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Welcome to the Raw Honey stall.
Raw Honey is a small family apiary business located in North-Eastern Victoria. We are dedicated to producing quality cold extracted pure honey varieties, among the best in Australia.
To offer you our wide selection of honey varieties we are constantly moving our beehives from forest to forest, across Victoria, chasing the nectar of many different eucalypts, fruit trees and ground floras.
Please browse through our stall to see what varieties we currently have on offer. As the seasons progress and new varieties of honey are produced, we will make them available to you through our stall.
We pride ourselves for being able to offer our customers a quality Victorian product direct from the beekeeper, in fact almost all of our sales are made this way. Each weekend we travel with our honey stall to regional and metropolitan Farmers' and Community markets. We love meeting our customers face-to-face, answering all of their 'bee' related questions and offering a variety of free honey tastings. Of course we also understand that not everyone can make it along to the markets and are excited to now be operating our online store, direct from us, the Raw Honey beekeepers, to you, everyday day of the week, here at Farmhouse Direct.
Read more about Raw Honey on the "meet the producer" page
Please Note: Due to Australian quarantine restrictions we are unable to send to WA or Kangaroo Island.
Every effort will be made to have your parcel in the post on the following business day after receiving your order. In peak beekeeping season this however can be a challenge for us and we will post your parcel as soon as we can. Thank you for your understanding.
Unfortunately due to Australian quarantine restrictions we are unable to send to WA or Kangaroo Island.


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I have been eating lunch with a friend and her gang of sophomores since the beginning of the school year and unfortunately I have developed a crush on one of the girls. This girl is the daughter of one of my teachers and the sister of a bisexual girl who I was attracted to. I've been debating whether or not to ask about her sexual orientation because everyone knows that I'm bi but I'm almost positive that the entire group is straight. Ug. Of course, if I did ask and she said that she was straight I would know but if she isn't then am I allowed to date the daughter of my teacher? Would she allow it? And if she isn't straight then wouldn't she probably have already told me? I don't know, I was talking with her and a guy who I'm sort of becoming friends with but who is friends with the girl about being bi and he spoke up saying that he would like to be bi but he was unfortunately straight but she didn't say anything. I should stop analyzing this but its my first sign of hope in a very long time.
Well, if her sister is bisexual then she probably won't mind being ASKED! At the very least, she would be bothered, but unless she hates her own flesh and blood...
I don't think the teacher would have a problem and couldn't verbalize it without running into lots of prejudice/homophobia problems if it got spun that way by a potential lawyer.
At least you've got friendlies, keep it up and have a dandy day/night =)
You're Amazing.

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Tags Money and BanksCapital and Interest TheoryValue and Exchange
I am tired of hearing economists argue that government and the Fed should expand credit for the good of the economy. Sometimes an analogy clarifies a subject, so let's try one. It may sound crazy, but suppose the government were to decide that the health of the nation depends upon producing Jaguar automobiles and providing them to as many people as possible, writes Robert R. Prechter, Jr.
This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy Lilley.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
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Now Accepting CSes
((Note: I am an arrogant fucktard.))
Blood runs thin and Will has faded. Purity has been lost, powers weakened and our once noble and aristocratic taste has been pulled down to the pitiful level of addiction. Many of our weaknesses have disappeared, garlic no longer offends us as it did before, we can freely move through estate, religious or not and the once terrible sun is now a welcome feeling across our lifeless flesh. But today, we suffer more terribly then any other time. Our thirst is insatiable, the craving mind-consuming. The slightest speck of blood sends ours into a wild frenzy and one by one our kin fall victim to the desire.
And then, with none of our former powers, the weakened are immediately captured by the humans, branded as insane and locked up forever to suffer the pain of starvation. Though, we no longer need the blood, to go a week without it is an existence similar to Hell.
So as generations come and go, the blood runs thinner and the addiction grows stronger. The Need becomes all the greater and the Will becomes all the weaker. So those born with the Need are instantly damned, labeled as dead at birth, for they have entered a pitiful existence where pain is made certain of.
Yet no one can bear to continue on through life or unlife without some sort of faint hope. So an ancient tale was revived, a story long-forgotten. A story that told of love, romance, sacrifice and hope, uncommon among vampires, yet the story claimed to be true and ended with a short poem to inspire its numerous readers:
"Search, young vampir, with such serious haste,
Find your truest of love whilst you remain chaste.
Do so before the time of your eighteenth Night,
To once again become a part of the Light."
The Lowdown
The times of epic battles between vampires and humans are over. Forgotten and discarded as myths and playthings for the occult. But vampires exist, that is an undeniable fact. However, vampire blood has mixed with human and a true vampire is only a God-like figure to lesser ones, described as omnipotent, yet nearly nonexistent. So, with the strange half-breed blood that nearly all vampires carry they have fallen into a completely normal life accompanied only by a terrible ache for blood and the Love that would free them from it.
Thus, most of the ill-bred vampires enroll themselves at school searching for True Love and Escape.
One school in particular in fact. Gakkan Urayasu High School. And you are a 15-year old student, coming closer and closer to graduation and your eighteenth birthday.
Character Details
Concerning the characters that you can make, there are many more possibilities you have then I have actually implied from the introduction.
To put it simply, you don't HAVE to be a vampire or even a vampire with the Need. The reason that vampires are now so weak is because of interbreeding between humans and as repeatedly said before, the vampire bloodline has become thinner and thinner. In other words, this is evolution in process. Human genes are dominant while vampire genes are recessive. The only thing vampire that still remains in the "vampires" of today is the wholly unnecessary, but constant need for blood (and I suppose the ability to actually gain proper nourishment from the blood, rather then if a human were to drink it and simply feel exhausted). It is more or less the most basic of all vampire instincts and it has remained in the bloodline for generations. But as said before, this is evolution in progress and some (a few, concerning the Players a maximum of two/three) have different genetic traits, possibly pulling them away from the addiction. If you want you could also have other genetic traits, but this is only for human/vampire hybrids, full humans will have no genetic mutations.
Speaking of humans, some will be completely normal, clueless to any blood-drinking night creatures, others however, can be part of a small, but international organization designed to hunt down these weakened vampires. The 21st Reincarnation of the Hunters. A secret and loosely-organized system of Hunters, based more around the age-old family business usually relating to the occult. Agents or Hunters receive little to no formal instruction, but their family is usually their primary teachers in the techniques of vampire-slaying. And because most vampires have basically been "watered down", most Agents/Hunters do not expect to ever find a vampire and if they did, they wouldn't be very sure on how to eliminate them. For while their family may have taught them how to spot a 21st century vampire (still can't cross open water, anxious at the sight of blood and retain a natural fear of the Church (yet aren't harmed by it in anyway)), these Hunters have little to no idea how to kill one effectively. To be more exact, vampires nowadays usually die in the exact same way as a human would. Shoot them with a gun like you would a human, or stab them or whatever, it would all be as equally fatal. Finally, Agents usually don't know they've even been labeled as Agents. The 21st Reincarnation of the Hunters puts all the heirs to a family of former vampire hunters down on their list as Agents, but most of the time, these children forget or ignore the tales of their parents or grandparents and live a normal life. But that's not saying they don't leave an impression.
Blood-Drinking Specifics
For Vampires as well as Hunters, blood-drinking is a much learned art. For vampires, the blood of any sort of random (but still living) animal every two/three days is enough for them to continue on through life while maintaining control. Four to six days is a painful ordeal to undergo through and most vampires break under the strain. A full week drives a vampire mad, making them absolutely obsessed with anything that is relatively crimson.
