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Colorado Rubberweed, more...pingue rubberweed, pingue, pingue hymenoxys
[Actinella richardsonii (Hook.) Nutt.]
Perennials, 7-34 cm (polycarpic; usually with highly branched woody caudices). Stems 1-20(-30+), usually green throughout, rarely purple-red-tinted proximally, branched distally, glabrous or ± hairy. Leaves: blades simple or lobed (lobes 3-7), glabrous or ± hairy, gland-dotted (basal leaf bases densely long-villous-woolly); mid leaves lobed (lobes 3-5, terminal lobes 0.7-2 mm wide). Heads 5-300+ per plant, in corymbiform arrays. Peduncles 1-5 cm, ± hairy. Involucres campanulate, 7-11 × 7-14 mm. Phyllaries in 2 series, unequal; outer 8-13, obovate to ovate to lanceolate, basally connate 1/2 their lengths, 3.5-8 mm, apices acuminate to acute; inner 8-18, obovate, 3-8 mm, apices mucronate. Ray florets 7-14; corollas yellow, 7-17 × 3-6 mm. Disc florets 25-75+; corollas 3-5 mm. Cypselae narrowly obpyramidal, 2-3 mm; pappi of 4-8 obovate to lanceolate, aristate scales 1.8-3.5 mm. 2n = 30.
Springer et al. 2008, Heil et al. 2013, FNA 2006
General: Perennial herbs, 10-35 cm tall, from a branching woody caudex and stout taproot; stems mostly 5-20 per plant, erect, slender, branched above, usually green throughout, rarely tinged with purple-red at the base; herbage glabrous to pubescent, with long soft hairs tufted in the axils of persistent leaf bases. Leaves: Basal leaves sometimes persistent until flowering; stem leaves alternate, abundant; blades narrowly linear and/or lobed, 2-15 cm long, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, gland- dotted; lobes, if present, 3-7 per leaf, linear-filiform, 1-2 mm wide. Flowers: Flower heads yellow and radiate, arranged in panicles of up to 12 flower heads; peduncles sometimes tomentose near the apex; involucres hemispheric to broadly campanulate, 12-17 mm long and 20-25 mm wide, the bracts (phyllaries) in 2 series, these nearly equal; the outer series of phyllaries united at the base; the inner series of phyllaries not united at the base, equalling or surpassing the outer series in height; ray flowers 7-14 per flower head, the laminae (ray petals) 7-23 mm long, yellow-orange to orange, the tips 3- or 4- lobed; disc flowers 25-75 or more per flower head, yellow. Fruits: Achenes narrowly obpyramidal, 2-4 mm long, covered with long soft hairs; topped with a pappus of 5 obovate, bristle-like scales, these 2 mm long. Ecology: Found in open habitats, forest edges, and roadsides, from 4,500-10,500 ft (1372-3200 m), flowers May-October. Distribution: NM and AZ, north to MT and adjacent s CAN. Notes: This is a fairly common forest and woodland understory species. Look for a perennial herb with a branching woody caudex; filiform leaves, often in a basal tuft as well as lining the stems; and yellow radiate flower heads. Arizona and New Mexico specimens are var. floribunda, with many flower heads per plant, up to 300 or even more, involucres 7-8 mm high and 7-9 mm wide, and ray corollas 7-11 mm long. H. rusbyi differs from this species in its wider leaf lobes, 2-4 mm wide, simple to only moderately branched caudex, and slightly smaller flower heads, 4-8 mm wide. Ethnobotany: Chewed roots are applied to sores and rashes, and are also used as chewing gum. The flowers provide a yellow dye for wool. Etymology: Hymenoxys comes from Greek hymen, meaning membrane, and oxys, meaning sharp or sharp pointed, referring to the awned pappus scales; richardsonii honors Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), English naturalist and Arctic explorer. Synonyms: Actinella richardsonii, Picradenia richardsonii, Actinella richardsonii Editor: AHazelton 2017


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Welcome to the Listing Hop! Looking forward to seeing everyone's lists!
If you've been here before, you know I love music.
So my list is a list of all (probably most, I may have forgotten a few) of the bands I've seen and how many times!
Here goes! In ABC order even! I told you I love music! Papa Roach is at the top of the list with 13 times live!
I told you I love music! Here's a song for Xmas Dolly's Monday's Music Moves Me Halloween edition! Love MCR and this creepy song!
And speaking of Halloween, my newest picture book, I'M A LITTLE GREEN WITCH is available at amazon, barnesandnoble.com and select bookstores!
Have you seen any of these bands live? What was your last concert?
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The difficult history of prosecuting hate in Canada
Police and legal experts say many incidents don't meet the standard of a crime
Warning: This story contains some disturbing details.
Late one night in April 2015, a drunk man entered a convenience store in the town of Hinton, Alta., and told the person behind the till he didn't want to be served by a Black woman.
Riley Bryn McDonald used the n-word. He asked for the manager. He then picked up a cup of hot nacho cheese sauce and threw it in the clerk's face.
The sauce stung her eyes and dripped across her face, hair and upper body. McDonald told her she should "go back to Somalia." Then he walked out.
The case was not widely reported, but a record of McDonald's sentencing turns up in the Canadian Legal Information Institute database, which keeps track of court judgments from across the country.
The past weeks have seen a focus on the racism that is a reality of life for Canada's visible minorities. There has been a spike in attacks against Asian-Canadians amid the spread of the coronavirus, which was first identified in China.
Meanwhile, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has shone a light on police brutality against Black and Indigenous people in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has even acknowledged systemic racism.
Given that backdrop, McDonald's case provides an insight into racist offences in this country and the complexity of prosecuting them. No province is immune.
WATCH | Professor Kathy Hogarth talks about addressing racism in Canada:
The Criminal Code contains provisions for hate crimes but they're largely reserved for offences involving hate propaganda or the promotion or advocacy of genocide. McDonald was originally charged under one of those sections, but the charge was stayed and the Crown proceeded to treat the offence as a hate-motivated assault instead.
That's how the majority of crimes involving racism are prosecuted in Canada — as regular offences under the Criminal Code, with bias, prejudice or hate considered aggravating factors for sentencing.
Canadians have been grappling with the question of how the law should tackle hatred for more than half a century. If the courts are any indication, they've yet to come up with a consistent answer.
