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Champions League holders Chelsea will be looking to bounce back from last weekend's defeat against Manchester City, when they travel to face Juventus on Wednesday night (8:00PM, 29 Sept).
The Italian giants, meanwhile, are aiming to claim their fourth victory in five matches across all competitions as well as extend their unbeaten record against the Blues to four games.
One of Chelsea's strengths that has been evident since Tuchel took charge has been their defensive stability. Juventus themselves are usually known for their qualities at the back, though in 2021 they have looked surprisingly vulnerable, keeping only one clean sheet in their last 21 games across all competitions.
Wednesday's encounter will be one considered by both sides as a 'must not lose' if they are to clinch top spot in Group H. A closely-fought contest is set to be played out in Turin, however we can see the Blues securing a slender victory.
After failing to win each of their opening four Serie A matches, with Massimiliano Allegri overseeing one of the club's worst starts in 60 years, Juventus have since bounced back with successive 3-2 league victories against Spezia and Sampdoria.
Manuel Locatelli scored his first goal for the club to put the Italian giants 3-1 ahead against Sampdoria last weekend, before the visitors pulled one back in the 83rd minute through former Juve midfielder Antonio Candreva, to make it a nervy ending for the hosts. However, Juve held on to claim three much-needed points, which has helped them climb into the top half of the table.
In the midst of their disappointing domestic start, Juventus won their opening Champions League match in Group H earlier this month, securing a comfortable 3-0 victory away against Swedish outfit Malmo.
Their next opponent in Europe's elite club competition could arguably not be any tougher, as they face holders Chelsea, who have lost only three of their last 32 Champions League group stage games. Juve did, however, win their most recent meeting against the Blues, claiming a 3-0 home victory during the 2012-13 group stage, the year after Chelsea claimed their first ever Champions League crown.
In fact, the Italians have an impressive record against holders of the Champions League or the European Cup as it used to be known. Juve have won seven times, including four of their last five on home soil, with only Real Madrid (11) winning more in the competition's history.
Juventus lost their last Champions League game against English opposition, suffering a 2-1 defeat at home to Manchester United in November 2018. The Old Lady have never lost successive games against English teams and if they avoid defeat on Wednesday, then they will have a good chance of topping Group F by the end of this year.
Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea side headed into their mouth-watering clash against Manchester City last weekend confident that they could secure their fourth successive win against the reigning Premier League champions. However, the Blues were brought back down to earth as Pep Guardiola's side produced an excellent performance at Stamford Bridge, coming away with a 1-0 victory.
The German head coach will not need to go back to the drawing board, though Sunday's defeat is a gentle reminder of the task his side face in not only retaining their European crown, but also challenging for the Premier League title against such strong opposition.
Chelsea began their defence of the Champions League with a slender 1-0 victory over Zenit St Petersburg earlier this month, with Romelu Lukaku heading in the only goal of the game and his fourth of the campaign.
As previously mentioned, the Blues have an excellent record in the group stage and Tuchel also boasts an equally impressive win ratio of 68%, the third-highest of any manager in the competition to have taken charge of at least 20 group-stage matches, behind only Jupp Heynckes (73%) and Guardiola (71%).
Chelsea, however, travel to Turin on Wednesday after losing each of their last four Champions League away games against Italian opposition, with all four defeats against a different opponent. Losses to Inter Milan in 2009-10 and Napoli in 2011-12 were followed by defeats against Juve in 2012-13 and Roma in 2017-18.
After their midweek clash with Juve, the Blues have a more favourable run of fixtures on paper over the next month, so a positive result at the Juventus Stadium would be a great way for Tuchel's men to kickstart a strong run of form across all fronts.
Juventus were dealt a major blow this weekend as forwards Alvaro Morata and Paolo Dybala limped off against Sampdoria with respective hamstring and thigh injuries, with the latter leaving the pitch in tears.
Allegri may be tempted to switch from a 4-4-2 formation to a 4-3-3 system as a result, with striker Moise Kean joined in attack by wingers Federico Chiesa and Dejan Kulusevski.
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny was dropped to the bench last weekend after a string of poor performances between the sticks in recent weeks. Mattia Perin was handed a start at his expense and the Italian could keep his place on Wednesday.
Despite starting at the weekend, Matthijs de Ligt – who has been linked with a move to Chelsea – could be replaced in the first XI by 37-year-old Giorgio Chiellini who, after starting on the bench against Sampdoria, is expected play alongside Leonardo Bonucci at the heart of the defence.
As for Chelsea, French midfielder N'Golo Kante has been ruled out after testing positive for coronavirus. The 30-year-old will also miss Saturday's Premier League game against Southampton.
The Blues are also without right wing-back Reece James who was forced off in the first half against Man City after twisting his ankle.
Chelsea skipper Cesar Azpilicueta is expected to replace the 21-year-old, while Thiago Silva is set to join Andreas Christensen and Antonio Rudiger in the back three.
In addition, midfielder Mason Mount and winger Christian Pulisic, who both missed last weekend's game, will not feature on Wednesday as they continue to recover from minor injuries.
Arguably Tuchel's main dilemma in midweek will be with who he decides to start in central midfield. Jorginho, Mateo Kovacic and Saul Niguez are the three most likely candidates, though only two may start the match if Tuchel decides to play with three attacking players up front.
German duo Timo Werner and Kai Havertz, who began on the bench against Zenit, could be handed starts alongside central striker Romelu Lukaku.
Juventus possible starting lineup:
Perin; Danilo, Chiellini, Bonucci, Sandro; Bentancur, Locatelli, Ramsey; Chiesa, Kean, Kulusevski
Chelsea possible starting lineup:
Mendy; Christensen, T. Silva, Rudiger; Azpilicueta, Kovacic, Jorginho, Alonso; Havertz, Lukaku, Werner


