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Magic Mineral Broth
A flavorful and nutritious addition to any soup or rice dish, especially for those with diminished appetites due to illness.
This broth alone can keep people going, especially when they don't particularly want to eat due to illness. This isn't just a regular vegetable stock. This pot of yum is high in potassium and numerous trace minerals that are often depleted by cancer therapy.
Sipping this nutrient-rich stock is like giving your body an internal spa treatment. Drink it like a tea, or use it as a base for all your favorite soups and rice dishes. Don't be daunted by the ingredient list. Simply chop the ingredients in chunks and throw them in the pot, roots, skins, and all.
A caregiver I know who never cooked tried this recipe for his mother, who was fighting colon cancer at the time.
"After I put all the vegetables in the pot and started them simmering, I had to go out of the house for a half hour to get something for Mom.
"When I got home and opened the front door, I couldn't believe how amazing the house smelled. What was even more incredible was that I had created these smells.
"Before I left home, Mom wrote me a small check to cover the cost. I couldn't understand why she thought she had to pay me for this. Then I looked at the 'memo' part on the front of the check. Next to it she wrote these words: 'Love Soup.'"
|6 unpeeled carrots, cut into thirds
|2 Japanese or regular sweet potatoes with skins on, quartered
|2 unpeeled medium yellow onions, cut into chunks
|1 Garnet yam with skin on, quartered
|1 leek, both white and green parts, cut into thirds
|1 (8-inch) strip of kombu (seaweed found in health food stores)
|1 bunch celery, including the heart, cut into thirds
|2 bay leaves
|5 unpeeled cloves garlic, halved
|12 black peppercorns
|½ bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley
|4 whole allspice or juniper berries
|4 medium red potatoes with skins on,
|1 Tbsp. sea salt
1. Rinse all the vegetables well, including the kombu.
2. In a 12-quart or larger stockpot, combine all the ingredients, except the salt.
3. Fill the pot to 2 inches below the rim with water, cover, and bring to a boil.
4. Remove the lid, decrease the heat to low, and simmer for a minimum of 2 hours.
5. As the stock simmers, some of the water will evaporate; add more if the vegetables begin to peek out.
6. Simmer until the full richness of the vegetables can be tasted. Add the salt and stir.
7. Strain the stock using a large coarse-mesh strainer (remember to use a heat-resistant container underneath).
8. Bring to room temperature before refrigerating or freezing
Makes 6–7 quarts
Per serving: Calories: 29; Total Fat: 0g (0g saturated, 0g monounsaturated); Carbohydrates: 6g; Protein: 0g; Fiber: 0g; Sodium: 166mg
If you don't have time to make this broth from scratch, substitute Pacific or Imagine brand vegetable stock, add an equal quantity of water, a piece of kombu, and one potato. Boil for 20 minutes and strain. Magic Mineral Broth can be frozen for up to 4 months in a variety of airtight containers for every use.
Watch Rebecca make Magic Mineral Broth!
From One Bite at a Time: Nourishing Recipes for Cancer Survivors and Their Friends by Rebecca Katz with Mat Edelson. Copyright © 2004 by Rebecca Katz. Published by Celestial Arts, an imprint of Ten Speed Press.
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Rebecca - This recipe looks wonderful, & I am looking forward to trying it!
However, there should be a note in the recipe regarding juniper berries. Juniper berries should NOT be used by pregnant women! Not everyone knows this, so there should be a note in bold caps in the recipe.
Thank you for designing this recipe, & all your great work with people who have cancer.
I do appreciate that...Thanks again
Thaanks for sharing! I have friends and families with Health issues so it's something I should try. I'm so glad the recipe does not include meat. Thank you.
Its a nice article..!
I'm in the 4th phase of my cancer treatment, on Femara, an estrogen blocker. One of the side effects is a severe case of hot flashes. After 5 months of prickles, dripping sweat, I was given the Magic Broth recipe. The hot flashes stopped the 1st day and as long as I drink or use the broth, am free of them. What is in the broth that stops a debilitating condition so completely? I'm reporting it to my oncologist because she knows how I've been suffering. Is there anything to relieve the joint pain that doesn't include drugs?
I just made this and it is delicious! I also picked out all of the usable parts (mostly the sweet potatoes, yams, red potatoes, carrots and parsley) and mashed them to use in other recipes this week. I only had to discard the celery, leeks, and some of the onion.


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Game Recap: Cubs 9, Marlins 2; Chicago fears no fish
I didn't really get to blog about yesterday's game, which means that you were saved from having to read my frustration about the 8 hits and 7 walks that the Cubs failed to capitalize upon. Not that you would have gotten a lot of bile from me, as it would have been half-hearted at best. It's really very hard to be angry at this Cubs team, short of them running over my pet cats - and even then, I'd be more annoyed than anything.
Today's game provided plenty of reasons to feel joy. The Cubs, down 2-0 in the 7th, uncorked the bats* and in Anti-'03 Fashion, blew the lid off of Dolphins Stadium for 8 runs. The coolest thing was that they did it without homeruns - Soriano doubled in 2, Ramirez doubled in 2 more, Fukudome - who seems to be bouncing back and forth between his white bat and a black one - sac flied a run in (plus he made a stellar defensive grab early in the game), and Reed Johnson capped off the inning with the third double of that frame, this time for 3 more RBI.
(*perhaps a bad pun for a team that once employed Sammy Sosa)
Reed is now batting .314 as a Cub. Like Edmonds, Reed Johnson was a late acquisition by Jim Hendry, plucked from the scrap heap, who has turned into an invaluable member of the Cubs. If on April 1st you told me I would later say "I don't want to think about where the Cubs would be without Reed Johnson and Jim Edmonds," I would have thought you were yanking my crank, which sounds particularly dirty. Moving on.
Ryan Dempster pitched 6 strong today. He left after 96 pitches, after having allowed 5 hits, 2 walks, and 2 earned runs. Oh, and he struck out 10. Clownsevelt is now 14-6. Never in a million years would I have expected this kind of production from him. We could make an argument that Dempster is the Cubs MVP this year, but the reality of it is that he'd be fighting with a crowd of players for that distinction. From Dempster, to DeRosa, to Soto, to the Fonz, the Cubs have had a number of players step up and do big things.
Oh, by the way, without much fanfare, Carlos Marmol has now gone 10.1 innings in a row without surrendering a hit, and his scoreless streak is up to 15 straight. Maybe he also should be included in the field of potential MVPs, and, retrospectively, he flat-out absolutely belonged at the All Star Game.
Series Recap:
I hate the Fish. Perhaps more than any other team in baseball, I hate the Florida Marlins. I don't even hate the White Sox or the Cardinals, but after the 2003 NLCS, there is a vile spot in my stomach that belongs to that ragtag bunch of losers who can't even afford to keep a solitary good player who's eligible for arbitration.
Therefore, you can probably understand how satisfying it feels to see the Cubs travel down to the hole that is Dolphins Stadium and walk all over the Marlins. Sure, 2 games were close, but the Cubs now leave the putrid state of Florida with 2 wins in 3 tries (pretending the Rays never happened), and I feel slightly less nervous about the prospects of the Marlins storming the weak NL East and sneaking into the playoffs.
