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Who would have thought that a few molecules of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen could baffle the minds of so many people trying to maintain healthy diets? Lets start with the basics of the different type of carbohydrates that are found in food. To keep it simple, we are going to separate carbs into 3 different categories: Sugars, Starches, and Fiber. Each of them has their place in fueling your body and helping you reach specific goals.
Sugars are the most simple of the carbohydrates. All of your mono or disaccharides are going to qualify as sugars. Not only are they the most simple in their chemical structure, but it is also a much more simple process for you body to digest and utilize these types of carbs.
Sugars are very important for proper brain function since your brain really only likes to use glucose for energy. Sugars are also very important when it comes to insulin levels in your body. Insulin is the hormone that is responsible for controlling the uptake of blood sugar into muscle cells to replenish glycogen levels. Another very important effect of insulin is the increase of amino acid uptake and protein synthesis that it causes.
To put this knowledge into action, you can utilize sugars following a workout to help your body recover faster. Not only will you replenish your glycogen levels, so you have energy to workout again in the future, but it also jumpstarts the process of repairing muscle tissue by driving the building blocks into your muscles and initiating muscle synthesis.
While sugars can be included in your diet, over consuming them can have a negative impact on your weight loss goals. Insulin is also a signal for your body to store fats. It is basically an indicator that your body has enough energy for right now and should start to store the excess for later. This is why I tell most of my clients to avoid eating lots sugars and fats in the same meal.
When picking the type of sugars to include in your diet, take into consideration the fact that refined and processed sugars hit your system faster than sugars that are getting from eating fruit. For example, you wont get as much of a rush from eating an apple or banana as you would from eating cotton candy or skittles. Fruit juices are also going to spike your insulin harder than whole fruit, which generally has a fibrous structural component.
Starches are a more complex carbohydrate that are made up of chains of sugars. Since your body has to work to break them down into their smaller components before utilizing these carb sources for fuel, starches provide energy for a much longer time period. Starches also don't create the same insulin spike that you would get from taking in a simple sugar, since you don't get such a large increase in blood sugar all at once.
If you are looking to stay leaner while still promoting recovery and muscle growth, taking in starches around your workout will still increase insulin release. Complex carbs can extremely effective at promoting higher energy levels during your workouts when eaten about an hour prior to activity. They are also great for recovery when you consume them about an hour after you ingest the simple sugars that followed your workout. The continuous release of sugars into your blood stream that result from the breakdown of complex carbs will help to keep your insulin levels at a state that continues to allow for recovery over the time period that your body is working to digest the starch. Essentially, the sugars jump start the recovery process and the starches keep it going.
Over-consuming complex carbs can have similar effects to over-consuming sugars. They will essentially put your body in storing mode, so if you are looking to cut weight or body fat, make sure you have an idea of how many complex carbs your body can handle. Some great sources of complex carbohydrates are potatoes, rice, pasta, beans, and quinoa. Most fruit also contain starches.
Fiber is complex carbohydrate that your body can't break down into sugars to absorb. You need fiber in your diet to regulate your digestive tract by keeping everything moving. There are two different types of fiber; soluble and insoluble:
Soluble fiber technically can provide calories for your body, but is not absorbed as a carbohydrate. Once soluble fiber makes its way into the large intestine, your body's natural bacteria begin to work on it and break it down, to an extent, into short chain fatty acids, which could then be absorbed by the body. Technically soluble fiber does have a net caloric value, but keep in mind that your bacteria may not have time to break down all of the soluble fiber you digest. Insoluble fiber on the other hand is roughage that cannot be broken down or absorbed at all by the body. This helps to scrape any buildup off of intestinal walls and ensures that all of the food you take in makes its way to the end of your digestive tract.
Fiber can be used throughout the day to help keep you full and regulate your digestive system. It also helps to slow down the rate at which sugars are absorbed and balances your insulin levels throughout the day and also helps to lower cholesterol. Fiber is extremely beneficial for everyone, but really helps people who are on a cutting diet to maintain a sense of fullness with each meal. Fiber is found in tons of different vegetables, bran, oatmeal, beans, nuts, fruit skins and seeds.
Carbohydrates are your friend if consumed correctly and your foe when they are over-consumed. Take this breakdown of carbs and apply to your nutrition based on what your goals are. If you need help figuring out how to do that, Contact Me!


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Middlesex crowned champions in thriller
Middlesex 187 for 6 (Shah 75, Henderson 43) beat Kent 184 for 5 (Key 52, Kemp 49) by three runs
Kemp and Azhar Mahmood were left with 16 needed off the last over. Kemp was dropped at long-off on 24 by Ed Joyce and the Middlesex captain feared the worst when nerves seemed to get the better of his team-mates. A wild throw from Dawid Malan allowed four runs off the third ball off the last over and the equation was six off three. Kent favourites. Kemp clubbed two off the next ball, but missed the penultimate delivery from Henderson - the most successful bowler in Twenty20 history. The final delivery was a dead-eye yorker. Even in the most modern form of the game, that is a match-winner. Henderson's four overs cost 58, but he was still the hero when it mattered.
Middlesex's 187 was the highest total in a final, but if any team could chase it down it was Kent. They just about managed to keep in touch, maintaining an asking rate of around 11 an over until the final two overs. Tim Murtagh conceded five from his last over, the 18th, but still Kent wouldn't let go of their trophy. Darren Stevens hit Dirk Nannes for a straight six, but picked out midwicket with his next shot. Mahmood missed his first two deliveries, but his third went for four. It really was that close.
Robert Key and Joe Denly showed impressive calmness as they set about the task and didn't try to blaze from ball one. Key was as focused as he has ever appeared and launched the innings with authentic, crisp boundaries. All of a sudden Kent were scoring at 10 an over. Key showed deftness with the paddle-sweep that has become a vital part of his one-day game and Henderson came in for some severe treatment with his first two overs costing 32.
Key's fifty came off 28 balls, but Middlesex's trump cards then came into action. Murali Kartik had Key caught behind trying to cut - and the tension was easy to see as the odd word was exchanged - then in the next over Denly picked out deep midwicket off the ageless Shaun Udal, who conceded just 21 off his four overs. It's become a cliché, but Twenty20 can change in the blink of an eye.
