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|The Campaign and The Manchurian Candidate are among the films that can help us understand the comic-but-grotesque character of American politics.
By Neal Meyer, et. al.
From the fictional portrayal of Huey Long in All the King's Men to Election with Reese Witherspoon or Bulworth with Warren Beatty or The Candidate with Robert Redford, U.S. culture has plenty to say about elections. Here are some favorites from DSA activists:
The Campaign is the funniest satire of our recent electoral politics I've seen outside of Saturday Night Live. Two candidates compete for a congressional seat: a Democrat going for his fifth term (Will Ferrell) and a Republican naif (Zach Galifianakis), but you soon forget the party affiliations, as both speak in the same patriotic clichés and sling outrageous personal attacks at each other with not one mention of any actual policy issue except, briefly, "jobs." The evil Moch (!) brothers manipulate both candidates and—look for it—supply the voting machines. Well acted. —Barbara Joye
The Manchurian Candidate A still-enthralling cold-war-era melodrama, it centers on a plot by combined Soviet-Chinese Secret Service operatives to influence the upcoming presidential selection process by "brainwashing" a returning soldier into an assassin. From the 1959 book by Richard Condon, the film stars Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, and Janet Leigh. Complete with such staples as military police derring-do, Asian conspirators, a stunning Lansbury (Newsweek in 2007 named her character one of the ten greatest villains in film), and a national convention at Madison Square Garden, the production is masterly, better than its 2004 remake featuring Denzel Washington. —Michael Hirsch
To understand U.S. politics you need to watch three television shows: (1) The West Wing to understand the idealistic aspirations of D.C.'s army of staffers. They imagine they are C.J. Cregg or Sam Seaborn, running between cubicles and changing the world; (2) House of Cards to understand the Machiavellian character of our political leaders. The ruthless rise of Kevin Spacey's character, Frank Underwood, is a reflection of the career trajectories of Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton; and (3) the most important, Veep. U.S. politics is defined by its clownishness. Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character is a carbon copy of Joe Biden.
What is truly radical about Bernie Sanders? He is the first candidate to run for president who isn't a character out of one of these three shows.
This article originally appeared in the winter 2015 issue of the Democratic Left magazine.
Individually signed posts do not necessarily reflect the views of DSA as an organization or its leadership. Democratic Left blog post submission guidelines can be found here.


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Continuing from our previous meditation on the strange art of relationships, let me humbly offer some straight dope. There is no way we can avoid conflict in our relationships, nor should we want to avoid conflict. Without conflict, our relationships will never grow and flower fully into the deep, sacred love that is at the essence of our shared affection and experiences together.
One of the key points we established last time was the need to understand and be in full touch with our conscience. Our conscience is our tool and our guide to the proper processing of our conflicts. Swami Prabhupada deftly defines one key element of our conscience as being able to understand the suffering and happiness of other living entities. This begins when we are in touch with our own suffering and happiness, when we are no longer afraid of our own suffering and happiness.
We walk across the desert of our own heart in order to walk hand-in-hand with those we strive to love in this world and in this life. Let's go back again to Bhakti Tirtha Swami's Four Principles of Community Building, particularly principle #2
Anytime there is a problem in a relationship, you should first see it as your own fault. Even if others are to blame, you will only add to the problem by considering them to be at fault.
This is certainly a provocative ideal. That provocation goes to an even deeper level when we step back and consider it from the philosophical perspective of the Bhakti-Yoga tradition, which tells us that when a conflict arises and we feel pain, this pain is a karmic reaction we are receiving. The other person bringing this difficulty into our relationship is understood to be an instrument of our own karma.
I know this doesn't sound good or taste good. Discussions I've had around this idea reveal, on one level, that to place or lay blame at any party in a conflict may not do much to resolve the problem. I can certainly agree with this to an extent, for blame is a very strong word, a very loaded concept. What to speak of karma, which is well beyond anyone's understanding.
What these principles encourage us to do, if we can look past our surface discomfort and misunderstanding, is to learn the value of taking ownership of our problems. Someone may be fully at fault for a certain conflict. You can objectively look at the particular situation and say "I did nothing here to cause this particular situation to arise. It is all the other's person fault, totally and truly." How I understand BT Swami's principle here is to transcend the objective and return to a deeper look at our own subjective contribution, which is not so obvious.
We may find that the neglect and pain we have given to this person in the past has a direct link to the neglect and pain they are causing us now. In other words, if we are really brave enough to look and to consider, we can see that no conflict lives in a vacuum. Someone who is mistreating us now is simply reacting, consciously or unconsciously, to some mistreatment we have laid upon them in the past.
I'll give a recent example from my own experience: A few weeks back, I asked one of my fellow monks to cover a service I had for one of our temple's monthly meditation programs. My friend gave me a genuine response in return: "Let me think about it", which I instantly construed as being "I don't want to." I expressed some instant frustration at the non-committal reply, which later blew up into a full-blown conflict, featuring the shouting out of generalities, irrationalities, and accusations (I did all the shouting too-my fellow monk seems to understand that monastic life should feature a minimum of shouting).
Of course, I had been thinking about the nature of conflict at the same time, and as much as my mind was telling me that I was totally right, and that I had the right to expect everyone to drop what they're doing and help me at a moment's whim, I had to go deeper. I could understand then that this particular conflict was a manifestation of other harsh dealings I had had with this monk. His reluctance to help me with my request was rooted in previous episodes where I had not helped him when he asked, and also where I had not expressed my emotions or feelings in a constructive way.
The fact is that he and I have a good relationship, where we can and have shared our intimate struggles and inspirations in ways we don't normally share with other monks in our monastery. One wrinkle of that for me is that with those I feel closely with, I am more able to express my emotions, one of which is anger.
The silver lining there is that this intimacy in my relationship compels me to closely examine the nature of any conflict I may have with this particular person, and although it's never comfortable, I have found that this honest introspection, and taking ownership at my own feet when I offend this person, has only made that relationship grow and become more mature.
No physician hesitates to give pain in order to give health, and we must have this mentality to do the needful on our inner journey. Restoring our connection to our conscience, to the presence of the Divine within us, is not easily or cheaply won. To know of, to feel, the suffering and happiness of those we love or strive to love in our life is no small thing. Only when we take ownership of our own suffering and happiness, and its effect on the relationships in our lives, will we learn to connect heart-to-heart.
The winds of conflict are so powerful that unless we have a deep inner core, rooted to God and service to God, our fragile hearts will never survive the contradictions that come when two souls in human form try to understand and love one another in a meaningful way.

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Monday, November 8, 2010
The Happiness Patrol Episode Forty-Four: Tardis of The Desert
The latest update on Doctor Who in Utah is this: there is no update...only unverified rumors of locations and dates.
And until we have facts, I really don't feel comfortable sending anyone into the desert on a wild goose chase.
But when we have facts, we will pass them along. Until then we at The Happiness Patrol welcome the return of Pick Of The Week!
Tara, Lela, Dale and I witter on about Doctor Who Episodes that might just make your day.
We also address Paul McGann and his latest fancy duds.
There is a new Doctor Who Exhibit coming to London in February 2011.
The time change has caused havoc on all of us and our 1st anniversary of The Happiness Patrol Podcast is coming this month!
Oh, and least we forget, we here at The Happiness Patrol have a HOTLINE you can call for feedback!
That's right, you can give us a call and leave a message of any sort. MAYBE you'll make it on the next podcast.
(ya never know!)
The Happiness Patrol Hotline is:
970 325 3569 or 970 DALEK 69
(how cool is that?)
So sit back relax and enjoy this week's episode...
The Happiness Patrol Episode Forty-Four: Tardis of The Desert
Posted by The Happiness Patrol at 4:32 PM
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do u all remember the very first episode of dr who you saw. the one that caught your attention and made u the whovian you are?ReplyDelete
ROCK CLIMBING and "Slow the Plot Down" in one episode. (Although I often prefer "Only Love Pads the (Serial)" for Doctor Who as it's more affectionate.)ReplyDelete
In California they only have call boxes on desert freeways, not blue police boxes. Hrmph.
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In Thailand I was sick for two nights and it took me a full day to recover, most likely from food but can't say it's from street food. It's so easy for food to be contaminated and I was eating at descent places recently. It's humid, sunny, sleep deprived so there's so many other factors that make this such a terrible experience. Luckily, I had my own nice bathroom during this time.
A few mins before I went to the airport things seemed to stop. It was a full day planes/airports and I sick free to Hanoi Vietnam. I met up with two friends from sweet little homer, Alaska. We hoped to meet up at some point and we happen to come the same day to Hanoi. Crazy awesome timing.
Hanoi is ruled by motor bikes. You have to just walk right in front of them with confidence to cross the street. There are sidewalks but motorbikes park on them. Surprisingly the streets are pretty clean. It's winter, but super refreshing to feel the fall like weather. Locals looked at me as they wear their winter coats and I wear my dress and sandals.
We walked to a lake and visited "Ngoc Son Temple, built in the 18th century on Jade Island in the centre of the 'Lake of the Returned Sword'. Legend describes how an emperor was once given a magical sword which helped him defeat the Chinese Ming Dynasty and in doing so saw the return of the Golden Turtle God to the lake."
Super layers of complex history here. In the afternoon, I visited Hoa Lò Prison built by the French in the late 1800s, colonized this country till 54. The French held Vietnamese political prisoners and later it was used by North Vietnam for U.S. Prisoners of War during the Vietnam war.
The vietnamese were held in terrible conditions. The loyalty and will of the people, even in prison, was amazingly strong for over 50 years.
After japan surrendered WWII, Vietnam declared its independence. It Took about 9 years to release the prisoners and 30 years before a united, communist Vietnam became reality."
After dinner we caught a glimpse of some street performance. The vocals gave us a headache. The guys are getting over something worse than I had so they didn't join me on my next stop which is a bummer.
Everyone says visiting Sapa is a must to do a trek and homestay to see the rice paddies and endless greenery. After two nights, I hoped on a morning bus which is used for overnight. The seats went way back but it's built for small frames. I opted to stay on the second level as I never seen such a bus before. Super excited for my next few days In Sapa. A bit nervous about the cold as its way on the mountains, let's hope the ski clears a bit too. I won't have wifi for 3 days!!
Link to Hanoi pix https://goo.gl/photos/8y7fnz8KQUrrrwA46


