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OMRI Board of Directors
The OMRI Board of Directors broadly represents the constituencies of the organic industry with members selected from the community of certifiers, inspectors, farmers, suppliers, processors and handlers, and organizations serving consumer and environmental interests. The Board is the highest governing body at OMRI. It determines OMRI policy and standards and plays an active part in guiding OMRI in its public service role and in carrying out its mission.
Chair, Jennifer Scott, Centre for Systems Integration, London, Ontario, Canada.
Jennifer has worked for 15 years in the seed and crops sector for the Canadian Seed Institute, a not-for-profit organization created to deliver ISO 9000 quality system-based programs to monitor compliance in the seed industry with the Canadian Seeds Act and Regulations. This original work led to opportunities for CSI to become involved in providing auditing services for non-GMO IP systems, food safety programs and eventually, organic certification under the Centre for Systems Integration division. CSI holds COR and JAS accreditation currently, and maintained until recently both NOP and EU accreditation. Jennifer works within CSI as an auditor, inspector, reviewer, trainer, Quality System Manager, and in program development, maintenance and delivery. Jennifer holds a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Waterloo, and a diploma in Crop Science from the University of Saskatchewan.
Vice-Chair, Jackie DeMinter, Midwest Organic Services Association (MOSA), Viroqua, Wisconsin.
Jackie comes from a Texas farming background and has a degree in agricultural education. She taught middle and high school agriculture for several years in Texas and Wisconsin and has worked for MOSA since early 2005. Jackie is the Certification Policy Manager and does a variety of outreach and educational programs for MOSA. She works on the OMRI Livestock Review Panel and Advisory Council. Jackie serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Accredited Certifiers Association Board of Directors and participates in various working groups.
Secretary, Tina Ellor, Philips Mushroom Farm, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Tina is the longtime Technical Director at Phillips Mushroom Farm. She is also a former member and Crops Committee Chair for the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
Treasurer, Paul Sachs, North Country Organics, Bradford, Vermont.
Paul has studied natural soil system dynamics for close to 30 years and is considered one of the foremost authorities in the country on organic land care. He has written five books and hundreds of articles for trade journals, and speaks regularly at association conferences for professionals involved in both agriculture and horticulture. He has served as a member of the Technical Advisory Panel for the National Organics Standards Board of the USDA. Since 1993 Paul has completed work on five manuscripts that include the first and second edition of Edaphos: Dynamics of a Natural Soil System, Handbook of $uccessful Ecological Lawn Care, Ecological Golf Course Management (Co-authored with Richard Luff), and Managing Healthy Sports Fields.
Chair Emeritus, John Ashby, California Natural Products, Lathrop, California.
John has over 25 years experience developing Natural and Organic foods. He is currently the General Manager of the Ingredients Division of California Natural Products – an organic innovator that has been making Organic foods since 1985. As a food scientist and Natural and Organic Foods advocate he has lectured extensively at Universities, and has over 25 published articles. He is currently the Chair of the State of California's Organic Products Advisory Committee and holds an Sc.B. in Cellular Physiology and Biophysics from Brown University, and an MBA From Wharton.
Brett Bakker, New Mexico Department of Agriculture, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Brett Bakker has been involved with organic certification since 1991 when he became an inspector for the State of New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission, now the New Mexico Department of Agriculture Organic Program. He began his agricultural career saving heirloom seeds as a member of the Seed Saver's Exchange and Native Seeds/SEARCH in 1980. This work continued with seed banks at Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo), Talavaya Seeds, High Desert Research Farm, and Jemez Pueblo Youth Garden Project, among others. He is a past board member of the Accredited Certifiers Association and founding board member of the native-based Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute. He continues to head the NMDA Organic Program.
Nicole Dehne, Vermont Organic Farmers, Burlington, Vermont.
Nicole is the Certification Administrator of Vermont Organic Farmers (VOF). She began working for VOF in 2003, the year after the National Organic Program regulations went into effect. Since that time, Nicole has worked to represent the views of Vermont organic producers at the National Organic Standards Board meetings and as a member of the Accredited Certifiers Association. Nicole has a BA from the University of Montana and a Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Education from the University of Vermont. In her spare time, Nicole hones her chicken wrangling skills while operating her small, certified organic poultry operation in the Intervale region of Burlington, VT.
Darren MacFarlane, Bridgewell Resources, Oregon City, Oregon.
Darren has spent over thirty years formulating, marketing and distributing fertilizers and mineral products for use in certified organic growing and sustainable agriculture. As an early adopter of listing branded products with OMRI, he has worked in several management roles and is currently sales manager of the agriculture business unit of Bridgewell Resources. Darren holds a B.S. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from Oregon State University.
Margaret "Meg" Tuttle McGrath, Ph.D., Cornell University, Riverhead, New York.
Meg holds a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from Pennsylvania State University. She holds an M.S. in botany from the University of Vermont and her B.A. in Biology is from Carlton College. Since 1988 Meg has worked in the Cornell University Department of Plant Pathology, first as an Assistant Professor and then as an Associate Professor in 1996. Meg is a member of the Cornell Organic Production Program Work Team and the Northeast Organic Network. Meg's extensive research, publications and presentations cover organic disease management.
Mary C. Mulry, Ph.D., FoodWise One LLC, Longmont, Colorado.
Mary holds a Ph.D. in food science and human nutrition from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Food Science from the University of Wisconsin. Mary has worked in the field of product development, product standards and technical and regulatory issues related to the natural and organic food and dietary supplement industries since 1983. She is currently a Managing Partner at FoodWise One LLC, a product development consulting business. Some of Mary's past positions include Private Label Manager for Natural Grocers, Senior Director of Product Development and Standards for Wild Oats Markets, Inc. and Vice President of Research and Development for Celestial Seasonings.
Sheryl K. Reilly, Ph.D., SciReg, Inc., Woodbridge, Virginia.
Sheryl has over twenty years of experience with risk assessment and risk management as it applies to biopesticide regulation and the U.S. EPA. She currently serves as a Senior Regulatory Specialist for SciReg, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in biopesticide registration and regulatory strategies. She has also served as liaison to the Pineapple Growers' Association of Hawaii through the EPA's Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program, where she worked with growers to identify appropriate Biopesticides that could be used in their integrated pest management practices and organic crop production. Sheryl holds a Ph.D. in Vertebrate Physiology, Cell Biology, and Immunology from The George Washington University.
Gwendolyn Wyard, Organic Trade Association (OTA), Corvallis, Oregon.
Gwendolyn holds a degree in Food Science with a Fermentation Science Option and a minor in Chemistry. She received her certificate as an independent farm and processing inspector through the International Organic Inspector's Association (IOIA) in 1997 and worked for multiple certifiers thereafter inspecting organic farms and processing facilities. Gwendolyn worked for many years as the Processing Program Technical Specialist for Oregon Tilth specializing in policy analysis and technical review of materials for use in organic products. She currently serves as the Senior Director, Regulatory and Technical Affairs for the Organic Trade Association.


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Self-service analytics – the ability for non-technical business users to intuitively perform ad hoc reporting and analysis on business data residing in corporate databases and spreadsheets has been a staple of BI and business analytics tools for years. However, these traditional tools simply don't work against the new breed of "big data" platforms such as Hadoop and NoSQL databases, which have rejected the traditional relational SQL interface in return for massive scalability and the flexibility to store unstructured data.
