were more greens, mountains, and fields with crops and trees.
Thoughts on the Trans Mongolian journey
Our 29 hour journey from Ulaan Bataar to Beijing came to an end at Beijing Railway Station at 11:40 am. The total journey on the Trans Mongolian was over 100 hours. Despite the long wait at the Russia/Mongolia and Mongolia/China borders, our Trans Mongolian journey was truly a successful trip and one that our family would laugh and share for many years. It's a story that would pass on to the next generation – somewhat a legacy my husband and I are leaving to our children.
Taking this trip was not easy. It required us to rearrange our initial around the world tour itinerary. Instead of spending more time in Europe we opted for a journey that took us through Europe and Asia.
We had to apply for Russian and Chinese tourist visas and coordinate the Russian visa application dates with the Chinese visa application because the Chinese visa expiration date starts on the day it is issued (I think this has recently changed). Our intention was to stay in China for two months. If the visa was valid for 90 days it would expire 90 days after application was approved.
Applying for Russian and Chinese visas were not simple. Both visas cost almost $1,500 for a family of four.
Would I recommend?
There is a reason why the Trans Mongolian and Trans Siberian journeys are known as one of the most "memorable journeys on earth" and one of the "last great travel adventures in the world!"
Personally, I had worked with a gentleman in Auckland New Zealand who was the authority of China and the Soviet Union travels in the late 1980s and right before the fall of communism and USSR. He told many stories of his journeys across the "closed" China and USSR. He also led two Trans Mongolian train journeys per year from Beijing to Moscow for adventure travelers from Australia and New Zealand.
After hearing all those stories from him and my clients, I made it my personal mission to take that journey. I had the privilege to drag my husband and kids along. Truly a great experience despite days of eating instant noodles and not showering.
I recommend this journey if it is at the top of your travel bucket list and you don't mind going through the process of getting the Russian and Chinese visas. Americans don't need to apply for a Mongolian visa. You may have to if you are not an American. Check with the Mongolian embassy. This trip is not for you if you like comfort and conveniences. Because you may not get that on the second-class Trans Siberian and Trans Mongolian trains. There is always an option to travel luxuriously and it usually costs around $15,000 per person not including airfare, pre and post travel arrangements.


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I'm walking to the bank and pass a couple of politically brainwashed college students who are trying to pass out LaRouche propaganda (Wikipedia | Public Eye).
"The economy is collapsing!" One of the neo-Nazi activists screams.
I have to stop, turn back and start something here. "And why is that a bad thing?" I look right into the face of the early-twenty-something-bimbo-wannabee-political-savior-revolutionary and raise my eyebrows for emphasis.
"What do you mean, why? If the economy collapses, the dollar will be worthless and everyone will be out of work and the banks will foreclose on everyone's homes and we will all relive the great depression! Haven't you been paying attention to the news?"
"When the news is not sensationalized, it's sometimes accurate. But listen. The economy is going to the crapper. I agree. But this is a great thing for people our age! We are so freaking lucky this is happening right now. This is the time to buy stocks in Intel, Apple, Google, solar power, wind power, wave power, public utilities, water companies, etc... these companies are worth billions and they are not going to vanish. This is a monetary low and it will get a bit lower but in twenty-thirty years when we retire, the stock we buy now will have bounced right back up. The houses we buy now will likewise be worth way more than they are selling for now. Your crazed armageddon prophecy isn't going to happen. It doesn't work that way. Do a little research before you join a cult."
I'm talking like lightning so the bitch can't squeeze in a word, so I take a quick deep breath and continue. "The economic trouble is only bad for people cashing out their retirement funds NOW. And, I agree, it sucks for them. But proselytizing neo-fascism is not going to solve their problem. Their problem is right now. Other than that, the economy is freaking awesome right now."
"You don't know what you are talking about. Lyndon LaRouche is the best economist in the WORLD! Read this!" She pushes a catalog of mind-blowing totalitarian drivel in my face.
"I'm not touching that. Have you actually read one of those? I have. It was total bullshit. He doesn't say a single meaningful sentence. It's like talking to a Scientologist on crystal meth. It's complete drivel."
"If you don't care about the world, then you can just keep walking." She looks at a guy in a business suit and offers him the 50-page newsletter. He waves his hand and keeps walking.
"No, no, I do care about the world, that's why I'm standing here, standing up to political de-evolution. This is very sad. I'm going to have to destroy your organization."
She instantly turns red and throws down her wares. Her eyes glow and, raising her hands in the air, she extends five-inch knives from her fingertips, hisses like a snake and swipes down at me.