"There's a lot of issues as to how seriously our criminal justice system sees hate crimes," said Avvy Go, director of the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic in Toronto. "What is even more disheartening right now is that a lot of these cases are not even investigated as hate crimes."
Attacked for 'wearing a scarf around her head'
Some incidents have resulted in jail time. Some haven't.
Judges have often expressed outrage at the offences, and some have called on lawyers to craft suggestions for sentencing that can both make amends to the community and produce some kind of change in an offender.
McDonald blamed alcohol for his outburst and claimed he was embarrassed by his actions. Defendants usually try to offset punishment in criminal offences through mitigating circumstances, which largely amount to excuses for their behaviour.
Is incarceration the way to stamp out the type of behaviour that politicians and the public frequently denounce? At the very least, experts say judges, prosecutors and police need to be on the same page when it comes to the seriousness of hate-motivated crimes.
In a 2012 case used as a precedent to sentence McDonald, a Nova Scotia judge insisted a 51-year-old grandmother with a clean record spend time behind bars for attacking, insulting and shoving a woman of Pakistani heritage at a mall "for no reason other than wearing a scarf around her head."
"We do not ask or require that every Canadian be the same, whether you are from Newfoundland, Nunavut, British Columbia or any place in between," Pictou Supreme Court Justice Ted Scanlon told the offender, Katherine Feltmate.
"A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian no matter what their vintage, religion or attire," he said, sentencing her to 60 days in jail.
Despite this precedent, Riley Bryn McDonald spent no time in jail.
'Hate is as old as man'
Calls for legislative action to deal with hate date back to Nazi propaganda seeping into Canadian society in the build-up to the Second World War. Concerns heightened in the 1950s and '60s with the emergence of extreme right-wing groups and the widespread distribution of hate literature, most notably in Ontario and Quebec.
In 1965, the Special Committee on Hate Propaganda tabled a report that would give birth to Canada's hate crimes legislation. The committee was chaired by Judge Maxwell Cohen and included Pierre Elliot Trudeau, then a university law professor. Trudeau was prime minister when the amendments to the Criminal Code were passed into legislation in 1970.
As Cohen noted in an essay reflecting on his commission's work, the enactment of the hate laws sparked fierce debate. The tensions he described have dogged the prosecution of hatred ever since.
"On the one hand, there was a new emphasis on individual freedom," he said. "On the other side, there was a growing recognition that these very liberties could be dangerously abused."
The preface to the 1965 report warns, "Hate is as old as man and doubtless as durable." It also contains a warning that could as easily refer to the current spread of anti-Asian slurs through social media as the anti-Semitic pamphlets and slogans that emerged in Cohen's day.
Ours is "a world aware of the perils of falsehood disguised as fact and of conspirators eroding the community's integrity through pretending that conspiracies from elsewhere now justify verbal assaults," Cohen wrote. He called them "the non-facts and the non-truths of prejudice and slander."
'A tough thing for a lot of people to hear'
According to Statistics Canada, Canadian police reported 1,798 criminal incidents motivated by hate in 2018, the second-highest number in a decade. Only 31 per cent of those crimes were solved, and of those, 68 per cent resulted in charges against one or more individuals.
Section 318 of the Criminal Code deals with promoting and advocating genocide, whereas Section 319 concerns the public incitement of hatred.
On its face, Section 319(2), the section Riley Bryn McDonald was originally charged under, says that "every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty" of an offence.
But RCMP Const. Anthony Statham, one of two members of B.C.'s hate crime team, says those charges are generally used in situations where offenders are inciting others through speech and propaganda to act in a way that might breach the peace. Charge approval also requires a sign-off from the provincial attorney general.
Instead, most acts people might think of as "hate crimes" are charged as regular offences under the Criminal Code — like assault, uttering threats or harassment.
But Section 718 of the code requires judges to consider an enhanced sentence based on evidence an offence was "motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or any similar factor."
Statham and his partner work the rare cases that involve Sections 318 and 319, but they also assist police around B.C. in dealing with other offences where hatred plays a part.
He said the complexity of the law can make it seem as though people can "get away" with hurling racial epithets at strangers on the street.
Statham said the majority of cases are what police would term "hate incidents" — they may be offensive, hurtful and harmful to the community, but many are non-criminal.
"Using a racist slur is typically something that's protected as a form of freedom of expression," Statham said. "Which is a tough thing for a lot of people to hear."
Fight to have offence recognized as hate-motivated
But many hateful incidents go far beyond offensive language.
In 2010, the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC) in Toronto helped victims prepare for the prosecution of Trevor Middleton, who was charged with aggravated assault after he and others pushed Asian anglers into the water near Mossington Park Bridge off Lake Simcoe.
A scuffle ensued between members of the two groups, and one of Middleton's friends was badly beaten. When the anglers drove off, Middleton chased them in his pickup truck, ramming their car repeatedly until it crashed into a tree. The driver of the car — who was not Asian — suffered brain damage.
CSALC director Avvy Go said her clinic pushed to have the offence recognized as a hate crime and they helped the community prepare a victim impact statement. The victims told Go's organization the incident had changed the way they lived, violating their sense of safety and security.
"This crime is an extreme manifestation of the all too common sentiment that Asians are not 'real' Canadians," said the victim impact statement said, which was provided to CBC. "We are made to feel like we are intruders and outsiders who can be assaulted at random simply because of what we are, and not what we do."
The Crown wanted eight to 10 years, but Middleton got two years less a day. Go said the community was outraged.
"From our point of view, the criminal justice system as a whole is not taking these crimes seriously," said Go.
'Nothing will be done if they don't report'
Toronto-based researcher Abbee Corb works with police forces across Canada, teaching officers how to investigate hate crime and speak with victims.
She says hate crimes are vastly underreported, and that many victims are wary of speaking to police because they come from backgrounds where police are part of the issue. The result is a circular problem.
"People don't report because they don't think anything's going to be done," said Corb. "And nothing will be done if they don't report it."
Corb thinks more emphasis should be placed on recognizing hate crimes and speaking with victims as part of regular police training. She also said police need to build bridges to minority communities to build trust and solicit help in investigations.
Caught on video
The ubiquity of cellphone cameras has contributed to a growing awareness around racist attacks as victims and bystanders capture offenders on video. While Charter protections around freedom of expression mean many of those incidents don't rise to the level of a crime, there are exceptions.
WATCH | Is George Floyd's death a turning point for racial justice?
