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Bacon and Spinach Frittata
This was a hit with both Germans and Americans at our son's 3rd birthday party last weekend. Super easy to prepare, and all-primal, of course.
2 cups raw spinach, thick stems removed
12 slices or so raw bacon – we buy Dörfleisch from the local Metzgerei (pronounced Duh-flysh), and specify we want it thinly sliced (Dünn geschnitten)
1 tomato, diced
1 small/medium yellow onion, diced (can also use 5-6 spring onions)
2 tbsp organic (buy German "Bio" butter)
6 Freiland Eier (cage free eggs)
1/4 cup feta cheese, unseasoned
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Sauté onion and bacon in butter for a few minutes then add tomato and cook until bacon starts to shrink. Add the spinach 1/2 cup at a time, allowing it to wilt slightly before adding the next 1/2 cup. Transfer mixture to oven-proof low-sided casserole pan if your skillet is not cast-iron, and spread evenly. Whisk eggs, adding salt and pepper to taste, then pour over the other ingredients. Sprinkle feta cheese evenly over top & pop in the oven. Heck, I don't know how long it cooked, around 10-12 minutes. You're looking for the egg to be puffing up, the cheese to be melting, and a nice brown tint over the top. There are tons of combinations for breakfast frittatas out there, and you really don't even have to eat it for breakfast. I took the picture for my frittata from the MDA site. He provides a different mix of ingredients than I (sun-dried tomatoes, goat & parmesan cheeses), and he has the great idea to pour the frittata ingredients in a muffin tin for "grab and go" convenience – Try out different combinations of meat and vegetables and find your family's favorites…you might just be making a regular batch of this stuff. Take note of other busy-family-friendly recipes on Mark's site & his related Primal Breakfast Suggestions for People on the Go.
Landstuhl Facility and Primal Caesar Salad
We've begun free CrossFit training at Landstuhl this week in a facility (Bldg 3714 across from the gas station) that was designed and equipped also to handle combatives training. We are teaching the 9 fundamental movements to active duty soldiers from 0630-0730 and again from 1630-1730, Monday to Friday, and we also provide daily WOD supervision. Yes, this does mean that I am discontinuing my offer for free training from our home due to our new schedule being pretty hectic, but I am way out in the woods anyway for most of the KMC population, and I can assure you that the CrossFit training experience I can offer you all at Landstuhl is absolutely incomparable, its improvement, over what I've given at Ramstein Youth Center or my home. The new facility is amazing (CrossFit Ramstein has been posting pictures of it that you might have seen), and we are already building a community of active duty devotees. Unfortunately we still do not know how much of the military family we will be able to involve (spouses or kids) in our training, nor if we will be allowed to start a nonprofit CrossFit affiliate in the near future, so this may all be very short lived. We should be getting a response from the legal office soon and are ready to react quickly – I will keep you all posted.
Speaking of community, we met some folks now good friends who are into CrossFit Football and posting scores publicly. I think radical power improvement is in my future.
Today I tried to beat Cris' score with 65# power cleans and overhead squats, but managed instead to double it (it was "for time", so the lower the score the better). Then I did a 20 minute row workout and could barely drive home. YOU MUST try this workout (from crossfitfootball.com):
Complete 10 rounds (20 minutes) Row for 1 minute as many meters as you can, rest for 1 minute.
*Your score is the total amount of meters rowed – goal is row at least 2500 meters (3000 meters for men)
*Penalty is 1 handstand push up for every 5 meters under 2500/3000 meters.
This. will. kick. your. butt. If you have kids with you, and a gym partner also with kids, one would think that you could conceivably trade off rounds, but absolutely forget it. I couldn't manage even a two-word response during my minute-of-rest periods. Instead, consider trading off the entire 20 minutes babysitting or exercising, and do insure you have a backup driver for your return trip home.
I'm concluding with another crowd-pleasing recipe for you below, but first I want to explain that when I specify (as below, but also in the future) that a recipe is "primal", I am referring to Mark's definition, with very few deviations, (making it "primalish", I guess). At the same time, I also subscribe to Melissa Urban's advice on eating dirty, and aspiration to remain 90% clean (I prudently enjoy nut butters, heavy cream, double-fat créme fraîche, and Lindt 90% cacao dark chocolate bars…and when it isn't prudent I forgive myself quickly). There are other definitions of primal/paleo out there, but I credit our diet with keeping me cold/flu free for nearly a year and a half, as well as for being pretty dang powerful in the gym (just not compared to Cris…yet…). If you are new to primal living, and in shock, I'm not the only one who's lost body fat and improved overall health by following this type of diet – take the time to follow some of my links in the right column. Not a lot of time? Read Dr. Guyenet and Dr. Davis. And here's something healthy to munch on as you read their wealth of posts:
Primal Caesar Salad with Bacon & Chicken Thighs
is another simple meal I snagged from Jamie Oliver's Jamie at Home cookbook, slightly altered to make it primalish. Unless otherwise specified, the recipes posted here always serve 4…
4 chicken thighs/legs with skin on
organic (bio) butter
5-6 large mushrooms (will depend on size of your casserole dish & size of mushrooms- need enough to cover bottom of dish)
2 tbsp fresh thyme (discard woody stems) chopped roughly, divided
8 thin slices of your favorite Metzgerei's bacon (Dörfleisch), Italian pancetta, or Schwarzwälder Schinken (normally doesn't contain sugar).
extra virgin olive oil
sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
6-7 cloves garlic, minced, divided
4 anchovy fillets in olive oil, drained
3 ounces freshly grated parmesan cheese, plus a few shavings to serve
1 heaped tbsp créme fraîche (preferably double-cream créme fraîche, found at German supermarkets – I get mine at Wasgau)
juice of 1 lemon
natural unsalted walnuts, crushed and roasted
3 romaine lettuces
Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Brush mushrooms free of dirt, cut & discard tough portion from stems. Pack bottoms of mushrooms with slices of butter (sorry for lack of portion guidance – I never ration our organic butter, nor do I feel you need to), place them bottom-side down in casserole dish and sprinkle half of the fresh thyme over them plus one clove minced garlic for each mushroom you use. Season chicken with salt and pepper and place snugly together on top of mushrooms in your casserole dish. Sprinkle with the remaining chopped thyme and a few evenly dispersed chunks of butter. Put the pan into your preheated oven.
After 45-60 minutes, when the chicken looks done, take the pan out, drape the bacon/pancetta over the chicken and mushrooms, and cook for another 20 minutes until bacon is crisp and the chicken falls easily off the bone. Allow the chicken to cool.
Pound minced garlic and anchovy fillets in a pestle and mortar to a pulp – combine with parmesan, créme fraîche, lemon juice and 3times as much extra virgin olive oil as lemon juice – season this dressing to taste.
Shred the chicken meat from the bones, tear the bacon roughly, and combine it all with your (washed and spun-dry) romaine and creamy dressing. Scatter attractively with parmesan shavings to finish.
Warm Soups
Our "reasonable price" for a home made upgrade requirements inevitable. Our single-wage-earner income restricts freedom to do so….at least until after we muscle through all the one-time-but-significant fees associated with purchasing a home in Germany (detailed blog post to come on that subject). Insulation is hanging from the unfinished ceiling of our toddler son's room and he has no heat in there, but anyway there is currently no distinguishable temperature difference from the rest of the home being that we've run out of oil and spend evenings huddled around wood scraps the former owners left us.
Over the past couple weeks we've grown a deep appreciation for basic heat. We close the rouladen shades tightly at night, yell at each other when doors to infrequently-used rooms are left open, and though an infinitesimally-cracked door shove the dog in and out at tightly controlled intervals during the day so that he can answer nature's call. Ah THIS is how Europeans live! I was informed by civil employees in charge of utilities (water & electricity) here in town that we would be charged a little more per month than the average German family in anticipation of our greater use of resources. We are American, after all. This actually might be one of the easiest areas where we can defy expectation and prejudice, but I dunno….we do have a sauna (yea)! We will keep you posted.
We've tried to use this experience to kindle a sense of adventure in our son. When he wakes and complains about the cold I explain we are living like early pioneers only much, much better: we have TV, a pressure cooker, running (cold) water, and one working automobile. No mortal danger sources surrounding this docile neighbourhood save from a 400% increase in traffic due to careening white Polish vans in search of hot SpärMüll deals. I'm not complaining – bulk trash pickup is only scheduled twice per year, and anyway we've personally benefited: I've found a perfectly good soccer ball and sturdy shopping basket people threw out on their curbs so far.
Anyway, no scarcity of subjects to blog about, and I will be regular now that we are moved in.