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While all of the mainstream media is focusing on Gaslight, the new brasserie in the South End, and Clink, the new eatery at the Liberty Hotel, we've decided to introduce two alternative spots that are getting great reviews all over town.
The first is T.W. Food, where owner and chef Tim Weichmann is causing a buzz in Cambridge with his innovative menus. Weichmann apprenticed at some of the most famous fine dining establishments in Paris, France . Think Taillevent and George V, just to name two! His scrupulous attention to lavish detail is winning raves. We can't wait to try the place!
T. W. Food
377 Walden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Next up is a new place featuring Mediterranean/Albanian cuisine also winning raves and located in the Back Bay.
545 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Click on the link (highlighted) to view the menu. Sounds fantastic!
The same people who brought us Diesel Cafe in Davis Square, one of the Foodie's favorite haunts, have now opened Bloc 11 in Union Square. It's another very cool place to hang out and get coffee. What else would you expect? The new twist here is that the space occupies the site of a former bank. So, now you can actually sit in the vault as you enjoy that mocha latte!
Bloc 11
11 Bow Street
Union Square
Somerville, MA
Lastly, one of the fun parts about fine dining, to me, is design. So, when I see great design in anything it grabs my interest. Check out these juice bottles! Made by Wild Bunch and Company and not yet available in the USA (not anywhere we can find anyway) we just can't wait to set out our dining table with these totally organic babies.
Stay tuned for the reviews and more foodie news................


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Monday, March 16, 2015
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Animals commonly use their limbs as signals and weapons during territorial aggression. Asymmetries of limb performance that do not relate to asymmetries of limb size (cryptic asymmetry) could substantially affect disputes, but this phenomenon has not been considered beyond primates. We investigated cryptic asymmetry in male crayfish (Cherax dispar), which commonly use unreliable signals of strength during aggression. Although the strength of a chela can vary by an order of magnitude for a given size, we found repeatable asymmetries of strength that were only weakly related to asymmetries of size. Size-adjusted strength of chelae and the asymmetry of strength between chelae were highly repeatable between environmental conditions, suggesting that asymmetries of strength stemmed from variation in capacity rather than motivation. Cryptic asymmetry adds another dimension of uncertainty during conflict between animals, which could influence the evolution of unreliable signals and morphological asymmetry.
1. Introduction
The asymmetry of limb use or function, commonly referred to as handedness, represents one type of lateralized performance. Handedness has influenced the evolution of tool use and manual gestures in humans and other primates [1,2]. In fact, more than 90 per cent of the human population, regardless of ethnic or cultural background, has a bias towards the use of the right hand [3]. Studies of non-primates have predominantly focused on the behavioural or morphological aspects of limb asymmetry [4–6]. The consequences of limb asymmetries for performance are virtually unknown. This oversight is surprising given the importance of limb performance during combat [7], escape [8], foraging [9] and mating [10].
In particular, asymmetries of performance have implications for signalling during aggressive interactions. Males often display their limbs to opponents as signals of their potential to defend resources [11]. This behaviour enables individuals to assess their chances of winning disputes before a costly escalation into physical combat. When signals reflect strength, asymmetry of limb size should also cause asymmetry of performance. However, when signals fail to reflect strength, asymmetry of limb size does not necessarily indicate an asymmetry of strength (and vice versa). Thus, unreliable signalling can mask asymmetry of performance, which we refer to as cryptic asymmetry. In its most extreme form, cryptic asymmetry implies that the largest limb may not represent the greatest threat to an opponent.
Crustaceans offer an opportunity to investigate cryptic asymmetry of performance. Males possess pairs of chelae used during aggressive signalling [12–14]. For example, Wilson et al. [15] observed that males of the slender crayfish (Cherax dispar) assessed each other's chelae by rubbing and tapping. This ritual either escalated into physical combat or ended with one individual fleeing. The male with larger chelae usually won a dispute without combat. When combat occurred, the stronger male usually prevailed. Surprisingly, the size of a chela provided poor information about its strength. In fact, the strength of this weapon varied by as much as an order of magnitude for a given size. Moreover, males produced a poorer quality of muscle in chelae than did females, indicating that males exaggerated the sizes of their chelae by investing less energy in muscle. Consequently, a large number of disputes between slender crayfish were settled through unreliable signalling, such that weak males with large chelae dominated stronger males. Here, we show that unreliable signalling hides the majority of asymmetry in performance between pairs of chelae.
2. Material and methods
We collected crayfish from North Stradbroke Island (27°29′ S, 153°24′ E) and transported them to Moreton Bay Research Station. Crayfish were housed individually in 2 l containers containing creek water at 24°C. Commercial food pellets were provided daily, and water was changed between feedings.
We determined the size and strength of chelae for 97 adult males. Size was determined from images captured by a digital camera and analysed using morphometric software (SigmaScan v. 5.0). Seven measurements were made for each chela: chela length to the dactyl joint, chela heights at the carpus and dactyl joints, dactylus length and height, and propodus length and height. Because these variables were highly correlated, we used principal component (PC) analyses to derive a single measurement of size, which described more than 88 per cent of the variation in the original variables. Because all variables loaded negatively onto the first PC, we multiplied the scores for this PC by −1 to simplify the interpretation of subsequent analyses.
Maximal strength of each chela was estimated as the force produced by the dactylus closing on the fixed propodus [15]. The position of closure was standardized to maximize the repeatability of force. Force was recorded by a sensor that consisted of two metal plates (25 × 5 × 1 mm) separated by a third metal plate (4 mm thick), which acted as a pivot. Each strain gauge was connected to a Wheatstone bridge linked to a bridge amplifier (AD Instruments, Australia). Outputs were monitored by a data-recording system (PowerLab, AD Instruments). Strain gauges were calibrated such that the voltage output could be converted to force. Crayfish readily closed their chelae on the two plates, enabling us to measure the greatest force produced by three to five pinches by each chela.
Because asymmetry of strength could reflect differential motivation more than differential capacity, we assessed the repeatability of strength (and its asymmetry) by measuring maximal force at two temperatures: 14°C and 24°C. Measurements were conducted on consecutive days, with the order of the temperatures being randomly determined for each crayfish. For measurements at 14°C, crayfish were cooled at a rate that did not exceed 4°C h−1. Measurements began at least 10 min after the water reached 14°C.
To compare the repeatability of chela strength between temperatures, we statistically controlled for potential effects of temperature on force. To do so, we calculated the relative strength of each crayfish as the residual of maximal force regressed onto chela size (−1·PC score). Separate regressions were carried out for left and right chelae. We used a power function as the error term of our model [16], because the variance of chela force increased with chela size (figure 1). We then examined the correlation between relative strengths at 14°C and 24°C. Finally, we calculated the asymmetries of size and strength for each crayfish by subtracting the PC and force values for the left chela from those for the right chela. Correlation was used to assess whether the asymmetry of strength was repeatable and whether this asymmetry reflected an asymmetry of size. Analyses were conducted in the R statistical software package [17].
3. Results
The strength of a crayfish's chela depended on its size, however, the unexplained variation in strength increased exponentially with chela size (figure 1). Consequently, size did not necessarily reflect strength. The weak relationship between the size and strength of a chela effectively masked pronounced asymmetry of performance. Crayfish that exhibited extreme asymmetry in chela size (figure 2a) did not necessarily exhibit a corresponding asymmetry in chela strength (figure 2b). Two observations indicate that asymmetries of performance between paired chelae stemmed from asymmetries in ability, rather than motivation or error. First, the residual forces generated by chela at 14°C and 24°C were highly correlated (left chela: r2 = 0.569, n = 97, p < 0.001; right chela: r2 = 0.701, n = 97, p < 0.001), indicating that performances of chelae were repeatable between environmental conditions. Second, the asymmetry of chela strength was also correlated between thermal conditions (figure 2c; r2 = 0.416, n = 97, p < 0.001).
4. Discussion
Our analyses conclusively demonstrate unreliable signals in crayfish, a phenomenon previously suggested by Wilson et al. [15]. The tremendous variation in strength among chelae of similar size was highly repeatable between body temperatures. The widespread occurrence of unreliable signals in crayfish suggests one of two conditions: either crayfish receive great benefits by making deceptive chelae or crayfish incur great costs to identify deceitful opponents. Such conditions could occur when individuals must regenerate a chela after injury, as documented in fiddler crabs (Uca annulipes) [18]. In this case, we should expect only the regenerated chela in a pair to be an unreliable signal of strength. Alternatively, unreliable signals could reflect a constraint imposed by the moulting process. Newly moulted individuals might be unable to generate a force proportional to the size of their appendages, as often occurs in species of stomatopods [19]. In which case, every crayfish would periodically possess a pair of relatively weak chelae. This latter mechanism could explain why a modest proportion of males within a population possess relatively weak chelae.
The existence of unreliable signals in a population enables, but does not guarantee cryptic asymmetry of performance. When the sizes of chelae poorly reflect their strength, asymmetry of performance cannot be accurately detected by asymmetry of size. Accordingly, crayfish exhibited large asymmetries of strength between chelae that were weakly related to asymmetries of size (figure 2). Asymmetries of strength were repeatable between two temperatures, suggesting that the pattern reflects a real difference in the capacity for performance between appendages. Given the asymmetric performance of chelae, moulting of the exoskeleton seems an unlikely origin for unreliable signalling in slender crayfish. Rather, processes during either juvenile or regenerative development could generate the poor relationship between the size and strength of chelae.
Cryptic asymmetry raises important questions about the ecology and evolution of aggression. Previous analyses have focused on either the properties of individual chelae or the average properties of paired chelae [15,20,21,22], ignoring the role of asymmetry in dominance. These analyses indicated that stronger individuals were more likely to win disputes that escalated into fighting. But what factor most determines dominance? Could a crayfish defeat an opponent with a single strong chela, such as fiddler crabs do, or does dominance require two chelae stronger than those of an opponent? How does asymmetry of strength affect tactics during combat? Cryptic asymmetry adds another dimension of uncertainty to aggressive encounters, because a crayfish cannot predict which chela poses the greater threat. At least initially, a crayfish facing an asymmetric opponent will be vulnerable to attack from a relatively strong chela. Such a chela can inflict serious injuries during fighting by tearing off an opponent's antenna, rostrum, or chela (R. S. Wilson 2012, personal observation). Because the majority of animals possess an exoskeleton, which effectively masks internal structures, cryptic asymmetry of performance could be a fairly common phenomenon. Future studies that focus on the benefits of cryptic asymmetry could shed new light on the evolution of unreliable signalling.
M.J.A. thanks UQ for a visiting scholar's grant. Candice Bywater calculated chela force.
- Received January 10, 2012.
- Accepted February 20, 2012.
- This journal is © 2012 The Royal Society


