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A friend of mine, who is active in another religion, e-mailed me to ask my opinion on the Church's endorsement of the Boy Scouts of America ruling to allow homosexuals into the organization. She also wanted to know how I felt about the Church's stand and whether or not the Church ordained homosexuals to the priesthood. Here is my response…
As for your questions about the Church and homosexuals, the Church has long been concerned about homosexuals and have spoken out on their behalf. I remember almost 30 years ago reading a tremendous talk by Boyd K. Packer, one of the 12 Apostles of the Church, wherein he spoke with kindness and concern to those in the Church struggling with same-gender attraction. It was a talk ahead of its time.
Do not mistake the Church's love and concern for homosexuals as approval for their lifestyle because that is not the case. I, the Church's leaders, and the main body of Church members, see those struggling with same-gender attraction as beloved sons and daughters of God and our spiritual brothers and sisters who need love and not rejection. We teach and truly believe that God's love and Christ's example charges each of us to love one another. We are to treat each other with respect as brothers and sisters and fellow children of God, no matter how much we may differ from one another.
As for the act itself, the Church has said their "doctrinal position is clear. Sexual activity should only occur between a man and a woman who are married. However, that should never be used as justification for unkindness. Jesus Christ, whom we follow, was clear in His condemnation of sexual immorality but never cruel. His interest was always to life the individual, never to tear down."
In the political arena, the Church is strongly opposed to same-sex marriage, but it has openly supported other rights for gays and lesbians such as protections in housing or employment.
Within the Church, we have always recognized that attraction to the same sex is not inherently sinful, but engaging in homosexual behavior is. That is the difference. Acting out on those desires is in conflict with God's commandments (based on scripture) that sexual relationships are to be reserved for those who are married and marriage is between a man and a woman.
HOMOSEXUALS AND THE PRIESTHOOD. Do we ordain homosexuals to the priesthood? I guess that depends on how you define homosexual. Those in the Church who are attracted to someone of the same sex but stay faithful to the Church's teachings of chastity and morality are allowed to take part in services and serve within the Church. They can—and do—enjoy full fellowship with other Church members, including attending and serving in temples, and ultimately receive all the blessings afforded to those who live the commandments of God. It is when they fall and break the commandments that they lose blessings. We don't withhold opportunities and blessings based on what 'could' happen. If that was the case, none of us would be worthy to partake of spiritual blessings for all of us are susceptible to sin.
Obviously, no matter what I or the Church say, some will disagree but, as the Church states, "we hope that any disagreement will be based on a full understanding of our position and not on distortion or selective interpretation."
BOYSCOUTS: As for their view on the new BSA ruling, the Church said, "Young men…who agree to abide by Church standards (are) welcomed warmly and encouraged to participate. This policy applies to Church-sponsored Scout units. Sexual orientation has not previously been—and it is not now—a disqualifying factor for boys who want to join Latter-day Saint Scout troops. Willingness to abide by standards of behavior continues to be our compelling interest.
"These standards are outlined in the booklet For the Strength of Youth and includes abstinence from sexual relationships. We remain firmly committed to upholding these standards and protecting and strengthening boys and young men.
"The Church appreciates BSA's reaffirmation of its commitment to "duty to God," which includes service to others and moral behavior….As in the past, the Church will work with BSA to harmonize what Scouting has to offer with the varying needs of our young men. We trust that BSA will implement and administer the approved policy in an appropriate and effective manner."
So, to sum up, I agree with the Church's stand that, "Few topics are as emotionally charged or require more sensitivity than same-sex attraction. This complex matter touches on the things we care about most….The experience of same-sex attraction is a complex reality for many people. The attraction itself is not a sin, but acting on it is. Even though individuals do not choose to have such attractions, they do choose how to respond to them. With love and understanding, the Church reaches out to all of God's children, including our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters."
While I can, and do, deeply love those around me who struggle with same gender attraction I don't approve of acting on those desires and committing homosexual acts. I also do not condone hatred, bigotry or discrimination against them or anyone else who looks, acts, believes or sounds differently than I do. All of us have thorns in the flesh and crosses to bear. The sin is in breaking the commandments of God, not in wrestling with the weaknesses of the flesh and bearing our personal burdens in life well, walking in harmony with the Lord's teachings despite the many pulls on us. Those who do walk uprightly in the Lord's path deserve my respect. Would that I could bear my crosses as well as so many others do.
The Church has a tremendous Web site, if you're interested.
Well, I'm off to make banana nut muffins now and—hopefully—have a barbecue. We'll see what the clouds are threatening to do!
Monday, May 27, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Ye are the salt of the earth--so why not sugar?
Christ teaches, "Ye are the salt of the earth" and he tells us "Have salt in yourselves" (see Matt. 5:13 and Mark 9:50). Yet most of the earth craves sugar. In America each individual consumes an average of 156 pounds of sugar per year and we eat less than two pounds of salt every year. That's a big difference.
Crystallized, granulated sugar was around at least 800 years before Christ so the Savior definitely knew about the sweet commodity, yet he told us to be like salt, not sugar. Why, especially when sugar can taste so...sweet?
Anciently, salt was used to preserve food and keep it from spoiling. It was used at every temple sacrifice to preserve the sacrifice from corruption, to symbolize divine protection from corruption, and to give enhancement to the flavor and smell of the sacrifice. In fact, so essential was it to the sacrificial ordinances that salt became the symbol of covenants (Lev. 2:13, Numbers 18:19 and 2 Chron. 13:5).
It was used to greet each newborn child, being rubbed onto their bodies to tighten and protect the skin.
Salt also became the symbol of fidelity. In fact salt, untarnished by worldly contaminants, last indefinitely.
For all those reasons, we can see why Christ would have asked us to be the salt of the earth.
Yet, there are some other reasons we may not readily know.
Salt is a natural mineral while sugar is not. Salt is necessary for life. Sugar is not.
To become sugar a natural source such as sugarcane or sugarbeets, must be cooked and processed and boiled into a syrup to which lime is added. As the sugar crystallizes in the syrup, it is skimmed off, dried and even bleached with sulphur dioxide to produce a false white color.
In fact, sugar looks so similar to salt that, for the untrained eye, it is difficult to visually tell the difference. In many ways, salt and sugar are like wheat and tares.
