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The real opposite to sweet is bitter, not only in taste but also in language—one is more often associated with positive outcomes, while the other has only negative connotations. We talk of the sweet spot on a tennis racquet or cricket bat, the spot that provides the maximum impact for the minimum of effort, but we fight to the bitter end—endings are never sweet. The ingestion of something sweet is most likely to elicit a smile, while the reaction to ingesting a bitter compound will probably be an involuntary grimace.
But are these natural reactions, or are they the result of acculturation? The notion that sweet is good and bitter is bad goes back at least as far as the Old Testament, as the following quotations demonstrate:
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24 (Authorized Version)
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb, but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.Ironically, it is bitter compounds that are more likely to be beneficial to the human body, even though when we talk about a setback being a bitter pill to swallow, we are making a negative comment. In fact, the idea that medicine is intrinsically bitter is now so ingrained in popular culture that Mary Poppins could sing about a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine to go down, and Max, aide de camp to the chief blue meanie in the movie Yellow Submarine, could say this to his boss:
Proverbs 27:7 (Authorized Version)
Here Your Blueness, have some nasty medicine!And His Blueness giggled as he slurped it down (blue meanies were contrarians who hated everything that humans found pleasurable, including music).
Yet two of the world's most popular beverages, coffee and beer, are intrinsically bitter, and the key ingredient in tonic water is quinine, another bitter compound. On the other hand, it is now widely recognized that the consumption of large amounts of sucrose is injurious to health, with serious illnesses such as diabetes a likely result.
I see the bitter/sweet dichotomy as a kind of morality tale in which sweet is the easy option and bitter the hard road, after which 'but few enquire':
Don't you see yon narrow, narrow road,And what about the well-known oxymoron 'bittersweet', which is to my mind essentially meaningless? I suspect that people who use this word are reflecting some level of personal disappointment: they expected a positive outcome to a situation, but it turned out not to be as positive as they had hoped, or expected.
So thick beset with thorns and briars?
That is the road to righteousness,
Though after it but few enquire.
Don't you see yon broad, broad road,
That lies across the lily leaven?
That is the road to wickedness,
Though some call it the road to heaven.
Thomas the Rhymer, traditional English folk song.


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Google Webmaster Tools provides a lot of great data. One of the things it will show you is 404 errors on your site. If you look at this data carefully, it can help you increase your valid in-bound links.
Of course, if you see 404 errors listed for pages that you are linking to from within your own site, you need to fix that right away. This will already help your site's overall page rank.
But the more interesting thing is when you see a 404 error for a page that someone else linked to. Most likely this occurs when someone links to your site, and then mis-spells the link (and also doesn't check it). When this happens you have people who gave you links for which you are getting no credit. Such a waste.
However, the fix is simple: Put in place a 301 redirect from the page that the person erroneously linked to, to the page they intended to link to. This is a great simple way to pick up link credit for those broken in bound links.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer will invite military charities to bid for up to £35million worth of fines - net of the costs of any investigation - which have been paid by Barclays Bank after some of its employees were found to have attempted to rig the banking Libor system.
Mr Osborne will announce today which charities have benefited from a further £2.6million today, taking the total handed out to £7million so far.
Others to benefit include the National Memoriam Arboretum, which will receive £625,000 to implement a programme of improvement to memorials as a result of Iraq and Afghanistan campaign.
The Army Family Federation will also receive £238,000 to pay for a team of employees to ensure the Armed Forces Covenant is respected.
The Covenant gives Army families have equitable access to provision of public services and are not disadvantaged by their military service.
Mr Osborne said: "Our servicemen and women make huge sacrifices on behalf of our country.
"That is why it is right that those who have paid fines in our financial sector because they demonstrated the very worst values are paying to support those in our armed forces who demonstrate the very best of British values."Other new payments include:
[blob] £25,000 to help the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Children's Fund produce a booklet for Service families of someone who has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD);
[blob] £5,000 for the RAF Widows' Association to provide training for those who are the first point of contact for new widows and widowers;
[blob] £207,500 to allow the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) to fund breaks for Service children who are disabled, injured or sick;
[blob] £547,000 to allow SSAFA to train 200 veterans and members of Forces families as Mental Health First Aid Trainers;
[blob] £350,000 for SSAFA to develop more than 200 mentoring relationships offering one-to-one individual support through a volunteer mentor to wounded.
The Navy Family Federation will receive £343,500 to pay for a regional network of Covenant Practise Experts run by spouses to help families to engage with local authorities, NHS trusts and school governors.
The RAF Family Federation will receive £235,000 for the creation of a network of RAF Family Federation regional representatives, working alongside the Army and Naval teams.
Millions of pounds have already been given to other charities including Combat Stress, which has been backed by Telegraph readers in recent years, and Tickets for Troops which arranges free tickets for troops to events.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond added: "It is fitting that the Armed Forces should benefit from these fines paid by financial institutions. I am pleased that our service charities are being recognised in this way."


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Hello and welcome to my Christmas Spiced Biscuit recipe! These are really light and fluffy and are almost a bit cakey, they make the perfect snack with a cup of tea and are lovely for children and adults with a subtle honey flavour! By using gluten free flour this recipe is also gluten free and dairy free! So here we go…
Christmas Spiced Biscuits
- 300g plain flour - GF if you want to
- pinch of salt
- 100g caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg or mixed spice
- 50g margarine
- 3 tablespoons of honey
- 4 tablespoons of milk
- 1 egg
- Heat your oven to 160
- Mix together the dry ingredients
- On a low heat melt the margarine and the honey
- Once melted together add in the milk
- Let the mixture cool and mix in the egg
- Add to the dry ingredients
- If too runny add a bit more flour until the mixture forms a dough
- Roll out to about 1.5cm thick and cut in to shapes
- Cook for 15 mins or until just browning
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If you've never played bowls before but really fancy giving it a go, then you might like to have a read of an article on the BBC Sport website which describes the game and how it works.
Click here to view the BBC Sport bowls article
We have also linked below to two bowls videos from YouTube that may be worth a look.
The first clip, from Newport Harbour Bowling Club in California (USA), runs through the basics of bowls such as the bias, the green, rinks and bowls. This video lasts just over 3.5 minutes.
Click this link to view the video (links to YouTube).
The second video, lasting 9.5 minutes, features Bowls Australia's National Coach Cameron Curtis talking to Australia TV station Navsports, about the physical and social benefits of playing bowls.
Clearly the second video is geared up to an Australian audience, but the principles & messages that Cameron Curtis puts across still apply to an English audience too.
Click this link to view the video (links to YouTube).
If watching these videos has inspired you to take up bowls, then please get in touch with us at Nottingham IBC and ask about beginners sessions.
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|What if God was one of us Gleeks: Agron, Colfer and Rivera
I guess I was looking for a miracle from Tuesday night's extra spiritual episode of Glee. Executive producer Ryan Murphy has faith in himself, I'll say that. Setting up his high school musical as a pop parable on modern day spirituality is a tall task. He's inviting scorn from the right and the left, from the Tea Partiers and the Agnostics. Only a producer with a two year commitment and riding a ratings surge would get a network to sign off on a religion in schools storyline.
The episode succeeded and failed about as often as any Glee episode. You applaud the reach, but wince when the grasp falls short.
Smart move opening the episode through the perspective of the dumb guy, Finn (Cory Monteith, and, while we're at it, hats off to this smart guy for playing dumb so convincingly every week). Finn's only religion is football. He would get spiritual nourishment from a George Foreman Grill.
The "Grilled Cheesus" motif was brilliant and led to all sorts of comic absurdities—Artie's wheel chair football romp, Rachel's generous mammary moment. (Although, again, a football rival is kicked out of the league for being over age, yet A PLAYER IN A METAL CHAIR IS CONSIDERED AN ELIGIBLE RECEIVER??).
Not having Josh Sussman show up as Jacob Ben Israel to sing Hava Nagila was either a blessing or a missed opportunity.
Where the show had less success was in Tuesday night's many serious moments. Again, they were uneven. Mike O'Malley (left) grows each week as Kurt's dad Burt. The scenes where Emma and Mr. Shue pull Kurt out of class were written, acted and shot to cinematic perfection. But Sue Sylvester's knee jerk reactions, despite Jane Lynch's best efforts, are getting way too predictable.
The premise of having songs about Jesus and/or spirituality be the glee club assignment for the week had the most promise. Some obvious titles made the cut. Puck (Mark Salling) made the most out of a simple rendition of Billy Joel's Only the Good Die Young. Amber Riley (Mercedes) got to shine on a couple of numbers, including a full gospel choir arrangement of the old Simon & Garfunkel standard Bridge Over Troubled Waters. You could see What if God Was One of Us coming all the way up Broadway. Again, however, with Rachel and the Streisand number? My son should not be asking me every week, "What song is that?"
I wish they had done God Only Knows by the Beach Boys; this is a glee club. R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion was a nice touch.
Chris Colfer's moody run at I Wanna Hold Your Hand was a surprise at least and might have been more effective if it hadn't been stolen from Across The Universe.
Much was placed on Colfer's shoulders in this crazy ambitious episode. He had to represent Gays and non-believers and risk being seen as stubborn and unsympathetic. We got a lot of close ups of Colfer's red face. Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester registered predictable outrage at this violation of church and state and her mentally challenged sister was brought in as a device to soften Sue's stance. As for Mr. Shue, we're not really sure what he believes in, which was a lost opportunity. Mr. Shue really, in many ways, is this series' "Father" figure.
The ending was far too predictable. You knew it would end with a touching hospital scene and a life affirming finger squeeze. Missing, I felt, was that Trouble with Angels moment that needed to come right before that. In that 1966 film, Rosalind Russell's steely mother superior has a breakdown in a church where she clings to faith and belief after the death of a sister she loved. It made a powerful and lasting impression to see this authority figure struggle and reach, to see her reduced to a dark moment of doubt. It brought some meaning to her faith and context to why it mattered.
Looking for anything that profound in episode three of 22, season two, of any series, is unrealistic and ridiculous. It's like expecting a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
Still, hats off to Glee for giving God the same shot as Britney, Lady Gaga and Madonna.


