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"The enigmatic presence of the human mind winks back from the dark..."
Communion Turns Thirty
by Don Stradley
In February 1987, Whitley Strieber's Communion: A True Story hit bookstores with the subtlety of a metal sliver working its way under the skin. This peculiar item belongs on the roster of controversial confessionals – Gong Show host Chuck Barris writing in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind that he was a CIA assassin, for example. It also stands alongside the more memorable UFO and alien literature, such as Major Donald Keyhoe's The Flying Saucers Are Real (1950) - which slipped onto newsstands as a cheapo Gold Medal paperback, but seriously explored the growing phenomenon of discs flying across our skies – or Erich Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods? (1968), the launch of an ongoing fascination with "ancient astronauts." Strieber's book sparked the usual derision, but it's a small marvel. Most who write on this subject are enthusiastic clods, while Strieber used his background as a novelist to create a narrative that was both chilling and poetic.
Part of what made Strieber's account of being visited by strange beings was his reluctance to use terms like "UFO," or "aliens." He never comes out and says men took him aboard a spaceship from another planet. He maintains throughout the story that he doesn't really know what happened. Through hypnosis, he belches forth a handful of murky memories, and eventually feels that some sort of recurring "strange event" has been going on since his childhood, and may have also involved members of his family. The biggest immediate difference between Communion and other books like it is Strieber's suggestion, rather ahead of its time for 1987, that there may be many factors at work, everything from inter-dimensional time travel to folklore. We may know Communion as the book that kicked off the 1990s interest in UFOs, The X-Files, and government conspiracies - Strieber doing for alien abduction what Elvis Presley did for sideburns - and we may scoff, but even a skeptic should agree that it's a dazzling piece of work, heavy concepts floated across like notes from Chinese woodwinds.
To some degree, it's understandable that Strieber came under such scrutiny. Communion centers on a pair of "visitations" Strieber experienced in his rural New York home in 1985, encounters that introduced him to several small, runty beings, and one large bug-like creature who seemed, to Strieber, to be the female head of a medical team. They were, he writes, "fierce little figures with eyes that seem to stare right into the core of being." The female presence at the front takes on a special resonance for Strieber, in that he senses she's trying to make him feel at ease. This was no easy feat as the visitors yanked him out of bed, probed him, and stuck things into his brain. Yet, this female presence becomes the star of the story by default; she's the one who haunts Strieber, appearing in his mind's eye during his waking hours, and seeming to communicate with him. She's an intriguing character, with only minimal tinkering from Strieber.
Writers generally till the same ground throughout their careers, and Strieber had already written a series of horror novels involving ancient visitors, ancient vampires, and even a race of intelligent beings descended from wolves. There appear to be hints in his early work of themes that he'd touch on in Communion, as if his earlier writing had been informed by encounters that had taken place in his childhood and were buried, or replaced by "screen memories." He writes that much of his adult life involved moving restlessly from place to place, which he discovers is common among people who have had experiences similar to his. The female presence is also common, as Strieber finds out. For Strieber, she's as elusive as a woman you see at a party who gives you a secretive smile, only to disappear into the opaque night. Of course, he describes her as looking something like a preying mantis, but there's a feeling of benevolence to her, friendliness; she's playful the way a rancher is when he gives a playful pat on the rump to a steer he's just branded. If it's not exactly love, it counts for something.
In Communion, she is the object of affection. Strieber doesn't say as much, but he writes in a way to make her mysterious, vulnerable, mischievous, her company almost desirable. Though only appearing in a few sections of the book, she is the story's biggest presence. I imagine she was the model for Ted Jacob's beautiful cover portrait, which tantalized us from bookshop windows 30 years ago and was probably responsible for at least some of the book's sales. That and, of course, Strieber's writing. For instance: "…something very real had emerged from our own unconscious mind, taking actual, physical form and coming forth to haunt us. Maybe belief creates its own reality. It could be that the gods of the past were strong because the belief of their followers actually did give them life, and maybe that was happening again. We were creating drab, postindustrial gods in place of the glorious beings of the past. Instead of Apollo riding his fiery chariot across the sky, or the goddess of night spreading her cloak of stars, we had created little steel-grey gods with the souls of pirates and craft no more beautiful inside than the bilges of battleships."
Though the final section of the book deals with Strieber's philosophical outlook and the transcription of his meeting with others claiming to have been visited – which takes on the tone of a self-help encounter group meeting, and was probably more useful to the participants than the reader (though in '87 I'm sure it was cutting edge stuff, with victims coming forward and all) - it's in the first half where Strieber is like a jockey, pushing his horse to the limit, relying on his skills as a writer of horror novels to whip up the reader. The first line: "This is the story of one man's attempt to deal with a shattering assault from the unknown." He may as well be Edgar Allan Poe setting the tone for "The Tell-Tale Heart." The first chapter begins with a lengthy hunk from Dante's Inferno, and Strieber titles chapter three, "The Color of the Dark," reminiscent of H.P. Lovecraft's The Color Out of Space. This doesn't infer that the author of The Wolfen perpetuated a fraud, but he knew which sauces to dip in.
The alien abduction phenomenon has become part of our culture's fabric, and as such, is near the point of saturation. Like film noir, rockabilly, the Grateful Dead, fantasy baseball, and professional wrestling, it went from being an interesting niche market to a bloated, moneymaking, theme parkish gimmick. It's been overwhelmed by a frighteningly large group of people compelled to attend conventions dressed as saucer men. Strieber, meanwhile, has dedicated much of his life to the subject, and has written more books about it. His later work hasn't matched Communion - not in impact, not in flair - but it would be impossible to recapture what he did in '87. Now, he presides over a weekly podcast, and where he was once a lone voice in the wilderness, he's now one of many. But imagine him 30 years ago. Let's say, for the sake of this article, his experiences were real. It's hard to imagine the loneliness Strieber felt as he set out to describe these figures that smelled of moldy cardboard, violated him in ways he never quite describes, and left him uncertain if it was all "a message from the stars, or the booming labyrinth of the mind…"


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On track for what, I do not know. That was simply my attempt at humor this morning. (And yes, I know, it's not working very well!)
Crafty Deb sent me this cute little project the other day - and I was blown away. Because I have this NEW QK Ttrain - and I have this QK Beads Border - but I've never thought to use them together.
Doesn't that train look cute, just bouncing along the bumpy little "tracks"? Cute Deb, really CUTE!
So with trains on my brain - I remembered something S.M.Artie Jenn sent me a few weeks ago. And realized I had never shared it. Shame on me!
You'll never guess what she used for her "track"...the sign post from the QK North Pole die! Which right now, is FREE WITH PURCHASE of the QK Jolly Gift Set! Isn't that awesome...I just love gifts with purchase.
And that train is such an awesome die - with so many uses. Really - lots of uses...
• loading up the car for the trip to Grandma's for Thanksgiving "ROAD TRIP"
• for trips to Disney, Worlds of Fun, Six Flags or just about any zoo in the world
• any pictures of any child sitting on Santa's lap "SANTA'S LITTLEST HELPER"
• school pictures...or school achievements or milestones with an "ON TRACK" title
• same title, but for charting new baby's growth "RIGHT ON TRACK"
• any pictures from your own childhood "DOWN MEMORY LANE" (can't you just see this entire train cut out in browns/blacks and greys!)
So whether your train track is made out of a bead border, or a North pole - it's all good. It's all doable. It's all creative and artsie!
I'm working with owls today. Lots and lots of owls. Did you know that a group of owls is called a "parliament"? CRAZY! Of course, another acceptable terms is "congress", but after the elections this week I think I'll stick with the term used in England.
So check back tomorrow - for owl inspiration, juicy tidbits, and upcoming release date information. If you already have the 4x8 Aquarius font...you're be in luck! If you don't...call and order it today. Trust me - you're going to want it after tomorrow!
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh - the rest is a secret!
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Deni Badminton Club's round six saw Smashers defeat Hotshots 279 points to 265. Ramesh Shrestha and Pauline Allitt from Smashers were the only three game winners.
The second match saw Shuttle Masters 271 defeat Badminators 260 with Pam Boulton (Shuttle Masters) and John Lethbridge and Ian McMillan (Badminators) winning three games.
