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Buried deep in the archives of The New York Times is an article about termites. And the green house gases they produce.
A fundamental law is that nothing is ever destroyed. When termites consume wood and vegetation, they turn it into energy, heat, and gaseous byproducts like carbon dioxide and methane. Both are dreaded greenhouse gases.
They are by definition some of the biggest polluters on the planet.
The following is from a 1982 New York Times article "Termite Gas Exceeds Smokestack Pollution":
"For several years scientists have been warning that carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by increased burning of fuel is likely to alter world climates, like a greenhouse, by inhibiting the escape of heat into outer space.
"Now researchers report that termites, digesting vegetable matter on a global basis, produce more than twice as much carbon dioxide as all the world's smokestacks.
"Termite gas production has become particularly high, the researchers say, because widespread clearing of land has offered them abundant food in the debris of felled forests. By digesting this debris, they are adding not only carbon dioxide but also methane to the atmosphere. Other researchers have found that methane in the atmosphere is increasing 2 percent a year.
"The high level of termite gas production is reported in the Nov. 5 issue of the journal Science. The authors measured termite gas production inside laboratory jars. In Guatemala forests, they enclosed a huge arboreal termite nest in a Teflon bag to confirm that the insects were prolific producers of methane."
"Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen." — Sir John Houghton, first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and lead editor of its first three reports.
According to the journal Science (Nov. 5, 1982), termites alone emit ten times more carbon dioxide than all the factories and automobiles in the world.
Termite "polluters" are only one source of such gases. Every living creature emits carbon dioxide and methane — even humans. Then there are the cows that are constantly belching and passing gas.
The Jounrnal of Science archive can be found here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/218/4572/563.full.pdf
The New York times article is found here: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/31/us/termite-gas-exceeds-smokestack-pollution.html
Some cows are now wearing back packs — "fartpacks" — to capture their emissions.
Natural wetlands emit more greenhouse gases than all human activities combined. (If greenhouse warming is such a problem, why are we trying to save all the wetlands?) Geothermal activity in Yellowstone National Park emits ten times the carbon dioxide of a midsized coal-burning power plant.
Let's not forget volcanoes. Volcanoes emit hundreds of times more. In fact, our atmosphere's composition is primarily the result of volcanic activity. There are about 100 active volcanoes today, mostly in remote locations, and we're living in a period of relatively low volcanic activity.
Another author of the report, Patrick R. Zimmerman of the atmospheric center in Boulder, said that plant respiration and decay added 10 to 15 times as much carbon dioxide to the air as termites.
During the time of the dinosaurs, the carbon dioxide levels were 300–500% greater than today. Five hundred million years ago, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 15–20 times what it is today. Yet the catastrophic water-vapor amplification of carbon dioxide warming never occurred.
Today we're told catastrophic warming will result if carbon dioxide doubles. But during the Ordovician Period, the carbon dioxide level was 12 times what it is today, and the earth was in an Ice Age. That's exactly opposite to the "runaway" warming that computer models predict should occur. Clearly the models are wrong; they depend upon an assumption of amplification that is contrary to the climate record of millions of years.
There is no reason to trust the computer predictions — or base public policies on them. Reid Bryson, founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin, has stated, "You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide."
There are other examples where the computer models fail to agree with reality. According to the greenhouse hypothesis, the warming should occur equally during day and night. But most of the warming that has been observed has occurred at night, thus falsifying the models.
All of the models agree — for sound theoretical reasons — that warming from a greenhouse effect must be 2–3 times greater in the lower atmosphere than at the earth's surface. This is not happening. Both satellites and weather balloons show slightly greater warming at the surface. These atmospheric temperature measurements furnish direct, unequivocal evidence that whatever warming has occurred is not from the greenhouse effect.
Everyone knows the sun heats the earth, but the public is generally unaware that the sun's heat is not uniform. Solar radiation is affected by disturbances on the surface of the sun, called "sunspots," which correspond to the sun's 11-year magnetic cycle. There are also several solar cycles of longer duration. Superimposed, these cycles might augment or cancel each other. There are also periods when sunspots "crash," or almost disappear, which can lead to dramatic cooling of the earth for several decades. This is what happened 400 years ago during the Maunder Minimum, which was the coldest part of the Little Ice Age. During one 30-year period during the Maunder Minimum only about 50 sunspots were observed, compared to a typical 40–50 thousand. Sunspots have now virtually vanished. You can check out pictures of the sun day after day after day for the last few years.
Let's not let the EPA find this 32-year article. It might get them thinking on how much more they can regulate our world into oblivion.
In any case, some climate scientists believe the length of past solar cycles points to a cool phase in this century. Professor Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory in Russia, believes a slow decline in temperatures will begin as early as 2012–15 and will lead to a deep freeze in 2050–60 that will last about 50 years.
Climatologist Tim Patterson thinks that by 2020 the sun will be starting its weakest 11-year sunspot cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on earth. He says, "If we're to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than 'global warming' would have had."
The global warming advocates make all sorts of false claims about dire consequences of global warming. They claim it will result in the spread of malaria, food shortages, more human deaths, more violent weather, and a loss of biological diversity through the extinction of species. All untrue. The largest number of species — the greatest biological diversity — is in the tropics. As you move away from the equator, you find fewer and fewer species, until you reach the earth's poles, where there is zero diversity because nothing can live there.
Agricultural productivity is also reduced by cold climate, not a warmer one. That's why Siberia and Alaska are not noted for agricultural abundance. A warmer climate would mean longer growing seasons and would make agriculture possible in areas where it isn't today. And there are at least 300 studies showing plants and forests grow faster and more luxuriantly under conditions of increased carbon dioxide.
The science of scaring people into action is false science and bad science.
For a start, "Rapid climate change" is currently not happening worldwide, and hasn't for at least the past 15 years. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) acknowledges the reduced rate of warming in its latest report: "The rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05°C per decade) … is smaller than the rate calculated since 1951 (1951–2012; 0.12 °C per decade)."
Curiously, while alarmists warn about the horrors of returning to the climate of millions of years ago, paleoclimatologists tell a different story. They more often see our earlier planet as a "paradise," even "paradise lost." Paradise lost? Yup things were better back then. That study is found here: http://www.paulmacrae.com/?p=239#more-239
Blatant lies by the global change alarmists are coming full circle and after a decade and a half of lie after lie and false science the truth is beginning to leak out.
Among many deceptions—too many to deal with here—one is particularly blatant. For more than a decade, the public has been bombarded by claims that the planet was not just warming but experiencing "accelerated", "unequivocal," "unprecedented" and "dangerous" warming. Yet the actual temperature record shows that during the past decade, on average, there has been little or no warming.
Only recently, faced with a gap between the climate reality and alarmist theory that was too great to ignore, has official climate science begun to admit the facts to the public.
And so, in June, the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a peer-reviewed article that began: "Data for global surface temperature indicate little warming between 1998 and 2008. Furthermore, global surface temperature declines 0.2 °C between 2005 and 2008."
Early in August, a press release from the British Meteorological Office admitted there had been no warming—the Met delicately called it "a pause in the warming"—in the upper 700 metres of the world's oceans since, get this, 2003. Yet, for the past eight years, the Met has warned the public about a dangerous heating up of the oceans.
A scientist is never certain. It's give and take, it's fact and figures. The best science provides ALL data used and not limited data that supports your opinion. The Climate change alarmists have destroyed data so their results can't be contradicted. This is as far from real science as one can get. The claim that scientists agree is another falsehood. The debate on the real science is alive and well.
In the 2002 Scientific American while trying to attack a "denier" the publication included this little tide bit. "I readily confess a lingering frustration: uncertainties so infuse the issue of climate change that it is still impossible to rule out either mild or catastrophic outcomes let alone provide confident probabilities for all the claims and counterclaims made about environmental problems. … uncertainties are so endemic in these complex problems that suffer from missing data, incomplete theory and nonlinear interactions."
Missing data, incomplete theory? But isn't the science "settled"? PS: The only data "missing" is from the original "settled" science. Who cares that every model has been false, every prediction false and yet when presented with real science they say oh you're a denier and don't you know this is settled..
The problem with believing the science "settled" is so many times in the history of science these same "settled" debates have ended poorly for the "consensus". Flat earth, Sun revolves around the earth, the continents can't "drift," that Newton's laws were immutable, and hundreds if not thousands of others. All believed to be "settled" science in their time and day.
Science progresses by the overturning of theories once thought "certain." And so, Carl Sagan has written: "Even a succession of professional scientists—including famous astronomers who had made other discoveries that are confirmed and now justly celebrated—can make serious, even profound errors in pattern recognition."
So can we finally abandon the false science behind "global warming and Global climate change" and move on to the real science of taking better care of our planet so we can pass a better world to our children? Can we move from scare people into action to teaching them to be better care takers of our world?
God I hope so! Yes I'm a denier.


