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What are the benefits of spinach? Spinach health benefits are among the vegetables that come to mind frequently. The benefits of spinach, especially described by our elders, are not just as much as those described. Spinach is a huge panacea vegetable. Spinach is used as a treatment method in alternative medicine and modern medicine. The reason for this is that it is very rich in minerals. We have compiled the benefits of spinach for you.
Spinach is a very useful vegetable for health in terms of its nutritional value. Containing vitamins A, C, D and K, spinach is also rich in iron, iodine, potassium, sodium, copper, zinc, lutein, calcium, protein and folic acid.
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Spinach is a very rich food in terms of vitamins, as we explained above. However, to take full advantage of these vitamins, it must be eaten raw. Even if you don't want to eat raw, undercooked makes more sense in terms of vitamins.
It is very rich in fiber
Spinach is the most suitable food for those who want to diet because it is low in calories and rich in fiber. Thanks to the fiber it contains, it provides a feeling of satiety and prevents hunger, and this is done by taking the lowest amount of calories.
Important to be consumed by pregnant women
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It works to accelerate metabolism
Thanks to the magnesium in spinach, it speeds up the metabolism. At the same time, thanks to the fiber it contains, it is among the choices of overweight people or those who want to pay attention to their form, as it feels full.
Very important for skin health
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Loads the current message into the Read window, or activates an already opened Read window to let other commands act upon it afterwards.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — DeAndre Kane drove for the game-winning layup with 1.6 seconds left and No. 3 seed Iowa State beat North Carolina 85-83 on Sunday, advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2000.
The Cyclones (28-7) head to Madison Square Garden next week to face No. 7 seed Connecticut in the East Regional semifinals.
The Tar Heels (24-10) are gone in the NCAA tournament's opening weekend for the first time in consecutive seasons under coach Roy Williams.
North Carolina's Nate Britt raced the ball up court after Kane's basket, but time expired before he could reach halfcourt and call a timeout. Officials huddled for several minutes reviewing clock replays before ruling the game was over.
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Entire recipe: 183 calories, 2g fat, 183mg sodium, 40g carbs, 5g fiber, 31.5g sugars, 3g protein -- PointsPlus® value 5* A quick twist on the traditional ants-on-a-log snack. Fresh grapes ROCK!!!
Ingredients: 1 medium-large apple, cut into 12 half-moon slices 1 wedge The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss Cheese 12 red grapes, halved Directions: Spread one side of each apple slice with a thin smear of cheese. Top each cheesy slice with 2 grape halves. That's it. EAT! MAKES 1 SERVING
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Ingredients: 12 wonton wrappers 3 cups frozen unsweetened dark sweet cherries, thawed and drained 1 1/2 cups Cool Whip Free (thawed) Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 12-cup muffin pan with nonstick spray. Place each wonton wrapper in a cup of the muffin pan, and press it into the bottom and sides. Lightly spray with nonstick spray. Bake until lightly browned, about 8 minutes. Set aside to cool. In a large bowl, gently mix cherries with Cool Whip. Evenly distribute cherry mixture among the wonton cups, and enjoy! MAKES 6 SERVINGS
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Police spokeswoman Sgt. Cassandra Davis released Jeffrey Harris' termination letter on Thursday.
The letter dated Wednesday says Harris drew his weapon and waved it at people at a bar in April.
The letter says Harris also used profane language and made a "racially derogatory statement during the incident."
Davis says Harris has 10 days to appeal his termination.
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Imagine the most powerful man in the world is coming to your house for tea. What – on earth – do you cook?
Well, Mary Ryan decided on homemade salmon sandwiches when President John F Kennedy came round. He brought an entourage of security, admirers, and the world's media with him. Naturally, she had her neighbours pitch in with the cooking.
However, June 1963 wasn't the first time Mrs Mary Kennedy Ryan had welcomed her cousin to her home in Dunganstown, County Wexford. It's a fitting tribute then, that 50 years on, there's a gathering planned to celebrate this visit.
Sixteen years earlier, during a three-week trip to Ireland, Kennedy had visited the town where his great grandfather had lived before he emigrated to Boston in 1847.
In May 2013, a torch was lit at John F Kennedy's resting place in Arlington Cemetery. It then began its journey to New Ross, County Wexford, the very place where the Kennedy story began.
There was a lot more fanfare this time round though.
"He was like a rainbow coming off a plane," says Ryan Tubridy, author of JFK in Ireland.
Air Force One touched down in Dublin airport on 26 June 1963. As Kennedy's motorcade weaved through the streets of Dublin city, the thrilled crowd, lacking ticker tape, improvised with by throwing rolls of bus tickets.
The next morning a helicopter brought the President to Wexford, the county of his great-grandfather. In the speech he made in New Ross, he joked that if his relations hadn't left Ireland, he might now be working at the local factory, or the shop down the road.
The whole speech can be read on the plaque beside the life-sized bronze sculpture of him that stands on Charles Street Dock in New Ross today. His hand is extended, just like the photos of him warmly shaking hands with the star-struck locals jostling around him.
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Hours before he left Ireland, he stood in the main square of Galway city and told the crowd:
"If the day was clear enough, and if you went down to the bay, and you looked west, and your sight was good enough, you would see Boston, Massachusetts."
A gracious pause allowed his audience to roar with giddy laughter, and he followed:
"Some of us who came on this trip… feel ourselves at home and not … in a strange country, but feel ourselves among neighbours, even though we are separated by generations, by time, and by thousands of miles."
JFK later told his aides that his favourite part of the trip was the wreath laying and silent funeral drill done by the Irish Army cadets at Arbour Hill military cemetery in Dublin.
Five months later, his widow Jacqueline Kennedy made a special request to the Irish government. Could those Irish cadets, who so impressed the President on his visit, perform the drill again at his state funeral? Within days, those awe-stuck, trembling young men stood inches the foreign dignitaries from over 90 countries and performed their silent funeral drill in memory of a president that had inspired their country months ago.
As author Tubridy told MSNBC, "when he was tragically cut down, so far below his time, there was a dark cloud in Ireland that lasted for quite a long time."
