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I will be heading to Sri Lanka for three weeks this mid-december.
Since the start of the school semester, I have joined the Maalu Maalu Lanka 2014 team (comprising of 20 NUS undergrads). We will be going to the eastern province of Sri Lanka, Batticaloa, an area still recovering from the wrath of the Civil War and Tsunami. Our team will be going to 5 different village schools to help the 15 year olds with their English, IT and Financial Literacy proficiency as well as furnishing them with library amenities. English will be one of the subjects that they will be sitting for during their 'O' Level examinations (determinant for further education and employment prospect). Unfortunately the kids from these villages are only proficient in the Tamil language. Hence, many of them under perform in English, and their education halts as a result.
I am excited to embark on this service learning journey. However, we are still lacking a substantial amount of funds to effectively carry out the project despite fundraising efforts in and outside of school. So I am appealing to you for support. You can support us by a means of small contribution to our indiegogo campaign:
or simply by sharing and spreading the word around.
As a token of appreciation for your contribution, you will be entitled to our very own MML Postcard from Sri Lanka. We will be getting the students to write notes of thanks on the postcard and mailing them out to your address from Sri Lanka. It might not be much, but even the smallest contribution can go a long way in helping the underprivileged.
Do 'like' us on Facebook for updates on the project if you do consider to support us. Thank you!
Now I shall return to my self-designated hell as I prepare for my Finals which start in a few days time. Blog updates shall reconvene after my final paper on the 4th December. It has been 3 years since I sat for any formal examinations. May the odds be in my favour! :O


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crystal test
تم كتابته بتاريخ 19 ديسمبر, 2013 الساعة 8:23 في قسم Simplified Chemistry |
A type of presumptive test in which a substance is identified by the formation of characteristic crystals when a certain reagent is added. Usually, such tests are conducted using a microscope (microcrystal test). An example is the acetone-chlor-haemin test for blood.

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For me, after a 10 1/2 hour day at work? A soak in a hot bubble bath.
For hubs, after hours of climbing up & down a step stool, measuring, stressing, cutting, and trying toget the "perfect" cut to put up crown molding, some epsom salts to soak the aching feet and a food massage by his Snugglebunny (me! :)
Friday, February 19, 2010
After A Long, Hard Day's work
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Make it a Dark Mocha Frap With White Chocolate Pudding Please
How do you kill time in the Soekarno-Hatta International Aiport in Jakarta, Indonesia? I suggest browsing the overpriced handi-crafts, mulling over the $75 USD civet coffee, and than sitting down to a cold and refreshing Dark Mocha Frappuccino with White Chocolate Pudding from Starbucks.
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Tap shorts courtesy of my baby love :D
We strolled around Oak Park for a bit and randomly decided to stop in Borders. I never really read any magazines apart from Communication Arts, HOW, CMYK, etc... but since my finances have dwindled, I've pretty much stopped altogether. I picked up Bust and started flipping through it and an awesome watercolor illustration literally slapped me in the face, accompanying an article titled "The Fat Friend." I didn't bother with the article, I just immediately googled the artist's name on my phone and fell in love.
Kristy Milliken
So it appears, yet another Australian artist has captured my attention. I'm thinking this may mean I need to move to Australia, maybe... I figured out she's not actually using watercolors, but inks! I don't even understand it but I'm intrigued and really want to start drawing with my hands again, instead of with my mouse. All in all, it was a really great birthday and now I'm completely inspired!


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The selection includes major dot paintings by renowned artists such as Gabriella Possum, Pansy Napangati, Eunice Napangardi and Janet Forrester; bark paintings by Djawida, Mardday, Maymuru and others; various Tiwi and Yirrkala carvings and various prints. All will be sold at 30% off the listed price.
To take advantage of the sale, buyers should visit the web site at http://www.tribalworks.com/Australian-Aboriginal-art-buyers-guide.htm , use the secure, encrypted order form to place their order and enter the code "Insider" in the item description area. Reductions of 30% will be taken from the listed price upon completion of the sale.
All items are authentic, guaranteed and returnable within 30 days if they do not satisfy the purchaser's expectation. These are works of fine art and folk art that the owners of Aboriginals Gallery have cherry-picked over the last 30 years. They were previously on display in the Sanibel Island gallery shop, which has been closed.
Shipping charges will be negotiated prior to sale based on the destination and mode of transport desired by the buyer.
William Ernest Waites, owner of Aboriginals Gallery, stated, "We regret having to dispose of these beautiful items, which we have painstakingly collected during trips to Australia. This is a great opportunity for Australian buyers, however, as the Australian dollar has strengthened to the point it is almost at parity with the US dollar."
Susanne Waites, co-owner, added, "All of these works carry with them strong and happy memories for us. We hope we can find good homes for them."
TribalWorks.com trades exclusively on the web or in Fort Myers, FL by appointment only. Call 1-800-305-0185 with questions.
Aboriginals: Art of the First Person also operates websites at http://www.ZuniLink.com, http://www.Native-JewelryLink.com and http://www.Native-PotteryLink.com


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RECORD readers were given a helping hand with money worries in our first online debt surgery yesterday.
Financial expert Fergus Muirhead hosted a Q&A session on our website.
And last night Kelly Gallagher of Money Advice Scotland did another Q&A session.
Thousands of Scots face financial misery.
Nearly 400 a day are seeking help from Citizens Advice Scotland.
And yesterday we published a 16-page guide to beating bills.
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Its been a long week already and its only Thursday. I started working on a my latest clients logo around 9:30pm and its 11pm now. Whats crazy about this design stuff is how jazzed up I can get over it. When I first sat down I brought a cup of coffee and felt like just going to bed. Within a half an hour I was wide awake. I am so awake I am writing this post! It is such a high to create something that comes out ten times better than you dreamed of. I did three designs and each felt a little labored. They were all good but it took some effort to weed out the crap and get to those three. Then I had the fourth one just pop into my head, no effort, no thought, it was just there. I am not sure what you call it, inspiration maybe?
I am usually not that kinda guy. You know the guy that just completely geeks out over some minor thing and almost falls on himself trying to talk about. I feel like laughing right now, except my girls are asleep and I have to be quiet. Like those guys that are obsessing over the new "Rogue One" trailer today. Don't get me wrong, I love Star Wars and its an awesome trailer! I mean come on, it looks like New Hope! Not the shitty prequels! But I am not the guy thats taking each scene frame by frame and analyzing it in a 30 minute you tube video. I do like the part at minute 1:10 were the classic storm troopers get blown up! Wait… Now I am doing it.
Anyway, the point here is I am totally awake after an hour and a half of design work on this logo and the thought has occurred to me. I have no idea what I will do if they do not fall in love with that fourth design. I love it, they have to love it. Now I wont be able to think about anything else until they call and say "We Love it!"


