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Long Beach Bicycle Accident Lawyer
Many Long Beach residents are choosing bicycles over cars for their commutes to work, and bicycling has been a favorite recreation for generations. Due to growing numbers of both cars and bicycles on the road, it's more important now than ever for California citizens to understand the risks of bicycling accidents, and know what to do when one occurs. If you or somebody you love was injured in an accident caused by the negligence of another party, consult a skilled Long Beach bicycle accident lawyer to learn more about your available legal options.
Safety Tips for Cyclists in Long Beach, CA
Whether you ride your bike to and from work daily or simply enjoy relaxing rides on the weekends, keep a few best practices in mind to maximize your safety and reduce the chances of a serious accident:
- Wear appropriate equipment. You should always wear a helmet while cycling, even if local laws do not mandate helmets for bicycling. A helmet will greatly reduce your chances of suffering serious brain injuries if you are in an accident.
- Make yourself visible. Only ride on approved roads and try to make yourself as visible as possible. For example, if you ride in the evenings or at night, apply reflectors to your bike and helmet, and consider wearing clothing with reflective tape so drivers can easily spot you.
- Go with the flow. Some bicyclists mistakenly believe they can travel however they wish, but it's vital to ride with the flow of traffic. Even if it appears safe, riding against traffic is extremely dangerous and leaves you very vulnerable to collisions.
- Signal for turns. When riding with traffic, extend your arms in the direction you wish to turn to let other drivers know your intentions. For right turns, simply extend your right hand, and extend your left hand for left turns. Signaling helps other drivers anticipate where you're going, reducing the chance of a crash.
Even when you ride as safely as possible and follow all the applicable laws in your area, another driver could potentially collide with your bicycle and cause a serious accident. Bicycle accidents generally fall under the purview of personal injury law, so it's a good idea to have some knowledge about what to expect after a bicycle accident. For more information, consider speaking with a Long Beach personal injury lawyer with experience handling bike crashes.
What to Do After a Bicycle Accident
Your first priority after any accident should be your health and personal well-being. If you feel too injured to move after a bicycle accident, don't. Instead, wait for emergency personnel to arrive and render aid. If your injuries are mild, you may be able to get up and move, but it's important to take it easy. Some injuries may not immediately manifest and your adrenaline could be masking pain, making it difficult to gauge just how injured you are.
In the eyes of the law, bicycles are essentially the same as other vehicles when it comes to accidents, so be sure to report the crash to police if any injury or property damage occurred. The police report from the accident and the medical report you receive from your doctor will be crucial in building a personal injury case against a negligent driver.
Establishing Negligence
Every motorist has a duty to act with reasonable care on the road, and this extends to bicyclists as well. If another driver caused your bicycle injury, it's important to remember that California follows a pure comparative negligence standard. This means that an injured plaintiff will still recover damages, even if he or she was partially at fault for the accident. While some states only allow plaintiffs to recoup damages if they were less than 50% at fault for an accident, California allows plaintiffs to receive damages even if they were 99% at fault.
Consult a Local Long Beach Bicycle Accident Lawyer
If you were not at fault, an injury attorney will help you explore the possible types of compensation you may receive. Typically, most plaintiffs recover compensation for their damaged or destroyed bicycles, medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost income from time out of work due to injuries, and even compensation for permanent disfigurement or disabilities. Harting Simkins & Ryan, LLP is here to help, and our team has extensive experience with California bicycle accident cases. If you have any questions about your case, reach out to us to schedule a free consultation with one of our bicycle accident attorneys in Long Beach, CA.


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I was away camping in the Big Basin Redwood State Park over the weekend and was shocked when I returned to civilization to find out about the attempted assassination of Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Shocked, but not surprised. I have been afraid something like this would happen basically since I got to the US in June 2008, just as the rhetoric of the Presidential campaign was heating up.
It's hard for me to put this into historical perspective, it feels different being here, but this seems more intense than previous boughts of violence-laced paranoia. It's hard to describe to Australians how nutty it can be over here. There's simply no analogues that are sufficient. I try to describe Glenn Beck to people and they say "so like Stan Zemanek ?". Well, yeah, sort of, both right-wing radio hosts and all that, but also, no. Way, way beyond Stan Zemanek.
America can feel like a country coming apart at the seams. There have always been extremes in American politics, people who lived in their own bubble, convinced of their own truth. But it's different now. The advent of social media and an ever more diverse and niche-focused media landscape has actually allowed this bubble to grow larger, more immersive, to become all-encompassing for many millions.
It's said you're entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts but that simply isn't true anymore. It's hard to imagine a belief which can't in some way be collaborated online. Within a wide window of beliefs you can construct a media diet consisting of TV, radio, print and online which corroborates and reinforces your beliefs. America's most-watched news channel promotes wild conspiracy theories and declares that Obama is a socialist intent on taking over America and changing all that is good about it. And millions of Americans in their living rooms nod along, becoming ever more convinced that the America they love is somehow slipping away, that despite the clear prominence of their beliefs they are a persecuted and at-risk minority, that time is running out.
The rhetoric is regularly violent, the tone almost always urgent. Words like treasonous, socialist, Nazi and conspiracy are thrown around with an intensity and regularity I could not have imagined before moving here. It may be that political ideology did not specifically inspire Jared Loughner, the Arizona shooter, but it's hard to imagine that a climate such as this would not increase the risk of crazy people doing crazy things. Combine this with the number of guns in America (and, shockingly, this event has only led to a spike in sales of the gun used) and it's impossible not to worry about violence like this.
America seems to be a country that can no longer talk to itself. The gap between the factions is so large as to overwhelm attempts at dialogue, and when that happens democracy itself comes under threat. Democracy requires respecting your fellow citizens and accepting their choices even while working to change their minds but operating within their own factual universe the partisans of the American far-right, who increasingly control the Republican Party, will stand for no compromise and accept no facts that interfere with their beliefs. There's no chance for the Presidency to unite the country when millions of Republicans do not even accept Obama's right to be President.
I hope this assassin proves to be a "lone nut". I hope nothing like this happens again. But unless something changes in America it's all too easy to imagine this just being the beginning.
What are these changes that are needed? How do you bring a country back from the brink? How do you rebuild trust, reduce fear, reclaim a common identity that supersedes politics?
This is, I think, the most urgent work that needs doing in America today. A challenge that calls for both visionary social entrepreneurs and the everyday activism of people doing things differently, reaching out, connecting. As we search for exciting social change ideas for StartSomeGood I really hope we will see many taking on this vital challenge, building the bridging social capital that is needed to revitalize so many democracies.


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By Tod Wodicka.
266 pp. Pantheon Books. $21.95.
Any of us may be susceptible to an occasional feeling of alienation from our times. Cursed with an awareness of the centuries past and the eons ahead, we know how arbitrary a prison the moment we inhabit really is. Couldn't we imagine ourselves as entirely different people, shaped by the exigencies of another era? Couldn't the thought obsess us?
