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I work at a red flag factory and I gotta say, this is the roughest part of my job. All our biggest clients don't even notice the product.
systemic transphobia
It all starts off with people being kind of social outcasts who have trouble getting laid,
It's like a guy who can't make it up the stairs deciding to chop off his leg so he can blame everything on not being handicap accessible.
My feelings and emotions are just a joke now. I made a passing comment about how seeing all these pregnant women made me feel kind of sad, you know, cuz I'll never experience that.Never heard two people laugh so hard in my life. Maybe I am stupid for feeling this way.
So tons of shit about trannies killing themselves after suffering from years of depression or old trannies suddenly realizing at around age 60 that they've made a horrible mistake and wish they could get their original genitals back or horrorshows about bad surgeries or infections...I mean, outside this fucking weird little echo chamber they've got going on, when you read about tranny issues it doesn't seem to make anything about your life better. I mean, might help some hermaphrodite or that 1 in 1000 case where it actually works out for the better, but for the rest it just becomes one more smashed up passenger car in the train wreck of a life they have going on. I like to read up on shit I'm going to make fun of so I can hit the marks, but when you read up about trannies you find you don't have to really make fun of anything because they're already made a mockery of things and your words are like a drop in the ocean. Nothing I say will ever be as cruel as the lives these people make themselves live, for no reason.
Holy fucking shit I want to smash the fuck out of the patriarchy.
I was actually thinking about all of those little "signs" that you start remembering in hindsight after transitioning. I always chose female characters in games 10 years before I even had a hunch that I was trans.
I am overweight so I am already going into this with tits but they are like the fat dude variety.
I don't even want kids right now but I feel like I might in the future and its just knowing that it's a complete impossibility (I realize there is adoption but I mean biologically). The only thing that has made me feel a little better is realizing that there are plenty of cis-women who can't become pregnant either.
I have found that I relate to some friends less. I was raised male and have tons of male friends. But now I find that I will try to talk about clothes or make up or guys and then I will realize mid sentence that I am talking to a group of hetero men.
Well they are doing some pretty crazy things with stem cells these days. Maybe, if I am remembering things correctly. Like that fancy new vagina with cheek cells or something.
This is getting a little personal but I was deeply suicidal this winter.
My brain can't reconcile this part of me that knows who I really am and want to be, and the depression affected brain that self harms and has a "theoretical suicide plan" I'm not going to do it though, I am aware how dumb it is.
Whoa, that totally isn't what I meant. I mean I do occasionally cut but I have always kept that really secret from anyone who could do anything about it.
at this point I have developed enough healthy coping strategies so that it is a very rare occurrence. I just mean keeping it from my parents and close friends so they don't freak out and do something drastic. I just don't want my life put on hold by ending up in a mental hospital for a week. Not a good time, with work and school and everything.
I watched my own blood run down my arms and legs and in those moments I turned to cutting it felt wonderful.
Last night I spent half an hour cutting open a Gillette mach 3 disposable razor blade cartridge with scissors.I did this so that I could get at the 3 tiny razor blades inside. I learned they are much more efficient than regular single razor blades. For cutting myself I mean.I learned this from watching a video online on live leak (of a girl cutting herself in her kitchen late at night). I went there out of morbid curiosity, I had been having a lot of suicidal ideation lately and some part of me wanted to watch videos of people killing themselves. I remember seeing the Budd Dwyer suicide video on there and I thought I could find more. For anyone not aware Budd Dwyer was a pennsylvania senator who fatally shot himself on live television in the late 80s.Anyway I had my razor blades and I had my headphones. I was listening to this great new podcast called The Fogelnest Files. Basically Jake Fogelnest goes through internet videos with a guest and makes fun of them. Its done rather well though I know I am doing a poor job of making it sound good. Its weird how I can listen to something and laugh at it while at the same time I am cutting. I am very good at multitasking. At one point I playfully and gently moved the blade across my wrist thinking to myself that I could really do it if I wanted to, right then and there. I didnt, though that is obvious.The blades were much more efficient than the one I had been using. I cut way deeper on my arm than I thought. Not enough to require a hospital visit (and I cant even imagine having to explain that to my father) but enough that I felt it necessary to get up and disinfect. I have no logical explanation for why I do this; aside from what I have read on physical pain and emotional pain coming from the same brain-zone (science talk!) and since emotional pain is more difficult to process I am compulsively using physical pain to numb myself to emotional pain.
I'm bipolar and I've been on a bit of a hypomanic kick these last few days and that causes me to get into this "every single thing about the world and everyone in it is perfect and beautiful" kind of mindset.
I try to please everybody. I have an intense fear of abandonment. It has only been in the last couple months that I have started realizing how unhealthy it is, for me and the people around me.
I also miss having a job because guys were starting to flirt with me and my brain just craves validation 24/7. I literally have many difficulties with just loving myself and not seeking out other peoples approve to feed my self worth, which kind of sucks as an introvert because most people don't expect that of me.
my self harm has been a part of my life for so long that I feel (mind, incorrectly) that it is a really casual subject. I have always had issues with conversational boundaries and this is another aspect I am discovering.I always am aware of the trauma I have sustained in life. I just run everything through this filter where I tell myself things like: Well yeah I was molested but other people have been molested worse.
