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Recently, there's been a lot of talk about beverages and politics. There's a long tradition of making beverages a part of politics. There's even a liquor store named "The 21st Amendment" (I've never been inside, but I assume that a reincarnated Samuel Adams works there).
But this is not about alcohol.
Everybody's heard of the "Tea Party", I'm sure. Now, there's a "Coffee Party" starting up (unfortunately, Juan Valdez isn't a US citizen, and cannot be a candidate). How long before we have a "Water Party", a "Grape Juice Party", and (shudder...) a "Frappucino Party"?!
Just exactly what these beverages have to do with politics is even more obscure than donkeys and elephants. But I am concerned that my interests are not being adequately represented. I assume† that the Tea Party is mostly concerned about eating crumpets (whatever those are), taxing those of us who drink coffee, and generally making life miserable for anyone who doesn't enjoy drinking from tiny cups, using saucers and having table manners (again, whatever those are). I also assume‡ that the Coffee Party platform will consist almost entirely of propaganda for the thermos industry. I foresee subsidies and tax credits for buying things like self-heating travel mugs, and robot baristas.
Neither of those two options fully suits me. "Why?", you ask?
Well, here's why:
Both of them leave out a massive segment of the population. One with energy (sometimes TOO MUCH energy), focus, and determination. People who aren't afraid to do extreme sports. People who don't shy away from the possibility of an irregular heartbeat. These people deserve our support. Who are these noble men and women?
The people who support the Diet Mountain Dew Agenda. They show their support daily. Sometimes more. They wake up early. They stay up late. All with one goal; of making their dream a reality. That dream is not so different from any other dream:
It's the hope that one day, a resting tremor won't mean a glass ceiling at the workplace. That sick days taken for withdrawal headaches won't result in job losses. That medical expenses (especially those related to treating atrial fibrillation) will be covered for all, and that this wonderful green beverage will be spread throughout the world as gifts of goodwill, fostering peace and harmony in our time.
That, my friends, is also my dream.
† I know what the Tea Party is.
‡ I know what the Coffee Party is.


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I don't know whether to think of this Paleo sandwich replacement as a canoe, a boat, or a taco. But whatever the case, it's a great crunchy little injection of fuel that lasts nicely until dinnertime. You can use whatever lunch meats you have or leftover meats – just pretend it's a sandwich, and add whatever you'd add to a sandwich.
The only thing to look out for is fillers in lunch meat. You would seriously be surprised. Or not, I guess. It's kind of depressing. Our favorite lunch meat brand right now is Prima Della, and Wal Mart of all places sells it. The big wrapped up chunk of turkey that they slice my meat off of says "no fillers." I trust that about as far as I could throw that giant wad of turkey meat, but I guess it's got to be better than the brick right next to it from another brand that says, "Ham," and then in small print says, "35% water added/flavorings added/this is a ham and water product."
Here's what went into my Paleo meat boat (apparently I've decided on boat). The boat is an outer piece of hearts of romaine lettuce. I try to always keep hearts of romaine on hand – they're good chopped up for salads, and awesome for Paleo Tacos too! Then I added two thin slices of turkey, two thin slices of salami, two slices of avocado, 1/4 of a small chopped up tomato, some sun-dried tomato basil feta cheese, spicy mustard, and a small diced fresh basil leaf.

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Trafford votes to Remain in Europe – but the UK wants outBy David Prior at
Voters in Trafford defied the national trend by voting to remain in Europe with one of the largest majorities in the country.
The vote was 72,293 in favour of staying with the European Union with 53,018 voting for Leave, a 57.69% to 42.31% split. The turnout was was more than 75% and was the highest in Greater Manchester.
In neighbouring Manchester, voters opted to remain with 121,823 voting to stay in Europe and 79,991 voting to leave.
In the official figures for the whole of the UK however, 17,410,742 (51.9%) voted to Leave, ahead of 16,141,241 (48.1%) who voted to Remain.


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For Memorial weekend we drove up to Mt. Rushmore. It's only about 5.5-6 hours from our place, not too shabby. My cousin Paul, his wife, Mandy, Stan and Lindsay all joined in for the patriotic weekend.
We started the trip by taking a tour of Custer State Park. Don't be deceived by the name, this is not the place of Custer's Last Stand, that is actually located in Montana-about 500 miles away. However, the park did offer a lot of wild life and life not so wild. We met my favorite animal of the trip in Custer Park.
Introducing....Dorito! Why the name? Dorito liked to eat Dorito chips, it was all over his breath, no joke. Have you ever met a donkey that eats doritos??? He was very friendly and I think he was curious if we had any doritos in our car. We were all smiles and giggles until Dorito became a little too friendly and tried to "nibble" Mandy. It wasn't quite the episode of "When Animals Attack," but Mandy's blood-curdling scream let Dorito and us know that it was time to go.
On to the real wild life...
such as buffalo, deer, sheep, antelope and bunny rabbits-of course.
I believe these are called "The Needles," but I'm not sure, Bryan isn't here to correct me. So, for now, "The Needles" were beautiful.
Mt. Rushmore--little bit smaller than we had anticipated, but still very incredible.
The entire gang at the "Badlands" of South Dakota.
Also, a great profile shot of me at roughly 6 months pregnant-wowzers, this boy might be a linebacker. :)
Another shot of the Badlands. Overall, we thought that the Black Hills of South Dakota and the surrounding area that we made it to was very pretty country.
Thanks to the men and women that make it possible for us to enjoy such scenery and our every day freedom.
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NBA Africa Game 2017, which will take place Saturday, August 5 at the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa, the second game in the NBA Africa series. Back in 2015, we saw Chris Paul, Pau Gasol, Bradley Beal headline the rosters with some surprise in-game appearances from Hakeem Olajuwon and Dikembe Mutombo. For the upcoming installment later this summer, we'll have another NBA legend take the court as a captain.
Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum, Charlotte Hornets big man Bismack Biyombo and Denver Nuggets guard Emmanuel Mudiay were announced as participants back in February. They will be joined by four more current players, two captains for each team.
Following was announced by the NBA earlier today.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) announced today that Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks; Germany), Kemba Walker (Charlotte Hornets; U.S.), Thabo Sefolosha (Atlanta Hawks; Switzerland; parent from South Africa) and Luol Deng (Los Angeles Lakers; South Sudan) will serve as team captains for NBA Africa Game 2017.
Tickets for the NBA's second game in Africa taking place Saturday, Aug. 5 at the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, South Africa will be available for fans Thursday, June 22 at 10:00 am CAT by visiting ticketpro.co.za.
Nowitzki, a 13-time NBA All-Star and 2011 NBA Champion, along with Walker, a 2017 NBA All-Star, will co-captain Team World. Deng, a two-time NBA All-Star and Team Africa captain at NBA Africa Game 2015, and Sefolosha, an 11-year NBA veteran whose father was born in South Africa, will lead Team Africa.
NBA Africa Game 2017, which will take place following the 15th edition of Basketball without Borders (BWB) Africa, will once again feature a Team Africa vs. Team World format and will be played in support of UNICEF, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and SOS Children's Villages South Africa (SOSCVSA). The game will air live in sub-Saharan Africa on Kwesé's TV, Internet and mobile platforms, including Kwesé Free Sports, Kwesé Sports, select free-to-air channels, Kwesesports.com, and the Kwesé app.
Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki: "I'm really excited to represent Team World in the second NBA Africa Game this summer. I also look forward to returning to South Africa after taking part in the Basketball without Borders Africa camp eight years ago. It's great to see how the game is growing across the continent, and I'm honored to be a part of this historic event."
Charlotte Hornets guard Kemba Walker: "I can't wait to make my first trip to Africa and join Dirk in leading Team World. Playing in an NBA game in Africa will be a special moment I'll remember for the rest of my life."
Atlanta Hawks guard/forward Thabo Sefolosha: "Having South African roots, it's a dream come true to return to South Africa to play in an NBA game. There are so many talented African players in the league, and it will be an honor to lead them on August 5 in Johannesburg."
Los Angeles Lakers forward Luol Deng: "I'm thrilled to be coming back to Johannesburg to lead Team Africa alongside Thabo. The first NBA Africa Game in 2015 was a lot of fun, and it will be a privilege to play in front of our African fans once again."


