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This post is about a friend of mine who has agreed, up to a point, to let me write about her situation.
Angela suffers from a number of conditions, including peroneal muscular atrophy, high blood pressure, anxiety, depression and other complicated medical problems relating to a road traffic accident she was the victim of some years ago.
Due to some personal tragedies in her life, Angela now lives alone in an adapted two-bedroom bungalow which she rents. Angela loves being able to see and chat with friends, reading, listening to U2, and also enjoys watching soaps and 'Countdown' on TV.
Until 2009, Angela was able to work. However, her condition worsened and she is now unable to work at all. She pays for a carer via benefits to come and help on certain days with some of her basic care needs, including washing, laundry, hoovering, dusting, tidying and some aspects of shopping.
Since then, Angela has had no other choice but to exist on benefits and receives Income Support, Housing Benefit and Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
Her Housing Benefit, when it was based on the 50th percentile, was paying for most of her rent – yet she still had to find just over £50 per month to top up her Housing Benefit in order to pay the rent in full.
Her home is not huge and (as Angela would be the first to say herself) not what one would call luxurious. In the past, she had to use money from DLA to top up the rent.
This is not unusual, as most people on Housing Benefit have to top up to meet their rent, as Housing Benefit rarely covers the entire rent, as it was based on the 50th percentile.
Angela's home has been adapted – and Angela paid for this herself when she could work. She uses her 2nd bedroom to store various equipment, including a commode, hoist, a specialized wheelchair, other medical equipment and a special bed. There is nowhere else of this to go or be stored.
However, Angela's life and way of life is now at risk. The recent Housing Benefit cuts (not caps), and changes to the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to the 30th percentile from the 50th, mean that her Housing Benefit is much lower.
That now means that, on top of the £50 she had to find before, she also now has to find an extra £35 per week.
This is also because the amount of Housing Benefit is now partly determined by the number of rooms and people in a property. The reforms have no exemptions for disabled people, who often need an extra room (this is also often the case for families with a disabled child who cannot share a bedroom).
Angela simply does not have this extra money or any means to earn it.
After a number of discussions with her local council, consultant and doctor, it seems she has few options.
As she simply cannot make up this huge financially gulf that the Government has inflicted on her via the welfare reforms, she can either move or look at some form of care.
Angela approached the council about this last year (2011). Unfortunately, the council have no suitable homes for Angela and there is no social housing or housing association properties anywhere nearby. In addition, any new home would need adaptations prior to her moving in (in Angela's case, the adaptations cost around £30,000).
Angela is reliant upon local neighbours and friends for essential day-to-day help and social interaction. They provide this help for free and gladly. These are also her friends, the people she mixes with, shares her time with, socializes with and the people she cares about.
If Angela is forced to move, she will be ripped away from her community and the place she loves so much. She will lose contact with her friends and lose her support network. In effect, and in her own words, she will lose what independence she has left.
This cannot, and should not, be tolerated by any of us.
Although people receiving DLA may be exempt from the benefits cap, they are NOT exempt from the Housing Benefit cuts and the Local Housing Allowance now being based on the 30th percentile, rather than the 50th percentile. They are also not exempt from the new rules on bedrooms and people living in a property.
I find this wholly wrong and very unsavory. Angela, and people in similar situations, should not have to cope or deal with this on top of their problems.
Angela also does not have the money to move or relocate. She also has no money for adaptations, some of which are specialist and expensive.
Who is supposed to pay for such a move?
Who would pay for the adaptations?
Many people have to turn to the private rental market – but that costs a lot more money due to extortionate rent prices – and where would a deposit or bond come from?
Like so many disabled people who cannot work, Angela no longer has access to credit cards, overdrafts or loans; her income is fixed.
As Angela said to me, "I couldn't afford credit if I could get it. At the end of each month, all the money I get is spoken for – it's all gone on bills. People don't realize how much more expensive life can be with a disability. They don't have these bills. It's the same with all the bills. I'm on the cheapest tariff with my gas and electricity company but I'm still £40 short every month. I've no idea what to do about that debt because it's an ongoing problem. People don't realize, I HAVE to use equipment and the cold affects me badly – I have to keep warm to avoid getting very ill. I only use the TV and household things, it's the heating that ramps it up and the fact I'm at home most of the time. I never used this much when I could work because I was not at home anywhere near as much. I don't think people understand how much more I have to use just because I now have to be at home most of the time. If I had a choice, I'd love to use less, I don't have a choice, though."
At the time of writing this, Angela's only real option is a care home. It is outrageous – nobody like Angela should be faced with no choice or the prospect of having their independence taken away due to welfare reforms. The safety net of welfare should be there to serve and protect Angela and others like her.
It's with perverse irony – with having a tory-lead coalition Government – that Angela is left with no choice.
'Choice' was something the Conservative Party ranted about for decades; yet here they are, taking choice away from the most vulnerable and those with the fewest options in the first place.
In her day, Margaret Thatcher offered a theological justification for her ideas on capitalism and the market economy. She claimed, "Christianity is about spiritual redemption, not social reform." She even quoted St Paul by saying, "If a man will not work he shall not eat".
Hmmnn. But what if a man (or woman) can't work?
This is central to the concerns many disabled and vulnerable people have. I include children in that too.
Nobody is saying that we should do nothing about the people who won't work.
However, it's all to easy to say 'get a job', when we know few jobs are out there. We have rising unemployment, a high level of graduate unemployment and businesses unwilling or unable to invest in jobs due to the economic situation and poor growth. Since being in power, the government has done little to really help improve the economic landscape (employers and employees say the cost of living must come down).
I do not think the government has done enough research or analysis. It seems to me that without establishing the requirements sufficiently, it would be foolish and very risky to devise policies and select models for benefits and any assessments.
For example, government data on Housing Benefit has missed some vital points. Only 1 in 8 are not working, only a small proportion of private landlords take Housing Benefit tenants, and few people get Housing Benefit that pays all of their rent.
We know that when Housing Benefit was based on the 50th percentile, there were not enough properties available for people and families at that level. We know this because most people still had to top up their Housing Benefit (from other income or benefits) in order to pay their rent in full.
This was wrong in itself for disabled people – after all, disabled people need DLA to pay for the increased and often high care and mobility expenditure when living with disabilities. To then have to take some of that money just to make up the rent cannot be right.
Yet now, with no exemptions from the Housing Benefit / Local Housing Allowance cuts for DLA claimants, that financial burden is so much higher for the most vulnerable. This hits disabled people disproportionately.
There is no question that welfare reform and modernisation is needed.
Neither I nor anybody I have come across argues with that.
However, these reforms, I feel, are outmoded and do not cater for a wide variety of situations. For that reason, on PiP/DLA, many more assessments will be necessary, which is a very costly process. It may also see the number of applicants rise – especially with increasing media coverage that could yet follow.
There are many disabilities and conditions where "care and mobility needs" have different relationships with the actual "medical condition".
Sometimes there is a direct relationship and it is obvious. In other situations, though, it may be quite different; it may be indirect, consequential, fluctuating, immeasurable or "hidden".
What this means is that a person might have a NEED due to disability because of a condition (as opposed to their typical everyday "care and mobility needs") that is not obvious, detectable, always present or predictable.
This need could be far greater than they would have typically, but is a need that does repeat and also produces further, consequential needs. And with such needs come high costs.
For example, Angela has "flare-ups". These occur entirely at random but only a few times each year. However, when they do occur, Angela has to use a hoist, special chair, commode, other equipment, and adaptations in her vehicle. In addition, her mobility is greatly impeded and some of her medical conditions worsen. She also becomes susceptible to other medical problems. These "flare-ups" can last a few hours, a few days or a few weeks. They are completely unpredictable.
During these times, her life is completely altered and her needs far greater. But these are totally unpredictable. This is due to her combined medical conditions – it's not part of her regular care and mobility needs but it is still something she needs vital help with – all of which costs money. This is why Angela's DLA is so vital to her.
Considering this therefore, assessing people via a model on just (or predominantly) care and mobility needs will inevitably mean genuine, deserving people will be excluded.
In the new Personal Independence Payment(PiP) system, there is talk in the PiP consultation document about whether one is affected for 50% of the time within a 12 month period.
However, as in Angela's case, sudden changes and "flare-ups" can occur which mean that, although a person might only need the expensive equipment and care for 10% or 20% of the time in a 12 month period, the fact is that the time percentage has no bearing on the need or cost. In these scenarios, the person still needs the expensive equipment or extra or intensive assistance.
These are not problems or episodes that anyone can predict. This is also the same for people who suffer from disabilities or conditions where the severity fluctuates at random times between extremes.
There are a lots of disabled people like this and the Government MUST listen to disabled people and organisations.
I really cannot see how the above proposed criteria (or the overall model) will be workable. I do not think the Government has done enough research into medical conditions, disabilities, care needs, mobility needs, care costs and mobility costs.
The Government claims to be working with disabled people on welfare reforms. Yet so many disabled people, charities and organisations across the UK say that is not the case, and the evidence and data point in favour of the latter.
In recent times, disabled people have been made to feel demonized and persecuted by both the Government and the media. This has not helped at all with the reform process, has caused deep offense and anxiety amongst disabled people, and has risked setting attitudes towards disabled people back by decades.
Angela said to me that, as a person with disabilities, she has felt ostracized from other people and society by comments made in TV programmes and from what she's read in newspapers.
These stories have been unnecessary, unpleasant and factually wrong. They rely on people blindly believing them, rather than checking the facts out for themselves and giving the matter due consideration.
The Government has not done enough to involve disabled people and have ignored evidence and data. As such, sadly, the attitude toward disabled people has been skewed by misinformation and misrepresentation. The picture the Government and politicians have shown does not reflect the reality or the modern world.
There are many issues that disabled people and children often face in trying to just live as normally as the next man or woman.
However, legislation cannot do the single most important thing that needs to be achieved in order to reduce the discrimination and persecution of disabled people, the elderly and vulnerable groups.
Legislation cannot alter peoples' attitudes or their misconceptions about disability, religion, race and culture or indeed sex (in terms of sexual discrimination – which is still as much of a problem in some areas as it always has been).
That is the real challenge. That will take longer.
Welfare reform is needed but this Welfare Reform Bill in its current form is outmoded and a big step backwards.


