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A lot of blogs and mainstream media have been reporting on the recent studies that women's overall happiness is decreasing. Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner wrote a great piece for the Huffington Post in response to the many male voices that have been making noise on this issue.
Rowe- Finkbeiner's analysis of the phenomenon seems dead on. Here is a snippet of the article (we recommend reading the whole piece HERE):
Why are women unhappy? The fact that the feminist revolution is mid-course and some are calling it over just because women now number half of the labor force is a reason for unhappiness. The fact that we don't have family-friendly policies which most other nations take as a given is another reason for unhappiness.
We're not moving forward, we're falling behind. According to international gender equality ratings just released by the World Economic Forum, the United States fell four spots from last year. We now stand at 31st place, just behind Lithuania. Further, falling behind hurts us all: Right now there are only 15 women CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, despite that more than 50% of college graduates are now women and despite, importantly, that recent studies show that Fortune 500 companies with women in leadership are actually doing better fiscally in this tough economic environment.
She's a smart woman with a good point.


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I hope this blog will contain things to entertain you. Family, Photos, Travel, Humour, Quotations, to name but a few!
Saturday, 1 February 2014
There Will Be Lots of Hearts and Love This Month ....
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- Montanagirl said...
That all sounds wonderful - especially the Grandchildren part! I wish mine lived closer.
- 1 February 2014 at 13:32
- Shady Del Knight said...
Hallo, dear Thisisme! I see you have an attractive new banner in place for this post. Very pretty, and I wholeheartedly agree with the message.
Can you believe we are already into the second month of this new year? Somebody somewhere is speeding up the clock! That being the case, let me be the first to wish you a very Merry Christmas! (LOL)
My weather has been similar to yours lately. It's been chilly, windy and rainy for a few days now and last night it rained especially hard. However, we welcome the moisture during this, the dry season in Florida. I'm sorry your garden is under water. I hope Sandy didn't float away! :)
Yessum, I know you well and remember how much you love to count down to V-Day each year. What a lovely fantasy you described! All of the places and activities you mentioned would be high on my list of favorite things to experience. I especially like relaxing and/or dining near the water and I also love to sit in a town square and listen to a band play whilst watching people pass by. It's ever so relaxing and enjoyable, isn't it?
Thank you for a wonderful post, dear friend Thisisme. I hope you're enjoying your weekend. Hugs and smooches to you!
P.S. - You'll be happy to know that our dear friend Margaret Schneider returned home from rehab yesterday, a blessing indeed! Our prayers were answered.
- 1 February 2014 at 14:11
- rainbow said...
The BEST part of February is your count down to Valentine's Day it is almost as good as my count down to St Patrick's Day! January has gone by very fast this year but it has been so COLD and WINDY I'm glad it is over. Wish we could have had a little moisture but you can't have everything. Just looking forward to March and April, maybe we can get some rain then. I'm tired of this DROUGHT and want it over. Just have to be patient. God's timing is best.
Make it a GREAT WEEKEND and a DOUBLE BLESSED SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!
- 1 February 2014 at 15:26
- Karo Trammell said...
Hi Thisisme, I am in the neighborhood, and just wanted to stop by and wish you a Happy February! Suzanne has told me what a romantic you are, and, I did enjoy your pictures...Venice does look so inviting!
Happy Valentine's Day to you! You have certainly planned a fabulous day!
- 1 February 2014 at 17:17
- Claudia Moser said...
What a lovely dream! May I join you? :)
- 1 February 2014 at 18:14
- Rosemary Nickerson said...
What a lovely dream! For me, I would choose Rome. Always the most romantic place for my dreams! Hopefully the rain will abate and the floods receed soon. Blessings.
- 2 February 2014 at 01:07
- BECKY said...
A wonderful dream that I share, too!
- 2 February 2014 at 04:48
- Shelly said...
What a perfect day you have described, my friend! I so enjoyed reading it and never say never!
- 2 February 2014 at 11:09
- Bouncin Barb said...
Wonderful post my awesome friend! I love your dream day. It's perfect! XX
- 2 February 2014 at 15:21
- Suzanne Prickett said...
Thought I'd pop over from your Sunday post and see what all the ruckus is about!
YAY! Beautiful Venice...and beach photos. A great fantasy to be sure! February came fast this year, or am I just getting older? What a day that would be. I think the Venice excursion would just send me all the way!
Thank you for a lovely February beginning! See you soon!
- 2 February 2014 at 17:26

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Ashley Paris (Oklahoma) and Adaora Elonu (Texas A&M) have been selected Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Player and Freshman of the Week, respectively, by a media voting panel for games of Nov. 17-23. Both picked up their first career weekly honor.
Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Week
Ashley Paris, Oklahoma, F, Sr, Piedmont, Calif.
Ashley Paris averaged 17 points and nine rebounds while shooting 63 percent from the field in leading No. 2 Oklahoma to the Preseason WNIT championship game. The Piedmont, Calif., native was 8-of-12 from the field for a team-high 21 points in OU's victory over Middle Tennessee. She added five rebounds and three assists with just one turnover. Against No. 18 Arizona State, Paris posted her second double-double of the season with a 10-point, 10-rebound effort. She led OU in scoring against No. 4 North Carolina with 20 points and 11 rebounds -- her third double-double of the season and second consecutive.
Phillips 66 Big 12 Freshman of the Week
Adaora Elonu, Texas A&M, F, Houston, Texas
Adaora Elonu scored a career-high 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the floor in No. 7 Texas A&M's 59-56 road victory at Michigan. She also added six rebounds and two steals. Elonu has made two starts for the Aggies and is currently averaging 6.7 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in 22.3 minutes of play. She is tied for second among Big 12 freshmen in rebounding (7.3 ppg) and is tops in steals (2.0 spg) through all games played.


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the first playlist, days like this, is inspired by the seasonal shifts of fall and winter, and is meant for a road trip (or a cozy night in or day at the office). i didn't arrange this one in order because it's best served shuffled. enjoy some of my favorite songs of 2017 intermingled with vintage gems.
the second playlist, where does the good go, comes to us from a request by my friend jenn. upon hearing a bonnie raitt track on the first playlist, she wrote in to say: "Bonnie Raitt is very underappreciated…maybe that would be a good subject matter…artists you forgot were so damn awesome." so, i created a playlist full of 50 songs from 50 artists we may have forgotten were so damn awesome, and maybe some artists you've never heard of before; i'm pleased to make the introduction.


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Growing up, I always wanted to be a vet. Since about the age of five I've been obsessed with animals; my mum used to buy me Rolf Harris' Animal Hospital magazines and books and I had a huge collection of Sylvanian families and Puppy dog tails. These days I could never be a vet, just because I'd be way too emotional and the sight of blood and needles makes me feel faint. But I still have such a strong compassion towards animals- I don't eat meat and if an animal dies or gets hurt in a movie I cry my eyes out (if a human does it's like meh). I know that one of the things I'm meant to do in life is to help them, whether that's by opening a shelter, doing charity work for the Amazon rainforest, contributing towards abolishing the palm oil trade or rescuing strays around the globe.
