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My parents in America have a small refrigerator that they keep drinks in, like soda and juice. That way, there is always a cold drink for guests. Anyway, this small fridge broke down and my mom told me they bought another one.
I said, "How did you get rid of the old one?"
She said, "We just threw it out with the trash."
Okay, I have been living in Japan and very, very long time, so I was amazed at this. In Japan, you could never ever in a million years just throw a fridge (of any sort) out with the regular burnable trash.
Yes, that's right. We have burnable trash days (twice a week) and recycling days (twice a month.) If the trash men find a soda bottle in with your burnables, they will NOT take it. (The bags here in our city are clear.)
Each city in Japan has their own rules, but basically I think they are all pretty strict. Japan is not a country with a seemingly unlimited amount of land like the U.S., so recycling here is taken very seriously.
As far as large items (like a fridge), you have to contact somebody to pick it up. For example, as shown in the next photo:
I asked my husband and he said this service is free (at least here in Fukushima City.)
It's a PITA though, which is one reason Japanese are sort of hesitant to purchase new large items, because they know they'll have to get rid of the old one. Some companies actually have services where if you buy their item (like a bed), they will take the old item and dispose of it for you.

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Top 10 Nostradamus Predictions 2018
Michel de Nostredame, aka Nostradamus, wrote his first set of predictions using quatrains in 1555, and the books are still popular today. There is a reason for their popularity. Interpreters have shown that it's possible to match Nostradamus's predictions with key historical figures and events. The Nostradamus predictions for 2018 are dire, as they include what might become World War 3 (WW3) and the end of taxes (see list below).
The Nostradamus WW3 predictions have gained traction because so many people feel helpless. They sense that the world is beyond their control and they feel that difficult times are ahead. Visionaries like Nostradamus have foreseen cataclysms and turbulent times. Nostradamus also confirms centuries-old expectations of a final battle between good and evil.
The period we are living has certainly given us many signs of this battle. the Nostradamus WW3 predictions fit nicely in this framework. Thus, his predictions have gained currency and interest. Nostradamus didn't start to compile his visions until later in life in the middle of the 16th century, but he had started to experience visions at a very early age.
According to reports, Nostradamus would look into a bowl full of water and receive visions of the future. Nostradamus has been credited with predicting events as diverse as the 1871 Great Fire of Chicago, the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and the rise of President Donald Trump in 2016.
For 2017, Nostradamus has predicted the start of a cataclysmic war, lasting into 2018. The source of his visions and his ability to predict the future with accuracy remain mysterious and should be taken with a few helpings of salt.
The Nostradamus World War 3 prediction is scheduled to break in 2017. Thus, a Nostradamus predictions list for 2018 should take into consideration events before and after. A better way to consider Nostradamus for 2018 is to look at the next four or five years, if humanity even has that much time left.
That said, beyond the individual Nostradamus future predictions 2018, there is a common theme. Negative energy will intensify and accelerate with unprecedented intensity and speed. One of the signs is the fact that society has become ever more inequitable, fueling the negative energy. This intensification of spiritual evil is what will provoke the destabilization of the world.
The culmination, according to Nostradamus's vision for 2018, will be a series of natural disasters and a third world war. While the natural phenomena might be hard to confirm, the first few months of 2017 have already sent us credible threats of war. After the Cold War ended, effectively in 1990, the world has forgotten the fear that World War 3 news used to generate in our parents' generation.
But World War 3 news has become current again. That's because most people are ignoring the fact that Russia and the United States have resumed a level of tension not seen since almost 30 years ago. Instead of diffusing it, Senators and congressional representatives in Washington are fueling the risks.
List of Top 10 Nostradamus Predictions for 2018 (in No Specific Order)
1. Great eruption of Mount Vesuvius: For 2018, Nostradamus has predicted a great volcanic eruption. The volcano in question is Mount Vesuvius in Italy, and it will shake the earth "every five minutes," killing between 6,000 and 16,000 people.
2. Humans will speak to animals: Nostradamus predicted that "pigs will befriend humans." Those who have read Nostradamus's predictions suggest that this is a sign of scientific advancement. Genetic mutation will enable humans to communicate verbally with their animal companions.
3. Economic collapse: Not surprisingly, natural catastrophes and wars won't be good for business. Thus, Nostradamus has seen total economic collapse for 2018 or thereabouts. To this effect, Nostradamus warned that "the rich would die many times over".
4. World War 3: This is the big one. Frankly, Nostradamus might get this one spot-on if Russia and the U.S. don't stop their warmongering. As Nostradamus puts it, "A war will start between the two great world powers and it will last for a period of 27 years. A moment of great violence will coincide with the appearance of a comet in the sky. A nuclear terrorism and natural catastrophes will destroy our planet until a giant planet shall approach the earth."
As for World War 3, Nostradamus had predicted that one of the next few years, 2017 or 2018, will be pivotal for mankind. He announced economic collapse and World War 3 apart from the other details. These are the quatrains that sound most threatening, and that interpreters of Nostradamus are warning us about now:
Naval battle night will be overcome,
Fire in the ships to the West ruin:
New trick, the great ship colored,
Anger to the vanquished, and victory in a drizzle.
(Source: "Nostradamus: Century IX," Internet Sacred Text Archive, last accessed March 22, 2017.)
The war might start at night, according to some interpretations. (Source: "Nostradamus and the sequence of events leading to world war 3," Prophet666, February 6, 2012.)
Nostradamus's quatrains describe a level of destruction more gruesome than anything he had predicted earlier. It also fits with the suggestions of an Antichrist arising and of Trump fighting peoples that come from the east—ISIS, for example—in the Mediterranean.
5. Worst earthquake in recent history: Judging by the fact that recent earthquakes have left tens of thousands of dead (e.g. China, Japan, Haiti, Italy etc.), Nostradamus must be referring to a cataclysmic one for the ages. But, what's more interesting to Americans is that this earthquake shall concern "particularly the western area of the United States. Its power shall be felt in lands throughout the globe."
6. Right to parenthood: "Those who want to have children will require a license or a permit. They won't be able to act as they please." Of all the predictions, this one makes sense in the context of the Malthusian fears that many rational economists already entertain. China has already experimented this policy, officially limiting families to having no more than one child. But there's more. Some governments and social sciences are already pushing the world to Nostradamus's prediction. (Source: "Population Matters," last accessed March 23, 2017.)
7. Humans will live to be over 200: "The advancements of medicine will raise humans' life expectancy up to at least 200 years of age. An 80-year-old man will look just like a 50-year old." This prediction is also materializing. Life expectancy has increased to an average of over 80 years old in developed countries.
The number of 100-year old males and females still active is surprising. The 101-year-old David Rockefeller died on March 20, 2017, still active. Meanwhile, plastic surgery has made it possible for those who can afford it to look decades younger than their calendar age. It's logical to expect such trends to evolve. But to what end? Nostradamus has predicted WW3, after all.
8. Global warming: Unbelievable, but Nostradamus had predicted a climate catastrophe to suddenly burn the Earth over the next few years, if not months. The visionary warns that "the King will rob the forests" (uncontrolled deforestation?) and that "the sky will open and the fields will burn up from the heat."
9. Language differences will disappear: Nostradamus wrote that, because of a new motor, the world will return to being as it was during the days of the Tower of Babel. Students of Nostradamus believe that the new language motor will be used as we use computers today. But Nostradamus says this is one of the signs that many world nations would cease to exist.
10. End of taxes in the West: Nostradamus may have another point here. In 2017, President Trump has promised to reduce income taxes. Meanwhile, many of the populist parties rising in Europe today—with chances of leading electoral results—have advocated lowering taxes as a prescription for economic growth.
Some Considerations on Nostradamus's Predictions
Nostradamus predicts that the end of taxation will arrive via a mass revolt that will end the practice once and for all. Before you write a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), advising them of its imminent demise, remember that Nostradamus said taxation would stop only after a massive revolt. Nostradamus writes that people "will simply refuse to pay the King any more taxes." Many will celebrate in a country where they have been "taxing without mercy."
That could stand in for any developed country today. It may even suggest a massive tax revolt in the West in general. Nostradamus also suggests that the tax revolt might be part of an overall revolt against monarchies in countries that still have such institutions.
That could be anywhere from the United Kingdom to Spain, Norway, Sweden, or Denmark, where taxes are indeed very high.
Consider these predictions with caution, but many of these warnings—with a few detail changes— could certainly apply to the modern world. For the skeptics, among whom I include myself, there are doubtless some ominous-sounding Nostradamus predictions from the past to generate concern.
This one is especially noteworthy:
Songs, chants, and refrains of the slavish mob,
Whilst the Princes and King are captive in prison,
Shall be received in the future as oracles divine
By headless idiots deprived of judgment.
(Source: "Oracles of Nostradamus, French Revolution," Internet Sacred Text Archive, last accessed March 22, 2017.)
Remember, Nostradamus was writing this in the mid-1500s. Yet, here he is describing an event that is eerily like what happened in his country in 1789, over 200 years later: the French Revolution. That's when the French people decided that they had had enough of their aristocratic monarchy and revolted.
The peasants (the slavish mob cited above) took control of Paris and forced their demands on the royals and the nobility. The aristocracies (princes and king) were removed from power and locked up in the Bastille (prisons) and beheaded by the guillotine (headless idiots).


