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The killing of Trayvon Martin has resurrected centuries old racial wounds and pushed a renewed conversation on the role of guns in our society, but one of the more appalling things this case shed a light on is the existence of so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws. Introduced in the state of Florida in 2005, this radical interpretation of the Castle Doctrine extends the right to use deadly force as self-defense outside of the home and does not require a person to establish they attempted to retreat. In fact, the wording is such that one only need that they feared they were in danger of great bodily harm, not death, in order to respond with deadly force. To make matters even worse, the law allows that police investigating a homicide may rule that Stand Your Ground applies and elect to not make an arrest, as was originally the case with George Zimmerman, admitted shooter in the death of Trayvon. As it should, the Stand Your Ground law has come under intense scrutiny.
And as more investigative work is done on the law, the more dismay sets in, not just because it is in effect a license to kill, but due to the discriminatory application. Last week, Salon reported on a story from Georgia, which has a similar law, and a Black man named John McNeil who shot and killed Brian Epp, a White man, in 2005. Epp was armed with a utility knife which, according to the testimony of McNeil's then 15 year-old son, he had pulled on the teen before McNeil arrived. McNeil claims that when he arrived to his home, where the incident had taken place, Epp was grabbing something from his truck, so McNeil grabbed his gun from the glove compartment. Epp was coming at him fast, McNeil claims, so he jumped out of his care and fired a warning shot into the ground. This did not stop Epp, as he continued to charge, and McNeil fired another shot, this one hitting Epp in the head and killing him. A neighbor witnessed the shooting from across the street and corroborated McNeil's version of the events, and subsequently the police decided it was a case of self-defense and did not charge him. Nearly a later, the county district attorney decided to prosecute McNeil for murder. He was convicted and sentenced to life.
If McNeil was not protected under the Stand Your Ground statute, it isn't just an aggressively bad law, it calls into question the fundamental fairness of its application. As does the case of Marissa Alexander.
How is it that Zimmerman was taken at his word with regards to standing his ground, but a Black woman claiming to defend herself against domestic violence faces 20 years in prison under the same law?
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Alexander is a resident of Jacksonville, FL currently awaiting sentencing for three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with no intent to harm. With mandatory minimums (another issue warrants reform), she faces 20 years in prison. In 2010, Alexander fired a legally registered handgun, hitting no one, in a confrontation with her husband. She claims that in a jealous rage, the husband shoved, strangled, and held her against her will. When she was able to get free, she ran, and retrieved her weapon for further protection. Her husband stood with his two sons, as Alexander claims he yelled "B*tch I will kill you!" She then fired a single shot at ceiling in an attempt to scare him. He contacted the police and she was taken into custody.
In addition, according to Alexander, the husband had been arrested two times before for domestic abuse, which includes one instance that landed Alexander in the hospital. A man claiming to be Alexander's husband, though it could not be completely verified, contacted Politics 365 to offer his side of the story, telling them, "She's just using the stand-your-ground because of the Trayvon incident. I feel sorry for her but at the same time I thought I was going to die that day in front of my kids."
But the question is this: how is it that George Zimmerman, a White Hispanic man, was taken at his word with regards to standing his ground, in the case of a death, but a Black woman claiming to defend herself against domestic violence now faces 20 years in prison under the same law? Granted, different police officers can make different judgments, and there is still the possibility that Zimmerman's hearing on Stand Your Ground won't pan out in his favor, but he was still afforded the benefit of the doubt where Alexander wasn't.
It's particularly tough to swallow because protection from domestic abuse is one of the original justifications given for the necessity of Stand Your Ground. If it doesn't apply for Alexander, then for whom? The statute is meant to grant broad latitude for self-defense claims, yet somehow, in the case of this Black woman, the law becomes stringent.
Stand Your Ground is a law that requires much scrutiny,


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Spike seasoning, and black pepper.
(Makes four whole-breakfast size mini-frittatas; recipe created by Kalyn.)
You will need a metal or ceramic 4-cup muffin pan with one-cup sized cups to make this recipe, or use 4 large silicone muffin cups. Spray the ceramic pan or muffin cups with non-stick spray.
1 1/2 cups broccoli flowerets (cut into small, bite-sized pieces)
1/2 cup low-fat cheddar cheese
4 heaping tsp. coarsely-grated Parmesan cheese
6 eggs
1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese (not rinsed or drained)
1 tsp. Spike seasoning (or use other all-purpose seasoning of your choice)
fresh-ground black pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375F/190C. Spray muffin cups with non-stick spray.
South Beach Suggestions:
Made with low-fat cheese and low-fat cottage cheese, these mini-frittatas would make a great low-glycemic breakfast for any phase of the South Beach Diet.
More Egg Muffins or Mini-Frittatas for Breakfast:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Green Chile and Cheese Egg Muffins from Kalyn's Kitchen
Feta Cheese and Avocado Mini-Frittata for Two from Kalyn's Kitchen
Red Potato and Spinach Mini Frittatas from Poor Girl Eats Well
Giada's Mini Frittatas from Good Thymes and Good Food
Artichoke-Olive Mini-Frittatas from One Hot Stove
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Bottle Feeding 101: Everything You Need to Know
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When preparing your bottle with powdered formula, add room temperature water to your bottle first and then the formula, following the ratio guide on the formula container (usually, 1 scoop of formula for every 2 ounces of water). Secure the nipple and bottle ring, cover the nipple with your thumb, and shake it well to mix it and prevent clumps. Watch this video on bottle-feeding for a demonstration and more tips on preparation.
Never heat up a bottle of formula or breast milk in the microwave because this can cause "hot spots" or pockets of intense heat that can burn your baby's mouth. Bottles of infant formula do not need to be heated at all; just use room temperature water. If your baby develops a preference for a warm bottle of formula, or if you need to thaw or heat up frozen or refrigerated breast milk, swirl the bottle of it around in a pot of hot water. Test a drop of the formula or breast milk on the back side of your hand to make sure the temperature is right for your baby and make sure the bottle itself isn't hot to the touch.
Talk with your doctor about the best kind of formula for your baby. Be sure to use iron-fortified formula for your baby's first year to promote healthy brain development. The EWG also advises using powdered formula, which is low-risk for BPA contamination from the packaging, versus liquid formula which is sold in a can and carries a higher risk. Infant formula can be pricy, costing between $15 and $30 per container, which is one reason many moms choose to breastfeed.


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I use to ride with him some in the 1990s: HOG ft. wash.; toy runs, and Blue Knights, MD. He was a cool guy then and I imagine cool guy now.
I am retired gov. person and truck driver.
He's best known by his full name, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, and if you type that into a Google search you'll quickly learn that he is only the third Native American to have served in Congress and the Senate. He represented the state of Colorado, but spent his early years in California. He is also the first and only national legislator to hold a Commercial Driver's License (CDL).
You'll see the facts, but you won't get to know this complex and fascinating individual. I met him at this year's Great West Truck Show and immediately realized how different this retired senator is from your typical politician.
First of all, he's Ben, not Senator Campbell. He is both relaxed and relaxing, as comfortable among truckers as he is among his fellow lawmakers — perhaps even more so. It's because he never lost sight of his roots.