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Aviani Malik adalah awak baru di Metro Sports. Beliau kerap muncul di sport corner atau metro speed. Sebelumnya beliau memandu Dream Ride di O Channel.
Aviani Malik (Avi Malik) is a new presenter on Channel Metro TV. She usually hosts the sport program such as Metro Sports, Sport Corner or Metro Speedy. Aviani Malik is a former presenter for Channel O Channel, with program Dream Ride.
With a nice smile, sexy and hot body, Aviani Malik looks suitable with her sport and casual outfits. You can watch Aviani Malik beautiful face on Metro TV, usually afternoon on 1PM and midnite on 11.30 PM. Aviani Malik will host together with Hariman Chalid, and somethimes will be placed by Boy Noya.
Aviani Malik is my new idol for sport program besides ANTV cutest Franda.
Now, Aviani Malik doesn't host Sport Programme anymore. Instead, she involved with Metro Pagi every morning, and her career seems to be in a new level as she begins to interview famous people.
Aviani Malik's Fans don't hope too much for her. She has already married.
Take a look for Aviani Malik Foto Photos Collection :
Watch Aviani Malik Presenter Metro TV Video here
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A Playar In the Making
Last week, as I am getting LM ready for school he requests to have his hair spiked; like SD Terry's. What is a mom to do but oblige. As I'm spiking his hair he looks into the mirror smiles and puts his hands on his hips forms a gun like shape with his fingers and begins to swivel his hips while saying in a hot sexy six year old voice, "HELLOOOOO LAAAAADIES."
First of all a six year old should NOT have a sexy voice! Secondly, there is no reason he should even know he has hips to swivel.
I did not know whether I should laugh, cringe or cry. I did neither. I just calmly said, "Where in the world did you learn that?" Quickly and innocently he said, "Momma, my brain tells me what to say and how to move."
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Quick note, this is the revised edition from 1959 and not the original edition from the 30s.
Nancy gets a call from her close friend Helen for help. Since this is early in the series, Nancy is still honing her skills and wants to go on another investigation. Helen asks her to come check out the home of her aunt and great great grandmother. Before she can though, a Mr. Gomber arrives on her doorstep. He's the lawyer for this guy Willie. Willie owned land that a railroad company wanted to buy, something happened with his signature, and now the railroad company is suing. Gomber warns Nancy and Hannah that Carson is in serious danger and acts so threatening that Nancy throws him out.
She then goes to see Helen's aunt Rosemary and Miss Flora, her great great grandmother. Rosemary gives her a short history of how they thought their big ass family home was haunted because they kept hearing weird footsteps and noises. Someone then broke in and stole some things. Nancy agrees to come back and spend a few days in the house.
Carson comes home, hears about what happened with Gomber, and pretty much just rolls his eyes. He promises that things will work out and that he'll be fine. Carson even takes Nancy to the construction site the railroad company is working on. A truck comes out of nowhere and almost hits them. Though Nancy thinks it's a warning sign, Carson just pooh poohs her and says that it was probably just an accident. He's a little too trusting.
Nancy goes to Helen's family's house. On the way there, Helen tells her that she's now engaged to some oil worker. They met, spent a few days hanging out, he went on an international assignment, and proposed to her over the phone. Seems a little fishy to me. Flora announces that someone broke in and stole her treasured pearl necklace. She also tells them about a second staircase in the house but claims that no one has access to it. It turns out that the staircase is hidden inside a closet.
Rosemary tells her about some guy who wants to buy the house. She says that he's a horrible man and keeps offering them less than the house is worth. Nancy also finds out that the original owner of the house built a matching estate next door. His brother lived there and they were best friends, but their sons later fought and stopped talking. Rosemary tells her that no one has lived there in years.
While hanging out at the house, there's a knock at the door. It's the guy who wants to buy the house, which turns out to be Gomber. He acts nasty again and hands over a document that he says Flora already agreed to sign, which gives him the house at a super cheap price. He snarls about how everyone knows the house is haunted and that he's the only one who will ever want to buy it. Nancy sends him packing.
Not long after he leaves, the chandelier in the living room starts swinging on its own. While everyone faints and practically gets the vapers, Nancy rushes upstairs. She discovers that by standing in a spot on the ceiling and rocking back and forth, she can make the chandelier swing. Helen suddenly starts screaming, and when she rushes downstairs, she learns that there was a horrible looking man standing in the window. Nancy deduces that it was just someone in a mask. Before they can do much, the radio comes on upstairs. Though Rosemary still thinks there's a ghost, Nancy thinks there's a rational explanation.
Not a whole lot happens after that. Nancy goes for a walk outside and runs into a police officer who introduces himself as Patrick. He tells her that he keeps an eye on the property. She later walks to Miss Flora screaming because she sees glowing red eyes in her room, which turns out to be an owl. Flora swears she closed the chimney, and Nancy worries that someone sneaked in and let the owl loose.
What happens next is completely random. In the hopes of making Nancy feel more at home, the women decide to put on a show. They find all these old clothes, shoes, and wigs from the colonial era in the basement, bring them upstairs, and pretend like they're from that era. They get interrupted by Patrick catching a prowler on their property. The "prowler" says he's a neighbor named Albert who was just out on a walk.
Nancy gets a call from Hannah telling her that someone saw Willie sneaking around River Heights. Her dad is now hot on his trail and hopes to stop by and see Nancy too. Helen gets a letter from her beau Jim that puts her in a happy mood. The girls then check out the attic and find something that looks like a hidden seam. Despite their best efforts, they can't get it open. Just as they're about to give up, they hear Patrick shouting from downstairs.
It turns out that one of the women thought they saw the couch move, which made Patrick run in to help. Nancy gets a telegram from her dad that says he'll be in town, but then she gets another that says he changed his mind. Hannah calls to ask if her dad made it there and says he never sent a second telegram. When Nancy calls the telegram office, they say they never sent the second one. She realizes that someone didn't want her to meet up with her dad and begins frantically calling around to find him to no avail.
She does, however, drive downtown and ask every cab driver she finds about her dad, but they all say they didn't see him. A woman stops her, explains that she works as a nurse, and says that she swears she saw Carson the day before enter a specific cab. They confront the cab driver who denies it until Nancy says she thought her father was kidnapped. He finally breaks down and admits that he picked him up and also picked up two other guys. The other guys made him stop because they said her father passed out. They drug him out of the car, and he basically took off.
After getting a description of what they looked like, she starts back and comes across an aqueduct that she thinks might hold the secret entrance to the house. While checking it out, she hears a noise and comes back to find a man matching a description of one of the kidnappers hanging around her car. When he sees her, he takes off running. She also manages to find a newspaper clipping from the River Heights paper that blows away before she can read it.
Still worried about her dad, she gets back to the house, only to have a chunk of the ceiling fall on her head. Rosemary and Flora think is was the ghost, but Helen points out that the roof leaks and recent rain made the plaster fall apart. When Nancy comes to, she calls Hannah and finds out that the article in the paper had a story about a school trip on one side and an ad for a used car on the other. This somehow convinces her that she knows what's going on.
Nancy takes her information to the police captain, he does some investigating, and he discovers that the kidnapper just bought a car in River Heights. Nancy and Helen then go over the parlor with a fine tooth comb and actually find the hidden staircase. All she finds inside is a letter from the 18th century that the owner of the house wrote because he worried that his servants had nefarious plans.
Flora suddenly get sick, but when she starts telling the doctor about the ghost, he thinks she's suffering from hallucinations. She keeps getting sicker. Nancy and Helen go out one day, and when they come back, they see Gomber leaving with a big smile on his face. Turns out that he tricked the housekeeper into letting him into the house, threatened Flora that he would go after the girls, and made her sign a bill of sale over to him. The doctor comes back and wants to take her to the hospital but she refuses.
She suddenly remembers her dad talking about a hidden entrance to the house in the roof. Nancy and Helen investigate, find the trap door in the roof, and learn that the latch rusted out. They still manage to get the door open and discover that it leads to a walkway on the roof. They also find evidence that there was once a connection between the roof walkway and the house next door. To make things even worse, Nancy leans that Gomber just bought the house next door too!
The captain calls Nancy to tell her that they caught one of the kidnappers and have the cab driver too. Nancy asks the driver to put himself in her shoes, which makes him break down and admit that the guy in custody was one of the kidnapper. That kidnapper himself breaks down and admits his part in everything, but he claims that the other guy was in control. She makes an appointment to talk with the railroad's lawyer and then gets a call from the real estate broker to say that she can get in and see the house next door.
She and Helen check the house out and discover that someone's been living there. Nancy then finds a hidden passageway in the house, which she literally falls into. She and Helen start wandering down the passage and then hear someone shout at them to stop. The man they find is Willie.
Willie tells them that he signed the contract to sell his house but that Gomber told him he could get more for it. He agreed to scare the women into selling their home in exchange for Gomber getting him more money. Though he never stole any of their jewelry, he does think Gomber did. He also helped take her father, or at least he picked him up from the other two guys and turned him over to Gomber. He's so upset over everything that happened that he's willing to confess it all.
They follow the secret passageway way back to the other house and call the authorities. The railroad's lawyer shows up, calls a notary, and finalizes all the sale documents. The cops show up, follow the passageway, and discover Carson passed out in a hidden room. Gomber apparently gave him a bunch of sleeping pills to keep him knocked out. Everyone celebrates, and Nancy looks forward to solving her next mystery.
*Rosemary and Flora serve the girls steak, french fried potatoes, and peas for dinner but make them eat a fruit cup first. How quaint!
*I wonder when Ned enters the series. Nancy goes on a date with a football player named Dirk and daydreams about him while going to sleep.
*Nancy gets a kick out of how tiny the old clothes are in the waist, which makes me wonder how tiny they are given her very small size.
*Am I the only one wondering what happened to Gomber? I swear there's no resolution or talk of him getting picked up!
*Sad to say that there's no resolution for Jim either. I still don't trust him...


