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Saturday, 26 November 2016
Playing games is an AMAZING way to learn.
If you've been following my blog, or my Facebook Page (Adventures In Natural Learning) you'll know that I want everyone to realise the benefits of play for children (and adults!).
At the front of my Adventures In Natural Learning: Handbook I've said:
'I haven't listed each skill covered by the various activities - that is totally unnecessary in a natural learning environment, and can so often limit spontaneous and joyful learning. Separating skills and forecasting goals and objects is an institutional way of thinking.'
I'll come back to this in a minute.
Just recently, due to some online and some real-life discussions, I've been thinking a lot about the "de-schooling" period that many children need/require/crave when they are taken out of school, and into a home education environment.
It's true that parents also need a "de-schooling" period. And, it's patently obvious, when looking at society in general, that many adults who went to school EVEN WHEN THEY REALISED THEN/REALISE NOW THE SYSTEM IS FLAWED still hold to those same methods of "education" as being the right way to educate a child.
This can be a huge problem when a parent wants to home educate, but they are still ... can I say 'brainwashed' ... into thinking that the national curriculum, and the methods used by regular schooling are the best, the right and the only way to educate.
Many parents,who start out home educating using regular school as their model (even when they say 'We're going to do it our way, our own timetable, have a blast, a fun life, our rules ...) well, even with good intentions many parents have found, over time even as their education methods have relaxed and their lives become more education-rich in a natural way - they still have a nagging thought that they're not doing 'enough'.
This can come from three main sources. One is comparing themselves to other families. DON'T. Just Don't Do That. Ok?
The second is not quite comparing, but seeing all the cool 'educational resources' that their friends 'like' on Facebook, or special offers that mysteriously enter their FB feed from curriculum companies ... and the feeling that perhaps they're letting their children down by not providing these wonderful resources. Or the feeling that actually - yes - they are making things harder for themselves by having such a haphazard way of educating their children, and surely it would be less chaotic, more streamlined and successful if there were some sort of method or path mapped out by an educational professional who obviously knew what they were doing.
The third nagging-doubt-maker comes from a parent remembering days and days of handwriting, filling in worksheets, reading text books, covering multitudes of maths concepts, report cards at the end of term, copying from the blackboard (I was at school prior to the whiteboard era!), having to give reports in front of the class, busywork, pretend tests for the up-and-coming tests, 'what I did in the holidays' ... Well, that is what education looks like. Isn't it?
These doubts may not be at the front of their mind when the sun shines, the washing is up to date, all beds made with clean sheets, vacuuming all done, the children are playing co-operatively, days are free and easy, everyone is smiling and laughing and happy, the children are playing imaginative games full of enquiry, freely theorizing and naturally separating fallacies, fact, and opinion, being kind to one another, dazzling your visitors with home-grown general knowledge, wonderful manners and sparkling conversation skills, the fridge is full of healthy food, there is baking in the tins, and there is a general feeling of bliss.
Then there are the other days ... and the doubts creep in.
"We're not doing enough."
"Ok, I read all about play being good for children, but at what age does that stop?"
"Sure - they can learn stuff when they play, but it's really limited."
And now I return, finally, to my original thoughts.
The way most of us have been educated is just one way.
It might not have been the right way for you. It might not the be the right way for your children.
And if you want another way - you can PLAY. At any age!!
It's true, I haven't listed each skill a child can learn playing various games in my book. But just as an example look at the game below:
I could list skills such as: following instructions; listening; standing still; being aware of someone else's space; IMPULSE CONTROL (not shouting out the answer); learning to not be disappointed when YOU know the answer but the person chosen doesn't know; staying quiet; remaining standing; waiting for your turn; thinking of the answer and holding onto that thought (hard for some children); being graceful toward a sibling; respectfully disagreeing if you feel you are right; not being braggy or arrogant if you keep getting the answers right; accepting when the game is finished; and then there is the actual answering of the questions.
If a parent thinks it would be too challenging thinking of questions for this game then quickly write some ideas on the book. Things like:
RELATIONSHIPS (Who is nana's son's wife's daughter?)
TIME (What two days make up the weekend/what is the fourth month of the year/what time is 14 hundred hours?)
GEOGRAPHICAL (Name one country on the border of Germany/name one of the major oceans/what is one of the longest rivers in the world?)
etc etc etc
If a parent doesn't have the confidence to think of questions on-the-spot then maybe print out a list of general knowledge questions similar to this and put it in the Handbook. (NB like all new things, it's a learning curve for a parent, and may take a bit of getting used to but it's worth it. Quite a few children LOVE being asked questions in a non-threatening, non-embarasing environment. Also, NB if you print out questions be sure to look through them first, it is rare that I find a list of GOOD questions - I can often see areas where the children would disagree with the "right" answer, or questions on subjects that we have no interest in right now!).
I was recently on holiday (first holiday in 10 years!!!!) with my Mum and three of my children. The bach we stayed in had a big selection of games and books. The children found a "general knowledge" type game which they played with my mum. She called out (relevant) questions from the cards: "Hands on buzzers - which is the highest mountain in the world?" One of the children would "buzz" she would announce them (as per "University Challenge" or other TV quiz show). We didn't keep score, nobody cared if they were wrong, it was just fun, built relationships and passed the time (and yes, if you want to label it as such - it was educational).
If you don't have my Handbook - then just find a list of a few games somewhere, print them out, put them on the fridge so you ACTUALLY PLAY THEM - and get on with some real learning!!
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Pulitzer Prize-nominated Lauren Redniss is the author and illustrator of Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, an "unconventional" biography of Marie Curie. This year, Interim Chancellor David Ward announced her book as the 2012 Go Big Read common reading program selection. Redniss, who is currently a professor at Parsons New School of Design, shared her thoughts on the book in a phone interview with The Badger Herald. This interview has been edited for clarity and readability.
The Badger Herald: First off, can you take me through the process of this book?
Lauren Redniss: I worked on the text and the illustration simultaneously. I moved to France so I could work in the archives in France; that's where the Curie archives are, and it also allowed me to be able to be in the streets where the Curies lived. During that time I was doing lots of drawing and putting together the skeletal version of the book – like a physical dummy book where I had collected all of this material.
BH: Your biography has a specific angle. How did you settle on the story that you did?
Redniss: Yeah, that was one of the luxuries of writing about people who were well-known. I didn't feel obliged to include every detail of their lives. There were even important things that I could leave out because there were other biographies that people could read if that is what they are looking for, a more traditional kind of biography. So I could really tailor the story I told, or edit it to the aspects of the story or the scenes I was interested in exploring.
BH: What drew you to this angle specifically?
Redniss: I was interested in their love story and their scientific work, in particular aspects of their scientific work, and I like that combination and juxtaposition so that for those who may not pick up a science book, but would read a love story, they would still read it. They are two different threads that amplify each other in unexpected ways, or illuminate each other, I should say.
BH: Your book begins with a note to Marie Curie, apologizing for combining her personal life and her scientific life. What do you think Marie Curie would have thought of the story you told?
Redniss: That's really funny; I interviewed her granddaughter and I really thought her granddaughter would hate the book too, but now they are being really supportive. So initially I imagined that it wouldn't be well received by her, you know, but Marie Curie was a romantic person; she wrote poetry.
BH: Your book is a combination of art and science. Why did you decide to bring these two fields together?
Redniss: Oh, a couple different things, I guess. One, I am just really interested in science. That is just something I am curious about as a human being. I like to make my work about things that I want to learn about. And I am a visual artist, so it is natural for me to bring that to whatever I am doing.
BH: How do you think the two complement each other?
Redniss: I guess in all the different ways. What I always say about this book is that it is a visual book about invisible things. So I guess I would go back to that and those kinds of challenges of creating visual work about invisible matter. It was an interesting problem.
BH: You use a unique style of art in Cyanotype. What drew you to this style of art?
Redniss: I never consciously work in any kind of style. I am interested in the ideas and expressing them as most directly as I can. It naturally comes to me. I draw a lot and usually I use pencil in line drawings and recombine those line drawings in different compositions and transfer to Cyanotype drawings. It's just a kind of a natural evolution, not an intentional style.
BH: This book was picked for the Go Big Read program because it represented this year's theme of innovation. How would you fit your book within this theme?
Redniss: Well it very directly fits, because the central subject matter is about discovery. The Curies were all about discovery and I guess it is an unconventional book in several ways, so there is that.
BH: How do you find it unconventional?
Redniss: It's funny, for me it doesn't feel unconventional; it feels like a natural way to handle the material. But I can understand why other people use that label, because most books don't rely on images primarily to tell non-fiction stories to adult audiences.
BH: Madison Public Library is now holding Cyanotype workshops in honor of this book. How do you see this form of art as a growing medium in your book?
Redniss: It's a process that deals with exposure. You need to take these certain chemicals and expose them to sunlight and that reaction between the UV rays and the chemicals on the paper create this blue color. I like that, because there is a little bit of primitive chemistry in the book.
BH: This book was distributed to the student body as a part of freshman convocation. What are you hoping students get out of it?
Redniss: I guess I hope they take away different things as different people. I hope that there is enough in the book in the form and the content that such a diverse population can benefit from it and in various ways.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
YouTube Bans Breast-feeding Video
It seems to be a growing movement to label breast feeding videos or photos as inappropriate.
Many high profile websites such as MySpace and Facebook have already started to ban nursing images, according to The League of Maternal Justice.
The League was upset when YouTube banned their clip, The Great Breast Fest Montage, which was viewed at least 68,000 times before disappearing.
I didn't find the video offensive, but you can see for yourself here:
We have been over this subject no less than a thousand times. Some people just don't get breastfeeding. They can't get past the fact that a breast isn't a sexual thing when a baby is hungry. These people should just keep that fact to themselves and work their own issues out privately.
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extra/gtk3 3.12.1-1 [installed]
GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit (v3)
extra/gtk2 2.24.23-1 [installed]
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit (v2)
looks like I have both gtk2 and gtk3 installed.
did a fast dirty check with your hack "padding with blanklines" - it seems to work
for (( c=`wc -l < /tmp/dbox-ls`; c<=11; c++ )); do echo >> /tmp/dbox-ls; done
to end of function build_chooser_list()
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Posted: Thu 08 May 2014, 13:46
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Hmm ok well perhaps it may be a bug with a workaround for now.... see if anyone else reports it...GTK is a mysterious beastie...
As for the hack I see no harm in simply bunging in several blank lines and not bothering with the test apart from affecting the scroll bar size.
A nosy around has not shed any other light on this one so far... thanks for the feedback
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Posted: Thu 08 May 2014, 14:19
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mikeb wrote:
As for the hack I see no harm in simply bunging in several blank lines and not bothering with the test apart from affecting the scroll bar size.
so something like
printf '\n%.0s' {1..11} >> /tmp/dbox-ls
Do you think the other way is slow or why did you suggest to
do it without test?
Maybe I'm petty but I didn't like those extra newlines at the end and sonce I only need it at startup I solved it this way
# At the top of script
export IS_STARTUP=true
build_chooser_list () {
if $IS_STARTUP; then
for (( c=`wc -l < /tmp/dbox-ls`; c<=11; c++ )); do echo >> /tmp/dbox-ls; done
which would only output extra lines at startup and then just do fast boolean check
which way is best do you think?
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Posted: Thu 08 May 2014, 14:39
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here is my post with a previous dropbox client:
don't know if it will be useful, but there it is.
Check out my
github repositories
. I may eventually get around to updating my
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Posted: Thu 08 May 2014, 14:42
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Never used dropbox (nor the pet) before.
Created a DB account. Tried the pet and couldn't figure it out in < 20 mins ..... so both zapped.
Asked about 'app secrets' and gave two lots of choices of apps to create etc. I was typing in long textual (no copy/paste) sequences etc (soon lost interest).
Sorry for the negative feedback Mike - but perhaps best to be aware of what fools/noobs like me see.
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Posted: Thu 08 May 2014, 16:14
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Do you think the other way is slow or why did you suggest to
do it without test?
too many things happening at once for my head generally... had to do a manic website and email accounts move yesterday
No its fine...in fact your final version with a check for first run is the neatest.... It would be ok as a harmless addition as a 'just in case'
@rufwoof ... well perhaps thats one to take up with the author of dropbox_uploader. To copy and paste you highlight the text and paste with middle click ... A traditional unix thing I believe.
All I do is send his api creation script to the terminal.
One created its all gui fun in the style of a 2 pane browser.
The normal way to use dropbox is as a python application which syncs a local folder to the web.
goodly.... I use dropbox as a file host rather than a cloud backup so these scripted alternatives and their api's do provide some nice options.
Mediafire liked to corrupt files and 4shared went members only so dropbox became the replacement.
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Posted: Fri 09 May 2014, 15:17
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I want to thank you, mikeb, for a good collaboration getting your
application to run smooth on alphaos.
You could ask for help and the lenghty setup is only first time
Then it is a very smooth experience
I tried out your script but it didn't work for me. Maybe because
dropbox changed their setup? Didn't investigate further since
dropbox_uploader.sh( version 0.13) can do it from cmdline.
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Posted: Sat 10 May 2014, 20:19
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Scooby wrote:
You could ask for help and the lengthy setup is only first time Then it is a very smooth experience
Thanks Scooby. Personally I'm happy to run that more manually myself. FTP PUT or whatever and upload a pre-encrypted version of whatever I want to store. FTP GET to download and then locally decrypt/use.
Whose to say that in 3, 5 ... whatever years time computer power/speed wont have risen sufficiently that DES...whatever encryption is no longer secure and the host in having copies of your current/past encyrpted data could browse through that at their leisure. For anything that you'd rather wasn't exposed to such risk the best choice of key is one that has a size equal to the size of the data being encrypted.
Not that I have much in the way of anything that would bother me if it was accessible/seen by others - excepting bank/financial stuff of course. I just don't like the idea that it could be used for their financial gain - such as feeding me specific advertisements based on a personal profiling or selling on that profile to others. I already get enough junk postal mail daily, and regular cold calls from the likes of brokers trying to get me to use them as advisers/agents - which is really dumb/useless - as if they had any specialist info that was of any use then they wouldn't be calling strangers but using that info themselves. No matter how many times you ask to be removed from their database it seems that its a lot easier to have personal data being recorded than it is to have that data removed.
In the past I've experimented and registered unique sign up name on applications for services or whatever and where I've specifically requested/ticked the non-sharing box. Yet later I receive junk mail with that unique name i.e. the original service has not implemented such non-disclosure. Getting to the stage where I'm quite grumpy about it all being way too one sided. Data protection being thrown at you as excuses for their failings, or me to prove who I am to them without a reciprocation of validation. For more recent calls where I know its a cold call and they know my name the call might go something like ....
Hello, is that Mr Woof?
I'm sorry but under data protection you'll have to enter your access code before I can answer that.
Sorry | Pardon | Huh
"Sorry | Pardon | Huh" is an Invalid code .. goodbye.
is more fun and shorter than getting more upset about yet another cold call just as you were starting dinner.
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I just wanted to drop by and tell you I really love dropbox_gui.
Its so good to work with!
Thanks again.
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Posted: Fri 13 Jun 2014, 16:17
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Cheers scooby ... yes I quite like it myself
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Posted: Thu 10 Jul 2014, 06:46
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feature request ( really more of a feature discussion)
I would like to see two features
1. Somehow get info as in with dropbox_uploader.sh version 0.13
dropbox_uploader.sh -f /root/.dropbox_conf info
info about quota
2. Backup all of the dropbox account locally
The firs one I could easily hack in but do you have any hints on the second
Do you have to loop over the remote files and download one by one?
There are a featur in web ui of dropbox that if I mark all and push download
dropbox zips it and then downloads. Do you know if this could be exposed?
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well if the latest script has it added then hackable it is... my main alteration is to add user profiles which is handled at the beginning.
I also have the download link set up for the older (and better) public folder method.
well syncing the lot is more a dropbox's software function really. My gui was aimed at those using it as a convenient file host. And yes it would mean lots of looping.
zipped download... hmm yes there could well be an api for that. Its a while since i looked.
Seems like you have a handle on much of this so feel free to post any test versions up here. I don't have as much time spare as I used to.
As for discussion I have the security thingy turned off for me since the gnutls farce... I wondered if this should be made so for the 'official' version or is it just my oddball setup affected?
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I asked at dropbox forums but they said zip-function was not availible in API
but they kindly passed it on to their programmers and buried it.
I will hack in info button
I did add
if [ -d "$1" ]; then DIR="`realpath $1`/"; fi
after configfile .dboxrc is read
I have noticed that I want to open dropbox_gui with specific local dir loaded
I usually invoke it from terminal so this is an easy fix.
Just wanted to drop it here as feedback on usability
Still lovin it
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No problem and thanks for the input
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As I liked this program very much I want to make you aware
that something was changed at dropbox.
I checked the dropbox_uploader homepage and it was updated
with a version that works( version 0.14)
Beaware that arguments have changed a bit from 0.13 and forwards.
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AGADIR, Morocco (AP) – Michael Hoey of Northern Ireland won the Hassan II Trophy by three strokes Sunday, ending Matteo Manassero's bid to qualify for next month's Masters.
Hoey closed with a 7-under 65 to finish at 17-under 271. Damien McGrane of Ireland, who either led or shared the lead for three rounds, shot a 70 and was runner-up.
Manassero needed to win to enter the top 50 in the world rankings to make the Masters, which starts April 5. He entered the final round tied for the lead but shot a 72 for 276. He bogeyed No. 1 and double-bogeyed No. 8.
The 18-year-old Italian competed in the 2009 Masters as the British amateur champion.
"I would have loved to be going to Augusta for a first time as a professional,'' he said. "But I will go now to Sicily this week and concentrate on winning the Sicilian Open.''
Jamie Donaldson of Wales set a course record of 61, holing his approach shot on the last hole for an eagle. He finished at 275 with Robert Coles of England (67) and Phillip Price of Wales (69).
This was Hoey's fourth European Tour victory and his third in less than a year. He earned almost $160,000, lifting him from No. 65 to No. 14 on the money list.
"The golf course was very enjoyable and to shoot 67 on day two and then finish with two 65s is simply amazing,'' he said.
McGrane, unlike Hoey, was unable to complete his third round Saturday. He returned early Sunday to play the final eight holes before starting his final round.
"It was draining especially as I am not used to leading for three rounds,'' he said. "But I managed to grab second on my own. And while I am pleased with second, I am also a bit disappointed.''
Defending champion David Horsey of England had a 66 for 279.