Meanwhile, some new specialized but limited big data analytics tools have been released to the market, that are designed specifically to work with the new breed of big data platforms.
So what are the questions you should be asking when looking to provide your data analysts and business users easy self-service analytics for big data platforms such as Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra or HBase?
1.Do you have more than one kind of big data store, for example Hadoop as well as HBase, MongoDB or Cassandra?
A: Chances are you do, or will in the future, to take advantage of the relative strengths of these big data platforms. Consider the fact that most new "big data analytics" tools are capable of self-service analytics against a single big data platform, most often just Hadoop.
2.Would you prefer to use the same tool for big data stores in addition to your traditional relational data stores?
A: Most new big data analytics tools can only access the big data platform they were designed for, and force you to load data from traditional stores into the big data store. For example, they force you to move data from a low-latency relational database into high-latency (but of course massively scalable) Hadoop, or hard-to-query Cassandra or MongoDB. This makes no sense.
3. Are you ok waiting minutes or even hours to access your big data?
A: Many traditional BI tools have taken the lowest common denominator type of approach to integrating with big data platforms, for example using Hive with Hadoop. These "batch oriented" interfaces make it impossible to perform speed-of-thought analysis – it's likely you've forgotten the question you asked by the time the data comes back.
4. Are you ok using a spreadsheet-like interface to access and analyze your data?
A: This, plus maybe basic dashboards, is all that most of the new breed of big data analytics tools offer. Most business users are much more comfortable using a much more intuitive drag & drop graphical interface for interacting and visualizing their data across different dimensions and measures. For example, many users are stumped when it comes to typing in arcane spreadsheet formulae to work with their data.
5. Do you need complete BI capabilities, including reporting, interactive visualization, and predictive analytics?
A: Most new big data analytics tools offer just a basic subset of these capabilities – for example a spreadsheet-like interface and some lightweight dashboard visualizations. They don't let you build highly formatted reports, drag & drop data items in a graphical data visualization interface, or make predictions based on prior history.
6. Do you need to enrich your big data with data from outside of the big data platform?
A: Most big data platforms simply leave it up to you to do this manually, or at best force you to inefficiently load copies of the enrichment data, for example customer demographic attributes such as age, income and location, into your big data platform.
7. Is the big data you want to analyze bigger than the amount of memory you have available?
A: Some new big data analytics tools resolve the big data access latency issue by copying data into an in-memory data store. This works well when the data volumes are low, but blows-up when your data is bigger than your memory. Does the big data analytics tool provide alternatives to in-memory, such as switching to a more scalable and high-performance MPP or columnar analytic database as the speed-of-thought data cache?
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GENESEO, N.Y. - The Geneseo Wind Ensemble and Thursday Night Jazz Ensemble will open their fall season with a joint concert Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. in the college's Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Wind Ensemble, conducted by James Walker, distinguished service professor of music, will feature music of "Symphonic Proportions." Black Granite Symphonic March by James Hosey begins the program followed by Russian composer Vasily Kallinikov's Finale to his Symphony No. I in G. Netherlands composer Johan DeMeij will be featured in the first movement of his Symphony No. 1 "Lord of the Rings - Gandolf and Shadowfax." The Wind Ensemble concludes with a performance of the Symphonic Dance No. 3, "Fiesta," by American composer Clifton Williams.
Hosey's Black Granite Symphonic March has unusual significance in that it was written as a memorial to the those in the armed forces who died in the Vietnam War. It refers to the granite Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.
The Kallinikov Finale is "utterly Russian in concept and style - huge proportions with Russian folk-like melodies as basic material," says Walker. "It's a bit pompous, but utterly accessible to the listener."
Walker also calls DeMeij's first movement of his Symphony No. 1"Lord of the Rings," program music at its best. "One can almost feel the speed and strength of Gandolf's steed Shadowfax, as it flies over the terrain of Middle Earth," says Walker.
"Fiesta" by Williams "is just that," says Walker. "It's a feast of Mexican musical gestures, a pastiche of street bands, bull-fight calls and dances performed amidst throngs of celebrating crowds. It's a fun piece to play and listen to."
The Monday Night Jazz Ensemble will feature music in the "Big Band Style" with works by some of America's top jazz ensemble composers.
For more information on the concert, call 585-245-5824.
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The 6 Most Horrifying Ingredients in Everyday Cosmetics
Do you have any idea what's in your shaving cream? Or perfume? Probably not; the stuff you have in your bathroom to make you look or smell a little bit better falls under the same category as, say, sausage. As long as it isn't harmful to us, we don't want to know.
But aren't you just a little bit curious? Besides, how gross can it be?
Let's put it this way: It's worse than the sausage.
#6. Lanolin aka Grease from Animal Fur
You Might Have it in Your...
Shaving cream, lotions, skin creams, shampoo, make-up removers, a butt-load of lipsticks.
Lanolin: it sounds soft and comforting, like the kind of fluffy material you'd use to protect a grazed knee. But lanolin is, in reality, the kind of substance you'd normally like to keep several miles away from your mouth if possible.
Why? Think back to the last time you went a few days without washing your hair, and try to remember the greasy crap that built up. Or, go rub your hands in the hair of the nearest hobo. That sticky substance is sebum, which is made from the delightful recipe of wax and the remains of dead fat-producing cells.
Illustrated here.
Now, imagine a sheep in all its woolen finery going through a similar experience, except rather than having a few bath-free days, we're probably heading towards a bath-free year, and its oil-soaked coat hasn't been cut in that entire time. Finally, picture what it would look like if someone came and collected the greasy substance that had accumulated in the woolly locks, and put the resulting gunk into a jar.
Hint: It would look like this.
This is lanolin, the greasy stuff secreted by wool-bearing mammals to help shed water from their coats, squeezed from their harvested wool and bucketed for many uses, including shoe polish, barnacle repellents and rust-proof coatings.
Oh, and also you smear it on your face.
"But I'd Never Use Tha-"
Do you use shaving cream? Shampoo? Well then there's a good chance you've had this stuff on your face and around (or in) your mouth. And as for the ladies (and the more adventurous males out there) you've likely had much closer contact with lanolin than you'd care to think about. In fact, if you've ever used lipstick, lanolin is the stuff that makes it greasy and sticky.
Maybe she's born with it, maybe she's got sheep grease smeared over her lips.
There are over 100 lipsticks on the market that contain lanolin, including some sold by renowned brands Revlon and Estee Lauder. Neither of whom have, as far as we can remember, based their promotions on the sheepish contents of their lip-smacking miracle workers.
Is it bad for you? We're not saying that. We're just saying it's gross.
#5. Squalene aka Shark Liver Oil
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Moisturizers, sunscreen, eye make-up, lipstick and bath oils.
Right off the bat, squalene has the gross-sounding name of something slimy collected out of some creature's guts. Specifically, squalene is the gooey oil squeezed from the liver of a shark.
And while some people actually take squalene pills on purpose for its questionable healing properties, we're not talking about that.
The photo of a shark enhances the sharkiness of this product.
