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Alicia's Ad Banned!
Update: Following the success of Alicia's PSA, Sky News put together a wonderful retrospective of PETA's many naked ads and protests over the past year. You can check out the picture gallery here.
The folks in Houston were severely deprived yesterday, when their cable provider decided at the last minute (literally) that it would pull Alicia Silverstone's super sexy new pro-vegetarianism ad, which had already been approved and paid for. Comcast Cable told us that they had banned the spot "because she is naked," despite the fact that the ad has already aired on numerous news programs worldwide. Besides, as PETA Vice President Dan Mathews pointed out in a staff meeting today, they showed Holly Hunter's naked ass on Saving Grace the other night, so, um, what's the problem here, Comcast?
We had picked Houston because it consistently ranks in the top ten least healthy cities in the country, so we figured they could use some good diet advice (honestly, who in their right mind would turn down friendly diet advice from the beautiful Alicia Silverstone?), but Houstonians need not despair. As PETA President Ingrid Newkirk puts it,
"Houston viewers can still go to PETA.org and get an eyeful, not only of the stunning Ms. Silverstone, but also of our free Vegetarian Starter Kit—chock full of delicious recipes—that will make them drool for an entirely different reason."
And finally, because I love it so much, here is the ad again. Alicia, you are gorgeous.
Alicia Silverstone's Sexy Veggie PSA
Order a FREE vegetarian starter kit at GoVeg.com
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As a long time fan of Alicia's and new peta member from Texas this sickens me that they pulled an add that needs to be out there because of the rights of annimals.I think she did a tasteful and right on add and I support it all the way.
Rojo The human body is in a constant state of breakdown and repair. All cells not sure about brain cells are constantly being replaced. You could have the perfect body at 20 years become stranded on a desert island without food and become emaciated there goes your perfect body. The body is in continual flux. These athletes are getting both their energy and their restorative needs completely satisfied by a vegan diet.
I live in Texas too but the Austin area. Lots of veggie types here. I thought the ad was nice. Ms. Silverstone looks healthy and curvy not starved and scrawny. She emphasizes the health benefits and how much better she feels about herself. That's not a bad role model in my book. I would rather my child see a healthy beautiful body than people killing each other too.
Mike you already attested to their natural abilities. With their bodies reaching maturity before veganism my question is how do we know which aspect is more important. The building or the maintainence.
I think that it is horrendous that COMCAST pulled the ad right before it aired. There was a mention earlier about having an ad being more KID friendly yet there is more nudity on basic television than there was in the ad. I have lost 30 pounds in 6 months when I stopped eating beef only. I hope to continue the weight loss and lead a healthier lifestyle. I have started to cut further and further back on the amount of "meats" I eat. I had tried it cold turkey but it did not work. I have my mother on the diet too and her diabetes is coming under control.
Carl Lewis has said that he had his best year of performance when he switched to a vegan diet.
Rojo We don't but since they are already beating all the omnivores it's a moot point. As athletes they are obviously well satisfied with their vegan diets. How do we know that the omnivores might not perform better by switching to a vegan diet?
mike I agree they perform very well but how do we know they wouldn't be even stronger quicker and faster repairing being nonvegan?
Chris in other countries you wouldn't have MD after your name but would be Dr. Chris Cochran. Here Doctor fully replaces Mister and becomes Dr. when addressed. In regard to spelling it was more along the lines of "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
On the nude issue It's unfortunate that Houstonians and anyone else have reacted this way to an ad featuring a beautiful seminude celebrity promoting something pure and beneficial. Especially while Hilton and Spears' crotches are blasted all over the airwaves. I say bring on the controversy! Nothing spells exposure and ratings like controversy. And the uptight puritanical sect of our society is the root cause. It's funny how violence spurs such a small reaction compared to something like this. And for those of you questioning the use of nudity it's time to wake up and get over your oversexed selves. Alicia Silverstone doesn't want to have sex with you!! She does however want you to look because for some reason it takes this level of "exposure" to grab the publics attention regarding the vegetarian issue. She's not promoting the the topless bar down the street people! She's promoting a healthy diet and lifestyle. Don't you want to look like her ladies? You're lying if you say you don't. And maybe parents if you're oh so shocked and appalled at the slim chance your kids will see this then maybe whenif they do it'll be a good chance to explain to them what its about and that there are other choices besides McDonalds. And then you can show them a picture of Michael Moore. Sorry Mike I love your films but you need to lighten up on the antiPETA stuff. We share this planet with other earthlings my friend and they don't ask for much in return.
Christopher Generally the ratio is written with omega6 first omega6 omega3. A healthy ratio is considered to be from 21 to 41 n6 to n3. So microalgae is 31 and in the healthy range. According to the Club Des Millionaires Sardines website 100g of sardines in water contains 0.5g omega6 and 2g omega3. That means 4g of omega3 to every 1 gram of omega6 certainly not the 15g to 1g you stated. If you're asking my opinion I really haven't given much thought about the Ingridpet issue. But as always I think it's a matter of always choosing the path of less harmnot always the ideal path but the most humane one at that particular point in time.
So The algae has a worse ratio than pure flax seed oil and all the animal sources I sited. 151 means for every fifteen mg of omega 3 sardines contain one mg of omega 6. 31 means that this algae has a only 3mg of omega 3's for every 1mg of omega 6. Am I missing something? Marine animal forms are too my knowledge the most concentrated sources of omega 3 FA's. The herring eat the algae concentrating the FA's then the salmon eat the herring concentrating some more. This is over simplifying though. I agree that your diet is very healthy. I contend that the diet I propose is healthier. Maybe you could help me out with this one. Ms. Newkirk seems to espouse that she wishes all animals to one day be completely liberated of any human containment or servitude. If this is so I do not pretend to know the mind of PETA's leader why does PETA still have so many propet articles on their web site? This seems contradictory. What I read about her seems very antipet ownership.
Rojo They are obviously natural athletes but the point is being vegan Heidrich for 24 years Jurek since 1999 has not slowed them down in the least. They are thriving repairing and maintaining on a vegan diet. The Badwater is an extremely grueling ultramarathon. As any weightlifter will tell you you have to tear and repair and they seem to be having no problem with the repairing aspect. Also Monica Scholz a vegan from Hamilton Ontario captured the fastest women's time in the 2004 and 2006 217K Badwater Ultramarathon. This is the event Scott Jurek has won two years in a row. Christopher The microalgae is about 31 and is longchain DHA. Your figures on flax seed oil put it right in the pocket also.
Rojo In general I am a much better speller than the average poster here but Michelle's name I misspell on purpose because it seems to bother her. I know that seems immature but everyone here keeps calling me Dr.?. or Mr. Cochran so I just thought that screwing up someones name was a side effect of inadequate nutrition. Thanks for your concern.
Touche rojo touche. Dang it you just HAD to go and make me agree with you on SOMETHING. Shoot.
You guys are truly some caring folks. Not only do you care about animals you care about my family and my welfare. Rest assured my practice is very successful so much in fact that I have plenty of time to spend on this blog. Besides since I live in a third world part of the United States I don't have to waste money on things like indoor plumbing and vegetarian sushi. Anyway thanks for all the love. You guys are starting to grow on me. Lotsa Love.
mike unfortunately responses don't seem to go up now repetauk. How do you know that Heinrich and Jurek's success didn't stem from the majority of their lives spent as nonvegan? Perhaps they were "built" properly in the first place.
Does anyone else see the irony in complaining about how much time the doctor spends posting? Or his spelling for that matter.
Hate to break it to you Cochran IS an MD a simple Google search is all it took to confirm. I wonder how his practice is doing however considering how much time he spends commenting on this blog.
There is absolutely NOTHING distasteful about this video. There was no logical reason to condemn it other than payoff from the meat industry and the cowardly politicians who are in their pocket.
I think the ad is beautiful shes a beautiful woman we see naked woman all the time its outragous to pull a ad just because of a naked body. The ad makes its point definally. What happened to freedom of speech??
