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I really love the unique and customizable look of fabric lampshades and after posting several of my favorites last month, as well as a how-to by All Things Lovely, I decided to give the project a spin myself.
I ordered this great hand stamped block print fabric from HomeSweet on Etsy and found two replacement lampshades at a local lighting store. All I can say is easy, easy, easy! I was so impressed with how quickly I whipped both of these out, and I really love the blue with my bedroom.
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*Fabric (aprox. 16″x30″ for a standard shade)
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*Matching 2″ ribbon (aprox. 1 yard for each standard shade)
2. Roll lampshade underneath fabric, pressing and stretching fabric firmly to the shade as you slowly roll. I found it helpful to continue pressing fabric to edge of shade on each side as I rolled the lampshade — ensuring the fabric stretched and sealed itself to the shade with no air gaps. NOTE: because it's spray glue, you can pull off and redo at any time! This step is definitely not permanent.
3. When you have finished coating shade in fabric, spray the meeting edge with glue and press together for a clean seam. Secure seam to back of lampshade with one more quick spray of glue.
4. You should have roughly 2″ of remaining fabric on top and bottom of shade, trip any excess above 2″. Tuck in top and bottom fabric extras, gluing into place on the inside of the lampshade. Use 2″ ribbon to hide rough edges of top end of lampshade (and use spray glue to adhere — this stuff's amazing!).


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Bloomington's Angelo Pizzo graduated from Indiana University with a degree in political science. But his degree did not lead to a career in politics. He, along with friend and fellow IU grad David Anspaugh, went out west to make movies such as "Rudy" and "Hoosiers". He spoke with WFIU's Peter Noble Kuchera.


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When reading text like "So, when you said hotter than a dragon getting his dick tickled…" you probably imagine a pre-pubescent boy sitting in front of a computer screen, smack talking his latest opponent in League of Legends. Well, friend, you couldn't be more wrong.
Rat Queens tells the story of four booze-chugging, death-bringing creatures (Hannah the Elven Mage, Violet the Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Human Cleric, and Betty the Hafling Thief) hailing from the fantastical city of Palisade. After causing too much ruckus in town square, the Rat Queens are sent on a quest to remove Goblins from Hindman Cave. In what starts off as a seemingly mindless task, the Queens get more than they bargained for.
The newest member of the Image Comics/Shadowline line-up, written by Kurtis J. Wiebe and drawn by Roc Upchurch, Rat Queens is essentially a mixture of fantasy lore and a quest from Dungeons & Dragons reimagined with modern dialogue. Upon first read though, I found myself completely turned off by the idea of modern dialogue being used in a fantasy setting, (reminding me too much of those painfully awful World of Warcraft commercials featuring Mr. T).
Deciding to give the book a second chance, I fell in love with Wiebe's concept. The utilization of a female lead character is always something I like to see in comics, and this one has four! What's even better is that they are substance-abusing, murder-loving females! However, each character's personality wouldn't exist without Wiebe's hilarious writing. From ingesting massive amounts of candy and mushrooms for supper, to a discussion about "God" or the lack thereof, Wiebe writes with just the right amount of modern hilarity.
While the dialogue is fantastic, Rat Queens would only be toilet humor without Upchurch's exceptional illustrating. Its beautiful coloring and scenery, which includes all essential fantasy lore (including dragons), brings to life a dream world all fantasy nerds would be happy to venture into.
Overall, Rat Queens is a fantastic book. The only complaint I had was the lack of plot development. Of course it is the premiere issue, so the lack in story is excused. While we did get a short look at Palisade and the hills outside city walls, it would have been nice to know what to expect in the coming months. However, the laughter that ensued while reading made me forget about it until now.
Fans of all genres will find enjoyment in this book. With it's over the top crudity, infused with beautifully drawn "classic" fantasy themes and modern dialogue, Rat Queens promises to be one of the premier books this year.
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I think the half-life is a very important point, they are killing now and will kill for many years later.As was noted in paper chemicals found in fields that had been out of use for a couple of years.
I think the half-life is a very important point, they are killing now and will kill for many years later.As was noted in paper chemicals found in fields that had been out of use for a couple of years.
Randy Oliver noted over on BEEL that the EPA has not received one official complaint of corn seed coatings and bee die offs etc. One can see how from Bayer and the EPA's standpoint there is no problem.
I do think it is important to keep perspective on this issue. I know what pesticide poisoning does to bee hives, I have seen it many times in years past with foliar spraying. Neonics have lessened the need for foliar spraying. Since corn is the largest crop in the US and I would assume the majority of hives are within flying distance of a corn field it seems that the easily observed effects of pesticide poisoning should be quite apparent if direct contact kill was a problem. As far as any residue in the fields it would be nice to see some hard data on that as far as how common it might be and what the concentrations are as this report (as near as I can tell) is only dealing with a specific case. The real issue on neonics has always been the potential of sub lethal dosages and if that could be more of a stealth killer. The majority of the testing up to this point has failed to show a connection to the original ccd type symptoms but instead has suggested that viruses is probably a much more plausible culprit. That is not to say that neonics arent perhaps a contributing factor. In any case let's work off what we know and any documented losses that can be proven.
Here are my unscientific observations, we have bees on over 100 locations all within flying distance of corn fields. Figuring a 2 mile flight radius they would cover well over 1000 square miles and I haven't yet seen anything that concerns me. I think that is a pretty significant piece of evidence.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
I don't like biased studies, and this study is biased. I don't like fear mongering and that is a lot of what I am reading in this thread. I also don't like pesticides in all their various flavors.
This study is biased because of who paid for it and the innuendo that is included in lieu of hard facts. The association of bees dead with small amounts of neonics in them does not prove that the neonics killed the bees. They are going to have to back up this observation with cold hard provable facts.
The statements made so far in this thread sound like someone is holding a smoking gun. This gun is not smoking folks. Read the article with a bit less bias and see what it is really getting down to.
The significant issue found in this study is the proliferation of dust from the seed during planting. There is a reasonable establishment of cause and effect that bees are dying during corn planting and that they are dying from neonic exposure. This means the seed companies are going to make a huge effort to coat the seed with a second layer of inert material to reduce the dust problem.
The buildup of neonics in soil was pretty much limited to 3 years. What they didn't say is what happens in a dry region where rainfall is less than 20 inches per year. It would be reasonable to guess they would persist longer under such conditions. There is also reason to suspect that the residue buildup will be incorporated into corn plants and into corn pollen since these chemicals have definite systemic activity. What is not established is whether or not the bees are getting a lethal dose from the pollen.
The Bayer studies that led to licensing of these chemicals was seriously flawed. It did not take into account interactions between bees and corn when the area of distribution is as large as it is in the real world.
My take on this is that it is one more sign of a serious problem with a relatively new pesticide. We need more studies.
NW Alabama, 50 years, 20 colonies and growing, sideliner, treatment free since 2005, 14 frame square Dadant broodnest
I read the study and the most interesting new piece of information was the used talc exhausted out of the air planter. This appears to be the significant, new, potential exposure to honey bees. Although, at this point there is no evidence of how they are being exposed. It could be they would forage this material if it were found in concentrated areas. I haven't worked with these planters so I'm not sure how the exhausted material will accumulate. This will be something for me to find out this spring!
When reading the tables at first I was a little confused since I couldn't understand how foraging bees could bring in corn pollen during planting time. While reading the study I learned that the plots for the study were not planted until July. This is concerning since this is not "typical" planting time and does not represent what colonies in mid-western agricultural areas will face during a typical planting season.
Also, if dead bees were tested for clothiandin levels in July what is the source of the clothiandin? Pollen from surrounding corn fields? Dandelion, July is well past peak flowering. Exhausted planter talc? The authors noted it was not clear how bees would be exposed to high levels of clothiandin after the seed was planted.
As far as soil pesticide levels. I found it interesting that clothiandin levels were essentially the same in the unplanted soil as the production fields surrounding the test plots. This data is starting to develop a baseline. It would be interesting if the authors continued to collect this data to see what soil levels do.