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Music videos, public art and poems pay tribute to Luisita martyrs
Musicians, visual artists, filmmakers and poets figure prominently in the campaign to seek justice for victims of the Hacienda Luisita Massacre. The Luisita massacre 10th year commemoration campaign dubbed #HLMX is initiated by the Luisita Watch network in close coordination with people's organizations such as the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (AMBALA) and the Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA), and is also participated in by workers, church people, students and educators, and other sectors. Luisita farmers and their supporters will mark the tenth year of the bloody incident with protests and solidarity activities on November 15 and 16.
November 16 is also declared Global Action Day to seek justice for Luisita massacre victims and International Day of Action Against Trade Union Repression by international groups in more than 20 countries. Monique Wilson, international theater artist and global director of the One Billion Rising Campaign which held its trademark dance protest activity with farmworkers in March, will return to Hacienda Luisita to join the two-day protest march and caravan.
On November 15, Luisita farmers will witness a repeat of the HLMX solidarity cultural event held November 7 at the UP Diliman College of Mass Communication, which featured with a public exhibit by Luisita Watch, street painting by the Ugat Lahi Artists Collective, and a public screening of Luisita documentaries by Tudla Productions, Sipat, Bulatlat.com and student volunteers. The November 7 concert hosted by rap artist BLKD, also featured live performances by bands Talahib, TKNK, Exsenadors, Pink Cow, Chickoy Pura of the Jerks, and poet and musician Jess Santiago.
Santiago's poem "Pinangos na Tubo," published in the 2004 poetry collection "Pakikiramay: Alay ng mga Makata sa mga Magsasaka ng Hacienda Luisita," will be read in the 10 am protest program in Mendiola, Manila on November 15. Online, Santiago and other Filipino literary stalwarts Reuel Molina Aguila and Rogelio Ordonez will choose the best contributions to Kilometer 64 Poetry Collective's HLMX #LuisiTANAGA challenge calling on poets to crystallize the Luisita farmers' struggle using the Tagalog traditional 4-line poem tanaga. Contributions to the project may be accessed through the KM64 Facebook page.
Tribute music videos of songs from Five Year Plan ("Pagbawi"), Goons and Guns ("Luisita's Cry), and Gazera ("Kung Puntod na ang Bukirin") launched during the November 7 solidarity activity at UP, will be screened for Hacienda Luisita farmers in the cultural night to be held at the Barangay Balete covered court starting 6pm on November 15. Tambol Bayan and other local artists from Tarlac will also join the activity. The videos, directed by Cinemalaya X Best Editor Gerone Centeno, follow decades of Hacienda Luisita's history through the eyes of Luisa, a 10-year old peasant girl. Luisa is played by Angela Tubiera of Hacienda Luisita, the youngest "spokesperson" of the farmworkers' land and justice campaign. The first of three videos produced by Luisita Watch and Molotov may now be viewed on Youtube.
Photojournalist Jez Aznar, one of the witnesses of the massacre, returns to Hacienda Luisita with a public exhibit of photographs of the 2004 sugar workers' strike. Aznar's #HLMX exhibit will also occupy prominent public spaces in Metro Manila until November 21.
Public art will also be displayed and installed around Hacienda Luisita on November 15-16. Participating artists include Antares Bartolome, Buen Abrigo, Frances Abrigo and Leeroy New. The pieces will highlight the imposing presence of land grab walls recently erected by the Cojuangco-Aquino family to evict farmers from more than a thousand hectares of agricultural land in Luisita. The #HLMX campaign is launched by Luisita Watch, a broad network of human rights and agrarian reform advocates created to document and inform the public of continuing land issues and escalating rights violations in Hacienda Luisita under President Aquino's term.


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A sex position to enjoy, and a place to remember.
Look around with your partner, and you will both get exited just looking and talking about doing it.
Do you want to try something new, and exiting? At a place you have not done it before.
Spin the "dice" and find original sex position, and where to do it.
Try to do every position, and cover as many places as you can.
Tap on the image to zoom it and move it around, then tap on the ? (Help) button, to see explanations for this position!
The left spinner will show you the sex position you should try with your partner.
The right spinner will tell you where - please be reasonable, and avoid danger!
No actual dice, here, but still a matter of luck!
Sex Dice is application for everyone over 18.
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goalWA.net is pleased to continue with a soccer club columnist to our website. He's Adam Nowland, founder of Bellevue / Mercer Island area's Nowland Premier Soccer Academy. Adam addresses soccer topics from his point of view in the new series "Soccer Perspectives with Adam Nowland."
by Adam Nowland
Soccer has grown significantly in popularity in the United States since I first came to this area on a pre-season tour with Preston North End FC back in 2007, and I don't see it slowing down anytime soon.
As residents of the Pacific Northwest, we are fortunate to have such a large and passionate soccer community. When people discuss Washington soccer, they often associate this State with the Seattle Sounders. However, I believe we sometimes overlook what is happening with women's soccer in this part of the country and I would like to see this change.
Women's soccer in the northwest is flying but I don't believe it gets the recognition it deserves. There are so many incredible women's programs around us, and I feel they should be respected and appreciated as much as possible.
The Seattle Sounders are an awesome organization and quite rightly have a huge following but we also have a fantastic women's team right in our backyard in the Seattle Reign. In recent years, the Reign have had a lot of success in the NWSL, placing first in the league in 2014 and 2015. In 2016, despite having a significant number of injuries, they just barely missed the playoffs. They have a lot of incredibly talented women on the squad, including Megan Rapinoe, a US National team starter and huge role model for young players. The Reign offers a great atmosphere for the young players of our youth soccer community to go out and watch some top-level women's soccer players compete.
Additionally, let's not forget that collegiate women's soccer is huge here in Washington too. Western Washington University and Seattle University have solid women's soccer programs, both of which have had a great deal of success. SU in particular have only lost 1 conference game since 2013! If you venture north of Seattle, Western Washington Women's soccer in Bellingham recently won the Division 2 national championship and went undefeated in the process. The WWU Women's team will be honored at the Mariners game on April 18th and rightly so.
Not only are there are so many opportunities to be exposed to what collegiate sports are all about, but there is the ability to watch some of the country's biggest power houses compete right here in WA!
With all of these incredible programs around us, it's not hard to find opportunities to go out with the family and be a part of a great soccer community. It's easy to overlook women's sports teams in Washington because of the Sounders, Seahawks, and Mariners but I would argue that now, more than ever, is the best time to turn our attention to the thriving women's sports culture we have here. We are witnessing some of the best times with women's soccer in our country and I truly believe the passion we have for soccer in our State is a big reason why. It would be a shame if we took all of the successes of these teams for granted.
To reinforce this message, I personally have placed a huge emphasis on our girls program and the specific needs of the female athlete at my club, NPSA. We offer our female athletes a strong and balanced development program and have labelled it 'TITAN XX'.
TITAN XX has been designed with the needs of the female athlete in mind. Soccer, as with many things in life, isn't a 'one size fits all' scenario so we recognized this early and decided to embrace it. The female athlete needs something different than the males and something more specific. This relates not only to the fitness aspect of the game but also the style of coaching required to get the very best out of the players. Providing female-specific injury-prevention education is essential to give the players the best possible chance to reach their full potential. For this, we hired a professional, Dr Ellie Somers of Sisu Physical Therapy, to come in and implement an injury-prevention program that has already made a big impact throughout our girls' teams. The players have never looked fitter or stronger and we have seen a considerable decrease in the number of injuries to our female players over the course of Spring Season.
When putting together an innovative program like TITAN XX, I couldn't just rely on my own experience and knowledge of the game. If it was going to be done right, I needed to appoint someone who had the background and credentials to really take things to the next level. I did this in the shape of NSCAA Instructor and 'A' Licensed Coach, Erik Oman.
Erik has over 25 years of coaching experience and a resume that is second to none in the State of Washington. Erik has coached at the Division 1 College-level for 17 years working with multiple female teams. In addition, Erik is currently the Technical Director of the PSPL Surf Academy working with the best young female players in the State.
