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Even in Singapore's volatile nightlife scene, few places change as quickly and frequently as those at Boat Quay. Now though, among the mainstays and the seafood restaurants, a new wave of bars has kicked off a golden age for the iconic belt of shophouses.
At Boat Quay
The Penny Black
The first Boat Quay pub
Designed and built in the United Kingdom – so the story goes – and shipped here piece by piece to be reassembled, The Penny Black has been a reliable drinking point since 1999. The first pub on the strip is the place to go for a perfect pint of Old Speckled Hen ($15), to watch football matches (particularly if you're a Newcastle United fan) and to get an authentic serving of fish and chips wrapped in newspaper ($16).
The Penny Black | Address: 26/27 Boat Quay | Tel: 65382300 | Opening hours: Mon-Thu 11.30am-1am; Fri & Sat 11.30am-2am; Sun 11.30am-midnight
Dallas Restaurant & Bar
For larger-than-life drinks
Another survivor on the stretch (it recently celebrated its sixth birthday), Dallas owes its longevity to a combination of great food – the Alabama pork ribs ($13), Dallas BBQ wings ($13) and Southern burger ($20) – and an excellent selection of drinks. Choose from the sizeable (3L beer towers from $84 and 1L margaritas for $45 each), or the sophisticated (they have 35 wines from $12 a glass, $52 a bottle).
Dallas Restaurant & Bar | Address: 31 Boat Quay | Tel: 65322131 | Opening hours: Mon-Fri 11am-midnight; Sat noon-midnight; Sun noon-11pm
Charlie's Tapas, Grill & Bar
For Cuban cigars and whiskey
This two-in-one venue has a laidback ground floor where sangria and Latin cocktails ($13 each) flow as you knock back tapas such as crispy baby squid ($10) and pan-seared chorizo ($13). Up on the snazzy upper level called Charlie's Paradiso, the crowd fades away behind Boat Quay's best whiskey line-up (from $13 a glass). And if you enjoy your Cubans, then the 'paradiso' moniker is no exaggeration.
Book a table here | Address: 32 Boat Quay | Opening hours: Mon-Thu & Sun 11am-midnight; Fri & Sat 11am-2am
RedDot BrewHouse
For a microbrewery with a view
With the original Archipelago Brewery flagship bar going quietly into the night, RedDot is now the only microbrewery in the area. On tap is its familiar stable of English Ale, Summer Ale, Lime Wheat, Weizen, Czech Pilsner, Kolsch and Monster Green Lager, with occasional seasonals such as the Marzen, at some of the cheaper prices in this part of town (from $5 a half-pint).
RedDot BrewHouse | Address: 33/34 Boat Quay | Tel: 65354500 | Opening hours: Mon-Thu noon-midnight; Fri, Sat & eve of public holidays noon-1am
Hombre Cantina
For tequila and mezcales
One of the latest arrivals to Boat Quay (it was barely a month old when HungryGoWhere visited in November 2013), Hombre Cantina is decked out in rustic reclaimed wood and raw concrete. It carries more than 70 different tequilas and mezcales (from $10 a glass) and will be introducing tasting flights so you can acquaint your senses with samples of drinks in a manner that doesn't involve knocking back shot glasses. There are cocktails too, from margarita variations to dessert drinks (from $13). Of course, being a Mexican joint, tacos and burritos (from $15) are available, customised with your choice of meat, cheese, salsa, rice, beans and sauce.
Hombre Cantina | Address: 53 Boat Quay | Tel: 64386708 | Opening hours: Mon-Sat 11.30am-midnight
For happy hours and pub grub
This Tube-themed bar is known for its Reverse Happy Hour where you get 10 per cent off draught beers (from usual price of $7.60 a half-pint), house wines (from $9 a glass), house spirits (from $8 a glass) and selected bottled beers (from $9) after 9.30pm. It also does excellent modern pub grub (mains from $15) and value-for-money set lunches (from $14). It's also worth noting that there are no taxes or service charge. Suitably, this place is the home ground for the Singapore Spurs Supporters' Club who meet here every Tottenham game day.
London | Address: 55 Boat Quay | Tel: 65352273 | Opening hours: Mon 5pm-11pm; Tue-Wed noon-11pm; Thu & Fri noon-1am; Sat 10am-1am; Sun 10am-11pm
Ah Sam Cold Drink Stall
For bespoke cocktails and vintage decor
Located in the space that previously housed Homebodies, 10 Feet Up by Absinthe Artisan, Ah Sam Cold Drink Stall just might be the place that lasts in this unit. Run by Sam Wong (formerly of Orgo, Jigger & Pony) the bar tips a hat to Singapore's past and present with touches such as vintage glassware, hawker centre drink container punch bowls (good for 15 to 18 drinks, from $180), Milo-infused rye ($20 a glass) and cocktails such as the rum-based chendol-inspired Beaded Slippers ($20). About the name: it is a play on the venue's licensing, which legally states that it is a "cold drink stall".
Ah Sam Cold Drink Stall | Address: 60A Boat Quay | Tel: 65350838 | Opening hours: Mon-Thu 6pm-midnight; Fri & Sat 6pm-3am
The Spiffy Dapper
For cocktails wtih house-made ingredients
A brief visit to Spiffy's Facebook page will tell you all you need to know about the personality of its staff members and regulars: a sense of humour that is at once irreverent and self-deprecating, and a dedication to mind-blowing cocktails (most available at $20 nett). Like an alchemist's lab, the shelves are lined with fruit curing in bottles and spirits being infused with hibiscus, Earl Grey tea, rose and more. There is a menu here, but you won't need it – just ask and you shall receive. Try the House Bloody Mary, made with tomato-infused vodka, lemon juice, habanero mustard sauce and celery bitters along with the traditional Tabasco and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauces. If not, go for the Diplomatico Old Fashioned or make your own gin and tonic from a list of 58 gins and 6 tonics.
The Spify Dapper | Address: 61 Boat Quay, Second Floor | Tel: 82339810 | Opening hours: Mon-Thu 6pm-midnight; Fri 5pm-2am; Sat 8pm-2am
At Circular Road
The Public House
For a bar with old-school appeal
Even though big things lie ahead for Circular Road as it evolves into a pedestrian street with a new major tenant (The Vault), there have always been a few establishments that shone above the shady hostess bars for which it is known. With an al fresco area to rival any sidewalk cafe in an Old World city and an interior that could have evolved only after many, many wild nights, The Public House has genuine old-school appeal. A decent selection of beers (from $10), ciders (from $12) and spirits (from $10) await, together with cocktails that match the vibe: think Black Russians, Blue Lagoons and Harvey Wallbangers ($15 each).
The Public House | Address: 42 Circular Road | Tel: 65333545 | Opening hours: Mon 4pm-1am; Tue-Thu & Sat 4pm-2am; Fri 4pm-3am; Sun 4pm-midnight
Molly Malone's
For an authentic Irish pub experience
Laying claim to the title of Singapore's first Irish pub, Molly's has lost none of its lucky charm in the 18 years it has been open. With a similar history to The Penny Black – the bar was built in Ireland and shipped over – it carries an aura of authenticity that most other local Irish pubs lack. Guinness ($13 a pint) is always poured at precisely the right pace here. Come St. Patrick's Day (17 March), Molly's is where you will truly find the Irish spirit of merriment known as the "craic".