The Cubs, by the way, are now 76-48. 28 games over .500. They have a 31-31 record on the road. And they are back in Chicago on Tuesday, hosting the lowly, bottom-feeding Reds. They've already got 11 wins this month, with 13 remaining it does not seem out of the question that the Cubs might exit August with 20 wins in total. Best yet, on July 17th, the Cubs were 57-39. Since that time, they've gone 19-9. They are piling on wins, and somewhere, a Brewers fan is weeping, while a Cardinals fan is at this point too numb to feel.
Current Record: 76-48
Position in the NL Central: 1st place, 5.5 games in front of Milwaukee and 7.5 ahead of St. Louis
Best Possible Record: 114-48
Worst Possible Record: 76-86
On Pace For: 99-63
Magic Number: 34, as powered by CubsMagicNumber.com
By the way, the huge drop in ERA was partly a result of a scoring change. A hit was changed to an error, and Marmol's ERA dropped almost a half-run as a result ... heard so during the game yesterday, and thought I'd share given the conversation we had.
This is a message of Big Brother.
His ERA had dropped by more
His ERA had dropped by more than a run even before the scoring change. One way or the other, what he's done since the All Star Break has been phenomenal; particularly in comparison with how badly he'd gotten lit up in the previous month.
He got a little wild yesterday and watching it worried me....
So what the heck happened to run the ERA up in the first place? If you believe it was fatigue related, then why did he even pitch yesterday?
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I'll write up an article about it.

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The commission has been renovating the courthouse in stages.
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Every year it is a challenge to celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas. One large reason is that in our American culture people generally begin the secular celebration of Christmas on Thanksgiving Day and end on Christmas Day. For Christians, who have been waiting in anticipation during the season of Advent, Christmas has only just begun. On the Christian liturgical calendar, Christmas begins on December 25 and continues through the feast of the Epiphany on January 6.
One of my favorite Christmas songs has always been The Twelve Days of Christmas. There is a lack of agreement it seems as to which day is the first day of Christmas, some saying the first day is the 25th, which would make the twelfth day Jan 5 while others say the first day is the day after Christmas which makes the twelfth day Epiphany. Since I did not write yesterday, I am going to accept the second group's claim for the sake of this next series of posts.
In recent years I have been the recipient of an email that makes the claim that the song The Twelve Days of Christmas has its origin as a catechism song for Catholics during their time of persecution in England from the 16th through 19th centuries. While there is no written evidence to substantiate this claim, I see no reason why Catholics wouldn't use the song as such. We as Catholics have a long history of seeing hidden meaning in literature, music and art.
So let's begin with the Christian meaning of "a partridge in a pear tree". The legend surrounding this song would say this is a symbol of Jesus Christ and a reference to the tree of life that is the cross.
It seems very appropriate to me on this first day of Christmas to reflect upon the mystery of the crucifixion as we celebrate the feast of St. Stephen, the protomartyr. Stephen, like so many saints, gave witness to the saving power of Christ's death and resurrection by suffering death himself while sharing the faith with others. Stephen has always struck me as a powerful witness to Christ in that he mirrors our savior in praying to God for the forgiveness of his persecutors, even as they stoned him.
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An internal email was sent out to all Bank of America Corp Field Services regarding the Dec. 6th National Day of Action to Occupy Our Homes. See the email below.
The email reads that this event "could impact our industry." Well, yes, BAC, that is our hope. Thanks for noticing!
The email further includes specific warnings to BAC "field services" agents:
1. Your safety is our primary concern, so do not engage with the protesters;
2. While in neighborhoods, please take notice of vacant BAC Field Services managed homes and ensure they are secured;
3. Remind all parties of the bank's media policy and report any media incidents to 1-800-796-8448 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Aside from the superficial implications, what is more important is that the big banks are showing precisely what the weakest links in the system are, and what makes them the most nervous. It is not protesters living in tents in a major metropolitan city; it is protesters disrupting the lifeblood of the broken banking system - the home selling/repossession pathway.
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Each week we scored Football Notes, from 1 to 5, the least and what we liked most of the day the first division. These are the notes of the twenty-eighth day of the season.
"Clement does not improve the SportingAfter several days in which fit some excuses, Sporting Clement visited the Granada, one of his rivals to avoid relegation, any consideration for a team that needs to react now. When the technician decided to leave his slacker Barakaldo initial approach, and trailed by two goals and no reaction (Colunga pulled one back in 92). The Sporting is in the UCI .
"The Aleti no regularityAtletico no longer comes with the stale effect Simeone. The improvement in his game, especially at the defensive, not just to achieve the regularity needed for the team to give the final leap in quality that takes you to get into positions of Champions. They are as capable of big games against rivals dwarfed as they are, a priori, below. Needs to improve if he wants to get into European competitions.
"The Levant, and then continuingThe Levante longer has the advantage it once had over his pursuers, but after a big bump of result, has returned to winning ways and there is, fourth Champions positions, holding the stretch. There are only eleven games and is in a position that few granotas dreamed at the beginning of the season. Fight to the end for the mash to get into Europe.
"The duties are already done RayThe Lightning had a most important game of what looked like a team against brother Betis is also a newly promoted, which is very good fight for the ball and away from the danger zone. The match could mark the future of both and the Lightning won more than three points away from the Betis and gets to 13 points from the relegation zone and only 2 in Europe. Diego Costa and Michu have become one of the partners of the League.
"Espanyol shines and seducesEspanyol is a team you'll quickly see, their strengths and shortcomings. The excellent work of Pochettino keeps the team in the ointment for European places and after his last victory has been to only two points of Champions. Coutinho, a great player who despised Ranieri (which shows, once again, which is the most overrated coach in the world), the team has breathed joy and impudence of which lacked at the end of the first round.
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Alex Kingston "Flash forward"
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latest update : before I even notice, I'm all oh my superwholock ooohhh....
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Best Nissan Car by Hottie mommy juke driver on 02/23/2012. Trim: 2011 Nissan JUKE SL AWD, Owned 1 year.
Pros: Very, very, very fast car. I love it. handles awesome.
Cons: nothing
Overall review: love it.
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My Awesome Car! by Debi on 08/09/2011. Trim: 2011 Nissan JUKE SV AWD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: I drove a pickup for 8 years and decided to get a car! I hadn't driven or seen a Juke yet but had seen the ads, did some research and ordered it! I love my Juke, the mileage, performance and looks! When I decide on another car it will definately be another Juke!
Cons: I wish it had armrests!
Overall review: If you are looking for a fun affordable vehicle buy a Juke!
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AWD Sports Car by Cindy from Idaho on 08/08/2011. Trim: 2011 Nissan JUKE SL AWD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: The Juke is my first new car and I am loving it. It has been everything I hoped it to be. Over all Fun to drive and sporty.
Cons: The paint does chip easily, I have had to put a clear shield on it to help protect it. It would be nice if it had arm rests.
Overall review: I was looking for good gas mileage, but needed an AWD auto. I used to drive trucks and wanted the power without the cost. Smaller than I was looking for but I only test drove it once and knew it was what I was looking for. The sunroof, and all the options makes this little car shine. Its a AWD sports car. LUVIN IT
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Great Sports Cross-over concept car!!! by Ken on 04/12/2011. Trim: 2011 Nissan JUKE SL FWD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: Excellent performance from a small displacement engine. A direct injection, turbo charged, variable valve timed engine is holy grail of current technolgy - amazing for the price. Risky styling that I just think will continue to get better looking with age. I thought the round headlights were out of place until I read the "rally car" look intent. Great leather seats in my opinion. Excellent pricing considering the array of features and technolgy. Seems like a very robust quality car. Made in the same Japan factory the GTR is so that is a huge + in my opinion - confidence in quality.
