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SkyOS has gotten a new virtual filesystem, dubbed BranchFS. This makes it possible to branch filesystems, convert read-only media into read-write media, and add SkyFS attributes to non-SkyFS volumes. "BranchFS makes it possible to make a reversible filesystem. By using your system partition you can revert to a previous state (with just one reboot) and and when using a CD BranchFS makes it possible to make changes to the content. BranchFS is still in heavy development but branching a LiveCD works quite well already. The first SkyOS LiveCD will be based on BranchFS."
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Thomas & Friends "Don't Give Up" Percy and the Calliope - Percy and Diesel are instructed to take a rusty old organ - the calliope - to be melted down. Percy is determined to save it from this terrible fate. He pitches himself into a race against time to make the organ play before Percy and Diesel reach the Smelter's Yard. D
1:30 pm
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood "Snowflake Day!" In this thirty minute holiday musical episode, the Neighborhood is celebrating Snowflake Day! Daniel has a very important role as the snowflake in the Neighborhood's Snowflake Day Show and he can't wait to say his lines! The Enchanted Garden is full of excitement and winter cheer as everyone pitches in to make the celebration a true Neighborhood success!. D
2:00 pm
Curious George "George's Backwards Flight Plan/Curious George, Hog Trainer" George's Backwards Flight Plan - Help! Professor Wiseman is set to launch B.I.R.D. D
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "Paws and Effect/The Trouble with Teddy" Paws and Effect - When Martha gets a piece of glass in her paw, everyone realizes that littering hurts more than the environment. But what can they do about it? As Alice, Helen, and TD know, protecting the environment (and paws) is important, but it is easier said than done. Vocabulary: (E) discard(ed)(ing), litter(ed)(ing), thoughtless, debris, recycle(d)(ing) (I) careless(ly), trash, important, broke(n), injured. D
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Peg + Cat "The Messy Room Problem/The Golden Pyramid Problem" The Messy Room Problem - Peg's Room. Peg and Cat sort through the mess in Peg's room just in time for company to come over and see Cat's masterpiece, "The Circles." Primary Content: Sorting; Secondary Content: Shapes. D
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WordGirl "The Wrong Side of the Law: Part 1/The Wrong Side Of the Law: Part 2" The Birthday Girl steals a priceless collection of Pretty Princess figurines from the jewelry store. In an unexpected turn of events Eileen (aka the Birthday Girl) charms the Police Commissioner and convinces him that WordGirl is the culprit. The Wrong Side Of the Law: Part 2 - WordGirl is stuck in jail, accused of stealing the priceless collection of Pretty Princess figurines while the villains of the city are running amok.G
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Wild Kratts "Gila Monsters Under My House" The Wild Kratts receive a call from Xavier, a Wild Kratt kid who lives in the Sororan Desert. A Gila monster has crawled under his house and he's scared! Martin and Chris go to check it out and Xavier soon learns about the amazing life of this creature. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Chaos As Usual" Introducing Memoryville, home to a vast storehouse of Cyberspace data, where The Slugball Open, a Cyberspace version of baseball, is in progress. In their attempt to win for a day the Key to the City, Team Motherboard has made it to the finals . along with, you guessed it, Hacker! Unbeknownst to most (except, of course, to Hacker), this Key opens all doors to the city-including the door to the data storehouse! With surefire plans to win, Hacker can hardly wait to delete the data and create untold chaos. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Mission Improbable" Ruff sends the FETCHers to Washington D.C. for training to become secret agents. D
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Ben Affleck is dashing while attending the 2013 Directors Guild of America Awards President's Breakfast held at the DGA on Saturday (February 2) in Los Angeles.
The 40-year-old actor and director was joined by famed directors Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hooper, and Kathryn Bigelow.
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Episode 62 Screencaps and Long Summary
Spoiler for basically what happens:
Please do not discuss anything past episode 62, or else you risk a ban. Even [spoiler] [/spoiler] tags are no defense.
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Not so much the break since yes it's common for the end of the year but 1 hr specials are always noteworthy . Although you or me mentioning won't change the fact someone is bound to ask why there's no bleach the following week. Also this was ch 176 to somewhere in the middle of ch179 if I am not mistaken.
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So now they've moved Tousen's backstory to this episode. Just the thought of seeing these exciting revelations and Aizen-pwnage makes me want to see 61 and 62 quickly once I get my hands on it.
BTW, Om, lately there's this spoiling troll roaming your blog, you might need to put your comment page in a separate link to your episode page so as to reduce the havoc he wreaks on unsuspecting anime-only viewers. We manga-readers can't be vigilant all the time and tip you off to edit his post quick enough.
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A very good episode that has a sense of conclusion to an episode of Bleach in a long time, meaning this one wouldn't let one yarn for the next episode right away. The abundance of information and secrets revealed in one episode made me realize the arc is coming to an end. Aizen was awesome as usual, so was Gin. Only one minor gripe is that I didn't see (or just failed to notice) Kenpachi.
P.S. It's good to see Omni and HiNo are still around.
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1h special is good but why they make us w8 so much recently... I know... they don't want to make it like Naruto with fillers, but it's hard I could take some filler about Nanao-chan instead of some flash back when she's about to die, when we don't know will we ever see her fight
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"That's all, folks!"
July 10, 1989
"That's all folks!"
Born in 1908, Melvin Jerome Blanc spent a lifetime being the voice of someone else. From Porky Pig in 1937 to Heathcliff in 1981, Blanc did over 30 cartoon voices during his career. Blanc died on July 10, 1989, in LA.


