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NFL's First Openly Gay Active Player Shows Signs of Progress
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Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib came out as gay this week, saying representation and visibility are important. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
By Kaia Zimmerman
Carl Nassib, Linebacker and Defensive End for the Las Vegas Raiders, recently took to Instagram to announce he is gay, making him the first person on an NFL active roster to come out as gay.
"Hey everyone, happy pride month," Nassib said on Instagram. "Right now, I am sitting in a moment of gratitude and relief. Sadly, I have agonized over this moment for the last 15 years. Only until recently, thanks to my family and friends, especially Connor, Carson, and Francis, did it seem possible for me to say publicly and proudly that I am gay."
One of the points Nassib made in his post, was that a lot of teens don't feel accepted and loved enough to come out, which can lead to depression and suicide. Nassib mentioned the Trevor Project, as well as announcing he had donated $100,000 to the nonprofit. Following Nassib's post, the NFL announced that they stand with Nassib and will match his donation. The Trevor Project is a non-profit organization that focuses on suicide prevention of LGBTQ youth.
"Studies have shown that all it takes is one accepting adult to decrease the risk of an LGBTQ kid committing suicide by 40%," Nassib said.
Nassib's story hits very close to home for me as I am gay. I have the most accepting mother in the world who I am so grateful for. Without her support through this, I would have never gotten to the great place I am today. I have also had my amazing girlfriend, who was the first person I came out to, and she helped me with acceptance. I wouldn't be where I am today without her by my side.
While I've experienced acceptance, I have also had some adults in my life not be accepting, and that hurts more than I ever expected it to. When I came out to those adults who weren't accepting, it was one of the scariest moments in my life. The fact that I had to be scared to share who I was, broke my heart.
Nassib's coming out story made national headlines, but there are kids facing the same situation in their households, schools and everyday places. I hope for future generations that coming out won't be a huge deal. When I came out, I was terrified, and I couldn't even get the words out. I had a lot of shame for just being who I am, unnecessarily.
LGBTQ people are taught to be ashamed of themselves, and told they will go to hell, but for what, for being happy? Since coming out, I have never been happier. So why do people care so much about something that only affects me? My sexuality is not up for debate, but for some reason, there are unaccepting people who believe they get to have a say in my life and my happiness.
I am not saying everyone has to fly a rainbow flag every year in June. What I am saying is respect us, and know that we have gone through so much to get to where we are standing today. I hope that kids in the future won't have to go through the pain so many LGBTQ people go through while coming to terms with their sexuality, gender identity, and coming out.
To parents (and other influential adults), if your child comes out to you, please be patient, and listen to what they have to say. They have probably been holding this in for so long and have had to hide who they are because the world tells them they need to.
To those who are part of the LGBTQ community, know you are loved and accepted in this world, and that it will get better. Two years ago I was depressed, and hated who I was. Now, I am fully out and in a great relationship with someone who makes me the happiest I have ever been. There is no pressure to come out, and you need to take this at your own pace. Know there are accepting people out there who will love you no matter what.
I can't express how grateful I am to Nassib for his courage to come out. I hope he knows how much of an impact he is having on so many kids who are afraid to tell the world who they are.
Nassib coming out is particularly important for younger male athletes to see that it is okay to be a part of the community and also be an athlete. It is often not accepted when a male athlete comes out as gay, so to watch him come out, and to see his teammates, his team, and the NFL establishment support him, shows how far we have come. But the fact that his announcement made national headlines proves we still have a long way to go.
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Home Science and Research Scientific Research Planet K2-18b is a steam-fogged super-earth – and potentially habitable
Planet K2-18b is a steam-fogged super-earth – and potentially habitable
By Amit Kumar -
The atmosphere of terrestrial planets is sometimes not terrestrial. This already shows a comparison between Mars and Venus. While the Red Planet has only a very thin and cool atmosphere, the Venus is thick with hot temperatures. Little is known about the gas envelopes of the more than 4000 confirmed extrasolar planets. Only a few Jupiter-like planets have so far been able to detect an atmosphere. Now, for the first time, astronomers have found an atmosphere with an exoplanet that is significantly smaller than Jupiter. The find confirms the assumption that living conditions prevail in the distant world, for there is vaporous water in the atmosphere there.
It's about the exoplanet K2-18b. As researchers around Angelos Tsiaras of University College in London write in the journal "Nature Astronomy" , he was already discovered in 2015 by the Kepler Space Telescope of NASA in about 110 light years away. In the two following years also observed the Hubble telescope two Vorübergänge the planet in front of his home star. During these transits, on the one hand the light of the star was partially blocked by the planet, on the other hand the remaining starlight was filtered through its gas envelope. The archived data was re-analyzed by the research team. They found the water vapor, and the measurements point to hydrogen and helium in the atmosphere.
No second earth
K2-18b is not a second earth, but about eight times as heavy. It falls into the weight category of the so-called super-earth, for which there is no equivalent among the eight planets of the sun. With a density of 3.3 grams per cubic centimeter (Earth: 5.5), it could have a rocky crust, much like a terrestrial planet. But it could also be a world of water dominated by a global ocean. Which scenario is more appropriate is unknown. Water can exist on the surface probably because the planet receives just enough heat from its native red dwarf star that the temperatures are potentially earth-like – at least mathematically K2-18b circles in the habitable zone of its star.
The co-author Giovanna Tinetti sees in K2-18 b therefore one of the most interesting planets for future studies. However, the researchers must confuse many ambiguities in the current data situation: For example, it is still unknown which other molecules exist in the air of the distant planet. Are nitrogen and methane also present, as the authors suspect? Besides, you do not know how much the sky is clouded by clouds on K2-18b. The percentage of atmospheric water can therefore be estimated only very roughly, depending on the assumptions used between 0.01 and 50 percent.
An exciting find
Kevin Heng from the University of Bern, who himself was not involved in the study, nevertheless welcomes it as a milestone. Similar investigations have already been carried out many times, but here for the first time a really clear signal was found for a super-earth. That was clearly an exciting find. For such analyzes are not exclusively about the chemistry of atmospheres. The long-term goal is to deduce a possible biological activity from certain substances that are classified as biomarkers. The expert, however, brakes the expectations: "We are not that far yet."
In general, the characterization of extrasolar gas hoses is a very difficult business. In the case of Trappist 1, populated by seven exoplanets, the search for atmospheres has been unsuccessful. This is partly due to the fact that the central star of this planetary system glows only with 0.5 per thousand of the luminosity of the sun. The signal is therefore too weak for the previous telescopes.
That's why the researchers opted for the next generation of space telescopes. These include the international James Webb telescope and the European Ariel mission; the expected start dates are 2021 and 2028. Already since April 2018, the NASA satellite Tess in space. He is to discover hundreds of other super-earths like K2-18b in the coming years. According to co-author Ingo Waldmann, it is likely that many potentially habitable planets will soon be found. Because unlike in our solar system, super-earths are the most common planets in the Milky Way.
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Open up new sources of finance for impact-driven businesses
The Impact Programme will work with partners to develop new models for intermediation between a wider range of investors and enterprises and support the innovation of new structures that facilitate greater capital flows.
Taking impact investment public
Partner: Eighteen East Capital Ltd
The Impact Programme supported Eighteen East Capital to design and test the market appetite for the launch of an Impact Investment Trust on the London Stock Exchange. If successful, this would make impact investing in frontier markets accessible to all categories of investor, including ordinary private individuals, by providing a regulated product offering liquidity and a low minimum investment size. Funds raised would be on-invested in specialist impact funds in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. The results from the test marketing for the launch of an Impact Investment Trust on the London Stock Exchange can be read here.
DFID is helping to meet the costs of:
• Selecting an investment advisor
• Defining the investment mandate, impact strategy and impact assessment methodology
• Engaging a broker to support test marketing
• Drafting a simplified prospectus and an investment advisory agreement for test marketing purposes based on a Close-Ended Investment Company (CEIC) model
• Market-testing the proposition with potential investors and their advisors
• Producing a report on the findings of the test marketing exercise, to be made available to the public
The market-testing results have indicated a reasonable chance for a successful launch of an initial public offering (IPO) and Eighteen East Capital has sourced additional funding to complete the structuring of this product. The successful launch of the first vehicle of this type would potentially trigger the launch of competing and complementary vehicles. This would help to develop an impact investing CEIC sector on the LSE and other major stock exchanges, thereby facilitating much larger sums of private capital to invest for impact.
Creating a Liquidity Vehicle
Partner: Enclude Capital Advisory
The Impact Programme is supporting Enclude to support the building of a secondary market for impact investments through the creation of a Vehicle that will offer exit opportunities to early stage portfolio owners and managers. The goal is at once to stimulate activity from new investors seeking exposure to impact assets and to allow portfolio managers and owners to achieve liquidity, while providing underlying impact businesses a clear pathway to further develop and deliver their full performance potential.
Prioritising DFID target countries, Enclude aims to unlock new sources of private capital for investment in impact oriented enterprises, by improving liquidity opportunities in impact investing. To do this, Enclude aims to design a Liquidity Vehicle, proposed to be a permanent investment company, that would purchase and aggregate existing impact investment assets with defined exit pathways (currently on the balance sheet of impact funds and fund managers). To improve the risk-return profile of the Liquidity Vehicle, Enclude would seek to incorporate a certain level of risk mitigation, by including features such as continued exposure from the portfolio seller as well as a possible limited liquidity guarantee.
The work will involve three distinct phases:
• Phase 1 Finalise Vehicle design: Enclude will develop a detailed design for the Vehicle based on inputs from interviews and financial modelling.
• Phase 2 Finalise the Vehicle structure: Enclude will develop preliminary recommendations for the capital and governance structure, legal form and preferred jurisdiction of the Vehicle through consultation with legal and tax advisors.
• Phase 3 Conduct pre-marketing: Enclude will develop a comprehensive package of marketing and transaction related materials for the potential Vehicle Backers and Investors.
The Liquidity Vehicle would aim to solve issues associated with investor needs for larger transaction sizes, geographic and sector diversification, regular liquidity, and a more attractive risk/return profile, while ensuring mission preservation of the underlying enterprises by allowing more time and capital to deliver the intended impact objectives.