Cons: A center console would be nice, but they will be available in the aftermarket soon. Poor lighting in the back storage area can be solved with bright LED aftermarket bulbs. While the interior has multiple relatively hard plastic surfaces they appearance is still excellent. I think the interior door panels are not designed as well as the rest of the car. The navigation system is nearly impossible to see in bright sunlight, but maybe it can be adjusted - haven't tried. I like the fact that Nissan decided to still with a standard size stereo / navigation system. This required them to have smaller than normal controls on the navigation upgrade system, but the compromise was still a good decision.
Overall review: I love this car. Great fun to drive while being economical as well. I'm considering putting purple LED lighs in the gator eyes to see how long it is before I get pulled over for not having amber lights in them - maybe never would be cool. I bought the Juke without even test driving it - I knew I wanted one based on the design and specification alone. It drives better than I expected.
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The Best AWD for the Money! by Hogie St. Louis on 01/12/2011. Trim: 2011 Nissan JUKE SL AWD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: The size of this car is great for retired folks . The power from the turbo 4 is a real kick. the modes of drive is genious using the SVT transmission to boost or subdue the performance. Our fist big snow hit and the juke is as good in the snow as an Outback which i have had 4. The Layout of the dash is great , the GPS/bluetooth is better than their 2008 systems. Its no feista gas wise but 25-28 is not bad.
Cons: The looks I get ....not sure if folks think the cars looks are outrages or they think its cool... I wish the upgraded stereo had more equalization options .
Overall review: I did alot of homework with this car.My wife needed a AWD , and after our first snow proves to be as worthy as a subaru Outback. I really wanted to give the chevy equinox a fair shake , However, equally equipped and less power the car was 14k more and made in mexico. I have had many cars and I really like this Juke .
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"Church became all about ceremony, handholding, and kumbaya," Phil said with a look of disgust. "I missed my old youth pastor. He actually knew the Bible."
I have known a lot of atheists. The late Christopher Hitchens was a friend with whom I debated, road tripped, and even had a lengthy private Bible study. I have moderated Richard Dawkins and, on occasion, clashed with him. And I have listened for hours to the (often unsettling) arguments of Peter Singer and a whole host of others like him. These men are some of the public faces of the so-called "New Atheism," and when Christians think about the subject -- if they think about it at all -- it is this sort of atheist who comes to mind: men whose unbelief is, as Dawkins once proudly put it, "militant." But Phil, the atheist college student who had come to my office to share his story, was of an altogether different sort.
Phil was in my office as part of a project that began last year. Over the course of my career, I have met many students like Phil. It has been my privilege to address college students all over the world, usually as one defending the Christian worldview. These events typically attract large numbers of atheists. I like that. I find talking to people who disagree with me much more stimulating than those gatherings that feel a bit too much like a political party convention, and the exchanges with these students are mostly thoughtful and respectful. At some point, I like to ask them a sincere question:
What led you to become an atheist?
Given that the New Atheism fashions itself as a movement that is ruthlessly scientific, it should come as no surprise that those answering my question usually attribute the decision to the purely rational and objective: one invokes his understanding of science; another says it was her exploration of the claims of this or that religion; and still others will say that religious beliefs are illogical, and so on. To hear them tell it, the choice was made from a philosophically neutral position that was void of emotion.
Christianity, when it is taken seriously, compels its adherents to engage the world, not retreat from it. There are a multitude of reasons for this mandate, ranging from care for the poor, orphaned, and widowed to offering hope to the hopeless. This means that Christians must be willing to listen to other perspectives while testing their own beliefs against them -- above all, as the apostle Peter tells us, "with gentleness and respect." The non-profit I direct, Fixed Point Foundation, endeavors to bridge the gaps between various factions (both religious and irreligious) as gently and respectfully as possible. Atheists particularly fascinate me. Perhaps it's because I consider their philosophy -- if the absence of belief may be called a philosophy -- historically naive and potentially dangerous. Or maybe it's because they, like any good Christian, take the Big Questions seriously. But it was how they processed those questions that intrigued me.
To gain some insight, we launched a nationwide campaign to interview college students who are members of Secular Student Alliances (SSA) or Freethought Societies (FS). These college groups are the atheist equivalents to Campus Crusade: They meet regularly for fellowship, encourage one another in their (un)belief, and even proselytize. They are people who are not merely irreligious; they are actively, determinedly irreligious.
Using the Fixed Point Foundation website, email, my Twitter, and my Facebook page, we contacted the leaders of these groups and asked if they and their fellow members would participate in our study. To our surprise, we received a flood of enquiries. Students ranging from Stanford University to the University of Alabama-Birmingham, from Northwestern to Portland State volunteered to talk to us. The rules were simple: Tell us your journey to unbelief. It was not our purpose to dispute their stories or to debate the merits of their views. Not then, anyway. We just wanted to listen to what they had to say. And what they had to say startled us.
This brings me back to Phil.
A smart, likable young man, he sat down nervously as my staff put a plate of food before him. Like others after him, he suspected a trap. Was he being punk'd? Talking to us required courage of all of these students, Phil most of all since he was the first to do so. Once he realized, however, that we truly meant him no harm, he started talking -- and for three hours we listened.
Now the president of his campus's SSA, Phil was once the president of his Methodist church's youth group. He loved his church ("they weren't just going through the motions"), his pastor ("a rock star trapped in a pastor's body"), and, most of all, his youth leader, Jim ("a passionate man"). Jim's Bible studies were particularly meaningful to him. He admired the fact that Jim didn't dodge the tough chapters or the tough questions: "He didn't always have satisfying answers or answers at all, but he didn't run away from the questions either. The way he taught the Bible made me feel smart."
Listening to his story I had to remind myself that Phil was an atheist, not a seminary student recalling those who had inspired him to enter the pastorate. As the narrative developed, however, it became clear where things came apart for Phil. During his junior year of high school, the church, in an effort to attract more young people, wanted Jim to teach less and play more. Difference of opinion over this new strategy led to Jim's dismissal. He was replaced by Savannah, an attractive twenty-something who, according to Phil, "didn't know a thing about the Bible." The church got what it wanted: the youth group grew. But it lost Phil.
An hour deeper into our conversation I asked, "When did you begin to think of yourself as an atheist?"
He thought for a moment. "I would say by the end of my junior year."
I checked my notes. "Wasn't that about the time that your church fired Jim?"
He seemed surprised by the connection. "Yeah, I guess it was."
Phil's story, while unique in its parts, was on the whole typical of the stories we would hear from students across the country. Slowly, a composite sketch of American college-aged atheists began to emerge and it would challenge all that we thought we knew about this demographic. Here is what we learned:
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There's a beautiful male Blackcap defending a feeder tray in my garden at the moment, driving off Great, Blue, and Coal Tits with loud 'tacks' and open wing threat displays. It is, presumably, a German bird, as many of the Blackcaps we're seeing in the UK derive form a population that moves westwards after breeding rather than across the Med and into Africa. I'm old enough that seeing a Blackcap in winter is still something notable – they were very, very scarce when I was younger: in ten years time perhaps birders will think they're no more unusual than Redwings or Fieldfares.