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Maria Sharapova was seen practising under the rain in Warsaw, Poland yesterday.
The tennis star will play her first competitive singles match in nearly 10 months at this week's Warsaw Open, which begins tomorrow, since being sidelined by shoulder surgery.
Hopefully we'll see Sharapova on court on permanent basis.
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I recently took part in the Two Oceans Ultra Marathon for the 5th time in as many years. Through Unogwaja we have become involved in road running across South Africa and around the world. So we understand and share in the magic involved with these events – the 2 Oceans Marathon and Comrades certainly stand out in this regard.
We should also understand and share in the responsibility that comes with such magic and I don't think we are all playing our part and taking on our fair share. In fact, we are turning our back on it.
We cannot turn our back on this problem any longer. We all need to stand together. It is not acceptable. (Photo credit: Maxine Reilly)
Running the 2 Oceans Ultra this year I have never felt more let down and "part of the problem" seeing runners so freely throwing their plastic water sachets to the ground and allowing the wind to take them to places they cannot possibly be retrieved from, other than perhaps in the beak of a bird or the insides of an animal.
Don't you think our peninsula has taken enough of hammering in recent weeks from the fires, that we should give them a break? Instead, for our convenience we unnecessarily add to the environmental pressure that we as humans apply on a daily basis that make us the most destructive species in the history of the planet.
I am not an expert on this and I am sure there are many more qualified and clever people who can suggest even better ways but I truly believe this will form a great start to shifting this unacceptable mindset and behaviour that has crept into road running across our country (and perhaps around the world?).
Some simple suggestions:
1. Any runner caught throwing their plastic on the ground will be disqualified. I believe this is something we as runners should all take ownership of and responsibility for, and be glad to do so and insist upon this rule from race organisers. (Is carrying a water sachet or two until the next suitable place to dispose of them going to kill us? Do we throw litter on the streets at home? Then what gives us the right to throw litter in races?)
2. Create solid structure long and wide bins and allotted zones for disposing of any litter. (Not the cardboard bins that are not big enough, that blow over and are often out of the way and left unused)
I was really happy to hear that Two Oceans Marathon Organisation recycle over 90% of their plastic and are exploring ways to reduce their plastic footprint altogether, which must be a priority.
All I know is I cannot sit back and watch this happen. We are all runners together, whether we come first, make the cut off by a few minutes or don't make the cut off at all. When we stand on that start line shoulder to shoulder, we are South African citizens, we are global citizens and this is our duty.
Let's show our passion for our beautiful marathon in our beautiful city, and make it a world standard bearer as the world's greenest marathon. Let's take this attitude to every run we are part of both home and abroad. This is something tangible that we can all achieve together – race organisers, marshals, judges, volunteers, runners, spectators alike. This does not depend on any one person or group of people, it depends on us all. And we cannot wait any longer. Don't wait for someone else to act, be accountable for your part.
Having spoken to the Two Oceans organization about this matter, and heard their passion to become the world's greenest marathon I truly believe this race can become THE world's greenest marathon and lead the way for meaningful change that will have impact way beyond the realm of the race and its participants and spectators.
May our actions do the talking.
This is not about road running races. This is about how we respect our country and the people in it.
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Halloween which occurs on October 31st is a colorful and festive holiday. Children and
adults too, dress up in costumes and go door to door to collect goodies such as candy treats. Halloween always falls on the evening before the Christian Holy Day, otherwise known as All Saints Day, which occurs on November 1. Since All Saints Day was known as All Hallows' Day, October 31 was named All Hallows' Eve (meaning the evening before All Hallows' Day).
It was believed that the dead souls roamed the earth on Halloween and needed to be appeased. The tradition called "mumming", which originated in the Middle Ages, was practiced on certain holidays, Halloween being one of them. Mumming required dressing up in costume and performing short skits or plays for food and drink. As time went on, the tradition of giving candy "treats" to the children in costume developed.
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Looking for something "original" to do this New Year's Eve that won't bust your bank account? Well I've got just the event for you.
All aboard the Spirit of Jefferson. Celebrate the new year on the river.
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More than hiking, Kentucky State Resort Parks offer a variety of celebrations for this New Year's Eve.
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|Can you tell I like this?
With that in mind, I decided that I would ditch the electronics for most of the day (I did glance at my email a couple of times during naps and quiet time) and concentrate of giving Lukas and Annabelle my full attention.
It turned out great, too as Lukas and I played an extended game of tag in the morning, and Mrs. LIAYF and I loaded up the kiddos to go on an afternoon picnic and hike in the afternoon. We also stopped off at a local playground where Annabelle had her first playground swing action! We then rounded out the day, of course, with grilled brauts & beer ( for dad, not the kids).
As I mentioned earlier that this was a great idea, and it ended up being a very satisfying Father's Day. I'll leave the getting away part for another time.
|My Influential Male Role Model
But the celebration didn't start for me on Sunday, but rather on Saturday as I traveled home to our family dairy farm to see my own dad and to drop off his Father's Day gift. My namesake has always been a terrific dad and a stellar all around man too. He is someone I have looked up to ever since I can remember, and easily the man I admire most in this world.
So when the folks at Keurig sent me a note saying they were looking to honor influential male role models and asked if I would like one of their coffee makers to give to my Father, I jumped at the opportunity to give one as a gift to him. He loves coffee. He loves things that are easy. Boom, sold!
|They look perkier already
I get a ton of requests to do reviews and giveaway's here on the blog, but rarely will actually do so. However, the reason I jumped so quickly at this opportunity is that I have my own Keurig Platinum Plus brewing system, and I know how easy and convenient they are to use.
I'm actually the only coffee drinker in the house (Mrs. LIAYF doesn't even drink decaffeinated tea - because there is too much residual caffeine in it) which makes having the ability to make quick, single cups of coffee at the press of a button a godsend.
Last word I received, both my Dad and Mom were really enjoying dad's gift, and were as happy to see me on Father's Day weekend as I was to see them.
All in all, Father's Day weekend for me was a huge success. I got to spend quality time with Lukas and Annabelle, see my own dad, and enjoy plenty of rare Seattle sunshine.
I'm sure glad I don't have to wait another year to do it again.
*Full disclosure. As I mentioned, I received products from the Keurig corporation, but they didn't ask me to write about it here. I voluntarily did so because I fully endorse the K Cup brewing system.