One way to tell the difference, though, is that sugar dissolves easily in water and salt does not. Try this experiment. Add 1/3 c. of water to two clear glasses. Into one glass add two teaspoons of sugar. To the other glass add two teaspoons of salt. Stir them both equally. You will see that the salt does not readily dissolve in the water and will color the water white. Sugar, on the other hand, melts easily in the water and quickly disappears from view. This resistance to dissolving is one reason things float easier on salty water than on sugary water.
In life, Christ does not want us to melt easily in the influence of the world. When life stirs us up, he wants us to remain separate—white and pure, able to influence those around us rather than being influenced by the world and quickly melting away from view.
Another interesting truth about sugar is that it becomes sticky, whereas salt does not. The hydrogen molecules in sugar bond to other molecules and form a weak glue. Once you get sugar on your hands all sorts of things seem to stick to you...hair, dirt, etc. And that stickiness spreads. Touch something after handling sugar and it gets sticky, too. Then that object also begins to attract dirt and grime. Spill something sweet and it takes great effort to clean it up and remove all traces of stickiness.
Salt, on the other hand, actually cleans away dirt and grime.
But for me, one of the greatest reasons Christ may have asked us to be like salt is that fact that salt crystals are always the same. In fact, so consistent are salt crystals that you can actually mix sugar and salt together and still separate them based on sight alone.
Look at salt granules up close (if you have a magnifying glass that is even better). Salt always forms perfect, uniform cubes--like tiny boxes. Sugar, on the other hand, forms all sorts of different shapes and sizes from small to large, to rectangular to fractured.
Christ wants us to be consistent throughout our lives: to be true to our covenants and not fractured or of random conformity like sugar. Like the straight, clean sides on a cube of salt, the Savior wants us to be straight and honest in all that we do and live a clean and consistent life so that, no matter what side is viewed, we still project the same true character…that people can pick us out from the worldly sugar crystals around us.
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I don't hate the guy who linked the Onion, but I think he's ignorant.
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I don't know if you got my other message? I would love to take your class tonight if you have any extra kits. Can you let me know if you do? Thanks
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Heather, Hi! Sorry I didn't get to you in time but your kit is ready and at the store. Catch you at the next class, May 19th! : )
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Book: Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood series #11)
Author: J.R.Ward
Bookshelves: 2013, Black Dagger Brotherhood, Caldwell (NY), J.R. Ward, New York, paranormal romance, romance, urban fantasy, vampires
Begun: March 26, 2013
Finished: March 26, 2013
Media Type: hardcover book
Setting: Caldwell, New York (suburb of New York City)
Characters: Qhuinn, Blaylock, Saxton, John Matthew, Wrath, Tohr, Rhage, Zsadist, Phurry, Layla, iAm, Trez, Beth,
Synopsis: Qhuinn is a male on the edge. He has been half in almost every world available to him as a male born into the glymera. Born with the "physical defect" of one blue and one green eye, Qhuinn was disowned from his family after his transition when his eyes did not correct themselves. He's always been made to feel like a freak and unloved from almost everyone in his life. Everyone, that is, except Blaylock (Blay), his best friend in the entire world. He best friend until Blay admitted to Qhuinn that he loved him and Qhuinn did not reciprocate. Time has passed, though, and Blay has moved on … to Qhuinn's cousin, Saxton.
Qhuinn has finally realized that the emotions he's feeling towards his former bestie is a little more than friendship. But is it … love? How much more of a freak would that make him if he were … gay? But something deep inside is churning and the fates have something in store for Qhuinn and Blay. They can never go back to being best friends, but can they become something more than that?
And will either of them get past the hurt and unspoken emotions that they both feel to realize that there is something they both need in the other?
Review: I loved this book. I have been waking for my Qhuay for so long. These two boys were meant for each other since day one.
You knew this was coming. You knew the romance and the love would be there. But, damn Ward, you made me hurt so much before they came together. Almost right away (well ok in the first 50 pages), I was already in tears. There is a part when Qhuinn gets his Hummer stolen and flipped and Blay ends up in the tow truck with him while they are bring it back to the Brother's compound. Qhuinn has no idea what to say to Blay who knows that he has slept with Layla (the Chosen whom he serviced during her needing in Lover Reborn (Tohr's book)) and gotten her pregnant. Qhuinn just stares at Blay because he has no idea how to tell his best friend and the only person who has ever given two shits about him that he feels like he betrayed him and cheated on him with Layla (whom Qhuinn knows he serviced because both he and Layla have never really had family and they want to create family). When Blay all but says "so what," Qhuinn takes off out of the truck and Blay stops him, telling him that they can't go back to the way they were before (before Blay told Qhuinn he was in love with him and Qhuinn didn't reciprocate) but that they should be civil to each other since they have to work together. And Qhuinn believes that Blay no longer loves him and (like I said) Ward just breaks your heart.
I wouldn't want it any other way though. Blay and Qhuinn need the heart break and hurt so that they can work their way to a place of peace for both of them. Ward out did herself this time. The book is beautiful and transcends the stupid "oh, it's a book about gays" bullshit. It's a beautifully written masterpiece of the romance genre where one heart finds both its pieces and becomes one again. I found myself crying and laughing at the same time. Ward is an excellent writer who weaves in pop culture and humor into all of her novels.
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The unhappy child of two powerful parents who despise each other, young Lilly turns to the ocean to find solace, which she finds in the form of the eloquent and intelligent sea monster Octavius, a kraken. In Octavius's many arms, Lilly learns of friendship, loyalty, and family. When Octavius, forbidden by Lilly to harm humans, is captured by seafaring traders and sold to a circus, Lilly becomes his only hope for salvation. Desperate to find him, she strikes a bargain with a witch that carries a shocking price.
Her journey to win Octavius's freedom is difficult. The circus master wants a Coat of Illusions; the Coat tailor wants her undead husband back from a witch; the witch wants her skin back from two bandits; the bandits just want some company, but they might kill her first. Lilly's quest tests her resolve, tries her patience, and leaves her transformed in every way.
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Lily is one of the youngest and strongest characters I've ever read. Lily is only sixteen (at the start of the book) and the thing she goes through in SEA CHANGE is something no teen should ever go through. She loses the most important part of her that makes her a young woman, and then finds herself in servitude to a witch and a couple of vicious-dangerous bandits. Lily risks everything to save Octavius. Their friendship and loyalty to one another is beyond amazing because she goes further than the call of friendship responsibility. The obstacle that Lily faces not only changes her life, but also transforms her as a person…going from childhood to adulthood.