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Hardiness: Very EasyLight Needs: LowPlant Structure: RhizomeFamily: AraceaeGenus: AnubiasRegion: CultivarLocation: Cultivar
You are buying 1 rooted plant that will have 7 or more leaves which are Approx. 3/4" x 3/4"
Planting instructions
You can plant Anubias on driftwood, between rocks, or aquarium decorations. You can also plant them in your substrate but make sure you do not plant any of the rhizome in your substrate, only the black roots that come off the rhizome. Please go here for more information on planting


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Cause of dermatitis in general can be divided into 2, namely:
Exogenous: eg chemicals (detergents, oil, cement, acid, alkaline), physical (sunlight, temperature), microorganisms (microorganisms, fungi).
Endogenous: eg atopic dermatitis.
Clinical manifestations
In general, the clinical manifestations of dermatitis signs of acute inflammation, especially pruritus (itching), increase in body temperature, redness, edema such as the face (especially the lid and lips), impaired function of the skin and external genitalia.
Acute stage: skin disorders such as erythema, edema, vesicles or bullae, erosion and exudation that looks wet.
Subacute stage: erythema, and edema is reduced, exudate dries to leprosy.
Chronic stage: the lesion appears dry, squama, hyperpigmentation, papules.
The stages are not always sequential, could have been from the beginning a dermatitis from the beginning give clinical picture of skin disorders such as chronic stage.
Nursing Diagnosis for Dermatitis: Acute Pain
Supporting Data:
- Clenched jaw / clenching his fists
- Agitation
- Anxiety
- Changes in sleep patterns
- Pulling away when touched
- Nausea and vomiting
- Skinny picture
Risks Control
- Clients report reduced pain with pain scale 2-3
- Calm face expression
- Clients can rest and sleep
- Vital signs within normal limits.
Pain Management:
- Comprehensive review of pain (location, characteristics, duration, frequency, and quality factor of precipitation).
- Observation inconvenience.
- Use therapeutic communication techniques to determine the client's experience of pain before
- Control of environmental factors that affect pain such as room temperature, lighting, noise.
- Choose and pain management (pharmacological / non-pharmacological).
- Teach non-pharmacological techniques (relaxation, distraction, etc.) to mengetasi pain ..
- Collaboration of analgesics to reduce pain.
- Evaluation of pain reducers / pain control.
- Monitor vital signs


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Police release 3 detained in Mexico bar kidnapping
July 23, 2013
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities say that three of seven suspects detained in the abduction of 12 young people from an after-hours bar in Mexico City have been released.
Mexico City prosecutors say in a statement the three men were let go after investigators found no evidence linking them to the May 26 disappearances.
Prosecutors said Monday that four other suspects remain in custody. They include Ernesto Espinoza Lobo, who is the co-owner of the after-hours bar from which the group was abducted.
Police in Morelos state this month found the charred body of another co-owner, Dax Rodriguez Ledezma.
Prosecutors have said the abductions were linked to a dispute between two rival drug gangs in Mexico City's rough Tepito neighborhood.


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Happy Chef
Working as a Senior Art Director, I lead the UI/ UX/ Development team at Ripen to enhance the online retail experience for Happy Chef Uniforms and created a stronger engagement with their customers. We worked to strengthen the user experience and boost the look and feel of the design. I worked on major enhancements to the retail experience which included a new embroidery feature, check out process, homepage concept and product description page.
Agency: Ripen
Role: Art Direction/Design
Team: Angel Obregon (CD), Misha Medvedev (Developer)
Embroidery Feature
Happy Chef approached Ripen with a problem; Customers where getting confused, frustrated and dropping off from their current embroidery addition feature. We scrapped the existing functionality and began to take a mobile-first approach. I decided that we would use our mobile UX across all breakpoints to cut down on development time and create an overall layout that customers could more easily understand and navigate. Once our new approach was implemented, sales and additions of embroidery to products, went up instantly and the drop off rate decreased.
Sketch/Invision Workflow
After working together to come up with a new user experience, I implemented the design using Sketch to show the numerous flows to which the customer can add/remove embroidery to a product. I created a working prototype in Invision to show all of our stakeholders our funtional features.
Check Out, Cart & Product Description Page
The existing Happy Chef checkout process was confusing. Customers were dropping during the purchase process, the UX and UI weren't cohesive, and it was challenging to get through the mobile process. Happy Chef approached us to do a redesign of their process to increase purchases within the system. I was responsible for the UX/design and worked closely with the development team to create an experience that spoke to customers' needs. We focused on a quick and painless check-out process which resulted in increased sales of 40% on mobile devices. While working on the check-out process, I also designed a few new product description pages with the hope updating their current functionality/design.


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Hi: I really need you to help me. I'm 25 years old and married to my High School sweetheart. I love him soooooooooo much and we are great together. We are in love and best friends too. Sometimes I change my mood suddenly and only with him while he is being nice to me. I start being mean and, in my mind, I start thinking that he is making me look bad because he is too nice to me and no matter what I do I'm always not doing well enough! I know its only in my mind but I hate it when my friends tell me that he is really nice to me. I always feel like I want to prove that I'm really nice to him too. Although I am nice to him, sometimes when he is too nice, I hate that and start acting mean and suddenly I can't stand him.
Something inside me always wants me to be nicer than he is. In my mind I assume that when a man is nice people look at the woman like she is in control AND I CANT stand being looked at like that.
Please help me. I'm hurting the love of my life and I want to change it. This happens every couple of days and then I really regret being mean. What can I do?


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Litigation is the filing of a lawsuit in court, and often involves numerous procedures before a matter is heard by a judge, if it not resolved by the parties beforehand. Ms. Boyd has extensive experience representing clients' interests in pretrial and court hearings including case investigation and legal research, preparation of pleadings and documents, conducting discovery, working with necessary agencies, and drafting memoranda and legal briefs.
Areas of representation in addition to Family Law include Property and Real Estate, Contracts, Employment, Appeals
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Folk music, a guide to archives and websites
See also: World Music
Folk music of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and America.
Folk Music Homepage
A guide to folk music on the internet.
Georgian folk music, traditional music.
A database of blues and folk songs.
Smithsonian Intsitute folk recordings
Sound archives, libraries and websites *
American Library of Congress. American Memory,
a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site includes a massive collection of traditional music recordings, song manuscripts and musical scores.
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
Folk Music Festivals in the UK
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
The library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. It hosts a number of the library's indexes to manuscript collections, together with the Roud Folk Song Index.
English folk and traditional music on the Internet
A guide to Internet resources on English folk music (traditional music, song and dance in England).
The Folklore Society, London
The Folklore Society (FLS) is a learned society, based in London, devoted to the study of all aspects of folklore and tradition, including: ballads, myths, legends and traditional song and dance.
The Grainger Museum, Melbourne
The Grainger Museum is the public face of an internationally significant archive and artifact collection numbering in excess of 100,000 items.
Morris Dancing pages from UK Folk Music
Morris Dancing, English Folk Songs, Customs & Traditions
British Library Sound Archives
World and traditional music.
Country Dance and Song Society
Celebrating a Living Tradition of English and Anglo-American Folk Dance and Music since 1915.
Irish Traditional Music Archive