In some ways I feel I might need to do that. Living with my father is constantly so triggering to my urges that I feel like I am never going to get better if I dont leave. The few months I didnt live with him I felt so happy, so free. Everything was wonderful. Thats really when the depression hit me for the first time. this was over 5 years ago now. I got a taste of what life was like on the other side and it was beautiful, but than it was all ripped from my hands and I was back home.
I kind of have this weird anxiety thing where I generally don't like there being active knowledge existing that I am a human who has bodily functions.
It's just that one thing lately that's been annoying lately. Also I have gotten this annoying habit lately of getting crushes on my male friends. And, while they are respectful and loving and awesome; they are not quite the looking past having a penis types.
I also had my best friend (that I accidentally fell in love with, if anyone saw my posts in the depression thread they might remember the story) tell me that, even if I did get surgery he has known me too long as his friend to ever see me as a romantic partner.
I also confessed while hungover and weeping uncontrollably on a train to my best friend that I was in love with him but that is pretty much a separate E/N thread I guess.
I need to stop smoking pot.Its not good for me. I hope you are reading that correctly. Its not good for ME. I always think I am enjoying being high but there is that part of me that just thinks I am being an idiot. I have fun but I am always depressed after I stop being high. Its strange. I feel so happy on it but if I get alone with it I always start thinking depressively.
I was unable to reconcile the me that did drugs with the outdated morality surrounding drug use that I had implanted in my mind. Even though I was outwardly excepting there is still this part of me that equates drug use with bad person. So if I was doing drugs I was a bad person. But how is someone a bad person if they are just getting high? Doing drugs in a safe and responsible manner hurt my self esteem because I saw myself as a bad person for doing drugs.
Hi Everyone! I'm Behold, A Elk!Quote from: Behold! A Elk!Holy fucking shit I want to smash the fuck out of the patriarchy.
My mom and dad did something really amazing recently. I was feeling really down in the dumps, had just lost a bunch of friends, and I was hopeless. I would not say suicidal, but I just did not see how I could pull myself up from it all again, as I had repeatedly done in the past.I thought, "My older brother is still going to call me a transvestite and to cut my genitals off". And I thought about all my other silly woes. And I became overwhelmed. But my parents pulled me into their bedroom and they asked something that completely threw me off, because it was such a break from the state of affairs with my family. They asked me what they could do so that I could be happier. And so I told them that I could not cope living with someone who disrespected me so much that they would infer I should kill myself, mutilate my genitals, and and refer to me as a transvestite out of spite. And so they did something I've never seen them do before. They brought my older brother into the room after I left and they screamed at him for hours on end. I heard them acknowledge all the stuff I had done for my family, all the sacrifices I made so that our family could continue functioning(Dropping out of college to be the caretaker to my siblings while the parents worked, worked a full-time job and sent my brother money whilst in jail, gave them my entire paychecks because we were still short on money with them both working, and like, they told him he would be kicked out on his ass if he even once degraded me again. And like, it was almost everything I had ever wanted to hear from them.And then they asked me if I wanted to start living out as a woman full-time, and I said yeah, and they said I'd have a safe space at home, and like, it's something I can hardly reconcile with, because they've never, ever acknowledged anything I had done for them. I'm still absorbing it all. I made it to this point and stuff is actually working out for me, even if it's just one step at a time, and it's amazing. I feel amazing and safe and stuff.
isn't dans the only real tranny on the forums, as in he was born herm and only later in life did doctors discover he had vestigial parts of the female anatomy and got surgery to correct it? i wonder how he feels about all these insane fuckups.
why didn't every a elk thread get closed for all the cutting/suicide talk? isn't that what usually happens in e/n for people who talk about suicide? the way he talks about it it could sound glorifying to other suicidal goons
How many goons and troons do you think are deeply upset that they were born "too early" for medical science to make a complete and total gender-swap possible?Course now I'm imagining that in the future you'll have this magic tech that makes it possible and dipshits will still try to "fix" their lives instead of dropping 50 lbs and seeing how they feel about social interaction.
Pretty sure I just have a shitty memory and this is nothing to do with being trans. Being a girl owns I don't need some random ass story about how when I was 6 months old I would only wear size 7 girl panties to justify transitioning.
I'm perfectly happy to say my sex at birth was male because I am not intersex nor am I fucking crazy.
I've never been gendered female even accidentally by strangers.
Pills can't make you trans. That's the same as Alex Jones thinking that estrogen in the water supply is making everyone more effeminate and gay. See a therapist. You and your fiancée are probably not going to last sorry
It's almost as hormones are not magic and you need to change other things to be passable.
I think a lot of people in here are massively overestimating how much HRT will change their body. HRT will not magically change you into a curvy goonette. If you hate how your body looks now in girl clothes you will probably hate it after any amount of time on HRT. A better option would be to learn what styles suit you and what don't. Most of the time people look terrible the first time they try female clothes on because they don't have any fucking clue what they are doing.
