text: HomeTourist Information Cressbrook ...one of the Peak's jewels Tucked away in the steep-sided and winding valley of the River Wye just upstream from Monsal Head and midway between Bakewell and Buxton, Cressbrook is a little gem of a village. It was to a large extent founded by William Newton, the so-called "Minstrel of the Peak," who was the manager of the magnificent Cressbrook Mill, which stands at the junction of the Wye with Ravensdale and gives a good impression of a Georgian country mansion. It is one of the Peak District's finest industrial archaeology monuments. The present mill, with its classical pediment and central cupula and the bell which summoned Newton's apprentices to work, was built in 1815. After suffering many years of neglect, the 12-bayed building now offers high-class residential accommodation. The lattice-windowed cottages built by Newton for his workers are a feature of the village, which is also famous for its fine silver band. WHERE IS IT? Seven miles (11 km) east of Buxton, just off the B6465 Ashford-Wardlow road at Monsal Head. HISTORY Newton, a self-educated carpenter born at Abney, became a partner in Cressbrook Mill after the original mill built by Richard Arkwright had burned down in 1785. Newton later became a shining example of the humane treatment of the child apprentices who worked in the mill, in sharp contrast to the deprivations suffered by those employed by Ellis Needham at Litton Mill, just upstream. Newton built the village school and the charming row of lattice-windowed cottages which face the mill and look down on it from above. The Victorian mock-Gothic Cressbrook Hallis now a hotel. The water supply of the village was once spring water, pumped up from the valley of the River Wye. Mining and quarrying There are many remains of lead mine workings within the parish of Cressbrook, and small quarries provided the village with its building stone. THINGS TO DO Walking and Cycling The Monsal Trail, which follows the line of the former Midland Railway, is very convenient for both walkers and cyclists and offers fine views of the village and easy, level walking back towards Bakewell or through Wye Dale towards Buxton. Climbing There are climbs of varying difficulty on the limestone buttresses of Ravensdale, in the valley of the River Wye near Cressbrook. FOOD AND DRINK The Anglers Rest at nearby Millers Dale (01298 871323), has welcoming coal fires and a good range of cask ales and draught lagers, plus a pool table and dart board. Much of the home-prepared food is locally-sourced, and visitors with hearty appetites will appreciate 'Pie Night' each Thursday. The residential Monsal Head hotel and Stables bar (01629 640 250) are just along the dale above the famous Monsal Head and viaduct. SELECTED CRESSBROOK ACCOMMODATION Cressbrook has a good choice of places to stay – see the full list of Cressbrook accommodation. Beehive Cottage is one of your options - a pet-friendly holiday home which sleeps up to seven guests. Cressbrook B&Bs Cressbrook Cottages NEARBY ATTRACTIONS Buxton, spa town and shopping centre Bakewell, ancient market town Chatsworth, the "Palace of the Peak" Haddon Hall, medieval manor house popular as a film set Eyam – the Plague village TOURIST INFORMATION Tourist Information Centres Bakewell TIC, The Old Market Hall, Bridge Street, Bakewell, DE45 1DS; Tel: 01629 816558; www.peakdistrict.gov.uk, open daily. Buxton Tourist Information Centre, The Crescent, Buxton SK17 6BQ; 01298 25106; www.highpeak.gov.uk; open daily Doctors Tideswell Surgery, Parke Road, Tideswell, SK17 8NS, 01298 871292 Roly Smith Editor, Let's Stay Peak District email@example.com April 2010 © 2010 - Let's Stay Peak District Last Updated: 28 Apr 2015 Tweet


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Happy Wednesday Hump Day — also known to us as Celebrity Baby Bump Day. We have rounded up the cutest pregnant celebrities of the week, starting with the genetically blessed couple Adam Levine and his wife Behati Prinsloo, who are expecting their first baby together. Anne Hathaway showed off her baby bump in a sheer top, while Teen Mom's Maci Bookout looked fabulous in a floral gown. Jenni "JWoww" Farley (at her baby shower), Holly Madison and Audrina Patridge round out our list of the most buzzworthy baby bumps of the week.
Behati Prinsloo
Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo and her husband, Maroon 5 rocker and The Voice coach Adam Levine, are expecting their first child together. The pregnant 26-year-old is reportedly "three or four months" along and was spotted last week posing in a bikini and white crochet cover-up while launching the Victoria's Secret swim collection. If you squint really hard you might be able to see a hint of a baby bump.
Levine, who once joked that he wanted to have "100 kids," has yet to speak out on the pregnancy; however, he did recently hint to fans that a baby was on the way by posting this photo of Maroon 5 bibs.
The Namibian-born model is an only child and had gushed about wanting a large family, so we aren't surprised at the happy baby news.
Anne Hathaway
Actress Anne Hathaway showed off her baby bump in a sheer black top as she and her husband, Adam Shulman, went hiking in Los Angeles. The 33-year-old Intern star is pregnant with her first baby and recently celebrated her baby shower in West Hollywood surrounded by her friends. Hathaway hasn't revealed the sex of her baby; however, Matthew McConaughey's wife, Camila Alves, was spotted walking into the shower holding a pink gift basket with the letter "G" on it.
More: 15 awesome gender reveal party ideas
Jenni "JWoww" Farley
Jenni "JWoww" Farley celebrates the upcoming arrival of her baby boy with a baby shower, with a little help from her friend and Jersey Shore co-star Snooki. The shower was filled with blue-and-white decor, including martini glasses filled with candles and rubber duckies. The cake was Beauty and the Beast-themed, which is one of JWoww's favorite movies, and featured Chip and Mrs. Potts on top.
More: Jessica Biel, Brooklyn Decker and more celeb moms share adorable candid photos
The 30-year-old reality star and her husband, Roger Mathews, already have a 1-1/2-year-old daughter named Meilani and are expecting their son in May.
Next up: Teen Mom's Maci Bookout, Holly Madison and Audrina Patridge

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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Discovery: Biblical Mysteries Explained: Sodom and Gomorrah: a warning about asteroids
Tonight, the Discovery Channel presented "Sodom and Gomorrah" as part of its "Biblical Mysteries Explained" series.
The one hour film presents an overwhelming case for the theory that the destruction of several ancient cities along the Dead Sea occurred on June 29, 3123 BC from the back plume following an asteroid that exploded over what is Austria today, even knocking the top off a mountain in the Alps. The plume would have looked like an enormous meteor shower, but soon the temperature over Sodom and other cities would have become so hot that the occupants fired and buildings burned. Lot's wife was probably incinerated when out in the open, her charred corpse looking like a pillar of salt in the region today.
The asteroid has been tracked down from Sumerian drawings kept in the British Museum in London (which I visited in 1982).
The asteroid came from the Aten Belt (link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aten_asteroid ) between Earth and Venus. The explosion was 10 times the size of the Tunguska explosion over Siberia in 1908. The explosion was 100 times as powerful as the largest hydrogen bomb. The event resulted in a "climate collapse": a "nuclear winter" of several years, and the turning of north Africa into the Sahara Desert and the middle East into the arid region it is today.
Ancient people would have seen this as the end of days, but were it to happen today, it could be a mother of all mega-disasters and threaten civilization as we know it. Yet the asteroid was less than a mile long and wide.
A comet could cause such a catastrophe, although the details of how it would explode and do damage could be much different.
