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Adam Lambert in Daily Star [UK] - October 10, 2016
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.@adamlambert in Daily Star [UK] - October 10, 2016 pic.twitter.com/fPE7ruMN52— Adam Lambert Pics (@adamlambert_pic) October 11, 2016
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"Romantically linked in the past" Whatever!
- October 11, 2016 at 3:16 PM
- Artemis said...
When were Adam and Sam romantically linked? I've never heard any inkling of that ever.
- October 11, 2016 at 3:22 PM
- The Dark Side said...
A picture of Sam hanging very tightly o to Adam at a party surfaced...and then a picture of them together at a Greek club while Adam was on vacation has sparked rumors. Seems more a connection than anything else at this point. Btw by far the dorkest ever picture if Adam. Lols
- October 11, 2016 at 3:34 PM
- Lam-My said...
Don't know much about Sam Smith; only that he won a couple of Grammys, must be very good singer/song writer; but I'd say they have the same interests and enjoy each other's company...makes a rather amicable twosome.
- October 11, 2016 at 5:13 PM
- NoName said...
@Artemis There was a lot of talk and speculating in papers if they have started dating when Adam posted the photo about him and Sam being very close at some club in NY after QAL-concert. And again after the Mykonos photos. People seem to like the thought of them dating. Well, both are single, both love music and clubbing and seem to like each other. Why not? Sam is only 24 years old but looks older to me, so even the age difference is not visible. They have both beautiful eyes and look like twins on that Adam's SC-vid.
- October 11, 2016 at 8:10 PM

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- "It all fits! The dragon is actually enchanted, the picture and the poem told us the whole story!" Meldina said con spirito. Now we have a little left to do: Please help me put together the picture, the poem and the statue, and we will be able to set the little dragon free.
Until 11:00 Server Time on Friday, August, 3rd, write a story in this thread involving the picture you've found earlier, the poem and the enchanted dragon. he volume of the story should not exceed 2 000 characters including punctuation marks. he stories are accepted from those players only who have completed the previous task and found a poem.
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I searched the Internet and found a copy of the essay by William Deresiewicz in The Nation that David Ulin referred to (see the previous blog on "elitism and reading.") You can find it at http://thenation.com/doc/20081103/deresiewicz
I wanted to comment on it vis a vis reading the short story because I think Deresiewicz is wrong to blast university professors as literary mandarins who see themselves as the last of the readers. Granted, there are those in my profession whose egos are such that they take advantage of their position in front of a class and present themselves as the elite presiding over the great unwashed. It is the old high-brow/low-brow argument that has been knocked back and forth for years, and I don't see any value of getting into it once again. Obviously, there are some who are more educated than others, more intelligent than others, more experienced in reading than others. Why deny that? If it were not true, there would be no point having university professors who are experts in their field?
I remember the "good old days" when students indeed did argue that there was no point having experts in the classroom, when students tried to take over the classroom and teachers were supposed to be called "facilitators." A group of students burst into my classroom once, occupied some empty seats and tried to shout me down when I was attempting, (God forbid!) to teach. The idea of anyone "teaching" anything was abhorrent to them. One young woman came up to the podium and picked up the book my students and I were discussing and sniffed, "This isn't relevant today. Throw down your books and take to the streets." The book happened to be All the King's Men. I don't know if that young woman ever learned anything about demagogues. I waited, and they finally stalked out, with power to the people signs. I continued my class.
It was my opinion then, and it has never changed, that I had some knowledge and skill in reading literature that my students did not have. I was happy to engage in debate with them, but I never condescended to them by pretending that they knew so much more than I did. They didn't. I never agreed with them just to make them feel good, if that meant reducing the complexity and significance of a story.
More specifically, what I want to talk about here is Deresiewicz's argument that the essential literary transaction is not between professor and student, but writer and reader, that writers don't write for academics or critics but for "that large mass of nonspecialist readers, the people who like to curl up with a good book." He says that the existence of a large mass of adults who read because they want to never crosses the professor's mind, for if it did it "would be profoundly disturbing, because it would mean that people are reading without professional supervision, and that can't be any good."
Well, of course, thankfully, there is a large mass of educated and intelligent literary readers out there. Not nearly enough, as any literary writer will tell you, but still enough, even of the short story, to keep The New Yorker, Harper's and others (bah to Atlantic) reading them. And they do not need professional supervision. Indeed, most readers of the short story in all those university quarterlies and "little" magazines nowadays are university educated, and they were introduced to the short story and, (again, God forbid!) taught how to read and appreciate the short story by professors who knew how to read short stories and how to communicate that skill with some enthusiasm.
I guess what I really want to talk about is this question: Is reading short stories a skill that can be taught? Does one profit by being taught how to read literary short stories? What does one teach when one teaches others how to read literary short stories?
I have spent forty years of my life trying to teach students skills, hopefully with some enthusiasm, how to read short stories. If any of my students are reading this, they can confirm or deny my enthusiasm, even in the last years of my teaching career.
I think just about any educated person can read a literary novel if he or she is willing to process the words and keep at it long enough. I am not convinced that any person, no matter how educated, can read a literary short story without some knowledge of the form's techniques, conventions, and devices. Now that knowledge can come from a teacher or it can come from experience of reading lots and lots of short stories until the conventions and devices become internalized. But that knowledge of the form has to be in the mind of the reader or else a single reading of a short story will often result in a puzzled "huh? What does it mean?"
I have a recent example of this I would like to share. I ran across a review in The Wall Street Journal last Saturday of a new collection of short stories by Daniyal Mueenuddin entitled In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Mueenuddin lives in Pakistan; his father is Pakistani and his mother is American. He was born in Los Angeles, but lived in Pakistan until age 13 when he was enrolled in an American school in New England and later went to Dartmouth and Yale Law School. He worked as a lawyer between 1998 and 2001 and then enrolled in the MFA program at University of Arizona at Tucson where he graduated in 2004. He has published three stories in The New Yorker and others in Zoetrope, etc. This is his first book. He will be doing a book tour in the U.S. at the end of the Feb. Watch for him at a bookstore near you. The book comes out late this week.
I have not read the book yet, but dug out the three New Yorker stories in my files and found the Zoetrope on line. I will talk about Mueenuddin more in another blog when I have a chance to read the book. He is getting a lot of buzz from the press because, well, we just don't have that many books from Pakistan. Reviewers and interviewers are focusing on how the stories are about the class struggle in Pakistan, but Mueenuddin, like most writers, is more interested in the writing process. I will like talk about this divide between publicity buzz ala cultural/political issues and the writer's real interest at another time.
But here is why I bring up Mueenuddin in this particular blog. In doing some research on him, I ran across an interview on Beatrice.com in which the interviewer tried to get him to talk about life in the cities and villages of Pakistan using one of his favorites of his own stories.
Mueenuddin, however, wanted to talk about a Turgenev story, "The Singers," which he said has always puzzled him, especially the ending, which he says is the most vexing part of writing a short story. He tells the interviewer the story of "The Singers," which is about a singing contest in which one singer seems to have won until the second singer sings with such inspiration that everyone is moved to tears.
Mueenuddin says it is the ending that has always intrigued him. The narrator leaves the inn, falls asleep in a hayloft, and when he awakes, he passes the tavern on the way home. All the men are now drunk and rolling about like animals. As he continues on the way home, he hears a voice calling a name over and over again, "Antropk-a-a-a." Finally there is an answer, "Wha-a-at?" The caller then cries, "Come here, you devil" The voice responds, "What fo-o-o-r?" "Because father wants to be-ee-ee-at you," the first voice replies. There is no further response, and the narrator sportsman (This is from Turgenev's great collection A Sportsman's Notebook) goes home with the caller still calling the other boy's name, "Antropk-a-a-a, I still seemed to hear in the air, which was full of the shadows of night."
Mueenuddin then says, "Andthat's the end of it—leaving the strange nutty taste of this ending, which is almost unsatisfying, lingering on our palates. What does it mean?"
In my opinion, you cannot answer the question "What does it mean?" unless you have an answer to the question "How does it mean?"
Mueenuddin has a good idea about how the story means when he talks about how "vexing" story endings are. He uses a little analogy to pose the problem. He says in a story it is as though you have the whole weight of the story like a train behind you pushing you toward the terminus, and "yet you must go off the rails: while keeping the whole train behind you pulling up to the wrong station, "the surprising station, the right station, but right in a way that neither you nor the reader expected, built of ice or rococo plaster, rainswept or haunted or full of bankers."
The great formalist critic Boris Ejxenbaum expressed it with another analogy. He said a story amasses its weight toward the ending. "Like a bomb dropped from an airplane, it must speed dowwards so as to strike with its war-head full-force on the target." (The essay appeared after World War I in 1925). Unlike the novel, Ejxenbaum says, "The short story…gravitates toward maximal unexpectedness of a finale concentrating around itself all that has preceded." The story, says Ejxenbaum, is like a riddle, whereas the novel is like a charade or a rebus.
Being the old professor that I am, I could not resist writing to Mueenuddin with my response to his question about the Turgenev ending: "What does it mean?' Here is what I said:
Dear Mr. Mueenuddin, I have read the three stories you published in The New Yorker and enjoyed them very much. I wish you much luck on the publication of your first book next month and much pleasure on your upcoming publicity tours in America.
I don't really expect Mr. Mueenuddin to reply, but no matter. I just felt that his vexation with Turgenev's ending could be eased with a professorial suggestion about a convention unique to the short story.