"Ah! Fuck!" I'm not in my ninja suit but I can't just stand there. Action is required. I pop her in the jaw with a snap of my elbow . Her cohort is standing there stunned. He's younger, probably 16. He obviously didn't realize that biomechanical weaponry enhancements in the marketing slaves are part of the LaRouche campaign, a design of the perfect race to protect his totalitarian rule. The boy looks at me with wide, scared eyes, afraid I'm going to bash him in with a roundhouse kick. "Sorry kid, you're in the wrong circle of friends."
He runs away in tears.
The psycho bitch gets up off the floor and lunges at my legs. I leap into the air and she crashes into a downtown stock trader.
"Hey, watch it." He shouts at her, but he hits the ground hard. The police come around the corner just as I blend in with the crowd. "Officer, get this crazy girl off me!"
Thursday, September 18, 2008
LaRouche: SDN Takes a Bite out of Neo-Fascism
Labels: Ninja Rant
4 comments:
- cIII said...
Like i said before.
I feel safer knowing you're out There.
- September 18, 2008 at 7:07 AM
- Pam said...
ha ha i love this..i think the economy will go back up as well and people are prob panicking when they shouldn't. thanks for keeping us safe from the crazy bitches.
- September 18, 2008 at 8:19 AM
He obviously didn't realize that biomechanical weaponry enhancements in the marketing slaves are part of the LaRouche campaign
Lines like this are why I read this blog. And yeah, I'm pretty happy to be young right now. I just wish I had more money and less CC debt to capitalize on it better!
- September 18, 2008 at 8:27 AM
- Captain Dumbass said...
Nice work SDN. Purveyors of doom need to be educated in what real doom is.
- September 18, 2008 at 1:23 PM
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You may choose to like it hate it, but you cannot ignore the need for dressing right. Be it you're a regular Monday where you need to go to your office, or a Friday night, where you are all set to hit the bar at a party. When they say, the first impression is the last one, don't you think your attire plays a very vital role in making or breaking that first impression?
There are a lot of combinations that one can make from these sexy and stylish outfits for teen girls. Trust me, tight dresses look really amazing when carried off perfectly. There are tons of models and Sexy Girls In Tight Dresses who are true role models for sexy women in dresses. The trick here is to pair it up with matching accessories and footwear and you are all set. Your hair can play an important role too.
And guess what the best about women fashion is – we are experts in being able to carry off all kinds of dresses and attires in utmost elegance! While for those lazy Saturdays, we would love to slip into those loose sweatshirts and pajamas, our preferences for the date nights are completely different.
So, if you are in that niche who loves to flaunt the best parts of your body through tight dresses, then you are just at the right place. Sexy Girls In Tight Dresses look extremely stylish as they seem to be carrying a lot of latest trends on their shoulders. Wondering why? Because, tight dresses have been on the trend list for a long time, and it does not seem to be fading at all. You can also try these 40 Short Hairstyles For Fine And Thin Hair.
Here is a quick sneak peek at the hemline patterns that you could choose to shop if you want to fall into the category of Sexy Girls In Tight Dresses.
Pencil Fit Hemline:
These hemlines are suggested if your lower body is slimmer than the rest of the body. Sexy Girls In Tight Dresses prefer this when they wish to flaunt their thighs.
Hip Pleat:
While the overall dress is going to be a perfect fit for your body, the hip pleat hemline gives you a look of the skirt in the dress. Amazed right? Well, that's the beauty of hip pleat because it makes you quite comfortable in the dress.
The Wrap around Hemline:
This is my favorite hemline type. If you are craving for something unique yet the dress look does not want to be compromised, then this wrap around hemline is your ultimate go-to for sexy tight dresses.
Sarong Hemline:
Looking for some ethnic touch to your outfit? This sarong hemline patterned dress is going to help you get that look. It has a slight slit in the front part of your dress, which brings in a folkloric yet stylish look.
Our Recommendation:
Based on the hemline, you can opt for different colors. It has been observed that Sexy Girls In Tight dresses prefer to slip into some dark colors like red, royal blue, black or brown. Again, the color highly depends on hemline too. For instance, black will look elegantly sexy in a pencil fit hemline pattern.
The Ideal Length For Girls In Tight Dresses
Now that you know what hemline to select for your tight dress, next comes the other important aspect to have your eyes and mind on – the length of the dress. Yes! It does make a lot of difference to your dress.
