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End Water Poverty is the international campaign that aims to bring an end to the global water and sanitation crisis. We are formed of organisations from around the world, demanding urgent action and leadership from donors and governments alike. Only together, with one voice, can we tackle this devastating crisis that affects billions of poor people across the world. Read our blog for the latest news on water and sanitation advocacy and join us on www.endwaterpoverty.org too.
Friday, 29 July 2011
Turning a corner?
But my my, what a corner they're going to need to steer around - and quickly. We learnt that 2.1 million children under the age of five had died unnecessarily from diarrhoeal diseases since the last AfricaSan in 2008, and that poor water and sanitation is the BIGGEST KILLER OF CHILDREN ON THE CONTINENT. (I hate capitalizing text, but I really want you to note that point!)
So it was good that the draft ministerial statement from the conference reaffirmed commitment to the eThekwini declaration from 2008, and a commitment to working with others, rather than a new set of targets to chase. We'll publish it here as soon as we get a copy. UPDATE 3 Aug: draft statement here.
Striking things about the conference for me included the shift from talking about aid to talking about innovation, tackling injustice within countries (Zambia is now a lower-middle income country, yet only 49% of the population has access to improved sanitation) and the confidence in which civil society members and End Water Poverty partners engaged with decision makers. They were lobbying their ministers in the hallways, thrusting the CSO Statement into the hands of delegates and easily formed a way forward in holding their governments to account over the coming short years before the MDG deadline.
Of course, now the work to hold governments to account on their statement continues with earnest. I was glad that our new Crisis Talks campaign activity was received so well by civil society actors - I heard exciting plans from DRC, Togo, Liberia, Uganda, Mali and Nigeria! - and I encourage you to get involved too. The activity hopes to be a tool for you to utilize to hold governments to account on their commitments, and put those at the sharp end - those living with even basic access to water and sanitation - at the centre of the debate.
Monday, 25 July 2011
New campaign toolkit: Join Crisis Talks!
Crisis Talks will be meetings in the community with people affected by poor water and sanitation and representatives from government, civil society and the media. The day and campaign is an ideal opportunity to kick-start national planning for the Sanitation and Water for All High-Level Meeting in April 2012.
Please use the toolkit to help you organise your own Crisis Talks in-country to bring attention to the sanitation and water crisis.
It's crucial governments in the Global North and South start effectively planning for the meeting as soon as possible, and the Crisis Talks can act as a catalyst moment.
Read the toolkit here.
Find out more about the Crisis Talks action here.
Find out more about the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership here on the End Water Poverty website and on the main SWA website.
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Someone new joins the sanitation gang...
Monday, 18 July 2011
Civil Society makes its stand at AfricaSan3
A forum for civil society is a great opportunity to share knowledge and learning and also join together under one key voice so civil society can be a reckoning force within the wider AfricaSan conference, and be better placed to influence proceedings. As the Chair of the forum, Patrick Apoya of Ghana, expressed, "We must speak as one voice so we complement and reinforce each other".
Patrick Apoya of Ghana, Chair of Civil Society Forum
We heard presentations from Rudy Amenga-Etego, who is the African civil society representative of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership, who shared the latest challenges of the initiative and ways for CSOs to be engaged. Catherine Mwango of the Kenya CSO Network KEWASANET shared the key issue of health and sanitation. And Nelson Gomonda of WaterAid presented a traffic lights paper which provides monitoring information on commitments previously made on sanitation, such as minimum sector funding and gender inclusion in plans.
Finally, we tackled the major task of forming messages for AfricaSan 3. Groups broke away to discuss headline messages, which developed into three major themes of financing, monitoring and accountability and coordination and partnerships. The small task team of representatives of staff working in Ghana, Sudan, Malawi and the UK drafted the full messages with input through the afternoon from the rest of the forum.
The resulting messages are a bold statement to the conference – urging them to follow through on commitments, and deliver for the most marginalized.
Civil society representatives will distribute these messages far and wide tomorrow at the start of the conference to set a tone of ambition for the week. We'll keep you updated!
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Sanitation in Africa – the Big Challenge – AfricaSan 3
Serena O'Sullivan, from the International Secretariat, is at AfricaSan this week to work with local partners during an important political moment in addressing the sanitation crisis. AfricaSan is a major sanitation and hygiene conference taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from 19th- 21st July. Follow blogs from AfricaSan here, from both Serena and members of the coalition.
Serena O'Sullivan, from the International Secretariat, is at AfricaSan this week to work with local partners during an important political moment in addressing the sanitation crisis. AfricaSan is a major sanitation and hygiene conference taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from 19th- 21st July. Follow blogs from AfricaSan here, from both Serena and members of the coalition.
When a member of the WaterAid policy team took a close look at some new figures last year on progress towards the MDGs, the results were startling. The sanitation sub-target of MDG 7- Environmental Sustainability – will be missed by, not two years, or even two decades, but two centuries in Sub-Saharan Africa.*
This desperately lagging progress has devastating consequences across the Africa continent. People suffering from preventable diarrhea take up half of all hospital beds in Sub-Saharan Africa. Girls aren't going to school because there's nowhere private or safe to relieve themselves. Businesses are losing money with sick employees. And people's dignity and rights are being compromised daily.
This is frustrating for those in the sector, as we know the solutions are present and possible – it's just a matter of politicians pushing through plans and adequate financing for these plans to come to fruition.
Only a few countries, such as Ghana and Liberia, are taking firm steps forwards with the Sanitation and Water for All partnership, which hopes to drastically reduce those living without water and sanitation.
This is why it's crucially important that ministers from across the continent are pushed, pressured and supported in their work on water and sanitation. And a great opportunity for civil society to hold governments to account is the bi-annual conference on sanitation and hygiene, AfricaSan, held this week in Kigali, Rwanda.
AfricaSan will run from Tuesday to Thursday and will include governments sharing the progress they've been making on meeting their targets on sanitation coverage, civil society will share their expectations and their own commitments in holding governments to account, and institutions such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sharing their solutions for the sector too.
End Water Poverty is represented here by myself from the International Secretariat, and by Steering Committee members Doreen Wandera (Uganda), Olivier Germain (Liberia) and Mubu Kalaluka (Zambia). You'll be hearing from us throughout the week as we move through the CSO pre meeting on Monday, and through the main conference. Do tweet us your questions and use the comment field below too.
*The MDG target is to "Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation".