A friendly reminder, if a vampire sees human blood, impulses may take them over. For a vampire, human blood is the most exotic and delicious beverage in the world. Drinking human blood from a still-breathing human is not only thirst-quenching, but sexually arousing. In simpler terms, drinking human blood is sex times nine. So while human blood is most definitely NOT required, ALL vampires (genetically mutated or not) have a strong attraction to blood. If they see it, they WILL feel extremely tempted to drink it.
For those unsure as to why a vampire without the Need would still want to drink blood, it's because doing so is still so pleasurable for them. Not having the Need means that they no longer NEED to drink blood, they can drink blood whenever they please, once every year or every day or never at all, it's all perfectly all right with them. They just still have the attraction to it.
RP Explanation
In very, very, very simple terms, this RP is a school romance anime. The story shall progress through "episodes", each with their own episodic plots introduced by Fell (my Co-GM) and I. The rest of the "episode" will mostly be your reactions and actions to this conflict that the GM and Co-GM have thrown at you. Although truthfully, for the very first episode I don't think we'll have much for you to do with. It'll mostly be you guys introducing yourselves into the story.
Of course, I could be wrong or lying, who knows?
Anyways, remember your interaction between other characters is extremely important, but do not always worry about them. This RP should be more of a story then an actual RP. In fact, don't even think of it as an RP, think of it as an Anime with individually controlled characters.
Also, the RPing shall mostly occur at the very beginning of class, whatever breaks are available and after class. There shall be virtually no in-class RPing unless Fell or I purposely put something during class for everyone to goggle at.
For convenience's sake, I think that everyone should be in the same class. Hopefully, but I am still unsure about it, I also think that everyone should be apart of the Occult/Something Club.
Something like that. But I'm still not sure about it.
Character Sheet
Name: (Japanese name, or if you want to be one of those "omg cool, foreign exhange student kawaifwiaiiii" go ahead. But I'm only letting one or two in at most.)
Age: (14-15, you're all freshman)
Gender: (Accepting nearly anything for this category.)
Sexual Preference: (Whichever way you go, all of them lead to true love. *wipes tears from eyes* It's so beautiful, no? Just don't make it into something like beastiality. Then there'd be little point to this whole thing.)
Personality: (This is probably the most important part of the CS. Don't disappoint me.)
Appearance: (Probably second most important.)
Pet Peeves:
PM me regarding your status as a human/vampire/hunter. Do not make it obvious through your actions in the actual RP.
If you are a Vampire with genetic mutations, PM me about that as well. If you are a hunter, PM me about your character's knowledge/abilities/whatever. Remember they will NOT have any supernatural mumbo jumbo. And finally, if you are human, PM me regarding your character's interest in the occult (or perhaps they have none, but just want to be close to a certain someone?).
(Unless you make a pretty damn good case for it.)
It's all a bunch of maybes regarding that, though.
Accepted characters
This is going up on the first page, but to make you all see it, here it is as well.
Hiyama, Enjou - Sentios -Preference: Straight (probably)
The eccentric pyromaniac with a hint of crazy! pic
Nakamura Minato - Imenak -Preference: Straight.... ish
Class Clown with a taste for blood! pic
Ashton aileron - Mathias -Preference: Straight...also ish
The shy socially awkward kid who wants everyone to like him. pic
Romanoph D. Alphonse - Ro Wong -Preference: Straight
Unsubtly mysterious genius calculator boy! pic
Ginn Lekai - Zath -Preference : Bi
Cheery bisexual prankster with a bad temper pic
Sanpeita Ikuto - Mastermind001 -Preference: Straight
Awesome! We finally have someone willing to take on the role of pervert! pic
Okita Yoshimitsu - BG07 Preference: Sadist (everyone carry a tazer)
Sociopath Delinquents! Everyone call him a Yakuza cause he looks like one! pic
Seth Fisher - BG07 Preference: straight
"American Bad Boy" with a tender side! pic
Seiji Rei - Elend-X Preference: Bi. . . I think.
The Angelic Bishie that is actually EVIL, GASP! pic
Kaede Kira - CascadePreference: Straight
The stoic hick! pic
Maki Yoshida - WazitPreference: Straight... or something
The withdrawn geek with a fiery passion for science! pic
Chandrakant Dej - Lyca Preference: Straight
The Earnest Protagonist with a Heart of Gold and the Lion's Courage! Plus, he's Indian. And single, ladies... pic
Steve Clements - Tuor Preference: Straight
He's an eased-up chilled-out foreigner kid with a smoking habit and a voice in his head! pic
Sagara Hiroki - RuffDraft Preference: Straight
A bit thick-headed, a guy with a deep sense of justice and willing to fight for it.
Midori Kai - Kemious Preference: Bisexual
Weirdo kid with the pet squirrel and just spends all day listening to people.
Miyamoto Mamoru - Amuyo Preference: Pansexual (lolwut)
The Daydreamer, is he stupid or what? O look, food!
Abeno Mikayo - Aneri -preference: Bi
Gymnastic, sarcastic, athletic, all fantastic! A regular rough and tough tomboy! pic pic2
Wattan, Haruna - Sam4books -Preference: Straight
Shy hippy looking for some lovin'! pic
Ginn Teri - Zath -Preference: Straight
Your Friendly Neighborhood Nosy Wannabe Detective Girl! pic
Takeda Hikari - Hana -Preference: Straight
No-nonsense, nun-in-training traditional Japanese prude girl! pic
Nagakura Chizu - Aura -Preference: Straight
Determined, straight-forward, friendly, but still... delicate! pic
Morita "Yasumo" Yasu - Deena -Preference: 2D
The Otaku Fangirl Photographer!
Takai Itsuki - Jay Preferenc: Bi?
YAAAAAAANKEEEEEEEEE. 'Nuff said. pic
Kurosawa Yuriko - Imenak Preference: straight
The "popular/snobby rich girl/bully type character." pic
Ukita Sasayaki (Kaiteki Yume "pleasant Dream") - Hana Preference: Straight
A METHOD ACTRESS IDOL?! Is she really as nice as she seems OR IS IT ALL JUST AN ACT? pic
Kita Sumire - Berry-tan Preference: Straight
Aloof, distant and fork-tongued. Ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances!
Ankoku Sora - Aura Preference: Bi
Straightforward, popular, laidback, cunning, likes the easy win, off-putting to strangers, close with her friends, hard to open up, and etc. etc.
Sasaki "Ri-Ri" Rieko - GnSz Preference: Bi
A cheery rocking tomboyish girl with some emotional baggage!
Hiroyuki Kumi - Deathmaster Forse Preference: Bi
Mad scientist girl, hyped up on caffeine, daring to do the insane and possibly stupid!
Nakashima Ichigo - Yumeko Preference: Bi
The spunky ADD party-girl with a sharp tongue and a quick kick.
Rika Aizawa Preference: A MYSTERY!!
The adorable bookworm girl with a fetis- I mean interest in Vampires
Boys: 13
Girls: 14
Edit: New rule, if you become a lovey-dovey pair, post so in the thread so I can mark it down.
Lovey-dovey Couples:
None yet.
Awesome Enuma Elish Art:
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The Story So Far:
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Monday, April 28, 2014
DURHAM — The Lodging Executives Sentiment Index, or LESI, for the current period ending March 2014 dropped to 70.8 from 75.0 in February 2014. Overall the lodging executives' sentiment for Present and Future Business Conditions declined during this current period. This is the third straight decline in lodging executive sentiment.
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By Rob Scott
MEDFORD, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Forestry says fire season will begin on Wednesday. This year's start to fire season is later than usual, but officials warn to not take it lightly. Crews have already responded to several grass fires, which is one of the factors they take into account when calling the start of the season.
ODF will be raising the fire danger level from low to moderate when fire season begins Wednesday, but officials with ODF expect a slow start because of Southern Oregon's cool spring. The announcement of fire season beginning this week comes the same day as military veterans arrived in Medford to begin training to become firefighters for the Bureau of Land Management.
