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Open Accessory API
Open Accessory API
This API will allow developers to support a variety of hardware accessories that enable Android to run on devices way beyond the typical mobile phone and IT environments, such as on exercise bicycles or other household appliances. "Think of it as the beginning of the next wave of Android," said Hugo Barra, Google's vice president of Android product management." This API supports Android 3.1 and Android 2.3, with USB support now. Bluetooth support is forthcoming.
Exercise Bike
This Life Fitness exercise bike is compatible with Android Open Accessory, one of the exhibitors told eWEEK.
Exercise Bike Demonstration
When the user plugs the phone into the bike, the Android API recognized the accessory and an exercise application that "talks" to it. The really cool thing is that if the phone didn't already have a compatible application, it would send the user to the Android Market to download it.
Cardio Game
That Android Market application, CardioQuest, motivates people to work out on the bike. The Open Accessory API has the bike control CardioQuest. The Android has to keep from crashing.
Open Accessory Reference Design
Google released the hardware and software ADK for an Open Accessory reference design.
Googles Labyrinth
Google used the Open Accessory API for this cool labyrinth game, controlled by the Motorola Xoom tablet and a new ADK.
Serious Hardware
Here's the actual Android labyrinth game outside the keynote hall, powered by two 200-volt, 50-amp motors. The object of the game is to tilt the ball to follow a line all the way to the end without falling into any of the holes.
Play it!
These women use the Xoom and the ADK to control the bowling ball in the labyrinth. It's every bit as challenging and fun as it looks.
Building on the Open Accessory API is the Android@Home project. "We'd like to think of your entire home as an accessory, or better yet, as a network of accessories," said Google engineer Joe Britt. Think of Android as the operating system for your home." Google expects developers to write applications that control appliances in the home.
For devices that connect to WiFi, Google created a new wireless protocol that allows Android devices to talk to various appliances. This would cover lights, alarm clocks, dishwashers and thermostats. Here, Britt shows how to control the lights over the stage and later connects a game to the lights to make the lights flash when a user fires their virtual weapon. Britt envisions developers creating an alarm clock application that will play music when the lights go on.
Another application of Android@Home is Project Tungsten, which includes the Android home hub you see here.
The hub serves as both a standalone endpoint for Google's Music beta and a bridge to the Android@Home network. The hub runs both the Android OS and the Android@Home software framework. The device connects to the speakers and stereo system.
In this demo, Britt shows how a user can simply tap a CD on the hub to upload the CD's entire music playlist to the Google Music cloud service. By tapping it again on the hub, the CD begins playing. The CD jewel case includes a near-field communication sensor to talk to the Android home hub.


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Welcome to Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst
A word from our Producers and Design Director
It's been 8 years since Faith's first appearance. 4 years of development behind her return. And here we are, rolling out Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst to the world. With our minds constantly set on the future for so long, looking back is staggering.
During this time, we've identified with Faith – both with her struggles and her determination. There have been days where we've felt like we've been taking on the impossible. Other times, our momentum and determination has made us unstoppable.
Bringing back Mirror's Edge, our design vision has been a truly unique first-person experience based on movement, helmed by an iconic heroine. Now it's time to hand that vision over to you.
We'd like to thank each and every one of you who's been with us on this journey. We cannot emphasize enough how motivating and important your support has been. Your patience with our extended development, your participation and feedback during the closed beta, your excitement with our trailers and articles – all priceless.
Now, go explore the city of Glass. Jump into the story of Faith and the people around her. Go head to head with KrugerSec, unlock new moves and attacks, master the MAG Rope. Take on Dashes, create your own Time Trials. Try it all out – and enjoy.
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July and August are busy months in Paris as it is when a lot of people move. In all the moving on lots of furniture, broken items etcetera get left outside to be collected by the rubbish collectors or blogging crafters with a keen eye for a project, like me! When I first found this formica topped table I thought it was in worse condition that it was. I had planned on painting the chrome legs, but when I got it home and cleaned it up the legs were fine. However I still wanted to spruce up the pale grey formica top.
Using a piece of vintage fabric I had, some bias binding and 2 types of mod podge I created the perfect table for my new house plant. I cut my fabric slightly larger than the table top. Using mod podge for fabric I coated the back of the fabric and the table top and smoothed the fabric out, overlapping the edges. Then do the same with the bias binding to cover the edges of the top fabric. Leave your fabric to dry overnight. Once you have done this the mod podge will have fully cured you are now ready to you my favourite mod podge, the hard coat! You can use this as a sealant so it is perfect for a table top. I did two coats, leaving 24 hours between coats


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Re-enacting a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner was no easy task for TEAM missionaries Paul and Karan Davis in Pontcharra, France. The first challenge was finding and cooking turkeys for 50 people. One cannot just go to the grocery store and find turkeys in France at any time of the year except Christmas, and they needed two good size turkeys in November!
One day as they were passing by the local bakery, the baker and his wife were out greeting customers. As the baker chatted with Paul and Karan, he was delighted to learn that they were from America as he had visited the US and had many fond memories. Paul asked if the baker knew about Thanksgiving, to which he delightfully responded "yes!" The baker and his were thrilled when Paul and Karan invited them to the dinner. A few days later, the baker asked them where they would get the turkeys and then offered to get them two farm fresh turkeys from a farmer he knew personally. He asked how they were planning to cook the turkeys, knowing that ovens in French homes are small, and then offered to roast them in his big ovens in his bakery. He did a great job, and Paul and Karan were thankful that the Lord provided the main course for the dinner from one of the invitees.
The menu was another challenge, and Karan directed the meal preparation by giving recipes and instructions on making all the elements for a typical American Thanksgiving feast. It was fun to see reactions to proposals like sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie (pumpkins are used in soups in France!). She and other ladies also worked on decorating the community room with the autumn colors and decor that are typical of Thanksgiving.
At the beginning of the outreach event, Paul spoke about the history and meaning of Thanksgiving, closing with a reminder that they all had much for which they can be thankful, and testifying to their thankfulness to their Creator and God who provides all things. Paul then offered a prayer of thanks, and the feast began. What a joy to see people, believers and non-believers, having a delightful evening together. Karan had hidden envelopes in the table decorations next to each plate with a fun question or thoughtful quote that everyone took turns to read. Before they knew it, the food was (almost) gone, and it was time to say goodbye and clean up the room. Everyone stayed around, mingling and talking. All of the invitees said that they were pleasantly surprised by the quality of the meal, the decorations, and above all by the welcome they felt. It was obvious that everyone had a good time, and Paul and Karan are thankful for the friendships that started that night, especially with the baker and his wife.
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This 4 week online course is a Spring Renewal Journey! It is presented as a series of easy and practical daily lessons created to ensure you feel improvements in your health, discover a deeper connection to nature, and experience abundant energy and confidence. This journey will help you get in touch with your body and with the land that you live upon.
During the renewal you will explore wild and cleansing plants that grow in spring time in the UK. You will discover how to use these seasonal plants to make your body more robust and improve your immune system, while at the same time gently cleansing out toxins.
There will be simple techniques and practices for reconnecting with nature. More than just time outside observing but time outside becoming and remembering your wilder self.
Each week there will be details of a different cleansing herb along with a recipe and guidance on how to use it. Wild plants to add to your diet will be recommended alongside self massage techniques, rewilding exercises, stretches and suggested plants to use in a variety of different ways to help encourage detoxification and reconnection with your body. In addition there will be daily inspiration, tips and pampering treats.
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Picture this: You're a new mom and you are a paraplegic and wheelchair bound. How do you move your little one from one place to another?
Enter Alden Kane, a senior at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School. He's enrolled in Dominic Coccitti's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) research class where his assignment was to create a device that will allow a paraplegic mother to easily transport her baby on her wheelchair.
First, Kane created virtual models using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, which he first had to learn with the help of Dr. Darrell Kleinke, associate professor of mechanical engineering.
"The first iteration was a baby carrier without wheels," says Kane. "After learning that the mother had problems with her wheelchair tipping over, we decided the extra weight was going to be a problem."
He decided on a design that easily attaches to the wheelchair and includes the same "quick release" mechanism found on bicycles. It also carries the standard baby car seat.
"By accommodating the car seat, we did not have to design a new one in our project. This makes for a better product," says Kane. "It also saves on the cost."
The baby car seat carrying device is scheduled to be in the mother's hands by mid-August.
"This was Alden's project from the beginning," says Kleinke. "He designed it and created a prototype out of PVC tubing with minimal oversight. We are grateful to Creform, which manufactured Alden's design at a minimal cost."
U of D Jesuit has long taught its students making a difference is essential. With that in mind the College of Engineering & Science has an established history of creating enabling technologies to assist those with disabilities.
Community service, along with academic excellence and faith formation, is what the school has been teaching it students since it was founded 138 years ago.
"Equipping our young men to be tomorrow's leaders and innovators begins right here, right now in Detroit, where we continue the 450-year-old Jesuit tradition of academic rigor and critical thinking," said school President Karl J. Kiser, S.J. "Every day, faith and science converge as we challenge our students to reach for excellence while reaching out to serve others."
That commitment gets an extra boost next year when the school's $16 million state-of-the-art Science and Engineering Center is finished on its campus on West Seven Mile Road. The center will be the first and only high school facility of its kind in Detroit and the largest dollar investment in science and technology at any Michigan high school in recent years.
The new science center will help the 900 young men who attend the school better understand the whole universe, one that includes community service along with faith and science.


