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Slaid Cleaves has a name that perfectly matches his music and voice. It's terse, doesn't have soft vowels, and is more verb than noun. He has a gift for writing incisive lyrics where every word counts. No frills, no fill, no fat. Just great stories delivered with a master poet's precision and the conviction of a tent preacher. As to the details of Slaid's own story, he sums it up with inimitable brevity: "Grew up in Maine. Lives in Texas. Writes songs. Makes Records. Travels around. Tries to be good." Granted, there's a whole lot of history and detail that could be shoehorned into that most minimal of bios. Cleaves majored in English and philosophy at Tufts University in his native New England; learned guitar listening to the likes of Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Hank Williams, and Carl Perkins; spent a summer in Ireland busking on the streets in Cork where he decided to have a go at the music life. That life began with playing bars in Maine, but Slaid soon made his way to music-loving Austin. In 1992 he won the Kerrville Folk Festival's New Folk competition, joining the company of previous winners Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, and Steve Earle. He released his first album No Angel Knows in 1996, with a follow-up album Brokedown in 2000—which The Austin Chronicle called "the first great Texas album of the 21st century." In 2004, Slaid offered up the critically acclaimed Wishbone, followed by Unsung, Everything You Love Will be Taken Away, and his latest, Still Fighting the War. All that living, writing songs, making records, traveling around and trying to be good has, par for his course, made Slaid Cleaves even better.
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Take-away: "In essence, plant patent laws created the industrial food system that the modern food movement rightly decries." From Slate:
Genetically Monetized Food
If the food movement really wants to improve the food supply, it needs to follow the money instead of wasting its time on labels.
By Frederick Kaufman|Posted Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, at 9:50 AM ETOver the past several years I have spent a great deal of time in high-security, limited-access genetic modification laboratories. While researching my latest book, I peered at glow-in-the-dark grapes (their seeds spiked with jellyfish genes), inspected attempts to create square tomatoes (a yet-to-be-decoded DNA sequence may dictate the shape of all fruit), and marveled at rice plants engineered to be immune to Asia's deadliest rice blight. None of the GMO cornucopia I ogled is commercially available—yet. But even if these laboratory specimens never make it to the shelves, about 70 percent of processed foods in U.S. supermarkets already contain genetically modified ingredients.
Should you be concerned about the healthfulness of such foods? This question monopolized a good deal of the recent diatribes deployed in the lead-up to last month's vote on California's Proposition 37, which would have mandated labeling on GM foods.
But this is the wrong question.
Here's why: GM foods' effect on health is uncertain, but their effect on farmers, scientists, and the marketplace is clear. Some GM foods may be healthy, others not; every genetic modification is different. But every GM food becomes dangerous—not to health, but to society—when it can be patented. Right now, the driving force behind the development of new genetic crop modifications is the fact that they possess the potential to be enormously profitable, and the source of those potential profits is a seemingly innocuous bit of legal code:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor.
That's the gist of early American patent law (originally with the word art in place of the wordprocess)—and the reason why molecular biologists are spiking grapes with jellyfish genes and pulling all-nighters in pursuit of the square tomato. Originally, patent law applied only to nonedible inventions, but since the Plant Patent Act of 1930 was passed, genetically altered food has been subject to intellectual property protection, and the creation of new foods has become a reliable way to ensure profit streams for whoever patented them first. In 1930, genetically modified food meant apples grafted from one tree onto another, but 40 years later the statute was extended beyond the fruits of grafted saplings to plants that grow from seeds, like corn. "Utility patent" protection came later, in 1985, and expanded intellectual property rights to methods of engineering a plant, including genetic sequences inserted into a species's genome.
The impact of these laws has been enormous. In essence, plant patent laws created the industrial food system that the modern food movement rightly decries.
Monsanto, the most reviled agricultural corporation in the world, has committed manifold ethical sins that have been widely reported in foodie media. What isn't widely reported is that plant patent laws are the legal framework that enables these sins. It was utility patent protection that opened the door for Monsanto's present-day global seed and insecticide portfolio, including rights to its infamous "terminator" or "suicide seed" technology (which effectively sterilizes second-generation plants and makes it not only futile but a legal violation for farmers to gather seeds for next year's crop). Monsanto has prosecuted farmers who discover GM corn or soy sprouts growing on their land after the wind carries seeds over from neighbors' GM fields. The basis for such ridiculous lawsuits? Plant patent laws: These farmers are inadvertently violating Monsanto's intellectual property rights. Worst of all, Monsanto has deviously developed an insecticide technology (specifically, a weed-killer known as "Roundup," discovered and patented by a Monsanto chemist in 1970) that works best when applied to the corporation's patented GM seeds. Patent laws, in essence, have allowed the corporation to establish a vertical monopoly—if you want Monsanto's high-yielding Roundup Ready seeds, you'll need Monsanto's Roundup insecticide; and if you buy Roundup insecticide, you'll need Roundup Ready seeds. (Since large-scale corn and soybean farmers want the highest yields they can get, they tend to go ahead and buy both.)
The sum total effect of these actions on the global food system has been overwhelmingly negative.


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A bowl of this red bean soup is exactly what your body needs in cold weather. It's healthy, fast and easy to make. Once you try it you will love it!