The start of fire season means that burn piles and backyard burns will be restricted as well as many other restrictions, listed on the ODF website. But with less than 48 hours until those limitations go into effect, officials say this is the time to make sure your home is protected.
ODF fire crews say August and September could still have significant fire activity. They expect this fire season to wrap up in early October. This July will mark the ten-year anniversary of the Biscuit Fire, which burned half a million acres in the Siskiyou National Forest.


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Dedicated to: Margaret Quinn Orloske & the Victim's of September 11th
Type of Memorial: Teaching Garden
Location: Historic Deerfield Museum
Address: PO Box 321
City: Deerfield
State: Massachusetts
Country: United States
Open to Public: Yes
Description: The Cooks Garden is a recreation of an 18th century kitchen garden which is used as part of Historic Deerfields educational programs in open hearth cooking and gardening. Located behind Hall Tavern, the Garden was dedicated on June 11, 2006 and is supported by the Margaret Quinn Orloske Fund; an endowment at Historic Deerfield providing ongoing support for Historic Deerfields Open Hearth Cooking Program and the Cook's Garden upkeep.
More Information: Cook's Garden Dedication Historic Deerfield June 11, 2006 Life is connected. In all of its manifestations, it is connected across space and time. This place, Historic Deerfield, is a celebration of those connections. It connects us with our history, it connects us with our ancestors, and it connects us with ourselves and each other by connecting us with who we were and where we came from. It was those connections that so fascinated Margaret, my wife, Stephens Mother, Sylvias and Eds Daughter, and friend and family member of many here today. She so loved our 17th and 18th Century American History. She studied it in college and she lived it at home in our recreated 18th century world in Settlement Hill. She brought us often to Historic Deerfield so we could learn more and deepen our connection with our past. It is so fitting that we are here today to officially open the Cook's Garden and dedicate it to Margarets memory and the memory of the souls of the nearly 3000 people that were killed with her on September 11, 2001. This Garden and supporting of the Open Hearth Cooking Program in Cooks Tavern, are fitting memorials to her. Fitting not only because gardening, and hearth cooking, were among Margarets passions, but also because it will provide something that Margaret provided to everyone around her. The Garden will connect us. It will connect visitors with those that lived before us, as it teaches them how gardens were part of their lives as they are with so many of us today. It will connect visitors to how our ancestors used the various plants to enhance their foods, dye their clothes and treated their illnesses. It will connect visitors with the land, a connection that was the foundation of this historic place and in a global sense is the foundation of all life on our planet. It will connect visitors with the rhythms of the seasons and the renewal of life from year to year, from decade to decade, from century to century as they come back to visit Historic Deerfield to see how the garden is doing. There is an old Swedish Proverb I think is appropriate, not only because Margaret was half Swedish but because it speaks to a key practice Margaret used in her gardening and her life. Go often to the home of a friend; For weeds soon choke up the unused path. Shared joy is a doubled joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. My hope is that people will come home to this garden, often and regularly in the years to come. Come home to a place that connects them with their history and the people that were part of it. Come home to a place that connects them with the life-giving and renewing earth on which we all depend. Come home to a place that connects them with the rhythms of life were they can learn about who we are by learning where they came from. Come home to a place were they can connect with those who share common interests, in our roots, in our history, in our connections with each other. And I hope that when they are here, visiting this garden, they might notice the dedication plaque, and also remember the people who were killed that bright September morning, who are all now part of our collective histories. I hope that they might remember that those 3000 lives made such a difference in the lives of so many around them, as our ancestors did here over 300 years ago. I hope they get a sense of the connections that bind us all, as we create our future on the foundations they have built for us. On behalf of my family and the many friends of Margaret, I want to that thank all of the people from Historic Deerfield for making this project possible. Philip Zea, Ann Lanning, Bill Flynt and Pat Ford-Yurkanus for their leadership and support. Don Friery, Phils predecessor, for suggesting the idea of establishing the Fund. I especially want to thank the many volunteers that have put in countless hours of work to plan, build and plant the garden and present this event today. In particular I want to thank David Dye and John Howell for their contributions in constructing the Garden; and Barbara Hoadley and the Open Hearth Cooks for not only preparing the refreshments we enjoy this afternoon, but also for creating the original Cooks Garden which inspirited our new Garden. And finally I want to thank my sister Anita McGraw whose research for and design of the 18th century garden she and her husband Bob installed at the Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park in Tazewell Virginia, provided the foundation on which the design of the Cook's Garden was based. I know Margaret would be pleased that the contributions of her friends and family and the work of those here at Historic Deerfield will enable her to be remembered in this place and in this way, and continue to contribute to others the gift she gave to others all of her life. Making connections. Thank you all for coming today. Margaret would have been pleased.
Contact: Anne D. Lanning, Vice President for Museum Affairs
Web Site: www.historic-deerfield.org


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Williams FW29 - front wing update 08 April 2007
Sepang's long straights and medium to low-speed corners makes finding a compromise between straight-line speed and downforce difficult. Cars are prone to slide sideways here and you need enough downforce to keep the car on the track. Williams have adopted a high downforce configuration for their front wing. The rearmost flap of the FW29's dual-flap assembly sports a pointy extension to its central section either side of the nose cone (large red arrow). In another change, the additional curved profile, adopted since China last year (small red arrow), now features wider elements (thin red line) to increase the downforce generated.


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Let roses become dormant during winterThursday, January 10th, 2013 Issue 02, Volume 17.
Because roses like moist, but not wet soil, reduce the amount of water applied if the area receives more than one inch of rain. I cannot stress enough the importance of "deep watering." The length of time needed for this depends on several factors: the amount of pressure in the system, amount of delivery by emitter, run time, and type of soil. At this time, do not fertilize anymore. Also, while the weather is relatively comfortable, clean up garden debris (such as dead leaves and petals); this will reduce the population of winter pests and give a jump on spring, as well as a healthier garden next year. January is a good time to prepare for new plants that you plan to purchase this month. As winter progresses, the rose will slow down its metabolism, taking a rest. Let the hips set on the bush and remove only the blossom petals to help keep your garden clean and free from any viruses that may come along with the cooler, wetter winter weather. Do not prune this month. Let the plant enter into a short dormant period. It is the natural cycle of active growing healthy plants reaching their ultimate purpose of producing offspring: seeds in hips. They need a rest from all the work they did all year long. Pruning is a way of forcing a plant to produce new foliage and become active. There is still more winter to come with frost in the region through the months of February and March. The new tender foliage can be frozen and lessen the plants ability to recover for great performance next year. Sit back, relax, and enjoy anticipating all the pleasure your roses will give you next spring! Frank Brines is a consulting rosarian with the Temecula Valley Rose Society. 0 comments Be the first to share your opinion on this article!
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The site has gone through a redesign since our last visit and I do find that it looks better. You can now browse the entire network as a whole and select individual sites. On the downside navigation-wise, I could only jump ahead 8-9 pages at a time. This isn't a problem for sites with a small amount, but for those with lots of pages it meant more clicking to get to all the middle pages (at least there is the option to skip right to the last page).
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quote:Boy Bama fans sure get on a defensive mode when saban's name comes up for other jobs. Bottom line is he ant gonna stay too much longer. That you can take to the bank. His work is done and will need another challange!!!
quote:Wife hates Tuscaloosa
quote:Honest question - if Bama loses to Georgia this weekend and drops down to a non BCS bowl, does that change your perception of Saban leaving? Just curious.
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quote:Will LSU fans stop obsessing about Saban leaving Alabama?
quote:Saban is not going anywhere... Why should he... Texas could offer $12 million, but he is set at Bama.
quote:If Texas offered that he'd ask bama to match. They wouldn't.
