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last skin idk nameOOOOOOOOOOH they are soo beautiful  I want to wear each n every one all at the same time hahaha I so cant decide which is my favorite they soo pretty the colors are beautiful Thank you Bite & claw for making me so Happy

These skins are an exclusive for the fantasy Gatcha  carnival 6 skins and two  of them are rare

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the Fantasy gacha carnival opens on the 1st may home of the fantasy gacha best gacha in second life hands down!!!!

see you there peeps I am really excited for this one there is going to be some great stufff xxxx Hazy xxxxx

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About Hunting…

I was invited several times for hunting in Europe. Frankly speaking, I never liked it and that could explain that usually I did not participate.
I like the after-hunting party, the friendly gathering etc… But not the hunting as we use to see in our days.
It is not because I am against hunting. Hunting to get something to eat, hunting by using tools which let a chance to the target could be roughly OK. But even though, since a long time I did not do it.
Firstly because my religious. But of course if I had to hunt to survive, I will…
Secondly, I noticed in Europe (at least where I was invited), there were no glory to kill an animal: almost no more wild ones in the bush. They come from special farms and then released… So in that case, it is the same feeling than shooting on a carton target. Beside, beeing quite good with a gun, I do not see any glory and/or pleasure by killing animals by this way.
Thirdly, I saw so many stupid people just killing everything they could, even it is not eatable or worst: protected…
And finally, during the hunting season, you can see how many people were shot by accident because believe it or not, some (or many?) go for hunting even after the gathering (which include of course beer, wine… – I saw it) or just because people thought “it” was an animal…
In Taiwan hunting is normally forbidden as in most situations, to own a gun.
So I was quite surprised by a news few days ago in Taipei Times: “A Kaohsiung man who went hunting on Monday night turned himself in after allegedly killing two men in the woods he had mistaken for wild animals“….. “He thought it was the reflection of an animal’s eyes and started shooting“…”It turned out the light was a fire started
I am speechless…

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Thoughts on Firefox and the Enterprise

By Deane Barker on January 9, 2005

Is Firefox the sign of long term problems at Microsoft?: Some interesting thoughts on how Firefox might really damage Microsoft. If Firefox can get its claws in somewhere, then it’s the first bonafide “crack in the bubble” of the theory that having all Microsoft products in an enterprise makes life better.

As Firefox continues to grow its market share, the difference between now and the Netscape days is that Internet Explorer is often a disease ridden product. The advantage of having it preinstalled on most machines is outweighed by genuine benefits of switching, and large corporations have IT staff that will do that for people, to save time and money. It is not hard to imagine a headline – ‘Merrill Lynch to switch to Firefox’.

  1. The only problem we’ve experienced is using our own intranet which was geared to IE. After replacing the Rich Text Editor with a cross browser compatible things were back to normal, and adding the Copy/Paste hack. The only other major problem is sites like, which I visit daily still uses IE only markup and doesn’t work 100% with FireFox. That’s about it. And I also visit and their webcasts which are of course IE specific. I wish MSFT would pull it head out of the sand and quite saying “IE has all the features people expect and is a secure product…” that not a quote but it is the overall spin they are pushing. IE is no longer the best for many reasons.

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May 14, 2008 / Bo Mackison

Wildflowers, Out and About

Here are a few of the wildflowers growing in my neck of the woods this second week of May.

White Campion

The White Campion, brought over from Europe, is now naturalized across much of the North American continent. The flowers open at dusk and close in the morning; they are pollinated by night-flying moths. This photo was taken about seven in the evening, so the petals aren’t fully open yet. They have an unexpected sweet fragrance. I used to ‘pop’ the bladders of these flowers when I was a kid, and hadn’t yet learned the rules of the forest.

Wood Anemone

This is a Wood Anemone and I think probably one of the last ones blooming this season. It needs sunlight to grow, and the plants are deep in the woods – the sunlight is now getting blocked by the opening tree canopies. This guy is somewhat poisonous, though I did read that the Ojibwe used the roots in a remedy to clear the throats of singers. I wouldn’t recommend it – maybe try a nice honey lozenge instead. 🙂 Or not sing.

Jack in the Pulpit

Here’s another Jack; sometimes he’s called an Indian Turnip as his taproots were gathered as a vegetable by Native Americans. It is said to cause a strong burning sensation if eaten raw, but tastes peppery when well steamed. (I’ll pass on that, too.) I probably saw a thousand Jack in the Pulpits in the woods in a two hour period. I’ve never seen so many in one place – I was off path and kept nearly trampling them.

White Baneberry

I had to search several guides to ID this rather quiet wildflower, though I’m pretty certain it is White Baneberry. The leaves are the give-away clue, because there are several plants with very similar flower clusters. I’ll come back in mid-summer and see if there are white berries growing – then I’ll know for sure. Supposedly the plant was once called Dolls’ Eyes because its berry has a black spot and looks like the eyes once set in china dolls.

Mayapple, the Wildflower Umbrella

I found four huge, densely-packed colonies of May-apples. Their umbrellas are fully opened now – in my photo of May-apples on May 2nd, they were still shriveled like puckered fingertips that have been in dishwater too long. No flowers as of yet. Native Americans used the roots to treat hepatitis and fevers and now a derivative of this plant is being used as a cancer treatment. It’s commonly known as poisonous though, and can kill a man in just a few hours after ingestion. BTW, its fruit isn’t poisonous and tastes like a banana-lemon mix. Odd.

  1. amelia / May 14 2008 1:08 am

    These are all great wildflowers. Looks like it’s a fun thing to do – hiking and taking pictures. Have you done wildflowers for a long time.

  2. Gandalf / May 14 2008 8:47 am

    I enjoy hiking to find wild flowers. I treat it like a scavenger hunt – marking down the newest blossom I’ve found. My trillium rank #1 on my love to find list. Next I favor the pink & yellow lady slippers. The lady slippers aren’t in season yet, but will be. I enjoyed this post. I’d like to see the Mayapples all in a sequences once they bear fruit.

  3. jeanabaena / May 14 2008 9:54 am

    ooh, i really like the first picture. the flower just pops out of the background. v. nice.

  4. Robin / May 14 2008 2:53 pm

    Beautiful shots, Bo. And once again I learned a few things along the way. 🙂

  5. montucky / May 14 2008 5:55 pm

    Nice finds and nice photos! I love to see them from your part of the country!

  6. organicsyes / May 15 2008 9:44 am

    Great walk:) Thanks for taking me along on the journey! off to find the jack in the pulpit that are in my yard!