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The woman who was ahead of me agreed. But she said there would be trees. In ten years. So I joked that they must have planted seeds. Smiles all around. The vendors don't like being back in the old place, it seems. They preferred the upper place because it was a whole lot easier for them to drive in and park. Oh well.
Madame Doudouille told me that the original plans for the renovation included a fountain. That would have been nice. But, she said, the fountain was the first thing to be cut due to budget constraints. A friend of ours also said something about benches, but there are as yet no benches to be seen.
We shall see how it all works out. We've heard from some people who live on the place that the town did a real lousy job managing the work. They're not happy with the outcome. Although the serious improvements are the utilities like the water pipes, the sewer pipes, and the electrical stuff, all underground. That's the stuff that nobody sees, but one woman at the market said that she's lived here for over forty years and this is the first time those things were updated. So maybe that's a good thing.
At any rate, progress is slow, and I'm sure that once the trees get planted and the benches get installed, things will settle down into a normal state. The place has been there since the middle ages and I'm sure it will be there for a long time to come.

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I was browsing in Boots for a cheap foundation/ BB cream to get me through a weekend at home, since I forgot to pack one, and I noticed seven out of the eight shades. Since Rimmel was on 3-for-2, I thought it'd be rude not to try out two, on top of the BB cream I ended up with. After some serious swatching, one of the shades I bought was Apocaliptic.
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I really, really like both this shade & Apocalips in general. They're cheap (€7.55-ish), they're pigmented, they're long lasting & they're pretty. What more could you want?
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When my youngest son Andrew was just a toddler, one the first outings he went on was to Jones Mini Farm, now called Zoomars Petting Zoo.
My son's love for animals has grown over the years – especially after spending time at Zoomars. I have also enjoyed watching Zoomars Petting Zoo blossom.
It has been almost a year since we last visited Zoomars Petting Zoo, and so much has changed. The petting zoo itself has grown, adding more animals and activities for children. The train station is only a few short minutes from the farm, making it a fun place to visit after spending time with the animals.
Some of my favorite highlights of Zoomars Petting Zoo include:
Horse rides: These are not the pony rides visitors would expect to see, but true horse rides. There are distinct saddles that are put on the horses for younger children to ride. After children have been safely secured into the horse saddle, a zoo keeper will guide your children along a trail, giving them an experience they will never forget.
Animal petting corral: Children can come into the petting corral and enjoy feeding guinea pigs, bunnies and chickens. Children will be encouraged to pick up and interact with the animals, while being careful and considerate. You can order freshly-sliced vegetables for feeding the animals.
"A" Express Train: Not too far from the train tracks is the mini "A" Express Train. This train ride is fun for children to move around the petting zoo. (The train rides are available for an additional fee.)
Panning for gold: Just like the miners did in the Old West, children can pan for gold or jewels. A miner will help children to pan for sparkling jewels or fossils (for an additional charge). The miner will also work to teach your children about the different types of gem stones or fossils they find.
Playground: Zoomars has a large playground for children to play while taking a break from the animals. There are picnic tables located next to the playground to enjoy lunch after playing. Visitors are welcome to bring a picnic lunch for their children. Parents can also grab a fresh cup of coffee from the new shop next door, Hidden House Coffee Shop.
Corn sandbox: Instead of sand, children can have a full sensory experience in a large corn pit. Children can immerse themselves in corn, or play with the provided sand toys.
Children will have an extraordinary opportunity to interact with animals throughout this hidden gem in Orange County. All my children have grown up loving Zoomars, and creating memories that will remain in their hearts forever.
Zoomers Petting Zoo is located at 31719 Los Rios St., San Juan Capistrano. Zoomers is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. General admission is $7 for adults, $6 for children 12 and under and seniors 60 and over, and free for kids under 1; admission includes access to the petting pens, bunny patch, guniea pig gully, playground and cornbox.
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Vietnamese photographer says he will help DC-Cam find the four children, believed to be alive.
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Vietnamese photographer Ho Van Tay will come to Phnom Penh on Saturday.
FORMER Vietnamese soldier and photographer Van Tay is to travel Saturday to Phnom Penh to help researchers look for four former child prisoners of Tuol Sleng prison thought to be alive and living in Cambodia.
"We have received contact from [people believed to be the child victims], but we have not yet concluded that they are the real victims or not. Some of them are in Battambang and Kampong Thom provinces," Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), told the Post Wednesday.
"We will work with Vietnamese photographer Van Tay to find these children because he has had contact with one of the five children," he added.
The children were identified by DC-Cam in recently obtained archival footage donated by the Vietnamese government in late December. The footage will be used as key evidence in the upcoming trial of Kaing Guek Eav, the former prison's head, despite being obtained a week after prosecutors had already submitted the list of exhibits they planned to use during the trial.
Youk Chhang said that he had been "informed" that four of the five children from the video footage had escaped from S-21 and were still alive. One of them, the youngest, had died, he added.
"Van Tay has some documents and has had contact with one of the boys, and we hope that we can accelerate our work to identify these child victims," Youk Chhang said.
"We invite Van Tay to come to Cambodia to participate in the research of S-21 history," he said, adding that Van Tay would attend next week's hearing of the prison chief, known as Duch.
As the first person to enter the prison with a camera after the Vietnamese overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Van Tay's photographs, which capture the bodies of prisoners still chained to iron beds, will also be pivotal evidence in Duch's trial.