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I have egg on my face. No doubt about it. My forecast from Friday was a bust for parts of Connecticut. Here's a look at what was predicted followed by what actually fell.
Yikes. Busts happen. It's the line of work we're in. While most of Connecticut saw little accumulation (as expected) towns west of Route 8 and north of Torrington got pummeled by an isolated, but powerful, complex of snow.
Forecasting something like this isn't easy. It's akin to forecasting the developing and path of a summertime thunderstorm. In the summer, storms can drop 1″ or 2″ of rain on one side of a town and nearly nothing on the other side of a town. That's the nature of the beast in the summer. In the winter our storms are generally much larger in area and affect a wide swath. Saturday's storm was different.
There were signs of trouble, and an overperformer, yesterday. Here's what I wrote on Twitter.
As it turns out the interesting factor was high and by highly uncertain I meant really really really uncertain! So what was it about the storm that made it interesting and uncertain?
The setup for this storm featured a long inverted trough extending northwest from an area of low pressure well offshore. Low level convergence was occurring along this trough with northwesterly winds behind to the south and easterly and northeasterly winds to the north.
Meanwhile, modest quasi-geostrophic lift was occurring over southern New England with weak warm advection from the boundary layer to 850mb decreasing with height above that plus strong differential cyclonic vorticity advection ahead of a strong shortwave embedded in the long wave trough.
While the synoptics are fairly straightforward it was the mesoscale aspects of this storm that produced wild snowfall gradients from 0″ to 10″ in a relatively short distance. One of the signals on the computer models that this storm could be a challenge was an impressive amount of instability over the state. Instability can form convection (or thunderstorms) and that's indeed what happened. In fact, upright convection formed over New Jersey and New York City with thundersnow, thunder graupel, and even actual hail near the Jersey Shore.
The 00z NAM computer model developed 100-200 j/kg of CAPE across Connecticut for this afternoon. That was a tip off something a little funky was going on. Additionally, models showed a spike of Total Totals (an instability index that is useful this time of year) into the mid 50s.
The morning weather balloon launch from Brookhaven, NY showed a conditionally unstable layer and I think the smoking gun here is the 3-hour forecast sounding for Canaan, CT off the 12z NAM.
Lapse rates are exceptionally steep from 800mb to 600mb – nearly 8C/km! In addition the sounding is saturated at this layer and the layer intersects with the snow growth zone of -12c to -18c. Upright convection like you'd see in the summer was favored in Connecticut.
Indeed, upright convection is what happened. The convection was able to develop a mesolow (notice the spin below on radar) which is pretty unusual but not unheard of. Enhanced forcing to the north and west of the mesolow (frontogenesis) likely produced the pocket of 6″-10″ of snow on Route 44 near the Massachusetts border within the larger swath of 3″-6″. While elevation played some role I don't think it was the biggest culprit here – mesoscale banding was by far more critical in determining which areas got the most snow.
At the end of the day this storm acted like a summertime thunderstorm (the process that produces summertime storms – convection – is exactly the same as what we had today). We don't even attempt to pin down the exact location, track, and intensity of a specific thunderstorm 12 hours out in the summer – it's something that no one has the skill today. We can mention the threat for a thunderstorm but they are, by nature, relatively hit or miss. In the winter, the impact can be large with a swath of heavy snow while in the summer a band of 1″-2″ of rain from a cluster of thunderstorms like this would have relatively little impact.
Regadless, this storm is in the books. As always the weather never ceases to amaze and there's always something new to learn. Forecast busts happen and when they do it's best to acknowledge the error and move on – there's always another bust lurking around the corner 🙂


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Monday, April 20, 2009
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge (B&W+1)
9 comments:
- joey said...
Hi Nikki, gorgeous card, so elegant, I love this tone of green. Thanks for joining us this week. Joey.x
- April 20, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Sue said...
Gorgeous card very classy looking, sue.x
- April 20, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- Crystal said...
This is gorgeous, I love your bow...what a beautiful card!
- April 20, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- Donna said...
very pretty card Nikki, love that big wide ribbon, and your bow tying. Thanks for joining us this week
- April 20, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- Kimmi said...
Lovely card Nikki - I love the shade of green you chose! The bow is beautifully tied!
Kim x
- April 21, 2009 at 8:43 AM
- Crafting Joanne said...
Hi Nikki
This is beautiful, love it's simplicity and elegance and gorgeous green choice to go with the B&W.
Thank you for joining us over at SSC this week and good luck.
Joanne x
- April 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Skraptacular Designs said...
Hi Nikki...
Beautiful card and I love the GREEN! Such a simple and yet so elegant card! My favorite combination when card making! Fabulous card!
Thanks for playing along with us this week. Hope you'll join us again next week for another new challenge!
- April 21, 2009 at 2:14 PM
- Carly said...
Wow! Your card is beautiful! Thanks for playing.
- April 21, 2009 at 10:55 PM
- Liza said...
This is gorgeous Nikki, so elegant and beautiful. Thanks for joining us at SSC.
Liza x
- April 22, 2009 at 5:55 AM


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Monday, May 26, 2008
15. Eat only raw foods for a week.
4 comments:
- Latharia said...
That is just awesome! I've been going to our local raw foods restaurant, the Borrowed Earth Cafe, and the food is just amazing!!!!
- June 3, 2008 at 7:21 PM
- Marni said...
We have a couple raw food restaurants here, too. Though I haven't tried any of them yet, now I really want to. Eating raw for a week was much easier than I feared. We really enjoyed it!
- June 6, 2008 at 10:13 AM
- Latharia said...
Our local restaurant has started teaching classes ... maybe some of yours will, too! :D I'm glad you enjoyed your week of eating raw. One of our items is to make everything we eat from scratch ... and my husband is dreading it!
- June 7, 2008 at 9:44 AM
- Tommie said...
I've been eating raw foods for more than three years now and it's second nature to prepare my food. I don't go for the "gourmet" raw so it's fairly easy to make a green smoothie or a salad.
Are you still eating lots of raw?
- October 14, 2008 at 5:03 AM


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Situated in the business district, this hotel is within 2 mi (3 km) of American Classic Motorcycle Museum, Sunset Theater and Asheboro City Hall. Randolph County Courthouse and Randolph Community College are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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Along with a fitness centre, this hotel has a 24-hour business centre and a conference centre. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, coffee/tea in a common area, a seasonal outdoor pool and conference space are on-site.