Early days
Ben started driving trucks in the farms and orchards of California. When he was just 14 (legal age to drive farm vehicles) he ran in a Ford Model A with a platform back. It had no roof or windshield so it could get under the branches of pear trees. Workers on the platform harvested the fruit. The old Ford, then about 20 years old, was far from roadworthy, but in the orchards it didn't matter.
During his early years working as a fruit picker and being a troublemaker, Ben became friends with some Japanese boys who were involved in judo. They taught him the sport and, as he put it, "It kept me off the streets and out of jail." He left high school early, joined the Air Force, and served during the Korean War. In Korea, he gained his high school G.E.D. and continued his judo training.
Once he returned to the States, he entered San Diego State Teachers College, now the University of California at San Diego, working his way through school as — what else? — a truck driver, mastering the art of shifting twin-stick transmissions. He joined the Teamsters and remains a member to this day.
Campbell graduated in 1957 with a bachelor's degree in both physical education and fine arts. Although coaching, especially in judo, was his first career, he later went on to be a successful designer of Native American Jewelry, winning more than 200 design awards. A man of many talents, he also trained quarter horses on his ranch on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. Many of those horses won championships.
At San Diego State, he continued to study judo, becoming captain of the U.S. Olympic team in 1964. He continued to coach the U.S. International Team until, after 20 years of judo, he decided he was burned out.
During that time, he met his wife, Linda, in Sacramento. After coaching, he moved to Colorado where he worked as a teacher and a cop, but he still drove a truck to supplement his income. Soon he entered the political world. Ben was elected into the Colorado legislature and eventually drafted to run for a seat in Congress. He served three terms in the House of Representatives, and then ran for the U.S. Senate, all as a Democrat. During his first Senate term, he changed his affiliation to become a Republican, and was elected as such to his second Senate term.
Peace of mind behind the wheel
Campbell's love of trucking and the people behind the wheel often shaped his political positions, most notably his opposition to NAFTA. It also had an impact on the way he spent his free time, away from the Washington hubbub.
"When things got too hectic, I'd go home, pop in a truck and go deliver Budweiser," he says.
During his second term in the Senate, Ben wanted an aerodynamic tractor to haul his mobile office around the state. The Sterling A9500 fit his needs. After retiring from the Senate, he sold his office trailer and looked for something he and Linda could comfortably travel in.
The Campbells decided to have New Horizons RV from Junction City, Kan., custom build a rig. Their 2011 trailer came with three slide-out sections that expand living area considerably. The interior is fully wood-paneled and insulated, including the rear section that does double duty. It hauls either the Campbell's Mini Cooper or a pair of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. When not serving as a mobile garage, it can double as a guest bedroom.
The 48-foot trailer weighs 26,000 pounds, but since it's registered as a recreational vehicle and has a gooseneck hitch, Campbell doesn't have to take it over the scales. To pull this fine rig, the 2002 Sterling A9500 had its Cat C16 engine somewhat modified with Pittsburgh Power components and technology. Not content with the 600 hp the engine came with, Campbell had Ron Duel of Jamrs, Inc. & Custom Chrome, Bloomfield, N.M., bring it up to 850 hp, with a whopping 2,750 lb-ft of torque. Power goes through a double overdrive 18-speed Eaton Auto Shift transmission to a single drive axle. Farmington Freightliner, Farmington, N.M., helped with engine and suspension work.
The Campbells took their made-over tractor and newly delivered trailer, named El Capitan, to the truck show in Las Vegas and entered their first truck competition, the Pride and Polish beauty contest. Campbell was delighted. Not only did he get to spend an enjoyable few days talking trucks and making new friends, he got some competition tips from the trucker parked next to him, show veteran Bill Sandvik. Ben earned his first trophy, for third place in the Limited Mileage class.
As much as Campbell loves talking trucks, he hates talking politics. One time an individual approached and said, "Hey, I know you." That usually means someone recognizes him as a politician, so Ben answered, "No man, I don't think so. We've never met." The man insisted. "Yeah, I know I know you." Ben tried again to dissuade him. Finally, the stranger said, "You used to drive for Dardell." "That was 35 years ago," Ben said, starting a long and friendly conversation.
I use to ride with him some in the 1990s: HOG ft. wash.; toy runs, and Blue Knights, MD. He was a cool guy then and I imagine cool guy now.
I am retired gov. person and truck driver.
Want to know what's wrong with politics? Look no further than the fact Senator Campbell was the "first and only national legislator to hold a Commercial Driver's License (CDL)." We need fewer talking heads and more hard-working Americans like Ben Campbell in Congress.
Ben is also in our antique truck club. He is Ben to all of us and that was how he introduced himself to me 3 years ago when I stopped at a small gathering of the truck club. He talked to me for over a hour as Ben. He is as ordinary a man as any I've ever met, and as good a man as I know. This was a very good story. Thank you!
I agree with John Simpson's observation. Common, hard-working, everyday Americans need to run for office–not as Democrats or Republicans–as true Americans (genuine independents)! We need no more career politicians.
In 2012, Ohio is going to elect it's own truck driving U.S. Senator: Scott Rupert. He runs his own business, rides a Harley, hates neckties, battles the IRS, scratches where it itches and says what he means. Talk about change: Washington can use people like this! He has ideas to restore government and change politics. His platform is The Constitution and State sovereignty. Check him out at http://ScottRupert.com when you get a chance.


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OPENIV Help
Hello all,
I am new to this forum and signed up because I need some help.
First. My son bought GTA IV for the PC through Best Buy download. I installed it and the latest patch. The game runs fine.
He then wanted the Ironman mod for the game.
I downloaded it from GTA4-MODS
I then saw, through a tutorial, that I needed OPENIV to aid in transferring the Ironman mod files.
I downloaded it from GTA4-mods also. OPENIV Ver 1.3.1
The problem is, when I start it all I get is the following:
"OPENIV cannot work because important information wasn't obtained from the GTAIV.exe.
Please set the correct path to GTAIV.exe in the OPENIV settings"
I have set the path as far as it will go, but it seems that it stops short of allowing access to the GTAIV.exe file.
I have also tried running as admin. No luck.
From game purchase, to download, updates, etc. it has taken me three days to get this far. I feel I am very close, but I'm missing something simple. All the tutorials I've watched show perfect installs from point A to Z. They don't tell you what to do if point C won't install or run.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Or if I could be directed to the right place or thread.
I am currently on a new comp running windows 7.
Thank you
Are you sure you're browsing to the program files folder and not the my documents folder (you wouldn't be the first to make that mistake).
The GTAIV.exe should be in C:/Program files (x86)/Grand theft Auto 4 (by default)
If you really can't figure it out try sparkIV, it's a little more user friendly
Thanks for the reply. I will try.
No problem, let me know how that works out for ya
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Integrating NetBeans MultiView with XAM/XDM based XML Object Model
By The Old Toxophilist on Sep 20, 2011
As part of my ongoing side-line work with the NetBeans Coherence
Module I have finally had the time to reimplement the GUI Editor
associated with the Coherence pof-config.xml file. As you may
remember from my previous entry "Implementing XML Object Model based on XAM/XDM" I converted my existing
JAXB Implementation of the pof-config.xml to the NetBeans
preferred XAM/XDM model. Now it is time to change GUI interface so
that it uses this new XML Object Model. In addition because this
will be shipped post NetBeans 7.1 I decided to use the new
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It's normally a computer lab, but on Mondays during tax season it becomes an office.