Some judges have acknowledged that constant video recording puts an onus on everyone to take the problem of hate-motivated crime more seriously.
In 2017, Karry Vernon Corbett was caught on video shouting racially charged insults at an Indo-Canadian lawyer, who had turned his camera on Corbett after seeing him yell at a 72-year-old parking officer.
Corbett was charged with what's known as a "no touch" assault — a provision of the law that has particular relevance to the aggressive behaviour that victims of hate crimes experience.
The presiding judge noted that the Criminal Code definition of assault includes when a person "'attempts or threatens, by an act or gesture, to apply force to another person' and that other person reasonably believes that the accused has the ability to complete the act."
The Crown and the defence came to court with a joint submission that saw Corbett avoid jail time through a two-month conditional sentence.
Judge Kenneth Skilnick accepted the proposition — reluctantly. He said he hoped that in the future, the sentence to a similar case might involve the offender making amends to the community in question and perhaps be ordered to enter into some kind of "victim-offender reconciliation process."
According to Skilnick's judgment, Corbett argued he hadn't intended to "publicize his racially offensive outburst so prominently" and he didn't think the publicity it received should be held against him.
Skilnick didn't agree.
"We live in an age where almost everyone has a cellphone and almost every cellphone has the capacity to video-record conduct. In addition to the moral responsibility for all of us to treat our fellow citizens with respect, the ubiquitous nature of video-recording is an additional reason for people to conduct themselves properly and lawfully in public.
"Now, more than ever, the rest of the world is watching what we all do."


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The image at the top of this post shows my time in zones before and after changing my training around February 2018. After one year of training with my new coach, my entire power curve is up 25 watts. Furthermore, I'm confident I can raise the curve by another 50 watts over the coming years. Such increase is significant for an experienced cyclist.
In the past, I spent a considerable amount of time in power zones 2 and 3 (known as endurance and tempo), pounding out mile after mile. As a result, I developed a massive endurance engine for events like Dirty Kanza 200 and the Belgian Waffle Ride. However, despite training over 15,000 miles a year, I would get dropped from fast group rides. Why?
Riding at Tempo won't make you faster
In 2017, as I was training for Dirty Kanza, my former coach had me riding long hours at tempo (80%-85% of FTP) and sweet spot (90%-95% of FTP). I ground my legs into a pulp. My knees were torn up and my quads hurt to touch all the time. In addition, the front of my knee developed scar tissue that protruded from the knee like a ball. As a result, the tendon that runs across the front of the knee would rub on the scar tissue, making it impossible ride.
Looking back, I see that those were overuse injuries, caused by steady riding at the same power and cadence range for long periods of time, and for months in a row.
I was a mess by November 2017. To make matters worse, my coach told me I was "chasing unicorns" thinking I could get any stronger. He was right. I could not get stronger riding tempo for hours on end.
Focus time on intensity zones
In 2018, I hired a retired world tour pro to coach me. I'm riding less: fewer miles, fewer hours, and recovery days are off the bike. NO MORE long tempo or steady endurance rides, ever. Never! It has been a game changer.
I got off Strava and stopped looking at "average power" and normalized power for intervals and rides. Average power is for average athletes. I don't look at these numbers or at training stress score (TSS) because I don't look at FTP.
The main message here is this: as an amateur cyclist, once you have a good aerobic/endurance base, there is no need or advantage in spending significant amounts of time in the lower power zones.
My training today
Replacing tempo with higher intensity is key. I train 5 days a week and go hard every day. The intensity per day changes, but it's normally hard Tuesday, harder Wednesday, hardest Thursday. Saturday is long and very hard and Sunday is just hard. Within each day the workouts go from hard, to harder, to hardest. Within the efforts, they go from hard to hardest. The hardest efforts are always when I'm most tired in the workout and during the week.
I am not advocating ripping your legs off every day. My training is designed in a smart way so that I can recover between workouts. This is obviously what works for my fitness level, rider type and goals. Yours might look different, but the principles included in what I describe below still apply even if you are new to training.
The workouts I do have fewer intervals within the hard efforts, but the big numbers are much higher than before. And the "magic" is in the threshold floor. The best way to describe this is the feeling you have when you are about to get dropped from a ride. Your legs are flooded with lactic acid and the group is accelerating and you are floating off the back.
The threshold floor zone is part of my training in some duration or form every day. I train it seated, standing, high cadence and low cadence. I train it after doing efforts at 350w, 370w, 390w, 410w, 460w. And, I train all the "other" muscles in your legs and butt in all my power zones.
Between efforts, I fully recover. I'm either doing an effort or recovering from an effort (< 220w). When you stop using Strava and stop caring about average / normalized power (compared to your friends), you can focus on recovering from efforts, so you can go harder on the next effort, when it matters most.
In the words of Tom Danielson, focusing on average power makes you an average cyclist. Extended tempo efforts only makes you tired and impacts your ability to go hard. Being able to accelerate, go hard, and recover at low threshold is key to going fast.


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By Master Trooper Gary Cutler
Colorado State Patrol
Motorcycle season is upon us again. Dust off the motorcycle seat and check it out to see if your bike and you are ready to hit the open roads again.
As fun as it is to ride a motorcycle, I wanted to let you know that the Colorado State Patrol is seeing an increase in motorcycle crashes and fatalities, and we really want to curb that problem. Contrary to what a lot of people may think, a lot of these crashes haven't included other vehicles. They are single motorcycles going down. This issue seems mostly to be with riders that don't have a lot of training or as much experience as they should have to ride. Their skills may not be the best because they don't ride every day. This is not meant to be demeaning to these riders, but to have them realize steps may be needed to increase their riding abilities.
Consider researching a motorcycle operator skills course. As Brian Tracy stated, "Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field."
I believe that wholeheartedly when it comes to strengthening your riding skills. You can never know too much about riding techniques. The courses have different levels of skill training for all riders. Usually they teach for beginners, intermediate and advanced riders. So, even if you've been riding for years, a training course can be for you. Maybe try an advanced riders' course and see how it can improve your skills.
So, let's delve into some of the problems we see when it comes to motorcycle riders crashing.
1. Dirt and rocks on the roadway. Some riders are not looking out for it. You see a lot of it especially in early spring from snow plow operations.
