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Wrong Way Street by Joshua Merrick
Ever feel that the world is stacked against you in ways that you were never prepared for? And as 'thanks' for risking everything, should you, your friends and family suddenly be shunned while the reasons for your actions are wiped away, so that it seems as if you never had the right to take the actions that you did? It would make it almost seem like life was pushing you down a one way road with you trapped heading against the traffic! Wrong Way Street by Joshua Merrick explores exactly this kind of situation. Jason Callaway's reality is torn apart as the government he trusted decides to make what they ordered him to do just disappear.
Callaway has been a US Army Ranger for five years. He is no stranger to combat, having taken part in missions against terrorist cells in the Middle East and Africa. A helicopter jump as part of a mission to capture the Bin Laden ally, Yassaud Sharuff A'Danni, seems nothing more than normal business; at first. Unfortunately, A'Danni is hiding out in Lebanon, a country counted by the UN as 'neutral.' As the US government's acknowledging its own responsibility for the Ranger's actions becomes impossible when A'Danni escapes, the powers-that-be decide it may be simpler to just deny the fact that the combatants had even been taking action with any authority.
The troops of Callaway's unit are rounded up and placed under experimental psychotropic treatment to take away their ability to even claim they had been ordered to take part in their mission. Jason Callaway (JC), understandably riles against this treatment; he demands to see his UN consulate. At this point he starts running into the lies that have been set up against him and his comrades. The UN won't acknowledge JC's predicament without proclaiming that he and his team were trying to assassinate peaceful diplomat Youseff bin Adashi (A man that JC now is able to recognize as A'Danni), so the US has ample reason to discharge these 'offending officers' from their military service.
The story is ready to begin as Jason finally is able to return home to his wife, Karen. Plagued by nightmares of his missions and the unsuccessful memory treatments he received, the two of them are managing to squeak by, reviled as JC finds that his dishonorable discharge has made him. Finding their dreams suddenly out of reach, man and wife look to each other determined to move on. Too bad that others can't forget the past. Adashi/A'Danni and his connections in the US see it as prudent to attack the couple's house and frame the publicly unpopular husband for the disappearance of his wife; and in this way Callaway becomes even less creditable so that no one will believe his claims of what is going on. This kidnapping of the now pregnant Karen can now be used as a further way to try controlling JC.
Wrong Way Street is a highly exciting book that is full of nearly non-stop action. It is also well thought out with delightfully intricate plots. Characters grow and change in a quite an understandable manner, like a great doctor who becomes willing to risk his job to save his patients, or a spy who finds herself willing to place her health on the line in an effort to right her own actions formerly taken through misinformation. Wonderfully, yet perhaps even scarily real.


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The where clause tip was an interesting one.
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We get outraged whenever a murder takes place in our city, yet people driving cars kill a similar number of Torontonians each year. Part of the problem is that our city has been designed to favour the automobile. Most cities in Europe have extensive traffic-free zones where pedestrians can walk without worrying about traffic.
Cars have been heavily redesigned over the years to protect the occupants in the case of a collision. Nothing is on the outside to help an unfortunate pedestrian or cyclist who is struck by a car.
The old expression goes, "Speed kills". Logic tells us that the faster a car goes, the greater the impact in a collision. What most of us don't realize is that thanks to the laws of physics, a car travelling at 6o km/h is almost twice as likely to kill a pedestrian or cyclist as one going at 50 km/h.
With greater speed, longer reaction times are needed and braking distance increases.
This Australian video illustrates the dangers of low level speeding.
As part of Vision Zero, a city-wide push to target the huge number of deaths and injuries on Toronto streets, some speed limits across the city are about to be lowered. The ones in our immediate vicinity are:
- Dixon Road from Highway 427 to Royal York Road – Reduced from 60 km/h to 50 km/h
- Rogers Road from Weston Road to Old Weston Road – Reduced from 50 km/h to 40 km/h
In addition, pedestrian crossing times will be lengthened at certain intersections.
All of us are vulnerable pedestrians; let's think that way when we're driving.


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A number of the variations between being single and being taken are totally obvious. As a lot as we'd most likely love to do otherwise, we just can't help putting forward the perfect variations of ourselves once we're single or courting. One other research of greater than 10.000 adults found that married couples had been extra more likely to acquire weight during their process of romantic ventures than single individuals.
The other thing you do want to consider is whether or not the connection goes stale since you do not do these easy issues anymore or it's since you are smothering here and being too possessive. So if he's going to get into a relationship with a girl, it would have to be on his terms.
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Sounds like somebody took "Sarah Palin is the girl next door" a little too literally
Name a prominent Democrat. The first one who pops into your head. Okay, that's a good one, let's go with that.
So, let's say a professional writer of some note decided to do a book about that Democrat. Let's say the writer wasn't satisfied with just trying to get interviews with that Democrat or any of the people who've encountered that Democrat.
Let's say the writer moved into the house right next door to that Democrat.
Now imagine the media's reaction to that development. Would it be anything like what their reaction will be to the following, as conveyed by Ben Smith?
Sarah Palin, guerilla Facebook warrior, turns the tables a bit on the author Joe McGinniss — best known for his Nixon campaign account, The Selling of the President, and for the murder investigation Fatal Vision — who, she says, has rented the house next door.
Palin, in a recurring preoccupation, suggests that McGinniss is really there to peep at her young daughters, noting that his property overlooks "Piper's bedroom, my little garden, and the family's swimming hole."
It might be a "recurring preoccupation" because her family keeps getting dragged into people's disputes with her, in ways that have never been tolerated with any other politician or public figure, of any stripe, in my memory. Yes, parents do tend to be "preoccupied" with the well-being of their children.
The completely unbiased and impartial Dave Weigel, referring to Palin's mocking Facebook post, asks, "Can somebody explain to me how this isn't a despicable thing for Palin to do?" Well, I'll give it a shot, Dave: The guy moved in right next door to her damn house.
I don't know if Ben Smith or Dave Weigel have any kids, but I wonder how they'd put up with the sorts of things that have been said about the Palin family. I wonder how Ben Smith or Dave Weigel would like it if some jerk moved in right next door to them for the express purpose of writing a book about them. I wonder if Ben Smith or Dave Weigel would think their concern for the safety and privacy of their own children was "despicable" or a "preoccupation."
I'm guessing they wouldn't.
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P.S. From Page Six on June 23, 2009:
JOE McGinniss — author of "Fatal Vision," "Blind Faith" and other best sellers — is fed up. In a message posted by his son, Joe McGinniss Jr. on Facebook, the writer asks for ideas for his next book, saying, "The last three books I've written have been about soccer, which nobody in America cares about; horse racing, which nobody in America cares about; and true crime, a genre that expired sometime last century . . . Let me know if you think of something."
Sounds like he did. But wait, there's more:
McGinniss says freelancing hasn't worked out: "Some of you may have seen my cover story on Sarah Palin and the Alaska gas pipeline for Portfolio . . . At least they paid well, which not many places do any more. Among those that don't is The Daily Beast. I recently wrote a short piece for them . . . They said they'd pay $250. But then they said they'd only pay if I signed an agreement that is the nuttiest, most onerous, restrictive contract I've seen in 40 years . . . I said I couldn't sign it . . . and, of course, never got paid."
Hey, gotta pay the rent…. on the house right next to the people you're definitely not stalking.
Speaking of things that aren't the least bit creepy, last year McGinniss also bid over $60,000 on eBay for a dinner with Palin. He lost by $3,350, or about 13 Daily Beast pieces.


