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Looks like Hollywood superstar Vin Diesel can't get enough of his 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage' co-actress Deepika Padukone, as he just confirmed xXx's fourth installment and that too with Dips again. This has of course excited all the fans out there! Director D. J. Caruso further increased the excitement level saying 'xXx 4' would be titled 'Serena's Revenge'. 'xXx: Return of Xander Cage' is set to hit the theatres on January 14.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Paper Craft Planet challenge!

Hello everyone! Have you heard about Papercraft Planet( If you haven't you should go on over and check it out. It is another crafting community that you can join and it is tons of fun! Can you ever have too many crafting friends or places to share your creativity? Well...Hampton Arts is hosting the Studio G Paper Piecing challenge #7 on there and you have two weeks to enter. You can find it under groups-then Studio G. I have a bunch of the new Studio G sets that are available on for purchase. They have so many good ones that I decided to get a bunch of them! I plan on inking them up and creating sometime this week so stay tuned! I made a card using paper piecing that I want to share with you today! The set is one of my favs from My Favorite Things stamps. I really love this set and use it again and again. I paper pieced the raincoat, the ruffle on the coat and yes even that little dog's sweater. Hope you enjoy it! The cards also works for the MOJO84 sketch and the Who's that Girl Challenge this week. Hope you are having a great week!

Hope you have a great day Rain or Shine! (that sentiment just works can you blame me?) :0)

Card Details:
: Rain or Shine (MFT stamps)
Paper: Design Paper from SU (can't remember the name), Bashful blue, real red, and White (Papertrey ink)
Ink: Graphite Black Brilliance
Accessories: Copics, buttons, red striped ribbon (SU), scallop punch (SU), circle punches (SU), dimensionals, and adhesive

MrsETaylor said...

I love this card. Great colors and that image is awesome

pezadoodle said...

really cute! i like paper piecing more and more! i used to not like it - seems like alot of trouble but it is actually quicker than coloring.


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A Love-Love Match

-Inder Sandhu

             Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots. I run my fingers over the yellow ball smoothing out the fuzzy strands. Wilson 2 embossed in bold black letters catches my fingernail. I stuff one in my pocket.

“Match Point.” Angela announces the score.

I bounce the ball a few times. My opponent swings his racquet in anticipation of picking a side. His partner smoothes her skirt and crouches by the net. I toss the ball in the air and arch my back. My opponent skips on his toes and moves towards the forehand. I change the angle on my racquet. When the ball is at the apex of the toss I unload with all my 170 Lbs behind the serve. The serve is directed at his midriff. He’s jammed temporarily and just moves out of the way of the hundred mile and hour serve.

Thud. The ball hits the canvas behind the court. Angela throws up her hands and I run towards the players.

            “Good game guys.” I slap a few palms.

“We just hope we’d given you more competition.” He points at the 6-0, 6-0 score on the board.

I pack my tennis bag. “Good game partner.” Angela slings her bag over her broad shoulders. “Do you think we can make the playoffs?”

“Dunno. Who cares anyway? We’re just having fun, right?” I spin my phone in my hand.

Yep. Who cares about Victory.

Three weeks ago I had driven out to our weekly tennis meetup with Veronica. “I’m switching partners. I’m going to play this season with Jacob.”  Veronica’s voice was firm.

Before I could react, Jacob walked into the courts and they did the ‘fake-kiss-peck-greeting’ thing to each. I stood behind her. Next, he clasped my hand in his clammy palm.

Is he going to kiss me too? My pseudo-Indian alienation strategies made me want to chew my fingernails. I stiffened my elbow so much that it wouldn’t have bent if I had to drink the last gin and tonic of my life.

“Whassup bro.” He slapped my back.

            So the new equation was that I and Jacob were on a first name basis and Veronica and Jacob were on a kiss-cheek basis. She must really-really want to win. I would never ever ever ever change my partner to win a league. I swished my palm flat pretending to hit a forehand. What value is victory in my life?

The very next week I and my new mixed doubles partner, Angela played our first league match. We barely knew each other. We didn’t even attempt making friends. Me; on account of not giving her the wrong message. She; on account of not caring either way.

We lost the first set in a tie-break. We were down and out in the second. A great cross-court shot that Angela made left the opponents grunting. We made eye contact and decide to make a go of it. We pulled out the second set in a close 7-5 score.

            In the third set we were up 6-5 and lost the next game. In the tie-breaker, we were up two match-points. I chipped an easy return into the net because I wanted to be cute and play a low percentage drop-shot v/s an easy hard hit. On the next point Angela was standing behind the baseline. The ball was over hit and almost at Angela’s ankles.

“NO.” I yelled out, imploring her not to hit it.

Too late. She dumped the volley into the net. Ugggghhh. Two match points wasted. We lost the match on a very questionable line call. Amongst muffled apologies for not playing up to the mark we both left. I sang songs on my drive home, grooving to the music, drumming the steering wheel.

I reached home and text Angela. Well played. That was fun. It was followed by a smiley face with a halo on its head. Loss; the cost of victory? It’s easier to say who cares about winning when you lose…

Back to today’s match. We won the first set 6-0. We were up 5-0 in the second. I pondered letting them win a game, or to bagel them in the second set as well. The decision was to not give them any hope of a comeback. It wasn’t done for embarrassing them. They could’ve been boyfriend and girlfriend, or husband and wife. I should’ve cut them some slack so they won’t blame each other.

I send Angela a text message when I reach home. Good game partner. I add a smiley face. This one has a red face and the devils horns on it.

At what cost victory?

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo Review

"A Christmas tree ... It's a festive decoration, like a Halloween Pumpkin or a Valentine heart." Boo Levy

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Alfred Uhry's comedy of Jewish life in the South in 1939

Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center's Rose Firebaby

Dec. 2,7 and 9 at 7:30, and Dec 3 and 10 at 3 pm

The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington presents Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo in the intimate Rose Firebay of the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. Uhry is a southerner himself. He’s also the author of Driving Miss Daisy. I’m George Walker.

Ballyhoo in Atlanta attracted young German Jews from all over the south for a week of parties and activities culminating in the big dance on the last night. More than a few wedding announcements came on those evenings. This particular year, 1939, Atlanta was a magnetic city. The week also promised the premiere showings of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.

The Last Night of Ballyhoo opens on a comfortable living room with a Christmas tree. Lala Levy, played by Sarah Leaffer has just added a star to top the decorations. She’s bubbling over with the excitement of the premiere and is thrilled that Clark Gable may be as little as five miles away. Lala flits from one artistic pursuit to another and currently she claims to be working on a novel called Though Your Sins be Scarlet. At least for the moment she has far less interest in a date for Ballyhoo than her critical mother Boo Levy.