I kind of hope so. As long as they can survive a northern winter the more the merrier I say. I really like Blackcaps. They're attractive in a subtle way, their song is wonderful (not for nothing were they once known colloquially as 'northern nightingales') and seeing 'my' Blackcap obviously thriving makes me happy. It got me thinking though, and wondering where would be the best place to see a lot of Blackcaps in one place…
After – well, not a huge amount of thought, I realised that if I really want to see literally piles of Blackcaps, the place to go is Cyprus.
After all, data released by BirdLife Cyprus last year suggested that by the middle of October last year (2011), over 866,000 birds had been slaughtered in Cyprus, many trapped on lime-sticks or mistnetted – and many of those will have been Blackcaps, a prized species caught in huge numbers as they arrive in the autumn, covered with fat for the journey into Africa. Caught and killed for a snack, illegally, using an indiscriminate and cruel trapping method that only last month Antonis Kakoullis, the chairman of the Cyprus Hunting Federation, was suggesting people should be allowed to use on their own property.
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Many of the birds trapped in Cyprus are plucked and sold as snacks known locally as ambelopoulia (pronouced 'am-bell-o-boo-lia'). Despite it being illegal to sell ambelopoulia the banned 'delicacies' remain widely available, principally – so it seems – because some Cypriots refuse to acknowledge the impact this 'tradition' has on bird populations, and because the local government either actively supports restaurateurs by turning a 'blind eye' or doesn't think that birds are worth protecting so can't be bothered to enforce the law.
In 2008 only 9 restaurateurs were charged for serving ambelopoulia, and Martin Hellicar, Campaigns Director with BirdLife Cyprus, warned at the time that "bird trapping is coming back to haunt us in a big way and the reason is the same as it has always been: there is a lot of money to be made out of it, and it will continue as long as restaurants are allowed to break the law".
He was right.
So, to cut a long story short, if you want to see one or two Blackcaps try the gardens of the UK in the winter or the northern forests in the summer – if you really want to see a lot of Blackcaps in one place try one of the restaurants in Cyprus that will serve you a whole plateful for the right money. They won't look as exquisite or as lively as the one on my feeder right now – but it'll be the same species…
BirdLife Cyprus is the Cyprus representative of BirdLife International – a globally active conservation organization that operates in over 100 countries and territories worldwide and is the recognized global authority on birds.
BirdLife Cyprus aims to promote the study and protection of the birds of Cyprus and their habitats, and to enable the citizens of Cyprus and other countries to play their part in achieving this goal
BirdLife Cyprus is working to bring an end to illegal bird trapping. Birds trapped on limesticks and in nets die a horrible death and are then sold for profit to be eaten as an expensive 'delicacy'. Many birds of threatened species fall foul to the indiscriminate nets and glue sticks. A recent opinion poll showed that the majority of Cypriots are against this illegal activity."


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I wanted to share some things with any member here who might experience chronic pain ( CP ) and have experienced the absurd and often confounding methods that pain management doctors use.
Fortunately, there's a voice crying out in the wilderness against the lunacy occurring in the medical field that creates hostility towards the patient suffering chronic physical pain: Dr. Alexander DeLuca, who is now a board member of the PRN ( Pain Relief Network ). The PRN has a great website: http://www.painreliefnetwork.org and a forum you can participate in not to mention tons of information for those with CP.
Here's an intro to Dr.DeLuca. I recommend watching all the vids in his list when you find the time.
He's a very thoughtful scientist and gives as much thought to what he's saying. He quit practicing medicine so he COULD speak out about the abuse of medicine by the courts and police. As he said, if he tried to speak out while having a working practice, he would immediately become a target by the DEA and possibly arrested as some of his peers have been.
The War On Drugs, started in the 80's and 90's here in America has been an abyssmal failure. I mean, it really did next to nothing. Because of that, they've now turned their sights on the medical world and focused it intensly on those doctors who practice pain management ( often called 'physiatrists' - that's not a 'psychiatrist' btw ).
The DEA's relentless and dogged, and misguided, policies and procedures are hostile to a doctor trying to practice good medicine. Medicine based on science acquired over hundreds of years to do what? To reduce human suffering. But the DEA has stigmatied the medicines invented to reduce chronic pain. Anyway, watch the vids. He explains all this much better than I do.
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WORK is the word that most of us don't want to hear when we're bored. Unless your're working in a freak circus, work is hard to associate with fun. But here we have some fun work-related pictures. Enjoy!
Looking for a way to eliminate those toilet time? either bring the toilet to your work...
bring your work to the toilet!
Either way you're getting sh** !
because you know it's not easy to get more time :)
some mistakes make you look like a fool...
some just give you more trouble!
some problem can be peed on...
before you get the blue screen of death!
others are just to complicated
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Black Friday calls for increased vigilance in parking lots
Retail security experts discuss best practices, lessons learned
"Parking garages are a challenge year round. Security personnel have a disadvantage as it is simple enough for someone to just duck down inside a car and not be seen," he said. "Anything that would enhance the ability of a customer to communicate with a centrally located security department should be considered. I think that creates an environment that says to the possible offender that we take our security very seriously."
While they have their own set of security challenges, Gantenbein said that parking decks can also be easier to protect in some respects because they have limited entrances and exits.
When it comes to protecting employees in parking areas, Gantenbein said that stores can have guards escort them to their vehicles or have assigned parking spaces in some instances to better utilize resources.
"That certainly allows the mall and loss prevention to utilize their cameras to help detect potential intrusions or an assault," he said "When an associate can park in anywhere in a lot, I think it can create more exposure."
Retailer's "duty of care"
Another thing that retailers need to be aware of when it comes to securing their parking lots is the legal paradigm known as "duty of care" or what "reasonable" security measures they should have in place to protect against potential litigation.
According to Murphy, duty of care boils down to the foreseeability of crime in an area and how a retailer or other establishment addresses their perceived threat level.
"If a mall never had security, then maybe that's the point in time that it's appropriate to begin formulating a program for that," he said. "If they already have mall security, where are the crimes happening? What time of day? What types of crimes? They need to go into an analysis mode to determine all of the things a police department would try to work with to establish where patrols should take place. That is a reasonable expectation of a security company that's guarding the parking lot of a mall or shopping center."
Still, Murphy said that the changes made do not have to be dramatic, but more incremental in nature.
"What I tell apartment managers and things of that nature is you don't have to go out and immediately erect a 10-foot wall and put guard towers up, it's incremental," he said. When we say a standard, reasonable care, it's exactly that. What's a reasonable person going to do once they're made aware of a certain level of activity happening on their location? Doing nothing is unacceptable, but then again, putting a battalion of marines out is also unreasonable, so you've got to find that balance."
Baillie said that past incidents at a site also play a role in a retailer's duty of care and he encourages the use of crime analysis mapping to better determine what security measures should be implemented.
"Retailers, at least once a year, should be doing crime analysis mapping on their businesses," he said. "That would allow them to see the different types of crimes that are occurring on the property and allow them to effectively plan for security measures."
According to Gantenbein, retailers should view parking lot security as a critical part of their business operations.
"It's a critical imperative for individual stores and mall associations to put on their best hat when it comes to potential business disruptions and violence and losses at their respective locations," Gantenbein said. "It's difficult to anticipate if someone has a can of Mace in their purse or what they may do with it. I don't know that you're ever going to totally mitigate the fact that on occasion these things will happen. Sometimes things happen, but I think (retailers) are doing the best they can and they have to or there's consequences."