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quote:Let's map out the Pros and Cons for him. Pro's: Double the cash Could bring Big 12 back to glory Could bring Tejas back to glory Bored with BAMA 3 NC's in last 4 years. Wife hated baton rouge


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What made me think of this topic was another discussion that has been going on here about white males.
Here's my opinion; We as white males, specifically who live in the United States, are in the highest position of power and more importantly comfort than any other group or demographic definitely in the country and arguably in the world. We rarely feel discomfort or to put it more succinctly, we rarely feel the discomfort of the "other". The discomfort of the woman or the person of color or the immigrant are three that stick out in my mind. I'm sure there are others. We do not get looked at differently because of our skin or or body type or the way we dress. We are not judged because of these attributes or characteristics. We rarely feel the wrath of stereotyping we so often put on others. So when we hear anger from persons of color, immigrants or women, instead of reacting, we need to step back and listen. The burden is on us. Whether we like it or not, racism and misogyny is very much built into our society and we need to take the responsibility to deal with it more than any other group.
So for all white males out there, I challenge you, think before you react. Take the role of the other. Most importantnly, put yourself in situations of discomfort as much as possible. Attend an event that you are the minority, not the majority and see how you feel. This is our burden.
My question to you is; do you think this is our role to take? Do you think this is important? How do you, as a white male, see what your role or responsibility is in your society, United States or otherwise?
Stop! I'm crying with laughter! You are so far removed from making sense it is beyond belief. A majority of Europeans are not atheists, just like the 36% of Yukoners (highest frequency in Canada) state themselves as non religious, but they completely shy away from the word atheist, because everybody is playing Pascal's Wager, most people who pay lip service to "rationality" are but godless Faithers in disguise. You place your Faith in Christian values (western) and secularity, which is an illusion. When a church going person votes, they vote religious. This is the cost of democracy, a religious voter votes for a religious candidate.
Lesson: Canada is not secular, nor are most Western countries. Most countries simply have not been laundering their religious wars publicly because most, until now, have not been put under cultural strain. France is a perfect example of a previously homogeneous country which claimed it was secular. But in truth, they are generally catholic, but since there were no public discords, it was easy to pretend they had secularity. But now that Islam is knocking at the door, suddenly the catholic reflexes are resurfacing, just as if they'd always been, because they have always been.
The only concept you question is a sky-bound god, but you question none of all the cultural attributes which came about under that reign... that is naive at best, ... and at worst disingenuous.
I'm sorry - but if you don't think Canada, the United States, or rest of the west is secular - you are living in a delusion and a fairy tale and you have no idea what the word secular means.
And again, you fail to realize we had a scientific enlightenment which changed the foundations of western thought and the western world. Enjoy your delusions.
"A majority of Europeans are not atheists"
Whoa! There's less (read: a helluva lot less) social stigma attached as labelling yourself as an Atheist or Agnostic than as a Theist of any denomination over here. People who "go religious" usually have to come out at some point.They stick out like sore thumbs at any event because you have to not offend them. Even Italians limit their continual usage of dio porco when one of the rare remaining Catholics are around.
Even the state employed priests we have here, which are "under paid" according to their trade union which routinely threaten a 'strike of the priests'(!), are usually just people with a a Masters in Theology who's looking for a real job. ;)
We nationalized the Church when we nationalized the government. Then we went for a bit of persecution of the religious minorities and millions of insane people were exiled to North America. (Not the proudest moment in our history, but.. oh well, it's bygones already.) Popular delusions, if they must exist, should be as similar as possible.
An example: I never knew my only cousin was a Catholic, until he "came out" at my grandfathers funeral. It was considered intrusive and people (including the priest) shrug their heads at it afterwards. My grand uncles lambasted him for it at the celebration. Religion doesn't belong out in public.
Albert - exactly. We have exactly those same studies in the UK: change the name or gender of an applicant for a job - worse outcome foreigners, muslims and women. No question about disabled people either: the statistics are very clear. Studies of health outcomes of people going through exactly the same treatments in our same free health system show that treatments are worse applied (ie incorrect diagnosis, less follow up) for black and asian people than they are for white people. To suggest that observing this is racist (see above) is the clearest piece of ignorant privilege I've seen.
It is truly depressing that when these issues are raised the old MRA defence jumps out in force with anecdote against evidence, with victim blaming against understanding, ad-hominem against reasoned argument. If this is the response on thinkatheist....we are pretty screwed.
When I was reviewing applications for the position of security guard, we would usually weed out the Ali's, Mohammed's, and double Norwegian names such as Roy Johnny or Bjarne Andreas, as our statistics showed they had around 3-4x the sickleave absence (avg. around 20%) and worked around 25% less hours overall. The real process of elimination was never to call anyone with more than 5 grammatical errors on their CV to an interview unless they had fulfilled military service. Our major issue with muslim employees was violence against drug addicts and theft from customers.
If you had an Indian, SE Asian, Eastern European or Swedish name, you would usually be hired without interview as we had only positive experiences. These ethnic groups are widely percieved as being much more dutiful workers than ethnic Norwegians.
Where do minorities blame white males for the own lack of effort? Straw man 1. Their own lack of achievement. Straw man 2. Their own lack of drive (did you think abotu what you were writing for just one second?). Straw man 3. Their own lack of will power to succeed. Straw man 4.
The fact that you have 'thought about it' doesn't mean you get it. Patrticularly going in with the closed minded attitude you seeme to have. The way to understand this point - invisible to white males if you are one? is to talk to people who are in those minorities. I have never heard any of them blame white males for their ills - even when pretty perceptive. They definitely blame the structures created and maintained by white males. But I have never heard that I am part of a deliberate, conscious conspiracy to keep them down.
You have missed the points of the argument significantly and badly misrepresented those you are trying to argue with. Could you correct that?
No - white males are the ones who are now openly discriminated upon - there is an institutionalized racism against the white man sadly.
Jimmy, haven't you learned from Europe's mistakes? Europe learned from their failed policies of multiculturalism in that it only continued oppression and segregation by the minority groups (Muslims) due to such mindset as yours. It was a long learning curve but it seems like you are starting out when the Europeans already learned their failures in such erroneous mindsets.
There are plenty of poor whites in America to compare them to poor blacks - there is not an institutionalized racism in America against minorities in gaining university admissions - the institutionalized racism is against whitey.
Sassan: this debate is utterly pointless. You are determined not to understand and to misrepresent me. A better example of privilege it has been my rare sadness to come across (though I've met plenty of smug successful immigrant children who don't see privilege).
If you want to continue to represent this debate as about racism against white people, well...really - nothing more to say. If you really think that being born white in the US is equal to being born black, on average. Again nothing more to say. Such utterly wilfull ignorance cannot be overcome.
And believe me (just for once): I strongly believe that the way out of cultural and economic poverty for European minority groups is likely to be found in rejecting much of their culture baggage. I hate much of the UK Muslim culture for example - just as I hate much of West Afrrican culture with it's shit values and low expectations, and misogyny and hierarchical abuse bullshit. I am totally not politically correct here. Screw their culture: it's abusive and keeps whole populations in poverty. How we get any progress on that is the question that I am concerned with.
Your analysis of European history is utterly woeful (and privileged) too, but no need to go there: the goal posts will just move and you will presumably not address the issues and repeat the same distractions, for another 24 hours.
When I say: this has nothing to do with racism, why do you continue to suggest I think it does? If you can make the link between in-built privilege and racism, fill your boots. But you haven't and think that repeating the same completely off the mark prejudices somehow contributes? I am so sorry that people are racist about you Sassan, the son of successful business people and a successful busines community. Couldn't we learn what it is about your community that made it successful and see if we could apply some of that to other groups who are not so successful?
Isn't the topic inherently racism against white people? I think that is what this topic is, racist.