The Biblical story in Genesis 19 now seems to present us with a great deal of irony. There seems to be an ultimate moral truth, but it is more about how fragile our world can be. Ancient nomadic culture was communal and socialistic (but so was early Christianity) with great emphasis on sharing hardships as well as wealth. Cities were seen as anathema to these values (as perhaps they are today – I had a roommate at the University of Kansas from the western Kansas town of Tribune, which I eventually visited, and he often talked about the corruption of cities, but this was back in the 1960s – even though he was also a fan of Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged). Sodom and Gomorrah (I'm reminded of Judge Robert Bork and his book "Slouching Towards Gomorrah") apparently were quite inhospitable to Lot and his family and other nomads seeking shelter. Lot and his family left in advance of the catastrophe. The moral lesson for today is that the demands for hospitality can come at anyone as a bolt from the blue. After Hurricane Katrina, many people took in relatives and sometimes strangers. Hospitality demands could come in any area if there were a disaster, manmade or natural. Were I still in Dallas (I owned two different condos when I lived there), I probably would have heard appeals to take in people from the Dallas MCC or Cathedral of Hope (separate now). I once did take in someone for a few months in October 1980.
Of course, this gets us to the issue of homosexuality, and the idea that this story led to the condemnation of any sexuality that does not risk procreation, and the word "sodomy" and the legal issue (stemming in large part from religious misinterpretations) that would not be settled until Lawrence v. Texas (2003). Yet, some of us experienced the early days of the AIDS epidemic as a mega-disaster, which it has always been in Africa (although, again, apparently not because of homosexuality).
Pictures: McCollum Hall, University of Kansas, where I lived in room 907 1966-1968, looking out of Iowa Street in Lawrence; devastation in Bay St. Louis, MS, photo taken by me in February 2006.
Posted by Bill Boushka at 6:55 PM
Labels: comets and asteroids, from outer space
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rom 11 to 14 April EUCAP Nestor hosted a meeting Nairobi aimed at identifying Somali maritime security priorities and operational capability, in order to plan support for improved maritime security in Somalia.
The exercise will feed into the European Union Member States' and European External Action Service's planning of EUCAP Nestor engagement in Somalia 2017-2018.
Participating in the gathering were the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Security of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), Mohamed Jama, the Deputy Commissioner of the Somali Police Force, General Bashir, the Somaliland Minister of Interior, Ali Mohamed Warancade, the Commander of the Somaliland Coast Guard, Admiral Mohamed Hussein Farah and the Somaliland Coast Guard-Ministry of Interior Liaison Officer, Mrs Suhuur Abdilahi.
The "EU family" was represented by EU Member States, the EU Delegation to Somalia (EUDEL), EU NAVFOR Operation ATALANTA, EU Training Mission in Somalia (EUTM), and the Brussels-based Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability and Operations Centre. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) also attended.
In their presentations, the Somali participants stressed the importance of being included in the planningphase of operational support, expressing appreciation for the EUCAP Nestor initiative.
According to remarks made by the participants, the exchange of information was fruitful in addressing challenges, expectations and possibilities, as a preliminary step before detailing future activities.
"I believe this is the way forward, as it is crucial to listen and understand what the needs of our Somali counterparts are, whilst at the same time managing Somali expectation on what EU Common Security and Defence Policy Mission are able to deliver. The participation of EUNAVFOR, EUTM, EUDEL and UNODC guarantees a coherent and comprehensive approach, enhancing chance of success", said
Simonetta Silvestri, Acting Head of EUCAP Nestor's mission, expressing satisfaction for the frank and open discussions among all parties involved in making Somalia a safer place.
EUCAP Nestor is a civilian EU mission, under the auspices of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy, which assists Somalia in strengthening its capacity to ensure maritime security and in particular to fight piracy.
EUCAP Nestor – Somalia Office
Press and Public Information Department
CBA Centre, Mara and Ragati Road, Upper Hill, Nairobi
P.O. Box 30475, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
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Grilled Veggie Wrap
Super filling and Super easy! If you happen to have left over guacamole, you could spread it on with the hummus and jam for for extra yumminess.
- whole grain wraps, whole grain pita bread, flat bread, etc.
Grilled Veggie Ideas:
- red onion slices
- mushroom slices
- zucchini slices
- pineapple slices
Spread Ideas:
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- Smokey Non-Cheddar Sauce (see recipe)
Fresh Add on Ideas:
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- avocado
- tomatoes
- sprouts
- saur kraut
- jicama
- Slice veggies to be grilled. Grill to desired tenderness.
- Warm wrap in pan, or on grill.
- Spread hummus on wrap, then spread fig jam, and/or any other chosen spreads.
- Load wrap with grilled veggies, then top with fresh items.
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Pro-Sight Property Inspections is the best alternative to a traditional franchise. Offering guidance, inspection marketing information, a great SEO optimized home inspection website, one on one mentoring, marketing materials design, and online proprietary home inspection software.
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To be clear, we are not offering everything that a traditional property inspection franchise does, but Pro-Sight is definitely a viable alternative to create your ongoing successful home inspection business. A Pro-Sight membership might be the best home inspection business alternative for you. But you should explore all avenues available before you decide.
Starting out in a new industry is no easy task, and we know that. Home inspection franchise companies can help somewhat with name recognition. However franchise name recognition may or may not that prevalent with buyers or real estate agents, so keep that in mind. There are definite benefits of building your own business name, and on your own terms. Franchises do offer much, but is it enough for all the cost's and the length of commitment (typically 10 years) – that is for you to decide.
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Once used on the iPhone, turning off MobileMe sync for bookmarks will result in deletion of all the bookmarks on the iPhone. Furthermore, there is no way to force the iPhone bookmarks to over-write things on the Mac if the sync ever goes awry.
If, like me, you ever end-up with the "good" bookmarks on the iPhone and "bad" on the Mac, there is just no way to sync the good over and replace the bad. However, one can do some tricks with the iPhone back-up preferences file (plist) and Mac Safari export/import bookmarks to achieve a transfer from iPhone to Mac. Once complete, two-way sync will be restored via iTunes. Unlike the MobileMe sync, you can turn off the iTunes bookmark sync to Safari without losing bookmarks on you iPhone.
I'm not responsible for lost data. Back-up everything before you start this process. Do NOT sync the iPhone until the process is complete. Others may have some shortcuts or improvements to this process [eg, convert Mobile Safari plist to Mac Safari plist instead, or use XSLT or shell script improvements, etc.]. I welcome those suggestions and will re-post them. Leave a comment or send email to me at mobilemind (at) pobox.com.
Here's how I managed to save my iPhone bookmarks, recover them to Mac, and switch off MobileMe bookmark sync without losing data. Now I just use iTunes for Bookmark sync.
1. Download iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor by clicking on the big honking icon on that page. (I sent him $10 USD because it worked so well for me. Send him a few Euro if it works for you too.)
2. Launch the Extractor, open a backup and extract "iPhone OS Files".
If your current back-up is questionable or to deliberately use an older version of iPhone bookmarks do the following. First make a copy of the current back-up, and put it in another location. Then use Time Machine or your back-up utility to find and restore a "good" previous version of the backup, from:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
Remember that "~" is shorthand for the user home folder (Home icon in Finder, or Shift-Command-H).
3. Save the "iPhone OS Files" extract to a new folder, and find the Bookmarks preferences file. It should be in:
newfolder/iPhone OS Files/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist
4. Convert the binary preferences file to XML. Open a terminal window and go to the folder with Bookmarks.plist. Then issue this command:
plutil -convert xml1 Bookmarks.plist
Leave the terminal window open, you'll need it in a minute.
5. Open Mac Safari and do File > Export Bookmarks… to save a backup. We'll use this if anything goes wrong, and it's a handy reference example of the bookmark file format. I saved mine as "Safari Bookmarks.html" and put an extra copy in the same folder as "Bookmarks.plist".
6. Get or make some shell magic with grep to reformat the XML plist preferences file into a rough approximation of a Mac Safari bookmarks import/export file. I found a great bit of code from Dave Taylor here.
I took Dave's example and removed some stuff like the sorting (more on that in a minute). Then I added the necessary opening and closing tags for a Bookmark file, with some comments. Here is my shell file for you to download: plist2bookmarks.sh
7. Save the shell script and make it executable. Save the shell file to the same folder as the converted Bookmarks.plist file. Then go to the terminal window and make it executable by you (the owner) and your group.
chmod 774 plist2bookmarks.sh
8. Execute the script and direct the output to a new file. I called my output file "MobileSafariBookmarks.html" (no spaces to make the shell command easier).
