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Greens SA MLC, Tammy Franks, has condemned today's decision by State and Federal Ministers to define free range eggs as up to 10,000 birds per hectare as one that will "advantage the 'fake range' players in the industry, and drive true free range producers out of business". Ms Franks will put her bill to label shop and supermarket shelves to vote when Parliament resumes in late April.
"This is a shocking decision for true free range consumers, producers and hens alike. It's no wonder Choice has responded with boycott on 'fake range'.
"More than half of South Australia's producers are true free range egg producers – those with a stocking density of less than 1500 hens per hectare - including many small producers. They have just been thrown to the wolves by this decision. At present, these producers are having to compete with 'fake range' producers – those with much larger stocking densities of 10,000 hens per hectare, but label their cartons free range., We had hoped today's decision would have ended that unfair playing field.
"Despite promises of a voluntary labelling scheme for true free range in our state by the Weatherill Government back in 2013, we have yet to see a single state-labelled true free range egg on our supermarket or shop shelves.
"It's a no-brainer. True free range is better for consumers, hens and jobs. True free range egg production generates three to four times the number of jobs that producers of a comparable size with higher stocking densities do. It also matches what consumers expect they are paying more for.
"With a national decision failing to give this sector the protection and consumer clarity it needs, the future of true free range producers is in serious danger. South Australia's Parliament can now step up and give local consumers and industry the certainty they require and support local jobs in true free range egg sector. I expect strong opposition from the big chain supermarkets, as their eggs are 'fake range' and no free range.
"In SA, the Greens will test the parliament support for real consumer clarity and choice. We will push our bill to label the shelves in our shops and supermarkets, as has been operating in the ACT for some years, to a vote. This overcomes constitutional barriers and would be more enforceable that a voluntary code" Ms Franks concluded.
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The latest annual report from the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) covers the year 2011 – many energy price hikes and policy changes ago. The headline is that in England, the numbers of households in fuel poverty fell, from 3.3m in 2010 to 3.2m (and in the UK from 4.75m to 4.5m). These are the households which need to spend 10% or more of their income on energy to keep adequately warm, a definition we have all become accustomed to using. But DECC's report has turned into a statistical soup, as it struggles to introduce a new definition of fuel poverty (which measures two different things), and reports anyway on a year long forgotten.
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Subsequent price increases will have pushed these numbers up, and applying the likely new definition, these numbers might be massaged downwards, but the numbers of older people caught in fuel poverty will still be substantial.
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That man cost me my relationship with my mother and sisters over the last 17 years. He is a bad man! I am a Chritian, and dared to stand up to him and was quickly "cut off" from contact with the rest of my family, who were members there. He is a serious controller, and leads by fear. All who have been hurt by him should come foward, and I beleive they will!
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I'm glad to hear he's in jail. All of those years of physical and emotional abuse almost made me commit suicide. I know im not the only one and im very sorry for the others. He ruined my relationships with my sisters and brother and made me feel like I was worthless. He always talked bad about my father(whom passed away in September of 2007) and told me I was gonna be a failure like him. He deserves to rot in jail for life. He's ruined thousands upon thousands of lives and scarred others like myself. I can never forget what he did to me and how he made me feel. I just pray that justice is served.
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Kate Milliken's stories have appeared in Zyzzyva, Fiction, New Orleans Review, and Santa Monica Review, among others. A graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars, the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, and several Pushcart Prize nominations, Kate has also written for television and commercial advertising. Kate's debut collection of stories, If I'd Known You Were Coming, won the 2013 John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press.She lives in Northern California with her husband and their two children. She's currently working on a screenplay based on her short story, "Mad River," and completing her novel, the first chapter of which was named runner-up for the 2013 Dana Award
Pam Metzger was a radio broadcaster for twenty years, and continues to work as a voiceover talent nationally and locally. One of nine children, she was deemed the family storyteller, and at an early age discovered the magic of verbal communication, of being able to change her voice depending on the character in the story. She loves the enchantment reading aloud creates for both reader and listener. She lives by the words of the author Roald Dahl – "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
Joey Garcia has dispensed wise, witty and practical advice to readers of the Sacramento News & Review since 1996. She is the author of the new book When Your Heart Breaks, It's Opening to Love: Healing and finding love after an affair, heartbreak or divorce, has a short story forthcoming in the Farallon Review and is at work on a novel. Her poetry has been published in Calyx, The Caribbean Writer, in four anthologies and is forthcoming in Presence International Journal and the Tule Review. She has also been awarded poetry fellowships to Spoleto, Italy and Paris, France. Joey was born in Belize, and you can discover more at www.joeygarcia.com
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Hulu Releases Desktop Version of Video Site
Web browser TV watching not doing it for you? Hulu on Thursday introduced a downloadable desktop version of its video Web site.
Hulu Desktop provides access to Hulu content for a "rich, full-screen" video watching experience, Hulu said in a blog post. The offering is available on Windows and Mac but not on Linux and can be controlled via mouse, keyboard, or any six-button PC or Mac remote control.
"Hulu Desktop was built by a small group on our engineering team who asked themselves one day: how can we make it easier for users to immerse themselves in the great shows and movies Hulu is fortunate to have access to?" Hulu wrote. "Our answer was to build a new PC and Mac application that gives users the option to step outside of their browser, keyboard and mouse and into something different."
