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: [Closed] OPEN MIC -- the Spleen Venting Thread (24 hours or less)
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Jan 23rd 2012
I probably still have some whiskey in my system from the weekend, if that counts.
Also, I have phlebitis or something in my lower left leg and it hurts like the proverbial Dickens. So I suppose I could bitch about that, but it's not especially interesting and I'd rather not dwell on it anyway.
Oh, oh! But here's something: Canadian politics is fucking farcical! (At least if you live in Alberta.) I was talking to some friends on the weekend and they recounted to me how, seeing as the Tories have been in provincial government for four decades after taking over from the even more right-wing Social Credit Party before them, they've decided to get memberships and caucus with the Tories because "there are no other parties." I was about to argue with them -- of course there are other parties! -- but then remembered the NDP has actual homeless people managing campaigns here, the Liberals are all but nonexistent since Michael Ignatieff's recent implosion at the Federal level, and the only provincial party mounting a serious challenge to the Tories is the Wild Rose Party... which is essentially a Republican Party branch-transplant from the States! So not only do I effectively live under a single-party provincial regime... its staying that way is actually the
-case scenario for the near future!
I started drinking pretty heavily after I followed that train of thought.
chris g
Jan 23rd 2012
I dunno. Last June I checked out this pro wrestling school/shithole but i was broke but I've saved my money and it's really cheap now; $100 to enroll and then $20 per week. It starts on the 29th but I just don't know. I want to taste the action I've admired since I was a kid, but I don't think I wanna give my money to some
turned trainer nobody's heard of. Rather go to wrestling shows as a fan.
So I'll nip that in the bud. It'll still be around when I'm ready, until then I'm still figuring out this bullshit comics destiny. I guess I should get a table at a con or submit something?? I dunno, I don't think my comics are pretentious and word-y enough, OR obnoxious and fight-y enough. Everyone's trying to be the next "look at me i'm so mind-fucky" Morrison or Moore, etc. or think a comic script should be crafted like some brilliant screenplay or whatever. I just wanna be the first me. I tend to identify better with Mignola and Eric Powell (and Warren in non-art cases) and since they handle most of their heavy lifting and understand how much work goes into making a damn comic. blahhh, i guess i like to keep it old school.
Also the other week I saw this mohawk'd Lisbeth wannabe at 7-11 twice already. I really shoulda spoken up. Hope I catch her there again because she's fucking hot and I wanna know awesome people in real life for a goddamn change. My primal instincts are making me daydream about how awesome it would be to nail her but I am not a pig and I like to get to know someone first!
ANYWAY, fucking January's always make me wanna crank out as much "work" as I can but it doesn't fucking work that way. I'm just gonna take things one hour at a time and let the chips fall where they fucking may, as usual!
Jan 23rd 2012
RRAAAAAARGGHHH....I feel better now. It's been a ROUGH couple years. While I do have a job I am very unhappy there, so, to combat this, I am going to school to be a Network Administrator, I am half way through my associates degree. I don't have any hooch but later, after class THERE WILL BE BEER, or homework, we will see which wins.
Jan 23rd 2012
@phill sea – got your card last week. Thank you:D
Well, interesting things happened since the last open mic. Since last week I'm no longer in the project I wasn't comfortable talking about the last time. It's a comics event with a bit of cinema, animation and illustration.
I was taking care of the official email address of the event and I get an email from a journalist asking for more information about it. He'd rather have it on that day and I saw the email 2 hours after he sent it. I called him, got interviewed and the news got out where it says clearly I was one of members of the organization. When I talked with the journalist I made clear this was a group with one person coordinating. Well, that's not how the event's "director" think.
Next day I'm forced to talk with the journalist to clarify that this was a group with one person coordinating everything (he confirmed he understood that the first time we talked and also through an email sent to him).
Around noon I lose access to the event's email account and FB page. I try to talk with the "director" during the night by phone and FB with no success. Finally by dawn I got an email where he explains I was expelled because I didn't do any work to the festival*. Funny because publically they talk about an "abuse" I did (that talk with the journalist) but privately it's a different matter. The interview is just a small detail in a long list of issues about me that, up to that point, no one on the organization neither had any problem with nor talked to me about it.
Some people warned me about him, that he's not to be trusted but I thought I could manage it. Oh well, at least I won't get embarrassed by inviting international artists I'm friends with to an event that could out to be a flop.
After ranting about this with a friend he tells me he's in the hospital (we were talking through gchat) to get surgery so he can start haemodialysis soon (he has kidney issues since young). That was an awful way to put things in perspective. After this I'm so going to put this comics event way behind, get this never ending thesis done and get on with my life.
*All the artists I contacted cancelled and the sponsorships I tried to get, most of them weren't interested in the event but the few ones I got, oh boy they were really good. That doesn't mean I didn't get anything done.
Will Couper
Jan 23rd 2012
No booze here. I'm not a heathen, y'know.
Most of my whining is about my writing.
On the good side I've finally managed to get some proper progress made on the novel I'm working on at the moment, but really it should have been finished a month or so ago.
My other novel's sad travels knocking on the doors of agencies only to be left standing in the cold, unloved and unnoticed. Once I've gone around the various places I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. I'd hate to consign it the defunct pile with so many of my other novels. Lulu fills me with dread, mainly because the prices are so outlandish that no one wants to buy anything I've put up. I'm not entirely sure other POD places are any better.
The comics side seems have lapsed into silence again. Mainly because I can't pay artists (you have no idea how poor I am) for their work so my scripts have to go to the bottom of their piles. Not much I can do about that.
I suppose I'm the 99% in writing terms.
Soviet Rocket No. 9
Jan 23rd 2012
I got double pissed at my grandfather.
1. Found from my aunt out that next Monday, he's getting surgery on his back to remove a cyst, which is shitting the pants of the doctor, since it's near his vertebrae.
2. Found out that he told no one, except my uncle he barely sees, and I live with the old man.
3. (Forgive me) He's treating it like no big fucking deal, even when I remind him of the "cyst near his vertebrae, doctor shitting pants" deal.
By the way, has anyone heard from Flecky?
Purple Wyrm
Jan 23rd 2012
So, with great fanfare I set off some weeks back for a trip to Sydney, followed by a 12 night cruise to New Zealand, then just under a week in Auckland. A cruise that cost me a stupid amount of money. I had a fine time in Sydney, boarded the ship and within 24 hours realised that I'd made one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
Cruises, as I soon realised, are intensely social enterprises. You're stuck on a boat in the middle of the sea with a bunch of random people, and everything available to do is based around getting to know these random people and doing social things with them. I am one of the least social people you're ever likely to meet. The limited space on board makes everything cramped and claustrophobic, and the cold, stormy Tasman Sea makes hanging out on deck unpleasant. Combine this with the fact that the motion of the ship was stopping me from sleeping, and that I was (as I now know) coming down with Typhus from a tick I picked up in Sydney, the trip that I'd so been looking forwards to (and planning to use to get some serious writing done) turned out to be the voyage from hell.
Two days in I jumped ship in Melbourne and flew home in an intense state of humiliation, embarrassment and self loathing. No adventures in New Zealand, and several thousand bucks down the hole.
On the plus side I now know that I hate cruising and I was able to experience the delights of typhus from my own bed, rather than from a boat in the middle of the ocean.
Jan 23rd 2012
I have the beginnings of my first wrinkle on my forehead. A little vertical line that doesn't seem to go away from where i furrow my brow quite often. It's only visible when you're an obsessive
person with blinding fluorescent lights illuminating every bit of fine texture of your skin BUT IT HAS BEGUN. And now I can't stop self consciously rubbing at my forehead now.
In celebration, I'm stuck in a loop where I'm reliving my past immature situation involving a boy and a girl and icky emotions, but this time I'm able to calm the fuck down and be like "maybe I should examine why I get so upset at this person BEFORE I try to have a discussion about feelings" as opposed to my previous method, which was to get drunk and confront them with the meanest, soul-cutting words I could use to get it into their head that they hurt me thiiiis much. I'm a grown up now, goddammit.
Otherwise, I am on the verge of some amazing projects, if I could just find the time to do it all.