This soup is nothing like the sweet Asian soup you might know.
First of all, this is not a sweet soup.
It has an amazing taste thanks to caraway seeds & fresh parsley (and of course the beans!). Do you use caraway seeds in cooking? Do you know them?
They look like cumin seeds but their taste is totally different. I use them a lot. They can be added to bread before baking, to stews, soups or mixed with boiled potatoes & butter.
Now because January is a pretty cold month in many countries around the world, we tend to make soups a lot. Or well, at least I do! I simply love a good hot soup that heats up my body when the temperatures are quite low. I like to make this Healthy Carrot Soup, French Onion Soup or Easy Creamy Zucchini Soup.
However, lately our favorite one has become this red bean soup recipe! It ticks all the boxes: it's healthy, fast, easy and tasty. What else could you ask for?
Follow a few simple steps and you will be rewarded with a bowl of deliciousness. If you are looking for healthy diet soup recipes, this one is a perfect choice for you! There is no cream used and sour cream can be totally omitted as well. I used it for decoration only.
Red bean soup recipe break down:
Sautéing + Cooking + Puréeing. That is literally it!
The prep only takes about 5 minutes and the cooking might take less. This will depend on how fast you can bring the soup to a boil.
Puréeing: Now my blender is not powerful at all so my soup did not turn out as smooth as I wanted. I wished I had Vitamix or other powerful blender to see the difference! Well, maybe one day… By the way, it's not that it will change the taste of this soup. Just its texture! That's all.
Anyways, what about you? Do you have a good powerful blender? If you do and if you ever make this soup, send me a photo, I would love to see what magic those machines can do!
So because the beans are cooked, all you need to do is sauté the onion + garlic. Once this has been done, throw in red beans and pour the vegetable stock in.
Bring to a boil and simmer for a while. Puree it, taste it, season it (if you find it bland) and garnish with a dollop of sour cream (optional).
Good to know when making this healthy red bean soup:
- I did not use any salt whatsoever. I suggest you taste the soup after it has been pureed and see if it needs any seasoning.
- This soup will also taste delicious using half of the beans that I used. However it will be quite thin.
- Instead of vegetable stock you can use the same amount of water with bouillon.
- I used cooked beans as I didn't want to wait too long for it to cook. If you prefer using dried red beans then you can, however, I am not sure how much you will need to use. I haven't tested it with dried bean yet.
- You can also mix in the sour cream (at the very end. After you have pureed the beans), it also tastes amazing (tried it and loved it as well).
- You can also save some of the beans for later and add them after the soup has been pureed.
Is this soup suitable for vegetarians and vegans?
Yes and yes! It is an easy vegetarian soup and if you omit the sour cream it will be perfect for vegans as well!
Check out my other vegetarian soup recipes:
20-Minute Red Bean Soup
- 4 cups Vegetable Stock (1quart/1l)
- 1.8 lb Red Beans , cooked (800g)
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 medium Onion
- A Handful of Fresh Parsley , washed
- ½ tsp Caraway Seeds
- Sour Cream for garnish
- Heat the oil in a large pot. Add finely diced onion and sauté until translucent (low – medium heat). Now add chopped garlic and caraway seeds. Sauté for a minute before adding drained beans.
- Pour in the stock, add parsley and bring it to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Puree it until smooth.
- Serve warm with a few slices of bread and sour cream (optional).
- Enjoy!


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It's rare that any publication about Indigenous matters generates as much buzz as Andrew Stojanovski's Dog Ear Cafe: how the Mt Theo Program beat the curse of petrol sniffing (Hybrid Publishers, 2010) has in the scant weeks since its publication. Maybe it's a commonplace for others these days, but this is the first book I've spent time with on Facebook. (Lots of great pictures, links to other reviews, and news stories to be found there.) It's even rarer for all this media hype to be entirely justified.
Like Rod Moss's The Hard Light of Day, this is a story of Central Australia set mostly in the last decade of the twentieth century that nonetheless has startling relevance to the news of the moment. Stojanovski went to Yuendumu to serve as a school liaison officer after studying for a degree in anthropology. At first he tried to help the kids in town by running a variety of activities, including the local disco, that offered them the opportunity to socialize and dispelled the threat of boredom that often got them in trouble with the law. But he soon learned that crimes and misdemeanors were nowhere near as threatening to the community's well-being as petrol-sniffing was. The violence that sniffing brought to Yuendumu was the external mirror of the violence that was being done to the brains and bodies of the teenagers who found addictive relief from their ennui in its fumes. And Stojanovski became one of the prime movers in the quest to eradicate the problem.
As he tells it, the real heroes of the story are a pair of elders, Peggy Nampijinpa Brown and Johnny Hooker Creek (Johnny Japangardi Miller), who took it upon themselves to take the incredible risk of bringing children who had been discovered sniffing to the Mt Theo Outstation on Peggy's country about ninety kilometers northwest of Yuendumu. It might seem like such a simple plan to an outsider: remove the kids from the locus of temptation and keep their young bodies active and engaged with bush life.