From having a modicum of control, Kent were really feeling the pressure. Yasir Arafat was run out off a no-ball in a mix-up with Kemp and a direct hit from Joyce at midwicket. Kemp put the free hit miles into over the boundary and followed next ball with a mighty blow over midwicket. With him at the crease, Kent always had a chance, but it proved one hit too far.
At the half-way mark the consensus was that Middlesex's total was above par on a surface that had taken turn during the day. Man of the Match Owais Shah led the way with 75 off 35 balls, an innings that showcased all his eccentricity, which makes him such a dangerous one-day batsman. He picked the bowlers to attack, launching into Stevens' medium-pace and James Tredwell's offspin, which he dispatched for three consecutive sixes between deep square-leg and deep midwicket.
Middlesex didn't race out of the blocks, but using Henderson at No. 3 again paid off - if in slightly less dramatic style than in the semi-final. He was dropped at midwicket, on 6, by Mahmood and clubbed some meaty blows before driving Ryan McLaren hard to Key at short extra-cover. Henderson thought he'd hit the ball into the ground, but the third umpire correctly ruled it was a clean catch. However, Henderson's match was far from over and he would turn into a last-ditch hero. Middlesex can pack their sunscreen and Speedos, they are off to Antigua in October.
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The August 26th superfight between boxing legend Floyd Mayweather and UFC Lightweight champion Conor McGregor is being touted as the most lucrative fight in combat sports history, but tickets are reportedly slow to sell.
There was an initial scramble for tickets when they went on sale on Monday July 24th, but sales have since slowed significantly, with hundreds of tickets still available for all over the T-Mobile Arena.
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Prices for the still available seats start at an eye-watering $3,500 (€2,954), without factoring in another couple of hundred dollars for buyer fees.
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Zimbardo Research Paper The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study conducted in 1971 by Dr. Phillip Zimbardo. According to Dr. Steve Taylor (2007), "It's probably the best known psychological study of all time." (Classic Studies in Psychology, 2007). Zimbardo stated that the point was to see what would happen if he put "really good people in a bad place" (Dr. Zimbardo, 2007). He did this during a time were most college students were protesting for peace and were against anything authoritarian. The experiment contained both positive and negative aspects; which will be discussed further in this paper.
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Barclays Plc sought help of court in throwing out a case filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman accusing the lender of deceiving customers and concealing the role high-speed traders played to boost its dark pool position.
The London-based lender said the accusations fail to demonstrate how any investors were hurt and is based on obvious and significant factual errors, the filing in Manhattan state court showed today. The bank claimed that the attorney general's reliance on the Martin Act of New York's securities law in bring the lawsuit was quite a stretch, Bloomberg reported.
The provision, which is a solid statute against fraud that the New York attorney general's office can use, is confined to fraudulent conduct in the buying or sale of securities and does not cover all actions pertaining to finance, Barclays argued. The claims in the lawsuit relate to an alternative trading system called Barclays LX and do not pinpoint any misrepresentations regarding any security, the filing showed.
The Barclay's court filing added that applying the Martin Act in alternative trading platforms is likely to introduce contradictions with the US Securities Act of 1934, which bestows upon the Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory power over platforms such as LX.
The suit does not put into account the fact that traders who utilize the Barclays LX are "highly sophisticated traders and asset managers", entrusted with the responsibility to invest millions and billions worth of assets, the lender said.
"The very marketing documents and e-mails from which the complaint selectively quotes, along with the complaint's other fatal flaws, are sufficient to require dismissal of this 'fraud'action," the filing is quoted by Reuters as stating.
But a statement from spokesman, the attorney general stuck to his guns, saying the case carried details of how the bank continued to engage in fraudulent activity and deceit, telling its customers lies to expand its dark pool.
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has indicated that 598 capital market operators including several high-brow law firms, reporting accountants, banks, investment management firms and advisory firms are operating with expired fidelity bond, underlining potential risks to the system.
A status review undertaken by The Nation on the condition of capital market operators showed that some 598 capital market operators pose potential risks to capital market operations by not providing fidelity bond against internal malpractices.
Operating in the capital market without a valid fidelity bond is a contravention of the Investments and Securities Act (ISA) No. 29, 2007 and SEC Rules & Regulations.
A fidelity bond is essentially is a form of insurance against internal fraud, malpractices and willful professional negligence. It provides cushion for various losses that might arise from employee's dishonesty. In line with international best practices, the Nigerian capital market regulation requires operators to possess subsisting fidelity bond.
The expiration of their fidelity bonds makes the functional registration of the companies and individuals as capital market operators incomplete.
According to SEC, about 50 per cent of operators with expired fidelity bond, and as such incomplete registration, are solicitors including high-brow Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) law firms. At least, 120 law firms registered as solicitors have expired fidelity bonds.
Accounting firms are the second largest group of culprits with several well-known accounting firms, with registration as reporting accountants, operating with expired fidelity bonds.
At least five banks, which were registered as issuing house or investment adviser, were listed among the defaulters while several fund managers, registrars and brokers were also listed in the search.
A source in the know of securities regulation said the operators with deficient fidelity bond might not be allowed by SEC to handle transactions.
The source said what the defaulting operators do is to rush to renew such deficiency whenever they have capital market transaction for regulatory approval cautioning investors, issuers and other users of capital market services to request for evidence of full clearance and subsisting complete registration before engaging the service of any operator.
The deficiency in the registration of the operators violated SEC's policy on fidelity bond, which requires operators to renew their fidelity bond annually, in line with the Gregorian calendar year.
The fidelity bond policy requires that all registered capital market operators must maintain a fidelity bond which has a validity period from January to December of each year.
The apex capital market regulator had indicated that any fidelity bond which falls short of full-year coverage will not be accepted. and its technical partner, Korea Electric Power Company of Nigeria (KEPCO), have promised to increase Egbin Power Plc's capacity by 1350 megawatts (MW) to bring its cumulative installed output capacity to 2670MW by 2019. The plant currently has an installed capacity of 1320MW.