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This morning I awoke to a strange glow in my living room…
While sleepily thinking "oh no….aliens!" I looked around the corner to see that my tv was on. My landlord had told me that this does happen sometimes, but this was the first I had ever experienced it.
My brother thinks that because it is a Samsung, the remote upstairs might have turned it on. I remember turning it off last night but could still hear the TV upstairs. It happens sometimes at my brother's house. His roommate has two Samsung TV's and since the remotes are bluetooth (or so he says) they can sometimes turn each other on (no dirty jokes here). So that could possibly be what had happened. The signal from the upstairs TV connected to my TV.
Thankfully, my TV isn't connected to cable or anything so there was no sound coming from the speakers. It just has Chromecast. I had never heard of it until I moved it, but it's pretty sweet. The TV isn't a smart TV, but the Chromecast allows you to stream on the TV from your computer or phone or tablet. So far I only have it working on my phone, but that is totally ok. It means I can keep my laptop closed and just watch Netflix on the big TV but still control it from the phone. It's pretty awesome. I have started using it all the time.
Another new technology that I have started using is Grammarly. So far, I don't think it has really helped me all that much, but it's still nice to have. Grammarly is an add-on app for Chrome, and it acts as a proofreader for anything that you are writing. Once added onto your browser, it works on any web page where you will be writing (Facebook, emails, WordPress, etc.) Not only does it catch spelling mistakes, but it also catches plagiarism, sentence structure mistakes, and basic grammar errors. It's free, but there is an upgrade to catch even more mistakes. The basic download only covers Chrome, but you can also download (for free) extensions for Microsoft Word, Office, or one that will cover all Microsoft products. Again, this is just the basic check.
I like using it because it will show me why it thinks a sentence is wrong and gives me suggestions on how to fix it. It's more in-depth than the program automatically installed in Word, and I like that it catches my mistakes here on WordPress. It also tells you how many more mistakes it would be able to fix if you were to upgrade. The perfectionist in me will continue to suppress the urge to know what those mistakes are.
The only thing with Grammarly that you need to be careful with, is that if you have added youtube videos to your WordPress post, then click the button to make all the changes suggested by Grammarly, the videos will be gone when you return to the original document. I'm not sure why…but it happened to me yesterday.
Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano
Mary did you know – Mark Lowry. Not only does Mark Lowry have a beautiful singing voice, but he is a pretty famous Christian comedian. He also makes parodies of other songs which, agian, are hilarious.


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Territorial Acknowledgement
We would like to begin by acknowledging that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands. The Kanien'kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we gather today. Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. Today, it is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and other peoples. We respect the continued connections with the past, present and future in our ongoing relationships with Indigenous and other peoples within the Montreal community.
(For more details on the process that lead to the drafting of this land acknowledgement, which has been officially endorsed by Concordia University, click here.)
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We are a research group based in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec. Under the leadership of Dr. Monica Mulrennan, our group is comprised of several graduate students and doctoral candidates, as well as many community partners.
Our research projects focus on environmental stewardship and resource use by indigenous and other local communities, more particularly in coastal and marine environments. We are interested in the use of traditional knowledge in resource management, the relationship between people and their territories, and how this influences protected area governance or resource management in general. Our two primary research sites are Torres Strait, northern Australia and Wemindji, eastern James Bay northern Québec, although some projects have taken place in other locations over the past few years.
Monica and some of her students are members of the Indigenous Stewartship of the Environment and Alternative Development (INSTEAD) research program, which is part of the Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA).
Our research projects are funded through: SSHRC, FQRSC, NSTP, QCBS, and the Concordia University School of Graduate Studies.
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August 2018
Monica's and Véronique's most recent paper has been published in Ecology & Society and is available online: Social-ecological Resilience in Indigenous Coastal Edge Contexts.
May 2018
Congratulations to Kristy who passed her comprehensive exams!
May 1, 2018 Congratulations to Nafisa who has been awarded a FQRSC Doctoral Award for her work with the Cree Nation of Wemindji!
December 12-13, 2017
Véronique presented at the QCBS Annual Symposium
November 25-26, 2017
Monica was invited to participate in the ICCA Consortium Annual General Assembly, in Geneva, Switzerland.
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This is a post in my series on organizing "between and beyond." Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective.
What has happened? What needs to be done?
I am still working on my review of Eugene Gendlin's Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning: A Philosophical and Psychological Approach to the Subjective. This is a philosophical work where Gendlin examines the edge of awareness, where language emerges from non-language. This is a groundbreaking book which addresses pre-conceptual and supra-logical aspects of experiencing and meaning-making.
Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity arrived this week. Bateson offers the phrase the pattern which connects as another possible title for the book.1 The book is built on the opinion that we are parts of a living world.2 We have been trained to think of patterns as something fixed. It is easier and lazier that way, but it is all nonsense. The right way to think about the pattern which connects is to think of it as primarily a dance of interacting parts.3 Logic and quantity turn out to be inappropriate for describing organisms, their interactions, and internal organization. There is no conventional way of explaining or even describing the phenomena of biological organization.4
I have started reading Gregory Bateson's book and Mary Midgley's The Myths We Live By. Myths are everywhere. In political thought (theories of human nature and the social contract), in economics (the pursuit of self interest), and in science (the idea of human beings as machines). The great thinkers of the 17th century were obsessed by the ambition to drill all thought into a single formal system. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, tried to mend the mind/body gap by building abstract systems powered by their models of thought, logic, and mathematics.5 However, conceptual mono-culture cannot work because, in almost all our thought, we are dealing with subject-matters that we need to consider from more than one aspect.6
What was good? What can be improved?
It's good that I've got started with my review of Gendlin's book, but it's very difficult to create a concise summary of the book. Gendlin examines a new kind of thinking, which begins in the intricacy of felt meaning. The book is highly relevant to my interest in deeper generative orders for organizing.
1 Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Hampton Press, 2002), p.7.
2 Ibid., p.16.
3 Ibid., p.12.
4 Ibid., p.19.
5 Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By (Routledge, 2011, first published 2004), p.88.
6 Ibid., p.68.
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Guys Only Night for Teenagers this Friday! Eating "guys food" at Buffalo Wild Wings and seeing the new release Ant Man at AMC! Bring money for food and movie...estimate about $20-25. Meet at Buffalo Wild Wings on West Side at 5:00pm. RSVP to Matt ASAP!
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We are delighted to announce that two of our successful events will be taking place again next year at our marinas.
Returning in May is one of the south's premier new and used boat shows, Hamble Point Boat Show. The always-popular free family event will run on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May 2015, featuring over 250 new and used boats for sale, ranging from day boats to sports boats and RIBs to suit a wide range of budgets. Visitors to the event can also enjoy some exciting on-water demonstrations, practical workshops and lots of entertainment for all the family.
This will be closely followed by the East Anglian Boat Show, which took place for the first time this year and proved to be a fantastic success with exhibitors and visitors alike. The 2015 event dates will be Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June at Woolverstone Marina, with the free event playing host again to leading boat brands and an array of new and used boats for sale, as well as great entertainment and on-water demonstrations.
So get these dates in your diary, or if you would like to feature in the lineup you can register your interest here.
Port Hamble Marina was delighted to host a Family Fun Day event held by Sail 4 Cancer on Wednesday 30th July, which was attended by a very special guest.