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Take a look at the code below and spot an error:
if (resultRequired) { return insertData.Select(row => ExecuteInsert(cmd, insertColumns, row, onError)).ToList(); } else { insertData.Select(row => ExecuteInsert(cmd, insertColumns, row, onError)); return null; }
Got it? At first I didn't. Debugged once but it 'appeared' to be ok so haven't noticed the issue. Yet, insert did not happened, data did not reach database. Debugged once again – and quick glance over the code was enough to see it. Of course my code took
else path as I didn't need results of insert for anything. And there is select, but it's never used – ergo it's never even triggered. That's one of nice features of
linq – it will only run query if you actually need the result. But on the other hand – it is pretty easy to sometimes forget you're not firing the query and it won't do any of those function calls you set up in
Select call.
ToList() at the end should fix the issue. Time to do some pull requests on Github!
Edit: and so I did – fixed, wrote some unit tests to make sure it will work in future and posted pull request on GitHub. This is my first contribution to Open source. And I hope it won't be the last!


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by Heather Chang
She muttered something that sounded vaguely like "...putting my affairs in order..." when I asked her about her morning. I just looked at her, over my coffee, not wanting to decipher a meaning in words I'd only half heard, unwilling to acknowledge the change I could see in her. "Jules," she said, so softly I didn't realize she'd spoken, "I think my world is falling apart." I didn't speak, wondering exactly what I was supposed to say, what she needed to hear, thinking back to what she'd said about not knowing how actors could pretend to love each other with such conviction when some days, she couldn't even pretend to like the man she'd vowed to spend the rest of her life with. "You can always crash at my place," I said, breaking the silence with carefully chosen words that felt so hopelessly weak, considering the occasion. "My stuff's in the car," she said, nodding, and took a sip of her coffee.
Heather Chang enjoys writing flash fiction and was previously published in "In the Write Mind."


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01-25-15 Under The Tower
Most mornings, about the same time, our "regulars" arrive and give me a big, toothy grin like each one is saying, "Good morning, I'm here!" What a heart-warming feeling! It's the small things in life, like this, that really make it worth working at the center.
On one recent morning I was thinking about all that went on last year and how fast it all seemed to slip by. Sometimes it's good to just take time to stop and smell the roses. I am most grateful for everyone who has ever helped and supported me. I'm always amazed at how funny this crazy little thing called life can be at times. You start on one path and end up somewhere totally unexpected. You never know with whom or where you are going to end up.
I thought I would give thanks, once again, to all of those who make it possible for us to have such a wonderful place for seniors.
You need to come on down and see for yourself. I know you will enjoy seeing some of the faces of the people who make the Senior Citizens Center successful.
We have so much to offer. Some highlights, just to name a few, are food, fun, fellowship and lots of activities. The boatloads of laughter are free of charge.
The noon meal program at the center is available to individuals of all ages. Meals are served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Friday, at a cost of $5 for on-site diners, $5.50 for takeout plates and $6 for home-delivered meals.
The center is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Please remember to shop and eat locally.
Monday, Jan. 26
Baked ham, peas & carrots, tossed salad, biscuit, fruit crumble
Tuesday, Jan. 27
Chicken enchilada casserole, red beans, tossed salad, cornbread, peach cobbler
Wednesday, Jan. 28
Mexican stack, all the trimmings, chips & salsa, Hawaiian cake
Thursday, Jan. 29
Chicken pot pie, carrots, tossed salad, biscuit, assorted desserts
Friday, Jan. 30
Chicken strips with gravy, green beans, tossed salad, biscuit, apple cinnamon cake
Norma Casanova is director of Hale County Senior Citizens Center.


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Maps & Directions
Burdwan is little less than 100 km north-west of Kolkata and has excellent road and rail links.
How to get to Burdwan
By Air
The nearest airport to Burdwan is at Kolkata. You can a get flight to/from Netaji Subhas Chandra Airport on regular basis. Take a cab from the airport to reach Burdwan by road. The cab fare starts from ₹12 per KM.
Flight schedule >>
By Rail
The main Howrah-Delhi rail track passes through Burdwan. One can take a local train from Howrah to reach in 2 hrs. One can also travel along the Sahibganj Loop, which branches off, one station after Burdwan. The narrow gauge line to Katwa is being upgraded (as of 2013) to broad gauge.
Railway route and enquiry >>
By Road
The Grand Trunk Road runs across the city, NH 2 bypasses the city. South Bengal State Transport Corporation and private operators operate buses from Esplanade and Karunamoyee in Saltlake. It takes around 2-21/2 hours. Burdwan is well connected by bus with numerous places all around. Most of the buses arrive and leave from Tinkonia Bus Stand.