Sahara Chairman Kola Adesina made the pledge last weekend when President Goodluck Jonathan commissioned the rehabilitated sixth steam turbine of the plant with 220MW capacity.
Kola said: "We have commenced an ambitious plan to double the capacity of Egbin within the next four years, with the addition of 1,350MW Combined Cycle plant of which we have commissioned the Front End Engineering Design Study (FEED). All these have been possible because of your Excellency's commitment to the power sector reforms and dogged determination to give our citizens a new lease of life through the provision of reliable power supply."
He said besides repairing unit 6, the company has also carried out the overhauling and retooling of Unit 4, which lost 20MW out of its 220MW capacity. Egbin is the largest power plant in West Africa comprising 6 x 220MW units of turbines with a total capacity of 1,320 MW. The Egbin Power Plant is critical to the nation as it accounts on a daily basis for about 20 per cent of the power generated in the country, he added.
Adesina said: "Mr. President, the Unit that you are here to commission is an example of the benefits that privatisation of the power sector is bringing to our nation Nigeria. The unit broke down in 2006 and for seven years could not be rehabilitated due to sundry challenges. On handover of the Egbin Power Plant to its new owners, KEPCO and Sahara Power Group in November 2013, we immediately made its rehabilitation a priority culminating in completion of the repair works.
"Recognising the importance of commerce and industry to your transformation programme, Egbin unit 6 output is to be made available under an innovative bilateral commercial arrangement to Eko and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Companies to help improve power availability in Lagos and its industrial outskirts. We are indeed leading a new dawn in job creation within Lagos and its environs; and fostering gains in the gross domestic product of the economy and reduction in crime rates.
"In addition, supporting the ideals of a cleaner and greener state, with reduced use of generators leading to healthier environment and improved quality of life and also achieve the noble objectives and unravel the bottlenecks in the power supply value chain, we seek government's help in terms of gas availability and expansion of the transmission network. In the light of paucity of funds faced by the government, the hands of the private sector need to be strengthened by allowing significant investment in both the transmission and gas infrastructure. With appropriate models and investment recovery mechanism, this holistic public, private partnership (PPP) approach will engender a faster, cheaper and more productive result in rapidly growing value chain."


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I have found that my team members are more than happy to listen and discuss my patients with me. They freely offer their opinion and talk about similar cases that help me.
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I am beginning to understand more of the SLT role and some of their intervention techniques. However, i am struggling to understand the overlap between cognitive function and communication and the boundaries between OT/SLT when assessing cognitive function.
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I feel i am managing to divide and manage my patients better than when i first started on rehab. I am keeping more up to date with my lower priority patients.
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I am goal setting with my patients but i wish to work on more specific goal setting e.g. more smart. I wish to use my planning time to look at smart goals on shorter time periods e.g. 1 or 2 weeks so i can keep track of them and make them achieveable.
I feel adequately supported in clincial work with my team members. Most have time and are interested in discussion about patients. I realise my lack of emotional support at this time needs to be also focused on. I am lucky to have support at work for this but I need to look at challenging my personal beliefs in the work place to ensure I develop professionally
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I am gaining confiendence with dense stroke patients with the support of my experienced colleagues.
Family meetings and case conferences (including articulation when communicating).
I realise that sometimes things just have to be said - even if the patient doesnt want to hear it or if it makes them feel upset/angry. I wish to take a case and plan what i am going to say and get some feedback from a peer as to how i articulated it - perhaps this could be done prior with an OT and after with a PT/SW e.g. asking them - do you think the way i articulated my input was appropriate/honest but considerate of others emotional needs?


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Many thanks to all you 'rons and 'ettes who have sent me photos of their home libraries. Please continue to do so, I think this has been fun. A few suggestions:
1. Multiple shots are good so I have a selection, but I will generally use only one out of the bunch. There may be exceptions to this, but that's been my general practice.
2. I have received more than one blurry photo. I can't use those. Make sure the pics you send are nice and sharp.
3. Don't worry about the size. My photo-fu is weak, but I do know enough to easily resize them. In fact, I prefer larger size photos, because the detail is better. I can post the reduced pic to conform to AoSHQ posting guidelines and, if need be, I can always provide a link to the full-sized photo. Like I did today.
I've never heard of Lionel Shriver, but she is an author who has apparently wandered off the reservation:
Taken to their logical conclusion, ideologies recently come into vogue challenge our right to write fiction at all. Meanwhile, the kind of fiction we are "allowed" to write is in danger of becoming so hedged, so circumscribed, so tippy-toe, that we'd indeed be better off not writing the anodyne drivel to begin with.
And out comes the clue bat:
My parents went to Mexico when I was small, and brought a sombrero back from their travels, the better for my brothers and I to unashamedly appropriate the souvenir to play dress-up...But what does this have to do with writing fiction? The moral of the sombrero scandals is clear: you're not supposed to try on other people's hats. Yet that's what we're paid to do, isn't it? Step into other people's shoes, and try on their hats.
The rest of her speech, which she gave at a writers' festival in Brisbane, Australia, is just full of clear-headed reasoning and common sense. Naturally the progressive snowflakes hated it:
The kind of disrespect for others infused in Lionel Shriver's keynote is the same force that sees people vote for Pauline Hanson. It's the reason our First Peoples are still fighting for recognition, and it's the reason we continue to stomach offshore immigration prisons. It's the kind of attitude that lays the foundation for prejudice, for hate, for genocide.
This is such a typical lefty response, i.e. emotion, name-calling, and ad hominem on stilts. I'll bet Ms. Shriver had no idea that by wearing a sombrero, she was actually coming out in favor of genocide.
But back to Shriver:
I am hopeful that the concept of "cultural appropriation" is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.
I have no idea what Ms. Shriver's politics are. I assume that merely by virtue of her being a member of the "literati", they're most likely diametrically opposed to mine. But when it has to do with something that she knows about and is close to her, i.e. the craft of writing, she is very much opposed to what the progressives are demanding she should think. She knows that if the progressive rules on "appropriation" were followed consistently, the results would be nothing but barrenness and sterility. She has angered the progressives by saying no, I prefer fecundity and abundant life. But progressivism is the exact opposite. Everything it touches dies. It has come to bring death, that we all might have death more abundantly.