Another interesting point made was that pollen had sub-acutely toxic levels of clothiandin. It was estimated it would several days of consuming the pollen to reach the LD50 level and metabolic activity would decrease residual levels. The impact of sub-acute levels of exposure needs to be studied. It would also have been nice to check clothiandin levels in capped brood to see how much is making it into the bees.
I was surprised no clothiandin was found in nectar. It has been found in guttation from corn seedlings. It is found in pollen. I don't know if it isn't in nectar or the levels are below detection.
Something to note, all levels of pesticides are reported in parts per billion. It wasn't that long ago that those levels were almost undetectable.
I was surprised there was no discussion about the detection of coumaphos. What was the potential source? Was it actually applied to the hives for mite control?
The study is a first step to answering some questions about how, or if, neonics impact honey bee colonies. I hope the authors continue to pursue this research and provide some hard answers to the questions we all have.
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Figuring a 2 mile flight radius they would cover well over 1000 square miles and I haven't yet seen anything that concerns me. I think that is a pretty significant piece of evidence.
I agree. Keep up the keen observations please.
Crazy Roland
two mile radius = about twelve and a half square miles
Here is a link more easily downloaded than the one provided by borderbeeman. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0029268
As you may notice it allows you to cut, copy, and paste so you can more easily make a side by side comparison between the un-quoted material in the beginning post and the information published by those who authored the final paper.
I found it somewhat unusual that despite all the previous claims to the contrary NO traces of clothianidin and thiamethoxam were detected in any of the nectar tested, despite numerous previous claims that these chemicals readly translocate to nectar and corn seedling guttation droplets. But for the sake of honesty I admit that there is this little thing about corn not producing nectar.
I call you attention to table 4. http://www.plosone.org/article/slide...e.0029268.t004
One of the two hives situated at a TREATED corn field showed LOWER concentrations of clothianidin after planting than before clothianidin treated seeds were planted. Why? One of the 2 hives situated at an UNTREATED corn field showed HIGHER concentrations of clothianidin after planting untreated corn seeds than before untreated seeds were planted. Why?
Because no base line information was available for 2010 or earlier. I can only assume that table 4 means the clothianidin and thiamethoxam contamination of pollen occurred during the dry and dusty planting conditions encountered in 2010 and not during 2011. In a previous thread I already discussed the late and damp 2011 planting season in the American Mid-West. The good news is that this study dove tails perfectly with the brief suspension of clothianidin and thiamethoxam use in Europe following a similar corn planting accident.
Scrapfe---Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.--Otto von Bismarck.
Or it could indicate contamination from a source farther away. Mary Anne Frazier, and others, have shown that bees forage a lot farther away from the hive than previously thought, covering a lot more acreage. Is it possible that the contamination came from another source, farther away?
Mark Berninghausen
All wax from hives treated with coumaphos contain fairly large amounts of it, since it dissolves in the wax. This includes "new" foundation, which is made from recycled wax. Probably a good way to breed resistant mites, along with low level toxicity to bees (and possible cause for absconding -- too much nasty stuff in the comb).
Bees metabolize neo-nics quite rapidly, and excrete them fairly quickly as well, so I'm not surprised at low levels in live bees. Usually they die very quickly at lethal levels, and non-lethal levels vanish over a few hours as the bees excrete them. The question is what does low levels of neo-nics do to bees? They are central nervous system poisons, after all -- what does something like this do to the developing brood? Change behaviors? Make them nice homes for phorid flies?
Lots of questions, not very many answers, and remember, neo-nics are not used in trace amounts. At a few mg per seed, the dosage on a field is in the dozens to hundreds of pounds range, and if they do persist in the soil, the amount starts to get really high.
Another question is what are we doing to the ecology of the field when we poison EVERY insect out there.
All of this should have been answered BEFORE neo-nics were approved for field use, whatever the crop. Neo-nics are a huge problem in Europe, and there is considerable pressure to have them banned completely.
I think your math is off. There isn't even a hundred pounds of corn seed, probably 10-20 pounds at the most, planted per acre. The seed treatment would be much less. I can't remember off the top of my head but isn't the ai something like 0.5 mg per seed?Lots of questions, not very many answers, and remember, neo-nics are not used in trace amounts. At a few mg per seed, the dosage on a field is in the dozens to hundreds of pounds range, and if they do persist in the soil, the amount starts to get really high.
a search of the internet says the following
Sweet Corn
Common spacing of one sweet corn plant every 10 inches in rows roughly 36 inches apart yields about 17,000 corn plants per acre. Depending on the variety, this requires between 150 and 225 lbs. of seed per acre. Sweet corn planting density is lower than field corn density because it is commonly harvested by hand, which requires more space than with mechanized field corn harvesting equipment.
Field Corn
Depending on the hybrid or variety, field or grain corn planting rates vary from about 20,000 to 44,000 plants per acre. Grain corn dries on the stalk with the kernel forming a dent on one end when ripe, which is caused by shrinking starch. Higher planting rates require closer planted rows along with seeds planted closer together within the row. Higher planting rates are used for grain corn because the emphasis is on total yield rather than quality of each ear.
Read more: How Much Corn to Plant Per Acre? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_8479833_muc...#ixzz1iu3puwnY
a 150-225lb for sweet corn and more for field corn.
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I call BS on your source. No plants anywhere near that much corn seed per acre.
To make the math easy lets say there are 4000 seeds per pound of corn. That is 21 pounds to plant 44,000 plants. You have to plant more to get that stand so lets say you plant 25 pounds.
Sweet corn is more like 10 pounds per acre rule of thumb.
Soybeans are somewhere around a bushel, 60 lbs, per acre.
Forget how much corn is planted think about the tons of poison produced every year an understand it goes somewhere. It is not in storage bins.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Just out of pure cussedness, I just weighed out two ounces of Hickory King field corn seed and counted them. Just at 100 kernels per ounce, which translated to 1200 seeds per pound. This particular batch was a bit on the small side, so probably very close to field corn.
The real point here is that 44,000 seeds per acre is 220,000 mg or 220 gr or half a pound of neo-nic per acre. Assuming that the real amount is significantly higher (for "better results", eh?) assume a pound per acre.
Takes a couple nanograms to kill a bee so this "dose" can kill 100,000,000 bees.
peter masage those numbers again 100 x 16 = 1600 seeds per pound.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Avaaz.org sent a petition to the EPA last year with 10,000 signatures on it asking for clothianidin to be banned, I know, because I signed it and helped circulate it. So much for no complaints. Granted I sent that as a concerned citizen, not a beekeeper. Can the EPA and Bayer be sued by an Apiary?
Stuck in Texas. Learning Permaculture in drought, flood and strange weather. The bees are still alive.
I will be very interested to see the long term health of the hives I have surrounded by corn and beans (also treated for the most part I believe) in southern MN. I have also caught swarms in this area which does not have a lot of managed beehives to my knowledge.
I certainly believe that they toxicity is an issue and that these compounds will not outright kill colonies but rather there may be a reduction in the vitality of colonies over time and a general taxation on colony immune function. I will keep observing, keep records and speak with local farmer to try to learn more about the seed treatments they are getting with their seeds.
The long one is that most beekeepers lack standing (see note) to bring the case to court, plus the evidence is flimsy, and did I mention very subjective?
If the legal question was, "Can this product kill bees if it is used improperly?" then lawyers would be killing each other to get to be the first in line to sue Eddy Baugher for selling canoe paddles. And I could sue you for planting marigolds or mums in your vegetable garden.
Law firms don't like cases if they have to prove the facts. They prefer open and shut cases were there is little or no work or expense. In this respect lawyers are very much like honeybees robbing out a weak hive.
Note: Standing is a loss or interest that can be linked to the product or action in question.
