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Good morning and happy Monday! Boy is it blustery out there. I spent most of the weekend inside — on Saturday because I was cooking all day (happily!) and on Sunday because I was doing chores: the dreaded Switching Out the Closet chore. Hopefully I didn't put away all my wool sweaters too early.
Luckily we didn't lose any plants to frost last night. Did any of you? I was careful to bring in the plants I bought at the Nyack Garden Club Plant Sale — since those were not in the ground yet, I thought they might be more susceptible. Especially the fig tree (!) I got from Bumps & Co., the grower in West Nyack.
So as I mentioned, I spent most of the day Saturday cooking, because we celebrated Mother's Day on Saturday night with my parents and my grandmother. My grandmother is from Texas, so one of her favorite dishes is pimento cheese. I made it for her:
I've been noticing a lot more Southern influence on food lately, how about you all?
Another of my grandmother's favorite dishes is shrimp cocktail. So, natch:
And a third of her favorite dishes is the stately hamburger. For the first time, I ground my own meat. Half brisket-half sirloin. It really was simple and I felt good about knowing what was in my hamburger. I seasoned with salt and pepper.
I topped mine with pimento cheese:
I also made oven fries and a parsley-endive salad with orange, grapefruit and coconut. It's a grown-up version of ambrosia and I found it in the new Simple Fresh Southern: Knock-Out Dishes with Down Home Flavor by Matt Lee and Ted Lee. It was fabulous.
Best part? I tossed the leftovers with some wheatberries and I now have my own kicked-up version of tabouli.
For dessert, I served one of my favorite recipes, a Pastel Vasco from Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques cookbook. Instead of blackberries, as she suggests, I did a strawberry compote.
I spent most of the day Sunday working on the closet situation. Ugh. Finally, it's done. We lit a fire and I read on the couch, curled up with a wool blanket, determined not to put the heat on for just one measly night. My friend Lettie stopped by for a little while and then left to celebrate her owner Mother's Day (as the mom of Rudy, a corgi).
For Sunday supper, we had a one-dish meal: Cannellini beans (from Rancho Gordo, of course!) with spiced lamb and cilantro:
My husband made the beans with an easy-peasy mirepoix that I picked up all chopped and ready to go at Old World Market. He mixed that with some double smoked bacon from Schaller & Weber (also Old World) and let the beans bubble away for a few hours. Meanwhile, I was marinating the lamb with some very Moroccan-esque spices: cumin, coriander, cinnamon and cloves. The meat is more of a garnish, really. This dish is more about the beans. But with those spices, and a nice sprig of cilantro — this is something worth trotting out for company.
And with that, here's what people have been talking about this weekend:
Jerry Embider has a new series on Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch called Meet the Chef. First up: David Thomas of Jack & Dyl's in Tarrytown. (P)
Doug has a super-cute video of Katherine Curry out on some "research" for upcoming JN articles. (I'm in there, too, and so is Colin Muldoon, who is interning with me for six weeks.) (HT)
Here's the video, embedded from YouTube:
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Some good words on Stephen's Green in Crestwood. (CH)
Todd visits Mex-To-Go in Croton. (WE)
Alice enjoyed her meals at Day Boat Cafe. (NYT)
And, in her sidebar on the review — Quick Bite: Shell's Kitchen — Alice weighs in on the debate sparked here in response my blog post on Day Boat about whether the price of the lobster roll is fair. Though I wonder: Is Small Bites so influential that it's now known as the "blogosphere" to the New York Times? Next time, Alice, come on over and join the conversation! Right, folks?
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(Because there's nothing else going on in my life right now.)
Michael Phelps has more medals than 148 countries: here's the list. (Guinea has never won a medal.)
Oscar Pistorius will run in the Olympics despite having no legs below the knee - do his high-tech prosthetics give him an unfair advantage?
Usain Bolt left in the dust by an 11-year-old named Sarah.
Find your Olympic athlete body match. Mine is a judoka, and also a dude.
How do you get your horse to the Olympics? FedEx.
Olympic diving is nowhere near as effortless as it looks; you can tell from their faces.
The Olympic swimmer who'd never been in an Olympic-size pool.
This story's actually from the 2000 Sydney games, but it's so funny, so painful, and so emblematic of the tiny African country
experience that I had to put it in.
Poisonous fumes, pigeon carnage, rioting crowds - 11 of the craziest events in Olympic history
This Olympics has been rough for politicians: London Mayor Boris Johnson gets stuck

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Friends-With-Benefits Use Condoms but It Might Not be Enough, Porn Stars Aren't Damaged Goods, and Harvard Gets a Sex Club
In this week's sexual health round-up: research found that friends-with-benefits are more likely to use condoms than those in romantic relationships but since they're also more likely to have multiple partners this might not have a positive impact on their sexual health; other research tested the theory that porn stars are "damaged goods" and the results may be surprising, and when you think Ivy League think kinky sex as Harvard gets a new club.
Friends-With-Benefits more likely to use condoms but that might not make them any healthier
A study published in a new issue of the Journal of Sex Research examined differences in behaviors of couples in different types of relationships. Researchers conducted an online survey of 376 young people (the majority of whom were in their mid-twenties). Respondents were pretty much equally divided between those who said they were having sex with someone they defined as a "friend-with-benefits" and those who said they were in a traditional romantic relationship.
Researchers found that friends-with-benefits were more likely to use condoms but were also less likely to be sexually exclusive. The researcher explained that since these friends-with-benefits did not use condom 100 percent of the time, they could still be more at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) than those in traditional relationships who were monogamous. Individuals who said they were in a friends-with-benefits relationship also reported a greater number of lifetime sex partners, which likewise could raise their risk of STIs.
The researchers also found that friends-with-benefits devoted relatively more of their time together to sexual activity but communicated less about sex than romantic partners did (though they were more likely to tell each other about sexual experiences with others). Ultimately friends-with-benefits had less sex and were less sexually satisfied than those in romantic relationships.
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Porn Actresses are not "Damaged Goods"
A new study has resurrected the debate over what makes women grow up to be porn stars. The prevailing theory has been that female porn actresses are suffering from numerous past and present psychological problems such as childhood sexual abuse, drug use, and low self-esteem. In order to test this "damaged goods" hypothesis, researchers paired 177 porn actresses with a sample of women who were the same age and ethnicity and had the same marital status. They asked the pairs about their sexual behavior (current and past), self-esteem, quality of life, and drug use.
There were some differences but not necessarily what would have been expected. Porn actresses were more likely to say they were bisexual, to have had sex for the first time at an earlier age, to have had more sexual partners, and to have used drugs. They were also more likely to enjoy sex, but (for what seems like pretty obvious reasons) were more likely to be concerned about contracting an STI. Perhaps surprisingly, porn actresses had higher levels of self-esteem, positive feelings, social support, sexual satisfaction, and spirituality than the women they were matched with. There were no differences when it came to reports of childhood sexual abuse. The researchers concluded that these findings did not support the "damaged goods" hypothesis.
These results would likely not surprise Mireille Miller-Young, an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara who has written about porn stars in the past. She believes that that porn can be empowering for female performers by offering them the opportunity to get out of poverty and perhaps even go to college.
Miller-Young interviewed dozens of women in the porn industry and wrote in the New York Times:
… I have found that women enter the pornography industry because they are enthusiastic about its potential for lucrative, flexible and independent work. Women who previously worked in the retail sector or in nursing found that pornography offered them greater control of their labor, and surprisingly, it treated them with more humanity.
Not everyone agrees. Jennie Ketcham, a former porn actress who currently writes for the Huffington Post, wrote this in the New York Times:
While jobs like pornography (really any sex work, including prostitution or stripping) do offer immediate gratification of one's need for attention and money, which might be interpreted as fun and rewarding, they aren't exactly self-esteem builders. The emotional damage pornography causes to performers far outweighs any achievable financial gains or physical gratification.