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Student Organization Advisers
Student organizations are encouraged to have an adviser who is an employee of the University and preferably one who holds a personal interest or professional expertise that relates to the organization he or she is advising. This requirement serves to promote student/staff/faculty interactions and allows faculty and staff to stay connected to students' extracurricular lives. The organization should consult regularly with the adviser regarding its activities.
Simply having your adviser(s) sign the annual agreement saying that he or she will serve as your adviser is not harnessing the contributions that he or she might offer your organization. It is important for student organizations to select advisers who will help the organization meet its goals and provide guidance along the way. Each year, student organizations should determine what role they might want their advisers to assume for the upcoming period and to have a conversation with their advisers about these expectations. Similarly, each adviser may have their own expectations for the organization or for the role they are willing to play. It is a two-way street and both advisers and student organizations should ensure that they are well matched for one another and if not, to find a more appropriate fit. Your organization may select new advisers at any time. Please notify the Student Activities Coordinator of such changes.
The following are questions that your organization may want to consider for selecting a faculty adviser and that they may want to consider before serving as an adviser:
How much involvement is expected or needed?
How often does the organization meet and do you expect your adviser to be present for these meetings?
How many major activities does your organization execute each year?
How experienced are the officers of the organization?
What are some ways that your organization could use the advice of an adviser? Is there someone at the University who has particular interest or experience in this area?
What skills would your proposed adviser bring the organization? How do these skills match those of your organization?
Are there areas in which you need specific assistance from your adviser and/or are there areas that are hands-off for your adviser?
If you want your adviser to let you know when they believe you are making a mistake as an organization, how do you want them to express this concern?
Expectations Advisers Should Have of Student Leaders
Student organizations should be sensitive and limit expectations placed on advisers; however, at the same time, it is perfectly acceptable (and encouraged) that you involve your adviser in your activities. An adviser may be a hands-on director or simply an overseer, but the best balance lies somewhere between. Here are some possible expectations your advisers might have about working with your organization:
Give notices of meetings – You should always give notice of meetings to your advisers and try to include and invite their participation on a mutually agreed upon level of involvement.
Develop relationship with officers – This will help communication flow easily and establish a base from which to work together.
Send invitations to events – Events are a great way to keep advisers informed. Try to give enough advance notice to allow advisers to plan to attend.
Consult on problems – advisers should be notified of problems. Their experience and knowledge could be invaluable in helping you to solve the issues productively and quickly.
Provide copies of minutes – advisers should regularly receive any document produced by your organization (e.g. minutes, agendas, etc.)
Expectations Student Organization Leadership Should Have of Advisers
Advisers should be familiar with the Student Organization Handbook and Engage to track organizational activities. In general, advisers are expected to:
Re-confirm their advisory capacity annually, during student organization re-registration at the start of each fall semester, using Engage
Provide support to student leaders on University policy and procedures
Review the organization's funding proposals, allocation and account balances prior to approving any requests for resources/payments
Monitor spending throughout the year
Report concerns about hazing, harassment, discrimination, sexual misconduct or any other University violation or concerning behavior. Reports can be made at: http://www.sewanee.edu/student-life/dean-of-students-office/report-an-incident/


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I sat down over the last two nights hoping to enjoy an Australian revival in the 4th test at Trent Bridge only to witness the abject failure of any of our recognised batsman to get in behind the line of the ball. Yes, there was a bit in the pitch, but not that much. I am sure the batsmen were spooked by Alistair Cook winning the toss and bowling which would have to be just about a first in England. I thought the worst offender in the first innings was Michael Clarke. As captain of the team and coming in with the team in diabolical trouble he first tries a pull shot and was lucky it dropped into no mans land and then he has a swing at a wide ball. Surely the captain has to show more than application when the chips are down. Even when Ricky Ponting lost the Ashes in 2005 he battled his guts out to try and turn things around. We are now hoping for a miracle. Perhaps three days of rain.
I thought the crowd figures for the Richmond v Hawthorn clash last Friday night were interesting. There was 66,000 people there which was apparently a record between the two clubs. This is quite surprising when both teams have memberships of 70,000+. I understand that not all members turn up to watch their team play, but given the size of both memberships and both teams vying for the top 4, 66,000 could be considered quite disappointing.
There is one term that has entered the AFL vernacular which I am getting quite sick of very quickly and it is the "competitive beast". I think if I hear one more commentator or one more player describe someone as a competitive beast I may just throw up.
Have a good weekend and let us hope the Gelding has a speedy recovery!


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RecipeThis recipe can be played with. Experiment! Go to your local health food store and imagine the flavors of all that fanastic array of juices. Try to think about a nice balance of flavors in the juices you use. This recipe uses half pear and half apple juice. If your pear juice is already mixed with apple juice in the store, just use 1 gallon of the mix. If you want to make more than 1 gallon, obviously adjust the quantities to match.
1/2 gallon pear juice (not from concentrate)
1/2 gallon apple juice (not from concentrate)
|Pear and apple juice!
If like pear and apple juices, your mix of juices is a bit lacking in astringency, you may consider adding a cup of strongly brewed black tea.
1 cup strong black tea.
If any of your juices are cloudy, you may want to use a pectin enzyme to help clear them. The cloudiness is caused by the suspended protein pectin. The enzyme breaks down the pectin, and it all sinks to the bottom, where you can easily avoid siphoning it out into the bottles.
1/2 tsp Pectic Enzyme
As any juices can be a bit lacking in all the micronutrients yeast needs, it is a good idea to add yeast nutrient. The yeast mostly eats sugar from the juice, but it needs all these other micronutrients to make new cells.
1 tsp Yeast Nutrient
Finally, add your yeast to the mix and whisk it all up. Easy as that!
1 packet Premier Cuvee yeast
Once you have all of these ingredients in your primary fermenter, and the lid firmly on and the airlock filled with cheap vodka, you are good to go. This fermentation took nine days for me in warm, warm Bakersfield (it was 108F here on Sunday!), but your mileage may vary. It should be around 7 to 10 days. This yeast has a great tolerance for a range of temperatures, so don't worry about that.
BottlingAfter 9 days, the airlock had stopped bubbling. When I came to look in the fermenter, I found a floating mat of pectin and yeast. Even with my racking cane, I knew that the mat would get sucked up the tube and right into my bottled perry. No good!
|One floating mat of pectin and yeast
|The sunken detritus was not sucked up


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For over 40 years, one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world has ravaged Colombia, victimizing and displacing nearly a tenth of the population. In an effort to end the conflict, the Colombian government claims it is turning to transitional justice and with the Justice and Peace Law, creating accountability and providing reparations for victims. Yet, upon careful examination of the politics of justice in Colombia, it appears as though the passage of the Justice and Peace Law may be merely an attempt to shield human rights abusers from criminal liability and evade ICC intervention. How the ICC interprets and evaluates the actions of Colombia will determine the application of complementarity and the future of international criminal law. In this paper, I focus on the need for an interpretation of complementarity as found in Article 17 of the Rome Statute, and propose a method of interpreting Article 17 that will reduce states' exploitation of ambiguities in the Rome Statute. I argue that ICC involvement in Colombia will solidify the tenuous principle of complementarity, and will provide a much needed "guiding principle" to this emerging intersection between domestic and international law. By using Colombia as an example of a state genuinely unwilling to prosecute, the ICC will not only provide justice to Colombians, but it will also reduce the likelihood of mimicry from other states that may follow in the footsteps of Colombia's impunity if it is allowed to succeed.
- international crimnal law,
- international tribunals,
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_easterday/2/