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So, I did it! I got my left tragus pierced! It is so cute, and the place I went to, Piercing Experience, was amazing. Brian did the piercing, and he was just awesome. He's got a very laid back demeanor, and he puts you completely at ease. He's got the charisma one would find in an excellent physician. They are very serious there about the business of piercing, and they're knowledgable about potential health issues. I'm due to return in 3-4 weeks to get my piercing checked out, and, most likely, I'm going to replace the jewelery in my industrial piercing, as I think it's stainless steel… Titatium is where it's at.
Anyhow, I did it, and I love it! It was not painful, either. Perhaps a bit of pressure, but that's it. It's a little tight right now, but it feels and looks cool 🙂 Yaay!


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Dear all,
I have a very simple question, but I did not find the answer in the manual (or on the statalist server)
Let's say I need to run -hist Y which gives me the histogram distribution of Y.
The problem is that, as Y has a wide range, the whole plot is not very readable and so I would like to plot only a subset of that histogram.. for example only keeping small (or big) values for Y.
In essence, I just would like to zoom on my graph!
Of course I cannot run -hist Y if abs(Y)<10 because Stata would build an histogram on that subset of the data...
Do you know how to proceed ?
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Dreaming of spring while the snow falls: Kitchen Garden Farm Share
So it's snowing again. I can't even tell you how profoundly unamused I am by this fact. Here's my walk to work this morning:
Note the lack of shoveling. I genuinely wished I had a pair of snow shoes. We're supposed to have dinner tonight with one of Adam's cousins, who is allegedly flying in around 4. It's 11 now and it's still coming down hard, so we'll see. I was perusing some old draft posts and saw these photos from last year's spring treat* CSA share and I thought I'd share them in case you, too, wanted to remember what spring/summer looks like.
First spring treat share: onions, spinach, potatoes, cabbage, eggs, lettuce mix and parsley. Some silly fool put a cabbage in the swap box, and I traded a jar of jam for it since I have a lot of jam.
Spring treat share: green garlic, harukei turnips, popcorn, Four Star Farms cornmeal, eggs, chili flakes, spinach and tea.
Spring treat share: spinach, eggs, sunchokes, radishes, chives, shallots, scallions, asparagus and Sidehill Farm Yogurt.
Final spring treat share: two heads of lettuce, white russian kale, bok choy, radishes, lettuce mix, eggs and an entire quart (!) of strawberries.
First summer share: radishes, spinach, butterhead lettuce, swiss chard and garlic scapes (woo!).
*Our CSA share is with Kitchen Garden Farm in Sunderland, MA; in past years we've purchased a "spring treat share" as well as the summer and early fall shares. This year they switched it up to a summer and a winter share, and we've been enjoying excellent produce from them all winter long - onions, garlic, winter squash, lots of sweet and regular potatoes, herbs and greens. Pickups are every two weeks until June, but alas, I don't get to do the picking up - we're signed up for a downtown pickup near where Adam works, and I work too far away and too late on Wednesdays. I'm hoping to be able to photograph some of our shares again this summer, but often my very kind husband has already put them away by the time I get home... and I'm lazy. If you're looking for a CSA with pickup options in Boston and various parts of Cambridge, I strongly encourage you to check out The Kitchen Garden - the produce is great and they are excellent communicators. And it's almost spring! Please?
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Have you known about pole barn house before? It is actually the term used to refer to a house consisting of panels without foundation. Such house is typically supported by beams or poles strategically. While it might look like traditional barn, the interior is known to be entirely open for modifications. Let us give you some examples of both exterior and interior of such house that would look amazing with traditional style. Let's get down to it and see if we can find something interesting.
1. Brown, Black House with Warm Air
- 1. Brown, Black House with Warm Air
- 2. Big Barn Home with Front Fireplace
- 3. Black Barn Home with Modern Touch
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- 6. Cool Barndominium with Its Fixtures
- 7. Beige Pole Barn Home with Big Tower
- 8. Three-Story Mountain Pole Barn Home
- 9. Seaside, Gray Barn Home Design
- 10. Non-Conformist, Pole Barn House
There is nothing more relaxing and healthy than living surrounded by nature. If you want to live in such surroundings, barn house is good to go. However, we recommend you to choose pole barn type and have it designed like the image above. It is mainly in raw wood look, but blends perfectly with the nature. Add some black tone and you will feel how warm the home is. You can see the inside is pretty roomy too. You will surely feel cozy.
2. Big Barn Home with Front Fireplace
Barn house is typically big and open. You can see right through the inside due to the front glass wall. However, bigger house like what's seen in the image above demands something that does not expose the front wall entirely yet still fitting to the theme. That is why we have the fireplace built in the middle but facing the front. It does not either cover the house or expose it wholly. This big barn home idea will make cool traditional home.
3. Black Barn Home with Modern Touch
Sure, barn home is basically one with traditional look. However, you should know that you can make it look modern with some touch instead. Have the planks and pillars painted in black, then use glass walls. These should be enough to have some touch of modern details. Decorate the terrace with modern lounge chairs, but put the traditional ones inside. Add potted plants and lamps with yellow glow to finish the amazing look of the home.
4. Rustic Red Home with Wooden Pillars
Are you fond of rustic look that shows traditional style more? There is nothing wrong with that. This pole barn house for example, has that rough tone, especially on its wooden white pillars. You can make it all the more like barn home with red and black tones. Meanwhile, the pillars on the side do make it all the more spacious. However, the interior does not have to be that rustic. You can choose traditional decors with cleaner look than rustic.
5. Rustic Black Home with Modern Details
There is more than one idea to make your barn home looking somewhat modern. This idea of pole barn house would do. It has low walls on its two sides. However, since there is no flat roof inside, it is big enough house to live in. Its espresso tone and little chimney above is what make it stay in its style. However, glass doors and interior decors are the ones to make it a bit more modern. You can add modern lounge chairs in the terrace too.
6. Cool Barndominium with Its Fixtures
How about dominium in the barn style then? If that is the case, this pole barn house is one good idea for that. Why wouldn't it be? It is built long instead of big and bulky. Also, there is less glass material used on its structure. However, the main structure with planks, chimney, and pillars remain the same. With grayish brown tone and light fixtures with yellow glow along the windows and corridors would make it look quite elegant for such home.
7. Beige Pole Barn Home with Big Tower
Barn home does not always one with single structure. Sometimes, one can be horizontally long or designed in L shape, depending on the needs. However, the one in the image above is pretty interesting. You have the usual design of barn home with plank walls and glass doors and windows. However, there is tower-like structure in the middle to note here. With beige tone as the others, it makes the entire home looking way quite grand.
8. Three-Story Mountain Pole Barn Home
Barn home design idea does not always have to be one with one floor and very spacious interior. You can make it into three-story home if you want. Take the image above as the inspiration then. It uses planks of wood and light fixtures to remain traditional in style. However, you get verandas, stairs, and unusually shaped roof above. The end result you get is amazingly great. You might never think traditional house could look like this.
9. Seaside, Gray Barn Home Design
Sure, you can always use the idea of pole barn home to realize seaside home. Even though barn is not usually there in the seaside, the sea is still part of nature. You just need to know how to make it fit the scenery. Green hill facing the ocean would be nice spot to build the home. Since the ocean is blue and the sky is white, you can lean to gray tone for the entire home. Have glass doors and windows and add flowerbeds to decorate it. Choose the same flowers that grow in its surroundings.
10. Non-Conformist, Pole Barn House
You don't need to follow the usual standards to build pole barn house. This home idea for instance, is one with two floors instead of one big kind. You use the glass walls only for some part of the walls. This is unusual but unique at the same time. Still, the use of planks and wooden pillars remains the same too. It still blends very well with the nature with the use of brown tone and lamps with yellowish glow inside. Don't you want to try realizing such home? It sure is worth your consideration


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Happy humpday folks, hope you have a good one, I've got work self-evals in my future [sad trombone].
- The Passive Voice shares a snippet about romance author Marie Force who has enjoyed a lot of success using a hybrid publishing model. More and more authors are turning towards this model as a viable way to increase their exposure (and sales), reaching beyond what traditional publishers can offer them.
- Are you ready for the sensory overload of Google Glass? The fashionably (?) framed interactive computers will be coming out soon and allow you to multitask like you've never multitasked before. But is the whole idea of multitasking a myth?
- One of the oddest stories this morning is about robotic bees. The theory goes that bees are dying in record numbers from colony collapse disorder, no bees means no pollination means no food for you and me. So the Harvard Microrobotics Lab have designed tiny robots to do the job that bees are no longer capable of… Considering that the logical next step is to put a camera on these buggers and that well, I'd rather just have bees doing bees' jobs I hope that a cure for colony collapse disorder is found.