Sir Ben Ainslie, a patron of the charity, attended the event and met dozens of families at the marina before setting sail for a day out on the water. Guests were thrilled to meet the Olympic yachtsman in person and talk to him about his work for the charity and his recent adventures.
The day's activities saw the group take part in a treasure hunt around the Solent, allowing the families to enjoy the beautiful weather as they searched for clues. The event finished with a family buffet in the sun, giving families the chance to relax and enjoy some quality fun time together.
Port Hamble Marina recently welcomed another sailing legend to the marina – on Thursday 24th July, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston attended a special event to crown Sail 4 Cancer as the 2014 Haven Academy Award Winner. Sir Robin, who is Chairman of the Haven Academy, presented Sail 4 Cancer with a £5,000 cheque for its good causes.
Set up in 2001 by a group of keen sailors who'd all lost friends or family to cancer, Sail 4 Cancer is primarily a provider of water based respite days and holidays for families affected by cancer. These days out give families the opportunity to relax together, have fun out on the water.
Sail 4 Cancer's Family Fun Days are organised by Britannia Corporate Events, who provide full event management and logistics support.
You can find out more about Sail 4 Cancer at www.sail4cancer.org.
This weekend, the Fairey Owners club is celebrating 50 years of the Swordsman 33 and to celebrate, will be hosting a rally taking place this weekend from Hamble Point Marina. Also celebrating 50 years of their motor car, are the Gordon-Keeble owners club who will also be taking part in the rally.
Arrive on the Friday to make a full weekend of it with an impromptu dinner in Hamble. Enjoy the Saturday evening by attending a Professional BBQ on the grass overlooking the Hamble River entrance.
The J-Cup is an annual regatta exclusively for racing yachts of the J Boats brand, and all models are eligible to compete. The 2014 event returns to the River Hamble, from 23rd – 26th July.
The J-Cup offers J Boat owners three days of exciting and competitive racing, alternating between our 'home' venue on the Solent and other fantastic locations, including Plymouth, Guernsey and Torbay. The excellent race programme is coupled with lively shoreside entertainment to make the J-Cup a must for many of our owners
Officially opened in 1986, Ocean Village Marina in Southampton is one of the world's most prestigious and renowned marinas. Owned by Europe's largest marina operator, MDL Marinas, Ocean Village Marina boasts a fantastic location, situated in the heart of Southampton water and surrounded by restaurants, cinemas and bars. The marina is central to some exciting new developments including a £50m luxury spa hotel complex, the tallest residential building in the city, and exciting new restaurant and retail openings.
The basin, formerly used for commercial ships, is deep enough to offer mooring facilities for tall ships and superyachts up to 90 metres. It also offers direct access to the Solent, as well as easy links to Southampton train station and airport – making it a welcome home and visiting port for thousands of boaters each year. Ocean Village Marina is famous for hosting the start and finish of a number of global yacht races, and benefits from being overlooked by the prestigious Royal Southampton Yacht Club. There are plentiful facilities for berth holders and visitors at the marina, including toilets, showers, laundry facilities, electricity, WiFi and fresh water.
Landmark developments at Ocean Village Marina
There are some really exciting developments taking shape in the city including a superyacht inspired five-star hotel set to open in 2016. The luxury hotel will extend out into the marina and feature a spa, champagne bar and rooftop restaurant with stunning views. The development will also feature 12 luxury duplex apartments on top of the hotel, 82 flats, a basement car park and a number of new shops and restaurants. In addition, Ocean Village Marina will soon house the tallest residential building in the city! Admiral's Quay, a prestigious development of apartments will include a landmark 26 storey residential tower and promises many properties with views of the marina. Planned to be complete by January 2015, it will also host up to eight new restaurants and bars – making Ocean Village Marina even more of a first-class destination.
Southampton – A beautiful city to explore
Southampton has been an important port for centuries and is a fascinating place to visit. Not only is it one of the premier venues for sailing and watersports, it also makes for an ideal base to explore the New Forest and the Isle of Wight.
Just some of the highlights of things to do and see in Southampton include:
Fabulous food and entertainment
There is an endless choice of restaurants in Southampton and visitors will be spoilt for choice whether dining al fresco by the water at Banana Wharf and Pitcher & Piano, or discovering wonderful cuisine at the likes of Oxfords and the White Star. There is also plenty of evening entertainment in a wide choice of bars, theatres and clubs.
West Quay Shopping Centre
Over 100 food and retail brands all under one roof including John Lewis, Karen Millen and Cath Kidston, as well as a fabulous food terrace featuring brands including Wagamama, Cafe Rouge Express and Yo! Sushi.
The Old Town and Cultural Quarter
Areas of significant cultural attractions including the Mayflower Theatre and the SeaCity Museum. The city is also home to the second largest medieval walls in England that are still standing.
PSP Southampton Boat Show
Held annually in September with over 600 exhibitors. The event runs for 10 days at Mayflower Park on the city's waterfront, where it has been held since 1968 – visit the MDL stand, E52.
Why settle for less?
You get more with MDL Marinas. As Europe's largest marina operator, MDL Marinas is proud to offer the most comprehensive berthing package in the marketplace. The Freedom Berthing package gives owners far more than a superb berth and marina facilities, it's a passport to extra rewards, benefits and savings, such as FREE stays at over 90 other marinas both in the UK and Europe, discounts on boatyard services and fuel at cost.


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From what I have seen of Quebec, an idyllic camping weekend would be to find a mall parking lot where the stores are closed for Sunday.Your best option for Montreal, is probably finding a few WalMarts you can stay in a few days at time. For an actual campground where you can camp, dump and fill, the closest option is probably in Ontario: Voyageur Provincial Park http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/voyageur
It is near a commuter train station with lots of parking so it was an easy way to get into Montreal for sightseeing. Much cheaper to pay for parking at the train station than in downtown Montreal.
Our basic defense rule for Montreal, has always been to arrive on Sunday morning; and plan to be outta there before noon before everyone else gets outta bed! I remember our first trip to Montreal, for Expo '67, before the days of GPS and all that kind of stuff. While struggling to find our way back to the campground, we arrived at the very same Victoria Bridge for the third time and had pay the toll yet again, I came up with the idea: "Maybe we should go home now!"
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Categories of hosting services
A hosting solution concerns stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a server run by a hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a peek at them. Thus, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you desire to own a site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.
- File hosting: a solution supplied by particular file storage providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions frequently involve ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.
At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely distorted interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the tasks at hand between independent packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web space hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share a great number of pictures with mates or partners since the solution is usually free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.
- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some distributors offer site hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email service. If you wish to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.
- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to possess as many videos as you wish without bothering about system resources.
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Upcoming Workshop on new ISO 18788 Management System for Private Security Operations
Join Radian Compliance and Human Analytics on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 in Hampton Roads, VA for the DoD – Procurement Technical Assistance Program training on the recently released international standard, ISO 18788 Management System for Private Security Operations. If you are a private security company working for the DoD, DoS, or a commercial entity, this new ISO standard is relevant to you. Supported by the DoD, the purpose of this new standard is to enable consistent provision of security services while maintaining the safety of clients and ensuring respect for human rights and national and international laws in circumstances where the rule of law has been weakened due to human or natural events. ISO 18788 builds on ANSI/ASIS PSC.1 Management System for Quality of Private Security Company Operations.