Harvard Has a New Sex Club on Campus
Right after Thanksgiving, the Office of Student Life at Harvard University approved a handful of new clubs including the Harvard College Comics Club, the Harvard Undergraduate Mathematics Association, the Harvard Undergraduate Maternal Health Initiative, and Harvard College Munch, a group of about 30 students who meet for lunch or dinner to discuss issues and topics relating to kinky sex.
The club started over a year ago with just a few members who met to discuss their mutual sexual interests which they describe as "kinky." Members of the group say that this recognition from the University is very important because it will make the club easier to find and provide legitimacy. The founder of the club told the student paper, the Harvard Crimson:
"It's a little hyperbolic for me to get teary-eyed and paternal about sophomores, but it's really a joy to see the experience they will have now."
Another member said this:
"I didn't think that anyone was even remotely interested [in kink] on campus. It's a community where you can feel safe, and you can feel comfortable talking about [kink]."
She went on to say that the group was important because many of its members might feel uncomfortable discussing their sexual practices for fear of being judged. Being a recognized student organization means that Munch is able to hang notices on campuses, apply for food grants, and get help finding locations to meet.
Despite this recognition, it is interesting to note that neither the member nor the founder felt comfortable giving the paper their full name and it was the paper that replaced their original words with the word kink.


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The Independent Investigation Office says a Summerland RCMP officer tried to pull over a vehicle that headed down a dead-end road early Saturday morning.
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It seems to me that Americans are waking up at a faster and faster rate. The idea that the vegan diet is just for Berkeley hippies is a very old idea indeed; as you've probably heard, even Al Gore has finally gone vegan. More and more people from all walks of life understand the issues behind veganism, and more and more people are beginning to care.
I particularly appreciate the people who are willing to go way out of their way to not only get "grass-fed, humanely slaughtered" meat, but actually seek out a local supplier so that they can verify that the animals are living a happy life on a grassy pasture, rather than just trusting the sticker on the cellophane wrap in their trendy grocery store up the street. To me, these people are caring enough to really go the extra mile to make sure they are spending their money the way they want, rather than just trusting the stickers on the cellophane wrap so they can feel good about their choices.
Over the past couple of years, an increasing number of people have told me that, while they are not vegan, they are very serious about finding a local supplier of beef or other meat that they can verify comes from happy and healthy conditions. I think this is such a huge, huge step in the right direction … almost every vegan knows that the animals in factory farms don't just die an horrific death in the slaughterhouses, they live horrific lives of brutality, neglect and disease in the factory farms for all the years leading up to their slaughter. It's absolutely unconscionable.
But I think what people may be forgetting to consider when they seek out these more humane suppliers of meat is what, exactly, constitutes "humane slaughtering?" My friend Carlos told me that an acquaintance mentioned that he only buys "humanely slaughtered" meat. Carlos respectfully asked him, "How does one humanely slaughter meat? Is it possible to humanely take life? If I wanted to humanely slaughter you, for example, what would that look like?"
Carlos' questions are very thought-provoking, and I expect many people who buy this meat haven't thought about these questions. Even if you can put an animal "to sleep" in such a way that it never feels pain or fear, is it "humane" to rob the animal of it's life? In fact – is it humane to rob an animal of its life just so that we can have steak or turkey for dinner, when we have so many other options for dinner that don't involve taking a life?
Think about what we do to keep our own lives … how hard we would fight for our lives or the lives of our loved ones … how we might risk our lives to save another's life. Whether we consciously think about it or not, we cherish our life and revere life above all (or almost all) else.
So perhaps it's time to consciously think about it. If we cherish our own lives, isn't it fair to assume cows, pigs and chickens and all animals cherish their lives too? If we cherish not only human life, but also our pets' lives, why wouldn't we cherish all life?
While I understand the desire to eat meat, maintain traditions that involve meat, and fit in with society by eating meat, is it really worth taking life to do so? The question at hand is not whether to inhumanely or humanely slaughter meat … the question is whether it's humane to take life or not.
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Who does not love a rose and find it simply and stunningly beautiful? Maybe men might consider themselves too masculine to wear one of these flowers tattooed on their bodies, but, women swear by it. Rose tattoo designs are easily the most beautiful and hence, the most popular of all the tattoo designs, at least among women. Rose is the universal symbol of pure love, especially in the west and symbolizes everything that is beautiful with the world.
The beauty of a rose cannot be described enough with man made words, so at least its beauty, though not completely, can be captured within the realm of a tattoo. This flower is perhaps, the most beautiful and royal among all the flowers, and rightfully so, what with those soft hues and gracefully and royally scattered petals. Every color of it is an expression of a positive human emotion. A red rose expresses love, yellow ones symbolize joy, a white one is for reverence, a light pink one expresses admiration and also sympathy while an orange rose symbolizes enthusiasm.
Rose tattoo ideas can be designed in countless styles and colors and almost all the tattoo artists in the world would be well versed in inscribing those, thanks to the countless demands for rose tattoo designs that they oblige to. Just by looking at a rose tattooed on you or on someone else fills you with an inexplicable positive vibe and you simply can not help but admire the simple, yet regal beauty that it exudes. That is the power of a rose and all that it stands for. Rose tattoos are simple, yet the most beautiful and no one can deny that.
A rose has long since inspired and awed lovers, artists and saints through its divine beauty, fragrance and aura that surround it.Article
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The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia lost "a precious hour" in evacuating the giant cruise ship when it ran aground and capsized on January 13, possibly costing dozens of lives, a senior Italian maritime security official said.
Captain Francesco Schettino is blamed for causing the accident by steering the vessel too close to shore and is accused of multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship before the evacuation of more than 4,200 passengers and crew was complete.
At least 16 people died and another 16 are still missing after the 290-metre long ship struck a rock close to the Tuscan island of Giglio, tearing a gash in its hull which let water pour into the engine rooms, Reuters reports.
Passengers have complained that the evacuation was chaotic and uncontrolled, with some left waiting in lifeboats for two hours before being able to leave the ship.
Several of the bodies were found by divers in submerged evacuation assembly points, wearing life vests.
"If you consider that there were 4,200 people on board, you could say things went well, but if the captain hadn't wasted a precious hour, it would have been comfortable," Marco Brusco, head of the port captain's service, a maritime authority, told a Senate committee hearing.
"The lifeboats could have been launched calmly, people could have been reassured. Instead of that, the first hour was lost, people were working under stress, he (Schettino) left and there were contradictory orders," he said.
Schettino is under house arrest near Naples. His lawyer has said he is ready to accept his share of responsibility for the accident but says that the ship's owner Costa Cruises was closely involved in the evacuation.
Italian media have speculated that the investigation into the case could be extended to include other Costa officials but there was no confirmation from state prosecutor Francesco Verusio, who inspected the site of the accident on Thursday.
"At this point, there are no others under investigation," he told reporters.
Almost two weeks after the accident, officials have given up hope of finding anyone alive on the ship, which lies half-submerged in about 20 metres of water in a marine reserve.
Salvage crews are preparing to pump more than 2,300 tonnes of diesel from the Concordia's 17 fuel tanks with work expected to start by Saturday to prevent an environmental disaster.
Lawyers are preparing to launch damage claims against Costa, a unit of the world's largest cruise ship operator, Carnival Corp.
Consumer protection association Codacons has declared itself a civil party in the case and has invited passengers to join an international class action against the company, aiming to win at least 125,000 euros compensation for each passenger.


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Money Magnet the pull in Eileen Cligott Mem Trophy feature
FIVE-year-old chestnut mare Money Magnet seeks her second consecutive trophy win in as many starts when she takes on four rivals in the running of $1.3 million Eileen Cliggott Memorial Trophy feature at Caymanas Park today.
Money Magnet had defeated Chace The Great and stable companion Peking Cruz by a length in the Reggae Trophy on January 19 over the five straight (1,000m) course to claim her first trophy for the year.
