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I've been busy, busy, busy since my last post. There's been a lot to do outside lately, both work and fun. Friends finally started moving back home for the summer or for the near future (a downside to being the first in the friend group to graduate was that I was pretty much home alone all year). I've had lots of busy days with all my kiddos.
So I'm enjoying this beautiful (? the weather can't decide) day alone at home. I get to recover/regroup a little bit and watch my second favorite sport: tennis. (Obviously football takes the top spot.)
And because it's the first post of the month, here ya go:
This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite pages of the calendar. Because of recent events, I might even say it is my favorite.
Not only is Father's Day this month, but it's also his birthday. In this family, June is pretty much dedicated to my dad. This should be a good month for Juliana, because he's pretty much her favorite person.
One of the clearest words that comes out of J's mouth these days is "papa!" She LOVES her papa! Whenever he's home, she wants to be with him, or at least keep a close eye on him.
She used to call both of my parents "gaga," but I kept working with her on at least saying "gapa." Then one day, she just started calling him papa. And she hasn't stopped.
She's usually up in her room when we go pick her up in the morning, and as soon as we close the front door, we can hear the "papa" chant starting. Eventually it turns into a scream and she just erupts into giggles when she sees him! It's the cutest thing ever.
And he just adores her. He's always a bit leary about watching her all by himself, but he's so obviously proud when he makes it through a day with no help.
It's no secret to everyone that really knows him that he's an emotional guy. He really can't hide his emotions when it comes to his little girls (me and J). His smiles are often accompanied by wet eyes when they are directed at that little girl.
They are both such goofballs! He is definitely influencing that side of her. My mom and I sometimes think he takes it too far, but J loves it every time. He can turn her crying into giggles faster than anyone.
One of her new tricks is pointing out his "toys" in the barn. She's now old enough to have seen him use pretty much all of them, so she knows what she's talking about! And every time she hears a lawn mower, she says "papa mow!"
They are my favorite people in the world, so I love watching their relationship grow!
Next month is all about J's first July in January!
Hopefully I'll have some time to post more this month, but if not Happy June!


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The efficiency of any program, plan or campaign is known by the results it achieves. The result of a PPC advertising campaign would be to increase the sales of the products/services it advertises. It is said in Quality Management, "If it can't be measured, it can't be achieved". So the advertiser would have to measure the results to know the success of his program and therefore to take actions based on that. The goals of an advertisement can be increased number of customers, higher dollar value of sales, requests to subscription of a service or just sharing personal data. The advertiser should be clear about the goals he/she sets out to achieve.
Properly articulated goals, followed by well-crafted advertising campaign and periodic measurement of the result would complete the loop of an advertising campaign. The metrics for measurement are Return-on-Investment (ROI) at the business level, cost per acquisition (CPA) and click-thru-rate (CTR). ROI measures the returns on the advertising budget; CPA measures the cost of converting a viewer/user to a customer; and CTR measures the number of visitors to the website. With increasing bidding prices for keywords, along with the heightened competition to remain at the same ranking, the numbers derived from these metrics become significant for the advertiser to take action upon modifying the campaign, etc. There are software tools available to track the number of visitors clicking through.
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Hotels in Veliko Tarnovo
St. Archangels Michael and Gavrail
The church of St. Archangels Michael and Gavrail is the largest one in the architectural reserve of Arbanassi. It comprises an altar, a mens department, a womens department, a chapel called St. Paraskeva and a gallery.
The mens department was built and painted in 17th century. The founder of the church was the family of Hadji Niku Kultukli a nobleman from Arbanassi. In the northwestern part of the mens department there is his portrait situated, as well as the portraits of his wife and children. In this part of the church there are painted the compositions of Disembarkation to the underworld and The Nativity.
The frescoes in the womens department are painted by the icon-painters Michael from Thessalonica and George from Bucharest. The paintings were finished in 1760.
In the arch of the department there are painted the portraits of Jesus Christ, Virgin Mary, and John the Baptist. On the walls is represented the full scene of the akatist of Virgin Mary and are painted many portraits of saint women.