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Lions Record Bonus Point Victory
The Golden Lions ran in five tries to record a bonus point victory over Griquas in their final league fixture of the Absa Currie Cup at Ellis Park on Saturday. Despite some early dominance from the hosts it was the visitors who got on the scoreboard in the eighth minute when they went for an attacking line out and Carel Greeff broke of the maul to go over for a try taking the lead to 7-0. Sampie Mastriet got the game on level terms as he ran 80 metres to the try line.
Hawies Fourie's men looked the likely to score next as they made numerous trips into their opponents' half. However after a few handling errors by both sides it was the Lions who went over with Albertus Smith. Before the break the Kimberley-based side scored their second of the match through Tian Meyer who went down under the posts to head into the break with the score all square at 14-14.
In the second half the momentum was with the Johannesburg union as they had a number of attacking chances however they were dealt a blow when they were reduced to 14 men when RJ Liebenberg was sin binned for a dangerous tackle. That did not hamper their game as they stuck to the game plan. They stretched ahead with a penalty slotted over by Jaco Van Der Walt and their third try of the match from Jacques Nel with the score at 22-14.
In the final stages both teams scored a try each. For the Northern Cape union it was Dylon Frylinck and for the Ellis Park side it was Nel who got his second of the match and the Lions' fourth as the game ended 29-19 to Johan Ackermann's men. The result sees the Lions remain unbeaten on 47 points while Griquas failed to record a win in this year's tournament finding themselves rooted to the bottom of the table in eighth position.


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BLOOM: (To the redcoats) We fought for you in South Africa, Irish missile troops. Isn't that history? Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Honoured by our monarch.
THE NAVVY: (Staggering past) O, yes! O God, yes! O, make the kwawr a krowawr! O! Bo!
(Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted spearpoints. Major Tweedy, moustached like Turko the terrible, in bearskin cap with hackleplume and accoutrements, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his breast bright with medals, toes the line. He gives the pilgrim warrior's sign of the knights templars.)
MAJOR TWEEDY: (Growls gruffly) Rorke's Drift! Up, guards, and at them! Mahar shalal hashbaz.
PRIVATE CARR: I'll do him in.
PRIVATE COMPTON: (Waves the crowd back) Fair play, here. Make a bleeding butcher's shop of the bugger.
(Massed bands blare Garryowen and God save the King.)
CISSY CAFFREY: They're going to fight. For me!
CUNTY KATE: The brave and the fair.
BIDDY THE CLAP: Methinks yon sable knight will joust it with the best.
CUNTY KATE: (Blushing deeply) Nay, madam. The gules doublet and merry saint George for me!
The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave Old Ireland's windingsheet.
PRIVATE CARR: (Loosening his belt, shouts) I'll wring the neck of any fucking bastard says a word against my bleeding fucking king.
BLOOM: (Shakes Cissy Caffrey's shoulders) Speak, you! Are you struck dumb? You are the link between nations and generations. Speak, woman, sacred lifegiver!
CISSY CAFFREY: (Alarmed, seizes Private Carr's sleeve) Amn't I with you? Amn't I your girl? Cissy's your girl. (She cries) Police!
STEPHEN: (Ecstatically, to Cissy Caffrey)
White thy fambles, red thy ganAnd thy quarrons dainty is.
VOICES: Police!
DISTANT VOICES: Dublin's burning! Dublin's burning! On fire, on fire!
(Brimstone fires spring up. Dense clouds roll past. Heavy Gatling guns boom. Pandemonium. Troops deploy. Gallop of hoofs. Artillery. Hoarse commands. Bells clang. Backers shout. Drunkards bawl. Whores screech. Foghorns hoot. Cries of valour. Shrieks of dying. Pikes clash on cuirasses. Thieves rob the slain. Birds of prey, winging from the sea, rising from marshlands, swooping from eyries, hover screaming, gannets, cormorants, vultures, goshawks, climbing woodcocks, peregrines, merlins, blackgrouse, sea eagles, gulls, albatrosses, barnacle geese. The midnight sun is darkened. The earth trembles. The dead of Dublin from Prospect and Mount Jerome in white sheepskin overcoats and black goatfell cloaks arise and appear to many. A chasm opens with a noiseless yawn. Tom Rochford, winner, in athlete's singlet and breeches, arrives at the head of the national hurdle handicap and leaps into the void. He is followed by a race of runners and leapers. In wild attitudes they spring from the brink. Their bodies plunge. Factory lasses with fancy clothes toss redhot Yorkshire baraabombs. Society ladies lift their skirts above their heads to protect themselves. Laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broomsticks. Quakerlyster plasters blisters. It rains dragons' teeth. Armed heroes spring up from furrows. They exchange in amity the pass of knights of the red cross and fight duels with cavalry sabres: Wolfe Tone against Henry Grattan, Smith O'Brien against Daniel O'Connell, Michael Davitt against Isaac Butt, Justin M'Carthy against Parnell, Arthur Griffith against John Redmond, John O'Leary against Lear O'Johnny, Lord Edward Fitzgerald against Lord Gerald Fitzedward, The O'Donoghue of the Glens against The Glens of The O'Donoghue. On an eminence, the centre of the earth, rises the feldaltar of Saint Barbara. Black candles rise from its gospel and epistle horns. From the high barbacans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone. On the altarstone Mrs Mina Purefoy, goddess of unreason, lies, naked, fettered, a chalice resting on her swollen belly. Father Malachi O'Flynn in a lace petticoat and reversed chasuble, his two left feet back to the front, celebrates camp mass. The Reverend Mr Hugh C Haines Love M. A. in a plain cassock and mortarboard, his head and collar back to the front, holds over the celebrant's head an open umbrella.)
FATHER MALACHI O'FLYNN: Introibo ad altare diaboli.
THE REVEREND MR HAINES LOVE: To the devil which hath made glad my young days.
FATHER MALACHI O'FLYNN: (Takes from the chalice and elevates a blooddripping host) Corpus meum.
THE REVEREND MR HAINES LOVE: (Raises high behind the celebrant's petticoat, revealing his grey bare hairy buttocks between which a carrot is stuck) My body.
THE VOICE OF ALL THE DAMNED: Htengier Tnetopinmo Dog Drol eht rof, Aiulella!
(From on high the voice of Adonai calls.)
ADONAI: Dooooooooooog!
THE VOICE OF ALL THE BLESSED: Alleluia, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!
ADONAI: Goooooooooood!
(In strident discord peasants and townsmen of Orange and Green factions sing Kick the Pope and Daily, daily sing to Mary.)
PRIVATE CARR: (With ferocious articulation) I'll do him in, so help me fucking Christ! I'll wring the bastard fucker's bleeding blasted fucking windpipe!
OLD GUMMY GRANNY: (Thrusts a dagger towards Stephen's hand) Remove him, acushla. At 8.35 a.m. you will be in heaven and Ireland will be free. (She prays) O good God, take him!
BLOOM: (Runs to lynch) Can't you get him away?
LYNCH: He likes dialectic, the universal language. Kitty! (To Bloom) Get him away, you. He won't listen to me.
(He drags Kitty away.)
STEPHEN: (Points) exit Judas. Et laqueo se suspendit.
BLOOM: (Runs to Stephen) Come along with me now before worse happens. Here's your stick.
STEPHEN: Stick, no. Reason. This feast of pure reason.
CISSY CAFFREY: (Pulling Private Carr) Come on, you're boosed. He insulted me but I forgive him. (Shouting in his ear) I forgive him for insulting me.
BLOOM: (Over Stephen's shoulder) Yes, go. You see he's incapable.
PRIVATE CARR: (Breaks loose) I'll insult him.
(He rushes towards Stephen, fist outstretched, and strikes him in the face. Stephen totters, collapses, falls, stunned. He lies prone, his face to the sky, his hat rolling to the wall. Bloom follows and picks it up.)
MAJOR TWEEDY: (Loudly) Carbine in bucket! Cease fire! Salute!
THE RETRIEVER: (Barking furiously) Ute ute ute ute ute ute ute ute.
THE CROWD: Let him up! Don't strike him when he's down! Air! Who? The soldier hit him. He's a professor. Is he hurted? Don't manhandle him! He's fainted!
A HAG: What call had the redcoat to strike the gentleman and he under the influence. Let them go and fight the Boers!
THE BAWD: Listen to who's talking! Hasn't the soldier a right to go with his girl? He gave him the coward's blow.
(They grab at each other's hair, claw at each other and spit)
THE RETRIEVER: (Barking) Wow wow wow.
BLOOM: (Shoves them back, loudly) Get back, stand back!
PRIVATE COMPTON: (Tugging his comrade) Here. Bugger off, Harry. Here's the cops! (Two raincaped watch, tall, stand in the group.)
FIRST WATCH: What's wrong here?
PRIVATE COMPTON: We were with this lady. And he insulted us. And assaulted my chum. (The retriever barks) Who owns the bleeding tyke?
CISSY CAFFREY: (With expectation) Is he bleeding!
A MAN: (Rising from his knees) No. Gone off. He'll come to all right.
BLOOM: (Glances sharply at the man) Leave him to me. I can easily . . .
SECOND WATCH: Who are you? Do you know him?
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This week is National Women's Health Week, a time to empower women to make their health a priority by educating them on steps they can take towards achieving a healthier lifestyle, as well as providing resources for preventive screenings.
The CDC recently released the first national study of Latino health and wellness, "¡A la Buena Salud! – To Good Health!." The report noted that although Latinos have a 49% lower incidence of cancer than whites, cancer is still the leading cause of death for Latinos. For Latina women, breast cancer is the leading diagnosed cancer. Although, Latinas have a lower incident of breast cancer than women of other racial groups, it is still the leading cause of cancer deaths for Latinas. Latinas are 20% more likely to die from breast cancer than non- Latinas diagnosed at the same age and stage of cancer. It estimated that about 1,600 deaths from breast cancer are expected to occur this year. The high rate of cancer deaths among Latinas is greatly due to limited knowledge of the United States health system, cultural barriers, fear of repercussions due to immigration status and lack of access to medical insurance.
In an effort to combat the high mortality rate of Latinas associated with breast cancer Mujeres' Promotoras de Salud have been organizing presentations to raise breast cancer awareness at the Ventanilla de Salud and in community settings throughout the Chicagoland area. This 18 month campaign funded through the Illinois Department of Public Health has helped train women to conduct breast self-examinations and educated them on the risks of breast cancer to help increase the early detection of breast cancer, especially in women over the age of 50. Mujeres has also connected women to Access Community Health Networks to access to free mammograms through the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (IBCCP). Unfortunately, the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program is facing severe budget cuts that would result in 12,000 fewer women receiving subsidized cancer screenings in FY16. According to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, a partnering cancer organization, IBCCP detected 727 invasive breast cancers and 1,490 cervical cancers and precancerous lesions between 2007 and 2012.
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Independence and Communication
We in DRS appreciate the importance of fostering independence in our students. We begin by placing the responsibility for communication on the student. In that spirit, once the student begins his or her career at Bethel, we do not initiate communication with parents about a student's academic performance or use of DRS services.
We encourage you to keep open lines of communication before your student arrives at Bethel. Let your son or daughter know what you expect from him or her and what information you expect them to share with you. We will also let students know that we consider it their responsibility to communicate with you.
Parent-Student Communication
There are 3 important reasons that we place the responsibility for communication on the student. The first reason is quite simple: the law requires us to do so. FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, requires colleges and universities to maintain the privacy of students' educational records.
The second and third reasons are less simple but we think more important. If we are to be effective in facilitating learning, it is of paramount importance that we build a trusting relationship. The student needs to know that we can be trusted to maintain confidentiality, to always hold his or her interests before any others.
Lastly, we know from both our research and experience that if a student is to learn to behave responsibly he or she must be given responsibility. We give students this responsibility and encourage them to use us as facilitators or as guides as they begin the journey to a college degree.