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Unity Releases 2D Tools with 4.3 Update
Unity Technologies today released version 4.3 of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools. The important update includes the highly anticipated dedicated 2D development tools, huge additions to the Mecanim animation system, an upgrade to the re-written Umbra 3 occlusion culling, and much more.
"4.3 is a huge update in the history of Unity," said David Helgason, CEO, Unity Technologies. "The addition of 2D tools is an important milestone that will help developers make incredible 2D games, and with major improvements to Mecanim and greatly increased performance, this is a weighty, productive update that we're thrilled to release."
Unity 4.3 is now available for download and introduces a massive variety of updates, improvements and new features that include:
2D Development Tools
While Unity has been used to create thousands of excellent 2D games, Unity 4.3 introduces new 2D development tools and metaphors specifically designed to streamline 2D workflow. Manipulating and optimizing 2D assets is made easier with the addition of a new Sprite Texture import mode, automated atlasing, an optimized 2D rendering, and drag-and-drop functionality for scene creation. Box2D physics have been integrated into Unity for better performance, stability, and smaller game builds. Additionally, polygon collider generation from sprite textures means quicker creation of accurate, but fully editable, physical collider meshes for refined physical response between objects in a scene.
Mecanim Animation Improvements
Unity's signature character animation suite becomes more powerful with support for Blend Shapes, used to accurately and realistically blend complex geometry between model states, giving animators the ability to create, among other things, believable emotional facial animation.
On top of high end improvements to character animation, Mecanim is now fully integrated with the Animation Window and its new dopesheet functionality. Support for animating simple scene elements, 2D sprite animations, camera settings, and more to make Mecanim an all-purpose animation solution.
Umbra 3 Occlusion Culling
Occlusion Culling in Unity has been rewritten for the upgrade to Umbra 3. Among other benefits, baking is much faster and generates much more accurate and better performing results. Rapid iteration allows for much more sophisticated environments containing highly detailed graphical content.
Additional Improvements
Unity 4.3 includes a slew of additional upgrades and additions, including major improvements to dynamic Navmesh creation, the "Optimize Transform Hierarchy" feature to reduce characters to a singular object instead of a 100 pieces, MonoDevelop 4.0.1, editor layouts saved by project, multiple shader enhancements, Plastic SCM integration, and a slew of Windows Store Apps updates. A complete list of improvements can be found in the Release Notes.
Unity 4.3 is available now and can be downloaded at https://unity3d.com/unity/download.
Unity Technologies is the creator of Unity, a flexible and high-performance development platform used to make creative and intelligent interactive 3D and 2D experiences. The "author once, deploy everywhere" capability ensures developers can publish to all of the most popular platforms. Unity Technologies boasts a thriving community of over 2 million developers including large publishers, indie studios, students and hobbyists. To remain at the forefront of innovation, Unity Technologies tirelessly re-invests in its award-winning 3D development tools and its democratization initiatives, such as the Asset Store digital content marketplace and Unity Games publishing and distribution division. Unity Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Singapore, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit: https://unity3d.com.
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NEW DELHI-Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal made his political debut with a party, whose name is to be announced next month, and called for a "dharam yudh" in country as he unveiled his party's vision document which he said represented the "aam admi".
"This is not my party. This is your party not mine… it is a party of the people of this country. People are fed up of corruption," Kejriwal said at the Constitution Club.
The official name of the party will be declared on Nov 26.
"There is a dharam yudh in this country. Everyone has to take sides. Our country has become a nation of VIPs. Now there will be only one VIP in this country. The aam aadmi," he said, donning a Gandhi cap with "Mein hoon aam admi, mujhe chahiye Janlokpal" (I am common man, I want Jan Lokpal) printed on it.
"This cap gives us respect. I will wear this for the rest of my life, " he said.
He also announced his party would contest assembly elections in Delhi next year.
The outlines of the vision document titled "Quest for Swaraj" are similar to what his mentor Anna Hazare is also fighting for, though the two have chosen different paths.
The document was released along with other colleagues of the erstwhile Team Anna .
"Democracy is when the people rule the country. We have to change the system where everyone who comes into power becomes greedy. We don't want to change the faces, we want to change the system. We have to change the system within 10-15 days. I used to work in the I-T dept. I know how it works," he said to applause.
"This is just a trailer. Once the party is launched, the full picture will be seen," activist and key member Yogendra Yadav said referring to the document.
Shanti Bhushan, Prashant Bhushan, and Manish Sisodia were the other key members present.
The vision document is, however, to be edited after more consultations, Manish Sisodia said.
Kejriwal, who was among those who drafted the Team Anna's Jan Lokpal bill, had announced launch of his political party last month. However, it resulted in a break with Anna Hazare, the face of the campaign. Hazare on Monday denied any differences with Kejriwal and said he would support him if he contested against Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal.
In a challenge to the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Kejriwal announced a massive campaign against high electricity bills. "People should not pay electricity bills, and if the government disconnects anyone's electricity, we will reconnect it. I am ready to go to jail. We will not just gherao (lay siege to) chief minister's (Sheila Dikshit) residence, but will disconnect her electricity," Kejriwal announced.
He threatened to hold a protest here Sunday if the state government did not announce a rollback of the electricity tariff hike.
He also said he would disclose corruption cases against some leading political figures Saturday.
"On Oct 6, we will reveal corruption charges we have against two very important people in this country. We have a lot of evidence against them," he said.
The BJP welcomed launch of his political party, saying all Indians have the right to contest elections.


