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- Medieval account books were so common in Germany and considered to be so worthless, that into the early 19th century they were used as fuel to heat certain archives.
- Got nominated to the municipal council. Not likely to be high on the list, but still, feels good to be considered useful.
- I was shocked to learn that people who get elected onto the municipal council sometimes just flake out and never show up again after the first few meetings. Somebody pointed out that many people don't live my kind of predictable, regimented life. But accepting and then flaking out from public office suggests to me that the person doesn't even realise beforehand that they are not super dependable. Or that they don't consider public office to be a big deal. Or that a reputation for dependability is unimportant to them. I'd be too ashamed to show my face in public for years if I did that. Which of course says something about the standard to which I hold others as well.
- Wonder if Gygax & Arneson intended the similarity between a multi-level dungeon and Dante's circles of Hell.
- Fleetwood Mac were named for the members of the band's rhythm section.
- Ekonomistyrningsverket, the Swedish National Financial Management Authority, has operated for 19 years. I learned about it yesterday.
- The CD of Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever has a short spoken interlude in the middle in fairness to vinyl listeners who must flip their LP.
- A magnet tells the Kindle to turn its screen on when the flap opens. I like this feature!
- I wonder if Lowrance the GPS makers have an office in Saudi. Lowrance of Arabia.
- The first I heard about the Japanese American internment camps during WW2 was when I watched The Karate Kid.
- Intricate planning of middle-age napping and caffeine intake in order to be maximally alert when I drive home tonight from a speaking gig in rural Östergötland. The sequence will have to be: first go without caffeine so I get sleepy after lunch, then nap, then caffeinate two or three times over the afternoon and evening.
- I love apricot marmalade on toast!
- Which Dire Straits song about Asian food do you guys like the best? For me it's "Wok of Life".
- I fail to see the greatness of Goodfellas.
- The scalp distancer came off my hair trimmer. I now have a unique hair style.
- I just learned that the University of Lund has a radiocarbon lab. This is odd because it opened in 1965 and I have worked in Swedish archaeology since 1992. They don't seem to have much of a marketing budget. But come to think of it, I believe I've seen analysis ID codes starting with "Lu-" in the literature now and then. Good to know what it means!
- A sad thing about the enormous wealth of GPS tagged metal detector finds coming out of Scandinavian plough layers these days is that there is absolutely no funding for anyone to study them. They go straight into storage oblivion.
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The CD of Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever has a short spoken interlude in the middle in fairness to vinyl listeners who must flip their LP.
Peter Schickele got there first. He grew up listening to classical music on 78 RPM records, which would give you about five minutes per side, so it was common for the listener to have to turn over or change the record in the middle of a piece. The recording of P. D. Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest includes a gag that references those times: one of the numbers is contrived to have a note-holding contest that extends across the break in the two LP sides, and at the appropriate point we get a special message: "Please turn over the record." Of course, that gag has been lost in the CD era.
Politicians probably suffer a higher rate of divorces, cardiovascular disease and other misery.
People understimate how time-consuming it is, just reading the background information required for making individual decisions is a heavy burden. Long meetings, saturdays and sundays also get used up for work, little appreciation.
Birger@2: I can name a few counterexamples. Bill and Hillary Clinton are still married. Barack Obama is still on his first marriage. Joe Biden's first wife died young, but he is still married to his second wife. Jimmy Carter is still married to his first wife.
It's true that some politicians are divorced. In the US, they seem to be disproportionately from the party of so-called family values: Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, and so on. Certainly an alpha male (which most male politicians are) is more likely to find willing females who are not his wife. But I have no evidence that the divorce rate is significantly different for politicians compared to the general populace. And infidelity does not invariably lead to divorce (see Clinton, Bill).
Fleetwood Mac were named for the members of the band's rhythm section.
Who were also only the only two people who were in all of the band's incarnations. They recorded several (today mostly forgotten) albums with other guitarists before recruiting Lindsey Buckingham circa 1975. He brought along then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks (who turned out to be a decent singer and songwriter in her own right), yielding the lineup for which Fleetwood Mac were best known (I'm not sure when Christine McVie joined the band, but she was already in when Buckingham and Nicks joined).
I don't know about early Fleetwood Mac, but once Buckingham joined, the eponymous members did little of the songwriting. "The Chain" is credited to all five, but that's the only song I can name with either Mick Fleetwood or John McVie getting songwriting credit.
Eric, I am referring to our local grass-roots politicians, middle-class people, to use the English term.
The top politicians of USA are nearly all former trust-fund kids, millionaries connected to the networks of the top fraction of the one per cent ( just read Hillary's emails).
They do not get exposed to the stress of waiting months for a day care arrangement with the local town, and they have hired help to do the time consuming stuff.
The politicians I know do not get invited to campaign functions where the guests pay a thousand bucks (USD) for
the privilege of listening to a speech by some big cheese.
"They recorded several (today mostly forgotten) albums with other guitarists before recruiting Lindsey Buckingham circa 1975"!!!!!!!!!! They made several iconic singles with Peter Green, when they were called 'Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac' after he recruited his rhythm section from John Mayall, the British bluesman (still performing). To people of my generation and older the 'Rumours' Fleetwood Mac is a diminished MOR remnant of wildly imaginative heavy blues band, in which Peter Green created songs like 'Black Magic Woman' (yes the one you know covered/copied by Santana), 'Albatross' and 'Oh Well', before succumbing to LSD and serious mental illness..
Try this for size – from c.1970 live in LA, or possibly Stockholm – it was always a bootleg. Peter Green has substantially recovered from his illness and still plays, though sadly not like this any more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxgY9eEFiYM
Before she married Fleetwood Mac bass player John McVie, Christine McVie's real maiden name was Christine Perfect.
She said she got a bit of a hard time at school over that. I can imagine.
Now in America, about 17% of marriages are interracial. If you don't get what interracial means in this context, you can refer to the US Census, which puts people into 'racial' categories – some of these a genuinely based on genetic differentiation/phenotype, and some are more ethnic/cultural than genetic/phenotype (like Hispanic 'whites' who are differentiated from non-Hispanic 'whites'), but whatever; they represent disparate racial/cultural groups who would normally not interact socially.
Apparently this has received a boost from online dating services. Now about 30% of marriages result from online dating. To understand this, online dating puts people from disparate social groups in touch who would normally not encounter those social groups in their normal lives. And that works across US Census race boundaries, when normally people from those different race categories would not normally interact with each other socially.
The trend in interracial marriages has been steadily rising since 1967, but then really took off around 1997, and got a big boost in 2006, and has been rising steadily ever since. The more recent accelerations can be accounted for, at least in part, by online dating.
Why do I think that this is a big deal? Because I think that a lot more interracial marriage could just be the thing that saves America from the current race wars/ideologies that have been bubbling away like a festering sore, and are now breaking out into open between-group hostility, notably at some university campuses, with the rise of populism in politics. Neo-Nazis, white supremacist groups agitating for a 'white homeland', BLM and 'antifa' are now coming out and physically attacking one another.
Anecdotally, I don't see the same thing happening in Australia, but it needs to. I don't think online dating is nearly such a big thing as it obviously is in America.
Whether marriages resulting from online dating prove to be more resilient/long lasting than marriages resulting from acquaintances among people's own social groups or random acquaintances that arise while attending university or whatever remains to be seen, I guess. But online dating accounting for 30% of all marriages seems like a hell of a lot, to me.
About North korean secret police activities inside China, hunting defectors.