Ana is absolutely right. I don't think many of us have believed Cochran was a doctor from the beginning what doctor can blog 247 and doesn't know how to spell?. I think Cochran is a relatively intelligent person who is subconsciously struggling over his latent guilt at abusing animals. Mr. Cochran Stick with uswe'll show you how to begin living a compassionate life.
Steve Of course cross sectional studies are flawed. I have pointed that out previously. I like to point that out because they are the only data that srict vegans can quote. You can't compare fish eaters to vegans because they are such a miniscule part of the population. Most of the studies with fish oil were done with placebo. The placebo was typically corn oil. I know this because I have participated in these studies…How many studies have you been a researcher in? I completely advocate all of the dietary sources of omega three fatty acids you cited except flax because it tastes awful. I eat all of them except flax regularly with my responsible healthy omnivorous diet but to achieve nutrtional nirvana a bit of an ironic term I realize I eat yummy fish crabs lobster and crawdads. Mike The ratio of omega 36 in wild salmon in 101. In sardines it's 151. In pure flax seed oil it's 41. How does microalgae taste?? Apparently herring like it. That's what the salmon eat What's the ratio? What's the focus? Hey man I know you can go to your local health food store and find what you need to supplement your diet for survival but why do that???? Why not eat a complete diet? All the best don't work to hard. Moderate alchohol is good for you too so enjoy.
I didn't find this video particularly racy. As another quoted it could be the beef industry in Texas that stopped the ad.
maybe you can get the naked man that was going to UC Berkeley. he seemed to be able to skirt the law. however a nude is a nude indecent exposure and shouldn't be on view where children and others that would be offended by it would see it.
Stevie You said Texans have strong religous beliefs maybe so I'll take your word for it. I lived there for a short while and didn't particularly notice that. But Texas has the death penalty and the state uses it greatly. HHMMMM so what kind of religous beliefs do Texans have?? Nice website. I eat avocados and also flaxseed I am getting both of my omegas well and I am VERY HEALTHY. TO MY FELLOW ANIMAL ADVOCATES Cochran who has a lot of time makes comments to get you going. He is not here to be educated but to ridicule and dispute any tangible evidence presented to him. Please conserve your energies and intelligence to help animals. His sardonic comment about spearing fish is done with the intention of trying to annoy and ridicule our sensibilities. Very juvenile behavior. I do not believe he is a DR but a lonely buffoon with too much time on his hands. Keep fighting the good fight.
Christopher My intent on publishing the quote Sept 22 742 above from PubMed by the American Dietetic Association and the Dietitians of Canada was that if for some reason you have a problem with PCRM here is a scientific appraisal of vegetarian diets from scientific associations completely disassociated of PCRM. You stated "You need to take a boat load of flax oil to equal one fish oil tab." How big a boat are we talking about here? Vegans would be welladvised to take a microalgae DHA supplement. Microalgae is where fish obtain the longchain n3's in the first place. Vegans can also focus more on omega3rich foods and less on foods heavy in Omega6 to get a more optimum n6n3 ratio. I'll be curious to see your response regarding my post in the PETA UK At It Again thread referencing vegan athletes Dr. Ruth Heidrich and Scott Jurek. These are people who have not only thrived on a vegan diet but excelled.


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I have tried the redpack with basil and liked them. I am in Jersey, Northern Bergen County where can I get these Bad Boys? Whole foods in Ridgewood? Super food town Ramsey? Where are you located Jersey pride? So the label says Jersey Fresh? could you put up a pic of a can?Thanks for the tipJohn in Jersey
Do you guys that like the jersey fresh tomatoes have access to Pastene?

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Research equips students for health professions
ACU students are accepted into medical and dental schools at a rate nearly twice the national average. And that's far from accidental. Programs such as Body & Soul and an emphasis on undergraduate research help these students gain insight into the underpinnings of health care long before they enter professional schools.
"Undergraduate students have the opportunity to participate in research at ACU in areas that are often only open to graduate students at larger schools," says Dr. Cynthia Powell, assistant professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. "Working directly with faculty mentors, students gain valuable experience that can be a springboard into a future career.
"When students work alongside a faculty member doing basic research, they learn valuable lessons about how to collect, process and interpret data," says Powell. "Pre-health professions students are learning to be scientists who plan to practice medicine. Research experience heightens their awareness of how medical knowledge is expanded, and many of our students express interest in continuing to participate in research as they move into their professional careers."
Benefits of real-world research
Undergraduate students who work alongside professors on real-world research recognize the benefits.
Undergraduate students have the opportunity to participate in research at ACU in areas that are often only open to graduate students at larger schools.
"As a pre-health student, I not only wanted to learn the medical and clinical aspect of helping people but I wanted to delve into and understand the science behind the current methods and treatments," says biology major and pre-medical student Evan Jones. Evan has conducted research in genetics under the direction of Dr. Qiang Xu, working on the epigenetic mechanisms of insecticide resistance in house flies. Last summer Evan extended his research experience at the University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center as part of a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program where he was able to study adult neural stem cells.
Joseph Lowe, a biochemistry major and pre-dental student, has worked in Dr. Greg Powell's inorganic chemistry lab at ACU for almost two years. They've completed numerous projects, primarily centered on the synthesis of organometallic clusters, some of which have shown anti-cancer activity. Joseph believes the time spent in a research lab has broadened his understanding of the process of learning and has prepared him well for dental school in the fall.
"I think the single most important thing I have learned from my research experience is not the techniques and methods of research, but the patience that comes with doing research," he says. "It has taught me to be focused on my goal, and as long as I can persevere, finishing dental school will be worth all the time and effort."
Considering ethics in medical research
Though most pre-health students involved in research do their work in biology, biochemistry or chemistry laboratories, biochemistry major and pre-medical student Eunice Lara went another direction. She paired with ACU communication professor Dr. John Camp to investigate issues of bioethics and communication with medical research volunteers in El Salvador.
"Many times the families and kids [in El Salvador] just participate in the [medical] research thinking that there is a cure. …There was mention in the transcripts of using the kids as 'books' or as guinea pigs of sorts. There are also risks that the families are not really aware of," she notes. Eunice's findings call for an implementation of stricter protocol and increased communication among ethics committees in El Salvador. "This research gave me a greater understanding of the challenges that are present in the healthcare field, not only in a foreign country, but in practice in general.
"This is invaluable to me and will help me have solid information to share with my peers on how to be an ethical healthcare provider to a different kind of people with different types of mindsets, beliefs, lifestyles."
Integration of science and faith
While ACU pre-health professions students learn much about science and its applications through their research mentorships, they also learn about faith. Evan Jones expressed the sentiment of many when he observed that he has acquired valuable research skills, but that he has also gained a greater appreciation of the greatness of God through these research experiences.
"I have learned and recognized how great it is to see and understand God through working with His creation whether it is at a clinical setting or at a lab bench."
This is a lesson, Dr. Powell says, "we hope all of our alumni take with them into their professional school education."
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Grails 1.0.3 Release Notes6th of June 2008G2One Inc - The Groovy/Grails company - and the Grails development team are pleased to announce the 1.0.3 release of the Grails web application development framework.Grails is a dynamic web application framework built on Java and Groovy, leveraging best of breed APIs from the Java EE sphere including Spring, Hibernate and SiteMesh. Grails brings to Java and Groovy developers the joys of convention-based rapid development while allowing them to leverage their existing knowledge and capitalize on the proven and performant APIs Java developers have been using for years.Since the release of Grails 1.0, Grails has been downloaded a staggering 186000 times averaging out to around 50000 times per month putting it up there with the most popular open source Java projects. The plug-in community has grown rapidly with over 70 plug-ins being developed that add new features from security to RIA to web services.Further information about the release can be obtained using the links below:
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New FeaturesAs a point release Grails 1.0.3 mainly contains improvements and bug fixes, but there are a few new features to explore.
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Taking the wife to her first game in Columbus this year. I scored two tickets to the Tech game, but they're not together. One in B deck, one in A. Anyone have two good seats that are together that they'd like to trade? I'm willing to throw in the single ticket I got for scUM (B deck) to sweeten the pot.
