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#67 "An all new haunted restaurant, bar and social club where guests eat, drink and socialize among the unusual and the bizarre." I am a sucker for theme restaurants. While I know there are some people that detest even the … Continue reading
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Attach a Note to a Balloon and Release it Into the Air
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Hey all! As a bucket list blogger, I thought it might be fun to compile ten items you can cross off your bucket list this summer. Have fun! 1). Go to an indoor trampoline park: These are springing up everywhere … Continue reading
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- The next exercise in this routine is the Bodyweight Dips. You can do this exercise using your couch or a table etc. So place your hands on the couch, shoulder width apart and start doing dips. Keep your arms and elbows in the fixed position. In this exercise, you use your hips to go up and down as you perform dips. While doing this exercise what you need to take care of is that you do not swing your hips.
- The third exercise in this circuit is the Bodyweight Skull Crushers. Get to the end of the couch and place your hands on it. Then you are going to get your body closer to the couch so that your hands are above your head. Watch the video above closely to see how to perform this exercise correctly. This exercise is great activating the long head of your triceps. Not just this, it is going to put a lot of emphasis on the medial head. Try to squeeze the muscle at the top. Try to do as many reps as possible in one minute. Trust me, this one is going to be quite a tough exercise.
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By equating equality with abortion access, we have capitulated to the misogynist view that equality requires women to become more like men, i.e., not pregnant. This is not to say in a biologically determinist fashion that because women's bodies have the capacity to gestate fetal life, women are assumed by nature to be designed only, or even primarily, to be wives and mothers. It is to say that a culture that relies on abortion to achieve equality between the sexes takes male—wombless—physiology as the norm, and in so doing perpetuates the cultural devaluation of motherhood, and of parenting generally, and the social conditions that are often inhospitable to childrearing. Abortion leaves every societal and familial injustice just as it is, and expects nothing more or different of men.
Sexual equality via abortion looks to cure biological asymmetry—the fact that women get pregnant and men don't—by promoting the rejection of women's bodies. Authentic equality and reproductive justice would demand something far more revolutionary: that men and society at large respect and support women in their myriad capacities and talents which include, for most women at some time in their lives, childbearing.
If pregnancy and motherhood are understood as burdensome conditions to women—experiences that represent our inability to compete with wombless men—they will never be given the respect and accommodation they deserve. Not all women become mothers, but those who do so depend upon a cultural esteeming of both pregnancy and motherhood—the nurturance of an individual and unique human being—for their social and professional support.
To belittle the moral status of the unborn child is to belittle the state of pregnancy, and so too the child's mother. To upend the mother's bond with her unborn child by allowing abortion is also to deny the paternal duties that come with siring offspring. Current abortion law treats pregnancy as a woman's choice—and so too her problem. And many men have been just as happy to (have sex and) oblige.
The sacrifices that mothers endure during their pregnancies—and mothers and fathers endure beyond—would be far more honored (and perhaps even rewarded) were we as a culture honest about the dignity of the human beings—born and unborn—entrusted to our care.
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Abortion, women's equality, and the misogynist male standard
Erika Bachiochi, who in 2011 authored "Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights" in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, explains a key problem with the claim that "women's social, relational, and legal equality requires abortion":
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Freshford public meeting about water quality
There will be a public meeting in Freshford about water quality issues in the river Nuenna catchment and follows on from consultation on the draft river basin management plan in 2017.
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Yesterday, 44 Democrats voted to block legislation to protect newborn babies who survive an abortion.
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You can see the full list of how every Senator voted here. (Here's a list of each Senator's religious affiliation.)
Thankfully, Sen. Bob Casey, D-PA, and Joe Manchin, D-WV, voted yes.
If the other Catholic Democrats had joined with them, this legislation would have passed the Senate!
I believe a Catholic excommunicates himself or herself and for a Bishop or Cardinal to excommunicate someone like Gov. CUOMO of NY would be to make a hero/martyr out of someone who does appear to WANT to be a "martyr for the cause" of a "woman's reproductive rights". WHO will protect the rights of the BABY, who is a different person than his birth mother — a PERSON with his or her own DNA!!!!!
Nonsense. Church penalties should be applied to such monstruous crimes. Gov. Cuomo a martyr? Come on! He is filth from the gutter and should be treated that way.
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It's Comic-Con Time Again! Managing Editor Kelly Bedard and Staff Writer Tom McGee are on the scene to bring you tons of coverage from the con floor, the panels, the …
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National Poetry Month: Patriot Riots
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The Emmy Awards are changing the Rules Again?
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Listed below are the category changes, and, my two cents on each change, is it a good thing or bad thing? * Producers can also petition for a certain category …
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The Out-of-Touch Academy
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Well that happened! To say that this year's Oscar nominees are a disappointment is a bit of an understatement. Let's start with the first announcement, which was done by J.J. …
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Grand Budapest Hotel Leads BAFTA Noms
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Many journalists are saying that the BAFTA Awards- the British version of the Academy Awards- do not matter as much, because Oscar voting ended yesterday, but last year they showed …
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Lily Pad Lake via
Ernie Strum Trail
Memorial Trail at the Base
of the Beartooth Mountains
Ernie Strum Trail is a beautiful, undeveloped-feeling trail in the Fishtail, MT area. It is a fairly new trail created in 2014 thanks to the persistence Ernie Strum, an area local and the first proponent for the trail. He worked for around 15 years to make the project happen [1]. This trail is great for people who like variety; it passes over hills with expansive views as well as dipping into valleys with forest, grassland and swamp. In spring, wildflowers are abundant. The trail meets up with an old two track road that lands at Lily Pad Lake (after about 2.5mi), a beautiful mountain lake that at the right time of year is filled with lily pads. The two-track road continues on to Crater Lake where it ends.