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Apprehension vs. deterrence… or are they one in the same?
I got a comment on the story from Jose Chavarria (Iverify?). He asked the very good question what the true measure of success was: apprehending people or deterring crime in the first place. A very good question and insightful comment, and one I attempted to address in through the same medium (the comment box at the bottom of the story). Unfortunately for me, I tend to really bring the word count at times, and was told in no uncertain terms that my comment on Jose's comment was too long. So I decided to take to the blog.
Jose writes:
"Is apprehension really the success or is deterrence the real measure?"
As I said, good question. Here's the reply I'd prepared and was unable to upload through the comments section:
Hey Jose,
Thanks for the read and the comment. You bring up a valid point, and one that, I admit, I did not address overtly in the story. However, Tom, Marcos and I did discuss deterrence briefly in our interview. One of Tom's points was that apprehensions lead to deterrence. From our talk:
"At the end of the day, the best way to deter crime is to arrest people, because word gets out," Tom said. "2003, Modesto City schools had 49 campuses and we installed that and we apprehended 130 people the first year. They'd had another alarm company for 20 years prior to us that was not a verified alarm system company and they'd apprehended zero in 20 years. We apprehended 130 that first year and roughly a comparable number the second year and then it started falling off. And we find that whenever we go into a new school district, it takes a little while, but the word gets out and people stop trying. So apprehensions now at Modesto–we're six years into that relationship–are down to half that number of apprehensions and I think that's from the deterrence of having the Sonitrol system in there and the Sonitrol stickers in sight. So verification is the key to apprehension–and to deterrence."
Again, Jose, thank you for continuing the discussion.
Where do you stand? Do you think verification makes the difference? Do you think the threat of apprehension (yard signs, stickers) is enough (As I addressed in an earlier blog post, many people DO argue that the system itself is unnecessary, or at least vaguely superfluous) or does it take more (like bustin' some perp and hauling him away in a cruiser). Does Sonitrol's Tom Patterson have a point? Does word get out… the record seems to say yes. However, a recent story from SSN shows that crime over all recently has been down… so who can say. I'm interested in your opinion.

August 11th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

Hey Steve,

As always, thanks for dropping by and contributing. Actually, Tom addressed something along those very lines in the interview as well. Let me see if I can find it in my notes. "I think that traditional alarm people don't necessarily look at their job as apprehending," Patterson said "They think it's to sound a bell and scare people away. It's business model thing." Tom's point was that verified aren't necessarily better, they're just a different biz model. It depends on what your aim is.

Thanks you guys for chiming in.

August 11th, 2010 at 11:00 am

Makes sense to me, Pam! Thanks for joining in the discussion.


