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If you are not in the emergency services family, or if you are not a supporter of the emergency services, then you probably would not have heard about a bizarre trend that seems to be doing the rounds recently.
It basically entails disgruntled residents leaving rude and obnoxious messages on emergency ambulances whilst their crews battle to try and save the lives of people in serious need of medical help.
In a nutshell, neighbours of patients who are being treated by medic's are becoming so incensed by the fact that the ambulance DARED to park on, or near, their drives/parking spaces, that the only way they can cope with the thought of being temporarily inconvenienced is to put pen to paper.
Often, the messages are worded in such a way so as to make you think that they have been written by a toddler who is high on 'fruit shoots'.
Some of the note-leavers even come with 'diagrams' offering 'advice' on how blue-light trained response drivers should park their massive ambulances, prior to attending to a patient who might be fighting for their life in a nearby property.
This highly insensitive and incredibly selfish 'habit' seems to have no end in sight, as more and more inconsiderate people are emerging from their murky worlds in order to share their negative energy with as many good-willed people as possible.
A few days ago, a post surfaced on the 'interweb' of someone who appeared to have left a note on the windscreen of an ambulance that said:
"Hi Guys,
Take as long as you need and get a coffee when you are done".
Next to the note, was what appeared to be, a rather crisp £10 note.
It made us think, that perhaps this was a 'sign' to would-be numpties who are thinking about leaving notes on emergency vehicles as opposed to being a gesture of good will…
Everyone here at 'Emergency Services Humour' and 'Emergency Services News' has served in the emergency services and after a few years on the front line you develop what can only be described as a 'bullshit' radar.
Well, the echo being given off by this 'gesture' was returning a massive target on the aforementioned bullshit radar.
So, using our vast network of underground contacts, we did some digging around and delving and found out the truth regarding the note and accompanying £10.
The person who left the note, is a chap called Simon Harris.
He left the note, as we suspected, in order to try and prove a point – which most rational people will be able to relate to.
Basically, the sentiment was 'stop being a numpty and stop leaving shitty notes on emergency ambulances! Why not instead, leave a gesture of good will'.
Mr Harris added further:
"I created the image to fight the awful narrative in the media at the moment about nasty ambulance messages – I wanted something nice to go viral.
"Also, I want to encourage people to maybe extend this sort of kindness to hard-pressed paramedics in the future."
So, there we have it – if you thought that the note and £10 were too good to be true, then they were.
However, should you decide to leave a nice note on an emergency ambulance that is parked up whilst its crew potentially save someone's life, then good on you!
We would not really recommend leaving any cash on the windscreen though as there are too many scroats around who would quite happily nick it.
Mr Harris also further clarified that the note and the £10 were both placed on his own car, a Vauxhall Zafira – which apparently also occasionally doubles up as a non-emergency ambulance…
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Myself and my buddy Russ shot a practice 5-stand before going out. The club has two permanent 5-stands. We shot off the elevated stand. For major shoots the club installs two additional 5-stands for NSCA shooting. I'll be taking some photos of the NSCA stands in the next day or two.
We heading out to the North Course (850-yard rifle range) to shoot Thursday Prelim. The rifle range is converted into a sporting clays course for major shoots and called the North Course! They usually add two stations just off the range and they did this time also.
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04 Oct Choco banana
With this recipe you will surprise your guest. Invite them to this wonderful dish and accompany it with a good cup of coffee
- 80 grams of oatmeal chocolate (2BSLIM)
- 40 gr almond flour
- 5 gr cacao powder defatted
- 1 egg
- 1 ripe banana
- 10ml sweetener
- 1/2 on baking powder
- 20 g of chocolate chips (sugar free)
Once we have all the ingredients mix all together in a food processor powerful enough, and let it mix until smooth. Let dough rest for oats falls completely apart and finally we add the chocolate chips.
Advice: Pour the mixture into the molds and bake at 190 degrees for 18 min and ready.


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With the controversy old news, the Dixie Chicks deserve to be on top of the world
Fleet Center, Boston, June 19, 2003
By Jeffrey B. Remz
BOSTON - The Dixie Chicks lately may have become better known for the infamous comment of lead singer Natalie Maines while in London in March slamming President George W. Bush, but during their Top of the World concert tour, the question must become whether this trio can continue to live up to their acclaim.
The answer pretty much is a resounding yes. The Chicks - Maines and sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire - are touring off the mega-selling "Home" album, which has sold about 6 million since its release in August 2001.
At the focal point is a slimmed down Maines. She always has benefited from having a powerful voice, and that was once again the case from the get go with the lead off, kiss off song "Goodbye Earl," about a woman taking domestic abuse into her own deadly hands. During the 100-minute stage-in-the-round show including encore, the Chicks played songs from their last three albums. And musically they mixed it up as well focusing on the bluegrass, home porch type songs of "Home" to some more revved up songs and some dyed in the wool traditional country ("Hello Mr. Heartache")
At one point, Maines and Robison did a two-step while their compadre fiddled away.
Maines had no problems whatever with the style. Her voice was supple and full of energy throughout. She turned in a good performance as well on a Bob Dylan tune penned for Sheryl Crow, which had a swampy feel.
Often helping on backing vocals were Maguire and Robison. They usually brought more depth to the song.
The Chicks also benefited from a very strong eight-piece backing band including Brent Truett on mandolin and Robby Turner, a stalwart on steel. At times, a string quartet was added, though never as effectively as on "Top of the World."
These Chicks were not the chattiest, never particularly joked around, but what they said seemed heartfelt.
Yes they did make a reference to the March 10 comments of Maines, but saying that made them realize the importance of the words in "Truth No. 2." But the controversy ought to be old news soon enough.
Though the show was there musically, the staging left something to be desired. The band is employing a huge stage with the band in the middle and the Chicks generally moving around the outside to different parts of it. But the problem was that their backs were often to a chunk of the crowd. This also caused a gap in connecting with the audience. And the concert could easily have been longer with "I Can Love You Better" and "Tonight the Heartache's On Me" among the songs not played.
The Chicks clearly overcome their spate of controversy from earlier this year. When they focus on the music, they show why they deserve to be on top of the world.
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While testing and aiming sprinklers yesterday, I was watching water blow away in even very light wind conditions. (This is partly because I have the throw screw on my rotors cranked down, making more of a mist, but that's a separate problem) This really drilled in the value of watering during low wind.
Next I pulled up a meteogram. I live in CO, so unfortunately I quickly saw that no two mornings are the same, with random periods of calm & high wind.
It occurs to me Rachio has all the information to automate this. Have the user select a time range (4-8AM, Morning, Afternoon, etc) instead of an exact time.
Then consider sunrise, temperature, and identify the lowest forecasted average wind speed period. For example, if the run will be 100 minutes, find the 100 minute window between 4-8AM with the least total wind. Or for bonus points, try to line up the watering & soaking periods to calm & windy periods.
This is like the "Watering Start Time: Automatic Sunrise Adjustment" request, but expanded in scope considering additional variables.
As with any kind of multi-variable computer decision making, trying to capture the most optimal solution may be complex (model water loss from each variable across window) but the basic feature ought to be pretty straightforward, and allowing the user to constrain the decision range should help minimize the fallout of pathological scenarios.