Jan 23rd 2012
BACK FROM THE GYM AND OOOOOH YEEEEEAH ffeelssssss good man
so i took up the whiskey challenge, and let me tell you; you know what the big secret of recovering-alcoholics -that-never-truly-stop-but-just-get-shit-under-control-for-48-weeks-a-year is? its that drinking like a
responsible person does neat shit like let you get tipsy on a one or two cocktails. SCORE.
oh hey, heres somethingi havent really bitched about because i talk to the dude and we are friends...i took a break from writing, as i didnt find myself enjoying it at all anymore. whilst bullshitting with said artist friend (who is seriously, very talented but applies himself even less than my lazy ass) a couple months back i told him a ridiculous, yet workable idea i had that morning. he encouraged me whole heartedly to do it, that it would get me goin again, blahblahblah and that he would draw it.
i was motivated again. kicked out the short story over night, sent it to him and you other frustrated writers to-be and also never-to-be can probably guess how much work he has done on it since late november. zero. yeah. i forgot that the quest for collaborators was one of the things that made me stop giving a shit about making comics. i personally just dont have the perseverance to go through like 5 people flaking in order to even get a split single issue out. to everyone that does it, you are much more determined than i, and i (for now at least) am content to just read great comics and appreciate them for what they are.
city creed
Jan 23rd 2012
Rotten real life fucktangle, that actually just about covers it.
What is the word for when you're actually healthier in mind and body than you have been in ages, have lots of good relationships of every permutation with large numbers of amazing and inspiring people, are focused and energised and doing what you want to do for the first time in forever with exciting prospects on the horizon and there is still this fucking stupid part of you like a big black senseless engine of destruction that keeps pushing you right to the edge of fucking everything up, just because?
Is there a word for that? I hope not. If there was a word for it, I would slap the living shit out of that word right now.
Flying high and smiling with guts full of broken lightbulbs and leaking batteries, dumbly refusing to accept defeat.
It hurts hurts megahurts but this too too will pass - it is all just a superstate of mind.
To your health, chapelfolk. Find the good fight.
Jan 23rd 2012
I've been cat sitting at my parents, and I've learned that spending the weekend there means I won't get anything done and then I'll feel bad about it. Also, my unemployment checks were supposed to show up sometime this past week and I haven't gotten one yet. I am so not happy about this.
I had my apartment warming/fancy tea party and it went well. I just went through a container of clothes and removed the ones that clearly won't fit and someone else might enjoy. I used to be so tiny! I suppose getting back in shape and losing weight should be my big goal for the year. Apparently I've gotten faster on the stairs, so that has to count for something, right? For all my vanity, I really am very unhappy with all the weight gain over the past 8 or so years. Steady but sure, and it's very scary.
I think that's it for now. Time to head home to my apartment where there is no internet.
Jan 23rd 2012
life is being ripped apart at the seams here. We are so very very broke. Our cars tires were slashed (both mine and the husbands) we are more than sure we pissed all of no one off, we are quiet people around here.... The hubbies mouth is being more expensive than we thought and the procedures were/are moved all over the place. My savings (for the site) no longer exists due to this fact. I've had to cancel several of my things to cover the mounting medical costs. Insurance is being a turd of a bitch about things right now. I'm doing one convention to hopefully sell out of all of my hats (we need the money) I"m likely going to be going back to the working world doing Dental Tech stuff (which i like doing except for all the bull shit that comes with it and it is instant glass shrapnel to the lungs)
Things were quite nice for a while and i'm really crossing my fingers that this is a down swing only to have a much bigger up swing...
@Trini me too- two weeks in a row actually I've tried calling but the line has been busy.....
Jan 23rd 2012
Headachy. Weather can't decide if it wants to be winter or spring, which makes my sinuses and skull think this is a lovely time to make me suffer. Suspect I have tendonitis in my elbows, which is a bitch. Working on project ideas for web design class, and dreading programing logic- so many new concepts to learn. One way or the other, it feels like my brain will explode. I seem to oscelate between periods of fear, anxiety and depression, and short bursts of being okay. I try to enjoy feeling okay, but then feel guilty because it's not a productive okay, and locals keep on telling me I should have a career, my health won't last forever (lol. health? I never HAD good health.) and how I'm wasting my life, no matter WHAT I'm trying to do.
Frustrated, bitchy, and working on saving up for a dog; I'll probably blog about that on g+, its complicated.
Wishing there were more locals I could just talk to. Sometimes hearing voices of other people helps.
Also, Little kitty finally learned what the cat bed was for. Months after I got it, and Fate'd been using it. I guess she had to make sure it was safe. Cats are strange.
Jan 23rd 2012
Guys. Fresh, fresh brain leakage coming your way. Brace yourself, or keep scrolling (I recommend the latter).
I realize that I only post about myself when there's bad news. There's always bad news, but...yeah. Bad news.
I never posted about having a girlfriend. I complained so much about being lonely and shit and then I never posted about dragging myself out of it. I feel like an asshole for it, even if exactly none of you care. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't.
So I started this semester with this inexplicably awesome gust in my sail. I'm taking my last few philosophy classes before doing my thesis and graduating in the fall, and in the meantime I got to go and hang out with this amazing and beautiful young woman. Everything was going so damned well: she was kind and my heart was filling for the first time in so long...and that's how a sad story begins. We dated for six weeks. It was the perfect amount of time to develop feelings for her without having that "At least I tried" mantra to pull me through the next six where my bed is so fucking cold and my heart is so fucking twisted.
I know what happened. Everything was so easy. Too easy. I could agree to anything, I could accommodate her at any turn. I thought i was being the best and everything was going great. The hearts of a fairer sex need more than ease and comfort. The lack of tension bothered me, but I wanted so badly to be perfect, to be good, to show love without being overbearing, without interfering, that I let the light go out. I watched it and did nothing.
Tension, for my other relationships, led down dark, dark roads for me. Blamed for everything wrong in the world, beaten and abused for showing care and consideration, I couldn't afford it again. All I wanted was to be easy to be with, to be a paragon of boyfriendliness that I sorely regretted not being before, and instead of finally getting what I have so desperately needed for so long, I got someone who cares about me very much in the completely wrong way.
I've mentioned I don't drink on here before, but as time goes on I know less and less why I don't. My principles mean less and less to me when all I am is the best friend no one wants to hang out with, and the best boyfriend no one wants to love.
As it turns out, the love you take is at great differential to the love you make.
Jan 23rd 2012
@Bunny, IndieGoGo for the site? That may raise the necessary funds.
Jan 23rd 2012
So I'd been doing okay for the past couple of weeks. I've been keeping the one resolution that I mean to keep (eating smaller, healthier lunches at work, jumping rope and doing push-ups every week night), and then at 4am this morning I wake up shivering, so I throw another blanket on and I'm still unable to get warm. I drift in and out of sleep for the next four hours, and then I get up, still freezing, shower, get dressed, check my thermostat and see the temperature is 71, so I
shouldn't be
freezing. Go to the office because I have to approve my team's time cards so they can get paid, and then beg off staying at work. Get back to my apartment and take my temperature and, surprise, 101.4 degrees.
I've spent most of today in bed trying to let this fever burn itself out, and I'm extremely frustrated because it feels like every time I make some progress in getting myself into shape something like this happens. Last October I got some sort of viral infection that lasted a couple of weeks so I didn't feel up to working out, before that I broke my shoulder mountain biking, so couldn't do anything until that healed, etc.
Cameron C.
Jan 24th 2012
School starts in like TWO WEEKS. I'm taking 14 units over four classes. Text books are gonna kill me. Three of the text books are available on Kindle. One reasonably priced. Two of them are a hundred a piece. Fuck, man. BUT I'm more comfortable paying a hundred on Kindle versus the 149 they were at my schools online book store (Which is newly third party'd out to some BS company) in CAFESCRIBE format only viewable via a website (NO offline viewing) and can only be accessed by a limited number of devices (Desktop at home + my tablet = probably won't be able to read my digital textbook in the library or computer lab on campus). At least with Kindle textbooks I can read them on my laptop, tablet, any web browser, etc and make highlights/notes/bookmarks easily (oh, and after the semester is over my access won't be revoked like most other digital textbook retailers -_- ). Tomorrow I've gotta call and see if I can grab an on campus employment position SOMEWHERE still.
I still have to buy a (inexpensive as possible) laptop, so on certain days I can spend the 4-5 hours between my morning and night classes on campus getting homework done. 14 units + my regular job + on campus job will be pretty difficult but I have to save as much monies as I can since in the fall I'm gonna have a lot more bills to pay regularly D: which sucks when the minimum wage needs to be 3 times what it is to afford a shitty 1 bed room apartment anywhere.