"But I'd Never Use Tha-"
If you're a girl and, like most of our readers, have been alive for more than two years, there's a good chance you've had shark liver juice on multiple parts of your body. There are some important benefits of squalene that hold a huge appeal to the cosmetics industry: It's easily absorbed into the skin without leaving a greasy residue; it combines well with other oils; and it is recognized as improving the appearance of skin. For this reason, it is the ideal ingredient for use in all sorts of products from lip balm to sunscreen. The most common use appears to be in facial moisturizer.
Sadly, this isn't how moisturizer is branded.
Many cosmetic companies have shied away from squalene derived from shark livers as it's not considered cool to hunt them anymore, and have instead turned to alternative sources such as olive oil or wheat germ oil (though industry giant Unilever just stopped using it a couple of years ago).
It kind of puts Jaws in a new light, when you realize the sunbathers on the beach were smearing the guts of the shark's buddies all over their skin.
#4. Ambergris aka Whale Vomit
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Let's say you're a whale. And like every other whale in the ocean, you fancy eating some squid every now and again. Maybe it's date night or something. So you do, even though you know full well that the tasty squid has a sharp beak that's going to cut your insides up. But it's OK, because your belly produces something called ambergris, a waxy oil that protects your insides from sharp beaks and whatnot.
Now let's imagine that your ambergris has been building up for a while now, and it's time to get rid of it. Awesome. As a whale, you have two choices: poop it out, or throw it up.
It's coming out, either way.
Now here's the fun part: Somewhere a human is going to pick up your oily stomach excrement and shout for joy, because guess what? That shit is worth stupid amounts of money. We're talking prices as high as $20 per gram. Ambergris has even been compared to a fine wine, as its quality increases the longer it has spent aging.
"But I'd Never Use Tha-"
People throughout history have used it as food flavoring, an aphrodisiac and incense, but these days you have it lurking in your bottles of perfume.
While it has a natural odor of its own, ambergris also enhances other fragrances by helping their scents to last longer. It is the perfumer's dream ingredient, as long as they neglect to list it as "whale shit" on the back of their anti-stink bottles.
Recently, American companies have tended to shy away from the connotations of using this ingredient, whereas the French, as always, are more liberal in their views. Indeed, it is said that you can still find ambergris in the ladies' favorite Chanel No. 5.


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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) _ Federal prosecutors have charged a former Kansas insurance agent with stealing nearly $2 million from policyholders.
The U.S. attorney's office says a 51-count indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges 41-year-old Jason Matthew Pennington, of Bel Aire, defrauded customers and lied to beneficiaries to cover up the thefts. He's charged with wire fraud, attempted wire fraud, money laundering, attempted bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.
His 65-year-old father, James L. Pennington, of Wichita, is charged with four counts of filing false tax returns.
Neither had an attorney listed in court records, and their home phones were disconnected.
Among the alleged victims was Marlene Brown, a Wichita teacher and philanthropist who died in 2009.
Jason Matthew Pennington was a State Farm Insurance agent from June 2000 until June 2010.


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I have seen a few people do this where their saddle was angled down a bit. Why would someone do that?
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In general, I don't know why one would do this. Especially men.
Here's what Sheldon Brown has to say, and I tend to agree: "If the saddle is tilted down in front, the rider will tend to slide forward onto the narrower part of the saddle. Women who are riding on saddles that were designed for men frequently tilt their saddles down. This will relieve some of the discomfort from the saddle itself, but creates new problems: The downward slope of the saddle causes the rider to tend to slide forward, and this can only be counteracted by pressure on the hands. Thus, poorly-angled saddles often are the cause of wrist, shoulder and neck problems, due to carrying too much of the rider's weight on the hands."
Lennard Zinn mentions that a "very slight" tilt in either direction may be optimal for some riders; but no more than ~2 degrees. Basically the same reasons that Sheldon Brown mentions. The downward forward tilt adds pressure on the arms, back, and shoulders due to sliding forward.
You want your "sit bones" to be on the widest part of the saddle. If you slide forward, the pressure will shift from the sit bones to the perineum; and that's probably a bad thing. There are special cases for tilting the saddle nose downward; but for the general rider it's not necessary.
I had some saddles that in some bikes were best with a slight tilt down, otherwise they would crush my perineum.
One of my current saddles (Brooks) is tilted nose-up, otherwise it is very uncomfortable because I feel thrown forward.
In the end, I think it depends on:
Tilting the saddle forward relieves lower back pain.
Don't take my word for it; here is a clinical trial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine: http://m.bjsm.bmj.com/content/33/6/398.short
They tilt the saddle forward a lot (10-15 degrees), and show big improvements in back pain. I had this problem and it worked for me. If you look at the spine position drawings it's pretty obvious why: tilting forward means your back doesn't have to round so much. Though 10-15 degrees is a bit extreme I think. 5-7 degrees was enough for me.
I tilt the seat down slightly to make it much more comfortable for me to ride, When the seat is horizontal, I find I end up with pain from that narrow part of the seat pressing where it shouldn't. Tilting the seat down means that I am only in contact with the slightly wider part of the seat.
The way I have my bars set up means there is no possibility of sliding forwards on the seat.
While my bike is a road racer, with bars and seat set up accordingly, I use it for commuting - about 35 miles a day.
Quite a few bike messengers tilt their saddle forward a little bit. Personally, I do it because if you're riding a long distance, it will put more weight on your arms, tilt you forward, make you more aerodynamic, it's better for speed, and it takes the weight off of your "sensitive areas". There are some pretty interesting studies about riders with perineum numbness. Tilting the saddle forward will help relieve the stress on the mentioned area, and put more of it on the sitting area. BE CAUTIOUS: this will put considerably more stress on the arms and shoulders. Be prepared. As with anything else, your body will adapt naturally after a while.
For time trialing, or other riding where the rider will be in a very aggressive position for extended periods of time, a slight tilt forward can relieve unnecessary pressure on the perineum.
I have what most people would call an extreme forward tilt on my saddle. I use a racing saddle with a large cut out. The reason I use this angle is to stop me getting pressure on the perenium. I have been riding like this for around twenty years to the derision of "experts" wherever I go.
I recently rode the new forest epic. My first sportive with no training in 6.01 with no ill effects and no nasty numb areas. I sit on the top wide edge of the seat and the nose drops away at that point and makes no contact with sensitive areas. My riding position is aggressive but feels comfortable with my body almost acting like a stressed member with weight spread between between balls of feet on pedals, hands on hoods and bum on top edge of saddle.
I understand there may well be loads of studies done on bike fit and there may well be a bible on the ultimate riding position, but maybe more time should be spent looking at "people"in relation to bike fit.
I love riding my bike. I have a reasonably decent boardman roadbike. I do not own a car so I use my bike to commute, for recreation and fitness. I love my wacky but effective riding position!!!?
Enjoy your riding everyone:-)
Because I like it that way. Tried the tilted down position many years ago and have never had any reason to change it.


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Probably we used not enough of the carared, but what we can do? Is it possible to use a dark fruit extract(sour, not sweet) to correct the color in the end? And what will be the effect on taste?
Fruit is not the best color agent here - the flavor will be out of character in an Irish Red.