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When you take a hit that is so monstrous it would knock Kimbo Slice back on his fat ole jigaboo ass.
Melanie Rios: Damn son that was a monster toke!
The Dude: KIMBO!!!!!!!
The Dude: KIMBO!!!!!!!
by the GT pooper October 05, 2011
Verb; to beat the shit out of a person
by P Willie January 27, 2009
the act of getting so drunk you are beyond the point of crunk. see slice for full combo.
did you see jeff last night, he was totally kimbo, and then he sliced everywhere.
by weedlybonz420 January 10, 2009
by evan met November 27, 2009
A Kimbo is a person mainly of Asian or African descent. Is pretty fucking tired of being compared to Kimbo Slice. Usually a nice, charming, complex personality who loves excitement and may come off as weird at times. Has some anger issues. Usually nice if you dont piss him off. Is lazy schoolwise but is pretty hardworking in his interests in life. A hands on learner. If youre friends with one your a lucky bastard, but if youre hated by one thenm you better watch your actions.
Alex: Hey you know who Kimbo is?
Denzel: Yea hes this chill Asian guy I know. Abit annoying though. But funny.
Denzel: Yea hes this chill Asian guy I know. Abit annoying though. But funny.
by The Great Emperor CK November 19, 2013
A bimbo of Korean American - or, more broadly defined, any Asian American - descent. Usually raised by strict religious parents, kimbos spend much time texting, shopping, swooning over Asian pop stars, drinking boba, battling with their Starcraft-playing younger brothers for control of the computer, and generally oblivious to such things as cultural literacy, irony, or "things white people are into."
Any example in such a short space would fail to capture the complex specimen that is the kimbo. As is the case with pornography, you know it when you see it.
by fox_trot_1984 January 13, 2008
a really beatsly lesbian, with airbrushed cap. that likes to eat ice cream.
Look at that kimbo! oh no!!!!!! she might touch my butt!
by Blackula September 20, 2007