I'm sure that if I sell the two Tech and Mich ticket on ebay or something I can make enough to buy two Tech tickets together. But I'd rather help out someone on the boards. Well, someone other than Peek, naturally.


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On my project I have something like this:
class Assessment< ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :field_test
has_one :cardio_test
belongs_to :trainer
belongs_to :person
My Assessment controller:
class AvaliacaosController < ApplicationController
def new
@people= People.all
@assessment = Assessment.new
def create
@person = People.find(params[:id])
@trainer= Trainer.find(session[:avaliador_id]) if session[:avaliador_id]
@assessment = Assessment.new(:person_id => @person.id, :trainer_id => @trainer.id)
if (@assessment.save!)
redirect_to avaliacao_path(@assessment.id), :notice => "Assessment saved"
render ("new")
The problem is that the links to the :field_test and :cardio_test (and several others) AND the results of the calculations to those forms are on my Assessment Show page. Thats a bad thing because the user can create an Assessment and leave the page leaving the tests (field, cardio etc) nil.
I manage to prevent some problems using if statments on my views to check if things are nil. How can I improve this? Other ways I tried didn't worked because when I needed to assign the Foreing Keys the Assessment was not saved to the database.


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Duo's Red Thread Movement spreads across U.S.
Samantha Sutherland ('12), international studies major from Brownwood, Texas
Brittany Partridge ('12), political science graduate from Annandale, Minnesota, and recipient of the prestigious Truman Scholarship for graduate school
College can be a stressful time for anyone. Worries about classes, friendships, relationships and the future are often cumbersome. But as freshmen, Brittany Partridge and Samantha Sutherland did not let the hustle and bustle of their busy class schedules distract them from a problem a world away - the thriving sex trafficking industry in the Asian nation of Nepal.
At ACU, we promise our students we'll help them make a real difference in the world, and we try to do that at every opportunity. Instead of printing viewbooks this year, we are giving the printing cost to the Red Thread Movement and sending a Red Thread bracelet to each student who applies for admission. To be a part of this effort, apply online, or arrange to visit campus at acu.edu/visit to learn more about what it means to be a Wildcat.
Seeing a need in Nepal
In 2009, while volunteering at Eternal Threads, an Abilene-based non-profit, Samantha and Brittany developed a passion for helping the women and children in Nepal. They knew they had to find a way to help.
Eternal Threads creates jobs for women and children in developing nations by selling simple products like hats, totes and scarves made by women and children. They purchase the products at a fair trade price and sell them in the United States.
Spreading across the U.S.
Samantha and Brittany began brainstorming ways to generate funds and raise awareness for the dire situation in Nepal, where sex trafficking is a major industry. They founded the Red Thread Movement in 2009 with a simple idea - selling red bracelets to students on ACU's campus. Since then the movement has spread to 75 college campuses across the United States. The funds raised support a safe house for trafficking victims in Nepal.
"The interaction with participating members of Red Thread encourages me more than anything. While the girls in Nepal will always be the driving force behind what we do, I can't even express how inspired I have been by the people that I have seen take the movement and use it to do incredible things," Samantha says. "Seeing the passion others have for justice and their desire to help has kept me going."
The two women traveled to Nepal in January 2011 to see, firsthand, the effects of their work. Brittany returned in March to live with the girls at the safe house the movement supports. It was an eye-opening experience.
"What inspires me now are the relationships that have been built through Red Thread," she says. "Being able to meet the girls at the safe house in Nepal put a face to what we were doing and communicating with those involved in Red Thread on a daily basis is inspiring and motivating. It helps me know that what we are doing is making a difference."
The perfect place to launch a mission
ACU's Samantha Sutherland,
co-founder of Red Thread, talks about the making of a movement.
For Brittany and Samantha, who will both graduate in December, ACU was the perfect place to launch their mission. Both women believe the mission would not be what it is today without the support of the ACU student body and invaluable mentoring from professors.
"One of the reasons I chose ACU was because I loved how integrated missions were in many different aspects of the curriculum," Samantha says. "It's easy to find encouragement from faculty for some of the goals and dreams I've had. Many have had missions experience themselves, which enables them to give genuine advice and a good perspective when I come to them with questions."
They hope to see the movement continue to grow on ACU's campus and believe ACU is the perfect place for their mission to flourish.
"My hope is that Red Thread will continue to grow and become even more established as an advocate against human trafficking," Samantha says. "I've seen what it's capable of doing, and I'm excited to see where it goes as it reaches more and more people."
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I have been craving some raw pu'er and I don't have much so I ordered the Guoyan 99 Raw from Mandala. I didn't order anything (much) in August so this one isn't that bad.
I could not resist!!! And I told myself no more orders for w long while… but it BLUEBERRY CREAM CHEESE DANISH!!!! its back and I have been trading with people just to get sample sizes of this. THIS MADE MY DAY.
But I can never order from 52teas without ordering others so…
I ordered Banana Pudding and S'mores chai as well. There goes my gas money for the week :/
YAY FOR REBLENDS YAY YAY YAY. I thought this day would never come.
Haha, I totally saw you buy those. I'm shopping there at the moment myself and noticed those three go down all of a sudden. xD
I reeaaallly want to try the green blueberry cream cheese danish. But I also really want to order some Mandala puerhs, and I REALLY want to pay off my student loan this year le sigh
Stephanie, we can't always have what we want. Learn to prioritize. Go with the Green Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish! ;)
This is the 52 Teas page apparently, for I shopped there too!
One pouch Banana Pudding black tea, and one pouch of the black base of Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish. I was going to buy the last of the turtle cheesecake, but someone beat me to it right as I was checking out. xD Ah well, I'll grab the re-blend if it happens.
Just placed an 'order' with Butiki for some of their garage sale stuff, and threw in a 1/2oz of Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black, 1/2oz of Oriental Beauty, 1 cake of Puerh Tuo Cha, & 1oz of The Black Lotus since Stacy said it wouldn't add much to the overall weight. Very excited for it. The Black Lotus was a total afterthought that Stacy was awesome enough to add to my invoice after she'd already sent one. It just sounds so tasty and I couldn't pass up the sale. XD
I was gonna put in a Verdant order tonight for their Imperial Breakfast blend since they're having a sale and a few other samples to try, but it went totally out of stock. Ah well. Wasn't meant to be I guess. Lol.
Stephanie – That's what I heard. I'm trying to get into puerh, but all I've had have been bad, fishy, experiences. I've have such great teas from Butiki, so I hope this is a good one to restart with. Lol.
So much for my tea buying hiatus, part two. Oops? (But new teas to try! :D)
Whispering Pines:
Whisper of the Woods
Campfire Blend
Manistee Moonrise Spirit Blend
Dark Chocolate Oolong
The Sleeping Bear Blend
Butiki Teas:
Mi Xian Black
Taiwanese Wild Mountain Black
Gui Fei Oolong
The Black Lotus
Irish Breakfast
Premium Taiwanese Assam
I seriously have a problem, I am addicted to buying tea! Lol
Mango Watermelon Honeybush
Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish Black Tea
S'mores Chai
Cotton Candy White Tea
And the 12 sampler from their fundraiser!
Earl Grey Iced Tea
lalala nothing to see here…
I've been fighting the Verdant impulse all week!!
I had a $10 voucher and there was a sale and I just couldn't fight mine any longer (I think I lasted about a day)
If they hadn't sold out of some of the blends I wanted, I would have placed one as well. I am saving up for the $10 voucher right now so I can "let loose" when that is ready!
They have such an awesome rewards program :)
Thank you, Sil! :) We've been having fun blending and packing parties basically all week long to fulfill all of the orders we've been receiving.
Uniquity- We will have some fun new teas coming in (and restocking) just around the corner.. should arrive by the end of September. Should be a great time to let loose!
Short Sorceress- thank you! We have so many amazing supporters spreading the word about us every day- it's a small way to try and say thank you for that support. We know we wouldn't be able to do anything without the fine folks who share our tea with friends every day.
I haven't been able to log into my rewards the past few days. I assumed it was a site error, but now it seems like it's just me having the problem. I type in my email and my password, hit the button and then nothing happens. Doesn't give me an error message or anything, just nothing happens at all.
