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A NEW gypsy and travellers' site which is set to serve the whole of West Sussex was officially launched near Chichester today.
The £1.25m site in Westhampnett has been a year-long project between eight councils and is set to be up and running by the start of April.
West Sussex County Council will oversee the running of the transit site, and speaking at Monday's launch, leader Louise Goldsmith said: "We've been looking to find a site and to build it in West Sussex for quite some time and in September 2013 we agreed to do a big piece of work on it.
"It's been a lot of effort from a lot of people and a lot of collaborative work. It's a facility which is much-needed in the county.
"It's very important to offer a transit site for people to come to and now we have that.
"We know that it worked very well in East Sussex so we're following a similar model."
The Westhampnett site has nine transit pitches and has been jointly funded by all the district and borough councils in the county, as well as West Sussex County Council. The project also received a £630,000 government grant.
The scheme has been met with some concern from nearby residents, though Chichester District Councillor Josef Ransley said it would solve the long-standing problem of unauthorised gypsy settlements.
"There has been an issue with unauthorised encampments that we've had, county-wide for many years. Chichester alone had 72 over the last two years.
"They create a lot of discord, upset and a lot of cost to parish councils to deal with so it's a matter that had to be resolved."
The project had been carried out in collaboration with Sussex Police and Katy Bourne, police and crime commissioner was there at the launch to approve the site's opening.


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Friday, 22 April 2016
Share and 'Oldie' on Friday
15 comments:
- Barb said...
Oh Lorraine I really like this. She looks a really Sassy Lady. I really like Papermania but don't remember this range. Barbxx
- 3:55 pm, April 22, 2016
- meg said...
Great card Lorraine she looks as though she has all the time in the world to sit and gaze around love the papers they are clean and fresh
- 4:35 pm, April 22, 2016
- Erika said...
Hi Lorraine thanks for joining me today sharing an oldie. Your lady and dog scene is great and I love how you've framed it.
Hope you are feeling much better now, have a good weekend.
Hugs Erika. X
- 4:38 pm, April 22, 2016
- Gina Knott said...
Such a gorgeous card! I love the topper and wouldn't mind being that lady right now! Have a wonderful weekend.
Gina xx
- 5:05 pm, April 22, 2016
- Gina Knott said...
Such a lovely card and gorgeous image. The accents of pink and green make the card pop.
Gina xx
- 5:45 pm, April 22, 2016
- Lorraine said...
A gorgeous oldie, love the pretty oval border die and fab image
Lorraine x
- 6:21 pm, April 22, 2016
- Sarah said...
A great card Lorraine, love the image, I have a fondness for dalmatians, they were my Dads favourite dogs xx
- 6:28 pm, April 22, 2016
- Carol S. said...
A lovely card Lorraine and love the colours. Hope you are better now. Hugs, Carol S.xx
- 8:22 pm, April 22, 2016
- cuilliesocks said...
Hi Lorraine, beautiful card, I love the image and the gorgeous frame. Those papers are wonderful, Kate x
- 8:28 pm, April 22, 2016
- Wishcraft said...
Fab spotty dog and fab spotty paper too! Lovely card :o) Hugs, Lisa x
- 8:40 pm, April 22, 2016
- crafty-stamper said...
Love the elegant sparkly image and the dotty paper-I am a bit behind this week with commenting-no change there then lol-some weeks you just never seem to catch up
Carol x
- 10:19 pm, April 22, 2016
- Tracy said...
Well she's very sassy in her blingy outfit with her regal dog. :-) All that sparkle and your great design make this a wonderful card. Hugs!
- 3:07 am, April 23, 2016
- Judy Corner said...
Beautiful card. Happy Weekend to you Judy x
- 7:54 am, April 23, 2016
- aussie aNNie said...
Love this classy, chic and brilliant design here today and gorgeous colour combo used on this fab card....hope you are having a great weekend. xx
- 10:42 am, April 23, 2016
- Pamellia Johnson said...
Fabulous Lorraine. That image is so chic, what a fashionable card, very posh! Dalmatians are a wonderful creature aren't they! hugs :)
- 10:56 am, April 23, 2016


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W.S. Rendra (1935-2009): Dissident in the wind
By Max Lane
On August 6, Wahyu Sulaiman Rendra, Indonesia's greatest dramatist and most influential poet, died in Jakarta, aged 74. More than a thousand people, mostly villagers but also intellectuals, attended his funeral on August 7 at his home and theatre group centre, Bengkel Teater, outside Jakarta. There would have been few people in Indonesia who had not heard of or seen Rendra on stage or in one of the movies in which he appeared.
Rendra began his career as a poet in the 1950s writing romantic, erotic and semi-sacrilegious religious poetry. He soon found himself aligned with the writers opposed to the rapidly growing organised left. His own poems, especially those with erotic content, were criticised by the left in a period where mainstream socialist politics was still influenced by Stalinist puritanism.
Rendra's own experience, however, eventually separated him from the spectrum of anti-left writers with which he was initially aligned. In 1964, when the left–right conflict in the Indonesian arts was starting to sharpen, he left to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts' New York campus. While his peers became more deeply involved in the campaign against the Indonesian left and either participated in or supported the violent suppression and massacres of the left in 1965, Rendra was becoming immersed in the bohemian culture of New York City in the 1960s.
When he returned to Indonesia in 1967, he still associated with his anti-left artistic friends, but his own poems and his new dramas, rapidly diverged from the dominant right-wing discourse. By the 1970s, he was at the forefront of providing a political critique with a distinct left-wing character of General Suharto's dictatorship, emphasising class polarisation and exploitation, anti-capitalist ideas and opposition to foreign economic exploitation and domination of Indonesia. In addition to his brilliant and oratorical use of metaphor, his plays were renowned for their comic genius and satire. His landmark play of 1975, Perjuangan Suku Naga (The Struggle of the Naga Tribe, published in English in 1979), was criticised by some of his colleagues for echoing the "propagandistic style" of the Communist pamphleteers of the pre-1965 period. He responded by writing a brilliant collection of political poetry, which he reproduced and distributed in handwritten form, entitled Pamflet Penyair (A Poet's Pamphlets).
He worked closely with the anti-dictatorship student movements that surged in 1973-74 and again in 1978. He was arrested and detained for almost a year after a rousing poetry reading before thousands of supporters in 1978. Solidarity protests demanding his release took place around the world, including in Australia, where they were organised by the Campaign Against Repression in the Pacific and Asia (CARPA).
While being the primary articulator of anti-dictatorship and anti-injustice ideas in the 1970s, Rendra remained deeply suspicious of attempts to build permanent or structured institutions for protest and always attempted to stand outside them. He held strongly to the view that a poet must be a "voice from the wind", untied to any organised force of practical politics. He remained very prolific and produced some wonderful poems and dramatic performances in the 1980s and '90s, but his role in the protest movement was not as central to its leadership as it had been in the 1970s. Sometimes his supporters and admirers on the left would be disappointed when he seized the opportunity to use the platform of a right-wing politician, polemicised against writers on the left or worked with wealthy impresarios. His basic political stance against injustice, foreign capitalist exploitation and dictatorship never waned however. In assessing where he stood, perhaps his poetry speaks best of all:
Yes !
