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Welcome to the Simply Living Blog Carnival cohosted by Mandy at Living Peacefully with Children, Laura at Authentic Parenting, Jennifer at True Confessions of a Real Mommy, and Joella at Fine and Fair. We hope that you will join us on the third Tuesday of each month. Submission deadline will be the second Tuesday of each month.
Simple Living means different things to different people. What we all have in common is that we are all trying to concentrate on what is important to us while eliminating those things which clutter our lives and take away from living. Please join us for the Simply Living Blog Carnival each month as we share our efforts to concentrate on those things that allow us to fully enjoy our lives. The blog carnival will occur monthly, with different themes each month. You can view the 2013 themes below.
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Upcoming Monthly Themes
January 2013: Simple Living Simple Living means something different to each person and family. We want to know how you, personally, define simple living for yourself and what that looks like in your life. Submission deadline: January 8. Carnival posting: January 15.
February 2013: New Beginnings It's been a month since the New Year began, and for most that means that any new resolutions have gone by the wayside. Have you started something new in order to bring about a more simple lifestyle? What prompted you to look at simple living? Share one of your new beginnings with us. Submission deadline: February 12. Carnival posting: February 19.
March 2013: Clearing the Clutter Not all clutter is physical, but any type of clutter can get to us. Do you declutter on a regular basis? Have you cut back on activities to spend more time as a family? Did you struggle with letting go? Share with us your views on clutter and how you incorporate those views into your lives. Submission deadline: March 12. Carnival posting: March 19.
April 2013: Going Green Just as simple living and voluntary simplicity have become catch phrases, so too has the phrase going green. How do green practices affect your decisions? Do you find that your simple lifestyle is in tune with environmental issues? Perhaps you have a practice or product which simplifies your life. Submission deadline: April 9. Carnival posting: April 16.
May 2013: Daily Lives Everyday life can be hectic. Talk to us about how you keep everyday things from overwhelming you. Are you an organizer or declutterer? Do you avoid shopping like the plague? Perhaps you treat yourself to picking up dinner for your family sometimes. What in your daily life helps keep things simple? Submission deadline: May 14. Carnival posting: May 21.
June 2013: Around the House House work never seems to end. What tips and tricks have you figured out to help keep your home running smoothly? Help others simplify their homes and their lives. Submission deadline: June 11. Carnival posting: June 18.
July 2013: With Kids Despite what the media may have us believe, many families are finding that simplifying their lives is very important to keeping life with kids running smoothly. Many families are cutting back on the number of activities. Others are cutting back on the number of possessions. Still others are insanely organized. What does your family do in order to simplify your life with kids? Submission deadline: July 9. Carnival posting: July 16.
August 2013: Celebrations There are many events in our lives worthy of celebrating, but often times those celebrations get out of control to the point that we no longer enjoy them. Do you plan lovely simple parties? do you have family traditions that are extra special to you? How do you keep the sanity in celebrations? Submission deadline: August 13. Carnival posting: August 20.
September 2013: Money Matters Everyone seems to have a different financial system or ways to simplify their finances. Do you have great budget? Do you save money? Are you a thrifty spender? Do you outsource some things in order to simplify your life? We want to hear what money matters are important to you! Submission deadline: September 10. Carnival posting: September 17.
October 2013: Enjoyment What is life if we aren't enjoying it? What do you do that you enjoy? Do you have hobbies or other things you love? How do you fit those things into your life? Tell us what you enjoy doing! Submission deadline: October 8. Carnival posting: October 15.
November 2013: Food Food and eating take up a portion of every one of our days. How do you view food in your version of simple living? Do you make everything from scratch? Do you go for easy to make items? Do you eat out a lot or have a food swap with others? Do you plan menus or have specific meals on certain days? Perhaps you are struggling with food allergies or budget constraints. Are you feeding a large family? Perhaps you have a favorite recipe that simplifies your life. Share with us how you simplify food. Submission deadline: November 12. Carnival posting: November 19.
December 2013: Gift Giving Gift giving is the cause of much stress for many families. Some families make handmade gifts while others find it more simple to purchase items. Gift exchanges and drawing names add more gifts to find, and budget often plays a part for many families. What do you do to keep gift giving simple? Submission deadline: December 10. Carnival posting: December 17.


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The pilot of a hot-air balloon that exploded, killing three people, in Virginia Friday may not have known that deadly power lines were near his landing site.
New reports say that the power lines the balloon hit may not have been on the pilot's map. When the balloon hit the wires, it caught fire. The balloon then exploded, killing two passengers and the pilot.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Monday that the power line "apparently wasn't on the map the pilot was looking at or not looking at, but we don't know for sure," according to NBC12 in Richmond.
Two members of the University of Richmond's women's basketball staff died in the explosion, according to the university: Associate head coach Ginny Doyle and director of basketball operations Natalie Lewis.
The pilot, Daniel Kirk, also died. Witnesses said he could be seen trying to exinguish the fire before the explosion.
Virginia State Police and investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are now focusing their efforts on finding the balloon wreckage. The incident happened in a rural part of Caroline County.
Anyone with photos or video of the balloon crash is asked to send them to the NTSB via email at mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com.
Preparations for the University of Richmond's graduation ceremonies were tinged with sadness Sunday.
"Words cannot begin to express our sorrow,'' Keith Gill, the school's athletic director, said in a news release. "We are all stunned by the tragic news. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their loved ones.''
Lewis just completed her second year as director of basketball operations for the women's team, according to a profile on the university's website. The Buffalo, New York, native was a four-year letter winner and two-time captain of the Spiders' swim team.
A spokeswoman for Lewis' family, Julie Snyder, called Lewis "an amazing person and a strong person, an athlete engaged to be married.''
Doyle, who graduated from Richmond in 1992 after a standout basketball career, served on the team staff for 16 years after that including nine winning seasons. She earned all-conference honors twice as a player.
"As alumnae, classmates, and colleagues and as invaluable and devoted mentors for our student-athletes, Ginny and Natalie have been beloved members of our community,'' university President Edward L. Ayers said in the news release.
The university canceled two weekend baseball games and held a moment of silence at commencement Saturday for its law school.
Amber Battle, who will be a senior next season, said from her home in Apex, N.C., that her coach, Michael Shafer, was keeping the team updated via text messages.
He told them that he was also at the balloon festival.
"I just can't believe this happened,'' she said.
Witnesses to the crash described a harrowing sight on the special preview night for the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival, which was set to open Saturday. About 740 people attended the preview event; the festival was canceled.
On the ground, "It was complete silence,'' spectator Nancy Johnson said. "There were people praying. It was horrible.''
The balloon was among 13 that lifted off Friday night from Meadow Event Park, home to the State Fair of Virginia, and was approaching a landing site nearby. Two of the balloons landed safely before the third hit the live power line, according to police.
The pilot attempted to retain control of the balloon and snuff the fire and two passengers either jumped or fell from the gondola, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.
"Then witnesses recall hearing an explosion and the fire continued to spread,'' Geller said.
She said another pilot interviewed by investigators described how the pilot tried to open vents to release extra-hot air in an attempt to keep the balloon from rising faster.
"Based on witness accounts, he did everything he could to try to save the passengers' lives,'' Geller said.
Troy Bradley, past president of the Balloon Federation of America, said most serious accidents on balloons -- including fires, electrocution or baskets becoming severed -- happen after hitting power lines.
Fatal accidents happen less often than with other types of aircraft, Bradley said.
"Hundreds of thousands of flights will go without any notice. That one that hits the news gets all the attention, but ballooning is a very, very safe form of aviation.''
Johnson, who went as a spectator to the festival with her husband, photographed the balloon after the accident. She said the crash near the park about 25 miles north of Richmond occurred in an instant.
"One minute the balloons were hovering in a field behind Event Park, the next everyone is pointing at sky,'' she said.
Carrie Hager-Bradley said she saw the balloon in flames on her way home from the grocery and heard people yelling.
"They were just screaming for anybody to help them,'' she told WWBT TV.

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The Saskatchewan Genealogical Society <www.saskgenealogy.com> was founded in 1969, and today it is a society with 20 branches throughout the province.
It has done yeoman's work in providing genealogical information on Saskatchewan residents such as the Saskatchewan Residence Index, the Saskatchewan Homestead Index, and the Cemeteries Index.
The organization will be 40 years old in 2009, and as part of its anniversary, it plans to publish a book called the Women Pioneers of Saskatchewan.
But they need more people to submit write-ups of up to 2,000 words and two pictures on each of the women who will be included in the book. If you have Saskatchewan females, and have sent anything in to them - won't you consider sending in their life story, and have it published in a book? The deadline is January 2009.
The president of the society was in London this past spring at the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) Conference this spring to get an idea of how Ontario did its conference. She was very pleased with what she found, with the way it was organized, and in fact has invited some of the people who gave lectures in London to give talks in Saskatchewan.
The 2009 Conference will be held from April 23rd to April 26th, and this year they have invited Ian Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of Canada; Louise St. Denis, Managing Director of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies; and Dick Eastman of Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter fame.


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These are super easy to make, all you need is some vegetables and wonton wrappers ( find them at an asian food store). I had 2 packages in the fridge, that were screaming to be used this afternoon. Since its raining and miserable outside I thought I would give it a try.