You get the red color from a little roast barley. Take a handful of lightly crushed roasted barley (or two handfulls of whole) and let them stand in half a pint of cold water for half an hour to an hour. Strain the water, which will now be black, boil, then add it to your wort/beer. You don't need to chill - it will cool instantly on contact with the beer.
The barley will give a red color to the beer (and a very slight touch of dryness in the finish, which is welcome in an Irish Red.)
Depending upon the SRM of your roast barley, you may need to do this more than once. A handful is possibly less than you need - but you can always add more to add more color after a first try, but it's not so easy take it away!
I would go with some Sinamar. Its a product from Weyermann made entirely of Black Malt and will add color to the beer without any additional flavor.
You can drink a drop of two of this stuff straight from the bottle to verify that it does not posses much flavor at all. It would be ideal to darken up a Red Ale instantly. You should add a few drops at a time to the carboy until you get the correct color you want.
Remember, the beer is a little darker in the carboy than in the bottle, BUT you need to make sure your yeast has cleared. If not, your beer will look lighter in the carboy, as the yeast reflect light.


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5 Literary Classics That Put X-Rated Movies to Shame
Some books are so iconic that their plots are known the world over, even if most people haven't read them. Like, say, Gulliver's Travels -- you probably know it's about a giant living in a land of tiny people (and vice versa), but probably don't know that it's all a detailed satire of 18th century society. So when people actually sit down and read the books they've always heard about, they find themselves blindsided by the hardcore sexual depravity everyone so often fails to mention.
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#5. In Gulliver's Travels, Giants Use Gulliver as a Human Sex Toy
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The Book
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is a classic of the Western canon in which protagonist Lemuel Gulliver journeys to fantastical lands like Lilliput, an island country where the residents are less than 6 inches tall. What most movie and cartoon adaptations of this tale tend to leave out, however, is the part about giant dongs.
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When Gulliver visits Lilliput, an army of little men walk under his legs and point and gawk in admiration of his gigantic genitals. Which, we suppose, is the only circumstance when you'd want a shocked crowd pointing at your junk.
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"That's right, citizens. I call him Li'l Gulliver."
And after leaving Lilliput (with visions of his gargantuan schlong), Gulliver ends up in Brobdingnag, a land where everyone is a giant. Gulliver appears roughly 6 inches tall to them, making him Ant-Man to the Brobdingnagians. And here's where we get the other part the children's book edition of the story tends to leave out: tiny Gulliver being used as a sex toy.
"Astounding! Let's use him for sex."
In Brobdingnag, some of the queen's maids see no problem with stripping naked, changing in front of Gulliver, and even resting him on their bosoms. Gulliver gives a pretty horrifying account of their skin blemishes and large pores, and even the terrible odors emanating from their bodies, which will knock the wind out of anyone's boner-sails. One maid puts Gulliver right on her nipple, which will no doubt afford some of you many an exhilarating masturbation fantasy tonight. But the worst by far was when poor Gully was used as a sex toy to pleasure the maids -- he mentions "many other tricks, wherein the reader will excuse me for not being over particular." So hey, he and Ant-Man really do have something in common!
#4. The Canterbury Tales Popularized English Prose, Rim Jobs
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The Book
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories within a story about a group of bored pilgrims spinning yarns about life in the Middle Ages. Oh, and it single-handedly established English as a written language (up until this point, most works were written primarily in French or Latin). At the time, English was considered too clumsy and barbaric compared to the other Romance languages.
"I like large shanks and cannot speak untruth.
My fellow brothers cannot refute."
The Canterbury Tales changed this perception. Written in Middle English in the late 1300s, it presented beautiful descriptions of fair country maids and the escapades of jousting knights. So it was some of the purest, most pristine writing known to humanity, right?
The Filth
Oh, goodness no.
Let's start with "The Miller's Tale," a story of rim jobs and anal torture.
The tale involves an affair between a student named Nicholas and the married woman he is boarding with, Alison. A local parish clerk, Absalom (who is also obsessed with Alison), decides to come to her window the same night she and Nicholas are enjoying medieval boning. Absalom stands outside her house, begging for a kiss. She acquiesces and sticks her ass out the window for a smooch -- which he delivers.
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"Say, did you have corn for dinner?"
Absalom can't see her butt in the dark of night, but he realizes he's been tricked into making out with her bum-hole. How does he know? Because he felt her pubic hair on his chin and realized that women don't have beards. That's in the text, by the way.
Absalom is so enraged that he grabs a flaming hot poker and returns to the window. This time, it's Nicholas who sticks his bum out the window, and Absalom shoves the poker right up there. Right. Up. There.
"This is actually the second worse burning sensation I've had involving my ass."
But surely the rest of Canterbury is totally PBS-period-drama-friendly, right? Well, in "The Wife of Bath's Tale," a wife talks about her five marriages from the age of 12 onward. What follows is essentially a primer on BDSM, and she is possibly the first dominatrix in literature.
The wife explains that her sexual prowess is a God-given power and that she uses it to control her husbands. Her first three husbands were old and submissive, and she would sexually torment them, teasing them in bed until they gave her large amounts of money before she would let them climax. She actually spends more time talking about the sex than she does telling the tale itself -- which, by the way, begins with a knight raping a maiden. See? Game of Thrones is just carrying on the tradition.
#3. One Thousand and One Nights Is Orgy-riffic
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One Thousand and One Nights is a frame tale about a king who witnesses his wife cheating on him. He sentences her to death and swears to never be cuckolded again. To avoid this scenario, he marries a virgin every day, sleeps with her at night, and executes her in the morning, because apparently nobody had a problem with that back then.
After the dead wives start piling up, the king finally marries a new wife who staves off her demise by telling him an elaborate story with a cliffhanger every night. He's so intrigued that he lets her live only so that he can hear the end of the story. This continues for, you guessed it, 1,001 nights -- 1,001 nights of thrilling adventures, starring such famed characters as Sinbad and Aladdin.
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Truly one of the greatest characters of myth.
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Oh, and also 1,001 nights of screwball sexcapades. One character who will definitely not be receiving a Disney cartoon anytime soon is the cuckolded snoozing demon. Later in Nights, we meet a demon's wife, who cheats on her monstrous husband whenever he sleeps and wants the aforementioned king and the king's brother to diddle her. The men are so scared of the demon that they tell her they're just too damn flaccid. Unsatisfied, she says she'll wake the demon and have him eat them if they don't both ram-jam her right then and there. After this galvanizing sexual pep talk, the brothers comply, but carefully watch the demon the whole time they're porking his wife. She responds by grinning at her sleeping hubby-demon every time she has an orgasm.
The worst part is that she faked half of them just to be an ass.
After this menage-a-trois out of hell, the demon's wife demands their rings as tokens and reveals a purse of 98 other such rings, all from men she fucked while her husband slept a few feet away. This is proof positive that modern doctors must prescribe slumbering demons as a cure for erectile dysfunction.
Also, remember how the king was cheated on? That was actually an orgy between the queen, her handmaids, and 11 slaves, which the king watched. Look, we're not telling a king what to do when his wife is cheating on him with a sex party, but it's not exactly poor etiquette to jump out shouting "A-ha!" rather than watching the whole damn thing.