There are those triumphant, those who are humiliated
Those with weapons, those with wounds
There are those who sit, and those who are sat upon
Those with abundance, those from whom so much has been taken
And we ask here:
"for whom are your good intentions?
On whose side do you stand?"
(from "Poem of the Students Meeting", 1977)
Indonesia will not be the same without his confident and full-of-life personality, without both his political and other poetry, his massive impact on theatre — he trained many of the country's actors and theatre workers — and without his political courage and consistency.


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Three-on-three hockey is a lot like being under a bright spotlight — unforgiving.
"You can't really hide in three on three. So you're going to have to try or else everyone is going to notice," Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said on the NHL's experiment to liven up an often-tired affair with the three-on-three concept. "And three on three isn't a time where you need to get physical."
Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick and Doughty, and Ducks goalie John Gibson and forward Corey Perry were selected Wednesday by the NHL Hockey Operations Department to the All-Star team for the Jan. 31 game at Nashville.
Because the Kings are leading the Pacific Division, Coach Darryl Sutter was selected a coach.
"Obviously, a different format," Sutter said. "Went last year because we won it. Going this year because you're leading the division. The older you get, the more it means.
"The reason that we're leading the division now is because of our three-on-three play. So interesting that is the format."
The Kings' record is 6-1 on three-on-three play.
For Doughty, it will be his second consecutive All-Star appearance. Quick represented the Kings in 2012 in Ottawa. Perry, who will make his fourth appearance, has the most appearances of the group.
For Gibson, it will be his first All-Star game. Although he has played for the Ducks in previous seasons, Gibson, 22, is technically still a rookie.
"It's an honor," he said. "I didn't really expect it. It's something, any time you get named there. ... I'll probably expect a lot of offense with three-on-three. But it will be fun."
Said Perry of Gibson: "He has done a lot of good things for this team. He's helped us win a lot of hockey games and to be that young and to be named to the team, it's definitely an accomplishment."
As with most All-Star selections, there was the fuss about those left off the team. Sutter thought Kings center Anze Kopitar should have been included and that a case could be made for right wing Tyler Toffoli, who has scored 19 goals.
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Joe Hall asked for patience and Kentucky delivered in more ways than one last night.
The Wildcats, snapping a three-game losing streak, waited until the latter stages of the second half before a 53-43 victory over mistake-prone Louisiana State could be secured.
The victory, which improved UK's overall record to 10-8, also allowed the Cats to climb into a tie for sixth place in the Southeastern Conference.
LSU, which had won its last three, dropped to 13-5 overall and 7-4 in the SEC.
As of this morning, Tennessee, Mississippi State and Florida share first place at 6-3.
The patience Hall wanted was exhibited by the Kentucky offense. The Wildcats milked the 45-second shot clock throughout the game.
Combined with LSU's turnovers and poor shooting, along with Kentucky's patience, the two teams did not cross the 30-point mark until more than 30 minutes had been played.
Kentucky had to wait until the last minutes of the second half to take control of the game.
Tied at 33-33, Kentucky ran off seven straight points to take a 40-33 lead with 4:23 remaining.
Winston Bennett's post-up basket with less than eight seconds on the shot clock put UK ahead 35-33.
After a walk against Derrick Taylor, UK increased its lead to four points when Walker posted for a basket.
The lead jumped to seven following an LSU miss.
Bret Bearup, fouled on a layup attempt, made one free throw with 4:36 remaining. The second bounced off the front of the rim, and was tapped to a teammate by Walker.
Later in the series, Walker was fouled while posting up and made both ends of the one-and-one. Those free throws gave UK a 40-33 lead with 4:26 to go.
If there were any doubts about a Wildcat victory, they were erased when Roger Harden fired in an old-fashioned push shot with two seconds on the shot clock. That basket put UK ahead 42-35.
Then, with 2:29 remaining, LSU's leading scorer, center Nikita Wilson, fouled out while attempting to deny a feed inside to Walker.
UK lost its first-half lead in the first 11 minutes of the second. In that time the Wildcats could score only six points.
Wilson led the LSU charge, scoring eight points in the first 12 minutes of the second half. It was Wilson's basket off a rebound that knotted the score at 33-33 with 7:54 remaining.
In the first half, Kentucky displayed the kind of offensive patience Joe Hall asked for earlier this week.
LSU should have been so deliberate.
The Tigers, advertised as playing their best ball of the season coming into the game, were sloppy throughout the opening 20 minutes.
As a result, UK claimed a 25-16 halftime lead.
Hall had asked the Wildcats to make a second effort to get the ball to Walker. The Cats did and Walker had 11 first-half points.
LSU looked precision-like on its first possession, quickly feeding Wilson for a post-up jumper. That shot put LSU up 2-0, which not so coincidentally was the Tigers' only lead of the half.
In its next seven possessions, LSU turned the ball over five times. At the 11:39 mark, the Tigers already had seven turnovers.
In that span, Kentucky outscored LSU 12-2. UK's lead expanded to as much as 10 points twice, the last time being 18-8.
While UK's patience paid off, several of LSU's turnovers seemed unforced.
Particularly unglued was Jerry Reynolds. The 6-8 forward-guard was guilty of four turnovers (two walks and two dribbles off his own foot). Reynolds was also called for an offensive foul, nullifying another LSU possession.
UK guarded its possessions carefully. The Cats took only 16 shots in the first half.


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The sous vide cooking technique is widely known to be used in gourmet restaurants to serve only the best-prepared meals. However, with the growth of the cooking industry, driven by technological advancements, you can now make use of the French cooking method in your own kitchen. Anova is one of the most popular companies that distribute sous vide machines. To give you a head start, a short list of Anova's sous vide machines and accessories are presented to you.
Anova Bluetooth Sous Vide Precision Cooker
Cooking using the sous vide technique is made easy with Anova's Bluetooth sous vide precision cooker. You just have to attach the cooker on any pot, put your food pouches in it and set the required time and temperature. The device has a Bluetooth connectivity feature that allows you to control the machine and cook you food with just one tap, as long as you stay on a 33 ft range.
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Primo Eats Sous Vide Precision Cooker Immersion Pod
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Sarich and Miele state: "While we were preparing the
final draft of this book, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in 2003 aired a
highly acclaimed documentary, Race: The Power of an Illusion. The
contemporary scientific and ethical consensus in both the media and the social
sciences regarding race was concisely summarized in the ten numbered statements
that appear at the beginning of the website that accompanies the documentary
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elaborations follow; the chapter numbers shown in italics and enclosed in square
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"1. Race is a modern idea. [Chapters 2 and 3] Ancient societies did not divide people according to physical differences but according to religion, status, class, even language.
"2. Race has no genetic basis. [Chapter 5] No one characteristic, trait, or gene distinguishes all members of one so-called race from all members of another so-called race.
"3. Slavery predates race. [Chapter 2] Throughout history, societies have enslaved others, often as a result of conquest or war, but not because of physical characteristics or a belief in natural inferiority. In America, a unique set of circumstances led to the enslavement of peoples who looked similar [that is, black skin became associated with slave status in America—our explanatory comment].