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Defying Maasai tradition that says women are property and can be beaten, Agnes Siyiankoi is enlisting the help of Nairobi lawyers to change Kenya's constitution and outlaw wife-beating.
Siyiankoi's brother, a lawyer, lodged a High Court application seeking the equivalent of $150 in damages for Agnes Siyiankoi's abuse by her husband. He also asked that wife-beating be declared unconstitutional. Sinyianko lives with her brother and three of her four children in Nairobi, where she has accused her husband in court of repeated assault over 13 years. She said the practice of polygamy caused him to beat her constantly.
Women lawyers have recommended several reforms to Kenya's attorney general, including outlawing wife-beating and marital rape. They want to criminalize wifebeating because, even when a man beats his wife to death, he is not prosecuted. Millie Odhiambo of the International Federation of Women Lawyers reports that "...almost every tribe in Kenya practices wife-beating."
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Chuck & Jessica's 196 Square Foot Green Shed
Name: Chuck and Jessica
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
Size: 196 square feet
Years lived in: Completed this year, 2009
Chuck is an architect and furniture designer and Jessica is a painter, so their shed was built out of necessity to provide additional workspace behind their home. Built from the ground up and using many salvaged materials, the shed keeps in line with their philosophy on environmental responsibility. And given Chuck's occupation, it's no surprise their shed won the International Shed of the Year award for 2009.
Built by Chuck himself, the shed's 196 square feet size was dictated by their zoning laws. If they kept the size under 200 square feet, they wouldn't be required to pull permits, which meant a lot less red tape and hassle. And fortunately for Chuck, he was blessed with lots of help from his neighbors and architect friends — if only we were all that lucky!
Some of my favorite elements of the shed are in the details. He often made due with what he had on hand or what materials he could locate; the result was a lesson in creative reuse! The front door was constructed with plumbing pipes, cedar that will weather as it ages, and a contractors lock. Chuck carved out a narrow section in the concrete base and inserted an aluminum channel to help rainwater drain away from the shed. And the joists from the roof were accentuated with nylon webbing. Without a doubt, the plastic light box located on the front of the shed is a hidden gem. The bump-out lends extra space for a closet on the inside, and the plastic at the top allows for a "beacon of light" to shine to the road.
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My/Our style: Environmentally Responsive Design
Inspiration: I am inspired by so much international architecture, but I admire American contributions from Marlon Blackwell, Wes Jones, and the late Samuel Mockbee.
Favorite Element: I like where the 16' horizontal window intersects the change in the horizontal pine siding and the vertical white corrugated plastic siding.
Biggest Challenge: Finding and utilizing rare and oddly dimensioned used building materials.
What Friends Say: All the adjacent neighbors helped build it, so they are happy with the result. My friends are mostly architects so they are my worst critics.
Biggest Embarrassment: Missing a stud while hanging the exterior sheathing and almost shooting my friend with the nail gun during construction.
Proudest DIY: It's got to be the 100% custom 16' long horizontal window with frosted shelving glass from the used section at IKEA.
Biggest Indulgence: Proportionally in price, I am reluctant to say that the rain barrel cost the most.
Best advice: When you get the design done, throw it away and try to redraw it from memory.
Dream source: I wish I could have gotten my hands on some insulated metal panel siding.
Inspiration: Creativity found in mistakes.
Resources: Local lumber yards, labor and reclaimed building material shops. I purchased the rain barrel from Green Source in D.C., Community Forklift for some of the wood and glass, and IKEA was a great source for finding affordable DIY materials (I had a hard time finding reasonably priced frosted glass, so I bought frosted glass shelves from IKEA. The "as is" section is also a great place to search for materials).
Thanks, Chuck and Jessica!
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Inspiring Tips Learned at a Very Special Bridal Shop
There's an old Jewish saying: "Every time a marriage takes place, a new world is created."
After spending the last year at Becker's Bridal in the tiny town of Fowler, Mich., I've seen a great many new worlds created. And I was moved again and again by the emotions I found concentrated in this one special place.
I came to this bridal shop to write a book, The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters. More than 100,000 brides have passed through the store since 1934, and I wanted to understand the feelings swelling up not just in the brides, but in their parents, too.
The book focuses on a small room at the store that has mirrors on every wall, designed to carry a bride's image into infinity. It's called "The Magic Room," and with good reason. Brides and their parents routinely melt into tears, as they reflect on all the moments of their lives that led them to this room, this pedestal, this dress.
Here are 12 lessons about love that I learned by spending time with brides and their families in The Magic Room.
Jeffrey Zaslow is coauthor of the No. 1 bestseller The Last Lecture, now translated into 48 languages. His other bestsellers include The Girls from Ames, and as coauthor, Highest Duty with Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, and Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope, with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly.
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This is the wearable version of the Zombie X-Code seen in my painting Homecoming .
I've just made some minor changes to the details though.
I'll be doing a Walking Dead specific version also.
(X-Codes are left by search and rescue teams when they search properties after disasters, most notably after Katrina.)