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Mexican Rice
By Debe Pendice
1-1/2 cups water
1 cups salsa
2 chicken bouillon cubes
2 cups uncooked instant rice
In a saucepan over medium heat, bring water, salsa and bouillon to a boil. Still in rice; remove from the heat. Cover and let stand 6-8 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. Fluff with a fork.
Yields: 6-8 servings.
Nutritional Facts
- Servings
- 6
- Per Serving
- 1/2 cup
- Calories
- 89 (prepared with low sodium bouillon)
- Sodium
- 207
- Cholesterol
- 0
- Carbohydrates
- 19 gm
- Protein
- 2 gm
- Fat
- 0
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Perfect diabetics go eat a cookie - I have better numbers with rice vs potatoes so I am ready to eat this Woohoo
Sodium? are you kidding? Sodium here is NOT the problem. (In fact, sodium is not really a problem at all, but don't get me off topic). Rice has absolutely no place on the menu for a diabetic. It's waaayyy too high in carbs. Rice has absolutely no nutrients other sugar, and we all know sugar (or should know) is a toxin.
Instead of rice, try cauliflower! Cook it gently and crisp, either mash it with a ricer or chop very finely.
If you're diabetic or health conscious, just use cauliflower instead of rice.
(Honestly, who does review these recipes. Sheesh!)
Diabetics should never, never consume rice, or any grain for that matter. (and this includes "whole grains")


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About the Region
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Other negative aspects of migration such as the separation of families, brain drain and waste, increased health risks and health inequity as well as xenophobia and discrimination are important challenges for SEEECA. However, despite these and other migration-related concerns, governments and the civil society in the region increasingly recognize that migration can and does contribute to inclusive and sustainable social and economic development by benefitting countries of origin and destination as well as by enabling the human development of migrants and their families.


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This morning my 5-year-old son brought me a new board game, he got for Christmas, and asked me if we could play it. I started pulling out the game and his brother and sister joined us at the table, to play their new game. As they started to set it up I found the instructions and started to read them out loud. I didn't get very far before I noticed a problem with the language used to describe the game play. Luckily I was able to adapt and make the necessary changes while I read the instructions aloud to my children. "Pop N Hop The popping, hopping race 'n' chase game. Object of the game: To be the first player to get all of
his their playing pieces "HOME". Set-up: Give each player four playing pieces of the same color as his/her (they managed to do it here, why couldn't they continue through the rest?) corner of the board. These are then placed in the four corner spaces. Each player in turn pops the die. The player popping the highest number will begin the game with all the other players following in a clockwise pattern. Playing: Before a player can move a laying piece out of his their corner he they must first pop a "6". He They then move a playing piece onto his their "arrow" space, immediately take another pop and may move this or any of his their other playing pieces already in play. A pop of "6" always entitles a player to another pop. If a playing piece ends by landing on a space already occupied by an opponents playing piece then the opponent must return his their piece to one of his their corner spaces. This playing piece can only then be brought back into play with a pop of "6". A playing piece cannot end its move on a space already occupied by a playing piece of its own color. Another pop of the die must be used, even if this is to the player's disadvantage. When a playing piece has made one full rotation around the board it enters its own colored "Home". The opponents' playing pieces are not permitted on this path. An exact pop is required when moving into "HOME". Winning the Game: The first player to get all of his their playing pieces "HOME" is the winner."
After I read my kids the modified rules of the game we proceeded to play. All three of them, including my daughter, had a lot of fun playing the game. Once we finished playing and they were otherwise occupied I began looking into the company that makes the game. I went to their website in preparation for alerting them to my concerns about the noninclusive language used in the games rules. I typed "rules" into their search engine to see how the language used in their other games compared. The search yielded 346 results. I skimmed the rules of the first 20 results in the search and all but 3 of the "rules of the game" results used gender neutral language to describe game play. The "Green Lantern Dominoes" rules even used the phrasing "her/his" when describing game play. Unfortunately the "Green Lantern Who's Who" game used only masculine pronouns when describing game players, as did the "Disney Mastermind Towers" game. The third was the "Disney Fairies" game, which used only feminine pronouns in the rules. I did not read the rest of the 326 results, but it is my hope that someone at the company will. There is no reason for these games not to use gender neutral and/or inclusive language. When they refer to only one gender playing their game, at best they exclude part of their customer base and at worst incur the wrath of an angry feminist (I guess that'd be me), who will bring their company bad publicity. I wrote the company a letter and I encourage anyone who shares my concerns to do the same, their address is: Pressman Toy Corporation, 3701 W. Plano Pkwy STE 100, Plano, TX 75075. I will update this post if and when I get a response from the company.


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Top: Jayson Aquino, Picture, Picture! Photo Contest Grand Prize Winner
Bottom: Mango Tours' Marketing Supervisor Ling Gomez (right) hands the grand prize to Mr. Aquino
Congratulations to Jayson Aquino, winner of the grand prize in Mango Tours and Choose Philippines' Picture, Picture! Photo Contest. Mr. Aquino goes home with a trip for two to Palawan courtesy of Airphil Express, Microtel, Choose Philippines, and Mango Tours. Look out for more fun promos and contests in the near future!


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Cosmological Arguments and the Expansion of the UniverseQUESTION: Cosmological Arguments and the Expansion of the Universe
Another indication that the universe had a beginning is that it is expanding. If you "run the film in reverse" going backwards in time, it all condenses down to the ultra-dense "singularity" from which the Big Bang arose, and prior to that, the only possibility is a transcendent agent which could have caused matter, energy, time and space to come into existence. Who could this entity be?
Cosmological Arguments and the Bible
There are many references to creation in the Bible, and what modern science has discovered matches them all perfectly. For example, take a look at these verses:
Genesis 1, Genesis 2, Psalm 19:1-2, Psalm 104, Psalm 148:1-6, Isaiah 40:21-22, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 51:13, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 51:15, Hebrews 1:10-12, and Hebrews 11:3.
Compliments of Steve J. Williams. Rendered with permission from the book, The Skeptics' Guide to Eternal Bliss (2nd ed), Steve J. Williams, Lulu Press, 2009. All rights reserved in the original.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? - We have all sinned and deserve God's judgment. God, the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him. Jesus, the creator and eternal Son of God, who lived a sinless life, loves us so much that He died for our sins, taking the punishment that we deserve, was buried, and rose from the dead according to the Bible. If you truly believe and trust this in your heart, receiving Jesus alone as your Savior, declaring, "Jesus is Lord," you will be saved from judgment and spend eternity with God in heaven.
What is your response?
Yes, today I am deciding to follow Jesus
Yes, I am already a follower of Jesus
I still have questions
What is your response?
Yes, today I am deciding to follow Jesus
Yes, I am already a follower of Jesus
I still have questions


