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Saddam Hussein Executed by Maliki Government ‘Thugs’

The New Year has brought little good news from Iraq, with 3,000 US troops now confirmed dead and the execution of Saddam Hussein severely undermining confidence in Iraq’s Maliki government.

Mr Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death in November for crimes against humanity relating to the slaughter of 148 men and teenage boys in the Shiite town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, in 1982.

John Burns of The New York Times attended Mr Hussein’s trial, which he said was “one of the fairest ever conducted in the Middle East”. Yet he said the manner in which the execution was carried out has heightened fears that the Maliki government is little more than a pack of “bullying street thugs”.

In video footage believed to have been taken with a mobile phone, Mr Hussein cuts a calm and dignified figure amid the sounds of shouting and taunting that befit a mob lynching. With the noose sitting around his neck, Mr Hussein attempts to pray despite a jeering crowd of men chanting “Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada” and screaming “Go to hell!”. A relatively composed Mr Hussein hits back, “The hell that is Iraq?” Another man pleads with the mob: “Please don’t, the man is facing death. Please don’t. I beg you, no!” As Mr Hussein resumes his attempt to pray, the trap doors fly open with a thunderous clatter as he falls to his death.

The interruption of final prayers represents a particularly shocking affront, and this has caused deep offence in Sunni communities throughout Iraq and the Arab world.

Apart from the raucous behavior and the indignities permitted in the execution chamber, the conduct of the Maliki government in the lead up to Mr Hussein’s execution has drawn sharp criticism for its constitutional failures and conspicuous sectarian insensitivities.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki personally rushed the execution forward, despite concerns that the appeal process had been little more than a sham which took less than three weeks. Mr Hussein was also denied visits by his daughter and given only two hours’ notice of his execution, which had previously been scheduled for some time after January 10.

Moreover, the execution took place at 6:10 am on Saturday morning in Baghdad, contravening an Iraqi law that forbids executions during the religious festival of Eid al-Adha which began on Saturday for Sunnis and on Sunday for Shiites. Thus, the timing of the execution levelled a devastating insult at Iraq’s Sunni population while upholding the sanctity of the holy festival for Shiites.

Iraqi Kurds are also disappointed that Mr Hussein was never tried for killing 5,000 Kurds in the late 1980’s using chemical weapons. They feel that their grievances were brushed aside by the Maliki government and that the execution became a gruesome spectacle of Shiite revenge.

US and UK officials are privately dismayed at the destructive behavior of the Maliki government but are reluctant to publicly reprimand the Prime Minister for fear of further undermining confidence in his leadership.

Yet the inflammatory and divisive conduct of the Maliki government has grave implications for the US-led occupation and eventual withdrawal from Iraq. Clearly, a government that recklessly inflames sectarian tensions will only obstruct the paramount goal of national reconciliation.

In the course of Saddam Hussein’s execution, Prime Minister Maliki demonstrated contempt for Iraqi law and due process, and failed to respect the sensibilities of the country’s diverse population. Yet Mr Maliki seems oblivious to these concerns.

There are now growing doubts that Mr Maliki possesses the character required of a democratic head of state – never mind the exemplary, visionary qualities it will take to unite and lead a bitterly divided Iraq toward political stability and lasting peace.

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Maliki Orders US to Halt Construction of Baghdad Wall

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered the US military in Baghdad to stop construction of a controversial wall being built around the Sunni area of Adhamiya.

“I oppose the building of the wall and its construction will stop,” Mr al-Maliki told reporters in Cairo on Sunday during a joint news conference with the secretary-general of the Arab League. “There are other methods to protect neighborhoods, but I should point out that the goal was not to separate, but to protect.”

He added that “this wall reminds us of other walls that we reject, so I’ve ordered it to stop and to find other means of protection for the neighborhoods.” Mr al-Maliki did not elaborate on this statement, yet it is believed to be a reference to the West Bank wall which separates Israelis from Palestinians.

The Adhamiya wall has caused outrage in Baghdad, with the US accused of commencing construction without consulting the local community. Residents of Adhamiya are expected to hold a major protest on Monday.

Opponents say the wall – intended to separate Sunni and Shia communities in an effort to quell sectarian violence – will only serve to further entrench the bitter sectarian divisions within Iraqi society.

Many view the wall as the surest sign yet that President Bush’s troop surge has failed to restore order in Iraq. Abu Moamer, a Sunni professor of international relations, told The Times that the wall plan “reflects the failure of the American and Iraqi governments and [their] inability to restore lost security and to establish the rule of law on the streets. Instead of one mixed Iraqi society, it will be two societies, Shia and Sunni.”

The wall strategy has also fuelled fears that Iraq is in the process of being partitioned along sectarian lines. “The government had a hand in the sectarian conflict from the start. I used to think the US was stupid, but now I see that it was a plan to divide first Baghdad, then Iraq,” said Ali Naim, an engineer who lives in Adhamiya.

Local residents fear the district will be turned into a virtual prison. Checkpoints would control who enters and leaves the area, and one local resident fumed that “we will spend half the day leaving and the other half coming back in”.

The US military and Iraqi forces have already built a number of cement walls around marketplaces in Baghdad as well as around towns such as Samarra, Fallujah and Tel Afar in an attempt to prevent attacks. Brief periods of reduced violence were followed by the inevitable return of deadly attacks. Residents have also come to deeply resent the restriction on their movements, and the need to have their fingerprints taken and their retinas scanned whenever they are allowed to enter and leave the towns.

Given the level of outrage in Adhamiya, the US may find itself with little choice but to heed Mr Maliki’s demand and halt construction of the wall. US military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver would not be drawn on this directly, but told the Associated Press, “We will coordinate with the Iraqi government and Iraqi commanders in order to establish effective, appropriate security measures.”

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About Elder Pratt

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How do you sum him up?  He is all things goofy but also the most kind and loving person you will ever meet.  He would do anything for a friend or his family.  He is an Arizona mountain boy (born and raised in Show Low).  He loves trucks and guns…really any weapon!

Washington Federal Way Mission

The mission was established in 2013 and is located on the bay between Tacoma and Seattle.  Mount Rainier is in his mission (something Trevor is REALLY excited about). His mission area covers 8 stakes.

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Welcome to America's first magazine about electric bikes

Using electric bikes to help win motorcycle races

Way back in the early 1970s a former racer turned race promoter named Dave Coombs decided to start the mother of all motorcycle races on the rugged terrain in the beautiful countryside of Davis, West Virginia. It was to be the toughest race that only the best riders and machines could finish, a 100-mile race called the Blackwater 100. The race became known as America’s toughest race and drew off-road riders from all over the country bent on proving their mettle.

The race expanded into a series known then as the Wiseco 100 Miler Series, now known as the Grand National Cross-Country series, or GNCC for short. When three-wheeler ATVs and eventually four-wheelers, were added, the track distances were pared down from 100 miles to between 9–20 miles. Suddenly, the marathon torture-fests were reduced to roughly two-hour races for ATVs and three-hour races for the bikes, and, as a result, the series soared in popularity.