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Its been quite a time while we remember this date of 5th Jan when a man deserving this title was born in the rural areas of Larkana, Sindh then called India (under the British rule), Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto third son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, having the ambition like Jinnah's, Studying in the British rule, saw the partition, then off he goes to California for his studies where he gets his interests in Political Science in 1950. Keeping in mind that he was already married before coming to the United States for his studies, while after the political studies he manages to go to the United Kingdom where he accomplishes his degrees in LLB following the LLM and MSc in political sciences,
The high interests to the politics pulled him through to make it to the United Nations, designated as the Youngest representative for Pakistan to the U.N. Time where a man making it to the federal cabinet in his young ages, for a country that came into being not elder than his own age, aced whatever came in the way with the portfolios of Commerce and Trade, Water and Power, Communications and Industries, Foreign Affairs for the Country, coming across several dictators he was made the President of Pakistan when he came back from a U.S visit overcoming Yahya's Rule.
Designated as the first civilian giving this country the true constitution it deserved, giving the citizens Passports, the identity what we truly deserved, the country what Jinnah had dreamt of, where the citizens would have their own rights, everyone could roam around freely, would be in a democratic state.
Man having the credit of being a true democratic leader, sweeping the whole country with his new born political party called the "People's Party", with the whole world having eyes on this country just cause of the one personality "Bhutto",
He who had the vision of bringing the Islamic states together, scaring up the world truly by showing the unity of the badass leaders of the world consisting of Qaddafi, Yasser Arafat, Shah Faisal and more who could be said the friends of our nation cause of this man.
This Man holding up his cigar is the main reason behind making this country a nuclear state, while fighting the whole world to make it a better place for the people already living here, despite some still crying over the East Pakistan issue, really did not have the nerves to see what came their way.
Within a flying time Bhutto was not just a name but became a term widely spread across the country, Bhuttoism was immensely occupied in the vessels of this nation, and therefore the term was made immortal, though his vision never died, the leadership went onto his eldest daughter Benazir who was martyred too for the sake democracy.
Bilawal succeeding his mother as the chairman of the Party, fighting accordingly to bring up the reconciliation within the nation, as the country where dictators have been ruling for their pleasures; Bilawal making up to his predecessors in this young age is nonetheless a challenge but bearing in mind Leader like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was too handed the extreme powers which later on groomed him.
This day today on 5th January 1928 the man holding the golden wings was born for the sake of a pure nation as called by our ancestors "Pakistan."
May peace be upon our country,
Long Live Democracy.

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Today was Macy's scheduled due date. Two days ago she celebrated
her three week birthday! I guess she was a bit too excited and couldn't wait any longer to join the family.
She has already changed so much... From this to this!
I pray for many wonderful things for her. She's such a blessing!
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With the veil removed by the rending of Jesus' flesh, with nothing on God's side to prevent us from entering, why do we tarry without? Why do we consent to abide all our days just outside the Holy of Holies and never enter at all to look upon God?
The answer usually given, simply that we are "cold," will not explain all the facts. There is something more serious than coldness of heart... What is it? What but the presence of a veil in our hearts? A veil not taken away as the first veil was, but which remains there still shutting out the light and hiding the face of God from us. It is the veil of our fleshly fallen nature living on, unjudged within us, uncrucified and unrepudiated. It is the close woven veil of the self-life which we have never truly acknowledged...
Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil, we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of it is poetical, almost pleasant; but in actuality there is nothing pleasant about it. In human experience, that veil is made of living spiritual tissue; it is composed of the sentient, quivering stuff of which our whole beings consist, and to touch it is to touch us where we feel pain. To tear it away is to injure us, to hurt us and to make us bleed. To say otherwise is to make the cross no cross and death no death at all. It is never fun to die. To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful, yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free. AW Tozer, The Pursuit of GodI've been teaching long enough that the first day of school doesn't particularly make me nervous. What does fill me with a peculiar sense of dread though is knowing I'm being launched from a season of rest into a season of intense activity. The overwhelming temptation of my busy days is to grow content living just outside the presence of God, allowing my fallen nature to live on uncrucified and unrepudiated, to not even be aware of my change in location. Consider this thought from David Rousset, concerning the treatment of the Jews by the Nazis as quoted in Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt:
The triumph of the S.S. demands that the tortured victim allow himself to be led to the noose without protesting, that he renounce and abandon himself to the point of ceasing to affirm his identity. And it is not for nothing. It is not gratuitously, out of sheer sadism, that the S.S. men desire his defeat. They know that the system which succeeds in destroying its victim before he mounts the scaffold...is incomparably the best for keeping the whole person in slavery...The system that succeeds in destroying its victim before he mounts the scaffold...is incomparably the best for keeping the whole person in slavery. Wow. What a perfect description of sin's deceitfulness, of it's desire to destroy me with my consent and by my own hand without the slightest bit of protesting. It's also a perfect picture of how I live outside the veil, outside the sanctifying presence of God. When I stare down the school calendar at the year ahead, what makes me nervous is my overwhelming capacity for self-deception and self-destruction. And the solution has nothing to do with developing better balance, more sophisticated systems, or just saying "no" more often. The solution is to live inside the veil, but to do so as Tozer describes is deeply painful. read this again:
To rip through the dear and tender stuff of which life is made can never be anything but deeply painful, yet that is what the cross did to Jesus and it is what the cross would do to every man to set him free.I have approached that veil in prayer this past week, intentionally seeking the sanctifying presence of God, and often I have wanted to step back outside and ignore him. Sanctification is painful, it is after all a death, but here's to praying God keeps me on the path, despite that ball of chaos hovering just over my head.
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An anonymous man has been caught to be a vulnerable robber using the Muslim hijab in a local area of Minna, Niger state to perpetrate evils in the local environment.
One concerned individual identified as Jonpaul Oshioke Umoru, however revealed the ploy of evildoers as such as this recently caught, using disguise in hijab to operate.
Read below his facebook post:
Dwellers of 3 Arms Zone, Eastern bypass/Maitumbi Axis,Minna in Niger State.
Pls take heed, there is a latest prank used by Handset robbers after dark, they wear hijabs and trail you from behind to portray a feminine character whilst you let down your guard, they catch up and strike at any resistance.
Nemesis caught up with this one yesterday, he has since been apprehended and put in custody. "
JonPaul also posted some picutrres of the man caught in hijab.