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
The rising importance of the 'Foundations' – and some advice
I recently visited End Water Poverty members in the US and was very struck by the increasing importance of the 'Foundations' in funding water, sanitation and hygiene programmes. Last year we were involved in a piece of research by the Gates, Buffet and Hilton Foundations looking at the sector to assess where they thought US advocacy efforts should best be put. This considered and collaborative approach to working in the sector also bodes well for future work together.
The Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation has already joined the Sanitation and Water for All partnership and later this month will be launching their new sanitation programme at the AfricaSan 3 Conference in Rwanda. It hopes to spark a second 'sanitation revolution' and will be funding advocacy for sanitation policies that prioritize the poor and under-served, as well as innovative designs and working with whole communities to reduce the number of people who practice open defecation.
The huge and urgent need to tackle the water and sanitation crisis has led world leaders to get involved in the issue as well. Former US President Clinton is leading a high level panel to provide global leadership on water issues, which includes former Mexican Presidents Vicente Fox and Ernesto Zedillo, and former prime ministers Yasuo Fukuda (Japan) and Gro Brundtland (Norway). The Chirac Foundation is also focusing on water as a priority. The Margaret Cargill Foundation was also mentioned several times as another funder.
The Gates Foundation has a clear theory of change which sees the vital importance of research, media and public action, as I have seen before with the Gates Foundation's partnership with GCAP's Project Accelerate Programme. So, this new form of funding seems to have good foundations for strengthening civil society's voice and working with – rather than bypassing – people. Just as international NGOs are always grappling with the challenge of maintaining a meaningful relationship with supporters in the global North and partners in the global South, so the Foundations have a challenge of accountability. But through their strategic, reflective and collaborative approach, they are winning friends and proving effective.
It's not only in America that End Water Poverty members are working with the Foundations. For example, member organizations in India and Uganda are receiving funding for research and programme work. So far, so good.
Now the main challenge is for the Foundations to keep balancing their desire for results and ability to spend money on big programmes, with an ability to support civil society. Ramisetty Murali is the Regional Convenor for the Freshwater Action Network in South Asia, and he shares this advice for the Foundations: 'Consultation among the civil society organisations to learn from their experience and perspective of the local realities is vital. Rather than limiting to direct or indirect service delivery projects, strengthen the civil society capacity development process and provide required resource support for civil society organizations to effectively advocate for transparency, accountability and responsiveness of the local governments with regards to their responsibility and mandated role of catering to water, sanitation and hygiene needs of the people.
'The interventions of these major foundations should not exclude the process of questioning State's responsibility in providing for the water, sanitation and hygiene needs of the people. When the governments fail to deliver quality services there is a spontaneous response at least from some of the communities and civil society organisations to fight for their services. Thus there is a process of collective citizens action to pressurize the state to perform better. Such local processes must be valued and strengthened by external interventions from these kind of Foundations. Otherwise Governments tend to escape by highlighting these new agencies as gap filling service providers. Finally, the major programmes of Foundations should not induce privatization of water and sanitation services or reducing state subsidies for the poor.'
This requires a real partnership with civil society for development which will requires a long-term view, rather than needing short term results, and a continuing active desire for social change which will lead to the sustainable changes we all want to see. We look forward to these new ways of working. Bring on the Sanitation Revolution!
Join us in Stockholm
End Water Poverty members will be hosting a special event for civil society, and we really hope you can be there!
Details: Tuesday August 23rd 2011
9am - 10.30am
Location: At the main conference venue, room: K13
Rolien Sasse, Simavi (Netherlands)
Rudy Amenga-Etego, Grassroots Africa (Ghana) ANEW representative
Yakub Hossain, Village Education Resource Centre (Bangladesh) and a FANSA representative
Please note that only registered attendees of World Water Week can attend this meeting.
End Water Poverty is a growing movement for change with members all over the world. In March 350,000 people globally joined the 'World Walks for Water' action. And we have exciting campaign moments approaching including Crisis Talks and World Water Day 2012.
Come to our lively and interactive meeting to meet other organisations campaigning on WASH, and find out more about the Sanitation and Water for All partnership, and national and global campaign actions for the year ahead.
Monday, 4 July 2011
Help us form our World Water Day 2012 campaign!
And we are going to be even more ambitious in 2012! And to realize our ambitions, we need YOUR HELP!
Help us shape next year's campaign by filling in our short, (very short!) survey. Your help is invaluable and will truly help us to design a campaign that will reach far and wide, and be accessible and enjoyable for as many people as possible.
Please fill in our short survey.
We'll keep you updated through our blog how the campaign plan progresses and let you know when the materials and resources are released.


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Bollywood director Anubhav Sinha says Bollywood audiences are still smitten with star power, but he is happy that new genres of films are making their way to theatres.
Sinha has worked with established actors like Ajay Devgn and Sanjay Dutt, as well as with newcomers.
"Bollywood is not moving away from its age-old paradigm. We love our stars and worship them. Pick up the top 10 grossing films of Bollywood, they are all in the same Bollywood space and recipe. Most of them are star-driven films," Sinha said.
But now, audiences are accepting films in new genres like the thriller Kahaani, which is a positive sign.
"What is happening is that audiences are also accepting stuff from outside the Bollywood recipe. That is good news," he said.
The director, whose upcoming film Warning has newcomers like Suzana Rodrigues and Santosh Barmola, said that working with fresh faces has its merits and demerits.
"You can be way more relaxed with a newcomer than what you can be with a star. But both the avenues come with their pros and cons. It is a choice which a director should make...whether to rope in a star or not," he said.
Sinha, who has even directed superstar Shah Rukh Khan for Ra.One said that the big names he has worked with have been very supportive.
"The stars whom I worked with were nice and hardworking people. Being with them on a set or film was not difficult," he said.
Sinha is also producing Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla-starrer Gulaab Gang. He said that working with both the actresses has been a great experience.
"I'm working with two ladies who I've been a fan of even before I came into the industry. I met them at different points, but getting to work with them and putting them together in a movie is a great experience. Seeing them together is fantastic," he said.
Gulaab Gang, directed by Soumik Sen, is a film based on women activists. Sinha disagrees that Bollywood is moving towards women-centric films.
"Mother India was made decades back, so was Bandini. Mere Apne had a female protagonist. I don't know why we want to jump to this conclusion that audiences are changing or that cinema is changing. We made these films long back. They became successful long back," he said.


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Once you have a good understanding the development of grasp and functional gross grasp, precision and prehension patterns, it's very easy to figure out everyday activities that can work on these skills. But here is a cheat sheet of some activities (by skill) that you can do to work on fine motor skills.
Once you have a good understanding the development of grasp and functional gross grasp, precision and prehension patterns, it's very easy to figure out everyday activities that can work on these skills. But here is a cheat sheet of some activities (by skill) that you can do to work on fine motor skills.