In the late 1980s, ATV safety concerns scared off racers and manufacturers from the races. Only a few ATV racers stayed in the game, racing machines mostly put together from aftermarket parts since the manufacturers pulled out of sponsorship. This gave rise to stronger, faster machines and a growing aftermarket. Pennsylvanian ATV superstar Barry Hawk was dominant in this era, racking up seven straight GNCC ATV championships from 1993 to 1999, and even raced and won the motorcycle title in 2003. He remains the only racer to have won a championship in both ATV and motorcycles in the GNCC.

Hawk has retired from racing, but took the job as manager of the Coastal Racing team in 2015. He makes sure that his team has everything they need and every advantage they can have to be successful. One of the necessary tasks each rider has is to survey the track as best they can. Pro racers are only allowed access to the track the day of the race, and amateurs are allowed to recon the day before. Nobody is allowed to use motorized vehicles, so they used to have to go on foot to survey the course. Eventually, about 20 years ago, mountain bikes that were rugged enough to handle the courses became popular. However, mountain biking a 20-mile racecourse right before the race is exhausting, so racers were usually only able to check parts of the course. Still, part of a course is much better than none at all.

A few years ago Barry had a chance to ride his first electric bike, a Polaris. He was impressed, but didn’t think that much of it. Shortly after that he happened to drop by our office and talked to Karel Kramer, who was at the time editor of Electric Bike Action. Kramer let him try a Haibike with a Yamaha mid-drive. That changed everything. He said, “This would be so sick to have for our tracks and our events, because you can cover so much more ground and use not nearly the amount of energy as a regular mountain bike!”

Hawk then contacted Ken Miner at Haibike and talked about their GNCC program. Since the team already has connections with Yamaha, it was a natural fit to outfit the team with a full set of Haibike mountain bikes to survey the track. Having been a part of the GNCC staff at one time, Hawk reached out to the management to clarify whether pedal-assist electric bikes fell outside of the “motorized vehicle” part of the race bylaws.

Since Coastal Racing was drawing a lot of attention with the electric bikes, a lot of the other teams were curious as well for obvious reasons. Not only did they want to ensure one team wouldn’t have an advantage, but they all wanted to be able to use electric bikes as well. The GNCC rewrote the rule specifically to allow Class 1 electric bikes to survey the course.

With that cleared up, other teams started to jump on the e-bike bandwagon.

Now the team can survey much more of the track without the fatigue, and support members can get to racers quickly during the race if needed, or family members can get from place to place to watch racers in different sections of the track. The e-bikes are always clean and shiny and up in the front of their area, often getting more looks and questions than the team’s gas-fueled race machines.

Hawk makes sure the bikes are fully charged and ready to rock the day of the race. Racers can usually see most or all of the average 10–12-mile course on the bikes. The one thing he has heard is that because the bikes can easily go much faster than a normal mountain bike, the guys can miss some details and some lines in some spots around the track. They might miss two to three better lines in the course of the track, but the advantage is in being able to see the entire track. Hawk expects that this is better than the four to five lines you would likely miss on foot or a mountain bike because you don’t get to see the entire track.

At least one racer has voiced a complaint against the e-bikes, saying that they are a luxury item that many privateers can’t afford. Hawk retorted that it was a similar argument he had 20 years ago when people started using mountain bikes, that the less-affluent racers couldn’t afford them. Yet somehow, most everyone found a way, and that’s the same thing now. Technology keeps advancing, and this is the best tool they have to get the most out of their team’s efforts.

Back at home Barry’s 12-year-old son has put over 300 miles on the bikes over the summer break. He loves to jump it on small jumps in the yard, as well as just cruise around on it. Hawk estimates that his son, who is a very active kid anyway, hasn’t put five miles on his regular bike, but on the electric bike, he rarely comes inside until after it has turned dark!

The family also takes the bikes around to various events, and they’re proud of them and like to show them off, as well as share them. The family and the race team have turned into huge ambassadors for electric bikes. Hawk admits that he often takes bikes to places to show them off, and he loves getting others interested in electric bikes. He’s sold several friends on the bikes, though most of them have bought various other brands because there’s no Haibike dealer in their area of Pennsylvania.

Hawk and his Coastal Racing team have brought awareness and all the utility and fun that come with it to the GNCC racing community. To them, motors and bikes go together like, well, motors and bikes!

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Over the summer we’ve been asked to explore the theme of ‘collections’ documenting each of the following five:

1. A collection you have visited in person
My friend’s dad collects old milk bottles. There’s a room beside their kitchen where they’re all kept, lining the shelves from wall to ceiling with even more flowing from crates on and underneath the table. Most come from Wales but some from London where it was discovered the family’s ancestors used to be milkmen. Most date from around the 1930s but some date as far back as he 1880s, the older ones having wider necks. Here the collecting is an action, an ongoing process, collecting for fun.

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2. An historical collection
I visited Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-trent where they produce slipcast Burleigh ware. There they keep a collection of all the old plaster moulds the factory has used over the years and new designs are often inspired by this collection. It describes how tastes in ceramics have changed over the years from the flowery, intricate complex vessels of the past to the simple and sleek modern ones of today.
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3. An artist who references collections in their creative practice
I travelled down to visit my flatmate in Eastbourne over the holiday and she took me to visit the Towner Art Gallery where I found this unusual collection of discarded dogballs collected by Jo Coles, a Brighton based artist. Here is the statement from her website ( : I walk and I collect. I connect with a place through the objects people leave behind. I use these small details from human life to evidence living history. I save these objects for posterity before they disappear into the ground or are collected by street cleaners and whisked away into landfill. I’ve created order by imposing a system of collecting on these seemingly random pieces of rubbish.
Coles’s collections describe our ‘throw-away’ culture, elevating the everyday to intriguing works of art.

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4) An unconventional collection
I came across this creepy collection of mannequin limbs and torsos in a field recently while working at a music festival. The theme of the festival was surrealism so I suppose that’s enough of an explanation for them to be there. It’s an interesting collection symbolically though, in an art gallery context it might be interpreted as a kind of anti- war protest with references to the horrors of concentration camps. Plastic bodies suggest that human lives are as disposable as mass produced goods.

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5) A collection you have encountered in your own home
This collection of junk sits underneath our bungalow, most of it only kept because of its sentimental value. It includes the dolls house dad built for me, the threadbare mustard yellow chair that used to be my granddad’s, random books, CDs, children’s toys and golf clubs that are unlikely ever to be used. It’s a pile of things that don’t really belong anywhere else in the house but to an outsider might communicate lots about the type of people we are. It’s a personal collection that wouldn’t have any resonance with people outside my immediate family and yet you’re likely to find a similar collection of ‘homeless’ objects in any house.

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Middleport Pottery

On Wednesday I travelled to Stoke-on-Trent to visit Middleport Pottery, home of the famous Burleigh-ware, named after the partners Burgess and Leigh who took over the pottery in 1862. The site the pottery is on lends much to its success – situated beside the canal, it was easy to import raw materials as well as export the finished pieces from the factory to market. However, the main reason for its success was that this was the first pottery that had a production line from start to finish in the same building.  The raw clay came into the factory one end and finished, glazed and boxed ceramics came out the other.
The company specialised in earthenware tableware, using a white clay body that included china clay from Cornwall and Ball clay from Devon. This way, if the wares chipped they would be white inside unlike white tin-glazed pots, which when chipped would show the brown underneath.
Although only one bottle kiln survives today, the original pottery had seven until a clean air act was passed and meant they had to be demolished. Because the firings used coal, the pots were protected in saggars – large fireclay containers. Nowadays the factory uses cave sized gas kilns.