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Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic brain disorder which affects about 1 percent of the American population. Symptoms, which may come and go unpredictably, can include hallucinations and delusions, or persistent illogical beliefs. Schizophrenia can be disturbing, baffling and challenging to deal with, but it is not hopeless; many symptoms can be controlled with medication. Recent research indicates that regular exercise can play an important role in improving the physical and mental well-being of people with schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia Features
Schizophrenia usually begins to appear between the ages of 16 and 30; it is uncommon to develop schizophrenia after age 45. In addition to visual hallucinations, you may experience auditory hallucinations, in which you hear voices, and paranoia, the conviction that others are conspiring against you. Other symptoms include disorganized thinking, movement disorders, and "flat affect," remaining expressionless while speaking in a monotone. Doctors aren't sure what causes schizophrenia; genetics, environmental factors, and imbalances in brain chemistry are all believed to play a role. Symptoms of schizophrenia may be alleviated with conventional or typical anti-psychotic medications, such as haloperidol and chlorpromazine. Newer, or atypical, anti-psychotics, such as quetiapine or aripiprazole, may also be used. Both types of medication can have side effects, including major weight gain and involuntary muscle movements. Psychosocial treatments, such as self-help groups and cognitive behavioral therapy, may also help to manage schizophrenia.
Exercise Benefits
In a 2010 review of exercise studies by University of Toronto researchers Paul Gorczyniski and Guy Faulkner, the authors reported that regular, moderate aerobic exercise could alleviate feelings of depression, social isolation and low self-esteem in schizophrenics. An increase in motivation, primarily affecting eating habits, hygiene and willingness to exercise, was the most significant benefit. Exercise may also reduce the perception of auditory hallucinations, promote healthier sleep patterns, improve behavior and help maintain healthy weight, particularly important for schizophrenics, who tend to be both more sedentary and more overweight than the general population, with a life expectancy 25 years shorter than those of the same age, race and socioeconomic background. Doctors now recommend the same amount of exercise for schizophrenics as they do for the rest of the general population: moderate exercise 30 minutes a day most days of the week. Recommended types of exercise include cycling, jogging, walking, weight training and yoga.
Hippocampal Enlargement
In a 3-month clinical study conducted by Frank-Gerald Pajonk, M.D., and colleagues and published in 2010 in "Archives of General Psychiatry," researchers found that schizophrenics who cycled three times a week for 30 minutes significantly increased the volume of the hippocampus, a section of the brain important in memory and spatial perception. The hippocampus is often found to be smaller in schizophrenics. Subjects also experienced modest gains in short-term memory.
Barriers to Exercise
According to Gorczynski and Faulkner, regular exercise should be offered as an adjunct treatment for schizophrenia in psychiatric rehabilitation. Offering activities under therapeutic guidance may help combat emotional barriers to exercise, including poor body image and fear of injury. According to "Occupational Therapy and Mental Health," by Jennifer Creek, Lesley Lougher and Hanneke Van Bruggen, these obstacles -- the same as those confronted by the general population -- can be more daunting with schizophrenia. In addition, schizophrenics may suffer from delusions, hallucinations, inappropriate behaviors and emotional responses that could jeopardize unsupervised exercise attempts.


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While my usual blog posts are about my veterinary life's stories and experiences in an effort to educate and inform the public about the pet needs I see as imperative to overall pet health and welfare this post is different.
In this post I am asking for YOUR advice. Hard as I have tried I don't seem to have figured out how to come to peace with how to not feel compelled to help those pets and their parents in need.
|Weasely's Story
Whenever possible we offer the following;
1. Come in for an exam and assessment. We will give you an honest opinion and reasonable prices. We are also full-service which implies we can do the work-up and surgery on premises. It is the whole reason we publish prices and cases.
2. We offer options. Options come in all sizes, shapes and scenarios. They can be life-saving and/or life changing.
3. A chance. Often we just offer a chance.
Some of these cases involve an ambiguous undefined disease process that after a quick exam are deemed "lost cause-leading to pro bono euthanasia". It may sound cold and cruel BUT life can be exactly that. We see cases that are so progressed and difficult the prognosis is grave and eminent. This is suffering without tangible hope to improve. These are the cases where mercy was overlooked at the last rest stop. These are the cases I feel compelled to intervene as the last option for empathy to provide peace. Even with these too-little-too-late cases; a client without resources, a pet dying in front of us, and no real way to provide even the most bare-boned plan for any chance at remission or cure, even then, SOME of these cases are not provided a consensual to euthanasia. If you think suffering is bad, dying without hope, or, hospice care, is worse. Despair is unavoidable, but, the crippling inability to relieve suffering is cruel and criminal. It is as unsettling as the suffering you know is occurring. It is where my words need to be concise, direct, and well-intentioned. For these cases clients have to step outside of their grief, their blame and their denial. These cases call for real-life intervention. They are not frequent but they do happen. I don't need advice for resolving these cases. I need advice for how to notify clients to avoid them in the first place.
|One of the pets who needed us.
We, the whole lot of us in veterinary medicine, need help in providing guidance so that too late isn't when we are sought to begin.
What is the most basic tidbit of advice I can give them?
Don't assume that you don't have any options, OR, wait so long that you don't have any left.
I need help in spreading this message!
We received an email asking to help a dog with a suspected pyometra who was living in the DC area. The dog belonged to an older woman who didn't realize how sick her dog was. Her daughter was visiting and on inquiry was told that the dog hadn't eaten or gotten up in days. She rushed the dog to the local vet to be told it was likely a pyo and the cost would be upwards of $2,000. They, like many of us, couldn't afford this. They went online looking for affordable help. They found me, via this blog, and called the clinic looking for help. This was on a Friday. We offered to see them but explained that we don't do surgeries on Saturday or Sunday and urged that they call every shelter, rescue, and vet they could asking for a quicker surgery and a way to afford it.
The next time we heard from them was Monday morning. We saw them on Monday night. By this time the dog was almost in a coma. She couldn't stand, walk, or lift her head. Her color was purple-blue knocking on deaths door. She was labored to just try to breathe. They had $300.
I made myself a promise many years ago to never walk away from a pyo or a parvo. Two savable conditions that never survive with a death syringe, but often surprise you with skill and time.
The conversation with the owners went like this...
"I'm sorry." Anything and everything that could be said after was irrelevant and shaded with unneeded character references.
The conversation with the staff and associate vet seeing them was that they couldn't afford even the most pared down treatment plan. Three hundred dollars wouldn't get us past anesthesia and antibiotics. They needed a $500 surgery on top of these to remove the rotting uterus festering inside of her. Even if we offered to use the Good Sam Fund (overlooking that fact that they aren't a client) this dog needed to go to the ER after and that was going to cost at least $500. The ER isn't going to admit a dog without a deposit. If I had to guess I gave her a less than 10% chance of making it through surgery even if they had enough money for the intensive care she needed to provide any real chance at survival. It is not about the money, it is about what is fair for everyone involved. I didn't even think she would survive surgery and I felt that it wasn't right or fair to them to take the little money they did have for a patient who wouldn't survive.
When I explained this to the client she said she wanted to take her dog home.
While I had elected to withhold my previous chatter to spare the client from feeling any more sadness than they already did, it was time to be the advocate for the patient.
"What can you do for her at home? She needs medical and surgical help that you haven't been able to find elsewhere. I am afraid she will die on the way home, and even if she does make it home she will probably not make it through the night. How are you going to feel if that happens? What do you think you would want if you were in her position? She is dying and she is suffering."
After 30 minutes of deliberating they put her down. Everyone felt better after. It is something we don't often admit, but, peace can come after death.
|Sweet Baby Rae.. mom needed in patient help Baby Rae needs a home.
The next scenario is the more common one...
The phone call goes like this...
"The shelter/the vet I go to/my friend told me to call you and that you could help my pet...."Nothing (yes, NOTHING!!) burns my butt like my neighboring vets referring cases to us that they can do, but don't want to do because the client lacks the money up front. These are YOUR clients and YOUR patients... Shouldn't they be YOUR responsibility? Or, do you just help those who can pay upfront? Take a note from our play book. Use CareCredit! Offer third party billing! OR, ask for help from your compassionate clients who WILL HELP IF YOU ASK! Heck, you might even get more Facebook likes and more clients because you CARE.
|When one of our patients is surrendered at a shelter we go and get them.
Beignette,, she needs a home too.
What might happen if you surrender your pet at a shelter.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO? How do we make an impactful, meaningful difference for these pets?
|Extension outreach foster family
- What should we do so that we can provide meaningful timely help?
- How do we extend that reach to people who aren't local?
- Can we convince other animal care facilities to be both the business and the provider when the situation is complicated and resources are tight? If we haven't been able to do it on the human side can we do it on the veterinary side?
- The rescues think the vets are the problem (we have priced ourselves out of accessibility AND we don't care), and the vets think it is the public's problem (after all if you cannot afford a pet you shouldn't have one). Meanwhile pet is sick and dying.. don't argue when the need is in front of your face.
- What does your vet do? Have you ever asked "what would happen if your pet needed something that you couldn't afford?" Are you prepared for the answer?
|One of our TNR friends.
Jarrettsville Veterinary Center For Clients With Financial Constraints blog.
Affordable Options Are Everyone's Right.
Rescue Economics. When The Expense Costs You Your Ability To Care.