Boo is a wonderfully intelligent woman with a masterful grasp of families, their genealogies and their ups and downs through the south. She’s matched and occasionally overmatched by her sister in law, Reba. The two dual about family histories and events in conversations that seem to have been going on for years. While Boo as played by Gail Bray is incisive and confident, Reba Freitag played by Julie Dixon is a bit dittsy and frequently funnier.

The man of the house is Adolph Frietag. Boo is his sister and Reba was the wife of his brother Simmon. Adolph is a successful businessman. He’s the owner of Dixie Bedding. Adam Crowe plays him as a man consciously comfortable with himself and his life but also quite willing to think beyond it. It’s Adolph who’s hired Joe Farkas a young New York Jew  with roots in Hungary and Russia to come to work for him and to meet the family.

Frankly, the family doesn’t quite know what to make of Joe and he’s a bit perplexed by them a well. Adolph describes Joe as coming from East of Elbe. To Joe the Freitag Levy’s don’t seem Jewish at least not in the way that he’s used too. Meanwhile the Freitag Levy’s wonder about Joe’s perspective as well.

Reba’s daughter Sunny Freitag comes home on vacation from Wellesley where she’s actually been studying a bit of comparative religion. Adolph sends Joe to meet her at the train. Her initial reaction to Joe is that he doesn’t sound like Atlanta. He parries that she doesn’t sound like Brooklyn.

The excitement of Gone with the Wind ebbs and the focus is on Ballyhoo. Joe has quietly asked Sunny and she’s consented. Lala is on pins and needles. There’s been talk for weeks of a possible pairing with a distant Peachy Weil, but thus far no invitation and when Lala is finally pressed to call, she learns that he is not at home. In one of my favorite moments, mother Reba calls the family’s maid and gets her to see if Peachy has taken his tuxedo. When the report comes back that the tuxedo and the dancing shoes are both gone, she’s exuberant.

Peachy, in the person of the abrasive Devin May does arrive and after giving Lala some grief invites her. There’s more to the tension before during and after the dance with Lala coming home engaged and Sunny coming home by herself, but in time there’s a happy ending for both girls and the family that seems to suggest a bit of shared values. Values that will become even more sharply considered in the dark years to come.

The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington’s production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo is directed by Uhry veteran Dale McFadden.  This is his second production of …Ballyhoo… and he’s also directed Driving Miss Daisy. McFadden and his actors show real sensitivity to the Southerness of Uhry’s vision, the cadences of his characters, their foibles and their charms.

Scenic design and props for the show were by Dan Tracy with lighting by Bridget William, sound by Macy Kloville, and costumes by Emily Solt McGee.

The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington’s production of Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo plays Dec 2-10 in the Rose Firebay of the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center.

Their next production is of Jason Odell Williams Church and State directed by Liam Castellan in June.

At the theatre for you, I’m George Walker.

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While completing an M.A.T. degree in English at Indiana University, George Walker began announcing for WFIU in 1967. Along with regularly hosting classical music shows, he interviews artists and reviews plays and operas.

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How-to: Upgrade a GoDaddy VPS from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 6

November 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments

The first encounter I had with paid hosting services was Ipowerweb, now known as just Ipower. Their shared hosting service worked well for me for quite a while at a decent price, although I quickly learned that shared hosting was not-so-great when another user on the system was able to turn the server into a massive spam machine, hijacking my HTML in the process. Ipower was particularly clueless about what might have happened, and a later problem with their domain registration services finally put me off for good. So for quite some time now, this site has been hosted on a GoDaddy virtual private server.

A virtual private server allows webmasters to enjoy security and stability benefits of a dedicated server at a lower cost by sharing a larger server’s hardware amongst separate hosting customers. One major drawback however is that the virtual server is usually not supported by the hosting provider, leaving often inexperienced hosting customers to administer their own systems. Being an informed admin, I was prepared for the day when I got the email below:

Dear Peter, Regarding your server -- ineedattention. Due to the security and development improvements to the Fedora System, we will be discontinuing support for the following Operating Systems as of March 15, 2008: [...] Fedora Core 4 [...] We recommend that you upgrade the server as outlined below at your earliest convenience. [...] Once the plan change completes, a server reprovision is necessary. Please note that by doing this; all data on the server will be erased. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you make a backup of your data before continuing. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns which you have in relation to this matter. Thanks again for choosing servers. Sincerely,

Considering they outright tell you this will re-provision your server and cause data loss if done improperly, I was hoping this would go a little smoother than the last time I had to upgrade my GoDaddy virtual private server, although last time I was upgrading the Plesk interface, and not the operating system. I figured if anything, it would be more of a hassle to upgrade the operating system.

Surprisingly, the transition was relatively smooth with a few strange quirks. Some of the quirks may have been deal-breakers for other admins, but I was pretty lucky to be able to say things are running smoothly again. Read more to find out what went wrong and how things were fixed.

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Rather than re-provisioning my existing virtual server, I decided to set up a second virtual server and migrate my files and settings. The newly provisioned server included Fedora Core 6, as well as the upgraded PHP 5 and MySQL 5 packages. This was very exciting for me, because the features in PHP 5 and MySQL 5 blow away their predecessors.

The last time I provisioned a GoDaddy virtual private server, I had trouble with the Plesk “Power Pack” PostgreSQL features, so I asked them to give me PostgreSQL support this time around as well. Previously, the PostgreSQL PHP module was not included in the server’s PHP configuration. Because of Plesk, it was not particularly easy to edit the server’s PHP configuration and I deemed it impossible after a few calls to GoDaddy support who also could not explain how to connect to the PostgreSQL server that I had paid for. I was happy to see that this time, PHP was configured with the PostgreSQL module already enabled.

Before I migrated my files and settings, I updated the Plesk software through the administration interface, just in case anything went wrong during during that stage (like there were when I upgraded from Plesk 7.5 to 8). Fortunately that went smoothly, so the next step was migrating everything.

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  • 1 Pete // Mar 4, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    I am facing this exact problem right now. Upgrading to Fedora Core 7 on a Virtual Go Daddy Server. I know nothing about this stuff at all and I’m thinking I should just forget it. I cannot have things screwed up for 3 months, or even 3 days. I just became aware of the Fedora change option and I do not want to do it. I will stick with the old Fedora 4 thank you very much. I have spent too much time manually finding and changing the “PHP ON” areas of the server code and that was beyond a nightmare. As for starting over with a new server and migrating…. I can’t remember all the stuff I have to migrate. There must be a better way, and why must we change the operating system in the first place?