  7. aullori / May 15 2008 11:25 am

    I completely love all the information about your completely unique wildflowers! Bravo! The Jack in the Pulpits just amaze me… hard to believe you fall over what I’ve never laid my eyes on. Over here my New Yorker husband calls swamp lanterns, Jack in the Pulpits and I have to remind him two completely different plants. However, in his defense, he grew up around your version. I’m thrilled to see the leaf structure of your wood anemone because I think it’s the only flower we actually share out of all of these. Hopefully I’ll be so lucky as to run into them myself. Beautiful post Bo! Your shots are amazing and keep those facts coming they are fascinating!

  8. amuirin / May 16 2008 11:33 am

    I was interested to see the Wood Anenome. Kinda cool to have a flower guide 🙂

  9. mon@rch / May 21 2008 7:45 pm

    I just love those White Campion flowers and I never seem to be able to remember their name. Maybe this year I will remember! Thanks

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If you are a man in good health and have realistic expectations of your recovery and results, then you may be a candidate. You should be at a stable weight and are not planning to lose an excessive amount of weight before you have surgery. Please note that if you are planning to lose a lot of weight after surgery, then your results may be negatively affected.

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  • Anesthesia is administered: Depending on the extent of correction, you may choose to have your surgery performed under local anesthesia only. This allows you to have a more comfortable recovery since you won’t have to deal with a common side effect of general anesthesia—nausea and vomiting.
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You will feel some discomfort after the surgery which can be controlled by pain medication. Swelling and bruising are at their peak within the first 48 hours of your surgery, but will resolve over the course of a couple of months.

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You may notice that your chest is flatter and more toned immediately after surgery. However, you should wait for the optimal results to appear after swelling and bruising subside. This can be at the three or four month mark.

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You’ll be able to take a shower the day after your surgery. Use mild soap on the incisions as well, and wash thoroughly without rubbing the area. Gently pat dry. This will help the incisions remain clean and reduce the risk of infection. Baths cannot be taken until about two weeks after your surgery. This is also to minimize the risk of infection.

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Individual recovery still varies, but most patients are able to return to work in five to seven days if it is not physically demanding.

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You should wait for about four to six weeks before going back to the gym. However, you are encouraged to do low-impact cardiovascular activity a day or two after your surgery to reduce the risk of blood clots.

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Once the swelling and bruising have subsided, you’ll notice that your chest is firmer and more sculpted. You’ll finally have the flat, toned chest that you’ve always wanted.

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Swelling, bruising and discomfort are common side effects of surgery.

Rare complications

Seroma: A seroma is a collection of fluid trapped under the skin. While seromas can sometimes resolve on their own, in some cases they need to be surgically drained.

Hematoma: A hematoma is a collection of blood trapped under the skin. These also may resolve on their own or require medical intervention.

Irregular scarring: Your scars may become more prominent if you have a history of hypertrophic scarring, however most scars heal nicely if you follow the proper incision and scar care instructions outlined by Dr. Gartner.

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Course Description: How a community or society houses its citizens reflects the values and ethics of that society. Shelter is increasingly becoming an alarming problem in neoliberal capitalism especially over the past four decades and in light of the devastating effects gentrification is imposing on historic communities. This course, taught by an experienced houser will identify the root problem of housing and propose a solution.

This course uses your work in academia to answer the question: "Does your community have a problem with housing? Is it affordable? Can it be made affordable in perpetuity?"

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Participants will be reading Friedrich Engles, Jane Jacobs, as well as Ebenezer Howard, Alex Schwartz, Peter Marcuse, or Tom Angotti, among others. But the main object will be to create an understanding of your housing problem by interviewing individuals working in areas of housing, such as real estate agents, government employees in housing programs, contractors or builders, managing agents, lawyers, developers, and non-profits in order to gather data to sustain a proposed solution for your community.

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Lions In Our Midst

It’s not uncommon that I’m asked if I ever worry about mountain lions, bears and the like while I’m out hiking.  It usually the first question asked after I admit that I very often hike solo.

In all honesty, I generally don’t.  Yes, I keep my wits about me when I’m walking through the mountains, and maybe try to make a little extra noise before going around blind corners.  Even just walking along, though, I’m usually loud enough or on a popular enough trail that whatever large creatures are about are usually long gone.

I’ve never actually seen a mountain lion (though, in all likelyhood, they’ve probably seen me).  Only one bear, some rattlesnakes (which seem more prevalent than before of late) and a couple of coyotes (such as the one at Charmlee), all of whom kept their distance.

They’re out there, yes, but usually spread pretty far between.  To wit, this article from the laist website, which shows the ranges of tagged mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains.  I’ve including a link to the map below, and you’ll note that a single mountain lion, on average, roams over at least half of the area.

Mountain Lion Map from

And there are others that roam throughout the entire range.

This isn’t to say that I’ll never run into a mountain lion at some point, but it’s pretty clear why there are a heckuv’a lot more squirrels than large predators out there in the wilds…

  1. the idea that there are mountain lions roaming outside of LA never occured to me. it amazes me that even with all the crap we’ve done to this planet there can still be so much beauty, and so close at hand. once in a while i see a deer upstate and it takes my breath away and makes me smile like a kid. i can only imagine how extraordinary it would be to see a live mountain lion.
    and then i’d pee my pants from fright. but it would be worth it.

  2. Being from NH, people often ask me if I’ve seen moose while hiking. It kind of makes me wish I had, just so I can finally say yes. Then again, a moose probably wouldn’t eat me if I saw one in the woods.

  3. What about Big Foot have you ever seen Big Foot? UFO? Why do people ask boring questions about mountain lions and bears when Big Foot sightings are so much more interesting.

  4. Haha leave it to Dingo to bring up Bigfoot.

    I haven’t seen a lion on any of my trips either, which is a relief because I’m solo a lot too and probably wouldn’t be able to defend myself as well as you could. I think I read somewhere that they’re more likely to go after cyclists because they see you as sort of a 4-legged animal that way. Hikers are nice and tall and upright. Here’s wishing neither of us ever see any and have years and years of safe hikes ahead of us!

  5. Wild life encounters while hiking: I have seen deers, chipmunks, a marmot, snakes, and if you count squirrels as “wild life” yes, those too. I don’t ever want to bump into a mountain lion or a bear or whatever big carnivorous beasts out there — they are only good to look from a safe distance!

  6. If you wore a t-shirt that said “I hike alone” on the front and “mountain lions are scared of me” on the back out to a bar in Vancouver, the girls would be aaaaalllll over you.

  7. It never occured to me that there would be mountain lions out there! Lions and tigers and bears – oh my! I hope you never run into any carniovres out there!