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Hey folks! I wrote something on Dakka that I thought I would bring here. A poster is having some sportsmanship troubles for "winning too much" and it struck a chord.
Here's the thread if you care to follow, but I'll post his question and my response.
Dracos writes:
There seems to be an inverse correlation between my sportsmanship score and my battle performance during a tourny. When I started out, I lost many games and got top sports scores. Now that I am winning most/all my games I seem to get a low sportsmanship score. I don't feel like my demeanor has changed during the game, but perhaps its something I'm not noticing. No one has said anything that they found objectionable, so I don't know what exactly it is. For all you guys who tend to win locally, how do you keep your sportsmanship score up while laying down a beating?
*laughing* OP, welcome to my life.
I'm probably going to regret everything I'm about to type, but....it is what it is. I'm going to give you a little backstory in hopes that you can relate - but this is what's happened to me, how it happened, and what I've done to overcome it. I win pretty consistently, both at the local and national level. I've suffered from poor sportsmanship scores at a few events, and some of those have been scandalous in their circles.
When I first started playing 40k, at my first tournament ever, I got zeroed out for sportsmanship in all three of my games with my Orks. My first opponent thought that Ghazghkull Thraka was too powerful to bring to a tournament - he was running full terminators (on foot, in cover, stationary most of the game in a Capture and Control game....lol), and zeroed me out for sportsmanship. My second opponent zeroed me out because he thought I was cheating by using a boarding plank on an ork trukk to swing at a dreadnought with the nob leading the boyz inside the trukk. We called a judge over, who ruled in my favor, but he maintained that I cheated. My third game was against a pretty famous player in Florida - and he narrowly won. Deployment was a scattered randomization across the entire board (extremely unfavorable to Orks, even before I knew what a KFF did and started using one). Terrain was set up by players each game, and he took some of the felt (for forests) that I was putting on the table off again, and told me it was too big. I'll freely admit that I didn't know what Ghazghkull's Slow and Purposeful rule was, and he had to remind me....but he didn't tell me that Ghazghkull had Move through Cover either. I didn't make a fuss during the game, but afterwards I broke open the rulebook in combination with utilizing YMDC here to get answers to questions we had during the game, and posted on their forums with a breakdown of the rules issues we had during the game.
Open war broke out, with the community there polarizing against me. My "reputation" as a bad sportsman (and an outsider as I was new to the game) started spreading from the lips of the folks at the store there.
Fast forward to 'Ard Boyz semi-finals - my first time there, and I'm in North Carolina. My first game is against another very well known gamer from the Southeast...and the game is atrocious. I'll spare the details, but for the first time ever, I picked up my models from the table, packed up and left - I was winning the game, in part because of Eldrad failing fortune (and a reroll) at the beginning, leaving Ghazghkull free to ravage them, and because of my advantageous assault positioning. I quit the game when he started picking up his models during my assault moves and repositioning them on the board, away from me, prattling "Fine, assault me now." It wasn't even 40k anymore, and I had no idea what to do, and was too tired to even want to fight. My "reputation" gets cemented amongst his friends and their small forums and yahoo user groups.
I'm stubborn. Over the next two years, I continually get hammered at local events. Not losing....I win virtually everything - but creating animosity with my winning streak. I've learned much about 40k now, am quite adept on the rules, and I trot through virtually every tournament at every store within a 4 hour radius undefeated. I rarely fail to table an opponent. I start posting Ork advice based on my own success here on Dakka, and get shouted down as a "stupid noob" who is a "big fish in a little pond" and that my army lists "couldn't compete against decent players." I take this as a sign to look for a larger pond and learn what a GT is. I start looking for GTs within travelling distance, and learn that there's going to be one in Raleigh...not so far from me. Local tournaments cost $5-10 to enter, and this one has a comparatively larger entry fee....$50-$60. I'm curious why that is, so get ahold of the organizer asking about the entry fee, what prize support is.....turns out that he's a native Floridian (Green Blow Fly, now permanently banned from Dakka), and he knows who I am and my reputation, and he's quite hostile. Tells me that prize support is none of my business, and that GT participants should pay their entry fee and be grateful to get to participate, and that winning is prize enough.
That's a new concept to me, and I don't agree....but I'm new to the GT idea, so I take the dispute public here on Dakka to ask for community input on whether I'm out of line or not. My reputation as a troublemaker spreads.
Meanwhile, at the local level, I'm contemplating the idea of a "small pond, big fish" thing, and start trying to help locals improve their gaming after tournament gaming. The locals recoil in animosity that I would dare offer help. After winning several successive tournaments back-to-back, defeating the "local champion" in North Carolina (he's also a store employee), I'm asked not to return to the store. Another shop that freshly opened in Raleigh announces that it will start hosting a league, and I call to enroll my wife and I; she's learning to play Orks fairly well, and has not lost a game against any of the locals either. The store owner (Hangar 8 Hobbies) tells me that while I'm welcome to shop there and play games, I'm not welcome in their league or any tournaments because I'll scare new players away.
My friends encourage me to tone down my armies, and play less competitively....folks on Dakka do the same. I've always been competitive, and I have trouble with the idea of competing half-heartedly. I'd much rather try helping other folks improve to my level....it's not that hard. Meanwhile, the anti-Dash folks in the Southeast (especially the aforementioned TO) are crowing on their blogs and forums that I've been banned from two stores, proving that I'm a real douchebag. No one around the country knows who I am, but there's plenty of people (most whom have never met me) swearing up and down that I'm a serious jerk, and unfun to play against.
Fast forward again...I get a massive promotion at work to a position back in Jacksonville, FL - where I'd started playing 40k in the first place. The store I played at and enjoyed friends at has closed because the owner is in Afghanistan, and he plans on re-opening another store when he returns, but that isn't in the forseeable future. The store where I attended that first disastrous tournament has closed as well, leaving two stores in the area to pick up the slack. Suncoast Games and Borderlands. Borderlands is across town some distance, and Suncoast is close by, but small. My return to Jacksonville and first apperance at the store (in a suit and tie, during lunch) start nasty things being said in the local forums. I post an introduction in their forums, attempting to explain what's happened and bury the hatchet - I take an apologetic tone, and tread very carefully about looking to fit in and make new friends. I'm met with contempt and derision.
My own friends from the area don't go to either of the game stores because of the poisonous nature of the "locals," so I dedicate a room in my house to 40k, set up tables, get terrain, and we start gaming there, or at one of their houses. When I'm at one of the stores, if I meet someone nice, I grab their contact information so that I can look them up and invite them over to play - Jacksonville, FL is really hot, and the air conditioning at Suncoast doesn't work - so playing at one of our houses is nicer anyway.
The first tournament is approaching at the local store, Suncoast. The store owner has taken a liking to me - I attended 'Ard Boyz preliminaries there shortly before moving back there a month or two prior, and had stopped into the store the night before to introduce myself, and had subsequently helped them set up tables, and got to know them a bit. This first tournament that I planned on attending was a 1500 points "No whining, no crying, beatdown" tournament - single elimination, no holds barred, last man standing event. I showed up with 1500 points of Dark Eldar and proceeded to win. Hard. My first opponent was playing Space Wolves on foot. He put his entire army in a single piece of terrain. The new DE codex was still a rumour, and disintegrators were still STR7 AP2 small blast. He conceded at the bottom of my first turn. T
he tournament proceeded, and the last round was against a genuinely good guy - who would later become a good friend and frequent visitor to our 40k house parties. He was a tough cookie to beat, but I did, and won. The locals were furious. How DARE I come in with a beatstick army? Jacksonville is a place for gentle armies, fluffy players, and my kind of gaming has no place there. Half my opponents declared on their forums that they never wanted to play me again. One of the players announced that if if he had his way, I'd never be allowed to compete in a tournament again. Did I mention I was stubborn? I remain courteous and polite.
Fast forward to the next tournament. The previously mentioned player is now the TO, and the tournament is a 2,000 point attrition tournament. IE, what you lose stays dead. He passes out scenarios, and pairs himself against me in the first round - telling me that no one else wants to play against me. I wish I had video-taped the entire thing. Our game is a mish-mash of 3rd-5th edition rules, with an Attacker/Defender scenario, with the attacker going first. I show him the DE codex, which says that in any attack/defend scenario, DE are always the attacker. He announces to the store that he's changing the scenario, that all DEFENDERS will go first. The screnario itself is one objective, in the middle of the table. Deployment zone is defender deploying in the middle, and attacker deploying on either flank (short board edge). To keep the tournament going, the scenarios also call for games to stop at the end of the game turn when one of the players has lost 700 points. He deploys, I reserve, and we start. He cheats like a mofo. Extra inches...not like .5" extras, but like 2-3" extras. Extra dice. Extra shots. Extra attacks. I say nothing. I don't have to say anything, because he's moving out from the center towards my flanks - where I'm going to be coming in. And every inch he moves away from the center is one less inch I need to cross to alpha-strike him. Turn two sees me move onto the board with a good chunk of my army, and I hit him hard. I killed 698 points out of the 700 required and leave him incredibly crippled. Turn three he mostly does nothing, and on my turn three...he announces another change. When one player reaches 700 points, the game stops instantly. IE, I was going to hurt him hard....far beyond 700 points. For our game, all this meant is that I killed one model and our game ended.
On EVERY OTHER TABLE, that meant that the player who went second auto-lost, because they never got a turn. The player going first gets to shoot and assault first, and hit 700 before the second player.
I won this tournament as well - as gracefully as I could. I pulled him off to the side afterwards and offered him my services to help write missions, because there was loud complaints from folks after the first game and the unfairness of it. He proceeded to scream at me - that I had no business trying to tell him how to run his tournaments, and that he plans on seeing that I never game in the store again.
I have a word with the owner later about my misgivings, and they tell me that they're going to start rotating TOs around, and that I'm welcome to host an event. I sign up to host a tournament, and also talk to them about an idea I've been having. My only wish is to see folks get more competitive, and the best way to do it is to reward them for it. I like the owners, and want to call the store home (nowhere else to go) so I tell them about my idea of a "Store Championship." I don't spend a lot of money there because I have several armies - most of them have been "free" because of tournament winnings and store credit. So I want them to declare me the store champion, and let people challenge me. Anyone who spends $50 in the store gets a challenge token. They use it to play against me, and anyone who wins gets a free battleforce box. I'd pay for it myself. Buy $50 of merchandise in the store, get a pass at me, and if you win....get a free battleforce box. In my eyes, the store wins because they made money. Players win for a free shot at loot. And I win because it will increase competition locally. The owner loved it.
What actually happened: The locals went ballistic. How DARE I declare that I'm better than they are? What RIGHT do I have to call myself "Store Champion?" The locals light up their local forums with more vitriol against me, and they start calling the store and telling the owner that they're going to boycott the store if I'm allowed to play there. And...boom. I'm uninvited to another store. A few weeks later, a couple of my friends and I want to play a game, and the other store in town (across town) is closer to them than driving to my house, so I call Borderlands to reserve a table. The owner asks what name to put on the reservation, and when he hears my name, says "Nothing personal, but I don't want you in my store." Poison is a horrible thing.
Shortly before leaving Florida and moving to Louisiana, three of us went to the store unannounced for a game. The owner (who didn't know my face, just my name), saw that I was playing Dark Eldar and asked if I was Justin Hilderbrandt. I told him no, that my name was Chris. He said, "Oh, ok." We played. Other players admired our game. Asked us rules questions. Ah...anonymity. ><
Moving to Louisiana after two bad experiences in two locations, my experience has been the opposite. And here's where we're going to get to the meat of my advice. My current situation (at the local level) is fantastic...with a bit of initial help (which I'll explain), and I've been going to GTs all year, mostly to good experiences, only a couple nasty little buggers giving me bad sportsmanship votes (Example: Your army is too strong, and unfun to play against...bad game vote...), but mostly positive, capped off by winning Best Sportsman at the Nova Open in Washington D.C., the largest (or second after Adepticon?) GT in the country. Folks who know my name but have never met me are always telling me that I'm nothing like what they've heard. Sometimes I hear that I was the best game they've ever played (tactically) and that they learned so much. I've been to other locations (I played in most of the Atlanta circuit championship tournaments, won the championship, and haven't left any bad memories behind).
Locally, I'm well-known and (I think) well-liked at the stores. Here's the crux of it. I hate to call it "Gaming Sportsmanship" or "Gaming friendship" but I'm being blunt and honest here, as always.
When I first moved here, and went to my first tournaments at stores amongst complete strangers, I went early. I made a point of meeting the other gamers. I looked at their armies, complimented paint jobs, asked questions... During games, I was as overly friendly. I made jokes at my own expense. I highlighted every success they had on the field, and every turn of misfortune that I had. When I play a game and land 2/27 shots with dark lances, only kill one vehicle the whole game against a Mechanized BA army....the memory of the game should be that I won because I got incredibly lucky at the end, not for any other reason.
After games, I made special effort to compliment any brilliant moves my opponent made, or commiserate with them on losing. Instead of offering advice, I'd ask a question or two, like "Anything you would have done differently?" I like to hear what could have been, and what might have happened had things changed - doing so right after the game is almost like getting a second game in for free. Deployment and movement changes, but presume the same dice were rolled, and the same results on them.
At the end of the tournament, I passed on whatever prizes I got to whomever came in last place - something I've done everywhere local and GT for quite some time now...because I truly don't need more 40k stuff.
Afterwards, I paid a visit to the local store forums to introduce myself formally....to thank the locals for having me, for being such a great crowd to play with, for giving me some great games...and looking forward to trying my luck there again.
Today, I don't have to do any of those things anymore....because the folks are genuinely my friends, and I genuinely like them. Instead of being a hostile outsider, we get along - at multiple stores with different crowds. Some of the guys who ask me for advice on their armies, and I give it if I can. I'm grateful for the fresh start locally. There was some growing animosity at one of the stores by some of the "veteran" players that I kept winning, but some of the others apparently dispelled it by challenging them to get off their asses and play better. And true to it, I've been seeing increasingly competitive lists. Many of them are specifically tailored to fight my Dark Eldar, but I don't mind - those are the best games of all. When all the las/plas come off the razorbacks and get replaced by Assault Cannons and heavy bolters, and the number of Psyflemen in the GK lists keep growing exponentially, you know it's going to be a tough battle.
There's an old army saying, "Fake it till' you make it" talking about motivation. If you fake motivation long enough while under physical or mental duress, you'll eventually be motivated. Believe it or not, it's true.
I would feel dishonest toning my games down to try making them closer. My buddy Hulksmash is a master of it, and good enough that people don't know that he does it. He gets great sportsmanship scores because he can make a close game out of pitting his Imperator Titan against a lone longfang without it being obvious. So that's not me. But holding to the "fake it till you make it"....it works. I played extra-nice, I was super-chummy and friendly....until I didn't have to be anymore because the danger of being a "hostile outsider winning all our stuff" passed.
At GTs with relevant scoring, I work extra hard. Buy a beer for an opponent, offer a snack, be as easy-going as possible during a game - at this stage in my career I'll let small "cheats" and mistakes go. I won't press on rules. If someone is moving 6.5" or 7" instead of six....I'll let them, because I've learned that if you need to cheat to win, you're not good enough to win anyway, so it doesn't matter. It's true. Well, mostly true. 95% of the time true. I did recently lose a game to a guy cheating so badly that the judge at our table was correcting literally every movement, every shot, disallowing him to double-shoot units, move units again during the same turn...to the point where when I went to talk to the TO afterwards, the judge told him "Whatever he tells you is true, and I'll back him on it." I hadn't said a word to my opponent; was fighting to keep my mouth shut.
The local douches in my previous locations still troll about me, and recently latched onto a Blood of Kittens article bashing me, but that's damning in itself. Anyone who will read any of the drama on Blood of Kitttens and swear by it is laughable themselves. But the rest of the furor has died away. I've gotten around the country as much as possible, met as many gamers as possible, and there's enough people out there who know me and have met me that when someone starts crap, they pretty much get shut down without me having to get involved. I don't really post on Dakka anymore because I get special moderator attention - attacks are made against me freely, but defending myself usually gets me a lengthy suspension for saying a bad word (and yes, I even have e-mails from moderators about the special attention I get).
That might sound like a lifetime of 40k, but it's been three years since I first picked up dice and started the hobby. I'm not sure exactly what I would tell you for advice - I was hoping my story and how I coped with it might help you find something worth emulating without just dropping a blanket statement about "Gaming Sportsmanship." Don't get me wrong - there are plenty of folks out there who share my mindset, and don't need to be gamed for a good sportsmanship score. But in your local group, be overly friendly. Be generous. Don't do anything that might make you stand out as potentially "arrogant." Be OVERLY humble. Work your tail off at it, because this hobby is uniquely full of thin-skinned folks....and whether someone says they're just playing for fun or not....they still want to win.
Eventually it will become natural, or you won't have to anymore.
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"Whither Democracy?" drew two dozen people from 8 North Shore towns including Boxford. A member of the group and a Sanders delegate to the July DNC in Philadelphia, Tristan Whitehouse of Manchester has been doing us all a great service by attending these discussions all over the state, and drafting summary notes on each.
The email distribution list that emerged from this meeting, self-styling ourselves Democracy Forward, is ongoing and welcomes others to join. Send your name, town and email address to firstname.lastname@example.com if you want to be added to the list.
Here is Tristan's excellent report that he filed with the Massachusetts Sanders delegation:
On December 1st, I attended a meeting hosted by our own Marianne Rutter in Boxford. I apologize for the late nature of this report. Look for a report from the Next Four Years conference that was held last weekend, in the next few days.
Marianne Rutter, Chair of the Boxford Democratic Town Committee, held a post-election meeting titled "Whither Democracy?" Prior to the meeting, Marianne emailed many people drumming up support for the event and 25 people attended the event. After dispensing with formalities for the monthly Boxford DTC meeting, Marianne broke the crowd into small groups.
Since I was in a small group myself, I can only speak about the specifics introduced in my group. Each member of the group was given three minutes to share their thoughts and the remaining time was devoted to ad lib discussion. The following points were brought up during this discussion:
- Almost all of the members expressed a general feeling of "shell-shock" from the election. Many mentioned that they were "devistated", "numb", and "worried". More than half of the group also revealed that this meeting was the first political meeting they had ever been to and felt personally responsible, saying they "could have done more".
- Candidate support was mixed in this group. While most voted for Hillary, one member said he wrote in Bernie Sander's name in protest, as he "truely hated Hillary". Another member expressed a frustration with Bernie supporters, saying "Just shut up! You lost!" This same woman expressed a sadness that she "would never see a woman President".
- A large component in this conversation centered around racism in the Age of Trumpism. Several group participants expressed frustration and fear in this capacity. One woman of Indian decent, argued that the post-election reports say the Democrats failed to court working people and the economy issue was why they lost. She disagreed, saying that overt rascism was to blame for Trump's win, and she was "furious" to see the Democratic Party blame the election on economic demographics. She suggested that we all look into minority voices like Imani Gandy on Twitter, and Roxand Gay. She finished with "Once they cast Superman with a Black man, and no one bats an eye, then we'll be equal." Another woman told us how she was afraid for her daughter who had recently converted to Judaism and is getting married to a Black man. "What can we do to protect them?" she asked.
- Another topic of concern was the environment under a Trump Presidency. Mebers said they had already given money to conservations groups like the Sierra Club and National Parks Foundation, fearing budget cuts for Interior projects in the near future. One woman told us how she woke up the day after the election, saw the results, and cried thinking about how we were going to loose the National Parks.
- Lastly, the group talked about how the Democrats can engage with more voters and spread their truth. One man spoke about how talk radio is dominated by Conservative voices. Others expressed a desire to see the Party use social media in a meaningful way in the future.
The second phase of this discussion was a large group meeting. This fell into two parts, the first saw representatives of each of the small groups presenting their findings to the group. The expressed the following:
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- A huge campaign should be waged to bring young people and independents into the party. Not only that but they should be provided with infrastructure to pursue issues that they're passionate about.
- Almost all of the groups reported that their members expressed a desire to do more. While many had never been to a meeting in the past, they all shared the passion to work in the future.
The meeting in Boxford was a special one as this showed a strong liberal force in a town dominated by Republican politics for decades. Props are deserved to the Boxford citizens and Marianne Rutter who worked hard, resulting in Boxford turning blue for the first time in years. This meeting was a great example of how passionate people can get together and organize when a strong town committee works well. Just an update in the fallout of this meeting, Marianne Rutter has emailed the participants, letting them know of ways to get involved.