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One of the most easily refuted claims in John Armstrong's book Harvey & Lee is that Lee Harvey Oswald ("Harvey" per Armstrong) spoke no Russian in the Soviet Union. One purpose of this silly allegation is to prove that Marina spoke English while in Russia and she was therefore a spy. The following excerpt is from page 334.
NOTE: When Oswald and Marina met, danced, and agreed to a date the following Friday they spoke a common language. Was it Russian or English? The HSCA asked Marina, "At this time you were speaking in Russian together?" She answered, "Yes. He spoke with an accent so I assumed he was from another state. " Oswald came in contact with hundreds of people in Russia, but Marina is the only person-THE ONLY PERSON [emphasis in original] who said that Oswald spoke Russian while in Russia. Ana Ziger, who saw Oswald three or four times a week during the 2 1 /2 years he lived in Minsk, said he never spoke a single word of Russian. All of Oswald's male friends spoke English and he associated with girls from the foreign language institute who spoke English. Oswald, as a cold war spy in a hostile country, would never dare to speak Russian to Marina or anyone. Therefore when Oswald and Marina met it is almost certain she spoke English with Oswald.
But Armstrong's own witness, Ana Ziger, does not confirm his allegation. In 1995, Ziger told an Argentinian publication that "Nobody could say anything [about lies LHO told] because he spoke Russian poorly Dad would translate ..." So, LHO certainly did speak Russian, albeit poorly at the time, and Alexander Ziger translated as a matter of convenience.
There is, of course, a mountain of additional evidence refuting the assertion. The definitive article debunking the claim was written by John Delane Williams.
As Williams points out, there were dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals in Russia who could testify to the fact that LHO spoke Russian. Ernst Titovets knew LHO well in Russia and stated that he spoke Russian. Upon learning of Armstrong's claims, Titovets interviewed the following people who knew LHO and confirmed that he spoke Russian:
· Vyacheslav Stelmakh
· Vladimir Zhidovich
· Dr. Alexander Mastykin
To sum up, another bold assertion by Armstrong is completely without merit.

subset: commoncrawl


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I purchased a set of Europas in January and am very happy with them. They are everything that others have described in reviews. I also auditioned a set of DeCapo I last summer when I was looking to replace a set of Athena AS-F2. At the same time I tried out a set of Cardas Neutral Reference speaker cables. I ended up only buying the Cardas cables as I did not feel that the DeCapos were that much of an improvement over the Athena's. As I remember the DeCapos were very dynamic but not as detailed as the Europas. I also listen to rock, jazz and blues.
Green Mountain Europa/Reference 3A DeCapo i
Both have solid reputations. Some claim the GMA Europa competes with speakers in the $3-$4k range. How does it stand up to the DeCapo i? Does anyone out there have experience with both who can tell me about their strengths and weaknesses and in their opinion which is the better speaker? I listen to rock/pop, jazz and blues. Associated equipment-NAD C372 integrated, NAD 542 CD player, Cardas and Analysis Plus cables.


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The question of how many daughters the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his Progeny) had, has come from some people, who wanted to attribute the lineage of the Prophet's fostered daughters to the lineage of the Prophet's real daughter.
The people in Jahiliyah (Before Islam) had the same way of thinking as these people do. The people in Jahiliyah also used to attribute the lineage of fostered children to the lineage of their guardians, and mistakenly claim they all equal children.
That's why it is well known that Prophet's fostered son, Zaid Bin Harithah , used to be called "Zaid ibn Muhammad" by some people, even though Zaid was never the Prophet's son at all but son of Harithah.
It was for that very reason that Allah ordered the Prophet to get married to Zainab bint Jahsh, who was the ex-wife of Zaid. This was to correct the Jahili thinking that the fostered son is like the real son.
"O Prophet, remember when you said to the one (Zaid) whom Allah as well as you had favored: "Keep your wife in wedlock and fear Allah". You sought to hide in your heart what Allah intended to reveal; you were afraid of the people whereas it would have been more appropriate to fear Allah. So when Zaid divorced his wife, We gave her to you in marriage, so that there remains no hindrance for the believers to wed the wives of their adopted sons if they divorced them. And Allah's Command had to be carried out."
-Surah Al Ahzab, Ayah 37
From the same origin of misunderstanding, some people claimed that the Prophet had 3 daughters prior to Fatima being born. However, this is a misconception as these 3 daughters were his fostered daughters while Fatima was his real biological daughter.
Here are some facts to clarify this misunderstanding;
1. Lady Khadijah had a sister by the name of Haala bint Khuwailid. Haala had 3 daughters whose names were Zainab, Rukhaiya & Umm Kulthum (Manaaqib aal Abi Talib, volume 1, page 162).
Even some of the historians have stated that Zainab & Rukhaiya were the daughters of Haala's husband from another wife (not Hala), but both mother and father died, so Khadijah adopted them (Al-Istigatha by Al-Kufi, volume 1, page 68).
All of the authentic evidences make it very clear that all of the Prophet's children were born after The Bi'atha/declaration of Prophet hood (see Al Bad' Wal Tarikh البدء والتاريخ , volume 5, page 16, Nasib Quraysh نسب قريش Volume 21, Al Mawahib Al Laduniyya, المواهب اللدنية volume 1, page 196, Tareek Al Khamis تاريخ الخميس , volume 1, page 272, Majma Al Zawaid مجمع الزوائد , volume 9, page 217, Al Bidaiya Wal Nihaiya البداية والنهاية , volume 12, page 294, Al Seerah Al Halabiyyah السيرة الحلبية , volume 3, page 308)
Zainab & Rukhaiya, the fostered daughters of Khadija were married to 2 sons of Abu Lahab, then they got divorced from them. One of them eventually got married to Uthmaan.
That proves that they were not the real daughters of the Prophet because all of the Prophet's children were born after Bi'tha/declaration of Prophet hood.
Some people claim that these 3 daughters were Khadijah's own daughters from a previous marriage. However, this claim of a "previous' marriage is doubtful because the narrations which state that Khadijah had a husband before she was married to the Prophet, were fabricated by supporters of Bani Ummaiya in an attempt lower the status of Lady Khadijah.
The authentic evidence shows us that Lady Khadijah refused all marriage proposals from the leaders of society at that time and that she was only ever married to the Prophet, peace be upon him and all his noble family.
Many authentic historians and scholars like Ibn Shar Ashub ابن شهر آشوب , Ahmed Al Balathoreeأحمد البلاذري , Abul Qasim al Kufi أبو القاسم الكوفي , Al Mortatha السيد المرتضى in his book "Al-Shaafi" and Abu Jafar in his book "Al-Talkees"التلخيص , have confirmed that Lady Khadijah got married to the Prophet when she was a virgin.
In the well-known authentic sermon of Fatima a.s, in the Masjid of the Prophet, in front of a big number of Muslims, she said "The Prophet is my father and never the father of any other woman". This means that she was affirming that she was the Prophet's only real daughter.
In the book Sahih Al Bukari, volume 3, page 68, there is a clear evidence that Ali was the only son-in-law of the Prophet and Uthmaan was not.
These are a few points to confirm that Fatima a.s was the only real daughter of the Prophet.
No need to mention the emphasis of the Prophet in telling the people to be just when dealing with their daughters and sons and to treat them fairly and equally. Seeing as this is the case, why would the Prophet focus only on Fatima, in all of the Hadith that have been recorded about his gifting Fadak to her and only her? There is no mention of these other fostered daughters.
This itself is a further evidence that Fatima was the Prophet's only daughter while the others were fostered by him and his wife Khadija.
Most of Shia ulama believe in this.
The evidences are ahadith and history.
Assalaamu alaykum,
Some Shi'a have held that she was not the only biological daughter of the Prophet (S) and some Shi'a hold that she was. Allah knows best!
Might I suggest, for further discussion, you explore the book _The Blessed Tree_ by Shaykh M. S. Bahmanpour discussing her life.
Best wishes!


