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Follow us on Instagram!My girl fishes in off the shoulder dresses 👗 🎣 💥Dear body, I'm sorry I have said and thought so many terrible things about you. You give and give, I take and take. You have never let me down and I still call you names. 8 weeks ago you birthed a human in under two hours. Yesterday you ran 5 miles, today you ran 5 more. You've birthed three speedy times without any medical intervention or pain medication, you've been making milk for babies for 7 years, you've run marathons, hiked one of the tallest mountains in the world, climbed thousands of feet, biked and hiked hundreds of miles, backpacked, swam, surfed, skied, dove, lifted, traveled, held, carried, kissed, hugged, and healed. You have done ALL this and I still say you aren't tight enough, tall enough, small enough, fast enough, smooth enough, strong enough, perky enough, pretty enough, bikini-ready enough... well enough is enough. It's taken this 3rd pregnancy, my awesome birth and my speedy recovery to finally realize how amazing you are. So guess what? I am DONE (finished) thinking shitty things about you! I am sooo tired of hating you. If this is what a body looks like that can do and give ALL OF THIS then you are PERFECT. I love you and I am grateful for you. However many pounds you still carry from this last pregnancy are just fine. I promise to get off the scale, to nourish you and to continue working on healthy relationships with food. And you just keep doin' your thing ok? Maybe if I start loving you more we can keep all this great stuff going another 50 years. Whattaya say? #effyourbeautystandards #bodyjustice🌟Shiloh Jasper Sedivec 🌟He finally has a name! Sweet Shiloh is 1 month old, 9 lbs 7oz and faring well in a busy and noisy home. Life with three is tender, exhausting, perfect, hilarious and overwhelming. I don't have enough brain power or arms to meet everyone's needs, it's full on, I need a shower and a HOT cup of coffee but I am in love with this beautiful headache we've created. Caring for these peanuts is my greatest privilege and I wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you for joining this crazy crew of ours Shiloh. We love you. (Cedar wasn't interested in being in a picture today so it looks like we have two but I swear there are 3 😂)I wouldn't leave the party until he asked me out and that was the best decision I ever made. Happy Anniversary my love. Sorry for being a creeper I just knew you were the one. 🤷♀ thanks for the party @lkgoldman @dan_way8 @loleujensen @rd_way_ 📷 @mikeadrian 🙏🏼On Friday March 22nd our third baby was born fast and beautifully at home. This was our second planned home birth and the experience was everything I wanted. The gentle care of our midwives and dedicated friends who hopped out of bed at 3am to support me, the love and presence of Peter and our two older children make my heart feel like it's going to burst. 🌟 Our baby is a boy and he's perfect. He arrived at 7lbs 14oz and we are still finalizing a name. Until we do, the kids are calling him Seaweed. They think that fits our family name theme. 😂 🌟 THANK YOU to our new community in Bend who went above and beyond to make us feel supported as we approached this transition. A meal train was set up, food was dropped off, rides home were given, play dates offered, texts and social media messages were sent... A friend even dropped off a Ayurvedic postpartum recovery meal she prepped for us to put in the croc pot when labor started so it was ready to nourish me when baby was born. Congee for the win! 🌟 I'll never know how we got so lucky (in less than 2 years) to find so many new wonderful people in our lives. And to my soul sisters and mama in SoCal, friends in other parts of the country and world, I felt ALL THE LOVE! Apparently so did the baby because his placenta came out in the shape of a heart ❤😳 🌟 For those friends who texted and worried that their check-ins were a bother I want to say- never ever EVER is receiving love a bother to me. I cherished the knowledge that you were holding our family in your hearts and minds. 🌟 I do not take one bit of this for granted. All my love right back atcha you wonderful people! You sure know how to make a mama feel supported and for that I am grateful. @kimieabreak 🙏🏼 @mountainlightashtanga 🙏🏼@bendbirthcenter 🙏🏼@candiceannw 🙏🏼 @lkgoldman 🙏🏼 @baudinolori 🙏🏼 @92675forme 🙏🏼My lovely and talented friend Cate took a quick photo sesh with me and my babes (and my mama) in one of my favorite parks in Bend. Peter was enjoying the best ski day of his life so I'm not sorry he isn't in these 😉 We love him so much that he is always there (even when he's not). Thanks for loving these beautiful babes with me my love. All 3 of them!
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We arrived at our secluded jungle bungalow around 1am after an exhausting but exciting 14 hour travel day. Chasing a toddler around two busy airports, keeping her from climbing up the chair in front of us, and constantly worrying about who she might be disturbing is draining. There are only so many rides you can take on the moving walkway, with her twisting herself up, shrieking and refusing to walk on her two feet before you are ready to hand her off to a stranger and hit the bar.
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Logitech UE Boombox full review
We liked the Logitech AirPlay speakers that we reviewed recently, so we were keen to take a look their new Boombox too.
As the name suggests, the Boombox is very much designed with portability in mind. It measures just 38.6cm long, 16.4cm high and 8cm thick and weighs 2Kg, so it's easy to pick up and carry around when you're heading outside.
It's well built too, with a metal grille covering the speaker drivers and a rubber coating on the base of the unit to protect it from bumps and bruises. There's a mains adaptor included with the Boombox, but it also has a rechargeable battery that lasts for about six hours.
There's no dock for iOS devices – and no AirPlay either – as Logitech has opted for Bluetooth wireless this time around, along with a standard Line-In socket for wired connections. The Boombox can pair with three Bluetooth devices at once, so you and your friends can all use it together, switching from device to device whenever you want.
Logitech's Boombox is light and sturdy for outdoor use
Sound quality is good – nice and detailed, and with surprisingly firm bass for such a compact unit. Higher frequencies can sound a little harsh at full volume – which we'd estimate at around 40W – but even if you turn it down a little the Boombox is still strong enough to get things going at a BBQ or on the beach.
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Pepperidge Farm Red Velvet layer cake
The exact origins of the red velvet cake elude food scholars, and misinformation about the cake is widespread. The cake may be fondly remembered from the Eaton department store chain in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, but there's hearty debate about whether Eaton gets credit for its invention. A long-standing tale associating it with the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York has been exposed as an urban legend. Nor is there a standard recipe. Is the frosting cream cheese or butter cream? And just how red should red velvet cake be? Some say the redder the better, that food coloring was what turned the cake into a craze. Others prefer a more natural look, but even they say some food coloring is essential. Red velvet thrived during the mid-20th century, but by the early 1970s, time-intensive cakes were shuffling to the back of the recipe box. And the red velvet cake really faded from view when the Food and Drug Administration banned the additive Red Dye #2 in 1972, and consumers abandoned red dyes in general. If the red velvet cake's history is sticky, so is the reason for its resurgence, which has struck in waves. Three are three widely observed red-velvet days on the calendar, beginning with its memorable appearance in the 1989 movie "Steel Magnolias." In 2002, a younger generation saw Jessica Simpson choose a red velvet cake for her reality-show wedding to Nick Lachey. And just when it may have needed a boost, a red velvet cake was featured in October 2010 on Oprah Winfrey's "O" list.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
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According to Google Translate, the page says "Gay Hate surging forward", "Rick Santorums hjertesak is against gays", & "He is particularly known for its hostile campaign against the U.S. gays."
Too bad large U.S. newspapers are too afraid to be this blunt & honest.
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"Rick Santorums hjertesak er kampen mot homofile" means "Rick Santorum's primary venture is the fight against gays". The word hjertesak comes from heart and case, and you can guess where it goes from there.ReplyDelete
Obama is going to mop the floor with himReplyDelete
... and won't that be a mess.ReplyDelete
...and, we can only hope so!ReplyDelete
Methinks his Party doth protest too much!ReplyDelete
This is the most ignorant, classless site I have ever seen. It's a sad day in our country when we can longer stand up for what we believe but instead are pressured to be silent or conform to "political correctness". Santorum is a politician and he has to pick sides on key issues and in no way deserves to be disrespected to the point of making his name into a crude sexual by-product. He has just as much right to his stance as those who see things differently. We can either agree or disagree but come on people be respectful.ReplyDeleteReplies
This is the Internet. If you're going to be offended by what you see here, stick to old media. Also, Santorum assumed the right to liken homosexuality to child molesting and bestiality. If he has the right to say that, we have every right to call him names. It's called freedom of speech, something the political right tends to be very keen on when defending their putting down of others. Now that same freedom of speech is being used against you, and we frankly don't give any consideration to your butthurt. Deal with it.Delete


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If You Thought Copyright Was A Mess On Earth, What Does It Look Like In Space?
from the copyright-trolls.....-in.....-spaaaaaaaaaaaaace deptAssuming you haven't been under a rock, there's a decent chance that you've seen astronaut Chris Hadfield's rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity (with the lyrics conveniently changed to skip the whole dying in space part). The video was released just before Hadfield returned to earth, and completely fit with Hadfield's time on the International Space Station, where he became the world's first serious social media expert from space -- tweeting, Tumbling and YouTubing up a storm. But... filming a cover song and releasing it via YouTube from space had some people wondering: can you untangle the copyright issues here? Thankfully, Glenn Fleishman dug in over at the Economist (which, lamely, still refuses to name their writers, but now provides the "initials" of bloggers, so you can parse out who's who), and explained what a fine mess it is.