By suing the only business you are going to harm in the long run is going to be your friendly neighborhood farmer. He is the one using these legal products in a reckless or illegal manner and in the end the farmer is the one who you will have to drag into court and sue to prove your case. I wish to remind you that he is also the same farmer you very likely depend on to provide your bees with free nectar and pollen, if not an apiary sight or pollination fees for you. So go ahead, knock your self out, sue. Just don't come crying on my shoulder when every farmer whose door you knock on slams the door in your face when you mention the word apiary.
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Live music, dancers and energetic Angelenos attempted to give marathon participants a needed boost of motivation as they trudged on towards the finish line. On 1st Street at Olive Avenue, as runners prepared to climb a large hill, friends Jessica Awotona and Alicia Burke held up signs of encouragement and LA Marathon Taiku provided loud drum beats. "Run like Ryan Gosling is at the finish!" read a bright yellow placard, featuring a photo of the heartthrob, held by Awotona, 30, of Atlanta.
Awotona planned on running the marathon but found out she had a herniated disc a few weeks before the race.
"We decided to come and cheer anyway," she said. "It's good because I've done six marathons before. It's nice to be on the other side. I know what it's like out there, to hear encouragement." Burke, of Colorado Springs, also held a sign that read "Just think of this as a 10K with a 20 mile warmup."
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"I'm feeling scared because it is my first time and I don't know if I'll make it," the Mulholland Middle School student said before the start of the race.
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Dario Bruehlmann, who is from Switzerland and now a graduate student at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, came with his wife Sabine just to experience the scene.
"It's big for us," said Bruehlmann, who had a camera around his neck. "Everything is much bigger than back in Switzerland. It's our first time at Dodger stadium as well."
Once the pack of runners took off, they took the party with them. Dodger Stadium cleared out quickly, leaving behind volunteers to clean up trash and abandoned clothes.
Miles down the course, hundreds of spectators, many of them high school students, lined mile 18, also known as Cheer Alley. High school cheerleaders danced and cheered as Sir Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back and other music blasted from speakers.
Among the spectators there was Phillip Chan, cheering on his friend Mako Seto, who, like many runners used the marathon to raise money for a cause. Seto, of Montebello, raised more than $2,000 for World Vision — a humanitarian organization that will use the funds to make clean water available in parts of Africa, Chan said.
A strong police presence was also visible along the race's course, with security tightened in the wake of the bombing at the Boston Marathon last year. Police on bikes and horseback patrolled the crowd. And at the race's finish, spectators were pushed back from the finish line a few hundred feet. Racers' family members had to pass through a security checkpoint to enter the family reunion area.
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Once they did, the energy picked up and they were cheered along with cowbells, vuvuzela horns, thundersticks and hand clappers.
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Visitors to businesses in a Norfolk town centre were greeted by an extra couple of faces this week as the town's preparations for Christmas started to gather pace.
Figures depicting Jesus' parents Mary and Joseph have visited schools and shops in Wymondham as part of a tradition known as Posada, which originated in Mexico and has been taken up by the town's Methodist Church.
The Rev Jacqui Horton, minister of Wymondham Methodist Church, said the idea was to try and encourage people to think about the true religious meaning of Christmas which she felt had become lost in recent times due to increasing non-religious imagery around the festive season.
The 3ft 6inch high Mary and 4ft tall Joseph, made from the corrugated plastic correx, began touring the town at the start of the Advent period on December 2 and had visited nine local schools, before making their 11th stop at Hair Design in Back Lane on Tuesday.
The figures are visiting a different venue in the town each day until Christmas Eve and are set to make further stops in the town centre at Wymondham Day Care Centre and The Lemon Tree cafe in Damgate Street among others before the tour ends.
Methodists in Attleborough have also held a Posada in their town to spread the relisgious message at Christmas.
Rev Horton said: "It is fun. It is a way for the church to engage with the community. It is a way for biblical characters representing the real meaning of Christmas to be in the community."
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This past Sunday, The New York Times ran a piece by Paul Greenberg where the author explained how important the Beatles were to music and pop culture to his five-year-old son. The child didn't know that the band had albums, but only knew the Fab Four from iTunes playlists.
"When the Beatles recorded their playlists, did they record them on voice memo?" his son asked, perplexed that at one time music was recorded to tape, and not the kind of tape you use to seal boxes or affix posters to a wall. The piece ends with Greenberg remembering his own Beatles experiences, and it's all really sweet and there are tears.
But it got me to thinking about having to explain the rest of classic rock to small kids. How does one intimate to a still-forming brain how Led Zeppelin could record songs like "Whole Lotta Love" and not cause an earthquake, or the swagger and sleaze of the Rolling Stones? Or how their very existence may have been riding on just the right AC/DC record?
One day I will have to explain the concepts and tenets of punk rock, the 30 forms of heavy metal, and then pop, ska, electronica, hip-hop, rap, jazz, funk and soul that I will need to have in fatherly curriculum, even as technology runs ahead of me rewriting the rules.
My head hurts already and I am not even married, plus it's hard enough trying to sound at least half-ass proficient and knowledgeable in all these things for adults on a daily basis. Once I started to even compile a list of everything a child would conceivably need to know about classic rock and roll, I started to feel feverish.
The Clash, Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys? Yes, I want to eventually get to them, too.
But here goes nothing.
The Beatles
You know how chicks at school really like Justin Bieber and One Direction? Imagine if you combined the two things -- stay with me -- and added loud guitars and suits, and kept the Bieber haircuts.
On top of that, you have parents who are still kinda boring and dull and don't get it. It's hard to express how important the Beatles were to your grandparents and parents, but don't let that turn you off from them. You can always show them to friends and look cool later on when they finally "get" the Beatles. Get their
album "playlist" Revolver from iTunes, and start from there.
(See also: The Monkees, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr)
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"This dude doesn't know how to sing," you may say after you listen to few Bob Dylan songs. He wheezes, he sings riddles and there is harmonica. Sounds like the stuff that you hear in the coffee shop on Saturday mornings when dad reads the paper.
This stuff made your grandparents feel like adults, even when they couldn't drive or even vote. Once you get your heart broken, I mean really bashed in, Dylan will make a whole lot of sense. For now, have fun figuring out what the hell he is trying to say.
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Johnny Depp's dad isn't in this band, I promise. It would be cool, and make total sense, but no. That's Keith Richards, who did more drugs than anyone ever in existence. He plays lead guitar. Mick Jagger is the lead singer.
Okay, you know that Maroon 5 song "Moves Like Jagger"? It's about being able to dance like him, which is pretty hard but people still try. He was really stealing it all from James Brown....
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The Doors had a lead singer named Jim Morrison, who sang poems -- weird, huh? -- that his band set to this, like, circus music. He had a big Hagrid-looking beard for a while. Another guy who drank too much and died, though if he had lived, he probably wouldn't have been as cool as he was when he was young, and been playing wacky grandpas on sitcoms by now.
(See also: The Cult, Jane's Addiction, dreamcatchers)
David Bowie
I could sit here and explain every single David Bowie reinvention, but I think it's best that you figure him out yourself. You've heard his stuff in Wes Anderson movies, and "Changes" was in a Lindsay Lohan movie. Lady Gaga and Madonna really wish they could be as cool as him, but they will never be.
Bowie may also make you feel kinda funny in a way that you have never felt before. That's natural. It gets better. You aren't alone.
(See also: Lou Reed, T. Rex, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, Urban Outfitters)
The Who
You know that song on the beginning of all the CSI shows your mom watches while she folds clothes? That's the Who. They had pretty much the world's second most-badass drummer until he died from drinking too much. Most of the best classic rockers did.
Their early stuff from the '60s was kinda like **well-dressed punk-rock, and then they got older and started using synths and thinking about being young. Worth checking out, especially the album with the dudes peeing on a concrete slab.
(See also: The Animals, The Pretty Things, hearing loss)
**Check out the Kinks once you get through with The Who, led by two brothers who tried to kill each other for more than 30 years. They started out kinda punk, then got into country -- seriously -- and then got really. really awful.