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President Obama lobbied Olympic leaders to give the 2016 Summer Games to his hometown of Chicago, saying early this morning the United States "is ready and eager to assume that sacred trust."
Praising the United States' bid to host the games, Obama told the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen, Denmark that they should choose Chicago for the same reason he picked it 25 years ago — because it's a great and diverse city.
"There is nothing I would like more than to step just a few blocks from my family's home and with Michelle and our two girls welcome the world back to our neighborhood," Obama said. "At the beginning of this new century, the nation that has been shaped by people from around the world wants a chance to inspire it once more."
The president and his wife, fellow Chicagoan Michelle Obama, put their capital behind an enormous campaign to win the Olympics bid. Never before had a U.S. president made such an in-person appeal.
"I urge you to choose Chicago. And if you do — if we walk this path together — then I promise you this: The city of Chicago and the United States of America will make the world proud," Obama said.
First Lady Michelle Obama made a heartfelt, personal plea, saying the Chicago Olympics would "light up the world." She spoke about how her late father, who had multiple sclerosis, instilled a great love of sports in her and would have been proud to see Chicago host the Paralympic Games.
"It's about inspiring this generation and building a lasting legacy for the next," she said.
The bid has the Windy City holding its breath. Banners are up, the city's iconic Picasso statue in Daley Plaza is adorned with an Olympics medal, and residents walk the streets talking openly about Chicago's chances.
Almost 10,000 are expected to gather in Daley Plaza Friday -- rain or shine -- to find out Chicago's Olympic destiny. Many more will watch the livestreaming action on NBCChicago.com
Full Coverage: Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid
Meanwhile the schmoozing in Copenhagen is in overdrive.
President Obama will stay for just five hours to try to tip the outcome Chicago's way. An Obama star turn could swing it — or possibly rebound against him if his adoptive hometown is knocked out. Coming for the day of the vote is a political risk, but so, too, was the risk that Rio might walk away with the win if Obama didn't lend his charisma and inspirational example to Chicago's final push.
His November election as the first black president in U.S. history resonated loudly in Europe, which has the most IOC voting members — 46.
Michelle Obama has been wowing IOC members with her charm and smarts for the past two days. Reports say the voters are eschewing protocol and seeking out the first lady's attention. Oprah Winfrey is part of Chicago's hard sell, too. She swept Hollywood-style into the marbled lobby of the IOC hotel on Thursday, turning heads and stopping every other step to shake a hand or pose for a photo with IOC members and their wives.
Locals and IOC members alike have gone crazy for the talk show queen.
But Chicago is up against equally charismatic opposition in the shape of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The bearded former union leader makes a compelling case for Rio. Foremost of those is that South America has never before held an Olympics and that the games shouldn't be the exclusive preserve of rich developed countries. That is an argument the other cities can't use because their countries have all held the Olympics before. Like Mrs. Obama, Silva has been lobbying IOC members personally in Copenhagen, as has Spanish King Juan Carlos.
Rio appeals to IOC members who believe it's their duty to share the Olympic ideals and pursuit of sporting excellence with all corners of the globe. South America is also an untapped market for Olympic sponsors. The romantic appeal of Rio's beaches and mountains is strong. The soothing samba song "Mas que nada" — "Don't worry about it" — playing in the auditorium lent an exotic, dreamy air to a news conference that Silva held Thursday.
"For some countries, it is just one more sports event that they are going to organize," he said. "But for us, it is a unique and extraordinary thing."
He even borrowed Obama's catchphrase: "We want to overcome and show the world that yes we can."
Despite all the posturing, the IOC's 106 members were, as ever, keeping their thoughts close to their chest. Only Tokyo seemed to have fallen out of the running. But otherwise, it was still too close to call between the beaches and bossa nova of Rio, the bustle and Lake Michigan waterfront of Chicago or the European elegance of Madrid. Everyone had reason to be hopeful, none reason to be sure.
"This is the big question, how will it go?" said Willi Kaltschmitt, an IOC member since 1988.
"There have been so many surprises in the past," he said. "It's very even at the moment. It all depends what happens in the first round."
As cities go out, loyalties will shift. That is where the contest will be won or lost. If Tokyo goes out first, will its supporters swing behind Rio, Madrid or Chicago and by how much for each? And could Madrid stun front-runners Chicago and Rio in the second round, knocking one of them out, with its seemingly solid core of backers?
The variables are such that any city could conceivably win or lose. A few votes either way could decide it. That is especially true this time, with all four cities seen as generally capable of holding the games. Some IOC veterans say there has been no closer contest in recent memory.
To prevent bribery, IOC members aren't allowed to visit the bidding cities — so they'll be deciding instead based on what they've been told and, for some, their gut instincts, their emotions and personal interests.
"It is a very special moment," said Gerhard Heiberg, an IOC executive board member from Norway. "Let me listen to him and see what kind of vision he has for the games."
The final throw of the dice for all four cities will be their 45-minute presentations of speeches and videos, followed by questions, that they will make in turn Friday before the vote. Kaltschmitt said he believes that 40 percent of his colleagues on the IOC were undecided going into Friday and were waiting for the presentations to make up their minds.
Added Heiberg: "We've already heard about the technical plans. I want something more. I want to know about the vision. The leaders have to lift it up. I want to know why they want the games."
Rogge doesn't vote and, as long as their cities haven't been eliminated, neither can members from Brazil, the United States, Spain and Japan.
That leaves 97 voters in the first round, with more in subsequent rounds. In the event of a two-city tie in the early rounds, a runoff is held between the cities. If there is a tie in the final round, Rogge can vote or ask the IOC executive board to break the deadlock.
British bookmakers had Chicago pulling away in the last hours as the clear but not overwhelming favorite.
"But don't forget that Paris was the favorite to beat London the last time," said Graham Sharpe, spokesman for betting agency William Hill. "The favorite doesn't always win."