Thank you for the update, Chizakura. I'm passing this along to Geoffrey now to see if we can't figure out what's happening!
Lily, at times when you get tons of orders — do you regret starting the whole hand-written note thing? Is there a poor tea intern relegated to making them? :)
@High Adventure – Not at all!! Making sure we thank our customers for your trust and support is one of the most important things we get to do here – we know that none of this would be possible otherwise.
And there are no tea interns here at Verdant. We all take turns writing thank you notes, though Kelsey usually writes the most. Kelsey is the fantastic person who makes sure everyone's orders are packed correctly and out the door on time, along with taking care of everyone with customer service – she's basically magic, and we're so lucky to have her working with us!
When tons of orders come in, the whole crew pitches in to make sure everything can get done on time: I'll stamp bags all day, David will be putting together boxes and making samples, and Kelsey will be orchestrating at the center of it all – there are some late nights, but it's a great excuse for tea parties and chocolate cake afterwards. :) And there's nothing quite as satisfying as seeing the mail lady take them all away to head out to your homes.
Hey Chizakura – can you e-mail us at [email protected] about your log in troubles? We'll probably need a few technical details from you to figure out what might be happening, and it'll be easier to chat over e-mail. Thank you!
Lily, I love the notes (I save them) and it sounds like you guys have an absolute blast! That could turn into an online reality show… 'Behind the Scenes at Verdant Tea.'
Sil, sorry your thread got hijacked!
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Coconut Matcha
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The shipping sucks at $10 (the large matchaccino is 2lbs!) but I managed to split it with the roommate.
since you mentioned it was really good, I had to get it!
I ordered some MATCHAccino too, such a crazy discount. I think this might be a good solution to not being able to make it to the coffee shop once it starts snowing.
Placed my first Whispering Pines Tea order.
Coconut Chai
Honey Graham Cracker
Dark Chocolate Oolong
Formosa Oolong
Blackburnian Tea
will be looking forward to seeing your reviews. Haven't had much chances to try them yet
I'm binging right now. I've placed two more orders since this one -Della Terra and Design a Tea plus my NMTC order that STILL hasn't shipped. (Hanging head in shame)
I'm choosing not to worry about it, I've cleared a couple of shelves in a closet. Looking for appropriate baskets/bins to put the unopened packages in. I will be fine as long as they are no longer exploding all over the house. (and I have birthday money to spend…might place another order or two yet….)
haha i have 200+ teas in the house but it's all in one small ikea expedit bookcase. I love it. There are a few more orders i want to place but i'm trying to balance when i'm buying the tea so that when it's been in my cupboard "forever" i have less to drink from that same time bracket…if that makes sense. heh
gah, where has the time gone? I need to start decreasing my stash to prep for Black Friday.
Not tea, but I just ordered a bunch of tins for my Dammann Freres teas from Instant-Thé (they come in non-resealable bags, and on one the seam had burst open!) from Specialty Bottle. I had to stop putting it off!
Which tins did you order? I keep wanting to put an order in, but their shipping is expensive.
I ordered eight of the TND8 (Tin Deep Container 8oz w/ Cover). They will be just right for 50g of tea (I checked their volume against some tins I have now, lol). I have ordered the TEAT4 (Tin Tea Smooth Square 4.3" w/ Slip Lid; these are perfect for 100g of tea) from them in the past, and love those tins.
My shipping was $10.30 for 8 tins (@$0.97 each). Sometimes you can see where the threshold is for shipping by adding and removing numbers of tins from your cart; one extra tin can double the shipping price because it will bump the total size/weight over the lower threshold.
That's good to know. One day I'll order from them…. Maybe as a Christmas present to myself. Lol.


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"Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to perform some small kindness. The Dog Stars is a wholly compelling and deeply engaging debut." —Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted
A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss—and what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace.
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life—something like his old life—exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return—not enough fuel to get him home—following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must face—in the people he meets, and in himself—is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.
Narrated by a man who is part warrior and part dreamer, a hunter with a great shot and a heart that refuses to harden, The Dog Stars is both savagely funny and achingly sad, a breathtaking story about what it means to be human.
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2012: Adventure writer Peter Heller's The Dog Stars is a first novel set in Colorado after a superflu has culled most of humanity. A man named Hig lives in a former airport community—McMansions built along the edge of a runway—which he shares with his 1956 Cessna, his dog, and a slightly untrustworthy survivalist. He spends his days flying the perimeter, looking out for intruders and thinking about the things he's lost—his deceased wife, the nearly extinct trout he loved to fish. When a distant beacon sparks in him the realization that something better might be out there, it's only a matter of time before he goes searching. Poetic, thoughtful, transformative, this novel is a rare combination of the literary and highly readable. --Chris Schluep
Amazon Exclusive: Author Peter Heller on the Star of The Dog StarsThe inspiration for Jasper, a Blue Heeler mix, who is an integral part of this novel.
Our Hero, Hig, lives at a little country airstrip which he shares with his beloved blue heeler Jasper, and a mean gun nut named Bangley. It's nine years after a super-flu has killed 99.7% of the people on the planet. Hig sleeps out under the open sky at night with Jasper. He does it because he loves to see the stars, and because it's safer: if marauders come he won't be trapped in one of the nearby houses.
He used to have a book of the stars, but now he doesn't, so when he's lying out at night he makes up constellations. Mostly they are animals, and he makes one for his best friend Jasper. The Dog Stars. It's Hig's way of reinventing the lost world, and keeping in touch with the things he loves.
Jasper, to me, is the star of the book. He is fiercely loyal, and he gives Hig something to live for when there is not much else to hold on to.About the Author:
Peter Heller holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in both fiction and poetry. An award-winning adventure writer and longtime contributor to NPR, Heller is a contributing editor at Outside magazine, Men's Journal, and National Geographic Adventure, and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek. He is also the author of several nonfiction books, including Kook, The Whale Warriors, and Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
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Book Description Knopf, 2012. Book Condition: New. Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition. A+ Customer Service! Summary: "What separates Heller''s book from other End of Days stories is that it doesn''t rely on the thematic fail-safes to tell the story- The Dog Stars is quite simply the story of what it''s like to be alone. What it feels like to not know more than one or two other people for a decade. What it''s like to love those people while fearing them, all the time knowing that survival sometimes means you have to shoot first." -Melody Datz, The Stranger "Heller crafts a richly emotional perspective on how humans choose to respond when confronted with calamity. . . . [T]here's a singular voice at work here in Hig's halting first-person narration that turns his mind into a battleground between two choices of handling apocalypse: self-preserving fear, or risky humanity. At times funny, at times thrilling, at times simply heartbreaking and always rich with a love of nature, The Dog Stars finds a peculiar poetry in deciding that there's really no such thing as the end of the world-just a series of decisions about how we live in whatever world we've got." -Scott Renshaw, Salt Lake City Weekly " The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is a heavenly book, a stellar achievement by a debut novelist that manages to combine sparkling prose with truly memorable, shining, characters. It contains constellations of grand images and ideas, gleams with vitality, and sparkles with wit. And for a story of this ilk, it is also-a rarity-radiant with hope. Despite the many terrible events threatening to engulf our heroes, The Dog Stars never falls into the black hole of hopelessness common in many post-apocalyptic fictions. . . . Luminous with bright ideas . . . The Dog Stars is the story of Hig's conversation with his faith, with his humanity, with his former life. By turns moving, articulate and, exciting, it is also one of those stories that remains with the reader long after the book is closed. It contains all of the lyricism of Cormac McCarthy at his best-Hig fights for 'things that have no use anymore except as a bulwark against oblivion. Against the darkness of total loss.' And he reaches for the stars. For the constellations of his memory. He looks up and not down." -A. J. Kirby, New York Journal of Books "With its soulful hero, macabre villains, tender love story and action scenes staggered at perfectly spaced intervals, [ The Dog Stars ] unfolds with the vigor of the film it will undoubtedly become. But it also succeeds as a dark, poetic and funny novel in its own right. . . . That [Hig's] story is not in the end depressing may be the most disturbing part of this novel. In fact, at times, the destruction of civilization seems to have given Hig the chance to live more richly in the present, to feel grace more acutely, to sleep outdoors and gaze up at the stars in his purged, rejuvenated universe. It is frightening to face up to the apocalypse. It's perhaps even more frightening when we get past that and start seeing its upside." -Jennifer Reese, NPR "A stunning, hope-riddled end-of-the-world story . . . bound to become a classic." -Emily Temple, Flavorwire " The Dog Stars is a post-apocalyptic adventure novel with the soul of haiku. . . . Heller is a well-known adventure writer, and his knowledge of and sensitivity to nature and outdoor pursuits come through here with precision and power. . . . A novel that gets under the skin of what it means to survive unbearable loss." -Margaret Quamme, The Columbus Dispatch "A heart-wrenching and richly written story about loss and survival-and, more important, about learning to love again. . . . The Dog Stars is a love story, but not just in the typical sense. It's an ode to friendship between two men, a story of the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for."-Michele Filgate, Minneapolis Star Tribune "By putting us in the worst of all possible times, literature can allow us to experience the best side of humank. Bookseller Inventory # ABE_book_new_0307959945
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May 1st, 2014,
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Kabbage, a platform for online merchants to borrow working capital, is picking up some cabbage of its own: the startup has closed a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners.