./plist2bookmarks.sh >MobileSafariBookmarks.html
9. Clean-up the "MobileSafariBookmarks.html" in your favorite editor to make it match the folder hierarchy of your iPhone Bookmarks. I used Dreamweaver CS4 and TextMate to open my reference file ("Safari Bookmarks.html") and the new file ("MobileSafariBookmarks.html"), bouncing back & forth to make sure I got the tags right.
Have your iPhone handy to check the folder structure. That helped me as I did edits. The comments put in by "plist2bookmarks.sh" should help you understand how and where to create folders (or nest them).
Keep in mind that the iPhone has a few built-in bookmark folders and bookmarks, like the "History" folder and the bookmarks for "Yahoo!", "Google", "AT&T MyAccount", and "iPhone User Guide".
10. Prepare to import Mobile Safari Bookmarks into Mac Safari. Make sure you have a back-up of your Mac Safari bookmarks. Then open Safari, use Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks, and delete ONLY your bookmarks. Do NOT delete Address Book or other items. In m case, I selected Bookmarks Bar and deleted all the items there. Then I selected Bookmarks Menu and deleted all those items.
11. Import the Mobile Safari Bookmarks into Mac Safari. Use File > Import Bookmarks… to import "MobileSafariBookmarks.html" as cleaned-up in step 9.
12. Verify Mac Safari against Mobile Safari before you disable MobileMe sync of bookmarks. Remember, that will delete the iPhone bookmarks. Carefully check the list and URL addresses of the bookmarks now in Mac Safari against the list and structure in Mobile Safari on iPhone. Quit Safari on the Mac when you are done. Quit Mobile Safari on the iPhone too.
13. Take a deep breath and delete the bookmarks on Mobile Safari by disabling MobileMe sync of Bookmarks. On iPhone, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then, under Accounts select your MobileMe account. Change Bookmarks to OFF. iPhone will warn you about deleting bookmarks. That is OK, because we now have them in Safari and will soon sync with iTunes from Mac Safari back to iPhone.
14. Disable iTunes automatic syncing for devices to allow us to make changes. Do not connect the iPhone yet. Start iTunes. Open Preferences and select Devices. Check the box that says "Disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods". Close Preferences.
15. Connect the iPhone and change iTunes to Sync Safari bookmarks. After the iPhone connects, it may sync anyway. That is OK. Select the iPhone in the left panel. Then select the tab labeled Info in the large main panel of iTunes. Scroll down to the shaded bar for Web Browser and check the box next to Sync Safari bookmarks.
16. Apply the change to sync. Click the Sync button in the lower right corner of iTunes and wait.
17. When the sync is done, all the bookmarks moved manually from the backup to Mac Safari, will be restored to the iPhone. From now on, the iPhone and Mac Safari will sync via iTunes. Changes on one will be reflected on the other after each sync. As an extra bonus, the MobileMe "push" should be a little shorter and a little less battery draining, since bookmarks are no longer synced over-the-air.
If you want, you can even turn off iTunes bookmark sync and add/restore your original Mac Safari bookmarks, either to keep things separate or to merge them back to iPhone later.


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Creating Transaction Inquiries in Visa Resolve Online (VROL)
What is the first thing you do when a cardholder does not recognize a transaction? You research the transaction to get more information about it. The transaction inquiry function in Visa Resolve Online (VROL) lets you search Visa databases to find authorization and settlement transactions. Transaction inquiry is the first step to creating a dispute in the new dispute process. This course shows you how to create a transaction inquiry and other related inquiries. This course includes questions to review your knowledge as well as practice exercises. This course is included in the Handling Disputes with Visa Resolve Online bundled course.
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text: Punk aficionados, mark your calendars. Punk history is about to be created on November 26 this year, the 40th anniversary of the release of the hit Anarchy In The UK by the Sex Pistols. John Corré, the progeny of the perfect punk couple combination – Sex Pistols manager, Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood, is rioting about what he […]Read more


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FYI, the coup's official English name is The Council for Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
FYI, the coup's official English name is The Council for Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Well, after I was drove around bangkok downtown I think the situation now is as same as before the coup, you guys who worried about your trip in Thailand please don't worry much ;).
As of now, it's no curfew, no mob, people can go everywhere they want (except some prohibits places, you know where ;)).
The band of authors are always welcome you who want to visit our land of smile.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Nothing new today. The rumours now concentrate on the next PM. The best candidate one for this time is the president of administration court. Preedeeyatorn, who currently held the president of the bank of thailand seems want to be Minister of Finance instead.
Another news said that the coup is in negotiate with Supachai, Thai director of UNCTAD because of his international highly profile.
Current situation is turned to be fun event. Everybody, especially the kids, are very excited with the tanks and the troops, which aren't common things on the street.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
The band of authors let all content to be licensed under Public Domain.
Noted that "Pantip.com" also host the Rajdumnern webboard that I said shut down last night, while Rajdumnern still closed, others webboard on Pantip.com sill working as usual.
Now, mainstream media including newspaper and TV are back in place and return their normal operation. So the need of independent media like us or other blogs are lower. This blog is going to halt anytime in near future. In all means, it can prove that internet, non-mainstream media can be useful in critical situation like yesterday. Thanks you all for reading and spreading this.
Ok let get back into news update:
- 13:00. The coup invited many ambassadors from various contries and organization like UN for meeting. As mentioned below, new temporary constitution in 2 weeks, new prime minister who must be civilian, neutral and democracy-advocate as soon as possible.
- One interesting question is from Japanese representative: Will the coup file any case against Thaksin? The answer is nothing to do with him and his family. Thaksin still has full citizenship's right.
- New PM in 2 weeks, he or she will work with new council to reformate the politic within 1 year. New PM will have fully authority to choose his cabinet.
- The other question is about inspiration of this operation. Gen Sonthi didn't state clearly, he just said that it's depended on current situation and there is no one behind him and the army.
- The coup also address that this is not related with the soutern part of Thailand situation. For that, The 4th Army who has responsibility in soutern part is on the way solving problem.
- More ex-government, Thai Rak Thai party key people show up and tell the press that they are fine and aren't arrested.
I think in next few days, the news will be less because overall situation seems to be settled enough and new government are on the way. Please expected less frequent update of this blog.
At this moment, all Thai public television has been restored to normal program. But on cable TV such as CNN or BBC, there's still censorship when the reporter mention to
The coup said, they will draft a temporary constitution and also appoint a temporary government within 2 weeks. After that they will let a temporary government to do their jobs and draft a constitution within 1 year.
This approach is not clear as long as a temporary government is appointed.
Vice permanent secretry of Ministry of Transport said the grand opening schedule of Suvannabhumi Airport is not yet decided to shift or not, however as of now the schedule still on September 28, 2006.
I think to change a opening schedule is very difficult to arranged due to many airway's offices are already moved to the new location, but final decision depends on the coup.
Yellow vs. Blue Ribbin Army !!
Hot from the world of viral news circle. A reliable information source helps clarify an emerging worry. There is a report of large-scale military unit marching from the North wearing blue ribbin on their uniform and guns. This has caused some misunderstanding as yesterday's army was all wearing yellow ribbin. Many speculates the blue ribbin to come from pro-thanksin army.
This is not true. Reliable information source confirmed that the blue ribbin army is actually the same side with yellow ribbin. They use blue ribbin because the color-blue belongs to the cavalry unit. They were called by the cheif of army to back-up the force in Bangkok for peace keeping.
They were also now ordered to change from blue to yellow ribbin in order to aviod confusion. All the army units are on the same side. There is no pro-thaksin army coming from the North as some people has speculated.