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A Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Plan for Hagar
Joyce M. Wooden
Liberty University
This paper presents with a five axial diagnosis and treatment plan for Hagar a Biblical character. Also presenting is the suggested treatment plan for her diagnosis, along with an intake interview which establishes the framework for each the diagnosis and treatment plan. In addition, included in this paper are the client's mental status examination, modality profile, and an explanation of my personal integrative theoretical counseling approach. The center of attention of this paper focuses on the diagnostic findings and suggested treatment plan for these findings, as they relate to Hagar, a slave girl to Abram and Sari of the Bible.
A Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Plan for Hagar
As a result of working extensively with people, particularly women and children, and my studies in the field of professional counseling, an excellent theoretical approach to counseling developed. The name for this approach will be addressed throughout as the Female Manifest Identity Theory (FMIT). This theoretical approach is established on an integrative perspective, a combination of a biblically sound, psychologically empirical and three theories that strongly impressed upon me the most, which are: existential, person centered, and certain aspects of feminist therapy. Most importantly, the integration of this theory is strongly substantiated on biblical principles. It is designed to help women and others who may seek this form of counseling to become aware of their spiritual inner-self and evolving identity. With the combination of these three theories and clarity from a biblical perspective, a Christian counselor can implement a spiritually structured integrative restorative approach, which would take in hand certain non-bias issues that concerns the spiritual, emotional and mental well-being of those seeking this form of counseling, especially many situations faced by women. As a Christian counselor, my primary objective is to assist those who are struggling with their authentic self. Through studying the Bible, I found Hagar to be one of the more interesting figures. Her life story and circumstances is one that many women in modern society may face today. Her situation in life speaks out of the pages of ancient times as a woman who endured misuse, abuse, hardship, and pain as well as the burden of single parenthood. The most prevalent focus of this theoretical approach is that of change. However, the emphasis is not placed on primary an outward change. Changing outwardly is never enough, neither is humanistic goodness. There is and should always be more when addressing change in an individual. As stated by Dr. Jay Adams (1986) "All counselor's Christian included—agree that the aim of counseling is to change people" (Adams, 1986, p. xi). The main focus of the Christian therapeutic process is to help the client come to a place of acknowledging his or her situation/problem and then work toward a reachable goal for change. The premise of the counseling profession is founded on the hurting who needs healing or should we say, the message/hope for positive change in their life. Dr. Sandy Wilson's (2001) premise which is firmly established upon biblical principles, which stresses, hurt people needs hope that someone is capable of helping them change and to find healing for their situation. With this, viewing Christian counseling from a multitasking approach that involves the entirety of the human person from a biblical viewpoint provides for developing a more holistic and effective counseling theory. This theory must therefore, promote change from the inside out, which is the focus of the therapeutic approach I propose in the diagnosis and treatment plan for the biblical person,...
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Three weeks after doubling Broward County`s occupational license tax, county commissioners decided to seek further changes in how the fees are structured.
They agreed that Commissioner Nicki Grossman should work with county legal officials to draw up a proposal to revise the state law that sets the fees. Grossman, who has frequently criticized the fees as unfair, said she hopes to have a proposal ready for the Broward Legislative Delegation by February.
``I really think the commission owes it to the business community,`` she said.
Under a state law, the commission was allowed to double the fees in order to raise money for a top-notch regional symphony.
Even then, most of the commissioners argued that the existing fees were unfair. They did decide that no business should pay more than $500 above what it does now. But they opted to wait before making any radical changes.
``It doesn`t make sense to me that a small, one-owner dress shop in Hollywood pays as much as Burdines,`` Grossman said.
Grossman would like to base the fees for retail businessmen on their building`s square footage or their inventory`s value.
She also would like to change the fees for vending machine operators, who now pay a tax on each machine, to a flat fee for operators with less than 100 machines. Those who own between 101 and 300 machines would pay a higher fee, and those with more than 300 would pay a still higher fee.
Grossman said she hopes the Legislature will make the changes during its April session. That would allow a revised fee structure to be in place by Oct. 1, 1986. The licenses, which must be purchased annually, are good from October through September.
The doubled fees, meanwhile, are set to take effect this October. Grossman had originally hoped to make changes now, but was discouraged from doing so when county attorney Susan Delegal said the fees should not be increased without the Legislature`s consent.
The county`s 9,765 retail businesses pay $30 each for the right to do business. The 43 pawnbrokers pay $337.50 apiece. Insurance adjusters -- there are 407 licensed in Broward -- pay $15 each. The county`s six licensed fortune tellers pay $225 apiece.


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$15 million to be released soon
At the National Plug In Day celebration in San Diego, the California Center for Sustainable Energy provided an informative update on the status of the California Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP).
For those unfamiliar with the project, for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the project was funded with $5 million with the purpose of providing a $5,000 rebate to promote the purchase of zero emission vehicles. When the Nissan LEAF was launched in late 2010, LEAF owners were expected to be the largest group of beneficiaries, as no other major manufacturer had plans of producing a zero emission vehicle. As LEAF production ramped up, this came to be the case and the fund ran out prior to the end of the fiscal year.
Reviewing the situation, the California Air Resources Board (the funding authority), saw the enthusiasm with which electric vehicles (EVs) were greeted in California and trebled the funding from $5 million to $15 million for the 2011-2012 fiscal year while reducing the amount of the rebate from $5,000 per vehicle to $2,500 per vehicle. And while all good Californians would rather have $5,000 than $2,500, the obvious result is that the new math would provide incentives to roughly six times as many Californians as had been impacted the previous year. We say roughly because other zero emission vehicles also qualify, such as zero emission motorcycles and neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs).
Admittedly, we had not tracked this closely since we acquired our LEAF and had received our rebate. We realize now that we may have been among the fortunate few. The funds ran out prior to the end of the fiscal year, and all new applicants have been placed on a waiting list for the release of the next wave of funding. As with all things governmental, we appreciate that the process takes longer than almost anyone thinks that it should. That said, we did get some information that may be useful if your application has been submitted but you have not received your rebate. The following information was presented regarding distribution of CVRP funds to pending applicants:
|Month application received by CCSE
|Funds to be released on
|November 14
|November 21
|November 28
|December 5
|December 12
|December 19
When we submitted our rebate application in March, we were amazed at the quick turnaround. While we have no insight into the process, we will offer that the CCSE personnel take their job of administering the distribution of these funds seriously, and are extremely efficient at what they do. We would not be surprised if you were to see your rebate checks within two weeks of the above noted release dates. You should also note that six months of backlog will be caught up in just over one month – remarkable progress by anyone's standard.
Other information presented during the presentation – San Diegans submitted over 625 of the 3,900+ rebate applications (or over 15%) processed in the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
Look for an update on the EV Project, at least in San Diego, in tomorrow's post.