I found a great recipe on Vegan Yum Yum.Since there was no way I was going to make seitan this afternoon for the filling, I thought I could use up some of the veggies I bought yesterday.


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The night before I left Michigan for New York City in 2004 I'd rented a room at The Courtyard Inn out by the highway so I could sit on white sheets alone and decide who to be next. Blake* came by and we laid on the bed and looked at each other and I took photos of him with my new cell-phone and we talked about how much we liked each other and how much he'd miss me.
Then we fucked and I could see in the mirror when I looked up that blood was dripping down both my legs, bright red and almost beautiful and I thought it'd scare him or me but it didn't. (I mean I wasn't like that. I mean it wasn't like me. I couldn't wait more than two or three minutes after sex with men before dashing to the bathroom to scrub everything off me, to 'detail' my bellybutton ring like I could get pregnant or die that way. Then I scrub memories too but I didn't scrub this one and so; bear with me. I feel like it matters or I wouldn't be telling you, trust me.)
(But I gave that up, too: the idea of sex being clean, because I mean what makes you more vulnerable than being fucked and dirty too, and how can you have sex if you aren't vulnerable? But also so much has changed since then, about sex.)
He kept fucking me because this could be the end of it, after all. Who'd ever said that we didn't have to shed a little blood on our way out? Or leave some damages on the carpet or even stain my brain with the memory of my thighs in the mirror, shocked by myself and unsure, thinking to myself 'we are animals who bleed' and also how the Pill they'd switched me to was fucking me up, because you know, for so long, for a year or so I hadn't bled at all except on purpose. So this was a new thing for me and Blake.
I was thinking of that Tom Waits song we wanted to play at our funeral, Take it With Me, and thinking of the morning in February after we'd polished off $150 of cocaine in four hours and how he'd left my room and my house bleeding. I had the smallest room in a house I shared with seven Kappa Kappa Gammas and one best friend and when I was sad I'd just turn out the lights and turn up Fiona Apple and listen to my friends talk about me outside the door. Anyhow he was fucking me and I was thinking of how he'd left bleeding that morning and when I called him eight or eight hundred times later in the depressive throes of "coming down" and "wondering why he was spending the afternoon with that other girl after what he said last night" he told me that he'd bled all the way home, that his mouth was bloody and he'd bled all over his shirt and how I'd told him, 'my everything is bleeding' even though I was just talking about my heart but that was what I did with everything, then, I said 'do you want to get ice cream' and even then I was just talking about my heart.
I stayed that way -- splayed, bleeding, fucked, shocked by my reflection in the mirror, at various degrees for the whole summer. See I haven't been in love that many times, really. I've wanted to be in love so many times and sometimes I wanted to be in love so badly that I thought I was in love but I wasn't. But I was in love with Blake and he can have that forever if he wants it. The last man I ever fell in love with.
So that summer I was still that girl in the mirror but also; I was sometimes the girl I still am now if you happen to catch me laughing or vulnerable or honest for a minute. I was the girl who came to New York City because I thought it was the only place I could both be myself and be loved. I didn't know who i was but I showed up just the same in those obnoxious flirty mini-skirts I wore and purchased all summer in electric blue, bright yellow, hot pink and light pink. I also had these hot pink Puma sandals and a Star of David necklace I wore because 2004 was a year that a lot of people were talking shit about Israel and I was sick of listening to it so I thought the necklace would scare people. Don't ask me why I thought what I thought about politics, I'm sure I was just repeating whatever someone I admired had said out loud to me in a dark room while I nodded.
So that summer Blake kept me hanging on for a bit 'til he met someone else who he said was just like me, as if that would make it hurt less, and I wailed and screamed and then I eventually met someone else too, by September.
But in the meantime, that summer in 2004, when I got to New York but left my heart elsewhere -- girls were okay. I could be with girls if I wanted to and so I was. It wasn't hard to meet girls here.
I mean that's how it started. I mean that's what I told myself about how it started.
I'm leaving New York City in seven days and I don't know how to write about that. I don't know how to be honest with myself about what it means, with respect to the dreams I came here for and the fact that although I feel perfectly ready to admit defeat and flee, I don't honestly think that's true. I don't think I necessarily messed up though I definitely spent most of my time here messing up.
I didn't come here to be gay, that's for sure. When I write "that's for sure" I'm actually just imitating the boyfriend I got to get over Blake, this ridiculously nice boy I met at my second serving job that summer who left his wife because of me but not FOR me -- it's just that we talked about things he'd never talked about before. It's strange how some men can go their entire lives without once talking about their feelings to anybody. He always said "that's for sure" in this way that made him seem so young and trying-hard-to-be-sure even though he was eight years older. But unsure. He'd lived here all his life and knew things that made me feel safe. That's for sure.
Anyhow I left him or we broke up. You already know that part. About how I leave and leave and leave and I've spent my whole life leaving and I only stopped because I ran out of the money I used to use to leave. Because I have a lot of books and books are heavy and hard to move and mean more to me than people. That's a lie.
That's something I learned here: meeting a person you really feel something for -- meeting a person you can't do without -- god, that's fucking rare. I mean that's something. It's something worth staying or leaving for, though I wouldn't advise it, but it's been known to happen.
I changed here. Dramatically.
I hate it here, I love it here. I don't want to remember loving it here. Something changed. It was me or it was here. It was me or it was you. It was the internet it was my heart it was the day I looked at a photograph of a window and decided I had to leave.
I wanted to tell you something about the people I met here who I love and who changed me. Or the things I did where I woke up or looked out the window and thought 'i could be anybody' or 'i am an animal who bleeds.' I'm not just talking about New York City who I also loved and who changed me or who let me change because the thing is you can be whoever you want here. You can be ten people in one day.
It's August 2004, before I got my new boyfriend but after I lost the old one and also my heart, and I'm standing in Justin's apartment in Columbus Circle and he is sleeping. I am in his living room and i am thinking, 'this is the nicest apartment I've ever been in.' I walk to the window and below me is the whole city, giant with it's golden mouth wide open and everyone inside on their way to somewhere else. I wonder how he keeps it so clean. I want to move things around, eat things and then put them back. I'm naked at the window and wonder if he'd ever considered, as I do, what it would look like to take a running leap towards that gigantic window. I mean how much glass would break.
It's February 2006 and I'm in a blizzard with Kat* and Jenny after the Black Hearts Party at the Chelsea Piers and me and Kat are in our boots and fishnets and our makeup is smeared and compromised but it doesn't really matter because the snow is more beautiful than either of us will ever be though sometimes together we did feel beautiful; and she was. She was graceful and even in anger had a precise velocity I admired a great deal. We finally get that cab to that subway to our home and it's only the next morning that I realize we crossed that line again, and I'd wonder what that meant if I wasn't so confused, in general, about what everything means. It was fun. I knew that much. We'd had a time. What were lines, anyway? I mean how fucked up were we? Why didn't anyone stop us?
We're in our Brooklyn living room after work, watching Pretty Persuasion for the third time eating spaghetti and things feel easy and sustainable. We're in our kitchen watching the couple across the alley again.I mean we've seen these people do everything. 'Do they know we're watching,' Kat asks, and someone (me or her) says 'Do you think they're watching us,' because after all, we know how to perform. We know how to be shadows.
She's one of the people who will still be here as I drive away, I think, and who may or may not know how much I loved her in a heightened, confusing and often self-destructive way that changed me forever, and I think changed her forever too, or maybe that's just what I told myself when I drove away, feeling like she hated me because I didn't really understand yet how the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference and she wasn't indifferent.
I think she's doing what she came to New York to do. I hope she is. I mean I loved her gut and would've taken care of it.
These are the things you can do here.
These are the stories I can tell now because they're over. This is how I keep everybody alive. I pretend to leave but I'm not really, because as soon as I'm gone the stories begin, I can't stop telling them.
It's May 2006 and I'm in Haviland's bed the night before I have to fly to New Orleans and the way I cried earlier while Kat yelled at me and I packed like a maniac who didn't know how to wear clothing and who, consequently, had to wear beat-up Converse with Kat's polka-dotted dress to my brother's graduation ceremony the next day, much to everyone's dismay, and Haviland says "I don't know what's going on with us, but that's okay with me," and later on she says something about a treasure hunt and a few years later (I think) I'll know that part was from Tipping the Velvet.
It's December 2007 and I'm sitting in the corner by the bathroom in my apartment in Harlem, maybe tripping but maybe not, and Alex is there too and I look at her and I tell her that I'm bad news. I tell her if she thinks this is bad, it's only going to get worse. She says it doesn't seem like bad news to her and it takes me a year or two to realize she meant it. I think she is the happiest and purest thing I've ever seen in my life and I want her to stay that way forever, no matter what happens next, and I don't want her to ever stop dancing or being a rabbit.
It's a few days later and I'm having breakfast with Tara at a diner a few blocks from the Upper East Side hospital where Heather is sick and I want to eat Tara's head off I love her so much. I'm texting Caitlin, maybe, I mean that's likely. Haviland is slipping and she'll move away soon. We're all still excited about that fake vacation that never happened. I think about how much time I've spent in hospitals that year and how much better 2008 will be. I grin at Tara because she's not in the hospital anymore and I can touch her face whenever I want to.
