text:
Vigil Update
If my people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14
This scripture verse is part of a message from God to Solomon who has just completed a great "house of the Lord," and God is pleased. He tells Solomon that He will listen to all that is said in this place IF the people seek His face.
As we begin Lent today, it is a wonderful opportunity to do exactly what this Bible passage asks us to do. We must all humble ourselves before the Lord with fervent prayer and fasting. We must redouble our efforts among our friends, with those who disagree with us, and at the clinics. For only IF we change, will God heal our land. A very big change is needed in our country, so we must begin with ourselves. Throughout the Bible there are many examples when God turned a hopeless situation around because he saw the repentance of the people. Although we may be discouraged right now, God is still with us.
There are many opportunities for each of us this Lent:
1. Lobby Day in Springfield, March 8 – Visit
your state Congressmen in person and make an impact! You will be provided with
all the background to speak with authority on the issues. See below for
2. 40 Days for Life begins TODAY! – Downers Grove will be hosting a 12 hour daily vigil from 6:00 am – 6:00 pm. You can
sign up for an hour athttp://40daysforlife.com/downersgrove/ .
If you can't make it out to a vigil, commit to praying for an hour from where ever you are at a time when abortions
are being committed.
3. Friday March 23 at
Noon - Stand Up for Religious Freedom
Rally in defense of religious freedom
against the Obama administration's HHS Mandate. Federal Plaza, 50 W. Adams
Street. For more info. go to: http://standupforreligiousfreedom.com
4. Read and share the attached article entitled
"Bishop Lori and the Parable of the Kosher Deli."Bishop Lori testified before the House Committee of Oversight and
Government Reform on the matter of the HHS mandate and provided an eye-opening
comparison. Please share with those who don't understand what the "big deal"
is about this mandate. Regardless of your personal belief about
contraception, sterilization, or even abortion, this mandate is government
denial of religious freedom and it paves the way to strip religious freedom for
ALL in our country. This "parable" can help you explain how.
Update on a Recent Save:
Rebecca and Ernesto have decided to get married...soon! They will wed on April 7th. Please pray for this young couple to start out their new family founded on God. Her due date is August 7th.
News from the last three Thursdays' Forest View vigils:
** On Thursday, February 2, we estimate that EIGHT precious lives were lost.
** On Thursday, Feb. 9, we
estimate TWELVE women brought their children to die.
** Trish brought her 17 year
old daughter Jess to have an abortion. Trish cried on my shoulder about how she knew it was wrong, but she lacked the courage to stop her daughter from killing her grandchild. Please pray for these women, especially Trish who is desperately in need of the strength of the Holy Spirit.
**On Thursday, Feb. 16, we believe NINE children were killed in Forest View.
** However, two women chose LIFE!
The first was a young couple, Kim and Josh. They came out of the clinic after the doctor had arrived. Kim was crying and Josh was consoling her. When I approached them, they told me they weren't sure if they could go through with the abortion. I walked them to the Women's Center and they left all smiles! Please pray for this couple to stay strong and find the support they need.
** The other save: A woman named Linda came for an abortion with her friend Ruth. I tried to talk to them on the way in, but Ruth blocked me. However, she couldn't block our prayers! When they came out a while later, I approached the car, and Linda
told me she couldn't do it. She referred to the clinic as "nasty." She also told me that her boyfriend called her while she was inside and told her not to do it. Praise God for a father stepping up to protect his child!
** Sadly, not all fathers
were able to save their children that day. A young married man named Rob sat outside in his car while his wife killed their first child. He was very much against it and tried to talk her out of it, but he stopped just short.
Emily and Rob will need all the prayers they can get to save their marriage.
News about your spiritually adopted baby:
** At the end of this eleventh week after conception, your spiritually adopted baby will officially earn the title of "fetus". The embryonic stage has ended. Sadly the danger of abortion is far from over. Forest View will kill a baby up until 17 ½ weeks
and other clinics will commit abortion throughout ALL 40 weeks. The fetus is starting to move and grove a bit, and the mother may even be able to feel a tiny fluttering of these dances! Pray she will recognize that dance as a joyful feeling of LIFE inside her just waiting to come into the world.
To spiritually adopt a baby, pick up a prayer card in the vigil kit or go online at www.spiritualadoption.org.
Our vigil update writer:


text:
As well as events Amelia works with several restaurants, wine bars and pubs, helping them with their wine list, training their staff and also making creative use of their venue to host events which show off both their cuisine and wines.
Amelia also derives a lot of pleasure working with people on a more individual basis –whether it is advising couples on their wine for their wedding, helping people order wine and organise their first cellar to providing private individual or group tasting tuitions which can be bought as a gift and tailored to their individual need.
She is already a media fixture having featured on Jamie Oliver's Drinks Tube and has written for Jamie Oliver's website as well as the Drinkstube blog. Currently Amelia is weekly contributor to digital food recipe platform Great British Chefs and Wine Expert on ITV's The Wine Show. Amelia is also available to book for speaking engagements, demonstrations and comment.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Tracktion Review - Part 5
After receiving an email from Mackie stating that the long-awaited version 2 of Tracktion (T2) was available as an upgrade, I investigated further. With the full price of T2 noted as $199 (approximately £105 at the time) but with some online retailers already reducing this to $149 I wondered how much the upgrade would cost, thinking that, at the least, it would be around $50. So it was rather a shock when I read that it was only $20 (£10.54). Ok, so there is a small catch: the full version of T2 came bundled with a whole selection of plugins - though some of these are freely available, anyway - while the $20 upgrade gave you just the key to unlock the downloadable demo.
So, what do you get in T2 over T1? Well, as I've only just downloaded the thing then I haven't really had time to play with all the extras. However, here's a quick list:
- Adjustable screen layout/size - hoorah! You are no longer limited to having Tracktion taking up your entire screen area. Additionally, for users with two (or more) monitors, T2 can be stretched over more than one monitor. Coupled with the addition of side panel controls that allow the input and filters panels to be hidden, you've now got far more control over the use of the screen.
- Per-track input - hmm, this is just an alternative way of assigning inputs to a track - maybe the old way of dragging an input to a track was confusing some people. Not a ground-breaking change but if it helps people use the system then all well and good. For those that prefer the old way then that's easily reinstated by removing a tick on menu from the options button.
- A better MIDI editor - something T1 users had been clamouring about for a long time. If I had one main argument about T1 compared to the old Music-X program on the Amiga then it was the ease of editing MIDI. T2 addresses much of this with its complete redesign though I can't help thinking that Music-X was still just that teensy bit easier (I no longer have an Amiga and, last time I tried, Music-X seemed to crash most Amiga emulators).
- Mixing down can now be done at 64-bit/192kHz which can reduce distortion. Many devices now coming onto the market are capable of handling 192kHz signals.
- Proper sends and returns - commonly available on other software and hardware sequencers/recorders, these were completely missing from T1 - a welcome addition.
- QuickTime support - yep, T2 can synchronize audio to video - opening a MOV file you will find that the Tracktion transport controls will sync to the video. This is not an area that I am particularly interested in but, no doubt, others will find it indispensible though there may be comments about the lack of compatibility with other formats such as AVI or MPeg.
- Loop recording - about time too!
- A manual - yippee! Well, two actually. Given that T2 is now also available as a boxed product this has, of course, become rather essential. At 76 pages the user guide is probably rather slimmer than manuals for the 'heavyweight' sequencers such as Cubase SX and it could be argued that, with Tracktion such an easy package to use, it doesn't require anything larger. However, it would have been nice to have an index and I hope that Mackie decide to add one in the next revision. In addition, there is also a reference guide, a slightly meatier beast at 108 pages that goes into more detail about all aspects of getting the best out of Tracktion but, again, no index. The downloadable versions of these manuals are in PDF format and do have proper chapter bookmarks.
So, is it worth the $20 upgrade? Damn right it is, and anyone who, after deciding to go the Tracktion route, waited until T2 came out before purchasing is probably now kicking themselves silly!
Please note that I have not upgraded to V3 - this isn't any sort of comment on that version. It's just that, for a few years, I no longer had the time to actually do much in the way of music.
Since then work on the product seem to have unfortunately come to a halt which suggests that it would be foolhardy to spend money in upgrading to that version.
May 2013 - it's back! Not only is Julian Storer back in command but the price is back to pre-Mackie levels with an upgrade price for T2/3 users of around £20 to T4. Since then it's been evolving again and, as of late 2016, is up to version 7!


text:
Thanks to wildlife documentaries such as Blue Planet II, as well as increased awareness about how the products we buy and use in our homes affect the environment, being kinder to the planet is becoming a big priority for many UK homeowners.
Luckily, there are some easy ways to be eco-friendly in your home without spending thousands of pounds or affecting your quality of life.
Single use plastic bags, bottles, straws and cups are the biggest threat to our ocean eco-systems – causing huge damage to wildlife and turning massive stretches of water into floating rubbish dumps.
You can do your bit to tackle the growing amount of plastic entering our oceans by swapping out single use plastics for reusable versions, as well as making a conscious effort to buy products that utilise plastics recovered from the ocean. Everything from duvets, rugs and now window blinds can reuse plastic waste in this way.
Apollo's NEW Greenscreen Sea-Tex blinds are made from plastic retrieved from beaches, remote coastlines and inland waterways, transforming it into a long-lasting high-performance roller blind fabric. Greenscreen Sea-Tex fabric is energy-efficient, filters sunlight and is fully recyclable. It's also PVC free.
Fifty per cent of the fabric's weight is recovered ocean plastic, they're available in five neutral semi-transparent shades.
2. Reduce Energy Consumption
There are lots of ways to reduce energy in the home, some are common sense, others are less so, and overall there are significant savings to be made.
You can read our brilliant energy saving tips here: https://www.apollo-blinds.co.uk/blog/index.php/2019/03/energy-price-cap-rise/
And one of the best tips of all is to install Duette® blinds at windows. With their unique honeycomb structure, Duette® blinds can help homeowners to achieve a more energy-efficient home, saving up to 25% on annual heating costs.
Within the collection, Duette® Relife blinds are a type of Duette® blinds fabric manufactured using recycled polyester fibres from recycled textiles, scoring you even more eco-friendly points.
Upcycling furniture is not only great for the environment but will create stunning and bespoke pieces for your home. There are hundreds of tutorials that show you how to breathe new life into old furniture and we've collated some of our favourites for you over on Pinterest
Another recycling option is to create window blinds from old curtains. Curtains can become worn around the edges but if the fabric is otherwise intact, there's an opportunity you can recycle these well-loved household textiles into gorgeous window blinds, using our You Choose window blinds making service. It's something we're seeing more frequently and is great for the environment.
Apollo's solar powered roof blinds operate by converting energy from the sun via a discreet solar panel on the window side of the blind, which charges the battery during daylight hours.
The blinds are fully motorised for ease of use, yet without any added electricity consumption. They're ideal for insulating windows and for light control in hard to reach areas.
Apollo has recently introduced a number of products with impressive eco credentials to its already extensive ranges.
All are delivered with Apollo's quality assurance and the care and attention to detail that guarantees an expertly crafted window blind, fitted to the homeowner's exact specifications.


