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Vice President Mike Pence tells FOX Business' Trish Regan the migrant caravan heading toward the U.S. southern border was organized by leftist groups in Honduras, and central America, and is partially financed by Venezuela.
Vice President Mike Pence tells FOX Business' Trish Regan the migrant caravan heading toward the U.S. southern border was organized by leftist groups in Honduras, and central America, and is partially financed by Venezuela.
Leftist political origin? That would be the DNC. A bit further north than Venezuela, but, same idea.
In the same way the leftists and their activist judges are going forward pretending like President Trump is not the actual President in their many ridiculous decisions against his administration's actions, they are going forward pretending like they have already succeeded in rendering the US not a sovereign nation, without the authority to protect our nation, our citizens, our borders, or enforce OUR laws.
The entire caravan should be apprehended INSIDE Mexico by the American military, immediately denied asylum (since they'd all declined Mexico's offer of asylum) loaded onto planes and delivered to Honduras. We'll be nice and land the plane in Honduras.
Infiltrators. Unlawful infiltration and conspiracy to unlawfully infiltrate foreign nationals.
And look at the American entities and "activists" conspiring to do so. Worse still (for them) is the pursuit, financial solicitation and profiteering by American persons (corporate and human) using a RICO-style nexus of government programs, institutions, political activity and philanthropy to monetize the organization and operation and the conspiracy and collusion with foreign governments and foreign persons to subvert the laws and protection of the United States and its citizens
I think 2-4 years living in tent cities, awaiting their trial, to then be deported will discourage most of these "invaders."
…may we undo the damage the left has wrought upon our nation…with God's will…and in His way….
1Kings 9:15 ¶ And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
Here is the entire passage in Ezekiel that gives some background of the conditions:
Ezekiel 22:23 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
I guess they didn't notice that Trump fights back.
The people funding the caravans should look at Avenatti.
"We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come,"
~ Former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard.
Most of our invaders were coming via Indonesia and in some cases escorted to the boats by the Indonesian military . . I kid you not.
The people smugglers make a fortune from telling these people that they'll be accepted when they make landfall. And of course, once at sea, the 'migrants' deliberately fudge engine trouble in the expectation that our Navy will pick them up. And early on, that's exactly what happened.
Later, we declared that anyone arriving illegally would never . . repeat, never be permitted into Australia. This was advertised extensively both locally and in these enabling countries.
That advertising was targeted directly at the people smugglers business model; the theory being to dissuade the 'migrants' from spending their money on something that wasn't going to be successful. Apart from a couple of stragglers along the way, we haven't had a boat make landfall for years now.
However politically expedient, what counts here are acts and deeds, not words. Rehashing Honduras-Venezuela complicity, likely with Soros' incitement and financing, plus UN kleptarchs' blatant anti-U.S. interference under guise of "human rights" [spare us], is a mug's game.
Once Trump and Mattis have stopped this BS in its tracks, levying realpolitik consequences on all concerned, let's pass on to China's million-man Uighur Turkish (Muslump) "re-education" concentration camps, where truly murderous abuses occur hourly.
Whatever verbalizing blonde bombshell Trump appoints to hurl calumnies at UN despots in Turtle Bay's flatworm congress assembled, the brute fact is that "this here shootin' down of Deputy Sheriffs has just naturally got to stop" ("Badman's Blunder", 1960).
Can President Trump temporarily ban asylum entries? We can ship the people to Canada or Mexico.
F the Democrats. They are wrecking our country. I'm deeply sorry that I ever voted for any. It will NEVER happen again. I don't care if all of my GOP candidates are Satans, I will be voting for them.
I will NEVER vote for a Democrat for the rest of my life. NEVER..
"BREAKING: Group of migrants travelling on foot from Honduras file federal lawsuit against Pres Trump and others. "
Well, they have NO STANDING!
What Is Legal "Standing"?
"Standing" is a legal term used in connection with lawsuits and a requirement of Article III of
the United States Constitution. In simple terms, courts use "standing" to ask, "Does this
party have a 'dog in this fight?'" Standing limits participation in lawsuits and asks whether
the person(s) bringing a lawsuit, or defending one, has enough cause to "stand" before the
court and advocate, since not anyone can go to court for any reason.
To have standing, a party must show an "injury in fact" to their own legal interests. In other
words, has the party itself "suffered" some sort of actual harm? (In constitutional law, this
generally refers to one's legally protected rights and freedoms.) If the party cannot show
harm, the party does not have standing and is not the right party to be appearing before the
Since these people ARE NOT CITIZENS AND ARE NOT IN THE USA they have ZERO Standing. It is very dangerous to allow OTHER NATIONALS not in the USA standing before our courts.
The Supreme Court on the legal Standing of an illegal alien. Standing is based on the PRESENCE WITHIN the JURISDICTION of the USA.
"….The Fourteenth Amendment provides that
[n]o State shall . . . deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
(Emphasis added.) Appellants argue at the outset that undocumented aliens, because of their immigration status, are not "persons within the jurisdiction" of the State of Texas, and that they therefore have no right to the equal protection of Texas law. We reject this argument. Whatever his status under the immigration laws, an alien is surely a "person" in any ordinary sense of that term. Aliens, even aliens whose presence in this country is unlawful, have long been recognized as "persons" guaranteed due process of law by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. …"
(I hope Ristvan comments with a more educated point of view.)
And those UN and other lawyers???
Charge them with HUMAN TRAFFICKING and confiscated ALL their assets per President Trump's Christmas E.O. I am sure there are at least one or more kid(s) genetically not related to any adults and that many of the women have been raped.
Give them the Manafort treatment!
About the United Nations and the World Bank and IMF.
FDR sold us out!
In the 1930s FDR agreed to hand US sovereignty over to the United Nations AND he confiscated personally owned gold and gave it to the international bankers using Executive Order 6102.
Former World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy tells you point blank that the EU is the template for the desired World Government and it has been in the plans since the 1930s.
To govern this globalized world, writes World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy, existing institutions will need to be reformed
(www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=9174 )
In the same way, climate change negotiations are not just about the global environment but global economics as well — the way that technology, costs and growth are to be distributed and shared…
Can we balance the need for a sustainable planet with the need to provide billions with decent living standards? Can we do that without questioning radically the Western way of life? …
At the same time, globalization is blurring the line between national and world issues, redefining our notions of space, sovereignty and identity. As we saw during the recent financial crisis, economic turbulence in one country now sends shockwaves worldwide.