What a relief :)
News on CH9 reports that tomorrow almost every schools will open again. Only few schools which are in risk area can be closed for another day, this is up to the director of each school. I don't know what "risk" actually means, maybe in the soutern part of Thailand.
Tomorrow (21st) will be normal work day.
Since my office is in the same building with Ministry of ICT, my colleage just told me via phone that he can't get into the building campus, Tank-controlled, Amazing!
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Thai Airways International was announced that all flights are operated as normal.
The latest news in 12:00 report is PM Thaksin still stays in the US, he can't go to UK bacause of flight problem.
I want to state cleary that there is no Gun Fire or any violence until now and doesn't tend to be too. Live seems to be as usual, anyone can walk around the street, some companies still open. So you don't have to worry about safety for your friends or relatives, Thai or non-Thai, who currently are in all part of the country. They may be exited but they all are still fine.
Anyway, I admit that political situation remain unclear. News reports that the Airport is very crowded. So if you think returning to your home country or cancelling the trip will make you feel better, you should do it immediately. But if you're on the way, don't worry much.
Reaction from Thai citizen seems to be in diversity. Some anti-Thaksin group give flowers to the troop. Anti-coup movement can be seen online via forum/blog. It doesn't tend to have any violence in all area.
Today schedule
- The coup invite the ambassador to Army Headquater around 12:00
- Gen Sonthi will talk to the press and media around 14:00
- Bangkok Biznews - PM Thaksin left US to UK. (He already has mansion in London)
- Prachathai - Pojaman, Thaksin's wife, left Thailand to Singapore last night. Some key people in the Cabinet are arrested.
General Sonthi prepare to first broadcast on 9.00am. Check back again on this blog.
9.09am (GMT+7), 20 Sep
All free TV still broadcasts the King documentaries.
Lastest announcement on TV regarding to the head of Democratic Reform Council official statement about this situation on 9.00am (GMT+7), and normal TV program can be boardcast from now on.
8.26am (GMT+7) - Channel 11 and ITV are back to their normal program.
8.37am (GMT+7) - ITV is back to the King documentaries again, but Channel 11 is boardcasting not related this matter program. Cable TV channels are back to their normal programs, except CNN, BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg and CCTV.
8.51am (GMT+7) - All cable TV channels are blocked again, local free TV channels are back to the King documentaries again, except channel 11
There is now a rumor that Thaksin's cabinet and politicial figures are now plan to hold a satellite government in Singapore with the hope to lobby the UN to back them as the true representative government.
Again, just a rumor.
It seems that all local Free TV channels are still taken over by the Coup. They're boardcasting only His Majesty the King related Ads and rerun last night annoucement, nobody knows when this matter will finish. Cable TV channels are still blocking by the Coup eg. HBO, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel and of course CNN and BBC.
Our only one way to get the lastest development News is internet, CNN or BBC still accessable.
From dusk 'til dawn on the revolution day
20.30 Early military movement; 4 Bangkok-Lopburi buses contain soldiers arrive at the Army head quarter along with other military vehicles.
21.00 Media secured; All major television channels stop broadcasting their own programme and replaced by King's documentaries. Military took full control of news rooms.
21.30 Thaicom satellite takeover; 70 military men took over Thaicom satellite command station.
22.00 Tanks to government house, 10 tanks from the 4th cavalry division moved to the government headquarter. Once there, the army seized the place.
22.20 Thaksin declared state of emergency from
23.00 The Party of Democractic Reform announced their first message on blue screen (TV) and radio confirming their take-over and ask for people cooperation.
23.50 The Party of Democratic Reform (PDR) announced their rationale in coup making. Mainly accused Thaksin government of creating prolonged crisis as well as inappropriate dealing with monarchy.
01.53 PDR announced Sonthi as acting prime minister. The constitution, cabinet, senate and constitution court are dropped.
2.41 PDR met the king. Announcing key civil servant officials to report in the morning at 9.00am as well as making the 20th a holiday.
3.52 BBC and CNN are dropped from UBC, the key cable network provider.
6.02 PDR delegate heads of military divisions as directors of peace keeping.(details not totally confirmed)
1st and 2nd commands from Democratic Reform Council (AKA the Coup)
- 1st command
- All management level of government office and
- All university's president in metro and neighbor area have to report for duty at head quarter of army force on September 20, 2006 at 09.00 (GMT+7)
- 2nd command
- Due to uncontrollable situation in Bangkok metro, Democratic Reform Council was announced that it's government office and bank holiday on September 20, 2006. Also for Stock Exchange of Thailand.
2.31 (GMT+7) on September 20, 2006 - Confirmed
Head of the Coup command that it's government and bank holiday on September 20, 2006. Also for Stock Exchange of Thailand.
The TV just reported that the Coup leaders already visited the King's place and reported him about this event. After that, they went back to Army Command for further discussion.
- Wikinews for this event. (in english)
- Another Liveblogging from Hunsa.com (in Thai)
- Bangkok Metroblogging (english) has some pictures and reports as well
There are plenty of rumours around for now
- Internet Connection will be cut down in several hours
- The King already sign the acceptance for new interim PM, which is the supreme judge of administrative court.
- Bangkok Biz News - PM Thaksin remain calm in his hotel room at New York.
- Nation Channel already setup their site for this event. Some videos and photos included.
Another news source from Reuters. The content seems to be up-to-date as this blog at the moment.
- While there's no formal prime minister, the command will come from the coup.
- All departement take command from the coup until there's other announcement.
By you have cleary seen, the govern of current goverment has make many argues in Thai people as never been seen in Thai history. Each side of argument try to win in many way and this situation seem to be worst. For most of Thai people has doubt in the goverment, for it likely to take part in many corruptions. Independent organization has been intervened until cannot be functional as declared in the constiute. The govern also likely to disrepect the King for many times. Even there're many attemps to solve this but all were failed.
Therefore, the group which combined with head of armies and national police have to take govern in Thailand. We assure Thai people that we didn't have intent to govern this country by ourself, but we try to give back the power to Thai people as fast as we could. All of these for peace and national security and respect in the King all we respected.
September 19, 2006. 23.50.
Gen. Sonthi Bunnyaratkalin
Head of the group.
Third Annoucement from The Coup
- The current constitution is dropped
- The carbinet, house of representative, house of senator and the constitutional court are dropped as well
- other type of court remains
- The King representative remains
The Coup has declared to cancel constitute, senate, constitution court, and house of representatives.
The announcement signed by Gen. Sonthi Bunnyarut, Head of the coup.
- Bangkok Biznews - Announcement from the Coup
- Bangkok Biznews - Minister of Defense try to counter this. They seems to seize some area in Bangkok for now.
- Bangkok Biznews - Stock Market will be opened normally tomorrow. The committee will suspend it if the index fall down than 10%
- Bangkok Biznews - Currency exchange rate for THB (Baht) fall from 37.49 to 37.27 USD/Baht
เมื่อเวลา 23.20 น. พล.ต.ประภาส สกุนตนาค โฆษกคณะปฏิรูปการปกครองในระบอบประชาธิปไตยอันมีพระมหากษัตริย์เป็นประมุข ประกาศคณะปฏิรูปการปกครองใจความว่า
พี่น้องประชาชนที่เคารพเนื่องด้วยขณะนี้คณะปฏิรูปการปกครองในระบอบประช าธิปไตยอันมีพระมหากษัตริย์ เป็นประมุข ซึ่งประกอบด้วย ผู้บัญชาการเหล่าทัพและผู้บัญชาการตำรวจแห่งชาติ ได้เข้าควบคุมสถานการณ์ในเขตพื้นที่กรุงเทพมหานคร และปริมณฑลไว้ได้แล้ว โดยไม่มีการขัดขวาง เพื่อเป็นการรักษาความสงบเรียบร้อยของบ้านเมือง จึงขอความร่วมมือประชาชนให้ความร่วมมือ และขออภัยในความไม่สะดวกมา ณ ที่นี้ด้วย
TV shows the First Announcement of military coup. Picture same as below.