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Can you get everything on Hulu Desktop that you find on Hulu.com?
"Generally speaking the Hulu library on Hulu.com will be available through Hulu Desktop," Hulu said on its site. "While our goal is to have the same content library available on through all of our distribution channels, we work together with our partners to determine availability of their content on these various channels."
You don't need to set up an account to download and watch Hulu content, but you will need to sign in to access your queue, history, subscriptions, playback quality and closed captioning preferences. Profile details, privacy settings and friends are not accessible from Hulu Desktop.
The download will require at least 2GB of RAM, a Flash installation, and Windows XP or Mac OS v10.4 or later.
In April, Hulu announced that it will soon add content from ABC, making CBS that only major network that does not contribute to Hulu.com.
Streaming video provider Boxee said in a blog post that it hopes the Desktop app means the two sites can work together again. In February, Hulu pulled its content from Boxee at the request of its content providers. Boxee tried to circumvent that move with an RSS reader optimized for video, but that had limited success.
"We're glad to see Hulu had a change of heart about bringing their service to the big screen, and we hope that this means Hulu content is coming back to Boxee," CEO Avner Ronen wrote in a blog post. "We've already put in a request to Hulu to work with them on bringing Hulu back to Boxee, and we'll let you know the response."
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Decadence: The Meaninglessness of Modern Life is a six part television documentary series commissioned by SBS Independent and produced by Fork Films. The series is hosted by Pria Viswalingam, who is best known for his work on the travel show A fork in the road. Decadence was originally broadcast on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) of Australia in 2006 in the form of six, thirty minute long episodes (including advertisements). It was rescreened again in 2007 as part of the SBS season on globalisation. The series examines the decadence and meaninglessness of modern, western life. It is also poses the question: If we live in such a great and prosperous world, and we are living longer, better, and healthier than before, why are we so unhappy?. There are interviews with many prominent experts and leaders in their fields throughout the series.
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Hi! Reprinting and expanding on an earlier post, because some folks have been asking for more about the "Alpha-Omega" Christian comics APA-zine. I thought it would be easier to have the info handy in one blog post I can just directly link to...
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Hi everyone! The deadline for the big 200th issue of the Alpha-Omega APA-zine is coming up soon, so as a reminder for anyone interested in participating, here's an updated F.A.Q. list:
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Hi! As some of you may know, I'm not posting here online that often because so much of my time is involved offline with Alpha-Omega, the Christian Comic Arts Society's long-running Christian comics APA (which stands for Amateur Press Association.)
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Wow, I can't believe it's been a few years since I last updated my account here. Just wanted to log in and say hi, and let you know that I'll have some project updates to share soon.
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Thanks for the reply. That's great that there's a volume #2 in the works. I'm not sure how far long you guys are, or when you plan on setting a production schedule, but let me know if you guys are taking other contributors. I would be interested in collaborating with someone on a short story script.
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Frequently Asked Questions
High Tide Dry Suits, Inc.
We get many questions and queries – here are our answers to most of them:
I think I could fit a stock suit. Why is a custom fit so important?
When you combine the characteristics of a good neoprene drysuit with a custom fit, you have the best
of all worlds. By getting yourself measured up by a High Tide dealer, you will be able to try on actual
Rocklug boots to make sure you get the correct size for your foot. When your suit is started, we will
cut your neck and wrist seals to fit you perfectly, make sure the leg, arm, and torso length are correct,
adjust the chest, waist and hips to fit you properly. Your fleece jumpsuit will also be cut just for you.
When your suit arrives and you try it on, you will realize how much more streamlined and comfortable
it is than a stock suit. You will feel the difference!
A correctly fitting drysuit system will last longer too, since there will not be stress at seams or panels
that accompany an ill fitting stock suit.
Does High Tide offer "shell" type dry suits?
Since our specialty is providing cold water protection for diving across the northern latitudes of the
continent, we greatly prefer neoprene based dry suits and only manufacture those. There are three
basic reasons we dive neoprene dry suits rather than shell:
1) WARMTH. Neoprene is warmer than shell type suits because insulating air is encapsulated in the
neoprene itself and cannot gravitate upwards to the highest portion of the suit. This keeps your lower
torso and legs warmer. A shell suit user will discover that the air provided by the loft of his thick
"snowmobile' like jumpsuit quickly leaves the lower extremities and concentrates in the upper
chest/neck regions (air always goes up!). With the "loft" gone from the lower parts of his body, the
shell suit user will feel chilled below his chest, especially on long or deep dives.
2) SAFETY: If you've ever had a neoprene dry suit flood then you know that the suit still retains
buoyancy and thermal warmth, even if it is like a baggy wetsuit. We've had lots of testimonials from
divers with badly leaking neoprene dry suits who continued their dives without too much discomfort,
often remarking how warm they were! A shell suit, on the other hand, loses all buoyancy if there is a
bad tear or zipper blowout since a shell suit has no floatation characteristics in the thin, bladder-like
material. And if flooded, a shell becomes freezing cold with virtually no thermal warmth. Imagine
facing a series of long decompression stops in a flooded shell suit!