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Friday, June 7, 2013
Nothing Surprising Here
The only thing that may be surprising about today's commentary, if you've been paying attention to the news over the last decade or so, is that we're not going to follow our usual Friday protocol today - in part because there's way too much to talk about.
Between the dangerously stupid racism and hatred of President Obama driving Republicans in the U.S. House to give immigrant DREAMers the proverbial finger, and Nebraska Republican legislators making life hell for legal immigrants who want a simple driver's license, and - of course - the monthly jobs numbers, the list of legitimate news topics most media outlets could cover today is already long.
Most of the media today, though, is going to still be breathing heavily over variations on a government spying program that has been going on in one form or another since 10 days after the Bush Administration took over in 2001.
You've probably heard about the NSA phone records program by now, and you may have even heard about the U.S. federal government's data-mining program that the Washington Post and Guardian newspapers released stories about on Thursday. Maybe you'd even heard that the NSA's program appears to have picked up credit card info too. What far too many of our colleagues have yet to bring attention to though, is that they - and most of the major figures in government and telecommunications - have known about these kinds of surveillance programs for YEARS.
Frankly, you also likely knew - or assumed - this kind of thing was going on too.
The NSA itself has been sucking up your phone records for over a decade. But "big guv'mint" didn't grab all that data by themselves. Every major tech corporation, from Microsoft to Google, and from Apple to Facebook, has also been sharing information with the government - or allowing their info to be skimmed and harvested - since at least 2007.
Unfortunately, this story is already being seen in some corners of the world as suspect, because the writer to whom the leaker spoke has a long history as an anti-American apologist. A real journalist, who cared more about the truth, would have known perception is as important as the facts themselves, and would have directed the leak to an unbiased journalist.
In part, because of that selfishness and unprofessional conduct, the story has already devolved into a blame game, of sorts - one where many people are laying far too much blame on the President's desk.
No, President Obama is not simply President Bush, redux. For one thing, under Bush, many of these surveillance techniques were illegal. After President Obama was elected, it was CONGRESS - not the President - who strengthened and made legal most of the questionable domestic spying policies first enacted under President Bush, at the direction of Vice President Cheney. If you have a problem with President Obama using powers of his office - powers that Congress legally gave to the office, while he was in it - yet you had no problem when President Bush used those same tools illegally, your hypocrisy invalidates any opinion you have on this matter. The same thing can be said if you hold President Obama more guilty than Congress for this mess. There is truly enough guilt for all in this.
In fact, writer and computer security specialist Bruce Schneier also made the valid point Thursday that Americans - and really computer users all over the world - have done this to ourselves. We are, in effect, our own 'Big Brother.' For years, we have all been sharing far more information about ourselves than most of us realize, usually in exchange for some convenience.
We've also been allowing both our government and corporations, in equal measure, to create tools that have some seriously dark side effects.
That's part of the reason Ezra Klein's Thursday column is so key to understanding the reaction to this latest controversy. In short, Klein notes that as the American people know more and have more direct influence in their government, they hate it more and can handle it less. Not everyone is designed to play the game of life at the level of depth Americans are currently insisting on and requiring of our government - and not everyone is willing to accept what the demands of living life at that level truly mean.
If you somehow thought the age of total information was simply whistles, bells, and gadgets that cost no more than the checkout stand price, then maybe you have actually been surprised. For everyone other than the digital Rip Van Winkles, get over it. You knew this was coming because people like us told you it would happen over a decade ago, long before this publication existed, when the Bush/Cheney regime initially opened this Pandora's box. We hated it and were worried about it then.
That doesn't mean any of this NSA spying is ok now. It just means you can't claim innocence, since you are just as responsible as the rest of us. Moreso, really, since members of our staff were working in the media back then, but were ignored on this issue.
Americans who feign surprise now - or who attempt to wrap themselves in the First Amendment, to protect them from any serious critiques - are as dishonest as the GOP's position toward immigrants. And they look just as stupid defending themselves that way.
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I'm proud to be a Liberal Democrat this week. Our action in Government, led by Lynne Featherstone MP in her previous role as Equalities Minister, means that more people will now be able to enjoy comfort, stability, love and the odd argument within marriage.
Marriage has constantly been redefined, and it is this adaptability that has kept it relevant. The whole purpose of marriage was to secure land and power through marital union and the children (well, sons..) that this produced. In fact it was only the social mobility of the nineteenth century that occurred as a result of the emergence of the middle class that really changed the concept of marriage from something strategic based on consolidating and expanding land, possessions and wealth into a romantic partnership. The idea of marriage as a 'partnership,' based not just on procreation but companionship and mutual support is new. Marital rape was only outlawed in 1991 and it is of course still accepted for a woman to take her husband's name.
The description of marriage as an 'institution' is also misleading. It is not a homogenous concept: some couples choose to marry in a religious ceremony, others choose a civil service. Within religions there are also varying attitudes to, for instance, the importance of procreation in a marriage. Catholicism teaches that procreation is its main purpose, whereas Anglicanism is more circumspect and in the 1930s teaching was reversed to allow contraception, although not 'from motives of selfishness, luxury, or mere convenience'. Couples also go into marriage with varying attitudes. Some may see it as a commitment for life, some may not. Some enter into it after a few months, others after a few years.


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Micronational Peace Group (MPG) is a micronational group to end world conflicts.
It is prominent organization in World Union, members don't have to be part of World Union.
Member Nations
- Hasanistan
- Mouzilo Empire
- Royal Niclogia (Synomos of Nyclos)
- Huro-Atlantica(as the United Federation of Huro-Atlantic Republics)
- Mangdublah
- Daniel-Land
- Virgo (Mouzilo)
Peacekeeping Missions
- Stream - To protect from from Finland.


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The Play Crisis
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How many children report having no time for play? How many schools have NO recess? In the last 20 years, how many HOURS of play per week have children lost?
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Conrad Foundation Legacy
Established in 2008, the Conrad Foundation honors the legacy of Apollo 12 astronaut, Charles "Pete" Conrad, and his four decade passion for innovation and entrepreneurship.
During his teen years, Pete struggled academically. At that time, dyslexia was not typically recognized or fully understood. But, a perceptive headmaster saw Pete's spark of genius and gave him the confidence he needed. Pete went on to earn a scholarship to Princeton University and a ride to the Moon as commander of Apollo 12. In November 1969, he became the third man to walk on the Moon.
After many years as an aerospace explorer, Pete's entrepreneurial spirit took flight. He founded four companies devoted to the commercialization of space travel.
Unfortunately, Pete's pursuits were cut short with his passing in 1999. However, his legacy, discussed in more detail in his official NASA biography, continues through the Conrad Foundation.