Other churches in Veliko Tarnovo
Hotels in Veliko Tarnovo
- Interhotel Veliko Tarnovo
- Meridian Hotel Bolyarski
- Premier Hotel
- Yantra Hotel
- Akvaya Hotel
- Alegro Hotel
- Boljari Hotel
- Gurko Hotel
- Hotel Complex Bryasta
- Rahovets Hotel
- Studio Boutique Hotel
- Tarnava Hotel
- Tsarevets Hotel
- Anhea hotel
- Sveta Gora
Places to go in Veliko Tarnovo
- Archeological museum - Veliko Tarnovo
- Transfiguration Monastery
- The Nativity Church
- The monument of the Assens
- St. Dimitar Church
- St. Archangels Michael and Gavrail
- Sound and Lights show - Tsarevets
- Sokolovo Monastery
- Shipka Church - Memorial
- Samovodska charshia
- Patriarchal Church
- Mother Bulgaria monument
- Kiliffarevo Monastery
- Folklore and ethnographic museum Sokay
- Church St. St. Konstantin and Elena Veliko Tarnovo
- Cathedral temple
- Tsarevets Hill
Restaurants & bars in Veliko Tarnovo
Deals & discounts in Veliko Tarnovo
News from Veliko Tarnovo
- Church Saint George included in travel tours in Arbanassi
- Brand Bulgaria presented in Veliko Turnovo
- Veliko Turnovo hosts the festival of plastic arts
- Special sign for the crafts in Veliko Tarnovo
- Veliko Turnovo city welcomes Lord of the Dance
- New tourism routes in Veliko Turnovo city
- Veliko Turnovo celebrates on 22nd March
- Festival Balkan Folk is held in Veliko Turnovo
- New weekend package for a holiday in Veliko Turnovo
- Rakiya spirit drink is indeed Bulgarian
- Samovodska Charshiya Complex in Veliko Turnovo awaits you tоday
- Foreigners Fancy Bulgaria's Cultural, Spa Tourism
- Summer Opera festival Scene of the centuries in Veliko Turnovo
- Cheap Easter Holidays in Bulgaria: the choice is yours
- Samovodska Charshia in Veliko Turnovo-attraction for tourists
- Special tourism award for Veliko Turnovo
- Bulgaria attracts Czech tourists with 100 Tourism Sites
- Djankov targets the development of Bulgaria's cultural tourism
- More Japanese tourists in Bulgaria
- Bulgaria invests in the development of cultural and history tourism
- Romanian tourists celebrate New Year in Veliko Turnovo
- Nearly one million tourists have visited Veliko Tarnovo
- Veliko Turnovo city among top 10 preferred destinations in Eastern Europe
- Arbanassi Churches Listed in UNESCO
- Americans restore Bulgarian Pompeius


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Fleish (GNIS FID: 859725) is a populated place located in Washoe County at latitude 39.481 and longitude -119.994.
The elevation of Fleish is 4,967 feet. Fleish appears on the Mount Rose NW U.S. Geological Survey Map. Washoe County is in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC -8 hours).
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UNC president: Transgender law does little, still may hurt
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The president of North Carolina's public university system says a new state law addressing LGBT discrimination was hastily written by lawmakers who introduced and passed it in one day, perhaps without fully considering all the implications for higher education.
University of North Carolina system President Margaret Spellings spoke to reporters by telephone Friday, a day after the release of her memo to campus chancellors noting the university would comply with the law, which requires people to use only those bathrooms matching their biological sex. Spellings says some may have misunderstood the memo as an endorsement of the law.
On Friday, Spellings noted the law doesn't describe how to enforce the bathroom rules, and that universities don't have to change their anti-discrimination policies protecting LGBT people.
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UNC president: Campuses must follow transgender law
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina system will follow the state's new law about transgender people by requiring all bathrooms to be designated for use by people based on their biological sex, the system president wrote in a memo to chancellors.
President Margaret Spellings said in the memo that the 16 college campuses and the N.C. School of Science and Math must label multi-occupancy changing facilities for single-sex use. Since the campuses already label bathrooms and changing facilities by sex, they must maintain those designations and signs, she wrote.
Schools may provide single-occupancy bathrooms or changing facilities that are gender-neutral, Spellings wrote.
Spellings' memo, sent Tuesday, notes that the new law doesn't address enforcement.
Four groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, issued a statement Thursday saying they're disappointed that UNC concluded it must follow the new law. "By requiring people to use restrooms that do not correspond to their gender identity, this policy not only endangers and discriminates against transgender people — it also violates federal law," the statement said.
The ACLU of North Carolina, Lambda Legal and Equality NC also joined in the statement.
Spokesmen for the Department of Education, Department of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development have said they're reviewing the new law to see if it violates federal law, such as Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, or the Fair Housing Act.
"We are reviewing North Carolina's new law to determine any potential impact on the state's federal education funding," said Dorie Nolt, spokeswoman for the Education Department. "We will not hesitate to act if students' civil rights are being violated. "
The Charlotte Observer reported that Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in speech in Charlotte last week that his office is reviewing whether North Carolina could lose federal transportation funding. A department spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that the review of whether the new law violates non-discrimination grant provisions for projects that include DOT financial assistance is ongoing.
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Pat Plunkett
Pop was one of the more memorable teachers for me. Fantastic character. Hard working to a fault. Dedicated and honest. Knows his subjet inside out. It was a pleasure to be in his class.
great teacher met him recently had a great interest in all his students and remembered them all
God created man, God created the great Mr. Plunkett - the best.
Sound ! Big Fish Little Fish :D ! We Mis You So Much Sir ,, Maths Aint Th Same :(
ok he's an absolute mathematical genius!its a pity about the lack of control. he's such a lovely guy!
best teacher ever! cavan man to the bone! also im a big fish!
Best teacher ever........ always have fun in his class!!!!!!!
best teacher ever, always hav great fun in his clas nd luv listni 2 all his little stories...d bigest legend evr..wil mis him wen he leaves..!!!!
Maths teacher in the 1990's for my final two years. Both him and Mrs Thomas are responsible for my life long love of maths and science -got a A grade in physics and Maths so 3 cheers for him.
im not gud at maths so he cudnt help me but as a man he is a pure gentleman,
Pop taught me maths grinds over 20 years ago and I can still say he was one of the best teachers I ever had.He made maths INTERESTING! and we enjoyed class because he enjoyed teaching.
The nicest man I think I've ever met in my life. So genuine. A complete gentleman. A mathematical genius, not very good however at explaining. Needs more control of the class.