I mentioned the pressure cooker…. our stove (circa 1980) protests with a loud CREEEEEAK and flying rust each time we open the door. The electric cooktop is more emotional than even I – there are numbers on the dials but they don't seem to correspond with any degree gradient of temperature increase. Of COURSE as you can imagine, my sladky-approval rating on cuisine has suffered accordingly, but I've come to rely on ole faithful pressure cooker. So in its honour, here are two soup recipes I made in the last two days which earned the highest rating from mein Mann just in time for Thanksgiving
Cauliflower Cheese and Mustard Soup I altered a recipe I found from Nigel Slater. Mine serves 2-3 if you use it as the main course.
1/5 slice from block of German bio (organic) butter (50g)
1 red onion sliced thin
3 cloves FRESH soft purple garlic (any garlic will do) minced
2 medium cauliflower, broken into florets
a small potato, sliced relatively thin
1-2 tbsp mustard
1 bio vegetable bouillon cube or homemade chicken or vegetable stock
4 cups water
50g parmesan cheese, diced
50g Emmentaler cheese, diced
2 tbsp Crème fraîche
Melt the butter in the pressure cooker. Add the onion and garlic and fry until soft. Dump the cauliflower in and stir well to coat florets then add potato, mustard, bouillon and water, seal pressure cooker and find a good red wine….(I will blog soon about some excellent sources we found in our neighbourhood).
After about 10min on level II (or cook according to the settings/recommendations of your personal pressure cooker) I removed the soup from heat and released the steam. I threw in cheese chunks and used an immersion blender to blend before adding a little more pepper and a couple tablespoons of Crème fraîche. Nigel recommends frying bread cubes in butter (croutons) and sprinkling them on top (yum) but I forgot and we were hungry….remember everything is healthier without bread, anyway! We grilled steak and zucchini, and this soup was the perfect accompaniment.
Cream of Broccoli Soup
1/5 slice from block of German bio (organic) butter (50g)
3 cloves FRESH soft purple garlic (any garlic will do) minced
2 medium broccoli, broken into florets
a small potato, sliced relatively thin
1 bio vegetable bouillon cube or homemade chicken or vegetable stock
4 cups water
Melt the butter in the pressure cooker. Add the garlic and fry until soft. Dump the broccoli in and stir well to coat florets then add potato, bouillon, and water, seal pressure cooker and cook for about 10 minutes on level II, or according to the settings/recommendations of your personal pressure cooker. Immersion blend and season to taste – I served with roasted chicken and mushrooms.
Voilà Dinner in 15-Minutes
We are moving into the house we bought in Waldfischbach starting this Saturday, so we've got a fair amount of monetary stress at the moment… sure you may be able to empathize somewhat if you've ever been a homeowner – but then multiply by a factor of 10 for purchasing a home on foreign soil using a foreign language. It is not really a question of whether we neglected to consider some tax or fee – it's a matter of exactly when that surprise tax or fee will hit our bank account.
Monetary stress provocations strike in clusters of four, I've found, and the last seven days proved no exception. We had to take our Subaru Outback to the repair shop last week on Thursday because a stream of smoke was coming out from under the hood. The incessant blinking "check engine" light has been a function of its operation since the 13th month following its purchase in 2000, along with a near-infinite number of other issues from which multiple Subaru (and other) dealerships have profited – but as yet not been conclusively able to resolve. I believe seething ire regarding misadventures with our Subaru could easily be the subject of its own future post, but the main point for now is just that at long and excruciating last the vehicle could actually in earnest be in its final throes of existence.
Then, last Saturday a tire blew in our BMW (a one-series which we purchased in used condition, so please banish any idea that we are some sort of atypical wealthy military family). We had run-flat tires so were able to limp into the nearest automobile dealership which happened to be AUTOHAUS HÖBEL VOLKSWAGEN + AUDI HÄNDLER in Waldfischbach. We were extremely lucky to find them, and I would unreservedly recommend their service (of course especially if you own a Volkswagon or Audi). They advised against attempting to drive our car to the nearest BMW dealer in Kaiserslautern explaining helpfully that we could go to German jail if something were to happen, and then they recommended purchasing two run-flat tires because not only was one completely kaputt, another one was inexplicably not run-flat. Autohaus Höbel went to enormous pains attempting to get two Pirelli run-flats in time for me to make my Tuesday morning fitness class and I am extremely grateful, but I missed the class anyway and now owe them and the BMW dealership in Kaiserslautern an apple cake (the Volkswagon dealership had to promise cake in order to insure prompt tire delivery). I will provide the recipe on the blogsite later – a delicious German-style apple cake, but not at all low-carb… don't worry, at some point I will blog about the necessity of "cheat" days/meals.
So anyway, both my husband and I have been riding our bicycles all over Pfälzerwald due to both automobiles being out of service. The ride from Queidersbach to Waldfischbach is approximately 15k, and I've made it three times in the last two days with the child-trailer attached and fully-loaded (our son is in the middle of potty-training) thinking the tires would arrive and I could return with the BMW. Yesterday morning, about 5k short of Waldfischbach, I ran over a fragment of a branch cloaked by fallen leaves and crammed with inch-long spiked thorns which slid like butter into the left tire of the child-trailer…pop. I left the branch in, and made it all the way to town. On the bright side, we do already have a spare tube.
Anyway, I know many of you have days just like mine, and really one of the best things to have on hand is a 15-minute dinner for four, so here it is.
whisk together in first bowl:
3 small freerange eggs
1/8 c cream
Chop 1.5cups macadamia nuts (but not-too-finely) in a second bowl
Take 4 Turkey breasts (pound them flat with a tenderizer or get them at your favorite Metzgerei and specify they will be used as schnitzel) you've covered with salt, pepper, and suβ Paprika according to your taste, dip first in egg mixture and then in nuts. Fry in simmering butter on medium heat approximately 5 minutes each side. Voilà.
Steam some broccoli around 5 minutes. In separate frypan sauté one minced garlic clove in butter or preferably bacon fat for 60 seconds and then add steamed broccoli – stir well and continue to cook for 3-5 minutes. Inspired by Dr. Eades' foray with macadamia nut encrusted chicken breast in The 6-Week Cure . Both chicken breast and turkey breast are fail-proof.
…and more Meatballs
Finding a good Metzgerei is such a huge priority for me, so it was to my absolute delight that I found Pfeffer Metzgerei in our very own town: Waldfischbach-Burgalben. Johann Karl uses all-natural ingredients (including, yes, a prudent application of pepper), and no sweeteners, which I've never encountered before in a German Metzgerei. No glucose syrup, no sugar, and completely delicious. The quality and taste of his meat cuts and wursts are out of this world, and worth every bit of the current 20-minute drive 3x per week to get there. Our new house is a bike-ride away from his Metzgerei, and I don't know who is more tickled over the prospect, he or I.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday he offers raw bratwursts for sale, and below I've provided a very powerful use for them inside a recipe I found on Mark's Daily Apple (MDA). I altered the recipe slightly to suit our own tastes, but it's a near-duplicate. MDA has color photos of the finished product. Used wisely, this recipe will insure you are forgiven any number of sins (overspending, slothfulness, forgetfulness, loss-of-an-expensive-item, etc).
1/2 lb ground sirloin (just because we needed to use it up)
2 lb Pfeffer Metzgerei (or other) raw bratwurst (sausages)
3 cloves minced garlic
a pinch of fresh rosemary
1 tbsp minced thyme
a couple shakes of dried oregano
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 red onion finely chopped
1/2 cup almond meal
3 small eggs, whisked
1 tsp cayenne pepper
3 twists black pepper
1/4 cup finely shredded parmesan
Remove sausage from skins and combine with other ingredients. Fry in a 1/4 cup or so bacon fat. Pfeffer Metzgerei sells bacon too (Dörfleisch, pronounced Duh-flysh…it is a bit salty alone, and perfect for use in this recipe with no extra salt needed). How quick, easy, and (more importantly) Sladky-approved.
"Sladky approved" Quiche
Spinach-feta Quiche from Mothering Magazine March-April 2009, Makes 8 slices
1 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1/2 tsp sea salt
4 tbsp organic (bio) butter (buy from Wasgau)
2 tbsp coconut oil (or lard – ask your local metzerei for schmalz)
2 tbsp ice-cold water
1 1/2 cups milk or half-and-half
4 eggs beaten
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 cups baby spinach leaves, chopped
1 cup feta cheese
1/2 ripe tomato, cut in thin slices
Preheat oven to 375F
Crust: Put flour and salt in large mixing bowl. Cut butter and oil (or lard) into flour with pastry cutter or two knives until crumbly. Slowly dribble water into flour, blending with fork (Alternatively, fat can be mixed with flour and salt in a food processor; then, while pulsing, slowly add water to make dough). When dough is moist and pliable, gather into a ball. On floured surface or piece of wax paper, roll out dough into crust. Transfer to 8 or 9 inch pie pan and trim edges
Filling: scald milk to hasten baking time. Let milk cool, then whisk into it eggs and salt. Sprinkle spinach and feta over bottom of crust, then pour egg mixture on top. Decorate top with tomato slices in pleasing arrangement. Bake 35-40 minutes, until top is golden. Insert knife for doneness. It should come out clean. Let cool slightly before serving.