The punchline here is that it doesn't really matter, because after a bunch of back and forth negotiations, they got all the permissions they needed directly from David Bowie. But, assuming others start going up into space (yay, private space tourism), this issue is going to be raised sooner or later. Glenn points out that it's kind of messy, because different countries have very different compulsory licensing laws for cover songs, and there are no compulsories for sync licenses, which are needed to put the song to a video. There was also the issue of the International Space Station having different sections "owned" by different countries, and the official agreement says that it matters where creation happens -- so if the video had been done in all different parts of the space station, it potentially could have been a mess (though, it looks like it was all filmed in parts owned by NASA).
While there's no issue with this specific case, Glenn alerts us to a paper from a few years ago that lays out how copyright in space is about to get complicated:
The copyright issue may seem trivial, but the emergence of privately funded rocket launches, space tourism and space exploration hold the potential for more substantive disputes. If an astronaut were to travel to the Moon, an asteroid or Mars on a privately funded spacecraft, the situation would become knottier still, because the United Nations Outer Space Treaty of 1967 applies to countries, not companies or private individuals. J.A.L. Sterling, a London-based expert on international copyright law, anticipated all this in a 2008 paper, "Space Copyright Law: the new dimension", in which he lists dozens more potentially problematic scenarios that could arise, some seemingly risible at first. He asks what would have happened if, on a moon landing broadcast live by NASA across the world, two astronauts were overcome by emotion and burst into song—one covered by copyright. NASA might still be engaged in litigation 40 years later. More prosaically and immediately plausibly, Sterling considers space travellers who put copyrighted material from Earth on a server reachable from space, or engage in rights-violating "public performances" for crewmates. If the first person to walk on Mars decides to launch into "A Whole New World", the rights will need to have been cleared with Disney first.Yeah, remember Rob Reid's funny sci-fi novel about copyright in space? Perhaps, like many sci-fi books, it will eventually turn out to be an accurate prediction of the future.
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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1848. On the transportal of erratic boulders from a lower to a higher level. [Read 19 April] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 4: 315-323.
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2. On the Transportal of Erratic Boulders from a lower to a higher level. By C. DARWIN, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S.
IT will, I think, be generally admitted that the most valid objection which has been advanced against the theory of the transportal of erratic boulders by floating ice, lies in the fact of their having not unfrequently been carried from a lower to a higher level. Mr. Hopkins*, indeed, referring to certain boulders of a peculiar conglomerate described by Prof. Phillips, considers this fact as affording an absolute proof of the diluvial theory, since, he adds, "it is evident that no floating ice could possibly transport a boulder from the depths of the vale of Eden over the heights of Stainmoor." Prof. Hitchcock1 has several times alluded to similar cases in North America as offering a very great difficulty.
The first instance recorded, as far as I know, of the transportal of boulders from a lower to a higher level, is by Prof. Phillips†, who in 1829 described numerous large blocks of grauwacke not far from Kirby Lonsdale, scattered over the mountain limestone from a height of 50 to 100 feet above the parent rock, which lies immediately beneath. He adds, "Further on, to an elevation of 150 feet, the blocks are still numerous, and they may be seen, by ascending one ledge after another, almost to the top of the Fell,2 500 feet above their original position. They appear," he continues, "to have been driven up at a particular place by a current towards the north, and afterwards carried along the surface of the limestone in a narrow track toward the summit of the Fell." The conglomerate alluded to by Mr. Hopkins has been transported from the bottom of the valley of the Eden, where the rock lies in situ at the height of 500 feet above the level of the sea, to and over the pass of Stainmoor at the height of 1400 feet‡: therefore the boulders now lie 900 feet above their original position. In 1838 I observed many boulders of granite strewed on Ben Erin on the western side of Glen Roy§, up to the height of 2200 feet above the sea; the granite resembled in character that seen in situ at the head of the Spey, and which, in Macculloch's Geological Map,3 is likewise the nearest district of granite: if, as I believe, the boulders came from this place, they must have been carried up at least 900 feet. Mr. Maclaren|| has described (1839) numerous blocks of sandstone on the higher parts of Arthur's Seat, "400 feet above any spot where sandstone now exists in situ." Quite recently Mr. D. Milne¶ has noticed other boulders on the same hill, belonging to the coal series, and remarks "that there is no place in the neighbourhood from which these blocks could have come which is not at least 200 feet below their level." In the Isle of Man, the Rev. J. G. Cumming4 has observed with great care a
* Journal of the Geol. Soc. vol. iv. p. 98.5
† Transactions of the Geol. Soc. vol. iii. (second series) p. 13.6
‡ Treatise on Geology (Lardner's Encyclop.), by John Phillips, vol. i. p. 270.
§ Philosophical Transactions, 1839, p. 69.
|| Geology of Fife, &c. p. 47.7
¶ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. xlii. p. 167.8
1 Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864), American geologist and clergyman. Hitchcock 1841.
2 Wild, upland fields.
4 Joseph George Cumming (1812-1868), clergyman and Vice-Principal of King William's College, Isle of Man.
5 Hopkins 1848.
7 Charles Maclaren (1782-1866), geologist and journalist. Maclaren 1839.
8 David Milne-Home [or David Milne] (1805-1890), Scottish advocate and geologist. Milne 1847.
striking case, and has most kindly communicated to me the details, which will immediately appear in his work*: near South Barrule there is a hillock formed of granite, quite different in nature from any other rock in the island; this mass of granite is about three-fourths of a mile square, and is 757 feet above the level of the sea; from this point the boulders are thickly dispersed to the south-west, and they can be continuously followed up to a height of 788 feet above the summit of the present boss. Mr. R. Mallet1 informs me that facts of a similar nature have been observed in Ireland. More striking cases occur in the United States, in New England, in New York, and in northern Pennsylvania. Prof. Hitchcock observes†, that the Silurian rocks of New York and the quartz in the valleys of western Massachusetts have undoubtedly been carried over and left upon the Hoosac and Taconic mountains, at a height of "upwards of one thousand or two thousand feet." Lastly, I may mention the analogous case of the chalk-flints, associated with boulders of various kinds, observed by the Dean of Westminster2 and myself on Moel Tryfan, at the height of 1392 feet above the level of the sea, and which (as well as the chalk-flints at the intermediate point of the Isle of Man‡) there is good reason to believe must have come from Ireland, and therefore, at least in the case of North Wales, from a considerably lower level.
The first point to consider is whether, in these several instances, the boulders have really come from a lower level, or whether they may not (and I am indebted to Sir H. De la Beche3 for this caution) have been derived from strata now entirely denuded, but which formerly extended up to the same level with the boulders. Or secondly, whether the boulders, after having been deposited, may not have been raised by an unequal elevatory movement above their parent district, or the district itself have been depressed by subsidence below them. With respect to the former supposed greater extension and subsequent denudation of the parent rock,—in such cases as those near Edinburgh it is possible that this may be sufficient to account for the phænomenon. Where the boulders are of granite, as at Glen Roy and the Isle of Man, this view implies that a mass of that rock has been worn down, equalling in thickness the difference in level between the existing mass in situ and the boulders: in North America, where the boulders lie from 1500 to 2000 feet above their source, the denudation on this view must have been immense, and it must all have been effected within the glacial period, as the low country is covered with boulders; this likewise is the case with the boss of granite in the Isle of Man. Can it be supposed with any probability that the chalk-formation formerly extended in Ireland up to a height of nearly 1400 feet? In the case of the boulders described by Prof. Phillips, I am assured by him that the above view is quite inadmissible; and he has pointed out to me conclusive reasons, but which, considering
* The Isle of Man, its History, &c., by the Rev. J. G. Cumming.4
† Geology of Massachusetts, vol. i. (Postscript, p. 5a), and Address to Association of American Geologists, 1841.