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Debt Talks: Medicare Savings In Exchange For Added Revenue?
As the high-level negotiations continue, health care advocates are stepping up their campaigns to protect against Medicare and Medicaid cuts. Meanwhile, organizations representing physicians - including the American Medical Association - maintain that a permanent fix to Medicare's physician payment formula should be included in the debt-ceiling legislation.
The New York Times: Debt Divide Remains As President Steps In
The high-level meetings on Monday were seen as a "regrouping phase," which an administration official said was likely to set the stage for yet another round of gritty negotiations between the White House and Congressional leaders before Aug. 2, when federal borrowing authority will expire. As the debt talks resumed at the White House, Senator Bernard Sanders, the Vermont independent, took the floor to urge the president to resist Republican pressure to wring most of the savings out of federal programs rather than impose any new taxes on the nation's most affluent (Hulse, 6/27).
The Washington Post: Obama Enters Debt Talks
Some Republicans have demanded that a stringent balanced budget amendment be attached to the debt-increase legislation. House Democrats vigorously oppose such a plan. Other GOP leaders have pushed aggressively to include steep savings from Medicare, and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), along with fiscal hawk Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), plans to introduce legislation Tuesday that would shave about $500 billion from Medicare's coffers over 10 years, in part by increasing the eligibility age from 65 to 67. Congressional Democrats have vowed to block any plan if it includes reduced benefits for seniors (Kane and Helderman, 6/27).
Fox News: Lieberman, Coburn To Pitch Plan To Stabilize Medicare, Save $500 Billion Over 10 Years
Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Tom Coburn, R-Mont, an unlikely duo, are joining forces in an attempt to save Medicare - one of the key points of debate in the fight over deficit reduction. The pair plan to unveil their Medicare plan Tuesday as White House and congressional negotiators struggle to nail down an agreement to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling before the Obama administration's emergency measures run out in early August (Turner, 6/28).
Politico: Revenue Vs. Cuts In Debt Debate
For their part, Obama and Reid appear prepared to reach much higher, putting substantial Medicare savings on the table if Republicans would accept added revenues. With the House GOP leadership in New York, all of Monday's White House maneuvering was Senate-centric. But Obama's hope is that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), with whom he met privately last week, will be intrigued by a bolder package that might also help neutralize the Medicare issue now hurting the GOP among elderly voters (Rogers, 6/27).
In addition, Medicare and Medicaid advocates step up their campaigns to protect the entitlement programs from cuts, and to advance certain interests -
The Hill: Hospitals Launch Ad Campaign Against Medicare, Medicaid Cuts
A broad array of hospital groups on Monday launched a multiweek, national ad campaign against health care cuts made up of radio, television and print spots. The multimillion-dollar ad buy comes as lawmakers have been discussing deep cuts to Medicare and Medicaid as part of debt-ceiling negotiations (the White House has proposed $1 trillion in cuts to domestic spending and $300 billion in defense cuts) (Pecquet, 6/27).
Politico Pro: Advocates Target Obama's Medicaid Plan
Defenders of Medicaid have been fighting hard against Republican proposals to cut the program, but they're just waking up to the threat of one proposed by the Obama administration. It's an idea to change the way federal matching funds work, and save money in the process - and it would probably do it by shifting costs to the states. If that happens, the Medicaid advocates fear, the states will just pass on the cuts to providers and, ultimately, the patients. In the budget blueprint unveiled in April, President Barack Obama proposed adjusting the way federal matching funds paid to the states are calculated for Medicaid and its companion, the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Sources close to the administration tell Politico that White House officials have been trying to develop the idea into a version that could become part of a deal in the ongoing deficit reduction talks (Feder, 6/28).
The Tennessean: Medicaid Doctor's Pay Plans Are Stumbling Blocks In Budget Negotiations
As the heat rises on the Potomac, it is customary for Congress to make a hard push in June and July to escape the heat of August. This year, the heat will be thermometric and political because in August Congress must extend the federal borrowing capacity or face the consequences. For the past several weeks, Vice President Joe Biden has been leading a group of key Democratic and Republican lawmakers seeking to find a bipartisan compromise on the budget, the deficit and the federal debt limit. In recent days, two health-care topics have become the subjects of significant speculation and discussion. Those subjects are the physician payment fix and Medicaid payment reform. The Democratic negotiators - Biden and his Democratic colleagues - have let it be known that the physician payment problem needs to be fixed as part of the budget negotiations (Cowart, 6/28).
The Hill: AMA: Fix SGR In Debt-Ceiling Deal
More than 100 groups representing doctors said Monday that an agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling should include a permanent fix to the formula that Medicare uses to pay doctors. Republican negotiators have poured cold water on the idea of using the debt-ceiling vote to tackle the "sustainable growth rate" formula (SGR). But the American Medical Association and other doctors groups say the two go hand-in-hand (Baker, 6/27).
And, as a reminder of the politics that surround possible changes in Medicare, MarketWatch reports on Rep. Nancy Pelosi's warning -
MarketWatch: Pelosi Warns Republicans To Expect Medicare Attacks
Republicans can't say they haven't been warned. Nancy Pelosi, the top House Democrat, says her party will make Medicare their No. 1 issue in the 2012 election. In an article Monday in the Washington Post, Pelosi said: "Our three most important issues: Medicare, Medicare and Medicare." The former speaker of the House, who had laid low after last year's devastating election losses, is raising her public profile again with repeated attacks on Republicans. Pelosi believes her party can win back the House in 2012 by attacking a Republican plan to give Medicare the biggest overhaul in its 46-year history (Bartash, 6/27).


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As soon as my kids were done with breakfast today, they were begging to go outside and use their new shovels on the snow we're getting.
We need a little work on technique, but they kept at it for quite a while and were having fun. So, please, don't tell my kids that shoveling is a chore most people prefer not to do!
After we got back inside, C asked to do school stations. D was totally on board. The kids spent about 10 minutes per station, doing spelling/drawing, creative writing/coloring and Think-it-Through tiles. So, please, don't tell my kids that it's winter break and they're not supposed to be doing schoolwork!
For Christmas, C got some new fuzzy lined boots and D got a new bike helmet from us. They also each got a new book and a sled from us and they each picked out a toy for the other. Today is the 4th day since Christmas and the 4th day that C has worn her boots all day long. D has been out riding his bike in the cold, because he wanted to use his new helmet. They are in love with their fairly ordinary presents. So, please, don't tell my kids that some kids get lots of fancy, expensive presents!
Often times, when I'm emptying the dishwasher or folding clothes, one or both kids will ask to help. When Daddy is cooking, more often than not, a kid will ask to help. I'm not sure if they want to help because they truly enjoy the chore, or because they like to be helpers to mom and dad, but they ask to help and are improving each time they do. At 6 and 4, they don't receive an allowance, so their motivation isn't monetary 😉 So, please, don't tell my kids that stereotypes suggest that they whine every time they're asked to do a chore!
When we visit Daddy at work for lunch, and have a big, delicious buffet full of foods to choose from, the first thing D always goes for is a spinach salad with craisins. His other salad toppings and food choices vary, but that is a constant. At the same amazing buffet, C always has a slice of pizza and then tries something new – rock shrimp with squid ink pasta, a bison burger or miso salmon – just to name a few examples. And she usually likes them. (Now I'm guilty of this one, because I used to be a super picky eater and am still hesitant to try new things sometimes, so this reminder [well, really all of them] is totally for me as well.) So, please, just because my kids are young, don't assume they won't want to try new things or eat a variety of healthy foods!
I am certain I'm making my share of mistakes along the way, but I'm trying to raise loving, responsible and tolerant children. That's the big picture. I think it's the every day, little things, that will shape them the most. So I need to remember, and I need others in their lives to remember, that my kids are their own people. They are not the kids who have come before them, or the kids who will come after them.
As a human being, it's difficult not to make assumptions or judgements about other people. I find myself doing it all the time – both with the people I know and love and complete strangers, for things big and small. But if we had ignored our children's desire for shovels, or discouraged them from helping, they would certainly become the teenagers, and then adults, who loathe shoveling. As it is, both kids had a blast this morning and D got a lesson in proper shoveling technique from his daddy this afternoon. Maybe in a few years, they'll be able to take this skill and help our elderly neighbor, or a friend who just had a baby. Some day, they can be the spouse who does all the shoveling when their husband or wife hates the cold. (This is obviously a theoretical situation and not pulled from my real-life experience…)
My point of all this, is that if people act like it's the craziest thing in the world that my son likes spinach or are shocked when we've done schoolwork outside the hours of "normal school," it will have an effect on my children. If people act like it's weird that they like to shovel or empty the dishwasher, they might start to believe that too. However, I don't think we'll ever have magic chore fairies, so they need to know how to and not hate doing these things. And I don't want my kids to change. These very things are what make my children the amazing little people that they are. So, please, love my children for who they are and don't try to change them!


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I was wrote simple test script. but, this will shows message box "2 is True".
But, I am expected to never display this message box.
Because the empty string is not 'true' value.
If you change the lines marked 'ok' in script, this script will be work correctly.
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The labscript suite is a collection of programs, which work together to form a control system for autonomous, hardware timed experiments. It was developed by the Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) research group at Monash University in Australia, for use in the Spinor BEC lab of Drs Lincoln Turner and Russell Anderson, and the Dual Species BEC labs of Prof. Kristian Helmerson.
For an overview of the capabilities of the suite, see our paper:
A scripted control system for autonomous hardware-timed experiments, Review of Scientific Instruments 84, 085111 (2013). arXiv:1303.0080.