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Clitoral Hood Reduction
About Clitoral Hood Reduction
Clitoral Hood Reduction also known as Prepuce Reduction
This is the procedure that trims the skin folds which surrounds clitoris and which increases the sexual pleasure while it improves the visual appearance of the vagina. When there is too much prepuce over the clitoris, it may prevent enough friction that can lead to enough sexual stimulation. In some cases, the skin folds at the prepuce may protrude too much and it can lead to discomfort and pain during the intercourse or when wearing tighter clothes. When the excessive skin is removed carefully, it may improve the sexual pleasure when such spot is stimulated and this is how many women are able to achieve the orgasm (sometime it is even better compared to the stimulation of a G-spot found in the vagina.


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Successful joint European research on religion as a social force
12th June 2012
The NORFACE ERA-NET (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe) was a partnership between European research councils to increase funding cooperation in the social sciences. Running between 2007 and 2010, NORFACE brought together twelve national funding agencies to launch the research programme Relemerge, Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe, which was coordinated by the Academy of Finland. Among other things, Relemerge was focused on examining the rising significance of religion. The goal was to create true cross-border research collaboration and coordination between the projects funded through the programme. According to a recent evaluation report published by the Research Council of Norway, Relemerge was successfully implemented and accomplished its goals very well.
Benefits to all partner countries
The 2006 two-stage call of the Relemerge programme involved some 60 proposals, of which 26 made it to the final stage. Funding was awarded to the ten best-reviewed projects. In addition, the programme funded two capacity-building projects, which benefited members of all projects. In all, the funded projects included researchers from ten NORFACE countries. The total funding, altogether EUR 5.4 million, was pooled through a common-pot model.
"The idea of a common pot is that each partner commits to a certain funding contribution based on population and GDP per capita, and this is done even before the projects to be funded are selected. This is a way to ensure that the funds go to the best-reviewed projects. So, it's possible that the national common-pot contribution doesn't go to the country's own researchers but to a consortium of researchers from another country, for instance. In Relemerge, this happened in the case of Estonia and Iceland," explains Academy of Finland Science Adviser Satu Huuha-Cissokho, who was in charge of programme coordination.
"On the other hand, all partner countries benefited from the programme's scientific coordination, so they did get their money's worth. The common pot was an effective way to commit all parties to advancing a common agenda."
Key observations
According to the evaluation panel that assessed the achievements of the Relemerge programme, the programme was successful in attracting projects characterised by scientific excellence. This was facilitated by the fact that the theme of the call was broad and that researchers were invited to create their own research questions. However, in its report, the panel does criticise the tight call schedule, which may have deterred some excellent researchers from applying. The panel therefore strongly recommends that the time span between call and deadline be extended, to enable the thorough dissemination of information throughout the relevant research communities and to maximise the chances that the best researchers will participate in the call. In addition, the panel recommends that capacity-building projects in future programmes concentrate on capacity building in the substantive area of the programme.
The cooperation within NORFACE, the panel says, helped stimulate excellent scientific research, develop a European research community, and tackle themes of importance to European public policy. Compared to a national programme, it was more flexible in funding international cooperation and more efficient in generating international visibility.
When it comes to documentation and reporting, the panel noted that future programmes should ensure that there is full documentation of all stages of the process. After all, Relemerge was a pilot programme, from which funding agencies would want to gain insights for their own activities.
Valuable lessons learned
The Academy of Finland was responsible for all of the administration regarding the programme and its projects up to the end of the programme. The Academy prepared the call, managed the review of proposals, controlled the common pot and administered the funding. In addition, the researchers reported on their projects directly to the Academy. Although this was very resource-intensive for the Academy, having only one responsible agency significantly lightened the load for the researchers.
"There's no ready-made model for these kinds of international calls, so cross-border collaboration and planning is very important indeed. We decided to make good use of the Academy's proven methods and rules, and modify them to fit the special features of NORFACE. We also worked hard to create new ways of working with officials across countries. This all resulted in a fairly well-oiled machine," Huuha-Cissokho says.
Overall, the Academy's experiences of the Relemerge programme are very positive. The two-stage call worked very well and there was much to learn from the entire process. Based on the lessons learned, the Academy is well equipped to further develop its own processes and practices.
According to Huuha-Cissokho, the common-pot model was considered to be so successful that it was later expanded. "Based on the success of the Relemerge programme, it was quite easy to get the partner countries to participate in funding NORFACE's full-scale transnational research programme in 2008, Migration in Europe – Social, Economic, Cultural and Policy Dynamics."
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I was reading a daily devotional the other day and it said "some of my most precious children have laid aside in sickbeds or shut away in prisons. Others have voluntarily learned the discipline of spending time alone with me. The secret of being thankful is learning to see everything from MY perspective. My world is your classroom. My word is a lam to your feet and a light to your path."
This hit me so hard for so many different reasons. There are many people that think that if you get sick, or get cancer, let's say that you did something wrong. Even the person themselves can think that. There are others that think all people in jail are bad and that's not true either. We ALL make mistakes. We can probably all think of a time that we did something and BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD we either were not caught, or nothing happened to us. I know that rings true for me and I do look back and know that it's because of the grace of God and HIS hand upon me that I am here today.
My son Daniel was talking to me last night after I read this devotional out loud and I stopped and thanked God again. He asked why it said that people in sickbeds and jail are precious. I told him ALL children of God are precious, that He loves all of us. No matter what we have done, no matter what we do daily, He loves us. He may not be happy with our choices, but once we have confessed Jesus to be our Lord and Saviour, there is no taking it back, the love is unconditional.
Then I explained that when I had breast cancer, it wasn't because of anything that I had done wrong, but it was a way for me to grow closer to God. He looked at me strange and I told him that I loved God before and I had faith and trust, but because I went through everything last year with surgeries and the diagnosis, it brought me closer to God. That without that happening in my life, it could have taken years to get that closeness, if ever. I almost feel blessed that I went through breast cancer so that I can really see who my ROCK is, who my Comforter is and who my strength comes from – God.
There are times that God just wants us to spend time with Him and by having a sickness or being confined, sometimes that can just be a way to remind us that He is in control of everything. That He wants us to lean on Him and to take ALL of our burdens away, not just some of them but ALL of them. They are not ours to carry for His word even says, my yolk is easy and my burden is light. So, why do we always carry around our junk? Habit? Stubbornness? Pride? Why?
I have found that when trouble, trials or hard things come my way, it's so much easier to give it up to God because I have learned that I can't do it on my own. I can't cope with all that I go through on a daily basis. I can't be all and everything to my boys and husband alone – I need help – I need the strength of the Lord and I call for it daily. Yes, daily. There are so many people that tell me they can't believe how amazing I"m doing or even forget I had cancer. But for me, that struggle is not over. There is a daily struggle with the hormones they give me and the side effects. There is a daily struggle of not knowing if I will be strong enough that day, or will I be too dizzy to drive and get my sons. Will I pass out from exhaustion today with no warning signs or will I be so nauseated I can't leave the couch? There are days that are just so hard and yet, I push myself to get through it. I wake up each morning and thank God for all He has done for me and then I praise Him for all my blessings. That positive start to my day is what gets me through, knowing that God is with me every step of the way.
I am not bitter or mad or sad that I am still going through this. I know it just means that I have more trust to put in God and that everything that is happening and has happened is for His glory and for a bigger purpose and picture that I can see. That's okay with me, I will trust in Him and my journey and just stay on the path He has chosen for me and I will praise Him through the storm and in every day, for I know that I can do anything when I put Him first. Amen.


