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Cole Haan Launches STUDIØGRAND Collection with Y7 Yoga’s Sarah Larson Levey
Cole Haan is getting in on the activewear craze just in time for the new year, when just about everyone is looking to reinvent and hit the gym. StudiøGrand, a new collection by Cole Haan, features everything from yoga mats, umbrellas, sunglasses, and bags to chic footwear and outerwear in collaboration with outdoor clothing and equipment maker
Dries Van Noten to Design Costumes for the New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala
Dries Van Noten will be creating the costumes for the New York City Ballet’s Fall Fashion Gala in collaboration with choreographer Justin Peck. It will be the NYCB’s fifth anniversary of the annual gala. The ballet choreographed by Peck will be a pas de deux set to the second movement of Bohuslav Martinu’s Paino Quintet No.
Cole Haan Celebrates Its Partnership With The New York City Ballet
Everyone came out to see George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center with Cole Haan earlier this week. In celebration of Cole Haan’s partnership with the New York City Ballet, the brand invited a select group of editors, celebs, and VIPs like Jamie King (who was dressed in a winter white Altuzarra suit), AnnaSophia Robb (donning a very


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MORAL FIBbERS (2019)
Arc of the Moral Universe (curated by Carla Rae Johnson) is a group project where artists and writers spend one full year filling out a notebook themed around the Moral Universe. We started July 4th, 2018, ended on July 4th, 2019. I titled my book, “MORAL FIBbERS” (something between Fibers and Fibbers). The books are now complete and on tour to exhibit in select locations (schedule TBD). This is the first time i committed to a book project for a full year, and i learned alot in the process. Mistakes can be like shadows of growth.
“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
More info and updates on the Arc’s FB page: [here]
Tropical Storms & Temple Complexes (2018)
A CosmiKnots collaboration between KK de la Vida and Frog- TSTC is a meditation on life in Visayan Philippines, celebrating at parades and festivals, searching for indigenous deities amongst storms and temple complexes-(mainly the Catholic Church). This zine is comprised of poetry and writings by Khokhoi, drawings by Frog, and visual collages composed by both.
Human Eyes, Gamblers (2018)
This zine was made specifically for the Blood Money show at Lucas Lucas Gallery in Brooklyn. Writings, drawings, collage sourced from former sketchbooks and journals-retrospective remnants from life as a traveling dancer on the American East Coast. More editions will be printed upon order.
#Slowtrain: from Mongolia To Yunnan (2017-18)
The #Slowtrain sketchbook, IG posts, and #slowtrain chapbooks were created as part of my virtual residency project with @china_residencies. In October 2017, I set out, once again, to learn about the cultural and historical connections between the Mongolian nation and the Naxi ethnic peoples. Riding old trains from the border of Mongolia (Zamiin-Uud township) to the heart of the Naxi in Lijiang, Yunnan, I took notes and made drawings while roughly following the path that Kublai Khan’s troops would have taken in the 13th century, on their quest to conquer the known world.
TwaNG: Switching Between Jamaican Patois and UK/American English (2018)
A zine by @xFatherfigurex - Notes and poems for the Jamaican diaspora; a dream in the center-spread. Concept and writing by Father Figure; Illustrations, formatting and printing by Frog. This is SunDogs Studio's first fully completed/ distributed zine publication and we are really proud of it.
080: Lucky Punch (2016)
I created the 080: Lucky Punch sketchbook with the assistance of a grant from the Asian Cultural Council. Original proposal: to study traditional Mongolian shamanic practices, as a visual artist trying to trace ethnic lineage. This book documents my journey of locating shamans across Mongolia (I came across 10 total). With their permission, I observed them as they conducted rituals and ceremonies, and/or navigated through the more mundane aspects of their daily lives.
Vescia Piscis: I and II (2014)
The Vesica Piscis sketchbook set accompanies the Vesica Piscis curated session at Lijiang Studio in Yunnan, China. Features notes and visual studies on Dongba shamanist rituals of the Naxi peoples in and around Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.
Final Call (2013)
Drawings of friends from Baltimore (MD), Providence (RI), and NYC.
Hand-bound sketchbook/ artists’ book with mixed paperstock, created during my first curated session at Lijiang Studio. An introduction to “ecosexuality” and Naxi Dongba ontologies.
I made these ink drawings during (and immediately after) the time of my grandmother’s passing, in Baltimore (MD), Providence (RI), and Washington D.C. My goal was to keep adding and layering into the book until I broke its spine. Eventually I had to stop because there was no room to draw or add anything anymore. This book is really heavy, smells kind of dank (because of the gingko I taped in there), and some of the pages stick together, but it is one of my favorites.
Amy G. Dala & the PreFrontal Cortex (2009)
Working at the Puppetree in East Thetford, VT (USA), hiking along the Mystery Trail on my days off. Venting feelings during a visit to Taiwan, when my grandmother was coping with lymph node cancer. Observations from a short trip to Tokyo, Japan.
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Okay, I have finally seen The Last Jedi and I have to say, my feelings for this film are all over the place. There were several parts that really excited me in this movie and then there were other moments that just left me bewildered. I’m not going to go into too much detail about the movie because it has only been out for two days and I know some of you haven’t seen this film yet but I will say this, the trailer is basically the entire movie. If you’re suspecting a huge shocker in this film to happen like in The Empire Strikes Back I’m sorry to say there aren’t any.
The main problem with this film aren’t exactly the characters, yet there is some terrible character development in this movie, but it instead is the fact that you can truly tell two different minds were behind The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi. A lot of the story lines that were developed in The Force Awakens kind of got lost in the hodgepodge of dire situations within The Last Jedi.
While the movie isn’t close to perfect I can matter-of-factly say that it was better than the prequels. The characters are more engaging and the overall story is lightyears more interesting than the prequels could ever be. I unfortunately came away from this film not celebrating its triumphs but instead scratching my head over some of the decisions made in this movie. Like I said before, I’m not going to go into great detail about the movie’s plot, but The Last Jedi could have been a whole lot better than it was.
Now don’t let this post possibly dissuade you from wanting to see the movie. It is a good film and it deserves to be seen. There are some interesting things that happen in the film that does move the story forward and for the most part it was an enjoyable film. I mean what Star Wars movie isn’t enjoyable, to some extent. There were, however, some flaws in this movie that can’t be fixed and that’s a serious bummer. I will say this though. The Praetorian Guards are AWESOME!!!! They single-handedly were part of the best scene in the movie.
Overall, I would like to see The Last Jedi a second time so I can truly absorb the story and everything that happened but I’m most likely not going to go see this five times like I did with The Force Awakens.
I thank you for reading my reaction and I hope you have a wonderful day. May the Force Be With You.