Bringing Erik in as the Director of TITAN XX demonstrates our commitment to providing our female players from U8-U19 the very best program and pathway to the College level.
TITAN XX is about more than just training. It involves giving the girls ownership of their own soccer development and teaching them life skills and values through the game. We have our older girls mentor our younger girls to help them to understand that they need to be role-models and set a good example on and off the field. We have created Instagram and Facebook pages dedicated to our female players and teams to promote their achievements and give them a real sense of community. We also arrange for special guest appearances from top level female athletes/coaches to inspire our girls and show them that everyone started somewhere. Recently, we had the unique opportunity to bring in former US Women's National Team player, Stephanie Cox, to share her story and some words of wisdom with all our girls and their families.
Stephanie's presentation made a big impact not only on our players, but on our parents and staff as well. She encouraged all our players to take ownership of their soccer careers and run with it. She asked that our parents and staff focus solely on providing them with the platform to do so. She also talked about the importance of the connections she had made throughout her youth playing days that carried on through her entire professional career. As a youth player, Stephanie had the opportunity to play with one particular player in club, college, and national team soccer. What makes this relationship even more special is that since Stephanie Cox took up a coaching role with the Seattle Reign, she now has the opportunity to work with this player again. The player is none other than Megan Rapinoe. The Stephanie Cox appearance is the first of many events that we will be putting on for or TITAN XX program and what a fantastic start to the series.
As a club that has seen exponential growth in our 4 years of existence, we realized that there are definitive needs for the female soccer player. How could we expect our teams to compete and win consistently if we weren't providing them with the support they needed? Since the implementation of our Titan XX program, the performances on the field from our female teams have considerably improved. Over the course of this Spring Season, we have a combined record of 39 wins, 4 ties and only 8 losses. We have given our female players a platform to succeed and they have truly bought into it. Their success has reinforced our belief that the female athlete has different needs and they must be met.
The female game, as with the sport of soccer in general in the United States, is still a developing entity but I ask all of you to get behind our female athletes and teams and be proud of the fact that the Pacific NW has some of the best female programs available in the country and they are only getting better!
For more information on how NPSA Titans are approaching the development of female players and teams, check out their TITAN XX program details by clicking HERE.


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Time for some speed blogging, cause whoa nellie are we behind!
Recently, the girls and I got to spend the day with my grandmother (now affectionately known as Great-Nannie). It was a fun filled day from start to finish!
We started off at an open house at this cool historic mansion near Nannie's house. Apparently the estate used to be made of something ridiculous like 4,000 acres, now its like 40 (I forget the precise stats...). But basically it is a tiny fraction of what it once was, and its still cool! And, when Nannie was growing up, she was friends with someone whose parents worked here (correct the story if I am wrong, Nannie) so she remembers visiting her friend here way back in the day. Crazy.
Me and the girlies in the gardens.
Our next stop was the State Park that is around the corner from Nannies house. Papillon was really enjoying exploring with Nannie.
For as many times as I have been to this park, I had never been to the visitor center located in this old house.
They had boxes of educational things that kids could play with; like clothes from "olden times" when the park was founded and such.
The nice Park Ranger let Papillon wear his hat! So fun!
The woolly bear caterpillars were pretty engrossing.
Our last stop was a playground - can't go wrong with a little playground fun!
Hibou is such a chill kid!
Thanks, Nannie, for a great day!


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As I (Aaron) was doing some reading during my devotions this morning, I came across a passsage from Paul's second epistle to the Thessalonians that struck me as clear, coherent synthesis of our prayer/desire/vision for continued development and maturation of the Sweet Surrender coffeehouse/house church location here in Poznan:
"Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring...
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ." (II Thessalonians 1:2-4, 11-12)
Make it so, Lord, we pray! :)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Our Prayer for this Place
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Perhaps you all have become aware that there is a bill sitting on the desk of the Governor of Arizona that will - wait for it - make it a state crime to be in the country illegally! Now, I guess I missed something along the way. I thought that it already was illegal to be illegal - DUH. There are demonstrations going on by people who are afraid that even legal residents will be required to carry identification with them in case they have to show that they are here legally. Well, I don't know about you, but most of the time when I go out, I have my driver's license with me. No problem. And, I'm sorry, but the last time I traveled to Europe, I had to give my passport to customs agents when I entered a foreign country. In England, in France, in the Netherlands, I couldn't just stroll across the border, enter their country, and set up shop without a by-your-leave. Why do Mexicans think that they should be able to cross into Arizona and never be challenged to show that they are here legally? We don't seem to have this same problem with Canadians. Some people say that the convention business will suffer, that companies will choose not to come to Arizona because they will be worried that their attendees will be stopped at every corner. I think it's probably the opposite. If out-of-staters know that the chances of being murdered, robbed, assaulted, or hit in their car by an uninsured, unlicensed motorist, I think they would be more inclined to visit our state. The economy of Arizona will suddenly improve dramatically when we are not having to pay for immigrants' medical bills, education, welfare, not to mention their incarceration.
I am as grateful as anyone for the contributions that immigrants have made to our country and to our state. But people who are here legally are not part of this discussion. I think that if there is immigration reform, we will still have many people who want to come here and make contributions - but they will do it legally. And, to be fair, our government needs to assist the Mexican government in making that country a desirable place to live. Maybe then there will be crossings in both directions!
So show me what part of "illegal" I don't understand.
I am an infojunkie who likes to share the ideas I come across. I believe that the internet allows all of us to put our 2 cents in. Nothing annoys me more than people who constantly complain, but have no suggestions for how to solve the problem. This is a place for me to talk about issues and to suggest remedies. I hope if you happen upon this blog it will provide some enjoyment and allow you to express your thoughts as well.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Suns played last night the way we all love to watch them play! Let's hope they can do it again in Portland. Our old guys can take you youngsters to school!
Monday, April 19, 2010
NBA Playoffs
I'm watching some of the games in the NBA Playoffs, but I don't know much about most of the teams. I follow the Suns, of course, and then I watch games when someone is playing that I have come to know by going to games here. Steve, Michael and I went to the State championships when Jerryd Bayless was playing for St. Mary's; James Harden and Jeff Pendergraf played for ASU. But I'm thinking that LeBron deserves a championship ring. He has been so loyal to Cleveland and has been patient and dedicated to trying to bring home a championship. I don't want the Lakers, or the Celtics, or Detroit, or the Mavs, or the Spurs to win. Who else is in contention?
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Recent Photos
I was 68 when I finally saw a Panda.
I think I am going to make this blog more of a photo blog than a written one. Either that or learn to write more succinctly and not ramble on and on. Maybe a combination of the two? Anyhoo, recently my daughter, Nancy, and I took her two daughters and Steve's son, Alex to the San Diego Zoo and to Legoland. It was so much fun - the kids were great and got along perfectly. The only problem we encountered was that the first night, they all ended up in one room because Grandma was snoring so loud! The next night, Grandma slept in the living room of the suite and everyone else was in the bedroom with the door closed! Ah, well.
The zoo has an amazing underwater hippo viewing area. You can see them when they are underwater, and also when they come up. What a great idea!
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Facebook Stalking
Before I show you their actual conversation, which they kindly gave me permission to use, let me set up the scenario for you. (Names have been changed to protect the guilty.)
It was only a few short weeks ago that my daughter, Katelyn, was dating Brian, a boy she met in her biology lab. Things kind of fizzled out between the two of them because Brian preferred "hanging out" in large groups and playing volleyball. Katelyn thought that was just weird. She also didn't like the fact that Brian didn't have a job and still lived with his parents in their humongous mansion bought with multi-level marketing money (a sore subject within our family).
From the way Katelyn and Kaitlen (girlie girls) describe Brian, he is a twenty-something year old Hugh Hefner except, Hugh likes pretty women and apparently Brian prefers the butchy type that live in sweat pants and don't wear make-up or shave their legs.
Now that you've got the low down, here are Katelyn and Kaitlen's texts, for your entertainment...
Katelyn- Brian's engaged!
Kaitlen- Shut your mouth!?!!!
Katelyn- Look at his wall!
Kaitlen- Hahaha. Are you kidding me? I cannot stop laughing.
Katelyn- He has to be. It only makes sense. I looked at his older posts and a lot of people are saying congrats!