You don't have to be sexually attracted to trans people. It doesn't make you a bigot if you are not.
Whenever I see long paragraphs about feminism or wordy words my eyes cross and I make farting noises. This shit is too complicated please make it really simple so idiots like me can not be bad people. Seriously it's like I have to be a fucking supergenius academic to not be a bad person with all my buckets of privilege.
You sound like a 12 year old on a candy store. These are serious procedures with some serious drawbacks. Chill the fuck out and go discuss this with a therapist before posting another confusing jumble of ideas at us.
You can catch transgenderitis from a carrier by reading their shitty posts.
If trans was detectable in-womb I would personally fly around the country aborting trans fetuses. If you want your physical sex to not be congruent with your gender you are fucking insane and if you would wish that on your child just because 'trans pride' well then you are an asshole.
How is being trans not a psychiatric disorder what the fuck?
Being trans is a defect just like downs syndrome or whatever else. Detect in womb , abort. Nobody has to suffer being trans. I will not encourage people to allow a defect to continue to exist simply because I identify as having that defect. I guess there are vague arguments you could make saying that trans people existing forces society to question gender roles or something blah blah.(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
I don't remember shit from my childhood except that I was most concerned with finding every possible sharp corner and bashing my head against it. Maybe the two are linked. Shit didn't go south until around puberty I think.
Attempted suicide , people who post here saved my life with timely 999 call
I've never had a problem with harassment out and about. That's because I solve that problem by never going outside though. I need a therapist.
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OMOCAT's piece called "Old Toybox" is about as perfect a remembrance for the ghosts of Nintendo's late 90's (and early 2000's) you could hope for.
Originally done for the Fangamer vs Attract Mode Art Show at this year's PAX Prime, it's now available as an 18" x 24" print from Fangamer.
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Green Ginger (Peachtree City)
- Expired
- Peachtree City
- Sushi Bars
Scout Notes: Pardon us, but would you like a side of sultry mood lighting with those basil rolls?...Pardon us, but would you like a side of sultry mood lighting with those basil rolls? (The answer, in case you're wondering, is always yes.) With its sleek, modern interior, Green Ginger is upping the ante on fast-casual sushi joints.
It's not just the decor that raises the bar, either. Green Ginger's sushi chefs don't want to serve customers the average sushi roll. So instead, they're coming up with their own creative "new generation" rolls, like the Love Story. We won't spoil the fun, but we'll just say that a sushi roll doesn't always have to be, well, rolled up. For those who'd rather enjoy a big, warm bowl of something hearty, Green Ginger serves an assortment of appetizers, noodle bowls, and good ol' familiar classics from Thai, Chinese, and Japanese cookbooks. So yes, between the signature Thai dishes and the Japanese sushi bar, Green Ginger has quite a few different tricks up its apron. The only problem we have? Picking just one dish (okay, three) to chow down on.
Menu Highlights:
Caterpillar Roll, $12
Love Story Roll, $14
Green Ginger Roll, $12
Pad Thai, $11.95
Sushi and Sashimi Deluxe, $25
Thai Tea, $3.50
House Sake, $5
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Michigan ice anglers urged to use caution
The Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Safety is a must if you're going ice fishing, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday in its weekly fishing report.
According to the DNR, this pertains to ice safety as well as medical conditions, because snow and slush on the inland lakes will cause difficult travel conditions. Those heading out to spear fish are encouraged to mark the areas where they were spearing so other anglers will know to avoid that area, it said.
Lake Erie: Has skim ice only, no safe ice to report. A few anglers are shore and dock fishing around the marinas for perch.
Huron River: Those floating small jigs with wax worms are catching steelhead.
Detroit River: Boat and shore anglers are catching a few perch in the cuts and canals around Gibraltar. Most are using perch rigs with shiner minnows.
Lake St. Clair: Had no safe ice yet and with warmer weather in the forecast, anglers will be waiting even longer.
Lexington: Has some ice but it is not safe ice. Fishing is at a standstill.
Port Sanilac: Has ice in the harbor but no safe ice.
Harbor Beach: Had no activity in the harbor. Apparently the Edison Plant is not discharging water so no one is fishing the Edison Channel.
Saginaw Bay: Is in between fishing seasons as there is too much ice to fish from shore or launch a boat, but not thick enough to safely go ice fishing. Heavy snow this week will also prevent the freezing process. Anglers were perch fishing off Palmer Road. Most of the fish were small however a few keepers were caught. Fish in two feet of water and wear a pair of waders in case you go through the ice. Ice anglers fishing off White's Beach caught some decent perch but catch rates tapered off. Someone tried ice fishing off Pinconning however they broke through the ice. Those fishing at the Linwood Marina are standing on the docks and punching holes through the ice. Quanicassee had poor ice conditions. Anglers broke through the ice at Geiger Road. Ice and dock fishing opportunities were reported in the marinas from Sunset Bay to Bay Port. All the rivers and cuts from Quanicassee to Port Austin had open water. Floating ice and shore ice is making shore fishing more difficult.