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Q: How do you correctly loop after an error is catched? I have my database project going on.
Contains following classes:
Main
StudentCollection
Student
Inside my StudentCollection class I have the following method/query:
public Students getStudentForIndex(int index){
    try {
        return list.get(index);
    }catch(InputMismatchException e){
        System.out.println("Incorrect character entered");
        return null;
    }
}

I would like to get your suggestions on how I should tackle looping through the method.
Reason - If user inputs an error, I want to warn the user of that error and ask him to input again, continuously catching the possible errors thrown

A: boolean finished = false;
Student s;

while (!finished) {
    s = getStudentForIndex(getInput());
    if (s != null)
        finished = true;
}

// Do stuff with the Student s here.

The loop will loop until finished is true. This gets the input and passes it into the getStudentForIndex method. If that input causes an InputMismatchException, then s will be null. If s is not null, then you're done and finished can be true.

A: Assuming you are using a Scanner to get your input, it is as simple as:
Scanner in;
int input = -1;
// While the input number does not validly reference a student in the array...
while(input < 0 || input >= list.size()) {
    System.out.println("Please enter the student number");
    // Will wait until the user returns an int. Not a char, or string, an int.
    input = in.nextInt();
}

A: It's worth distinguishing between bad input and the case where the input is valid but results in no students (separation of concerns).  You need one method that keeps attempting to read input until it gets something it likes.  Then another method that acts on the input.  This will make it easier to test each feature of your program independent of the others.
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Test {

    public static class Student {
        private final String id;
        public Student(String id) {
            this.id = id;
        }
        public String toString() {
            return id;
        }
    }

    public static class StudentCollection {
        private final List<Student> students = Arrays.asList(
          new Student("zero"),
          new Student("one"),
          new Student("two"),
          new Student("three")
        );

        public int getMinIndex() { return 0; }
        public int getMaxIndex() { return students.size() - 1; }

        public Student getStudentForIndex(int index) {
            return students.get(index);
        }

    }

    public static String promptForIndex(Scanner reader, PrintWriter writer) {
        writer.write(String.format("Enter an index: %n"));
        writer.flush();
        return reader.nextLine().trim();
    }

    public static int parseInput(String s, int min, int max) {
        int value = Integer.parseInt(s);
        if(value < min || value > max) return -1;
        return value;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
            PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(System.out);
            final int retries = 10;

            StudentCollection sc = new StudentCollection();

            int index = -1;
            int loopCounter = retries;
            while(loopCounter > 0) {
                loopCounter--;
                String input = promptForIndex(reader, writer);
                try {
                    index = parseInput(input, sc.getMinIndex(), sc.getMinIndex());
                    if(index == -1) {
                        System.out.println("invalid index [" + input + "] must be in range ("
                       + sc.getMinIndex() + "," + sc.getMaxIndex() + ") try again");
                    } else {
                        loopCounter = 0;
                    }
                } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                    System.out.println("invalid input ["+input+"], try again");
                }
            }

            if(index == -1) {
                System.out.println("failed after "+retries+" attempts");
            } else {
                System.out.println("found student '" + sc.getStudentForIndex(index)
                        + "' @ index [" + index + "]");
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

A: How about this?
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
int index;
Students students;
do {
    System.out.println("Enter index: ");
    index = in.nextInt();
    in.nextLine();
    students = studentCollection.getStudentForIndex(index);
} while (students == null);
in.close();