  8. I once came across two bobcats hiking around Mt. Diablo. They were making quite a racktet. I’m not sure if they were fighting or mating (or both). When I rounded the bend, I saw one take off into the bushes and the other turned around and GLARED at the hikers. (I was hiking alone, but about 7 or 8 other hikers were attracted by the noise and were there to investigate as I was). I never felt like I was in any danger, but I did feel like I had missed the “sock over the top of the door” and owed that bobcat a six-pack.

  9. BlakSpring – Heh, not just outside. They tend to wander into neighborhoods on the fringes and eat cats.

    NancyPearlWannabe – I dunno, I’ve heard they can be pretty dangerous during mating season…

    Dingo – Bigfoot and I are drinking buddies. He doesn’t like me to talk about it, though.

    Mel Heth – I think that rumor only got started because of the incident in Orange County a few years ago. By and large, they’re pretty shy; who knows what happened in that weirdness.

    K – Bumping into isn’t so bad, just try not to be between momma and offspring

    Mrs Chuck Bartowski – I’ll keep that in mind

    Ruby – But if I do, I hope I can get the camera out on time!

    Hebba – That must have been cool!

  10. Wow, that map is pretty cool. I like to hike alone in the Santa Monicas too, but I do worry about moutain lions. I don’t know that I really believe I’ll encounter one, but I definitely don’t want to end up on KCAL 9 news as the silly girl who went hiking alone and ended up a mountain lion snack. Hmm, I think this makes me both foolhardy AND vain.

  11. Magenta – Welcome to the blog! You know, I never thought of the “how will I look on the evening news” angle. Uh, oh, something else to worry about now… 😉

  12. When I hiked out there I always wondered, especially after the biker in Simi Valley who was attacked and killed by a mountain lion a few years back.

    Of course, there have been mountain lion sightings near Omaha so … I’m still wondering.

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Even though the weather outside is a little frightful at the moment, we are actually only a few weeks away from it officially being Summer. To get into the Summer spirit, I have teamed up with a summery spirit to create a few classic concoctions with a bit of a twist.

Koko Kanu is the UK’s leading premium flavoured white rum. With coconut continuing to be one of the nation’s favourite ingredients, Koko Kanu adds a contemporary twist to well-loved cocktail recipes.

So on a Monday night in alone, I decided to give this sweet spirit a try and see if I could perk myself up with a spin on a few rum cocktails.

The ingredients for a fun night in, alone…

Matcha Rum Fizz

50ml Koko Kanu Rum

A big squeeze of Agave Nectar

1tbsp Coconut Cream

1tsp Matcha Powder (I use this one)

50ml Lemon & Lime Infused Fizzy Water

Starting by filling your cocktail shaker with ice, pour in all of the ingredients apart from your fizzy water.

Shake well. Really well. Like a polaroid picture. The shaker will start to feel freezing which is a good thing (until you’ve realised it has frozen the lid to the shaker!) and everything should be mixing quite nicely. Remember you have powder in this so everything needs to be mixed properly to avoid any weird lumpy bits.

Pour into a short glass (mine was a birthday gift from my friends) with a few ice-cubes, OR head to Primark and buy yourself their “ice ball” moulds for £2 so you can use large spherical ice balls (because these look pretty smart) and then top with your fizzy water. I buy the bottles from Tesco which are only 45p and come in a variety of flavours.

And there you have it – a very bright green yet extremely refreshing lightly sparking matcha rum fizz. The matcha flavour is a little strong so I would perhaps suggest using a little less if you’re not a big an of it like I am.

Coconut milk… which yes, I had decanted into a milk bottle!
Teaspoon of matcha… I went a bit crazy with it!
All about the copper shaker!

Watermelon Mojito

50ml Koko Kanu Rum

Crushed Ice

Juice of 1 lime

6 Watermelon Chunks

2 tsp Sugar

Handful of Mint Leaves

Ginger Ale

A bit of a fruity spin on a classic we all know and love. I am currently OBSESSED with watermelon and so I decided to spruce up an old fave of mine with a bit of the red stuff.

You can buy pre-prepared cubes of watermelon if you want to avoid the faff or you can buy a whole watermelon if you like (I like to blitz mine up into a watermelon juice so I do it the messy way), but all you need is about 6 large-ish cubes. Place these into a tall tumbler with a handful of mint leaves and a teaspoon of sugar. Then top the tumbler with ice and stir it all in, making sure to crush the watermelon with the ice as much as you can to make the juices run.

Squeeze in the lime juice and add in the Koko Kanu Rum. Do another quick mix and then top up with your ginger ale.

And there you have it, a very colourful twist on a refreshing rum classic and it takes almost no time at all!

Koko Banana Kolada

50ml Koko Kanu Rum

50ml Pineapple Juice

1/2 Banana

50ml Coconut Cream

1tsp Sugar

This was the simplest of the three cocktails in my evening of experimentation, though I decided that now was the time to push the boat out for my presentation and really get that holiday feeling (on a Monday night in Reading!) I bought a pineapple corer from Lakeland earlier in the day specifically for this blog post and I was so excited to try it out. It’s super simple – by separating the top of the pineapple from the body you then use the corer like a corkscrew to remove the juicy middle. Then you have a hollow shell – the perfect cup to hold your cocktail!

You can then blend up the pineapple you have removed to make the juice to go into your cocktail, or save it for breakfast the next day like I did!

To make the cocktail simply place all of the ingredients into a mixer. You could use a NutriBullet but I chose to use my Breville Active Blend just because it was easier to reach in my kitchen! I added banana to this recipe to add a bit more thickness to the drink and make it even more tropical. After about a minute of blending it should all be smooth and thick. Then just decant it into your pineapple, cut a hole to place a straw, lie back and pretend you’re on a Jamaican beach. It’s so easy!

Every kitchen needs a pineapple corer!

Koko Banana Kolada

Koko Kanu is a delicious rum with a sweet and subtle coconut flavour, the perfect way to get those tropical vibes even when the British weather isn’t playing fair! Needless to say by the end of my experimental evening I was a smidge squiffy, but at least I now have my simple and easy go-to cocktails to get me through a Summer without a holiday!

Koko Kanu can be bought in most major supermarkets, as well as the Whiskey Exchange and Selfridges. Just be aware that drinking three cocktails alone in your flat will probably lead to cat ear selfies…


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What’s in a Name? | Namey App Review

“Whats in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare.”

It’s funny how the above quote really doesn’t apply to the name of your children isn’t it? We know full well that names bear a big part of us, our personality and how we are presented. It’s always blown my mind that we are given the responsibility to name small humans for the rest of their lives… I mean, I still have to Google how long to boil an egg sometimes.