An office that's run by accounting students at Lindsey Wilson College to help area residents file their taxes.
"It's a great way for you to get help with your taxes by people who know what they're doing. We're college students, we're learning the stuff in class, and we're applying it right here," said Senior Accounting student Ryan Locker.
However that's a modest description, these students are quite qualified to handle the job.
"They have already taken a tax course last semester. Then they've had to pass at least four tests given by IRS. They have to pass a codes of conduct test, then they have to pass a beginner, intermediate, and advanced tax tests," said Assoc. Accounting Professor Rose Garvey.
For Linda Malcomson it's a worth a drive from Campbellsville.
"We're so comfortable with the students, and we had the sweetest students helping us out," said Malcomson.
"We're watching. We're looking, we're checking to be sure that it's being done right, that they know we're qualified and we've gone through the testing. So, they feel comfortable about it, and it's nice to have it done in your community," said Garvey.
This is all part of a joint program with AARP known as the Tax-Aide program, but you don't have to be a member of the organization to get the service.
Depending on what you find out with your return, it could be a good day.
"Very pleased, yes. It will come in handy when you live on a senior budget, it will be very handy to have the return," said Malcomson.
You too can get your return there all the way up until early April.
The service is every Monday until April 8th, from 4:00-7:30 in the Turner Leadership Building on Lindsey Wilson's campus.


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Stressed Out? Here's Your New Workout
When you're stressed, the last thing you want to do is exercise. But these 11 easy moves will help you feel better fast
The move: Seated Russian twist
Difficulty: Medium
You'll use the honeydew melon in place of a weighted medicine ball for this move. Sit on the floor with your knees bent, feet and knees together, heels pressing into the floor, and toes pointing up. Holding the melon in front of your chest, lean back until you can feel your abs start to engage. On an exhale, rotate your torso (shoulders and chest) to one side; on your inhale, come back to center. Repeat on the other side to complete one full repetition. Do 15 reps, working up to 30 (or until your abs are completely fatigued).
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Thanks for the info
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I thought some of these exercises were interesting.
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I dont own a skateboard
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very interesting....
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These tips do away with the I can't exercise excuse!
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I felt like a new person after this work-out!
by alictasia Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 10:02AM Report as inappropriate
These look like good techniques.
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love the beach towel roller abs, I often hurt my neck doing situps!
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where my comment go? :( I hate it when my comment doesn't show up.
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Great tips, I will try some of these. :)
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I ask the valley amigos to evaluate contributions last year by liberal Democrats, atheists, homosexuals (very hard to distinguish one from the other now-a-days) that improved America. Let's see, Obamacare, belittling Christianity and bullying A&E to remove "Duck Dynasty" from its lineup were their main goals. We see how well they worked out. Obumacare proponents shout they have 2 million signed up, but they don't tell you that half are ones who lost coverage. They don't specify how many paid and are actually covered. What about the 6 million who lost coverage? Great liberal logic, hurt 6 million to possibly help 2 million.
I can't wait for Ramadan so the coward atheists can demonstrate at mosques, defile Muhammad and post billboards campaigning about the idiocy of Islam. Atheists, open up or support any new charities or hospitals lately as Pope Francis and Billy Graham do? Wait, I'm sorry the Revs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright do shake down companies for money to support their causes. Anyone want to bet these cowards are silent during Ramadan? I love seeing these nuts spending money and time fighting something they say doesn't exist.
More people petitioned A&E to keep "Duck Dynasty" on than are members in the bullying organization called GLAAD. Why don't these kooks have tolerance of others' points of view as they expect others to have of them? Let's take a survey of Americans: who are Pope Francis, Billy Graham and Harvey Milk.
I think I'll vote for Hillary Clinton because I want to be part of history to elect the first female president. You see how well it worked out by electing the first black president. I'm still waiting for someone you support to announce they're running on Obumacare. The only one I know is Pinocchio Nancy Pelosi with her quote of Dec. 11 to her Democratic colleagues to "embrace the suck."
Everyone happy with the 24-plus hidden taxes to support Obumacare that went into effect Jan. 1? They'll sneak up on you by spring.
Flash - President Barack Obama states his care is working and won't cost the American people anything.
He also said you can keep you health insurance, and your doctor and will be saving $2,500 per family per year. He would make a great pitch man in Times Square playing three card monty or a dictator of a banana republic. Only uninformed, politically ignorant zombies think he's an honest man. Barbara Walters is delusional. She said he went from a messiah to a rapper pushing his failed health plan.
The president's look-a-like rapping a song to push Obumacare is pathetic.
The IRS is going to enforce Obumacare? It can't even collect $1 billion from 1,138 vendors it does business with that owe back taxes, but they'll fine me for not buying something I don't want.
To those who sit in their star chamber calling me racist, Islamophobic, homophobic and misogynist, I quote the brilliant Pelosi - "suck it up!"
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#WeekendLove~Meet Isabelle!
She's what we've been up to this weekend.
Isabelle came into our hearts last Sunday when we flew back in from "the farm" to Seattle. Before I go on and on about the JOY of Isabelle, let me tell you a little bit about what led us to bring this precious little girl into our lives. It all began when we fell in love with two little bundles of Wheaten Terrier LOVE named Doogan and Murphy.
Murphy is Doogan's brother. Never have I seen Doogan love and play with another dog like he did with Murphy. Doogan and Murphy were litter-mates. They were playmates and buddies. They were soul mates who thought they would always have each other no matter how many miles apart they lived.
As many of you know, Murphy disappeared from the farm a little over a year ago. The loss of Murphy was one of the greatest sorrows our family has ever endured. I'll never forget the sorrow I felt every time I looked at Doogan.
Even though he didn't know about Murphy's disappearance, it grieved me that he had lost his soul-mate, his buddy, his brother, his bestest-ever friend.
As odd as it sounds, the summer Murphy disappeared, a dark spot/circle of hair grew on Doogan's back and mysteriously remained there for several months. Doogan's groomer nor his vet had any idea where it came from or how it grew to be. For me~it was Doogan's way of recognizing that Murphy was gone. I know that sounds wild~I'm just telling you it happened.
As soon as I realized Murphy was never coming home, I began yearning {almost panicked}for another Wheaten to love and grow up with Doogan. It was at this time, Greg and I began the search for a little girl to join our family.
At the same time my parents were grieving unlike they had ever grieved the loss of a dog. My heart was so sad for them. I had no idea if they would ever open up their hearts to another dog. Murphy was their companion. The special dog they would grow old alongside. To know this had been taken from them was beyond heart-breaking.
Not long after we began our search for a little girl Wheaten Terrier I received an email about a 9 month old Wheaten Terrier that needed a home. My first question was "Is it a girl?" Looking back now. It was honestly a miracle of sorts. I've wanted to share this story for so long but have chosen not to. I've just never known that I could write the words that would do the sweetness justice. Needless to say, we were surprised and intrigued to know there was a little girl Wheaten who needed a home.
A little girl that needed us.
More than that...a little girl, that had no idea how much we all needed her.
Meet Lila! There are so many things about Lila that led us to Isabelle.