Led Zeppelin
Oh, man, these dudes were the best. Super-loud, lots of slide guitar, drums that sounded like thunder, but with a little folk thrown in. Though Zeppelin has had songs in car commercials, don't count them out. All their album covers had crazy-looking old ruins on them, too, which you can easily draw on the back of textbooks.
They only sang about wizards, mountains and time. If you like The Lord of the Rings or you are lucky enough to get to watch Game of Thrones -- plus you like loud guitars -- this will be your new favorite band.
(See also: Blue Cheer, Mountain, Deep Purple)
Jimi Hendrix
This guy was an alien from a planet billions of light-years away whose only export was rock guitarists. You will never be as great at the guitar as he was if you played for the next **100 years.
**Though the men in your family will tell you that Stevie Ray Vaughan should be in this slot.
(See also: Prince, Santana)
The Beach Boys
If Foster the People and One Direction started a band and stayed at the beach all day, it would be sort of like the Beach Boys. A lot of songs about cars and girls, but they also got a little arty, too. Also, don't do drugs. No matter how cool they may seem. You may never come back.
(See also: The Zombies, The Turtles)
Neil Young
Lately John Mayer -- the guy Taylor Swift dated who is currently befouling Katy Perry -- has been trying to be like Neil Young, who you probably know as the guy with huge mutton chops on VH1 Classic singing about rust, the moon and farming. Sounds lame, but he actually once played with Pearl Jam. Who's Pearl Jam? That's a whole other genre for a whole other blog.
(See also: Gram Parsons, James Taylor, Ryan Adams)
Queen are still around, even though their lead singer Freddie Mercury died over 20 years ago. Adam Lambert from American Idol is obsessed with them, and even sings for them sometimes, so that's probably how you know Queen, plus the rest of the band is always at the Super Bowl or something.
(See also: Electric Light Orchestra)
These guys look like they should have hosted a Saturday morning kid's show. They wear tall boots, makeup, and the bassist guy with the long tongue spits blood and breathes fire. If you like Lady Gaga but you don't like all the girl-power junk, boy, will you like Kiss. It's like anime or something.
(See also: The New York Dolls, Twisted Sister)
Bruce Springsteen
If your grandpa was all fit and handsome and wore tight jeans and sang a lot about America, he would be Bruce Springsteen. I'm not sure why they call him The Boss, other than the fact that he has a huge band and yells at them to play louder all of the time.
(See also: Tom Petty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Seger)
What you will find great about Rush is that they make really complicated music with just three dudes. You would think seven guys were onstage. A bassist who plays like a lead guitarist, so they really have two lead guitarists, plus a drummer with a thousand-piece drum kit. If you get into them now, chances are you will never ever get out of them.
(See also: Dream Theater)
Black Sabbath
You know the kids in school that wear all black and watch movies about zombies? If they were alive in the '60s, this would have been their favorite group. Most of it is pretty goth, I guess, but the songs are sometimes about God actually. Don't let that turn you off. The guitarist was missing the tip of his finger, too.
(See also: Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, MC5)
Ted Nugent
How did this guy get on this list? You know that friend of your dad's that always spams everyone's Facebook feed with pictures of Barack Obama in clown makeup or a turban? This is his favorite dude. He's like his pretend boyfriend. It's crazy.
(See also: Black Oak Arkansas, Hank Williams Jr.)
Every single that AC/DC has ever recorded was about sex, guns or drinking. It's true. I can't rightfully think of one song that's not about any of those in some form or fashion. Which isn't bad, really. You will like their Back In Black playlist, though you may need to Google some of the lyrics.
Apparently a girl's "motor" is her vagina, and the girl in "You Shook Me All Night Long" kept hers clean, though she was in fact a prostitute. (Would it weird you out if I told you that when your mom was a bartender on Sixth Street in college in the '90s, she made a lot of money when that song was playing?)
(See also: Guns 'N Roses, Thin Lizzy, Foo Fighters)
Pink Floyd
You remember that music your parents or teachers would play when you were really little to make you nap or go to bed for the night? Pink Floyd's entire career was that, but with a few songs about politics and animals.
You've heard "Another Brick In The Wall" at least a dozen times, and may not even know it. The "Hey Teacher!" song on the Arrow while you were waiting for mom's oil to get changed? That's Pink Floyd. No one in the band is named Pink or Floyd, by the way.
(See also: Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, cough syrup)
The Eagles
Kings of Leon are sorta like the Eagles but for today. The Eagles sang a lot of songs about breezes, dating crazy chicks, and generally having mellow times and wearing jeans. It's kinda boring sometimes, but the songs with Joe Walsh were fun.
(See also: Jackson Browne, Steely Dan)
Grateful Dead
You've seen that skull with the lightning bolt on it? That's the Grateful Dead logo. Their singer, Jerry Garcia, died in 1995, but there are dozens of bands that sound like them now that took their place.
Beyond that, if you ever get into the Dead, just be careful, Okay? Don't get into strange vans, and if there is a shower nearby, just jump in.
(See also: Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane)
Fleetwood Mac
A lot of the indie bands right now with twentysomething guys and girls in the band steal most of their sound from Fleetwood Mac. This is your grandmother's favorite band, and chances are she used to dress like one of their singers, this witch lady named Stevie Nicks, who danced with scarves.
She may have done drugs, too, but she will ignore the question and instead ask if you want ice cream and a new PlayStation.
(See also: Elton John, Todd Rundgren, Carole King)
Oh boy. A few months ago on American Idol, they had a judge on there named Steven Tyler, who sort of looks like a baseball glove with hair. He sings for Aerosmith, and has for over 40 years. I think they even played one or two songs on Idol.
Anyhow, they had some great albums in the '70s, did a lot of bad stuff and haven't recovered since. In the '80s and '90s, they made some really interesting music videos that your dad used to watch with the sound down. They still play shows, but it's kind of awkward.
(See also: Guns 'N Roses, Van Halen)
Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton is weird, but not in a Yo Gabba Gabba way. When he was young and in his twenties and thirties, he was in some awesome bands, like the Yardbirds and Cream, and hung out with some pretty rad people.
But then he got soft, went to rehab and has been making boring blues records since at least a decade before you were born. Stick with Cream and you will be good. It's like the Black Keys, but way better.
(See also: Robert Johnson, Jeff Beck)
Van Halen
Now your dad will probably tell you that there are two Van Halens: one with David Lee Roth -- this crazy rich kid who makes up words -- and then there was one with Sammy Hagar singing for them. It's easier to think of them as two separate bands that have nothing to do with each other.
So it breaks down like this: Do you like to drink a lot of Red Bull and jump on trampolines and talk to only the hot girls in class? Listen to Van Halen's first self-titled playlist. Otherwise, find yourself a copy of 5150. What else are you allergic to, besides having a good time?
(See also: Poison, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue)
ZZ Top
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PRINCETON � Selectmen attempted to expedite the process of bringing broadband Internet to town with several key votes Monday night.
The board voted to initiate the cable licensing process, which is an invitation to prospective cable providers to offer coverage plans to the town. The town lacks cable television as well as broadband. According to the state Department of Telecommunications and Cable, advertisements must be placed in local publications as well as national trade journals. The board voted to request a DTC waiver to drop the journal advertisements.
"We know who the local players are, we've already talked to them," Town Administrator John Lebeaux said. "We don't need to have some company from California here."
The board voted to determine the length of time that potential providers would be given to hand over their coverage plans. The standard length of time is 60 days, however 30 days is not uncommon if a waiver is obtained from the DTC.
Selectman Stan Moss, who is also a Princeton Broadband Committee member, expressed his interest in asking for the 30-day length.
"We've really been pretty actively engaged with these people, as far as information exchange, for three months now," Mr. Moss said.
The committee has been in contact with area providers Charter, Comcast and Verizon.
Selectman Edith Morgan touted the 60-day option, stating that if the town pushed the providers too hard, they could be left without a solid option.
"I think that this really has to be done carefully and with the right logic," Ms. Morgan said. "We are not really the most desirable community for this service. We are the beggars here."
The board settled on a 45-day compromise, but the request must be passed by the DTC before providers can begin sending offers to the town.