The trailhead can be very easy to miss. There isn't a designated parking area and besides for a small sign it isn't well marked. The trailhead is located off of West Rosebud Road and is located about two miles after the second river crossing. There is enough shoulder space on the side of the road to find a spot to park.
The trail begins with a half-mile forested climb uphill to the top of the ridge where you break out of the trees to view the northern face of the Fishtail Plateau and the valleys on either side. There are two log benches here to rest, and take in the spectacular view.
The trail continues on the other side of the hill, climbing down the forested slope. Nearing the bottom, the trail enters State Land (previous is BLM). In the valley the trail crosses a stream – where an occasional frog can be spotted – and through swamp land which feels alive with wildlife.
The trail starts to ascend again through large, open meadow which leads you to an old two-track road. A note on this portion of the trail: the meadow has overtaken the trail in parts.
The two-track continues gently uphill, through forested terrain, where there will be a fork in the road. Going left will take you down a short path to Lily Pad Lake and going straight continues on to Crater Lake where the two-track ends.
A few more notes. The trail has a few fallen logs blocking the path so a few gymnastic moves are handy :). And if you are wanting to stay overnight, there is plenty of room and flat space on the shore of Lily Pad Lake – along with a few stone fire rings and a log shelter of sorts.
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Ritz-Carlton to Open New Resort in Rancho Mirage, California
Ritz-Carlton announced it will open a new hotel in the desert resort city of Rancho Mirage in southern California on May 15 of this year. The new resort will be located on a cliff that overlooks Palm Springs in the heart of the Santa RosaMountains.
The property will have 244 rooms and suites, as well as various private residences. The resort will also have a two-story luxury spa, as well as 30,000 square feet (2,787 square meters) of indoor and outdoor meeting space.
The hotel will also offer several dining venues, including a State Fare Bar and Kitchen, as well as the Edge, a restaurant that specializes in steak, seafood, and fine wine, and that offers hotel guests a view of the Palm Springs valley.
The resort will be located near hiking and biking trails, polo grounds, and shopping outlets. It will also offer a variety of resort amenities including cliff-side swimming, serenity pools, and premier golf and tennis facilities.


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What should a cox say during a long (15 minute) race to keep the rowers motivated, without sounding repetitive?
A long race is a challenge. Happily there's a great solution.
Plan the race beforehand ok
Take a look at the landmarks (bridges, bends etc), know where the straights are and how long they are, decide where your starting and finishing sprints begin and end.
Also know your crew – what are the technique things which they need to be reminded of to keep their pattern of rowing efficient and effective? Discuss this with the coach.
What you need to do is to divide the race into segments. Think quarters. Then overlay the landmarks and write it out like a list. Something like this
First Bridge
Long straight
Second Bridge
Tight bend to RHS
Short straight
Finish line
Then you insert into these the quarters of the race. It may help to have distance markers aligned with the quarters and the landmarks as well.
First Bridge
Long straight – first 500m
Half way point
Long straight – second 500m
Second bridge
You get the idea. Now you have landmarks and distance markers.
And the next part is to overlay some pre-prepared tactics.
These are designed to help keep the average boat speed up – keep the technique optimal and give the crew something to focus on.
So you will have some power pushes. How many strokes? What does the crew do to prepare for the power push? (do you sit up 3 strokes prior, or check the boat is level etc); What happens after the power push ends? – how do you prevent the boat speed dropping down?
The technique points you get from your coach and these should be planned as 10 – 20 stroke focuses. … You can tell the crew HOW to do the focus so calling "Next ten focus on catches by squaring early" or "next ten accelerating the finish by drawing the inside hand in the last quarter of the power phase".
All these technique focuses need to be practiced so the crew is REALLY GOOD at doing them.
Join these two together
Your job as cox now is to take the list of race features and plan your pushes and your technique around the features. So you insert a sequence in every time you know you are going to have to steer by doing a power ten push on the last bit of straight before you have to steer (this increases the boat speed before you slow it down by steering) and then you can push for another 10 after you have stopped steering. Another thing is to push into and out of bridges and also through the distance markers.
Each focus needs advance preparation (mentally getting the athletes ready by telling them you're about to do it, how to approach it) and then you do the thing itself. Minimum is 10 strokes for each one.
If you have a Coxmate GPS you can see average boat speed and telling the crew what this is can be helpful so they know how efficient each move and push has been.
So write this out in full in your document adding in the pushes, technique around the framework of the landmarks and distance markers.
Start (sequence of strokes)
Focus on long strokes for 20
Power push into bridge
First Bridge
Power push out of bridge
Technique onto the catches
Power push as steering ends and we move into the straight
Long straight – first 500m
Power push for 20 through the 500m mark
you get the idea…..
This is the BASE RACE PLAN. Print it out, put int a plastic wallet and tape it to your thigh so you can look down and see it during the race as a reminder. Use highlighter pen if you need for key points not to be missed.
Race Day
On the day, what happens can be very, very different.
Say there's a giant head wind – you need to revise the technique to be very focused on techniques to take advantage of a head wind. Say there are crews to be overtaken – how to throw in extra moves to overtake and then get clear water. if you are being overtaken, have the crew hold off the other guys.
There will be plenty to say without being repetitive.
A skilful coxswain also judges distances and tells the crew how far to another crew or a landmark so they can focus on just that one marker and mentally tick it off as being passed.