Spending a day at the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand was the perfect taster for this. Up until now I feel like I haven't done as much as I would have liked charity-wise; I donated money to Greenpeace for about a year but realised when I and minus two grand in my account that I probably should stop the direct debit. But having this day experience has given me the motivation to either go back there and volunteer for a few months on my way home from Australia, or look into similar sanctuaries across the globe, where I can wake up every day without any make-up on and just walk around in mud and be surrounded by different animals.
The day started off with breakfast time for one of the elephants. We walked down and fed bananas to a 75-year-old elephant, who slowly but surely made her way over to us. She was confident and wagging her ears and tail, which is a sign of a very happy elephant! She had been used and abused in the logging and trekking industry for over 60 years! Her wrinkly, heavy trunk twisted and curved until it gently sucked up the bananas and put them in her mouth. Once she had, had her snacks and strokes she plodded away back to break up the bits of banana tree she had also been given.
The day continued with a tour of the grounds, to go and meet some off the 500+ rescued animals at the sanctuary. It was so refreshing seeing all the large areas of living space in which the animals had to roam. They had plenty of trees to climb, grass to roll in, places to sleep and tyres play with. Each area we walked through brought different noises, from the calling of the different species of bird to the loud siren-like scream of the gibbons.
Gibbons were the main rescued animal there; there were so many. The staff at WFFT were making such an effort to ensure they were given the same lifestyle that they would have in the wild. Gibbons find a mate and stay with them for the rest of their lives. They have babies and when they are old enough the dad gibbon scares them away so that they can be independent and find their own mate to do the same. The staff at WFFT had paired up male and female gibbons to make sure that they had that experience. We got to see some baby ones, they were so fluffy and cute!
Being fluffy and cute is one of the main things that brings these animals into places like WFFT in the first place; people buy them as pets because they look cute and then get bored of them as they grow up. The majority of animals at the sanctuary will never be released back into the wild after their rehabilitation at WFFT. Not just because they are too damaged or wouldn't know how to survive in the wild, but most of these animals were imported into Thailand from other countries to be kept as pets, meaning that they would be in a completely unfamiliar environment if they were realised in Thailand.
There were a lot of amputee monkeys also- who had their injuries from car accidents. Probably one of the best things I saw all day was the tortoise that was best friends with a cow. I couldn't get a good photo from where we were standing, but they were laying side by side and apparently they follow each other around- how amazing is that! Melted my heart! We also saw a rescued crocodile, deer, boars, monkeys and lots and lots of bears.
After a healthy lunch of watermelon, rice and vegetables cooked in sauce, we moved on to one of the best bits of the day- we got to take an elephant for her daily walk! Jumping in the back of a truck and driving to another part of the land, it felt like we were going on a safari.
This is the beautiful, happy girl we were lucky enough to take on walk. She was so calm and trusting and her ears and tail flapped about as we fed her pineapple and watermelon every few steps. She was so lovely to stroke and there was nothing more amazing than walking a few meters ahead so I could watch her slowly walk in my direction. A big friendly, cuddly giant.
We even got to give her a shower afterwards, spraying her with a hose and scrubbing her gently with brushes to get her nice and clean before she covers herself in dust again. After having that special one to one moment with an elephant, I was certain I would need to come back here or elsewhere to do some volunteering for a few weeks/ months at a time. I've realised that doing something like that for a few years wouldn't earn me a single penny, but the lifestyle would make me so, so happy.
We got back on the trucks again and got to drive around to the final parts of the sanctuary, seeing more otters and monkeys and bears. We got to meet the rest of the elephants as well and watch a few of them go for a swim.
There was also baby elephant, which was the perfect end to the perfect day!! The best thing about the baby elephant was the story behind him. His mum lived in the same sanctuary and they were rescued by an Australian woman who spent her own personal money on saving them. The woman had previously witnessed the same elephant mum have two babies taken away from her, shortly after being born. She had been forced to have three babies in such a short period of time, and the woman couldn't bear for it to happen again so she made sure they both got sent to WFFT together!
I envisioned what I expected this day to be like before it happened, and it ended up being so, so much more amazing. Something I noticed about the staff at WFFT, which I really admired, was how they treated each animal there as an individual. They all had names and the staff knew each of their personalities inside out, therefore they had different ways of caring for each one. For example, any of the elephants that were a bit more uncomfortable around humans, they made sure they had their space and weren't touched. There was a male elephant who loved to destroy everything in his enclosure and sink it to the bottom of his mini lake. They don't want him to miss out on having a nice living space because of this, so they are working on saving money to build him another enclosure, so that once he has destroyed one he can go in the other and destroy it and then vice versa.
In another instance, there were two elephants that knew each other previously at a trekking camp, so they made sure they had an enclosure together. There was another elephant who was new to an enclosure and less dominant, so they made sure he was fed separately so that he got the same amount of food as the others. It was so nice to see the attention to detail of care they took.
The overall message here is- please do not ever, ever, ever ride an elephant. Even if the company tells you that they are well fed and looked after, it's all lies. A lot of people continue to encourage this because they are unaware of what goes on behind the scenes. This also goes for tigers and lions too; they are mistreated and sedated so that humans can interact with them.
Before an elephant is ready to be used for riding/ begging/ logging, there is a long and horrible process that takes place. The babies are first of all taken away from their mothers. Elephants are intelligent, emotional and compassionate animals, meaning that they react to things like this in the same way a human would.
The baby then has to go through a 'cracking process' which is probably the most heart-breaking and inhumane thing I've ever heard of. They are forced into tiny cages where they are starved and repeatedly beaten until they turn soulless and emotionless. Once they have cracked, they are a lot more submissive and it makes it a lot easier for them to be controlled.
We saw elephants with huge scars, deformed backs and hairs missing from their backs where they had been rode, severe limps where they had been hit by cars and trucks whilst being used for begging, abnormal stances as a result of having their legs chained.
You may have noticed before that some Asian elephants have more pale coloured skin in some parts- this is actually where they have been badly sunburnt in the past; elephants use their trunks to throw dust on themselves as a natural sun cream, and when they're chained up or put in cages it makes it difficult to do so. One of the saddest things we saw was a young elephant that started dancing when we came over; he thought we had food and he was used to being bribed and having to dance to get fed.
The issue is that in Thailand, elephants are livestock and treated exactly like cows. Anybody can own an elephant and it's completely legal to continually breed them. This means that most of the time an elephant can only be rescued when they are too old to work anymore; they are usually tied to trees and left to starve to death because in Buddhism it is frowned upon to kill anything.
Luckily someone is working on changing this law in order to protect the elephants, but until that is confirmed and in place, we all need to do our bit to ensure that we firstly avoid trekking and/or anything that uses elephants for entertainment purposes (for example elephant massages) and secondly that we all spread awareness about the cruelty that takes place behind the scenes.
After constantly seeing animal cruelty related videos on Facebook and hearing horror stories about what goes on in slaughterhouses etc. it was so refreshing to be in an environment giving the complete opposite messages. It's so reassuring to know that there are like-minded people out there, devoting their time, money and effort into taking care of helpless animals that are unable to care for themselves. What was even more warming, was witnessing how these big friendly giants had managed to build up their love and trust towards human beings, despite the decades of torture they went through.