This 3 hour session runs from 1pm-4pm and presents an overview of ANSI/ASIS PCS.1 as well as ISO 18788. Learn the requirements of the standards. Gain an understanding of how to implement a risk management framework and a human rights impact analysis, both requirements of the standards. Advice will be shared on which standard to adopt and whether to comply of conform to that standard.
In addition to the ISO 18788 workshop, a morning workshop will cover the recently revised and released ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management Systems. This standard is at the heart of most organizations that want to drive value and quality processes to its customers. The workshop will review the certification and implementation requirements of a quality management system, and will examine how ISO 9001:2015 can integrate with other ISO systems along with supply chain requirements, including those of the Federal Government. With the September 23rd release of the updated standard, this session will also review the changes from the 2008 version. This class is appropriate for those both new to and experienced with ISO 9001. Many PSCs that seek certification to ANSI/ASIS PSC.1 and ISO 18788 also gain ISO 9001 certification in the process.
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I'm soo tired. Today I was actually busy at work. It wouldnt have been so bad if I didn't have to get up so early in the freaking morning! I mean all I do is wash cars out it's not that hard, but I was so tired in the first place that it was almost unbearable.
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High back leather sofa designed in 1971. Borge Mogensen wanted to draw a bed for the quiet moments in front of the fire in the fireplace. He took inspiration for the distinctive shape of the British "hall porter's chair" - a classic oreklapstolstype, who had just created to take the heat from the open fires in the past winter cold homes. In Danish, the popular name for the model "compartment couch" because it surrounds the seated in the same way as the comfortable seats made of a first-class compartment. The sofa is available in a two-and a three-seater version and a double two-seater with room for four.
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Aug 02, 2017
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After kicking off the season at Twickenham Saracens will jet off to the United States to face Newcastle Falcons in Talen Energy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday 16th September.
The game, which will be Newcastle's home game, will be the second time Saracens have featured in a Premiership Rugby game in the USA. The Men in Black defeated London Irish in New Jersey last season in what was a ground-breaking fixture.
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CFB Note - Tennessee Gaulden, RashaanJan 4, 2018 - 6:47 AM Tennessee defensive back Rashaan Gaulden has tweeted that he's forgoing his final season of eligibility to enter the NFL draft. Gaulden tweeted that "it has been an honor to wear the Orange and White and represent the Power T while playing in Neyland Stadium the last four years." He thanked his coaches and teammates as well as Tennessee's fans. As a fourth-year junior this season, Gaulden had 65 tackles, three forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries, an interception and five pass breakups. The 6-foot-1 defensive back had a year of eligibility remaining because he redshirted due to a foot injury in 2015. Gaulden joins running back John Kelly as Tennessee players entering the draft with eligibility remaining. Kelly announced his decision on social media Friday. - AP College Football
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It has only been here for 10 minutes and it is already full of all the stuff I wanted to store in it. Now I will have oodles of counter space, sadly lacking in this kitchen. And somewhere to put all my gadgets so I will have an easier time using them.
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Now this is a story all about how my my day got flipped turned upside down and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there. I'll tell you how I got wrapped up in despair. I was admitted to hospital last week and for me it was a pretty scary experience.
Wednesday night saw me struggling to sleep longer than 2 hours at a time, so I got up and went downstairs and popped 2 x 30 mg of codeine to try and knock me out a little bit. I used to rely heavily on morphine before my surgery to help me sleep so I just hoped that because codeine is an opiate too it would have the same effect. It made me drowsy enough to sleep for 3 hours, which was better than nothing.
When I woke up my rib cage ached like I had been kicked repeatedly and 00Steve had slept on the sofa due to my snoring (oops) so I know he hadn't anything to do with it. Coupled with an unusual rippling pain across my entire abdomen and lower back, I felt so nauseous that I worried about taking tablets in case they came straight back up. I do NOT like being sick, not that I know anyone that does or why they would though.
About 2 pm I ran to my back garden knowing that I couldn't make the bathroom and projectile vomited. Ra-Ra came to the back door and told me I was "throwing up poo" (gotta love how kids minds work right?) I tried to explain it was the chocolate cake I had, had for breakfast. She went and got me a towel whilst trying not to be sick herself, so I asked her to just go back inside.
I then started being sick again and it quickly became undigested food from the day before. I managed to pull myself together enough to start hosing down the concrete and hope it didn't stain. Pretty much instantly my bag then filled up with undigested food twice in 40 minutes. This made me think I must have dislodged a blockage that was starting with being sick.
Then the bile started, good lord I hate vomiting bile more than just sick. I literally laid down on my garden path and just tried to let nature run it's course. Thankfully 00Steve had just come home so I didn't have to worry about Ra-Ra as she kept telling me "to go to sleep" bless her. My Show Girls told me to just go to the hospital. After trying to get 00Steve to do ring 111 for me an emergency ambulance was on its way.
My bag filled up within seconds and this time it was just water. I managed to get upstairs, emptied then I started vomiting again then collapsed onto the floor, retching into a bucket. The next thing I am aware of is Ra-Ra sat on the toilet and the paramedics chatting to her. I remember feeling very warm, then retching again yet this time I felt like I had something stuck in my throat. I began to mildly panic that I was going to choke so I desperately stuck my fingers down my throat.
At this point I knew I was going to be admitted, so I asked 00Steve to get my phone charger – yep this time I was not going to be admitted without it! He started to pack me a bag whilst my observations were getting done. My blood pressure was quite low and my heart rate had started to go tachycardic, they mentioned my temperature was low too. My bag had filled with water again and I managed to get up so I could empty it, before heading down the stairs on my bum followed by a very chatty Ra-Ra. She was determined to go in the ambulance with me, I turned hugged her and told her that I loved her. I laid down on the stretcher to be taken to the waiting ambulance, again I started retching – surely that had to be it but nope this time it was spotted with blood, definitely not what I wanted to see for sure. The last thing I remember before going into the ambulance was Ra-Ra screaming as she was told she couldn't come with me.
Once I was in the ambulance the paramedics started throwing around the phrase 'sepsis' and I definitely wasn't happy hearing that especially after everything I had heard from one of my Show Girls Rachel. They laid my head flat and elevated my legs as my blood pressure had dropped again but my heart rate had kept going up. I felt like I kept going in and out of consciousness. I knew they had started to put a canunla into my arm and they gave me some fluids and anti sickness, to help with the nausea. That's when the waves of pain started to hit so gas and air it was, which strangely took longer than it usually does to kick in.
Then they whack the blues and twos on when the paramedics decided which hospital I was going too. Basically my obstetrics team are based at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and my colorectal team are based at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. They decided to take me to the James Cook University Hospital since being high dependency if it was anything baby related I would only have to be transferred regardless. Whereas the colorectal team could be contacted via phone for my care if needed.
Once again my bag had filled up and this time it was orange with white fluffy bits, I was expecting the midwife to be a bit repulsed to be honest. Yet she didn't even bat an eyelid as she said to me in another life as a nurse she worked on a bowel ward. I have to admit I sighed a sigh of relief that someone that knew both sides of the coin was looking after me.
They put me on a baby trace monitor thing sorry I don't the correct terms but then again I am NOT a medical professional *insert appropriate emoji lol* that showed Button was absolutely fine, but was having mild contractions. The midwife held my stomach as they happened was able to distinguish that it was my bowel spasm's causing my uterus to contract. That would have been nice to know before with Ra-Ra as that happened a lot!