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by Todd Duncan, Science Integration Institute
Science has had an uneasy relationship with the human desire for personal meaning and significance to our lives. It is sometimes tempting to conclude we'd all be better off keeping the two topics confined to separate categories that make contact only if absolutely necessary.
But science and meaning are connected in a fundamental way, which artificial categories can never completely keep apart. This connection is forced upon us by the remarkable success of the scientific process in uncovering new information about the universe in which we are immersed. We want any meaning we construct for ourselves to be on solid ground, to be based on the "real world." Science has worked so well that it is difficult to deny it a central role in telling us about how the world really is. Even if we sometimes don't like what we think science is telling us, because it may conflict with some ideas on which we happen to base our current sense of meaning, we feel obligated to pay attention and look to it as a source of information about the meaning we seek.
Evidence that many people sense this can be seen both in our fascination with science and in our reactions against it. What are millions of people looking for in such science books as Stephen Hawking's amazingly popular A Brief History of Time, and in other similar works of popular science? Many intuitively sense that science must have an important impact on the search for meaning, which may be why they turn to such books for answers. Most, I suspect, are disappointed in one way or an- other. Abstract approaches to "theories of everything," while certainly important in the search to understand the universe and ourselves, have a hollowness to them that always leaves us wanting. In one sense they profess to offer the whole story. But in another, more intuitive sense, we know they can never be the whole story because they leave out what is the very stuff of life to us. These descriptions of the universe seem too far removed from our experience, with nothing that brushes against the universe as we experience it in everyday life, the one in which we make choices and seek meaning and a place for ourselves and our thoughts. Science provides a mental map of the universe, but it is in many ways an unfamiliar and unhelpful map, without clear connections to the concepts we operate with in our immediate experience. Most glaringly, it seems to lack a clear "you are here" marker needed to place ourselves within the framework of the map and use it as a guide to the choices we face in life.
This situation may explain some of the vigorous resistance to scientific ideas and the continued popularity, despite strong evidence against them, of so-called "pseudosciences" such as astrology, creation science, psychic phenomena, or quantum healing. They address directly the daily concerns of life, and thus offer something we have a deep and real need for, which science seems not to provide.
We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched.
We all operate within a framework of concepts that make sense of the world to us, which we use to formulate our goals, hopes, and dreams, and to seek ways to overcome problems and obstacles as we build our lives. Certainly the universe out there has much to say about all this, but it's hard to figure out what it says when our scientific description exists for us as a remote framework without clearly articulated connections to the concepts with which we operate in daily life. So we live in a disconnected state: abstract and evolving knowledge of the grand universe on one hand, and the immediate need for a guide to our individual choices on the other hand. How do we bring these together, so that we can guide our immediate choices from a perspective that is informed by and connected to the big picture?
These connections exist, but they are easily disguised, lost in the abstractions. The links are difficult to maintain even for sciences that specifically describe us, our bodies and mental processes. In some way we remain detached from these descriptions, still not quite feeling they tell us much about the essence of the world as we experience it. For sciences that describe distant places and distant times, the links can seem almost impossible to maintain. The connections must be consciously made, the insights from science explicitly appropriated into our day-to-day awareness of who we are and how we interact with the world. We can learn to think not of the scientific universe out there, far away and long ago, but right here, where we live and experience the world. The big bang, for example, happened here, in the little region of space we can now hold in our hands, as well as out there in regions that are now 10 – 15 billion light years away. We are just now receiving the glow from a condition once experienced billions of light years away, but that condition was also experienced right here, a long time ago. Bizarre properties of electrons and atoms and photons described by quantum theory can seem abstract and detached, until we realize we're talking about us, too—our atoms, the air we breathe, the sunlight which sustains us. Many of the remarkable insights from science remain abstract, disconnected from our personal worldviews which are the maps we use to guide our choices and our lives. But this need not always be the case.
I suggest that the meaning behind our individual lives, which science can help us uncover, is not to be looked for only in regimes where our current scientific understanding is stretched or incomplete—in exotic theories of the early universe, in black holes and warped spacetime and the arcane mathematics of grand unified theories. It is found, rather, in the "ordinary world"—the world in which we live every day, but which really is so full of mystery and wonder that it seems inappropriate to call it ordinary. Once we learn to live with a full awareness of our connections to the universe we are a part of, I think it's safe to say the world will never seem ordinary again._________________
- The author then defines his intent and goal in writing this book:
My goal in this short book is to illustrate that the seemingly opposing aims of "personal meaning" and "consistency with science" need not be in conflict. On the contrary, the process and insights of science can act as a valuable filter and guide to developing our sense of being part of a bigger context, within which our lives have meaning. We live our lives motivated and guided by a set of beliefs about how the world works and how we connect to it. These connections are all around us, in every action and every assumption about what is important for us to do. And science, while certainly not capable of providing all the answers, has a great deal to say about these assumptions. We just need to be aware of how to use the science, and what to look for.
My hope is that someday science will play a much more central role in our varied individual efforts to construct an overall context for our lives. I hope we will learn to see new discoveries in basic science not as detached and esoteric curiosities, justified by the vague possibility of technological spin-offs, but as crucial pieces or steps in the process of uncovering humanity's role in the cosmos. My aim is to help bring this day closer, by offering a point of view from which science can be seen as an important tool in your personal search for meaning in your daily life. Along the way, I also present some concrete suggestions for putting it to use for yourself.
- Continue reading this brilliant book by downloading it in PDF here:
http://www.scienceintegration.org/books/eordinaryworld.pdf or ask me to email it to you.
- Additionally, what follows is an article from A Writer's Life:
The beep beep sound of Sputnik (mp3)
There is something indefinably magical in space. Mankind has looked upwards for centuries, always wanting to know more. Where did we come from? Why does the rain fall? What Gods make lightening? What have we done to make the Gods angry? What are stars made of? How did the universe begin? How will it end? How can we see further and further into a mystery always just beyond reach?
Ancient civilizations had cause to fear the sky. In the modern world, however, we have lost any sense of fear and wonder about that which suspends our tiny planet in the vastness of space and time. The ability for the majority of us to experience the universe first hand is small. Astronauts are heroes because they dare to step into the vastness that has frightened and awed and puzzled mankind since our first ancestor rose onto two legs and looked towards the sky.
Did dinosaurs ponder the wonders of space? Fish? Lions? Horses? Even the small one-celled amoeba? The creatures of this world don't need to ponder space because they are space. Instinctively, they know their connection to the universe, something we forgot long ago when we chose to divide and accept 'he' is different than 'me'.
So why does the sound of a machine beeping in space open up such a vast emptiness inside me? Awe that, even though the sounds were recorded over 40 years ago, makes me shiver, forces me to admit I, too, am part of the wonder of the universe. Sounds which make me feel something opening inside me in a way I have never experienced before; connects me to the universe in a way I never imagined possible.
I am, you are, every living thing in this world and beyond, not to mention rocks and chairs and books, and computers are made of starstuff. We see solids when, in reality, the atoms from which we are made are simply gathered together and pretending to be the solids called 'me' or 'you' or 'Fido.' The same as a star 40 million light years away is pretending to be the solid called 'star.' I am 'me,' but I am also Sputnik, forty years ago, sending the sounds of infinity back to the' me' on earth listening this very moment.
What awe would fill this world if we all understood, down to the tiniest particle of our being, that we aren't different. We are all made of the same stuff as the stars. We all feel that deep instinctive pull towards knowing, understanding, who we are and where we belong in this infinite universe.
Perhaps that is what the beeping of Sputnik reminds us. Somewhere out there, beyond our sight, in the blackness both outside and inside us, there is an emptiness we all understand – loneliness, fear, death – but we do not need to be afraid. We are one. No matter the vastness between the stars, or between two neighbors, there is always a bridge, always a connection of starstuff binding us together.
- This video shows the launch of Sputnik 1 - October 4, 1957:
- From Wikipedia:
Tracking and studying Sputnik from Earth provided scientists with valuable information, even though the satellite itself wasn't equipped with sensors. The density of the upper atmosphere could be deduced from its drag on the orbit, and the propagation of its radio signals gave information about the ionosphere.
Sputnik 1 was launched during the International Geophysical Year from Site No.1/5, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR (now known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome). The satellite travelled at about 29,000 kilometres per hour (18,000 mph; 8,100 m/s), taking 96.2 minutes to complete each orbit. It transmitted on 20.005 and 40.002 MHz,[6] which were monitored by amateur radio operators throughout the world.[7] The signals continued for 21 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on 26 October 1957.[8] Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958, as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, after travelling about 70 million km (43.5 million miles) and spending three months in orbit.[9]
|Sputnik 1 in space


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EA has announced yet another title in its Need for Speed arsenal, this time Need for Speed Hot Pursuit.
Announcing the new title at its E3 2010 press conference, the new game, developed by Criterion, will be launching in November 2010 and focus on cops vs. racer chases.
Pocket-lint was in the audience and grabbed the above video of the opening sequence to the game and actual gameplay with two players playing cops and robbers (car chase style) along a country highway.
Criterion is also upping the ante with the introduction of an all-new online network called Need for Speed Autolog, where players can compare racing stats and automatically get personalised gameplay recommendations from their friends.
Gamers will automatically get notifications from friends in their network; when they beat their score for example.
Developed by Criterion Games, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit will be available on 16 November 2010 in North America, and on 18th and 19 November 2010, in Europe on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit will also be available on the Wii and is being developed by Exient.