Despite giving away lumps of weight to her rivals, Money Magnet is the class horse in this one, and much better than her opponents and should easily brush aside rivals with the minimum of fuss as this is a race tailor-made for Money Magnet.
The Graded Stakes event for three-year-olds and upward over six-and-a-half furlongs (1,300m) is positioned as the sixth race on the 11-race programme with a post time of 2:40 pm. First post is at 11:50 am.
The Richard Azan trainee has won over this distance, the lasted on October 27 of last year when she defeated Without Exception by 2 3/4 lengths at the Open Allowance level. Money Magnet won in a time of 1:18.0, which is more than comfortable of getting by these. Money Magnet has worked brilliantly coming into this race, having clocked 1:00.0 out of the starting gates down the five-furlong straight course with four furlongs recorded in 46.2. Simon Husbands will partner M oney Magnet in this one.
Houdini's Magic has been running below par races of late. He finished in last position behind Money Magnet in the Reggae Trophy sprint, the increase in distance for this trophy race favours Houdini's Magic, but that's about it as he is obviously using this race for the longer distances to come.
Despite going up in age at nine, veteran campaigner Perfect Neighbour is still tough and resilient as ever. Perfect Neighbour is also versatile and his final rattle in deep stretch could get him in the money here.
Exhilarate raced on Wednesday, and after showing good speed in the early exchanges, she weakened into fifth place behind Campesino and Peking Cruz over the five-furlongs straight. Now going longer and up in class, Exhilarate is going to be left behind here.
Peking Cruz was hindered badly by Nuclear Flight on Wednesday in a five-straight sprint fest whiich led to Campesino promoted from second to first and him being promoted from third to second position. Peking Cruz did not receive any injuries and is still ready to go here. While he has a live shot here, getting by Money Magnet will be a very difficult task for him. Peking Cruz will more than likely follow his stable companion to the wire here.
Ones to watch:
Race 1) Lambana/Estalita/My Son Bates
Race 2) El Profesor/Miss Formality/Son Son
Race 3) JamalJames/Zi Beast/Stanislaus
Race 4) Sea Swan/A Seh Soup/Lala Diva
Race 5) First Selection/Instagram/Ray Star
Race 6) Money Magnet/Peking Cruz/Houdini's Magic
Race 7) Jason's Gold/Nuclear Commander/Ictus
Race 8) Raw Liquid/Sweet Like Sugar/Soul Cure
Race 9) Golden Destiny/Formal Gladiator/Nuclear Dan Dada
Race 10) Uncle Freddie/Fifty Cents/Mirabilis
Race 11) Drone Strike/Ras Emanuel/Adonis
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
new in store...decoy pigeon and swan, feather cloche hats, chandelier and a dress mannequin
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Wowwwwwwwwwww...what a lot of beautiful stuff !!!....love it !!.....lovely day darling.......love Ria......ReplyDelete
- Janine MarshallJanuary 14, 2011 at 11:14 AM
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I'm with Ria here, WOW!!! I have never seen a decoy swan or pidgeon for that matter. I agree with you the swan looks serene. I think the swan is my favourite and looks like a big size...certainly big enough to pack a decor punch!!! and be a beautiful feature to a room.
I am in love with that mannequinn, even though that waist is so tiny, the shape is so feminine and the shape of the stand is really beautiful too...one day I would like to think I could own one of these beautiful mannequinns.
Hope your week has been great Tammy, nearly to the end of it already, will call in again soon.
Take care
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- Janine MarshallJanuary 14, 2011 at 11:32 AM
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Back again!!!! I can't stop looking at that gorgeous mannequinn and I was wondering how much it is???? (My daughter loves it too!!) She will have to admire it from my room, won't she???!!! lol
N.W. Coast Tassie
Wow, awsome antiques you have. The images its High Quality, made more interesting. Beautifull antiques and blog.ReplyDelete
Hi Janine, Donna happened to put the mannequin on our website today...under the category of "Objects of Interest". You can see prices there (sorry, I cannot remember the price at the moment). Thank you for your lovely comments, TammyReplyDelete
- Janine MarshallJanuary 14, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Hi Tammy,ReplyDelete
Thanks for responding to my question. I had checked earlier in the day and obviously Donna hadn't put it on then.
I have found it on the website and had a good ol' drool. It's stunning!! The shape is just so feminine, I wish I had a waist that small!!!
Wishing you a wonderful weekend and hope that the baby shower goes well....I'm sure it will as you seem so organised!!
Take care
N.W. Coast Tassie
HI Tammy love the swan, and the mannequin! lovely blog!ReplyDelete


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Using space expertise for health care
Established in 1989, MEDES is an economic interest group based in Toulouse whose missions are to develop space medicine and to promote applications of space research in order to improve healthcare.
The main activity areas of MEDES are support to space missions, clinical research, health applications and telemedicine. MEDES relies on the scientific, technical and medical expertise of its members (CNES, Toulouse university Hospitals and several universities) to perform these activities.
In the space mission area, MEDES is involved in preparing and monitoring astronauts before, during and after space flights. This includes selection and training of astronauts, performing aptitude tests, providing medical support during space flights, as well as ensuring crew rehabilitation and safety.
Moreover, MEDES provides support to the user support operation centre CADMOS to prepare physiological experiments which are carried out in space, especially on board the International Space Station. These activities enable MEDES to maintain a good knowledge of the needs of operational space medicine, of the facilities available onboard and of the potential links with medical applications.
MEDES is actively involved in clinical research in the areas of physiology, pharmacology and the evaluation of biomedical devices. These activities rely on a unique European research facility, the Space Clinic, a 1000 m2 centre, housed within the Rangueil university hospital in Toulouse.
In support to space research, MEDES undertakes experiments, which simulate the effects of the Space environment (involving bed rest, confinement, circadian rhythms, etc) in order to study its physiological effects and to develop preventive methods. In this field, MEDES is actively promoting the use of the experimental models developed for space research for the needs of public health and industrial research.
In the health applications area, MEDES is actively involved in developing projects with both space and industrial objectives. The space environment causes indeed several physiological disorders, which are analoguous to health problems (motion sickness and balance disorders, orthostatic intolerance, bone loss…).
Understanding the physiological mechanisms responsible for these disorders and developing preventive methods are the key objectives underlying the application of space research to healthcare. For example, with the support of ESA, MEDES is developing within the ERISTO project in partnership with laboratories and industries prevention, diagnosis and treatment methods for osteoporosis.
These activities have enabled to develop and validate a new technology measuring bone quality and enabling an early detection of bone loss. MEDES is also participating in several educational projects, aiming to raise awareness among young people of the importance of having a healthy lifestyle.
Moreover, MEDES is contributing to developing satellite applications for healthcare through telemedicine. The main application areas are:
- Remote medical consultation, from isolated locations, mobile sites or from disaster areas
- Epidemiology, for the electronic surveillance of epidemics in isolated areas or in crisis situations, as well as using satellite observations to study the environment's influence on environment-dependent illnesses
- Education and training, in particular through the use of interactive satellite television
- Patient care, through the implementation of projects encouraging patient autonomy
In these fields, MEDES has implemented several sustainable networks for teleconsultation and epidemiological surveillance, and has facilitated the creation of two start up companies.


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Travel Company Dumps Harmful Elephant Tours, Decides To Help Animals Instead
The tide is turning in wildlife tourism -- and it's a good thing for animals. While Southwest Airlines recently dumped its partnership with SeaWorld after intense public backlash, other travel companies are taking the moral high road, too. Responsibletravel.com, which dropped elephant riding tours, citing a myriad of reasons why they are harmful to elephants, has released the world's first elephant travel guide. Now, travelers wanting to see elephants can do so -- without hurting them.
The guide, which you can find here, includes a breakdown of the ways that elephant rides can be harmful, as well as a searchable database of different locations in several countries. Using this database, tourists can find volunteering opportunities and conservation projects to visit that will actually benefit wild populations.