Or it's September 2007 and I'm on the island between streets on the Lower East Side practicing with Stephanie for my reading at Happy Endings. I'm happy that she's agreed to read with me, happy to see her again after so long, happy that she didn't forgive me that December prior when I'd asked her to because she forced me to change. I think of how she's such a beautiful person and whomever gets to crack the surface is likely to find wells of empathy and history and heart there. I think someone has, now.
After the reading I'm sitting on that street in the Lower East Side with Stef (not Stephanie) and I think I'm crying. She's rubbing my back and telling me it's gonna be okay. I've never cried on the street like this before and I'm crying about all this other stuff, the stuff that made me afraid to leave my apartment except for previously scheduled events. I can't remember. New York City is a place to love people but it's also a place to let the night shatter you into pieces -- not neat pieces, not clean jutting diamond blades from hell but into just MUSH, into just something gross that you want to scrub off later.
It's November 2007 and I'm running down the stairs of my apartment away from that ridiculous 'potluck' my roommate held to sell us something with Caitlin and Haviland and we're laughing so hard I think we all might die, dashing into Caitlin's crappy car and making jokes… It's July 2007 and I'm on the rooftop with Carly at the gallery opening from hell where we were supposed to sell something to somebody I think but instead just made fun of everybody… it's January 2008 and Alex is walking into that hotel room at The W and she says "what the FUCK is going on here" and then she turns around and then she turns back and it's too late, we're already laughing, I mean it's over, I mean how fucking cute can one person get, "I am REALLY drunk right now," she adds, but really, what's that to any of us then at that point.
I don't know the person in any of those scenes. I recognize her but I don't know how to hold her or keep her safe. I love her though. I love her because she gave herself permission to love recklessly and jump heedlessly off things more serious than cliffs. I love her because she hadn't paid her processing fees. I don't want to be her again because being her was often sad and hard but worth it. Because this is "it."
What of recent history? I can't handle that shit. Whatever just happened is a thing I just can't think of just yet. I don't ever think of what I'm doing while I'm doing it. Like right now? How I'm packing and leaving? How I honestly think that I maybe picked the right place this time? How I feel like I learned something from experience and I trust my gut for the first time ever and as fucking pissed off I've been, I also feel more certain of the future than I ever have before in the weirdest craziest way possible? That's a lie. I know things now, though. That's not a lie.
Do you feel me walking away, probably not, because I am already hiding behind a rock, packing my slingshot. That's just a thing. I mean that's just a story I'll tell to the 6-7 people who want to read it, way later. There are some secrets I'll keep for years and I don't know yet quite what those are. There's some I'm only now learning how to tell. There's some I want to eat and dance about. There's also most things which are not secrets.
I can't. I mean really. I've spent this whole post trying to get to a point about leaving New York City or about loving people or about how I came here splayed and bleeding and left here with hearts beating still and all I could do was talk about moments where everything was so heavy that I couldn't walk around it or lose it. Moments when I couldn't starve me out of me.
I'm moving to California for no reason and by that I mean I want to step into a circle of light, break right in there and raise some hell.
I want to say that I want to look in the mirror and recognize something in it. But when the blood is that red and that beautiful, I'd be lying if I said I didn't love that, too. I came here to have adventures less local than a highway or a mirror or a clean white hotel room or my familiar, dull, heartache.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do it all over again, but smarter this time, but stupider this time, and in the sunshine.


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Nik's IEP is next week. I have been in constant contact with his teacher (who gets him, thank God; she really gets him), writing goals and summaries, researching and ranting to friends about "stupid OT's" who think my kid needs a handwriting goal… again; Nik's teacher will set her straight.
As far as IEP's go, I think this one shouldn't be too bad; Nik's got a really great team working with him this year. They get him; they have seen the funny, smart, affectionate child I see. They know him well enough to recognize when he is having an off day which is not representative of his potential.
Still, I'm not going to lie; the anxiety is really running deep over this one. We are making big changes, big requests and, possibly, even adding some new letters to the already overflowing alphabet-soup of diagnoses and classifications which are a significant part of Nik's educational record. We're losing some services but gaining others…for now. We're going to be asking for a minimum two-hundred percent increase in one of his services; I expect a lot of push-back on that (thus the reading and research). Over all, though? I'm hoping for good things and easy resolutions. And yet…
He's nine. NINE. The gaps between my child and his peers are growing so much wider and the fears I have for my his future are taking root ever deeper in my spirit. The emotions are hard to push down.
I see-saw between hope and despair, manic laughter and tears.
My fingernails have all been cut off to keep me from biting them to the quick.
I may or may not have indulged in some emotional eating lately.
It feels like so much is at stake in this particular meeting. This particular year. It feels pivotal and overwhelmingly, intensely…huge.
It's too much. And I am foundering.


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Kathy Griffin is getting ready for the holidays in her own special way.
"Suckin' It For The Holidays," the scathing new comedy CD from the stand-up provocateur, is in stores today.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Kathy Griffin & George Takei Channel 'Jon & Kate' For 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'
Recorded live during Kathy's sold-out show at the Borgota Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey on June 6, 2009, the "Suckin' It For The Holidays" CD includes a full-color booklet featuring Kathy Griffin and Santa Claus in a winter wonderland.
"[This]is my holiday gift to Grammy voters," Griffin said. "It gives them a second chance to do the right thing this year at Best Comedy Album time. The Emmys on my mantle are dying to hang out with a real Grammy."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Holiday Season In Hollywood
A digital-only edition of the album was released in late August in advance of the Grammy eligibility cut-off date.
On this new album, Griffin provides iconoclastic takes on Katie Couric, Maya Angelou, Suze Orman, Justin Timberlake, T.I., Donald Trump, 'The Real Housewives,' Heidi and Spencer, her own mother and much more.
"Suckin' It For The Holidays" is Griffin's follow-up to 2008's "For Your Consideration," which earned her Best Comedy Album Grammy nomination. Kathy became the first female comedian ever to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Kathy Griffin
For tour dates and more information on Kathy, please visit her website at www.kathygriffin.net.
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To keep global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius would require leaving most fossil fuels in the ground. That means taking on the immense power of the fossil fuel corporations, something that the United States and the governments of other major economies are not willing to do. Unless we are able to build a mass climate justice movement that can force them to take meaningful action, we are going off the climate cliff. --PG
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By JUSTIN GILLIS NOV. 28, 2015
After two decades of talks that failed to slow the relentless pace of global warming, negotiators from almost 200 countries are widely expected to sign a deal in the next two weeks to take concrete steps to cut emissions.
The prospect of progress, any progress, has elicited cheers in many quarters. The pledges that have already been announced "represent a clear and determined down payment on a new era of climate ambition from the global community of nations," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in a statement a month ago.
Yet the negotiators gathering in Paris will not be discussing any plan that comes close to meeting their own stated goal of limiting the increase of global temperatures to a reasonably safe level.
They have pointedly declined to take up a recommendation from scientists, made several years ago, that they set a cap on total greenhouse gases as a way to achieve that goal, and then figure out how to allocate the emissions fairly. The pledges countries are making are voluntary, and were established in most nations as a compromise between the desire to be ambitious and the perceived cost and political difficulty of emissions cutbacks.
In effect, the countries are vowing to make changes that collectively still fall far short of the necessary goal, much like a patient who, upon hearing from his doctor that he must lose 50 pounds to avoid life-threatening health risks, takes pride in cutting out fries but not cake and ice cream.
The scientists argue that there is only so much carbon — in the form of exhaust from coal-burning power plants, automobile tailpipes, forest fires and the like — that the atmosphere can absorb before the planet suffers profound damage, with swaths of it potentially becoming uninhabitable.
After years of studying the issue, the experts recommended to climate diplomats in 2013 that they consider the concept of a "carbon budget" to help frame the talks. Yet the idea was quickly dismissed as politically impractical, and more recent pleas from countries like Bolivia to consider it have been ignored.
If any serious push had been made ahead of Paris to divvy up the emissions budget, the negotiators "would have all run screaming from the room," said Michael A. Levi, an energy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, in New York. "So that's not a real alternative."
The carbon budget will probably not get much attention in Paris for simple reasons.
Wrestling with a budget would, for instance, throw into stark relief the global inequities at the heart of the climate crisis. And it would underscore just how big the problem really is, how costly the delay in tackling it has been and how inadequate the plans being discussed in Paris are for limiting the risks.
Consider, for example, that Europe, the United States and China have offered emissions-reduction pledges that are their most ambitious ever. And yet, if their plans are carried out, a recent analysis suggests those regions will use up most of the remaining room for emissions in the atmosphere, leaving relatively little for the other five billion people on the planet or their descendants.
To change that equation, the biggest polluters would have to commit to cutting their emissions at rates that would be difficult to achieve, potentially disruptive to their economies and politically unrealistic.
Moreover, any serious discussion of the carbon budget would amplify a point of serious contention, known as "climate injustice," in the talks. It refers to the idea that poor countries bear little past responsibility for climate change but are first in line to suffer its consequences, without much capacity to protect themselves.
Many of those same countries want to develop their economies by burning some fossil fuels, but because decades of high emissions by richer countries have created such profound risks, they are under pressure to adopt costlier green energy instead.
The idea of a carbon budget is based on a goal that the nations of the world set for themselves. In hopes of heading off the worst effects of climate change, they agreed in Cancún in 2010 to try to keep the warming of the planet to no more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2 degrees Celsius, above the level that prevailed before the Industrial Revolution.