Saginaw River: There was some boat activity for perch in Bay City until the cold snap. The boat ramp on Patterson Road was iced in and not usable. Those still eager to fish from their boats would be wise to bring a spud and some rock salt if they intend to launch.
Tittabawassee River: Had little fishing effort upstream of Saginaw as shore ice and floating ice have hindered all fishing opportunities.
There continues to be no safe ice in this area of the state. Some lakes may have a thin sheet of ice but certainly nothing is safe at this time. It is going to take cold temperatures over an extended period of time before ice fishing starts.
Dowagiac River: Should have good steelhead fishing.
St. Joseph River: Continues to provide good steelhead fishing.
Kalamazoo River: Anglers are still catching steelhead. Try spawn, flies, wax worms, spinner baits or body baits.
Grand River at Grand Rapids: Steelhead were hitting on jigs and wax worms. Some are back bouncing spawn down past Jenison while others are casting. Try red head or blue and chrome plugs or Hot-n-Tots in gold and black or gold and orange. Walleye fishing should be good by the weekend. Try whitetail jigs or 3 inch paddle tails on the west side of the Fulton Street Bridge as well as off the East Wall.
Grand River at Lansing: Not much is happening at the present time. Some are still going out and trying for steelhead. Those fishing over at Moore's Park are still taking the occasional perch, crappie or pike.
Grand Lake: Might be safe for foot travel but not for any type of vehicle.
Thunder Bay River: Ice conditions at the mouth are just not suitable for ice fishing.
Fletcher Floodwaters: Has ice but no report on fishing conditions.
Au Sable River: Fishing was good until the cold weather. Anglers launching boats are bringing shovels and salt to be sure they can use the ramps. Steelhead fishing has been very good.
Higgins Lake: A few were perch fishing on the south end of the lake near Lincoln Avenue however for the most part the ice is just starting to form and is not safe.
Houghton Lake: Still has open water near the hole out in front of the Heights and straight up the west side of the lake all the way up to the North Bay. Travel conditions are difficult with slush and the additional 6 to 8 inches of snow that fell this week. Some are fishing the East Bay for walleye and crappie.
Tawas: Small yellow perch have been caught inside the State Harbor. If you sort long enough, you might get enough keepers for a meal. There is some ice over near Jerry's Marina which is the most sheltered from the wind. We have reports of a few anglers heading out to 15 feet of water and trying for perch or walleye however going out that deep on early ice is not a good idea.
Au Gres River: Is producing lots of small perch and sub-legal walleyes.
Lake Cadillac: Ice fishing is going strong in the Cadillac area. Pike and walleye are being caught along with some crappie. Additional snowfall this week could make travel across the ice more difficult.
Lake Mitchell: Has good ice fishing. Pike are hitting on tip-ups with sucker minnows while panfish are hitting on minnows or wax worms.
Lake Missaukee: Has good panfish action.
Manistee River: Is still producing some nice steelhead for those fly fishing. Much colder temperatures will slow the bite however there are still plenty of fish in the river.
Pere Marquette River: Is still producing a good number of winter steelhead.
Munuscong: Anglers are perch fishing in 3 feet of water. Catch rates were slow but the fish averaged 9 and 10 inches with the occasional 13 inch fish taken as well.
Cedarville and Hessel: Musky Bay is producing some excellent perch fishing. Anglers are using wigglers and minnows in 10 to 14 feet of water. Many of the fish measured 12 to 14 inches. Hessel had poor ice conditions.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Mercedes Diesel Oil Change
I made a new video today. It's a short HOWTO on changing the oil on a 1995 Mercedes E300D. I'm trying to get in the habit of making videos of stuff I do, especially if it could be useful to someone else.
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LETTER- Drop-In Center no "flophouse"

I received an e-mail from a friend suggesting I read the article [April 14: "Up with people: But On Our Own dollars down" ], which I did. I was utterly disappointed by the lack of compassion and caring shown by Will Gallik and Debbie Smith, the present spokespeople from that organization.

I was one of the original founders and directors (for 10 years) of the organization, and I know that neither of these people ever came to the Center during those years as we were developing the projects and programs that were at the heart of the unique program known as the Drop-In Center.

Rather than "cleaning up its image," Gallik has insulted people who are homeless and were welcome at the Center for those years– people with multiple problems but who were respectful of the rules created by those who utilized the Center. According to Debbie Smith, lots of people were "afraid to come to the Center." I challenge her statement since it is made without her own experience.

The Drop In Center was never a "flophouse" but served persons who had no resources and felt that the Center was a safe place where they could rest, wash clothes, take a shower, eat a decent meal, and have a place to get mail, receive and make phone calls, and get information about jobs and housing.

Many of those people were folks who had been discharged from large mental hospitals and were without benefits– which we helped them access. We partnered with many agencies including Social Services, Region Ten, Free Clinic, Social Security, UVA Psychiatry, UVA Law and Psychiatry, AA, and NA.