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I love Kids Clothes Week! Whether or not you got your one hour a day of sewing in or not, I think it's a great motivator to get moving on some projects! It's also such a fun way to share with like-minded people...people who think making beautiful, handmade items for our littles is fun, important and rewarding!
Although I didn't sew on Thursday or Sunday, I definitely managed more than 7 total hours this week, so I'm calling it a success. I also got a few things crossed of my sewing to-do list, which is always a good feeling! I finished a sweet baby gift for a dear friend.
I got the girls ready for pool season with some Old Navy knock-off swim cover ups!
I even pulled something from the dreaded mending pile and got it fixed and back into circulation :)
And finally I got the girls into one more set of spring/summer dresses that will get tons of wear this year!
Overall that's a total of 5 complete garments, one headband and one mended pair of capris. Not bad for a week's work! I hope everyone had a super successful Kids Clothes Week! Browsing the flickr group has been amazing this spring! Great work, everyone! Now it's back to our regularly scheduled sewing...of kids clothes, haha! Actually I have something on the docket for myself, which is amazing. I'm really trying to make an effort to make more things for myself. If you haven't checked out Project Sewn yet, it might be just the motivation you need to move away from the kiddo sewing pile and make something lovely for yourself! Have a great day!


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More than ever is the answer, she never went out of style, in fact, she was decades ahead of everyone else.
It is eerie how her predictions comes true, her philosophy must be read and understood by every school child in the world, the best way to equip our next generations with reason and common sense, as well as epistomology.
Can't wait to see the movie which is under way, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggert.
Yaron Brook in The Wallstreet Journal.
Ayn Rand died more than a quarter of a century ago, yet her name appears regularly in discussions of our current economic turmoil. Pundits including Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santelli urge listeners to read her books, and her magnum opus, "Atlas Shrugged," is selling at a faster rate today than at any time during its 51-year history.
There's a reason. In "Atlas," Rand tells the story of the U.S. economy crumbling under the weight of crushing government interventions and regulations. Meanwhile, blaming greed and the free market, Washington responds with more controls that only deepen the crisis. Sound familiar?
The novel's eerily prophetic nature is no coincidence. "If you understand the dominant philosophy of a society," Rand wrote elsewhere in "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," "you can predict its course." Economic crises and runaway government power grabs don't just happen by themselves; they are the product of the philosophical ideas prevalent in a society -- particularly its dominant moral ideas.
Why do we accept the budget-busting costs of a welfare state? Because it implements the moral ideal of self-sacrifice to the needy. Why do so few protest the endless regulatory burdens placed on businessmen? Because businessmen are pursuing their self-interest, which we have been taught is dangerous and immoral. Why did the government go on a crusade to promote "affordable housing," which meant forcing banks to make loans to unqualified home buyers? Because we believe people need to be homeowners, whether or not they can afford to pay for houses.
The message is always the same: "Selfishness is evil; sacrifice for the needs of others is good." But Rand said this message is wrong -- selfishness, rather than being evil, is a virtue. By this she did not mean exploiting others à la Bernie Madoff. Selfishness -- that is, concern with one's genuine, long-range interest -- she wrote, required a man to think, to produce, and to prosper by trading with others voluntarily to mutual benefit.
Rand also noted that only an ethic of rational selfishness can justify the pursuit of profit that is the basis of capitalism -- and that so long as self-interest is tainted by moral suspicion, the profit motive will continue to take the rap for every imaginable (or imagined) social ill and economic disaster. Just look how our present crisis has been attributed to the free market instead of government intervention -- and how proposed solutions inevitably involve yet more government intervention to rein in the pursuit of self-interest.
Rand offered us a way out -- to fight for a morality of rational self-interest, and for capitalism, the system which is its expression. And that is the source of her relevance today.
Dr. Brook is president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute.


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"Dammit," thought Karen, remembering she had left the beak from her Easter chick costume on the kitchen table.
An early Easter one for you this week - no Pattern Monday next week but it'll be back on Monday 16th April.
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And Karen thought she would not be noticed in the street... I actually like the pattern, looks like a cosy jumper in black/dark greeny brown, definitely not bright yellow! A brilliant find!ReplyDelete
The model looks like she's been hit by static!ReplyDelete
Hahahaha! Actually think I have a similar pattern tho... :)ReplyDelete
LOLZ the perfect caption!ReplyDelete
Looks like the (fake) little yellow chicks on display in a storefront window downtown. Or a mutant daffodil-human hybrid.ReplyDelete
Karen? Damn, you found a photo of me from my pre-blogging days. I don't colour my hair any more, but I do still wear the jumper when I'm home alone.ReplyDelete
what a hideous sweater! I laughed just a little when I saw this :)ReplyDelete


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CVE-2008-5353 allows malicious code to escape the Java sandbox and run arbitrary commands with the permissions of the executing user. This may result in untrusted Java applets executing arbitrary code merely by visiting a web page hosting the applet. The issue is trivially exploitable.
Unfortunately, these vulnerabilities remain in Apple's shipping JVMs, as well as Soylatte 1.0.3. As Soylatte does not provide browser plugins, the impact of the vulnerability is reduced. The recent release of OpenJDK6/Mac OS X is not affected by CVE-2008-5353.
Do you want to test your up-to-date Mac OSX installation? Just click here, and enjoy "/usr/bin/say I am executing an innocuous user process" instead of "/bin/rm -rf …"…
– CR0 BLOG: Write once, own everyone, Java deserialization issues
– Landon Fuller: Critical Mac OS X Java Vulnerabilities