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Good for you Tybee. It is a never ending struggle.
Good for you Tybee. It is a never ending struggle.
Self-improvement is a struggle for ME, that's for sure! YAY for all of us who are trying to make or lives better in some fashion! I need to quantify my goals for this challenge, or I know I won't hold myself accountable. SO, I'm aiming for 100 journal entries this year (about 2 a week). So far, I have 5 for the year. I want to make daily entries in my interactive journal, which I need to date so I know when I started it. So far I'm on day 11, and entry 11! And I want to spend 100 hours this year on my upstairs decluttering/reorganizing. THAT is at zero and probably will remain that way for the next few weeks as I have other things backed up at the moment. So, those are my goals, and I hope that by posting here, I will do a better job of actually accomplishing them! Thanks, ejchase and all of you, for keeping this thread going!
Early morning, you can do it!
tybee, how was day 1?
started my morning with the bike again - 2.
You can do it early morning. Every day you do something is a bonus!
Swam 1000 yards. Tired.
I guess, CL! That's a long distance!
Day 13 on the journal, and 2 more days on my regular journal. That's it so far. WOW, 1000 yards seems like a lot of swimming! I don't know how to swim, so that would be LOTS of time for me to drown in, lol.
I grew up near the ocean. My class was required to pass "drown proofing" to get out of 6th grade.
i love swimming, but prefer open water.
rode the bike this morning - 3
still keeping up with the journaling. It is definitely helping me process things.
The pool was closed.
which made it impossible to swim.
So, the pool is back in order. Swam 1200 yards last night.
swimming 2
bike still 3
journal is going well. There have been several difficult things recently and it is helpful to have a place to process them and a defined structure to help me do it.
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Faith Values
School & Chapel
We honor and embrace diversity. We welcome those of other faiths and belief systems to join us in the journey of educating God's children.
We are a church ministry and our program will incorporate core principles of love and grace of Lutheran Christian theology through our days. Children attend chapel weekly, pray before meals, and focus on the Christian perspective of holidays. Chapel time is based in our liturgical tradition on yearly lectionary and led by our pastors and children's minister.
As Lutheran Christians we believe in:
Grace alone | We are saved by the grace of God alone - not by anything we do.
Faith alone | Our salvation is through faith alone - a confident trust in God, who in Christ promises us forgiveness, life and salvation
Word alone | The Bible is the norm for faith and life - the true standard by which teachings and doctrines are to be judged.
Read more from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) here.


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Lesley Family
John T. Lesley was a pioneer cattleman, an Indian fighter, and a Captain in the Confederate Army. He formed his own volunteer company, the "Sunny South Guards" in 1860. Later, he became a state senator. Son William T. Lesley was Sheriff and a member of the 1885 Constitutional Convention. The union of the Lesley and Brown families (John T. was married to William T. Brown's daughter, Margaret) produced one of the most powerful local dynasties in politics, business and agriculture. Theodore Lesley, John's other son, was County Historian and an ardent preservationist of local records.


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A bright spark by the name of Rod Furlan over on MTBS3D has come up with a pretty novel solution to keep him busy until the Oculus Rift Developers Kit arrives some time in March 2013.
The gaming world has been sent into a frenzy ever since the VR Kickstarter Project reached it's $250,000 goal within 4 hours! With tremendous appraisal from the likes of Gaming Gods Carmack and Bleszinsky.
While Rod has stated that this is by no means meant to be a competitor to the Oculus Rift, it is designed to "carry on the DIY VR torch"
It is missing various features such as head tracking which has been replaced with a simple 2 degrees of freedom movement and will cost more than the Rift will. This realls is more of a creative project for those able to piece together a next gen jigsaw.
Furlan says that there are loads of free 3D engines available for users to create their own VR environments with the added bonus that you can even use some 3D Drivers to like TriDef to play a ton of non 3D Ready games on the device.
Palmer Luckey, who is an active member of the mtbs3d community even helped out Furlan creating his device! What a nice guy!!