The rosary beads that were in the President's pocket on that terrible day in Dallas can be seen in the Museum and Visitor Centre that now stands on Mary Ryan's farm in Dunganstown. Proudly known as the Kennedy Homestead, it will have its grand reopening in June 2013 in time for the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's visit.
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BOYS BASKETBALL: Wolcott Tech loses 76-57 at home against Wilcox Tech
TORRINGTON >> Wilcox Tech's boys basketball beat Wolcott Tech 76-57 Monday night in a struggle between teams looking for traction.
"We've had some bad shooting games and our star, Roosevelt Shider, was out sick," said Wilcox Tech coach Jack Smith before his 3-6 Meriden team took on the 0-8 Wildcats. "We should be around .500."
"We're knocking on the door," said Wolcott Tech coach Rene Williams. Before Monday's game, his team lost three games this month by eight total points -- 72-67 against O'Brien Tech-Ansonia; 60-59 against Bullard Havens-Bridgeport; and 62-60 at Whitney Tech-Hamden last Friday.
Part of the problem for both teams is a lack of height. Lining up at Wolcott Tech Monday, the heads were even.
The time seemed right for the Wildcats' door to open.
Instead, the Indians came out shooting.
"When we can get balanced scoring, we're pretty good," said Coach Smith.
The Indians started the game with three athletic drives. Then, after pausing for shots by Wildcat Jake Munson (10 points, 8 rebounds, 10 assists), Shider came outside for the first of his four 3-pointers for a 9-2 Indian lead.
Shider, a 5-foot-8 junior guard, averaged 23 points a game last year, fifth on the CIAC scoring list.
Monday, he finished with a game-high 25.
Nevertheless, in the first half, when the short-handed Wildcats were at their strongest, Wilcox Tech found its balance with other scorers. Luis Torres, another Indian guard, scored all 18 of his points in the first half, darting in on drives while drawing Tech defenders away from the shooters.
"We don't have a bench," said Wolcott Tech coach Williams. "In close games, my rotation is seven people. They give 110 percent, but they get tired."
Starting from an 11-2 hole in the first quarter, Wildcat Danny Diaz (20 points, 13 rebounds) laid in Tech's first field goal three minutes into the game.
Showing balanced of their own, Munson hit from the outside, then Luke Pergola (team-high 21 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists) drove to the hoop, cutting the Indians back to 13-8.
By the end of the quarter, Wilcox Tech's Shider and Torres still flew. The Wildcats, led by Pergola and Diaz, hung in for a 27-18 deficit.
Early in the second period, Munson and Pergola took turns trimming the Indian lead to seven. Nevertheless, Wilcox Tech's inside-outside balance hummed; the Wildcats began forcing shots.
The lead was up to 44-30 by the half. The Wildcats never quit hustling.
"The effort was there. If we keep working hard, good things will happen," said Coach Williams.
This game, it was Wilcox Tech's turn to find their way.
Take away Shider and Monday's game might have been as even as the heights.
Still, while Wilcox Tech's Torres grew silent in the second half, 5-foot-8 forward Steven Freitas (13 points) stepped into the void.
Wildcat Assante Maldon got his own putback midway through the third quarter, 47-36. Shider followed with an 8-2 run.
The final convincer came early in the final period.
Shider and Freitas opened with a 9-4 barrage -- three straight 3-pointers. At 68-47 a minute into the fourth quarter, the game was over at 68-47, even if the Wildcat fight was still on.
The Indians got their balanced scoring.
To most of the fans at Wolcott Tech, they did, indeed, look "pretty good."


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Subject of The London Perambulator, Nick Papadimitriou, gets a good mention in Iain Sinclair's excellent article about Richard Mabey's The Unofficial Countryside in The Guardian. This description of Nick's practice neatly encapsulates the theme of the film.
"The Unofficial Countryside was an exciting rediscovery for me: the unacknowledged pivot between the new nature writers and those others, of a grungier dispensation, who are randomly (and misleadingly) herded together as "psychogeographers". Will Self, looking to JG Ballard, a large presence on the western collar of London, as mentor and inspiration, has recently undertaken a series of yomps between airports and cities: the ultimate shock-corridors of deregulated urbanism. A Liverpool clergyman, John Davies, took a sabbatical to hike down the acoustic footprints of the M62, from Hull to Crosby beach. But the most submerged inheritor of the genealogy set out by Mabey in 1973 – Cobbett, Defoe, the 17th-century mercenary John Taylor, John Hillaby – is the self-proclaimed "deep topographer" Nick Papadimitriou. A solid invisible, tramping and haunting Mabey's familiar turf, the Colne valley: the canals, reservoirs and sewage farms of the Watford-to-Heathrow corridor.
When Papadimitriou, archivist and scavenger, a person who solicits arrest and confrontation every time he sets out to visit another decommissioned settlement, tries to make a record of the Bedford Court Estate, he carries one book as his totem. The estate is doomed, a parking lot for aircraft, but Papadimitriou, recording wild flowers, invading abandoned orchards, keeps faith with his chosen text. This is how he transcribes the episode in a contribution to the anthology London, City of Disappearances (2006): "I first stumbled across the Bedford Court Estate during an attempt to visit Perry Oaks, a sludge-disposal works set up by the County Council in the 1930s . . . The sewage works featured in that record of urban wildlife, Richard Mabey's The Unofficial Countryside . . . Mabey drew attention to the rare waders using the works as a halt on their migratory flights."
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For every five products that claim some kind of haptic feedback support, maybe one actually puts it to good use—like the URC MX-5000 touchscreen remote, which uses the technology to guide your fingers while they guide your TV.
Beyond the haptics, the MX-5000 is a fairly standard high-end universal remote, intended for system builders to pair with similarly high-end home media systems—not your 40-inch HDTV. This explains the unorthodox button choice and inclusion of Wi-Fi, which the remote uses to display all manner of information broadcast from your receiver. It also explains the price price—although there's no official figure, Crunchgear's inquiry was answered with an ominous "below $US1500."
Even if most people could never dreaming of needing one of these, the concept is still exciting: having to looks at a remote every time you use it feels like a step back, so if URC can clear that hurdle, more power to them. [Crunchgear]


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A fire drill has further shuffled the UFC 131 deck.