text:
Pop'Africana is inviting writers to submit essays for a new book-'The Africana Book of style'. Check out the details below:
From 2009 through 2012, Pop'Africana emerged as the definitive magazine delivering a rejuvenated perspective on all aspects of the arte Africano. African creatives, industry insiders and culture enthusiast alike found a medium in Pop'Africana that spoke to their aesthetic sensibilities, ideas of individualism and a visual dialogue that was not trite or cliché. This vision to offer inspired imagery and honest dialogue now continues through The Africana Book of Style, a Pop'Africana series exploring old African traditions, Afro-cosmopolitanism and style.
In this first edition of The Africana Book of Style, we invite writers of all backgrounds to join us in exploring the Black/Natural Hair Phenomenon and to offer a unique and diachronic perspective on the culture, aesthetics and rhetoric on hair of African origin.
Hair holds an import within African societies, past and present. Pre-colonial African societies viewed hair as an integral part of their multifaceted language system. With hair came a conduit through which Africans could impart messages of emotional well being, age, marital status, ethnicity, rank, wealth, and so on. The presence of unkempt or messy hair for instance, signified insanity or loose morals within the Mende while a disheveled mane of Wolof women was deemed acceptable for a specified mourning period so as not to attract other men. In the Ogba tribe of Rivers people of Nigeria, a shaven head is even required in mourning the loss of a husband. This sociocultural pull of hair is also matched by aesthetic values that were commanded by intricate plaiting and decorative styles. We need only peruse the work of the late J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere to visualize the sculptural qualities of hair and consider that natural African hair represents a time immemorial edifice.
If we muse upon the unmitigated growth of hair of African origin as well as its place as symbol of freedom, identity, and individuality, it becomes apparent that this sociocultural structure we know as hair has always occupied an ambivalent space physically and culturally, but why is this? This ambivalence is played out in varied manners, with the most critical instance being the schism that African hair
culture has had to deal with following its migration from the African continent. With this geographical and cultural separation, has the historicity of
natural African hair as an expression of individuality waned in contemporary times?
Hair politics dictates patterns of thought and behavior within private and public spheres of contemporary media and environment and these patterns are subject to selective censure. Can black hair be depoliticized? Why are conversations on black hair divisive and even contentious in nature? By delving into the aesthetic sensibilities of hair and how it is applied to individuality, can we chart the effect African hair has, natural or permed, on how one navigates and identifies with ideas of blackness or Africanity? Can this validation of Africanity that comes with natural African hair move away from being a tool of inclusion and exclusion? Are you a natural hair convert or divert? What have been your experience been with conversion or diversion? Guilt? Backlash? Praise?
By documenting and exploring varied perspectives, we aim to open up dialogue surrounding the politics of Black hair especially within African communities and households. This dialogue could touch on history, aesthetics, economics, and the human experience, with topics as varied as the critical evolution of hair knowledge and how it is conveyed in progeny, baldness as a choice or third space in the natural hair diversion/conversion dialectic, or the economic landscape within the beauty industry as it relates to Natural/Black hair.
We invite essays from writers of all backgrounds – artists, curators, art historians, and theoreticians, scholars – not exceeding 3500 words in length, discussing the above mentioned or related issues.
Deadline: 10th June 2014
Submissions to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Additionally, we are interested in general articles such as artist-features, exhibition reviews and previews of around 1500 words but all related to Black hair and the Natural hair phenomenon.
· Manuscripts not exceeding 3500 words in length, as text document without formatting · Author's names and short biography of ca. 100 words at the end of the article
· Manuscripts must be submitted in English
· All bibliographic references must be included in the document's last page
Source: popafricana.com


text:
|[Deutsch] Homepage Jugend
Breaking through the barriers that limit us
Welcome to the homepage of the youth group in the EFG-Tempelhof
However you have come across our homepage – thanks for having you here. Now we want to invite you to our next youth group get-together. We meet every Friday except on school holidays at 18 o´clock and we would like to get to know you.
About us:
We are a colorful bunch of people, who are thirteen and older. As long as you feel young enough feel free to visit us. Anyway, you are more than welcome.
In our group you will find very different stages of life, life styles and life goals. There are pupils, students, trainees or employees.
We are teens and young adults from many different homelands (Germany, South-Korea, Syria, Iran, Russia, etc.) speaking various languages (German, English, French, Korean, Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, etc.).
But we have something in common:
We are interested in good community. We love discussing, analyzing, reflecting and to exchange our whishes and problems. We are honest, open minded, respecting, caring and learn from each other. Here you will find a good mix of smalltalk, casual conversation and deeper debates.
Oh - and we like good food! The most interesting conversations arise while we cook and eat together.
Of course we do not forget to play games and having fun. Our games include action games, role-play games and parlor games.
Everything we experience together we also do with God & Jesus.
We pray to them, sing for them and learn about them.
To wrap it up, please come visit us.
Next youth group meetings.
youth group team : E-Mail
Tageslosung¹ für Dienstag, den 11. August 2020
¹ © Evang. Brüder-Unität, Herrnhuter Losungen


text:
Document / Publication
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe (UNDRR ROE)
The document serves the purpose of providing up to date information relating to National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction within the UNISDR Europe Region. To date 27 NPs have been officially nominated in UNISDR Europe Region. (Last updated 11 December 2014)
Permalink: https://www.preventionweb.net/go/19617


text:
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How do Hydra-Slide skidding systems work?
What makes Hydra-Slide skid systems different than other Jack and Slide systems?
How safe are these systems?
What are these skid systems made of?
How fast do they slide a load?
Why don't you use longer stroke cylinders?
Can the track sections support the weight of the load over a span?
What if I skid the load too far and have to move it back?
How much do the Hydra-Slide skidding systems weigh?
Why don't you make the track sections out of aluminum, so they would be lighter?
Where is this equipment manufactured?
What is the lead time on an order?
What kind of maintenance is required? And what about servicing?
When I order a skid system, what is included?
Which skid system is the best?
What kind of power unit do I need to run Hydra-Slide equipment?
What is the difference between Synchronous and conventional power units?
What size of power unit should I get?
Do you offer a lighter alternative to regular steel jacks?
Hydra-Slide supplies both Steel jacks in capacities ranging from 50 tons to 200 tons as well as Aluminum jacks that are about half the weight of standard models (50-150 tons). you can see the specification sheet on our Aluminum jacks Here. We also offer Climbing Jacks in various capacities.
When would I use a Climbing Jack?
Climbing jacks are most advantageous in situations requiring higher lifts or where you want to jack using single blockpiles. Climbing jacks require only a single blockpile for each jacking point as opposed to conventional jacking that requires a jack pile and a separate support pile. This also eliminates the effect of timber piles compressing and expanding as the load is alternately put on and off the piles.
How do they work?
A climbing jack incorporates an inverted double-acting cylinder inside a special wide housing. The rod has a wider foot attachment.
As the cylinder is extended, Ekki timbers are placed under the sides of the housing. The cylinder is then retracted and more Ekki timbers are placed under the rod foot. The cylinder is extended again and this time a row of Ekki is placed under the housing but at 90⁰ to the first row. This sequence is continued until the load reaches the desired height. For lowering a load the above sequence is simply reversed.
To view Climbing Jack Procedure click Here.
What if I need to rotate a load?
We provide Engineered heavy load turntables for rotating items such as transformers or generators during handling or installation with capacities from 150 to 500 tons. They incorporate a reversible, hydraulically powered rotating mechanism for precise control.
What is the difference between Ekki wood and other traditional jacking timbers?
This wood has exceptional strength and resistance to crushing or bending and is ideally suited for jacking and blocking applications. Ekki is a West-African hardwood that is over 3 times stronger than white oak or fir. It is naturally resistant to insects, is non-porous and does not rot. Our timbers are a standard size of 10cm x 10cm x 1.0 m and weigh only about 11kgs each. (4″ x 4″ x 40″ x 25 lbs). They are much smaller, lighter and easier to handle than conventional timbers. See the Comparison Chart between different woods Here.
Is Ekki more expensive than other jacking timbers?
As an initial investment Ekki is more expensive than other traditional woods, however it will last for years without becoming structurally compromised, and they save time by being much lighter and easier to use for blocking and jacking applications.
How do I order Hydra-Slide equipment?
We deal directly with all of our customers, both Nationally and Internationally. Give us a call or email us and we can help you make an informed decision on which equipment would best fit your needs. We also are happy to coordinate the logistics of shipping to your facility at no charge.