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November Update 2011
Hello!, we've been rather quiet as of late, but we assure you it will be worth the wait. We have begun recording our debut EP "Safe In Words" with legendary producer Romesh Dodangoda (LostProphets, Motorhead, Kids in Glass Houses) at Longwave Studios Cardiff. Though no fixed release date yet we promise this is the best we have ever sounded and these songs are hands-down the best we have ever written. The whole studio experience has been just great so far, though abit surreal at first we adjusted well and it became evident just how lucky we are to grace the same studio as so many succesfull talented bands, and create our music in a place with so much success. The tracklisting for "Safe In Words" will be as follows:
1.Summer On Blossom Street
3.Back To You
4.The Whistleblower
its four tracks that showcase a more mature sound for us as a band and we've certainley dropped all the cliche' "pop punk" tendencies now that came through on our previous demo, this is going to be a real rock record. We've honestly taken so much time with these songs, I'm completley satisfied lyrically with everything ive written for this EP, it really is me wearing my heart on my sleeve this time and talking about real experiences and subjects that matter to us as a band.
We finish up the recording process at the end of November, so expect new things to start appearing december time - We're talking new photos, new videos and lots more.
Until then watch part one of our recording diary and 'like' our facebook page HERE
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This presentation chronicles our experiences as we traveled on the Greece-Turkey Study Tour.
The tour was offered by Western Seminary, and was arranged as part of the students' cirriculum. Several students gave presentations during the tour. The tour took us to several of the places that the Apostle Paul went to on his missionary journeys.
Diana and I also visited Istanbul for two days before the tour began.
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Joe Girardi did something Wednesday night that many New York fans think Rex Ryan should have done last Sunday — and the Sunday before and so on — and it paid off in a big way. The New York Jets head coach has the gut, but it was the New York Yankees manager who had the guts to pull slumping $29 million starter Alex Rodriguez and take a chance on pinch-hitter Raul Ibanez in the ninth-inning of last night's ALDS game with the Yankees trailing, 2-1. If anyone thought Girardi didn't have it in him to substitute a future Hall of Famer for a 40-year-old journeyman player in such a critical situation, he proved them wrong. We all know Ibanez saved the game by slugging a home run to tie the game but things only got better in the 12th his walkoff homer gave the Yankees a 3-2 win and made Girardi's gutsy decision look like pure genius. Call it baseball's version of the Wildcat. The Yankee manager has been known to pull strings according to the statistics from his notebook in the dugout. But pulling Rodriguez was a move born of instinct and nerve — knowing the risk. Joe Torre had the onions to bat then-struggling A-Rod in the eighth spot during Game 4 of the 2006 ALDS against the Detroit Tigers and the slugger never forgave him. Coincidentally, shortly after, Torre was gone. Rodriguez had already struck out twice in Wednesday night's game — making it seven times in the three games — and the chances of A-Rod breaking out of his funk facing the Orioles closer Jim Johnson — who had been successful on 51 of 54 saves this season — was slim. "You're scuffling a little bit right now," Girardi told his third baseman before making the switch. "Raul has been a good pinch hitter for us, and I'm just going to take a shot." "A gut move," Girardi said later. Rodriguez took the move in stride and made no excuses. When Girardi made the slow approach to his star player in the ninth, Rodriguez said it ended with a cordial and brief meeting. "I said, 'Joe, you gotta do what you've gotta do'" said Rodriguez after the game. "And then I got up to the top step and started cheering. I'm Joe's biggest fan. Joe has always respected me to the utmost and I give it right back to him." For now, Girardi's daring move looks like a win-win situation. There was no sulking from A-Rod and the manager's move saved the Yankees from what could have been an elimination game on Thursday. Where Rodriguez and Ibanez end up on Girardi's lineup card tonight is any one's guess. My hunch is that the manager's statistical binder might be the one seeing less playing time.
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On March 7, Warner Bros released "The Dark Knight" as a rental on Facebook. The world went crazy with speculation that this was a new partnership between the two giants, when in fact it was just a one-off situation. Well, now, that one-off is about to become a six-off.
According to Venture Beat, Warner Bros Digital Distribution is going to be offering five more films on the social network - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Inception, Life as We Know It and Yogi Bear.
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Blackbird | The Beatles (Cover)
This is one of the first songs I learned on guitar. I did this cover partly to prove to myself that I could still remember the fingerpicking, and partly because it's so deeply ingrained in my identity as a person.
This was my lullaby. It still is.
I hope it can be yours, too.
Guys… I actually know her. Right?! She's amazing! And it just made me speechless. Well enjoy!
One day, when she's famous, I'll be able to say that I once too went to the same school as her… Bahaha.
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There are three terms and phrases that I wish we could ban from the education sphere--terms that I feel are standing in the way of meaningful dialogue and the proper, productive focus of discussion.
1. "Our Kids"
Except in cases of "wards of the state," children do not belong to school districts, charter schools, city governments, or state departments of education. Yet that term, "our kids," can be found in quotes from school-district officials all over the media when discussing transportation, open enrollment, and school funding. "Our kids," as used in these examples, is a language of possession and ownership, usually linked to money. It is at once patronizing and simplistic, reductive, and exclusive.
Even a benign use of "our kids" in this context is archaic and out of touch with reality; in fact, the ownership sentiment has been out of touch since open enrollment began in 1989, and the pace of change only accelerated from there. Today, nearly 120,000 children attend a charter school, and another 30,000 or so students attend a private school via a voucher. More than 70,000 students attend a school outside of their district of residence through interdistrict open enrollment. And countless others participate in intradistrict choice, early-college high school programs, and a burgeoning career-tech sector.
The "assigned" district feeder pattern that locks children into a predetermined sequence of schools that "owns" them and passes them along from building to building throughout their K–12 experience is virtually extinct. The sooner...
At the cost of billions of taxpayer dollars, Ohio's school districts employed 132,000 or so individuals who were not classified as teachers or administrators in 2010. Who are these people, what services do they provide, and do their efforts help students achieve? In this new report, my Fordham colleague Matthew Richmond explores the "hidden half" of school personnel in Ohio and across the nation. The study documents a huge increase in non-teaching personnel over the last several decades—an increase that has received almost no attention, despite its sizeable implications on district budgets.
In 2010, non-teachers comprised half of the U.S. public-school workforce—up from 40 percent in 1970, and 30 percent in 1950. Taken together, their salaries and benefits total one quarter of all current K-12 education expenditure. The story in Ohio mirrors national trends: In 1986, Ohio had just 47 non-teaching staff for every 1,000 students. By 2010, that number rose to 75. When the study disaggregated the category of non-teaching personnel (a sort of catch-all classification of non-teachers, including administrators), the largest growth occurred in the teacher-aide category. From 1970 to 2010, this group swelled from 1.7 percent of the U.S. public-school workforce to 11.8 percent, an increase of more than 590 percent.
The study indicates that neither enrollment numbers nor increased federal regulation is able to explain much of the growth of non-teaching staff (especially post-1980). But has the increase in the number of students with disabilities contributed to the growth? The study's analysis suggests that increased demand...