Kaitlen- Are you KIDDING ME?!
Katelyn- I am pissed. Hahahaha. I want to just rant on his wall.
Kaitlen- Oh my gosh. Me too!
Katelyn- I am dying. I need to say something! What do I say? What do I say?
Kaitlen- Oh, you definitely do. Just text him or something. I don't know if I want to laugh, or cry, or vomit.
Katelyn- He is so two-faced. They haven't been back together more than two months, because that's how long it's been since we stopped dating, and Abbey broke up with him like forever ago. Why the hell is she back with him and marrying him so suddenly? I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do!
Kaitlen- Let's take him a congratulations cake and shove it in his face....and kick him in the nuts so Abbey feels no pleasure.
Katelyn- I should write on his wall and "kick him in the nuts so Abbey feels no pleasure" might be the best thing I have ever heard you say! My mom (she's talking about me here) says, "I wonder if Abbey will wear sweats to her wedding. Better yet, I wonder if she'll wear sweats on her honeymoon night?"
and now for the punchline...
Kaitlen- I can almost guarantee it. They probably won't even have sex. They'll probably just play some volleyball!
I don't need to watch 'Big Brother' or 'The Hills' for entertainment. I live with a teenage girl. :)
10 comments:
- Marilyn said...
I don't know what to say lol! Katelyn has the best guy in her life , namely Nate :)
- Tuesday, June 28, 2011
- Kaitlen said...
hahahahaha this is 100 times funnier now that it is published. We should have our own TV show!
- Tuesday, June 28, 2011
- rubyslipperz said...
That is GIRL-larious!!! I'm really amazed that they let you put THEIR real names!
thanks for the lolrof!
- Tuesday, June 28, 2011
what a hoot..Oh to be young again...hate to think how different my life would be lol...Katelyn has to be too cute...:)
- Tuesday, June 28, 2011
- DeeAnn said...
@ Marilyn- I agree with you 100 percent!
@ Kaitlen- Yes, you should. It would be both a drama AND a comedy.
@ Rubyslipperz- Katelyn would have been perfectly fine if I didn't change ANY of their names, but I did. :)
@ Janet- Both Katelyn's are cute. When they get together, all they do is laugh.
- Wednesday, June 29, 2011
- cheartstrings said...
Hahahaha or in FB language: LMAO My girl is 15 and this sounds sooooo familiar. Sadly I have friends in their 40s+ and some of the content is pretty much the same.... :(
- Wednesday, June 29, 2011
- Lizbeth said...
OK, does Brain's girlfriends know my mom?!? ;)
And that's great!
- Wednesday, June 29, 2011
- Miranda said...
Thanks for stopping by Just Drink a Coke. I'm glad to meet a fellow Coca-Cola fan. And thanks for the laughs I just got from reading that. How funny are those girls!! I can't wait to read more ;)
- Wednesday, June 29, 2011
- carolinaheartstrings said...
Too funny. That post made me laugh. Dee come on over and visit today. We have a recipe that is wonderful for summer and if you comment the Fairy Hobmother might pay you a visit and grant a wish!
- Thursday, June 30, 2011
- Bizzy said...
Isn't youth wonderful. Thank the girls for letting you share. It was time for me to giggle.
- Thursday, June 30, 2011


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Saturday, February 16, 2013
here is truth
If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man.
Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can.
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In the last few days it has become increasingly obvious that the Obama administration never understood the cause of the attack on the consulate in Benghazi as coming from a video which it is unlikely that anyone in Libya has ever seen. From the first statement that the President made on the tragedy he consistently misrepresented the facts surrounding the case.
At no time is there any credible evidence that the administration believed that the attack was caused by outrage but rather it came from a concerted attack by Islamic militants commemorating the eleventh anniversary of 9/11. Although the embassy in Libya recognized the growing threat to the consulate, the administration repeatedly refused requests to provide additional security. On September 14 the Press Secretary boldly stated "we don't have and did not have concrete evidence to suggest that this [the Benghazi attack] was not in reaction to the film." On the sixteenth UN Ambassador reinforced the claim in stating the attacks were a "spontaneous reaction" to "a hateful and offensive video that was widely disseminated throughout the Arab and Muslim world." "I think it's clear that there were extremist elements that joined in and escalated the violence. Whether they were al Qaeda affiliates, whether they were Libyan-based extremists or al Qaeda itself I think is one of the things we'll have to determine." At the UN on August 25 the President tried again to tie this attack not to extremists but to the video. He said "There is no video that justifies an attack on an Embassy." On September 16 the President of the Libyan Congress argued that there was no doubt that the attack was pre-planned and premeditated. The only conclusion that one can come to is there was a purpose for this kind of misrepresentation.
Every administration gets caught in some misrepresentations or shading of the truth - but this is considerably more. The timeline suggests two issues which are particularly troubling. First, as the Clinton ad in 2008 suggested, when a "3 AM" event took place, the Obama administration people seemed unprepared to respond in a credible way to the events. There is credible evidence that as the attack was going on the at some place in the Administration they had a live video feed from an unmanned drone above the consulate. It is not clear they could have saved the four Americans who died but that feed should have induced the Administration to respond. They failed in that very critical role.
The last three US ambassadors who have died in service were Ambassador Stevens (Libya) and Adolph Dubs, 1979 - Afghanistan and Francis Meloy, 1976 in Lebanon. All three were victims of militants in the Middle East.
Second, and even more troubling, for whatever reason the Administration understood immediately that this attack could become a political bombshell and thus chose to confuse the explanations for a serious period of time - to protect not American interests but their political position. That is inexcusable.
Even if the President's policies on the US economy had been successful, this clear dereliction of duty should influence most voters to reject Obama's request to be re-upped for another four years.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The Libyan Fraud
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"Not the Simple Absence of Conflict"
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 19, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today before reciting the midday Angelus in the courtyard of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!
There is an expression of Jesus' in this Sunday's Gospel that always draws our attention and which needs to be properly understood. As he is on his way to Jerusalem, where death on the cross awaits him, Christ confides in his disciples: "Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division."
And he adds: "From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law" (Luke 12:51-53).
Whoever knows the least amount about the Gospel of Christ knows that it is the message of peace par excellence; Jesus himself, as St. Paul writes, "is our peace" (Ephesians 2:14); he died and rose from the dead to break down the wall of enmity and inaugurated the Kingdom of God, which is love, joy, and peace.
How, then, are we to explain these words of his? To what is the Lord referring when he says that he has come to bring — according to St. Luke's redaction — "division," or — according to St. Matthew's — the "sword" (Matthew 10:34)?
Christ's expression means the peace that he came to bring is not synonymous with the simple absence of conflict. On the contrary, the peace of Jesus is the fruit of a constant struggle against evil. The battle that Jesus has decided to fight is not against men or human powers but against the enemy of God and man, Satan.
Those who desire to resist this enemy, remaining faithful to God and the good, must necessarily deal with misunderstandings and sometimes very real persecution. Thus, those who intend to follow Jesus and commit themselves without compromises to the truth must know that they will face opposition and will become, despite themselves, a sign of division among persons, even within their own families.
Love of one's parents is indeed a sacred commandment, but for it to be lived authentically it cannot be set in opposition to the love of God and Christ. In such a way, in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus, Christians must become "instruments of his peace," according to the celebrated expression of St. Francis of Assisi. This is not an inconsistent and superficial peace but a real one, pursued with courage and tenacity in the daily commitment to defeat evil with good (cf. Romans 12:21), paying in person the price that this carries with it.
The Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace, shared the struggle of her son Jesus against the evil one, to the point of spiritual martyrdom, and she continues to share this struggle until the end of time. Let us invoke her maternal intercession, that she may help us always to be faithful witnesses to Christ's peace, never giving in to compromises with evil.
[After the Angelus, the Holy Father said:]
In these days our thoughts and our prayers are turned constantly to the people of Peru, who have been stricken by a devastating earthquake. For the many who have died, I invoke the peace of the Lord, for those who have been injured, I ask for quick recovery, and for those thrown into miserable circumstances I assure you that the Church is with you, in spiritual and material solidarity. My secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who for some time had planned a visit to Peru, in the next few days, will, in person, bring the testimony of my sentiments and the concrete help of the Holy See.
