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I have been reflecting about this birthday for a while, and trying to figure out how I feel about this so called "big one." (it's 50, in case you didn't know already) I have a few friends that have arrived here before me, most are way behind me, and one shares the same birthday and birthyear! (happy day to you, Glenda!) At first I rebelled; not against getting older but against how our society overvalues youth and makes fun of the old. I refused to wear makeup, I didn't cover my gray hair, I talked about my age. I had decided I just wouldn't give in to the youth culture. I found it is not so easy though. Every time I looked in the mirror some gray-haired woman was looking at me and she just didn't look at all like I felt. I found myself looking at other women trying to decide if they were older than me or younger than me, were they already part of this club I was about to join, be it unwillingly? I have been in school at the local community colleges with people young enough to be my children and I have to admit that it unnerved me to be in a social culture that I couldn't really relate to. Even though I have two teenagers, I couldn't catch on to the lingo, I was confused by the phrases they used and the things they found funny. I felt ignored because I didn't fit the category of "hot single babe, date material" so they didn't talk to me. Now I am in a great nursing program with 47 other people just as excited as I am to be there and everyone talks to me, it is a great group of students.
I had dreamed that I would spend my 50th birthday at the beach, the place I like to spend all my birthdays, with my friends and my family, just having a relaxing time. Then I got into nursing school and it turned out that not only did I have to go to school on my birthday, but I had a test! I was sure I would be depressed about it, and that I would spend the day wishing I were anywhere else. But it didn't turn out that way. I have had a huge turnaround. I changed my mind about the gray hair and had my hair highlighted. Am I succumbing to the youth culture or am I just wanting to have the outside of me look more like the inside of me feels? I don't know. I do know that I woke up this morning, happy. I sang the whole way in to school, I wasn't stressed about the exam, I felt relaxed. The happy, joyous feeling is coming from somewhere deeper than I have felt before, it is irrepressible. Nobody and nothing can spoil this day and maybe future days too! I am doing what I want with my life, I have renewed hope in the possibility that I can make an impact on the world. I really think it is that hope that is making me feel so good. I know that I have already done much in raising our kids, I have always said that raising the next generation of competent compassionate citizens is the best contribution anyone can make to the world. And we are doing that, our kids make us proud. But when they step out on their own, I want to continue to contribute and I really feel like nursing is a place for me to do that. So it makes me happy to be where I am, as I mark the end of my 50th trip around the sun I realize I am not sad or depressed to be getting older, I am happy to be here, grateful to be alive and able to move into the next phase of my life. I look in that mirror and it's not a gray-haired old lady looking back at me, but it is the me I used to know, with an easy smile and eyes and heart full of hope. I vow to stop focusing on the time that is passing or the old age that is coming, but instead to revel in the moments I am experiencing right now. Is 50 over the hill? I don't think so, what hill? No, 50 is just another step in the journey. I love my life, I am content, I am at peace.


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So I deleted all my post of Chris's past as I looked them over they were more ranting about stupid things rather thing thought provoking ideas and claims.
My brain has always has a strange Philosophical strength to it. Questioning things to the nth degree and still never agreeing on a definite answer.
I recently received the book. 50 Philosophy Ideas you really need to know by Ben Dupre. As I have been reading the book it made me think up new mind twisting and thought provoking ideas. and I think I would like to start sending some of these ideas you way and hopefully it will make you think.
You are all welcome to answer as all answers are just thoughts on the subject because there really is no true correct answer.
So the thought for today?
You see a fresh cool glass of water at the table and you realize that you could use it to quench your thirst. So you reach out grab it and drink it. It tastes pretty bland but also tastes amazing as your thirst slowly dissipates.
Now how did you get your hand to move to the glass and then lift the glass to your mouth?
You brain sent an electrical impulse to the muscle to react and finish this task.
But the real brain teaser is what made the brain realize it needed to create the impulse. Your thought of having it, drinking it, or grabbing it? They are all thoughts but what was the reaction that caused the electrical impulse to your muscles. what caused the thoughts?
If you think you figured it out then try and go back one more step in the process.
You'll find yourself wondering about this one for awhile.
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We visited Sydney for our first time over the New Year's Eve break and we were simply blown away by the beauty, fun, excitement, and warm hospitality of the Aussies. We quite simply fell in love with Sydney.
As one of the most iconic cities of the world with her world-famous Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Bondi Beach and sparkling waters, Sydney is breathtakingly beautiful. And to ring in New Year's Eve with Sydney's amazing fireworks, was just a dream come true. We had our boat bobbing under the Harbour Bridge near the Opera House as we viewed the most spectacular fireworks in the world.
Of course, we did all the touristy stuff such as Opera House, Harbour Bridge, The Rocks, Bondi Beach, Rose Bay, as well as the Northern Beaches like Manly Beach, Freshwater, Palm Beach and more. As images speak louder than words, we highly recommend Sydney as the top destination to visit!


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Hilary Duff ~ Dignity
The first time I heard the album all the songs sounded like one very long song: all the songs were basically disco-ey dance songs. But seeing new photos and watching videos of Hilary Duff busy promoting the CD in fantastic outfits encouraged me to give the CD more chances (-yes, I'm shallow this way). After listening to the CD a few more times, I was in love with most of the songs.
The lyrics are actually well-written and the songs are just so fun without being dumb. I think Hilary described it best in an interview with Girlfriend magazine: 'There are many records on the air that are like, "Shake your ass, blah blah blah." I love that kind of music, but I wanted my record to have some meaning too.' And surprisingly, most music reviews thought the album was better than expected too, so if you like this kind of music, give it a try. Songs I am loving: With Love, Dignity, Happy, Burned
Good Charlotte ~ Good Morning Revival
This CD got loads of bad reviews, but I liked it mostly. Partly because I like pop rock and this album is it; partly because the melodies are easy to the ears and the beat just makes one bob their heads along; and a tiny bit because I think Joel is cute (I actually miss his and Benji's eyeliner-smudged eyes!). Yes it is very different from Good Charlotte's early albums but hey, they grew up. The only thing I didn't like was that it sounded too polished. I liked it better when it sounded like they were a band from the neighbourhood. Songs I am loving: The River, Break Apart Her Heart, Keep Your Hands Off My Girl, Misery
Avril Lavigne ~ The Best Damn Thing
Err, I don't know what to say. I mean, the songs aren't bad, but they're just so... cheerful. I loved her previous albums, Let Go and Under My Skin, but this album felt a bit immature for someone who had made those albums. Yes, Girlfirend is seriously catchy but I just expected more from Avril. On a side note, did anyone else think it was really weird seeing Avril dance in Girlfriend's music video?
Maybe this is part of the reason I don't like her CD that much -pink frilly dress, seriously? And that eye makeup does not look good. I liked her so much more when she wore more black and white clothes and Converse or Vans sneakers. So ya, I just thought The Best Damn Thing was just ok and the slow songs are definitely better than the fast ones.
Obviously I am no music critic, but I thought it would be fun to share and see what everyone thought of the CDs. Anyone else heard these new CDs? Which CDs and songs are your favourite?


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The OTA update is being pushed to Nexus One users by Google servers and is expected to cover all users over a week time. Guys at Android communities already figured out how to manually update the phone instead of waiting for Google's push notification.
The procedure is pretty simple.
Download the update file from google server (check below link for details) and rename as update.zip.
Copy it to the root folder of the SD card
Shutdown the phone and restart while pressing down the trackball
Select bootloader from the list displayed
Select update.zip from SD card option.
This will take you to a screen with a triangle and android
Press down the power button and then the volume key without leaving the power button
Leave your phone to complete the update which may take time
Don't do anything even if you feel that your phone is stuck with an android out of box screen. It will restart after a few minutes.
Once complete check the multitouch on your browser. If it's not working try to soft reset the phone a few times.(I didn't face that problem)
I managed to get the update done without the need for a PC. Just install astro from android market. Download the update, rename and move the file to SD card root folder using Astro!
Check this link for full instructions and download link.
Multitouch has been one big missing factor in Nexus One, especially for people who switched in from iPhone.
If Google develops picasa in line with iTunes to easily manage nexus one media, that will seal the deal. Atleast till the next iPhone comes
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by Kathy R.
I had the opportunity to test Elena Rubin Carpe Diem Day Lotion SPF 28 ($59). I am a 52-year-old caucasian woman prone to facial spotting. I live in my facial sunscreen. I spend a moderate amount of time outdoors and drive a convertible with the top down every possible day. I found the Carpe Diem cream to be a lovely product that stands up to the sun's rays.
I applied this each morning with a few pumps of the dispenser to my freshly washed face. It is a thick cream rather than a runny lotion. You can feel the thickness while applying to your skin and the softening texture allows you to feel where you have applied it. The product does massage in well preventing ending up with a white cast.
This is a physical sunscreen with mineral actives zinc oxide and titanium dioxide for UVA/UVB protection. Other key ingredients include allantoin, which promotes healthy skin formation and allows skin to absorb more moisture, as well as caprlic/capric triglyceride, which increases the skin's ability to absorb active ingredients. There's also squalane, which helps skin hold moisture, and fructooligosaccharides, a sugar-derived ingredient that protects skin from harmful bacteria.
The combination of mineral sunscreens with the moisturizing factors make this a cream to use daily whether you will be in the sun or not. My skin feels soft all day long and never feels like I need an additional dose of moisturizer. It feels good on my sensitive skin and gives my skin no stresses of allergins, dryness, or blocked pores.