Overlay all this with periods of QUIET. While the crew is pushing for 10, you don't need to say anything as long as they are being effective. But come stroke 8/9/10 you may focus them on maintaining the boat speed after the push by removing extraneous movement in their body, by telling them the boat speed and telling then to transition off the push and into the main race pace rhythm.
The key is to practice everything beforehand. Know HOW to do each move and have the crew know what you MEAN by everything you say and WHAT they have to do and HOW to do it.
Have a great race!


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Whether you're a beginner or an expert, RelaxingRecords has got a meditation playlist for you. But if you are a beginner, you may want to read on for our top ten simple yet effective yoga poses. Use this hour long Zen meditation video to help you with your poses.
1.Cobblers Pose
For the Cobbler's pose (also known as the Bound Angle Pose or it's Sanskrit 'Baddha Konasana'), you will need to begin in the sitting position with your legs outstretched to the front. Bring in your heels closer to the pelvis by bending knees sideways. The soles of your feet should be pressing against each other, and your heels pressing into the rear pelvis.
Your pelvis should be parallel to the floor, and shoulder blades in a straight line with your back. Remain in this position for 1-5 minutes, and bring your legs gently back to the original position while inhaling.
2.Downward Facing Dog
For the Downward Dog pose (Sanskrit name 'Adho Mukha Svanasana') you will need to begin on your hands and knees, with your wrists directly under your shoulders and knees directly under your hips. Exhale as you tuck your toes and lift your knees off the floor, pushing your pelvis gently towards the ceiling. Begin to straighten your legs slowly, making sure you don;t lock your knees, bringing your body into the shape of an A.
Press the floor away from you, making sure you don't move your feet any closer to your hands – keeping the extension of your whole body. To release – exhale as you gently bend your knees and go back onto your hands and knees.
3.Warrior Pose
There are three variations of the Warrior pose (Sanskrit name 'Virabhadra'), but we will just focus on the first version. For this pose, you will need to start standing. Step your left foot towards the back of the mat, pushing the heel to the floor and turning your toes out slightly. Begin to bend the right knee over your ankle to a lunge pose – you may need to widen your stance for stability. Ensure your hips are pointing forward.
Bring your arms up over your head whilst inhaling, and touch your palms over your head. Hold this position, then exhale as you release your arms, and bring your legs together to an upright position.
4. Tree Pose
For the Tree pose (Sanskrit name 'Vrikshasana') you will need to start in the upright position. Bend the right knee shifting all the weight into the left leg, and turn the right knee to the right wall resting the heel against the left leg. Your shoulders should be down and your back and chest pressing forward.
Look down at the floor, focusing your mind on one particular area. Slowly slide your right foot up your left leg, as high as you can whilst maintaining your balance. Once you are balanced, bring your palms together holding the prayer position in front of your chest. Stay focused on the point on the floor to keep your balance. Once you are ready to release, exhale whilst bringing your arms down and releasing your legs to the floor.
5. Upward Facing Dog
For the Upward Facing Dog (Sanskrit name Urdhva Mukha Svanasana) you will need to be laying on the floor initially. Spread fingers on both hands and press palms on the floor, directly under your shoulders. Push shoulder up, with hips dropped to the floor. Push shoulders back and press your chest forwards, reaching the crown of your head up to the ceiling.
Inhale and lift your thighs and legs off the floor by pressing the tops of your feet down. To release, bend the knees and lift your hips slowly.
6. Triangle Pose
For the Triangle pose (Sanskrit name Trikonasana) you will need to begin in an upright position, with your feet separates comfortably wide apart. Turn your right foot outwards by 90 degrees, and your left foot in by about 15 degrees. The centre of your right heel should be aligned with the arch of your left foot. Your feet need to be pressing the ground, and your weight distributed evenly on both feet.
Bend your body to the right while exhaling, downward from the hips and keeping your waist straight. Put your left hand up into the air, while your right one reaches down to the floor, keeping both in a straight line. Rest your right hand on your shin or on the floor next to your right foot. Stretch your left arm toward the ceiling, and keep your head in an neutral position or turn slightly to the left. To release, bring your body up as you inhale, and bring your arms down to your sides and straighten your feet.
7. Seated Twist
For the Seated Twist (Sanskrit name 'Ardha Matsyendrasana') you will need to be sitting cross legged, stretching the spine and dropping the shoulders slightly. Inhale and bring your arms up above your head, and whilst exhaling twist your body to the right, slowly lowering your arms. Your right hand on the ground beside you, and left hand resting on the outside of your right knee. Rotate your head so you are looking over your right shoulder.
Stay in this position for 10 slow breaths, visualising yourself becoming taller as you inhale, and as you exhale twisting deeper into the pose. Your lower sine should be drawn inwards towards your stomach, making you sit tall in the pose. Repeat this for the left side, to ensure a balanced work out.
To enter the Bridge Pose (Sanskrit name 'Setu Bandhasana') you will need to be lying on your back with both knees bent, and your feet flat on the floor hip width apart. Slide your arms alongside your body with your palms facing down, and your fingertips touching your heels.
Press your feet to the floor, and lift your hips up whilst inhaling, rolling your spine up off the floor. Lightly squeeze your knees together to ensure they say hip width apart. Push down your arms and shoulders to lift your chest upwards, and lift your hips higher with it. To release from the pose, exhale and slowly roll the spine back down to the floor.