It is the year 2011 my friend - if you are a smart and ambitious African American - you can create opportunities for yourself to be successful. Many African Americans have - this is a time of reason, logic, and progress. Not giving excuses for past grievances which are a thing of the past.
I am glad to here you speaking out against barbaric cultural practices. That made me happy and made me gain some respect for you (although I am sure that doesn't mean anything for you).
I have been to Europe - and I plan to move to the U.K. for my Ph.D.
The reason why I continue to say it has to do with racism is because you are singling the white man out - which inherently is racist in itself. And you stated yourself that your family members supported some political white figures you disdain. I truly ask you: do you think this has to do with your guilt in regards to that situation?
And no, I have never experienced racism in California.
And I have stated why it is that Persians are successful and well off in the United States and all of Europe: because we don't use excuses to hold ourselves down. We have a strong culture (I know I have been in the U.S. since I was 3 - although having spent considerable amounts of time in Iran) but most importantly - we don't put ourselves in a state of learned helplessness. I truly mean this. This is not some gibberish in trying to distract the issue. I used to be for affirmative action - when it was necessary - it is no longer necessary. It is not right to punish someone like Arcus who received higher test scores than the minorities who were accepted due to their race/status. In fact, this creates lower standards in society - as the best qualified candidate was not accepted.
Isn't the topic inherently racism against white people? I think that is what this topic is, racist.
Not really, though I suppose it's arguable. Even if so, it's marginal. A certain level of prejudice is inevitable in life. While I do believe in equality, there are still cultural issues based off of things like skin colour. The OP didn't create these issues; he merely observed them and is commenting on them.
'Racist' is a loaded term. It carries the weight of abuse, disdain, or unwarranted discrimination. I don't really see that as the case here. If 'racist' is being used in the sense of that which deals with race, well, that was established in the premise of the thread, so it's kind of a superfluous statement.
It is the year 2011 my friend - if you are a smart and ambitious African American - you can create opportunities for yourself to be successful.
The whole point is that, in reality, there are near irreconcilable discrepancies between the opportunities some are born into weighed against the average person. In my opinion, this is not strictly a matter of race, but this doesn't mean that there are no racial components. I don't know where the balance lies or what the correct solution is, but I do know that the dialogue is never going to get anywhere if it degrades into, "You're a racist", "No, you're a racist".
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Arizona State 68
(13-5, 2-3 Pac-12)
(1) Arizona 91
(18-0, 5-0 Pac-12)
Coverage: FOXS1
9:00 PM ET, January 16, 2014
McKale Center, Tucson, Arizona
Top Performers
Arizona St: J. Carson 20 Pts, 2 Reb, 5 Ast, 1 Stl
Arizona: N. Johnson 17 Pts, 2 Reb, 2 Ast, 2 Blk
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Arizona raced out to a big lead and did not back off, hitting the accelerator instead.
No way were the Wildcats going to let their biggest rival get even a sniff of a comeback.
Top-ranked Arizona raced out to a big early lead and extended it with a strong start to the second half, rolling past rival Arizona State in a 91-68 rout Thursday night.
"We tried to start out the game really well and made some shots and some stops on defense, then did the same thing in the second half," said Arizona guard Nick Johnson, who led the Wildcats with 17 points. "We didn't want to give them any false hope of trying to come back or anything."
There wasn't much chance the way the Wildcats were playing.
Arizona (18-0, 5-0 Pac-12) dominated the Sun Devils almost from the opening tip, turning missed shots and turnovers into points at the other end while building a 21-point lead in the first half.
The Wildcats didn't let up, either, stretching the lead to extend the best start in school history.
Arizona put seven players in double figures, shot 56 percent and had 21 assists on 34 field goals to beat the Sun Devils for the sixth time in seven games.
Aaron Gordon had 16 points, and Kaleb Tarczewski added 12 points and eight rebounds for the Wildcats. T.J. McConnell finished with 10 points, six assists and three steals.
"No doubt about it, we have a group of guys that plays with a lot of energy, a lot of effort and we are willing to share the ball," Arizona coach Sean Miller said.
Arizona State (13-5, 2-3) played without second-leading scorer Jermaine Marshall and had trouble with Arizona's size all night, shooting 34 percent.
Jahii Carson had 20 points and five assists but struggled early and had at least four shots blocked. ASU center Jordan Bachynski battled foul trouble in the first half and wasn't much of a factor when he was in the game, finishing with three points while missing all three of his shots.
Bo Barnes added 13 points for the Sun Devils, who had 18 turnovers and seven assists.
"You look at the results they are posting night in and night out, it wasn't a surprise, only a confirmation," Sun Devils coach Herb Sendek said of Arizona. "They are very well balanced, and their size is a factor."
Arizona has gotten off to the best start in school history behind its defense.
The Wildcats entered the game fourth nationally in scoring defense at 56 points per game, seventh in field goal percentage allowed at 37 percent and 13th in 3-point shooting defense at 28 percent.
Arizona State was already going to have a tough time against the long, athletic Wildcats, and it certainly didn't help that Marshall was out after injuring his groin in practice this week.
Revved up by the boisterous crowd, Arizona was at its defensive best early, contesting every shot, pass and dribble.
Arizona State missed 15 of its first 17 shots, and Carson had nowhere to go against Arizona's pressure -- particularly McConnell -- while missing his first five shots.
After a jittery offensive start, the Wildcats started hitting from everywhere, racing out to a 21-point lead while making 14 of 28 shots.
The Sun Devils started to shoot a little better late in the half but had a hard time digging out of the hole, trailing 42-28 after shooting 6-of-26.
Arizona kept rolling to start the second half, hitting five of its first eight shots to stretch the lead to 22.
Gordon then scored on an alley-oop, Tarczewski threw down a dunk on a no-look pass from Gabe York and McConnell dropped in a 3-pointer, flashing three fingers to the fans across from the bench after putting the Wildcats up 59-38.
"Those guys are ready to play every day," said Carson, who shot 7-of-19. "They have great leadership and are No. 1 in the country for a reason. They just have so many weapons."
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 68 | 91 |
FG Made-Attempted | 18-53 (.340) | 34-61 (.557) |
3P Made-Attempted | 7-14 (.500) | 8-15 (.533) |
FT Made-Attempted | 25-33 (.758) | 15-28 (.536) |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 21 (0/0) | 22 (0/0) |
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Team Stats: Arizona St | Arizona |
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01/23 UTAH 9:00pm 01/25 COLO 7:00pm 01/29 @CAL 11:00pm 02/01 @STAN 4:00pm 02/06 ORST 11:00pm |
01/23 COLO 9:00pm 01/26 UTAH 8:00pm 01/29 @STAN 9:00pm 02/01 @CAL 10:30pm 02/06 ORE 9:00pm |
Complete Schedule: Arizona St | Arizona |
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Washington St | 3-15 | 10-21 |
Oregon St | 8-10 | 16-15 |
Utah | 9-9 | 21-11 |
Washington | 9-9 | 17-15 |
Arizona St | 10-8 | 21-11 |
California | 10-8 | 19-13 |
Oregon | 10-8 | 23-9 |
#22 Colorado | 10-8 | 23-11 |
Stanford | 10-8 | 21-12 |
#1 Arizona | 15-3 | 30-4 |
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The captions to these photographs really need to be rethought. They seek to explain the current crisis and violence through the lens of the past. That leads to inaccurate generalizations and the view of Syria as a place just simmering with anger and violence, now finally released. For example, the photograph of the men dancing at the shrine doesn't even use the word "dancing". Instead it talks about the Bible, violence, the Druze, and Israel. Why not instead give people perspective on the pictures, not some random comments about the present (and if not random then highly politicized)? I expect better from National Geographic.
Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemo, National Geographic
Settled about 2500 B.C., Damascus is thought to be the world's oldest inhabited city. Last month, two years of civil war culminated in the suspected use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians on its outskirts.