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"Feed Your Palette Paint Night"
Council Wives
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
16 Main Street, Madison AL, 35758
25Come and enjoy an evening with the Madison City Council Wives.
16 Main will be raffling off 1 seat for this special event!
Tickets can be purchased for $5 @ 16 Main, M-Sa 10am-7pm
The drawing will be held on July 6th @5pm
(All proceeds from the raffle will support art lessons for selected Madison children.
The children will be selected through a drawing at the October 2010 Madison Street festival.)
Instructor Michele Lee has created an evening full of fun for this event. Participants will enjoy creating a "surprise" painting to take home, hor d'oeuvres from the Main Street Cafe and lots of fun interacting with the Madison City Council Wives, including Mayor's wife, Julie Finley.
This will be the first in a series of events scheduled by the Madison Council Wives to bring awareness to the Madison Community and it's amazing opportunities!
So lets hear it Madison!
Come on out and let's do a little giving back to our community!


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(I have started this post three times now, intending to post it since Saturday! Sorry for the delay:D)
Thank you all so much for your sweet comments! Between blog comments, e-mails, facebook comments, and phone calls, my week has been rather umm, busy, responding to people:). I have been so amazed by the way the Lord put Nat and I together, and then I was overwhelmed by everyone offering congratulations! Quite literally, people across the country have joined in with us in celebrating. Of course, many of those people added the little "I knew it!" or "I was praying for you two to get together!" phrases:).
Before I get to our story though, I want to give a little background in getting to this point. In fact, our story won't even make it into today's post! I guess this is just a teaser to have y'all tune in next time;0).
It is always a choice to follow the Lord when He leads. After being in a very unsatisfying dating relationship at age 15, I determined before the Lord that I would not date around to find the right guy for me. It just wasn't worth it and the Lord showed me from His Word that it was my choice ~in fact, my responsibility ~ to keep my heart with all diligence (Proverbs 4:23). Easy to say, hard to do!
With good intentions firmly tucked in my mind, I embarked on this journey of keeping my heart. Isn't it true that when you determine to do good, the carrot is dangled in front of you to do something that seems to be good, but in reality is second-best? I had that happen to me - quite unintentionally, I assure you! One of the girls at church got engaged at 18 and suddenly the rest of us girls between 14-17 all thought that was going to happen to us:). Girls are funny creatures and once an idea gets established in their minds, there is no shaking them out of it!
My expectation at 18 was to "flip the tassel and say I do." My graduation from high school came and went, as did my 19th and 20th years. Somewhere between my 20th and 21st year, it dawned on me that I was not fulfilling God's purpose in my life by just sitting around and waiting for Prince Charming to come sweeping in on a white horse and carry me off into the sunset. (Where do these ideas get churned up anyway?!?)
It was at that point that I took the advice a dear friend had given to me two years previously on my graduation day: use my season of singleness to serve the Lord and not waste it. I look back with much regret on my first two years out of high school, for I feel I squandered so much time that could have been wisely spent in deeper service to my King.
As a side note, if there is any advice I could pass on to girls just graduating from high school it would be the same advice my friend gave me: use your season of singleness for the Lord; you won't regret it!
I must say that advice was very liberating for me as I begun to apply it to my life. This advice was in keeping with the truth found in 1 Corinthians 7:34 ~ "The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord..." From that point on, I made it my priority to serve those around me and in doing so, I was able to experience so many new and wonderful things.
I was also able to take several short-term missions trips and this would be something I highly recommend to single gals. Do it while you can! If God gives you the burden to go, He will provide the rest. As a friend of mine likes to say, "God's not broke!" It's so much fun to step out and watch the Lord pull all the details together for whatever it is the Lord has given you the desire to do.
There is so much more I could write, but I won't:). Hopefully within the next few days (hmm, maybe I better say within the next week:D) I'll be able to post the rest of the story!


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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Kansas Wants To Keep Unconstitutional Laws About Homosexuality on the Books
Have you ever just wanted to take someone by the lapel of his or her suit and scream, "What is wrong with you?" Right in their face? No? Maybe it's just me.
Because I really want to go up to Jan Pauls and Lance Kinzer, both Kansas state representatives (a Democrat and Republican, respectively), and do just that.
What has caused this affective state is something that is so ridiculous, so asinine that I didn't even think my state elected officials were capable of it. Pauls and Kinzer have successfully made a motion in the Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee to keep on the books the law that makes gay and lesbian relationships criminal.
Oh really? That's how you're going to play, is it? That is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.
As I am sure my dear and brilliant readers know, the Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas said that, no, there cannot be laws that criminalize homosexual relationships. Done. You can't do it. Yeah, I'm looking at you Representatives Pauls and Kinzer.
Oh, and did I mention that Pauls used to be a judge? Well, she was. Way to uphold the laws of the land.
I am frankly a little surprised these laws were still on the books. I figured something like this would have been wiped clean years ago, but apparently not. That is actually what the Kansas Judicial Council was trying to do: resolve inconsistencies in the Kansas criminal code and remove unconstitutional laws. But now the law that was supposed to bring the rest of the Kansas criminal code up to date, called HB2321, has been compromised.
What do you know? Irrational posturing defeats something totally reasonable. Who would have guessed?
This is just another example of the maliciousness of the powerful. Because it doesn't do anything, substantively. Kansas still can't prosecute people for being in gay relationships. The last time I checked, Kansas was still part of the union. Smack in the middle, in fact. So no one can be prosecuted under that law. What we have here is simply an attempt to make LGBT people feel marginalized, maligned and less than human.
This is not what the law is supposed to do. The law should protect people, lift them up. The law should be fair and not give credence to privately held prejudices that say some people are inherently worth less than others.
There is nothing in Representatives Pauls' and Kinzer's actions but bile and hate. The people of Kansas deserve so much better.
Please join me in telling the Kansas House to reject HB2321 until all unconstitutional laws are stricken from the books.
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Is this now the time for libraries to really get in the book/DVD kiosk game?
Hundreds of red movie-rental kiosks will appear in stores across the country in the coming months as U.S.-based Redbox expands into Canada, as the chain looks to take advantage of the vacuum left by the closure of traditional retail stores.
Redbox has just signed deals with Wal-Mart Canada and national convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. to place its kiosks in stores across the country. The Oakbrook, Ill., company, a unit of Coinstar Inc., has almost 30,000 rental kiosks across the United States.
"[Canada] is the third largest DVD rental country after America and Japan," said interim president Gregg Kaplan, speaking at an investment conference last week. "But at the same time, there is a bit of a void there. "As you might know, Blockbuster Canada and Rogers Video have either already exited or have announced that they're going to exit. So the brick-and-mortar retailers are already out."
There has been a vacuum in the estimated $1-billion Canadian DVD rental industry since Blockbuster Canada was pushed into receivership last year. More than 400 stores were closed across the country as a result, and Rogers Communications Inc. announced earlier this year it would also stop offering movie rentals in its stores.
The combination of streaming video services such as Netflix and rental kiosks devastated the U.S. video store industry over the past decade – stores' market share for rentals and sales fell to about 20 per cent, according to Convergence Consulting Group.
There are some kiosks already operating in Canada. Zip.ca has about 100 kiosks in grocery stores, and electronics retailer Best Buy wants to double its machines – which are typically found in Western Canadian convenience stores – to 130 by the end of the year.
But the services were never seriously marketed in Canada and face content licensing difficulties that have diluted their offerings. Sixty per cent of all movie rental sales in Canada last year took place when someone walked into a store and grabbed a movie off the shelf, according to Convergence Consulting Group in a recent study.
"We feel like Canada now is ripe to do this and we feel like it's time for us to go there in addition to what we're doing in the U.S," Mr. Kaplan said. "And given that there's already a couple of kiosk competitors and the brick-and-mortar folks have exited, the time is right ... we don't want to lose that opportunity."
Mr. Kaplan wants to see about 2,500 kiosks in Canada within the "next few years," but said the company will initially focus on Vancouver and Toronto.
"Historically, a pretty good rule of thumb, what we've seen in other businesses is that Canada can get to roughly 1/10 the size of the U.S. market," Mr. Kaplan said. "We're not projecting that yet because we haven't had the experience there, but it feels like it could be sizable."
The company's self-serve kiosks will charge Canadians $1.50 for a standard definition new releases or $2 for a Blu-ray. Video games will also be offered, at $2.50.
"We set the price points at a level where we think we can get similar demand and profitability," Mr. Kaplan said. "The brick-and-mortar competitors, when they were there, were at U.S. kinds of levels. So $4 or $5."