9. Child's Pose
Child's Pose (Sanskrit name 'Balasana'), is a resting pose that you can use between more difficult yoga positions. To begin Child's Pose, you will need to be kneeling on the floor, touching your big toes together and sitting on your heels. Separate you knees about as wide as your hips. As tyou exhale, lay your torso down between your thighs, lengthening your tailbone away from the back of your pelvis. Lift the base of your head away from the back of your neck.
Lay your hands on the floor alongside you, palms up, and lightly push the fronts of your shoulders towards the floor, puling your shoulder blades wide across your back. To release from the pose, inhale as you lift from the tailbone as it presses down and into the pelvis.
10. Mountain Pose
The Mountain Pose (Sanskrit name 'Tadasana') is the foundation for all of the standing poses, so you will need to begin stood up. Bring the feet together or hip width apart. Spread your toes wide and push them into the floor, make sure your weight feels evenly balanced through the bottom of each foot. Pull up your knee caps, squeeze your thighs and feel your hips aligned directly over the ankles. Your legs should be straight.
As you inhale lift out your waist, pressing the crown of your head up towards the ceiling. Make sure your spine feels long and straight. As you exhale, drop your shoulders down and back as you reach your fingertips down to the floor, gently pressing your chest towards the front of the room. Then inhale and push your arms up, turning your palms and bring the arms into a H position.
As you exhale again, relax the shoulders down from the ears while still reaching the crown and fingers up. To release from the pose, exhale as you bring your arms down to your sides.


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At Hertfordshire Winter Assizes George Steers (37), dealer, pleaded not guilty to stealing a sheet of galvanized iron, the property of Alfred Hawkins, at Markyate, on January 27.
Evidence was given showing that the stolen property was found in the prisoner's possession. He asserted that he bought it from another man, who, however, came forward and swore that he never sold it to the prisoner. The jury found him guilty.
Supt. Hassell said he could not say much in the prisoner's favour. He was a poacher at night, and did not work in the day-time.
His Lordship said the prisoner had been in gaol a good deal during the past dozen years. He had a month in 1903, six months in 1904, nine months in 1906, 12 months in 1908, 12 months in 1911, and 18 months in 1912, all for stealing. He did not want to pass a heavy sentence, but he warned the prisoner that if he came up again he would probably be sent to penal servitude. On this occasion he would be sentenced to three months' hard labour.
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Former Grenada minister commends 'exceptional talent' of soca performers
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada — A former Grenada culture minister would like to see a future local band touring with soca performers such as Mr Killa and Tallpree.
The two Grenadian artistes, who participated in weekend carnival competitions in Trinidad, are "ambassadors" and "exceptional talents", said former minister Arley Gill, who now works in Dominica.
Mr Killa, whose real name is Hollice Mapp, was placed in a three-way tie for second with Iwer George and Destra in the International Power Soca Monarch competition.
Machel Montano retained the Power Soca Monarch title, which he jointly won with Super Blue in 2013.
Wilt "Tallpree" Cambridge participated in the Groovy Soca Monarch competition but was not among the top finishers.
However, Gill argues that Tallpree, who sang Jab Jab Nation, was done a "serious injustice" by the judges.
"Tallpree gave an outstanding performance and should have been in the top three. Jab Jab Nation was easily one of the best written songs of the night. The use of language in that song is second to none," Gill said.
"Tallpree was composed, had effective and appropriate portrayals, and there is no sensible explanation to keep him out of the top finishers; none whatsoever. But that's competition."
The most heated debate, however, centred on the results of International Soca Monarch (ISM) and the three-way tie involving Mr Killa, Iwer George and Destra.
Many Grenadians and Trinidadians, including some blogging on the ISM Facebook page, claimed that Mr Killa was the clear winner.
Some suggested that the 29-year-old Grenadian may have been marked down by the judges because his performance was said to have overrun the time stipulated for the on-stage presentation of each artiste.
Others intimated that Montano remains the biggest attraction at the Power Soca Monarch and that it's in the best interest of ISM organizers to ensure he remains the winner.
"Only Machel of the lot can guarantee you, as a promoter in Trinidad, at least 10,000 spectators", commented one Trinidad-born broadcaster now living in Toronto. "So it will always be that way, as long as Machel delivers a good performance."
In assessing the Power Soca Monarch competition, Gill said that while Mr Killa was "outstanding" in his presentation of Rolly Polly, he believes the Grenadian performer "should have been much tighter with his execution with his supporting ladies or the Rolly Pollies as he affectionately refers to them. He appeared to be uncertain at times, with what next he should do".
But, added Gill, "the truth is professional choreography might have given Killa the edge on Machel. I would not say that he defeated Machel, but based on the criteria he would have comfortably defeated both Iwer George and Destra".
According to Gill, Montano did not have "the strongest composition in a night of weak Power Soca performances from the Trinidadians. So Killa would have run an extremely close second".
Gill said that in the aftermath of this year's performances in Trinidad by Tallpree and Mr Killa, efforts now must be made to sustain Grenada's presence in the soca world.
"We need these two artistes to continue to hold the fort, while we put together a band to accompany them on the local, regional and international stage. And other young artistes should step up their game to join them at the regional and international levels," Gill said.


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Sunday, 7 December 2014
Time to Think.
After all, there are cards to buy cards to write presents to buy presents to wrap don't forget Aunt Vera this year remember that sour look she gave you last year and then the children ah the children we must do our bit to give Santa a hand he'll need carrots and mince pies - not supermarket ones that's cheating - no you must make the mince pies and the sausage rolls and the stuffing get it all in the freezer and your cake will be made by now and the puddings so you've time to make costumes for little Nellie is a shepherd and Joss is a dog and the tree don't forget the tree and the decorations make some with the kids you know how they love it and a wreath for the front door ...