Many scientists do not believe that such a limit would be particularly safe — it may still cause the sea to rise 20 feet or more, for instance, over a long period — but they agree that going beyond it would certainly be disastrous, precipitating an even larger rise of the sea, catastrophic heat waves, difficulty producing enough food and many other problems.
A series of scientific papers in 2009 demonstrated that limiting the temperature increase to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit could be achieved by calculating the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that could be emitted into the atmosphere before emissions needed to stop. The United Nations committee that periodically reviews climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, highlighted the idea in a report it issued in Stockholm in 2013.
The group calculated a budget that can be thought of as something like — to use another food metaphor — a carbon pie, with the central question being: How can it be carved up fairly?
The problem is that about two-thirds of the pie has already been eaten by a handful of rich countries, plus China. At current rates, the remainder of it will be gone in 30 years or less. Many poor countries are crowding around the table, pleading for a sliver, but the big emitting countries insist on laying claim to most of the rest of the pie.


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South and East Ukraine – Democratization of Public Affairs Management: Increasing Citizen and Media Participation in Decision-Making Processes
10.03.2011 / 16:45 | Aktualizováno: 10.03.2011 / 16:47
People in Need, 2007
Amount of financial assistance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: CZK 897,715
Implementation period:January 2007 – December 2007
People in Need have conducted trainings in south and east Ukraine in two fields essential to the functioning of a democratic society: independent journalism and public cooperation with decentralized local government.
Enhancing the quality of journalism – training in investigative journalism
PIN organized a series of seminars in Donetsk focused on investigative and civic internet journalism and the legal protections available for investigative journalists. Young Ukrainian journalists were given practical trainings on the writing of investigative articles. The best authors met prominent Czech investigative journalists to learn more about the standards of independent journalism through a study visit to the Czech Republic. The Ukrainian press has already published a number of these reports. An anthology was published which included all of the reports, methodology of investigative journalism and analysis of its contemporary standing in east and southeast Ukraine.
Transformation towards democracy – local self-government
In Donetsk, Czech experts explained the basic changes that the Czech Republic has witnessed in the sphere of local self-government since 1989. Publications regarding the process were distributed to the professional public in Ukraine. In addition, representatives from Czech and Ukrainian local government and non-governmental sector shared their experience of cooperation between local government and NGOs. Through these activities, PIN has established contacts for the project's next stages which will focus on disseminating information about the best examples and practices of local self-government and citizen participation in the Czech Republic.
The following experts and institutions took part in the project as instructors, presenters and/or organizers:
Jaroslav Formánek (Respekt magazine), Adam Junek (Aktuálně.cz), Jaromír Jech (Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic), Bohdan Kopčák (Ukrainski Žurnal; The Ukrainian Journal), Ladislav Kryštof (mayor of the town of Uhersky Brod), Ondřej Kundra (Respekt magazine), Pavel Mička (Agora Central Europe), Pavel Ondra (lawyer), Petr Pithart (Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Zdeněk Slepička (Kladno Municipal Office)
Oleg Jelcov (investigative journalist), Jaroslav Kolgushev (Ostro.org), Jelena Kolgusheva (Ostro.org), Press Club Donetsk, RDA Donbass
Special acknowledgements for support and cooperation should be given to the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Donetsk.


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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Off for the weekend...
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J-Pan digger
Yellow's not my thing, and color can make or break a bike. This guy pulled it off.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
tIt's Friday... Get out your sunglasses
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Texas Bike Works
These cats built the ironhead using an old Ness frame. They're now repopping these frames for both sporties and big twins. Their prices are inline with the cost of what most used original Ness big twin frames are fetching. Makes me almost want to pick one up and throw the drivetrain from my glide in one. Maybe down the road.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Happy Easter
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Blower Install
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Digger for sale
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Can you dig it, Monday?
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Show Rod Sunday
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Craigslist's most shocking
I don't know what's worse. That someone built this or the fact that someone will probably buy this! WTF?
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Digger Monday
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Modesto, Ca
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Digger Monday...more Dave!
Skinny frame...√
Lotso rake...√
Ridiculously small tank...√
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Gold leaf and wild paint...√
= a digger! Perewitz perfection!
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Sunday Show Rods
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Atco Raceway
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With the number of domestic wind turbine manufacturers in China now totalling almost 40, foreign suppliers are facing increasingly tough competition to secure a foothold on the Chinese market. There will be "several years of chaos in China," warns Pan Weiping from the local office of British wind power consultancy Garrad Hassan. Paulo Soares from Indian wind turbine maker Suzlon agrees. "Either we will have a price war, companies will become insolvent or foreigners will just use China as a basis for export for their international business, or maybe all three at the same time," he says. Both Pan and Soares were speaking at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) held at the end of March in Beijing by Euromoney Energy Events and the China Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA).
The growth in domestic manufacturers in China at the same time as an influx of foreign manufacturers follows the setting of ambitious government wind targets for the country and a policy which sets a 70% local content mandate for wind plant. The targets aim for 5000 MW installed capacity by 2010 and 30,000 MW by 2020. Already the 2010 target looks almost certain to be achieved ahead of time, prompting industry speculation it will be raised, something China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has no intention of doing, CREIA's Li Junfeng told delegates. The target is a minimum expectation, he said. He confirmed the 5000 MW goal could be achieved as early as the end of next year but added: "NDRC thinks the speed of development is a little too fast. The domestic industry is not yet ready."
Most domestic manufacturers are producing technology based on licenses granted by European wind turbine companies, with Goldwind, which secured an early licence with Germany's Repower, the most successful domestic manufacturer to date. Other Chinese engineering companies are committed to independent product development, an approach NDRC encourages. Chinese designed turbines remain at the prototype stage, however.
Quantity and quality
While some delegates at REFF suggested the Chinese rush into turbine manufacturing could come at a price that sees quantity prevail over quality, Pan says it is too early to tell. "Certainly it's too early to comment on any significant problems in the new emerging Chinese manufacturers. We'll see if their turbines run, for example, over several months. We can see the operating data and then we automatically know what kind of problems we have," he said. "The industry bottleneck right now is the supply chain, as well as experienced wind engineers."
Soares said Chinese suppliers are not serious rivals to foreign companies at present -- even though their market share has increased from 20% in 2004 to around 40% in 2006. But that will change with time, he said. "We're not afraid of competition in the future," he said. "We hope there will be good Chinese companies in the coming years, but the learning process is a very important part of company growth." Pan pointed out that the rush to enter wind turbine manufacturing is fuelled by government. "We may see industry consolidation in a few years down the road, but right now there are all sorts of government incentive programs to support local manufacturing industries." He added: "Finally the market will decide who can survive."
Government bias
Delegates heard that turbines supplied by foreign firms, many of which have set up manufacturing in China to meet the local content mandate, are often up to 15% more expensive than those sold by Chinese firms. But until confidence in the reliability of new domestic machines grows this is not seen as a major obstacle for the market's global leaders such as Suzlon and Vestas.
Some believe the government's pricing policy for wind power leaves profit margins wafer thin, making life particularly hard for overseas manufacturers and project developers. Furthermore, of four large government tenders for wind power purchase contracts, all have gone to large state-owned enterprises at prices which many have argued are too low to be viable. A fifth tender round is due this year, according to NDRC representatives at REFF, but details on specific projects are still pending.
According to Shi Pengfei of the China Wind Energy Association (CWEA), there is no bias against foreign companies. "The Chinese government does not favour large state-owned enterprises against private or foreign contenders, at least not on the levels of policies and the law," he said. The fact that most national wind projects have been awarded to state companies has to do with their anticipation of the government's green energy targets, Shi said. "Although the introduction of the quota remained uncertain, it has had a real impact on the Chinese wind market, with a number of companies heavily investing in renewable energy resources." Shi advised would-be investors to do a good job of surveying the market and potential resources before jumping into the sector.
The easy route
Soares said foreign companies and private developers would be wise not to bank on securing large central state concession projects, but instead to look to provincial markets under the control of local government. "I would not say that foreign developers have no chance," he said. "But I think it would be easier to go on a provincial level and start from there, as opposed to going for the national concession projects. That, we think, is a much more difficult proposition." At present, provincial governments generally offer better power purchase rates than those of concession projects.
In addition, under China's renewable energy law, all renewable energy should benefit from favourable tax treatment, although the specific methods are still to be announced. The country has just passed its new taxation law, but did not include renewable energy in the list of sectors and products eligible for tax breaks. CREIA's Li Junfeng said many companies have complained to the state administration of taxation. Subsequently, the department has promised to correct the mistake by adding renewable energy into upcoming revisions of the law.


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EPISODE 148: Eddie M – My Trip To The Sky EP (Bonzai Elemental)
Born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, and now based in the capital of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, DJ and producer Eddie M began playing professionally in 2007. With a background in musical instruments and a passion for electronic music, the work of Eddie quickly drew the attention at the scene of Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul), one of the most traditional in Brazil.