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I have long been wanting to put together a solid, inclusive trinket list for healers. Wowhead is an awesome site that I use constantly, but there are so many trinkets in game, and so many with unique characteristics, that it is very difficult and time consuming to create a raiding healer specific list - the filters just won't do what I want - hard to quantify, remember?
Until the infamous (to priests and druids anyway) mana regen nerf of 3.1 (weep), I was stubbornly using the Blue Dragon Darkmoon card, regardless of the fact that is was from vanilla WoW, long before even BC was released. Trinkets are what, until last night, was keeping me from getting my Epic achievement. The item level and value often does not have a direct bearing on the functionality of the trinket in question. This is changing more and more, but you can still be using an interesting green trinket that is more useful to you than something that drops from Yogg-Saron.
Trinkets are also very flexible depending on personal playstyle. This is one of those things that I find especially fascinating about trinkets, and why it's very hard to tell someone what the BiS trinket is. It kinda depends on you.
There are a couple of ways we can categorize trinkets however.
The first thing to consider is item level. Item level determines budget value, and therefore a higher budget value will allow a higher stat number. What makes trinkets so difficult for even the developers, however, is how to budget unique procs. For instance, look at the following trinkets:
Vanquished Clutches of Yogg-Saron is this: If the proc were not there, how much more stat value for crit, or intellect, or whatever, would the budget value have allowed? Compare it to something like Wrathstone - same item level, different stat distribution. They are supposedly equal. I'm not going to try and do the math here, because zomg math is hard, but you get my drift.
You can also break most trinkets down into two categories: Those that proc at different intervals that you cannot necessarily predict, and those you manually pop when you want to use them. Proc vs Pop is one of the most important things to consider when picking a trinket.
I always forget to use my healthstones. I didn't spec into Inner Focus for a very good reason - it is wasted on me. I never remember to push the damn button. Therefore, for me, trinkets that I have to pop aren't very useful, since I never remember to pop them. ElitistJerks will tell you the mp5 granted for a trinket with the assumption that you pop it every cooldown, and while I could let myself be bedazzled by the amazing amount of regen for the item, the truth is that it is another example of an ideal situation informed by theory-crafting. It doesn't matter how great the item can be. What matters is that, since I never remember to pop those trinkets, the item will be of little added benefit to me in practice.
For healers, and maybe even for other casters, there is an added dichotomy between throughput trinkets and regen trinkets. It stands to reason that regen trinkets function best as a proc trinket, whereas throughput trinkets are best as popped trinkets. This is partially a reference to my previous post regarding crit: the reliability factor. You cannot rely on a proc, but you can rely on a pop - as long as you remember to use it.
Proc trinkets - regen trinkets. Why? Throughout a fight you will generally continually use mana. You should avoid waiting until you are completely OOM before using any tricks up your sleeve to get some more mana. Therefore, regen trinkets work best when they proc because you don't have to think about it. During a fight they will proc at various intervals, and maintain your mana regen and mana pool.
Pop trinkets - throughput. Why? In the same way that fundamentally crit is unreliable for a healer, procced throughput is the same argument. If you cannot rely on that added spellpower for the extra heals you need when you need them, then it's not very useful. However, if you are at a stage in a fight where the tank is suddenly taking a lot more damage, that is a good time to use a pop trinket for throughput. The added boost to your heals is very useful, as long as you can determine when it happens.
Unfortunately, you cannot switch trinkets during a fight. Even so, it is still a good idea to have a nice selection of trinkets, so I do not advise selling or DEing any of your old trinkets, unless you get one that is of the same style and a notable upgrade, bearing in mind the versatility of trinkets. You should keep a couple of regen trinkets, and a couple of throughput trinkets on you. Depending on the fight, you can choose what trinkets to equip. Is it an endurance battle like Patchy? Equip both of your regen. Is it a burst damage fight? Equip both of your throughput trinkets. If it's somewhere in the middle, equip one of each.
One other component of trinkets is that some are great for leveling, and not particularly useful for raids. Even though I focus more on raiding, I am not ignoring the leveling component entirely. If you find a trinket that says "restores such and such when you kill a target that gives experience or honor", these are generally pretty great leveling trinkets (not to mention pvp). However, they are relatively useless compared to other trinkets for raiding, because they will give you no added benefit on a boss fight, and you should not have to worry too much about health and/or mana during trash (although this theory is sorely tested during some of the Ulduar trash, yikes!). Similar arguments apply for pvp trinkets - resilience ain't gonna do much for you in a raiding environment.
I've done a lot of internet research regarding healing trinkets, and it's not difficult to find lists of the so-called BiS trinkets. But really, what does that mean? If it really comes down to playstyle, you cannot depend on someone else telling you which trinket you should use. Thus this long rambling post regarding trinket philosophy. I am currently compiling a list and working on an OMG SPREADSHEET LOL to compare various viable trinkets for healers. Once that is complete, I will find a good way to post it properly, but I wanted to make sure I talked a bit about my reasons behind trinket preference before I posted a trinket list.
Also, spreadsheets make me happy. Mmmmm.
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Fuubaar Says:
Funny Story:
Before I started raiding 25-man Naxx, I had an entire bag full of Trinkets that did all sorts of things. It was SO hard for me to part with them because they all had their uses. Finally, when I started working on the Holiday Achievements, my bank filled up with such goodies, I slowly let go of my TBC trinkets and finally nailed it down to around 4 separate trinkets that are both proc & pop :)
Now if I only could buy another bank for Holiday stuff, I would be a happy woman :D
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Ha ha ha spreadsheets.
Oh and for my pop trinkets, I almost always bind them to a spell the goes along with it. Have an "oh shit" button, bind your "oh shit" trinket it to it via macro. It'll work even if the damn things are on cooldown.
Not always a solution, I know, but can help the forgetful. :-)
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"trinkets that I have to pop aren't very useful, since I never remember to pop them"
Yep, simply macro them to a spell and you don't have to worry about them. You won't be using them to their maximum efficiency, but better than not using them.
@ both of you
SRSLY the internets r hard. I fail at macros.
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LOL. I'll write it for you if you know what spell you'd like to macro it to.
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Actually, at the moment, I have no trinkets that I could pop for the exact reasons I listed, heh.
I suppose if i got one I could always bind it to inner fire. Any suggestions on better spells?
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I actually go the other way for proc/pop trinkets. If it ups my throughput, I'd be happy to have its effect any time. If it's for mana regen, I want to be able to pop it like a potion.
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For example I proc darkmoon card illussion whenever I use my shadowfiend. The macro casts both. Tells the shadowfiend to use his damage ability, and then also cancels the aura from the trinket giving me the 1500 mana. Both have 5 minute cooldowns so it works out well.
As for inner focus, I attach that bad boy to divine hymn. I also attach it to modify prayer of healing so that when I use a modifier (my shift key in this case) it not only casts prayer of healing but also inner focus.
The point about not being able to use on-use trinkets optimally as a healer is true though. But with some smart planning you can at least get good value out of it.


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The scandals continue yet the money never stops. Yes college football season is about to begin yet we hear more about all the transgressions by universities than the actual product on the field. Now granted football should not be the main priority of any university. Education should be number one. The NCAA continues to preach this with all the purity and virtue it can muster.
However underneath that is a slimy underbelly of greed, corruption and immoral acts of impropriety that would make a CEO of an oil company jealous of envy. Let's face facts here the NCAA is all about money! They want so much money and bling it would make Jay-Z and Kanye West shake their heads. To the NCAA college football is treated like professional football without players getting paid. (allegedly) With Texas getting its own TV network they will generate more money than the countries of Honduras, Burkina Faso, and Guyana combined!
So fine. If you want to be pro football I'll make it professional. I won't go on about to clean up the mess that many schools seem to be in. I won't go on about what's happening in Miami, North Carolina, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, Michigan, Auburn, USC, etc. I don't have true answers for that. I'm here to say if you want to make college football more like the pros, then the answer starts with this.
The BCS must be gone! Forever! Permanently! No excuses. No ifs ands or buts. It has to become extinct like the dinosaur, the dodo bird, and the mullet. (Sorry Arkansas but I'm calling you out on that one)
Bring in a playoff system and bring one in now! Eight team playoff. How do you ask? Here's my plan.
4 conferences divided by geography of course. Yes some traditional rivals will be gone but new ones will start and generate more excitement in the sport. The top 2 teams in each conference qualify for the playoffs. The winners in each conference will host a first round game and will be ranked accordingly. The second place teams will be ranked by the polls and go on to face a first place team according to how they rank in the polls. The semi finals will follow suit with the National Championship game played at a neutral site aka The Rose Bowl, The Superdome, etc.
Now the old excuses will come out considering how much money the NCAA makes off bowl games. Well under my plan, the bowl games stay how they are, and the losers of the quarterfinals and semi finals will play in the "BCS" bowl games as a consolation. They'll still make money but way more than under the previous system. Plus the playoffs could be held in December which would replace the 6 week break between games for some of these teams.
Now the next question is: Who's in which conference? Way ahead of you. This was a draft of super conferences I made last year at this time. I still stand by it.
EAST: Miami, Florida State, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Clemson, Louisville, West Virginia, Syracuse, Duke.
North: Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio State, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan State, Purdue, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, and yes Notre Dame!
South: Florida, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, Auburn, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas Tech.
West: USC, UCLA, Oregon, Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, Boise State, Oregon State, Oklahoma State, Washington State, California, Stanford.
52 teams, 13 in each conference. Yes there would be one out of conference game but it can't be against a McNeese State or Prairie View A&M. No more cream puff schedules. Fans see games they want to see. (I don't know about you but Texas vs LSU or Oklahoma vs. Alabama or Notre Dame vs. Nebraska every years sounds pretty enticing to me)
So that's my solution. Perfect? Of course not. No solution is ever perfect and no it won't solve the greed and corruption of the NCAA. Nothing ever will sadly. But at least if football is what you want and let's face it, college football is hugely popular right now, then this is the way to go.


