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Laundromat is a community lot assignment introduced in The Sims 3: Ambitions. Sims can go to these lots to wash their clothes, benefiting from the laundry system introduced in Ambitions.
To do laundry at a laundromat, zoom the camera there and interact with one of the washing machines. Your Sim will gather laundry and take it to the laundromat where they will be charged a fee. The higher quality machines charge more and aren't eco-friendly, but offer better moodlets and a small chance of finding the mysterious laundry gnome. Laundromats open 24 hours a day meaning Sims can use the laundromat even during the late night hours.
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The Cleanesque Laundromat is the laundromat in Twinbrook. It has two floors. At groundlevel is the laundromat where you will find washing machines and dryers, expensive and cheap ones. Ground level also features bathrooms and a garage for any driving customers. Upstairs is a vacant floor, ready for decoration. The remains of Macy Clay can be found behind the parking lot.
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The Sudsy Time Laundromat is the laundromat from The Sims 3: Town Life Stuff Pack. It can be found in the lots and houses bin and is available to be placed in any neighborhood once Town Life Stuff has been installed. The lot has two floors - a ground (first) floor, containing numerous washers, dryers, and sinks, as well as laundry-themed décor, and a second floor, which contains a foosball table and some chairs, as well as a large balcony. It has a modern look and a 20x30 size.
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Players can create their own laundromat for other neighborhoods either by copying the Cleanesque Laundromat from Twinbrook or making their own. A laundromat lot needs only a washing machine and a dryer to function, but there must also be a laundry-related object at the home of the active family so that dirty clothes will be generated.
You can also make laundromats with the patch which came with ambitions but you will either need store content for the washers/dryers, CC, or get The Sims 3: Ambitions. The University Life adds a dryer and a washing machine, giving you access to laundromats too.


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Question for the minister: Why is your department partly blaming the child victims of sex crimes, and their parents, for the incidents? This is the question that Child Safety Minister Tracy Davis refuses to directly answer. Instead, Ms Davis's office issued a statement in which she claimed the Newman Government wanted "to make Queensland's child safety system the best it possibly can be".
More and more families are taking steps to confirm their children's parentage. But experts say it doesn't have to be a negative and nasty experience. For decades paternity tests have been cast as the bad guys, the marriage-breakers, an all-round negative experience – but now, as they become a more common part of modern life, some experts are extolling the positive side of testing. It is estimated that in Australia, more than 10,000 people – interestingly, mainly women – sign up each year to find out whether their child is biologically theirs, says Professor Michael Gilding of Melbourne's Swinburne Institute for Social Research.
When I found out he was doing it, it was so hard to take in because I've always had a big fear of drugs. We wanted to be strong and give him a message that we didn't approve, so we packed up his stuff and put it at the front door. It's really hard and it's really upsetting, because you watch this person that you raised and that you love so much just disappear in front of you.
Plain packaged cigarettes may taste the same as those with branding, but try telling that to smokers. As tobacco companies know, perception is everything, writes Adam Ferrier. Advertising makes cars drive faster. Advertising makes shoes more stylish. Advertising makes cleaners clean more brightly. Advertising makes everything better.
Countries entered a second week of UN climate talks in Doha deeply divided on key issues even as fresh warnings were issued that rising greenhouse gas levels are putting our planet in peril. After six days of intense negotiations, observers on Monday said nations were far from agreement on extending the Kyoto Protocol on curbing emissions of Earth-warming gases, mainly carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from burning fossil fuels. With evidence mounting that man-made climate change is melting polar ice caps and causing sea levels to rise more quickly than feared, poor countries insist the West makes deeper, more urgent emissions cuts under Kyoto and gives more cash to help the third world adapt and cope.
Victoria has banned what it calls 'dangerous' gambling technology. The State Government says poker machines with plug in headphones undermine responsible gambling. An anti-pokies lobby group says other states should follow Victoria's example. But, as Simon Lauder reports, the industry says the state's ban is discriminatory.
Groups concerned about preserving the fertility rights of disabled people should be focused on more important quality of life issues, an Australian mother says. The unnamed mother has written a submission to a Senate inquiry saying that dealing with the menstruation of her daughter, who suffers from moderate intellectual disability, had pushed her close to "breaking point". The community affairs references committee inquiry is examining the involuntary or coerced sterilisation of people with disabilities in Australia.
The sterilisation of children without their consent must be criminalised, along with the taking of a disabled child overseas with the intention of having them sterilised, the Australian Human Rights Commission says. The recommendation is contained in the commission's submission to a Senate inquiry into the involuntary or coerced sterilisation of people with disabilities in Australia, which began in September.
The Law Institute of Victoria says a funding crisis at Victoria Legal Aid means vulnerable clients will miss out. Last year, the organisation posted a $3.1 million deficit in its annual report. This year, the budget is expected to blow out by $10 million. The president of the Law Institute of Victoria, Michael Holcroft, says the budget crisis is the result of increasing demand for services.
U.S. District Chief Judge Robert Jones ruled that Nevada has what he calls "a legitimate state interest" in maintaining the traditional institution of marriage between one man and one woman. He says the state has the right to prohibit recognition of marriages from other states.
It sounds like a trick. The latest research from Australian Unity's Wellbeing Index claims the first year of marriage is the absolute worst, but stick it out for the next 40 and you'll be the happiest person in the world. Got to say the story made me laugh a bit - December marks my 18th month of marriage. And while I have to say the ups and downs have been equal for us, they've definitely felt different than before we got married.
Barnabas Fund is providing heaters and blankets to Christian families suffering as a result of the conflict in Syria. As winter sets in, around 1,500 heaters and over 3,700 blankets will be distributed among the most vulnerable families. Many of the families have been forced to leave their homes as a result of the ongoing conflict. In addition to winter provisions, Barnabas Fund is distributing food, baby milk and medicine.
A Greens member vying for preselection for the ACT Senate race has apparently been told not to criticise the candidate favoured by federal leader Christine Milne. Kate Hamilton refused to repeat any criticism of Simon Sheikh, the former national director of GetUp!, whom she previously labelled a ''celebrity candidate''.
On Meet the Press on Sunday, presenter Paul Bongiorno put it to the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, that the "Israel lobby and the opposition are very unhappy you were rolled on Australia's vote in the United Nations giving the Palestinian Authority observer status". The fact is that there are no Israelis in Australia who lobby for Israel. Presumably, what Bongiorno intended to say was that there are Jewish Australians who support Israel.
President Obama won 65 percent of the single women's vote by promising to look after them. This past year America has seen a trumped up "War on Women" that claimed women's freedom depends on "reproductive rights".