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Sharnbrook Hotel is celebrating its 10th anniversary along with its general manager Ciro Ciampi - who will turn 40 on the same weekend.
To mark the occassion, the hotel hosted three events in three days including a fundrasier ball, a birthday extrava'gangster' and a supercar day.
The events took place on September 23, 24 and 25 and raised £11,435 for the Primrose Unit at Bedford Hospital and £5,160 for PotsUK.
General manager Ciro, said: "For my 40th, I wanted to have three days of fun with friends, family, customers and associates but above all make it really mean something – raise as much money as possible for charity with an initial target of £10,000.
"Weekends like this don't just happen, my team at Sharnbrook were very supportive throughout the planning of the three events.
"I would also like to extend a huge thank you to Paul Gardner who has become a close friend of mine and instrumental in the success of our charity car show funday.
"Both charities are very close to our hearts with Paul living with postural tachychardia syndrome as well as Bedford's Primrose Unit playing a life saving role in several lives linked to us at Sharnbrook.
"The final total raised was a staggering £16,595 – so very proud of everybody involved."


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Lieutenant Harry Drader of the WW1 Royal Tank Corps and Tank D20, "Daphne" photographed with "Percy", the vehicle's mascot and perhaps the first "tank cat". Percy apparently joined the tank early in its deployment, and was thereafter regularly carried into battle in "Daphne". He "starred" along wiht Lieutenant Drader in an official film, "The Battle of Ancre". Lieutenant Drader was mentioned in dispatches for his actions in that battle. Both Drader and Percy survived the war. Percy retired to live out his life with the Drader family at Colney Hatch, England.
Who says that black cats are unlucky ? Best regards, JR.


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NBC confirmed today that "Voice" Coach Pharrell Williams and country music superstar Brad Paisley will perform on the Monday, Nov. 23 (8-10 p.m. ET) and Tuesday, Nov. 24 (8-9 p.m.) live telecasts of "The Voice."
Williams will perform the song "Freedom" while Paisley, who was an adviser earlier this season on "The Voice," will sing "Country Nation," the new hit from his best-selling "Moonshine in the Trunk" album that debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart and hit #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart.
Williams started his producing career as one half of the Neptunes with Chad Hugo, now Williams has helped create such classics as "Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," as well as Nelly's "Hot in Herre," Jay-Z's "I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me)," Britney Spears's "I'm A Slave 4 U" and Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You."
With more than 100 million copies of his productions sold, his music sounds like something no one else has thought of just yet. The music industry has honored Pharrell with 10 Grammy Awards (including 2004's and 2014's Producer of the Year) and ASCAP's prestigious Golden Note Award in 2012. He also received a 2014 Academy Award nomination for his original song "Happy" featured in the animated film "Despicable Me 2." "Happy" remained atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 10 consecutive weeks, peaked at #1 on iTunes in 103 markets worldwide, and was the lead single off his Grammy-nominated album, "G I R L."
Paisley is a critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist and entertainer whose talents have earned him numerous awards, including three Grammys, two American Music Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music Awards and 14 Country Music Association Awards (including Entertainer of the Year), among many others. He has been a proud member of the Grand Ole Opry since 2001. Paisley has written 20 of his 23 #1 singles, with the first being his 1999 hit "He Didn't Have to Be" and his most recent, "Perfect Storm," from his chart-topping 2014 album "Moonshine in the Trunk."
In support of his current hit, "Country Nation," Paisley recently completed his "Country Nation College Tour presented by Zaxby's," which included various stops at college campuses around the U.S. in September and October. On Jan. 21, he'll launch the 2016 winter leg of his highly successful "Crushin' It World Tour," continuing across the U.S. and Canada during the winter months with special guests Eric Paslay and Cam.
"The Voice" is a presentation of United Artists Media Group (an MGM company), Talpa Media USA Inc. and Warner Horizon Television. The series was created by John de Mol, who serves as executive producer along with Mark Burnett, Audrey Morrissey, Lee Metzger and Jay Bienstock.


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The art world has seen a plethora of movements and trends come and go throughout history. The same can be said for design, where we seem to see new trends every year. However, there are a few design trends gaining momentum that we can expect to see for a while.
1. Recognition of UX Design
These days, more and more companies are realizing the benefit of user experience design. UX design is relatively new but it is becoming increasingly popular because of the obvious benefits it has for users/customers as well as for the companies that employ it. Prior to this shift towards user centered design, it was thought that making things look nice (visual design) was enough to impress users. However, just because it looks good doesn't mean it's easy to use. While visual aesthetics are still important and in fact play a role in usability, the psychology of human-computer interaction is becoming the forefront of design. Designers are now concerned how people will interact with digital interfaces since they do more than just observe. Many companies now are (or should be) looking for UX designers and interaction designers to help with their digital products such as websites or apps. The goal here is to make things as easy as possible for the users thus promoting a positive experience.
Designers may have been aware of these concepts for some time but now developers, marketers, and CEOs are paying attention and understanding the benefits of user centered design. In recent times this type of design has also become cheaper, most notably in usability testing – the process of having actual users test out the website to find where problems/frustrations appear. This process was known to be expensive and time-consuming because it took a lot of research to find out who the target audience was, renting equipment, reserving a usability lab, hiring experienced usability professionals, and writing extensive reports. That was then. In reality, usability testing is now cheap and quick and should be done multiple times throughout the process of developing digital products. Testing can be done by people on your development team in any office or conference room with just a computer. Instead of spending around $5,000 – $15,000 per testing session we can now spend a couple hundred dollars which is just the stipend for volunteers. Jakob Nielsen points out that we only really need to test with five users to find about 85% of the problems. After the testing session, designers, developers and anyone else from the team can meet to discuss the insight from the test before iterating the design. When users are able to easily understand and use the interface, they are more likely to feel smarter and in control.
2. Designing for Emotion
With the surge of UX design, many designers are now discovering the effectiveness of designing for emotion. This goes a step beyond just making a website functional and easy to use; it adds personality. The point of this is to make the experience on the website fun and enjoyable. Emotions, whether positive or negative, are very closely linked to our memory so producing positive emotions will result in pleasantly memorable experiences with the website. This goes a long way in the success of websites or software. People are more likely to return or recommend your brand if they feel strongly about it.
Users are also much more likely to overcome obstacles and forgive shortcomings if they already have a reserve of positive experiences and goodwill saved up. For example, in Aarron Walter's Designing for Emotion, (review available here) he discusses a time that Flickr (the popular photo sharing website) had a period of downtime with their servers. People could have been very frustrated that they weren't able to use Flickr's service to view or upload their pictures. However, Flickr quickly, honestly, and clearly explained what was happening and offered a coloring contest with the possibility of a free Pro account for a year in return. Instead of being upset, users brainstormed creative ways to try and win the contest. The memory that remains of the downtime is the coloring contest as opposed to the frustration of not being able to use the site for a few hours. "Emotional design is your insurance to maintain audience trust when things aren't going your way."
Another way to think about designing for emotion is this: Think about the best meal you've ever had. What do you remember about it and why? Was it the company you were with or the ambiance of the restaurant? Was it the exquisite taste or how the food was artfully plated or a combination of all these things? What you probably don't remember is the nutritional value of the meal. The same principle can be applied to websites and software. People may be able to find the information they need and may not have experienced downtime. But what they will remember are the emotions that were attributed to their experience. Designers and companies that are designing for emotional engagement are going to stand out from competitors and have more success.
3. Simple, Flat UI
Over the past few years, there has been a continued rise in the use of flat user interface (UI) design over the use of skeuomorphism. We've seen this trend taking over many websites but it's reaching even further now. Instead of seeing flat UI design only on the web, users are now seeing it on their mobile and desktop operating systems. Microsoft made a huge change in their operating system starting with Windows 8 on both their desktop and mobile devices. Apple moved from skeuomorphism design to a flat UI on their mobile devices with iOS7 and iOS8 and also migrated the same look to their desktop operating system with recent release of OS X Yosemite. Google is taking the flat UI a step further with its Material Design specifications. While many of the components use a clean and simple flat ui, the use of 3-dimensions (inclusion of z-axis) create a sense of depth, especially with the use of some shadows. By definition, this is not flat design but the overall look and feel creates an enhanced flat(ish) UI.
This type of design generally uses bold yet softer colors on white or light grey backgrounds creating a minimal yet vibrant user interface. In turn, clutter is removed, white space is used, and the resulting interface is clean, light, and visually interesting. This trend typically results in minimal and easy to use interfaces which is one reason why the three main tech companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft) have all adopted it. Because of this, we are likely to see this design trend hang around for a while.