This week I completed a six-part blog series (more like five plus one) on the path to virtualizing your business-critical SQL Servers at the blog series at my former employer. Every day I fight the fight in my day job for database virtualization in the enterprise. I frequently present a session on 'Virtualizing Your Business Critical SQL Servers' at SQL Saturdays across the country, and wanted to better verbalize the topic in a series of posts to continue to educate you all, those who care about absolute datacenter perfection.
Throughout this series we will be dispelling the various myths and misconceptions around this topic. We will also present specific details around our best practices for a business critical SQL Server virtual machine, operating system, and instance. We will also talk through the process of how to prove that in an apples-to-apples comparison of a physical and virtual SQL Server, the performance is at least equivalent.
This installment continues our discussion, detailing how to understand the actual workload of the physical server. To properly virtualize a server, the performance of the physical server must be understood so that you know how to objectively demonstrate the raw performance of the virtualized equivalent. This means that a proper performance benchmarking methodology should be created, and system baselines be maintained. These benchmarks are then repeated periodically and turned into baselines. When virtualizing your business critical SQL Servers, the virtualized proof-of-concept (POC) server is benchmarked and compared against the baselines of the physical server to objectively demonstrate equivalent performance.
This post continues our discussion with details around how to architect the VMware infrastructure and the new virtual machine so that it meets or exceeds the physical server specifications. These best practices are a direct result of years of virtualizing SQL Server, and include all of our lessons learned on infrastructure and configuration.
This installment continues our discussion detailing how to configure a new SQL Server instance on VMware to get the most performance out of the infrastructure you have just constructed.
I discuss high availability with SQL Server on VMware, and this included SQL Server clustering and SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn.
I discuss Disaster Recovery of your SQL Servers while running on VMware. I wrap up the post with a discussion of techniques used to help demonstrate the power of virtualization and discuss the benefits to those individuals that might continue to fear (or not understand) virtualization.
The overall goal of this series of blog posts is to educate the public on why they should at least NOT fear virtualization. It is the future. Educate yourself and learn to embrace it rather than backing away from it.
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Is this dog food safe for mice?
Hello, I have a coupon for a free bag of this food from Petco and I was wondering if someone could take a look at the ingredient list and see if it is safe for me to give to my mice. I think that all of the vegetables and actual foods in it are safe but I'm concerned about the preservatives and chemical-sounding names at the end. Thank you!
Chicken, Chicken Meal, Split Peas, Whole Brown Rice, Brewers Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Barley, Lamb Meal, Whole Grain Oatmeal, Rice Bran, Dried Sweet Potato, Natural Flavor, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Flaxseed, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, Dried Apples, Dried Blueberries, Dried Carrots, Vitamin E Supplement, Taurine, Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid (preservatives), Zinc Sulfate, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Inositol, Biotin, Niacin Supplement, Marigold Extract, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Selenium Yeast, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Rosemary Extract.
Re: Is this dog food safe for mice?
A lot of those chemical-sounding names towards the end are just vitamins and minerals. I don't see anything unsafe, though I imagine it's very high in crude protein.
@CallaLily wrote: A lot of those chemical-sounding names towards the end are just vitamins and minerals. I don't see anything unsafe, though I imagine it's very high in crude protein.
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It's about about not 'religious freedom.' It's about homophobia.
Religious right groups don't want families like this to exist.
The news that the Trump Administration's Health and Human Services is providing a waiver for a "faith-based" adoption agency in South Carolina to discriminate against non-Christians - and especially the LGBTQ community - while still being allowed to receive tax dollars has gotten a lot of folks angry. And understandably so.
With that in mind, I am pulling a few posts out of the archives to show just how evil and ingrained this plan is with anti-LGBTQ groups and leaders undermining same-sex families under the guise of "religious freedom."
Hate group shields hate group - Family Research Council defends Alliance Defending Freedom's war on gay adoption - Two hate groups heavily involved in these efforts to steal gay tax dollars to give to these "faith-based" foster care and adoption agencies. Naturally they will protect each other from public scrutiny.
Anti-LGBTQ hate group employee defends anti-gay adoption law with skillful evasion - Speaking of the Alliance Defending Freedom, the organization has its hand in almost every anti-LGBTQ legislation or court action in the country. I had a very interesting twitter talk last year with a spokesperson, Kellie Fiedorek, about a piece of Oklahoma passed. The conversation demonstrates the depths that groups like ADF and people like Fiedorek will stoop to in order to avoid the specific issue. Instead, they attempt to portray the LGBTQ community as at fault for merely defending our rights as taxpayers. Their argument "if gays don't simply allow themselves to be discriminated against, they are preventing children from receiving good homes" is ugly and specious on so many levels.
Anti-LGBTQ groups step up effort to steal gay tax dollars via sleazily deceptive website - And then there is the sleazy website they set up to further that narrative
Family Research Council: LGBTQ rights shouldn't be protected under law because of children & 'health hazards' - While not about adoption, specifically, this is why the clarion call about protecting the "religious liberty" of so-called "faith-based" adoption agencies is a lie. The Family Research Council, one of the main groups making this argument doesn't think that LGBTQ rights should be protected under law in the first place because according to it, we are health hazards who are a danger to children.
It all basically comes down to what I said in The Advocate last year:
"For decades, conservative voices have been attacking LGBTQ people with carefully worded rhetoric. "Before they were trumpeting 'religious liberty,' they were all about 'protecting marriage. Before that, it was attempting to stop gays from receiving 'special rights.' And let's not forget when all of these other buzzwords don't do the trick, there is 'protecting children.' That always works. I show that behind all of their buzzwords and claims is one goal: harming the LGBTQ [community] and undermining our rights and safety."
'South Carolina proves religious exemptions being used as a weapon to undermine same-sex parenting' & other Thurs midday news briefs
By weaponizing religious exemptions, the anti-LGBTQ industry is attempting to undermine the ability of LGBTQs to foster and adopt children.
Trump gives South Carolina foster agency the right to discriminate against LGBTQ & Jewish people - With all of the madness in the Trump Administration, people are missing a lot of things. Unfortunately, a passive-aggressive war on same-sex families is on of these things. By weaponizing Christianity, right-wing evangelical groups and public figures are deliberately undermining the ability for LGBTQs to form and take care of their families. Bear in mind that the situation here in South Carolina only scratches the surface.
Christians launch deceptive social media campaign targeting gay parents - My article in LGBTQNation last year speaks on this. There is a coordinated effort to use Christianity as an excuse for "faith-based" (i.e. right-wing evangelical leaning) adoption agencies to be able to receive tax dollars while also being able to refuse to service gay clients. If this is successful, don't be surprised to see these "faith-based" adoption agencies receiving a huge share of of taxpayer funds, undermining the ability of the LGBTQ community to foster and adopt children and to generally have families.
Report shows landscape for same-sex couples wishing to adopt can be "bleak" in states with religious exemptions - A report from last year breaks it down.
Just proof how the anti-LGBTQ industry covertly works against us. They don't outright deny us the right to have families. They simply make things a bit more difficult.
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The idea came about several weeks prior during a family camping holiday at Peel Forest. Alex, Scott and I had just teared up and down Little Mt. Peel in a little over three hours – not bad for three ageing fellas I reckon. I should point out here that I in fact was the most advanced on the ageing front; or perhaps I feel the need for some sort of excuse up front, without ruining the ending – too much, of course. Anyway… feeling confident, strong and fit, I put out the idea of a much longer day trip in the mountains. There was of course a need on my part to either train, endure, condition my body, put myself through the paces, see if I could handle the distance – call you what you want; but the pretext was that I needed to start seriously preparing for a 100 kilometre plus ultra-marathon I had my sights fixed on in the early New Year. A long day in the hills seemed like a good way to get in some good conditioning – or put me off the idea altogether.
Alex immediately pounced on an old plan of his that had never quite come to fruition. In retrospect the alarm bells should have started here. Alex is an experienced adventure racer, Coast to Coaster, Godzone finisher, and veteran of many 100 km+ running races. Scott and I are of course no stranger to running long distances, we both recently competed our second Crater Rim Ultra Marathon and I would have you know that I am actually a National Champ in the sport (kind of…. but that's another story). I've ridden a bicycle virtually non-stop for days on end and survived (although it has been a while), but the reality is the longest I have ever run for is a little over seven hours. A long time to run yes, but Alex's 'plan' was going to require us to exceed this… just ever so slightly.