Naming babies is something I have found hard. There is a lot of pressure. A lot of opinions and also two people that have to agree. Surprisingly I found it harder second time around, Rory was named quite early on and I adored his name. With Baby Girls, you can be more adventurous which adds pressure, Rich has been more opinionated and it has to ‘go’ with Rory’s name too. It took us 7 months to choose a name for Baby Girl and the middle name is still undecided.

After watching “Baby Names I Love” YouTube videos, creating Pinterest boards and scouring the end titles of all TV programmes (I can officially reel off the cast of Peppa Pig) I still didn’t have one. Rich decided she didn’t need a middle name, which she absolutely doesn’t, but I wanted her to have one, and one with meaning. I then came across the app ‘Namey‘ and struck baby names gold!

The app is super easy to use and has a lovely interface. It very quickly provides a list of names as well as their meaning and origin. What sets this app apart though are these key features:

Affordable & Accessible

The premium version of the app is just 99p, which is so much more affordable than most baby name books. Baby name books are also a nice idea, but I have always found chances are you pick them up once and then they collect dust. Having baby names on an app on your phone means that you can tap into them whenever you have some downtime and is a great alternative to scrolling social media.

Great Social Features

This is by far my favourite thing about the app, two of my close friends are also pregnant, so we are always suggesting new baby names. If you’re quite open about your baby name choices then the app features are amazing for getting friends and family involved. I LOVE that you can create polls for different names and everyone can vote on it. This has been so much fun to do with friends and it’s interesting to see how popularity varies. It’s also been great for us to get our families involved in a lighthearted way.

Search by Meaning

If you’re like me and you like for baby names to resonate with you, this app is absolutely perfect. You can search for names by meaning and then filter by gender, origin and first letter if you wish too! I have loved this, especially for choosing the middle name as it allows us to add a little more thought and feeling to it.

They’ve got Names!

There are over 25,000 names from 11 different origins, so there is a huge amount of choice! I really like this as it offers so many new names I had never heard of or thought about as they’re not in general baby name books.

It’s so user-friendly

You can filter your choices by gender, name origin, name characteristics, first name letter and name meaning. As well as this you can provide other family member names and Namey will make suggestions based on them using super-smart artificial intelligence and algorithms. This is also a great feature for finding the perfect middle name. I love that by simply scrolling through the list it quickly provides all of the info you need on each name, it has become so addictive.

Namey is available to download from the Apple App Store for iPhone and the Google Play Store for Android.

*This is a collaborative post

  • Kerryy

    This sounds like a fab app will have to take a look!


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Sexing up chocolate milk

Sexing up chocolate milk

Cocio is a Danish chocolate milk brand. The brand is known to be a rather old-fashioned and un-glamorous brand in Denmark where it is preferably drunk together with traditional Danish hot dogs. The Cocio factory in Esbjerg, Denmark produces about 400 000 bottles of Cocio a day and export  to USA, Norway and Sweden.  However, in Norway and Sweden, the sales aren’t going so well. Where I come from (Stavanger, Norway) Cocio is one of those drinks that you find on the bottom shelf in the fridge in the local petrol station.  This image of Cocio as a classic but un-glamorous brand is about to change as Cocio now tries to take over larger market shares in Norway and Sweden.  Cocio’s marketing department decided they wanted to keep their classic image but at the same time, sex it up a little by having Sexy Eva Mendez delivering Cocio milk in this TV commercial:

Michael Broch Hansen, Cocio’s sales- and marketing director says that it is not an easy task to describe what it feels like to drink a bottle of Cocio, but Eva Mendez personifies the experience because she is a classic beaty and at the same time she has that dark side to her, just like Cocio. I think they do a good job with making the brand more sexy and glamorous and at the same time keeping the classic, retro brand-image. What do you think of the commercial? please post a comment!

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Summer Recap

I’m back home from Mt. Hood, Oregon for the rest of the summer and until the season starts again. It feels good to be home again and seeing the family…and the food is to good back East!

Here are 15 photos from this summer.

Skylar Brent and Jake Kuzyk

Alex Rodway

Mt. Hood has so many crevasses and this one we could go into a little.

Brandon Hobush tuck knee over the corner in the bowl.

Gabe Ferguson

Tanner McCarty

Richie Conklin

Griffin Siebert

Johnny Brady

Andrew Aldridge

Andrew Aldridge

Johnny O’Connor

Colton Morgan

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Moto X drops to $399 without contract to start the new year

In a move that should spur sales, Motorola started 2014 by dropping the cost of its Moto X handset to $399 without a contract. The deal was announced on Wednesday morning and applies to all carriers as well as Moto Maker custom phones. While some thought the Android(s goog) phone was overpriced at launch for the hardware that it offered, I think the experience and features make up for any lacking components. Regardless, the issue of cost is less of one now that the new year has started with a price reduction for the Moto X.

Felix Chuang

While this is sold without a contract, is the phone still carrier locked?

does the G5 come with a sim card? If not that is basically 10 bucks tacked on the g5.

I am returning my Nexus 5 gift and sticking with my Nexus 4 a bit longer, but this price reduction makes it tempting to get the X. In your opinion is the user experience really that much better on the X over the Nexus?

Kevin C. Tofel

It is to me. The combination of “big” screen in a small package, long battery life, relatively pure Android experience and special features – active display and touchless control – are the reason the X is my only Android phone at the moment.

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About Giro Maddaluna

A resident of New Jersey, financial services professional Giro Maddaluna pursues a number of hobbies and interests in his free time. An avid traveler, he has visited locations around the United States as well as ventured to European destinations like London. Closer to home, Giro Maddaluna follows the New York Giants, experiments with a variety of cuisines in his cooking, and listens to indie, classic, and alternative rock music. He also enjoys membership with the St. Mary’s Church in Rutherford.

Mr. Maddaluna graduated from Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Continuing his education, he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting at Fairleigh Dickinson University and later secured series 7, series 63, series 66, and life and health financial licenses.

Giro Maddaluna’s professional experience includes tenures as a financial advisor at New York Life and at Eagle Strategies. He has also served in auditing capacities at such firms as Lehman Brothers and Barclays.

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Wednesday: Spring Cleaning April 4, 2007

Filed under: What I'm doing tonight — glademade @ 9:55 pm

Both of my roommates have been out of town for quite a while, so i am going to tidy the place up so they have a nice clean home to come back to. Would anyone like to help? We can make it a party. I still have a li’l sake left.

If you feel like going big tonight, i would suggest seeing “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle” tonight at Alamo Drafthouse Downtown. They are having all you can eat White Castle style mini burgers. Eat till you barf dude.

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Give Me Liberty

 Give Me Breath Pt. 1

As one to tackle the subject of smokers rights. And give information which we all know but also going to play Devils Advocate. I write this after encountering more than several people who rubbed me the wrong way to the point of writing this. Here are my thoughts and PSA statement.