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All 89 rooms provide conveniences such as fridges and microwaves, plus complimentary wireless Internet access and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Premium bedding, coffee/tea makers and free newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.
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Comfort Inn Asheboro features a fitness centre and a seasonal outdoor pool. A computer station is located on-site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business-related amenities consist of A 24-hr business centre and a meeting room. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. This business-friendly hotel also offers tour or ticket assistance, a BBQ and multilingual staff. Complimentary self parking is available on-site.
Comfort Inn Asheboro has designated areas for smoking.
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- Total number of rooms - 89
- Television in common areas
- One meeting room
- Number of floors - 2
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Wedding services
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- Fireplace in lobby
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- Free local calls
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Overview & Reviews
The Mitsubishi Outlander has been extensively redesigned for 2014. Notable changes include improved fuel mileage, a nicer interior, a standard third-row seat and new high-tech features.
- Above-average fuel economy
- Attractive, high-quality interior
- Available frontal impact warning/mitigation system.
- Maximum cargo capacity a bit short of top rivals.
- Cramped third-row seat
- Underwhelming performance
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Exceptional Value - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By aa0526 - December 2 - 2:11 am
Primary Purpose: 1. Commuting to work alone (95%) 2. Short trips with family (5%) Been shopping around for a small CUV that has a 3rd row (for those rare occasions). Wanted a 3rd row as a backup for the minivan. The minivan is reserved for long trips. I can't wean myself from Japanese cars. I shopped between the Santa Fe, Rogue 2014 and the Outlander 2014. Being a current Nissan and Mitsubishi owner, it was a hard decision between the Rogue and the Outlander. The current MPG averages 28-30 combined. The warranty and price were the clinchers. It is relatively quiet, acceleration was good for my needs, very roomy 2nd row (I am only 5'7" - so there is plenty of room left behind me).
Read actual consumer reviews! - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By mitsucommuter - November 17 - 8:26 pm
Best car for the value. If your on the fence about the exterior and interior design compared to its competitors. Check this car out in person. It will most likely surprise you. My previous car was a mitsu galant. With everything original in tact with over 220k miles. So I know and trust their engineering. As long as you do the regular maintenance and don't submerge it under water or hit some deep pot holes at aggressive speeds this vehicle should be reliable. You should never have to rely on their warranty but it's nice to have as a cushion/ peace of mind.
2014 Mitsubishi Outlander SE Great Value - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By austintech - December 18 - 8:45 pm
When you compare any vehicle priced under $25k that comes with 5/60 bumper to bumper warranty, 10/100k power train warranty, comes with back up camera, heated seats, bluetooth, roominess and 26 mpg combined, there aren't many that can compare. With the 2014 Outlander SE, you get all this and reliability of Mitsubishi. Yes, it's not a sports car. Yes, it doesn't have cutting edge design. Unlike other vehicles in its class, it's very quiet, is comfortable, handles reasonably well, and has all the safety features you'd expect for lots more. We researched lots of vehicles for what we needed and couldn't come up with a better solution for the money.
Nice Ride, Satisfied!! - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By jac48 - December 6 - 7:34 am
Bought the car a little over a month ago and now have 1200 miles on it. I really like the new design, the fact that it comes standard with 3 rows of seats. The interior isn't flashy but it doesn't seem like cheap plastic either. I like the touch screen radio, backup cam, 18 inch wheels, heated seats, integrated blue tooth, fog lights ect. and all the other options for the price over competing SUV's. I was really considering the Subaru Forester, but the price and the 3rd row of seats sealed the deal. The factory Warranty is by far better. I've owned an 02 Lancer, an 03 Eclipse and never had any trouble with either. Getting about 25MPG, which is a little lower than I was hoping.
Great Buy - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By ontarioman - April 23 - 12:47 pm
Overall, Nice vehicle. Nice handling in city and has decent power with the V6. Very fast pick up on the highway. The V6 makes a nice growl when accelerating. Handles rough pavement like a charm. Good fuel consumption for a v6. It is about the same as my 4 cylinder rav4. Very good brake feel. Very nice well laid out dash. Out of all the vehicles i tested drove, The forester xt, mazda cx-5 and the outlander GT was in the running. The forester seat was not supportive and the steering was too loose. The mazda was very good and my wife has one. I think the handling is slightly better than the outlander but the powe of the outlander cannot be beaten . The Super allweel drive system is legendary.
V6 Outlander is Amazing - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By bayernforever - April 25 - 1:59 pm
Please, do not listen to these reviewers who are trying to kill mitsubishi. I tested my new outlander 2014 for a week now and it is amazing. i have got the GLS V6 Model Biege Leather Inside. the quallity of interior is outstanding. This car is a little bit heavy when you start but after 40km/h it will goes very fast. I was driving on 160km/h and the car was very quiet. The Price of the outlander V6 Top of the line is cheaper than a toyota rav 4 standard edition. If you are still thinking of buying this car , go a head and save your money.
Shouldn't have bought this SUV - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By applepie237 - June 7 - 9:55 am
Just hit 3,000 miles and mileage is more like 17-25 mpg. Doors are really light, back gate doesn't always open, a # of features are stripped out in the SE so some things you would expect aren't included. Bluetooth doesn't always work so I make a call, they hear me but I don't know it's even connected. Wipers spray over the windshield/crooked. Remote start is a joke, need to start again when in car. The only comfortable spot for the steering wheel will block your dash. Two days after leasing, had major mechanical issue. Second lease payment they didn't notify me of automatic payments starting so I made a payment and then they pulled as well, overdrafted my account for following directions.
A great small crossover suv - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By sierram - August 9 - 12:52 am
Do not trust the reviewers. This vehicle deserves to be test driven. The material quality is fantastic inside. Mitsubishi did not cheap out and use tons of hard plastic like the rest of the competition. I think the exterior looks classy and is similar to the Land Rover Range Rover or 1st gen Cayanne. The 3rd row is usable because the second row can be moved up without losing that much legroom. I'm 5'5" and I was able to sit in the 3rd row. I wouldn't want to sit there for long trips but it should be fine for my needs around town. I can't wait to try out the 4wd on the snow. I believe it has much better ground clearance and 4wd system than the CR-V. I'm getting 25 mpg on mostly city driving.