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New immigration law of Arizona
Here are a few links to what it says-
Nevada Annulment
I'm surprised Arizona has the cojones to push this into the national forum, it's not like they are California. Naively, I would have expected Texas to start this.
The Village Voice in NYC recently published "Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital" , which was taken from a series of articles in Phoenix Arizona's newspaper. Horrifying.
Can't say whether the original articles are pro-bill ~propaganda, but the Voice publication illustrates the ugly reality of danger fellow human people face.
Solutions? Meaningful discussion is an important start.
. Any links to the text of the law (instead of some talking head's opinion about what it says)?
. I see "stop, detention or arrest." I see "where reasonable suspicion exists." But no "without probable cause."
That is exactly the same as not sending aid to the flood victims of Pakistan on the grounds that "Pakistanis support Al Qaeda".
Just last week an obese woman killed her two children! We should sterilize all fat ladies, because obviously they're all baby killers.
You really have no concept of just how absurd, let alone ignornantly hateful, your argument is, do you?
The law as amended is formally legal and constitutional (in my opinion), as it codifies at the state level what is already federal law.
The legislative record is what courts look to when determining the "intent" of a law, when a law's constitutionality is questioned. The legislative record is always what the rest of us should look to when trying to understand "why" any law has been passed, especially a law which doesn't actually (as amended) say anything which wasn't already in the law to begin with.
The legislative record, which includes the original unamended version, the statements of Arizona legislators, the governor, and law enforcement officials, make it very clear that the law is intended to target Mexican-looking individuals, regardless of their behaviour, in an effort to identify those Mexican-looking individuals who are also in the state illegally.
That intent, and the clear and publicly announced plans by several state law enforcement officially to target anyone who "looks like they might be illegal", is demonstrably racist, and is extremely likely to have a detrimental effect on actual law enforcement and crime-reduction activities.
But you did! On Aug 23, 2010 12:53 PM, you wrote,
when you see a person with a large van full of Mexican people with a Mexico license plate, A cop's first thought is if they are legal or not.
That statement is what started this whole discussion. Either you yourself are making a racist judgement, or you're saying that all Arizona police officers are (and should be) racist.
Judging a person because of their membership in a particular national, ethnic, or racial group is racist. Just because you don't consider yourself racist doesn't mean that you\r statements won't lead other people to conclude that you are.
The original language of the bill allowed police to illegally (violation of due process) ask someone for identification under any and all circumstances. The amendments passed in the wake of the international recognition of that illegality limit those inquiries to when an individual has already been detained for suspicion of some other illegal activity.
Your example is actually out of line. Unless the officer actually observes the person soliciting, they have no right to detain them. Sure, they can go and say hello or suggest that they move on, but they cannot exercise anything involved in detention (for example, asking for ID).
You're right. You didn't say it was illegal. What you said (implied) was that it should be perfectly okay for police to stop someone just because they are dark skinned.
Presumably, you also support the Torrance (L.A.) police doing the same. After all, in L.A., if you see a car full of African-American men, a cops first thought is that they're all gang members.
Then please clarify exactly what you meant when you wrote (Aug 23, 2010. 12:53 PM):
when you see a person with a large van full of Mexican people with a Mexico license plate, A cop's first thought is if they are legal or not.
As read, you are implying that is perfectly fine for a police officer to stop a vehicle containing Mexican (or actually, just Mexican-looking) people, even if that vehicle is being driven perfectly legally.
If you were implying something else, then you should clarify it.
Pulling someone over for speeding is precisely the "stop and detain" under which asking for ID is legal.
It is not legal for a police officer to stop you and require identification if there is no probable cause that you are engaged in illegal activity. Walking while black or brown does not constitute probable cause.
. As with the investigation of all crimes, officers have some discretion as to what is suspicious. A speeding car with sagging back springs on a car that is close to the border is suspicious.
. An Hispanic walking down the sidewalk, minding his/her own business, is not suspicious - and I see no one but the fearmongers suggesting otherwise.
> "I see no one but the fearmongers suggesting otherwise."
I quibble your use of the term "fearmonger". Remembering that I am a non-lawyer Brit discussing US law, if there's one thing I have seen, it is that, if a law can be abused, it will be abused, whether by those enforcing it, or those meant to be controlled by it.
If those controlling the law enforcers decide that there are too many foreigners on their patch, then the law enforcers will be instructed to find reasons to be suspicious.
UK stop-and-search laws are currently being criticised because the majority of people subjected to the process are from coloured minorities. The excuse used is that a greater proportion of crime is committed by members of those minorities. The evidence for this statement? The majority of people who are found to have committed an offence following a routine stop-and-search are from coloured minorities.
It's an abuse of the law, but it is legal. Not right, not moral, but still legal.
On the other hand, if an individual is found to be in the UK illegally, they can only be deported if they can be formally identified. All an illegal immigrant has to do to avoid deportation is to destroy any legitimate identification they possess. Forged passports, driving licenses etc cannot be used as formal identification, even if the details on them are correct.
Destroy (or post home) your valid ID and you cannot be deported. Again, an abuse of the law.
Even gender is often hard to get a handle on.
. The police have to have some discretion in order to perform their duties. Police worldwide are already given as much, if not more, discretion. If they don't use it properly, they are punished.
. So far, I've seen zero evidence of a conspiracy to violate anyone's rights.
. There is nothing new in the bill. It only restates what the authorities are supposed to be doing already. It would be like your town passing a law that said the police have to check driver's license every time they pull someone over for a violation.
The abuses you mention are illegal. When I said "abuse the law", I meant find loopholes - follow the word of the law, but not the spirit, to achieve an end that was not intended by the author of the law. Loopholes.
The UK stop-and-search law was not meant to generate profiling data, but it does.
The passport loophole was meant to protect people from being accidentally deported to the wrong country, or for the wrong crimes.
. Any abuse that is possible is already possible. Any loopholes that can be used are already in place. The law grants no new powers or responsibilities. The law really does nothing more than heighten awareness of the situation and scare some ppl who want to read more into it than there is.
will this never get abused? i can't say that, but the law isn't giving anyone free reign to just walk up to any hispanic looking person and ask for ID
I'm looking for something actually =], can't seem to find something though....
. No matter what your country of origin, if you are here legally, then I welcome you with open arms to the Land Of Opportunity. I'd appreciate it if you would learn to speak English; if I move to where you come from, I will learn your language.
. If you are here illegally, you go to jail and then get deported. Sorry, but we can only absorb so many ppl without it over-taxing our resources and ruining it for everyone.
. Great! My English is not perfect, so I don't expect anyone else's to be, but all should be able to do business with the government (including schooling) in English and follow the directions (in English) of police and other emergency workers.
. What you speak/read at home, church, &c is none of my business.
> My argument is that people think we come here to make a disaster when we really don't.
. I feel certain that the vast majority of immigrants (both legal and illegal) do not intend to cause any harm. But many end up placing unnecessary strains on "the system" if just because of their numbers.
> How do we ruin it for everyone?
. In controlled numbers, immigration is a great benefit to all involved. It's a win-win situation. A symbiotic relationship.
. Uncontrolled growth is cancer. :(
> We work just as hard as anyone else, ...