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Thoughts on exercise
(Stolen from http://happinessproject.typepad.com/happiness_project/2006/05/this_wednesday__3.html)
Always exercise on Monday. This sets the psychological pattern for the week.
Never skip exercising for two days in a row. You can skip a day, but the next day, you must exercise no matter how inconvenient.
DON'T link exercise to weight loss as a way to motivate yourself. Although it's quite true that people who exercise regularly are far more likely to keep weight off, you'll find yourself justifying missing your run by turning down two Saltines. And if you don't lose weight easily (who does?), you're likely to give up exercise as futile.
Give yourself credit for the smallest effort. My father always said that all he had to do was put on his running shoes and close the door behind him.
Think about context. I thought I hated weight-training, but in fact, I hated the weight-training area of my gym. Do you try to run in the mornings, but recoil from going out in the cold? Do you hate the loud music in your gym? Is your work-out so exhausting that you can't face the rest of your day? Re-think your choices.
You must exercise frequently. If you think you're staying in shape by joining games of pick-up basketball, you should be playing four or five times a week. Twice a month isn't enough.
If you don't have time both to exercise and take a shower, find exercise (weight-training, yoga, walking) where in many cases you don't need to shower afterward.
Look for affordable ways to make exercising more pleasant or satisfying. Could you upgrade to a nicer gym? Buy yourself a new iPod? Work with a trainer? Get a pedometer? (they're only $25). Exercise is a high life priority, so this is the place to spend some money if that helps.
Think of exercise as part of your essential preparation for times you want to be in especially fine form—whether in performance (to be sharp for an important presentation) or appearance (to look good for a wedding) or mood (to deal with a stressful situation). Studies show that exercise does help.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, i.e., don't decide it's only worth exercising if you can run five miles or bike for an hour. I have a friend who never exercises unless she's training for a marathon.
Beware of magical thinking:
Having a gym membership doesn't mean that you go to the gym, and owning a yoga mat doesn't mean you practice yoga.
Just because you were in shape in high school or college doesn't mean you're in shape now.
Saying that you don't have time to exercise doesn't make it true.
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IoM £4m neonatal unit 'on schedule' to open in February
A £4 million intensive care facility for newborn babies on the Isle of Man is on schedule to open in February, it has been confirmed.
The funding was approved by Tynwald as part of the health department's budget plan for 2013 and work began last year.
The multi-million pound facility is being built next to the existing Jane Crookall Maternity Ward on the hospital site in Braddan.
Health minister Howard Quayle said it would be a "facility to be proud of."
Mr Quayle attended a topping out ceremony at the site on Monday and said it was a "major milestone".
According to a health spokesman the current capacity of nine cots will remain, but the new facility will provide additional overnight accommodation for parents, space to improve isolation, resuscitation and privacy, as well as additional room for the storage of vital equipment.


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My driving instructor for the first few weeks, starting with today's disaster of a driving lesson, is a crotchety old man who's said to be one of the best instructors at the school. My classmates and I were all under the impression that our first day of field training would be spent inspecting the truck and otherwise tooling around. Instead, we did a short inspection and took turns driving the rig around the yard, hooking it up to trailers and learning to back up. "Ladies first," the instructor said, and handed me the key.
"Demoralizing" is a good way to describe the experience, or "humbling." It would have helped if I had EVER IN MY LIFE driven stick shift before. But I haven't, and the instructor had assumed we all had, so after another student and I stalled out a few times he backtracked and went back to basics - but not before yelling at me, "Why didn't you hit the clutch?" when I tried to brake and stalled out; "Because I didn't know I was supposed to," I replied, and stumbled out of the truck on shaky legs. Thankfully we're not leaving the truck yard until the end of the week. By then I hope to have a better grasp on this stuff.
But other than my first-day failure actually driving the thing, it was an incredible feeling to be up there in that tank of a vehicle, encased in thousands of pounds of steel, all high and seemingly invincible.
Monday, February 25, 2008
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- Robert said...
The old man is just from the 'old guard' or rather old school. He's probably just pissed that you're encroaching on his territory. Or to put it in another way, he works in a heavily male dominated field and is having his manhood threatened by the fact that a woman is attempting to do what he does.
....though he could just be having a bad day and is venting his frustration on some newbies.
And/or he could just be an old grump that is rude to random people.
I need a cookie.
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How Christianity Came into Europe
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Note: This post is about History, European History and how the Christian religion came into Europe, also the drawing to illustrate this, was made by me.
Note2: This was a scheduled Post.
How Christianity came into Europe
In 219 BCE the warrior and commander Hannibal of Carthage, a Roman Province in Northern Africa, after his fathers death, gathered the army in his yound age of 16 years old, and went to conquer Rome in revange of his father's death by Roman hands. He went by land into the Iberian Peninsula, Lusitans of Portugal and Spanish from Spain, helped Hannibal, joining his army, they went to the Pyrenees in northern Spain, the border between spain and mordern france, and there the roman troops were waiting for Hannibal's army, 10.000 romans and all slaughtered, Hannibel continue to go and was helped by the Gauls in ancient gaul todays france, after this many other battles were fought, Hannibel killed many romans, and more romans came to him, till he reached northern Italy, Hannibel won all the battles but he did not reach his goal, to burn down rome, which in that time was not yet an Empire, Hannibal turned back to Carthage, strategically he has lost the war. but with this event, the Romans in reprisal start to kill and conquer all those who could oppose their safety, politics, economy and wealth. So it began the wars of rome against the rest of Europe, and it became a vast empire, the first to go down of course, were the people in Northern Italy an ancient tribe of celts and of course the northern Africa where Carthage was, then the rest of Europe. Among the many people the Romans subjected to their will, came the people of Yahushua ( Jesus Christ ), after they have killed Jesus, many created the new Religion of Christianity, and so many more joined this new faith, and the romans and the Jews were the first ones, changing all the wishes of Jesus and turning this new faith into something that would give them power over all, now it would be easier to conquer all without battle, but through faith, a new religion made by lies, and those lies would convince too many to submit themselves to a new order of power, this was not a religion but politics to increase the roman economy, so this was how christianity started to spread, but a germanic tribe called the Wandalns ( Vandals ) invaded rome and brought it down, so the Roman Empire has fallen and as it was falling apart, so all the roman citys and provinces were falling too. The people that were used to live in a roman way, with all the tecnologhy they brought, were now living in a world were all of those works were falling too, such as the aqueducts that used to bring water to all, now that rome had fallen, no one cared about that, and people start to live in a poor way, with no conditions, nor hygiene, so people start to have many problems, and since Europe belonged to no one now, many tribes became countries and those were fighting to have more land and power, and the people now living in a evil world where food was scarce, battles everywhere, the people were in need of something to save them so badly, no one was there to protect them, and now they were being robbed and murdered.
Meanwhile the franks apeared, the Franks were a West Germanic confederation, uniting the peoples in Magna Germania north and east of the Lower Rhine River. The Frankish identity emerged in the first half of the 3rd century out of various Germanic groups, including the Salii, Sicambri, Chamavi, Bructeri, Chatti, Chattuarii, Ampsivarii, Tencteri, Ubii, Batavi and the Tungri, who inhabited the area between the Zuyder Zee and the river Lahn and extended eastwards as far as the Weser, but were most densely settled around the IJssel and between the Lippe and the Sieg. From the third to fifth centuries the Frankish armies raided Roman territory and expanded their influence among the Germanic peoples previously living under Roman rule on the left bank of the Rhine. In 358, the Salian Franks came to some form of agreement with the Romans that allowed them to settle in Toxandria (roughly Noord-Brabant, Antwerpen and Vlaams-Brabant). Each tribe within the Frankish confederation consisted of extended kinship groups centred around a particularly renowned and noble family. The importance of the family bond was made clear by the Salic Law, which ordained that an individual had no right to protection if not part of a family. One particular Salian family comes to light of Frankish history in the early fifth century, in time to become the Merovingians - Salian kings named after Childeric's mythical father Merovech, whose birth was thought to be divine. Clovis, king of the Salian Franks, became the absolute ruler of a united Frankish kingdom in 486. He consolidated his rule with victories over the Gallo-Romans and all the other Frankish tribes and established his capital in Paris. After he had beaten the Visigoths and the Alemanni, his sons drove the Visigoths to Spain and subdued the Burgundians, Alemanni and Thuringians. During the period of Merovingian rule, the Franks reluctantly began to adopt Christianity following the baptism of Clovis in 496 CE. Following Clovis' conversion, a number of Franks rallied around Ragnachar, a powerful figure who had played an important role in Clovis' initial rise to power, but their rebellion was crushed. The remaining pockets of resistance within the population were overcome region by region through a quickly expanding network of monasteries. The Frankish church had to come to terms with an established Gallo-Roman clergy that actively spread anti-Germanic propaganda, which has survived in their writings and works of history; it had to Christianise traditional Frankish sensibilities and effectively suppress them; it had to provide a new theological basis for Frankish kingship, which was deeply rooted in Germanic tradition. While the Goths or the Vandals had been at least partly Christianised since the mid-4th century, traditional Germanic beliefs are thought to have flourished among the Franks until well after the conversion of Clovis to Christianity. So as i've written before, King Clovis of the Franks was cristianized just to get power and lands and noble titles, to conquer them all, and that is how france was born, and for the pope in rome this was great, because clovis was spreading thie christian faith to all Europe, by force, by slaughter, by burning, pillaging and killing. And as i've written before, those peopel that were in a great need of help, now play a big role, they needed a miracle, and came a new faith, promising salvation, all they needed! And so easily those became christians too. The Northern countries of Europe were the last to be Christianized because it was hard to go into those places, and because the people there stand in theur old religions and fought to continue to be the people they have always been, to continue their pagan spirit. The Franks tired of getting sieged by the Germanic people, ofered them titles, lands and weath in gold and jewels if they were to be christianized too, in greed for power, they all accepted, but more people accepted to be christians, so they would not be killed, because those who would not convert, were brutaly tortured and killed.
So Europe was now living in a christianized world, but there were still many to conquer, there were still many pagans who needed taxation, people that had to be christianized, to pay to their Christian Kings and ofcourse to give money to the church, then the Black Death came, an horribel plague that was killing all, in every 10, only 2 survived, the church in its wisdom, used this as a propaganda, it was a sign of God, people had to be christians or would suffer and die of the plague of death! So the people in fear, the rest of the people... were fully christianized. This was a summary of what happened, almost 1500 years to christianized all the Europeans, people that used to be free.. have a free will, a free spirit and mind.