"We hope this guide will become a leading resource for travellers concerned about the ethics of visiting elephant sanctuaries and taking part in elephant rides around the world," Justin Francis, Managing Director at responsibletravel.com, said in a release.
"For us, it has resulted in the decision to no longer promote elephant riding trips on responsibletravel.com, or any trip which includes the opportunity to see trained elephants perform for the public."
The news comes after Intrepid Travel, the world's largest travel company for young people, stopped providing elephant trekking tours to tourists in Thailand, citing the industry's terrible record with animal welfare.
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Oprah Winfrey, we thought we knew you! First she announces her retirement from the talk show world, and now it emerges her company Harpo Films has teamed with HBO to create a sexually-charged hour-long series pilot.
The plot centers on a woman who leaves her seemingly perfect marriage and children in Santa Monica for the underbelly of L.A., where she indulges her secret fantasies, reports Variety.
The pilot is being written by Erin Cressida Wilson, who penned the controversial 2002 indie flick, Secretary, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, a movie about an S&M relationship between a boss and his secretary.
"It is unsentimental and pretty shocking, and there is something complicated and destructive driving her," says Harpo Films president Kate Forte of the show's protagonist.
"It is literally a day at the pool, where she gets up, in sarong and flip-flops, and walks out of her life, leaving everyone behind so abruptly that her husband and kids initially think she's been kidnapped or murdered."
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May 13, 2011
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ROCKWALL — Outsourcing for Rockwall Independent School District transportation and custodial services advanced another step this week with school officials announcing their provider recommendations.
During a school board work session Monday night, Mike Singleton, the school district's chief financial officer, recommended Durham School Services as the transportation provider.
And Greg Carver, executive director of facilities, planning and construction, recommended SSC Service Solutions as the provider for custodial services.
Outsourcing for transportation and custodial services is on a list of recommended "expenditure reductions" for the 2011-12 school budget. Outsourcing for transportation is expected to save $500,000 during the next school year and outsourcing for custodial services is projected to save $615,000.
The school board is scheduled to consider approving both outsourcing recommendations at a meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. May 23.
School board members also will receive the preliminary budget at the May 23 meeting and set a public hearing date. Another work session is scheduled for June 6. A public hearing is scheduled for June 20. The budget also is expected to be approved at the June 20 meeting. The school district's new fiscal year begins July 1.
At the beginning of the work session, Superintendent Jeff Bailey provided a review of proposed funding cuts to public education in Texas.
He said the legislature had 21 days remaining "for them to be able to try to resolve the funding and appropriations of the Senate and House bills."
Bailey said the House version of public education funding cuts still is $7.8 billion. The Senate version is $4 billion.
A special session of the legislator is possible if legislators can't resolve the funding issue.
The projected loss in state funding to Rockwall ISD is $19,471,386.
"We want to prepare a budget based on funding that will have little impact on students in the classroom," Bailey said.
"We continue to work the budget," Singleton told board members. "We continue to find areas we can move into some savings and things like that. We've gone through the process the last several weeks of getting input from all our campuses and all of our departments so that we can put it into our budgeting system."
He said the school board must approve a budget in about a month and "even though we don't know exactly what the legislature is going to do at this point in time, we can't wait. We've got to anticipate what may happen."
With revenue additions and expenditure reductions — including $4.1 million in staffing cuts — the school district still may have to use about $10.2 million from its general fund balance to balance the 2011-12 budget.
"We'll be using some fund balance, a substantial part at this time," Singleton said. "Now, remember, this is a worst case scenario. We hope to come in less than this. At this point, we're planning that this might be what we're stuck with.
"It's still pretty drastic, but it's something that we will work for as we continue in the budget process to June."
The $10.2 figure could be reduced, Singleton said. He said about $2.9 million will be moved over to the general fund from the health insurance fund and it appears the school district will come in under budget when the current fiscal year ends.
According to previous discussions, the school district could use about $5 million from its fund balance — or reserve fund — without affecting its bond rating or the requirement to have sufficient funds to cover three months of operating expenses.
School Trustee Chris Cuny said the report was "great news," adding that the current funding challenge is not all "doom and gloom."
Bailey warned, however, that "there's still the unknown when we're talking about appropriations."
He said school officials are estimating that Rockwall's funding cut will total $19.4 million.
"That potentially could be higher, depending on which plan the legislature selects," Bailey said.
The superintendent said he has seen higher cuts recommended for school districts that have target revenue.
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Scarlet: Annotated
THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR SCARLET. Read at your own risk.
Last year, a few of my giveaways were for specially-annotated ARCs of SCARLET, filled with behind-the-scenes info on Book Two of the Lunar Chronicles. Now that the book's been out for a few months, I thought I would post what those notes were here, so you can all have an inside look.
So grab your copy of SCARLET and prepare yourself for some fascinating Lunar Chronicles trivia!
Scarlet: Annotated
p. 8: Émilie's name was originally Sophia, but I changed it in the third draft because there were too many S-sound names (Scarlet, Cinder, Sophia…). This mention in the second paragraph is the only time the new-Sophia is ever mentioned.
p. 13: See the inspiration photo I used for Wolf here: http://pinterest.com/pin/165999936235062516/
p. 26: Wolf says that he saw Scarlet's gun handle when she climbed up on the counter, which is true. What he doesn't mention is that he can also smell the cleaner that she uses on it.
p. 38: The town of Rieux is based on a real town called Rieux-Volvestre, which was a suggestion from my French editor.
p. 41: See the inspiration photo for Scarlet's house here: http://pinterest.com/pin/165999936235108221/
p. 52: "Gard3.9" – Gard is short for Garden.
p. 73: The netscreen implanted in the guy's bicep is probably my favorite cyborg detail of the whole series.
p. 76: The fight announcer calls Scarlet a "tender morsel," which is a reference to the Little Red Riding Hood story.
p. 84: Most of the details from the sewer scene came straight from an episode of "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, which I had to get off Netflix for this purpose.
p. 88: See the inspiration photo I used for the warehouse district here: http://pinterest.com/pin/165999936235065332/
p. 94: In the ARC of Scarlet, it mentioned that the Rampion had guns that could be used in case of combat, but I deleted them in copyedits because I realized guns would make things too easy for the characters in Books 3 and 4.
p. 94: See the inspiration photo I used for the Rampion here: http://pinterest.com/pin/165999936235460757/
p. 114: A lot of my research on wolves was conducted at Wolf Haven in Olympia, WA, a great organization that is working to conserve these beautiful animals. Learn more (and adopt a wolf of your own!) at http://www.wolfhaven.org.
p. 123: In early drafts, Wolf's tattoo was "LSO962," which he told Scarlet stood for "The Last of Society's Outcasts."
p. 126: As with Cinder, this book changed a lot during revisions. In the first draft, rather than being kidnapped, Scarlet's grandmother was being kept as an indentured servant in America, and Scarlet and Wolf had to get money to buy her freedom (which he then won in a fight). Also, Wolf had amnesia. Scarlet's father didn't make an appearance until the third or fourth draft of the book.
p. 141: See my inspiration photo for Queen Levana here: http://pinterest.com/pin/165999936235062493/
p. 161: Scarlet's gun's make and model is a "Leo 1272 TCP 380." I took the gun name from a real gun manufacturer called Taurus, but changed it to Leo because that's Scarlet's astrological sign (her birthday is August 17). TCP is gun terminology meaning "tubing-conveyed perforating." Whatever that is.
p. 192: I named Michelle after the Beatles song, which has some lyrics repeated in French. "Michelle, ma belle, sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble."
p. 242: This is the scene that's changed the least since the first draft, except it originally took place in the back of a semi-truck as Scarlet and Wolf were being smuggled from Canada into America in order to save her indentured-servant grandmother. Now on a maglev train, it remains one of my favorite chapters of the entire series.