Mini Dress:
Ain't this the cutest length of any dress? Well, for tight dresses this looks really sexy. Girls in tight dresses refer this length when they are extremely confident of their lower body. The best part about this length in the dress is that you can experiment with your footwear. You can pair this up with high pumps or boots and you are definitely adding up to the style quotient of this dress.
Knee Length:
This length should be the choice for all those women who are at least 5 feet 2 inches tall. A knee length dress usually has a length of 35 inches which looks just perfect for not so short women. To raise the style bar of this type of dress, why not go bold with your footwear? Like if you are opting for a light colored dress, go dark on the footwear.
The Dazzling Floor Length:
This is the ultimate length to choose from all those gala events. This type of length is recommended for all those women who wish to wear a tight dress, but do not want to show a lot of their legs. Since this dress will cover most of your body, you can play around with the back of this dress. Select sexy backs in this length.
Fashion Spoiler Alert:
For floor lengths, we would suggest you to always slip into some really sexy backless dresses. They highlight some really good features of your body, without making you feel uncomfortable about it. Here we find some of the best Long Bob Hairstyles for you to try on and kill some people with your looks and make some people green with envy.
Expert advice:
The same length of the dress does not suit everybody. What may suit your friend, may not look so very good on you. Your personality and your height should be an important criterion for Sexy Girls In Tight Dresses that you must keep in mind while selecting the length of your tight dress…Here we have also put together a list of new and desirable hairstyles for girls.


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"I think I am eating healthy. I also walk 2 times a week. I go to the gym and use the treadmill. I attend one zumba class per week. Then why am I not losing weight?!"
Are you someone who relates to the above? Then it is time to find out what may be going wrong with your lifestyle and re-invent the very way you think about food, exercise and stress management. The following mistakes are very costly:
- You are used to eating without attention to nutrition requirements and giving in to temptations when it comes to sweet and salty food, fatty food, and food that should not be consumed on a daily basis.
– frequent eating out
– unaware eating at work place
– not packing food from home for lunch
– not having enough time to cook wholesome meals
– grocery shopping on an empty stomach
– the fridge devoid of ready-to-eat-food when you need it the most; when you are HUNGRY!
– not meeting protein requirements for the body
– believing that "if I eat right, I do not need to exercise!"
- You are exercising sporadically, when you feel you have time!
– exercising 1-2 days a week
– simply working on the external big muscle groups and forgetting that the internal organs and glands that need nurturing with yoga
– thinking that just treadmill, hiking, biking and jogging will do what is needed for the body
– believing that "if I exercise I can eat whatever I want!"
- You are always stressed, overwhelmed, and impatient!
– You are stressed with duties and responsibilities around home and work place.
– You have succeeded in demoralizing yourself and quit on health even before taking any action about it.
– You have forgotten how many years it took you to get to the state you are in currently and are impatient to lose all the extra weight immediately.
It is time you started really taking care of yourself. It is time to understand that it will not happen overnight, but success is inevitable if you follow expert guidance from someone who believes in you and your success, someone who has done it herself, someone who has helped hundreds of others in a similar situation.
All it takes is:
- Desire to become healthy
- A powerful intention of making it happen for yourself
- Commitment and Discipline in yourself
- Faith in the self
- Trust in your Coach
At Wellness Haven we are ready for you and to ensure that you learn and experience a healthy lifestyle. We help women who want to be helped.


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We begin with Carrie and her motor-mouthed friend Susan on the eve or two of Carrie's birthday. While oohing and aahing over cashmere that Carrie plans to exchange to pay the rent, Susan's jerk of a husband kicks out Carrie and this spurs the tough spot many singles face: giving their opinion on someone else's relationship.
The girls empathize with Carrie, and we also learn that Samantha is still pretending with James and Miranda is dating a guy who likes dirty sex talk. "Sex is not a time to chat" and I agree. A couple comments are fine here and there, but life is not a porno, and porno is not an accurate portrayal of life. There's no need for commentary like we are on TV or something. But even Samantha is shocked when Charlotte admits to some sexual cheerleading using certain expletives.
This leads into Carrie's theme du jour: are there things we shouldn't say? It also shows us our last interview montage. These were fun at first, got a bit campy later on, and we will no longer see them again. This one is a decent farewell, however, and the segue is great as Susan tells the camera/Carrie that she left her dicky husband Richard, and the practically adores Carrie for telling her the awful truth.
Truth is something that Samantha is avoiding, as well as sex with James, and he suggests couples' therapy for them, hoping that she will speak up on the their problems.
Speaking of speaking up Miranda finally tests the sexy chit chat waters with some monosyllabic responses to her man's verbose comments. She eventually warms up to some more expressive language with makes the guy feel even hotter.