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Personal update
A few ministry updates and requests for prayer …
We are thrilled to have hired a new manager of operations and programs for the Center. See the Duke Divinity announcement under "Latest News." This comes with a new chapter of growth for the Center, Emmanuel, and me in this work which keeps surprising us. Pray for Emmanuel on his first-ever sabbatical year, on a fellowship with the Kroc Institute at Notre Dame and currently traveling to new places in Africa.
I started the Duke DMin program this fall, very life-giving after 7 years of intense work getting the Center off the ground. It is one of our first degrees designed for folks to stay in their positions.
I depart shortly for Romania and Poland for 10 days, will be home for a couple weeks, then depart for my first-ever journey to North Korea (with Christian Friends of Korea). I will surely write more after my return. This is Center work, discerning how God might be calling us to expand the work. We'll be hosted by Danut Manastireanuea in Romania and Wojtech Szczerba of the Evangelical School of Theology in Wroclaw – both participated in our summer institute in June.
I have not been able to blog much due to the DMin!


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By:Marvin, Jerry and Michael Japan Interwar Nationalism and Ultranationalism Japanese Economy Kamikazes and Nazis Emperor Hirohito(1901-1989) Ultra nationalism takes nationalism in to the next level where they go to the radical idea of killing people because of their small or less nationalistic passion. Ultra nationalism takes over the rights of other people, for example when Adolf Hitler ordered to kill the Jewish people because they are inferior than the Arian race and that they should be the only race in the world. . After WW1, Japans economy got worse.
. The Japanese economy during the interwar period faced major crises.
. The crisis brought reforms in the financial sector through large-scale injections of public funds and the amalgamation of banks.
.The Showa Depression of 1930-31 was caused by the Great Depression, a worldwide economic collapse, which had been intensified in Japan by the return to the Gold Standard at the old parity.
.Japan escaped from the Great Depression earlier than most other countries through a series of macroeconomic stimulus measures initiated by Korekiyo Takahashi, a veteran Finance Minister who resumed office in December 1931.
. Then, Japan introduced a mechanism by which the government could receive easy credit from the central bank without establishing other institutional measures to govern its fiscal policy. This course of events resulted in an eventual loss of fiscal discipline In every country and government type, there is always one person at the political top who makes the key decisions and determines the national policy, or leads to it - the national leader. General Hideki Tojo (Prime minister of Japan) rose in the ranks of the Japanese military and government until he consolidated power. After a short attempt to improve relations with the US failed, he ordered to go to war and attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941. When he realized that Japan was going to lose the war he resigned. After the war Tojo was executed for his responsibility to Japan's war crimes. Japanese History Hirohito known as Emperor Showa was the emperor of Japan from 1926 till his death in 1989. Hirohito had a divine status and was also the Commander and chief in the military. Hirohito admired Hitlers outlook in the war and chose to ally with Germany forces. Hirohito wanted to industrialized Japan like the western nations for example United States and other european nations. In 1867/68, the Tokugawa era found an end to Meiji Restoration. Tokyo became the new capital when the emperor was moved from Kyoto to Tokyo; by which his imperial power restored.
During the 1930s and through World War II, the Japanese military controlled the government of Japan. Unlike Germany and Italy, Japan did not have a dictator. Japan admired Hitler's regime and used the Nazis to advance their military, but this member of the Axis power ruled differently and fought differently than its European allies. Japan, during World War II, made history by attacking Pearl Harbor, quickly conquering vast territories in the Pacific, defying the Geneva Convention by mistreating prisoners of war, and fighting to the death with legendary kamikazes. . Possible Examples of Ultranationalism Possible Examples of Nationalism
Apartheid in South Africa Olympic Games
European imperialism Triple Alliance
Lebensraum World Fairs, such as Expo '67
Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) Conscription during World Wars Bix, Herbert P. "World Biography." Hirohito Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. <http://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hirohito.html>.
Worden, Robert L., and Ronald E. Dolan. "Interwar Japan." Interwar Japan. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. <http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/IntJapan.html>.
Jones, Steve. "U.S.-Japanese Foreign Policies Before World War II." Welcome to About.com US Foreign Policy. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/od/asia/a/The-United-States-And-Japan-Before-World-War-Ii.htm>. The invasion of Manchuria had two important side effects - putting aside for a moment its dreadful revelation that the League was powerless in the face a determined aggressor. First, it raised the prestige of the Japanese Army. Second, it made it possible for the Army to pressurise the Japanese government to undertake a policy of armed expansion. America's consistent refusal to use nothing more than words in support of the League had shown just how toothless and helpless the international community was when it came to enforcing and upholding the peace. A dangerous precedent had been set. Japan was an industrialized nation that needed raw materials for it's factories.
They wanted to expand and create an empire like England did.
All the territory around Japan was already taken.
France had Vietnam, Holland had Indonesia, England had Malaya, U.S. had Philippines.
Japan went into Manchuria and China.
U.S. cried foul and cut off Japan's oil supply.
Japan went to war
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GAZA, (PIC)– Nineteen Palestinians were killed at dawn Saturday when Israeli warplanes bombed al-Najar family's home in Khan Younis southern Gaza Strip. Israeli artillery intensively fired shells at a residential building, belonging to al-Najar family, in Khan Younis. Nineteen family members, mostly children, were killed during the attack, medical sources confirmed. Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes targeted … Continue reading
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NBC pulls out reporter over unbiased Gaza coverage American network NBC News has pulled out its correspondent Ayman Mohyeddin from the Gaza Strip following his unbiased coverage of the Israeli regime's atrocities in the besieged Palestinian enclave. The NBC News correspondent, who personally witnessed the Israeli military's brutal murdering of four Palestinian boys who were … Continue reading
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Performer asks to borrow a ring from an audience member. You state you will MARK the ring so it can be identified later on. You bring out a can of black spray paint and begin to shake it, stating you will mark the ring with some black paint. The audience howls with laughter at this point. As you shake the can, they hear the metal ball inside the paint can mixing the paint, it's a loud clanging noise. Suddenly, the noise changes to a softer tingle!
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This week, we have certainly had our share of drama. It started over the weekend when the Maiden spiked a high, high fever– and landed in the ER, where she was diagnosed with type A flu. A couple days later, I got a call from the Man, who had been in a car crash. Everyone is okay now: the Maiden's crankily recovering and the Man is safe, other than being a bit shaken and a little sore from the airbag.
Everyone is okay. But not me. By late yesterday, I'd become an emotional wreck. I'd tried to do the "thank goodness it's all fine" thing and move on, but it wasn't working. My mind kept conjuring up scenarios where it wasn't fine, where a few more feet, a few mph faster and the Man could have been badly injured, or worse. What if the Maiden had been with him? What if something bad had happened to both?
I've always been a perfectionist, anxious to do everything right, anxious to make sure that everything I touched turned to the proverbial gold. But in the wake of the accident, my heart is crying out that in the end, none of that really matters.
And I know it's right.
It matters not that the house is a disastrous mess. A messy house is a full house. Sick babies can't run around scattering toys. Hurt Men can't leave their clothes on the bedroom floor. Mess can be cleaned, can be dealt with. Mess means people. People matter.
It matters not whether I look good today. The two people who mean the most to me have seen me, 70 pounds heavier, bloated, sweaty, dark-eyed, and exhausted after seventeen hours of mostly unmedicated labor…and loved me. The love of those whom I, too love, is what matters.
It even matters not that my writing career is turning around. Without my family, I have no inspiration. Pieces of glass don't form a kaleidoscope if there's no case; my family is the case that keeps the crazy, ever-changing patterns of life together, focused, unified. Without my family, I have no inspiration. The Maiden's antics, interests shared by the Man and I, the fabric of life we've woven together– it's all one with my writing. Writing without that heart and soul would be cold and empty. It's only when I'm banked by their love that my writing matters.
There are many, many times when my family drives me absolutely insane.
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Vincent Aged Gouda Fondue
January 2, 2010
Give The lady a new Fondue pot and what does she do… she starts making Fondue like there is no other cheese dish in the world.
However, at least she knows what she is doing…
Last night for New Year's Eve and her birthday, she decided to make a fondue exclusively using Vincent Aged Gouda…I suppose the "aged" and "birthday" was a subconscious ping in her decision…
Here's what she did:
1 Cup King Fish California Chardonnay which she simmered on the stove with a few garlic chips. (She strained the garlic out before adding the wine to her roux base.