p. 252: The missed question was: "Did Linh Cinder use her glamour on you in order to obtain the invitation to the ball?" Kai's (truthful) answer is that he has no idea.
p. 272: I spent hours combing through the Google Maps streetview of Paris to write this chapter.
p. 274: I considered setting the Pack's headquarters in the Paris catacombs, before deciding on the opera house.
p. 275: Again, hours were spent on the web site of the Palais Garnier, exploring their virtual tour, in order to get the details for this scene.
p. 275: See the inspiration photo for the opera house's lobby here: http://pinterest.com/pin/165999936235460860/
p. 283: "The Queen's Army," the short prequel to Scarlet, tells more of the history between Wolf, Ran, and Thaumaturge Jael. Read more about my prequels here: https://www.marissameyer.com/books/short-stories/
p. 306: "Ze'ev," a Hebrew name, and "Ran," a Norse name, both mean "Wolf."
p. 318: See my inspiration photo for the secret operation room here: http://pinterest.com/pin/165999936236705007/
p. 386: This scene originally took place in a fountain outside the opera house, until I realized that what I thought was a fountain on Google Maps was actually a subway entrance! I was very glad to later learn about a real fountain in the lower levels of the opera house. Changing the location was a pretty simple fix.
p. 436: There really are lava tubes below the surface of the moon. In my world, in addition to using them for soldier training grounds, Lunars also use them to travel in between the biodomes where they live (you'll see more of this world in upcoming books). Regolith is also a real type of rock that covers almost the entire surface of the moon.
p. 443: Ironically, while tomatoes became a very important symbolic element between Wolf and Scarlet, I think raw tomatoes are gross. =P
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This is great! Ze'ev and Ran meaning Wolf? That is so cool! I feel like a real Lunartic, now, especially since I, also, hate raw tomatoes.
Thanks for posting this!! *__*
Thanks for this post, I loved reading it! I am at the beginning stages of a book and there is so much to the planning, part of me feels like it's going nowhere,. Reading this encouraged me to see all the prep you had to do as well and that it just takes time and work, which I am enjoying.
So now that you've seen the similarities of Thorne and Captain Jack Harkness, is Thorne your new favorite character to write?
Also, my mind is kind of blown by the Ran and Ze'ev both mean Wolf, That's awesome.
Iko is a wonderful character! Glad you enjoy writing her so much, she is just a load sunshine in a tiny chip. Loved reading all of these fun facts, and I know what you mean about tomatoes; I'm not a big fan either. It's amazing to hear about how many different changes the story went through! I wrote a short story and had to research like crazy about Jack the Ripper, so I can imagine all the research you have done for this whole series. Also, you definitely should go to France! I love the way it smells – very clean and fresh, so different than the air here. 🙂
I loved Scarlet (and Cinder too), and these notes are a great addition. Thanks! When I was reading it, I wondered if you had been to France before or if you wrote the scenes based on research? Regarding the netscreen on p.73, I thought it was a cool detail too. And it gave the guy a good excuse to constantly show off his biceps, which I imagined to be impressive in their own right. 🙂
Thanks for the inside track. Brilliant to get a better grip of how you write your wonderful characters. Does Pinterest have any idea how much its proved its use?? Love it!
Love these notes! I'm in the camp that finds it encouraging to know how much things changed from your first draft to the final book.
I absolutely LOVE that you shared this with us! It's interesting to read about all of these little tidbits, and it also kind of makes me just want to re-read the entire book. Plus, I think my favorite thing is that Scarlet and I are both Leos who have birthdays in August – SO COOL.
Thank you so much for sharing this! Scarlet is my favorite read this year and its so interesting to know more about it!
Thanks so much! This was so fun! I especially love the inspiration pictures you posted on Pinterest.
Thanks for sharing this!!! -I just finished reading Scarlet today! -All I can say is WOW!!! I love the series! -2014 is WAY too far away!
Thanks! I loved this!
LOL, I don't like tomatoes either.
I'm glad that you didn't stick with LSO. How did you even think of loyal soldier to the order of the pack? The name is freaking awesome 🙂
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I love Scarlet…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ITS DA BEST BOOK EVA ILY
Omg thanks for sharing scarlet is my favorite book ever I will never get tired of reading it over and over and my fav characters are scarlet and wolf omg they r just too perfect
Hello Marissa Meyer, I'm a very big fan of the series. I shared Cinder with one of my freinds and she kept it hostage while reading the book 5 times. The other one just started reading Scarlet and she will Not let anyone touch it (except for me). We really love this series So much.
But the main reason I made this message was because a few months ago I won a spelling bee, some of the words on my list were in your books, Scarlet and Cress, and I said if I win the spelling I would thank you.
So THANK YOU! 🙂
And one question will wolf and scarlet say "I love you" ? Ok that's it
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Virtual Wilderness?
I've been reading a lot lately about Virtual Reality and how our lives will be forever changed when we can be immersed in virtual scenes, whether these be business meetings, movies with friends, games, or trips to far off places.
Having seen the Internet move from text-based content to photograph-heavy content, and knowing that video content is already moving in (a website project I was working on lately in the end involved little work for me because the owner wanted videos (of himself) to carry his message), it isn't hard for me to believe Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg when he claims that VR will be the next step beyond video. He revels in the thought of "be[ing] able to stream what you are doing live and have people to able to interact in that space. . . . Humans are fundamentally social."
And Yet
There is something missing here. I don't want to push against the tide, but moving to a virtual reality is not a complete human experience. One of the scenes Zuckerberg imagines is sitting around a virtual campfire with friends from around the world. The social aspect of that, the human social aspect of that may be valid. Meeting somewhere in real time, and interacting with those someones, both verbally and visually—so that gestural, "metalinguistic" communication is intact as well—that's all good.
The missing piece is what's not human in that scene. A constructed version of nature and wilderness is neither one. I'm seeing an article this morning (yes, on Facebook) about a bison calf that Yellowstone Park visitors "rescued" because "it looked cold" and they thought it had been abandoned. The result? The calf had to be euthanized because it quickly developed the habit of begging for food from humans and gravitating toward human contact. That's cute in a 65-pound calf. Not so much in a one-ton plus adult bison.
Normal Trees
The point is that we often don't understand what we see in nature. And if and when we try to construct what we do understand as nature in Virtual Reality— well, I'm not optimistic. Even the vegetation could be an issue. Many folks are so deprived of experience in nature they don't know how to describe it. I had a student a few years ago who was writing a scene with trees. In the interest of aiming him toward clearer, more precise description, I asked, "What kind of trees are they?" He answered, "You know, normal trees." I fear that our virtual reality would be populated with "normal trees" and "normal creatures." I shudder to think.
Of course, what I know about VR would rattle inside a hollow aspirin tablet, and maybe engineers are already uploading all sorts of data I can't imagine to create a more real virtually real. But a larger issue remains. Nature is not a human construction. The better you know that, the more strange and wonderful nature becomes. Sometimes it seems utterly alien. So be it.
The Romantic poet William Wordsworth famously wrote, "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her," but despite all his long walks in the Lake District, Wordsworth was wrong, I think. I don't think that "nature" cares much about me, frankly. Nor should it. I am a part of nature, yes. But nature isn't here to provide me with feedback about myself, or to stand as a metaphor for my life process. I need to be curious, and attentive. Respectful, and learn to keep my distance sometimes, as those Yellowstone tourists maybe learned the hard way.
Since it hasn't worked in the real world, I don't have much hope that that attitude can work in virtual reality.


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Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre has set dates for the previously announced New York premiere of Kid Victory, a new musical by John Kander and Gregory Pierce.
A co-production with Arlington's Signature Theatre, where it had its world premiere last year, Kid Victory will begin previews February 1, 2017, and open February 22. Kander is known for his longtime collaboration with the late lyricist Fred Ebb, with whom he wrote Cabaret, Chicago, and other musicals. Ebb died in 2004 and Kander has spent most of the last decade completing shows they were working on, including Curtains, The Visit, and The Scottsboro Boys, all of which were done on Broadway.