Countries claim the right to use national resources as they see fit. But the byproduct can be greenhouse gases or disappearing fish stocks or raw material shortages — which impact the interconnected world we share….
This raises a final challenge: How to provide global leadership? Mobilizing collective purpose is more difficult when we no longer face one common enemy, but thousands of complex problems
The reality is that, so far, we have largely failed to articulate a clear and compelling vision of why a new global order matters — and where the world should be headed….
All had lived through the chaos of the 1930s …including the defeated powers, agreed that the road to peace lay with building a new international order — and an approach to international relations that questioned the Westphalian, sacrosanct principle of sovereignty — rooted in freedom, openness, prosperity and interdependence.
Lamy is quite blunt in stating national sovereignty is passe.
…more than half a century ago that the Frenchman Jean Monnet, one of the shapers of post-war Europe, said, "The sovereign nations of the past can no longer provide a framework for the resolution of our present problems. And the European Community itself is no more than a step towards the organizational forms of tomorrow's world." His assessment was as valid then as it is now….
Lamy indicates that an European Union like super state is the goal.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Pascal Lamy takes 'Practical Politics' the next step, by telling us the "new enemy to unite us" is needed to create Legitimacy, one of the three legs needed to implement a global government…
It gives me great pleasure to be here today to participate in this thematic debate on the United Nations in global governance, an issue of the utmost importance given the urgency of the global challenges we are facing… As for legitimacy, I see two avenues to strengthen it. First, domestically, by increasing the visibility of international issues and giving citizens a greater say….
There sure as heck is no greater threat for uniting citizens together then the threat of 'catastrophic climate change'. is there?
And if that doesn't work you can always over throw the government and install your chosen puppet.
Yes, they do indeed have a leftist political origin – I spoke to a friend who is Honduran, and actually living in Honduras right now and he said they are being funded by 3rd party groups, and intending to come here to push Socialism! He said he opes Trump doesn't let them in. He said they are all lower class people – freeloaders. He sees this first hand, so I think it is credible.
In regard to what some federal judge might rule in order to "hamstring" the POTUS:
The courts do NOT have supremacy over the other two branches. A judge issuing an injunction against an executive action is extra-judicial and meaningless. The injunction must be wholly based on the law and the judge must thoroughly and adequately show how the law compels the injunction.
Nowhere in the Constitution is there language giving the courts the power to rule on law and give the court the power to constrain the actions of judicial branch or the legislative branch or the executive branch.
While the Supreme Court gave itself the power to have the final say on the "meaning" of a law [Marbury v Madison – 1803] it has zero power to enforce its decision. The court is impotent and President Andrew Jackson scoffed at the judicial branch: "The courts have made their decision; now let them enforce it."
Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privileges of their corps." Jefferson would have had a stroke over justices finding Constitutional power emanating from the penumbra of certain parts and pieces of the Bill of Rights. [Justice Douglas used this language in Gitlow v Connecticut]
Article III of the Constitution gives Congress the power to limit the jurisdiction of the federal courts below the Supreme Court and to limit their appellate jurisdiction. But Congress has willingly allowed the courts to say what the law means. It saves members of Congress from take the risk of making tough decisions in writing legislation.
If the President were to ignore a court injunction, there would be no "Constitutional crisis" other than the one in which the courts have to explain where they found the Constitutional power to override the actions of the executive branch and/or the President.
President Donald J. Trump has the power and, perhaps, the moxie to shove the Progressive judiciary back into the bottle.
The Progressive judges have just one power in this: they can beg the House of Representatives to vote articles of impeachment against the President. Isn't that quaint? It would be just the way the founding fathers wrote it in the Constitution.
Where is justice for the United States? We don't want more
anti-United States protesters who love us just long enough
to get benefits……. then protest, riot, hate on us with La Rasa
types…..and fly their own countries flags in our faces.
Then they claim asylum from crime, then bring their crime MS-13
drug culture, drug cartels, thievery, and use us as their bankrollers.
We hired Trump to STOP THIS INSANITY…….and what does he do???
Birthright rights? No they don't have any. Never did. This has always
been a Leftist-Globalist mockery of our Constitution.
Look up " WILKINS vs ELK 1894″ that explains the use of the use of
14 th Amendment. In no way was born on American soil a birthright….
much less to vote.
Our FOREFATHERS would roll over in their graves to know how the
greatest Document ever created on this earth has been twisted,
shredded, and Demonized…… when in fact every nation one Earth
would LOVE TO HAVE THAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT. Except the
Communist leaders want their peasants to be slaves which enrich
them…….not the peasants, themselves.
Where is justice for the United States? We don't want more
anti-United States protesters who love us just long enough
to get benefits……. then protest, riot, hate on us with La Rasa
types…..and fly their own countries flags in our faces.
Then they claim asylum from crime, then bring their crime MS-13
drug culture, drug cartels, thievery, and use us as their bankrollers.
We hired Trump to STOP THIS INSANITY…….and what does he do???
Birthright rights? No they don't have any. Never did. This has always
been a Leftist-Globalist mockery of our Constitution.
Look up " WILKINS vs ELK 1894″ that explains the use of the
14th Amendment. In no way was, "born on American soil," a birthright….
for anything, not even to vote.!!!
Our FOREFATHERS would roll over in their graves to know how the
greatest Document ever created on this earth has been twisted,
shredded, and Demonized…… when in fact every nation on Earth
would LOVE TO HAVE THAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT. Except the
Communist leaders want their peasants to be slaves which enrich
them…….not the peasants, themselves.
I have read the suit filed for some group of marchers in the US border bound caravan now in Mexico and it is a farce with more holes than Lorraine Swiss cheese. The "lawyers" cite the 5th Amendment as if the border hoppers are already being held in US territory. It gets sillier from there.
We visited this whole mess in 323 U.S. 214 – Korematsu v. United States (No. 22) – Argued: October 11, 12, 1944. Granted, Korematsu was decided under the conditions of being involved in a war declared by Congress and is not a precise parallel.
However, people Hellbent on entering our country illegally are readily seen as an "invasion" even if they are neither armed nor declared enemy combatants. What we are being told to do in this law suit is to accept the illegal entrants as "per se" citizens and to assume that they have the Constitutional rights of a citizen of the united states and due all the privileges and immunities of a bona fide citizen. If that is the case, why would it be legal to have borders, let alone an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service?