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Jan 10, 2009
What the ....
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This is ridiculous..Is this the civilized way to keep eye on girl moral life...I hope somebody is there to talk against this,and let the warden understand what she is doing..I don't think these girls will have any self-esteem later in life..
Good work.Keep writing
Good day
- January 10, 2009
This sounds like in some other century... Pathetic to say the least.
And what's funny is how does this check pre-marital sex???
- January 10, 2009
- Indian Home Maker said...
Surbhi, anything in this country is acceptable so long as the honor of the girl is protected.
It is possible that the parents are aware of this but don't object because this will keep their daughters virtuous.
It is so outrageous, I hope the press makes enough racket against it that it stops ....
And why does the warden need a bathroom more than the girls!?
Thanks for blogging about it Surbhi.
- January 10, 2009
- @lankr1ta said...
Does the warden not know that with good conctraception, sex does not result in pregnancy? And what proof do they have that the women are noting the "real" dates, do they ask for used pads as evidence?
Flippancy aside this is horrific. Where are our feminist groups protesting for this?
- January 11, 2009
- Goofy said...
This is horrifying. My God! Imagine the poor girls, teenagers are anyways shy, and just about learning to accept the fact they are becoming a woman. This is cruel, uncivilised, and absolutely unacceptable. Its wonderful that you wrote about this Surabhi, else would never have known.
- January 11, 2009
- Surbhi said...
I hope someone has managed to drill some sense into the warden's head. Have been trying to locate the original NDTV story. Don't even know how long ago it was reported. Can only hope its seen by as many people as possible, and that sick warden.
Thanks for the support and appreciation. Keep dropping in!
- January 12, 2009
- Surbhi said...
Just my question: how CAN it possibly check sex? Pregnancy, maybe. But sex?
Guess if the warden had as much sense to ask this to herself, she wouldn't be doing this in the first place.
As for it seeming like something out of another country, keep reading all the stuff I'll be writing about, as also all the blogs I follow. You're in for a nasty shock!
On a far happier note, I must say your babies are just too cute. Many cuddlies and kissies to them. Are they twins?
- January 12, 2009
- Surbhi said...
Thanks a lot for commenting! I hope (against hope) that the parents do come to their senses and get their girls out of there. And all this in an urban habitation!
And I just loved you JKG post!
Regarding the bathroom, the warden's so full of shit, you see! She def. needs it more than all the girls put together.
- January 12, 2009
- Surbhi said...
Thanks so much for dropping in, girl! If the warden had as much sense, she wouldn't be doing this in the first place. And like IHM said, for all we know it could be with the parents' consent.
Girl, you made me lose my breakfast with that 'used pads' comment! Ewww!
WE are the feminist group protesting, so lets all (inc. Mad Momma, Chandni, Roop, the gang) raise our voices!
- January 12, 2009
- Surbhi said...
Thanks for the support! Its just so inhumane. Whether the girl keeps her periods to herself or shouts out from the rooftops is nobody's business but hers. It is so damn private!
Keep dropping in and raise your voice against it.
- January 12, 2009
- Unpretentious Diva said...
Ohh yes we are struggling for sexual freedom too alongwith economical freedom.
- January 12, 2009
- Surbhi said...
Even before sexual freedom, it is important to recognise a woman as a sexual being. And at the least, as an individual.
- January 12, 2009
- Solilo said...
Are we still living in a civilized society? Who are these moral police all out to save girls getting impregnated? Isn't there a single woman among them who could raise voice against it?
- January 13, 2009
- Surbhi said...
The most unfortunate part is that the warden who's spearheading this outrageous practice is a woman!
Guess its upto us to make as much hue and cry as we can!
- January 13, 2009
- shail said...
Outrageous to say the least. I am really shocked reading this!
- January 14, 2009
- Surbhi said...
All of us are, so help spread the word.
- January 24, 2009
- February 09, 2009
- Surbhi said...
You're not the only one outraged and shocked, my friend! This is sick, to say the least. I do hope the media creates a lot of noise. So if you know someone in media, NOW is the time to go to them.
- February 09, 2009