Activities to Improve Hand Strength
- Make your own PlayDoh: Recipes With Gluten Ingredients; Gluten Free Recipes
- Make your own Theraputty: Recipe with Borax Click Here; Recipe with Liquid Starch Click Here
- Working with Playdoh or Modelling Clay: pinching, rolling or squeezing; making letters or shapes; hidding small objects, like coins, and having the child "dig" them out; using "tools" such as a garlic press or rolling pin with Playdoh
- Using Tweezers: for sorting small items by size or shape; to handle math manipulatives; for craft activities or in board games (i.e. Operation or Bed Bugs)
- Using Clothespins: writing letters or word on clothespins then having child "hand" a word or a sentence on a line; using clothespins as "counters" for math activities; using clothespins to decorate crafts or art projects
- Cutting Activities: cutting through thick paper, such as cardboard, cardstock or oak tag; cutting through playdoh or putty
- Squeezing Activities: squeezing fruit to make fresh juice; squeezing exercises with a stress ball; using a turkey baister or nasal aspirator for play activities (i.e. water play); using "squirt toys" in the bathtub; using a spray bottle to help with classroom or household chores
- Using a manual sharpener to sharpen pencils
Activities to Promote Separation of Radial/Ulnar Sides of the Hand, Manipulation and Coordination
- Cutting tasks, such as cutting coupons, snowflakes or paperdolls
- Chinese Stress Balls
- Pencil Races (using index and middle finger and thumb to "walk" fingers up and down the base of the pencil as fast as possible without dropping pencil)
- Moving small items (coins, paperclips, etc.) from the palm to the fingertips
- Rotating small items within the hand
Activities to Improve Functional Grasp and Precision Patterns
- All of the activities listed above
- Using 2-3 inch crayons and pencils for tasks
- Finger puppets
- Bubble ("packaging") wrap
- Legos (the smaller, the better), stacking blocks and tinker toys
- Using small stamps and small sticker for craft projects
- Playing with marbles
- Playing "finger soccer" (using you index and thumb to flick a cotton ball between "teams")
- Using Cheerios, macaroni or small beads to lace necklaces
- Making friendship braclets or lanyards (Patterns are available at artisthelpingchildren.org
Great Family Games to Promote Fine Motor Skills
- Connect4
- LiteBrite
- Checkers, Chess or Chinese Checkers
- Operation
- Bed Bugs
- Don't Break the Ice
- Ants in the Pants
- Hungry Hippos
- HiHo Cherry-O
- Topple
- Perfection
- Jenga
- Don't Spill the Beans
- Mr. Mouth
- Battleship
OMerGerd! Pinterest!
If you haven't figured it out already - Pinterest is an AH-MAZE-ING place for fine motor activities. You'll need to sign up for an account, but it is well worth that 5 seconds. There are great ideas for home activities, classroom projects and even holiday crafts that work on fine motor skills development. Here's some links to my Pinterest Boards for Fine Motor Activities.
Handouts for Teachers and Parents
Here are some documents that I have composed that address integrating Fine Motor Activities into the classroom and home setting. Feel free to download them, but please keep my name on the bottom of the documents! Thanks!
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'San Andreas' Director Teams With James Wan for 'Malignant Man' (Exclusive)
San Andreas helmer Brad Peyton has come aboard to direct Malignant Man, a sci-fi/action project being produced by James Wan, who is coming off the strong opening of his horror sequel The Conjuring 2.
Malignant Man is set up at Fox and based on a Boom! Studios comic that Wan co-created. Boom!'s Ross Richie and Stephen Christy are producing with Wan, who is working via his Atomic Monster label. Peyton also will produce.
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The story focuses on Alex Gates, a patient dying of a terminal disease who is resigned to his fate … until he discovers that his malignant tumor is actually a mysterious alien parasite. Now with some incredible powers and a renewed purpose, Gates is tasked with fighting a secret army lurking behind the veils of society while also peeling back his own secrets.
Zak Olkewicz wrote the script for the adaptation.
Adam Yoelin of Boom! is co-producing. Jeff Fierson, Peyton's partner at their Factory Backwards shingle, will executive produce. Matt Reilly and Ryan Jones are overseeing for Fox.
Boom!'s film arm has The Empty Man in preproduction, while Adam McKay recently came on board to develop and direct an adaptation of its comic Irredeemable.
Wan co-wrote and directed Conjuring 2, which scared up almost $40.4 million as it opened in first place over the weekend. The in-demand filmmaker produced Lights Out, another horror movie that New Line will open July 22, and he is set to direct Aquaman for Warner Bros.
Peyton's San Andreas, the earthquake disaster pic that starred Dwayne Johnson, grossed $473 million worldwide. The director recently wrapped shooting Frontier, a series set in the 18th century world of the North American fur trade, for Netflix and is due to reteam with Johnson for New Line's adaptation of the video game Rampage.
Peyton is repped by CAA and Peikoff Mahan.
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Friend and I went the races on Saturday. Here is my report.
Only 90d temps but it was sweltering on the tarmac. Arrived at 9am and stayed to the last race of the day. We were pretty tired by the end of the day, and slightly sunburned. According to an exercise app, we walked over 5 miles at the Races. It's a big tarmac so be prepared to walk a lot if you want to see everything. We saw a lot of people in tank tops, and shorts, and many with no hats. By the end of the day, a lot of people were burnt to a crisp due to their fashion choices and/or lack of sunscreen. If you're into skin cancer and headaches, more power to you. If not, bring a wide brimmed hat, light colored long sleeve that wicks away moisture, sunglasses, and sunscreen. You'll be so much happier hanging out at the races for 7+ hours.
We parked in general parking area in a dirt field ran by the boy scouts. It was $20 to park. We were actually fairly close to the main entrance behind the grandstand seating so it was a short walk to get to the gate. There are some free parking spots along fence lines, but those were all taken by the time we got there.
Although the airrace.org website specifically states to 'print' your tickets, they had e-scanners at the gate for phones. So you only need the bar code on your phone to get in the gate, vs an actual printed ticket. For pit passes, you have to show your ticket at the pit-pass entrance and they will give you a wrist band.
Bag check was minimal. Although the airrace.org website states no big backpacks are allowed, I had a fairly large school backpack that was packed to the max with a beach towels and foam seats for us that I bought online, binoculars, and sunscreen, I only had to open the large compartment and tell them what was inside.