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Eastern Florida State College softball team sweeps Palm Beach State College on the road
BREVARD COUNTY — A couple of freshmen came up big in the Eastern Florida State College softball team's sweep against Palm Beach State College on the road Wednesday.
The Titans picked up 10-1 and 14-1 victories over Palm Beach State College to improve to 10-2 in the Southern Conference.
Madison Neuhaus and Emily Bartlett led the attack for the Titans as Neuhaus went 3-4 with three RBI and Bartlett went 2-for-3 with three RBI in the first game.
Then in the second game each showed some power as Bartlett hit a grand slam and Neuhaus had a solo home run in the 14-1 win in five innings.
Eastern Florida State College will play ASA Miami on the road Friday afternoon before returning to Southern Conference play on Saturday at Miami Dade. The Titans have won all three meetings against the Sharks this season. Miami Dade is 7-5 in the Southern Conference and in third place.
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TechCrunch50: Dot-com dreams
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.
At the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, the focus is clearly on start-ups with solid business plans. Some are even making money already.
But that's not to say entrepreneurs have given up on the attention-getting gimmickry that often characterizes such trade shows.
Redbeacon, which is offering ways for local businesses to get customers, demonstrated its service by ordering 500 cupcakes -- and then delivering the cupcakes throughout the conference hall.
IMo, a two-person company based in India, nearly bombed when it blasted the song "Eye of the Tiger" and then the demonstration failed. But iMo co-founder Himanshu Baweja bounced back later, in what was probably the best demo of the show. For one thing, he didn't utter a single word in showing how he's developed an application that makes an iPhone work like a joystick -- in conjunction with any PC-based video game.
Baweja dressed first as a motorcycle rider and played a racing game. He stripped the jacket and helmet, dressed as a pilot, and showed an airplane game, to the tune of 'Danger Zone.' The pilot hat and jacket dropped, and he picked up a baseball bat, playing an urban street-fighter game to the tune of 'In Da Club.' In the question-and-answer period that followed, he said the app would sell for 99 cents.
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Report: Neighbor's arbitrary and unilateral course of action is probably only exceeded by neighbor's sense of entitlement
Trouble in the Hamptons: Kynikos manager Jim Chanos was forced--forced I tell you-- to call the cops on his neighbor a complete egocentric, namely: Goldman MD Marc Spilker- yesterday when a few of JC's shrubs trades were senselessly torn down front run in an effort on Spilker's part to create a wider beach path greater returns for Goldman's flagging Global Alpha.
"My outrage over this arbitrary and unilateral course of action is probably only exceeded by Mr/Mrs Spilker's sense of entitlement that the four-foot wide path to the beach Global Alpha's own annualized P&L gain of 5.62% (specified in the local easement papers Global Alpha PPM) 'was just not wide high enough for us' as he said when first broaching the subject of arbitrarily widening a path front running a set of trades," Chanos hissed in email-form to a few friends and Goldman execs. Sealing the note with a kiss, he added: "I hope this is not a harbinger of how other Goldman senior executives may act when the markets become 'just not lucrative enough for us!'"
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I hadn't seen anything about this, but AA's Web site confirms that the store is "Coming Soon" to the Prime Outlets in Orlando.
Primarily known for their T-shirts, the clothing store will also be adding more stores to its Florida roster in Boca and Ft. Lauderdale.
For now, you can find your favorite tanks and T's from their online store.


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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Where do you find happiness?
Where do you find happiness? The only place you ever find happiness is where you are.
Happiness is not in some far off, fondly imagined time or place or situation. The happiness you enjoy is the happiness you choose to enjoy in the here and now.
You possess the very real ability to be happy just as you are. When you utilize that ability, when you choose happiness, you inject positive power into everything you do.
Are you disappointed, frustrated, feeling ineffective and unappreciated? Choose to be happy, and feel how quickly that all changes.
Being happy for no reason, or even when there are compelling reasons not to be, is not naive. It is a shrewd and effective way to energize your life.
Go ahead and empower yourself with happiness. Be happy with your situation, and it will most definitely improve, because you will improve it.
Ralph MarstonThe sooner you start Energy of dissatisfaction
Copyright ©2015 Ralph S. Marston, Jr. All Rights Reserved. The Daily Motivator is provided for your personal, non-commercial use only. Other than personal sharing, please do not re-distribute without permission.