    Terminal codes, shell codes, FTP codes… what’s a regular person to do? Go Daddy should offer a per incident support fee for BIG trouble items like this, not leave us all hanging like Chads in the wind. I give them a 0/10 for this fiasco!

  • 2 Time to ditch GoDaddy? // Mar 12, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    […] a GoDaddy VPS customer, and amateur tutorial author and reviewer, this upset me, so I wrote a note on GoDaddy’s public relations feedback […]

  • 3 DrewryNewsNetwork // Oct 26, 2010 at 10:55 am

    Hopefully, everything you said will help me upgrade my server, in making php & mysql 5 work on the VPS!

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Top 10 Supermax Prisons in The World

Each one of us knows what a prison is used for: to lock up the lawbreakers and offenders. Unfortunately, some peace offenders and law breakers won’t give up on their brutal and negative activities even after being locked up. They will use every possible way to get their escape from prison and continue their peace breaking activities. They can even go as far as murdering correctional officers on the premises to voice their frustration of being locked up! For such notorious prisoners, Supermax prisons are designed and built by department of corrections to counter their evil-genius ideas to get out of the premises. Such prisons are carefully laid out, technically supervised and watched by a huge number of guards 24/7. In the following list is covering 10 most secure prisons ever built and currently functional on this Earth:

10-Fuchu Prison, Japan

Top 10 Supermax Prisons in The World

This prison was originally built to host the leaders supporting communism and those who played part in the Korean freedom movement. This prison has an astonishing capacity for prisoners i.e. 2842. The need for such a large prison was realized after the destruction of the ex-largest prison of Japan by an earthquake. This prison is intelligently divided into several sections. For instance, the foreigner inmates section, mentally disabled prisoners etc. This enables each type of prisoners to be kept with their peers and to avoid any fight within the facility.

Unfortunately, despite of the intelligent planning, the prisoners held at the Fuchu Prison face harsh conditions that are hard to cope for any prisoner. No heating or air-conditioning, having water-like non-nutritious diet consisting soup and rice just 2 times a day and poor sanitation conditions give it a bad reputation. A somewhat brighter side of this prison is that it contains a vocational training center for the moral training of its inmates.

9-HM Prison Belmarsh, England

Supermax Prisons

It is one of the highest security prison in UK. HM Prison is situated in Woolwich. It was situated in April, 1991. HM Belmarsh has a capacity of 855 inmates. It is used to house those prisoners that are related to severe terrorism related activities. This prison is built as a mixture of both Supermax and normal cells. It is based on an infrastructure of 4 residential blocks. The residential blocks are divided into 40% solitary-confinement cells whereas the rest of the 60% are double-bed cells for the “better” prisoners. Due to the extreme, harsh conditions at HM Prison, there are several recreational activities introduced.

Those prisoners with a  tendency to think for suicide are given special psychological treatment. Moreover, a sports room, gyms, educational center and workshops offer multiple opportunities for all types of inmates. According to Wikipedia, the HM Belmarsh has a contract with Charlton Athletic F.C. for the coaching of prisoners. Sports offered at this prison include badminton, volleyball, soft tennis, weight lifting, basketball and some sports for the above 50 and 60 years old. Formal education options include arts, engineering, cooking, maths, music and much more. Last but not the least, the prison offers a well-established library with 3 sessions of 20 minutes per week allowed to inmates.

8-San Quentin State Prison, California

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This state prison is more than a century old! It was established in 1852. This prison mostly hosts the death row inmates and has facility of execution by orders of capital punishment. This prison has a strong framework and infrastructure based on 1.75 square kilometers. It employs almost 1700 staff members and spends approximately a whopping $210 million on its services and inmates hosting expenditure. It is California’s largest prison with an inmate capacity of 3082. However, this facility has usually been overcrowded with an average overpopulation of 37% or more. With the latest statistics from Wikipedia, in January 2016’s survey, this prison was hosting 3,682 inmates.

However, for the better-behaving inmates who are not on death row, this prison offers some good programs. For example, the inmates who are well behaved and have a good baseball talent are allowed to have matches from outside teams within the prison facility in summers. For the inmates who wish to have formal studies, this prison has an exclusive educational system to offer. Named as Prison University project, it offers official degree granting study offers for both moral and formal education of willing inmates.

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7-Arthur Road Jail, India

Supermax Prisons

This prison is located in Mumbai, India. It holds the position of a “Central Jail”. News of being transferred to this prison sends chills down the spine of even the most strong inmates.

This prison has earned its name as a place of filth, smell and harmful conditions for human habitation. It was built with a holding capacity of around 800 but it holds round about 2000 inmates at a time. This exceeding amount of inmates quite clearly explains the conditions.

However, keeping this aspect aside, on the security aspect, this prison is a Supermax security prison. It is believed to have walls that don’t get destroyed even by average bomb.

6-Portlaoise Prison, Ireland

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Anti-aircraft guns, accurate and precise rifle-armed men ready to shoot on guard towers and a barrage of door escape sensors and cameras pointing at almost every possible angle in the facility; all these features give it more a look of a border control agency rather than a prison! This prison came into operation in the late 1830’s. It has an operational capacity of 399 prisoners, however, considering the danger associated with every prisoner, the numbers are kept far below the capacity. The ones captivated here are the most serious drug offenders, serial killers and ruthless rapists who will stop at nothing. Since it hosts such high profile criminals, there have been numerous attempts of external bombings to initiate a massive breakout. This is why the region above the prison is labelled as a “NO FLY ZONE” to ensure Supermax security!

5-Qincheng Prison, China

Supermax Prisons

This prison was established in the late 1950’s. It was built mainly for the purpose of captivation of the active participants of the famous Democracy Movement. This movement lasted for several decades until the 90’s. This prison is built in the northwest of the capital of China i.e. Beijing. It was built with the help of the Soviet Union. This prison is marked by its special feature of being enclosed in a valley. There’s no escape route except the main gate which is heavily guarded. If a prisoner tries to escape from the back of the premises, he/she will end up in the enclosed valley with nowhere to escape. This Supermax prison is guarded by approx. 5000 armed guards.

Occasionally, even logistics trucks are emptied at gates to check for any prisoner hidden inside. It also contains one of the tallest guard towers in the world to keep an eagle’s eye on even the slightest movement within the premises. A true “dungeon” indeed!