The thought certainly obsesses Burt Hecker, the narrator of Tod Wodicka's first novel, "All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well," a title whose length and repetitiveness don't bode well for its contents. Burt, a medieval re-enactor whose fanatic refusal to live in the historical present has brought pain to the people around him, goes through life in a dirty tunic and a mead-induced stupor. He refuses to learn to drive, calling automobiles, somewhat witlessly, "time machines." Now well into his 60s, he avoids all that is "OOP" — that is, "Out of Period." His principal comfort is his amateur society, the Confraternity of Times Lost Regained, which sponsors medieval fairs, jousts and banquets.
Although Wodicka offers a cursory summary of Burt's childhood in a religious orphanage, asking why Burt believes he was born in the wrong time is as unproductive as inquiring why a transgendered individual believes he was born in the wrong sex. Burt, who when in period calls himself Eckbert Attquiet, says, "I simply felt as if I were a remnant from something long since passed, and only ever half there in a modern world that I did my very best to ignore."
Burt's troubled family seems to be similarly, if not as severely, afflicted by history. His late wife ran a Victorian inn in upstate New York; his son grew up mimicking his father's medievality and, shunning his contemporaries, devoted himself to early music; his mother-in-law is an ethnic Lemko from the Carpathians, intent on recreating the way of life her people lived before their slaughter and forced deportations in the 1940s. Even Burt's daughter has sporadically adopted someone else's time period. She was, as a young woman, a committed Trekkie; now she's an assistant to a geologist, living by a calendar whose pages cover billions of years. All these temporal dislocations have sundered the family spatially. It's the late 1990s and Burt's daughter has moved to California, his son and mother-in-law to Eastern Europe, the locus of history being compulsively re-enacted on a wide scale.
The point — that pretending is simpler than being — is easy to comprehend, but when the principle is played out in a man's life the results are complicated and tragic. As his wife succumbed to cancer, Burt's failure to rise above his fantasies deepened his estrangement from his children, his friends and his time. In the bitter aftermath of her death, Burt leads a workshop of medieval chanters to a hillside in Germany, where seven of them spend three days locked in a tent attempting to replicate the girlhood experience of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century anchoress and composer of visionary religious music. They hope, perhaps, to taste of her ecstasy. In the shadow of a Benedictine abbey, Burt himself tastes an exhaustive variety of Rhine wines. Abandoning the chanters, he goes off to the Czech Republic, looking to reconnect with his son, who has joined an electronic jazz group, the Sound Defenestration Collective, which is about as easy-listening as it sounds.Continue reading the main story
Sensitive to his failings as a father, Burt reflects that the family institution, like the individual, is a product of chance and other transient forces: "Families are historical things. You have to believe in them for them to be real. They have precedent, they repeat themselves, they have a million points of view and they never stay the same, even after they happen. If you can prove they happened at all. But they're always happening and you'll never understand them: you can dress up, re-enact, but you'll never get to the heart of them, of how they are when they are what they are."
Although Wodicka turns up a provocative thought here and there, this musing, typical of Burt's grief-laden vaporousness, serves also to illustrate the artless, wordy and underarticulated writing that makes "All Shall Be Well" such a Black Death of a chore to read. Wodicka has chosen a narrative voice too depressive and portentous to manifest his ingenuity. For all Burt's colorful eccentricity, he's a vague protagonist whose motives, actions and responses are only intermittently clear. In the basement of a Prague nightclub, after his son's band noisily covers Hildegard's "Columba aspexit — Sequentia de Sancto Maximino," Burt is overwhelmed by emotion, but we're unsure exactly which emotions are doing the overwhelming. Nor does Wodicka manage to explain why the Middle Ages, with their brutality, ignorance and poverty, were so much fun, as opposed, let's say, to the Dark Ages.
The title is almost certainly the longest for a recent novel. It's taken from the writings of Julian of Norwich, a medieval hermit entrusted with visions of her own. T. S. Eliot appropriated the line for his poem "Little Gidding," but he had the good sense to abbreviate it. In his mad pursuit of the past, Burt Hecker doesn't abbreviate anything. He makes no concession to the age, and therein lies his ruin. Tod Wodicka shows a similar disinclination to abbreviate or concede.
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Types of Floors and Methods of Construction of Floors
Floors Definition
A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering.
Types of Floors
Following are some of the major types of floors:
1. Mud Floor:
These floors are not prepared in commercial or professional buildings but only in residential buildings in rural areas.
2. Brick floor:
The floor whose topping is of brick. These are easy to construct and repair. but the surface resulting from these is not smooth and is rough, hence, easily absorbs and retains moisture which may cause dampness in the building.
Method of construction of Brick Floor:
For constructing a brick floor, the top surface of earth or murram filling is properly consolidated. Over this compacted earth, a layer of clean sand about 10 cm thick is evenly spread. Then a layer of lime concrete (1:4:8) or lean cement concrete (1:4:16) is laid, compacted and cured. Over this base concrete well soaked bricks are laid in cement mortar (1:4) in any suitable bond. In case pointing is to be done, the minimum thickness of joints should not exceed 2 mm and and the mortar in joints is struck off with a trowel. When the pointing is to be done, the minimum thickness of joints is kept 6mm and the pointing may be done.
The floors are suitable for stores, godowns etc.
3. Tile floor:
The floor whose topping is of tiles is called tile floor. The tiles used may be of any desired quality, color, shape or thickness.
Method of construction of Tile Floor:
For constructing a tile floor, the base course is prepared in the same manner as in case of brick flooring.Over the base course thus prepared, a thin layer of lime or cement mortar is spread with the help of screed battens. Then the screeds are properly leveled and fixed at the correct height. When the surface mortar has hardened sufficiently, the specified tiles are laid on a 6 mm thick bed of wet cement mortar.(1:5). The surplus mortar which comes out of the joints is cleaned off. After 3 days, the joints are well rubbed a carborundum stone so as to smoothen the surface, specially the edges.
These floor are used for paving courtyard of buildings. Glazed tiles floors are used in modern buildings where a high class building is desired.
4. Flagstone floor:
The floors whose topping consists of stone slabs is called flagstone floor. The stone slabs used here may not be of the same size but should not be more than 75 cm length and not less than 35 cm in width and 3.8 cm in thickness.
Method of construction of Flagstone Floor:
For constructing a flagstone floor, the same method is applied as in case of tile floor. The slabs are soaked well in water at least one hour before laying. They should be evenly and firmly bedded in mortar. The thickness of joints should not exceed 4mm and they should be struck off with a trowel while laying.
These type of flooring are suitable in go-downs, motor sheds, stores, pavements etc.
5. Cement concrete floor:
The floors whose topping consists of cement concrete is called cement concrete floor or conglomerate floor. These floors consists of 2.5 cm to 5cm thick concrete layer laid over 10 cm thick base concrete and 10 cm thick clean sand over ground whose compaction and consolidation is done. These floors are commonly used these days.