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New Program to Support Smart Energy in Illinois
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's (DCEO) State Energy Office has initiated the Illinois Energy Now Trade Ally Program to promote energy efficiency efforts in the state. The new program is designed to help forge partnerships "between trade allies and their public sector clients to provide more energy efficient building solutions that will result in increased energy savings in schools, municipality buildings and government facilities."
Trade allies are defined as general contractors, lighting contractors, HVAC contractors, engineers, architects, energy service companies, and energy-saving product wholesalers, distributors and retailers who are trained on the Illinois Energy Now (IEN) program to deliver more energy efficient building solutions to their public sector clients.
DCEO Director Warren Ribley says, "The Trade Ally program is an important tool to help public sector building owners connect with contractors, engineers and others trained in providing energy efficient solutions to help achieve energy savings. More than 100 trade allies have already registered for the program by word of mouth and the new web site will help us reach an even wider audience."
Fully trained on the portfolio of energy efficiency programs, trade allies have a thorough understanding of IEN program rules and procedures and play an integral role in educating their clients about energy efficiency programs and rebates. Through ongoing support and guidance from Illinois Energy Now program staff and engineers, DCEO reports that trade allies "can help their clients navigate the incentive process, including completing DCEO incentive applications."
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1/2 cup of cornstarch OR 1 cup of Flour4 tablespoons of sugar
2 cups of cold water
Food coloring
Pinch of Salt
Directions: Mix all of the ingredients together in a medium pan. Cook over a low heat for about 10 minutes. Keep stirring the mixture until it is smooth and thick. Once it has thickened turn the burner off and let it cool. After cooling divide the finger paint into separate storage containers and add food coloring. Make sure the lids are on tight while storing so it doesn't dry out.
This was a really fun activity for me and my 2 year old! It was fun for him to help make it and see the colors change as we added coloring. It was fun all over when we got to color with it and get all messy. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did! ; )
Here is the recipe with pictures and some of my son digging in….so fun!


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Baahubali has also break the records of Superstar Rajnikant's film Enthiran (Robot) which collected 290 cr at Box Office. On Saturday the film has crossed 303 crores. It has also became the first ever Dubbed movie which collected 50 crores at North India.
By 2nd Sunday, Baahubali's Hindi version started performing better again. Making a business of 3.25 crores on its 2nd Friday, the film showed a growth on Saturday by collecting 4.70 crores and a further jump on Sunday made it rake in 5.40 crores. Baahubali's Hindi version now stands at a total of 60.12 crores net at the Box Office.


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Today started out with early morning prayers – at 7 rather than the usual 6:30. Since I was a tad on the tired side, the later hour worked out just great for me.
Today we made some progress on the water leaks, I think. The plumber is returning tomorrow to try and find the one leak and when I last checked, the other pipe was still dripping water steadily. I thought he had fixed that one but –
Anyway, today I have been a bit tired. A bit more stress with all these pllumbing issues I guess. And other aspects of life brings other stresses. And there have been those today too.
So, it was a pleasant surprise to walk in to the house and have it smelling of chocolate. Double chocolate chip cookies. Very chocolately. Yum. And now I will drift off to sleep to the smells of fresh baked buns. I hope Sara doesn't get too busy with classes. This cooking/baking streak is something I like.