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From the very moment I awake I seem to already be in the kitchen grabbing a banana on the run. Or, perhaps I'm catching my breath in the back of the bus after having chased it for a few blocks. When I do get to wherever it is I'm headed towards I've forgotten most of the songs I listened to on my commute. All of the different faces and decorated buildings melt into whatever task I'm focusing on completing.
Conversations for the most part become a practice of enduring—before I can tackle the next chore that stands in the way of zoning out. My day is over before it began and I've become the sleeping passenger in my own car. Sometimes I've checked my phone a dozen times before I notice that there's a voice message I've overlooked. Other times I'm uncomfortably hungry until I remember I had eaten a sandwich an hour earlier.
If you're anything like I am, you'll recognize the sentiments behind your own thought process as a series of "mindlessness." It started for me as a child in grade school. I would often sit in the first lectures of the new year and daydream of how in a matter of seconds—turned to days—turned back into seconds I would be present on the last day of school. I would time travel through an entire year of useless information and sentiments that didn't interest or concern me and it would be summer. I was usually right. I was right but not satisfied. The problem became—as I've noticed as an adult—that I've missed out on the joys in the moments scattered between the beginning and end of any stretch.
As I grew older, things like dating became a similar chore: a series of conversations I wasn't interested in having in order to reach a comfortable, finite conclusion. To be or not to be. Everything had a means and an end. The only gain was the loss; the splitting and parting so that I could be left to my own thoughts and salvage the remaining moments of any day where I could have the time to do as I wished. These "possessive" mine's were often wasted in the land of re-run television and other distractions.
I'm the same person who wants to stand in front of the mirror at the gym and see their veins pop through their muscles, but doesn't want to have to lift anything heavy. If they do, they want to do it as quickly as possible because the gym is a room and if you were to run as fast as you could you're not going anywhere.
Despite the "gains," I wanted to be somewhere else. Or, I didn't want to be present for the parts of any situation I didn't enjoy. So I developed the wonderful coping skill of "dissociating." And thankfully It worked. I was watching my life unfold without taking part in it. I was a pro at it. I could sit through anything without flinching. I could give you my word that I would be there for you and switch to stand by as soon as I was physically present.
when I began sitting through situations of excitement with indifference. I was sleep walking. Somnambulism. Any thoughts I had once had to create into music or art became thoughts that were lost and dissolved within the membranes. I started to become so aware of being aware that I couldn't participate in anything outside of my own skull.
Eventually, the thought occurred that if I were able to sit idle through entire years of school and social situations, have I been absent through entire decades of life? Will I wake up on my death bed and see all of this as futile and a waste of time? They'll probably say, "that Jay was a dreamer, but he never told a soul what he dreamt of."
This was the breakthrough I needed. I needed to buy something, so I thought. I needed to make something, or search for something. Something needed to happen for me to feel different.
It was through years of failures at "seeking," and needing that the suggestion came from one of my spiritual friends I prided myself at having kept at an arm's distance away from.
"Why don't you stay in bed for ten minutes and enjoy being awake? Before you rush nowhere, sit and enjoy being somewhere."Stay in bed for ten minutes. That was the award winning hypothesis, ay?
I knew other people who had gone on week long or month long silent retreats where they eat shitty vegan food and gain a deep insight into the way the dew forms on a blade of grass. Everybody gives up their belongings and decides to eat granola for the rest of their lives, so long as the granola isn't harmed in its harvesting. This wasn't where I wanted to start and it seemed hopeless before it began. But ten minutes. Ten minutes when I woke up I could do. I hated starting my day and I could sit for ten minutes to think about how much I hated waking up.
The first few times I fell asleep. When I stayed awake I started to notice patterns on my ceiling. Over the weeks, I began to realize there were days. Tuesday through Thursday weren't "hump days," any longer. Friday was met with the same understanding as Sunday or Monday. I stopped dreading days or the idea of days as something I needed to be sedated through. It took patience but it seemed to be a fair trade compared to the years I had paid for with ambivalence. My equation; my beautiful "slackers" guide to not hating my life nearly as much was through participation in not participating.
When I wake in the morning I try to stay still for ten minutes and reflect upon whatever I wish to. I've been on time for the bus more often than late. I have the time to boil water for oatmeal rather than settling on something to grab on the way out. There's enough "time," to embrace the taste and warmth of it. I've found there to be a choice in the details I wish to retain. There's a choice in the details I strive to forget. My life can be gray, and I can be okay with a lack of color; or my life can be vibrant and I can be okay with the inevitable fluctuation of the tides of change that lead a spectrum colors to a darker gray. Forcing myself to sit broke the routine of "mindlessness." I began finding time to enjoy hidden joys in between those mandatory mundane moments I tried to will away and to plant the seed to participate more in the things I enjoy in my life.
About Jay
Jay enjoys writing from his own experience, and writes as a meditative practice. He shares his writing with the hope that others may relate and learn just as he has learned from others. Jay spends his time working on an animal rescue ranch, listening to and creating music, and helping others in their "spiritual" practice and recovery.


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There were fields where I used to run and play.
So many trees that I climbed.
The frozen lakes and ponds where I was a
hockey hero.
All those times in front of the TV, sitting in the
lap of my dad.
So many hockey games that we watched.
He used to laugh and smile when I played
making all the sound effects myself.
There were the friends that came and went.
The times we shared together.
We were indestructible.
Oh how many times we tried.
We played hard.
We wore out shoes and the knees of so many
pairs of pants.
Which mom had to sew back together
or buy new ones.
She used to complain.
I never listened.
I was free as a bird.
I was bigger than a bear.
Stronger too.
Not one care in the world.
The world didn't exist for me then.
Just that I got to run and be me.
I didn't like school.
I kept watch on the clock till the ringing
of the final bell.
When hundreds of kids were set loose.
Me included.
No plans, I just did whatever I did.
I never paid much attention to yesterday.
Even less to tomorrow.
I didn't know tomorrow existed then.
Those are days long gone by.
Left all wrapped up in a place deep in my mind.
Where I try to go from time to time.
These days it's getting harder to find.
My mind is cloaked in darkness.
I'm afraid to go there.
Yesterday is now a place I remember
all too well.
All the good times erased.
Replaced with hurt and pain.
My mind fragmented by so many harms.
Still, a ray of light or two breaks through.
And I go back to days of then.
Where there were dragons to be slain.
Races to be run.
Damage to many a bike to be done.
That makes me smile.
In between many a blank stare.
Or a deep, dark frown.
The joy's been replaced by fear, anger and hate.
My innocence from those long ago times is
in tatters.
I fight back tears every day, every night.
I just want to be free again.
I just want to smile and laugh again.
Whatever happened to me.
How did I lose myself somewhere along the way?
It matters not.
Life is what it is.
I took the paths that I chose.
The decisions were made by me.
But with a broken mind I never could
get it right.
I'm so confused, so frustrated.
So much I don't understand.
So much that I cannot control.
I want to go back to days of then.
To spread my wings and soar so high again.
I still have hope though.
I still believe that little boy still exists.
He is quite alive.
I will learn to laugh again.
I will learn to live again.
I will learn to love and forgive again.
To have a heart of a indestructible child.
To have the faith of an innocent boy.
I will hold onto that hope.
Because it comforts me.


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It was a very busy Sunday for us, but we achieved a lot; the roof is on Jack's shed, it's been felted too so now all he has left to do is the door - photos to follow soon. We went for a long walk first thing on Sunday morning and despite it being very windy the sun was shining as we left the house at 8am. We also had a visit to the local garden centre to buy a few Christmas decorations as I had a voucher to use.
We then drove to Yattendon estate, not far from us, to buy our Christmas tree. It was heaving with people and they had a lovely indoor Christmas bazaar going on too so the place had a great atmosphere. Jack gave me responsibility of choosing the tree and I went for quite a big one! It's beautiful!
Jack and our tree!
We left it in the net for most of the day once we were home as Jack's parents were visiting in the afternoon. They loved our new sofas, Jack's dad helped Jack with the shed while Sarah and I kept Barry entertained. We had a lovely Sunday lunch at the village pub before Sarah and Richard left to drive home.
It was only late last night that we opened the tree out of the net and realised just how huge the tree was that I had chosen! It's gigantic! Probably just as wide as it is tall! We cut the old sofa into pieces ready to take to the tip next week and that cleared a huge space for the tree, but it still looks huge!
Barry trying to help give a sense of perspective!
It looks lovely anyway and is now just waiting to be decorated - I definitely need another set of lights and some more baubles!
I'm starting to feel festive now and I can't wait to decorate the tree!
Em x


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The late, great Ray Manzarek, whose hypnotic organ riffs made Jim Morrison seem less of an idiot in the Doors, would have probably loved this record by Neils Children.
Why? Because keys dictate the flow of the alternative rock quartet's new album, which veers well away from their guitar-led melodies of old – towards a more electronic future.
Yet despite the prominence it offers to ebony and ivory, Dimly Lit is of many colours. There are shades of MGMT and Blonde Redhead, as enchanting drum loops, jazzy bassline flourishes and John Linger's floating vocals fuel the psychedelic momentum.
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1-1/4 cup milk
3 egg yolks
2 cups strawberries
Juice of 1/2 lemon
3/4 cup icing sugar
1-1/4 cup fresh cream
Sliced strawberries to serve
- Put the milk into a pan and slowly bring to a boil. Remove from heat and leave for 20 minutes.
- Strain the warm milk into a bowl containing the egg yolks and whisk well. Return the mixture to a clean pan and heat, stirring constantly, until the custard just coats the back of the spoon.
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- In a separate bowl whip the cream until it forms soft peaks. Gently fold the cream into the custard with the strawberry puree. Pour the mixture into a plastic container, cover and freeze until firm.
- Soften briefly before serving decorated with sliced strawberries.