So with a settled weather forecast and a bit of logistical juggling, we found ourselves driving up to Klondyke Corner in Arthur's Pass at 8 o'clock on the evening of 10th of December ready (or so we thought) for what the mountains could throw at us.
After a relatively awful asleep, we were away at 3.52am under lights and heading towards the upper reaches of the Waimakariri River. It was good to be under way. I love it when a mission goes from planning to fruition in such a short time (in this case about a month). It gives you less time to talk yourself out of it and come up with inane excuses why you can't do it. Sometimes 'over thinking' can be counterproductive to actually doing.
The plan was a circumnavigation of the Arthur's Pass town-ship via Harman Pass, the Taipo River, Dry Creek, Hunts Creek, followed by the famous Coast to Coast run via the Deception and Mingha Rivers to arrive back at Klondyke Corner to our awaiting car. Based on estimated times in various tramping guide books, I reckoned on about 16 to 22 hours to complete the 80 km circuit and roughly 3000 m of climbing. A big factor in the speed was going to be the roughness of the terrain and general lack of a worn path. Much of the route was in river beds.
We had barely left the camp when we waded into the strong flow of the Waimakariri River for the first time. It was refreshing that no one had the least bit of hesitation to soaking their feet in the frigid water, which was just as well as it was the first crossing of literally hundreds throughout the day.
As we picked our way up through the matagouri fields of the river plain, the Milky Way resplendent above, behind us Venus stared down on us in the otherwise blank Eastern sky. Further on still, the lighting sky signalled the arrival of the sun, the sun that would today guide us around the high peaks of Arthur's Pass National Park.
We made good progress past both Greenlaw and Carrington Huts, their occupants still sound asleep before wading across the thigh deep White River and bouncing our way up the rocky, waterfall clad Taipoiti River to arrive at Harman Pass (1321 m) not long after 8am and roughly 20 km in. The moisture from the valleys condensed to form a low fog like cloud which shrouded our surrounds, but occasionally views of the majestic towering ice clad peaks would surprise us momentarily. Of course, we didn't need the views of the towering peaks to make us feel small. Descending down into the head of Mary Creek through flowering mountain buttercups and daisies, the immensity of the task at hand, the remoteness, and sense of adventure, was everywhere we looked and stepped as we continually crossed boulder fields, tussock benches, thickets of alpine scrub and the delicious eye appealing greens, greys, reds and yellows which to me epitomise the beauty of the South Island sub-alpine backcountry.
By 9.40 am we were at Taipo Hut. We had been on the go for nearly six hours but we all still felt remarkably good. Everyone was in good spirits, we had made good progress, we were nearly an hour up on our self-imposed turn-around time and once more we were eager to progress. After a five minute break to reorganise some gear we headed off towards the confluence of Dry Creek with the Taipo River, hung a sharp right and then in the space of 2000 horizontal metres, we scrambled up vertical 1100 m in a rocky Creek bed to gain the saddle between the Taipo River and Hunts Creek. I have to admit I loved this part, all hour and a half of it as perversely, I feel there is nothing quite like the shear grind of a good calf bending grunt. This enthusiasm wasn't entirely shared by all though.
A brief break at the top (I should point out that all the breaks were expediently brief) was followed by a disappointing scree slide (not the right sort of scree). The highlight (for me anyway) was the presence of the fury leathery skinned mountain eldewieess growing in the inhospitable and impractical environment.
Hunts Creek was slow due to the complete lack of track, long tussock with hidden boulders and thick bush whacking sections. It was nearly a relief to get to the infamous boulder garden where memories of boulders as big as houses (according to Scott) turned out to be slightly exaggerated, and we made reasonable progress jumping from boulder to boulder (as big as…. well big rocks) until we were spat out at Hunts Creek Hut.
The bodies were now starting to feel weary, the last section of slow complicated travel having taken its toll. We rewarded ourselves with an outrageously long break – 10 minutes, before trudging towards the half way mark and to see what Hunt's Creek had in store for us.
It wasn't pretty. The going was slow and difficult and just when things were starting to look like they were getting easier and we were managing to run short sections once again, the track came to a sudden halt and we were left peering into the river bed far below. Scrambling down into the guts of it, we bounced our way boulder hopping and stream crossing once again. Trees, stripped bare of their bark sat motionless and out of place in the middle of the river bed and large swathes of fresh debri material left behind jaw dropping cliff edges where ever we looked. It didn't take us long to piece together the heavy rainfall events of several weeks prior and the mess we were negotiating. However there was little to do but to swear out a little, bemoan our misfortune, and plough on.
At 4.52pm we were spat out a few kilometres shy of Otira at Kelly's Shelter. From here we could hitch back to the car. The cut off time for reaching Kelly's Shelter was 5pm… we had just made it, and we had started eight minutes early, so it was on the wire! Years ago, Tina and I had tramped the very route we had just ran in reverse. It had taken us five days!
No questions were asked, no comments were made. We simply hit the road for the 3 km 'sprint' to the pedestrian bridge across the Otira River and the last awaiting pass – Goat Pass.
We were now on the mountain run made famous for its inclusion in the Coast to Coast multisport race. I had never ran or even walked it before and I have to admit I always thought that is must be a relatively 'easy' 33 km; although anything can become easy once the term relatively comes in to play I guess. After a ten minute break to ready ourselves for the 'final' push, once again the term final being used in a relative manner, we were off. We took Alex's lead, he had actually run the route several times so was definitely the best placed to pick his way through the once again stony river bed and occasional benched trail.
After about an hour I began to drag the chain a bit and a pattern of Alex and Scott up ahead and me trailing 20 metres behind – never quite managing to catch up, prevailed. It was annoying as hell, especially when they did stop. I would nearly catch them but not quite as they would once again take off and the 20 metre gap would immediately reopen. The concentration I needed to stay upright on the stony river bed meant even extracting food from my pockets was difficult, but the pressure to move on was relentless. I knew exactly what was happening. Alex was worried about the dwindling light and the need to get in to the upper valley and across several tricky stream crossings before night fall. The only way for that was to push me along. So on I trundled as best as my body would go.
I did take the opportunity to pick up a lovely looking liquorice assort that some tramper / runner through earlier or the day (or week, month) had dropped. I dusted it off and popped it in my salivating mouth, it tasted pretty good too. That bought memories back of years ago during the Kiwi Brevet; watching John Randall pick up a piece of Simon Kennet's chocolate muffin off the cow turd it had fallen on to, and much to our amusement, then eat it. Lack of sleep, long days in the saddle / on the feet, and a ravenous body tend to lower the culinary acceptance standard considerably!
As the hours floated by, Scott dropped back too and ran on my heels – I am sure he was just making sure I didn't keel over and have a sleep. Alex guided us around the boulders in the now narrowed stream bed and in the last of the light – after a very long day, we bounded up the steep tributary of the Upper Deception to finally reach Goat Pass Hut on nightfall.
The inhabitants of the hut were asleep so we passed through, over Goat Pass itself and after a very long day of battling rocky gorges and river banks, relished in the opportunity to glide over some board walks before descended back down in to the forest and begin our descent into the Mingha River Valley.
At Mingha Biv. We stopped for a spell of shut eye (no… not sleep, but the act of merely closing one's eyes for a few minutes) while Kiwi called in the valley surrounding us. After we woofed down some rations, and pulled the shoes back on, mine looking particularly worse for wear after a tough day on the job, we recommenced the trundle down.
By now I was a snail and after the excitement of Alex seeing a Kiwi cross the path in front of him – alas I was too busy trying to catch up, the next few hours is a bit of blur, and then the few hours after that are even blurrier.
Somehow, after asking Scott after every bend for about four hours – "Is that the Bealey River?", it was – the Bealey River! By now, Alex too had succumbed to snail like place due to a blister on his foot (I have to be honest but I was actually happy for him to have some sort of impediment), only for Scott to take over pace setting duties for the final 'sprint' (I bring up the notion of relativity again here) to finally arrive back at Klondyke Corner where the whole escapade started 21 and a half hours prior. It was 1.30am.
While the others settled into their sleeping bags I rustled around and cooked up a back country meal before joining them in their slumber. Once the sandflies started biting a few hours later, we were packed and driving back to Christchurch. With luck, we coincided our drive through Sheffield as the pie shop opened – 7am… beautiful.
Wow!! What a day! Well done to all three of you for getting this done – and thanks for remembering that chocolate muffin morsel. From memory, it was at the start of McDonald Downs after we'd been through the Wharfedale. Surely we'd have missed the motel in Culverdon without it!! We must go riding again mate!