. pfffftttt! From what I've seen, most Hispanics (not just Mexicans) are very hard-working ppl and many are willing to do jobs that natives think are too nasty or beneath them. Almost reverse racism there, huh? :)
> and we don't get the resources that people who are here legally do.
. And most illegals don't pay the taxes that pay for those resources. While, from what I have read, a considerable number of illegals are taking advantage of social programs.
I'm not saying that all of us are hard workers. I know that a great amount of immigrants come and get in trouble. They are lazy and do take advantage of social programs but just because of them we all get categorized as lazy and useless. That's what I was going to say, a lot of immigrants do jobs that others won't do. Like being dishwashers at a restaurant (my moms current job), house-keeping (also my moms current job), construction (my dad), roofing (my dad), taxi-drivers, etc; and those are jobs that are necessary.
We do pay for those resources, we don't pay as much as others would, but we do pay our share of them.
The point I'm trying to reach is that I don't like how this law gives police officers the right to pull-over or try to arrest anyone that looks like they are here illegally. I'm not trying to argue with anyone, I just want to know what others think of the law, that's all. =]
. I, like most Americans, welcome all legal immigrants. We are a country of immigrants. Our diverse population is part of what makes us great.
. The police have always had the right to detain someone if they believe that person is doing something illegal. Some legislators have tried to impede their ability to do so. As far as I can tell, the new law just re-affirms what is already there, ie, nothing new, just a lot of talking heads telling you the sky is falling.
granted i know the US immigration process is flawed, and it can sometimes take 15 years to be a full citizen, but that's the process we have at the moment and it should be followed. GENERALLY anyone willing to work and pay taxes can get temporary work visas and the like to stay here LEGALLY.
. And I find it rather ludicrous to shout RACISM!! at the same country that:
- So many ppl seem to be willing to literally die to move to
- Has allowed so many ppl to immigrate already
- Has shown a commitment to maintain its liberal immigration policy
- So freely gives of its money and labor to help those in trouble the world over
- &c, &c, &c, ad nauseum
Now we have cartoons involved in this debate. O_o
The first thing the new law does is require that all state and local agencies and personnel refrain from not enforcing EXISTING federal laws. A number of elected and non-elected Arizona government officials have made the decision without any legal basis to not enforce existing immigration laws. The question now becomes will these same people ignore the new Arizona law?
One of the most controversial provisions of the new law is the requirement that people must prove they are legally in the U.S. when asked by a police officer. For most people, they can prove legal status merely by showing the officer a valid Arizona driver's license, a valid tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification, a valid Arizona nonoperating identification license or any valid United States federal, state or local government issued identification.
. Hopefully we can agree that the first paragraph is just common sense. Whether you or I agree with the whole body of law or not, it is really not a police officer's job to decide which laws are good and which are bad. His/her job is to enforce the law as promulgated by the legislators and interpreted by the courts.
. I have to prove I have a driver's license (and insurance) if a police officer asks for it. In order for me to leave or enter the country, I have to present a passport or visa (are visas still used?). In order to open a bank account, I have to provide a Social Security Number. I have to prove who I am on almost a weekly basis.
. Do I like the Big Brother atmosphere? No, but, unfortunately, it seems to be a part of modern life. For everybody, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin.
. Should a person be stopped and IDd for having black hair and dark skin? Of course not! This is America - the place where everyone wants to immigrate. If a person (of any race) is causing trouble and the police are already there? Go ahead and check.
. When I went to MX (way back in the early '70s), the first thing MXn authorities did when I landed was ask for my papers. ;)
I will stand by my opinion, although what you have said so far does make sense. I see your side of this but I still do not agree with the law (which ratifies the 4th amendment).
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I see nothing specifying "citizen" in there. Before you argue they are here illegally and therefore criminals, criminals still have rights.
. Look again. Right at the git-go it tells you who "the people" are - We the People of the United States.
> Before you argue they are here illegally and therefore criminals,
. There's really no argument there. If you are doing something illegal, you are a criminal by definition - "someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime" (wordnetweb.princeton.edu). If you are here illegally, you are a criminal.
> criminals still have rights.
. Yep. But foreign criminals don't have the same set of rights as domestic criminals.
People ! = = citizens.
of, prep.
1. Derived or coming from; originating at or from: customs of the South.
5. From the total or group comprising: give of one's time; two of my friends; most of the cases.
7. Associated with or adhering to: people of your religion.
8. Belonging or connected to: the rungs of a ladder.
13. Produced by; issuing from: products of the vine.
So "People of the United States" can very well be restated as "People coming from the United States", "People associated with the United States","People from the total group comprising the United States", "People belonging or connected to the United States", or "People issuing from the United States".
>No argument
I'm not arguing the legality of being here illegally...that wouldn't make any sense (even for me). :D I meant, before you argue that there are criminals and don't have rights.
>Foreign criminals don't have the same set of rights as domestic criminals.
Perhaps not the exact same set, but many of them. The exclusionary rule, for example, a due process right drawn from the 4th Amendment, applies to everyone - regardless of legal status.
And aside from all this, how do you determine probable cause to demand proof of citizenship? What does an illegal immigrant "look" like? The fact is they look exactly the same as legal immigrants. Thusly the problem. The courts have ruled that similar (inland) searches looking for illegal aliens violate, of all things...privacy rights. ;)
. It doesn't just say "people." It says "the People of the United States." Nothing about Canadians, Brits, Japanese, &c.
> So "People of the United States" can very well be restated as "People coming from...
. Now you're just being disingenuous.
> The exclusionary rule, for example, a due process right drawn from the 4th Amendment, applies to everyone - regardless of legal status.
. Through law and custom, foreigners are accorded many of the rights that citizens have, but those rights do not come from The Constitution itself.
> And aside from all this, how do you determine probable cause to demand proof of citizenship?
. I don't. :) But officials do it the same way they determine when to ask for my driver's license. Same way they determine whether to question someone about a bank robbery. &c, &c, &c. (Clues and evidence, BTW)
. I have yet to see where that law authorizes anybody to ID/search/&c someone based on looks alone. If I missed it, please point it out.
In any event, the US Supreme Court ruled in INS v. Lopez-Mendoza, 468 U.S. 1032) that the 4th Amendment indeed applies to illegal immigrants. One can argue until the cows come home about if it was the "right" decision, but it was the Court's decision - and therefore part of the law of the land.
(Um. Why else does anyone ID/search someone except on looks ? What else is it based on other than what they see? Telepathy? Are you ever going to hear "Yes Sir, I pulled you over because I SENSED YOU WERE THINKING NAUGHTY THOUGHTS." No, you hear "Yes Sir, I pulled you over because I saw your taillight is out/you were swerving all over the road/your license plate is invalid/something else I *saw*")
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Scars of War
News of victory travels fast. For days the people and soldiers of the Republic celebrated the hard-earned victory against the Mandalorians. There was music and liquor in every part of every Republic ship. The soldiers were laughing, telling jokes, or exchanging some happier stories. For those few hours that took the ships to return to Coruscant, everyone seemed to have forgotten their worries and, most importantly, the memories of war.