But as Stojanovski's narrative makes clear, it was anything but an easy plan to put into practice. The kids themselves didn't want to be taken out bush away from their friends and their families. Nor did the families always desire to enforce such discipline on their unwilling and loudly protesting kids. Feeding such a mob wasn't a simple proposition once they got them out there: Peggy and Hooker Creek might be skilled in bushtrade, but the kids themselves certainly weren't, so food needed to be purchased, or begged, and carried out to the camp. Vehicles to transport supplies as well as people often had to be borrowed from other organizations in Yuendumu and jealousies over the use of these precious resources often ran high. (Not to mention that a vehicle arrived at Mt Theo carrying its own supply of the problem: enough petrol to make the return trip to Yuendumu.)
But perhaps the greatest act of courage lay in simply taking responsibility for an unruly and reckless mob of teenagers. The distance to be traveled back to town didn't always stop the youngsters from trying to run away and risk being lost or hurt out in the desert. And if any one of the kids were injured, the full responsibility, including the very real possibility of payback, would have fallen on the organizers. One of the more harrowing moments in the story occurs when, early on, Stojanovski takes a high-spirited bunch out for a swim at a distant waterhole and has an accident: he's blamed for risking harm to the child and for inappropriate use of a government vehicle and suffers a period of intense fear and recrimination on both counts, despite his best intentions.
Indeed, it often seems that there are no rewards to be had for these extended, herculean labors. Stojanovski's family suffers for his idealism, government officials squabble over pittances, internal Aboriginal politics threaten to collapse the fragile structure of relief over and over again. Recidivism is always only one night in Yuendumu away from undoing weeks and months of hard work. At times it seems that the only thing that keeps Peggy, Johnny, and Andrew going is their own determination to keep going: they simply will not quit until they've eradicated sniffing. The goal becomes its own reward. Even though the trio were ultimately awarded the Order of Australia for their services and the program became recognized as a model for community intervention across the country, the only thing that truly matters to them throughout is keeping the kids clean and healthy.
Eventually their efforts do become self-reinforcing as some of the kids take on the fight themselves. Jaru Pirrjjirdi (Strong Voices) grew up to be a mentoring program in which former sniffers themselves organized a variety of cultural activities, including the new arts of film-making and music production alongside painting and hunting and sports, that offered diversion to new sniffers while providing meaning and direction to those who had reformed themselves.
In a nutshell, this is the story of Dog Ear Cafe; but the story is only half the story, so to speak. A great deal of the appeal of this memoir lies in Stojanovski's voice. Although he and his allies encounter much opposition and red tape and must battle community politics, Stojanovski names names at each step of the battle and never sounds petulant. In this respect, his account of travails in Yuendumu stands in stark opposition to the tone of Chris Raynal's Yuendumu: betrayal of black rights (Blue Water Publishing, 1990), which chronicles affairs in the town just a few years before Stojanovski's arrival there. Both men share a passion for their cause, and the welfare of the Indigenous population; both are equally convinced of the righteousness and justice of what they are fighting for. But Stojanovski's voice is one of dogged determination: there is nothing that will prevent him from stamping out the scourge of sniffing and every setback only redoubles his conviction and his ingenuity.
Like many memoirists, Stojanovski gives life to his story by reconstructing bits of dialogue that must have occurred a decade or more before he committed them to paper. But since his narrative style overall is conversational, these minor inventions slip noiselessly into the story and do much to give the reader the feel of being there, fireside, in the troopie, or stalking through the bush. He has an apt way with metaphor when he needs it as well. In conversations with Hooker Creek, he remembers talking about the two of them being tightrope walkers, each starting out from their respective sides of the cultural chasm in an attempt to meet the other halfway across. Their compatriots, white and black, stand behind them on the rim of the abyss and are sometimes given to shaking the tightrope in an attempt to make the two men falter and fall.
The struggle takes a toll on family relations as well. Stojanovski's wife goes back to Canberra, and Stojanovski himself has to retreat, assess, and battle with his conscience about where he rightfully belongs. On the Warlpiri side, Peggy Nampijinpa Brown has to make an equally if not more difficult decision when her husband, Old Japangardi, dies. By law, she ought to abandon the Mt Theo Outstation for the proscribed period of sorry business, but she decides, with community support, that to do so would endanger the welfare of too many youngsters. She shoulders on despite the taboos.
Dog Ear Cafe is a wonderful (literally) chronicle of a crusade. After over a decade's work to establish the program at Mt Theo, Stojanovski himself moved on, turning his time over to raising his daughters in rural NSW–and writing this book. An afterward by Brett Badger brings the story up to date, and a slew of useful appendices includes a list the people who appear in the story and the relations among the them, an elementary, brief Warlpiri glossary, a list of place names, and a bibliography of further reading.
Another appendix provides a short description of "the mechanics of the Mt Theo petrol sniffing prevention program." If you wants more information on the current state of operations, check out the Mt Theo Program website. There's news about the Mt Theo mechanics program (more bush mechanics!) and an update on the Yuendumu swimming pool, plus posters, biographies, and a blogroll of Yuendumu-related sites ranging from PAW Media (formerly Warlpiri Media Assocation) and Warlukurlangu Artists to the Yuendumu Magpies.