Outlander Gt Value - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By genx_rated - July 28 - 11:24 pm
Mitsubishi's price of around $26k w/100k warranty was what sealed the deal. The MIVEC V6 is plenty powerful, especially since it only weighs as much as a midsized sedan(3500lb curb weight), despite what others may say. It also sounds quite nice, but not overly noisy. Have about 2000 miles now, and averaging 21-22 MPG's in 85% CITY driving. You can do 30 MPG on the highway at 65-70mph, but I don't drive there often. The 20/28 ratings are just about right. Ride is compliant and very Japanese, but not luxurious....more sporty. Handling is competent and fairly flat. Cargo space very good, maybe not as wide as Pathfinder or Explorer.
Luxurious, powerful but inexpensive SUV - 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander
By frederikfly - October 26 - 3:36 pm
This is a lot of car for little money. Bells and whistles usually found on much more expensive cars/add on packages. Powerful but still fuel efficient V6 engine, sturdy frame, AWD, great ground clearance, high end features that really make a difference in safety and comfort (e.g. backup camera, dual zone AC, keyless entry and start). It will handle pretty much anything with ease, passengers, heavy cargo, towing, and challenging weather conditions or even off road. Fun to drive thanks to solid road feel, spacious interior, peppy engine and virtually no blind spots. After test driving Escape, Outback, Highlander and Pilot the Outlander feels like combining the best aspects of all of them.
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft has revealed the giant asteroid, has its own version of ring around the collar, based on observations from the low-altitude mapping orbit of the Dawn mission, show volatile, or easily evaporated, materials have coloured Vesta's surface in a broad swath around its equator.
The Spacecraft did not find actual water ice at Vesta.But, it found evidence of hydrated minerals delivered by meteorites and dust in the giant asteroid's chemistry and geology,the volatiles were released from minerals likely containing water. Pothole-like features mark some of the asteroid's surface where the volatiles boiled off.
Thomas Prettyman, the lead scientist for Dawn's gamma ray and neutron detector describes how the instrument found signatures of hydrogen, likely in the form of hydroxyl or water bound to minerals in Vesta's surface,the source of hydrogen within Vesta's surface appears to be hydrated minerals delivered by carbon-rich space rocks that collided with Vesta at speeds slow enough to preserve their volatile content.
Another study, led by Brett Denevi, a Dawn participating scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel,revealed the presence of pitted terrain created by the release of the Vesta is the second most massive member of our solar system's main asteroid belt. Dawn was orbiting at an average altitude of about 130 miles above the surface when it obtained the data.
Scientists thought it might be possible for water ice to survive near the surface around the giant asteroid's poles. Unlike Earth's moon, however, Vesta has no permanently shadowed polar regions where ice might survive. The strongest signature for hydrogen in the latest data came from regions near the equator, where water ice is not stable.
In some cases, space rocks crashed into these deposits at high speed. The heat from the collisions converted the hydrogen bound to the minerals into water, which evaporated. Escaping water left holes as much as six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) wide and as deep as 700 feet (200 meters). Seen in images from Dawn's framing camera, this pitted terrain is best preserved in sections of Marcia crater.


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Sometimes it looks weird and unusual with filmmakers celebrating even flop films. That's the case with Anjali's Chitrangada now.
Yesterday evening, makers of this movie have hosted a success meet in Hyderabad to share their feelings. But in reality the film got mocked for its bad content and negative reviews came their way. However heroine Anjali told that she's happy for the kind of reception Chitrangada got. "I'm happy for proving myself with this movie as I got to perform many tough scenes in my career" she said.
Maybe Anjali is right, but her 'lesbian romance' scenes haven't got applause from normal cinegoers though its a daring step.


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FEW parents would stand in the way of their son or daughter when they beg to go to Spain on their first solo holiday.
So it's unbelievable some former players and managers think 24-year-old Gareth Bale is too wet behind the ears for a jaunt to the Spanish capital for a few years or so.
Both David Pleat and my old Chelsea boss Glenn Hoddle are high-profile football men who should know the rising star is no longer a kid.
For them to suggest it's in Bale's best interests to stay is so far off the mark it's untrue.
Yes, the English Premier League doesn't want to lose its best players and neither do Spurs but it's simple from where I'm sitting.
The Welsh wizard must force the hand of Spurs chairman Daniel Levy. And if he plays hardball the former Saints youth should return to Southampton dock and paddle a canoe to the Spanish mainland himself if necessary.
What a chance this is for the lad to showcase his talents at the Bernabeu.
Another year's experience at Spurs? Don't make me laugh.
Most players will tell you that between 24 and 30 years is the most productive period of their careers. Bale is ready.
The other pathetic reason is to stay and gain Champions League football at Spurs. What?
Sportsmen of Bale's calibre are not interested in playing in the Champions League.
They want to WIN it – and that ain't going to happen with Tottenham. Bale was sensational last season. But it was not in North London where the winger really made his mark.
It was in the San Siro a couple of years ago when he scored a hat-trick against Inter Milan. That's where he announced himself, the European stage is made for this lad.
Madrid would gain one the top players in the world and deliver him regularly to the latter stages of the competition.
Let's put his situation in perspective. Lionel Messi was 13-years-old when he crossed the Atlantic to try his luck at Barcelona. Been a struggle for the wee man hasn't it?
Thierry Henry was 22 when he left France for Turin and then Arsenal.
Cristiano Ronaldo was a fresh-faced 18-year-old when he impressed so much in a pre-season friendly that Man United's players hounded Sir Alex Ferguson to buy him from Sporting.
When Ronaldo eventually moved on from Manchester to the Galacticos of Madrid guess what age he was ... 24!
Yes, there are sorry tales like Gazza heading to Rome in his mid 20s – but Bale and Paul Gascoigne are poles apart in common sense.
Bale needs only look at his old pal Ledley King to see how a career can peter out. King had a degenerative knee issue – but who's to say Bale will stay injury free?
How many cruciate injuries do we see in the modern game? It could be Bale next season.
He's a marked man and the hatchet men will be frothing at the mouth to get their chance.
The stage is set for Bale to go and join the elite and propel himself to greatness.
He owes Spurs nothing. They will do nicely out of this deal, don't worry about that.
The chance to join the Madrids of this world doesn't come along every season
Bale must grab it and go.


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The lemon tree is packed with ripe, juicy fruit and I'm on a lemon streak! This is really good - not sicky sweet like the store brands. Using the raw turbinado cane sugar gives it a nice color.