If Egypt's constitution is passed in a popular referendum on December 15, women's rights and girls' rights in the country are among the most threatening issues at stake, local NGOs and women's rights advocates have warned. The Egyptian Association for the Assistance of Juveniles and Human Rights added that Article 70 also does not prohibit child trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Labor's asylum-seeker regime faces a new High Court challenge after a group of 56 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers launched an urgent bid to block their deportation, challenging the government's "screening out" process. The Refugee Action Coalition brought the challenge on behalf of the Sri Lankans, who claim they were due to be deported on the orders of Immigration Minister Chris Bowen this morning. At 4.30pm yesterday, they sought an injunction to stop their removal and received an undertaking that they would not be removed before their case was heard again on Thursday.
Suspected Islamist fighters went on the rampage in northeast Nigeria overnight, killing 10 Christians with guns and machetes and burning down their houses, witnesses said on Sunday. The attack happened in a village called Chibok, in a remote part of northeastern Borno state, at the heart of an insurgency led by Islamist sect Boko Haram. "Suspected Boko Haram came at night and set people's houses on fire before killing their victims," said Nuhu Clark, a former local councilor of the village who escaped the attack.
Journalists working for the Associated Press have been warned not to use the word 'homophobia' in their reports because it is inaccurate. It is wrong to assume that someone is suffering from a 'phobia' just because they disagree with homosexuality, new rules suggest. The style guide for Associated Press (AP) reporters has been updated to say: "-phobia," "an irrational, uncontrollable fear, often a form of mental illness" should not be used "in political or social contexts," including "homophobia". AP Deputy Standards Editor, Dave Minthorn, said: "Homophobia especially — it's just off the mark. It's ascribing a mental disability to someone, and suggests a knowledge that we don't have. It seems inaccurate.
Brisbane's first woman bishop always believed in God, but you could say she really "found" him in a small hotel room in China. The Venerable Alison Taylor will take up leadership of the southern region from April 2013, replacing current bishop, the Right Reverend Geoff Smith. Archdeacon Taylor built a successful career as an urban planner in the 1980s, before having her daughter Miranda and turning to priestly studies in 1993.
High school students say they are not getting sex education soon enough and want topics such as puberty and pregnancy discussed in primary school, a Victorian study has found. Yet a study by the same researchers found most teachers of year five and six students were uncomfortable talking about the reproductive system in sex education class. More than half year 7, 8 and 9 students think almost all aspects of sex education topics should be introduced in primary school, the survey of about 100 students in Ballarat found.
In a nation that is often described as "post-Christian," a spark of revival might be on the horizon. A breeding ground of Darwinian evolution and atheism -- and more recently, spreading Islamization -- England has been recognized as falling away from its Christian heritage for generations. But recent survey results released by Oxford University indicate that a large majority is ready for a return to its Christian roots.
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General Election 2015: Patriotic Socialist Party Manifesto
The Patriotic Socialist manifesto for the 2015 General Election contains a number of proposals for reform of the welfare system and employment rights. The Party is standing in two seats in the General Election - Batley and Spen and Newbury.
The Party manifesto call for Nationalisation or re-Nationalisation of "key industries and institutions, including British utilities, telecommunications, transport infrastructure and the Bank of England." It also calls for the introduction of "new regulatory measures for businesses and companies in the private sector in order to protect consumers and workers rights".
Patrick Harrington, general secretary of Solidarity, commented: "There are some interesting proposals in this manifesto but I would have liked to see more detail. The section dealing with disability benefits has concrete proposals but other sections are quite vague. It also concerns me that a limit on child benefit to two children and limits to housing benefit to houses with three rooms is proposed. It is not clear why the Party wishes to disadvantage larger families or extended families who choose to live together."
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As I will shortly be hiring a car, I had the opportunity to try out the new process to replace the paper driving licence.
For those not on the UK, the driving licence consists of 2 parts : a photo id that gets renewed every 10 years that details what types of vehicles you can drive and your name and address, and a paper counterpart that details any endorsements or convictions. The main people who care about the paper part are the insurance companies, and by extension, the car hire companies who have to include insurance in their rates.
Prior to their abolition a few weeks ago, the paper licence had to be sent back to the DVLA to have endorsements or convictions added, and again to have them removed after 3 years. I'll leave the possible opportunities for fraud and disruption as an exercise for the security minded reader.
The new process
In order to view your endorsements now, the dvla have a page on their website, secured by your driving licence number, your national insurance number (for US readers, think social security number), and your postcode, which is printed on your licence. So they don't quite consider it public information, but it effectively is. If you ever use your payslip and your driving licence to prove your id, someone can see your endorsements, which is only slightly more secure than handing over the old paper licence.
However, in order to provide some security theatre and allow you not to disclose your national insurance number, the page does provide a printout and a time linked key which, when paired with your licence number, allows the recipient to verify your endorsement record directly with the dvla.
I have not had to renew my insurance since the changes, but I notice that the car hire companies hide the new dvla page deep in their terms and conditions, so it's not given the same prominence as the requirement to provide the photo id part of the licence. Other than the fact the paper licence is no longer valid, I'm not sure of the use cases for this. Maybe it will make more sense when I renew my insurance and I can do all this online.
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I have just been nominated for the Versatile Blogger award by http://littlemisschocchoc.wordpress.com so thank you Jenny, I am very excited!
If you don't know the Versatile blogger rules, here they are:
If you are nominated, you've been awarded the Versatile Blogger award.
* Thank the person who gave you this award. That's common courtesy.
* Include a link to their blog. That's also common courtesy — if you can figure out how to do it.
* Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you've recently discovered or follow regularly. (I would add, pick blogs or bloggers that are excellent!)
* Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award — you might include a link to this site.
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The blogs I have chosen to nominate are:
http://littlemisschocchoc.wordpress.com – who nominated me
Here are 7 facts about myself:
1. I buy British goods when I can.
2. I encourage you to do so as well, thereby helping to create jobs and fix the economy.
3. I have a pet cat.
4. I am currently enjoying One Piece (Japanese anime).
5. I live in England but travel quite a bit.
6. I copied and pasted much of this from Jenny!
7. I also have Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr sites.
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Religion and politics are the two most incendiary topics of conversation imaginable. Everything we think, say, and do is influenced by our view of God and government. President Obama's observation that we are not a nation beholden to any particular religion has struck the match of ardor and ignited the debate over whether America is a Christian nation.
Let me clarify that there is no such thing as a Christian nation. A Christian, by definition, is an individual follower of Christ. No nation can be "a" Christian, although we understand that those who debate the question mean our law is based on Christian (or "Judeo-Christian") principles. Without floundering in a sea of theology, let's just say that the principles in discussion predate Christianity and Judaism. They were incarnated in the very womb of Creation.
Some tell us we need to "embrace universal principles that emphasize our common humanity and promote greater understanding and appreciation of different cultures." This sounds well and good and politically correct, but is it practical or possible?
The Book of Judges is a horror story right out of a Gothic novel, except it's all true. It honestly and almost matter-of-factly documents scenes of rape, murder, dismemberment, unbridled lust, idolatry, robbery, economies of truth, betrayal, assassination, warfare, torture, suicide, filicide, and other best-seller fodder. The key verse and epilogue are identical summaries of the culture of the time: "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes" (Judges 17:6, 21:25). In other words, every person followed the dictates of their common humanity, unfettered by government standards.