Seating and Crowds
There were not nearly as many people there as I had expected. It's impossible to judge how many people were actually there as the tarmac is really spread out. But I would estimate about half of the pay-for seating in the Reserved Seat Grandstand area was empty, all day. So we walked up the stairs, grabbed the first seats we saw and sat there for a few hours to give our legs a break. We didn't have a single person sitting around us for the 2 hours that we took a break.
For newbies, the best seats are generally considered to be the ones highest up on the Grandstands, so if you plan on sitting in the stands for much of the race, pre-buy your tickets many months in advance and select the very top row of seats. Not only do you have the highest view off the tarmac, but also you might get a little extra sun protection on your back, because the top rail is usually covered by large ads hanging off the back. We had paid for seats and selected them 3 rows from the top. But the stands were so empty, we could have sat anywhere, which we did.
Even watching the show from the tarmac, it was not hard at all to find an opening in the railing for an unobstructed view. The VIP area below the grandstands were almost entirely empty. Either nobody paid for those more expensive seats, it was too hot for them, or they saw the video from the Galloping Ghost disaster.
Pit Passes
Get one. Otherwise, you miss out on seeing most of the race planes up close. The racing jets were at the opposite end of the tarmac in an area anyone could enter. While all the rest of the race planes where in the area designed as 'the pits', where a separate ticket is required for access.
Trash Control
For the love of pilots and planes, hold on to your empty food wrappers, water bottles, stickers, and hats! Saw no less than two hats tumbling across the taxi way, and several empty water bottles ended up all the way on the main runway. If you're done drinking from a bottle, crunch it up before your throw in the garbage. And make sure you keep every bit of wrapper and trash with your, or wad it up good and toss into a trash can.
Four of the fastest Unlimited racers in Rarebear, Strega, Voodoo, and Precious Metal did not come this year. I was really bummed on this, as this was my first trip to the Races in many years. The ones that did show up put on a great show, although nobody could come close to keeping up with the 4000hp Dreadnaught.
Don't go for the racing. Go for the love of aviation, the pilots, the camaraderie, and the sounds.
I'll be honest here, perhaps to the dismay of pilots and fellow race fans. Racing is not the reason to go to the Reno Air Races. Similar to Formula 1, there are almost no lead changes, and very few passes for the entire race. In fact, in the faster classes, such as Sport, Jet, and Unlimited, when they dive down into the race course and make that first turn, that's exactly how they finished. Obviously this doesn't happen in every race, and some years are closer than others. But the performance difference between planes in the faster classes seemed huge again this year. For example, in the Unlimited Gold on Sunday, Dreadnaught ran at 403, next closest was 348, then 300, and 239. Not exactly a 'race' per say. Only four planes in the finals on Sunday and it was not even close. Jets were a little closer with top jet at 495, followed by 488 but then 437, 435, 428, 425, and 415. Again, not even close. That's just how the plane racing goes.
I'm a huge aviation fan since I was born, and love all the classes out here, but personally I find the actual 'racing' of the slower planes to be more enjoyable. It's a much smaller course so you can see most of what's happening. And the planes seem to be a lot closer in performance so you can actually get some passes which adds to the excitement. The STOL airplanes were also fun to watch. Incredible pilots in these unique aircraft and it's hilarious to cheer them on as they demonstrate the awesome capabilities of these unique aircraft.
That being said, just seeing the all planes fly is enjoyable enough and worth the price of admission. That is why you should go. Racing or not, seeing a Hawker Sea Fury rip around the course at 400+ is plenty enough to get my blood pumping. I felt the need to mention this because I went with a friend who had never been. He's not an aviation enthusiast but a total gear head with cars. He was keen to see the speeds and told me he imagined 20 planes in the air racing wingtip to wingtip with lots of laps and lots of lead changes, similar to a car race. Although he oved seeing them fly around the course, he admitted he was a little disappointed at the 'racing' aspect of the event. So perhaps this will give some newbies perspective on what to expect.
Dark Shadow "Race 11" Incident
At the east end of the tarmac were the military jets, as well as the racing jets. We were walking through the racing jet area when we came upon a beautiful all black DeHavilland Vampire jet called "Dark Shadow," piloted by Jerry Kirby of the "Race 11" team. As we're walking right next to the jet, we see these two (crew?) guys in a golf cart, (looking in their late 20's) driving the cart from behind the jet near the tail and going towards the left wing of the aircraft. Keep in mind it's extremely tight inside the ropes where the aircraft are, so my first thought was wtf do you need to be driving a golf cart for, inside such a tight area?
Suddenly, the passenger in the golf cart casually tells the driver "Shawn, lookout. Stop. Shawn Stop!" Crunch! The top of the golf cart went into left wing tip, causing a bit of damage to the wingtip and possibly the flap. The guys immediately got out and picked up the golf cart and were picking it up and pushing it backwards with a lot of frustration. The passenger in the golf cart left to go get help. Then a third (crew guy) who actually looks like he knows what he's doing walked over to quickly to assess the damage. The look of stress this third guy's face said it all.
Meanwhile, Shawn, the guy who drove the cart into the jet stood there and looked genuinely distressed. He had to sit down and looked like he was ready to cry. A woman went over to console him, as the third guy shows up again with some tools and immediately starts taking apart the wing tip. Could not believe the pilot and race crew would allow a golf cart to be driven in such a tight area.
After looking at the military aircraft, we walked back by Dark Shadow. This was about an 45m later, and Shawn was still sitting there against the RV, looking distraught and being consoled by another woman. Poor kid must have felt like the biggest idiot in the world. The wingtip piece was now removed entirely, and probably being worked on in a hangar.
Fast forward to the jet heat, later in the day. By now, my friend and I had walked to the west end of the tarmac. With binoculars, we could see they towed "Dark Shadow" out on the flightline with the other racers. But as the other jets were fired up and taxied out, "Dark Shadow" just sat there. Enter the tow vehicle to tow him back to his pit. He missed the race. Adding insult to injury, "Dark Shadow" was the fastest jet qualifier at a whopping 511mph. Ouch! He ended up not racing on Sunday either and the pilot stated on Facebook they "could not overcome a mechanical issue". I have no idea if it was the problem Shawn caused but obviously some lessons to be learned here for any plane owner. Don't allow anyone named Shawn to drive a golf cart around your aircraft!
Final Thoughts
I have to give a lot of props to everyone for putting on a great show again. It takes a massive amount of effort, lots of money, time, volunteers, and most all, the pilots who risk everything to do what they love and put on a great show for everyone. Thanks so much!