I'm still making silly comics. In my brains I wanted to have a fourth full length issue of my silly robot comic, Scrambled Circuits, done around June but I haven't done much aside from jot down some notes and stuff. I've been working on non-scrambled circuits stuff, though, which has been very fun. I should have another zine done and photocopied in a few days, at least. I don't really have aspirations to BE a comic creator. I just want to MAKE comics. I wanna improve, learn, grow, experiment, and make the best comics I possibly can... Currently, I'm at about 5-6 dozen copies sold of each of my issues through Etsy and other places (by far mostly direct orders through paypal). Ideally, with a lot more patience than I generally have with anything, whenever this year I finish this next one I can get it nearer to a hundred copies. And considering I draw like a five year old, I'm pretty happy with all of this. Just gotta start DOING IT MORE (Part of me is hoping I cant get an on campus job this semester :P). Tons more work to do for an actual website, but I find time to progress slowly on that here and there.
Of course, aside from my brains demanding I doodle comics or else go insane, the most adorablest girl ever works in the copy center at my newish job, so I do it mostly because of that at the moment.
Rachæl Tyrell
Jan 24th 2012
I have Knob Creek.
I also have bedbugs.
Fuck you, bedbugs. Fuck you.
Last week I bought a plastic cover for my boxspring and mattress after dousing both of them in diatomaceous earth.I started sleeping in the livingroom, and spending my days meticulously going through everything I own. I've moved half my furniture to tear out my carpets, the one stuck under heavy furniture I cut mostly free with a boxcutter. I was nearly done, and feeling rather good about the situation. I'd not found a grimy nest anywhere as I was supposed to. Three bedbugs appeared trapped beneath the plastic bed-condom, but it all seemed under control. And then I turned to my dresses and skirts and jackets; the ones that hang on a bar that goes across the foot of my bed. My dresses are INFESTED. No wonder Iv'e scratched my ankles raw. It's disgusting. I've now bagged up every bit of fabric I own in garbage bags, sprinkled diatomaceous earth inside, and shook the bags about, intending that tomorrow I wash everything in HOT water and in the drier on HIGH and hope all my clothes don't get destroyed, and pay a fortune on all the dry cleaning, too. And then I read that washing isn't needed, and one can easily just put the clothes in a drier for 45 minutes.
Wish I read that before I sprinkled all my clothes in lung-damaging powdered fossils that need to be washed out.
Man, I've literally got the cooties.
Perhaps that's why the cute boy seems to be avoiding me. At least, I hope that's the reason.
Horrible Warning Si
Jan 24th 2012
FLECKY. Come in FLECKY.
Jan 24th 2012
It's my birthday. Or it was, a few hours ago. 22 is still quite young, I am aware.
I had to give my school nearly $700 today. That's with my full tuition scholarship and all. If the check I'd written for my screen for screen printing had gone through yet, I wouldn't have been able to pay that, and would have been in trouble. My mom didn't call and wish me a happy birthday because I called her to beg for money. I now have less than a hundred dollars to my name, basically. And my rent is $200, and due very soon. So I'll have to call and beg again, and keep doing that until summer.
I guess I do have another $50 from that nude modeling gig I took on saturday. But I can't put it in my checking account because that account is in my hometown's credit union.
Tonight for my birthday, my sister took me out to eat. It was a fancy place, probably filled mostly with people who were in town for Sundance. It cost her over $70 for our meals. It seems so incredibly strange that anyone could ever spend that much money on a meal, especially my family member with whom I am currently living.
I need to apply for more art scholarships for next school year. That's going to be my last one. Then I'll have a BFA. It may be useless, but really, I basically got it for free.
It's not all money problems in my world. I watched La Strada for the first time tonight, and made out with a boy for a few hours. I've kissed 3 guys in the space of a little over a month. this is extremely odd. It does not seem like it could be my life. I mean, I had my first kiss at 20, and only my second at the end of this last December. I really shouldn't be leading anyone on. I'm still in love with that one boy I've been writing letters to for the last year and a half, and he's really the only one I want to be with. But I haven't heard anything from him since a few weeks before Christmas.
I had a party last night, because classes from 8:30 to 7 sort of ruined what fun plans I could have had. One of my friends who came to said party had a chat with me about a recent conversation she had with my ex. He's been pushing away a lot of people, and I'm worried about him. I just wish I could be helpful and be a friend again, but I know that I couldn't be. At some point he's going to see what he's been doing and he'll have no one to turn to. Sometimes that's a comfort. But the last day or two it's just made me sad.
I had one of those days where you just kind of want to go somewhere quiet and cry. It got better, and it's over now. But still. I've definitely had better birthdays.
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Las Vegas • A man who once bragged about his lifestyle as a pimp was found guilty Friday of rape and robbery in a case that served as a prelude to his upcoming capital murder trial in the deaths of three people in a February shooting and explosion on the Las Vegas Strip.
A jury of six women and six men deliberated less than two hours before finding 27-year-old Ammar Asim Faruq Harris guilty of four felonies in a June 2010 attack on an 18-year-old woman in the shower of a condominium off the Las Vegas Strip.
Harris gave no reaction as the verdict was read in Clark County District Court, or when prosecutor David Stanton informed the judge the convictions would serve as aggravating factors in Harris' death penalty trial, scheduled to begin Dec. 2.
Harris could face 10 years to life in prison on each of the three sex assault convictions, and two to 15 years for robbery.
Harris' defense attorneys maintained the sex with the woman was consensual and pointed to Harris' statement to police that the woman and a friend chose him as their pimp.
The woman, a nude dancer at a club, went home to San Antonio, Texas, days after the attack and didn't report it to police until much later.
Defense attorney David Schieck noted that the woman returned to Las Vegas within weeks and remained in social media contact with Harris. Schieck told the jury that Harris wasn't on trial for pimping or pandering charges.
Charges in the case were initially dropped after the woman moved back to Texas. The case was resurrected after the Strip shooting and crash, when the woman returned to Las Vegas and testified before a grand jury.


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New York based artist Eric White brings is Surrealist paints to a new exhibition to Norway as part of the Three Amigo Art Expo, alongside Tom Sandford & Nicola Verlato Bergen. The show lasts through till January 23rd, 2011. If you're not in Norway, check out the images below with more at Eric Whites website here.
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Enjoy the first episode of You Can Cook This! as Justin teaches you how to make a tasty Japanese treat!
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A very tasty cake! Look! We need: For the pancakes: yogurt (the error in the video) - 900 grams Eggs - 2 pieces sugar - 2 tablespoons a pinch of baking soda pinch of salt flour - 450-550 grams vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons For the cream: roasted peanuts - 300 grams milk - 600 grams (a bit wrong in the video =)))) sweet cocoa powder - 6 tablespoons potato starch - 1 tablespoon
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Takoyaki Cake Pops Recipe - Nordic Ware Recipe
This video will show you how to make Takoyaki-like Cake Pops using a Nordic Ware's Baking Pan. FYI: Takoyaki is a popular Japanese dumpling made of batter, diced octopus, tenkasu (tempura scraps), beni shoga (red pickled ginger), and aonegi (green onion), topped with okonomiyaki sauce, mayonnaise, aonori (green laver), and katsuobushi (bonito flakes). How to Make Takoyaki (Recipe) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxW-qgj-x1E
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Curry rice (curry and rice / kare-raisu) is a very popular dish in Japan. According to the statistics, Japanese eat curry rice twice a month!!
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Dorayaki - Japanese Red Bean Pancake - with Nutella
Dorayaki is a Japanese confection. It is a pancake sandwich with Anko (sweet Azuki red bean paste). This post also shows you how to make Dorayaki with nutella and banana. It is amazingly delicious.
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The DPx HEFT 4 NSW Edition for Blackwater is a short-run, commemorative knife designed and manufactured for members of the Naval Special Warfare community. Limited to 500 units in its first production, this knife was produced exclusively for the personnel who advised its final form. This knife is our way of catering to our customers' specific needs. In 2012, we asked a handful of NSW personnel what they wanted in a knife. We showed them big knives, short knives, fixed-blade knives and folders. Contrary to what some may think, the SEALs didn't want a six-inch blade. They wanted a smaller, all-black, fixed-blade sterile knife that was concealable. They wanted a highly corrosion-resistant blade with two inches of serrations, and they wanted a way to personalize the knife, a way to let everyone else know they were SpecWar. ELMAX® martensitic stainless steel blade forged in Uddeholm, Sweden Matte black physical vapor deposition (PVD) coated blade American-made black G10 glass epoxy laminate scales with Trident medallion Unique wire stripper jimping in three most popular gauges Aggressive Blackwater-designed serrations Striker pommel with prybar and lanyard hole CORDURA® sheath with storage pocket for sharpener
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|The moral comes first. All the other book-learning comes second. Without the basics, the best teacher ever becomes helpless. And the basics are learned at home.