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zArray Update
Thanks to an earlier comment, I've updated the
every() method of the zArray library to match what it should do (return true for an empty array). I also added a couple of other methods I found while digging through my old files:
append(), which is logically equivalent to
push(), and
sum(), which returns the sum of all the items in the array (the sum can be a string or a number). The update brings zArray to version 1.1 and is available now in the Downloads section.
Disclaimer: Any viewpoints and opinions expressed in this article are those of Nicholas C. Zakas and do not, in any way, reflect those of my employer, my colleagues, Wrox Publishing, O'Reilly Publishing, or anyone else. I speak only for myself, not for them.


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by Michael J. Killips
I followed the large raccoon as he worked his way under our deck. The larger mother raccoon watched me from a distance, seeing that there was little she could do to protect her youngin'. There was just enough space under the deck for me to crawl in GI fashion towards the raccoon in the back corner. He stood with paws raised high making himself as big as he could showing his teeth as he hissed at me. I slowly moved forward offering my hand extended down low as I often do when I meet a new dog. My dreams of becoming a raccoon whisperer ended in a sudden flurry of scratching, biting, hissing, screaming and blood as I was forced to find a new way out from under the deck through the deck's lattes.
Michael J. Killips has written scripts professionally for medical video productions. Now he's looking to expand his writing experience by exploring different genres.


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The theme for this week's I Heart Faces challenge is "Orange."
I just had to include my favorite chair in this challenge! It has served me well...just love it! (Thanks to a wonderful neighbor who lets me steal it here and there!) The beautiful model also has a very gorgeous shade of red/orange that I think makes the photo pop, too! You can see more of it in this post from my photography blog!
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A book salesman (Diethard Wendtland) at a financial point of relative security moves into a new and modern apartment building and is satisfied with his successes except for one important thing, he does not have a perfect, ideal companion to end his lonely nights at home. Intent on remedying that situation as soon as he can, he is intrigued by the concept of a "mail order" bride after he meets the loving, docile woman married to a friend of his through just that system. So he goes ahead and chooses a bride from the Caribbean (Alisa Saltzman) and then waits for her to arrive and fulfill all his dreams. When she does arrive, however, her dreams are not exactly the same as his. She prefers sleeping out on the balcony, redecorates to her own tropical tastes, and wanders around with a toy monkey. He valiantly takes on the role of Pygmalion but she is no ivory statue and refuses to be molded into his concept of perfection. The battle of the sexes continues as he tries to change her and she resists. One of the problems he may be having, along with Latin American viewers, is that "Beanboat Banani" as she is called is an unfortunate stereotype of what the Euro-centric masses consider to be a Latin woman. If director Manfred Stelzer had offset his bourgeois type with a real Latina, the comic potential would hardly have lessened.
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Im starting this blog over due to too much spam being aquired. That stuff is like mold it never goes away!Being its my graduating year this will be most likely filled with the tramas and tribulations of getting a job and praying my portfolio is good. (im not religous) Ill tend to exaggerate things abit becuase it gets it out of my system. So deal with it. :-P
This might tend to be a rollar coaster blog.. being my family cant seem to not have a trama every 6 months. But at the same time my family is very close so lots of good things will be here. Maybe an italian recipe or two.