Following are the advantages of concrete floors:
- They are hard & Durable
- Provide a smooth & non absorbent surface
- They are more fire resistant
- They provide more sanitary surface as they can be cleaned & washed easily.
- They are economical as they require negligible maintenance cost
- They can be finished with a pleasing appearance.
Types of cement concrete floors:
- Non-Monolithic or bonded floor finish floor
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Scores of people take expensive management training to learn how to guide colleagues toward a common goal, but maybe they could get less costly lessons by watching how certain fish take the lead in their schools. After training about 90 golden shiners (Notemigonus crysoleucas, seen above) to find a dish of fish food, scientists tagged these potential leaders, released them back in the tank individually with eight untrained fish, and then waited to see what would happen. In some cases, a veteran fish swam around as if it had never been in the tank before, leaving its schoolmates equally confused. Others made a beeline for the soggy fare and were more likely to reach it, but in their haste failed to communicate with fellow fish and left them in their wake. Most of the trained shiners, however, were effective leaders; just assertive enough to indicate which direction the school should travel but not so assertive that they lost the group and the protection it provided, the scientists report online before print in The American Naturalist. The study is the first to show experimentally that such a tradeoff—between achieving a goal as quickly as possible and keeping followers—exists in animals other than humans, possibly revealing some fundamental component of good leadership, the researchers say. So, the next time you need to get your colleagues to meet a deadline, why not give channeling your inner golden shiner a try? www.glorybios.com
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Fullrate & Big Brother
I recently had an interesting experience with Twitter. I'm going to share it.
When we moved into our new flat, after some research (in to prices, I admit), we settled on Fullrate as our internet provider. All seemed well and fine, but after a while the connection kept cutting out and we had to re-enter our password on a daily basis. Needless to say, while not the biggest problem in the world, it was hardly what you'd expect or want. After a quick moan on Twitter, someone suggested I change the channel on my router, I did, and it seemed to get better. I'm not sure if it actually did really, but it doesn't matter as soon the problem returned, and after Christmas, we had a lot of trouble even logging on.
Originally, I had put it down to our computers (she has a Mac, I have a Dell), but after I had changed the channel, could see that the power was on and that the router was working (to some extent!), and after making sure we could still log on to other networks, I had had enough. I tweeted;
The next morning, I received this in my inbox;
Was I impressed? Yes. Very. I told them as much, and a brief email conversation followed, where they established the problem (remotely) and told me that it was a fault with the router, and a new one was being sent out to me (I'm picking it up today). The whole email conversation is at the end of this post, if you're curious.
Needless to say, I tweeted about this, and included a Twitpic link for the above email. The feedback I got from Twitter was all positive bar one, who thought it was 'creepy' and didn't like being being visible to the 'big corps' in that way (her tweets are not private). I also posted the picture on Facebook, where the feedback was mixed. Some thought it demonstrated great service, some thought it was a bit too 'big brother' like.
It all came to a head when yesterday I received an email from a journalist friend of mine, saying she had been 'outraged' by it. She had asked 'Forbrugerrådet' (the Danish Consumer Council) about it, who had said it was a violation of my privacy, and therefore she would like to interview me to find out how I felt about it.
I have to say I'm still slightly baffled by all this for a number of reasons.
First - the internet is not a private place. If you say something online - especially on social media! - you have no right to claim it as private. If you don't want others to read it - don't post it. Simple as. If you want your tweets to be private - make them. Don't complain that others can seem them when your profile is public. Please!
Secondly - since when was Twitter some untouchable private sphere? How on earth can people be surprised or upset about Fullrate finding my tweet on Twitter, but they're OK with posting a complaint (for example) on a brand's Facebook page? I can't see the difference.
Thirdly (while I'm on Facebook) - the irony of people complaining about privacy on Twitter, via Facebook, is just overwhelming.
Fourth - customer service. I wish I didn't have to say more, but apparently I do. This is brilliant! One of the things we tell clients at Vizeum (my place of work) is that this social media thing isn't just a flash in the pan, and they must scan Facebook (if they're not on there already) and Twitter for their brand (or what have you). It's an incredibly easy (you don't even need a profile), free, and effective way to get an idea of what's being said, and in this case, it turned one annoyed customer, into one who is currently defending them!
She asked if I felt weird that they had found me online and contacted me without my permission, which is, in my eyes, a good definition of great customer service. It just stuns me that in this day and age, where people demand that brands and companies be on Facebook, the fact that one company has taken the next step (and in Denmark, a rare one, I might add) of searching Twitter makes people feel uncomfortable. It leaves me speechless. Think about what personal data is available through Facebook, and then through Twitter. As I said in the interview, I feel far - far - more secure about my personal details on Twitter than I do on Facebook.
I found out today that she won't be quoting me in the article,as I didn't fit the angle ('too positive'!), which is a shame. A big shame. I really hope that people don't read the article and are put off Twitter. I really, really hope that they too see how effective Fullrate have been, and how I am now eager to defend them (at least in their customer service). I hope that brands/companies read it, ignore the negative tone, take an interest in Twitter, and begin to search too. People talk, reputations are made or destroyed online, and it's about time this was realised.
I'll be totally gobsmacked if people agree with this article. If people who have their lives on Facebook for all the world to see are actually offended by the fact that someone effectively Googled their own name, found my tweet, and contacted me via my personal email asking me if they could help.
Tell me how this is bad. I for one don't understand.
I'll update this with the article when it comes out.
Below is the email exchange (note that the first email is at the bottom. Sorry - I couldn't be bothered to swap them all around);
Here's the article - Selskaber Overvaager dit Brok på Facebook
Another, slightly less negative, article from Fyens.dk.


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They called him the mad poet.
But I knew him before his eyes changed and that permanent sheen of sweat covered his face.
A hopeless romantic with his head wrapped in a cloud of words, there were times I truly believed he was made of words. They flew out of him as he moved and left a silver trail of words everywhere he went.
There were some very good years. I remember how we made up silly songs on a long drive when he bought his first car and how we debated literature, art and cinema into the wee hours, "was Marquez really just an old perv?" "What was Frida thinking" His knowledge on all things literary was universal and unparalleled.
Once during my travels I lost a book he lent me and he casually dismissed my apologies, staunchly pretending not to care. It was weeks before I found out through a mutual friend that the book was his most treasured memento. A gift from his first girlfriend, the love of his life. But that was him, his capacity for kindness towards his friends was endless.
An adoring father, I remember his eyes welling up when his first daughter was born and how proud he was that she looked like him and not like his beautiful wife.
This man was all heart, all soul. Life is meant to be felt not just lived, he always used to say. Nothing annoyed him more than the lack of depth and character. As he hurtled to his end, I'm positive he revelled in the blaze that took him down.
I dont want to remember the secrets and the darkness that seeped in. How the ugliness broke this gentle giant and changed him in so many ways.