Preparation: 15 min (40 for baking)
For babies 10 months and older: Remember that egg whites are inappropriate for infants younger than 1 year. Egg yolks, however, are an excellent source of essential fatty acids. Boil an egg 3-4 minutes, peel, discard white, and serve warm yolk mixed into baby's cereal.
"Sladky approved" Goulash
So we wanted to bike ride with Ian this afternoon and attend church at 5pm. We needed a large, warm, mid-afternoon meal, preferably one that used chicken stock. This Goulash Casserole was an inspiration from my Bavarian friend Annemarie Zach. She recommended mixing beef and pork goulash plus hamburger meats and 1 Flasche Schaschliksoβe. I used what I had on hand and it turned out amazing – feel free to experiment with ingredients, and as Annemarie says, this recipe is perfect for entertaining when you want to impress!
Goulash Casserole
I greased up a large Casserole dish with 1-2tbsp butter
& then added:
800grams goulash-quality pork
1 whole butcher's onion (a heck of a lot of onion) cut really thin using slicer
3 orange sweet bell peppers, washed, deseeded, & hand-sliced
1 lb package ground buffalo
1 package or 10 slices smoked thinly-sliced italian ham (I used casa modena), diced or speck
600ml chicken stock
This cooked for just under 3 hours, covered, at 250 degrees Celsius (482F)
My son & I didn't need a starch with this meal, but I made Kartoffel Kloβ (potato dumplings) for my husband. Remember to minimize your starchy food (potato, rice, bread) intake if you are trying to cut fat weight.


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Casa di Antonella
The B & B consists of very bright seven bedrooms and with a particular view of the city. The rooms can be double, triple or single rooms, all equipped with TV and fan. There are 2 shared bathrooms and 2 private bathrooms, complete with shower and hot water 24 hours out of 24. The living room can be used as a meeting place for guests or as a moment of consultation of the information material available. In the central hall is also served a rich and varied breakfast. Entire property is available free wifi network.
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Zineb is an emotionally exhausted psychiatrist assigned to uncover the mystery behind Rihanna, a pregnant young woman found in the street who believes she is being stalked by the "Lord of the Horse." As the traumatized girl slowly opens up to Zineb, a flashback sequence returns us to Rihanna's childhood, where her dictatorial father, the chief of his tribe, raises her as the son he needs to carry forward his legacy—a legacy elaborated by her mother in the myth of the Lord of the Horse. Trapped in the delusions of her parents, Rihanna falls in love with an orphan named Zayd, with whom she carves out the beginnings of her own life. But as Rihanna's story awakens repressed regions of Zineb's own troubled mind, reality for both women merges in a haunted fever dream churning fear, lies and denial. Tense, dramatic and visually striking, Mohamed Mouftakir's psychological thriller took top honors at Africa's 2011 FESPACO festival.
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God smiles.
Things seldom go according to my plans.
I'm learning to smile anyway!!
I was reminded of that Friday, when many things were going right for me to get to work early, with the plan of not having to stay late.
While I was on the treadmill, I read a devotional reminder from Scripture that God's plans are far superior to mine. The thought occurred to me it could still happen, and that my plans would go awry. But I didn't think so.
I was headed to my car early as planned, but it would not start. The battery was about dead. But as is often the case, I had so much to be grateful for. We have a boat battery in the garage that I could use for a jump-start.
The thing is, in the past, that disruption would have ruined my mood and likely my day. But that happens much less often now. And even when I needed a jump-start after work, as well, rather than be dismayed, I was grateful for jumper cables and a helpful co-worker.
That's just one tiny example from many that add up to a positive change.
That brings me to a couple of other things on my mind:
My biggest shame used to be a secret sin. Now, it's how inept I am at serving God by serving others.
A little over a year ago, I had no idea how I would break free of the sin. And then it happened. God sent an unexpected rescuer -- and I could not be more grateful.
So, I have hope God also is at work in my current area of shame.
I never stop praying, hoping and trying. Trusting. Giving thanks and praise.


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Heyyyy everyone!! Sorry I have not posted anything this week. I was on vacation and I wanted to spend time with my family rather than hiding away on my laptop. :P
Firstly, HAPPY EASTER/RESURRECTION DAY!!!!!!!
Secondly, I'm working on a music video, which is basically a collection of videos and pictures from our trip put to music. That will hopefully be done by next week!
And finally, I've been drawing a lot of pictures of a redesigned persona of myself, so I'll put all those pictures in one art blog post. But for now, Imma be celebrating Easter with my cuzzes and fams. BAI!!


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Friday, December 02, 2016
Campaign with threats instead of persuasion
FMT reported: Khairul said this might result in Putrajaya being pressured to give less attention to Chinese vernacular schools or abolish such institutions completely.
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wow, pkr mahu kawan siapa pun kena ikut keinginan atau arahan dap kah, no wonder rpk claim thia is a dap lead pakatan, so umno, so dictatorial n so arrogant.ReplyDeleteReplies
bukan ikut tetapi pilih dengan jujur dan terbuka. kalau pkr nak jadi saudara berikat dgn pas, silakan saja tetapi jangan kata isnya juga dalam pakatan. pakatan tidak boleh terima ular berkepala dua, wakakakaDelete
aduh pas mahupun taasub tapi masih ada unsur democratic, orang pas hormati hadi tapi bukan semua suara sehala dengan presien pas tu, tak semacam dap dimana keluarga lim saja bermaharajalela. pkr patut teruskan usaha mengembalikan puak pas ke jalan yg betul dan main peranan yg look at the big picture, jangan terikut cara dap yg hanya pentingkan diri dan undi cina, ada paham kah?Delete
your good buddy who is living comfortably in a kafir country is playing with the Malay phyche in the run-up to the next electionReplyDelete
according to him the Malays are fractured into five parties and it's detrimental to their cause but he wilfully forgot to mention that the four other malay parties are united in a common cause of getting rid of the most corrupted political party to give the country a chance to heal
Lets get out of this "You are either with us or you are against us" mentality, which UMNO and DAP are both guilty of.ReplyDelete
It is not true the PKR is supporting PAS 's agenda. For example, PKR is on the record as opposing the Hadi Hudud Bill.
Azmin, for his own political reasons has chosen not to cut ties with PAS. That is for him to explain.Replies
in malaysian politics and in malaysian first-past-the-post elections, pkr must make up its mind whether to be allied with pas, umno or pakatan. it cannot be in both as pas has already swore its enmity with dapDelete
The battle chant of abolishing Chinese vernacular education system has been an old trick concocted by the old generation of the ketuanan freaks to frighten/threaten the Chinese M'sians into submission for political supports.ReplyDelete
Along the way, there were Nons chow-kows collaborating with umno to the eventual detriment of their parties.
Till today, these chow-kows still crying papa-mama asking for 2nd chance of political survival by playing spurious defenders of vernacular education system.
These political pygmies have not learnt anything. Especially in thinking that the Nons r like those meme-ed weaklings - mudah lupa in combination with an occasional syok-sendiri verbal diarrhoea of give-&-take.
Meanwhile, the next generation of the umno weaklings r growing more arrogant due to years of hollow pop-ups in superficial skill sets - big title with empty content!
Thus, the old trick has to be repeated - as if they r been trapped in a time-loop under their syok-sendiri tempurung.
It serves them righ&proper. The decay has set in. It's a matter of time ONLY.
The proliferation of the radicalised/twisted islamic teachings helps to hasten this regression.
No lost for M'sia but the pity blur sotong class!
umno youth deputy chief & his counterpart in mca? let's see the bn org chart;ReplyDelete
chairman of bn is the president of umno baru
deputy chairman of bn is the deputy president of umno baru
chief of bn's wanita wing is the chief of wanita umno baru
captain of the bn's youth wing is the chief of pemuda umno baru
bn's puteri chief is the chief of puteri umno baru
sec-gen of bn is the sec-gen of umno baru
bn's treasurer is the treasure of umno baru. semua umno baru wor!
ling liong sik was the acting chairman of bn for 5 minutes before the admission of umno baru which is one of the youngest members of the coalition. the umno baru blokes should be grateful to bapak penswastaan for retaining the deceased name. ada muka mahu celebrate 70th anniversary lagi. so, kim soon ada sikit bawah dari khairul.