Lovely man with a great attitude to his work but needs to disipline & control his class. Those who actually want to learn are struggling
everyting is black or white with this man, he had a relaxed attitude in class which i liked but he's incapable of breaking things down and giving a step by step explaination
having recently gotn my leavin cert results i can honestly say i did 2 grades betr in maths than expectd and i put this down 2 d constant hard work of mr. p.
i think hes so cool but in all fairness he couldnt teach a fish to swim
i wouldnt not have got throught my junoir cert if it wasnt for this man!!
I was his number one cogger and a sardine i think he used to call me, an very intelligient man who loves tea. He cught me coggin my theorms once in a test
A genius, should be teaching at college. Lovely, gentle man
Best teacher in loreto,very hard working,extremly intellegent,i miss his stories about teeny boppers and big fish. enjoyed every min of his class.
he cant controll a class and only has big fish on his mind and letd the small fish sink
what a cool teacher amazingly intelligent man and a pleasure to be in his class. People should respect him a lot more!!
a true gentleman and genius. hates the circus! loves big fish and will always try his best to help the small fish. still waiting for pigs to fly and blue moons
excellent teacher really cares bout his students really approachable will work his hardest to let everyone give honours a go brill stories to very deep and int
a true gentleman in walks of life. great at grinds. i always fryed unfortunately got b2 in pass cause of his help a true legend
don't put this man down, pushed to keep me at hnrs 4 leavin, but went to pass got A1.. but he tried to keep me at hnrs, an inspiration, absolute dote!!
Pop is the nicest man in Loreto. I didn't get Maths very well but wasn't his fault. Gentleman!
He is the best maths teacher in the school and people should listen to what he says in class. He cares about his students and he is very friendly. Erika
Pop was a good teacher, could have checked the home work a bit more but good maths and physics teacher. still rem his 2p prizes in physics!
What an amazing person!the soundest kindest genuine man ever,so helpful,he pused me to become a big fish in my LC.Wouldnt have done it without him
what a man-genuinely cares for his students-excellent if u listen to him!well loved and respected!even big small fry like myself! a great teacher and a good man
wish people would stop treating him like crap in class. he has a brilliant mind and the nicest man you could meet.
he loves his subject and realy wasts all his students to do well.hes easily d best maths teachr in d school if only people would listen to him
Has he not retired yet, with a lifetime sub to the Irish Times? He's a good teacher, but needs to be more strict. Does he still believe girls can't do maths?
the best teacher and soundest man you could ever come across
Mr. Plunkett is just brilliant, get a thicker skin girls and take the slaggin' sometimes, he's only tryin' to push you to your best!
dont give him cheek, he is the nicest teacher around and he can teach if you would only listen!! hes the coolest big fish around!


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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Teeth Soap
I forgot, I never did post photos of the teeth soap I made. I got a mold of teeth. They are supposed to be used to make ice shaped like teeth to put into your drink, but they work great for MP soap! I fragranced with Spearmint EO.
They are pretty funny. I sold a few pairs at the fair. I think they were going to be gifts for their dentists. In fact I gave some to a friend of mine who just opened his own dental practice recently. Smile!!
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Daughter of a Methodist minister, Ada Curnutt moved to the Oklahoma Territory with her sister and brother-in-law shortly after it opened for settlers. She soon found work as Clerk of the District Court in Norman and as a Deputy Marshal to U.S. Marshal William Grimes. The slim 20-year old, however, was not a "hard" woman as evidenced by her avowed favorite hobby of painting china.
But when duty called, Ada was ready to respond. Shortly before Christmas in 1893, she received a telegram from Grimes, instructing her to send a deputy to Oklahoma City to bring in two notorious outlaws named Reagan and Dolezal. All the other deputies already had warrants and were out scouting for suspects. Not one to shirk her duty, Ada boarded the train for Oklahoma City and upon her arrival asked around for information on her quarry. It didn't take her long to find them at a gambling house and saloon. She then asked a man on the street to go in and tell them that a lady needed to see them outside.
When the two emerged, Ada read the warrants to them and placed them under arrest. Heavily armed, they scoffed at the idea that this unarmed young woman could actually arrest them. Calmly, she pointed to the crowd gathered around and announced that she was prepared to deputize every man in the crowd to aide her in doing just that. She handcuffed them without incident and escort them to the train station, where she telegraphed the marshal's office in Guthrie that she was bringing them in.
This was not Ada's first arrest. Earlier that year she had arrested 19 men one night at the Black and Roger saloon in Oklahoma City for perjury in land contests.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Ada Curnutt – Deputy Marshal
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Rick Perry Defends Marines Who Urinated On Corpses
Honestly? This guy is going to do anything and say anything he thinks will get him votes. How in Gods name can you DEFEND US soldiers URINATING on corpses? Please… Someone explain that to me because I must not have a clue here.
Steve Watson
January 16, 2012
GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry has defended the marines who were seen on video deplorably urinating on the dead corpses of alleged Taliban fighters.
Rather than condemn the actions of the individuals, Perry told CNN's State of the Union "These kids made a mistake. There's not any doubt about it. They shouldn't have done it. It's bad."
"To call it a criminal act, I think, is over the top," said Perry, who is desperately trying to keep his campaign alive ahead of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary on Saturday.
Perry bizarrely suggested that the incident was comparable to a picture of Army General George Patton urinating in the Rhine River in Germany near the end of World War Two.
He then added that "Although there's not a picture," British Prime Minister Winston "Churchill did the same thing on the Siegfried line."