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Crusading general ducks for cover as fellow bloggers return fire
Beijing: China's most famous sabre-rattling general has turned uncharacteristically silent after a bruising first foray on the ''battleground'' of online public opinion.
Major-General Luo Yuan has attracted more than 237,000 followers since opening a microblog account with Sina Weibo, a hugely popular Twitter-like service, only days ago.
''Weibo is a very important public opinion battleground,'' wrote General Luo, warming up to his typically spirited opening salvo, on Thursday.
But efforts by propaganda authorities to delete negative comments have not disguised that the ''beloved people'' have not been entirely won over to his cause.
''I don't want to talk about it,'' General Luo told Fairfax Media on Monday. ''I haven't got anything more to say about public opinion.''
General Luo, the princeling son of a former national intelligence chief, has recently suggested turning the Japanese-administered Senkaku islands (known as Diaoyu in China) into a Chinese target range.
He denied he had called for Tokyo to be bombed, but his entry onto the microblogging battlefield has been explosive nonetheless.
''We can no longer be silent, for you either explode in silence, or die in it,'' wrote General Luo, who is deputy secretary-general of the China Society of Military Science.
''For our beloved country, beloved party, beloved army, beloved people, we should fight!''
That first Weibo post alone had attracted more than 33,700 comments and had been forwarded 37,800 times by 2pm Monday AEDT.
General Luo is a star among conservative sections of his own red aristocracy and among viewers of China Central Television's military channel, where he is a regular guest.
But the less forgiving audiences on Weibo wondered why General Luo purported to fight for the ''beloved Communist Party'' before ''the people'' and whether generals should be so active in politics.
And when General Luo sounded the bugle to fight ''traitors'' and ''corrupt'' officials they suggested he begin his mission at home, noting his siblings are extensively involved in business.
But the public relations war really backfired when he appeared to be caught trying to even up the public opinion scorecard by writing laudatory comments about himself.
He claimed his password had been hacked, prompting netizens to ask whether the PLA could be expected to defend China's territorial integrity if its generals had such difficulty protecting their Weibo passwords.
''If the national security professional can't even change his password then the people really should be worried,'' said Kaifu Lee, an IT entrepreneur who was the founding president of Google China, writing on his own Weibo account.
Andrew Chubb, who is researching links between Chinese public opinion and government policy on territorial disputes, said General Luo has been ''itching'' to enter the Weibo fray in the two years since the PLA ordered him to shut his long-form blogs.
The blogs were ''popular with angry military enthusiasts'' and he had grown accustomed to soft interviews, said Mr Chubb, who has written about General Luo on his blog.
''But on the Weibo 'front' he's encountered another type of angry public opinion, one that is more inclined to blame China for the world's problems than the reverse,'' Mr Chubb said.
Xiao Qiang, founder and chief editor of China Digital Times, said General Luo's state-driven nationalism has collided with the relatively open Weibo debating environment.
''If Weibo is the battlefield between pro-state voices and civil society, then it looks like General Luo has hopelessly lost his first encounter,'' said Professor Xiao.
John Garnaut is Fairfax Media's Asia Pacific editor. Most recently he was China correspondent. John graduated in law and arts from Monash University and worked for three years as a commercial lawyer at Melbourne firm Hall & Wilcox before joining the Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in 2002. He became the Economics Correspondent in the Canberra press gallery and in 2007 was posted to Beijing.


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fotografía friday this week is a home edition, as I am in New South Wales visiting my parents, and the family pets.
This little rascal was my shadow this morning of my 26th birthday. My sister and I hand raised, the aptly named Typhoon from 3 to around 9 weeks, as he was found on a construction site in inner city Brisbane. My Mum came to visit, fell in-love and then adopted him. It's quite ironic that he sat still enough for me to take this 'portrait perfect' shot. All other moments he was stealthily stalking me or tearing around, from upstairs to down, like a literal typhoon.
He's got me on my toes (or is wrapped around my ankles), that's for sure. Just look at the fierce concentration.


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By Laura Broadley, St. Thomas Times-Journal
When the bridge in Port Bruce collapsed last month amid regional flooding, Karen Vecchio, MP for Elgin-Middlesex-London, reacted quickly.
"The very first day I'd already been in discussions," Vecchio said.
Vecchio understood immediately the implications the collapsed county-owned bridge would have on the village; she lived about two kilometres away from it while growing up.
"I'm very familiar with the bridge as well as the activity along the bridge," Vecchio said.
Vecchio delivered letters about the bridge collapse to six different ministers, including the minister of environment and climate change and the minister of transportation.
"There needs to be immediate action," Vecchio said.
Public safety is one of the biggest issues, she added.
When it comes to rebuilding and reconstructing the bridge there's going to be a lot of matters that need to be dealt with.
"Whether it's species at risk or the trout season coming up," Vecchio said.
Vecchio said she wanted the ministers to know what was going on when applications for disaster relief to the federal government came in from Elgin County.
"A lot of times the process is they apply for disaster relief to the province and then the province comes to the federal government asking for funding," Vecchio said.
Vecchio said she's not sure where the temporary bridge fix would go because on the west side there are properties. To the east of the bridge there is some land, but that could be a floodplain issue.
"We're just trying to make sure, at the end of the day, any of the challenges and barriers that they may face are being looked at from the federal government immediately," Vecchio said.
Vecchio said it's important that all levels of government work together to find a solution.
A timeline for when a temporary bridge will be in place is still unknown.
"I wish I could sit there and say, 'Work can start soon,' but there are going to be so many issues," Vecchio said.
The Port Bruce bridge has been a county asset since 1997. The bridge was repaired in 1999 and last inspected in 2016.


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"Either snow or rain or heat or gloom of night or Game of Thrones is on stays these detectorists from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" – Opposite of the US Postal Service Creed
It is always easy to come up with a reason not to detect. Raining, too cold, a good movie is on. Kind of the opposite of being a mailman. And with much of the United States under intense heat advisories with heat indices well above 100, you'd have to be crazy to get out there and hunt, right?
Wrong. We're hunting year round. Here are some tips for hunting in the heat you might not have thought of:
A legendary middle Tennessee detectorist recently shared this tip with Detecting365. Bananas are sweet in taste and cold in nature. They are able to clear intestinal "heat," adding moisture and eliminating toxins.
For best results, eat a banana about 15-20 minutes before actually starting detecting, that way it kicks in out in the field and the positive effects last the longest.
On the hottest days, we will try and get permission in advance, and get started at daylight, with the goal of quitting before lunch. If we don't have advance permission, we will start cruising around early and try to catch a property owner outside to avoid knocking too early.
Likewise, sometimes it is best to wait until late in the afternoon and hunt an hour before dark until an hour after dark. Substitute an all-day hunt, with three or four such short hunts per week.
With the heat comes ticks and chiggers. Permethrin is the only thing I've found that will keep them off of me. Be very careful just to treat your clothes with it, and not get it on your skin. It will last a couple of washings. I get mine from Amazon.
Cotton is the worst material to wear in the heat. It soaks up sweat and holds moisture against your skin like a wet towel, which makes your body temperature increase. Evaporation cools the skin. Your clothing should allow sweat to evaporate. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend light-weight, light-colored, loose-fitting clothes. Avoid dark colors — dark clothes absorb the heat, while light colors reflect light and heat. Moisture-wicking stuff are great. Baseball caps aren't a good idea – try to go with something wide-brimmed and well ventilated.
To me, it doesn't matter how hot it is if I am knee-deep in water. Obviously, swimming holes, creeks, and beaches are places where you can detect in the water.
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In the 16th Chapter of Acts, the jailor asked Paul and Silas the most important question anyone can ask; "What must I do to be saved?" You may expect an in-depth answer with things like: be baptized, join a church, be better than the person next to you, do many good deeds etc. The answer may surprise you. Paul simply said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved."
In the 16th Chapter of Acts, the jailor asked Paul and Silas the most important question anyone can ask; "What must I do to be saved?" You may expect an in-depth answer with things like: be baptized, join a church, be better than the person next to you, do many good deeds etc. The answer may surprise you. Paul simply said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved."
A person's greatest need is to make connections with the right people. Many, without knowing it, need to be connected to Jesus Christ. It is through Christ we have true lasting and meaningful life. How does one come into a personal belief in Jesus?
1. Realize – First a person must realize our basic problem. The problem we each have is sin. Sin is any and all disobedience toward God. When we think of sin, most of us think of things like murder, rape, adultery and the like. However, sin is also anger, lust, disobeying our parents, lying, gossip, drunkenness, hatred and on and on. The Bible assures us that we have all sinned (Romans 6:23). The problem with sin is it separates us from God. It is as if a huge chasm has been placed between us and God. Our hearts long for Him but our sin separates us from His Presence.
2. Repent – Do you feel hopeless and helpless? Do you realize there is much more to life than you are living? Once you realize you are a sinner, you but be willing to turn from your sin and change your behavior. This is called repentance. The Bible tells us if we repent from our sins God will wipe out our sins and give us times of refreshing (Acts 3:19). Repentance involves being genuinely sorry for your actions and a willingness to put your old life behind you and follow the ways of God.
3. Receive – As a person repents, they are in a place to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and make Him the Lord or boss of their lives. How do we do this? It is by faith. We must believe in our hearts that God sent His Son, Jesus. We must believe in our heats that He died for the penalty of our sin, and that God raised Him to life on the third day (Romans 10:9-10). This belief is more than head knowledge. This belief will change who you are and how you act.
In faith, walk over the bridge Jesus has made through His death and trust in Him and him alone.
While there is no magical prayer to say that will bring you salvation, this is your day of salvation. Therefore, celebrate your new birth. I would encourage you to pause and tell God how you feel. Tell God how grateful you are to Him. Thank Him for sending His Son into this world. Ask Him to strengthen you and give you power to live a changed and transformed life. Tell Him you are sorry and you have decided to follow Him and make Him the Lord (or boss) of your life.
4. Revise – As a person places their faith and trust in Jesus, they become a new person. It does not mean we will never sin or never fail. It means that we strive in every aspect to please our Heavenly Father as a son pleases his earthly father. It means that sin grieves our heart and we willingly ask for forgiveness. The Bible says you are a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). Your act of belief must lead to a change in behavior. As you live your new life of surrender, you will need some guidance. First, begin to read the Bible. I would encourage you to begin reading the Gospel of John. This is the fourth book of the New Testament. If you are not sure where to find the Gospel of John in your Bible, look in the index and you will find it. Secondly, begin to pray. Prayer is simply talking to God. Tell Him everything at all times. Thirdly, find a Bible based church. You need fellowship to grow. Get plugged in and learn of God. Fourthly, get baptized. Baptism is an act of obedience. Through baptism, you pledge your life to Christ and confess Him publicly.
Finally, I would love to hear from you. Send me an email at email@example.com. If you do not have a Bible, let me know I will get one to you. Also, I would love to send you a free gift that will help you grow in your life of faith. I look forward in hearting from you very soon.
For a more in-depth look at salvation, check out my blog at http://gregsavage.blogspot.com/. Look under the title "Salvation."