As a teacher who taught for 34 years I agree with this totally. I had the kids from 9 to 3 basically five days a week for nine months not including days off for holidays . In that time I was supose to take care of all their needs. I taught in the inner city, I taught in the surburbs . I taught all kinds of children. I was a primary teacher. The teacher that starts the kids on their journey though education.
I hear all the time about what we didn't teach. I had the kids seven hours and twenty minutes . In that time I taught Reading Writing , Spelling , Math, Language arts , Science Social Studies, Art and Music or and P.E. All of these scheduled in and around assemblies, pta events, jog a thons, earthquake drills, firedrills, lice checks, dental checks , vision and hearing screening , testing , reading buddies. Add to that the disruptive kid that needs to be taken care of before he or she causes more problems. I have taught holding a child in my lap to keep him from beating up one of the other kindergarteners in my class (inner city school. child's mother was dying and he didn't understand what was going on). I taught with another child who would have emotional out brust on a pretty daily basis as mother was bedridden having her fifth child and this young one was pretty much ignored at home. She too didn't know what was going on. This was a really good family , an oops pregancy and a father on overload trying to be all to his four girls. I would have to calm this little one down before I could teach the others
I could go on and on and there are plenty of other teachers out there that have the same or other stories. Check out the name Rafe Escales and the Hobarth Street Shakepeareans. He does amazing things with his inner city kids.
We do the best we can but we are not perfect . Seems like the bad ones always get the publicity, and what we are said not to teach gets all the news.
Not teaching history? You should see the units I have seen in grade school classes I have been invovled with . I have seen children become craftsmen of the Colonial times , seaman on 24 hours before the Mast and experience what it must have been like to travel by wagon to Oregon using interactive material . They made up wagon trains and traveled by doing challenges on the trail to Oregon.
I know of children that do first person presentations of historical figures . They present these to the younger children at the school.
I know of students that study the Renaissance then attend the special school days at The Renaissance Faire.
Now that I am retired I give school tours to kids from local schools in Los Angeles area at the Drum Barracks. Some of the kids know quite a bit about the War , others are just beginning to learn . I will always remember the little girl that when looking at the document signed by Lincoln asked me with wonder . Did President Lincoln actually touch that paper? When I said yes, she dragging the rest of her class to see the paper Lincoln touched.


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Parks, 42, is accused of capital murder for the death of his stepfather, 62-year-old Dr. David Millstein, at his Mountain Home residence in June 2006. Authorities allege Parks stabbed Millstein several times for financial gain.
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Mark Eberhardt has been blending his passion for craftsmanship with his intense dedication to customer service for over thirty years. While satisfied clients have taken Mark all over California for follow-up and referral projects, his specialization has been, and remains, building creative interpretations of the classic Tahoe architecture.
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The National Weather Service has issued a freezing rain advisory that will be in effect for York and Adams counties from 4 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday.
"A period of light icing is likely late tonight through Friday morning as a weak weather system moves through the region," the advisory reads.
Accumulations of a tenth of an inch or less are possible. The freezing rain could cause dangerous travel conditions on untreated roads or highways, the advisory said.
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Cash cow: How Congress milks taxpayers in the 2012 farm bill
It's no exaggeration to say that this year's farm bill is an example of exactly what's wrong with Washington. It embodies the two biggest threats to American free enterprise today: the heavy-handed central planning of statism and competition-destroying beggar-thy-neighbor cronyism. From the $5.6 billion spent annually on crop insurance subsidies to the $1.3 billion we spend on milk subsidies, American agriculture policy is replete with cronyism and special interest subsidies.
It's not fair, it's bad economics and it's bad policy.


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The sub 4lbs gear list is great but a 5lbs gearlist that is much more versatile is far better. Seems silly to be skimping on sunscreen and base layers just to cut that one pound out. I'd much sooner drop the electronics (camera and mp3) personally if I was just trying to reach an imaginary weight goal.I've gone SUL light before and will again but I'll also take my heavier, warmer clothes when I'm going out in colder weather. Just keep the eye on the prize, enjoying the experience, not saying you did it with X lbs of gear.
Doug,This list looks great. I'm putting together a sub-4 list for Yellowstone NP and the surrounding area–I'll be working there from June until late September–and have found yours very inspiring.I just spent way too much money ordering a cocoon hoody, pants, and PRO 90 quilt. My only question/concern for your list is that the 60 quilt plus the pullover, pants, and balaclava means that you'll have approximately 1.2 inches of loft in your sleep system. Now, I know that some synthetics offer more warmth for the same loft than down, etc. etc. So I'll be very generous and say it would be equivalent to 1.5 inches of down. Even with all your clothing on, good caloric intake, etc., I'd think you'd have to be a very warm sleeper to be comfortable in that system at freezing. And you say that you sleep cold, right?I say this not at all to criticize or call you out, just to see what your rationale about the whole system is and to plan ahead for that oh-so-glorious day when all my prepurchased Cocoon gear comes rolling into the tiny post office at Canyon and I get to integrate it into my kit.
Hey Christopher- you certainly have a right to your opinions but don't knock mine. I enjoy the challenge of sub 4 at home and enjoy the non-existent pack and simplified experience on the trail. It is about the experience for me- and this is part of my home experience. And I understand that it's not always the best call- heck I just got back from backpacking with my family where I carried about 4 pounds just in diapers, baby blankets, toys and other baby stuff. I also do winter mountaineering, kayak and canoe camping, car camping and just about every other type of trip. With this pack, though, I can sneak out for a night or two (baby at home) and get deep into the backcountry very easily and have a wonderful, simple experience by my lonesome.For me this isn't bragging rights- it's a personal challenge. Sure, it's silly and anal but it's fun for me...it's what I do as I dream about getting out.And my 6oz of elctronics is my choice. Having music centers me and keeps me rolling and having images helps me to relive the experience. Doug
Is the loft of the various cocoon products listed anywhere?Bill
Hey Miles,Yeah, freezing is probably outside of the limit- I'm not sure! The bivy will help a lot and the truth is that it'll probably be mid-40's at night which is typical for spring Washington. But when I've spent a few nights, I'll certainly let everyone know!I looked hard at that Cocoon 90...so hard to decide!Cheers,Doug
Doug and others, here's a point of reference.Last week, I spent three night's in Wyoming's Red Desert and Wind Rivers hiking and packrafting.Nights were 22 - 25 deg F.I had the Cocoon Hoody, Cocoon Pants, and UL 180 Quilt.The first night (25 deg F), I slept "comfortable but cool". I don't think my body had quite acclimated to the cold yet. It was also windy - a continuous wind blowing through my Wild Oasis tarp of about 5-10 mph, and I didn't have a bivy.The second night (22 deg F), I slept "comfortable" and had a much better night's sleep. Same wind, but I had the tarp battened down to the ground.The third night (24 deg F) with a little (2-3 mph) wind, and the tarp pitched "high", was great, and I slept "comfortable and warm".Part of this increasing comfort comes from increasing nights out on the trail. I seldom sleep as cool later in a trip as I do on the first night. I really do believe that adaptive physiology plays a role.I didn't have a bivy sack, which begs the question, how about a bivy + UL 60 quilt? I don't think that combo would have been as warm as the UL 180 quilt without the bivy-- BUT --The wind made such a big difference in my comfort on the first and second nights that I can't emphasize the importance of staying out of it when you sleep. These were not exactly big winds.For *** me *** <== key point hereI think the Hoody+Pant+180 combo will be a pretty solid 20 degree system if I can stay out of the wind.I haven't had the chance to take the Hoody+Pant+60 or +90 combo to its limits, so I won't venture to guess what the "temp rating for me" is going to be for that system. Doug, you seem to think it's somewhere near freezing. That may be accurate, but if I had to extrapolate my own experience, I'm going to say it's somewhere around the 32-40 range.