April 8th, 2014,
March 20th, 2014,
Coupa Inc., which helps companies track spending on items like travel and office supplies that can quickly eat into corporate budgets, raised another $40 million, bringing total funding to $87 million.
March 17th, 2014,
Can marketers pluck the right data from "big data"? They're certainly trying.
March 11th, 2014,
Over 30,000 people attend Austin's South by Southwest annually; many are entrepreneurs looking to catch the eye (and checkbook) of a VC investor. So, do VCs really find their next investment at SXSW? With a little luck, sometimes lightning strikes, like it did for Kabbage.
March 4th, 2014,
Pluribus Networks announced today its analytics solution, inNetwork Analytics, which empowers both NetOps and DevOps with faster time-to-problem resolution and seamless visibility into both overlay and underlay networks.


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Is anyone up for giving weekly English lessons to our volunteer Alba, from Spain? Or maybe even hold an English workshop if they are interested and have the time.
Or if maybe someone knows any free classes held anywhere in Edinburgh, that would also be of great help!


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My battery bag continues to come off of my guild d150. It was shop installed originally and the bag came off with the first battery change. I used some heavy duty double sided tape but that didn't last long so I took it to the shop again. They cleaned the wood and used what they called a heavy duty adhesive this time - not sure what it was. This has lasted about 3 months I think and now has come off again. I have changed the battery since but was extremely careful not to pull on the bag at all.
At this point I'm wondering if there are any other power options, or perhaps this is a known issue with guilds and a certain oil in the wood or something? My shop is guild authorized for service.
Also I'm careful with storing the guitar in the case in my house (not the garage and it doesn't travel in my trunk).
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The Power Authority Earns Local And National Recognition For Energy Efficiency Work Completed In New York City
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WHITE PLAINS— New York Power Authority (NYPA) President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel today announced that a NYPA energy efficiency project at a public housing complex in New York City has received prominent recognition from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).
A federation of state and regional councils representing America's engineering industry, the ACEC's New York chapter issued NYPA its Diamond Award—its top honor—in connection with a comprehensive energy efficiency project at Castle Hill Houses in the Bronx.
"Energy-efficiency improvements are a kind of perpetual motion machine when you consider what they do for freeing up capital for non-energy purchases and promoting new 'green' industries and clean-energy jobs," Kessel said. "That's not to mention the other benefits, which include enhancing the reliability of the electric power system. The recognition NYPA has received from the ACEC for the Castle Hill improvements further strengthens the Power Authority's resolve to remain innovative as we move forward with additional energy efficiency initiatives around the state."
In partnership with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), NYPA completed the energy efficiency work at Castle Hill Houses last year. The upgrades included the replacement of the central boiler plant, as well as steam traps, lighting fixtures and installation of wireless energy modules at 14 buildings, including 2,025 apartments. The $25.8 million project saves taxpayers nearly $2 million a year and removes more than 6,700 tons of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere annually.
The ACEC evaluates project entries for uniqueness and originality; technical value to the engineering profession; social and economic considerations; complexity; and success in meeting client goals. Projects are broken down into various categories, such as energy, structural systems, and transportation, and then awarded a ranking of silver, gold, platinum or diamond by a distinguished panel of judges.
To date, NYPA has completed energy efficiency work at more than 1,100 NYCHA facilities, saving taxpayers nearly $18.5 million a year and removing nearly 110,000 tons of greenhouse gases annually.
NYPA recently completed work in partnership with NYCHA on boiler control upgrades at the Alfred E. Smith Houses in Manhattan. The scope of work included the replacement of inefficient controls on the six boilers that supply steam and hot water throughout the 12-building complex. The total cost for this project was approximately $700,000, with an annual energy savings of $69,600.
The Power Authority is also continuing its partnership with NYCHA through NYPA's Instantaneous Hot Water Heater Replacement Program. The initiative, currently entering its 11th phase, includes the replacement of existing inefficient hot water storage tanks with new instantaneous hot water heaters. A total of approximately 115 heaters in 14 developments throughout the five New York City boroughs are included in the scope of work (790 instantaneous hot water heaters have been installed to date in previous phases, with 1,400 instantaneous hot water heaters expected to be replaced by the program's conclusion). The total estimated cost for this project is $19 million with an annual energy savings of $1.6 million.
NYPA has financed more than $912 million of energy efficiency and clean energy projects in New York City, completing 1,255 projects at more than 2,200 facilities, saving taxpayers more than $83 million a year and removing nearly 515,574 tons of greenhouse gases from the air.
The Power Authority typically recovers its costs by sharing in the savings in energy bills that result from its initiatives, after which program participants retain all the savings.
NYPA is the nation's largest public power organization and uses no taxpayer dollars or state debt in its operations. The Power Authority owns and operates 17 generating facilities across New York. NYPA also owns and operates over 1,400 circuit miles of transmission lines in various parts of the state. NYPA is a national leader in advancing energy efficiency, clean energy technologies and electric vehicles.
The New York City Housing Authority is one of the large government customers in New York City benefiting from economical electricity from NYPA.
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■ The New York Power Authority uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■ NYPA is a leader in promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives. ■ It is the nation's largest state public power organization, with 17 generating facilities in various parts of New York State and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■ Approximately 80 percent of the electricity it produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state. ■For more information, www.nypa.gov.


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Topic: Refactoring into a Helper with place holder
I am trying to DRY some code that I use to render a list of links list. The code is rendered in the congregation view. I'm still learning and this code admittedly sucks but the issue here is not the code (even though it probably is) but how to create a helper. This was my first rails project and I had to fit the project to existing data.
code in the view: (this will be repeated multiple times for each controller a1..a(n)
<% if @congregations.a1_id.nil? %>
<%= link_to "", {:controller => :a1, :action => :new, :id => @congregations.id}, :class => 'createButt' -%>
<% else %>
<%= link_to "", {:controller => :a1, :action => :edit, :id => @congregations.a1_id}, :class => 'editButt' -%>
<%= link_to "", {:controller => :a1, :action => :delete, :id => @congregations.a1_id}, :confirm => "Are you sure you want to delete A1?", :class => 'deleteButt' -%>
<% end %>
Essentially there is a main congregation and each congregation can have 1 unique "sub-controller" called a1,a2,a3..a(n) etc. which is linked via the congregations a1_id,a2_id,a3_id column.
So in the view I first check to see if the @congregations.a1_id.nil?
If it is nil then I render the create link and pass it the congregations id so that in the a1 controller can populate the @congregation.a1_id column when it is saved.
If the @congregations.a1_id does exist then I render the "edit" and "destroy" links instead.
My problem is that I'm new to Rails and have a general groking of the system but am now tackling Helpers and Ruby syntax in general.