After a long DJ career that took him to many places like Jimbaran, Madras, Cozumel and Cafe De La Musique he is now a resident of the 688 Club (Porto Alegre). Being very charismatic and with the great ability to identify the needs of the dance-floor crowd, it did not take long before Eddie broke the boundaries of his home state and moved on to new challenges. Clubs established in Brazil as the Green Valley and Santa Catarina Warung, the Pacha Sao Paulo and Rio Nuth were some of the locations where Eddie showed his ability. He also became a regular at major events such as Planeta Atlantida and Tribe as he was always very comfortable with large audiences. In addition, Eddie M has also performed at the famous Club Avalon Hollywood located in the United States and recently played the best New Year's Eve in Punta del Este in Uruguay with Sharam and Miss Nine.
The innovative character of Eddie motivated him in 2009 to start producing. After a lot of commitment and devotion to learn how to produce music by himself, 2010 saw the birth of his first tracks. In less than a year Eddie has released five songs. The track "Rain From The Suite 902" which was produced in partnership with Argentine BONG, stayed for several weeks on the list of 100 most downloaded songs of its kind on the Beatport site. In 2011 the track "Midnight Blue" and its remix by Miss Nine – both released by the label 925 Digital – were also well received and integrated into many DJ-sets and charts.
The only explanations for such a fast uprise of a newcomer are: Talent, determination and a relentless passion for great music. Eddie M combines them perfectly and with him the future of Brazilian electronic music is surely guarantied and in good hands.
EPISODE 149: Philthy Chit – 0.8 (Green Martian)
Philthy Chit (aka Phil Taylor & Chitra Kumar) are the resident dj's at Manchester based progressive house night AGENDA. Having successfully run the night on a monthly basis for the past 3 years, hosting the best dj's in the trance & progressive scene, the pair have recently begun focussing on producing their own music.
Their first track "Southbound On The Northern Line" was signed to Bonzai Progressive and was released in September 2011 with a Citizen 42 remix. The track received support from the likes of Airwave, Thorin van Gelden, as well as entering the Audiojelly prog house chart at number 2 and staying in the top 10 for the next 6 weeks.
Their most recent relase "0.8", a dark driving prog trance track, has now been signed to Bonzai and is due for release on Green Martian Records, along with an excellent deep remix by Manu Riga.
2012 proves to be an exciting year for Philthy Chit. The pair are currently in the studio working on a collaboration with Trilucid, and are already being booked to work on remixes with Trilucid as well as remixing for Bonzai Progressive, whilst regularly dj-ing at AGENDA and other nights in the UK.
EPISODE 150: Junk Deluxe – Night In The Congo (Bonzai Basiks)
Emmanuel Benami:
Born in 1983, Israel, and started producing music at the age of 10 (since 1993-today) making my first steps at the underground plant-traxxx website until I was ranked number 1 and discovered by German labels.
My first release was a remix for the G&M Project – Dreaming About Paprica 2003 – along with Dave Joy and 2 Players. Subsequent to my first release my first single vinyl was followed under the – Informers – alias signing the – The Dawn of Mankind- , which scored 5/5 at both DJ-Mag and IDJ-Mag and was supported by top DJs such as: Marcel Woods, Cosmic Gate, SHOKK, Mat Silver, Tony Burt, and many more.
After several more releases the alias Coldware was founded and got massive support to its first single – Fusion – from well known DJs (Marco V, Benjamin Bates, Above & Beyond, Johan Gielen and more). – Fusion – was followed by another great hit that was played in clubs all over the world getting support from Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Marcel Woods, Marco V., M.I.K.E and many more.
In 2007 I have remixed (then and true to 2010) Armin Van Buuren all-time club theme -Communication – that was released in Armind (label distributed by Sony BMGH) and ranked number one in sales on Beatport and charts all over the world.
Throughout this time I have been spinning in the major clubs in Israel and abroad (including Dome, Ha Oman 17 Jerusalem, Zoom, the old Pacha Israel, Octopus, TLV, and others). I spin various styles; from House music to Tech-Trance, Electro and Breakbeats and I am always inspired by the crowed; thus I am always playing the music the crowed de- sires to hear. Currently I am playing in Hong Kong, mainly at Drop.
By the end of 2007 I have moved to Hong Kong and continued producing mainly under the Emmanuel B. alias.
Currently (2010), together with Janva and Natalie Hardoon, I have formed a new group named Junk Deluxe. We are in the process of working of a new EP and new singles to be released in the coming months.
In addition, all my tracks were highly exposed throughout major radio stations around the world including: BBC Radio 1, ID&T – Slam FM, D-I (Digitally Imported), ASOT – A State of Trance, and many more.
Being an avid music devotee, Janva has been in the music and club industry since 1990 being the audio & visual manager and resident DJ at the notorious California Bar in Lan Kwai Fong, the center of nightlife in Hong Kong. Along the years, Janva has been performing with renowned artists; from Simply Red to performing together with Tiesto in Bangkok, Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Boy George and Grace Jones live on stage for more than 10,000 people at the legendary Unity Party in Hong Kong, as well as appearing together with John Creamer at the Out of Space party at Club Yellow in Tokyo. Janva passion for moving the crowds was not confined to Hong Kong only. From Hong Kong to New York, London, Italy, Indonesia, China, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Macau, Guam and many more were destinations Janva has been blasting the crowds with house, break beats, electro, and tech-house vibes. – Its not about the music style, its all about the people. I make them move –
Nevertheless, Janva enthusiasm for music did not stop there. Throughout the years Janva has been sponsored by numerous famous brands that kept on bringing him back to dance floor.
Janva has also shown to be a perfectionist when DJing. Throughout the years he had been highly ranked in the Superman DJ Battle in New York (sponsored by The Source Magazine), and was also the DMC mixing champion worldwide representing Hong Kong in the world finals in London. Janva also
produced and released a few EPs worldwide during these years.
In 2010 Janva has collaborated with Emmanuel B. (aka. Coldware/Emmanuel B./Informers) who has been signed, among other famous labels in Europe, on Armada records with Armin Van Buuren, and is known best for remixing Armin all-time classic anthem Communication. Emmanuel remix has been
the best selling version of this almighty track ever since. Together, Janva & Emmanuel had formed the group Junk Deluxe and since then have started producing and performing together. Among their latest tracks, a track named Take Me To Space has been ranked number 1 in Club Space Miami original track contest 2010 and was the most favoured track.
EPISODE 151: Various Artists – Progrez EP – Volume 6 (Progrez)
Volume 6 of the Progrez EP series, this time with four original tracks and remixes by James Harcourt, The Electric Press, Martin Eyerer & Stephan Hinz, Nic Fanciulli, Hernan Cattaneo & John Tonks, Audiofly presents Liars Paradise and Geddes.
EPISODE 152: Planisphere vs Digital Angel – Trinidad Flashback (Bonzai Progressive)
Planisphere aka Airwave, a musical chameleon with over 1000 tracks under his belt in 16 years of music business, returns with remix from James Harcourt where he brings his techno side to us.
Early support list:
Claudio Coccoluto, Mike Kelly, Luca Morris, Aron Friedman, Mario Più, Different Language, Jonas Wahrlich , Renato Cohen, …
EPISODE 153: Zodiacal Light – Fire in the Sky (Green Martian)
Zodiacal Light is a producer from the Houston, Texas, area. He has been producing Trance, Progressive Trance, and Progressive House for over 6 years now. Zodiacal Light discovered electronic music in the early 80s via the Kraftwerk album "Computer World." Being primarily a guitarist, he concentrated on rock and metal and even formed several bands. Upon discovering computers in the late 90s, Zodiacal Light set music aside for a while. An interest in electronic music was rekindled after hearing live dance club DJ sets on FM radio in the early 2000s. Soon after that, he discovered Trance though live DJ sets on the internet. Computers and music merged.
Zodiacal Light had already been tinkering around with music production software. He became serious about electronic dance music production and learned all about it through web pages, web forums, and producer friends acquired along the way. Zodiacal Light's music can be described as progressive, melodic, and mood setting.
To date, Zodiacal Light has had 3 EPs released through Bonzai Progressive labels Green Martian and Android Records. Several remixes have been released through Bonzai as well. His remix of Lost Edit's MK Ultra was included on the "Best of Bonzai Progressive 2007-2008" compilation. Several other Bonzai compilations include his tracks.
The releases keep coming, so stay tuned.
EPISODE 154: Alexander Dancaless feat. Katinda – Caprice EP (Bonzai Elemental)
Alexander was born in the city of Tyumen, Russia, where he started to study music at a very early age. His strong musical formation had him writing his first productions before graduating from school. His natural sense of music and evolution drove him to work and experiment with electronic and digital productions. Alexander Dancaless developed a unique style that we can consider as the new wave of electronic music. Sound design, sticky rhythms and killer beats are the product of this new talent that will rock electronic fans around the globe. The basic styles: Tech-house, Deep-House, IDM, Downtempo.
Alexanders love of freedom defines his music as an independent and sincere one.
Real name – Katerina Kolpakova. A singer, musician, vocalist, author of texts and music, back vocalist and soloist of "Gypsy Jazz Band".
Was born on 20-th of August 1988 in Tyumen (Russia). Since she was 4 years old Katinda has started to sing and has understood that she is not indifferent to music. She has passed the way from studying national musical instruments to the academic music education.
Being in creative search and having tried to create the music herself in different genres Katinda has stopped on experimental electronic music.
It was promoted by meeting A. Dancaless in 2011 who is the unique electronic wizard in her opinion. He could understand what she saw in the heart of a musical fabric.