"North Korea may have killed priest helping defectors: report" https://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/north-korea-may-have-killed-priest-helping-defectors-report/
"Inside Life's hotel, a launchpad for crackdown on North Korean refugees. Defectors' odds of success are lengthening, and not only because of the spies said to have checked in to this Chinese hotel" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/11/inside-lifes-a-launchpad-for-crackdown-on-north-korean-refugees
I am reminded of how, after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Soviet Union returned Polush Jews who had escaped across the border to Gestapo.
Mao helped Kim Il Sung set up shop. Now Maos successors are helping North korea track down refugees. And in regard to the whole "breaking Chinese law" by escaping through Chinese territory, this is cynical BS on a par with the Saudis and the Burmese government. People fleeing for their lives have no legal options.
You will often hear Australian politicians make the boast that Australia is the world's "most successful multi-cultural country".
Aside from being obvious bullshit because Australia is a white Anglo supremacist's paradise compared to a country like America or the UK, it bears much closer scrutiny in terms of what 'multi-cultural' actually means.
Migrants to Australia are expected to 'assimilate' and adopt 'Australian values'. There is no question about that; it is stated openly by politicians of all stripes, and no one questions it. No one can actually give you a list of what 'Australian values' are, but it's reasonable to conclude that they refer to some collection of cultural 'values' or social behaviours. Maybe.
So, if migrants are expected to assimilate to the 'Australian way of life' (again nowhere defined) and Australian 'cultural values', how does that make the country 'multi-cultural'? It actually suggests that it aspires to be mono-cultural (which in fact is the reality).
The clue is that 'multi-cultural' is a code word that doesn't refer to 'culture' at all.
A rational explanation: " Green tea extract delivers molecular punch to disrupt formation of neurotoxic species" https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-green-tea-molecular-disrupt-formation.html NB you must use it long before Alzheimer's symptoms show up, it is a prevention, not a cure.
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Wasn't there a UKIP wannabe party that tried to get established in Australia a decade or so ago? If racism is already internalised in the "mainstream" political establishment, it would explain why the newcomers failed.
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I often read "First Dog on the Moon" -I don't know how accurate it is, but it is outrageous and often funny. But I need other souces to keep up to date about Australia.
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Merkel caves to demands from CSU to create coalition.
Birger@13 – I believe you are referring to one Pauline Hanson and her adherents, who comprise the One Nation political party (meaning One White Anglo Nation, obviously). Prior to launching herself into federal politics, Ms Hanson's peak lifetime achievement had been to run a fish and chip shop. Her power base, such as it is, is in the state of Queensland. Queenslanders are the Australian version of the population of West Virginia.
Originally, she tried to create moral panic among voters by stating that Australia was being 'flooded' by 'Asians' (where Asians includes all East and South-East Asians, but excludes people from the Indian sub-continent – you know, the Yellow Peril). Current 'Asian' population of Australia amounts to 4% of total population. Some flood.
Then she was imprisoned for a while for something to do with campaign funds. Believe it or not, we have the Mad Monk aka Tony Abbott to thank for her political demise on that occasion – he's an awful policy maker, but a very skilled and relentlessly vindictive political wrecker, so for once he did the country a big favour and took Pauline out of the picture for a good long while.
But never fear – Pauline is back. Having given up on attacking Asians because the predicted flood never happened, she is now trying to create moral panic by stating that Australia is being 'flooded' by 'Muslims' – she doesn't say what brand of Muslims; they're all the same, evidently. (Muslims of all origins currently account for about 4.2% of the total population – again, some flood.) When that wasn't working well enough, she pulled a stunt by appearing in the Senate Chamber wearing a full head to toe Burqa rig, and then dramatically removing it to reveal herself, in order to make…erm…some point or other. Whatever her point was supposed to be, all it earned her was condemnation and ridicule by every other federal politician in the country.
She's still lingering, but it's pretty predictable that she will disappear again soon enough, particularly if the Mad Monk makes it his personal objective to bury her again. Let's hope so, because he's no bloody use for anything else.
We have far too many Pauline Hanson types here in the US. The details differ, obviously, but the talking points are the same. Here they tend to go after Mexicans rather than Asians–the US has a long land border with Mexico and is nowhere near Asia–but fail to realize how much of the US economy depends on people of Latin American origin to do jobs that US-born whites are unwilling to do. The anti-Muslim hysteria, however, is pretty much the same, and they make no distinctions between those who might want to blow up buildings and those who just want to quietly live their lives.
Speaking of blowing stuff up, our Pauline Hanson wannabes are remarkably silent about terrorist attacks that actually occur in the US: Oklahoma City, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, and countless others I am forgetting because they have become far too routine. These acts are typically perpetrated by non-immigrant white people with easy access to guns, and the "solution" offered, if they even go through the motions of offering one, is for more people to carry guns. I'm reminded of the definition of insanity here.
There is some truth to the notion that white males fear losing the privileged position they once had in society. You mentioned above the increasing numbers of inter-ethnic marriages in the US. The white males who enter such marriages are for the most part not the white males who are in a rage about what the US is becoming. There is a clear inverse relationship between fearing people of different ethnic or religious backgrounds, and having occasion to interact with such people as peers. A couple of students in my immediate work group (and several others in the larger department) are Iranian, and likely (although we have no occasion to bring up the subject, so I can't be sure) Muslim. I fear them less than I do many self-described Christians who are white. As Chris Rock put it several years ago, I don't fear al-Qaeda as much as I do al-Cracka.
Eric, possibly relevant:
" Why is Mass Violence Always Men? "http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/10/10/mass-violence-always-men/#disqus_thread
Damn, should be http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/10/10/mass-violence-always-men/#disqus_thread
An article about shootings which deals with how men react to threats to their masculinity.https://qz.com/1095247/the-sociological-explanation-for-why-men-in-america-turn-to-gun-violence/?utm_source
Neighbor meaning to shoot pit bull kills Detroit woman instead https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/neighbor-meaning-to-shoot-pit-bull-kills-detroit-woman-instead/
…but guns make us safe!!
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
NBC found out what prompted Tillerson's "moron" remark.
"Trump threatens to revoke NBC's broadcasting license for reporting he wants tenfold increase in nukes" https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/trump-threatens-to-revoke-nbcs-broadcasting-license-for-reporting-he-wants-tenfold-increase-in-nukes/
OT, but I want to balance things with some good news, for a change. "The next decade could bring a breakthrough in Alzheimer's research, expert says" https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-decade-breakthrough-alzheimer-expert.html
Trump threatens to revoke NBC's broadcasting license
Considering that his career has depended on favorable TV news coverage, Trump knows remarkably little about how the TV business works. Yes, I am aware that any statement of the form "Trump knows remarkably little about $SUBJECT" is almost certainly true.
Before the widespread availability of cable, the standard business model for TV networks was that the owners of local broadcast TV stations would often contract with one of the major content providers (ABC, CBS, or NBC) for programming including morning shows, national news shows, prime-time entertainment, and sports. These providers only directly owned a few stations; the rest were what we call affiliate stations. There has been some consolidation since then, but it is still the case that most of the stations that broadcast NBC News are not directly owned by NBC.
So even if Trump could get NBC's broadcast license revoked (I suspect that if he were to try, NBC's lawyers would be filing for an injunction in, as they say, a New York minute, because of the obvious First Amendment issues), that would only apply to the stations directly owned by NBC. It would do nothing to prevent NBC News broadcasts from airing in markets served by NBC affiliates.
The subject of why murderous rampagers are almost always men came up during a lunch break discussion among the group I was with last week. The phenomenon of men going on murderous rampages is hardly unique to the US: there was Anders Breivik in Norway, and several others who have used knives or motor vehicles to kill people. What is different about the US is, again, the gun culture. We are fed a steady diet of movies and TV shows that show good guys with guns defeating bad guys with guns, to the extent that the exceptions are notable[1]. It's easier to find anti-gun messages in popular songs, but there is still a strong pro-gun streak, especially in but not limited to country music. So many Americans, as well as foreigners in America (such as the guy at the University of Iowa–I know people who were in that room), absorb the message that guns can solve their problems. Not all people in the US absorb this message, but the ones who are susceptible to going on murderous rampages seem particularly likely to absorb it.