text:
Police Report for Taylor Mickey Blocker
Police Arrests Record ID: 40322358
- Suspect First Name: TAYLOR
- Suspect Last Name: BLOCKER
- Suspect Middle Name: MICKEY
- Aliases:
- Date of Birth:
- Arrest Date: 12-31-2016 12:00:00
- Age:
- Sex:
- Race:
- Ethnicity:
- Height:
- Weight:
- Hair:
- Eye:
- Place of Birth: Georgia
- Address:
- State: Georgia
- Total Bond:
- Booking Date:
- Location:
On December 31, 2016, Paulding County Law Enforcement arrested Taylor Mickey Blocker in Paulding, Georgia. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Information about upcoming court dates for Blocker may be obtained from one of the following law enforcement or prosecuting agencies: Paulding County Law Enforcement.
DISCLAIMER: Arrest records of Taylor Mickey Blocker are public documents and are provided here for informational purposes only. Publication here does not mean that Taylor Mickey Blocker has committed a criminal offense, it is only a record of arrest. This information may not be used to determine Taylor Mickey Blocker's eligibility for credit, employment, housing or other business transactions. Contact the law enforcement officials in Paulding, Georgia for further information on Taylor Mickey Blocker's legal status. All individuals on this website are considered innocent until proven guilty.
Record last updated on January 02, 2017. Contact the relevant law enforcement officials in Paulding, Georgia for current information about this arrest and related court dates. If you believe this record is incorrect, or that it was sealed or expunged and should not appear here, please contact our customer support team.
Full Report
When was Taylor Blocker arrested?
According to Paulding County Law Enforcement, Taylor was arrested on December 31, 2016.
Is this a mug shot of Taylor Blocker?
Unfortunately, a mug shot of Taylor is unavailable at this time. You may contact Paulding County Law Enforcement to request one.
Are any other mug shots of Taylor Mickey Blocker available?
Additional mug shots of Blocker Taylor may be available from Paulding County Law Enforcement.
If I think this record is incorrect, or that it was sealed or expunged and should not appear on this site, what can I do?
You should first contact the relevant law enforcement officials in Paulding, Georgia to ensure they are not making public any records or information that should not be made public. Next, please contact our customer support team who will discuss with you the information necessary for us to remove or correct this record.
If you have more information about Taylor Mickey Blocker, please share below
* Use the contact form to speak with a representative


text:
Ten Reasons
Hire An Artist
Bill Steigerwald, 8/13/2007 [
Cool It - Interview with Bjorn Lomborg
Cool It - Interview with Bjorn Lomgorg
By Bill Steigerwald
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg (Knopf)
"Cool It" is not the first book Denmark's Bjorn Lomborg has written about global warming. Lomborg's heretical 2001 best-seller, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," drew a firestorm of nasty criticism and unveiled hatred from environmentalists and the global warming crowd because it said most of the bad effects of climate change have been grossly exaggerated. Named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2004, Lomborg-- a statistician by training -- believes global warming is occurring. But he also believes we should approach the problem rationally -- which means not wasting all our energy and resources today on global warming's long-run effects when there are more-pressing human-killing problems like malaria and malnutrition we should be addressing.
Q: What does 'Cool It' refer to?
A: Well, of course it refers to the idea that we need to find a way in the long term to reverse global warming. But it also -- and perhaps more importantly in the current debate -- refers to the fact that we need to cool and temper our conversation on climate change. Right now there is a lot of hysteria going on, a lot of alarmism going on, and quite frankly, if we only hear one side of the story -- and often an exaggerated side of the story -- it's unlikely we'll make good judgments.
Q: Will you give us a brief synopsis of your book?
A: It tries to tell us three things. It first of all says global warming is real. The second point is to say that the effects of global warming are very often vastly exaggerated and one-sided and that doesn't lead to good judgments. So that's the third part, where I try to point out that we need a much smarter, much cooler way of talking about climate change and thinking about how we can do something about it in the long run. What I try to say is that we need to focus on things that are both cost-efficient and will solve climate change. Right now we talk about cutting CO2 emissions, which is expensive and which quite frankly will do very little good.
What I talk about is cutting the cost of cutting emissions -- that is, investing in research and development of non-carbon-emitting energy technologies like solar, like wind, like carbon-capture, energy efficiency -- all these things. If we do that, we will leave a world where our kids and especially our grand kids will have a much easier time cutting their carbon emissions, simply because we've made it much cheaper. And therefore, both our kids and grandkids -- but also the Chinese and the Indians,who will be much richer in 2050 -- will want to cut much more. So at the end of the day, it's really, 'Do we want to cut a little now at high cost or do we want to make sure the whole world will want to cut a lot at low cost because we've investedin research and development?'
Q: What is your position on global climate change?
A: I think it's incontrovertible that it's happening and that it's at least partially caused by man. But it's often vastly over-sold. The idea that we are going to see a 20-feet sea level rise is just simply not in the cards. The UN climate panel tells us it's going to be about a foot. There's a huge difference in telling us the sea level rise is going to be a foot over the next 100 years or it's going to be 20 feet. One is a problem; the other one is a catastrophe. But it's the problem that will actually happen.
To put it in context, remember over the last 150 years sea levels also rose a foot. Yet was it something we noticed very much? Ask a very old person who lived through most of the 20th century what were the important things that happened and she'll likely talk about the two world wars, the emancipation of women, and maybe the IT Revolution, but it's very unlikely she'll say, 'Oh, and sea levels rose.'
Q: You aren't a climate scientist and don't even pretend to be one like Al Gore. What makes you qualified to write books about global warming?
A: Because I'm a social scientist and I'm a statistician and what I look at is 'What are the social impacts of many of these things?' I simply take as a starting point what the U.N. climate panel tells us. But then I say, 'We need to remember all the facts.' As I say, 'The UN climate panel tell us one foot of sea level rise, so let's not say 20 feet.' When the U.N. climate panel says we'll see increasing temperatures that will mean that more people will die in heat waves. That's absolutely true and everybody points that out. But of course increasing temperatures also means that fewer people will die in cold waves. And since in most parts of the world there are many more people dying from cold than from heat, we'll actually see more people not dying from cold waves than extra people dying from heat waves. In the UK, it's estimated that 2,000 more people will die from heat waves each year -- a very much publicized fact. But we forget to hear that 20,000 fewer people will die from cold. That's the point: I'm simply saying we need to hear both sides of that argument. It's not a very complicated argument, but it's one that's absolutely necessary to hear.
Q: The reason we haven't heard both sides of the argument, some of us would argue, is because the media has let us down by not playing fair and balanced.
A: The media, as you probably very well know, is not necessarily fair, because they love a good story which is often a bad story. I don't think it's because anyone is being inherently dishonest or trying to torture the facts. It's much more that we as a human species have a tendency to only say, 'Oh, my God what's going to happen? Oh, bad things.' But perhaps we are forgetting to say, 'If we are going to make good choices, we need to hear the whole story.' So I simply see this as a way of saying, 'Oooh, let's just remember that 2,000 are going to die from heat but 20,000 are not going to die from cold and we need both sides of that information.'
Q: What's the most dangerous exaggeration about global warming that needs to be debunked or at least put into the proper perspective?
A: I don't think there is any one. It's the over all idea that humanity is somehow at stake, that this is a planetary disaster, or that we're going to see the last remaining couples of humanoids at the end of this century wandering around close to the North Pole where they have a slight chance of survival. Those kinds of scenarios which have been put forward and gotten a huge amount of publicity by eminent people simply are not in the cards. Climate change is a problem, yes. But it's by no means a catastrophe. Perhaps it's important to say that in a world where 15 million people die each year from easily curable infectious diseases, it seems to me that we are missing our priorities when we focus so exclusively on one problem and forget that there are many others -- and many others, mind you, where we can do much more good. So it comes down to this: What do we want to be remembered as this generation's big achievement? Do we want it to be that we did a little bit about climate change? Or do we want it to be that we did a lot about many of the other problems in the world, like HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, clean drinking water, the list goes on?
Q: Who is Julian Simon and how has he influenced your thinking about global warming, its threat and its solution?
A: Julian Simon is a famous American economist who died in the late 1990s who pointed out that contrary to common belief, most environmental indicators, at least in the rich world, were not declining but actually getting better because as you get richer, you actually can afford to get better at dealing with the world's problems. I set out to disprove him. I'm an old member of Green Peace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart. So I actually set out to disprove Simon. But much to my surprise, I found that much of what he said is actually true. I think what Julian Simon has taught me is that we should not just take whatever we worry very much about today as the final truth. We need to actually ask, 'Yes. But what are the other important facts to make good judgments?' Do you remember how we worried intensely about the millennium bug in 1999? Do you remember how we worried about the avian flu just a year or two ago? And acid rain in the 1980s? None of these were incorrect in the sense that were not possible. But we were vastly over-panicked about them. It actually meant we worried about them and forgot about the many other problems. So I think what it really has meant to me is about taking back the perspective and remembering that we can't fix all things, so we really have to be sure that we worry about the right things and in the right proportion.
Q: So what do we do about GW?
A:We need to realize that global warming is a 100-year problem that will need cooperation between generations, between political parties and between continents. This is something that has to be a political deal that will work throughout decades between different political parties and different countries throughout the world. It's not one along the Kyoto (Protocol) lines, which basically means cut emissions now at fairly high cost but have very little benefit only 100 years from now. It should much rather be one that says let's make cost-efficient efforts to make sure we cut the cost of cutting emissions. It's about research and development and I specifically propose we invest 0.05 percent of GDP in research and development in non-carbon-emitting energy technologies -- this could be wind, solar, you name it. There are many different opportunities. The idea is, it's 10 times cheaper than Kyoto. It's likely going to be maybe 100 times cheaper than the follow-up to Kyoto, which is going to be negotiated in my home town, Copenhagen in 2009. And yet it's a 10-fold increase in the research and development that we commit right now to these issues. So it is one that is doable, it is politically feasible and it is smart. In the long term, it will likely do much more good than Kyoto or son of Kyoto will ever do -- and it will actually have the affect in the long term to halt global warming.
Q: Why should Al Gore read your book?
A: (Laughs) That's a great question. I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is -- namely, a problem. But I think he's over-sold it in many ways to make people over-worried and therefore has actually done global warming a disservice, because we will end up having one of those fads where we worry very much about it and then it sort of passes out of fashion. If we are going to have a sustained effort over the next 100 years, we need much smarter approaches. Since he is one of the very visible spokespeople, I would certainly hope that he would also read this book and realize if we need long-term progress on climate change and all the world's other woes, we need to be smart about it and this is one way -- and hopefully a very smart way --forward that I'm proposing.
Bill Steigerwald is a columnist at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. E-mail Bill at email@example.com.© Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, All Rights Reserved.
RESTRICTIONS: Bill Steigerwald's columns may not be reprinted in general circulation print media in Pennsylvania's Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, and Westmoreland Counties.
If you're not a paying subscriber to our service, you must contact us to print or post this column on the web. Distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons, Inc. Sales email@example.com (805) 969-2829.
Download Bill Steigerwald's color photo
Download Bill Steigerwald's black and white mug shot photo
Why not run a cartoon with the column? We recommend the cartoons below as a good compliment to Bill Steigerwald's topic.
Click on the thumbnail images to preview and download the cartoons.
Related Cartoons
Environmental Guilt COLOR
By: Cameron Cardow
The Ottawa Citizen
May 3, 2007
Environmental Guilt
By: Cameron Cardow
The Ottawa Citizen
May 3, 2007
Global Warming Non Believer
By: Mike Lane
The Baltimore Sun
August 6, 2002
Back to work again
By: Olle Johansson
August 8, 2007
Gore on Mars
By: Gary McCoy
April 17, 2007
Gore on Mars COLOR
By: Gary McCoy
April 17, 2007
Toilet paper terror
By: Brian Fairrington
The Arizona Republic
April 25, 2007
Paper or Plastic -- COLOR
By: Mike Lester
May 15, 2007
Paper or Plastic
By: Mike Lester
May 15, 2007
We do not accept and will not review unsolicited submissions from cartoonists.
Sales & Information:
(805) 969-2829
Billing Information:
(805) 969-2829
Technical Support:
FREE cartoons for your website if you're already a paying print subscriber!
Artwork and columns are copyrighted by each creator. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service