4-North Branch Correctional Institution, Maryland

Supermax Prisons

This Supermax security prison commenced in 2003 as one of the foremost highest security prisons. It is deemed safe for even housing the worst of the criminals like cannibals, serial killers and even death row inmates. It houses approx. 1471 inmates. Its construction cost of about $175 billion makes it quite clear about its extensive security measures. Technologically, it’s one of the most advanced prison which requires a minimal number of technical watch-officers.

A notable feature of this facility is its uniqueness of its build-style. Normally prisons are situated with watch towers at the outer side of the framework of the facility. However, the North Branch Correctional center features a center based watch tower with all the prison buildings around it. Last but not the least, to avoid prisoners breaking out or making potentially harmful weapons within their cells, ballistic-resistant glass has been used. All this boosts up the cost of hosting a prisoner up to $34,000 per annum!

3-Black Dolphin Prison, Russia

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Home to almost 700 inmates, this prison facility has an astonishing 1:1.3 ratio of inmates to guards. This means that almost 900 guards are appointed for 700 inmates. Almost all the prisoners kept here are severely misbehaved ones facing life behind bars. To keep the layout of the prison secure from inmates, eyes are covered with a thick cloth while transportation to various blocks. The only recreation for inmates at this Supermax prison is a 90 minute exercise to relax themselves. A head count by the wardens every 15 minutes leave no gap in the security for any successful escape. Some inhumane conducts imposed on the prisoners include the restriction for them to sleep during daylight hours. This means that they have fixed and scheduled hours for sleeping and any extra sleep will cause them trouble.

Let me mention that the name “Black Dolphin” has been attributed to this prison because of a sculpture at the gate of the prison. Interestingly, this sculpture was designed by the prisoners themselves!

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2-Souza Baranowski Center, Massachusetts

Supermax Prisons

This prison facility makes its name due to its technological advancement. It has a reasonable capacity of 1024 inmates. Usually the number of inmates has always been below the capacity. Souza Baranowski Center is one of the American supermax prisons.

It holds the pride of being strategically designed by a highly qualified team from the famous institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its layout and systems were first planned on computer software and tested before putting them to practical work. It has a keyless system throughout the facility. All doors are centrally controlled from the control center. The camera system designed by the team covers almost every possible aspect in the prison 24/7.

A whopping number of 370 full High Definition CCTV cameras monitor the prisoners. The video record is kept safe for revision later on for any possible gaps in the security.  Even motion sensors are installed on each door to hint at the slightest escape attempt! It is also based completely on a renewable power source like solar power and hydroelectric. This means that all the electric powered systems cannot be switched off by a deliberate power cut by anyone as it has its own power supply.

A truly technology inspired prison for the notorious criminals!

1-Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX), Florence Colorado

Supermax Prisons

This facility is built on a 37 acre land with a housing capacity of 490 Supermax prisoners. It has three separate sub-facilities of different security levels. Home to some of the most notorious mass murderers, this facility was created in 1994. It was created after a series of murders of correctional officers in the normal prisons. There was a dire need to host such prisoners in the securest cells in solitary confinement. The prisoners at ADX are locked down for 22 to 23 hours a day. With the latest statistics, the numbers of inmates subject to the Supermax security are 404.

The cells are guarded with double cell doors like first there’s a sliding solid metal door, followed by a door made of solid metal bars and this sequence repeats one more time. This means 4 doors in total for one prisoner which makes it almost soundproof! Most of the prison is above the ground. The only part  which is underground is a corridor which links cell blocks.

ADX Florence also famous as “Alcatraz of the Rockies” tops the list of supermax prisons in the world.

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InMe are an English alternative rock band who have to date released 6 highly successful studio albums, spawning a number of Top 40 UK singles and years of touring and playing great shows and festivals around the UK, Europe and the world.

InMe with new drummer Tom Dalton

Over a 20-year career, the band have toured with the likes of Alien Ant Farm, The Rasmus, Nickelback, Limp Bizkit, Pendulum, Deftones, Serj Tankian, Staind, Feeder and Biffy Clyro as well as numerous major festival appearances including Reading, Download, and Sonisphere. InMe were recently awarded a coveted KKKKK in Kerrang for their 2016 Download performance.

In 2015 the band released the first part of their ambitious album Trilogy – a triple album made up of three thematically distinct albums: Dawn, Sentience and Quietus. Trilogy – Dawn was released in May (Kerrang! KKKK) and the band toured to support it. The band are currently working on Trilogy – Sentience.

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Dave McPherson – Vocals, Guitar @DaveInMe
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Child Marriages against Islam

Protestors holding a picture of Fawziya Ammodi, 12 year old who died in childbirth

In 2008, Nujood Ali’s story got headlines around the world. The ten-year-old girl had escaped from her husband, to whom she had been forcibly married, and went to the courthouse and asked for a divorce. Ali was eventually granted her divorce. However, the court asked Ali to pay compensation to her husband because she was the one initiating the divorce.

Under Islamic law, whoever initiates a divorce carries the consequence. So, if the husband initiates a divorce he cannot take back the dowry and must complete payment of it if he has not paid it in full.  If the wife initiates divorce, she must return the dowry to the husband. Unfortunately, the court did not seem to recognize the circumstances of the situation and applied the traditional rules for divorce by asking Nujood to pay. Nujood’s lawyer, though, was able to raise the money.

After her divorce, Ali received fame for her story and was even named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year. Ali’s story called attention to the practice of child marriages in Yemen.

Since Ali’s story came to the forefront, the Yemeni Parliament has tried to pass legislation that would raise the legal age of marriage to 17, but has faced opposition from conservative members who say that it violates Islamic law to set an age, with the often cited example of Ayesha, the youngest wife of the Prophet Muhammad.

Of course this comparison is problematic on a number of levels. First, we are talking about two different times and places. Life expectancy was shorter in 7th century Arabia and so major life events took place earlier. Second, the Prophet Muhammad did not consummate the marriage right away in order to give Ayesha her childhood. Third, even though Ayesha never bore children, by the time her marriage was consummated, the risk that we see now with these child brides would have decreased. Finally and most importantly, what we know about Ayesha indicates that she was an emotionally healthy individual and this could only have happened in a situation that she was comfortable with.

In the case of child brides in Yemen, young girls are being forced into marriages without their consent and often are subjected to violence and rape by their husbands, who many times violate their promise to wait to consummate the  marriage until the girl is older. As a result, many times these girls are physically injured, become pregnant, have difficult labor, and sometimes die.