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50 or so. Wherever possible, I'll be building the project or testing the activity myself so I can pursue my own goal of actually using my license for a change. In the next installment I'll start discussing what the newly minted Technician can do with his or her license. Everyone has to start with a Technician license, which requires passing a 35-question multiple choice examination. In another clunky twist, the service requires you to hang onto an "emergency kit" PDF file that contains a specific sign-in address and "secret key" you need in order to set the app up on any new device. If you install the app with above-mentioned steps then share your valuable experience with us. Then guess what. how to hack a cell phone pictures remotely are, thats where the server that everyone connects to in order to get to your site is. If you did have your own website then you would know that this IS the right thing. To earn a license you'll need to pass a written exam, but before taking the plunge you'll need to know a little about the classes of amateur radio licenses, and the privileges they bestow.
Some of these sites need payment before they give you all the details. Give it a shot even if you haven't studied – I nearly passed my Extra exam going in cold after I aced my General. There are even one-day intensive "ham cram" sessions where you're guided through all the material and take the exam at the end of the day. So before you are planning to get our software, just go through those set of norms so as to avoid any sort of confusion later on. While you can't get stolen information back, you can prevent them from stealing your account. Unlicensed individuals are free – and encouraged – to listen in on the bands, but if you don't have a license, you can't transmit. These tools were never popular, will never be popular, and don't even encrypt most of the metadata leaked by email. So even if you don't care about your Facebook account, we strongly recommend changing the respective logins or tightening your Facebook security to secure these third-party accounts.
Facebook recently experienced its biggest security and data breach ever. Note: If you're using Facebook to log into other applications, like Spotify or Instagram, those may be affected by the 2018 data breach. There are also occasional special events like the annual Field Day, where hams set up tents and booths in public places as an outreach to the public, where exams are often administered for free. This ultimately makes sure that they cannot be used for unlawful purposes like stalking. The current entry-level license class in the US is called Technician class; the old Novice class was eliminated in 2000, along with the Morse code requirement for all classes. In the normal case (no vulnerability to allow arbitrary code execution) it all depends on the Bluetooth profiles supported by your device. Hacking is usually associated with sneaking into other's device without their consent but this software seeks permission from the owner to accept request for connection. Once that was done, all he needed to collect data from the thief was an Internet connection.
One of rules of a DFI investigation is to never to alter the data. The exam is standardized with questions selected from a fixed pool, with topics ranging from knowing FCC Part 97 rules to basic electronics and RF theory. Exam sessions are run by Volunteer Exam Coordinators (VECs) Volunteer Examiners (VEs), hams who have special training in administering and grading exams. Exams are graded on the spot so you'll know instantly how you did, and you can even take the next exam for no extra charge if you're ready. There are lively debates over whether that's a good thing or not – personally, I'm not a fan of it – but it is what it is; the Technician exam is dead easy. As I pointed out a few years back in "My Beef With Ham Radio", I'm an inactive ham. They could also lock you out of your Facebook account forever.


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2018.12.03 Royal Albert Hall The Prince's Trust charity Gig London, UK
scifigeekgirl replied to MVP1994's topic in GigsHoly fuck. There are now so many bits of my brain all over the place. I have gone from 1) WOOHOO!! London RAH gig to 2) OMG - getting tix will be hell to 3) Shit! Presale on Weds 10th clashes with a work thing, in New Malden of all places. Argh!! Why does bloody real life crap keep getting in the way of gig-going? Currently thinking how I can get around it, eg reschedule workthing for the 11th *realisation* dear god I am basically Muse's willing slave. All they have to is whistle, and I'll come running. Sit, beg, roll over. Woof. I may come to my senses and remember my mundane priorities. Or not. Either way, good luck to them that tries on Weds/Fri.
Pressure (single)
scifigeekgirl replied to iLikeCorvettes's topic in Songs & ReleasesHello Muse board, long time no visit. We all pulling apart new Muse stuff still? Spiffing. For good or for bad, Matt has eaten a huge amount of 80s vibe. Seems all that cheese is giving some of us indigestion, hm. *burp* Personally, I really like Pressure. Ridiculously catchy stuff. Can't get it out of my head (apols to Kylie). As for the vid, it made me smile. Hilariously awful outfits, for one thing! Yup I'm going to be dancing (badly) to this one
2017.08.19 - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK
scifigeekgirl replied to forevermusic's topic in Gigs...erm, scrub that. Thanks to the combination of a couple of amazing friends, I actually have a ticket!! My head has exploded.
2017.08.19 - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK
scifigeekgirl replied to forevermusic's topic in GigsDefinition of eternal optimism (or stupidity): floating around various places online, in the hope that someone will have a Muse SBE ticket... After failing to get tix in the presale/sale/draws etc, not to mention missing out on further tix releases and FB/board posts (timing is everything, and mine sucks quite frankly), have come to the conclusion that I Will Not Be Going. :'( *waah* ...and yet I still lurk on here like some kind of masochist All you jammy buggers who are going, hope you have a bloody good time. For my part, I'm going to head down to SBE (which is just down the road from me) in the vain hope that someone has a spare +1 - but also to see my mad musey friends who I haven't seen in ages.
2017.08.19 - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK
scifigeekgirl replied to forevermusic's topic in GigsAargh. Have given up for now. The anti-robot captcha thingy was driving me round the bend. I never want to see another roadsign ever...
2017.08.19 - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK
scifigeekgirl replied to forevermusic's topic in GigsAre they trying to kill off their fans by giving us all bloody heart attacks? Seriously, this is the most I've ever stressed out about Muse gig tix...and I've done a LOT of stressing over the years...
Short version of being a Muser: ...bloody Muse they drive you round the bend. When are they playing again?
*peeks around the door* Welll that was one for the history books, weren't it. I have just about calmed down. My timelines were exploding; when I saw the setlist and then the pics & vidclips:eek:, yeah I'm afraid my initial reaction was *waaaah* NOT FAIR MUSE ARE BASTARDS WHY DID THEY DO THIS AGAIN. :'( I know some people who were going, and I'm really pleased that folks had an awesome gig. And I've seen some of the rarities before: I went to Reading 2011; managed to see Muse at Exeter the other year - and that was pretty special. So I'm trying not to bitch. BUT hell: 8 rarities at ONE gig?! AND silly costumes?? AND peeps up onstage!! Aaargh. Of course I wish I had been there... Other reason: it was a Proper Gig. I worry about the music not coming first anymore...Much as I loved the theatrics, I have to agree with whoeveritwas a few pages back about the amount of time that the band actually plays. Montreaux was practically all songs, no gimmicks - which sounded (and obv was) brilliant! Are we entitled to a certain setlist? No. Do we deserve a great gig? Hell yeah at those prices! I know - you can't please all of the peeps all of the time. So yup they should just mix the songs up a bit more - something for everybody. The trouble is that you have to buy tix so far in advance and you have no idea what you're getting. Could be mundane, could be special. Could be brain-meltingly awesome. It's the randomness that drives me mad. If Muse are worried that nobody knows/appreciates the old stuff, that's easy: just play them dammit. Then they won't be rarities! Other wishes: that Someone who recorded the gig will actually put it on dvd...*hopeful sigh* Coda: bloody hell just found out that OH had an industry invite ticket to this. Nooooo!!! *waaah*
Where have you heard Muse?
scifigeekgirl replied to ADAM's topic in Muse In the MediaWow. Just heard a proper oldie - In Your World - on Radio6 breakfast show! Don't hear that one very often, if at all, these days
Less than a week to go, and I'm getting pretty excited, as I'm going for a long weekend, to Saturday AND Sunday gigs. The weather forecast is putting the dampeners on it a bit - literally - looks like it's going to be rainy for the whole time I'm there (boo!) At least the gig's indoors! Remembered I have Will Call tix. Never had this sort before. Anybody know the drill? Like, where the box office is, what time it opens, can I pick up both dates at the same time? ta v much
Well, I'm going to this, even if none of you lot are ...I've always fancied going to Italy, and now I am!
2016.05.15 - Mediolarum Forum, Milan, Italy
scifigeekgirl replied to forevermusic's topic in GigsWoohoo I got tickets! Pretty good seats, too. Better than London!
2016.04.11 - O2 Arena, London, England
scifigeekgirl replied to forevermusic's topic in GigsWell I got my tickets, with less stress that I'd imagined. Still, they're in a corner block, so not brilliant. But after a few goes at seeing what else came up, I decided to grab them - glad I did. At least I'm going!
2016.04.12 - O2 Arena, London, England
scifigeekgirl replied to forevermusic's topic in GigsTickets sorted - seats in corner block. 105 I think. Not brilliant, but hey I'm going! And won't be able to join in the gen frenzy on Fri, so had to just grab & go. Which I did
2016.06.04 - O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
scifigeekgirl replied to forevermusic's topic in GigsTickets bought - yeeha I'm going to Prague! Now to work out basics of czech *gulp* it looks really difficult...