The Sydney Morning Herald called Dog Ear Cafe "a story of hope from Aboriginal Australia." The excerpt they published shows how harrowing the battle could be at times. That much of this battle occurred under the Coalition and CLP governments makes it all the more amazing and inspiring: it shows what collective grit can accomplish in the face of indifference. It's not too late, never too late, to be inspired.


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You won't even need to get out of your pajamas on May 14 to help others. While you sit at the table sipping some fair trade coffee and perhaps eating some coffee cake made with fair trade sugar, your postal carrier will collect the bag of food that you've left to be donated to your local food bank. Sweet, right?
Stamp Out Hunger is a campaign sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers. On May 14, you can place nonperishable food items in a bag and leave them by your mailbox. You mail carrier will make sure it gets delivered to local food banks and pantries. The food will help the more than 50 million Americans who are at risk of hunger.
You can keep up with Stamp Out Hunger on Facebook before and after the day to find out what's going on with the drive.
World Fair Trade Day is on the same day. It's a global Fair Trade Festival that happens on the second Saturday of May each year. Anyone anywhere in the world can create an event that promotes fair trade and the events are published on the World Fair Trade Day website.
You can join one of these events, or you can create you own little festival right in your kitchen with fair trade coffee or tea for breakfast and baked goods made with fair trade ingredients. You might even want to bake a little extra something and Bake it Forward (when you give someone baked goods made with fair trade ingredients).
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text: GET enterprising For many students at UCB, their future career pathway will mean becoming self-employed or managing a portfolio career where you mix together different jobs whether they are permanent part time positions or a series of short term contracts. Many students will dream of setting up their own business and being their own boss. And many dream of being a social entrepreneur by making a difference in their own community or impacting on communities near or far. All of these students need to GET Enterprising so that they identify and develop skills such as: creativity and innovation confidence and energy decisiveness and (calculated) risk-taking communication and networking skills. The Business School at UCB, working in partnership with other universities through the ERDF funded BSeen project provides practical help for students to develop entrepreneurial skills and put their enterprising ideas into practice. They can help you to: nurture your business ideas build the confidence to take the next steps develop the skills needed to be enterprising get advice on accessing funding, premises or specialist support find a business mentor to help you The Enterprise Hive based in the hired@UCB suite on the 7th floor of Summer Row provides an invaluable resource for budding entrepreneurs, looking to build their new business, whilst networking with other students and developing the skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur. For more information on the Enterprise Hive, the BSeen project or the support for budding entrepreneurs that the Business School can provide, contact Nethan Punj, email@example.com or Joe Margetts, firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit the Enterprise Hive, Room 02, Hired, 7th floor, Summer Row. hired@UCB GET started GET skilled GET experience GET hired GET enterprising GET on Request a Prospectus Meet the hired@UCB team Tweets by @UCBhired


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SWMBIA Home Expo A Family Affair.
Get out of the house! The weather has finally turned and all those home improvements you've been waiting to do till spring, well they need to get done. And hey it's a FREE event!
The SWMBIA Home Expo is a great event that is only getting bigger and better every year. The Home Expo is sold out to vendors this year! Which means lots of business' for you to see.
This year they are teaching DIY classes to show homeowners how to fix up their homes. And my personal favorite the playhouses on parade! Bring the kids out and let them play. They also have a junior carpenters area where you can let the kids build their own project.
Mark Allen Will be there broadcasting live from 11-1 as well! See you there!


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Introducing one of the finest remodeled homes in the Historic District of downtown Annapolis, Maryland. This circa 1845 treasure was impeccably updated and restored by renowned Annapolis builder John Pilli. Period details of this home blend perfectly with modern updates. This pristine renovation offers four bedrooms, four en suite bathrooms, one half bath, 4,544 (price/sq: 437.94) total finished square feet of living space over 3 levels, and off-street parking for 2 cars.
As you enter the residence through an inviting foyer, discover high ceilings and envision hosting your guests in multiple open sun filled rooms. The first floor consists of an open living to dining room area, sitting area with wet bar, tray ceiling/lighting feature, kitchen with island seating and rear den/office. Prepare culinary delights in the chef's kitchen with a stainless steel Wolf range, Sub Zero refrigerator, dishwasher, perfectly blended granite countertops, and neutral cabinetry. Take notice of the beautiful stained glass window overtop the farm sink and the perfectly matched fixtures. Post dinner, cozy up next to one of 3 gas fireplaces or find peace in the study/office directly off the kitchen. The stairs are custom lined with beautiful sisal runners. The upper levels consist of three spacious bedrooms and the master suite. Get the spa like experience in the master bath by either unwinding in the walk-in marble shower or soaking and relaxing in the clawfoot tub. The master suite offers a large walk in closet. The basement is also finished with a bedroom and full bathroom, ideal for out of town guests. In addition,you will find a temperature control wine cellar to store your favorite vintages. Intricate details round out this perfect dwelling. The interior design was thoroughly executed by Deborah Houston Interiors. Texture runs throughout showcasing elegant wall coverings, exquisite window treatments, custom carpeting on the upper level bedrooms, and a combination of new and restored original hardwood floors. In this house, it is not necessary to travel to the laundry room because there are 2! One situated on the second level and one in the basement level for your convenience. Exterior features include a NEW copper roof/gutters and maintained cedar shake siding. 4 zone cooling/heating, ceiling fans, and an extensive security system.