Lila brought more JOY than we could have ever dreamed. Lila brought our Doogan to life like I had not seen since he and Murphy were together. Lila was the most unexpected GIFT. She had us mesmerized from the first moment we met her. She's dreamy~truly. You'd have to meet her to believe how lovely and lively she is!
As much as we loved and adored Lila, the most unexpected thing began to happen. Across the miles, through daily pictures and videos, Mother and Daddy began to fall in love with Lila. Without realizing it, Lila was healing the hearts of us all. We began sharing and talking about Murphy again. Lila was bringing life back to Murphy in the sweetest way, and lifting our sad hearts out of darkness and into her SUNSHINE. It became clear that this little girl was meant for something so much bigger than living life here on Bainbridge Island with Greg, Doogan and I. Lila was meant to travel to the farm and bring JOY to a place that had been smitten with grief following the loss of Murphy.
Why are we always SURPRISED when GOD sends exactly what we need at exactly the right time?
Last Spring our family began making plans for Lila to travel home with me to the farm. Flying this little girl would not be easy, but we had to be very brave and have faith that God would take care of her. I'll never forget my last thought when Lila left our home and Doogan and we headed to take the ferry to the airport. I knew without a doubt there would never be that much JOY ever again in our home. My heart sank knowing Doogan was losing his Lila~but it beamed knowing God had bigger plans for this little girl that was now being called "Murphy's Angel." Now Miss Lila lives on the farm.
She's where she was always meant to be. She brings bounds of JOY to my parent's and to us all when we visit! She's an angel. She's an ANGEL in the realest sense of the word. There's no doubt about that. Returning home to Lila on the farm brings me JOY and peace that only God can deliver.
So this brings us to Isabelle. Again. My heart is over~flowing with love and joy! We've had Isabelle for just a week and it feels as if we've loved her forever. Once again our Doogan is lit up with a sweet twinkle in his eyes. He's got a new puppy-mate. A sister. A soul-mate, a play-mate and best friend. This weekend we took Isabelle on the trails here on Bainbridge Island for the first time. She was a little trooper. She waddled behind Doogan as he led her down his favorite trails. We're so grateful she's come into our lives.
We're so grateful for all the Wheaten's and fur~balls we've been blessed to love.
Thank you for sharing the joy of Isabelle with us. Thanks for always listening when I share my heart.
I love you and wish you a happy week!
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Oh my goodness Lila, Isabelle and Dugan and sweet Murphy are just the cutest ever! I'm so happy you were able to share Lila with your parents. And now Dugan has a special new sister. We just adopted Baxter and Sabi is still getting use to sharing is abode with an energetic puppy in the house.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah! You adopted a new puppy!Delete
Would love to hear how Sabi is getting along with Baxter!
Here's to PUPPY love!
This is such a bittersweet story with a happy ending! Lila is precious. I am so happy that these pups have brought everyone joy! Keep the pics coming!ReplyDelete
Thanks Sweet Jane!Delete
You are right...bittersweet indeed.
Love knowing that God sent Miss Lila to us as an angel meant to heal our hearts and bring us JOY that only Lila can!
Love it when you KNOW things come from GOD!
Lord have mercy, cuteness!!!!!!!!!!! I'm dying!ReplyDeleteReplies
I know! For the LOVE and JOY of DOGS!
They are all angels!
Aw, you made me cry, Teresa, but in the best of ways. I am so happy for you and your family. I understood and empathized with every single word you wrote, it touched me so deeply. As someone who is involved with dogs and rescue, these happy beginnings just warm my heart. Wishing you all the best with your new additions!ReplyDeleteReplies
You just made my day so BRIGHT and SWEET!Delete
What would we do without the fur~babies in our lives.
God bless all the furry creatures that need sweet homes.
Hugs and love to you!
Awwww how beautiful :))) I'm beaming with such cuteness! I can remember how sad it was when Murphy went missing and so awful that you still don't know, but this is such a wonderful story and the gorgeous Doogan just loves having playmates doesn't he - what a sweetie xoxReplyDeleteReplies
Sweet sweet Cate!Delete
We love you!
Happy Day up there in Canada!
omg!!!! bless you and your newest little bundle of joy! everytime i read the story of murphy,i tear up.....it still makes me so sad, so i know how your whole family must feel. I am so happy that miss lila is able to go to your parents and has found a new home filled with love and JOY!!!! now on to miss isabelle!!! sweet goodness!!! she is soooo pretty! congrats on this little fur nugget!!! i thought about getting a wheaten prior to our doodles. i have heard so many wonderful things!!!! you will have to let me know if you think the females are more 'hormonal' then doogan....i am finding that our mini labradoodle, who is a little girl, is a HANDFUL!!! she gives her big brother a run for his money. more difficult to train and basically is a rascal!!!ReplyDelete
i am so happy for you all! this was the sweetest post and made me smile!!!!! xoxoxoReplies
Okay Girly!Delete
We've got to chat!
Oh, Teresa....what a sweet, sweet post. ♥ I love all of your fur babies...and how you write about them. You're right...WHY are we surprised when God sends us just what we need? So happy that Lila & Isabelle have such wonderful homes and are right where they are supposed to be!ReplyDelete
PS...I just LOVE that picture of Doogan & Isabelle together!Replies
Thank you my dear sweet friend.Delete
WHY are we always SURPRISED?
God KNOWS!
He always hears the desires of our hearts.
What a lovely, sweet post! It made my day!! What a lucky little girl Isabelle is to have so many hearts to love her! You are all truly blessed! xoxoReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Christine!Delete
Snuggles to the chickens!
We are very blessed to have Miss Isabelle in our lives.
Such a precious story with adorable fur babies! My eyes leak every time Murphy is mentioned. I so hope he is with someone who adores him...even if they wouldn't return him. :/ Lila is absolutely beautiful! I don't know how you gave her up but I totally understand sharing her with your parents. I'm sure their hearts are blooming now with her to keep them company. Miss Isabelle is adorable! I hope that she & Doogan become best friends and playmates!ReplyDelete
Thanks always for sharing from the heart ~
Pat you are the sweetest!Delete
Thank you for loving the sweet memory of Murphy.
It wasn't easy giving Lila up but believing with all my heart that God intended her to go beyond our home to heal the hearts of my parent's made it easy.
I learned many years ago we must follow where HE leads.
Going to the farm and seeing the life that Lila has with my parent's is GOLDEN.
It's like a gift that can only be given by God.
Congratulations!! She is precious! Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful post and congratulations to the new additions to your family! I understand what it is like to loss a dog that is such a large part of your life!ReplyDeleteReplies
Losing a fur~baby is unlike any other heart ache in life.Delete
Sweetest story ever. And those of us who are 'animal-people' totally understand how your heart can be healed by loving an animal.ReplyDelete
I always love seeing your photos of Doogan - now they will be even more precious.
Sending you love my friend and hugs and smooches to all 3 of the pups~Replies
Oh you sweet girl Robin!Delete
I just HEART you.
It was the sweetest most miraculous thing when our hearts began to heal after LILA came into our lives. One day we all just realized we were freely sharing about Murphy again~and allowing ourselves to remember all the sweet things about him.
Honestly. It was all due to the love and joy of Lila. I call that an ANGEL~don't you!