Molly Malone's | Address: 56 Circular Road | Tel: 65362029 | Opening hours: Mon 11am-midnight; Tue-Sat 11am-2am
A beer enthusiast first and a writer second, Kurt Ganapathy has tried more than 1,000 brews from 80 countries. Some of his most memorable exploits include tackling the one-time world's strongest beer – BrewDog's 41 per cent abv Sink The Bismarck! – and getting his name on the wall of an Irish pub in Melbourne for drinking 100 pints of Guinness (not in one sitting, of course).


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'America will only get better when it is ours again'
Jan 2nd, 2012 at 9:59 am by susie
In their annual list of the nation's most overlooked stories, the editors of The New Republic shrewdly dug up a column by Walter Shapiro in which Shapiro pointed out that President Obama's fireside chat on the economy back on July 25 marked a turning point in our national conversation about what was done to our economy over the previous decade. The speech was a dead-assed appeal for a "balanced" approach to reducing the deficit:
Now, I realize that a lot of the new members of Congress and I don't see eye-to-eye on many issues. But we were each elected by some of the same Americans for some of the same reasons. Yes, many want government to start living within its means. And many are fed up with a system in which the deck seems stacked against middle-class Americans in favor of the wealthiest few. But do you know what people are fed up with most of all? They're fed up with a town where compromise has become a dirty word. They work all day long, many of them scraping by, just to put food on the table. And when these Americans come home at night, bone-tired, and turn on the news, all they see is the same partisan three-ring circus here in Washington. They see leaders who can't seem to come together and do what it takes to make life just a little bit better for ordinary Americans. They're offended by that. And they should be.
There is so much wrong with that. The tired "government should live within its means" trope, as though John Maynard Keynes had died as a child. The deflection of perfectly legitimate, class-based anger at the thieves and sharpers who stole the national wealth into a mushy criticism of generalized government dysfunction. What's the takeaway here? That people can't imagine government making their personal economies better, but are ready at all times to believe that it can make their personal economies worse? Ronald Reagan couldn't have said it better. Walter Shapiro is right: This was a moment, and the president's response to it was positively tone-deaf. Yes, I know, you campaign in poetry and you govern in prose. But there are all kinds of prose. A feed catalogue is prose, but so is Moby-Dick. Calvin Coolidge spoke in prose, but so did FDR. And, of course, we must never make the perfect the enemy of the good. But you know what else is the enemy of good? Timidity is the enemy of the good. Cruelty is the enemy of the good, and so are selfishness, bigotry, and ignorance. Why perfection is the only enemy of the good that ever seems worth fighting is a good question with which to launch the new year.
It is a dead-level time for us as a people. There are now 146 million Americans who are ranked as "low-income" or "poor." Somebody really should do something about that. How we treat them in our politics is going to be the ultimate test of our moral credibility as a nation. Do we treat this situation as the national disgrace that it is, and commit ourselves as a nation to eliminating it? Or do we turn away from them, blame them for the malaise we feel in our lives, and drink deeply again from the supply-side, trickle-down snake oil? Do we look at the president — a Democratic president — and scream that this is no longer tolerable to us as a people? Or do we nod sagely and deplore the lack of civility and bipartisan cooperation in our government and hope that cooler heads will prevail, that the great national purpose of our age is to deprive ourselves further of what was supposed to be the promise of the country in the vague and futile hope that somehow, somewhere, things will get better down the line?

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Primary Sources: The Window Into Shakespeare's PlaysIt truly was winter when we started "A Winter's Tale": a cold, gray, snowy Friday, and the students dragged in cold and gray and snowy. "Are we starting that new book today?" whined Sarah. "What's it about?" asked Adam. "Do we have to read it?" asked Sam.
As always, I started teaching Shakespeare without the book. Instead, I handed out a character list of "A Winter's Tale," provided a copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, copies of the New American Heritage Dictionary, and photocopies of the frontispiece and page 458 of Edward Topsell's "The Historie of Four-Footed Beastes" (on the adultery of lionesses). (See handouts 3 and 4.)
Circulating around the groups, I heard students warming to the chore. "Ooh, I found it," one said, as he started to trace roots to their origins. For example, for the name Perdita, there was perdition, the place of spiritual destruction, but also "a state of loss, or lessening, or a thing that causes destruction." They found a quote from "Othello," and they found perdu, meaning "concealed, hidden."
The murmur started to build as they found the wolf in Autolycus, the foreigner in Polixenes, the flowering of Florizell, and the "square pillar surmounted by a head," in Hermione. I ended with Leontes on purpose, to see what they could glean from a primary source like Topsell's The Historie of Four-Footed Beastes in their search for roots and meanings.
"Tell me a winter's tale," I told them, rushing them towards the end of the one period we spent on this activity. I allowed students to tie character to character in their own fabricated plots: plots of deceit, destruction, and redemption; plots with wolves and statues; plots with lion kings, jealous of adulterous mates.
"This is what we're going to read?" asked Adam.
"Yeah," I said.
"Sounds cool."
And it was, because the book was no longer foreign, and given the same set of circumstances, their thought processes emulated Shakespeare's. Students achieved the goal of taking Shakespeare down from his pedestal, and putting him into the classroom. As we read, they also shared the joy, as the twists they predicted fell neatly into place.
On the way out of class, I handed students a copy of "The Good and the Badde" (see handout 5) and asked them to circle the traits of a Virgin, and those of a Wanton for class discussion the next day. These are high school students, so Virgin piqued their interest, but Wanton (which they tend to pronounce like the Chinese soup) was a new word, if not a new concept.
Working in groups again the next day, I had students write the qualities of Virgins and Wantons on the board: Goodness, Charity, Grace, Patience; Imperfection, an Ape, a Witch, a Devil.
Which category might Hermione fit, based on the plot prognostications from yesterday?
"A devil," said Seth, "like Elizabeth Hurley in 'Bedazzled'."
"Wrongly accused," said Jamie, "an innocent."
"But what about 'The Lion King'?" asked Jessie, "jealousy, the leopard, killing the young, all that."
Let's see. I gave the groups a copy of Act 1.2.35-138 (enlarged, without footnotes), in which Hermione flirts with Polixenes, ending with her giving him her hand. Groups were given 15 minutes to prepare a scene, portraying her as either a Virgin, or a Wanton.
One group set the scene at a mall, with Leontes and Hermione walking out of the food court when they encounter Polixenes. Leontes draws further and further away as his best friend is drawn closer and closer by the Queen's flirtations.
Another group played Hermione as "a TV Land mom; stay-at-home; a good cook. She has to stand really straight and clasp her hands waist high." And she did.
A third group used two Hermiones, some lines were delivered wantonly, and others were delivered virginally.
Without realizing it, they had put Shakespeare on his feet and raised the next big question: what of Leontes? How does he react? The first primary source I used, Topsell's "The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes," gave them hints of Leontes' jealousy, which I further stressed when I asked them to concentrate on reading Act 1.2.139-185 (beginning with Leontes' "Too Hot!" and ending with Hermione's "He... seems unsettled.")
The second primary source, "The Goode and the Badde," led them to thinking about Hermione's behavior in Elizabethan terms. How could these stereotypes influence our understanding of her character?