‡ The Rev. J. G. Cumming in Transactions of British Association, 1845, p. 61.
1 Robert Mallet (1810-1881), civil engineer and seismologist.
2 William Buckland (1784-1856), geologist and clergyman, Dean of Westminster from 1845.
3 Henry Thomas De la Beche (1796-1855), geologist and first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1835-1855.
4 Cumming 1848.
his high authority, I do not consider it necessary to give in detail; I will only mention that the grauwacke was planed down level, before the thick mass of mountain-limestone on the surface of which the boulders lie was deposited on it, and that at a short distance the grauwacke is quite cut off by the Craven fault:1 the conglomerate beds, whence the boulders at a height of 900 feet on Stainmoor were derived, are horizontal.
With respect to subsequent unequal elevation having caused the boulders now to lie above their parent rocks, the simple fact of the number of points, irregularly placed both in Great Britain (namely, in northern and central Scotland, in the Lake district, North Wales, Isle of Man and Ireland,) and likewise in the United States, appears to me to render this view extremely improbable; for on such a view it must be admitted that in Great Britain and America several great mountains and mountain-chains have been formed so lately as during the glacial period, and this is a proposition to which few geologists will be inclined to assent. Moreover, in the case of Stainmoor, it is known that its crest now holds, one part with another, the same relative level as it did during the glacial period, for the boulders have crossed it only in one notch or gap, which is now the lowest part; and certain chains of hills which would at present intercept boulders coming from one quarter likewise did so at the glacial epoch.
In the Isle of Man the parent granite and the boulders which lie 788 feet above it are scarcely more than two miles apart, and in the intermediate tract, thickly covered with the boulders, Mr. Cumming has in vain searched for evidence of a fault. In the Lake district there is, I think, conclusive evidence that unequal elevation is not the true explanation, for the boulders there lie so close to the rocks in situ that there would necessarily be, if the boulders had been subsequently upraised, a fault or abrupt flexure, in one case of 900 and in the other of 500 feet. Hence we must conclude, in accordance with the views of the several authors who have described the above cases, that the boulders have really been drifted nearly as many feet upwards (that is, making in almost every instance some allowance for the subsequent denudation of the parent rock) as they now lie above their original source.
Those who believe in the powerful agency of ice in moving boulders will probably at first conclude that icebergs have in some manner transported them from a lower to a higher level. But the most obvious method by which fragments of rock can get on icebergs is by their having first fallen from the surrounding precipices on glaciers entering the sea, and therefore they must have come from a higher to a lower level. It seems impossible, owing to the temperature of the water, that at any considerable depth, boulders could be frozen into the bottom of icebergs; and even if at lesser depths they did become so frozen* or mechanically wedged in, and if by the icebergs being overturned they were saved from being soon thawed out, yet they could be deposited above their former level only by so much as
* See some excellent remarks on this subject in Sir H. De la Beche's Anniversary Address for 1848, p. 68 et seq.2
1 A series of geological fault lines which run along the southern and western edges of the Yorkshire Dales.
the ice under water had decreased in thickness in the interval of the boulders having been caught up and dropped. In any case the notion of icebergs having, in the States of New York, New England, and northern Pennsylvania, lifted up numerous boulders from a depth of between 1000 and 2000 feet, is quite inadmissable.
In my paper on the Boulders of the Southern hemisphere, read before this Society*, I pointed out that there were two methods, essentially distinct both in the requisite climate and in the results produced, by which fragments of rock are transported; namely, by icebergs and by coast-ice. Icebergs now transport fragments of rock on the west coast of South America, in the latitude of the central parts of Europe, under a temperate climate where the sea, even in protected bays, is never frozen. On the other hand, in the northern parts of the United States and in the Gulf of Bothnia, where the climate is excessive, but yet under a latitude where glaciers never descend to the level of the sea, fragments of rock are annually enclosed by the freezing of the coast-water, and are thus transported. In the polar regions both actions concur. Icebergs will transport such fragments of rock as fall on the parent glaciers, and these are generally quite angular. From the vast size of the bergs, the fragments will often be transported to great distances, and when deposited, it must be in deep water, and therefore (as well as from the original descending movement of the glacier) at a much lower level than the parent rock: when once dropped, they will probably never again be moved by ice. On the other hand, coast-ice will transport whatever fragments of rock or pebbles lie on or near the shore. These fragments, from being repeatedly caught in the ice and stranded with violence, and from being every summer exposed to common littoral action, will generally be much worn; and from being driven over rocky shoals, probably often scored. From the ice not being thick, they will, if not drifted out to sea, be landed in shallow places, and from the packing of the ice be sometimes driven high up the beach, or even left perched on ledges of rock. By this agency boulders will probably not be carried to such great distances as by icebergs, and the limit of their transportal will perhaps be more defined. In South America there is a considerable difference in the state of the boulders in Tierra del Fuego, where a large proportion are much rounded, and on the plains of Patagonia and in Chiloe further from the pole, where the boulders are larger and quite angular. I attributed the presence of these latter to the exclusive action of icebergs; whilst in Tierra del Fuego coast-ice appears formerly to have come into play. On Moel Tryfan† the well-rounded fragments of chalk-flints were in all probability transported by coast-ice: though I cannot doubt, from the extraordinary manner in which the laminæ of the slate rocks have there been shattered, that icebergs have likewise been driven against them when under water; so that both actions seem there to have concurred. Some other distinguishing characters between the action of coast-ice and of icebergs will presently be pointed
* Transactions of the Geol. Soc. vol. vi. (second series) p. 430.
† London Philosophical Journal, vol. xxi. p. 186.
out; and it is by coast-ice, as I believe, that boulders have been transported from a lower to a higher level.
To take the case of North America: Mr. Lyell* has shown, from an independent train of reasoning, that this country during the glacial period slowly subsided to a considerable amount: several American geologists have come to a similar conclusion, and they believe that the subsidence amounted to two or three thousand feet, or even more. Let us suppose a sinking movement to be now going on in the estuary of the St. Lawrence or on the coast of Labrador, where we know, from the observations of Lieut. Brown1 and Capt. Bayfield,2 as given by Mr. Lyell† (and illustrated by striking sketches), that annually an enormous number of boulders, both on and near the coast, are frozen into the coast-ice and transported to shorter or greater distances; can we doubt, that if during the year the land sunk a few inches or feet, the boulders, whilst actually frozen in or when refrozen during the ensuing winter, would be lifted up and landed so many inches or feet higher up on the coast? Capt. Bayfield, as stated by Mr. Lyell‡, saw masses of rock, "carried by ice through the straits of Belle Isle, between Newfoundland and the continent, which he conceives may have travelled in the course of years from Baffin's Bay." Now if during this probably long course of years,—for the boulders seem generally to be transported only a short distance each winter,—the land had subsided one or two hundred feet, is it not almost certain that they would have been landed so many feet higher up with respect to their former level, in the same manner as would have happened with so much drift timber? It is indeed paradoxical thus to speak of the boulders having been carried up, whilst the land has gone down; for, in fact, the boulders are merely kept by the floating ice at the same level, whilst the land sinks.
No doubt during this process some boulders would be dropped in water too deep to allow of their being refrozen, and they would be thus left behind. Scarcely any form of land would prevent the boulders from being annually landed on a temporary resting-place: even a line of perpendicular cliff, if not of very great length, would probably only cause the tidal currents to drift the coast-ice further onwards; a few more boulders, perhaps, being dropped there than elsewhere. I can see only one difficulty of any weight to this view, namely, that the boulders would be ground down into mud and destroyed from having been stranded such innumerable times, as must have happened with those which were kept up to the same absolute level during a sinking of the land of many hundred feet. On an exposed coast, where the breakers had power to dash pebbles against the boulders, I have no doubt that this would take place, more especially with boulders small enough to be themselves rolled over. But on a broken coast, amongst islands and in bays, I do not believe that this would happen. We may infer from the fact of scored rocks having been observed both in Scotland and in North Wales, dipping
* Travels in North America, vol. i. p. 99, and vol. ii. p. 48.3
† Principles of Geology, 7th edit. p. 222.4
‡ Ibid. p. 231.