[1]One of the few exceptions is The Dukes of Hazzard, a 1980s TV show considered problematic today mainly because the title characters' car had a large Army of Northern Virginia flag painted on the roof. A major plot point was that the Duke brothers were on probation, and therefore not allowed to have guns. They therefore had to resolve their many run-ins with corrupt local officials (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltraine) by non-violent means. The Dukes did use a bow and arrow on the handful of occasions that they actually needed a weapon, but that only happened a few times, and the arrow was never aimed at a person. As you might expect, the Duke brothers ultimately resolved every confrontation in their favor.
Prompted by the Helen Young interview, Razib Khan has a very long piece about fantasy fiction. As suggested in one of the comments, evidently Tolkien modeled the Dwarves in Lord of the Rings on Ashkenazim, people he admired, and basically said as much.
But I'm definitely over this subject. I don't care. Medieval Studies of Europe are necessarily about people who were obviously pale skinned. Humans occupying Europe were not always so pale skinned, but they certainly were long before then. It seems like a circumstantial irrelevance to me, and I don't understand why some people make so much out of it. Chinese historians don't get all twisted up about Han and most of the ethnic minorities being equally pale skinned.
And Tolkien wrote fantasy, not history. I don't understand why people seem to make so much out of the connection between history and fantasy – it's just fictional fantasy, after all. Charles Martell defended Europe against Moorish invaders because they were invaders and also presumably because they were Muslim, not Christian, not because of the shade of their skin.
I have been watching the latest Star Trek series on Netflix. It's not brilliant, but entertaining and diverting enough. I don't get overly analytical about the moral dimensions or whatever (some people are already doing that, tediously). It's just a story.
While watching it, I'm not that conscious that the central character is played by a young American black woman, only that she is more physically attractive than any of the other cast members. The character I find a visual shock is the very pale skinned, red haired girl who talks too much. And the hideously ugly alien guy on the star ship crew, who is just awful to look at, deliberately so – I would have preferred them to choose a less hideous appearance for that character. The fact that he is very pale just seems to make it worse, not better.
Ongeluckige Voyagie.
This is real, not fantasy. In 1629 a ship carrying treasure plus 341 passengers and crew set out from the Netherlands to sail to what is now the island of Java in Indonesia. After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, they scooted across the Indian Ocean down in the latitudes where the Roaring Forties blow hard and constantly eastwards, then when they sighted the coast of Western Australia they turned left to make their way northwards to Java. But on the northward leg, the ship was wrecked off the coast of the Australian mainland. No help was forthcoming from that direction, because the only inhabitants were a very sparse population of nomadic Aboriginal people, naked and with nothing more than basic stone tool technology (plus some pretty clever other stuff, in materials that don't preserve well), but not the seafaring technology needed to mount any kind of rescue mission, and besides they had never seen white people before, and were probably scared shitless of them – British colonisation of Australia didn't come until much later.
40 people drowned in the shipwreck. The other 301 of them managed to get to a waterless island, where they were marooned; stranded.
What subsequently ensued is a story straight out of Hell. As an illustration of what can happen when the shackles come off 'civilised' people, it is a horrifying and sobering account. There were some heroic characters who retained decency and acted courageously, but others who acted out the most horrific evil.
You can read about the whole dreadful thing here, in an English translation of the original Dutch account written 18 years after the event. It was written from first person accounts of what happened, so can be presumed to be pretty accurate in the details.
Don't panic! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in line for radio reboot Show to return to BBC to mark 40th anniversary of its debut and will be adapted from Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing… https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/12/dont-panic-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-in-line-for-radio-reboot
John, did this inspire "Lord of the Flies"?
A relatively late example is a small French Island a fair bit south of Central America. Too far into the Pacific to attract ships, it was essentially forgotten after the outbreak of WWI. The few humans were left to fend for themselves for many years. The surviving women finally managed to kill the single adult remaining male, that had murdered all rivals and used the women for sexual slavery. Years after the war ended, a ship finally turned up and the people were rescued.
I feel I must include at least *some* good news: "Boy Scouts board votes unanimously to allow girls to join" https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/boy-scouts-board-votes-unanimously-to-allow-girls-to-join/
Kyrgyzstan bucks the central Asian trend for rigged elections https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/12/kyrgyzstan-set-for-freest-and-fairest-election-in-central-asian-history -The president might get *less* than 105% of the vote!
Construction prototype for ultra-thin concrete roof https://phys.org/news/2017-10-prototype-ultra-thin-concrete-roof.html
Pretty cool idea.
Birger@33: That sounds like a promising development, although my personal experience led me to raise my eyebrows at this piece of the description:
the heating and cooling coils and the insulation are installed over the inner concrete layer
Encasing any kind of pipe in concrete is a bad idea because of corrosion issues. My house has a pipe that originally connected the oil tank at one end of the basement with the furnace at the other. I have since had that pipe bypassed; the pipe is still there but is now disconnected at both ends. I think my furnace guy and I caught it in time, but I have no real way of knowing.
I do not know how the thickness of ETH's prototype compares to that of this Eero Saarinen designed building from the 1950s whose roof consists of a thin concrete spherical shell anchored at three points around the building's perimeter. My sources do not give a thickness for the Kresge Auditorium roof, but it is claimed to be proportionately thinner than an eggshell.
Meanwhile, the BBC reports that the name Allah was embroidered on some Viking-era clothes from the 9th and 10th centuries.
The name Ali is almost as prominent as Allah on these textiles, so there is some speculation that the influence was specifically Shia. However, the name Ali is not accompanied by the phrase "waly Allah" (friend of God), so there is also speculation that it was an incorrectly copied pattern–equating Ali and Allah is something only certain early extreme movements did, and most Muslims, even Shia, would probably consider it blasphemous today.
The textiles in question were found in both Birka and Gamla Uppsala.
Birger@28 – The written account has been around for a long while, and has prompted a large body of literature. On the other hand, shipwrecks, marooning and mutinies were not uncommon in the days of sailing ships and early European exploration, so similar scenarios were no doubt played out numerous times, with variations. I think it most likely that William Golding was a keen observer of human behaviour, and had a lot of observations of real life in his time and historical material to draw upon.
When I was pre-adolescent, the group and individual behaviours of boys in my neighbourhood were not particularly distant from that described in Lord of the Flies. Exploring the wild bush around where we lived was a very common activity, and kids let loose in that sort of environment revert almost instantly to a range of stereotypes, including sadistic bullies. Not confined only to boys, either – some of the bigger, older girls were capable of sadistic bullying, particularly those who had themselves been under the control of a group of notably sadistic Catholic nuns at the local convent school. I had the occasional brief accidental encounter with those women when I unwittingly strayed into their 'territory', and they were profoundly evil. My older sister warned me repeatedly to "stay away from those nuns" – she was under no illusions about them.
Bamboo is an excellent material for making bicycle frames. Very few of them around, though.
Counterpoint to the horrifying history of the shipwreck of the Dutch ship Batavia – accounts of environmental collapse, tribal warfare and cannibalism on Easter Island might have been exaggerated, or even mistaken collective memory/oral history of depradations by outsiders. Enslavement and population collapse of isolated populations after first contact are a recurring theme in history. Heyerdahl's crackpot theories haven't helped in the Pacific, and Jared Diamond…well, I don't particularly want to get into deconstructing some of his more ridiculous claims. Plenty of others have already done that. (But those big stone statues never walked by themselves. Seriously.)