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Old photographs of the factory workers at Middleport
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Filter press

Clay used to be processed using an industrial filter press which can be found in the slip reclaim room. Today the clay is brought in pre-prepared and fed through a pug mill to the correct size. Wooden canals from the casting rooms above run through the ceiling back into the blungers that are kept constantly whirring, moving the slip beneath the floor so it doesn’t coagulate in the tank underground. Originally, children would have been employed to do this job, keeping the clay particles in suspension by stirring the slip. The slip’s viscosity would have been tested by dipping your arm into the liquid clay, now samples are tested with a more scientific method – a viscometer. All greenware clay is reclaimed and any discarded fired pieces are broken up and sold for filling potholes.

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Greenware ready to be fettled and sponged

Making a teapot on the wheel is still something I’ve never attempted but I’ve learnt a bit about the difficulty of getting one that pours just right. These Burleigh ones have tiny holes in their lids and holes where the spout is attached inside so that they only pour liquid out as fast as air is sucked in, which stops them glugging.

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Cups are PVA’d together at the rims before firing to create a vacuum that prevents warping
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Inside the gas kiln for glaze firing
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The saggar maker’s bottom knocker. This heavy ( I can vouch for that) wooden mallet or ‘mawl’ was used to knock the clay into this iron hoop to make the base of the saggar. A long slab of clay would be wrapped around a wooden mould to form the sides.
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Men who were in charge of firing the kiln (a big responsibility) were called firemen. They would have used Bullers rings like this one to measure time and temperature combined. To see when the kiln should be opened they would measure the shrinkage of the rings in a pyrometer gauge.
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Inside the original bottle kiln is another cylindrical tower in which the saggars would have been stacked.

Having had experience of slipcasting myself I was familiar with the technique but it was still fascinating to see it being done on such a large scale. Even though most things are done by hand, just like a production line in a factory, everyone has a specialised job, be it making the plaster moulds themselves, fettling and sponging the casts, applying paper transfers or packing and unloading the kiln. Even today, most of the mould-making and casting work is done by men while the majority of decorating and applying transfers is done by women. It helps to have small hands!
The original shapes that moulds are made form are turned on a plaster lathe. Plates are made in seconds using a jigger – discs of clay are cut to uniform width continuously on a cutting machine, they’re then spun into flat discs on one mechanical wheel, slapped onto a plaster mould and trimmed in another machine, then placed on a rotating drying rack. The most difficult job seems to be applying the transfer paper for the surface patterns. Once the paper has been attached with soft soap it can’t be moved again because the ink starts to seep in.
It’s a very different way of producing ceramics to what I’m used to seeing with studio potters, and although I wouldn’t argue making things in this way requires great skill on behalf of the individuals involved, I don’t know if I’d be happy working on designs I didn’t create myself. I think I’d rather have understanding and experience of all different stages of the process.

One thing that struck me was how as you move through the factory, each room has a unique smell, usually earthy mixed with the smell of an old building, heavy, industrial machinery and soot. Interestingly the brightly coloured Poole pottery is also produced in Middleport, the opposite end to the country!


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Unity Care Northwest Appointment Of „Lucas“

It may be asked, why don’t I just avoid the future mestizin Armand junk of Lucas, to which; the response is the situation is unavoidable, if I did cancel my appointment with Lucas, another similar situation will occur at a later time, and Jehovah God is teaching me the future Anti Christ by his current day children of the Armands and now I now the Mestizin junk of its will teach me another attribute of the future Anti Christ and I know Jehovah God will protect me from the Mestizin Armand because Jehovah God has always protected me

Friday the 2nd of December, I have an appointment with a „counselor“ designated as „Lucas.“In two days, is the Christian holiday of Thanksgiving. I do know I will only have one appointment with „Lucas“ because of the stupidity of the non mankind inferior degenerate hermphrodite of not comprehending the Anglo Saxon Language, plus anti heterosexualism discrimination based on anti white racism; especially since, I do know Unity Care Northwest does has anti heterosexual based discrimination of what I witnessed during my appointment yesterday and I wrote a post of all the stupidity of the insanity of cultural ideas Unity Care Northwest has for „sexualism,“ in addition of Unity Care Northwest of being very stubbornly insisting on the „employees“ usage of both the American dialect and the Mestizin dialect. The commercialism of the Mestizin dialect is very strange, even in Seattle, which is one the world’s major cities, probably ties with London United Kingdom of being a city of world importance. Compared to Seattle; Bellingham is a city but to consider to such an influence Seattle has, thus, the commercialism of the Mestizin culture is much considerably out of porportion to the few mestizin of population, here at the Pacific Northwest. Even though the Pacific Northwest doesn’t have local earthquakes but global large earthquakes are felt constantly, It would make more sense of a culture of „earthquakism“ than the commercialism of the Mestizin culture! I only wanted a therapist to talk to because even though I hate the non mankind inferior degenerate hermphrodite, I do become very lonely and at the rare instances during a somewhat normal conversation, I sensed a end of the loneliness and I become cheerful for a short while. I do know „Lucas“ will advertise unknown sadomaschmism against me because Jehovah God is being strict in giving me warnings such as last week’s mestizin activities of the religious law junk, the precedence of the Armand mestizin of yesterday and today, to where Jehovah God is warning me of some sort of Armand ideology based discrimination against me, by „Lucas.“


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Evaluating & Ranking The 2016 New York Jets Weaponry

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Despite the quarterback position remaining an uncertainty at mandatory minicamp, the New York Jets have some serious weaponry on offense.

Welcome to the brand spanking new National Football League ladies and gentlemen.

The place for which running is optional and shotguns are the norm. The place that allows quarterbacks to throw in any situation and to anybody on the field.

Well, perhaps the word “anybody” is a bit of a stretch. Those big fat heavies who make up five of the 11 on the offensive side of the ball only dream of crossing that end-zone after picking up a fumbled ball or somehow miraculously catching a tipped pass.

“Anybody” refers to the weapons.

No longer do these weapons only include certain guys. The tight-end is an entirely different position than when Brent Jones was leading the pass-catching way for tight-ends over two decades ago. The fullback position, while still existent, is barely hanging on by a thread but comes in many forms.

Weapons from an offensive perspective in the NFL these days are defined as anybody and everybody on the offense who doesn’t play offensive line or quarterback.

With that in mind, we take a look at what’s currently happening in Florham Park, NJ. And with a new starting quarterback currently leading the charge – Geno Smith – things could be quite different for these weapons.

Here’s how the New York Jets offensive weaponry breaks down for 2016:

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Learning to snowboard

Where you live can have a big impact on the kind of activities that you can do to stay active. Having been born on an island, I always had access to water sports and all kinds of beach related activities. However, there was something that I always wanted to try out: snowboarding.

I had some experience skiing during various travel trips, but it wasn’t until the winter of 2009 that I had my first snowboarding lesson in Taos, NM. I have to say, I wasn’t very good at it. I had good balance but I wasn’t mastering the turns.  In snowboarding you must master the basic turns (heelside, toeside) independently before linking the turns in order to go down a slope. I fell so many times that I ended up with a bruised tailbone (ouch!). Read the rest of this entry


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Settle? Huh not me

I have a few feeds on my Facebook page of eye candy for women, yeah so what, it’s all in fun and men do it so why shouldn’t women? But a comment caught my eye under one picture of a particularly hunky guy, the woman wrote: I would love a guy like this but had to settle with what I got?? Why the hell should anyone settle if it’s not what they really want? OK so she might not be in the league of one of these guys and it may be a cliche but a lot of the male models are gay (shoot me for stereotyping) but they are. But come on, settle?