Located one block off Main Street, either sit back with coffee and enjoy a quaint patio area with lush grounds and professional landscaping, or conveniently walk to the yacht clubs, restaurants and shops. This is the definition of a downtown Annapolis unique offering. This property is history blended with modern convenience which makes this home a truly luxurious property and a stand out in the Annapolis marketplace.


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Since last week, Carrier IQ has been the subject of intense scrutiny by smartphone users, privacy advocates, and politicians who fear the company's eponymous software has been secretly tracking user location data and keystrokes.
But an independent report by security consultant Dan Rosenberg has found that the Carrier IQ software, which is used by wireless carriers and handset manufacturers to monitor and improve service, may not be the boogeyman that it has been made out to be.
According to Rosenberg's tests, which were conducted using a Sprint Samsung Epic 4G Touch, Carrier IQ is not capable of recording SMS text bodies or web page or email content. The software can record what URLs users have visited even if they are HTTPS sites, but not the pages' content. Rosenberg also reports that the software is able to record what dialer buttons you press to determine where you are calling, but cannot record other keystrokes.
Rosenberg's findings would seem to directly contradict the initial widespread speculation about Carrier IQ being able to seemingly spy on usage habits at will. Rosenberg does, however, concede that his findings are only valid on the particular phone he was using since handset manufacturers and wireless carriers can request that Carrier IQ tailor its software to their liking.
He also suggests that smartphone manufacturers provide users with the ability to opt out of having to use Carrier IQ, something that doesn't exist on most phones at this point. Rosenberg further suggests that a third party be put in charge of overseeing the type of data Carrier IQ collects in order to prevent any potential future abuses. It is worth noting that any data that is collected by Carrier IQ is automatically anonymized before being sent out for review.
The Carrier IQ issue was first brought to light when security researcher Trevor Eckhart posted a two-part YouTube video showing Carrier IQ at work. In the video, the software appears to be logging Eckhart's individual keystrokes. Since the initial postings, Carrier IQ has been heavily criticized for its lack of transparency. Senator Al Franken has formally requested that the company provide information on how its software functions and, according to PC World, regulators in Europe have begun launching their own investigations into the product.
Carrier IQ, for its part, has adamantly denied suggestions that it is trying to secretly track users or capture their keystrokes. Check back here for any updates about Carrier IQ and what the software means to you.
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Dr. Martin's Mix
This is pure comfort food and is a dish that I remember well from my childhood. When I was old enough, I took over cooking dinner for my family since my mom, by that time, was working full-time outside the home. This is one of the first dishes I learned to make. We always had it with tossed salad. The original recipe was in Erma Bombeck's I Hate to Cook Book. Last week, I made this for dinner when we had a friend visiting from out of town and she loved it. I hope you do as well!
1 lb. bulk sausage (you can use breakfast sausage or Italian sausage)
1 green pepper, diced
1/2 C. onion, diced
3 stalks celery, diced
3 C. chicken broth
1 1/2 C. uncooked rice
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1. Brown the sausage in a skillet or large pan with a lid. Break the sausage up into small pieces as it cooks. Drain excess fat.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir.
3. Put the lid on and let simmer on low heat for 45 minutes to an hour or until all the broth is absorbed and the rice is done. Fluff with fork and serve. Serves 4
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I appreciate the love and support that I received after my post on Monday. Writing has always been my way of releasing my feelings, and it felt good to just "let it out" for a moment.
One thing I was surprised about the grieving process is how cyclical it is. I guess I knew that one day I wouldn't go from sadness to anger and never back to being sad, but actually experiencing the ups and downs were much more jarring than expected.
When I think about it, the grieving process is like that one episode of How I Met Your Mother when Ted reminisces about the road trip Marshall and he took in Marshall's Fiero. Unfortunately (or fortunately), a tape is stuck in the tape deck so the only song that they can listen to is The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)." At first, you see them singing it loudly and happily like any catchy song, but after awhile it grows old (like any catchy song) and becomes annoying. At that point, Ted gets really irritated.
Ted: "I hate this song"
Marshall: "It's OK, it comes back around.
Ted: What do you mean?"
Both happily singing: "JUST TO BE THE MAN THAT WALKS A THOUSAND MILES TO FALL DOWN AT YOUR DOOOOOOOOOOR."
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This scene always makes me laugh, and it really is a lot like this when grieving. You're doing your best to get through the situation – and even catch yourself being happy here and there. Then out of the blue, grief hits you and you.can't.take.it.any.more. until a friend reminds you that happiness will come back around. And it does. It really does.
I was walking my dogs one day, and for NO REASON AT ALL, I starting crying. I wasn't thinking about anything other than whether Ms. Daisy Marie was going to poop before we made it back home and BOOM. Tears. Mascara-running-down-my-face tears.