They did a speculum test to check the fluid around my cervix, my cervix was still closed this was obviously good news! The fluid test they do is a 10 minute test and pretty damn accurate, from what I was told it checks the hormone levels to see if I am due to go into labour within a fortnight. Thankfully again this showed very little chance that I was due to go into labour; let's face it I know I am struggling now but at 29 weeks I didn't fancy having the stress and worry about Button's health as it would have been straight to a special baby care unit. They decided I should be admitted overnight for observation and hydration <– no word of a lie that was their phrasing!!
The next time I emptied my bag it had definite blood in it, probably from the retching earlier in the day; again it was watery, lime green and started to look like faecal matter which could only mean that things were getting back to the way they should be. I was given IV paracetamol and another bag of fluids. Bloods were taken as standard too. They had been measuring my output to determine how dehydrated I was since I had passed no urine. The obstetrics doctor said he didn't think it was a blockage but my bowel being overactive, he said until I saw the surgical team I was advised not to eat.
The show must go on! Yep even though I was admitted to hospital and felt bloody awful I still participated in The IBD and Ostomy Support Show, it was our third show which you can watch here. I couldn't let my Show Girls down now could I? They would all shout YES at this point ha ha! So live from a hospital bed I attempted to act as if nothing was wrong although you can hear the midwife talking to me at the end of the show oops!!
I eventually saw the surgical team and said I was to have clear fluids and still advised no food – if you have been reading my blog for awhile now or just actually know me; I do not cope well with others restricting my food. Probably due to the control aspect of having an Eating Disorder, so I politely (yep even I can be polite when hangry) said that with being pregnant going 12.5 hours since eating was not going to help me get better.He did understand and just said that he wasn't banning me from eating but just advising against it, which I felt was fair. So at 11:45 pm I wandered the length of the hospital looking for a vending machine that sold food not just drink. When I found one I thought I would be smart and stick to simple foods I felt I would tolerate so plain baked potato crisps and for a bit of comfort a 4 finger kit kat! I could have made far worse choices trust me!
There was bed shortage in the hospital on appropriate wards for me and as I already had a bed on the assessment unit I was told it was best just to try and get some sleep. There had been a room for me up on an antenatal ward but a lady came in as an emergency so obviously she rightly took the room. So I was given more fluids and settled down to get some sleep knowing that I now needed to measure urine as well. I slept a good 4 hours before being woken up to go to the antenatal ward at 5:30 am, that was the best sleep that I had, had in a couple of days.Although I did struggle to fall back to sleep once on the new ward for the fact it was getting light.
The next morning when the shift changed over I was still on the advice of not eating *sigh* but I was starting to get that hunger ache in the pit of my stomach. I just looked at the midwife and said to her that I completely understood why it was recommended that I didn't eat but I really needed to. I asked if I could have a slice of white toast, butter and seedless jam. She just smiled and said of course I could and went off to get me some toast, I thought well it's low residue and I stuck to clear fluids because I didn't want to be that patient!
By this point my output had started to seem like it was headed back to normal consistency which was again in my mind only going to be a good thing. I may not be an ileostomy expert but I know my body! It wasn't until 10 am that the surgical team popped back in to review me. I was told eating what I did was a smart move (yes I felt smug AF but I knew I might not be out of the woods yet) as my bowel wasn't going to be able to 'right' itself otherwise. So in their mind they were happy to send me home even though they didn't actually know what caused me to get sick in the first place. Obstetrics still wanted to do a few checks on their side to ensure that baby Button was definitely okay.
00Steve and I had an argument over text over stupid things that instantly had me in tears, when I was alone I was full blown eyes streaming and blubbering. I even told the midwife that I didn't want the trace or to see the doctor I just wanted my cannula out and to leave. It took her a fair bit of time to calm me down and persuade me to at least listen to the heartbeat, just as she was writing in my notes as 00Steve and Ra-Ra walked into my room. She asked if I wanted to hear the heartbeat again so Ra-Ra could hear. I was still pretty pissed at 00Steve so I just flatly asked him if we had time, he said of course we do which annoyed me more due to our argument. But Ra-Ra got to hold the doppler and find Button's heartbeat which just made our hearts melt. I was allowed to leave as I was seeing my midwife soon after then having a scan and seeing the obstetrics team, but told if I have any worries to ring them straight up and be seen if necessary.
I can't believe how long it has taken me to write this post due to being so fatigued and in pain, I have to lay down to type as the bump gets in the way. Well that and the fact that if I sit in my chair Button goes bananas due to being slightly restricted!


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"Voters in Tuesday's Florida Republican primary chose Mitt Romney as the candidate best able to beat President Barack Obama in the fall, preferring electability over ideology in lifting the former Massachusetts governor to a broad victory despite concerns that his issue positions are not conservative enough." (editor's note – I was in Florida this week attending an engineering conference and discovered that Newt was having a rally Monday morning in the room next door. So I dropped in to listen. Introduced by Michael Reagan, Newt does a great stump speech.)
Florida: MITT 47% NEWT 32% RICK 13% RON 7%...
Gallup's latest daily tracking poll shows Mitt Romney retaking the national lead from Newt Gingrich, who was in the lead after his big win in South Carolina. The new poll results from Gallup are as follows: Mitt Romney 31% Newt Gingrich 26% Rick Santorum 16% Ron Paul 11%
Gingrich, who won the women's vote in South Carolina earlier this month, lost the female vote Tuesday night to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by a 22 percentage point margin. Romney also won men, but by a much smaller 5-point margin.
President Obama had a 50% or more approval rating last year in only 10 states, plus the District of Columbia -- all blue states.
Gallup: If President Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011, he would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 electoral votes to 215.
Has President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services awakened a sleeping giant? In pews across America, Catholics listened yesterday to letters from their bishops denouncing an HHS requirement that forces virtually every employer in America to pay for health insurance that covers contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients. As Nancy Pelosi complained during the health care debate, many of her coreligionists have "this conscience thing" concerning the sanctity of human life. Now the executive branch of the federal government is telling them to drop dead.
"Catholic bishops issued a response to ObamaCare's mandates….The message was simple: We will not comply."
A Christian student organizations at Vanderbilt University may be forced to go underground or meet in secret after university officials doubled down on a policy that bans student religious groups from requiring their leaders to hold specific beliefs,
"Average Compensation For Federal Workers Now Matches Microsoft Employees"
The amount of money the federal government takes out of the U.S. economy in taxes will increase by more than 30 percent between 2012 and 2014, according to the Budget and Economic Outlook published today by the CBO. At the same time, according to CBO, the economy will remain sluggish, partly because of higher taxes.
The House voted Wednesday to repeal a part of President Obama's health care law deemed unsustainable by his own administration, sending the bill to the Senate, where Democrats have indicated they aren't ready to kill the long-term care program.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that the Democratic Party would "effectively" be "put out of business," if Congress were to pass a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Moveon.org launched a campaign Wednesday against the "the world's largest breast cancer organization" Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Komen announced Tuesday night that they will no longer be awarding the abortion provider Planned Parenthood with grants due to a new policy prohibiting Komen from giving to institutions under investigation by government bodies.
But on Friday, Komen caved to pressure: "It's official. The Komen Foundation has "apologized" for its Planned Parenthood decision and appears set to reinstate the funding"…."Does anyone on the Left even ask the basic question of whether a private charitable organization has the right to dispose of its money as it sees fit?"