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The Nespresso D55 is a newer version of the D50 and has an attached milk frother. Not only does this feature save space but it is more convenient since both the machine and frother can be plugged in with the same cord. Other than this difference, both machines have the exact same features that make them great espresso machines.
How To Brew with a Nespresso
Making coffee with the D55 and D50 is really easy. Take a Nespresso capsule and put it into the brewing chamber. Press the brew button after closing the sliding lid and in a few moments hot espresso will pour into your cup. When you pull the sliding lid back up again the used capsule will be automatically dropped down into the container below that holds 12 capsules. In order to clean up, just dispose of the capsules and clean the machine by removing the water container and drip tray.
Conclusion: Which Model is Best - Should I Buy a D55 or D50?
Both the D55 and D50 are excellent espresso coffee making machines. While choosing between the two machines, remember that they have the same great features but are only different because the D55 has an attached milk frother making it more convenient to use it. Both are available at excellent prices and either one will be a great buy.
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Ashton on Mersey School was designated a Maths Hub in 2014, one of only 35 nationally. There are four hubs in the North West with the remit to improve teaching and learning in Mathematics across the North West. Our hub, North West 2 has been working with our strategic partners on a series of both national collaborative and local projects over the last 2 years. There has been a clear focus in the primary sector to develop 'Teaching for Mastery' with projects including appointing and training four 'specialists' and looking at practice from the Far East; Chinese pedagogy in an exchange with teachers from Shanghai and developing the use of a Singapore text book. The focus in the Secondary phase has been about supporting staff with the demands of the new GCSE and developing mathematical reasoning. Our post 16 work group has looked at ways of engaging pupils in Mathematics to encourage a greater uptake at A Level. Mathematics staff at Ashton on Mersey and Sale Grammar have collaborated on a series of projects this year, that will have significant impact on the Mathematics workforce across the North West. Programmes include Primary Mathematics Specialist ITT route, developing Mathematics pedagogy and improving classroom practice, supporting new leaders in Mathematics, and retraining non specialist teachers strengthening and increasing their knowledge.
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Meg Whitman strode to the podium, cloaked in righteous indignation. Her husband stood silently by her side.
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30 September 2013
Obama, Obama, Obama. What are we going to do with you? You say ObamaCare has nothing to do with the economy. Are you the only living soul on the face of the earth that actually believes that to be true?
You also say raising the debt ceiling doesn't affect national debt. Where have you been all these past five years? I know, I know. I go on vacation to get away from my business about once a year. But, Mr. President, you really can't gain understanding around the economy of a nation of 310,000,000 persons while playing innumerable games of golf or holding expensive parties at the White House . At some point, you simply must stop campaigning and talk to real people who genuinely know how economics works.
ObamaCare, your signature legislation, affects every man,
woman and child, those in existence today and those yet unborn 100 years from now. Your "precious" is the largest tax increase in the history of our country. It is already having a devastating effect on our people as large companies reduce employee work hours from 40 to 30 hours per week, just to stay in business. Naturally, trying to run a business with an all part-time work force adds hitherto unknown problems to be solved, like continuity and productivity.
You and your Democrats assume everyone needs medical insurance. Well, a lot of people do, but not everyone. Healthy people go all their lives without ever lying on a hospital bed.
And, I ask, how is it a good thing that the new ObamaCare policy holders survive very high deductibles? Their only recourse is to add personal debt.
By the way, in case you don't remember, Congress has raised the debt ceiling SEVEN TIMES in the last five years to fund your radical socialist agenda, thus adding a burden of an additional $43,000 per household.
You may think you can bully your way, but we are fed up with your egotistical bullying. You, someone who has never met a payroll is an expert on business? You, someone not trained in medicine is an expert now in all things medical? You who never sold a single insurance policy or worked actuaries is now an expert on all things insurance?
We the People DEMAND ObamaCare be defunded before it totally sinks this ship of state.