The obvious difference, viewers may point out, is that Patton and Churchill were not pissing on the corpses of dead German soldiers.
Still, Perry stuck to the line, accusing critics of "over-the-top rhetoric" and "disdain for the military".
"Going after them as a criminal act, I think [is] really a bad message," Perry said.
US law and the Geneva Conventions forbid the desecration of dead bodies. Officials have called for the four marines to be quickly punished for their actions, fearing that tentative peace talks with Taliban senior figures could be undermined.
Perry is currently polling dead last in South Carolina with around 5 percent. He came bottom of the pack in New Hampshire with less than 1 percent. It is not hard to understand why that is the case.
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The First Africa Drylands Week provides a forum for the different development institutions and countries to learn from each other as well as to develop clear plans for collective action. The outputs produced during this week are expected to benefit other development institutions and countries within and outside the region in forthcoming reforms of their natural resource management and climate-change adaptation practices. It is hoped that results from the conference will influence policy formulation as well as recognition and integration of progressive tools and approaches for sustainable land management and climate resilient strategies for the Sahara and the Sahel and the same will be submitted to the ongoing process of Rio+20.
The First African Drylands Week started with three (3) days field visits followed on Day 1 (Monday 13th) by a panel discussion on Challenges and Opportunities with eleven (11) interventions in the morning, a World Café on Africa Drylands: Challenges and Opportunities and working groups on Substantive Lessons in Practice, Process and Policy for Sustainable Drylands in the afternoon (cf. Agenda)
Interventions were to "bring (some) critical stones to build the wall". This session was intended to bring participants back to basics and focus attention to the functional land uses and the ecosystem processes that underpin them. With this in mind, the speakers were invited to be both brilliant and brief in delivering key messages associated with their topic. These messages were for reinforcing what is known and highlighting innovations and solutions (technologies, tools, programs, policies) that should be included in achieving sustainable lives and landscapes in the drylands. Each presenter concluded his intervention with a take home message
The World Café was developed to encourage interactions between participants. During this session, participants were asked to focus on what matters, contribute their thinking, speak their mind and heart, listen to understand, link and connect ideas, listen together for insights, patterns and deeper questions but also to play, doodle, draw and write on papers and table cloths.
Discussions were focused on the following key questions:
- What are the main three insights related to ensuring sustainable drylands that you have taken away from today's work? What would you add?
- What questions still need to be answered?
- In what way can this First Africa Drylands Week create something transformative that will result in ACTION benefiting livelihoods and reversing/ending desertification by 2021?
- What role will you play in that – this week and over the next 10 years?
The working groups were action-oriented and concisely delivered ideas and insights that were fed into the group's strategy efforts. The working groups started on day 1 (Monday 13th) and continued on Day 2 (Tuesday 14th) after the Opening Ceremony. The working groups were:
- Group 1. Rehabilitation of degraded lands and fighting sand encroachment in arid zones;
- Group 2. The Science and Practice of Regreening the Sahel: Integrated Systems in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs);
- Group 3. Small and medium enterprises: Value-chain of dryland products (local, national, international);
- Group 4. Initiatives and Processes for Sustainable Land Management (contributing to all 3 conventions: UNFCCC, UNCBD, UNCCD).
In addition to the information shared the previous day and the experience of participants in the room, a number of presentations (8-10 minutes) were made per working group from which to build upon for the working groups session. Each presentation emphasized on the state of research and data, impacts, and/or lessons in implementation related to the working group topic.
The outcome for each of the working groups is an action articulated as specifically as possible, addressing, as relevant:
- What is the best-case scenario outcome for proposed action plan associated with this component? What happens if no action is taken?
- What are the proposed priority strategies and actions (e.g. mix of practices, processes and policies that are most valuable)?
- Who are the stakeholders and networks involved?
- What must be in place at different levels to underpin long-term sustainability of the strategy and impacts;
- What additional trends and tools might be brought to bear to mobilize greater impact?
- What will make this action plan 'stick' long beyond this week?
Each group presented their reports in plenary.
Day 3 (Wednesday 15th) was on the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI) – Vision, status of planning and implementation where participants were organized by region:
- North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Sudan and others)
- West Africa (Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Togo and others)
- Eastern Africa (Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea and others)
Each region was to work based on the framework elements emerging from this week:
- Design one or two proposals (concepts) that should be integrated into national and/or sub-regional plans towards the implementation of the Great Green Wall.
- Include desired outcome, objectives, actions, timeline and actors
- What are some resources (current projects, institutions, networks, technical and financial) in place and which are needed (gaps) to carry this out?
Regions were also asked to provide their vision for the GGWSSI by looking at the following key questions:
- What does a regional vision look for 2021?
- Starting to build the matrix, what practices, processes (capacity development, advocacy, etc.), and policies (in time sequence) that have been articulated earlier are the most relevant to the desired impact for this region?
- Which (or which additional) institutions and actors must be in place to advance the vision in the region?
- What resources (current projects, institutions, networks, etc. and finances) are in place and which are needed?
- What mechanisms (Conventions,Rio+20, etc.) can be capitalized upon to build political will?
- What concretely can be done in the next 3, 6 and 12 months?
Day 4 (Thursday 16th) was marked by declarations and commitments from partners institutions (FAO, Earth Institute/MDG WCA, AFF, ICRAF, PNUD, UNDP, UNCCD, CBD-secretariat, ICRAF, CILSS, EU commission, IUCN, IRD etc…).