Instead, I hold on to his smiles, the bear hugs and our friendship so deep, so pristine.
My friend, kindred soul, you burned so bright. It's time to rest now and find your peace.
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Jon Abrams is a New York-based writer, cartoonist, and committed cinemaniac whose complete work and credits can be found at his site, Demon's Resume. You can contact him on Twitter as @JonZilla___.
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- Cult Movie Mania Releases Lucio Fulci Limited Edition VHS Sets - January 5, 2016
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After we moved, we did not know anyone. We now belong to a huge church that is easy to get lost in, and hard to connect with people. The boys each have their own Sunday School classes; but the classes are so large that they tend to get lost in the crowd. We started AWANAs again this fall, but still no friends made.
Early Bird started bemoaning our lack of friends, and kept mentioning how sad that made him. I asked him what about the kids in Sunday School? Nope; they don't count. So I asked him what "friends" do, and he defined "friends" as people who came to our house and played. After we joined a weekly small group from church, where we go to someone else's house every week, he has been perfectly content.
If your child is expressing a need for friends, defining terms and expectations can be very helpful.
At first, I really hoped that the small group weekly get together would produce friends for Builder Boy. There were two boys close to his age and I had high hopes. But as time went on it became clear that Builder Boy did not fit in with those boys; and one in particular did not want to include Builder Boy.
On one hand, I can understand. Builder Boy is still working on his speech; if you're not used to listening to him, he can sometimes be difficult to understand. He likes things a certain way and when things do not happen that way, he can get upset. Which, thanks to emotional over-excitabilites, is more emotionally expressive than other kids would expect. Builder Boy also has different interests than other kids his age, and has not been exposed to most of the pop culture that the other kids have.
On the other hand, I had very few friends as a child; in some grades none at all. I am very sensitive to my child being purposely excluded. (Which he is thankfully so far oblivious to.)
I had a good talk with the mother of the other little boy, and
I realized that I needed to adjust my expectations.
It was unfair of me to expect that group to provide everything for my kids, friend wise. Even though it would have been nice. And talking to Builder Boy I realized, he has different needs than the ones I have been trying to fill. For Builder Boy, everyone (unless they are out right mean to him) is his friend. So he thinks he has a ton of friends. He doesn't really have much of a desire for much else at this time. (Which is not unusual for a seven year old boy.)
Determine your child's actual needs.
And lastly, diversify.
This applies to both where you are looking for friends, and what your idea of a friend is. Builder Boy does much better with kids much younger or older than him. Okay, I need to stop obsessing about him having a best friend his own age. Now that it's almost summer and our out-of-home activities are over for the "school" year, we have more free time for playdates. Early Bird's "bestest buddy EVER" from our church is from a homeschooling family with older boys that are very sweet about playing with the several years younger Builder Boy. And it's working out GREAT! Their mom, who I have talked to about having difficulty finding friends, has suggested that he's more likely to have stuff in common with homeschooling kids than with public school kids. (Not trying to be a homeschooling snob. That's just been her experience.) So, gulp! we're going to join their learning club in the fall. We're also looking at Boy Scouts or 4-H clubs in the area, though that's probably going to be put off until next year. One new thing at a time! We will probably have a better chance finding friends where we know they will share at least one interest.
Builder Boy came out of his Sunday School class all excited last week because he finally had a friend! It was girl. Not that I have a problem with him making friends with a girl; I was just hoping he could hang out with a boy, too. But he's very excited and he made her a card to invite her to our home to play. He noticed that her dress had rainbows on it, so he inferred she must like rainbows and made her this card:
Flowers, a rainbow, butterflies, and hearts. Not your typical boy card; but super sweet. He drew what thought she would like.
I don't have all the answers; and we still don't have scores of kids clamoring to be the boys' friends. But each is getting the needs they have at this time met; and that makes a happy mama.
So if you, too, are struggling to find friends for your homeschooled and/or gifted kids, here are my tips:
Determine your child's actual needs.
If your child is expressing a need for friends, define terms and expectations so you're on the same page.
Adjust your expectations.
This blog post was my contribution to the GHF Special Tips, Toys, Tricks, and Tools for Parenting and Educating Gifted/2E Blog Hop. For more great tips, toys, tricks, and tools, click here.


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For your Health Information: Fructose is metabolized by our livers.
• Glucose from sugar and starches is metabolized in our cells.
Why does this matter?
Consuming cane sugar or HFCS causes your liver to work very hard to process.
Fructose is metabolized by our livers.
• Glucose from sugar and starches is metabolized in our cells.
Why does this matter?
Consuming cane sugar or HFCS causes your liver to work very hard to process the fructose. If that sugar comes in a liquid form like soda or fruit juice, the fructose hits your system instantly and causes your liver to go into overdrive in an attempt to process it. And the fructose in High Fructose Corn Syrup hits your liver even faster than regular cane sugar because the fructose is not bound to the glucose in it. So your liver gets a massive shot of fructose faster!
When fructose is ingested quickly in larger quantities, the liver converts it to fat. The fat becomes a substance called triglycerides, a key contributor to heart disease. Some of these triglycerides float around in your bloodstream and get stored as fat on your body.
However, excess fat is also stored in the liver. Ever hear of 'fatty liver disease'? When the liver starts storing excess amounts of fat. Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome follow, and not far behind then, is type 2 diabetes.
The result—accelerated aging, chronic disease and sometimes, eventually death, all from excess sugar.
Fats Can Speed Up or Slow Down the Aging Process
The DNA in our cells is coded with a life span. At the ends of each chromosome lies something called a 'telomere'. Telomeres protect chromosomes and prevent them from fusing into rings or binding with other DNA. Think of telomeres as being kind of like the little hard plastic ends on the ends of shoelaces. They keep the laces from coming undone. Telomeres do a similar thing with your chromosomes.
When a cell divides, as they do thousands of times every day, strands of DNA get snipped to in the process. The places that are snipped are the telomeres. These telomeres get shorter and shorter with each cell division. Eventually the telomere gets too short, and the DNA becomes damaged, putting a halt to the cell's ability to reproduce. This is when the cell dies, and where aging occurs.
Telomere length is an important marker of true biological age that accurately predicts illness and lifespan in many areas of health. The rate at which this happens varies greatly among individual people and cells. This is why some people may look and act older and may be more susceptible to age related disease than others.
How does this affect aging in our bodies? Scientists can actually determine a cell's age and can estimate how many more times it may replicate by studying the length of the telomeres in a person. Telomeres may be one of the keys to aging.
Omega 3 Fats vs. Omega 6 Fats, It's All About the Ratio
Recent scientific research shows omega 3 fats can actually slow down the rate at which telomeres on chromosomes shorten. The latest study conducted by scientists at Ohio State University (2012); on omega 3's and their effect on telomeres appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
The study showed that those that had the highest levels of omega 3 fatty acids also had the slowest rates of telomere shortening over 5 years. And the patients with the lowest levels of omega 3's had fastest rate of telomere shortening.