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1. housewarming parties.
yet another excuse to have a get-together. i like this excuse the best. it comes with new beginnings. what a success! i hope everyone had fun:)
2. sunday morning walks.
when i envision my future, it includes a weekend morning walk with one of my best friends. just a little catch up on the week and other life events. i'm so thankful i got to walk with dez this morning. sunshine, breeze, golden gate bridge, coffee. so great.
3. roomies.
it's so funny to me that just nearly a year ago i didn't know these girls. now they are near and dear to my heart. i'm thankful for them and for the memories we're making in these formative years.
4. sephora.
a beauty haven. love this place.
5. spur of the moment lunches with ryan.
he comforts me. i'm glad to have him as a friend.
6. san francisco festival season.
the best time of year...
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text: Six years after returning his Pulitzer, Benjamin Justice gets a visit from Harry Brofsky, the former Los Angeles Times editor he got fired along with himself over a fraudulently fictionalized AIDS human-interest story. Harry, now at the fly- by-night L.A. Sun, wants Justice to work on a sidebar to the story that up-and-coming Alex Templeton's writing on the shooting of Billy Lusk outside a gay bar in the Boy's Town neighborhood. The killing seems open-and-shut: Teenaged gangbanger Gonzalo Albundo, found at the scene, has already confessed. But after the obligatory protests, Justice, like an old firehorse that can't ignore the bell, gets his teeth into the story and won't let go. Albundo, he realizes, doesn't belong to any gang, and his confession is as phony as Justice's Pulitzer article. Martyred Billy was no saint, either; he was a blackmailing cokehound who kept a bulging photo file of all his lovers. The outraged citizens baying for blood, from Albundo's homophobic brother Luis to smiling Senator Paul Masterman, all have something to hide. When his questions lead him to a closeted tennis pro and the secret her powerful p.r. flack Queenie Cochran is hiding, Justice ignores Brofsky's obligatory attempts to pull him off what's turned into a hot potato and follows the story from the Out Crowd bar to the Boy Meets Grill, and to a solution readers of every sexual orientation will have spotted long before he does. Wilson telegraphs each punch like a man who just can't keep a secret to himself. But sensitive Justice, once he's come to terms with his demons, should be well worth an encore.