2. Going into blind curves too fast and going off the road or into oncoming traffic. Know the area you're riding. If it's an area you're unfamiliar with, don't out-ride your skills. Take your time and enjoy the ride.
3. Having passengers on the bike that are unfamiliar with leaning or who don't have confidence in the operator and counterbalance, causing the bike to go off the roadway. It also goes the other way with motorcycle operators who don't know how to ride with a passenger on the back of the bike. Have that conversation prior to riding with someone on the bike.
4. Not knowing how to use the front brake in tandem with the back brake. It is imperative to be able to stop quickly when needed. Learn how to use your brakes correctly.
5. Watching for vehicles coming into your path. Have an escape plan to stay out of the vehicle's way. You can always be in the right and still be injured.
6. Leaning into curves that place your upper body over the center line and in the path of oncoming traffic. Don't hug the center line so closely.
7. Not having the proper safety equipment to prevent injury in the event of a crash. This includes a helmet, eye protection, gloves, boots, padded jacket and pants.
8. Absolutely no alcohol when riding. It happens more often than you think.
One last item: Make sure you have that motorcycle endorsement on your driver's license. We do check for those on a traffic stop. So, if you don't ride, but know someone who does, talk to them about some of the things I hit in this article. You may save the life of a friend or loved one. These are very basic concepts of riding, but they are so often overlooked.
As always, safe travels.


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Recharge, Connect, Invest – March 10, 2023
TechFest, a signature event hosted by the Crooms Business Advisory Council.(BAC). TechFest is a high school IT conference designed for fundraising and networking opportunities for all stakeholders. TechFest proceeds support scholarships, internships, and curriculum. At the same time, students will learn from keynote speakers, attend workshop sessions, meet business leaders, talk to college representatives and learn more about military opportunities. "The Future of IT, The Students of Tomorrow."
Meet the Keynote Speaker
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Public Functions
|QLogicalDevice(Qt3DCore::QNode *parent = nullptr)
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Member Function Documentation
QLogicalDevice::QLogicalDevice(Qt3DCore::QNode *parent = nullptr)
Constructs a new QLogicalDevice instance with parent parent.
QVector<Qt3DInput::QAction *> QLogicalDevice::actions() const
Returns the list of actions.
void QLogicalDevice::addAction(Qt3DInput::QAction *action)
Add an action to the list of actions.
void QLogicalDevice::addAxis(Qt3DInput::QAxis *axis)
Add an axis to the list of axis.
QVector<Qt3DInput::QAxis *> QLogicalDevice::axes() const
Returns the list of axis.
void QLogicalDevice::removeAction(Qt3DInput::QAction *action)
Remove an action from the list of actions.
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Kevin "Kayvon" Edson, 25, was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court on charges of possessing a hoax explosive device, threatening battery, threats to commit a crime, disturbing a public assembly and disorderly conduct, according to the Suffolk district attorney's office. Bail was set at $100,000 and a judge ordered that Edson be evaluated at a state psychiatric hospital.
According to a police report read aloud in court Wednesday, Edson told an officer: "I knew what I was doing, it was conceived in my head. It's symbolism, come on. The performance got the best of me."
His mother said he suffers from bipolar disorder, and his lawyer, public defender Shannon Lopez, said he was diagnosed with mental illness at 19. A doctor said Edson showed signs of being off his medication recently, Lopez said.
"Our family is so sorry and emotionally overwhelmed by the events at the finish line of the Boston Marathon yesterday," Joie Edson said. "Our son Kevin has been battling mental issues for several years. His illness has caused himself and our family years of anguish that is unimaginable."
Police officers approached the man late Tuesday after noticing suspicious behavior, such as walking barefoot down the middle of the street in pouring rain and veiled in black, police Superintendent Randall Halstead said.
"As he got closer, I could hear him yelling 'Boston strong. Boston strong,'" witness Alicia Anskis said. "Something just felt really off."
Officers found a rice cooker in the backpack and told Edson to drop the bag. He was then arrested. Last year's deadly bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 others were carried out via pressure cookers.
A bomb squad was called in and the area evacuated, before police blew up the backpack. Turns out, only confetti was inside.
Police blew up a second suspicious bag on Tuesday night. It was later determined the bag belonged to a media outlet and was not a danger.
The two incidents occurred after various ceremonies during the day honoring victims and first responders of the Boston Marathon bombings last year.
Despite the scare, marathon organizers said next Monday's race will be safe.
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I also tried hard to create them in a printer friendly way. There are three problem solving tasks per sheet of paper. So, you copy that sheet of paper times however many students you have, then cut in three pieces. You could just have them do each slip each day and turn in or take home, etc. But, I have them glue it into their math journals to have a kind of diary of all of them. Just my preference.
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All Saints of Africa
Khanya, 26 June 2011
Khanya e isoe ho Molimo holimo
Khanya e isoe ho Molimo holimo
In the Orthodox Church the Sunday after Pentecost is All Saints day (that makes the Saturday after Pentecost Hallowe'en) and the following Sunday all the saints of a particular coutnry or region are commemorated.
And one of the sad things about it is that there are so few saints in Africa after the 4th century.
But after that, very few and none that I know of in Southern Africa. They're all north of the equator.
One of the better-known recent ones is St Nektarius of Pentapolis (icon). But guess what — we kicked him out.
He was bishop of Pentapolis, and some of his colleagues denounced him to the Patriarch, and he was deposed. He was actually declaried a saint by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Perhaps that is why there are so few — the ones that the Lord does send us we treat so badly that he is perhaps reluctant to send any more.
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Dear Brother,
And yet, the Orthodox Church does, in fact, have saints in South Africa!
And yet, the Orthodox Church does, in fact, have saints in South Africa!
Who are they?
a) They are the Orthodox Christians of South Africa, who observe Christ's commandments, who pray and participate in the holy sacraments of the Church that He delivered to us, who live with pure hearts that are filled with humility and love, like little children - or are striving to make their hearts pure, by fighting against their passions and their sins, as taught by Jesus Christ, the Apostles and the holy Fathers.
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b) They are also the Orthodox Christians of South Africa who are toiling to transmit the message of the Orthodox Church to their fellow-man by translating texts, writing books and articles etc., their sole motive being their sincere love and the desire for the salvation of all mankind.
Orthodox Christians do not have to become martyrs in order to be saints, because the Orthodox Church is the Church in which man is united with God, in Christ. It is the Church of sanctification.