The representative said that Thaksin's government has lond damaged the country and cause many corruption. So the military commander and police supreme commander decide to seize the power suddenly. They insist they don't intend to be the new government and will give the power back to democracy again.
After the blue message below, around 23:00 (GTM+7). This person (seems to be head of the political judge) announce that revolution coup can control Bangkok and ask the citizen to stay calm. Message is the same with the blue one.


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My favorite dish on the menu, and maybe of all time is a masterpiece called "Spicy Tuna on Crispy Rice." Now, I know what you're thinking, so what? It's like a spicy tuna roll? Probably not that good.
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When I moved away to college, I couldn't find a similar dish anywhere, and the withdrawal kicked in. I started googling, trying to find a way to recreate this myself, and over the years, this is the recipe I've honed that gets it right. Enjoy!
Ingredients Rice Base:
- 1 cup sushi rice (makes 3½ cups cooked rice)
- 1 cup seasoned rice vinegar
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2½ teaspoons salt
- 6 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
- *Saran Wrap for molding – very important
- Vegetable Oil for frying
Ingredients Tuna Topping:
- 1/2 lb raw sashimi grade tuna (can be frozen, but fresh is preferred. I can't tell the difference, but my boyfriend thinks the fresh is much better.)
- 3 tablespoons Kewpie Mayonnaise (regular mayo is okay if you can't get Kewpie, but I HIGHLY recommend using Kewpie if you can
- 2 tablespoons Sriracha – this stuff is spicy, so add slowly, and add more to taste
- 2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil – if you like this flavor, you can add more to taste
- 1/2 – 1 scallion thinly sliced – again, can add more scallion to taste
Other Ingredients:
- Soy Sauce
Instructions Rice Base (part 1):
Let's start with the rice! The key to this recipe is the rice. Have you noticed how good sushi rice has a slightly salty yet tangy flavor? Well, it's not magic in the sticky rice grains, it's a seasoning called sushi-su, which we will make and add here.
So, first let's get the sticky rice cooking – make sure to wash the rice first, to remove the starchy coating. Pour the rice into your pot, cover it with cold water, swish it around with your hands, and carefully drain with a strainer. Repeat this until the water runs clear. Next, follow the proportions and instructions on the rice box for water to rice, etc, and get it cooking.
While that's cooking, make the sushi-su: combine the salt, sugar, and seasoned rice vinegar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Make sure to stir this mixture frequently (almost continuously), as it's going, and remove from heat as soon as the sugar and salt have dissolved. Set aside and let it cool while you wait for the rice to finish.
When the rice is fully cooked, transfer it to a wide, shallow pot or bowl. I typically use a roasting pan for this step, but whatever bowl you choose, make sure you line the bottom with Saran Wrap. Trust me, this rice is very sticky, and the pan will be a nightmare to deal with after you're done. Once the rice is in the pan/bowl, gradually pour ½ a cup of the sushi-su over the rice, evenly. As you pour small amounts of it over the rice, gently mix it through with your spatula. Taste the rice occasionally, and add more to your liking! If there is leftover sushi-su, you can store it in a sealed container in the fridge for a month. (Which you should, because after you try this recipe, you're going to want to make this dish every day)
At this point, cover the rice with Saran Wrap or a damp paper towel, and set aside to cool, while you work on the tuna topping. We'll come back to the rice later.
Instructions Tuna Topping:
(Note: if you're using frozen tuna, defrost first, by running the tuna under cold water.)
There are a couple of options on how to prepare this – if you have really nice tuna, and you love the taste of sashimi, you can slice the tuna into small cubes – 1/3 – 1/4 of an inch thick. That said, the spicy tuna served in most restaurants is more of a tuna mash/ purée. Personally, I prefer the second option, but it's totally up to you. Either way, you'll still need to slice the tuna into small, manageable pieces first, so do that, and toss the fish into a medium sized bowl, eliminating as much of the whitish connective tissue in the fish as possible. Add the mayo, Sriracha, scallions, and sesame oil to the bowl, and mix well. Now, if you want the restaurant style puréed spicy tuna, grab a fork and mash the chunks of tuna until you achieve the desired consistency. Taste, and add more Sriracha, Mayo, and/or sesame oil as desired. Cover the bowl with Saran Wrap, and pop it in the fridge.
Instructions Rice Base (Part 2):
When the rice is cool enough to handle (it should be by the time you finish mixing the tuna topping), you'll need to mold the rice into small, rectangular shaped pieces – about 1½ inches long. DON'T do this with your hands. I repeat….DO NOT SHAPE THESE PIECES WITH YOUR HANDS. The rice is incredibly sticky, and it will quickly spiral into a starchy gluey mess, if you do it this way. So, grab your Saran Wrap and use it as a barrier (food condom! (Sorry)) between the rice and your hands as you're shaping the rice pieces. *IMPORTANT*: when molding the rice, make sure you're squashing it down into densely packed pieces – if it's too loose, the rice will just fall apart when you fry it.
Once formed, coat these rice balls with sesame seeds (I love sesame seeds, so I usually add a fair amount at this point, so do as much or little as you'd like).
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Putting It All Together:
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I've seen lately a lot of articles that explain what it's like to lose a lot of weight whatever means people elect to choose. Sometimes it's those who chose a surgical intervention, like I did in 2001. Sometimes it's by the million other ways people lose weight with diet and exercise.
Our society has a fascination of how people get really fat and then become really thin, if they've never had a weight problem. If they did have a weight problem, and did something about it, people like to relate to those who had the same issue. If someone has an unresolved weight "problem" and hasn't been able to figure out a way that works best for them, it helps them either find a way to try something new, and for those who are fat acceptance advocates, I'm not saying meanly when they use that to further an FA agenda which I don't believe weight loss problems should be used, but there's definitely a need for Size Acceptance and Fat Acceptance because of all the fat bigotry and hatred, that we have in our society. Because I am in Size Acceptance and Fat Acceptance as well at existing in the weight loss surgery community for support as a long time peer. BOTH for good reason. And it will be better explained as I go along.
I can relate to all sides. That's probably why I defend them and represent them. Even though the most militant weight loss surgery and Fat Acceptance advocates do not want to have an association with me, because I'm on both sides. I know what it's like to lose a lot of weight as I went down originally from a size 24 to a 9/10 on average the 1st year I had my gastric bypass, then in the middle of year 2, after a bad breakup, I found exercise to tone, and I found myself shockingly going down an additional 5-6 sizes. At my smallest, my closet contained kids clothes in a size 14/16 (which I as a fat child was never in an "appropriate" size for my age) some 2's, mostly 4's and XS and a few 6's. Because I'm anal about "rounding up" to the biggest size I had in my closet, while I had a few size 6's, I was on average a size 2-4 and I was extremely toned and extremely fit when I found a love of exercise (you'll have to read my favorite blog that I've written of all time, "Ugly Hurts", as I have pics of how I looked at all weights in the last 10 years).
In my case, I knew that at a size 9/10 that I was thin. I had been heavy my whole entire life, even though I was not like my other weight loss surgery peers super morbidly obese by bmi standards, I wasn't even morbidly obese. But I was a size 24 on average from lifelong dieting.. I did have some extra skin and I did try to have reconstructive surgery when I was a size 9/10 but it wasn't covered by my insurance. And given the fact I did end up losing another 30+ plus pounds and going down another 5-6 sizes, a year later, it's just as well. I also ended up though starting in 2007, going up another TWENTY sizes and this is what this blog is about.