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On the third night of MFNW, I rode through the rare musicfest rain to Dante's to catch Bleached, who put out Ride Your Heart, one of my favorite records of the summer, and The Men, who I have been meaning to see for a while now. Despite some early technical difficulties, Bleached played a a fun set, and their upbeat SoCal garage-punk helped the crowd forget that the weather outside was Portland. Highlights from the set included "Dead in Your Head," "Next Stop," and a cover of The Ramones' "Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World." At midnight, Brooklyn's The Men hit the stage. I was a big fan of last year's Open Your Heart, but I was a little disappointed by the classic-rock sounds of this year's New Moon. They began the set with a southern-rock sounding jam, then transitioned to an hour of non-stop noise, and I mean noise in the best way possible. The energy in the venue was amazing, and the band never stopped or slowed down (Someone in the crown even yelled out "No more slow songs!" during the set, and the band complied).
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As the new year further unwinds, we've decided to cover the most surprising and newest ways to earn money in 2015. All of these methods can be carried out directly from the comfort of one's own home which is the best part of it. The question of how to legitimately make money from home has been at the top of many job-seekers' minds ever since the advent of the Web 2.0 revolution. However, many have given up on the idea due to a torrent of scams, unorthodox jobs, pyramid schemes (get rich quick), and other spammy pitfalls. Fear not. We've decided to help you out by covering the 5 Legit Work from Home Jobs to Help you Earn Money in the New Year.
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Best Jobs for Introverts – Justine Hofherr examines three different professions that are great for loners (plus three more that qualify for honorable mentions). The picks that make the list are not new by any stretch of the imagination. But, the article illustrates the success stories in all the fields mentioned. For those interested in supplementing their income with a work-at-home career, graphic design offers many excellent opportunities in 2015. (Boston.com)
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The 50 Most Surprising Work-from-Home Jobs of 2014 – Laura Shin quotes the same FlexJobs survey and adds that some of the companies hiring in 2014. These companies include major names such as Apple, American Express, and the Chicago Cubs! Perhaps you worry that these work-from-home listings aren't legitimate? This article will definitely help change your mind. (Forbes.com)
Bonus: How to Score a Promotion Even When You Work from Home – All right, so you've landed that cushy work-at-home job. What do you need to do to excel at it? Get dressed, show up (sometimes), don't work past office hours and (most importantly) work for the right company, says Laura Vanderkam. Even though this piece focuses more on what to do after you get the job, it still lists some unexpected career opportunities in the area as provided by telecom companies and other unlikely employers. (Fast Company)


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The sort of tough-as-nails retro gameplay you associate with the phrase "bullet hell" is usually the domain of obscure homebrewed PC projects spawning from lone developers in Japanese basements, but Xbox Live Arcade's new shooter Sine Mora goes the extra mile, marrying wonderful mainstream production values to its endless onslaught of side-scrolling enemies. Maybe it's no surprise that such an offbeat project sprang from the rogue developers at Suda 51's Grasshopper Manufacture, which contributed art and sound design to the production otherwise handled by Hungarian developer Digital Reality. The result is one of the most original arcade-style action games to come along in a while, but one that stumbles a bit when the rubber meets the road... er, the ship meets the air? You know, the part where you play it.
The length of Sine Mora certainly harkens back to the days of R-Type and Gradius, since the story mode will only last you around 90 minutes, and that's counting the surprisingly lengthy cutscenes. Even more surprising is the game's adult tone and subject matter, which primarily deals with total warfare and ethnic cleansing, and features such downtrodden figures as a father grimly focused on avenging his son's murder, and a female pilot who survives a rape only to be blackmailed into fighting for a cause she cares nothing about. Also, all the characters are animal people of various, unrelated types. Also, there's time travel? I'd sum all this up more succinctly if the game's storyline were easier to follow, but each chapter jumps so disjointedly between locations, time periods, events and characters (who merely exist as static portraits with voiceover) that the broad narrative doesn't really start to cohere until the very end of the game. Until then, it's hard to form a clear picture of exactly what's going on, and what seems like a promising storyline--a rarity in itself for this genre--ends up falling a little flat.
Sine Mora has some interesting high-level mechanics layered on top of all the flying to the right and shooting, most of which--in keeping with the storyline--focus on time. Second only to dodging and shooting everything around you, your most important concern is to keep an eye on a timer that's constantly ticking down at the top of the screen, because as soon as that timer runs out, you die. Every enemy you kill increments the timer, so killing as much stuff as possible is key to staying alive. You can't die just by being hit by something (with a few annoying exceptions), but every hit shaves precious seconds off that clock, so it's just as important to avoid trouble as it is to take out enemies. You also have a limited ability to slow down time at will, which naturally helps you do both of those things. Most of the game is designed in such a way that you can maneuver through the onslaught of enemies and bullets with quick reflexes and deft use of the time ability, but there are too many occasions, almost all in boss fights, that hit you with some unavoidable instant-death attack that you can't realistically dodge if you don't know it's coming. Those moments pretty much force you to memorize them if you want to get through unscathed.