I do wonder about the future though, especially for the T6 and Unlimited class. These war planes were built in the 40's and the airframes are well beyond their life expectancy. Add the extreme modifications to push the planes well beyond what they were engineered for. Then add the increasing cost and difficulty to maintain in perfect running condition, and it seems inevitable the Unlimited class will eventually lose most if it's war planes to retirement and/or pilots retiring. So get out to the Races and see 'em while they're still around. Who knows what the future holds for this unique event.
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Nice report!
Thanks for taking the time to write this, I didnt know the story about the Vampire.
The vampire wingtip ding was very minor. A little bodywork and it came out straighter than it was before it was hit. The DNS was due to engine / system related issues. They scratched on Saturday, then spent the evening replacing the starter and working on a couple other things. On Sunday, the jet still would not start.
That was a great report, thank you! The crowd did look light from the view on the live feed.


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Overtaking her husband's profile in recent years, former first lady Hillary spent four years as Secretary of State to President Obama, and came close to taking the Presidency in the 2016 elections before losing in a highly controversial competition to Donald Trump. Since then she's taken to the road in series of high profile speaking engagements and released a memoir; 'What Happened', exploring how she found being the first female presidential candidate in the most dramatic campaign in modern American History.
President Clinton served the United States for eight years during a time of unprecedented prosperity and change. Now a powerful voice for progress around the world, he also turned novelist, releasing a political thriller with the author, James Patterson in 2018.
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The Boston Globe published a fascinating piece in early May called The Future of Old. Its starting point is a familiar one to those involved in retirement planning – changing demographics: "Demographers predict that by 2030, average life expectancy will have climbed past 80 and people over 65 will account for more than 20 percent of the country's population."
The consequences of these changes will, of course, be substantial: "As America grows increasingly gray, the needs and desires of the elderly will become a more important and more visible part of the culture – and the years after age 65 will account for an increasingly large portion of our lives," wrote newspaper reporter Leon Neyfack.
So what will this new old age look like? One key factor will be that "'[r]etirement' in today's sense is likely to shrivel and be pushed later into life."
Some experts even expect a new phase of life to emerge: "Just as adolescence became a household concept in the early 20th century that was shorthand for a whole set of behaviors, desires, and difficulties, so too will this as-yet-unnamed period — starting somewhere around 55 and continuing roughly through one's mid-80s — become synonymous with a particular mode of life, a sort of second adulthood during which a person is not only active and autonomous but motivated by new professional and personal goals," explains Neyfack.
And, not surprisingly, there is much hope placed on technology's ability to impact and alter the future of aging for the better.
But amidst hopes for better and more fulfilling senior years are major concerns too, beginning with health care: "There are still unknowns, such as how and whether America will keep funding the health care system the old now count on, or whether the prevalence of dementia will continue to grow or be vanquished by medicine." Indeed, "43 percent of people over 85 show symptoms of Alzheimer's disease."
Moreover, money and thus retirement planning is crucial in that "the most promising changes up ahead will only be within reach of those who can afford them."
According to the article, at least implicitly, things are so bad that the whole system will need to be overhauled: "the affordability of retirement — the extent to which the 20th-century benefits contract with old people will survive — is ultimately an issue that has to be worked out politically. To the extent that it depends on postponing benefits and rationing health care for retirees, that question will be harder, not easier, to solve as the politically powerful boomer generation fills out the ranks of retirees."
I suspect that we Boomers will also have to come to grips with the reality that this "social contract" is really something we created for ourselves and foisted upon our children without their input and consent. The extent to which they accept that burden remains an open and difficult question.
Obviously, the extent to which we boomers take charge of our own futures by saving enough, planning well and managing our resources appropriately will go a long way toward helping us become less vulnerable to the vagaries of political fortune and expediency (not to mention economic realities).
How well we do individually and how well our industry does in motivating and serving our various constituencies will speak volumes about our own personal futures and the future of our country as a whole.


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Paraphrased excerpt: Your only way out right now is to align with your own God consciousness and shift your energies towards the awakening process, which is unstoppable. Make your own personal God connection. Listen to your voice of conscience. Get out in nature. Don't participate in any more of these programs which are harmful to the Earth and your fellow man.
The great uncovering (translation of "Armageddon") is happening right now. We're seeing everything brought to the surface. Pay attention and start standing up for your God-given rights. The higher-dimensional beings are showing up all over the world and it's mainstream now. The ETs are here to help us clean up the mess that we've made over a long period of time.


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IBM Asia Pacific chief executive Harriet Green was awarded fifth place in this year's HERoes Top 100 Women Role Model Executives list. The list, released by diversity and inclusion network INvolve and supported by Yahoo Finance, celebrates women who are leading by example and driving change to increase gender diversity in the workplace. View the full HERoes Top 100 Women Executives list here.
One of Harriet Green's favourite maxims is the quote attributed to the poet and author Maya Angelou: "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
The Angelou saying appears to chime with Green's preferred leadership style. "I felt that my whole life, putting yourself in someone else's shoes, this I think is at the core of great inclusion and great leadership," Green told Yahoo Finance UK.
'I'm moved when I find others who don't have a voice'
Previously CEO of travel company Thomas Cook (TCG.L), Green joined IBM in 2015 and relocated to lead its Asia-Pacific region last year. Prior to that, she was CEO of electronic components distributor Premier Farnell (PFL.L) and held various international roles at Arrow Electronics (ARW).
Green grew up in Shipton Oliffe, a rural English village she describes as so tiny it had "no pubs and three churches." She didn't necessarily seek out her high-flying portfolio career from an early age, but, looking back, she can see how her childhood was formative.
Green had a strong desire early on to leave her sleepy village behind. It was a place where "people own[ed] lots and lots of land and we didn't ... I was unlikely to marry a young farmer," she said.
In the early '80s, at the age of 18, Green upped sticks to study medieval history and the Queen Mary University of London and has lived in cities ever since.
Looking back at her poems and writings from her university days, Green said can see themes of "emancipation" — from watching a lecture from British politician Tony Benn to witnessing the burgeoning Pride movement — and that she had the desire early on to be a driver of change.
"Very early on for me, you're looking around for role models in society ... it began to strike me that in the absence of many [women] role models in arts, business, culture ... maybe it was a role of mine to create and coach and develop and support others — because as you looked around, who else was going to do it?" Green said.
Tragically, Green's father died from a brain tumour when she was just 14. As the eldest sibling, often standing up for her mother, "I had a need, because of the circumstances we were in, to exercise my voice," said Green. "I'm often conscious when I speak or when I champion others who don't have a voice, it comes from that sort of place."
"I'm moved when I find others who don't have a voice or haven't had those opportunities. Or even perhaps," Green laughs, "just aren't as extroverted, aggressive and pushy as I am."