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Trump Gets Dumped
Univision ends Miss Universe partnership following Donald Trump's bigoted comments about Mexicans.
Donald Trump's "insulting" remarks about Mexicans last week seem to be coming back to bite him in the culo.
According to an announcement from the network on Thursday, Univision has decided to end its relationship with the Trump Organization due to the presidential candidate's inflammatory comments made during his June 16 campaign launch.
"The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems," Trump said during the speech. "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. … They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."
In response, the network released a statement this morning announcing that they would no longer be airing July's Miss Universe pageant:
Today, the entertainment division of Univision Communications Inc. announced that it is ending the Company's business relationship with the Miss Universe Organization, which is part-owned by Donald J. Trump, based on his recent, insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants. At Univision, we see first-hand the work ethic, love for family, strong religious values and the important role Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans have had and will continue to have in building the future of our country. We will not be airing the Miss USA pageant on July 12th or working on any other projects tied to the Trump Organization.
Trump's response? Pure class…
Univision wants to back out of signed @MissUniverse contract because I exposed the terrible trade deals that the U.S. makes with Mexico.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2015
Univision and the Miss Universe Organization had announced plans in January to air the Spanish-language version of Miss USA and Miss Universe.


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The Innovation Cell has been around for a year only and has been fortunate to get some attention from industry, the social sector, media and patient advocates.
Below is a sample of a few mentions.
The consumer will demand to know and will want to be empowered.
- Steve Case, Founder, America Online
the shift towards patient empowerment is 'unstoppable'
- Fiona Godlee, Editor, British Medical Journal
Patient conversations reinvent how we identify opinion leaders and exploit disruptive innovation...
Neil Seeman, Director, Innovation Cell


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Charity show at Portishead care home
PUBLISHED: 10:00 06 March 2019
An afternoon of 'toe-tapping' tunes was enjoyed by people at a Portishead care home to raise money for a worthy cause.
Norewood Lodge Care Home hosted a charity concert by Ukebox last month to raise much-needed cash for Festival Medical Services.
The Clevedon-based band had people singing along at the care home as they rolled back the years and performed a long list of popular songs from decades gone by.
A care home spokesman said it was a memorable occasion for its residents.
They added: "The band performed a variety of toe-tapping music including The Everly Brothers tunes.
"Everyone joined in with singing and we all had a great afternoon.
"It was even more special as one of the band members, Shelia Shute, was given a banjolele by one of Norewood Lodge's residents, Doreen Want, several years ago and Shelia has been playing the instrument ever since."
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I mean look at the SGs in our division alone.
BOS - Jaylen Brown/Marcus Smart
PHI - Josh Richardson
BKN - LeVert/Joe Harris
FVV is the only guy that arguably is a fair matchup size-wise. Otherwise, you're pretty much at a disadvantage. And that's going to be the case for most teams in the league beyond our division.
The Pelicans are owned by the Saints. Anthony Davis' agent thought he could fool this Southern lady into trading him for nothing. She ordered the Pelicans to sit his fool butt in the 4th, give him games off every now and then...CAREFULLY avoiding a confrontation with the union via guidelines and keeping him from getting that SALARY BONUS.
She sat down with Davis' agent and basically said, "We OWN you for another season. We're not giving you up for nothing."
And THAT'S when she hired David Griffin, who was interested in the Knicks but Mills sent him away because he was a threat...
And David Griffin fleeced the Lakers of their young talent and THREE first rounders, which will be the minimum asking price of any star these days.
Lonzo Ball won't attract any of that. He has one season left. Like I said, I think he's headed to Sacramento via trade or as an UFA.
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I see some Russell Westbrook in Maxey. WB wasn't thought of as a PG either and wasn't great in college.
But that plus 2.75 gets me on the train. Means absolutely nothing
AD was NOT resigning there. They were going to lose him for nothing. Therefore, they were dealing him. The fact that LA blinked was great for them, good job. But it wasnt they werent scared of trading him, blah blah blah or whatever you will say next. Whether they traded him then, or whenever else, it was happening
Lonzo is a good young player, and is still restricted. They have an infinite number of options. If you dont see how the two situations are completely dissimilar, then I dont know what else to say. Make up some more stories though if it makes you feel better
I think hed be a good fit for any team, Payne told The Post last month. In the next couple of years, hes going to be one of those guys you look back on and people say: Wow, I knew he was good, I didnt know he was that good. When youre drafting a kid this young, youre looking at if he can help now, but youre also projecting where hell be a year or two year from now.
The NBA is going to guards being versatile, Payne said. And he can really score and do it running off screens or throwing it back to him when the defense lags and allows him to be in scoring position. But you also can put him in position for him to be a lead guard. Its the ability to do both play off the ball and on the ball that is vital in todays NBA.
I just think he loves to play, Payne said. His personality, his ability to play well during crucial times of games whether thats scoring or defending. He really got better at defending from the start of the season to the end. When you evaluate players when theyre that young, you evaluate how much growth they have in a short period of time.
From the day he came into the program to the day he left, hes learned to play defensively the way he needed to. There were games he was rebounding and couldve had triple doubles. Hes headed in the right direction. His best basketball is ahead of him.
He needed conference tournament to prove thats who he really is, Payne said. I hope teams have seen his whole body of work from high school, AAU and college. One thing about being at Kentucky, the way you play at the end of the year, its concrete info on who you are. Winning is another talent and skill. When you got to Elite Eight and Final Four, you bring a winning attitude that helps an organization.
He has unbelievable character, unbelievable family, high character, Payne said. And he wants to be great. The league is going towards players like him that are high-character kids. Hes super articulate, a fun-loving personality, comes to the gym every day good, bad or indifferent and has fun playing basketball. He loves talking to coaches and being around his teammates.
To compare, Frank shot 32% from 3 on 2.5 attempts in 20 minutes a night and he needs to improve a ton before he helps spread the floor - would be nice to get a true floor spacer OR legit playmaker with our top pick, not sure Maxey checks either box.
But hes interesting. Another name to consider I suppose, although Im a bit hesitant on him personally.
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Yeah well, it's so easy to sit there in your little cluster, and gang up on me sitting up here all on my lonesome with only a packet of carrots and a left-handed chequebook for comfort.
Ðämñ you little pixies. Ðämñ you all, with your pointy noses and effeminate hairdos. May you be struck down by a teabag and fed to the concrete bollards.
Long live the fridge!
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You know you're supposed to slather on a high-SPF sunscreen before going out in the sun, but these five steps will help you double up on that protection. (more…)
Better Diet, Longer Life?
Middle-aged and older adults with a better diet also tend to live longer, a large new study shows. (more…)
Summer Camp Prep for Kids With Allergies, Asthma
Heading to summer camp for the first time is always a little unnerving. But for a child with allergies or asthma, there are special concerns. (more…)