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The last few years has seen a fair few of Peckham's pubs being spruced up, and the new-look Montpelier certainly continues that trend. We're glad to report this one's not another gastro copycat: there's leather settles instead of butcher's block tables and even a big screen at the back of the pub (usually the first thing to go when a pub seeks to upgrade itself). Saying that, it's very much foodie-oriented and it's a shame that none of their ales were working when we stopped by. There's certainly a local market for what The Montpelier has to offer, and there may soon be a time when a pub like this - rather than the old man's boozer it used to be - is the default setting for drinking in SE15.
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12 Jan 2014
Appalling customer service. Unbelievably rude and unapologetic barman. Avoid at all costs.
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28 Jun 2008
The pub was refitted this year, and has been transformed from the frankly unpleasant old man's pub into a very family orientated gastro-pub. We've eaten there a few times now, and haven't been disappointe yet. If you went before the refit, give it another shot, if you've never been, it's definitely worth a visit...
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They did much of their work up there at night. It was pretty convenient for me to watch, as it would be on NASA TV when I'd get home. I saw much of this mission, including the pictured part below, live.
Here, they were readying that cupola when they had a sunrise. Sunrises and sunsets take only a few seconds each; due to the speed of their orbit, they have one or the other something like every 45 minutes.
I watched an ungodly amount of this mission: three hours of one spacewalk, and four hours of another. I also watched when they were using the "Canadarm" (cute word, that)to move the Harmony node, cupola, and pressurized mating adapter to their final homes. (I swear, the last one looks like a duodenum.) It was pretty mesmerizing, as NASA tv has no commercial interruptions.
Canada gets a lot of exposure from those arms. There's one on the ISS itself, and one (or two?) on the shuttle.
Harmony node, attached to the ISS, with cupola and pressurized mating adapter. The PMA is the dark thing on the right. The shuttle can dock with one of those. I don't know if I'd want to go through one though, as its appearance gives me the mental image of being squeezed through the alimentary canal.
One thing I liked about watching this mission, was that it allowed me to watch educated, intelligent people doing interesting work. Not only was this a nice antidote to the "normal" news coverage of dysfunctional people doing stupid things (like flying planes into IRS offices) but it gave me hope that I could someday be involved in something similarly rewarding.
Just watching mission control in Houston was pretty uplifting. Check out how most of the displays are just flat-panel computer monitors. The consoles are quite unlike the purpose built consoles of yesteryear.
Also, if I can say so without sounding too stalkerish, the chick in the middle row is cute as a bug in a rug. I can't quite read the plaque on her console, but from visiting the NASA website, it looks like she's sitting at the ODIN console (Onboard, Data, Interfaces and Networks). I guess that explains the viking helmet!
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Lúkr is saved from drowning by the intercession of Leia and Hani's men in the Þúsundár Fálkinn. Following this memorable climax, there is an extended lacuna in the manuscript, and the action picks up again with an episode wherein Lúkr rescues Hani and Leia from the corrupt (and grossly obese) Danish merchant Jabbi, a rather comical figure on the whole, and this entire incident is probably to be reckoned an interpolation from a later chivalric saga. Unfortunately the saga shows its repetitive nature at this point, and we once again learn that Veiðari is building, under the auspices of Falfaðinn, a great ship to be named Dauðastjarna in meiri. At a great feast, Lúkr and Hani swear that they will kill Veiðari and Falfaðinn, burn Dauðastjarna, and conquer Kóruskantborg. Their boasts are considered binding and the sworn brothers lead several warships loaded with men to the position of the Dauðastjarna. There Hani is assisted by what the saga describes as "birnir" (literally "bears," but in context probably to be understood as "Shetlanders" – the German version confusingly seems to understand these as actual bears) in his great assault on Falfaðinn's fleet, but Lúkr is captured by Veiðari and brought to an audience with Falfaðinn.
via Miss Cellania
Previously on The Zeray Gazette:
The Saga of the Faroe Islanders


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We live in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Our winters are mild in comparison to those who live in the north, but even in the north, with a little inexpensive shelter, some produce may be grown to keep fresh stuff on the table and to help with grocery bills. Even here in the south, our temperatures get down into the teens at times during the winter, so we have to chose what we grow in the winter months carefully.
There are may heirloom and open pollinated varieties of vegetables that can be grow in the winter. At the moment, I have these growing in my garden: Blue Scotch Kale, Mixed Wild Kale, Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach, Tatsoi, Bok Choi, Turnips, Lollo Rosso, Black Seeded Simpson and Cos Romaine Lettuces, Escarole, Russia Red Mustard, Bright Lights Swiss Chard,Jersey Wakefield Cabbage and Fava Beans. All but the lettuces are just planted out in the garden. The lettuces are under a green house tunnel to give them a little extra protection and solar heat. All of these vegetables will withstand cold temps., frost and intermittent freezes, as a matter of fact the kale is sweeter with a frost or two under its belt!. A few nights ago, it was 19 degrees over night with a heavy frost in the early hours. The plants were all covered with frost, and were frozen solid. When I went to pick some kale for my morning green drink, and the kale I snipped shattered in my hand since it was frozen. But when the sun came up and the temps. rose above freezing the plants were all fine. Some of the older leaves on the turnips and swiss chard looked a little wilted, but that was the worst of it.
|Kale is frozen solid and frosted over, but is sweeter after a frost or two
|This bed has Blue Scotch kale, Wild Mix kale, Tatsoi Oriental greens,and Bloomsdale spinach
|A bed of Jersey Wakefield Cabbages are almost ready to be made into sauerkraut
|a greenhouse tunnel made from PVC pipe and 6 mil plastic gives Lollo Rosso, Cos Romaine and Black seeded Simpson lettuces some protection from the harshest weather and raises the temp enough to insure good growth.
It is possible to grow winter crops out of doors even if you don't have room for a garden in your yard, or if you live in an apartment and have no ground at all. Many winter veggies will grow quite happily in containers on sunny porch, deck, balcony or tucked up against a south or west facing foundation wall. They are easy to grow, have no pests in the winter and require only a minimal amount of care. Lettuce and other greens have shallow roots can be grown in flower boxes, or even re purposed rain gutters. Deeper rooted plants like as well as beets, carrots, turnips, cabbage and brussel sprouts will grow beautifully in two gallon buckets with holes drilled in the bottom for drainage. I like to plant cabbages and pansies together in oak tubs as a practical, eatable yard ornament.
Beyond growing winter vegetable outside, there are a wide variety of nutritious, tasty, easy ways to grow food on your kitchen counter. Many bean and vegetable seeds can be sprouted in jars and consumed in salads and on sandwiches, as well as added to things like sushi, fresh spring rolls and as topping for tacos. I keep a steady supply going of clover, radish, broccoli, mung and lentil sprouts; which add interest, taste and texture to many of the foods we eat every day. Sprouts are a powerhouse of nutrition, take less than a square foot of counter space, and very little effort to grow.
|Left: Mixed salad sprouts with anasazi, garbanzo and mung beans, Middle: mung beans Right: clover seed
|Kale, Turnip and Grapefruit Salad with Miso Dressing and Steamed Turnip greens with Sweet Potato Hummus
If I had gone to the store rather than the garden to get my produce, I would have paid $1.50 for a bunch of parsley, 99 cents for a bundle of green onions, $3.99 for a bundle of commercially grown kale, at least 3.99 for the turnips, and another $2-3 for the turnip greens, (which are sold separately from the turnips), $2.50 for sprouts to top the tabbouleh. By picking a few things out of my garden and building meals around them I saved my grocery budget more than $15.97 for one day's meals, ( I didn't price out the sweet potatoes, since I have no idea what they sell for so the savings was more than what I calculated). If I had quoted the price for organic produce, the savings would have been higher. If I go one step further than that and guesstimate that I use on the conservative side, $10 a day from my garden, then in a month I would have saved $300 dollars by growing my own produce this winter. Actually, the savings would be higher, since we juice at least six bunches of greens, (a mixture of kale, spinach, oriental veggies, and chard or beet tops), every week in addition to our regular meals.
It is well worth the time and effort in dollars and cents to grow your own produce, even in the winter. But the biggest reason for doing so is that you have the freshest, purest,most nutritious and the tastiest food possible to feed those who gather around your table.
Kale, Turnip and Grapefruit Salad
with Miso Dressing
1 bunch Curly Kale, washed well and spun dry
2 medium sized turnips
1 ruby red grapefruit, section and reserve juice, (be sure to squeeze all the juice out of the membranes after sectioning)
1/2 red onion
1 handful of Craisins
pinch of nigella seed or black sesame seed
For Dressing
Reserved Grapefruit juice
Enough Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar to bring grapefruit juice up to 1/3 cup
1/3 extra virgin cold pressed olive oil
2 Tbsp. uma plum vinegar (or substitute with balsamic vinegar)
1/4 tsp. sesame oil
1 Tbsp. hemp seed ( if you don't have it on hand it is OK without it, the dressing will just not be quite as creamy)
1 Tbsp. white miso (or barley miso if you prefer it to be richer)
1-2 cloves garlic, (depending on how much you like garlic)
1 Tbsp. honey or agave
Place all ingredients in personal rocket blender, (or in regular blender if you don't have a personal blender), blend until smooth and creamy. Taste and adjust oil/acid balance, by adding a little more oil or more acid depending on what you think it needs. Only1/3 cup of this dressing is needed to for kale salad, but it keep a very long time in the fridge and can be used on regular salads or just kept on hand for the kale salad if you end up making it more than once. This salad dressing or a variation there of, is what we normally use on our dinner salads. It is full flavored, with a nice tang. You won't need to use much since it has a lot of flavor and sticks well to greens, so the dressing doesn't end up in the bottom of the bowl.
Cut the kale into thin strips. Slice the red onion thinly and toss with kale to distribute. With a latex gloved hand, gently "massage" 1/4 to 1/3 cup of dressing little at a time into kale and onions, to distribute the dressing. Only add enough to coat the leaves. Thinly slice the turnip, with a mandolin, ( if you don't have a mandolin then shave thin slices off with a vegetable peeler). Add turnip slices and grapefruit sections and toss gently with tongs to distribute. Sprinkle the top of the salad with Craisins and nigella or black sesame seed, (nigella seed can be found in an Indian grocer and it well worth looking for, the oniony peppery flavor really adds a lot to salads. If you can't find the nigella, the black sesame will do...or if you can't find either, the salad will still be good without it). Serve chilled.
*Elliot Coleman, a four season, sustainable ag farmer, lives in Maine. He and his wife grow fresh produce for sale to restaurants in the dead of winter in Maine. He has written several very good books on the subject of four season gardening, at least one of which focuses on growing food in the winter. If you are interested in hearing more about how he does it, check out his website http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/.
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/ , http://frugallysustainable.com/
h,http://thismindbeinyou.blogspot.com/ , http://www.theselfsufficienthomeacre.com, http://deborahjeansdandelionhouse.blogspot.com/2013/02/farmgirl-friday-blog-hop-95.html,