Lemon Gelatin
3/4 cup organic sugar
2 envelopes gelatin
1 2/3 cups cold water
2/3 cup fresh lemon juice
Mix the sugar with the gelatin in a sauce pan. Add the water and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Add the lemon juice. Pour into a bowl or mold and refrigerate until firm.
I also make gelatin from apple juice/cider:
Soften 1 package of gelatin in 1/4 cup water. Add 1/2 cup boiling water and stir until dissolved. Add 1 1/4 cup apple juice/cider and pour into a bowl or mold. Refrigerate until firm.
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Encouraginng each other to be assertive is something that is very important to me! Relying on others can be very frustrating. People using their own initiative can often achieve far more. Self belief is important! We llive in a town where this already happens so much . It will be natural for us as to do this more and more..
Monday, 8 July 2013
Thought for the day- week, month, year , century, lifetime, millenia, eternity
Living illegally in a Yurt, (a circular tent of felt or skins on a collapsible framework, used by nomads in Mongolia, Siberia, and Turkey and more recently the hills above Lindal nr Grange- Illegal, illegal, illegal cry the planning authorities: beautiful, invigorating fantastic, cry the free creative spirits) living glorious dangerous exciting lives, climbing trees, dodging past fast-moving cars in traffic, skipping in front of charging bulls, climbing mountains to view a sunrise, protesting in the nude, driving down empty country lanes at 80 miles per hour, smiling at gorgeous women (with their slick armed minders in toe), or would you prefer to sit, eat, drink, sleep, gorp at the tele on the sofa extremely safe and secure - big tele, forbidding house, two foot thick walls, strong doors, shuttered windows, high fences, barking Doberman lonely, depressed, on one's own with pots of money in the bank or better still in the strong room in gold bars.
What can we lesser mortals do other enjoy ourselves with a walk in the woods?
Use humour to help people laugh at the grey unsmiling powercrazed bureaucrats. Better still get them to smile, beware they might have a heart attack, too much emotion.
Flash animations to the rescue. Big Boot for SLDC : little scampering cheeky creative figures for the lesser mortal.
Fantasy helps us cope with dull, boring, politically correct, truth twisting, unfeeling, vindictive, unimaginative, people. Keep the people safe - they might scratch themselves or more likely walk into a lamppost - how dare they put that there.
This is what happens when you sit down to write after playing your version of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto at speed.
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Edward Snowden hold's up in Mill Dam Park!!!
SLDC special agent Rowley hides in cupboard and sends out anybody brave enough to go!
Women and children first
Whimp Winge" I have not yet been potty trained, and not yet on solids!" said SLDC Rowley
I am a big boy and make a mess in my pants! "please don't pop the bubble wrap"
I shall hide behind the law don't make me talk to the Evil Doctor and make sense. "Oh their goes that bubble wrap again" Pop, Pop, Phst, whisp, tish.
Tin helmets on run!!!!!!!!
- 8 July 2013 at 20:44
- Geoff Dellow said...
Love it. Let's all let rip - have a bit of verbal diarrhea - stay 'sane'.
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Sometimes life is so weird and quirky things happen.
They came in abundance this week and each time, I am just left laughing.
In no particular order:
1. Issac wanted fruit snacks, a bit of a treat at our house. He had done his chores, finished his homework and done all I asked. So he asked for a Mario fruit snack. I said yes and he went to the basement to retrieve some from our food storage room. A half hour later he came up, almost in tears, handing me this pile of wrappers saying, "Mom, when I finished my first pack of fruit snacks they were so good, that I ate the rest of the box (6). And as soon as I finished I knew it was wrong and felt so bad and now I have just been downstairs trying to figure out a way to tell you."
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Beyond vibes
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I'd like to throw out to the readers: Have any of you ever been successfully stopped from losing your virginity or having sex with a particular person? What caused the deflorinatus interruptus?ReplyDelete
Well... kinda. My mom always used to tell me, "Mermaid, the minute you have sex, I WILL KNOW IT. A mother just knows these things."ReplyDelete
I can't say that her statement was at the root of what stopped me (that was ME knowing that I didn't want to lose it to just any horny doofus I knew) but I did have a mental image at times when things were getting hot and heavy of my mother sitting up in bed from a dead sleep and shrieking NOOOOOOOOOOOO!! A true mood-killer, that. :)
About the teenage girl ~ I hope she's not doing this just to compete with boyfriend's ex. Know what I mean, jellybean?
Good common sense advice! Now if you could only get those silly earthlings to listen to it...ReplyDelete
I realize that you many not have wanted submariner-ly advice mom, but, here's hoping you read this: she's already had sex. Coming to you is a way to get BC. She can't get reliable BC on her own (condoms just aren't reliable like the pill, or the patch, or the shot--and lots of families have a history of breast cancer, with or without the pill--which is worse, taking the modern version of BC or getting pregnant?). Sponges and spermicides are pretty effective regarding pregnancy, but, STDs are a concern, too, and, fact is, this girl needs to know ALL of that and have someone non-judgmental, as you point out Spacey, to help guide her. She needs both BC and barrier protection.ReplyDelete
Because, regardless, she'll have the sex. It's been going on since the beginning of time and it will continue, lectures or no. And trying to keep it bottled up only causes kids to engage in riskier behavior because they won't have access to the kind of BC and protection that they can get with parental help/approval/knowledge.
Trying to stop her now, mom, putting up road blocks because you're projecting you own feelings about sex aren't going to slow down your daughter in the sex department. Not at 16. It's just going to cause her to engage in riskier sex than she has to. Which would be a shame. It's already risky enough at that age, because, as Spacey points out, teenagers are ignorant. They can't help it! So, at least get them as armed as they can be when they're honest enough to come to you and basically say, "Mom, I'm having sex and would like for your help in protecting myself."
That's all true, Smag, but it's not true that teenagers can't get reliable birth control on their own. LISTEN UP ALL YOU TEENAGERS READING THIS!! They can get spermicides (including the sponge) and condoms on their own, without a prescription, which are very effective when used in conjunction, every time.ReplyDelete
Spermicide alone has a 71% effectiveness rate and coupled with a condom it goes up to 92%, which is only 3-5% lower than the pill.
It's great if kids come to their parents, but teens need to know there IS effective birth control available to them, over the counter, without parental involvement. There's no excuse for unplanned pregnancies, kids!!