Physical Fitness 101
No smutty schoolboy jokes, please – this is serious, and important information.
It turns out that the Gemellus muscles, located in the lower outer parts of the buttocks (see link below), are absolutely critical to being able to walk strongly with your feet close together. You might have noticed with a lot of elderly people who can no longer walk too well, that they tend to walk with their feet spread wide apart and swaying from side to side as they walk; they often do so with the aid of a walking stick, which makes them even more of an obstacle to get around when you are trying to walk past them. They walk like that because they have lost the use of their Gemellus muscles due to inactivity. They have completely lost the ability to walk in a strong and stable manner with their feet close together.
I see very many elderly Chinese people doing the splayed feet swaying walk around HK – they travel further in repetitive sideways motions than in making progress in a forward direction. And they are an absolute menace to other pedestrians on crowded footpaths, when other people are trying to walk fast and get past them.
I learned how important this muscle group is to walking only fairly recently. Now that I know, I am conscious of it, and can feel those muscles working when I walk, particularly when I am walking briskly. And they obviously come into play when you are running, also. With advancing age, it is very easy for those muscles to become weakened, so in the gym I pay particular attention to doing exercises to strengthen them, and of course do as much brisk walking as possible to keep them strong. You really need to focus on strengthening them, because like a lot of muscles that get frequent daily use, it takes a lot to make them stronger. (Calf muscles are similar in that regard – working your calves to strengthen them is a real pain.)
Because if you don't use 'em, you lose 'em, and once they're gone, they're gone, and you are condemned to the splay footed swaying side-to-side gait for the rest of what remains of your life.
A lot of people seem to have a low opinion of weight training, because they tend to associate it with steroid-pumped bodybuilder narcissistic type muscle boys. And females almost always say they don't want to do it because they "don't want to get bulky" (but that won't happen, because it's really very difficult to add a significant amount of muscle mass, particularly when not chemically assisted). But maintaining muscle strength and function plays a big part in maintaining quality of life and mobility. After the age of about 28, you lose 10% of total muscle mass every 10 years, unless you work at maintaining it. And the only way to do that is by doing some form of resistance training, the easiest form of which is weight training.
And, believe it or not, the evidence is actually pretty convincing that physical exercise – aerobic (running, brisk walking, swimming, cycling), weight training, isometrics (another form of resistance training, but a lot less effective in my experience), and Tai Chi, are all correlated with maintaining fluid intelligence and preventing cognitive deterioration with age. The reasons for that are not well understood, but the evidence is pretty convincing.
The data in that paper relate to individuals >60 years of age. But an important point there is that it is easier to establish exercise habits early and keep them going, than to be sedentary and then realise when you are over 60 that you need to start exercising – getting started on a new programme of exercise at that age is a lot harder than if you start younger and just keep it going through your 40s, 50s and 60s. Plus, there is a greater risk of injury if you suddenly start trying to heave sizeable lumps of steel around when you are in your 60s, if you have never done it before – because connective tissue takes a lot longer to grow stronger than muscle tissue.
So, all the old folks who keep doing crossword puzzles under the mistaken belief that they are delaying the onset of senility are kidding themselves – they need to ditch the crosswords and start pumping some iron. And also preferably get out and go for some long walks, preferably involving walking up and down hills, but any brisk walking for 30 minutes or longer will help. Walking is preferable to cycling because it is more weight-bearing, which also helps to maintain bone strength and density, so you will be less prone to fracturing muscles if you fall. Cross country skiing is probably a good one, but I wouldn't know – I have an aversion to snow and have spent most of my life trying to avoid gettting anywhere near the stuff.
Duh – less prone to fracturing bones, I meant.
Bone fractures in the elderly are no joke. If a person in his/her 70s or 80s falls and fractures his/her pelvis (a not uncommon occurrence) it might never heal, and he/she might be bed-ridden for the rest of his life. It's not what you want to happen to you.
I have a younger English friend/colleague who crashed his motorcycle in rather spectacular fashion, fractured his jaw badly and was bedridden for 2 weeks (fed intravenously, which is a joke – it keeps you alive, but just). He was astonished to find that when he was allowed to get out of bed and tried to walk, he couldn't. This was at a time when he was really quite young and still a very active and competent soccer player. It shocked him.
Being bedridden for any reason for any length of time, and you rapidly deteriorate physically in all kinds of ways to such a severe extent that it's mind-boggling.
Maintaining fitness and physical function is a matter of days, rather than weeks or months. I notice a deterioration in both aerobic fitness and muscle strength now if I don't make it into the gym for more than 3 days. The good news is that, once I do get back in there, it comes back again fairly fast – about two or three times as long to recover it as it took to lose it.
Some people just don't like the gym environment. That's fine, there are plenty of alternatives.
Good write up by Carl Zimmer of the recent paper on genes for skin colour that has caused so much excitement among population geneticists:
An interesting point is that, while some populations were under selective pressure for more pale skin, some others (notably Nilo-Saharans in Africa) were under selective pressure for more dark skin (protective from excessive UV). Nilo-Saharan is a language group, but it is useful to denote some groups in Africa who share phenotypical similarities in appearance; they tend to be the darkest skinned of the African peoples. Although people tend to clump all Africans together as 'black' there is actually a wide variation is skin tone among African peoples.
I suppose the other interesting point, although it was already known or at least guessed, is that the alleles for pale skin existed in the Homo lineage before the evolution of anatomically modern humans (obviously, because some but not all Neanderthals had them) – so when our ancestors lost their fur, whenever that was, we were probably pale skinned and had to develop dark skin as protection from UV. And then, for those who migrated out of Africa for more northerly latitudes, they had to become more light skinned again in order to get enough UV – but in a case of genuine parallel evolution, the allelic pathways for pale skin in modern Europeans are different from those in modern East Asians.
I think my daughter has sampled from both sides, because she is more pale skinned than both my wife and myself, and more pale skinned than many northern Europeans.
Mano Singham: "Racism in Australian cricket"
As a commenter points out, "sledging" is common in Australian sports, and the bile will focus on whatever quality catches the Eye. https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2017/10/11/racism-in-australian-cricket/#more-43931
Gabriel Sherman: Trump is Losing It http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/10/12/sherman-trump-losing/
It always confuses me when Chinese-American actresses refer to themselves as 'people of colour' – I finally figured out that POC doesn't actually mean that (some of these actresses are really pale skinned, and Lucy Liu is both pale skinned and has a face full of freckles – and zero European ancestry), it's a code for 'not of European ancestry'. It's a 'race' or 'ethnic group' code, not an expression for skin tone at all. So Hispanic 'whites' qualify as POC. How confusing is that?
My Chinese mother-in-law had freckles, and it is absolutely clear from my wife's genotyping that she had zero European ancestry. The alleles for freckling are not connected to the alleles for pale skin in Europeans, but they are obviously more rarely expressed in East Asians than in some European populations – more likely in Northern Han than Southern Han. Lucy Liu's parents originated in Beijing and Shanghai respectively.
Chinese people think Lucy Liu is hideously ugly and can't figure out why she is so popular as an actress in America. But I watched the Netflix series Elementary, about a modern Sherlock Holmes (Englishman in New York; recovering heroin addict; Aspergic as hell), with Lucy Liu playing the part of Dr Watson (so how confusing is that?) and I thought she did a pretty good job.
Birger@45 – No no, surely you have got that wrong – Australia is "the world's most successful multi-racial country" (cough cough).
"Khawaja says that he now realizes that the people who behave that way are just a minority." Either Uzzie has got that dead wrong, or he is just being his normal polite self – it's not a minority. Ask any Aboriginal football player.