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El Camión, at the edge of a Home Depot parking lot on Aurora Avenue North near North 115th Street, is a great place to grab a quick bite or get a cheap, filling meal for the whole family. It serves familiar taco-truck fare, as well as a few pleasant surprises, such as fresh-grilled fish tacos...
Ask five connoisseurs of taco-truck fare about their favorite Seattle spot, and you’re likely to get five different answers. Let’s hope one of them is El Camión.
The converted trailer at the edge of a Home Depot parking lot on Aurora Avenue North near North 115th Street is a great place to grab a quick bite while picking up some lumber or to get a cheap, filling meal for the whole family.
If you’re not in a hurry, relax in lawn chairs underneath deck umbrellas, listen to the boombox sounds of a norteño band, take another bite of your fish taco and imagine, for just a moment, that you’re somewhere much farther south than a Seattle parking lot.
The menu: The familiar taco-truck offerings, with a few pleasant surprises. Aside from the usual burritos and taco fixings (pork, steak, tongue, tripe), there are fish tacos. Platos (plates) include chicken mole or grilled steak, chicken or fish, accompanied by generous helpings of black beans and slightly spicy rice. Don’t expect the tamales in corn husks: These are wrapped with banana leaves, and the masa (corn meal) is smoother than some I’ve had. It was laced with a delicious vein of hot sauce. The Mexican hot chocolate sounded inviting but, alas, wasn’t available.
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What to write home about: Don’t miss the fish tacos. Fresh-grilled white fish comes topped with bits of cabbage and a mild green salsa. The mulita — a quesadilla on steroids — is also yummy but a bit on the greasy side.
The setting: Given what you expect from a taco truck, this place is deluxe. It looks like the owners went on a lawn-furniture and landscaping binge at the Home Depot next door. Dine at patio tables on neat patches of gravel, shielded by bushes and trees from the hubbub next door. The plastic iguana attached to the trunk of a tree is a bonus. Online reviewers had some complaints about slow service, but it wasn’t crowded or slow for this meal.
Summing up: Two adults got very full on a mulita, a tamale, chips and salsa, two helpings of tacos, a dinner plate and beverages for just $23.79. I may need to cook up a home-improvement project to justify more trips to El Camión.
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Gillette ODI Series v New Zealand
Top four must do more in NZ ODIs, says Warner
Lack of contributions from top order pinpointed as reason behind five-game 50-over losing streak, which Australia are aiming to snap this Friday
Sam Ferris in Sydney
11 March 2020, 11:26 AM AEST
Australia's dire run in one-day cricket is down to a dearth of runs from their top four, according to opener David Warner.
The Aussies take on New Zealand on Friday at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the first of three Gillette one-day internationals, with the hosts entering the series on a five-match 50-over losing streak.
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨 Australia's gold helmets are back for the first time since the summer of 2000-01.#AUSvNZ pic.twitter.com/h5Vl7S7SZ2— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) March 10, 2020
Australia have not had multiple batsmen pass 50 in any match during the run of defeats, which begun in the second ODI against India in January and continued during their recent 3-0 series loss to South Africa.
Warner says that must change if his side is to reverse their fortunes in the one-day format.
"The only thing I can put it (Australia's losing streak) down to is the top four not scoring the bulk of the runs," Warner told reporters today in Sydney.
"You can't do it all the time but at least one of us (has to) go on and be there at the end.
"It is disappointing but at the end of the day we've got to keep trying to get better at that, try to find a balance with our batting through the middle as well."
In the five losses, Steve Smith's 131 in the third ODI against India and Marnus Labuschagne's 108 in the final match Potchefstroom have been the only hundreds scored, while Smith came within two runs of another ODI century in Rajkot, the first match of the one-day drought.
Labuschagne, who was born in South Africa before moving to Australia when he was 10, has played just six ODIs since debuting in the subcontinent this year but was the poster boy for Australia's batting blueprint when he brought up his maiden one-day century in front of family and friends just last week.
"Marnus showed that application the other day in Potch," Warner said.
"Obviously, it was a big occasion for him going back home for the first time and playing in his home town.
"It was awesome to see him get that hundred but if you look back at the last 10 one-day games against South Africa, we've won one."
Matthew Wade, who was with Australia's ODI squad in South Africa but did not play, says the tourists were simply "outplayed" by the Proteas and echoed Warner’s diagnosis of the team’s current form.
"They (South Africa) had a lot of guys out and quite an inexperienced team and they did the basics a lot better than we did," Wade said.
"They had guys get hundreds and bat the whole way through. If you get someone to do that in one-day cricket than you win more games than not.
"We've got to strip it back and make sure we're doing the basics really, really well in this series.
"New Zealand are a very disciplined cricket team and we know they will do it well.
"We've got to make sure one of the top four really bats through and makes a big hundred and in Australia we back our power towards the end on pretty true wickets.
"It'll be nice to see if one of the top order can go through and bat the whole innings, that would be very helpful."
Gillette ODI Series v New Zealand
Australia squad: Aaron Finch (c), Ashton Agar, Alex Carey (vc), Pat Cummins (vc), Josh Hazlewood, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitch Marsh, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D'Arcy Short, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa.
New Zealand squad: Kane Williamson (c), Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Ross Taylor, Tom Latham, Tom Blundell, Jimmy Neesham, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Kyle Jamieson, Ish Sodhi, Matt Henry, Tim Southee, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult.


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Livro online Livro Animated Origami Faces – Stern, Joel – ISBN: 0486461742 para você comprar em loja virtual. Confira preço, ofertas e descontos.
Easy step-by-step instructions show origami enthusiasts at every skill level how to create 12 movable faces. Projects include human and animal countenances that blink their eyes and snap their jaws, including a dog, a bear, a bird, a masked superhero, and more. Perfect for making homemade masks with fun, 3-dimensional effects.


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TT Talk Edition 17 -17/01/2002
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An update, following appeal, concerning the ancient principles of general average (GA).
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text: Here’s a textured polish for you today. This is Sand!Which? by Dance Legend:I applied two coats of Sand!Which? and stamped over it with No Place Like Chrome by Essie and MoYou Pro XL plate 04. And no top coat to enjoy the textured finish 🙂Are you over textured polishes yet? I still like them, not as much as when the trend began but I think they’re still amazing.

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Metal fabrication services near me provide a variety of machining and assembly solutions. They offer fabrication services for a number of industries, including aerospace, automotive, and medical. The services offered vary depending on the metals involved and the project’s needs.
What are metal fabricators called?
Precision sheet metal fabrication involves cutting a metal workpiece into a desired shape or size. Common manufacturing processes include milling, bending, and shearing. Additional options include laser cutting, flame cutting, waterjet cutting, and stamping.
Custom fabrication of sheet metal can be used to create a wide range of objects, from small electronics to precision stamped assemblies. Sheet metal is used in a wide variety of applications, such as railings, backsplashes, and wall panels.
Metal fabrication services can be outsourced or performed in-house. Outsourced services can help companies cut costs while ensuring maximum quality. This saves the need for costly equipment and an expert workforce.
Metal fabricators are highly trained specialists who manipulate the metal with surgeon’s precision. Often, they work out of large-scale manufacturing facilities.
Fabrication services can also be performed online. Companies that operate this way can offer quick turnaround times and competitive prices. Online providers often offer an accurate quote in minutes, and they can provide answers to common questions on their websites.
A few of the many types of metals used in fabrication services are aluminum, bronze, copper, and steel. Exotic metals include nickel, Inconel, and Hastelloy. These materials can be used in both prototypes and high-volume production.


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Leonards celebrate 50-year anniversary
Calvin and Carla Leonard celebrated their 50th anniversary by renewing their wedding vows during a reception hosted by their daughter, Laura Beasley of Sunset, Saturday, May 5, at Grace Baptist Church.
The couple were married May 4, 1957, in Wichita Falls.
Leonard retired from the United States Air Force in July 1972, and from Cryovac in May 1991.
They moved to Iowa Park in 1981.
Since retirement they are dedicated to their church where Calvin serves as the treasurer and Carla teaches Sunday School.
Carla also cares for her elderly mother.
Leonard enjoys spending time making wood crafts and Carla enjoys working in their yard.
They also enjoy taking trips.
In addition to their daughter the couple has five grandchildren; and a great-grandson.
Calvin and Carla Leonard

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In this paper the authors perform measurements and simulations of a coupled Wireless Power Transfer and Power Line Communications system: A two coils resonator system is built according to the authors' previous work and the first experimental results are here presented. The system demonstrates its potential and could be used in applications where both wireless power and data transfer are needed, such as vehicles battery charging.
|Titolo:||Experimental validation of a hybrid Wireless Power Transfer - Power Line Communication system|
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Huntsinger Farms selected as 2021 Eau Claire County Farm Technology Days Host
Eau Claire, WI (November 14, 2017) – Huntsinger Farms of Eau Claire has been selected to host the 2021 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days (WFTD) in Eau Claire County. The event is scheduled for July 20th – 22nd, 2021
Huntsinger Farms and its subsidiary Silver Spring Foods, Inc. was founded by Ellis Huntsinger, who is nationally recognized as a pioneer in Horseradish farming, in 1929. Still family-owned by Huntsinger’s granddaughter Nancy Bartusch and two great-grandsons, Eric and Ryan Rygg, Huntsinger Farms is now the world’s largest grower and processor of horseradish.
They use a five to seven year crop rotation of 1400 acres of corn, 2100 acres of soybeans, and 310 acres of snap beans, to support the production of 700 acres of horseradish. They are vertically integrated with Silver Spring Foods, Inc. and grow and harvest over 7 million pounds of horseradish per year. Crews harvest horseradish in the spring and fall after plants have been in the ground about 12-24 months. “Hosting the 2021 Eau Claire County Farm Technology Days is a once in a lifetime honor for Huntsinger Farms and the Huntsinger Family. Farm Technology Days will give us a unique opportunity to share our knowledge and experience farming this specialty crop,” said Eric Rygg.
About Wisconsin Farm Technology Days
Wisconsin Farm Technology Days is a three-day outdoor event showcasing the latest developments in production agriculture, including practical applications and recent research and technological developments. This is the only farm show of its size in the United States that is organized and run entirely by volunteers. As the largest outdoor agricultural event in the state, it welcomes more than 45,000 attendees, with more than 600 commercial and educational vendors.
The first WFTD show was named Farm Progress Days and was held in Waupaca County in 1954. Eau Claire County hosted Farm Progress Days in 1992 and has been chosen as the host for the 67th annual event in 2021.
About Agriculture in Eau Claire County
Agriculture works hard for Eau Claire County every day. Family-owned farms, food processors and agriculture-related businesses generate thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of economic activity while contributing to local income and tax revenues. Eau Claire County, though dominated by the dairy industry, raises a large variety including meat goats to milking sheep to apples, grapes and vegetables. The county has seen farm numbers rise, while farm acreage has declined to an average farm size of 155 acres. Migration between the city to rural areas has resulted in smaller farms producing a variety of products. A diverse population has created opportunities to fill ethnic and specialty food niches. Meanwhile, county institutions and farmers have joined forces to produce fresh, healthy products to meet a growing demand for local food.
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ASEAN countries will implement the world's first multilateral code of conduct for air-to-air encounters of military aircraft in order to reduce the risk of misjudgment and avoid conflict. The 12th ASEAN Defense Ministers'Meeting was held in Singapore on the same day. The Member States signed a joint declaration after reaching consensus on defense, including this code of conduct. This set of guidelines sets out how air forces of various countries should communicate and interact when they meet accidentally in the air to avoid friction. Reported that this is similar to the memorandum of understanding signed by the United States and China on the code of conduct for the safety of air encounters, but there is no multilateral code of conduct for air encounters of military aircraft in the world so far.
Hong Kong's "South China Morning Post" said the "code of conduct for air-to-air encounters" was designed to avoid accidents in disputed waters and guide fighter aircraft flying over the South China Sea. Washington and Beijing were urged to accept the code of conduct. Singapore's Defense Minister Huang Yonghong said at a press conference on the 19th that the matter will be discussed at the dialogue between ASEAN Defense Ministers and regional partners on the 20th. Reported that last year's ASEAN dialogue countries agreed to a similar criterion to control the encounter at sea.
Singapore's Asia News Agency said the move was aimed at controlling unexpected encounters in disputed areas such as the South China Sea. However, it is unclear how effective this guideline of non-legally binding and voluntary air encounters is. In response, Huang Yonghong said: "They are like seatbelts, although they can not guarantee your absolute safety, but at least provide some protection."
On the same day, Huang Yonghong also talked about the first naval maneuver between China and ASEAN countries, saying it will help build trust and confidence. The exercise will be held from 22 to 28 in Zhanjiang, China and its offshore waters. Agence France-Presse said some observers believe the exercise is one of China's efforts to weaken U.S. influence in the region. Apparently to address this concern, Huang Yonghong also said that ASEAN is planning to hold its first naval exercise with the United States next year. According to the Joint Morning Post, the United States is currently conducting naval exercises with individual ASEAN member states, and it is rare to have such exercises with the whole ASEAN.
At a regular press conference on the 19th, foreign media said that China would prevent signatories and non-ASEAN countries from conducting joint military exercises, as mentioned in the draft consultative text of the South China Sea Code of Conduct, unless other members agreed, and asked whether "China's action is intended to prevent the United States and other countries from conducting joint military exercises with ASEAN countries." ? " In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said that according to the consensus of China and ASEAN countries, under the joint efforts of all parties, the draft "South China Sea code of conduct" has formed a single draft consultation text as the basis for consultation. It is hoped that all parties will respect the efforts of China and ASEAN countries to negotiate regional rules and maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea, instead of making too much speculation.
According to Yonhap news agency, South Korean Defense Minister Zheng Jingdou held a meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Singapore on the 19th, and the two sides decided to set up a direct telephone line between the air forces of the two countries. At present, the air forces of the two countries only have a direct telephone connection between the commands of the Chinese local military command and the South Korean combat command.
Waonews is a news media from China, with hundreds of translations, rolling updates China News, hoping to get the likes of foreign netizens