Kid Victory features a story by Kander and Pierce, music by Kander, and book and lyrics by Pierce. The story follows 17-year-old Luke, who returns to his small Kansas town following a one-year absence. Liesl Tommy returns to direct. No casting has been announced.
The production will feature choreography by Christopher Windom, scenic design by Tony Award winner Clint Ramos (Eclipsed), costumes by Jacob Climer (Informed Consent), lighting by David Weiner (Vineyard's This Beautiful City), and sound design by Tony Award nominee Peter Hylenski (After Midnight). David Loud (The Scottsboro Boys) serves as music supervisor, Michael Starobin (Falsettos, Sunday in the Park With George) as orchestrator, and Jesse Kissel (The Visit) as music director.
The Vineyard season will continue with new plays This Day Forward by Nicky Silver and Can You Forgive Her? by Gina Gionfriddo.
In 2017 the Vineyard will stage Silver's This Day Forward, a new comedy about love, marriage, and the secrets of one's past, directed by Mark Brokaw. The production will be followed by a staging of Can You Forgive Her? by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Gionfriddo. Directed by Peter DuBois, the play is billed as a "timely story of complicated lost souls grappling with the costs of love, money and the American Dream."
See highlights from the world premiere of Kid Victory below.
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"Tonight, a Silent Message"
Tonight, a silent message, I can hear the sighs and pleading
Breezes hrough the trees of my old friend; my companion sings,
And I am comforted, the lightest certitude, the fluttering of wings
Accompanies the rhythms of the encore; and here, again, repeating
"Into…" "Out of…" Lift, release so softly, gentle summaries of living whispers,
Musings of what is but is not seen; tunnels and their tributaries,
Rushing, relentless recognition, never-ending applause, obituaries
To the spent and useless, harbingers of blisters
And frostbite, lngering erosion and fresh volcanic blood
And in the ancient chanting of forgotten millions
Strange dirges of more than redundant death. Civilians,
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We, the Innovation Capability Center, are sub-titling our activities with the term "Improving the Academia/Science-Industry Interface" or "Improving the Science-Society Interface". As we at least are talking about two different stakeholders and an interface between them, it is interesting to understand the diverse dimensions of this task. Think about an optimized flow of knowledge from a knowledge creator to a knowledge recipient that should lead to Innovation.
Absorptive Capacity
One dimension is the absorptive capacity of e.g. a company receiving knowledge form an university within a regional knowledge transfer. According to wikipedia absorptive capacity has been defined as "a firm's ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends". In principle the responsibility and active part for improvement in this case is on the side of the company. In the context of the science-industry interface this could mean, that science is producing valuable new knowledge, and the better the absorptive capacity of the company gets, the commercial success of the company is increasing. A provoking question in this context is: "does this work for all kind of knowledge that is generated at the academic side of the Interface?". In fact this question is very difficult to answer. On the long run several examples can be found how basic research results have become very relevant for commercialization within a period of several years or even decades. We personally don't think that even the highest absorptive capacity will help to turn every scientific result into an economic success. There is no invariance of the "kind and quality" of a result to become an innovation. But, at least companies need the capability to understand the implication of new research results for their own innovation processes.
Desorptive Capacity
Let's think about the second dimension, with the responsibility and active part in improving the interface is on the side of academia. It has to be something opposite to the "absorptive capacity" maybe a "desorptive capacity". And indeed in 2006, Lichtenthaler was defining the term desorptive capacity "which refers to a firm's ability to identify technology transfer opportunities and to transfer technology to the recipient". In our example the "firm" will be the university and its capability to produce results according to recognized acquirer needs and to hand over the results to them. This definition has two aspects. First
- the capacity to understand technology transfer opportunities, including e.g.
- the identification of suitable own research results,
- adaptation of the own research to external opportunities,
- an approach to analyze recipient needs etc.
- the capability to handover results to the recipient including e.g.
- form and quality of the released technology,
- contractual issues with suitable agreements,
- networks of potential recipients, investors, etc.
One may argue, that a higher desorptive capacity is increasingly violating the humboldtian model of the freedom of research. This problem can arise when e.g. a research organization has no defined strategy on how much adaptation of the own research to external opportunities is needed for the operation of the organization. And in addition: to perform a better analysis of own research results for transfer, or to support the recipient to absorb the results more easily is not per se in conflict with the nature of the university! Instruments, like e.g. the ISO/IEC 15504 standard based model innoSPICE, can help to support research organizations to increase their "desorptive" capacity.
The motivation to write this article is based on the observation, that absorptive capacity currently has become a buzzword. We think that this term is a very convenient one for academia, as changes are not requested from them in a first step. For sure there is a need to improve absorption of new knowledge on the side of the companies or society. But in our opinion it is a mistake to understand absorptive capacity decoupled from desorptive capacity. There should be a common interest from academia, industry and even society to improve both capacities in a good Balance.


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I dont know what to do
I lost my virginity to my (sort of used to be 'best')friend's ex and he told me he loved me. Me and him were friends before they started going out, always something there you know. Then they got together and she f***** him over completely, s*******/going out with about 5 different guys whilst in her long term relationship with him. Anyway he and I would still go out often and we'd drink and talk all night till the sun came up. However the last time, we slept together too. I know they're not together anymore but what kills me so much is that he still loves her, and if she offers to be with him again he'll say yes. Which would be okay because I want him to do whatever makes him happy because he deserves it, but she's still f****** around with loads of different people. She'll hurt him again. I wouldn't do that.
I'm horribly confused and guilty and I haven't spoke to him since. I don't know what to do.
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Men don't appreciate girls who are good for them. You'll probably be best off if you completely leave off of him for a couple of months and then re-contacting him and then going from there.


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One crisp Autumn morning in 1840 my great, great grandmother Martha Helyar, her husband Elias and their six children, boarded the sailing ship 'Ferguson'; destination Australia. Just over a month later she and one of her year old twins were buried at sea. We don't really know what happened. There was talk of women and children being mistreated, of an alcoholic doctor, of unexpected storms. What we do know is that four months after leaving Plymouth, only Elias and his remaining five children disembarked on the marshy strip of land known as Port Phillip.
Somehow Elias battled on. In Somerset he had been the foreman of a kid glove factory, but in this new country he could only find labouring work. Within six months the remaining twin died, choking on a piece of meat. The eldest child, George, my great grandfather, 13 years old at the time, found work with a butcher and eventually kept a small store in Ballarat selling supplies to the gold miners.
It's the bare bones of a family story, an Australian story, and it's not unusual, even today. In one way or another we are all boat people. Families like mine were called settlers but their dream of a better life came at the unsettling cost of being far from all that spelt 'home'. It was that endurance and their solid Methodist faith that supported and led them in three generations from the soft green and winding lanes of country England to the golden brown spaces of the Victorian Mallee.
Great grandfather George married 15 year old Charlotte and they went on to have 15 children, 11 of whom lived into advanced old age. Child number 6 was my grandfather, Charles. It was he who bought land in the Victorian Mallee, who lived in a house on that land that was called Tarella. He died when my mother was still a child, but I loved his wife Florence, my grandmother.
Five generations on I am grateful that Martha and Elias listened to their dream for a better life and followed it to Australia. My personal Australian story may be dotted with suburbia but it's the Mallee of my holidaying childhood that gives me a deep sense of belonging. I only have to close my eyes to see the stretched out horizon of distant paddocks, barely broken by slight rises and olivey scrub, the whole of it wrapped around in the brilliant blue of a summer sky.
That landscape mirrors something inside me that needs and relishes space and silence. Somehow it pushes aside all the everydayness that clutters my thinking. It settles in the spot deep within where I imagine God's dream for me sits, coiled and waiting for recognition, for acceptance. I like to think, too, that it's something I share with our First Australians. It's the gift of this great South Land.