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Wrenchin' @ Random
Back in the mid '90s, Rod Evans was crossing the finish line at Los Angeles County Raceway in his 11-second Dart Lite when one of the rods in the swapped-in small-block Dodge decided to go solo. He pulled into the pits and told his pals, "I think it's broke."
Broke it was, but it still drove up onto the trailer with only seven cylinders. When the guys tore the engine down they found the crankshaft was undamaged. Rod reassembled the Chrysler 360 with a new pan, two new rods and pistons, and a few replacement valves, and it's still running today. He kept the damaged pan as a souvenir, the broken rod embedded like King Arthur's sword in the stone. Legend has it that he who pulls the rod from the pan will be the next king of England, or something like that.


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When Nobody Seems To Care
Most people have experienced the feeling that nobody seems to care. While it's certainly not a pleasant experience it can propel us to new level of understanding that redefines how we see ourselves and others.
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When your best laid plans fall apart you can scream "it's not fair" or make a decision that there is a better idea out there. Even when things are seemingly falling apart we can reach for the goal with confidence that while it may not be going as we planned – there is a master plan.
For most people there is a whole lot of life happening every single day. Day after day "too much life happening" can wear a person out. There may not always be a way to reduce your responsibilities and obligations but we can all stop trying to do life on our own and seek the help we need.
The problem with waiting is that it takes such a long time. When we can get our thinking out of the mindset of how long is this going to take anyway? And transition to what do I need to learn and/or do? we can move to the place of enjoying life even while we are waiting.
Sometimes cutting your losses and moving on is the right thing to do. When you "quit" what is not in your best interests you free yourself up to pursue the right path for you.
Most people have experienced the feeling that nobody seems to care. While it's certainly not a pleasant experience it can propel us to new level of understanding that redefines how we see ourselves and others.
When you've suffered heartbreak, anguish, or tremendous grief it may be difficult to get through the day much less see hope for the future. While there isn't a prescription for healing a broken heart there is a way to complete wholeness.
A half-truth is still a whole lie and over time deception erodes trust. When trust is broken is all hope lost? Will you ever be able to trust again? There are no "easy" answers but there are steps you can take to find out what's next.
When your efforts seem to go unnoticed it can be easy to surmise that it's just not worth it. When we dare to see beyond our limited circumstances we gain new perspective that makes all the difference.
We live in a fast paced culture that wears "busy" as a badge of honor. Before we know it we can move from busy to overwhelmed. In times like these we can transition from "overwhelmed" as we deliberately change our mindset.


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My wife and I are working on two separate books that require contributions from atheists. We are hoping you can help us with this. For the
first project we are requesting a letter and the second project a short essay.
The projects are as follow:
1. Atheists to write a letter to his/her past self before coming out as an atheist. If you could write your past self a letter what would
you like yourself to know, that sort of thing. The target length per letter is
750 to 1000 words though all submissions will be reviewed.
2 Atheists to go to a church, synagogue, mosque ect. and simply report on what they observe and what they think about what they observe. You may write about what you like or dislike or even argue about the sermon.
We are looking for a variety of experiences and believe we will find a few patterns once we sort through the letters. The point is to
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This is an interesting project!
Does it matter what age we write the letter to ourselves as? A letter to us as a child, a teenager, a young adult? I've pondered the idea of writing my younger Self a letter of advice (about a different topic) so I find this concept fascinating. I hope you get some good responses.
It can be anonymous or you can use your name. The age you chose to write to isn't important. Variety is the spice of life.
I read your bio. Feel free to write your letter to firstname.lastname@example.com
Please, only do so if you're emotionally ready and able to do so.
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Video to Video Communication is the Future
In the past decade video communications has moved out of the realm of science fiction to become commonplace in our homes, at work, and on mobile devices. Yet we remain some distance from the goal of video calls being as easy and ubiquitous as phone calls are today – across any network and between all devices.
Imagine how difficult it would be if you were limited to calling people who only use the same carrier or if your phone could only call certain brands and not others. Cisco wants to avoid this future for video communications, and therefore today appealed the European Commission's approval of the Microsoft/Skype merger to the General Court of the European Union. Messagenet, a European VoIP service provider, has joined us in the appeal.
We did not take this action lightly. We respect the European Commission, and value Microsoft as a customer, supplier, partner, and competitor. Cisco does not oppose the merger, but believes the European Commission should have placed conditions that would ensure greater standards-based interoperability, to avoid any one company from being able to seek to control the future of video communications.
This appeal is about one thing only: securing standards-based interoperability in the video calling space. Our goal is to make video calling as easy and seamless as email is today. Making a video-to-video call should be as easy as dialing a phone number. Today, however, you can't make seamless video calls from one platform to another, much to the frustration of consumers and business users alike.
Cisco believes that the right approach for the industry is to rally around open standards. We believe standards-based interoperability will accelerate innovation, create economic value, and increase choice for users of video communications, entertainment, and services.
The video communications industry is at a critical tipping point with far reaching consequences. Just three years from now the world will be home to nearly 3 billion Internet users, the average fixed broadband speed will be 28 Mbps, and 1 million video minutes (the equivalent of 674 days) will traverse the internet every second. As video collaboration becomes increasingly mainstream, multiple vendors will have to work together to enable global scale and broad customer choice.
For the sake of customers, the industry recognizes the need for ubiquitous unified communications interoperability, particularly between Microsoft/Skype and Cisco products, as well as products from other unified communications innovators. Microsoft's plans to integrate Skype exclusively with its Lync Enterprise Communications Platform could lock-in businesses who want to reach Skype's 700 million account holders to a Microsoft-only platform.
At the heart of this opportunity is a question about the model for interoperability. One approach allows each vendor to decide how they will interoperate. Another approach aligns the industry around open standards defined by non-partisan governing bodies. The answer will be critical to whether and how quickly video calls become "the next voice."
When vendors implement their own protocols and selectively interoperate, they push the burden of interoperability to the customer. We respectfully request that the General Court act on our concerns and for the European Commission to ensure the proper protections are put in place to encourage innovation and a competitive marketplace.
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The future of Jack Brooks Regional Airport
Market forces swirl as regional jets plan return to Beaumont
Predictions of gloom and doom are nothing new for area residents frustrated with operations at what used to be known as Southeast Texas Regional Airport before Jefferson County Commissioners renamed it to honor local legend Congressman Jack Brooks. But Jennifer Hogancamp, the energetic young airport director the county hired last year, is more of a "glass half full" kind of administrator who sees cause for genuine – if cautious – optimism for the future of the only commercial aviation facility serving passengers between Houston and Lake Charles, La.
Her hiring in August 2011 was the result of an extensive search process aimed at filling the slot vacated by the retirement of Hal Ross with an aviation management professional. Hogancamp's resume included a stint as airport manager at Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio and 10 years as assistant director at Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport. She is a certified member of the American Association of Airport Executives.
Hogancamp is facing a complex situation she inherited with Continental Airlines being merged into United Airlines. Continental had operated the five commercial flights a day at Jack Brooks, all connecting to Houston International Airport (IAH). Those flights were operated on contract with Colgan Air, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines, which declared bankruptcy and announced it would cease flying to Beaumont by the end of 2012.
Although details have yet to be announced, Hogancamp said a deal is imminent for a new United contractor to begin daily flights from Jack Brooks to IAH in July 2012 via regional passenger jets instead of the unreliable Saab340 turboprop planes Colgan flew over the past year.
In an interview with the Business Journal, Hogancamp displayed not only passion for her job as airport director but a keen understanding of the aviation landscape in Beaumont and nationwide.
What is the prognosis for the Jack Brooks Regional Airport?
If this airport is going to be successful, the community has got to be involved and has got to be supportive – that's the only way. I can't make this airport successful by myself. I can guide it in the right direction but if people don't use the airport, then it's a lost cause.
The county commissioned a study by the Sixel Consulting Group that showed a lot of air passengers from this area don't use our airport.