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Zendaya Maree Coleman is a actress and singer. She was born on Sept. 1, 1996. She started her career appearing as a child model and backup dancer before rising to fame on Disney Channel. Zendaya broke out in her career as she lead Disney Channel's sitcom "Shake It Up" as Rocky Blue. In 2013 she competed in Dancing with the Stars. A few years later she starred on another Disney sitcom, K.C Undercover.
Along with acting, Coleman is a singer. She started her career releasing a few independent singles, "Swag It Out" and "Watch Me". In 2012 she signed to Hollywood Records and released her debut single "Replay". Zendaya's single hit 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 United States. She was born in Oakland, California. Zendaya has five older half-siblings on her father's side. Her name derives from the African term "to give thanks".
Zendaya released her debut book in 2013. The book is entittled "Between U and Me: How to Rock Your Tween Years with Style and Confidence". She is also big in the fashion scene.
While working on "Shake It Up" she started working on a clothing line inspired by her colorful dance wardrobe. In 2016 she launched her own clothing line Daya By Zendaya. Zendaya was also a guest judge on Project Runway. She is a vegetarian and in 2018 Coleman won a Teen's Choice Award.
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Sen. Cruz: Dems are 'the party of open borders'
Jenny Goldsberry
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) railed against the Democratic party for its open border policies. He appeared on the Ingraham Angle Wednesday to call them "the party of open borders." While illegal migration surges, Democrat majority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling deportations "hateful and xenophobic." Meanwhile Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) demands that congress eliminate funding for Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security.
First, the Texas Senator expressed his desire to do more for the southern border. Especially since the surge of more than 16,000 migrants arrived at the Del Rio International Bridge this past week alone.
"The Senate could do a great deal, but we are not going to because there is not a single Democrat who is willing to work with us to secure the border," Cruz explained. "Today's Democrats have decided they are the party of open borders."
However, when it comes to local Democrat lawmakers, they do not share the same sentiment. In fact, they would rather see a more secure border. Cruz said he's visited many of these border towns. "You know, most of the local elected officials in south Texas are Democrats. That's long been Democratic area of the state. I have to tell you, every elected Democrat I met with was so horrified by what is happening at the border, they said to me over and over again, they said, 'Listen, if the Democratic Party is the party of open borders, count me out. I can't support this.' It is an unfolding disaster."
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Still, the Democrats in Congress aren't hearing what their constituents in border states have to say about it. "And yet today's Washington Democrats, there's not a single one of them who cares," Cruz said. "Joe Biden won't go down to the border. Kamala Harris won't go down to the border, the Rio Grande Valley, she won't go to Del Rio. They insist these problems are not happening and this lawlessness — we are already at 1.2 million illegal immigrants, we're on a path to 2 million illegal immigrants. And as long as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refuse to apply the law, it will keep getting worse."
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20 states suing Biden administration over migrant parole program
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President Joe Biden has expanded a humanitarian parole program leading to a significant increase of migrants entering the United States illegally each month. As a result, 20 states have geared up to sue the Biden administration.
Tuesday, 20 Republican states and conservative legal group America First Legal, announced their plans to sue the White House over the legality of the administration's parole program. The program "allows up to 30,000 migrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela into the homeland each month" reports Foreign Desk News.
Reports shoot the lawsuit was filed by Texas, the America First Legal and the other states in the Southern District of Texas in hopes to block the parole program.
Foreign Desk News reports of the history:
In October, the administration announced the program for Venezuelans, allowing a limited number to fly directly into the U.S. as long as they had not entered illegally, had a sponsor already, and passed certain checks. In early January, President Biden announced that the program would expand to include Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Cubans, allowing up to 30,000 a month into the U.S.
The program also allows migrants to receive work permits and a two-year authorization to live in the U.S. and was announced alongside an expansion of Title 42 expulsions to include those nationalities.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs argue that the program is unlawful given the "exceptionally limited" parole power the federal government has, adding that they have up to 360,000 migrants that could be allowed into the homeland a year.
The suit's focus is on the limits placed on parole by Congress, saying that the authority is to be used on a "case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit."
"Every state in America, especially border states like Texas, is being crushed by the impacts of illegal immigration," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"The Biden open borders agenda has created a humanitarian crisis that is increasing crime and violence in our streets, overwhelming local communities, and worsening the opioid crisis. This unlawful amnesty program, which will invite hundreds of thousands of aliens into the U.S. every year, will only make this immigration crisis drastically worse."
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The 'Onslaught' of Americans with Disabilities Act-Website Class Actions Is Real. Here Are the Cases.
Last week, Forbes published a piece in which freelance writer Elizabeth Alt pins the current deluge of Americans with Disabilities Act class actions over the supposed discriminatory inaccessibility of certain websites to blind and deaf consumers on inaction from the United States Department of Justice. Alt points out that just last month, the DOJ (somewhat predictably) did an about-face on its longstanding promise to issue proposed rules that were to offer guidance to judges on website accessibility for businesses.
The effects of the DOJ's feet dragging, while certainly evident in 2017, Alt says, has now boiled over into 2018, with the lawsuits showing no sign of slowing down. Law firms, sensing an opening, have pounced on this absence of federal directive, and serve as the primary movers behind the tidal wave of ADA-website litigation.
Whether or not the onslaught, as Alt puts it, is a full-blown problem in the class action lawsuit arena largely depends on who you ask. What's unmistakable, though, is the sheer number of these lawsuits.
For some time now, ClassAction.org has kept a close eye on this particular area of litigation. After the publication of the Forbes write-up, we thought it appropriate to couple Alt's report with visual documentation (and many, many links) that shows these lawsuits are real and are waiting to be addressed, whether the government continues to sit on its hands or not.
These cases only represent those filed in federal courts.
Ninety-three days have passed since our last ADA-website lawsuit post. There are 256 proposed class actions listed below. That hashes out to an average of almost three ADA-website lawsuits filed per day— which includes weekends, when courts are closed.
Companies across all industries have been named as defendants in these cases. Some of the bigger, more recognizable names include: Ashley Furniture; Cricket Wireless; Alexander McQueen; Faberge; Nike and Converse; David's Bridal; Dinosaur Barbeque; Ann Taylor; Timex; Lord and Taylor; Oscar De La Renta; Pandora; Hershey's; HomeGoods; Lucky Brand; JP Licks; Burger King; Sur La Table; London Jewelers; the Wall Street Journal; Amazon; Rachel Ray Digital; Juilliard; Rolex; CNN; and Food Network.
A group of 28 plaintiffs is responsible for all of the lawsuits below. Some individuals have filed far more cases than others.
The vast majority of these lawsuits allege the defendants' websites are inaccessible to blind or hard-of-sight consumers. Only a few allege violations of the ADA with regard to deaf or hard-of-hearing internet users.
The cases below have come across our desks since we published our last big ADA-website case roundup post in late November 2017.