Who says we have to do all this?
I'm all for a midwinter festival - with or without any religious overtones. But does it really have to be such a struggle?
Speaking for myself, I want to hibernate at this time of year. I want to snuggle by the fire, watch the flames and let the winter blow itself out. I want to read. Write.
Most of all I want to think.
Some years ago I heard an interview with Germaine Greer in which she was asked her favourite pastime - and she said, 'Thinking.' Wise woman.
Where is the thinking in all the December mayhem? For without it we are simply automata, lurching from one must-do to another. There is no time for anything to touch us. To let the fun and laughter echo as we fall asleep.
If we cannot stop to think, we are purely reactive. We consider neither history nor consequence nor meaning. And we're all the poorer for it. We allow the marketing gurus to lure us into all the razzmatazz, sweeping us away from the glorious temptations of independent thought. From those quiet reflections that remind us of those we love.
It doesn't have to be like this. We can choose what we get swept up in, and what we allow to pass us by. But that means we must make the time to take that decision. And maybe it also means taking time to stand and stare.
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As a Messianic Jew, Christmas has a religious significance, both as a Festival of Ligt (Hanuka) but also as a remembrance of the birth of Jesus (Yeshua). Thus I fond meaning in the time of year. I think it is sad that for so many people it has become merely a commercial enterprise loaded with unrealistic expectations. Each year seems to be worse.... not sure what the answer is...''Chritsmas'' has now been hijacked by the retail industry......sad.ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm in the corner that has no religious conviction, so should be marketer's dream. But I want time to reflect on the dark and the passing of the year. Not all this endless shopping! It saddens me that the 'success' of Christmas is measured - by the government - in how much people spent, not the time they shared with people they love.Delete
I am with you both here. I do not belong to a formal religion, but I have my beliefs and above all, I believe in the message that Christmas was originally intended to send to the world. I also think it is sad that the success of the season is measured by financial figures and not by what we can do to share a little love with others around us. I subscribe to the festivities in a very modest way and use it mainly to spend time with my family. A lovely post, Jo. I think few people take the time to stop and stare.ReplyDelete
"Thinking" is a lost art! So it seems is celebrating anything without the accompaniment of shopping, scurrying and hurrying and stress. And spending money. Lots and lots of money.ReplyDelete
I'm doing my very best not to get sucked into the present-buying mayhem but it's not easy. Next week we light the Chanukah candles and I shall make absolutely sure that for eight days I stop for at least the time it takes for the thin, tiny coloured candles to burn down and I do some thinking. Germaine is right. We all need time for that.ReplyDelete
Germaine triggers in me thoughts of admiration and shock in equal measure. That probably attests to her intelligence and personality. I read The Female Eunuch years ago and I found it such a rich experience that it's my "to-reread" list next year.ReplyDelete
I was born in a coutnry that didn't celebrate Christmas but in which Christmas' Eve was still observed. My late nan went out of her way to make sure we had the family around the dinner table on Christmas Eve. No presents, those were left for the 6th January. The government thought that people would forgo their religious beliefs. They were so wrong! Even Fidel himself came down from the Sierra Maestra mountains wearing a necklace with red and white beads symbolising Chango/Santa Barbara. We don't have to do anythng at Christmas if we don't want to. Call me Scrooge (and maybe I am) but I find the whole Christmas excess a tad bit off-putting. To me it's time to spend with the family, being jolly and being satisfited with what you have. Which sometimes it's a heck of alot more than what other people have.
Great post, I'm with you. I'm taking a month-long break from blogging.
Greetings from London.


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Before you Star Wars nerds get all in a twist, this post is not going to deride the movies. Okay? Okay. It's just meant as a fun post using Star Wars to poke fun at liberalism. Okay? Okay. If you haven't seen any Star Wars movie at all ever and want to spare yourself of spoilers, then this is not the post you're looking for. Move along.
Had to go there. Not sorry.
1. Anakin Skywalker is a whiner who embraces his own victim status (granted, he started life as a slave) and leverages it into evil. Are those all the details? No, I have to admit I only watched Revenge of the Sith precisely once because it was such bantha fodder. Here's what I took away from Episode 1-3: they were total crap, which suggested the best evil overlords with the coolest voices start as little brats who can't always get what they want. Check your privilege.
2. Princess Leia tried leading the rebellion. Girl power. Except she needed men to save her. That evil patriarchy, starting with old white dude Obi Wan Kenobi, was called in, and before the Princess was able to get her flowy white dress off the Death Star, she had Han, Luke, Chewbacca and a sacrificed Obi Wan to thank. Lesson? Don't put your hair in side buns. Everyone get's all distracted. It might also affect one's hearing. Just saying. I mean, JUST SAYING (had to yell). Note that after Leia did her hair like a normal person, she didn't have to be rescued so many darn times and actually got a little bit of rescuing in for herself.