Then I gave them another primary source, Esther Hath Hanged Haman, in which Esther Sowernam lambastes a pamphlet entitled The Arraignment of Women. (See handout 6.) Using Esther as well as "The Good and the Badde," I have the students develop a scene, lasting no more than 5 minutes, in which they write an accusation of adultery in Leontes' voice, as well as a defense by Hermione.
By doing these activities with primary sources early on in the study of "A Winter's Tale," students begin to recognize and to take ownership of the themes that emerge throughout Acts II and III. They are also fully primed with primary sources when they reach the trial scene of Act 3.2.
Using primary sources to open new windows onto Shakespeare helps to shed more light on his writing, just as composers introduce motifs in an overture. When the ear hears it again, it's no longer a foreign sound.
"This sounds familiar," said Emily, when we read Act 3.
All I could do was nod, and barely suppress the smile.
About the AuthorRobert Hiles teaches college prep, honors, and Advanced Placement English at Beth Tfiloh Dahan School in Baltimore.
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~Parental Unit pt. 4~
4 years later..
Well by the 4 years raising Zap, he'd had grown a bit, he was still really small. Zap looked like a baby still, only that he can walk and talk and everything. I just wish I had a little more time with the smeet but sadly... I'm more sick than ever. The disease has finally taken over my body. I can already feel myself dying off slowly. I'm more worried about telling Zap the news about me dying. A baby shouldn't deal with this stress but I guess it has to happen.
Meanwhile I'm laying on the couch with a blanket warming me up while Zap is watching t.v and sitting on the floor, laughing at the cartoons on the television of a cat chasing a mouse. Hmph, I will never understand these human shows and their way of comedy.
Zap turned his body towards me and smiled. That smile... It only makes me feel worse... I really hate thinking about breaking my smeet's spirit.
"Mama..." Zap asked.
"Yes Zim-child." Zim answered.
Zap stood up and rushed towards me and hugged my arm.
"Mama... I love you." Zap purred and nuzzled my arm.
"Zim loves you too cutey." Zim smiled and kissed Zap's head.
Zim sighed and bit his lip. "Uh... Zap. Zim needs to talk to you." He said, already feeling uneasy about it.
Zap nodded and watched his mother struggle to get off the couch. Zim groaned and cracked his back. "Er... That's a pain." He mumbled to himself. Now walking to Zap's bedroom, Zim looked down at his baby who was holding his hand and had a smile on his perfect little face.
Zim entered the bedroom and picked Zap up and sat him down on the bed. Zim sat next to him and scratched the back of his neck. "Zap... Erm... This isn't easy for Zim to say but... Uh... Zim won't be well... and uh.. Zim won't be alive any more longer because of a fatal irken disease."
Zap's smile had wiped off his face, now only showing a frown and teary eyes. "NO! MAMA NO! YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME! NO NO NO I LOVE YOU! NOOO! I DON'T WANT YOU TO LEAVE ME ALONE!" Zap sobbed violently and hugged Zim tightly, digging his claws in Zim's waist. "I-I... I don't... w-w-want you to go Momma!" Zap cried.
Zim started to cry a little and held his child close. "Zap, Zim needs you to be strong. You won't be alone either, you'll be sent to live with your father."
Zap wiped his tears and looked up at Zim. "I have a daddy?" He asked curiously, lowering his antennas in pure confusion.
Zim stroked Zap's hair back and nodded. "His name is Dib... Dib Membrane. His sister, aka your Auntie Gaz gave me Dib's new address, so that's where you'll live for now on, okay sweety. He'll take good care of you and watch you grow up. I've already packed up your bags. Once you see your father give him a note that I'll give you once you leave. There's 2 more notes in an envelope in your bag for your daddy, but give it to him in a month since he'll be comfortable with you already by then." Zim said.
"Momma... I don't want to go. I want you... I love you Momma." Zap whispered, hiding his face in his sleeves as he cried more. "Please, don't send me to a stranger, I'm scared."
"There is no reason to be afraid my sweet, you'll have your PAK. If anyone hurts you just use your PAK legs to destroy them." Zim chuckled innocently.
On the same day Zim had packed up more of Zap's stuff from his room. He shrunk the luggage filled with his son's stuff with a shrink ray. Zim stood behind Zap but on one knee and opened the child's PAK, placing the tiny luggage in there and the shrink ray.
"Zap, when you get to the house, you'll have your own room and once you do get your room you will need to take out the tiny luggage from your PAK and the shrink ray and unshrink the luggage. Also I should give you these..." Zim took out a suit case from behind his back and held it in front of Zap's back.
Zap turned around and looked at it curiously.
Zim smiled at him then opened the suit case, revealing contacts that are brown instead of purple like Zim's when he use to go to skool.
"These, my son. These are contacts. Those are for your eyes and to hide your alien eyes from humans. Also once your in public you need to hide your antennas in your hair... Zim will not want his smeet to be in a science lab." Zim said and helped Zap put the contacts on. "There you go... You look just like your father except you have green skin, no ears, no nose, 3 fingers, 2 toes... eh you get it... well I guess your ready baby, I'll call a cab." Zim said and hugged Zap close, crying silently and nuzzling into his smeet. "Zim loves you Zap so very much."
Zap sniffled. "I love you too mama."
Zim let go of Zap and held his hand, walking him to the living room. Zim set Zap on the couch and helped Zap in his black sweater and red mittens. "Zim has heard from the human weather channel that it will be cold so Zim does not want you to catch a cold." He said and kissed Zap's forehead. "There we go, nice and toasty... Oh and also Zim wants you to remember him by from this stuff toy I got you." Zim smiled and handed Zap a teddy bear almost as big as his son.
"Wow! Momma I love it! I love my teddy! I'll name him 'Z' which stands for Zim, and I'll love him forever." Zap said happily and hugged his new teddy bear. "Thank you momma."
Zim smiled and pet Zap's head. "No problem my smeet." He said then heard the taxi beep from outside the house. "Hm... Your ride is here." Zim sighed.
Zim walked Zap out of the house and to the car. Zim opened the car door and helped Zap in his seat, buckling the smeet's seat belt. "Alright... Remember sweety, Zim loves you and soon you'll be with daddy. You'll also have Z by your side, he'll keep you safe." Zim told his son then kissed his head. Zim gave the driver a paper that has the address to Dib's house and money to pay. "And make sure not to pick anyone up, I want only my son in this car." Zim said sternly to the driver as the driver nodded. Zim hugged Zap and smiled. "Love you." Zim whispered to Zap then closed the door to the car. He watched as the taxi slowly started to drive away, and after it drove away he sighed heavily. Zim frowned, walking back to the house.
"Good bye, Zap Membrane. Have a good future.."