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Marlins claim former Hurricanes lefty Maine
On Wednesday afternoon, Miami claimed lefty reliever Scott Maine off waivers from the Blue Jays. Maine, 27, is from the Jupiter, Fla., area, and he attended the University of Miami.
Maine made 30 relief appearances with the Cubs and Indians in 2012, posting a 6.08 ERA. He struck out 32 batters in 26 2/3 innings. Left-handed batters hit .188 against Maine, compared to right-handers hitting .343.
Maine started off the season with Chicago, and he appeared in 21 games, logging 20 2/3 innings and posting a 4.79 ERA. He finished up the season with Cleveland, making nine appearances in the final weeks.
A sixth-round pick of the D-backs in the 2007 First-Year Player Draft, Maine was selected off waivers by the Blue Jays from the Indians on Oct. 31. But he was designated for assignment on Nov. 8.

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We're suckers for a good bluetooth headset after that one time when we dropped our phone in the car on the highway and got it lodged under our brakes, causing us to slam into and kill a school bus worth of kids. Good news though, they were all a**holes.
All five headsets after the jump.
The Discovery 655 is their top of the line headset at $149.95. It has DSP, weighs 9 grams, and gets 10 hours of talk time. One of the main problems with headsets is remembering it to charge it along with your phone, but with 10 hours of talk time, the headset's quite forgiving after a drunken night of not charging.
The Discovery 640E improves on the old 640 and gets 15 hours of talk time with its AAA pocket charger.
The thriftier Explorer 330, 340 and 350 all get 8 hours of talk time, have a on-headset controls and go over your ear with a hook, instead of in it like their big brothers. Other features like last-number redial, voice activate dialing, and volume control probably depend on how well these work with your particular cellphone, but good to have nonetheless.
Product Page [Plantronics]
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Shauna Kattler thought she'd found the ideal rental home in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, for her Christmas vacation: a two-bedroom penthouse condominium with a hot tub and an impossibly perfect view of the Caribbean.
And she was getting it for the impossibly low peak-season rate of $450 a night through HomeAway.com, a popular vacation rental website. "Impossibly" being the operative word.
Shortly after Kattler, a relocation specialist from Kirkland, Wash., wired the money to Mexico, she discovered that she'd paid the wrong person. Her vacation dollars didn't go to the property owner, but to someone who had stolen the owner's email password and assumed his identity through a crime called phishing.
Sound familiar? It should.
Last fall, I reported about new phishing problems on HomeAway and another site it owns, VRBO.com. I introduced you to Tania Rieben, who lost $4,300 at the slippery fingers of a scam artist posing as a vacation rental owner in Maui.
Since then, I've heard from many more phishing victims who wired money to shady characters pretending to hold the keys to a HomeAway vacation rental. And I've heard from HomeAway, which says it's taking steps to prevent future phishing attacks and help the customers who have lost money. More on its efforts in a second.
Let's get back to Kattler. She tried calling the property, but the person who answered hung up on her repeatedly. Finally, she contacted HomeAway, which reviewed her email correspondence and confirmed her suspicions: She'd been scammed.
"This is not a case of fraudulent activity on the HomeAway.com site, but is a case of the owner's email account being compromised," the company said. "HomeAway.com takes all fraudulent activities seriously, but our responsibility cannot extend to actions on private email accounts."
Kattler is understandably frustrated. She says HomeAway should refund the $4,500 she spent for 10 nights that she'll never use. After all, the crime happened because of one of its listings.
"All they can say is 'I'm sorry,'" she says. "HomeAway is not taking any responsibility for the lack of security on their website."
Actually, HomeAway is doing more than apologizing, but it isn't taking full responsibility for the incidents, either. That's because the company insists that the crimes aren't being committed through its website. In response to cases such as Kattler's, it recently expanded its optional Carefree Rental Guarantee to cover phishing losses.
It's also working with its current phishing victims – there are 18, it says – to negotiate a resolution between the property owner and the guest.
HomeAway suspends a rental's listing after a phishing incident until the security breach is plugged, which means the property owner gets a new email address.
"In most of the cases, we do come up with a solution that makes everyone happy," says Carl Shepherd, co-founder of HomeAway.
Last month, HomeAway also warned the 625,000 property owners and managers with listings on the site about the phishing threat and offered them advice about how to protect themselves. It's encouraging its owners to use an optional new system called Reservation Manager that offers "bank-level" security for bookings made online.
Shepherd says customers could easily prevent phishing incidents by calling the property to verify that they're emailing the correct person. Criminals haven't figured out a way of spoofing a phone number – at least not yet.
To that advice, I would add the following: Never wire money. Every phishing incident I've tried to mediate starts with someone reluctantly sending money to a stranger. Once it's gone, there's no getting it back. With a credit card, at least you're protected and can dispute a bogus charge.
The phishing problem isn't unique to HomeAway. Other vacation rental customers also have been targeted recently. But HomeAway's guests seem to be the most vocal. Many of them contacted me to ask for help after the first column I wrote about phishing. The company reports that some of these disputes already have been resolved.
But not all of them. Kattler's grievance still is under investigation. She flew to Mexico as scheduled and paid another $2,000 for accommodations.
And Rieben's case may never be solved. The real property manager in Maui says that he warned Rieben that he was the only point of contact for the rental but that Rieben tried to find the owner and then stumbled into a trap, according to HomeAway.
Although the property has offered her alternate dates for a stay in Maui, no agreement has been reached.
"We feel horrible for her," Shepherd says.
So do I.
Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, or troubleshoot your trip through his website, www.elliott.org. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.


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I upgraded the wiki.
Upgraded WikiSeptember 7th, 2010 by Winter Knight
Everything worksAugust 18th, 2009 by Winter Knight
Everything is back online. SVN access works. Downloading Beta archives works.
Downtime for SVN and BetaAugust 14th, 2009 by Winter Knight
For the last couple of weeks SVN and the latest Beta archives have been inaccessible. I said that I would be keeping an eye on the cvsdude migration and how it affects The Gamebook Engine, but I have not. I just learned of the problem today. Sorry.
I am looking into how to make SVN, and the newer repository where the latest Beta archives are stored, work again.
This does not affect the stable archives, nor the Lone Wolf gamebook. It only affects SVN and Beta archives.
Possible Downtime for SVN and latest Beta archivesJuly 25th, 2009 by Winter Knight
Cvsdude will be doing some migration soon. Cvsdude provides the SVN repository for The Gamebook Engine, and the latest Beta release. They will be doing this migration sometime between July 28 and Aug 4. They do not expect downtime to exceed 15 mins. I will be keeping an eye on SVN and the downloads throughout the migration week, to make sure there aren't any problems.
This website is not related, and will not have any problems. The wiki will be fine. The Stable releases, and the Lone Wolf: Flight From the Dark gamebook are hosted elsewhere. Only SVN and latest Beta archives might be affected.
The Gamebook Engine 0.2.0 Beta 3 ReleasedMay 26th, 2009 by Winter Knight
Brief summary of changes:
- Added Status/Inventory for Javascript gamebook files. Gamebook writers write an html file that tells TGE how to display the status/inventory window.
- Saving the game now works for Javascript gamebooks.
- Makefile will now halt if necessary development libraries are not installed. Audio can be disabled at compile time, and you will no longer require ffmppeg, openal, and alut.
- Added gamebook2html conversion utility, and supporting html/css/js files. You can now convert gamebooks into html/js, and put them on the web. The TGE engine is no longer required to play gamebooks.
TGE now requires Qt 4.4. I had to up the version again because 4.4 is the first Qt version that includes QtWebKit. TGE uses QtWebKit to display the status/inventory html file.
This Beta version has a few incomplete features. For example, TGE has some added but unused menu items, and the html version does not allow you to use items. Ring of Thieves JS Edition will allow you to use Healing potions, but not elixirs. There are some inconsistencies between what is possible with Lua gamebooks and JS gamebooks; modules can only be used in JS, for example. I will be hammering these out before 0.2.0 Final.
The Gamebook Engine 0.2.0 Beta 2 ReleasedMay 4th, 2009 by Winter Knight
I have just released TGE 0.2.0 Beta 2. The main improvement in this version is that gamebooks can use Javascript, instead of Lua. I have included a javascript version of Ring of Thieves, which is playable, and finishable, but does not include everything the Lua version does. For example, you can not use items.
I have removed hyWaitForClicks() from the Javascript API, because it breaks stateless protocols. For example, if there was a interpreter, such as one built using CGI, which created a page, and then asked the user for input, then while the player is thinking, the interpreter would have to keep track not only of the page the user is on, but the entire scripting engine, because after the user gives their input, the interpreter will have to continue execution after the hyWaitForClicks() line. Without this function, the user is only asked for input at the end of a page. The Lua engine will continue to support hyWaitForClicks() for backward compatibility, at least for now.
Anybody who chooses to write a gamebook with Javascript will have to use extra pages, and hyGotoPage(), instead. For example, there is a part in Ring of Thieves where the player can choose to take from 0-3 daggers off their newly fallen foes. This page is split into 4 pages, the original page with text, and 3 tiny pages to add the appropriate number of daggers if the player so chooses. Combat, etc, is still possible with this new interactive system. I have also added a tag, #tge_module. I will document it before I release 0.2.0 Final, but to summarize, it is like a programming function with book pages.
As a bonus from removing hyWaitForClicks(), hySaveGame(), hyLoadGame(), etc, are no longer needed. Interpreters, and the players, will have more control of where they can save games (any page), and writers will not have to worry about it so much. RegisterIO() will still be necessary to keep track of essential variables across sessions.
I have not included Flight From the Dark in this latest version. Because of the audio files, it is about 40MB, and I only have 100MB of space on the Project Aon servers. I will be adding this shortly as a separate download, but until then, you can still find the full FFTD gamebook including audio files in the first 0.2.0 Beta release. I will be removing the first 0.2.0 Beta release when I create the separate FFTD archive.
Previous versions of TGE could use any version of Qt from 4.2, and possibly earlier. This version uses the Qt Javascript engine, which is only available in version 4.3 and later.
The official Linux binary is linked against Qt 4.3. There is no Qt Script 4.3 Debian or Ubuntu package available, because the Debian packager didn't add the libqt4-script package until 4.4, so I found 3 RPMs with rpmfind.net. One for the gui library, one for every other library, and one for the development header files. The development rpm I found included a newer version of moc which was incompatible with the rest of the package. So I got the correct moc version from Ubuntu. Linking against Qt 4.3 was a huge hassle, and if I had known in advance, I would have just skipped it and linked against 4.4.
This Beta version includes src, Linux, and Windows binaries.
These are the remaining goals for 0.2.0:
* a conversion utility to convert gamebooks into HTML.
* status/inventory window
I installed Wordpress & Sneak peek of features for new versionApril 12th, 2009 by Winter Knight
I have installed Wordpress to replace the static HTML I was using for The Gamebook Engine's news, about, and download pages. Now you can comment on The Gamebook Engine, and specific releases. I am also planning to install a wiki, and make public the phpBB forums that I installed recently.
This is all in preparation for the next release, 0.2.0, which may be a while. The next release will have the following features:
* sound. The Gamebook Engine will read the story to you, if audio files are provided with the gamebook. (0.2.0 Beta already has this)
* javascript support. Any gamebooks that use javascript instead of lua can automatically be converted to HTML.
* a conversion utility to convert gamebooks into HTML. Your readers can read gamebooks in their browser, without having The Gamebook Engine installed. I will be putting Lone Wolf and Ring of Thieves on the web, so anybody can play them without downloading The Gamebook Engine.
* status/inventory window – current gamebooks use a callback function, openGameMenu(). Using a dedicated inventory window instead should be easier on both players and writers.
Also in the works, but will not be available in next version:
* optional map, that allows writers to show players exactly where they are in the game world.
* GUI to help writers to write gamebooks. Will help to connect pages visually, and show dead pages.
Old news posts are archived here: http://www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/old-news-20090412.html