text:
Home |
Latest |
Library |
Most Watched |
Top 10 |
Opening |
Coming Soon |
New @ Netflix |
Blog |
When Emmie (Robin Tunney) starts to think that her current relationship isn't enough, she can't stop wondering about her high school sweetheart, Jason (Adam Scott), who stills lives in their coastal hometown of Maine. On a whim, she throws caution to the wind and goes home to discover if he could be what she needs to reignite her life.
Need help downloading? Please see our Download Tutorial.
Contact |
Advertise |
Subscribe to our newsletter:


text:
There is a specific question for anyone from the Riot reading this on the feed at the bottom–I need advice about how to get myself to stop buying stuff.
I am thinking a lot about Tillie Olsen for my paper. Thinking about privelege, about struggle, and about how my favorite thing about "I Stand Here Ironing" is that the narrator is a mother who sounds like a mother. Slightly harried, proud and regretful at the same time, and a mother and person at the same time. I am excited to write my paper, and nervous to not do justice to this writer I have come to admire greatly both for her writing and for her life. Her words are so powerful. They make me want to write again, which is good since all of my classes are conducted in writing 🙂
We are growing things again here at chez Neko. Over the past two days, we planted basil, chives, parsley, cilantro and thyme, plus this cheezy-ass Gothic Graveyard Garden I ordered from Tarzhay. It is awesome. We are growing moonflower, sensitive plant, dragon tree and black coleus (this last one amuses me as I spent the better part of last weekend trying to decipher photos of slides of coleus plant structure. I find myself wondering how much different the chloroplasts must look if the leaves are black, which means I am actually learning in my botany class.) I picked up marigold and nasturtium seeds as well as pickling cukes what can be grown in containers but we are waiting to plant those. I think we're going to give some tomatoes a go this year again because I think moisture was the problem last year.
What do both of the above sections have in common? Buying things. I have been a lean, mean buying machine. This continues to be my weakest Riot section. I would say that I suck at it except I really haven't been able to find a way to make myself really try. I see something, I can afford it, I buy it. Books I need for class, new pants so I don't have to live in sweats, pants for Chico, socks for C, feeding Lucy's Littlest Pet Shop addiction. It's like a reward system for my good work but it isn't something I want to keep up. Everything gets used, we actually have room for most of it, but I want to get myself out of the habit of rewarding myself with STUFF. I can't seem to maintain any sort of resolve in this area. How do you keep yourself from impulse purchases/reward purchases? I am really feeling like I need to get this problem under control NOW.


text:
Introducing David-Bruce to Shamanic Journeying this week, it was not surprising the old Mystic had been on them before – without the nomenclature or some of the geographical markers. It's like meeting somewhere new with old friends – leading to saying hello to a few new ones along with the old. It would seem David's affinity and close relationships with Shamans in Peru, in the Andean traditions- lent a previously unrecognized familiarity that all indigenous creatures attain. When our journeys take us to the same place as another- we know a deeper world within each other, as well as within our selves.
I picked up a journey I started long ago. Stepping over a patch of rubble that wasn't there before. To see one's past in the tangible mounds of hollow clacking bones scattered in dry crunching particulate and ash – where every step kicks up a cloud of white, dissipating into an ancient path . We let go, and see our vision once again. With a power we knew before.


text:
In Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Adam Kirsch and Francine Prose discuss what free speech means in the context of Charlottesville and beyond.
By Adam Kirsch
Liberalism is founded on the belief that we should tolerate one another's error.
Nowhere is the unnaturalness of liberalism more obvious than when it comes to the principle of free speech. Political speech involves making claims about what is true: the planet is warming; the president is a criminal; Jews are out to destroy white America. If I disagree with your truth claim, then I believe you are either ignorant or a liar, and it is not immediately obvious why ignorance and lies deserve any kind of respect. Shouldn't I use every means in my power to stop you from spreading falsehood? Isn't it my moral responsibility to do so?
This kind of reasoning is especially compelling when it deals with speech that has potentially dangerous consequences. If you deny global warming and try to convince people that it doesn't exist, while I believe it presents an immediate danger to the survival of the species, then it makes sense that I would take any measures necessary to silence you, for the sake of humanity's very future. And this does not apply only to empirical threats. For a true religious believer, nothing is more dangerous than the propagation of false beliefs about God, since heresy imperils something even more important than lives — it threatens our souls. The Inquisition burned heretics because it saw in their speech such a spiritual threat; surely it was an act of kindness to protect the innocent from deadly lies?
It took the Western world many generations of religious wars and persecutions before liberal thinkers, in the 17th and 18th centuries, began to challenge this imperious logic. The key to the invention of free speech was the recognition of pluralism — the fact that, in any human population, there will be people with irreconcilably different understandings of the truth. Pluralism is not relativism: I do not have to agree that there is no truth about climate change or racism or God. But I must recognize that we do not all agree on what that truth is.
The question is what to do with that disagreement. Liberalism is founded on the belief that we should tolerate one another's error, not because we approve of it, but to avoid the violence that would result if we each sought to silence the other. The liberal believes that life is more important than truth — that it is better to live in a peaceful society full of error than in a pure society full of persecution. The price of this toleration is that we must constantly put up with hearing speech that we consider wrong; we must smother our moral instincts. As the poet Robert Lowell put it, the liberal is someone who "bites his own lip to warm his icy tooth."
Recent events in the United States have only reaffirmed the wisdom of this liberal compromise. If there was ever a group whose speech appears to me to be obviously evil and dangerous, it is the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville earlier this month. But the president of the United States is sympathetic to white supremacists; to him, it is the (mythical) "alt-left" that presents the real threat. If he had the power to suppress freedom of speech, he would use it to silence the people I agree with. It is better for me for no one to possess that power than to entrust it to someone who might regard me as an enemy.
Campus leftists who believe they are serving the cause of goodness and truth by silencing right-wing (or even not-so-right-wing) speakers are living in a fool's paradise, because they temporarily inhabit an environment where they are in the majority. When they graduate into Trump's America, they will find that many people, including people in power, think they are the ones who are wrong and dangerous. Then the principle of free speech will become their shield, as it has long shielded dissidents and radicals in America. Without it, politics becomes a war of all against all, and as we have learned since last November, there is no guarantee that the right side will win.
Adam Kirsch is a poet and a critic. His most recent book is "The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century."
By Francine Prose
What could "free speech" possibly mean when a mob is bullying and beating people with whom they don't agree?
Lately, I've been thinking about "The Emperor's New Clothes." What a deeply felt and personal story it must have been for Hans Christian Andersen, whose work is full of plucky honest children. Awkward and painfully unable to pick up on basic social cues, he chose, as his fairy-tale hero, the outspoken innocent who delivers an unwelcome truth.
The emperor is naked! Was Andersen also alluding to one role of the writer: to say the thing that everyone knows but fears to say? Even the emperor realizes that the boy is right. No one punishes or contradicts the young truth-teller. But naked or not, no one is owning up. The procession must go on, so the emperor "held himself stiffer than ever, and the chamberlain held up the invisible train."
Had the story been set here, we might say that the little boy's right to call attention to the emperor's nudity was protected by the First Amendment. But doesn't context matter? Wasn't the boy discouraged by his parents from embarrassing their leader? Shouldn't he have waited for a private moment, or asked the chamberlain to explain the emperor's intention?
Not according to the United States Supreme Court. On the basis of past decisions, we can imagine that the justices would have decided in favor of the boy. Not only would he be allowed to say what he'd observed, but he could have hurled insults — racial, religious, sexual, political — at the emperor, and still he would have been within his constitutional rights. In order for the boy to exceed the limits of protected free speech, he would have had to exhort the crowd to attack their naked ruler.
Traditionally, the courts have defended the freedom to express "the thought that we hate"; the law doesn't ban words that wound egos or hurt feelings. It's concerned not with psychological harm but with physical action, injury and risk — with real and present danger.
Though when violence does occur, as it did in Charlottesville, we want to be very clear about what constitutes exhortation and incitement. It's regrettable that the phrase "free speech" should have been co-opted by white supremacists, as if the only kind of free speech worth rallying around is hate speech. And what could "free speech" possibly mean when a mob is bullying and beating people with whom they don't agree?
Obviously, context is important. Just because you're legally permitted to say what you want doesn't mean it's socially or morally acceptable to subject other humans to racist rants. Yet almost daily one can see, on social media, someone doing just that, losing it on a plane or at the checkout counter. I think the ranters are reprehensible, but I don't want to see them locked up unless they're trying to goad their fellow passengers or shoppers to mob violence.
Democracy depends on the civil, healthy and open exchange of ideas, on the chance to be persuaded by opposing opinions, to reasonably consider variant arguments and explanations. Freedom of speech, free expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press — those guarantees have helped keep us from sliding into dictatorship, a fate that has befallen countries with formerly democratic governments and levels of education and prosperity not unlike our own.
We need to be clear about what those protections are, and about why we need them — a need that seems to grow more intense each time Donald Trump attacks the press; when the former chief of staff Reince Priebus floated a plan to change libel laws (and by extension the First Amendment) in some vague but ominous way; and each time someone brings an automatic weapon to a free and open political demonstration.
Our democracy may have its flaws, but the alternative — the repression that exists right now in so many countries — is worse. That is a different fairy tale, less like the work of Andersen than like some modern-day Brothers Grimm. That is the story that ends with the little boy being arrested, jailed and killed for the crime of daring to say out loud what the emperor isn't wearing.
Francine Prose is the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, among them the novel "Blue Angel," a National Book Award nominee, and the guide "Reading Like a Writer," a New York Times best seller. Her most recent novel is "Mister Monkey." Currently a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College, she is the recipient of numerous grants and awards; a contributing editor at Harper's, Saveur and Bomb; a former president of the PEN American Center; and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