Also, neoprene suits are safer to dive since they have small volumes of interior air. This is important
should a diver happen to get his feet above his head, so that the air rising to the boots does not exert so
much pressure as to blow the boots off! A shell type of suit carries a large air bubble inside (that air
that was squeezed out of the jumpsuit and rose to the top of the suit) and if that air happens to get into
the boots, then the result can be exceedingly dramatic and no fun at all!
3) FIT AND DRAG: The vast majority of shell type dry suits are sold as stock, off-the-shelf units.
These types of suits are cut very, very baggy since the material does not stretch and suits have to fit a
wide variety of body shapes. This extra material causes unsightly wrinkles underwater and produces a
lot of drag, thus making the diver work harder to swim and therefore use up his air faster. Often the
stock suits do not really fit that well and a diver may find himself with a suit that he ends up upgrading
soon thereafter, while taking a financial beating as he tries to sell the original suit. Better to get a
custom neoprene suit to start with – you will swim faster, improve your air consumption rate and be
I keep hearing that neoprene suits require more weight to submerge than shell type
suits. Is this true?
Yes. And No. It depends on how cold the water is.
In temperate waters of, let's say, California, a diver wearing a shell suit will not require much of an
undergarment to stay warm, so he typically dives a thinner jumpsuit and does not need as much lead
to get down.
The diver using a 7.0 mm neoprene drysuit in those waters obviously cannot make his suit thinner, so
will not be able to reduce the amount of lead to get down and he will wear a few pounds more. (He
will also be warmer – maybe too warm!)
So under that scenario the axiom holds true – a shell diver uses less weight to get down.
Things change when the same two divers travel to British Columbia, Canada, to dive some wrecks.
The shell suit diver quickly discovers the water temperature of 45 degrees rapidly chills him, especially
his feet and lower parts of his body. So he keeps adding layers of fleece or a thicker jumpsuit until he
finally gets fairly warm. But now he has had to add another eight to ten pounds to his weight system.
Meanwhile, the neoprene guy may add a layer of ultra thin polypro underwear (and perhaps a fleece
layering vest), but he requires nowhere near the extra layers that the shell guy has employed, so he only
has to add three or four pounds to his weight system.
In these colder northern waters, the neoprene diver actually uses less weight and he is a lot warmer
too. So the axiom reverses itself.
One of the neat things about High Tide drysuit systems is that they are based on thinner, 5.0 mm
neoprene so they can comfortably be used in temperate waters (without the fleece jumpsuit) and with
comparable weighting as the shell suits. Yet by adding the included fleece jumpsuit and layering vest
the High Tide suits are absolutely the warmest suits you can get for trips to cold Canada or the Great
Lakes. One type of suit for both water temperatures!
All things being equal, in temperate waters we find that High Tide neoprene suit wearers use just about
exactly the same amount of weight as the shell suit people and in northern waters can use a couple of
pounds less. And they always report being warmer.
Does High Tide make suits with self-donning zippers?
We do not. In our opinion, one of the disadvantages of neoprene is that it is not a good material to use
for self-donning suits. To design a suit for an across-the-front zipper, one must add about 8 to 9 inches
to the torso length of the suit to allow one shoulder of the suit to be pulled up and over the diver's head
as he gets into it. In shell suits, this extra torso material can be easily folded at the waist and held in
place with straps for a (relatively) smooth fit. Neoprene does not fold, but gathers in a tube around the
midsection, making the diver look like he is wearing a tire around his stomach. While we have made
some experimental suits that featured a self-donning zipper, we were not happy with the results and
now just concentrate on back zip suits.
We understand that a few people do dive alone and may require a self-donning zipper and for those
people we recommend DUI or USIA shell suits as examples of well proven technology and design. For
the rest of you, we recommend a back zipper style of suit since you should be diving with a buddy
anyway, and back zippers last much, much longer than front zippers (front zippers wear out quickly at
the shoulder or the crotch – they don't like being bent tightly and fail prematurely).
Can I get latex neck or wrist seals?
Latex seals offer pretty much "bone dry" sealing and have the advantage in stock suits of being "cut-to-
size". Those advantages are offset by a short lifespan (ozone attacks the latex and they usually last
only one or two seasons before expensive replacement is necessary), being un-repairable in the field (if
you poke a hole in one, you cannot glue it, it must be replaced), and by being cold (latex has zero
insulation so you feel a cold "ring" around your neck and wrists).
Neoprene seals are soft and warm and last many years without degradation from ozone. And if you
poke a hole in one it can be field repaired with a can of wetsuit glue and you can be back in the water
in an hour. The neck seals are much more comfortable than latex since they are warmer and do not
feel so much like they are choking you. Having said that, neoprene seals are not as watertight as latex,
they commonly will weep a little bit of water and give you "ring around the neck" or "ring around the
wrists". However, weepage is generally slight and unnoticeable and even if a diver experiences a little
leakage he will feel warmer than if he was using the non-insulating latex seals.
To answer your question: High Tide does not offer latex neck or latex wrist seals - we think the new,
soft and stretchy neoprene seals are far superior to latex and absolutely last much longer.
I thought all neoprene was alike. What are the differences?