In fact, UPS (the men in brown) thought so much of what we were doing they donated $100,000 for us to purchase a building– the very one from which Gallik wishes to exclude those persons who were the recipients of the funding.

Ours was considered a model program. It was written up by a researcher who toured the country and concluded that the three most progressive Drop-In Centers were in New York, San Francisco, and Charlottesville!

Shela Silverman
Program Director, Contac del Oeste
New Mexico
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By Tomasz Janowski
TOKYO (Reuters) - The message from Beijing could not be clearer: China needs to shift to a more balanced economy that is socially and environmentally sustainable.
That was the conclusion of a key Communist Party meeting a decade ago, yet what followed was more of the same: rapid investment-led expansion, which turned China into the world's no.2 economy, but left it laden with debt, environmental damage and excess capacity.
Fast forward to 2013 and China's new leadership is again promising more harmonious development and the question is how to tell whether, this time, it is for real.
One encouraging sign suggesting that President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and their team mean business is their greater tolerance for slower economic growth while they carry out reforms. After three decades of double-digit rises in GDP each year, the leaders have penciled in 7.5 percent for 2013 - the weakest pace since the late 1990s.
"Since the reforms of the late 1970s, leaders have always without exception said that the growth rate is the first priority," said Zhao Xijun, deputy head of the Finance and Securities Institute at Renmin University in Beijing.
"The new leaders don't say they don't pay attention to growth, but the new priority is the stability of growth rather than a high growth rate."
The new approach was evident earlier this year when investors fretted the economy may be slowing down too much. Rather than adopting the sort of massive economic stimulus of the past, Beijing announced small-scale and targeted measures to support economic activity.
Chinese leaders have repeatedly said China needs to wean itself off a reliance on investment and exports, which in parts of the country have led to industrial overcapacity and pollution, and rely more on services and consumption, more akin to the developed economies of the West.
To do that means encouraging tens of millions of Chinese to move to cities to live while creating a social safety net and laws, particularly on land ownership, that will give them the confidence to do so.
The ultimate test of the new team's appetite for reform will be its actions, but the four-day third plenary session of the Communist Party's leadership starting on Saturday will offer some early clues.
Such meetings have served in the past as launch pads for major economic reforms like those unveiled in 1994 that paved the way for China's World Trade Organization membership, though some, such as the one a decade ago, failed to deliver.
By nature, the pronouncements are broad and often deliberately cryptic, but China watchers believe the tone and level of detail can reveal where the policy focus will be.
"For example, the state owned enterprises' reform will be touched on, but it will probably be in very general language and similar to one used before," said Haibin Zhu, chief China economist with JPMorgan in Hong Kong.
"But in some key areas, like fiscal or land reform they will be using more detailed language."
In the end, what will matter more is what the authorities do in the next six to 12 months. General expectations are that the follow-up will not be as dramatic as in 1994, but also that it will not be a non-event like a decade ago.
The consensus view in Beijing is that the authorities are not ready to take on state-owned giants that dominate sectors such as finance or energy or to let the struggling ones fail.
The focus therefore will be on the rest of the agenda: financial, fiscal, land and government administration reforms, pricing of resources, changes to social security and opening protected sectors to private and foreign competition.
All are seen contributing in one form or another to China's push towards more private investment, consumption, services and high-value manufacturing, so any progress there would be welcome by investors and economists.
"Many of these things hang together and you can't really go the full length on one without another, so any significant step on any of these will be welcome," Markus Rodlauer, deputy head of the International Monetary Fund's Asia Pacific Division in Washington, told Reuters.
What few seem to be advocating is for Beijing to break with its gradual, cautious approach.
"In a way, a gradual move on all of those (reforms) is what will in the end deliver," Rodlauer, who heads the Fund's China mission, said. "China has been well served by its strategy of gradual, careful reforms and does not need nor should it venture suddenly to implement Big Bang reforms."
Of all reforms, a financial overhaul is considered low hanging fruit. Markets and the currency are closely controlled and capital movements in and out of the country are restricted.
Driven by the central bank's governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, the gradual move towards market-driven interest and exchange rates and capital flows liberalization is already under way and there is a clear roadmap.
In the least, investors expect to see a further broadening of the yuan's trading band next year and the establishment of a deposit insurance scheme - a prelude to a gradual freeing up of deposit rates and full liberalization of interest rates.
"If we don't see anything on financial reform in 2014, that will be a very big disappointment," said JPMorgan's Zhu.
On the fiscal front, economists and investors will look for steps to share more evenly revenues and expenditure between central and local governments and the expansion of the use of value added tax in the services sector. Local governments now get about half of tax and other revenues, but are responsible for more than 80 percent of public spending.
Economists and observers will also look for progress towards a bilateral investment treaty with Washington and a similar pact with the European Union as proof of Beijing's intention to further open up its economy.
Some also expect to see land and residence registration reforms tested in some areas, translated into a nationwide policy that would support China's stated goal to boost its urban population.