UFC newcomer Jon Olav Einemo (6-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) has received a new opponent for his octagon debut after his original opponent, Shane Carwin, was tapped to replace the recovering Brock Lesnar in a bout against Junior Dos Santos.
Einemo now meets fellow newcomer Dave Herman (20-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC), and Herman's original opponent Joey Beltran (12-5 MMA, 2-2 UFC) will meet newcomer Aaron Rosa (16-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
The UFC today announced the changes. UFC 131 takes place June 11 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Einemo's status was placed in doubt yesterday when UFC president Dana White said he did not yet have an opponent for the Norwegian fighter. Einemo's trainer, Martin De Jong, was unaware of the change.
Carwin stepped up to meet Dos Santos when Lesnar revealed Thursday that he is battling a second case of diverticulitis, an intestinal disease.
Einemo was booked to face Carwin this past March in what was to be his first MMA fight in almost three years. The former Abu Dhabi submission wrestling champion's most recent appearance came in November 2008 when he submitted James Thompson. Prior to that, he was outpointed by Fabricio Werdum at PRIDE 31.
Beltran, meanwhile, is on the rocks following back-to-back losses inside the octagon. After a successful debut at UFC 109 against Rolles Gracie and follow-up win against Tim Hague, "The Mexicutioner" was outpointed by Matt Mitrione and, most recently, Pat Barry. Although he showed UFC fans just how tough he is in taking the best shots of both, the setbacks nonetheless put his back against the wall.
Rosa makes his UFC debut after stints in Strikeforce, Bellator, and most recently Titan Fighting Championships. This past March, he stole the thunder of "The Ultimate Fighter 10" cast member Abe Wagner – who was fresh off a big win over former UFC champ Tim Sylvia – with a second-round submission.
Rosa's current win streak stands at four.
It's unknown whether Einemo vs. Herman will remain on UFC 131's main card. Beltran vs. Rosa is expected for the pay-per-view event's preliminary card.
For more on UFC 131, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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There is a downside to news that Tom Selleck's new CBS series "Blue Bloods" is hitting the TV schedule this fall -- it's going to be tough traveling from here on in.
"The only problem is I have to commute to New York," Selleck tells PopcornBiz. "But we're on the air and we're thrilled about it."
It's a welcome return to regular television for the "Magnum" icon who is suddenly hot again. The new series features a stellar cast including Donnie Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan as a "three generational family of New York cops," says Selleck.
"My father was a police chief a couple of terms ago, I play a New York City police chief," says Selleck. "And both my sons are cops. My daughter is a prosecuting attorney."
"It's an adult drama about a family of Irish cops," he adds. "It's character-driven and there's not much of that on television these days. But it tested really well."
"And it's a really good group of good actors."
Selleck is also appearing as Ashton Kutcher's very serious father-in-law in the romantic comedy "Killers" which opens June 4. He says that the influx of work means "I have a few problems, but they are all good." A crowded work schedule will bring that.
He's also enjoying the variety of television and movies.
"What I'm having fun with is going back and forth in between mediums," he says. "It wasn't always this way in this business. When I started you didn't get to cross over much."
And playing in "Killers" was an added bonus. "This role was a blessing since I was offered it," he quips. "I didn't need to beg anybody."
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There is a downside to news that Tom Selleck's new CBS series "Blue Bloods" is hitting the TV schedule this fall -- it's going to be tough traveling from here on in.


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Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can't play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), it's sure to bring down the house!


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Climate: Could 'Dr. Strangelove' idea be an option?
A controversial idea to brake global warming, first floated by the father of the hydrogen bomb, is affordable and technically feasible, but its environmental impact remains unknown, a trio of US scientists say.
Sowing the stratosphere with particles to reflect the Sun and cool the planet is possible with current technology and would cost a fraction of the bill from climate change or reducing emissions by fossil fuels, they argue.
Back in 1997, as man-made global warming became a political issue, US nuclear physicist Edward Teller and others suggested spreading sulphate particles into the upper atmosphere.
Carried around the globe on high-speed winds, the whitish particulates, known as aerosols, would reflect the Sun, reducing solar radiation by around one percent.
It would provide a cooling similar to when volcanoes spew out clouds of dust, said Teller, who argued this option was far smarter than switching out of cheap and dependable fossil fuels.
Teller, a hawk on nuclear weapons who reputedly inspired the movie character Dr. Strangelove, was lashed for an idea that critics said was unworkable and laden with risk.
The new study, published in the British journal Environmental Research Letters, makes a cost analysis of so-called solar radiation management, or SRM, by aerosols.
In itself, the publication shows scientists' growing interest in examining—if not endorsing—once-mocked options as carbon emissions bust new records and political solutions lie beyond the horizon.
The study says the basic technology to distribute the aerosols exists and could be implemented for less than $5 billion (four billion euros) a year.
By comparison, the cost of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to safer levels is estimated at between 0.2 and 2.5 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP) in 2030, roughly equivalent to $200 billion to $2,000 billion (160 to 1,600 billion euros), it says.
"We think this work demonstrates that it (SRM) is feasible by showing that several independent options can transport the required material at a cost that is less than one percent of climate damages or the cost of mitigation," says the paper, headed by Jay Apt, a professor at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania.
"Removing this uncertainty is relevant whatever one's view about implementation of SRM."
The probe estimated costs of systems that would deliver one million tonnes of particles each year at a height of 18-25 kilometres (11.25-15.6 miles) in a latitude range of 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south.
The best option would be to develop specialised aircraft, as current airliners cannot fly at such attitudes. Airships would be cheaper but their bulk would make them vulnerable to jetstream winds.
Other options included guns to fire particle-stuffed shells into the atmosphere and a 20-km (12-mile) -high pipe, suspended by helium-filled floating platforms, to disgorge a particulate stream.
Compared to aircraft, though, the technology was either underpowered, too costly or too hypothetical.
The investigators stress they did not look at environmental risk or problems of governance and warn SRM can only be implemented when these and other questions are answered.
In a 2009 overview of geo-engineering, Britain's prestigious Royal Society said aerosols could be deployed quickly and could start reducing temperatures within a year.