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Here's a bit of old business I'm just now getting around to:
PSS Read Three Felonies A Day, if you'd like to know how close each and every one of us is to prison ourselves. On the wrong side of the bars. Unless your name is Clinton. If you've ever noticed someone 'of interest' getting arrested for something completely different than the interest, that there is a clue that there is ALWAYS something they can charge you with.
He's talking about Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Harvey Silvergate, a book which
...reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets.
This was one of the many injustices written about by Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago, that is, Soviet "law" was such that everybody was guilty of something, because what the all-powerful State feared most of all was an innocent man.
And another aspect to this problem is that many, if not most, of these laws are not debated and passed by the legislature, but rather come to us in the form of "regulations" written by unelected bureaucrats in state and federal agencies.
Here's my latest fantasy: a Constitutional amendment that restricts the number of laws a legislative body may pass to 50 or 100, or some low number. And if they've fill up the entire 100 and want to pass another one, they'll need to first decide which law they want to repeal in order to make room for the new one.
And in this way, Congress and state legislators will learn to set priorities.
Yeah, right.
Naught for nothing did Gideon Tucker write that "no man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session."
And speaking of books about the Soviet Gulag, while grabbing a link to Solzhinitsyn, I came across this one, I Speak for the Silent Prisoners of the Soviets by Vladimir Tchernavin. One reviewer said:
This book is an eyeopener, although I did know about the concentration camps in Russia, this book explain how the Communists, in their ignorance and hate for the educated and wealthy people, destroyed their country by eliminating all those with knowledge and education. This had such dire effect and led to mass starvation, loss of businesses, loss of property and dignity of the people. One can only wonder why such ignorant 'bullies" even was able to take over the country. It is an exellent book and there is a second book that I will have to order, it is the continuation to this one.
I think the "continuation" book referred to is the one written by Tchernavin's wife, Tatiana: Escape from the Soviets, about which another Amazon reviewer wrote:
The two books give the most comprehensive view of USSR history I have read anywhere. For sheer understanding of the lives of ordinary citizens surviving such times, these books cannot be surpassed. And this family's escape is so exhilarating, and so many miracles occurred in so many places and ways, that it is almost unbelievable.
And what's amazing is that both of these books are available for 99 cents(!) each on Kindle. Naturally, I bought them both. At that price, it would almost be a crime against the people not to.
I guess people can make money on the internet by collecting public domain stuff, repackaging it, and then selling it to people who may not know the material they just bought is actually in the public domain and there's free copies of it around on the internet somewhere if only they'd look. The guys who do this, their profit margins approach 100%. I was looking at these British Mystery Multipacks trying to gauge potentential Moron interest, which I thought would be moderate to high, then I started looking at the material and I thought "you know, a lot of this stuff appears to be public domain texts." Then I noticed that the Kindle editions were being sold for 99 cents each, and that's when I concluded that most likely *everything* in these multi-packs is public domain.
So the added value is the re-packaging. Yes, you can find these novels and short stories for free elsewhere on the internet, but if you don't want to spend the time hunting them down, you can pay the buck and have the work done for you. Or you can pay 11 bucks and get the British Mystery Megapack, which is all 12 of the multi-packs bundled together.
If you do a search for "megapack", you'll see a boatload of mult-pack and megapack bundles for various other genres; mysteries, science fiction, romance, westerns, and the like. It's a safe bet that they're all public domain, too.
On ace's book recommendation thread back in June, Anna Puma recommended The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook.
For four thousand years, the Guardships have ruled Canon Space—immortal ships with an immortal crew...But now the House Tregesser has an edge: a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule...Kez Maefele and a motley group of aliens, biological constructs, and scheming aristocrats find themselves at the center of the conflict. Maefele must chose which side he will support: the Guardships, who defeated and destroyed his race, or the unknown forces outside Canon Space that promise more death and destruction.
Anna says that the universe of this novel is "interesting in all the details."
I've never read anything by Cook, but he's written a ton of science fiction and fantasy books, and is perhaps best known for his Black Company series.
Also from that thread, El Kabong recommends the 'Witcher' series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.
Geralt of Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin...His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world....But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good... and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.
El Kabong describes it as "Dark gritty fantasy where everyone is awful and no grand destiny will save the kingdom. Kind of like reality, only with boobs and monsters."
I thought "Boobs and Monsters" was the title of one of the original Gygax D&D rule books.
Oh, and here's an opportunity for me to tell my Gygax story:
This is all second-hand stuff from a friend of mine, so you can take this however you will, but when I was in college for the first time in the mid-70s, that was the time I first became acquainted with Dungeons and Dragons, and I
True story.
Moronette lurker 'krukke1' (pixybanned) has just published a new volume of her short stories, Glimpse vol. 4 - Dark Side, about which she describes as "...what the outcome would be if Poe and Twain got drunk watching a Tim Burton movie then sat down to collaborate."
So, come to the dark side where painting your room really DOES make it come alive; zombies clock in at the office, and those creepy clowns you fear finally confront you.
Here's a one-minute promo video that's delightfully creepy.
Moron author naturalfake's 4th and final installment of his 'Wearing the Cat' series, The Black Room, is now available for purchase on Kindle.
In "The Black Room", Part Four of "Wearing the Cat", McGill comes face to face with death.
As always, the introductory price for the first week is $0.99.
Don't forget the AoSHQ reading group on Goodreads. It's meant to support horde writers and to talk about the great books that come up on the book thread. It's called AoSHQ Moron Horde and the link to it is here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/175335-aoshq-moron-horde.
So that's all for this week. As always, book thread tips, suggestions, bribes, rumors, threats, and insults may be sent to OregonMuse, Proprietor, AoSHQ Book Thread, at the book thread e-mail address: aoshqbookthread, followed by the 'at' sign, and then 'G' mail, and then dot cee oh emm.