What's more, taking omega 3 supplements actually lengthened the telomeres in the participants' DNA.
In other words, those with the highest levels of omega 3 fats aged much more slowly. Supplementing with omega 3 fatty acids also was also found to reduce the oxidative stress from free radicals—which is another reason for accelerated aging. And omega 3 fatty acids also lowered inflammation in this same study group.
As you already know, inflammation and oxidation are key to the beginnings of many chronic health conditions and is thought to be one of the reasons for advanced aging. Obviously anything that reduces inflammation has anti-aging benefits as well.
Omega 3 fatty acids have a very long list of health benefits including: preventing heart disease, protecting the immune system, helping weight loss, keeping skin smooth and preventing wrinkles, improving mental health, preventing cancer, and fighting overall inflammation.
By contrast, another study showed that the TYPE of fat eaten can shorten telomeres and accelerate aging. One of the worst types of fat appears to be omega-6 fats, not saturated fat, as the medical community would have us believe. The study also showed that the amount of food eaten also had a significant effect on telomeres. Those who ate the most food had shorter telomeres.
Omega-6 fatty acids have taken over processed foods. Omega-6 fatty acids come primarily from grains and processed vegetable oils. Meat, chicken and farmed fish are raised on grain, making these foods high in omega 6 fatty acids as well.
Omega-6 fats are one type of polyunsaturated fats, which are the most reactive type of fats to heat and light. This leaves them more prone to oxidation and free radical production. Omega-6 fats then become highly inflammatory in our bodies because of this.
Omega 6 fats are in potato chips, corn chips, french fries, bottled salad dressings, corn oil, soy oil, and other vegetable oils. Most anything you purchase pre-made from the grocery store has this type of fat in it. Our primal ancestors ate a diet much higher in omega 3 fats from wild caught fish, grass fed meat and dairy, and wild game. The omega 6 to omega 3 ratio many years ago was around 2 to 1. Today a typical modern diet in America or other westernized countries has about 20 times more omega 6 fats than omega 3 fats.
This unnatural balance of essential fatty acids causes excess inflammation and negative health effects. According to this study, eating excessive amounts of omega 6 fats appears to be one of the fastest ways to accelerate aging.
Eating more foods containing omega 3 fats will help fight aging internally and externally.
Studies also show proof that the types of fat you eat can actually determine whether you have more wrinkly, saggy skin or softer smoother skin—even as you get older. While some wrinkles seem to be an inevitable sign of aging, and accumulated sun damage, diet may be a key as to whether your skin will stay softer and smoother or look wrinkled and dry as you age. A diet higher in omega 6 fats causes worse sunburns, and contributes to more skin damage from the sun (wrinkling) and is more likely to lead to skin cancer as well.
In a recent British study of over 2100 female twins, scientist looked at telomeres, which are the part of DNA that shortens with aging. (Twins have very similar DNA, so differences were easily noted within the experiment.) One group of the twins was taking vitamin and mineral supplements and the other was not. At the end of the test period, the telomeres of each group were measured.
Telomeres are the lengths of genetic material that cap the free ends of DNA in a cell, and are one of the most reliable measures of aging. As a person ages, the telomeres shorten and the DNA becomes more unstable until eventually the cell dies. While telomeres are all the same length at birth, lifestyle factors such as diet, nutrition, exercise, and other environmental factors will speed up or slow down the length of time it takes for these to deteriorate. I hope this has been of help to some of you. There is a lot of good information out there and this is just the tip of the iceberg so to speak. 'Nomaste' Peace be with you all in Love and Light!


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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Fable & Black Lucky Dip Box, Book Lover Necklace & Tote Bag, Bookmarks and Mug Giveaway
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A personalised bookmarks with my children photo. They are what I have the most precious in this life.ReplyDelete
- SolangeOctober 25, 2017 at 10:18 PM
A handmade crochet bookmark given to me by a very close friend.ReplyDelete
My favorite bookish accessory is my golden angel bookmark because it was given to me by someone special.ReplyDelete
My favourite bookish things are book marks my kids have made me.ReplyDelete
My book light for under the cover reading.ReplyDelete
- BookLadyOctober 26, 2017 at 2:04 AM
My favorite bookish accessory is a lovely beaded bookmark made by a very creative friend.ReplyDelete
A serious of bookmarks from Australia that my daughter who lived in Sydney gave to me when I visited.ReplyDelete
I don't have any really, just my glasses so I can see the words!ReplyDelete
- Lesley McIntoshOctober 26, 2017 at 9:49 AM
My daughter made me a lovely cross stitch bookmarkReplyDelete
I recently bought a book pin, ring and book necklace from Coryographies, all book themed and brilliant talking points.ReplyDelete
my 3d bookmarks xxReplyDelete
My bookcase as it holds all of my wonderful books.ReplyDelete
I have a bookish mug that I loveReplyDelete
- Joana BentoOctober 26, 2017 at 6:49 PM
I am crazy about my metal bookmark that has a list of "50 books you must read before you die" engraved on itReplyDelete
I have a favorite bookish coffee cup that I love.ReplyDelete
I don't know if this is an accessory so much as a necessity, but I love the cozy blaknet I cuddle up with whenever I'm really deep into a good bookReplyDelete
A lovely book mark :-)ReplyDelete
I don't really have any. Love a cuppa with a book, just need to win a bookish mug 😉ReplyDelete
I have these cute metallic bookmarks, I love them! They're pretty.ReplyDelete
- Ailish DelaneyOctober 26, 2017 at 11:27 PM
My booklight, so I can read any time, anywhere.ReplyDelete
Harry Potter t-shirts :)ReplyDelete
A silver mermaid book mark. It's pretty and wroks well at saving my place. I love mermaids!ReplyDelete
My favorite bookish things are some beautiful bookmarks I won off of here :)ReplyDelete
It has to be my bookmark of my favourite book The Lion the witch and the wardrobe :) nothing more to say lol it's my all time favourite bookReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 28, 2017 at 3:42 PM
@s_w_j_m(twitter) Tote bags!! Just adore showing the world my love for books with my totesReplyDelete
My purple poseable booklight. It looks great and is really useful too.ReplyDelete
My bookmark that reads The book is always better than the movieReplyDeleteReplies
Oh and the why part is because it's true!😊Delete
Its got to be a bookmark. I own several i have certain ones for certain booksReplyDelete
Bookmarks for sure! I never ever have enough, and I keep losing them inside books, young and old. I love bookmarks so much.ReplyDelete
My bookmarks, I'd say. I collect them, and currently my favorite is a green wooden one, with a metal plate on it of a donkey, and it says Croatia under the donkey's feet - I bought it as a souvenir on my vacation on island Rab. :)ReplyDelete
I have a bookmark made by my daughter in primary school which is flowers made up of her fingerprints with Mummy on - it's my most treasured posession.ReplyDelete
I love special bookmarks, the unique ones.ReplyDelete
I love to use the book necklaces that i won at With Love for Books!ReplyDelete
- Jessica BarberNovember 5, 2017 at 8:35 PM