The complicated issue for health reasons, economic benefits/pro and con. Rights of individuals where with some pure dislike for a persons habits. Granted it truly is an issue many have strong feelings of contempt for those who choose to smoke. A mountain of evidence for the harm smoking does to an individual, however it has become too much of a discrimination to a persons individualism.

A point to be made for most of us who were taught to lead by example, and actions contradicts ourselves. And society, now the politically correct and majority rules preach with validity the harmful effects. And how we teach our children to never start smoking. This is absolutely correct for prevention for it is in the best interest for the younger generation. Great gains has been made in curbing the usage. Yet the freedom to choose is the right of the mature individual.

Patrick Henry’s speech on “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.”

I am taking it upon myself to insert a few words or phrases in the first paragraph to in one way express some thoughts here.

“”No man thinks more highly than I do of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. As well as the consideration based a persons desire to constantly point out a persons actions are not approved of by the many, I say to the very worthy men and women who addresses the issue.

But different people often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to anyone if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. The questing with this movement in our country.

For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or bow down to disapproval. Near void of free by choice and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and to ourselves.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my personal convictions of the right to choose, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majority. However I will answer to the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings. “””

To confess on this, as a Child of God, a person with my choices I take is between myself and God. I hold myself accountable for my actions. On this subject the Bible makes it clear as far as how we are to live a Godly life. Yet it is still between the Almighty and the individual.

Each with our own opinions and personalities should never go to such extremes with such devilish statements of contempt and overboard for a life choice. For over time many people who smoke realize it is in their best interest to quit. I freely admit how can it be someone who knows the consequences to continue with the habit.

Being such a contentious subject there is no way I can fully speak for others on the debate as in truth it has all been said before. But will continue some thoughts expressing what many feel about what society is forced upon them.

Addiction Fiction?

Everyone say and everyone knows to have such a habit is in essence committing suicide. Heard so many times, “You’re killing yourself.” The reasoning here may sound like fallacy but to think about it. To shorten ones life when knowing the act you are killing yourself. No matter for over the years the negative effects to so many parts of the body. An act of stupidity, one word many use toward those who smoke. Thankfully there is not a law against stupidity. Smokers would be fined much much less than society as a whole.

Why are there so many ingredients in cigarettes known to causestats cancer? The tobacco industry is doing their part to bring great harm to the body? What is done by the government about it?

Nothing, while scramble to dictate all other products in the name of public welfare or a social burden. So I can say with true conviction that allowing that, and allowing the sale of such a harmful product. What message is that to send on one side of the debate. The image to the left shows why? Money!

Basically can we say “Government Assisted Suicide, or is it Second Hand Manslaughter? By allowing the sale a product even with the sage words no one is forcing you to buy it or do it. Yet there it is the governments cash cow for those who makes their own life choice. What I am writing here has been said many times and many forms of expression. Being it a personal and social issue, opinions abound. By the medical community and others in the name of saving lives. There is more to it. We know it, I can give one example to simply say a persons right to choose life and death in another hot topic.

If the powers to be were truly sincere about ridding the addiction of those who wish to quit more effort should be made to assist. One idea is give free to anyone, medications or nicotine suppression treatments free of charge along with proven steps to help with overcoming the addiction.

However I wonder does that mean robbing tax dollars from the government to back up what is dictated the taxes are for in the first place. Not failing to mention the pharmaceutical industry and other corporate participation.

There are many websites of both government and medical information. Also other arguments. No reason to release sources. The truth is out there on both sides of the debate. In addition who is to say leading the best possible way to a long healthy life. Long life holds no guarantees due to odds of general well being for living longer. So many variables. Then there is the case of expenses to extend reaching old age. Lest not forget quality of life, the cost of living is much higher than the cost of dying. Or is it the reverse? It is all subjective. Matters not, no one leaves this world alive.

Going as so led using these as to show something. Some may read more into it.

The World Federation of Right to Die Societies
Smoking Ban Pros and Cons – Drexel University
Smoking Facts and Fiction

Give Me Liberty Pt. 2

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Journals Higher Education

Published: 30 January 2008

304 Pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

ISBN: 9780195327816

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Working Women, Literary Ladies

The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration

Sylvia J. Cook

This book explores the simultaneous entry of working-class women in the United States into wage-earning factory labor and into opportunities for mental and literary development. It traces the hopes and tensions generated by expectations of their gender and class from the first New England operatives in the early nineteenth century to immigrant sweatshop workers in the early twentieth.


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Not Sure

Not sure if I like the colors….

If you notice the picture the brown looks gray….

The color is called Cafe….

Maybe once I add the other colors… I might change my mind…

I am also adding purple , pink, and cornmeal …. and the multi-berry

What do you think?

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  1. I like them too, especially the multi-berry. Red and brown always remind me of a robin (ever since in an Ellis Peters novel she described a character wearing a red dress and a brown cloak that way), so I always think they look good together! Looking forward to seeing it as it grows, too

  2. So far I love it – crochet a couple more rows of the café (fyi – this is more of a coffee with cream color than an actual brown – – I made that mistake once also. Expected it to be a deep brown like coffee – nope- hee hee) and post another pic…bet it will look fantastic!!

  3. I echo what everyone else has said here – go with your instincts! It’s fun to experiment with color pallets and make the final product uniquely a reflection of you.

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Go read this fic: All our yesterdays by bleepobleep here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3866956

You don't need to know anything about Teen Wolf to appreciate how Derek Hale learns that fandom can be a life saver... and that some of us don't share our fandom lives with our RL families because maybe they won't understand.

ETA: Read the tags and warnings...

This entry was originally posted at http://goddess47.dreamwidth.org/31792.html. Comment here or there as you please.

I had to take a step back because of the tags (I'm not in a good place right now), but I did smile at the idea that fandom is a lifesaver because OMG, yes. :-)


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Chicago PMI: September Chicago Business Barometer Up 2.7 Points to 54.2

The MNI Chicago Business Barometer increased 2.7 points to 54.2 in September from 51.5 in August, recovering most of lost ground experienced in the previous month.

In response to September’s special question, 79% of Chicago panellists said the run-up to November Presidential Elections is having a negligible impact on business.

“Economic growth in the US appears to have picked up a little at the end of the third quarter and although the Employment component fell, this was on the back of a relatively strong showing in the previous month. Note Employment usually lags changes in orders and output, so it was not that surprising to see this component weakening in September,” said Lorena Castellanos, senior economist at MNI Indicators
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This was above the consensus forecast of 52.0.

Consumer Sentiment
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The final consumer sentiment reading was 91.2 in September, up from 89.8 in August.