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U.K. Lawmaker 'Fired Over Claims IDF Harvested Organs in Haiti'
Baroness Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat, has been fired before for controversial comments on Israel.
Baroness Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat lawmaker in Britain, has been fired from her position as party health spokesperson for urging a probe into claims that Israel Defense Forces soldiers harvested organs in Haiti following last month's earthquake, the Guardian reported on Saturday.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg sacked Tonge after parliamentarians were said to have complained about her remarks, according to the Guardian.
The report added that Tonge made her accusations about the IDF mission in Haiti in the online Palestine Telegraph - of which she is a patron.
She then told the Jewish Chronicle: "To prevent allegations such as these - which have already been posted on YouTube - going any further, the IDF and the Israeli Medical Association should establish an independent inquiry immediately to clear the names of the team in Haiti."
Clegg called her remarks "wrong, distasteful and provocative," adding, "I recognize the deep and understandable distress they have caused to the Jewish community."
"Following discussions with the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, Lord McNally, I have decided that Jenny Tonge will stand down as Liberal Democrat health spokesperson in the Lords following her unacceptable comments suggesting an inquiry into highly offensive allegations against the IDF humanitarian operation in Haiti," Clegg was quoted as saying.
"While I do not believe that Jenny Tonge is anti-Semitic or racist, I regard her comments as wholly unacceptable. Jenny Tonge apologizes unreservedly for the offence she has caused."
This incident marks the second time Tonge has been fired from a Liberal Democrat position for making controversial comments about Israel.
In 2004, she was fired as a party spokeswoman on children's issues after suggesting she could consider becoming a suicide bomber, had she been Palestinian.
"If I had been a mother and a grandmother in Palestine living for decades in that situation, I don't know, I may well have become one myself," she had been quoted as telling a pro-Palestinian meeting in Westminster.
Last year, Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom sparked outrage in Israel with allegations that IDF soldiers harvested organs of dead Palestinians and trafficked in them.
During a later visit to Israel, Bolstrom admitted he had no proof for his story beyond the allegations of the families of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army.
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And today, in this big city, someone spoke to me. Just someone. It was about a mother dog and her pups, slipping on a cow gate. I tried to help ( that's what I thought). But the mumdog came growling at me. I told her to relax, I was only trying to help. But I backed off anyway. And then a stranger came along and asked me to walk this way, and he spoke about the mumdog and her babies. So that was it, nothing special. But special too, since it was the first time someone spoke to me in 5 days in the city.
Wednesday, May 23
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That is a very fine photograph, ma'am... stay well.
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Rainy day in Buenos Aires ... sleep late.
Take an inordinately long time to get dressed.
Drink copious amounts of coffee.
Take Pup to the vet ... again.
All going well, go back to the vet in 2 days.
More sugar treatment, it is working !!
Back at home ... drink large cups of hot tea.
Take Pup to the park.
Go to the market for dinner makings.
Take Pup to the park.
Admire the work done by someone that was hired by the British Embassy who had to re-grade and improve the parkland that is behind the British Embassy Residence and then restore the public park that they used for soil storage.
Mountains of soil. Now new bright green grass is growing... looks like green hair springing out of the soil.
Birds are everywhere, seeds, worms, fixings for their winter nests .. very busy in the park these days.
Not to mention the ever squabbling parrots ... if they were people, they would be Trumps.
They have these huge elaborate and fancy nests. And make a lot of nonsensical noise.
The sun is trying its best to peek out of the clouds.
We have had ash from the Volcano in Chile, we have not had airplanes flying in or out for days and the sun has been behind a grayness that I was never sure if it was clouds, smoke or ash.
It is going away now.
I hear airplanes coming in again .. early early in the morning, planes full of happy tourists arriving.
Our friends in Bariloche seem to be still buried in ash. So very sad.
It is so very very beautiful there.
Pup has a new bandage. It is red. . with white tape.
Just in case it didn't stand out enough.. for every single person we pass to stop and to admire and to tell him how beautiful he is and that he is such a good boy.
I seem to remember it was not that long ago when now and then, someone would admire me and tell me I was beautiful ... now I am upstaged by a hairy brown pup with a bandage on his leg.
God bless him, I hope he continues to upstage me for many years to come.
Next Wednesday is his 12th birthday ... you know there will be a party going on here!
Now .. the sun is actually shining .. I think it is a good time to see if someone wants to take another walk.
Surely there is someone who has not gotten to admire that new red bandage.


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Thursday, December 22, 2011
How to become incredibly rich in the coming total economic collapse
You can't. And I don't want to read any more articles promising something like this.
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- Mark Wadsworth said...
Excellent post title, you had me fooled for a second :-(
- 22 December 2011 at 16:02
- Paddington said...
There's money in good kidneys.
- 22 December 2011 at 21:31
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Wonderful blog! I found it while searching on Yahoo News. Do you have any tips on how to get listed in Yahoo News? I've been trying for a while but I never seem to get there! Many thanks.sbo
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gratitude interlude
I'm grateful for the little snail yesterday who endured me moving him from the sidewalk to a leaf, and then eventually emerged from his shell so that I could take his photograph.
(And I'm trying not to think about the fact that I got eaten alive by a swarm of what will undoubtedly turn out to be West Nile mosquitoes, just so I could get the shot. Because I'm an intrepid photographer, I am!)
(Not my smartest move.)
Planning an easy day today -- I need a bit of down time. But before I do that, some recent posts on Bliss Your Heart:
First, ever so slowly, autumn is finally starting to make an appearance: temperature are starting to fall, if only to the 80s. But I'll take it: fall is one of my favourite things about Houston.
Also, I shared my special comfort drink I make for Alex when she's having a tough day. Do you have one of these?
With that, have a great weekend, friends.
Song: Afro (freestyle skit) by Erykah Badu. This song makes me giggle every time.


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Dr. Leslie Korn of the Center for Traditional Medicine (an agency of the Center for World Indigenous Studies) began a three-year study of Community Trauma in a western Mexico comunidad in 1996. This ground-breaking study concluded that there are serious chronic health conditions (diabetes, heart disease, obesity, mental health problems, alcoholism, drug addictions and drug abuse, etc.) that arise from persistent and sustained violence resulting from pressures of development in Fourth World nations. Community members under persistent development-trauma exhibit greater tendencies toward family violence, sexual violence and group violence themselves. Dr. Korn described a remedy to community trauma through the restoration of cultural norms while significantly slowing and even stopping development to permit cultural institutions to regain the capacity to slowly absorb or reject introduced change. When a community regains its ability to choose its social, economic, political and cultural present and future, the levels of disease and the internalized violence subsides. Violence, in other words, breeds disease and violence.
Professor Daya Somasunderam, a Sri Lankan psychiatrist conducted on a study on the mental health of Tamils (Collective trauma in northern Sri Lanka: a qualitative psychosocial-ecological Study) in Jaffna city inside Tamil Eelam claimed territory releasing his conclusions today. Somasunderam's conclusions from studying the affects of a persistent and sustained war on Tamil communities is virtually the same as Dr. Korn's findings in Mexico.
Repeated threats to life and personal security acted out and reenacted by Sri Lankan military occupying Tamil territories over a period of more than 20 years create collective trauma or as Dr. Korn's terms it: community trauma.
The pattern of militant action, cease fire and renewed violence instills in individuals and the community as a whole heightened vigilance that is never at rest. The Korn Community Trauma Study in Mexico compared physiological quantitative data with psyco-social qualitative documentation to explain the physical exhaustion experienced by traumatized community members. Normal responses to stressful circumstances cause an increase in cortisol levels (the hormone that regulates natural fight-or-flight responses) and cause other hormones to excrete. These hormones natural restore when the cause of the stress are removed. Persistent vigilance with the expectation of additional threats causes these hormones to become exhausted–leaving the victim without natural capabilities to react to new stresses. Trauma results in the form of hyper vigilance, psychological and a physiological damage and hyper-reactivity. When a whole community no-longer has the capacity to rest and restore normal behaviors and normal life it becomes traumatized, suffers a strong sense of powerlessness and consequently becomes a threat to its own safety and becomes a threat to others.
Tamil Eelam
The Tamil Eelam seeks to exercise the power of self-determination and to become self-governing. Sri Lanka sees this aspiration as a threat to the continuity of the Sri Lankan state. The Tamil possess a bedrock culture that extends into the mist of history by 5000 years and more. Tamil culture defines the harmonious relations between community members, families and relations with outsiders. The spiritual life, economy, social life and political life of Tamil communities have been profoundly important to the continuity of this ancient civilization. Violent disruptions of this culture by military intervention from Sri Lanka for what ever reason contributes to the traumatization of the Tamil population as well as the Sri Lankan populations.
Community Trauma is pervasive in Tamil Eelam, in the development pressurized indigenous communities of western Mexico, in Palestine, the war-torn tribal communities of Iraq, and in the native communities of Canada and the United States living under persistent threats of relocation, assimilation and development. These communities are injured both physically and psychologically. No amount of conventional medicine will heal the deep wounds introduced by generations of violence in these communities. Only the restoration of cultural norms and traditional healing can do.
The Sri Lankan violence on the Tamil must come to an end. Both sides must know that twenty-years and more have demonstrated that violence cannot resolve the differences. Unless culture is permitted to heal the deep wounds neither the nation of Tamil Eelam nor the Sri Lankan state will achieve healthy and prosperous societies. Tamil Eelam must be permitted to exercise self-determination. The Sri Lankan state must know that could mean that Tamil will want to be a separate people. It is equally possible that Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam could form a kind of condominial state where Tamil Eelam will freely govern itself. Tamil community trauma must be healed or it will return in the future to strike out against others in terrifying forms.
(c) 2007 Center for World Indigenous Studies
(Dr. Rÿser is the author of Fourth World Geopolitics and the forth-coming book Nationcraft, and actively participated in the twelve-year effort to draft the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.)
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( from Wordsworth's 'poems on the naming of places')
angling beside the margin of the lake,
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance
a bed of water in the woods did wake.
The spot was made by nature for herself,
this glade of water and this one green field,
And if a man should plant his cottage near
In that perennial shade of unencumbered floor
In that perennial shade of unencumbered floor
a single beech tree grew and on the fork
a thrush's nest conspicuously built,
Sentry on a tranquil spot, a solitary stork.
From the remotest outskirts of the grove
a few sheep, stragglers from some mountain flock
sought protection from the nipping blast
in playgrounds of their youth, on footloose rock.
Full many an hour here did I lose,
Well worn the track, unwearied and alone,
Muttering the verses which I muttered first
on blooming heath, my couch and mine alone.


text: We all had fun and of course they couldn't wait to wear the dresses. We have had them hanging in their closet for a month now, waiting for the day. What to do with the dresses after the show? Well I think they'll become part of their dress ups. They are so well made, but not reused from year to year. The kids have new dance routines and music each year, and so too the costumes.