Doug-No one is knocking you including me. It's constructive criticism just the same as if someone else posted a gearlist with a reason to make other readers go "hmmm". My pack is just as non-existant when I'm carrying 5lbs vs carrying 4lbs baseweight so to me at least, that's not really a justification.Making light gearlists is fun. I do it myself. Heck most of us here at BPL do it and it's how we push the envelope to get lighter and better at it. Carrying the camera and MP3 is fun. I carry the camera 80% of the time and the MP3 maybe 50% of the time too.I was just saying that you yourself acknowledged the holes in your system so why not fix them? I can go out with a sub 1 pound baseweight any night of the week for the challenge but I'm not going to sleep or eat all that well, right? :)
One thing I do wonder about using a prepoderance of Cocoon synthetic insulated gear in the lighter end of the SUL gearlist spectrum is---- considering the need to not overstuff the Cocoon's Polarguard Delta (which effects it's loft recovery and indeed the longevity of the insulation)---- can you get a Cocoon quilt(s) and Jacket along with everything else into a pack as small as the MLD Revelation (or Prophet, for that matter) or will one need to actually look for a larger pack? Maybe this isn't an issue if using the 2 lighter Cocoon quilts, but...I speak as one who uses a Cocoon pullover and down quilt combo----see my gearlist on my profile. I'm pretty confident that my 16oz. Nunatak down quilt will compress smaller than the 11 oz. Cocoon 60 quilt---at least non-destructively.Yes, I understand the attraction of using a synthetic sleeping system in the wetter parts of the PNW.
Edited by kdesign on 04/17/2007 08:32:28 MDT.
That's a valid point, Kevin, and I can't answer it, because I haven't had much chance to use tiny packs with an all-synthetic Cocoon system yet. However, I'm not even using stuff sacks with my clothes and quilt, so ... I'm pretty cautious by default about overstuffing my puffies.
Doug,Awesome list. I'm a fan of pushing quilt based sleep systems well below freezing, your cocoon setup is really cool.Going cookless is clutch, and I don't know if I could do it for more than an overnight...I can't believe you got a camera and mp3 player in there and stayed sub-4! Dave
I have found that with a heavy dose of Cuben, Sub-4 was easy, Sub 3 is do-able even in early spring or early fall with my 5.5 ounce camera set-up, and Sub 2 was easiest from about 35 degrees to 50 degrees and from about 45 degrees on up, but no camera.It also helps if you are making a lot of your own gear.I am also not cooking as my food is Dry Ensure and Hammer Perpetuem. The Hammer Perpetuem is added to all my drinking water at half (serving) strength.
Re: "But when it gets really cool- especially when hiking at night, I'll have to rely on that Cocoon pullover. I have hiked in it but never for long periods...I might have a hard time finding that middle ground. I'm set for breaks but less so when it's too cold for my shirt/windshirt and too warm for the Cocoon." Since I am not an expert, my ideas tend to be way off the mark, but I'm thinking a full zip vest plus Jacks-R-Better down sleeves lets you hike with (1) just the vest wide open, (2) the vest zipped any of the way up, (3) the vest in any mode plus the sleeves. That covers more of that middle ground than a pullover that doesn't zip all the way, I would think.
I haven't had much time for gearmaking lately, but when I get a chance I'm going to try and build a sub-4 list around a hooded insulated vest. Anyone have experience with hooded vests?
I think a hooded/insulated vest is a great idea. The only commercial one I know of is the Nunatak down one and since I just bought a Shaka Plus I don't think i can spring for the hooded vest too. One at a cheaper price in synthetic form would be really neat for summer use here in the rockies. I've more than once wore my Micropuff vest first thing on early mornings until I'd warm up. Plus now that I've switched to using a jacket/vest as part of my sleep system, getting up in the middle of the night or first thing in the morning sounds terrible without one :)
"I'm not even using stuff sacks with my clothes and quilt"Ryan, others: how do you pack your puffy stuff if you're not using a stuff sack? For example, is your sleeping bag stored at the bottom of your pack? Where are your insulation layers stored? What about the danger of imparting food odors from your kitchen and food stores onto your puffy stuff? Finally, is there an increased risk of wetting your insulation layers sans stuff sacks? Thanks in advance for relaying your experiences and advice. I want to ditch the stuff sacks, but I'm still paranoid about the odor, punctures and moisture issues.
Tony - in a "regular" pack I use a poly bag liner. In goes the sleeping bag, then food, cook kit, and around it all, puffy clothes, extra socks. Shelter and other essentials on top. Roll top the poly bag and close the pack. Same strategy with the Arctic Dry Pack, but sans the poly bag. When I have a wet shelter, it gets stored on top of the poly bag, or with the Dry Pack, between the dry bag and the beavertail flap.Foods are stored in odorproof bags (my favorites are the 7x8 O.P Sak and the 12x20 O.P. Sak), mostly, so not a huge issue.
Hi Tony,I'm the same- I use a very large stuff sack or pack liner for all my insulation so it remains uncompressed. In this case it's a garbage bag but other times I use a BMW Poly liner or a huge Golite silnylon stuff sack. Either way, I never pack my insulation down.Thanks everyone for your feedback and great ideas! I'll let you know how it works out!Cheers,Doug
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Redding to consider abolishing medical marijuana collectives
Redding could outlaw all medical marijuana collectives operating in town by Dec. 1, under an emergency ordinance up for City Council consideration Tuesday.
An October ruling by a state appellate court strips Redding and other cities of their powers to regulate medical marijuana collectives, City Attorney Rick Duvernay wrote in his council report.
Duvernay had initially indicated Redding would wait to see whether the appellate court ruling was challenged before looking at its own regulations.
A state Supreme Court appeal now seems likely, Duvernay said in his report. The Supreme Court could decide the matter as soon as February or two years from now, he said. But the October court ruling is state law for the time being.
Some medical marijuana advocates protested when Redding adopted ordinances regulating collectives and cooperatives in late 2009, calling the rules too invasive and restrictive.
Tuesday's meeting promises to be even more contentious.
Advocates say Redding's 16 collectives remove the danger from marijuana purchasing for seriously ill people while pumping tens of thousands of dollars each year into the local economy.
Jess Brewer, who owns Trusted Friends, a collective with two resource centers in town, said the city seems determined to override the will of California voters who approved Prop. 215 in 1996.
Medical marijuana users will no longer have safe places to get medicine if the city abolishes collectives, Brewer said.
" What this is going to do is just booster the cartels in the mountains and hurt good clean businesses," Brewer said. "People have a right to come to a place where it's safe and they can get medicine scrutinized by people who know what they are doing instead of meeting people in the park selling whatever the cartel has that day."
2nd District State Court of Appeal ruling in Pack vs. Long Beach changed state law, Duvernay said in his report to the council.
Prop. 215 decriminalizes marijuana possession and cultivation with a doctor's recommendation. The initiative also decriminalizes medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives.
Any local government effort to regulate collectives goes beyond decriminalization to outright authorization of medical marijuana, a power federal law preempts, the court ruled in its Long Beach decision.
The court overturned the permitting system in Long Beach, which is much like Redding's.
Under the ruling, Redding cannot conduct criminal background checks of collective applicants, cannot require collectives to put security plans in place and cannot subject collectives to random inspections to make sure they are operating as nonprofits, the council report said.
Collective operators were also warned Redding could revoke their permits at any time should state law change, the report said.
"In addition to knowing that these operations were contrary to federal law and subject to federal enforcement, applicants assumed these risks and proceeded to establish or continue operation of large scale medical marijuana cooperatives and collectives," the report said.
Four of five council members must approve the proposed medical marijuana collective ban before it can go into effect.
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Google's Answer to Wikipedia
Google's Knol project aims to make online information easier to find and more authoritative.
Google recently announced Knol, a new experimental website that puts information online in a way that encourages authorial attribution. Unlike articles for the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which anyone is free to revise, Knol articles will have individual authors, whose pictures and credentials will be prominently displayed alongside their work. Currently, participation in the project is by invitation only, but Google will eventually open up Knol to the public. At that point, a given topic may end up with multiple articles by different authors. Readers will be able to rate the articles, and the better an article's rating, the higher it will rank in Google's search results.
Google coined the term "knol" to denote a unit of knowledge but also uses it to refer to an authoritative Web-based article on a particular subject. At present, Google will not describe the project in detail, but Udi Manber, one of the company's vice presidents of engineering, provided a cursory sketch on the company's blog site. "A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read," Manber writes. And in a departure from Wikipedia's model of community authorship, he adds that "the key idea behind the Knol project is to highlight authors."
Noah Kagan, founder of the premier conference about online communities, Community Next, sees an increase in authorial attribution as a change for the better. He notes the success of the review site Yelp, which has risen to popularity in the relatively short span of three years. "Yelp's success is based on people getting attribution for the reviews that they are posting," Kagan says. "Because users have their reputation on the line, they are more likely to leave legitimate answers." Knol also has features intended to establish an article's credibility, such as references to its sources and a listing of the title, job history, and institutional affiliation of the author. Knol may thus attract experts who are turned off by group editing and prefer the style of attribution common in journalistic and academic publications.