This morning in Rimini the "Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples" opened. The theme of this year's meeting is "The Truth Is the Destiny for Which We Have Been Made." In offering a cordial greeting to the organizers, I give the assurance of my prayers that, through the multiple initiatives of the program, the meeting might be for many a profitable occasion for reflection and awareness, to realize the profoundest vocation of man: being a seeker of truth and thus a seeker of God (cf. "Fides et Ratio," prologue).
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[The Pope then greeted the people in various languages. In English, he said:]
I am pleased to greet the English-speaking visitors gathered for this Angelus prayer. The readings from today's Mass invite us to lift our eyes to Jesus, who inspires and perfects our faith. May you and your families experience the Lord's closeness during these summer holidays and respond to his love through deeper prayer and more generous acts of charity. Upon all of you I invoke Christ's blessings of joy and peace!
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After a hard day's work, I reached home to my wife hiding behind the door. Giving me a surprise, she pulled me by the collar the moment I stepped into the room, towards her and hugged me by the waist.
As our lips neared each other, she looked at me in the eyes and said to me, in the most seductive voice ever, "I'll do your bidding tonight. Tell me something dirty that you want me to do."
My eyes lit up. I looked at her with disbelief, and of course, I was happy to see how she tried to bring sparks to our lives. Excitedly, I wrapped my arms around her and said….
"Take out the trash."
Andy Lawson is the average man on the street that you'll not even trouble yourself looking at him if he passes by you. He's sensitive to bullshit, and he hates mediocrity in most people. He is the author of his self-published book: Facts and Fiction of Fengshui: Facts that Masters are NOT Telling You. He doesn't have Facebook or Twitter, because he hates to be associated with people who tend to be passive-aggressive online, but he does have a very limited set of vocabularies, terrible grammar, a twisted mind that makes himself God in his own twisted world and an ability to communicate with people who wish to be his friend.


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How Stupid Can Religion Be?
by Charlie Leck
A Case Study:
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
by David Kertzer
Zealots, such as Pope Pius IX and dozens of
contemporary Christian fundamentalist radicals,
give religion a very bad name and cause most of
the reasonable people of the world to turn away
from faith. Stop it Pat Robertson! Stop it all of you!
by Charlie Leck
A Case Study:
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
by David Kertzer
Zealots, such as Pope Pius IX and dozens of
contemporary Christian fundamentalist radicals,
give religion a very bad name and cause most of
the reasonable people of the world to turn away
from faith. Stop it Pat Robertson! Stop it all of you!
In a powerful new, best-selling book, God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens bemoans the fact that religion is manmade. Of course it is! This is no great revelation, Mr. Hitchens. Of course religion is manmade! Religion is man's response to his faith in God. Do not blame God for poor and imperfect religion! God has nothing to do with it!
That being said, I am constantly stunned by the stupidity of most religious expression. There are so many extreme examples of bad religious expression – within Christianity and every other organized religion in the world – they would weary us in trying to present the case studies. And people of faith wonder why so much of the world is uninterested in their silly expressions that they try to sell as deep faith.
Let me present only one powerful example. Don't confuse it with a charge against the Roman Catholic Church; for no faith and no institutional church is immune from these same chanrges.
Last year we had the opportunity to see the extraordinary new Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. What a thrill. I cannot imagine that there is a finer theatre complex in the world than this extraordinary facility.
We saw the play, Edgardo Mine, by Alfred Uhry. It is based on an extraordinary work of non-fiction by David I. Kertzer, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. The dramatic presentation so moved me that I stopped at the theatre's gift shop on the way out and purchased Kertzer's book. I gave it nearly full attention over the next few days even though Thanksgiving Day was fast approaching and I had many chores to accomplish in order to get ready.
As absolutely devastating in power as the play was, I quickly discovered that it told only a fraction of the miserably stupid story of just how spectacularly evil religious zealots can be.
Did I really need such additional evidence in a world where revolutionaries kill hundreds of innocent people in the name of their god and bring such wretched agony to the families of those murdered? Could I not see such stupidity in my contemporary world when a president of my own nation can refer to an invasion and occupation of another nation, half-way around the world, as 'a crusade?'
Did I really need such additional evidence in a world where revolutionaries kill hundreds of innocent people in the name of their god and bring such wretched agony to the families of those murdered? Could I not see such stupidity in my contemporary world when a president of my own nation can refer to an invasion and occupation of another nation, half-way around the world, as 'a crusade?'
What more evidence do I need than that presented in my own nation by evangelical zealots who claim that their own path to salvation is indeed the only one and that they are guaranteed eternal life while those who do not believe as they shall not realize those rewards? What unharnessed and vile stupidity!
In 1858, Pope Pius IX actually ordered the kidnapping of a Jewish child. The great, pompous, religious leader of the Universal Catholic Church, demanded that this six year old boy be taken from his parents and brothers and sisters and that he be brought into the sanctuary of the Holy Catholic Church.
Oh that I had time and space to explain the complex historical background in which this dastardly event took place. I can only sketch it out for you.
The Pope, at that point in history, also saw himself as a divinely appointed King. His kingdom did not amount to much, but world concepts were still fairly limited in those days and a guy who held sway over a few provinces in Italy could delude himself with the idea that he really had a vast kingdom. The Kingdom of Pope Pius IX amounted to a crescent of a few hundred miles, extending from just south of Rome over to the Adriatic Sea and up to and including the important city of Bologna. It did not, however, include Florence or any of Tuscany or Milan, Genoa or Venice. Neither did it include Sardinia or the vast area south of Rome, including Naples and Sicily.
As well, Pope Pius IX was being heavily pressured to give up his claim to state sovereignty and concentrate on his more divine duties as the ruler of the church universal. This pope was more than a big egoist and he resisted these pressures. The last thing he needed was an intense amount of negative notoriety in the world press. Nevertheless, that's what he got from the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.
Excuse me my Roman Catholic friends, but I must say it loudly. This guy was a jerk even though Kertzer says he may have been "the most important pope in modern history." [74] Except for the Apostle Peter himself, Pius IX reigned longer than any other pope in history. This is attributable to the extremely young age at which he was coronated as both King and Holy Father. At the age of 53, Father Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti came into his office at a time when there were "new currents sweeping Europe, the movement away from the old regimes of autocrats and noblemen toward a system of nations based on constitutional rule and the separation of Church and state."
I mustn't burden you with more history and I must go back to the story at hand, regarding the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. How did such an incredible incident take place? It all springs from the superstitions and falderal that religion can create and sprinkle on the heads of its unquestioning adherents.
Edgardo Mortara was the innocent son of Momolo and Marianna Mortara. They lived in the Jewish sector of great city of Bologna. Momolo was a somewhat successful businessman and the family was certainly able to afford a servant to help with the care of their large family of children. As an infant, Edgardo took on a serious fever and fell seriously ill. His mother watched over him for hour after hour. One evening, exhausted, she was taken away by Momolo so that she might rest. The servant girl, a Christian, was put in charge of watching over the child. During her watch, the girl noticed that the child was growing worse and that death was both imminent and certain. In a panic, thinking the child was destined to go to eternal punishment in Hell, the girl reached into a nearby basin of water and baptized the child exactly as she had heard the priests do in her own little church. When morning broke, so had the child's fever. Edgardo's mother was ecstatic at her son's recovery and proclaimed it a miracle. Naturally, the servant girl attributed the miracle to her own alert and holy actions.
Now, unfortunately for the Mortara family, their servant girl was a bit of a wench and she dabbled in sex quite indiscriminately. Her lovers often included one or more of the soldiers from the company appointed to protect the Pope's limited empire. She readily told the soldiers the story of the great miracle she had performed. The account slowly spread from the soldiers to the holy priests and eventually to the Pope himself.
Of course, any Catholic rube could now see that it was unjust to allow Edgardo to continue to live outside the confines of the faith. He had to be removed from the evil that surrounded him and he had to be brought inside the church itself. The great miracle made that all so evident to Pope Pius IX. And so, he ordered that the child be removed from the family and that he be brought into the protection of the church.