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Transition to Teaching
Alternative Routes to Certification: Publications, articles and organizations that discuss alternative route programs and the teachers they produce.
Teacher Recruitment and Preparation: Several resources that focus on effective practices in teacher recruitment and preparation.
Teacher Quality: and organizations that provide recent research on efforts to increase teacher quality.
The Wallace Foundation as a resource: is your source for research and ideas for expanding high quality learning and enrichment opportunities.
Related U.S. Department of Education Programs: Additional Federal programs aimed at increasing teacher quality in the nation's schools.
Transition to Teaching Program Evaluation: Interim report on the FY 2004 Grantees.
EducationDegree.com - comprehensive directory of Bachelors in Education and Alternative Certification / Post -Baccalaureate / Master's degree programs, for people who want to become teachers.


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Police officer's daughter dies after crash
Alexandra Hamilton is child of Easton patrolman
The daughter of an Easton patrolman died Friday at a Boston hospital, after being involved in an overnight crash with a fuel truck.
Alexandra Hamilton, 22, of Pine Street, was pronounced dead at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, the Enterprise reported.
She was taken there early Friday morning after the 2003 Dodge Stratus she was operating collided with a diesel fuel truck at 1 a.m., Easton police said. The accident occurred at 380 Turnpike Street (Route 138), near Peterson Road in South Easton.
Debris from the accident littered the area.
Hamilton, a 2009 graduate of Oliver Ames High School, was traveling northbound on Route 138 when she collided with a diesel fuel truck being operated by Robert Harris of Taunton, according to a preliminary report by the Easton police.
The cause of the crash is being investigated by Easton officers Jason Wheeler, Brian Humenuk and Sgt. Keith Nunes.


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C+E meeting 4/6/8
Emi, Marian(?), Shannon, Bryony, James, Alex, Cyrielle, Nerea, Xabina, Ryan, Carlos
Food in action room
Trust people to keep food/drink to big table, nothing on computer tables.
FoH team
Have lots of people who want to do FoH, so they could have their own meeting. Should FoH team have power to decide on murals?
James says VA want the big wall in cafe. Shannon says they dont.
Alex says give FoH autonomy. Bryony says that VA have the gallery space for themselves.
Shannon says that there is a big group of people interested, so there will be a spectrum of opinion.
No trees on the wall! No hippy shit!
People need to have a finishing date.
Could be used to bring in people from outside the Forest - Art College etc..
Meeting Tuesday 10th 7.15pm in cafe.
Stuff in walkin fridge
Don't put things on the ground/floor. Xabina will make a sign. Use crates to elevate the juices.
Falafels are hit and miss. We want to find a new supplier. Try the falafel joint at the bottom of Pleasance. Or we could talk to our supplier and tell them when they are good/bad, and help them improve. Bryony and Charlotte will handle this.
Recycling area
Recycling is always in the way. Nix says that there is a space between the doors where it could go. It isn't good where it is just now, next to the shop. Would need some wood. How much would we want to spend on this? Ken thinks 20 quid. Max 30. Alex will tell him.
Till Dept 3 not working
This isn't appearing on the Z totals. Need to check the programming.
Everyone - we want to use the till properly. So if you make a mistake, tell the KM and they can do a refund. Show James how it works and he will make a poster. No one should open the till. Only manager should open till. Ask if you need to open till for abnormal reason. Otherwise you are stealing and fucking up our tax receipts. Bad.
Meadows Fest
Lots of bands, GH etc. We will sell the brewskis. Beer will be secure. Bill asks that we close Cave so we can use equipment. Bill will borrow mics and bring them back in evening. Alex is washing his hands of this. We will provide float, someone make sure we have enough change. Friday during day, Bill will be making signs in the cafe, if anyone wants to help.
Need someone to work on zine stall. See Nix on Friday for this.
Need help setting up on Saturday, taking down on Sunday.
James is contacting suppliers.
Tranquility team
All EVS dudes should be trained up. Nat still hasn't heard from Janet, but is looking at other tranquility suppliers/trainers. Mediation training is expensive, because no one argues with these people. Need to get a better idea of what we want. Don't be specific about how much money we have.
Smoothie death
Should they come back? Shannon is against it as a regular thing. Takes up room, time. Ryan says that we have been doing it wrong. Need better machinery. But there isn't the room.
Pitor has looked at slushy machine and thinks it could be made to work by someone else, like Martin. This could be better. Swithun to contact Martin to see if he can look at slushy machine.
Will be massive. Have meeting for events and parties for people who give a shit. Need to talk about opening/closing parties, getting weekends/dates right to coincide with Festival dates. Reduce the amount of amateur hour we often have. Monday 7pm somewhere in building, not Action Room. There will be more than 1 meeting, in case you can't make this one. But do put in any ideas.
Workshop facilitator status
These people make contributions, so should be treated like volunteers. Shannon treats then like performers. Facilitators are confused as to where they stand. No one is that bothered, so if we are happy with them, then they can get volunteer price.
Need some new ones. Have some new people in mind. Xabina, Carlos and Olivier should be all doing it now. Ryan will do another NM training session. Pick a quieter night than Friday. Shannon says that there is a letter on the BB that can be given to new NMs.
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It's hard to imagine even in these uncertain times that anyone could lose their life for lack of proper healthcare.
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RICHMOND, Va. — The Edgar Allan Poe Museum is starting a fundraising effort to preserve illustrations of the American writer's famous 1845 poem, "The Raven."
Museum officials hope to raise $60,000 for the nearly 130-year-old illustrations by English street artist James Carling. The 43 works of watercolor and ink bring the haunting lines of the poem to life.
The images of death and torment were once an important part of the museum's collection and were on display for 40 years.
But the illustrations, now stacked in a series of worn cardboard boxes, were glued to cardboard, causing them to darken and deteriorate over the years. They were even named one of Virginia's top 10 endangered artifacts in 2013 by the Virginia Association of Museums.
Officials at the museum in Richmond are looking to safeguard the drawings by raising money through the Internet crowdfunding site Kickstarter. If the entire amount isn't raised by Nov. 15, the museum won't get any of the money, according to the website's rules.
The illustrations "interpret Poe's works in a way that nobody really quite has," said Chris Semtner, curator of the museum that is located blocks away from Poe's first Richmond home. "Carling really had become merged with Poe's personality. He understood Poe's motivations."
Carling, who billed himself as the "fastest drawer in the world," sought to outdo the world's most popular illustrator, French artist Gustave Doré, who did is own illustrations of the poem.
Carling wrote of his works: "Mine are stormier, wilder and more weird; they are horrible; I have reproduced mentality and phantasm."
The illustrations once graced the walls of the museum's "Raven Room," where they evoked shudders from visitors, including Kevin Williamson, writer of "The Following," a television show on Fox about a former FBI agent who is forced to recapture a serial killer.
Williamson said his mother brought him to the museum years ago, and the trip later inspired the TV show.
"And the walls were red and looked like blood, and they had 'The Raven' written on the wall, and you had to follow around to read it. I remember it being most magical day," Williamson said in January at the Television Critics Association tour in California.
"The Raven," first published in the New York Evening Mirror, tells the story of a grieving man who gets a midnight visit from a strange bird that repeatedly speaks the word "Nevermore."
Poe, who was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809, lived in Baltimore, London, New York, Philadelphia and Richmond. He died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 40 during a visit to Baltimore on Oct. 7, 1849. The cause of his death has been the subject of much speculation over the years, with theories ranging from murder to rabies.