I may have settled for way too many years but in the end I saw the light and got out, and yes my love life has been somewhat rocky since. I jump in and see hearts and roses way too quickly and yeah I get burned, but the ride was worth it, maybe I’m some kind of love junkie ( a bit like an adrenaline junkie) perhaps that feeling of euphoria is the same. I suppose it all has to do with endorphin’s in the end. Anyway, whatever it is that pulls me into yet another disastrous relationship at least I don’t and will never just settle! I want it all and by god I intend to get it even if it kills me. Perhaps that’s why I write romance novels, I’m hoping I can write my romantic lead out of the book and into my arms….well a girl can dream can’t she?

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What do you say when you don’t know what to say

What do you say when you have no idea of what to say? There are those times when words even when spoken to bring comfort can cause more pain. Your words were kind and compassionate but they still hurt, not because of you, or because the person you are speaking to is too sensitive. It is just that what they are going through is so painful words are useless. Sometimes silence brings more comfort than words. Silent tears, and quiet hugs without a spoken word can at times bring more comfort than all the perfectly spoken words. Your presence can be all they need. Quietly handing them a tissue, or just a glass of water or even a sandwich without being asked can let them know you are there for them. Pray for them hold their hand, and just sit quietly by their side. If they speak just listen and do not interrupt them. Let them be and love them as they are. When they are ready because you have been there, they will open up and come to you. Till then all they need is you.

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Definition of church collection in US English:

church collection

  • 1A collection of documents or other items belonging to a church.

  • 2An instance of collecting money from the congregation of a church for charitable or missionary work, church expenses, etc.

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in John Weever (d. 1632), poet and antiquary.


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Definition of pro-lifer in US English:

  • See pro-life

    • ‘The big question is whether Bush, a pro-lifer himself, is secure enough with social conservatives to take this risk.’
    • ‘He alarmed pro-choice activists by stating that the Democratic Party needed to be more ‘inclusive’ of pro-lifers.’
    • ‘One of the perennial issues among pro-lifers is whether one is justified in promoting some legal restrictions on abortion that are short of the types of laws that pro-lifers would like to see.’
    • ‘Soon after, my friend received a call from someone he knew at one of the choice groups, expressing their displeasure because the attorney general had appointed a good lawyer to represent the pro-lifers.’
    • ‘While the pro-choice movement has strongly opposed the Bush administration, pro-lifers are somewhat divided over the degree of support they are likely to receive from the president.’


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Route 41 Route 43

Route 42 is a highway in central Missouri. Its eastern terminus is at Route 28 south of Belle; its western terminus is at U.S. Route 54 in Osage Beach. It shares its western terminus with Route 134.


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Dead in his Prime

All his life he was a victim of asthma. The first definite attack was in the autumn of 1894, and the following winter it recurred with persistence. For the next five years his letters abound in references to the malady. After coming to Montreal it subsided; but he always felt that the enemy was around the corner. He had frequent periods in bed; but he enjoyed the relief from work and the occasion they afforded for rest and reading.

In January, 1918, minutes begin to appear upon his official file which were of great interest to him, and to us. Colonel Birkett had relinquished command of the unit to resume his duties as Dean of the Medical Faculty of McGill University. He was succeeded by that veteran soldier, Colonel J. M. Elder, C.M.G. At the same time the command of No. 1 General Hospital fell vacant. Lieut.-Colonel McCrae was required for that post; but a higher honour was in store, namely the place of Consultant to the British Armies in the Field. All these events, and the final great event, are best recorded in the austere official correspondence which I am permitted to extract from the files:

From D.M.S. Canadian Contingents. (Major-General C. L. Foster, C.B.). To O.C. No. 3 General Hospital, B.E.F., 13th December, 1917: There is a probability of the command of No. 1 General Hospital becoming vacant.


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Diary of an Addict Out of Touch

        I wish I could write about the things I’ve experienced over this past trying time, but I don’t even know where to begin. I want so badly to be able to capture a glimpse of something with these lifeless words. But everything is fluid, confusing, and indescribable.

The highs and lows of my emotions have only continued to grow in their erratic contrasts- and while those experiences enhance the appreciation of the other, I’m completely exhausted in more than two senses. So much has happened within myself- and continues- that I’m left with only an unsubstantiated tornado of emotion, and there are simply no words to describe them that I can grasp.  I’ve never said “I don’t know,” so much in my life.

I simply have no clue anymore.

             I’m home now, after 33 days in the treatment facility. I actually had another 1-3 months left of treatment- that I very well may have needed- but due to other unmentionable circumstances, insurance suddenly cut all coverage. I’m questioning whether I regret putting that request out into the universe the day before, because now I feel like I have some sort of unfinished business or feeling of being in the wrong place. Leaving was as sudden and unexpected as checking in, and I’m still in a state of shock, like a fish dumped into unacclimated water too quickly. Being home has felt so freakishly surreal and somewhat wrong, as though I shouldn’t be here-

because it doesn’t feel like home.

Nowhere, no one does.

         It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that I’ve been so fucking lonely all along, while wrestling other demons that are too strong for me. But I don’t know how to have energy for anything else, and I had only scratched the surface in those 33 days.

I have no idea what I’m doing.
I never did.

         In that safe place, I realized that was OK, and that other humans could actually deal with me at my worst- or perhaps even like me (wtf?)- and I fucking love those people. I finally felt like I could speak a bit more of the truth when I wasn’t met with shame and condemnation- the likely cause of my knee-jerk aversion to being vulnerable with anyone. I didn’t expect to even make friends in my violent state, much less be given a name, a place, and a voice that anyone would even remotely desire to listen to.
        But it did happen, and in those interactions I realized how much has been missing from the relationships characterizing my life. I still often wonder why people “care,” because right now I’m looking at everything through dead- colored glasses. But there has to be something more than the impression I’ve gained throughout life of how humans interact at their core. Maybe they don’t all have agendas.

I’m hoping for some more clear signs from the universe, because I have no idea where I’m going next. I feel like I’ve only gained a fuller understanding of how many contradicting issues I have in my head.
Everything just feels so empty and wrong

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The Séance of Walter Rathenau

“They arrive at Peter Sachsa’s well after dark. She finds a séance just about to begin… The objective tonight is to get in touch with the late foreign minister Walter Rathenau… There are specific messages tonight. Questions for the former minister.” (pg. 163).

The séance of Walter Rathenau, conducted by Peter Sachsa at his home, is a strange and somewhat eerie moment in Gravity’s Rainbow that alludes to the consequences of the war and what will become of the world in its wake. It’s simultaneously odd and appropriate that Walter Rathenau, an actual deceased foreign minister and industrialist of Germany who died four years after World War I, was the spirit being sought after in this séance because the people trying to reach him, Nazis wearing “silver-lapel swastikas” (pg. 163), are the same ones who assassinated him in 1922. They did so because he was Jewish and because they saw the Rapallo Treaty, which he had pushed for, as sympathizing with the Russians, who were left-wing communists and idealistically different from the right-wing Nazis.