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Over the years, countless Wu-Tang affiliated producers, emcees and collectives have emulated the blueprint laid by the Shaolin progenitors, however very few have achieved both the critical and commercial success of producer/emcee Bronze Nazareth. Now, with the "Thought For Food" 2 CD collection, Bronze further solidifies his widespread reputation as the frontrunning successor to the "new-Wu."
Serving as the creative bedrock for multiple solo and group releases (including The Wisemen and the supergroup Almighty), Bronze is primarily renowned for his contributions to legendary albums from the RZA, GZA/Genius, Killah Priest, Hell Razah, Ras Kass, the infamous Immortal Technique & many more.
With features from GZA, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, Killah Priest, Hell Razah, Timbo King, Solomon Childs, Planet Asia, The Wisemen and many more, "Thought For Food Vols. 1 & 2" returns the listener to the essence of the Wu-Tang experience: the rough and rugged yet soulfully poignant aesthetic that continues to serve as the hallmark of the Wu-Tang sound/legacy.
With the recent inclusion of Bronze's beats on GZA's "Pro Tools" LP and Immortal Technique's acclaimed "The 3rd World," Bronze's cache and profile have been growing exponentially. "Thought For Food Vols. 1 & 2" provides an ample taste of what is and what's to come from this underground producer/emcee extraordinaire.
Vol. 1
1. Intro
2. Childhood War
3. Beat Snippet # 1
4. Righteous Talk feat. Killah Priest & Timbo King
5. Southpaw
6. Bended Knee To The Man Upstairs
7. 100 Skeletons
8. He Died From Pen feat. Kevlaar 7
9. Cassettes
10. One Day
11. Work
12. Beat Snippet # 2
13. Shaolin Kung Fu Training
14. To The Table feat. Salute
15. Grammy
16. Solarplexis
17. Beat Snippet # 3
18. Tired
19. Turn The Lights Off feat. Kevlaar 7
20. Sinuhe (Verse)
Vol. 2
1. Intro
2. Dopest
3. Aim At MC's 2
4. Danica feat. Phillie
5. Baronze Obama
6. Street Corners (Fam Members Only Remix) feat. Masta Killa, GZA, Inspectah Deck & Solomon Childs
7. Mckinley Shot Burst feat. Salute
8. Honor's Promise (1st Mix) feat. The Wisemen
9. Millenium Warfare (Alt. Take) feat. Hell Razah & Killah Priest
10. Detroit Taliban feat. The Wisemen
11. World Bred feat. Kevlaar 7, Beace
12. Lyrical Swords feat. GZA & Ras Kass
13. Foul Mouth Bugsy feat. Kevlaar 7 & G-Side 1
14. The Beacetro feat. Beace
15. Blade Runner feat. June Megalodon
16. Mc Death March feat. Kevlaar 7 & June Megalodon
17. Goblins feat. Planet Asia & The Wisemen
18. Michigan Rain
19. Black Royalty (Quality Version)
20. The Bronzeman (Correct Version) feat. Killa Sin
21. Associated feat. GZA & The Wisemen
22. Night Of The Long Knife feat. 5 Star
23. Zu-Tang feat. Zu Keeper & Chi King
24. My Pain Is Inside These Notes
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I stop by this store every time I fly back into Nashville, TN. This is only one of two comic shops that I have stopped by since the introduction of DC's new 52 that ordered large quantities of all the #1 issues. When everyone else was sold out and stating we can order you a second printing, Rich's Comic City had the books in stock and was making sales everyone else was missing. Very good selection of non Marvel / DC comics. Good selection of back issues form last few years. Small selection of sliver aged books that are updated regularly. [10/17/11]
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Monday, December 18, 2006
144. "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" ~ Dai Sijie
Two young men, victims of "re-education" under Mao, are sent to a remote village in China. Poorly educated, book hungry, they find an acquaintance who has a trunk full of novels. Each book is devoured, then served up to the little Chinese seamstress, the princess of the hills, the most beautiful girl in the area.
Part history, part love story, this novella is entertaining and informative. I had no idea that General Mao cut off education to hundreds of thousands of Chinese, sending these would-be students to act as slave labor for villagers.
I appreciated the desire to spend all night reading, then reprinting the words on the inside of a sheepskin jacket, to hold the words close.
This is the first time in a while where I didn't anticipate the end of the novel.
4.25 out of 5.0 Red Royals.
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I wanted to pop in quick to share a double page Fall layout I did though. As it is mid November, I'm finding my mind is on Christmas, but I don't want to let Fall pass by too quick! This is based upon a sketch by Kelly Klapstein in the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Fall 2016 issue. I don't find myself doing too many double page layouts anymore, but I really do enjoy them. You can find the sketch here as well as Kelly's take on it, and the past sketches!
I used some pretty papers, stickers and cut aparts from the BoBunny Enchanted Harvest Collection as well as a few other papers and goodies from my stash.
Thanks so much for stopping by! I'd love to hear what you've been up to, and here's to a wonderful and crafty week!
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Art Post
Etsy is a great resource for finding original artwork that is affordable & available to everyone. The collages at Swallowfield are beautiful, especially the colorful square-ish piece done on a 12" piece of wood. Debbie Egizio of U-Neek also has several intriguing prints to choose from, such as Gentle Soul. If you're looking for artwork that has a whimsical feel, take a look at Print Maker Jenn's work. The mod piece The Bachelor Pad would liven up anyone's space! Creative Thursday is also full of many excellent paintings. Txbluyys is a great resource for wonderful photography works. And the eerie yet appealling artwork by Art and Ghosts is that which is hard to turn away from.
Posted by Funky Finds at 4/23/2007 02:57:00 PM
Labels: artwork, painting, photography
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- Debbie Egizio said...
Thanks so much for the mention!!! You put me in with such great company. Love to visit your blog and see your wonderful finds.
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|Join us, if you think that war criminals
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An anti-drone war protest is planned to address President Obama when he comes to West Point on Wednesday morning, May 28 to speak at the graduation of the Class of 2014.
Protesters are asked to gather at 6:45 am near the Stoney Lonesome Gate of West Point just off Route 9W, one exit north of the exit leading to Highland Falls, NY, home of West Point. The protest will end shortly before 10 am when the commencement is scheduled to begin.
Please RSVP as soon as possible to assist in planning.
Write: firstname.lastname@example.com or call at (914) 806-6179.
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Catholic Charismatic History
Long Live the Charismatics, Pope John Paul
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- Ed Sousa, Sr. said...
Dear children! Today I call you, through prayer and sacrifice, to prepare yourselves for the coming of the Holy Spirit. Little children, this is a time of grace and so, again, I call you to decide for God the Creator. Allow him to transform and change you. May your heart be prepared to listen to, and live, everything which the Holy Spirit has in his plan for each of you. Little children, allow the Holy Spirit to lead you on the way of truth and salvation towards eternal life. Thank you for having responded to my call. Medjugorje message, May 25 1998
Dear children! I rejoice with you and in this time of grace I call you to spiritual renewal. Pray, little children, that the Holy Spirit may come to dwell in you in fullness, so that you may be able to witness in joy to all those who are far from faith. Especially, little children, pray for the gifts of the Holy Spirit so that in the spirit of love, every day and in each situation, you may be closer to your fellow-man; and that in wisdom and love you may overcome every difficulty. I am with you and I intercede for each of you before Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call. Medjugorje message, May 25, 2000
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Malakai Case in black
Courage | Power | Resilience
Malakai is the most relentless fighter in the face of life's difficulties. He represents the ultimate courage and resilience, along with projecting a positive representation of your personal power and potential.
Manufactured from the highest quality rubber and shock resistant plastic. The image has been transferred onto a white glossy metal surface, using top quality inks, penetrating the metal coating, making it both scratch and fade resistant.
iPhone 5S case representation pictured.
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Planet Earth is inhabited by two different entity types.
One entity grouping is that of the Natural Man or Human Beings who exist to benefit the Human Race, and benefit our Home – Planet Earth.
The other entity grouping is that of a predatory, controller species, who prey on Human Beings.
These senseless entities bring discontent, war, and destruction upon the Earth and her people, only for the self-serving, superficial game of PROFIT, CONTROL, and DOMINATION.
The Predator Controller species – see Human Beings as a cattle herd that must be managed, in order to create, and maximize Profit for the Controller Factions.
The predatory race 'legally' claims ownership of the Human race, as livestock, or human resources, where each member of the Human Race is used as a 'profit center' by the self proclaimed owners of the herd.
See: "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"
See: "Network of Global Corporate Control"
George Carlin on American Owners and Education
Uploaded on Feb 15, 2007 By wake911up
George Carlin knows what's going on.
And what's going on is your getting fu*ked.
It's funny but deadly serious.
We've been divided and conquered and its time to get our country back.
The aim of the predators state, is to create a lie SO LARGE – that few if any of the False Flag Media Programmed drones would ever believe it was a LIE, should the predator's scheme ever be exposed.
The idea is to make the LIE so BIG, most will not want to believe it is a lie.
The idea is to make the LIE so BIG, that no one will question their shackles if they are born into them.
The idea is to make the LIE so BIG that anyone who questions the LIE will be labeled as out of step with 'civil society', and should themselves be questioned.
But it is the absolute truth – according to the WISHES of a demented predator, at least.
The deception, gluttony and the greed of the Predator State is such that enough is never enough.
You can see the predator state's fraudulent mind games everywhere – everyday – but the evidence is always hidden in plain sight, and given a deceptive LABEL or TITLE which represents the OPPOSITE of the PREDATORS TRUE INTENT.
The truth is you were born into fraud, and the immediate crime committed by the predator state that claims to 'protect us', is assigning you the title of a 'debt slave' the very minute you are born.
Yet, most Human Beings go their entire life, without ever understanding the depth of the crimes committed against them from birth onward.
See: "Anti Corruption Society"
See: "Who Is Really Running America'?
Two Sets Of Rules
To accomplish their goal of Full Spectrum Domination, the Predator Species has assigned Planet Earth two sets of rules.
One set of rules, specifically designed by the predator species for control and domination of the Human Race, are assigned to the Human Race, and touted by the predator species as 'the law'.
The predator species expects 'their' Human herd to follow the dictates they set down, without questioning the validity of the rules they are given.
But there is a distinctly different set of rules which apply to the Predatory Species who devise and implement the rules the Human Race is expected to follow.
The only rule the Predator Species follow, is there are no rules in which the Predator Species must abide.
The controller/predator species consider themselves above the very laws which they insist Human Beings adhere to without questioning, making the Predator Species 'law-less' by their own definition, and parasites of the Human experience.
The for-profit, micromanaged control system devised by the controller agents is a complex and devious scheme which lives or dies on information – or dis-information – propaganda.
The 'rules' for the Human Race, are disseminated via information propaganda ministers, handed down to the masses by a Predatory Controller owned media network of talking head mouthpieces, fake press propaganda, 'official reports', and corporate advertiser programming.
The paid mouthpieces read the daily scripts they are given, while maintaining the script they just read is 'news' or 'entertainment'.
The planned, or projected result of propaganda information provided, is designed to direct the Human herd in the direction the Controllers wish for the Human herd to move, in order to maximize the profit margin of the predator species.
If and when, based on the information they were given, in conjunction with the lock-step mind manipulation they are bombarded with daily – the Human herd moves in the direction they are expected to go, the controlling predator factions stand ready and waiting to fleece the Human herd as the herd moves through the parasitic, predatory system designed to maximize profit for the controllers, and to continue the enslaving 'hamster wheel' existence of the Human herd.
Those are basic parameters of how the controllers game in played on planet Earth. The game is senseless, of course, because the game itself is designed and implemented by a lower life form, predator species, which maintains no respect for the value of Human Life, or respect for a flourishing existence of Creation itself.
The mindset of the predator species is that of a Lifeless machine, which exists without conscience or empathy.
What Humanity needs to understand, is that sadly enough, Human Beings are being manipulated by life forms lower than, and even less evolved than Human Beings themselves.
These predatory, lower life forms are completely disconnected from Source – Source of which Human Beings Are, and Source is All.
This situation leaves Humanity unnecessarily cast under a spell of the 'tail wagging the dog' syndrome – in spades.
The solution then, is a much deeper exercise, and a whole different level of understanding than "going back to a constitution", or "taking back our government".
A solution will require Human Beings understanding WHOM they truly are, what they are capable of, why those capabilities are not being realized, and WHO or WHAT SYSTEM is repressing the ascension or application of the Human Spirit.
Will Human Beings ever throw off the yoke of their mind manipulating controllers, assume their Natural State, rediscover and assume their repressed power, and take back their existence as True Beings OF Source?
Recreating Balance
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
A lot of programming has been created by archons to justify evil.
For example the laws of karma, which state that for example, if i broke my friend's bowl, then the universe will send somebody to break my bowl in order to teach me the consequences of my actions.
This means that the universe will then send somebody to break the bowl of whoever broke my bowl, etc.
This is totally made up and has nothing to do with true universal law, simply because if it did, nothing would ever resolve and suffering would just escalate forever.
The true universal law is forgiveness and grace and this is what has been taught by the teachers who had a true connection.
The will of Source is that if somebody does something hurtful, they should receive adequate healing in order for them to embody their true self again.
Some re-balancing of the energy between the people involved might be needed, for example whoever broke the bowl can buy another bowl for its owner, or repair it, or do some other kind of service to compensate energetically.
Or the owner of the bowl could simply forgive and the infinite abundance of Source would re-balance things automatically somehow, not by taking anything away from whoever broke the bowl, but by providing both of them with whatever is needed.
Resources and abundance are unlimited.
Another program states that dis-harmony is needed for us to not be bored, for exploration to be able to occur.
This, again, can never work.
Creation is based on vibration and musical-type relationships between these vibrations.
Now, let's picture the whole universe as one big orchestra. Before playing any music, all instruments will tune together, make sure they are in harmony. If this is not done, if only one of the instrument is out of tune, the whole music will sound off and no creation can be made. Only once all the instruments are in harmony can creation really start, and then the possibilities of exploration of music are infinite. This is how creation works, exploration is only possible when there is harmony.
Another program states that disharmony is needed to teach us about harmony, that we learn lessons from it. This is also not possible. People get this false idea when an experience that makes them suffer pushes them to evolve and make progress in their lives, but what is actually occurring is that problems that have been existing in their lives and affecting them unknowingly for a while are being pushed to the surface of their consciousness by the experience, and by being conscious of it they can finally decide to end it. We can not have free will on something we are not conscious of, so everything has to be made conscious eventually.
The core of healing is for us to be the One Source/Creator again fully, to incarnate it as our whole being. This means to not be victims of events that we didn't design anymore, and this happens by choosing what we want to create, by realizing that in order to really be the One Source, there can be no other authority making decisions for us, since we are it. We already know inside what we desire, what we want to experience, and we truly have the power to create it.
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The thoughts of me and my dog who used to be Harvey, but is now George, who is Harvey's great-great-great-great-nephew.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
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- Jay said...
Ooooooh - yummy!!! I love choc chip cookies!
- 6:18 pm
- katney said...
When I make cookies I have to make them into bar cookies. I can remember to take them out of the oven once. Sometimes I can even remember to take the second tray out. Beyond that.....I hatge burned cookies.
- 7:52 pm
- Leslie: said...
Oh, I could never work there - temptation would be far too strong to resist! Yummy! :D
- 5:02 pm
- Liz said...
Me too, jay!
It is time-consuming and easy to forget, katney.
It would, wouldn't it, leslie?
- 4:50 pm
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Shiraz Dossa Is A Loser, A Scumbag and A Bore
The fact that Dossa claims to acknowledge the reality of the holocaust, and referred to his fellow conventioneers as "hacks and lunatics'', makes him perhaps more pathetic than even the psychopaths that have managed to convince themselves that the holocaust is some kind of Zionist plot: Dossa knew very well what the conference was about. And he went anyway.
This is not about free speech:
As even embarrassed Iranians realise, the conference is a disgrace, a grotesque attempt to relativise, if not deny, a crime against humanity. Far from giving those in the Middle East a chance to discuss this historical event (a chance all too rarely given in their own countries), the organisers have already censored the proceedings by denying a visa to an outspoken Palestinian lawyer who said that denials of the "monstrous horror" harmed the Palestinian cause.
And this is not just an offence to Jews, either.
It's an offence against historical truth, it's an affront to the dignity of every literate human being, and it's a rebuke to all honest scholarship. It's an offence to all of us. It's perhaps especially a disgrace to the left, so much of which continues to tolerate the bigotry of anti-Semitism so long as it's dressed in the semantic guise of anti-Zionism. The fact that Dossa has been giving out of himself in this way for years at St. F-X, without any public notice, is sufficient testimony to that sorry state of affairs.
Dossa can carry on about how liberalism is a cover for Christian imperialism, and secularism is a some kind of new Crusader front, and he can rail about how modernity is bad and feminism is bad and the Enlightenment was bad and even Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms is some kind of fraud, and yet his left credentials remain untarnished - owing, no doubt, to his heavy reliance on assigning readings from the likes of Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Uri "Apartheid Israel" Davis and Norman "The Holocaust Industry" Finkelstein.
What a goof. Word is he's still sightseeing in Iran but you can leave messages on his telephone answering machine here (902) 867-2105 or send him a congratulatory email for the tremendous contribution he's made to Canada's academic reputation abroad: firstname.lastname@example.com
Assigned readings on this subject: Jeff Weintraub, who's always excellent, and Gene, over at Harry's, who asks the right question about who, exactly, is more worthy of admiration and support from genuine leftists.