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WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- The United States currently faces a more diverse array of threats topped by cyber ones, National Intelligence Director James R. Clapper Jr. says.
Clapper's warnings were contained in the 2013 Worldwide Threat Assessment presented at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Tuesday.
"I will say that in my almost 50 years of intelligence, I do not recall a period in which we confronted -- we confront a more diverse array of threats, crises, and challenges around the world ... . This year's threat assessment illustrates how dramatically the world and our threat environment is changing," Clapper said at the hearing.
He said the threats are growing more interconnected, where events which at first seem local and irrelevant could quickly set off transnational disruptions affecting U.S. national interests.
"It's a world in which our definition of war now includes a soft version. We can add cyber and financial to the list of weapons being used against us. And such attacks can be deniable and non-attributable," he said
"So when it comes to distinct threat areas, our statement this year leads with cyber, and it's hard to overemphasize its significance. Increasingly state and non-state actors are gaining and using -- using cyber expertise."
He said such actors apply cyber techniques and capabilities to achieve strategic objectives by gathering sensitive information from public and private sector entities, controlling the content and flow of information and challenging perceived adversaries in cyber space.
"These capabilities put all sectors of our county -- country at risk from government and private networks to critical infrastructures," Clapper said.
The director said there are indications some terrorist groups are interested in developing offensive cyber capabilities even as cyber criminals use a growing black market to sell cyber tools.
Others affecting national security include those relating to natural resources and food security.
"Terrorists, militants and international crime groups are certain to use declining local food security to gain legitimacy and undermine government authority," Clapper said.
"Intentional introduction of a livestock or plant disease could be a greater threat to the United States and the global food system than a direct attack on food supplies intended to kill humans."
As for terrorism, Clapper said the threat from core al-Qaida and the potential for a massive coordinated attack on the United States has diminished, but the global Jihadist movement is a more diversified, decentralized and persistent threat.
"Lone wolves, domestic extremists and Jihadist inspired groups remain determined to attack western interests as they've done most recently in Libya and Algeria," he said.
Weapons of mass destruction development and proliferation are other major threats to U.S. interest, he said, citing the examples of North Korea and Iran.
China, Clapper said, is supplementing its more advanced military capabilities by bolstering maritime law enforcement to support its claims in the South and East China Seas. "It continues its military buildup and its aggressive information stealing campaigns," he said.


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Pacers forward Paul George threw down a poster dunk over Bucks center Larry Sanders during Indiana's 102-78 home win on Friday night.
With a little more than five minutes remaining in the first quarter and the score tied at 11, George Hill intercepted a wayward Monta Ellis pass and took off for the races. Milwaukee did a nice job of getting back in transition and stopping the initial attack, leading Hill to dump the ball back to a trailing George, who stealthily used a hesitation move to drive past Brandon Jennings toward the left baseline. Once he successfully turned the corner, George elevated from the restricted circle as Sanders came over from the weakside to challenge the attempt. It was a nice defensive effort by the NBA's leader in blocks per game, but his two-handed contesting effort wasn't enough to prevent George from pounding home the right-handed slam.
This was the second time in a little over two months that George, a 2012 Slam Dunk Contest participant, has dunked on Sanders.
Back during a Jan. 5 home win over the Bucks, George attacked the paint and rose to finish with his right hand over Sanders, crashing back to the court after a full extension finish.
George finished with 20 points (on seven-for-15 shooting), eight rebounds, three assists and seven blocks in 35 minutes. Tyler Hansbrough led the Pacers with 22 points (on eight-for-14 shooting) and 12 rebounds.
Sanders finished with six points (on three-for-10 shooting) and 12 rebounds and was ejected with 7:54 remaining in the third quarter after receiving back-to-back technical fouls. It was his third ejection in a little more than a week and his fifth ejection on the season. Last week, he was fined $50,000 by the NBA for using a derogatory and offensive term towards the officials during a loss to the Heat and for publicly criticizing them afterwards. Sanders also sarcastically flashed a "thumbs up" sign to all three referees when he was ejected during a recent loss to the Wizards.
Indiana, the East's No. 2 seed, improved to 43-26 on the season. Milwaukee, the East's No. 8 seed, dropped to 34-34.
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–President Obama is riding a wave of personal popularity into his second term, with his highest favorability ratings since his first year in office, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Fully 60 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of Obama in the new poll, up slightly from October but a clear shift in opinion from an election year in which his ratings hovered in the mid-to-low 50s. And by 39 percent to 26 percent, the president now has more "strongly" positive ratings than strongly negative reviews, breaking a two-year stretch in which intense opposition was on par with (or higher than) intense support.
Obama's inaugural address earned fewer positive marks and appears to have served mainly as a pep rally, with raving reviews from supporters and plenty of yawns from his opponents. While the speech drew twice as many cheers as jeers — 51 percent approved while 24 percent disapproved — a quarter of Americans had no opinion on the speech. More than eight in 10 Democrats approved of Obama's second inaugural, but at least three in 10 Republicans and independents have no reaction at all.
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The Panel kicks it around in a private forum and sends the reply back to the consumer. Panel keeps $5. House keeps $5.
(By "Panel," I mean Robert...and Steve defers carpel tunnel surgery for a year or two.)
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Model 3: Pseudo Multi Cell One Dimension
Theory & assumptions
The results produced from both of our previous models were unsatisfactory, since neither gave us quantifiable data from which experimental comparisons could be made, although the switching on was clearly visible in both. Therefore it was decided that in order to properly capture the mechanism of bistability it was essential to have some element of cell number, and as such we must simulate the growth of a cell colony rather than artificially increase the amount of HSL in our external environment. Several crucial elements were added to the model to incorporate this new outlook:
i. A new variable 'Number of cells' was added
ii. Two new functions which simulate cell growth and cell death
iii. A new paramter 'Volume'
The number of cells is set at the beginning of the simulation by the user. Based on a doubling time of 20 minutes, the variable is increased every increment by the cell growth function. In order to simulate the increase in HSL due to these new cells, each new cell is accompanied by an increase in HSL which is equal to that being contributed by the cells already present in the system. (VOLUME THING IN DIFFERENTIALS). Similarly we included a cell death function which decreases the number of cells at a halving rate of 20 minutes in tandem to the growth rate.
On running the model through the cell growth, stationary and cell death phases, the first example of 'true bistability' is produced, see figure 1. Since this model contains spatial dimensions we are able to determine a specific cell density at which the switch happens, and this is comparable to the value predicted by other models and by experimental evidence. At a cell density of between 1x106 and 1x107 colony forming units (CFU), there is an exponential increase in the GFP concentration, indicating an increase in the activity of the cells and a transition from the 'off' state to the 'on'. At a value of approximately 1x108 CFU the GFP concentration then begins to level out and the system reaches a steady state. At this point all the cells in the system would be seen to have turned out and any associated virulence factors would now be expressed.
We can clearly see that the model produces bistable behaviour. The steady-state level of GFP remains for a lower cell density that it did on turning on, with the cells turning off at a lower cell density of approximately 1x105 CFU. Clearly our model produces at least some form of the bistability which we were looking for it to produce. More important however is to find a reason why this bistability occurs, what its effects are, and how we can manipulate it effectively.
Figure 1: Graph showing change in GFP concentration against cell density
Figure 2 gives us an insight into how some of the chemicals taking part in the quorum sensing reactions change
Figure 2: Graph showing change in GFP, LuxR, LuxI and mRNA concentrations for the transition from off to on
Figure 3: Graph showing change in GFP, LuxR, LuxI and mRNA concentrations for the transition from on to off
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Parameter Testing
The next stage in the development of our model was to probe which factors had an impact on the behaviour of the system and exactly what that impact was and what implications they have.
Measuring bistability
The key point which we wished to investigate was the bistability of our system, so in order to do this we had to develop a standard way in which we would measure the 'level' of bistability. The method decided upon was to take a reading of the cell density at a fixed value of GFP concentration during cell growth and similarly record the cell density at the same GFP concentration during cell death. Thus we would obtain a value Δ Cell density which gives us a useful quantity which we can use in our tests.
Figure 4: Our method of bistability measurement
Testing our switch
We decided that there were some key parameters which we would like to test, which were the rates of:
- Association and dissociation
- HSL production and degradation
- LuxR degradation
- Promoter binding site strengths
In order to test the level of bistability, we first needed to find the parameter range for which the system switched on. This was done by running our model many times with different values of the parameter we wished to investigate, and looking at for which values the system switched on by the final concentration of GFP. We could then operate only within the operating range of the switch and run our model many times within this range, looking at the value of ΔCell density and comparing for different parameter values.
Association and dissociation of HSL-LuxR
The HSL-LuxR is the key to the entire quorum sensing circuit and as such should play an important role in the level of bistability of the system. Our initial tests showed unsurprising results, that at high dissociation rates the system requires a higher rate of association to switch on and vice-versa.
Figure 5: Parameter sensitivity tests on rate of associations and dissociation on HSL and LuxR
HSL production & degradation
We reasoned that the rate at which HSL was both produced, and degraded within the system should have a significant effect on the bistability since this molecule is fundamental to the process of quorum sensing in E.coli. Indeed our initial tests found that if the conversion rate was too low, or the degradation rate too high, the system did not actually switch on (see figure ).
Figure 6: Results from initial parameter tests on rate of HSL production and degradation
Our test indicated that our parameter test should be performed for values, 0.05 < kConvHSL < 0.25 and 0.0004 < kDegHSL < 0.0005. The results of these tests are shown below.
Figure 7: Parameter sensitivity test on rate of HSL conversion
Figure 8: Parameter sensitivity test on rate of HSL degradation
From these plots we can clearly see that by increasing the HSL conversion rate we also decrease the bistability of the system and by increasing the HSL degradation rate we increase the bistability of the system.
LuxR degradation
Similar tests were performed on the effects of changing the rate of LuxR degradation. We also expected interesting results from these tests since the LuxR is the HSL binding molecule. Our initial test to find a suitable parameter range gave us the data shown in figure .
Figure 9: Parameter sensitivity test results on LuxR degradation rate
There is a clear drop to zero in the bistability at a certain threshold level for LuxR degradation. This is due to the fact that the LuxR is degrading before an can bind to the HSL so the system does not switch on.
Promoter efficiency and affinity
There are two aspects of the quorum sensing network over which we as experimental scientists can control: the speed at which ribosomes translate our proteins and the binding of the promoter. In our model, these two phenomena correspond to the rate of translation kTranslation and kMaxProductionRNA. Thus we felt it would be very useful if we could characterise the beahvaiour of our switch on changing these parameters, since if the switch is to be put to any practical use it will be these parameters which would experimentally be changed. Thus we performed parameter tests changing these rates simultaneously to investigate the effects.
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The canonical prayers are written down in all the ancient churches, but silent prayers and extemporaneous prayers have also their place in the orthodox traditions. Prayer is communion with God alone or in communion with the church. Written prayers are an aid to prayer as they are very rich in their contents and were written down by people of greater spirituality than ourselves. Mechanical repetition or parrot-like recitation of written prayers are not what is expected of the faithful, but slow praying with real concentration. Prayers are in the mother tongue in the major Orthodox churches. Written prayers prevent us from our natural tendency to be selfish in submitting our own needs before God without a penitential heart. We are allowed to write down our own prayers for our on discipline and spiritual growth. The written prayers are full of contrition, praise, intercession and invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the saints. They have many allusions to the Holy Spirit. They give us a sense of the unity of the church. While we pray the written canonical prayers we are in solidarity with the saints of all time and all places who have prayed the same prayers. There are also written prayers for special occasions like visitation of the sick, house visitation, birthday celebration, wedding anniversary etc. Those who have the ability and grace to offer brief and appropriate extemporaneous prayers are not forbidden from doing so. We must cultivate the habit of both canonical and extemporaneous prayers in in addition to silent meditation which is of ultimate Importance. In all our prayers there must be adoration of the Holy Trinity, the overflowing love towards Jesus Christ our Savior, the power of the Holy Spirit, Who teaches us to pray. It is better to use written prayers when large number of people are worshipping and extemporaneous prayers in small groups in small fellowship meetings. As St. Paul says, 'all things must be done decently and in order' (I Cor. 14: 39).