Day 5 (Friday 17th), World day to combat desertification; starting with an inaugural speech by Prof Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute and Special adviser of the UN Secretary General, followed by a 10 min. documentary on desertification by John Liu; a testimonial from a community representative Mrs Naho Fall; a message from the UN secretary General Mr Ban Ki Moon; a message from the UNCCD Executive secretary, Mr Luc Gnaca Dja; the launching of the UNCCD tool kits and a press conference.


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Monday February 19, 2018, CrossFit Stapleton – Denver, CO
Register for the OPEN!
Too Busy? You must be the only super busy one out there..
Jennifer Abel is probably busier than you.
Abel, 31, works the graveyard shift as a 911 public-safety dispatcher for the California Highway Patrol. She has two kids, ages 9 and 11, and her husband works out of town during the week.
Even with this busy and unconventional schedule, Abel finds time to fit in an Open workout every week for five weeks.
She looks at it like this: The Open workouts are announced at 5 p.m. Pacific Time (PT), and scores are due by 5 p.m. PT on Monday. That's 96 hours.
"You can find at least 20 minutes in those 96 hours to do one workout," she said.
Brandon Gadoci, 38, has kids aged 9 and 8 and travels every week for work. Gadoci often uses odd spaces and equipment to train when he's on the road, but he's done the Open six out of the seven years. He has a very specific strategy for fitting Open workouts into his busy life.
"Do the workout once, and do it where it doesn't get in the way of doing things with your family or it doesn't affect your mindset for a whole week, because as important as it is for you to do well, your 8- and your 9-year-old (kids) don't really care," Gadoci said.
It's easy to let the crush of everyday life get in the way of the Open, but as Abel and Gadoci know, where there's a will, there's a way.
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See … EVERYONE IS BUSY! – HOW DO I REGISTER FOR THE OPEN?
Step 1: Go to games.CrossFit.com
Step 2: Login / Create an Account
Step 3: Enter/Edit Your Information
Step 4: Complete the DocuSign waiver.
Step 5: Pay
Step 6: Play!
A. "Interval Test" – Every 5 minutes, for 30 minutes (6 sets) for times:
10 Strict Pull-Ups (OR 10 Pronated Grip Ring Rows)
15 Toes to Bar (OR Knees to Chest OR Weighted Sit-Ups)
20 Push-Ups (Sub w/ 1-2 AbMats under chest)
25 Wall Ball Shots (20/14 lbs to 10′)
– Please note times for each set
A. "BOOTCAMP RX – Interval Test" – Every 6 minutes, for 36 minutes (6 sets) for times:
10 Pull-Ups (OR 10 Pronated Grip Ring Rows)
15 Knees to Chest
20 Push-Ups (Sub w/ 1-2 AbMats under chest)
25 Wall Ball Shots (20/14 lbs to 10′)
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Not-so-secret-Santa Sweepstakes December 08 2015
Update: (Dec 24)
Thank you to all our participants this year! Mariano, the winner came by (traded up) and took this wonderful picture with Erik. Keep an eye on our Newsletter for more contests and awesome sweepstakes!
Be your own Secret Santa this year!
Drop by Games of Berkeley this holiday season and snap a picture of what you'd like to win from our store. It's that simple and you can pick any item in the store, be it games, puzzles, toys, gifts, poker sets, plush toys, Star Wars lightsabers, roleplaying miniatures, building blocks, darts, collectible trading cards, Unicorn masks and whatever else you can find. We will pick a winner on December 22 that receives exactly what they wished for!
Not-so-secret Santa Sweepstakes rules:
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Animaltopia by Compassion Collective believe that all animals deserve to be treated with respect and compassion, all year round. But as Christmas is officially the season of goodwill, it's the perfect time to make an effort to be extra kind to everyone – people, animals and the planet too!
Below are our top tips on how you can make your Christmas a more compassionate one simply through your shopping choices – from eating higher welfare meat and dairy – to going meat-free or vegan, and of course choosing cruelty free gifts…
1. Go Free-Range
Around 10 million turkeys are slaughtered in the UK alone – just for Christmas! Wild turkeys naturally live for around 10 years but those destined to be eaten are slaughtered when they're only 9 to 24 weeks old. Millions of geese, ducks and pigs will also be consumed this Christmas, and smoked salmon is a traditional favourite at this time of year too.
Shockingly, up to 90% of these farmed animals and fish will have spent their entire lives confined indoors in cages or tanks, in factory farming systems. Factory farmed animals can suffer from painful mutilations such as beak trimming or tail docking (often performed without anaesthetic), stress, disease, overcrowding, lack of bedding, perches, food or even water, and are not able to express many of their natural behaviours.
If you eat meat, eggs or dairy, you can help improve the lives of millions of animals by buying free-range and higher welfare, and you can feel happier knowing that these animals will have had a better life.
(Roast potatoes are often cooked in goose fat as well – so vegetarians, double check your roasties and make sure your gravy does not contain meat or fish stock).
Always check your food labels as well as ingredients on ready-made foods (and menus when you are eating out) say 'FREE-RANGE'. If not sure – just ask! And if you can't ask, well, if it does not say 'FREE-RANGE' then is very probably is NOT!