Teresa - thank you for sharing this story! My heart is so happy to hear about Lila and how joy-FILLED her days are. Your sweet Isabelle is beyond adorable! Where did you find her? xoReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for the gift of Lila.
Hi there, Sounds like Isabella is a miracle too. What a sweet tale; you left me wanting to know more of the story of Lila though. I'm thankful that Doogan now has a best friend to hang out with. Puppies bring joy to life; our Hunter has with hubby and I. Isabella is so cute!!!! I know she was meant to be with you and Lila with your folks. Wheatens are such a hoot-know you'll have fun days ahead.ReplyDelete
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Thanks Noreen!Delete
I could seriously write a book about the GIFT of Lila!
She wears a HEART tag that reads "Murphy's Angel."
She is honestly the sweetest dog I've ever known.
Oh, my goodness gracious how stinking cute!!! Loved, loved this post! I have a Wheaton her name is Miss Maggy and I know how easy it is to love these sweet fur balls. They are the bestest doggies!! I have had her going on 11 years! I wish you many, many happy years with your new girls !! Love hearing about them ~ Too so share more Oh goodness all most as much as cookin and I love that a bunch ! So , sorry about Murphy, RIP sweet Murphy! I am looking forward to seeing and hearing about all your adventures with these sweet fuzz faces. Smiles from the South!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 3:21 PM
What a sweet joy for your parents and you and the four legged babies all the way around. Love your babies and what a blessing. And let me say, Doogan has 2 sisters ;) ones just with your parents. Hope you share more adorable pictures. :)ReplyDelete
I am thrilled for your dear parents. I've prayed for a year that Murphy would return and I'm still praying that because he didn't he's still safe and being loved elsewhere.ReplyDelete
Your Izzy is the cutest thing! ENJOY her! She's a very, very lucky pooch!
They are adorable! Who wouldn't fall in love with them! They are lucky to have you and you are lucky to have them!!ReplyDelete
What a precious pair of puppies. Such a sweet story. Looks like they have found the perfect homes.ReplyDelete
This is an amazing story. I've been reading about puppies all over the place today. My husband and I are in prayer that our landlord will let us get a little puppy. We're so desperate for a fur-baby. I feel like they almost complete your lives. So happy for you that you have little Isobelle. She's gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Oh.. I had forgotten about your parents losing their baby.. What a wonderful thing to happen for all of you. ♥ReplyDelete
What a lovely story you have shared. I am happy that your family has been blessed to care for these sweet dogs. Enjoy every moment you have with them.ReplyDelete
Such a sweet, sweet story. Thanks for sharing. Isn't it amazing what a pet can do for us. They certainly are a blessing in ways we may never understand. You make me want to get another dog as a friend for our Jake. Ever since our Sam passed away it just hurts too much to think about getting another to take his place. But, boy, would Jake be happy.ReplyDelete
P.S. We found Sam from a local shelter so he was a mix, but everyone always said he looked like a Wheaten. Many of your pictures certainly remind me of him. I'll send you a link to a post I did and you can see for yourself. He was a furry mess, and unfortunately was badly groomed, but he was such a special dog for us.
Oh my goodness Teresa!!! I SO need to hear a sweet story right now and this one is just spectacular! I am so very happy for your family...your parents must be just BEAMING!!! Glittering with excitement with a new little girl to take care of!! How wonderful for all of you! So glad you all had a safe trip. Thank you so much for your kind words about my Dad. It has been a very rough week. I'm way behind in reading and commenting and feel a bit foggy right now, but just wanted to let you know how very much it meant to me that you sent me a sweet note.ReplyDelete


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I have installed Ubuntu 9 on an Asus motherboard,I 3, from a disc; it is installed along with Windows.
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Let $X, Y$ be projective algebraic surfaces with isolated singularities. Suppose they are diffeomorphic to each other. Denote by $\phi$ the diffeomorphism from $X$ to $Y$. Then does there exists a blow up $X', Y'$ of $X, Y$, respectively such that there exists a diffeomorphism $\phi':X' \to Y'$ which commutes with $\phi$ (via the natural maps from $X'$, $Y'$ to $X$, $Y$ respectively arising from blow up)?
What happens if $dim X=dim Y >2$? What happens if we assume that $X, Y$ lie as fibers over closed points of a family parametrized by a quasi-projective variety $B$ which is simply connected under the analytic topology (the underlying field is always $\mathbb{C}$)?


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19 Feb 2013 12:46 PM #1
TextButton remains active after clicking
I see there was a fix to clear the active state of a TextButton when the button is detached from the DOM - EXTGWT-2722. But the active state remains if it is not detached, as seen in http://www.sencha.com/examples/#ExamplePlace:buttons under the "Text Only" section. Is this the intended behavior? Since this is not a toggle button I'm not sure why the active state of the button remains.
19 Feb 2013 12:47 PM #2
What you are seeing there is probably the indications, that the button is currently focused. Try pressing tab, is the next button blue in that case?
19 Feb 2013 12:54 PM #3
Yes, tabbing or clicking away clears the active state of the button. But what is the reason for retaining the active state? In my case I am using a TextButton to save information on a form. Once I click save, I would expect the button to appear the same as before I clicked it, but instead it just appears stuck.
I noticed that the Icon buttons behave the same as TextButton, except that if you click on the icon itself it does clear the active state.
19 Feb 2013 1:01 PM #4
This is not really an "active" indicator like when you click it. This means that the button is currently focused and receives keyboard interaction. There is currently no flag to turn that of. The only solution would to a custom ButtonCellAppearance, onFocus needs to be an empty method (no code running)
19 Feb 2013 1:39 PM #5
Can you look at http://www.sencha.com/examples/#ExamplePlace:buttons? On any of the buttons that have icons, if you click on the icon itself the blue is cleared once the click is made. This is how I would expect the TextButton to work. However, if you click anywhere other than right on the icon, it does not work as expected...it works just like the TextButtons, where the blue remains.
20 Feb 2013 12:29 AM #6
I will move this thread to the bugs forum. It should show the focus indicator regardless on where you clicked.
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This has been fixed in SVN and the nightly builds, and will be available in the next release.


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My bank (and every bank I've come across) only ever asks for individual characters from my password when logging in. Is my bank storing my password in plain text?
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My bank (and every bank I've come across) only ever asks for individual characters from my password when logging in. Is my bank storing my password in plain text?
marked as duplicate by D.W., Rory Alsop♦ Aug 4 '14 at 8:37
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
I agree with StrangeWill's answer; it appears they are storing it with a reversible encryption, which for many purposes is equivalent to storing it as plain-text -- as a malicious user in full control of their systems can recover the plaintext password.
You should make sure your password for your bank is not reused for other purposes; though this is always a good practice -- esp for anything where security is an issue and you aren't personally administering the systems.
If they aren't storing the password in a reversible format then they must have pre-stored hashes for each of the 56 different permutations (if your password was 8 characters long; there are
FYI: the reason your bank decided this method is that it helps prevent replay attacks. E.g., if you log in to the bank on an insecure computer where a keylogger was running, the keylogger won't be able to log in on the next attempt with the same three characters you just used. This is a bit tricky to do in practice (e.g., you have to make sure that the requested three characters doesn't change if the user doesn't enter a password and tries again later (from a different ip address) that you will get locked out and have to call your bank after say 10 consecutive bad attempts, etc).