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Ten things I think about hockey
Not that it matters, but anyway... Let me amuse myself in making a point or ten, ogay?
1) Sad that we did nt win at Ipoh. Ipoh has been a favorite hunting ground for India with the many Azlan Shah Cup wins unlike Kuala Lumpur, where the honeymoon of the 1975 World Cup win has soured over the years. And the more recent addition of Kuantan where we ended up 5th at the last Asia Cup makes me feel that Malaysia should host all the events at Ipoh! With Ipoh having far more Chinese-Malaysians than Malays and Indian-origin peoples, even an India-Malaysia match is not as skewed as a match in KL in terms of crowd support, one would think. It would have been a good thing to enter the World Cup not as benevolence from FIH (as the fourth reserve from the World Hockey League), but because we deserve it as a right (as the continental champions). But that day will have to wait for a bit longer, thanks to the Indian disease of last-minute heart attacks.
Now I have one more reason to love Ipoh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRgxK-vgjow
2) The team that got sent to Ipoh was/is young and inexperienced as Akashdeep Singh, Danish Mujtaba, Gurvinder Singh Chandi and SV Sunil were laid low with injuries. On top of that, Sardara Singh went through a bout of viral fever prior to the first match against Oman. Some of the injuries can be attributed to the shoddy state of the polytan turf at the SAI center in Bangalore. I hope the busybodies at Hockey India end up re-laying this turf instead of letting the team shift practice and conditioning venues every time. Akashdeep has been reported to have suffered a career threatening injury, Gurvinder has been out of action for a long time now. It is really not clear if Gurvinder will be the same player if and when he returns back. At 24, he still has time on his side, but still not much (may be 3-4 years!).
3) While a lot of credit gets dished out to Roelant Oltmans, the High-Performance director, I would give most of the credit to MK Kaushik sir. MKK was appointed as the Coach in a last-resort move by the clueless HI after the Michael Nobbs gravy-train had hit the point of no return. With a European style under Oltmans and an Australian style under Nobbs, who was pulling up Sardara as the first-among-equals, the team was splitting vertically from one boondoggle (Australian-speak for contradiction) to another. The banishing of Sandeep Singh from the team and his replacement with the then-shoddy VR Raghunath was equally crass. The same can be said for Bharat Chettri's case, but then at 33, Bharat must have been hoping for some miracle to have been available and pickable for the Rio team.
MKK, one of the few gems in Indian hockey coaching annals, had been banished from all hockey teams since he had been accused of seeking sexual favors by a large section of the senior women's team. While not one to condone sexual aggression against women in any form, it is also not within the realms of reality that MKK indeed sought and used the services of a prostitute rather than seeking favors from the team and team selection policies did play a role in some of the accusations. Without getting too much into details, and even if there can be a strong case made against MKK, it will always be a tricky tradeoff when smart people come with crappy flaws. Does one burn the house for the sake of integrity and values, or are values and ethics subject to re-interpretation of the situation at hand? What does Krishna say about this dilemma?
I would take a page from the American NCAA coaching annals (Bobby Petrino, Joe Pa and the like) and say that the answer is subjective and dependent on the context rather than written down in glorious red ink on a gold plate and framed with impenetrable shimmering glass. While theory is good for the higher mortals of this earth, practice is left to the poorer ones like at HI. The HI apparatus did a commendable thing in recalling MKK, but then it was a one point caveat (qualify for the WC or else) to MKK. Whatever one says, MKK did pull the team through in not losing to Malaysia in the semis. I would stick with MKK because he is a known performer (he pulled the women's team to their ONLY gold at Bangkok in 1998).
All that said, MKK and Oltmans still have a conflicting style of hockey-ing and a good performance at one event does not wish that fact away. The Indian style is neither European nor Australian, it is Indian. We are not the run-athoners, we are not the non-stop army-style machines, we are no longer the deft stickworkers, we are no longer the magicians, we are mere mortals playing a stupid game followed by even more stupider people, we are not 200% fit, we concede last minute goals, we eke out draws from the clutches of victory and defeats from the clutches of a draw, we define ourselves in slowing the game sufficiently to speed up as and when we choose. While all this may seem hyperbole, that is indeed the Indian game and the state of Indian hockey in a nutshell.
4) The last minute appointment of a goalkeeping coach and the excellent form of Sreejesh during the tournament only makes me feel that placebos do exist in reality. Sreejesh has been limping back and forth between excellent and shoddy form and it was always a when, not if, as to his return to form. That said, we do not have a steady stable of reserve goalkeepers with a 34 year old PT Rao serving as the backup here. This reality is atrocious. You cannot have a team that wishes to climb up the rankings with one in-form goalkeeper. On placebos, if a sports psychologist is what it takes the team to beat up the mental dragon, so be it. Why cannot the HI apparatus have a sports psychologist on the panel of team staff befuddles me. It has befuddled me for eternity, but that is a different story.
5) The Continental Cup champions standings will see India update itself from the 4th position (540 points) to second (700 points). This is because of the four year window, which will see the expiry of the 2009 Asia Cup where we performed disastrously (5th) and a 25% weightage for the 2010 Asian Games where we still performed disastrously (3rd). With the 2013 Asia Cup getting a 100% weightage, the cumulative score (which is 100% of the 2013 performance weighted by the ranking secured in the event + 25% of the 2010 performance weighted by the ranking secured in that event with ties broken by the more recent better performance trumping the far-off one) will see India rise to the second in the Asian standings. The weights are 750 for the first place, 700 for the second, 650 for the third, 540 (90% of 600 for Asia) for the 4th, 495 (90% of 550 for Asia) for 5th and 450 (90% of 500 for Asia) for 6th. Note that the Euro-centric FIH has allocated 100% of weighted points for the top 36 finishers in Europe, even though not more than four of the European teams (Germany, Netherlands, Spain and of late England) can claim to be good. That is one of the other games FIH plays, skewing the world of hockey to its rules and controlling the weights that other teams secure in their continental tourneys!!! No wonder teams such as Belgium have been able to make a steady climb in the recent past and I hope the Flemish pull off from the Walloons, but yea, who cares.
In any case, all the calculations (I double-checked it and you can trust me on that) mean that we get the continent's share of 2nd finisher which is 700 points. So we rise from 1598 points to 1758 points (a 160 point rise), good enough to swap the 10th and 11th spots with Argentina at 1725 points (another one of those teams that missed the Beijing Olympics). The points update will also see Pakistan drop from 1920 to 1820, a drop from the current 8th spot to 9th. Meanwhile Korea climbs from 1923 to 2023 points, a rise from the 7th spot currently to 5th. Malaysia stays put at 13th despite a drop of 160 points to 1259.
This is the anatomy of how the Koreans have been able to stay stable despite being equals with India and Pakistan in almost every count, if not worse. They are able to win the matches that matter the most (finals and playoffs) and accrue points, a loss in those events that would see them plummet the FIH rankings. That sustained standing gives the FIH's nomination and benevolence (!) in case of a coin-toss. This is the exact gaming of the game that the Indians need to be aware of, will they? God knows. Despite claims to being the masters of everything under the sun from zero to kalpa, simple strategizing is not the forte of the hockey aficionados in India, and Indians, in general. The rise to the top is achieved by a 1008 toiled nights where progress does nt scream out in your face. Fight the battles that need to be fought, win the wars that need to be won. Anyway...
6) Despite the reserve route, our entry to the World Cup and a strong finish there will see us climb the ladder again. With Pakistan not coming through to the event, they are bound to lose more points relative to other Asian teams (India, Malaysia, Korea and even Japan -- because Japan has no points to shed on this count, but Pakistan has). While I understand how that can be for the Pakistani supporter(s) from seeing the Santiago spectacle before the 2008 Olympic Games, I would also be thinking of the shenanigans that the PHF played in 2007 when the Champions Trophy was shifted from Lahore to Kuala Lumpur, instead of India, which also clamored to host the event. With the PHF vetoing a move of the 2007 CT to India, the hitherto six-team CT expanded to a eight-team event to accommodate the Pakistanis who could not host the event due to their own self-created security nightmares. With Malaysia making the 7th team and England (the 9th ranked team on the FIH standings at that point) getting the FIH nod ahead of India (the 7th ranked team on FIH standings at that point) because of their 5th place finish at the 2006 WC at Monchengladbach, IHF (the then-runners of hockey in India) were left wondering about the miss between the cup and the lip.