What have you all been reading this week? Hopefully something good, because, as you all know, life is too short to be reading lousy books.
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The late artist Shadia was born on 8 February 1931 and was nicknamed by the critics and the public as the film star Fatima Ahmed Shaker. During her 40 years of artistic career, she made about 112 films and 10 radio and drama plays. She is one of the most prominent Egyptian film stars, As well as a broad base among the Arab public.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Mrs. Hormeh visited actress Shadia at the hospital on Friday 10 November.
It is noteworthy that the great artist Shadia had suffered a stroke in the brain, and was transferred to the hospital for treatment.


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Too Much Noise, Not Enough Nuts
Too Much Noise, Not Enough Nuts is a chaotic investigation of human interaction and conversation. What are our behavioural habits? Our social habits? A manic conversation of unrelated movements.
Too Much Noise, Not Enough Nuts was originally performed at Zichri Theatre in Kibbutz Ga'aton, Israel, as part of an evening supporting the work of emerging choreographers.
Performers: Alexandra X Miller, Debora Regoli, Emily Bridge, Maria Novella Tattanelli, Meghna Bhardwaj, Michelle Peters, Molly Ross, Noie Porat, Sara Campinoti, Suzannah Dessau
The work was later presented at Kaleidoscopic Arts, a new artist platform in London, amongst other works by Lucy Wild and Marah Wilson, Lucia Schweigert, and Konstantina Skalionta.
Performers: Luke Bradshaw, Rachel Brennan, Aaron Chaplin, Sylvie Cox, Suzannah Dessau, Olivia Leek, Lizzie J Klotz, Caldy Walton, Katharine Richardson, Yasmin Sas.


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Clue: Brando's Parisian dance
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Canterbury students send care packages to wildfire victims
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The students sent handwritten notes of encouragement and two gift cards to the children at Bel Aire Park Elementary School. Students also brought in canned food and toys, which were donated to a local food drive and a women's shelter.
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Email: FMP Committee Chair
Phone: 610-436-1059
Teaching: My main area of teaching is in applied music. I teach my studio of over twenty tuba and euphonium students private lessons each week. I also teach group trumpet lessons, and run the WCU Brass Ensemble and the WCU Tuba Ensemble.
Research: As an very active freelance musician in the greater Philadelphia region, much of my research consists of concertizing with orchestras and chamber ensembles on both modern and period instruments. I also travel internationally to perform as a soloist and teach masterclasses.
Service: I have served on WCU committees such as the Research Consortium and the Who's Who selection committee. As a strong proponent of musical outreach, I have performed over 100 concerts for young children with disabilities.
Interests/Passions Outside of Academe: Outside of academe and music in general, I am a fan of Formula 1 racing, the Baltimore Orioles, BBQ, craft beer, home improvement projects, and my two cats.
Times when I can meet: I will be on campus every day of the week during Fall 2017. Afternoons are best, given a few day's notice.


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My name is vikram thakur.
I thing so this is very good phone in nokia n series ie N93i.
I am using this phone before that i have used N-GAGE QD.
So i thing best mobile is 93i it contain 3.2megapixel camera turning like handicam .
Browsing is very fast other features are really good sound & video quality is best it plays rm file of video which is formate of motorola motoroker.
It's decent but pricey and complicated , I also own an iphone
and it's hard to go back using the N93 I am starting to like typing the touch screen alot.. the symbian OS is awful
I think its awesome....i've been using this for more than a year...i've also got the latest firmware...i think its bril....the video centre rocks....love watching youtube in this thing....i've downloaded many cool games and apps from dedomil.wap4u.sk, symbianv3.com....i've also downloaded LCG jukebox so im able to see the album cover....wifi's great, love the web browser....
I think the camera's great and i love the dvd video quality....and the twisting form factor of this phone is incredible and just authentic....the mirror finish is awesome too....it looks great....everyone turns heads when they see this...im tellin you, you wont regret buying this phone....i am gettin a n95 8gb soon though....cuz it has a much larger screen, bigger memory and RAM, better music player and sound quality and stereo speakers....the 5mp is excellent too......
Does it support EDR 3Mbps?
Anybody tried transferring file via bluetooth from PC at 300KBytes/s?
had mine since release, and apart from the software issues in the first 6 moonths :( its a good fone, gota love the optical zoom and the flipable screen sets thsi apart from the other n series fones, jsut make shure u get the latest soft ware update and im shure there will be no bad things to say about this fone
this phone really rocks!
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cause i want it so but that i can taste it!
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Use .MID or .MP3 instead of .AAC/.M4A as ringing tone to solve your "no incoming tone while playing CNBC Podcasts" bug.
My paired Jabra BT3030 A2DP bluetooth stereo got this bug too! Must be the firmware, wait for update.
FYI, while on call, press play to let the other party listen to your playing podcast/music together.
Use .MID or .MP3 instead of .AAC/.M4A as ringing tone to solve your "no incoming tone while playing CNBC Podcasts" bug.
My paired Jabra BT3030 A2DP bluetooth stereo got this bug too! Must be the firmware, wait for update.
FYI, while on call, press play to let the other party listen to your playing podcast/music together.
i love this ph more than ever..i hv been using it almost a year now n nothing is wrong with it...anyway just bought my nokia e90 yesterday....looks cool...n i'm planning 4 n96 by ending of this year...ohh..i'm a nokia ph freak...thnks so much NOKIA...
Another problem with bluetooth A2DP. Podcasts from Bloomberg on the Economy/NPR Economy will sound like a downgraded 32kbps audio when using A2DP! These files sound great when using wired headset. Strangely, M4A files will not have this problem, only MP3 files!!!
Firmware bug or only my CSL50 stereo headset bug?
lov it, the looks, features, but worried about the soft wear dont want another soft
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"In this excerpt from an interview on Law.com's "Unprecedented" podcast, Stanford Law cryptography fellow Riana Pfefferkorn talks about the Department of Justice's new push for "responsible encryption" and whether it could lead to new legislation. Listen to the full interview here, or subscribe to "Unprecedented" on your Apple or Android device.