The United States may intervene in the coming days with a limited series of retaliatory strikes against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, thought to be responsible for the attacks. American President Barack Obama's pleas of support for the plan to the United Nations and G8 haven't gotten very far. Obama is now focused on building American support, with a round of TV appearances on Monday and a nationwide address on Tuesday night. The Senate is expected to vote on the plan this week.
Strife and bloodshed aren't new in Syria. The country has been occupied by, among others, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Mongols, and Ottoman Turks—the last of which ruled for more than 400 years until 1920, when Syria went under a French mandate and Palestine was assigned British rule. Foreign forces didn't completely leave until 1946. In that decade, there were three internal shifts of power, including coups. The 1960s saw a half a dozen more.
Modern Syria is a nation whose borders were drawn by European colonizers. The country they outlined ultimately included peoples of multiple religions and ethnicities—Sunni, Shiite, Alawi, Druze, Christian, Kurd, Arab, Armenian—tucked, often uncomfortably, into an area about the size of Washington state.
Today, about 22,500,000 people live in Syria—90 percent are Arab, 76 percent are Sunni Muslim—and about a fifth of them reside in the capital, Damascus.
—Johnna Rizzo
Published September 9, 2013
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams
"A cobbler's young assistant carries large sections of leather," read the notes on the back of National Geographic correspondent Maynard Owen Williams's 1946 photo. Today textiles, especially cotton, remain mainstays of the Syrian economy.
Over the last two years, though, such a youngster's daily life would be less certain. The civil war has caused an estimated 100,000 deaths to date, and made refugees of some two million Syrians—about half of which are children.
Published September 9, 2013
Photograph by Frank and Helen Schreider
A range of fashions reflecting ethnic and religious ties—fez, burka, headscarf, and business suit—on a single Damascus park bench was fodder for this unpublished photo by husband-and-wife National Geographic staff duo Frank and Helen Shrieder.
Published September 9, 2013
Photograph by Robert Azzi, National Geographic
"Tromp, tromp, tromp of Damascus schoolgirls forms part of their required military training," reads the caption to this photo published in a 1974 National Geographic story titled "Damascus, Syria's Uneasy Eden."
"These teen-agers must learn drill, discipline, nursing, and some weapons handling," the caption continues. "The 15-to-18-year-olds do not serve in combat, but they contribute to Syrian homefront preparedness."
Today, though there are international rules against youth serving in the military, there is some evidence of sectarian factions welcoming them.
Published September 9, 2013
Photograph by Robert Azzi, National Geographic
"Victim of the first murder, as told in the Koran and Bible, Abel was laid to rest by Cain, his brother and killer, in a rocky niche near Damascus, now enclosed by stone and dome," reads this photo's caption, published in NG's 1974 story "Damascus, Syria's Uneasy Eden."
"The site invokes the special reverence of the Druzes, whose theology mixes Islam with mysteries known only to initiates. Friday visits to the tomb include a feast that ends before sundown with young men linked in a version of the circle dancing common throughout the Middle East …
"Many Druzes who live in the region around the Golan Heights, where Lebanon, Israel, and Syria meet, find themselves caught in the crosshairs of international conflict. Though close knit as a people, the Druzes have contingents in the both the Syrian and Israeli armies."
In 1967, after the Six-Day War, Syria ceded the Golan Heights to Israel.
Today, thousands of displaced Golan Heights Druze are in Syria, attending university or living in the refugee camps in and around Damascus—some of which were affected by last month's violence.
Published September 9, 2013
Photograph by Ed Kashi, National Geographic
The photographer's notes that accompany this 1996 photo identify these robed and headscarved café patrons as Saudi tourists.
An estimated 8.5 million tourists visited Syria in 2010, the year before civil war broke out. They spent about $8.5 billion in a then-burgeoning industry for the nation. Today the country's tourism board, still at work as the civil war rages, has an unenviable hurdle. It currently touts low crime and low rates of communicable diseases as reasons to visit.
Published September 9, 2013
Photography by Ed Kashi, National Geographic
"In varied states of devotion, pilgrims worship at the Sayida Zainab shrine in Damascus," reads the caption of this photo published in a 2009 National Geographic magazine article titled "Shadowland."
"This is the traditional resting place of Zainab, granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad and daughter of Ali, Islam's fourth caliph, who is revered by Shiites," it continues. "In crowded neighborhoods around the mosque, tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees mingle with visitors from Iran, who make up a sizable portion of Syria's tourists."
In Syria today, Sunnis outnumber Shiites nearly five to one. Combined, they make up 90 percent of the country's religious population.
Published September 9, 2013
Photograph by Ed Kashi, National Geographic
Males of all ages partake in the Nour Al-Din Al-Shaheed bath, one of Damascus's oldest public bathhouses, established in 1169 A.D.
Less than 200 years after the bathhouse was built, the sultans ruling at the time began to persecute the city's non-Muslims. Part of their harassment involved requirements for Jews entering the city's bathhouses: Jewish women had to wear one black shoe and one red one to identify themselves; Jewish men had to announce their entrance by blowing a whistle.
Published September 9, 2013
Photograph by Ed Kashi, National Geographic
From the curtained window of a five-star hotel, the downtown Damascus of 2009 unfolds—two years before the start of the ongoing civil war. Privatization and foreign investment is credited with adding city parks and several high-rises that mix with the ancient minarets in the skyline.
Published September 9, 2013
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Candlewick, Picture Book, all ages
"STEP GENTLY OUT has the feel of a classic."
Peter Sieruta
Candlewick, Picture Book, all ages
"STEP GENTLY OUT has the feel of a classic."
Peter Sieruta
This picture book pairs Rick Lieder's light-filled photographs with my poem about stepping out into the world and discovering the creatures who live all around us.
Watch the trailer (beautiful video images) and get more updates on the website Rick has created for news about STEP GENTLY OUT.
State Lists:
2015 Bill Martin Jr. Children's Picture Book Award nominee, Kansas Reading Association
2014-2015 Star Of The North Picture Book Award, a Minnesota Youth Reading Award
2015-2016 Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Award for the Primary Division (Grades K-2)
2013 Texas 2 X 2 Reading List (books recommended for age 2 through grade 2)
2013 Maine Chickadee Award, one of ten picture book finalists.
End of Year Lists and awards:
Kirkus Reviews, top 100 children's books of 2012, selected by Vicky Smith
International Reading Association, Anita Silvey's picks: Best-of-2012
Starred selection on Bank Street College of Education's List: The Best Children's Books of the Year, 2013, ages 5 and under.
STEP GENTLY OUT has been named an ALA Notable Book in the category "Books for All Ages."
quotes from children
"Step Gently Out's illustrations make me feel like I am staring through a microscopic view of the leaf." -4th grader
"It makes me feel peaceful." 2nd grader
Interviews about STEP GENTLY OUT
Erika Rohrman, in Kirkus Reviews.
5Q Poet Interview Series on Sylvia Vardell's "Poetry for Children".
STEP GENTLY OUT featured on
School Library Journal, A Fuse #8 Production
Anita Silvey's Book-a-Day Almanac
Richie's Picks reviews STEP GENTLY OUT.
First review, a KIRKUS STAR, and so beautifully written.
"Breathtaking photos and an exquisite poem capture a bugs-eye view of nature.