7) Not only was that nod to England a contradiction to the FIH norms of "a good performance in one tournament should not make up for a shoddy last four years" (a justification for the four year cycle of the FIH rankings), that singular event exposes the creative way in which the Euro-centric FIH reads and interprets rules to the suiting of European (aka white) teams. First, the six-team event became a eight-team event and not a seven-team one, a possibility noone has explained why. Why was there a need to have two pools of 4 teams each when a round robin could not have added more than 6 matches (or 2 to 3 more days of the tournament)? Second, the Pakistanis were invited to the 2007 CT because the FIH removed them as hosts due to security reasons and the team should not suffer because of that, whereas when the CT was shifted from India in 2011 (ostensibly because there were two organizations running the game in India), the Indian hockey team was not invited for the Auckland event even though the team should not have suffered due to the fact that there were/are 108 organizations running hockey in India. Instead the FIH chose the Pakistani team as a reserve!! Third, the use of metrics as and which suits their agenda best is a no-brainer, but it is easier to document horseshit with pen and paper than in blood and gore.
In any case, that 2007 CT miss did bite back India dearly as the English team steeled further by their exposure against top teams was the one that won the 2008 Santiago Qualifier event to make their way to Beijing. As a person with a certain elephantine memory, revenge is indeed best served cold, and I am indeed happy to see the way in which the Pakistanis have found their way out of the event they "conceived." I really wish the Pakistani team the very best in climbing their way out of this rut, Insha Allah, as they say in Pakistan.
8) As for India, to climb the FIH rankings is a long-term plan. With no further ranking points for this year (to the best of my knowledge), one has to hope for a better 2014. The hope is that the reserves will be healthy and a good practice turf will be had.
And there are three big events lined up for 2014: World Cup is at The Hague in June, Asian Games is in Incheon from mid-September to early-October, and the Champions Trophy is in New Delhi in mid-December. To recall, Incheon won the Asian Games bid by beating Delhi after the disastrous remarks of the then Sports minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar. While the spectacular corruption of Commonwealth Games was still episoding on the side unbeknownst to the common man, and did nt reach its heights till early 2008, I am still thankful for MSA's remarks and the fact that New Delhi did not win the bid. In any case, it would be a double-icing on the cake to whip the Koreans as well as secure a spot at the next Olympic Games in Rio with a gold at Incheon. A good performance at all the three events will see us get to the top-six, which is where we really belong. I have been saying that for god knows how long that it sounds so stale even to me, but I persist. Losers are not the ones who end up losing, but those who believe they will end up losing.
9) That brings me to China, a team that could not have turned up at the Beijing Olympics except as the host. While one could claim that their second place finish at the Doha Asian Games in 2006 was enough justification of their getting a freebie as the host, their FIH rankings at the end of 2007 was 17! Again, steeled by exposure, the Chinese team finished third at the Kuantan Asia Cup in 2009 and fifth at the Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010. As the wise saying goes, "every man can only climb to his level of mediocrity," the Chinese have absented themselves from this event for whatever reason they could only conjure up. This no-show singularly pushes them to the 6th spot in Asia, independent of how well Japan (the eventual fifth place finisher) had performed at the event. The Taiwanese team was invited as a reserve and even if they did come out completely whitewashed, one does feel for debutants. With revenge part deux out of the way without even being said so, Oman did indeed spring a surprise or two by shocking higher ranked teams like Bangladesh.
That China as a host example also overemphasizes the importance of the mad rush to secure the Olympics berth at Rio when Brazil will be bestowed an automatic entry (or will they!). Incheon or bust, that is the motto for the Indian team. There is only a small gap (a one game performance) between losing out on a big event or not, like the Pakistanis can affirm now and the Indians and Argentines could have affirmed from their experiences in 2008.
And finally, Mandeep Singh from the Ranchi Rhinos part of the Hockey India League has turned out to be one of those to look out for provided he remains healthy. It is sad that the other star performer Gurjinder in the World Series Hockey has been lost out even without making the team. Pilferage is not the way to climb the rankings. The importance of that sordid reality cannot be overemphasized. While the recently concluded Indian Badminton League (IBL) has secured the second spot behind IPL in rallying up the common man in India, one hopes that HIL continues its onward journey in early 2014. One also hopes that a team from Karnataka comes up soon (as was expected in the 2013 edition, but did not happen) so that the game becomes representative of the following in India. It would be even more excellent to have an Imphal Impalas or Imphal Indians to have a seven team event, but dreams can wait for a couple of years.
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|Chambercombe Manor, Ilfracombe, North Devon
The shot, taken last week at Chambercombe Manor in Ilfracombe, North Devon, clearly shows a girls face in the window of an upstairs bedroom.
|A ghostly face?
Paranormal expert John Forster said: "Zoom in on the window and see what you think…
"It's not a reflection, as Becci, who took the picture, looks nothing like this, and is also seven months pregnant.
"No-one else was in the room, which was on the top floor – and I checked the outside courtyard."
He suggested it may have been a manifestation of a young girl.
John explained: "Our team had just 'picked up' (sensed the presence of) a little girl, around 13 or 14, by the window."
The spooky snap has sparked a worldwide Facebook debate, with fans of the supernatural mulling over the pros and cons.
Twenty-one year old James Wright from Boston said: 'To me it looks as though there is definitely a face on the right side of the window, third square down.
"It looks like the person has something on their right shoulder (left as we look at it). Very interesting!"
Paula Phillips, 3, from New Zealand, added: "It's scary – I saw a face – looks like two girls.
|A close-up
The 41 year old said "I presume by 'face' you mean the pink blob on the right hand side of the window about half way down.
"I can't see anything that could resemble a person.
Bryan said he thought it was a case of people seeing 'faces' in objects, such as the 'Man in the Moon'.
He went on: "Certainly pareidolia (seeing faces in natural phenomenon) could be taking place.
"Unfortunately we don't have a picture of what's outside – and that means there's a chance the "face" could be an outside building or light."
The ghost hunter concluded: "I'd still opt for reflection and distortion in the old glass of the window."
Chambercombe Manor is a well-known haunted house.
Legend has it the skeleton of a woman was found walled in a secret room there in the 16th Century.
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For those of us who were not around in the 1970s, here is a brief overview. All in the Family, the show that Archie Bunker's Place is a based on was considered a groundbreaking show in the 1970s. The concept was based on a British program, Til Death To Us Part. All in the Family centered on the lives of a blue collar family dealing with the problems of adjusting to life in the 1970s. It centered around Archie Bunker; a bigoted conservative that didn't approve of anything he didn't like. He was upset that the world was changing so fast around him and now expected him to 'get with the times'. Constantly telling the audience what being pro-USA meant and how our new ideas ways were not helping the country. Loads of political issues were explored in the show and those same political issues were carried over to the spinoff.
Archie Bunker's Place aired from 1979-1983. The first season, where this great Thanksgiving Reunion episode is from, was probably the closest to All in the Family. It was the last time all the cast from All in the Family appeared together on screen at the same time.


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Muta (OU)
|Formal Name
Multiple Utility Tactical Automaton
Jarvis (Creator, deceased)
In stasis in the UG
|Home Reality
Muta (short for Multiple-Utility Tactical Automaton) is a robot that was built by Jarvis. Somehow, he was separated from his creator and was launched into the cosmos before smashing through the outer hull of the Matoran Universe, losing his memory in the process. Today, he is a close ally of Kakamu's family, and is considered an honorary member.
Muta is light silver with glowing blue eyes. His torso is spherical and his arms and legs are thick and bulky. He requires no weapons, as his fists can punch through armour. He can also transform into a ball.
It is not known just how old Muta is, as his memories prior to entering the Matoran Universe were destroyed in the impact of breaching the MU's hull. However, we do know that Jarvis either built him during the sixty years between the events of BZPB: Heat the Soul and the present day, and Muta was sent back in time... or Jarvis is a lot older than he claimed to be.
Inside the MU, he became a confused wanderer, and was found and manipulated by Vorahk-Kah into becoming his servant. One day, V-K used Muta to hack into the Brotherhood of Makuta's database, absorbing information on Kakamu in the process. They became convinced that they must find him to save the universe from Blackout's evil schemes... and so the Fellowship of Kakamu was born.
After Darkmount was built and launched, Muta was sent into interdimensional space, along with the rest of the Fellowship.
Some time later, after the battle with the Matoran in a Black Suit, Blackout created a hole leading to a pit of lava underneath Motrokh, and, possibly making the stupidest decision anyone has ever made in BZPB, Muta decided to jump after him. He survived, and crashed into a rock. Then Blackout teleported him into a virtual reality.
After spending many years trapped in the virtual reality, thought to be the nightmarish sixth dimension Galidor, Muta escaped back into the OU and found Vorahk-Kah again. They found Kakamu's son, Trantoshen, and started interrogating him. This led up to him, V-K, Yon and Trantoshen fighting powerful energy spheres somehow.