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Planned Parenthood's relationship with the Girl Scouts of America is "very valuable,"
Starbucks: "Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage 'Is Core to Who We Are and What We Value'"
Now that Washington State is on its way to gay marriage, liberals see more opportunities: "More than three dozen Washington state lawmakers are asking the federal government to reclassify marijuana. Reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule II drug would allow it to be prescribed by doctors and handled by pharmacists. "Seven Republican lawmakers are among the 42 who have signed on to the letter."
Authorities are seeking the public's help in identifying a man who robbed a McDonald's while wearing a President Barack Obama mask.
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(The Republican) establishment is not what it was decades ago, when it was peopled by seasoned veterans who made decisions and got people in line. That's gone. What has replaced it is a loose confederation of groups and professionals—current and former elected officials and their staffs, activists, the old party machinery, bundlers and contributors, journalists, radio and TV stars, mostly but not exclusively based in Washington.
The great myth of the election year is that they are for Mitt Romney. They are not. They are almost all against Newt Gingrich because they know him, they've worked with him. But they mostly do not love Mr. Romney.
The establishment didn't get its candidate: Mitch Daniels or Jeb Bush, John Thune or Paul Ryan, Haley Barbour or Chris Christie. It is, secretly, as bereft as some of the grassroots.
Why doesn't the establishment like Mr. Romney? Because they fear he won't win, that he'll get clobbered on such issues as Bain, wealth, taxes. Because when they listen to him, they get the impression he's reciting lines his aides came up with in debate prep. Because if he wins, they're not sure he'll have a meaning or mandate. But mostly because his insides are unknown to them. They don't know what's in there. They fear he hasn't absorbed any philosophy along the way, that he'll be herky-jerky, unanchored, merely tactical as president. And they think that now of all times more is needed. They want to reform the tax system and begin reining in the entitlement spending that is bankrupting us. They don't read him as the guy who can perform those two Herculean jobs, each of which will demand first-rate political talent. And shrewdness. And guts.
Mr. Romney doesn't have the establishment in his pocket. He needs to win it. All the more reason for him to get serious now. If he is serious.
This is the authentic sound of the establishment: At a gathering in Washington last week, I spoke to a grand old man of the party who enjoyed high and historic appointed position. "Where is the Republican Party right now?" I asked. "Waiting for Jeb," he said. Waiting for rescue. That's what Mitt Romney's up against, not Newt.
But the big political news of the week isn't Mr. Romney's gaffe, or even his victory in Florida. The big story took place in Washington. That's where a bomb went off that not many in the political class heard, or understood. But President Obama just may have lost the election.
The president signed off on a Health and Human Services ruling that says under ObamaCare Catholic Institutions—including its charities, hospitals and schools—will be required by law, for the first time ever, to provide and pay for insurance coverage that includes contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization procedures. If they do not, they will face ruinous fines in the millions of dollars. Or they can always go out of business. In other words, the Catholic Church was told this week that its institutions can't be Catholic anymore.
I invite you to imagine the moment we are living in without the church's charities, hospitals and schools. And if you know anything about those organizations, you know it is a fantasy that they can afford millions in fines. There was no reason to make this ruling—none. Except ideology.
The conscience clause, which keeps the church itself from having to bow to such decisions, has always been assumed to cover the church's institutions. Now the church is fighting back. Priests in an estimated 70% of parishes last Sunday came forward to read strongly worded protests from the church's bishops. The ruling asks the church to abandon Catholic principals and beliefs; it is an abridgement of the First Amendment; it is not acceptable. They say they will not bow to it. They should never bow to it, not only because they are Catholic and cannot be told to take actions that deny their faith, but because they are citizens of the United States.
If they stay strong and fight, they will win. This is in fact a potentially unifying moment for American Catholics, long split left, right and center. Catholic conservatives will immediately and fully oppose the administration's decision. But Catholic liberals, who feel embarrassed and undercut, have also come out in opposition.
The church is split on many things. But do Catholics in the pews want the government telling their church to contravene its beliefs? A president affronting the leadership of the church, and blithely threatening its great institutions? No, they don't want that. They will unite against that.
The smallest part of this story is political. There are 77.7 million Catholics in the United States. In 2008 they made up 27% of the electorate, about 35 million people. Mr. Obama carried the Catholic vote, 54% to 45%. They helped him win. They won't this year. And guess where a lot of Catholics live? In the battleground states.
There was no reason to pick this fight. It reflects political incompetence on a scale so great as to make Mitt Romney's gaffes a little bitty thing. There was nothing for the president to gain, except, perhaps, the pleasure of making a great church bow to him. Enjoy it while you can. You have awakened a sleeping giant.
(Among other things, Peggy Noonan was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan)
"Newt [Gingrich] has committed himself to a lunar colony by the end of his second term, and, while pandering to an audience on Florida's 'Space Coast,' added that, as soon as there were 13,000 American settlers on the moon, they could apply for statehood. ... There are times for dreaming big dreams, and there are times to wake up. This country will not be going to the moon, any more than the British or French do. Because, in decline, the horizons shrivel. The only thing that's going to be on the moon is the debt ceiling. Before we can make any more giant leaps for mankind, we have to make one small, dull, prosaic, earthbound step here at home -- and stop. Stop the massive expansion of micro-regulatory government, and then reverse it. Obama has vowed to press on. If Romney and Gingrich can't get serious about it, he'll get his way."
-Mark Steyn
"This nation isn't great because we work as a team with the president as our captain. America is great because America is free. It is great not because we put our self-interest aside, but because we have the right to pursue happiness."
-Jonah Goldberg
"The worst thing about the political debates isn't the format or the content, but that it magnifies debating skills to such an extent. I keep hearing that Gingrich would demolish Obama in a debate. I disagree. Republicans would watch such a debate and decide that Newt had mopped the floor with Barack; Democrats would see it the other way around. And the next day, the liberal media would announce that Obama won by a knockout in the first round. As we all know, a president no more needs to be a great debater than he needs to know how to juggle plates, play the accordion or yodel."
-Burt Prelutsky
"Had I been asked to deliver the State of the Union address, it would not have delayed your dinner plans: 'The State of our Union is broke, heading for bankrupt, and total collapse shortly thereafter. Thank you and goodnight! You've been a terrific crowd!'"
-Mark Steyn
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has successfully prevented retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin from speaking at an upcoming prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point
"Leading Democrats have been in the news lately sliming Americans who stick up for Israel as being "Israel Firsters." Well, Mr. Obama has become an "Islamist Firster." Since becoming president, he has not once visited our greatest ally in the region. Rather, he has gone to places like Cairo to tell the Muslim world how much he likes it. He also stunningly trashed the oath of office he took by saying it is "part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
A terror gang who planned a Mumbai-style bomb blitz in London could walk free in less than six years after striking an extraordinary 11th-hour plea bargain. The four Muslim fanatics intended to unleash a Christmas campaign of atrocities with targets including the Stock Exchange, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye. "the case did not merit an indefinite imprisonment for public protection because their plans were not developed, and he took account of Chowdhury's youth. Chowdhury is likely to spend less than half of his sentence behind bars owing to time already served"
Iran is continuing to prepare itself for war against the West, and now is warning of a coming great event. "….the Great Satan (America) will soon be defeated," Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, is warning.
When should names on petitions be kept secret? Judging by the ACLU's double standard, secrecy is warranted if exposure might reveal voter fraud. On the other hand, if exposure puts marriage supporters at risk for harassment by radical activists...well, then, that's okay. Unlike its apparent indifference to abuses of pro-marriage donors exposed in California in 2008, the ACLU pressured a Wisconsin agency not to create an online database to verify two million signatures for recalling Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, and four Republican state senators.