In the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa there are certainly very many saints in our time, just as the ancient Orthodox Church had many saints in northern Africa.
In the future I am certain that God will reveal the holiness of many contemporary Africans who are Orthodox Christians, after their dormition, and the Church will accordingly recognise them officially in due course, to the glory of God and the benefit of mankind.
We do have respect for the roman catholic, the protestant and the coptic martyrs of course, and we have them as shining examples. It is our wish that the Lord places them also among the Saints. We lovingly invite our roman catholic and protestant brethren to research all the sources of the ancient, original Christian faith, and eventually return to their true spiritual home - the Orthodox Church - as have many others before them. Amen.
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The Minnesota Wild and New Jersey Devils are tied, 1-1, after two periods tonight at the Prudential Center.
The Devils led the period in shots, 14-4. They lead in overall shots, 15-12.
Ilya Kovalchuk tied the game, 1-1, at 3:07 of the period. Travis Zajac set up Kovalchuk for a shot from the left circle. The Devils' left-winger put his shot past the jumping screen of Nick Palmieri and Jose Theodore's pads for his team-leading 10th goal of the season.
Palmieri, who assisted on the goal, recorded his first point this season and second of his career.
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As Seth defines it, 'shipping' is about what you make happen, what you deliver. In particular, what scares you, that you do anyway.
Often, we have great ideas but don't take the steps to make them happen. It is the making them happen that matters.
I took on shipping this year, because I read Seth's book Linchpin in 2010. And I took on fear, too, and the power of the reminder on my favourite mug.
My list isn't nearly as impressive as Seth's. For me, though, some of these things were a big stretch at the time. Now, maybe not so much.
- public speaking - Joined toastmasters. Gave a keynote speech. Moderated a panel.
- blog - Published 43 blog posts. Took on delivering short, clear messages.
- newsletter - Shipped 12 newsletters.
- twitter - transitioned from awkward to useful on twitter. Now, relish its structure for concise and clear communication.
- supplier lists and supply arrangements - 30 or so proposals written in 2010 mean I am now on a total of seven pre-qualified lists or supply arrangements to provide my services.
- adventure - A 5,000 km road trip to the Oregon sand dunes, San Francisco, Disney and Los Angeles with my two boys.
- experience - Spent two weeks in small town Mexico, living simply and working remotely.
- event - Led a team to make the first open government conference in British Columbia happen.
- relationships - along the way, I have built a set of amazing new relationships with inspiring people.
Thanks Seth, for suggesting we take on making our own list.
Have you thought about what you shipped in 2010? I bet it's a good list.


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Joshua Zaffos on the Front Range fracking wars
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The debate over the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing is heating up this fall, as several cities along Colorado's Front Range prepare to vote on fracking bans or moratoriums. In a story in the current issue of High Country News, Joshua Zaffos documents the groundswell of Front Range opposition to fracking, and he also describes how some of Colorado's more rural communities actually want to loosen fracking rules. As Zaffos told KDNK's Nelson Harvey in the latest edition of Sounds of the High Country, voters on both sides of the drilling debate are jockeying for more local control over gas exploration in Colorado.


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INDEPENDENT television production companies in Scotland specialising in comedy now have a BBC network commissioning editor on their 'own doorstep'.
Alan Tyler – currently head of comedy and entertainment, BBC Scotland – has been appointed to the new role of executive editor, Entertainment Commissioning, and will be working with indies in Scotland, and also Northern Ireland, with a view to UK-wide broadcasts.
He is the second Glasgow-based commissioning editor to have been appointed as part of a BBC plan to increase the profile of Scotland, and output from it, at an UK level.
Jo Street has already been appointed as Daytime commissioning executive.
Tyler will report to the controller of entertainment commissioning, Mark Linsey, and to the heads of programmes in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Donalda MacKinnon and Ailsa Orr, respectively.
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SZA has been teasing the release of new music for a while but the output has been petty low for last couple of years.
While fans wait eagerly for the followup to the incredible ctrl album, the singer continues to tell fans that she has been creating music and it will be out soon. On Friday, she did an Instagram Live session where she informed viewers that she has upcoming collaborations with Megan Thee Stallion, Lizzo, Jhene Aiko and Kehlani.
She added that some of them are done while others are in the works. SZA also mentioned that she will be releasing a new song featuring Ty Dolla Sign soon which is reportedly titled 'Love Language'.
Let's hope we're blessed with new SZA music soon. Her most recent release was 'The Other Side' with Justin Timberlake off the TROLLS: World Tour soundtrack.


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Celebration of faiths until Feb 7
The World Interfaith Harmony Week is from today to Feb 7 – As Malaysia is a multiracial and multireligious nation, we should observe this week. We must not take for granted our peace and harmony. The Internet world — with its speed in disseminating information, facts, fake news and lies — will define the future, and we must be prepared for this.
The week was first proposed at the UN General Assembly on Sept 23, 2010, by King Abdullah II of Jordan. On Oct 20, it was adopted by the UN and, henceforth, the first week of February is observed as World Interfaith Harmony Week. The event is based on a pioneering initiative in 2007 that called for Muslim and Christian leaders to engage in a dialogue based on two common fundamental religious commandments — love of God and love of neighbours — without compromising their religious tenets. The two commandments are at the heart of the three monotheistic religions and, therefore, provide the most solid theological ground possible.
The week provides a platform when interfaith groups and other groups of goodwill can show the world what a powerful movement they are. The thousands of events organised by these groups often go unnoticed not only by the public, but also by other groups. This week will allow for these groups to become aware of each other and strengthen the movement by building ties and avoiding duplicating each other's efforts. It is hoped that this initiative will provide a focal point from which all people of goodwill can recognise that the common values they hold outweigh the differences they have, and thus, boost peace and harmony in their communities.
Among the actions encouraged during the week are:
SHOW your appreciation to a faith leader or anyone you admire from another tradition;
ORGANISE an interfaith gathering;
INVITE people of different faith traditions for a meal;
HOST a film screening and discussion on an interfaith topic;
ORGANISE a discussion of sacred texts in which people bring quotes from different traditions that address respect for differences or other shared values;
JOIN with friends of different faiths in addressing a local issue, speaking out for interfaith harmony;
POST positive interfaith experiences through blogs, Twitter and Facebook;
ASK your political representatives to endorse World Interfaith Harmony Week; and,
WRITE letters to the editor of your paper. We can also reach out to people of all faiths to bring awareness to the masses.