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Babalu was re-homed eight times in the first 11 years of his life. Being re-homed is difficult for any cockatoo but being re-homed that many times shatters their worldview. It was difficult to work with him in the beginning because he was afraid that you would leave him. This often meant that he would bite or scream. But in a relatively short period of time we taught him to trust us and now he rarely bites or screams.
Unfortunately, he now has a medical condition that requires urgent diagnosis and care. Birds should have a clean tail but Bab is having trouble passing solids. His Cloaca, the area of the tail where feces comes out, swells up to five times its normal size when he tries to pass feces. There are many issues that could cause this and diagnosis is critical. This kind of condition is life-threatening.


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After Intel hired AMD's top Radeon architect, Raja Koduri, last year the chip maker flagged plans to deliver its own high-end discrete graphics cards.
Now the company has announced via a short tweet that its first discrete GPU will be coming in 2020.
Discrete GPUs are standalone components from the CPU that enable more powerful graphics than the integrated GPUs Intel currently offers.
The discrete GPU market has long been dominated by Nvidia and AMD, but the incumbents could face more competition if Intel's discrete GPU plans succeed under Koduri...
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5 awesome parties in Dubai this week
Bongo's Bingo
The UK phenomenon we revealed a couple of issues ago has come to the UAE. Born in Liverpool, Bongo's Bingo has since sold out across eight cities in the UK with its heady mix of bingo, club vibe and audience interaction. Jonny Bongo himself will be flying over to host the party in Media City and there are plenty of prizes to be won. Looks like the kind of mental night out that could become a fixture here.
When: Thursday, April 20, 8pm
Where: ON42, Media One Hotel
Contact: website
We Love Raisini feat. Paul Hamilton
Dubai-based house label Raisini Records celebrates 17 years on the scene here with a new Thursday-night residency at Penthouse Lounge. To help kick things off is progressive house DJ Paul Hamilton, who has been in Dubai since 2004.
When: Thursday, April 20, 10pm-3am
Where: Penthouse Lounge, JA Ocean View Hotel, JBR
Contact: +971 55 999 8322, website
Plus/Minus with Alan Fitzpatrick
More top-quality techno from the guys at Plus/Minus as they welcome Alan Fitzpatrick. The Southampton native is fast becoming one of the busiest and best artists in the genre – and this will be his debut in the UAE. His sets are laden with grooves and textures.
When: Friday, April 21, 9pm-3am
Where: ON42, Media One Hotel, Dubai Media City
Contact: website
Zero Gravity with Jax Jones
Jax Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter and, of course, DJ. He featured on Duke Dumont's 2014 number one "I Got U", while his self-penned "You Don't Know Me", which was based around Booka Shade's 2005 hit "Body Language", reached number three in 2016.
When: Friday, April 21, 9pm-3am
Where: Sky Dive Dubai drop zone, Dubai Marina
Contact: +971 55 500 9086, website
Apollonia + Carl Craig
The three-member DJ crew of Shonky, Dan Ghenacia and Dyed Soundorom, which as Apollonia has become a mainstay on the international clubbing scene, come to the UAE for this Friday evening party. They're joined onstage by Detroit mega producer and techno DJ Carl Craig.
When: Friday, April 21, 1pm-11pm
Where: Blue Marlin Ibiza UAE
Contact: +971 56 113 3400, website


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An all cardio class designed to increase your cardiovascular fitness through use of intensity variations.
Cardio Core Challenge– adds a core strengthening component to the Cardio Challenge class.
Instructor: Tim G.
"EZ"/101 classes are appropriate for those looking for a lower intensity workout.
Instructor: Kristy
Interval Training- an advanced class for those looking to add a high intensity workout into their exercise plan. It is based on timed intervals at lactate threshold. Boxing intervals add the dynamic of shadow boxing to increse the intensity.
Instructor: Kristy
Our "Sit &" classes use a chair to make the workout more gentle and ability friendly!
Spinning- a non-impact cycling workout for all levels. Your instructor guides the ride, you guide your intensity.
Instructor- Leigh
Hip Hop Dance
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Seeing Red on a Manic Monday
Here are your top Daily Fantasy Baseball articles of the day! If you know of an article I've missed, drop it in the comment section, or tweet it at me @DavidGonos.
LockerRoomFantasySports.com – News & Notes
As I've mentioned before, I'm a big fan of what these guys do on a nightly basis, going through and handpicking some of the best tweets and tidbits from the day's action. It's a nice primer for starting the day in baseball.
It's just crazy to think that Chris Colabello is leading the American League with 11 RBI so far. He's seeing the ball really well, right now, and he'll face off against lefty Scott Kazmir this afternoon! Colabello's already up in the $8,000 range on Draft Day, but he's $3,900 at Draft Kings, and $2,500 on FanDuel. The salaries have climbed a bit this past week, but he could still be a bargain in the early matchups.
(With that said, he's a 30-year-old slugger, whose batting average should dip considerably sooner than later. I'm not a huge fan of him in traditional Fantasy play just yet.)
Fellow Rays fan (and current Fantasy Baseball Writer of the Year) Jason Collette takes care of the Daily Notes today. He likes Cardinals' SP Michael Wacha at home against the Reds (Joey Votto's not having the best start to the season), and then John Lackey against Texas.
Interestingly, he also has Reds SP Tony Cingrani ranked third, so he must expect a low-scoring Cards/Reds affair. Load up on Red Sox against SP Tanner Scheppers, however. He's also not a fan of Matt Moore pitching at Kansas City.
<blockquote>" Tampa Bay has a history of poor play in Kansas City and Moore is struggling with his command this spring. That's a bad combination when facing a Royals team that has the third-highest walk rate in the league at 11.2 percent." – Collette</blockquote>
RotoExperts.com – Daily Fantasy Rundown
One of the top Daily Fantasy Baseball players in the industry, Drew Dinkmeyer, shares some of his favorite picks for today's games.
Dinkmeyer likes Brian Dozier, who I still believe to be one of the more underrated second baseman in Fantasy, as he lines up against another lefty (Kazmir).
If you're going to spend some money on your outfielders, both Mike Trout (at Houston) and Carlos Gonzalez (vs. CHW). For value plays, he likes White Sox leadoff hitter Adam Eaton.
FanGraphs.com – Daily Fantasy Strategy for DraftStreet
Brett Talley likes using an Angels stack today against Houston, and a White Sox stack of players at Coors Field.
Hopefully, these articles help you bring back some money today!
Follow me @DavidGonos to see what my daily buddies and I choose as our Draft Day Rapid Fire picks!