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(Tomasz Janowski, Asia Economics Correspondent; Additional reporting by Kevin Yao in Beijing; Editing by Neil Fullick)


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This recipe is particularly great for the holidays because the season often brings overnight guests – with this version, you can prep ahead and bake the bread pudding the next morning while the coffee is brewing. The cinnamon-laced, moist French bread is embellished with mixed dried berries; I chose a blend of cherries, blueberries and cranberries because I like their sweet and tart chewiness. You could easily use just one variety of berry or use raisins or currants. You can even add semi-sweet chocolate morsels.
Regular bread pudding can have over 500 calories, 20 grams of fat and 700 mg of sodium per serving. By choosing fat free milk and fat free sweetened condensed milk, and by swapping 2 egg whites for 2 whole eggs, I was able to shave 100 calories and 300 mg of sodium per serving and I got the fat down to just 2 grams per generous portion.
Note: if you don't want to wait overnight, let the bread soak in the milk mixture for at least 30 minutes before baking. Also, day-old bread works best because it acts like a sponge. If you have a fresh loaf, cube it and wait as long as possible before soaking it in the milk mixture.
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14-ounce can sweetened condensed fat free milk
2 large eggs
2 large egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
Arrange the bread cubes in a shallow baking dish (about 11×7 or 13×9 inches). Arrange the dried berries all over the top.
In a large bowl, whisk together the milk, sweetened condensed milk, eggs, egg whites, vanilla extract and cinnamon. Pour the mixture all over the bread and berries. Press down to cover the bread with the milk mixture. Sprinkle the brown sugar all over the top of the bread mixture. Cover with plastic, press down slightly to cover the bread with the milk mixture. Refrigerate up to 24 hours.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
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Serves 6
Nutrition Info Per Serving
Calories: 419
Total Fat: 2 grams
Saturated Fat: <1 gram
Total Carbohydrate: 81 grams
Sugars: 56 grams
Protein: 16 grams
Sodium: 397 milligrams
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Using Apple Maps to navigate your way across a busy city may result in the much criticized-app sending you around in circles, but at least you can ask someone for help without too much effort.
However, become lost in a semi-arid national park where there's no water supply and where temperatures can reach up to 46C (114F) and suddenly the situation begins to look a little more serious.
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Victoria police said on Monday that in the last two months they've had to rescue six people lost in Murray-Sunset National Park after they tried to use Apple's troubled map app to locate the city of Mildura. While Maps shows it to be located inside the park, it's actually situated 43 miles (70 km) away.
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Apple dropped Google Maps from its mobile devices in September and replaced it with its own version with the launch of iOS 6 but it wasn't long before complaints started flooding in about mis-placed locations and a lack of detailed information. The embarrassing debacle prompted an apology from Apple boss Tim Cook and also culminated in the dismissal of iOS software chief and long-time Apple employee Scott Forstall as well as Richard Williamson, who was in charge of the Maps project.
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Taylor Swift's mom's 1971 Jeepster Commando?Posted in Features on April 22, 2014
I spend a lot of my time in off-road shops. Even when I am not working on my own rig, I like to see what's getting wrenched on. You really never know what tip you might learn or cool vehicle you will come across. A great example is this 1971 Jeepster Commando. The Jeep was sitting on the rack at Low Range 4x4 in Wilmington, North Carolina. When I walked back, shop owner Kelly Carter was wrapping up the suspension install. Initially, I was amazed at the great condition, especially for a rig that is over 40-years-old. As he lowered it off the lift, he passed along an interesting tidbit about the previous owner. According to the new owner, Daisy (the Jeep's nickname) belonged to Taylor Swift's mother. Honestly, I'm not a big Taylor Swift fan, but it does always add a bit of intrigue when a celebrity is tied to a vehicle.
I did a little digging (not much really), and here's what I have learned so far. Taylor Swift's mother's name is Andrea, and she currently resides in Tennessee. The Jeepster has a Tennessee license plate frame. According to the interweb, Swift's mother was born in 1958. Given that the Jeep was born in 1971, she would have been 13-years-old when the Jeep rolled off of the showroom floor. This makes it unlikely that she was the original owner, but does not rule out her completely. According to a Jeep press release from 2007, Taylor Swift "joins children to help the Jeep® brand celebrate sponsorship of multi-year initiative to re-teach Americans the words to the national anthem." This partnership could stem from a love of Jeeps, which could have started with her mother's Jeepster…OK. Maybe I am stretching a bit. I guess I'll just have to take the story at face value. Regardless if it was or was not Taylor Swift's mother's Jeepster, it's a clean ride, that's clearly been looked after.


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McClain, 28, has made 45 career regular-season starts for the Ravens. He missed the final three regular-season games of 2012, as well as the postseason, with his injury.
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AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern baseball team rallied from four runs down in Game 2 of Sunday's doubleheader with West Alabama at Hurricane Stadium to earn a split for the day and in the four-game weekend series. UWA took Game 1 on Sunday, 11-1, and GSW won Game 2, 10-9 in eight innings.