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Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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Merry Christmas
We here at Lowery Leather would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!
I ain't much good at prayin', and you may not know me, Lord-
I ain't much seen in churches where they preach Thy Holy Word,
But you may have observed me out here on the lonely plains,
A-looking after cattle, feelin thankful when it rains,
Admirin' Thy great handiwork, the miracle of grass,
Aware of thy kind spirit in the way it comes to pass
That hired men on horseback and the livestock that we tend
Can look up at the stars at night and know we've got a Friend.
So here's ol' Christmas comin' on, remindin' us again
Of Him whose coming brought good will into the hearts of men
A cowboy ain't no preacher, Lord, but if you'll hear my prayer,
I'll ask as good as we have got for all men everywhere.
Don't let no hearts be bitter, Lord; don't let no child be cold.
Make easy beds for them that's sick, and them that's weak and old.
Let kindness bless the trail we ride, no matter what we're after,
And sorta keep us on Your side, in tears as well as laughter.
I've seen old cows a-starvin', and it ain't no happy sight;
Please don't leave no one hungry, Lord, on Thy good Christmas Night,
No man, no child, no woman, and no critter on four feet-
I'll aim to do my best to help You find 'em chuck to eat.
I'm just a sinful cowpoke, Lord -ain't got no business prayin' –
But still I hope You'll ketch a word or two what I am sayin'
We speak of Merry Christmas, Lord – I reckon You'll agree
There ain't no Merry Christmas for nobody that ain't free.
So one thing more I'll ask You, Lord, just help us what you can,
To save some seed for freedom for the future sons of man!
Frontier Recipes ~ Fried Beaver Tail
FRONTIER RECIPE WEEK, Part I
If you haven't checked in recently, this is Frontier Recipe Week, Part I. Here is another one of those interesting recipes from that collection.
I know, I know.. you were recently wondering what to do with that left over beaver tail you have hangin' out in your freezer. Well wonder no more! Here's a recipe just for that!
Frontier Recipes ~ Possum and Taters
FRONTIER RECIPE WEEK Part I
In my grandmothers pantry I found a some newspaper clipped recipes. For the sake of conversation we'll call them "Frontier Recipes". These recipes date back to the late 1880's to the around 1940. During that time, it is without argument considered, not always easy livin' . There wasn't a Wal-Mart down the street, or a convenience store on every corner you could pop in to get what you were lackin'. You had what you had, and you made what you had work. You used what was available, and were glad ya had it to use. Some of these recipes you will find rather interesting to say the least, and others you're definitely going to turn your nose up at I'm sure! So we'll call this Frontier Recipe Week Part 1… enjoy!


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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
My internet is being stupid, so who knows if this will even post. I don't have much to say today, other than the high school dance blogfest that's going on today is freaking hilarious. I'm sure you've seen some of them. So funny. Anyway, I'll be on vacation until next week, so I'll see you guys then. Have a great week and weekend!
Posted by Chantele Sedgwick at 1:13 PM
5 comments:
- Kelley Lynn said...
Ooo, have fun on vaca!
And ya. The blog hop is SO funny! :)
- May 9, 2012 at 4:18 PM
- Samantha May said...
Have fun!!!
- May 9, 2012 at 9:09 PM
- Leslie S. Rose said...
I'm stealing your comment, "My Internet is being stupid." That covers just about any glitch. I'm loving the prom hop as well. I also have conference envy. It looked like a blast.
- May 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- i'm erin. said...
Chantele, I'm just glad to be back to blogging. I'm sad I didn't shoot you. Next time.
- May 10, 2012 at 8:40 PM
- Ruth Josse said...
See you upon your return! Hope you're having a fabulous vacation!
- May 11, 2012 at 10:12 PM
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Guy 'Steals Police Car, Live Streams 120mph Chase On Facebook'
This is the crazy moment a 25-year-old live streamed his escape from police after stealing one of their cars.
John Pinney, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, went on a terrifying 30-40 minute high speed chase from police which he kept thousands of Facebook users up to date with by streaming the entirety of the chase from one of the officer's iPads.
In total Pinney filmed four live videos, in one of which he he struggles finding the police car's sirens saying 'I'm in the cop car, where's my sirens at?'. But before long he does indeed find the sirens and yells 'You hear my sirens? Look, check it out', reports the Daily Star.
At an earlier point in the same clip, Pinney says 'So I got cops behind me' before showing viewers the pursuit of police behind his car, adding 'this is the shit I wanna go out to'.
It is claimed that police were chasing Pinney throughout the pursuit at speeds of around 120mph.
Police have also claimed that Pinney stole the car when he noticed it was left unattended with the keys in the ignition.
In one of the other videos Pinney claims 'I can't even believe that I'm doing this though, for real. I've got away from like five cops already'.
Pinney was arrested shortly after the incident when he pulled into his driveway.


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5 ways that urine can help save humanity
From the year in pee and poop to my advocacy for the selective flush, I've accidentally become known as TreeHugger's pee and poop correspondent. Even then, most of our discussions around toilet issues seem to revolve around how to dispose of these waste streams safely and not the wonderful and sometimes surprising things that they can do for us.
So here's to a more positive note. Let's look at some ways that urine can help save humanity.
Most of us would recoil at the thought of ancient, accumulated, dried-out urine. But not climate scientists. As reported by Michael, it turns out that rock hyrax urine can be used to track our changing climate—much like ice cores or tree rings—because this small, African mammal "forms communities that live in the same rock fissures for very long periods of time, and they use the same place to pee every day."
But what do scientists look for? Pollen, bits of leaves, grasses, and gas bubbles apparently. It turns out hyrax urine is thick, viscous and dries quickly. Which is good to know. I guess.
Urinal monitors key health indicators
Urine samples have long been a diagnostic tool for health professionals, but what if all of us could took a regular urine sample to keep track of how our bodies are operating? The only trouble is that peeing in a test tube and then running a bunch of diagnostic tests does not seem quite as pleasurable as doing your business and then drinking your morning coffee. Luckily, technology may have an answer for us. Designer Royce Zhang has developed a smart urinal which monitors everything from sugar levels, PH, red/white blood cells and more.
Exposing links between BPA and heart disease
Speaking of diagnostics, urine is playing a key role in revealing how key environmental toxins like BPA are finding their way into our bodies and, more importantly, how those toxins are impacting our health. As Sara Novak has reported, extensive sampling of urine has shown a correlation between BPA levels and heart disease:
Researchers used urine samples from 758 study participants that were initially considered healthy but later developed heart disease and 861 participants that were considered healthy and did not develop heart disease. The study found that those who had heart disease also had higher concentrations of BPA in their urine.
In other news, urine samples were also used to expose alarmingly high levels of arsenic in children's blood streams, and pointing researchers to the fact that arsenic-laced chicken feed was the culprit.
Growing our food (and offsetting our aviation emissions?)
As Mat already reported, some advocates of "peecycling" claim that using urine to fertilize our fields could save 180,000,000 tons of CO2 emissions, or the equivalent of approximately half of our global aviation-related emissions. Urine as fertilizer is, of course, nothing new. We're big advocates of peeing on your compost and urine-separating toilets as a remedy for peak phosphorous. We've also seen how urine-fertilized tomato plants can outperform their synthetically aided counterparts.
A word of caution is needed though. The world's largest urine separating and composting toilet experiment in rural China (presumably the one referenced in this video) was recently brought to an end due to complaints from residents and technological hurdles.
Feeding ourselves
OK, this one really is kind of disgusting. Even for someone with a toilet fixation like me. But NASA is experimenting with forward osmosis filtering systems to create sugary, flavored energy drinks from astronauts' own waste fluids. This might be useful for the rest of us if climate change continues to disrupt the hydrological cycle. Even if we don't end up in Dune-like space suits drinking our own pee, there's a strong case to be made for recycling waste water on a municipal-scale. It might even provide further incentives for us to remove the toxins from our environment so we can actually do it safely.