My Journey: Was It A Jam Nuts?
Yesterday I saw my cousin fixing my other cousin's motorcycle when I passed by at my Aunt's house. I saw the motorcycle parts scattered in the ground I also saw few jam nuts, well I actually don't know if I am right but it looks like a jam nut. I want to ask my cousin then but my nephew was with me and I am not really excited to know if I am right.
On the other hand, this blog is already in for next week ComEx. I am grateful I made it for next week as I failed to join this blog for the past couple of weeks. Despite having a slow notebook I am still happy that I make each day productive.


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Wotif.com adopts Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
update Red Hat Linux Enterprise Version 5 has just been released and already Australian accommodation Web site Wotif.com is implementing the solution.
Written by Scott Mckenzie, Contributor
Scott Mckenzie Contributor
on March 14, 2007 | Topic: Open Source
Wotif.com sells accommodation online in over 40 countries, and attracts almost 2.5 million user sessions every month. It launched in Brisbane in 2000 and now has offices in Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the UK.
Wotif.com is an existing Red Hat customer, and according to a statement released this morning, is beginning the the implementation of RHEL5. CIO Paul Young said Wotif.com continually upgrades core technologies to take advantage of new features.
"With more cost effective server optimisation, greater performance and improved scalability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will assist the ongoing virtualisation of our test and development environments and provide better support for emerging hardware with new CPU features (dual and quad core processors).
"We expect to complete the upgrade by migrating our core production systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 within six months," Young said.
RHEL5 was launched today after two years of collaboration with customers and partners around the world, Max McLaren, Red Hat managing director Australia and New Zealand, said in the statement.
"As a result, this latest version of Enterprise Linux is ready to support the business critical operations of organisations in Australia and New Zealand and address their frustration and pain points -- like being unable to consume all of the technology being sold to them, and technology that just doesn't solve their business problems effectively."
Though Red Hat still dominates Linux, a lot has changed in that time. Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server beat Red Hat to the punch with a major new feature, the Xen virtualisation software.
Oracle has entered the market with a clone of Red Hat's operating system. Ubuntu is making inroads with strong ties to open-source community volunteers. And Sun Microsystems -- for years Red Hat's prime target -- is fighting back by bringing its Solaris operating system to widely used x86 servers and making it open-source software as well.
RHEL 5's biggest new feature, hands down, is Xen virtualisation. The promise of virtualisation software, which lets a single machine run multiple operating systems in separate partitions called virtual machines, is that a single computer can replace several inefficiently used ones. In the longer term, virtualisation also permits software to be moved -- sometimes while running -- from one computer to another, which opens the door for higher reliability and a fluidly responding computer room.
Accompanying the virtualisation promise, though, are difficulties. Administrators need new management tools, software licensing becomes more complicated, and the underlying technology must be certified to work with a multitude of software and hardware options.
Other enhancements to the latest version of the enterprise solution include additional performance, scalability and security features, expanded development environment and toolset as well as improved interoperability with Microsoft Windows and Unix.
CNET.com's Stephen Shankland contributed to this report.
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Banana Bread Chia Pudding with Buckwheat Clusters! A yummy vegan and gluten-free breakfast.
Well, this week has been a nice taste of real, real life. I've spent the last five days in Virginia, watching my two adorable, amazing nieces while my sister's nanny is on vacation.
My initial thoughts? What a fun opportunity! I can technically work from anywhere and I love the idea of getting to spend as much QT with my two favorite humans as possible.
Enter real life. I think I've responded to 5 emails over the course of the week and barely gotten in one post. I love that I honestly thought I would be able to literally do-it-all. Watch the girls, get my work done and still have some time to visit with high-school friends.
My friends with kids, I can hear your laughing from here. Obviously, those plans got thrown out the window the moment I realized that it doesn't quite work that way. You get one to focus on; any more than that and you are barely pulling by.
Work will always be here, right? I bid farewell to any responsibilities that weren't immediate and pressing and have spent the week cuddled on the couch, playing legos, playdoh and Paw Patrol. It's been a fantastic exercise in priorities and flexibility.
Thankfully, I was able to find five minutes to hop on and share one of my favorite new breakfast items with you- this banana chia pudding. I've been on a chia kick for a while now, infusing as many flavors as I can into a basic chia pudding.
It's so easy to put together, the texture is perfect for breakfast and the health benefits can't be beat. Since I'm all about textures, I paired this banana chia pudding with banana buckwheat clusters, more banana and a drizzle of honey. Simple, delicious and incredibly nourishing.
Banana Bread Chia Pudding with Buckwheat Clusters! A yummy vegan and gluten-free breakfast. Clusters adapted from Kylie.
Stir together the oats, groats, cinnamon, salt and pecans in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mash together the banana, peanut butter, vanilla, oil and maple syrup.
Pour the wet ingredients into the oat mixture ingredient and stir everything together until clumped. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and add the granola to it. Spread out in an even layer and bake for 20 minutes, stirring halfway through. Check around minute 15, it should be golden brown when done.
Remove from oven, but don't stir. Allow the granola to cool on the pan for at least 30 minutes. When cool, crumble into clusters and place in a container to store for up to a week.
Make the chia pudding: combine all the ingredients in a bowl and place in the fridge overnight until gelled.
When ready to serve, place some of the chia mixture in a bowl along with granola and sliced bananas. Drizzle with maple syrup, if desired, and serve.
Those clusters! <3 I'm a sucker for a chia pudding + granola combo. Enjoy the time with your family!