If you look at the number of people who are flying out of our area – the thing is we need to capture those people and get them to fly out of here again. There's opportunity there. If there weren't people here that were flying, then that would be different. We have industry here, we have people that fly but they're just not using our airport; they're driving to Houston – 1,600 people per day each way. Of those, we're only capturing 2.5 percent. If we could get just a third of those people back, we'd be doing great.
How will the Pinnacle bankruptcy impact our airport?
Pinnacle filed Chapter 11; Colgan operated under Pinnacle. They are not going to fly the Saab routes anymore, and the Saabs are the aircraft we have here.
They're old, old airplanes and the maintenance on them is just unbelievable. I'm sure you've heard stories about reliability and the lack thereof, and you can pretty much attribute it to the airplane.
So it was more of a Colgan issue behind the current state of affairs here?
We needed to market (the airport); we need to work on getting passengers back, but how do you do it when you don't have the service to support it?
In my mind, this is the door of opportunity opening because (Pinnacle-Colgan) is going to go away. United is going to bring a different carrier in; it looks like it's going to be regional jets starting next month. We will be able to have reliability; we'll get away from the stigma of having prop airplanes because we used to have regional jets here and they went away. So I feel like yes, it's a dismal situation, but I think the dismal situation is opening the door of opportunity for us.
What role do high fares play in this equation?
We're in a precarious situation because aside from the fact we had such unreliable service, the fares being high is pretty much from a lack of competition. In the general view, it may be bad but it's probably helped us keep air service here because the airlines like high fares. Even though it may be a negative thing in our minds, it may be what's kept us from losing service altogether.
Until we have more competition – any small airport that doesn't have any competition is always going to have high fares. That's a given. I shouldn't say high – higher than what you would get at a hub.
How can these barriers to expanded use of our airport be overcome?
I think we definitely have some improvements to make there. I think once we re-establish ourselves with a new carrier, if we get people using our airport again – we're having load factors in the 20 and 30 percent range. We can't have that and expect a carrier to stay in our city, so we've got to support them.
We were in a Catch-22 before – how do you support a carrier that's not reliable? That's why I say this is the opportunity that we have in front of us. If we get someone else in here, begin to market it, begin to recapture those passengers and the airline does good, then we can start arguing the point of fares and attract an additional carrier.
But there is Houston 88 miles away.
The proximity to Houston is of course an issue … but I think a bigger issue (is) ... the lack of the reliability of the service here – or the price – but usually the reliability, the cancellations, the delays, that kind of thing.
What do you tell people who ask what you're going to do to solve these problems?
I tell them yes, I'm the airport director and yes, I have something to do with this, but at the end of the day it's not my bottom in the seat flying. An airline is not going to stick around if people aren't using their service – and enough people to make them profitable. They have operating costs and they don't want to just break even; they want to make some money.


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Father's Day Books: New Books for Dads
By Nicki Richesin, The Children's Book Review
Published: June 7, 2012
Father's Day is almost upon us. Why not celebrate by reading a few books about the proud papas who brighten our days? So snuggle up with your little ones and thank your lucky stars for the doting fathers in their lives.


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Moving Up at Pixar
When Scott Clark RISD 96 IL first did an internship at Pixar during his senior year, he had no clue that more than a decade later he'd be leading the world's premier animation crew and helping the company produce one extraordinary hit after another. His incredible line-up of films includes A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, The Incredibles, Cars and most recently, Up, the studio's 2009 award-winning crowd-pleaser.
Clark worked as the supervising animator on Up, managing the efforts of three directing animators and a team of nearly 70 at the peak of production. As with his other Pixar projects, he enjoyed the challenges involved—in this case, making a film starring a curmudgeonly 78-year-old named Carl Frederickson, voiced by Ed Asner.
"As soon as we had Ed on board to do the voice, we had Carl," Scott says. "You heard him and you had the character. It gave us something to hang the animation on." But when co-writers and directors Pete Docter and Bob Peterson wanted their protagonist to look like an old man "who had literally shrunken in his suit and was swimming in it," Scott explains, the animators came up with a guy who initially "didn't look like he had any knees or elbows." So he worked with his team to lengthen the character's limbs, which enabled people to see a break in the cloth where his arms and legs bend.
"Carl is probably the most caricatured animation we've ever done," Scott says. "But it's a real testament to our animation crew that they could actually get complex emotions other than just cute or happy out of Carl and Russell [his 8-year-old cohort]. They do some pretty heavy scenes, with great acting."
Audiences and critics agree. In addition to winning the 2010 Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film, Up was nominated for five Academy Awards and won two: Best Animated Feature and Best Music.
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My main research interests are on intermediate models of quantum computation, classical simulation of quantum circuits, quantum computation with linear optics and foundations of quantum computing in general.
More specifically, I have worked on linear-optical quantum computing and BosonSampling, the latter which is an intermediate model of quantum computation expected to not be universal for quantum computing nor classically simulable. Although BosonSampling is expected to be much weaker, from a computational point of view, than universal quantum computers, its promised ease of implementation has recently attracted much attention from the experimental quantum optics community, which regard it as an intermediate milestone on the way to universal fault-tolerant quantum computers.
I have also worked on matchgates, a restricted set of 2-qubit gates which are related to the dynamics of noninteracting fermions, and which are known to be efficiently classically simulable. In particular, I investigated several ways to bridge the gap between classically simulable and quantum universal in the context of matchgates.
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Disappointment, sheer disappointment.
It was a rainy Friday afternoon in Toronto. March 23, 2007... What started off as a day filled with anxiety and excitement, soon turned into a day of animosity and sorrow. Rrrrrrringggggggggg - rrrringgggggggggggggg, the high-pitched noise of the school bell echoed in my ears akin to the sweet sound of birds chirping on a beautiful Sunday morning. I got up as quick as I could, my heart beating fast. With two periods down, and only lunch and a remaining two periods to go, I refused to have a mixture of Hooke's law, Young's modulus, and the study of resonant frequencies come in the way of me and what arguably was one of the most defining moments in my team's history. But this wasn't just a team to me, this was me. My country, my background, this was a part of me, the one thing that defined me as a person and provided me with an identity. This wasn't just a sport, this was a way of life. A passion that runs through the veins.
As I ran through the halls, making my way across to the doors, I had one and only one vision in mind; the men in blue lifting the coveted trophy to the cheers, dance, and laughter of a billion fans. What felt like an eternity, only happened to be ten minutes as I bolted towards my house. Sweat pouring down my forehead, I made my way across the living room only to be greeted by an eerie silence. There my parents sat, the look on their faces told the entire story. Things were not good, Sri Lanka had posted a total of 254 and India were chasing.
A few hours later...
The eternal optimist, as some call me, remained true to himself and full of hope despite all the signs of an imminent collapse appearing before his eyes. But I knew, as long as Dravid was there, the fire was burning. But then it happened, in the 37th over, the captain had fallen. And with it, did the hopes of a billion people. As India collapsed, so did I, fall to my knees. As the hopes of a billion fell, so did my tears. I could not believe it, I was in utter disbelief. A heart-wrenching match was about to come to a close. I stomped into my room, flopped over onto my bed, and could not rise up. The first, and only time I had ever dropped tears over a cricket match. But it wasn't just a cricket match, it was something more.
But they say that the most fierce tiger is the one that is wounded. And I knew we would rise one day, I had hope. We have come far. And this hope is what has led me to this day. I believe, and I believe our men will lead us to victory, a victory each and every Indian will savour for the years to come. I want each and every Indian fan on this forum to be arm in arm, and believe. We will win this cup, ball by ball, match by match, we will remind the world the night they played the Indians!! I bleed blue, forever will.
If our team is ever in trouble, or we need a miracle to accomplish the impossible, come to this thread. This thread will act as the voice of a billion people, hand in hand, echoing loud and clear in our hearts will be our national anthem. Every prayer and every wish of ours will come true with this thread. Let it be one for good luck, for each time we need it. Because I say to you all, there isn't just 11 people on the pitch winning India the cup, but also the efforts and prayers of each and every fan yelling to the world; CHAKKKK DEEEEEEE INDIAAAAAAAAA. Say it loud, say it clear!!