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Being honest with yourself leads to a heavenly life experience. Lying to yourself and others leads to a hellish life experience.
It is so hard to be honest, even with ourselves. Much of society teaches us to lie to ourselves and to others. We call this process 'believing' and being polite, but it is just lying.
It took me years to break the habit of lying to myself, but when I did I experienced this world as heavenly, perfect. Even today, I am not always honest with myself and hence I have periods where I experience life as hell. But when I take the time to stop and get back to the truth, I again go back to that heavenly life experience.
Recently there was an election and the conservative political party lost. One of the things I find most startling about this is just how dishonest these conservatives were being with THEMSELVES leading up to the election. They were all so certain that their candidate was going to win by a landslide even though the polls were showing he was going to lose. But these conservatives wanted to believe their candidate was going to win so they lied to themselves saying that the polls were wrong or that the pollsters were all liberals and the liberal media was just trying to convince everyone their candidate was going to win so that the conservatives would be discouraged and not vote.
Anyway you look at it, the hell those conservatives experienced on election night and are now experiencing is entirely a product of their own self deception; nothing more.
The dictionary defines religion a a system of beliefs. If we were to be honest without ourselves we would have to admit that a belief is a lie we tell ourselves. For example, imagine I 'believe' that there is an apple tree around the corner with lots of apples on it, and I believe this because someone told me this, I am lying to myself because the truth is I do not know if there is a tree there or if I understood the person correctly or whatever. Such is the case with religion, for we really do not know what the writers of the scriptures meant by their words until we experience what they experienced, and that would only be in the present moment. By experiencing something in the present moment we are not longer believing in some words about something, we are experiencing it. Belief is gone. If we just believe we are saying to ourselves that we do not care enough to find out the truth.
Religious people experience this world as HELL because of their self deception. This is good for the business of the ruling classes, for they can hold out hope for a better future like a carrot on a stick and the gullible religious people will just keep chasing after that hope as they lie to themselves thinking that heaven is just around the corner.
Heaven is NOT just around the corner; it is here, AT HAND, as Jesus tried to tell people. The only requirement is that you STOP lying to yourself.
That is a tough requirement; it takes a lot of discipline to stop lying to yourself when everywhere you go the world is encouraging you to lie to yourself. Which is why some people encourage you to get away from society in order to find the inner peace and clarity that comes with it so that you can see what is real, what is true and you can be honest with yourself about it.
Yet who cares enough, even about themselves, to take the time to go off to a lonely place and find that clarity so that they can see the truth that will set them free to enjoy and love all that life has to offer? Really?
Is it that people do not care of is it that people do not know HOW to be honest with themselves, they do not know how to find that clarity, they do not know how to stop the lying?
I do not know the answer to this question. This has been the quest I have had for a long time, to find out the answer to this burning question. I am hoping that there might be some people out there who will read this with some thoughts and ideas they will share on this here.


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Q. If you were guiding us towards new directions for self-improvement in 2018, what would you suggest? — DIY2018
A. Dear DIY2018,
I'd suggest that we take 2018 as the year to set ourselves free by BE-ing instead of DO-ing. Every year most of us make some sort of resolution to "do" something different, yet there's no more room on our "To-Do" list. How about we start a "To-Be" list?
I'd suggest beginning a practice of observing ourselves … without judgment. Most of us are our own worst critics … constantly. Whether conscious of it or not, most of us judge ourselves much worse than we judge others. This leaves us playing the role of both the jailed and the jailer, often not realizing that we have the keys to our self-imposed prison bars in our back pocket.
We may not be immediately successful, but as we grow our consciousness around it, we can begin to notice and suspend the pattern of negative self-talk. We can then practice backing out of old negative thought loops as soon as we see them, creating gentleness and forgiveness around them along with conscious redirection. Sometimes it may be helpful to question ourselves by thinking of one of our most beloved people and imagining what we'd tell them if they were judging themselves in the same way.
With consistent practice, we'll catch ourselves in the act red-handed, eventually realizing that we've neutralized the pattern with practice by applying loving attention through conscious intention.
Q. I've recently seen my wife through a long and difficult battle with cancer. I'm a lonely elder. What is the appropriate amount of time to wait before dating? — Lonely Elder
A. Dear Lonely Elder,
Caregiving is a hard, and often painful, sacrifice. I honor you for walking that path.
I don't think there's necessarily a "right" amount of time to wait before dating, as that's a personal choice. While we might be cognizant of the feelings of others, especially family, ultimately we have to decide what's right for ourselves.
We're capable of holding two opposing thoughts and feelings at the same time. You can both have cherished your wife AND feel relieved that it is now over, while possibly feeling guilty about thinking about dating. Please be gentle with yourself and don't feel shame for thinking about it. You are human and you have needs.
People move through the grieving and healing processes at different rates. While you may feel that your grieving began as your wife experienced her decline, others may be in a more recent stage of grief that only started on the day she transitioned. If you're concerned about family members, like children or grandchildren, I'd suggest that you discuss it honestly with them. If you do, please keep in mind that some family members may feel tender and project feelings that you are "wrong" by bringing someone in to "take her place".
It may be a bit more difficult for some to grasp how you could consider moving on "so soon". With clear communication, gently remind them that you loved her so much that you cared for her until the very end. This cements your devotion to her. Stating that there can never be a replacement for her also assists in understanding that this isn't about your deceased wife, but about your needs as a human being for companionship, love, joy and human touch. Filling in the gaps in this way can be helpful to them by seeing that you're not trying to replace her, but that you need to move forward towards a life that is connected and more fulfilling.
Since you're in your senior years, I'd emphasize that it's not like you have an endless amount of time left to sit in waiting until others can feel right about your choices. You can't live your life for others, as they aren't the ones who go home to an empty bed.
As a caution, I've learned that STD's are rampant in some senior communities. These elders have been married throughout the "sexual revolution," and are past childbearing age with no fears of pregnancy. They haven't kept up with the times, yet they're enjoying a bit of a frolic without protection. While I'm happy they have the freedom to explore, one needs to engage in an appropriate conversation in advance while being cautious during intimate encounters.
Please know that you have the right to keep this to yourself for awhile. This allows you to test out the waters sorting through your own feelings before discussing it with others.
Alecia Rice integrates higher concepts with wisdom to bring forth balance, perspective and clarity. She's a personal advisor, speaker, and a gatherer of women. For perspective on personal issues, you're invited to text questions and comments to 681-321-1109. Discussions continue @AskAlecia on Facebook.