"4. Race and freedom were born together. [Chapters 2 and 3] When the U.S. was founded, equality was a radical new idea. But our early economy was based largely on slavery. The concept of race helped explain why some people could be denied the rights and freedoms that others took for granted.
"5. Race justified social inequalities as natural. [Chapters 2 and 3] As the race concept evolved, it justified extermination of Native Americans, exclusion of Asian immigrants, and taking of Mexican lands.
"6. Human subspecies don't exist. [Chapter 6] Unlike many animals, modern humans have not been around long enough, nor have populations been isolated enough, to evolve into separate subspecies or races. Despite surface difference, we are among the most similar of species.
"7. Skin color is only skin deep. [Chapters 5-9, esp. Chapter 6] Most traits are inherited independently of one another. The genes for skin color have nothing to do with genes for hair texture, eye shape, blood type, musical talent, or athletic ability.
"8. Most variation is within, not between "races." [Chapter 7] Of the small amount of total human genetic variation, 85% exists within any local population, be they Italians, Kurds, Koreans, or Cherokees. Two random Koreans are likely to be as genetically different as a Korean and an Italian.
"9. Race is not biological, but racism is still real. [Chapter 10] Race is still a powerful social idea that gives people different access to opportunities and resources. Our government and society have created advantages to being white. This affects everyone, whether we are aware of it or not.
"10. Colorblindness will not end racism. [Chapter 10] Pretending race doesn't exist is not the same as creating equality. Race is more than stereotypes and individual prejudice. To combat racism, we need to identify and remedy social policies that advantage some groups at the expense of others."
I will only review those empirical portions of the book that deal directly with the scientific basis of species and subspecies (or races, breeds, etc.). Asserting that "race is a social construct" by trying to show the motives of people long dead and gone, is not scientific. Science has nothing to do with individual motives as long as the data is sound, repeatable, and valid. But for those interested in the historical arguments, especially the conspiratorial allegations by the academic left that race was invented by the colonialist West to justify slavery or other acts of oppression, this book does an excellent job of showing how civilizations have long understood concepts of race, and how they have not changed over the last few thousand years in attitudes about race.
It is easy to come up with objections to race from arm-chair arguments that do not look at the actual data on differences. This book covers these differences by looking at previous and current work being done in genetics, morphological comparison of differences, along with cognitive and behavioral differences. If someone like Lewontin tries to show that there is not enough genetic differences between races or Gould's assertion that there has not been enough time for human races to develop, then we should be able to observe that humans, everywhere, do not vary significantly in morphological, pharmacogenetic, behavioral, cognitive, athletic, or any other trait that is highly heritable or under genetic control. To date, they make the arguments from theoretical assertions that contradict what we can observe directly: humans vary significantly between individuals and between races. None of the race deniers take these observations into account—they data is simply ignored when it does not fit their dogmatic assertions.
Sarich and Miele state: "Strong evidence in the case for race comes from examining the amount of variation actually present in a proper comparative context. The differences in morphology (cranial and facial features) between human races are typically around ten times the corresponding differences between the sexes within a given race, larger even than the comparable differences taxonomists use to distinguish the two chimpanzee species from each other. To the best of our knowledge, human racial differences exceed those for any other non-domesticated species. One must look to the breeds of dogs to find a comparable degree [to humans] of within-species differences in morphology. We also point out other aspects in which human diversity in morphology, pharmacogenetics (body chemistry), and behavior more closely parallels our best friends (the dogs) than our nearest relatives (the apes), and what that reveals about the origin of our species."
It is interesting to note that of the two chimpanzee species, when they were first placed together in zoos and mated, no one recognized the two as separate species. They were so much alike in looks, only after their individual behaviors were observed carefully was it realized that they were very different. So here is a case where "skin deep" differences were minimal, but behaviorally the two species were very different. Also, note that with regards to the classification of species, the fact that the two could mate and have viable offspring was ignored as the criterion that defines different species; so much for having a clear definition of a species.
Sarich and Miele then look at differences between races in athletic performance (see my review of Entine's book Taboo). They note that one tribe in Kenya, the Kalenjin, are 2,000 times more likely to win international cross country or marathon championships. These superb long distance runners, for me at least, were easy to pick out in a large crowd of marathon runners in New York several years ago. Extremely small upper bodies with long muscular legs. A race selected for long distance running, and explained by Entine as an adaptation for cattle rustling, where this tribe would raid neighboring tribes, steal cattle, and then run with them until they escaped or slower runners got caught (no doubt cattle thousands of years ago were not the docile domesticated animals we are familiar with today).
Sarich and Miele also discuss how the courts also have no trouble in recognizing race and accepts "the ability of the average individual to sort people into races." It seems also that racial classifications is rather innate: "Ordinary people can and do divide Homo sapiens into a number of reasonably discrete groups on the basis of reasonably objective criteria. No special expertise is required. A series of experiments in cognitive psychology carried out by social anthropologist Lawrence Hirschfeld showed that as early as age three, children readily classify people on the basis of racial characteristics, without having to be taught to do so."
And not just for humans: "Why can we do this? Why, in fact, are we so good at it? The reason is no mystery, or at least it shouldn't be. Homo sapiens is a socially interactive species and was so even before we became quite so sapient. The common ancestor we share with chimpanzees and all our ancestors along the way must have been able to recognize the members of their social group as individuals and, by extension, tell the difference between any of them and members of another group. So can baboons, wolves, dogs, killer whales, and lions (but not the other big cats, who are solitary) make such distinctions. The evolution of interactive sociality strongly selects for individuals who are able to recognize other similar individuals and adjust their behaviors with respect to who else is involved. The physical evidence for the evolutionary importance of this ability can be seen in the large amount of brain tissue devoted to these tasks at the base of our brains. As Hirschfeld concluded, 'Because human groupings (i.e., collectivities of people based on gender, race, native language, or kinship status) are integral parts of nearly all social environments, acquiring knowledge of such groupings is a necessary part of the child's early development.'"
It is not surprising that as part of our evolutionary past, just like other animals, it became necessary to be able to discern friend from foe, and humans became capable of detecting subtle differences. Are these differences just skin deep or are they substantial? It would make no sense for evolution to equip humans and other animals with the ability to detect differences that were not salient. That is, why give any species the ability to discern superficial differences if there were not also real, genetic differences, underlying the genes within the vehicle. That is, as Dawkins has elaborated, organisms are just a gene's way of being passed on to the next generation.
Now that we can look at genes directly and compare the genetic makeup of different races, we can identify races using fewer than 100 genetic markers, and these markers are not even relevant to real traits. That is, they are just patterns that show up in different races. In addition, from these patterns we can determine any one individual's race and or racial mix. The tools for genetic profiling are rapidly becoming available, with ads showing up in Science magazine for the latest kits and machines that can scan thousands of genetic alleles or alterations in patterns. Racial backgrounds are no longer just skin deep, but just a swab of DNA away.