Unbelievable fiction? No, it is unfathomable non-fiction.
The little child is kidnapped. He is hidden within the church and is raised there for the rest of his life. His entire family is left to grieve and mourn forever over its lost child. The boy grows to become a priest, believes he has been saved from eternal damnation and lives out his life in Austria, France and Belgium.
The incredible and shocking event set in play the final stages for the Catholic Church as ruler of any secular state. The press clippings were not good. Protests extended far beyond the Jewish community and arose throughout Europe and, eventually, in America. The empire of the Catholic Church would soon collapse, Italy would be reunified and the papacy would retreat into the Vatican.
Uhry's play is magnificent. It portrays the agony of Momolo and Marianna so dramatically. Though the play also makes it clear that the leaders of the church believed ardently in what they were doing, Uhry also raises the question about the stupidity of irrational religious faith and doctrine. Uhry is a master story-teller, as evidenced by the success of his previous dramas, including Driving Miss Daisy. However, as good as the play was that night at the Guthrie Theatre, Kertzer's extraordinary book is more compelling and dramatic and tells the story to its awful end.
Kertzer enables us to follow poor Momolo through his time in jail, through his trial for murder and then on to his death only a month after his acquittal of the charges. We also follow Edgardo through his training and eventual ordination as a priest.
"Known as a scholarly man – reputed to preach in six languages, including the notoriously difficult language of the Basques, and to read three others, Hebrew
among them – Father Mortara dedicated his life to spreading the faith, singing the praises of the Lord Jesus Christ, and traveling throughout Europe, going where he was most needed. As a preacher he was in great demand, not least because of the inspirational way he was able to weave the remarkable story of his own childhood into his sermons. As he recounted it, his saga was the stuff of faith and hope: a story of how God chose a simple, illiterate servant girl to invest a small child with the miraculous powers of divine grace, and in so doing rescued him from his Jewish family – good people but, as Jews, on a God-forsaken path." [295]
As for Marianna Mortara, the story is sad enough to break the reader's heart. She had been charged as a conspirator in the murder for which Momolo was accused. I refer you to Kertzer's extraordinary book if she want to read further about the murder accusation and the trial of Momolo and Mariana Mortara. All of the years from the time her son was kidnapped were difficult for the poor mother. Her mental health grew poor and she was subject to a great deal of irrational madness.
Marianna died in 1890 with several of her children, including Father Pio Edgardo, at her bedside. She had made a kind of peace with her son and she was at peace with him. Such was not the case for Edgardo's siblings. They developed and retained a deep, abiding dislike, bordering on hatefulness, for their brother. As Marianna lay dying, her son, the priest, attempted to persuade his mother to convert to the Christian faith in order to save her soul, but, to the end, she declined.
Father Pio Edgardo Mortara would die in a Belgian abbey where he had lived for many years. He was 88 years old. In only a matter of weeks following his death, soldiers of the Nazi Reich would stream into Belgium and begin rounding up those of Jewish blood in order to purge Europe of this wicked and weakened race.
The entire case is little known in Italian history. It has been relegated mainly to the narrow focus of Jewish scholars concerned with the persecution of Jews by the Catholic Church. Church historians have ignored the case because of the embarrassment it causes and the memories it rekindles. Yet, there is a wealth of original source material documenting the story in great detail and Kerzer has dug deeply into that documentation.
In this one place I recommend both the play by Uhry and the extraordinary book by David Kertzer. Be assured that Kertzer's work it careful and scholarly. He doesn't take short cuts. His logic is precise and accurate. His sources are tested and well noted. Kertzer leads the reader carefully and precisely through the entire story with no confusion as to the time-line or the steps taken to get to where one is going.


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So as far as strategy goes, because Xerneas EX is a basic Pokemon card you won't need to use any other cards with this card. But remember, because this card is an EX card, if this card is knocked out, two prize cards are taken instead of one. So knowing this,and looking at how many energy cards this card takes to attack, I would definitely use this EX card in a fairy type deck, but I wouldn't use more than one of these. I would set up Xerneas on the bench, put four energy cards on it then move it to the active Pokemon spot to use X Blast the first turn and Break Through the turn after that. That way you can knock out most Pokemon in one turn with X Blast and the next turn spread damage with Break Through which will eventually make it that much easier to knock out defending Pokemon when you can do 140 damage with X Blast on a Pokemon that has at least 30 prior damage.
Pokemon Card Rating:
I would give this card a 4 out of 5 rating. In my opinion, this is an above average EX Pokemon card from the X and Y set. I really like both of Xerneas's moves, both can do major damage, but both moves take a bit to set up and X Blast can't be used every turn. This is definitely an EX card you want to use in your Fairy type deck, and it also should be a card that collector's like me want to add to their collection.
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Bernhard Schölkopf Computer Scientist
Bernhard Schölkopf's scientific interests are in the fields of machine learning and inference from empirical data. In particular, he studies kernel methods for extracting regularities from possibly high-dimensional data. These regularities are usually statistical ones, however, in recent years he has also become interested in methods for finding causal structures that underlie statistical dependences. He has worked on a number of different applications of machine learning; most recently, for the work of astronomers and photographers.
Royal Society Milner Award, 2014.
Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2012.
Max Planck Research Award
J. K. Aggarwal Prize of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, 2006.
Relevant Publications
B. Schölkopf et al, "Computing Functions of Random Variables via Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Representations," Stat. Comput., vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 755-766, July 2015.
B. Schölkopf, "Learning to see and act," Nature, vol. 518, no. 7540, pp. 486-487, Feb. 2015.
B. Schölkopf et al, "Removing systematic errors for exoplanet search via latent causes," Proceedings of The 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning, vol. 37, pp. 2218–2226, ICML 2015, 2015.
B. Schölkopf and A. Smola, "Learning with Kernels," Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
Advisory Committee Chair Learning in Machines & Brains
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsDepartment of Empirical Inference
PhD (Computer Sciences) Technische Universität Berlin
Diplom (Physics) University of Tübingen
M.Sc. (Mathematics) University of London
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Thanks to Jennifer at Conversiondiary.com for hosting the weekly 7 Quick Takes
#1 January 21 - Feast Day of Saint Agnes - my Patron Saint!
I have this fancy little encyclopedia of Catholic Saints that I bought at Borders back in the day. I'm pretty sure it was on clearance. I forgot about the book until this past week when I decided to check to see if Saint Agnes, my patroness, was in there. And she is! In a few different spots actually! She's in the "Child Saints" section as well as the "Earliest Martyrs of the Church" section. (Here I am referring to Saint Agnes of Rome, which is the more popular St. Agnes that everyone refers to...and it is her feast day on January 21. There is also a less known St. Agnes of Bohemia, FYI)
According to a mini bio of Saint Agnes in the above book, Agnes is "probably the best known child Saint." She was 13 when she died in Rome, because she refused to marry the son of a Roman prefect for the reason that she dedicated herself completely to Christ. After Agnes refused the marriage, she was dragged naked through the streets to a brothel, but as the legend says, her hair grew long to cover her body. One man who tried to rape Agnes was blinded, but she prayed and his sight was returned. When they tried to set her on fire, flames would not burn her, so the Romans ended up killing her by piercing her throat with a sword. She is always portrayed with a lamb to symbolize her purity.
The name Agnes, when translated from Greek, means "The Pure One." I once had a key chain that had this Greek origin of my name written on it. I loved that key chain but it since broke. It reminded me that I was created to be pure!
When translated from Latin, Agnes comes from the word "Agnus" which means "lamb". This always makes me feel proud at mass because I actually know what they're singing when they sing "Agnus Dei" or "Lamb of God" in Latin before communion.
I love this Saint and I ask her for intercession for me and for the purity of our marriage all the time! You should too!
#2 Gimme Shelter
Oh, so you know what else is cool? You know how 'Agnes' is a pretty rare name nowadays... (everybody tells me their grandma's or great-grandma's or great-aunt's name is/was Agnes and they have not seen that name forever) Well, have you heard about the movie "Gimme Shelter" coming out this weekend? I've been hearing about it on Relevant Radio (Catholic Radio) for a while now and about how US Catholic bishops are recommending it because of its pro-life message. Well guess what the name of the main character is??? You got it, Agnes! See the trailer here. The movie is based on a true story and based on what I have heard about it, I am definitely going to see it...hopefully this weekend. Go Agnes! Maybe we can bring the name back. But then again, I like my name being a little bit unique yet traditional at the same time.