If we are to appreciate different cultures, then we need to embrace them uncritically lest we offend. We were wrong to interfere with Nazis, and must appreciate Holocaust deniers. Beheading and terror are innate to some cultures, and we need their cooperation to make this a better global village. Forced abortion is practiced by a country with over 20% of the world's population. Genocide rules in many countries, and a caste system in others wears a heavy boot that keeps the people crushed and oppressed. So we wonder: Whose principles of common humanity should we embrace and cooperate with?
A cursory consideration verifies God's view of common humanity: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5). Jeremiah reminds us, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (17:9). God ordained human government, based on His righteous character, to rein in man's evil: "For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil" (Romans 13:4).
Are there "good" common principles of humanity and culture that we can embrace? There are values that are shared by humans that manifest themselves in almost every culture, such as private property and the right to life. But these are not beliefs that evolved or sprang up from the fertile soil of man's own heart. "Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them" (Romans 2:14, 15). God has written His standards in every heart, and we either live by them or make excuses to go our own way.
It is historical fact that the founding fathers based the nation's laws on the Bible. They were not all Christians or Jews but recognized the wisdom of having a righteous standard of law, a law that respects life and encourages true freedom.
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It goes without saying that we should all be mindful of our obligations, be they legal, ethical, spiritual, or, in the case of one Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods, marital. But I have to tell you – I just fucking love it when an industry manufactures a category 5 shitstorm out of thin air and then lectures me about my moral duties.
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A couple people (myself included) have started running guardian skip, and I'll probably try submitting a run pretty soon. Since it's disallowed in the current "any%" and all the current any% runners go via pebbles, I think it would make sense to rename the current any% category to something like "pebbles%" and create a new any% category where truly anything goes, including guardian skip. Thoughts?
I'm in favor of this as well. The guardian skip run used to be labelled as Any% and it only makes sense to do so. Any% should be for completing the game in the fastest possible time through any in-game means necessary, without any major restrictions—which right now means skipping the guardians.
I know "No Guardian Exploit" is a bit of a mouthful, so yeah. Renaming the category in reference to the fact that you're meant to meet Pebbles/get Communication would make sense.
Between 5p% and GS% for the two sound good to me (GS% meaning Guardian skip%). I feel as though both are subcategories of any% to begin with since one allows a major glitch, if you could call it that, and the other does not.
Also after looking at the guardian skip more the run seems like it wouldn't be a whole lot of fun since it all hinges on one very hard trick at the end in which if you fail the run is over. Hopefully a consistent setup can be found, this is just my input on what I have seen, unsure how far personally I want to go with this game.
deleted my older vod post - got a much better time - finally beat the 1.0 wr. Included if anyone else wants to run this category, this shows off the route pretty well.
I did a pass on the runs awaiting validation. And took the time to shuffle categories around following your feedback.
i'm currently just an outside observer (although i'm quite interested in possibly getting into running this) but i think Any% Skipless (what the wr vod is titled) sounds better than Pebbles% for a category name. again, currently got no sway in this community so do with that what you will and don't worry about it too much, but just a thought, especially since Any% Skipless seems to be what it's called off the leaderboards. 🙂
i love this game, though. beat it casually last night and it was amazing. normally i don't play games in long stretches and i take breaks between sessions, but i racked up 20+ hours in the span of a few days - haven't been that engrossed in a game in years. i'll certainly be taking a look at running this. i watched Avant's Pebbles run just now and it was fantastic. a bunch of stuff i don't understand with some glitches and the movement but it was really cool. 🙂
if you've got any questions throw 'em my way! most of the discussion happens on the discord in the speedrunning channel, https://discord.gg/rainworld, but im happy to take them wherever.
afaik as the reasoning for pebbles%, I figure it's better because the thing that makes that run distinct from say, pilgrimage% or the new guardian skip any% is that you get to see five pebbles, in a completely different part of the gameworld than the rest of the categories. And it's a really fun route. If anyone found a faster way to get thru any% that didn't use guardian skip, there'd be no category to actually run the 5p path, and I think it's better to affirmatively state goals rather than negatively list restrictions, especially a list you might have to keep adding to if different skips are found, etc etc etc. Plus, the naming convention isn't unheard of in other games, and all the previous any% runs used that path so it's a backwards compatible rename. But it's up for interpretation. Hope you do decide to start running cause i'd love to get some more competition, theres been a resurgence of interest recently.
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that's fair, it makes sense to me.
and great, i was wondering if there was a discord for this game, thanks! i'll get in there and nose around a bit, it might be a little while before i start getting into this game but i'll see what's going on at least. thanks. 🙂
edit: that link redirects to the discord site homepage for me, weird?
edit edit: i found a rainworld server on discord but it isn't speedrun-specific, is that the one you use? i can see it's got a speedrun channel in it
yeah that's probably it, there's not enough runners to have a whole entire server. I changed my name back to avant so I should be easier to find haha
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Avant is pretty right here about being more goal-focused. Since meeting either 4+ Echoes or Five Pebbles are the normal prerequisites for completing the game, it makes sense to focus those as the defining factors for their respective categories. "Skipless," on the other hand, isn't nearly as accurate or descriptive for Pebbles% since you're abusing presumed oversights to reach Five Pebbles early.


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Day 177
Still Here by Langston Hughes
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me,
Sun has baked me,
Looks like between 'em they done
Tried to make me
Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'–
But I don't care!
I'm still here!
Day 177
Looks like between 'em they done
Tried to make me
Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'–
But I don't care!
I'm still here!
Day 89 – I am in the middle of trying to install my shiny new toy: Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium. Oh my goodness am I having issues; I have been uninstalling CS4 and installing CS5 for the past 4 hours – computer crashed in the middle of the install and it didn't want to cooperate after that, so now I am uninstalling CS5 and getting ready to re-install the whole thing – EGAD! I am glad that I got my shots for today ready early!
This is Union Station in South Bend, Indiana – one of those cities in that top 10 dying cities list. There is a HUGE dilapidated old building behind the station that I really wanted to photograph, but alas circumstances would not allow for it.
Day 80 completes a weekend of an overabundance of photo ops. Today's choice is a selection of photos of Sam jumping at the church picnic. It was a big day at Riverside today; we are celebrating 36 years, over 80 people were baptized in the river and we had the huge block party going. What a gorgeous day for everyone to show up – it was standing room only in the auditorium and I can not even imagine how many people were in there; there are usually right around 500 in the second service – there was even a full row of seats occupied by an Amish family there to see their "jerked-over" children baptized.