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I Can Stop Whining Anytime Now
I have successfully convinced my family that salsa fresca is a food group and that it will be served everyday…quick, easy and good on everything or by itself. Who knew? I should really be ashamed of myself, though, my gardening and canning mentors would never have thrown something together so haphazardly and called it dinner or supper.
My best mentor has been gone now since 1985 and I sure miss her when I plant my pole beans, which really were her pole beans. The age gap was too great for us to ever be peers or friends, I was the daughter she never had, and always the trudger at her hip as we gathered eggs, or worked in the gardens, and once I was too old to need a babysitter, I would go help them with their harvests and just hang out to hear stories. She never would have served something as simple as a burrito filled with cold chicken and salsa fresca for a meal. At her house every meal was made from scratch from ingredients that came from their farm, with the exception of the usual store-bought flour, sugar, spices, coffee and tea.
Once they got too old to keep a milk cow, I started taking them milk each week, and it was always a treat to walk through the kitchen and into the dining room to see what the latest canning project was. Veda would promptly pull the dishcloth covering the jars with a flourish and proudly proclaim the days tally.
"Seventy pints of limas!"
I was always in awe of how hard they worked. And I feel a little ashamed right now, seventy pints? I'll be lucky to squeak out 36 pints of green beans today. But they will get done, because, well, they have to. I'm at that point already where I am stomping around wondering, who the heck planted all this stuff anyway? Yesterday, it was a basket of cauliflower that my daughter so dutifully started, coddled, harvested and prepped for me to blanch and freeze. But I had pickles osmosing and the beans needed picking before last nights rain, I did not want to see bowls of cauliflower and romanesco sitting on the table.
This morning was the last straw for me. I needed to shut up and start putting up. I try to make every trip count whether it be to the barn or down to the basement for something. We store our canned goods in the basement, so as I took a batch of pickles down to shelve on my way to bring up pint jars for bean canning, I realized I had marked those pickle jars '12. Luckily I had a Sharpie there on the shelf so I remarked the jars with a '13. Then I noticed the 28 quarts of nectarines I had put away yesterday all had 12's also. Arrghhhh. That's what happens when you're too tired to even notice you aren't even conscious of the year!
Just seeing the wrong date was a good wake-up call for me. No more canning at night, I am beat and too tired by the time it gets dark. I only have to glance around our kitchen and see the cookstove to remind myself, gee, I don't have it bad at all. I do not have to do my canning with wood heat. The waste of energy alone would drive me batty, let alone thinking of all the wood splitting just to keep up with the pressure cooker. No thanks. I will stick with my modern stove for summer preserving projects.
We'll never put the genie back in the bottle, modern conveniences and distractions are here to stay in some form. My mentor did not have the distraction of television (too frugal) nor the internet, so she didn't play too much. The mere thought of writing about canning (me blogging) while you're canning would have been something she never could have fathomed. This is now though, I am glad for my memories by her side as she preserved their foodwork, but I am also glad to be blogging about canning right this minute and I am especially glad for my electric stove.
August 28, 2013 1:26 pm
You are right on the mark … 🙂 How do those purple beans compare to the Blue Lake Beans ?
12Paws permalinkAugust 28, 2013 1:40 pm
Neat post! More years ago that I can fathom I watched my grandma can on a wood stove. She, too, got an electric one later on.
August 28, 2013 1:45 pm
Sometimes we miss our wood burning stove. But when it's Summer we don't miss its heat in the kitchen and when you get in late and are preparing a meal from the garden produce our gas stove helps us forget about chopping wood and lighting the stove. For some the TV may be a distraction but after a full day of toil its a great way to relax over a meal and enjoy a favourite show. Blogging is a wonderfully creative task helping to exercise the mind. Nothing more satisfying than rephrasing a passage to make it more understandable and readable. And of course a good record to be looked back on in the future as well as bringing entertainment to others.
Ben permalinkAugust 28, 2013 2:52 pm
I think you deserve a good break from the canner. We only can a few things and its just 2 of us so we only put up a few dozen of this or that. I hear you on the night thing, since our farm is a commute seems like the evening are the only time to get some cannin done. And of course we are both tired and irritable…
VaGirl2 permalinkAugust 28, 2013 3:35 pm
I'm VERY glad you can take the time to blog about your canning & farming, too! And your story about Veda…reminds me of the women (passed on, now) in my life who made a difference with their simple frugal ways…albeit hardworking ways. They worked harder than I will ever dream of.
August 28, 2013 8:06 pm
Your post made me smile, I missed the canning this year. I haven't done that much. I have frozen lots though and later on in the year I may even do some canning of some baked beans and jam. I just couldn't keep up with the gardening, studying and then on top of that to do canning. One day we will have a house next to my garden and then I won't have to pick one day and deal with it the next, because by the time we get back home there is only enough time to throw something together to eat and then not much else.
Our sweetmeat and naked seed squash are doing well, so thanks for the info on those. At least I don't have to deal with them right now.
August 29, 2013 7:06 am
This is about the time that you start secretly hoping for crop failures : ) Your back hurts, your feet hurt and everywhere you look there are jars of something, buckets of something, trays of seeds. You give up housework and start canning from the moment you get up till sunset. Like you I do not can at night anymore after burning myself one time canning tired!
I can remember my mother canning for weeks on end to feed her brood of 5. My grandmother stood over a wood stove in the sweltering heat to can for hours. I will fight you over my modern gas stove.
August 29, 2013 10:01 am
I'm glad you are blogging, too. Although those green beans look beautiful!
nm permalinkAugust 29, 2013 2:15 pm
Loving the reminder that there are others in this boat; the kitchen is full of baskets and bowls of things! And I … am behind… of course. Some days I get home from work, and think Ok, now I'll get to canning — and then pick up a book instead and forget to put it down. Must buckle down and get back to it, though; that fresh produce won't last! Your purple green beans are gorgeous!
Mary permalinkAugust 29, 2013 6:22 pm
Hello. I so enjoy reading your blog. You have such nice pictures and stories! But i have a question. Is there a site where i can read about the proper jar? I mean regular mouth or wide. I have many of both but prefer to use regular mouth due to the cost of seals. I hope my question made sense to you….. Thanks!
Desiree permalinkSeptember 3, 2013 2:31 pm
Oh my Gosh! Had I not discovered your blog today and read this entry about mis-marking the dates on your jars….I would not have realized I did the exact same thing with my last week of canning…so that will be about 75 jars of various things I will need to dig out at some point and re-date! Thanks for the heads up:) I can't even blame the late nights on it:) I am enjoying reading about your life.


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Women on the Verge of Science: Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (seminar)
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This was a late-spring 2003 seminar.
What roles did women play in the transformation of knowledge and the development of new understandings of nature in the age of the Scientific Revolution? Traditional narratives of women's participation in early modern intellectual life have presented women as existing on the margins of intellectual communities in relative isolation from their male contemporaries and from each other. Research of the past fifteen years, however, has considerably complicated this standard account and made a wide variety of women's philosophical, scientific, and medical writing available to a modern audience. A body of scholarship has also documented women's role in the republic of letters as patrons, brokers, and scholars, and it has studied women's relationship with institutions of learning and culture, and as observers, translators, experimenters, and practitioners. Building on this scholarship, this seminar explored questions of gender in a scientific and medical context, looking at its place in medicine and natural history in the early modern period. It offered a close look at the writings of well-known figures such as Elizabeth of Bohemia, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Émilie du Châtelet, and Laura Bassi, and their engagement with new developments in natural philosophy in the age of Descartes, Locke, and Newton. It invited participants to contribute their own research on less well-studied figures in relationship to this emerging story. How and why did women contribute to intellectual debates? How might a closer look at their reasons for philosophizing and experimenting offer new perspectives on questions of knowledge at this time?
Director: Paula Findlen is Professor of History and Director of the History of Science and Technology Program at Stanford University. She is the author of the award-winning Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1994). She is currently at work on The Women Who Understood Newton: Laura Bassi and Her World.