This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
Ben Hancock: You wrote in a blog post several weeks ago about "responsible encryption" and how the phrase was used by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Tell me about that speech and what struck you about that.
Riana Pfefferkorn: This was a speech that the deputy attorney general made to the Naval Academy a few weeks ago, and there were a few things that I found kind of noteworthy about that. One was this was really the first place I think we've seen the use of this term "responsible encryption." Now, we've heard it before, going all the way back to then-FBI Director Louis Freeh back in the mid-90s, when he referred to "socially responsible encryption" during the previous round of the crypto wars, when at that time, the DOJ and FBI were already sounding the alarm about communications "going dark" due to new technologies, including encryption. But the U.S. Naval Academy speech was the first place where we've seen a term that the deputy attorney general has now been using quite frequently, "responsible encryption.""


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So this month, the book I read had one of my favourite authors (Charles de Lint) team up with one of my favourite illustrators (Charles Vess), for a modern fairytale called Seven Wild Sisters (2002).
The novel follows seven sisters and their dog, who begin a day with chores and end with a war between fairies, including a creature called The Apple Tree Man and features challenges, music, and adventure. The book was simply a delight start to finish.
I'd first come across Charles Vess (who you can see more of at his website, Welcome to Green Man Press ) in Neil Gaiman's Sandman, as well as in the superb Stardust, so when I heard he had collaborated with Charles de Lint for this title, I was really excited to check it out.
The main story focuses on a young woman named Sarah Jane, who begins a cautious friendship with a backwoods wise woman known simply known as Aunt Lillian, that begins with chores and ends with a dangerous journey into another world.
A wonderful book and well worth the read.
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we went back to the tulips again.
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I stumbled across these videos belonging to Chase Jarvis today.
They amaze me. Their content is inspiring (especially this first one) but the cinematography…holy moly. I dig it.
On Planning:
I love that each decade of her life was like a new birth, a new place for her. I love the feeling I get of enjoying all of life's stages. It's so easy for me to spend all my time anticipating – looking forward to when this happens or that. This film makes it so much easier for me to rest in the idea of space – space for living, for enjoying what you're doing right now. For learning from what I'm currently working on and taking it forward. I won't always be in this same space. Not with my kids, not with my photography, not with what I do day to day that comprises my life. I love the reminder that life is long and full and exciting. And even if it's not long, I want to live as though I'm enjoying every moment – I'm not worrying about fitting it all in, or about what I haven't done yet, but living fully in the year, whatever it might look like. Whether it's a year of diapers, or new cameras or raising chickens or learning a new language or becoming an amazing photographer.
I know it's an ad. I know. But holy moly I dig this kind of ad.
On Risk:
I love that this man is 40. And that he's been skating for as long as he can remember. That he wasn't instantly good or instantly safe or confident. But that he's safe and comfortable (at least not stiff) because of all of his experience. I tend to want to get all my experience in as quickly as possible. I don't like to allow myself enough time to make sure I'm practicing, learning my skill until it's second nature.
And on Risk again:
And on this one I love that she knows she's doing something risky (putting everything into an art business) and that she's planned it out so it's a calculated risk. I'm not so much a risk taker. I'm much more of a do-it-if-its-safe kinda girl.
If this is what commercials are becoming I might start watching them again.
And (some of) how it's done:
Nicely done Chase. Can't wait to see the remaining two.
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We went to see the tulips today.
I don't seem to be having any trouble playing with the altering and enhancing buttons today.
But then again, I really do like the original too.
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I admit it. I've been looking forward to dandelion season for several months.
I love dandelion pictures. they're so delicate and fluffy and just lovely.
I can't decide if they should be left alone, and appreciated for what they are, no more and no less…
or if I should enhance them, make them even more beautiful.
I don't know. It's kind of a slippery slope for me.
I just lost you, huh? Dandelion enhancement, slippery slope…what? I know.
I just think there's so much emphasis on pseudo reality and on enhancing and beautifying and making things bigger and better than what they actually truly are. And I'm not just talking about pictures and Photoshop. I'm thinking of people, of how they feel about their appearance. I'm thinking of the stories we tell, how we feel it necessary to make them just a bit bigger, a bit more dramatic, a bit more interesting.
I want to recognize and look forward to reality. To what actually is, minus superficial enhancements.
The problem is that it's mundane. We've all seen it or heard it before. Interesting stories are unique – they have a component we didn't expect or haven't experienced ourselves. Beautiful people stand out in a crowd. They look different than everyone else.
I hate that. That's no good. Maybe I hate it because I'm wrong. Or maybe I hate it because I recognize it to be true.
Photoshopped pictures stand out because they are amazing – they're not something we've ever experienced through our naked eye. They're not reality. And that draws our attention. We want to take a closer look at that sunset with amazing unreal color.
And yet they can look so darn good.
Slippery slope.
(hmmm. I gotta say I wasn't expecting any of that. I was expecting to write about dandelion excitement. Interesting.)
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Things have been rather insane lately…insane in a good way, but not really a share-able way. I've been working on lots of projects, but none of them are really blog fodder. Sorry.
I so appreciate all of you who offered to let me come practice my "Finding the beauty in the craziness of everyday normalcy" skills – I've finally gotten myself organized and sent out an email to everyone that responded. I'm working on pulling a schedule together, so if you told me you want to participate and haven't seen an email yet, check your spam filters…
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So I've said time and time again I'm not a studio photographer. And yet, this past week the oppurtunity arose for me to borrow some studio equipment. I took it. I freely admit I don't fully get it. But I do enjoy having no distracting background.
That I do like.
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Thoughts On How To Take Your Business To The Next Level and Impress Your Clients
In today's forceful business world, it is basic for business visionaries to ensure that their business rises up from the other contenders with the objective that it can be basic for the business visionary to convince an imminent monetary expert or client why they should pick their association and not that of their adversaries. Despite of the fact that it regards guarantee that your business gives great quality items and administrations, it is likewise essential to guarantee that you as the entrepreneur get the opportunity to awe the customers and there are a few thoughts that will guarantee that you get the chance to awe your customers.