Another mystery solved. Nice piece by Anne Gibbons.
Regretting letting one Coco Yin link to me on LinkedIn:
"Today's Offer for Scaffolding." Thanks Coco, but I don't actually need any today.


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JAMMU, Jan 19: Arrangements for the Republic Day celebrations were reviewed at a high level meeting held at Police Headquarters (PHQ) here today. Chaired by Director General of Police (DGP), Dr. S. P. Vaid, the meeting was attended by senior officers from police, central para-military forces, intelligence agencies and civil administration.
Dr. Vaid, at the outset of the meeting, sought reports from the concerned officers regarding the arrangements put in place for the smooth conduct of State Level function being held at Jammu. Officers representing different agencies through power point presentation informed the meeting that a comprehensive security plan has been chalked out in coordination with other departments and agencies to make coordinated efforts for the smooth conduct of the celebrations in winter capital and others districts of Jammu Province.
DGP impressed upon all officers to work with good synergy and make all required security arrangements, besides maintaining vigil in all cities and towns to thwart any effort by the anti-national elements which could disrupt the peaceful atmosphere.
He said that night patrolling in the border areas and naka checking should be conducted to curb the activities of bad elements. Random checking of vehicles should be got done besides, efficient police bandbust in and around the venues of celebrations to ensure security, law and order during the celebrations. Deployment at busy places including bus stands, railway stations and religious places needs to be enhanced to ensure fool proof security.
DGP stressed for better traffic arrangement in the major cities and towns in order to avoid inconvenience to the common masses participating in the celebrations. Parking slots should be identified, notified well in advance for awareness of commoners, said the DGP.
Earlier, IGP CID, A. G. Mir briefed the meeting about the intelligence gathering with regard to anti-national activities. He said that input sharing is must to take necessary precautions for making the efforts result oriented. IGP Jammu Zone, Danesh Rana briefed the meeting about the deployment plan made for the conduct of RD celebrations in the Zone in a secure and befitting manner.
The meeting was attended by ADGP Security, Dilbag Singh, IGPs, MS Salaria, Yoginder Koul and SA Watali, Surinder Kumar Gupta, DIGs, Alok Kumar and AA Wani, Deputy Commissioner, Simrandeep Singh, SSPs, Sunil Kumar, AK Angral, Rajinder Gupta, Rohit Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Ashok Kumar and all district Superintendent of Police.


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The Scientific Reason You Won't Throw Your Stuff Away• Shaunacy Ferro via PopSci.com
When my great-grandmother died in the mid-90s, we found a number of questionable collections in her house, including a paper bag filled to the brim with meticulously cleaned-out egg shells and a very toxic jar of mercury she had drained from old thermometers. In short: She was totally a hoarder. Had she lived to see the age of reality television, we could have put her on A&E's Hoarders, which tracks the lives of people who obsessively collect and can't bring themselves to throw things away, even to the point of creating dangerous, trash-filled living situations.
Though its not yet considered an official disorder, somewhere around 5 percent of Americans, or 15 million people, struggle with compulsive hoarding, as Bonnie Tsui noted in her in-depth look at the science of hoarding in Pacific Standard.
After years of being lumped in as a category of OCD, in May, hoarding will officially be recognized as its own distinct disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the standard tome of afflictions used by mental health professionals to classify mental health issues. The first systematic study of the disorder wasn't published until 1993, as Tsui points out, but like the amount of junk in my closet, the field is starting to grow.
Though the research is still preliminary, studies have shown hoarding is related to cognitive differences in processes like decision-making, sorting and categorizing. In fMRI studies of people with hoarding disorder, the areas of the brain associated with decision making lit up more when making choices about material objects, showing more emotional engagement with items than usual. Another study found that hoarders find it more difficult to make decisions about their own possessions than someone else's.


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Geno Studio announced three new anime projects on their official website, along with a teaser PV that includes basic information for all three titles on the official Twitter. The three new projects are an anime adaptation of Kokkoku, the previously announced anime project of Golden Kamuy, and a new work directed by Takahiro Omori (Durarara!!).
The staff and cast members have been revealed with a separate teaser PV for the Kokkoku anime adaptation. The key visual was revealed last week, and the one pictured is an updated version with its title revealed. The anime will broadcast on Mondays via Tokyo MX and BS11 at 12:30 a.m. in Winter 2018. Amazon Prime will also stream the anime.
Juri Yukawa lives with her NEET father and brother, her retired grandfather, her sister (a single mother) and her young nephew. One day, her nephew and brother are kidnapped for ransom. Having only 30 minutes to meet the demands of the kidnappers, Juri, who realizes there is not enough time to prepare the money, decides to head for their rescue by herself with a knife in hand when her grandfather uses a mysterious stone passed on in the Yukawa family to stop time.
In a world where everyone and everything is inert, Juri and her father and grandfather run to rescue the two. But at the kidnappers' hideout, they soon realize they are not the only ones who can move about in this still world… (Source: MU)
Juri Yukawa: Chika Anzai (Escha Chron)
Shouko Majima: Asami Seto (Macross Δ)
Grandfather: Kazuhiro Yajima (Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-hen)
Junji Yukawa: Hozumi Gouda (Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu Gaiden: Rasen Meikyuu)
Takafumi Yukawa: Kouji Tsujitani (InuYasha)
Tsubasa Yukawa: Hirofumi Nojima (Kuroko no Basket)
Makoto Yukawa: Ryuuto Iwata (Doraemon Movie 35: Nobita no Space Heroes)
Shiomi: Yuya Uchida (Kiniro no Corda: BlueâªSky)
Sako: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul)
Director: Yoshimitsu Oohashi (Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto)
Series Composition: Noboru Kimura (Fantasista Doll)
Original Character Design: Yasuomi Umetsu (Owari no Seraph animation director)
Animation Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Masaki Hinata (Jikan no Shihaisha)
Music: Michiru (Escha Chron)
Opening Theme Song: "Flashback" by MIYAVI vs. KenKen
Production: Twin Engine
Kokkoku is written and illustrated by Seita Horie, which was serialized via Morning Two magazine between May 2008 and September 2014, and collected into eight compiled volumes. The manga was nominated for the 4th Manga Taisho in 2011.
Teaser PV 1
Official site: http://kokkoku-anime.com/
Golden Kamuy
Staff members have been announced for the anime adaptation of Golden Kamuy.
Director: Hitoshi Nanba (Fate/Grand Order: First Order)
Series Composition: Noboru Takagi (Durarara!!)
Character Design: Kenichi Oonuki (Gundam Build Fighters)
Production: Golden Kamui Production Committee
Official site: http://kamuy-anime.com/
Official Twitter: @kamuy_anime
New Work by Takahiro Omori
Director Takahiro Omori (Durarara!!) has been planning this work for ten years. The story is about having a pure heart and trying to be considerate of each other when living in a world with no freedom.
Geno Studio was established when the studio took over Gyakusatsu Kikan, when Manglobe went bankrupt in the middle of production. Therefore, Gyakusatsu Kikan is considered the 0th work of the studio. The Blu-ray and DVD for the movie will be released on October 25.
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By MITCH LIES
Cover crops were center stage at the 2013 Farm Progress Show Aug. 27 – 29 in Decatur, IL. Prominent among them was annual ryegrass.
The emphasis on cover crops mirrors the skyrocketing interest in annual ryegrass and other cover crops by Midwest growers in recent years.
Agricultural consultant Mike Plumer, a retired University of Illinois Extension agent who has worked with cover crops for three decades, estimated that cover crop usage has grown 400 percent in the last two years, alone.