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Women of ASA - Ellen Tom
By Lilly Platts. Editor's Note: This is the twelfth article in a series highlighting significant contributions of women in the Simmental industry.
Ellen Tom grew up in the AJSA program, and now runs her family's historic Tom Brothers ranch which has been in operation since 1857. Along with her uncle, Philip, Ellen was responsible for putting Simmental at the center of the program.
"I always tagged along with my dad whenever he went to work cattle since I was old enough to walk. He saw my interest in cattle and fostered it. He really taught me the reins of running the ranch and gave me projects to do on my own. I really appreciated that he took me along, and he never put gender boundaries on me, or told me things, like 'you can't do that because you're a girl'. I never had it in my head that it was something I couldn't do," Tom recalls.
She started in the AJSA at nine and went to 10 National Classics. Tom served on the AJSA Board of Trustees and was a high-point individual in the junior division. "I got interested because my Uncle Philip was also in AJSA, and he was the President. I wanted to follow in his footsteps and do the same thing."
Photo: Ellen Tom grew up in the AJSA and used the skills she learned to excel through her education and beyond.
The AJSA program gave her a leg up when she attended college. "I was recruited by the top advisors at Texas A&M because they knew of my Simmental involvement. They knew the kids who grow up in that program are more well-rounded, more well-spoken individuals because of the emphasis on leadership contests, and especially the public speaking contest."
At A&M, Tom studied Animal Science and was on the 2004 National Champion Meat Judging Team, and the Intercollegiate Meat Animal Evaluation team. She stayed in College Station to earn a master's degree in Agricultural Leadership and Development.
Returning to the ranch near Campbellton was never a question for Tom, and upon graduating she became the sixth generation to lead the ranching operation. Bringing Simmental to the forefront was a priority. "When my dad and my grandfather were running the ranch, it was primarily an Angus seedstock operation, and we dabbled in a little bit of Simmental. When Phillip and I came back, the cow herd was commercial and we had a decision to make — where we wanted to go from this point on. We decided we wanted to invest our time and money into SimGenetics and go from there."
"There was a niche to fill in our area, raising seedstock SimAngus™ and Simbrah bulls, so we thought that was going to be the best option for us. There was nostalgia tied to them from growing up in the junior program, and we already had network within the breed so it just made sense to do that. My grandfather experimented with Simmental back in the early '70s. He used Parisien and some of those other early bulls. Simmental has been a part of our ranch ever since then, but before we came back to the ranch, Angus was the primary focus."
Tom Brothers Ranch holds a longstanding reputation for raising quality seedstock, and with the breed change, loyal customers still stuck around. "We had some loyal customers from back in the Angus days who still wanted to buy bulls from us because of our family's reputation, so we had somewhat of a customer base to work with when we started out. Because of the lack of performance-tested SimGenetics bulls in the area, we've been able to also continue to develop our customer base."
Tom has represented the Simmental breed across a number of platforms and organizations, including as ASA's 2013 Young Cattlemen's Conference Representative, and at the 2010 World Simmental Conference in Australia. She also serves on the advisory council for the Texas A&M Animal Science Department, was an advisor for the Texas Junior Simmental-Simbrah Association for nine years, has been a speaker at the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, and hosts educational seminars and ranch tours with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.
Running a ranch is a major commitment, but Tom believes it is extremely important to have a presence in the industry as a young woman. "I think it's important to get more women involved. If you look at the leadership positions in our industry, or any industry for the most part, and it's male-dominated. We certainly need more women's voices out there, representing our industry and having our voices heard about the direction of where our industry should go."
"Because I'm a millennial I see some things differently than generations older than me. Maybe the beef industry doesn't present itself as well as it could, because we're steeped in that tradition of the all-American male cowboy. I think the industry needs to be showcasing more people of different ethnicities, women, younger people — I think that's kind of the shortfall of agriculture is our lack of diversity and I would like to see more diversity in leadership positions in agriculture."
Tom expresses that the community and focus on improvement through science and genetics are the things she values the most in the industry. In addition to her family, Tom points to Dr. Jerry Lipsey, Sally Buxkemper, and Dr. Chris Skaggs as people who have both influenced and supported her in the beef industry. "I value the friendships I've forged through the breed associations and the industry. On the 2010 World Simmental Congress trip, I traveled with Doug Bichler, and he's one of my best friends now. I talk to him almost every day. Other breeders I've met along the way are some of my best friends now, too. You live isolated in these rural areas, so now with texting and the internet, I have these friends across the country who I talk to every day who can relate to what I do, so it's fun having that community."
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The Canadian Automobile Association named Vancouver as having some of the worst bottlenecks for traffic Wednesday, but one North Shore city councillor says her region is dealing with equally bad big-city-style congestion, too.
Lisa Muri, a councillor with the District of North Vancouver, told CBC's The Early Edition the trouble began five years ago.
"We got to our summer season and the traffic didn't lighten up as it had always lightened up in previous years," she said.
The Ministry of Transportation did a study of the Second Narrows Bridge and found there was a 14 per cent increase in counterflow traffic.
The congestion is not just in the North-South direction between Vancouver and the North Shore, but in the East-West direction across the North Shore, she said.
Muri said residents have had to change how they live.
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Muri said a big reason for the increase is a development boom in the three major North Shore communities: the cities of West Vancouver and North Vancouver and her own district.
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In addition, there's been an increase in port activity and commercial business that's driving traffic.
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She said the Mountain Highway interchange is being improved to be more efficient and provide better flow — but also said it was five years away.
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"Our challenge is that we're sort of strapped up on the side of mountain, on the edge of the ocean, with rivers and creeks running through us," she said. "Our geography is not simple."
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In my time using this watch I've always found the BLE connectivity to be the largest sticking point in daily use. In previous iterations there were times where the watch simply would not be able to find the android device and thus wouldn't connect. It's a minor inconvenience in most cases but it also contributed to me using the watch less than I would otherwise for the very purposes it was intended to perform. I am not, nor would I ever dream to call myself a mobile developer. For the most part I'm just learning as I go when it comes to android and so there's usually improvements to be made with any of my apps. With that said this app does handle BLE in a more graceful and reliable fashion than the previous version.
The app itself looks a lot like the previous version, the data shown at the top is all of the information that is accessible from the smartwatch over BLE. The "grant notification permission" button still makes an appearance here, since for some reason I can't find a way to request that permission at the start of the app. There's also a "close BLE" button which shuts down Bluetooth on the device, there were some cases during the development where a scan was unable to be submitted and restarting Bluetooth was the only way to resolve it. I haven't observed that issue in a while but for the time being it's better to have the button than not.
The main advantage to this app over the previous one is in how it handles the BLE communication. Instead of taking a server role where the android app needs to constantly advertise itself it's able to instead scan for the ESP32 device then start a service. Once the initial connection is established the ESP32 will automatically reconnect to the app each time it comes out of sleep mode.
For the scanning I'm using the Nordic Semiconductor Android Scanner Compat Library which allows for intent-based background scanning. Once the device is found it starts the BLE service which handles communication with the smartwatch. This service is a foreground service which allows for the app to work better when the android device is in sleep mode, it may be possible to use a normal service, but I haven't experimented with that yet.
Once the foreground service is running, we can connect to the ESP32, discover its services, and get ready to begin the process of sending and receiving data. Commands are issued to the android app by the ESP32 setting its characteristic to a command string and then notifying the android device of the change. When this happens, the android device grabs the requested data (or performs the given action in the case of media controls) and replies by setting the characteristic.
The bulk of the data transmission happens in the center row of the above figure. The android device sets the data characteristic with a small portion of the requested data then waits for an acknowledgement from the ESP32. When the acknowledgement is received it writes the next portion of the data until the end is reached. At the end of the data transfer the android device reads the characteristic it was previously writing, the ESP32 interprets that read as the end of the transmission and takes the data it's received thus far as the completed message.
All the details don't necessarily matter as much as the end result though, and so far, this new app offers significantly more reliable connections than the previous app. The connection speed is also improved, but I believe that it can still be improved further. Either way this app has so far been a success and is a massive improvement over the previous one in terms of reliability, contributing to a more useable end-product.
The android app is available on my GitHub page (Here), which is also where you can find a compiled .apk file for this app under the "releases" tab of the repo. Thanks for reading and I'll see you in the next log!