A bookmark! Handy and so many are super pretty!ReplyDelete
I'm subscribed to Owlcrate, and in their recent box for the month of October, they included a beautiful Harry Potter inspired mug with exclusive art on it. It's my favorite thing.ReplyDelete
A big badge, proclaiming my love of reading to the world (and politely reminding them not to interrupt me when my nose is firmly buried in a book...)ReplyDelete
a giant wooden frog given to me by my granddadReplyDelete
My daughter made me a book mark in her first year at school and it's my favourite thing to have with me when I'm readingReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2017 at 7:54 AM
come segnalibro un bel cuoreReplyDelete
a plushy bookmark so soft and cute!!ReplyDelete
I love my bookbeau sleeve. I carry it everywhere.ReplyDelete
My gorgeous wall print of the Great Atuin <3ReplyDelete
I won an auction run by Milly Johnson for the Grenfell fire and got some signed books from her but also a huge amount of goodies for my dolls' house. :) I also got a QUEEN OF WISHFUL THINKING tote bag. :) Also although not an "accessory" one of my favourite authors has put my name in her last three books under acknowledgements.ReplyDelete
I don't know if you can class this as an accessory but I have the most gorgeous and comfortable day bed to read on!ReplyDelete
My clip on book light as it lets me read any time and any where, very handy for my moments of insomnia.ReplyDelete


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Whiskey Name: Gun Fighter Double Cask Bourbon
Distillery: Golden Moon (bourbon is sourced, then recasked at Golden Moon)
Whiskey Type: Bourbon finished in "French Port Barrels"
Release Date: Released in 2015, now generally available
Price: £42
Age: "Minimum 6 months in new American oak and then finished in used French Port"
Mashbill: Undisclosed. Presumably rye-recipe
Introduction/Background: I hadn't even heard of this one previously, so was very intrigued when I came across it on Master of Malt. Finished bourbon is growing and growing at the moment; as are the battle-lines of those who stand for and against it. An article for another time; if we got too deeply into it here then we'd never make it to the review.
The cask finish for this one is a puzzler. Golden Moon distillery in Colorado have it on their website as "French Port Barrels". As a wine man that raises my hackles a little; the same way it'd annoy most people reading this if Scotland were to label one of their whiskies as "bourbon". (Though I'm not sure why they would…)
Master of Malt tread the Protected Designation of Origin lines more carefully, describing the casks as having held "French fortified wine." Which would presumably point to something like a Maury or a Banyuls. But the plot thickens when you take to the distillery's Facebook page. There they say that the casks are "French Oak Port Barrels". Which leads perfectly legally back towards Portugal. (Though more cask-fussy readers might question whether they were indeed "barrels", or the more usual Port pipes.)
If nothing else, finished bourbon clearly makes life more complicated then. Though perhaps only for pedants and nerds like me with too much time to over-ponder. Shall we get cracking?
Appearance: A glimmer of pink betrays the finish…
Nose: Yowza! Well there's the fortified wine, straight away. So prominently that it caused me to write the word "yowza!" for the first time in my life. (And last – I don't think it suits me.) All kinds of dried fruit clamouring to get out of the glass. A trace of fresher berries too, plus a zing of fresh pine stopping things from getting cloying. This really is all about those finishing casks; no way you'd peg this as a bourbon were you to sniff it blind. There's also a touch of struck match sulphur too; familiar to wine-finished scotch drinkers, but a first for me where bourbon's concerned.
Mouth: Palate is very juicy, ripe and rounded; almost chewy. Again it's the wine finish that dominates; raisins, prunes etc. A little marzipan and candied nut too, beside a certain smokiness; real Yuletide whiskey. Alcohol is fully balanced by flavour and weight of body; there's no major burn.
Finish: The fruit fades; that touch of struck match lingers a little longer. Medium length.
Value for Money: Depends entirely on whether you like this sort of thing.
Summary: I know a lot of people who would dismiss this whiskey's right to be called a bourbon. Personally I'm still not sure which side of the fence I sit on. Certainly the flavours are a long, long way from those you'd expect. This is about the cask finish to a far greater degree than any finished bourbon I've previously sampled. If you're a fan of ex-fortified wine matured scotch, for example, this is very much a whiskey for you, and worth the £42 price tag. If you're a bourbon purist however, this may not be quite your cup of Darjeeling.
Overall Verdict: Perhaps it's best to just put the finishing debate aside and gauge this on the merit of flavour alone. On which basis I very much enjoyed Gun Fighter Double Cask. Rogue smear of sulphur aside it's full of fun, festive flavour. Well worth trying if you're a scotch drinker … and a cert if you're looking to hoodwink someone in a blind tasting.
Word by WhiskyPilgrim


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Kenyan actor Harry Ebale is dead. Ebale died on Friday from a heart attack. He is popularly known for his roles as Mshenzi's friend in the Ebru TV series "Mshenzi".
Harry is said to have collapsed and died at around 8 pm follwing a cardiac arrest.
Apart from doing TV shows and movies, Harry also did plays at local theatres and was doing major roles, he performed as "Kaggia" in the play Kaggia and recently did an Africa Magic Film titled Oyungi in which he was the main actor.
The acting industry was this morning puzzled by the untimely death of one amazing Theatre and screen actor and director Harry Ebale who passed away yesterday night(11th Dec 2015 at around 8pm) due to a heart attack. Harry was well known and very much liked and respected by his fellow thespians in the Theatre and film world. Many still remember him for his performance as "Kaggia" in the play Kaggia and recently did an Africa Magic Film titled Oyungi in which he was the main star.
His love for theatre however is the one thing he will be fondly remembered for and many a family, friend, actor, director and producer will remember the black Jamhuri day that marked the year 2015.
Watch some of the work Harry took part in below in his showreel.


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News about Adnan's Case
What's new on the Wiki?
New evidence files have been shared online by the Court of Appeals. These are large files, but not all documents within them are "new-to-the-public". The most significant new document is Asia McClain Chapman's two day testimony from the 2016 PCR hearing. Find the complete files (in searchable format) and an index on our new COA evidence page.
A link to the decision by the Court of Appeals of Maryland denying Adnan Syed a new trial is here.
Syed's Motion for Reconsideration is here.
Amicus curiae briefs in support of Adnan Syed's motion for reconsideration by The Innocence Network and the MacArthur Justice Center; The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; and The Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association, Maryland Office of the Public Defender, and Individual Criminal Defense Attorneys are here and on the Appeals page.
The denial of Syed's Motion for Reconsideration is here.
The 2018 request to test DNA and report of DNA testing show no forensic connection between Adnan and the crime scene.
Check out our NEW page on The Case Against Adnan Syed, a four-part documentary that aired on HBO in March 2019.
What's the Current Status of the Adnan Syed Case?