“Confidence edged upward in September due to gains among higher income households, while the Sentiment Index among households with incomes under $75,000 has remained at exactly the same level for the third consecutive month. Importantly, the data provide no evidence of an upward trend as the average level of the Sentiment Index since the start of 2016 is nearly identical with the September level (91.4 versus 91.2). “
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Still no Cairo-Upper Egypt trains

 In Archive, Egypt

There hasn't been much use for the modern equivalent of tickets like this since 14th AugustRumours are still flying about when and how many trains will appear on Egypt’s network, especially services south of Cairo. Although some Lower Egypt services were reinstated from Cairo last week, Upper Egypt services remain cancelled until the security authorities give the go-ahead. With no diversionary routes, lots of overnight services and many Egyptians still angry about the fate of former President Morsi, the security plan for this line must be a major logistical headache, and still incomplete. As has been said elsewhere around the world, those seeking to cause an incident only have to be lucky once, while those seeking to stop them have to be lucky every time. The following article is summarised from yesterday’s ‘Misrawi’:

ENR chairman Hussein Zakaria denied the reports circulating about Upper Egypt line services and said the security authorities had still not made any decisions about operating the line. Zakaria told ‘Misrawi’ on Monday that ENR was still awaiting security information, but could resume services at any time. Meanwhile, a source in the Transport Police said the intention was to resume train services to coincide with the end of the curfew and the first dates of former President Mohammed Morsi’s trial. The source added that the Interior Ministry had put a plan in place to safeguard the roads and railways in Upper Egypt against any acts of ‘sabotage’, with a heavy security presence in stations and trains. He explained that protecting the Upper Egypt line required considerable effort and a well-coordinated security plan given the line’s long distances and journeys (eg Cairo to Aswan is 14 hours). A number of reports have put the losses so far caused by the recent disruption to ENR as EGP 550 million.

There was speculation last week, for example in last Thursday’s almasry alyoum, that ENR would run a skeleton ‘experimental’ service between Wasta and Fayoum, among others.

If you have any stories about railways or the Middle East in general that you would like help to write or publish, please get in touch.

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First trains at Cairo after the 68-day stoppage. (Courtesy al-Masry el-Youm)The remnants of the Ismailiya - Bir el-Abd line in north Sinai. Photo: Ala el-Qamhawi from Al-Masry Al-Youm.


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Where Trust Lies by Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan

I have looked forward to reading Where Trust Lies since I read the first book in the Return to the Canadian West serious Where Courage Calls by Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan. As much as I wanted to be enthralled in Where Trust Lies I was somewhat disappointed in the slow plot and its predictability.

Where Trust Lies continues the story of Elizabeth Thatcher who returns home for the summer after teaching one year in Coal Valley. She embarks on a steamship tour with her mothers and sisters. During the journey, Elizabeth encounters new acquantainces and new perspectives about her family relationships while weighing her feelings for Jarrick, the Mountie she left behind in Coal Valley.

I like how Elizabeth’s relationship with Jarrick matured in this second novel and how she works through disappointments and setbacks as the story progresses. I was less enamored by the supporting characters in this novel which mainly comprise Elizabeth’s mother and sisters. While the relationship struggles between the women of this novel were realistic and believable, it became monotonous reading after a while.

Julie, Elizabeth’s sister seemed to be the star of all the drama in the novel, which is okay, but as she is not the main character, her escapades didn’t draw me in as much. I liked how Mrs. Thatcher was portrayed throughout the book, and how she and Elizabeth come to a deeper understanding of each other’s inherent strength by the end of the novel.

Overall, I didn’t dislike Where Trust Lies but I can’t unreservedly recommend it as a compelling sequel to Where Courage Calls. Bethany House gave me a complimentary copy of Where Trust Lies by Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan for my candid review.

Where Courage Calls by Janette Oke and Laurel Oke Logan

Heartfelt and Encouraging

I’ve seen the Love Comes Softly movies and I’ve heard of Janette Oke but Where Courage Calls is the first novel I’ve read by her. I was pleasantly surprised. Oke’s characters, especially Beth, Molly, and Frank, have warmth and depth that create a poignant story of trying to do one’s best and looking for ways to help and encourage people.

When I started reading Where Courage Calls, I was a bit confused. I recently saw Hallmark Channel’s movie When Calls the Heart. I wondered if the book were a repeat of the movie. I was delightfully surprised to discover that When Courage Calls mainly tells the story of Beth’s first year of teaching after she arrives in Coal Valley. The first few chapters do follow the movie’s main plot but not closely so it was still interesting reading.

Beth is a wealthy young woman who accepts her first teaching position in a small, remote mining town. Where Courage Calls follows Beth through her first year of teaching. When Beth arrives in Coal Valley, she finds the families of her students mourning for their fathers, and their mothers desperate.

Despite the rustic circumstances, Beth devotes herself to teaching the children, learning about the community, and finding ways to encourages other people. Despite the hopeful changes in the community, there is a mystery that brings investigating Mounties into the area. I liked the building intrigue as the story progressed.

One of my favorite characters was Frank Russo. He embodies both the tragedy and the hope of the town. I also loved how the novel resolved Beth’s dilemma of deciding which Mountie she liked the best. It was a delightful, unexpected surprise. Basically, I read this novel in short order and was sad to see it end. I’m hoping for a sequel. Bethany House Publishing sent me a complimentary copy of Where Courage Calls to review.


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Students “Go Green” with Goodwill

By guest blogger Susan Tate, Whitehall Middle School TeacherParade

Whitehall Middle School Environmental Club at the 2012 White Lake Christmas Parade.

What do you get when you take 40 energetic, earth-loving middle school kids and provide them with the opportunity and resources to create change within their school and community? Over the last four years, I have had the extreme privilege of finding out what these kids can accomplish in my role as the advisor for the Whitehall Middle School Environmental Club.

Founded in December 2008 as an extracurricular activity for students in grades 6-8, the goal of the club was to provide opportunities for stewardship projects within the school and greater Whitehall community, and to fund these projects through small fundraising projects, grants, and community partnerships.

Our accomplishments include:

  • Initiating and facilitating our middle school recycling program. We purchased recycling bins for paper for every classroom and school offices.
  • Fundraising for the Michigan Arbor Day Alliance.
  • Weeding and mulching along the bike trail with help from the Muskegon Conservation District.
  • Working with the Muskegon Conservation District on their Benston Road reforestation project.
  • Hosting recycling drives for cell phones (American Red Cross fundraiser for Haiti), plastic grocery bags, and plastic bottle caps.
  • Building bluebird houses and creating wildlife habitat on our school grounds.
  • Planting native perennials at Alcoa-Howmet’s native landscaping project.
  • Donating to EARTH University in Costa Rica.
  • Purchasing signs and recycling bins for our football field.
  • Planning and presenting “White Lake Critter Capers” at one of the White Lake Community Library’s Family Fun Nights.