But, it warned, they would not stop the buildup of atmospheric CO2, which is leading to dangerous acidification of the oceans. There could also be an impact on Earth's ozone layer and on regional rainfall patterns.
In July, German reseachers reported on another geo-engineering idea—of fertilising the sea with iron particles so that the plankton sucks up CO2, eventually storing the carbon on the seabed when it dies and falls to the depths.
The scheme did work in particular conditions of a swirling Antarctica eddy, but further work is needed to see what happens in conditions with sideways currents, they said. The German experiment did not look at the environmental impact.
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A Chinese restaurant in Klaipeda, Lithuania might seem an odd choice for lunch, but I was kind of feeling like having something besides dumplings, potato pancakes, and fried cutlets. Plus, there were some actual Asians sitting by the kitchen door and the ambiance looked nice (and it looked like it would get me out of the outrageously bitter cold immediately, which was the primary goal), so I figured what the hell.
After five minutes of being ignored and a minute or two of confusion about the seating, I settled into a seat with my Lithuanian/English menu in hand. It's kind of amazing, but apparently there is not a single restaurateur in all of Europe with a native English-speaking friend. Every last one of them produce menus with this awkward, fumbling English which sometimes serves to charm, but more often leaves one baffled.
So as I'm working my way through, the descriptions either sounded gross ("Fried chicken, persimmon, and corn") or plain old baffling ("two dragons meet in the forest"). I was seriously tempted to order that one just to see what would ensue…
Meanwhile, other menu descriptions were suspiciously vague. What was it they didn't want me to know? In Lithuanian, the description is three sentences long, and in English it says "Fried Shrimps." Fried shrimps WHAT? Fried shrimps dredged from a swamp and slathered in a toxic level of Chinese Five Spice Powder and fried up last month and left out to ferment by the light of the full moon, and then carefully placed on a bed of noodles that taste both familiarly and alarmingly of spit?
Or just fried shrimp?
If you've ever read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, you're already suspicious of everything coming out of a restaurant kitchen. Even if you haven't, you just never know in these circumstances. Thus, I decided to go with something that sounded suitably reminiscent of American Chinese food I have eaten and contained a similar level of detail to the Lithuanian version – fried eggplant in oyster sauce. How could you screw that up?
Happily, it wasn't screwed up, but it did contain some extra ingredients not mentioned on the menu. First off, thank god I'm no longer vegan or vegetarian, because there were quite a few little scraps of meat in it (I'd guess pork) even though it was in the "vegetable" section. Second, there was a heaping helping of red and green bell peppers. Lovely to look at, but I don't eat them. They dislike me immensely and wreak unimaginable havoc on my digestive system. In fact, there were just enough in the sauce to throw me into a state of intense distress about an hour later, but we don't need to talk about that. Let's just say I was glad I was near a bathroom that had more than a broiler pan nailed to the floor…
Anyway, and not to mix bathroom talk and food, but, strange translations on a menu are a veritable godsend when compared with facing a foreign grocery store. This is particularly compounded when in a country with a language based in the Roman or Cyrillic alphabets. You may as well just let a toddler do some scratching on the packages for all I know.
At the same time, it's something of a gamble and yet an exciting one, and for this reason, I love – love, love, love, love, love – going to the grocery store. It's a guaranteed adventure. The marvel, the wonderment, the baffling mysteries wrapped in dough or hidden in a can. I could quite possibly purchase, bring home, and eat a tin of cat food and never know the difference. For all I know, I've done this, and – come to think of it – my hair has never been shinier.
Obviously, certain sections are easy – produce and raw meats, in particular. That's a good opportunity to jot down the mix of symbols that mean "chicken" or "potato" or "apple", which could come in handy in a future situation…the kebap and schwarma stands, for instance. Other sections – particularly anything concealed in a can, frozen in a package, or prepped and shrink wrapped by the store itself (my favorite for wild experimentation) – are a total grab bag.
I still recall my total horror in a Hungarian supermarket in 1992. It was something of a trifecta of confusion:
- I was vegan, so I was SUPER picky about what I ate.
- There was pretty much nothing in the store. It was like a supermarket in Florida right after they announce a hurricane warning – bare aisles and some boxes of Tide.
- I bought and consumed a pastry that was a complete and utter mystery to me to this day. All I know is that the contents were black and gooey and had no flavor. Not sure what that fruit (?) is, but I'm glad we haven't embraced it in the U.S.
Anyway, the good news is that I am now a lot less picky, because in the last month and a half I have started chewing something up, and upon examining the flavor thought, Thank god I'm not:
- Vegetarian
- Muslim
- Lactose intolerant
- A Recovering alcoholic (this in response to a pastry I bought yesterday. It was a super cheap .99 LT – like $.35 – and looked like a chocolate donut hole, only three times the size of a normal donut hole. So I figured it was a big, round brownie or chocolate thingie. It turns out it was a rum ball – heavy on the rum. It was good, but a small child would've been three sheets to the wind having eaten the thing. It should've had a "Mister Yuck" sticker on it or something to warn parents!)
- Jewish
- Squeamish (this after some pirogies ordered from a non-English speaker in Poland. Gee, I didn't know they made pirogi in 'ground up bones and lint' flavor.)
- Allergic to fish, nuts, animal parts no one in their right mind would eat, etc.
In other words, if you are any of the above and have plans to come to Eastern Europe and buy your own food or venture into places without an English menu…hire a translator.
Meanwhile, I had a nice day in Klaipeda. It's cold as hell, but I won't focus on that and whine to you. It's the Baltics, what did I expect? Tomorrow I have a long bus ride to Riga (five hours – need to take it easy on the morning beverages!) where there is a hotel with a sauna on the premises and wifi in the room awaiting me. I'll write you a nice, long post about what I've seen here in the fatherland (besides grouchy people) and post some photos of me freezing my @ss off by Baltic Ocean.
In other news, and not to always have a cloud in the silver lining, but after getting back from my day out on the coast, two guys in their late sixties (at least) have checked into the "youth" hostel. Go ahead and call me elitist, call me a snob, even bitchy, I can take it. I still think I have the right to say that 70 is too old to be youth hosteling.