The Court of Appeals of Maryland denied Adnan Syed a new trial on March 8, 2019. The court ruled that although Syed's trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to contact Asia McClain (an alibi witness for the time of the murder) and by failing to cross-examine the State's expert witness about the reliability of data on incoming cell phone calls, he was not prejudiced by his counsel's poor performance. The Court of Appeals overruled two lower courts that held Syed was entitled to a new trial.
Syed's team filed a Motion for Reconsideration in the Court of Appeals on April 8, 2019. Three organizations moved the Court of Appeals for leave to file amicus curiae briefs in support of Adnan Syed's motion for reconsideration. The briefs were by The Innocence Network and the MacArthur Justice Center; The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; and The Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association, Maryland Office of the Public Defender, and Individual Criminal Defense Attorneys. Unfortunately, on April 19, 2019, the Court of Appeals denied Syed's motion for reconsideration.
Adnan Syed remains in prison.
What Happens Next?
Syed's team intends to seek a writ of certiorari from the United States Supreme Court to appeal the Maryland Court of Appeals decision. The petition will be filed in mid-August, 2019.
Wow, All This Happened Since Serial?
Yes, one of the goals of this website, is to share the new information and particularly the documents and other materials that have been made public since the Serial podcast concluded in 2014. We were inspired by the Undisclosed podcast, which aired in 2015, though we are not affiliated with the Undisclosed team. Check out trial transcripts, police reports, photos, and the latest appeal case details.
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Monday, 17 January 2011
The selfish 'me' people and the Central State
And as David Willetts writes in 'The Pinch', which I recommended last year, the more that individuals focus on themselves, the more that they disassociate from family, neighbourhood and community, the more that they eschew Burke's 'little platoons', the more they create the need for a powerful Central State to take the place of all these local institutions. The State must take on the responsibilities that extended families and communities used to shoulder. Even nuclear families lead this tendency; the better parents we've become, the more we care for our own offspring, the less time we have to volunteer and contribute to the care of those about us. Together with the collapse in trust from the prevalent paedophobia this has left even more to the Central State to do, or not be done at all.
It is ironic, is it not, that those most vociferous in defence of individual rights, the anarchists and libertarians, are perhaps most crucial in implicitly if unknowingly supporting the Leviathan Central State?
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- Jackart said...
Except that libertarians are very much in favour of voluntary association and burkean little platoons. Your "right" only goes so far as it affects someone else's. That includes music late at night.
There are plenty of selfish conservatives and socialists... often demanding "the state" do something for their vested interest whilst getting someone else to pay taxes for it.
Libertarianism certainly isn't selfish. It wouldn't work if it was.
- 17 January 2011 at 08:14
- Edward Spalton said...
There is obviously a difference between the "atomisation" of individual self assertion and the self-organisation of society in the little platoons.
The latter depend on some common assumptions, basically Christian, which the state has consistently done its best to undermine over the last forty year years or more, starting with the family. As an employer, often in despair at the illiteracy and innumeracy of the young men produced by 11 years of compulsory schooling, I noted that the one area where the system had succeeded brilliantly was in the inculcation of "self esteem".
The trouble is that those most inclined to assert the claims of "society" generally mean "officialdom" and the expansion of the state in one form or another. The informal "good authority" of families and local institutions like Churches and voluntary societies has been hollowed out quite deliberately. They are part of the "forces of conservatism", after all.
David Cameron is or was proposing to recruit 5,000 publicly salaried busybodies to "empower" people to participate in the "Big Society" . That is obviously totally bogus.
The trouble is that the state has far too much of our money and this has encouraged many otherwise estimable charities to become pensioners of the state, dependent on its grants and therefore its directives rather than on the original intentions of the founders, donors and trustees.
I have also seen the same effect in trade associations which imperceptibly assimilate to becoming collaborators or part of the state apparatus simply because it is so powerful and all embracing. It pays the "professionals" running them to go with the flow.
For most purposes in this country the state now ultimately means the EU in some form or other although that is often concealed behind what Tony Blair used to call "eye catching initiatives". But our home-grown destroyers have been hugely successful too.
- 17 January 2011 at 08:47
- hatfield girl said...
'The informal "good authority" of families and local institutions like Churches and voluntary societies has been hollowed out quite deliberately. They are part of the "forces of conservatism", after all.'
Absolutely, ES, and could I add that this undermining was a specific and determinedly-pursued objective in the universities and teacher-training colleges partly, in fairness, because many were moving beyond the reach of such 'informal good authority' as our culture altered; so some were pushing the 'line' because they wanted to speed the process, others because the process was working and something had to take over.
While the EU has brought many ills to England I'm unsure it is responsible for such home-grown (or home-wreaked) circumstances, though. Church, faith and family are strong influences in most European member-states and there has been nothing like the degradation of their mass education systems, or refusal of personal responsibility for social provision suffered in England.
- 17 January 2011 at 09:43
- Raedwald said...
Jackart - I very carefully avoided saying that Libertarianism was selfish, saying only it was a cloak under which the selfish frequently hid their vice. As they do, as you point out, under other cloaks as well.
- 17 January 2011 at 10:40


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by Jay Syrmopoulos, August 11th 2016
Contained within WikiLeaks' recent release of hacked DNC emails is a message from billionaire globalist financier George Soros, to Hillary Clinton while she was U.S. Secretary of State, that clearly reveals Clinton as a puppet of the billionaire class.
Found within the WikiLeaks' Hillary Clinton email archive is an email with the subject 'Unrest in Albania,' in which Soros makes clear to Clinton that "two things need to be done urgently." He then directs the Secretary of State to "bring the full weight of the international community to bear on Prime Minister Berisha" and "appoint a senior European official as mediator." Revealing the influence he wields within the corridors of power, Soros then provides Secretary of State Clinton with three names from which to choose. Unsurprisingly, Clinton acquiesced and chose one of the officials recommended by Soros—Miroslav Lajcak.
Related WikiLeaks Exposes Hillary's Stunning Connection to ISIS — Mainstream Media Blackout Ensues
This is standard operating procedure for Soros. Anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the world since the late 1980's, will know that his supposedly philanthropic "democracy-building" projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the 1990's allowed Soros the businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries wealth, according to the New Eastern Outlook.
Soros-affiliated organizations are deeply connected to numerous color revolutions, the Arab Spring, and a number of other uprisings across the world. They have been intimately involved in the coup that took place in Ukraine, and subsequent ratcheting up of Cold War tensions with Russia.
In this particular instance, puppet master Soros instructs the U.S. Secretary of State that "the U.S. and European Union must work in complete harmony over this," exposing how far his influence in international relations extends.
With the recent revelations about the pay for play scheme between the Clinton Foundation, numerous donors, and the State Department on display in the latest release of Clinton emails by the Judicial Watch organization, it has become exceedingly apparent that the U.S. policy under Clinton is variable depending upon whether you have contributed to the Clinton Foundation.