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Parental Unit is a story about Dib and Zim's 4 year old son 'Zap', who leaves his home aka Zim's house to go to the big city to find his daddy 'Dib'. Zim and Dib dated and of course had sexual intercourse with eachother. Later on in those months Zim bigger and was more cranky then usual. Zim and Dib got in an argument then Dib left Zim to start a new life in the big city, as Zim told Dib he was pregnant but Dib didn't believe him.. Zim later on in those 4 years took care of their smeet until he died from a rare irken disease. thus, leaving the smeet alone, but Zim did tell his smeet that Dib lives in the city and to go find him.. Sooo here starts the adventure of Zap
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Parental Unit is a story about Dib and Zim's 4 year old son 'Zap', who leaves his home aka Zim's house to go to the big city to find his daddy 'Dib'. Zim and Dib dated and of course had sexual intercourse with eachother. Later on in those months Zim bigger and was more cranky then usual. Zim and Dib got in an argument then Dib left Zim to start a new life in the big city, as Zim told Dib he was pregnant but Dib didn't believe him.. Zim later on in those 4 years took care of their smeet until he died from a rare irken disease. thus, leaving the smeet alone, but Zim did tell his smeet that Dib lives in the city and to go find him.. Sooo here starts the adventure of Zap
Parental Unit (c) Me of course
Invader Zim (c) Jhonen Vasquez
Did anyone else cry while reading this? Its too cute but also sad...
X3 thanks lol. It does have it's moments
Hay when you make a story how do you like make a story?
It's hard to explain. The story just comes to me... when I get inspired by something. I get like these ideas in my head and I start to think of it as a story.
Oh. I am trying to work on this zadr story called mistletoe and I am finished with it but I dont have a computer to type it in. I am wondering. How do you post a story on a touch screen phone
On the bottom of the deviantart desktop for mobile website there will be options all the way on the bottom on deviant mobile and on it will say
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*facedesk and sobs* chapter 4 and already sad as fuck
I get that a lot about this story
The hell bro? Ur such a good writer DX almost made me cry as much as Orange ( I really couldn't look at anything the color orange for a week without crying or whining) o3o
Thanks lol... I read ZaDr Orange too. It really gives me the feels.
Wait ! Zim dies in this chapter ? please respond me
Yes, he does. He's too sick to care for Zap for one more day so he sends him off as soon as possible.
I was just thinking... if you'll allow it, I'll make a fan comic of this story It's so cute and heart warming, I can't resist
Heh sure, that would be great! I would love to see that Thanks lol
I cried so much... so happy yet so sad... I'm gonna burst out crying now...
no please no...
I try my best to make the readers have the feels x3 it worked probably
so... sad.....
This actually made me cry *sobs*.... And I DON'T even cry *snif* plz make more
I'll try to continue... my week has been busy but I'll see what I can do


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I think even now, you'll have a lot of pronunciation issues (after all not everyone is a potterhead) with it, which makes me think it's better as a middle name.
I also love Harry Potter and I definitely can see people assuming that you like/love/obsess over Harry Potter. So you might get comments "Oh, like Harry Potter!" or "OH! You must be a Harry Potter fan" So just prepare yourself for that if you do use it as a name at all.
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I actually really love the name Hermione, just by itself. It has some amazing literary roots and I love the sound of it as well. And I don't see the Harry Potter attachment as a hindrance at all - Hermione Granger is an amazing role model for a child. Although I may be biased, because I'm a big Harry Potter fan anyway.c a r a
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"City Archives more fun than a museum"
[There's an article in the 13th September edition of Adformatie, nr. 37, about our campaign for the City Archives. Hereunder the according text. The header, however, is not ours and we don't agree. We go to the museum regularly (take a wild guess to which one) and find it as much fun.]
Next week the City Archives of Amsterdam will open the De Bazel building's doors. To make this move known, Skipintro thought of a campaign that was mainly to stir up curiosity.
"It wasn't an easy job", says Ruby Lemm, director of Skipintro, sighing. Skipintro managed the public campaign around the City Archives' move. The archives' name and image, the character of the building, that used to be a bank, and above all the move itself; each a communicative problem in need of its own communicative solution. This would explain, however, why during the past two years Skipintro remained involved with preparing the move and organising the current campaign; quite a long time for an agency whose name ('Skipintro') contains firm action.
The reason for the campaign is the archives' move to De Bazel, the monumental building on Vijzelstraat. It was built at the beginning of the last century as headquarters of the, at the time, Dutch Trading Company (NHM) and is the direct predecessor of ABN Amro. With forty kilometres of archive material containing large picture collections such as photos, paintings, architectural drawings, posters, floor plans and film/video the Amsterdam City Archives are the largest in the world.
Wearer of spectacles
The City Archives, however, do not only want to be known as dusty storage space but would like to take on a public function by making their material (digitally) accessible. "We would like to do more with and for the public", says pr-official André Hirs. As an example he states the website, where users are offered the possibility to digitalise pieces, that they can later download for a small compensation. Another aspect of the archives' more public oriented policy is to actually make the visual archive material visible by means of using the new space for temporary exhibitions.
The opening, conducted by Queen Beatrix last Wednesday, is flanked by a public campaign to reposition the archives. For this purpose Skipintro was addressed at an early stage already. It began with research on the archives' image. Ruby Lemm encountered quite a few problems during the process. The first problem was the name. "Amsterdammers strongly associated the old name (Council Archives) with boring, dusty government institution, holding no more than council oriented information. The historical collection, however, is actually far broader. That's why a new name was chosen, City Archives Amsterdam."
It also seemed that a lot of people have no idea as to what they can find there, "let alone that they would know how much fun it can be to browse around the archives". The image of a stereotype archives visitor as derived from the interviews is: "male, Caucasian, wearer of spectacles". Lemm's conclusion: the archives have an image problem. "People see it as an institution for scholars. It should, however, be a place for everyone with an interest in their own history and the history of Amsterdam. The student with the spectacles should definitely keep on coming but we would like to add an extra dimension: male/female, old/young, black/white".
The outcome is a campaign to bring the city's history closer by telling stories about the city that aren't necessarily known to everybody but that don't necessarily have to be true either. Film director Eddy Terstall made six TV-commercials of thirty seconds, to be seen on AT5 and TV Noord-Holland, where mayor Job Cohen, Hakim Traïda and Jan Boomgaard (director of the City Archives) tell one true and one false story each. Anybody who would like to know for sure can check the City Archives or visit the website (www.stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl).
Scene of the crime
Other than that there's a billboard campaign in collaboration with JCDecaux. The remarkable thing here is that a story is told per specific location. In total the city sports two hundred posters with a text relating to something that happened at that particular place. And every time the question arises: did this really happen? For instance: on Rembrandtplein you'll find a poster with the text: "A cabaret artist was murdered here". This story is true (1927, Jean-Louis Pisuisse). Some of the posters are multifunctional in use, such as: "Cows used to graze here" or " This corner wasn't always a corner".
There is no particular goal in how many extra visitors the City Archives would like to attract. The primary aim according to Hirs is to adjust the archives' image. "We're counting on expanding our public but most of all we would like the idea to start manifesting in people's heads that archives can be fun. We would like to adjust the image that archives are boring". Do the City Archives then not enter the Historical Museum's grounds? "We are more fun than a museum. People can follow their interest here. Imagine someone would like to know everything about childcare in the 19th century. But also questions related to sports and photography are answered. There's nothing that can't be found here.
Agency: Skipintro
Research: University of Amsterdam and Certs Amsterdam
Strategy: Jef Broersen
Creation: Skipintro
Production films: Spaghetti Film
Director: Eddie Terstall
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Client representative: Ludger Smit, André Hirs


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They have had thirty years to execute this killer.
They should have done it when "Old Sparky" was being used.