1 'Brown' is a mistake for Augustus Frederick James Bowen (1802/04-1876), who was the assistant of Bayfield (see note 2 below). They surveyed the St. Lawrence River and the coast of Labrador, 1827-1840. See Correspondence vol. 4, p. 123.
2 Henry Wolsey Bayfield (1795-1885), naval officer and geologist.
3 Lyell 1845.
4 Lyell 1847.
under the surface of lakes, in a quite unaltered condition, that the action of simple water, and of such little waves as lakes can produce, even when prolonged from the glacial period to the present day, is absolutely as nothing; and in sheltered bays, the force of the waves is not very much greater than in lakes. Moreover, in South America I have seen many boulders lying on sea-beaches, exposed to the wash of rather open channels, and which, so far from having been destroyed, yet retained their angles perfect.
Nevertheless it might certainly be expected that boulders which had thus been buoyed up by coast-ice during long-continued ages would be well-rounded. According to Prof. H. D. Rogers, this is the case with the majority of the boulders in North America: those at Glen Roy were rounded, but they were composed of granite subject to disintegration; this likewise is the case with those in the Isle of Man: Mr. Cumming however informs me that the boulders, with some marked exceptions, "diminish in number and size the further we proceed" from the granitic boss. The boulders on Arthur's Seat,1 judging from the remarks of Messrs. Maclaren and Milne,2 are rounded. Those near Kirby Lonsdale, which now lie, according to Prof. Phillips, 500 feet above their parent rock, are not rounded; but they are composed of slate, a rock very little liable to be rounded, and they appear to lie in a sort of train up a valley surrounded by mountains, which must formerly have been a well-protected bay. It would be interesting to ascertain whether those boulders which now stand highest above the parent rock are more worn than those at a lower level, which latter I believe to have been dropped during the long-continued buoying-up process.
We have seen that, according to Mr. Lyell, the northern parts of the United States did actually subside during the glacial period. I am not aware that anyone has attempted to show that Great Britain was similarly affected during this same period. The following considerations, however, appear to me to render it in some degree probable: in Staffordshire there are many great and perfectly angular boulders of northern rocks, which almost every geologist believes were transported on icebergs, now lying at the height of above 800 feet above the sea; and on Moel Tryfan, at a height of nearly 1400 feet, there are stratified beds of the glacial epoch (as known by the included shells discovered by Mr. Trimmer),3 which beds, after careful examination, I cannot doubt were deposited in the ordinary manner under the sea. On the other hand, the character of the miocene formations, on the east coast of England, belonging to an epoch just antecedent to the glacial, lead to the conclusion that the land then did not hold a level widely different from the present one: if so, unless we suppose a great inequality in the changes of level between the east and west coasts of England, the land must have sunk after the miocene age to allow of the deposition of the glacial deposits at the heights above specified. This conclusion accords perfectly with Professor E. Forbes's statement*, that all the organic remains seen by him, from the glacial formation, indicate a depth of less than 25
* Memoirs of the Geological Survey, p. 376.
1 A prominent 251 m volcanic hill in Edinburgh.
2 Maclaren 1839, Milne-Home 1847a.
3 Joshua Trimmer (1795-1857), geologist, employed on the Geological Survey of England, 1846-1854.
fathoms. As far then as these considerations can be at all trusted, we are, according to the view given in this paper, in a position to explain the transportal of the boulders from a lower to a higher level, in Great Britain as well as in the United States. I will make only one other remark on this head: though I believe that Great Britain subsided during the glacial period, yet I conceive it must also have subsequently attained during this same prolonged period a considerable portion of its present height. I infer this from the plain marks of true glacier action, low down the valleys in North Wales, within 300 feet of the present level of the sea*.
A second objection of apparently considerable weight has been advanced against the theory of floating ice; namely, that in some instances the blocks decrease very regularly in size in proceeding from their source. Prof. H. D. Rogers† says that this is markedly the case in going southward in the United States. According to Mr. Hopkins‡ it is also the case in the Lake district; "the blocks becoming smaller as we approach the coast of Yorkshire, till they degenerate into pebbles in the more remote localities, in which the Cumbrian rocks can be identified." He adds, "These facts are strongly in favour of those views which would refer the transport of these masses to diluvial currents." This sorting of the boulders does not always hold good: on the plains of Patagonia the two largest boulders which I saw were near the outskirts of the deposit. Sir R. Murchison also remarks on the vast size of the many boulders in the south-east parts of Shropshire, near the southern limit of his northern drift, though he elsewhere states that the boulders generally decrease in size in going from north to south. In these cases, if we look at the boulders as having all been transported on icebergs, there certainly appears no reason why they should have been dropped from such immense masses of ice, with any approach to order according to their size and to their distance from their source. But this does not hold good with boulders transported in sheets and fragments of coast-ice: here the buoying agent is not of disproportionate power to its burthen; as the ice decays, the heaviest fragments would naturally be apt to drop out first; and it would appear from the accounts given to us, that the largest boulders during some winters escape being moved at all, whilst the smaller ones are drifting onwards. Moreover, the boulders (and great stress may probably be laid on this point) which had travelled furthest, would, from having been repeatedly stranded, and necessarily so every summer, be most worn, and therefore would be smaller than those which had travelled to a shorter distance.
I have shown, in my volume on South America, that the sea has
* Since the above was written, I have found that Mr. Trimmer, in his interesting paper on the Geology of Norfolk (Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, vol. vii. part 2),1 has shown that that district subsided at least 600 feet, and was likewise upraised during the boulder or glacial period.
† Address to the Association of American Geologists, 1844, p. 45.2
‡ Journal of the Geological Society, vol. iv. p. 98.3
1 Trimmer 1847.
2 Rogers 1844.
3 Hopkins 1848.
the power by some means of sorting the pebbles which lie at the bottom, their size decreasing with surprising regularity, even till they pass into sand, with the increasing depth. There is some difficulty in understanding how this is effected: Playfair has suggested that the undulations of the sea propagated downwards from the surface, tend to lift up and down the pebbles at the bottom, and that such are liable, when thus quite or partially raised, to be moved onwards even by a very weak current. Should, therefore, a boulder formation be exposed during subsequent changes of level to the action of the sea, pebbles derived from it, and decreasing in size with perfect regularity according to their distance from their source, might be thus spread out. Hence I conceive that from a group of mountains, which had once existed as an island, boulders, decreasing in bulk with some degree of regularity, and beyond them pebbles degenerating with perfect regularity into sand, might be spread out, thus simulating the effects of a great debacle, which in rushing along had insensibly lost its power, and yet that both boulders and pebbles had been transported by the ordinary currents of the sea; aided, in the one case, by floating coast-ice, in the other, apparently by the undulating movement of the water.
The two objections, therefore, which have been here discussed, cannot, I think, any longer be considered as absolutely fatal to the theory of floating ice; and thus far the hypothesis of a debacle is no longer necessary.
If the explanation here given of the transportal of boulders from a lower to a higher level be hereafter proved correct, we gain, in all cases where the horizontal distance between the boulders and the parent rock is not so great as to allow of the probability of subsequent unequal movements of elevation, a valuable measure of subsidence during a defined period. We are accustomed to precise measurements of elevation, from the ascertained heights of upraised marine remains; but it seemed quite hopeless to expect this, even in a lesser degree, with respect to subsidence,—that movement which hides under the sea the surface affected. It is marvellous that Nature should have thus marked by buoys made of stone, the former sinking of the earth's crust, and likewise, I may add, its subsequent elevation; and that on these blocks of stone the temperature, during the long period of their transportal, may be said to be plainly engraved. Moreover, it is thus shown that the subsidence during no one entire summer was so great as to carry the coast-boulders beneath that small limit of depth at which the salt water during each ensuing winter became frozen.