For anyone looking to have this experience in Thailand, you can get a cheap minivan from Bangkok to Cha Am for 160BAHT, from either the Southern or Northern bus terminal. Our accommodation was in the middle of both so we went to the Southern one (it's a bit closer to Cha Am). If you e-mail WFFT beforehand when you book your day there, they can arrange for somebody to pick you up from the Shell garage down the road from where the minivans drop you off.
Don't read reviews of the minivans online. Most people have made out that they drive like maniacs and that they're lucky to be alive, but we were fine and they didn't drive any differently to any other driver in the city. If you do choose this option, you will have to get to the bus station for about 5:30-6 AM, as the drive can take up to three hours. You buy your ticket once you're there. Otherwise, if you're not staying in the surrounding area, there are other sanctuaries in Chiang Mai and Phuket. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions!


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Real-estate mogul turned reality-television star Donald Trump has been fending off criticism since the beginning of his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but an increasing number of media outlets and politicians are eviscerating him over his attack this weekend against Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona).
The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote a scathing editorial published Monday in which it blasted both Trump and his defenders.
"The question now is how long his political and media apologists on the right will keep pretending he's a serious candidate," the editorial board wrote.
At an event in Iowa over the weekend, Trump said McCain was considered a war hero only because he was captured, following up that comment with: "I like people that weren't captured."
As The Journal and other news outlets have pointed out, Trump avoided serving in the Vietnam War, while McCain spent more than five years in captivity at a Vietnamese prison camp.
Criticism of Trump has come from both sides of the aisle, but Trump nevertheless doubled down on his comments and issued a statement refusing to apologize.
The Journal said Trump's statement calling McCain "yet another all talk, no action politician who spends too much time on television" was especially ironic coming from someone known for his roles on TV shows such as "The Apprentice."
"Coming from a reality TV star, this too-much-time-on-television line is hilarious," The Journal said. "Mr. McCain doesn't need our defense on Mr. Trump's other insults, but they are notable because anyone with a cursory knowledge of politics knows they're false. They show that Mr. Trump has barely a passing acquaintance with America's current policy debates."
The editorial continued:
As a standard-bearer for conservative ideas, Mr. Trump would likewise be a catastrophe. His only discernible principle is the promotion of his personal brand. His main message seems to be that because he's rich and doesn't care what anyone thinks, he can afford to tell everyone to go to hell. Some Americans may find it satisfying 16 months from Election Day to tell pollsters they'd vote for him, but that doesn't mean conservative elites should validate this nonsense.
The Journal concluded by saying: "If Donald Trump becomes the voice of conservatives, conservatism will implode along with him."
And The Journal isn't the only news outlet pointing out the absurdity of Trump's comments.
Putting Trump's comments into a broader context, The Washington Post published a piece that explored what Trump was "up to while John McCain was a prisoner of war."
The answer to that question "reveals deep divides in the two men's lives and claims to leadership," Michael E. Miller and Fred Barbash wrote. "They may similarly embrace free enterprise, but when it comes to character, the two GOP presidential hopefuls could hardly be more different."
Miller and Barbash wrote that "as Trump was preparing to take Manhattan [real estate], McCain was trying to relearn how to walk."
Despite all of this, Trump still doesn't seem bothered by the criticism:
The ever dwindling @WSJ which is worth about 1/10 of what it was purchased for, is always hitting me politically. Who cares! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2015


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Conservation in the Kitchen – How to Use Leftover Juice Pulp
Conservation in the Kitchen – How to Use Leftover Juice Pulp
Nothing quenches like a glass of fresh, clean juice. What better way to get those nutrients right into your body so you can power through your day? Once you start juicing, it's easy get hooked on all those good feels.
Ugh. But, what about all of that leftover pulp? Instead of taking our burst of energy with a side of guilt over the waste in the bin, we got a little creative and put that extra food to good use. We're sharing a couple of our favorite ideas, developed after a smooth and yummy juice blend made creamy with the addition of our Unsweetened Almondmilk beverage. Get the recipe here: Creamy Carrot and Kale Juice
But, there's so much good stuff left! Since we're always thinking about our furry family members, the first invention came about with the puppers' in mind. These little biscuits are full of veggie flavor that your dog will absolutely love! See our recipe below.
Juice Pulp Doggie Biscuits:
- 3 C. Juice pulp from apples, celery, cucumber, kale, and carrots
- 1 C. Rolled Oats
- 2 Small Red Apples, blended
- ¼ C. Coconut oil (softened)
- 1/3 C. Natural peanut butter
- ½ C. Unsweetened So Delicious Dairy Free Yogurt Alternative
- ¼ C. Ground flax seed
- Mix all of the ingredients together and place dollops (about 1 Tbsp. each) onto lined baking sheets.
- Press down to flatten if desired. Bake 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until nice and brown.
We know you tasted those doggie biscuits when they came out of the oven. Not too bad, right? We thought the same. Then we got even more creative with a crispy, savory recipe that's actually for people and easy to make in the microwave. See our recipe below.
Savory Juice Pulp Croutons:
In a large mixing bowl, add the following to leftover Juice Pulp:
- 1/4 C. Neutral Oil
- 1/2 tsp. Black Pepper
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 1 tsp. Garlic Powder
- 1/2 tsp. Italian Seasoning (optional)
- Mix with a fork until well combined, then firmly press the mixture into a silicone, mini ice cube tray (well oiled).
- Microwave on full power for 8-10 minutes. Start checking at 5 minutes as time may vary depending on the moisture of your pulp and the powder of your microwave.
- Allow to cool for 2-3 minutes, then invert over a plate or bowl to release the croutons. Sprinkle on salad or enjoy with your favorite soup for a gluten-free and waste-free crouton!
The next time you power up your juicer, try some ideas of your own and let us know what you come up with! Here are a few to get you started:
- Veggie burgers
- Pancakes
- Muffins
- Frozen smoothie cubes
- Crackers
- Slaw
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We know what it's like – the fun of beauty and Contouring make-up is in transforming and chiselling your face, not in washing brushes, but it's a vital part of your skincare routine. After all, what's the point in having the fiercest contouring game if you're going to make yourself break out? Our gorgeous cream formulation Contour Makeup is an easy step to flawless skin – but it's even easier if you have a strict brush cleaning routine, that leaves your skin fresh and fabulous as a contour canvas! That is why our top brush tip is to make sure your brushes are as flawless as your contour!
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Clean your contour kit brushes regularly. Spot cleaning them after each use is a good idea – to reduce the build-up of any contour makeup, but as soon as you notice your brushes are clogged, it's time to show them a little love. The best way to go about it, instead of soaking your contour kit brushes in a bowl of water, is to run them under the tap – soaking them can cause more harm than good! Baby shampoo, or a mild soap is a good way to gently cleanse old makeup from your brushes.
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Don Quixote - Poem by Dejan Stojanovic
We dream and fight
With demons real and imagined;
We only live if we dream;
We grow from our dreams,
From our own La Mancha.
Don Quixote is not an imaginary person;
He is as real as Alexander the Great;
His Dulcinea—as real as Cleopatra,
His windmills are as real as the Library of Alexandria,
As real as scores of languages dead and forgotten,
As real as Attila, or lost Constantinople.