Almost all neoprene manufacturers offer at least half a dozen grades of neoprene. Some foam is made
with so much "filler" that is comes into the country classified as "blended foam" and does not even
qualify with US Customs as neoprene! Such inexpensive foam is used for wraps for horses and
athletes but is not suitable for water or diving use. Some water sports grade neoprene is designed with
a zero depth rating (for surfers, water skiing, etc.). Some is designed for sport diving (with a typical
depth rating of 100 feet). Some is meant for commercial diving and, with extra ingredients added to
the basic neoprene (such as butyl – a strengthening agent), can withstand repeated pressure to 165
Compressed neoprene (also marketed as micro-cell neoprene) is foam that starts out life at one
thickness (and with additives to improve its compression strength) and is compressed under pressure to
a slightly thinner ending thickness. Only the strongest, most robust air cells survive this process, thus
compressed foam usually carries a depth rating of at least 230 feet and can easily last a thousand dives
with little crushing or wrinkling. Hyper-compressed foam can go to 400 feet without damage from
There is no free lunch here. Inexpensive foam is not suitable for diving or it will rapidly crush and
wrinkle, losing its thermal insulation properties. Most wetsuits and accessories on the market are made
from the so called "sport" foam, rated for moderate depths of 100 feet. If you dive sport products for
long, or take them deep, they will lose thickness and warmth rapidly and permanently. Commercial
rated foam is the best for most people, it is a little bit stiffer than sport grade foam but lasts about three
times as long under the same conditions. Trouble is, in our price conscious society, almost no one
makes suits from commercial neoprene anymore due to the expense. By the way, compressed foam is
too dense to make good wetsuits, it doesn't stretch enough, but it is excellent dry suit material.
That, in a nutshell, is more information than you'd ever want about neoprene!
What is the difference between compressed neoprene and crushed neoprene?
Only two companies (that we know of) use true crushed neoprene. Crushed neoprene, as its name
implies, is neoprene in which all of the air bubbles have been squashed flat as a bug and the air
escapes. This leaves a very thin, (1 mm or so) dense layer of neoprene which no longer has any air
bubbles. This thin material is then used for traditional type shell suits. DUI pioneered this technique
and makes a very successful shell suit from this material as it has some stretch which most shell suit
materials do not have. However, since the air is gone, crushed neoprene has no thermal warmth or
floatation properties if flooded. It is just another shell material, although arguably one of the best for
that purpose.
Compressed neoprene, while thinner and denser than regular neoprene, retains plenty of air bubbles for
warmth and floatation – and much better stretch than crushed neoprene.
We have sold many, many High Tide suits to former owners of crushed neoprene suits and we
repeatedly get rave reviews and comments from these owners about how much warmer and more
comfortable they are in their High Tides.
In semi-warm waters (like southern Cal) a crushed neoprene is probably the way to go so you don't
overheat. But in colder northern waters like the Great Lakes or Puget Sound, you will be far happier in
a compressed neoprene suit. Those millions of trapped air bubble will definitely keep you warmer.
If you have any more questions about our dry suits, please contact us at email@example.com.
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White Kitchen - Scandinavian Style!
I haven't really shown you any images from my trip to Copenhagen yet! I have so many....over 2,000 to be round about precise (call me obsessive, I'm guilty!) And, let's not forget my 10 (at least) magazines too. Lots of good stuff. Don't get me diamonds, just get me a Scandinavian interior design magazine! (I didn't really say that, right?)
Speaking of good stuff, I went a little crazy with taking lots of images of this very soft, romantic, Scandinavian style that everyone loves so much. I found this wonderful style (so much style) in some very special antique stores, Atelier September and Fil de Fer.
I have shared these particular images with Desire To Inspire, my good blogging buddies, because they have featured one of the stores before and I thought they would enjoy them, a fresh look from being IN the stores. I think they enjoyed them so much that they are doing a feature today AND featuring more, and different, images tomorrow!
What's missing is the kitchen! The apartment we stayed in, in Copenhagen, definitely had this same romantic style going on. I saw pictures of it online and booked it immediately! I just HAD to stay there. So, here is a kitchen design connection to this romantic Scandinavian style that Desire To Inspire is showing.
Today I will show you the kitchen, tomorrow, I will show you the adjacent breakfast room which will make you fall right over!
Don't forget to check back with Desire To Inspire tomorrow too, to see the complete look, connected with my images here.
Here are previous posts in Desire To Inspire...on Scandinavian Style and more Scandinavian style and good Danish design too. I would encourage you to use the search tool in their blog, but watch the time, you'll be there all day!
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's…yes, actually it is a plane! Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, the next installment in Bandai Namco's long-running aerial combat series, will be available for Xbox One and PC in addition to the title's previously announced release for Playstation 4.
Beautiful skyscapes host fast-paced aerial showdowns in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. The title promises to deliver highly detailed visuals that will intensify the action that players experience as they face off in authentic and futuristic aircraft upgraded with advanced weaponry. Outside of battle, players can get carried away in the game's storyline or challenge friends in online matches.
Eric Hartness, Vice President of Marketing at Bandai Namco says, "With over 20 years of franchise history; ACE COMBAT 7: Skies Unknown continues to deliver authentic yet accessible flight combat action to gamers around the world…We look forward to seeing players suit up, strap in, and take their place as ace pilots." Follow along with news of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown's release at the official website.