Now Katinda also takes part in recording radio advertisements and sings with "Gypsy Jazz Band".
EPISODE 155: Sa.Du – Siente EP (Eyepatch Recordings)
Thanos Dimitriou aka Sa.Du was born in 1978 in Athens, Greece. Got into Techno and Trance music in his early teens. He started playing music in 1994 making his debut at a local station. He made parties with some friends in clubs, industries and not only, with some big Greek guests like Mike Dee, Verros, Johnny sin and many others, until 2002.
In 2004 he came back as a dj and played in many clubs on the Greek islands.
In 2008 Sa.Du started producing techno music and made three E.Ps the Sa.Du E.P, the Kyklos E.P and the Time A Part Of Life E.P
In 2009 Sa.Du changed his music style into deep techno and minimal. He send a track to the team from Bonzai Progressive and the first E.P was released with the name Sa.Du, which opened a new page with fresh and deep sounds. Two more E.Ps followed the DREAM E.P and the MACHINE AND A MAN E.P.
2010 sees the release of his track Lost In Deep, a deep feeling track with some progressive touch and trip sounds, with some special remixes.
Today Sa.Du is collaborating with the famous Greek dj of Techno, Mikee and in 2011 we will see them together making fresh beats and parties.
-Each track has a piece from my mind and my soul- Sa.Du
EPISODE 156: Marotto – Giraffenfilet (Mint & Mustard Recordings)
Born into a musical family Marotto's interest in and for music was awaken already at an early age. Just a teenager he produced his first own electronic music. In the beginning the result was not always what he had hoped for but this did not stop him from further exploring electronic music. With the right ambition and persistency, both things Marotto does not lack, he continued to develop is own sound. Now with the right Know-How he is able to give his tracks the perfect cutting edge sound.
He started his DJ career in 2003 behind the decks of the Schwetzinger Bowlingcenter. In 2007 his very own party concept Manuelle House Therapy was a major success. Together with his mate K-Stevens from Heilbronn his MHT smashed about 200 Partypeople at Heidelberg in the Kurpfälzischem Museum back in May 2007! And only the best House Music hit the floor!
In September 2011 he graduated from the SAE-Institute in Frankfurt am Main as Audio-Engineer.
With his first two officially released tracks "Giraffenfilet" and "I Was In Wonderland" he is determined to conquer the world of electronic music once and for all.
EPISODE 157: Various Artists – Bonzai Worx – Volume 1 (Bonzai Vinyl)
Having left the vinyl market in 2005, busy reconstructing both their business model and sound, Bonzai has been flying under the radar for many out there. 2012 is a special year for the label, celebrating its 20th anniversary which is the perfect timing to share the new Bonzai sound on a market that was heavily dominated by the label throughout the 90s…Vinyl !!! Todays sound is a fresh approach on House, Tech-House and Techno. Bonzai Worx vol 1. introduces some of the labels new exclusive family members, Mindgamers, Fab Code, Hilal Tekschneider and Planisphere vs Digital Angel. Including remixes by Stefano Noferini and James Harcourt.
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This smashing release is supported by the best artists and media, such as: Slam, Richie Hawtin, Luciano, Markus Schulz, Claude Von Stroke, Alexi Delano, Seth Troxler, Paco Osuna, Randall Jones, Anderson Noise, Claudio Coccoluto, Renato Cohen, Franco Bianco, Daniel Sanchez, Lostra, De:Bug, Tsugi Magazine, Resident Advisor, Billboard Magazine, Igloo Mag, Ibiza Sonica Radio, Houseproud TV, BLN FM Radio, 432 FM, Proton Radio, Slovak National Radio, Radio Couleur 3, WeekenderMix Radio Show, Pulzar FM, LU Radio 102.7, Radio FDS and Flaix FM Mallorca between many others!
EPISODE 158: Diego Alvez – Rush Into The Deep EP (Eyepatch Recordings)
The Portuguese producer Diego Alvez has a solid musical base that he started to build up already back in 1998 by playing the piano. He started to produce music himself in 2010 and has already quite a carreer to look back at as he has already remixed Unik (Portugal), Solunamanalia (Japan), Eco Do Ego (Portugal) and many others yet unreleased. His producing style has been influenced by names as Jared Leto (30 Seconds To Mars), Trentemoller, Fernando Fragoso and many more.
His personal taste ranges from Classical Music to Electronic Music including Minimal, Tech-House Dark and Dark-Tech but also Ambient Music.
The music Diego Alvez brings us is highlighted by sentimental melodies, intimate pianos and glitches.
EPISODE 159: Pablo Gael – A Perfect Place (Eyepatch Recordings)
Barcelona's finest Pablo Gael makes is label debut with A Perfect Place. The release comes with the original track plus a Daniel Ray remix.
Eyepatch Recordings is supported by:
Colin Dale, Roger Sanchez, Luciano, LouLou Players, Graham Gold, Jamez, Laurent Garnier, Wyndell Long, Paul Oakenfold, Emmanuel Top, Davide Squillace, Sven Väth, Cari Lekebush, John Selway, Dr. Motte, Slam, J Kitikonti, Nick Warren
EPISODE 160: Active Line Six – Requiem (Bonzai Basiks)
Active Line Six first showed interest for rhythm and music in 1994. As a 17 year old he became resident at "KULUSIC", a popular club in Zagreb, Croatia. Afterwards, he was also a resident dj at club "88" (diva futura night), which made him the youngest electronic music DJ at the time.
During the next five years he was a guest at all major clubs and parties around Croatia.
In the beginning, Active Line Six played trance and progressive music. A testament to that was the VIVID – BONZAI LABEL PARTY (Fly, Franky Cherrymoon, Kiki, Frajman, Active, Umek, Mary) he organized held at Dom Sportova on 21.01.1995.
In 1998 he became resident in club "EX" in Varazdin, where he stayed till 2000. Around that time, a new club opened in Zagreb – the "NO1" club, where he held residence for a full 8 years with his friend DJ Nikkola. In parallel, he also did work on the "Bodywork" programme in "OTV" club Zagreb.
Soon afther that, with a team of 5 fellow DJs, he founded "Body&Soul" – a cult house programme in the famous zagreb club "THE BEST", where many famous names of the global electronic scene came to play, such as: David Morales, Shapeshifters, Barbara Tucker, Miguel Migs, Phats&Small, Claude Monnet, Silicone Soul etc. There he stayed till 2005.
Now, 15 years later, Active Line Six does producing and arranging.
EPISODE 161: Oz Romita – Superb (Bonzai Basiks)
Oz Romita is known for his fresh and energetic style. Over the years he developed a very wide and various taste for dance music, thanks to his residencies in clubs. All records he spins are selected with great care, to create a powerful set. His capacity of mixing ranges from tribal and uplifting beats, to tech house, minimal and techno. He knows how to handle the crowd with everything he has got and he defo knows how to keep people dancing.
Oz Romita, born in Izmir, Turkey and raised in Amsterdam, has been working and rocking the scene since 1997. Worldwide he played in clubs and parties such as, Club Panama, Club Ministry, Bliss Deluxe, In Bed with Space (Amsterdam), Circo Loco (Antwerp), Café d'Anvers, La Rocca, Noxx, Hali Karnas, Scene, Infinity Festival, Suppercub Cruise, Luxurush, Heineken Music Hall, Mysteryland, Marcanti, Club Home, Lexion, Full Moon Parties (Thailand), Santa Fe, Green Mango,
Le Ranch, Club Cinco and many others.
Oz Romita's sets are played on worldwide radio stations: Ibiza Global Radio, Bass Lover, Ramp Radio, Deep FM, Decibel, 365LiveRadio on 365MAG, Deep & Loud on Homses.net
Through the years he has spinned with many great DJs, such as: Funkerman, Koen Groeneveld, Desyn Masillio, Patch Park, Lucien Foort, Carl Cox, D. Ramirez, Sossa (Circo Loco), Jose de Divina (Circo Loco), John Digweed,
Chris Lake, Sin Plomo (In Bed With Space), Dr. Kucho, Hardsoul (Roog), Erick E, Laidback Luke, Shinedoe, Kabale und Liebe, 16bit Lolita's and many more.
EPISODE 162: Element – Whispers EP (Monog Records)
How can we celebrate our new cover art that will represent all our future release on Monog Records? With another incredible EP from our family member Element! Element is a DJ that has been softly moving through the past years through the Portuguese dance scene, but has not been unnoticed on the dance floors he has played for. With a characteristic style and an ease on the DJ booth, typical from who's on it's natural element, he has been growing a small group of fans and followers since his early start as a DJ. Element entered our family with his remix for Fabinii – Children of Ecstasy and had support by artists like Paco Osuna. This time he is coming with his own EP!
EPISODE 163: Pedro Goya – Omlet Bandlet (Troia Recordings)
DJ/Producer & Audio/Mastering Engineer, Pedro Goya soon became a reference in the electronic music spectrum in Portugal. With two solo albums released and more than 18 single Ep's released on vinyl, Pedro's now one of the most respected producers in the underground scene. With House and Techno styles as its key production work, we can find his previous releases on such labels as Classic Music Company (Derrick Carter), Music For Freaks (Luke Solomon & Freaks), Brique Rouge, Exun, Kaato Music or OM (Mark Farina).
Timeless references as Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Giorgio Moroder and Stevie Wonder, are a huge influence in everything he produces today.