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Government's Plan to Tear Down Mosque Provokes Muslims to Fight
08 August 2009. Muslims living near a mosque in Baclaran, Pasay City said they will turn their community into a war zone if the government pushes through with its plan to demolish the mosque to give way for commercial establishments, including casinos.
"Kapag may nasaktan na bata, matanda, at babae, lalaban kami ng patayan," (If there are children, elderly and women hurt in the demolition, we will fight them to the death) said Abdelmanan Tanandato, leader of Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Nademolis sa Roxas Boulevard.
Tanandato was informed that the muslim community and mosque will be demolished on the first week of August. The plan was later moved to Monday (August 10) "perhaps due to the typhoon and the death of the former President Cory Aquino".
He said the community is prepared to face the demolition team and they will form a human barricade around the mosque to protect it.
The Task Force Anti-Eviction composed of various people's organizations and NGOs such as Urban Poor Associates (UPA), Community Organizers Multiversity (COM), and Community Organization of the Philippine Enterprise Foundation (COPE) have asked the government to defer the demolition. "The government should reflect on its plan to pursue the demolition of the mosque now that Ramadan is approaching," the group said.
Muslims believe that a person is twice saved if he or she dies during Ramadan defending Islam.
"The Muslim people believe it is God's will that they defend the mosque. The government should allow the Mosque to stay, let it remain amid the infrastructure projects that will be built," said Ted Añana, deputy coordinator of UPA.
Congressman Leandro Montemayor yesterday sent a letter to Ms. Andrea Domingo, General Manager of Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) to inquire about their position regarding the occupancy status of muslims over this reclaimed property. The objective is to arrive at a peaceful and amicable solution to the problem.
The letter requests PRA to defer the eviction of the Muslim community especially in the light of pending cases at the Pasay City Regional Trial Court and the City Ordinance No. 4411 / moratorium on demolitions.
An international human rights organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), also shared their concern about the imminent forced eviction of the Baclaran mosque community. They visited the community in 2007 and have followed the case closely since then.
"COHRE has already raised this case with the government of the Philippines and at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, and will again be writing to the relevant Philippine authorities in order to urge them to respect their obligations under international human rights law," said Dan Nicholson, Asia Pacific programme coordinator of COHRE. -30-


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Reminder: Your Paycheck Just Got Smaller
Just a friendly reminder that if you got your first paycheck of 2013 today, it's (probably) smaller after the payroll tax holiday expired at the beginning of this year.
The payroll tax holiday wasn't included in fiscal cliff negotiations, which, as Slate's Matthew Yglesias argued back in November, is a pretty big oversight.
The Washington Post explains that those making the average weekly income of $818.69 will see each bi-weekly paycheck cut by $32.75 now that the tax holiday has expired. The payroll tax holiday cut 2 percentage points from every American's Social Security payroll tax at the end of 2010 until the end of 2012.
So, understandably, there might be some anger out there following what to most workers will essentially feel like a pay cut. Want to blame someone? As Dave Weigel explained earlier this week, despite a recent meme levying ire at Obama, you can pretty much just blame everyone involved in the negotiations.


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Gorka active and 5th overall in Valenciana
Gorka today showed what he's made of in the Volta a Valenciana's first stage. Gorka escaped with two other riders only 35 kilometres in on today's stage, and was only reeled back in with some 8 clicks to go. Underway he won one hill-climb and came second on another, so he's a good second in that competition. He's also second in the Intermediate Sprints classifications. Perhaps most impressive though was that he, after being in the front all day, sprinted to a great 10th on the stage out of a 22-man strong leadgroup who crossed the line together. In that group was also, as predicted, Haimar, who rolled in to 18th place on the stage. A good performance from him as well; I can't wait to see what he comes up with on the hillier stages. Rubén, in his first race of the season, was 40th, 1:33 down, the same as Alán and Juanjo. Andoni and Beñat both came in with the unusually big grupetto 12:25 in arrears. The bonus seconds collected underway means Gorka is a brilliant 5th overall, while Haimar is 20th overall. Though, the fight for overall honours seems already limited to 24 riders, as there's a big gap from number 24th, Fedrigo, to 25th, Zabel. Most of the best climbers and stage-race specialists are among those 24, so, by the look of it, we're in for quite a race.


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The media market is huge, thus the need for a media review market.
This is our little contribution to that field.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Mother Falcon - Little Documentary
In looking, I did post something about this band back in February and their record Alhambra from 2011. This is a nice little behind the scenes, getting to know them kind of thing. Although I can't help but give a bit of my feeling about it.
1) This series is called "American Hipster Presents"..so Mother Falcon are for American Hipsters? their music is hipster? eww-kay...
2) they talked about their background with classical music. Igor Stravinsky founded punk rock? I personally don't hear much if anything in more or less all Punk Rock from Stravinsky. Stravinsky was a big influence on a band like YES and Rick Wakeman, which makes a HELLUVA A LOT MORE SENSE than pretty much all Punk Rock.
But overall, it's an interesting piece. It does add to my thoughts of starting another blog or just an account on youtube or something named "anti-hipster" or something like that. But that may be a ways down the road.
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It's National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day. Today is the day to fill your recycling bin to overflowing.
You can use Jott to help you clean up that desk.
Also high on my list is http://www.vitalist.com./ It handles to do recurrent tracking, ticklers, in a basic way. Contextual organization is the focus of the site.
Vitalis will sms or email you reminders. It's mobile web accessible. Oh, and it's free.


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It's just wrong...
On the bright side, it's worse 5 minutes to the north, east, south and west of Rexburg. There's still hope for this pocket that is Rexburg. We're still hanging on............... Let's at least make it to October before it sticks. And if we could just wait till November that would be awesome, December, even better. January? I would be ecstatic!
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My mom called me yesterday while they were doing errands, she was headed to Trader Joe's for her food shopping, "Hopefully they have everything we need". I told her to read me her list and I confirmed they had everything she needed except the paper goods. That wasn't enough to detour her 🙂
I'm noticing people want me to put a label on my new habit. I can't. I don't even have a catchy phrase for what I am doing, I call it "my new thing" or "this journey". I'm not going organic or becoming a vegetarian (or a vegan). I am GMO-free though, that one thing for certain! I have stopped craving meat and rarely ever eat it (although I still peruse the meat counter of my local Whole Foods but that's only because all the butchers are soooo cute! lol) I am much more comfortable buying organics because it takes the GMO guess-work out of it. Shopping was hard enough before the change! So until I figure this out, I will refrain from using labels – hell, I've never been one to fall within a certain group so I'm sure this won't be any different!
I watched The Future of Food last night and all I could say was "wow" when it ended. I would suggest Food, Inc. to be the first of the 'series', if you will, as it touches on all the major issues and opens your mind for the rest to follow. The Future of Food went into the agriculture issues and was very interesting and inspiring. Each time I learn more or re-learn something I feel more empowered and want to make changes! Last night I looked up jobs in the FDA, my specialty has always been infiltration LOL Seriously though, I want to do something. I wish I learned about this in high school, I would have went to college and became a scientist; I needed something to believe in and this would have changed my life – sooner.
This morning I bought some coconut milk for my cereal… I am eating it right now and NOT enjoying it!! I thought the vanilla would put some flavor in my organic frosted (barely) mini wheats – its like a sweet vanilla-coconut candy. I threw the end of it out 😦 Looking forward to lunch, always do until I get to it the fridge and see what I have LOL Yesterday morning I realized I had nothing for lunch so I threw some tortolinis (spinach, mottz and walnut filled) with edemame and olive oil and some spices (this has been my go-to meal, I have eaten it cold at least once/day since I started this). Yesterday I heated it up and it was really yummy, I also used Spike seasoning for the first time and enjoyed it. I made the same today but with raviolis (can't remember what they're filled with, artichoke and something…) For now I will eat a Stop and Shop organic brand (Nature's Promise) snack bar…it was alright, not crazy about the taste of the honey they use but its organic and satisfied my sweet tooth, for now 🙂