Note.—After this paper was read, Mr. Nicol1 objected that when the parent rock was once submerged, no further supply of boulders could be derived from it, and consequently if afterwards, each time they were afloat, only one boulder out of a hundred was dropped in water too deep for it to be refrozen in the coast-ice, after a certain time there would be none left to be carried up, during the continued subsidence, to the higher levels. This appears to me an objection of much force. I would, however, remark in the first place, that I do
1 James Nicol (1810-1879), Scottish mineralogist and stratigrapher.
not suppose that the boulders over the whole area of subsidence are carried far up, but only those in certain favourable situations. Secondly, several Arctic voyagers have stated that the pack-ice frequently piles up and leaves masses of boulders at a height of even 20 and 30 feet above high-water mark; now after a subsidence, the ice during the first gale would drive these boulders still higher up, and so onwards and upwards, with scarcely any tendency to carry them out to sea. In a bay open to the prevailing winds, and without any river entering it, I should imagine that the coast-ice would rarely be drifted outwards. Thirdly, I believe that any floating object thrown into the water not far from an extensive coast-line, is generally driven soon on shore: this certainly seems to be the case with the wrecks of boats; and if so, any ice-borne boulders, carried by the wind off the land, would generally be again thrown on the coast.
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Caitlyn's internship in a NYC museum taught her valuable lessons in working with others to achieve common goals–and move the world.
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Name: Owen
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Age: 31
Location: Sydney
I got a penis pump as gag gift for my last birthday. We all got a good laugh when I open the package with all my friends sitting around. I put it away thinking I would never use such a thing, mostly because I didn't know how to use it. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. I was bored and while rummaging through my closet I came up with the pump. I decided to figure out how it worked. It was great fun, but I would never tell anyone about this. On a whim I decided to put my balls in the pump because I am really into ball play. I discovered that I liked this even more than I liked the pump on my cock. I don't know who else to ask, so here goes. Is ball pumping dangerous?
You are such a clever lad, Owen. See, what they say about idle hands being the devils workshop is true, huh?
Actually, guys have been stretching their balls for just about as long as us men folk have had balls to stretch…and that's a mighty long time. The only thing that screams male virility and potency as much as a big dick is a pair of big low hangin' nuts. In fact in many societies throughout history a man's cajones were considered sacred. They were revered as objects of religious, social, cultural and even magical power. In fact in ancient Rome, when a man would take an oath he would grab his balls, just like we put our hand on a bible today. In fact, that's where we got the word, "testify", from the Latin: testis.
Men discovered early on that ball stretching was both erotic fun and relatively easy to do. Just to clarify…when I say ball stretching, what I really mean is sack (scrotum) stretching. One cannot really increase the size of his balls (testicles). Soon men in many societies were stretching their junk to call attention to their manliness. With the help of a stretching device of one sort or another, and there are several, men were able to lengthen their balls with very little effort.
So, you've discovered the joys of ball stretching using your penis pump, huh? You are not alone. This is a very popular fetish/pastime. Since you already know that your balls are sensitive to touch, pressure and temperature let's spend a minute getting acquainted with what we have hanging between our legs.
Your family jewels, formally called "testes" are nestled within your nutsack, formally called a "scrotum". Your two gonads (some guys are born with just one) are your male reproductive organs. They're kinda oval shaped and are, on average, 1 3/4″ long by 1" wide. Each ball resides in its own independent sac. Your left nut probably hangs lower in its sac than the right one. This is nature's way of keeping them from banging into one another all the time.
Your 'nads produce the male hormone, testosterone, and also produce sperm cells. Each one has a number of small tubes attached to it called the epididymides. There's another tube attached to each ball called the vas deferens (the chord). The vas deferens carry your sperm cells to the prostate gland where the sperm is mixed with seminal fluid. And when the time comes, the whole mess comes shootin' our your johnson as spooge.
Why not take a minute to carefully fondle one of your balls. If you can picture in your mind's eye the anatomy of your testicle while you're groping around down there, you can actually feel the difference between the epididymides and the vas deferens. If you're not familiar with your testicular anatomy, search the internets for a visual aid, like a nice diagram. These diagrams are not hard to find. Even this gentle non-erotic probing feels way good, huh? No wonder having someone suck on our nuts can drive us boys wild. But I digress.
We'll get to your questions about ball pumping safety in a minute, Owen. But before we do, I'd like to take this opportunity to look at alternative means of ball stretching for all those in my audience who would like to experiment, but don't have a pump.
The first method is the simplest and you don't even need no stinkin' equipment. Let's call this the manual method. All ya do is give your huevos a nice sustained tug. Alternate your tugging with some nice ball massage. Over time this will help to lengthen you ball sack because you're manually forcing it downward. The more you pull and the longer you pull, the more you will affect the hang of your balls. This method is particularly effective after a hot bath or shower. Your skin will be at its most pliable then. This method is safe and effective and even a rank amateur can pull it off, so to speak. You're not gonna see a lot of results immediately, but your patience will pay off. Listen, even if your objective is not to get lower hanging balls, this'll be fun and pleasurable all on its one. It might just get you to pay your balls some attention while you're jerkin off. And that will make both you and your nuts much happier.
Kicking things up a notch, you can invest in a relatively inexpensive ball stretcher. You'll find a whole bunch of them in Dr Dick's Stockroom. The most common type of stretcher is a leather band. There are also Neoprene and metal ones too. Simply put, these little buggers just make a space between your testicles and your body. The thicker the band, the greater the space…obviously! Some of these stretchers come weighted; others allow you to add weights to them. This is probably not advised for the novice stretcher, but you'll be surprised how much fun this can be. Just have your wits about you when you try this. Too much weight for too long a time can cause serious injury. Make sure you use a lubricant to help reduce chafing during your stretching session. Also if you do use weights, don't move around when you have them attached. That's just common sense.
Now to the vacuum pump method. Some guys pump their balls separate from their dick, as apparently you do, Owen. Others pump cock and balls together. There are even specifically designed cylinders to facilitate this. For safety sake, keep your pumping sessions to 10 minutes or less. You can throw in a nice massage session afterward and you'll be one happy fella. Remember overuse or over-enthusiastic pumping can cause blood vessel damage, bruising and blistering. If you're lucky enough to have a pressure gage on the device you're using, always keep the pressure between -5 and –10 in Hg (mercury inches), never more.
Your scrotum is highly elastic, so the lengthening you produce will mostly be temporary, unless you do this on a regular basis. Effects will diminish over a period of 24-48 hours.
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James Gosling, a DDJ Excellence in Programming Award recipient, vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems, and programmer best known as the chief architect of the Java programming language, will present the keynote lecture in Pittsburgh tonight for the 25th (plus one) anniversary of Carnegie Mellon University's pioneering Andrew Project, which developed the university's central distributed computing service and made it the world's first wired campus. The lecture is open to the public.
In his talk, Gosling, who earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon in 1983, will reflect on the history of Java and some of its unusual uses, as well as some future directions such as deployment in mobile devices.
The talk is part of an Andrew Project Reunion that will continue through Saturday. Gosling was the lead implementer of Andrew's user interface and will be among about a dozen speakers who will reminisce and reflect on their experiences. Although last year marked the 25th anniversary of work commencing on Andrew, the reunion was delayed a year because Jim Morris, professor of computer science and director of the Information Technology Center (ITC) that developed Andrew, was unable to attend.
"Andrew sort of took everyone by surprise," said Morris, former dean of the School of Computer Science and Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley campus. In the early '80s, most computer systems relied on a central computing facility, but members of the Andrew Project envisioned an open system that would rely on personal computers to do the bulk of the processing. "It was on the leading edge of a new computing paradigm," Morris said. "In some sense, the entire world copied the distributed computer model." Carnegie Mellon wasn't the first place to try networking personal computers, but nowhere else was it attempted on such a scale.
Developing a prototype computing environment for academic use was recommended by a task force on computing established in 1981 by Richard Cyert, then president of Carnegie Mellon. In 1982, Carnegie Mellon and IBM formed the ITC to create an integrated personal-computing system within a five-year time frame. Work began in January 1983. The name Andrew was derived from university benefactors Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon.
The computing industry at the time emphasized the sale of hardware, Morris noted, and some people within IBM hoped that the Andrew Project would yield products that might be sold for other campus projects. The Andrew File System, a scalable, distributed file system, did become a product sold by Transarc Corp. and continues to be used. But other vendors, including Sun Microsystems, eventually would develop and sell products for establishing the personal computer networks that are ubiquitous today.
Carnegie Mellon's Andrew system includes a central file store, email, notification services and a large selection of application software. The Andrew user community at Carnegie Mellon includes more than 10,000 users. Most of the software written by the original Andrew Project has been replaced by commercial versions that it inspired.