These are just a few of the activities we’ve worked on over the last four years. The students that I work with have no shortage of ideas and energy. It’s fun to introduce them to community partners that can help make their dreams a reality. Our most recent partnership has been with Goodwill Industries of West Michigan on our Cross-River Recycling Challenge with Montague’s NBC Middle School ( Most of the students in the club had no idea about how much Goodwill does in our community for those in need. We are excited to help support their mission while helping Mother Earth at the same time!

ImageHelper.ashxSusan Tate teaches Earth & Environmental Science to 8th graders at Whitehall Middle School. She was named Middle School Science Teacher of the Year in 2012 by the Michigan Science Teachers Association. Under her leadership, her environmental club won $25,000 in the Lexus Eco Challenge last year. Her passion for sustainability and environmental issues takes her outside of the classroom and she shares her experiences with her students. In 2011, she visited Costa Rica to study global environmental initiatives as part of Toyota International Teacher Program, and earlier this year she was part of a carefully selected team of educators and environmentalists from 28 different countries to participate in an expedition to Antarctica with the group 2041.

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Most of these large square wood coffee tables provide several functions; from completing a look, to storage and display they are necessary in a space. The concern is which design and style will proper for the room. Is it perfect to have a wood one features chunky legs, steel features a glass top; how about the shape: square, rectangular or round? The preferences are limitless and sometimes could be confusing. These ideas may help to make selections and guide you in the way of the right large square wood coffee tables.

Speaking of large square wood coffee tables, coffee table items have in a wide variety too. There are manufacturing styles in steel. Elements such as for instance glass or mirror along with metal or alloy provide a more superior visual appeal. Whether it is walnut, pine, maple, wood or timber has a unique look and feel to it. Oak and maple will be on the more stylish appearance, with walnut and cherry having a more conventional shape, and metal materials provide a more modern appearance. The coffee table can be found in a wide selection of items: wood, glass and metal are popular alternatives.

After you have calculated a budget for your large square wood coffee tables, decided your style, functionality, purpose, size and substance or material it is time for you to shop your coffee table. That is the best part about designing. You are able to purchase from the department stores, also you can cruise the second-hand shop or find in the vintage furniture stores. Just remember to create with you the dimensions of the space, the room accessible before the couch, the height of the couch and images of different furnishings. These will help you to select something thats to scale, beautiful in style and good large square wood coffee tables for your room.

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Radiohead do Portishead’s ‘The Rip’

10 06 2008

I didn’t manage to see Radiohead at the weekend (A moral choice. I refuse to pay for overpriced tickets) and have heard very mixed reports but instead, here’s a great clip of Radiohead covering my favourite track (‘The Rip’) off the excellent new Portishead album (Third). True, it doesn’t have the deadly synth bit that’s on the original but still, well worth checking out.


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  • 1-hour ultimate airboat ride
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The hours airboat ride was great and we saw several gators. The park had some unusual animals and it was great to meet them in the petting zoo.

This amazing tour package is the ultimate way to experience Wild Florida. When it comes to airboat eco tours, there is simply no comparison to Wild Florida. Just a short drive from the Orlando and Disney area, we offer beautiful day tours that guests of all ages will love. Travel deep into the protected swamps, marshes and rivers that make up the Central Florida Everglades. Get an in-depth look at the gators, birds, eagles, trees and plants that can be found in our beautiful wetlands. This is natural and authentic Florida at its best! We guarantee you won’t see any development, homes, or signs of human life. Come see how good it feels to be in the middle of nowhere.

After the tour, explore our amazing Wildlife Park! The Wild Florida Wildlife Park gives visitors the opportunity to watch, touch and even feed some of Florida’s native land-dwelling animals, as well as various species of tropical birds. Explore our amazing park full of zebra, turkey, watusi, zedonk, deer, water buffalo, emu, wild boar, zebu monster alligator, and much more! Visit the tropical bird aviary, hands-on alligator demonstrations, gift shop, and 500 ft. sightseeing dock. Discover the Hawk Swamp boardwalk through a pristine Florida cypress swamp ecosystem.

This package is the ultimate tour to experience an airboat, which is an adventure you shouldn't miss while in Florida. Gray Line Orlando has many pick-up locations in Central Florida, including pick-up spots throughout the tourist regions of International Drive, Kissimmee, Disney and Lake Buena Vista. Their knowledgeable tour guides will help make the drive into the Central Florida Swamp regions easy and enjoyable. Sit back, relax and let Gray Line drive you into literally the middle of nowhere, yet only 40 minutes from the theme park gates!

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We Need A Reformation Of Manners!

WilberforceWilliam Wilberforce is famous as the British MP who fought for the abolition of the Slave Trade. Against great odds, he led the fight against an activity that was thought vital by most of his fellow citizens because of its huge economic value to the British Empire. He was branded a traitor and opposed by powerful corporates and politicians. His struggle lasted fifty years and it was only three days before he died that Wilberforce heard the news that slavery had been abolished across the empire. His incredible contribution has been referred to by historians as ‘one of the turning events in the history of the world’.

But Wilberforce’s goal was much bigger than changing his nation’s laws. He set out to do nothing less than inform and shape the nation’s social conscience.  He called this “the reformation of manners.” Before his time, a respectable citizen could stroll past an eleven year-old prostitute on a London street without feeling a twinge of outrage. But Wilberforce set out to change the status quo, and challenge the evils tolerated by ‘polite society’. His goal was to change not just the law but people’s hearts and minds, so that social evils like slavery, child prostitution, alcoholism, public profanity and extreme poverty would not be contemplated or tolerated by good citizens.

nairobiI believe our own nation desperately needs Wilberforces today! We live in a time when greed has been enshrined as a virtue; when young schoolboys hold up corrupt politicians as role models for how to get rich quickly without hard work. Soldiers are accused of looting the citizens they should be protecting but those same citizens will gleefully loot an overturned fuel or beer truck on the highway. Immigration officers turn a blind eye to illegal aliens. Drug dealers sell their wares with impunity. City council workers ignore the abuse of building regulations. The rich and middle class are oblivious to the extreme income disparities across our nation.

It’s not enough for us to express our disgust with the status quo on social media! We each need to begin to see our vocation as our space to bring about the reformation of manners. If you are a parent, you need to take your role of bringing up children with strong moral values seriously. If you are a media practitioner or entertainer, use your platform for the betterment of society. If you are an accountant or lawyer or farmer or marketer how is your practice or career or business not just adding to your bottom line but also helping create a better nation?