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Town & Country Shopping Center - 1962
I think this picture was put on Facebook by either Joe Jenkins or Skip Are – and I, of course, lifted it like a fine refined thief.
See the dirt strip in the foreground? Not long after this picture was taken in 1962 the dirt strip became the home of Shrimp Boat and a trampoline jumping place. I think about 4 or 6 rectangular holes were dug and a rectangular shaped trampoline was installed above each. Then, you paid and jumped away all you couold afford.
Not in view but I think it was probably still there at the time was a two storied green tower in the middle of the parking lot. It looked something like a short air traffic control tower. It was owned by either WFOM or WBIE Radio Station. They ran live broadcasts from there and had giveaway contests. It must have been designed as a crowd getter. I won an iron, which still holds the record of being the only thing I ever won
Also not shown in the picture is the huge parking lot. I remember about March of 1961 a huge ice storm hit Metro Atlanta which virtually paralyzed everything – except for the young and foolish. We rode around looking for good places to slide our cars. Town and Country Shopping Center parking lot did not have a car in it. We had a slip and slide party. I learned a lot about the physics of car slipping and sliding and car traction in ice that day. Really. I think what I learned have got me through driving in some terrible snowy and freezing weather.
I vaguely remember that one of us driving and sliding around the parking lot hit the curb and the car turned over and smashed into the new Kroger's grocery store. But that may have been my imagination.
*Except the many times I won a free trip to Florida to look at a land deal or something (I never accepted).
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"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic], who goes before a congressional committee and says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute...So, if we're gonna sit here, and if we're gonna have a part in this, then we want something in return, Ms. Fluke: And that would be the videos of all this sex posted online so we can see what we are getting for our money."
– Rush Limbaugh
To me, this is whole situation is a no-brainer: What Rush Limbaugh said was wrong. No woman, under any circumstances should be spoken of in those terms. Limbaugh's ugly rant against law student and activist Sandra Fluke was misogynistic, vitriolic, and far beyond any definition of civil discourse. It should be categorically condemned, and sponsors are right to pull their advertisements in response. Yes, two liberal commentators have used similar language in the past, but as David Frum wisely points out, the indecencies of others in the past do not excuse those of Limbaugh in the present, nor should they prevent us from speaking out about the situation at hand.
It's hard to believe that any Christian would support a man who leveled such a crass and hateful rant against someone created in the image of God, but over the weekend, I encountered several who did just that...and passionately. Most were part of my own evangelical community. This baffled and frustrated me, as it did many of you who, via Facebook and Twitter, told me that you've encountered similar reactions among your family and friends.
How can anyone who identifies as a follower of Jesus not only listen to, but support, this kind of disgusting language? How can good people—the kind who show up at my door with a casserole the minute they find out I'm sick—openly cheer these kinds of remarks?
I can't know for sure what goes on in people's minds when they align themselves with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, but I suspect this reaction has something to do with three common blind spots among evangelicals:
1. Politics
As many have noted elsewhere, evangelicalism has become so intertwined with conservative politics that it can be hard to tell at times where Republicanism begins and evangelicalism ends.
No longer defined by its original ethos—spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ—evangelicalism has been reduced to little more than a voting block, and I get the idea from many of my evangelical friends that so long as a person shares their political convictions, it matters not how they live their life or speak about other people; a person is on the Christian "team" as long as he votes for conservative candidates come election day.
We saw a clear example of this back in 2010 when Liberty University invited Glen Beck to speak at its commencement. It didn't matter that the majority of Liberty students and faculty would consider Beck's Mormonism to be outside the bounds of Christian orthodoxy or that Beck had a reputation for sowing discord, what mattered was that he shared their conservative voting habits. As I wrote in my post on the topic, "Graduation 2010 confirms once and for all what many of us have suspected for years. Liberty University is characterized not by Christian fundamentalism but by political fundamentalism. For Republicanism is clearly the university's highest and most sacred value."
This also explains why Franklin Graham has such a hard time accepting Barack Obama's Christian faith and yet readily accepts the faith of Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum. Like many evangelicals, he measures the faith of other people based on how they vote, not what they profess or how they live.
This is the blind spot that allows some of the same Christians who refuse to watch R-rated movies to suspend their judgment as Rush Limbaugh makes crass, vulgar, racist, misogynistic, and homophobic remarks on his radio show. So long as he's speaking the truth about politics, they seem to reason, it doesn't matter how he delivers it. So long as he is right, it doesn't matter whether he is decent or kind.
This blind spot is absolutely killing our Christian witness. A 2007 Barna Group study found that among 16-29 year-olds only 3 percent express favorable views of evangelicals. Common negative perceptions among non-Christians are that present-day Christianity is judgmental (87 percent), hypocritical (85 percent), old-fashioned (78 percent), and too involved in politics (75 percent).
Now there is nothing wrong with supporting conservative politics. But, as I told a woman who was urging her fellow Christians to boycott sponsors who pulled their ads from Limbaugh's show, when you publicly support a man who uses crass language to shame a woman, you are making it hard for non-believers to see anything lovely or redemptive about Christianity.
2. Women
A second blind spot that I suspect is influencing evangelical support of Rush Limbaugh relates to women.
I'd like to think that if Limbaugh had used a racial epithet, like the n-word, my evangelical friends would be more reluctant to support him, despite Blind Spot #1. But because Limbaugh used misogynisticepithets instead, there seems to be more hesitancy among some evangelicals to condemn him.
This is because evangelicals, for all our good work in fighting sex trafficking and the exploitation of women around the world, often fail to see the sexism that pervades our own church corridors.
This example is not nearly as severe, but it drove me crazy to see John Piper follow his public call for a "masculine Christianity" with a week's worth of posts about overcoming racism. Yes, evangelicals have come a long way when it comes to race, but can't he see that we're still decades behind when it comes to women!? Had Piper said that "Christianity has a white feel," every evangelical in his or her right mind would have been up in arms. But because he said that "Christianity has a masculine feel," even those who disagree with him shrugged it off as a difference in biblical interpretation rather than a problem with how he, and many evangelicals, view women.
I never before considered myself the kind of woman who sees sexism around every corner, but I must say, my experience speaking and writing about women in the Church has been eye-opening. For expressing my egalitarian views among evangelicals, I've been called crass, ugly names (not unlike the names Limbaugh called Fluke), dismissed as "emotional" and "whiny," written off as a "just another liberal feminazi," and declared a "threat" to the Church. I've written on controversial topics before, but never has the criticism been so personal and so vitriolic, and I can't help but wonder if it is because I'm writing about the concerns of women.
This is not to say that every evangelical is deeply misogynistic. Far from it. But I think that the lack of female leadership and influence in evangelicalism has resulted in a blind spot that keeps some from recognizing just how painful and damaging these kinds of words and attitudes can be. Fortunately, I see this changing in a big way, and am hopeful that the future will be brighter for evangelical women.
3. Sex
The most common response I heard from evangelicals supporting Rush Limbaugh was that because Sandra Fluke was sexually active, she essentially "had it coming." Maybe Limbaugh's language was a bit strong, they said, but his disgust at her "promiscuity" was justified.
This attitude represents one of the most damaging and least-talked-about blind spots within evangelicalism—the one that refuses to acknowledge the fact that being sexually active does not make a woman a slut.
Currently, evangelicals tend to force young adults, especially young women, into simplistic sexual categories. They are either "pure" or "impure," "whole" or "damaged," "virgins" or "sluts." There does not seem to exist a vocabulary within evangelicalism with which to talk about men and women who are sexually active, but not promiscuous.
But like it or not, nearly every study you find shows that unmarried Christians are just as sexually active as unmarried non-Christians. With the majority of young adults waiting until their late twenties to get married, it's getting harder and harder to wait until marriage for sexual intimacy.