Networking innovation has continued at Carnegie Mellon. In 1994, long before the Wi-Fi standard was adopted, work began at Carnegie Mellon on Wireless Andrew, the first wireless network to connect laptops and PDAs to the Internet. By 1999, Wireless Andrew served all 65 residential, academic and administrative buildings on the campus.


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Pitched them last year. During the meeting, there was obviously no chemistry so and we opted to amicably end the call early. Following, Mamoon proceeded to call my current investors (who he had ever spoken with before) and tell them that I am "unfundable." As you can imagine, this was incredibly damaging on many levels.
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The Cave of Machpelah in Hebron is one of the holiest places in the Land of Israel. It is the burial place that Abraham purchased for his family after Sarah died (Genesis 23:8-17). Later, Isaac and Ishmael buried Abraham there (Gen. 25:9).
Subsequently, it became the final resting place for all the patriarchs and matriarchs, except Rachel, who died near Bethlehem. The building over the tomb is truly amazing in its dimensions, complexity and antiquity. Huge walls built by Herod the Great 2,000 years ago surround it, while the interior is a combination of medieval architecture, Arabesque décor from later centuries, and synagogues founded after the reestablishment of the Jewish community here following the 1967 Six Day War.
In one corner of the largest hall, with its house-like tomb markers for Isaac and Rebecca, a cupola stands over a small opening into the actual Cave of Machpelah. Another, smaller room contains the tombs of Abraham and Sarah, and across an open courtyard are those of Jacob and Leah.
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I read somewhere this evening, that Chelsia's interviews from the BB backyard will be up tomorrow...today. RealPlayer screwed up in my book.
I read a little bit about what Russell said.... what a jerk !! I think he has an overinflated opinion of himself--and I think maybe he was a little 'sweet' on Jordan and was jealous of her relationship with Jeff.Off to find the 'post season thread'....... where is it?
there are more from that interviewer, I think they had everybody's but I wasn't sure if I should list them all out. I'm not sure if that's the one CT mentioned with Russ dissing Jordan...but seems like he dissed her all over the place
I was so nervous when Julie started pulling the keys it didn't even register at first that Jessie voted for Jordan I did watch Michele's interview...I just want to hug her so bad! I'm sure being in the house made her think about HS and being bullied all over again. I think she'll be happy when she gets out and sees that lots of people were rooting for her. I'm definitely gonna look her up on facebook now that she gave a shout out that she has one and wants to talk with the fans.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2001 Press Releases > September 2001 > Dillingham joins Wayland faculty in Division of Languages and Literature
Dillingham joins Wayland faculty in Division of Languages and Literature
Richard Dillingham has joined the faculty at Wayland Baptist University as instructor in English in the Division of Languages and Literature.
Dillingham has been teaching adjunctly for Wayland and is now full-time. Previously, he was managing editor at Paper Preparation Services in Lubbock. He has also been self-employed as a technical writer and worked for Texas Instruments as a technical writer.
In the academic arena, Dillingham has served as a research associate and technical editor in the Civil Engineering department at Texas Tech University, was an instructor in English at Tech and edited the Texas Civil Engineer magazine. He was also an instructor in English at Auburn University, assistant professor of English at Berry College in Georgia and at Reinhardt College in Georgia, where he also served as department chairperson for English and Speech.
Dillingham holds bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University of Georgia and has one year of study beyond the master's. He has had many publications and has edited more than 100 publications in his career. He received Outstanding Professor Awards at Texas Tech, Berry College and Reinhardt College.
He has also developed, written and produced educational programs for public-access television and was an instructor in that station's literacy program. He has taught martial arts as well and is an expert in fencing.
Dr. Arch Mayfield, chairperson of the Division of Languages and Literature, said he is glad to have Dillingham aboard full-time.
"We are mutually thrilled to have him here," Mayfield said. "He has already proven himself as a dedicated, productive faculty member, working with us as an adjunct since 1996 and sometimes teaching three to four classes each semester. He has extensive teaching experience in world literature and in writing as well."


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We are former fulltime RVers, who lived and traveled in a fifth wheel trailer for six years and now have settled on a cherry farm in Northwestern Michigan's Leelanau County.
About Me
- Larry & Teddy
- Cedar, Leelanau County, Michigan (near Traverse City), United States
- I am a 76 year old (born 7/4/1937) retired Public Radio Engineer from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Happily married to the love of my life, Teddy (nee Teddy Schlueter). Teddy is a retired Medical Records Clerk from Theda Clark Hospital in Neenah, Wisconsin. Two children, Michael and Lon. Lon passed away in 1994. Michael is married to his wonderful wife, Toni and lives in Appleton, Wisconsin. For photos click on link below or visit our photo site http://www.flickr.com/photos/igboo NOTE: Click on photos for full-size images.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Florence Prison RV Park
While we were at the Desert Gardens RV Oasis we visited the prison outlet store in Florence at the Arizona State Prison Complex also known as Florence State Prison (FSP). It is one of 13 prison facilities operated by the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC). FSP is located in Florence, Pinal County, Arizona, 55 miles east from the state capital of Phoenix.
There we found good news for RVers that enjoy a different kind of camping experience. We discovered that they are building an RV Park addition in the prison. There RVers will be able to mingle with the prisoners in the yard and participate in their various activities such as body building and running. Part time employment opportunities for work-campers will also be available in the prison laundry and license plate shop.
It is also rumored that it will be possible for minimum security prisoners to purchase their own RV, albeit with bars on the windows & doors, and live in them as opposed to a cell; motorhomes will, of course, have to have their engines disabled as well. This should go a long way in relieving the overcrowded prison conditions and may become a model for prisons around the nation.
So...if any of you RVers should find yourself in south central Arizona I suggest that you investigate what should turn out to be a unique camping experience. And who knows, some of you single or widowed RV ladies out there may even discover a new romance. ;-)
5 comments:
- Becca's Dirt said...
That is interesting. Camping with the prisoners. Relieving the overcrowded prisons in this way could be good - but don't put any violent people in them.
- April 01, 2009 10:46 AM
Where did u get ur info from? None of this is true at all. RV's in the prison? Funny.
- February 13, 2010 4:07 AM
- Larry & Teddy said...
Look at the date. ;-)
Also go back and read my post for April 1, 2008
Larry Page
- February 13, 2010 8:46 AM
- Ambreen Tariq said...
quite a good way to treat prisoners and a new concept to use rv parks.
- March 31, 2010 11:37 AM
- azra munir said...
nice way to treat prisoners and to promote rv camping.
- April 01, 2010 11:26 AM
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Q: How can I make the transition from work to home feel less pressured?
A: As difficult as it may be at times, you must learn to switch roles at the end of the day. Women who stay in work mode at home are doomed to frustration. The following tips can help make that shift back to your mommy role as smooth as possible:Take time to rejuvenate. Putting some space between work and home, even if only for 10 minutes or so, often helps bridge the transition, says Debra Waterhouse, M.P.H., R.D., author of Outsmarting Female Fatigue (Hyperion, 2001). Some ideas: Write in a journal or buy yourself some flowers.Keep work at work. Use your commute at the end of the day to review your workday; then, once you step in the door, make a conscious effort to focus on your child. Turn off your cell phone, don't check e-mail and let your machine pick up phone calls so that you can give your family undivided attention.Buy time. If you have in-home child care, pay for an extra half-hour past the time you get home. Use that time to shift gears. Change from work clothes to mommy clothes and discuss the child's day with the caregiver.


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Bin Laden film leak was referred to Justice; leaker top Obama official
Pentagon investigators concluded that a senior Defense Department official who's been mentioned as a possible candidate to be the next CIA director leaked restricted information to the makers of an acclaimed film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and referred the case to the Justice Department, according to knowledgeable U.S. officials.
The Justice Department received the case involving Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers in September, but so far it's declined to launch a criminal prosecution, said two senior U.S. officials who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The case involved a determination by investigators of the Pentagon's inspector general's office that Vickers provided the makers of the film "Zero Dark Thirty" with the restricted name of a U.S. Special Operations Command officer who helped plan the May 2, 2011, raid on bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan, one official said.
The identities of special forces personnel can be classified in certain circumstances and making them public is against the law, according to experts.