Manber writes that "for many topics, there will likely be competing knols on the same subject. Competition of ideas is a good thing." But Mark Pellegrini, administrator and featured-article director at Wikipedia and a member of its press committee, sees two problems with this plan. "I think what will happen is that you'll end up with five or ten articles," he says, "none of which is as comprehensive as if the people who wrote them had worked together on a single article." These articles may be redundant or even contradictory, he says. Knol authors may also have less incentive to link keywords to competitors' articles, creating "walled gardens." Pellegrini describes the effect thus: "Knol authors will tend to link from their articles to other articles they've written, but not to articles written by others."


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The RHAC is a non-profit 501(c)3 arts education organization that offers classes, workshops, and events in many traditional and fine art media for individuals of all ages and experience levels.
The RHAC seeks to provide opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to be creative because we believe that creative expression contributes to a healthy happy life.


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A thin white cloud was still drifting above the rubble of the World Trade Center yesterday as crews of tradesmen arrived to offer a hand and mourners continued a public vigil that stretched for blocks.
A multitude of faces — images of the missing — looked out from where they were posted on buildings, hydrants and police barricades.
Memorials formed on the streets and public squares, with children's drawings, handwritten notes, postcards of the World Trade Center, drawings in red, white and blue. Solace seemed to come from simply being together.
On Sixth Avenue and Canal Street, a memorial had grown on the pavement at Duarte Square. Candles were glowing atop an inch-thick layer of wax.
"In my heart, I'm just feeling the pain for these people," said Julio Matos, 46, who had come in from Brentwood, Long Island, and was holding up a drawing of an American eagle. "The pain, it's just too deep. What we're trying to do — as the candles go out, we light them again.
"It's hard. You want to hug all of these people, but that's just not possible. You do what you can."
New volunteers — construction workers and firefighters — came from around the country to help, and some were turned away.
"We thought today we could get inside somehow and help them remove the rubble," said Eugene Burke Sr., 57, of Queens, a retired inspector for the Long Island Railroad who had come with his son. "Apparently, they're taking just the main trades right now. So we just stayed."
Many people, like 50-year-old Clinton Owens of the Bronx, wanted to take action after seeing the tragedy unfold. "We got tired of watching. We came to do something."
A member of Local 638 of the Steamfitters union, Owens noted the sense of unity shared among the crowds.
"It's a shame it took something like this to bring people together," he said, wearing a hard hat painted with stars and stripes and holding a hammer in his hand. "All nationalities and religions. Now, everybody is looking at themselves as an American. Not 'I am Italian-American, I am African-American.' As an American, period. And that should have been done a long time ago. I hope it continues after this is over."
Fellow union member Jack Adams, 46, said he wanted to help in any way he could. "I used to burn steel, so I know how to cut steel if they need it. I'm here."
Coming off a 12-hour shift, Walter Rodriguez of the Asbestos, Lead and Hazardous Waste Laborers union was planning to come back at 7 p.m. to continue working. The work, he said, was harrowing.
"There are parts of the buildings, all the buildings, where the walls are broken, the windows. There is ash and dust everywhere," he said. "Where we were, the building seemed like it was unsteady. You keep thinking about it. It's almost like a matter of when it's going to go."
Firefighters and other rescue workers said yesterday was much more organized than previous days, aided by more heavy equipment and better coordination. Some volunteers were turned away.
"Everybody is very determined. Everybody is working together," said Omar Mandicon, a member of Laborer's Local 66 of Long Island. He was emerging from the restricted zone where the work was going on.
Michael Curley of Suffern, who retired from the New York Fire Department five years ago, was back working with his old company. "It's organized today; it's moving quick," he said. "Bodies are coming out."
Access to the area below Canal Street remained restricted to people showing identification as residents or business owners. Along Canal Street, people let out loud jubilant cheers to each firetruck and rescue vehicle, waving American flags, screaming, "Thank you!"
Relatives of the missing, carrying stacks of posters, described their ongoing struggle between hope and despair.
"The shock (lasted) the first three days, but now it's all sinking in," said Vincent Pacquin, 28, of Connecticut. "It's the reality. You don't know what to think."
He was putting up posters of his cousin, 34-year-old Carl Peralta. "I grew up with him," Pacquin said. "He's always been there. There are no words. He's my cousin."
Peralta worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, and had returned to work after a vacation. "We look on a lot of the Web sites, and sometimes you see his name," Pacquin said. "But you call the hospitals, and there's no word of him."
Around the perimeter of the zone, on Canal Street, the city was beginning to rebound, and patriotism was in full color. Virtually everyone wore an American flag in some form — a bandanna or sticker — or waved a flag.
"So sad," said Ted Scofield, who came down from the Upper East Side to take a look. "This was the best view of the towers, right here on West Broadway."
He said he was impressed by the flags and by the spirit. "New Yorkers do not wear 'I Love New York' T-shirts, but they are wearing them today," he said. "And I've got eight of them in this bag here."
Stacy Marutollo, 20, an NYU student from Eastchester, had watched the attack from her dorm window. Yesterday, she joined in song with other students at the corner of West Street and Canal, singing "Amazing Grace" and the national anthem.
"I'm so proud to be an American," she said. "It's unbelievable how this whole country got together."
Walking among the crowd on a side street was former Sen. Bill Bradley. He was on a flight from Berlin to New York when he learned of the hijackers' attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
"I wanted to make sure I came down today to thank the firemen and police for the incredible job they've done, and to express to the families my sympathy," Bradley said.
"There's still a period of mourning and healing that has to take place," he said, adding, "I feel that America, as it has always, will turn adversity into strength.
At the intersection of Greenwich and Chambers streets, two McDonald's restaurant trailers were distributing meals for the rescue crews.
Notes were taped to a bank window on West Broadway and Reade Street, a few blocks from the scene. "To a guardian angel," began one note. "Thank you for going into hell and rescuing our Americans."


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"I love going online for free short sexual trailers. I spend way too much time doing this. My wife died two years ago and I am alone. I was married for 30 years, and she knew all about my homosexuality.
I have tried joining gay groups and at 55 years, it is extremely hard to find someone. I attend a predominately gay church, and I can't find someone there that fits the bill. Any suggestions?"
Adam: It's not surprising that after three decades of marriage and the death of your wife, it's taking you a while to find your feet in the gay world. I think you're on the right lines: You understand the limits of what online quick fixes provide, and yearn for something deeper; and you are part of at least one community group that brings you into contact with other gay people. I think the most important thing to do is to be kind to yourself, and to take your time. At 55 you've got many years' head start on those who cannot or dare not come out until they are seniors.
Tony: Yes, patience and a firm sense of your self-worth. One other thing -- trust, to yourself and to life. It sounds like you are doing social and community things primarily to "find someone that fits the bill." Why not just do things for the sake of doing them and enjoying them, with no expectation or pressure that you will meet someone? Then trust that good relationships, maybe even that "special one," may naturally result. We can't make romantic relationships happen, and the more we try, the more it seems we fail. But we can live our lives authentically, generously and actively. Then it's more likely we'll meet those who will give us what we need anyway.
Adam: As you do things, enjoy them for their own sake and you'll be at your most natural and relaxed. It's this side of you that will draw others to you. If you are a decent man, as I'm sure you are, and are putting yourself in environments that mean that you meet other people, I'm confident that opportunities to form more meaningful relationships will arise.
Tony: I do so hope that you meet the person who will give you their heart, and whom you may also love. In the meantime, I sense you spend much time alone. So one of the biggest challenges, maybe for all of us, is how and how well we spend time in solitude. Please follow your instinct that it's not healthy to allow too much of that time to dribble away on the internet. In those times alone, pursue activities that lift your spirits and give you genuine pleasure. And get about and share that 55 years of experience you have with as many others as possible. Good luck! You deserve it.
Life partners for more than 20 years, Adam Clark and Tony Dines are the United Kingdom's leading life coaches specializing in the needs of gay men. They have a private practice in London and offer face-to-face, telephone and email coaching to men throughout the world. Check their website for information about private consultations.