Enacted in 2001 and now enrolling nearly 60,000 needy students, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship (FTC) is the largest private-school choice program in the nation. Since March 2008, economist David Figlio has reported evaluation results on an annual basis. This report, his seventh and possibly last due to an unfortunate change in Florida law, documents his findings on the 2012-13 school year. The results: As in previous years, scholarship students who transfer from a public to private school tend to be lower-achieving and from poorer-performing schools. In other words, private schools aren't "cherry-picking" students. Per test performance, Florida's scholarship students kept pace with the progress of students, of all income levels, nationwide over the course of the year. On average, they made a 0.1 percentile gain in reading but lost -0.7 percentiles in math on nationally-normed assessments. The gain in reading and loss in math were not statistically different from zero, suggesting that scholarship students gained a year's worth of learning. (A gain of zero is interpreted as a year's worth of learning.) The average gains, however, camouflage some variability in gains across Florida's private-schools. For example, in reading, scholarship students in 6 percent of private schools had sluggish average loss of less than -10 percentile points, while those in 4 percent of schools posted impressive gains of 10 points or more. Due to the recent switch in Florida's public-school assessments, Figlio was unable to compare private-school to public-school gains. As Florida continues to ...
This is a tricky story, but stay with me.
A 10-year-old charter school in the Cincinnati area ended up in court against the Ohio Department of Education back in July in an effort to find a sponsor (after being dropped) and to reopen as usual for the 2014-15 school year. The tussling ended in a court-ordered limbo, but the legal questions remained an active concern.
A July 29 piece in the Cleveland Plain Dealer summarized the story to that point and quoted Fordham's Vice President for Sponsorship and Dayton Initiatives Kathryn Mullen Upton laying out the legal issues under consideration: "(1) The accountability system and an authorizer's judgment about the quality of a school are meaningless; (2) if you're a school that is non-renewed by any authorizer, not just ODE, you can simply go to court and up your chances of finding a new sponsor; and (3) despite recent actions to try to improve school and authorizer quality, ODE in reality has scant enforcement ability/authority… In a nutshell, it's a huge step backward for Ohio."
The limbo dragged on with no resolution but on August 12 the school announced it would not reopen due to financial distress. This is probably the end of the VLT saga.
Two lawmakers seem to think the foregoing is a desperate cry for reform of charter school law in Ohio. Honestly, it seems that – absent the court-induced time drag – the process has actually worked just like it should. ...
After more than two years of community-wide and bipartisan struggles to raise the bar for everyone in Cleveland schools, a sudden and incongruous shift has dropped expectations to a new low, at least for some of its freshman, just in time for the start of a new school year today.
The Freshman Fresh Start was recently approved by the school board of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD). The resolution allows incoming freshmen to participate in extracurricular activities (sports and clubs) despite low grades that, under the current regulations for all other grades, would make them ineligible. Instead, incoming freshmen are now only required to pass (receive a "D" or higher) a minimum of five subjects in the preceding grading period. (For the first quarter of the year, eligibility would be based on the last quarter of the preceding year.) Formerly, the policy required that students a) not receive a failing grade in the previous grading period, b) maintain a GPA of 2.0 or higher in the previous grading period, and c) maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 throughout the year.
It sounds innocent enough, but upon closer inspection, the implications are far-reaching and appalling. Incoming freshmen are now eligible for extracurriculars even if they fail one of their classes—never mind if that class is English language arts or math—in the preceding quarter. Thus, incoming freshmen qualify for extracurriculars even if their fourth quarter report card has all D's and one F, thereby finishing with a.83...
Gadfly Bites is back from vacation and catching up on some older news reported during the hiatus:
Representative Andy Thompson and Speaker Pro Tempore Matt Huffman have introduced new legislation to repeal the Common Core, and hearings start today (Monday, August 18). But they're not telling you the whole story. Read on to find out what they don't want you to know and why their reasoning doesn't make sense.
[All opponent statements are direct quotes from this press conference]
1. Ohio was ahead of the game in wanting change: It began reviewing its academic standards back in 2007—long before governors and state superintendents started to talk about creating Common Core.
What opponents said:
[We] want to make sure Ohio is in the driver's seat in this process.
[We] want to make sure Ohio is in the driver's seat in this process.
The truth: By the time the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) started work on replacing state standards that were sorely lacking, the Buckeye state had already begun to respond to educator concerns about Ohio's standards. In fact, the Ohio Department of Education conducted an international benchmarking study in 2008 (published in 2009) that laid out some guiding principles for revised Ohio standards—principles that Ohio stuck to when they started considering the Common Core.
Ohio's kind of been […] tied to the railroad tracks here on this mission....
Ohio's kind of been […] tied to the railroad tracks here on this mission.


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MILWAUKEE, WI—Harley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) reported a strong finish to 2011, with improved fourth-quarter performance capping a year of earnings and dealer retail sales growth.
Income from continuing operations was $54.6 million, or $0.24 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to a loss of $42.1 million, or $0.18 per share from continuing operations in the year-ago quarter. For the full year 2011, income from continuing operations more than doubled to $548.1 million, or $2.33 per share, compared to income of $259.7 million, or $1.11 per share, from continuing operations in 2010.
On a segment basis, full-year operating income from Motorcycles and Related Products grew 48.2 percent on higher shipment volume and operating margin improvement, while operating income from Financial Services grew 47.8 percent on continued improvement in credit performance, compared to 2010.
"Our improved performance in 2011 is the result of the tremendous efforts of all of our employees, dealers and suppliers," said Keith Wandell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Harley-Davidson, Inc.
"Harley-Davidson is all about fulfilling dreams through remarkable motorcycles and extraordinary customer experiences. In 2011 we made strong progress at transforming our business to be more agile and effective than ever at exceeding customer expectations," Wandell said. "The changes underway across the organization will enable Harley-Davidson to be world class and customer led like never before, with shorter product development lead times, flexible manufacturing and an unmatched premium retail experience.
"At retail, we believe the solid improvement in new Harley-Davidson motorcycle sales reflects the strong appeal of our product lineup to a diverse customer base and the great efforts of our dealers, combined with results from our investments in growth opportunities across all regions and improved consumer confidence in the U.S. While we are encouraged by the retail sales trend, we continue to keep a close watch on the marketplace and remain cautious in our expectations for 2012," Wandell said.
Retail Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Sales
On a worldwide basis, dealers sold 40,359 new Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 10.9 percent increase compared to 36,390 motorcycles sold in the year-ago period. Dealers sold 23,753 new Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the U.S., an 11.8 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2010. In international markets, dealers sold 16,606 new Harley-Davidson motorcycles during the fourth quarter, an increase of 9.7 percent compared to the year-ago period.
For the full year, worldwide retail sales of new Harley-Davidson motorcycles increased 5.9 percent to 235,188 units, compared to sales of 222,110 units in 2010. U.S. retail sales of new Harley-Davidson motorcycles increased 5.8 percent to 151,683 units, and in international markets sales increased 6.1 percent to 83,505 units, for the full year compared to 2010. Industry-wide U.S. heavyweight new motorcycle (651cc-plus) retail unit sales increased 4.3 percent for the full year, compared to 2010.
Fourth-quarter and full-year data are listed in the accompanying tables.
Harley-Davidson Motorcycles and Related Products Segment Financial Results
Fourth-Quarter Segment Results: Revenue from Motorcycles during the fourth quarter of 2011 of $791.9 million was up 13.5 percent compared to the year-ago period. The Company shipped 50,730 motorcycles to dealers and distributors worldwide during the quarter, compared to shipments of 44,481 motorcycles in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Revenue from Motorcycle Parts and Accessories (P&A) totaled $161.2 million during the quarter, up 7.9 percent, and revenue from General Merchandise, which includes MotorClothes® Apparel and Accessories, was $69.3 million, up 12.8 percent compared to the year-ago period.