Rathenau had been in charge of reconstruction after World War I, and the Rapallo Treaty had been part of his efforts to bolster Germany’s economy, which was suffering under heavy sanctions and financial penalties imposed by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. The Rapallo Treaty actually benefited Germany because it opened up trade with Russia, but the Nazis assassinated Rathenau before it had a chance to work. This makes this séance somewhat symbolic. The Nazis now need advice from a Jewish industrialist who more or less resurrected Germany after its last war.

One of the main points of discussion in this séance is the IG Farben scandal, “whose entire management are about to be purged” (pg. 163) for sharing a weapon design that could turn populations “stone blind” (pg. 163) They’re facing such punishment because they neglected “what such a weapon could do to the dye market after the next war” (pg. 163). IG Farben, it should be noted, is a German company synonymous with war crimes. It is the company responsible for providing Nazis with gas for the chambers in their concentration camps. The allusions to dye-making are in direct reference to it, since its full name translates to “Syndicate of Dye-making Corporations.”

This also indicates that a shift in what constitutes power after World War II, a move into post-colonial society. The fall of the colonial world, I think, is slyly alluded to with the mention of Julius Caesar’s last words: “Et tu Brute, the official lie” (pg. 164). This signals the end of traditional colonialism to me, not only because the end of World War II marked a change in how countries colonize, but because the Roman Empire was one of the first and most powerful empires ever to have existed, and its mention at this time is symbolically significant.

Rathenau goes on to give advice to the Nazis via Peter Sachsa, the crux of which seems to be this: “The real movement is not from death to any rebirth. It is to death-transfigured. The best you can do is polymerize a few dead molecules” (pg. 166) and “You must ask yourself two questions. First, what is the real nature of synthesis? And then: what is the real nature of control” (pg. 167)? The former suggests that the past, in which death has occurred, can’t be eradicated. Polymerization, or combining molecules to make a more complex product, is the only option. The latter — and more importantly Rathenau’s conclusion that the Nazis will cling to their beliefs and fail to let them go — suggests that synthesis and a better understanding of control are the means to progress into the post-colonial industrial economy successfully.

All along, though, the Nazis fail to take any of Rathenau’s message seriously: “Gallows humor. A damned parlor game. Smagard cannot really believe in any of this” (pg. 165). And, of course, a Nazi punctuates the whole affair with an anti-Semitic comment, confirming what the narrator has already told us: “Whatever comes through the medium tonight they will warp, they will edit, into a blessing” (pg. 165). They were never listening, it was a novelty act to them.

Works Cited

I.G. Farben., Mar. 2014. Web. 22 Mar. 2014.

I.G. Farben. Wikipedia, Mar. 2014. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.

Rathenau, Walter (d. 1922)., Mar. 2014. Web. 22 Mar. 2014.

Polymerization., Mar. 2014. Web. 22 Mar. 2014.

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For me this book was very interesting and reminded me of our zero waste project for this class. This book talks about how we waste too much food and produce way too much garbage and its creating a huge problem with our waste field. It being over populated with waste and forcing to dump garbage is places that are not needed. This book was giving me some idea and ways on how we could make changes to our groups zero waste project.

In Chapter 1, we get introduced to a man named Mike Speiser ‘Big Mike’ and his many contributions to the formation of the Puente Hills landfills, located south of the San Gabriel Valley. His greatest accomplishment comprises 130 million tons of trash and counting. Puente Hills is greater than five hundred feet above the original ground level, big enough to have its own micro climate and wind patterns

The book talks about New York City and how it was one of the biggest landfills in the country. During nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cholera causes death of New York citizens and it is very similar as what happened in Dark ages Europe. The Garbage problem has issued for long time in our history. Ancient Greek capital of Athens, middle age of ancient Romans and 1300s Paris streets also always had Garbage problem.

In Chapter 3, Humes continues talking about Puente Hills, this time introducing us to the common and unusual things one finds at dumps. The chapter had also mentioned Lippincott and his beliefs that the more we waste, the more stuff his clients could sell, the more customers would buy, and the more prosperous America would become.

The book is broken up into three parts Trash Detectives, The Way Back, and Big Mike. In the Way back section it talks about the air pollutions that happen when we try to burn the trash and that is causing more problems to our environment then putting the garbage under the ground.

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Remember how I said that I’d rather have burritos than flowers?  I took a photo of my amazing breakfast burrito with my phone, but T-Mobile blows ass and can’t possibly ever allow me access to my album.  But hey, Mud House and your breakfast burritos:

made by someone awesome who is unknown but definitely not me

I wish the above would be enough for all the sad bastards I saw at the grocery store this evening.  I understand that most of them probably work early and 5pm is the only time they could buy flowers, but jesus, that was one depressed looking line of dudes.  I’d like to think that their collective sadness is the reason my phone mysteriously locked in a call/no call dead zone while I was there, though that ignores all the other times my phone has gone haywire at that particular store.

Obviously – and I say this with full admission re: my recent one-X-Files-episode-a-day habit – there is an alien spaceship buried deep beneath the Schnucks on Loughborough, specifically near the transition area of booze-meat-dairy (aka my favorite area).

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I'm Erin. I have tattoos and more than one cat. I am an office drone, a music writer, and an erstwhile bartender. I am a cook in the bedroom and a whore in the kitchen. Things I enjoy include but are not limited to zombies, burritos, Cthulhu, Kurt Vonnegut, Keith Richards, accordions, perfumery, and wearing fat pants in the privacy of my own home.
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    OH MY GOODNESS! I have had the same exact problem in that particular booze isle. Now I know it is only the Tommyknockers esque spaceship buried under the store, as opposed to T-Mobile’s superlame network coverage. Makes sense. We’ll just have to keep an eye on the religious candles to be sure that none of them attempt to hypnotize the customers into killing their husbands… 😉

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Translation of Basic English in Spanish:

Basic English

inglés elemental, n.

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    inglés elemental masculine
    inglés básico masculine
    • They were enthusiasts for something called Basic English, an educational tool that limited the language's vocabulary to 850 words and, as far as possible, only its more regular verb forms.
    • An ardent propagandist for so-called Basic English, a project which reduced the language to a mere 850 words, he was also a precursor of today's global industry of English-language teaching.
    • He founded the Orthological Institute to develop the tools for teaching Basic English.
    • There are five main parts to the Basic English word list: operators, things (general), things (pictured), qualities (general), qualities (opposite).
    • It is ironic that his political aims for Basic English were foiled by his very ignorance of and inattention to politics itself as a constitutive force in human affairs.


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Sistema ETD

banca dati delle tesi e dissertazioni accademiche elettroniche

Tesi etd-02082005-152721

Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea specialistica
Marini, Andrea
Indirizzo email
VLSI design and FPGA-based prototyping of a buffered serial port for audio applications
Corso di studi
relatore Ing. Saponara, Sergio
relatore Prof. Terreni, Pierangelo
relatore Prof. Fanucci, Luca
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The present market of semiconductor is very competitive; on one
side consumers ask for always increasing performance and new
possibilities, on the other companies have to offer low prices in
order to be successful. For what concerns performance just think
of the wide range of mobile applications, such as PDAs, cellular
phones, and laptops : quality of services, duration of the battery
and computational power are always taken into account when buying
new devices. On the other side, due to the competition, costs have
to be very low; this means that both recursive and non-recursive
engineering costs have to be kept under control.