One can only hope the present collaboration will be the first of many between nature photographer Lieder and Frost (Hidden, 2011, etc.), one of the most gifted, versatile childrens poets writing today, for the synthesis of word and image in this short picture book is so finely wed that the final page turn leaves one begging for more. While Frosts lightly rhymed declarative verse encourages children to experience the natural world with care and openness to the tiny wonders of insect life around them, Lieders richly colored intimate close ups offer every reason why. Step gently out, Frost advises, pointing out how the creatures shine with stardust, / theyre splashed with morning dew. / In song and dance and stillness, they share the world with you. Golden-hued endpapers catch a honeybee and firefly mid-flight; the volume also spotlights the less-frequently spied praying mantis, katydid and damselfly, alongside more common insects. For precise readers wishing to know, for example, that the fuzzy, stoplight-colored creature twisting around a blade of grass happens to be a tussock moth caterpillar, the volumes endnotes include brief descriptions of the featured species.
A dazzlingly poetic photo album of the insect world for tots on up. (Picture book. 2 & up)"
And a second starred review, from PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:
Captivating photography gives readers a closeup view of the world of insects, as described by a gently contemplative poem. Lieder captures the small miracles of a bumblebee in mid-flight, a spider dangling from a dewy branch, and a fireflys flash, while Frost urges readers to be mindful of events that seem insignificant: A spider spins a silken thread/ to step across the air./ A praying mantis looks at you/ do you know shes there? Working in concert, the words and images achieve a Zenlike calm that also hints at the complicated web of life unfolding all around. Endnotes discuss the 11 featured insects in greater detail. Ages 25.
Third starred review, from Booklist!
« Step Gently Out.
Frost, Helen (Author) , Lieder, Rick (Illustrator)
Mar 2012. 32 p. Candlewick, hardcover, $15.99. (9780763656010).
Natures miracles are often small and hard to capture, but in a syncopated harmony of text and image, Frost and Lieder manage to depict tiny moments as seen through a bugs-eye-view of the world. The quiet poem begins with an invitation to Step gently out and, from there, to observe a blade of grass. This may seem a dull activity, but it turns out to be full of wonder: a cricket leaps and sings; a spider spins a silken web; a firefly flashes through the evening air. The soothing, meditative language bursts with beautiful imagery that begs to be read aloudthe / creatures / shine with / stardust. / Then theyre / splashed / with / morning / dew.and the photographs, taken at close range, magnify wings in flight and dewdrops on webs. Praying mantises and moths may not be known for their loveliness, but in the collaborators capable hands, they are beautiful. Moving from day to night, the poem makes for a soothing bedtime lullaby that includes a reminder to children about the books small creatures: In song and dance / and stillness, / they share the world / with you. Ann Kelley


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Hansgrohe 18020001 Chrome Axor Massaud Bathroom Faucet Vessel Faucet with Lever Handle, EcoSmart and QuickClean Technology
Technical Specs
Installation Guide | |
Specification Sheet | |
ADA | Yes |
Depth | 12.625 |
Drain Assembly Included | No |
Escutcheon Included | No |
Faucet Centers | 0 |
Faucet Holes | 1 |
Faucet Type | Bathroom Sink Faucet |
Flow Rate (GPM) | 1.32 |
Handle Material | Metal |
Handle Style | Lever |
Handles Included | Yes |
Height | 9.125 |
Length | 12.625 |
Low Lead Compliant | Yes |
Material | Metal |
Max Deck Thickness | 1.63 |
Mounting Type | Single Hole |
Number Of Handles | 1 |
Overall Height | 9.13 |
Pop-Up Included | No |
Product Weight | 11 |
Pullout Spray | No |
Soap Dispenser Included | No |
Spout Height | 8.63 |
Spout Reach | 8 |
Theme | Modern |
Valve Included | Yes |
Valve Type | Ceramic Disc |
Water Efficient | Yes |
WaterSense Certified | Yes |
Waterfall Faucet | Yes |
Width | 5.875 |
- All brass faucet body and handle construction
- Fully covered under Hansgrohe's limited lifetime warranty
- Made in Germany
- Superior finishing process - finishes will resist corrosion and tarnishing through everyday use
- Single lever handle operation
- Low lead compliant- meeting federal and state regulations for lead content
- WaterSense Certified product- using at least 30% less water than standard 2.2 GPM faucets, while still meeting strict performance guide lines.
- Designed for use with standard U.S. plumbing connections
- All hardware needed for mounting is included with faucet
Product Technologies / Benefits:
- QuickClean: Calcareous water, dirt, cleaning agents; faucets and showers have to be able to withstand a lot. QuickClean technology gives you the power to make residues disappear in an instant. With the silicon nozzles Hansgrohe has fitted to its faucet aerators and shower jets, dirt and limescale can be rubbed off with ease. This innovation adds infinite value, as products that are well maintained and limescale free remain functional and last longer.
- EcoRight: With the addition of a special flow limitation system these faucets by Hansgrohe reduce water consumption by up to 60%. While conventional bathroom mixing faucets will use up to 3- 1/2 gallons-per-minute, EcoRight faucets reduce that need to around 1- 1/2 GPM. The EcoRight aerator is integrated into the spout of the faucet enriching the water with air; the result is a full, bubbling jet of water, making conservation simple with virtually no sacrifice.
- Overall Height: 9-1/8" (measured from counter top to the highest part of the faucet)
- Spout Height: 8-5/8" (measured from counter top to the spout outlet)
- Spout Reach: 8" (measured from the center of the faucet base to the center of spout outlet)
- Mounting Type: Single hole
- Number of Holes Required for Installation: 1
- Faucet Centers (Distance Between Handle Installation Holes): Single Hole
- Flow Rate: 2.2 GPM (gallons-per-minute)
- Maximum Deck Thickness: 1-5/8"
- Metal lever handle included with faucet
- 18020: This model
- 18115: Wall mount version of this model less drain assembly
- 18112: Wall mount version of this model with drain assembly
- 18013: Widespread version of this model
- 18010: Single hole version of this model
About Hansgrohe:
Founded in Germany's Black Forest back in 1901, Hansgrohe is committed to building a strong sense of tradition. Featuring unsurpassed quality, design and performance, Hansgrohe's products offer a lifetime of satisfaction. Through many breakthroughs in comfort and technology, they bring the perfect solution you need to make the most of your water experience. With a sharp eye for innovation, Hansgrohe is consistently designing products with exceptional durability, built to not only be highly functional, but also a source of luxury and pleasure. With all of the showers and faucets they offer, new useful functions and details are at the core, making daily use as easy and comfortable as possible so that you may enjoy your Hansgrohe products for many years to come.
Additional Hansgrohe Links
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Our SKU: 18020
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*Denotes a finish or option that has been discontinued
2 Questions from the Community
The Hansgrohe 18020 can be used with an under mount sink.
Can this be used with an under mount sink?
The Hansgrohe 18020 can be used with an under mount sink.
The Hansgrohe 18020 has a 4 5/8" opening for the water flow.
How wide is the stream of water coming from the faucet?
The Hansgrohe 18020 has a 4 5/8" opening for the water flow.
Hansgrohe Axor Massaud Collection
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Warranty Info
Hansgrohe products are manufactured and tested to the highest quality standards. Hansgrohe, Inc. warrants to the original consumer that its products will be free from defects of workmanship and materials for as long as the original consumer owns the home in which the products are installed. Accessories or parts of products manufactured by others are warranted only for the period and extent of the original manufacturer's warranty.
For assistance, write to: Customer Service, Hansgrohe, Inc., 1490 Bluegrass Lakes Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA 30004. Or call Customer Service at 800-334-0455.