1 Tablespoon Tillamook Butter and 1 Tablespoon flour to make her roux base. She melted the butter over a medium/low heat and added the flour which she cooked for about 5 minutes until a golden color. She stirred the roux base using a whisk.
Next she added the simmering wine to the roux base and whisked it until nice and mixed.
Then she added 24 ounces of Vincent Aged Gouda which she had cubed.
She stirred until the cheese was melted and the fondue was a nice, creamy mixture.
She served the fondue with French Baguette (also cubed), apple cubes, pear cubes, raw broccoli, raw cauliflower, raw carrots and cubed Summer Sausage.
As usual The Man swooned and a licked my plate clean.
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When Cole Gibson was acquired by the Battlefords North Stars, he was supposed to add some skill and depth. Consider it done. Cole Gibson continued his consistent play Wednesday with three goals which helped pave the way to a 6-4 Stars victory over the Nipawin Hawks. With the win, the Stars officially clinched fourth place in the Bauer Conference, and will have home-ice advantage with Flin Flon in the Survivor Series.
It wasn't a great start though for the Stars who trailed 2-1 after one. Tyler Paselawski and Dan Szerlip scored for Nipawin while Cole Gibson scored on a powerplay to keep the Stars within one. Kyle Birch was impressive in goal, stopping 13 of 15 that he faced. The Stars were outshot 15-6 after one.
46 seconds into the second, the Stars tied it. Brody Luhning converted a Colin Phaneuf pass through Stephen Klein and the game was tied.
Cole Gibson notched his second of the game roughly five minutes later to give the Stars their first lead. Keith Grondin then scored his 34th of the year to double the lead, anf then Gibson's third of the night spelt the end of the night for Stephen Klein. Lein was yanked after facing 18 shots.
In came Brody Hoffman and the Hawks picked up their play. Jamie Johnson batted one out of the air and beat Kyle Birch, and the Stars took a 5-3 lead into the lockerroom after 40 minutes.
Early in the third, Mitch Galbraith increased the Stars lead to three with his fourth of the year. Nipawin got a late powerplay goal from Brendan Tash, and that was it for scoring.
Nipawin finished one for three on the man-advantage while the Stars went three-for-three. The final shots on goal were: 40-35 favoring Nipawin.
Next up for the Stars, a battle with Kindersley, at home tomorrow night at 7:30.
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Yes, Robert Kardashian Really Suspected O.J. Simpson Was Guilty
To the general public, I.M. Simpson's protection lawyer Robert Kardashian represented his pal's longtime picture as a lovable superstar. But, behind the scenes, the lawyer wasn't positive his good friend was so harmless. Playing Kardashian, David Schwimmer breaks down in a kitchen scene together with his ex-spouse Kris Jenner, portrayed by Selma Blair, after sheepishly admitting the protection may need gained Simpson the case in Tuesday's episode of "American Crime Story: The People v. A.M. Simpson."
"I simply have to take a seat there till it is over, after which he is out of our lives ceaselessly," he says of his good friend. (Jenner, in the meantime, by no means believed Simpson's story.) The soapy scene dramatizes Kardashian's actual-life emotions towards the previous soccer star, which he defined in a 1996 interview with Barbara Walters on ABC's "20/20."
Kardashian informed Walters how proof introduced by the prosecution induced him to significantly think about whether or not his good friend murdered his ex-spouse, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her good friend Ron Goldman. The presence of blood, thought to belong to S.C. and the 2 victims on the crime scene, on the notorious leather-based gloves and in A.M.'s Bronco notably troubled him.
"I have doubts," Kardashian advised Walters. He defined, "I get up in the midst of the night time. I'm so conflicted due to that blood proof." Failing outcomes of a polygraph check that A.C. took additionally "devastated" the lawyer.
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Kardashian wasn't the one one on A.C.'s aspect of the aisle with suspicions, he informed Walters. "Maybe the bulk" of the protection workforce questioned their shopper's innocence, he stated, including, "however they have been professionals." A.H. Cowlings, who drove the Bronco within the notorious low-velocity chase, was additionally conflicted by the blood proof, Kardashian stated.
Additionally, he did not really consider his group's principal protection. Throughout the case, I.C.'s Dream Team of excessive-paid legal professionals tried to recommend that Los Angeles cops have been a part of a conspiracy to border him for homicide. But a conspiracy of that nature, Kardashian stated, can be "unimaginable."
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After the trial, Kardashian admitted his friendship with I.C. wasn't the identical — and would by no means be once more. Further, if he had recognized he and his household would obtain dying threats, he'd by no means have concerned himself within the case.
Kardashian died in 2003, eight weeks after receiving a analysis of an aggressive type of esophageal most cancers.
"American Crime Story: The People v. S.M. Simpson" airs on FX Tuesdays at 10M
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The DFW Connector project achieved final acceptance in Mar. 2014.
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Curtains can be useful decorating tools since they effectively block light coming into the room and can be pulled out of the way when you want to let more light in. One challenge with curtains is that they can dominate an entire wall depending on their size and colour and can be the first thing a person notices when entering a room. Decorating around lime-green curtains requires some effort because the lime colour can clash with the rest of the space if you are not careful.
Choose linens that will match the lime-green curtains. Use a green, white or blue comforter in a bedroom with lime-green curtains since those colours tend to blend well. Throws and blankets with those colours work well in living rooms featuring the green curtains and they will help the furniture match.
Use a carpet colour that matches the lime green, such as white, or forgo carpet entirely and select hardwood floors -- the wood tones go well with the curtains.
Fill the room with dark-brown, wooden furniture. Black or white furniture will work as well, depending on your personal preference.
Accessorise the walls with picture frames and other knick-knacks that go with the lime green. Green frames work well for pictures or you can hang small pink or yellow items to help the walls stand out against the curtains. Black, in small amounts, also goes well against the green.


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Spurred in the 1980's by advocacy groups for HIV/AIDS patients and subsequent shift of seeing the beneficiaries of medical research funding from the scientists performing the experiments to the patients suffering from diseases, funding for basic science research has slowly shifted from a more distributive scheme to a more disease-driven scheme. Until the 1990's, The US Congress allowed the National Institutes of Health complete autonomy to decide how the money that they received from the federal government was distributed. Increasing criticism leveled at funding allocation by the NIH, with the grim title of "dollars-per-death" requests that money be allocated to research projects that support diseases that have higher death rates. An important distinction is that basic research has the power to make important discoveries that can influence the scientific and treatment landscape for many diseases, rather than just a handful. Traditionally, NIH has resisted the pressure to distribute funds according to the "dollars-per-death" method, instead choosing to retain autonomy when making funding decisions, citing the need to assure that basic research is not penalized at the expense of specific diseases.
An interesting study was recently published in the American Sociological Review, entitled "Disease Politics and Medical Research Funding: Three Ways Advocacy Shapes Policy", by Rachel Kahn Best . This study compares the amount of lobbying done by social groups representing patients with a particular disease to the amount of funding that research into those diseases subsequently receives from the NIH budget. This is the most recent in a series of studies linking grassroots advocacy to resulting funding levels.
In this newest paper, Best and colleagues studied 53 diseases over 19 years and divided these different types of diseases into categories, including diseases that primarily affect women and African Americans. In this paper Best discusses the fact that without a specific mandate to change the funding model to a disease specific one, lobbying efforts have been successful in swaying funding in this direction over the last 20 years. She categorized lobbying efforts into direct benefits, distributive changes, and systemic effects. Overall, Best determined that there is a strong relationship between lobbying efforts and funding changes, with those groups, particularly for diseases that specifically effect women (eg, uterine cancer) and the African American population (Sickle-cell Anemia) suffer funding distribution changes because of fewer dedicated lobbyists to these causes. Not wholly surprisingly, diseases thought to be less "morally worthy", ie, lung cancer, presumed to be caused by smoking, and liver cancer, presumed to be caused by extensive alcohol consumption, have suffered a decrease in research funding over the last two decades.