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It was the sound of 2010.
That annoying buzz of vuvuzelas ruled your summer and will forever be associated with World Cup ’10. A piece of plastic became a pop culture icon of the times.
Shall we go out with a vuvuzela bang to end the year?
How about a couple of crazy young adults, earlier this month at a Rochester (AHL) hockey game, using their vuvuzela to bong beers on Dollar Beer Night.
Posted: Dec. 7, 2010
Premise of Video: (via the vlogger) Guy and girl funnel beer out of a vuvuzela in the stands at a Rochester Amerks hockey game on dollar beer night. The crowd reactions are great.
Climax of Video: It looks like she’s done this before.
Conclusion: They’re engaged. Planning a wedding and swear they’re best friends.


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Contoy Island, in the State of Quintana Roo, is located at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 31 miles north of Cancun.
The island has been a protected area since 1961, and is located in the transition zone between the warm, clear waters of the Caribbean and the deep, cold waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Scuba diving and snorkeling are popular activities in the waters off the coast, and from July through August you can even go for a swim with whale sharks.
Isla Contoy is considered the most important nesting place of seabirds in all of the Mexican Caribbean, creating great opportunities for bird watching on the island. Here you will find a tropical oasis, a location renowned for offering some of the best excursions in Cancun, consisting of pristine beaches, dense vegetation and a rich biodiversity.
The tourist boats arrive at the shallow coasts, where the calm waters are perfect for swimming, where the turquoise color of the ocean and the deep green of the trees and plants dominate. At Contoy Island you will be able to shake off the stress and be inspired by the nature around you.

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Stuart Goldman will read from his new book, Adventures in Maniac Depression. His first tattoo by famed “fish-artist” Ray Troll is featured on the cover of Goldman’s book.
Jane Getz, will read passages from her just-published book, Runnin' With The Big Dogs.
About the Authors:
Stuart Goldman, former critic at the L.A. Times and the Daily News, served as L.A.Weekly's first Entertainment Editor and had a weekly column at the L.A. Reader. His syndicated column has appeared in over 80 U.S. and European newspapers and is currently read by over one million people every Sunday on worldnetdaily.com. Goldman's writings have been published in Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, National Review, Los Angeles Magazine, Inside Kung Fu, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.
Jane Getz is one of the most famous jazz musicians in the world, having played with the likes of Pharoah Sanders, Stan (no relation) Getz, Charles Mingus and Pony Poindexter. Her first book is a fine, funny, and wonderful book which evokes the jazz era of the 1970's, when Jane first debuted on stages across the world. Today she continues to appear on stages across the U.S. and has a career as a record producer.
In addition, guitarist Bob Tucker will play one classical and two Flamenco tunes between Getz's readings.
The authors will be doing a Q&A after the reading.

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Today in the United States, by the simple acts of feeding ourselves, we are unwittingly participating in the largest experiment ever conducted on human beings. See full summary » Frank Ferrante is 54, weighs 290lbs., had a lifetime of drug & alcohol abuse and as a result contracted Hepatitis-C.He's on multiple medications including anti-depressants, undergoing ...See full summary » Master filmmaker Steve Kroschel, intrigued by a stunning statement from his last documentary, sets out to find hard evidence of the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy, a long-suppressed ...
This sugar creates the common symptoms of repeated urination, often feel thirsty and amplified cravings for food.
The 2 popular forms of this ailment are type 1 diabetes where the body stop producing insulin, and regularly mandates the patient to inject insulin.
The second one is type 2 diabetes which is due to insulin resistance, a medical condition where cells do not use insulin accordingly, at times coupled with a total insulin deficit.
This is a must-see documentary for anyone who questions the benefits of raw food diet, specially with those have symptoms of type 1 or 2 diabetes.
Eating raw vegetables is a great diet for diabetics.
HUNGRY FOR CHANGE exposes shocking secrets the diet, weight loss and food industries don't want you to know about deceptive strategies designed to keep you coming back for more. See full summary » Vegucated is a guerrilla-style documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks and learn what it's all about. See full summary » Food Matter examines how the food we eat can help or hurt our health.Nutritionists, naturopaths, doctors, and journalists weigh in on topics organic food, food safety, raw foodism, and nutritional therapy.100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. See full summary » Examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. Max Gerson, a German-Jewish researcher, stumbled upon a therapy that claims to have cured tens of thousands of people worldwide since then, including patients's previously ...Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days: Aiyana Elliott Director of the movie Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days with Cast Michael Beckwith, Fred Bisci, Gabriel Cousens.Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days released on 2009.enjoy the full movie with us Watch Movies Online for Free – Watch Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days.