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Khemitology: An alternative approach to Egyptology
Egypt is currently in the news, and not for the most pleasant of reasons. Political disturbances are being felt in isolated pockets of the country, yet are clearly overblown by western media, and some foreign governments. But this land, and especially the fertile areas that border the Nile River has been a vital part of human history for thousands of years. From the rise of Islam in the 7th century AD, and back through the Coptic Christians, Jews, Romans, Greeks, Persians and finally the so called dynastic Egyptians, each successive dominant culture has left their mark.
The clearest evidence of this is in the stone constructions they left behind. And it is through the study of these works that we can see the level of technology each culture had, through what tools they used. Limestone is and has been in great abundance in the country, especially near Cairo, due to the laying down of sedimentary deposits millions of years ago.… Read the rest


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The First Capitol Detachment of the Marine Corps League plans to honor one of its historic heroes.
A remembrance ceremony for Sgt. John Henry Denig will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at his burial site in Prospect Hill Cemetery, 700 N. George St. in North York.
Denig, born in York on Sept. 8, 1838, served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Civil War.
He received a Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Battle of Mobile Bay in Alabama on Aug. 5, 1864, according to a news release from Prospect Hill Cemetery.
Denig, who served on the Union's USS Brooklyn, courageously fought a two-hour battle against the Confederate's CSS Tennessee. The battle ended with the Confederate fleet surrendering.
Dave Brady, senior vice commandant of First Capitol Detachment of the Marine Corps League, will read Denig's Medal of Honor citation -- issued Dec. 31, 1864 -- at the ceremony.
"I hope people gain an appreciation for Sgt. Denig and what he had done during the Civil War," Brady said. "He's one of those heroes from York's past."
Annual event: This is the fourth year of the remembrance ceremony for Denig, Brady said. About two dozen people attend the event, though Brady said he hopes the Civil War's 150th anniversary this year will spark interest in Denig.
During Saturday's ceremony, the feature speaker, Ruthe Fortenbaugh Craley will discuss the book "When the Rebels Occupied York, Pennsylvania" by Jeffery C. Bortner. The book was published in June by the Martin Memorial Library Legacy Society, according to the cemetery.
Also participating are the Lancaster Fencibles Color Guard and Thom Weller who will perform Taps.
More than 1,000 Civil War soldiers are buried at Prospect Hill.
Brady said he continues to research history about Denig.
"One thing we do not know is whether there are still descendents in the area," he said. "We would like to find out."
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More West Seattle cleanup work tomorrow – plus, the city's thanksNovember 13, 2009 at 8:10 pm | In Delridge, How to help, Pigeon Point, West Seattle news | 2 Comments
Last weekend, we told you about Delridge and Pigeon Point volunteers spending a soggy, breezy Saturday morning making their neighborhood nicer (here's our story). Tonight, two notes: First, Rose Feliciano (left) will be out raking up leaves again tomorrow morning around 9 am along the bike trail by the bridge. She mentioned this on the Pigeon Point e-mail list; we asked if we could mention it here in case anyone wanted to help out, and she said OK, adding "the way to access the bike path is the north end of 22nd Avenue SW." (Here's a map.) Meantime, the folks at Seattle Public Utilities asked if we would publish this public thank you to Rose and everyone else out working last weekend – PLUS all the other cleanup program volunteers peninsula-wide:
I'd like to thank Nancy Folsom, Rose Feliciano, the Pigeon Point Neighborhood Council, the North Delridge Neighborhood Council-and all the other West Seattle volunteers who are making a difference in their neighborhoods by participating in Seattle's Adopt-a-Drain and Adopt-a-Street programs. These volunteer programs continue to grow, showing that we all value the quality of life that Seattle offers. Adopting a street or a drain is a great way to get to know your neighbors. Please give me a call if you would like help getting involved: 684-7647.
Thanks again, folks!
Carlton Stinson
Seattle Public Utilities
Adopt-A-Drain/Adopt-A-Street Coordinator
Both programs have more info online, too – Adopt-A-Street here, Adopt-A-Drain here.
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A big thanks to Rosie and those who have helped. As a sometime bike commuter I really appreciate it because that sidewalk was getting really slippery with leaves until Rosie and the other volunteer(s) jumped in last week. A big thanks!
Comment by Hormel — 9:53 pm November 13, 2009 #
*blush* What a nice note from Mr. Stinson. I'd like, in turn, to thank the intrepid folks who came out last weekend–it really was miserable weather. (I'm not sure they want me thank them by name, but they know who they are!)
I really appreciate that people put the AASs on their schedules and make it a priority in their lives. Thank you!!!
Comment by Nancy F, — 10:24 am November 14, 2009 #
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LittleMzFit 6 years
I don't really like it but it seems to go with the outfit okay.
lily3484 8 years
I really don't like this look on her. I think its very unflattering to her face shape. I think maybe if her hair was'nt so long it would look a little better.
alieapple 8 years
I don't like it. But it's better than her new music !
crispet1 8 years
She looks BAD. That style is so over.
maplesyrup 8 years
Someone needs a new hair stylist!
audreystar 8 years
i don't care for that hairstyle. reminds me of a powerpuff girl.
shini 8 years
I dunno, I don't think she goes too well with the whole 'sexy' business.
snickerdoodle 8 years
I don't know, I see where she was going with this - she has a round face, so height in a hairstyle isn't a bad idea. But this seems to be overdoing it just a little, and the result isn't the most flattering thing in the world.
Daylyn 8 years
Hate it, It's very unflattering
ckeller825 8 years
her head is too big for that tiny poof
QueenMargot 8 years
I don't like it.
jhuck 8 years
There was one point in her career where she was looking pretty good. In the past little while it looks like she's fired her makeup, hair and wardrobe people...and lost her mirror. Oh Kelly, come back!
Schaianne 8 years
Umm, if it wasn't for that pompadour thing, it wouldn't be too bad.
torisweettooth 8 years
awwwww...yuck! No this is NOT the hair style for Kelly. Poor thing is probably heart broken now. Man i would fire that hair dresser.....yesser!
junebrug 8 years
I'm going to hell, but I can't stop myself, she's just not a pretty girl. When she looks her best -- like the "Hazel Eyes" video, she can look downright attractive, and then other times....oh well, she's a great singer and no one is perfect.
CiaoBella2 8 years
Get rid of the hair extensions, she looked so much better shorter hair a few weeks ago.
GiggleSugar 8 years
On Bjork or someone a more avant garde, it might be cool. It really is about the personality. She's way mainstream, though, and needs a more mainstream look.
lemuse20 8 years
I agree, the color is pretty, but the do itself not so much.
blogsap 8 years
i like it big and wavy.
blogsap 8 years
i like it big and wavy.
carbizkate 8 years
I have never really liked her, and I think she is not very attractive. This hairstyle certainly isn't doing her any favors.
doubleuendy 8 years
i dont care for her style.


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NEW — International Symposium: Bilingual Videoconferencing in Legal Settings
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This website is devoted to the practice of, and research into, 'videoconference interpreting' and 'remote interpreting', two relatively recent forms of interpreting that entail a partial or complete separation of the interpreter from the 'primary participants', i.e. the people who need the interpreting service.
Videoconference interpreting (VCI) means that an interpreter is involved in a communicative situation in which the primary participants are at two or more different locations that are linked via videoconference. The interpreter is located with one of the primary participants.
Remote interpreting (RI) refers to a communicative situation in which all primary participants are at a single location, whilst the interpreter is at another (remote) location and linked to the primary participants via videoconference.
Videoconference technology is used in connection with both spoken-language and sign-language interpreting and across different fields of interpreting including business, conference and public service or community interpreting (see also more detailed definitions).
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Such new and emerging forms of bilingual or multilingual communication in which interpreting takes place under the conditions of technological mediation may only represent a relatively small share of the interpreting market but they are perceived as difficult because of the interpreter's (partial) separation from the primary participants and because of a current lack of guidance and training.
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I had my first few days of work at Vasse Felix last week here in Margaret River. It seems like only yesterday I was finishing vintage in California, but here we go again!
While it's still pretty early in vintage, everyone seems pretty excited about another stellar year for Margaret River wines. Since 2007, the region has enjoyed great growing seasons. Forecasts show a cooling trend after today, which will help slow ripening for better flavor development (and better daytime sleeping conditions!), so fingers crossed.


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In the late 1960s, on the heels of the New York Pop Art Movement, a renegade group of Venice Beach and Santa Monica-based painters, sculptors and photographers began to implement advancing technology and unusual materials in their gutsy artistic creations. The maverick attitudes and formidable skills of the artists combined with Southern California's free expressionism and "hang loose vibe" to give birth to the LA School of Art. Also known as the Light and Space Movement, the local art experiment exploded and grabbed headlines around the world.