SARICH AND MIELE discuss how our brains became so large, and when. The academic left still likes to pretend that there is no correlation between brain size and intelligence, and yet tracking of our increased brain size—tripling in size over the past 2 million years—has always been assumed to correlate with changes that make humans unique among primates. "Many academics have spent so much time with the printed word that they have come to take for granted that it is the norm or, perhaps, the ideal. That sort of thinking leads nowhere with respect to the origin and evolution of language. No matter how difficult it might be, we need to accept, at least for the sake of consideration and discussion, the idea that the origin of gestural [sign] language came first starting about 2 million years ago, and that the growth of our brains over most of the next 2 million years was tracking the increasing sophistication of gestural languages. This raises the possibility that the very late addition of speech was the first of the 'miracles' giving rise to Homo sapiens somewhere in Africa about 50,000 years ago…."
"We explain that elapsed time does not determine the amount of change in traits that have survival value. Anatomical differences among human races can exceed those found between chimpanzee species. Finally, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond has argued that the characteristics chosen to distinguish between races are arbitrary. Choose a different set of characteristics and you will come up with a different set of races. We demonstrate that the comparison of randomly chosen DNA variants produces the same races as the commonsense view, the art and literature of ancient, non-European civilizations, and anthropology."
They then ask a simple question: what are those who claim that race is a social construct think they are claiming "doesn't exist?" That is, if there are no real differences between races, what exactly are they saying is not different? Hair, stature, skin color, etc. Of course we know the answer, anything that would endanger and egalitarian dogma. That is, anything that is currently viewed as having value such as athletic ability or intelligence. And how many races are we to agree upon defining? "The fact is that, for reasonable people, our species is divisible into a number (I see no way of making a judgment as to why it should be a 'reasonably small number' and what number would be 'reasonably small' here—that's for Nature to tell us) of reasonably discrete groups (yes) on the basis of reasonably objective criteria (yes) with some reasonably evolutionary explanation attached to the division (yes)."
This is similar to Arthur R. Jensen's explanation of how races are defined in The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (1998). Jensen uses the term lumpers and splitters when it comes to races. That is, the number of races to be defined depends on what you are attempting to do, learn, study or describe. Sometimes several races are enough, sometimes a few specific races need focused attention (like Gypsies), and sometimes a world sampling of literally hundreds of genealogies are of interest. It depends on what the groupings are to be used for.
Sarich and Miele addresses Jared Diamond's attempt to deny race: "There is a further critical flaw here. The proportion of individuals carrying the sickle-cell allele can never go above about 40 percent in any population, nor does the proportion of lactase-competent adults in any population ever approach 100 percent. Thus, on the basis of the sickle-cell allele, there are two groups (possible races by Diamond's criteria) of Fulani, one without the allele, the other with it. So those Fulani with the allele would group not with other Fulani, but with Italians with the allele. Those without it, along with the Italians without it (in both cases the majority) and all the Swedes, would form another unit—in effect, primitive Homo sapiens."
"Perhaps not, you might argue. Diamond is talking of frequencies of traits in populations, and the frequencies of lactase-competent adults are more similar in Swedes and Fulani than in Swedes and Italians or Fulani and Xhosa (one should note here that lactase-competence has clearly evolved independently in Europeans and Africans). And, yes, he is. But the discordance issue he raises applies within groups as well as between them. He is dismissive of the reality of the Fulani-Xhosa black African racial unit because there are characters discordant with it. Well then, one asks in response, what about the Fulani unit itself? After all, exactly the same argument could be made to cast the reality of the category 'Fulani' into doubt. Diamond's no-race position is thus clearly logically untenable and need concern us no further."
In short, Diamond attempted to define races based on "discrete" markers. Of course, this has often been the straw man that the race deniers continue to say those who believe in races claim they are using to define race, when in fact it is not.
Sarich and Miele then take on the Marxists' favorite mantra for denying race, that there is more genetic difference within races (85%) than between races (15%), declared by Richard Lewontin in 1972. As they point out however, we don't see this variation between individuals within a race such as hair texture, stature, skin color, eye color, shape of the nose, athletic ability, etc. That is, what people notice about races is that they differ in meaningful ways in physical characteristics as well as behavioral traits. In addition, the genetic makers noted by Lewontin were selectively neutral—any variant is just as good as another. What is of real interest when it comes to racial differences are those genes that have selective value under different ecological conditions, such as genes for intelligence, introversion, psychoticism, religiosity, ethnocentrism, etc. None of these genes have been identified because all of these traits are affected by multiple genes. We are just beginning to put together the research programs that will allow us to match behavioral or cognitive traits to their specific genes.
What is important is to recognize that the differences we observe are often highly genetic, and that they differ in frequency or average amounts in different races. We do not need to know the specific genes for a trait, as long as we can test individuals on behavioral and cognitive traits in a reliable way such that statistically, the results are highly reliable. We can do this now with mental ability, and we are starting to get more information on some rather obscure traits like religiosity. Interestingly, racism, ethnocentrism or xenophobia have remained unreified enigmas—with little effort by the academic left to ground it in either evolutionary selective terms, nor to explain how it operates as a social advantage for Whites. All they have been able to do is make racism and its eradication into a dogma, one without validity. That is, do humans vary on their individual levels of ethnocentrism, what is the genetic component, do races differ in their average level of ethnocentrism, and what advantages does it confer on individuals and/or racial groups.
Sarich and Miele take a more analytical swipe at Lewontin's assertions: "Yet the world had to wait until 2002 for someone to explain the basic problems with Lewontin's famous 15 percent. It was Henry Harpending replying to a question from Frank Salter. Lewontin had noted that 85 percent of the genetic variability was among individuals within populations, and only an additional 15 percent was added when individuals in different populations were compared. However, this analysis omits a third level of variability—the within-individual one. The point is that we are diploid organisms, getting one set of chromosomes from one parent and a second from the other. To the extent that your mother and father are not especially closely related, then, those two sets of chromosomes will come close to being a random sample of the chromosomes in your population. And the sets present in some randomly chosen member of yours will also be about as different from your two sets as they are from one another. So how much of the variability will be distributed where?"
"First is the 15 percent that is interpopulational. The other 85 percent will then split half and half (42.5 percent) between the intra- and interindividual within-population comparisons. The increase in variability in between-population comparisons is thus 15 percent against the 42.5 percent that is between-individual within-population. Thus, 15/42.5 = 32.5 percent, a much more impressive and, more important, more legitimate value than 15 percent. It's interesting that Henry Harpending noted in an e-mail to us that no one has ever published this calculation."
"One might argue here that the genetic distances involved are so small that it makes no difference what level is being discussed—100 percent of nothing is still nothing. The appropriate and effective rejoinder, as previously noted (and will note again), is 'dogs, dogs, and more dogs.' There the amounts of both anatomical and behavioral variation added by going to between-breed comparisons are obviously far greater than for similar human between-race comparisons (though certainly no one doubts they are gene-based, while the degree of genetic variation is minimal, apparently much as in us)."
Looking at other species alone, especially breeds of dogs, makes the validity of subspecies, races or breeds of dogs obvious. Unless one accepts denying evolution, and that humans as yet have not escaped evolution's basic construct of ecological differences acting on different subspecies, then there has to be differences between races that are more than "skin deep."