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India will showcase the Aakash-2 tablet at the United Nations, amid clarification by the maker of the low-cost tablet over sourcing some parts from China.
The tablet will be unveiled today in the presence of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the occasion of India's current Presidency of the Security Council.
CEO of Datawind, maker of the tablet, Suneet Singh Tuli would give a presentation about the device.
The unveiling of the tablet at the UN comes even as Datawind said assembling and programming of the low-cost tablet has been done in India and only some main parts have been sourced from China.
Datawind had said that for the first 10,000 units for IIT, and for the sake of "expediency", the motherboards and kits were manufactured in its Chinese subcontractor's facilities.
The units were 'kitted' in China at various manufacturers while the final assembly and programming happened in India.
India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Hardeep Singh Puri had said earlier this month the Indian mission to the UN took the initiative to showcase the tablet at the world body and other UN member states as well as mediapersons would be invited to the event.
Aakash has been "described as the most competitively priced tablet computer by an Indian-origin entrepreneur," Puri had said.
Datawind had won the tender in 2010 to supply one lakh Aakash tablets for a price of around USD 49 per unit.
An advanced version of Aakash was launched on November 11 by President Pranab Mukherjee in India.
The new version 'Aakash 2', is powered by a processor running at 1 GHz, has a 512 MB RAM, a 7-inch capacitative touch screen and a battery working for three hours of normal operations.
The first version of tablet had a processor with 366 Megahertz, 256 MB RAM and 2GB flash memory.
The first one lakh devices would be provided to students of engineering colleges and universities.


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darkly wrote:Iowa weather is crazy How do you deal with that heat for so long? We get maybe 3-5 weeks with temperatures like that and not always in a row either. And I'm very happy about that! Over 30 degrees C is too hot! I don't like it. Although since the weather is getting weirder the summers are getting very hard to predict. But so far the worst heat waves that have started to hit europe doesn't make it all the way up to us.
Today and for the past week or so we've had fairly sunny and between 15 -20 degrees C, it's very pleasant. The best time of the year right now
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So tomorrow there is an exciting thing happening in the running community! The Hood to Coast Movie is going to be shown at certain locations! It's a movie about running the Hood to Coast Relay and though I haven't done a relay yet, since I am anti-social, perhaps I will try one out in the future. I am excited to see the movie and the funny thing was, I actually met someone on my trip up to Portland who was in the movie. It looks like a fun movie and I hope to be able to find someone to see it with me tomorrow! Make sure to check out the trailer below and also pick up your tickets at Fathomevents.com. If you want to know more, check out the trailer below!
This weekend I started off on a long run with Martiza! I am so glad she moved down here and I now have a running buddy. We ran 11.2 miles and I felt much better than I did at the Operation Jack Half Marathon. It was a great day to be out running and I wore shorts and t-shirt! Take that you snow birds!
Santa Monica is chock-full of runners and it was fun to see everyone out. We snapped this picture on our way back to our cars. Today officially kicks off my training for the LA Marathon in March and I was a good girl this morning and though I wanted to shank both my eyes out when my alarm went off at 5:30 am, I was at the gym by 6 and got in a really great workout. So I didn't miss my first day of the plan. Hooray. Point for me. Tomorrow morning I have a tempo run and after my awesome run last week I am ready to do this!
Tonight I'm stoked on the Bachelor though. And I'm back to work and ready to kick butt this year. Thanks for all the comments on the last post and I'm glad that most could relate to my deep thoughts about running!