Vickers, a former Army special forces operator and onetime CIA paramilitary officer, is the top intelligence adviser to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and oversees the Pentagon's vast intelligence operations. He's been frequently mentioned as a candidate to replace retired Army Gen. David Petraeus as CIA director.
"Mike Vickers is an outstanding defense and intelligence professional and is well respected inside the Department of Defense and the intelligence community," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.
It was unclear whether the Justice Department review could hurt Vickers' chances of being nominated to the CIA post. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on the matter.
"When it comes to even the slightest hint that there may have been an unauthorized disclosure of classified information, there's actually little choice but to contact Justice," a senior defense official said. "That doesn't mean they will do anything with it. This is a routine practice."
The Pentagon inspector general's office is continuing to examine whether there were any other leaks of restricted information to the makers of the film. In a Dec. 4 letter denying a McClatchy Freedom of Information Act request for the findings, the office said the material was "currently part of an open investigation." A spokeswoman said Monday that the report "has not yet been finalized and issued."
Even though the inquiry was launched at the request of Rep. Peter King, R-NY, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the Defense Department Inspector General's Office hadn't informed King or any other lawmaker of its findings by midday Monday, a politically risky decision that could ignite charges that officials were trying to protect President Barack Obama during his tough re-election battle.
King told McClatchy that the delay in notifying him "raises the question" of whether officials were trying to put it off for political reasons, but he wanted to see the full report before drawing any conclusions.
"I'm not looking for anyone to be indicted," he said. "But the IG does not make referrals to the Justice Department as a matter of routine. To me the fact that any information at all would be given to Hollywood producers by this administration is disgraceful."
"If it's wrong enough or questionable enough for the IG to refer it to the Justice Department, that means it shouldn't have been done."
The film, by director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, originally was set for release just weeks before the Nov. 6 election. But it was delayed amid Republican complaints that it could bring Obama votes by glorifying the bin Laden operation. The premier was held last week and the film is due for a limited public release on Wednesday.
The senior defense official, who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly, wrote in an email that Pentagon officials don't think the case "will amount to anything." He pointed out that the Pentagon deemed as "unclassified" a transcript of a July 15, 2011, conversation among Vickers, Bigelow and Boal in which Vickers identified the U.S. special forces planner by name as someone who could be made available to brief the filmmakers. The transcript was released to Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization, in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
The investigators found no evidence that White House officials were involved in any leaks of classified materials to the filmmakers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the findings. They reached that conclusion, however, without interviewing any White House officials or Panetta, who was the CIA director at the time of the bin Laden raid. Panetta reassured Congress in June – before the investigators reached their findings – that no classified information had been released to the filmmakers.
A second U.S. official blamed bureaucratic handwringing for the delay in notifying King, not an orchestrated effort to protect the White House.
"This does not appear to be a cover-up or a wag-the-dog media stunt," the U.S. official said. "Rather, this is about who gets to break the law and leak information for their own benefit."
The case is emblematic of an ongoing debate over what information the government deems to be secret, who can disclose classified material and to what degree leaks of such information jeopardize national security.
Obama's Justice Department has prosecuted a record number of U.S. officials for leaking secret information to the news media that critics contend shouldn't have been classified or did no harm to national security. The most prominent case involves the ongoing prosecution of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who's accused of providing thousands of secret and confidential diplomatic and military documents to WikiLeaks, the online whistle-blowing organization.
In a Dec. 6 report, a presidential advisory panel that studied the classification issue found that "the current classification system is fraught with problems. In its mission to support national security, it keeps too many secrets, and keeps them too long; it is overly complex; it obstructs desirable information sharing inside of government and with the public."
"A culture persists that defaults to the avoidance of risk rather than its proper management," the Public Interest Declassification Board said in recommending an extensive overhaul of the system.
Steven Aftergood, who runs the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, said the release of the U.S. special forces planner's identity "would most likely be considered sensitive, not for national security reasons, but for personal security reasons. If his name became public, it might raise security considerations for him as an individual."
"The boundaries of what is and what is not classified are soft and changeable. In the abstract, this person's identity might be sensitive but unclassified," he continued. "It's very hard to say categorically that such information either would not or would be classified."
King requested the investigation in August 2011 over concerns that classified information may have been given to the makers of the bin Laden movie that might have compromised tactics used by U.S. special forces and the methods used by the CIA to gather intelligence.
Bigelow has said that "to the best of our knowledge" she and Boal didn't receive classified information. "We never requested classified information or was I aware that classified information was coming my way," she said in an interview with CBS earlier this month.
Among its other conclusions, the Pentagon investigators determined that White House and Pentagon officials discussed allowing the filmmakers to interview Vickers. They also found that the meeting with the special operations planner never took place, and that no secret special operations tactics and techniques were revealed to the pair.
One of the filmmakers attended a June 2011 CIA award ceremony that recognized the Navy SEALs and CIA officers involved in the raid, but no effort was made to protect the special operators' identities, investigators found.
The investigation will create more controversy for the movie, which had its premiere Dec. 10 in Los Angeles to widespread acclaim. Human right groups and other critics are complaining that scenes of the CIA's brutal interrogation of al Qaida detainees erroneously imply that torture provided crucial intelligence that led the agency to bin Laden's hiding place in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
King requested the investigation in letters to the Pentagon and CIA inspectors general in which he cited a New York Times report that Bigelow and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. were given "top-level access to the most classified mission in history." He also noted Bigelow's reported attendance at the CIA ceremony.
King asked the inspectors general to examine whether there had been any consultations between White House, Defense Department and CIA officials on providing the filmmakers access to SEAL team members or undercover CIA officers. He also requested that they look at whether any secret techniques or tactics of the SEALs or the CIA had been compromised and whether leaks about details of the raid to the news media had hurt the CIA's intelligence collection methods or human sources.
The Pentagon Inspector General's Office informed King in December 2011 that it was launching a formal investigation "into actions taken by Defense Department personnel related to the release of information to the filmmakers." The CIA Inspector General's Office apparently declined to investigate, telling King in a Nov. 8, 2011, letter that the agency's Office of Public Affairs was developing a written policy "that will govern future interactions with the entertainment industry."
In a May 23 letter, King wrote to Vickers that documents obtained by Judicial Watch in its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit "raise serious questions regarding your central role in providing classified and sensitive information to individuals without appropriate security clearances." The documents included emails and the transcript of the conversation that Vickers had with Bigelow and Boal in which Vickers disclosed the name of the U.S. Special Operations Command planner.
In a separate letter the same day, King expressed concerns to CIA Deputy Director Michael J. Morell about his role in the case. Morell became the acting agency chief after Petraeus resigned last month, and his name is among those mentioned as a top contender to replace Petraeus.
In his letter to Morell, King said the Judicial Watch documents showed that the CIA had given Bigelow and Boal permission to visit at least six CIA facilities. They included secure vaults at the National Counterterrorism Center and possibly "a sensitive, covered facility" outside the CIA headquarters campus in Langley, Va., King wrote.
The issue provided fodder during Obama's election battle against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with a group of politically conservative former special forces officers producing a video in which they accused the president of taking too much credit for bin Laden's death and allowing too many leaks of secret information about the hunt.


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So I decided these last few days of October are soup days! I had the idea of making Pozole' a few weeks ago, but I hadn't quite looked for a recipe, just that there were vegan recipes out there somewhere.
I went in the store Wednesday with the idea of getting as much as I could to last several days…I really don't like grocery shopping. So I ran into a can of hominy with a Pozole recipe on the back and I just decided to wing it. I grabbed the enchilada sauce and just decided not to worry about the rest…
Today, everyone in my family was sniffling, snotty or worse. I don't think I've ever started dinner so early. I think it was 3:30pm when I started cooking and we ate around 6:45pm. My daughters actually didn't eat any Pozole. The oldest ate rice and they both ate a little of a kiwi/apple salad I chopped up. It was the first night since Wednesday that we didn't have jicama. I really wanted to chop up jicama into the pozole, but I was also handwashing cloth diapers and doing several other things at the same time. Maybe next time.
In this Pozole I used a whole can of hominy. I poured it into the rice cooker(cause we couldn't find a lighter to light our stove), chopped in some fresh(free) yellow bell peppers and let it go for a little while with water. A half hour(or so) later I added in the enchilada sauce, I let it go for another half-hour-ish. Then I chopped up red onions, cabbage and put the juice of 3 limes into the soup. I let that simmer until it started running over…well that happened when I decided to chop in some zucchini squash and green onions.