text:
This policy is valid from 21 March 2018
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog does not accept any form of advertising, sponsorship, or paid insertions. We write for our own purposes. However, we may be influenced by our background, occupation, religion, political affiliation or experience.
The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
The owner(s) of this blog would like to disclose the following existing relationships. These are companies, organizations or individuals that may have a significant impact on the content of this blog. We are employed by or consult with: GelMoment.XO, Tami


text:
Rightly So, the Zayat Stable four-year-old filly, was scratched from today's Breeder' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint at historic Churchill Downs.
A veterinary examination this morning determined the Tony Dutrow-trained entry to be lame.
Dutrow explained, "They were not happy with the way she was moving and said they would not allow her to run today."
"It's disappointing," he added, "but this is all part of the game."


text:
Get FREE 411 Directory Assistance With GOOG411
Have you noticed that phone companies charge an arm and a leg for directory inquiries? Last I checked it was well over a dollar at AT&T and the other big boys. I couldn't just stand around throwing my money away on frivolous things like information. Money should be spent on fun things like alcohol, partying and the such (unless my wife is reading this then lets replace those with Baby Formula, Gucci Bags and Car Payments).
For my first MakeUseOf post I will be taking you through the wonder that is Goog-411 [Broken URL Removed]. You dial up 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any (US) phone. After you get a friendly Google hello you follow the voice prompts which are extremely intuitive.
Start by saying your city and state. You hear the Google engines spinning in the background and then you will be prompted to say what business listing you want (pizzeria, repair shop, Burger King, etc.). They understood me every time even when I put on various accents. I had previously tried out 800-free-411 and they never understood me – it was infuriating!
Now Goog411 will also complete your call for you FOR FREE or send you a text message FOR FREE with your listing, a link to their website, a link to a map and directions or any other information they have. For a list of all the commands check out this page here. This is all easily save-able on your mobile. The service is still in its beta stages and currently has NO ads! Suck it up while you can this is the way most services will be going in the near future.
Goog411 currently only works from the US and we got mad love for our international readers so we have Google SMS for you. Well, for most of you. :-)
Just save 466453 "Google" into your phone and text it with your query and Google will hit you back with all sorts of free information. How about dictionary definitions, calculations, curency exchange rates or movie listings (Google SMS -All Features). Give it a shot – its free minus the cost of the text messages of course.
Got to love the Google!
For other similar alternatives you can also check out Free411, Dial Directions, and TellMe.
Related topics: Google, Maps, Virtual Assistant.
Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more.


text:
NYC Clean Heat has transitioned into the NYC Retrofit Accelerator, New York City's new one-stop resource for energy and water efficiency. Learn more at www.nyc.gov/retrofitaccelerator
As of September 2015 , NYC Clean Heat has transitioned into the NYC Retrofit Accelerator, an expanded program that provides assistance to building owners to invest in a wide range of energy and water upgrades. All of the services previously provided through NYC Clean Heat to assist with heavy heating oil conversions will continue to be provided through the NYC Retrofit Accelerator. For more information, visit: www.nyc.gov/retrofitaccelerator.
To get in touch with the Retrofot Accellerator's team of efficiency advisors, dial 311 or click here to contact us directly.


text:
New York, NY—April 3, 2018 — Jeffrey S. Berns, M.D., has been selected by the National Kidney Foundation as the recipient of the 2018 Donald W. Seldin Distinguished Award.
Dr. Berns is a professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
"As a distinguished researcher, outstanding physician, mentor and past president of the National Kidney Foundation, Dr. Berns has served as a staunch patient advocate who pushes all of us to work just a little harder to improve the lives of patients with kidney disease," said Michael Choi, M.D., president and chair of the NKF Scientific Advisory Board.
This award was established to recognize excellence in clinical nephrology in the tradition of one of the foremost teachers and researchers in the field, Dr. Donald W. Seldin. The award will be made to Dr. Berns at the NKF 2018 Annual Spring Clinical Meetings to be held April 10-14, in Austin, Texas.
"It will be an honor to attend the Spring Clinical Meeting this year with my esteemed colleagues," Dr. Berns said. "I am humbled to be the recipient of this award. Dr. Seldin's legacy in helping to establish the field of nephrology, and as a clinician and scientist, is unmatched. Throughout much of my career, he was the nephrologist that nephrologists aspired to emulate."
At the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Medicine, Dr. Berns is associate chief of the Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension Division; director of the Nephrology Fellowship Training Program; and associate dean for Graduate Medical Education. He also maintains a general nephrology practice at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and for many years has been recognized as one of Philadelphia Magazine's "Top Docs" in nephrology.
Dr. Berns has authored over 200 articles and book chapters, and currently serves as co-deputy editor of the NKF's American Journal of Kidney Diseases and Nephrology as well as editor-in-chief and Dialysis Section co-editor for UpToDate. He previously served on NKF's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative and Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes anemia clinical practice guideline workgroups; and as NKF/KDOQI vice-chair for Clinical Practice Guidelines and Commentaries. He is chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Subspecialty Board and immediate past-president of NKF.
NKF Spring Clinical Meetings
For the past 27 years, nephrology healthcare professionals from across the country have come to NKF's Spring Clinical Meetings to learn about the newest developments related to all aspects of nephrology practice; network with colleagues; and present their research findings. The NKF Spring Clinical Meetings are designed for meaningful change in the multidisciplinary healthcare teams' skills, performance, and patient health outcomes. It is the only conference of its kind that focuses on translating science into practice for the entire healthcare team.
Kidney Disease Facts
30 million American adults are estimated to have chronic kidney disease—and most aren't aware of it. 1 in 3 American adults are at risk for chronic kidney disease. Risk factors for kidney disease include diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and family history of kidney failure. People of African American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian or Pacific Islander descent are at increased risk for developing the disease. African Americans are 3 times more likely than Whites, and Hispanics are nearly 1.5 times more likely than non-Hispanics to develop end-stage renal disease (kidney failure).
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) is the largest, most comprehensive and longstanding organization dedicated to the awareness, prevention and treatment of kidney disease. For more information about NKF visit www.kidney.org.


text:
Upper Deck has created variations for 25 cards in its 660-card base set in hobby and retail packs.
Upper Deck announced a "variation card" promotion for its 2010 Series One Baseball issue late on Tuesday.
A total of 25 of the 600-card first series set's base-level cards have scarce variation cards featuring between two and four subtle tweaks to the image shown on the commonly seeded version of the card.
Through June, Upper Deck will be announcing weekly the remaining players (and their corresponding card numbers). The first five collectors who complete the variation set will win prizes.
In a tribute to last year's World Series, the first two cards in the promotion belong to Jorge Posada (# 347) and Chase Utley (# 376). Upper Deck says there are three variations on Posada's card and four variations on Utley's.
Upper Deck did not release images of the variation cards in its announcement.
One in every 96 hobby packs (and one in 960 retail packs) will contain a "Double Take" variation card. Furthermore, the company says some Double Take variations are considerably harder to find– up to six times, in fact – than others.
"This should be a lot of fun for collectors as they seek out the variation cards," said Gabriel Garcia, Upper Deck's Baseball brand manager. "We'll be announcing more and more players every month up until July, so collectors really need to be on top of things to keep track."
Autographed baseball memorabilia from Upper Deck Authenticated awaits the first five collectors who complete the 25-card variation first series set and send it in to Upper Deck for verification. Upper Deck will return sets to their respective owners once the contest deadline closes.
Further information will be revealed in the coming weeks regarding the promotion's entry rules and deadline.