Encouraging people to bring '150% of themselves' to work
Green's first big job out of university was as a management trainee at Macro Group, one of the largest semiconductor companies in the UK. She became managing director within a decade and began to see how she could use her senior position to help others — not always playing by other people's rules, she says.
Now at IBM, Green has placed a strong focus on fostering diversity and inclusion (D&I).
In this year's HERoes ranking, Green is credited for being a key executive sponsor of the company Women@IBM community, which has a membership of more than 90,000. Some 40% of Green's executive leadership team over the 15 countries she presides are women. She also supports company D&I initiatives that range from age inclusion to LGBT+.
"If people can bring 150% of themselves to work because they feel psychologically safe — whether they are a single mum of two kids, a middle-aged man who's looking after his ageing parents, someone who's in transition —I have always felt that our role as leaders, as mentors, as coaches is to create environments when people can be really who they are," she said.
"The power of everyone being able to bring 150% of themselves to work because they are not covering, they are not ashamed, they are not feeling, 'I don't really belong here,' is so, so powerful," Green added.
IBM, Green says, has been leading the charge on D&I for some time. In 1899, the company hired its first women and black employees. The company hired its first disabled employee in 1914.
"We see diversity and inclusion not just as a matter of reality but as a business strategy for technology," Green said. AI, blockchain and cybersecurity are all areas of IBM's operations in which the company is looking to mitigate any opportunities for harmful bias, for example
Another of Green's passion projects is the work the company is doing to educate young people in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. That includes its Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) programme, which has launched in five countries across Asia, and its initiative to train more than 1 million women in STEM in India.
D&I extends beyond the staff a company employs to the products it offers and the impact it has on society.
Green helps to oversee IBM's work on LGBT+ inclusion in the APAC region. In India last year, ahead of the Supreme Court ruling that decriminalised homosexuality in the country, IBM organised a conference with the non-profit OUT&Equal. In June, IBM became the founding principal partner of the Victorian Pride Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
'Be the change you want to see in the world'
Green encourages all organisations to make D&I integral to their business strategies. Her advice is to think of a D&I plan like the human body:
"It starts with the psychology: How do you think? How do you feel? What is your culture? What are your beliefs?
"Then your physiology — the nerve endings, the blood flows: How do we change those? How do we create a metric, a cadence of doing the right thing?
"And then ultimately, what is the anatomy? How are we structured?"
No matter a person's level within their organisation, Green encourages everyone to "be the change [they] want to see in the world."
"All of us have a role in developing and coaching and changing — it's not [just] bigwigs in any shape or form," Green said.
"Anyone can do this — you don't require a degree in business psychology."
Yahoo Finance is supporting diversity and inclusion network INvolve's executive role model lists across EMpower, HERoes, and OUTstanding. Nominations for the 2019 OUTstanding role models lists are open.


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I have a sweet potato vine growing in a container in my kitchen window, and I keep wondering if it would actually grown a sweet potato underneath the soil. Perhaps so. From a poster at one of the listservs I am subscribed to, she cites her experience with sweet potatoe vines…and it sounds like it was an unexpected surprise to her to find actual sweet potatoes growing.
I am put off a bit by learning the sweet potato is a cousin to the morning glory vines, and yes, the leaves of the vine do look much like the morning glory vines in my yard. Since I already 'fight' with the spreading morning glory vines that never really are eradicated, but I try to keep them from overtaking our intentional plantings, I'm not sure I would want to generate another aggressive vine spreader with sweet potatoes. So, I will think some about this, how I can grow and keep contained, because I do want sweet potatoes – Yes!
A shout out of thanks to Brenda for sharing her experience (below):
I just took pieces that were sprouting & put them against a chain link fence. The vines grew all over the fencing. Then they branched out all over my garden.. like weeds. When the leaves started to die a little, you could see the potatoes peeking up from the mound at the base of the plant. As I started pulling up the runners, I kept finding more.
They are a member of the morning glory family & the vines act like it… I had one potato that was the size of a coconut!! No special care. Didn't water them any more than the normal grey water from the laundry & whatever water God gave me. No pesticides. A little mulch from the horse stable but nothing special. I harvested more today. Very hardy. Willing to take over the world if you let it.


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Animal Yoga for Kids
Calming but Wild Yoga
This fun activity can be done indoors or outdoors. Yoga can be relaxing, build self awareness, and improve coordination. Your child will love mimicking animal poses or making up their own!
Age: pre-K to adult
Doing Yoga Enhances Many Skills:
- Coordination
- Body Awareness
- Self Regulation
- Balance
- Motor Planning
Supplies Needed:
- A yoga mat, blanket, or nice patch of grass
- Yoga flash cards or pictures of positions (lots of free printables online, see resource links below for some ideas)
- Relaxing music to add another calming element to the activity
Tips for Yoga with Kids:
- Decide whether you want the yoga session to be calming or alerting.
- Calming ideas: speak in low/ hushed tones, discourage talking among the children, soft peaceful yoga music, and low lighting (little battery tea lights work great)
- Alerting ideas: use bright lights, use partner poses so children can socialize & work together, encourage talking, acting out the poses (moo during cow pose, etc.) or singing, count out loud to see how long you can hold poses, set a visual timer, use engaging games with an animated voice, or play music with a fast pace or beat.
- Stretch before starting yoga
- Think about what the child can do independently? What level of difficulty should you start at?
- With children, emphasize that their eyes need to be focused in order for their bodies to remain balanced. Provide a visual cue for them to focus on (i.e. a little animal cutout placed on the floor).
- Repetition and continued practice will build strength.
Below are a few examples of animal poses. Feel free to be creative and make up your own.


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Linda lives in Woodridge, Illinois with her husband. Their family includes three adult children, four grandchildren, and two dogs. She completed a BS in nursing at Lewis University and Master of Science in nursing education at Northern Illinois University. In addition, she completed the Parish Nurse Distance Learning program and Lay Minister certificate at Concordia University Wisconsin. Linda is employed by Lewis University in the College of Nursing and Health Professions in Romeoville, Illinois. As a full time faculty member, she prepares nursing students for their career as a professional nurse. She especially enjoys expanding their understanding of their role in meeting the needs of the under-served through service learning opportunities.
With a busy schedule, Linda intentionally builds in time for the things she enjoys. These activities include spending time in the Word, and with her husband, children, and grandchildren, cooking and baking, and riding her Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Volunteering is a way of life for Linda. She has used her leadership skills in LWML on several levels, most recently as the VP for Communication. Linda is currently serving as the Chairman of the LWML BOD Structure Task Force. She sees a tremendous opportunity in communication technology to share the love of Jesus in ways that would have been unimaginable to our grandparents. Linda also serves on the WLI Board of Directors as the Vice-Chair.