They have the look of the homeless to them (everything but the shopping cart full of cans) or maybe just Hells Angels kicked to the curb (or dropped off at the nursing home), and I am wee bit spooked, especially since discovering they're in the bunk that touches mine (although I plan to move. Screw it.) The hostel is practically in the parking lot of the train and bus stations, so I guess it has an "anything goes" policy with respect to guests. One of them looks like Dennis Hopper if Dennis Hopper had lived the same wild life of drugs and booze, but without any money or proper nutrition, and lost some key teeth along the way. Right now he's eating a piece of bread like it's corn on the cob, while reading a magazine called "Fighters". "Fighters" features a woman in nothing but a camo print thong straddling a vicious motorcycle-like thing that may have been swiped from the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome set. It's in German, and the top banner says, "100% EDELBIKES, 100% ACTION, 100% TUNING, 100% SZENE."
Presuming I get through the night in one piece (ah, who are we kidding? I'd fight like a demon if it came to it. For many years I had a vivid dream [nightmare] life in which I killed thousands of undead, zombies, and vampires every night. I'm ready.), I'll catch you up tomorrow from Riga!


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Houffalize - Men's 4th Lap Start
Trish Sinclair has telephoned in another update from the World Cup in Belgium. There have been some interesting developments at the front. Miguel Martinez has dropped off the front, with Jose Hermida moving up to join Filip Meirheaghe and Christophe Dupouey. Bas Van Doren, Martinez and Thomas Frischknecht are 20 seconds behind, with Tom larsen and Lado Fumic at 45 seconds.
For the Canadians: Ryder Hesjedal has lost a few spots, dropping to 27th. Roland Green, who flatted a lap earlier, has jumped to 31st, and looks strong. Andreas hestler has moved up another place, to 4oth, as has Seamus McGrath (42nd). Mathieu continues to improve, now up to 57th place.
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Official White House photographer Pete Souza released this week his favorite images from 2012, some depicting the happier times of President Barack Obama's year, others the worst.
A Dec. 14 photo showing the president bowing his head and closing his eyes depicts what Obama has described as the worst day of his presidency. It was the moment he learned of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
"Our hearts are broken today," he said in an address to the country following the shooting that left 26 people dead including 20 children.
"We have been through this too many times. Whether it's an elementary school in Newtown or a shopping mall in Oregon or a temple in Wisconsin or a movie theater in Aurora or a street corner in Chicago, these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children."
Other moments in Souza's collection showed the lighter sides of Obama's tenure.
The images capture Obama jumping into the surf in Hawaii while on vacation and having frozen yogurt spilled on him while working a rope line.
Michelle Obama is shown in other images participating in potato sack race with Jimmy Fallon, getting ready to deliver a commencement address at Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium and viewing her hometown of Chicago with the president from the edge of Lake Michigan.
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What am I learning about soulmates!
Here we go again! the child in me gets raped again!
Most of the women I meet are evil! pure evil! not all of them; some are respectable decent! I know; because I know them!
And yet, I was set up again! this time by an authentic soulmate! Set up means, someone saw me, groomed me to take a fall; set me up, manipulated me! Here we go again! However, this time Ive got God to turn to!
Its easy to set me up; Im fairly innocent; easy target! I fall for a pretty face; I see a women looking at me like she likes me and she's intreated; I fall for it!
This last women played me for a very sick long time to get my attention! once she got it up to a certain point; she brought another man around out of nowhere! She knew exactly what she was doing! I don't know why she did this! its a form of hatred or contempt! I don't know!
I must look at the whole picture!
First, no way did God bring this person into my life! so, she is not an authentic soulmate! However, she played it up very well! I had no idea she was a fraud; simply because Im not one!
I used the laws of attraction to attract! However, this was the wrong person to attract! I don't think I attracted her! I think it was murky and fake; one of those situations where you could not actually pic a situation where she revealed anything was wrong; meaning, you could not accuse her of anything! She kept things under raps! meaning, she could talk her away out of any moment toward me! she could claim we were just strangers talking or we were just meeting gowers having a chat!
I got led on! and it was fake! thats what worries me! how easy it was; how I wanted to believe it! and it was fake! I was so gullible for it! I was openly used by someone!
I actually thought this was a soulmate! I thought she was a soulmate by the way she looked at me! In any other case, 99% of the people would agree~ unfortunately, Im one of the 1% that its not real!
After being led on for a long time and things slowly opening up a bit, and I opening up to her a bit more; at that moment of moving in; she has another boy friend; right then! And this completely shocked me! I did not expect it! I was being played the whole time!
My thing; the Universe was showing up with a soulmate! Now I believe, the Universe has never shown up with a soulmate; not yet! Ive gotten hit with players playing games! nothing more! It hurts! I don't like these kind of scumbags! it hurts! I didn't expect it!
I must remember that it takes a long time for me to get close to people! So, Im not responding to them!
Its very hard tell who to talk to and who to not talk to; who to ask out, who to take interest in! I don't know?
So, I work with God! God does not send me people that are going to betray me and cause this level of pain! The child in me was set up by this person! groomed by this person, manipulated by this person! and finally ripped to pieces by this person when my defenses or boundaries were down! As soon as they dropped I child in me was ripped apart! And thus was the whole goal of this sociopath!
I wish to hell I would not keep attracting these worthless scum! They are Godless!
I had a chance to listen to this person; the real person wasn't in trouble; she was fine! she didn't need anyone saving her or loving her! she had her personal life more together then some I've meet studying success based thinking!
She was not looking for me! she was playing me because nothing would happen to her! she wouldn't loose out; she could get away with it!
God, in his own way allowed me to keep my ears open and listen! and listen I did! I began to ear things I did not like! She was turning out the opposite of a recovery person!
I must trust God! work with source energy, get over this and allow God to send out rockets of desire and pick up the people he wants around me! he will bring them to me! The problem is; I was fooled this time and thought this person came from God! I was wrong! God never sent them!
I have to look at a specific problem of mine! The child in me goes blind! I want love and friendship and I start liking someone and I try make them out to be safe; their not safe! I don't seem to care until its 2 late! I get used because I allow myself to get involved!
Why am I allowing myself to get involved; my dream world tells me she is cute and would be a good girlfriend! I can see us together doing everything and I would love her! and I fall into this trap every time! and it seems like the predators that are waiting for me; see me a mile away!