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Drugs: A Logical Step Towards Legalisation
I've written a few posts on this blog relating to drugs and my opinions on them and for those who have read them before, you'll know that I stand very much on the side of legalisation. Very little infuriates me quite as much as being categorised as some gutter-living criminal just because I think drugs have many potential benefits (physically, mentally and spiritually) while these same people binge cheap alcohol and smoke cancer sticks while practically injecting high concentrations of Starbucks coffee directly into their heart. That being said, this post is not meant as a rant (although there certainly will be some of that) but more as a proposal or suggestion that looks at reasons why I believe drugs should be legal as well as a potential solution to get this ball rolling. This post is NOT like my other ones where I heavily reference statistics, peer-reviewed scientific papers or books. Instead, this post is nothing more than opinions and ideas which should hopefully make it a bit more interesting to read than my essay versions.
So let me start off by admitting several things in order to remove any presumptions that you may have already. First of all, I am fully aware that many drugs are harmful, addictive, destroy lives, drive people insane etc. If you think harming people physically is enough to make a drug illegal then why are cigarettes still legal? If you think any drug that can impact you mentally should be illegal then why is alcohol legal? The reason I HATE these drugs is because they act as a reminder of how hypocritical our society truly is. One day we'll look back in sheer disbelief at the fact that our species used to poison itself for entertainment and out of boredom; that we ignored figures, statistics and evidence because taxable products are more important and that nature itself was branded illegal. I mean nobody drinks alcohol or smokes tobacco for their physical or mental health other than to end the addictive cravings that they may have. Following on from that, the drugs that I'm mainly going to be referring to here include weed, MDMA (including its various forms such as ecstasy), LSD, magic mushrooms (specifically psilocybin), DMT and Ayahusca. You may have noticed a pattern or two forming in terms of my drug choice and we'll get to that later.
So why do I take drugs? At this point, that would be a very fair question…but first let me ask you one: why do you (or people you know) drink or smoke? In my experience people might drink for a variety of reasons. Perhaps they are bored and need a source of entertainment, it's someone's birthday and that's how we celebrate, it's Christmas and that's how we celebrate, it's New Year's Eve and that's how we celebrate, it's sunny and that's how we celebrate, it's a social norm and therefore if most people are doing it then the rest of us feel out of place and in many cases are even belittled for choosing not to poison ourselves. Want to know what that sounds like to me? Peer pressure. Don't get me wrong, I have had some incredibly fun and entertaining times with alcohol but I'm using it as my example here simply because it is legal while still being a psychoactive substance. I view alcohol as like a stepping stone that allowed me to turn off my brain to interact with people in a manner that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Now I barely drink because that feeling of losing control or becoming someone that isn't me is just no longer fun. I often hear people making claims such as "everyone is more truthful when they are drunk" but I find this not only to be moronic but also completely wrong. I mean alcohol can turn you into any sort of person depending on a wide variety of variables. I've seen lovely people become angry, bitter and violent just as many times as I've seen the opposite event take place. I've seen shy people become confident and confident people become Gods (at least in their eyes). I mean alcohol after a certain amount changes who you appear to be, it changes this outer version of you to anyone who is there to witness it. Why is "sorry, I was drunk" now an acceptable excuse for most acts that would otherwise not be so easily forgiven? I'm going off topic here…the point is that you have to keep in mind that alcohol is still a psychoactive substance and it alters the way you think, sometimes drastically. I mean alcohol accounts for most of the violent crime in Scotland (at least in 2011/2012) and nearly half of violent crimes in England and Wales during the same time period. In many cases it removes the need to think all together and turns your evening into nothing but darkness that leaves you waking up the next day with questions that you don't entirely want to know the answers to. So why do I take drugs? (To get back to the point I was trying to make) Well, in some cases I take them for the same reason as anyone else drinks…I'm bored. For the most part this is only true of weed with the exception of one summer when I'd first accepted the thrills of ecstasy and went a bit crazy…but I view it as a learning curve. Since then weed is the only drug that I'll take simply because I can. The reason I take any other drug now is for a purpose. For example, the ideas for many of my posts have come to me while smoking weed. I have somewhere between 10 and 20 posts on this blog (I believe). These are only half of what I've written which is only a fraction of the ideas that I've originally come up with. The notes pad on my phone is full of folders and pages relating to film theories or rants or just random ideas. MDMA can be used to improve a typical night out but it can also be used for exploration of your own mind and consciousness. Taking some MDMA and meditating is incredibly peaceful and spiritual and you can often find yourself in areas of thought you'd never even have imagined. I won't go through all the drugs I mentioned one by one but ultimately what I think it boils down to is this: Why do I take drugs? I take drugs because in many cases they provide an experience that may not be possible to have otherwise. I think that when used correctly, drugs can make us see ourselves, others, the world or even the entire universe in a whole new light. I take drugs because I'll never be an astronaut or a sailor, I'll never be the first person to reach the top of a mountain or plant my flag onto undiscovered land. Yet my need for exploration drums away in my mind as a reminder that there are places that literally nobody else has explored: the deep, dark pits of my consciousness.
So what is my idea? Well, I agree with the claim that the war on drugs has failed spectacularly. Isn't it funny that the anti-drug campaigners appear to be the paranoid and delusional ones of us all? At the end of the day, people are always going to find a way to take the drugs they want to take. We saw it with the prohibition when moonshine and other such spirits became available to those who felt their freedoms and rights had been taken from them unfairly. Same thing happens now with other drugs. The issue is that most people realise early on that all those anti-drug campaigns the schools run are bullshit and that when the police and your educators are lying or misleading you that something is up. It dawned upon me that legalisation of drugs might not happen in my life time. Even the legalisation of weed is looking more and more doubtful. The issue, however, is not the drugs themselves, but the education of said drugs and the reasons why people take them. I mean anything can be dangerous depending on whose possession it is in. A hammer can be used to build but it can also be used to bludgeon someone's skull until their brain leaks out. People use cars every day and yet at any given moment someone could drive one metre to the left and hit 10, 20 or 30 people with a speeding, metal death machine. Maybe we just need to look at drugs for what they truly are and stop viewing them as either holy, lifesaving plants or tricks by Satan that lead to an eternity of suffering. Drugs can be positive and negative. So why not educate people in such a manner that as an adult they can choose whether to take them or not? I mean I can choose to eat McDonalds for the rest of my life or smoke until I can't breathe or drink until my organs fail. How much money would be saved if after a certain number of hospital visits for binge eating food, drowning your sorrows with alcohol or smoking like a chimney the police got involved and made it actually illegal for you to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes or eat shitty food? I guarantee that these people wouldn't be labelled criminals. They would be seen as sick individuals who required help. That doesn't mean that nobody else should be able to go buy a happy meal just because some people have never heard the term "moderation". I mean if our health is really the main issue then what's the deal with all these other areas that cause such suffering and death? When you see the statistics for alcohol-related deaths, it's actually insane! I seriously advise you to go and look for yourself. (There is a link to some of these on my weed legalisation post but you may find more recent statistics through ONS). What if drugs were legal but similar to a gun or a car, you needed a pass or licence in order to legally use them? And that, ladies and gentlemen, leads us onto what would be involved in gaining access to this pass.