They are probably storing it with reversible encryption. Though without an audit of their system it's impossible to really know, but this is fairly likely due to their high security requirements.
As previously stated, you simply will not know unless they tell you.
However, it's worth pointing out that many banks (especially the larger ones) put restrictions on password complexity because the web interface is simply a front-end for a decades-old mainframe system that had corresponding restrictions for other reasons. It doesn't mean that the passwords are aren't being hashed, it just means that the ancient system can't accept certain types (or lengths) of input for other silly reasons.
Is that better? Not necessarily. But at least it's not necessarily a reflection of incompetence either.
Some possible scenarios
This is obviuosly not a complete list, so feel free to edit add comments to this
Just speculation, but perhaps they found a way to use Homomorphic encryption on the character (or Unicode value) to provide protection


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I've recently started thinking that I should spend more money in order to save time. Examples of this include:
- paying to get my laundry done instead of doing it myself
- sometimes taking a taxi instead of taking the subway home
However, I still do find that I constantly spend a lot of time doing things that would take much less time (but at a higher monetary cost). Examples of this include:
- shopping around for 10-15 minutes to find a price a couple dollars lower for something I could immediately buy on amazon.com
- spending hours (probably 10+) cataloging and looking up the value of my old cd collection in order to sell it for a couple hundred dollars when I could have just thrown it out or given it away
It's very contradictory to me (and hard to understand) that I'll often spend a lot of time on something (like the amazon example above) to save a small amount of money, yet I have no problem going out for an expensive dinner or a nice vacation. I'm also at a point in my life where I feel like I don't have nearly enough time (and when I do have free time I'm often exhausted), but I have no financial commitments in the near future so money is relatively plentiful.
I'm wondering:
- Are there any tips for computing what my time is worth? It would be easy if I was paid by the hour (and could work as many hours as I like), but I'm not. I'd like something better than "gut feel" for knowing when I should spend money to save time (or not).
- Are the ways I can convince myself to spend more money to save time? I know at times I'm definitely working for under minimum wage by spending so much time to save a little money.
- Other than laundry and transportation, are there other common ways to gain more time by spending money?


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Does anyone know how to show a rounded squared with a spinning activity indicator? It is used in many apps. If you don't know what im talking about, it looks like the indicator when you change volume on your Mac but with a darker background. Im not sure if it is built-in to iOS or someone made it.
Like the one in this post but not full screen just the activity indicator http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2114231/how-to-create-a-full-screen-modal-status-display-on-iphone


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I mostly use Banshee. Once I have imported a CD on my computer , it's not user friendly at all to simply copy it to my Creative Zen. I get error message ("Argument cannot be found").
have you tried "clementine music player" when you plugin a usb or mp3 device,just hi-light the music that you want right click and it should say copy to "device or usb" . I know its not banshee but it does the job of copying music over very well.
First things first. Some questions as I have several Creative Mp3 players and not all of them work.
Have you enabled your banshee to recognise your Creative device?
Does it show up in Banshee when you plug it in?
If not does Ubuntu ask what you want to open it with when you plug it in.
If it is recognised in banshee you can click on the device and tell banshee to sync with it or drag and drop files in there. Like I said though it does depend on your Creative MP3 player.
Banshee has a plugin,libmtp, that 'should' work with most modern MP3 players
Hope that helps
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Let $\mathcal{F}$ and $\mathcal{G}$ be two sheaves (of abelian groups) on a topological space $X$ such that $\mathcal{G}(U)$ is a subgroup of $\mathcal{F}(U)$ for every open set $U$ in $X$. The sheaf associated to the presheaf $P(\mathcal{F}/\mathcal{G})$ defined by $$ U\mapsto \mathcal{F}(U)/\mathcal{G}(U) $$ is called the quotient sheaf $\mathcal{F}/\mathcal{G}$. The associated sheaf functor is left adjoint to the inclusion functor, so it commutes with colimits and in particular with quotients. My question is: Why must one sheafify the presheaf $P(\mathcal{F}/\mathcal{G})$ then?
For presheaves (of sets or groups) we know what this particular (or any) colimit operation is: apply the operation objectiwise (for each $U$). Now the sheafification preserves colimits, hence we apply sheafification to a colimit cocone on presheaves to obtain a colimit cocone in sheaves. Doing sheafification to the presheaves which are alerady sheaves does nothing to them, but it, by the right exactness, does the correct thing to the colimit. This proves that the sheafification following the colimit in presheaves is the correct way to compute the colimit, and in that we did use the right exactness of the sheafification essentially. The fact that it is necessary does not follow from the general nonsense as there are both examples where we accidentally do not need a sheafification step and those where we do need. For the limit constructions on sheaves we never need the sheafification because the embedding of the sheaves into presheaves is left exact hence we can simply compute the limits in presheaves. It seems you had somehow an opposite impression.
You ask: "Why must one sheafify the presheaf $P(\mathcal{F}/\mathcal{G})$ then?". The answer is: "Because it is not a sheaf!" Here is an example.
Let $X=\mathbb P^1_k, \mathcal F = \mathcal O, \mathcal G=\mathcal O (-2.O)$, where $O$ denotes the origin $O=(0:1)$ . Define $\infty=(1:0)$ and let $z$ be the coordinate on $\mathbb P^1\setminus \infty$ .
Consider the covering of X by the open subsets $U_0=X\setminus \infty$ and $U_\infty =X\setminus O$. Let me denote the presheaf $P(\mathcal{F}/\mathcal{G})$ just by $P$.
Then $class(z)\in P(U_0)$ and $class(0)\in P(U_\infty)$ are sections of $P$ over the two open sets $U_0$ and $U_\infty$ of our covering which coincide on their intersection $U_{0\infty}$ for the excellent reason that $P(U_{0\infty})=0$ ! [Actually $P(U)=0$ for any open subset $U\subset X$ not containing $O$]
But these compatible sections cannot be glued to a global section of $P$ on $X$. Indeed a section of $P$ on $X$ is just a constant $c\in k$ , since $\mathcal O(X)=k$ and $\mathcal O(-2.O)(X)=0$. But that constant $c$ cannot be the glued global section , because its restriction to $P(U_0)$ is $ class(c) $ and in $P(U_0)$ we have $class(c) \neq class(z)$ since $z-c$ doesn't vanish with order two at $O$.


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Site answers 'How'd you lose weight?'
Torrington chums take their personal weight-loss efforts to the Internet
|Richard Hubbard of Torrington runs on the treadmill inside the YMCA in Torrington. Hubbard dropped 133 pounds over the course of one year, and has started a website to help others lose weight. Republican-American archive
Diet and exercise, he'd say. But that left people wanting specifics, hints of how they, too, could lose weight. So Hubbard, a webmaster at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, tapped his head, then starting tapping his keyboard.
"I thought, 'Why not put it online and have them read about it, and help others, too?'" he said. "If I can do it, they can, too."
The website, Healthy Living Connecticut, had a soft launch in April and is continuing to grow with added features. Hubbard, 40, recruited Scott Sulkazi, a friend from Torrington, to be a cofounder of the site.