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We will go down to Houston on Wednesday, and we have my pre-op appointments first thing Thursday morning. We should find out more details of what will actually happen during surgery in that visit and will have my surgery on Friday, hopefully in the morning. According to how I am doing and what all they do in surgery, will determine how long I will stay in Houston.
Many people have asked what this surgery will be like and I'm not exactly sure how to answer that. One thing I do know is that it is much different than a breast augmentation. I know they are replacing my expanders with implants and doing a lot of work on my scars and trying to make my skin appear as healthy as possible. I still have a good bit of skin that is radiated and red, so I think they will be taking out some of that. I am not sure if they will want to do skin grafts, fat grafts, etc. to make me look more normal or what. A lot of what they do will be determined in surgery. For instance, if they take out the expanders and put in the implants and something does not settle right, they may have to reduce the size of the implants, or take out more skin, or put in more skin. Crazy, right?! It is a little unnerving going into a surgery not knowing what all will be done. I do know that they will take amazing care of me and that ultimately they are doing what makes me look as normal as they possibly can. I may or may not have drains, just according to what all they have to do. So, this surgery is much more than a breast augmentation, but much less than the other surgeries I have had, and that is good news:) Crazy to be having implants put in and I still have yet to see an implant! Not exactly how I would have pictured getting breast implants...Dr. Villa always reminds me that the goal is to look as normal in clothing as possible. So I am remembering that, but I also know God is big enough to have me look great underneath as well. Praying and believing I will look wonderful.
Of course, I want to look great, but most of all, I want to feel better. I still have very limited motion of my left arm and my radiation doctor said that could be in part to the tissue expander being sewed into my muscle. So, I am praying that the tightness is my pec muscle is relieved and my motion is better. The tissue expanders are sewed into my muscle, whereas the implants will be free floating. I am also praying that I feel relief in being able to comfortably lay on my stomach and not feel so much like I have an iron bra on all the time. It is so hard to explain what it feels like. I am so much better than what I was, but to feel like I have baseballs shoved under my chest muscle is not the best feeling:) I am thankful for a surgery that I am looking forward to. I looked forward to the others because I knew they were all steps toward my healing, but to have one that I am really looking forward to because I may feel better afterwards is refreshing. I, of course, am still nervous about the surgery but God has given me peace and I am ready.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Life has seemed eerily normal over the past few weeks. School and work are going well and I am making some strides toward my dissertation writing. My pain has seemed to have lessened alot in my abdomen and my stomach seems to be calming down some. Praise the Lord. His goodness is overwhelming. I know He delights in seeing me more peaceful.
We had such an exciting week last week, as my sweet niece, Sullivan Reese was born. My sis-in-law, Rachel, delivered amazingly and Lee and Rachel are wonderful parents. How blessed little Sulli is to have the God-fearing parents that she does. She was 7 lbs. 3oz and born on Thursday, January 24th at 11:16 a.m. We have had a wonderful time loving on her. Lee and Rachel live just a few houses down from us, so let's just say we will be seeing a lot of Sullivan. Can't wait to make sweet memories with her. I just a few short weeks, my sister will have her baby boy. So thankful to witness these miracles. It's amazing to see 2 people I love so much give birth to another...life and giving life is truly a miracle. The way God knit us together is so completely amazing...
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." Psalm 139:13-14
January 24th was also a special day for Josh and I, as it was our 10 year dating anniversary. I am so blessed to have "grown up" with my husband. I was 15 when we started dating, and oh my goodness, how much I have changed in the last 10 years! How blessed I have to have the opportunity to grow up with and grow old with my husband. I know I am one of the few and far between. Thank you Lord for January 24, 2003.
I had another opportunity to speak and share God's story this past Friday at Cedar Crest Baptist Church. One of my great friends from school, Lauren, leads a girls' group at her church. Her husband, Jarrett, is the youth pastor there and does such a wonderful job leading the students to Christ. So, I spoke to this girls' group on Friday night. This was the first time I shared my entire testimony. Other times I just shared about how God helped me through my journey, or breast cancer awareness, or about my treatment, but this time, I was able to share more and I thought it went well. I am still trying to get comfortable with speaking in public, but I just pray that the Lord speaks, and not me. I know if He is able to do this, then his purposes will be accomplished. They were such a great group of girls. We got to talk a little after I spoke and I answered any questions they had. Excited about other opportunities I have coming up to share God's miraculous story!
Lately I have been meditating on Romans 12:12, where it talks about being joyful in hope. This is a scripture I have read probably hundreds of times and I don't know if I've ever meditated on it. The "joyful in hope"part of the verse has really struck me. I want to be joyful in hope. I may not be able to see the end of my story, but I know what I hope for. I know I hope for an eternity with Christ, for long life, for children to raise to serve the Lord, for seeing a Godly generation follow me and to all be together in heaven... I can be joyful in these hopes, even though they are yet to be realized. That is what I am focusing on...being joyful in HOPE! God is my only hope. Even when I don't feel joyful, I can be joyful in hope. It is a commandment and I know I want to obey, so here is to living with intentional joy in hope!
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Romans 12:12
I love you all. Josh will update you all as to surgery details. Please be praying for everything to go perfectly! Enjoy pictures below of my sweet niece and my husband and I celebrating 10 years.
10 years with my love
Loving on my beautiful niece, Sullivan


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Ministry of Space tells that tale. And the tale is about the blood of the test pilots, the impact it had on current day society, the way it was funded and what destiny is reserved for the man who made it all possible when his big secret comes out.
This book also brings a couple of cool extras, like a sketchbook by Chris Weston and the always colorful commentary by Warren Ellis.
How is it?
At the end of WWII England manages to "convince" some of the most prominent German rocket scientists to join them. In the process acquiring the plans to the V2 rockets. In order to keep this quit some American troops, that had the misfortune to be in the right place at the wrong time, had to be obliterated.
Air Commodore John Dashwood, the mind behind the idea, convinces England Prime Minister Winston Churchill to start the Ministry of Space. The Ministry will be responsible for the space exploration and it will be funded by a black budget.
From that point on the book jumps forward and backwards in time between the story present time (2001) and several points in the past, detailing the key points in the Ministry history. Points like the exploration of the Moon, the colonization of Mars or the death of some of the most important persons of the Ministry.
Ministry of Space is not a story about success. Its a story about achieving your goals and paying the price. As the story progresses, more and more dirt about the Ministry's actions and what Sir John did along the way to get his black budget Warren Ellis created a story that draws you in and keeps punching you in the stomach when you're not expecting. However the biggest punch comes at the very end and is a true "When you see it" moment.
Art wise this is a gorgeous book. Chris Weston and Laura Martin created a world that is simply beautiful to look at. One of the drivers of the story is that doing it like Sir John wants to do it will make space exploration and related technological evolution will come much earlier than what we witness in real life. The way they gave all the ships a retro fell made the story all the more believable.
|And so it begins
|Sorry Buzz, not this time
This is one of my favorite books by Warren Ellis. Its and intelligent and subtle story that saves a few sucker punches for the very end. To me this is a must have. However, if you don't enjoy Warren Ellis's work, you probably want to skip it.
The book itself is a cool package with nice extras and an awesome story. Yes its not very long. But what it lacks in length it makes up in enjoyment you'll take from it.
Publisher: Image Comics
Year: 2006
Pages: 96
Authors: Warren Ellis, Chris Weston, Laura Martin
Originally Published at Reading Graphic Novels http://readinggraphicnovels.blogspot.com/2012/12/review-ministry-of-space.html


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Angus Hall – Devilday (Ace, 1969: Sphere, 1969: Severn House, 1986)
Angus Hall – Madhouse (Sphere, 1970)"Could you tell us what your mission in England is?"
"Why, I've come to play the devil!"
Paul Havard Toombs, a Hollywood star whose career was ended in the US after he was implicated in an unsolved murder, arrives in England to revive his hit show, The Adventures Of Dr. Dis. Reporter Barry Lambert is hired to keep an eye on him in the capacity of personal assistant, but soon finds himself out of his depth. Toombs' interests – which include reincarnation, drug abuse and participating in Black Magic Rituals and orgies – lead to murder, but is he really responsible.
The novel is very different to the movie based upon it, and it's as much a whodunnit? as a horror although there are several Black Magic and supernatural props. The murders are ultra-gruesome, with the police drawing comparisons between the state of one victim and that of Jack the Ripper's barbaric attack on Mary Kelly.
Pop culture references include namechecks for The Saint, Danger Man, Perry Mason, Bardot, hairy student demonstrators, and Green Shield stamps, and Lambert's fiance, Julia is, of course a "dolly girl."