His windmills are lost Ayah Sofias;
His battles had to be won
By sleepy emperors
Too busy to wage them.
We need Don Quixote and La Mancha.
When the whole past is but a phantom,
When many a city fell,
The idea remained—
Stronger than any city, stronger than any empire.
Quixote shines from Lorca and Picasso,
From Dali and El Greco,
From the gloomy View of Toledo.
He was born before Cervantes.
Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru,
Colombia and the Caribbean
Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their hearts
For he is an ultimate and overlooked Don Juan.
Marquez was not born in Colombia.
He was born in Macondo,
And his Macondo is his La Mancha.
Fuentes and Cortazar are from La Mancha too.
Neruda had his first dream,
First meeting with the Moon and the Sun
In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart
Where he learned how to sing like a nightingale.
Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote;
La Mancha is not just geography;
It is our personal territory—
Terra Nostra.
It is not important what happens where;
Where we fall or rise,
What we conquer or lose,
How big or small we are.
All places come and go.
History will be erased in the universal purgatory.
Dreams are our only geography—
Our native land.
Topic(s) of this poem: Literature
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wonderful beautiful poem as I said earlier and truly meant.
one small spelling point, if by Dally you mean the painter Salvador Dali, it is spelled in English Dali
Best wishes your poetry has deep roots and starry branches.
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Dejan, your titled verse of one of my favorites, grasping the inspired spirit from within the author. Your poem being an original collaboration of human emotion and historical occurrance. I saved this Gem to file. Thanks
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African Oral Narratives: Providing Access to African Language Materials in the African Online Digital Library
The African Oral Narratives project of Michigan State University and multiple partners at African institutions and U.S. universities will make accessible rich and diverse collections of oral narratives from West, Northeast, East, and Southern Africa. These audio, and sometimes video materials, are in 16 languages — Akan (Twi), Wolof, Bamanakan (Mandinka), Igbo, Fula (Pulaar), Farefare, Amharic, Oromo, Swahili, Zigula, Chewa, and six of South Africa's 11 official languages – Zulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Tswana, Afrikaans, and English. Oral narratives are important both for diverse scholarly analysis and for advanced instruction in African languages and area studies. Such sources are particularly valuable as African voices that offer an alternative to the dominant colonial histories of Africa.
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- Partnerships that have been developed with scholars in Africa and at U.S. universities to carry out this project will be collegial, reciprocal, transparent, and mutually-beneficial to all partners. Project partners include the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana; Department of History, Addis Ababa University; Department of History, University of Malawi; the South African History Archive (Johannesburg); United Nations Multimedia Research Unit (New York), as well as scholars at Indiana University, Oakland University (Detroit), and MSU who are working in Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Gambia, and Tanzania. These equitable partnerships will provide sustainability for this project to continue collecting and providing access to additional valuable oral narratives after the grant.
- The collections will provide free, public access to materials in many African languages that are useful to language teachers and students. Addressing the Invitational Priority of this competition, the project will make available foreign information sources in eight of the 15 African languages on the U.S. Department of Education's Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) list: Akan, Wolof, Mandinka, Igbo, Amharic, Oromo, Swahili, and Zulu.
- The oral narratives will be accessible for interactive use, not only passive listening. The project will develop a suite of web-based tools that allow scholars, teachers, and students to segment and annotate content in the repository. These new tools will empower users to work with and analyze digital media, as well as share and discuss findings with a community of users thereby creating alternative contexts and new insights for research projects and classrooms.
- The African Oral Narratives website will become a significant repository with a critical mass of oral narrative resources about Africa and in African languages to which scholars will be able to add new collections. The materials in this project are purposely selected for diversity of types of oral narrative collected by scholars in different disciplines, breadth of geographical coverage, and number of African languages in order to engage a wide range of scholars and attract new contributors.
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By David S. Broder
Thursday, September 13, 2007
BOSTON -- At the waterfront headquarters of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, the passage of Labor Day marked a major milestone in the candidate's long-standing strategy for winning the Republican nomination.
The former Massachusetts governor has approached the challenge of his dark-horse candidacy with the mind-set of a corporate turnaround specialist -- the work he did for years at Bain Capital. Thinking as a venture capitalist, he set specific goals and a timetable -- and so far, he is on track.
The main measures of that progress have been Romney's victory in the August straw vote in Ames, Iowa, and the polling leads he has established in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. The charts in his headquarters also measure the growth of organizational resources in Michigan, Nevada, South Carolina and Florida -- the other target states for Romney.
But several hours of conversation with the leaders of the Romney campaign left the impression that they have a clear understanding that larger challenges remain -- establishing his personal credibility against charges of flip-flopping and finding broader themes that might enable him to consolidate support as the field narrows.
The flip-flop issue arises from shifts that Romney has made between his earlier runs for the Senate and the governorship in liberal Massachusetts and his bid now for conservative support in the presidential primaries. These include changes in his positions on abortion, gay rights, immigration and other social issues.
Romney has responded to these challenges, and, as far as the polls are concerned, his rebuttals seem to have been effective. But no one at his headquarters thinks the credibility issue has been put to rest. His team expects to see tough ads on the flip-flops, which they assume may presage a major assault on his character. Because of the heavy spending he has done, much of it self-financed, they expect to hear the argument that Romney is so ambitious he will do anything to win.
It will be up to Romney to rebut such assertions by demonstrating that his convictions are real. Beyond that, his advisers see a need for him to set forth a vision of a Romney presidency that is broader and more comprehensive than anything voters have heard so far. It is significant to them that Romney's support in Iowa and New Hampshire has plateaued at 30 percent or so over the summer -- a good but not sufficient base.
One of his strategists with deep roots in New Hampshire told me that his sense is that Republican voters are depressed by the Democratic victories of 2006 and that they feel leaderless as the Bush administration limps through its final months and Republicans in Congress find themselves fending off challenges to their own credibility on Iraq and other issues.
"If anyone can provide a rallying point for the party -- give them something that offers hope of success -- that person can move quickly to the front," this adviser said. "But you have to find the message."
That is the main challenge that Romney -- along with the others -- faces. But he is now running from an advantageous position. He still trails well behind Rudy Giuliani in national polls, and newcomer Fred Thompson also is running ahead of him. But no one is close to Romney in Iowa polling, and no one has the grass-roots organization he built to win the straw vote. The New Hampshire race is closer, but the support in the state for both John McCain and Mike Huckabee means that Romney conceivably could win with a plurality well short of a majority.
No Republican in the modern era of contested nominations has won both of these early states, and the plausible belief in the Romney camp is that his doing so would have the effect of vaulting him into the lead nationally. As of now, those contests will be followed by Michigan, where Romney spent his boyhood and the Romney name is familiar, thanks to his father's service as governor. Then come South Carolina, where Romney's challenge is simply to exceed low expectations, and Florida, which in the Romney calculus could be decisive in setting the table for the Feb. 5 super-primary.
Many events could upset this scenario. But the methodical, business-like Romney campaign has had a clear strategy -- and, unlike Thompson, a stable, professional management team. For them, January -- not February -- is the decisive month.
In the end, everything rests on Romney himself -- and that is as it should be when the presidency is at stake.