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Reading E.C. Tubb's long-running science fiction saga, I have reached the halfway point with volumes 16 and 17 in the 33-book series.
While each story is a self-contained adventure, these two books are continuous in theme, characters and environment, so I read them back-to-back.
The Dumarest novels are set in a far future galactic culture that spread to many worlds. Earl Dumarest was born on Earth, but had stowed away on a spaceship when he was a young boy and was discovered. Although a stowaway apprehended on a spaceship was typically ejected into space, the captain took pity on the lad and allowed him to work his passage on the ship. By the time of the first volume, The Winds of Gath, Dumarest has traveled so long and so far that he does not know how to return to his home planet; and in fact nobody has ever heard of it, except as a myth or a legend. It's clear to him that someone or something has deliberately concealed Earth's location. The Cyclan, an organization of humans (cybers surgically altered to be emotionless, who on occasion can link with the brains of previously living Cyclans, in the manner of a hive mind process, seem determined to prevent him finding Earth. The cybers can call on the ability to calculate the outcome of an event and accurately predict results.
An additional incentive for the Cyclan to capture Dumarest is that he possesses a potent scientific discovery, stolen from them and passed to him by a dying thief, which would inordinately amplify their already considerable power and enable them to dominate the human species. Also appearing in the books is the humanitarian Church of Universal Brotherhood, whose monks roam many worlds, notably every planet where there is war.
All these books reveal imaginative situations, fantastic colourful civilisations and a vast array of characters.
Haven of Darkness (#16)(1977) introduces us to the planet of Zakym, where the spectres of the dead appear at the time of delusia, when the twin suns attain close proximity in the heavens. On Zakym the beautiful Lavinia is not only haunted by ghosts, she is being courted by an unsavoury power-crazed noble, Gydapen. Into this world arrives Dumarest, cleverly escaping capture by a Cyclan agent. Here, he learns that the human inhabitants stay indoors at night; a curfew is enforced. Anyone caught outside at night falls prey to the Sungari, the original seemingly mythical yet deadly inhabitants of the world.
When Dumarest suffers the kickback traces of an earlier treatment, he is privy to certain knowledge: 'A man lived every second of every hour since the time of his birth and each of those seconds held all that had happened to and around him. A vastness of experience. An inexhaustible supply of terror and pain and hopeless yearning. An infinity of doubt and indecision, of ignorance known and forcibly accepted, of frustration and hate and cruelty and fear. A morass in which glowed the fitful gleams of transient joy. Each man, within his skull, carried a living hell.' (p151)
Dumarest earns the love of Lavinia to the chagrin of her suitor and, to avoid a civil war, he has to face Gydapen in a tension-filled showdown.
(At this juncture, the publisher (Arrow) changed the cover artist.]
Prison of Night (#17)(1977) begins with the mysterious death of a monk of the Universal Brotherhood. Meanwhile, the story continues with Dumarest living with Lavinia on Zakym. Dumarest wondered about the delusia effects, a planetary insanity which he now shared. Possibly, 'wild radiation from the twin suns merging as they closed, blasting space with energies which distorted the microcurrents of the brain and giving rise to hallucinations. Figments of memory made apparently real, words spoken but heard only by the once concerned…' (p20)
Despite his help in saving Lavinia, her ruling council still considered Dumarest a stranger. 'Xenophobia, incredible in this age, was not dead.' (p36)
Time and again, Tubb throws in tantalising glimpses of other worlds, other cultures. 'There were words, ceremonies deliberately kept devoid of mysticism, the throb of bells. Always there were bells, deep, musical notes captured on recorders, now filling the air with the melody gained on Hope where tremendous castings of bronze, silver and brass throbbed and droned with a solemn pulse, which touched the wells of life itself.' (p44)
A greater threat to Zakym and Lavinia has emerged, and it is only through Dumarest's bravery and insight that the danger can be averted. It would also mean confrontation with a powerful manipulative cyber. A tense, fast-paced finale.


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Not exactly food, but these photos definitely deserve some server and bandwidth space. This is perhaps, 1 of 2 reasons why I visited Xi'an in the first place!
What you're seeing here (Pit 1, 2, 3 and 4 – although there's nothing in Pit 4) took 720,000 people a lifetime to build. Dubbed the "8th Wonder of the World", this is brought to you by the same dude (Emperor Qin) who brought you and to this world: printing, paper, gunpowder, fireworks, compass, kites and the Great Wall of China. Dayum. He's good.
You see that warrior on the far right? Isn't it amazing how the yellow on is collar is still there after all these years? 90% of all the colour fade once these warriors are exposed to the air when dug out.
In the same photo, on the far left this time … you see that empty space between the warriors? My tour guide told me that that's where Pablo Wendel stood when he snuck in dressed like one of them (I heard about the news when I was still working in Shanghai) … but looking back at the YouTube video, he was standing at the last row! My tour guide is a liar! But I think it was that area anyway … and if she hadn't mention this German student, I wouldn't have remembered.
Pit 2 is very small compared to Pit 1 and 3, but it is (or was) apparently the "Command Centre" that mobilizes Pit 1 and 3 … in the case of war in the afterworld.
This is Pit 3, which archaeologists are still trying to excavate. Most of the pit is covered and the Terracottas are protected from the elements.
And do you see that hole in the middle? That was one of the wells farmers were drilling into back in 1974 and that was how they found out about the Terracotta Army. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
This museum is definitely worth going to!
Oh, and here's another picture worth putting it. I took this while scrolling through city-center at night near the Drum Tower. Vendors were selling these kites (at RMB 10 each) that go up to what looks like 100 metres in the air? And while the kites are gliding on top of the Drum Tower, the floodlights from the monument creates a really cool effect on the kites itself … if only the air was a little less polluted!
Note: Photo taken with a Nikon D60
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Despite his fearsome reputation, Tommy is polite, soft-spoken, and always a gentleman. He is as loved by players as he is feared by the casinos. In an interview conducted by Richard Munchkin in 2001, Tommy said, "If someone told me I could make $10 million a year working for a casino, I wouldn't even consider it. It wouldn't take me five minutes to turn it down ... I don't like casinos. I don't like how they ruin people's lives. I don't think the employment they provide is a worthwhile thing for those people. They're taking people that could be contributing to society and making them do a job that has no redeeming social value."
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Tommy started playing blackjack professionally in 1978 while still in college. That was also the year he started his first informal "team." He's never looked back. For more than twenty-five years, he has been running the longest-lasting and most successful blackjack team in the history of the game. He and his teammates have played in casinos all over the U.S., Canada, and the world. He has used big player techniques, concealed computers (when they were legal), and had one of the most successful "ace location" teams ever. He has personally been barred, back-roomed, hand-cuffed, arrested, and even threatened with murder at gun-point by a casino owner he had beaten at the tables. Every year, the Hyland team players take millions of dollars out of the casinos. And even though Tommy has had his name and photo published in the notorious Griffin books more times than any other player in history, he continues to play and beat the games wherever legal blackjack games are offered. He has also fought for players' rights by battling the casinos in the courts.
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I wonder whether the proponents of the school voucher program, such as the writer of the Aug. 27 letter " Ruling denies rights," would also agree that government support of other programs with similar intent should be continued.
For example, I would think that North Carolina's non-expansion of Medicaid denies parents the right to provide their children with the best health care possible, regardless of their economic circumstance. Since the writer states, regarding vouchers, that this ruling "denies parents the right to provide their children the best education possible," therefore, he and other proponents of vouchers must then believe in Medicaid expansion since a similar right is being denied.
It seems the writer and others believe that the creation of vouchers is a case where a government subsidy for economically challenged families is a good idea. Logically, wouldn't we want a government subsidy to help those same families provide health care, so that the same children they want to educate would be healthy and ready to learn? What about nutrition support, so that the same children they want to educate are also well-fed and ready to learn?
Or is this simply about providing government support only to causes they espouse?
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Omecamtiv Mecarbil
In collaboration with Amgen, Cytokinetics is developing omecamtiv mecarbil, a novel activator of cardiac myosin, the motor protein that powers cardiac muscle contraction. It is being investigated as a potential treatment for heart failure.
Omecamtiv mecarbil, an investigational drug candidate, is designed to increase the duration of cardiac muscle contractility and improve cardiac muscle performance, potentially helping patients preserve cardiac function and quality of life, avoid hospitalizations, and decrease the risk of mortality due to heart failure. Certain current treatments for heart failure improve cardiac muscle performance by increasing cellular concentration of calcium thereby increasing heart rate, blood pressure and arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms), and ultimately may increase the risk of mortality. Increasing the speed or velocity of muscle contraction may also shorten the duration of systolic ejection time—the time it takes for the blood to leave the heart chamber and enter systemic circulation. Cytokinetics' cardiac muscle activator stimulates cardiac myosin to increase cardiac performance without increasing cellular calcium concentrations.
Omecamtiv mecarbil was the subject of four Phase 2 clinical trials, including a trial called COSMIC-HF that evaluated oral omecamtiv mecarbil in patients with chronic heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
Omecamtiv mecarbil is currently the subject of a Phase 3 clinical trials program. The first Phase 3 trial, GALACTIC-HF, is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter clinical trial conducted by Amgen in collaboration with Cytokinetics. It is designed to evaluate if treatment with omecamtiv mecarbil when added to standard of care is superior to standard of care plus placebo in reducing the risk of cardiovascular death or heart failure events. GALACTIC-HF will enroll approximately 8,000 patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in approximately 900 sites in 35 countries, and is being conducted under a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) with the FDA.