Time is another important concern: it is usually true that the
earlier a product is presented to the market, the wider share of
the market it will gain. This leads modern semiconductor companies
to look for viable ways to design improved products in a short
time. Because of the complexity of the new electronic systems,
this is not an easy task to be accomplished; even tough electronic
design automation (EDA) tools have greatly improved in the recent
years, a gap still exists between the rate foundries can produce
chips and the rate these chips can be designed.

A very common approach to deal with complexity and performance
requirements is to integrate as many functions as possible on a
single chip (System-On-Chip); this allows higher clock frequency
and lower costs. In connection to this also design reuse has
spread in a great part of semiconductor world. This means using in
your system modules that others have already designed and tested.
This allows you to skip some steps in the design flow (at least
for those modules) and saving a significant amount of time.

In this framework lies the work of my thesis, developed at the
StarCore, a company headquartered in Austin, Texas. StarCore
designs and licences Digital Signal Processors as intellectual
property; this is basically one of the companies that offer its
product to be used in other electronic systems, avoiding licensees
to spend time in designing it by themselves.

A Digital Signal Processor is a special kind of processor,
designed to execute calculus-intensive applications: encoding and
decoding of information, voice synthesis and recognition,
compression and decompression of data, Fourier Transform are just
some examples. In many systems, thanks to its programmability and
its limited cost it is the suitable solution. For example most
mobile phones employs a DSP processor to perform base band
operation on the signal.

In these kind of systems, it is important that very few cycles are
spent doing other than signal processing, such as dealing with
peripherals. In the case of an audio signal it is important that
the audio port asks for the fewer cycle it is possible. For this
reason at StarCore my activity was to design and develop an audio
port controller aiming to reduce at least the cycles asked to the
processor in case that the algorithm run is frame based.

For this purpose I designed hardware to be mapped into an FPGA,
and wrote some software for the DSP; I worked mainly with the
Development Board, used to prototype applications based on the
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Tatarstan: Yamle Group Are Selected For Turkvizyon 2015

Yamle Group Selected For Tatarstan

Yamle Group have been selected to represent Tatarstan at the Turkvizyon Song Contest 2015, they will be performing “Siña kajtam” (Сиңа кайтам).

Yamle were selected by Maidan TV to represent Tatarstan after there was a draw at the national final just over two weeks ago. llnar Miranov (Илнар Миранов) and Yamle Qizlar (Ямьле Кызлар) both tied on the same number of points after the voting of the jury in Kazan. This is the first time that a girl group has been selected to represent any country or region at Turkvizyon.

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Road to Emmaus: the greatest mystery revealed.

Marchiano, Bruce. (Added Author). Boettcher, Steven J. (Added Author). Trinklein, Michael J. (Added Author). Theisen, Stephanie. (Added Author). Provan, Simon. (Added Author). Holling, Guy. (Added Author). Directed by Steven J. Boettcher. (Cast).

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  • Publisher: [United States] : Boettcher+Trinklein Television, Inc. : 2009.

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Participant or Performer Note: Bruce Marchiano, Simon Provan, and Guy Holling.
Summary, etc.: Bruce Marchiano stars in this dramatic production which helps viewers discover what may have happened during the miraculous journey on the Road to Emmaus. Mourning the death of Jesus, two first-century travelers were joined by a mysterious stranger. Over the next few hours, the stranger revealed many mysteries that lay hidden in the ancient Scriptures. Soon, the purpose of Jesus' life became clear...and the travelers' sadness turned to great joy.
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Subject: Jesus Christ > Miracles.
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All four stars / Tara Dairman.

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  • ISBN: 9781942907251 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
  • ISBN: 1942907257 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 32 min.)) : digital
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  • Publisher: [United States] : Ideal Audiobooks : 2014.

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Summary, etc.: Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York's toughest restaurant critic. (Just don't tell anyone that she's in sixth grade.) Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven, only her fast-food-loving parents have no idea! Now she's eleven, and after a crème brûlée accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). She's devastated, but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she's mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world. But to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys must cook her way into the heart of her sixth-grade archenemy and sneak into New York City-all while keeping her identity a secret. Easy as pie, right?
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Subject: Cooking > Juvenile fiction.
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The Wicca handbook.

Holland, Eileen. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 160925452X (electronic bk.)
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  • Publisher: [United States] : Red Wheel Weiser : 2008.

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Summary, etc.: The Wicca Handbook is both a tutorial for new witches and an exceptionally well-organized reference book for experienced practitioners. It guides us through the first steps in becoming a witch and explores many Wiccan traditions, initiations, and magical practices. The Wiccan year-the eight Sabbats-along with many of its rituals and ceremonies are examined. Holland also provides the background of every facet of witchcraft, such as spells for every occasion, psychic protection, numerology, basic astrology, and the lore of stones, metals, candles, animals, and much more. High Priestess Eileen Holland's helpful guide is rooted in practicality and intended as a working handbook, not a simple beginner's guide. The information is rich; clear directions are given, and its range of content is extensive. Spells, circles, crystals, and color magic, herbs, health, and healing are all covered with abundant direction on how to do it, when to do it, and suggestions for seeking guidance from the deities. Those who have been on their path for a few years will find this a great reference book to refer to time and again.
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the magical fruit: pineapple baked beans

When I was a kid I loved eating baked beans from a can. They had to be the kind that contained maple syrup and I’d definitely pick over that 1 gigantic fatty piece of bacon that seemed to mutate from can to can. I’d dump the can of beans into a small pot and heat up the beans until the liquid would bubble and pop. Then, I’d slather some butter over a fluffy slice of white bread and start my beans and bread eating ritual. First a dollop of beans would go on the bread, then I’d eat off that part. I’d repeat this process until there was no bread left. Usually there would be more beans than bread, so off I would go to butter up another slice and start the process over again until my beans were done. Even when I moved away from home, once in a while, I’d get a craving for beans and buttered bread and I’d repeat my little ritual until that can of beans was gone.

Now that we’re getting ready to move, I’m feeling a bit antsy about all we have to pack. In an effort to reduce the stuff we have to pack into boxes, I’m creating another little ritual…something I like to call “Operation: Cupboard Clean-Out”. I’ve been going through all my containers and shelves getting rid of things that are too old to eat and eating things that I don’t want to move. Yesterday I found a tin filled with navy beans and decided that this small amount of beans wasn’t going to make the journey out of this apartment. So I dumped the beans into a large bowl, covered them with water and decided to make some baked beans of my own. After soaking the beans overnight and cooking them up on the stove, I mixed up a lot of cupboard and fridge ingredients that would not be making the move into the new place. And just to get a little crazy with the clean up, I found a near-empty bag of frozen pineapple in the freezer and decided that the pineapple would end up in the beans. Into the casserole pot the pineapple went and oh my, these baked beans are just made for eating with bread slathered in butter. And this time, I don’t have any fatty bacon to pick out. Perfect.

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    joanne   March 12, 2007 at 7:34 am

    Pork and beans is one of my specialties. Sometimes I use pork picnic shoulder and other times diced pancetta. But never did it occur to me to add pineapple – which sounds so tasty. And I did stock up on pineapple this weekend, so I will be trying this very soon.