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Slowing DownPosted: May 6, 2011 Filed under: Alignment, Balance, Control, Emotions, Foundation, Guilt, Presence, Strength | Tags: boundaries, choices, decisions, deliberate, failing, father, mistake, mother, obstacles, panic, rationally, reaction, stress, support Leave a comment
There is a lot to be said for being deliberate. For making decisions from a calm, collected place. So many times we (or at least I) make the most critical choices from a place of panic and stress and heightened emotion, whether it's warranted or not. But I've realized this: Aside from snap decisions made in an emergency, there's next to nothing that can't wait for you to gather yourself, consider, and then decide rationally.
I find that I can trust my instincts better if I first take some time to listen to them.
Most of the time when I just react, it turns out to be a mistake. We all have those moments etched in our mind, those situations we think back on and wish we'd waited — a day, an hour, even a second — before we acted a certain way or said a certain thing. There can be a lot of regret and guilt associated with reacting without thinking first.
My mother, a new widow, is feeling overwhelmed by all the things she's had to do since my father passed away, only about six weeks ago. All the paperwork, thank-you notes, visits to the social security office. Then there are the larger decisions she has yet to make, actions she has yet to take, such as packing up his things, deciding whether she'll move out of our house, deciding whether she'll move out of the Chicago area. She can't bring herself to go there yet, which I completely understand and support. She shouldn't, yet. But I do keep reminding her that even the littler things (like the thank-you notes) don't all need to happen right this minute.
Of course, the details keep her occupied, which obviously helps her right now, so there's that. But to address that overwhelmed-ness a bit, at least, I always suggest to her that she slow down and take her time.
This is easier said than done, I realize. I used to be horrible at it. I was one big ball of reaction. It wasn't always a total disaster, but I often felt like I hadn't reacted in the best way I could, or the way I truly wanted to. It takes practice to take the time you need — and to let others know you need it, sometimes. It's like learning to say no when you're a "yes" girl. Ultimately, though, creating these boundaries for yourself gives you the space to make the choices that are right for you, and you'll be more satisfied with the outcomes and even with your interactions.
This works on not completely critical moments too — on annoying little snafus, problems and disagreements that crop up in your daily activities. Recently a small setback in a project had me lying awake at night stressing out. I was trying to think of alternatives, and none of them seemed right. The issue wasn't a big deal, but it was sort of the icing on a project I'd worked hard on and that I'm proud of. I wanted it to be great, not just good enough.
There wasn't much I could do, so I didn't really do anything but stew a bit — and then it all worked out. A friend's brother had the solution, fixed the file, and just like that, the problem evaporated.
Sometimes, if you don't do anything, obstacles just give up on their own.
It's pretty great to think there's power in slowing things down, in taking time and space. In actually doing nothing. If you enjoy being in control, you could actually look at this as a way of maintaining control, instead of feeling out of control in your premature reaction. By doing nothing, you are doing something.
It's also a relief to realize you don't have to instantly know the right answer or have the right comeback or have an inside line on exactly which action is right. I used to consider it my own personal failing that I couldn't do that. But now I know I don't have to. Really, that I shouldn't.


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|This was the first game in the Kirby series to make use of motion controls. These controls were possible because the game pak itself contained a tiny motion-sensing device! This enabled a player to move Kirby by tilting his or her Game Boy Color system. Five minigames that also made use of these motion controls accompanied the main game."
|— Summary • Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition
Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble is a Kirby game for the Game Boy Color that was originally released in Japan on August 26, 2000 and was then later released on April 9, 2001 in North America. It was never released in PAL regions, likely due to the impending release of the Game Boy Advance.
The game uses a four-way tilt sensor allowing the user to "roll" Kirby by tilting the Game Boy Color. There was a cancelled sequel called Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble 2, which was planned for the Nintendo GameCube.
The game starts with Kirby napping on a cloud. He awakens as Waddle Dee is walking with a bumper. He then notices King Dedede walking by with a larger bumper. To find out what they are up to, Kirby jumps on the Warp Star only to find, once again, "A Dream Land without its stars." It is up to Kirby to get them back.
The game uses accelerometers to control Kirby. The goal is to guide Kirby to the finish by tilting the Game Boy in the direction where the player desires to move him. The game uses a "pop" action, when the player jerks the Game Boy vertically. This makes Kirby jerk up into the air, which transforms all on-screen enemies into stars. Popping a second time will turn the stars into clocks, and popping a third time will turn the clocks into Pep Brews.
There are also numerous stars in each of the levels. To play a sub-game (chosen by the player from a menu), Kirby must find a Blue Star and clear the stage. To complete the game 100%, the player must collect the Red Star in each stage. Clearing sub-games grants extra lives, which are saved to the game file unlike in most Kirby games.
The stages in Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble are littered with bumpers, pits, hills, and other hazards. As such, the player will often need to use careful movement and timing rather than brute force to succeed.
The tilt sensor of the cartridge can only register a simple binary input in one of four directions at a time. It is not as sensitive or advanced as the accelerometers used in later Game Boy Advance games with tilt-sensing cartridges, such as WarioWare: Twisted!. Thus, the degree that the system is tilted does not affect the speed at which Kirby rolls. However, the in-game physics of Kirby's movement are detailed and sensitive enough to compensate for this and give the illusion of greater responsiveness from the tilt sensor.
Playable Characters
- Blinkbat
- Blockbot
- Booler
- Bronto Burt
- Broom Hatter
- Cappy
- Cloud Cannon
- Co-Kracko
- Dekabu
- Flotzo
- God Hand
- Gordo
- Kabu
- Mr. Frosty
- Poppy Bros. Jr.
- Shotzo
- Snipper
- Squishy
- Starman
- Waddle Dee
- Waddle Doo
- Balloon
- Food
- Invincible Candy
- Key
- Maxim Tomato
- Microphone
- Pep Brew
- Stopwatch
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Treasure Chest
As with all Game Boy Color games, the Game Boy Advance can play it as well. Because the sensors are calibrated for the cartridge to be played upright, the Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Player have some problems. While they can both boot the game, the controls are reversed on the SP because the cartridge slot is on the bottom instead of the top. Since the sensors are inside the cartridge, the only way to play it on the Game Boy Player is to pick up and tilt the GameCube itself.
|Main article: Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble 2
Nintendo originally had plans to release a sequel to Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble on the GameCube, but it ended up being quietly cancelled.
|Main article: List of Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble Staff
- Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble and Kirby's Avalanche are currently the only games in the series that have an announcer announce the title on the title screen.
- While the names of the eight levels are never mentioned in-game, Volume 143 of Nintendo Power revealed the names of the first two: Big Sky Country and Tilt 'n' Tunnel.
- If the player remains on the title screen long enough, a stream of multi-colored moons and stars will beginning flowing. A small sprite of Kirby will appear as well. Tilting the Game Boy will change the direction and speed of the stream, allowing the player to blow Kirby around any direction he/she likes.
- If the player pauses the game and waits for a few seconds, Kirby will fall asleep. Shaking the Game Boy will awakening him and cause him to look around before he dozes off again.
- The game WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! contains a minigame called Tilt-n-Tumble, a reference to Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble.
- Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble was nearly rebranded as a Pokémon game in its releases outside of Japan.[3]
- One of the foods in the Japanese version of the game is onigiri which was changed to a hamburger in the North American version.