Sarich and Mield then address Gould's race-does-not-exist mantra: "The basic reason Gould gives for his no-race position is this: 'Homo sapiens is a young species, its division into races even more recent. This historical context has not supplied enough time for the evolution of substantial differences.' (This from the man famous for his theory [with Niles Eldridge] of punctuated equilibria.)" They then go on to explain why Gould is wrong.
They looked at differences between human races, between males and females, and differences between primates—particularly chimpanzees and gorillas. What is astounding is that there is greater morphological distance between human races than there are between the two chimpanzee species or between gorilla species/subspecies. That is, the differences between human races are real, they are substantial, and they did not take millions of years to diverge. Humans, rapidly occupying every available niche after leaving Africa 50,000 years ago, has been under enormous pressure to adapt. To do this meant selection for morphological, pharmacogenetic, behavioral, and cognitive traits. Not only are there many human races, but there are at least as many races as there are ecological niches, and only humans can create their own niches with forethought. What this means is not only are there human races, but humans have evolved uniquely to alter there own cultures or ecologies, further increasing unique selection pressures. So culture has in fact increased human selection, not eliminating it as Marxists would have us believe (or creationists don't even contemplate).
Sarich and Miele explain: "Molecular data suggest that the two chimpanzee lineages separated around 1.5 million years ago; the comparable human figure is on the order of 15,000 years. In other words, the two chimp lineages are 100-fold older, yet show the same amount of variation. That is a remarkable result, the implications of which take a while to sink in. The implications follow this logic: Human races are very strongly marked morphologically; human races are very young; so much variation developing in so short a period of time implies, indeed almost certainly requires, functionality; there is no good reason to think that behavior should somehow be exempt from this pattern of functional variability…."
"Thus the data, be they from corn or people, don't mesh with the idea that strong selection on important features reduces the amount of heritable variation in them. But why doesn't it? What's wrong with what seems so eminently logical? Things might work that way if only one or a small number of genes were involved in producing a complex character like the brain or the various structures involved in bipedalism. But that isn't the case. The argument that selection was involved at only one or a small number of genetic loci can be disposed of with a simple thought experiment. Imagine that this were the case. Then the idea would be correct, and variation would rapidly be consumed."
"And then? Well, yes, that's the problem, isn't it? No more variation, no more natural selection, no more adaptive change, rapid extinction. More formally, this sort of process would rapidly lose out to one in which the variation used to produce the adaptation was in fact spread out among as many genes as possible, such that new mutations could readily reconstitute such variation as was lost to selection. And the more important the adaptation, the more likely it would evolve that way—that is, by involving as many loci as possible in the selective process. That's why we see all that functional variation out there in precisely those features that have been so important in our evolution."
To summarize then: race is real and humans as well as other mammals recognize racial or subspecies differences for adaptive reasons; the differences in genes that matter for selection are the ones that make individuals and races different from one another; and important characteristics like high intelligence require flexibility and the ability to change for evolution to work. Human races have been diverging at an accelerated rate because humans are the quintessential niche constructors—we have evolved into an ecology changing species. In the future, this rate of divergence can only accelerate as niches become more complex, even in the face of increased intermarriage between races. Divergence will outpace convergence due to race mixing, with the likely introduction of new races at an accelerating rate.
Of course, other species have also been impacted by human alteration of niches, especially breeds of dogs. There is no discernible difference between wolf genes and the many breeds of domesticated dogs that evolved from wolves thousands of years ago, and especially in the last few hundred years.
As SARICH AND MIELE explain it: "…there were huge differences between dog breeds, both in morphology and in behavior. How different were they genetically? Had the same methodology been applied to sorting out dog breeds as was described for humans in Chapter 5? With such large morphological and behavioral differences, shouldn't there be large DNA differences between the breeds? (It is now well known that the morphological and behavioral characteristics that distinguish breeds from one another are genetically based.) Vince's surprising answer was that (at that time) not only were there no known DNA differences between the breeds, but these methods couldn't even distinguish between domestic dogs and wolves. Although it was possible to identify individuals with the same microsatellite approach that has been in use for the past two decades, only this year (2003) have researchers been able to distinguish between a few dog breeds by DNA differences."
Knowing that all organisms are biological units that to date have not been able to escape the laws of evolution, no matter how much in denial Marxists and fundamentalists have become, I wonder if any of the race deniers would like to put forth the theory that the differences in breeds of dogs are due to their upbringing. Or perhaps humans have stereotyped different breeds of dogs to such a degree that we treat them so differently (institutional doggy breedism) their behaviors are really environmental, and not genetic at all! Of course such a proposition would seem absurd, and yet we treat human races with the same just so stories to explain away differences.
And here is one example where first dogs, then humans were analyzed, with radically different reactions:
"We next enter into the transcript the following quotation from Professor Freedman, who conducted some of the most important of these studies: 'I had worked with different breeds of dogs and I had been struck by how predictable was the behavior of each breed. A breed of dog is a construct zoologically and genetically equivalent to a race of man. To look at us, my wife and I [Freedman is Jewish; his then wife, Chinese] were clearly of two different breeds. Were some of our behavioral differences determined by breed?'"
"Freedman and his wife set about designing experiments to test that hypothesis; they are interesting both for their scientific results and for the different receptions they received in even the most prestigious scientific journals. The Freedmans decided to observe the behavior of newborns and infants of different races. The tests they used were the Cambridge Behavioral and Neurological Assessment Scale. Unlike the typical reflex tests performed by pediatricians, these tests, called 'the Brazelton' after their developer, measure social and emotional behavior."
"'How easily did the baby quiet? Was it able to turn to the examiner's face and voice? Did it prefer face over voice or voice over face? How did interest in the voice compare with interest in a ball or a rattle? Was the baby very active or did it just lie quietly? Did it fit comfortably in the examiner's arms or did it fight being held? Did it generally resist or accept our testing? Was it floppy or stiff? And then there were all the reflexes: were they crisp or just barely elicited?'"
"'White and Chinese neonates were different even though hospital conditions and prenatal care were the same.'"
"'Caucasian babies started to cry more easily, and once they started, they were more difficult to console. Chinese babies adapted to almost any position in which they were placed: for example, when placed face down in their cribs, they tended to keep their faces buried in the sheets rather than immediately turning to one side, as did the Caucasians. In a similar maneuver (called the "defense reaction" by neurologists), we briefly pressed the baby's nose with a cloth, forcing him to breathe with his mouth. Most Caucasian and black babies fight this maneuver by immediately turning away or swiping at the cloth with the hands, and this is reported in Western pediatric textbooks as the normal, expected response. However, not so the average Chinese baby in our study. He simply lay on his back, breathing from the mouth, "accepting" the cloth without a fight. I must say that this finding is the most impressive on film, and audiences have been awed by other intergroup differences.'"
"'Other, more subtle differences are equally important. For example, both Chinese and Caucasian infants would start to cry at about the same point in the examination, especially when they were undressed, but the Chinese babies would stop crying immediately, as if a light switch had been flipped, whereas the crying of Caucasian babies only gradually subsided.'"