The game offers an appropriate slew of other power-ups that give you a shield, let you use a pilot-specific super weapon, and--most importantly--dramatically increase the power of your main gun. That's where the gameplay broke down for me. At default gun power, even the weakest enemies take a few shots to kill, though with something like 10 upgrade levels for that gun, you can lay waste to everything in sight once you power it up sufficiently. Since your ability to kill a lot of enemies and add to your timer is absolutely crucial to keeping you alive, you want to get those upgrades up as fast as you can. Taking a single hit causes all of your upgrades to fly out of your ship and drift around aimlessly, though, and if that happens in the middle of a hectic hail of bullets, you can just about give up on getting all (or in some cases any) of them back without taking more hits, which will deplete your spare time real fast. That feels a little like a catch-22. If you have to hang back and let those power-ups float away, your firepower is often so diminished that you don't have much hope of killing enough enemies to keep your time up until the next checkpoint. More often than I would have liked, this creates a negative feedback loop where doing poorly diminishes your subsequent ability to improve your performance, almost guaranteeing you'll do even more poorly in the remaining few seconds before you die. Sine Mora has a sound framework and I was more than ready to submit to its retro brutality, but the downward-spiraling weapon system coupled with the memorization-heavy bosses and some occasional nonsensical bullet patterns often made the game feel frustrating in the wrong way.
If you're the sort of casual player who might play through this game once and be done with it, the 90-minute story is a hard sell at the $15 price. But those who identify with terms like "1CC" and "superplay," or even slightly less committed shooter fans who just want to chase a few high scores, will find plenty of extra stuff to spend time on. Arcade mode offers the full sequence of levels in one long, unbroken run sans cutscenes, though it's a shame that this mode's lowest difficulty is hard, which is... really hard. On the upside, you can mix and match ships and pilots to get different basic and special attack combos, and optionally swap out the time dilation power for a brief rewind or a bullet-reflect shield. Boss training and score attack modes offer other ways to dig into the action piecemeal, and even higher difficulty levels present a truly ludicrous degree of challenge for the hardest of core. The game even embeds a long list of individual challenges into each achievement, so if you really wanted to do everything in this game, it would probably take you ages.
Seeing the amount of careful thought the developers lavished on every aspect of Sine Mora's design continually made me wish that the core action had clicked more solidly for me. The game looks marvelous, and it's an impressive effort in this little-seen genre, but the gameplay is wrapped too rigidly around mechanics that feel a bit at odds with one another for me to feel good recommending it wholeheartedly.


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Excellent information on spiritual evil in our society So, the book is written by a man who used to be a vampire. Blood is presented as a strongly addictive substance with effects similar to cocaine…powerfully attractive. His comments throughout match … Continue reading →


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Yes, I did paint my refrigerator. And I painted the area in the frame with chalkboard paint, and now I don't know what to write in there.
That's your first assignment. What should I write? Keep it clean, people.
Here is my super sweet friend Anna helping me with the project. She's pretty artsy fartsy. (mainly fartsy)
Now your second assignment is to leave me a comment with your email address if you are a blogger that lives in the DFW area. Frugal Jen is planning a little get together next week for us all to get together and meet. We have to limit it to about 30 people, because of the location. So when I get your email address I will give it to Jen and she will send out an evite.
Your third assignment is the most important! I have my dreaded Dr.s appointment tomorrow at 9:45. Please say a prayer that I can be calm and not totally flip out with anxiety. I know I am a big girl, but I still hate to go. That's an understatement, really. So your prayers would be greatly appreciated. Probably even more by my doctor than by me!
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Speak No More of Rigor?
The obvious way that the pieces connect and depend on each other suggests that when we dissect effective teaching for the sake of improving, we need to spend time on putting it all together again in a way that works for students.
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The iPhone 5 still has to launch in Brazil, but one thing is for sure: when it hits the shelves, it will be much more expensive than in other markets. If you need a proof of it, just look at the new Apple TV, which costs R$399 in Brazil – roughly $197 USD, or twice its selling price in the US.
This isn't only about Apple products; we have already touched the subject several times, many articles are much more expensive in Brazil, especially electronics. Let's now try to understand why.


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This blog is dedicated to comments and discussion on political, economic and social issues in Kenya. It also throws insights to issues of corruption, democratisation and human rights.
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
ICC Confirmation Cases: Rumours and Perceptions but Little Evidence
Perhaps one aspect which was not clearly exposed by the defence in both cases is that Kenya is a rumour mongering and perceptions' society. The society thrives on rumours and perceptions about rivals and opponents be they political, economic or ethnic. The problem manifests itself prominently on the political sphere. Having experienced brutal and violent colonial rule followed with dictatorship after independence, Kenyans are highly suspicious about government and official explanation of facts. Even without evidence, the public is inclined to believe unsubstantiated contrary allegations. The situation becomes dangerously contagious when institutions such as opposition parties, media, civil society and religious bodies uncritically repeat and reinforce the allegations. At the same time, personal and mass communication technologies aid the swift diffusion of the rumours. The rumours and perceptions created take a life of their own and become the unofficial truth.
The picture becomes complex because the avenues to access public information freely without being confronted by the "infamous" Secrecy Act are limited. The persons who try to explain the official position are the same people the public does not trust: public officers, police, and politicians. For example, few seem to believe what the spokesperson of the government Dr Alfred Mutua says. However, when an opposition political leader, civil society organisations, media, or other non-government institutions make unsubstantiated claims, people tend to believe them and not Mutua.