At the 2013 Farm Progress Show, cover crops for the first time were featured in a crop demonstration plot. The exhibit provided growers a first-hand look at different cover crops, like millet, radish, crimson clover, cereal rye, buckwheat, rapeseed, turnips, oats, winter peas and annual ryegrass.
Annual ryegrass has become one of the most well known cover crops in the past 15 years, Plumer said. He estimates that annual ryegrass represents 25 percent of the total cover crop usage in the Midwest.
"My yields have been climbing every year, particularly after the third year," said Rich Recker, a Mt. Pleasant, Mich., grower who has used cover crops for six years. "The third year is the charm."
A survey of 750 growers conducted last fall by the Conservation Technology Information Center and the USDA North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program showed that corn planted after cover crops had a 9.6 percent increase in yield, compared to corn planted next to it that didn't follow a cover crop.
Soybean yields increased 11.6 percent following cover crops.
In the hardest hit drought areas of the Corn Belt, yield differences were even greater, according to the survey, with an 11 percent increase in corn yields and a 14.3 percent increase in soybean yields following cover crops.
The survey showed a 350 percent jump in the total acreage in cover crops between 2008 and 2012.
Joe Rothermel, of Champaign County, Ill., said he's seen improved soil health since he started using annual ryegrass as a cover crop four years ago. The improved soil health has helped get water to plants, he said, particularly in drought years.
"I think we've got to do everything we can to get water into the ground, and keep it there," Rothermel said.
Rothermel also said he's getting weed control from the cover crop, a side benefit he never expected when he started using annual ryegrass.
"We don't have near the marestail pressure," he said.
Macon,IL., grower Paul Butler said he, too, has been getting weed-control from his annual ryegrass cover crop. He's also been happy with the ryegrass's ability to break up compaction.
"When we have compaction issues, there is not a lot I can do," he said. "The radish and the ryegrass seem to be doing a good job with that."
Butler said he flies on the annual ryegrass seed before corn is harvested. Doing so gives the annual ryegrass added time to establish before a killing frost.
John Gullidge, a farmer from Lewisville, Ill., said annual ryegrass is helping tie up nutrients in what he describes as poor soil and put them into a form the next crop can use.
"I'm trying to make the best of what I have with what I can," he said.
Crop consultant Mark Mellbye, a former Oregon State University Extension agent, has been working with Oregon ryegrass seed growers on developing the Midwest cover crop market since the effort began in 1996.
Overall usage of annual ryegrass in the Midwest has increased from a few thousand pounds in the late 1990s, to maybe 5 million pounds three or four years ago, Mellbye said, and up to 15 or 20 million pounds this year.
The interest in annual ryegrass, Mellbye added, has skyrocketed just between last year and this year.


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- The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. eg.'20th century popular culture
- 'The ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society. eg. 'Afro-Caribbean culture'
- The attitudes and behavior characteristic of a particular social group. eg. 'the emerging drug culture'
2 Corinthians 6:14 teaches us: "Be ye not unequally yoked together with the culture: for what fellowship hath righteousness with the culture? and what communion hath light with the culture?" my paraphrase
I make a broad interpretation here since culture also has many advantageous aspects for all. Nevertheless, I refuse to allow the culture to be my sole guide.
Lets talk about for-instances:
- And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Am I preoccupied with enhancing my food intake?
- what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? Do you esteem the world's norms and standards above God's?
- And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Do you worship mammon, cars, and houses and social status?
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 2 Corinthians 6:17-18
What did Paul mean by unclean thing? In the Old Testament unclean happened when you touched a dead body, human or animal, and through bodily discharge etc. You were declared ceremonially unclean for a certain length of time.
"And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
And the voice spake unto him again the second time,
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." Acts 10: 13-15
Then what remains unclean? All that mocks the cleansing, resurrecting, freeing deliverance of Christ's vicarious atonement is unclean.
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world,
- the lust of the flesh, Culturally provided material goods, sex, honor for fools, soul power, influence, gratification etc.
- and the lust of the eyes, Demonically inspired pleasantries to view and feast the eyes upon.
- and the pride of life, Authority from the atmosphere which gives permission to never change.
is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:15-16
- Accusations against you
- Seductions away from God's purpose for your life
- Fantasies and impure thoughts that pollute your mind
- Condemnation making you feel worthless and inadequate
- Defeating self-expectations that go back to childhood
- Recurring memory of past failures
- Disappointments and guilt you wish you could shake free of. meatofthewordsanctuary.org
Friends, many believers lack understanding about the Christian warfare because they lack a precise parameter for defense. They don't know what they are defending.
In Joshua 10:7 "…Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. "
Gilgal was their home-base. The name means "rolling" and here the disgrace of Egypt was rolled away from them. Joshua 5:9
At Gilgal also the 12 stones taken out of Jordan were pitched. This symbolized that they had gone through death, (Jordan). Joshua 4:20
At Gilgal they kept the Passover feast, symbolizing the blood of protection placed on their doorposts, when the death angel passed over while still in Egypt.
At Gilgal they did eat of the old corn of the land, symbolizing resurrection life.
At Gilgal, circumcision is renewed, symbolizing renewed favor with God and His covenant.
Beloved, we bring every thought captive unto the obedience of Christ. It was His obedience that purchased our personal Gilgal ; disgrace of the past gone, a memorial of our co-crucifixion, resurrection life abounding, circumcised hearts which speaks of renewed favor with God.
This we stand in and recognize the enemy. The purchased position and possession which Christ paid for, we defend. love ya


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I recently discovered that I enjoy doing laundry in the winter, because its warm in there and it smells of orange/ allspice scented dryer sheets.
My first semester is over! A milestone to CIA students. This means meat fabrication begins next week, business management and writing. The plus side: I don't have to wake up at 5 in the morning on Thursdays and Friday's (at least for now).
(sorry, couldn't help myself)
Tonights Dinner: Ricotta Crostini with Proscuitto, Buttered Mushrooms & Chives


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And just like that, once again, I feel like a fluke.
Like a total hypocrite. Failure. The worst sinner in the world. Okay maybe not the WHOLE world, because although we learnt ages ago in Sunday School that there were no such things as small and big sins, murdering and torturing a baby must belong to a category of some sort. Because that, in my books, is a MAJOR SIN.
This is what I usually do when I feel guilty. It usually begins with a crippling sense of dread and disappointment in myself and my apparent lack of discipline or self control. It's literally a few hours of "ohmyGod you said the last time was THE last time and… oops, girl you failed AGAIN, you colossal failure!". Somehow, I manage to get over the fact that I have indeed, sinned again for the umpteenth time, and begin to look for ways to make myself feel better. Hence the categorization of sins thing.
I guess I should get right to the point and tell you exactly what it is I've done to make me feel this way.
The thing is, to most people, this is not a thing. It is natural. Just a way of life. Chemistry. Feral instinct, or whatever it is called. To me however, the Christian, the one who got baptised at fifteen and gave a speech so heart wrenching about love and acceptance that made the head pastor of our church so determined to see that I was enrolled in Bible College as soon as I was able, it is the worst thing I could ever deal with.
I might as well just come right out and say it: I slept with Sam.
I still cannot believe it. I mean, of course I can believe it has happened, because well, I was there when all these feelings or whatever were coursing through my body and making me say and do things (oh good God) that a good Christian girl has no business doing or feeling, at least not before marriage.
What am I going to do? This keeps happening, I keep saying the last time IS THE LAST time, but that was three times ago and here I am again, laying here in his room after reassuring myself that this time I would be good, would stand my ground, be firm and look all disinterested because heck, I am a Christian girl, and nice abs don't get us weak at the knees like these mere non-Spirit filled women ruled by their carnal desires. We proclaim that our "bodies are temples of The Most High", that we are not beings who are ruled by the flesh but by the Spirit, and go about our day. It is that simple.