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I was talking about the killing, not the eating of human beings.
...And I'm not sure where you see cannibalism mentioned in my posting. xD
Edit: Hm. Maybe I should have written "normal in our culture to eat the meat of animals".
*goes and edits*
But stilll... xD
Edit²: All right. I hope now it's not so easily misunderstood anymore. xD
I think the problem was that the possibility of cannibalism didn't even cross my mind when I wrote that.
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Anyways, I agree with Kusa-san here. It's more than just a matter of culture imho. Yes, there are some religions that prohibit meat consuption, such as Buddhism. But I tell you now, there is someone who is Buddhist at work and he eats as much meat as anyone else would. The fact is that humans are omnivorous. It is natural for humans to eat meat as well as vegetables. Unlike certain other debates about what is natural and what isn't, humans' drive toward meat consumption is perfectly natural. What is not natural is eating other humans. Other animals eat other animals as well, but none of those meat eating animals eat members of the same species.
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Also, we can survive without eating meat, while a carnivore can't.
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However, I do indeed believe that killing me is, morally speaking, no better or worse than killing my dog.
And concerning the "natural" thing...
There are a lot of things that can be considered natural we consider morally wrong, and there are a lot of things some might consider unnatural that we don't view as harmful at all.
If we say everything that is natural is moral, and that everything that isn't is immoral, then everyone can just do what they want and no one can blame them, since hey, killing others for your personal gain and ruthlessly conquering other countries is perfectly natural.
I have never seen my dog contemplating whether an action is morally wrong, because yes, dogs do follow instincs. They can choose to eat the fish instead of the bird, but they don't care about human concepts of morality, or any moral reasoning at all.
I just saw the typo.
It's meat! Not me! Meat!
...How could I overread that even when someone pointed it out to me?
Epic fail. xD
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But that aside, killing animals to eat is by no means morally wrong. Animals don't share the same level of intellect and consciousness as humans. Besides this, we are physiologically made to eat meat for nutrition. While it's true that it is possible to gain similar nutrients from other foods, I find it perfectly natural and morally acceptable to eat meat. I will admit that the conditions some animals are kept in are deplorable, but humanely raised and slaughtered meat is alright (and tasty) to me.
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Yes, I eat meat
I am not the kind of person that stands still with what an animal goes through
I've seen how a slaughterhouse works and have seen how pigs got drained and ripped from their skin
I even filmed in a meat house where they would slice up the animals for consumers and restaurants
I have many vegetarian friends who oppose meat and all that though non of them mind about my meat eating as long as I respect their house rules and don't eat it in their home. I don't mind lol
The one thing I do oppose is the cheap meat industry, think of Mc Donald's burgers for example
I like quality meat not cheap junk food
However I do eat candy which sometimes is made of the bones of an animal, basically I don't really care if it made of bones.. I mean do you want to throw that away to rot? I find that an example of wasting food and out of respect for the animal wouldn't throw parts of it away in the trash
Usually all parts gets used for something, I don't mind eating meat but I do mind if people kill an animal and only use a small portion of it and ditch the rest in the trash
Out of respect for the animal whose life was given for a meal I eat my platter empty
I can see where Nogitsune is coming from, well a little, when it comes to the nature thing
Nature doesn't have food stores where you can buy a vegan burger, nor does a wolf cook
Also a carnivore's stomach doesn't handle herbivore foods well, the whole system is different
However humans can choose between meat and non meats and pick for themselves without animal instincts but with common sense
This does not mean I will suddenly become a vegetarian though
Although there is a choice but not in all countries is that choice a logical one or a healthy one
I could go vegan but I think I'd need medication as well if I do so because even now I have anemia, I would get ill even faster as I do now
Also my father would kill me as in his culture adding meat to food is a common thing, nasi without meat in it is just rice with veggies in it
What I did notice in this country is that I have hardly ever seen an obese vegetarian, so my idea would be this if you want to lose weight.. become a vegetarian =D
not proven obviously but ti was just something that caught my eye
But back on topic, in not every country you have the possibility to become a vegetarian. As a vegetarian Africa is the last place you'd wanna be, the tribe folk there kill goats by hand, drink their blood and use each part of the animal (the Chinese do this with snakes and make tea from the blood)
There were TV shows of Dutch families going there to "swap living style" and the daughters were vegetarian, however there is not a vegetable around in that area and those people live of meat. those poor spoiled girls were horrified
I'm not saying that being a vegetarian automatically makes you spoiled but in a situation like that where you have no choice but to eat meat I simply think it is better to think about survival and respect the animal that just died instead of screaming "inhumane" while waving the corpse off as a pest and not eating anything at all
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Edit: I have no problem with people who choose not to eat meat, or even animal products. It's their right to eat however they choose. However, I don't think eating meat is morally wrong and I express my opinion thus.
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and yes it does happen in some countries
However there is also the religious factor, the human race has always been seen supreme to anything else
This is one of the pointers why it is seen as okay to kill animals
I am not saying that I believe this though, I am merely pointing it out
Because the majority of the world is still ruled by what religion thinks we should think and do
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It's natural for a wild animal under certain circumstances to kill its child if it is weak, and here and there, it used to be for humans. It's natural for humans to be selfish and greedy, so why not ruthlessly conquer and suppress others?
Saying something is natural is not a valid argument. And if killing an animal is all right because it is less intelligent, then the same could be said for an infant.
If it's fun, and the animal has no rights, why shouldn't I poke it in the eye a bit, or do whatever else I want to to it?
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However, just because a fanatic tells me killing women who commit adultery is all right, I don't have to respect their opinion. And actually, I don't think Germany, for example, is ruled by religion anymore. If anything, it's some Christian values that remain.
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On a more serious approach towards animals, they accept death and killing as a part of their life and food cycle, they see results and act accordingly. Now, having guinea pigs and torturing animals is definitely evil, but killing to eat is part of nature. Anyway, you've thought out our side too so I'm just commenting, there's no debate to start here.
Whites are not blacks, men are not women. So what?
They're all humans, racism is seen as a problem by everyone, the pack killing the wounded to feed the rest find it normal.
Anyway, to each their own, as long as they understand and respect each other's pov, there shouldn't be any problems.
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Posted by Steve Blood at 6:30 AM
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3 comments:
- Ann said...
That is my "You've got to be kidding" look. Love you both.
- September 17, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- Judy said...
Steve, you did good. Great moment to have caught the look. Happy Day to Dwight!
- September 17, 2010 at 8:39 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Thanks, Steve - love to see these pictures I've not seen before. I can tell this was at Ann's - not too many years ago. Where has time gone? And, yes, happy, happy birthday the day after, and after that, etc.
- September 18, 2010 at 9:36 AM
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Lazio president Claudio Lotito has slammed the Italian media for their portrayal of the club, following his side's 2-0 win over Atalanta.
The Biancocelesti closed the gap at the Serie A summit to three points on Sunday, but Sergio Floccari's opening goal was adjudged by sections of the press to have been assisted by a deliberate handball.
"When Lazio win, it always seems to be due to a refereeing error," he told Stadio Sprint.
"Floccari's handball was involuntary, and according to the rulebook, the goal should count."
Lotito has thrown himself into the running to become the next president of the Lega Serie A after current incumbent Maurizio Beretta announced that he would step down from the role.
Yet he appeared to suggest the organisation which runs the Italian top flight have deliberately tarnished the image of his club.
"Am I optimistic about the vote on Friday? I know that presidents have their clubs at heart and so do I," he added.
"I do not speak of my colleagues because they have tried to create rifts outside [the Lega Serie A].
"I only ask myself questions as a president, not an employee [of the Lega Serie A], because I am still the president of a football club."