A previous paper published in 2011 by Hegde and Sampat looked at the funding levels for 955 rare diseases by the NIH from years 1998-2008, ostensibly just the Presidency of George W. Bush (R). The authors found several interesting trends: lobbying by special interest groups representing rare diseases results in a greater expenditure of funding to those specific diseases, but less so in years following a change in the leadership of Appropriations Subcommittee responsible for NIH allocations. Subsequently, how funding is dispersed through NIH is influenced by "soft" earmarks, or those that are influenced by Congressional subcommittees, and not necessarily dictated by wording within legislation. These may be influenced by the preferences of individual Subcommittee members. Finally, the authors conclude that information that informs policy is gathered by information distributed by lobbying groups rather than well-monied interest groups at the cost of the larger public.
Economists have also joined the call to switch from NIH's current funding model to one that favors more disease-specific and therefore more standardized model of NIH spending. In a paper published in PNAS in 2009, Manton et al. correlate an increase in spending on scientific research on specific diseases to an increase in the national economy. Earlier this year, Bisias, et al published a paper in PloS One entitled "Estimating the NIH Efficient Frontier", in which they hypothesize that the modern portfolio theory (minimize risk for a given level of expected return by carefully choosing the proportions of various assets) can more closely align the amount of dollars spent on basic research with specific patient outcome.
Undoubtedly, there is much to be gained from studying specific diseases. The economic burden in healthcare costs and lost productivity from major diseases is detailed in a 2003 study by the Millken Institute entitled "An Unhealthy America: The Economic Impact of Chronic Disease". By all estimates, the cost of healthcare has risen dramatically over the past decade, increasing these estimates proportionally, though spending subsided slightly in 2010. NIH produces an annual list of disease and research categories and the respective amount of funding they receive here. The Center for Responsive Politics publishes the number of lobbying efforts per organization per year here.
The NIH budget is a closed system in that focusing money on one special interest will undoubtedly take money away from other, equally deserving lines of questioning. As scientists, it is important to understand the changing landscape of NIH funding and how that will affect many laboratories and the future of biomedical research. Additionally, it is important to understand that many biotech companies exist to support research into specific diseases, and that we should recognize their value for these reasons. An amount of money dedicated to a specific disease from NIH probably doesn't represent the total amount of money that is spent research efforts for that disease in any given year.
The important take-away message from these new findings is that your voices are heard! It is crucially important in this uncertain funding climate that scientists lobby hard for increasing the NIH budget for sustained and continued growth!


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I keep reading over and over again, at various forums, the same question(s).
So here's a little precis of good technique.
I suggest using Lalvin products, not because I've got anything to gain, but because they publish more info/data about their products than any other yeast producer.
So, to start with, the basic must (must being the mix of honey and water - possibly other ingredients - to make it ready for fermentation) is just honey and water. There's a certain amount of conjecture as to what "good" honey actually is. The problem is that if it's a commercial/branded honey, it's very likely to have been processed specifically for eating/baking etc, which has a potentially adverse effect on the honey i.e. the process of heating and filtering etc, often remove some of the more subtle aroma and flavour compounds, so if possible, you not only want the honey to be pleasing to the taste, but if it's raw and unprocessed, it's likely to be worthy of the title "better". Any "hive debris" like bits of wax, dead bee's etc will fall out or float during the fermentation and clearing, which makes them easily removed.
The heating thing also applies to "cooking" the must (or wort as beer makers are likely to call it). Now there's no need to heat it up really, yes if the honey as crystalised some, then using hand hot tap water is the lesser evil. Personally, I just spoon it out the container, and then blitz it in a food processor with some water. Honey is hygroscopic, so it will take up the water quite readily. This not only mixes it well, but also aerates the must nicely. The additional water required to bring the volume up to the required level is then easily just mixed/stirred in.
Additionally, you don't need to "pasteurise" the must either. Honey is natures most anti-bacterial, anti-fungal substance. Plus with the water, well if you like the water straight from the tap etc, then it's fine to use - yes you will find comment around the bazaars that alludes to filtration of various types, both for distilled water and reverse osmosis water. Some people will bang on about those types of water not having any nutrients etc. Well if you're relying on the water for nutrients, then you're likely to be making show meads that don't use other nutrient, but also can make for a long, tortuous ferment, because one thing that honey is deficient in, is nutrients. Yes it has all the fermentable sugars you could want, but it's low on anything else. Those ingredients are normally added later.
Now with your yeast(s), the data that Lallemand/Lalvin publish, refers to grape wines, so there's still room for error, but at least it's better than nothing. It's a handy guide to work out the relative nutrient needs and with honey/meads, even so called "low nutrient" yeasts will need some nutrition. More importantly, it's handy to do a search to find out what you can, because some yeasts make good meads but have a few caveats attached. One such yeast is Lalvin D47. It does make a good mead, but it does have quite a narrow fermentation range, and it appears that it needs to be fermented below 70F/21C, because above that, it has a habit of producing fusels, that can give a very harsh, chemically sort of taste, that can take forever (if at all) to mellow out. Fusel tastes shouldn't be confused with "alcohol hot" taste because while it takes a while to mellow, alcohol hot taste will age out.
I like to rehydrate my yeasts with GoFerm. It's a type of nutrient that is specifically formulated to feed the yeast while it's rehydrating. Plus it's quite normal to use a little bit of must, some water, the appropriate amount of GoFerm and then the yeast is mixed in and it's left until some bubbling/foaming shows on the top of the rehydrating yeast.
That mix, is in turn, pitched into the must, I then either cover with a cloth or airlock it, depending on the fermenter used.
I then don't add any more nutrients etc until there's visible signs of the ferment commencing and the "lag phase" is over. I will have worked out roughly how much nutrient is needed for the batch and will have halved it to be added in 2 stages. You can break the quantities down more if you want and work out when you want to add them, though there's some anecdotal evidence, that after a certain point in the ferment, the yeast will no longer absorb inorganic nitrogen sources, so only organic sources should be used (I don't have any FermaidO, so I usually use boiled bread yeast to provide late addition nutrient).
So, I've got it mixed, I've rehydrated the yeast with GoFerm (which coincidentally, is low in nitrogen, as that can be harmful to the yeast in this early stage), there's signs of active fermentation, so I know that the yeast colony is large enough to be doing that, I've used a mix of 2 parts FermaidK to 1 part DAP (di-ammonium phosphate), which has been split into 2 doses, the first has been added after the lag phase, so now I aerate it i.e. you can use a spoon or other stirrer, but I'm lazy, so I use an electric whisk. Some people recommend at least twice a day, but I usually aerate once a day. I will test after about 1 or 2 days to see where the gravity has dropped to, as I aim to stop aeration and any further nutrients at the 1/3rd sugar break (which is a drop in gravity of 1/3 when the starting and estimated final gravity have been worked out e.g. if the start is 1.090, then the 1/3rd break is at 1.060, presuming it's finished at 1.000). I will always aerate first, before adding the final nutrients as that can cause the mead to let the CO2 out of solution quickly causing it to foam into an eruption, which is less likely if most of the CO2 has been removed with aeration/stirring, and you get better eruptions from carboys than you do from buckets......
Now, if I'm making a "Traditional" mead (honey, water, nutrients, etc), I will usually ferment it dry and then back sweeten it. I like my meads sweet, but not too sweet. Some of the commercial meads I've found and tried here, have all been too sweet and when tested have a finished/final gravity of up to 1.040 - which is cloyingly sweet for my taste. I like mine at about 1.010 to 1.020 and I like to sweeten them with honey.
This is potentially problematic, because the addition of honey can cause an already cleared mead to haze. So I let the ferment finish (finish is after I've had 3 identical gravity readings taken a couple of days apart over the period of a week). I will then stabilise it, which is done to prevent any refermentation starting. I will rack the finished mead onto 1 crushed campden tablet per gallon and 1/2 a teaspoon of sorbate per gallon (sometimes called potassium sorbate, or wine stabiliser). Then while it's still cloudy, but after a couple of days, I'll add a 50/50 honey water syrup up to the required gravity level, the exact level is achieved by taste but also with hydrometer tests. Once it's there, then I'll just clear it with racking and time, any topping up needed is done with either another mead or with vodka. If it's not clear by the time it's aged for 12 months, then I'll use 2 part finings.
That's not perfect practice/technique but it's not a million miles away from the methods suggested in the excellent Gotmead "NewBee Guide" either. It's linked so you can also read it if you want to.....
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Dark Needs at Night's Edge
Kresley Cole
Pocket, May 2008, $6.99
In 1927 in New Orleans Neomi Laress was a highly regarded ballerina when she was murdered by her former fiancé Louis Robicheaux. However, she never moved on; instead she has haunted her newly restored estate Elancourt, for the eight decades since he killed her.