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WellPoint founding partner, Denny Weinberg, on the HHS regs and the Court's interpretation of Obamacare
HH: I've got an old friend, Denny Weinberg, one of the most successful health insurance execs over the last 20 years, retired now. But I asked him if he'd come on and talk a little bit with me about these HHS regs. Denny, great to talk to you.
DW: Hi, Hugh. How are you?
HH: I'm tremendous. Would you give a brief, I know you don't like to brag, but would you tell people about what you did at WellPoint, and how you know this business?
DW: Well, I spent about 25 years in the health insurance business first as a consultant. I came out in the late 80s, when what was then Blue Cross of California was on the verge of insolvency. And I ended up heading a team that turned the company around and created the company WellPoint, which is, as you know, now the largest health insurance plan in the United States.
HH: So you're a founding director of WellPoint. So when you have an opinion on health insurance, you're just not making this up for ideological reasons. It's based upon what you knew and had to work through for the last quarter century.
DW: Yes, and you know, I've watched all of this craziness that's evolved over the last few years, and I've tried to look at it through the lens of how can this really work in a real marketplace, because whether we like it or not, health benefits provided to employees is an entire industry, and it has to work.
HH: So with that in mind, I want to, before we go to Obamacare generally, I want to ask you, when the President announced on Friday that he understood that he couldn't do what he was proposing to do to many religious institutions, including most Roman Catholic institutions, and therefore he was going to order health insurance companies to provide morning after pills, sterilization and contraception for free, what was your reaction upon hearing that?
DW: Well you know, this has been a steady drip, drip, death by a thousand cuts first at the state levels. The more moderate and liberal states have been trying to do this kind of stuff for years, because this kind of benefit has been regulated at the state level. And now, the federal government wants to either get into the act and take control of the same thing, or force states to all operate under the same model. So I'm not surprised when I read this stuff. I just shake my head and wonder what happened to the idea that an employer should be able to purchase what they want at a price that they're willing to pay for the employees that they're trying to attract?
HH: And I understand that part. But what I'm trying to get to is he says that it will pay for itself, and that therefore, it is free. Number one, if you're walking around and you're not employed by someone, you're unemployed the day before you go to work, you do not have access to the morning after pill, sterilization or contraception for free. The next day, you go to work for the employer, and you enroll in their group coverage, and you do have access. That means the employer is paying for it somehow, doesn't it?
DW: Of course, of course. And the stuff is not free. We make it sound like these are minimal costs. But these kinds of services are real. Prescription drugs of all kinds are real, and this in particular, contraceptive services, are used by a huge percentage of Americans. So the incidence rate is quite high. And insurance works best when people or companies contribute a very small amount of money for something that is not likely to occur like getting cancer, or having an auto accident. And so that small amount of money is spread over very expensive things that occur very infrequently. These kinds of services are used by a very large percentage of Americans. So they end up actually costing a surprisingly large amount of your health insurance premium.
HH: So what do you think will happen if this stands? And I don't think it's going to stand. I think it's unconstitutional, and I think politically, it's a nightmare, and I think the Supreme Court's going to throw out Obamacare. But say I'm wrong on one, two, three. Three strikes and Hugh is out. And not only does it stand, it goes into effect. What do insurance companies do in terms of pricing? How do they deal with a mandate for a high demand, and sometimes, I think sterilization must be a few thousand dollars at least, on the least complicated cases?
DW: This drives companies absolutely crazy. You know, the idea is that we developed the actual science of what it costs to cover the health care needs of the human being. We studied that over many years. We get to understand these dynamics, and we have to set these premium rates sometimes a year and a half in advance. So when this kind of stuff comes out of nowhere, with very little notice, it almost guarantees that health insurance plans are going to be mispriced, and the insurer's reaction to this kind of environment is I have to put additional risk charges into my premiums to cover all this unknown. So this is going to just cost employers a lot of money. And he can use the smoke and mirrors that somehow this is costing insurance companies but not costing employers, but we all know that's silly.
HH: Boy, you just hit something that's so important. They have to put additional risk premiums into their policies. Would you break that down for someone, because I think that is the key to understanding that nothing is free.
DW: Nothing is free, and the more uncertainty or volatility there is in an environment, the more an insurance company not only does it because it makes good sense, but they're required by the statutory rules of their state to set aside extra money to cover the unknown. So the more volatility and uncertainty, the more of that kind of thing you find in your premium.
HH: Now Denny Weinberg, I want to ask you, I'm not ask you for a moral judgment. This is a business judgment. Put aside whatever your views are on abortion. If the President has the authority to mandate that every health insurance carrier in America provides sterilization and the morning after pill, doesn't it follow that he has the authority to order abortion?
DW: Yes, and of course, that's another slippery slope that we've been fighting with the states on for years, because some states have already gotten there. And but for the states who have held out on that, we've avoided a national mandate on that. So once the President says well, it's a natural extension that let's package this in a nice, clean package called women's health or something, which has great cache, the next thing you know, we find that our rights and our ability to protect our very closely held religious beliefs are compromised over, just like they will be over this, if this goes through.
HH: You see, because there is actually no theological distinction between the morning after pill and an early abortion, pre-viability. There just isn't. There is none, and therefore, I don't know how anyone can object or not object based upon the agency by which that pregnancy is terminated. But that's a different issue. I'm looking at the insurance thing at this point. Then, if he can order abortion, why can't he order artificial knees for all? When does it stop?
DW: Well, and especially when they start trying to tuck this into this notion that for example, in the case you just gave, maybe an abortion is cheaper than a full term delivery. And suddenly, you've got this ridiculous argument which was used like contraception, that somehow the cost of providing contraception is cheaper than the cost of a pregnancy and a delivery. You've got this rhetoric that comes across as business-ese, which is just cover for a social agenda.
HH: Well, I can make a point. Anyone who knows me will say it is much better for the country to have Hugh Hewitt wearing glasses than not wearing glasses. And my productivity is endlessly better, and I'm not a danger to anyone. Why aren't my glasses free, Denny? I mean, it doesn't make any sense at all.
DW: Well, because there is no free lunch. I mean, free is not free. You heard the, to coin a phrase, that if you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free.
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HH: Denny, I know for a fact that at least one of the justices listens to this radio show, and maybe more as they're driving home. And the radio station in D.C. is WRC 1260. So let's assume for a moment that we've got a majority of them driving home tonight. What do you want them to know about what Obamacare has done to the industry that you helped build?
DW: That the more government has intruded on the market of health financing, that fewer options have resulted for buyers, both employers and individuals, and the higher the costs have gone. It is just the case. It has been so much, it is probably so much more difficult for these insurers to meet these "basic benefit plans" and the cockamamie pricing schemes than it would be for them to simply serve employers and individual purchasers, and compete with each other on the basis of what is real price and quality like any other market works. This was evidenced years ago when you would compare the more regulated states like New York, to relatively unregulated states like Texas, and back then, believe it or not, California. And almost time after time after time, the less regulated states had more options, more competitors, better plans, and lower prices.
HH: And so when you talk to your colleagues who have stayed in the business after you retired, what do they say about day to day, week to week, month to month life under Obamacare?
DW: They spend most of their time dealing with compliance issues. And you know, the idea that you can, that they can meet the needs of customers, which is really what they're all about, is completely…
HH: So Denny, in terms of what happens if Obamacare is struck down, is that better for the industry? Or is it just more uncertainty and leading to, as we talked about last segment, higher risk premiums?
DW: The problem right now is that Obamacare was implemented in stages. And it's a question of what does repeal really mean? Because we are completely half-pregnant, and these insurers have had to comply with not only the direct mandates of Obamacare, but enormous amounts of state law and state regulation that had to be passed in order to continue regulating these plans at the state level. So it's hard to imagine what the process of repeal would be for an insurer, but it would be a lot of work just to undo this and try and put things back to some semblance to the way they were. That is what's so sad about this.
HH: Now…but in terms of the mandate itself, if the Supreme Court will have one of three choices – leave it alone, strike down the individual mandate, or strike down the entire law on a technical term called non-severability. Which would you prefer if you could forget what the Constitution said, you're just a health care exec, and you want the best thing for your company and the people that you insure?
DW: I would want it completely struck down. The loss of…striking down the individual mandate itself leaves an untenable set of laws that would just unwind everything. And we would end up with people who are the most in need of care purchasing health insurance, and those who are not waiting until they do. And that's just not workable.
HH: Now to the justice who's driving around and listening to this, and perhaps a few of them, and I'm going to ask this to be transcribed as well, because I want them to read this, the people will say in the Court in front of them in a few weeks, they'll all be lawyers talking about medicine, which is always amusing to me, that the future of American medicine is going to be decided by two teams of lawyers talking to nine lawyers. Isn't that scary, Denny?
DW: It's quite scary.
HH: Okay, so how little do they know about this business?
DW: Well remember, it's not just the business of heath care. It's the business of health care financing.
HH: Right.
DW: And this is not something that evolved overnight. You can go back to its genesis in the life insurance business, which is 150 years old. There's been a lot learned about how do you finance large populations of people, and acute, unexpected needs. And the idea that a bunch of lawmakers in there part time can be advised by their staff and their counsel on how to manage this on a day to day basis is just, you know, well, it's, on its surface, you can tell it is what it appears.
HH: Key exit question. 30 years from now, if the law stands or if the law falls, how different will the American medical system be, health care system under those two scenarios?
DW: I think it'll be dramatically different. We are working our way towards a medical system that is defined by a few hundred people in Washington, D.C versus a set of medical services that are defined by those who use those services throughout the country.
HH: Denny Weinberg, thank you so much for spending time with me. That was probably the best two segments I've had on Obamacare and the HHS regs ever.
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Music City Soul Series
Plans are in the works for the 2015 Soul Series but dates have not been set yet. This event may take place later in the year so stay tuned for details.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers were the first touring group from Music City and the first musical group to tour the world. They began a tradition other musical artists have followed ever since. This is the heritage and legacy of Music City. All proceeds from the 2013 event benefited the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
Grammy Award-winning blues musician Keb' Mo' performed along with the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Wynonna, Michael McDonald, THE FARM, and other musical guests for the 2013 event.
The benefit concert was part of the Music City Soul Series, a program produced during Black History Month that honors the contributions of African American musicians to Nashville.