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On November 24th 2015, the internet was sensationalized by the story of a Hindu hilltop temple, Sabarimala, in Kerala, India, whose president announced that women may be allowed entrance if a machine could be used confirming that they were not menstruating.
The temple's president stood firm on the management committee's decision to bar entry to women of child-bearing age on the grounds that their bleeding would defile the temple's purity.
The president cited the new-age decision as an old-age tenet of religious practice. In fact he was spouting an ancient misinterpretation of an equally ancient quote, which, when read in its entirety also states that, 'you need visible horns on your head to be called dumb…'
My response:
In 1650, a mercantile body engaged the Rajahs, lawyers and businessmen of the time to construct a common working language for the banking and mercantile class across the countries of north India, countries that are now called states. The states that make up Pakistan, the states of current north India, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Myanmar (then known as greater India) and down to the emptiness of the Deccan plateau were all once countries of the old India. The new business confederacy, with its standardized legal currency, and its shared business language, legal framework and ethos, was given the name 'Hindu'. The Hindu template extended beyond the parameters of the mercantile to construct a specifically Hindu religious template as a sign of modernity. It took another one hundred years for this concept to formally take root. By the time the Europeans arrived, the term Hindu was entrenched, but it only gained legal recognition under the British occupation, and even then only as a term of segregation and division.
'Hindu' was from the outset, then, never a dharma, a religion or a rite-ritual entity.
It was an economic, later socio-cultural construct. Nehru confirmed this – in books, in English – when he wrote that Hinduism only took root in the 1750s, originally as a function of commercial, business and banking ease and integration across the old India countries. (Gandhi, too, held the same view in private, though he would not declare this openly, and neither 'Hindu', regardless of their education and knowledge, refused to de-list Hinduism as a religion or dharma.)
Hinduism was a framework employing codes and regulations to bind commercial players and transactions to principles and practices of fair play and trust without third-party oversight. This drew upon a belief in adhering to one's personal and ancient genetic dharma, which was sacrosanct and could not be soiled or betrayed. So what the new common Hindu practice conferred on the world of business and commercial activity was a code of conduct that each side would act according to their prescribed dharma and on a basis of mutual trust.
Alongside this, a formal ritual business practice was also established. This brought together diverse and highly valued rituals under the rubric of a shared Hindu-business prayer ritual, which was overseen by an officiating Pandit, whose remit was to be more cosmopolitan than exacting. The Pandit knew the parties involved were lacklustre parishioners of their own dharma, the hypocrisy and expedience of the business world requiring that they cross lines which strict adherence to their personal dharma would not in fact allow them to transgress.
So much for age-old Hindu edicts.
Now let me revert to the temple and its discrimination against women…
In C.E.900, Adi Shankaracharya defeated a man in a formal debate. The man's wife challenged him to a debate about the act of man-woman love-making. Adi Shankaracharya, a Sannyasi – somebody who has never had a sexual relationship nor been moved to masturbate – accepted. Now, as an old soul (not to be confused with atman), the Sannyasi ought to have been able to draw on the databank of previous emotionscapes and physiologicalscapes in order to participate in the debate. He did not. Instead, he pulled what in the hierarchy of divinity is considered a dirty trick. He caused the death of the husband.
As the body was being carried for cremation the husband regained life. The husband and wife enjoyed sexual union numerous times. Then the husband died again. This time, as his body was being carried for cremation, on the horizon appeared Sannyasi Adi Shankaracharya. After due passage of time, he took up the debate with the now widowed woman. The widow accused him of having defiled his own body, so informatively did he speak about love-making. The Sannyasi announced that he had in fact used the body of her now cremated husband, the first time he had passed away, to gain experience of love-making.
The widow, who had believed that she was making love to her husband when he came back to life, was shocked at the revelation that his body had been appropriated by another. She felt herself to have violated her marriage vows, and she duly conceded the debate to Adi Shankaracharya.
At the august indication of Adi Shankaracharya, victorious in debate against a woman, India was subsequently united under the leadership of men. The Mohammedan invasion and iron-fist belief in, and implementation of, female subservience to man therefore found its corollary in the Indian practice of men-only rulers…a practice with no religious or dharmic grounding, but arrived at by one wily old Sannyasi and ever since contrived to be emblematic of 'Hinduism' – the same Hinduism later constructed as an integrative mechanism and framework of business practice.
And it is in the Mohammedans' rules and dictates, governed by Semitic concepts, that the notion of 'unclean' menstruating woman emerged and was practiced by those anxious to not fall foul of their Mohammedan Rajahs.
A troublesome problem: men dictate terms of conduct to women, the very women without whom – from the Pandit to the Lounge Lizard – man could not be born, let alone survive or find sexual and emotional comfort. Nevertheless, these women are used as whipping boys by men suffering from the inferiority complex derived from knowing that they owe everything to women…
…oh, what joy it must be to be a confused Hindu man.


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Who wouldn't be intrigued by "...a coke-snorting, fitfully bisexual, Zen-koan-spouting San Francisco detective [who] buries herself in her work...?" That's Michael Bourne's take on Claire DeWitt in 'Hipster Noir: Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt Novels' (a millions.com article). But he doesn't stop there. He goes on to describe DeWitt … [Read more...]
Blood Work done
I thought Michael Connelly's Blood Work and The Poet would be brief detours I needed to read in order to fill in some story-lines carried over into The Narrows, tenth in the Harry Bosch series. Well, I ripped through Blood Work in a little over a day, and was about to start reading The Poet this … [Read more...]
Coming to The Narrows
Wikipedia lists The Narrows as the tenth book in Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series. However... Last night when I began reading The Narrows, I soon came to these lines: Rachel knew it was Backus. The Poet had resurfaced. Just as they knew he would. It's been so long since I read the series, I have no memory of Rachel, nor Backus, … [Read more...]
Harry Bosch, PI
Lost Light, number nine in Michael Connelly's Bosch series has Harry a year into retirement, a newly licensed private detective investigating a cold case that 'keeps him awake at night.' First thing I notice is point-of-view - first person, which I find curious since all the previous books are third person. Harry's doing the talking in … [Read more...]
Binge-reading Bosch
Over the past several weeks I've re-read the first eight of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels one-after-another: The Black Echo (1992), The Black Ice (1993), The Concrete Blonde (1994), The Last Coyote (1995), Trunk Music (1997), Angels Flight (1999), A Darkness More Than Night (2001), and City of Bones (2002). Binge-reading … [Read more...]


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Searching for Good Quotes then, stop searching because you are already here, you are now in the right place. Check out these Good Quotes coming from different sources.
- "For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
by Simon Wiesenthal
- "Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
by Henry David Thoreau
- "It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
by Will Rogers
- "Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks."
by Mark Twain
- "Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
- "Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
by Margaret Walker
- "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
by William Shakespeare
- "Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."
by Princess Diana
- "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
by Clarence Thomas
- "One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests."
by Thomas Paine
- "Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
by Walt Whitman
- "Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."
by Lord Chesterfield
- "Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good."
by Henry Rollins
- "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
by Charles Dickens
- "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones."
by Solomon Ibn Gabirol
- "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
by Ernest Hemingway
- "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
by Benjamin Franklin
- "Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you."
by Roy Rogers
- "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
by Baltasar Gracian
- "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
by Albert Schweitzer
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Survivor Show Re-Cap
- I have all white room-mates and they woulda heard a N**** PLEASE! Atleast 9 times throughout the show.
- I couldn't remember what time it came on.
Asian Tribe
White Tribe
Hispanic Tribe
I watched it, and I haven't watched Survivor in the last 6 or 7 seasons, but I was curious (nosy) to see how things would turn out. I was a bit disappointed that the our people didn't do better straight out of the gate. But a little off topic, I saw a funny spoof on the new Survivor Season, I think it was on Mad TV. On the spoof the tribenames were, "Team Soy Sauce" (Asians), "Team Burrito" (Latinos), "Team Chicken & Waffles" (you should know who that is) and I forgot what they called the white team. I seriously tried not to laugh at it, but it was too funny...
Team White Bread! That was the last team name!