Vampire Conrad Wroth hates himself for his inability to control his need for blood. Worried about him, his brothers take him to Elancourt to keep him away from people while hoping he will regain his sanity. However, when he meets the shadowy phantom haunting the estate, he wants to help her, but has no idea how as he cannot even touch her. As they fall in love, Conrad notices his rage and torment has abated andhe prays for a miracle; he turns to paranormal expert Mariketa the Witch to provide the means to achieve his objective.
The Cole mythos (See Immortals After Dark tales such as NO REST FOR WICKED and A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER) continues to be one of the best romantic fantasy environs for sub-genre fans. The latest is a terrific star-crossed romantic fantasy between a vampire and a ghost; they share in common love and a lust for life though both are not mortally alive. His caring brother and Mariketa add depth to a wonderful tale of a ghost who learns love is so much better on the soul than revenge and an angry vampire who learns love is so much better for the soul than uncontrollable rage. This is another winner from an author who keeps writing super romantic fantasy.
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I think it was a dream outing for me and the kids today. My friend Leslie set up a tour at Krispy Kreme so we could all see how the donuts are made. Jackson always loves to watch from the window, but they got to go behind the scenes and get an up close look. Jackson was about to grab a whole bunch of donuts once he spotted the trays stacked on top of the each, but luckily I stopped him just in time... disaster averted! The Krispy Kreme employees were very nice and even gave the kids a couple of Halloween donuts to take home with them.
Learning how the donuts are made and where the dough is put in so it can rise.
Watching the dough rise into yummy donuts!
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Salt Dough Ornaments
Salt Dough Ornaments
2 cups Flour
1 Cup Salt
1 cup Water
1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil
Food Coloring
Parchment Paper
Cookie Cutters
String or ribbons
Paints and Glitters
Mix Flour and Salt in Medium Sized Bowl. Gradually add Water and mix until dough Forms. Dump Dough onto clean Counter Top. Sprinkle dough with 1/4 or 1/2 teaspoon veg oil. Knead Dough 10 minutes. Let Dough Rest 20 min. Add Food Coloring to the dough (if you'd rather not paint.) Use cookie cutters and hands to make/mold whatever shape ornaments you want. Use a straw to poke a hole in the top so you can hang them with a string or ribbon. Bake 40 min (over parchment) at 200. Once they are baked and dry, you can paint them bedazzle with glitter or whatever you want!!
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First, a few days in France visiting with lovely niece Claire and celebrating Judy's 60th.
Then we'll be in Niger, with an important meeting to work on curriculum development for Farmers of the Future, a program to teach older primary school kids to be agribusiness people, not just subsistence farmers. We'll also work on Pads for Peace, discussing the possibility of the Pencils for Kids sewing center manufacturing reusable sanitary pads.
Next is the Songhai Center in Benin, learning about their approach to training people in integrated market-based agriculture.
Then we're off to Kenya, to do a video on Little Rock Early Childhood Development Centre, an amazing nursery school in Kibera, the huge slum in Nairobi. The nursery school has a sewing center where we plan to start manufacturing reusable sanitary pads for distribution to schoolgirls enrolled in reproductive education/empowerment programs.
At the MDG Centre in Nairobi, we'll meet with Belay Begashaw, the Director of Millennium Villages in East Africa (and former Minister of Agriculture for Ethiopia!) We'll visit with the artisans of Nanyuki Handcrafts, who make the beautiful glass-beaded necklaces we've been selling in the States. And we'll also meet Megan White Mukuria, someone who originally raised our awareness of how important access to sanitary pads is on girls being able to finish secondary school.
Our last stop is Uganda. We'll visit the Millennium Village of Ruhiira for the first time and see the grain warehouse funded by Eliminate Poverty Now. Finally, we'll meet Moses Musaazi, inventor of Makapads, a low-cost, biodegradable disposable sanitary pad.
Those are the things I know about. But I'm sure there will be lots more. I know there will be surprises, new projects we'll want to be involved in, people we'll want to introduce you to. We're excited to be finally on the way.
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I never really thought about it before, but I think I've determined I'm a fan of the caper movie. Looking back, I really like things like The Great Escape, The Italian Job, and The Ladykillers. And don't forget The Sting, one of my favorite movies of all time. I don't think it's a stretch to throw the TV series Hogan's Heroes in there also; while it is more about comedy than capering, it was the perfect entry point into the whole idea of convoluted plots to achieve a beneficial effect (I really really wanted a rotted out tree trunk that would lead into my secret cavern of goodness when I was a child). And so it was that Mrs. Speculator and I went to see The Bank Job. I admit, I had no huge expectations for the movie; frankly the Mrs. loves Jason Statham, and I enjoy pretty much everything he does. But the movie exceeded my low expectations into quite a nice thriller period piece, and Statham turns in a strong role in a minor film that hopefully promises something more from him down the road.
One of the treats of this film is that it is a period piece, set in the late 60s. The film doesn't go out of its way to make references to the 60s; instead it is very realistically done. Cars, music, language, and even lifestyle reflect the time period without calling attention to themselves beyond setting the timeframe. In less able hands than director Roger Donaldson's, you would probably see gags about the 60s and implicit references to the difference in the times. In that regard, the only thing I found to be truly distracting were the pastel patterns that one of the female characters kept showing up in. The result is that the film is centered and confident, not relying on other issues to sell the movie.
The story centers on a "villain," which I gather was a 60s British slang term for low-level crook, named Terry Leather and played by Statham. Leather is approached by an old neighborhood friend, Martine Love (played by Saffron Burrows) with a proposition for robbing a bank that has been left curiously unguarded over the course of a weekend. Of course, Leather doesn't know that Love has been blackmailed by an unnamed intelligence group into setting up the bank robbery. The goal of the intelligence group is to get incriminating pictures of Princess Margaret out of safe deposit box of a radical black leader who is using those pictures to keep from being tried for various crimes he has committed. As all of this is being set up, we also get some apparently tangential threads involving a pornography ring and a brothel. All of it makes a fascinating study of the period underground, and slowly those tangential pieces get pulled into the main story.
The movie really can be neatly divided into two halves. The first involves pulling the caper itself off, as we watch Leather pull together his band of irregulars and very low-level crooks into a job that would normally be over their heads. This first half has some amusing moments, including the members of the intelligence group actively pulling for Leather and his gang to succeed in their mission and the dumbest of the gang members, David Schilling (played by Daniel Mays) having take-out chicken delivered to the storefront the gang is working from. Even more ridiculous is the gang's use of walkie-talkies that are picked up by a local ham radio operator, who then calls in the police. Our view of the robbery then splits into external and internal views while the police try to figure out which bank is being robbed as the idiot robbers tell their listeners everything about what they are doing except their location. Just as funny and suspenseful is the robbers neatly stepping through a trap laid for them by the police when they accidentally destroy one of their walkie-talkies. This first half of the movie is cute and suspenseful, and our accidental heroes succeed beyond their wildest imaginings, except that Leather watches Love go directly to the pictures she is looking for and puts together that something about the whole deal is very very wrong.
Actually many things go wrong. There are more things in the vault than the robbers realize, and none of their owners, including the violent radical leader and the pornographer, like having their valuables looted. And suddenly the gang finds themselves on the run from very bad people who want their property back and want the gang dead for their temerity to rob the vault. And it falls upon Leather's shoulders to save not only as many of his gang members as he can, but also his own family members. Suddenly things are not quite so funny as gang members we've grown to like are disappearing from the street. There are a couple of scenes of torture that are disturbing, and we find that while Leather is a lovable loser, he's also a leader who will do everything he can for those who work for him. And there are heart-wrenching scenes when Leather's wife (played by Keeley Hawes) finds out what he has done, and Leather explains why. Usually the excuse that a crook is thinking of other people when he performs his crime is trite and generally untrue, but Leather means it and Statham sells it—he may be a low-life but he really cares about his family and friends. And so it falls to him to slice the Gordian knot he finds himself in, using a set-up straight from the best caper movies.