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Dr. Tara Rasta
By Dr. Tara Rasta
It's well-known that having a high vibration is important not just for yourwell-being, but for manifesting what you want in your life.
But how do you maintain "good vibes," particularly in the face of disturbing life events?
How can you allow the events of your life unfold without clinging to a particular outcome? How can you hold space for your loved ones and not take their story personally?
I grew up in a chaotic household. My family and I endured a lot of trauma. I have a very sensitive nature and I realized that I can easily become emotionally overwhelmed by the pain of others. I would tend to live hours of my life in a low vibe and poor energy state, resisting dealing with my own pain. Today I understand resistance is a tremendous waste of energy and a crucial part of getting through suffering.
Once I became a doctor and my work involved being able to sit with the pain of others, I realized it was time to take my power back and come up with a solution that will allow me to keep my vibes high and my energy rich. This doesn't mean I don't have negative moments, but when I do, I know what to do to pick myself back up and change the trajectory of my life.
I am going to define the "Vibe" as your energetic quality. Your energetic quality is defined as your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual state.
Your energetic quality can be broken down into three categories:
- Energy Poor
- Energy Neutral
- Energy Rich
Energy Poor is when you are feeling down, your tone is low or irritated, and your facial expression depicts emotions such as sadness, anger, fear or grief. Your posture shows rounded shoulders and back, forward head and tense shoulders. Your body language is guarded, with legs or arms crossed.
On the other hand, Energy Rich is when you are excited, you have a big smile on your face, your eyes are sparking with joy and your posture is straight or extended, your arms are open and your shoulders are back. Your tone of voice depicts joy because you tend to use higher vibration words and phrases. It feels like you are in the flow of life, and serendipity is always in your corner.
Energy Neutral is right in between these two states, where nothing really excites or moves you.
Just by paying close attention to facial expression, posture, body language, tone of voice and choice of words you can immediately understand the energetic quality of the people around you.
So how can we maintain a good vibe that influences us and others in a positive manner?
- Awareness
- Acknowledge
- Acceptance
- Action
Awareness – You must know that you are not your thoughts or stories; you are the awareness behind the thoughts and stories. Watching yourself as the thoughts and emotions move through you will help you not allow negative thoughts to take you on a journey.
Acknowledge – Through the act of acknowledging we give ourselves the permission to feel and heal our emotions. Most of us cope through avoiding our pain and feelings, which in turn locks that energetic experience into our physical body, resulting in physical pain and symptoms. However, by giving ourselves the permission to feel and acknowledge our emotions, we allow for these emotions to move and be processed, which is crucial to healing.
Acceptance – Accepting our state of being allows us to witness and experience the events of our life that create mental and emotional impressions to simply move through us. We drop our resistance and allow the emotions to pass instead of resisting the influence of the event in an attempt to stop it from passing through our body. Whatever event you are experiencing, it will have to pass through your psyche and body like ripples through water, instead of struggling with the experience of the event and wearing yourself out. Resistance is an incredible waste of energy and leads to a poor energy state of being.
Action – Practicing techniques and exercises that allow our energy to flow instead of becoming blocked can tremendously help us keep our vibes high and our Energy Rich.
For most of us, we learned to resist events that happened in our life, which is similar to trying to stop the ripples caused by a stone that was dropped into a still lake. When you resist, the energy has no place to go and gets stuck in your psyche or body. It causes you to feel less vibrant and be in a poor energy state. As these energies accumulate you can become so blocked that you are either going to experience severe physical symptoms, completely shut down, feel depressed, or become anxious.
Network Spinal Analysis is a somatic chiropractic technique I use in my office to help patients release the energetic and emotional blockages that occurred in their body as a result of accumulated resistance to events. When blocked energies and emotions become stuck in your body and spine, it significantly influences your posture. Which is why you can always guess the health and emotional state of people by the way they hold their bodies. Our body holds the secrets of our life and only when these blocked energies are released, can we truly experience freedom and joy of life. As long as we keep on resisting, we keep on accumulating and locking these experiences into our body.
As the person learns strategies to release these past energetic accumulations, the flow occurs and they become much more adaptable to stressors of their life. I incorporate different types of breath work, movement, and gentle touch along the spine to help the individual release their resistance.
As you learn to let each moment of each day to pass through, you will feel tremendous amount of energy available to you.
I learned that our lives aren't dependent on big events, but rather small decisions on a day-to-day basis that can shift our behavior and allow us to be more aligned with the purpose of our soul.


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I made doily wands with my info on them. They are sort of magical. There are also a few dolphin wands.
Things to do for the future:
Ghost Party
Ann Flowers
I just graduated with my master's degree and for the first time in twenty-four years I can no longer identify as a student. The structure that has been set up in my life for so long has just collapsed. I feel like I am watching more TV these days.
I am also drawing more. I fill up pages with funny dolphin stencils and doodles and glitter. The absence of school has given me the ability to start having more fun in my work and it feels much more honest now. The pieces are sad, funny, nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time.
I use sheet ghosts a lot in my work to represent my friends and myself. When I started drawing ghosts they were full-sheeted figures. I always thought sheet ghosts were the scariest kinds of ghosts. However, I eventually found myself identifying with the ghosts and realized they were my way of placing myself in these made-up fantasy worlds. The ghosts soon evolved and became fashionable girls that are still in search for their identity. As my friends and I all find ourselves at this place in our lives we rely on each other to figure out who we are and where we are going next.


text: Life span: 09/28/1828 to 03/21/1890TabsLife SummaryFull name: George CrookPlace of birth: Taylorsville, OHBurial Place: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VABirth Date Certainty: ExactDeath Date Certainty: ExactGender: MaleRace: WhiteSectional choice: NorthOrigins: Free StateNo. of Spouses: 1No. of Children: 0Family: Thomas Crook (father), Elizabeth Matthews (mother), Mary Daily (wife, 1865)Education: West Point (US Military Academy)Occupation: MilitaryRelation to Slavery: White non-slaveholderMilitary: US military (Pre-Civil War)Union ArmyUS military (Post-Civil War) Events Date span begin Life span End Event 09/18/1863 09/20/1863 In Georgia, advancing Union forces suffer a very heavy defeat near Chickamauga Creek 09/19/1864 09/19/1864 In the Shenandoah Valley, Union forces triumph at the hard-fought Third Battle of Winchester 09/21/1864 09/22/1864 In western Virginia, Union forces drive Confederates from entrenched positions at the Battle of Fisher's Hill 10/19/1864 10/19/1864 In the Shenandoah Valley, Union troops under Sheridan turn defeat into crushing victory at the Battle of Cedar Creek 04/06/1865 04/06/1865 At Sailor's Creek, the Army of Northern Virginia loses almost a quarter of its remaining strength 04/06/1865 04/06/1865 In Virginia, CSA corps commander General Richard S. Ewell is taken prisoner, along with four of his generals 04/09/1865 04/09/1865 At dawn, the Army of Northern Virginia makes one last effort to break out the Union encirclement 01/15/1866 01/15/1866 More than a hundred general officers of volunteers are mustered out of the Union Army Documents Images George Crook George Crook, detail Bibliography