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Mending the Nets
Nibblets of Understanding from the Fisherman's Net
Matthew 4:19 (Amplified Bible)
19And He said to them, Come after Me [as disciples--letting Me be your Guide], follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men!
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From many sources of information and prophetic fullfillment, it has become clear to many Christians that we indeed are in the last days. Some say even the last of the last days.
So we as Christians need to equip ourselves and show ourselves approved so that we may provide the neccessary information to those that are lost and are seeking for answers and the truth. We need to be confident, loving, and understanding, of a persons needs. We need to be able to take the place of Jesus and be his hands and heart and extend ourselves to the lost and guide them in the right way. Yet, not always are people so easily receptive. People have gone through many things and are now looking for answers. They are expecting answers. Let's learn to become the means to provide those answers shall we? Let's take a personal part in the taking of the gospel unto the ends of the earth, shall we?
Lets learn how to witness, to live the gospel, and to share the gospel.
Witnessing through Love!
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7. A gentle way to reach your world.
10. Lots of Tracts
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Witness #1 This is No Bologna
Upon meeting Randy in the local supermarket, (yes you can even talk to people about Jesus in a supermarket), we quicly started up a nice conversation near the bologna section. I was with my brother in Christ and as we approached Randy, I noticed his shirt had the name "Tommy" on it, so out of fun, I said, "Your name isn't Tommy is it? He smiled and began with a spanish tone of speaking, "No, my name is Randy".
After a few rounds of light chit chat, I decided to come right out with it and say
"Do you by any chance believe in Jesus?" He said, "Of course", but I could detect also some hesitation in his voice, so I then said, Well don't get offended by what I am about to say, but, How are you doing with that, I mean following Jesus?"
Now some of you might think that that's pretty bold or pretty audacious, or even judgemental, to talk with him like that. Yet, we did not have too much time. Plus, while I agree to be as gentle as I can with people, our spiritual job as Christians is to be an example and to play the part of the sower, who intentionally goes out to sow. (Matthew 13:1-23) While tracts are sincerely a good witnessing tool, as they give people time to read a the message a little in kind of passive way, they can plant a seed. Yet, what if that person is in a crisis and really needs someone to talk to, but is too weak to ask for help?
In proverbs, it says to not withhold good from whom it is due, when it in your power to do it.( Proverbs 3:27) We for starters have the good news in our power. We also have the real answer to share with people even if sometimes you get rejected by them when you attempt to share the gospel with them. Not only do we have the good news in our power, we also have the knowledge and the means by which to lead or bring someone to the spiritual rebirth. It is actually quite easy, once you get past all of their reasons why not. Some may not allow you to get past their reasoning, but it is ok, because it is still, a good seed planted, with a personal touch.
Jesus said to the disciples, "You were once fisherman, but I will make you fishers of men." In order to do that we have to go out into the field, the highways, the bi-ways, the stores, the bus- stops, the parks, the laundry mats, literally anywhere a 5-20 minute conversation can get drummed up. There is a verse that says, Where I am my servant will be also". Jesus is ready, able, and is already working in this field that is white for harvest. What about us? Are we secret service Christians? Do we hand out tracts with tact, and hoping they will call us back?
If we were the ones not saved or the ones who were unawares, would we ultimately, want someone to lightly disturb our lives with the gospel of grace? Or would we rather truly be left alone to ourselves to do our own thing? I don't know about you but I would have liked someone to disturb me a little out from the pathway of destruction that I was on, to dissuade me from it.
Like the brother in Christ that walked up to me 30 years ago with his corny black poindexter glasses, and, said to me in Mcdonalds, "Have you heard the word of the Lord today?" I thought inside Oh, great just what I need is a Hare Krisna guy trying to get me to be religious or join him. I then thought, Well I got nothing better to do, since my car batteries are dead, and I can't go nowhere, I might as well have some fun. So, I decided to get into it with him and show him what I knew about God.
That brother was disturbing me and my life, but guess what, when He showed me the verses about being born again John 3:1-7 I got stumped in my tracks. What he didn't know, but Jesus did, was I had already been seeking after the truth in my own way, looking into many religions, including scientology, and here through this event, Jesus was using this brother to show me the entrance doorway into the kingdom. I thought to myself, what if this is what I am looking for, and it was odd because the bible text seem to jump out at me and say push the button, its right here! It was kind of like the coyote in those road runner cartoons. Just push the button!!!
So I said to him show me how to do this. He was startled, and bawked a little, and said "Well I have to show you some bible verses first." I replied, "No, no, show me now, how to do this, and you can show me all the bible scripture later." So, he brought me to a couple of his friends, and I prayed the sinners prayer right there in the Mcdonalds. I got saved right then, right there. Jesus forgave me, and filled my soul with the Holy Spirit. I felt drunk and I thought Oh, this for real, who are these people?
So, perhaps not everyone will be ready, but how are we to find out? We have to be willing to seek after the lost. We have to be willing to make ourselves available, for our Majesties un-secret service. Of course you have to use wisdom, especially on our jobs, because we are there to work. Of course not every place is a good place or every time is a good time, but good fisherman will get to know the places and times where and when the fish are more willing to bite.
Now with respect to Randy, something very interesting and unusual happened. We asked him some general questions about salvation and about being born again. His response was that he had difficulty believing in being born again, for his sister had just died this very day from cancer.
He explained further that the people in the church of his sister were also born again, according to him. According to him, they had instructed his sister to stop taking her medication and just have faith. I responded that no one should instruct a person to come off medication unless the Dr. says so.
Now, again, I do not know what the real truth was on this, but what I did recognize was that he was going through a personal devastation and crisis with respect to his faith and people of faith. It was Jesus who directed me earlier to this store, and He told me that He had someone there for us to talk to. I knew then that Jesus had placed us in his path and he walked right up to us. Jesus wanted to comfort him, knowing what he had been through, and He had used us for Randy because we made ourselves available.
Had we not disturbed his path a little, we would have missed the opportunity, and he would still be overwhelmed with this. Had loved not interrupted, there would have been no intervention.
So there is no need to sweat the small stuff, just offer yourself to be available and Jesus will take care of the details. That's what makes it so interesting, because you will recognize, His presence, and action, and love and He will leave you in awe.
Randy said it was like a Deja vu. I said it was Dios, de vu. He left encouraged, lifted, and laughing. Isn't that what good news is supposed to do? Perhaps, he was not ready yet to receive all that we were to say, but after prayer, I am sure he was be alright. Later, when God sends another brother or sister his way, he will remember that God did not forsake Him, but was there to surely carry his personal grief and sorrow
Let us all learn to be there for others and to be a means and a vehicle for God's grace and love to flow through. As Randy kept repeatedly saying, its all good!
Witness # 2
I just watch the wheels go round and round
In this witness I had to go wash my son's clothes quick at a laundry mat as my son had to go to work, in a few hours, but still needed his clothes washed. I went to our apartment laundry mat and it was shut down for remodeling. I decided to go up the road to do laundry at a regular laundry mat because I could buy a Sunday newspaper there. This is how the witnessing opportunity developed. Notice how I said opportunity.
There are many times witnessing or sharing the gospel opportunities can come up in our lives. If we are looking for that divine appointment or appointments, we will usually spot the opportunity when it shows itself. A sower went out to sow. A person who shares the word of God is looking for opportunities to sow the word into people's hearts. We have to trust that God sees what we are attempting to do and trust He will be with us as we do so. We have to trust Him leading us, and we have to trust that He will guide us in the witness as well. This is His show not ours. Jesus said "The fields are white for harvest but the laborers are few". He also said "Where I am, my servant will be also".
Jesus is already sharing the gospel o the kingdom through men, on tv, on the radio, and many other vehicles, but one on one, or two on one gospel sharing is very effective. But how do we get past our fears? Well starting a conversation with someone may be uncomfortable, but we start conversations with people all the time as we go through the day, over trivial things, or just to say hello. The trick is to have a plan or mindset that when you see the opportunity arise, you are willing to jump in and trust that Jesus has got you covered.
Of course there are ways of doing things, and one way many salesman uses to break the ice is an idea called F O R M S. This means you can start a conversation casually and by dicussing things about family, occupation, recreation, material desires, and spiritual things. You can relax into a freindly discussion without being nervous. This is not done robotically or fearfully but casually and friendly. The truth of the matter is that we are loving someone into the kingdom, and so we are on their side and are looking for developing a true relationship with them. Our goal is that they become a brother or a sister as a member of the kingdom of God. So it is not plastic conversational technique, rather, it is a place to start up a conversation and then to allow and trust the Holy Spirit to guide you in what to say. If we trust Jesus will back us up, it becomes a whole lot easier. After all He said He would, and as you experience Him doing just that your confidence level will go up.
In this case, it was easier still. As I was sitting next to somone, and (I'll call him Stan), he began talking with me. He was pointing out to me how a kid was wearing his pants down in the laundry mat and how if he was his parent he would not be having pants down like that. So since he started, I decided to go with his flow (I become all things to all men). He went on like that for a while, and then I began to share and ask him questions, allowing him to talk, listening, and being a friend to him. I was not shoving verse after verse about the gospel down his throat until he got upset and then go away. No, I instead, built trust with him, and then in the midst of this, I asked what kind of church he went to. He said Catholic. I said, I was raised Catholic, and was even an altar boy.
I said I was in a nondenominational church now, and I told him the reason why I left. I thought that it was due to my rebellious teenage years and that the service was overall kind of boring to me. I told him I have no dis-repect for the church as I went on Sunday to pay my respects to God. Yet the reason why it bored me as a teenager was because of the monotone sayings that went back and forth. It somehow did not seem genuine or from the heart.
He immediately related with that but then replied, "Well as long as one believes in God it does not matter what religion you are." I asked him "what did he mean by that"?, "You mean all roads lead to God like all roads lead to Rome. He said "Yes", but told me he believed this way because he had dated women from other religions. He said "They seem pretty much the same."
Now this is where I gently started moving him toward the truth. I said "Well how do you explain one religion saying you live once and another says that you are reincarnated and come back to live again"? This is where I pulled out my bible and asked him, if I could just show him one verse in the bible. He agreed but said, "Well you know how there are many translations and the words are changed from version to version." I responded to him and said, yeah that is true, but they really are not that much different. The basic overall message remains intact, but most people dont study the bible enough anyway to appreciate or detect those differences.
The verse I showed him is this one John 14.6 "Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but by me." I said to him "Notice the second part there, no one comes to the Father but by Him. That shuts out a lot of religions right there does it not? He brought up the translation thing again and I told him to go home and look it up on a bible online bible study thing so he could see how this verse is said in different versions. I said that I like to study with the different versions as it gives me kind of a stereophonic view of the word. I look at the different hues, and than add them up to come to a "Central" understanding. If there is something off, I usually can tell that too.
Let's look at that for ourselves now about the different versions and see how they compare. John 14.6 in parallel
Now he did not get saved there, nor did he see anything miraculous, except someone genuinely caring and understanding how he thought. He quickly wrote down the verse and was going to check it out. God had somehow touched his heart. Now I had to go then and I could have gotten his number to talk with him again, I could have invited him to my church as well, but I had to get my son to work so I had to go. Its ok, God touched him. God is using the body of Christ as a whole to bring people to him.
If you can get people to come visit your church then that's good and glory to God. If you can somehow exchange phone numbers or emails that is good to. It's good because you can follow up an continue ministering to that person as they can receive. Yet, if you cannot, the Chief Shepherd will bring someone else along, or they will stumble on to a Christian radio or TV program and He will continue to draw that person into the kingdom. All that we have to do is to not be afraid, and to allow ourselves to be used by Him to love them into the kingdom of God. After all how did He draw us in, and by what means? Was it through one person or a series of events?
Will we willing look for ways to allow God for us to participate in the gospel or will we sit on the sidelines and let someone else do it? Kind of like when John Lennon said " I just love to watch the wheels go round and round. This kind of thinking might work if you've already have made your multimillions, done what you want to do and you just wanted to retire, raise a family, and disconnect from the world in a kind of a pacified, Far eastern and Buddhist-like mentality. It looks like a good idea if you just want to chill and live the rest of your days out in peace. Yet it wont fit well on a battlefield of spiritual warfare vying for the destiny of someone elses eternal soul.
We as Christian must be willing to go into the enemy's camp, to seek to rescue the lost, and even rescue those that don't even realize they are lost. Christ came for us and loved each of us us, while we were yet sinners, while we were right in the midst of our sin. His blood that He shed at calvary was good and is good for us. His blood is good for everyone, but only if someone shows them how to receive there salvation. Let us go out into the fields and work the work that He has for us, for the fields are white for harvest.
God can use you in line at the grocery store, in any place where there is a little lag time. He can use you by yourself or better yet if you go out with another brother or sister will you find the verse two are better than one, and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.