Sulkazi, of Bristol, has 20 years of web-building experience and is working toward losing 90 pounds himself (30 down so far). While much of the information on Healthy Living Connecticut revolves around weight loss, Hubbard and Sulkazi plan to expand the focus to healthy living in general. Membership to the site, which is free, offers a platform for delivering news, blogging, tracking personal goals and connecting with others. Through blog entries, the site highlights people's weight-loss and other triumphs. Eventually, Hubbard said he hopes to sell advertising on the site to support it.
Hubbard said he had used websites like myfitnesspal.com, which tracks what you eat, exercise and offers motivation from other members. But he and Sulkazi wanted to build something local so that members might connect in person.
"Many of the other large sites and mobile applications focus on a national scale and any local community support seems to be an afterthought," Sulkazi said in an email message. "We strictly focus on the state of Connecticut."
Sulzaki, 38, said he began struggling with his weight when he was in his 20s. He said he had been active and fit through college but got heavier in the late 1990s.
"I lost all of the weight back in 2003, but gained it all back," he said. "The concept of lifestyle change escaped me, along with arrogance of youth let me fall in the trap of believing I could eat badly and always lose it later. Later became 12 years and I suffered for it. High blood pressure and heart disease runs in the family. My father has suffered five heart attacks. I do not want to follow in his shoes."
At his heaviest, Sulkazi, who is 5-feet-6-inches tall, reached 283 pounds. He participated in a wellness challenge at the Northwestern Connecticut YMCA in Torrington and lost 27 pounds in eight weeks. He has lost another three pounds since. His goal is to weigh 180 pounds by the end of March.
Hubbard also began to gain weight after college. When he went to see a doctor in December 2011, Hubbard, who is 6-feet-4 inches tall, was 345 pounds.
"I found out I was pre-hypertension and I wanted to avoid medication, said Hubbard.
He was also determined to do it safely, having watched his older sister struggle with anorexia nervosa through much of her life. His sister died from the disease at age 42, he said.
Hubbard has maintained his weight loss and is about 212 pounds. He exercises regularly, eats well, lifts weights and also walks — a lot. For the second year in a row, he participated in a United Healthcare Fitness walkathon, this time logging 800,000 steps in eight weeks. He typically walks 10,000 steps a day, which is the equivalent of 5 miles. He walks on a treadmill at the gym, or outside during his lunch break.
The site — healthyliving-ct.com — has a goals manager that is designed to set goals and plans, track progress and achievements. There, users can log daily workouts, weigh-ins and customizable goals.
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Most of us who still have intact and mostly alive grandparents generally wouldn't be intimidated by them in a physical sense. Then again, most of us haven't really put that to the test (nor should we). When pushed, you might be surprised what our senior citizens have in reserve.
#6. Helen Thayer: An Elderly Indiana Jones that Isn't Lame
Indiana Jones didn't age well, it turned out, but that's OK because we found a new role-model globetrotting adventurer, and she's old enough to qualify for a 10 percent discount at The Sizzler.
Helen Thayer is a photographer and author with a unique approach to aging: Rather than throttle her life back and take up less challenging hobbies like scrapbooking, Helen decided to travel around the world daring God to bring her down.
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She made that hat out of her own mother.
At the age of 50, when most of us are well on the way to heart attack No. 2, Thayer hiked alone across the North Pole. She was the first woman to solo any pole (wow that sounded really dirty) and she pulled her own sled. At 50, who has time to stop for a bunch of dogs to pee on every neat rock they pass by? Helen wrote a bestselling book about the experience and spent her next few years laying low and hiking across every desert in the Americas.
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Later, she ate that camel raw.
That all turned out to be practice for her real desert hike in 1995. At aged 57, Helen trekked the entire 4,000-mile length of the Sahara Desert. But marching alone through the world's harshest deserts had only bored her. Antarctica was the real challenge. So in 1997, Helen took a 625-mile walk alone through the South Pole. We should point out that the area Helen walked through was almost completely devoid of other life, and is basically as close to the surface of an alien world as it gets.
Helen celebrated her 60th birthday there, at the bottom of the planet. And did we mention she carried her supplies for the whole trip on a 260-pound sled? And this is all just the tip of Helen Thayer's iceberg of awesome: if normal people consider it a deathtrap, she's walked across it. If Raiders of the Lost Ark had starred Helen instead of Indy, that whole "Nazi" problem would have been over in about 45 minutes.
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We're pretty sure she wouldn't put up with any of Shia LaBeouf's crap, either.
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There's a laundry list of reasons why Miss Venus Ramey -- better known as Miss America 1944 and one-time Bond-girl candidate -- is a total badass. For starters, she was the first redheaded Miss America, the first Miss America to be photographed in color, and the only Miss America whose name graced the most successful B-17 "Flying Fortress" of World War II. Protected by a crude painting of her namesake's bosom, the Venus Ramey flew 68 missions without losing a man.
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Helping keep morale perky.
But none of that comes close to the most badass chapter in the saga of Venus Ramey, which would come six decades later. In 2007 four men decided to rob a tobacco farm in south-central Kentucky. The now-elderly Venus noticed the robbery right away. But rather than call the police, this 82 year old beauty pageant veteran grabbed her .38 and her walker and stepped out into the cold night to deal justice.
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Kindly old justice.
Ramey confronted the men, who piled back into their car and tried to escape. But Venus wasn't having any of their crap; she braced herself against the walker, using it like the chassis of a howitzer, and calmly shot all four of their tires out. She then held the men at gunpoint and flagged down a passing driver. Only then, with the situation well in hand, did she call the police.
Who probably also surrendered to her.
But at least she had a gun. The same can't be said for Ann Timson ...
#4. Elderly Female Viking Berserker Terrorizes English Thugs
You're walking home from work one afternoon when the sound of revving scooter motors fills your ears. A cluster of the little bikes roar up the road and slide to a stop out in front of a jewelry shop. Three men wielding sledgehammers dismount and charge towards the shop. They bash at the windows while a security guard cowers inside.
As a general rule, big, violent men armed with sledgehammers aren't something one confronts alone and unarmed. If you aren't Tony Jaa, your reaction to that situation would probably be something along the lines of "cry and run."
Oh, hey, speak of the devil ...
That very scenario occurred this February in Northampton, England. Six men in scooters rode up to a Rolex store and proceeded to wail on the windows. It was broad daylight and a crowd of people saw everything. But no one moved to help. No one even drew their phone.
And then Ann Timson, retired septuagenarian and part-time Hulk, burst onto the scene. She straight-up charged the crowd of grown, armed young men and started beating the everloving daylights out of them. With her purse.
That's the robbers tripping over their own bikes to get away.
One moment, we see Ann in the thick of it, swinging wildly as the robbers crowd in around her. Then, a truck blocks our cameraman's view. When it passes, the entire mob is in flight and Ann is giving chase. She even managed to force one rider to dismount. Other locals (who weren't in their freaking 70s) finally stepped in to restrain the man while the World's Slowest Cop arrived on scene a minute later.
All six robbers were arrested within minutes of the attack. We hope, for the sake of their rectums, that no one inside has access to YouTube.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Healthy Lunch Ideas
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- Jocelyn said...
loving the new page design!!!
- August 24, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- alana said...
I just did a post on brown bagging it.It's expensive to eat lunch out everyday in dwtn Chicago!I know how it is girl!
- August 24, 2011 at 3:07 PM
- Lara {simply irresistible} said...