But see, Sam just knows what to say. Or how to tickle me when we're watching a movie that makes me giggle like a stupid sixteen year old (I used to smirk at such girls in school. Like, get a grip, he's only stealing your pencil, not taking you to Paris for goodness sake). I can faintly hear my voice go up by two octaves, he's tickling me and of course, I'm loving the attention because hey, who doesn't love it when another saved "brother" who is very, very attractive and possesses the same body as Usher in the Confessions video (I wasn't always "saved", and even if I was, who hasn't seen that video?) is devoting his time to hear you shriek like a banshee? Of course tickling is only code for "soon to begin kissing", which I know, but by the time I've succumbed to tickling, it is only right that I should let myself be kissed also. And then that turns into whatever else and before you know it, we're back at square one again.
Sam is being such a male about the whole thing. "Babe, oh no, I can't believe we're here again, I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry but we just have to pray and move on and not let this determine our salvation" –
It's the same story every time. We do it, we pray, he feels surprisingly calm about the entire thing like we haven't just done the worst thing in the history of Things Christians Should Not Do Before Marriage and he's ready for the next adventure. How does he do it? I'm sitting on the rumpled bed, feeling like the World's Worst Christian ever, and he's dressed, ready to leave the house like nothing happened?
How did I get here? How did I become this girl? Why can't I stop? I really want to, but really, this pull, this force of attraction, this bond, is strange. It just keeps pulling me back and I can't help myself. I lose all sense of rational thought when I think about us like that.
I really hate to admit it, but I cannot keep lying to myself any more; I like sex. I really, really like sex.
I am a Christian girl, and I am torn. Guilt – stricken, because I hate that I like sex so much, but not disciplined enough to stop doing it.
And welcome to the first of a little somethin' I've been trying my hand at. I'm still unsure of what to title it, the protagonist doesn't really even have a name yet, but do bear with me, early days and all! Trying to write/formulate a sort of mini story series. It was a project I mulled over for a while and debated whether or not to attempt embarking upon, but then again, the point of starting this blog was to improve and expand my writing skills. Hope you enjoy it? I'd like to hear your thoughts!


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George Chris Colovos, 88, of Bellingham, Wash., died Sunday, Jan. 17. His wife of 66 years is the former Florence Tomillo.
He was born May 24, 1921, in Wilkes-Barre, the son of the late Chris and Nellie Ostach Colovos. In 1944, Florence became his devoted wife. She was the mother of his three children. He was a wonderful husband and father who lived an extraordinary life.
George began pilot training in college. At the outbreak of World War II, he was commissioned and served as a flight instructor for the Army Air Corps and later with the Air Transport Command.
After the war, he returned to Scranton to help his father run the famous Twin Grill and Europa Lounge. In 1958, he bought High Point Inn, an American-style hotel in Mount Pocono. It took a great promoter to fill the 97 rooms, and George became legendary in his efforts. He started with "Old McDonald's Farm," a petting zoo that grew over time. The variety of animals changed dramatically when George bought a traveling circus with eight lions, performing bears, horses and dogs. He flew travel agents in from New York and brought in extraordinary musical talent. His cocktail lounge became the hottest club.
He appeared on the TV shows "I've Got a Secret" and "What's My Line." Many of the famous celebrities of the day were guests, including Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Rocky Graziano, Ed Sullivan and Jayne Mansfield.
He and other civic leaders invested in and built what was to become Pocono International Raceway.
When the hotel burned in 1968, George, Florence and family went West. They headed for Oregon in 1973 and bought Ochoco Inn and Cinnabar Restaurant, Prineville, Ore. George took off his tie and put on cowboy boots and hat, and he loved every minute of fishing and hunting and the wonderful people of Prineville, Ore. His boundless energy in promoting Prineville earned him Businessperson of the Year and the President's Award, presented by Oregon Gov. Vic Atiyeh.
At 65, he and Florence turned over the business to George Jr., sold their home and, for the next four years, crisscrossed the country in their motor home. They settled in Sun City, Ariz., where George renewed his pilot's license and, at 84, built a small airplane in his garage with the help of his buddies. At the end of his life, he had an impressive logbook. He had flown 14 types of military planes, owned 11 private planes and logged more than 9,000 hours of flying time. After a few bouts of illness, he and his wife moved to Bellingham to be closer to their children.
George was a veteran, QB, Rotarian, Elk, Lion, Mason, member of the Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau, president of the Prineville Chamber of Commerce, president of the Pennsylvania Restaurant Association and member of the National Restaurant Association.
Also surviving are two daughters, Cherie Webster and husband, Andy, of Bellingham, Wash., and Andrea Craley and husband, Glen, of Sante Fe, N.M.; a son, George Colovos Jr. of Prineville, Ore.; three siblings, Sophie White, Gus Colovos and wife, Edith, and Juana Chappen; nine grandchildren, Carrie Webster, Reed Colovos and wife, Erica, Marcelle Howard and husband, Josh, Michael Colovos and wife, Nicole, Amanda Glenovich and husband, Matt, Amy Webster, Chris Colovos and wife, Leslie, Nick Colovos and wife, Shyla, and Zach Craley; and eight great-grandchildren.
He also was preceded in death by a sister, Martha Memelo; and two brothers-in-law, Perry Chappen and Andrew White.
A memorial gathering will be held at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, in Club Pioneer, 1851 E. Third St., Prineville, Ore.
Memorials may be made to the Heritage Flight Museum, 4165 Mitchell Way, Bellingham, WA 98226.
To view photos of George and share memories with the family, visit www.west fordfuneralhome.com.
George Chris Colovos
George Chris Colovos, 88, of Bellingham, Wash., died Sunday, Jan. 17. His wife of 66 years is the former Florence Tomillo.


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It's not necessarily as hard as you believe to become an excellent chef. The only cost of experimenting is some wasted food, so have fun with it and see what you are good at. These helpful hints can expand your knowledge of cooking and help you to experiment with ease. Follow these suggestions if you want to become a better cook in no time.
When baking crust for pie or tarts, leave them in the oven to bake a little longer than you planned. The crust should have a nice golden color to be fully cooked. This indicates the sugar has turned to caramel. Your crust will have a sweeter and crispier flavor.
If you have not yet cooked with skewers you should definitely consider this fact. Using metal skewer types will increase your chances of success when compared to wooden options.
When using oil, one of the most effective tips to apply is to add the oil onto your pan's sides so that it's heated once it arrives to the food. Hot oil adds more flavor to the food, giving you the tastiest results when you're finished.
For stir-fry dishes, meat should be sliced very thinly and on the bias. Perfectly sliced meat takes time and patience, though. Remove the meat when it is firm (but not frozen) and slice at a 45 degree angle across the grain of the meat.
Partially freeze meat to make slicing into thin strips easier. For Asian meals, such as Thai and Chinese dishes, this technique creates strips that are particularly ideal. By marginally freezing meat, slicing it is made cleaner, as its fibers will not tear quite as easily. The strips should be allowed to fully thaw before they are cooked so that they can cook evenly.
When preparing a meal for someone who is important such as a new date or your boss, you should cook something that you are really good at making. You can avoid stress by sticking to familiar recipes and food you enjoy. That way, cooking will cause a great deal less stress.
As you are seasoning your meats, you should make a little piece first before you cook the entire piece. You have to use caution when seasoning certain meats, such as meatballs, meatloaf and hamburgers. After adding your blend of seasonings, do not cook the entire portion of meat. Take a small portion and cook it so you can give it a taste before your final seasoning. Doing this allows you to test the seasonings and make appropriate adjustments.