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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Nearly three decades later, the family of a missing Maryland woman is still not giving up. Bernadette Caruso disappeared ago 27 years ago.
As Gigi Barnett explains, they're now asking the state to take a second look at how it handles missing persons cases.
Nearly three decades ago this week, 23-year-old Bernadette Caruso went missing from a mall parking lot in Baltimore County.
"You just don't forget. Today feels like the first day," said Susan Bowerman, Caruso's sister.
For her family and friends, the quest for justice continues.
"Our family has patiently stood by, awaiting law enforcement to do the right thing," said Sam Bowerman, Caruso's brother-in-law.
This week, they rallied in front of the Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office, asking for names on a petition that would bring her case to a grand jury, even though there's still no trace of Caruso.
"There is no body, and we have circumstantial evidence that we think should be presented before a grand jury. All we seek is for the Baltimore County's State's Attorney's Office to take her case," Sam Bowerman said.
Never before in Maryland has a petition of this kind reached the State's Attorney's Office. The group has about 1,300 names so far. It wants at least 5,000.
"I will never stop trying to get justice. Not just for Bernadette, but for the cases that follow Bernadette. Justice is well overdue for this case," said Susan Bowerman.
"I would like to know where he's at," said Deborah Denhardt.
Denhardt knows the pain of a missing family member. Her brother, Barry, disappeared while catching a bus in Baltimore four months ago. She believes more missing persons cases before a grand jury could bring long-awaited closure for families.
"I don't want anything special. I just want justice. I want what I'm entitled to and what he's entitled to," she said.
Caruso's family also wants her case before a grand jury because Baltimore County prosecutors have successfully tried cases without bodies before.


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7 Mistakes to Avoid In the Beginning of a New Year/
It's the beginning of the new year and you are coming down from the holiday high. Yet, feeling the pressure of starting the new year off fresh and on top. It can be overwhelming to start the year off with new habits, better behaviors, narrower focuses, and as some would say, a new year's resolution. To set yourself up for success for the year, here are seven mistakes to avoid in the beginning of a new year.
1. Procrastination
Just jump into it and get it done! Don't wait until you feel it's right to start what it is that you want to do. Just do it. Compliments of Nike and it's famous inspirational slogan. Waiting until everything is the way you want it or the way you feel it should be may not be in the time you desire. The more you put things off the harder it becomes to do and the less committed you are to getting it done. Don't procrastinate in doing what it is you need or want to do. Don't wait until April to start the things you said you would in January. Be discipline and start manifesting your work!
2. Allowing Your Past to Haunt You
Some times we dwell on the mistakes we've made in our past. Mistakes we've made in relationships, business, family, or our careers. Don't allow last year's blunder to discourage you from avoiding them this year. We've all made them and will continue to make them. But you learn from them, move on, and use them as testimonies to help and encourage others to avoid them. If there were people in your life who caused you harm or wasn't supportive in your mission leave them in your past. Focus on the ones who were team players and be sure to tell them how grateful you are to have each other.
3. Not Writing Down Your Focuses
Write down your vision and make it plain. Write it down and commit it to it. Live it and review it daily or weekly. I mean write yourself a note. Yes, I know we can type it, place it in a beautiful format, and then save it in the cloud. Don't neglect the feeling of connection you get when you take time to hand write something you are passionate about. When you write out your focuses for the year you help commit them to memory. It helps you to reiterate them and express them to yourself and others.
4. Not Celebrating Last Year's Successes
So what you didn't do everything that you wanted to do last year. Don't allow what you didn't get done to dismiss all the accomplishments you achieved. Take time to celebrate each success you achieved last year, no matter how big or small. Progress is success. Think of where you were in the beginning of last year and look at the progress you've made at the end of the year. You may not be where you want to be but I'm sure you are no longer where you used to be either.
5. Complaining About What You Didn't Do
It's just as important to avoid complaining about what you didn't do as it is to not celebrate your successes. Ok, you didn't do some of the things you wanted to do last year. Neither did I. I can count on two hands the number of people I've already spoken with this year who didn't either. Don't focus on the glass half empty. Instead, focus on it half full. Change your perspective about what it is you accomplished versus what you did not. Remember all the people you've inspired, the projects you've completed, the people you helped, and the places you traveled. If you feel you didn't do enough last year, then make sure you are using your time where it's most productive this year.
6. Forgetting to Reprioritize
Often times people we think we could just continue completing the things we set out to do the year before. That's not a bad approach to finishing what you've started or checking off another box on your list. But, don't make the mistake of not reprioritizing that list. You've learned new things over the past 12 months that I'm sure has given you insight and wisdom that you could apply in your life and business. What you thought was important right now, may not be what you need to be focusing on right now. I'm not saying to erase that list, just be sure to reprioritize what's important to help you have greater success this year than you did last year. Remember, keep growing and become stronger and wiser than you were the year before. Knowing that and doing that requires the ability to change focuses when needed.
7. Not Thinking BIG
What is your BHAG? What is your Big Harry Audacious Goal? Think big in what is you want to achieve this year. Don't be afraid of feeling what you aspire to do is too much or out of your scope of talents or skills. You can do it! Remember, if your dreams don't scare you then you aren't thinking big enough.
What mistakes are you avoiding in the beginning of this year?
Shared over a cup of tea,
...From my Thoughts to Yours, Jamara


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Two craft breweries have released some very well-produced marketing videos this month.
Earlier this week, Sixpoint Brewery unveiled its new website and featured a fresh video that tells the story of its newest beer, Resin. In the video, Sixpoint President Shane Welch breaks down the anatomy of a hop cone, likening it to a pine cone.
Much like Resin, the video is well-crafted and already has nearly 14,000 views since being posted on March 4th.
Not to be outdone, Full Sail Brewing Company passed around its latest video, "The Art & Science of Bourbon Barrel Aged Beer," today.
This video discusses the process of the barrel aging program at Full Sail. In an email note, Full Sail Marketing Manager Sandra Evans wrote:
"We're stoked to release our new video, 'The Art & Science of Bourbon Barrel Aged Beer,' where we take you deep into our cellar for a glimpse behind the scenes of how we barrel age beer at Full Sail. Cheers!"
Port Brewing/ The Lost Abbey also created a short video that details the brewing process behind its Hot Rocks Lager.
The high production value in these videos is commendable and something more brewers should be conscious of before releasing 'viral videos.'