Mm that veggie cream cheese and cucumber looks good! I like hummus and cucumber together too.
- August 24, 2011 at 3:20 PM
- Lindsey said...
The laughing cow looks really good! And I'm starving, so I'd probably eat them all.
- August 24, 2011 at 4:34 PM
- Maris (In Good Taste) said...
These are great and inexpensive lunches. I really love the new design alot!
- August 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM
- Lindsay @ Delighted Momma said...
This is awesome!!! Mmm the hummus and chopped peppers sounds so yummy!
- August 24, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Neely said...
I take my lunch every day!! So helpful
- August 24, 2011 at 5:53 PM
- Meggan of Lila Grace said...
Great ideas!! The hummus and red pepper is something I would love! xo
- August 24, 2011 at 7:03 PM
- Elizabeth .: Have Your Cake Blog said...
Those combos look great! My favorite (I could seriously eat it every day) is almond butter on whole wheat topped with strawberries.
- August 24, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- danielle {breakfast at toast} said...
I love this. The strawberry one looks amazing. And now I want to make a cucumber sandwich.
- August 24, 2011 at 9:59 PM
My fav: wholewheat toast, Vegemite, smushed avocado, your fav cheese! When there is no Vegemite, I smushed sardines and spread them on the toast!
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Roasted Veggies
- 1/4 cup margarine
- 3 leeks, halved lengthwise and sliced in 1/2 inch slices
- 3 shallots, halved and sliced
- 1 large sweet onion, halved and sliced
- 4 garlic cloves, chopped
- 6 sprigs of fresh thyme
- a variety of winter veggies: 1 used 3 turnips, 6 large Yukon Gold potatoes, and 6 large carrots, chopped into large chunks (you want enough to fill up your pan)
- 2 cups vegetable broth
- salt and pepper to taste
Tofu with Orange Cranberry Jus
- 1 pkg firm tofu, cut into twelve pieces
- salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp margarine
- 2 cups vegetable broth (more as needed)
- 1/8 tsp white pepper
- 1/2 tsp poultry spice
- 1/2 cup chopped cranberries
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- salt and pepper to taste
Roasted Veggies
Preheat oven to 400 degrees
1. Heat a large 14" cast iron skillet over med-hi heat. Melt margarine, then saute leeks, shallots, and onion for 5-7 mins, until nice browned and golden. Add garlic and thyme and saute for 1 min.
2. Add veggies and mix well to coat. Cook veggies for 5 mins, stirring regularly to heat through. Add broth and cook for another 5 mins, stirring regularly. Season to taste.
3. Place pan in the oven, uncovered. Roast veggies for about 45 mins, stirring about every 10 mins, until veggies are golden and tender and broth has reduced.
Tofu with Orange Cranberry Jus
1. While veggies are roasting, salt and pepper both sides of the tofu. Set aside.
2. When veggies are done roasting, remove thyme stems, transfer veggies to a serving bowl and keep warm in the oven.
3. Without cleaning the pan, return it to the stove over med-hi heat. Melt margarine and add tofu. Fry on each side for 3-5 mins, until golden. Add 1/2 cup of the broth, then sprinkle pepper and poultry spice over the tofu. Mix around and flip tofu, deglazing the pan until the broth has reduced.
4. Add another 1/2 cup of broth and mix around and flip tofu until broth has reduced. Remove tofu from pan to a serving dish.
5. Increase heat to high. Add remaining 1 cup of broth, cranberries, sugar, and orange juice. Add broth reduces, mash the cranberries. Reduce by about a third, season to taste, then spoon over the top of the tofu.


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Why is the number of molecules in a standard volume of gas at a standard temperature and pressure a constant, regardless of the molecule's composition or weight? Let's say I have a closed box full of a heavy gas, one meter on a side. It has a certain number of molecules inside. I want to be able to add a lighter gas to the box without changing its internal pressure (or temperature), so I connect a cylinder to the side of the box, which holds a frictionless piston for expansion (the piston has a constant force applied to it, to maintain a constant pressure inside the box and allow the volume of the gas to grow as new gas is introduced into the box). Now I add Helium to the box. The piston moves back to maintain constant pressure, but why does the number of molecules in the box proper stay constant? My mental image of this is that it would be like adding water to a bucket of marbles, and that, evidently, is wrong, but why is it wrong?
Dear Wade, your good question is easily answered if you consider "pressure" to be a derived quantity, and let us derive it.
An average molecule (or atom) of an ideal gas - and your proposition only holds for an ideal gas - has kinetic energy equal to $$mv^2/2=3kT/2$$ It's because every degree of freedom carries $kT/2$ and there are three degrees of fredom in translations. Note that lighter molecules will move faster than the heavier ones.
How do we calculate the pressure? Well, put the molecule in a cubic box of volume $a^3$. It will hit the walls - the total surface of the cube is $6a^2$. We need to compute the average (over molecules) transfered momentum per unit time - this is called the force - and divide it by the area to compute the pressure of one molecule.
The force on the wall may be in $x,y,z$ directions. Let's consider the $x$ direction. The velocity of a particular molecule in the $x$-direction is $v_x$, so it takes $a/v_x$ of time to get from one side to the other side of the box in the $x$ direction. Once it gets to the other side, it bounces off the wall and changes the sign of the $x$-component of the velocity (and momentum). At this moment, the momentum $p_x$ clearly changes the sign - i.e. changes by $2p_x$.
So the change of momentum $p_x$ per unit time is $$F_x = 2p_x / (a/v_x) = 2p_x/(am/p_x) = 2p_x^2/am$$ That's equal to $4/a$ times the kinetic energy $K_x$ in the $x$-direction. The pressure is $$p = (F_x+F_y+F_z) / 6a^2 = 3\times 4/a\times K_x / 6a^2 = 4K/a / 6a^2 = 2K/3a^3 $$ But as I have said, the average kinetic (motion) energy per molecule is $K=3kT/2$ where $T$ is the absolute temperature, so the pressure is $$p = 2k/3a^3 = kT/a^3= kT/V$$ Note that we have just derived $pV=kT$ for one molecule or $pV=NkT$ for $N$ molecules - which is what we wanted. The mass of the molecule canceled: if the molecule is heavier, the average velocity at a given temperature is slower. But that doesn't matter - because the molecule has a greater momentum (because of the higher mass) which is compensated by the longer time it needs to get from one side to the other to transfer this momentum.
So for a fixed temperature, the pressure is independent of the molecule type.
Avogadro's hypothesis holds only for ideal gases. For example, if we take a van der Waals gas with equation of state $$ (P + n^2 a / V)(V - n b) = nRT $$ it is easy to see that, for fixed $P$, $V$, $T$, the number of moles $n$ depends on the parameters $a$ and $b$, which in general will change from one type of gas to the other.
"My mental image of this is that it would be like adding water to a bucket of marbles, and that, evidently, is wrong, but why is it wrong?"
To the extent that a gas can be represented by the "ideal gas" model, the volume of the gas molecules is negligible compared to the volume of the container. Your intuition would apply in the limit of very high densities.
For the ideal gas case, you might think of the volume as being supported by pressure in a manner similar to how popping popcorn can support a volume in excess of the volume of the popcorn itself. It happens dynamically; the volume is almost entirely empty of molecules.