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Why tourists choose Vila & Apartments MATEA
The facility provides the following amenities: parking lot, bikes available(free), nice garden, internet services, private non-smoking rooms. Draw attention that you can pay for the accommodation and services only in cash.
Accommodation staff talk in Serbian, English, Bulgarian.
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Da made us watch as he fucked the dog into the lake. Fergal screamed.
—She'll drown, Da, she'll be dead—
His nose was snotting up already. He clung onto my hand as Da said:
— Shut it, lads, will yis, and wait?
He rubbed his hands clean on the back of his pants. You could see the dirty-white dog hair sticking to corduroy patched with scraps of an old tea-towel, Ma's stitches still keeping it together, like black scabs all over his arse. I looked away, pushing Fergal off of me, and stepped down to the edge of the jetty. The wood was slippery-green beneath last year's too-small trainers.
The pup flailed and sank.
Hurry up, I thought, and balled my hands in my pockets.
You could see her staring back up at me with these helpless, panicky eyes, jaws snapping on water scummed with rotting frog-spawn and crisp-packets. A condom bobbed past, snagged on a broken twig. I knew about condoms; I'd found one in the bathroom bin last Christmas, just before Ma went into hospital. The dead-fish slipperiness of it. Babies who'd never get born. He'd brought us here today, Da had, to show us how it happened—how the light goes out when you die. We'd been at home when it happened to Ma, me and Fergal, in the living room eating Cheestrings and watching Saturday cartoons. You could picture it, though—the eyes gaping uselessly at Da, at the nurse, at the cobwebs on the ward ceiling.
—Just watch this, now, he said.
The dog's legs scissored bone-skinny as she sank deeper.
Uncle Paul had dropped her round after the funeral.
—For the boys, like.
—Runty little yoke, said Da, handling her.
Uncle Paul shrugged.
—Get her in the fresh air. She'll snap to it.
I knelt next to the shoebox on the kitchen floor. Her eyes hadn't even opened. I put my hand on her back. You could feel the fragile ridge of bone. The way she heaved to breathe. She was barely alive. I could have squeezed it out of her. I felt this quick surge of power—I was the anaesthetist, the surgeon, the parish priest. I whispered the same phrase I'd been rolling around my mouth for three days, coated with spit and salt and fury:
—Do not resuscitate.
And then I got up and ran out into the garden before my hand could clench tight around the pup's ribs and crack them. She'd die soon enough. The size of her. The helpless suck of her pink fish-lips.
Da rubbed his back.
—Little bitch is heavier than yeh'd think. I'll be flat out till Tuesday.
Fergal hopped from foot to foot. He whined:
—Help her, will yeh, Da, get her out, she's drownding—
Da put his hand on Fergal's shoulder.
—Hang on, son.
My brother leaned into him and gave this sigh, this quivering, breathy moan, like all the sadness in the whole shitty world was huffing in and out of him and he hadn't room inside for it. I felt it wash across and drench me, this cold smog that soaked through my lungs, my heart, my kidneys, my liver, my belly, my guts, my blood, my marrow and made me shiver. Da's knuckles brushed the back of my neck and I swallowed a sob.
—All right, Michael?
I shook my head. The pup was only eight weeks old. We'd have to dig a hole to bury her. I'd need to find a box. A crate. And a blanket, a shroud to wrap her in. Fergal would want a funeral and I didn't know what to say. I hadn't listened at Ma's service. I'd counted the ceiling tiles until everybody stood up and filed outside. I didn't want to see see Da cry again. His head dropping down so he squashed out a double chin, and his eyes all red and saggy like an old man's. My chest hurt. It wasn't right—
—Now, Da said. Lads. Lookit.
The pup fought.
The water disturbed, rippled, and she rose, gasped and sank again. I stopped breathing. We stood there forever, Da's fingers digging trenches into my shoulders. The lake was vast, a Flood, the cold reach of the entire world. Fergal had always been weeping. I was withered through. We'd never been anywhere else. We were never leaving. The sky darkened. The sun would blink out.
She broke the surface a second time.
—C'mon girl, good girl, good dog, c'mon now—
Da's hand slipped down and gripped my shoulder.
—Shhh, Michael. She's grand.
I put my hand to my mouth and she came up again, snapping, her skull smaller than you'd think with the sopping hair plastered over it, jaws bared in a toothy snarl at the splashing cold wetness, the legs pumping beneath—and then she was paddling in a tight, furious circle, her neck a tense stalk for the bobbing head. She barked.
Da let go of me.
—Well! There yeh go. Now, see this.
He pulled a tennis ball from his coat pocket and threw it. The grey-yellow tatter arced overhead and landed with a slap to float in the flat grey ribbon of the lake. The dog barked again and twisted, belly-flopped around and swam out after it, panting.
—I knew she'd be grand, Da, didn't I? Didn't I, Da?
We watched the dog snatch at the ball and half-carry, half-shunt it back to shore, then hoist herself up the muddy bank unaided, the freezing water streaming off of her. There were twigs knotted in the matt of fur. Her legs wobbled like Ma's overcooked spaghetti and Fergal knocked her to the ground. He pressed his face into her skinny flank.
—Yer a good girl, a good doggy.
I hunkered down beside him and touched her behind the ear. A soft, balding, newborn spot. She jerked her head back and eyed me. I scratched her, gently, and she blinked.
—She's not really a runt, is she, Da?
—No, he said, course she's not. He ran his hand down the backside of his cords, again, along the stitches running across the thigh, the places where Ma's fingers had worked. Then he clapped me on the back.
—All right, Michael?
The dog was writhing beneath Fergal's embrace. The weak spring light made the lake-water glisten in tiny droplets on her hide so that when she moved, she sparkled. You could hear the heady rasp of her breath, the gulp of air as it ballooned her rib-cage. Fergal's muffled whispers. My own breathing. Da was watching me.
—Yeah, I said. All right.


AESTHETIC ENVIRONMENT: EFFECTS OF PARKING REGULATIONS AND CULTURE IN IBADAN, OYO STATE
- OYRTMAL 2009 ,
- aesthetic environment,
- traffic regulations,
- Oyo State
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Lack of knowledge of Oyo State traffic management regulations by many road users in the State has led to underutilization and mismanagement of road infrastructures. This inappropriate usage has been resulted into traffic hold ups, economic loss and distortion of aesthetic view of city of Ibadan. This work therefore reviewed Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority Law 2009 (OYRTMAL 2009) and other learned materials that regulate vehicular parking on the road in the State. Traffic Signs and Markings 03, Miscellaneous Traffic Fines 07, Miscellaneous Traffic Fines 10 and Miscellaneous Traffic Fines 11 of the OYRTMAL 2009 and discretional cultural parking were perused and explanations offered for better understanding and maximum exploitation of road infrastructures in the State. It is believed that observations of insights offered by this work will bring about safe and free traffic environment, aesthetic portray of the city and economic prosperity.


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J. Life Sci. Biomed. 6(3): 71-75, May 30, 2016
Life Science and Biomedicine
Evaluation Energy Efficiency in Biodiesel Production from Canola; A
Reza Abshar1 and Móslem Sami2
1Independent researcher, Gotvand, Khuzestan, Iran.
2Department of Biosystem Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 4111, Karaj
Corresponding author's email: email@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.org
ABSTRACT: Today fossil fuels are the main source of energy; however, it is becoming increasingly unlikely
that fossil fuel supply will be able to meet growth in demand of energy in nearly future. The production of
biofuel from farms products has been promoted as a replacement for fossil fuels. Nevertheless the debate over
the energy balance of biodiesel is ongoing. In this paper, we focus on analyses of energy efficiency of rapeseed
biofuel production in a case study in Khuzestan province of Iran. Our results showed that, in term of energy,
canola is a reliable source of energy as biodiesel. The energy ratio in this process was rather higher than one
(1.08) and net energy was obtained as 2582.37 Mj per hectare of canola farming. However this value in not
high, by considering byproducts of canola farming it can be suggested as a sources of future energy.
Key words: Biodiesel, Canola, Energy analysis
Fossil fuels are the main energy source that drives the world economy. However, for a number of reasons it is
becoming increasingly unlikely that fossil fuel supply will be able to meet this growth in demand. Bioenergy is an
important alternative source of energy. Energy is derived from plants and biomass can be converted into liquid
fuel  and directly used in the existing transportation infrastructure, which is almost entirely run on fossil fuels
(cars, buses, airplanes).
It is claimed that Bioenergy produced from cultivation of plants could potentially provide a sustainable
alternative to fossil fuels for transport. Recent policy-driven interests in renewable energy and carbon mitigation
have contributed new resources and enthusiasm for production of bioenergy, in particular the strategy of
regionally produced biofuels that can help meet a low carbon fuel standard.
However, recent studies suggest that some combinations of cultivation processes and conversion
technologies for bio- energy consume more energy than is produced. The production of bioenergy will have
environmental impacts, including those associated with cultivation and the technologies used to process the crops
into biofuel. The net benefits of biofuel production from energy, environmental, GHG, and economic perspectives
is still debated. Some analyses report a negative energy balance in bioenergy production [e.g., 2]; others have
reported net positive energy balances [3, 4, 5]. Most studies acknowledged that biodiesel energy balance for first-
time vegetable oils depends mainly on the crop production system [6, 7].
This study evaluated energy balance of bio-fuel production to estimate the sustainability of a number of
combinations of production methods and conversion technologies for producing transport energy from canola.
Energy efficiency is one of the most important elements of sustainability analysis . Canola refers to a cultivar of
either Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) or Field Mustard (Brassica campestris L. or Brassica Rapa var.). Its seeds are
used to produce edible oil suitable for consumption by humans and livestock. The oil is also suitable for use as
biodiesel. Canola production in Iran is 164000 tons in 2009 that 64.90% of irrigated farming and 35.10% of dry
farming have been obtained.Also in this year, canola cultivation was about 86000 ha that 59.56% is irrigated
farming and the rest of that was dry farming .
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Data used in this study were obtained from 10 large mechanized canola farms by using a face to- face
questionnaire method in Gotvand County during production period of 2015-2016. The farms produce
To cite this paper: Abshar R, and Sami M. 2016. Evaluation Energy Efficiency in Biodiesel Production from Canola; A Case Study. J. Life Sci. Biomed., 6 (3): 71-75.