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Dr. Compton's Lecture
March 8, 2013
It's no surprise that Jody Williams comes up often in political science instructor Deepa Prakash's courses. With topics such as international security and "non-state actors in world politics," it would be difficult for Prakash to leave Williams and the organization she founded, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), out of the conversation. Williams and the ICBL received the 1997 Noble Peace Prize for work that led to the Ottawa Treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines. More than 160 United Nations member states have signed on to the treaty, although major military powers such as the United States, China and Russia still have not.
"Her case illustrates some very important lessons in international politics," Prakash says. "First, that individuals and groups with principled beliefs can impact the behavior of states in even core areas such as national security. It also illustrates the limits of such action despite remarkable success."
Soon, Prakash and her students will have a chance to hear Williams present her case in person. The Nobel laureate visits DePauw on Tuesday, March 19 to give the Johnson-Wright Lecture in Conflict Studies to Honor Russell J. Compton. The event, which begins at 8 p.m. in Moore Theater, is free and open to all.
"It will be thrilling to hear directly from someone who continues to actively shape the human rights agenda," Prakash says.
In 2006 Williams and five other female Nobel Peace Prize laureates established the Nobel Women's Initiative, leveraging their experience and renown to advance the rights of women worldwide. Her visit follows the release of her new book, My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize, in which she tells the story of her unlikely rise to becoming an international authority on landmines and beyond.
"One of the points she makes is that anybody can have an extraordinary impact," says Associate Professor of Political Science Brett R. O'Bannon, coordinator of the Conflict Studies Program. "There was nothing preordained about her status, nothing in her background to predict all that she accomplished, and I just think that's a fantastic message for our students."
The Johnson-Wright Lecture – informally known as the Compton Lecture – began in 2011 as a way to bring experts in the area of conflict studies to Greencastle. That year, Karen Koning AbuZayd '63, former commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, presented the inaugural lecture. Though Williams is only the second speaker in the short history of the series, it continues the legacy of a professor and ordained United Methodist minister who influenced activists at DePauw for more than half a century.
Russell Compton was a man worth knowing. From 1951 until his retirement from teaching in 1974, his time as a professor of religion and philosophy came during a period of dramatic social change. Ironically, Compton himself refrained from lecturing in the classroom. He wanted students to discover their moral and intellectual cores through dialogue: what he believed to be the foundation of a just and peaceful world.
"The way I taught was a very good way to teach, I thought," Compton said in a 2007 radio interview, produced by Associate Professor of Communication and Theatre Kevin Howley shortly before Compton's death at the age of 98. "People learned to dialogue, to discuss, to talk to each other. I don't think people really live a human life if they don't talk in depth with other human beings."
Christopher J. Wurster '69, director of 50th reunion programs at DePauw, is one of many alumni who took Compton's Basic Beliefs of Modern Man course. Wurster remembers the lengths to which he and his classmates went to try to pin their professor down to a simple answer. Most of the time, Compton responded with more questions.
"It was very frustrating at first, but I came to appreciate his gentle genius," Wurster says.
Though reserved in the classroom, Compton's open activism earned him a reputation for rocking the boat. Three times he led students on marches in Washington, D.C., including the 1963 march at which Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. During the Vietnam War, he counseled antiwar students, drawing on his own pacifist Quaker upbringing as a child. Wurster, who was also Compton's advisee, later counted on his former professor as a reference for his conscientious objector application.
American attitudes shifted in the decades that followed Comptom's tenure. Segregation and institutionalized racism are today almost unimaginable, and the Vietnam War has since become a cautionary tale. But when he was a professor, his beliefs put his career at risk. In fact, Compton had been dismissed from an earlier position at Hendrix College for inviting civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, an African-American, to campus. He had a positive take on the experience, however, pointing out to friends and colleagues that he never would have come to DePauw otherwise.
In 1980, six years after his retirement from the faculty, Compton returned to campus to volunteer as an associate chaplain – a position he held until his death. Professors, staff members and students alike continued to look to Compton for guidance throughout his remaining 27 years.
"One of the great things about talking with Russell as a younger person working with students was that our scope is very limited," Valerie E. Rudolph says. "We see what's happening now and think, 'How can we possibly fix this problem?' But he had such a great perspective of things because he had seen so much change. He was very much an optimist. It was hopeful, motivating."
Rudolph is director of the Russell J. Compton Center for Peace and Justice, a campus resource for students who wish to learn and teach others about social justice issues. Founded in 2000 by Jacob P. Gross '00, now a professor at the University of Louisville, with support from Professor of History Glen D. Kuecker and former Dean of the Chapel O. Wesley Allen Jr., the center was named as a tribute to the man who for so many years was the living embodiment of its goals. (Photo: Gross, left, stands behind Compton with Kuecker and former DePauw President Robert G. Bottoms.) Humbled by the gesture, Compton assured others that he wouldn't be offended if they ever wanted to change its name.
"Every week he would say, 'You know, you don't have to keep my name on there. You can change it to something else,'" Rudolph remembers.
With the addition of the Compton Lecture, his name has once again been attached to something in his honor – but Compton is no longer with us to protest. The people who knew him wish he was. Those who never met him should, too.Back