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Inspired by her time living abroad, Beth Doane, at the age of 22 started Andira — an import and distribution company, which brought pricy European fashion labels to high-end American consumers. Within a few years the ambitious and enterprising entrepreneur found herself disenchanted with the fashion industry. Despite the exposure to fascinating cultures abroad and opportunities to immerse herself in an eclectic and ever-changing industry, she felt unfulfilled, if not altogether disappointed and distraught. Besides asking the typical questions about the merchandise in terms of market value and aesthetics, Beth inquired about the darker side of the industry she was starting to see more of–what she refers to as the toxicity of mass production. I caught up with Beth this week to ask her about the unconventional direction she took Andira and how she turned her frustration with how fashion is made into an entirely new venture that has changed the way other clothing brands are doing business.
JS: You've said that your entire life was green, but you really had no idea that green had become trendy?
BD: I was raised surrounded by nature and wildlife and my parents were very environmentally aware. We were recycling, had food gardens, and ate local organic meat and produce for years before these things were made "green activities". When I started to see the "Green Movement" take shape it was frustrating because I saw a lot of companies and brands taking advantage of the "natural product" trend and using it in their marketing while not truly making their products any more environmentally responsible.
JS: Please explain your specific concerns about the fashion industry. You suggest that it was nowhere near as glamorous as you expected, but even worse, you discovered things were not openly discussed among industry professionals.
BD: There is an entirely dark side of the apparel industry that the consumer does not see. For example, most of our apparel and accessories are made in countries where workers rights are not honored and where millions of garment workers are exposed to dangerous levels of chemical toxins and carcinogens every day. For example in water proofing garments Perfluorinates (PFOs) or "eternal" compounds" are used. These are known to be carcinogenic, cause birth defects, alter thyroid function and impair our immune systems. Its crazy to me that something so dangerous is used in our apparel. Over the last few years sandblasting has also been brought to the public's attention. It's a process where manufacturers can give denim a worn or faded look but has caused over 5,000 cases of silicosis and even death from garment workers inhaling silica in the process. While it has been outlawed in some places sandblasting is still said to be used in areas of China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and even Northern Africa. I have also witnessed cases where workers have been forced to sew apparel seven days a week with only two small meals a day and in housing conditions that we would find deplorable. The International Labour Organization also estimates there are 246 million child-workers (age 5 to 14) in the world today.
JS: What impact does hyper-consumerism and mass production have on the environment.
BD: At the rate our population is expanding and the rate rapidly developing countries are expanding their level of product consumption and mass production it becomes nearly impossible to ensure safe preservation of our natural resources for the future. In general, when we look at manufacturing worldwide, we find that environmental standards are not enforced or minimally enforced to the point where we are polluting our air, water and land at a devastating rate. In fashion, the dyeing process of garments alone has polluted billions of gallons of water per year and caused disease and even death. Its so important we look at how we are making the products we are consuming more closely.
JS: You realized that your goals were not only inconsistent with environmental stewardship, but they completely contradicted the respect and level of appreciation for the natural world that you once had as a child growing up on a small farm in the Midwest.
BD: That's true. My work has taught me so much about how many industries operate and where major change needs to occur. I have also found that there are more and more people committed to changing production standards. When we look at the price tag on a piece of apparel and it costs $4.00 …there is no way that equation is sustainable considering the labor, the natural resources, the shipping and everything else it takes to bring a garment to market. We have to educate ourselves as consumers and make conscious purchasing choices.
JS: Raintees, your newest endeavor was inspired by your love of the Amazon. Tell us about it.
BD: I created RainTees by donating school supplies to children living in endangered rainforests and asking them to draw what they see happening around them. Every RainTee is handmade in the USA with eco-friendly fabrics and features the original artwork created by these children. So many of these youth live in countries facing environmental destruction, poverty, and little or no access to education. For every tee sold, a tree is planted in a critically endangered area of the world through our charity partner, Trees for the Future.Trees for the Future has planted nearly 65 million trees since 1988, and helped thousands of communities in Central America, Africa, and Asia improve their livelihoods and environment through cutting edge agroforestry and reforestation projects. Each year, these trees remove over one million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere and its RainTees' mission to plant trees with tees and create art programs for children around the world. I turned Andira into a consulting firm and help clients design and launch products while remaining as eco-conscious as possible. I have had the privilege to work with some really amazing brands in the process and partner with some wonderful organizations.


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Sydney will soon boast a massive new start-up nerve centre after the New South Wales government pledged to pour $35 million into the project.
Known as the Sydney start-up hub, the facility will be located at 11-31 York Street opposite Wynyard Park and cover more than 17,000 square metres of floor space and 11 floors. It will house 2500 people.
The facility is the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and is intended to drive job creation across the state. The government first announced its plans for the facility in February.
It is inspired by similar hubs like the Cambridge Innovation Centre in Boston, which is almost two decades old, and the yet-to-be-opened Station F in Paris.
Initial anchor tenants include fintech incubator Stone and Chalk and co-working companies Fishburners, Tank Stream Labs, and The Studio.
Organisations that are accepted into the hub will have to agree to legally binding KPIs. If organisations fail to meet the KPIs for two consecutive years, they may be asked to leave.
The NSW government believes the start-up hub will result in around 6500 jobs being created.
The hub is expected to open later this year or early 2018.
The Sydney start-up hub project joins the planned technology hub in the 10 hectare White Bay Power Station, which is being redeveloped by UrbanGrowth NSW.
White Bay Power Station was set to house the new headquarters for Google, but the tech giant pulled out as an anchor tenant for the project over concerns about a lack of public transport for the area.


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Car Accident Wow!!!
We are ok. My daughter,dad and I were driving down the highway yesterday afternoon and this metal object came flying out of no where. It hit the windshield! We are ok just a little shaken. Glass was everywhere! I thank God my family is ok. I'm glad I had on my glasses. It was coming towards my head but bounced off the windshield. I'm amazed no one else hit it! This usually would be worthy of a binge of something! Cheesecake ,ice cream or vodka are the usual culprits. I settled for wine and a hot bath. I'm a little achy this morning. Probably from bracing so hard but nothing motrin won't cure. My dad and daughter are doing great. Thank you Jesus for keeping my family safe!


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The NBA playoffs are in full swing, and that means fans are looking for places to grab a bite and watch the game. There are many sports bars and restaurants offering wing and beer specials while the game is on, but how many restaurants actually invite you to eat like Heat players, who face the Charlotte Bobcats tonight at 7?
See also: Ten Best Places to Watch the Heat Game
It's no secret that MC Kitchen's Dena Marino and the Miami Heat have a close connection.
Many of the players enjoy the chef's creations. And last year, Marino was serenaded by LeBron James and Dwyane Wade during teammate Shane Battier's South Beach Battioke fundraiser:
Marino is returning the favor of that, um, heartfelt (and ear-spliting) song by featuring special Miami Heat-approved menu items during each playoff game. Each game will feature an MC Kitchen item that's a favorite of a Heat player, paired with a special cocktail, beer, or wine.