The labelling of fresh food and produce can be very confusing. To be assured of what you are buying check out Compassion in World Farming's 'Know Your Labels' guide which gives a great overview of what different labels mean.
Here's a general guide below too…
Kinder labels:
Soil Association
is free-range and organic and has the highest overall animal welfare standards
RSPCA Assured
is often free-range and offers higher animal welfare standards than most other schemes
Marine Stewardship Council
If you eat fish, buy wild, line-caught fish from sustainable stock – look for the MSC logo for certified sustainable seafood
Basic schemes to be wary of:
(and words that do NOT always mean higher-welfare)
- Red Tractor assures legal minimum animal welfare standards BUT can be found on factory farmed products.
- British Lion Eggs Quality Mark assures legal minimum animal welfare standards BUT can also be found on eggs from caged hens.
- Avoid misleading wording on labels with terms such as "Farm fresh", "Farm assured", "Locally sourced" and "Produced to high animal welfare standards".
- Pictures of green grass or animals grazing in fields can appear on produce from animals that have actually been reared indoors!
2. Boycott Foie Gras
Foie Gras can often be found on menus in restaurants at this time of year to 'celebrate' Christmas and New Year.
Foie Gras is actually illegal to produce here in the UK as it is considered so inhumane, but sadly it is currently still legal to import it.
Sometimes nicknamed "torture in a tin", foie gras is the grossly enlarged liver of a duck or goose, and is essentially a disease, marketed as a French 'delicacy'. Birds are typically kept in individual small wire or plastic cages and are force-fed enormous quantities of food through a long metal pipe, literally rammed down their throats three times a day so that the birds' livers swell to ten times its normal size. Their liver gets so abnormally large that it can press against their lungs, making it difficult to breathe. Every year, around 1 million ducks die prematurely during this period of force-feeding.
If you find any restaurants selling foie gras, please politely ask them to take it off their menus!
Click here to sign a petition by Animal Equality to demand a UK import ban on foie gras →
3. Avoid Palm Oil
Orang-utans are under threat of extinction due to the unsustainable production of palm kernel, which is destroying their natural habitats.
Palm oil products which claim to be 'sustainable' should also be avoided.
Click here to sign a petition by Greenpeace to end palm oil exploitation →
4. Choose Organic
Choose organic meat and dairy (and fruit and vegetables too!).
As above, the labels that Compassion in World Farming and also One Kind Scotland have found to set the highest overall animal welfare standards are the Soil Association and the Scottish Organic Producers Association.
Organic farm animals:
- Must have access to fields (when weather and ground conditions permit) and are truly free-range
- Must have plenty of space – which helps to reduce stress and disease
- Must be fed a diet that is as natural as possible and free from genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
- Must only be given drugs to treat an illness – the routine use of antibiotics is prohibited
- Cannot be given hormones which make them grow more quickly or make them more productive
- Must not be produced from cloned animals.
5. Buy British, Local & Seasonal*
Unlike some parts of the world, here in Britain we have official guidelines on how to treat and slaughter animals. These are by no means perfect, but at least there are a level of animal welfare standards (as outlined above).
For example, if you buy British pig products including bacon, ham, pork and sausages, you can be assured that pregnant sows will at least not have been confined in cruel stalls, and it is unlikely that piglets would have been castrated.
Buying British and local also avoids live export issues where millions of sheep, cattle and calves suffer greatly from overcrowding, exhaustion, dehydration, pain, stress and disease on long truck journeys around the world.
Buying local and seasonal produce is also a great way of supporting your community. It's tastier, fresher and also requires less energy to produce and transport which is better for the planet.
*BUT remember to also make sure that it's free-range and if possible organic – so you're only supporting higher-welfare farms and not directly supporting factory farming.
6. Eat Less Meat
Every day in the UK alone over 2 million land animals are slaughtered for meat (just imagine the outrage if it was 2 million cats and dogs – EVERY day!). There is growing awareness that we urgently need to reduce our reliance on meat in order to…
Improve farm animal welfare
Reducing your meat consumption will reduce the unsustainable demand for quickly reared cheap meat that gives rise to intensive factory farming – the single biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet.
Fight world hunger
Farm animals are often given food that people could eat, raising food prices and fuelling the global hunger crisis. If we ate less meat it could mean more grain to go round, and help relieve poverty.
Protect the environment
Factory farming uses up vast quantities of precious resources, is driving deforestation, and damaging diverse ecosystems. It is also a major cause of climate change. Eat less meat to encourage sustainable farming that works with nature, not against it.
Our food production affects wildlife too…
In the UK the growth of intensive farming, with larger fields and loss of hedgerows and permanent grassland, has caused a decline in our population of birds, bees, butterflies and mammals including hedgehogs and hares.
50% of our world's wildlife has disappeared in the past 40 years and food production is the largest cause of this.
Another reason why it's important to choose higher-welfare and organic food to help create a more natural and sustainable food system.
7. Try Vegetarian or Go Vegan
The only way to really know that the food you eat has not caused any animals to suffer, is to not eat them at all.
Luckily, it's never been easier to go meat-free or vegan! So why not swap your Christmas turkey this year for a scrummy nut roast, vegetable taggine or veggie wellington pastry? These can all easily be made vegan using vegetable margarine or vegetable oil instead of dairy too and its also really easy to make gorgeous biscuits and cakes without eggs!
Vegetarians do not to eat meat or fish.
Vegans do not consume any animal derived products at all.