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Like most bright ideas, this one was sparked while sipping a mojito – why am I not growing mint? Well, this "little project" turned into a full-blown garden last year. Yes, citrus trees included. So my challenge this year is to share with you how to grow some culinary herbs, simply, and enjoy them fully.
Why Growing Herbs at Home is Great…
It's fun. Trust me, the smell of basil straight from the ground will take your mind on a direct flight to Italy.
It's economical. How many times have you purchased a ginormous bunch of parsley, only to use a few sprigs? Having live plants means you can take as little as you need, when you need it. One $3 basil plant can save you well over $20. You will waste less, and likely will use herbs more frequently since they will always be available.
It encourages your creativity. When you have an assortment of plants begging to be used (and if you tend to be indecisive like me) you might take a handful of each and add it to the recipe. You can create endless combinations of herbs and spices to a variety of dishes.
It's easy. Whether you have an amazing boyfriend that will clear out a couple hundred square feet, a balcony that sees the sun, or just a naked windowsill, you can grow herbs anywhere.
Getting Started…
Two ways to do it, from seed or from starters:
Seed: Rather than dig into the details, I recommend you talk to the "green thumbed" people at your favorite garden center for tips on getting seeds started indoors or sowing directly into the soil once it's warmed up.
Starters: I recommend this route for those of you who prefer the "quick start" guide. Head to the nursery and pick out your favorite herbs that are already a few inches tall. Most nurseries will carry rosemary, basil, thyme, oregano and sage. Be sure to mention the environment you are transplanting these herbs to and ask for tips on caring for your new friends.
What to do with Them…
Possibilities are endless. My absolute favorite is rinsing clean straight from the garden and adding to foods once I flip off the stove top. Here are a few other ideas:
Preserve them. Can't use them fast enough? Pick the herbs right before the plant is flowering.
Drying: Rinse gently using cool water (heat will destroy the essential oils). Wipe to remove moisture. Low-moisture herbs can be air dried (hanging in a cool, dry, dark place). High-moisture herbs (think basil and mint) should be dried using an oven (low temperature and leave the oven door open) or dehydrator.
Freezing: Chives, fennel, parsley and tarragon can all be frozen. You can rinse, shake dry, and place in a freezer bag, or you can put chopped herbs into an ice cube tray and add water (½oz herbs: ½oz water in each compartment). Add these cubes straight to recipes when you are cooking!
Oils: Basil, dill, fennel, mint, rosemary and thyme all make amazing oils. First, crush herbs (using mortar and pestle) to release those amazing-smelling essential oils. Then transfer to a clean glass jar and add a good quality oil. Shake occasionally and let infuse for up to 2 weeks. Once the fortnight is up, strain the oil into another clean glass jar.
Eat them. When you use fresh herbs, add them to the very final stages (as in the end) of cooking. High heat can destroy the essential oils. When using dried herbs, you can add them at the beginning of cooking so that their flavors and fragrance infuse the dish and heighten as the cooking duration extends.
Not Convinced?
Then I at least encourage you to pick up a fresh bunch at the farmers market or grocery store.
Basil: Think pesto. This mint-family member is essential in Mediterranean cooking and takes on several different faces, lemon, anise, clove, and cinnamon basil. Store upright in a glass of clean water with its produce bag draped loosely over the bunch. Switch out the water every few days and it will keep for up to a week.
Cilantro: Also called Chinese parsley, and is actually the leaves and stems of the coriander plant (no wonder these two infuse so well in recipes!) This herb has a permanent parking spot in most grocery shelves. Select bunches that feature bright green, evenly colored leaves, that don't reveal signs of wilting.
Parsley: Although there are over two dozen varieties of parsley, the ones you will most commonly encounter are curly and Italian flat-leaf. Select as you would basil (above), however to store you can rinse gently and wrap in a paper towel before putting in a plastic bag and refrigerating.
Rosemary: This member of the mint-family has been thought to cure aliments of the nervous system, and I first encountered it while being passed around on undergraduate exams (thought to improve the short-term memory). You can find this fresh or dried in most grocery stores.
Thyme: A combination of minty and lemony. I encourage you to buy a starter and stick in the ground – it will take off without tender care and is a great ground cover.
Oregano: Related to both marjoram and thyme and also a member of the mint family. Choose bunches with no signs of yellowing, and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Mint: Like parsley, there are over two dozen varieties, the most popular being peppermint (the more pungent) and spearmint. This herb grows wild, like a weed, so I encourage you to pick a contained spot in the garden or a pot and let it grow.
A word about all dried herbs: Store in a cool, dry, dark place for no more than 6 months.
There are few things that smell as captivating as fresh picked herbs that you add straight to your tea or use to accentuate the flavors of your finely crafted meal. Now is the perfect season to experiment with growing your own!


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If you're looking to improve your health, increase your energy and fight off pesky illnesses, look no further than these seven foods. Every whole foods kitchen needs to be stocked with certain essentials that can elevate our health and these superfoods do just that. I make sure I'm always stocked with number 1 and 3 throughout the winter months to keep the sniffles away.
- Fermented Foods – These are foods like unpasteurized sauerkraut, kefir, kimchi, raw yogurt, kombucha, miso and tempeh. They are naturally rich in probiotics and feed the beneficial bacteria in your gut. Fermented foods also help to improve digestion and make it easier for us to absorb the nutrients from the foods we eat.
Try this: Add a handful of fresh-from-the-farm green beans to a mason jar, fill with a clove of garlic, fresh or dried dill and a few peppercorns. Add 2 tbsp sea salt and fill with water. Add the lid, gently tighten. Leave on your counter for a few days until you see bubbles, then place in the fridge. Voila! Homemade Fermented Veggies!
- Coconut & Its Products – I love all things coconut and it's a great whole food to add to your recipes, especially if you're trying to avoid dairy. You can drink coconut milk and electrolyte-rich coconut water, add shredded coconut or coconut flour to your baking and snack recipes, and the king of all things coconut is the oil. Coconut oil is great for high heat cooking and sautéing vegetables and meats. Coconut oil is primarily saturated (over 90%), with the bulk of it coming from lauric acid, a medium-chain saturated fatty acid, which has antimicrobial properties.
Try this: Make this delicious Fat-Burning Chocolate Smoothie with coconut oil.
- Bone Broth – This superfood is becoming quite trendy and rightfully so. It's made by simmering animal bones and connective tissue. It's rich in vitamins and minerals and key amino acids, such as glycine and proline, which are needed to make collagen. Potential health benefits include joint and bone health, along with some claims of reducing inflammation.1
Try this: Save money and make your own broth or stock from leftover bones.
- Ghee (Clarified Butter) – Ghee is made from butter that has been slow-cooked to remove the water and milk solids, making it a great high-heat cooking fat for those sensitive to dairy. It contains Vitamins A, D, E and K2, along with butyric acid and other short-chain saturated fats that may reduce inflammation, promote gut health and inhibit cancer growth.2
Try this: Sauté your favorite vegetable or protein in a tablespoon of ghee. My favorite is kale or collard greens, with some pan-seared salmon.
- Mushrooms – Mushrooms are rich in antioxidants and all of the B vitamins, selenium and copper. They are powerful immune modulators and possess anti-cancer properties.3 Load up on all different kinds like Portobello, Reishi, Lion's Mane, Shiitake, and Maitake.
- Raw Cacao – My personal favorite superfood is Cacao – or pure raw, unheated chocolate from the cacao pod. It's full of antioxidants, fiber, magnesium, iron, copper, and manganese. It can also reduce insulin resistance, which is another common risk factor for many diseases like heart disease and diabetes.4
Try this: I like blending raw cacao in my smoothies and teas and using it in snack items, like these Cherry Chocolate Bites.
- Sea Vegetables – I know what you're thinking, but stick with me here. There are so many different ones to choose from like arame, dulse, nori, kelp, chlorella and wakame. These edible sea veggies are full of iodine, which can promote healthy thyroid function, along with fiber and health-promoting plant compounds.5 Nori is typically used in sushi rolls, arame is great in a salad, and chlorella is typically ground as a powder and used in smoothies or as a supplement.
Try this: Toss some fresh wakame with a little rice wine vinegar, sesame seeds and sesame oil for a delicious salad.
How many of these foods are in your kitchen right now? Share your favorite uses in the comments!
Cindy Santa Ana is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Culinary Nutrition Expert. Her book, Unprocessed Living, shares how to read confusing food labels and how to transition away from processed foods. She helps to inspire her clients to reach their ideal weight and increase their energy while juggling their career and personal life. Find her at www.UnlockBetterHealth.com, @unlockhealthnow and Unlock Better Health on Facebook.
- Zhong, Z. "L-Glycine: A Novel Anti-inflammatory, Immunomodulatory, and Cytoprotective Agent." Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care.S. National Library of Medicine, 06 Mar. 2003. Web. 08 Dec. 2016.
- German, J. Bruce, and Cora J. Dillard. "J Bruce German." Saturated Fats: What Dietary Intake? Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 01 Sept. 2004. Web. 08 Dec. 2016.
- Hassan, MA. "Mushroom Lectins: Specificity, Structure and Bioactivity Relevant to Human Disease." International Journal of Molecular Sciences.S. National Library of Medicine, 8 Apr. 2015. Web. 08 Dec. 2016.
- Davide, Grassi. "Insulin Sensitivity Increased in Glucose-Intolerant." The Journal of Nutrition. American Society for Nutrition, 7 Sept. 2008. Web. 8 Dec. 2016.
- Kapil, Umesh. "Health Consequences of Iodine Deficiency." NCBI. National Institute for Health, 7 Dec. 2007. Web. 8 Dec. 2016.