Freshman Corey Benson collected hits in both games and finished the day 3-for-6 at the plate with a pair of walks and three runs scored to lead the Hurricanes.
West Alabama scored four runs in the first and three more in the second to take a 7-1 lead en route to the 10-run win over GSW in Game 1 on Sunday.
Beau Parker scored the 'Canes lone run when he eventually came around to score on a fielder's choice after leading off the first inning with a walk.
The Hurricanes did not have a batter with multiple hits.
Ladarrius Cole, Brian Simone and Jeremy Rice and two hits apiece for West Alabama. Colin McKeen hit a solo home run. Micah Reaves finished with three RBIs.
Jody Sellars (0-1) took the loss for the Hurricanes, allowing seven runs in one inning of work. He walked three, hit a batter and surrendered five hits.
Jeb Huber (2-0) tossed six innings for UWA to get the win. He allowed one unearned run, walked three and struck out two. Taylor Bratton picked up the three-inning save after holding GSW scoreless. Bratton walked one and struck out one.
The Hurricanes trailed 7-3 through 5 1/2 innings before rallying with three runs in the sixth and two more in the seventh to send the game to an eighth inning. After West Alabama scored a run in the top half of the eighth, GSW scored two in the bottom of the inning to pick up the come-from-behind victory.
With the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning, down by two, Parker hit a chopper down the third base line that bounce over the head of the third baseman and brought in Benson and Andrew Anderson.
A Jeremy Rice triple in the top of the eighth drove in Kevin Deese and gave UWA a 9-8 lead.
Michel Coffey walked to lead off the bottom half of the inning for GSW. Sellars followed with a picture-perfect bunt between the pitcher's mound and first base that could not be handled in time and put two runners on with nobody out. After Heath Lock replaced Sellars at first base, Andrew Archer advanced both runners with a sacrifice bunt.
Anderson followed with a double down the left-field line that could only bring in the tying run. After Benson was intentionally walked to load the bases, John Duran was hit by a pitch from Josh Varner to cap the comeback win.
Benson, Sellars and Parker collected two hits apiece for the Hurricanes. Parker added three RBIs.
Cole went 4-for-5 with two runs scored, two RBIs, and two stolen bases to lead UWA (3-4). Simone, McKeen and Deese each added two hits.
Neither starting pitcher played in the decision.
Gray Carden (1-0) pitched the final two innings for GSW to get the win. He struck out four and walked one, allowing two runs.
Varner (0-1) started the eighth and allowed the final two GSW runs to take the loss.
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LOS ANGELES — John Speraw may have taken his talents to Westwood, but the balance of power, at least for now, remains at his former UC Irvine home.
For the second time this season, the Anteaters, who Speraw led to three NCAA titles in a 10-season tenure that ended when he returned to his alma mater in the recent off-season, topped the Bruins in five games.
This time, the 25-19, 22-25, 20-25, 25-20, 15-11 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation men's volleyball triumph came at Pauley Pavilion.
UCI had previously topped UCLA in five sets at a season-opening tournament in Santa Barbara.
"It's so fun to be the mid-major and come in and win against a school that has every resource available to it," said UCI Coach David Kniffin, who was part of two of UCI's NCAA titles as an assistant to Speraw. "When it comes down to it, it's decided by who can execute within the confines of points."
The Anteaters (7-3, 4-2 in the MPSF), to some degree, saved their best for last. They hit .500 on 14 swings in the fifth game, had three blocks for points, and allowed the Bruins (6-4, 3-4) to make all four service errors in the set. UCI also was successful on all 11 of its sideout opportunities.
UCLA missed 19 serves in the match, including match point, when junior middle blocker Spencer Rowe was called for a foot fault, while launching a serve well beyond the opposing end line. The Bruins had only one ace.
UCI had five aces and 12 service errors, with junior middle blocker Collin Mehring floating four aces, two of which crawled over the tape to land on the UCLA side.
Sophomore Michael Brinkley may have been the brightest shining star for the winners. The 5-foot-10 libero had a career-best 20 digs and added three assists to help UCI post a 53-49 advantage in digs.
Senior Kevin Tillie, a returning All-American outside hitter, had a team-best 17 kills and hit .325 for UCI. Tillie, who used a full repertoire of power and finesse while attacking at the net, also chipped in seven digs, one solo block and three block assists.
Sophomore opposite Zack La Cavera had 15 kills, including three critical swings for points in the decisive set. He finished hitting .306, while adding eight digs and two block assists.
Mehring led the 'Eaters with four block assists and his nine kills came on 11 swings (a .727 clip).
Junior setter Daniel Stork, who replaced starter Chris Austin in the third set with UCI trailing, 14-9, finished with 24 assists, six fewer than Austin. But Kniffin said shifting to Stork was clearly beneficial.
UCI, which improved to 3-1 in five-game matches this season (UCLA is now 5-3), never trailed in the fifth set. After the two teams traded points through 7-7, two La Cavera kills gave the visitors a 9-7 cushion and UCLA was behind to the end.