A vegan plant based diet can also be cheaper, healthier and the most eco-friendly. Our founder Anna can vouch for the feel-good benefits of being vegan and there's now so many vegan foods to choose from (including that all-important chocolate!) and eating out is so much more accessible with many high street eateries now even offering vegan pizza!
Vegan Society TM
Look for the Vegan Trademark for approved animal-free products
Here's just a taster of some of our favourite online sites for meat-free or vegan recipes:
- Vegetarian Society Christmas Recipes
- The Vegan Society Christmas Recipes (includes vegan Yorkshire Puddings!)
- Animal Aid Christmas Recipes
- Viva! Christmas Recipes
- Meat Free Monday Recipes
- VegWeb Recipes
- Pure Free From Recipes
- Quorn Recipes (Quorn now do a range of vegan products so most recipes can be simply adapted using vegan Quorn)
90% of the world's soya is fed to animals to produce meat, milk and eggs.
This soya is often grown on deforested land, destroying natural habitats. The good news is that there is a growing range of vegan dairy alternatives including coconut, rice, hemp, oat, almond and even cashew milk, to help reduce our reliance on soya.
8. Choose Cruelty-free Gifts
It's not all about food of course! Thousands of animals are also suffering a life of misery in cages for their fur or skin, or repeated deliberate torture in laboratories (including here in the UK) just to test cosmetics, household products and even cigarettes.
With so many people buying gifts for Christmas its even more important to make more ethical choices, but of course this applies the whole year through!
Products to avoid:
- Real fur (including real fur mislabelled as faux fur) – animals used for fur are often skinned alive so make sure it's faux fur – read more in our blog post on vegan clothing here.
- Real feather down – it could have been made from the feathers of animals who were brutally plucked alive, many of whom may also have been bred for Foie Gras.
- Angorra wool – these animals could have suffered the agony of being plucked alive, with huge chunks of fur ripped out.
- Merino wool from Australia – these animals could have been tied up to endure painful mutilations with massive chunks of skin and flesh from their backsides cut out, often without anaesthetic.
- Any products using skins or feathers from exotic animals – such as snakeskin, crocodile skin and peacock feathers or made from animals who may even be endangered.
- Non-organic cotton – non-organic cotton systems are responsible for poisoning wildlife and rivers and even for killing an estimated 16,000 human workers each year – read more in our blog post on vegan clothing here.
- Plastic – millions of tonnes of plastic waste is polluting our waters, endangering marine life and entering the human food chain – damaging our health. Please reduce your use of plastic bags and packaging on food and all products.
- Cosmetics and smellies that have been tested on animals – if it doesn't say it's not been tested on animals, the chances are the product or it's ingredients have been.
- NEVER buy pets as Christmas presents – unless you can personally take responsibility for them if needed. Thousands of unwanted pets end up abandoned, or in UK animal shelters that are already overcrowded.
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Look for the 'Leaping Bunny' logo on all cosmetics and household products
Cruelty-free Gifts by Animaltopia
***LIMITED EDITION Christmas Jumpers now available!***
You can of course also buy our very own Animaltopia animal inspired ethical and organic clothing – including our alternative vegan-friendly Christmas Jumpers, plus compassionate Christmas / Yuletide cards, NEW fun animal stickers (with plastic-free packaging) and our NEW framed prints including by popular Dorset Artist Sam Cannon – to raise awareness for some of our favourite animal welfare charities. We think they make very special gifts for animal lovers…
Last Christmas Order Dates 2018:
Animaltopia Clothing
International (outside UK / Europe) – midnight Sunday 9th December
Europe – midnight Wednesday 12th December
UK standard delivery – midnight Monday 17th December
UK special delivery – midnight Wednesday 19th December
Animaltopia Art at Etsy
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Finland and Sweden – 1pm Saturday 15th December
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland – 1pm Monday 17th December
Belgium, France, Ireland and Luxembourg – 1pm Tuesday 18th December
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(Click here for Royal Mail other country posting dates)
Every small change can make a BIG difference for animals… so we wish you a very merry Compassionate Christmas!


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This week I'm looking at another older example of science-fiction, and another Hugo Award winner in this case: A Canticle for Leibowitz. This book actually was recommended to me by the same friend who foisted Fitzpatrick's War upon me, and there are some similarities. Both are speculative future histories, although while Fitzpatrick's War covers the lifetime of one character, A Canticle for Leibowitz covers the lives of characters at various points over about twelve hundred years of history. Also Leibowitz is a more traditional narrative and is almost three short stories put together while Fitzpatrick takes a slightly more unique approach.
For me, the book started off really interesting and then started bogging down in the middle and took a really bad turn for the worse at the very end. So my overall impression was mixed. The plot starts off with a typical mid-twentieth century science-fiction plot. Atomic war has finally happened between the superpowers and it's destroyed civilization as we know it. About six hundred years after the great Fire Deluge humanity is scraping by, but is definitely in the middle of a very long, new and terrible Dark Age. Monks of an order founded by the beatified Leibowitz have been recovering lost scraps of knowledge from the previous age of civilization and meticulously copying and protecting them in their monastery in anticipation of a day when they will be able to be used again. Francis, a novice of the order, stumbles across a bundle of papers he believes belonged to the blessed Leibowitz, causing great commotion in the abbey and eventually leading to Leibowitz's full canonization as a saint.