I don't know if its possible to pass a helper to pass the "a1" part in as a variable and then insert it into the @congregations.a1_id portion of the if clause. I was able to successfully change the link_to statements with a helper to accept the passed in variable but am scratching my head about how to do the initial nil? check.
Ideally I'd like to be able to use a helper and iterate though a1..a(n) and just pass in the controller name and the action. Any help that can be given is appreciated. Hopefully you're not shaking your head at my ineptitude at this point and have a solution. I've been racking my brian and googling for quite some time now and decided to ask for help here because railsforum.com is the best.


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Oregon population growth estimated at 1 percent
Portland, OR - Portland State University's Population Research Center estimates Oregon's population increased by more than 35,000 or about 1 percent in the past year.
The center says the state population as of July 1 was 3.9 million -- 3,919,025, exactly.
The center says the increase is slightly higher than last year's, with natural population growth accounting for about two-thirds of the gain and one-third by migration.
Most of the population growth is in seven counties: Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Marion, Deschutes, Lane and Jackson.


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Richard Littlemore | December 3, 2009
By Richard Littlemore • Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 09:06
The journal Nature, unquestionably one of the most credible sources in science today, weighed in yesterday with an editorial on the hacked email controversy. It's conclusion:
"In the end, what the UEA (University of East Anglia) e-mails really show is that scientists are human beings — and that unrelenting opposition to their work can goad them to the limits of tolerance, and tempt them to act in ways that undermine scientific values. Yet it is precisely in such circumstances that researchers should strive to act and communicate professionally, and make their data and methods available to others, lest they provide their worst critics with ammunition. After all, the pressures the UEA e-mailers experienced may be nothing compared with what will emerge as the United States debates a climate bill next year, and denialists use every means at their disposal to undermine trust in scientists and science."
Freiherr von Mo... replied on Permalink
Der Spiegel on John Sensenbrenner's research fascism allegation
translated snippets from honourable German mainstream media:
…John Sensenberger is no ideological crackpot from the third row, but a leading representative of his party in terms of…[implying that others are crackpots]
…climate change deniers have attempted to sabotage efficient environmental protection with manipulations and deceptive arguments for years.
Comment: in the Germany quality press, obviously, the Moncktons, Lawsons, Inhofes etc. are tacitly dismissed as loonies. Why not here?
RickJames replied on Permalink
You Germans are just better
You Germans are just better in every way aren't you.
Freiherr von Mo... replied on Permalink
No, not a tad better. Just less fundamendalist. And more responsible towards our environment, which comes from population density.
CamMacKay replied on Permalink
Now there is a magazine that is looking at a decrease in subscription if the Alarmist AGW rhetoric is proven false. Oh and freiherr what is the benchmark you use to state that germans are less "fundamentalist" than people elsewhere on the globe? History?
Freiherr von Mo... replied on Permalink
This is not a question of history but of now. Now, they are less fundamentalist, because there are only two mainstream religions, catholic and protestant - which are both moderate. Compare to N America: 40% of Republican party members are considered Christian fundamentalists.
Now look at politics: all major parties, left and right, are close to the centre - again moderate. Compare to the US: Democrats are right wing, and Republicans are ultra-right wing. Centre streams are considered communist, socialist etc.
Finally, look at the economic systems: All European democracies subscribe to a social market economy [check wikipedia], whereas the US is drifting between unfeathered and slightly feathered Manchester-style free-market economy, drafted by Adam Smith in the 1750s. Totally out of date as markets are more important than individuals. And the so-called market self-regulation failed bitterly last year [see market failure]. This style free market economy is endorsed by, surprise surprise, the Republican party and our well known right wing think tanks, the corner the denialism is coming from.
Back to journalism: I also find European journalism is by and large more investigative and informative, while here (too) much of journalism is based on opinion rather than facts. And as we know, every idiot can have an opinion.
I was not relating to fundamentalism worldwide, but to North American fundamentalism.
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Nature is no mere 'magazine',
Nature is no mere 'magazine', it's one of the world's premier scientific journals.
It's unsurprising that someone like you cannot grasp the difference, it's like confusing lies with the truth - but of course you do that too!


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Pretty damn sexy, huh?
That is my problem. I've put so much time and effort into making her look absolutely gorgeous that I now treat her like the Mona Lisa. I keep her sealed away a majority of the time, only taking her out to fondle her and maybe shoot a couple rounds through her, but never actually play with her. The last time she's seen the field was over a year ago now and I can't bring myself to do it again for fear of scratching or damaging her.
To compare, I feel like Cameron's dad and his Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
"Ferris, he never drives it! He just rubs it with a diaper!"
As much as I love this gun, I just really have no reason to continue owning her. She's treated more as an expensive sculpture than a paintball gun and I feel it's not fair that I own her and never use her. I'm in need of a work-horse and not a show-piece, so I'm considering parting with my dear Automag and possibly trading for something a bit more practical.
I guess what I'm asking of you all is to convince me to part with my beloved paperweight for something more useful.
And please, I'm being serious as this is hard to do. As much as I'd love to hand her off to someone who will put her to better use, I can't simply give her to you, so please don't ask that of me, even if you are just joking.
Also, this is not meant to be a BST ad. If and when I'm ready, I'll make one and you can post your offers there.
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Skip to comments.Graphic, Profane and Vulgar Homosexual Porn Novel Given to Students at Posh Illinois High School
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DEERFIELD, IL, March 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Deerfield High School, in Deerfield, Illinois, is offering the books "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" (Part One & Two) - laced with graphic sexual content, including gay sex, pervasive expletives, religious denigration and mockery - in English classes this spring.
The books contain graphic descriptions of sodomy heretofore only heard of in hardcore homosexual pornography. With numerous uses of the 'f' word and vulgar sexual references to Mother Teresa, the Mother of Jesus, and God.
"After almost 15 years of school advocacy and reviewing many objectionable books and curricula, I have never seen anything this vulgar and harmful to students," says Lora Sue Hauser, Executive Director of North Shore Student Advocacy. "Parents, taxpayers and concerned citizens must force themselves to read these excerpts, as horrific as they are, so you know what kids are being exposed to. The school justifies this egregious choice because of its themes of hope. Evidently, all great literature with themes of hope have already been exhausted so teachers need to start offering pornography. We say - enough."
North Shore Student Advocacy (NSSA), an organization to help parents and students when they run into problems in public schools, was made aware of these books last fall when a parent complained. The books were part of required reading until NSSA filed a formal complaint with the school, asking the books to be reviewed by committee.
The committee decided to remove the books from required reading, but continued to offer them in the classroom as an optional title. "Optional Title," according to the principal, means that the student may select the books to study with peers and be guided by the adult, male teacher. A parental permission slip will be required, but without full disclosure of the sexually explicit content. This conclusion is unacceptable to the complaining parent and to NSSA. They are asking that this pornographic book be removed from curriculum completely.
The State's Attorney's office of Lake County, Illinois, deemed the books "obscene" according to Illinois obscenity laws, violating the "distributing harmful materials to minors" statute. However, state and federal obscenity laws exempt schools and libraries under "affirmative defense," giving the school and teachers involved near immunity.
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Just revise them to read mohammed instead of Jesus.Then see if it is still "literature".
I'm sure the school official who authorized the use of this material during class time would want to have his or her name made known to as many voters as possible in Deerfield, Illinois.
And the taxpayers are enablers for this recruitment of children to the damnable homosexual life style by providing the funding. Wake up, sheeple! Satan is devouring your children by exposing them to these evil teachers in government schools.
As I recall, the official motto of Deerfield Illinois is: "To Live, To Work, To Shop" I'm not making this up.
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This excretion disparages Mother Teresa, the Blessed Virgin and God Himself.
My opinion: it has to do with very powerful feelings of self-hatred they experience.
Man, the worst we read was The Scarlet Letter.
Out of curiosity I tuned in, briefly, to the HBO miniseries called Angels in America. Within 10 minutes there was a scene where an Angel was coming down from the heavens to 'mate' with a gay guy. That was it for me. Half the people in this country don't care how destructive the Gay Agenda is. Our half knows but doesn't have the appropriate power (such as in the public school system) to do anything about it. Sad state of affairs.