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We're having pasta salad tonight. The reason being that I made WAY too much for last night's dinner. Here's what we had. It was simple and delicious, and I already had everything I needed for it on hand.
Amid the stress of the afternoon, I had to run out of the house, so I left #3 to make it, and she did a great job. Wow! I love my kids--have I told you that lately?
One thing, though, was that I added a bunch more garlic than it asked for. I also cooked up the chicken in the crockpot for most of the day yesterday. I think the garlic made a big difference, and I think I'd even add more next time. I at least tripled what the recipe called for. Oh yah, and I've run out of basil, so I used Italian seasoning in it. You know, what might make it SUPER good next time is to throw in a packet of dry Italian salad dressing mix. Maybe not an entire packet, but half, give it a taste, and throw in more if you think it needs it. I'm going to give that a shot next time.
In other food news, we made chocolate waffles again last Friday morning--the kids were out of school. My friend Meredith said she makes them with cake mix, so I guess you could say, like Bill Cosby, I served my kids chocolate cake for breakfast. No one was complaining, believe me.
Last time I made them, I used a recipe. This time I threw in a chocolate cake mix, 1/3 C. oil, 3 eggs and some water to make it the right consistency. I then sprayed my waffle maker with cooking spray and went to town.
I'm still not quite sure what to put on them. One of my kids did maple syrup, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I tried to make some peanut butter syrup by simply putting some peanut butter in a cup and melting it in the microwave for a few seconds (about 30), but it was TOO peanut buttery. I can't believe I just said that. I'm thinking a little bit of sugar added to it'll do the trick.
So, I think I've decided, just to add insult to injury, and to make me even more popular with my kids than Bill Cosby was with his, I'd do chocolate syrup on top with some whipped cream just to hit it out of the park.
So, tonight's pasta salad, I pretty much throw in whatever I want--mayo; celery; chopped onions; frozen peas; grated carrots; cubes of cheddar cheese; some kind of meat--tuna, chopped up ham, hard boiled eggs, whatever you have; salt; pepper; and the secret ingredient--a little bit of sugar (to taste).
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Just Another Food Post
We're having pasta salad tonight. The reason being that I made WAY too much for last night's dinner. Here's what we had. It was simple and delicious, and I already had everything I needed for it on hand.
Posted by Hesses Madhouse at 10:15 AM
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- John said...
This is weird, but I am so glad you don't eat all healthy everything. I've met so many raw food/ vegetarians recently. Glad to know I am not the only one that has to detox my families bodies from animal products.
I will have to try those cake mix waffles. That sounds like a fun saturday morning breakfast and maybe to make it just that much better I will make bacon to go on the side.
- October 18, 2011 at 5:14 PM
- The Grahams said...
we quote that story from Bill Cosby ALL the time! One of our all time favorites!! The waffles sound delicious! Love reading your blog Julie!
- October 19, 2011 at 4:47 PM


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Team Rockstar Makita Suzuki's AMA Superbike rider Blake Young talks about the final race of the season and reflects on the 2011 AMA Superbike Championship that saw him finish in second place overall.
You know, Sunday kind of started off just like the last couple days - not so well. I think for me, it's pretty difficult to sit off the motorcycle, you know, for any length of time between races. Yes, we did get to test at Daytona, but, you know, I think just for me - maybe it's just the way I am; my riding style, the way I learn, whatever it may be - I feel like I need to be on the motorcycle a lot. I feel like it takes me a while to get rolling again.
It was a pretty big disappointment for me coming into this weekend, to perform the way that I have yesterday and the day before. Pretty bummed, you know? I felt like my team worked hard for me all year long and that it was coming to an end pretty quick. And, you know, it was tough: It was a tough weekend for me, for sure. Going into the trailer and looking those guys in the eyes and just saying, boy, I really don't know - you know, and today, I don't think it was skill or anything, but mainly just heart, and I just wanted to show what my team was capable of and what they've been doing all year long, and how long at the end of the season like that. And I didn't want to finish off the podium for sure and wanted to bring the win home for them because they deserve it. You know, they know how to win Championships and it's definitely how to learn it. And, you know, I think the thing that means the most to me is they're sticking behind me, no matter what. Obviously, you can see this weekend it wasn't the greatest weekend we've ever had, and they were right there. So, hats off to my Rockstar Makita Yoshimura Suzuki guys. Thanks to Suzuki for providing the best bike in the world, the GSX-R1000. Thank you very much for everything. My crew, Don Sakakura, Yoshimura, Mr. Aki, American Suzuki - Thank you to Arai, thank you to Dainese leathers, and a big thank you to Dainese for coming through in this last round, I got to wear - as I have on now - the new D Air suit with the airbag.
Thought maybe it'd give me a little jolt of confidence on the first day there to try to get the win out, but definitely - definitely was confident today, for sure, to let it all hang out and take the risks. I know I got off to a pretty rough start that first one and that red flag, I think, kind of saved me. And I just wasn't really worried were Josh Hayes was I just wanted to win and I think that's been our goal all year, to finish the races, win as many as we can, and take the ones that - you know, the seconds and the thirds - that we have to take. You know, I'm disappointed but I'm happy. I'm happy that I've had the season that I've had. Kind of sad that it's over; I'd like to go at it a little bit more. I just feel like this was a pretty short season. So, you know, I'll come back next year. I think I'm gonna try hard. I gotta go back and try harder. I mean, I didn't get it done this year. I didn't train hard enough and I didn't race hard enough. So, you'll see me back next year a little bit stronger.
Last year was my first year of sitting on the couch. Now I know what it's like to go through an off-season, preparing for the next season with a bad result. It's not fun at all. Winning that last one last year - it really motivated me and I think this one is just as important, if not more. Like I said, I'm going to work harder. I obviously didn't work hard enough this year and, you know, Josh is a great competitor. I know he's been around for a while now and he knows what it takes to win, so hopefully I can ride this one out of his hands next year. You know, I'm just excited? To be here and to start at Daytona - if you'd told me I'd have been here, I would have said, 'yeah, right.' But at Daytona, I just wanted to finish all the races. I wanted to put forth a good effort. I felt like that's what my team deserved; for me to go out there and ride the last two Superbike seasons like I have; show the speed, get up front and be immature; throw the thing on the ground trying to win was something you do in Daytona SportBike.
But Superbike's a different game and I've learned. I've got some of the greatest competitors that will teach me and I've learned what it takes. I came up a little bit short this year but I'll make sure I'm a little bit better next year. See you at the races!


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An investigation by The Sacramento Bee has discovered that the Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services program has killed 50,000 harmless animals from more than 150 species, some endangered, since the year 2000. Meant to protect livestock from predators, the program seems to be using methods that are not especially well targeted.
Protected golden and bald eagles, kit foxes, river otters, wolverines, and pet dogs are among the creatures that have fallen foul of the animal traps, snares, and poisons used by the service. Over the same period, 10 people have been killed in crashes during aerial gunning runs—the practice of shooting predator species from aircraft. At least another 18 employees, not to mention "several" members of the public, have suffered exposure to cyanide, The Bee reports, having accidentally sprung traps meant for coyotes (of which the service has managed to kill a million in that time).
The Bee asserts that the Wildlife Services' methods are "at odds with science, inhumane, and sometimes illegal," asserting that they degrade natural habitats, reduce biodiversity, and encourage disease. The report claims that the service fails to report the accidental killing of endangered species when it is required by law to do so, quoting a trapper who claims he was told to literally bury golden eagles trapped in snares.
Former employees and activists paint a picture of an unaccountable organization with a public visage that masks the reality. "If you read the brochures, go on their website, they play down the lethal control," ex-employee Carter Niemeyer told The Bee. "It's smoke and mirrors. It's a killing business. And it ain't pretty."
Wildlife Services Deputy Administrator William Clay claims that its trapping methods are at least 95 percent effective, and biologist Elizabeth Copper, who has worked with the service, defended the program's efforts to protect the endangered California Least Tern.