2017 WLI National Conference Topic:
Volunteers: Cared For and Connected


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New Year, New Blog
Many people make New Year's resolutions. I'm not usually one of them (I prefer to make my resolutions on whatever day of the year they happen to fall), but this New Year's I have resolved to start a training blog. The purpose of this blog is to discuss humane training for dogs and other pets. I am happy to take questions (leave a comment or contact me), and will address questions and comments as quickly as possible.
In this first post, I'd like to remind everyone that January is National Train Your Dog Month. Hopefully you are already deliberately training your pet, but in case you aren't, here's something to think about:
Whenever you interact with your pet, training is taking place. Sometimes you are training your pet, and sometimes your pet is training you (and generally, both are taking place simultaneously to some extent).
It's good to be aware of what training is taking place, and even better to be at least partially in control of the training. For example, say you are watching TV and your dog comes up to you and nuzzles your arm. Do you reach down and pet your dog? If so, you're training your dog to come nuzzle you while you watch TV (assuming your dog likes being petted). There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing this, as long as you like the result (more nuzzling). If, on the other hand, you dislike being nuzzled while you watch TV, it's best to control your reaction and avoid petting your dog when he or she nuzzles you.
Much of the time when we complain that we hate it when our pet does something or other, we have inadvertently trained it (or allowed our pet to train us to reward the behavior, depending on how you want to look at it). Becoming aware of what training is taking place is a great first step in training the things we actually want.
So here's my challenge for you this month: Notice the things your pet does that you like, as well as the things your pet does that you don't like. Ask yourself what is reinforcing these behaviors (in other words, what is keeping these behaviors going). Then think about how you can change the equation to maximize behaviors you like and minimize behaviors you don't like. Here are a few tips:
– Reinforce behavior you like, with attention, petting, food, access to desired resources (such as toys and the outdoors), and anything else your pet likes.
– Ignore behavior you don't like, lest you accidentally reinforce it with attention. Simply sit tight, look at the ceiling, keep your lips closed, and wait for the behavior to stop. Then count to ten and resume interacting with your pet (if appropriate). That's right, I am asking you to take the word "No!" out of your vocabulary (since for many pets, even "negative" attention is good – much like some publicists would say that even "bad" press is good). If sitting tight is not an option, walk away and put a closed door between you and your pet, if necessary.
– Manage behavior you can't ignore. Here's an example: Some pets like to "surf" kitchen counters looking for food. This behavior is generally not about getting your attention, but rather about eating, so your ignoring it will have no impact on the behavior at all. To prevent this behavior, keep your kichen counters clean or close off the kitchen so your pet can't get in there (or both).
In the coming weeks and months, I'll discuss how to train a wide range of behaviors, and how to deal with many common annoying behaviors. If there is a behavior you'd like me to deal with sooner rather than later, contact me. In the meantime…
Happy New Year!


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Understanding metal sorption to bacteria is important for developing bioremediation strategies, for determining the fate of contaminants in ground water systems, and for defining controls on microbial metabolic processes in the environment. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has been the only technique available for quantifying and mapping metal sorption to bacteria on an individual cell scale, but the XAS approach is time consuming and expensive, and quantitative mapping of the distribution…
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Peracetic acid (PAA) is an alternative disinfectant that may be effective for combined sewer overflow (CSO) disinfection, but little is known about the effect of particle size on PAA disinfection efficiency. In this work, PAA and hypochlorite were compared as disinfectants, with a focus on the effect of wastewater particles. Inactivation experiments were conducted on suspended cultures of Escherichia coli and wastewater suspended solids. Tested size fractions included particle diameters < …
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Sorghum – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
Sorghum (Sorghum species)
There are many different kinds of sorghum, all of which bear grains in heads at the top of the plants. The grains are brown, white, red, or black. Sorghum is the main food crop in many parts of the world.
Sorghum has many names including Durra, Egyptian Millet, Feterita, Guinea Corn (Africa), Jwari, Jowar (India), Juwar, Milo (Spain), Kaolian (China), Shallu, Sudan Grass, Jondle (Maharashtra, India), Cholam (Tamil Nadu, India), Jola(Karnataka, India), Jonnalu (Andhra Pradesh, India), Gaoliang, Great Millet, Kafir Corn (Africa), Dura, Dari, Mtama, and Solam and Jawari (Maharashtra).
Sorghum has long, wide leaves growing off the stalk. Sorghum seed is small and round.
Where to Find: Sorghum is found worldwide, usually in warmer climates. All species are found in open, sunny areas.
Edible Parts: The grains are edible at any stage of development. When young, the grains are milky and edible raw. Boil the older grains. Sorghum is a nutritious food.
Other Uses: Use the stems of tall sorghum as building materials.
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A federal court in California on Thursday ruled in favor of plaintiffs in the case challenging the constitutionality of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The current law is still in effect.
U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips decided in favor of Log Cabin Republicans and their lawsuit against the 1993 law banning open service in the U.S. military.
Phillips determined that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" violates the free speech and due process rights of gay, lesbian and bisexual service members under the First and Fifth Amendments.
"Log Cabin Republicans has demonstrated the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Act, on its face, violates the constitutional rights of its members," Phillips writes. "Plaintiff is entitled to the relief sought in its First Amended Complaint: a judicial declaration to that effect and a permanent injunction barring further enforcement of the Act."
Phillips writes that evidence presented during the trial for case showed that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" doesn't "further significantly the government's important interests in military readiness or unit cohesion, nor is it necessary to further those interests."
"Defendants' discharge of homosexual servicemembers pursuant to the Act not only has declined precipitously since the United States began combat in Afghanistan in 2001, but Defendants also delay individual enforcement of the Act while a servicemember is deployed in a combat zone," she writes. "If the presence of a homosexual soldier in the Armed Forces were a threat to miltary readiness or unit cohesion, it surely follows that in times of war it would be more urgent, not less, to discharge him or her, and to do so with dispatch."
Phillips notes that an "abrupt and marked decline" in discharges under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" started in 2001 at the onset of operations in Afghanistan. She writes that discharges decreased from 50 percent between 2001 and 2002 and "steadily thereafter."
The ruling won't take effect immediately. Phillips asked the plaintiffs to submit a proposed judgment, including a permanent injunction against enforcement of the law by Sept. 16.
In a statement, R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of Log Cabin, applauded the judge for her decision.