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Now is the time to get your flu vaccine and build your resistance … before the Rodeo
The flu bug, Houston style, likes to bite the corralled masses at the Rodeo, a UTHealth family medicine doctor reports, adding a particularly Texan bullet point to the list of strictly medical reasons why experts are urging folks to get the flu shot before it's too late. There's still time because the circumstances are perfect: […]
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New vaccine options available as flu season starts
Experts advise that now is the time to seek out protection from the flu, especially if you're a child, over 65 or pregnant. We are the midst of the traditional influenza season, which begins in October and lasts until May. Getting vaccinated now will build up immunity before viruses start to spread. (It takes about […]
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WHO: We're now in the post-pandemic flu period
The 2009 H1N1 virus has largely run its wild course worldwide and is settling into seasonal patterns of transmission, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. That's doesn't mean we're out of the woods. There are localized outbreaks sickening people in New Zealand right now and any current or new virus could become the dominant bug […]
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Flu season's over: Did you notice?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its final "FluView," a weekly surveillance report usually published from October through mid-May to coincide with the typical flu season. There has been a nonstop marathon of these dispatches since April 2009, the early days of a novel influenza outbreak. The virus was later identified as swine […]
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Swine flu central: Updates, links and answers to your questions
With swine flu season officially upon us — shipments of the new vaccine began going out to some health departments today, though not yet Houston — MedBlog will be chron.com's place to go for the latest local updates, links to stories elsewhere and answers to any questions you might have. Today, for instance, Texas Children's […]
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A flu-sick child and a parent's next moves
Sunday's death of a 14-year-old Fort Worth girl from H1N1 influenza has been widely reported in Texas and beyond. The teen's mother took her to a doctor who did not prescribe Tamiflu, the most popular antiviral to lessen the severity of the flu — seasonal or swine. Her parents said she had no underlying health […]
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Report tells of ventilator rationing plans in case of a pandemic
The 2006 prosecution of a New Orleans doctor who made the decision to euthanize critically ill hospital patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina prompted a strong backlash at the time in the medical community. Now, it's prompting efforts to set up formal guidelines for doctors to take such actions if the United States is […]
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Flu "widespread" in Texas
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The swine flu frenzy has turned into big sales for hand sanitizer manufacturers, The Germophobe Files has found. A recent analysis by The Nielsen Company, the marketing and advertising research conglomerate, connected the Novel H1N1 (swine) influenza's arrival this spring to a spending spree on hand sanitizer. Boy, were we worried. A little history: In […]
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Frazier sobbed quietly, thinking of the baby girl Davis had given birth to six months earlier. She thought of life without her sister, the only close family she had left. She thought about how their lives had taken such separate paths Frazier had become an ordained minister and successful office manager, while her sister had been condemned to draw her last breath in a place where freedom is a hallucination. Then the heartbeats stopped.
Within minutes the guard had "secured the scene." As Frazier consoled two of Davis's daughters outside, a police officer arrived, followed by a homicide detective who dutifully recorded the details. "Deceased was an inmate at TGK [Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center] on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia," the detective wrote. "She suffered from advanced breast cancer and was on a respirator. On January 7, 2005, she was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced [dead] in the emergency room. According to family, she was single and had seven children."
Davis's was the first "in-custody death" of the year and one of 33 in Miami-Dade's jail system during the past two years. Among the 50 largest jail systems, Miami-Dade ranks eighth in deaths per capita, its rate of death almost 40 percent higher than the norm, according to Bureau of Justice statistics for 2002, the most recent year for which data is available. The average age of those who die while locked up here is 42, a year shy of the life expectancy in Haiti.
Some of the deaths usually beatings or suicides make the evening newscast. Most recently, in February, the corrections department released information about a mentally ill inmate who had died of hypothermia the previous month. The man's body temperature had been twenty degrees below normal when he was found unresponsive on his cell's concrete floor.
But most inmate deaths brought on by years of illness, drug and alcohol abuse, or some combination of the three go largely unnoticed. Sometimes prisoners find their deathbeds on jail cell cots, but more often they spend their last moments in a hospital clinic under a guard's watch.
Through its contractor, Public Health Trust, an independent healthcare provider created by the board of county commissioners, corrections provides regular medication to 1750 of the county's 7000 inmates, runs seven jail-based clinics, and operates one ward at Jackson Memorial. In addition to more basic treatments, Ward D, as it's called, handles the business of death for most terminally ill prisoners, who, like all county inmates, are awaiting trial or serving sentences of less than a year. This year corrections has budgeted $19.4 million for healthcare, with more than twenty percent, or $4.1 million, going to Ward D.
Years before fate wheeled her down the linoleum hallways of Jackson, Lola Davis roamed the streets of Overtown and then Opa-locka, where she grew up a tomboy with pigtail braids. Her father had been a faint memory he died in combat in Vietnam when Davis was two. Her mother, on the other hand, had been a powerful presence, a well-known community figure who helped organize political campaigns for the likes of former Opa-locka Mayor Willie Logan and former Vice Mayor Helen Miller. "We lived a life in city commission chambers," Frazier says.
The two girls idolized their mother and were devastated when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. One day, as they cooked a meal of chicken and pudding in anticipation of her return from yet another hospital treatment, Davis, then sixteen, and Frazier, then twelve, received the news: Their mother had died.
Davis was inconsolable. She questioned what kind of God would allow her mother to die at 32. Already rebellious and moody, she began staying out later and later, getting into trouble, starting fights. "Lola went wayward after my mom passed," Frazier says. While Frazier went to live with family friend Evelyn Brown in Liberty City, Davis moved in with her grandmother in Overtown because Brown couldn't handle her. "I said Lola is out of hand; I can't do nothing with Lola," Brown recalls. "I don't know what happened; she just got to where she wanted to be in the streets with her friends."
By the time she was twenty, Davis was doing cocaine and hopping from boyfriend to boyfriend, getting pregnant and getting into trouble. She was arrested for shoplifting purses and groceries, selling nickel bags, stealing license plates, and, once, robbing a man of five dollars at knifepoint. Sometimes, when she had nowhere else to go, she would stay with Frazier, now raising a child in Overtown. Davis would take her sister's clothes. She would take her money. She would take her car without telling her. Through it all, Frazier forgave Davis, and the sisters remained close despite their disparate lives. "We didn't have to speak every day, but we had that sister bond, that sister love," Frazier says.


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Tight, Costly Rental Market Squeezing Out Some Tenants
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- Publisher: Activision Blizzard
- Release Date: Oct 7, 2008
- Also On: Xbox 360
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The kids will giggle a lot, and you will find yourself smiling at the humor. The game has plenty to do so that is a nice increase of its value.
These little pleasures make it relatively painless to play this game for extended periods of time, and even make it worth putting up with the repetitive and sometimes annoying music. It takes about eight hours to win on the medium ("Tricky") difficulty setting, not counting the side missions and the plenty of quirks you can unearth.
Crash: Mind Over Mutant is a surprisingly well put-together platforming title.
Like Crash Of The Titans before it, Mind Over Mutant is a welcome step in the right direction for the Crash franchise.
They may be annoyed by the camera and/or repetitive objectives but will be entertained by what is the best Crash game developed in a long time – and one of the best Mario clones released for Nintendo Wii.
So if you are a Crash Bandicoot fan who happens to own a Wii this is a must have game. But if you are just looking for a great new game to play, this would be a good, but not great, addition to your video game collection.
A marked improvement on Crash's last game and good-looking too. If it was just a bit tighter in level design and control, it would be truly great. [Christmas 2008, p.62]
But it's not quite slick enough underneath all those pretty visuals to earn essential status.
Crash: Mind Over Mutant isn't the most original platformer we've played -- it's not even the most original Crash title we've played -- but it does work much better than some previous titles in the series.
Crash: Mind Over Mutant isn't the best title in the series, but it's the closest that anyone has ever come to matching the amazing games that Naughty Dog developed back in the day.
Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant is exactly like its predecessor: a mildly enjoyable platforming romp that's sure to satisfy younger players, but won't provide much that seasoned players haven't already experienced before.
The charming story and genuine humor are far overshadowed by the shallow gameplay.
From design to execution, this is a mess of a game, and a new low point for the once-loved marsupial. [Dec 2008, p.110]
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