You have probably felt guilty for pitching moldy fruits before. Do you think it's a good policy to cut off any moldy, rotten parts and save the rest of the fruit? Unfortunately, there isn't any way to save fruit that has begun to rot. Discard them, as mold goes deeper than the eye can see and can make you quite ill.
If you're cooking food for an important person, such as a new date or even your boss, you should make sure you are cooking food you are experienced at. Do not try to cook something new for a big day. Cooking will become less stressful.
A nutritious way to reduce the calories from your mashed potatoes is to replace some of the potatoes with cauliflower. Cauliflower does not have a strong taste and will be virtually undetectable when mixed with the potatoes and other ingredients. When they're mashed, cauliflowers have the same appearance and consistency as potatoes, too. Adding a little cauliflower can take calories out of your favorite mashed potato recipes and add in a little vegetable goodness, too.
Has it ever seemed like you were wasting food when you threw away fruits that were moldy? Do you wonder if it would be better to just cut off the moldy parts and save the rest? Cutting off rotten bits of fruit will not make them safer. The mold and spoilage that you can see is only part of the problem with marginal-looking fruit; even the parts that appear pristine can be unsafe to eat.
It is possible to do a lot of preparation beforehand in order to speed up the cooking process and make it easier. Browse through your recipes and see what parts can be prepared early, without fear of spoiling. There is a lot of preparation that you can take care of a day in advance. This is a great time saver, and can make that complex recipe into something that is quick and fun.
When cooking vegetables, try cooking them in chicken broth. It will keep veggies from getting stuck to the bottom of the pan and add a little flavor. You can make your own chicken broth or you can buy it at most any supermarket at a very low price.
When you are making chicken stock, think big. Plan on preparing a large batch so that the excess can be frozen and used later. You can use the stock as a base for all kinds of soups or even casseroles. Freeze premeasured amounts of your stock in freezer proof containers or bags when cool.
If you are intending to use skewers when you cook, do not forget to soak them in water for at least half an hour before you use them if they are wooden. Using this method, you will not burn them when you're cooking. You can prevent food from sliding off skewers by using parallel skewers for twice the support of the food.
When you are using wooden skewers in cooking, soak them for at least half an hour before putting the veggies on them. By soaking, you can prevent the skewers from burning while cooking your food. If you have issues with food falling off skewers, make it a double. Food is much more stable when you use two skewers parallel from one another instead of one.
To cook a pumpkin, you need to slice it properly. Take a large knife and slice it in half. Arrange each half face down on a baking sheet. Spray a bit of water on each baking sheet, and then put both into an oven pre-heated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake them for about an hour.
That way, fruit can stay crisp and fresh all year. This also gives you the advantage of having fruits available off-season.
Create your own stock for tastier dishes. You can cook it in large batches, pour the extra batches into plastic freezer bags, and then simply store them in the freezer. This allows you to have savory homemade stock available that you can use for various dishes, like soup. If you make your own stock, it will not be full of preservatives.
Substitute water for other more flavorful liquids, in order to spice up your meals. For instance, you can use broth, stock, juice or a bit of wine to replace the water in a recipe. Try to use buttermilk, yogurt, or sour cream in place of milk. Varying the liquids that are in your recipes is an excellent method of adding nutrition and variety to a dish.
You should establish a habit of washing the dishes as you use them to cook. Keep a fresh sink of hot soapy water in one side of your sink and clear rinse water in the other. After using utensils and mixing bowls, it's best to wash them right away because it's easier. Once cleaned, they will be ready to use again.
Make sure that you never use a wine in your food that you would not normally drink. Using cheap or unfamiliar wine puts the flavor of your food in danger. Several wines suitable for cooking purposes are readily available in the market.
Let your meal sit for a while. This is a vital step in your cooking process, which can add a lot of flavor to your meal. If you are hungry or in a hurry, you will be tempted to eat the very moment your meal is ready. You are not serving your food at its finest if you do this. Always wait a awhile before eating your meal; allow it to cool slightly before digging in.
Store any spices you might use in a dark, cool place to help maintain their flavor and freshness. Herbs and spices stored above the range or in direct sunlight will degrade their flavors.
An excellent suggestion is to purchase solid cutting utensils for use in your kitchen. The ease of cutting with a sharp knife will save you time and is more safe than using a dull knife. More accidents and cuts happen due to dull utensils than properly sharpened ones.
Add plenty of salt to the water when you are cooking pasta. Seasoning will impregnate the pasta more efficiently while it cooks. Salt and seasonings do not necessarily stick very well to cooked pasta, so seasoning it while it boils is your best bet to enhance the flavor.
Avoid overcooking or undercooking a cake. There are recommended cooking times, which are guidelines only. These times can be a bit misleading because there are factors, such as your elevation, that help to determine the cake's cooking time. To determine if your cake is done, use a toothpick or clean knife blade to find out. Poke it gently into the center of the cake. If it removes cleanly, it's done; if batter is on it, it needs longer to bake.
Impress your loved ones or guests with a great sandwich with mayo that is evenly spread from corner to corner on each slice of bread. Most people simply spread mayonnaise on the middle of the bread. Spreading the condiments evenly is the best way to create a sandwich full of flavors.
When you are creaming together butter and sugar to make cookies, make sure you have softened butter, but you don't want it melted. Place the melted butter in the freezer until it hardens, or put your preparation in the freezer once everything is mixed. Your cookies will not spread as much if you use cooler dough.
If you are going to have a barbecue, then prepare your grill in advance so that you can start grilling right away. You should start preparing your grill around 30 minutes before you put the food on. The coals need to be around medium heat and covered in ash. This is the ideal temperature for grilling.
Add some spices to your dishes once they've been cooked. Garlic powder, salt, cayenne and pepper are all great spices that can be added to foods after they have been cooked. Individual preferences regarding the strengths of the seasonings in a dish may vary, though. You could let everyone add the spices they like best on their plate rather than seasoning the whole dish. Each person can personalize their own dish.
It is important to cook your meat properly, so always have a meat thermometer on hand. The temperatures that meat should reach, when being cooked to be eaten, varies between different types of meat. If the meat is not properly cooked, bacteria that exists on meat will not be eliminated, and you can get very sick as a result.
Rubbing stainless steel on your hands before you wash them can get rid of odors such as onions, fish and other strong ingredients. You can use the sink itself, or even a special steel "soap" in order to remove these smells.
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Add a squirt of ketchup to the batter when making fried foods. The ketchup can replace milk or egg in your preparation. Dip the food in ketchup before rolling it in breadcrumbs or flour. Ketchup gives a surprising, tasty tang to a batter. People will want to know your secret ingredient.
Adding fresh herbs to season your food is a great way to add some flavor to an ordinary dish. Elaborate dishes with multiple flavors can really be enhanced by using dried herbs, oregano and basil are great ones to use. Even for these kinds of dishes, use fresh herbs when you can, as they will add punch to the taste. Consider growing your own herb garden. You can grow many herbs in a small space and have them on hand constantly.
Use cooking oil to help prevent sticky messes. Coat the surface of the spoon or cup with oil and it will come off of your spoon or from the inside of your cup easier. You will not waste as much food. You can use this method with honey, peanut butter, or anything else that is sticky.
These tips and tricks should immediately help you find your way around the kitchen better. Try each tip you've learned, even if it is only one time. Put these ideas into practice and you'll be able to perfect your cooking techniques. You can become the best cook in your family if you set your heart on it.
Frozen sweet corn can get old after a while, which is why you should find new ways to serve it. Take a page from Thai cuisine by mixing coconut flakes with your cooked corn.