According to State Health Departments and Ministries on Friday, India recorded the highest single-day rise in Coronavirus cases in six months with 88,665 new infections in a span of 24 hours, taking the COVID-19 tally of cases to 1,23,90,775.
The only-working day boost in circumstances will be the best saved due to the fact September26 and 2020, even though the fatality cost improved to 1,64,062 with 634 new deaths, the best considering that Dec 3, the data current at 10 p.m. revealed.
759 new infections were recorded in a span of 24 hours on September 26, while 541 daily deaths were registered on December 3, as many as 88.
The amount of those who have recuperated coming from the illness surged to 1,15,61,261. The truth death fee stood at 1.33Percent, the data reported.
India’s COVID-19 tally possessed crossed the 20-lakh label on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on Sept 50 and 5 lakh on Sept 16. It journeyed previous 60 lakh on Sept . 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one crore-indicate on December 19.
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I often get a lot of queries on how to repot Jewel Alocasia, the very fact is that at most if not all these plants that have been produced from the nurseries have used only cocopeat as medium which is not suitable for long-term condition for these types of Jewel Alocasia, all the more when introduced in the garden conditions where it is too wet and too hot in the same time - turning the potting media becoming too wet causing root rot or too dry that the roots are unable to absorb proper nutrients.
Hence repotting them to the correct media ensures the longevity of the plant life and these can grow and be maintained for many years to come.
POTTING MEDIA : MATERIALS
COCONUT HUSK CHIPS
After years of experience with many trial and errors, I finally came the most successful candidate - where it works best for me. Of course, different gardeners will propose and use based on their experience and their garden condition - in my context. I find the best that works for me are coco-chips. Do not get me wrong, it is not the same with using cocopeat or fiber. I strong discourage gardeners to use purely cocopeat as these retain too much water for long-term duration causing root and stem rot.
However, coconut chips alone will not work as it would be too dry and sparse - hence it need to be mixed with other material.
Here I use, in rough estimation of 50-75% coconut chips mixed with sand and compost.
I find River sand works best, the one that I chose are the slightly granule type and not the fine dust sand. These really helps to regulate the breathing process for the roots. You can use perlite as a substitute however I find perlite are quite light and may easily washed off when accidentally sprayed / watered strongly on the pot. Also they may easily float which doesn't really help in keeping the density in the potting medium.
Apart from Sand or Perlite - fine coarse pumice or even aquarium fine pebbles or pebbles wash stones can be used though I find these are quite expensive based on the weight and quantity sold. Also washed construction sand does work - however you may have to get the denser coarse material more in the mix comparison to the fine sandy parts.
Another addition is LECA BALLS however it doesn't retain much moisture as needed in comparison to coconut chips - you can add leca balls together in the mix but not solely unless the leca balls are exposed to constant watering system at the bottom as these regulate proper moisture.
Here I have unpotted and uprooted the dying Jewel Alocasia. Just in time to save the plant from dying as I can notice the soil medium is too dense and too wet which may cause root rot easily even though it may have been watered once a week. The medium is retaining too much water.
The current medium used here is regular potting mix.
After removing the medium, I had carefully washed the root ball to check if there are any sign of root rot which can be detrimental to the plant. These had some dead rotting root branches in some section which I had carefully cut and removed them off from the main root structure.
I often layer the medium first, the first layer - I would put the coconut chip, at times, I would also put in a thin layer of compost and another thin layer of coconut chips again.
After that carefully lay the root ball. Normally - I would place the plant at the side of the pot, giving more support for the plant to lean against the pot wall.
After this, it is the sand followed by a little pieces of charcoal to deter the rot problem. You can skip the charcoal if you don't have it - I'm just using it as additional. (Charcoal chips - optional)
Then, it is just a slight constant layering of chips, sand and chips until the whole root ball is stabled and unexposed, you can lightly compress the mix by hand and add more of these potting medium until the pot is 90% full - do keep a little space for watering as you don't want the medium to wash down from the when watering.
This is how it looks like when it is fully done, Do try to avoid trimming off the dying leaves as it may trigger stress for the plant & this can cause the plant especially the Jewel Alocasia types to get into dormancy - they they trigger into dormancy - refrain from watering - just keeping the medium moist once a week. It is ok if the medium becomes fully dry before the next watering as the whole thing is just root ball and stem.
Over-watering in the dormancy stage can cause rot problems which can be fatal to the plant - hence ensuring the right medium for this condition saves the plant from dying.
This is still in the experimental stage and I find that this method is very successful.
What I do is, place a transparent plastic cup at the bottom of the drainage of the pot and just ever so slightly - making sure that the water is just touching the base of the pot - keeping the moisture intact as not to totally dried out.
I do water these in the pot - from the top of the medium keeping the whole pot wet but just once a week. The next watering - I make sure the top medium is fully dried before watering again. Usually once a week is considered very ideal.
Shown here where the plant had almost died - I only had a small tuber which had gone dormant, here I just used coconut chips and leca balls and the plant had rejuvenated from dormancy after 3-4 months. Of course - I had the choice of ditching this dying plant and start all over again purchasing a new one however it was a trending plant then and these were sold very expensive during that time.
Now the plant have fully recovered and I had changed to more suitable medium of sand / coco-chips and compost giving the plant to grow and mature more vigorously.
Eventually the Jewel Alocasia may overgrow and give out more tubers and baby plants may be produced over the course of few months to a year. Do take note - not to overpot the plant, rather slowly repot them in just a slight bigger pot as sudden change of potting media which is too big may also cause them stress. These Jewel Alocasia loves to be in tight potting medium especially when it comes to coconut chips - these works best.
(Do note - though it is in a tight enclosed type of potting medium - sand also is required as these roots need to breathe - hence fast draining medium. Just tight enclosed medium as the regular potting medium can retain too much water causing root and stem rot)
Another factor that I also noticed when it comes to Jewel Alocasia - the top crown and the leaves will appear healthy and beautiful even though they are facing root / tuber and stem rot underneath the pot where it is not visible. Only when the plant is totally rotten and death- you will suddenly find the bottom stem being squishy and rotten - it is too late to safe anything when it is in this condition.
Hence underwater is still a good thing in comparison to overwatering.

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Adults in Wales are embracing sport more than ever before, according to Sport Wales. Figures published in the Active Adults survey today, show that the number of adults taking part in sport or physical activity three or more times a week has risen from 29 per cent in 2008 to 39 per cent in 2012.
The report shows an increase in people participating in:
Swimming - up to 15.7 per cent from 11.4 per cent in 2008
Running and jogging - increasing from 6.9 per cent in 2008 to 13.4 per cent in 2012
Cycling - up from 7.5 per cent in 2008 to 10.3 per cent in 2012
Football - up to 8.9 per cent in 2012, from 6.7 per cent in 2008.
More top news
Clear skies overnight will set us up for a beautiful weekend with sunshine and lovely temperatures.
Shopping trolleys to be left unlocked as supermarket upgrades for new £1 coin.
A house in Bangor has been boarded up for three months following complaints of drug use and antisocial behaviour.


An arcade boss says he definitely won’t be closing the Mayfair Amusements in Girvan.
But Alfie Briggs does plan to downsize the long-established business.
Mr Briggs, 74, wants to change part of the arcade, to create a town house.
And he has been granted planning consent by South Ayrshire Council.
Mr Briggs says he will transform the smaller part of the arcade - next to the Harbour Bar pub - back into a house.
But the larger, deeper part of the business will remain an amusement arcade.
However, Mr Briggs also has consent to create a house there, should it ever be required.
He said: “I was advised to do it (planning) this way. But I’m definitely not closing the arcade.”
He added: “I won’t be around forever, and maybe my children will decide it should go back to a house.
“But I know I won’t do it.”
Mr Briggs, who lives in Ayr, has owned Mayfair Amusements since 1984.
The business was created in 1962 by the late Edwin Lawrence, a former travelling showman.
He had bought the two-storey house next to the Harbour Bar pub, and converted the downstairs front into a small amusement arcade.
This had originally been John Carson’s fish shop.
The arcade was greatly expanded around 1970, after the acquistion of a house at No 29 Knockcushan Street.
The arcade, which included a prize bingo and a shop, was run successfully by Mr Lawrence and his family, until bought by Mr Briggs.
The new owner kept the name ‘Mayfair Amusements’ which was a tribute to Mr Lawrence’s wife May, as well as an affluent part of London.
Alfie Briggs recalls: “There was more business for everyone back in the days when there was about five amusement arcades in Girvan.
“Takings have certainly gone down, but we’re still getting by.
“This conversion will allow me to rent out a house and a flat, instead of just a flat.”


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If your vacation plans include a tour, make sure a dream trip doesn't become an expensive disaster.
Travel ripoffs are distressingly common. One in seven calls to the National Fraud Information Center is travel-related, says John Barker, vice president of the National Consumers League, which runs the project.
The main culprits? Tour operators that fold, including those that pitch to students and senior citizens; telemarketing and other hard-sell schemes that offer free trips; and startup charter air carriers that bellyflop.
Protecting your money isn't simple. There is little state and no federal regulation of travel agents or tour operators. Here are some ways to protect yourself:
- Before you pay, find out whether the tour operator is a current member of the U.S. Tour Operators Association (212-750-7371), which has a consumer protection plan. Another trade organization, the National Tour Association (800-682-8886), offers more limited protection-up to $100,000 coverage if a member company fails.
- Before you send in your money, call a hotel or airline listed on the tour to confirm that reservations have been honored and paid for on past trips.
- Buy trip cancellation and interruption insurance from a third-party insurer-not the so-called cancellation insurance offered by many tour operators.
- If possible, use a credit card to pay for everything. The Fair Credit Billing Act allows 60 days from the date of your bill-not the date of travel-to contest a charge.