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AUGUSTA – A bill to encourage food self-sufficiency in the state has become law in Maine.
"As a fellow farmer asserts, growing your own food is like printing your own money. It is the policy of the state to be food self-sufficient. This bill strengthens that policy by encouraging people to grow, process and preserve their own food to feed themselves, their families and their communities," said Rep. Craig Hickman of Winthrop, the bill's sponsor. "It also addresses the current shortage of available farm workers for the many new and expanding family farms that are taking advantage of the growing local foods movement."
"When a state with a farming and fishing legacy as strong as Maine's imports ninety percent of the food its people consume, there is cleary something wrong with the picture. Thanks to the reputation and availability of our signature commodity foods ― lobster, wild blueberries, and potatoes ― Maine will always be a net exporter of food. But it makes no sense for us to import so much of the food we eat. Mainers produce only fifteen percent of the poultry that we consume. The rest comes from elsewhere. We can do better than this. We must do better. Our economy requires it. The public health, common good, and welfare of our people require it."
LD 1291, its chaptered law embedded below, would direct the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to develop and administer an agricultural jobs network. It would link farms and facilities that process agricultural products grown in Maine with available workers who are involved in farming or a local food industry, or who are required to perform community service.
It directs the department to develop an educational marketing campaign, similar to the US Department of Agriculture and the US Food Adiministration World War II poster campaign, to promote food self-sufficiency by encouraging the public to grow gardens, raise farm animals and preserve garden-grown food.
Hickman's bill also requires the Department of Agriculture to purchase food that is grown, harvested, prepared, processed and produced in Maine when purchasing food for an emergency or supplemental food program for elderly or low-income people whenever possible.
LD 1291 passed the Legislature by unanimous consent in both the House and the Senate after it was funded by the Appropriations Committee and sent to the Governor's desk. The law will take effect ninety days after the Legislature adjoured on July 16, 2015.
Hickman is an organic farmer and House chair of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee. He is serving his second term in the Maine House and represents Readfield, Winthrop and part of Monmouth.
Friday, July 17, 2015
Hickman's Bill To Promote Food Self-Sufficiency Becomes Law in Maine
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CHICAGO — The letter you published from Tom Colgan, "Voters cheated in term-limits ruling" (Aug. 21), overflowed with unintended irony. Mr. Colgan's "Eight is Enough" term-limit referendum would, if successful, deprive me of the right to vote for the candidate of my choice.
The only "insult to the highest ideals of democracy" is that such a large number of voters are willing to abdicate their responsibility as voters. The solution to your "problem" is right under your noses on election day. Democracy already includes a mechanism for limiting the terms of our elected officials. It's called "voting against the incumbent."


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In probably the least competitive playoff series so far, the Devils have taken a 2-0 series lead over the Rangers by a combined score of 10-1, taking both games at the Meadowlands.
Speaking of the Meadowlands, as reluctant as I am to do it, I've got to make a music recommendation: get a copy of The Wrens' 2003 album, "The Meadowlands." It is unbelieveably good. But don't take my word for it - here's what others have had to say about it.
And sure, you can go ahead and file this post under "What hockey bloggers do when their team's already on the golf course." Maybe some of those 'Canes bloggers can recommend their favorite Toby Keith records next week.


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Sunset while flying from Zihuatanejo Mexico to Los Angeles California
November 10, 2016
Definitely not wordless....
Beautiful photo, Kathe. And that video is so cute!
Views from planes are so pretty, they fascinate me. That video is priceless!
Awww, that video is so precious.
Have a terrific Wordless Wednesday. Big hug to you and tons of scritches to Miss Lucy. ♥♥♥
Love the fun video.
That video is just terrific. Love how the dog tries to imitate the child. That is just great. You all have a great day.
Are we sure the dog wasn't crying 'Make it stop?'
Lovely sky shot! Hope it was a happy Wednesday, Kathe :)