text:
Of course after 3 weeks away, my mailbox was kinda stuffed with postcards, so I have lots to work with for a while. Included in these cards was a new country, the first for my collection since Jan of 2014. Country or stamp issuing entity # 261 is Guinea. Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea, is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea, it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbours Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. Guinea has a population on just over 10.5 million and is comprised of 245,860 square kilometres. My first Guinea card shows a local lady, described as a castanet player. Here it is .
This card is from Madeleine, the only Postcrosser in Guinea, but it's not an official Postcrossing card. Madeleine wrote that she stumbled upon my blog and saw that I still needed a card from Guinea.
So with the help of her sister in Switzerland, I now have a card from Guinea. Madeleine's card was sent back in Dec of 2014 and wound its way through Switzerland before arriving in Canada 3 months later. Sent from the city of Kissidougou, it arrived with 2 wonderful, and colorful stamps . On the left is a stamp celebrating 50 Years of Diplomatic Relations between Guinea and the Peoples Republic of China. On the right is a stamp from 2008 honoring the Africa Cup. It is from a set of 8.
Now with Guinea in the box, I have just 12 countries or entities left , so just in case you're jetting off soon to any of these obscure places , here they are : Australian Antarctic Territory, Central African Republic, Congo ( Democratic Republic ) , Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niuafoóu, Penrhyn Island, Sierre Leone, South Sudan, Tokelau Islands, and of course Transniestra. So come on all you intrepid travellers and Travelers' Century Club members and 1.3 million Virtual Tourists out there who seem to be going everywhere, drop me a postcard from wherever and hopefully it'll be one of the twelve listed above.
Next up is a card from Georgia, the country not the state. Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia, bounded by the Black Sea, Russia, Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. It's capital is Tbilisi. This is my first card from Georgia in a couple of years. I used to get cards from there regularly but for some reason they dried up. My card shows a number of houses and the 13th century Metekhi Church built rather precipitously along the banks of the Mtkvari River in Tbilisi.
Meelis used 2 stamps from the 2013 Europa Postal Transport issue. He also used a neat Aviation related Air Mail sticker. I think if more countries used Air Mail stickers like these, there would be more people collecting them.
Now for a little Singapore. First is a card sent by my brother Dale. He's on a 35 day cruise in that part of the world. His card gives us a look at the Singapore City skyline featuring a couple of Singapore icons - Marina Bay Sands Resort Hotel , Gardens by the Bay and The Flyer.
Dale used a recent 2014 stamp. It's 1 of 4 in a set highlighting Vanishing Trades, the one shown is a Garland Maker.
My 2nd Singapore card showcases the Grand Prix Season in Singapore. The 2015 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Grand Prix will be held 18.19.and 20 Sep at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.
Jean Pierre used 2 great stamps from 2010. On the left is 1 of 10 in a set featuring Trees. On this stamp is a Rain Tree. On the right is a stamp featuring a Common Birdwing Butterfly. It is from a set of 4.
Here's the last Singapore card for today. It is of the Singapore Philatelic Museum, a place I'd love to visit. The building was designed as part of the Anglo Chinese School in 1906. In the 1970s and onward it was used as a Methodist Book Room. The Singapore Philatelic Museum was restored to its original glory in 1995.
David used 3 of the Vanishing Trades stamps that I mentioned earlier. Here we see a kacang puteh seller , a lantern maker and the garland maker again.
One more card for this time and it comes from Bangkok, Thailand. It shows the Royal Barge gliding pass the Royal Palace towards the Temple of Dawn during a ceremonial Procession. The Royal Barge Suphanahongse was built in 1911. This 46-meter craft was carved from a single trunk of teakwood, and was launched 13 November 1911. There is a golden pavilion on board to house the king and his immediate royal family. The World Ship Trust, in 1992, named the Royal Barge Suphannahong a Maritime World Heritage.
Jean Pierre used a number of stamps on this one. On the top are 2 stamps celebrating National Children's Day 2015. The blue King definitive is from 2010 and the flag stamps are from 2013.
That;s the cards for this time. Thanks for them go to Madeleine and her sister, Meelis, Dale, Jean Pierre and David. Great cards and great stamps . Drop by again, it's certainly won't be another month before I'm here again. Just a day or two. See you then, Don't forget, if you want to leave a comment , go for it, they are always welcome.


text:
By Charlotte McLaughlin, Apr 05, 2017, 09:40 • 3 minute reading
They are taking legal action for the delay in publishing six standards in the U.S. Federal Register.
Supreme Court of the United States, Washington D.C.
In 2016 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued six energy-efficiency standards – including those pertaining to walk-in refrigerators/freezers and portable ACs – which are projected to save households and businesses up to $23 billion over 30 years. But the Trump administration has blocked them from taking effect – leading both NGOs and U.S. states to sue the Federal Government for the delays.
The states and NGOs – including the NRDC, the Sierra Club and the Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy organization, and the Texas Ratepayers Organization to Save Energy – announced the lawsuit on 3 April for one of the standards relating to ceiling fans.
"This is yet another example of how the Trump administration's polluter-first energy policy has real and harmful impacts on the public health, environment – and pocketbooks – of New Yorkers."
- New York Attorney General Eric Tradd Schneiderman
The ceiling fans were due to be published by March 20, 2017 according to the NGOs and Attorneys General of the states of California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the City of New York.
New York Attorney General Eric Tradd Schneiderman said: "This is yet another example of how the Trump administration's polluter-first energy policy has real and harmful impacts on the public health, environment – and pocketbooks – of New Yorkers."
More lawsuits may come for aircon, fridges, etc.….
The Attorneys General and coalition charge says the DOE is violating both the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) and Administrative Procedures Act (APA) by:
In addition, states are also taking action on these delays and have issued a similar notice.
"By blocking these common sense standards, the administration is reversing progress in cleaning the air we breathe and fighting climate change – and denying consumers and businesses some $24 billion in savings," Schneiderman added.
The standards on freezers and fridges alone are estimated to save 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity over 30 years of sales, equivalent to the annual electricity use of about seven million U.S. homes and 46 million metric tons of harmful CO2 emissions during the same period.
Energy-efficiency regulation has encouraged many US manufacturers to switch from HFCs to hydrocarbon refrigerants in the commercial sector to meet DOE regulation – helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The new standards for portable air conditioners are estimated to save consumers an average of $125 over the lifetime of the air conditioner and cut energy use by more than 20% compared to the least-efficient products available today.
The six new standards are supposed to take effect three years from now, but their entry into force remains uncertain.
"Billions of dollars of consumer savings are at risk due to the delays, which are illegal, unnecessary, and simply unacceptable," according to Lauren Urbanek, senior energy policy advocate in the energy and transportation program at the NRDC.
Related stories


text:
Modern life is fast-paced and often merciless, and many people suffer from high stress levels as a result. Sometimes researching stress can cause additional strain instead of relieving it. Read on for a list of simple tips that can help you to start chipping away at the weight of the excess stress you are carrying.
If you find yourself feeling overextended or highly stressed, think of a relaxing scene. Picture yourself at home, in the shower or the tub, with the water carrying relaxation with it as it flows over you and carries your stress away with it. Also try shutting your eyes, taking slow breaths and picturing a relaxing scene, like the ocean on a beautiful summer day.
Some people, when they get stressed out, end up turning to drugs or alcohol. Unfortunately, the temporary relief these substances may bring can lead to a denial or evasion of the underlying causes of the stress that is being felt. Alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs will not solve your problems. They will do more to create new problems for you than they will to get rid of your stress.
Many activities that seem benign will actually add to your stress level. You might enjoy spending time on the Internet, posting on blogs or in forums, but if you do it for too long, you may begin to neglect your needs and feel stressed. You could be losing out on time for sleep, or time to eat a healthy meal.
If you are able to listen to work while you are at work, this can be of great assistance. Lower key music has been shown to soothe. If you prefer music that is more upbeat, keep the lyrics positive and the tempo toe-tapping.
Stand next to a wall and push on it as hard as you can with your hands, as you plant your feet firmly on the ground. This exertion process will help you to unleash your pent up stress.
During times of high stress, monitor which parts of your body you clench. Many times, this includes the teeth, shoulders, fingers or lower back muscles. Take note of where your tension lies, and work to keep those areas relaxed during times of stress. This is going to help you reduce the tension that you feel and relax.
If you need to get away from the stress in your life, find a quiet place and indulge in a daydream. Allow your mind to choose a place you'd like to visit and then let it go there. It is a great technique for providing the brain with a relaxing alternative to whatever thoughts are causing stress.
Arts and crafts are a fantastic way to get rid of stress. Activities like sculpting, painting, knitting, and origami can let the mind run free and forget about life's troubles for a while.
Stress is certainly annoying, but more importantly, chronic stress is bad for your health. Stress will cause your body to run out of the energy and motivation it needs. By using the tips in this article, you can start to relax and release the burdens you have.


text: With summer coming to an end, I've resigned myself to the fact that my next Hamptons beach day will not be until 2014. Alas, I must remind myself that this was an amazing season, filled with sunshine and family time. I'll even miss those torturously slow trips on the Jitney! Lucky for me, I've found the perfect treats to help us bid adieu to the warm weather. Above, Hamptons cookies from Elenis. Pick them up in Chelsea Market, or order them at elenis.com.