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    clairehelene7   March 12, 2007 at 9:41 am

    Yum-o! I eat a version of beans and bread all the time. I’ll have to try this!

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    Brilynn   March 12, 2007 at 11:01 am

    I’ve been making my own beans lately and no longer follow a recipe, consequently all sorts of things get thrown in, like a bottle of beer, lots of maple syrup, mustard powder…

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      March 12, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    oh YUM.
    that sounds like my old family fav, baked beans on toast which i just love to eat. must try your recipe! you haven’t let me down yet!

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    seeldee   March 13, 2007 at 8:16 am

    Baked beans with pineapple – I’ll have to try it. My mom, being of French Canadian extraction just like yours, would make baked beans all the time when I was a kid. I’m going to have to try your recipe this week.

    BTW, you know that Stimpy (of Ren and Stimpy) believes that the slab of fat in a can of pork and beans is the Queen Bean and that the actual beans are just there to serve her.

    Like you, I would never eat that squidgy piece of fat from the canned stuff.

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    Anne Stesney   March 13, 2007 at 3:15 pm

    I’d never think to add pineapple to baked beans. Sounds delish. Gotta try it!

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    kickpleat   March 13, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    pineapple is a great addition, joanne! i like my beans with a bit of sweetness and pineapple works wonders!

    claire, beans and bread are made for one another!

    brilynn, i was totally tempted to throw in a bottle of beer too! next time i definitely will. thanks for the suggestion.

    mmm, tania, beans on toast is a big yum from me!

    craig, my mom would also make “feves au lard” often but i also liked the canned kind too! haha, queen bean, i like it!

    annieknodes, who knew pinapple worked so well! it really does add something special to plain ol’ beans.

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Discovering New Blogs: The Liebster Award

liebster2A few weeks ago I nearly fell of my seat when I discovered my blog had been nominated for an award, The Liebster Award, by No Time For Travel. As a very new, and reasonably part time blogger, I was very happy that someone out there had read my posts and liked them. A bit more digging and research (and thankfully a very informative summary from No Time For Travel), and I learnt that the award means German for sweetheart or lovely, and is a blogger to blogger award for new bloggers, that is thought to have started in Germany in 2010. A blogger is nominated, is given 11 questions to answer, and then thanks and acknowledges the blogger that nominated them in a post, answers the questions, and nominates 5 more bloggers with a new set of questions to answer. It seems that the rules have morphed and developed somewhat, but I think the important thing is that the essence of the award is retained; it’s a way of reaching out to people, passing on some blogger love and showing appreciation for posts you’ve enjoyed, and supporting fellow bloggers.

So, it’s a kind of modern day chain letter, but without the badly photocopied letter through the door promising 200 chocolate bars by buying just one (did everyone else have those? I was simply unable to comprehend why I wasn’t allowed to participate and, infact, still am to this day). I digress. There are lots of rules out there, I am following No Time For Travel’s:

“Thank the blogger who nominated you, and include a link to their blog.

Provide answers to the eleven questions from that person.

Give nominations to other bloggers, who have less than 500 Twitter followers.

Ask them eleven new questions.

Let them know about their nominations, so that they can proceed with the award process.”

Here are my questions and answers…

What is your best travel memory and why?

This is hard! I think it has to be from the Danum Valley in Borneo. On one of our treks we had gone quite deep into the rainforest, off the tracks, looking for wildlife. Suddenly, there was a family of red leaf monkeys all around us, adults and babies, playing in the trees. It was magical.

Equally, I’ve made some memories to last a lifetime in Ibiza. A completely different type of memory; that island may be the road very well trodden but for good reason. One year, I had gone to stay in a beautiful hacienda style villa with my closest and dearest friends; already a recipe for success. We decided the dodge the sunset crowds at café Mambo, and drove into the hills then down to a deserted beach to watch the sun set over the sea. Sunset, sangria in hand, with my best friends in the world – you can’t get much  better than that.

Red Leaf Monkey

Deserted Ibiza sunset...

Deserted Ibiza sunset…

Do you prefer solo travel or travel with a companion?

Hmm, that’s a tricky one. As a rule I would say with a companion. If you’re lucky enough to have someone special to travel with then those memories become shared memories, they will remember different things to you, like different things to you, so somehow you see more of a place I think. Also, I think you can often be your best as part of a team. I’m good at planning routes, getting us to our destination and finding cool places, but can I keep track of my possessions from one minute to the next? No! That said, I lived in France whilst at uni as a Teaching Assistant, and I decided to make the drive to near Montpellier alone, and was of course completely when I got there. It was one of the most confidence inspiring experiences of my life and I loved my solo adventure!

Thailand with my best friend

Thailand with my best friend

Do you have any regrets from your travel such as places you missed or things you would do differently?

I don’t think you can have travel regrets – if you go somewhere for a limited amount of time you will never see everything you want, and you can’t always get it right with your itinerary. It’s about just living and breathing what you do see, and learning as much as possible. You can definitely have things you would have done differently; one such thing was Thailand 2008, my first stint of travel with my best friend. I suppose if I think about it I would not have first lost all my cash, and then basically allowed my bank card to get stolen, meaning two separate trips to two separate police stations! It is all part of the experience though, and travel distasters usually make for the best stories so, que sera!

What is your preferred method of travel e.g. train, bus, boat, camel etc.

First of all I do not like camels. They are incredibly bony and uncomfortable, a bit smelly, and the camels I rode in Egypt were not well looked after so not a good experience. I’m sure a more authentic desert safari would be wonderful, incidentally. I love boat rides, especially small boats or out on deck where you can see the water and get the wind in your hair.

Do you pay attention to reviews on sites like trip advisor?

Yes, 100%! I would never book anywhere without first checking it out on Trip Advisor. As I have a job, my travel is in short, sharp bursts. If you have only a few weeks, you don’t have time to stay in a bad place. Of course it’s different if you are travelling indefinitely, but in general I’m a meticulous review checker!

Have you ever got lost while travelling and what happened?

Yes, and what an adventure we had. My best friend and I were in Thailand, travelling by service bus from Chang Mai to Kanchananburi, where we were going to see the Bridge over the River Kwai. We took a service bus to a city somewhere in between (it may have been Nakhon Sawan), where we had to get local buses to Suphan Buri, and then a bus from Suphan Buri to Kanchanaburi; the whole journey is about 9 hours. We took the wrong bus, and ended up on a very local, rickety service bus full of extremely well dressed (and extremely helpful) Thai schoolchildren, where we ended up in a town called Lopburi. No problem I thought, we will get a bus from here to Suphan Buri; apart from there was not another bus until the next day! Lopburi was not a tourist town, in fact people were winding down their windows to look at us. There were only 2 hotels in the whole town and at one point, much to our secret delight, I thought we were going to have to stay at a five star conference type place for Thai businesspeople. Fortunately or unfortunately we found somewhere more suited to a student backpacker’s budget, and went out to the mall for pizza. Despite the malls and pizza what was great about this was we were just witnessing normal life in Thailand. The town was no doubt pretty affluent, but there was not a tourist in site. The Thai hospitality and friendliness of the people was, however, just as good if not better than everywhere else we’d been.