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There are two kinds of sinks that are commonly used: top-mount and under-mounting. Probably the most commonly used sink, a top-mount, or drop-in, sink is designed to sit on top of the counter, as the declare suggests. Generally speaking, most of the sink sits under the counter, gone just the rim of it sitting on top of, and visible above, the counter. Top-mount sinks are customary for lovely much any countertop material, including wood and laminate, as the cutout is unquestionably covered by the sink and correspondingly does not risk brute damaged by water. They are with less costly to install in a rock countertop, because they accomplish not require laborious polishing of the cutout edges, as gone an under-mount sink. But, the decree is that you cannot wipe water and spills straight from the counter into the sink.
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text: Last Sunday B attended her monthly au pair meeting with her group. It was a holiday party. I think the group was smaller than normal because a couple girls have gone back to their home countries. January will bring two new girls to their group, from Mexico and Switzerland. The au pairs (I can't exclusively say girls as they have one boy in their group) we asked to bring a wrapped present for a gift exchange game. B brought a cute gray with white polka dots skirt and a brown belt, both from Thailand. They got to open the gifts and you could steal from one another. Two girls fought over the gift she brought! The au pairs also brought food or treats from their home countries to share and B ended up bringing a bunch home to share with us. Yum.


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On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 08:50, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 17:11, Steve Murphy wrote:Give me some advise-- evo v 1.08.99... Problem 1: My mailboxes are growing to such size that I felt the need to cut them back a bit. I went into the Blocked folder for an easy start, made a backup copy of all the files in my evolution/local/Blocked directory, and bzip2'd the daylights out the copies. I then went into evolution and deleted and expunged the 2k or so messages there, hoping to recover some of that 30meg of data or so. No such luck, not a byte of difference. But, I did leave a few messages in there, so I even deleted those. Then, the mbox size dropped from 16 meg to 0. But the .ibex is still at 14meg! I guess the only remedy is to delete the folder?you can just rm -f the mbox.ibex files. they are autogenerated. in 1.0.x, mbox.ibex files, as an optimisation, didn't shrink themselves when you expunged a folder because it was assumed that you more messages would be appended to the folder that would contain the words in the index. plus it was also pretty expensive to rewrite the mbox.ibex file.
Actually it was just impossible the way the files are used.
Problem 2: Maybe because of lack of space, but I think not: I'm trying to expunge deleted messages from my Inbox. When I do, while "storing", I get the dialog: Error while 'Expunging folder': Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync <OK> Any suggested fix?rm -f mbox.ev-summary it could be because you are out of disk space or it could be because you opened the mbox file with another client, or any of a number of other things. anyways, this should be a lot less likely in development cvs afaik.
It could also happen if you're out of disk.


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Yesterday was action-packed!
I worked until 2:30, then ran to my chiropractic appointment. My shoulder/arm/neck are feeling much better, but still sore.
Straight from the chiropractor, I ran to Peanut's school so I could have my teacher conference.
His teacher is wonderful and it was a very positive conference. She only noted that he needs to slow down and check his work (actually, they ALL do). She also mentioned how helpful and sweet he is. Of course, this was wonderful to hear. I did mention that one of his bestest friends will be leaving at the end of the month and she said she knew. I told her Peanut will probably be quite upset when she leaves. Hoepfully, between the two of us, we can help him through this. I'm hoping it won't be extremely difficult, but I just don't know. He and A have been friends since kindergarten and now she's moving away 😦
Mrs. V (his teacher) told me a cute story about the two of them. They are such good friends that they were getting teased that they were boyfriend-girlfriend. She said the two of them stood up in the front of the classroom and very maturely told everyone that they were just VERY good friends and had been for a long time. Amazingly, the teasing stopped. They didn't have to scream, cry or yell. Just calmly laid out the facts.
I love those kids!!!
Anyway, got P's report card:
Math: B- (up from a C+) – SO happy!!!!
Reading: B+ (down from an A- for forgetting his reading log)
Oral/Written Language: B (consistent)
Science: A- (up from a B+) – SO happy about this!
Social Studies: A- (up from a B-) – A WHOLE GRADE HIGHER!!!!
Art: B+ (consistent)
Music: A+ (consistent)
Healthy: A (up from A-)
Phys. Ed.: A+ (consistent)
I'm VERY proud of him for his report card and good conference. He gets $7 total for the great report ($1 per A and $0.50 per B).
A few hours after the conference, we got our new kitty, Tiger. He is just too cute! He looks so tiny and furry (long hair). We were taken from the first second!
The older kitties are NOT amused. LOL
Even Flash, the youngest, is NOT very happy about the new arrival. Hopefully they will all settle in quickly. I was hoping Tiger would be a good playmate for Flash. Although Flash is nearly a year old, he still runs around and plays like a kitten, which makes the older two, Bonnie (16) and Cheetah (3) quite annoyed.
After the kitten excitement was my weekly LOST fix. I'm still confused and interested. But as yet have no new crackpot theories.
After LOST we went to bed, cuddled with the kitty some more and had a meltdown. Peanut's stuffed tiger, Baby, has a broken nose and P was beside himself. 😦
Crying and crying. I promised to fix Baby's nose today (after I buy some super glue). And I had to make Baby tell his daddy that he wasn't mad, that he still loved him and to promise not to cry about it anymore. Oy! The poor kid was so upset 😦
Baby is 4 years old today, so he's obviously been VERY loved and at times mishandled. No 10 year old should feel this much guilt over a stuffed toy 😦


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When you take a picture, you "froze" the scene. Imagine a street crowed of people. If you choose a high time exposure, you can see all the face, details, etc. It depends that you want to express its perfect.
But, if you want to show action, activity or movement, to freeze a scene it's not the solution for this.
When I took this photo I was in a festival.
These trains let children and adults travel over it. People enjoy doing this, it's funny, faster , I think that you understand that I'm talking.
I decided that I want to create photography with a lot of action. I was standing front of one of this train, that was stopped. I knew that the other train past very quickly. I believe that contrast between something static and something on movement transmit the idea of dynamism.
When you want take photos like this, you must use long exposure techniques, normally no more than ½ seconds are necessary, for this you must pay attention at:
- Be careful with overexposure some parts of the photography, if you are on a sunny day, use a low ISO, small aperture or if it's required some ND filter.
- If you use a long exposure, the photos can be unfocused. To avoid this, you can use a tripod, but sometimes it's not possible. My advice it's be quite when you push the button, try not move or if you can lean on column, wall, etc.
- Remember use vibration reducer if your camera or lens had.
The EXIF information from this image are:
- Olympus E-M5MARK 2
- Olympus lens M.12-50mm F3.5-6.3 at 25mm
- 1/6 seconds
And that's all, thanks for reading.


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MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti) - Between 550,000 and 700,000 people die in Russia every year of alcohol poisoning and related illnesses, a Russian lawmaker said Wednesday, citing a scientific report.
Russia has seen a surge in mass alcohol poisoning cases from bootleg alcohol and alcohol-based chemicals in recent months, and large numbers of fatalities have been registered throughout the country.
The speaker of the lower house of parliament, Boris Gryzlov, said Tuesday that a total of 17,000 people were killed as a direct result of consuming bootleg liquor and alcohol substitutes in Russia from January to early September. Source.


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Well, guys, Im all rested up! Thanks for letting me have a little R and R, I assure you it will reflect positively on the quality of the soups!
Just a reminder that I will start pre-sales of the cookbook the first week of December so if you would like to get on the list come on by the booth at any of my three markets and reserve your copy! we will be taking cash, check and credit cards but please remember that it will be a separate transaction from your soup purchase (which means you may have to wait twice) Sam Peck, co-author, will be handling sales of the cookbook at the market so hopefully things will roll along as usual in the soup line. Books will be discounted 20% at the markets (originally $28.95 down to $24.95 +tax).If you would like your pre-ordered copy signed, please make that request to Sam at the time of purchase.
Ok! Back to soups!
Thursday in Morro Bay: Cashew Cream of Broccoli and Mung Bean Wild rice (Mung beans are just what you need if you over-indulged like me at Thanksgiving!)
Friday in Cambira: Cashew Cream of Broccoli and Mung Bean wild rice
I look forward to seeing you all and don't forget your jars!