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CRESTVIEW � Trying to harness the excitement of an opening set 27-25 win, Kathy Combest urged her crew to remain calm, poised and focused on the doorsteps of a historic win. Meanwhile, Niceville didn't panic.
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Vying for its sixth district title in seven years and second straight, John Michael Plummer's crew watched Crestview fight off a set point and prevail to put the Eagles behind the eight ball early on. But like perennial powers do, the Eagles rebounded.
Kayla Henrie delivered a team-best 16 kills, Portia Rodgers and Ashley Hagood combined for 36 assists and the top-seeded Eagles won the District 1-7A title with a 25-27, 25-19, 25-19, 25-20 road win over the second-seeded, host Bulldogs.
"I really try to stay as balanced as possible with my girls," Plummer said. "Our game is serve and pass and if we continue to do those well we'll be fine. That's what I continue to tell my girls ... and that's what I told them tonight."
As for Combest, her worst fears were realized when Crestview's momentum faded away with every self-inflicted error and Niceville attack.
"They kind of let the game get emotional," she said. "They have to throw that emotion out or internalize and harness that toward what they're doing out there on the court. I wanted them to keep a clean mind and I didn't think we did that over the final few sets."
For Henrie, who was especially clutch in the decisive third set with nine kills to lead the Eagles back from 13-7 deficit, there was no other option than to fight back and head into the Region 1-7A quarterfinals with that sought-after homecourt advantage.
"We were confident in ourselves and knew we were going to win," she said. "We just had to push and say strong and we did it."
She also contended there was no looking past Crestview, which is now 0-3 against the Eagles this year.
"We definitely didn't underestimate them," said the senior. "We had to work for this title and I'm so proud of my teammates."
One of those teammates was Ashley Hagood, who delivered nine kills to go along with a game-high 19 assists. Rodgers added 17 assists, Sami Mims chipped in seven blocks and Breana Rodiguez delivered nine kills for the Eagles, who have made 14 straight state tournament appearances. The Eagles will next host the loser of the District 2-7A championship matchup between Lincoln vs. Chiles on Tuesday, where they�ll look to advance to the region semifinals for the sixth consecutive year.
"If we can get push through two games, I think we'll be well off," Plummer said.
For Crestview, the Bulldogs travel to play the winner of the District 2-7A title game for their first state tournament appearance since 2004.
And if they play like they did in the first set Thursday, the Bulldogs could turn some heads.
Getting perfect sets from Macie Adams (15 assists) and Molly Kitchen (10 assists), Jasmine Middleton delivered eight of her game-high 17 kills, the final up the middle to secure the 27-25 win.
But the Eagles would quickly answer. Getting kills from seven different hitters, Niceville responded with a 25-19 win, the final a Rodriguez kill up the left side. Then the Eagles went to Henrie and their two setters in the third set.
Henrie, who was on the receiving end of nine of the 14 assists from Hagood and Rodgers, single-handedly lifted the Eagles back from a 7-13 deficit en route to a 25-20 win. Eight of those came in a 16-point span that saw the Eagles turn a four-point deficit into a 20-17 lead.
Propelled by five aces in the final set, three of which came from Maribel Medina, the Eagles cruised to a 25-20 win.


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Hawkeyes lose 2 football players to injury
IOWA CITY, Iowa —
Iowa has lost starting offensive linemen Brandon Scherff and Andrew Donnal to season-ending injuries.
Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz says Scherff, a sophomore left tackle, broke a bone in his leg during Saturday night's 38-14 loss to Penn State.
Donnal, a sophomore right guard, hurt his right knee in the first half against the Nittany Lions.
Junior Nolan MacMillan will move into Scherff's starting spot at tackle for this weekend's game between the Hawkeyes (4-3, 2-1 Big Ten) and Northwestern (6-2, 2-2).
Redshirt freshman Austin Blythe will likely replace Donnal at guard.
The loss of Scherff and Donnal is a blow to an offense that has scored just 26 points in the past two weeks.