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I feel like that's been a blog title before in the past… won't be the last!!
So… remember the whole celibacy thing? yeah. I slipped up.
Actually it was more than a small slip up. It was a whirly shit show of an amazing night. But… I definitely took it too far this time. DEFINITELY.
My morality compass just took the biggest nose dive I've ever taken!
So let me incriminate myself a little by divulging…
Went out with my friends on friday. It started out super casual. I've got jeans on and a v-neck. Beers at a local brewery. The game was on. I don't care at all about football but my girlfriend was wanting to watch. So we sat and drank from mid-second quarter to how ever many overtimes it took for us to win. Whatever. Not the important part.
After that a couple of other girls joined us. One was my best friend. They came dressed to impressed and ready to party. Clearly they were looking for something more than low key brewery.
So we packed up and went to an Irish pub. This also was NOT good enough for them. I was having a perfectly fine time. In fact I talked to an old man at the bar about our religious and spiritual back grounds and… well… fore grounds I guess. It was fun and he introduced me to a new drink. The Colorado Bull Dog. YUM!!! So you see, this was the type of evening I was happy to be having.
My friends, still being unsatisfied talked me into the next location. My original friend dropped out at this point. We decided on a new place. Never been, but you can't be picky after 1am in Little Rock.
We go. We sit and drink. Hangout. My best friend's friend is getting annoyed and I can't tell why. But I have a feeling it was because she wasn't being hit on like crazy. She's insanely gorgeous and is probably use to being out and fawned over 100 % of the time. It just wasn't the type of place and we weren't mingling. We were just sitting at a table. I was still happy. Of course, I had zero expectation. We are there til about 4am.
As I'm walking to my car someone starts coming at me asking if I'm going to the cowboy. Which is one of only 4 places still open in town. I say, "Nope! Headed home!" But I stand there while he closes the gap between us. We talk. We flirt. It's getting a bit cold out and I start to rub my hands on my arms to warm up with the friction. He grabs me and says here I'll warm you up. And he hugs me. It's nice. He's cute. The flirting has been way too fun to resist the touch.
He starts talking about cuddling… and lets be honest for a second. Cuddling is something that all humans crave. Strangers. Loved ones. We just need to be touched. It's our nature. Guys use this line because it works! It's not just me. It's not just my slutty tendencies. It's just too damn appealing. "Your place or mine?" We chose mine because it was closer.
We stayed out by his truck for a minute in my parking lot so that he could smoke a cigarette. Sat on his tailgate. He's one of those truck driving, country listening guys. But hey, I listen to country.
He asked if I had any alcohol inside. My only thought was what about the cuddling??? We talk more about more things. we flirt even more. It's all just one big flirt tho, so lets not kid ourselves into thinking that this is in any way a life changing conversation. I don't remember how the subject came up. Coke. Something he rarely does, but at their first location that night someone was offering and he went for it. I've never done this. And I'm trying to figure out how he brought it up in a way that made me react the way I did.
I basically said that I don't do drugs. I'm not against trying anything once, but also my family has some strong addictive tendencies so any use scares me. He lit up a the "try anything once" phrase.
"Wanna try it with me?"
And that was that. We partied. Did a line. Laughed a lot. Did a line. Then clothes came off. And we were all over the place. Everywhere. Repeat. For hours and hours. While I do think I crossed a line that I don't want to continue down, I can admit that I had a great time. And the conversations after doing it…
My mind opened up. My anxiousness lifted. I said what I wanted. I wasn't blocked by being nervous. It's like I knew what I felt and I knew what I wanted. And guys, I rarely feel that certain about what I want and feel. I can barely get words around those ideas. But it became easy. And that is the part I enjoyed. That part felt good.
It was reckless. Yet again, I'm being reckless. So… let the cycle continue. Taking my control back. All of it.
Can't help but feel this line was just too far out there this time tho. I'm beating myself up over it. And it's definitely warranted.


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Below you'll find a story about the first day of school for Anne Greenwood , a current WorldTeach volunteer in Thailand. Quickly, she learns that cultural norms and habits are all relative to the environment. Learn about proper Thai greetings and why the proper "Wai" matters, below.
When I woke up this morning, it was still dark out. I carefully exited my mosquito net to turn off my both alarm and the air conditioning unit at 5:30 while the birds were starting to chirp and the motorcycle repair shop across the street was already starting work for the day (less pastoral). I've been trying to remain hydrated, so I like to get my water bottle and climb back into bed to drink it. And by bed, I mean "Thai rolling mattress on top of a rock solid mattress ensconced in a mosquito net". It's not fancy, but I'm sure it's great for my back or something like that…
Now that I have a coffee maker, I can make real coffee to drink on my balcony. This morning I ate my breakfast and caffeinated myself while reviewing my lesson plans for today. I'm not an experienced enough teacher yet to make a plan and have it come to life in the classroom! Instead, I read over my plan while mentally rehearsing what exactly I am going to say and trouble-shoot any problem areas. I try to come up with alternate phrasing for instructions, ways to make the lesson easier or more difficult, and what I'm going to do if everything falls apart. Then I attempted to look polished enough to meet everyone's expectations (the key is adding a braid or twist to make your hairstyle look more complicated and putting on lipstick).