During the pre- and post election many rumours and perceptions were manufactured, traded and spread without caring about their veracity. The most potent were that elections were to be rigged, the incumbent cannot win the election without rigging, it is 1 tribe against 41, the electoral commission was doctoring the presidential results, Ugandan soldiers were shooting and killing Kenyans in the Western province and Nyanza alongside Kenya police officers, the administration police force was being used to rig the elections in favour of Kibaki, the State House was used by Mungiki for meeting to plan retaliation, the police was partial and allowed mungiki to kill and displace ODM supporters in Naivasha and Nakuru, the judiciary cannot be trusted to be an impartial umpire in an election dispute, Mungiki were supplied with police uniform, guns and transported in military trucks to Naivasha and Nakuru, etc, etc.
Unfortunately all these strains of rumours and allegations found their way into the ICC in form of prosecution evidence . The prosecution did not attempt to verify trueness of these rumours and perceptions. For instance no statement was solicited from the suspects and no exculpatory evidence was collected and presented by the prosecution even where would be readily available. It was quite easy for the defence to punch holes in the prosecution evidence by carrying out independent investigations and presenting the exculpatory evidence to the court. This was the most embarrassing aspect of the prosecution case because they hardly countered defence assertion of lack of verification.
With the scarcity of evidence from the prosecution, the Court has no choice but to critically look at the evidence presented by the defence vis a vis the allegations by the prosecution. Fortunately, the government of Kenya, more so in the second case involving Muthaura, Kenyatta and Ali has pealed the veil of secrecy and tried to offer an insight of how the government operates as opposed to the theories offered by the prosecution.
The confirmation judges will choose either to believe the prosecution claims that they have better evidence than what they have not disclosed at this stage or be persuaded by the submissions of the defence teams that the prosecution have no substantial evidence as they did not carry out independent investigation in the matter apart from relying on rumours and perceptions as narrated by anonymous witnesses and gathered from secondary sources. It might be rather difficult this time round for the Judges to acquiescence to the prosecution evidence as presented in order to confirm the charges.
Whatever decision the Court arrives at, the suspects and victims and the Kenya society have had their day in court. Impunity has been exposed and the failure of the government to investigate and prosecute clearly manifested. But the worst would be the exposition of lack of due diligence in the prosecution investigations, if the charges are not confirmed.
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Kirby Chambliss: Alive on Arrival
Aerobatic racer Kirby Chambliss on flying upside down, learning from near fatal mistakes, and why it's nice to be able to talk about your crashes.
When I was 13 years old, I helped my dad build our first homemade airplane: There's pictures of me dragging airplanes around from when I was two or three years old. I tell people all the time I consider myself so lucky because I've always known what I wanted to do. When you don't know what you want to do, it's hard to end up where you want to be.
My boss told me one day, if your jet ever turns upside down, we want you to turn it right side up without killing everyone onboard: That made sense to me, so we went up in an aerobatic aircraft and began training. Immediately after trying aerobatics out, I realized that this was the coolest thing ever. I couldn't bring myself to fly straight and level anymore, and I knew my passion was aerobatics so I decided to pursue that full-time.
You live and you learn, or you die and you don't: Every time I make a mistake, whether it's in life or an aircraft, I try to learn from it. That's especially important to me because I have friends that were never afforded that opportunity. It's all about getting experience. That's not to say someone with experience can't accidentally kill themselves. But maybe they'd know if they made a mistake how to correct it really quick before something catastrophic happens.
I've had a couple of accidents: It always makes it nice when you go to talk to kids, and they ask if you've ever crashed. I always consider myself lucky when I'm able to reply that I've actually crashed twice. Usually you're not afforded the opportunity to ever speak about your accidents.
Being married to me is like being married to a race car driver; it's somewhat dangerous: My wife is a pilot, and she's flown commercially for a number of years, but she didn't start flying until after we've been together for many years. But that doesn't make it any easier on her being married to me. We have friends, doing what I do, that die.
One of my best friends was killed about a year ago: I've known him forever. My daughter knows his kids, and they play together all the time. So I have a hard time when I close my eyes and can easily see my daughter in his daughter's position. When we're at the funeral and I can see my family and myself in his and his family's position, it hits very close to home.
Away from aerobatics I race motocross and skydive: I don't have too much time for motorcycles anymore, but I skydive pretty regularly. I have about 1,000 jumps, and I really enjoy that as a welcome escape.
Life's a risk; you balance it as best you can: Everything you take in life is a calculated risk. For instance, if you're hungry and there's a McDonald's across the street, you balance your hunger with the risk of crossing the street. You take your life experiences, and it helps you succeed when you take calculated risks. That's how I always explain the risks that go into aerobatics.


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The Story – The Flash – The Human Race (2009)
Grant Morrison and Mark Millar's run with the Fastest Man Alive continues here! Collects THE FLASH #136-141 as well as a story from SECRET ORIGINS #50.
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The New World Order classifies the majority of mankind as, "useless eaters," and as, "brainless mongrels." Here is the unfortunate truth, any members of the human race who believe the bullshit that N.A.S.A. are promoting are falling into their trap. If we cannot think critically and realize that they are scamming all of us, then we deserve to be categorized by them. We are brainwashed to that extent; most people have lost their ability to think. Remember also, the N.W.O. (also known as the Satanists, want to kill off five and a half billion of us before the year 2030). This is the time to fight them, rather than to join them!
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