The problem is; Im not starting out with someone that likes me; Im starting out with someone that is playing me! So, they don't count! I might have months and months of my life waisted by these scumbags! They don't count! they just waist your time! they just waisting time playing innocent people into the ground!
And who am I; I was just a guy that wanted a girlfriend or soulmate! Interestingly enough, I wanted a soulmate and thats what I got! I got a fake replica of a soulmate!
After the person playing me into the ground, they had a new boyfriend to protect them!
Im not going to say; why cant I learn; ever learn! thats not the idea! The idea is; I must turn to God and align with God and really think about who and what is going on around me!
This girl used her pretty face to attract me and who knows how many others! it worked! its just a game for them! they have no conscious; what do they care!
I have to start over! I did not want to find a girl friend based on safety! I did not want to go out with a women because I can trust her! I wanted more then that! Trust is not enough for a relationship! I wanted a real person I found attractive that I liked! Im not going to be forced to pic girlfriends based on one issue; trust!
Im attracting the same kind of pathological monsters that I came from in my early life! I can see the patterns!


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Slate's Josh Levin attended the Seahawks-Redskins game on Sunday, and, while he saw a lot of genuine RGIII memorabilia, he also saw plenty of knockoffs. So, in this week's excerpt from the Hang Up and Listen podcast, Josh dives in to this nefarious underworld. Where does counterfeit memorabilia come from? And who destroys it? Listen up.
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Spanish, just like English, is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. This is the main reason why more and more people are aspiring to speak the language. While learning the language could bring about advantages and even open doors for many opportunities, it could also present equally numerous hardships. There are many ways to make learning Spanish easier and much more exciting.
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1. Practice makes perfect-this age old saying is also applicable when it comes to learning Spanish or any other language. It is also best to practice by conversing with people who know how to speak Spanish fluently and allowing them to correct any errors that they hear from the conversation.
Practising not only involves talking to Spanish-speaking people but also reading novels or magazines that are written in the language. Reading and speaking Spanish all the time would enhance a learner's understanding of sentence construction and also grammar. Doing this all the time would also enhance a learner's confidence.
Buying the latest edition of Spanish dictionaries would also be a great help. Reading from the dictionary would increase a person's vocabulary and also his knowledge of when to use Spanish Magazine certain terms at any given time.
2. Attending Spanish classes and learning the basics of the language would give an understanding of the foundation of the language and would also make the learner comprehend the construction of ideas and sentences. People who already know the basics should consider attending advance classes. Intermediate Spanish is taught only in these classes and the only way to become confident in speaking Spanish is not to stop unless the words start to flow smoothly.
3. People studying to speak Spanish should try to immerse in Spanish cultures and traditions. Knowing the history and culture of these unique peoples would make learning much more intense, gratifying, and it would also develop an appreciation for the language.
4. The purchase of Spanish audio CDs would turn moments like washing the car or driving through a traffic jam as time spent on studying the language. Instead of watching any other programs on TV, it has been proven that viewing Spanish films and shows would greatly enhance a learner's comprehension.
5. Finding time to learn Spanish online also proves to be beneficial. There are many web sites that could give tips and resources that will greatly help any learner on his quest to study Spanish.
It is always advisable for a learner to take his time and establish his own pace at learning the language. The secret for every learner is to absorb only those that he can take for the day and to not be afraid to ask for help from the online support team for each web site.
6. The last and probably the hardest thing to do is to visit Spanish-speaking nations such as Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, etc. Visiting these nations would give the learner a hands-on perspective at learning the language as he can speak to locals. Visits to these places would also guarantee major culture absorption.
Learning Spanish may not be an easy task and it should not be a burden at all. There are ways to enhance learning and make it fun-all that a learner has to do is to follow some simple methods and he is ascertained of success on his endeavor to learn the language.


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These four awesome books were originally listed on a static page (like the pages above), but I figured it was out of place there and should have a home with the rest of my book recommendations.
So I've decided to make a post of it.
I call them "starter books" for lack of a better term (if you know of one, let me know!). Three are the first books in their respective series; one of the books being not part of a series, but an introduction into the kinds of books the author writes.
The Thief By: Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief is the first book in a fantasy quartet. The thief in question is the main character, Eugenides (nicknamed Gen). It's tough with a series like this to review a single book. There are so many plot twists that I'm not quite sure what I'm giving away. There are thieves, political intrigue, love, and more, all set in an ancient Greek/Byzantine-like setting. The stories revolve around the countries of Eddis, Attolia, and Sounis and all involve Gen. Interestingly, they're all written in different points of view which allows for an in-depth look into Gen's character. I read the books slightly out of sequence, but they're amazing in any order.
Friday's Child By: Georgette Heyer
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Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder Addresses His Onstage Anti-War Plea in New Blog Post
On July 11, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder launched into a passionate anti-war plea while performing onstage in England. While he never mentioned Israel by name, Vedder's speech was widely believed to be directed at Israel's recent bombings of the Gaza Strip, leading the rocker to being labelled as anti-Israel by the country's supporters. In response, Vedder has penned a statement explaining his intentions.
For those who have followed Pearl Jam over the years, Vedder's outspoken views against war have long been front-and-center. For many, many years, Pearl Jam have covered anti-war anthems such as Bob Dylan's 'Masters of War' and the Edwin Starr's 'War' live in concert.
In a post titled, 'Imagine That -- I'm Still Anti-War,' Vedder addresses his recent onstage plea and his views which inspired it:
Most of us have heard John Lennon sing "You may say I'm a dreamer,… but I'm not the only one." And some of us, after another morning dose of news coverage full of death and destruction, feel the need to reach out to others to see if we are not alone in our outrage. With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news everyday, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
Currently, I'm full of hope. That hope springs from the multitudes of people that our band has been fortunate enough to play for night after night here in Europe. To see flags of so many different nations, and to have these huge crowds gathered peacefully and joyfully is the exact inspiration behind the words I felt the need to emphatically relay. When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
That's not something I'm going to stop anytime soon. Call me naïve. I'd rather be naïve, heartfelt and hopeful than resigned to say nothing for fear of misinterpretation and retribution.