The supposed 'consensus' on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century. Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
In recent days we learned sales of the Volt and Leaf cratered, President Obama's failed green jobs program is under investigation, and another "clean energy" company's in trouble. Green is the new red…..Unfortunately, like a bad investor, Obama wants to double down on his failure…..the only thing new here is Obama's naivete about their potential, and his eagerness to waste so much taxpayer money pushing them.
Temperatures fall to 50 below in Fairbanks; small air carriers cancel flights
Jim River, Alaska closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment.
Heavy snows cause "moose emergency" concern in Alaska...
California Issues Clown Car Mandate
Jonah Goldberg: "The Case For Romney" Mitt Romney's biggest problem. A late immigrant to conservatism, Romney doesn't speak the language naturally…..He speaks conservatism as a second language, and his mastery of the basic grammar of politics is often spotty as well…..After what seems like an eternity under Obama, and with the raised expectations from the Tea Party's earlier successes, conservatives are extremely reluctant to settle or compromise simply on the say-so of the establishment. For good reasons and bad, Romney seems like a compromise. And no matter how begrudgingly a conservative comes to accept the reality of Romney's nomination, the diehards immediately proclaim any support for Romney to be proof of membership in the establishment. In fact, it seems like the best definition of a Republican establishment member these days is simply someone who has made peace with his disappointment prematurely. Let me try to offer some solace. Even if Romney is a Potemkin conservative (a claim I think has merit but is also exaggerated), there is an instrumental case to be made for him: It is better to have a president who owes you than to have one who claims to own you. A President Romney would be on a very short leash. A President Gingrich would probably chew through his leash in the first 10 minutes of his presidency and wander off into trouble. If elected, Romney must follow through for conservatives and honor his vows to repeal ObamaCare, implement Rep. Paul Ryan's agenda, and stay true to his pro-life commitments.
This isn't exactly the kind of endorsement the Romney campaign is looking for: George Soros: "Well, look, either you'll have an extremist conservative, be it Gingrich or Santorum, in which case I think it will make a big difference which of the two comes in….If it's between Obama and Romney, there isn't all that much difference…"
Ann Coulter: "Three cheers for RomneyCare"
"Ann Coulter's support for Mitt Romney entered a new stage today with a column offering an all out embrace of Romneycare. In the process, she insults the intelligence of conservative critics of the law and doesn't address their actual arguments against it."
"Romney derangement syndrome (on the right) My colleague Kathleen Parker suggests that something else is afoot: "Handsome, rich and successful, he is happily married to a beautiful wife, father to five strapping sons and grandfather to many. At the end of a long day of campaigning, his hair hasn't moved. His shirt is still unwrinkled and neatly tucked into pressed jeans. He goes to bed the same way he woke up — sober, uncaffeinated, seamless and smiling in spite of the invectives hurled in his direction. What's wrong with this guy? Nada. Which is precisely the problem." She concludes, "It seems the question for voters is not whether they can forgive Romney his imperfections, which is most often the case in politics, but whether they can forgive his perfections."
Laffer: "Why Gingrich's Tax Plan Beats Romney's"
Mitt Romney took a hard line on illegal immigration, was labeled anti-immigrant and had a national network of Hispanic Republicans come out against him, yet he won Florida's primary by carrying more than half of Hispanics who voted - better than he did among whites. But his primary opponents and immigrant-rights advocates say he will have a tougher time winning Hispanics in Nevada, which holds caucuses this weekend, and in Colorado and Arizona, which vote later this month and where immigration is a much hotter topic.
Sen. Marco Rubio to a pro-life crowd of hundreds attending the Susan B. Anthony List's fifth annual Campaign for Life Gala. : "America cannot truly fulfill its destiny unless' it ends abortion"
There are 1.1 million more unemployed Americans today than when President Obama was sworn into office in 2009. The number of Americans in poverty has risen by 6.4 million. Unemployment is up 9 percent, the number of food stamp recipients is up 45 percent, and home values are down 13 percent. If Obama were to seek re-election based on his economic record, he would surely lose. That is why Obama and his political advisers have determined that income inequality, or "fairness" as they call it, is the defining issue of our time.
They have trouble with spelling, grammar and showing up to class on time — and we're not talking about the students. New York City tried to expel 26 teachers from the classroom last year for gross incompetence — such as English teachers who couldn't write or speak the language properly. But officials maintain that stringent union rules prohibited them from succeeding in just half those cases — even when hearing officers actually agreed with the principals' assessments. That's because the city not only has to prove that the teachers can't do their jobs but also that they have no shot of ever improving.
Folks in Springfield, Ill., witnessed a bizarre scene two years ago. Thousands protested outside the Capitol, chanting: "Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes! Raise my taxes!" Who protests for higher taxes? Government unions do. The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees helped organize the rally. This is the new face of the union movement. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this past Friday that union rates fell again last year. Fewer than one of every eight Americans now belong to unions. Of those, most work in the government; less than 7 percent of private-sector workers belong to unions.
Ted Olsen: "Obama's Enemies List: David and Charles Koch have been the targets of a campaign of vituperation and assault, choreographed from the very top."
In front of the White House a man is sitting on a park bench in the throes of depression. He is surrounded by all 43 presidents. In the forefront, purposefully ignoring the depressed man is President Obama, whose right foot is stepping on the Constitution. James Madison is next to Obama, pleading with him to stop. This tableau is called "The Forgotten Man", a painting by Jon McNaughton, an artist who is known for his politically-charged work.
Terrorist Attack Map Shows Terrorism 'Hot Spots' Across U.S.
"Sheep herding Swedish bunny hops to net fame"
Breathtaking images from around the world reveal gorgeous landscapes covered in ice and buried under snowdrifts.
"How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future, after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen, we cannot, must not, and will not turn back."
-Ronald Reagan
"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
-Thomas Jefferson


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dinnerstick wrote:i put mine in a keg with the brett, going to leave it a few months with an airlock. if you're pretty sure you can estimate the final gravity then your bottling idea sounds good, but i'd be nervous about it the first time
Well, sounds like I better try the secondary approach first. Although I would use Orval bottles, I'm not sure they would withstand a major calculation error. And gusher isn't my favourite type of beer either...
Still looking at the mash schedule, but I'll have my recipe ready in a few days.
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WASHINGTON, July 7 — Democratic voters are not the only ones bitter over their party's failure to use new Congressional power to force a withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Senator Harry Reid, the occasionally obstreperous Democratic leader, is upset as well.
"We haven't done enough," said Mr. Reid, a onetime moderate who has evolved into one of the party's most fervent critics of the war.
That view captures not only Mr. Reid's sentiment but also the shifting political dynamic on the war, as public frustration remains high, the conflict dominates the presidential campaign landscape and senior Republicans have chosen to break with President Bush even as the administration has urged patience.
Sensing momentum from the new Republican defections, Mr. Reid and other leading Democrats intend to force a series of votes over the next two weeks on proposals to withdraw troops and limit spending. Democrats are increasingly confident they can assemble majority opposition to administration policies.
"It is going to be harder for Republicans to not sign on to something with bite in it, a clear Congressional assessment that change is needed," said Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the Armed Services Committee. "I think it is more likely there will be a majority around here that say we should begin to redeploy some forces by a certain date, and I hope it would be a larger majority."Continue reading the main story
The coming debate will provide a showcase for senators from both parties to debate Iraq war strategy. The four Democratic presidential candidates in the Senate are expected to push their own antiwar proposals and views, and contrast their stances with those of Republicans, notably Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has been among the strongest supporters of the war.