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To make pink food coloring, start with beets and extract the juice from them. Use a small amount of beet juice as food coloring.
- Grate up the beets
Beets are also known as beetroot. You can use cooked or fresh beets. Grate up the beets in to fine strands. Try not to get the beets on your hands or counter, because the juice makes pink stains.
- Press through a sieve
Press the grated beets into a sieve to extract the juice. Place the sieve over a container to catch the juice. Press the grated beets into the sieve with a spoon or another tool. The juice is a very dark pink color.
- Color food with the juice
Start with a very small amount of beet juice to color your food. Using less beet juice makes the food a lighter shade of pink, while using more beet juice turns the food a darker shade of pink. Beet juice is a natural food coloring that is completely edible. A small amount of it does not alter the flavor of the food.
- Clean up
To clean beet juice from your hands or the counters, rub the stain with lemon juice and salt, then wash with soap and water.


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Journey to Silius / Ufouria: The Saga
This is a Very Ok Vinyl distribution title.
- First vinyl pressing of classic Video Game Soundtracks
- New Artwork by Drew Wise
- Limited Edition Color Vinyl
Ship to Shore PhonoCo. is proud to present a double-bill of classic early 90s Sunsoft soundtracks, Journey To Silius and Ufouria: The Saga, together on vinyl for the first time!
Relive the golden days of NES gaming with our split LP of Naoki Kodaka’s seminal scores for two much beloved Sunsoft gems!
Side A is dedicated to 1990’s run-and-gun sci-fi platformer Journey To Silius (known as Rough World in Japan). The frenetic action pulled players into its futuristic dystopian world with explosive force but it was Kodaka’s soundtrack – utilising unusual programming techniques – which kept them hooked, receiving wide acclaim and being the subject of many remixes and sampled tracks.
On the AA flip is the original score to Ufouria: The Saga, the very first entry in the popular Hebereke series. An action-adventure game in the vein of Metroid, Ufouria featured unusually quirky character designs, some of which would become intrinsic to Sunsoft itself. Originally released in 1991, the game has grown a large cult following over the last three decades thanks in part to its score, where Naoki Kodaka compliments the unforgettable character style with a catchy soundscape to match.
Available on limited edition black & white split vinyl and featuring artwork by Drew Wise, this is sure to be a hit with collectors of quality retro VGM!


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Table of Contents
- 1 Is Aluminium oxide an amphoteric oxide?
- 2 Is aluminium an amphoteric metal?
- 3 How is aluminum oxide amphoteric?
- 4 Why aluminium and gallium oxides are amphoteric?
- 5 How do you know if an oxide is amphoteric?
- 6 Is aluminum oxide covalent or ionic?
- 7 Is aluminium oxide amphoteric or basic?
- 8 Which of the following is considered as amphoteric oxide?
Is Aluminium oxide an amphoteric oxide?
Aluminium oxide is an amphoteric substance, meaning it can react with both acids and bases, such as hydrofluoric acid and sodium hydroxide, acting as an acid with a base and a base with an acid, neutralising the other and producing a salt.
Why is Aluminium oxide is an amphoteric oxide?
Aluminium oxide is an amphoteric oxide because it reacts with acids as well as bases and gives salts and water. Reaction with acid- When Aluminium oxide reacts with Hydrochloric acid it gives Aluminium chloride and water . Aluminium oxide contains oxide ions so react with dilute hydrochloric acid.
Is aluminium an amphoteric metal?
In chemistry, an amphoteric compound is a molecule or ion that can react both as an acid and as a base. Many metals (such as zinc, tin, lead, aluminium, and beryllium) form amphoteric oxides or hydroxides.
What are examples of amphoteric oxides?
Examples of amphoteric oxides are zinc oxide and aluminium oxide.
- ZnO(s) + 2HCl(aq) → ZnCl2(aq) + H2O(l)
- ZnO(s) + 2NaOH(a) → Na2ZnO2(aq) + H2O(l)
- Al2O3(s) + 6HCl(aq) → 2AlCl3(aq) + 3H2O(l)
- Al2O3(s) + 2NaOH(aq) → 2NaAlO2(aq) + H2O(l)
How is aluminum oxide amphoteric?
Aluminium oxide is amphoteric. It has reactions as both a base and an acid. The oxide ions are held too strongly in the solid lattice to react with the water. Reaction with acids: Aluminum oxide contains oxide ions, and thus reacts with acids in the same way sodium or magnesium oxides do.
Is Cl2O7 amphoteric oxide?
Cl2O7 is an ACIDIC oxide. It reacts with water to give Per Chloric Acid.
Why aluminium and gallium oxides are amphoteric?
The elements in group 13 are boron (B), aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga), indium (In), and thallium (Tl). – The elements aluminium and gallium act as amphoteric which means that they can dissolve both in acids and bases. Therefore the oxides of these elements Al2O3 and Ga2O3 are amphoteric in nature.
Are all aluminium compounds amphoteric?
Thus, all aluminium compounds are said to be amphoteric.
How do you know if an oxide is amphoteric?
Usually you label oxides as “amphoteric”. You may say that if an oxide reacts with an acid and forms a salt or if an oxide reacts with a base forms a salt then you can say that it is an amphoteric oxide.
What are amphoteric oxides give two example of amphoteric oxide?
Answer: Oxides of metals which have both acidic as well as basic behaviour are known as amphoteric oxides. Such metallic oxides react with acids as well as base to produce salt and water. Examples of Amphoteric oxides are aluminium oxide and zinc oxide.
Is aluminum oxide covalent or ionic?
Aluminium oxide is an ionic compound, but aluminium chloride is only ionic in the solid state at low temperatures. At higher temperatures it becomes covalent.
Is As2O3 amphoteric?
Yes, arsenic(III) oxide (As2O3) is amphoteric. It dissolves in dilute hydrochloric acid forming arsenic trichloride. It also dissolves in warm alkalis with formation of salts known as arsenites.
Is aluminium oxide amphoteric or basic?
At ‘O’ levels, we accept that aluminium oxide is amphoteric because it is able to behave as a base in the presence of an acid and behave as an acid in the presence of an alkali. But, we know that metal oxides are basic.
What is the chemical name of aluminium oxide?
Aluminum oxide is an amphoteric oxide of aluminum with the chemical formula Al 2 O 3. It is also commonly referred to as alumina. Aluminum oxide is an electrical insulator but has a relatively high thermal conductivity (30 Wm −1 K −1) for a ceramic material.
Which of the following is considered as amphoteric oxide?
(a) Aluminium oxide is considered as an amphoteric oxide. Aluminium oxide reacts with both acidic and basic substances to give neutralization reaction and hence cannot be called a true acid as well as base. Hence it is called amphoteric oxide.
Does aluminium oxide react with acids?
Well, it is a substance that can react with both acids and bases usually to produce salt and water. Aluminium oxide therefore can react with both acids as well as bases. We will take the example of its reaction with hydrochloric acid (strong acid) and sodium hydroxide (strong base).

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text: A 44-year-old female patient presented herself to the hospital with paroxysmal chest distress after exertion for the past 10 days. The duration of the distress varied between 10 minutes and several hours. There was no history of hypertension or diabetes. An electrocardiogram showed a sinus rhythm without significant ST-T changes. A coronary CTA was requested for further evaluation.