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One scarf down...three to go.
I've finally decided to finish all of the stupid scarved I have laying around my house. And here's the first product of my labors.
Of course I've been working on this one for a long time. Its DIC smooshy...wonderful stuff...soft springy and great colors!
This scarf is destined to be a Christmas present...probably for fearless leader..but we'll see :)


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Hello! I am going to slip this one in under the wire -- and for very good reason!
When I first saw this delicious Tuesday Trigger a while back over at Moxie Fab World, I instantly knew I wanted this to be the inspiration for the card I would make for my mother for Mother's Day. The problem was that I wouldn't be giving my mother her card until Mother's Day, and I didn't want to blast it for the whole world to see before I gave it to her! ;)
So, here I am with the card I have *just* given my mother (who, btw, is one of the best people I know in the world. I am a lucky, lucky girl to have been given the Mom I was… I don't tell her nearly as often as I should how much she means to me, but that doesn't change how thankful and blessed I am to have her in my life. :)
I hope you were able to celebrate the women in your life today, and that you moms out there were celebrated (and maybe even spoiled a bit!) and reminded how loved you are… :)


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It was a grand day in Lincoln, NE. Tom Osborne was celebrated for his 41 years of service in an official capacity. Seniors were applauded, Taylor Martinez blew a kiss to the audience via the HuskerVision screens after clinching the school's all-time passing record, oh and the home team won.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers steamrolled the Minnesota Golden Gophers 38-14, causing the Michigan Wolverines' lead in the Legends division plucked earlier in the day to be brief yet again. Don't let the back end of that score fool you, Jerry Kill's charges were outclassed across the board by a team that came out, slugged their opponent in the jaw and never let up.
Martinez brought "T-Magic" to the field throwing for 308 yards and two touchdowns. Some said tradition is dying at Nebraska when the Huskers donned black, but it's hard to make that argument with another running back over 1,000 yards for his career. While it's been difficult watching Rex Burkhead stand on the sideline, Ameer Abdullah has settled down uneasiness about next year's running back stable thanks to his efforts this year.
The mantra of "If you don't know, throw to The 'Fro!" solidifies more by the week as Kenny Bell turned in his best performance of the season, hauling in nine of Martinez's passes for 136 yards and two touchdowns.
Nebraska flat out bullied the Gophers around winning the overall yardage battle 444-177 and holding Kill's crew to one third down conversion on thirteen tries.
As if the Huskers' victory wasn't enough, word was received prior to kickoff that Nebraska had received a verbal commitment from running back Adam Taylor of Katy, TX. Rated a three-star prospect by 247Sports, Taylor also had offers from the Arkansas Razorbacks, LSU Tigers, Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys and Stanford Cardinal among others.
With Nebraska on a five game tear, it'll wrap the regular season up next Friday in the completely natural, and in no way forced Heroes Game against the Iowa Hawkeyes. If the Huskers win, they're headed to Indianapolis with a conference title and BCS bowl appearance in their sights.
Brandon Cavanaugh is a college football columnist for Rant Sports and a member of the Football Writers Association of America. Follow him on Twitter and join in on the conversation.


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About Me
- Irish Eyes
- I am a Mom of two young lads, a fitness fanatic and wife to a die-hard Packers/Brewers fan. I worked in corporate america for 12 years. Now I am on a new adventure - raising my sons and working part-time in the fitness industry as a Personal Trainer and Group Exercise Instructor. I hope you stop by and read my updates- family, fitness, or life related!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Tis the Season!
Joe did a great job decorating the house for the holidays - he is into it more than I am so I am thankful for that! He thought it would be fun to put Braden in his new Christmas pajamas and take some fun pictures of his first Christmas season. Although he won't obviously get into Christmas this year it sure is fun to have him around this holiday season. It is crazy to think that last year at this time we were not pregnant yet and now we have an almost three month old son! Life is good!!!!
Braden is getting more active these days- he plays w/ some toys (holding them and tries to put them into his mouth), and he sure is talking and moving a lot more! It's fun to watch the changes each and every week. He is a good little man!
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I had an interior decorator tell me years, I mean really YEARS, ago that most set things should be fairly bland in color. Decorate around them so you can change style as frequently as you feel like it.
But, for now, with those white kitchens, what do you do to jazz them up? 4 ideas on Houzz this morning, 3 I am sharing and would love your thoughts!
One was to add a bookshelf. Meh, I didn't bother with a picture of that for you.
Another was Statement Tile
I supposed you don't have to go that colorful with the tile!
A different colored center island. Yep, a lot of us have seen that and I do really like it!
And, a mixture of materials. Wood, metal, cloth. All to add color and dimension.
I actually do have white cabinets in my kitchen. Kinda bored with them for sure. So, when we get around to painting the walls, I just may refinish our center island to match!