Although we may not be able to do all, just one action will go far to bring love, peace and unity to this world.
K.T. MARAN, Seremban, Negri Sembilan
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Support materials for
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You can download the do-files, datasets, and community-contributed ado-files for An Introduction to Stata Programming, Second Edition from within Stata using the net command. At the Stata prompt, type
. net from http://www.stata-press.com/data/itsp2 . net install itsp2-ado . net get itsp2-do . net get itsp2-data
After installing the files, type spinst_itsp to obtain all the community-contributed commands used in the book's examples. You should check the messages produced by the spinst_itsp command. If there are any error messages, follow the instructions at the bottom of the output to complete the download.
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This edition of the book has been updated for Stata 14. If you are using an earlier version of Stata, you can use the datasets from the previous edition of the book; for instructions, see www.stata-press.com/data/itsp.html. Note that if you are not using Stata 14 or your Stata is not up-to-date, some of the commands may not work as described in the second edition.


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Award-winning filmmaker Josh Fox talks about his new book, The Truth Has Changed, and how climate movements can—and must—fight misinformation campaigns
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DHARNA NOOR It's The Real News. I'm Dharna Noor. Happy Earth Day from our climate bureau to you. The climate science is clear: human-caused climate change has already wreaked havoc on the earth, causing worse natural disasters, sea level rise, drought, species have died off, people have been killed and left without their homes, and the world must undergo a rapid and total transformation to avoid even more catastrophic effects that could cause human life to change as we know it. But how do we know that's all true? How do we know what's true? That's the question to start off Josh Fox's new book and one-man show. Now joining me to talk about this new book and one-person show is Josh Fox. He's an environmental activist and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker. He's known for his films like Gasland and Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock. And again, his new book and one-man show is The Truth Has Changed. Thanks for being here, Josh.
JOSH FOX It's great to be back on Real News.
DHARNA NOOR So The Truth Has Changed looks at the contemporary history of misinformation from things like 9/11 to climate denial, and you begin with a student who asks you how to determine what's true. Talk about that and the format of this book in exploring that question. Why a one-person show?
JOSH FOX Well I was originally commissioned to do the piece by Sheila Nevins, the documentary guru and my mentor over at HBO that I've been working with for years. And she looked right at me right after the 2016 election and she said, we want you to do a one-person show, and we want to put that on HBO, and make that into your next film. So we did that. We filmed it. I took a year and a half to write the script, which then became the book. We're looking for the opportunity to premiere that film right now. We're trying to figure out where that's going to happen over the next several months. My background actually is originally in the theater. As a theater director, I would make giant, epic theater productions that were based on real life events so in many ways, a documentary-style process before I started to make documentary films. This was sort of going back to my roots as a performer and as a person who when we toured Gasland, when we toured Gasland II, when we toured How to Let Go of the World— which we toured extensively all across America, Europe, Asia— I would go with the film and then after the film, answer people's questions, tell stories and anecdotes. And that became a kind of performance. That became a way that people knew me in the world. And then, going out on the road with Bernie Sanders, doing speeches and lectures on the circuit, and all those kinds of things, being very comfortable in front of people— this really brings me back to my days as a performer where I'm performing the new documentary. I think of it as a spoken documentary where instead of filming these things, I tell you what happened in a Spalding Gray-type of style. When I was performing the piece in this workshop capacity in New York City, the brilliant Dan Simon, the publisher for Seven Stories Press was like, this is an amazing book. We have to make this into a book. And so, we put the book out and right now we're waiting for the film's release, both in theaters and on television. We'll see how that goes forward but I'm also still performing the piece, so take a look out for it. We did a 22-state, 40-city tour, something like that in the runup to the midterm elections. I believe I'm going to start performing it again on the road in the next couple of months.
DHARNA NOOR Cool. Send us the schedule and we can let folks know where to check it out. And again, the book and your show deal with the concept of misinformation which isn't new. Obviously, you point to the story of Thanksgiving as an old, old example but…
JOSH FOX The original fake news.
DHARNA NOOR Yeah, exactly. The original fake news, but you learned about the power of these misinformation campaigns when you were taking your 2010 film, Gasland, which is about the dangers of fracking, on tour. You write about how you were the subject of a smear campaign by the gas industry-funded group called Energy in Depth. And then when you toured with Gasland II, the gas industry started making its own films. One of the people who made them was Andrew Breitbart, who back then wasn't really a household name. Talk about those experiences and what they taught you about the nature of this kind of misinformation campaign.
JOSH FOX Well when I first took on this assignment, I thought of it as really my reporter's notebook— frontline, eyewitness accounts, everything from 9/11 to the BP oil spill, to Standing Rock— and I was really wanting to bring out that frontline reporter's feeling. But then I realized that there was a completely other through line throughout all of these events in my life. That was smear, misinformation, and propaganda. So when I look at 9/11-— 9/11 was something that we New Yorkers went through very vividly. Obviously anyone who was here for that will never forget what happened that day, that week, that month, that year and realizing then how our grief was manipulated into rage, that we were being told to go and kill people in foreign countries that we never met before, that we would never meet, that had absolutely nothing to do with this crisis, like in Iraq— that twisting of the messaging from the Bush administration from a grief and sorrow into rage and violence, was one of the most slick and destructive events in American history. Then looking at the BP oil spill through the eyes of someone on the ground, watching how we were being told again and again that the oil had disappeared, that the dispersants that we are spraying over the ocean are okay, and that we were not being allowed to see the actual oil spill. We saw tar balls on beaches and we saw oiled pelicans. I was one of the first planes to fly over the oil spill at a height that you could actually see it from. Most planes were directed much, much, much higher, but we got clearance to fly lower. We saw the extent of the spill and it was absolutely apocalyptic and devastating and realizing if they could cover up the BP oil spill and not show it to the American people, what else are we not seeing? Obviously, that led me down the path of trying to undo and take apart the smear campaign against my films, Gasland and Gasland II, where the oil industry, led by people like Phelim McAleer, James O'Keefe, Andrew Breitbart, Steve Bannon, came after me with a $50 million smear campaign that lasted years and years and years, that went after me in every possible aspect of public life and private life. They published my address. They encouraged people to drive by my house. I received nonstop death threats. They bought my name and the name of the film Gasland on Google, so when you google searched my name, the first search result would be their smear campaign against my film. There was an arson on my property. But beyond this, it was really challenging the truth of my reporting itself, saying fracking doesn't contaminate ground water. Fracking is just fine. Those chemicals just came from somewhere else. You can light water on fire naturally. These were the things that they were doing. They were doing damage to the truth. So yes, when this student at one of these screenings very innocently, very profoundly, very sincerely asked the question, how do we know what's true? You say all these things about fracking and how climate change is real and fracking is bad, but we can look on the internet and see that the opposite of all things are true, so how do we know, he says. I thought, oh my god. This is a student in college with every resource possible at her fingertips to be able to learn, to have an education. And what does that mean? That meant I had to go forward and try to find out how the truth has changed and go into this whole history of smear and misinformation. This tormented me to the point to which in the book there are scenes where I'm sitting on my couch in Pennsylvania having borrowed an AR-15 from the neighbors and cleared my entire house to make sure there's no one in it. It's 4 o' clock in the morning and I'm drinking half a bottle of whiskey and watching The Hurt Locker. This stuff makes you crazy and it doesn't just make me crazy, it makes the whole electorate crazy. What they did to me in 2010 through 2015 is what they then turn around through Cambridge Analytica, Steve Bannon through Google and Facebook, did to the entire American population in the election of 2016 by totally distorting the facts on everything from Donald Trump to the Russians, to Hillary Clinton, to pizzagate, to whatever, to climate change, to what have you. Now we're seeing the complete onslaught against truth by the Trump administration.