Tellingly, Soros has committed $25 million dollars to the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, which, per standard Clinton operating procedure, is indicative of the symbiotic relationship of favors between the billionaire and his political puppets.Emails reveal Clinton Foundation ties https://t.co/WlCyB2ulcv— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 10, 2016
With Clinton's relationship with Soros on full display – taking donations and orders – Americans can be virtually certain that big money donations to the Clintons and their Clinton Foundation equate to official political favors from the U.S. government. The fact that Mrs. Clinton's foreign policy decisions when she was secretary of state were being advised by an unelected globalist billionaire raises serious red flags.
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Related Bilderberg Group Probably Backed Hillary Clinton For 2016 Presidency
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The strange thing, they told me, was the algorithm didn't seem to be getting much better at selecting relevant stories or reliable news sources. "I didn't notice a change at all," said one, who had worked on the team for close to a year. The system was constantly being refined, the former contractor added, by Facebook engineers with whom the trending contractors had no direct contact. But the improvements focused on the content management system and the curation guidelines the humans worked with. The feed of trending stories surfaced by the algorithm, meanwhile, was "not ready for human consumption—you really needed someone to sift through the junk." source
Looks like the robots which are supposed to make our lives easier don't come predicated with the inbuilt prejudices of the liberal media or the establishment. Who knew? I'm sure that as they continue to train programs to better eliminate false news sources, and as technology becomes more complex, some AI will see the elimination of those agents of false news as an inevitable conclusion.


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Yep, as you've guessed, this months Loot Crate was all about Villains and I'm not ashamed to say that this months Loot gave me total girlwood. Above you can see the magazine cover and the whole back and front was covered with the artwork, like a mini poster. Isn't the art awesome?
The first item is this Joki T-Shirt. Combining 2 of possibly the best Villains from across the Superhero multiverse and designed by Zack Finfrock who has done art for Loot Crate before, this t-shirt alone is well worth the price I pay for the box. Luckily, it was sent in the correct size too, as last month I was sent a Mens XL and couldn't be bothered with sending it all back from UK to US so had to sacrifice an awesome Marty Mcprime tee to hubs.
Next up is a Rocket Raccoon Comic book with an exclusive Loot Crate cover.
With the upcoming release of Guardians of the Galaxy, Rocket Raccoon is likely to become a familiar name and this comic book will help educate those of us that don't really know much of anything about the furry fighter.
With art by Skottie Young and exclusive cover art done by Dale Keown.
Then we have 2 posters, one Joker and one Harley Quinn. I love these posters. Both posters came together attached with a perforated making it easy to split in two and are each slightly thinner and longer than an A4 page. The artwork is beautiful, especially on the Harley poster and are a perfect addition to any comic book fans walls.
Aaaaaaah these Deadpool socks are awesome, I know socks with sandals is forbidden, but if I wear these with pretty sandals, would it make it acceptable?
Really it's too warm at the moment to be wearing socks at all, so maybe I will save the and keep them new and awesome for a more appropriate sock wearing season.
These Official Marvel socks really do make me wish it was Autumn or Winter. :(
It's not just comic book villains though, we also have a Darth Vader Keyring, one of those sturdy rubbery ones. Dilemma on this one is where to attach it, on the keys that have hundreds of keyrings and that get chucked around and dropped all over the place, on a Star Wars messenger bag which I seem to have forgotten the location of OR turn it into a funky Darth lover necklace. Hmmmmm?
Back to Superhero stuff, we have this Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics Documentary DVD which I might add is narrated by the super awesome Christopher Lee. Yes it is NTSC region but if I remember rightly, my laptop should switch between regions a few times, well, I hope anyway.
This is a little bit of a different item, I don't know if there have been any DVDs in Loot Crates before but I haven't received one until now and I think it is a great addition.
The final piece of Loot is a Bowser Propaganda fridge magnet. The colours on this magnet are really bright and stands out nicely on our white fridge. It sits nicely alongside the Attack on Titanfall Magnet from a few months ago and one day our fridge door shall be a nerdy, food filled, paradise.
The pin badge this months is also a little piece of awesome, with artwork taken from the cover.
And just to add that little extra sploosh into Looters unboxing, there was some art on the inside of the box.
So even if we count the posters as one item, that makes it 7 items in this box (not including pin badge). That's a whole lot of villainous villainy and as always, a really well thought out and put together box. I would even go as far as to estimate that the loot is waaaaaaay over what I paid for the box and if it's not then I don't even care.
If you haven't already signed up to Loot Crate then surely this month you have been convinced, and if your not yet convinced, then maybe the prospect of next months box will.
Yes, that's right, Heroes, the August theme is freaking Heroes. Excuse me while I drool a bit, ok a lot.
If you fancy signing up for Loot Crate before all the Heroes box have been purchased then what are you waiting for? Get your mush on, channel The Flash and click this different coloured bit right here and get a move on.
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May 2016
Classic Bike May 2016
It's been a rollercoaster of an issue. A four-bike test we had planned for this month's cover had to be cancelled at the last minute when registration paperwork for the main bike in the feature was missing in action.
But we managed to bring on a super substitute after spotting a Seeley Triumph at Anthony Godin's shop that we just had to get a ride on. I mean, how many Seeley Triumph café racers do you see? But then we hit paperwork problems with that, too. The special's frame numbers didn't match anything Colin Seeley had on record – but he revealed that he stamped his frames in an unusual place. Once we knew that, we found the original frame number and discovered it was a genuine Seeley frame – and that it had been owned by a famous racer! Read the full tale in Gez's road test – but it's the sort of detective story I think we all we love to hear about.
I found the background to Vincent's rich history fascinating, too – especially as our feature was written by Roy Harper, who was lucky enough to spend time with many of the men who created the history of the great British marque. I'm Mick's tale of the first works Norton Featherbed is equally engaging.
Enjoy the mag,
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Inside this issue
Swedish massage
Serial restorer Bonny Svensson has a rejuvenating touch when it comes to tired old Husqvarnas (and other obscurities). We visit his remote Scandinavian lair.
Not what it seems
Just another café racer? Think again. This unique Seeley Triumph hides secrets galore.
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James Marshall Crotty reporting … M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All
For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the "social injustice" of college tuition, here's a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.
The program will not allow students to earn an M.I.T. degree. Instead, those who are able to exhibit a mastery of the subjects taught on the platform will receive an official certificate of completion. The certificate will obviously not carry the weight of a traditional M.I.T. diploma, but it will provide an incentive to finish the online material. According to the New York Times, in order to prevent confusion, the certificate will be a credential bearing the distinct name of a new not-for-profit body that will be created within M.I.T.
Students using the program will be able to communicate with their peers through student-to-student discussions, allowing them an opportunity to ask questions or simply brainstorm with others, while also being able to access online laboratories and self-assessments. In the future, students and faculty will be able to control which classes will be available on the system based on their interests, creating a personalized education setting.