After the troops' return to Coruscant a huge reception was made for the commanding officers, covered by all the news networks. Masses of people greeted them as they disembarked from their respective transports, cheering their names and raising their hands into the air with excitement. The galaxy's most powerful politicians welcomed the commanders home. There were even a few grumpy-looking Jedi there, probably awaiting the arrival of Revan and Malak, but they were wasting their time. The two Jedi heroes weren't there, instead they took the remainder of the Malachor main fleet and left for the Unknown Regions to hunt down the last of the Mandalorians.
As for us ordinary soldiers, the staff at Central Command prepared a nice feast in our honor. In addition, we had a great view of the evening fireworks. Some of us continued the celebration, others, like myself, retired to their pre-assigned quarters to rest. I can safely say that I truly needed rest. I've had all the celebration I could handle and bed was a true blessing for me. I needed to rest, for tomorrow would truly be the happiest day of my life. After years on the front, I'm traveling home. After years of battle, I will see my family again.
Act I
Dantooine. Its orange pastures soothing to my nerves. The breeze that caressed my face as I exited the transport made me remember why I love this place so much. There were no cities here. This was a farming world, with only smaller or larger communities of cattle, or plant growers.
There were three of us from Dantooine. Gerel, Ilon and I. Word of our return has obviously spread, since the people of our community amassed to welcome us like kings, but what truly made us happy were our families rushing to meet us. My wife, Yelena and my little boys, Dax and Roonie ran towards me, arms open, with huge smiles on their faces. The four of us joined in a big embrace and I noticed my two friends and fellow soldiers embracing their wives too, before tears of joy started to pour out of my eyes.
My first few days at home were the best of my life. I rose early, had breakfast with Yelena and the kids, after which we would all do our part of the chores necessary to keep the farm in business. I had to hand it to the three of them, they did a magnificent job taking care of the farm while I was off battling. I can only imagine how it must have been for them, especially Yelena.
We spent the afternoons resting together, either outside on the soft grass, or in our living room. I would tell them some stories of my experiences in the war and they would listen, the kids' eyes huge with excitement and pride. Yelena enjoyed the stories too, she also felt pride, but in a more mature way. The stories also gave her insight into the trials I was put through and survived. As for me, I enjoyed my sons' excited gazes while I told the stories and my wife's mild smile, but the stories themselves... they brought back a lot of memories.
Act II
Sad news marked this day. One of my two friends, Gerel, was found dead at his home. Apparently his wife found him after she returned from her morning walk. Gerel's death troubled me more than it should. I wondered what truly happened. Who would want a war hero dead? I went to Ilon's to find out more.
Ilon, my friend and fellow veteran had connections with the Civil Watch and seeing as how he was an even closer friend of Gerel's than I was, I knew he had to know more. When I arrived he was waiting outside his compound. He appeared deep in thought, but seemed to lighten up a bit when he saw me.
''So Lieutenant, you've heard about it too?'' He asked. He used to call me by name, but during the war the lieutenant thing became a habit and it seemed to have endured even now, almost a month after the end of the war.
''Yes. I can hardly believe it. Who would want Gerel dead?'' I asked my former second in command.
''Actually...'' He leaned towards me and continued more quietly, ''the word from the Civil Watch is that he killed himself.''
''What? Are they sure?'' I was amazed. This seemed even more puzzling, or at least that's what I made myself believe at the time.
''They found his body with his blaster rifle still in one hand. They saw an entry wound below the chin and an exit wound in the middle of where his brain used to be, Lieutenant.'' Ilon added more nervously, ''A Jedi will arrive tomorrow to confirm the findings, but there's nothing left to confirm. He did it.''
''Why do you say that?'' I asked still apparently clueless.
''It's just not the same. We are not the same, Lieutenant.'' Ilon's voice started to tremble, ''The horrors we've endured, the friends we've lost, they might be a thing of the past to the world, but not to us. Haven't you felt it, Lieutenant? The memories... they haunt us still.''
I have felt it. The memories of battle slowly returned during the last few days. I might have even accelerated their return with all my war stories. They weren't as strong and troubling yet, but I fear they will be soon and I believe Ilon fears it too.
Act III
Ilon was right. The memories haunt us indeed. Images of battle would appear to me more than five times each day and lately I've started feeling like I was on the battlefield again. Or still. Most of the things I saw started to remind me of the landscapes of various planets and various battlefields.
I haven't told anything to Yelena, or the boys, but I think she's starting to suspect that something's wrong. She is my wife, after all. She knows me better than anyone else. So far, when she would ask, I'd say it was a headache and she seems content with that explanation. At least for the time being.
Things are getting worse. I have started to carry my blaster rifle with me at all times. I didn't know why, but I just felt I had to carry it. I would watch over the cattle and suddenly a memory would creep up and transport me from the calm and quiet pastures of Dantooine to one of many bloody and scary battlefields. I would lose myself almost instantly. With the blaster rifle at the ready I would run like a maniac to meet the non-existing enemy and just as I was about to fire the first shot the battlefield would disappear and I would find myself back in the pastures. Alone.
The only thing that seemed to calm me down and reduce the intensity of the memories a bit was time spent with my family. Whether it was playing with my sons, or helping my wife with something, the time with them made me distinguish the reality from fiction again. But it wouldn't last very long.
Act IV
Things are going from bad to worse. Tonight I realized it. The memories now haunted my dreams as well and the headaches were getting stronger and stronger. I would wake up in the middle of the night, covered in sweat and breathe anxiously, as if I just returned from a stroll through a volcano. Sometimes I would wake up and still be in the middle of a memory, watching a friend falling into a pool of his own blood, but always waking up from the memory a second before the body hits the ground.
Tonight something else happened. Tonight I didn't wake up. I remembered the battle of Eres III. The Mandalorians ambushed us during the night and decimated the Republic forces. My company was scattered across the battlefield and I suddenly found myself in the company of only one other soldier. He was merely a kid, so as more experienced, I took command. We snuck through the bushes, avoiding the flammable Xoxin fields. Suddenly I heard a shot, ducking in reflex and noticing my companion's body falling lifelessly to the ground, a thick long metal needle running through his head.
I grabbed my rifle and started running. After a while I found the Mandalorian shooter. He was crouching behind a pair of bushes, making himself almost completely invisible in this dark night, obviously scouting his next victim. I took aim and just as I was about to pull the trigger, I heard my wife's terrified voice saying: ''Cisco, what's happening?'' I lowered my rifle, terrified with the knowledge of what might have happened, if she hadn't woke up and saw me.
We went down to the kitchen and I told her everything. She looked at me sadly for a few minutes, still a little shook, but not giving up.
''We should ask the Jedi for help.'' She said finally, ''Surely they can cure whatever ailes you, my dear.''
''No.'' I said firmly.
''But why not?'' She asked, her voice filled with desperation.
''The Jedi Enclave is half a planet away and I don't think I can be trusted to keep my sanity for another hour, Yelena.'' I explained, ''I am losing my touch with reality, my dear. I realize now that if I had told you sooner, something could have even been done, but now...'' I paused for a second, preventing myself from crying for I knew what my only option was, ''I couldn't live with myself if I hurt you, or the kids. The memories haunt me even now, the images of battle filling my mind. Slowly drawing me back into the chaos.''
''What shall we do then?'' She asked, her eyes filled with tears.