"When the Freedmans tested Navajo neonates, they were like the Chinese, which might have been expected, given our knowledge of probable Navajo origins. From traditional anthropology to linguistics to DNA, Amerindians, especially the Na-Dene tribes like the Navajo, are most closely related to Asians, and not Europeans or Africans. This was impressed upon me (Sarich) one afternoon when I was flipping channels and found myself watching a girls high school basketball game. I wondered, 'Where in Asia were we?' Then something appeared that clued me in. I was with Navajos, but the resemblance to northern Asians was striking."
"Freedman submitted the paper on racial differences in neonate behavior to Science. The most prestigious scientific journal in the United States, it had published his study of behavioral differences in pups of different dog breeds without any problem or controversy. The paper on race differences, however, was rejected by a split vote of the reviewers. Freedman then submitted it to Nature (the British analogue to Science), where it yet again drew a split decision by the judges. Fortunately, the editor broke the deadlock by casting his deciding vote in favor of publication."
Repeatedly, behavioral research shows that humans differ by race, and that many differences in behavioral and cognitive ability and styles are primarily genetic. How else can one explain racial differences in newborns? It is a real stretch to ponder environmental differences while in the womb that could cause such large differences in behavior. The only valid conclusion must be genetic, unless other evidence can be produced showing an environmental cause.
Racial categories are of course "fuzzy sets" without clearly distinct boundaries. But humans everywhere are adapted to finding slight differences even in neighboring communities and/or tribes, depending on the degree of separation. Races of course grade into each other, especially the closer we get geographically to the cross roads of civilizations from North Africa to Southeast Asia. But nonetheless, there are recognizable differences between races, and these differences are very noticeable to those who interact, often keeping racially separate because of antagonisms kept alive with tribal or racial nuances or differences that outsiders could not recognize.
Sarich and Miele explain why the out-of-Africa rationalization for the non-existence of races is untenable:
"The shorter the period of time required to produce a given amount of morphological difference, the more selectively/adaptively/functionally important those differences become. The Garden-of-Eden model in its earlier formulations envisioned perhaps 40,000 years for raciation within anatomically modern Homo sapiens; for a time in the late 1980s and 1990s, driven by the mtDNA work, dates of 100,000-150,000 years were common; the most recent molecular evidence (mtDNA and Y-chromosome) fits comfortably with the 40,000-year date. But that might not be all of it. During the past 10,000 years, human cultures have differentiated to a much greater extent with respect to achievement than was the case previously. Thus not only might the time involved in raciation have been brief, but also the selective demands on human cognitive capacities might have differed regionally to a substantially greater extent than could have been the case previously…."
"Gould spends the first two chapters (100 or so pages) explaining that brain size and intellectual performance have nothing to do with each other without once noting that human brains have not always been the size they are today. Nor is that awkward fact mentioned anywhere else in the book. One could never learn from it that brain size in our evolutionary lineage increased from around 400cc to 1,300-1,400cc over the past 4 million years. Why this omission? I think the answer is quite straightforward. That part of Gould's psyche concerned with basic evolutionary biology knew that those large brains of ours could not have evolved unless having large brains increased fitness through what those large brains made possible—that is, through minds that could do more. In other words, individuals with larger brains must have been in some way, on the average, in the long run, slightly better off than those with smaller brains for a long time. How advantaged? Dare one say it?—by being smarter, of course. What else?"
"But Gould's behavioral-creationist side, which clung to the notion that deep down we are really all the same, couldn't allow him to admit this, because then he would have found it impossible to honestly sustain his argument (pp. 30-112) that brain size, as far as we know, does not matter. To conclude otherwise, he would have had to recognize that if the variation did once matter (and it must have), and if the variation is still there (it is), then it almost certainly still matters—and if one is going to argue that it does not matter, then one must explain why it does not. I do not think one can do this while maintaining one's intellectual honesty and integrity, and, presumably, neither did Gould. Thus, he simply ignored the demands of the evolutionary perspective by denying, implicitly, that our brains had evolved."
"The evolutionary perspective demands that there be a relationship—in the form of a positive correlation—between brain size and intelligence. That proposition, I would argue, is not something that need derive from contemporary data (although, as discussed later, those data do give it strong support). It is what would be expected given our particular evolutionary history; that is, it is the evolutionary null hypothesis and, thus, something to be disproved. Indeed, it seems to me that a demonstration of no correlation between brain size and cognitive performance would be about the best possible refutation of the fact of human evolution (I did write this, though no creationist has as yet noticed). It took me a long time to figure out the general point here: Darwin's descent with modification by means of natural selection has been, and continues to be, the reality. It is what we start with, not something we must prove for each new issue that arises. In other words, there was no particularly good reason to have to do the cognitive performances as they relate to brain-size studies. They have simply confirmed what we expected given human evolutionary history and the nature of the selective process. But creationists in general, and behavioral creationists like Gould in particular, are very good at pushing our scientist buttons, and we fall so easily into the trap they have set for us. Show us the data, they ask—and we try to respond, forgetting that the realities of evolution, evolutionary processes, and evolutionary lineages are data—and usually rather good data."
"In other words, then, natural selection must have genetically based phenotypic variation to work on. Throughout the period of change in brain size, a substantial amount of genetic variation must have been present for brain size; likely, the greater the advantage of larger brains, the greater the underlying genetic variation for brain size. I had long been frustrated by the canalization (that is, continual reduction in one direction) argument with respect to human intelligence, my teaching experiences telling me that cognitive performance was one of our most, not least, variable features, yet at the same time being unable to refute the logic of the canalization argument. This quandary lasted until, sometime around 1983, I remembered Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection: "The rate of increase in the fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time"—which says it all. An earlier statement of the general argument was made by the late Bernard Davis in 1976: 'Let me further emphasize that, even if no one had ever devised a test for measuring IQ, we could still be confident, on grounds of evolutionary theory, that our species contains wide genetic variance in intelligence. The reason is that natural selection cannot proceed unless it has genetic diversity, within a species, to act on; and when our species is compared with its nearest primate relatives, it is obvious that our main selection pressure has been for an increase in intelligence. Indeed, this change proceeded at an unprecedented rate (on an evolutionary time scale): in the past three million years the brain size of the hominid line increased threefold.... Such rapid selection for increased intelligence could not have occurred unless the selection pressure had a large substrate of genetic variation to act on.'"
Sarich and Mield go on to explain with brain size alone, differences between races can be as large as 2 standard deviations. With brain size correlating with intelligence at 0.4, that means that at two standard deviations, we can expect to see differences between races of 0.4 times twice the standard deviation of intelligence (30) resulting in a difference of 12 IQ points (0.4x2x15=12). And brain size is only one area of brain anatomy that enters into general intelligence, but it is also the oldest to be studied because measuring skull size is very straight forward, and includes comparisons between species.
General intelligence has as much variation as other group differences like hair form, body shape, or skin color. There is just no reason to think that intelligence has been stagnant in the past, never deviating after reaching a certain level at some time in the past. The default hypothesis is simply that human intelligence, having changed so rapidly, has a great deal of genetic variability, and we would expect large differences between individuals and races.
Sarich and Miele explain: "This same argument will apply to most aspects of individual variation. Given the number of characteristics in which functional variation is present, the ways in which they will balance out in two populations evolving more or less independently of one another are almost guaranteed to be different in the two. The balancing will take place at the level of individual phenotypes, and thus there will generally be a direct, inescapable connection between individual and group variation whenever evolutionary change is taking place—that is, always." Or simply, if there is a difference between individuals there will be differences between races.