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By: M.S.Yatnatti: Editor and Video Journalist Bengaluru: Reportedly IIMS has replied to the notice issued to IIMS by KSOU through their advocate. KSOU have stated through advocate that IIMS have been called upon to give explanation as why the Memorandum of understanding dated 21-04-2012 entered between IIMS and KSOU should not be terminated failing which KSOU would proceed in the matter in absence of IIMS explanation /reply terminate the MOU in accordance with law . IIMS have replied to the advocate of KSOU that "Your client does not know the meaning of law. As per the KSOU Act, 1996, there is no provision for academic collaboration even then it signed the MOU with taking huge money. Without completing the due process, the KSOU approached the Chancellor and got the approval for the four statutes. The university was supposed to place the proposal before the legislature after the chancellor's approval, the process which it has not completed .Hence KSOU entering agreement with collaborators was without any authority of law and fraud inflicted on collaborative institution and students and nation .My answer to your notice is this MOU is signed by KSOU Mysore itself is without any authority of law by taking Rs 6 lakhs from me. I have spent about Rs 20 lakhs to get the printed study material for courses .So KSOU need to refund my money of 26 lakhs with bank interest forth with before terminating this illegal agreement .UGC De-recognition from 2012 is proof of it. The Law department termed the four statutes proposal not legal, valid and justifiable.Father it has stated to KSOU Advocate that "The KSOU HAS caused damage to the reputation of my institution and hence I seek KSOU to tender apology to my institution and pay my institution money of 26 lakhs with bank interest forth with before terminating this illegal agreement or else my institutionwould file a case against KSOU Mysore as per this illegal agreement .My answer to your notice is that my institution reputation is really damaged by KSOU Signing illegal agreement, it was not due to me; my and institution reputation was damaged by KSOU own conduct and unlawful activity which we were not aware of and we came to know of it after UGC De-recognition. It is not me who should give explanation to KSOU but KSOU alone explain and should tender apology to the nation, as IT has allegedly committed fraud against motherland by swindling money of collaborators and cheating the nation and students as per Government of Karnataka and UGC and other committees report and colliding with few big collaborators and running a degree racket instead of doing law full activity. As we were not allowed to function lawfully.”
Question of UGC giving recognition to KSOU is out of question as even new VC has not taken any steps to comply the UGC reports . The VC has to file FIR on former VC and its officers for running degree mill The new VC has to confiscate all the examination materialsand all examination answers booklets andfind out whodid the valuationand awarded marksand degrees .The new VC need to remove all collaborators offices like Algol from KSOU main building .As former VC had entered into joint venture agreement with private technical collaborators to run the University without the KSOU taking approval of the Legislative Assembly and Council for the different statutes constituted by KSOU and as such all collaborative agreements stands illegal. Breach of privilege:Rangappa and Krishnan have come under the scanner for committing breach of privilege of the legislature by not taking approval of the Legislative Assembly and Council for the different statutes constituted by the two varsities. Madhusudhan said that the two varsities had framed 70 to 80 statutes without seeking the approval of the legislature. Rangappa and Krishnan were first summoned by the committee in the month of January, after a privilege motion was moved by MLCs Arun Shahapur and Ganesh Karnik against UoM and KSOU on November 11, 2015. As per the KSOU Act, 1996, there is no provision for academic collaboration. Still, the KSOU board of management introduced five statutes through the Karnataka State Open University (Academic Collaboration Statutes - 2011).Later, it sought the governments opinion in June 2011.
Without completing the due process, the KSOU approached the Chancellor and got the approval for the four statutes. The university was supposed to place the proposal before the legislature after the chancellors approval, the process which it has omitted. While the Education department washed its hand on the subject by CID probe ordered into KSOU scam, the Law department termed the proposal not legal, valid and justifiable. Something more is required legally. It is common to hear about private varsities being de-recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC). However, for the first time in the history of Karnataka's higher education sector, UGC has declared as invalid online and other courses offered by the state-run Karnataka State Open University (KSOU). The UGC has cautioned candidates against joining KSOU'S online courses saying admission to any of their courses may jeopardize their careers." In a circular, UGC secretary Jaspal S Sandhu said the Mysore-headquartered KSOU has coaching centres across the country and abroad in collaboration with private coaching centres. This was offered through blatant flouting of norms, guidelines and directives of UGC. Taking cognizance of the fact, the programmes offered by KSOU, Mysuru, have not been recognised by UGC beyond 2012-13. This has been done after issue of show-cause notice to the varsity on June 10, 2011, and subsequent responses from officials. UGC, he added, had noticed that despite all the developments, KSOU had remained undeterred and was continuing to offer programmes through distance learning mode in violation of the UGC's Regulations.