''There is only one thing to do.'' I said decisively, ''I have to leave. I must spare you and the kids of the scene Gerel failed to spare his wife from.'' She started to get the picture. ''I know it's not a good solution and it does indeed seem like the easy way out, but I just cannot be trusted anymore.'' I explained. ''Go back to sleep, my dear Yelena. Sleep and remember me as I was in happier times.'' I kissed her gently on the forehead as I finished my sentence and grabbed my rifle. ''You shall not see me again, dear Yelena. Goodbye.'' I said as I escorted her to the stairwell. I could hear her weeping even as I left the house.
I ran during most of the night, trying to get as far away from the house as I could, all the while hoping that some wild Kath Hound would ambush me and save me the trouble of doing the deed myself. I wasn't that lucky.
I finally stopped. The fatigue overwhelmed me. I sat on a stone and waited. The images were getting stronger by the minute. Memories of bombs dropping, guns blazing and soldiers dying. I needed at least a small piece of my mind, if I was to do it.
I remembered my favorite opera. I started playing it in my head. The strong tenor voice and sounds of violins have always calmed me. This is it. I failed to save myself, but I will die knowing that I saved my family from my madness. I didn't allow it to kill them. The tenor in my head arrives to a dramatic finish and I quickly point the rifle at my chin and pull the trigger.
The End
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here, that shows a list of trails. Are these the only legal trails out there? If so, there are a lof of unauthorized trails up there! Really, the only one lately I have seen affected with braids has been Extendo, as I mentioned in an above post. That one is now closed for the winter though (to MTBs) so that will slow it some, I'm sure.
I guess the secrecy about it is what confuses me or at least makes me chuckle. I have been out riding and riden by a group of guys getting suited up with downhill gear, and got the looks like "Don't look over here, we aren't getting ready to a ride a trail that really doesn't exsist, and we may have to kill you because you know where it is". Or my riding buddy and I have been out on the trails and come across some riders and we ask where a certain trail is, to which we know the name and know it exsists, and we are given the deer in headlights look, like they don't want to share their special little trail. In fact, on Facebook, I am a member of the group Corvallis and Area Mountain Biking Group, and information about unauthorized trails is talked about pretty freely. So, while I get the need and desire to keep these trails in place, the "super secret" trail thing is a bit odd. But, I will do my part and not discuss these trails, or at least their loacations specifically, on the open boards. PM inbound slopefish.


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One of the great things about technology hubs is the serendipitous connections that can be made and the unplanned fraternization of different groups in the space. It happens quite often, but I felt a meeting this week at HiveColab was worth highlighting.
Liz Ngonzi and her colleague Sarah Webb were visiting with HiveColab Director Barbara Birungi to discuss projects related to Barbara's Women in Technology Uganda initiative. It was complete coincidence that I happened to be visiting the space, along with my colleagues Bahiyah (of Appfrica) and Chris Burrage (of MetaLayer).
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With our increasing reliance on technology why do we have to carry paper visa 'stamps' in our passport instead of using some electronic system? I am assuming a passport number is linked to a visa so there has to be an electronic record which surely could be utilized?
One reason is that not every country has computerised their passport/visa system. They're coming along, but still.
In addition, not every country's system is linked together. So even if you scanned it in at one border, you can't tell that's happened at the next.
Crossing into Zambia in 2005, they opened their book to the date, drew in a line for New Zealanders, and literally crossed off 5 lines ( | | | | with a --- through the four vertical lines).
It costs a LOT of money. Some countries can't afford the investment to get all those systems built, and staff trained to use them. It's cheaper to hire some chap who can ask questions and cross off lines in a book.
So given all the different computer and paper based systems, the only way to transmit the fact that you have a visa, is to carry a piece of paper - ie, a stamp/visa.
However, it's improving. With the arrival of those smart passports with chips in them, we now have a common way of having data stored electronically and (mostly) securely. Next that needs to turn into visas.
New Zealanders arriving home (or visiting Australia) can merely walk to a barrier, scan our chipped passports, get a photo taken and walk through. British citizens arriving home can have their iris scanned, no stamp required.
So these are slowly changing, but will take time. In the meanwhile, you get to collect cool stamps! :)


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We know is that animal fats aren't the good fats our bodies need. And we know that red meat is best consumed in moderation and then only the leanest cuts should be considered. We've also learned the enormous benefits of a plant-based diet, especially for those who have experienced heart problems. With all that in mind, this new research certainly makes a great deal of sense. It concerns processed red meats — things like sausage, hot dogs and lunch meats, and its results are fairly substantial.
According to a study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart Failure, men who consume moderate amounts of processed red meat may have an increased risk of occurrence and death from heart failure.
"Processed red meat commonly contains sodium, nitrates, phosphates and other food additives, and smoked and grilled meats also contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, all of which may contribute to the increased heart failure risk," said Alicja Wolk, D.M.Sc., senior author of the study and professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. "Unprocessed meat is free from food additives and usually has a lower amount of sodium."
The Cohort of Swedish Men study is, in fact, the first to investigate the effects of processed red meat independently from unprocessed red meat. It included 37,035 men age 45 to 79 years of age with no history of heart failure, ischemic heart disease, or cancer. Study participants finished a questionnaire on food intake and other lifestyle factors. Researchers followed them from 1998 to the date of heart failure diagnosis, death, or the end of the study in 2010.
After almost 12 years of follow-up, researchers found that heart failure was diagnosed in 2,891 men and 266 died from heart failure. Also, men who ate the most processed red meat (75 grams per day or more) had a 28 percent higher risk of heart failure compared to men who ate the least (25 grams per day or less) after adjusting for multiple lifestyle variables. The risk of heart failure or death among those who ate unprocessed red meat didn't increase.
Results of the study for total red meat consumption are in line with findings from the Physicians' Health Study, which found that men who ate the highest amount of red meat had a 24 percent higher risk of heart failure incidence compared to those who ate the least.
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This is specific to an obese individual. For weight loss - is it better to first focus on cardio, and then move on to weights, or is the combination a better approach? And why?
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First things first: get your diet in order. If you are not eating the right things to help you lose fat (fat, not just weight), no amount of gym work will overcome those calories. Once you get your diet working, then look at what you can do.
Weight lifting is a powerful way to burn a lot of Calories, particularly if you focus on strength. Conditioning is another way to burn Calories. However, I would caution you that as important as exercise is, going with the goal to simply lose weight is going to leave you aimless and cause you to get bored with the regimen.
I recommend you do the following while you are getting your diet in order:
Remember, fat loss is done in the kitchen. Muscle building and conditioning is done in the gym--and it's best done with real and tangible goals in mind. Keep your first goals reasonable. When you hit that goal, increase them a little more. It's that process of beating goals that makes the gym fun. If you go in without any real goals, or goals that are too far in the distance, it demotivates you and you lose interest.
Well, it is difficult to loose weight only with cardio. If you want to get fit and make progress you got to hit the weights and run a lot. And by running I mean sprints because they make your body burn fat and your hearth working. Also, the veloargometer won't do anthing good for you.
Pushing weights makes your body tight. Only cardio will cause you to loose mass but be with very flabby skin and muscles.


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