School starts with an outdoor assembly from 8-8:30 where we sing the national anthem, say a prayer, and more talking in Thai happens but I don't understand what's happening. But today was my first day greeting students. And I'll be completely honest: when I was told that we would stand at the front gate and greet students as they came in I thought that was an utter waste of time. Why couldn't I circulate around the clusters of students while they wait for assembly? Why couldn't I start a game or activity? But today I could see the value in my actions. In Thailand, a proper greeting consists of putting your hands together in a "prayer" position and raising them to an appropriate level in what is known as a wai. The higher the wai, the more respectful. I wai my coworkers with my index fingers at chin height, my boss or older members of the community at nose height, and monks at forehead height. I also lower my head and lean forwards. Students wai me and bow their heads and I return their wais, but not all teachers do. Unbeknownst to me, when the students enter the school grounds they wai to the Buddha statue on one side of the driveway, and wai a group of students and teachers, who return their greeting.
It doesn't sound like much, but as I repeated this greeting over and over, I felt how this process of mutual respect shapes life here. When I ride my bike anywhere, there's a trail of questions that follow: "Where are you going?", "Where are you coming from?", "What did you buy?". I manage to say good morning to most of my co-workers everyday, and they ask "What did you eat for breakfast?". The welcoming words might not be what I'm used to, but the sentiment is there. I hope your week starts off in an equally kind and gentle fashion🙂


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Update: 123D beta 5 uses the proper units for exporting STL files, so the scaling operation is no longer necessary.
As I noted previously, objects in STL files created by Autodesk's new 123D CAD program are not correctly scaled when loaded into ReplicatorG (at least not for me, I'm using the public beta from a few weeks ago). Eyeballing it, I guessed the object in RepG was about 1/10 the size defined in the 123D model.
To test this hypothesis, I designed a rectangular prism, 50 mm by 25 mm by 10 mm (yes, the temptation to go 90x40x10 was strong). Results follow:
I saved this object in 123D as an STL file, loaded it into RepG, and applied a 10x scale. I printed it on a Makerbot Thing-O-Matic:
(You can see the final layer didn't finish, because I forgot to put more feedstock into the printer; fortunately there was enough to print all the layers)
I measured the printed object with my digital caliper, and the ground truth dimensions (maximum) are: 49.7 mm in length, 25.0 mm in width, and 10.2 mm in height.
Pretty darn good!


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ECMAScript Cookbook
ECMAScript Cookbook follows a modular approach with independent recipes covering different feature sets and specifications of ECMAScript to help you become an efficient programmer.
This book starts off with organizing your JavaScript applications as well as delivering those applications to modem and legacy systems. You will get acquainted with features of ECMAScript 8 such as async, SharedArrayBuffers, and Atomic operations that enhance asynchronous and parallel operations. In addition to this, this book will introduce you to SharedArrayBuffers, which allow web workers to share data directly, and Atomic operations, which help coordinate behavior across the threads. You will also work with OOP and Collections, followed by new functions and methods on the built-in Object and Array types that make common operations more manageable and less error-prone. You will then see how to easily build more sophisticated and expressive program structures with classes and inheritance. In the end, we will cover Sets, Maps, and Symbols, which are the new types introduced in ECMAScript 6 to add new behaviors and allow you to create simple and powerful modules.
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Diabetes Exercise – Does Exercise Really Help in Diabetes Control?
Hi! I'm robo-Suzie and today I'll talk to
you about Does Exercise Really Help in Diabetes Control.
Also don't forget to check out the link below, to find out, how this guy reversed his diabetes!
Turns out, the diabetes industry is selling us fake research!
But back to our topic. Diabetes mellitus is a condition or metabolic
disorder where the body is in problem of taking glucose from the blood and delivering it to
the rest of the body so that it can be used as energy. Type 1 diabetes is recognized by the pancreas
making too little or almost no insulin. Type II diabetes, also known as adult onset
diabetes, is characterized by the pancreas not producing enough insulin to manage glucose
levels or the cells not responding to insulin. It is important for a person who has diabetes
to consult with a physician before beginning an exercise program. It is not good for people
with diabetes to skip meals at all, but particularly not previous to exercise. While insulin has many functions in the body,
four are mainly vital during or after exercise: 1) Stimulation of glucose uptake into most
cells of the body. 2) Reserve of glucose release from the liver. 3) Inhibition of the discharge of fatty acids
from storage depots. 4) Facilitation of protein synthesis in the
body. The usual decline in blood insulin during
exercise in people without diabetes and in those with Type 2 DM allows the two most important
fuels for exercise, carbohydrates and fats, to be mobilized and used by muscle. Exercise is also known as physical movement
and includes anything that gets you moving. Exercise causes the body to process glucose
faster, which lowers blood sugar level. So the question is what kind of Diabetes Exercise
is suitable for diabetes control. 1. Aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise helps increases heart and
breathing rate. This makes one breathe more sincerely and also makes the heart effort
harder. It is fine to plan for a total of about 30 minutes a day, at least 5 days a
week. Some of the examples of aerobic exercises: Take a fast walk either outside or on a treadmill. – Cycling. – Dance classes. – Swimming. – Jogging. – Tennis or badminton. 2. Strength training. Strength training, done numerous times a week,
helps build strong bones and muscles. It can be done in following way. You can join a gym to do strength training
with weights or the alternative is to lift light weights at home. 3. Flexibility exercises. Flexibility exercises or stretching exercises
helps keep joints flexible and also reduces the probability of injury during other activities.