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1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain ( I think it was a mountain:D)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang/played a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied ( I guess I should be satisfied, no matter what)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David in person
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62.Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason.
64 Donated blood, platelets or plasma - haven't been able to, thanks to my journeys overseas
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check um yeah, one too many times
68. Flown in a helicopter - i want to, sooo bad
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (depends what you consider speeding, i guess)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Survived a hurricane
89. Saved someone's life. (maybe i have?)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (some people I've met, other people might consider famous, but according to me, no, I haven't)
92. Joined a book clu
92. Joined a book clu
93. Lost a loved one.
94. Made a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
Wow, I haven't done very many of those things at all!
But any how, on a real happy note: Sam graduated from RIP on Dec. 19th! We're so proud of him... Unfortunately, we didn't take many pics of his ceremony at all, but here are the ones we did take
Thanks to sneaky Andrea, we got this picture
Sams at home with us now, and we're thoroughly enjoying having him here:) He's worked and trained so hard, he deserves a couple weeks of break.
~The latest news in the kittyland is that Pards older sisters General (pictured howling)
and Boots had the adventure of their lives last week~ Andrea took them to Church, and tried to find homes for them. As you can see, they didn't enjoy the ride... But thankfullly, little Boots, the oldest of all of them, got a home... A real nice chap adopted it. So General came home by herself, and we thought that was all that came of Andrea's trip to Church... But the very next day I was awakened by a phone call from a guy who had been at the Church the day before. He talked to his parents about the kittens that needed homes, and they decided that they wanted one... And guess which one! - Yup, little Pard. For some strange reason, they decided that they wanted her, even though they've never actually seen her. The sad part is, she'll be going to Oklahoma, where I'll probably never see her again... But the good part about her adoption is that for one, she'll actually have a home (a good home) and that she'll be a farm cat-- she deserves to be a country cat.
So anyway, that is my little story about the kitties.
I will miss Pard, but I am so glad that she got a home. I'm just hoping that when they come to pick her up in the beginning of january, that they wont change their minds when they see the other "cuter" brother and sister.
Anyhow, this blog is awfully long.
Hope everyone reading this gets at least some snow~ If so, enjoy it for me!


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Most of my alien menagerie project exists as piles of pencil sketches. The time I have to work on oil paintings is less than I'd like, so they take quite a long time to complete. "Extracts" is the name I've given to a series of more casual paintings that I can complete with more speed and spontaneity.
The aliens in these pieces are pulled straight from my sketchbooks. I'm not worried about setting up an environment for these, or how they might fit into a more elaborate piece or series someday. I like to think of them as plates from a journal or guidebook of various 宇宙人。
They're acrylics on Rives BFK paper (7.5x10"). It was really fun to pick up acrylics again for these pieces. I used them for most of my career as an illustrator. There's a comfort of familiarity that I haven't acquired for oils just yet.


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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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7 comments:
- Eileen said...
Yah,for Kim, Starting up a save the world. At the dump last week the gal in charge was out going through the dumpster and picking out all the pape that people weren' putting in the paper recyling bin. She said all the little boxes we get can be recycled so I started a big paper bag next to my garbage can in the kitchen to put those smaller boxes etc. in. kIM YOU CAM PUT THAT symbol on my blog.
- January 29, 2008 at 4:46 AM
- Carol said...
Great job Kim...I love it!
- January 29, 2008 at 5:14 AM
- Marcie said...
My husband throws out boxes as fast as I can accumulate them! Lucky I am not saving whales!
- January 29, 2008 at 9:55 AM
- atet said...
Hehehe -- looks good to me Kim! I've still got to get photos of my recent purchases to post. Hmmn...maybe I can take care of that today -- I'm supposed to stay on the couch doing not a lot anything anyway...
- January 29, 2008 at 10:13 AM
- Julia said...
Kim, I want you to know that I have been busy pushing buttons the last 2 days. I will post pictures of my efforts to save the economy as soon as they arrive. :)
- January 29, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- Vicky said...
Bad girl!! Bad bad girl!!
- January 29, 2008 at 6:52 PM
- Nan said...
Love it! I have been doing my part to help stimulate the economy this year, and was so successful at it, that The Man (hubby) got a bit irked with me, so I have curtailed my 'boosting' for the nonce. Never fear, I will be at it again SOON!!
- January 31, 2008 at 8:46 AM


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Straight from the team's press release:
The Pittsburgh Penguins have recalled defenseman Simon Despres from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League, and re-assigned defenseman Alexandre Picard to WBS, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Ray Shero.Not sure exactly why the move was made but there are a number of possibilities. The most plausible reason looks to be that Picard would not be waiver exempt 30 days after his first call up on November 3rd, and today would be the 29th day so that could have been it.
The money issue is a dead end because Despres' cap hit is actually higher than Picard's. Maybe Shero and company wanted to see what Despres could do in NHL game action to track his development. Either way, Despres will likely be paired with a somewhat familiar face in Robert Bortuzzo for Pittsburgh's game against Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals.
I haven't forgot about November Grades Part 2: The Defensemen & Goaltenders. That should post late tonight. Until then... Go Penguins!


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The year was about 1977. As I walked into my Great Aunt's room that day in Des Moin, Iowa, she was sitting on the side of her bed. In her hands she held a small wooden thing with thread wrapped around it. Her hands were working quickly back and forth. From below her left hand was a section of lace hanging down.
After the introductions and the catch up that was needed I asked her what she was doing.
She had continued this hand action all the time that we were speaking.
She laughed at my question. She stated that, "You of all people should know what this is. It is Tatting and your Grandma Lincoln was one of the best Tatters in the country!"
My Grandma Lincoln had lived with us from time to time when I was younger. I remember her teaching me how to play dominoes. I also remembered her being a quilter. I kind of remember her doing something that I didn't understand. It was likely the Tatting that she was famous for.
My Grandma Lincoln had married my Grandpa in Springfield, Illinois and then left for her life with him in Southern Saskatchewan, in Canada in the early 1900s.
She would have four kids in that small shack that my Grandpa had built for them. It was in the middle of the flat prairie surrounded with miles of wheat, more wheat and still more wheat. There were mostly no trees – anywhere where they lived… just scrub bushes.
The wind blew through the small shack endlessly. And in my mind the fact that she had brought her Tatting shuttle in her apron pocket from Illinois, was about the only thing that kept her sane.
As my Great Aunt, my Grandma's younger sister told the full story I was amazed.
My Grandma had passed away a few years before this time.
My Great Grandpa Phillips had done Tatting and then he had taught his three daughters how to Tat. There may have been fancy stores to buy things, but Great Grandpa was more practical than that. He carved three Tatting Shuttles and gave one each to his daughters.
My Great Grandpa was also woodcarver – not just whittling with a pocket knife from what I was told. He was a quilter and a weaver as well.
After listening to the great stories that my aunt told me, I asked her if she would teach me how to Tat. She started to laugh and almost fell off her bed. She declared that, "I haven't got enough time left to teach you how to Tat!"
I guess she thought that I might have been a challenge, maybe even impossible to teach.
It was a fun visit hearing all about Great Grandpa and the things he did.
I left the senior's home and went directly to a small craft shop. I bought a silver shuttle, a ball of white cotton and a book entitled, "Learn to Tat".
On the Flight back to Toronto I taught myself how to tat from the little book.
My Aunt Annie heard that I was Tatting. She in her very kind way sent me my Grandma Lincoln's wooden tatting shuttle.. the one that my Great Grandfather had carved from hickory for her as a young girl.
Along with the shuttle she also gave me Grandma Lincoln's last handkerchief that she was working on when she finished lace making on Earth.
Above and below you can see my treasures.
I hope Great Grandpa Phillips and Grandma Lincoln are some how able to see what I have done with this gifts they gave me.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
My Grandma Lincoln's last piece of Tatting… and another shot of Great Grandpa's Hickory Tatting Shuttle.