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Trawling the depths of forgotten fiction, films, and beyond, with yer pal, Joe Kenney
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Baroness #7: Flicker of Doom
The Baroness #7: Flicker of Doom, by Paul Kenyon
December, 1974 Pocket Books
This penultimate volume of the Baroness series finds our heroine battling a threat very similar to the one in her previous adventure. Only whereas the doomsday device in #6: Sonic Slave was based on sound, the evil-genius-created device in Flicker of Doom is based on sight. This adventure even takes place in Morocco, again quite similar to the Middle Eastern locale of Sonic Slave.
But then, this series has been based on repetition from the start. Each novel has followed basically the same template, as if Donald Moffitt (aka "Paul Kenyon") was following some chart. Despite all of this, the series is still fun, always delivering pulpy plots with a good heaping of violence. And let's not forget the pages and pages of graphic sex scenes, though how could we? Actually the Baroness is a bit more frisky this time out, bedding three men during the course of the novel. She even finds time to smoke a little dope, something I don't think she's done since way back in #1: The Ecstasy Connection.
Flicker of Doom continues on the series-improvement begun in Sonic Slave; I'm almost sad that the next volume is the last. It seems to me that Moffitt was becoming more adjusted to writing action series fiction; with each volume he has better worked the Baroness's large team into the plots. Here he does his best job yet, with each of her teammates actually doing something useful instead of just standing around until the gun-blazing finale.
Also Moffitt here slightly tones down the too-perfect qualities of the Baroness, making her a bit more human and likable. He even appears to have been inspired by Hector Garrido's cover paintings for the previous books; at the finale of Flicker of Doom, the Baroness actually wears a skin-tight black costume which appears to be identical to the one Garrido has drawn for her since the first volume.
The main villain in this novel isn't as colorful as previous ones, but still entertaining: Don Alejandro, descendant of Inquisitors, who wishes to reclaim his family's control of Morocco. In order to do this he has, with the help of his simian assistant Dr. Funke, created a device which induces epilletic fits. The fits are induced by lights which flicker so subtly that the eye can't see them, but once directed upon the subject a messy and painful death quickly ensues. Already the duo has killed off high-ranking officials and Iranian soldiers (this was back when Iran was still "friends" with the US).
Dr. Funke is actually the more entertaining villain, a German brute who looks just like an ape. However I kept laughing, because every time I read "Dr. Funke" I flashed back to the character Dr. Tobias Funke on Arrested Development, a show I miss to this day. Funke, we're told, is a sexual deviant, and enjoys using his own seizure-studies to take advantage of women. Of course he sets his perverted sights on the Baroness as soon as she arrives on the scene in Morocco, where Funke and Alejandro have set up headquarters in Alejandro's palatial estate.
After the usual set-up, the Baroness ventures to Morocco with the cover story that there she will pose for a new line of "Angelface" cosmetics, for which she's being paid half a million dollars. Again we are constantly reminded how beautiful and gorgeous she is. While she attempts to figure out the culprit behind these latest attacks, her team handles their own assignments. Ironically, each teammate is at one point in their mission discovered and confronted by several attackers. In each case, the Baroness's teammates are able to fight their way out and avoid being captured. However when the Baroness is discovered and attacked, she is captured.
I know, this is so Moffitt can deliver the required scene of a bound and nude Baroness who must free herself. But once again I say that the Baroness comes off as the weakest member of her own team. Whereas her subordinates are able to overcome odds and escape, the Baroness is always outfought and captured. It's happened in every volume yet.
But even so, her capture again leads to the best scene in the book. Taken prisoner by a group of Islamic terrorists in a shadowy section of a Moroccan bazaar, the Baroness -- again, despite her struggling -- is bound to a chair and about to be tortured. What with the sadistic, lecherous torturer and his host of bladed equipment, it all comes off like something out of a sweat mag.
Freeing herself in a pretty cool fashion (one I don't think would work in reality, but so what), the Baroness lays waste to a horde of men, once again fighting in the nude. This series always excels when it features the Baroness alone (and usually naked) against several attackers...though I always wonder if she fights so well after being captured, why can't she fight just as well before being captured? As a matter of fact she's captured twice in Flicker of Doom, first in the bazaar and later in Alejandro's villa, where Moffitt can deliver another required scene: the Baroness strapped into some insane torture device.
The epilepsy-inducing gizmo is more than a match for the Baroness, and she's quickly overcome. Dr. Funke attempts to take advantage of her, but the Baroness is saved by a brazen act of deus ex machina -- a character previously thought dead turns out to still be alive, long enough that is to save the Baroness before croaking for real. Pretty lame. The finale isn't as gun-blazing as previous installments; rather, the Baroness suits up in the skin-tight black costume and sneaks into Alejandro's villa, bypassing the hidden epilepsy-inducing lights via a diving-style helmet.
This was another good volume, but once again I must question who this series was written for. I still say The Baroness was an attempt at a "women's adventure" series. The majority of the book is written from her perspective, so all of the sex scenes are rendered from a woman's point of view. More proof is offered up in the advertisements within the books themselves; previous volumes have featured ads for women-themed publications, in particular one about weight-loss tips for women. Flicker of Doom features an ad for a book titled Give Your Child A Superior Mind, complete with a photo of a lady playing with her toddler!
I don't think you'd see an ad like that in the back of a Marksman book, that's for sure...
Posted by Joe Kenney at 6:30 AM
3 comments:
- Whit Howland said...
very nice post... Need to make a list of all these books so i can seek them out and read them.
- April 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM
- Slap Bookleather said...
I've never heard of these before. Is it a coincidence that the woman on the cover dresses like the Baroness from the GI Joe comics?
- May 24, 2012 at 5:43 AM
- Joe Kenney said...
The strangest thing is that a while back I came across the cover for a GI Joe paperback original from 1984 or so...and the cover art was by Hector Garrido, the guy who drew these Baroness covers!
- May 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM
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Rep. Charles Rangel introduced a bill in Congress yesterday to reinstate the military draft.
The New York Democrat says his goal is two-fold: to ensure that America's fighting forces more closely match the class and racial makeup of the nation. And to help people think more personally about the consequences of going to war. As he wrote in a The New York Times op-ed last week, "I believe that if those calling for war knew that their children were likely to be required to serve — and to be placed in harm's way — there would be more caution and a greater willingness to work with the international community in dealing with Iraq."
He told reporters yesterday, "Those who love this country have a patriotic obligation to defend this country… For those who say the poor fight better, I say give the rich a chance."
Almost no member of Congress has a son or daughter in the military. Most recent presidential candidates from the Vietnam generation managed to avoid the draft. President George W. Bush sat out the war with the Texas Air National Guard.
Rangel is backed by Rep. John Conyers Jr., (D-MI), who has also opposed a pre-emptive strike against Iraq.
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Homeschool field trips are always an adventure and this one was no different. My youngest son, Chase, is home schooled here in Reno, NV. The NNHS (Northern Nevada Home School) group is very active. The parents plan several field trips and get togethers every week that we can pick and choose from. Check out their site at www.NNHS.org for more info. The other day we went on a field trip to the Animal Ark – a non-profit wildlife sanctuary and education center. They provide a safe haven for injured, abandoned and otherwise non-releasable wildlife. It's located in north Reno about 30-45 minutes from town. You can check them out at www.animalark.org.
Living in Reno, there's always a chance of running into a mountain lion while hiking or just while walking your dogs around the neighborhood. I never knew they could climb trees! They are the most deadly animals in Northern Nevada and seeing this made them seem even more terrifying than I already thought they were. Hearing that the reason he was in the tree was because he was scared because a school bus had just pulled into the parking lot did make me feel a little bit better. Glad to know there's SOMETHING mountain lions are afraid of.
On a lighter note, their resident raccoon was very playful and put on a great show for us. This was his famous raccoon yoga pose. He started by standing on his hind legs, bending at the waste and putting his head through his legs. As you can see, his feet never left the ground. He was just as comfortable as could be just grabbing the fence above and hanging out. Quite the character!
This little guy was so adorable. We all wanted to take him home. According to Animal Ark, he was sold on Craigslist twice before being surrendered to them. Several of the animals who now call Animal Ark their home started out as family pets. Apparently, fox are terrible pets. You can't house train them and they chew EVERYTHING!
When we arrived at the jaguar enclosure, he was just relaxing and calmly watching us. This photo of the jaguar was taken just minutes after he rushed the glass viewing booth in attack mode with mouth wide open. We were told there's an Animal Ark trainer he's not particularly fond of and she happened to walk by while we were there. That was probably his big thrill for the day – and ours too.
To me the lynx is such an exotic, mysterious animal. It's face looks like one of the characters in Cats the musical with it's tiny, pointed ears and beard. The lynx's body seems too big for it's head. The feet alone are just enormous compared with other cats the same size. The tail is naturally bobbed. I don't remember what this animal's background is but seeing him made the trip. There is another Lynx at Animal Ark as well that is bigger than this one, but he is shy and stayed in the back of his enclosure, where this one walked right by us several times.
Animal Ark has four wolves. There is an older, one-eyed male whose sister died just around the time three baby wolves were sent to them. There are twins (this is one of them) and a black one named Shadow. The twins are submissive to the older male, so they alternate days in the large enclosure. Then the one-eyed male and Shadow take their turn together since they seem to get along. Wolves don't live in the wild in Nevada. Although the state has been tracking one lone wolf that recently has entered through either California or Oregon.
Something Nevada does have plenty of are coyotes. In fact, the day after we visited Animal Ark, we saw one sauntering through our neighborhood in the middle of the day. They usually come around at night and we can hear them howling. As you can see, the wolf and the coyote look very similar.
There were several other types of animals such as bears, cheeta, owls, hawks, a vulture, turtles, etc. This is just a sample of what you'll see if you visit. Spring is a great time to visit Animal Ark. The weather is cool/cold, all of the animals are out and about and there are no bad odors like their might be during the warmer times of year. If you decide to go, picnic lunches are recommended since there isn't a restaurant for miles. Wear good walking shoes because you'll be walking a lot on gravel paths. For those unable to walk, they have golf carts available for a donation.