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Cuomo's last stop on State of the State tour, Saratoga High School probes Instagram hate speech account, dealers ready for Rivers Casino opening
State of the state
Andrew Cuomo gave his final State of the State address on Wednesday at UAlbany. Among the items he discussed : public corruption, a plan to cap skyrocketing prescription drug costs with the use of a price control board, and upstate ride sharing. Only three members of the state Legislature attended the address, and State Senator Jim Tedisco and assemblyman Phil Steck have formally filed legislation that would require the state of the state to be giving from the Capitol in the future.
$15 million for Schenectady rail station
Also part of the Cuomo's 2017 plan -- $15 million for a new Schenectady train station. Albany International Airport is still waiting to see if it will receive funding for planned improvements. [TU][WNYT]
Empire Star Public Service Award
Andrew Cuomo also announced a scholarship/ awards program for state employees. [TU]
Emergency landing
A helicopter carrying Andrew Cuomo from Albany to NYC after the State of the State address had to make an emergency landing in Newburgh when the aircraft began to fill up with fumes that smelled like smoke. [TU][TWCN]
Dealers ready for Rivers opening
200 dealers graduated from a training program that prepared them to work at Rivers Casino.[TU]
Albany chief search
Albany's interim police chief Robert Sears says he would like to keep the position.[TU]
Gun show returning to Saratoga Springs
Kathy Marchione is claiming credit for bringing a controversial gun show back to the Saratoga Springs City Center. The City Center says a May booking was canceled, making room for the show. [Gazette][TU]
Hate speech Instagram account in Saratoga
An Instagram account that makes Nazi references and goes by the name Saratoga High School 4th Reich has raised concerns in the Saratoga City School District. Thirty students who followed the account have been interviewed as part of an investigation by the district.[Gazette][TU]
DWI crash in Veterans Park
An Albany woman is facing DWI and other charges after police say she crashed her car into Veterans Park in Schenectady while talking on her cell phone. [WNYT]
Car break-ins
East Greenbush police are investigating a spate of car break ins that occurred overnight on Saturday.[WNYT]
Quackenbush Square
A plan for three buildings at Quackenbush that would include retail and residential space as well as a hotel was presented this week to Albany and will officially go before city planners next week. [TU]
Ex-Congressman John Sweeney has spent the last few weeks at Trump Tower, interviewing to fill ambassadorships and other high ranking jobs in the Trump administration.[TU+]
"They claim that everything at City Hall is transparent, but it's not"
Chris Churchill tells the story of one man's frustrating years-long effort to get a plumbing license in the city of Albany.[TU]
Tax Department call center at ViaPort
A NYS Tax Department Call center is moving into the ViaPort Mall in Rotterdam. [Gazette]
From Syria to Watervliet
The story of a Syrian family who traveled more than 6,000 miles to settle in Watervliet "with their hospitality and optimism intact."[TU+]
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Our temazcal Ceremony
A temazcal is a type of sweat lodge which originated with pre-Hispanic Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. In ancient Mesoamerica it was used as part of a curative ceremony thought to purify the body after exertion such as after a battle or a ceremonial ball game. It was also used for healing the sick, improving health, and for women to give birth. It continues to be used today in Indigenous cultures of Mexico and Central America that were part of the ancient Mesoamerican region for spiritual and health reasons.
The sweatlodge in Mesoamerica is usually a permanent structure, unlike in other regions. The temazcal is usually constructed from volcanic rock and cement and is usually a circular dome, although rectangular ones have been found at certain archeological sites and this shape is also used. To produce the heat, volcanic stones are heated (volcanic stones are safe because they do not explode from the temperature)and then are placed in a pit in the temazcal, located in the center or near a wall.
On our final day in Puerto, we wanted to experience a ceremonial temazcal experience. It took an hour to build the fire to heat the stones. We were first clensed with the smoke from the sap of a sacred tree and then entered the lodge one by one. This lodge is designed to hold up to 16 individuals. the three of us, and our guide, were the only ones inside today. Hot stones were added to the center circle, more sap, and the door was closed with thick wool blankets. The heat began to rise and a special tea of rosmary, sage, water, was dipped onto the stones. During the first session we became aware of ourselves, in our bodies, aware of our thoughts and gained control and gave up control. The door was opened. Rocks were added. The door was drawn. During the second stage we drummed and sang and welcomed. Welcomed High, and welcomed low, and welcomed in a medium tone. Welcomed all. We became closer to the mother earth, safe within her womb. The curtain was drawn and we were given a tart tea to drink. To drink in and swirl and drink down with purpose and to breath and to feel. to taste the drink and the air and the energy of the drink. And the rocks were added, red hot and sizzling, and the curtain was closed. And we meditated. and we became the earth, and we though of good, of happiness, surrounded ourselves of happiness, and i thought of my grandmother as she had come to me in a dream many years before, dancing down the aisles, radiently happy even as she was saying goodbye, and how pure and simple her love had been, and how now it is my turn to pass on that pure and simple love. And we breathed in, smelling and breathed in tasting and the tea was added and added and the heat grew and was fanned on us, was intense and yet chilling, and i sat bare upon stone, now in a puddle of water, my skin dripping and hot, shaking and crying without actually crying and breathing, and the curtain is opened. and the light pours in, and slowly the intense heat escapes, and i feel strong yet defeated and elated yet devistated and know without a doubt that this has to be the catelyst for something in my life.
This energy, this reminder, this direct contact with the path that i am meant to be on makes the path that i have been following feel so plastic and fake, ornamental when all i need is simplicity. This entire fellowship, my three weeks spent here, has reminded me of what is important, what SHOULD be important, and has made me see how so many little things get in the way of the pure simplicty of simply existing in the moment, of loving the moment that you exist in. I realized today that i have to find that balance again. Not just for the 6 weeks of my "summer", but i have to find this balence and bring it into my life everyday. this is what i am missing..... what keeps me from being me to my full potential. And the journey begins, as this fellowship draws to a close, another chapter of growth will follow.
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
Women's History Month Events: WLP & Aishah S. Simmons
From The Feminist Wire
On Friday, March 7, 2014, TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons gave a presentation on the importance of naming and ending sexual violence with approximately 50 African-American and Latino students from Washington Prep High School and Duke Ellington Continuation School's Women of Color in the U.S. class in South Los Angeles. This International Women's Day (IWD) presentation was conceived and organized by TFW's Contributing Editor Sikivu Hutchinson who is an award-winning author, senior intergroup specialist for the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, and founder of the Women's Leadership Project (WLP), a high school feminist mentoring program. While WLP's focus is on girls, this IWD presentation was mixed gender because sexual violence impacts everyone directly and/or indirectly...www.thefeministwire.com


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During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters-tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.
An insightful, delightful look at 'the sounds pouring out of radios and jukeboxes in the 1950s and 1960s' (The Wall Street Journal )
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Superb... Witty, in love with the music, Emerson is the ideal companion for this narrative.... Beautiful stuff. (The Boston Globe)


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This is a delayed post, but at the end of 2012 Mum and I went and had a beautiful meal at the infamous Rumi in Lygon St. The reviews for Rumi are outstanding, and from the minute we walked in it is clear why. The service was impeccable, our waitress so friendly and attentive without being overbearing, and the food just lovely. Another restaurant that prides itself on share plates, the options are endless so we just chose a few dishes that caught our eye to share!
The Lebanese Zucchini, chickpea, garlic yoghurt, crispy crumbs, paprika butter was a lovely rich but balanced vegetarian dish.
The Fried Cauliflower, caramelised onions, currants, pine nuts was probably my least favorite dish we tried. An interesting combination, but the cauliflower was a little bit too fried for my liking and had taken on a bit of a charcoal, burnt flavour that I wasn't such a fan of.
The Persian Meatballs, tomato and saffron sauce, labne were also flavoursome, packed with those signature Middle Eastern flavours. The tomato sauce was lovely also, and almost needed some crusty bread to soak it all up!
We only really had a small taste of what Rumi has to offer, and would love to go back and try the proper tasting menu. A really beautiful restaurant that offers dining worthy of a special occasion at everyday, affordable prices. The reviews don't lie! The sister restaurant 'Moor's Head' in Thornbury is currently also pretty high on my 'to try' list also.