3. Jedi mind-tricks. Yeah, they were super cool when Obi Wan used them against the stormtroopers. Also kind of cool when Luke uses it in Jabba's palace. But let's be college students for a bit and analyze the crap out of it until it's no longer fun. Mind control is censorship, a way to manipulate to get what you want. It's twisting reality as a distraction, so you may carry on with your agenda. Let me put it in clearer, more modern terms…
4. Han Solo is the man who gets it done. He happens to be a young, attractive white man, so that's obviously a problem for reasons that are self-explanatory. When young Luke needs his butt saved, it's Han Solo to the rescue. When Princess Leia is having a crisis and can't get off the Planet Hoth, it's Han Solo to the rescue. Obviously that was a giant no-no to the sisterhood of butch-cutted lesbians or the asexual ewoks, so he had to be taken out of commission for a bit, then turned into art for a giant fat pervert. Let's also not forget Han Solo had it bad for Leia and never asked for consent before making advances…
5. A tyrannical Empire rules the galaxy: the all powerful Empire, led by a ruthless emperor, doesn't debate its opposition, it crushes it. Plus it's led by a creepy old, white, wrinkly white man who looks way too much like the love child of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Yikes. Try getting THAT out of your mind. How did the Empire begin? For the safety and stability of the people, the republic was disbanded. The Jedi were destroyed. You Star Wars geeks knew this one was coming. Give up your freedom for an all powerful empire which promises to keep you safe. "So this is how liberty dies. To thunderous applause."
Did I miss any? Sound off in the comments!
May the force be with you. Always. Unless you're easily offended. Then you can make step on a rake and let others laugh at you.


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June 7, 2009
Prize Available
5 comments:
- Goose Joak said...
I have no idea how to explain it, so here's a rabbit with a waffle on its head.
- June 7, 2009 at 1:49 AM
- Nachos Grande said...
I believe it's ordered in relation to those numbers that used to be (or maybe still are?) so prevalent on the TV show LOST.
- June 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM
- McCann Can Triple said...
The 35 is like male nipples. It is just... there and doesn't serve a purpose. The second number is what to look for. It goes from 1-100, the number of cards.
- June 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM
- SpastikMooss said...
OOO it's kinda of a reference to the 1935 set. Like the 35 is there to be like "prettty" and then the second number is what actually matters. Sorry that's not very wacky haha
- June 7, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Mac-Hunter said...
This is quite easy if you look at the number as an algebraic equation developed by some overpaid design geek at UD. 35-39=4 so card 35-39 is card #4. You skip 35-35 as that is 0 and forget 35-42 (oops! that's Topps)This may also be the first subset with negative numbers assigned and when shuffled and dealt the equations will reveal your birthday!
35-56 (35-71)+ (35-2)= 61071
- June 8, 2009 at 7:45 AM


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Saturday, July 29, 2017
Christy Clark to resign as leader of BC Liberal party
Global is reporting that Christy Clark is resigning as the leader of the BC Liberal party, effective Friday August 4. The Vancouver Sun is reporting that "Clark will also be resigning as MLA of Kelowna West. Premier John Horgan will have six months to call by-election to fill her vacant seat in the legislature." Rich Coleman will serve as interim caucus leader.
Although I've had huge concerns with the Christy Clark government it was nothing against her personally. My concerns were with the corrupt party itself. She tried to lead a grass roots movement to help the party rise above the Gordon Campbell corruption but she failed miserably. She became part of it. Getting rid of her will not solve the problem it will only make it worse.
Rich Coleman is the devil incarnate. He is as dirty as they come. In 2009 the RCMP's Integrated Illegal Gaming Enforcement Team (IIGET) relesed a comprehensive report on organized crime laundering money through BC Casinos. Right after they released the report Rich Coleman got rid of the police task force. He later became the minister responsible for gaming.
"In a 2009 report obtained by The Vancouver Sun through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, the IIGET warned of casinos' "extreme vulnerability" to money laundering. Many investigations across Canada have found that members of organized crime use casinos for criminal purposes, the report states. A separate internal assessment, obtained by the Globe and Mail through a FOI, advised that Hells Angels members had, in some cases, succeeded in infiltrating the province's legitimate gaming operations. The 12-member IIGET was dissolved on April 1, 2009 by then-Housing Minister Rich Coleman."
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Christy Clark was a disaster who made things great for those in the pay to play crowd and she defunded government by giving more and more money away to the pay to play crowd via all sorts of methods including royalty breaks for the resource industry. Christy and the cabal spend almost $7 BILLION supporting the LNG\gas industry and what did we get for all of this, nothing. the chart can be seen at the Pacific Gazetteer blog, where Ross K quotes the figures from Norm Farrell's blog, In-sigh.ca.ReplyDelete
Christy clark wasn't interested in providing a decent public school education; more paramedics; more nurses for hospitals or doctors for the province. One could say she helped people die,including those children in care of the ministry. 8 of them on her watch.
Now it would have been nice if she had stuck around, but Christy was never into doing the hard work. If she can't be head cheer leader she is gone. I'm sure some one has provided a soft landing for her somewhere and off she'll go. This will be a good time for the B. C. Lieberal party to get their act together and decide what they want to be in the future. as to Coleman being left in charge, well in my opinion he has been doing all the work anyhow so there won't be any change in the party there. Now that he is out of government he can have a good vacation.
I understand where you're coming from regarding the casino "enterprises". However, that wasn't something he thought up on his own or did on his own. That would have been a government approved plan which included a lot of other cabinet ministers and the premier.
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That is nice. Until I found the reason why she chose Gallaudet University -- according to this website, she studied Speech Therapy at the Institute of Marie-Haps, teaching people how to bark with their voices.
Too bad, she'll hear lots of gibberish shouts at Gallaudet tomorrow. That's OK -- entirely a culture shock for her. Good for her.
You know, she is not the only royal ever to visit Gallaudet. After all, Gallaudet has its own hordes of Queens from day one. Look at moi, Merritt, Witch, Litch, Manny, Kitch, Vess, Rayni and many more. Of course, I sit on the top of all, I am The Empress! I have yet to let go of my royal title to the appropriate one. Perhaps I will because I have to, in a short time. And the rest are just ... Queen Bees that I allowed to fight amongst each other.