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It is time to start rocking full hoop dance choreography, the most awesome way to level up transitions, coordination and bring in your own style.
So this week I am sharing a full hoop dance choreography to Lean on by Major Lazer.
You can check out the whole song here and refer back to this at anytime. Each week we will learn a piece of the dance.
First let's break down the first verse. Take your time and inject your own style.
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I don't think I will ever get tired of black and white glitter toppers...they make a statement and go with anything!
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Kentucky Weather. It's either really wonderful or really terrible. There's no in between.
Here's some pictures I took at our homestead LAST WEEK:
There's an old saying about Kentucky weather, "If you don't like it, stick around. It'll change."
Literally, a week ago it was Siberia around here. Snow pants, gloves, hats, scarves, boots, and other random wintery gear have been decorating my living room for what seems like yearss. Boy, am I glad to see them go into hibernation.
Fast forward 3 days, the weather turned warm in a hurry. Everything got slushy.
The combination of over a foot of snow and 60+ degree weather equates to 3 things around here:
- Lots of mud
- Weird weather where it's sunny, warm, and there's snow all over the ground
- Odd pictures of shirtless children running around in the snow
Next came the rain, which took care of all the white stuff overnight, but didn't help the mud problem.
Move forward 3 more days and this is what our place looked like:
For the first time in 3 weeks we could see the ground. For the first time in 4 weeks we could also see all the cow manure. It has been hiding under a foot of snow.
We don't leave the manure in the fields at our homestead. If we had larger pastures, we could.
Our cows are rotated on 2 small fields. Cows never stop making manure. You will probably not believe the amount of manure one cow can produce until you see it. I am convinced the grass doubles in size somewhere inside the cow. I swear, twice as much comes out the back as went in the front.
Really, it's amazing.
The manure must be scooped. If we left the manure sitting in the field, in a few short months, we would have a field of manure and cows, nothing else. It's not such a big deal when you scoop the field each week. When you haven't seen the ground in a month, that can make for a lot of manure to be moved.
We shoveled manure for about 2 hours. It was a beautiful day and exercise is always a good thing. We shoveled it into wagons so it could be relocated to its proper place where it will compost into beautiful, black soil for my garden.
The cows love it when we scoop the cow field. They think we are there to play with them. Crumple sniffs and head-butts everything.
Faith usually tries to sit in my lap……… not this day. This day, she decided to turn into, "Frisky the Wonder-Cow" and gallop, buck, and prance.
She is capable of launching her entire 800+ pound self completely in the air. Keep in mind that she is almost 5 months pregnant. I'm not sure what she is thinking.
Good grief, she's going to kill someone – maybe herself or her unborn calf. It's scary.
We locked Frisky in the second field so we didn't get bounced on during her flight attempts.
Sorry Faith. I still love you.
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Police: Dead man wearing armor found at scene of Calif. family shooting
INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- A man found dead at the property where five members of a Southern California family were shot -- two fatally -- was believed to be the attacker because he was wearing body armor and clutching a handgun, police said.
The loaded handgun was a .38 caliber revolver registered to 55-year-old Desmond John Moses. Inglewood police say Moses set his backyard bungalow ablaze before spraying bullets at his neighbors.
Investigators suspect Moses blamed the young family who lived in the front house for an eviction notice he had received from their landlord.
While police could not conclude that the body is that of Moses until an autopsy is concluded, "the evidence suggests this is the case," the statement added.The dead man had "what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head," wore body armor and carried additional ammunition in his pockets when it was found late Saturday, a police statement said.
The shooting rampage before dawn Saturday killed 33-year-old Filimon Lamas and his 4-year-old son. The father was shielding three of his children when he was shot, Police Chief Mark Fronterotta said. Lamas' 28-year-old wife, Gloria Jimenez, was shot in both legs but managed to carry the wounded 4-year-old out of the house.
Paramedics found her collapsed on the street. The child, who was shot in the head, died at a hospital.
Investigators believe Moses entered the family's home around 4 a.m. wearing a dark cap and a white painter's mask, according to NBCLosAngeles.com.
Authorities said he fired 10 times, also wounding a 7-year-old girl in the chest and a 6-year-old boy in the pelvis. An 8-year-old boy escaped injury.
The mother and daughter remained hospitalized in stable condition, Lt. James Madia said. The 6-year-old boy was released.
Authorities launched a manhunt and evacuated surrounding homes after the shooting rampage, but it was not until hours later that they found the charred body because it was hidden under layers of debris.
"He was kind of a hoarder or pack rat," Madia said.
Fighting eviction notice
The landlord told the Los Angeles Times that Moses had been fighting an eviction notice and recently lost his case in court.
The landlord told the Los Angeles Times that Moses had been fighting an eviction notice and recently lost his case in court.
The newspaper reported Sunday that Moses has held a security guard registration with the California Department of Consumer Affairs since 1984. However, police said they did not know whether he was working as a security guard.
Moses lived in the bungalow for 17 years, while the family lived in the front house for 8 years, Madia said. The front house is next door to the home in which Jimenez grew up and where her father still lives. Several of her siblings live on the same block, the Times reported.
Jimenez had been concerned that Moses was "not all there," her brother Jaime told the Times. He said that Moses would only grunt when the family greeted him and complained when the children played in the yard between their houses.
High school sweethearts
Relatives told the Times that Lamas and Jimenez were high school sweethearts who recently got approval for a home loan, and were looking to buy a bigger house for their tight-knit family.
Lamas was part owner of a local diner, neighbors and friends told the newspaper.
"All he breathed was his family," Jiminez's brother Jaime told the Times.
"All he did, all he talked about, was his family," he told the paper.
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Friday, June 23, 2017
TMNT (2003) Season 2, Part 3 review at AIPT
My review of TMNT (2003) Season 2, Part 3 is up at AIPT!
The highlight for this batch was "What a Croc", the introduction of the 4Kids version of Leatherhead. The rest were pretty meh, especially the rather badly paced and watered down adaptation of "City at War". Also the underground mutants, but nobody gives a shit about them.