They later escaped though and ended up on the Icy Planet. After splitting up and Muta deciding to turn against V-K, he and Trantoshen later teamed up with the reborn Kakamu, Klak, Ynot, Blackout and the other members of the Alliance. He, D-Klak and Xeno met with some pirates and tried to convince them to join the Alliance, but it did not go well. They took off in the Rogue Shadow and were chased by Keichi's and numerous other pirate ships. For some reason, he decided to attack one of Blackout's ships, jumped out into space, and got in a kind of dogfight. They've made up now.
Much later, after Kakamu was framed and exiled, Muta and Trantoshen went off to find him. This ended up in them landing on an asteroid, capturing Yon, fighting Shockwave and the Shattered Mirror version of himself, then the freed Ferox soon after. During the brawl, SMU Muta made the shocking revelation that 'Muta' stands for 'Multiple-Utility Tactical Automatron' and that he was built by the human engineer/scientist Jarvis. Angered and confused at this, Muta took their fight into space, where the brawl continued, until Ferox flew into them, demanding information on Jarvis too, having learned that Muta was built by him.
Following the Uterio War, Kakamu took Trantoshen, Mocax and Muta with him to a faraway planet to avoid further chaos. Kakamu built a new base deep underground on this planet, where Muta spends most of his days making calculations and recharging. When Malygos ascended to a form of pure magic and declared himself "Emperor of the Universe", Muta relayed the transmission to Kakamu and determined that it was not a hoax.
Abilities & Powers[edit]
- Telekinesis - The zero-point energy gravitators built into Muta's palms enable him to telekinetically draw, throw or crush distant objects.
- Telepathy - Despite being a robot, Muta has strong telepathic powers. How this is possible is uncertain, but it is theorized that his central processor is wired into brain fragments of a long-dead telepathic alien, allowing him to harness its abilities.
- Teleportation - With the aid of his internal navigation systems, Muta can teleport anywhere within the universe that he currently occupies.
- Enhanced Strength - Muta is incredibly strong thanks to the impressive motor functions of his arms and the density of his armour. He has displayed the ability to punch through various types of metals, including solid steel and solid antidermis.
Alternate Universes[edit]
- His Shattered Mirror Universe counterpart was also built by Jarvis, and launched into space. However, SM Muta never crashed into the Matoran Universe, instead running into a space fleet owned by the Great Beings. He was "adopted" by Okk, who sent him through the original Shattered Mirror once it was completed. His design is also different, as he is black and can transform into a cube.
- In the Dark Universe, Muta died on the battlefields of Tybion, like his father before him.
- Although he can transform into a ball, this has only been seen once in the RPG.
- "Muta" means "wetsuit" in the Italian language. Why? We don't know.


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Google Confirms Acquisition Of Everything Is The Best, Plannr
After hounding them left and right, the folks at Google finally broke down and sent us an email regarding their acquisition of "Outlook for hipsters" startup Plannr.
The story is bigger than what we orginally wrote apparently, as the search company has acquired all assets of the Ben Eidelson and Jason Prado run "Everything Is the Best LLC" which includes Plannr and a couple of other mobile applications including ridepenguin, LoveTap and SheetIt.
From a Google spokesperson this morning:
"We're excited to welcome Ben and Jason to Google. They have built several innovative mobile applications, and we believe they can help us make a better and more useful mobile experience for our users."
So as of today, Google is a (slightly) hipper place.
Source: Google Confirms Acquisition Of Everything Is The Best, Plannr
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In Honor of Veteran's Day and Memorial Day
I was honored with the request to create a painting from the family who took the original photograph on a very emotional day.
This piece is dedicated men and women who protect our freedom.
This is a 16" X 20" Acrylic Painting
Painted on Artist Stretched Canvas
Thank you for viewing my art.


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Generally I've been uninspired for any specific themes, but some news as of late has made me wonder, "What were you thinking?" I will post random 'What were you thinking' photos between each story for your visual entertainment.
- Let us start with the report of a man attacking a transient and biting his face off, already circulating the web as "Zombie Apocalypse." I suppose that is catchier than "Hannibal Rises Again." Both men were reported to be naked at the time of the attack (and can be seen on surveillance video). The attacker had a girlfriend and worked at a car dealership washing cars, though having an arrest record is reported by friends as being friendly and turning his life around and had seemed normal that day. The victim of the attack is a man who has lived on the streets for several decades and had already survived being shot previously. From what I've read the toxicology was not back yet on the attacker, but some believe a new strain of LSD was involved and is what is being reported in the initial news coverage. Click here to watch the news report. [Update: this link is the latest posting from Yahoo on the victim's recovery and how to donate to his medical needs]
- A much more less gruesome story involves a Brazilian man who painted himself green in honor of The Hulk, only he used the kind of paint for ballistic missiles and submarines. Needless to say it wasn't easily water soluble. Fortunately, after much scrubbing he's now back to his original pigmentation, though I can only imagine that he must be raw like a peeled orange.
- What was he thinking? James Franklin, head coach of Vanderbilt is quoted to have said in a radio interview,
"I've been saying it for a long time, I will not hire an assistant coach until I've seen his wife. If she looks the part, and she's a D-I recruit (one of the nation's best-of-the-best), then you got a chance to get hired. That's part of the deal."
"There's a very strong correlation between having confidence going up and talking to women, and being quick on your feet and having some personality and confidence and being fun and articulate, than it is walking into a high school and recruiting a kid and selling him."
Though Franklin has gone on to provide a half-ass apology on Twitter saying his 'foot doesn't taste good and that he didn't mean to offend anyone…' he doesn't actually say that he's going to stop checking out the tits of future perspective assistant coach's wives. Nice. ( . ) ( . )
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- A man in Harvard, Idaho was arrested for indecent exposure after being caught dangling his junk through the fence to entice a neighbor's dog to lick his genitals. So wrong on so many levels, but mostly– wasn't he worried about splinters?
- A man in Decatur, Alabama had a toothache. While the standard (I don't have insurance for that) would be to tie a string around the problem tooth the other to an open door and then slam it shut to yank out the offending tooth, this 61 year-old man decided to use a .25 caliber gun to shoot out the tooth instead.


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1st quiz on the Solar System
|Solar System Quiz
Concept: Water Vapor & Heating Earth
Objective: Students will learn when liquid water evaporates, it turns into water vapor. Students will learn uneven heating of the Earth causes air movements.
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Cornell Note Questions:
•What is water vapor?
•What is evaporation and condensation?
•What are clouds and fog?
•What is dew?
•What is frost?
•How does wind happen?
Questions of the Week:
•What is the temperature at which water freezes?
•Which heats up faster, land or water?
•Which cools down faster, land or water?
BrainPop.com Videos of the Week: Clouds and Wind
Class Reading:Water Vapor: FOSS Science Resources Read pages 182-196. Wonders CA Content Reader Read pgs 54-55.Heating Earth: FOSS Science Resources Read pages 198-217. Wonders CA Content Reader Read pgs 66-67.
|Evaporation happens in your kitchen.
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3. Water on Earth moves between the oceans and land through the processes of evaporation and condensation. As a basis for understanding this concept:
3b. Students know when liquid water evaporates, it turns into water vapor in the air and can reappear as a liquid when cooled or as a solid if cooled below the freezing point of water.
4. Energy from the Sun heats Earth unevenly, causing air movements that result in changing weather patterns. As a basis for understanding this concept:
4a. Students know uneven heating of Earth causes air movements (convection currents).
6. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:
6b. Develop a testable question.
6c. Plan and conduct a simple investigation based on a student-developed question and write instructions others can follow to carry out the procedure.
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Having PKU is expensive for many reasons. In order to control the PKU and not develop permanent brain damage, a person with PKU must maintain a low protein diet for life and drink their metabolic formula for life. Depending on the state that a person lives in, determines just how expensive this is. Currently, most states don't mandate that insurance companies cover the metabolic foods and formula that PKU people need to survive. Now if you needed to control your diet for diabetes, insurance companies cover the insulin medicine that you would need. BUT if you needed to control your diet for PKU, insurance companies would not cover the medicine (medical grade food & formula) that you would need. Does that seem fair?
Just to put things into perspective, here is a list of typical foods that a PKU person would eat daily and the cost of the food items compared to "regular" food items....
PKU Foods/Cost "Regular" Foods/Cost
Low Protein Linguine- $10 Linguine- $3
Low Protein Bread Loaf- $12 Loaf of Bread- $4
Low Protein Pierogoi- $17.50 Box of Pierogi- $4
Baking Mix- $29 Flour- $3
Low Protein Brownie Mix- $12 Brownie Mix- $3
8 Low Protein Bagels- $12 Bag of Bagels- $4
25 pieces of Low Protein Chocolate- $22 Big bag of mini chocolate bars- $6
Now there's a lot of "regular" foods that PKU people can eat, but the foods still need to weighed and have the protein/phe levels known- veggies, fruits, coconut milk, coconut yogurts, margarine, certain salad dressings, hard candies, etc. Some people with PKU have a high phe tolerance and can put in a small amount of white bread and cow's milk into their daily diet.