The winning series kicks off tonight, April 23, with the SB Ambition Pizza, created by Shane Battier himself. The pizza is topped with caramelized onions, spinach, broccoli rabe, fontina cheese, and sautéed wild mushrooms and then lightly sprinkled with Parmesan (sounds like an ambitious pizza to us).
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Battier's pizza will be paired with a Mr. Shilly Shally Shanedy, made with gluten-free Tweason Ale from Dogfish Head beer, mixed with a natural ginger ale. The pizza-and-beer pairing costs $18 and will be offered at the bar only (where the game will, of course, be available for viewing).
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Welcome to my domain...if you dare...
Welcome to my blog about life as a writer and the craziness it involves with struggles of daily life. Make yourself at home but only if you don't mind a little messiness from time to time. This isn't the Home and Garden blog or Martha Stewart so don't expect cute little crafts with homemade goodies. That's not happening in the world of vamps, weres, and other things that go bump in the night...well...maybe homemade blood cakes topped with 'scream a la cream' sweetness along with the sexy alpha males who serve it up.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Tempting Tuesday...Need to conserve water?
Just doing my part to help the energy crises..you know...dining in, power lunges, laundry, shower, and of course gargling. A gal's gotta do her part to help the environment.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Tempting Tuesday...Yes, Colin, you bad, bad boy...
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Roe v Wade? No it's not, as Bob Hope memorably quipped about Dan Quayle a choice between two ways of crossing a river. It is the landmark ruling of the United States Supreme Court exactly 40 years ago that legalised abortion, a decision the court based on the constitutional promise of a citizen's right to privacy. And as anyone with the remotest interest in American politics will also be aware, the issue is today more divisive than ever.
It was the longest sentence ever imposed on an Australian right to Life Activist. Brisbane family man Graham Preston, a father of seven children, was arrested by police on Wednesday May 2 last year for refusing to pay accumulated fines of $8,000 for previous charges related to his activities. Graham is a social activist - not over the environment or coal mining but over pregnancy terminations. Abortion. Graham would sit down in the entrance of medical clinics. He was released from prison in the lead up to Christmas.
Evidence suggests pharmaceutical companies are conducting cynical - and fatal - drug trials on India's most vulnerable. Azghar Khan, 40, an Indian bricklayer, died suddenly in 2008. Two years later his family discovered he was part of a drug trial sponsored by the Australian government, that he and they knew nothing of.
A NSW government campaign that promotes drinking wisely is just "tinkering around the edges", the state police association says. The $1.4 million government campaign, Know When to Say When, which was launched over the Australia Day weekend, will see a roll-out of television, print, radio and online advertising asking people: "When have you had enough?"
Former High Court judge Ian Callinan has called for widespread community opposition to the federal government's proposed changes to discrimination law, which he says are "outrageous" and a threat to community cohesion. "Every Australian with an ideal for democracy - and I hope that means most Australians - should do everything they lawfully can to oppose the introduction of this outrageous law," said Mr Callinan, who retired from the nation's highest court in 2007.
It was one of the most confronting Australian news images of 2012. A little boy holding a placard reading "Behead all those who insult the Prophet", standing among the hysterical crowd at the Sydney protests against an obscure art-house film ridiculing Mohammed. The discussion inspired by that image was impassioned. The child, and particularly his parents, were held up as evidence that something was seriously wrong in sections of our multicultural society. The heated nature of the discussion was not surprising, even if some of it was unpleasantly over the top.
A Perth GP investigated after he led a group of doctors opposing gay marriage on health grounds has reportedly been cleared by the Medical Board. Founder of the Doctors for the Family group, Lachlan Dunjey, made a submission to a Senate inquiry into marriage equality last year stating gay marriage was a health risk.
The doctor who claimed gay marriage was a health risk says he has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Medical Board of Australia. Dr Lachlan Dunjey, a GP in WA and leader of the Doctors for the Family organisation, was one of 150 doctors who wrote to a Senate inquiry last year declaring marriage should remain a union between man and a woman.
Family First NZ is accusing the Select Committee hearing submissions on the same-sex marriage bill of showing disrespect, bias, and of bullying young submitters who they disagree with but who have taken time to be part of the democratic process. They have released an 18 year old's personal account of her oral submission against the Marriage Amendment Bill given in December. In the account, she accuses the MP's of giving her an appalling reception that was "disrespectful, humiliating, and pro-bill biased." During her short submission, the Chairperson decided it was time for food and refreshments, other MP's showed animosity through their facial expressions and body language, and Green MP Kevin Hague bullied her by calling her 'homophobic' in what she terms "an unsavoury and menacing manner".
The Education Secretary issued formal reassurances that teachers and other staff who hold traditional views on marriage should not be punished for refusing to promote same-sex marriage at work. But a senior source in Mr Gove's department said the UK was not "in control" and that the ultimate decision might "inevitably" be taken at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. It comes as the Coalition prepares to publish a bill to allow same-sex couples to marry.
In 1996, two Australian nuns set out to help the war-torn community of Cerro Candela in Peru. Now they are leaving for poorer pastures. 'LOOK at this, it's a memory stick cover.'' In the makeshift shop, Sister Joan Doyle is sorting through the products made by the Cerro Candela Women's Centre - bags and dolls, iPad and Kindle covers, done in joyful Ayacucho colours. Amid the riot of rainbow stripes, Doyle and her colleague, Sister Patricia McDermott, white-haired, 60-something Sisters of Mercy, are dressed down for the dust, in T-shirts and jeans.
An opinion poll of marginal seats across Australia suggests federal Labor could lose 18 seats. The result would cut Labor's numbers from 54 in the lower house, handing power to the coalition with 91 seats, The Australian Financial Review reports. The poll of 54 marginal seats conducted by JWS Research found the best-case scenario for Labor would be a loss of seven seats in four of the biggest states, but it would still lose government.
Three indigenous Northern Territory Labor members are vowing to seek preselection for the Senate, in a protest against Prime Minister Julia Gillard's push to elevate former Olympian Nova Peris to the top spot on the ticket. Ms Gillard stoked tensions in the Territory when she announced last week her ''Captain's pick'', saying she wanted Ms Peris to be the first indigenous woman to serve in federal politics.
An armed Islamic movement calling itself the "Brigade of Muslims" released a statement on Saturday threatening Egypt's Coptic Christians and asking them to pay tribute. "Egypt is an Islamic country and will be ruled according to Shariah," the statement added.
A Boise pastor who was accused of proselytizing in his home country of Iran — where it is illegal to preach Christianity to try to convert someone — has been sentenced to eight years in prison, according to the American Center for Law and Justice and U.S. Sen. Jim Risch's office. Saeed Abedini was found guilty of "threatening the national security of Iran through his leadership in Christian house churches," the American Center for Law and Justice reported Sunday on its Web site.
Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo struggle with a "sharp rise" in threats and vandalism against their churches and other religious sites, human rights investigators told BosNewsLife Tuesday, January 22. Since this month's Orthodox Christmas assailants attacked a monastery, set on fire a chapel and wooden crosses, and destroyed over 100 Orthodox tombstones, reported Belgrade-based Balkan rights group Centar 9.
After writing the multi-million best-selling Raising Boys in 2003, psychologist Steve Biddulph thought his life's work was done. But the parenting guru and father of two kept hearing sad stories of friends' daughters and coming into contact with parents in despair about how unhappy their girls were. They were plagued by eating disorders, self-harm and depression.
An American television network has recently solved the question of what women want. According to a report by CNBC, pornography has acquired a new viewing demographic: women. More women, they say, are watching porn and more production companies are paying attention to what this ''new market'' of female followers wants. The major change that has registered in how the industry does business is the increasing attention paid to plot. Scripts expected to attract female viewers, or couples, put more effort into constructing storylines to justify the sex, making it closer to a cheesy midday movie with sex scenes rather than standard XXX-rated fare.
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Good review. She's the only disney-bred artist that I can actually stand.
I should probably have done this instead of Gavin God-damn DeGraw.
Album Rating: 3.5Thanks! I agree Tyraelxy, that's why I wanted to review this.
Irving - Haha, I read the review, and listened to the dude while reading, it's bad, really baaad. Demi Lovato is quite good IMO
Digging: Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
So hot
Dammit I hate Iyaz so much. But I do love Demi, and even now, "Skyscraper" doesn't sound like it came from a former Disney starlet. I can't believe it's the same person who sang "Here We Go Again."
Also...never paid much attention to her Latin heritage until this album.
I actually really love Skyscrapr
La La Land is so fucking amazing I should get this 'cause Skyscraper is great too. It's good to see someone doing this kind of music well.
Skyscraper was so melodramatic that it was bad. Wish that rumored Demi tape was real.
Digging: Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape
gah she's so hot! how could ppl have said she looked too fat?...outrageous
a disney girl who would screw to black metal?
check 2
Album Rating: 3.5The summary is so true. So much better than the other two...
Album Rating: 1.5Actually, no, fuck this. This album is absolutely terrible - legit thought I'd downloaded the wrong album or a fake leak when I listened through.
Here We Go Again was awesome, too. Such a let down.
track 3s title made me chuckle
That single is terrible.
Album Rating: 3.5My guess is someone didn't get past the first four songs.
la la land is the best song ever
I like Selena as well actually, but damn if Demi isn't just the best, the best, the best. Liked her
first two albums just a LITTLE bit better than this, I felt like tracks like Got Dynamite and Quiet
were a lot more fun and showed off her vocal chops better. But (barring tracks 2, 3, & 4) this one
really slays, it's definitely a step up from her past work and a lot more mature. It's great to see
someone besides me reviewing Demi
Album Rating: 3.5it's fun how since I wrote the review the rating fell from 3.4 to 2.9 and somehow more people agree this is a better album. I wonder how many have listened to it, or just gave a low rating.
Album Rating: 1.5You sound like someone who thinks anyone who gives this record a low rating hasn't listened to it
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There's always been a cultural tradition in this country which could be called bawdy and irreverent, from Chaucer to Wills to Thackeray, in counterpoint to the drawing room or set piece niceties of the nuanced.
It's a rollicking tradition, relying on alcohol in large measure, and ex-blogger Wolfie had something to say on that some time back. The upper classes have never been refined and thus rugby was born, with its discipline and compliance, with moments of brilliance here and there but for real bawdy disrespect, you can't go past the Bollinger Club and the sound of broken glass.
Attempts at "civilizing" or "Christianizing" the English run into a different kind of spirituality and there's always been the influence of pagan savagery and sexual licence. Even a Churchman would concede that the satanic past has run into its own problems with English cantankerousness and singlemindedness. Only we could have produced a Boris Johnson to head the city but we also produced a smarmy Ken.
So no, appealing to any sense of aesthetic height or wimpish delicacy is not going to get too far in this land – even the cheese is brutal and yet the taste has fine nuances within that brutality. English shoes are blunt, solid and broguish, rather than in fine Italian leather which falls apart within the first few months. Signs on taverns don't advertise delicate little duxelles or the lightest of crêpes but "good, honest fare" and "death by chocolate".
I'm drawn to all those things and it's true that there's a raunchy spirit between the men and women of this country, a give and take which hasn't characterized many other cultures. Women have given as good as they've got in this land. All that's as it should be. All of that is what built an empire.
There's something which has come into it now, something foreign and unwanted, something savage and tribal and it's not our tribe. It's alien and shows through the barometer of any society – its women. Women are so instantly susceptible to stylistic influences that you can predict a nation's future just by looking at them and listening to them. You can gauge a nation's health through the state of its women.
British women have never been the fine beauties of the world – the Anglo-Saxon face is not on the list of the exotic [just see Mark W's caption on his cartoon in the right sidebar] – but they've been more than attractive in their own way and suchlike can still be found. British women at their best have been very good indeed.
They've been genteel and ladylike in the past, not in a wimpish way and I meet this type every Saturday and have to say it's highly enjoyable. Anne Boleyn was a perfect example of an English woman refined by her years at the French court. That's what got Henry down on his knees.
Below is a pictorial view of what's gone wrong and it says more than a thousand words how sick this nation has become. The shots weren't contrived – it wasn't the best of one culture and the worst of another. All those girls were of a similar age range and could be found anywhere you looked locally, with one exception you'll see further down. All of them were aware they were being photographed and propped for the shot but as you'll see – in entirely different ways.
This is what I left behind some years back
And this is what I came home to
Could this next not at least smile winningly? Look at those eyes, look at the masculine body language:
Halfway to what once passed for normal but look at the washed out attire, thrown on with abandon:
The rise of the skank:
There was once a time you might have glanced sideways:
True, this was not a posed shot but it was one of about seven and in most of them, they were well aware of the camera:
The only one making any attempt in that last lot was Katie Price – what a role model. Look at the way the girls in the last shot are walking – it's difficult to describe if you haven't lived with women of other cultures. They walk like men – styleless, with unfeminine mannerisms, concerned only with their personal pleasure rather than their affect on anyone, their allure.
In fact, allure is so ingrained in the girls at the top that you'd never be shown their downside and in that respect, you might say the English are more open and in-yer-face – WYSIWYG. Many might like that.
I blame the men for how their women have become but also blame this alien world culture, this PoMo dystopia based on ugliness for making women forget they're women. I was going to put up a tattooed, nose-boned, metal-spiked specimen but didn't want to sully the aesthetics and spoil your day. We let the women get like this by not standing up to them and simply saying no – we don't want that.
Similarly for the women – instead of pining for your Latin beaux or the noble black, why not try to refine your own men? The answer is you don't care about those men any more – you're so desperately into being men yourselves that you've no time for the gender you'd like to beat down and what is resulting is not a more noble woman but a hedonistic skank who lets it all hang out and thinks allure is flopping it out and saying come and get it boys. And the boys follow, panting.