#3 Just wondering....
Why is it that when I post a cute picture of my husband and I or of a tasty dish I made or just a random update about work or pharmacy school or our marriage on facebook, I automatically get 30, 40, 50...even up to a 100 likes...but when I post something that defends life...or traditinal marriage....or something related to my Catholic faith... I get like 2 likes (one of them being a priest) or **Silence**
What what?!?! Oh, this is too controversial for you to like...to have anything to do with??? I get it, what if someone sees that you have a slight bit of interest in defending Your Catholic faith, or worse yet, what IF they get offended by you expressing your faith/values/opinion??? And what if your reputation is ruined??? Puuuuhlease!!!Stand up for something for once, darnit! Who's gonna be the voice for the voiceless if we're all scared of sharing and standing up for what is right??? Who's gonna stand up for you when you're the only one left standing because they have already devoured us, the devout Catholics that were too unafraid of speaking up and ticked off too many people ???
#4 Nerd Girl Problems
All the ones that apply or have applied to me:
Nerd Girl Problem #245234
Being a assigned a 3-5 page essay, having 12 pages of material.
(This happened to me so many times)
I'm eventually going to try to come up with my own Nerd Girl Problems,
because I think I might have some funny ones in store.
#5 What happens when I try to cook
But good stuff comes out anyways!
This is a recipe for loaded baked potatoes that I found on pinterest,
except I added my own person touch to it. My husband loved them.
And he loved my barbeque ribs too! And the red cabbage slaw.
#6 And you know there has to be an update on the kitty
Tiger is doing well. I still have to bring her in to get her belly checked out though, because it has been big for a while and the swelling or whatever it is, is not going down. She tested negative for pregnancy and negative for worms. So it might be something more serious...like a hairball, maybe? Haha. She's cuddly and loves her new home but she still displays a lot of mean behaviors she learned while trying to survive out on the streetz! But we ain't scared of her....still shower her with kisses even if she growls and hisses! Somebody's gotta show this kitty what love and affection are...and that she no longer need to have her survival skills on...
Relax kitty, you're home now. And we ain't gonna hurt ya!
#7 Pharm School
This is what happens when you try to fit 50 pages of important information on one piece of paper!
This was me on Tuesday morning, cramming for my Chemical Principles of Drug Action exam on cancer chemotherapy...part 1. Yes, I love colors when studying. I learn by writing...so I extensively highlight, and write, and re-write...and color-coordinate sections and subsections of my notes. And I like having everything in one place. Studying cancer chemotherapy is somewhat like learning a new language though....probably even worse. It was just not sticking.
But good news! I aced the exam.
Bad news? Now I feel like I don't remember a single thing anymore (2 days later).
The beauty of cramming - it all goes into your short-term memory - only to come right out as soon as you walk out of that exam. But don't worry folks, I will know my cancer chemotherapy really well once we cover it in pharmacotherapeutics. This was more like an intro.....as it was in a med chem class. It will be easier to learn it when we get lectures on it in therapeutics...which is always a good thing!
#7.5 And of course you get the bonus quick take:
A pic of me trying to drive home in the storm Wednesday evening.
Don't worry, I wasn't playing with my phone while driving (prohibited in Illinois since Jan 2014). Traffic was stopped completely, as you would expect in Chicago in blizzard-y, below zero conditions. My cousin, who studies at University of Alaska at Fairbanks, posted on facebook Wednesday morning: "+35 in Alaska, 0 in Chicago." Keep teasing us.
We'll eventually dig ourselves outta this snow.
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 / Features
India v Netherlands, Group B, World Cup 2011, Delhi
India must experiment with bowling combination
Sticking to a winning combination has its advantages, but given the way India have bowled so far in the World Cup, trying something new is logical; it is time for R Ashwin to get a game
Sharda Ugra in Delhi
March 8, 2011
The country that gave the world 'total football' has come up with another catchphrase for a sport that is most detached from the land of Cryuff, clogs and cheese. Peter Borren calls it 'brave cricket'. Netherlands captain Borren used the phrase several times as he fronted the largest mass of media he ever has in his career, at the Feroz Shah Kotla. 'Brave cricket' was what his team would need, he said, when they meet India at the Kotla on Wednesday.
Netherlands will be up against the hosts in front of a crowd that will convey via every cheer and hand-clap that they believe that Netherlands are at the World Cup merely to fill the numbers; that for India, Netherlands are merely a box to be ticked off.
Borren's men have had a rough World Cup, unable to make an impression after their first game, in which they gave England a scare. When Borren talked about being 'brave', he was referring to his team pushing their skills to the edge, rather than finding reserves of extra courage. In events like the World Cup, smaller teams often jump into uneven contests with complete optimism. It is the bigger outfit that must walk onto the ground not merely looking the part but playing it.
India are the only team in their group not to have lost a game, though they dropped a point against England, and their place in the quarter-finals will be as good as secure should they beat Netherlands. However, India must look at the game as something more than just one they need to win, but one in which they can try something different in the bowling department, which has been an area of concern so far in the tournament.
MS Dhoni was in Mr Quick Quote mode when he summarised India's World Cup so far as being "a tight game, a close game and a good win." What was due now he said, with the smile that has launched a thousand endorsements, was an "easy game". It would be perfect for the side, yet should it come by taking the easy route, that would be something of a cop-out. More than an option, going by how the Indian bowling has panned out over the last two weeks, experimentation would perhaps be common sense.
In keeping with cricket's ancient social orders, experimentation for India, in this event, means that it is the bowlers who must lump it. All barring Zaheer Khan, of course, who through his indispensability these days could surely lay claim to the title of Indian cricket's most-valuable player ahead even of the team's most feted batsmen. Other than Zaheer, India's most impactful bowler so far in three games has been the part-timer Yuvraj Singh, while the rest have mostly been works in not-very-rapid progress.
Ashish Nehra's comeback is awaited, Munaf Patel must demonstrate he can lead, Harbhajan Singh must fill in his wickets column, Piyush Chawla is finding that bowling on a turner in a warm-up is not the same as trying to rein in England on a belter, while Sreesanth must once again understand that being liked and picked are somehow interconnected.
It is time to give R Ashwin a go, not because the commentariat wants it, or experts are filling in hundreds of column inches or that it is the tea-stall talk, but because it is the logical option. Cricket teams are not, and rightly so, political parties who must go with the popular mood. There are times though that popular opinion may be the most appropriate one. To turn away from it, merely because it is popular, is to respond not to logic but to ego. There is only one way to see if Ashwin's wicket-taking ability has not melted away and that is by giving him a game.
Dhoni said he "did not want to bring any particular bowler under pressure" and thought he saw "signs of improvement." India will, he indicated, keep juggling combinations and "hopefully, we will have the best attack by the end of the league stage." Hopefully for their breathless public, 'hopefully' is not the operative word for India in this World Cup.
If India can lay claim to having structure and balance in some areas, it is, not surprisingly, in their batting. It is now clearly established that the No. 4 and No. 5 slot will be switched between Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Singh depending on the state of play, and Dhoni and Yusuf Pathan are ready to float along too. Should wickets fall early, Kohli goes in at No. 4 to be given the time and breadth to construct an innings of the kind that has made him the fastest Indian to a 1000 one-day runs. Should the innings need a lift in the run-rate, it will be Yuvraj who goes in at No. 4, like he did in the match against England, a move that is believed to have been made on coach Gary Kirsten's prompting. Dhoni virtually stated on Tuesday that Suresh Raina would be unable to squeeze into the XI should things stay the same.
The "signs of progress" that Dhoni sees in the bowling were somewhat more evident in the measured Indian batting versus Ireland, where the India batsmen, for a change, ran more singles than their feisty competitors.
The logic and success rate of sticking to a winning combination is a hard one to argue against at most times. Yet, in a six-week long World Cup, gaps between games may be long but the windows of opportunity to try different things are fewer. The match versus Netherlands is one of those windows for India. After Wednesday, all dramatic changes in personnel will come either from injury or panic. That cricket will not be so brave.