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Senior Building Surveyor
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- £40000.00 - £50000.00 per annum + Negotiable
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- 31 Jul 2017
- Closes
- 19 Aug 2017
- Contract Type
- Full Time
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As a Senior Building Surveyor you will be working on a variety of projects and survey type work, predominately in the public sector on Education based project delivery. The range of work will be diverse, working with some of the leading Public and Private Schools in the UK. You will provide a broad range of professional and project management services to schools and local and central government clients. The main purpose of the role is to deliver services across all aspects of the building surveying service line.
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You've probably heard about self-publishing or seen lots of free books available for your Kindle, Nook, Kobo or other ereader. Well, it appears to be here to stay thanks to the likes of Amazon, Lulu and a number of other self-publishing platforms — the 21st Century is going to be a very different place for the publishing industry.READ MORE »
The horrors of CreateSpace or [ insert service here ]
One of the slightly odd things I keep coming across is a reference to "horror stories" about self publishing services like Lulu and CreateSpace. Now, while I've had issues with printing, that's something that has always been an issue with getting anything physically printed, whether using a traditional printer or a print on demand service. […]READ MORE »
Procrastination is not your friend
Thought I'd talk about procrastination tod Sorry, where was I? Oh yeah, procrastination: the art of putting off to tomorrow what you could do today. Let's get this straight — procrastination is not your friend. Nothing gets done if you sit on the couch and watch the latest episode of The Walking Dead, doing your […]READ MORE »
Where to start
So you want to publish the book you've written and don't know where to start. That's easy: at the beginning. Okay, that was a bit smart-ass and I apologise. If you've got this far, I'm guessing you've already GOT AN EDITOR and you've been polishing that beauty up and it's ready to see the light […]READ MORE »
What you need to know about ISBNs
An ISBN, or International Standard Book Number "is a unique numeric commercial book identifier based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) code" first invented in 1965 and now widely used to identify books across the world. And in order to get your printed book distributed you will need one. Where to get ISBNs in […]READ MORE »
I can't emphasise enough how important it is to get an editor for your book – and that's anyone who's written or writing a book. The more people you get to read a manuscript, the more likely they're going to find any problems with spelling, grammar, plot issues; all things you should fix.READ MORE »
Why you shouldn't self-publish
Don't just 'do it'… With all the debate about the quality of some self-published books, it seems a good time to weigh in on something I talk about in the sessions I run: there are reasons NOT to self-publish. I know, this sounds like something a person in my position shouldn't say, but it needs to be said.READ MORE »


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Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) is a technology developed by Apple Inc. to optimize application support for systems with multi-core processors and other symmetric multiprocessing systems.[2] It is an implementation of task parallelism based on the thread pool pattern. The fundamental idea is to move the management of the thread pool out of the hands of the developer, and closer to the operating system. The developer injects "work packages" into the pool oblivious of the pool's architecture. This model improves simplicity, portability and performance. Continue reading


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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The new Hope
salam..hi..first..im malay and my english is not very good so sorry if I don't type the proper way :)..
there's something that i want to share with u guys.. this is the concept i did for my upcoming animation proposal..im so excited about it. i've never do the animation concept before...n this time i set my target to try my capability in doing most of the pre-pro...n try to prove that im really serious in this industry....i'll post some more when i ready :)
ok thats it for this time.. gonna finish it by 2nd August...pray for me!..now get back to work!..ahhah
Posted by amencodai at 10:27 PM
5 comments:
- oRen said...
hands down.. kau memang hebat~
- July 26, 2012 at 1:12 AM
- amencodai said...
waaa ncik oren..tidak..sy masih amature..banyak yg perlu dipelajari dari ncik yang banyak pengalaman..sila beri tunjuk ajar..salah silap harap ditegur..terima kasih! :)
- July 26, 2012 at 3:09 AM
- plain83 said...
niceeee...me likey what me sees...gua follow XD
- September 24, 2012 at 11:35 PM
- dilla said...
dats awesome but why did u stop updating ur blog? u do animation ? i wanna see it :D hope u will update smday
- May 28, 2013 at 9:34 PM
- luzrafikr said...
hebat, komposisi, warna, best belaka
- November 28, 2013 at 12:05 PM
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|The supplies you'll need are:
one sheet of 12" x 12" pattern paper
one piece of coordinating card stock
pieces of scrap papers to punch into circles
letter stickers
circle punches
paper trimmer
|Optional: The first thing I did was ink and distress the edges. This is pretty simple: just open up your scissors and drag the sharp part along the edge of the card stock. It gives it a "ragged" look.
|Then trim about 1/4" off the right and bottom edges of the pattern paper, ink it, and attach it to the center of the card stock.
Thanks for stopping by and God bless.
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Around this neck of the woods we encourage stunningly high standards of cleanliness.
A few basic rules are immutable such as eat/drink at the table, as this limits the square footage of cleaning required thereafter. Even after all these years, fine and gross motor skills are approximate. Patience and cleaning skills are limited but reminders and prompts help to keep us all on track, or they do until external forces put a spanner in the works.
The spanner beams at me from the sofa, "I tink day are try to copy me!"
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The Nebraska State Board of Education today voted down a proposed resolution against Obama Administration guidance on the use of school restroom use and other facilities by transgender students. The resolution would of allowed each district to make their own policies.
The board voted three for and three against the resolution with two absent. The resolution failed. The board then went into executive session to discuss the issue further. A motion that would have moved the issue to the Policy Committee for review also failed.
Earlier this year, President Obama ordered all schools to permit transgender students to use school restrooms and other facilities that matched their gender identity.


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We will even sell and serve the destructive wine of this world to the infidel tourists and not drink it ourselves. But later, Maldivians will enjoy wine in Paradise as a reward for their Good Deeds. Suck on that, Caligula and Hugh Hefner!
"What hair! What a chest! What a mouth! What cheeks! What a figure! What breasts! What thighs! What legs! What whiteness! What softness! Without any creams - no Nivea, no Vaseline. No nothing!"
"You Would Find 10 Black-Eyed Virgins Sprawled on Musk Cushions"
"He said that faces would be soft that day. Even your own face will be soft without any powder or makeup. You yourself will be soft, so how soft will a black-eyed virgin be, when she comes to you so tall and with her beautiful face, her black hair and white face - praised be He who created night and day. Just feel her palm, Sheikh!
"He said: How soft will a fingertip be, after being softened in paradise for thousands of years! There is no god but Allah. He told us that if you entered one of the palaces, you would find 10 black-eyed virgins sprawled on musk cushions. Where is Abu Khaled? Here, he has arrived!
"When they see you, they will get up and run to you. Lucky is the one who gets to put her thumb in your hand. When they get hold of you, they will push you onto your back, on the musk cushions. They will push you onto your back, Jamal! Allah Akbar! I wish this on all people present here.
"He said that one of them would place her mouth on yours. Do whatever you want.
"Another one would press her cheek against yours, yet another would press her chest against yours, and the others would await their turn. There is no god but Allah."
"Wine in Paradise is a Reward for Your Good Deeds"
"He told us that one black-eyed virgin would give you a glass of wine. Wine in Paradise is a reward for your good deeds. The wine of this world is destructive, but not the wine of the world to come."


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Thursday, March 15, 2007
What's most disturbing to me about images of black children picking a white doll as the "good" doll is that this raises the question of where those internalized notions of "goodness" and "badness" have come from? How old were those children--4 or 5? Have they already absorbed, perhaps at an unconscious level, images from the media?
Dr. No
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I too find myself thinking about this issue of internalization: accepting the judgment of others, or letting such judgments define who we are. I think it's such a subtle (and common)--thing that it must be very difficult to root out or overcome. And sometimes it's even a good thing--don't all children get a sense of who they are and their self-worth initially from hearing "good girl" etc. from their parents? Anyway, the idea makes me appreciate all the more both what had to be overcome in the civil rights campaign, and the achievement of people like King.
- March 15, 2007 at 4:06 PM
- Michael said...
I think Huck is able to overcome his sense of moral education because of his first hand experience. By living with Jim on a raft, he sees and knows that Jim a person that deserves freedom and basic rights just like anyone else. Perhaps "moral education" is only applicable to a certain point in one's life. We can be taught that violence is wrong and freedom is right, but it can only resonate within us once we see it first hand. Freedom is something we all take for granted; it isn't until we see the extremes that we begin to realize how wonderful basic rights are.
- March 15, 2007 at 8:33 PM