But it is always cordial to welcome anyone else on the campus -- then let them know that it is us who ruled Gallaudet. ;-)


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Like the rest of Google's business-centric services, Google App Engine didn't start out as a business-centric service. When it first launched in the spring of 2008, it was a rather intriguing way for hardcore coders to run their own applications atop Google's top secret online infrastructure, and many questioned whether the mainstream developer – let alone big businesses – would ever play by the strict Google rulebook that App Engine required.
Those doubts still linger, but Google is intent on making them go away. On Tuesday, the company announced that it's now offering "enterprise level" service and support for the three-year-old service. "When choosing a platform for your most critical business applications or standardizing on one across your organization, we recognize that uptime guarantees, easy management and support are just as important as product features," Google said in a post to its official enterprise blog.
As it works to bring the service to big business – and better compete with the likes of Amazon – the Mountain View web giant has also spruced up a sister service dedicated to storing large datasets, and it's slowly removing many of the Googly restrictions that threatened to limit App Engine's appeal. Just last week, the company added an old school relational database to the service, providing an alternative to the NoSQL data model that underpins the Google infrastructure.
Like Microsoft Azure and VMware's Cloud Foundry, Google App Engine is an online service for hosting applications and automatically "scaling" them to an ever larger number of servers. Unlike an "infrastructure cloud" a la Amazon's EC2, these "platform clouds" are designed to hide all underlying infrastructure from the user, including virtual machines. Developers code to the cloud's APIs (application programming interfaces), and the cloud takes care of the rest.
These services promise extreme ease of use, but with App Engine, not everything was easy. In order to provide that automatic scaling, Google tightly restricted how developers could build their applications. It limited the software languages, libraries, and frameworks the service would run, and it insisted on a NoSQL data model. It even limited how long each application process could run.
But this spring, at its annual developer conference in San Francisco, Google announced that App Engine would soon exit its three-year beta phase, and the company began removing some of its chief restrictions. Most notably, the company introduced a beta API for longer-running processes, and now, there's a relational database beta that companies and developers can use in lieu of its new-age NoSQL data store.
NoSQL databases – including the proprietary BigTable database used by Google – are designed to scale across thousands of servers as a way of handling much larger datasets. But relational databases – which order data into neat rows and columns – give you more ways of slicing and dicing your data.
On Tuesday, Google also removed the beta tag from its standalone storage service – a service that operates alongside App Engine and does little more than store vast amounts of unstructured data. It's more of an infrastructure cloud, providing a raw computing resource.
The service was originally known as Google Storage for Developers, but it has now been rechristened Google Cloud Storage. Once again, the company is moving away from Joe Developer, with an eye on Joe Enterprise.
The service is similar to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). "Google Storage is designed for very high availability, performance and scale, and uses the same technology that powers some of the highest traffic sites on the Internet," a Google spokesperson said, presumably referring to NoSQL. But the company also boasts that Google Cloud Storage includes certain tools you won't get from the competition, including the ability to readily share data with Google accounts via the Oauth authentication standard.
DNAnexus – a Mountain View-based startup offering a software platform for managing and analyzing human genome data – is now using Google Cloud Storage to serve up what it calls the most comprehensive archive of publicly available DNA data. In February, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) – the primary host for public genomic data in the U.S. – announced that it would slowly phase out its DNA archive due to federal budget cuts, and DNAnexus has picked up the slack.
"The government just can't keep up with how quickly these datasets are growing and how much it costs them to host," DNAnexus CEO and founder Andreas Sundquist told Wired. "It's huge database today, but in light of what we're going to be doing in the future, it's tiny." A Google spokesperson tells us that at about 300 terabytes, the DNAnexus "Short/Sequence Read Archive" (SRA) is one of the largest datasets deposited in Google Cloud Storage by any outside organization.
DNANexus is funded in part by Google Ventures – the Mountain View giant's venture capital arm – and though Google says this played no role in the startup's decision to use Google Cloud Storage, it does say that worked with DNAnexus on its genome database "to make sure they were successful in their mission." Google does not officially offer "enterprise" support for its new Cloud Storage service, but one gets the feeling this is on the way.
With App Engine, if you pony up for a $500 a month "Premium" account, Google provides technical support while guaranteeing your application will be available 99.95 percent of the time. Plus, you're free to run as many applications as you like atop the service. Ordinarily, developers must pay a minimum fee for each new app.


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Bronzeville Grand Opening Event!
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The transition to bioeconomy will reduce our dependency on fossil fuels as well as contribute to a more sustainable society. Within this framework, exploitation and development of renewable substitutes to petroleum-based products provides feasible roadmap for the material design. Here a perspective is provided to how the natural polysaccharides chitosan (CS) and/or cellulose (CL) could be elaborated and transformed to high-performance materials with the explicit aim of removing trace pharmaceutical contaminants from the wastewater, thus facilitating the sustainable development. In the first part of the thesis, chitosan and cellulose were converted to the carbon spheres (C-sphere) through a microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization process, and C-sphere was further broken down to the nanographene oxide (nGO) via a simple oxidation route. On this foundation, a green pathway was developed for fabrication of biobased materials for wastewater purification. First, macroporous chitosan-based composite hydrogels with controllable properties were developed, where chitosan-derived nGO worked as a functional property enhancer. Second, a further development changing from the bulky hydrogels to microgels consisting of CS composite particles in the microscopic size was achieved by a fast one-pot spraying-drying process. The crosslinking reaction occurred in situ during the spray-drying. Last, the C-sphere by-itself was also believed to be a potential adsorbent for wastewater contaminants. In the next step the prepared systems were evaluated for their capacity to adsorb pharmaceutical contaminants. Diclofenac sodium (DCF) was utilized as the model drug, and the three fabricated bio-adsorbents all demonstrated effective DCF adsorption performance, with the adsorption efficiency varying from 65.6 to 100%. Moreover, the DCF adsorption kinetics, isotherms and thermodynamic study were also investigated to reveal the nature of the adsorption process with the different materials. Finally, chitosan-based microspheres were selected for the reusability study, with the adsorption efficiency above 70% retained after six adsorption-desorption cycles, thus further endowing the promising potential of the fabricated bio-adsorbents for commercial applications.