As a DJ, played at numerous clubs, including the Watergate (Berlin), Moog, Fellini, and Mondo (Barcelona), Sasse (Vienna), Propaganda and Shanti (Moscow), Prozak (Warsaw), Silo (Leuven, Belgium), Hospital (Khabarovsk, Far East Russia) and Dive (Tokyo, Japan).In Portugal clubs as Alcantara-Mar (Lisbon), Maus Hábitos (OPorto), Anti-Pop Music Festival (Viana do Castelo), Lisbon Parade, Capitulo V, Kadoc (Albufeira), Op Art, Paradise Garage and Europa (Lisbon), Maré Alta (Porto), Vinyl and Via Latina (Coimbra), Marginal (Funchal), Mecca and Clubíssimo (Setúbal), among others.
In 2007 he launched Troia Recordings. With a catalog mostly comprised from "unknown" artists, the record label became the happy result of his research for new talents in electronic music.
Currently Troia Recordings is a record label with a defined musical route, having releases on vinyl and digital format.
At the age of 27 and more than a decade connected to electronic music, Pedro's leaving no room for doubts. Music's his translated passion in waveforms and an unavoidable name in the Electronic Music Scene.
EPISODE 164: Baltj_More – Una Pregunta EP (Piston Recordings)
Baltj_More is a new Piston Recordings artist. This is their first release with two original tracks, Una Pregunta and Never Deep. On top we added a couple of remixes from the habitués of the label, Accatone and Valeria Croft. Result… Another stunning release!
Early support from : DJ Sneak, Sasch BBc, David Labeij, Patrick, Zigon, Roger Sanchez, Slam, Benoit C, Piek, Severino Panzetta, Alexi Delano, Ka§par, Feygin, Jussi-Pekka, Hermanez, etc..
EPISODE 165: Sebastian Moreno – Stereo Drum (Mint & Mustard Recordings)
Sebastian Moreno started to play in the clubs when he was 15. Soon he became resident DJ in the club Alcazar in the heart of Puttershoek. This young Dutchman as showed a great talent since the beginning, either djing or producing, everything he touches becomes instantly gold.
20 April 2012 Bonzai Progressive UPDATES Active Line Six, Alexander Dancaless, Baltj_More, Bonzai Progressive Podcast, Diego Alvez, Digital Angel, Eddie M, Element, Junk Deluxe, Marotto, Oz Romita, Pedro Goya, Philthy Chit, Planisphere, Sa.Du, Sebastian Moreno, Zodiacal Light


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The Sun's not going to blow up
In any science fiction story I've read (or science fiction movie or TV show that I've seen) that talks about death of the Sun. I've always heard references to Earth's sun "going nova". I've read about this even in Asimov's stories. In most cases, they're talking about a supernova. But here's the thing. The Sun is not going to blow up. Even if the writers were talking about an actual nova, they're still wrong. Here's why:
Our Sun is a yellow dwarf star (more precisely known as a G-type main-sequence star), and doesn't have enough mass to undergo a supernova explosion (type IIa). You need a star that's at least nine times the Sun's mass for a supernova explosion. If we're simply looking at a nova (type Ia), then the Sun doesn't have a companion to draw matter from when it turns into a white dwarf. So no matter which way you look at it, the Sun is not going to blow up. It's just going to be really, big and red and will eat the Earth. Unless the Earth moves outward due to the Sun losing mass. Finally the Sun with eject its outer layers and turn into a white dwarf. See? No blowing up. I don't know why some science fiction authors still talk about the Sun "going nova". Maybe it's because it sounds more dramatic.
If anyone has read a science fiction story (or seen a science fiction movie or TV show) that talked about the death of the Sun/Earth and did so realistically, then let me know.


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Winnipeg Jets fans, having put down their money and agreed to keep it with the team for years to come, are going to have to trust the organization has winning on its mind.
The casual observer would have a hard time reaching that conclusion after the lack of activity from the Jets camp on the opening day of free agency.
While lots of teams spend wildly, the Jets stood mostly on the sidelines until late in the day when GM Kevin Cheveldayoff shipped a second-round pick to the Minnesota Wild to acquire former 30-goal scorer Devin Setoguchi.
There's little commitment in the deal, as the 26-year-old Albertan is in the last year of a contract that will pay him $3.25 million.
Cheveldayoff said he wanted a top-six right wing to play with Evander Kane and he got him. It wasn't expensive or splashy. We'll see if it was effective.
On the surface, the quiet day at the office on the opening of free agency could suggest the Jets are only interested in taking your money and icing a subpar hockey team. That owners Mark Chipman and David Thomson don't want to win on the ice as much as they do at the bank.
The Jets will have to open the chequebook at some point and get over the hump or the doubters will have their day
It's easy for me, having known Chipman for some time and seen his competitive streak on display again and again, to reach a different conclusion. To believe there is a plan, which stipulates spending money on overpriced free agents is counterproductive to the long-term benefit, is not a stretch from where I sit.
But no one is going to take my word, or Chipman's for that matter, forever. The Jets will have to open the chequebook at some point and get over the hump or the doubters will have their day.
The opinion of the fans matters. It can't rule the day when hockey decisions are being made, but if the ticket-buying public doesn't trust the intentions of the organization are pure and in the pursuit of a championship, they can be turned off. The Jets, even with their current bulletproof economy, can't afford such a plight. They need to keep their fans engaged just like any other organization.
But now isn't the time to give Nathan Horton a seven-year deal that will almost certainly be regrettable in the not-so-distant future.
Not now, or never for that matter, is the time to hand Ryan Clowe and his three goals from last season a deal worth $24.25 million.
Some teams made deals to augment their contender status. Those deals made sense. But lots were simply cases of chasing the market. Sorry, but the Jets should be applauded for sitting out on those deals.
Were there good deals to be made on Friday? Maybe. But lots of the high-priced UFA deals included crippling long-term contracts the Jets were wise to avoid.
Still, the "be patient," mantra is wearing thin in many corners. If and when the Jets are on the outside looking in this spring, it will be even harder to take.
But the Jets are in the midst of a rebuild and abandoning their strategy for a quick surge is like eating that burger you know you shouldn't put in your body. A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. Or salary cap in this instance.
Some fans were asking why the Jets weren't spending the money they've been handed for tickets, merchandise and corporate sponsorships.
Well, first of all, there isn't that much money to spend. The Jets have $20 million in cap space but need to sign seven players for a complete roster. Getting RFAs Zach Bogosian, Bryan Little and Blake Wheeler under contract will eat up a minimum of $10 million against next year's cap and could go as high as $14 million. That leaves anywhere from $10 million to as little as $6 million to sign five players.
All of this is assuming the Jets will spend to the cap of $64.3 million, which is something the organization has yet to do in its short time back in Winnipeg.
The Jets just got out of onerous contracts with Nik Antropov and Ron Hainsey. Cheveldayoff, rather than pursue overpriced and aging free agents, has chosen to spend his money on his own players.
Did they get better on Friday? Yes. And Cheveldayoff might argue he also protected the future. Most of the big deals signed Friday included lots of term and those signings will almost certainly end in frustration for the organizations and the fans.
Take the Phoenix Coyotes signing Mike Ribeiro to a four-year deal worth $22 million at an average annual value of $5.5 million.
Ribeiro is 33 and will likely live up to that value for the first and second years of the contract. But by the final two years of the deal he'll be a salary-cap buster.
Cheveldayoff has signed free agents for big money, Olli Jokinen and his $4.5 million per year comes to mind, but is tight with term. Jokinen got just two years.
The Jets have saved term for their own players such as Andrew Ladd, Ondrej Pavelec, Kane and Toby Enstrom.
Cheveldayoff has taken the approach of signing UFAs as placeholders until his own drafted and developed talent can flesh out his roster. Not many placeholder deals were done on Friday. Those second-tier deals get done in the coming days when the market has substantially cooled.
Sometime down the line, if his draft, develop and retain plan spits out a contender, Cheveldayoff will likely want to use the UFA market to add some final pieces. But he's not there yet.
This part of the process is painful. It's the most tempting point to veer off course and chase a quick fix. But those almost always end up in heartache.
In the end you really have no choice but to trust Jets management. To trust they're not taking your money and loyalty for granted.
The Jets have everything going their way in terms of financial support. They know this. Breaking your trust is likely the only way they can mess this up.
They know that, too.
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Japan must reject American pressure against oil sanctions on Iran
Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
The United States is continuing to put pressure on Japan about sanctions against Iran's oil industry and thankfully the Finance Minister of Japan, Jun Azumi, was sidelined after appearing to cave in several weeks ago. However, foreign policy specialists and many bureaucrats in Japan understand that this issue is extremely delicate and Japan doesn't want to appear to be hostile towards Iran. After all, other nations have developed nuclear weapons like India and Pakistan and after making a lot of noise it appears that this issue is on a backburner in Washington.
Similar pressure is being put on South Korea but the issue in Japan is extremely severe because of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Therefore, now is the wrong time for Japan to put even greater stress on a valuable source of energy. Surely America must understand that the "special relationship" between both nations must be based on greater equality and that this demand is too great given the internal energy crisis in Japan.