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Theological reflection can be a great help in the process of discernment. The following quotation come from Sister Kathleen McAlpin, RSM, in Ministry That Transforms: A Contemplative Process of Theological Reflection (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press) 2009.
What is Theological Reflection?
"Theological reflection is a way of doing theology that starts from the experiences of life and leads to searching in faith, for deeper meaning, and for the living God. However, it is deciding how to live out of this reflective search that is the critical intention of the process of theological reflection.
Theological reflection places the reflector in conversation with other sources of the revelation of God, primarily the faith tradition of the person or community. The world context of the experience is also particularly revelatory of meaning and the living God. The faith tradition and spirituality of the reflector are additional significant sources revealing the experience of God. Critical conversation among the sources is a process by which clarification, differences, or insights mutually challenge and expand each other. From this deepened awareness of God's presence in the experience, decisions are made for more relevant and prophetic choices in ministry. Through this critical conversation the reflector is often challenged to a response of conversion of heart, mind, and action." (page 7)
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Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol has been in the midst of trade rumors for several seasons now, and he was on the brink of being traded last off-season. The Lakers won two consecutive titles with Gasol in 2009 and 2010, but his last two playoff performances made many fans frustrated.
Kobe Bryant was right alongside Gasol for those two rings and the teammates have developed great chemistry with each other. Even though Bryant has expressed his anger towards Gasol for his play, the Spaniard still has the support of the Lakers' superstar.
Kobe, answering a question from a Spanish reporter about Pau's status with the Lakers: "As long as I'm there, he's going to be there."
— Brian Mahoney (@briancmahoney) July 21, 2012
Bryant and Gasol developed an amazing duo when they first joined forces in Los Angeles, and they still can be very effective. Although Gasol had trouble adjusting to a system other than the Triangle offense, he can still play well under Mike Brown.
The Lakers also recently acquired Steve Nash, and he can surely make Gasol play more effectively with the new system. Thus, it is expected that Gasol will have another renaissance year in 2012-13. He and Bryant will be seeing a lot of each other this summer during the Olympics, and that will strengthen their bond even more.
Bryant likes nothing better than winning and when his teammates do their jobs. With Gasol and Nash running the pick-and-roll, Gasol will get easy buckets and Kobe will have to do less work. The Lakers were deadly when Gasol became an offensive threat, and Nash can make the Spaniard just that.


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If you're among the Resident viewers hoping for Mina Okafor and AJ Austin to dive into a relationship, you'll need an extra-large dose of patience when the show returns for Season 3.
Though viewers already know that AJ (aka the Raptor) is in love with his mentee — and Mina seems to have real feelings of her own, if her recent defense of velociraptors is any indication — the two doctors are not yet dating. And according to series co-creator Amy Holden Jones, romance won't be in the cards anytime soon.
"At the moment, a very close friendship is going to evolve more," Jones tells TVLine. "I see that friendship deepening a lot. It's not going to turn into a love relationship in Season 3."
Jones' hesitance to pair up Mina and the Raptor stems partly from the characters' working relationship: AJ is Mina's mentor at Chastain Park, and she is not yet an attending physician. To that end, Jones and the series' writers don't feel it's appropriate to put the characters together when Mina's residency is still in progress.
"She's still his mentee, and that's a #MeToo boundary that we couldn't cross," she reveals. "But I'm not sure that what you want to see isn't the very strong friendship between them. I'm not sure I want to see the love relationship between them. Friendship can be a very deep love."
Of course, Mina and AJ have already shown their loyalty to one another, particularly in the recent Season 2 finale (read our first post mortem Q&A with Jones here). While preparing to insert a pacemaker for Micah, Mina's ex-boyfriend, AJ learned that Micah had already moved on to a new girlfriend, and AJ passed that news along to Mina later in the episode.
"For what it's worth, you deserve better. Anybody who could replace you so quickly doesn't deserve you," the Raptor had told her. And Mina seemed to agree: At the end of the hour, she spotted Micah canoodling with his new woman, but she seemed unfazed and merely turned her attention to the lung biopsy she was about to perform with AJ.
"That's a really important moment to me," Jones shares. "In fact, in planning the final episode, that was the signature image that I had in my mind at the very start: the Raptor and Mina walking off to their work together — a solid team, leaving Micah behind."
She adds that Season 3 will find Mina "coming to realize the same thing [AJ] has: They put their work first, and the person they share the most with is the person who feels the same way and shares the work they share."