Carrie and her squatter Susan spend some time with Charlotte and her new dog. She's decided to replace men with a pet dog, hoping she can manipulate him more easily. The next day Carrie wakes up to a birthday surprise in the form of flowers at her door. She immediately calls an emergency session with the girls.
Charlotte comes up with something out of her big book of relationship bullshit called "the grand gesture". Apparently, Big may want to get back with Carrie, and this is his first attempt. She has to leave, though, because her new pet is being uncooperative.
Carrie takes the opportunity to call Big and thank him for the flowers. Turns out it was kind of a mix up, and that his secretary already had the flowers pre-ordered, and they were more or less sent automatically. Carrie, embarassed, worsens her shame by inviting him out to her birthday soiree. Big says he'd love to and that he's bringing someone. Uh oh.
Samantha and James are about to finish up their first and fruitless session with the couples' therapist. Fearing further torture in this way, Samantha finally comes clean and calls out James' tiny penis and the source of her unhappiness.
Yeah, it's a bitchy thing to do. James can't help it. It is a brave thing to do, though. Samantha isn't doing James a favor by staying with him unhappily. There's probably a woman out there who won't mind a tiny package, and James will be happier with her than he will with Samantha.
Think what you want, but Samantha did the best thing she could have. Sometimes you have to suck it up (even if there's not that much to suck) and be the "big" person and tell they truth of the matter.
Besides, even the therapist likes 'em big.
Miranda is also feeling liberated by speech. Dirty speech. Unfortunately mentioning the awful truth her man loves to be fingered violates his sacred heterosexuality and they split up. Miranda mentions this at Carrie's b-day dinner where Big shows up with his "date", his asshole friend Jack. Susan puts the moves on him, is rebuffed, and realizes that she misses her abusive husband. Carrie watches Moroccan women dance in Big's face while suffering jibes from her friends about why she invited him.
Some women can't let go of their exes.
As Charlotte returns home, her dog has successfully managed to shit on her life just like any real guy would, and so she promptly gets rid of the dog. He winds up with Susan and helps bring her and her husband back together. Happy ending?
Carrie ends on a mysterious ending after Big walks her home. They don't kiss or anything, but Carrie must face an awful truth of her own: she's not over Mr. Big.
While I like the theme of this episode, and it's well implemented one too, the plot falters in some places. The whole dog story with Charlotte is a bit too silly and doesn't really go anywhere except to provide a meaningless ending to Susan Sheridan's brief estrangement from her husband. It's not the last we see of her, but her marriage's fate is never mentioned again anyway so what does it matter.
Still, it was good to see some plots from last season conclude or return, and from here on out silly-ness drops away (mostly) while we get more deeply involved with the girls' lives instead of being constantly reminded that we are watching shock-comedy on HBO.


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Kat Fulton, MM, MT-BC, NICU MT, is the founder of Sound Health Music and curator of Music Therapy Ed, a site dedicated to online continuing education for music therapists.
Kat is a speaker and Board Certified Music Therapist whose passion is achieving therapeutic goals through making music. Simply put, her motto is Be well, feel good, and make MUSIC. With a Masters in Music Therapy from The Florida State University (headquarters for the National Institute for Infant and Child Medical Music Therapy), she holds high standards for scientific research and maintains a practice infused with the latest evidence-based techniques and strategies.


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Overnight stay at the Duisitzkarsee
Basic places to stay
Regular and long-range hikers who'd like to enjoy an overnight stay at the Duisitzkarsee find 15 basic places to sleep at the Duisitzkarseehütte: a five-person room and the ten-person cabin camp. Fill your tanks for the next stage of your hike with a breakfast at your accommodation at the Duisitzkarsee in Rohrmoos / Schladming.
Overnight prices of the alpine hut near Schladming
Adults: € 14 per night and per person
Children: € 10 per night and per person
Abelhof guests can also spend the night on the alpine pasture of the Abelhof at the Duisitzkarsee directly next to our hut. Find further information at www.abelhof.at
Suggestions for planning your overnight stay on the alp
You don't need to bring a sleeping bag as there are plenty of blankets available on site. We recommend bringing a flashlight and a hut sleeping bag. In other to ensure substantial relaxation time for a tour on the next day, we have lights out at 10 pm. Please take into account that the Duisitzkarseehütte is not equipped with warm water or a shower
Please make a reservation for a place to sleep during your hike with overnight stay via phone
Overnight stay ist possible from 3rd June to 24th September.


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