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Rabbi David Walk
When people thought about Israel over the ages there was a great divide between the mental images (Jordan's river is deep and wide, hallelujah) and the reality (It's basically a trickle.). Most of the accounts of pilgrims over the centuries described great disappointment in the actuality of the facts on the ground. The Holy Land tended to be a bit run down for most of the last two thousand years. Of course the most famous description came from the celebrated skeptic, Mark Twain: A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country (Innocents Abroad, 1867). Of course the cactus he describes, the famous Sabra plant, was also a new immigrant from America by way of Spain. We Jews, of course, are certain that the health and well being of the land of Israel is dependant upon the presence of Jews. Since we were mostly absent for millennia, the land suffered, with our return the land again blooms. I think that this love affair is a bit more complicated, because sometimes the land actually disgorges us from its maw (Leviticus 18:25). What's the critical factor for this symbiotic relationship to flourish?
In our parsha, Moshe is preparing the Jews for entry into the Land of Israel. He compares the land to both the desert from which they are emerging and to the land of Egypt where they had spent the previous centuries. The curious thing is that each comparison seems to be presented twice. The first time Moshe makes it sound like Egypt is horrible: And the Lord will remove from you all illness, and all of the evil diseases of Egypt which you knew (Deuteronomy 7:15). However, later on he makes it sound like Egypt is fabulous, far superior to Israel: For the land to which you are coming to possess is not like the land of Egypt, out of which you came, where you sowed your seed and which you watered by foot, like a vegetable garden (11:10). If you think that's strange, later on it seems that Moshe does the same in his comparison to the desert. First he makes the desert sound appealing: God then fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your forefathers know…Your clothing did not wear out upon you, nor did your foot swell these forty years (8:4-5). There was both room and concierge service. And, of course, later he says the more expected description of the horrible nature of the desert: Who led you through that great and awesome desert, in which there were snakes, vipers and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water (8:15).
Water, on the other hand, is described as plentiful in Israel. There is surface water, mountain springs and abundant ground water in the aquifer (tehom). Sadly, that apparently defies the facts on the ground. Perhaps we can apply the well known metaphor that there is no water other than Torah. The Torah of Israel flows from copious sources which run from superficial information to profound erudition. And this begins the search for meaning in the evaluation of Israel as opposed to other lands. The love affair with Israel isn't based on the objective superiority of the land, but upon the spiritual values which the land imbues.
I believe that there are two such principles which Israel instills upon its inhabitants. The first is reliance on God. The annual cycle of rainy seasons and dry months permeates the psyche of the dwellers with constant appeal to the Almighty for rain in its proper times. This is reflected in our prayers. We adjust our daily praise and requests from God to fit the seasonal requirements of the Land of Israel. In the diaspora as well we maintain the seasonal liturgical changes of Israel, even if we live in the southern hemisphere. Also, two of the most solemn and moving services of the year are for rain and dew. At all costs we must remember that success in Israel needs Divine support so that we never proclaim: My strength and the might of my hand has accumulated this wealth for me (8:17).
The other principle is a bit more subtle. Living in the Holy Land continues to tutor us on the idea that: Humanity does not live by bread alone, rather by the word of God (8:3). Rebbe Nachman of Breslov makes the following observation: Why doesn't God give us our livelihood immediately upon our asking for it? Why must we labor so hard and then wait for efforts to bear fruit? Because we must be connected to nature as well as to God, and we live within a natural context. In other words we must be mature and sophisticated enough to recognize two simultaneous realities. We are both physical beings who must work and eat to survive like all other denizens of planet earth. But we are also spiritual beings who must recognize the finger of God in all of these endeavors. Don't get obsessed with your farming or whatever profession, but also don't lose connection to the natural order of our world.
It's a fine line which we must tread, and that effort is best accomplished in the Land of Israel. That's why the Torah promises us this week that "it is a land which the Lord your G-d looks after, on which the Lord your G-d always keeps His eye, from year's beginning to year's end" (11:12). The Holy Land is always perched upon that sharp edge between humanity's effort and God's grace. Israel is good because it continually challenges us to see the dichotomy. Life is a balancing act, and equilibrium is best achieved in Israel. Maintain that harmony between the natural and the Divine, my friend.
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Prepare for some real talk here. (alternative intro: This time it's personal).
I was smart.
Not overly smart, not notably, not award-winningly but smart.
Above average in most subjects (apart from Maths- we don't talk about Maths). I was pretty mediocre at most things, during my teenage years I was desperate for a talent, a hobby that defined me. I wanted to be 'Ella, the one who's good at____'. I wanted to be known for being good at something. As my gymnastics/Irish-dancing/ swimming childhood was very much behind me I was left -in my mind- talentless.
My brothers could do sports, and were both talented at rugby, I could get grades. Don't think I'm boasting because when I say I could get grades I mean I could work crazy hard to get just above average grades, they didn't come easy. I craved the validation of an A so I worked at things till I got it (or didn't in the case of Maths, but we don't talk about Maths). I came out of school with grades I was happy with but above all grades I'd worked really hard for.
Before I met Jesus I thought if I worked hard, got a letter on my essay that was as early in the alphabet as possible, I'd be content. I tried to quiet the craving for attention and praise with those little letters. When I met Jesus he gave me all the validation I needed, He told me not only was I worth a good letter on my work, I was worth dying for.
I've learned that whilst being proud of a good mark is healthy, defining yourself by your ability to achieve in the classroom is not. Whilst I was convinced that because I didn't excel at any particular sport or hobby, grades were the only thing I could use to show myself worthy of any praise, I've realised there is so much more to me than those letters.
I am a friend, a Jesus-follower, a daughter, a girlfriend, a blogger, a laugher, a silly-dancer, a bad-joke-teller, a hand-letterer, an encourager, a Taylor-swift-lyric-knower, a flower-appreciator, a friends-watcher, a great tea-maker. I can do eye-liner in a moving vehicle. I can bend my thumb back at a weird angle.
Ok, so none of these things will contribute to my CV but they do contribute to me, and that was something I'd forgotten for a long time. Your quirks are important. If you asked your friends to describe you, it's great if they can say 'Does well at school,' but I'm pretty certain that's not all they'll say and it certainly won't be what they think of first.
You are so much more than a few letters. They reflect hard-work and you should be proud of yourself for doing well but they don't reflect you; just how hard you worked and what you achieved in a certain season of your life.
Education is a marathon and we work and strive to do well enough to get onto the next stage. Perhaps Uni or work is your end goal and you feel like all you're doing is enduring each set of exams so that you can then move onto revising for the next set. SATS, GCSE's, ALEVELS, DEGREE. That was my journey. The letters I achieved at each level enabled me to pass onto the next one (sorry for this rather depressing video-game-like analogy). What those letters will never do, though, is reflect who I was at each of those stages, my character, the friends I had, the experiences, the struggles and the things, other than those grades, that made me feel proud.
As we head into exam season remember to work hard, stay focused and motivated but never allow yourself to believe that if you don't do well you aren't good enough or talented. A fail in Geography doesn't make you a failure. A disappointment in Music doesn't make you a disappointment. You are a beloved child of God with the opportunity to have access to education so use it well, trust in Him, but remind yourself of this truth: You are not your grades.
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Chick Stand
Designed to lift all drinkers and feeders up out of litter to provide a cleaner location around high traffic feeding areas.
Common Uses
- Plastic
- Height: 2.75"
- Diameter: 21"
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Rugged and reliable heat lamp used to warm lambs, goat kids, chickens or for any animal that is sick or cold. Uses standard or infrared heat bulbs.$38.00
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For hanging heat lamps above brooders. Adjustable height allows user to control the surface temperature of the brooder floor.$40.00
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A low-cost plastic feeder. Grill reduces wasted feed and prevents perching. Use for adults, chicks and ducklings. 0.5, 1 or 5 lb capacity.$5.60
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Simple design for watering chicks that's easy to use and clean.$4.90
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Sherri S
This really helped keep the poop off the little chick's feet. And any help with poop is wonderful!!!
Marianna C from Colorado
Works great to elevate my waterer up out of the shavings.
Renae S from north dakota
bought this to use for my ducklings. works well as they have to climb up to get to the water. they still manage to make a mess but the water stays free of wood chips and debris.
cant wait to try it on the chicks.
Cynthia K from Michigan
This is going to help me a lot with my chicks. I needed help to be keep their food and water clean
Cheryl J from California
I really like this product. The only thing I would like better, is if the legs were a little taller, since I use deep bedding. I solved the problem by placing bricks under it, in the center. It works perfectly that way and the chicks cannot perch on the bricks, since they are way underneath, and stay relatively clean.