DHARNA NOOR Yeah and a big theme of your book is the way that they use this method of essentially, psychological warfare to spread this misinformation. My Real News climate bureau colleague, Steve Horn, who you have also known for many years, attended a 2011 natural gas energy industry P.R. conference in Houston where he heard industry reps say that they use Iraq War special ops veterans to deploy psychological warfare techniques on communities where they want to frack in Pennsylvania. And that also comes up in The Truth Has Changed. Talk about that moment of time and how that is significant to how they've been essentially, changing the truth or what people see as the truth.
JOSH FOX Well I wanted to put people in the mindset of the journalist or the scientist who is getting completely attacked and berated by a very, very powerful industry. I wanted people to really understand what that's like on the inside, so that they could see themselves through the eyes of what happened to me and understand that that's what happened in the course of the 2016 election. These people are trained to get inside your mind. They knew everything about me. They clearly went after me, psychologically. They made fun of my glasses. They made fun of the fact that I'm Jewish. They said that I was a smoker, which was not true. They psychologically try to undermine you so that you stop believing in your own convictions, or they take your greatest convictions and they start to turn those things against you. So in 2011, when they were literally following me around the country and going to Q&A sessions and taping my responses and then rearranging the words through their editing to make me say things that I had never said, this was a time of incredible paranoia. And they do get underneath your skin and you do feel like at every minute, you don't know what's real. It's very, very difficult. Cambridge Analytica through Google and Facebook, now have a— well, Cambridge Analytica doesn't exist anymore; they've changed their name. It's now EmerData and Steve Bannon has a brand new project with $100 million worth of backing to consolidate white nationalists and nationalist groups all across America and all across Europe, to wreak havoc on the world. And what they have access to is your personal information in the same way that they had access to my personal information. So Cambridge Analytica amassed four to five thousand data points on every adult American. And what did that mean? That meant that because your Facebook feed was different than somebody else's Facebook feed, and they knew your psychographic data, your intimate psychological makeup, that they could target ads specifically designed towards your personality type, your demographic, and your personal and political convictions. So for example, if they showed that you liked things that were softer or more mild, then all of a sudden Donald Trump is being seen with puppy dogs and white clouds behind him and some soft, mild version of Donald Trump. If you were a rugged individualist, then you might see Donald Trump in an ad with weaponry or more hard edges so that only those specific psychological types were going to get a certain type of ad and advertising, as we all know, is very, very deeply effective. It's especially effective when you can hit your target dead-on. And that's the kind of technology that they use. They also did a lot of misdirection. There were a lot of attacks on Hillary Clinton, for example, as a person who supported fracking. She did support fracking. However, myself and Bill McKibben and many other amazing environmentalists, were on the Democratic platform committee and we had come to compromise with the Clinton administration and we had made enormous headway. But what did the Cambridge Analytica sponsored ads do? They played up Hillary Clinton's pro-fracking background. They downplayed any progress that we had made and they tried to funnel people in our movement, the anti-fracking movement, over towards Jill Stein. The more Clinton voters they could siphon over towards Jill Stein, the greater they had a chance of Donald Trump winning. That's called misdirection. That's one of the many techniques of propaganda and misinformation that they used and in order to know that, you have to know people's political leanings. You have to know their psychological type. You have to know their anger and all those kinds of things. And they can deploy that very effectively through the data that's being sold on a daily basis by Google, by Facebook, by all the social media.
DHARNA NOOR We're going to come back for a part two where we're going to talk more about that misinformation campaign. But I want to end this part by asking you about the end of your book. Your book of course ends at Standing Rock, where you filmed your most recent documentary, Awake. What did Standing Rock teach you about this sort of misinformation campaign and resistance to it?
JOSH FOX Well I think it's really important to understand and remember that we won at Standing Rock. All of that effort, all of those months and months of campaigning, the building of the camp, all the civil disobedience action, and all of the coalition building that happened there, resulted in Obama stopping the pipeline. So we actually won. Those tactics won. And what was there? A coalition of people from so many different movements obviously led by the indigenous sovereignty movement out of Standing Rock and the 500 indigenous tribes that showed up in support, but then joined by the climate movement, by the anti-fracking movement, by members of the economic justice movement. There was Black Lives Matter at Standing Rock. People showed up as this intersectional fight for truth, for justice, for the climate, for water. That's the kind of coalition that we have to build and those are the tactics that we have to express ourselves with. If we had 30,000 people like you had at Standing Rock, surround the White House and refused to leave, you would have a national crisis and that's what we would need. We'd need to address these incredible injustices that are happening in America right now through those types of actions. That worked, and I think it can work again. That's what's the only thing that's ever changed America. When you look at Susan B. Anthony, when you look at Martin Luther King, when you look at all these incredible civil disobedience movements that won real gains, that's what we have to do. And when you think about it, all of the climate goals and all the climate tactics and processes— I'm talking about the climate movement here— are intersectional. So we need the people from the different walks of life, the different movements in America and America is a nation right now of oligarchs and movements. We have incredible movements in America. When you think about the anti-war movement, the Fight for 15, the fight for economic justice, and when you think about Medicare for All, these are all things that climate activists share a great amount of intersectional goals with. We need to have Medicare for all as we have renewable energy, as we get off of fossil fuels. We need to have criminal justice reform. We need to be able to get rid of the electoral college, which has installed the last two incredibly conservative administrations, Trump and Bush, in this America that did not elect those people by majority rule. We need to be able to take back the reins of power. That's what we saw at Standing Rock. Remember, we won at Standing Rock; we lost the election. The election was a horrible travesty and the electoral college has got to go, but what we can learn from Standing Rock is that that coalition was enormously strong. It inspired the world. It inspired this nation, and we have to do it again.