The second law of thermodynamics states that disorder is the natural state of things. Things generally move towards a state of less energy and more decay unless fresh energy is injected from an outside source. History confirms this. Things don’t just get better over time; someone must act boldly and sacrificially for our nation to change for the better.

As Edmund Burke, another 18th Century British parliamentarian once said, ‘All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing’.

4 responses to “We Need A Reformation Of Manners!

  1. How about you start with what you are more familiar with – the Church. Get rid of mPesa pastors, miracle healers, prophets (fake or otherwise). Crossover to your Catholic brothers and remove the child molesters

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Archive for honesty

Life Hurts ~ God Heals ~ Recycling My Pain

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This is the last of the “Life Hurts ~ God Heals Recovery Series.” I am sorry it has taken me so long to get the last one out to you. I do pray you have been blessed and helped by what you have read.

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R.E.C.O. V. E. R. Y

“I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners. I created the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near, Says the Lord, And I will heal him” (Isaiah 57:18-19).

No matter how we behave, God WANTS to heal us. He wants to use our experiences to help heal other people. He will use your pain to help others too.

Part One ~ “R” Realize we are not God…

Part Two ~ “E” Earnestly believe that God exists…

Part Three ~ C  Consciously choose to commit all our life and will to Christ’s care and control.

Part Four ~ “O”  Openly examine and confess our faults to ourselves, to God, and to someone we trust.

Part Five ~ “V“ Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in our lives and humbly ask Him to remove our character defect.

Part Six ~ “E” Evaluate all my relationships and offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others except when to do so would harm them or others.

Part Seven ~ “R“ Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for your life and gain the power to do it.

Part Eight ~ “YYield myself to God to be used to bring the Good News to others by both my example and my words.

1) He gives us a free will ~ We all either help or hurt others. “Behold, I set before you today a blessings and a curse; the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I commanded you today, and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but then turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known” (Deut. 11:26-28)

2) To get our attention ~ God uses it to wake us up. Pain should be an alarm in our life.  “Blows that hurt cleanse evil away, as do stripes the inner depths of the heart” (Proverbs 20:30).  “Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance” (2 Cor. 7:9).

3) To teach me to depend on Him ~ “It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes” (Psalm 119:71). “Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us, in whom we trust that He will still deliver us…” (1 Cor. 1:9-10).

4) To give us a ministry to others ~ “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God” (1 Cor. 1:4).

God NEVER wastes a hurt. Being someone He can use is NOT being perfect! In our weakness, He is strong.

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear…” (1 Peter 3:15).

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2).

Openly and honestly share your testimony with others just like someone has shared theirs with you during tribulation.

We cannot get out of our pain without the help of others.

No high points are possible without the low points. Share one high point and one low point.

We are all in need of recovery one way or another. God wants to recycle our pain.

Are you willing to share and help others?

Just be humble, be honest, be real and don’t lecture, just be a witness.


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Save the date for the 4th Annual Greenfield Picnic

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Help us kick off the 2014-15 school year!

The 4th Annual Greenfield Picnic will be held on Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 from 4:30 – 6:30 pm. Many volunteers will be needed to ensure this event is a success. Parents who would like to sign up to help at the picnic can sign up using the BBQ Volunteer Online Schedule or contact Brenda Meisner ( or 436-9720). A detailed letter will be sent home in September. We are looking forward to seeing all of the Greenfield Families.

Have a safe and enjoyable summer,
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Opamp circuits:

Repressilator: The repressilator is a genetic oscillator (3). Here we build an electronic approximation of the repressilator. Gene expression is represented by the output of opamps U2, U3 and U5 below. Protein concentration is represented by the output of U1, U4 and U6. If all of the gene representing opamps have absolute gain greater than 2 (e.g. -R2/R1) then the system oscillates. The RC circuits (e.g. R3C1) represent the time constant of production/degradation of protein. LTspice model, which requires the constant module and the noise module explained below. In a real circuit the noise module is not necessary because real resistors are noisy, and so the oscillator starts up quickly. In the simulation, the oscillator can enter a metastable state for a long time until numerical error starts the oscillation.
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Neural models:

See also a hardware neurons page I generated in 2005.

FHN: Maeda and Makino (1) show how to model a neuron using 3 transistors for a FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) type neuron (simplified from Hodgkin-Huxley formulation). The FitzHugh-Nagumo scheme replaces the fast Na current of the HH model with a simplified fast, depolarizing, activation process, and replaces the slow Na inactivation and slow, repolarizing, K current by a single slow inactivation process. The circuit is show below for the FHN neuron. The circuit produces a constant train of simulated action potentials (AP) when a leak current is applied via R4. Note that the amplitude of the simulated action potential is much larger than that of a physiological neuron. Simulated AP amplitude is around 5 volts, while in real life the AP amplitude is around 100 mV. LTspice model.
FHN neuron
FHN waveform

Adding inactivation: A modification of Maeda and Makino (1) circuit simulates sodium inactvation. Below, the cyan trace is sodium current and the red trace potassium current. LTspice model.

Bursting: By adding one more repolarizing process, modeled by two more transistors, Maeda and Makino (1) can produce a neuron with bursting behavior. LTspice model.
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Heart cell: Maeda, Yagi, and Makino (2) extend the model to include heart cells. They slightly modified one of the repolarizing processes to make a plateau potential, similar to that found in a ventricle cell. The implementation below includes a pulse generator which turns on at 4.0 seconds to pace the cell at a rate higher than its endogenous rate. It takes about 3 beats to completely phase-lock. LTspice model.
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Simulated ECG: Combining several heart cells into a 2D network (ventricle) and driving them from a simulated atrial pacemaker via a purkinje fiber system, then adding all of the cell potentials and passing them through a lumped model of the body results in a simulated ECG. LTspice model zip file.
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Computational: The modules in this ZIP file make up a minimal set to converrt LTspice into an analog computer. Unzip them into one directory. The modules define an adder, multiplier, constant, absolute value, and integrator. The damped_osc_test.asc file (in the zip file) can be used to test the modules. Plot the position output versus time, as below. The reset input on the integrators restarts the integrals at the initial conditions, therefore restarting the simulation. The damped spring-mass oscillator equation oscillates if the damping is low enough. To set the value of the constant module to 10 (for example), right-click and enter constant=10. The average amplitude calculation uses a lowpass filter to detect when to restart the integrators.
damped osc

Noise: The noise module I wrote produces band-limited, white noise with settable band width and amplitude, and average value of zero. Below is the module circuit and an example of its use. To use this download and put in the same directory the following files: noise_module.asc, noise_module.asy, and noise_use.asc. Open noise_use.asc and run it, click on the noise signal to view it. In the Simulate>Edit Sim Command dialog...

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