"As an American, a veteran and an Army reserve officer, I am proud the court ruled that the arcane 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' statute violates the Constitution," Cooper said. "Today, the ruling is not just a win for Log Cabin Republican service members, but all American service members."
Alex Nicholson, executive director of Servicemembers United, is the sole named injured party in the lawsuit and testified during the trial for the case in July.
In a statement, Nicholson called the decision a "historic ruling for the gay military community and for the readiness and integrity of our Armed Forces."
"As the only named injured party in this case, I am exceedingly proud to have been able to represent all who have been impacted and had their lives ruined by this blatantly unconstitutional policy," Nicholson said. "We are finally on our way to vindication."
Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, also praised the decision, but emphasized the importance of congressional action in moving forward with repeal.
"We're pleased by the judge's decision, but this decision is likely to be appealed and will linger for years," he said. "Congress made the ['Don't Ask, Don't Tell'] law 17 years ago and Congress should repeal it. The Senate will have the opportunity to do just that this month and most Americans think the Senate should seize it."
The Obama administration defended "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" against the litigation in court.
Robin McGehee, co-founder of GetEQUAL, said the decision will be a "moment of truth" for President Obama and urged his administration not to appeal his decision.
"It would be a travesty for the President's own Department of Justice to move forward with appealing this case," she said. "The LGBT community has been asking the President to stand up and offer real leadership on the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and now is the time for President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to take this opportunity to act on the right side of history and ensure that this ruling is carried out swiftly, fully, and justly."
At least one social conservative group expressed disappointment in the ruling. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said the decision shows that "homosexual activists" have found a "judicial activist who will aid in the advancement of their agenda."
"It is hard to believe that a District Court level judge in California knows more about what impacts military readiness than the service chiefs who are all on the record saying the law on homosexuality in the military should not be changed," Perkins said. "This is a decision for Congress that should be based upon the input of the men and women who serve and those who lead them."
Click here for a copy of the court decision.
You cannot justify fornication even if you try to hide it behind liberal terms "domestic partners"! The greatest insult to God Almighty is trying to officiate this wickedness in the name of marriage but I tell you this – what you do is blasphemy and you will pay. even dogs to not bed cats…tigers do not bed sheep…rats do not bed snakes.
I cant wait to do my part and vote obamanomore and every other twisted, evil, libdemwit out of power that I can that thinks like you evil ones.
If you're so biased against LGBT rights, why are you reading an LGBT newspaper's website? Go write your own article on your own site.
You show what an idiot you are by suggest different species might mate… two men would be of the same species… you IDIOT!
Believing in Legends is not good, you might run into the Boogey Man one day fool!
Please do the world a favor and do not breed. Any spawn that would fall out of your diseased body would be as worthless as you are. Or better yet eat rat droppings and die.
Just look at at the hatred in ariels commentts. And one must wonder why he is here. Self hating people, their minds poisoned by anti-christ churches, who become the agents of hatred.
I was reading something about a youngster who was bullied half to death some years ago by a small school group because he was obviously gay.
Ultimately 4 of the 8-9 bullies as they grew up became out gay men.
Sorry ariel, you cant hide your fears of being outed behind a hateful god. Its that simple.
If I manage to find out who you – I have a friend who knows more about the internet then God, I'll out you to your whole family. You remind em of a drunken 21 year old seatmate on a plane trip 15 years ago.
a I felt sorry for him, got just enough out of him to figure out that he had been involved in gay porn on a website "miami studios.com"
And I've discovered he is now an almost violent anti gay street preacher. I',m going to get one of his porn movies, and personally deliver it to his wife – yes he is married – when he is not home. I sure don't feel sorry for him any more. And never will for you either.
Closet Queen…
Agreed. Someone wise once said, "Most people who have issues with Gays are Gays with issues."
When I saw the headline, I thought, good, at last I have something I can praise a Republican group for. Then I read this, and saw that Cooper had to turn this into a partisan jab against President Obama. There is no chance that Cooper doesn't know that Obama opposes DADT and is trying to repeal it. For all I know, the victory in this case might be due in part to a less-than-aggressive defense by the Justice Department. In any case, Log Cabin's cheap partisan jab adds a gratuitous sour note to the celebration.
I thought the exact same thing, Rick. If they want to be angry with anyone, it should be the Bush administration, since they filed this lawsuit in 2004. Obama was no where close to being president then. And the only reason why they had any success is because the justice department is not arguing heavily for it.
And @ariel… seriously? First, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with gay marriage. Secondly, do you troll all the gay websites, or are you just particular to this one? I don't understand how someone who feels so strongly about "the gays" that he would want to spend time on our websites…
Most of the trolls like Ariel live in their mother's basements watching slash porn and eating cheetos while j.o.. In other words, no life and nothing to do but judge and condemn others.


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It's been a long week, so to help you get your weekend started, here is a roundup of this week's CUTEST DOGGIES EVER!
First we have Maddie the 6 month old labrador retriever, who is having a little trouble filling up her kiddie pool. She didn't seem to mind that most of the water was splashing onto the ground, but commenters in the video got kind of frustrated with her.
If that's not enough cute for you, there's also an amazing puppy rave created from that old video of an excited dog who saw her owner at a kennel, and a precious pug puppy playing with a loofah.
Happy #FuzzyFriday!


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As it was my 1st ever Easter Simnel Cake I had to follow Mary Berry's recipe… my undisputed queen of cakes! Results?!? Well have a look! …and yes tastes delicious!
100g glacé cherries, cut into quarters
225g butter, softened
225g light muscovado sugar
4 large eggs
225g self-raising flour
225g sultanas
100g currants
50g chopped candied peel
2 lemons, grated zest only
2 tsp ground mixed spice
For the filling and topping
450g marzipan
1-2 tbsp apricot jam, warmed
Preheat the oven to 150C. Grease and line a 20cm cake tin.
Place the cherries in a bowl with the butter, sugar, eggs, self-raising flour, sultanas, currants, candied peel, lemon zest and mixed spice and beat well until thoroughly mixed. Pour half the mixture into the prepared tin.
Take one-third of the marzipan and roll it out to a circle the size of the tin and then place on top…
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text: Spend less time in the garden-and get more results! This book demystifies the growing of fruit and vegetables and shows that, with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or fit into a busy week. Experienced garden designer Clare Matthews explains simple short cuts and practical low maintenance strategies that really work. Low Maintenance Vegetable Gardening is filled with inspirational color photography from the author's own weekend vegetable garden where her methods have been tried, tested, and proven. Filled with fantastic images and sound horticultural advice, this book is an indispensible guide for anyone with limited time who still wants to achieve high yields from their vegetable plot.