Florida Supreme Court: Lethal injection constitutional, execution on for Coral Gables cop killer - OrlandoSentinel.com
Execute him NOW!. I wouldn`t feed him another meal Period.
IMHO for the death penalty to be a deterrent it needs to be SWIFT, it needs to be gruesome, even cruel, it needs to be done in public, (and on TV)
If you make an example out of them, these copycats wouldn't be so common.
None of this, years on death row writing books and doing interviews, making them famous. Just my $.02
YUP if there is no doubt they did it not only including eyewitnesses,but overwhelming evidence up to including a confession,they should be put to death within 30 days of trial
Electric Chair my tail end.. Bring back the firing squad!
I say use these pigs for target practice and don't take ten years to do it either...
I find it hard to fathom how any form of execution can be found to be cruel & unusual...it's a death sentence, for crying out loud!
An eye for an eye...Lets get on with it...
We had the same heinous crimes when hanging, firing squads, and electric chairs were in vogue. Didn't seem to deter much then. Being strung up, shot, or fried is more of an afterthought, not a premonition.
Just make it quick and painless (for the soft-hearted)--but especially quick!
Yeah, but I think the firing squad would be better if it was full of let's say, seven novice shooters and they were told to run it until it was dry!:image035:
I say light him on fire. Forget the hangings, beheadings, and firing squads. Burn the sorry.... person....
What are we waiting for. Let him fry.
"By asserting that no evidence exists concerning whether pentobarbital will render an inmate unconscious, Valle has failed to meet his burden of proof," the court ruled in its unanimous decision.
Perhaps Valle could come back and tell us if it was painful...:hand1:
How can anyone prove any execution is cruel or unusual?. No one is around after an execution to answer that question.
Get rid of them anyway you can so civilized society can exist.


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Former WWE legendary manager Jim Cornette was one of the backstage decision makers in the WWE during the '90s. According to Wrestle View on Feb. 26, Cornette did a recent interview and talked about how he was responsible for creating the character of Kane.
Glen Jacobs was wrestling in Puerto Rico when Dutch Mantell (Zeb Colter) called Cornette and said that he thought that Jacobs could be a great wrestler in the United States. Cornette called him up and booked him in Smoky Mountain Wrestling as Unabomb. While there, he wrestled the Undertaker when he made a special appearance in the company.
Undertaker felt that Jacobs had what it took, so he convinced Vince McMahon to hire him. Unfortunately for Jacobs, his first gimmick was as Jerry Lawler's evil dentist Isaac Yankem and then he played the role of the Fake Diesel when Kevin Nash left the WWE. Cornette said that McMahon was ready to release him when he came up with an idea.
Cornette said that the WWE thought Undertaker could have an evil brother, so Cornette gave Jacobs the gimmick and ran with it. He said that his inspiration was Michael Myers from the movie "Halloween," just a creature that is pure evil. Then Kane attacked Undertaker in 1997 and the rest is history.
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On 31 Dec 1997, EKR wrote: -> [snip, already requoted] -> That doesn't mean that S/MIME can't be used for high security -> purposes. It merely means that it can be used in situations where -> those requirements aren't met as well. On the other hand, if you -> want to meet requirements like that, you can do so using S/MIME. While it is true that the laissez-faire philosophy can be very disastrous when applied to security protocols and indeed S/MIME is managing to steer away from open statements, we must also not interpolate lines when we read the protocol specs -- especially when I understand by the above that you intend to say to non-cryptographers (ie, the public at large) that the protocol can be used for high security purposes (such as for banking or company-critical messages). I prefer Paul's assesment, when he wrote about S/MIME: "This is a mail spec, not a banking spec.", in this thread. By allowing low-security procedures to be 100% S/MIME compliant, you must agree that an application that is 100% S/MIME compliant does not say more than guaranteeing that low-security level -- which defines its security level for the public. A member of a class must be defined by the class's properties, no? On the other hand, if you still want to imagine a situation where two applications are equally 100% S/MIME compliant while one offers a higher security level, then you must also agree that these two applications are incompatible in that high-security level -- though both are S/MIME compliant, which would be a contradiction by itself *if* S/MIME would be a high-security protocol. After all, the primary purpose of a standard is to guarantee interoperability -- which would be utterly destroyed in your(Continue reading)


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Now that Valentine's Day is over, we can now start planning for St. Patrick's Day. Several north side bars are all offering a St. Patrick's 4 hour drink/brunch package on Saturday March 13th. Four different bar/restaurants in Wrigleyville & Lincoln Park are teaming up for "You can't drink all day, if you don't start in the mornin'." Kincaid's, Hi-Tops, Harry Caray's Tavern, Kelsey's and Kendall's each throwing their own special event.
The "You can't drink all day, if you don't start in the mornin" event takes places Saturday March 13th from 9am till 1pm. Tickets are on sale now and are $25 a person, plus a $1.50 handling fee. Each ticket purchased is only good for one location, not admission to all the locations. Each place will have 4 hour premium Bloody Marys, Screwdrivers, Green Domestic Draft Beer, and a massive breakfast/brunch buffet. To purchase tickets log onto www.BashEvents.com
Locations include:
Kincaid's 950 W. Armitage (Lincoln Park)
Harry Caray's Tavern 3551 N. Sheffield (Wrigleyville)
Hi-Tops 2462 N. Lincoln (Lincoln Park)
Kelsey's & Kendalls 2263-2265 N. Lincoln (Lincoln Park)


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|Zzed: Match 3 Cosmic Shooter - Apple iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad App Promo Codes to Giveaway
Apple iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad app promo codes to giveaway for the Games app Zzed: Match 3 Cosmic Shooter courtesy of Nevosoft. Register if you haven't already done so or log in to enter this giveaway and we will randomly select 20 people and email an app promo code to you.
If you also leave a comment below saying why you should have this app or create a link back to this post from other sites on the internet you will be given added priority to receive an app promo code. This Giveaway ends on the 13th June 2011, Good Luck!
What would you do for your love? Zzed, the main hero of this game, decides to... get a job! Cleaning space from meteorites doesn't sound like the best job in the universe, but Zzed is ready to do anything for his up-town alien girl. Now he must head off to the most remote and dangerous places in the galaxy and clean up space garbage. Will he succeed and marry his sweetheart? It's all up to you now!
Check out the video demo for Zzed.
Zzed is a dangerously addictive space puzzle shooter, one of the most exciting game genres in the world because it requires both logical skills and fast reflexes. It takes the most beloved qualities of both genres: planning, thinking, moving and shooting! It's a perfect formula for addictive gameplay! In Zzed, you pilot a spaceship and face a continuous flow of space garbage - dangerous and colorful meteorites.
All the meteorites are color-coded and will only explode when 3 or more pieces of the same color come together. You shoot meteorites at the garbage, so think fast, but think twice before you shoot! And don't forget about the real physics: ricocheted and bounced shots give you additional points! Sometimes it seems impossible to survive, but the game has many power-ups that can totally save you: color-bombs, super-bombs, rockets, freeze-fields and power-containers - just use them thoughtfully and you're sure to succeed!
The other important thing that adds addictiveness to the game is it's usability. It's very simple to get used to the game controls: click and drag to control the ship, tap to aim and shoot. Top it all off with excellent graphics and driving music.