text:
A heavily redacted document just released by the Senate Judiciary Committee confirms the existence of a second anti-Trump dossier which - much like the first dossier published by Buzzfeed - relied on information from Russia's FSB, the state security service. Said otherwise, actual Russian collusion in an attempt to sway the 2016 election.
Shockingly, this second dossier went from Clinton "hatchet man" Cody Shearer, who gave it to an unnamed official in the Obama State Department, before it was routed it to former British Spy Christopher Steele. It is unknown what happened to the document after that.
According to the referral, Steele wrote the additional memo based on anti-Trump information that originated with a foreign source. In a convoluted scheme outlined in the referral, the foreign source gave the information to an unnamed associate of Hillary and Bill Clinton, who then gave the information to an unnamed official in the Obama State Department, who then gave the information to Steele. Steele wrote a report based on the information, but the redacted version of the referral does not say what Steele did with the report after that.
Published accounts in the Guardian and the Washington Post have indicated that Clinton associate Cody Shearer was in contact with Steele about anti-Trump research, and Obama State Department official Jonathan Winer was a connection between Steele and the State Department during the 2016 campaign. -Washington Examiner
Of note, Shearer's brother served as an ambassador during the Clinton administration, and his late sister was married to Strobe Talbott, the chief authority on Russia in President Bill Clinton's State Department, according to ProPublica.
The newly released Senate Intel Committee document, authored by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is an unclassified version of a Jan 4 criminal referral to the Justice Department targeting Christopher Steele - the former British spy who assembled the Trump-Russia dossier used to obtain a FISA surveillance warrant on one-time Trump advisor Carter Page.
Grassley and Graham also claim to have "substantial evidence" that Steele misled the FBI about his contacts with journalists regarding the dossier. In British court filings, Steele disclosed that he held off-the-record meetings with reporters at various news outlets prior to the 2016 election.
12) The Issue at Hand— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) February 5, 2018
" it appears that either Mr. Steele lied to the FBI or the British court, or that the classified documents reviewed by the Committee contain materially false statements." pic.twitter.com/KQ2OmVjOMI
"There is substantial evidence suggesting that Mr. Steele materially misled the FBI about a key aspect of his dossier efforts, one which bears on his credibility," reads the unredacted document.
13) We have the statements from the British Court documents but until the #GrassleyMemo is readacted we cannot identify the contradictions that Grassley found!— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) February 5, 2018
British Court Document (pgs 4-20) PDF>https://t.co/ljP02AAuyG pic.twitter.com/w1zl5JOudX
Grassley and Graham's letter also blasts the FBI for blocking key details of their memo calling for Steele's investigation, and gives them until tomorrow to provide an unredacted copy.
16) Take a look at who Grassley copied at the bottom of his MANDATORY declassification order. https://t.co/2tmCcU0iu0 pic.twitter.com/xd5ltO60P5— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) February 5, 2018
17) In addition to copying the IG, Grassley is also bringing the Office of Information Policy into the picture. They enforce #FOIA compliance. Read about them here> https://t.co/ED7m4TYO7i— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) February 5, 2018
18) What he is doing is telling the DOJ/FBI that if you do not unredact my memo I will have the IG will investigate you for not following DOJ policy AND the OIP will investigate you for violating the #FOIA. WHEW!— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) February 5, 2018
The second memo's existence was revealed last week by The Guardian, which named the source as Clinton "hatchet man" Cody Shearer - a former journalist and political activist for the Clinton White House in the 1990s.
Shearer's name recently appeared in a January 25 letter from the Senate Judiciary Committee to six individuals or entities thought to be involved in the funding, creation or distribution of the original salacious and unverified "Trump-Russia Dossier." Recipients of the letter - including John Podesta, Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz - are asked to submit all communications between a list of 40 individuals or entities, one of whom is Cody Shearer.
Furthermore, during the Benghazi investigation of Hillary Clinton in 2015, the National Review called Shearer "someone with a history of misleading foreign sources, misrepresenting himself as an agent of the US government, and creating trouble for both himself and the United States abroad." NR cited the story about Shearer's secret trip to Bosnia in the 1990s, where he extorted money from the Bosnian Serbs, claiming he was a secret envoy of the Clinton administration and could negotiate a reduction of war crimes charges.
Like the original dossier, the Guardian adds that Shearer shared his dossier "with select media organizations before the election," without naming the outlets. The Daily Caller's Chuck Ross cites a passage from a recent book by the Guardian's former correspondent in Moscow, Luke Harding, about how he received an email from the "Clinton camp" that contained the same accusations as in the Steele dossier, but was not Steele's work.
There's evidence that the Shearer memo was provided to the Clinton campaign. Guardian journalist Luke Harding recently wrote in his book about Steele dossier: pic.twitter.com/lrQoE4yjl2— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) January 30, 2018
And now we know why Grassley/Graham asked the DNC to turn over all communications they had with Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal. https://t.co/bVjGCEPK2k— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 30, 2018
All eyes on the Obama State Department
Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said that the panel is now setting it's sights on the Obama Administration as "phase two" of their investigation.
"We are in the middle of what I call phase two of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the State Department and some of the involvement that they had in this," said Nunes.
"That investigation is ongoing and we continue work towards finding answers and asking the right questions to try to get to the bottom of what exactly the State Department was up to in terms of this Russia investigation."
#BREAKING: Devin Nunes says this is just the first memo to be released. He says there will be another one dealing specifically with the State Department's role in everything that happened. pic.twitter.com/kpHVDQ44WX— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) February 3, 2018
Grassley and Graham have released a redacted copy of their criminal referral of Christopher Steele. This paragraph jumped out at me in light of Nunes' statement on Friday that "Phase II" of his investigation includes the State Department. pic.twitter.com/lP4GxwrrXX— Katie Bo Williams (@KatieBoWill) February 5, 2018
3rd Dossier?
Last week we reported on the release of 42 pages of heavily redacted State Department documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - which reveals that the Obama State Department provided Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) a "dossier of classified information on Russia" in order to undermine President Trump, according to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
"These documents show the Obama State Department under John Kerry gathered and sent its own dossier of classified information on Russia to Senator Ben Cardin, a political ally in the U.S. Senate, to undermine President Trump," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "Judicial Watch will pursue information on who pulled this classified information, who authorized its release, and why was it evidently dumped just days before President Trump's inauguration."
According to a March 2017 report in the Baltimore Sun: "Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin received classified information about Russia's involvement in elections when the Obama administration was attempting to disseminate that material widely across the government in order to aid in future investigations, according to a report Wednesday … Obama officials were concerned, according to the report [in The New York Times], that the Trump administration would cover up intelligence once power changed hands." -Judicial Watch
As Fitton explains, there are three dossiers, two of which were routed through the Obama State Department.
.@JudicialWatch federal lawsuit uncovers yet another Russia Dossier -- this one created by the Obama/Kerry State Department to undermine @RealDonaldTrump. https://t.co/F4HgwA8woe pic.twitter.com/dbaQD8iAG9— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) February 5, 2018
As we have reported, in March 2017, Former Obama Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Evelyn Farkas, made some stunning admissions during an interview with MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski.
While discussing the mad scramble by the Obama administration to collect and preserve intelligence on alleged Russian election hacking before Obama left office, it appears that Farkas accidentally implicated the Obama White House in the surveillance of Trump's campaign staff:
The Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would not longer have access to that intelligence. -Evelyn Farkas
Those "sources and methods" now appear to be Clinton operatives using Russian FSB "sources" to create several dossiers, which were circulated to media outlets and US government officials with the assistance of the Obama State Department. In other words, in a delightful twist of irony, the real Russian collusion was against a now-sitting President.


text:
Download>> WH40k: Storm of Vengeance v1.2 Apk | 49 MB | Resumable Links | Requires Android: 4.1 and Up |
Warhammer 40,000: Storm of Vengeance is a lane strategy game for PC and mobile devices set in the dark, gothic universe of Warhammer 40,000!
What's new in this version :
- Fixed crash on startup bug that was ssen on a number of devices.
- Difficulty tweaks for all 3 campaigns.
Game Review:
Storm of Vengeance tells the story of a pivotal moment in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, during the legendary planetary conflict on Piscina IV. Featuring two of Games Workshop's most cherished characters, Grand Master Belial and Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka, Storm of Vengeance offers the player the chance to command the tenacious defence of the planet with only 100 Dark Angel Space Marines, or attempt it's annihilation using the cunning of the Ork Waaagh! and their telly-porta technology.
- Unique compelling blend of resource management, unit construction and combat
- 50+ missions per faction
- In depth skill tree for each faction
- Powerful skills and abilities tailored for each faction
- Simultaneous cross platform multiplayer (Android, iOS & PC)
- Exclusive dynamic soundtrack capturing the rich atmosphere of the Warhammer 40,000 universe
Click Here to Download via Mediafire
Click here to Download via Multiple Mirrors


text:
The following concluding paragraph of Dawn Teo's article at Huffington Post is a keeper
"On-the-ground organizing may also have more far-reaching effects than just strengthening the President's position on health care. Every person OFA reaches on the phone today is a potential supporter in 2010 and 2012. Every door knocked or volunteer recruited today is a potential recruit in 2010 or 2012. Old-fashioned machine politics may be over, but in a time when the election cycle never sleeps, yearlong organizing in the election off-season is looking like the political mechanics of the future."
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The Republicans are giving us the Health Care Reform victory. The media are ignoring the organizing on the ground. Between Organizing for America (OFA) grass roots activism and the ineptitude of the Republicans as they lie to try to win a debate they cannot win, even with truth, we are looking at a slow and steady movement to passage of a bill with a public option.


text:
Moussaka is an aubergine based dish popular in the southeast of Europe and in the Middle East. The most famous version of this dish is the one made in Greece. It has three layers. The bottom one includes sautéed aubergines. The middle layer consists of cooked lamb, onion, garlic, sliced tomatoes, herbs and various spices (pimento, black pepper, cinnamon). On top of everything some there is some béchamel sauce or egg custard.
People love to experiment. Some use courgette and mushrooms. There are Greeks who decorate their moussaka with some grape leaves. In Bulgaria and Serbia people use potatoes instead of aubergines. In the Middle East moussaka is a type of cooked salad. Moussaka is traditional served lukewarm.