Well, MM, I agree that they can do those things, and I certainly DO want to encourage it, but, just for the sake of discussion, BC is 99.999% effective if taken properly. I know they say 98-99%, but that's bull. If modern BC is taken correctly, following all of the rules, pregnancy will not occur. Period. The 99% thing is some sort of legal wrangling (I mean, hell, they say vasectomies and female sterilization are only 99% effective, too), and, too, BC isn't the only concern, as you point out. Condoms are a must as well because of STDs. Regardless of whether young Casanova says he's sleeping only with the 16 year old heroine of this letter. The point is, the more help she can get, the better. And mom needs to realize this!ReplyDelete
But, yes, absolutely, in the end, there is no excuse for unplanned pregnancies, kids! There's even the "morning after" pill if you get really, really stupid. Which I do not suggest, but, it IS there. Don't be a statistic.
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I had to delete that post. It was nothin' but cussing you out for your man-ignorance!! ;)ReplyDelete
Studies have also shown that when a young girl is on some form of hormonal birth control, the likelihood of her using a condom is decreased. Mostly all teenagers care about is preventing pregnancy, and if they think they are using a "foolproof" method, they are less likely to use a condom in addition. Just saying.
I do acknowledge that you mentioned spermicides and the sponge, but you glossed over the fact that, if used in conjunction with a condom, the effectiveness rate is nearly that of the pill, and neither require parental involvement to obtain.
No one is arguing the fact that hormonal birth control methods have a more effective rate than other methods. My point is, it's dangerous to tell young women and men that there isn't effective means of birth control available to them without parental intervention. That's simply not correct. There are other methods available (that they do not tell girls about in school) in that deep chasm you have set up between just condoms and having to go to mom and dad for help.
This is wrong: "She can't get reliable BC on her own"
This is better: "they won't have access to the kind of BC and protection that they can get with parental help/approval/knowledge."
Saying they won't have access to the same type is good. Saying they can't get reliable BC on their own is bad. Us having this conversation ~ priceless. ;)
btw, We both know the "foolproof" methods you mention are only as "foolproof" as the teenager who remembers to take the pill, or put on that patch, same as remembering to insert the spermicide or roll on that condom.
My man ignorance, eh? ;-) Well, as it turns out, we agree on everything you've said, so, I can't be too ignorant. I never meant she can't get reliable BC on her own. That was my bad. I should have said that she can't get the "most reliable" BC on her own. Remember, though, that I was addressing my comments to mom, NOT the daughter. I was trying to point out that the best/most complete protection at that age can only be had through parental help (as far as I know). I wanted mom to think long and hard about that because, as I said, her kid is having the sex already.ReplyDelete
As for everything else you've said? I agree completely. As always. :-)
Well now, sweetie, that's where I had it wrong. While you were addressing mom (and rightfully so), I was addressing the millions of teenage fans that read Spacey's column each week!ReplyDelete
Having the sex already ~ definitely right on that one, Smag. It does no good to shut the barn door after the horse has already gotten out. ;)
Millions of teenage fans ROTFLMAO, Mermie!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM
I just want to add that in most states (possibly all of them, but I'm not TOTALLY sure about that so I'm hedging my bets), teens can get birth control pills from Planned Parenthood without parental permission. I drove many, many friends to Planned Parenthood in our teenage years, having been the kind of person who, when someone told me they'd lost their virginity, my first question was "did you use protection?"ReplyDelete
I'm going to go out on a limb here. I'm going to go with Mom and assume daughter has NOT had sex yet, even though I highly doubt it.ReplyDelete
What about talking to her about all of the other asspects of sex...just not penetration? There are lots and lots and lots of things to do besides actual penetration.
Get to know each others bodies before "actual" sex.
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Filed under: Afghanistan, World | Tags: Afghanistan, John Paul Vann, Kabul, United States armed forces, United States Army, US, Viet Cong, Vietnam War
The Soviets And Afghanistan, Part III | The New Republic.
Michael Crowley has been trying to claim lately that the fact that the USSR was defeated by Afghan insurgents is no indication of how well the US and NATO will do there, because the Soviets employed naked brutality and repression while the US is trying to engage in hearts-and-minds, protect-the-population counterinsurgency. Matthew Yglesias notes that the Mujahedin had US support so the Soviets had a tougher row to hoe. But more important: Look, what do we "know" about Soviet behavior in Afghanistan? How reliable is it, and can we avoid our natural tendency to have unrealistically negative assumptions about their behavior, and unrealistically positive assumptions about "our boys"? Here, for instance, Crowley cites a 1984 New York Times article:
Several hundred civilians have reportedly been killed in Afghanistan in a sweep by Soviet troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships through a valley north of the capital….
One Western source said the Soviet forces appeared to have embarked on a renewed effort to crush popular backing for the guerrillas…
The informants said the Soviet troops concentrated their attacks on the village of Istalif, a rebel stronghold 30 miles north of Kabul, the capital. Soviet soldiers were said to have surrounded the village before dawn last Thursday and to have captured and killed some guerrillas and their families. One diplomat said he had been told that Soviet troops bayoneted large numbers of women and children, shot young Afghan males and burned a number of homes before withdrawing at dawn. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopter gunships were then said to have bombarded the village….
An Afghan exile here said the marketplace at Istalif had been destroyed. Istalif was the scene of heavy bombings by Soviet forces last November and December when an estimated 500 people were killed.
This is pure hearsay. We have one "Western source" and one "Afghan exile". The sources are clearly hostile to the Soviets and their government. The casualty estimates seem almost certain to be random numbers exaggerated for effect. The "bayoneted women and children" thing isn't impossible, but it's the folkloric atrocity-tale stuff that gets generated in every invasion or occupation. (Remember how after their invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Iraqi troops supposedly grabbed babies out of incubators and killed them? Fantasy and propaganda. In the German invasion of Belgium in 1914, the "Huns" were alleged in the British press to have raped and killed nuns.) If you were to check the North Vietnamese press for accounts of atrocities committed by US troops in Vietnam, you'd have a similar impression of universal rape, pillage and slaughter. The New York Times isn't a propaganda organ — it's a solid journalistic outfit, and it reports what it can and identifies its sources. And when it gives you the name of the town, you can be pretty certain that something actually happened at that town. But the fact that we can see the sources is what allows us to judge just how deep and accurate this information is, i.e. pretty shallow and vague.