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Flood creates havoc in Northeast India
Nisha Sethia
Relentless rainfall has created havoc in the North Eastern states of India. The states of Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh have been badly hit. Earthquake in Assam during 1950 raised the bed of the Brahmaputra, and floods began to threaten the environment.
Flood in Assam is a regular feature. The only things that have changed from year to year are the number of people affected, crores in relief, number of deaths.
The flood situation has improved substantially and railway connectivity has been partially restored yet overall 1.6 lakh people are still suffering in the six district of Assam. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has organised rescue operations across the state. The army has also been put on standby for emergency rescue operation. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal took stock of the entire network of embankments and asked the water resources department to begin repairing the breaches. He also provided medical emergencies to avert outbreak of any water borne diseases in the flood affected areas, restore snapped communication and repair roads and culverts on a war-footing. He has also asked to arrange for immediate vaccination of cattle and to give seeds of rabi crops to the farmers.
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I have software installed here:
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And need the permissions set as follows:
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(CNN) A new wave of design-focused properties recognizes that just because you have tots in tow doesn't mean you want cheesy interiors, chicken fingers and character breakfasts.
Carlisle Bay (Antigua)
No need to worry about getting side-eye or exasperated sighs from childless vacationers at this small-but-mighty resort situated on its own beach and bay in Antigua.
The hotel is set up in two zones -- one for couples and another for families. Everyone gets the same access to the calm, white-sand private beach, free water sport rentals and the spa favored by beauty mogul Gwyneth Paltrow.
The kids' club is free for ages 2 and up ($15 an hour for smaller tykes), and offers adventurous excursions for the older set.
The entire place, including its 82 rooms (all of which face the water), is decorated in crisp whites and cool blues and benefits from Antigua's famously hospitable culture.
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Fellah Hotel (Marrakech, Morocco)
This 21-acre desert village shows off Morocco's rich culture, at a slightly slower pace than its Marrakech setting.
Everything about this retreat, set against the Atlas Mountains and hosting a UNESCO-approved library, works to inspire young minds.
Aside from leisure pursuits like collaging and campfire storytelling, there's also real-world training like farm work (gathering eggs, grooming animals, milking cows) and boxing (don't worry, it's friendly) for the little ones.
Parents can partake, but they'll probably be more comfortable taking in the garden views from the pool or sweating stress away in the hammam.
From $145; fellah-hotel.com
Grande Lakes (Orlando, Florida)
There's another way to do Disney.
This mega-resort made up of two luxury giants (Ritz and JW Marriott), offers a totally different (read: more restorative) Orlando experience.
The rooms and interior spaces are big and posh, but the familial highlight is outside. This spring, Grand Lakes debuts an eco-adventure sports center ideal for wearing out energetic travelers, with cycling, fly-fishing, kayaking and sunrise safaris through the Everglades.
Mom and dad will appreciate tours and tastings at the on-site brewery, and the whole gang can get their hands dirty working in the 18,000-square-foot garden that supplies farm-fresh fare to two new restaurants (or a picnic for four).
From $199; grandelakes.com
Angama Mara (Maasai Mara, Kenya)
Is there anything more thrilling for a kid than venturing to the African countryside to see lions, giraffes, zebras and elephants in the wild? Kenya's two-year-old Angama Mara luxury lodge makes those animal-filled dreams a reality.
Opened by a South African husband-wife duo, the camp consists of 30 modern, glass-fronted tents that seem to float over the Maasai Mara plains. Several of the tents have interconnected layouts for families wanting extra space.
Although there's no set children's program, Angama shapes itineraries around guest needs (including babysitting) and welcomes ages six and up. It's not uncommon for a staffer to take young explorers on a nature hike or to a beading class with Maasai women, while the grown-ups cruise over the Great Rift Valley in a hot air balloon.
From $825; angama.com
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To give you an Overview of the Unisea Crab Processing Plant, I have included this Map from Google Earth. The Next Picture is Labeled "First Picture of Unisea Dock" The Unisea dock is Cool in the fact that it is Heated so not much snow or Ice builds up on it, Even in Dutch Harbor weather!!!
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The Cornelia Marie, back home in Dutch Harbor Safe with Mount Newhall in the Background.
The Crane is moving over into position to pick up the empty Brailer.
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The Crane being Lowered into the Hold.
George and a hundred or so of his "Criminal Associates" Being Transferred to Unisea Custody.
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Julian Javier on March 6, 2011 was awarded the Perfect Poet Award for the Thursday Poet's Rally Week 39 by Jingle and the whole of the Thurday Poet's Rally crew.
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I was pondering this issue the other day and discovered that if you drill down a ways, into the origins of this powerful emotion [if it is an emotion] there is a lot more going on than one would expect? Especially regarding the cultivation of faith in human beings as a process of maturation and faith as an instinct in the animal kingdom.
Faith in the animal kingdom: animals, not just human animals, also appear to practice faith on a daily basis to assist them in their day to day survival and interaction with their fellow animal species. In the case of wildebeest or antelope or any herding animals, they have faith that when a predator advances on them there will be a member of their herd to sound a warning thus allowing the rest of the herd to seek an escape route. Otherwise they would each have to be on guard every moment of every day and rely only on themselves to determine the level of danger and appropriate escape route? They follow their herd in whatever direction it takes them and have faith that they will escape and live to graze again. Schools of fish and dolphins practice the same kind of faith. Where do we go, what do we do and where is the food?
As human beings, most of us are born into a single family unit, completely helpless and in need of 24/7 care and protection, to be provided to us by our immediate family members (or guardians). They must satisfy our considerable, immediate needs in order for us to survive the day so, through the daily experiences of hunger and satiety, fear and consoling, cold and warmth, we first learn to have faith in the people taking care of us. We learn through these 'experiences' that the deeds of our guardians are mostly positive and in our best interests, thus our 'Faith' in them as providers is justified. This would be the first stage in our life long experience with faith and trust. [In the case of child abuse though, I expect the opposite would be true where we would learn that people can't be trusted and therefore we would develop a 'lack of faith' in them and a faith only in ourselves].
The next phase begins when our family members 'teach' us to extend our established faith beyond the deeds and actions and learned experiences of our immediate family unit. This would then be our first 'leap of faith' that we would encounter as impressionable youngsters? They could teach us to have faith that the car won't crash on the way to school because Mom is a careful driver or because traffic is usually light at that time so it shouldn't be a problem or maybe that the rain won't melt us if we get caught outside in it and that everything will be ok if we happen to fall down and skin our knees. We are taught to have faith that everything will usually turn out alright during and after these mundane, everyday life occurrences. After a while then, we accept these everyday experiences as just a part of life and add these truths to our list of truths, and as part of our faith. We also incorporate, into our expanding and existing faith, the belief that what our family members tell us regarding everyday events and problems, are 'truths' and need not be questioned. Once again, our faith has been built upon facts and experiences.
Then there is the 'family tradition' type of faith also, where generations, or possibly this particular generation, believes in a specific religious institution and the children of the family are therefore expected to believe in the same religion and have faith that their family members are correct, and by proxy, the specific religion and religious claims are also correct (e.g. truth). We are taught then, to have faith in the tenets and writings of this family religion and to consider the purveyor of these 'truths' (pastor, priest, rabbi, bible, torah etc.) to be as trustworthy as our own family and to regard what we are told by these writings and purveyors to be unquestionable truths as well. We have now reached the second leap of faith stage; that being the belief that what we have not experienced for ourselves is true because we are told that they are true and our own personal experiences are not necessary as proof or validation. Our latest lesson in faith is now to learn to have faith in the unknown by second hand knowledge, passed down by unknown and unseen authors of a religion they can't verify or question. Their faith is now required to be unwavering and unquestioning.
This is the point in our lives where we separate the faith-ful from the faith-less. This is when we begin to choose whether to believe or to disbelieve. This is the point in every human beings' life when we must decide whether to believe whatever we are told by our trusted sources or to question everything until we gain the necessary knowledge to make our own decisions. This is also the juncture where we are judged by the faith we have cultivated or have not cultivated. Faithful or Faithless? We must choose and choose wisely. This is where the politics of religion enters the picture.
'Faithlessness' as a definition of the absence faith is really only used in a religious context since no one really knows or cares about our extent of faith in any other context. No one is ostracized (except possibly on a local level) for their lack of faith in government or purity of food or future direction of the stock market? We are really only judged by our respective religious institutions and their practitioners on our 'extent of faith' and our perceived 'loyalty to the faith' or conversely, on our apparent lack of faith and hence, disloyalty to 'the faith'. 'Lack of faith' seems to be a relatively local stigma regarding the lack of faith in a particular religion or ideological area. The exception would be during a time of war when our faith is called patriotism and we are judged on our extent of patriotism by our fellow citizens and expected to give our all to the war effort without question. Aside from a war effort, we are judged by our local religious institution for having a lack of faith in their religion and a stigma is placed upon us on a local level as 'disbelievers' or infidels but as we venture further from the source of this stigma, the effect tends to wear thin and we are not judged as harshly by others of a different religion as long as we don't interact with them or their particular brand of religion. In anonymity, our faith is our own and we can begin to cultivate our own faith and our own beliefs or choose top believe in nothing if we wish?