DHARNA NOOR Alright. We'll pick up in part two and talk a little bit more about how to continue that legacy. Josh Fox's new book and one-man show is The Truth Has Changed. It will soon also be a documentary. So thanks for being here again, Josh, and we'll pick it up in part two.
JOSH FOX Awesome. Thank you.
DHARNA NOOR And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.


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Salah Farah was on a bus travelling through Mandera in Kenya when it was attacked by al-Shabab in December.
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In previous attacks in the area, al-Shabab has killed Christians and spared Muslims.
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Monday, August 29, 2011
The Ball Plant
I asked awhile back if it was a weed.
The general consensus was that it WAS a weed.
I stink at gardening so I wasn't sure. I wouldn't even have a garden if it weren't for base housing insisting that everyone have one.
They really ought to make it optional. "Garden with every house…except to the people who kill plants."
That's me.
I kill plants.
Not on purpose, mind you.
It's just, if it can't shout at me that it's hungry like my children do, I forget about it.
It's why my Mom bought me a singing flower pot. When the plant needs water, it sings. Granted, it startled me the first time it went off. I thought a man had broken into the home and started singing a song. (I know. Weird. But I thought it was like The Singing Burglar or something.)
Anyway, I decided I needed to get rid of the weed. I didn't want to be written up for a messy garden.
So I marched outside, prepared to tug the thing from the ground.
It didn't work.
I pulled and nothing happened.
Look, I know I'm weak but surely I could pull up a WEED.
Only I couldn't.
I had both my palms wrapped around the weed and it refused to budge. I swore a couple of times. My neighbors probably deem me as inappropriate.
At one point I peeked down at the root, wondering if it would ever come out and I saw balls.
Not REAL balls.
But close enough.
"Stupid ball plant," I muttered and stomped in the house.
I proceeded to forget about the plant until Tom came home.
He managed to pull out the dreaded ball plants.
They will forever be known as ball plants to me now.
If someone asks me about it in their garden I'll be like, "Oh, you have a ball plant. Awful, aren't they?"
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Made you testy-cular huh? :)
Thanks for the Monday morning laugh!!ReplyDelete
Stupid weeds!!
hahaha - oh no.ReplyDelete
I love the "singing plant" idea. I need one of those because I kill just about every plant I try to nurture.
you have no idea how badly I needed this laugh today!!!!ReplyDelete
THANK YOU!!! ahaaaahahahaha!!!
haha. Darn ball plants!ReplyDelete
Those Ball Plants! they are so hard to get rid of. lolReplyDelete
Yes, I guess with Tom home you don't need a supply elsewhere.ReplyDelete
I'm glad Tom's got the balls to pull out the ball weed/plant thingy. :)ReplyDelete
hahaha we have those growing in my flowerbed/yard too! drive me nuts- they grow insanely fast!ReplyDelete
Whoever invented the singing plant watering alarm must have watched The Three Amigos too many times - The Singing Bush. Classic!ReplyDelete
I (accidentally) killed a cactus once.
LMAO. Until I can't breathe.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! That is too funny.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 29, 2011 at 11:27 AM
haha I've never seen a plant with balls before, but now I'm glad that I have. I think?ReplyDelete
Lol. I have the same problem pulling weeds. I just leave it for my husband.ReplyDelete
I can just see you now trying like heck to rid your front yard of those dirty ball plants.....lol, that was too funny !!! BlessingsReplyDelete
That does look like balls! :)ReplyDelete
In my experience, anything sporting a pair is a real pain. I'm not surprised this plant is too!ReplyDelete
That is too funny! I've never seen a plant with balls for roots but apparently Mother Nature has a sense of humor. Let's hope your neighbors do to!ReplyDelete
I'd hate for them to point at your house and be all "That's Amber's house. She's inappropriate."
Bwahahaha.......Damn Ball plants!ReplyDelete
Maybe they just grow them down south? Haven't ever heard of them before.
Sound like some pretty TOUGH BALLS! hehe
Lol, that just totally made my Monday!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you included that photo, or I never would have believed you! lolReplyDelete
I'm laughing like crazy, my kids are asking why....and I can't tell them.ReplyDelete
I would have just told that ball plant...not now, I have a headache. it probably would have shrivelled and died.
That's too funny.I'm going to start calling all my weeds ball plants now.ReplyDelete
Funny post. I also have no green thumb, and 'though I don't frequent plant stores, I wouldn't be surprised to walk into one and confront a mug shot of me on the wall.ReplyDelete
Oh Amber! I SOOOOO needed this shot of hilarity in my day today! Thank you for providing it!ReplyDelete
Didn't you know even those with brown thumbs can grow a weed? Never fails. LOL.ReplyDelete
whoa! I didn't know I would be looking at some odd form of porn today! Hahaha! That's crazy!ReplyDelete
heeheehee ball plants huh?!ReplyDelete
That is the most inappropriate plant I've ever seen.ReplyDelete
Doesn't it know you have children?
This is not France, you plant socialist!
LOL! You're so weird! And imaginative....and fabulous!!!ReplyDelete
Hahaha!!! Damn ball plants.ReplyDelete
Seriously...that is one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen. I wouldn't have believed it without proof!ReplyDelete
Hilarious! Even more hilarious is that Tom is the one who ultimately had to handle the balls!ReplyDelete
This completely cracked me up, but now I'm curious: what kind of plant is it? Surely someone knows. C'mon, Amber readers: help a city kid without a green thumb out. Thanking you in advance.ReplyDelete


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