The bold paintings, pioneering sculpture and inventive photography of the art inspired LA condos of Azzura celebrate celebrate the LA School of Art. More than 150 pieces-from Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha to Billy Al Bengston and Roy Lichtenstein-grace Azzurra's lobby, gathering spaces and public areas. Each residential level of our luxury LA condos are dedicated to a different artist; every floor transformed into its own private and intimate gallery.
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As the year comes to a close, we have compiled a list of Mofo Politics' Top 5 Airhead Sluts of 2010.
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Four compete for new Mary Rose museum
The Mary Rose Trust has secretly shortlisted four frontrunners in the competition to design its new museum in Portsmouth.
The AJ can reveal that the quartet vying to land the multimillion pound scheme are Wilkinson Eyre, Austin Smith: Lord, Higgins Gardner & Partners and a joint bid by Wilford/Schupp/Dyson.
The winner will get the chance to create a 'world-class museum' and a permanent home for Henry VIII's favourite warship, the Mary Rose, which was raised from the Solent in 1982 and is now on display in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard.
Since its recovery the ship has undergone constant conservation and has already attracted almost 6.5 million visitors.
The new museum will have space to house the hull, Tudor artefacts and mount major exhibitions. It will also feature areas devoted to maritime archaeology and conservation.
The museum expects the project to open to the public in 2011 to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first voyage of the ill-fated ship.
It is hoped that the new centre will attract an additional 150,000 new visitors a year to Portsmouth, as well as 'enhancing the city's international reputation for excellence'.
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"You're Not From Around Here" by Mike SmithPhotography // Monday, March 17, 2014
Mike Smith's "You're Not From Around Here" is a book which documents the hermetic, beautiful, and surreal state of Tennessee. Smith, a German immigrant and Yale graduate, has clearly struck a nerve with the people of the seemingly banal farmland. The solitary people he photographs are fascinating anomalies, juxtaposed against the soothing and strange landscape.


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September 2013I am pleased to announce that SHL will be launching a brand-new program designed specifically for kids! We will continue to offer all of the same family activities you have come to know and love over the past four years, but with some fantastic additions, making this the most comprehensive humanist-youth-oriented program yet!
Families will enjoy getting to know each other and building our community at casual meetups at local parks each month, as well as festive ones planned for the holidays. In addition to our traditional fall picnic at the corn maze in October and our holiday cookie party in December, a super-cool evolution activity will make its debut in February as the first-ever activity just for kids during the College of Charleston's annual Darwin Week.
A large element of humanism is a belief in science as the best way of understanding the world, and science programming will play a prominent part in our educational offerings. We have partnered with Charleston County Parks and Recreation to put together a themed set of programs for the year. When they're not busy partying during the holidays, our kids will enjoy learning about the natural history of the lowcountry throughout the rest of the year with fun, hands-on programs such as Bird Study, Forestry, Soil and Water Conservation, and Salt Marsh Ecology. We'll have two tracks - one for elementary-aged kids and younger and one for middle and high-school kids - so that the content be age-appropriate and kids will have excellent opportunities for peer bonding. We have offered educational programs in the past, but we are kicking them up a notch. Think scouting. For Humanist youth. Like with merit badges, our kids will have the opportunity to earn "badges" for participation and achievement.
No humanist program would be complete without a humanism component. Fortunately, we have that covered! We are especially proud of this new and exciting offering which we feel will provide our children an opportunity to learn about humanism and all of its life-affirming ideals. Modeled after the Harvard Humanist Learning Lab and other secular Sunday schools, our goal is to create a safe space for children to explore their developing worldviews, think for themselves, connect with their community, and build a strong ethical foundation. Scheduled during our third-Sunday monthly speaker presentation at Gage Hall, SHL's humanist youth program will be geared toward children ages 5-12 years old. If space allows, children younger than 5 years old may attend with a parent and children older than 12 years old may attend as program assistants. We are pleased to offer our pilot program at zero cost to participants, but space is limited, so pre-registration is required. Because consistency is key to a successful program, priority will be given to those who plan to attend the entire series.
We will celebrate the close of our very exciting year with an outing to a local park. Perhaps we will take a canoe trip. Perhaps it will be a nature hike or a trip to Bee City. Whatever we decide, it will be a fun way for families to connect.
We are thrilled with the possibilities this year brings, but we cannot do it alone. We welcome the suggestions, feedback, and general input of parents. We are also relying on parent volunteers to assist with our humanist program. Together, we can build a meaningful community for ourselves and our children. If you would like to volunteer your services or time or just make a suggestion, please email Amy Monsky. We also invite all parents to join SHL's online community just for secular parents. We can be found on Yahoo! and Facebook.
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And neither can their fans. If I hear one more dim-witted, irrational Philadelphia fan call for Andy Reid or Donovan McNabb's head, my head probably will explode. I love Philadelphia. I love the Eagles. I can never be considered a true Philadelphia fan due to my humble, eclectic upbringing. And I thank myself for that everyday so that I can be avoided being lumped into the true Philadelphia fans.
I get it. The city as a sports fan wears its heart on its sleeve. You express yourselves in colorful manners and voice your opinions without thinking. If Eagles fans had their way, Reid and McNabb would have been left behind years ago and our franchise would have been mired in mediocrity by now. But the fans don't see it that way. They're emotional right now. The Cowboys just beat them for the second and third times this season and ousted the Eagles from the playoffs. We're a little pissed right now, even myself. The difference is, I can still think with a clear head.
Case and point, Donovan McNabb is a Top 10 NFL QB in my opinion. Mike Vick or Kevin Kolb will probably not step in and be a Top 10 QB in the NFL. They can be good, efficient, maybe even win a game or two on their own, but they won't be a Top 10 QB. Not next year. The Eagles have no QB controversy unless you believe the stuff that ESPN pumps at you. Andy Reid should have never needed to address this issue unless the media brought it up (and they did this to drive the city of Philadelphia and Eagles fans crazy. On purpose. I can't prove it, but they've been doing it for years.) and he ended the matter quickly. In the words of the infamous Lovie Smith, "Donovan is our quarterback."
McNabb said something after the Week 17 loss to Dallas. He said "We showed our youth today." He did not take a shot at his young playmakers, but rather merely expressed that young teams will have bad games. Every skill position player for the Eagles (counting McCoy at RB) is 25 or younger. Think about that for a second, most of the Eagles core offensive skill players are entering their prime. This is a good thing. The Eagles are getting younger at O-line as well. Losing C Jamal Jackson really hurt this team during those last two games against Dallas and put McNabb into a survival mode in the pocket. Again, not the end of the world and I hope that Jackson is back for the start of next year because he is a fantastic player.
Secondly, the Eagles defense is also young for the most part. MLB Stewart Bradley was lost for the season in training camp and the Eagles as a unit never had any real cohesion for the entire season with all of the injuries and different lineups. Losing DC Jim Johnson didn't help either. Macho Harris replaced Sean Considine as the Eagles safety I open wonder aloud "WTF is he doing?" on a regular basis. The Eagles also seemed to be lacking a defensive leader. Why Brian Dawkins played this year in Denver is beyond me, he would solve my FS problem and leadership at the same time, and that hurt this team on the field and in the locker room, terrible decision by the Eagles front office (first time I've said that in years and we knew this at the beginning of the season).
Eagles fans, this young team is only going to get better. If you want to call for Ried and Donovan's head again, be my guest. You're entiled to do that. But think for a second of who is going to replace those two and if it's really an upgrade. Sure, Andy Reid doesn't run the ball consistently. I know, I wrote him a whole letter before the Chicago and he didn't do it in either of the two Dallas games. Maybe I should have wrote him again. Probably would not have changed the fact that the Eagles makeshift O-line couldn't stop Dallas' 3-4 scheme even with Jackson calling audibles for the O-line.
The last thing the Eagles should do right now is can McNabb. If you want to debate Westbrook, which would also be another dumb idea, fine. I'll hear that with an open mind. I'll take the debates of which back-up to have next year, Kolb or Vick or both. But I will not listen to the dumbfounded idea that Donovan McNabb should be sent packing.
Because he's going to get us to another Super Bowl. Andy Reid is going to coach it. And they're going to win it. Might be three or four years down the road with two more heartbreaking NFC Championship Game losses, but they're going to do it.
And if you give up on them now, you're throwing it all away because an 11-5 team lost a road playoff game.
And that would be a shame.