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When CNN found Glenn Beck a bit of an embarrassment and he understandably jumped to Fox News, where he felt more at home, his career took off – his ratings soared and he found his voice, and ended up on the cover of Time. Time couldn't decide if he was bad for America or not. That wasn't their job.
But Beck changed things – he wept for his country on-air and spoke of vast conspiracies, and declared Obama a racist who hated white people and talked of taking the country back with his 9-12 Project – and that became the core of the whole Tea Party Movement. Much of this has to do with it being high time to stop picking on the rich, as they are the heroes who make America what it is, and with stopping healthcare reform – where, if passed, you'd have to pay for someone else's problems – and with getting the government to stop doing things in general, so people care take care of the own lives. And there's lowering taxes and making sure the government keeps its hands off Medicare, while we must have a strong military and never apologize for anything, and close the borders and keep Mexicans where they belong, and hoard guns and gold because the end is coming. And since it is, you should read your Bible. It's the progressives of course – who are socialists or Nazis, or both at the same time – who want to take your stuff and give all of it to lazy losers and then kill you – so you'd best be ready. On his wildly popular Fox News show, and on his radio show, this goes on and on. And in the worst economic times since the Great Depression, with the nation angry and befuddled, people seem to want to hear this sort of thing.
And people do take him seriously, as the most important thinker in America, our new Tom Paine inspiring the next revolution – except for those who think he's a clown. But Beck gave the keynote address at this year's Conservative Political Acton Conference – trashing Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and FDR, saying everyone but Glenn Beck had misunderstood them, and they were pure evil. He brought down the house. His earlier long presentation on Fox News, where he analyzed the frescos at Rockefeller Center and proved that Rockefeller, and maybe JP Morgan and Andrew Carnegie, were communists who wanted to redistribute all wealth to the undeserving poor, and at the same time fascists who wanted to take over the world, was less successful. But everyone has an off day. And we all have friends and family who will read only the Bible and Beck – that's all you need to know. He's become a man to be reckoned with, even if he does have an off day now and then.
And he may have had another one, as this week on his radio show, Glenn Beck warned his vast audience about churches that talk about social justice. As he sees it "social justice" is code for something despicable:
I'm begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them … are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you – look for the words "social justice" or "economic justice" on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.
Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!
Steve Benen comments:
I'm not a theologian, but it's my understanding that most of the world's major, monotheistic faith traditions embrace "social justice" as a fundamental pillar. Beck just encouraged a whole lot of people to abandon a whole lot of houses of worship.
This is especially true of Roman Catholics. Indeed, the very phrase "social justice" is believed to have been coined by a 19th-century Jesuit, and later popularized by Father Charles Coughlin.
And Benen notes that the Catholic site First Things is wondering whether Glenn Beck just urged his followers to abandon the Catholic Church. There, Joe Carter asks this – "Could Beck's claim be construed as 'anti-Catholic?'"
Benen says yes, and no:
I think if anyone else had made the remark it would have been hard to dismiss the anti-Catholic undertones. But Beck is a special case: He is too prone to say any dumb thing that pops into his head and too ignorant about history and religion to truly understand the implications of his statement. This doesn't excuse him, of course, but it certainly is reason not to be too shocked when a self-professed "rodeo clown" advises people to leave their churches over Catholic "code words" like "social justice."
Benen thinks this could be a real headache for Beck, "especially if Bill Donohue and the Catholic League treat Beck like they'd treat anyone else who just encouraged Americans to leave churches who take social justice seriously." And Benen says it's worth remembering that if Beck, a convert to Mormonism, is serious about the danger of these particular "code words," he may have to leave his own church. And it's not very hard to see why. They talk about social justice, which is not just helping the poor now and them, but changing conditions, with social and economic policy, so that there are fewer poor folks generated all the time.
That could be considered an extension of Jesus' work – not just the Good Samaritan story, and Blessed Are the Poor and all that, and all the talk about giving things away as it is easier for a large smelly camel to pass thought the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven – but also the tale of Jesus tossing the moneychangers out of the temple. It's staple stuff in all religions. Much of the God and Jesus stuff seems to be about social justice.
But the next day Beck returned to the subject, insisting that the notion of social justice is a perversion of the Gospel – everyone has misunderstood the Gospel. He wants you to wake up. Such things "are not what Jesus would say." So he plunged on – Americans should be skeptical of religious leaders who are "basing their religion on social justice" – and he is frightened and appalled, fearing that concern for social justice is a problem infecting all faith traditions. For the last two thousand years theologians have got it wrong. Jesus likes go-getters and Jesus wants you to keep your stuff, as the downtrodden just need some tough love – no help at all – to slap them into shape and make them responsible. But he didn't cite chapter and verse to show that was so. You have to take his word for that, that he knows what Jesus really meant.
And of course none of this is going over well in some faith communities – see Belief Net (Hey Glenn Beck, listen to Jesus!) and this roundup at Christian Post. And the Reverend Jim Wallis, the big gun evangelical figure and president of the Sojourners network, said this – "I don't know if Beck is just strange, just trying to be controversial, or just trying to make money. But in any case, what he has said attacks the very heart of our Christian faith, and Christians should no longer watch his show."
Yes, Wallis called for a boycott, and Steve Benen adds this:
It's strange enough to hear the deranged media personality share his bizarre thoughts on domestic policy, foreign policy, history, constitutional law, and economics – subjects he knows nothing about. But we now see Beck arguing, more than once, that the central tenet of most Christian churches is a secret plot that should drive the faithful from their congregations.
But if you accept that Dick Cheney, with his vast military experience and his stunning service record, is one of the most brilliant military minds America has ever produced, and that Karl Rove knows more about effective interrogation techniques than anyone who ever worked in the FBI and is proud we tortured prisoners, then the idea that Beck is the one to set two millennia of theologians straight after all the years – and is wiser than any minister, priest or pastor in America – isn't that much of a stretch.
Benen concludes with this:
We're well past the shark-jumping moment with this self-described clown, but I can't help but wonder if this is the kind of lunacy that might actually cost him some fans.
It won't. People will leave their churches en masse – it's the times, hard times.
Matthew Yglesias has more:
If this is meant seriously – and Beck's sounded the theme in three consecutive shows so I think it is – this seems to me like when McCarthy decided to go after the Army.
Social Justice is on the website of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops – do Beck's fans on the mainstream right think all Catholics should leave the Church? Social justice is all over the Vatican's website.
The Episcopal Church does social justice. According to its website, the United Methodist Church "has a long history of concern for social justice."
The American Baptist Church says "Our vision for mission energizes a multitude of servant ministries of evangelism, discipleship, leadership, new church development, social justice, healing, peacemaking, economic development and education."
My understanding is that Beck is a Mormon, and while LDS.org doesn't talk as much about social justice as some other churches, they do talk social justice.
Yglesias provides all the links if you want to go look. Beck seems to be saying none of these folks know anything about Jesus or Christianity – they never have and never will. He is the real theologian, the only one who knows what's really going on.
Now this is a curious position, but Yglesias mentions that this reminds him of Crazy Uncle Joe, and Mike Madden at salon.com takes that up in Glenn Beck misses Joe McCarthy:
Glenn Beck's obsession with rooting out the evils of progressivism have led him to take up history lately. But it's a strange kind of history, an alternative one that bears little resemblance to what you might read in textbooks. (Since textbooks, after all, are all written by socialists.) On his show Thursday, Beck gave a special Fox News Channel gloss on Franklin D. Roosevelt – the villain in Beck's narrative – and on Joe McCarthy – who magically transformed from a life-destroying demagogue to a hero.
The message seemed to be that everything you know is wrong:
Roosevelt, Beck explained, hired Communists all over the place for the growing federal government during the Depression and World War II. Not only that, but he wasn't as popular as people think he was. "If FDR was so beloved, and no one was spooked by how much power he took, why is it that his body was barely cold when they passed the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution to make sure no one could ever serve as long as he did?" Beck asked. That's not, strictly speaking, really true; Roosevelt died in 1945, and Congress didn't pass the 22nd Amendment until 1947. It wasn't ratified by the states until 1951.
Next came a blast of what's become standard-issue conservative blather about how the New Deal actually made the economy worse during the 1930s, not better. "His policies didn't save us," Beck explained. "In fact, it was only in America that the period known as 'the Depression' is known as the 'Great Depression'. Why? Because his policies stripped the free-market system and actually prolonged the depression."
Madden does note that this is nonsense:
That's not just slightly false, it's really false. A British economist, Lionel Robbins, helped popularize the term with a book "The Great Depression," published in 1934 – when he worked at the London School of Economics. Also, only the most dogmatic anti-New Deal conservatives – like Beck – think Roosevelt's policies made the Depression worse. Many historians, in fact, think things worsened in the middle of the decade when FDR backed away from New Deal policies.
But of course FDR was only the warm-up act, as Crazy Uncle Joe wasn't crazy at all, and people stupidly forget how wonderful he was:
"It was Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy, who shined the spotlight on the Communist Party again," Beck said rhapsodically. "McCarthy later led a Senate committee investigation into inefficiencies in the government. Critics accused him of falsely identifying Communists, and smearing their names."
Those pesky critics! Beck then brought up, for some reason, the Cold War "domino theory," that if one nation went Communist, so would its neighbors. "Kind of feels like that now, doesn't it?" he asked.
Yes, it was rambling – but McCarthy never falsely identified Communists and smeared their names, you see. That stuff in the history books, the archive film, the transcripts and all the rest – all made up. And Madden adds this:
Bashing FDR is, like it or not, becoming second-nature to conservatives. But you don't often hear people willing to offer praise for McCarthy, who – as even Beck had to admit – was censured by the Senate in 1954 for his feverish pursuit of Reds, little of which he was able to substantiate.
What any of this had to do with current affairs was – as it often is while watching Beck's show – a bit of a mystery. Until later in the program. On Monday's show, he promised, he'd reveal a new Communist – working for the Obama White House.
Yglesias was onto something. Watch the whole thing here. We have a new Crazy Uncle – Glenn, son of Joe.
But the target now is not communists, just progressives, as Madden discusses here:
A generation after Ronald Reagan and his allies turned "liberal" into an epithet, conservatives are going after the term many Democrats adopted in its place. Glenn Beck and his paranoid Fox News Channel ranting is just at the forefront of what appears to be a movement to demonize the word "progressive," in hopes of scaring voters away from the left. "Progressivism is the cancer in America, and it is eating our Constitution," Beck told thousands of adoring fans at the conservative CPAC conference last month. "And it was designed to eat the Constitution. To 'progress' past the Constitution." The National Review ran a whole special issue on progressives in December; staff writer Jonah Goldberg even published a book on the subject, "Liberal Fascism," two years ago. The latest ad for Liz Cheney's new group, Keep America Safe, prominently features Attorney General Eric Holder declaring that progressives are about to run the nation – before segueing, sharply, into asking whether Holder's pals share the values of al-Qaida.
Madden goes on to note that the word was not always evil, not that it matters now:
But listen to Beck, or read the sources of his paranoia, and there's a far more sinister history involved. Progressives, in Beck's telling, were the prototypical European authoritarians, tied just as closely to fascists and Communists; the progressive notion that government could help change things for the better (instead of just staying out of the way of the free market) becomes the ideological glue that unites those two disparate movements. "Where did the progressives go, where did they come from?" Beck asked at CPAC. "All of a sudden, I'm not a liberal, I'm a progressive. It was the opposite a hundred years ago. I'm not a progressive, I'm a liberal. I mean they keep – they keep changing their names. Every time they wake America up to their policies, they have to change their names. What are they going to be next, the Royal Order of the Orange? It doesn't matter. They're running out of names." Not long after that, he went on a long tangent praising Calvin Coolidge. At times, Beck really does seem to want to go back to a time before the Progressive Era. On Wednesday's show, he scoffed at the notion of national parks and monuments, asking – dead seriously – why the country doesn't just drill for oil in all of them to wipe out the national debt.
And so it goes:
The net effect of most of his rhetoric, though, just adds up to a spooky conspiracy theory that's hard to follow because it jumps around so much. …
After all, it's one thing to spin conspiracy theories and imply that your opponents are goose-stepping Nazi Communists hell-bent on seizing all private property. It's another thing altogether to have a debate over whether to abolish the weekend, or go back to the pre-"Jungle" days of no meat inspection.
But we live in hard times, with the nation angry and befuddled, and we keep seeing stories like this:
The bankruptcy examiner's report filed by Anton R. Valukas on the 2008 demise of Lehman Brothers discusses some accounting gimmicks that are eerily reminiscent of how Enron tried to prop up its balance sheet back in 2001 before it collapsed. Both companies appear to have played right along the edge of properly accounting for transactions designed to make them appear much stronger than they turned out to be, becoming steadily more aggressive as they teetered on the brink of ruin.
The examiner's report discusses potential claims that the bankruptcy trustee can bring against Lehman's former officers and outside advisers and does not mention potential government law enforcement action. Reading his report, however, gives strong indications that at a minimum the Securities and Exchange Commission is likely to pursue civil charges for securities fraud and that criminal charges are certainly possible against Lehman's former top executives.
The rest of that is a bit dry, but it seems Lehman Brothers had been kind of lying to everyone, and had been flat broke the whole time anyway. That sort of thing makes it hard to fix the economy, and they went under soon enough. Is it high time to stop picking on the rich, as they are the heroes who make America what it is? Whatever Beck may say, one more fraud story doesn't help.
And Chris Hayes explains why:
In the past decade, nearly every pillar institution in American society – whether it's General Motors, Congress, Wall Street, Major League Baseball, the Catholic Church or the mainstream media – has revealed itself to be corrupt, incompetent or both. And at the root of these failures are the people who run these institutions, the bright and industrious minds who occupy the commanding heights of our meritocratic order. In exchange for their power, status and remuneration, they are supposed to make sure everything operates smoothly. But after a cascade of scandals and catastrophes, that implicit social contract lies in ruins, replaced by mass skepticism, contempt and disillusionment…
For more than 35 years, Gallup has polled Americans about levels of trust in their institutions – Congress, banks, Big Business, public schools, etc. In 2008 nearly every single institution was at an all-time low. Banks were trusted by just 32% of the populace, down from more than 50% in 2004. Newspapers were down to 24%, from slightly below 40% at the start of the decade. And Congress was the least trusted institution of all, with only 12% of Americans expressing confidence in it. The mistrust of élites extends to élites themselves. Every year, public-relations guru Richard Edelman conducts a "trust barometer" across 22 countries, in which he surveys only highly educated, high-earning, media-attentive people. In the U.S., these people show extremely low levels of trust in government and business alike. Particularly distrusted are the superman CEOs of yore. "Chief-executive trust has just been mired in the mid- to low 20s," says Edelman. "It started off with Enron and culminates in Citi."
Of course Bruce Springsteen has made a career of singing about this loss of faith, but see Stephen C. Webster with this item – Beck: Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is Anti-American, Propaganda. The Boss really hates America. No one saw the truth there either, but Glenn Beck did.
Perhaps the question now is clear. What else can Glenn Beck tell us that everyone had wrong – perhaps the earth really is flat – and the product of a conspiracy no one has seen before, that he wants you to wake up and see? When he effectively told most of America to walk away from their church – actually to run like hell – some thought he'd finally gone too far. But we'll see in the coming Sundays. Maybe he really has changed America.