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This independent review, led by Sir Keith Ajegbo, makes a series of recommendations aimed at promoting diversity across the schools curriculum and the content of the curriculum for Citizenship Education.
The key proposal is that the secondary curriculum for Citizenship Education should include a new element entitled 'Identity and Diversity: Living Together in the UK'. This will mean that all pupils, as part of compulsory secondary Citizenship Education, would be taught about shared values and life in the UK. This will be informed by an understanding of contemporary issues and relevant historical context which gave rise to them.
This approach should be supported by a range of measures to ensure that all curriculum subjects adequately reflect the diversity of modern Britain, and that schools are appropriately supported in delivery of this education for diversity.


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Hi, Brian Smith wrote: > I have a small problem. I need php5 with mysql5 support on a debian > sarge box. I've been using backports because I heard this is the best > for php5 packages for debian. But I _NEED_ mysql5, so this needs work, > any ideas? apt-cache policy mysql-server php5 mysql-server: Installed: 5.0.26-3~bpo.1 Candidate: 5.0.26-3~bpo.1 Version Table: *** 5.0.26-3~bpo.1 0 200 http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/main Packages php5: Installed: (none) Candidate: 5.1.6-1~bpo.1 Version Table: 5.1.6-1~bpo.1 0 200 http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/main Packages Or what's your problem? Mysql 5 works fine with me, I haven't tested php5. Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ http://sudokugarden.de/
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Revaluation of Fixed Assets
Revaluation of fixed assets is the process of increasing or decreasing their carrying value in case of major changes in fair market value of the fixed asset. Internation Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) require fixed assets to be initially recorded at cost but they allow two models for subsequent accounting for fixed assets, namely the cost model and the revaluation model.
Cost Model
In cost model the fixed assets are carried at their historical cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. There is no upward adjustment to value due to changing circumstances.
Axe Ltd. purchased a building worth $200,000 on January 1, 2008. It records the building using the following journal entry.
The building has a useful life of 20 years and the company uses straight line depreciation. Yearly depreciation is hence $200,000/20 or $10,000. Accumulated depreciation as at December 31, 2010 is $10,000*3 or $30,000 and the carrying amount is $200,000 minus $30,000 which equals $170,000.
We see that the building remains at its historical cost and is periodically depreciated with no other upward adjustment to value.
Revaluation Model
In revaluation model an asset is initially recorded at cost but subsequently its carrying amount is increased to account for any appreciation in value. The difference between cost model and revaluation model is that revaluation model allows both downward and upward adjustment in value of an asset while cost model allows only downward adjustment due to impairment loss.
Consider the example of Axe Ltd. as quoted in case of cost model. Assume on December 31, 2010 the company intends to switch to revaluation model and carries out a revaluation exercise which estimates the fair value of the building to be $190,000 as at December 31, 2010. The carrying amount at the date is $170,000 and revalued amount is $190,000 so an upward adjustment of $20,000 is required to building account. It is recorded through the following journal entry:
|Revaluation Surplus
Revaluation Surplus
Upward revaluation is not considered a normal gain and is not recorded in income statement rather it is directly credited to an equity account called revaluation surplus. Revaluation surplus holds all the upward revaluations of a company's assets until those assets are disposed of.
Depreciation After Revaluation
The depreciation in periods after revaluation is based on the revalued amount. In case of Axe Ltd. depreciation for 2011 shall be the new carrying amount divided by the remaining useful life or $190,000/17 which equals $11,176.
Reversal of Revaluation
If a revalued asset is subsequently valued down due to impairment, the loss is first written off against any balance available in the revaluation surplus and if the loss exceeds the revaluation surplus balance of the same asset the difference is charged to income statement as impairment loss.
Suppose on December 31, 2012 Axe Ltd. revalues the building again to find out that the fair value should be $160,000. Carrying amount as at December 31, 2012 is $190,000 minus 2 years depreciation of $22,352 which amounts to $167,648.
The carrying amount exceeds the fair value by $7,648 so the account balance should be reduced by that amount. We already have a balance of $20,000 in the revaluation surplus account related to the same building, so no impairment loss shall go to income statement. The journal entry would be:
|Revaluation Surplus
|Building Account
Had the fair value been $140,000 the excess of carrying amount over fair value would have been $27,648. In that situation the following journal entry would have been required.
|Revaluation Surplus
|Impairment Losses
|Accumulated Impairment Losses
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"..where your labels - wonky, lo-fi, ambient, body music, nerd shit, beat scene, No Wave, pysch, pop - begin to fall apart."
Leaving Records is an L.A. based cassette label run by Matthewdavid and his partner/visual director Jesselisa Moretti. Their releases are carefully curated, designed and silkscreen-printed. All very much handmade and experimental, just as we like it.
Now, Stonesthrow teams up with Leaving Records to release some kind of a best of compilation of unreleased stuff from the L.R.-artists.
This music and even more this DIY-aesthetic reminds me of a band I used to hear a lot: Folk Implosion. By looking up the band now, I found out that they were also in the kids soundtrack back then. So maybe they are not as unknown as I thought they are..


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Here we see the Island Princess, a cruise ship for the Princess Cruises line. She is the sister ship to Coral Princess and together they are the only Panamax ships in Princess's fleet. The Island Princess has a capacity of 1970 passengers and 900 crew members. In one image we see the image froom the cruise ships live cam as se approaches the Pedro Miguel Locks and in the second image we see the other wee with the Locks and the cruise ship and in the background the ongoing Panama Canal expansion works. Images taken today March 26 2014.
|Island Princess approaching the Pedro Miguel Locks
|Island Princess cruise ships live cam view approaching the Pedro Miguel Locks


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While Pinteresting I stumbled upon the recipe of how to make it from The Farmer's Nest. So I investigated, and signed myself up for the challenge, which turned out to not be a challenge. Making my own hand soap was easy, so easy that I think this blog post might put Mrs. Meyer's Liquid Hand Soap division out of business (it appears that the gal from The Farmer's Nest may have already done some damage).
Here is what you need per batch:
Bar of Mrs. Meyer's Soap
2 Tbsp. Glycerin
1 Gallon WaterI made 2 batches. A batch of Lavender and a batch of Basil; a flavor for downstairs and a flavor for upstairs.
Here is how to make it happen...
Shred up a whole bar of soap:
It looks a lot like mozzarella...there was an incident in our kitchen with a little soap getting stuck in my retainer. DO NOT simultaneously shred soap and mozzarella cheese in the same room. You've been warned!
Pour the whole bar of shredded soap into a gallon of water (128 ounces or 16 cups) and add 2 tbsp. glycerin. That's all it takes is two measly tablespoons, so I am sharing the bottle of glycerin with a friend.
Turn on the burners to med./high heat and mix the shavings until they are melted. You will have a pot (or 2 in my case) of soapy water. Turn off the burners and let it sit. That's all you have to do for about 8 hours.
My soapy water started to sit at noon and this is what is looked like at 9PM last night.
This is what it looked like after I stirred it up. Nice and fluffy.
I beat it for a few minutes and added a wee bit of water to thin it out until I thought it had the perfect snotty consistency.
Then I recruited an employee for my Soap Factory to help bottle up all of our hand soap.
We have enough hand soap to last us approx. 6 years. As Henry would say "I have over done it, again!"
The math:
One Mrs. Meyer's Liquid Hand Soap, 12.5 ounces: $4.50 (if not a little more)
One batch of home made Mrs. Meyer's Hand Soap, 128 ounces: $6.50 (soap and glycerin)
Any questions? I love a deal!


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|Under Pressure/Ice Ice Baby
|David Bowie and Queen/ Vanilla Ice
|Sung by
|Marissa von Bleicken, Cameron Mitchell, Hannah McIalwain, Alex Newell, Lindsay Pearce, Samuel Larsen and Damian McGinty Jr.
|Music Video
Under Pressure/Ice Ice Baby was the Music Video featured in the sixth episode of the first season of The Glee Project, Tenacity. Having won the homework assignment, Marissa was strongly featured in this video. During the music video, the contenders were slushied for the first time. Under Pressure/Ice Ice Baby was the only mash-up during the first season of The Glee Project. The songs that were used were "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie and "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice.
Lyrics Edit
Ice, ice, baby
Ice, ice, baby
Marissa, Lindsay, Alex & Hannah:
Ice ice baby
Let's kick it
Pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man asked for
Under pressure
That burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming
Damian & Lindsay:
Get me out
Pray tomorrow
Takes me higher
Damian & Lindsay:
Pressure on people
People on streets
Ice ice baby
Ice ice baby
All right stop
Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with a brand new invention
Lindsay (background):
Chippin' around
Kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours
Grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop yo
I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
Alex (background):
Ooh ooh
To the extremes
I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Dance go rush the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it
You better gain way
You better hit bull's eye the kid don't play
Marissa (background):
If there was a problem
Yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
Why can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love one more chance
Alex & Marissa:
Why can't we give love
Give love,
Give love,
Give love,
Give love,
Give love
'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
Cameron & Samuel:
And love dares you to care for
The people on the...
Cameron, Samuel & Marissa:
...edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of...
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Ice ice baby
Under pressure
Ice ice baby
- "Ice Ice Baby" is sung on the episode 17 of Season 1 on Glee.
- Alex wasn't hit by the giant slushie in the end because he was standing too close to the wall and/or possibly deliberately dodged it.
- Hannah had an allergic reaction to the slushies and Damian got an ear infection.
- Samuel had to wash the slushies out of his hair with apple cider vinegar.
- Robert and Zach thought Marissa was "less electric" in this video than everything before this.