Homosexual activists do not want just tolerance they want to remake the world in their dangerous world view. They want to use sexual imagery and fetishism to warp the minds of young people early so they will have a life long ambiguity where gender and sexuality is concerned. They want to change the sexual morals of our time and in many places they have. They were the first to introduce the ideas of anal and excrement fetishes and low forms of pseudo sexual behavior which is highly facilitatory to the spread of pathogens. There is a culture war going on.
If you care about your children then you need to pay attention what kind of stuff is being offered in public schools and if you really do wish to teach your children about homosexuality and its dangers then dig deeper for your own benefit. It will not be a pleasant journey but it most certainly will inoculate you against the minimization of the dangers of the politics of this horrid behavior. There is a not so hidden history that the left wishes to glaze over with sitcom comedies like Will and Grace. There is a history of the efforts of gay activists to reduce the age of consent(to legalize pederasty), to in filtrate the classroom, to infect society with a phony version of civil rights which has as its goal to make it impossible to criticize or stop them.
The best thing you can do if your school district is putting this kind of stuff in front of your children. Call the police, don't talk about the school or to the school, talk about an adult giving sexually explicit material to minors to the authorities and press charges. It doesn't matter if you win. Intimidation is the tactic that gay activists use and I recommend using it against them. I'd even bait some of these teachers into stepping over the line. The left can not resist an impressionable young mind anymore than a sexual predator can resist an underage easy mark in a chatroom. Conservatives need to have their own kind of activism. Don't let the conversation stay polite and stay focused on protecting the children from adults in the public school system who are overly interested in the sex lives of kids.
"The best thing you can do if your school district is putting this kind of stuff in front of your children. Call the police, dont talk about the school or to the school, talk about an adult giving sexually explicit material to minors to the authorities and press charges."
YOU are one SHARP COOKIE!
Yes, let them see it for what it is - not attached to academia.
I've said this before elsewhere but I still think it's worth saying...
There was a talk show host out of WABC New York back in the '90's... it doesn't matter what his name was at this point; he's long gone.
This guy said once, speaking of militant gay activists: "these are people who are driven into a rage by the innocence of children."
MOst parents don't even know what they are consenting too with these stupid permission slips. They ASSUME a school wouldn't push smut on their kids.
This kind of garbage has been going on for years and years, and it's never on the GOP radar, which is why I'm leaving it.
This was a popluar play and I think it won a couple of Tonys. HBO got a big cast together and spent some bucks on the TV production. Glorifies aids victims.
I can't believe the "tolerance" crowd hasn't shown up here yet.
They always jump at the chance to lecture us about "thenthorthip" and how parents should never have any say whatsoever in their children's schools' choices of required reading.
They enjoy labeling such parents as fanatics and unstable.
Surely, they will be here soon to slavishly support the schools who are ramming this down children's throats.
Homosexuals are sexual degenerates and they want their degeneracy to be mainstream, so they go to work in school systems inveigling their degeneracy in the name of 'sophistication'. I would guarantee the promoters of this book and their support are homosexuals and/or sexual degenerates who want to immerse youth in sexual things to recruit for their use.
Government schools are eating the souls of our youth and conservatives are in a coma!
NO! The solution is NOT to attempt the reform of godless, atheistic, Marxist government schools! NO! NO! NO! The very premise upon which they are build is corrupt, and they are NOT redeemable!
The solution is to get children out of these government madrassas of filth and to permanently shut them down! We are running out of time! There is not much time left! If the Marxists ( I call them the Death Eaters) succeed in indoctrinating the next generation of voters all freedom will be lost in the voting booth!
Conservatives need to start private scholarship foundations that would award vouchers to students and award grants to individual teachers. Since government is giving its schooling away for free, the private vouchers must meet the full cost of private tuition, otherwise parents will not give up their addiction to free government babysitting.
Once we get children out of the government schools, conservatives must organize a peaceful but MASSIVE school tax revolt that would permanently shut down every government school in the nation!
If our colleges and universities can have endowments in the BILLIONS then conservatives could do this for K-12 education, IF THEY WOULD ONLY WAKE UP FROM THEIR ANESTHESIA!!
By the way, some years ago my husband and I checked out the video of "Angels in America". We were lured into picking it up since Meryl Streep is a star in the film.
This film mocks faith, and everything that is good about wholesome family living. The only reason this book was assigned by this Marxist government school teacher was to destroy the Christian religious faith of the youth in the class, prepare them for the Marxist take over that is sure to come, and introduce them in the culture of the Marxist Death Eaters.
So...Why, why, why, are conservatives ( ESPECIALLY CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES!!!) so brain dead!! ( Yes! I am shouting! I am utterly exasperated!)
And now a fool judge in Leftafornia has made it illegal to homeschool your children unless you are qualified/certified to teach in their degenerate school systems!
I would guarantee the promoters of this book and their support are homosexuals and/or sexual degenerates who want to immerse youth in sexual things to recruit for their use.
Homosexuals are moving into the government schools. Homosexuals hire other homosexuals!
Expect a lot more of this.
Also, homosexuals walk hand and hand with the Marxists.
A student could have, I guess, read out loud in class:
"Catcher In The Rye". In 1960, a teacher was fired, and later reinstated, for assigning the novel in class(different class relationship).[18] Between 1961 and 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. In 1981, it was both the most censored book and the second most taught book in public schools in the United States. According to the American Library Association, The Catcher in the Rye was the 13th most frequently challenged book from 19902000. It was one of the 10 most challenged books in 2005, and came off the list in 2006."
"Angels in America" was the most watched made-for-cable movie in 2003. I watched it myself.
Related: In 1994, < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom"> Harold Bloom published The Western Canon. The Western canon is a term used to denote a canon of books and more widely, music and art, that has been the most influential in shaping Western culture. It is also a survey of the major literary works of post-Roman Europe. Besides analyses of the canon's various representative works, the major concern of the volume is reclaiming literature from those he refers to as the "School of resentment", the mostly academic critics who espouse a social purpose in reading. Bloom believes that the goals of reading must be "solitary aesthetic pleasure" and "self-insight" rather than the "forces of resentments" -goal: improvement of one's society, which he casts as an absurd aim, writing "The idea that you benefit the insulted and injured, he says, by reading someone of their own origins rather than reading Shakespeare is one of the oddest illusions ever promoted by or in our schools."
Bloom's position is that politics have no place in literary criticism: a feminist or Marxist reading of Hamlet, for example, would tell us something about feminism and Marxism but nothing about Hamlet itself, it being so universal. In addition to the amount of influence Bloom has had on later writers was, if fact, the American playwright Tony Kushner-Angels In America.
I am an avid (often addictive)and inquisitive reader of just about "everything".
Sexual degenerates have degenerate minds. What else would one expect except socialist enslavement, with undercurrents of license to degeneracy. Someone mentioned 'Tony Awards' ... they are now like special perches for the hell-bound, to honor their efforts to degenerate our fellow humans further.
I don't understand your last comment and it's relationship to my post.
The complicity of the government school defenders and the assistance of so-called "good" and Christian government teachers in supporting, aiding, abetting this Death Eating evil MAKES ME SICK!
Actually the Deerfield story was about a student who wanted to read that play and teacher of that class getting permission to read and discuss this AIDS related subject/award winning literary work (to some, so becomes controversial) in class and they went the route of permission to do so as controversial to some. Depends on how you read the play-it is not about voyeurism as someone has projected XXX Rate video/bookstore photo above. Deerfield told parents of this one English class before the play was read by that student- Angels in America.
There is more to Angels in America than being just a "paperback romance type novel"(-have you seen what women writers say in these things?). It will remain a controversy, just like Catcher In The Rye..even though Angels in America is not considered as shocking at this timeframe in Western society, but it still brings out the same bookburners.
Guide your children as long as you can, but love them always.