The vast majority of nuclear reactors are not in working order in Japan at the moment and nobody knows the real future of this sector within Japan. At the same time, alternative sources of energy will mean that Japan is taking sides in a dispute which doesn't concern Japan at the moment. After all, Iran is not a threat to Japan and both nations have cordial relations.
From a Japanese perspective, if Washington truly cares, then why is Iran a bigger concern than the nuclear stockpile of China and continuing modernization of the armed forces of this nation? It is unimaginable that Iran would ever threaten Japan or create a major international war based on irrationality.
Also, from Iran's point of view then it is inconceivable that nations like Pakistan and Israel have the right to defend themselves but Iran doesn't. This isn't implying that Israel and Pakistan don't have the right to develop nuclear weapons when all the major powers have a nuclear arsenal. However, from Iran's geopolitical point of view then the nuclear arsenal of Israel and Pakistan may be making policy makers in Tehran nervous.
While all the focus is on relations between Iran and Israel the real uncertain nation is Pakistan. The Taliban and other Sunni Islamic extremists have killed and massacred Shia Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan and for this reason Iran supported anti-Taliban and anti-Al Qaeda forces in the past. Ironically, Iran had this policy when America still had open relations with the Taliban prior to September 11 which was done by Sunni Islamic extremists who were mainly Saudi Arabian nationals.
Also, the central state of Iran is much more dynamic and in control of the nation rather than the reality in Pakistan. This fact can't be debated currently and China is seriously concerned about this issue despite having very good relations with Pakistan. The possibility of a failed state in Pakistan is a nightmare because radical Sunni Islamists in this nation are extremely militant and this applies to being anti-Shia, anti-India, anti-democratic, anti-secular, and so forth. Therefore, nations should be more focused on the power of central forces in Pakistan and the internal Sunni Islamic jihad against the Pakistan army rather than Iran.
This isn't underplaying the Iranian issue but surely this "game" concerns America, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Lebanon (Hezbollah and links with Iran), and other regional nations, irrespective of being pro or anti Iran. However, it isn't an issue which should concern Japan from a military angle. Instead, Japan should be trying to influence greater restraint on all sides and be a "middle broker" in order to contain negative forces from either side.
Much is mentioned about the US and Iran relationship but this is also complex because America left "a window of opportunity" for Iran to break the arms embargo which had been put on Bosnia during the three sided civil war. Also, Iranian intelligence clearly gave tacit approval of the American led invasion of Iraq because Iran knew that this would end a regime which was anti-Iranian and in the long term the power shift would work in the favor of the Shia.
In a recent article by Modern Tokyo Times it was stated that "If political leaders in Tokyo believe that Iran is a threat to the national security of Japan or that Iran is an international threat, then clearly Japan must state this categorically and not hide behind the political intrigues in Washington. However, Iran does not have any ill intent towards Japan and clearly with China, India, Israel, and Pakistan, having nuclear weapons in Asia, it is understandable for Iran to be concerned about this reality from their respective geopolitical point of view."
"It must be stated that September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, have one common theme and this applies to radical Sunni Muslims being involved in the deaths of American civilians and American soldiers. The Shia community in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia have not protected or funded global terrorist networks which were responsible for September 11, London, Bali, and countless terrorist attacks in Iraq and Pakistan. Therefore, the government in Tehran is much more responsible than the ruling elites in Saudi Arabia which have many ratlines and hidden agendas."
Liu Weimin a ministry spokesperson for the government of China commented that "To place one country's domestic law above international law and press others to obey is not reasonable." Other nations share this point of view and if America believes that Iran is a threat to the security of America, then Washington should deal with this without putting pressure on Japan. After all, the pressing concerns for Japan are many and this notably applies to the energy shortfall after the devastating March 11 tsunami and the ongoing Fukushima crisis.
It must also be stated the tangle web of America and Saudi Arabia is not aimed at democracy and human rights, after all just look at the crisis in Bahrain whereby the Shia face daily oppression and outside meddling from Saudi Arabia. The Shia community is also often attacked in Yemen and Japan can't afford to take sides in "a dirty political game" which is taking place.
Of course Japan must maintain the strong relationship between Washington and Tokyo when it applies to Northeast Asia and other important issues. However, the nuclear crisis in Iran isn't a national security issue for Japan and the neutral nature of Japan's foreign policy must be respected.
If political leaders in Tokyo believe that the government of Tehran is a threat to the security concerns of Japan and the international community, then Japan must fall in line. Yet clearly senior politicians in Japan don't share this view and the main concern for the people of Japan is maintaining the economy and having a steady flow of energy. Therefore, the timing is wrong and Japan shouldn't get involved in the American-Saudi Arabian alliance against Iran.


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Aspirin slows the blood's clotting action by reducing the clumping of platelets. Platelets are cells that clump together and help to form blood clots. Aspirin keeps platelets from clumping together, thus helping to prevent or reduce blood clots.
During a heart attack. Blood clots form in an already-narrowed artery and block the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle. When taken during a heart attack, aspirin slows clotting and decreases the size of the blood clot that is forming.
After a heart attack. Aspirin can help prevent a second heart attack. Taken daily, aspirin's anti-clotting action helps prevent a first or second heart attack.
For people who are having a heart attack. You can take aspirin to help you during a
heart attack. After you call
911 or other emergency services, the operator may tell you to chew 1 adult-strength or 2 to 4 low-dose aspirin. Or you might be given aspirin in the ambulance or emergency room. Aspirin slows blood clotting. So a blood clot that is causing the
heart attack stays smaller.
For people who have had a heart attack. Aspirin can help prevent a second heart attack.
For people who have never had a heart attack. Aspirin may reduce your chance of having a heart attack or a stroke if you have certain risk factors, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or smoking. If you have a higher risk for a heart attack or stroke, aspirin will have even more benefit for you.
Low-dose aspirin may also be used by people who have:
But in people with a relatively low risk of developing
cardiovascular disease, the benefits of preventive aspirin therapy may be
outweighed by the increased risk of bleeding problems.
Generic or store brands are as
effective as brand-name aspirin.
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor right away if you have any unusual bleeding, such as:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug
Reference is not available in all systems.)
For more information about taking daily aspirin, see the topic Low-Dose Aspirin Therapy.
If you have had a heart attack or stroke, your doctor has probably already prescribed aspirin for you.
If you do not take aspirin, talk to your doctor before you start taking aspirin every day.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or trying to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments. And call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
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Tornado Relief: Donations & Resources | Fox10tv.com.
Some of the worst tornado storm damage in history killing close to 200 people. People are grieving, hungry, thirsty, and in desperate need of support.
I don't know about you, but, I like choices on how to donate. Please take the time to donate ( if you can ) to help these folks in need.
If not Alabama. Donate in Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina.or anywhere in the path of this devastation Pick someone, somewhere, a family in need.
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In honor of Dads everywhere, Uncle Darrow's presents its annual Crawfish Boil with live music from the Country Legends on Saturday, June 14th from 2-5pm.
Country Legends is versatile band. It will offer an eclectic mx of musical styles for Saturday's event. Enjoy some classic country, such as Johnny Cash, June Carter, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, and lots more. The band will even do some blues such as the memorable melodies of Janis Joplin, B.B. King, plus some Cajun tunes too.
If you have attended this popular annual event at Uncle Darrow's, you know the food is out of this world. Uncle Darrow's has been known for being the best place to enjoy New Orleans inspired food. Cajun and Creole classics keeps customers coming in as well as its famous gumbo (served on weekends only).Uncle Darrow's takes a healthier approach to Canjun/Creole cuisine, and NEVER uses lard. Offering fresh-baked bread every day, Uncle Darrow's creates scrumptious dishes using only farm raised seafood and chicken or turkey sausage instead of pork or beef.
Stop by and say hi to the Country Legends at Uncle Darrow's Annual Crawfish Boil from 2-5 pm this Saturday, June 14th. The Event is free however there is a charge for the food. Uncle Darrow's, is located at 2560 S. Lincoln Blvd., in Marina Del Rey. For more info about Uncle Darrow's, visit website.
Then on Wednesday, June 18th. The Country Legends perform at Dannys Venice from 7-10pm. Once again, classic country can be heard…with some blues tunes thrown in.
Danny's Venice, a NY delicatessen style restaurant offers a variety of delicious food with a fabulous happy hour from 3-7 pm. Enjoy one of its famous soft tacos for just $2.95….you have a choice of chicken, pork, brisket, fish or veggie. Other popular low cost items are Jalapeno cheese quesadillas, or incredibly tasty cheese fries for just $3.95 per item. The happy hour menu also offers heartier choices such as chicken wings, sliders (3 kinds), calamari, chicken tenders and more. Well drinks and wine are available for $4 and beer for $3, plus additional options...all on happy hour.
So arrive early at Dannys Venice (6:45pm), to take advantage of the great happy hour prices, order up an amazing meal with a cocktail and sit back and enjoy the show. Admission is FREE. The Country Legends will play until 10pm. For more information about the band, see the Country Legends FB Page
Dannys Venice is located at 23 Windward Ave. Venice 90291 (between Pacific and Speedway, off the beach); (310) 566-5610; For more info about Dannys Venice, see website.


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As a Volvo Group employee you will most likely get international experience in your daily work, even without being on an international assignment, through global cooperation and virtual teams. Through international contacts with colleagues you will learn about the day-to-day activities around the world and constantly meet diverse ways of thinking.
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