Did you like comic books when you were a kid? If yes, then you'll love the cut scenes! Take your time and enjoy humorous comic strips between the levels. Conclusion: Zzed is a totally captivating game, so get ready to play it. Stretch your fingers, prepare a comfortable seat and stock up with food for at least a weekend - Zzed is worth it!
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Sept. 27, 2001
By LANDON HALL
AP Sports Writer
CORVALLIS, Ore. - To get an idea of how much Oregon State has changed since last year, listen to the 19th-ranked Beavers' comments this week. The bravado that was practically overflowing from the 2000 team is gone.
Beating 12th-ranked UCLA on Saturday would restore that confidence, losing could make this season an uphill battle.
"This is a make-or-break game," middle linebacker Richard Seigler said. "We can't open up the conference with a loss. We've got to show everybody that we're still the real deal."
"It's now or never for our team," outside linebacker James Allen said. "We need to make a stand, or everybody is going to walk all over us."
That glorious week when the Beavers celebrated being labeled the preseason No. 1 team by Sports Illustrated seems like months ago. The team's collective ego took a beating in the season-opening 44-24 loss at Fresno State, and Oregon State didn't have much of a chance to regain the momentum.
It beat New Mexico State by a mere five points, and the Beavers have had three weeks off to prepare for the Bruins.
"The intensity will be there," reserve tailback Patrick McCall said. "But we've missed the hitting and the game-playing experience for three weeks."
In a way, the Beavers (1-1) seem like the team from the late 1990s - good enough to compete but not to dominate. It was in 1999, coach Dennis Erickson's first year, that Oregon State lost three straight games to Pac-10 opponents USC, Washington and Stanford by a combined score of 105-67 before coming back the following week and crushing the Bruins 55-7.
Last year, OSU went into the Rose Bowl and beat UCLA 44-38. This year, however, the Bruins (3-0) are 4-point favorites.
"Some people are already counting us out," free safety Jake Cookus said.
It will be the first home game for Oregon State this season.
"The fans are going to play a major part in our performance," offensive tackle Lee Davis said. "We're going to really need them behind our backs. It's going to carry us and give us more momentum."


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None of our hidden shares (\Server\Profile$) are accessible from the client machines. We can connect to them fine from the server but not from the win 7 client machines.
Not a firewall issue, I have tried with that turned off.
Not a security issue, "Everyone" has full share permissions and NTFS permissions.
Nothing in event logs to denote an error, checked System, Application, Security.
Have tried creating new shares and same issue, all ok until make it hidden then access is denied!
Is this a server 2012 R2 issue? Test exactly the same thing in server 2012 and all works fine, just on R2 that the problems exist.
Anyone out there using hidden$ shares in 2012 R2 and got it working?


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Apple loses patent infringement case, must pay $8m
Found to have infringed downloadable playlist patents
SMARTPHONE AND TABLET MAKER Apple will have to pay $8m after losing a patent infringement case related to downloadable playlists.
A federal jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that Apple had infringed two patents belonging to Personal Audio, which sued the company in 2009.
Personal Audio originally wanted $84m in damages, according to Bloomberg, but it appears that it got less than 10 per cent of that amount in the final ruling.
Personal Audio also went after several other smaller companies over the same patents, including media player and tablet maker Archos, but all of them decided to settle out of court, leaving Apple to fight alone.
The patents in question are US Patent Numbers 6,199,076 and 7,509,178, which cover an audio program player with a dynamic program selection controller and an audio program distribution and playback system, respectively.
The first was filed in 1996 and approved in 2001, while the second was filed in 2001 and approved in 2009, making both technologies older than the original Ipod, which launched in 2001.
In layman's terms the technology involves downloading a playlist and skipping forwards or backwards through the list to find a particular song. Personal Audio alleged that Apple was using this technology in both its Iphone and Ipod.
Apple claimed that it was not using the patented technology and that the patents were invalid anyway, but the court did not agree, upholding their validity and deciding that Apple was liable for infringement.
It's not yet clear if Apple will pay up or appeal the verdict. $8m will be a relatively small chunk of change compared to the revenue that Apple brings in, which was over $8bn for the Ipod alone last year, so it might decide it's better to cut its losses now. If it appeals and fails it could end up paying more. µ
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By Matt Ryan
Tack and equipment videos
01 April 2009 11:52
Part 3: Fitting, Removing & Caring For Studs
In this third and final video, with the help of event horse Bonza Moorabinda (Moo) and working pupil Katie, international eventer Matt Ryan shows us how to fit studs safely and correctly. From cleaning stud holes and using a tap, to plugging stud holes and keeping your studs in good order, Matt provides all the answers.
To find out more about Supastuds studs, or to buy online, visit www.supastuds.com.
Thanks to Martin & Mandy Irish of Leyland Court Farm for the use of their cross-country course (which is available to hire), featured in the video: www.leylandcourt.com.
Want to know the latest news from Matt's stable? Check out: www.mattryan.co.uk
To see part one, click hereTo see part two, click hereTo see part three, click here
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Dec. 17, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas -
Former University of Alabama All-American diver Aaron Fleshner won the 1-meter title on opening day of the 2013 USA Diving Winter National Championships in Austin, Texas Tuesday night.
Fleshner won the men's title with 805.15 points. Scores were cumulative over prelims and finals, and Fleshner led by 37.70 points after the prelims. He extended his lead in the finals, winning his second national title by more than 100 points. Mizzou's Clark Thomas was second with 695.85 points, and Stanford's Connor Kuremsky scored 692.85 for the bronze.
Fleshner had the highest degree of difficulty of any diver in the field, and he capitalized on that. In the prelims, his inward 2 ½ pike, with a degree of difficulty of 3.4 - the most difficult dive performed in the contest - earned 78.20 points after receiving 8s from three judges. He earned 76.50 points on that same dive in the finals. He received 78.40 points on his front 2 ½ with one twist in the finals.
"I felt great. I stayed on top of everything and landed on my head 12 times. I was pretty confident with most of the big dives that I'm doing. I'm working on some bigger dives hopefully for 3-meter, and this was a warm-up for those bigger dives. It helps knowing that I can do really well on those warm-ups as I get ready for 3-meter," said Fleshner, who also won the 1-meter title at the 2012 AT&T National Diving Championships.
The USA Diving Winter National Championships continue through Sunday, December 22. Wednesday's competition features men's 3-meter and women's 10-meter preliminaries and semifinals.
Men's 1-meter
1. Aaron Fleshner, Alabama Diving, 805.15;2. Clark Thomas, Unattached, 695.85;3. Connor Kuremsky, Stanford University, 692.40;4. Cory Bowersox, The University of Texas, 690.20;5. Daniel Helm, Unattached, 676.45;6. Sean McKinney, Unattached, 660.45;7. David Bonuchi, Unattached, 652.60;8. Bradley Christensen, Stanford University, 626.50;


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Here's a rock song that I've been working on lately.
I only wish it had some vocals.
Anyway, tell me what you think of it.
Guitars: Samples of acoustic guitar (Philharmonic Orchestra) and Hardcore for amplifiers
Bass: Slayer "BASS Plug"
Drums: Snare, Bass drum: RealDrumkits ; Hihats, Cymbal, Toms: FPC
There's Harpsichord in the chorus accompanying the rhythm guitar.