If we say out loud in most circles that 'we don't believe in god' or the prevailing religion, we are looked upon as some sort of godless beast. At this stage, to be 'without a god' is unheard of and sinister. "Are you an Atheist?" "Do you believe in the Devil?" In a lot of societies, the local religious institution has dirty words that they teach to their flocks in order to vilify the non-believers; Atheist, Devil Worshipper and Godless are but a few. Not to 'believe' and have faith in the prevailing religious sect is to be an outsider and untrustworthy. The "If you're not with us you're against us" attitude is prevalent. Both camps have chosen sides and we're in one or the other. Faith in the Universe is unacceptable as an alternative to either side.
Also from the stage of religious faith, if we have gone with the program and believe what we are told, we are then taught to extend our faith well beyond even our own local religious institution and to have faith in our government and elected politicians; to have faith that the laws they legislate are just and in our best interests and long term welfare. At this stage, faith becomes a tool, not for us but for the purveyors of religion and politics. Our faith is counted upon to maintain the status of the religion, to re-elect a government and politicians and to believe what we are told so as to maintain the status quo of the present hierarchy. The more we question, the more of a liability and nuisance we tend become to them which is probably the reason for the practices of ostracization and scarlet letters seen through the centuries, possibly starting with the inception of the first human settlement?
So, we've learned to have faith, initially based on life experiences, then we were taught to extend our faith into areas outside of our own experiences. During these latter stages we each chose a path to take and are now living by the decisions we made and the faith we've accumulated or haven't accumulated. One thing is for sure, the longer we stick around, the longer will be the list of people that are counting on our faith in them to maintain their status quo. Should we just 'believe' what we are told or should we just keep questioning until we find 'truth'? Should we have 'faith' or do we even require 'faith'? Is faith all-encompassing or is there still room for free-will somewhere? These are all questions we could ask ourselves ad infinitum or until we cease to exist on this planet and one more thing is also for sure; when our planet ceases to exist our religions and our faith will cease to exist as well. Is there an easy answer to all of this or does the truth lie in the unanswered questions? Someday we will all know, or not.
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More qualifying madness! Eight matches in the Americas on Saturday to wrap up a huge day of qualifying matches for South Africa 2010.
We dealt with the Eastern Hemisphere in the post below. Now for the New World ...
In short, the salient events were Mexico going into Costa Rica and spanking the Ticos ... Argentina being pummeled by Brazil, but the damage being limited, apparently, only to to Argentine pride. Brazil, meanwhile, clinched a berth in South Africa, continuing its run of never having failed to qualify for the finals.
More on the Western Hemisphere:
Game of the day: Mexico 3, Costa Rica 0. Giovani dos Santos, the attacking revelation from Tottenham, scored the first goal and assisted on the others as Los Tricolores blistered the Ticos in their home stadium and thoroughly recalibrated the Concacaf qualifying picture. The standings now are excruciatingly tight, but resurgent Mexico now is in the best position to gain one of the region's three guaranteed berths to South Africa 2010, and here's why: Mexico gets two of its final three matches at home, where it is always formidable, and ends at Trinidad & Tobago, which will be playing for nothing. And of the two home matches, only Honduras, on Wednesday, figures to be a test; the other is against little El Salvador. ... Meanwhile, Costa Rica, which led the standings most of the year, has been blitzed 7-0 in its last two matches and must recover in a hurry to avoid finishing fourth. The Ticos go up to El Salvador on Wednesday, and the Salvadorans haven't lost at home yet in the Hexagonal; gets T&T at home (a fairly certain three points) -- and then plays at the U.S., where it hasn't done well in decades.
Surprisingly inconsequential game of the day: Brazil 3, Argentina 1. Whenever these two meet, it's a competition of global significance. But Argentina's heavy defeat, even at home, did not cost it its fourth-place position in the South American standings because its top pursuers stumbled as well, and to sides not vaguely as formidable as la selecao. Argentina needs to win a road match however, something it hasn't been up to for nearly two years, if it wants to hang onto the fourth spot -- and a guaranteed berth at South Africa. (The No. 5 finisher goes into a playoff with Concacaf's No. 4 finisher.) Argentina goes to third-place Paraguay next, gets bottom-dweller Peru at home and finishes at Uruguay in a match that could determine Nos. 4-5. ... Meanwhile, Brazil punched its ticket to South Africa, thanks to two goals from Luis Fabiano, the Sevilla striker. Which was no great surprise, if a relief for Carlos Dunga & Co. ... Meanwhile, we have to wonder of Diego Maradona, Argentina's coach, might be in trouble if he doesn't get a result at Paraguay.
Ugly game of the day: United States 2, El Salvador 1. We didn't see them all, of course, but it would be hard to top the listless and erratic performances these two turned in, in Sandy, Utah. The U.S. was shockingly sloppy in the back, clearly missing AC Milan's Oguchi Onyewu (one-game suspension), but the Salvadorans were unable to take advantage of a half-dozen great scoring chances. Landon Donovan was one of the few Americans who played well, setting up both goals with fine service from distance, and working back into the defense for all 90 minutes. A week from now, of course, it will look only like the Americans successfully defending their home turf. The Yankees go to Trinidad & Tobago on Wednesday and would be well-advised to come back with three points against the region's cellar-dweller.
Biggest missed opportunity of the day: Peru 1, Uruguay 0. The two-time World Cup champions had the easiest road test to be had in South America, at sea level, against guppy Peru, where the national team was in open revolt against the federation over money issues. But Uruguay couldn't manage a goal and conceded one to Hernan Rengifro in the 86th minute, and the Uruguayans missed a chance to move into fifth place, only one point behind fourth-place Argentina.
Most dramatic home improvement: Colombia 2, Ecuador 0. After a rough patch that lasted almost a year, Colombia thrust itself squarely into the discussion for the No. 5 spot -- and maybe even the No. 4 spot currently occupied by Argentina. Jackson Martinez and Teofilo Gutierrez scored in the final 15 minutes to win it for Colombia at Medellin, and the Colombians now are tied with Ecuador for fifth, with 20 points. Colombia is at Uruguay on Wednesday in a critical match,
then gets Chile at home and Paraguay away, next month. A tough road, but now doable.
And now we turn our attention to the five Africa matches being contested today. More on that to come.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
The Road to 2010: Western Hemisphere
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Decided: June 19, 1972.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,v.JERRY H. FUCHS, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT
For reversal -- Chief Justice Weintraub and Justices Jacobs, Francis, Proctor, Hall and Schettino. For affirmance. -- None.
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Defendant Fuchs was convicted of two charges of false swearing. The Appellate Division affirmed in an unreported opinion and we granted certification. 58 N.J. 598 (1971).
The charges arose out of the murder of one Judy Kavanaugh. Her automobile was found burning in the early morning of February 24, 1966, and her body was found about two weeks later. Harold Matzner, whose company employed both the deceased's husband and the defendant Fuchs, was indicted for her murder.
On November 16, 1966, some nine months after the homicide and before Matzner was indicted, Fuchs was summoned before the grand jury to testify as to Matzner's whereabouts at the time Mrs. Kavanaugh disappeared. In that connection Fuchs submitted to the prosecutor a lengthy statement prepared with the aid of his attorney, and he testified before the grand jury in harmony with that statement. On July 14, 1967 Fuchs testified at Matzner's bail hearing. The convictions here involved stemmed from the testimony Fuchs gave on those appearances. The testimony related to Matzner's alibi, that after participating in a meeting in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, on the evening of February 23, 1966 (Mrs.
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Kavanaugh's car was found in flames in the early morning of February 24), Matzner and Fuchs left for Chicago to attend a business convention.
The first count alleged that Fuchs testified before the grand jury that he and Matzner left for Chicago on the evening of February 23 by a flight out of Idlewild Airport, New York, whereas he testified at the bail hearing that the flight was out of Newark Airport. We note that in connection with the grand jury testimony, Fuchs said his secretary gathered the data for him, and that on that basis he said that after the meeting in Fair Lawn "we traveled to, I believe to Idlewild, to take the last flight out to Chicago, and I believe the airline was American." He thought the flight left Idlewild at 10:00 P.M. On December 6, 1966 Fuchs appeared at the prosecutor's office and corrected that statement, saying they "arrived at Newark Airport in time for the 9:50 P.M. flight to Chicago." He testified to that effect at the bail hearing the following July. There is no question that Fuchs did buy two tickets for the 9:50 P.M. flight on American out of Newark. The first count charged that falsity inhered in one or the other statement as to the airport from which that flight took off. Fuchs attributed the discrepancy to his secretary's error which she discovered and which led to his corrective statement to the prosecutor on December 6, 1966 mentioned above.
The other count upon which Fuchs was convicted charged that he testified at the bail hearing that Matzner registered at the Chicago hotel for both of them whereas in fact Fuchs signed his own registration card. The testimony of Fuchs in this regard had been the same before the grand jury.
The false swearing statute, N.J.S.A. 2A:131-4, provides that anyone "who willfully swears falsely in any judicial proceeding" is guilty of false swearing. N.J.S.A. 2A:131-5 provides that if contrary statements are made under oath it shall be sufficient to allege in the alternative that one or the other is false; that proof of both statements is prima facie evidence that one or the other is false; and
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that "if the jury are satisfied from all the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that one or the other is false and that such false statement was willful," it shall be sufficient for a conviction. N.J.S.A. 2A:131-6 provides that it shall not be necessary to prove the matter sworn to was "material," and N.J.S.A. 2A:131-7 provides that "'willful' shall * * * be understood to mean intentional and knowing the same to be false."
The evidence does not sustain the convictions. The State must prove more than falsity. Willfulness, as defined in N.J.S.A. 2A:131-7, must be found, i.e., that the defendant intentionally testified to something he knew to be false. Although the statute does not require proof of materiality, and motive as such is not an ingredient of the crime, nonetheless there must be some basis for an inference that a witness intentionally swore to something false while conscious of its falsity. Cf. State v. Borrell, 18 N.J. 16, 24 (1955). The Legislature intended to reach a witness who gives false testimony with a sense of wrongdoing. It would serve no public end, and indeed would disserve the judicial process, if every witness ran the risk that every misstatement could be found without more to have been made intentionally with an awareness of falsity.
Here the fact of falsity is clear, but we see no basis for an inference that Fuchs knew his testimony was false when he gave it. The record does not suggest that a purpose would be served by either misstatement, and absent some purpose, there is no reason to infer those ...
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