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For my entry into the
#EmberJS2019 blog post compendium this year, I have chosen to focus exclusively on EmberData.
In truth, I have been a bit surprised (and slightly sad) at the shortage of posts that focus on the data story in the Ember ecosystem. I am sure this lack of posts means that folks are completely and highly satisfied with the data story ;-) If you have your own thoughts after reading this post, please share them! While today (June 17th) marks the end of the call-for-blog-posts, it by no means marks the end of healthy discussion!
I also promise this is not the last of my blog posts about EmberData. I recently tweeted out asking for topic suggestions, and I'll be starting a series based on that soon.
The Complicated Web We Weaved
At #EmberConf2019 this year, Tom and Yehuda presented
Octane: our first ever edition. A key consideration in crafting editions is the formulation of a cohesive learning and feature story throughout the ecosystem.
Currently, much of our work in EmberData seems in-cohesive. This year, we would like for our focus in EmberData to be on crafting a cohesive story.
There are four problem areas that I believe EmberData needs to invest in to build this cohesive story, to move EmberData into the modern Ember era, and to be able to provide clear value to 100% of applications.
Problem 1: Class heavy object-oriented-programming model
I often feel that using EmberData feels a lot like writing in an old legacy Ember 1.x codebase: a class heavy object-oriented-programming model - lots of extending, overriding, and Mixin usage - intimate API usage - and strange patterns for working with data that while Javascript feel distinctly un-javascript-y.
It is possible to use EmberData with mostly functional-programming patterns, and indeed doing so usually results in better performance, easier to understand and maintain paradigms, and happier consumers. The library does very little to surface these patterns naturally, though it should.
Problem 2: Overfitting of our modeling layer
Fundamentally, EmberData handles three concerns:
- Requests: It provides a way to make and manage network requests
- Cache: It provides a cache for data returned by those requests
- Presentation: It manages a presentation layer for providing the UI with data in the cache
The biggest value sells of EmberData come primarily from providing application authors with a shared interface through which to access and work with data. This shared interface serves as a separation of concerns: easing refactoring and enabling routes and components to think less about the specifics of how to fulfill their need for data. The encapsulation ensures that requests are handled in an orderly manner which allows for authentication and other app-wide concerns to be handled in an easy to find location.
Along the way EmberData accumulated API cruft and became hindered by design patterns that distracted from these core value sells. We became distracted the most by overfitting the data returned from the API to the classes which present that data to the UI.
This overfitting takes a few forms:
- We used the UI classes to derive schema information (attribute and relationship definitions). This locked us into requiring a class for every record type that API responses contained. It also has made it more difficult to share that schema information.
- We encouraged adding adapters and serializers per-type instead of per-API. An Adapter is meant to work with a specific API (a precise spec and format, whether formal or "ad hoc" ). Typically, how you serialize or normalize data depends on the specifics of the API you are connecting to, not the name of the model being presented. Encouraging the per-type pattern leads to applications adding lots of poorly-fit non-reusable adapters and serializers, and the result for many applications is that every new record type added to the API requires a new adapter and serializer to match.
One of the hard lessons that the Javascript ecosystem has struggled with is shipping too much code. Sometimes, when features are needed or specific experiences desired, shipping a lot of bytes over the wire is a good thing. Usually though more bytes is a bad thing. Bytes have a high cost on memory, download and parse times, and to a lesser degree on the runtime (code that is re-used more often is more likely to be optimized, so encouraging reusable patterns can have benefits beyond just the byte size).
EmberData encourages bytes where it doesn't need to. Usually applications have far fewer API versions or ad-hoc API endpoints than model types: encouraging per-API adapters and serializers (or yet an even better paradigm ... stay tuned) would help keep more applications trim as they scale to larger feature sets, more developers, and greater numbers of models.
And what about models themselves? This is where overfitting hurt us the hardest. In truth, EmberData's cache should care less about the specific schema of the data it has, and more about whether or not it has data for a given cache entry. Caring less comes with huge advantages.
- It fits more use-cases by not locking application author's into the flattened resource structure that EmberData encourages today.
- It opens the door for a new default-story in which a single model class handles the presentation of any data to the UI. Adding a new type to your API then becomes "cost free".
For caching, the RFCs which introduced RecordData and Identifiers are enabling us to simplify the caching story to be less overfit, although there is more work to be done.
For presentation, the Data team has already done much of the design work needed to enable alternative model classes that will allow us to introduce more scalable designs.
We also have a strong sketch of what designs for schema information and better request primitives should look like.
Completing that design work is one of our top goals for the next 6 months. Doing so will allow us to scale with application size and complexity more naturally, will surface more functional programming paradigms where they make sense to replace some of the object oriented paradigms that fit poorly, and will empower Addon authors to experiment more with adding capability to EmberData.
Problem 3: The library is a Behemoth
As we just discussed, bytes matter. For many Ember applications, EmberData is the largest library within
vendor.js. When you use EmberData, you opt into a heavy starting experience. EmberData should provide value for all applications, of any size, that have requirements for fetching, caching, and presenting data.
To achieve this, EmberData needs to lose some weight. Here, fortunately, is a clear roadmap for doing just that as next-steps following the landing of packages.
There's more to this story though. Above I laid out the three concerns EmberData handles to provide value to applications: requesting data, caching data, and presenting data. Each of these three concerns is distinct.
Some applications may only need help managing their requests, without need for a cache or a presentation layer. Others may need request management and caching but not presentation, while still others may need all three. And what exactly the requirements for each of these layers is differs from application to application. In other words: EmberData should be capable of being adopted incrementally and used compositionally.
Much of our design work has focused towards aligning the library for this form of incremental adoption and composition: refining and better defining the interfaces of each. There's more to this story, much more, but it's harder to describe in this post or even in just one post. This is likely a topic I will touch on more either in conference talks or a series of posts at a later time.
Problem 4: Limited Support for Testing
Reminiscent of Ember applications of yonder-years, testing with EmberData feels like the ancient wild west. There is no recommended solution for mocking data, no mechanism for validating that serializers normalize to the expected format, no guides showing how to quickly create records for use in tests, no public mechanisms for creating snapshots for unit and integration style testing of adapters and serialization.
Whether testing your adapter/serializer, some model logic, or generating mock data for a route or component: EmberData leaves it all to you. Thankfully Mirage stepped up to fill some of this gap, but we could do a lot better out of the box.
A cohesive learning story is not just about how you use a library, but the ergonomic wins that come alongside using a standardized solution with standardized tooling. Much as the learning story for components would be incomplete without adequate tooling for testing those components and meaningful errors when using components incorrectly, we want to work towards a best-in-class testing and feedback experience for working with data in your apps.
Separating schema information from presentation classes does more than drive reductions in application size: it provides the infrastructure over which to build a first-class mocking and validation experience.
Problem 5: (bonus) Edge Cases
Before I conclude, I do want to acknowledge that there are many difficult to resolve edge cases users encounter when building with EmberData today. Those edge cases are equally a part of what problems we currently have.
I have strong hopes based on the design work the data team has been doing that most of them have elegant solutions in the near future; however, I feel those are topics for other posts another day. Here I want to stick to the "higher order bits" of the value EmberData provides and the direction the library is headed.
How you could help
I believe the future of Data is bright, but to get there we're going to need more folks to step up to take on advancing the project.
The data team is looking to grow. Whether your strength is in helping us improve our documentation, update patterns and best practices around the eco-system, or land the refactoring and features needed to move EmberData into the modern Ember era, we would love to help you find areas to contribute and grow your contribution.
Attending our weekly meetings (Wednesday's at 2pm Pacific Time), tackling issues labeled "Good for new contributors", or just asking questions in the
#dev-ember-data channel on Discord are all great ways to become involved.
We have made great progress towards this bright future, it's time to complete the journey. Finishing what we have started is the most important thing we can do.