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Queen Palm Disease
The death of Queen Palm trees due to disease is becoming a growing problem in the state of Florida, where these beautiful trees live. Thousands of trees have died and rotted from the inside out, killing one of the icons of the Florida landscape.
What Is the Queen Palm?
The Queen Palm (scientific name: Syagrus romanzoffiana) originally comes from the tropical regions of South America such as Brazil and parts of Argentina, but is often moved to areas like the southern half of Florida for landscaping purposes. It has become one of the most popular palm trees for landscaping in Florida. The queen palm grows to a height of roughly 50 feet with feather-like fronds.
Symptoms of Queen Palm Disease
When a Queen Palm contracts Queen Palm Disease, the leaves slowly start to turn from their natural green to brown due to mineral deficiencies. The plants are unable to get enough boron and manganese, which they need to maintain their color. This process starts with the lowest leaves of the tree, before making its way up the tree until all of the leaves have turned brown. The disease then makes its way into the bud of the plant, completely killing the tree. The trunk of the tree dies and becomes completely rotted out.
There are many misconceptions about what is causing Queen Palm trees to die so rapidly across southern Florida. One popular misconception is that it is the result of the effects of 2004's Hurricane Katrina, but this is not the case. Queen Palms began initially showing the symptoms of Queen Palm Disease in 2003, one year before Hurricane Katrina, although the problem has become more widespread in recent years. Initially, scientists thought Queen Palm Disease was caused by a fungus because of how rotted out the trunk of the Queen Palm became as it died, but closer analysis showed that this didn't happen until later stages of the disease, thus ruling out a fungus.
Cause of Queen Palm Disease
Scientists still aren't entirely sure what is causing so many Queen Palm trees to die in Florida. Having ruled out nearly every other option, the most accepted theory is that some sort of harmful pathogen is reaching the trees and causing them to catch this deadly disease. It is unclear whether this pathogen is reaching the tree through the air or through the soil.
Because science has been unable to uncover the mystery of what pathogens are killing Queen Palm trees, it is very difficult to treat or prevent Queen Palm Disease from attacking these trees. It is recommended that once a Queen Palm tree dies and is removed that another Queen Palm isn't planted in the same spot, in case that specific area is infected. Otherwise, until this mystery is solved, very little can be done to fight it.
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