The movie is tightly scripted and shot—barely anything is wasted. And it is a tense story, though the kind of tension changes after the halfway point. Best of all, all of the actors put in a good job, Statham especially. These are believable characters and the viewer gets to see the rounded nature of Terry Leather. At the same time, the movie does not shirk from showing the truly evil nature of some its characters either, which in turn makes the depiction that much stronger.
As we walked out of the theater, I told Mrs. Speculator that The Bank Job is a tight little movie. That remains my opinion, and the more I think about it, the more I like it. It's no The Sting but it's a good two hours of entertainment. And best of all, it's all based on true events, which just adds another frisson of tension to the goings-on.


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This is posted under the "about" tab, but since it's the heart of me and my blog, I thought it deserved a post all its own.
This blog is my attempt to take off my good girl mask* and show the world who I am. For so long I have tried to be worthy of your approval, hoping to impress you, fearing I may disappoint you. I'm in the process of quitting, quitting this worry-filled, try-hard, have-to-do kind of life. I'd rather have the peace and contentment life. The dumb thing is that for years I have been seeking this peace and contentment life by trying hard to get it, doing all the must-do-things that we're taught make it happen, and then worrying why it wasn't happening.
But you probably wouldn't know that. Because, like I said, I wear this mask to impress you. I like for you to think I have it all together. I'm the good girl who's always gone to church, homeschooled (minus the denim jumper), never did anything scandalous, went to Bible college, married my first boyfriend, served the Lord in far away countries, and naturally birthed my two babies in those countries. I'd like you to think I'm super woman, a great wife, amazing mom, joyfully trekking my family back and forth across the globe doing incredible things for God.
The truth is, the last seven years of marriage, motherhood and this life we've chosen have only showed me that I am nothing of the super woman I always wanted to be. (Insert lots of tears)
But here's what God's been showing me: I DON'T HAVE TO BE! (Exhale big sigh of sweet relief.)
It's a slow awakening. I often fall back into blurry, fitful super woman dreams. But this blog is me taking a step in the journey. Or rather it is about me sitting down on my journey. Because the journey is not about heading towards a goal of becoming someone I hope to be. He wants me to stop trying to acheive this ever allusive goal of being better, and be who I already am. Broken. Redeemed. HIS.
This is me being free. Free to be...Not Yet There. I have not arrived. I'm going to stop trying to fool you into believing I have. This is me being right where I am, in the bosom of my broken, redeemed HIS-ness and sharing that with you.
*The phrase "good girl mask" comes from Emily Freeman's "Grace for the Good Girl."
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Willow Smith- Whippin her hair in the right way
October 22, 2010
Did somebody finally call for a super stylish, confident, age-appropriate role model for young girls?
Willow Smith heard that call, and came running as fast as she should. The 9-year old daughter of actor, Will Smith, has been making quite an impression with her new music video and single "Whip My Hair".
Colorful, strong, fashionable and edgy- Willow Smith has been able to rock the world with with this new catchy single and her hit video that features people of all sizes and color. Not only is her entire image awesome, she is still embracing her solid black culture that isn't selling out to the mainstream road of regular pop stars.
Smith's fashion style is full of color, including a cotton-candy hair do- which is a far cry from Miley Cyrus's stripper pole. A beautiful and funky angle to pop music allows Willow Smith to define herself from other Disney stars her age. Hopefully she will continue to send her self-embracing, positive messages to fans across the globe.


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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, PETITIONER,v.INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL 249, AFL-CIO, RESPONDENT.
Before MARIS, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam: The National Labor Relations Board has petitioned this Court to enforce its order of August 2, 1956 against Local 249 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America, directing the Union to desist from causing Lancaster Transportation Company to discharge and refuse reinstatement to its employee Elmer Charles Howard and to make him whole for loss of pay. The respondent opposes enforcement upon the ground that the Union garage steward who was found by the Board to have caused the company's action was not such an agent of the Union as to bind it by his acts and that the evidence does not support the Board's findings. We have carefully considered these contentions but find them to be without merit. Respondent's by-laws make it clear that the steward was acting within the general scope of his authority. The respondent was, therefore, answerable for his conduct. While the evidence was conflicting there is ample support in the record for the Board's finding that the actions of the steward constituted a violation of the Act.
A decree will be entered enforcing the order of the Board.
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Past event
Manufacturers gather at Twinings to learn how to optimise electricity usage
Twinings Tea factory in Swarzędz has been in operation for over six years. The factory, which employs 300 people (270 of them in production), makes over 13 billion teabags a year, 99% of which is exported to over 90 countries.
The factory was built between 2008 and 2010 on a brownfield site in Swarzędz, east of Poznań, home to Volkswagen and Imperial Tobacco. Twinings – part of Associated British Foods – was originally founded by Thomas Twining in 1703. The world's third-best selling tea brand (after Lipton and Tetley) and number one premium brand, Twinings produces 400 different blends of tea in Swarzędz, as tea bags, in pyramids, and loose tea.
The purpose of the meeting held on 21 April 2017 was to bring together managers responsible for energy usage in manufacturing facilities across the Wielkopolska region. There were two presentations – one from energy distributor Enea, and second from law firm/consultancy KDG Piotr Bober.
Before the substantive part of the meeting, Twining's plant manager Artur Kanigowski presented the history of the Swarzędz factory and its contribution to AB Foods' strong position in the beverages sector.
Sławomir Dorożko and Mateusz Kowalski from Enea talked about demand-side response (DSR), the mechanism whereby intensive users of energy would be paid to resign from the power they've contracted to buy. The purpose of DSR is to forestall blackouts in the hottest months of the year, when cooling the power generators is most problematic. Dr Piotr Bober and Dr Jacek Masiota from KDG Piotr Bober talked about the legal solutions that manufacturers can turn to to compensate themselves in cases when production is interrupted by power outages. The most important element to securing your business financially is a properly drafted contract with your energy supplier, said Dr Bober.
After an open discussion focused on the balance of power between energy suppliers and intensive consumers, it was time for the factory visit – seen as the compelling part of any Manufacturing Industries group meeting.
Participants had the chance to see how Twinings blends and packages tea – from best-sellers such as the classic English Breakfast and Lady Grey through to fruit-scented mixes. Many interesting facts were imparted; each batch of English Breakfast is made of slightly different compositions of seven or eight teas, but human expertise is paramount in ensuring that the taste is consistent from batch to batch. In an era of high automation (pallets are packed by robots; boxes of tea move along conveyors to the right destination like little trucks on motorways), there's no substitute for human taste-buds!
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R. Twining and Company sp. z o.o. factory headquarters, ul. Rabowicka 29/31, Swarzedz - Jasin
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No comment on the breaking news from the AFP below: that for the first time the US admits of torturing the prisoners in Abu Ghraib Iraq, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, and Afghanistan.
I hope the ill-informed Americans (unfortunately consist of majority of Americans) know and start to be aware a little bit why america got so many enemies; and why they are hated by most.
I hope they dont say "why they attacked us?" "what wrong we've done to them?" "we've done nothing wrong. they're just jealous towards our prosperity"
i hope, the well-informed americans who can see outside world more clearly will increase day by day. i hope. because only then we can learn, respect and understand each other more and in more equal term.
'US admits detainees were tortured'
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GENEVA: Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said on Friday.
The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on condition of anonymity.
"They are no longer trying to duck this, and have respected their obligation to inform the UN,"the Committee member said. "They they will have to explain themselves (to the Committee). Nothing should be kept in the dark."
UN sources said it was the first time the world body has received such a frank statement on torture from US authorities.
The Committee, which monitors respect for the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, is gathering information from the US ahead of hearings in May 2006.
Signatories of the convention are expected to submit to scrutiny of their implementation of the 1984 convention and to provide information to the Committee.
The document from Washington will not be formally made public until the hearings.
"They haven't avoided anything in their answers, whether concerning prisoners in Iraq, in Afghanistan or Guantanamo, and other accusations of mistreatment and of torture,"the Committee member said.
"They said it was a question of isolated cases, that there was nothing systematic and that the guilty were in the process of being punished."
The US report said that those involved were low-ranking members of the military and that their acts were not approved by their superiors, the member added.
The US has faced criticism from UN human rights experts and international groups for mistreatment of detainees – some of whom died in custody – in Afghanistan and Iraq, particularly during last year's prisoner abuse scandal surrounding the Abu Ghraib facility there.
Scores of US military personnel have been investigated, and several tried and convicted, for abuse of people detained during the US-led campaign against Islamic terrorist groups.