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Honolulu, HI 96815
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This desirable corner unit is conveniently located near Ala Moana Beach Park and Harbor, Magic Island, and Kalakaua Avenue, CHATEAU WAIKIKI, provides easy and quick access to shops, dining, and activities. Ala Moana, one of the largest open air shopping malls is only a brief car ride away. Sun bathe or try stand-up paddle boarding in the calm waters of Ala Moana Beach Park. Enjoy an evening stroll to the Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon to view the Hilton Hotel's firework show every Friday. Then dine at Chart House Waikiki, while overlooking the harbor, or grab a drink at the Study Bar, in the Modern Hotel. This unit has two bedrooms/ one bathroom. The twin beds can be converted to a California King size bed. It is fully furnished, with a washer & dryer, two parking stalls, and access to the condominium's pool and putting green. With such a great location, you will enjoy easy access to everything that Honolulu has to offer!
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Stayed 20 days ending in
March, 2019
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Monica H from Waterdown, ON recommends this vacation rental
We had a great time. The location was convenient for walking and for taking the bus anywhere you wanted to go. The view from the condo was beautiful, we could watch the planes from the airport come in and take off. We saw whale spouts in the ocean and had beautiful Mountain View's as well. The only thing I can say negative is that the condo could use some new furniture and kitchen supplies. The property manager was very easy to deal with. She always answered any questions we had and was very friendly. Overall we had a wonderful time and look forward to hopefully returning in the future.
Stayed 13 days ending in
March, 2018
wendy b from Niagara Falls, ON recommends this vacation rental
we stayed 1 month at Chateau Waikiki. The condo is as pictured with 2 bedrooms for 4 people. Located close to the beach, restaurants, shops and grocery it was a wonderful vacation, if only the weather had been as perfect as the stay.
Stayed 18 days ending in
March, 2018
Still enjoying our vacation at this condo. Comfortable for 4 people, clean and well situated. Close to buses, beaches, restaurants and the Mall. Great exercise room, pool and BBQs with covered gazebos. A couple of small issues were quickly and efficiently handled by Donica.
Stayed 7 days ending in
February, 2018
Andrew C from Roseville, CA recommends this vacation rental
Donica met us in the lobby and got us checked in. The condo was great, all the modern conveniences. The washer/dryer was very valuable. The view was great. We took advantage of the pool, the BBQs and the
gym. I highly recommend this property.
Stayed 23 days ending in
February, 2018
I looked at a lot of condos before choosing the Chateau. Donica gave
Me her cell phone number, got us checked in and handled every curve we threw her. The 2 bedroom had everything we needed or wanted. The view was better than the pictures. Washer and dryer in the unit was priceless. I only wish they could have made my month last longer.
Stayed 19 days ending in
March, 2017
Connie G recommends this vacation rental
Great location, great amenities, & helpful agent. Our unit was comfortable, great beds, nice view.
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Gluten Free Quinoa Chia Breakfast Pudding
Recently I found my fridge a bit overloaded with milk. When this happens my first thought is to make homemade yogurt for pairing with granola. But this time I already had a gallon of yogurt in the fridge!
My next thought is pudding. For breakfast.
This recipe happens to be my eldest daughter's favorite. She requests it for her birthday… and every other time I happen to ask her what she wants for breakfast. And I'm happy her first choice is such a nourishing and satisfying one!
Quinoa has exploded in popularly over the last few years so chances are you've heard lots about it.
Contrary to popular thought, quinoa is a seed rather than a true grain. And nutritionist Phyllis Balch, in her popular book Prescription for Dietary Wellness, actually labels it an herb because of it's healing properties and high nutritional value.
Compared to other true grains, quinoa is extremely high in protein, containing ALL the essential amino acids in perfect proportions. It also contains a wealth of iron, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B6 and phosphorus.
And did I mention it's gluten free?!
Keep in mind that quinoa is coated with saponin, a bitter compound used to repel predators of the quinoa plant. While most saponin is removed during processing, it's always a good idea to rinse your quinoa seeds prior to cooking.
Or… if you're ready to take your quinoa experience to a new level, you can soak your quinoa for 12-24 hours prior to rinsing to obtain even more nutritional value.
Quinoa contains a high level of phytic acid, an enzyme inhibitor contained in most grains, seeds and nuts that is thought to contribute to mineral deficiencies.
According to the Westin A. Price Foundation, soaking the quinoa prior to cooking will eliminate 60-77 percent of the phytic acid present in the seed, making it much more digestible and maximizing the amount of absorbable nutrients.
Now, if you're feeling REALLY motivated, you can soak AND sprout your quinoa seeds prior to cooking.
Personally, I soak my grains probably 40% of the time. When I happen to remember. And sprouting grains prior to cooking hardly ever happens in our house. But to each his own. The debate as to whether or not to soak and/or sprout grains and seeds is beyond the purpose of this post, but I hope you'll find the above links helpful for further research!
There's more yummy to this pudding than just the quinoa, though. Chia seeds are a nutritious addition that are great for boosting your energy and your nutrition levels!
Chia seeds, like quinoa, are high in protein and are great at stimulating proper bowel function. How's that for getting you moving in the morning?!
They likewise are high in calcium, manganese, phosphorus and Omega 3 & 6 fatty acids.
With quinoa and chia paired together, you know you're getting a nutritious and satisfying start to your day!
- 1/2 t. salt
- 1/2 cup grade B maple syrup
- 2 eggs
- 3 T. arrowroot powder
- 5 cups milk
- 3 cups pre-cooked quinoa*
- 3 T. chia seeds
- 3 t. vanilla
- 2 T. pastured butter
- 1 t. cinnamon
- fruit for topping (optional)
- 1. In a large pot, combine salt, maple syrup, eggs and arrowroot powder. Whisk thoroughly until arrowroot powder is well incorporated.
- 2. Stir in milk, pre-cooked quinoa and chia seeds.
- 3. Place pot over medium heat and bring to a gentle boil, stirring often. (May take 10-15 minutes). Take care not to let the mixture stick to the bottom of the pan.
- 4. Once at a boil, stir constantly for another 5 minutes or until desired thickness is reached.
- 5. Remove pot from heat.
- 6. Add vanilla, butter and cinnamon. Stir well.
- 7. Serve pudding warm topped with desired fruit. (Pudding also tastes great cold!)
- *For 3 cups of cooked quinoa: Place 1 cup of rinsed quinoa into a pot with 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, for 10-15 minutes or until white "tails" appear. Remove from heat and allow to sit, covered, for 5 minutes before fluffing with a fork.
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About a month ago, I was asked to participate in the Nike Golf 8 > 9 challenge. Nike put together this "friendly" competition where they reached out to us totally awesome golf bloggers (and others?) and asked us to hit the Nike Str8-Fit and Taylor Made R9 drivers side by side and report on which we liked the best.
Let me start out by saying, this was a REALLY difficult challenge for me, I felt like a kid who's parents were getting divorced and I had to choose which parent to live with… I'm a big fan of both companies and I've only owned either TaylorMade or Nike drivers (currently wielding an the SuMO)…
Anyway, on to the review!
Both the Nike Str8-Fit and the TaylorMade R9 have adjustable clubheads that give you access to eight unique head positions. There are three open, three closed and two neutral positions for you to choose from. Depending on what type of swing you're prone to (slice, hook, fade, draw), you would adjust the clubhead to compensate for that.
I'm prone to a slice, so for my review, I hit both clubs neutral and 2 degrees closed.
Before I get into the performance of the clubs, I'd like to discuss the various components. To begin, let's start with how to identify the face angle of the club.
Here's a picture of the top of the grip on the Nike Str8-Fit (see left image). When you first receive the driver, the club is set to neutral and the yellow arrow is on the top. I'm going to need you to stay with me here, but let's say you're a left handed golfer and you want to close the club face two degrees.
You'd think it would be a simple matter of unscrewing the clubhead and turning the clubhead two degrees to the right and re-attaching it. Well, you'd be wrong.
For the Nike Str8-Fit, you have to reference the top of the grip and visualize that it's a steering wheel of a car. So, if you want the ball to go right, you have to turn the shaft to the right, which will cause the R on the grip to be on the top (see right image).
I don't know if it's just me, but it took me a while to get a handle on it. Not only that, but it's a little annoying to have to keep checking the other end of the shaft each time you adjust the clubhead to see what the setting is.
The TaylorMade R9 does a better job of identifying the lie, they label each setting directly on the shaft where the club face attaches.
I suppose the natural progress would be to talk about the tools used to modify the lie of the club.The TaylorMade R9 has a bolt on the bottom of the clubhead that is unscrewed using a screwdriver (I think they call it a wrench, but come on…).
I saw on the website that the screwdriver/wrench can be conveniently stored in your golf bag for easy access… To me, that means, inconveniently misplaced or lost.. 😉
I've gotta say that the Nike Str8-Fit does it better, they have a more traditional wrench and you can store it in the headcover. There's also a Velcro lie indicator on the top flap of the head cover that serves as a reminder of either what your club face is or was set at.
I also think that the Str8-Fit has a sexier head cover 🙂
Regarding the grip, the TaylorMade R9 has a solid black grip and the Nike Str8-Fit is very similar with one (in my opinion) very confusing trait. I apologize for the bad picture, but I didn't think to grab a better one at the time and I'm too lazy to break out the camera and take a better one….
Alright, so on the Nike Str8-Fit Driver, there's a yellow arrow on the grip itself that shows where the neutral setting is. If you take a look at the picture to the left, you can barely make out what I'm talking about.
Well, that arrow had me hating this club when I first started swinging it. Here's what I was doing. I was closing the club face incorrectly (turning the clubhead to the right and not the shaft) and then I was ensuring that my lead hand thumb always rested on that yellow arrow. The result was a very awkward clubhead angle that resulted in some funky shots for a while. It took a trip to Golfsmith to get this sorted out.. 🙂
Now hear me out.. doesn't it almost make sense that if you alter the lie of the club and you set the club down at "rest" that it would almost undo the lie? It made sense to me until the associate described to me that the grooves are angled differently.
So, back to my point, if you decide to give this club a try and you modify the lie, disregard the little yellow arrow, it serves no REAL purpose, other than to confuse unsuspecting bloggers.. 🙂
The TaylorMade R9 also sports three adjustable weights in the clubhead called movable weight technology (MWT). This was a HUGE selling point for me. There's one 16 gram weight and two one gram weights. Coming from a hacker who has difficulties closing the clubface on impact, putting that 16 gram weight in the toe of the club was helpful in bringing the clubface around.
Now, for the most important part of the challenge, the clubs performance. I was hitting the Nike Str8-Fit square head 10.5 degree driver with a regular flex shaft and the TaylorMade R9 10.5 degree driver with a regular flex shaft.
I found that I was getting more distance off the tee with the Nike Str8-Fit but I was more consistently in the fairway with the TaylorMade R9. Regarding aesthetics, I like the look of the Nike Str8-fit more than the TaylorMade R9, but hands down swinging the R9 was definitely alot smoother than swinging the Str8-Fit.
So the verdict…… Both clubs are awesome and the technology is great, but for me, the TaylorMade R9 Driver gets my vote. It was tough decision and it was a close race, but I think what ultimately sold me was the MWT.
Also, Nike is using Trevor Immelman as their spokesperson and TaylorMade is using Nick Faldo…
So 8 < 9 and Immelman < Faldo
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Boxing World Youth Championships
BREAKING: Déarbhla Rooney to fight on Tuesday in preliminary round
Leitrim boxer to face Thai opponent in preliminary round of Women's 57Kg category at World Youth Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday
Déarbhla Rooney pictured with members of the Irish team in Budapest
Leitrim's Dearbhla Rooney will face a Thailand opponent today (Tuesday August 21) in the opening sessions of the World Youth Boxing Championships in Budapest.
In an unexpected development, the Women's 57Kg preliminary rounds were moved from this Thursday to today (Tuesday) and Déarbhla has been drawn to face Thailand's Panpatchara Somnuek in the seventh bout in Ring 2 at the Duna Aréna in Budapest.
The Thai fighter was a bronze medallist in her continental Youth championships back in April and will probe a tough opponent for the European silver medalist after the draws were made late on Monday evening in Budapest.
The session, which early versions of the competition's programme had down for Thursday, gets underway at 12 noon local time, which means the session will get underway at 11 am Irish time on Tuesday morning.
If Déarbhla is successful against the Thai boxer, the Sean McDermott BC member will face Kazakstan's Yerkezhan Dauletzhankyzy, who received a bye, in the first round proper on Saturday next, August 25.
The winner of that fight will face the winner of the bout between Tetiana Rodionova of the Ukraine and Nikolina Cacic of Croatia, beaten by Déarbhla on her run to the silver medal, in the Quarter-Finals on Monday evening.
Victory in the Quarter-Finals could see Déarbhla get the long awaited rematch against Slovakia's Jessica Triebelova who defeated her in the European Final. The Semi-Finals have been fixed for the next day, Tuesday August 28, with the Final scheduled for Thursday, August 30.
Russia's Valeri Radionova, who Déarbhla defeated on a 3-2 split decision in an epic Semi-Final clash at the Europeans is on the other side of the draw
Sligo flyweight Dean Clancy is first up, fighting on Tuesday in the Round of 32. The European Youth and Junior silver medallist is in against American Asa Stevens, a Panamerican Youth silver medallist.