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Covid 19 has been the topic of discussion for approximately a year now. It all started somewhere in December 2019 and today we are in September 2020. As per the current statistics, even after 10 months of battling with Coronavirus, there is not going to be any relief from this deadly virus anytime soon.
This Covid 19 has affected so many individuals in so many ways, some of which are:
- It has claimed millions of lives.
- The people who get infected with this virus and who are able to recover from this virus have to go through a lot of side effects that this virus causes.
- This virus is not just dangerous from the medical aspect but also it has affected each and every industry financially.
- So many people have lost their source of income during this pandemic.
- The migrant workers have faced problems with their place of residence, food, and other basic necessities.
- The doctors, policemen, and so many other frontline workers haven't gotten any time for themselves and their families.
Now, looking at all these adverse effects of the novel coronavirus, you must have realised that it has been an eye opener for each and every human being in some way or the other. This virus has somehow forced us to reflect upon our behavior towards our peers and also towards our nature. We humans had gotten so busy with our lives that we became ignorant towards every other aspect. I think that this ignorance towards the importance of our nature and other humans has been a major reason why we haven't been able to fight with this virus till now.
They say that in order to get rid of the novel coronavirus people have to wear masks, maintain physical distance, take care of themselves and the people surrounding them. But our selfish and self indulgent nature has become visible specifically now. These days it has become common knowledge that people are behaving carelessly when it comes to safety, hygiene and social distancing. It is funny that to keep people safe and healthy governments have to impose fines on them. This shows that we only think about our comfort and nothing else.
Well however irresponsible the general public is, the doctors and governments are trying their level best to live up to the oath that they had taken when they joined these professions. They are working tirelessly every day to develop a vaccine for this fatal virus in the shortest time possible. Along with the vaccine, the government is also working on developing policies to help the people affected adversely from this virus.
But I think that our safety is and should be our responsibility. So it is important for the people to take proper precautions to keep them away from Coronavirus. We as individuals have to behave proactively in order to get back to the lives we had before this pandemic started.
One of the proactive actions that can contribute a lot towards the fight against Covid 19 is to get ourselves tested for this virus.
Nasal Swab Testing and Rapid Antibodies Tests are now easily available at many laboratories as a part of Covid 19 testing. These tests cover those who have visibly severe symptoms and also those who have recovered from this virus or are asymptomatic. If more and more people take these tests only then we all would be able to get the exact count of the people affected by this virus, which is extremely important.
Covid 19 testing Santa Monica is one of the laboratories that is working day and night to provide the most accurate results, probably within a day. They are also aware that the people are more or less afraid of this virus because of all the uncertainty that surrounds it, which is why they are even more cautious and are taking good care of sanitisation of labs as well as the hygiene and health of the staff working there.
Now when all the medical field workers are doing so much and going through so many difficulties just to serve the people and keep them safe then it wouldn't be wrong to demand patience and support from the public. Let's just behave as responsible individuals or rather as selfish people this time and prioritize the health of our loved ones and ourselves above anything else. Probably this selfishness would be the sword that would kill this virus completely. So let's play our role in this war and hope for the best.


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Coronavirus has significantly altered how many Americans conduct themselves in everyday life. More and more people are working from home if they can; others are wearing face masks and face shields when they go out in public.
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Social distancing, steering clear of large gatherings, and upping sanitation are additional safety measures being taken. Some Americans are eager to get back to normal, while others believe that everyone should embrace a "new normal" due to COVID-19.
Now, new developments from Breitbart News show that the nation is largely divided on whether or not we should all get back to business as usual.
Where Do Americans Stand on Getting Back to Normal?
At this time, merely 35% of Americans are interested in returning to life as it was before coronavirus. Of this 35%, 20% stated that they felt "somewhat comfortable" with getting back to normal; 15% described themselves as "very comfortable" with returning to their routine way of life.
About One-Third of Public Comfortable Returning to 'Normal Routine' — Roughly the Same Figure Since May https://t.co/0RixPqDTXH via @jpiacenza pic.twitter.com/I5jptXunsw
— Morning Consult (@MorningConsult) July 9, 2020
On the flip side, 59% of polled individuals noted feelings of discomfort with getting back to normal. Of the 59%, 32% classified themselves as "very uncomfortable" with returning to business as usual, while 27% of people feel "somewhat uncomfortable."
A fear of getting back to normal appears consistent across different generations of people. Baby Boomers are most uncomfortable as a collective, followed by Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Z.
What Does This Mean for Reopening America?
Different areas across the nation are taking various measures to reopen and re-engage.
Certain states like California, Texas, and Michigan are dialing things back and ordering residents to wear masks, amid new reports of COVID-19 increases. Other states like Florida and Georgia remain committed to reopening and are leaving face masks as voluntary options.
I don't care what's on your mask. I just care that it's on your face. 🤷🏻♀ https://t.co/MezW4XBagg
— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) July 10, 2020
People who feel eager to get out and about are doing so in places that they can. Many individuals who disagree with shutting back down are bringing lawsuits and protests against leaders who are implementing these types of measures.
Americans who disagree with getting back to normal are under no obligation to change their minds. However, many people who do want a return to their regular lives are taking swift action to ensure that this happens.
At this time, how comfortable do you presently feel about getting back to normal? What do you think of this talk about a "new normal?" Let us know where you stand down below in the comments section.