At the Guantanamo Bay naval base, a US toehold in Cuba where around 520 suspects of some 40 nationalities are held, allegations of torture have combined with other claims of human rights breaches.
The US has faced widespread criticism for keeping the Guantanamo detainees in a "legal black hole", notably for its refusal to grant them prisoner of war status and allegedly sluggish moves to charge or try them.
Washington's report to the Committee reaffirms the US position that the Guantanamo detainees are classed as "enemy combatants,"and therefore do not benefit from the POW status set out in the Geneva Conventions, the Committee member said.
Four UN human rights experts on Thursday slammed the United States for stalling on a request to allow visits to terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base, and said they planned to carry out an indirect probe of conditions there.[]
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The Tuesday Club Year - 2001
February 2001
The Tuesday Club enjoyed their Christmas lunch at the Abbey Mill, thank you Shelley and Chris and their helpers. Even though, at times, they thought they might have to use Chris' boat to get home! Numbers have been up and down since Christmas because of illness, but we hope with the better weather we will all be back together soon.
May 2001
We still meet on alternate Tuesdays. We are missing Margaret Lock, Marjorie Thomas and Margaret Shewell. Get well soon please.
We had a very successful Easter Bingo. Thanks to all who came and especially to everybody who helped. A great evening.
August 2001
Many Tuesday Clubbers have been missing this summer through illness. We hope they will soon be well enough to rejoin us. New members are very welcome to come along for tea, a natter about village life in times gone by, and Bingo.
Jean Davey 689212
November 2001
Tintern Tuesday Clubbers are looking forward to their Christmas lunch at the Abbey Mill. We welcome new members.
Jean Davey 689212


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I've been playing CSM since 2'nd edition, quite a long time. I love the fluff, I love the models, and I used to love to play them, untill the current dex... I've tried, many times, to build something out of it, but without the help from Daemons or Imperial Armour, that dex simply sucks. Even Tau, Orks and Dark Eldar are stronger than that :/
Therefore, I've built an army that allows me to use my CSM models, plus some extra I'll have to convert, but is also playable.
The army looks like this:
+ Chapter Master (Artificer Armour, Power Fist, Bike, Shield Eternal)
+ Librarian (Lv.2, Force Axe)
+ 6 Bikers (2 Grav Guns, Sergeant has Melta Bombs)
+ 4 Bikers (2 Grav Guns, Sergeant has Melta Bombs)
+ Drop Pod
+ Stormtalon Gunship (TL Lascannon)
+ 3 Centurions (Grav-Cannons)
+ Thunderfire Cannon
Librarius Conclave
+ Librarian (Lv.2, Force Axe, Bike)
+ Librarian (Lv.2, Force Axe, Bike)
+ Librarian (Lv.2, Force Axe, Bike)
Oathsworn Detachment
+ Knight Errant (Twin Icarus Autocannon)
I'll have to convert Centurions, Stormtalon and Thunderfire Cannon, but most models I already am working on for my CSM force, like Bikers, Sorcerers aka. Librarians, etc.
Today I'm working on two models, so I've decided to show you some WiP pics:
My Knight Errant, I still have to finish the painting and sculpt the armour.
This guy (well, you can see his legs only) will be the Chapter Master for this rooster. I'll magnetize his right hand, so I'll be able to switch between shield and lighting claw.


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Did you remember to turn your clocks ahead last night or were you late for church this morning? I have often been glad that the change occurs on a Sunday. It is the easiest day of the week to get socked with the "jet lag" of losing an hour.
Daylight Saving Time was a practice that was implemented during World War I to reduce the amount of electric the country consumed. DST used to start the last Sunday in March and be in effect until the last Sunday in October. Since 2007 DST has begun the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. That means we are on DST two-thirds of the year. I wonder if it's worth the hassle of changing clocks back to Standard Time for the remaining one-third of the year.
Now matter how you slice it, there are still 24 hours in a day. But now that we are back on DST we will have light longer in the evening again and we tend to go to bed later as a result. I like long winter evenings to curl up with a blanket and a book. But I like warm air, green grass, and fresh air blowing through the windows even better. According to the current forecast, the next two weeks will be in the 60s and 70s. If that holds true, spring is arriving a little ahead of schedule and I'm all for it.


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Saturday, November 9, 2013
Art time
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A princess twirl
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Princess Nightgown
Paisley insisted I buy her this beautiful princess nightgown one day at Target. After wearing it around the house for about an hour, she quickly decided it was not "comterful" enough for her to sleep in. She hasn't worn it since. At least I got a few pictures the one time she wore it...
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Bumper Car Action
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Bumper Cars
Porter and Noah were super excited to ride the bumper cars in the bowling alley's arcade. Makes me a little nervous for when these two turn 16 one day....
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Future PBA Member
The best part of Paisley's bowling is that she could care less about the results. She doesn't even watch the ball hit the pins. For her, it is more about the bowling process than the competition!
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Noah's Bowling Birthday Party
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Happy Travelers head back to AZ
As all good things must come to an end, so must our visit to Nebraska. We had such a great time and can't wait for the next trip!
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Battleship Battle
I love watching Porter and Pops play games together. Pops is so patient with Porter and Porter loves having Pops full attention. Porter thought it was so cool to sink Pops' ships playing Battleship!
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Paisley's new addiction
Porter has always loved the water slide at the lincoln country club, but during our July trip Paisley discovered just how much fun it is and quickly became addicted.
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Pops under arrest
Porter has known he wanted to be a policeman for as long as he has understood what a policeman is. He got his first pair of handcuffs while we were in Lincoln. Officer Dupere made his first arrest and Pops went willingly. He even helped secure the handcuffs!
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Pops, Port and Legos
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More Lost in Fun
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Lost in Fun
Port and Pais love going to Lost in Fun when we visit Lincoln. They seem to always spend a lot of time in the ball pit
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Pops' Office
Pops' office, and specifically the adding machine, continue to be a hit when we visit Pops and Grammers house.
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Paisley the ant killer
Only Paisley can find a way to turn snap pops into a weapon. Here she uses them to smash ants.
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The Three Silly Amigos
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Gotch cha
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Cousin Time
The silly foursome of Mason, Cameron, Porter and Paisley remind me a lot of me, Ben and our cousins growing up. Lucky for Pais, I know what it is like to be the only girl and the youngest who the boys tend to leave out. Mason and Cameron both seem to think their lil cousin is pretty sweet!
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Week 1: Intenstive study week. We pick a sustainability issue, usually an animal in crisis, and study it in class for a week. We also learn basic film-making skills. (My wife teaches the biology, I teach the filmmaking). During this week we go on a field trip to the zoo and create a "practice" travel log movie.
Week 2: We travel to learn in depth about the wildlife that we studied in week 1. This year we went to Florida to study manatees. Students were expected to shoot extensive footage of their experience.
Week 3: We return to the classroom to document the week in film. Every student creates a travel log of their experience. The footage is shot on their phones and emitted on their iPads. Students also curate an exhibit of still photos of the trip in the school art gallery.


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I have been devouring books like a hungry tornado from a young age. One of my earliest, clearest and most content memories is of lying on my bed with my nose buried in a thick book.
Following is a jumbled list of authors and titles that I could remember off the top of my head. There are many which I have not included because my head is filled with words and worlds, past and present, fact and fiction and this was all I could dredge up.For now.
The Art of War
The Lord of the Rings
Johnathon Seagull
Anything by HEMINGWAY
Paolo Coelho
The Godfather
The Game of Thrones


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It's been a long time since I officially worked. I've never taken 6 weeks off from working. Not since college anyway. Although I've totally enjoyed the last 6 weeks it's time to get back to it. The best part of it is I get to go to work right here in San Diego. That beach I've enjoyed over the last 3 weeks is still there. That sun although hot this week is still there. All those people running, cycling and swimming along the beautiful coast we call home are still there. The fact is I get to do what I love from right here in this paradise. Not many people in my field of work get to do this. Unless of course you work in Skate shoes or Golf shoes. But Running shoes, in San Diego. Yep, that's what I get to do. On Tuesday I start at Zoot Sports.
Zoot has been in the running shoe business for 2 years now. That's the exciting part for me. I get to help continue the launch of a brand. Not many in the shoe business get to do that. It should be a total blast and best of all I get to come home to Cardiff by the Sea.