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I like the way that the train is wear the people are and the people are waiting to get on.
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a bunch of houses are on the big hill.
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It's crazy how the time flies when you're busy. Not only does it not feel like a week since the last Instagrammers Anonymous, but I'm nowhere near the end of my enormous 'To Do' list. But with much of what's left being holiday prep (only a week to go!) I'm sure I'll cope.
Last Sunday I made the rookie error of going out for a cycle just before the biggest
shower downpour of the day. Did I have a waterproof with me? No, I was in shorts and a t-shirt. Not fun.
I went out for dinner on Tuesday to a lovely little Italian in Comely Bank, but was ridiculously early, so went for a stroll round the pond in Inverleith Park first.
Oh, and did I mention I was going on holiday soon? I leave next Friday for a whirlwind trip to Moscow, Vienna and Bratislava. To say I'm jumping around with excitement would be a bit of an understatement – I can hardly shut up about it. Look – I've got a Russian visa and everything!
Whatever your plans for the weekend I hope they involve less printing, photocopying and ironing than mine!


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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced it's advised retailers Beauty Plus and Claire's to recall makeup that tested positive for asbestos, a carcinogen.
At a March congressional hearing, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib expressed outrage at companies marketing the allegedly unsafe products at young girls, saying, "It shook me."
That month, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) introduced legislation requiring that all cosmetics marketed to children to contain a warning label that the product has not been evaluated for asbestos contamination.
"Asbestos in children's cosmetics is simply unacceptable. It is so basic we shouldn't need legislation to ban it but we do," said Dingell in a Friday statement. "Yet again, retailers like Claire's and Beauty Plus are removing products from their shelves after asbestos was found in their cosmetics. This so despicable; all of us need to be outraged. Congress must pass strong legislation so all cosmetics – especially cosmetics marketed toward children – contain proper warning labels alerting people of dangerous toxins."