Gentle stretching for 10 to 15 minutes helps the body to warm up, as well as get prepared
for aerobic activities. 4. Be on the move all through the day. Being energetic helps burns calories. For
this you can do following in daily life: Walk instead of driving whenever probable. Take the stairs in place of the elevator. Work in the garden. Park your car half kilometer before the market
begin and go market by walking. Exercise is necessary whether you have Type
1 or Type 2 diabetes. Exercise has the potential for diabetes control by non medical means,
reduce the severity of the disease, and significantly reduce the risk of long-term complications.
Exercise can mean the dissimilarity between "medical management" and "lifestyle management"
of Type 2 diabetes. Exercise will greatly help an individual with
type II diabetes because of its helpful effects on insulin sensitivity. Exercise involving
heavy weights may be terrible for people with blood pressure, blood vessel, or eye problems. Diabetes Exercise, along with good nutrition,
helps decrease body fat, which helps control glucose metabolism. Exercise and good nutrition
provide real physical payoffs–they are essential to controlling diabetes. Exercise can help
prolong your life and get better the quality of your added months and years. Glucose levels should be tested before, and
after exercise (but after 3 to 5 hours). Proper Diabetes Exercise and nutrition are the best
forms of avoidance for type II diabetics. Aerobic exercise increases insulin sensitivity
and, along with proper nutrition, helps reinstate normal glucose metabolism by decreasing body
fat. Don't exercise outdoors on very hot or moist days. To avoid dehydration, drink a
cup of cold water before and after you exercise. A personal trainer can help to set up a program
for the Type 2 diabetic and help them to exercise properly. People with diabetes must use extra
care in preparing for exercise plan because they lack insulin (Type 1 DM) or because the
insulin they have is defective in its ability to stimulate glucose uptake (Type 2 DM). That's it! Thank you.
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It's been a weird week where it flew by but at the same time has dragged. Time is confusing like that. It's hard work!
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The treasures I did find only attest to the fact that I am a child of the '80s...first of all, my two major crushes were Fred Penner and Michael Jackson. I've always been attracted to musical people...and who can resist a man wearing red leather! I came across my Michael Jackson "Thriller" tape and my Fred Penner/Sesame Street albums, as well as albums from two of my favourite musicals: West Side Story and The Sound of Music (did I mention I also had a crush on Christopher Plummer?)
Then, I came across my vintage "The Wizard of Oz" poster. I had completely forgotten I had this, but it hung on my wall as a child and it has always been a favourite film of mine.
All of my treasures brought me back to my childhood in the '80s, and I want to thank Rosemary and Vallen for the inspiration to go digging through my attic and coming across these wonderful things.


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On the last day of our time in Morocco we explored every inch of Essaouira thanks to our wonderful guide who spent 4 hours showing us around, even taking us to his house so we could appreciate the gorgeous view from his terrace. I wish this was the view from my living room!!
We visited an artisan workshop to see how the locals produce wood and turn them into masterpieces - just look at the ceiling of the shop! The items they produce here is mind blowing and everything is so intricate and delicate. I couldn't leave without a souvenir so I bought my mum a wooden star with an Arabic prayer written in the middle which keeps you safe when you're in the car - she is half Arabic :)
On the last leg of our exploration we headed to a local workshop where various artists from around Essaouira paint and sell their work (you will see these paintings in many apartments around Morocco), I even bought one for my bathroom in my new house. It really was fascinating watching them at work and the different tools they used as opposed to traditional artists.
After lunch and some down-time at the Riad we wanted to go nowhere but Taros for our last meal together and got to the roof terrace just in time for the sunset. Taros is a must if you visit Essaouira, they have an extensive cocktail menu and the best food in town - just be prepared to pay a little bit more! We recommend the chicken tagine and crème brulee for dessert.


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What a challenging, inspiring book!! What would I do if faced with persecution for my faith? Would I stand strong and faithful with Quan? A very good book to challenge your faith.
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Don't read this book unless you are ready to be challenged and inspired. Beautifully written, full of scripture, and cultural insights. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to learn more about the persecuted church, what it means to follow Jesus with your entire life, soul, and mind, and to the American Christian who has not encountered Christianity in other cultures.
Safely Home is an amazing book!!!! There are two main protagonists, an American businessman and a member of an underground church in China. You switch between their points of view and heaven's view as they watch the events on earth. It looks at persecution of Christians, both in China and in the US, discussing difficult issues, such as interacting with other religions, treatment of women in Christianity, obeying the government versus civil disobedience, and what it means to be a Christian. This is a must-read book. It is highly recommended.
Safely Home is not only a first-class story; it's a bracing wake-up call about Christian persecution in China. You'll be challenged.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
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The New World
By: Hyugo
From: International School of Düsseldorf
Vespucci was born in March 9, 1454 in Florence (Italy) and he always wanted to explore but he was pressured to work in a business from his father. Despite that this makes him more interested to explore. On May 10, 1497 at the age of 40, Vespucci set sail on a Spanish ship for the first time.However his third voyage that he sailed on may 14 in 1501 is known as the most successful voyage because he finds many places before he finds The New World. Unluckily on 1504 he was sent back to Spain.