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2002 War Crime Not Self-Defense: The Unlawful War Against Iraq
As I am writing this, I do not know what action the United Nations Security Council will take with regard to the U.S. push for authority to attack Iraq. It appears unlikely that the Council will give the unambiguous authority for military action that the United States needs in order to comply with the United Nations Charter. Short of receiving that authority from the U.N., the use of force by the United States against Iraq, even with the recent congressional approval given for that war, would be flatly illegal under international law.
Obtaining authority for war from the Security Council is not merely a legal nicety; it is a legal requirement. If the U.S. engages in a war against Iraq without such approval, it is an international crime, a crime against peace–the waging of a war of aggression. The Nazis were tried for this very crime at Nuremberg. The Bush Administration, led by a clique of officials including Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Powell, are bent on solving problems with war and not peaceful means. By ignoring international organizations and international law, they put the world in jeopardy. Congress, by providing them with such authority to attack, and failing to condition that authorization on support from the Security Council, will be complicit in an international crime if war ensues without UN authority.
A country can unilaterally use force against another country only in self-defense or with UN Security Council approval. Article 2 (4) and Article 51 of the Charter prohibit one nation from attacking another except in self-defense. None of the reasons given by the Bush Administration for attacking Iraq–getting rid of claimed weapons of mass destruction or overthrowing Saddam Hussein-constitutes self-defense under the UN Charter. Self-defense under the Charter can be employed only in response to the occurrence of an armed attack ("if an armed attack occurs") or, as a number of authorities have said, in response to an imminent attack—conditions which nobody asserts exists in this situation.
Nor does the language of the authorization given by Congress meet the self-defense test: employment of force to "defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq" is not a description of an armed or imminent attack on the U.S. The other basis for the congressional authorization, to "enforce all relevant United Nations resolutions regarding Iraq," is not the approval required by the UN. Iraqi violations of past UN Resolutions do not give the U.S. the legal authority to attack Iraq even with congressional approval. It is for the Security Council and not individual countries to determine whether Iraq has breached its agreements and what is to be done about those breaches.
Unfortunately, the Bush administration, and now a sheep-like, chicken-hearted Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, have decided to openly challenge the prohibitions on the use of force contained in the UN Charter. In a speech to the graduating class at West Point in summer 2002, Bush set forth a doctrine that repudiated the critical legal principle that force could only be used in self-defense. He built on this in his State of the Union address where he warned the "axis of evil" nations that the United States would not wait "while dangers gather," and articulated a doctrine of preemptive strikes. This radically new approach proclaims that the United States believes it can use military force against any state it perceives to be hostile.
This new U.S. position, obviously aimed at justifying an attack on Iraq, is a public renunciation of the UN Charter's norm that force not be used except in response to an attack by another nation. While during the 40-year cold war both the Soviet Union and the United States violated the Charter's prohibition on the use of force in defense of perceived national interest—the Soviet invasions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan, and the U.S. military incursions against Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Grenada, Libya, and Panama—both superpowers maintained at least a formal fealty to the Charter's proscription on the use of force except in self-defense. The United States avoided sweeping justifications for its attacks on other countries that would have eviscerated the Charter's norms. Instead, past administrations sought to expand the self-defense exception, stretching its parameters to the breaking point to justify what seemed clearly illegal, but not obliterating its core.
Preemptive strikes should be distinguished from an earlier doctrine that was labeled "anticipatory self-defense" under which the United States and some other countries argued that they had the right under the UN Charter to attack a country that was planning an attack. This latter doctrine at least gave lip service to the restrictions on the use of force embodied in the charter—that force could only be used in self-defense or as authorized by the Security Council under Article 51. The doctrine of preemptive strikes moves beyond the restrictions of the Charter by stating that force will be used even if there is no immediate threat. It may well take the world back to a period prior to the Charter (1948) when the employment of force had no legal restraints; countries could use force when and where they wanted. Pre-Charter law certainly did not make the world safer.
Past administrations publicly viewed preemptive strikes on other nations as illegal, as evidenced by the Reagan administration's vote in the Security Council that unanimously condemned Israel's preemptive strike on Iraq's nuclear facility in 1981. Only after the cold war's demise did the Clinton administration come close to breaking with the Charter's norms when NATO attacked Yugoslavia in response to the Kosovo crisis, although even there the U.S. declined to put forth a new doctrine of humanitarian military interventions, choosing to characterize Kosovo as an exceptional emergency.
The administration and now the Congress have abandoned the UN Charter's core legal restraints in favor of a system in which the United States unilaterally decides which regimes warrant replacement by force. The consequences of this new doctrine are frightening. It is the exercise of unabashed imperial power and will lead to more terror against the peoples of the world and the people of the U.S. War with Iraq without UN authorization would represent a tragic day in our nation's history, and could prove to be disastrous to world peace and security which the UN Charter was designed to preserve.


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Lincoln Navigator Concept charts new course for luxury SUV
Lincoln would like you to step aboard new SUV. Literally.
The Lincoln Navigator Concept unveiled at the 2016 New York Auto Show has the attention-getting combination of giant gullwing doors and a three-step staircase to help you enter the high-riding truck.
Fantastic flourishes aside, Lincoln says the concept is otherwise a good indicator of what the next-generation Navigator will look like when it goes on sale in a year or so with conventional portals.
The three-row SUV features the new face of Lincoln, shared with the latest MKZ and Continental sedan, which includes a rounded rectangular grille. From there, Lincoln says the Navigator's design is, fittingly, inspired by the world of luxury boating. This includes its swept-back style, sea-colored paint, and teak and white interior trim.
The cabin is outfitted for six-passengers, each getting a 30-way adjustable seat. A flow-through console splits all three rows, while all four rear seating positions get Wi-Fi-equipped touchscreen entertainment systems. Behind them in the cargo hold is a shipshape "gear and wardrobe management system."
Lincoln hasn't detailed all of the mechanical specifications for the Navigator, but it appears to be a truck-based SUV like the current one. Whether or not it uses aluminum bodywork like the Ford F-150 pickup is yet to be revealed.
What has been is its 3.5-liter turbocharged V6 engine with over 400 horsepower and adjustable suspension system. Safety technology includes collision avoidance technology, lane-keeping and parking assist systems, and a 360-degree camera to help you, well, navigate through tight spots.
Introduced in 1997, the Navigator was the first large luxury SUV, but was soon eclipsed by the Cadillac Escalade, which outsold it by more than 3 to 1 in 2015.
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Oxlips appear similar to both primroses and cowslips, being halfway between the two in terms of size. For this reason they were once thought to be a cross between the two (see fact below). Cowslip flowers, however, are a slightly are deeper shade of yellow whilst the primroses only has one flower per stalk.
Confined to the area where Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire meet.
Best time to see
Flowers from April to May.
The oxlip is a nationally scarce wildlfower and listed as 'Near threatened'.
Did you know...
For many years it was thought that the oxlip was cowslip/primrose hybrid. It wasn't until 1842 that the botanist Henry Doubleday did some breeding tests that suggested they weren't. To double-check he sent some of the seed he'd used to Charles Darwin who tested it himself. When Darwin got similar results he wrote a paper to confirm Doubleday's work.
County flower of Suffolk.
Here it is the signature flower of well-established woods on the East Anglian boulder clay (where it replaces the primrose).