The thing I really liked about the early part of the book was just the idea of a community of monks, living out in the desert, keeping scraps of knowledge alive through laborious hand written manuscripts. I've never seen an illuminated algebra textbook, but I'm sure they'd be a lot more interesting than the ones I had in school. There's a major plot point around Francis creating an illumination of a blueprint from Leibowitz himself, creating a beautiful copy over the course of years. But Francis doesn't understand the blueprint at all. Without the necessary context he, nor any of the other monks, can fathom it whatsoever, but they dutifully copy it out to preserve it in the hopes some future generation will. I just found the whole concept kind of neat and vaguely like the Adeptus Mechanicus. Although I have the suspicion the Adeptus Mechanicus was partly inspired by this book.
The second portion of the book jumps forward to when technology and learning are starting to come back to the world, and it looks like there will be a start of a Renaissance, and the third portion includes a highly technological society that's managed to send colonies to locations such as Alpha Centauri. I'm lumping these two together because they definitely have a different tone from the first third of the book. While in the first third there's a real reverence for the items they're collecting and copying out, in the second two thirds the monks have developed serious doubts about technology and while unwilling to hide it from the world they definitely question the wisdom of its use. What follows is an argument about whether humanity should have technology to make the world a better place or if humanity should become good enough to be trusted with technology.
The conclusion is resoundingly bitter. Humanity falls once again to its own hubris and uses technology in new and interesting ways to kill itself. Overall it's a really negative view of technology and I just don't like it. Are there problems with technology? Of course. Everything comes with problems. But that doesn't mean we can't use technology to fix problems. If we wait for people to be responsible with technology we'd still be eating meat raw. It just seemed weird to me that it took an anti-technology bent later on and it bothered me.
I was also bothered by at the very end a debate about the role of pain and suffering in the world. I'm not exactly sure how close it is to modern Catholic theology, largely because I left the church years ago so I'm not up to date on it, but there has in the past been this attitude that suffering is good for you, and doing things to relieve certain types of suffering are bad because it removes divinely-ordained suffering. At least, it feels that way. I'm honestly probably mincing the argument but I was really bothered by some of the arguments at the end of the book, about how humanity needs pain and suffering to keep them from becoming monsters, and I felt like it just wasn't well done. So it really decreased my opinion of the book.
I think I would recommend reading the first third of the book because I thought it was pretty interesting and made a good story. The second two thirds kind of get into philosophical and theological arguments and I felt like they didn't work as well once Miller started wandering into those realms. So it's interesting, but it goes to some really dark places and I don't think it was quite well equipped enough to do so.
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27 October 2010
For the Mommas Out There
Two questions:
1) Have you ever experienced a crampy type of pain right above your pubic bone when you don't get enough sleep? I'm talking about 5 hours of sleep. This has happened to me twice, and it's pretty scary, because it really hurts, but it goes away if I take a long nap. Is there anything to be done besides getting more sleep? What do you do when you have multiple children, and a 3 hour nap isn't going to happen? ...or is this just my problem?
2) How do you go about shopping for nursing bras? I've pretty much outgrown my normal ones, but I don't want to buy more regular bras if they're just gonna shrink back down. Does it make sense to buy nursing bras now? Or should I wait? I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just kind of embarrassed about my breasts always looking like they're going to spill out of my bras.
Also, I just want to say, I really don't like doctors who listen to you talk about what's going on in your body for 20 seconds and then confidently say what is going on. Even if you're right, doc, I want to feel listened to. You may deal with pregnancy all the days of your life, but my body is doing crazy and new things to me every day. So I want to know that I've been heard and fully understood. And people who think they know everything are obnoxious. Even those who get paid a lot. Aaaand I'm done.
Also also, has anyone found a free pattern for a side-snap infant shirt? I haven't yet been successful, but people say the side snaps are so much nicer for babies and mommas. Thoughts?
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No to the crampy pain above the pelvic bone. I got shooting leg pains and round ligament pain. Yay fun pregnancy pain.ReplyDelete
Yes, buy nursing bras and tanks now (tanks are great to wear under shirts when you're nursing over in public - even if using a nursing cover, it doesn't cover your back and sides). Find them used if you can. There's a resale store here that carries gently used maternity and nursing clothing - maybe you can find one nearby or try craigslist. I lived in the seamless Bravado nursing bras and tanks which are sold at Target so you could buy them online if they're not in store and use any giftcards you may receive at showers. Make sure you don't buy anything with underwire. Underwire = mastitis. You don't want to go there. The nice thing about nursing bras is that they are design to accomodate the shrink and swell that comes along with nursings. This means, good for the pregnancy shrink and swell too. Oh! Also to consider. . I liked bravado because the whole panel snapped down instead of a cover snapping down and a hole in the under fabric. I hated trying to maneuver my nipple into a little hole to feed Jude. It just made things messier. Not to mention if you wear a fitted shirt and you can see the hole around your nipple. Not flattering. TMI maybe, but thought you might like to hear it.
You could make a kimono wrap and use snaps instead of ties:
But I think this is what you're looking for:
- Anonymous10/27/10, 2:21 PM
Go to Target -- they have GREAT nursing tanks with great support and are super comfy!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your input! Totally good to know.ReplyDelete


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The concert will feature a wide range of selections from wind band literature both new and old, such as the overture to "Die Frau Meisterin" by Franz von Suppe.
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