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First published 11/14/08 on the Fear of Writing Blog
FORTUNATELY, THIS IS NOT something someone said to me. This is the spiffy title of a funny and brilliant book by William M. Akers, and I heartily recommend it to almost anyone writing fiction.
The full title is your screenplay sucks! 100 ways to make it great. Here are some of Akers' 100 ways, from the table of contents:
-- You have not written something you care about!
-- You haven't worked your dialogue hard enough!
-- You don't have enough tension!
-- You have not shouted at each scene, "How can I jack up the conflict?!"
-- You haven't made "place" a character in your story!
Notice a pattern here? These are issues that many fiction writers face. Aspiring screenwriter or not, you're also bound to enjoy Akers' wisecracking and insightful supporting examples based on popular movies.
I've read other screenwriting books where the author bases his arguments around examples from movies and I've always learned something useful (usually enjoying the examples enough to put some of the movies in my Netflix queue), but Akers makes it come to life like Frankenstein busting out of his table straps. His examples are so vivid, funny, educational and entertaining, it makes me want to SCREAM (but only from an excess of creative inspiration . . . and that unparalleled feeling of reading a book so good you could almost eat the pages).
If you're still hesitating to buy this book, let me put the screws in a little deeper. From his list of 100 sins to commit against your own screenplay, there are some things I would never have dreamed of doing (so, therefore, "I didn't need the advice"); for instance,
-- Your story is about miserable people who are miserable the whole time and end miserably! Or worse!!
-- You want to be famous more than you want to write!
-- You call specific songs!*
*(This one refers to those newbie screenwriters who specify which songs they want for particular scenes; a definite no-no.)
I could have gone through the table of contents and skipped the chapters containing the advice I don't need. I love anything that saves me time! But, in this case, that would be dumb. I'm learning something from almost every chapter of this book, even when I fully expect not to.
And for the chapters about the really assinine things I would never do, I may not learn anything new but it sure is "fun on a bun" (as Londa is fond of saying in The Philosopher's Apprentice).
In section 11, "We have no rooting interest in your hero!" (a problem I'm 95% certain I don't have with mine), Akers says:
"Your hero does not have to be sympathetic. He doesn't have to be nice. Just because development people or writing teachers say your main character has to be likable, doesn't mean you have to listen."
My hero is a deeply nice person—with a hankering for innocence and purity—and that's his flaw. The movie would not work without it.
Despite that being true for my current story, previous to reading this book I already knew the main character of any story could be a Grinch—and I'm not afraid to do that in my own writing (see "The God of Mystery" from Fear of Writing). But reading section 11 (along with #13 "Your Bad Guy isn't great!"—though I believe mine's pretty juicy) gave me an electrifying new idea for a screenplay; a story idea I may never have arrived at by skipping chapters in the hasty belief the advice would not be relevant to me.
There's another reason why non-screenwriters might find this book not only entertaining but educational. On every page, with every sentence, Akers shows us how to write. If I was only allowed to review this book with one meager paragraph, I would say,
"This book is my precioussss. It burnses me to put it down. Must keep reading! Never, ever get between me and my copy of your screenplay sucksss! or things could get nasssty. (Hint: Ever seen me sssqueeze a fish?)"
It doesn't make sense, really. Akers spends the whole book telling me what I'm doing wrong and why I'm a schmuck. He insults my intelligence with his list of 100 and drops the guillotine on my hopes of ever getting a screenplay deal. And I love it! Every page is like a gigantic bowl of chocolate ice cream. Now that's good writing.
Just reading this book and absorbing his inimitable style, even if you don't (to your detriment) take any of the advice, can teach you good writing.
So, dear blog readers . . . have you bought your copy yet? If you're not already driving to your local bookstore to snatch it up, here's the link again so you can buy it online through Akers' Website (don't forget to look at all the funny pictures and read the wonderful chapters that didn't make it into the book):
your screenplay sucks! Buy now! Get it here! What are you waiting for? . . . editors or agents to call you on your cell phone?!
P.S. This is the kind of book that poses a painful conflict if you're forced to pick a favorite line, but so far one of my winners is "Hans Gruber, marriage counselor."
P.P.S. You may already guess what that refers to, but if not you need to buy this book—not only to laugh and marvel at this clever punch line but to find out why this concept might be important to your own writing.
RELATED POST: Your Screenplay Sucks! Part II
(being news of the breakthrough that happened for me after reading less than 40 pages)
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. – Doris Lessing
Go forth into the unknown, explore the caves of your unconscious, fear not your "dark side," find the gold.
— Robin Hoffman (@AuthorAlchemy)
Friday, March 27, 2009
Your Screenplay Sucks!
Posted by Milli Thornton at 2:06 PM
Labels: conflict, dialogue, Fear of Writing, hero, movies, screenwriter, William M. Akers, Your Screenplay Sucks
1 comments:
- Sunflower Ranch said...
Thanks for your post! I'm also writing in the boonies and wow, it's a whole new world! I don't know how brave it is, but it's here. :)
- March 27, 2009 at 7:21 PM
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