- This was the final title in the Kirby series to use the international "Kirby" logo that had been in place since Kirby's Dream Land; starting with Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, the series would use the "Kirby" logo that had originally been created for Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
- This is the last game to feature the Kirby design used in Kirby's Dream Course, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Block Ball, Kirby Super Star, and Kirby's Star Stacker.
- Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble is one of the five Kirby games that has never been released as a permanent digital download. The others are Kirby Air Ride, Kirby Slide, Kirby Super Star Ultra, and Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition.
- Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble and Kirby Mass Attack are the only games in the Kirby series where Kirby can be KO'd by drowning.
- Curiously, the cartridge for Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble contains a notch in the top-right corner identical to the ones seen in Game Boy-compatible cartridges, despite being a Game Boy Color-exclusive game. Most Game Boy Color exclusives lack the notch, which prevents the player from turning on a Game Boy when their cartridges are inserted (the Game Boy's power button is a slider that pushes out a plastic tab that fits into the notch present on a Game Boy-compatible cartridge). This oddity (likely the result of the cartridge repurposing plastic from original Game Boy cartridges) makes Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble the only Game Boy Color-exclusive game that can be booted up on an original Game Boy, though like all GBC exclusives, the game will not run via this configuration.
- Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, and Kirby Star Allies are the only games in the Kirby series to save the player's life count.
- The total number of enemies in Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble is 1,874.[4]
- Along with Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition , Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble is one of the only Kirby series games to be released in North America, but not Europe.
- In the options menu, the player can access the "Position" screen, during which they can roll Kirby across a screen of stars to unveil an image. These images include a space scene featuring Kirby flying a Warp Star, a pink screen filled with Kirbys, and two screens featuring Kirby's face, one winking and one angry. Once the final block is removed, a sound clip of Kirby saying "Hi" will play. Jumping will reset the screen of stars.
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See also
- Official Nintendo Japan page
- Koro Koro Puzzle Happy Panechu!
- WarioWare: Twisted!
- Yoshi's Universal Gravitation
External links
- ↑ Wikipedia (secondary reference)
- ↑ Super Smash Bros. Brawl Chronicle
- ↑ This total excludes enemies spawned by Kracko, as the number he produces can vary based on random happenstance and the player's speed at defeating him. Enemies found only in Extra Mode are also excluded.
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Pythagoras: His Life and Teachings
A Compendium of Classical Sources
by Thomas Stanley
Preface by Manly P. Hall
Introduction by Dr. Henry L. Drake
Edited by James Wasserman and J. Daniel Gunther
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An invaluable compendium of ancient sources on the life and teachings of Pythagoras—the Father of Philosophy and Founder of the Western Esoteric Tradition.
• This is the most complete compendium on Pythagoras from ancient, classical sources
• The 1687 edition by Stanley edition has been updated and rendered into readable English with modern spelling and a dictionary of technical terms
• Full scholarly apparatus of all Greek references, with Greek and Latin passages corrected and sourced
• The Preface by Manly Palmer Hall places the importance of Stanley and Pythagoras in context
• Dr. Henry L. Drake's Introduction provides a coherent overview of Pythagorean philosophy
The timeless brilliance of this exhaustive survey of the best classical writers of antiquity on Pythagoras was first published in 1687 in Thomas Stanley's massive tome, The History of Philosophy. It remains as contemporary today as it was over three hundred years ago.
The text of the 1687 book has been reset and modernized to make it more accessible to the modern reader. Spelling has been regularized, obsolete words not found in a modern dictionary have been replaced, and contemporary conventions of punctuation have been used.
Biographical sketches of Thomas Stanley and Pythagoras by Manly Palmer Hall, founder of the Philosophical Research Society, have been included, along with a profound overview of Pythagorean philosophy by Platonic scholar Dr. Henry L. Drake.
The extensive Greek language references throughout the text have been corrected and contextualized, and reset in a modern Greek font. Each quotation has been verified with the source document in Greek. An extensive annotated appendix of these classical sources is included. A complete bibliography details all the reference works utilized, and a small Glossary defines a number of terms, especially those from musical theory, which may be unfamiliar to the non-technical reader.
Author Information
Thomas Stanley (1625–1678) was the first English historian of philosophy. He gained distinction during his own lifetime as a poet and a translator.
Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) founded the Philosophical Research Society in 1934. He was a prolific author and lecturer, and remains a primary exponent of the Western Mystery Tradition.
Dr. Henry L. Drake (1906–1978), a close and loyal friend of Mr. Hall, served as vice-president of the Society for nearly three decades, in addition to editing a collection of Plato's complete works.
James Wasserman is the author of several books on esotericism, and is the editor of Secret Societies: Illuminati, Freemasons, and the French Revolution.
J. Daniel Gunther is the author of Initiation in the Aeon of the Child: The Inward Journey.


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An interesting conversation
I am the leader in the computer lab. It's quiet, the kids like it in there, and for the first few minutes we get to chat, before they tell me their choice of educational computer software they want to use for the 30 minutes they are present.
A few minutes later he got up and sat next to me at my computer. I turned to chat with him and it was like pulling teeth. He gave one word answers to the usual questions, "Did you have a nice Thanksgiving? Yes. Did you have a good day at school? Yes. Was there anything special you learned today you would like to share? No. I gave wait times, and nada. So we just sat quietly, giving him space to ponder his thoughts, work up his courage, or whatever was obviously on his mind to come out.
After a moment, he said that he really doesn't like it when his friends keep saying the world will end in 2012. He said that the Maya were a people that were either predicting a new phase of life and time, or that they were saying they themselves would be phased out as a people, was his interpretation. But the thought that the world was ending in 2012 was false. He said that one day recently he had to defend his point of view for a while in talking with a friend, even though his "throat hurt so bad it felt like a cat scratched it." He spoke for a while, and it was the longest I'd ever heard him talk. Eventually, when he wound down, I asked, "Do you think that the world will ever really end?"
"Sure, when Jesus comes," he replied.
Ah! I asked him to share with me his ideas on that. What ensued was the most balanced, theological, and confident conversation about the end times I'd ever had with anyone, adults included. He knew about the earth being melted in a fervent heat. He knew about the moment when satan is thrown into a gloomy dungeon with a chain. He knew that the tribulation will be horrific, and that after that Jesus comes back in glory "and all will see him." He knew about the rapture and that it could occur at any moment, "even before we finish this sentence, or years from now. You just don't know," he said.
I was proud of him. He was confident in the Lord's work, but impatient with those who turn to other predictions or philosophical structures. I wish the conversations I have with adults were this way. Most "Christians" I speak with never bring it up on their own. If I do, they invariably edge away, or change the subject. Most say they are scared, or that it is a scary subject. Many spout incorrect doctrine. One lady I spoke with was a holy roller, bible-thumping self-stated believer. When I mentioned the rapture, she said, "Oh, that's just a made-up doctrine from the 1800s." I showed her the 1st Thessalonians verses where Paul reveals the rapture doctrine, and she still wouldn't believe. Adults pollute their beliefs with personal wishes, refusals to study, and stubbornness. Children have an innocent belief, a pure belief. Perhaps this is what Jesus meant when he said:
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of Godlike a little child will never enter it."And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them." Mark 10:13-16
The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them." (Is 11:6)
This ten-year-old's steady and clear-eyed view of Jesus, the end time, false doctrine, and sin is something that should be expressed by every adult. But it is not. It's sad that many adult "Christians" are so weak and pale in their faith. Perhaps this is what Jesus meant when he said in Revelation 3:16 "So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth." These believers are not hot nor are they cold. They are lukewarm believers who will be discovered not to have been believers at all.