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A Case of You Joni Mitchell
[C]Just before our lo[G2]ve got lost you said
[Am7]I am as constant as a northern star and I said
[Dm]Constantly in the da[C]rkness, where's that [G2]at?
If you [Am7]want me I'll be in the [G]bar
On the [C]back of a cartoon [G2]coaster
[Am7]In the blue TV screen light
[Dm]I drew a map of [C]Canada
Oh [C]Ca - [G2]na - [Am7]da
[Dm]With your [C]face sketched on it [G2]twice
[F]Oh, you're in my blood like[Em] holy wine
[Dm]You taste so bitter and so [C]sweet
Oh, [C]I could drink a [C]case [G2]of [Am7]you darling and I would
[Dm]still be [C]on my [G2]feet, oh I would still be on my [C]feet
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Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
I remember that time you told me, you said love is touching souls
Surely you touched mine 'cause
Part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time
Oh, you're in my blood like holy wine
Taste so bitter and so sweet
Oh, I could drink a case of you darling
Still I'd be on my feet
I would still be on my feet [intro progression]
I met a woman, she had a mouth like yours
She knew your lies
She knew your devils and your deeds, and she said
Go to him, stay with him if you can
But be prepared to bleed
Oh but you are in my blood, you're my holy wine
You're so bitter, baby
Bitter and so sweet
Oh I could drink a case of you darling
Still I'd be on my feet
I would still be on my feet [intro progression]
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Saturday, December 04, 2010
But I was not asleep. I was keeping at least one eye on that box. There were still three slices left. And no, I did not feel like sharing. Not tonight.
"Hey. What the Hell are you doing Miss Mrytle?"
Myrtle was a quick little thief even at the age of 14. She pulled her head out of the box with one of the pizza slices hanging from her mouth. She looked at me. I looked at her. She began to turn to escape my clutches. But this was my pizza, not hers. And I was quicker. I grabbed her gently and placed her in my lap, the slice still gripped hard in her mouth.
I knew how to get my pizza back without a struggle. I stroked her back near her tail. Her butt lifted and she opened her mouth to meow. The stolen slice fell into my lap. She looked up at me with eyes that said, "I hate you, but don't stop."
I turned to Stubby sitting there next to me and said, "And where were you? You're supposed to keep an eye on your feline buddies. You are one worthless guard dog." Stubby did not hear me. She was too busy trying to inhale the pizza slice through nostrils working overtime.
At my feet sat Fernando looking all innocent and clueless. But I knew he was just putting on a show. As soon as my back was turned, it would be every pet for him or herself. And 'Nando would be first in line. He was the bad ass in the house.
I sat surrounded by fur bearing vultures only held at bay by the fact that I was bigger than they were. There was no loyalty, no rules. Seems I had no choice. And since Myrtle had already compromised the virginity of that slice of pizza, I broke it up and shared it with the three of them.
In short order, Mrytle and Fernando had had their fill. They sat on the coffee table and licked their paws. Stubby on the other hand had inhaled her share and was now looking at me as if to say, "Okay, I'm ready for some more."
Damn Pets.
Posted by MRMacrum at 5:58 AM
4 comments:
- Carla Ganiel said...
"I hate you, but don't stop."
I can recall a few times in my life when I had that same exact thought. Guess I understand your cat.
- Saturday, December 04, 2010 10:49:00 AM
- Randal Graves said...
HA! I'm sorry, but I've gotta side with your pets, the real owners of the house. That's just funny.
- Saturday, December 04, 2010 12:41:00 PM
- The Blog Fodder said...
Carla, you sound like my kind of woman.
Glad you shared the pizza with the pets. My son fell asleep with a large pizza sitting on the coffee table (damn fool) and the dog ate the entire thing. Didn't eat again for three days.
- Saturday, December 04, 2010 3:05:00 PM
- Kulkuri said...
Funny thing about pizza and pets. We've had dogs that would sit and drool all over themselves at the smell of pizza. Have to save at least some crust for the dog.
- Monday, December 06, 2010 9:51:00 AM
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As I look back at 2012, I know that God has his grace on Marissa and on our family. While we faced a lot of adversity, we are stronger now then when we were when 2012 started. I was able to reconnect with friends that I have not spoken to or seen in over 20 and some 30 years. Those friendships and relationships have helped to sustain me though some of the rough times. I am so grateful to have them back in my life.
I know that 2013, is going to bring the same type of adversity and challenges as 2012. I am prepared for the fight and I know that this time next year, I will be a little stronger because of it. We still have the appeal for Marissa's waiver ahead of us. I can only imagine how big of a fight this is going to be. Marissa has some upcoming UVA appointments that I know are only going to bring additional heartache and struggles for her. I just thank God every day that her season has not ended. I know that in a lot of ways we are living on borrowed time.
As I end this blog, I am going to share a story with you about Marissa. I have shared it once before but I think that it is more pertinent then ever to share. Every time we go to the beach, Marissa collects sea shells. Not the whole pretty ones, she disregards those, but rather she picks up the ones that every one else neglects to pick up the broken shells. In the most broken things, she finds beauty. Marissa maybe broken but she exemplifies unselfishness, honesty and beauty. She's a true hero. I hope that each of you can find beauty in things that are broken in your life. In each disappointment and in each joy, a lesson is learned. One of my dear friends gave me a book for Christmas titled, "My Beautiful Broken Shell" by Carol Adams. One of the things that touched me most was this paragraph in the book,
"Please slow me down....that I may always see the extraordinary in the ordinary. That I may always wonder at the shell in the sand... the dawn of a new day.. the beauty of a flower... the blessing of a friend... the love of a child. In my brokenness, may I never take life so seriously that I forget to laugh along the way. May I always take the time to watch a kite dance in the sky... to sing...to pick daisies.. to love... to take risks... to believe in my dreams".
I have plenty of broken shells. Marissa will never let me leave me at the beach. (Trust me I've tried). So if you'd like one of her shells, just let me know. I know she would be glad to share one with you.
So as a new season begins, I can't even imagine what is in store for us in 2013. I can only pray that God will continue to shed His grace and blessings on us as well as each of you who read my blog. Make sure that you take time each day to enjoy this short life we are given.
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Superhero Bits: Iron Man 3, Dark Knight Rises, Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, Dredd
Posted on Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 by Germain Lussier
Here's a video of David Arquette showing off a huge, painful, Wonder Woman tattoo he has. Thanks (I think?) to Bleeding Cool.
If you're attending San Diego Comic-Con, the SDCC Blog has info on how you can complete a scavenger hunt to see the new Marvel film Item 47.
Something tells me this Marvel Heroes Batman toy over on Geekologie isn't official.
Empire posted a five part Dark Knight Rises feature with some very cool quotes from everyone from Christopher Nolan all the way down.
Funny Avengers photoshop from 9Gag.
DC had The New 52 and Marvel is about to launch Marvel NOW. Read a bunch more about the huge relaunch at Entertainment Weekly.
Over on Nerdglass (via Comics Alliance) you can check out some amazing stained glass work with a nerd twist, such as The Avengers symbol.
Movies.com examines when you can watch The Amazing Spider-Man with your kids.
Piece of Cake made this Batman themed wedding cake on When Geeks Wed (via That's Nerdalicious).
WhatCulture has a list of five spoilers that have been revealed in the Dark Knight Rises marketing that you may not have picked up on.
Continue Reading Superhero Bits >>
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Marisa looks darling pregnant. She is all baby. I think Atticus has his feet on her backbone and is reaching his hands out over his head.
Picture walking into the nail salon with Marisa. First comment, "You are going to have a baby?" Really, really?!? Thank you, captain obvious. I cannot write what I really wanted to say, oh well.
Next came a question..." When are you due?"
Marisa, " Today"
all folks in Salon "Lots of SCREAMING" then even more screaming, then "YOU ARE DUE TODAY?"
I couldn't decide between asking them to boil water- why do people always boil water when they deliver babies on tv?- or say "Yes, we are on our way to hospital, her contractions are 3 minutes apart, could you hurry up?"
We both just smiled.