The majority of humans on this planet are more consumed by the pursuit of love, health, family, food and shelter than any kind of war.
War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
With all the global achievements in modern technology, enhanced communication and information devices, cracking the human genome, land rovers on Mars etc., do we really have to resign ourselves to the devastating reality that conflict will be resolved with bombs, murder and acts of barbarism?
We are such a remarkable species. Capable of creating beauty. Capable of awe-inspiring advancements. We must be capable of resolving conflicts without bloodshed.
I don't know how to reconcile the peaceful rainbow of flags we see each night at our concerts with the daily news of a dozen global conflicts and their horrific consequences. I don't know how to process the feeling of guilt and complicity when I hear about the deaths of a civilian family from a U.S. drone strike. But I know that we can't let the sadness turn into apathy. And I do know we are better off when we reach out to each other.
"I hope someday you'll join us,…"
Won't you listen to what the man said.
— Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam will embark on a short U.S. tour this October. For the full list of dates, click here.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire has improved its dental services in the North Country, with 17 having moved into the region in the last decade.
They are among more than 70 dentists in the northern and western regions of the state.
And a new report by the New Hampshire Oral Health Workforce Strategic Plan says many of them are accepting new patients.
A number of the dentists provide free or reduced care to patients.
A survey of New Hampshire Dental Society members showed the median dollar value of free and reduced care contributed over a year was $20,000.


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Tarr's Marauder was a Ferengi D'Kora-class starship commanded by DaiMon Tarr in 2364.
On stardate 41386.4 this Ferengi vessel was being pursued by the USS Enterprise-D after it was suspected of stealing Federation equipment. Both it and the Enterprise were caught in a strange energy field around an unexplored planet in the Delphi Ardu system (later determined to have been part of the Tkon Empire), both ships thinking the other had trapped them. Both vessels were eventually freed when Riker impressed the planet's guardian with his knowledge of Sun Tzu. (TNG: "The Last Outpost")
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Moving to Bucharest - good English speaking vets? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Moving to Bucharest - good English speaking vets? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Romania View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message rd8277Joined: 12 Nov 2006Posts: 15 Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:49 am Post subject: Moving to Bucharest - good English speaking vets? Hi guys, I'm moving to Bucharest next week, and will need an English speaking vet VERY soon - I have two boy kittens who need neutering. Whereabouts in the city is largely irrelevant, as although my school is providing me with accommodation for the first two weeks, I have no idea where I will find a place after that. What's important is that people have had a good experience there. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you!!! Back to top Mike_2007Joined: 24 Apr 2007Posts: 349Location: Bucharest, Romania Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:01 pm Post subject: Hi there, I don't have any first-hand experience of vets in Bucharest but I've seen the following two mentioned on other expat forums: www.marcovet.ro www.daisy-vet.ro Regarding accommodation, you could have a look on the following site to get an idea of rental prices in various areas: http://bucuresti.neobizz.ro/cat/view/catid/3001/search/-/imobiliare-inchirieri It's in Romanian but you should get the idea. The first word or two of the add, in capitals, tells you which area of Bucharest it's in. A 'garsoniera' is a studio flat which might suit you for starters. The number of rooms includes the living room, so '2 camere' means it's a one-bedroomed flat. You might also want to go for something 'mobilat' (furnished). All the best, Mike Back to top rd8277Joined: 12 Nov 2006Posts: 15 Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: Thanks Mike! I emailed Daisy Vet (I don't think the other is in Bucharest), and have already received a reply, in great English, saying they can help. From their website it looks like a good place too. Thanks again! Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Romania All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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When Mexico takes on Colombia in a soccer match tomorrow at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, operations staff at the stadium will be able to tap into metrics such as visitor traffic patterns and concession stand spending to keep the event running smoothly. The soccer match will be the first live test of a new analytics platform deployed by the Miami Dolphins, whose home field is this stadium
The Dolphins teamed with IBM to deploy the cloud-based software, which taps into existing information sources and crunches the data to make it easier for stadium staff to be proactive about potentially disruptive events, such as parking bottlenecks, concession stand inventory shortages, and inclement weather.
IN DEPTH: Mobility, cloud, analytics to reshape IT in 2012
For the fans, the stadium is unveiling mobile applications that deliver the latest game scores and stats, provide up-to-date travel and parking instructions for people on their way to the stadium, and can even direct fans to the concession stands with the shortest lines. (See also: 25 useful iPad business apps)
The entertainment industry is increasingly interactive, and Sun Life Stadium needs to stay competitive and continue to attract tech-savvy fans to its sporting and entertainment events, says Tery Howard, CTO for the Miami Dolphins. From parking and crowd control to weather watching and safety services, "all of this has to be perfect and on target in order for us to position ourselves as leaders in this space," Howard says.
The software deployed by the Dolphins is IBM's Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) for Smarter Cities. IOC is designed to help manage and view interconnected operations across a city. Using software developed for urban management purposes is no accident. A stadium is essentially a scaled-down city, complete with cars, parking, pedestrian traffic, merchants, utilities, and personnel responsible for keeping all the services running smoothly, suggests Mike Gerentine, IBM's vice president of global business partners and midmarket.
"The Dolphins stadium, just like a lot of other stadiums, is really a microcosm of a city. It has a lot of the same or similar challenges, so we're able to take a lot of the best practices and repeatable services that we're deploying in cities and apply it to stadiums as well," Gerentine says.
The cloud model is ideal for the Dolphins, Howard says. "We're a sports franchise, not a technology company. It's all about who we partner with, and they in effect become an extension of our technology team," she says. "The cloud model is perfect. There was no disruption on our end, no need to expand or add infrastructure. It's a great fit."
The systems from which IOC culls data were already in place, but they operated in isolation from one another. "The IOC consolidates and aggregates all of this into one portal," Howard says. "Different constituents, whether they're walking around with a mobile device or in the control center or in our base, are monitoring all these different metrics that could impact our fan experience."
For crowd control, for instance, the software can determine if a particular entrance gate is overcrowded and alert security staff to shift the flow of fans to other gates.