And again, "As we have shown, the morphological differences between human races can exceed those found between subspecies, or even species of our nearest relatives, the chimps and gorillas, and other non-domesticated animals. Yet, as Lewontin rightly pointed out, the genetic differences between human races are small. We must look to our best friend, the domestic dog, where breeders have exercised extreme selection to find a level of variation equivalent to that found in humans. Canine differences in physique, behavior, and body chemistry have been produced in a very short time (for the most part, a few hundred years). Yet, despite the vast morphological and behavioral variation among dog breeds, we are only beginning to be able to distinguish between them, or even between dogs and wolves, using the latest DNA evidence."
This book touches on numerous arguments for why we would expect to find differences between human races, and yet one comes away feeling that there are many more examples and perspectives that could have been included. Then, why should science spend an inordinate amount of time and effort defending the concept of race when the attacks are coming from the academic left, where no data is provided—just absurd objections of every conceivable nuance? For every step forwards in behavior genetics, showing how the races differ, the academic left produces anecdotal, just-so stories about how or why the research should not be accepted. Nevertheless, what they don't do is provide any alternative research showing how the environment can increase general intelligence but a few points, and even these gains are ephemeral in the end.
The real proof will come from an expanded program of psychometric testing of behavioral and cognitive differences between races, followed by discovering the genes responsible. If the Human Genome Project is any indication of how rapidly new genetic techniques can materialize to speed up solutions, we may be linking actual genes to intelligence in just a few years. That is the single most troublesome expectation that the academic left now has to contemplate, and puts new urgency on trying to dissuade science from pursuing this forbidden knowledge.
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Last time I had to do a presentation was during ODI's Train the Trainer program. One of the options we were given in order to connect to the projector was ClickShare. If you don't know what ClickShare is, watch this!
In order to use ClickShare you have to plug it to your machine. It works like a USB flash drive so a folder opens and gives you executables for Windows and iOS. Normally you install one of them and you are good to go.
But what happens if you use a Linux machine? Well, you will probably have to use a cable because "this thing does not work well with Linux". That's what I was told! But it wasn't good enough for me 🙂
So, if you happen to use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and want to use ClickShare, all you have to do is:
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* [Update] March 10, 2017: Support for the Linux client has ended as it requires an enormous effort to support all the Linux distributions and their quick updates, while the usage rate of the Linux client was/is very limited. (as published on barco.com)
** [Update] June 13, 2017: Thread www.barco.com/en/mybarco/mysupport/productsupport/knowledgebase?kbid=1191&productid=b21eda55-0837-4478-87f6-68d51b71e405 does not exist any more.
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Following this gist, some users say that they successfully installed ClickShare to Linux.
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Here is the good part. Once you have killed EVERY thing go look at the wall where the command center should be and you will get some exp and some points to outdoorsman skill. Also there is a club on the ground by the caved-in wall. Also in the room to the left of the entrance there is a case of 10mm ammo against the mass of rock. Then in the libraries remains there is a locker with some flares.


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Here's a sneak peak inside of my studio where I create my paintings and watercolors!
I share a space with other artists in a warehouse and it's been a ton of fun. I love having a dedicated art space. Even though I do work from home a lot, it's nice to have a place to go and get messy.
This is my glass table where I mix all of my acrylic paints.
These are some of my favorite pens that I use on top of my watercolors.
My favorite watercolors are Dr Ph Martins Radiant concentrate liquid inks. They are super vibrant and fun to work with. They make me happy!
Here are some of my favorite watercolors brushes. I use a combination of synthetics and Princeton sable brushes. I also love using aqua brushes for precision and a great variety of thicks and thins.
This is my wall of watercolors.
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Water soluble crayons by Caran d'Ache are an essential part of my watercolors!
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Meclizine HCI 25 mg is good cure for dizzy spells created by a hangover. Rite Aid, Walgreens, and CVS have their own brands. The Brand name is Dramamine. It's usually used for motion sickness such as traveling long distances or if you are or choppy waters. Even though it is slightly sedative it's good for taking the edge off perhaps one of the Number 1 side effects of that Christmas party or you had that night out. It can help get your head together and more focused. People already know to do the usual of drinking sports drinks, getting rest, etc but the Motion Sickeness tablets (that contain Meclizine HCI 25 mg) are good. There are other Motion Sickness pills and tablets so make sure to read the ingredient list. Also people might say that Ginger is good but keep in mind Ginger is more for an "upset stomach" created by dizziness. But it's Meclizine that seems to pin point the root cause. - And keep in mind this is not a cure or proper treatment for alcoholism. But if you happened to binge by accident because you were having too much of a good time then an OTC (Over the counter) Home Remedy would be Motion Sickness pills. PS Coconut water is great for replacing more electrolytes naturally than sports drinks.


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There's a long list of critters that I hate, hate, hate! Spiders, centipedes, cockroaches, flies, ants--I can tolerate them outside, but when they get inside my house, I am not a happy Mrs. Scrimp.
Unfortunately, ants and flies have both arrived in our house--mainly in the kitchen. Our kitchen has a door that leads into the back steps and then right out into the driveway, so it's not really a surprise, but it definitely is an annoyance.
The problem is, I refuse to even let chemical insectisides into my house. So, what's to be done? Well, I did some poking around online and have some ideas.
Natural Insect Pest Control informs me that ants hate cucumbers. Who knew that laying cucumber slices down on my counter could potentially repel ants? Crushed mint leaves or crushed cloves were also recommended.
Flies also apparently dislike cloves and mint (as well as bay and eucalyptus). The website recommends making a sachet of these out of cheesecloth and hanging it in windows and doors.
Apartment Therapy's article on Household Pest Control also suggests cucumbers and mint for ants and flies respectively. They also recommend powdered garlic and/or pepper sprinkled around the house as an all-purpose bug repellent.
I think that, based on what I currently have in my house, I'm going to give the bay and cloves a shot. I've got some fresh bay sitting in my fridge that I haven't been using and I think it'll look really pretty hanging in the window.
There's something so Medieval (in a good way!) about the idea of hanging fresh herbs all through the house to achieve a result other than mere decoration. I'm going to give it a try today and update y'all as soon as I know how it works.
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Cinnamon works on ants , as well, we've had some good luck with that over here.ReplyDelete
To keep away mosquitoes, Dan's dad mixes water with some cider vinegar and says it works like a charm.