Gross margin was 31.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 29.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010. Fourth-quarter operating margin from motorcycles and related products was 3.5 percent on operating income of $35.6 million. In 2010, the Company had an operating loss in the fourth quarter from motorcycles and related products of $6.8 million.
Twelve-Month Segment Results: For the full year of 2011, the Company shipped 233,117 motorcycles to dealers and distributors, a 10.7 percent increase compared to 210,494 units shipped in 2010.
Revenue from Motorcycles for the full year was $3.55 billion, a 13.3 percent increase compared to the year-ago period. Full-year P&A revenue was $816.6 million, a 9.0 percent increase compared to 2010. General Merchandise revenue was $274.1 million, a 5.8 percent increase compared to 2010.
Gross margin for the full year was 33.4 percent and operating margin was 12.0 percent, compared to 34.2 percent and 9.1 percent respectively in 2010.
Financial Services Segment


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Sex is one of the most important acts we perform as human beings. Some people feel they reach the essence of their beings during sex. I wouldnt go quite that far, but its certainly serious stuff. That said, why is so much sexual experience virtually humorless?
In some Inuit languages, the word for "sex" translates directly as "laughing together." That makes sense to me. Assuming you and your partner laugh together in other parts of your lives, why shouldnt you laugh while loving each other?
When considering popular images of sex, its no wonder were so sexually stern. Porn stars never smile or laugh. I dont know if theyre too busy looking at the camera vacantly or panting through the money shot, but they are essentially humorless. In fact, unless its a psychotic Dennis Hopper in "Blue Velvet" choking on laughing gas while indulging in fetishistic sexual behavior, I rarely see sexual cinematic portrayals of people looking happy or laughing while having sex. Most portrayals of sex reflect an overarching sense of seriousness, almost desperation. While sex can get desperate (and fulfilling sex often does), it can also get hysterically funny.
Good sex is a balancing of different tensions. Often the tensions overpower us and we end up focusing on just one, but ideally, we should play with a variety. The problem is, when you start playing with too many, things inevitably go wrong. When things go a little wacky, you better be able to laugh about it.
I cant help but think God had a sense of humor when deciding how sex would work: "Ive got it: well put these bizarre-looking organs on hidden parts of the body and make them interact in strange ways." Brilliant. On its own, the biological absurdity of sex is worth laughing over.
Also, laughter and humor can be tension relievers. Sometimes our feelings and sensations build up to the point that we NEED to laugh about something. Im not suggesting a mid-thrust comedy routine, but a little humor might help relieve sensory overload. In addition, sexual "performance" makes many people very nervous, and some gentle humor can ease insecurities.
Some people think that humor may negate the sacredness of the sexual act. I disagree. Healthy humor is part of any successful relationship, be it with a co-worker, a friend or a lover. Humor is a deeply effective way to communicate your feelings and state of mind with someone.
Sexual phenomenon of the week: is anyone familiar with the laugh-gasm? It is the experience of having an orgasm while laughing hysterically. Not something Ive known personally, but a friend told me its amazing and encourages us all to try.
A distinction: the category of sexual humor is a rather open one. Some people fancy ironic sexual humor, others delight in the funny joys of each others bodies. One kind of sexual humor that is absolutely NOT acceptable is sarcasm. While it may seem funny to pretend to be really bored or disappointed, only to admit the opposite later, its just no good. Sex is revealing, expressive and vulnerable, and we should do all we can to communicate affirmingly with our partners.
You may be thinking: "But I always have serious sex. I feel no need to laugh. What is she talking about?" Listen: even if up to this point youve had essentially serious sex and have enjoyed it, at some point something will go wrong, and you may find it funny. You might as well start laughing a little now.
Sexual relationships should ideally be fulfilling in the ways personal relationships are fulfilling: supportive, expansive, respectful, playful, trusting, sensitive, and FUNNY. What happened to laughter and smiling while doing the horizontal mambo? See? Even the language of sex is hilarious. Loosen, up people. It feels good.


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The National Library Board's decision to pull two children's titles from its shelves has also seen some Singaporean writers boycotting NLB-linked events and groups.
SINGAPORE: The National Library Board's (NLB) recent decision to remove two children's titles has sparked controversy. A check with two retailers showed the books are not readily available, and that the authors are not well-known.
The books, titled "And Tango Makes Three" and "The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption", were recently taken off the shelves of public libraries for not being "pro-family".
Local bookseller Woods in the Books says it has received a few enquiries about the books since the NLB's decision. Owner Shannon Ong says she has not heard of the titles, but is not against bringing them in.
"I would be interested to look at the overall content and the quality of the book, and if it fits the criteria for how we normally curate our books," she said. "We will just keep it very neutral, based on what we have been doing."
A check with MPH Bookstores showed the books are not carried there, as the authors are not well-known. The bookstore has not received any enquiries about the titles.
The National Library move has generated quite a bit of buzz, and the members of the public Channel NewsAsia spoke to had mixed views about the decision. "I think that (the books) should be pulled out, because it's not the kind of values which we want to impart to our future generation," said one. Another felt that "if the books are needed somehow for education purposes, I think can put a caution there, something like PG16."
Some others have decided to make their views known in other ways. Novelist and playwright Ovidia Yu announced her resignation from the Singapore Writers' Festival Steering Committee, citing programme partner NLB as the reason.
A group of writers, including poets Felix Cheong and Gwee Li Sui, have also decided to boycott a panel discussion they were supposed to have at the National Library on Sunday. Earlier this year, the National Library had also withdrawn a children's book titled "Who's in my Family?: All About Our Families.
Some netizens have also come together to organise a reading event this Sunday, where parents and their children can enjoy their favourite books. Copies of "And Tango Makes Three" and "Who's in My Family?" will also be made available for sharing.
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text: Dunkirk, Indiana is located in Jay County. Dunkirk has a population of 2,348 and has shown -11.2% growth since 2000. Of the 928 households in Dunkirk, 62.4% are owned, 20.4% are rented and 17% are not currently occupied. The median age of homes in Dunkirk is 55 years and 47.0% of the homes have been occupied by the same residents for more than 5 years. Learn more about Dunkirk, Indiana real estate at coldwellbanker.com.