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The American Left and the mass media like to use the issue of waivers granted by the military as a club with which to beat down the war effort. They do this by saying that the military is having such trouble recruiting members to fight in the war (supposedly, by their logic, because the vast majority of Americans are against the war and the military), that they have to lower their standards.
Well, GRIM at Blackfive and Armed Liberal at Winds of Change give the details about the military waivers that the mass media and the dishonest demagoguing hacks on the Left and in the media fail to give when they speak on the issue: On Waivers
The vast majority of the conduct waivers are misdemeanors and a litany of three-or-more traffic offenses. And with that, there are some felony arrests and a few felony convictions. Together they total to about a half of one percent of the intake.
In the past year, the Army increased its numbers, almost doubled them. But they are so small that it equates just for scale to fewer than one per congressional district, insofar as felons that were waivered in.
The kind of person that we’re talking about is someone who doesn’t appear to be morally corrupt. Rather it was perhaps a prank gone terribly wrong, a grotesque error in judgment.
But in every case, if their community has joined behind them and said, this is really a good kid, and offered their support, then the recruiter might, if we’ve got a strong candidate in terms of their other attributes, send it up for a waiver.
A two-star will look at it. And let me say a general officer. I’m not sure if it’s always two-star. But a general officer or flag officer will look at it, look at what they read about this person, what their parents, teachers, coaches have to say, and then make a judgment.
[Cross-posted with more discussion HERE]
For those questioning the validity of the “peace” protestor assault on the soldier and his family (which I posted about HERE) (1), feel free to actually go to the Gathering of Eagles-NY website and read the posted AAR (After Action Report) (2) filed and posted by the military member whose family was assaulted. They are working on getting their video posted and possibly filing charges against the people who assaulted them. They will be posting updates, so feel free to check back often there, instead of just ignorantly speculating on whether things are “fishy” or not.
Also, as a few have mentioned already, this is SOP for the “peace” crowd (3), and has been since 2003. These are not just simply a few ‘radicals’ that make the rest of the so-called “peace” movement look badly. This *is* the “peace” movement. They are not for peace, they are simply anti-‘American involvement in stopping evil around the world’. If the “peace” movement was truly for peace, they would be taking their asses to the countries where evil exists and protesting the terrorists, dictators and oppressive regimes that start these wars. But they don’t. Therefore, they are worthless. Not to mention, the leaders of these movements – Medea Benjamin and the Communists of CODE PINK, International A.N.S.W.E.R., World Can’t Wait, etc – are anti-America and pro-terrorists and pro-dictators. In fact, the CODE PINKo Commies held a fund-raiser and then sent the $600,000 they raised to the terrorists in Fallujah, Iraq back in 2004 or 2005. Google it.
No peace protester in history has ever done anything to stop evil. None. Period. The true peacemakers are those of the United States military. But you’ll never hear that acknowledged from anyone in the “peace” movement.
UPDATE: Deebow at Blackfive has posted on this and he is majorly Ticked Off: Can I Beat the Hippies Now? (4)
[ … ] I have arrested a few people in my career, and let me clear up for anyone wondering that anyone who puts a boot to someone lying on the ground or punches a minor in the face is going to be dealing with me and shortly after that, they will be on their way to jail in the back of my patrol car.
You have to go the link, if you haven’t already and read the first person account of what happened.
I am getting so tired of having to be angry about things like this. I know that our own civil disobedience counter protests is having an effect, otherwise they would not react this way. There should be no reason that the police are not taking sides; because that is their job.
But no CNN, no MSNBC, or the alphabet networks speaking to this. Just crickets….
Obama talks about chickens coming home to roost…
There is going to come a time in this country, that is probably not long from now, that these “peace” activists are going to get what is coming to them for the despicable ways that they are treating veterans and their families.
I am getting tired of these Peace Fascists, Libtard College Professors and Protester Thugs believing that their free speech is “more equal” than the free speech of my comrades in arms, who have shed blood, lost friends, lost limbs, saved children who are not their own and sanctified the ground of Iraq with their blood, and the blood of their friends to ensure that these oxygen thieving, mouth breathing, Luddite, uninformed, hateful, wastes of skin can take time away from sipping their lattes and eating their organic fat-free muffins so they can skip class and go down and throw verbal excrement and physically assault better men and women than they could ever hope to be….
“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
I will try to just keep saying that to myself…..
Retired Colonel Harry Riley, one of the founders of Eagles Up, sent a letter to the Edinboro Borough Manager, Taras (TJ) Jemetz, about this incident and was sent the following response:
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: RE: Iraq War Veteran and Family Assaulted!
Thank you for your inquiry.
The matter is under investigation. The DA is being consulted regarding possible charges against the people involved.
Taras (TJ) Jemetz
We shall see. I’ll believe it when I see it. I’ve included his address if you’d also like to address this issue as an freedom-loving American.
The police returned their camera today and they are preparing their video report of the event. Please help send this to as many media folks as you know. Pass it along and share it on your blogs. If you’d like to contact Carrie or Jason about this incident, let me know offline. Once I get the video, I’ll post for all to see!
I’ve got an update to this on my military blog, A Soldier’s Perspective. You won’t believe your eyes!!
[Cross-posted at my MySpace blog HERE.]
John Hinderaker at Power Line has a good post up about Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. For those of you who have not been doing your research about Barack Obama’s background and circle of friends, they are two left-wing radicals from the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization who both have a deep hatred of the United States of America.
For those of you keeping track, these are just two more in a long list of friends within Barack Obama’s circle of advisors, friends, acquintances and fellow politicians:
* Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr. (long time close friend and spiritual advisor, preacher of America-hating and the racist, Islam-sympathizing, Black-supremacist Black Liberation Theology)
* Michelle Obama (wife)
* Raila Odinga (Islamic Sharia Law supporting cousin and politician in Kenya)
* Louis Farrakhan (Radical, racist Islamic Supremacist of the Nation of Islam honored by Barack Obama’s church, Trinity United Church of Christ)
* Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (America-hating radicals and members of the domestic terror organization, Weather Underground)
I could also add to this list some of Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisors who are anti-Semitic and sympathizers of Muslim countries and radical dictatorships. Not to mention that Barack Obama has supporters in Texas who worship the former murderer Che Guevera.
But just posting the names and saying who they are and what they represent sometimes is just not enough for people. This is why people such as John Hinderaker are getting out the details on his blog that the mass media is not reporting: The Friends of Barack Obama, Part 1
When Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer decided to retire in 1995, she hand-picked local left-winger Barack Obama as her successor. In order to introduce Obama to influential liberals in the district, she held a function at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. This was, really, the beginning of Obama’s political career, and it linked him forever with Ayers and Dohrn, with whom, as his campaign has acknowledged, he continues to have a friendly relationship.
Ayers and Dohrn were famous radicals, and fugitives from the law, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dohrn, actually, was the more famous of the two; she was the head, as I recall, of Students for a Democratic Society or one of its factions. Dohrn was crazy. She is the only public figure, to my knowledge, to approve publicly and enthusiastically of the Charles Manson murders.
Ayers was a would-be murderer of soldiers and policemen, but he wasn’t a very good terrorist. He had the ill fortune to be the subject of a profile in the New York Times on September 11, 2001, in which he said that he didn’t regret his attempted murders and only wished that he had planted more bombs.
In last week’s Pennsylvania debate, Barack Obama was finally asked about his friendship with, and the political support he has accepted from, Ayers and Dohrn. Obama replied that Ayers had done reprehensible things forty years ago, when Obama was eight years old, and scoffed at the idea that Ayers’s ancient history could be relevant. That was disingenuous, of course, given Ayers’s 2001 regrets.
It turns out that we don’t have to go back as far as 2001 to find that Obama’s friends are as unrepentant as ever. Just last year, Ayers and Dohrn attended a reunion–no kidding–of what must have been the tiny remnant of SDS members who still haven’t figured out that they were wrong about everything. Listen to what Bill Ayers, who hosted Barack Obama’s first fundraiser, has to say about the United States. Not when Obama was eight years old, but in 2007 [ … ]
At the same event, Obama’s friend and supporter Bernadine Dohrn described the United States as “the monster.” Obama was 47 years old at the time [ … ]
Barack Obama has declined to repudiate or distance himself from his neighbors, supporters and friends, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. There is a certain consistency of perspective among Obama’s friends and mentors, which can be summed up in Jeremiah Wright’s memorable phrase: “God damn America.” [ … ]
Be sure to go to Power Line to listen to the audio Mr. Hinderaker has provided of these America-hating, scumbag friends of Obama.
Also, as many all over the anti-idiotarian and military blogs have noted numerous times, if this were John McCain being long-time friends with a terrorist who used to blow up abortion clinics and kill abortion doctors and was not repentent at all, it would immediately end John McCain’s political career (and rightfully so). The utter hypocrisy and sick double-standard is ridiculous with the Left and the Democratic Party as a whole.
People on both the Left and the Right side of the ideological aisle bitch and moan about the economy and the NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) , but rarely do any of these people know the actual details of what makes the economy work and how NAFTA affects it in a positive manner. This is why I appreciate pieces such as this one from Captain Ed Morrissey at HotAir who points out the many benefits NAFTA brings and the many ways we would actually improve our economy immensely if we would stop being so PC-ified by kissing the asses of the environazis and apocolyptic global warming dufuses.
[ … ] However, as John Engler points out, almost the entirety of the NAFTA trade deficit comes from energy imports as the US has made Canada and Mexico the top two nations for oil purchases. [ … ]
What the antitrade advocates have been hiding from the candidates (or maybe don’t know themselves) is that almost all of the increase in our Nafta deficit since 2000 has been in increased U.S. imports of energy from Canada and Mexico. In fact, $58 billion of the $62 billion increase in our Nafta deficit has been in energy imports. That’s 95% of the total increase.
We need that oil and gas, and we would rather get it from our friendly neighbors. Surely no one seeks to argue that America would be better off saying no to Mexican and Canadian oil and gas, advocating that we instead import that energy from less secure sources farther from our borders.
Except for energy, though, our trade deficit within Nafta has hardly grown at all – only $3.5 billion from 2000-2007. Our agricultural and manufactured goods sales to Nafta countries have just about kept pace with our imports. That’s a lot more than one can say about the rest of our foreign trade.
While the nonenergy deficit within Nafta has grown less than $4 billion since the job loss started, with the rest of the world it grew over $150 billion. Put another way, the increase in our nonenergy deficit within Nafta has accounted for only 2% of the increase in our global nonenergy deficit since 2000.
Why are the candidates so focused on 2% of our trade problem rather than on the other 98%? Our nonenergy deficit with the high-wage, high-environmental-standard European Union (with whom we have no free trade agreement) grew 10 times as much as it did with Nafta. And of course, with China the deficit grew even more.
Of course, we could import less oil from Canada and Mexico if we drilled more of our own oil domestically. We could open ANWR and the coasts to oil production, and we could build the first new refineries in 30 years to produce our own gasoline. That would employ more Americans, drop the cost of gasoline, ease our reliance on Middle East oil, and eventually strengthen the dollar. That would not only end the NAFTA trade imbalance, but would make us a stronger nation..
Would Hillary or Obama consider that approach? Of course not.
Engler, the former Michigan governor, says that NAFTA is the solution, not the problem. Had the US applied NAFTA to the rest of its trade, our imbalance would have dropped from $155 billion since 2000 to a mere $25 billion. That represents a lot of American jobs and more capital remaining within the American economy. Instead of losing across the board, we would have increased American agricultural exports and bolstered our own manufacturing base.
Engler isn’t sure whether the two Democrats are ignorant of NAFTA’s real impact or simply want to use it to demagogue people they assume are ignorant of it. Neither reflects well on their ability to lead this nation, economically or in any other fashion.
My guess is that it is the latter: they are demagoguing people whom they assume are ignorant of the details of NAFTA. They understand that most Americans are ignorant of the details of American policies and usually fueled by ignorant emotion, rather than tempered logic. And so, instead of being statesmen and leaders and explaining these policies to the American people to help educate them to make good decisions for the betterment of the country, the politicians simply demagogue to gain votes and power and then govern in a way that keeps the status quo and keeps them in power.
Pretty pathetic, but, to be honest, I tire of people bitching and whining about politicians and how *they* are screwing up this country. Newsflash to the Left, the Right and everyone in between: *WE* are screwing up this country. *WE* vote (or don’t vote) and *WE* are uninformed and continue to perpetuate ignorance among the populace by giving into our ignorant emotional rants, instead of helping to educate and inspire our fellow citizens with tempered logic and discussion of the details.
We, the People, of America need to stop playing the victims. The politicians are NOT screwing us over. The President is NOT screwing up this country. The Senate is NOT screwing up this country. The Congress is NOT screwing up this country. The mass media is not screwing up this country. Sure, they are contributing, but it is about damn time that we all said: THE BUCK STOPS HERE. And take some personality responsibility and have some personal pride in our country.
Government is not the solution. A President is not the solution. WE are the solution. We, the People, are what make this nation great. And we, the People, are the cause when this nation goes downhill. Our problem is not a matter of government or a matter of politicians, it is a matter of Americans not taking personal responsiblity and feeling that it is their duty to this country to make it the best it can be.
Politicians serve us… We, the People. A government is only as good as the people who put that government into place. Until we all realize that and stop the petty bickering and stop relishing hatred and spewing vitriol, our country will continue to suffer.
The Buck Stops with We, the People.
In this case, I believe the Gravediggers is the name given to a unit of soldiers in our American military. Either officially or just a self-given nickname.
Via Lt G at Kaboom: A Soldier’s War Journal: The Gravediggers’ Cache of Quotes (1)
This is long overdue. Four months into the Suck, and some brilliant (or otherwise) quips have been uttered by me and my men – usually in the hazy, ambiguous hours after midnight and before dawn. Rip-It abuse can only carry a man so far. Here’s the initial collection of bodacious, quotalacious wisecracks; some of them were intended, but as is the case with something so repulsively serious as war, most of them were not.
Here are the two I found the most hilarious, but be sure to go visit his site to read the rest and check out his other posts:
1 – “But Sergeant … I do not mean to brag, but my dick. It will not fit into the hole.” Then PV2 Das Boot, who, after receiving a verbal class on pissing in an empty bottle while on mission from SSG Boondock, still did not grasp the concept of utilizing the air pocket rather than sticking his entire member into the hole. Only after a whiteboard class complete with sketch drawings, and much verbal harassment regarding the size of his dick hole, did PV2 Das Boot successfully urinate in a bottle.
8 – “What the fuck? It’s not like these god damn mother fuckers are the fucking Vietcong and tunneled the fuck out of here. Where the fuck did they fucking go?” SSG Boondock, the night of the (in)famous IED-emplacement. And yes, that was a transmission on the Troop radio.
Found via the most excellent The Thunder Run.