PS: I know there are detractors who will say, "That kid was forced to believe, it was shoved down his throat." But all children are under the tutelage of their parents. Their ideas and outlook into the world are through the lens of their parents: for good or for bad. Children who grow up liberal, on welfare, feminist, homosexual, Buddhist, Mormon, whatever, have learned it. But Christianity is the only truth where it is written: "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Prov 22:6). No matter what you are, your parents taught you, either by word or by deed. They "shoved it down your throat," as it were. The children are watching. What do YOU believe? How do you demonstrate it? Time is short. It may be as short as until the end of this sentence.


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My mother didn't see herself as a good mother.
It always surprised me.
She would marvel at, what she perceived as, my endless patience with the children (wow, what a difference of opinion that was… I've always found my lack of patience my worst failing as a mother).
I have always counted myself lucky to have two such incredible parents. I always knew, no matter what, they loved and supported me. What more could a child ask for?
My mother wasn't the type to sit down for hours and play dolls. What does that matter? She did spring for a hotel room so the birthday party that was ruined by cruel preteen girls could be salvaged at the only water slide in town. She sent me my childhood teddy bear in university when the boy I thought was the love of my life (what was his name again?) broke up with me. She dropped her suitcases after returning from a long trip to turn around a drive two and a half hours to rescue me when The Husband was away and I was so sick with pregnancy number two that I couldn't stand up, never mind care for Big Dude. I call that good mothering.
In fact, I call any mother who can raise kids who are secure in the knowledge that they are loved, good mothers.
I read an article today about how people think mothering was easier in the 70s. Parents could do the laundry while their kids walked to ballet class or soccer. Parenting was letting kids discover themselves while Mom took care of the rest. It's a pretty simplistic view. I am a parent and I'm not willing to claim any mother had it 'easier' than I do.
We all face challenges, whether it's my mother's lack of confidence or my friend's challenges balancing motherhood and working full-time. We all have successes and we all have failures. I'm simply looking to tip the scales in my favour.
I thought today, my first Mother's Day without one, would be really difficult. I had my sad moments and, when I dressed this morning, I consciously wore jewelry my mother had given me. What I realized as the day wore on was that I was carrying my mother with me, not in the jewellery that I wore, but in the woman that I am.
That is the success of my mother and that is the success of all mothers. Our children carry us with them, in their faults and in their shining moments. Lets cut ourselves some slack and take a moment today, when our family stop to celebrate us, to honour ourselves.
We are doing the best we can…. and that's enough.


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I am working with my portfolio and realized I have far too few everyday makeup looks. The reason is that I usually don't wear what normal people would call everyday makeup.
Anyway, I decided to do some everyday looks and chose some of them to use in my portfolio.
(Somehow I always manage to look pissed when I'm photographed from the right side of my face...)
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The first few weeks of January saw Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reshuffle his Shadow Cabinet, with the most relevant change being Jenny Chapman replacing Pat Glass as Shadow Childcare Minister.
The Alliance has scheduled meetings with the following parliamentarians on 1st March 2016. Photos and summaries of the meetings will be available on the Alliance's website shortly afterwards. These meetings will help enable the Alliance to deliver parliamentary activity including tabling written and oral parliamentary questions, initiating and contributing to debates, and organising events.
Labour MP Jenny Chapman (Shadow Childcare Minister)
Liberal Democrat MP Mark Williams (Secretary/Treasurer, Dairy APPG)
Crossbench peer Baroness Masham of Ilton (Co-Chair, Health APPG; Secretary, Primary Care and Public Heath)
The Alliance has further meetings agreed in principle with five other parliamentarians, and will work to set up dates over the next few weeks, as well as arrange meetings with additional parliamentarians.
Shadow Public Health Minister Andrew Gwynne has also received a response to his written question
the Health Secretary how many portions of milk have been reimbursed by the Department of Health under the Nursery Milk Scheme in each month of the last 10 years. Public Health Minister Jane Ellison subsequently provided the figures since January 2009.
Following an approach by the Alliance to table an oral question, Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen has offered to table a written question on the European School Milk Scheme.
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PORTLAND — In advance of Memorial Day, which is May 27, Portland will be the site of a screening of a 2010 documentary about how a small Maine town coped with the impact of the Iraq War.
Lee, a town of 845 people about 60 miles north of Bangor, was home to two soldiers killed in 2007 while serving in Iraq. With the deaths of Blair Emery and Joel House, the town became the smallest community in the country to lose two residents in the war, according to a press release.
The film explores the way other Lee residents, with different opinions on the war, came to terms with the loss of Emery and House.
The screening is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, at 6 p.m., at One Longfellow Square. Admission is free, but donations are suggested.
Coordinated by the Portland chapter of the Maine Military and Community Network, the screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Cumberland County veterans of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Vietnam, and World War II.
The Maine Military and Community Network is a nonprofit collaborative serving veterans and their families, and that includes the Portland Vet Center, Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Preble Street Resource Center, the University of Southern Maine and other members.


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Mankind's identity crisis
By Michael Moriarty
I've had a few of my own … identity crises, I mean … but I've been an actor all my life, so what do you expect? It is one of the proclivities of my trade.
However, that the whole human race has yet to make up its mind?!
Well … let me describe it … mankind's identity crisis, as I see it now. Man, as one totality, has three major personalities within it, three that dominate all the other isolated and relatively smaller identities, such as Buddhism and Hinduism … even atheism seems to have been dwarfed by the Big Three Conglomerates, which are: the old-fashioned, rusty and by now rather battered Judeo-Christian civilization, Islam and the Progressive trinity of Liberalism, Communism and Eugenics.
The last conglomerate, of course, is the newest and, for me at least, the most complicated. The Progressive Identity will also, I believe, prove to be, despite its containing the newest of man's self-images, the most complicated and intellectual of the Big Three and the one brimming over with Renaissance pretensions, i. e. Bill Clinton's Renaissance weekends. The Progressive Renaissance … in Progressive words, at any rate, will prove to be the underlying inspiration for not just two of man's world wars, but … yes … the root cause of the three world wars we are so inevitably destined to have engaged in.
Islam, that other third major identity, will be an initial cause of World War III - rather like Japan kicked the US into World War II - but the Progressive marriage of liberals and Communists will match Nazi Germany's alliance with fascist Italy and, as with World War II, the underlying horror of World War III will be, as Winston Churchill described it, the "perverse science" of eugenics. Yes, Liberalism, Communism and their inevitably shared religion of Eugenics will rise within the next 10 years to challenge its former ally, Islam, and attempt to destroy Judeo-Christian civilization with even more than atomic bombs.