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Bulletin boards will be here to stay. None could be as dominant, even the computer and the internet. It has shown its appeal in the past and will continue to be part of the people's future. In fact, bulletin boards have become synonymous with information. The importance is iconic; being the genre for information. Universities, colleges, dormitory corridors, hallways, lobbies and even dine-in and amusement places all attest to the importance of bulletin boards.
Cork Bulletin Boards: The Resilient Post-it Message Board
Bulletin boards will never die-out of importance. It will continue to be the most appropriate device to post eye-catching messages, advertisements, or announcements.
The prevalence of bulletin boards is understandable. The association with this office supply is never-ending. Bulletin boards are primarily the source of information. It has served various quests long before Queen Elizabeth II was born and will continue to be around even after she leaves her post. The bond with bulletin boards is strangely secure, and none could break the ties.
Cork bulletin boards will lord it over other types. The only reason for the cork's dominance is resilience. No other material can match its resiliency. Users can post anything on it using push pins easily. And can retrieve items as easily. It leaves no damage to the surface because the cork is self-healing. The material could actually go through several hundreds of rounds of pinning. Although, there are other kinds available like the magnetic types, none could match the properties of cork.
Next time you think of messages, cork visual communications productswill surely crop-up. Cork is one and the same with life; resilient to all.


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Rosseti mendon se ketu kemi te bejme me nje fjale shqipe:Bucur is the legendary Romanian shepherd who is said to have founded Bucharest, giving its name to it. While the legend about the shepherd is probably apocryphal, the name of Bucureşti is quite likely derived from a person Bucur, as the suffix -eşti is used for settlements derived from personal names, usually of the owner of the land or of the founder. It is more likely that Bucur was the noble who owned the land.
There is an old small church named Biserica lui Bucur ("Bucur's Church") which the legend says that it was built by Bucur, however, this is not true, as the church appears to have been built in the first part of 18th century and in the area, the oldest archeological remains found were from second half of the 16th century.
The earliest reference to Bucur was written by the Franciscan monk Blasius Kleiner who claimed that Bucur was both a shepherd and a haiduc.
Shih me gjeresisht: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucur_%28l ... hepherd%29
Ne lidhje me etimologjine e kryeqytetit te Rumanise, Bukureshtit:The name is related with Romanian bucurie ("joy"), having a cognate in Albanian, bukur ("beautiful").
Rosetti, II. p.110
Ref: Alexandru Rosetti. Istoria limbii române, 2 vols., Bucharest, 1965-1969.
In 1781, Franz Sulzer claimed that it was related to bucurie (joy), bucuros (joyful) or a se bucura (to become joyful), while an early 19th-century book published in Vienna assumed its name has been derived from "Bukovie", a beech forest.
One account derives it from an Albanian word Bukur, meaning joy, in memory of a victory won by Prince Mircea of Walachia (c.1383-1410) over the Turks. For this reason Bucharest is often called ''The city of Joy''.
The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature & general information, Volumes 3-4, Hugh Chisholm, James Louis Garvin, 1926 , p. 718
2. Që shquhet e çmohet për përmbajtjen e lartë; që vlerësohet e pëlqehet shumë për vetitë e mira morale, për ndjenjat, për karakterin etj.; i mbushur me ngjarje e veprimtari që sjellin mirëqenie, gëzim e lumturi.


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Plea for 'North Queensland bubble' to lift tourism industry
THE tourism industry is calling for a North Queensland bubble allowing unrestricted travel in various areas including the Whitsundays to help re-energise the economy.
The "bubble" would cover the Whitsundays, Mackay, Cairns, Townsville and outback regions from June 12 when Stage 2 COVID-19 restrictions start.
Regional Tourism Organisations Tourism Tropical North Queensland (TTNQ), Townsville
Enterprise, Mackay Tourism, Tourism Whitsundays and the Outback Queensland Tourism
Association are urging the State Government to lift the 250km restriction on recreational
travel within North Queensland.
Tourism Whitsundays chief executive officer Tash Wheeler acknowledged the great work
the government had been doing to guide Queenslanders through such a challenging time.
"Premier Palaszczuk and her government have been navigating us through uncharted
waters," she said.
"There was no instruction manual for how to handle this. I believe our State
Government has shown leadership through such uncertainty, because of this we have had no
positive cases in the Whitsundays for over a month."
The North Queensland region is from the Marlborough Stretch north, and the unrestricted
travel call does not include the lockdown arrangements for indigenous communities.
James Cook University (JCU) Professor in Medicine John McBride, who is based at the Cairns Clinical School, said JCU academics were keen to work with the tourism industry in North Queensland to develop guidelines to ensure the safe reopening of the businesses.
Mrs Wheeler said North Queensland did not have the population base of southeast Queensland to support tourism businesses.
"Our regions are so reliant on tourism, I don't believe a one-size-fits-all approach can work
across Queensland, which is why we need an extension on the 250km zone," she said.
"The upcoming school holidays will be an opportunity for many tourism operators.
"And as such, they have been preparing their business to ensure they are COVID safe and adhere to the guidelines laid out by the Federal Government.
"We need to see North Queensland reopen as soon as possible with a travel bubble as well
as fast-tracking our region to Stage 3 to enable businesses to reopen prior to these school
"It will be the start of what is needed to re-energise the North Queensland economy."
Mackay Tourism chief executive officer Tas Webber said the blueprint was there for the plan
to be activated.
"We're calling for what has already been earmarked for the outback region in Stage 2,
where travel within the region for recreational purposes is allowed, is applied to the wider
North Queensland region from Mackay north to Cairns and west to the Northern Territory
border," he said.
The five tourism bodies are encouraging the Queensland Government to consider the
processes in place in Western Australia, Northern Territory, and South Australia where
broader interstate travel has relaxed due to low infection rates, similar to the situation here
in North Queensland.