I'm not saying Soviet troops didn't behave abominably in Afghanistan. I would guess that in general, Soviet troops were crueler to civilians in Afghanistan than American troops were to civilians in Vietnam. (They were unlikely to face press criticism or disciplinary sanctions for atrocities — not that many American soldiers who committed atrocities suffered much for it — and the Soviet political consciousness lacked much of a distinction between enemy forces and the civilians who sympathized with them.) But that's a pretty low bar to set. Americans are still not clearly aware of this, but the evidence is pretty inescapable that US troops deliberately killed well over ten thousand civilians at gunpoint in Vietnam, let alone how many died in bombing and random-interdiction shelling–which in many cases simply targeted villages that supported the Viet Cong. How many did the Soviets kill in Afghanistan? And, though Crowley seems to have forgotten this, we did claim we were trying to "protect the population" and "win hearts and minds" in Vietnam. The problem wasn't what we said we were doing. The problem was what we actually did, not in the sense that we had some secret violent intention that was different from our public intention, but in the sense that getting your troops to restrain themselves, build links with the local population, refuse to respond to fire if it might endanger civilians, and so on, is incredibly hard. We are trying to do a better job of this in Afghanistan; having Gen. McChrystal in charge is sort of like the counterfactual of what might have happened in Vietnam if Col. John Paul Vann had been allowed to run the war his way. But it's just chauvinism to imagine that America will do better than the USSR did because our soldiers are nice while theirs were mean.
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I'm pretty sure the Sovs were pretty harsh in Afghanistan even if the NYT report is somewhat dubious, read the accounts of the Soviet soldiers who were there.
That said, does it even matter that much that our soldiers behave more professionally than the Soviets did? How many times have you heard of a wedding party being bombed in Afghanistan? How do you think you would react to this if you were an Afghan? Are we so much better than the Soviets than the accidental killing of dozens of innocents will not cause anger? Will not inspire people to seek revenge?


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We don't know why the second graders are sad. They have been asked, but they aren't telling.
At first I thought it was just Will, and I was worried. The Big Sadness runs in my family. It hits some members harder than others, and mostly manifests itself first thing in the morning. I have dealt with it all my life, and am happy to report that having a dog has helped enormously. But I worry about my children. Will they get it, too?
For the last week, Will has been quick to anger, a fast-draw on the pout, easily moved to tears, and a little bit on the irrational side. I've asked him if something was wrong at school, but he says no. Did anything happen at recess, at lacrosse practice, when he was over at a friend's? No, no, no.
Do you think it's just that you're tired, I ask, and he says maybe that's it.
So I've been worried. And then I talked to my friend Sarah, and her second grader is sad, too. Not only that, she talked to another mom--same thing. Sad second grader.
Is it the time change? The increased pollen count? No one knows.
Now that I know that it's not just Will, but that all the second graders are sad, I feel better. Perplexed, but better. Yet and still, what could it be? What is it about spring and being eight, or very close to eight, that would have you mopey and prone to crying?
There are no answers here. Just questions. Just mysteries.
Oh, and I finished a quilt. Did I mention that?


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rad io
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especially repeaters
[breakbreak] [break]
[br] [eak] [br/eak]
indicate a simple " BK "
added calibration marks
may be numerical
( preset )
rig the bridge
transmit tuning
or a very rapid
puff of smoke
( as shown )
clock & counter
plug pin
whichever inhibited
( lo-noise tone decoder )
sockets shift to shield
ampsupply boom-boom
handheld keyer conjunction
tilt on field
note the slope
of steep angles
& large loops :
finding a spot
may be inductive
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The term formant refers to peaks in the harmonic spectrum of a complex sound which arise from some sort of resonance of the source. Because of their resonant origin, they tend to stay essentially the same when the frequency of the fundamental is changed. Formants in the sound of the human voice are particularly important because they are essential components in the intelligibility of speech. For example, the distinguishability of the vowel sounds can be attributed to the differences in their first three formant frequencies. Producing different vowel sounds amounts to retuning these formants within a general range of frequencies.
The jaw opening, which constricts the vocal tract toward the glottal end and expands it toward the lip end, is the deciding factor for the first formant. This formant frequency rises as the jaw is opened wider. The second formant is most sensitive to the shape of the body of the tongue, and the third formant is most sensitive to the tip of the tongue.
A reading of the literature on the acoustic cues to stop voicing indicates that there should be nothing surprising about finding that the Fx transition plays a role. A very early paper on speech synthesis reported that "the transitions of the first formant appear to contribute to voic-ing of the stop consonants" . Nor should it be thought at all extraordinary to find still other acoustic features, fundamental frequency(F0) for example, that also control to some extent the phonetic classification of stop patterns as "voiced" or"voiceless." What would in fact be much more difficult to justify would be an assertion that any particular feature isolatale in the acoustic signal plays absolutely no role in a listener's phonetic categorizations. Some such features, we may feel sure, play a vanishingly small role (particularly if they appear to be independent of the larynx), but. given the experimental strategies used in discovering the acoustic cues, it is hard to imagine a feature not utterly imperceptible that could be shown to have no effect whatsoever on labeling behavior. A question that can reasonably be asked is: what is the relative importance of one feature compared with others?
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- 08 februar, 2009 03:13
- gary barwin sa...
not what the forethought,
but what the formant.
Lovely piece, Troy.
- 08 februar, 2009 09:52
- troylloyd sa...
"not what the forethought,
but what the formant.
= )
you're all aces at this sorta thing Gary!
i really dug yr Stephen Wright knock-knock poems!
- 09 februar, 2009 04:19
- Anonym sa...
Interesting wawes or 'käyriä'
maybe these wawes are painting sanojen / kirjainten lämpötilanvaihteluita...
- 12 februar, 2009 12:18
- Anonym sa...
or these really are
- 12 februar, 2009 12:20
- troylloyd sa...
taajuus lukukirja
ja virittää äänivalta,
nimittäin nielu nidottu
kaarikaava kanssa
kielellinen merkki
viitoittaa sävelasteikko
kalkioida yleisavain
kaiku kaiku
kaiku kaiku
ja löytää kaikkialla
koetan oppia
oppia puhumaan,
niin sanoakseni
pyytää anteeksi huono suomi!
- 13 februar, 2009 11:41
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- 16 februar, 2009 10:23


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