Progressive Christianity, most blatantly led by William and Hillary Clinton, will have both Communist China and Vladimir Putin's increasingly Red Russia falling into line behind them and their Progress.
The best way for the Communists to invade their enemy, the United States of America, is by letting the so-called Progressive, New or Neo-Americans lead the attack from within, to provoke an American identity crisis ... John F. Kennedy's assassination might mark the beginning of such a strategy.
However, for all of Mankind, the ultimate choice is between the three fates and acts of faith: Islamic tyranny, Eugenics and the building of the superhuman race, or the culmination of Judeo-Christian prophecy, Armageddon and a Second Coming … of some sort.
A few who have met William Clinton have called him, in addition to "Slick Willy," one of his local nicknames in Arkansas where he no longer lives ... figures ... have described him as "Messianic", meaning he may very well think of himself as the Second Coming of Christ.
Hmmm … Our Lord as a Progressive Baptist.
Former President Clinton has already been recognized by the establishment press as "one of", if not "The Most Influential Man In The World."
The "Revelations" chapter of the Bible, however, ironically prophecies "the evil one" … appearing in his third and final form … as a "Preacher".
This Biblical legend appealed to the movie superstar, Clint Eastwood. He chose to make a hero out of the "Preacher" of Revelations in his film, Pale Rider … hmmm … well … many of his heroes, beginning with those in the Spaghetti Westerns, have some torrid, evil past to them ... but the Apocalyptic future as well?
Now, the Prodigal Son is a hero with a sordid past … I can buy that, but … the Preacher of Revelations as a hero? Well, I am just not Progressive enough … even though I played the Preacher's sidekick in the Eastwood film Pale Rider … saved his life, too! It's one of the patronizing privileges of being no more than a supporting actor.
Oh well … Darth Vader, the villain of Star Wars turned out to be the father of Han Solo … so … we've just got the devil in us … and Clint Eastwood and George Lucas are here to remind us of that … lest we ride off on some white horse again to save the South Vietnamese.
However, we're off again now, saving the Iraqis … and, of course, the Progressive Americans are spitting in disgust … at the hell of our American Romanticism, our good intentions, right?
There really were no good intentions involved.
We needed oil … still do.
Saudi Arabia provided 1/3 of our supply … and to protect our Saudi dealers, we just had to take out Saddam Hussein who had obviously Hitlerian designs on Iran, Saudi Arabia … and any other oil bearing corner of the Middle East. So, apparently some part of Islam put business before religion and helped wipe out Saddam Hussein.
Islam hasn't lifted a finger, however, to help capture Osama bin Laden. That obvious oversight still keeps most Islamics in the mix, so to speak, as the Imperial, Kamikazee Japanese of this World War III.
The Progressive Trinity, however, with Senator and Mr. Clinton as its leaders, are certain of ending the Judeo-Christian hegemony … as we know it … or knew it … so battered and almost unrecognizably bruised it is.
So, with the obviously Progressive Preacher of Revelations, such as the Pale Rider of Clint Eastwood's movie script, or with the "Evangelist" of Bill Clinton (at least that's how Rev. Billy Graham paid descriptive tribute to the former President … called him an "Evangelist" ... in Yankee Stadium!) ... oh, well ... what was considered evil by the Judeo-Christian civilization of the Bible is now the essence of heroism for the Progressive future. With such a Progressive point of view, is it any wonder that America now resembles a cocaine and oil addicted mob stumbling to its own slaughter at the hands of its own ruthlessly Progressive American leadership?
Within all of Mankind's identity crises, America's personal one began with the assassination of J.F.K., descended further to the level of an American President, Richard Nixon, and his paying tribute to a butcher named Mao Tse Tung and finally in 1973, reached its nadir with the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court's Roe V. Wade Decision, in direct defiance of the human rights paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
Following those three Progressive surrenders to "Progressive Reality" by mainly Progressive Republicans, like Henry A. Kissinger, America, of all the former Judeo-Christian nations, had utterly lost her identity.
Without an authentic America to lead it, the Judeo-Christian Civilization is, in the ranks of Mankind's three major identities, the most threatened.
We do have our Judeo-Christian culture's faith in Biblical prophecy, but the human rights paragraph of the Declaration of Independence has again not been enforced. Our American, "inalienable right to life" was denied us by the Progressive Supreme Court, in the same way the 19th Century Taney Supreme Court denied Dredd Scott his freedom and American equality.
However, between American history's Civil War record of justice-seeking, and the millenniums-old, prophetic nature of our Bible, the other, self-serving, self-images of Mankind - Islam's vow to destroy us and the Progressive Trinity of Liberalism, Communism and Eugenics - those two will not survive Mankind's eventual contempt for such diabolically neurotic false religions and identities.
Man's oldest, major identity, its Judeo-Christianity, will remain its oldest guiding light to eternity. In other words, Islam and the Progressive Trinity will fade into the past and be branded as Man's last, major love affairs with Evil.
Michael Moriarty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor who starred in the landmark television series Law and Order from 1990 to 1994. His recent film and TV credits include The Yellow Wallpaper, 12 Hours to Live, Santa Baby and Deadly Skies. Moriarty is also running for President of the United States in 2008 as a candidate for the Realists Party. To find out more about Moriarty's presidential campaign, contact email@example.com.


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If you're like most of those (us) who celebrate St. Patrick's Day each year, then you have to know that no such holiday event is complete without a wee bit 'o cake to top off the festivities. (We hear cake is the perfect antidote to a little too much green beer!) Shown here is a simple white sheet cake – with our amazingly delicious whipped cream icing, in the obligatory green and white colors of Irish tradition. A simple border, a scattering of clovers, and a "Happy St. Patrick's Day" greeting piped on top – and you have all the makings to slice, serve, eat – and grab your next shamrock shake!


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Japanese Domestic Market or JDM is used to describe cars and their spare parts imported from Japan. JDM engines in Japan are built to use a certain petrol octane, different from the engines built for United states. Despite that, car spare parts are imported from Japan to the USA and work just fine. We are going to discuss JDM engines sales in the USA.
Spare parts importation rate from one of Asia's most developed nations and world top car maker, Japan has risen. The main reason for this is the high demand from car owners and dealers from the US. Also, it's important to note that cars in Japan undergo inspection which determines cars' worth and if it's appropriate for Japanese roads. The inspection is known as Shaken and can reduce a vehicle's value. The older the vehicle, the more Shaken standards demand in cost. Moreover, Japanese car owners dislike car repairing because auto mechanics charge much. If a Japanese car fails to meet the standards, it is prevented from using Japanese roads. The result to selling the cars or their spares to other countries.
JDM engines have low mileage, compared to the ones in the US. In the United States, there are wider roads, car speeding, and restricted traffic unlike Japan which has an unfriendly environment for car owners. The highest mileage of a car from japan is 65,000 miles. That's means they have a long life left. Even though most USA and Japan engine version are identical, they have different displacement size and therefore need some changes to work properly. The fact that JDM engines have low mileages has amazed American car owners.
Several companies have risen with a purpose to supply JDM engines to the USA. Some of them import complete harnesses attached to motors. There are also auto garages that are more knowledgeable about japan engines and ensure you use original accessories and the right engine management system. Therefore it is less hassle to install JDM engines in US cars.