The mistake conservatives make is that we go into battle believing that there are ground rules to the battle and that we have an honorable opponent. That is exactly what we don't have. The left wins battles through keeping the debate outside of its objectives. There is no benefit to us to play the game by the rules of the left. The key to turning back the tide of gay activism is children. Teenage males who become sexually active in the homosexual lifestyle have a very high mortality rate. The whole idea that coming out is a positive thing is factually untrue. The chances of an individual catching a serious disease skyrocket as do the number of sexual partners. Yet we are encouraged to turn a blind eye to what is still a very ugly subculture.
What can I say. People don't read and people don't care to research. It is easier to think of your gay friends and pretend they live life just as you do. They don't, I know personally of that truth. A friend of mine has serious medical problems because of the lifestyle he got caught up in and another ended up dead. There is no compassion in pretend.
It is a symptom of the modern world that so much that is accepted as common knowledge is popular fiction. So many pleasantries are really veiled horrors that keep us faithless and keep us chained.
If we don't act soon, all freedom will be lost when the next generation of government school indoctrinated Marxists go to the voting booth!
In post #29 I propose a solution! We haven't much time remaining!
By the way, I will be **very***very***very*** surprised if the Three Stooges ( Rush, Sean, and OReily) cover this story on their programs. What wimps!
That needs to be said again! I hope you don't mind if I repeat your statement at every opportunity!
Please read post #29. I propose a solution that should be part of a large plan of action.
You have correctly pointed out that the homosexual/liberal/Marxist coalition does not fight fair.
Do you have any suggestions for fighting them ( peacefully within the rule of law)?
Good Lord. I didn't care for Angels in America but it sure sounds like the author didn't actually bother to read the play.
Its about Ray Cohn,chief counsel to the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate - he is one McCarthy's key henchmen, condemned by the Senate for unethical behavior in coordination with McCarthy.
In other sources Cohn is "a Jew who persecuted Jews; a gay who persecuted gays."
Cohn's protege is Mormon and there is a fair amount of commentary there.
In the HBO mini-series version Cohn is played by Al Pacino.
Cohn eventually dies of aids and the play has a lot to do with how AIDs was not taken seriously soon enough.
It broke the record held by Roots for most Emmy's. The play itself has won dozens of awards
Roots had a lot of controversial subject matter too but we didn't hide it from kids.
That said, I didn't like the play or the mini-series but it is clearly a real work of literature that should not be censored. The teacher, Jeff Berger White and the rest of the faculty claim they followed all normal protocal and even recieved the parents permission.
I think that is probably true. The left in general seems to have a great disdain for innocence. It is not that we are flawed and should aspire to greatness but instead that we are flawed and should aspire to be nothing more which is the emptiness of their mission. Also within the Homosexual community there is a history of predatory behavior that is disregarded. Most homosexual men began their journey being molested or accosted by older men. When you look at family histories of homosexuality it often can be tied not as much to genetics as it is to the fact that the family has a hidden darkness of molestation within it.
It is not a coincidence that homosexuals account for nearly a third of all molestations. What is horrible is the very activism that claims to free the homosexual to be themselves also traps them so they can never address the abuse they faced as a child with the high likelihood that they will contribute to the abuse of others in their attempt to deal with the abuse they faced. That is the horrible secret. A whole class of people are trapped in a hell built with a wall of compassion. It is horrible but that is the way of evil. It seeks to trap us. It is no different for the poor in the inner cities who are trapped in the hell of never making enough money to thrive and always having to rely on government while they are steeped in bitterness and anger which guarantees they will live a life of subservience perpetually nursing their wounds that are never allowed to heal.
>>The best thing you can do if your school district is putting this kind of stuff in front of your children. Call the police, dont talk about the school or to the school, talk about an adult giving sexually explicit material to minors to the authorities and press charges.
That would likely help the publisher of the play and the mini-series based on the play more than anything you could possibly do. Trying to put people in jail for teaching a play that has won so many awards that is about McCarthy's chief henchman would be so ironic it would get world wide press and would be labeled all over the world as intolerance of freer speech and thought.
I guess you'd have to arrest Al Pacino too and prosecute HBO for making and showing the mini-series.
I'm afraid this is a case where whoever started this didn't actually read the play or learn what it was about. You won't help anything for prosecuting people for teaching a play about a secretly gay man who worked for McCarthy..since its true.
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Connie Cullen
March 27, 2003
MARCY—The New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced today it will provide surplus computer equipment to two schools in the Utica City School District as part of its program to make refurbished computers available to schools statewide.
"The New York Power Authority is pleased to play a role, under Governor Pataki's leadership, in the statewide program to donate computers to New York's school children, which helps expand their access to the high tech resources so vital to learning in the 21st Century," said Louis P. Ciminelli, chairman, New York Power Authority.
The Power Authority is ready to deliver 10 computers each to the JFK Middle School and the Hughes Elementary School, both in Utica. The Power Authority utilizes about 1,700 computers in its normal operation and replaces about 400 to 500 computers each year.
The surplus equipment is thoroughly cleaned and provided with a minimum of 64 megabytes of memory. The computers have been tested with a new installation of the operating system, and any missing or broken parts have been replaced.
"Computers are an essential resource in the education of our young people. I support the New York Power Authority's commitment to the education of Utica's young citizens through this smart reuse of computer resources so desperately needed to prepare our students for tomorrow's jobs," said Senator Raymond A. Meier.
"I commend the New York Power Authority for the donation of its surplus late-model computers to Utica's classrooms which, along with NYPA's lower-cost power and energy efficiency projects, continues the Power Authority's long history of commitment to our region," said State Assemblywoman RoAnn M. Destito.
"Recent research shows that the more technology you make available to students, the closer you can come to helping erase the achievement gaps confronting students from differing backgrounds," said Daniel Lowengard, superintendent, Utica City School District.
"The generosity of the New York Power Authority brings us closer to our goals of one computer for every four students on the middle school level and one per every six student on the elementary school level," said Bill Scott, director, staff development, planning and technology, Utica City School District.
The JFK Middle School was recently designated by the United States Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School which means the student body has show considerable improvements in their grades due to the commitment to excel on the part of the students, teachers and administrators.
NYPA's computer donation program began in 2002 and has, so far, distributed computers to schools in Niagara Falls, the Bronx and Queens, in areas within the vicinity of NYPA facilities.


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Tupper moving forward with emergency building
TUPPER LAKE – The village is moving forward on the path to building a new home for the local emergency services crews.
The village board agreed last week to a new contract with Hueber Breuer, the company that completed a feasibility study last year on the various options for a new fire hall. The village will pay $7,000 to the firm to use its services as project manager through the village putting the new building to a referendum.
If the referendum passes, Hueber Breuer will get another $7,000.
The village already paid the firm $24,800 for its work on the feasibility study.
Village Trustee Rick Donah, who has been leading the push for a new building, told the board last week that the process stalled for a little while through the holidays, but he's working to start it back up again. Mark Arsenault, former mayor and current fire department member, came to a December board meeting to encourage the board not to let the issue get stalled again.
Donah has also been waiting for an answer from the local rescue squad, which tabled a decision on whether it will be on board with a new building at its January meeting. The rescue squad was in the midst of a fundraising campaign to renovate its current building when the new push for an emergency services building began last year.
The village police department will likely be included in a new building in addition to the fire department. Both the fire and police squads' current homes have serious safety and maintenance issues.
The next step is to design and put together engineering plans for the building, Donah said.
Village board members interviewed design consultants Thursday and Friday. Casagrain didn't expect the board to make a decision on which one they will go with, since they didn't plan to have a quorum for the interviews.
Donah is organizing an Emergency Services Building Committee, which will make a final recommendation to the village on the location of the new building and the type of materials needed.
The new committee will be made up largely of the same people on the committee that worked on the feasibility report, Donah said, though new village Trustee David "Haji" Maroun, who is also a member of the fire department, will join the committee.
Donah said he's hoping to put the building to a public vote in the early spring.
At the village board meeting, Ron LaScala asked if it would be possible for a local contractor to build an emergency services building on its own, then lease it to the village. Donah said that's an option, and if someone wants to build it, the village would likely be willing to lease it. But he said the first step is to design the building.