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Nouriel Roubini discussing the market meltdown. I'm less sanguine than he is about Neo-Keynesian stimulus spending. US infrastructure needs re-building so badly, but I don't think that is what is going to slow down the recession/mini-depression. It may halt it somewhat (maybe), but it's too long by the time Obama gets into office and before the projects will really get going. Paulson & Crew have not surprisingly known what the f–k to do with the monies so far given in the bailouts. Nor the CEOs of said firms who have their heads up their back sides.
Even someone like Roubini or Nassim Taleb, as well as Peter Schiff & George Soros, correctly predicted the housing bubble collapse, which then exposed a much deeper bubble (a super-bubble in Soros' terms) that was the entire solvency/credit trap that has taken over and the failure of 30 years of economic policy. Black swans in Taleb's language can not be predicted. Both he and Roubini correctly predicted that said market was built on sand and would eventually collapse, but neither one of them got right precisely when it would happen (they both thought in 2003). And now after the fact, as Taleb would say, we create a story—a narrative fallacy in his words–that Bear Sterns was the presenting cause of the collapse. But say Bear Sterns had been bailed out, maybe something else would have caused it, or rather simply exposed what was shoddy construction. Eventually a house built on shifting sands is going to fall down. Predicting exactly when or why is not really the issue. The issue is the poor choice of construction.
But looking back over my blog, I noticed these comments to a post of mine from my friend Daniel O'Connor. He wrote the following on Jan 23rd of this year. That's January of 2008. That's as the sub-prime bubble is beginning to burst, but before bailouts, market crash, the "r" word, unemployment hitting big, the credit crunch really coming to the fore. His predictions are beyond prescient. I've highlighted the relevant portions on specific points of pinpoint accuracy in his predictions and added some bracketed comments for contextualization/translation:
The market economy is now very clearly in the midst of a deflationary-recessionary system dynamic wherein money-credit and productive output are both contracting. This is what the early stages of a depression look like in this unique new era. [ed: Credit Crunch, Global 1-2 yr Recession/Mini-Depression]. It may not come to pass as a full-blown deflationary-recession, but the basic system structure is in place and the dynamics are working in predictable ways.
The Feds already are and will continue to do everything possible to inflate money-credit and GDP over the next several years, fighting the market system's natural drive to reduce asset prices (primarily housing, but also stocks [Stock Market Crash in Fall 2008] and soon enough commercial real estate) and write-off the associated debt [See bailouts of AIG, Citigroup, etc. via TARP, .
They did this with surprising effectiveness beginning in 2000, but at that time they had a balanced budget and a housing sector not yet maxed out in terms of debt and asset prices. Now they are in a desperate situation, far worse than the 2000 scenario and about all they have left in their conventional policy arsenal is to maintain massive budget deficits that are monetized by the Federal Reserve (i.e., the Fed buying new treasury securites to fund the deficits as a way to automatically create new money and thereby inflate GDP via excessive government spending). If they were to spend this extra $300B a year on domestic infrastructure and clean technology [Obama's Fiscal Infrastructure Stimulus], rather than weapons that are destroyed in their use to destroy other people's capital structure, then the deficits might not be nearly so bad for the economy.
Beyond this, look to the Fed to start systematically buying Treasury securities on the open market [see Roubini's statement on this very point in the video above] as a way to lower long-term interest rates–very unconventional, though I suspect they are already doing this now. They are also likely buying stocks through their secret accounts on Wall Street in order to preclude a crash.
This is serious game time for these guys, so from their perspective another 4 years of deficits is not only not a problem, but a key part of the short-term solution to a bigger problem than they will ever admit publicly.
If I ever run for office (not gonna happen), then I'm asking Daniel to be my economics adviser. If you want to check out some more of his stuff, his website is here (Catallaxis). He has some recent posts from the summer more fully fleshing out his views on Integral Theory of Praxis. Some really brilliant stuff. I hope to have some time to comment on some of it in the next few weeks.


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Summer courses: OneNote and Read and Write Gold for parents
These August courses are available at no cost (provided by the Special Education Department) to parents of students with S.E.A. claims.
Using Learn 360 to Access a Variety of Media to Support Student Learning
As teachers, we are always trying to find different ways to engage our students and to support a variety of learning styles. One great way to engage our learners is through videos and through the use of rich images.
Learn 360 is an online media service that supports the K-12 curriculum. There are over 9,300 video titles and 28,500 video clips as well as a tremendous selection of images and articles. Many of the resources are from the A&E and History channels, as well as National Geographic and Sunburst Visual Media.
Videos are available in three different media formats:
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Through the use of Learn 360, teachers can use videos and images to engage students in their learning, as they are better able to visualize key concepts and to construct meaning.


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Well more movement on this but no images.
The DDS control is up and running using AD9854 as I have decided to use the R2/T2 type phasing as per KK7B. It means that cw, ssb and am all possible.
As I get closer to a final design been advised to keep PIC/AVR source to myself though.
Thursday, 10 September 2009
M1KTA QRP TCVR HB-1A - KX1 Clone
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- M1KTA said...
Inverted the DDS/LO and the tcvr now also does 6m and 4m as well as HF.
- 24 September 2009 at 12:22
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They called it the "Rally to Restore Sanity" but after this event I think they lost the high ground.
What wasn't nonsense was anti-Right anti-Teaparty and anti-Fox news.
First the nonsense….
The anti-Teaparty
and the anti-Fox news
I have to admit some of it was funny, once you got past all the hate (see above). Some of it was cool
but mostly it was a rally not about sanity but rather about the bashing of conservatives though a series of standup comedy routines and poorly veiled references to things like "Witches" and "Crazy" and "tea". No hearts were changed, no fences were mended.
Working on the Videos, Pictures are on Flickr.
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I also started our new Bible reading schedule following the reading/ theme suggestions from Hubbard's Cupboard. It was also 'box' week--as we got two new boxes with homeschooling materials for the rest of the year (CLE Math and Intro to Classical Music).
With the weather changing into Spring (some days at least), I've made a renewed effort to spend time outdoors each day. My goal is an hour each day, but, this week it all depended on the weather. We went outside and played 4 days out of the week---and made our goal of an hour or over twice.
Okay back to our week---
Bible theme: Abraham from Hubbard's Cupboard
Devotional: O is for Obey Your Parents from 'Big Thoughts' devotional
The words to remember were: 'Even the octopus praises the Lord'
Our read alouds were Little Toot by Hardie Gramatky and A House for a Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
Also reading: In Which a House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore by A.A. Milne
|picking weeds;)
|Collecting weeds...ahem..I mean a bouquet
|Enjoying the backyard
|her sweet bouquet
|burning energy
|Little Bear is almost 2.
|having snack outside
|Reading about animals in the ocean
|What is this?
|....why it's a hotdog octopus of course;)
|coloring their ocean animal puppets
|Bud coloring his puppets
|Sissy and her 'House for a Hermit Crab' puppets
|Bud lined his up
|finishing his last one
|What a difference a day makes--outside with jackets and hats.
|Little Bear sitting with Bud in time out;)
|Working on phonics
|the number chart that came with his math curriculum
|Looking through his math activity book
Other books:
McLimans, David
Ryan, Pam Munoz.
House for a Hermit Crab puppets
Mama Jenn's WTR illustration/narration sheets
Linking to:
Preschool Post @ Homeschool Creations
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Chris Prat, IMDb Top 500 List, Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Movie, Movie Review, Osama Bin Laden, Oscar Winner
From IMDb's Top 500, Zero Dark Thirty came highly recommended by a friend, however, after three hours of waiting for that "something" to get me, I was happy that the movie finally ended.
Despite not liking the movie, Jessica Chastain did a wonderful job playing a CIA interrogator bound and determined to – over a ten-year-period – find the location of, and kill Osama bin Laden.
This movie documents the frustrating search for the infamous ring-leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist group over three hours of a very dry, clinical recounting of the search.
Sadly, I was happy to know that the movie was finally and it was time to go home.


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Do you know that programming language inventors and serial killers are so same that you will tousle the.Try your knowledge on http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/
Programming language inventor or serial killer?
Do you know that programming language inventors and serial killers are so same that you will tousle the.Try your knowledge on http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/
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Try this game on http://www.igre.co.ba/odmor1.asp?f=196 .You are tippler, and moving your mouse, you overbalance your counterweight.The game look really easy but its hard after some time ;)
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The Newspaper Generator
On site http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp you can make virtual newspapers.It will generate one part of the page.Meaby it is small, but is is fun for personal use.The similar generators can foud on http://www.addletters.com/newspaper-generator.htm
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Boomshine 2 production under way! Boomshine is a casual but highly-addictive Flash game. Click the screen to start a chain reaction and try to burst as many dots as needed to pass a level. The game contains 12 levels ranging from the easy to the hard (it takes the average player 25 tries to finish level 12!). Since the game was released in March 2007, 20,000,000 levels have been played by hundreds of thousands of players. This game relaxes your brain because it has a beautifull background music!
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Relaxing Music
On site http://www.soundsleeping.com/, you can make ideal relaxing sounds for your brain. You can make, on one speaker, sounds of ocean, ond on other speaker, sound of gulls! You can furnish up to five different sound.You have some basics options, like volume, left or rights aspect of speakers an some sound.
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