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Blessed Marianus Scotus, OSB Abbot (AC)
(also known as Muirdach MacRobartaigh or Muiredach MacGroarty)
Born in Donegal, Ireland; died 1088. The noble MacRobartaigh family is related to the O'Donnels, who were the hereditary keepers of the Cathach (Battle Book of Colmcille). In 1067, Muirdach set out with some companions on a pilgrimage to Rome. En route he was induced to become a Benedictine at Michelsberg Abbey (near Bamberg), Germany. The pilgrims stopped to rest at a hostel maintained by the local convent. Its abbess, Emma, learned that Muirdach was extraordinarily gifted at producing manuscripts. Using the seemingly irresistible powers of persuasion that all nuns seem to have, he took up her suggestion and migrated to Upper Minster at Regensburg to create the literary treasures of Saint Peter's Church in Regensburg. The most famous of these are the Pauline Epistles that now reside in the Imperial Library at Vienna, Austria. The quality and quantity of his artful productions, which appear inspired by the Holy Spirit gained for him a reputation for sanctity.
In 1078, he founded and became the abbot of the abbey of Saint Peter in Regensburg. Having successfully taken charge of the church and abbey attached to it for the task of copying manuscripts, other Irish monks were attracted to the mission. The abbey expanded to the point that, within 10 years, plans were made for another such monastery. In this way, Muirdach originated the congregation of 12 "Scottish," that is, Irish monasteries in southern Germany. (The reason for the term "Scottish" is that it was used from the time of the Romans for the Irish. Even 200 years after the establishment of the Scottish monarchy, the term was commonly used for things Irish. Although Scottish monks pressured Pope Leo XIII, who did permit them in 1515 to take possession of Saint James in Regensburg and the abbeys at Constanz and Erfurt. In Germany, the 12 are still known as the Schottenklöster. )
Saint James Abbey, like the ones to follow, was established with funds sent from Ireland. They retained the character and enjoyed privileges normally granted to Irish monasteries. In the 12th century, the emperor granted to the abbot of Saint James, considered the motherhouse, the privilege of using the half-eagle on his coat of arms, the right to the title of prince, and the status of independent statehood for the entire congregation of monasteries, which included the two at Regensburg, two in Vienna, and foundations at Würzburg, Nuremberg, Constanz, Memmingen, Erfurt, Kelheim, Oels, and Schottenburg (Silesia) (Benedictines, Montague).


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Saturday, 15 April 2017
A Spring in our step
A gorgeous (and huge) white Aquilegia in the gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers
Another day in the garden, and despite a slow cold start, it was a lovely sunny one - I occupied myself washing pots and planters, potting-on seedlings, and generally enjoying the plants almost growing before our eyes... and the wildlife! We have a host of different types of bees, hoverflies and butterflies pay us a visit, a regular pair of blackbirds, robins, tits and even a wren. And they are all helpful in their own way. Our rambling rose "Veilchenblau" was covered in a thick coat of aphids a few weeks ago, and then they began to disappear. Here is the reason why...
Hoverfly larvae are not the prettiest of beasts, I can't deny - and easily mistaken for a nibbling caterpillar. However, being basically a stomach with stubby little legs, this unlovable creature's capacity for eating greenfly is remarkable! Together with a couple of ladybirds, the grubs polished off every last one of those sap-suckers - and the rose is saying thank you, with what promises to be a wonderful show of blooms next month.
I love our garden. So - while this good mood is still upon us - Let's Dance!
Sixties TV show clips include:
The Avengers (Diana Rigg, Patrick Macnee)
The Andy Griffith Show (Don Knotts)
The Addams Family (Carolyn Jones, John Astin)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore)
Gomer Pyle USMC (Jim Nabors)
The Patty Duke Show (Patty Duke)
The Doris Day Show (Doris Day)
Gidget (Sally Field)
Batman (Adam West, Victor Buono, Ziva Rodann)
Bewitched (Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Joy Harmon)
Gilligan's Island (Tina Louise, Bob Denver)
I Dream of Jeannie (Barbara Eden)
Mr. Ed (Alan Young)
The Beverly Hillbillies (Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer, Bea Benaderet, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs)
That Girl (Marlo Thomas, Slim Pickens)
Posted by Jon at 20:37
Labels: 60s, Classic TV, Our Garden
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What a beautiful aquilegia, Jon. I have a pink one out this very weekend, too!ReplyDeleteReplies
We are expecting a good show from our aquilegias, having just moved them all into the same corner of the garden - a small pink one has just arrived, and a couple of others are about to "pop". They are racing the foxgloves and delphiniums, methinks. JxDelete
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Our youngest son introduced us to something new this spring.
Track & Field.
I know what you're thinking.
A Peacock kid running?
They don't call him "Greased Lightning" on the football field for nothing.
(The nickname is ironic, just so you know. And actually, just to set the record straight, it turns out Tyler can run. But this is Bryce's story today).
Anyway, where was I?
Oh yeah, throwing metal objects. That's what Bryce did in Track & Field…
And Discus.
I guess they don't let high school kids play with javelins. Probably wise.
So here's the interesting thing. Well, it was interesting to me, since my kids have always played team sports. There are amazing lessons to be learned in team sports but what I really liked about throwing is that it was much more about improving yourself instead of beating someone else.
Personal Record.
That was the goal each week—to do better than you did last week. Someone didn't have to lose for you to win. Sweet.
Of course, if your best was better than someone else's best, then you did get points for your team. BUT. The focus was on the individual competing against himself. Is he progressing?
Bryce progressed. He was awarded most improved on the throwing team. (Proud mother moment, sorry).
New life lessons with great applicability in real life. I love the idea that we don't have to compare ourselves to others to feel successful. That someone else doesn't have to lose for me to win. And I love that the goal is to seek personal improvement rather than winner take all.
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Kata had to write about a Holiday Family Tradition. We have many, many traditions. But our very own was started with a Pickle Ornament I found at Tarjay.
I don't hang this ornament until late on Christmas Eve and the first kid to find it on Christmas morning gets to open their present first.
You can imagine the frenzy associated with the search. Here's a link to the origin of the tradition.


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This is a featured post from one of our Comfort Connoisseurs, Ashlea!
If you know me, you know that I am a sucker for soft blankets! I am a bit of a blanket snob when it comes to the softness of a blanket, and very few make the "cut" to make their way back home with me to be added to my little collection. Well, a few months ago, I stumbled across a blanket company called Berkshire Blanket advertised on the side of my Facebook page, and decided to scope it out… I instantly fell in love! The first blanket that I ordered was the Reversible Shearling Ultrasonic Luxe Blanket in grey. This blanket is absolutely beautiful, super soft, and keeps me so warm! The stitching detail on the blanket can easily make it pass as a comforter during the winter months, and it's heavy enough to be used without needing another blanket (at least for me, I live in California, and…
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LeBron James tells Sports Illustrated: I'm coming back to Cleveland
It's over. After several weeks and months of speculation, the NBA's best player has decided and announced his future in the league.Sports Illustrated posted a story from LeBron James saying he has decided to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers.The biggest start in the NBA told his story to Sports Illustrated writer Lee Jenkins, who penned the article for the magazine. On Friday, just after 11:15 a.m., the sports magazine posted the story to their site.In the article, James said when he left Cleveland in 2010, he knew it was a tough decision. He felt like he was "leaving something I had spent a long time creating." He also said if he could do it differently, he would and says Miami was like college for him.He said he went to Miami because of Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and he believed something special could happen to them. James said leaving Miami is difficult because he's leaving what he built."When I left Cleveland, I was on a mission. I was seeking championships, and we won two. But Miami already knew that feeling. Our city hasn't had that feeling in a long, long, long time. My goal is still to win as many titles as possible, no question. But what's most important for me is bringing one trophy back to Northeast Ohio."But James stopped short of promising a championship. He said it's hard deliver and the Cavaliers aren't ready yet.He ended the article with three words that summed it up best: "I'm coming home."Click here to read the article.


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Archers in California are an endangered specie. They are aggressively being hunted by the anti-hunting lobbyists. The ten year old aiming for the paper target bulls-eye is on the list.
anti-hunting groups are political action groups. They out number you,
out spend you, and raise millions of dollars more than you. They are
also louder than you.
archer has one goal, to hit the 10-ring, to go for the x-spot, to be a
winner and to be at the top of their game. We must put some of that
energy into saving archery for the next generation.
year more than
800,000 tags, licenses and stamps were sold to California residents.
There are another one million non hunters who love archery. We can
be a formidable force. Support archery and help show our support and
numbers by joining the CBH/SAA.
all who love archery, if you do nothing else this year, get out there
and write one letter. Give a few dollars to an organization that
supports what you support. We can perish as the quiet minority or be
heard and prevail.
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