A promising green strategy for the fabrication of fully biobased chitosan adsorbents for wastewater purification is presented. Nanographene oxide (nGO)-type carbon dots were derived from chitosan (nGOCS) or from cellulose (nGOCL) through a two-step process including microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization and oxidation. Finally, nGO were evaluated as biobased property enhancers in chitosan hydrogel adsorbents. Macroporous chitosan hydrogels were synthesized by cross-linking with genipin, and the incorporation of nGO into these hydrogels was shown to facilitate the cross-linking reaction leading to more robust 3D cross-linked networks. This was evidenced by the increased storage modulus and by the swelling ratio that decreased from 5.7 for pristine chitosan hydrogel to 2.6 for hydrogel with 5 mg/mL nGOCS and 3.3 for hydrogel with 5 mg/mL nGOCL. As a further proof of the concept the hydrogels were shown to be effective adsorbent for the common anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac sodium (DCF). Here, the addition of nGO promoted the DCF adsorption process leading to 100% removal of DCF after only 5 h. The synergistic effect of electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, and pi-pi stacking could explain the high adsorption of DCF on the hydrogels. The developed biobased CS/nGO hydrogels are thus promising adsorbents with great potential for purification of trace pharmaceuticals from wastewater.
A sustainable strategy to fabricate chitosan-based composite hydrogels with tunable properties and controllable adsorption capacity of trace pharmaceuticals was demonstrated. Two biobased modifiers were utilized to tune the properties, nano-graphene oxide (nGO) derived from chitosan via microwave-assisted carbonization and oxidation, and genipin as the crosslinking agent. An increase in genipin content facilitated an increase in the degree of crosslinking as shown by improved storage modulus and decreased swelling ratio. Increasing nGO content changed the surface microtopography of the hydrogel which correlated with the surface wettability. nGO also catalyzed the genipin-crosslinking reaction. The hydrogel was further shown to be an effective adsorbent for a common anti-inflammatory drug, diclofenac sodium (DCF), with the removal efficiency ranging from 91 to 100% after 48 h. DCF adsorption efficiency could be tuned through simple alteration of nGO and genipin concentration, which provides promising potential for this environmental-friendly adsorbent in removal of DCF from pharmaceutical waste water.
A facile one-pot spray-drying process was developed for fabrication and in-situ crosslinking of chitosan microspheres to improve the adsorption capacity by microscopic design. A fully biobased nature was achieved by utilizing genipin (GP) as a crosslinking agent and chitosan derived nano-graphene oxide (nGO) as a property tuner. The produced chitosan microspheres were further proven as powerful adsorbents for common wastewater contaminants such as anionic dyes and pharmaceutical contaminants, here modelled by methyl orange (MO) and diclofenac sodium (DCF). By regulating the amount of GP and nGO, as well as by controlling the process parameters including the spraydrying inlet temperature and post-heat treatment, the surface morphology, size, zeta potential and adsorption efficiency of the microspheres could be tuned accordingly. The adsorption efficiency for MO and DCF reached 98.9 and 100 %, respectively. The microspheres retained high DCF adsorption efficiency after six adsorption and desorption cycles and the recyclability was improved by incorporated nGO. The fabricated microspheres, thus, have great potential as reusable and eco-friendly adsorbents.
A promising sustainable strategy to valorize cellulose to high-value adsorbents for trace pharmaceuticals, like diclofenac sodium (DCF), in the water is demonstrated. Carbon nanospheres (CN) as the DCF adsorbent were derived from cellulose through a one-pot microwave-assisted hydrothermal carbonization method. CN exhibited efficient DCF removal (100% removal of 0.001 mg/mL DCF in 30 s and 59% removal of 0.01 mg/mL DCF in 1 h). The adsorption kinetics and isotherm data were well-fitted with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and Langmuir model, respectively. The adsorption process was endothermic and spontaneous as confirmed by the thermodynamic parameters. Multiple characterization techniques including SEM/EDS, FTIR, FTIR-imaging and zeta potential were applied to qualitatively investigate the adsorption process. π-π stacking and hydrogen bonding were proposed as the dominant adsorption interactions. CN also demonstrated effective adsorption capacity towards three other commonly-detected contaminants in the wastewater including ketoprofen (KP), benzophenone (BZP), and diphenylamine (DPA), each bearing partial structural similarity with DCF. The affinity of the contaminants towards CN followed the order DPA > BZP > DCF > KP, which could be explained by the different configurations and chemical units. It was speculated that for DCF and KP, the steric hindrance and electrostatic repulsion produced by dissociated carboxyl groups can impede the adsorption process as compared to DPA and BZP. This methodology could offer further insights into the drug adsorption on the cellulose-derived carbon adsorbents and the use of bioderived carbons for treatment of wastewaters contaminated with pharmaceuticals.