Nujood’s story is unfortunately not unique. Fawziya Ammodi is a 12-year-old married off to a man twice her age, whose baby died after three days of labor. This month, Elham Mahdi, a 13-year-old girl, died of internal bleeding within days of her marriage. All three of these girls’ stories highlight a pressing need to put a stop to this practice, which is against Islam by the mere fact that the girl is coerced into a marriage. Marriage in Islam is a sacred covenant that each party must willingly enter into. The fact that these girls were not willing should be grounds enough to prevent it from happening.

As a Muslim woman, it is frustrating for me that these kinds of practices are continued and Islam is implicated. A central principle of the faith is accountability for actions and this can only happen with choice. Everything should be done to protect these girls and to give them their rights under Islam to choose their spouse and when they are ready for marriage.

Did you hear about Nujood Ali’s story? Do you think it is fair to implicate Islam in child marriages? What should be done to stop this practice? Please share your comments below.

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  1. Hello,

    This piece of document have highlighed the cause very correctly. On contrary to the practices, the minimum age must be fixed for marriage of girls and boys. It is very true that the 7th century period was totally diffrent but now situation got changes very much.

    I would request to all intellectual and laureate who have good commond in field of Shariat to initiate this noble act to save the childhood.

  2. hello,
    i had heard the similar story to Nujood Ali before, and i can’t imagenation if it happaned to me, but i only can express regret over the matter, and i hope such a thing Will never happen again.

  3. It’s so sad to read these kinds of stories… The old traditional values of religion will never change and there is always going to be an excuse to do things the old way and if you do not agree they will cast you out.

    That is a fact for any religion, not only the Islam… but what I don’t understand is why people who do not agree, who feel that a change is needed, keep professing Islam?


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W5: Generations of Stars Pose for Family Portrait

A new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history. The striking infrared picture shows a colorful cosmic cloud, called W5, studded with multiple generations of blazing stars. It also provides dramatic new evidence that massive stars — through their brute winds and radiation — can trigger the birth of stellar newborns. The most massive stars in the universe form out of thick clouds of gas and dust. The stars are so massive, ranging from 15 to about 60 times the mass of our sun, that some of their material slides off in the form of winds. The scorching-hot stars also blaze with intense radiation. Over time, both the wind and radiation blast away surrounding cloud material, carving out expanding cavities.

Astronomers have long suspected that the carving of these cavities causes gas to compress into successive generations of new stars. As the cavities grow, it is believed that more and more stars arise along the cavities’ expanding rims. The result is a radial “family tree” of stars, with the oldest in the middle of the cavity, and younger and younger stars farther out. Evidence for this theory can be seen easily in pictures of many star-forming regions, such as W5, Orion and Carina. For example, in the new Spitzer picture of W5, the most massive stars (some of the blue dots) are at the center of two hollow cavities, and younger stars (pink or white) are embedded in the elephant-trunk-like pillars as well as beyond the cavity rim. However, it is possible that the younger stars just happen to be near the edge of the cavities and were not triggered by the massive stars. Millions of years from now, the massive stars in W5 will die in tremendous explosions. When they do, they will destroy some of the young nearby stars — the same stars they might have triggered into being. W5 spans an area of sky equivalent to four full moons and is about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. The Spitzer picture was taken over a period of 24 hours. The color red shows heated dust that pervades the region’s cavities. Green highlights the dense clouds, and white knotty areas are where the youngest of stars are forming. The blue dots are older stars in the star-forming cloud, as well as unrelated stars behind and in front of the cloud.

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David Gerrold

David Gerrold is a cult science-fiction author. For people who care about Star Trek he has written episodes and is the author of the book "The Trouble with Tribbles". For fans of military SF he wrote the four books in "The War Against the Chtorr" series - we have been waiting twenty years for the final volume(s).

And then there is his time-travel novel "The Man Who Folded Himself". Gerrold is a career-acolyte of Robert Heinlein: "The War Against the Chtorr" series is explicit homage to "Starship Troopers" while "The Man Who Folded Himself" parallels exactly Heinlein's classic "All You Zombies".

So what to make of it?

Gerrold starts promisingly in the style of "The Catcher in the Rye". Danny is the truculent, bored adolescent orphan being paid $1,000 a month by his 'Uncle Jim' to attend University. As he observes: "An apartment, a car and a thousand a week for keeping my nose clean."

Soon however Uncle Jim dies and Danny is left with a timebelt, a personal time machine. Now Gerrold leaves his promising story development to spend 7 technophilic pages describing this device to no advantage to the underlying narrative whatsoever. What did his editor think he was doing?

We soon revert to old-fashioned story-telling as Danny and his one-day-advanced doppelgänger go to the races and clean-up. Cue another techno-excursion into multiverse-ontology as Gerrold presents his solution to the obvious paradoxes: plot development stalls and dies at this new irruption of fan-boy geekdom. Eventually the story resumes although with less élan as Danny meets a female version of himself (Diana) from a remote alternate timeline and they produce a male boy. Well, you can see where it's all going to end up.

Somewhere between here and there Danny ends up fancying himself rotten and Gerrold devotes some pages to explore homosexual relationships. In his afterword Gerrold makes a big issue about his dilemma as to whether to include this topic and his difficulties in writing it. However this all seems to me ridiculously self-indulgent. The question is whether the gay sex episode is consistent with and necessary to character and plot development. In fact it's gratuitous and contrived.

Gerrold is basically a good writer and an intelligent man: I am still waiting impatiently for his final book in the "Chtorr" series. But he takes his own opinions and his own sexuality far too seriously and this self-centredness detracts from his literary accomplishments. So if you want to see the difference between 'mere science-fiction' and literature then here it is in the nutshell. There was a good novel trying to get out here but Gerrold strangled it by gratuitous techno-info-dumping and gay-rights-prosletysing. He may believe this is a strength of genre-writing but it isn't.


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Night after night, Batman faces Gotham's most fearsome criminals: gangsters, lunatics, and supervillains. And while he may take the occasional pummeling, he manages to survive those long nights. Or does he?

Inspired by Kim Kardashian's gluteal photoshoot, Comics Should Be Good made "Break the Internet" the theme for this week's The Line It Is Drawn drawing challenge. Commenters were invited to come up with ideas for comic book plot twists that would "Break the Internet" and the contributing artists illustrated the various ideas.

BigBearSpeaks submitted this idea, which was drawn by artist Nick Perks:

Yep, just like Hank and Dean Venture, Batman dies on a regular basis and is replaced by a fresh Bruce Wayne clone. Twist!

Head over to The Line It Is Drawn for more imaginary plot twists, involving Catwoman, the Green Goblin, Squirrel Girl, and more.