text:
BOSTON — Levance Fields pointed Pittsburgh in the right direction just in time — as usual.
BOSTON — Levance Fields pointed Pittsburgh in the right direction just in time — as usual.
For the second straight game, the orchestrator of the offense took the big shots himself, hitting a 3-pointer with 50.9 seconds left, then scoring off his steal as the top-seeded Panthers reached the regional finals for the first time in 35 years with a 60-55 win over Xavier on Thursday night.
One more win and they'll be headed to Detroit for the Final Four.
"We came in expecting to win two games," Fields said before acknowledging the obvious: "It was dramatic."
The star point guard provided the drama in Pitt's previous win, 84-76 over Oklahoma State. That game was tied at 74 with 2:42 left. Then Fields made a layup and a 3-pointer and the Panthers never trailed after that.
Pitt knows the late-game strategy by now.
"Give Levance the ball," Big East co-player of the year DeJuan Blair said with a laugh.
The last time Pitt was in a regional final was in 1974 when it lost to eventual national champion North Carolina State and star David Thompson 100-72.
"It definitely was big for the players, the coaches and the city," said Sam Young, who led Pitt with 19 points. "It's something we've been waiting for, for a long time."
Pitt (31-4) trailed 54-52 before Fields connected. He then poked the bwall away from B.J. Raymond and went in for a layup with 23.9 seconds to go.
Fields scored 14 points, and Blair had 10 points and 17 rebounds in the East semifinal victory. The Panthers overcame an eight-point halftime deficit.
Pitt plays Saturday against the winner of Thursday night's second semifinal between second-seeded Duke and third-seeded Villanova for a berth in the Final Four.
"We're a confident group," Fields said. "We haven't played our best basketball, but the good thing is we've found a way to make plays when we've needed them."
Fourth-seeded Xavier (27-8) was led by Raymond with 15 points and Derrick Brown with 14.
"I thought the shot Levance Fields hit is all about (the poise of) senior point guards," said Xavier coach Sean Miller, who knows something about that.
He was a star point guard at Pitt from 1987 to 1992 and is second in school history in assists.
Panthers coach Jamie Dixon made it to the round of eight for the first time in his six years on the bench after losing in his other two trips to the round of 16. Xavier fell short in its bid for a third berth in the regional finals in six years.
"They pushed us around in the first half, but we responded in the second half like we usually do," Dixon said. "Like I've said before, I never get tired of seeing Levance take big shots. He's made them year after year."


text: 3 easy breakfast recipes to serve a crowd #Recipes#baking#breakfast#dessert#food#healthy food#vegan#vegetables#vegetarian Posted Jun 29 2016 Catherine Clark bijouxandbits Photos by: Bijoux & Bits Photos and recipes by Bijoux & Bits Related Post The Megan-simple "waffled egg melt" recipe Pair my slightly-improved-but-not-great cooking skills with my boyfriend's also barely-existent cooking skills, then add my enthusiasm for our waffle maker, and this is what Megan-simple... Read more Having guests over is very unfun if you're stuck cooking for a large crowd in the kitchen. I'm always looking for ways to make food ahead of time so I can get to more socializing and less stirring on the fly. Here are my go-to easy breakfast recipes to serve a crowd, emphasis on EASY. Let's see what we're serving up… Sweet potato breakfast skillet Sweet potato breakfast skillet A one-pot meal making my life! It's an easy-peasy recipe will become your go-to brunch meal when you're short on time. This sweet potato breakfast skillet combines everything I love: bacon, eggs, sweet potatoes, and any veggies you like. You can easily vegan-ize it if you like, too. Get the recipe here. Chunky Monkey overnight oats Chunky Monkey overnight oats The base recipe for overnight oats is pretty simple and delicious as-is. But adding in a ton of whatever you have on-hand (in this case, nuts, bananas, and cocoa!), makes it over-the-top good. And you can make a ton ahead of time. Whoo. Get the recipe here. Chunky Monkey overnight oats Get the recipe here. Easy apple strudel Easy apple strudel Full disclosure: I totally made these as an homage to an in-game item from World of Warcraft for the Warcraft movie release. BUT that totally doesn't negate how easy and delicious they are for feeding guests. Geeky, yes. Delish, also yes. Get the recipe here. Related Post Yolk porn and waffling all the things: eat these easy brunch recipes Spring always makes me think of brunch. And seriously, who doesn't dig socially acceptable early morning drinking, right? We've got savory pancakes, waffle-ized french toast, a soul food egg dish,… Read More Reporter Name * Reporter Email * Original text Enter the original text here. Edited text* Enter your suggested copyedit here. Notes You can add a note for the editor here. * Required information. Fix Typo Catherine Clark Catherine Clark loiters at her local library, makes art, watches movies en masse, plays video and tabletop games, poorly cooks healthy things, cuddles with her feline fur babies, and blogs at BijouxandBits.com. @enidjcoleslaw @bijouxandbits @bijouxandbits PREVIOUS This weirdly designed Indiana home will make you say "I can't even…" NEXT How to stay happily married while renovating Show/Hide comments [ 0 ] Join the conversation Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. No-drama comment policy Part of what makes the Offbeat Empire different is our commitment to civil, constructive commenting. Make sure you're familiar with our no-drama comment policy.


text:
Hippie Bowman, March 3, 2011 in Make Friends
LOL! Love that Val!
Hey Hippie:)
Hi ya Dee!
Good morning Everyone! Happy Weekend! Life is good no?
Good morning Hippie! Happy week end to you!
PS: Yeah, life is good but would be even better without Wasted... :smileymad:
Good Morning Hippie. Good Morning Val.
Good Morning all:)
Time to ride and have fun TGIF
Good morning Dee! Hugs! :smileyvery-happy:
@Val: Thank you Hugs:)
I found this
L'amitié franco-canadienne !!! I LOVE THIS DEE!!!
Good morning everyone! I hope everyone had a good weekend!
Good morning Hippie! Oh yes, great weekend indeed! Monday hugs! :smileyvery-happy:
Good morning Valerie! Nice picture! Lady and I had fun! Hugs back to you my friend!
Good Morning Val and Hippie. It was so great to see my friends show up. Between the creativity and the friends what else is SL about?
Then there are the special moments provided by special people that just make one smile.
Good morning Dee! Lady and I had a great time at the party! So good to see you!
Loved seeing you both. I need to send you a notecard:)
Woooo WOooo! Yes!!
Good Morning Everyone! Hippie pokes the fire until it is blazing again!
Hello Hippie!!! Good morning! I was just getting the ER team ready for Wasted's brain surgery in another thread! :smileyvery-happy:
HEHE! Wasted is in good hands with that team! LOL! Hugs Val!
Good Morning Val and Hippie:)
Send Wasted and the Team to ER3# all the equipment is sterile and waiting
Oh yes! Good morning Dee! The team is ready! I see you have the instruments! I will meet you in ER#3!
PS I will send you copy of new Space Craft tonight! A flying saucer! Large! 30 meters wide!
Woot!! Thanks Hippie
/Dee gets out her star charts, okay big dipper I know its here somewhere, scratches head
LOL Dee! Good morning! Doc is ready!
HeHe, and this last thing you saw was??????
You can post now and register later.
If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead
Only 75 emoji are allowed.
Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead
Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor
You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


text:
Arda Yalkin [Turkey]
Born in 1974 in Ankara, Arda developed an interest in computers and rock'n'roll music when he was in secondary school. Commodore, Amiga, 8086 processors...
He studied electronics/computer science in high school, dropped out of two universities -Anadolu University, Tourism Department and Ankara University, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Department of Archeology/Restoration- to be a musician. In 1999, he settled down in İstanbul that he had been commuting to play guitar. He worked on sound technology for a while, took an interest in video-animation-vfx and started making videos in 2004, realized numerous live video performances for many international musicians and festivals; contributed/directed concert DVDs, music videos and commercials for human-hungry companies.
Today, Arda continues producing 2D and 3D animations, stop-motion, synthesized sounds & images, live video performances using photography, video and interactive media and travel to many exhibitions and art fairs.
"In my works, I refer to unpleasant subjects such as power-people conflict, consumer society, assimilation, war, politics, religion and dissolution. Despite not grown up as an MTV kid, I attach great importance to the power, methods and intelligence of commercial ads, mainstream movies and mass media. The things I valued as a young university student are now transforming into consumer goods as I watch with awe.
My method can be described as reverse engineering. I like to provoke people. The capital and political power apply refined and well crafted communication techniques to exploit the people and I use their own methods to disturb them a little."
TIG GIBI - 10th ed. [read synopsis]


text:
- Full Description
You can make this 280 litre water tank work for your individual needs. You can purchase this rainwater tank in either a flat or upright position as shown in the product images. Store it under a window, alongside a garden shed or wall or in that tight space by your garage.
This tank is a great space saving and decorative option.
The ideal addition to your tank purchase is the Guttermate Rainwater Filter & Diverter. This is going to prevent debris (leaves, moss, etc) entering the tank and almost eliminating the need to clean the tank. The Guttermate is ideal no matter where you collect your rainwater from, garden shed, greenhouse, garage or house roof.
- Help Guides
Need help? See our Tank Buying Guide
- Technical Spec
Water Tank Dimensions:
- Height: 820mm
- Length: 1100mm
- Width: 340mm
- Capacity: 280 Litres
- Outlet: ¾" BSP
- Inlet: 8" Screwdown Lid
- Weight: 20 kgs when empty
- Water Butt Features
- Slim and easy to slide in tight and limited spaces
- Strong and durable
- Made from MDPE (medium density polyethylene)
- Comes In a Variety of Multiple Colours
- Hard Wearing & Heavy Duty
- Made With Extra Quality
- Easy Access to Water
- Tolerates All Weather Conditions
- Reviews
Write Your Own Review