Now, I'm not saying that this is okay, or that evangelicals have to abandon their convictions regarding sex and marriage just because times have changed. But if evangelicals feel that the word "slut" is the only appropriate one to use for a woman who is sexually active, then we have a real problem on our hands. This is damaging, hurtful language that objectifies women and will only push them away from the Church. (Note: It should be noted that Fluke wasn't just addressing the use of contraceptives for sex, but also for treatment of medical conditions. She shared the story of one friend who lost an ovary because she could not afford birth control pills.)
Regardless of your views on whether insurance companies should be required to provide coverage for contraception, all Christians should agree that there is no place for Rush Limbaugh-style vitriol in public discourse.
My hope is that the blind spots that keep many of my evangelical brothers and sisters from seeing his words and actions as contrary to the way of Jesus will be brought to light through the process of discernment, and that I too will be open to the wise critiques of those who perhaps have a better view of the blind spots that keep me from loving God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength and loving my neighbor as myself.
UPDATE #1: I've been encouraged to see some evangelical leaders like Al Mohler speak out against Rush Limbaugh's comments: http://www.dennyburk.com/albert-mohler-weighs-in-on-limbaugh-apology/
UPDATE #2: I'm going to go ahead and close the comment thread on this post because a few folks seem rather eager to prove my point there, and I'm tired of reading and deleting this stuff. (In just one day, through comments and email, I've personally been called a "slut", a "whore," a "feminazi," a "whiny feminist," a c**t, and a "dirty tramp." I expect a call from the president shortly.) Of course, most of you have been wonderful, as always. Thanks so much for your insightful contributions to the conversation and for your support. I expect the trolls will clear out soon.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel named a veteran Capitol Hill lawyer Tuesday to rejuvenate the Pentagon's flagging efforts to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Paul M. Lewis, a Democratic lawyer for the House Armed Services Committee and a former judge advocate in the Marine Corps, will take the Pentagon's newly created job of special envoy for Guantanamo closure. He will start Nov. 1.
Lewis will work with Clifford Sloan, who holds a similar post in the State Department, to revive the administration's attempts to empty the prison at Guantanamo, which holds 164 inmates who were captured overseas after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
President Obama promised to close the U.S. detention facility in Cuba during his first campaign for president, in 2008, and has repeated the pledge multiple times since, most recently in May, when he announced that he would create special-envoy positions in the State and Defense departments to press the issue. But his efforts have been blocked by Congress, which has prevented him from transferring Guantanamo inmates to prisons in the United States and imposed other obstacles.
About half the remaining prisoners at Guantanamo have been approved for transfer to other countries. But the administration has moved slowly to do so because of concerns that the prisoners would be maltreated there or only loosely monitored. About one-third of the remaining inmates are Yemeni.
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Jenny and I are jetting off on a quick little business / pleasure trip next week and I could not be more excited to have a tiny little break. I need one pretty bad because little things are starting to set me off. Like when my landlord comes and blocks the entire driveway to everyone that lives here instead of pulling up into an empty parking spot to water the 'front lawn' which is really dirt. Or when you're at the vet and the crazy lady next to you asks what is wrong with your cat, and you tell her, and she responds with "maybe it's just time to let go, you know?" At that moment in time I could only picture myself as Grumpy Cat and the word NO floating above my head in all caps while my expression says everything. So me being a grumpy cat these days, all I want to do is watch Nashville on TV and eat snacks. Lucky for me (and you) we have this fall inspired Savory Pumpkin Hummus. I really love hummus situations because it's so easy make. This one with pumpkin is my new favorite. The pumpkin is such a nice departure from your typical hummus flavor and I really love the flavor of this savory hummus with the garlic and cinnamon. So satisfying! Excuse me while I pig out on my new found love of Savory Pumpkin Hummus and try to de-grumpify myself. Bye!
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Savory Pumpkin Hummus
Serves 4 to 6
1 (14.5 ounce) can chick peas, drained
1 cup pumpkin puree
2 cloves roasted garlic
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons coconut oil (extra virgin olive oil is fine, but the results will vary)
1 tablespoon tahini
salt and pepper to taste
baked pita crisps:
2 pitas, each cut into 5 long triangles
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1. pumpkin hummus: Place all ingredients into a food processor and puree until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with pita crisps.
2. baked pita crisps: Preheat oven to 375˚F. Line pita triangles onto a baking sheet and brush each side with oil. Mix remaining ingredients in a small bowl and sprinkle over pita triangles, both sides. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes or until triangles have crisped up and turned golden brown. Serve with hummus.


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ok, looks like i'm about to get opinionated here and open a can of worms, but.....
for what it is worth, i accept with humility that i haven't been around as long as a lot of you have, and don't have the years of experience to draw on and.....
for what it is worth, i am striving to avoid treatments, and avoid even putting syrup on my hives and.....
i absolutely respect each and everyone's right to practice beekeeping as they see fit, unless.....
it involves practices which puts at risk nearby colonies of bees not belonging to that person.
let me explain.
it occurred to me after participating on the 'treatment free beekeeping' forum, that a beginner like myself might get the idea that it is better to practice what i would describe as a 'hands off' approach.
this concern was reinforced by a recent post in which the poster described letting the bees take care of making themselves queenright, and not doing much more than adding boxes. the poster received accolades from others on the forum.
in fairness, i don't know the poster, nor do i know what all they do or don't do with their bees. this is definitely not a personal attack.
and i can tell from reading that a lot of folks who participate on the forum and advocate tfb are outstanding beekeepers.
and one of my all time beekeeping heros, michael bush, also promotes this approach.
here's the problem: if a hive is allowed to become sick and collapse, that hive is likely to get robbed out by nearby healthy hives.
whether it's mites, bacteria, viruses, or otherwise, that problem is likely to get carried back to the healthy hives and threaten them.
so the question is, do we as beekeepers have some responsibility to our neighboring beekeepers and to the feral bee population in this regard?
maybe i have missed it, and if so, i apologize. but rather than seeing advice given regarding how to manage bees successfully so as to not require treatments, what i see is advice given to let the bees work it all out for themselves and eventually you will have treatment free bees.


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In the timeless open landscape of the Norfolk Fens Thorpland Manor Farm offers visitors a wonderfully peaceful rural setting and shared enjoyment of a fine range of facilities including a heated open air swimming pool. Skilfully and lovingly converted from handsome farm buildings and carefully retaining traditional features in their beamed interiors all six cottages provide the highest quality of comfort. Set near the owners' 17th century farmhouse on a working farm they all boast their own sitting out areas as well as access to the farm grounds where coarse fishing and farm walks make this the perfect spot in which to relax and unwind. A sauna hot tub and games room all add to the pleasurable atmosphere.
A wide variety of attractions lie within easy reach including the National Trust's Oxburgh Hall a moated manor house built in 1482 and which holds special events throughout the year and Langham Glass where visitors can watch the traditional skills of glass making. A wealth of crafts and antiques barns a butterfly and wildlfe park water gardens farm parks plant nurseries museums or rural life and a rare breeds centre also promise good days out. Boasting several unique wildlife habitats and crisscrossed by footpaths and quiet lanes the wide scenery of the Fens and the heathland and forests of the Norfolk Brecks offer excellent walking and cycling opportunities whilst the north Norfolk coastwith its picturesque villages salt marshes and bird reserves is an easy drive. Sandringham House and Park is well worth a visit and the Victorian seaside resort of Hunstanton's sandy beaches rock pools majestic cliffs beautifully planted gardens traditional amusements fun fair and host of water based activities are sure to delight visitors of all ages.
Standing on rising ground just 3½ miles away is Downham Market one of Norfolk's oldest market towns and offering a good choice of shops inns restaurants tennis and a sports centre. Fishing riding and golf are all available nearby. The nearest village stores and a pub serving food are both about 1½ miles.
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King's Lynn Minster - 6.8 miles (Historic Church)
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Red Mount Chapel, King's Lynn - 6.8 miles (Historic Church)
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