In the first round of debates about the war, there was Democratic anxiety about appearing unsupportive of the troops, and Mr. Reid sought to keep a tighter rein on his colleagues who were pushing for the strongest antiwar legislation. But in the shifting environment, Democrats are newly emboldened.
Mr. Reid said he now saw ending the war as a moral duty, and even if the Senate again falls short, he said, he would turn again and again to Iraq until either the president relents or enough Republicans join Democrats to overrule Mr. Bush.
"I think that each time these people vote to continue what's going on in Iraq it is a bad, bad move for them and a worse move for our country," Mr. Reid said.
In the six months since he took control as the majority leader, Mr. Reid, 67, of Nevada, has experienced the highs of leading his party and the lows of almost losing a senator to a critical illness and then losing an Iraq spending fight to Mr. Bush.
The Democratic inability to bring quick change, coupled with a Republican backlash to the rejected immigration proposal, has sent Congressional ratings plummeting.
"The Democratic Congress has lower ratings than President Bush," said Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas. "You have to try hard to do that."
Mr. Reid has also been hobbled by his fragile majority, reduced to 50-to-49 because of the extended absence of Senator Tim Johnson, the South Dakota Democrat who has been recovering from a brain hemorrhage since December. With most Senate action requiring 60 votes — the tally needed to cut off debate — much of the legislation that House Democrats rushed through in their 100-hour sprint has bogged down across the Rotunda, mired in seemingly endless procedural votes and Republican objections.
On Iraq, Mr. Reid has led a 49-to-50 minority as Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who caucuses with Democrats, has sided with Republicans on that issue.
As a result, when Mr. Bush refused to sign an Iraq war spending bill that included a timetable for withdrawal, Mr. Reid, with his counterpart in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saw no alternative in May but to back down rather than open Democrats to charges of cutting off money to troops in the field. The outcome left many Democrats disenchanted.
"Some folks may have anticipated that the war would be stopped the Wednesday after the Tuesday election," said Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana. "But this is a complex situation that we've got in Iraq right now, and I think most of the people understand that we're going to do the best we can do with what we have to work with."
Activist groups aligned with the party said they recognized that reality as they put new pressure on wavering Republicans to join with Democrats on the war legislation.
"Senator Reid was not able to get it done, but ultimately it is the Republicans who are obstructing passage," said Moira Mack, a spokeswoman for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.
Democrats hoped to drive home that point in the renewed fight, with the annual Pentagon policy measure as the battleground. The leadership has put much of its muscle behind a plan by Mr. Levin and Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, that would require a troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days of becoming law and require most combat troops out by next spring.
Mr. Reid has also joined Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, in pushing a more confrontational approach that would end spending on most of the combat and significantly limit the role of American forces by early next year.
Another coalition of Democrats led by Senators Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who seeks the party's presidential nomination, is pushing a plan to rescind the original authorization for the war, though it troubles some Democrats, who worry that any associated provision that allows troops to remain even for limited purposes could be interpreted as new approval to keep forces in Iraq.
Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, another Democratic presidential contender, is developing a proposal that would call for a troop withdrawal to begin within a month and be completed by next year.
"I think the public is so far ahead of us — certainly the Democrats are — on this issue," Mr. Dodd said.
Though senior Republicans like Senators Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, George V. Voinovich of Ohio and Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico have called for a change in Iraq policy, they have indicated they are not ready to go as far as the Democrats. Mr. Domenici and other Republicans, including Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, have coalesced around a proposal that embraces the recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which seeks to shift the use of American forces more to a counterterrorism role and sets a goal of a March 2008 withdrawal.
Many Democrats feel those recommendations fall short because they do not include a hard and fast requirement for troop withdrawal. Mr. Reid and his lieutenants were still considering their strategy toward that proposal, which had support from moderate Democrats, led by Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado, and several Republicans.
The war clearly has consumed Mr. Reid. He said his emotions had been stirred by visits to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to meet with gravely wounded troops and his own calls to the survivors of Nevada residents killed in the fighting.
The impact of the wounded was reflected in an e-mail exchange with a staff member, who, during the war financing fight, relayed poll results that found 56 percent of Americans backed the Democrats, but that a sizable 37 percent sided with Mr. Bush.
"May the 37 percent see the pain and suffering I have seen at Walter Reed," Mr. Reid replied.Continue reading the main story


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Magic Bars!
I have been looking for a replacement for sweetened condensed milk for years. It's good stuff for baking! I know you can make your own, but I figured a vegan version must exist and just be eluding me. Well I found it! Mimic Creme! I had never purchased it before because we have such a tight budget and it is $5 a container at WF. Luckily, I found some at a discount for $1.50 recently and picked up a couple containers just to try out. I opened the container and tried it in my coffee. It was delicious, and I knew right away when I saw its consistency that I had found my substitute! It is sweet and thick and made from a blend of cashews and almonds. I immediately had to try to recreate a childhood favorite, Magic Bars (7 layer bars to some). I did it, and they were SO good!
I decided to use up a bunch of things in my pantry to make this recipe, so feel free to change things as you wish. I think the basic needs for this recipe would be a butter/crumb base and the coconut on top, everything else can probably be swapped out.
Here's what I came up with:
Preheat oven for 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with parchment and set aside.
Ingredients for crust:
1/2 cup or so melted butter (I used Earth Balance of course)
8 Vegan graham crackers- crushed
1/2 cup flax seed meal
1 cup of quick cooking rolled oats
2 Tbs. Agave Nectar
Mix all of the ingredients above and press into your pan. Use the bottom of your measuring cup get it evenly pressed down.
I sprinkled pecans over the crust (I recommend walnuts as well), then chocolate chips, a handful of vegan marshmallows (so it was about one for every cut square) and then topped that with coconut so it covered the top evenly. Then pour 2 cups of Mimic Creme over the coconut evenly as you can. Put this in the oven and bake for 45 minutes. When you take it out of the oven the top should be slightly browned. Let them completely cool down before cutting them. If you try to cut them when they are hot they will fall apart. So resist, they are worth the wait!
10 Comments
Tenneh / Mar 16 2011 6:34 am
Did you buy Mimic Creme on sale at Whole Foods, or did you find it someplace else for $1.50?
Tenneh / Mar 17 2011 7:23 am
I love condensed milk in my tea, so I think I'm gonna try this product out.
Tenneh / Mar 28 2011 11:11 am
I was so excited because I found the Mimic cream at Whole Foods yesterday, but now that I'm looking back at your blog I think I bought the wrong kind (I didn't realize there were several different types). I bought the unsweetened coffee creamer, which by itself was not sweet at all, and seperated in my tea (although maybe it was the type of tea I put it in). How disappointing…now I don't know what to do with the rest of the container.
Tenneh / Mar 28 2011 12:16 pm
Thanks for the idea…I'll try that out since I hate to waste food. So what section would I find the Mimic Creme in? I found the coffee creamer in Whole Foods next to the milk alternatives, but I think the coffee creamer was the only one in that section.
Charleybrown / Jun 20 2012 6:55 pm
I have been wanting to make Magic Squares since I've not tasted them in years and have found healthier alternatives to so many recipes! Here's a vegan suggestion for an alternative to condensed milk using only coconut milk and agave! (For those of us who don't have access to a Whole Foods)
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