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I've never seen anything quite like it.
Hyla makes friends in an instant. And not just friends. Best friends. Apparently all that's needed is age proximity, a willingness to play and somewhat of a joyous spirit and with those things intact she proceeds to bond at a level that has previously taken me years to achieve.
We've been down at a resort in the past few weeks and I've seen Hyla bond instantly with two sets of friends. One group she met in the pool and then proceeded to play with them morning, noon and night and the other she met over a game of chess on a life size chess board. Within minutes there was laughing squealing and the sharing of the kind of private jokes that you need to be 9 year-old to understand.
I love watching this and I love the joy on her face as she explores these new relationships, discovers new intimacies and forms new bonds.
Hyla is an only child. And, as such, she has learned very well how to entertain herself. Her world is filled with all kind of solitary activities that seems to bring her hours of fun. I really admire her ability to find fun in some of the most mundane things imaginable. A couple of dolls that turn into a coterie of friends, her dog, who becomes an imaginary person and a book that she will lose herself in for hours. It's a remarkable skill and I hope it will serve her well as an adult.
I really envy her ability to find such joy in these instant unions. As an adult I don't really make many new friends. Most of my closest friends are people I've known for years and those bonds were formed earlier in my life. Occasionally someone comes along who joins my inner circle but it doesn't happen very often. Most often they become acquaintances or become part of my business network. And I have noticed a new phenomenon where I am making new "Facebook friends" who I share these kinds of intimacies with but whom I've never met.
So often when we meet new people we have an agenda. Can they help me in my business affairs? Is there a romantic interest or do we have something else in common that holds our link together? But not Hyla. With her, the friendship is both the means and the end all rolled into one and I find that I'm envying her knack for forming these apparently deep and lasting friendships that seem to bring her so much joy and pleasure.
When did attaching ourselves become so complicated and difficult? How did we lose that ease of playground bonding?
I have many, many acquaintances, even more business contacts but only a very few really close friends. These are the few people who I know I can count on when the straits seem dire and I love them dearly and would do anything for them myself.
When I ended up in the hospital two years ago – in the ICU and literally on life support for several days – there were my two closest friends who stood watch in my room, taking rotating shifts and keeping the rest of my world apprised of my developing condition. They would do anything for me and I, for them, and I consider myself incredibly lucky to have such friends who would drop their lives to be there for mine.
Those friendships took years to cultivate and the equity that I built in those friendships took many years to grow. But Hyla has such a pure spirit and such a lack of agenda and in her world you can be her friend if you meet the most basic of criteria.
Now, one may think that these kind of connections do not run deep or may be fairly disposable but the laughter, the whispered intimacies and the pure joy that flows from these links are very real and they make me almost as happy as they seem to make her. I love to watch her play and to explore the boundaries of these new BFF's and inside I wish I could do the same. I used to be able to do this but as I've grown up that ability has faded and has been replaced with a kind of self-protectiveness. I now protect my heart and it takes a fair bit to get me to drop my guard to the point where I let someone into my innermost circle.
But why shouldn't we have the joy that these unions seem to bring? Why do we deny ourselves that kind of laughter and those same whispered secrets? I think that, once again, I'm going to find myself taking a cue from my 9 year-old sweetie and to try and be more open to the joy that a good friend can bring.
I love my friends dearly and I know they love me and I love the comfort that comes from knowing that they're there. I would consider myself very lucky to have more of those bonds in my life. It just doesn't have to be as complicated as we make it and Hyla has reminds me of that on a regular basis. Sure, it does take some trust and sometimes that needs to be earned, but when the reward is great the risk often needs to be great, too.
Not too long ago I had a reunion with one of my best friends from my earlier times. We hadn't seen each other in 25 years and, of course, we just picked up right where we left off. There was such comfort in that bond and I consider myself lucky to have those connections in my life and as I move forward I resolve to not only cherish those kinds of connections but to seek out new ones because they make my life so rich.
Hyla makes instant friends and I'm going to try to expand my world, too. Because at the end of the day the things that matter the most to me are not the things that I own. They are the people who love me and the joy they bring me and I will now measure my wealth not by the balance in the bank but by the number of people who care about me and those that I can now call my friends. Thank you, all of you. You know who you are.


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The animal barns at the Canadian Agriculture Museum are free from November 1st to February 28th
The Canada Science and Technology Museum offers free admission on International Museum Day ( Monday May 18th this year) and on Canada Day (July 1st) in addition to free admission for children under the age of 4.
There are many wading pools across the city that are supervised and host daily activities and special events which includes a Water Play Program aimed at introducing swimming skills and water safety to children. They are free to use and a fun way to cool off in the summer. There's one right by my work! They are not open all day long so check the site for locations and hours.


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WWE CWC star Noam Dar will defend his PCW Heavyweight Championship at the company's fifth anniversary show.
Preston City Wrestling is set for another huge day of ring action this weekend with a free afternoon event ahead of an evening presentation.
The company has partnered up with UK-based production company 247.tv to air the second of the two shows live on iPPV on Saturday.
Scottish prodigy Dar, currently part of WWE's acclaimed Cruiserweight Classic tournament, will have to win two matches if he is to remain champion.
First he will face the former PCW Heavyweight Champion, 'the East End Butcher' Sha Samuels, one-on-one.
The winner of that bout will then square off against Leeds bruiser Rampage Brown to decide who walks out wearing the gold.
Brown also has his hands full as earlier in the night he and his Team Single partner T-Bone will put the PCW Tag Team Championship on the line.
The dominant duo, who have held the titles for nearly three years, will face The London Riots and The Hooligans in a Street Fight Rules match.
This contest should redefine the notion of hard hitting wrestling. Can either James Davis and Rob Lynch or Roy and Zak Knight finally beat Team Single?
The Hooligans' unpredictable mother Saraya Knight will clash with Scottish powerhouse Viper in women's competition.
The vacant PCW Cruiserweight Championship will be decided in a match between two of the finest high flyers in the country, the ever-impressive Bubblegum and 'The Mexican Sensation' El Ligero.
A ten man elimination tag team match pits Team Dave Rayne against Team Joanna Rose as two of PCW's most colourful characters continue their battle for supremacy.
The winning side will determine the next general manager for PCW, whether it be the fan favourite Rayne or mechanical former ring announcer Rose.
A match with an international flavour sees the 'Black County Beast' Dave Mastiff accept the challenge of New Japan Pro Wrestling's rising New Zealander Jay White.
The antagonistic Scottish grappler Lionheart will compete against 'Mr Athletic' Jeff Cobb - a Lucha Underground and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla star from Hawaii in singles action.
The card for the afternoon show, live on the city's Flagmarket, features some of the standouts from the PCW Academy - the company's wrestling training school.
Viper takes on Lauren and Jennie B, Lionheart faces Jack Garvin, Bubblegum clashes with Jack Baron and T-Bone battles Alex Boylin.
Fans will get to see Dar in action again but he will have to watch out for Jennie B at ringside when he goes up against Jimmy J.
Another talented Scottish youngster catching the eyes of fans across the UK graces Preston, as Kenny Williams takes on Philip Michael.
Meanwhile Dave Rayne and Big T Justice will compete against Craig Sanders and Mason Stark and Cumbria's Chris Ridgeway looks to beat Dave Birch.
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"Cane Corso or Italian Mastiff" Brooklyn's owner replied when I asked the breed of his massive dog. What immediately struck me was how majestic Brooklyn appeared. He was definitely owning his lineage.
We, also, are owners of a royal lineage, but how many of us walk in it daily?
We are told:
I am an heir with the Father and a joint heir with Christ.
Galatians 4:6-7; Romans 8:17
I am chosen and ordained by Christ to bear fruit.
John 15:16
I am more than a conqueror through Christ.
Romans 8:37
I am a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.
1 Peter 2:9
I am a recipient of every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3
Remember the price Jesus paid for us to obtain this new identity.
Beloved Father, open our minds to walk in the blessed existence purchased by your son's death. Bring to our memory the many benefits of being your beloved children. Help us live the life you have for each one of us to our fullest through your love and direction. Amen.


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Kingdom Hearts 1.5 ReMIX has been given a new gameplay trailer by Square Enix.
The video demonstrates the game's enhanced HD visuals, new enemies, abilities and commands.
The trailer looks at a number of boss battles and enemy encounters, as well as the game's characters and shooting sections.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 ReMIX includes Kingdom Hearts Final Mix and Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories, both of which are remastered with HD graphics.
It also contains enhanced gameplay mechanics, improved controls, PS3 trophies and new boss battles.
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 ReMIX will be released on PS3 and Vita on September 10 in North America, September 12 in Australia and September 13 in Europe.
A brand new instalment in the Kingdom Hearts series, Kingdom Hearts 3, was unveiled for next-gen consoles at E3.