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Bubblegum Crisis: Blow Up (1987)
Directed by Hayashi Hiroki / Michael House / Akiyama Katsuhito / Oobari MasamiGenres - Science Fiction | Sub-Genres - Action Comedy, Anime | Run Time - 50 min. | Countries - Japan | MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Jonathan E. Laxamana
This is the third animated installment in the popular Japanese video series, Bubblegum Crisis. As the sinister GENOM corporation begins to close its grip on MegaTokyo, as the city continues its recovery from a ravaging earthquake of seven years earlier. The schemes of Mason, the conniving GENOM executive, lead him into a stunning confrontation with Sylvia of the Knight Sabers.
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Inside Man
The following weapons were used in the film Inside Man:
Ruger GP100
Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) carries a Ruger GP100 during the bank robbery, referred to throughout the film as a ".357".
Glock 17
An NYPD officer that enters the bank after the hostages and robbers are out uses a Glock 17 with a light attachment.
Glock 19
Almost all of the NYPD officers carry a Glock 19, including Det. Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) and Sgt. Collins (Victor Colicchio).
SIG-Sauer P226
The officer on the other side of the officer with the Glock is carrying a SIG-Sauer P226, which was recently added to NYPD's approved carry list. The exact specifications are DAO, 9mm, but the one in this film seems to have a hammer, so it is not DAO. An officer with a shield (or body bunker as NYPD ESU refers to them) can also be seen carrying one when they raid the bank.
Colt Double Eagle
Another NYPD officer appears to be holding a Colt Double Eagle.
Submachine Gun
Heckler & Koch MP5A3
Several NYPD ESU officers are armed with Heckler & Koch MP5A3 submachine guns with Surefire 628 dedicated fore-end flashlights.
The other three bank robbers, Steve Damerjian (Carlos Andres Gomez), Stevie (Kim Director), and Steve-O (James Ransone) carry AK-47 rifles. During an interview with Det. Frazier, Steve-O (posing as one of the bank hostages) has a discussion with Frazier about how "everyone who's seen a halfway decent action movie" knows what an AK-47 looks like after identifying the gun as such. When Frazier enters the bank after the robbery, another detective points out to him that the AKs are "toy guns". (Although identified as toys, the bank robbers can be seen using firing AK models when the detectives consider the consequences of raiding the bank. Since these sequences don't show events that actually happened, it is not a mistake that the guns would be "toys".)
M4A1 Carbine
Many NYPD ESU officers are armed with M4A1 Carbines.
Remington 700PSS
An ESU sniper is seen holding a Remington 700PSS fitted with a Harris bipod.
Penn Arms L-6 Rotary Launcher
NYPD ESU officers fire less-lethal rounds from Penn Arms L6 Rotary 37mm launchers at the hostages when they emerge from the bank.


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One of the seminal events of the tick mythos is that Arthur's dad is killed by a falling aircraft, crushed in the street. That's tonally speaking, an odd moment for superhero comedy to try and maintain,. That's a weird one to really milk the real emotional trauma that comes with that, and yet have fun with every other aspect, and even have fun with trauma itself. We're in a weird place, which is where I like being in.
Is there a parallel with Batman in that Bruce Wayne witnesses his parents being gunned down right in front of him?
In a way that is the fun house mirror of us. The more like response of that is accepting the medication that the nearest professional give you instead of doing sit ups until you're 25 and getting Tibetan mind secrets and building a bunch of boomerangs in your basement.
Why is Amazon the right place at the right time for this Tick re-boot?
They have the money. That sounds like a joke but they have the money necessary and the commitment and the love for this project to support what is a sort of spruce goose of an immense undertaking. It has tremendous special effects costs. It's just not what you would expect almost any company to necessary get behind with this kind of force but they did.
Their house edict is looking to a creator's vision. They're not trying to co-op it or take over or find a way to mainstream it. It's a very unusual corporate stance. Its news to me.
Read more about The Tick, including comments from new star Peter Serafinowicz, in the Entertainment section of Friday's Toronto Star.


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February Favourites and a Mini Instagram Catch Up22:37:00
I have the morning off tomorrow for the first time in ages, and yet I'm still in bed by half nine. It's a crazy life, this student living :D
I always finish the month off with an Instagram catch up, but this month I didn't really upload enough photos to fill up a post. So, this is a mixture of a catch up and a Favourites post. I've not done a Favourites post before, and I'm not sure I'll do one again, but I thought I'd give it a go. So here we go...
Instagram Catch Up
I Bought a Smoothie MakerThis photo has been in a previous blog post, but this was the slightly edited Instagram photo. I love my smoothie maker, I've been having a smoothie a day so far, and I have lot's of recipes ready to share with you all, once I get them how I like them.
Sprinkles Trip
I don't know if everywhere has these, but in Bournemouth we has an ice-cream and waffle parlour, called Sprinkles. We'd had our midplacement seminar and decided to treat ourselves to a Sprinkles trip afterwards. This is the Marshmallow Dream waffle, with chocolate sauce, sprinkles, sugar letter things, mini marshmallows, and cream on the side. Mmmm, mmm!
February Favourites
So, like I said, this is my first time doing one of these posts, and I wasn't really sure what it involved too much, so I've just grouped together a few bits and bobs that I loved in February.
First, I've been using my VO5 Plump It Up Amplifying Blow Dry Lotion every time after I wash my hair. I don't use a lot of heat on my hair, the only thing I really ever do to it is wash it, blow dry it, and tie it up when I sleep.
This lotion really gives my hair some volume, and I've noticed a difference since I've started using it. Plus I like it better than the mousse I used to use because it doesn't make my hair feel sticky or crispy.
This candle has appeared in so many of my posts this month, usually in the background or set of photos for other things. I thought it was time it had its own mention.
I bought this from New Look and showed it in my Salisbury Haul. It smells so yummy, it's been the perfect scent for that time between Winter and Spring, when you're fed up of cinnamon and gingerbread, but not quite ready for floral smells.
Plus, the jar is pretty, so I'm going to use it for something after the candle is done... not sure what yet though, bear with.