TMNT Universe #11 came out this week and I'll try to get my copy this weekend, so that should be on the slate soon.
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- Adam Winters said...
"Her arc's going to be very interesting. I just wish her voice actress, Karen Neil, didn't give her such a painfully artificial "Me so horny" Japanese accent."
Man, you have articulated something that bugged me about Karai's voice acting from the very beginning.
- 6/23/2017
Ah yes, I was dreading when you got to that awful, awful music moment. Won't be the last time, either.
Poor poor 4Kids (or at least their in-house band, the--gag--"4Kids Five"). They genuinely believed they could pass as a real band, and no one had the heart to tell them otherwise.
- 6/23/2017
The 4kids version of City at War gets a lot of flak, but I dunno, the cartoon version of it was pretty decent on it's own as long as you don't compare it to the comic version. Obviously the whole story with Casey/Gabrielle was never going to happen in the show, and Rat King hadn't been introduced in the cartoon yet. I think 4kids managed to put their own spin on it for their universe pretty decently.
- 6/23/2017
- Mystery Cup of Joe said...
I agree with the last comment, it was a decent adaptation of City at War. However, I think it would be cool if Nickelodeon makes one shot Tmnt carton movies based off the comics like how DC and Warner Brothers are doing. They can probably put in the more intense moments going that route. I do have to admit, I expected some gory moments from City at War from the way it was going. Funny enough, those moments come in later when I did not expect them ( I.e. Donnie traveling to a possible future Earth). Nice review as always.
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Hi, I am 1st time visit Tokyo and will going on 16 April. Basically will in Tokyo for 5days and Hokkaido for 3 days. My objective is to visit sakura season, hot spring, Hakone, Disney land/Sea, Kitty World, Tokyo tower and etc...sightseeing and Food! Any local got any others places which cant miss?? I would like to know local friend too.
I heard that cherry blossom will come into bloom around March 24th in Tokyo and around May 4th in Hokkaido. If you are lucky, you may see them in Tokyo!!
In Tokyo, there are lots of good sight to see Sakura. For me, I like watching Sakura in Chidorigafuchi or Inogashira park. In Chidirigafuchi, you can see beautiful Sakura with beautiful sights of ponds and imperial court. If you really want, you can borrow boat and watch them nearly.
Inogashira park is also famous sight. It took about 20 minutes from Shinjuku by train. You can also enjoy Sakura in there too!! In Inogashira park, you may see lots of people enjoying Hanami (watching Sakura party).
If you want to know more, please let me know; )
Hi Aryano, are you available in weekday too?
Are familiar Hokkaido and Hokane as well? Can you give me your email so thar We can further discuss.
Hi Calyn, I'm a college student and my college will start from April. So, I can't tell you that I'll available in weekday. But, maybe, I can meet you some days except April 17th (I have part time job on every Wednesday).
I've been to Hakone (you wrote "Hokane", but maybe you wanted to write "Hakone") many times.
I've been to Hokkaido, too. However, I went there for ski on winter. So, I'm not familiar with tourist spot in there.
I tried to put my email address, but this site doesn't allow to put it in this page. I made this activity page, so please contact me from below if you are interested to visit with me.
Hello, I will visit Tokyo on 6/2 afternoon and I wanna find someone to guide Tokyo generally Do you have a time to guide to me? For reference, I'm 24 guy and from Korea I'll wait your reply!
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
I've been dreaming about this for long enough and so finally decided to take the plunge. Since natural fibres are not available out here I went ahead with the acrylic yarn that I had in my stash.
Did I tell you that I'm fairly new to knitting? I picked up a simple beginner pattern from my current 'mentor' book. It's called vogue knitting beginner basic. Great book and this is my fourth project from this book.I've tackled two hats and a pair of booties so far from this book.
Okay, so I'm in the learner stage and learning a lot. Some of it I love and some I totally hate. I loved the new techniques, the different textures in knitting and that so far I've noted that knitting takes up lesser yarn than crochet- ( is this true???) What I hate is my lastest lesson: when you work stockinette stitch in acrylic you are stuck big time with a rolling mess!!!
I have knitted the back , the left frpont, right front and the sleeves and I have ended up with five peices that are all rolling in!!! I'm trying to figure out how to block it. I pinned it and sprayed it liberally with water until it is almost drenched. Lets hope it is blocked when it dries up ...or else ....I'm thinking I'm going to kill it!! I'm lost .
I was reading up on blocking and everywhere it says acrylic doesn't block. If it doesn't block how will I stitch the peices together? Any suggestions??Please? I try and post pictures of my effort :( .
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Congratulations on your first knit sweater!
I'm afraid stockinette will always roll, no matter what you do. The nature of the stitches makes it so. That's why usually patterns will have you do a border in a different stitch such as garter or moss/seed or ribbing, which don't roll. I'm surprised the pattern didn't tell you to do some other stitch. It would roll even if it was wool or other natural fibre.
If you wet it, it will lie flat for a while, but it will roll again when it dries. Killing it might help, but it will also destroy the texture of the work and stretch it permanently.
- 25 January, 2009 19:17
- Umme Yusuf said...
Welcome back Yasmine!
It's nice that you're knitting too!
Regarding the baby sweater, Do Not kill the acrylic, it can be quite disastrous and will change the size of the sweater as well as make it all limpy. St st does roll but it is not so hard to seam , once you get a hang of it. May be, you can try pinning together the peices prior to seaming. The good thing, the rolling effect goes away in the finished state.
- 25 January, 2009 19:20
- Yasmin said...
Thanks for the input. So it is agreed that killing it wont work. I'm not surprised!
Swapnae, the pattern did not mention any border. Just cast on and work in stockinette stitch.
Ummeyusuf, I'll give your idea a shot.Pin the peices together and seaming it.Sounds like it might work.
- 25 January, 2009 19:58
- Preeti said...
Your first baby sweater - show us pictures!!! The stockinette will roll - especially the bottom. But since you've worked the sweater in pieces, mattress seams on the edges will take care of the side seams. For the bottom, you could crochet a border to give it some stability and help with the curling.
- 26 January, 2009 20:24
- Charmaine said...
You might find that wet blocking will help, but as a rule acrylics do not have the same response to blocking as natural fibres do. You could try a cool iron as well, but be careful not to melt it!
As the other have said, once you seam it the rolling will be greatly reduced. A crochet edge is a great idea also, and we know you know how to do that!
- 01 February, 2009 15:45
- Mimi said...
Sounds frustrating, but I guess you'll find a way. Would love to see the knitted baby sweater :)
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