Lily has a low phe tolerance of 295 mg per day. Thomas is currently at 50 mg per day, but he's still a baby and his number is expected to rise. Since Lily has a low tolerance, we rely heavily on the low protein foods and fruits and vegetables. Currently our insurance does not cover Lily's food. However Illinois hospitals have a division for families to provide food at a discounted cost for qualifying families. Not all states have this. So imagine if you live in a state where your medical food isn't covered, how do you get by? It can be really tough.
Here in Illinois, our medical formula is provided for free. Each month, I call the state office and order our formula. It gets shipped from England, to New York and then to us! I am extremely grateful that I live in a state that provides the formula. Formula is not covered under insurance and is extremely expensive. I can't go to a store and just pick something up. PKU formula is medical grade and provides protein to help my children grow, but it doesn't have phe in it (the type of protein that my kids can't have). If ordering the formula online, it costs anywhere from $67-$95 per can! My kids go through 2 cans each week, each kid! I'd be spending close to $300 each week on their formula. Plus it's not like baby formula. They need to drink their formula every day for life, in order to meet all of their dietary needs!
This is just one perspective of PKU economics. We also take weekly blood draws and them sent to figure out the phe levels. Plus our monthly drive to the clinic and cost of the appointment.
Please don't read this and think that I wish my kids didn't have PKU. Honestly, sometimes I think about it and know that it would be easier that way. But my kids are mine and are perfect just the way they are. Their genetic disorder is part of them and has given us so much. I'm beyond feeling the guilty part and hating the diagnosis. I'm at the point where PKU is just part of our family, expensive or not! Don't read this and think that I'm wanting your sympathy. I'm just wanting to educate everyone about PKU, all aspects of it. I know that having PKU children can be challenging, but there are so many other disorders and diseases out there that are much more difficult. I'm grateful for the life that I've been given, and know that I'm right where I'm supposed to be!
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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My sentiments exactly! Wonderful post...I am enjoying your blog since I am getting more and more time to read things. I have been so busy for so long, but it is getting better now. Keep up the good work!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for reading. My family seems pretty educated about PKU but they have no idea just how expensive it is. Plus trying to find a place to buy the foods is difficult as well.ReplyDelete
Thank you for reading this. I know how precious time is and there just aren't enough hours in the day!ReplyDelete
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The Happy Atheist
This is all quite simple... an atheist does not believe in God, does not believe in heaven and hell and does not live life in fear that God is going to punish them in some way. An atheist believes in the here and now and prefers to depend on science to base their decisions as opposed to a mythical being. Atheists are not bad people... on the contrary, they very much believe in doing good and living life to the fullest as there will be no reward in heaven. Their reward is in the here and now!
Sadly, there are many who are too timid to "come out" as an atheist for fear of the consequences. We have all heard of atheists who have been shunned, disowned by religious family members, lost jobs... you get the idea, and unfortunately, it is still true, even in this day and age. And this is the part I do not understand. How is my disbelief in a god (and exactly which is the "real" God?) of any interest or any threat to you, who believes in a god? Must we all be alike? This is a big world we live in and there are many different beliefs in the world. Why can't we get along even though we may believe differently? Is that really too much to expect? I will respect you to believe as you choose and you will respect me to believe as I choose.
Even though I do not believe what you believe, I do respect your right to believe as you wish. And furthermore... I would not come knocking on your door pushing my atheist beliefs in your face as some "good Christians" have done to me. We each come to our personal ideology through a long and sometimes tortuous path. And let's face it... most people are brought up to believe as their families believed. Life leads each of us down different paths and along the way we find what is meaningful in our lives.
The tug-of-war between the Christians and other people of faith as well as atheists is playing out in our little city of Rowlett. In fact, this should not be a tug-of-war at all, but rather a respect for each other's core values. We can all be good people whether we believe or do not believe in a god. We need to live together and work together for the good of all people.
It seems that Rowlett wants to be seen as a Christian community as that is the majority here. We do not have temples or synagogues and the atheists are in the minority. That does not mean that we do not have Jews and Muslims living amongst us or other religious sects. Before each city council meeting there is a prayer... a Christian prayer. The local atheists have requested the right to give a Humanist invocation at some time during the year but we have been refused. It seems the mayor is intent on denying us the opportunity. Exactly what is he so afraid of? Shouldn't our city government stand up for all the citizens in the community... minority as well as the majority?
Quite frankly... I am very much in favor of separation of church and state and would prefer they do away with a prayer/invocation and simply get on with business or have a moment of silence.
Chad Aldridge who heads up the Atheists of Rowlett explains the present issue:
"The city of Rowlett has rejected our request for a local atheist resident to give an invocation at a city council meeting. They're now hiding behind Liberty Institute, a far right Christian pro bono legal entity that defends religion sponsored by the government. This rejection flies in the face of the Greece NY vs Galloway Supreme Court decision last May that legalized sectarian prayer to open government meetings, as long as there is no discrimination regarding who gets to give the invocation. Greece NY has allowed non-Christians to give the invocation, including an atheist since this case was ruled on."
So... on September 16, 2014, the Rowlett Atheists with the support of the Metroplex Atheists staged a protest outside of City Hall prior to the city council meeting. There were several news organizations there as well.
Following the protest we sat through the meeting until it was opened to public comment. You may see what was said by the atheists as well as an irate citizen who felt that... "if they (the atheists) do not believe in these Christian things, they have no place in society. They have no morals. They have no character." It is quite obvious that this man has no understanding at all of who we are and what we stand for. I challenge him to sit down with me and tell me that I have not done good ethical work in my lifetime with integrity and respect for my fellow man. His comments come from ignorance and total lack of understanding.
I thank Ms. Ann Dotson, a minister from a local church who spoke up on our behalf saying that she hoped she would not be excommunicated by the Christians for saying that she believes we do have a right to deliver an invocation. Thank you Ms. Dotson for your fortitude in supporting us and accepting our quest to give an invocation on behalf of those with a different belief system.
Another local minister was so irate that he was nearly yelling to get his points across. He was so loud that I wanted to cover my ears as he spoke. This just shows the anger in our community and why many are so reluctant to verbalize their true beliefs due to the intolerance of some.
To hear the comments by the atheists as well as others, click on the link and then click on "Citizens' Input".
And you ask why this is entitled "The Happy Atheist"? Because I am a happy person. I choose to live life joyously, and to reach out to those in need and to celebrate each day. I am just a speck of protoplasm on this huge beautiful planet called Earth and my time here is ever so brief. I am quite fascinated by the things that make us different... different cultures, different beliefs, different customs. This is what makes each of us a unique human being and if you cannot accept me for who I am... so be it. That is YOUR issue and not mine!
I can only hope that with time, non-believers will be accepted into our community without hostility and retribution so that we can all come together in peace and in support of each other. That is the kind of world I choose to live in. Reach out and get to know your neighbors without the labels that may skew your viewpoint and let's make Rowlett a role model of good will to all. Imagine all of the citizens standing in a long line, joining hands... believers and non-believers alike... young and old... showing our community support and tolerance for each other's differing viewpoints! How far might that line stretch? What a powerful image that would make, and we would all be better for it!
Keywords: Atheist, Christian, Humanist, Rowlett, city council, democracy, discrimination, invocation, non-believer, peace, prayer, protest, theocracy, tolerance
Thank you so much Debbie for your comment! It means a great deal to me. This is the only way I know to live my life and feel that it is genuine. I simply ask respect from others even though I may believe differently than they do. It is a very personal choice.
Very nicely said, Fay. I am amazed at the people that don't understand that sometimes people will do the right thing simply because it's the right thing to do. Not because of a belief in a reward in the afterlife. :)
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Got home from Wales at 6pm this evening. We had a fabulous time. Too many late nights, good food
and fun chasing little babes around the house. But now we are now home. And I have a full tummy
(thanks fish and chips), a hot bath running and clean sheets to snuggle into.
Here's a couple of my favourites of Molly's first footsteps on a beach, ever.
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Killing Zoe on Blu-ray
My rating: 4 of 10 stars
Zed has only just arrived in the beautiful Paris and already he's up to no good. Having just slept with a call girl, he spends a night on the town with his dangerous friends. They all decide to rob a bank the following day. There's only one problem: Zed's call-girl, Zoe, just happens to work at the bank which is to be robbed!
I got this movie as part of a four-movie box of Quentin Tarantino "related" films. All but one of them are not made by him but rather endorsed by him as a "Quentin Tarantino presents" feature.