In this last picture, look at the flip-flops. Travel to Italy and look at the flip-flops there – look at all the attire there. If you insist on ugly footwear, at least make it look presentable. Ditch the tattoos. Forget the boob jobs and just be yourselves, although feminazism has put paid to that.
De-Eminize yourself and get back some self-respect, which might make the men show a bit of respect. Or don't you care any more?


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Cal's swimmer Coughlin breaks world record in 200 backstroke
EAST MEADOW, NY - Cal's Natalie Coughlin, the 2001 Pac-10 and NCAA Swimmer of the Year, added another accolade to her outstanding career Tuesday at the FINA World Cup in East Meadow, NY.
Coughlin, a sophomore on the Golden Bears swim team, set the world short-course record in the 200-meter backstroke with a time of 2:03.52 seconds, topping the former record of 2:04.44 set by Britain's Sarah Price back on Aug. 6.
Coughlin also placed first in the 50-meter back with a time of 27.29. Former Cal teammate, Haley Cope, the 2000 Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year, placed third in the 50 back with a time of 27.94.
Earlier this summer, Coughlin won the world title in the 100-meter back at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan. She also established a new American record in the 100-meter back with a time of 1:00.16, leading off a relay.


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In Britain we've never been inclined to take sex seriously. For all sorts of cultural reasons the thought of doing so always leaves us feeling a little embarrassed and vulnerable; a good idea perhaps, but best left to the Scandinavians. If a British film had been made of Albert Kinsey, the part of the renowned sexologist would have been played by Sid James rather than Liam Neeson.
Glasgow writer Ewan Morrison takes on the mantle of responsibility of writing a serious book about sex and carries if off with great success. It's difficult to believe that Swung is his first novel. It boasts a narrative control and sureness of touch –perhaps acquired from the author's background as a television director- that would induce envy in many more experienced novelists. Wherever such skills originate, they stand him in good stead here, enabling to the author to deftly navigate through the potential minefields of swinging and male erectile dysfunction.
Not only does it take courage and skill to tackle such topics in fiction, it requires great20discipline to eshew cheap laughs when at times the urge must have been almost irresistable. Instead Morrison draws a complex psychological picture of a swinging couple, providing insight and illumination into this subculture, debunking and demystifying on his way. It's this steadfast rejection of smirking cliché and the resolute humanity of Swung's central characters, David and Alice, that makes the book such a satisfying read.
At it's heart Swung is in fact, a fairly traditional love story. David and Alice are in their early thirties, in love and have just set up home together in Glasgow's West End. Morrison writes tellingly about the precarious existence of the modern yuppie couple – how under the veneer of success they are often never more than a redundancy or defaulted mortgage payment away from social collapse. This is the essential lot of modern western man and woman today and it will resonate deeply with many people. This backdrop of realism shows a proper writer at work, signalling Alice and David as real characters and thus making us care about what happens to them.
As with most tales of this nature, before their love can be totally realised, there are several obstacles for the hero and heroine to overcome. It's just that in Swung, these tend to be a little more extreme than those experienced by most couples. So too, therefore, must be the remedies.
American art-school graduate Alice, decanted to Glasgow, is gnawed at by her failure to fulfill her early promise as a painter. Some of the best writing in the book deals with Alice's battles against herself in her understanding of both her artistic processes and her place in the world. Unable to kill her internal critic long enough to let the artist in her flourish, her life is one long bout of vascillation and self-flagelation, every road leading to frustration and tears. And we instinctively understand Alice's pain: for someone with genuine artistic aspirations, the ultimate defeat and humiliation in life is to be stuck in the role of critic.
Her reciprocated love for co-worker David offers a final20shot at some kind of redemption. Sadly Alice's artistic impotence is mirrored by his practical issues of male erectile dysfunction and his impending redundancy at the TV company, where he works in personnel.
This sense of looming social and financial embarrassment, and of youth slipping away, but also the desperation to fix David's sexual impotence, propells the couple into the swinging scene. In exploring David and Alice's adventures in this subculture Swung never loses its humanity or underlying pathos. While it's far from a po-faced novel, Morrison lets the humour emerge from the foibiles of his characters: one of the most hilarious elements is the obsessive Californian Alice convincing the straight-down-the line-heterosexual Scot David, that his erectile dysfunction is all about repressed homosexuality, and what he really needs is to be sodomised in order to clear this problem up.
Without giving away too much about the ending, the arcs of the characters neatly cross over: the self-styled libertine is the one who thrives in a corporate life that has spat out the stoic, whom after much resistance, finds a genuine liberation in the swinging subculture.
To merely call this book a stunning debut novel is to damn it with faint praise. Swung is a beautifully-crafted, completely realised and often inspirational book, and it announces Ewan Morrison as one of the most interesting and exciting voices to emerge in Scottish fiction in recent years.
Originally featured in the Guardian.


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In this post: I cover the genocide of every human on the planet except for seven people, I try to figure out how to stuff millions of animals on a boat smaller than any NFL stadium, we see a few examples of God's senility, and we look at God's confusion about how many animals to put on the Ark
Remember at the end of chapter 6 when God told Noah that he would establish a covenant with him and that he should build an Ark then take his family and two of every animal and bird and put them into the Ark?
Well, chapter 7 starts off the same way by God telling Noah, again, to put his family in the Ark, only this time in a much more poetic way.(Gen 7:1) Maybe God forgot that he had already told Noah this. God has been around for infinity, so he could be showing signs of senility.
Most Biblical scholars say that the reason it seems to repeat itself a lot is that Genesis had more than one author, and early manuscripts combined all of the different accounts into the book we would come to know as Genesis. I know what you're saying: It's much easier to just believe that God forgot and is repeating himself. I agree, because the only sensible reason for the confusion that follows would be divine senility.
Chapter 7 continues with God telling Noah that not only should he put his family on the big boat but the following as well:
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Now some people might say that this completely contradicts the previous chapter when God told Noah to take two of "every" animal, whereas here God says to take seven of some and two of others. These people clearly know nothing about Divine Senility, or they would understand that this is divinely inspired confusion and not a contradiction. What other explanation could there be?
So, God goes on to tell Noah that he has seven days to get the boat loaded, because after that God plans to make it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and thereby destroying "every living substance…from off the face of the Earth." (Gen 7:4) Unless, of course, he forgets.
And Noah says ok, again.(Gen 7:5) It would seem that Noah is familiar with God's senility because he doesn't ask for clarification on the whole numbers thing.
We get a date for the flood from Gen 7:6 when it says that Noah is 600 years old when the flood started. If you're keeping track that puts the flood at 1656 AC or 2348 BC.
Where did I get the BC? Well, a long time ago an Irish Bishop named Ussher meticulously went through the Bible and available historical records, and came up with the evening of Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC as the date creation was finished. While challenged in many different arenas this date is the most widely accepted of the creation dates proposed, largely due to it's inclusion in King James Bibles and Scoffield Reference Bibles. Naturally, since it is the most relied on date it's the one I use.