I've talked ad nauseum about my gastric bypass complications, the mental health issues that played a part into them, and as a direct result of them. I was put on a lot of psychotropic medications, starting in 2007, however because of where I was mentally, I've never been able to express other than in some places in this blog, what it's REALLY like to gain a lot of weight after a major weight loss. That's what I hope to accomplish now. Especially because I am on the heavier side, that I've been in the last 4 1/2 years, and I'm a lot more lucid and have the means to talk about it.
As I've also stated in other blogs, while I joined Facebook in late Summer of 2009, because of all the psychotropic medications I was on, I had NO IDEA of what Facebook or social media really was. When I was more lucid and on my own in the beginning of 2010 is where I found both size acceptance and the weight loss surgery community on Facebook. Because of my gi bleeds and not being on those meds, while I started my acclimation into a "normal" society out of the system in the beginning of 2010, depending on who I saw and when I saw them, I either gained or lost an enormous amount of weight. I'll explain that, as well as where I am currently.
Most people STILL have trouble understanding how I originally gained a lot of weight after having a surgical intervention to lose weight. Let alone having still major gastric bypass complications at my heaviest and of truly physically sick I was back in in a size 24 in 2009. They don't realize the enormity of power that a lot of psychotropic medications have. I was on an enormous amount of psychotropic medications that not only made me more food obsessed and eating disordered (as I'd been food obsessed and eating disordered, MOST of my life) but these medications not only effect people metabolically,again, they create the food obsession from HELL. And I'd want to eat things and I would, even though I'd throw them up.
The LAST thing I want to do as a Mental Health activist is deter people from taking their meds because they are gaining weight or they have a fear of getting fat. What I do want to instill in people, whether or not they are trying to lose weight, OR if they had a surgical intervention such as weight loss surgery and gained all their weight back or never got to goal, that psychotropic meds is a enormous barrier to "successful" weight loss. And it's not discussed at all either in society or the weight loss surgery community. Or Size Acceptance and Fat Acceptance. Not knowing the extent that the damage not only weight wise these medications can cause, cause people to think either their weight loss surgery failures or that they are fat because they haven't tried hard enough to lose weight, not knowing what they are up against.
But even though weight gain can be an issue for these medications, it can NEVER be up to a patient, whether they had weight loss surgery or NOT, that they go off them, due to weight issues, alone. Untreated mental health issues can lead to SUICIDE and severe chronic depression. That's a lot worse than being FAT. And it's one of my primary reasons of existing as a Medical, Mental Health and Body Diversity activist and advocate that our society better understands this and understands how much the stigmatization of weight issues HURTS everyone, whether people are thin and dying from anorexia or they are fat and feel like failures and want to die.
But this is the point of my blog. NO ONE wants to talk about what it's like being fat after losing a MAJOR weight loss. So I'll tell you. It SUCKS. No one understands even though I'll explain til I'm blue in the face that yes, I exercise and while I eat in moderation most of the time, that I've now bounced and/or gained weight because I've spent MOST OF MY LIFE, on a diet of some kind. Then on a psychotropic regimen that effected my weight, because I didn't get diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder 2 until I was almost 39, and had a nervous breakdown, I gained almost 100 lbs back. I was "only" 100 lbs overweight at the time of my weight loss surgery. But I had lost 107 at my thinnest and fittest and maintained being thin for 6 years, the last 3 1/2 of being REALLY thin the last 3 years I was thin.
BUT……There is ONLY so many times a person can lose weight before a body rebels. And I am heavier now that I like as I've gained weight recently and I'm uncomfortable. That doesn't make me a crappy SA/FA because I'd like to lose weight and it's not necessarily for health reasons, either. I'll still defend anybody's right to lose weight or be the weight they want for any reason. It's just not personally working for me, but I'm finding I can't lose weight anymore. But the last thing I'm looking for with this blog or in general is how to lose weight.
It's NOT fun to get the looks from people who saw me at my thinnest and look at me and wonder "HOW THE FUCK DOES SOMEBODY GAIN WEIGHT AFTER WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY AND MAJOR COMPLICATIONS???". It's NOT a fun having to exist in a public if you've read my last blog where I work out in public and people don't believe it, because I'm FAT AGAIN not every knowing how thin I was or everything I've been to get thin and stay there. It's not fun of the looks I get when I eat out and people don't understand why I'm picky but polite when I eat because I still can get gastric bypass dumping syndrome, but I can tolerate more foods then I could, pre gastric bypass reversal and the fact that I had my gastric bypass almost THIRTEEN years ago. And because I don't qualify foods as good or bad, I do get looks when I eat foods that are unhealthy and people have absolutely NO problem telling me that I should not be eating that because I'm fat. Absolutely not knowing everything I've done since I've been FOUR years old (and I'm almost 45) of everything I've done to lose weight. But no one has a right to do that to ANYONE for any reason.
I'd be an absolute LIAR, if I didn't said there was a LOT of things I miss about being THIN . Clothes. Being as physically fit as I was. And it was easier to work out, weighing less, for ME. Fitting into society and not getting strange stares, no matter what I did because I wasn't fat anymore. And for someone while I had been on a million diets, the SIX years I "enjoyed" "thin privilige" had a lot of good things to it.
But as others have blogged about, there was the bad of life after a major weight loss who've experienced it. The extra skin (which I didn't have at my thinnest). The anger I had about that I had to lose weight to gain acceptance. The fact that if I saw people after my daughter was born but hadn't seen them since my gastric bypass that my children were INVISIBLE. All people saw as that Lisa WAS FINALLY THIN. Nothing else mattered. The changes in my relationships as it made people uncomfortable even though I was pretty unassuming about having a major weight loss like that. And that I had at the time a lot of justifiable anger, that's what I needed to do to get any respect. And if you've been reading my blog, since the beginning, I was a fully functional and present single mother. I worked full time. I drove a car, my kids were in activities, but how I got treated fat as a single mother of one, even though I was a single mother of TWO, when I was thin, I got treated a lot better, just based upon the fact that I was THIN. So you can only imagine all the judgments not only just about weight that I've subjected to my whole entire life,. While this is about what it's like to be FAT after a major weight loss, the major loss in abilities and how devastating that is, goes beyond people's comprehension of how heartbreaking that is to me. And I understand that my circumstances are so unusual as a whole to most.That's why I'm trying to explain it.
This is what I am asking from society. And it's a lot, given the circumstances of how much weight is talked about. It's natural to make judgments on people's weight. But it's absolutely a crappy thing to do, is to judge someone's character by it. Whether they are thin or fat. No matter what they did to be thin or fat. Even if they make it YOUR business, it's not right for you to judge. No one looking at me, a total stranger, would know absolutely everything that I've done, my whole entire life to lose weight and maintain it. You only know that about me because I've specifically chosen to tell you that, to try and instill empathy in others (and truthfully, myself). Whether you are a weight loss surgery person or someone who's lost a lot of weight or a little weight, by any method and kept it off. Or someone who a lot or a little weight but couldn't keep it off. Or people who choose not to let weight judgments effect them, and are in Size Acceptance/Fat Acceptance and accept their bodies as it is, it's not your place to judge those who choose to lose weight, but they have no right to shove it down your throat, either.
And that shouldn't be demonized, either. Intentional weight loss. The fact people do give up on weight loss attempts and accept their larger bodies as it is, if they find they don't want to be in the vicious cycle of weight loss and weight gain (and yes, it is possible to be healthy and fat, it's also DEFINITELY possible to lose a lot of weight and maintain it long term). And it's not based upon as much on physical health as people claim it to be as far as the "Obesity Crisis" as it people claim it to be, but people have a right to lose weight. They just don't have a right to shove it down your throat on a minutely basis. It's basically an aesthetic issue and a moral judgment that HURTS everyone(I understand the actual health and mobility issues that go into a choice of weight loss, I'm not discounting it) but I don't see a trillion "before and afters" of people's cholesterol and blood sugar levels post major weight loss. At the same time no one should be shamed or judged for losing weight, either. No one would know that I've NEVER had one traditional "comorbidity of Obesity" both past and present. I've had every had every psychological aspect of being a fat child and fat adult in my life. I've also been bullied for being thin.