"One of the comments we hear back from our fans and season ticket members is that the ingress and egress process, getting in and out of the stadium, becomes an issue for them," Howard says. "The IOC has allowed us to take information from our different systems and manual processes and consolidate the data so that we can give feedback to the people managing the parking areas, reroute traffic and make the process a lot smoother."
The analytic data also helps staff to plan concession and merchandise needs for future events.
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Flagship Solutions Group, an IBM business partner, collaborated with the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium to deploy the IOC software. IBM is hosting its PartnerWorld conference this week in New Orleans.
Ann Bednarz covers IT careers, outsourcing and Internet culture for Network World. Follow Ann on Twitter at @annbednarz http://twitter.com/annbednarz and check out her blog, Occupational Hazards. Her e-mail address is email@example.com.
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The teen "child" pornography madness, which has been a subject of great mainstream media coverage over a number of months, has been getting out of hand. I'm not referring to child pornography itself (a practice which is very despicable), but to the allegations of "child pornography" that have been popping up in the courtrooms and the mainstream media within the last number of months. I'm specifically referring to today's Generation Y a.k.a. adolescents (teenagers), who used to be called "the youth," and are being prosecuted left and right simply for doffing their clothes and taking nude pics of themselves with their camera phones or just posting them on their social networking accounts like Myspace. Let's not forget that there have been cases of teenage males having been prosecuted for filming their girlfriends in the nude (or while they're having sex with one another) and taking naked pics of them.
Just this week a 14-year-old teenage girl from New Jersey was arrested for posting 30 nude pics of herself on her Myspace account. Why did she do this, you might be asking? Because she wanted her boyfriend to see them. According to media accounts, if the poor girl is convicted, under Megan's Law, she would have to register as a sex offender and serve 17 years in prison. Currently, she's been remanded to her mother's custody for the time being. A court date hasn't been set as well.
What started this brouhaha was that someone tipped off the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which then contacted the police. The authorities began a month-long investigation into the matter, sex stinging the girl until they came to the conclusion that she did this for her boyfriend.
An even more interesting fact is that many parents and pundits have lambasted the local law enforcement officials and the district attorney's office, including Maureen Kanka (the mother of the late Megan Kanka whose murder led to her mom lobbying for the passage of Megan's Law) who publicly condemned the arrest, saying that the police should "be ashamed of themselves" for charging the youth. University of Pennsylvania constitutional law professor Seth Kreimer even believes the arrest was insane as well:
To deploy the nuclear weapon of child pornography charges shows almost as bad judgment as posting the nude photos themselves.
Another case involving another 14-year-old teen girl from Pennsylvania provides a disturbing picture of the out-of-control government's obsession with prosecuting and persecuting adolescent women and men for taking sexually-explicit pictures and filming themselves engaging in explicit sexual activity. It also shows that the state is infantilizing (more correctly, "childifying") our youth and treating them like children, while imposing government-mandated "sex education" in the public "government" schools (which is encouraging kids to have sex). Let's also not forget that most parents do not educate their children about sex, because of their uncomfortability with the subject and their irrational fear that, if they did so, their kids would pursue that kind of activity. Yet it is common knowledge that, once the young children enter their adolescent years, they will learn about sex from either their peers or watch porn (and get the wrong ideas about sex and love) or both. And, because of that, it drives them to have sex, especially when they are not emotionally, mentally, and financially ready for that responsibility. After all, teen pregnancy, while having declined somewhat over the years, is still at an all-time high and sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) is very prevalent as well.
Moreover, the state doesn't get that, as long as it continues to raise teens as little children, Generation Y'ers will act out as children and not as young adults. Once they are childified, it's almost impossible for them to snap out of it and it sticks with them for the rest of their lives.
As long as the state proceeds to prevent teens from learning responsibility and behaving like adults, they will be immature, irresponsible, and insecure. This is what the state is doing to the adolescent population: it's shielding teens from growing up and learning from the consequences of their actions. If teens were allowed to marry, sign contracts, have children, take control of their education, vote, join the military, drink, emancipate themselves from their abusive parents and families, etc., they would be more likely to wait until they were ready to handle those responsibilities. While the state deserves the lion's share of the blame here, the parents deserve it just as much.
Moreover, the sex registry system creates a new criminal class, which sticks with the convicted sex offenders for life. It's almost impossible for them to lose that label. Since there are no victims and the teens who are infantilized by their parents and the state are said to be victims of "statutory rape" (used to be called "jail bait"), the state will accuse the offenders of engaging in these "rapes," considering teen women voluntarily choose to be sexually active with their male lovers (who are usually older than them) and do not cry out rape. Not only that, the offenders are required to re-register with the state whenever they move and find it difficult to land jobs, considering employers tend to be leery about hiring them to begin with.
It's time for the state to get out of this business of protecting teens. It's also time for parents to assume the role of protecting and raising their kids and teaching them about sex, so they can wait until they are ready to deal with all and any adult responsibilities.
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Twivo? Tech-Smart Teen Creates Program to Save You From TV Spoilers on Twitter
Love Twitter but dread signing in on Monday mornings for fear that you'll find out exactly who did what to whom on that new episode of "Game of Thrones" that you haven't had the chance to watch yet?
Jennie Lamere feels your pain, which is why the supertalented 17-year-old New Hampshire high school senior created Twivo, a program you can set to censor your Twitter feed from mentions of certain TV shows for any length of time. So no more choosing between seeing what the Biebs is up to and avoiding the list of "Walking Dead" characters who just became zombie chow.
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Lamere won a national coding competition last month, MotherJones.com reports, with Twivo, but her accomplishment is even more impressive than it initially sounds. She was the only female who presented a project in the competition.
She also beat out professional developers at the hackathon contest, after coming up with the idea for Twivo the night before the April 27 event. It took her 10 hours and 150 lines of code to finalize the program, Mother Jones reports, for which she won iPad minis and an Apple TV.
See Lamere demo Twivo at the TVnext Hack event (at the 3:24 mark):
Lamere, who's headed to the Rochester Institute of Technology next fall to major in software engineering, plans to release Twivo in the next few weeks, and tech company Furious Minds has approached her to help get the program to spoiler-hating fans.
The TV show whose spoilers Lamere uses Twivo to avoid, by the way: "Dance Moms."