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Posted by Parag on (March 9, 2011, 14:45 GMT)
The only reason I can think Ashwin has not been given a chance yet is he will be used as a surprise bowler, a surprise bowler in some important matches. Since other teams have not faced him yet, it can work big time in India's favor.
Chawla seems to have become useless and bhajji is not a wicket taker any more.
Posted by Syed on (March 9, 2011, 10:12 GMT)
Zaheer and Munaf were bowling like the Pakistani pace duo. Why did they tamper with the combination? Bringing in Nehra is not too wise.
Posted by IMRAN on (March 9, 2011, 8:34 GMT)
chawla should be replace by ashwin and rest zaheer give chance to nehra,nehra should play in finalx1, if we bat first send yusuf up the order for big matches practise.
Posted by Supan on (March 9, 2011, 8:15 GMT)
india should try playing 8 batsmen (raina instead of chawla )any ways the 4 th bowlers gives runs at 8 rpo better play onre more batsmen and play more attacking cricket with aim of 400!!
Posted by Rakesh on (March 9, 2011, 8:10 GMT)
Ashwin is nice baller but he is ok if you don't compare him with other options that we have ... that is Pushing his luck Chawala and Never a Shanta Kumar. He has done well in Power Plays and can be used in containing job... I guess apart from Munaf all our ballers are tagged as attacking. If Bajji is one ...then why the fourth column have nothing in it. No complains though as he did a nice containing job last match. thats what he should be doing as a leader of the tweek pack.
Posted by Dummy4 on (March 9, 2011, 8:09 GMT)
Piyush Chawla was no where near taking wickets in the past match. And Harbhajan has been lucky enough to escape from radar for his lackluster performance. Seeing the way they played, none except Zaheer posed any trouble to the opponents.Thank god we were pitted against some minnows. Proteas or Aussies would have piled runs from our primary school level bowling. Though everybody tend to disagree, Sreeshant is capable of bowling wicket taking deliveries in the midst of every spell.. And he is also capable of irritating the batsmen to commit mistakes. Dhoni was also struggling to cover the huge holes we have in the fielding... where only Virat and Yuvraj are the only safe bets.. I think we are expecting too much from the team that has nothing exceptional on field apart from their batsmen, whom you can't depend all the time.
Posted by Dummy4 on (March 9, 2011, 7:36 GMT)
Rest Zaheer for one match and Indians will struggle on batting wickets to get even one wicket. And harbhajan might get wickets on spinning wickets, but he will struggle to get wickets on Batting pitch or pitches that even assists fast bowlers. I dont know how India is going to do well in later stages of tournament with such a pathetic bowling attack.
Posted by Dummy4 on (March 9, 2011, 7:20 GMT)
@rahul kaushal ... y rest tendulkar?.. considering this to be his last WC, he should be given every oppotunity ....
Posted by Br. on (March 9, 2011, 7:18 GMT)
Hello Everyone! Who will play Ashwinin or Chawla ?
Posted by Vinodh on (March 9, 2011, 7:14 GMT)
I really expected to drop Harbhajan in the last match against Ireland. They are a quite decent side. We could have tested in that game, with whom to go.. either Ashwin r Chawla bowling to same opponent. Dhoni dint do that. Against Netherlands experimenting is an absolute waste. With out scare should test Ashwin and Chawla either against SA r WI, that will be wise. @Karthik, you saw the Champions trophy match CSK vs Victoria.. D Hussey smashed Ashwin in super over. Dont ever say Aus cant play against spin. Even without spin bowlers, look at their firing fast bowling attack. Great Aussies. SA except Kallis and AB always juggle against spin. As no option is there, we can test with them and WI. India needs good bowling attack, else just as what hppnd to PAK yesterday. One single nite will prove what the attack is and by that time it will be Knock out stage. Hope INDIA will go well. Cheers!!!!!!!!!
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So this week is my last public speaking class and therefore our last assignment. We had to pick a controversial topic from the 4 page list and do an 8-10 minute speech that included at least two sources and a multimedia aspect.
I've gotten A's on everything thus far and I imagine this one will be no different. Worst I'll get from the professor is a few points off because I am over 10 minutes. Oh well, there wasn't anything I wanted to cut. Actually, if I could have done so, I would have said more. Most of the class has struggled to make their 8 minutes, so I won't feel bad about going above and beyond what I needed.
Because I figured "why the hell not?" I have edited my speech into a youtube video. I wish lightworks had cooperated with me, but it didn't. Windows Movie Maker works, sure, but I can't get the pictures to overlay so there are these strange bits of silence. Oh well, I don't know of anyone who made a perfect video the first time around. If I find myself having more things to share on the youtubes I'll probably invest in Lightroom.
Many of the other student's projects have been hilarious. They've managed to ramble for 8 minutes without pushing any real point. Ok, so we have frivolous lawsuits... what would you do to fix it? Welfare issues? Thanks for whining about them for 8 minutes, but you haven't addressed what has caused it or how to improve it.
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The most hilarious bit was him speculating that the Boston Bombings could be caused by this conspiracy as well. This guy is an openly muslim student. Most of his speeches have mentioned the "Enlightened" Mohammad or Bible/Quran scripture in some way. I guessed he missed the part where the bombers were following whacked out Islam fed to them from some crazy guy.
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How was your Monday? Mine actually went pretty well! I'm semi bummed though, it's windy, raining and freezing = no outside run. Boo.
So I read this great blog post on Glamour.com by Margarita Bertsos today. She was recently given the opportunity to workout with Jillian Michaels of the Biggest Loser (ok, I know I write about Jillian like twice a week – I love the woman!) and she wrote about what she learned from her workout. Among her points was, "Don't waste your time at the gym." Not, 'don't waste your time by going to the gym', rather, 'don't waste your time when you're at the gym.'
Jillian helped Margarita realize that if you're going to be at the gym – you should be completely present and devote 110% to your workout. I find myself guilty of not giving it my all at the gym sometimes. When I'm working out outdoors I feel like I really push myself by tackling hills and challenging courses, but at the gym, I could definitely kick it up a few notches. Raise the incline on the treadmill a tad higher, increase the resistance on the elliptical just a little bit more…do my arm circuit with 8 pound weights instead of 5…(hey, I have small arms!). So anyways, I thought it was a really good post about pushing past the limits we sometimes set for ourselves and don't think we can get past. I'm going to try and step it up this week at the gym – I'll let you know how it goes!
FOOOOOOOOOD. This afternoon I headed down to our work cafeteria (I just typed school cafeteria!) with the intentions of getting a nice, warm bowl of Chicken soup…however, when I got there it was slim pickins' and the soup not looking too good – semi cold and all the good stuff was picked out – yuck. So instead I got a turkey sandwich with all the fixins':
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There was an excessive amount of turkey on this sandwich, so I took some of it off – but other than that, really, nothing beats a good old turkey sandwich. I'm convinced that Pepper jack cheese is just the freaking best – I LOVE it!
For dinner, I tried a new recipe – Falafel a la Hungry Girl. I'm going to be honest – I like the Hungry Girl daily emails that I get, however I really dislike how a lot of their recipes call for something like "2 tablespoons of Duncan Hines Cake Mix." Well, what am I supposed to do with the rest of the cake mix? I feel like with a lot of their recipes, I'd have a lot of random ingredients leftover that I wouldn't use again and that's just wasteful. That said, I was very pleased to open up my Hungry Girl email today and find a recipe that was totally doable – Falafel balls! I LOVE FALAFEL. I'm just going to throw that out there. They are so delicious and so I was p-u-m-p-e-d to try this recipe! It did not disappoint!!! Mmmmm this was a really easy recipe to follow and the falafel came out just right. I paired the balls with a spinach salad with shaved red onions and a cool, cucumber-yogurt dressing. Here's the recipe (I more or less followed it – minus the dill in the dip/dressing because I despise dill.) Falafel Pita Pickets with Dill-icious Yogurt Dip.
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We do love the lunches. It is great to sit around a fire and eat nice soup OR curried sausages or have a hot tea and smell the gum trees.....that's a whole lot better than the smell of shitty sheep.
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