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

19 June 2008

I have become fascinated by genre-defying cover songs, songs that are originally recorded in one genre and re-recorded by other artists in seemingly disparate genres. There are many of these types of songs floating around, but the one I heard recently that inspired me was the cover version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” as performed by Patti Smith. Whoa! I read on the Wikipedia entry that Kurt Cobain was modelling one of my favorite bands, The Pixies, in this song. Good choice.

The Patti Smith recording is a more acoustic version, using banjo and violin in the instrumentation (Or is it fiddle? How do you tell? See my previous post, “Fiddle or Violin?”). Now I do like Patti Smith, but I would love to have an instrumental-only version of this song; I respect her artistic expression. She throws it at the wall and it sticks, but it gets a little chatty, in my opinion. Nirvana rocks it, but Patti Smith brings an interesting new undertone of folk to it. This is from her album of covers entitled "Twelve".

Check it out! Click the atomic particle below and a new window will open. The Nirvana version is first, to refresh your memory. Listen on the best speakers you have; the Patti Smith version is full of quiet and subtle details, including comprehendable lyrics.

Listen to 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'


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This Essay examines Google’s adoption of the novel and unorthodox for-profit philanthropy model. Google created a division of its for-profit company that is tasked with pursuing philanthropic activities. Specifically, this division is responsible for addressing the global issues of climate change, poverty, and emerging diseases. Of course, companies have long blended philanthropic and business objectives. They make contributions, commit to corporate social responsibility, or even form as social enterprises. For-profit philanthropy, though, differs from these familiar techniques in both structure and scale. Likewise, for-profit philanthropy stands in stark contrast to the nonprofit, tax-exempt form of organization typically used by those pursuing exclusively philanthropic endeavors. This Essay investigates the for-profit philanthropy model, drawing out these distinctions as well as the reasons why Google chose to adopt it. These reasons reveal a fascinating mismatch between Google’s philanthropic vision and that of nonprofit law. Exploring this divergence exposes the fundamental policy choices underlying the legal structures for philanthropic activity, as well as the undertheorized boundary between nonprofits and for-profits.

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Iron Block V8s

The future of the Iron Block American V8, its here to stay.

Hot rods, resto mods, street rods, muscle cars,…  are all about what’s under the hood.  Everywhere you look its all about the LS, LT, and Coyote series high tech all aluminum motors.  What happened to the Iron Block V8?  The foundation of American’s hot rodding.  What’s wrong with the Iron Block V8?  Nothing!  The Iron Block represents hot rodding in its truest form, its the tried and true classic.  Forget about silly looking plastic covers, tangled messes of wire, relays, and computers.  The Iron Block V8 often dressed with a distributor, carburetor, and a set side bolted chrome valved covers offers the simplicity and character that belongs under the hood of a hot rod.  Its certainly not forgotten but its taken a backseat to the newer aluminum power plants in every publication.  As manufactures are phasing out the Iron Block V8s the and aluminum block engines become more common in bone yards for donors its natural that they find their way into hot rods.  Is it where they belong?   Its not an easy answer and they certainly have their place, but not in my ride.  Something about the simplicity of a carbureted V8 never gets old, its something you just don’t see anymore.  Have we forgotten what its all about?  Why are we trying to bring our daily drivers into old school fun?  Lets keep it simple and keep the Iron Block V8 alive.  Moving forward we’ll cover what makes the Iron Block V8 right at home in your ride, pride in what you’ve got.

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Christmas sales for 2011 at notebook and accessories retailer, The Notebook Company, were 100% up on December 2010 – thanks to the sale of Apple’s hot new iPad. Sales of iPads now account for 20% of the company’s revenue.

This is according to Christopher Riley, MD of The Notebook Company, who says the iPad is the “next big technology craze”.
“We have managed to secure a steady supply of stock, so while many consumers are battling to find stock we have been able to supply demand – hence our bumper sales in December.”
He adds: “While I think iPad sales will remain brisk this year, I don’t see them accounting for more then 20% of our total revenue going forward. Notebooks will remain our bread and butter, for now.”


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P.S. - The actress you were thinking of was Uma Thurman, and you were right - they're called the Crazy 88's (you should trust your instincts more!) ;o)

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The U.S. Map Redrawn as 50 States With Equal Population

Posted: March 8, 2017 in Uncategorized

Neil Freeman redrew the state borders to get a visual sense of what it would take for the electoral college votes to match the popular vote. That is to say, for each state to be weighted evenly.

“The largest state is 66 times as populous as the smallest,” Freeman explains on his site, “and has 18 times as many electoral votes.”

His map is based on 2010 Census data, which records a population of 308,745,538 for the United States. Divided up among 50 states, that’s a population of a little over six million people per state. The names of new states are mostly taken from geographical features.

The electoral college is a time-honored, logical system for picking the chief executive of the United States. However, the American body politic has also grown accustomed to paying close attention to the popular vote. This is only rarely a problem, since the electoral college and the popular vote have only disagreed three times in 200 years. However, it’s obvious that reforms are needed.

The fundamental problem of the electoral college is that the states of the United States are too disparate in size and influence. The largest state is 66 times as populous as the smallest and has 18 times as many electoral votes. This increases the chance for Electoral College results that don’t match the popular vote. To remedy this issue, the Electoral Reform Map redivides the fifty United States into 50 states of equal population. The 2010 Census records a population of 308,745,538 for the United States, which this map divides into 50 states, each with a population of about 6,175,000.

Advantages of this proposal
◦Preserves the historic structure and function of the Electoral College.
◦Ends the over-representation of small states and under-representation of large states in presidential voting and in the US Senate by eliminating small and large states.
◦Political boundaries more closely follow economic patterns, since many states are more centered on one or two metro areas.
◦Ends varying representation in the House. Currently, the population of House districts ranges from 528,000 to 924,000. After this reform, every House seat would represent districts of the same size. (Since the current size of the House isn’t divisible by 50, the numbers of seats should be increased to 450 or 500.)
◦States could be redistricted after each census – just like House seats are distributed now.

◦Some county names are duplicated in new states.
◦Some local governments would experience a shift in state laws and procedures.

The map began with an algorithm that grouped counties based on proximity, urban area, and commuting patterns. The algorithm was seeded with the fifty largest cities. After that, manual changes took into account compact shapes, equal populations, metro areas divided by state lines, and drainage basins. In certain areas, divisions are based on census tract lines.

The District of Columbia is included into the state of Washington, with the Mall, major monuments and Federal buildings set off as the seat of the federal government.