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As EU High Representative Federica Mogherini said in a statement that on this day "we celebrate the laying of the first stone of the most universal multilateral project in history: the United Nations…since then the organisation has worked to deliver on peace, sustainable development and human rights – fundamental principles and goals that the European Union shares."
One of the main events of the year is UN General Assembly (UNGA) which is held every year in September. This year the EU supported the climate summit which preceded the week, and jointly with UNICEF launched a global campaign on children's rights #TheRealChallenge to empower children and encourage them to speak up. To mark the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Child, the campaign will highlight real, daily challenges children across the world face. Safeguarding the world's peace and stability – from Lebanon and Syria, to ending gender-based violence, was again at the core of EU's actions and its call for multilateralism.
"As a stubborn defender of multilateralism as the best possible way to find solutions to global crises, the European Union works closely with the United Nations in all regions of the world, encompassing more than 170 countries," Federica Mogherini reminded on the 2019 UN Day.
In her statement she drew attention to the different parts of the world where the EU supports the UN, "from Syria to Libya, from Afghanistan to Venezuela, our strong partnership contributes to safeguarding peace and security, promoting sustainable development, managing migration in a humane and respectful manner, and strengthening human rights, including education for all and gender equality. And the European Union is determined to continue to exercise its best leadership as a reliable and collaborative global actor."
She also highlighted a joint commitment to humanity: "In our common UN house, we are at the forefront to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We have set up an unprecedented trilateral partnership with the UN and the African Union to assist and protect refugees and migrants in Libya and the Sub-Saharan region. We will continue to defend achievements of multilateral diplomacy like the nuclear deal with Iran."
She stressed the EU would keep working, through multilateral partnerships, also on emerging issues such as the global challenges in the sectors of technology, digitalisation and artificial intelligence.
Mogherini also reiterated the EU's support for the UN reform process. She said that as EU we would continue to invest in a strong and effective UN system, and to support the full implementation of the UN reforms, "because we believe that international rules and international organisations are a guarantee for each and every one of us". She repeated the words of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, saying the UN and the EU are the "two greatest peace projects of our time" and together they will keep being a force for peace, stability and protection of human rights.


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At first glance, the Seagate GoFlex Satellite appears to be a standard GoFlex external hard drive, although there are hints that not all is what it seems. For a start, this is a far larger and bulkier product than Seagate's ultra-thin GoFlex Slim drive.
The 'Satellite' part of the name is another hint that this drive is something different, since even though it comes with a USB 3.0 connection, its main function is to provide tablets and smartphones with additional, wireless, storage.
If you're frustrated by your iPad's 16GB of space, then the Seagate GoFlex Satellite is designed to boost the capacity to 500GB.
This is great in theory, but when tested, getting the drive to work flawlessly with iPads and iTunes was a complicated process, involving having to authorise accounts, download apps and plug and unplug the drive. Most of this lengthy process is actually down to Apple and its finicky digital rights management (DRM) controls, so we can't really blame Seagate.
Setting the drive up with non-Apple tablets or mobile phone handsets is a far simpler affair.
The Seagate GoFlex Satellite uses standard Wi-Fi to connect to your devices. Once turned on, you set your device to connect to its broadcasted network, named GoFlex Satellite 690.
This is where our first concern came in - if you're connected via Wi-Fi to the Seagate GoFlex Satellite hard drive and streaming media, then you're not able to connect to another network to browse the internet. This might not be a problem when watching movies full screen - or if you have a 3G connection as well, but if you rely on Wi-Fi internet you're not going to be able to browse and listen to music at the same time, for example.
The drive has around five hour's battery life, which isn't bad.
What the Seagate GoFlex Satellite tries to achieve is admirable, but due to technological constraints it doesn't quite reach those lofty goals.


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Paul Joseph Watson
Demonstrators led by Austin-based radio host Alex Jones will again march on the Capitol building today to protest the sabotage of an anti-TSA groping bill that was scheduled to receive a hearing on Friday but was mothballed for a second time after House members failed to show for the vote, and has now been rendered almost impotent by amendments inserted by Speaker of the House Joe Straus and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst that have gutted the bill.
The protest is set to take place at 4pm CST this afternoon.
Jones will lead demonstrators to the Capitol for the second month running over the TSA bill, having also protested in May after the federal government threatened to enforce a federal blockade that would have turned Texas into a de facto no fly zone to prevent the Senate from passing a bill that had already sailed through the House.
Speaker of the House Joe Straus has been instrumental in stymying the passage of the TSA bill, calling the legislation an "ill-advised publicity stunt" and "unenforceable," while demanding the bill be significantly watered down, despite the fact that it already passed the House unanimously last month.
According to the Texas Tribune, Straus approached the bill's primary sponsor Rep. David Simpson last week and insisted that language pertaining to "private parts" be removed from the legislation altogether, which would have completely gutted the bill.
Indeed, Michael Gobart, front man for one of the primary lobbying groups pushing to have the legislation enacted, has now withdrawn his support for the House version of the bill due to new amendments that have rendered the legislation almost impotent. "After consulting with multiple attorneys and legal teams who investigated the matter, we concluded that the amendments would indeed gut the bill of its force," writes Gobart.
The most damaging amendment, inserted by Straus and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a bid to make the bill "wholly irrelevant," now mandates that prosecutors prove in every instance that TSA groping is unconstitutional, rather than just placing a blanket ban on behavior that should already be criminal under the 4th amendment.
"Under the amended language, HB 41 is no longer a legislative declaration that such actions are unconstitutional and criminal. Instead, the amended bill leaves the issue of constitutionality to be determined by the courts, with the burden of proof shifted to the one who experienced the "sexual assault." While this amendment certainly makes the bill more impervious to Federal attack on constitutional grounds, it does so by surrendering the entire battle," reports TSA Tyranny.com.
"If we believe that travelers being touched in their private parts without probable cause is unconstitutional, then we must not be afraid to say it, to codify it, and to hold actors who violate this standard accountable with the force of law," remarked Wesley Strackbein, co-founder of TsaTyranny.com."
In all but sabotaging the bill, Straus and Dewhurst, self-proclaimed Republicans, have revealed their true colors as big government apologists.
According to the Supplemental House Calendar, the Texas House will today hear HB 41, a bill that, if enacted, will criminally punish (after prosecutors are forced to prove the case in a court of law) any TSA agent who "touches the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of the other person, including touching through clothing," without probable cause that the individual has committed an offense.
According to the Senate Room Schedule, the Senate version of the bill, SB 29, will also be heard today by lawmakers at noon central time. Although the bill is not listed on the page, Senator Dan Patrick has confirmed that the legislation will be voted no at the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called Session.
Just three days remain of the special session and most of the legislation Governor Rick Perry requested has not even reached his desk. On Friday, when House members were due to vote on the groping legislation, they instead went AWOL, failing to form the 100 members required for a quorum.
In a statement released last week, the TSA also promised to take legal action if the bill was passed.
Whatever its final version looks like, "Straus, Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst say they believe lawmakers will work out their disagreements and pass all the measures before them without heading into a second special session," reports the El Paso Times.
Most Senators support the bill and only another round of dirty tricks from either Straus or the federal government will prevent its passage, that is assuming lawmakers actually bother to turn up this time around, but many observers will only see the legislation as having symbolic value if the new amendments remain in the text.
Another potential roadblock is the fact that, according to House representative David Simpson, "(Governor) Perry appears lukewarm to the issue." Recall that Perry initially refused to include the bill on the special session before he was aggressively lobbied by pressure groups to do so.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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