****I GET ALL SIDES is ALL that I'm trying to say****
I hope it makes sense why I choose to do the activism that I do. I hope I've explained that how weight stigma no matter what people's size is, HURTS EVERYBODY. I hope it makes sense why I'll fight for body diversity acceptance and hope that we can become a society that does not judge people or makes assumptions about them no matter what weight people are. I hope that my SA/FA peeps and WLS peeps realize that aren't as polarized in their beliefs as they think they are. All they are asking is for acceptance of their weight choices. That neither has a right to impose or judge one another based upon weight issues. There's always that thin person making the assumption of how people get so freaking fat in the first place. And truthfully I understand why they think that, I hope though, if you pardon the horrible pun, I've given them "food for thought" on how toxic their judgments of fat people are. I hope people who've never had to struggle with weight issues, better understand how horribly harmful (as well as inaccurate) their assumptions are on people who are fat and thin (whether they are naturally thin or they've been successful at their weight loss attempts).
As long as I'm able to resemble anything articulate somewhat intelligent thought, I'm always going to do the activism I do. I at this point consider myself a human rights activist. I'll pretty much be an advocate of treating all people with respect, no matter what race, gender, sexual preference, weight and religious beliefs people ARE. That I have no patience of BULLYING of any kind on any person from child to an adult. I just don't have a lot of tolerance for hateful bigotry. NO ONE should. Hopefully I've accomplished dispelling stigma as it applies to why people can get fat after a major weight loss in this blog. And why it's hurtful to me and everyone else of the stigma and the judgments we make on people of any weight. And that while my failure to lose weight and keep it off is not the worst thing in my life, given my circumstances and why I hope it helps others to understand, how hurtful it is to judge people based upon whatever size they are.
As I've said in a previous blog and it WAS profound as it applies to weight issues. "THERE IS NO WINNERS WHEN WE WAR ON ANY PERSON OF ANY SIZE FOR ANY REASON". And you can never know people's reasons or any of the battles they are fighting internally on the inside. So don't make rash and unfair judgments about their exteriors, that's all I'm trying to say? Okay????
That's my story and I'm sticking it to it. Now, I want to hear yours……..
***Again, the same rules apply. All responses even those in vehemently in disagreement of what I say, will be posted unless they are disrespectful. Thanks****


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John Etty examines how far history has been moulded by enviroment.
Modern textbooks on Russian history often include an introductory chapter on the country's climate and natural geography. Writers, it seems, believe Russia's physical environment is either so significant or so widely misunderstood that students must receive an explicit description. Natural geography and climate are not always important in a region's history, however, and it is possible to overstate the impact that Russia's geography has had on its history. The winter defeats of Napoleon and Hitler, for instance, were more than just seasonal coincidences. Nevertheless, the nature of Russia's physical environment has undoubtedly had a significant impact on its history in recent centuries.
Though Russia is now smaller (at 17,000,000 square miles) than both the Tsarist Empire before 1917 and the USSR in 1945-1991 (both around 22,400,000 square miles), since the expansion of Muscovy and the days of Ivan IV, the first 'Tsar of All the Russians', Russia has always been among the world's largest nations. Russia is presently the largest country in the world – almost twice as big as the next largest, Canada, and 70 times larger than the UK – and its size has always been the basis of its colossal potential strength.


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Video Lesson
Chord Chart Available in Songbook
Guitar Techniques
To get that warm, organic acoustic guitar tone I am using my thumb to pick out the intro riff and strum the chords. I'm also picking closer to the bridge of the guitar for the strumming. These are the guitar technique's Bob Marley used, as you can see in the video clip below.
I also am keeping my right hand in constant motion to keep the rhythm flowing. This is important to feel the pulse of the music and so your playing doesn't sound stiff.


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Apex Professional University Hosts its First Convocation on International Students Day
17 Oct, 2017, 06:19 BST
GUWAHATI, October 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Apex Professional University (APU), Arunachal Pradesh, witnessed a landmark celebration of its First Convocation on Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's birthday declared as an International Students' Day on October 15, 2017 at Pasighat with tree plantation and lighting of lamp. The convocation began with the reverberating sound of conch shell and was declared open by Acharya Dhanwaant Singh, Founder & Chancellor of APU after the National Anthem.
Conferral of Degrees and awarding of scholastic medals for achieving academic excellence was done at the APU Convocation event. On the occasion, APU also conferred honorary doctorate on Sardar Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO and President, Datawind, Canada and Creator of Akash Tablet for Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
The Convocation ceremony began with the welcome speech and academic report by Prof. Dr. A. A. Dange, Vice Chancellor, APU. In this report, the Vice Chancellor emphasised the development of the APU in the past years, both on academic and administrative fronts. He mentioned that more than 65% APU faculty memebers are Ph.D. Degree holders and the University maintains an international level of student-teacher ratio of 1:6. The Vice Chancellor also emphasised on the unique teaching methodology of the university, which is a blend of Bloom Taxonomy and Gurukul tradition.
Addressing the gathering, Sardar Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO and President, Datawind, Canada, shared success sutras with students and said, "It is important to encourage innovations and the young talent pool of this country must strive to develop new applications for public services." He appreciated and admired APU's stellar work in various fields, particularly technology-based gurukul education system.
Dr. J. S. Patil, Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Assam, said, "The reputation of the university is shaped by the manner in which its students behave and conduct themselves. The students have the power to make or break the reputation of a new institution." He appreciated APU on the outreach program of the university and acknowledged the important role that the university demonstrates in vocational training and education.
Dr. Joram Begi, State Chief Information Commissioner, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, as the Chief Guest of the Convocation said that the top 10 universities in the world are only private universities and he appreciated the role of APU as a state private university for their contribution in building up as one of the fastest-growing university in a very short span of time in North East India. According to Dr. Begi, Arunachal Pradesh is now home to a host of reputed educational institutions like a NEIRST, NIT, RGU, CAU-CHF, NEIFM, and APU is a new addition in the educational firmament of the state.
Acharya Dhanwaant Singh, Founder & Chancellor of the APU, congratulated the students and wished them success in building their future careers and serving the state and nation. He motivated the students, saying the students should do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. He emphasised the need to serve the country and humanity by bringing out the best in oneself through strong determination and high goals. He also encouraged the students to pay back the society in the form of dividends by using their gained knowledge and skills to help those who are weak, needy and deprived.
Hon'ble Member of Parliament, Shri Ninong Ering, was also present during the convocation along with Mr. Tatdo Borang, Addl. Deputy Commissioner, District East Siang; Dr. A.K. Pandey, Dean, CHF, Central Agriculture University, Pasighat; Col. Manoj Kumar Khare, Chief Engineer GREF; Mr. A.P. Singh, CO, Indian Air Force and Dr. Yater Ringu Darang, Chief Medical Officer of the Pasighat General Hospital.
APU campus was a scene of festivities and happy faces and emotional moments with farewell parties, group photos, selfies and celebrations adding to the mood. Family members exchanged notes of success of their wards and immensely enjoyed the convocation ceremony. Although the convocation happened on a day that saw rain and cloudy skies, the event ended with a ray of hope and joy that is sure to inspire the students and faculty of this university in the years ahead.
About Apex Professional University:
Apex Professional University (APU) is a non-profit university established by the Government of Arunachal Pradesh and Apex Foundation, Bangalore under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Scheme. Government of Arunachal Pradesh has legislated Apex Professional University Act, 2012 (No. 7 of 2013) as a Statutory University vide notification No. LAW/LEGN-17/2012 dated 10th May, 2013. APU started functioning in July 2013 under the sponsorship of Apex Foundation, Bangalore, one of the top charitable organization in the field of education.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has accorded its recognition to Apex Professional University as a state private university vide its letter F.NO8-13/2013(CPP-I/PU) dated 28th June 2013 in accordance with section 2(f) of UGC Act, 1956. As per Ministry of HRD, Government of India, Apex Professional University is empowered to award Degrees as specified in section 22 of UGC Act, 1956.