Voila, easy and pleasing. We(the adults in the family) ate the soup with rice and tortilla chips. I just had my 3rd or 4th or…(really not counting) last bowl after warming up the soup after putting the girls to bed and it was better this time…with no tortilla chips. I think I'm stuffed and ready for bed now. It's been a tiring week and I need to get back on my no gluten thing again. Which I did very well until either Tuesday or Wednesday(probably both).
Oh yeah, we got a lot of free produce this week and a lot of dates…you will see a very excited me soon!
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2012: Competed in four meets as a sophomore … finished sixth with a time of 11:42 at the Keene State Alumni Invitational (9/01) … finished seventh at the UMass-Dartmouth Invitational (9/15) in 18:43.44 … placed 78th at NEICAAAs (10/07) with a time of 18:41.52 … came seventh at NEWMACs (10/07) in 18:59.29 … NEWMAC Academic All-America … NEWMAC First Team All-Conference … Elite 89 Award.
2011: Competed in six events as a freshman... NEWMAC All-Conference... placed seventh in the UMass Dartmouth Invitational (9/17)...in the All New England Championship on (10/8) she finished 90th with a time of 19:27...finished 35th in the Brooks Invitational (10/15)... with a time of 19:09 she finished seventh in the NEWMAC Championship (10/30)... placed 95th in the All New England Championship... finished in 217th at the NCAA Division III Championships completing the course in 24:47.22.
Off the Cross Country Trail: Majoring in mechanical engineering with minors in biomedical engineering and Mandarin Chinese … also competes on the MIT indoor and outdoor track and field teams … held an internship at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory … conducted research in the Langer Lab at the David H. Koch Institute at MIT … Department of Defense SMART Scholarship … Society of Women Engineers.
High School: A 2011 graduate of Old Town High School … Maine Track and Cross Country Coaches Association All-State Girls first team as a senior … three-time Penobscot Valley cross country all-conference … Maine Track and Cross Country Girls Senior of the Year … two-time Class B Eastern Maine regional champion … Class B Maine state champion as a senior … 10th-place at New England cross country regional championship as a senior … Penobscot Valley outdoor track All-Conference as a senior … two-time cross country team captain … National Merit finalist … National Honors Society president … Key Club president … Junior ROTC … valedictorian.
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Embrace the summer sun with a helping of our favourite, summer inspired, tipples. They're the ideal antidote to chill out and relax in the lovely warmth. Sometimes it's great to enjoy some home comforts, but that doesn't mean you should hold back…
Why don't you treat your family and friends to a perfect serve (or two), courtesy of our brand new helpful 'how to' videos. Make summer bliss with each sip!
We've brought back one of our favourite summer tipples. The amazingly refreshing, Italian classic, Aperol Spritz is perfect relaxing drink during the summer heat. Best served in a wine glass, filled half way with ice, then add a 50ml measure of Aperol liqueur, fill with Prosecco, and add a dash of soda. For the final touch, garnish with a wedge of fresh orange, and… serve!
Summer's well and truly here, so why don't you enjoy our delicious twist on the British summer classic — our very own Pimm's Spritz! Not only is the Pimm's Spritz superbly refreshing, it's also very simple to make. Fill a glass halfway with ice, and add 50ml of Pimm's, a few slices of cucumber, and top off the class with lemonade and sparkling wine. Garnish with a spring of fresh mint then it's time to go outside and relax in the sun!
This is without a doubt one of our favourite drinks of the whole summer, and like the other two spritzes it's simple to make, and even better to drink! Pink & Spritz is a delicious combination of Gordon's Pink Gin, fresh strawberries and wine! Fill a glass ¾ full of ice, before adding 25ml of Gordon's Pink Gin. Add in 3 or 4 strawberry halves then top off with lemonade and sparkling wine. It's easy to make, and supremely enjoyable.


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Food conservation Collaboration Nestor Ishimwe | added on May 13, 2011 Inventory of food that should be well conserved in order to prevent food borne illnesses due to the chemical deterioration of these foods.
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IYC Outreach, chemistry educational resources Suggestion Jayasekara Athtanaike | added on May 13, 2011 This a copy of email received from Dr. Liezl, ACS in regard to IYC outreach and chemical educational resources, The information will be useful to those involved in IYC activities and school educational programmes. I thank Liezl Perez for his generous contribution.
Changing habits- changing climates Discussion Rupashree Dass | added on Apr 27, 2011 little habits that make a big difference
Appreciation of IYC activities Suggestion Jayasekara Athtanaike | added on Apr 21, 2011 Many countries are actively participating in IYC activities. I propose to select three countries who perform best and offer first, second and third place awards to them.
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Request for Donations Suggestion N.M. Sanjaya Hettigedara | added on Apr 21, 2011 Sri Lanka has made a considerable progress in the implementation of IYC 2011 activities. A request is made for assistance from the donors, to continue the rest of the activities.
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Karl Marx has been dead for 130 years, yet his malign influence is perceptible throughout Western civilisation. He is still treated with deference in his latest biographies: Jonathan Sperber's Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright, £35) and Rolf Hosfeld's Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Berghahn, £18). Sperber sees him as a "backward-looking figure" like Luther, who projected the revolutionary past into the future, Hosfeld as a prophet, who asked the right questions but came up with the wrong answers. But both see Marx as a titan, thereby perpetuating the preposterous claim of Friedrich Engels, his chief collaborator and mythologist, in his graveside eulogy of Marx at Highgate Cemetery in 1883: "As Darwin discovered the law of the development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history."
The only one of Marx's books that became popular appeared in 1848: The Communist Manifesto, with its resounding peroration, "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, unite!" In fact, the last sentence was borrowed from Karl Schapper, a minor German agitator, while the first sentence is lifted from Jean-Paul Marat, the most bloodthirsty of the Jacobins, who was himself indebted to Rousseau's slogan: "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains." Another adage Marx and Engels took from Marat was: "The workers have no country." Years later, in 1875, they plagiarised another French revolutionary celebrity, Louis Blanc, in their Critique of the Gotha Programme: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." In that same text, Marx described the "transition period" between capitalism and Communism "during which the State can be nothing else than a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat". That fatal phrase, ironically, he claimed to have borrowed from Auguste Blanqui, but seems in fact to have invented himself.
Much more serious than plagiarism is the fact of Marx's anti-Semitism and racism. Many Marx scholars are still squeamish about this subject, but the evidence is undeniable. The authorities on this subject are Julius Carlebach and Robert Wistrich, neither of whom is cited by the new biographers, but who agree that Marx went beyond any previous expressions of anti-Semitism by blaming Jews for the corruption of Christian society and demanding their "abolition". Marx's early essays "On the Jewish Question" are, in the words of Carlebach, "a logical and indispensable link between Luther and Hitler". Marx vilified Jews — "whose god is the bill of exchange" and who created Christianity in order "to attain world dominion" — and Judaism, a religion so "anti-social" that it "makes even the lavatory an object of divine law". Later, his anti-Semitism became less Hegelian and more racist. His notorious description of his benefactor and rival Ferdinand Lassalle as "a Jewish nigger", whom he accused of selling out the socialists to Bismarck, is all the more odious when one considers that Marx had in fact allowed himself to be used by the Austrian government as a source of intelligence on the exiled revolutionaries in London. He also demonised Jewish bankers in his 1856 article "The Russian Loan": "Thus we find every tyrant is backed by a Jew, as is every Pope by a Jesuit." Marx loved conspiracy theories: he believed, for instance, that the English ruling class, led by Lord Palmerston, was in the pay of tsarist Russia.
This unpalatable side of Marx is scarcely a secret. I have in front of me a copy of Aus dem literarischen Nachlass von Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels und Ferdinand Lassalle (Berlin 1913), in which is reprinted the notorious article "Hungary" of January 1849 from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, of which Marx was editor. This piece, written by Engels but with Marx's full approval, denounces the "ethnic trash" (Völkerabfälle) who will always support the counter-revolution "until their total extinction or loss of nationality". The article continues: "The next world war will cause not only reactionary classes and dynasties, but entire reactionary peoples to disappear from the earth. That too is progress." This warrant for genocide has been known for a century, yet Marx and Engels still get a good press.