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Guernsey Airport
|Guernsey Airport
|Airport type
|States of Guernsey
|Forest, Guernsey
|Elevation AMSL
|336 ft / 102 m
|49°26′05″N 002°36′07″W / 49.43472°N 2.60194°WCoordinates: 49°26′05″N 002°36′07″W / 49.43472°N 2.60194°W
|Statistics (2013)
|Passenger change 12–13
|Aircraft movements
|Movements change 12–13
|Sources: UK AIP at NATS[1]
Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[2]
Guernsey Airport (IATA: GCI, ICAO: EGJB) is the largest airport in the Bailiwick of Guernsey and is the only airport on the island of Guernsey. It is located in the Forest, a parish in Guernsey, 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) west southwest of St. Peter Port.[1]
The airport was officially opened on 5 May 1939. However, regular air services only commenced in October 1946. By 1948, BEA were operating a daily service to Southampton using Douglas DC-3 aircraft. From 1951, Jersey Airlines flew BEA associate scheduled services to Southampton at weekends using Rapide eight-seat biplane airliners.[3]
In 1960 there were four grass runways, with lengths ranging from 2,040 ft (622 m) to 3,060 ft (933 m). 1960 also saw the construction of a new tarmacked runway of a length of 4,800 ft (1,463 m). In early 2000s alongside the work on the new terminal, Commerce and Employment claimed an extension was necessary to allow use of larger aircraft such as the Boeing 737, or other larger jets for trans-European flights. In 2012, a set of four two-day closures under the Airport 2040 programme allowed the States of Guernsey to resurface the existing runway, extend safety areas and also reconstruct parts of the concrete apron areas. Taxiways which connect the aprons to the runway were also resurfaced and realigned, whilst a new drainage system was implemented. New airfield ground lighting and navigational aids were also installed.[4]
Aurigny Air Services has its head office on the airport property.[5] At one time the Channel Islands subsidiary of British United Airways had its head office on the airport property.[6]
Terminal facilities[edit]
Work started on a new terminal building in 2002, which became operational on 19 April 2004. The old terminal was demolished in May 2004 to make space for additional aircraft stands and a passenger walkway from the new terminal. The new terminal was designed to be able to handle about 1.25 million passengers per year. In 2013, 886,396 passengers used the airport, with 49,403 aircraft movements.[2]
Flybe are unable to operate their Embraer 195 aircraft into Guernsey due to the low strength of the runway, and elected to operate the smaller de Havilland Dash 8s.[7][8] In 2008 business leaders and deputies were arguing the case for an extension from its current length of 1,463 m (4,800 ft) to 1,700 m (5,577 ft).[9] Following several years of debate it was announced on 2 October 2009 that Guernsey's airport runway and apron will be extended and repaired at an estimated cost of £81m.[10]
The proposal is to add runway safety areas, RESAs, extend the take-off section by 120 m (390 ft), and displace the landing section to the west, the first of a two phase runway extension. The extension has mixed support, with some islanders and politicians campaigning against it, while others support it. The issue was settled by the island's government, with an Engineered materials arrestor system (EMAS) considered to save space. The runway extension and Airport 2040 works were voted for by States members in 2011.
Sufficient progress on these works has taken place to enable Flybe to introduce an Embraer 175 jet (88 seats) on their existing Gatwick service from 31 March 2013.[11]
Airlines and destinations[edit]
|Air Berlin
|Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt
|Aurigny Air Services
|Alderney, Bristol, Dinard, East Midlands, London-City, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester
Seasonal: Grenoble
|Blue Islands
|Jersey, Southampton
Seasonal: Glasgow-International
|Seasonal charter: Rotterdam
|Birmingham, Exeter, Jersey, Southampton
operated by Loganair
|Seasonal: Norwich
Atlantic Airlines operates from Bournemouth carrying mail, and from London Luton bringing in newspapers and DHL parcels. They also bring in general freight from Coventry. Aurigny Air Services carries some other post and also parcels on behalf of carriers including FedEx and UPS.
General aviation[edit]
A large number of single and twin-engined light and business aircraft are based at the airport. These, and numerous visiting general aviation aircraft, are serviced by based aviation engineering firms located in several hangars located at the southwest and southeast portions of the airport.
Handling agents[edit]
- Aiglle for business/general aviation
- Aurigny Air Services for themselves, Blue Islands and Air Berlin
- Menzies Aviation for Flybe and VLM/Cityjet[12]
- ASG (Aircraft Servicing Guernsey) for business/general aviation
The airport currently runs two liaison groups; one for commercial airport users and one for airport neighbours. In 2002, an overturned firetruck discharged PFOS fire retardant onto the airport apron and surrounding soil. PFOS was added to Annex B of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in May 2009 and has been shown to cause chronic kidney disease amongst people and animals exposed to larger quantities. Traces of PFOS spilt later entered the island's water supply although quantities were not high enough to make it unsafe to drink. However, because the airport is at the top of the island the accident highlighted the vulnerability of the water supply to airport effluence and other water pollutants. Aerodrome works have subsequently involved environmental engineering projects to better contain and divert contaminated effluence away from the water supply. As part of the Airport 2040 development, a new drainage system is being installed and this will allow airport effluence to be contained in a manner which does not affect water supplies in the future.[4]
Accidents and incidents[edit]
Main article: List of aviation accidents and incidents in the Channel Islands
On 7 December 1997 an F-27 (registration: G-BNCY) operated by AirUK arriving from Southampton overshot the runway while landing in high cross winds. The Fokker Aircraft aquaplaned on standing water, left the runway end and slid on the wet grass. The aircraft nosed into the cross wind, ending up some 100 m (330 ft) off the centre line in a field to the south of the runway. There were no fatalities among the 50 passengers and 4 crew members, although the aircraft was damaged beyond repair and subsequently written off.[1].
On 12 January 1999 a F-27 (registration: G-CHNL) operating a cargo flight for Channel Express arriving from Luton crashed short of runway 27 after deploying full flap on approach. As the flap deployed, the cargo moved aft and exited the aeroplane's mass and balance limits, the flight crew initiated a go-around which further exacerbated problem by raising the gear and applying power. The aeroplane pitched up uncontrollably and stalled which resulted in the aircraft impacting the conservatory of a house located under the flight path. Fortunately no one on the ground was injured, however both flight crew were killed by the resulting fire which engulfed the aircraft. The investigation concluded the aeroplane was not loaded in accordance with the loadsheet. [2].
Further reading[edit]
- Pinnegar, Edward (31 July 2010). A History of Aviation in Alderney. Amberley Publishing, Stroud. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-84868-981-7.
- Scott-Hill, Ian (1 April 1972). Channel Silver Wings: A Record of Service. Jersey Artists, Saint Martin, Jersey. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-901845-08-5.
- Doyle, Neville (1991). From Sea-Eagle to Flamingo: Channel Island Airlines, 1923–1939. Self Publishing. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-85421-103-3.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Guernsey – EGJB
- ^ a b CAA: UK Annual Airport Statistics
- ^ Merton Jones, A.C., British Independent Airlines since 1946, Merseyside Aviation Society & LAAS, 1976, ISBN 0-902420-09-7
- ^ a b "Airport 2040". States of Guernsey. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Contact us." Aurigny Air Services. Retrieved on 12 February 2011. "Aurigny Air Services Ltd States Airport La Planque Lane Forest Guernsey, GY8 OTD Channel Islands."
- ^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International. 13 April 1967. 562.
- ^ Flybe Blames The Runway as Gatwick Jet Link Ceases At End of October
- ^ Flybe is Committed Although Runway Has Cost us Millions
- ^ we-need-a-longer-runway
- ^ http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2009/10/03/81m-runway-spending-plans-to-go-ahead-despite-concerns/
- ^ http://www.flybe.com/
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-19093226
External links[edit]
Media related to Guernsey Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Current weather for EGJB at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for GCI at Aviation Safety Network


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Icy roads from falling freezing rain created dangerous travel conditions for drivers all across Western Montana on Thursday morning.
In Ravalli County, emergency personnel were on the scene of a fatal accident near Hamilton High School. The Montana Department of Transportation reported that there was a multi-vehicle accident was reported around 7:30 a.m. The area is closed to traffic. MDOT said to expect the road to be closed for some time on Thursday as law enforcement will be investigating the scene of the crash. Drivers are expected to take Secondary Highway 269 to Fairgrounds Road to Freeze Lane and back to S-269.
Also, Corvallis School District officials said that school buses were delayed two hours because of slippery road ways. They said classes will start on Thursday at 10:30 a.m.
In Sanders County, Thompson Falls Public Schools said that buses were running on the Montana Highway 200 route only. They added that due to the extreme road conditions no other buses were taking children to school on Thursday, although classes were in session as usual.