"I think it just felt like we were more composed mentally for the match, from the outset and in all the pressure situations," Kniffin said. "I looked on the court and I thought we were the more confident team."
Brinkley, whose previous career-high was 16 digs earlier this season against UCLA, said there may be some extra motivation when playing the Bruins.
"Maybe I just like playing against UCLA and my old coach," said Brinkley, who was singled out by Kniffin.
"He's just a joy to watch," Kniffin said of his second-year starter. "That kid makes everybody around him better. Even beyond his [dig] numbers, so much of what he does in not quantifiable. He runs the defense for us."
UCI hit .313 for the match, 23 points better than the Bruins, who received 63 assists from junior setter Connor Bannan, a Corona del Mar High product.
UCI also held the edge in team blocks, 9.5 to 7.
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AN INVITATION: You are invited to suggest books for our annual roundup of reader recommendations of the books you "most enjoyed" this year. Your "enjoyed" books can be, but do not have to be, published recently. In fact the older and more "rediscovered" the better. This not a "Best of" competition. It is an opportunity to share rediscoveries with fellow lovers of the printed word. Email me by Dec.21 . HG.
Last week we were trying to put in a kind word for books that have had their chance to become classics, never quite achieved that status, but are still worth reading.
Typically, they are removed from public library shelves after a while to make room for constantly incoming tides of "new arrivals." Once that happens, one's last, best hope for "rediscovering" these books is through either a used book store or the Internet. More on both of those later.
I personally am in the enviable position, as a dealer in old and rare books, to see a constant stream of non-fashionable books float past my nose. On impulse, or from curiosity, I'll read a bunch of them. And because of that, I often go months at a time reading only books no longer touted by reviewers, advertised by the book chains or discussed by people I know over coffee or dinner. Today, just for fun, I'll mention some of these rediscoveries.
Among my favorites was "Forbush and the Penguins" (1986) by the New Zealand writer Graham Billings. In a frighteningly lonely outpost in Antarctica, a biological researcher spends a long season observing the behavior of penguins. His observations, both scientific and personal, are fascinating, especially since penguin life is much more brutal and stark than popular movies and cartoons would have you think.
The narrator, Mr. Forbush, has plenty of lonely, soul-searching time to reflect on the stupidity (mostly his own) he left behind in the civilized world. Please do not confuse this book with other similarly named titles. And certainly avoid, if you can, a film attempt that stars John Hurt and Hayley Mills.
The screenplay for that movie is by Anthony Shaffer, the execrable playwright who created that stupid pseudo-Freudian play/movie called "Equus" (1973). This book by Graham Billings is a hidden gem if you don't need bikini babes and motor boat chases coming across McMurdro Sound. It is NOT available through the Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP from here on), but widely available on the Internet.
The short story writer Thom Jones is certainly not someone I recommend to most book club readers. His stories are raw, tough, honest and gritty in their subject matter and attitude. If characters get in a fight, the story they appear in is probably more concerned with humiliation than it is with "the joy of victory." Jones' father was a boxer who committed suicide, the subject of some of his stories.
He wrote for years without being well known but got "discovered" by the New Yorker in the early 1990s, especially for stories that became his first book, "The Pugilist at Rest." The collection became a National Book Award Finalist in 1993. It was followed by "Cold Snap" in 1995, and "Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine" in 1999.
An early Iowa Writers' Workshop grad (1973), his work has slowed since 1999, some say, because he has temporal lobe epilepsy and diabetes. The only time in my life I've done this, I couldn't stop reading him once I started and read all three story collections in a row. They are available through the FLP.
No review of this kind would be complete without a mention of "Dwarf's Blood" by Edith Olivier (1931). I found the title irresistible, so I read it. Handsome young Australian millionaire returns to gloomy England, assumes Baronetcy, inherits big estate, marries beautiful woman. All is well, till she – horrors! – gives birth to a dwarf baby. A beautiful boy, but a dwarf. Rich father goes bonkers. Hides the shame. Blames his wife's "blood" (i.e., genes) as tainted.
Part 2: His mother comes to visit and live with them. Oh oh. You guessed it. HIS mother is a dwarf, and a mean one too! Baby dwarf, meanwhile, is raised by his mother in isolation from outside world so he'll never know he's "different" or detested as an evil omen in the eyes of the world. The castle walls reverberate with lots of oaths and shouting for years. Then, bingo: a surprisingly happy ending. Very strange book. Like watching a bucket of worms for an hour. NOT available through FLP, though it is available through Amazon.com for as little as $1.01, plus shipping.
Of the three authors mentioned today: Thom Jones I thought the best writer, Graham Billings the most hauntingly memorable, and Edith Olivier the most good-hearted, but strange. More another time.
Hugh Gilmore's "Scenes from a Bookshop" has become his bestselling book this year. His noir crime novel "Malcolm's Wine" was touted by one woman reader as so exciting she kept reading even while she took her evening bath. Both available in paperback and e-book formats through Amazon.com and wherever good books are sold.