The capitals of the states are existing states capitals where possible, otherwise large or central cities have been chosen. The suggested names of the new states are taken mainly from geographical features:
◦mountain ranges or peaks, or caves – Adirondack, Allegheny, Blue Ridge, Chinati, Mammoth, Mesabi, Ozark, Pocono, Rainier, Shasta, Shenandoah and Shiprock
◦rivers – Atchafalaya, Menominee, Maumee, Nodaway, Sangamon, Scioto, Susquehanna, Trinity and Willimantic
◦historical or ecological regions – Big Thicket, Firelands and Tidewater
◦bays, capes, lakes and aquifers – Casco, Tampa Bay, Canaveral, Mendocino, Ogallala, Salt Lake and Throgs Neck
◦songs – Gary, Muskogee and Temecula
◦cities – Atlanta, Chicago, Columbia, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington
◦plants – Tule and Yerba Buena
◦people – King and Orange

The words used for names for the name are drawn from many languages, including many American Indian languages. While some etymologies are unclear, the root languages for the state names include Abenaki (Casco), Algonquian (Nodaway, Pocono, Willimantic), Apache (Chinati), Calusa (Tampa), Choctaw (Atchafalaya), English, French (Detroit, Ozark, Rainier), Greek (Philadelphia), Iroquoian (Shenandoah), Lakota (Ogallala), Latin (Columbia), Luiseño (Temecula), Mayaimi (Miami), Mamaceqtaw (Menominee), Miami-Illinois (Chicago), Mohawk (Adirondack), Muscogee (Muskogee), Nahuatl (Tule), Odawa (Maumee), Ojibwe (Mesabi), Potawatomi (Sangamon), Susquehannock (Susquehanna) and Wyandot (Scioto).

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Is Antiquities Collecting In or Out? It is "In" in Cleveland

Many experts and private individuals wish for collecting of antiquities to be a practice of the past, similar to smallpox. Heated disputes and “battles” over ownership of antiquities have been raging for decades resulting in canceled auctions, voluntary returns and forced repatriations of ceramics, marbles, bronzes etc. In recognition of the flawed acquisition practices of the last century, many museums in the United States, even the heavy lifters such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Getty Museum in California, found themselves with but one option — to return illegally exported objects to countries such as Italy and Turkey. Many more claims are coming to the fore (Cambodia, Greece, Peru immediately come to mind). In light of these claims and trends, it is particularly curious to observe an American museum invest millions in acquisition of objects without clear provenance dating back to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.*

Just this week, New York Times featured an article about the Cleveland Museum of Art, which readies to unveil 35,000 square feet of new gallery space and is willing to invest in inventory with questionable provenance to showcase. For our digest of the article please read “A Question of Standards.”  Is the Cleveland Museum of Art advocating a relapse in responsible curating and collecting, or is it upholding the mission of public education and museum growth within the standards outlined by the American Association of Museums (AAM)? Namely, AAM expects museums to “rigorously research the provenance of an object prior to acquisition and  make a concerted effort to obtain accurate written documentation with respect to the history of the object, including export and import documents.” In this case, Cleveland seems to have done some provenance research and made some effort to obtain written documentation, but then what? If information dating back to 1970 is not available, as the museum alleges, are the objects rendered permanently tainted and out of reach of the American institutions? or, should they be purchased, insured and displayed until the missing information surfaces and forces the museum to hand over the object to its rightful owner? That time may never come, or research may catch up to the museum and force deaccessioning sooner rather than later.

Undoubtedly, Cleveland’s decisions to purchase the marble bust of Drusus Minor and the Mayan vessel are bold and provocative — a gamble. No challenger emerged yet with standing and evidence of violation if international law.

Sources: For more details on the 1970 Convention, see:

Lyndel V. Prott, “Unesco and Unidroit: A Partnership against Trafficking of Cultural Objects,”  1 Unif. L. Rev. 1 (1996) 59-71;

Lyndell V. Prott, “International Control of Illicit Movement on the Cultural Heritage: The 1970 UNESCO Convention and Some Possible Alternatives,” 10 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 333 (1983).

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Neem Tea Benefits

Neem tea is a rejuvenating natural tea, with origins in South Asia. In spite of its bitter taste, it is typically suggested as a beverage thanks to its lots of health benefits. Read this post to find out more about neem tea!

Neem tea is made from the leaves of the Neem tree. The tree can be discovered in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. It is an evergreen tree which can grow up to twenty feet in just three years, and it begins bearing fruit after 3-5 years. However, throughout periods of severe dry spell, it may shed most and even all its leaves.

The green leaves are 20-40cm long, with medium to dark green leaflets about 3-8cm long; the terminal leaflet is generally missing. The tree’s flowers are little, white and aromatic, arranged axillary. The fruit has an olive-like kind, with a thin skin and a yellow-white, fibrous and bittersweet pulp.

Neem Tea Benefits

Neem leaves have numerous antibacterial and antiviral properties. Thanks to this, neem tea has plenty of health benefits.

Indians chew on neem twigs to have a good oral hygiene. Nevertheless, a cup of neem tea can likewise help you keep a good oral health. It is useful in alleviating bad breath and gum disease, and it combats against cavities. Neem tea is also helpful in dealing with fungal infections, such as yeast infections, jock itch, thrush, and ringworm.

Neem tea can assist you treat both indigestion and constipation. It is also useful when it comes to reducing swelling of the stomach and digestive tract, and it can be used to counter ulcers and gout.Herbal Tea

Neem tea, when combined with neem cream, has anti-viral uses. It can assist speed up the healing time and pain connected with herpes simplex 1, herpes zoster and warts. Neem tea is likewise utilized in the treatment of malaria and other comparable conditions. It helps cleanse and clean the blood, too; for that reason, it enhances liver function.

Other essential benefits that are related to usage of neem tea are: alleviating pneumonia, dealing with diabetes, alleviating hypertension and heart diseases.

Also, neem tea doesn’t have to be used just as a drink. Since of its anti-parasitic usage, you can bathe in it. By doing this, the tea acts as an antibacterial, eliminating the parasites.

How to Prepare Neem Tea

To brew a cup of neem tea, you need to follow a few simple actions. First, boil the needed quantity of water. Then, pour it over a cup with includes a few neem leaves. Let it steep for about 5 minutes. Lastly, eliminate the leaves and, if you believe it is needed, taste it with honey and/or lemon.

You can make your very own stack of neem leaves for neem tea. If you’ve got neem trees around, collect leaves and leave them to dry. You can use fresh neem leaves, also. In both cases though, you have to clean the leaves well before you use them. As soon as you’ve got the leaves ready, whether dry or fresh, simply follow the earlier-mentioned actions.