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In my lifetime, the island nation of Jamaica, which gained its independence from Great Britain in 1962, has been one of the world's most cannabis-friendly nations, both for locals and for tourists. While technically marijuana, or ganja as they call it in Jamaica, was until recently illegal, in fact marijuana and marijuana smoking was largely ignored by authorities, and one could not get through the airport at either Negril or Kingston without being offered marijuana by several local entrepreneurs, competing for your business.
I know because I accepted the hospitality of these "Welcome Wagon" connections on a couple of occasions, and found the product to be excellent, and the cost was a bargain, at least compared to high-quality home-grown marijuana in the US.
And, of course, Jamaica is home to the Rastafarians, a fascinating and colorful (frequent use of red, yellow and green stripes in their hats and other clothing, the colors from the Ethiopian flag) religion that was started in Jamaica in the 1930s by descendants of African slaves, that celebrates the spiritual use of cannabis and is practiced by an estimated 1,000,000 adherents world-wide.
For many Americans, their first awareness of Jamaica may well have been cultural, when they first heard Bob Marley, a Rastafari musician, songwriter and singer who introduced reggae music and dreadlocks to the world, openly preached the benefits of marijuana smoking, and who became enormously popular in the U.S. and around the world, selling more than 75 million albums. Similarly, Peter Tosh, another reggae music star who first performed with Marley as part of the Wailers, before becoming a successful solo artist (who could ever forget his 1976 "Legalize It" anthem), popularized Rastafarianism, and advocated for marijuana legalization.
Sadly, Marley died of melanoma in 1981 at the age of 36, but his influence and reputation continue to fascinate, even today. The Marley family earlier this year announced that, in conjunction with the Privateer Holding Company from the U.S., they will be offering a new global cannabis brand to be called Marley Natural, featuring "heirloom Jamaican cannabis strains inspired by those Bob Marley enjoyed." And President Obama, in a state visit to Jamaica in February, made an unscheduled stop at the Bob Marley museum. Obama had earlier, in an interview with MTV, discussed the influence Marley had on him during his youth.
I traveled to Jamaica on two occasions during the 1990s to work with Jamaica NORML to move proposed legalization proposals forward through their parliament. On both occasions, despite a clear majority of legislators wishing to officially legalize ganja, senior government officials became convinced the U.S. would punish Jamaica were it to legalize marijuana, by cutting important aid programs, and the legalization drive was stopped dead in its tracks. They wanted to legalize ganja, but they needed our foreign aid, and the U.S. was more than happy at that time to use the leverage of our aid programs to dismantle their ganja reform efforts.
But all of that leverage ended once states in the U.S. began to push forward with marijuana legalization, without sanctions or punitive responses from the federal government. Seeing that legalization was no longer verboten within the U.S., the Jamaicans realized they now had the freedom to determine their own domestic marijuana policy without fear of U.S. economic retribution.
Jamaica Decriminalizes Marijuana
In late February of this year, the Jamaican Parliament enacted new laws governing ganja, which took effect on July 15, removing criminal penalties for possession of up to two ounces of marijuana, substituting a $5 civil fine with no arrest or criminal record. In addition, households will be permitted to cultivate up to five marijuana plants. The legislation also authorized officials to enact regulations licensing the cultivation and dispensing of medical and industrial cannabis, as well as the right of the Rastafarians to use ganja as a religious sacrament.
While the Parliament has not yet authorized regulations to license commercial growers and recreational dispensaries, most observers expect that will come in the near future. Already they have invited U.S. marijuana tourism by announcing that those from the U.S. who hold medical recommendations will also qualify to obtain up to 2 ounces of medical ganja while they are in Jamaica. Justice Minister Mark Golding described the reforms as "long overdue."
And to appropriately celebrate the addition of Jamaica to the growing list of countries that have decriminalized the use of marijuana, High Times recently announced they will be holding a World Cannabis Cup in Negril this year, on Nov. 12–15. Now that's an occasion I would not want to miss.
Yeah, mon! See you in Negril.


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If You Want to Learn to Knit, Don't Start with a Scarf
Years ago, perusing a craft fair in Brooklyn with a friend, I looked at a knitted headband with an attached flower and said, "I could make that." My friend agreed. The only problem was that I didn't know how to knit.
On a whim, we walked to the yarn store across the street from the playground where I took my son. I'd never been inside, but now I asked the proprietor to teach me to knit. She got me set up with yarn, needles, and a few simple techniques, and suggested a website I could visit if I got stuck.
I think she was surprised when I returned the next week, having mastered the knit stitch and taught myself the purl stitch. But all I'd done was take her advice and invested some time in practicing. She helped me find a more challenging project, and nine years later, I'm still learning and loving this timeless craft.
First things first
There are a couple of things you need to know about knitting. First, knitting is a craft that uses two needles and creates stitches that are either columns of "v"s or bumps or a combination of the two. Crocheting is a craft done with just one hook, and the resulting stitches tend to be rounder. Either craft can be used to create sweaters, blankets, accessories (like that headband that I did end up making), stuffed toys, and more.
Second, knitting can be as expensive a craft as you let it be. Acrylic yarn can be purchased from stores like Michaels for just a couple of dollars, while fancier fibers (wool, cashmere, linen) can run to over a hundred dollars per project. There's also a range in price and durability of needles.
In most cases, you get what you pay for. I wouldn't recommend starting with mohair, but more luxurious yarns do create better drape and fabrics that will feel softer against your skin. Also consider that your purchase yields not only the finished project, but also hours of entertainment, stress release, and intellectual stimulation (and, okay, sometimes frustration as well).
Don't start with a scarf
It's a good idea to get the hang of moving the yarn on a swatch, or square of fabric created to gauge the size of your stitches with a particular yarn-needle combination. But please, please don't let your first project be a scarf. Scarves are long and repetitive and can get boring pretty quickly.
Consider instead starting with a hat, either for yourself or for a baby or child. With a hat, you can learn basic stitches, as well as how to decrease the size of your fabric and more quickly come to the end of a project. Even if you make some mistakes, it is better to have a finished project in hand than a strip of fabric that feels like it will never end!
Almost a decade into knitting, I still look forward to learning a new skill or technique when I start a new project. There are basically only two stitches in knitting (the knit stitch, where you pull the yarn through from behind, and the purl stitch, where you pull the yarn through from the front), but these can be combined and manipulated in myriad ways to create zig zags, stripes, lace, cables, and more.
The earlier you get instruction, the better
After that impromptu lesson at the yarn store, I took advantage of an offer at another shop, where I learned I was twisting my purl stitch. It's something I might have eventually figured out on my own, but guidance from a more experienced set of eyes helped me continue to gain confidence and try new things. The beauty of knitting is that you can always rip out your mistakes and try again (knitters call this "frogging"—"rip out" is nearly "ribbit"; isn't the lingo fun?).
If you're not able to go into a store for instruction, many are now offering virtual lessons. For recorded videos, I recommend KnittingHelp.com (the first site I used) and the blog at Purl Soho.
This isn't your grandma's knitting
New patterns are released every day in the world of knitting. Patterns are available in books (check out your local library), at yarn manufacturer websites, and on blogs. Basically every pattern on the internet also has a home at Ravelry, a social media site for fiber artists.
As you search what's available, look for a designer whose style suits yours. On Ravelry, you can see how other people used a pattern and what their finished objects (FOs) look like. This real-life point of view means a lower likelihood of a Pinterest-fail-type result, plus you can see other color combinations come to life and interact with other artists.
Knitting is better with a friend
My last piece of advice is to find a friend to learn with. It could be someone you know from work or someone you meet at a lesson at your local yarn store (LYS, for those in the know). This is the person with whom you'll share pattern ideas, text progress updates, and get excited with when you finish a new project.
Knitting is a way to celebrate life—think knitting wedding gifts or baby shower presents—and to decompress from stressful situations. When learned properly, it's a skill that lasts a lifetime and can create thoughtful items that last even longer.