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A Tale of Two Cities: Why DC and NY are Worlds Apart
Washington, DC and New York City are only 225 miles apart, a four-hour drive up I-95, or a 3½ hour train ride on Amtrak. And both jurisdictions have taken positive steps over the last couple of years to stop arresting marijuana smokers. But in other ways, they are in parallel universes.
In one city the police chief is embracing marijuana legalization, and touting it as a helpful step in building community relations. And in the other, the police commissioner is saying marijuana has caused an increase in homicides and shootings, even worse than the cocaine and heroin epidemics of the 1980s and '90s. It would be difficult to find a more stark contrast in policing strategies.
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March 23, 2015
I believe that marijauna should be legalized because tabaco and alcohol is a lot worse then weed and yet that stuff is legal but marijauna is not
Off topic. What happens to the "so-called" Tennessee marijuana tax stamp, when/if the decriminalization of small amounts of pot passes? I figure they probably haven't had too many people inquiring about them. I suppose Alaska never had to deal with the ridiculous stamp.
I love the NY theory that marijuana is causing murders without stating that it is because it is illegal.
I saw a documentary once about cigarettes in prison, and they were selling for 100.00 a pack…a guy got a deal and bought 3 cartons for 1500.00. And, understandably there was violence over them. When they asked the warden about permitting cigarettes, he replied, "Naw…we've already had (X) people killed over cigarettes in the past (X) months, we ain't gonna legalize 'em.
How clueless.
FYI, from the Drug Policy Alliance web site, another organization I donate to all to happily! Come on, NYC! Legalize in NY!
New York City Council Issues Formal Call for Decriminalizing and Legalizing Marijuana
New York: This week, the New York City Council called for the state of New York to pass historic legislation to both decriminalize and to tax and regulate marijuana. As part of the Council's State Budget and Legislative Agenda for the 2015-2016 legislative session, the New York City Council urged the state legislature to pass two historic marijuana policy reforms – the Fairness and Equity Act and the Marijuana Regulation and Tax Act (MRTA). The Speaker of the City Council, Melissa Mark-Viverito had previously announced her support for marijuana legalization in November, but this marks the first time that marijuana decriminalization and legalization have been part of the Council's official legislative agenda.
New York has sort of a two steps forward one step back approach to marijuana… We've made some real progress in the past several years, but it seems like it's frequently being undone in one way or another. We have decriminalized pot and yet pot arrests remain high… We have reduced the number of stop-and-frisk incidents, and yet pot arrests still remain incredibly racially biased. And we recently passed a medical marijuana bill, but it's so restrictive almost no one who needs the medicine can get it.
Being a medical marijuana patient in NYC sucks. You become a criminal simply for trying to find the medicine that makes you feel better. But I still have hope for my city… 2016 will be the year of change for marijuana laws all around the country. In the meantime, I'd appreciate it if you all would read my blog post about my own struggles as a medical cannabis patient living in NYC: http://www.davidtheexpert.com/post.php?id=14&question=Why_New_York_City_needs_Legal_Medical_Marijuana I wrote it from my heart, and I know you guys will understand my pain.
Cops sometimes get addicted to donuts, it makes them want to jump out of windows and think they can fly.
I've seen the devastation and ruined lives of donut addiction.
So we contrast DC's Lanier saying, "All those arrests do is make people hate us." with NYPD's Bratton STILL fighting cultural battles left over from the 1960s and blaming marijuana.
This is shaping up as an issue for the 2016 election, not just in the general election, but also within the Republican party. If the conservatives win the nomination and the election, you can kiss any progress on reform goodbye for at least a decade — probably the rest of my life.
If you lean Republican, and you're visiting NORML's website, you need to consider just how important NORML's goal is compared to the rest of your concerns for the country.
"Naw…we've already had (X) people killed over cigarettes in the past (X) months, we ain't gonna legalize 'em.
How clueless.- Odhinn
Who smuggles those boxes of cancer sticks into the Prisons?
Many prison officials disapprove of inmates leaving the prison to purchase addictive drugs…so that only leaves employees who can leave the prison.
Whoever is smuggling addictive drugs to a caged clientele knows exactly what they are doing and why…Prison employees don't make a great deal of money via pay or salary…some of them may choose to "supplement" their income by exploiting imprisoned addicts?
Drug debts are the most common reason for violent acts of retribution in prison.
The persons who smuggle addictive drugs into prisons could not care any le$$…the illegal, exorbitant profits are what matters to all actual criminals…no matter what title the actual criminals assume.
I should have become a prison guard instead of a cannabis criminal?…but… then I would have had to look in the mirror and see a generally sadistic cretin…upon retrospect, I made the right choice!
Anti-pot people I guess think awful things will happen if Marijuana is changed from a crime to a right. It's still here right now but I guess being open and honest about it will open up darkness in people's brains or something. That's at least what they think. You know, bad things happen without drugs all the time. They've happened for thousands of years before people knew about them. In fact, things have gotten better since drugs were introduced in the 60s. In the 1950s, African citizens had to ride the back of the bus, eat at colored diners and were loathed because their skin is more tan. Look at all the great things that have happened since 1965: mentally ill people are no longer in cages in Pennhurst, internet computer advances sparked by someone who did LSD, people feel better plus way more. It's true you could freak-out on certain drugs but that can be controlled and avoided and we're not talking about legalizing acid. Weed gives a good high it makes you happy music sounds awesome food tastes great after smoking high quality weed tastes good itself it actually changes reality for the better for 45 minutes to an hour and a half. And if you do become paranoid on it all you have to do is eat some food and the high will go away. There are thousands of medical uses. And people should be able to feel the way they want legally especially something as safe as marijuana. People are going to do it, legal or not, we could make serious money from it and create millions of jobs.People love the way it makes you feel and this ongoing lost war on drugs isn't helping anyone. Weed has been used for 5 thousand years or more. Never killed one person. God invented it and it wasn't for bad purposes. We want to smoke pot without avoiding cops and dealing with cartels and or mafia. In the name of God, please make pot legal. You don't know how great a drug you're missing.
War on Donuts!
Mandatory sentences for first time offenders!
Black men who eat donuts believe themselves equal to The Great White Man!(what Harry Asslinger probably would have claimed?)
Don't be a do"nut"..Please send donutions to firstname.lastname@example.com


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If you think Langham Hotels International—with its august Langham, London property—is resting on its historic laurels, think again. This stately brand has a very keen eye on the future and is pushing ahead into the next decade of the 21st century with full steam.
In fact, Langham Hotels International—overseer of both the classical Langham and the trendier Langham Place brands—currently has 21 hotels open or in development across four continents. "Our culture has always been about 'innovation that matters to the guest,'" says Bob van den Oord, v.p., sales and marketing, Langham Hotels International. "It was the cornerstone of our strength in 1865 when we opened The Langham, London as Europe's first Grand Hotel and the exciting thing about Langham Hotels International today is that we're continuing this journey of excellence."
Such is its expansion, says Van den Oord, that they've just announced they'll be opening a hotel in The Bahamas—the Langham Place, Resort + Spa, Port St George—in 2013. In fact, it's the first Langham Place property in the Caribbean. Langham loyalists won't have to wait that long, though, for other Langham openings as the Langham Place Samui at Lamai Beach in Thailand opens this month.
"Langham Hotels International has effectively spent the last five years building two very strong brands that would be good development options for developers and owners looking for a brand with a distinctive heritage," Van den Oord adds. "The European nature of the brand has worked well in Asia where the cultural significance resonates well amongst the target audience."
And the reason the marketing executive signals out Asia is because the brand—in addition to this month's Thailand hotel opening—will open the doors to several Langham Place properties in this region in the next few years: Langham Place, Koregaon Park, Pune in India; Langham Place, Beijing; Langham Place Phayathai, Bangkok; and Langham Place, EDZ, Guangzhou in China, among others.
"However," Van den Oord quickly points out, "we are looking at North America as a key market for development. While we now have two Langham properties in the U.S.—in Pasadena and Boston—we are looking to establish a greater presence in key gateway cities."
And although it's been focusing on growing the portfolio, the company has still had time to polish its grand dame because, as Van den Oord says, "The Langham, London is the flagship property in the group—the jewel in the crown in which we've just invested £80 million (approximately $128 million), which signals our intent to potential partners worldwide. It is from this iconic property that we derive our DNA."
And that DNA holds the key to one of Europe's most romantic and powerful hotel brand stories. "Langham Hotels International is a global luxury European hotel operator, and it has an incredible luxury European hotel heritage. No one owns this space except us. While other groups have heritage hotels, no one has built a brand upon it. Others are part of 'collections,' which make us unique in this respect. And our brand's history and innovative culture resonates with the guests we are reaching and indeed, offers a sense of aspiration as well."
And speaking of reaching its guests, Langham Hotels International was prudent enough in the earlier part of this decade to launch a younger sibling of The Langham, the aforementioned Langham Place.
"Langham Place customers are younger, hungrier types with much to achieve. They are tech-savvy 30- and 40-somethings and enjoy the new ideas offered at this brand, including a focus on art and touch-points such as DJs. It's a modern, edgier product that focuses on innovation," says the v.p. of sales and marketing. "It's a five-star hospitality experience, or what we call 'stimulating hospitality.'"
Stimulating indeed. At the new Langham Place Samui at Lamai in Thailand, guests have access to 77 villas and suites, many with personal plunge pools and all set on a prime beachside location. The onsite Chuan Spa offers a range of treatments based on traditional Chinese medicine as well as new Thai traditional medicine-based treatments. Additionally, the hotel is close to several recreational and cultural facilities, including the Lamai temple and the island's yacht club. The resort, in fact, will promote local culture with visits to the temples to mingle with monks or touring and supporting the local markets. The hotel is offering a 1+1 Night Free opening offer available through Dec. 24, 2009.