You can likewise make a cup of neem tea by utilizing powdered neem leaf.

Neem Tea Side Effects

While we can state that neem tea has plenty of crucial health benefits, remember that there are a few side effects, as well.

To start with, neem oil can be unbelievably poisonous for babies. Even a small amount of neem oil can trigger death. Check to see if the neem tea you consume has neem oil amongst its components. Or, simply to be on the safe side, do not offer infants neem tea to drink.

You should not drink neem tea if you have a history of stomach, liver or kidney issues. Some of its active ingredients can trigger you hurt in this case.

Although uncommon, neem tea can likewise cause allergic reactions. Symptoms in this case consist of difficulty in breathing, rashes, itching, or swelling of the throat or mouth. If you get any of these, stop consuming neem tea and call your doctor.

Consuming neem tea is a big no if you’re attempting to conceive, or you’re currently pregnant. In the first case, neem tea can work as a contraceptive, for that reason reducing the chances of you getting pregnant. In the second case, intake of neem tea can result in miscarriages.

Also, do not consume more than six cups of neem tea a day – or other type of tea. It won’t do you well, in spite of its numerous health advantages. Some of the symptoms you may get are: headaches, lightheadedness, insomnia, irregular heart beats, throwing up, diarrhea and anorexia nervosa. If you get any of these symptoms, reduce the quantity of neem tea you drink.

As a natural tea, neem tea is certainly helpful for your health. Still, regardless of its numerous health benefits, there are a few side effects also. Keep them both in mind when consuming neem tea.

Recipe For Neem Tea

There is no particular recipe for making neem tea, and it very much depends what you want to use the tea for.

Normally you make it the same way you make any other herbal tea.

You can use dried or fresh neem leaves. Use the same quantity as you would for other cup of tea, state a great teaspoon dried neem leaf per tea cup, or three to 5 fresh leaves. Put hot water over it and let it brew.

For some applications it is recommended to boil the leaves for a long time. For instance one dish for treating malaria states to boil the leaves for 20 minutes, at a rate of 10g per litre of water and to drink three glasses daily. That is a really strong dosage.

Note: I do NOT recommend anybody aim to treat avoid or treat malaria with neem!! Malaria is a potentially life threatening condition. Someone with believed malaria has to see a doctor instantly.

Likewise, there are conditions where a weaker dosage of neem is more efficient than a more powerful dose.

In India neem tea would be recommended in different strengths and various amounts on a case by case basis.

You can make weaker tea for drinking, more powerful tea if you want to add it to the bath water, wash your hair, soak you feet and so on.

Have you tried neem tea prior to? It is exceptionally bitter! You may find that consuming it as soon as is enough …

As for how often you can drink it … Well, there are no hard and fast figures offered. Nobody has done studies on how much is safe. (Except, we know you ought to not drink it while pregnant or trying to become pregnant!)

Health Tips

The way neem has actually been used in India typically would indicate that everyday usage of neem leaves, be it as tea or by swallowing leaves or pills, is perfectly safe. Still, there is no science to back this up!

I ‘d say, let good sense be your guide. Start extremely carefully, with just a little, and see how you react.

Neem is an extremely effective herb. It’s not something you drink like state chamomile tea, or something like a vitamin pill, that you take “simply in case” daily.

If you are not pregnant or attempting to conceive, and are otherwise healthy, it ought to be safe to drink mild neem tea regularly. (But then it shouldn’t be needed …)

Good luck! Have a nice weekend.

Updated: 19.01.2017 — 08:57

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Showing off one of the top catches for the day.
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Sam Manzanza, who will be playing at the Metro on Sunday

Couldn’t manage to upload the photos when I posted the notice about this event, so here they are now.

This is me. I will be the guest poet.

Those details again:

7 Lydney Place – Porirua

Sunday 6th May 4 – 6pm

Music, poetry, Open mic.


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Saturday, February 4, 2017

Sahara Boulevard, Spring 2010

Some days we worked our way up to Naked City. If we had dinner on the west side, we might stop in at a name nearby; occasionally we had dinner there. It had a bad reputation, which of course its residents were proud of that if only for the notoriety. The neighborhood felt somehow more sad than the rest of Parkdale, which I don't think was entirely my imagination. Street contacts were more rare and less fruitful. Above it all the Stratosphere towered, a needled tower like some kind of space ship, with a mirrored hotel at its base that dramatically reflected any clouds in the sky.

We knew a shortcut for time emergencies, but taking Sahara gave us more human surface area. The strip malls got shabbier and petered out, the storefronts grew bars, the sidewalks were wide, there was a proponderance of jewelers. At the end, or what may as well be the end, was the Strip. "Don't breathe," said Ballard, but I couldn't if I wanted to. It was sickening, not for anything in particular, for the loose women on TV screens and trash on the ground, for the lights and sounds - there was an evil spirit there. But we powered across. We could have crossed farther north, where it was tame - actually using Las Vegas Boulevard, not just crossing it, was unthinkable - but this was more direct. Well, really, every now and then we reminded ourselves what it was we were fighting.

We didn't cross the Strip on the way down. We didn't always take all of Sahara going home. It was early in the year, so always night on the way back, and downhill most of the way. We followed the bus, trying to get far enough ahead that we caught the people at the stop without losing them right away. If it was late we sailed on down, past the car dealerships and apartment complexes and Boulder Highway and finally an abandoned furniture outlet store with a massive parking lot, senior trailer homes to our left across the street behind a wall, and to the right was the Sahara Lamb apartment complex. Take a right after entering, cut left across a sidewalk, right again, to a ground-floor apartment on the northwest side of the building, and to our desks for nightly planning.

It was warm, the air was thick. The days were bright montages of bricks and asphalt and characters, everyone wearing some uniform of the ghetto but each betraying a glimmer of uniqueness beneath. It was a magical place, really my favorite of the low-income areas I served in, with a lot of symbolic value even towards the end of my mission, as we see in this poem I wrote in my last area, in July 2011, titled "Sentinels:"

From the tops of the mountains
We carved these canyons
We flowed down these streets
Wingspans displayed, steel chariots
Blur. So eyes blink
Sleep won't clear.
We split rocks with our feet
We stand undaunted
We stand guard.

I'm not sure I was satisfied with that last line.

I haven't tried any poetry since a few months after I came home. Haven't had the urge, haven't felt confident. This example seems a bit pretentious, but it's about a time when it was good for me to be proud. I am still proud of the feeling contained in it.

It's good to be a young missionary.

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