Favourite Country and why

France! It has to be France. I studied French at university, lived there for a year, and am addicted the language, the wine, and the cheese (pass the camembert?! ) The French philosophy on life is a good one; their food, their produce, their landscape, is there to be savoured, celebrated, and enjoyed. Progress will not get in the way of quality of life, and woe betide anyone who should try and make work impede on this.

Beautiful Narbonne, and Narbonne Plage, where I lived for a year.

Beautiful Narbonne, and Narbonne Plage, where I lived for a year.

Narbonne teaching

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Do you have a guilty pleasure when you’re travelling?

Pizza. For a girl who eats mostly world cuisine whilst at home (my favourite things to cook are Vietnamese Pork Noodle Soup and Pad Thai), at some point during a trip I have usually had enough of spice and fish sauce and want to go out somewhere for pizza.

What can you not travel without?

Lots of things! I don’t travel light! Definitely a good book, and I suppose, make up. I even had my jungle beauty planned for my recent trip to Borneo. It’s not about being caked, but I like to have  fresh looking face, and would never travel without a BB cream, some mascara, and a good bronzer or highlighter.

Do you prefer desert, ocean, mountains or rainforest?

Rainforest! I love wildlife, nature, and trekking. It was basically a childhood dream of mine to go to the rainforest, you can read more about it here. Ocean would be a close second, because I love scuba diving and want to get my open water done soon.

What are your travel plans for the next 12 months?

After a big trip to Borneo which pretty much broke the bank, the next 12 months are going to be about Europe. I’m currently thinking about a wine and cheese tasting weekend in a Chateau in France; probably in the Loire or the Dordogne. For the summer I’m thinking a mini Eastern European road trip. A good friend of mine recently did a trip of North Croatian beaches, Trieste, into Slovenia to a beautiful town called Piran, then into Prosecco country in North Eastern Italy. You can get between all of these countries in a few hours, so it’s perfect if you’re short of time. Equally, if in Croatia, the lure of the Dalmation Coast will be very strong, so details TBC but I have wanted to go to that part of the world for a long time.

Piran, Slovenia

Piran, Slovenia

Here are my nominations, and why:

The Travel Luster: An intelligent travel blog with some real substance to it, and a big focus on culture. I have enjoyed her posts on Botswana. She has slightly more followers, but I really connected with her blog.

Adventure Lies Infront: Travel blog about Australia, with some really useful tips in there. My best friend lives in Adelaide, and it’s not an often blogged about city, so good to read about that.

A Gypsy Breeze: A carefree blog of travel adventures. Classy and fizz fuelled, and with hints of Italian Stallion – makes for a good read 🙂

Travelin’ Kait: One very clever teen blogger, on some beautiful travels, writing about what she sees. I love the post about Rome, what a beautiful thing to be inspired by.

Unexpected Wanderluster: A group of girls blogging about life, travel, and experiences. Some deep thoughts that I can get on board with, a good mix of writers, and a good mix of topics.

Bloggers, here are my questions for you…

1. Favourite travel destination?

2. If you could travel with anyone, who would it be?

3.Tell me about someone you’ve met travelling that’s stuck in your mind.

4. Favourite cuisine whilst travelling?

5. What do you miss most about home?

6. What’s the most important thing you’re looking for in the places you choose to stay?

7. City or country, and why?

8. What’s your favourite travel / adventure activity?

9. Have you had any pivotal or life changing moments whilst travelling?

10. Tell me something you have learnt from a culture you’ve visited, that you have taken with you.

11. Where’s next in your travel plans?

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Ebola hemorrhagic fever is one of the most dangerous diseases in the modern world. The most recent outbreak have taken place in West Africa last year, having spread to three countries of the region and occasionally being identified in North America and Europe (Peterson, n.p.). However, the necessity of Ebola research and treatment is often neglected and underestimated by certain people, especially those residing in developed countries. They consider that Ebola is a disease which will has no account to them. The pharmaceutical companies also show little interest in developing treatment of such disease, as it doesn’t provide commercial benefits, and is too risky - thus they normally focus on the market of wealthy users (Degeling, n.p.). In this essay, I would not focus on the ethical aspects of Ebola research. Instead, it would present two very pragmatic reasons to justify the study of this deadly disease – the strong connectivity among the people of the world and potential security risks in terms of bacteriological weapon.

The first reason which should alert the careless minds is the globalization, which have turned a world into a small room. The rapid travels and substantial connections among the various regions attribute to the spread of epidemic, as any person with the disease could reach intact regions within 48 hours. It makes Ebola not a neglected tropical disease, but an emerging infection (Peterson, n.p.). Not only every person who travels frequently is in danger, but even those who don’t, as they could come in contact with the virus bearer in a public place.

Speaking about the second reason, it is of the same importance. Ebola represents a perfect example for fanatic terrorist groups, which are focused on destruction and frightening. The bacteriological weapon, being covert, rapidly spreading and unpredictable, poses threat to all the citizens of the world, as international terrorism doesn’t know the territorial boundaries, and doesn’t acknowledge the moral limits. Biodefense could become a catalyst in Ebola prevention and research. The recent studies show that upon some conditions this deadly virus could be airborne, which exponentially raises its hazard (Strauss, n.d.). The Bio-shield developed by the US Government is one of the programs which could potentially benefit to the research of this disease. The global health is the issue to be securitized, as the malignant intentions of terrorism make Global North the same territory of risk as the Global South (Degeling, n.p.).

To sum it up, the study of Ebola is important not only in ethical terms of life saving and preventing suffering – it would provide the developed countries with the shield towards potential attacks, and towards occasional emergence through the communication channels. Considering the rapid spread of this virus, inventing the vaccination upon such necessity arises would cause numerous deaths and endanger the existence of the whole civilization.

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Degeling, Christopher. 'How Western National Interest Drives Ebola Drug Development'. The Conversation 2014. Web. 8 May 2015.

Peterson, A. Townsend. "Good and Bad News about Ebola." PLoS neglected tropical …

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See Lah, So Much Food!

Easily one of my favorite lunch venues- Kailash Parbat, the outlet at Belilios Road. Great food, vegetarian, wide variety, convenient location, friendly staff. I like popping in here regularly.

I need spices and sambal-something in between jaunts to cities that don't offer those stuff. Luckily for available chilli padi on those trips to stem cravings. No Sichuan pepper or mala-anything, thank you. But chilli padi or peppers aren't comparable to these gorgeous layers of spices. Love all those flavors and colors I get at this restaurant where they don't chase us out when we linger over lunch.

I seem to only meet people whose company I truly enjoy at this restaurant. Well, of course, but you know I don't schmooze. Beyond my immediate tiny social circle which I treasure, I rarely bother being friendly. Dislike large group gatherings and I don't welcome meeting people to specifically schmooze. Such a chore. Kailash Parbat is one of those restaurants that's cool to hang out with people whose conversation and company I am totally at ease with.

You know, ladies, our eyes are truly bigger than our stomachs. I was dubious. D and P were ridiculously and merrily confident that we could clean out the table at this lunch. I was like no no no no no, and they were like, totally yes yes yes yes yesYeah, right. Should have taken a bet on whether we could finish that second basket of naan. Hahahaha. Next time, we should just order four types of chaats and call it a meal. Besides avoiding the gorgeous pilafs, we might also have to skip naan. I've never ever left Kailash Parbat without a to-go pack of leftovers that would be still fantastic to nom on the next day!

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