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Wednesday, 27 November 2013
12 Days Of Christmas Giveaway: Day 9 - Wine & Chocolates!
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to treat myselfReplyDelete
- chloe Elphick27 November 2013 at 09:28
Sounds yummy xReplyDelete
Who wouldn't want to win wine and chocolates!?ReplyDelete
I looove chocolates, also love fizz, but i'd mostly like the chocs! xxxReplyDelete
- christine shelley27 November 2013 at 09:56
A hamper would be lovely, or wineReplyDelete
I would love to win this as a special treat at Christmas for ourselves and when family come to visit. It's nice to have something special in for when visitors comeReplyDelete
Never seen a Blue Nun fizz before but Blue Nun does remind me of the early 90's.ReplyDelete
I'd love to win these - a nice treat for xmas- xReplyDelete
I would love to share these on a wonderful evening with a very special and wonderful man :)ReplyDelete
we're going to mum in laws for christmas this year. i think this would be a lovely gift to give her to say thank you for going to the effort of making us all dinner! xxReplyDelete
To give myself a treat.ReplyDelete
I would love to win to share with my family after a horrid couple of weeksReplyDelete
It would be a lovely treat all for me :) xReplyDelete
- Val Hartley27 November 2013 at 14:00
I would like to win because these are two of my favourite things - fingers crossed.ReplyDelete
Because those chocs look yummy!ReplyDelete
Wine and chocolate - who wouldn't love to win? These would really put me in the mood for ChristmasReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 November 2013 at 15:18
This would definitely add to the Christmas cheer - apart from enjoying the contents the bottle and tin are so pretty.ReplyDelete
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to treat the familyReplyDelete
I'd love the treat to share with my sis-in-law to make her smile because she has suffered great losses this year! @criscurranReplyDelete
love the look of the christmas chocs!!ReplyDelete
I love chocoate and wine.ReplyDelete
- Rachel Arnup27 November 2013 at 16:05
I would like to win because I love the Blue Nun range of wines, but have not yet been able to try the Sparkling Gold Variant!ReplyDelete
Id love to treat myself for onceReplyDelete
I'd love to share them with my husbandReplyDelete
this would be a great treat for my sisReplyDelete
i would love to win; just so i can say i have won something in my 40years of living.plus its a really nice prize.ReplyDelete
Because I live for wine and chocolates!ReplyDelete
This would be the perfect present for my brother's girlfriend who has recently moved down from Liverpool and i'm sure we'd have fun sharing the wine on Christmas Day!ReplyDelete
I'd love to win because I just can't resist chocolate, and wine and choccies are perfect for a bit of me time, curled up on the sofa, watching one of my favourite films xReplyDelete
I'd like to win because its a very long time since I've had any fizzReplyDelete
It sounds like a fab treat!ReplyDelete
- lynsey buchanan27 November 2013 at 20:27
sounds like a wonderful treatReplyDelete
Because it would be a really special treat.ReplyDelete
As a treat for me and mine this Christmas, yummy xReplyDelete
I'd like to have a night in with my mum, so this would be a treat for us.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 November 2013 at 21:55
My husband saw this and was like "OMG I HAVE TO TRY THAT!" so I would like to win for him :) xReplyDelete
Will be a lovely addition to the Christmas Day table that can be shared by everyoneReplyDelete
- Iona Cornish28 November 2013 at 07:04
Chocolate and wine - two of the major food groupsReplyDelete
Because I love chocolate and wine (although someone will pinch most of the chocolates!!)ReplyDelete
because it would be a lovely treat on a cold day!ReplyDelete
Who wouldn't want to win wine and chocolate haha?! xx :)ReplyDelete
I would like to win because there's two things in life I'm unashamedly greedy about -wine and chocolates.ReplyDelete
Chocolate & wine - two of my favourite major food groups.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 November 2013 at 17:04
To cheer me up :) when im feeling downReplyDelete
Perfect for festive fun xReplyDelete
I would love to win these to share with my friends to say thank you for all their help (crochet addictuk)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous28 November 2013 at 21:22
I would love to win because they would make a perfect Christmas day treat... for me!!ReplyDelete
Blue nun & choccies Chistmas completeReplyDelete
I would love to win to share with my familyReplyDelete
would not mind a little drink and some chocs to relax with over th exmasReplyDelete
What girl wouldn't want to win wine and chocolates? :)ReplyDelete
as these are stunnng and as im having guests these would make a fantastic center peiceReplyDelete
love love love themReplyDelete
Wine for him chocolates for me!ReplyDelete
I would like to win because I am breastfeeding my 10 month old so dont have wine very often so it would be a nice treat and im a chocoholicReplyDelete
Because the prize is wine and chocolate... who wouldn't want to win?! ;)ReplyDelete
- Richard Turner29 November 2013 at 15:43
Because I love wine & chocolateReplyDelete
would love this as a treat for myself for after ive had baby (due 18days) :)ReplyDelete
it combines my two favourite things wine and chocolateReplyDelete
Would love to win this as a treat for myself and fee :) xReplyDelete
So we could leave something a bit different out for Santa (not that we're condoning drinking & flying).ReplyDelete
I would love this for a treat for myself and my fiance over the Christmas period xReplyDelete
such a treat and being such a piglet....well...whats not to like?ReplyDelete
I'd like to win so that I can have these with our Christmas dinner.ReplyDelete
Would be a very nice treat for me and my partner and my little girl could keep a pretty tin :}ReplyDelete
- Lisa Sands30 November 2013 at 12:19
I need a break from my diet, and this would be the perfect excuse! :) xxxReplyDelete
No alcohol for me, but this would make a fab festive treat for my Mam. xReplyDelete
because it would be such a treat for both my partner and me.ReplyDelete
It'd be great to put my feet up and enjoy a treat. Everything is so hectic this time of year.ReplyDelete
With all the Xmas fuss our anniversary on 23 Dec usually gets overlooked... this will sort me!ReplyDelete
to put towards christmas stashReplyDelete
I would love this to treat my sister xxReplyDelete
I would like to share them with my friends when we have a girls night in before we get ready for Christmas.ReplyDelete
I would love to win this to share with my best friends on one of our girlie nights.ReplyDelete
Come on. Chocolate, pfhhh, nectar of us lesser mortals, and a chance to see how blue nun sparkly works, which I havent seen since they used to be taken to parties in the 80s. Nostalgia night or what, whoo hoo.ReplyDelete
Because im a chocaholic, but have been on a diet for months but am gonna eat and drink at christmas so this will be the perfect treat xxxReplyDelete
Would love to win as I definitely deserve to treat myself!!ReplyDelete
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In 2006 we bought a Texas Redbud/Cercis canadensis var. texensis and planted it to the far left of the front yard, then added the Pink Entrance Garden this spring:
What do you think?? Is it a keeper? Maybe I'll get around to painting the name on the bench one of these days.
In the daytime the Butterfly Peas open blue flowers, with the long white buds of the Moonvine poised to work the night shift.


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