Apex Professional University, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh is approved by Bar Council of India, New Delhi, Council of Architecture (CoA), New Delhi and is a member of Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi. The APU has also obtained no objection letter from the AICTE, New Delhi for conducting technical and management programme.
Apex Professional University, Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh is empowered to register external (private) students in accordance with Apex Professional University Act (No. 7 of 2013) and the consent of the Distance Education Bureau (DEB), University Grant Commission, New Delhi.
For more detail about APU, visit: http://www.apexuniversity.ac.in.
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Playing Forward and 18moons partner to release The VRoom
Playing Forward is using The VROOM, it's software for 3D and augmented reality story-telling, to create a range of enthralling, animated and augmented reality 3D story worlds for young children. Playing Forward is launching with Bark in the Dark, from the Maxi the Taxi Dog stories, Dex T-Rex from Stan Lee's Kids Universe and It's Just So… from Notable Kids Publishing.
Each story is carefully selected for its ability to entertain and engage whilst addressing issues that children commonly face in their social
and emotional development. Many more stories are already under development. Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) multiply the fun-factor for kids while making best use of their daily allowance of screen time. VROOM games and stories are designed in collaboration with child development professionals to promote empathy, problem-solving abilities, personal resilience, and the management of emotions—what educators call "social-emotional learning" (SEL).
Playing Forward is excited to be partnering with 18moons to bring augmented reality experiences to kids across the globe through their Planet Kids App. "Their multi-language, multi-media app for kids is ideal for The VROOM's applications," said Richard Harris of Playing Forward, and their 'learning through play' platform aligns with our mission to both entertain and educate".
Playing Forward's offerings enables the development of age-appropriate use of Augmented and Mixed Reality in children's entertainment, presented through a range of innovative and engaging experiences, including enabling a physical picture book to come to life as an animated 3D pop-up world, when viewed through a smartphone or tablet.
The VROOM experiences will be accessible through a variety of formats including: physical story books, app-based games, video streaming, and Holotoons™, the world's first 3D cartoons. The VROOM stories are currently available on Apple smartphone and tablet apps, and coming soon to Android, Planet Kids, Windows 10 and Smart TVs. Planet Kids app provides aggregated, multi-media content for kids through a strategic partner network reaching over 120 million families with preschoolers in 19 countries.
About Playing Forward
Playing Forward is a technology and content development company focusing on the creation of engaging and compelling interactive experiences in augmented and mixed reality.
About 18moons
18moons is a global media company headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, recently recognized in Kidscreen's Hot50 for digital media. Their learning through play platform is utilized by content and distribution partners like the BBC for the CBeebies preschool app, available in multiple languages in 19 countries.
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18moons Initial Coin Offering
The way we create content, consume content and exchange content has been completely disrupted by demographic shifts, social media and technological advances in a mobile-centric world. The increased appetite for on-demand content coupled with the emergence of blockchain technology creates a unique opportunity for creative talents to fully exploit their creative contributions as well as monetize their intellectual property through a completely transparent and equitable smart contract system.
Up until this time, there have been significant barriers that limit both the access to markets as well as the income generated by creative content. The power was concentrated in the hands of a few big players who had both the means to reach audiences as well as the resources to create and distribute content. The convergence of mobile, technological advancements and blockchain is unleashing a new wave of creative innovation and 18moons is at the forefront of this movement.
We are excited to announce the launch of 18moons Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which will expand content development and distribution opportunities through our Planet Kids platform. Our token crowdsale will bring instant utility to both the creative community as well as our end consumers, parents and kids, who will benefit from the ever-changing universe of global, local and original content that will be unlocked through the use of our tokens, Planet Kids Coins (PKC).
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The New State of Early Childhood Development
Three profound changes over the past several decades have coincided to produce a dramatically altered landscape for early childhood development, service delivery and child-rearing worldwide.
Firstly, an explosion of research in the neurobiology, in behavioral and social sciences has led to major advances in understanding the conditions that influence children development and if they get off to a promising or a worrisome start. Read More Here…
18moons acquires Playrific assets
As of January 2017, 18moons has acquired most of the assets of Billerica, MA, based Playrific, inc. The deal involves all apps and websites tied to the services of Playrific, under their brand name. More of the games, activities and apps developed by Playrific can be seen at http://www.playrific.com.
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Friday Night, Light Attendance
December 19, 2017
On game night of Week 8, the St. Thomas varsity football team was defeated in a close battle against Concordia Lutheran High School. After the heartbreaking loss, many football players and faithful St. Thomas football fans, reflected on what went wrong. Other than the defensive breakdowns and offensive turnovers, there was one key component that was absent from the Friday night game plan, the energy. The stands were quite empty on Friday night, with more noise being created by the visiting crowd.
The cheers created from the home crowd can be a key factor in a victory for any sports team. If you have ever attended a professional sports competition, you may have noticed the cheering after the home team makes a good play and the energy traveling around the venue. As athletes, we feel this energy and transmit it to our performance.
After talking with many students of St. Thomas and questioning them on why they choose not to attend the varsity football games, I have summarized the main reasons. One senior explained to me that the team is not performing and it is not entertaining to watch the games anymore.
Since the football team hasn't been performing, especially against big rivals like Episcopal and St. Pius X, students don't think it's worth it to attend the games. As a fan, the atmosphere is not exciting when the team is losing by a substantial margin.
Further discussion with students brought up another aspect of the football games that affect the attendance, and that is the events leading up to the big games. School spirit has been on the decline these past couple of months. Students aren't excited about school activities, especially the Friday night football games. Many students are simply not interested.
The previously engaging and entertaining pep rallies have turned boring and chaotic. The Eagle Guard are lacking motivation to create fun pep rallies. Their enthusiasm is not present during the actual game, and the crowd loses focus. When they fail to hype-up the game throughout the week and attempt to make up for it on Friday, students have already made plans for the night.
Although many students are very disappointed with the football game attendance, they do, however, have some great ideas that could make going to the Friday night games a priority in the student body's weekly agenda. Junior Gabriel Lenz thinks that we should have more advertisements for the games to notify the students.
"There need to be signs in the hallways talking up the game and more reminders on EBN to give people time to adjust their personal schedule."
The Eagle Guard needs to take on more responsibility. Whether it's scheduling meetings to plan pep rallies or simply hyping-up the games throughout the week, the STH students are disappointed and expect better performances in the future. Senior Sebastian Housh thinks that the Eagle Guard should have more attention-grabbing performances so that it is not routine.
"Even if it is just shooting t-shirts into the crowd, they need to plan activities that makes people want to come to a game. If there were more special events during the games, I think people would want to go more."
Recently, the football team hasn't been performing as well as expected, but a change in home crowd attendance could just be the boost they need to begin a home game winning streak, looking forward to the future seasons.147
Connor McGovern is the Editor-in-Chief of the Eagle Magazine Staff. Connor is an Honor Roll/St. Thomas Club student and is a member of the National Honor...


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I thought I'd end the week on a more upbeat note.
Apparently, tango dancing can treat insomnia and help alleviate anxiety and stress.
According to researchers, just 2 weeks of tango dancing can significantly improve mood.
Study participants saw significant reductions in levels of depression, stress, anxiety and insomnia.
The positive effects extended to improvements in self belief and life satisfaction.
Furthermore, the benefits of tango were still around when researchers conducted a follow-up a month later.
If you want to replicate the tango cure, you'll want to dance four 90 minute sessions each week for 2 weeks.
If your dance skills are more restricted to watching Dancing with the Stars from the couch, some form of alternative exercise will likely yield similar effects.
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