In order to be granted access to drugs, I think it would be important to view the risks. With some drugs there is a risk of addiction. I mean if we allow people to use meth then we run the risk of them becoming addicted to a highly destructive drug. So how do we show people the effects of drugs? Well, we arrange talks or interviews with people who have taken them. I mean how many people would come forth and claim their lives had been destroyed by weed? Not many I'd imagine. Would every single person who has taken DMT be lining up to scream "BEWARE!" at all those would-be trippers? I doubt it. Like any form of education, I think the first step would be attending a lecture or seminar which would look at the specific drug(s) you planned to take. It would run through some basic information such as what the drug was, how it affected you, how it's taken, etc. It would of course also explain some of the risks but not in a "YOU TAKE THIS, YOU DIE!" sort of way but more in an err on the side of caution manner. For example, with MDMA it would be explained that your body could overheat causing your brain to swell up…BUT that by drinking water throughout the night in small doses you can help to keep your body hydrated. These lectures would also discuss what situations are best for certain drugs. I mean you're probably not going to take DMT with a large group of people but you might smoke a joint in one. Ultimately you would then be tested in some form to see if you were aware of basic safety measures to take and understand the risks. These tests would also attempt to understand why you want to take the drug. Perhaps you have to submit an essay of some form explaining your reasoning and motivations. This way, we rule out anyone taking them just for the sake of it or out of boredom or because they are being forced to. I mean sure, drugs would still be available in the same manner that they are today but I know plenty of people who don't take drugs now but would if they could do so legally. By creating this hurdle or wall that would have to be passed, you would immediately exclude a large number of people who perhaps shouldn't be taking drugs in the first place. Of course the important aspect of this process would be that it wouldn't be controlled or monitored by solely anti-drug people but rather by those who see the dangers of drugs but also acknowledge that they have potentially beneficial uses as well. I mean if you had the current government in charge of such a process then nobody would get one of these passes/licenses and the entire endeavour would be pointless. Similarly, for the process to have any validity, we couldn't just be handing passes out to everyone (although that would essentially be the end goal).
I think the best way to look at it is like this: people who want to take drugs are going to take drugs, regardless of the law or potential consequences of being caught with an illegal substance and more often than not they will do so either unaware of the dangers or just ignore them completely. Is it not a much smarter solution to educate any would-be drug users so that they can decide whether they still want to participate in such activities after being given all the necessary information but also so that if they do take drugs, they are better equipped to do so safely? I mean the dangers of alcohol are known but people still go to schools to explain how to drink alcohol as safely as possible and what precautions can be taken to reduce risk. I mean you can't buy a packet of cigarettes without seeing photos of black lungs or throat cancer, yet you still have the right to smoke them. Not only would education serve a tremendously beneficial purpose but alongside it, we could have the same organisation supplying drugs that have been tested and are as safe as can possibly be. These would be taxable and as we have seen from areas where weed is not legal, this taxable income is incredibly beneficial for the whole society. We already have many communities set up to offer such guidance because the drug-taking community isn't a grim, dark place where dreams go to die. For example, Pill Report supplies user-reviews of ecstasy pills and gives other information such as strength, effects, what ingredients are included, not to mention whether there are any warnings for a certain pill. Leafly, a site for weed, supplies information on different strains and includes information such as the levels of paranoia or dry mouth you are likely to experience from smoking it or whether you are likely to get the giggles.
Of course this would only be the first step. Legalisation (or semi-legalisation) would be the beginning of a new era of human spirituality. Imagine what it would be like if you could go to a nearby city within the Western world and stay at an ayahuasca retreat for 10 days. People who regularly go on ayahausca trips have higher levels of serotonin than the average person. Basically, they are producing more happiness neurotransmitters than the rest of us. If some huge pharmaceutical company created the exact same benefit with a pill, it would be seen as revolutionary and ground breaking but because it's ancient and involves hallucinations, it's immediately ruled out as dangerous and negative.
I believe that as an adult, I have the right to choose what I do with not only my body but also my mind. Nobody stops me from getting tattoos or piercings that I could come to regret in later life. I can risk my life in the army from the age of 16 where my legs could be blown clean off or I could return with PTSD that makes my life unbearable. I mean did you know that more US soldiers have killed themselves than have died fighting in Iraq? Something like 22 veterans commit suicide every single day! Yet that trauma is seen as more acceptable than enjoying what nature created? Even then, MDMA has been shown to be hugely beneficial alongside therapy for soldiers suffering from PTSD and even they can't use it. So you're literally telling me that our governments view it as acceptable to enter a warzone where you could die at any moment, where your morality is tested and your faith in humanity destroyed, where you might see your friends be blown to pieces and even injured in such a way yourself…but that a drug that could potentially help you cope or recover from that very same conflict is too dangerous for you? In some countries you can get less time in jail for violently attacking someone than you would for being caught with weed. So a victimless crime is now as bad, if not worse than assaulting some stranger? If I can choose to go to war or choose to get so drunk that I fight my friends or choose to smoke 43 packets of cigarettes a day, then should I not have the same choices for drugs that can actually positively influence not only my life but the life of those around me? Isn't happiness the main goal for every single thing we do in this life?
So there you have it! My idea for how we can best tackle the current drug dilemma that is facing our countries. Education, education, and education are the main components for how to reduce drug-related deaths and as a way of encouraging potential drug-users to take their drug of choice for the right reasons. Of course in our current political climate, it is unlikely that anything of this nature would ever make it through the doors of parliament but it's a nice thought all the same. Until then, I guess we'll have no choice but to jump on the bandwagon and make our way to the nearest watering hole in order to overindulge in alcohol for the third time in one week. As always, I love reading any feedback or comments!


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When iTunes 8.0 was released, Apple changed the FairPlay DRM encryption in such a way that it broke the Requiem DRM stripping tool which had worked with earlier versions of iTunes. Now Requiem 1.8.1 has been released, and it works on iTunes 8.0.1 – well, at least on Mac. So far a Windows version hasn't been released, but it is expected to follow. A discussion thread in the Hymn project forums has the details. I'd link to Requiem, but Apple sends out cease and desist notices to sites that do, so I can just say use Google, it is available via BitTorrent.
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Emirates Airline offers big fare cuts Round-trip fares by the fast-expanding Dubai-based carrier from Bangkok to destinations within its global...
Emirates Thailand has embarked on a major sales campaign that undercuts the ticket prices offered by full-service airlines and even those of low-cost carriers.
Round-trip fares by the fast-expanding Dubai-based carrier from Bangkok to destinations within its global network are up to 47% lower than the normal rates imposed by Emirates.
Emirates' rock-bottom fares are likely to cause a stir in the Thai airline business during the 14-day campaign that is expected to generate a surge in its ticket sales, slowing down sales of rival airlines
Emirates' heavy discount campaign will particularly put Thai Airways International, the cash-strapped flag carrier struggling through a rehabilitation and competing directly on international routes with...
For destinations across Asia, round-trip economy class fares on Emirates is from merely 4,365 baht while business class fares start from 11,640 baht.
Flights to Middle East costs from 5,820 (economy class) and 19,400 baht (business Class).
Fare-only ticket prices to Europe from Bangkok to European cities commence from 9,700 baht (economy) 53,545 baht (business).
Flights to Africa cost from 12,610 baht (economy) and 57,230 baht (business).
Emirates flights to Australasia start at 8,540 (economy) and 60,140 baht (business).
Thai travel booking agents yesterday said the Emirates' discounted fares are hard to be matched by any airlines, including by full-service and no frills carriers, for the time being.
"This is not typical airline sale gimmick we normally see in Thailand, it is quite a deal,'' one agent noted.
For instance, it costs as little as 4,365 baht in net fare for a return flight between Bangkok and Hong Kong in the economy class on Emirates' Airbus A380 superjumbo.
Even if extras such as passenger service charges levied by airports at both ends, the overall ticket prices will go up to just around 5,700 baht, the cheapest by any carriers.
Emirates' offerings, last until Jan 19 both online and offline, come with relatively easy terms with travel validity extending from Jan 15 till Nov 30.
Unlike certain full-service airlines and low-cost carriers which tend to offer limited numbers of discounted tickets as a marketing gimmick, Emirates has not restricted the numbers of its discounted tickets...
That means there will be a lot of discounted tickets being offered for sales during the campaign period and people are free to buy as many tickets to as many as destinations with Emirates' network as they...
Jabr Al-Azeeby, Area Manager for Thailand and Indochina, said the campaign is part of Emirates' global sale which is staged to herald the New Year.