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Everyone in town who has lived there any length of time or done any amount of genealogy around Western Maryland and especially in the little mountain town of Frostburg in Allegany County will have run into her either on the discussion boards or in years past at the courthouse, libraries, cemeteries, and historical institutions from Cumberland to all over in northern West Virginia and up into Pennsylvania. Genealogists who have ancestors on our direct line come from hundreds of miles to look at her files and chat with her. She's that kind of person. Everyone know Virginia Kelly.
Mom loves a good story and even more, loves a good mystery, genealogy style. She can still spot all those illegitimate births and unusual mating's form a mile away. If you have a criminal past and are in our direct line, she knows what you did. And don't be a missing person on our tree after 1800 because if you don't want to be found, too bad for you!
On one of my recent trips back east to see Mom while I was inspecting her bookshelf, I came across some steno notebooks where she wrote sources and discoveries in repositories, as she found them. Then at the end of one were some other writings: her stories from her own life. What a treasure! She read me a bit of it and I snuck out my cell phone and did a voice recording. I carry it with me, always.
When I got home I realized that if I was enjoying her stories from her own life, others would too, so she transcribed her handwritten words and typed them up. After some word processing fiasco that neither Mom nor I really want to talk about, I finally got the emails she sent with her typed documents, every bit of it.
When we all met up in Cleveland not too long ago I brought the first draft of it in booklet form. We all loved it. It needs more photos but doesn't everything? And I just know that Mom has already typed up a story about all the dogs in her life too. We just need to find it.
So here's what I plan to do. In the upcoming days Mom's stories will appear on this blog, complete with the photos we're using in her book. I do think that you'll really enjoy them. It starts just about the time when she was born in 1918 and travels through her childhood, teen years, and young adulthood. As you can spot right away, we're in small town life just before the Great Depression and on until just before WWII. Mom paints a picture of the joys and sadness's that touch almost every life no matter where or when, while closely describing her particular time and place.
Thanks, Mom for writing your stories. They are an instant family treasure!
Virginia (Williams) Kelly.
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New Mills Town Council has denied threatening to dispose of the Royal British Legion's poppies stored in the town hall, in a bid to calm the media storm surrounding it.
As reported last month, acting clerk Lesley Bramwell wrote to Jeff Lawton, New Mills poppy appeal organiser, to say he had stored his leftover poppies, collection boxes and wreaths in the building "without authority from or agreement with the council".
In the letter dated January 21, which was shown to the Advertiser, she said: "Because of this I have been informed by the town council to contact you to inform you that you must remove these items within the next seven days. I have to point out that if they are not removed within this period, they will be removed and disposed of."
Vice chair of the council Cllr Lance Dowson said: "With regard to the poppies, the number discovered was some 23,750 poppies. In addition to these, there were also hundreds of other Remembrance Day items, wreaths, collecting boxes and tins etc, totalling nearly 25,000 items. The council did offer to consider storing these items in the town hall and did inform the poppy appeal organiser what he would need to do to facilitate that but he chose not to accept this offer and moved them. The council has never said that it was going to bin, burn or destroy the poppies in any way and would never consider such a ridiculous and disrespectful action. The council deeply regrets the amount of upset this has caused."
The poppies are now being stored in St George's Parish Church, on Church Lane, New Mills.


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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Every one of the 15 LSU seniors that will say farewell to Tiger Stadium Friday afternoon has contributed in his own way, but one guy who stands out to the team is wide receiver and special teams player James Wright.
"It's remarkable; a lot of amazing memories, friends and bonds that you have for a lifetime," said Wright. "It's hard to describe."
Senior James Wright (No. 82) chose LSU with hopes of becoming the Tigers' next star wide receiver. During his junior season in 2012, there were signs Wright was getting closer. He had five catches for 75 yards in a rout over Washington and a beautiful diving grab for 48 yards in a win over Ole Miss. However, as this season began, it was clear Wright wouldn't be catching many footballs. As a matter of fact, he hasn't made one reception all year.
"With this game of college football, sometimes things don't always work out the way you want them to work out," said junior wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
But what Wright has excelled at is his new role as a special teams demon.
"It just says a lot about his character," said junior wide receiver Jarvis Landry. "Guys that have the spirit and the want," added head coach Les Miles.
"Everybody cares about their self and their own future, but they put that aside for the team and really for the man next to you in the locker room," Wright explained.
In LSU's season opener against TCU, Wright immediately harnessed his inner Honey Badger, stripping the football from the Horned Frogs on a kickoff and making the recovery himself.
"I know what times he's had. It's incredible to just know the amount of athleticism he has," Beckham added.
To this point, Wright leads LSU in special teams tackles and is always hustling down the field to make a play.
"Certain guys practice to a very high level and certain guys are moderate in their approach. He's a guy who flies around, who's working his technique so that when he gets to the game that he can play and play extremely well," Miles said.
"When we sit down and watch film, every day coach points out and says, 'Look at James's effort,'" said junior running back Terrence Magee. "Everything he does, he does it 110 percent."
Wright probably dreamed of being a 1,000-yard receiver like Odell Beckham Jr. or Jarvis Landry.
"Every receiver wants to play receiver. I came here to play receiver," Wright said. "If he was anywhere else in the nation, he could be a 1,000-yard guy easily," Beckham explained.
However, he doesn't need to worry about being a disappointment because his teammates couldn't admire him more.
"James Wright has really been an inspiration to everybody on the team," Magee said. "James Wright is the most selfless guy on this team," Landry added.
"Someone like James Wright is why you play the game," said junior fullback Connor Neighbors. "He's a team player. He's very passionate."
"He's an amazing guy," Beckham commented. "He's a guy I have a tremendous amount of respect for," senior linebacker Lamin Barrow added. "He's good and we enjoy him," Miles said.
So, keep your eye on James Wright in Tiger Stadium on Friday. Perhaps he won't get his hands on the football, but he'll probably drill somebody who does.
Kickoff for LSU and Arkansas from Tiger Stadium is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. The game can be seen on WAFB.
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