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This May 12, 2000 article in Advisor magazine [1] observes that the LSB and LI18NUX have merged to form the Free Standards Group, and explains what the new group will do this way:
The Free Standards Group will use experiences from the LSB and LI18NUX to make sure the Linux operating system doesn't become fragmented or break into multiple versions. To prevent this from happening, they're promoting a specification that will mean that any LSB-compliant application will run successfully on any LSB-compliant Linux distributions. The group says it is sensitive to the fact that development shouldn't be stifled, and is working on a common subset of Linux that will work for everyone.


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Reporting Abuse
Situations involving possible abuse or neglect of a child and the steps taken to report may present themselves in many different ways. The video scenarios below provide two examples.
- In Making the Call, Suzy Smith, school counselor, will make a report to DFPS by phone with her concerns for Pablo, a six-year old student.
- In Submitting Suspicions, you will meet Lily. Lily's teacher learns some information that leads her to submit an e-Report on what she feels is a non-urgent situation.
- Please Note- Each video will play on-screen and does not require a special player. Each video has audio. You may select Player Navigation to learn more about making the player work for you.
- All characters and names appearing in this training are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
|Making the Call for Pablo
Reporting Abuse/Neglect by Phone
|Submitting Suspicions for Lily
Reporting Abuse/Neglect using an e-Report
| What if a reporter is unsure whether a situation or condition is a potential "warning sign"?
While it would be ideal to have a clear-cut guide that would determine whether any given situation constitutes abuse or neglect, there are many factors that determine whether a situation warrants an investigation. When in doubt, you should always err on the side of the child's safety by making a phone or Internet report.
More on Potential Warning Signs
The following situations in and of themselves do not meet the legal definitions of abuse or neglect. However, in combination with other factors, some of them might be warning signs:


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Disease Proof
The environmental consequences of our dietary choices
Earlier this month I was given the opportunity to accompany my father (Dr. Fuhrman) to an international global warming conference held by The World Preservation Foundation in London. I knew that attending the conference would enlighten me about how the food choices we make influence not just our own health, but in a much broader sense, contribute to the earth's "well-being". At the conference, members of British Parliament convened with scientists, physicians and experts from around the world to share their expertise and enlighten attendees, and people tuning in on the internet and their television sets about measures we can take to preserve the earth's resources and avert global warming. It was clear from the outset why my father was invited to speak, for those organizing the conference were well aware of how minimizing or eliminating the consumption of animal foods is essential to save the planet from the daunting environmental catastrophes we currently face. If these sobering statistics touch you the way they touched me, they will make you even more impassioned about making the choice to eat predominantly vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds and avoid animal products. The foods you put in your mouth today really do influence the world of tomorrow. Here are some of the facts about meat production I learned at the conference:
1) Raising livestock and their by-products account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide green house gas (GHG) emissions.
2) Thirty percent of the entire land surface of Earth is devoted to livestock production, including plants used to feed the livestock.
3) Replacing meat with plant-derived sources of calories and protein could reduce the land area required to feed the human population by more than 80 percent and recover about 25 percent of the landfor restoration, solar energy capture, or other eco-friendly purposes.
4) Between 23-30 percent of our global ecological footprint comes from agriculture, primarily livestock production.
5) Beef takes 70 times more land to produce than vegetables.
6) 80 percent of the world's soy production is consumed by livestock.
7) About 50 percent of the world's grain supply is used to feed livestock. This is while almost 11 million children who live in the countries where these feed grains are grown, die ironically of hunger each year.
8) In 2009, for the first time, the number of people suffering from hunger exceeded 1 billion. This doesn't include people facing hunger shortages from natural disasters.
9) If all 6.78 billion people on Earth began consuming as many animal products as residents of the United States, we would need over 3 planet Earths to meet the demand. If all people on Earth became vegetarians, less than one Earth would be needed to meet food demands.
The land and resources required in the production of animal products is startling. It is sad to think about how many people are starving in the world, while most of the soy, wheat, and corn grown around the globe are fed to livestock.
I learned so much more at the conference, such as how global warming is melting the ice caps and raising ocean levels and the destruction this will have on our world in the future. I learned more about the essential nature of the Amazon Rainforest as the "lungs of the earth" and how livestock production is fueling continual and rapid deforestation via burning of the rain forests to prep the land for animal feed crops, and how this contributes to the emission of black carbon (soot) in the air that is deposited via wind currents in Antarctica, accelerating the melting. I also became aware of the world's current water shortages, how much water is used in the production of meat and how our oceans are rapidly being depleted of fish. I began writing about many of these things to include in this post, but this resulted in pages and pages of jaw dropping facts. I hope to include more about what I learned at the conference in future posts.
Even though I learned that much land, water, and energy is used to produce meat and the destructive affects this has on our environment, I remain hopeful that the accelerating destruction of our world's ecology can be turned around. If people understood the big picture: how animal products contribute to chronic disease, is torturous to animals, and hurtful to our planet I think most would willingly make the change to a plant-based diet. The key to solving this problem, just like solving most health problems, is knowledge.
Thanks Talia. I'm sure on this blog just about all will be in agreement with you. I myself do not believe in global warming.
It's interesting to me how most people who are vegan are politically left. I'm on the other end of the political spectrum. I believe my health is a matter of personal responsibility.
I'll never forget a few years ago the hatred Matthew Scully, (President Bush's speech writer and author of Dominion), for writing a speech for Sarah Palin. It's seems if one doesn't toe the party line, one's persona non-grata.
Excellent post, Talia. Please do share everything else you learned. Sharing these statistics is very important, and we appreciate everything you are doing to help spread the message of saving our planet.
Thank you for sharing Talia.
Great job Talia. You rock! I and so many like you who "get it" are right there with you!
I am wondering if your dad's first talk at Parliament will be available for viewing. I tuned in live and the feed was not good- kept going in and out. What I heard was wonderful. Would love for your dad to post the video of his talk on drfuhman.com, either just for members, or ideally for everyone to view for free. This is such an important topic. For those believing that the food you eat does not affect the health of the earth, all I can say is, "you'll find out someday." To those people, have you ever driven past a feedlot and smelled the ammonia? Does that smell "wrong" to you?
Is Dr. Fuhrman's talk from that global conference available online? Or any of the other talks? Thanks. Conor
Thanks for sharing! I don't believe in global warming either, but I do believe that the choices all of us make collectively will affect certain aspects of our environment and the extent to which we can enjoy nature. I used to love meat and said I'd never give it up, but now I don't even really want it anymore. It just doesn't make sense to eat as much meat as people in the US and other developed countries do.
In my opinion, it certainly does make sense to put the wellbeing of human children above cattle, and I think it would be great if more of them could have food instead. Meat used to be a luxury and eaten in small amounts--wouldn't it be great if it still was? I guess we'll just have to keep telling people about ETL so they can make their own choices like we have :) If demand for meat decreases, so will supply!
Thank you, Talia, for sharing this vital info. Changes are desperately needed in our lifestyles but probably will not come from our governments and corporations as they are too entrenched in the status quo (at least here in the US).
The evidence of a deteriorating environment is becoming too rampant to ignore - thank you for helping to spread the word that individuals can make a difference, just by choosing to eat healthy, plant-based foods!