Turns out that we were out of cloves, so I used bay, sage, and cinnamon. Seems to be working alright, although not 100% efficacious after 6 hours.ReplyDelete
My mom used to use garlic water on the garden and it worked really really well, but may not work really well if you don't enjoy the smell of day old garlic :-(ReplyDelete
Go for natural if you don't like chemicals. Choose plants, like oregano, thyme, and chrysanthemums, that act as natural repellents to multiple types of insects. Having a Venus flytrap, a carnivorous plant which preys on insects, might also help with your insect woes. Jeffrey @ BugManiacs.comReplyDelete
I can tolerate bugs and critters as longs as they don't decide to live in my home. I know they're part of the nature's balance, and for that I think that's where they belong – in nature, and not inside my house or in my office. Hopefully, you were able find a repellent treatment that will work for you.ReplyDelete
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Dementia is a general term that describes a group of symptoms related to the loss of multiple intellectual functions—such as loss of memory, judgment, language and complex motor skills—that interferes with daily living. Dementia is a common disorder in people aged 65 and older (10 percent), and very common in those 85+ (47 percent). It is not a normal part of aging.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia for individuals age 65 and older. Someone who has Alzheimer's disease will progressively develop many problems in thinking, memory, personality, mood, behavior, and functioning. Clinicians diagnose "probable" Alzheimer's disease by taking a complete medical history and conducting lab tests, a physical exam, brain scans and neuropsychological tests that gauge memory, attention, language skills and problem-solving abilities.
Proper diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is critical since there are dozens of other causes of dementia that could exhibit the same symptoms. Some of these dementias, such as those caused by vitamin deficiency, thyroid problems and depression, are reversible; of those that are irreversible, Alzheimer's disease is the most common.


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...fall has arrived after a bout of unseasonably HOT weather. Colors appear to be a bit ho hum!ReplyDelete
Hello Michelle, being positive and sticking to your path are good things. You sound like a great role model for the students and your children. Love the fall trees and colors in your photo, beautiful. Thanks for hosting. Happy Thursday, enjoy your day and weekend ahead.
I am thankful for being back in my home, and being prepared for a big weekendReplyDelete
What beautiful golden leaves and charming houses! Outside my window the leaves are still green. Thank you for hosting . I hope you have a good day.ReplyDelete
I'm thankful it finally cooled off. Just wish it would stay this way. Never happy ;-).ReplyDelete
Thankful for COOLER after the REALLY HOT . . .
also thankful for this WHEW DAY . . .
I need it!
is this what it looks like right now at your house? you're a bit ahead of us! beautiful!ReplyDelete
Your post is as beautiful as today's photo.
Hi Michelle, Wow, love the new look at It's a Small Town Life! Your photo with this post is absolutely wonderful. Appreciate and second your thankful thoughts. I am so thankful for Autumn ... love the cooler weather! Happy Thankful Thursday to you!ReplyDelete
I like to hear all you are thankful for. It makes me smile.ReplyDelete
Good morning Michelle. Beautiful fall shot at the top of your post. Glad your autumn is starting off good for you with the decisions you are making! Blessings on you, your family and your students in this new season!ReplyDelete
Wonderful photos. Autumn is settling in here - slowly. Always a good time to reflect and be thankful.ReplyDelete
Oh wow Michelle! I absolutely adore your fall photo and if that's where you live it is beautiful!
Thanks for hosting!
Some wonderful things to be thankful for! Love your photos! I too am so thankful to be home, and it Autumn! I'm thankful the smoke has dissipated, and we can see our beautiful mountains again! Will be back to join in!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous pic! We are still green here!ReplyDelete
A perfectly stunning fall shot, Michelle. Post card material. Or, enlarge it as it would look great hanging on a wall.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful picture!!ReplyDelete
Love that autumnal image.. our leaves here are just starting to turn. I'm thankful for family and friendships. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)ReplyDelete
So many things Michelle, but just waking up every morning to a brand new day full of opportunities is wonderful! That is a glorious image today ✨ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous photo you took and I love your message today. I'm thankful to feel good again! I've had kidney stones and been a real pitiful Pearl! Enjoy your afternoon! (it's 94 degrees here! lol)ReplyDelete
I'm back to blogging after being on a break to travel to Italy and sadly a loss in my family. I am thankful for the many wonderful memories I have of my brother-in-law and also the beautiful Colorado AutumnReplyDelete
A beautiful photo! Love the fall colors and the filtered light on the trees.ReplyDelete
I am thankful for people like you that remind me that I should always stay positive, no matter the circumstance. That can be very hard to do sometimes. Thank you!
I'm also thankful for the Maui sun and sea!!
Beautiful fall photo! Soooo very thankful yo my Mom and Dad for our farm!!!!!ReplyDelete
The picture is absolutely perfect. I'm thankful for many things this week, for teaching nice pupils for example.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful setting! Decision making can be so stressful...makes me wish for the days of childhood freedom. I am thankful that my girl is home from college for a weekend.


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Strange Thailand Experience #1
Lots of people I know like to eat fish. I do not like to eat fish but today I discovered I like to be eaten by fish!
This morning my brother took us to one of the larger Bangkok markets where we meandered through narrow corridors and crowded stalls. We saw lots of sights, and smelled lots of smells. We tasted a few tastes, and sampled a few samples. Nothing too out of the ordinary for a large market filled to capacity with the art of the artisans and the merchandise of the merchants. Little did I know that smack dab in the middle of all the textiles, t-Shirts, and unnecessary plastic objects, was an unusual experience waiting to happen.
We passed by a stall with two blue tubs and a large sign advertising "Fish Massage". Now this is something I have not seen before! We investigated further and found that for 150 Bot (About 4 dollars) you can stick your feet in these tubs and a swarm of little fish will cover your feet and nibble away all the dead skin. That was enough to convince my mother and I that this would be money well spent!
The sensation was like no other I've had before. It felt almost like a low level electrical current or slight vibration was covering my feet and toes as these little fish greedily scoured them clean. I giggled a few times when they got between my toes, but for the most part it was a pleasant experience. Supposedly this treatment is good for circulation, psoriasis, and the healing of scars, but I don't care about any of these things. I just thought it felt good!
Perhaps my favorite part of traveling is eating. This is why this is my third trip to Thailand. I intend to eat Thai food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, until I start to sweat chili paste! What I did not count on was being a meal myself.


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Tonight is the beginning of the Paralympic Games. Tonight is the first time in 12 years that I will not be going to those ceremonies, all crammed into a bus, wearing my Canada gear, waiting to walk into a packed stadium. I'm not going to lie, it's a bit odd.
When I retired from swimming four years ago, I thought I was completely done. I had had enough and I wasn't going to look back. At least, that is what I thought. I have since learned that I was done with swimming, but not really with competitive sport. I always knew that I would never go back to swimming, even though in a sense it could be quite easy as it's something familiar, but that is certainly not an option for me. That is why I've embarked on this crazy journey to find triathlon guides and/or long distance running guides.
I am not done competing.
There is no way to describe the atmosphere of a Paralympic village. It is buzzing with anticipation, excitement, nervousness, joy, fear...a sense of community and all mixed in with an edge of competitiveness. When you walk by a fellow Canadian, or whatever country you are from, you wave or say hi; even if you have no idea who that person is. You are, for the time that you are in that village wearing that Maple Leaf, connected .
You don't walk around your home town waving to everyone you pass just because they are from your home town. But, in a Paralympic, or Olympic village I am sure, you make an effort to support complete strangers just because you have one common goal in mind; to represent your country the best you can.
You congratulate people when you see medals hanging from their necks. You even hug them; again, even if you don't know them. You lend a shoulder for someone to cry on when something just didn't work out. You cheer for your teammates even if you don't like them. You want them to be successful: you want them to win.
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