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hammer valved semi auto pellet gun in the 20ft/lb range. Or cartridge feed pneumatic system.
searching for a modern day savior from another place,inclined toward charity,everyone's begging for an answer,without regard to validity,the searching never ends,it goes on and on for eternity
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Electronic automation. That would be the most cost-effective and straight-forward way to do it.
My holy grails are as follows:
A double-barrel side by side, 2 inch, pre-charged cartridge fed grenade launcher.
And a half-auto, pre-charged cartridge, cal .75, combat rifle, fed from a 8 round En Blanc clip. (Think M1 Garand)
Call me "Judge", it's easier to type.
Spud gun safety rules
I want to make a really really accurate sniper rifle out of steel. I'm want to try using a round like the APFSDS dart type of thing since I don't think rifling steel with my tools is entirly possible.
But yeah, I also want to make a self contained semi or full automatic system too.
I'll try the sniper, and then see where I am from there...
Mine would be a fully automated hybrid.
And its closer than you think
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This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his way to world domination.
My girl friend says I dont listen, at least thats what I think she said...
My goal is pretty simple, just to put all of my stuff on a nice web page. I just can't get myself to sit down and write the content.
As far as actually doing spud gun stuff goes. I think I have enough completed ideas to keep me busy all year. I just need the money and time to build the stuff.
latest update - debut of the cardapult
A really nicely done copper that operates around 300 PSI, clip fed, and with an on board power supply, so it can be semmi. Also I have thought about the precharged cartridges, but have blanked on how to make them work.
Why thankyou, I was hoping someone would give me a hand on that.
I don't have any single holy grail, I have a myriad things on my list of things to do. Working out a design, and how it would be built is easy - but I am let down by the size of my wallet.
Gauss guns, plasma cannons, combustion miniguns... my list goes on.
I think that if I had to put them in order, all of my plans for where I can go with a huge chain of mods for HEAL is pretty high up my list - I have many wonderful theories, but HEAL is . I'm making small changes one by one, and the main body is mostly done, but I haven't exhausted the possibilities of the interchangeable barrels and loaders.
In the end I hope to have a barrel with a semi-auto magazine feed, a separate rifled barrel, and be able to run a carefully regulated 30 bar through the system, possibly with improvements to piloting to get more consistent results.
Talking about DYI's aim to get similar power from spudguns and firearms, but for now, I will be happy with getting the power of a .357 Magnum for something the length of a Barrett, bore of a shotgun, and weight of a large assault rifle.
Does that thing kinda look like a big cat to you?
select fire belt fed 1.5" gun has been postpone so I can catch up with power ever since I meet the dwv ball valve gun that shot an apple 600fps Ive been a shamed and I must beat it so I'm planing a big @$$ gun with a 6" chamber and a 4" tee piston valve and/or a supersonic 1.5" burst disk pneumatic rated for 3000psi
a 1/2" self contained semi auto pistol would be cool I'm thinking propane fueled and mechanical chamber sealing valve don't know why but just to get the most from the air
a golf ball bbmg haha if possible
All the info you'll need on principles of that method here
400psi, .177 bb, full auto, adjustable ROF, 7 1/2" rifled steel barrrel, 5" tall pistol.
i have two worn out 24" .17 Remington 1:9 twist heavy barrels that just need to be re-rifled. one will be cut down for two barrels(7 1/2" & 12") while the other one kept at 24".
anyone of you kids have any extra cash? after your projects are done, of course.
Thanks Hotwired.
I don't think there's anyway that I could have measured amounts of air powering a few shots off unless I use a Hammer Valve, because I don't want to be hooked up to a larger air chamber or a constant air source.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
DHL- Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn
East Midlands Airport where my CDs will leave tonight (hopefully)
A company which I have worked for which I have a lot of respect for, but has unfortunately become to big for itself and lost the plot a little since setting up so many country self-administrated branches.
Last week I spent 100- Euros for a next day shipment to the UK from Holland. The next day I had a call from a sales guy asking me why I don't use their services so much and how could they change that.
I told him if he wanted to get me as a loyal customer make sure that when the shipment I sent to the UK (a single CD), is transformed into 3,000 CD's; Make sure the 3,000 CD's can be shipped to me in NL and I am a happy customer.
The reply.....No that can't be done. There is forms to be signed. No way around it. You need an International account. It will take a week to set it up.
So I ring DHL UK and ask if they can organise the 3,000 Cd's to be shipped to me. The answer was yes. I went through the procedure to be told at the final point that no we can't do this because your credit card is not a UK credit card. Rang my sister who tried to help as she had a UK bank credit card, but again the same result so ended up having to ask my father to ask to use his credit card to solve the situation. So after the call to my Father I managed to pay for the overnight service and tomorrow (before 12 AM ) I should have the package.
The next step is to use DHL again for an express service to Alexandria, Virginia. This wil take two days. It has to be there latest Friday this week. So tomorrow I will put my 'living' in DHL's hands and order a pick up from my Dutch location to arrive in USA 2 days later before 12 midday latest.
They are administratively screwed up DHL but you can 100% guarantee they do what they say.
If you can manage to pay them for it. Which I tried 3 times today with 3 different credit cards.
I am shocked that a company can be so reluctent to receive payment for it's servcies. In such a way that they would prefer to turn customers away. The only reason that I kept on trying is that I knew that they will do what they say they do. Deliver next day before 12 AM.
So at the end of the day me working my arse off to get around their rules gave them the business. Not them doing the same to help me.
Plus as a side comment, their red/yellow colour scheme sucks.
I think the Red symbolises the colours you see in your eyes when you try to arrange an unusual shipment.
The Yellow? Maybe what you see almost coming into your pants when you realise that their new administrative rules might screw up your plans!
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Discovering a little-understood cell in mice that opens a world of color01/11/2018
Dr. Jordan Renna is part of a team of scientists that has discovered that color vision in mice is far more complex than originally thought. Their findings could aid in developing treatments for human vision disorders and diseases.
The study was featured on the Jan. 3, 2018, cover of the prestigious journal Neuron.
Renna, an assistant professor of biology here, is on a team of scientists, led by Dr. Maureen Stabio, that discovered a new property of a little-understood cell in the eye called the M5. Stabio is an assistant professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
The researchers knew that the M5 cell expressed a light-sensitive protein called melanopsin that allows mice to detect blue light. But as they investigated the function of the M5 cell, they discovered that the cell also compares signals from UV and green detecting opsins and then sends these integrated color signals to the brain for interpretation.
Function of retinal neurons
Renna and Stabio's work focuses primarily on understanding the form and function of retinal neurons, including a group called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells or ipRGCs that express the melanopsin protein, which includes the M5.
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IpRGCs are involved in a kind of vision known as non-image forming vision because they typically don't process contrast, color, faces, or art. Instead, they react to ambient light levels and send that information to the brain's internal clock to put the body in synch with the rising and setting of the sun, also known as the circadian rhythms. The M5 cell was the least understood of the ipRGC types, until now.
Stabio, Renna and their colleagues found that the M5 cell might play a role in both image-forming and non-image-forming vision.
Surprising discovery
"You typically don't think about color-coding functions in ipRGCs, since they are ambient light detectors," Renna explains. "The biggest surprise of this work is that we found the M5 cell also can process color information. Mice are nocturnal and generally have poor vision. They navigate chiefly by using their nose and whiskers. What exactly they are doing with this color information remains to be discovered.
"We now know there is a class of neurons in the eye dedicated to blending image forming and non-image forming pigments and circuits used for different physiological and behavioral functions," Renna continues. "This opens the door for researchers to begin to explore and potentially develop mechanisms to exploit this population of neurons for visual restoration in some disease models."
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American distance runner, Adam Goucher wrote a blog post today saying he is retiring from competitive running. He has had a great run: Footlocker champion way back in 1993, NCAA cross country champion way in 1998, US 5000 Olympic trials champion in the year 2000, 6th place in the short course race at the IAFF Worlds Cross-Country Championships in 2006 among other championship races. Adam's NCAA cross-country championship race was highlighted in the book Running with the Buffaloes. He has also cowritten a recently released book Running the Edge: Discover the Secrets to Better Running and a Better Life. On the Run the Edge blogpost about his retirement, I liked the opening quote from his book:
"I am not somebody who just likes to run. I am a runner. This is the difference between a pastime and a passion. I like to play golf, but I am not a golfer. I like to cook, but I am not a chef. I don't just like to run. I am a runner. It is a passion. It is part of who I am and is woven into the fabric of my personality, character, and psyche." – Adam Goucher from "Running the Edge"Yes, I am a runner, too and that quote sums it up for many of us who enjoy the sport for more than just the physical exercise!
That is what has made the last year without running real difficult: not being able to run and compte for the first time in almost 40 years. I can't wait to be fully up and running some day, but it is not going as easily as I would have hoped post-surgery. Improvements are hard to come by, as I feel the same as I did one month ago.
Last weeks total mileage = 20 miles:
Thursday: 8 miles
Saturday: 8 miles
Sunday:4 miles
Some days the running feels good and I feel like I am getting right back into it. Other days, I get a pinching pain in my inner thigh and along with it tight shin muscles and discomfort that goes under my knee, around my ankle, under my arch, and into my big toe. I am always thinking it is muscular, but today I learned from my PT that it is probably a pinched nerve of some type in my lower back that radiates all down the nerve. I guess I better call to get that MRI of my lower back that I have been putting off. The back doctor told me that if the MRI shows something then maybe I would get a cortizone shot. I had figured this may be a temporary thing like the diagnostic cortizone shot I had in my hip to confirm the labral tear earlier this year. I was now told that the cortizone shot could be a more long-term solution to a pinched nerve. Today, at PT I got some heavy ART treatment of hamstrings, adductors, hip, and lower back. I think my skin is still glowing with redness, although the PT doing the ART seemed even more sore because his thumb was pressing so hard it was hurting him. This should relieve some of the nerve issues, but if needed it looks like cortizone may help.


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-North Koreans launch missile early Sunday.
-Democrats to cut missile defense.
Why is it that in all the pork and bloated government spending Obama and the Democrats have enacted the only area they find to cut is missile defense when we need it more than ever?
People who care about protecting the peace should know that wars only start when nations are unprepared to defend themselves.


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A while back, as I mentioned, Spirit Sippers sent me their full line of…well…Spirit Sippers. Here I review their rum glass:
Spirit Sippers Inc.: The Flare Rum Tasting Glass
Eye: The glass has a gorgeous hourglass shape. While I did not get much of a presentation, it was shipped with lots of padding wrapped in tissue paper and then two large pieces of bubble wrap.
Nose: I found this glass to be wonderful. I will slowly taste a variety of rums in it to see how rougher rums fare, but with the El Dorado 15, the nose was completely smooth in the Flare, but a London dock glass provided a noticeably rough nose. In the Pampero Aniversario was similarly smooth, and much fruitier than my notes indicated from a snifter.
Hand: This is my only complaint about this glass. I would have preferred a bit more of a stem. While the glass is elegant enough without the stem, I think a bit more stem would provide additional ability to control the temperature of the glass, as well as a more comfortable hold.
Numbers: The bowl holds about .75 oz, and if you put the glass on its side, it will hold about a third of an ounce. If you were to fill it to the brim, it would hold 5 oz.
Addendum: I have been using this glass for most of my neat rum drinking, and all of my rum reviewing, and it has been wonderful. I feel that any rum you want to sip will come through clearer with this than at least any basic tasting glass (a short tumbler, a London dock glass, or an European-style whisky glass). I feel that some rums would probably fair better in other styles of glass. For example, a smoky rum might do better in a chimney-style whisky glass than this. Given that rum is such a varied spirit in comparison to a most other commonly drunk distillates, I think that the Flare does well at capturing them and presenting their variation.
Conclusion: I like this glass. It has a gorgeous elegant shape. If only it had a slightly longer stem, it might well be the perfect glass
So hand me the punch ladle, and I'll fill up my flare,
The Scribe
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