This is really a Tarantino wannabe movie. They got Tarantino to endorse it by putting his name on the cover so I guess he must have felt it was good enough, or maybe it's just because the writer and director, Roger Avary, and Tarantino was working together in the early days, but I wasn't overly impressed.
The beginning isn't too bad. There a scene at the beginning where the rather naive Zed is getting it on with a hooker (Zoe) and scenes from the still running TV in the room are intermixed with the scenes of the movie to a rather funny effect. However, from there on it goes somewhat downhill.
The gang goes on a party spree, getting completely stoned on all kind of substances the day before they're going to rob a bank. Yeah, a very probable thing to do, not to mention intelligent…not! This part also drags out forever into various attempts to make psychedelic drug-influenced scenes.
The bank robbery itself of course turns into a murderous carnage a' la Tarantino but it really lacks his touch. It's more a bunch of screaming crazy French guys shooting someone, including themselves, every now and then. The attempt to make a slow-motion shooting scene at the end just becomes silly when the French police slams a thousand rounds into the main bad guy after everyone realized that he stands 4 meters in front of them with an empty shotgun.
If Avary tried to make a Tarantino-like movie with his own style in it he probably succeeded. Unfortunately he didn't succeed in convincing me that this was as good as one written by Tarantino himself.


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I try to create fantastic things, magical things, dreamlike things. The world needs more fantasy. Our civilization is too mechanical. We can make the fantastic real, and then it is more real than that which actually exists.
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It's 3:48 AM, and I've spent the last hour trying to get a simple thing done on iTunes. It's not working. Reading the release notes didn't help either, but I thought I would at least re-write them for people who are faced with the same thing:
About iTunes 11.0.2
The new iTunes includes a dramatically
simplified player, a completely redesigned Store, and iCloud features you'll love (if you can actually use the product due to us leaving out the obvious usability use cases) — despite all our hard work and stunning design, this is the most useless best iTunes yet.
- Completely Redesigned. We left out the part where we don't make it obvious how to download all your iCloud purchases at once. Some of you can expect to spend a good hour trying to find a simple "Download all purchases stored in the iCloud" function. You'll probably give up in complete frustration.
- A new opportunity to rant on the Apple forums, and A New Store.
- Play purchases from iCloud, but just don't download them all at once to your new overpriced Mac you spent good money on. We would prefer you click on the little cloud icon on EACH and EVERY song you've purchased. Your music, movie, and TV show purchases in iCloud now appear inside your library. Just sign-in with your Apple ID to see them. Double-click to play them directly from iCloud or download a copy you can sync to a device or play while offline.
- Up Next. It's now simple to see which songs are playing next, but it doesn't really matter because that's useless until you go through hundreds, perhaps thousands of songs to click that cute little cloud button to download each one.
- New MiniPlayer. You can now do a whole lot more with a lot less space, except download all your iCloud purchases at once.
- Improved search. That little cloud next to each song is a great reminder that you get to click on it hundreds or perhaps thousands of times to download each and every song – one at a time. We hope you don't go crazy in the process, but it's never been easier to find what you're looking for in iTunes. Just type in the search field and you'll instantly see results from across your entire library. Select any result and iTunes takes you right to it.
- Playback syncing. iCloud now remembers your place in a movie or TV show for you. Whenever you play the same movie or episode from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple TV, it will continue right where you left off.
This update adds a new Composers view for music, improves responsiveness when syncing playlists with a large number of songs, and fixes an issue where purchases may not show up in your iTunes library. This update also includes other stability and performance improvements.
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When you lose a loved one it feels like you are slung into an empty pit. A pit of darkness and numbness, with high walls and thin air. It is horrible and you would do anything to have them back. In the episode "Be right back" from Black Mirror it explores the idea of bringing back a loved one. Not like in some strange zombie way. At first its in a way that would ease pain and then it becomes strange.
Martha loses her husband which is devastating and as a method of coping her friend signs her up to the latest technology where a computer program can glean information about your loved one so that you can talk to them. They gather that information from facebook, twitter and e-mails. The more activity online the better. Martha can then start to chat with her dead husband (Ash) through this program. This program simulates Ash in a convincing way and Martha spends hours talking to him, spends hours on the internet and then on the phone as the program updates and it can sound exactly like Ash. It sounds strangely comforting. Imagine being able to talk to your loved one again? Being able to hear their voice one last time. Being able to say I love you. It's a very human response.
But there is a next step. Black Mirror takes us further. What if you could actually see your loved one? Where they physically returned to you as a very realistic robot (think less terminator and more AI or the Bionic Man). They would look like your loved one, same hair, eyes and skin colour. They would sound like your loved one. At any glance you would think it was them. It seems like a truly remarkable resurrection.
But a few hitches were encountered. Ash wasn't really Ash. Ash was a computer program pretending to be Ash. Acting very much like him, but not really him. She hates how empty he is and she yearns for the real Ash. She cries:
""No, but you're not you, are you? You're just a few ripples of you. There's no history to you. You're just a performance of stuff that he performed without thinking and it's not enough."
I think Charlie Brooker is confronting our addiction to social media and our tendency to become so absorbed in it that it shows a few ripples of you, but it isn't actually you. When thinking about this show my thought turned to fullness of life and real resurrection. Martha showed a great yearning – a yearning for Ash when he was alive and buried in his phone on facebook and then a yearning for Ash when he died and she was faced with a hollow resurrection.
I mentioned in my previous post on fullness of life in the Reality of Escapism. A virtual world that numbs us. In this episode Be Right Back, there is a desire for fullness of resurrection. We want our loved ones back. We want them back not in shell or on a facebook page. We want the fully flesh and fully human loved one back.
When Jesus rose from the dead, he didn't come back zombie like or ghost like. He came back physically, with wholeness, eating and walking. He came back as a demonstration of the new creation. Resurrection is no empty shell. You will be fully alive, eating, drinking and wonderfully real as you can get with no sin or shame attached. Resurrection is beautiful. Martha was right to yearn for it. It's a desire in us. We have eternity set in our hearts.
It's good to yearn for life after death. But real resurrection and life can't come through an android, iphone or facebook. Thats not where to live or be raised to life from. Resurrection and life come only through the resurrection of Jesus. I'd like to say that this is an easy thing. But to get to resurrection there must be death. To get to the fullness of life there can be pain and suffering. The sting of death has been defeated – its claws and chains are gone. But there is still a wave of hurt and pain that comes over us when death knocks on the door. When that happens whats should we do? When looking for comfort where should we go? Not to social networking, but to Jesus. Come to Jesus who has been raised to life. He is the fullness of Resurrection and you will find all comfort in him. There is some solace in social networking, friendships and bonds that can help. But first come to Jesus – seek life in Him.


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Jump "Four" Joy!!!!
Want to see more fun and awesome mosaics,
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Happy Mosaic Monday!
The energy is contagious! You really captured the phrase "jump for joy".
Love that capture!!~nothing like little boys in action...I have two myself:)
Fun jumping for joy mosaic. Your did capture the jump, well done.
He certainly loves jumping,it's a great mosaic.
Glad his nose didn't suffer permanent damage.
Hi Christine! love your mosaic - looks like a lot of fun was had by all involved - very brave to do shots of action ..... well I guess we all need to keep practising, even with the more complex stuff ....
Also love your shadow shot images!
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Manchester City-linked former Leeds United midfielder Fabian Delph will remain at Aston Villa next season.
Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood has told AVTV that Fabian Delph's decision to remain at the club shows his loyalty.
The England international midfielder made it a clear in a statement on Villa's official website on Saturday that he will remain at Villa Park for the 2015-16 season.
"I'm aware there has been intense media speculation surrounding my future in the last 24 hours and I want to set the record straight," Delph wrote on Villa's official website.
"I'm not leaving. I'm staying at the football club and I can't wait for the start of the season and captaining this great football club."
Delph's statement followed speculation that he was set to leave the Villans for Premier League rivals Manchester City.
The Guardian claimed on Friday that City were going to sign the former Leeds United star for just £8 million after activating his release clause.
Sherwood has now spoken highly of the former Leeds midfielder and has underlined his loyalty to the club.
"It's just an example of the measure of the guy really that he decided to stay - the loyalty he's shown to the fans, the football club and the chairman," the former Tottenham Hotspur boss told AVTV. "And I'm delighted to have him here next season."
Delph is one of the best players in the current Villa squad, and him staying for the 2015-16 campaign is certainly good news for Sherwood's side.
The 25-year-old created 36 chances for Villa in the Premier League last season. The Englishman had a pass accuracy of 86% and a shot accuracy of 29%, and won 20 headers, 61 dribbles and 47 tackles.