It's a good life....


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04/02/2014 at 06:22
04/02/2014 at 06:24
...tairs this time around. Stupid mobile site character limit!! Xx
04/02/2014 at 07:36
Morning all
Exciting to be 12 weeks Coco, you'll have to move on to 2nd Tri soon, goes quickly doesn't it? When are you going to move? Hope it all goes well!
AFM: we've been away all week so haven't had much time to be on here. Thank you for all the scan wishes, it was brilliant, everything was perfect and my bloods were low risk too. The nausea seems to be subsiding although I'm still eating like a horse!
We had N's 2nd birthday on Sunday, I have a 2 year old sob sob! I can't believe my little man is growing up. He had such a good day and was so excited with his presents.
Apart from that I'm 13 weeks, nearly 14, so going to have to jump to 2nd Tri already!
04/02/2014 at 07:44
I was thinking about you the other day LLL but remembered you we're away. Hope you had a fab break. So glad all was well with your scan.Can't believe N is 2, where have our babies gone?! You've also reminded me we really need to get cracking on O's birthday shopping soon! ;-)
04/02/2014 at 08:35
Morning ladies!
Coco - I know its so lovely to see so many newbies! Great news on getting all your maternity stuff :) Any word on house?
Lady Laura - glad your scan went well & how exciting to be going to 2nd Tri
AFM - wee bit sick bit not too bad - YEA! Very excited for our scan and being able to tell people :) Have a draft text made and a facebook status done out for one all friends & family have been informed :)
Hi to all who follow :)
04/02/2014 at 08:52
Morning all.
Hope you're all well. Terrible day at work yesterday and I was knackered in the evening.
Coco - how exciting, hope the move goes well.
LLL - Enjoy 2nd, hope I see you there soon.
Sasasi - glad the sickness isn't too bad. Hope the scan goes well.
AFM - I am feeling as sick as a dog this morning, proper rough. I told my boss yesterday and she was so lovely. Sent me a lovely email last night as she couldn't scream and hug me as everyone would have noticed!! I cried when I read it. 5 days until our early scan, cannot wait!
Hello to everyone, welcome to the newbies, especially the lovely Malteaser xxx
04/02/2014 at 09:14
Morning all! Congrats to those who have recently had their BFP, vibes for those that are having scans soon and good luck for those who are off to the 2nd tri! We'll be following you soon!
Hope everyone is ok, and MS isnt being too much of a pain...sending anti-nausia vibes for those who are.
AFM all is good at the moment, although knackered. The whole waking up early is killing me...i'm normally asleep till about 7.30 at least, but waking up about 6 these days! Last night I woke up about 1.30, but that may have been from OH rolling onto me in his sleep!
Dont know if anyone here is struggling to get to sleep, but thought i'd share an app that makes me (and OH) drop off like a log - sometimes i dont remember getting through the intro before i'm asleep!
it is called positive pregnancy and its brilliant! sends me off like a light (but doesnt stop me waking up tho :( )
Anyway, hope you all have a great day and hi to all of those that follow x
ooh, ps, how do i get one of those ticker thingys?
04/02/2014 at 09:47
Morning all!
Coco - busy few months ahead for you! I can't wait to get all the baby things out again to remember what we've got, think I might have to buy new maternity stuff though as C was an April baby, and I'll be biggest in the summer this time! What a good excuse to shop
LLL - fab news on the scan! Belated happy birthday to N - It's great when your LOs understand their birthdays and get as excited as we do about them See you in 2nd tri in about 5 weeks!
SaSaSi - that made me laugh that you've already composed your text and FB status! Great news you're not feeling so sick.
Gavi - it's horrid being at work feeling so rough, I've not told anyone yet although very nearly did at my worst last week, so it will be good that your boss knows and can be understanding, she sounds lovely x
Bracken - might have to look up that app at some point, I've always been rubbish at getting to sleep although I'm feeling so tired at the minute just reading a few pages of my book and my eyes are dropping. Thanks for the tip! For the ticker, I think you can click on someone elses to take you to the website of one you like, set your own up, then add it to your signature in your profile on here.
I'm feeling the best I have in a little while today so no moaning from me for a change! Still queasy but not quite so bad - even managed a cup of tea at work first thing this morning!
I had my booking in appointment yesterday afternoon, was in there about 1.5 hours, but was very useful, especially the MW saying how she doesn't think it should be too much of a problem for me to get an elective CS based on my history so that's relieved some stress for me I've also got the details for the birth reflections which I'd always planned on talking to again if I got pregnant again so will arrange that at some point. The MW was lovely, but unfortunately not the normal one for my surgery - hopefully she'll be just as nice.
04/02/2014 at 10:33
SaSaSi - is looking like a go go....either way, we'll need to move in April as our landlord is returning from Oz and needs their house back! Glad you're not feeling sick today lovely. We can't wait to tell everyone now too, but no FB announcement from us...actually half tempted to bin FB just now!
Gavi - sorry you're feeling so rotten, but lovely reaction from your boss :-)
Bracken -The tiredness/insomnia is a killer isn't it? Hope it settled soon for you.. I'm not too up on tickets but if you click on someone's you like the look of it should take you to create one, then you need to copy the code into the signature box in your MD account settings...can't remember which one....it was a bit trial and error for me!
Deedee - O was an April baby too but H's cousin had an August baby so she's given me lots of Summery bits thankfully! Glad you had a positive booking in appointment, really hope you get your elcs xxx
04/02/2014 at 11:02
Hi all,
I'm just lurking for a little bit until I feel more confident but thought I should introduce myself!
I'm 31, married for just over 3years and ttc since then. Have had a ovarian tumour and lost my ovary. Had 6 cycles of clonus which sadly ended with a mc last Easter. Have Just finished a privately funded iui cycle. I'm 4 +1 today.
Nice to meet you all xx
04/02/2014 at 11:26
Hello my lovely date twin :) xx
04/02/2014 at 11:27
Morning everyone,
Coco - congrats on getting the house! So exciting!
LLL - enjoy second tri - hope to see you there soon!
SaSaSi - lol at having the text/status already done!
Gavi - lovely that your boss was so great about it :)
Bracken - just google countdown tickers and loads of sites should come up. Then you need to copy and paste it into your signature in your settings. I cant remember if its the non-HTML one or not, sorry!
DD - glad the mw was so understanding. And yay for feeling better!
NG - its so great to see you on here! With me, you, Ducky and CL on here at the moment its like the DTC-ers are taking over! Its brilliant! :)
AFM: feeling rough again today but not been as sick as yesterday. I'm probably still worn out from it all. I very nearly might have had to go out to court this aft but then I remembered that I have to leave early today as the dishwasher man is coming at 4:30pm to hopefully fix our broke dishwasher (sob sob). Thank god that gets me out of it as my brain is really not working today!
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He is so patient, loving, and kind. He continually encourages me to spend more with God, to not be lazy, and to go grow personally. He also has a great ability to bring situations back to God, remembering that He is soverign.
I've been so blessed to be born in a Christian family, with parents who love and care for me no matter how my life turns out. I'm so thankful for my siblings. Without them, life would have been so boring!
I'm also thankful for the welcoming I've recieved from the Knapp family. I couldn't ask for better in-laws!
It's such a wonderful time when I can sit down and read God's word. I so enjoy those quiet mornings at home when there is nothing else pressing to be done, I can just sit and bask in God's overpowering love for me.
As a chronically cold person, being warm rates pretty high. Warm clothes, a warm house, blankets, and space heaters are such wonderful things!
One of my biggest petpeeves is a crumby floor. Therefore, having a non-crumby floor makes me thankful.


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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Sorry i keep posting these things but they are just so creepily correct!!
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - You feel the weight of responsibility on your shoulders as the Sun joins heavy Saturn in your sign. Examine what past failures might have to do with your current willingness to help others who may not have asked for your assistance -- whether they need it or not. Your compassion is a gift, but co-dependence isn't a viable path to happiness. Heal others by first forgiving and healing yourself.


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Sunday, December 2, 2007
2 months old!!
tristan was 2 months old yesterday. we had his well baby check up, and he is 23 inches tall and weighs 11 lbs 4 oz. so big!!! i'll post some more pictures in the next couple of days
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