One of the things that I have appreciated about Dr. Fuhrman has been his teachings on health without the interference from animal rights activists and global warming. I believe there to be greater evidence for global warming being a cyclical event. That being said, I do appreciate the wonderful gift Dr. Fuhrman's healthful contribution to society truly is. After all there are still many people who don't believe that you are what you eat.
For anyone who's interested, there's an excellent movie by John Robbins (of the Baskin Robbins family, and author of Healthy at 100) called Diet for a New America; it deals in depth with most, if not all, of the things Talia's talked about here. (Thanks, Talia!)
I always enjoy comments about not believing in global warming as if it's akin to not believing in the Easter bunny. Wouldn't it be nice to hear a denier cite facts to refute the overwhelming evidence of the increasing carbon emissions that are affecting the environment. Too bad it's degenerated into a political instead of scientific discussion.
Politics aside, though, less meat consumed means better health for humans and the environment.
I'm glad you got this experience, but I to do not believe Global Warming is man-made. Climate change is cyclical. I do agree that the world would be a better place is countries/businesses would put more value in feeding the starving people/children than in feed stocks for the profits of the animal protein companies. It would also be good if the government would end the farm subsidies that make these products look more economical than fresh vegetables. It would be good to have more locally owned farms. I to believe that fresh water is going to be our biggest concern in the near future. Thanks again for your post and interest in our planet and in humanity.
Talia, I found this very good reading and excellent info. I, too, am using less meats, if at all, and learning to enjoy vegetables and fruits. I just celebrated my 85th birthday and feel terrific, have lots of energy and very little aches and pain. I feel it has so much to do with my diet.
The only reason for consumption of animal products is for primitive societies in cold climates or deserts to survive the winter or dry season when plant foods are not available. The problem is that animal products have become commercialized.
Thank you for writing this. It's such important information. Rarely do we have the opportunity to take an action that benefits our health, our planet, and our fellow animals. Eliminating animal products provides just that opportunity and it should be shouted from the rooftops.
thanks for the data from the conference. although i knew large resources in land and food were devoted to animal production i didn't realize it was so great. when one adds to this the greatly increased health risks which accompany the consumption of these animal products, not to mention the attendant costs, dr.fuhrmann's diet becomes not only a personal benefit but a survival requirement for humanity.
as to those who do not "believe" in global warming, global warming is not a religion, it is the overwhelming conclusion of scientists based on measurements being taken constantly at thousands of sites throughout the world, below, on and above the ground and the seas. these measurements are not the kind we can observe individually, but that does not negate them.
one can only hope that there are a sufficient number of people who understand the twin problems (animal production and global warming) to move the governments of the world to take meaningful steps before the inevitable catastrophes force the truth upon us all---hopefully before it is too late to change course. meanwhile, we must do what we can to increase awareness. the conference report is one such action.
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I wanted to throw my opinion in here as well. I also do not believe that global warming is a man made issue. I have read a great deal of convincing scientific evidence pointing me to this conclusion. Of course this would not be the place to cite it all, but it is readily accessible. I have appreciated that Dr. Fuhrman's focus on health and diet has generally steered clear of the left's political agenda. Like one of the other comment writers, I am in favor of people taking personal responsibility for their health and many other decisions. I believe world hunger is more a political problem than an inability to produce enough food to feed the earth's population. Nevertheless I think a plant based diet is in most people's best interest.
Conor, a segment of Dr. Fuhrman's talk can be found at: http://worldpreservationfoundation.org/events.php?id=16
How many more facts do people need to get this...........
Many people will refuse to "believe in" anything that will cause them any inconvenience. But for those of you who are conservative, does that not also include conserving the earth? Must we be gluttons just because we can?
Talia, as much as I generally try to look on the bright side, I am quite pessimistic about the future of this planet. I think your article was spot on, filled with critically needed information.
But I have seen too many friends unwilling to change their diets even to save their own health. Given all the people who don't belive global warming is caused by human actions and others who won't change diets for any reason whatsoever, not to mention the contention between nations over proposed fixes --- I just can't be optimistic about the earth's future.
Unfortunately, if scientists are right about some possible scenarios, it is many of the most innocent who will perish first.
To people who don't believe in global warming, my question is "Do we really want to run that experiement on our only atmosphere?". What if we gamble and lose?
Lionel - sadly I agree with you, there are many politicians who would like us all to not believe in global warming or in evolution no matter what the science says - they have turned it into a Democrat vs. Republican issue instead of trying to figure out how we as humans can tread most lightly on the earth... I'm an independent and I think it is depressing. It isn't about the left having an "agenda" as much as it's about the right's agenda to blow smoke and mirrors in all of our faces to keep the real environmental issues from being discussed. It makes me cringe to hear people say that God will protect us and the environment! Let's not forget the gigantic amounts of waste (i.e. animal poop) that gets into our and and groundwater and pollutes the communities where factory farms exist. That is also a real problem.
Regardless if you believe that global warming is man-made or cyclic, what we eat does affect our health, and the health of the earth. It is hard to understand people not understanding this. How about this- that maybe global warming IS cyclic but that mankind is also CONTRIBUTING! Have you seen the sky above Bejing, or LA, Denver, etc.?! How much fun would it be to always have to be breathing THAT air?! We're polluting the earth's air with our cars, coal plants, animal agriculture, and so on.
In our world, there are people who are concerned for the environment but not for their own health. There are people concerned with their health but not the health of the earth. They are both connected whether people want to believe this or not.
And please don't label people "left or right" as it offends. i want to be known as a good person, period. Taking care of your health means eating plants, raw and cooked in a healthy way. A transition to a world plant based agriculture would have a definite positive impact on the earth's health, and the health of animals. If you don't care about the welfare of animals you are mistaken. The purpose of an animal is not to feed a person. The purpose of an animal is to be an animal. It's time we realize we don't need animals to survive anymore. Let's stop exploiting them. Win, win, all around. And by the way, I for one DO appreciate it anytime someone in an important position takes a stand re: what we eat is connected to the environment. Bravo Dr. Fuhrman for being involved in the summit in London. Kudos also to John McDougall, MD in this same regard.
I am confused about some of these comments. Taking care of the planet and being concerned about world hunger are "the left's political agenda"? Really? I believe in personal responsibility, too, but I have a lot more options for exercising that responsibility because I live in a first-world country and have a job that pays me enough to choose what kind of food I eat. Western gluttony (and I'm not being holier-than-thou or exempting myself because I don't eat meat: I still drive a car, etc.) of animal products, fossil fuels, and natural resources directly takes away the choices of people in other parts of the world, affecting their ability to survive, let alone have the freedom to exercise personal responsibility for their health.
Wow Talia this is great!!! Please don't let the political comments (like Mike Crosby's) discourage you from continuing these types of articles. Some people are just so caught up on treating everything as a political issue, rather than becoming a free thinker and looking at the facts and science for what it is. Usually these same people get their "science" from political news sources. I've found its best just to ignore them. We are so polarized by politics right now, it's awful. Can't even have a discussion based on science or facts without someone accusing you of being married to a political agenda.
Anyway, this is wonderful - the world needs to know the facts and the damaging effects of mainstream's current lifestyle. Keep up the great work!!!
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