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The Happy Home Cook: Kashmir Restaurant's Vegetarian Samosas/
The Happy Home Cook features cherished recipes of Filipino dishes from well-known foodies and contributors. If you have a recipe that you are proud of and would like to share, please send it along with a photo of the dish, your two-sentence bio and your picture to email@example.com.
½ kg carrots, boiled and cubed
1 pc onion, chopped
1 tbsp mixed spices powder
1 tbsp curry powder
Salt to taste
1 kg potatoes, boiled and cubed
6 pcs green chilies, chopped
1 tbsp cumin powder
1 tbsp mango powder
1 bunch dhania leaves, chopped
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
½ cup butter
¼ cup water
To prepare the filling, mix all ingredients until blended. Set aside.
To prepare the crust, combine flour and salt. Cut in butter and then add water. Knead the dough until elastic and easy to handle. Form into small balls and roll out thinly to a circle. Cut each circle in half. Place filling into the center fold and twist ends. Press firmly with fork to seal edges. Deep fry in hot oil until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Serve hot with mango or mint chutney.
Yield: 32 pieces
Recipe courtesy of Kashmir Restuarant


text: Okay,so this isn't make up related but,I just had to write a post about Amanda Bynes' new clothing line called "Dear". I just read in the newspaper that Ms.Bynes is going to be doing an appearance at my local Steve & Barrys store as apart of her mini tour for the launch of her clothing line (which can be bought exclusively at Steve & Barrys). Cute & affordable,just in time for back to school shopping. None of her pieces are over $20. That's a steal right?I'm quite partial to her jumpers,a babydoll dress & this cute quilted heart tote that are apart of your line. Check your local Steve & Barrys store for Dear by Amanda Bynes clothing & accessories.


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The Admiral Hipper-class was a group of five heavy cruisers built by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in the mid-1930s. The class comprised Admiral Hipper, the lead ship, Blücher, Prinz Eugen, Seydlitz, and Lützow. Only the first three ships of the class were completed to see action during World War II. Work on Seydlitz stopped when she was approximately 95 percent complete; it was decided to convert her into an aircraft carrier, but this was not completed either. Lützow was sold incomplete to the Soviet Union in 1940.
Admiral Hipper and Blücher took part in Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Norway in April 1940. Blücher was sunk by Norwegian coastal defenses outside Oslo while Admiral Hipper led the attack on Trondheim. She then conducted sorties into the Atlantic to attack Allied merchant shipping. In 1942, she was deployed to northern Norway to attack shipping to the Soviet Union, culminating in the Battle of the Barents Sea in December 1942, where she was damaged by British cruisers. Prinz Eugen saw her first action during Operation Rheinübung with the battleship Bismarck. She eventually returned to Germany during the Channel Dash in 1942, after which she too went to Norway. After being torpedoed by a British submarine, she returned to Germany for repairs. Admiral Hipper while decommissioned after returning to Germany in early 1943, was partially repaired and recommissioned in the fall of 1944 for a refugee transport mission in 1945. Only Prinz Eugen continued to serve in full commission and stayed in the Baltic until the end of the war.
Admiral Hipper was scuttled in Kiel in May 1945, leaving Prinz Eugen as the only member of the class to survive the war. She was ceded to the US Navy, which ultimately expended the ship in the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946. Seydlitz was towed to Königsberg and scuttled before the advancing Soviet Army could seize the ship. She was ultimately raised and broken up for scrap. Lützow, renamed Petropavlovsk, remained unfinished when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. The ship provided artillery support against advancing German forces until she was sunk in September 1941. She was raised a year later and repaired enough to participate in the campaign to relieve the Siege of Leningrad in 1944. She served on in secondary roles until the 1950s, when she was broken up
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So You Want to Smoke Pot and Get High:
A beginners course in toking up
So, you want to get high? We're here to help you. We're not ones to lecture you or question your motives in your personal affairs. We don't care if it is for medical, recreational or academic reasons. It is none of our damn business. We just want to make sure you have a good time, safely and sanely.
For the sake of convenience, we'll assume that you are in possession of a quantity of marijuana and are clueless as to what to do with it. The salient question is whether you want to eat it, drink it or smoke it. If you have already pulled some out of the bag and nervously chewed and swallowed it, you've just pissed away some pot and shouldn't repeat the exercise. It doesn't work that way.
There is, in fact, a bit of a science to getting high. The long and short of it is that in order for your weed to tweak your settings, some changes need to take place. These changes are on a molecular level and of little concern to the consumer. The important thing to remember is that you can either smoke it raw or simmer it in cooking oil or alcohol to prime it up for ingestion. It isn't water soluble and if eaten raw will probably just give you a nice gastrointestinal scrub. It won't hurt you, but it won't provide any obvious desirable effect, either. There are cheaper and tastier sources of fiber.
If you've ever smoked a cigarette with any success, you already possess the skills required to smoke pot and get high. The process is exactly the same, with the exception that you come away from a joint feeling happy and creative, and you come away from a cigarette swearing you'll quit any day now--cough cough, hack hack.
There ain't nothin' to it but to do it. Simply roll it into a piece of paper or stuff it into a pipe, set it on fire and inhale the smoke. Fill your lungs the rest of the way with clean air from a deep breath and exhale when you want to. When you don't feel like smoking any more, stop. You'll figure it out, we've all got faith in you, and it isn't rocket science.
There are schools of devout potheads that would swear one way or the other concerning precisely how long to hold the smoke, how big of a hit to take, the proper stance or reclined position, and most every other minor detail, while providing convincing historical references to support their claims. We say inhale, exhale and be merry. Keep it simple, stoner.
You'll probably cough ferociously a few times if you aren't used to smoking. Even if you are, you'll probably bellow out a few hearty hacks before all is said and done. Such is the nature of inhaling something that is on fire. If you are expecting a smooth and airy Menthol, I've got news for you. Oddly, you'll find that it tastes nothing like it smells at concerts, and that it smells different when you are the one smoking it.
For reasons unexplained, each method of smoking conjures up a bit of a different buzz. We suggest enthusiastic experimentation to find the method that best suits your personality and individual needs.
A joint's high usually rolls in smoothly like a swell of exceptional temper on a cushy suede pillow. It is a pleasant wave of good feelings and a tightening of the eyelids delivered by a variably harsh stream of acrid smoke. It is by far the most common method in the known universe and everything from corn husks to rice paper comes into play in joint-making.
Pipes come in a huge variety of designs and can vary wildly in performance features. They are the second most common way to toke up and are also found on a universal scale. The basic idea is the invariably identical. A bowl of some sort, usually with a metal screen for containing the smoldering weed, and a stem through which to draw the smoke is packed with grass and toked very much like drinking through a straw, substituting deep inhalation for gulping. Pipe smoking has the benefit of one-hit potential, thereby saving weed and controlling quantity. The idea behind one-hitting is to only put a single lungful of pot in the bowl, emptying it with each toke. It allows for tight control over the amount delivered, and even tighter control over the amount burned up. For reasons that remain insufficiently explained, the high from a pipe is usually less "stoney" than from smoking a joint. It comes on in controllable steps of pleasantness and usually ends by forgetting to smoke and finding something fun to do.
Bongs are pipes designed to bubble the smoke through water before reaching your lungs. It cools the smoke and removes some of the impurities along the way. With a bit of practice, most people learn to overcome the perceived sensation of ten-thousand compressed pounds of scrubbed smoke rocketing into their chest like a weedy Rasta train, and come to appreciate the clean, refreshing intensity of being conked in the noggin with a dope-hammer. It is fast, clean, frugal and fun. It is a luscious, syrupy bath of thick good feelings and creative gravy applied with brute pneumatic force. With the addition of ice, and a cough drop, you're bobsledding through Arctic stonedom with super-cooled loads.
Speaking of cough drops, it is a little known fact that the addition of one greatly improves smoking pleasure. Finish it before smoking, dissolve it in the bong water or be exceedingly careful not to suck it down your windpipe. You'll feel like an idiot if you choke yourself purple on the Halls of Medicine.
Eating pot is more work and less precise in delivery, but has the advantage of not being scorching smoke inhaled into the lungs or stank as hell. For complete instructions and yummy recipes, go here.