I've been reading the James Bond book, "Live and Let Die". I've been reading it for ages now, it's really good, but I just don't get the time to read at the moment, and when I finally do I've usually forgotten what's happened and I have to start again.
I'm going to start trying to make more of an effort to read a bit a day this month. I used to get through books so fast, so it'd be nice to carry on with the James Bond series.
Hot chocolates have been my go to this month. It's very chilly in our student house, so snuggling up with a hot chocolate is just the job.
I made one for myself tonight while I wrote this post, completely forgot about it, and ended up with the most dissapointing cold-hot chocolate. I then downed it and gave myself a tummy ache. Classic Katy.
Another saviour has been my hot water bottle. I'm pretty sure I've had a hot water bottle in bed every night this month, and I'm all snuggled up with one right now. It's so huggable too.
I follow Madeline Shaw on Instagram, and finally caved at the start of the month and bought her book, "Get the Glow".
It's really good, it's not just recipes, it's got advice for exercising and all sorts of little tips and tricks in there too. I haven't tried anything from it yet, but I've looked at the photos in it a lot, so fingers crossed for this month!
And that's it for my first Favourites post. As I said, I'm not sure if I'll make this an ongoing theme, I think I'll just see how I feel at the end of each month. I've got some exciting blog posts planned now that I'm feeling better, so hopefully I should be back on it this week!
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This weeks interview is with Adele our first organiser. Fiona Kate classic labels will be available from green apple organising plus tons of how to information for making your life less complicated. Green apple have their own tv channel with lots of great ideas.
How did you come to start your business?
I started Green Apple Organising as an extension of our hand's on professional organising service Blair Lifestyle Management. We created Green Apple Organising in response to the pleas from clients, we created a fresh approach to organising "The Marketplace for Fresh Organising Ideas in Bite Size Pieces". The concept being that sometimes you just need a little bit of help about a specific area you are organising, whether it is your wardrobe, pantry or paperwork there is a small specific Fact Sheet, Book, or Product to help you achieve your organising goals.
How long has your business been running?
At Blair Lifestyle Management we are about to celebrate our 5th birthday, Green Apple Organising has been operating since December 2009.
Can you describe your average day?
WOW, no such thing as average! Really it is a mix of processing orders that have been received overnight, keeping in touch with our customers through our Facebook and Twitter pages and working with our private clients, no two days are ever the same.
What are you excited about for winter?
Winter clothes and boots. Winter in Queensland is so short I have to make the most of the winter wardrobe!
What is your favourite part about green apple organising?
Feedback from customers when they receive their products.
Your least favourite task?
Tracking down parcels should they happen to go astray, hate to have customers waiting.
Do you have story about a day or customer you would like to share?
I have this lovely lady who chats to me on Facebook who is always providing great tips. Yesterday she shared that the Junior Flipfold is perfect for folding nappies - something I'd never thought of!
Where is your favourite spot to sit during your work day?
In my office by the window, ironically my office is painted a lovely soft green and there is a frangipani tree outside my window, its lovely.


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There have been many TEACHABLE MOMENTS, indeed !!
*And this morning, our family voted with sample ballots.
*Why ?
*To finish our study of An American Election, of course. This Election had provided an amazing educational opportunity -- the stark contrasts between the candidates, all of the press coverage, and of course the ability to 'fact-check" and scan the extraordinary amount of information available online.
It all started long long ago ... before the Primary Races.
*We made a list of all of the candidates (and all of their respective parties), and then assembled lists of "the issues" and where each candidate "stood".
*After the Primary Elections, we made a new list of "the issues" for each of the main candiates (Republican and Democrat only, just for simplicity).
*One for John McCain / Sarah Palin and the other for Barak Obama / Joe Biden.
*We watched all of the debates, with our lists in hand. We watched the candidates speaking from all over the country whenever we could. We scrutinized press releases and scoured the candidates websites. And we read through the party Platforms for both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
*And slowly, our WHERE (candidate's name) STANDS ON THE ISSUES lists filled in with lots of information.
We focused on the main issues, and tried to avoid the smearing and grandstanding. (Needless to say, it was difficult to do !)
*DadToCherubs and I did our very best to be unbiased in discussing politics with the children. (this was NOT as easy as I had thought it would be !) We did not want the children to feel pressured to stand "there" because their parents stand "there". We wanted the children to use their own hearts and minds to decide which team they felt was the BEST choice for our nation ... to feel free to use their voice when casting their vote.
*DadToCherubs and I went to vote when the Early Voting began in our state. At the Courthouse, I obtained a Voter Registration Form and a Sample Ballot, along with a few other brochures about Elections and Voting. (Tax dollars spent well .... all in the name of education, right ?!?!)
*I made voided copies of the Voter Registration forms, and of the sample Ballots.
*Several weeks ago, each of the children "registered" to vote by filling out the proper form -- filling out forms seems so simple, but it is a valuable skill that we do not get to practice very often as homeschoolers.
*While we filled out these forms, we discussed voter registration -- where and how a person can register to vote, who can vote, who cannot vote, voter fraud, why it is important to vote, and more.
*We continued filling out our Issues Lists .... waiting until the last minute to gather all of the best information in order to be sure we (as individuals) are voting for THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB.
*And this morning, at 8am sharp, every member of our family was able to cast their vote (using a copy of the sample ballot) ....
*To conclude our study, just before dinner this evening, DadToCherubs play the role of Election Commissioner. He will count every vote, and will declare the winner (for our household).
Then, during dinner, each child will be presenting the REASON they cast their particular vote -- citing the one issue that meant the MOST to them as a "voter" and where each candidate "stood" on that issue. And finally they will speak about why they chose the candidate they voted for.*
After dinner, we are going to sit down together and watch as some of the polls close and votes begin to be counted.
After dinner, we are going to sit down together and watch as some of the polls close and votes begin to be counted.
And we will pray .... that God will bless our great nation with THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB.
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UPDATE 7:45pm -- Our family votes were counted. We had 7 votes for McCain/Palin and 1 vote for Obama/Biden. And now we are going to PRAY, and then we are going to settle in to watch the race (while trying not to chew our nails).