To put the date for The Flood in a historical context here are a few events to consider:
- 5400 BC: Almost 1400 years before the Earth is created, Eridu, the World's first city, is built in Mesopotamia, near present day Abu Shahrein, Iraq. No signs of the Flood some 2,100 years later have been found on that site, but of course that doesn't discount its having happened.
- 3800 BC Sumerian city of Ur founded. Strangely enough this city survived the Flood with no apparent damage or interruption of daily life. However, is was conquered by Sargon the Great 8 years after the flood, completely intact, people and all. It would seem that Sargon and his empire survived the flood.
- 2490 BC the last of the three pyramids at Giza is completed. The is no sign of any flood at this location either.
- 2500 BC Great Sphinx of Giza built. Again no sign of flood damage.
- 2375-2345 Unas is ruler of Egypt. Oddly enough, Like Sargon to the east, he and his entire kingdom survived the flood unscathed, and there is no mention from this time period of the flood which covered the rest of the planet to a depth of 29,000 or so feet for a year.
Anyway on with our story.
The obedient Noah puts his family into the boat (Gen 7:7), and then puts two of each animal on the boat "as God had commanded Noah."(Gen 7:8-9) It seems that Noah made a command decision and went with the earlier amount for how many animals to load. God didn't correct him, so he must have forgotten all about the whole seven-of-some and two-of-others thing.
So at this point in the story we have 7 adult human beings, at least 2 million insects (2 of each known species), around 20 million other land animals (2 of each), and 20,000 birds (2 of each), on Noah's boat, which has three decks each of which is 33,750 square feet.
So we have a boat with a total floor space of 101,250 square feet housing at least 20 million animals, 2 million insects, 20,000 birds, (Remember, God said two (or seven) of "every" animal, and we know that every animal alive now or in the past was created in one day back in 4004 BC 1400 years after the Mesopotamian city of Eridu was built.) and 7 humans, plus enough food to last all the inhabitants for just over a year. And this doesn't even count the 250,000 or so species of extinct animals that we have fossils of which includes 1,047 dinosaurs some of which were as large as 120 feet long and weighed more than 100 tons. Creationists will tell you that these animals were on the Ark too.
Fun fact: The San Diego Zoo houses around 3,700 animals and employs 6,000 people. The 3,700 animals at the San Diego Zoo produce about 2.5-3 tons of manure every day. If we put this in terms of the number of animals on the Ark we get at least 6,757 tons or 13.5 million pounds of manure every day that Noah and his family had to scoop up and throw out an 18" square hole on the roof of the boat. The amount of ammonia and methane in the air would have probably killed everything on the boat since the only ventilation was the little hole in the roof.
Another fun fact: If each animal on the Ark took up only a 3"x 3" space (just a little bigger than a dollar bill folded in half) they would have taken up 625,000 square feet or just over six Arks. But we all know that there was only one Ark, so each animal only had about a 1½ inch square space (about the size of a silver dollar). And this isn't counting insects, birds, dinosaurs, mammoths, food, or humans. Animals were obviously quite teeny back in Noah's day. How they have gotten so big since then, and why fossils and skeletons of these animals are so much larger are things which aren't explained in the Bible.
Of course, to get really picky, it is estimated that of all the species that ever lived only about 10% are alive today or are known about from fossils, and since God said two of "every" animal, and creationists say that the only mass extinction event ever was the flood then all 90,000,000 of those animals were on the boat also, so each animal and human would have had a square with sides as long as the thickness of 4 sheets of notebook paper, but I think things are getting a bit silly now.
Now some doubting Thomases will try to deny God's great feat of shrinking all the animals to fit on the boat by saying that Noah took baby animals, and only took two of every "kind", or family, of animal, and that these animals bred afterwards to give up the diversity we see today. Aside from this idea being stupid and not grounded in any way by science or the Bible, there is the issue of what the Bible actually says. These heathen unbelievers obviously haven't read Genesis 7:2 where it says: "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens (pay no attention to this number, Noah doesn't), the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female"; or Genesis 7:15 where it says: "And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life".
If people are going to try to say a story is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, they shouldn't try to rewrite that story, ignore parts of it, and make up 'facts' to fit their beliefs. They should just believe the story or not. Just my opinion.
On a personal note, I had a toy Noah's ark when I was a kid and I could never get all of the two dozen or so animals to fit into it, but then again I wasn't a 600 year old Bronze Age shipwright either. When I told my father as a child that the animals wouldn't fit, I got disciplined. When I told him again as an adult, he ignored me. My how times change.
Enough fun, back to Genocide.
So, after seven days the flood starts. (Gen 7:10) God didn't forget about this, after all, killing every man, woman, child, and newborn infant on the planet, except for Noah and his crew, was important to him.
We are told again (in case we forgot while reading) that Noah was 600 when the flood started, and that it was the 17th of February (Gen 7:11) and, we are told that it rained continuously for the next 40 days. (Gen 7:12)
Genesis 7:13-17 tells us that Noah and his family as well as the animals went into the Ark and that it rained for the next 40 days. Obviously the author forgot that he just told us that. Senility is starting to run rampant.
In 7:18-20 things get a little confusing concerning how deep the water got. First, in 7:19 it says that "…all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered." Since we now know about Mt. Everest, we know that this means the water had to be at least 29,036 feet deep. But then in 7:20 it says that the water was 15 cubits deep which comes to 22.5 feet. But, maybe it meant 15 cubits a day, although it doesn't say that, and it would still only be 900 feet. Of course it could have meant an hour, though it doesn't say this, which would get us to 21,600 which is closer. Either way, contradiction aside, 22.5 feet or 29,036 ft of water over the whole planet is a lot of water.
In 7:21 we are told that everything died. Babies and puppies included.
In 7:22 we are told that everything died.
In 7:23 we are told, you guessed it, that everything died. But, this time we are reminded about the boat and its passengers, and it tells us that they lived.
Why we are told three times in three different ways that everything died is unclear. What is certain is that it couldn't have been due to the combining of three different stories from three different authors, and, that everything died.
Chapter seven ends with the author telling us (once) that the water stuck around for 150 days. (Gen 7:24)
So, there you have it; God's first Genocide, if you don't count the de-creation after chapter one.
As we continue through the rest of the Bible you will come to understand that genocide is something that God is a big fan of.
See you next time, when we learn about how the flood ended, and that Noah is something of a drunk. Then we learn about Noah's bloodline to Abraham, and about the Tower of Babel.
Note: I had intended to combine this chapter with chapter 8 into one post, but it was starting to get rather long and chapter 8 has a few things to point out, so I didn't. I will combine two or more chapters as it is prudent, so don't worry, not every single chapter of every book will get its own post, and we will start gliding though the Bible at a quicker pace very soon. Thanks for Reading, Ron