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Basic Illustrated Alpine Ski Touring has everything one needs to participate in this growing and exciting activity. Written by expert Molly Abolson, this book provides information on gear, skills, and preparation so that beginners and intermediate participants alike can enjoy this emerging sport with confidence.
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High on Moab, 2nd Edition - Karl Kelly
High on Moab - Karl Kelly
Towers, crags, bouldering—it's all here. Never before have the climbs of greater Moab been so well documented. Long-time Moab local Karl Kelley draws from the town's climbing community and decades of climbing on the world-class sandstone. This book describes the very best climbing in Utah's picturesque red rock desert.
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Hiking, Biking and Exploring Canyonlands National Park (Michael Kelsey, 2nd Edition)
This edition is basically the same as of the 1st, but a number of new hikes to fotogenic places and to rock art sites have been added, plus more local history. This book has brief stories of Charley Steen, the guy most-responsible for Utah's Uranium Boom; Moab's own Swanny Kerby and his professional rodeo career; John Romjue the best moonshiner in southeast Utah; plus more history about making moonshine whiskey in the canyons during the 1920's & early '30's; the Moynier brothers sheep outfit, and more. Also added, are lots more hikes to rock art sites. One example, there are now at least 6 known faces panels and they're called the 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, and 13 Faces Panels, and they're all in or near The Needles District. This means they all could have been painted by the same Michelangelo! Something to think about. Also, Moab has to be the rock art capital of the world! 392 pages, 429 mostly color photos.
Indian Creek - A Climbing Guide - David Bloom ~NEW~
Indian Creek - A Climbing Guide - David Bloom
Indian Creek: A Climbing Guide (Camalot edition) by David Bloom. The new edition features gear in Camalots and contains over 100 previously unpublished routes.
The definitive guide to climbing in Indian Creek. No other book has done more to change the face of guidebooks. The first full-color guide in the US, Bloom's masterpiece captured the flavor and aura of this breathtaking area through vivid photographs and poignant essays. The new edition boasts more than 100 additional routes and gear beta in Camalots.
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Assorted titles include: Dog Ate My Mad Libs, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Goofy, Mad About Animals, Mad Scientist, Mad Libs for President, Kid Libs, Ninjas, Totally Pink, Sleepover Party, Meow Libs, & Happily Ever Mad Libs
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Moab Canyoneering - Derek Wolfe - Exploring Technical Canyons Around Moab
Surrounded by stunning landscapes, national parks and amazing scenery, Moab offers rich, rewarding opportunities for canyoneers of all skill levels. From easy half days outings to full day excursions, there are plenty of options for anyone who wishes to seek some Moab gorging adventure.
23 technical canyons around Moab
Comprehensive driving directions to trailheads
Full color topographical maps
Rappel profiles and anchors options
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Key GPS waypoints to help aid in navigation
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River Guide to Canyonlands National Park (Michael Kelsey, 2nd Edition)
This is a boater's, rafter's and canoeist's guide to the Green and Colorado Rivers, between the towns of Green River and Moab, Utah. The subjects covered are hiking, camping, geology, archaeology, and steamboating, cowboy, ranching & trail building history. For each major river bottom, an in-depth history is told about early attempts at settlement. Many of the stories come from the oldest cowboys in the country, most of whom have passed away since the 1st edition of this book came out in 1991. But many of their descriptive tales are backed up by newspaper articles and other sources. Included are lots of amusing stories as told by local story tellers. The histories of local legends like Bill Tibbetts and John Jackson are also told, plus the story of the Range War of 1924-25. In addition, information on where to find campsites, the best places to hike, obtain good spring water and helpful tips for boaters are included. All photos in this new edition are in full color except for old historic pictures. 272 pages, 282 mostly color photos, 15cm x 23cm (6"x9")


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Team stood down at 19:20 when Police were informed that the lady had returned home safely.
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An alternative choice to a mortgage is a buy now ? pay later scheme. These will usually be curiosity-free when you pay the balance earlier than the due date. After the due date, interest is usually charged and there may be penalties for early repayment after that date.
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Scanning through a list of books on writing, I came across 59 Reasons to Write by Kate Messner. My excitement level rose when I read the subtitle "Mini-Lessons, Prompts, and Inspiration for Teachers." However, to my surprise, the book focused on teachers as writers. This shocking surprise quickly turned into amazement as I sat down to read through this packed book full of tips, writing strategies and author's notes, finding inspiration to further my own personal writing.
Overall Organization: The book is broken down into 12 chapters, each focusing on a specific aspect of writing. There are the typical "Setting" and "Plot and Pacing" chapters, but most interestingly there are chapters that combine fiction and nonfiction ("Flowing Between Nonfiction and Fiction: Finding the Story") and on writer's block ("I'm Stuck").
The Chapters: Although I typically skip over the introduction, I was pulled in by Messner's organization. Her Introduction gives reasons to write, assists you in finding the time to write, provides the author's background (she has written quite a few books herself), and shares teacher dialogue from Messner's Teachers Write summer camp.
Jo's Morning Warm-Up: Jo's Morning Warm-Up, a chapter feature written by YA novelist Jo Knowles, offers short exercises in writing. These ask you to finish sentences, make lists, or even write a few lines about someone you love. The goal, of course, is to get started writing.
The author commentaries are of high interest but manageable in length, about half to three-quarters of a page, which means you can easily sit down and read them in the amount of time you might take your turn in a Words with Friends game on your phone. They break down the writing, like I do with my students.
In their lessons, the authors do not tell us why they chose a particular word or bit of punctuation but share their train of thought about a particular aspect of their writing, which is helpful as I find my footing as a writer. The third section of each lesson is "Today's Assignment," which may offer specific tips on how to improve your writing, or suggest a prompt based on the lesson ("Ask yourself with each scene what you could do to keep readers on the edge of their seats"). Each assignment ends with an image of the contributing author and a brief biography including his/her works.
As I said in my first paragraph, this book did inspire me to write because of its focus on teachers as writers. After reading it, I felt that as long as I am able to find some time, I already have the skills to write.
The only criticism I have of 59 Reasons to Write is the lack of diversity among the authors chosen to participate. Most of the writers featured are Caucasian females. I would have liked to have seen and been able to read more diverse perspectives to further enrich my work both inside the classroom and within my writer's group. That said, overall I am very excited about trying the strategies in this book as well as sharing it with my writing colleagues.
Editor's note: Visitors can review the complete book online at the publisher's page.
Wendy Moore is an 11-year veteran National Board Certified Teacher currently in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. In addition to teaching English 7, World History 11, Social Studies 7 and Research Methods, she is editing English and Social Studies district curriculum and is a gifted coordinator at her school, SciTech Academy.


Switzerland and the UK have signed off on transport and insurance agreements designed to minimize the disruption to bilateral relations caused by Brexit.
Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer and UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond signed the two agreements in Davos during last week's World Economic Forum annual meeting.
The insurance agreement is designed to ensure the Swiss and UK general (or non-life) insurance sectors can continue to trade freely after the UK leaves Europe. It will mean Swiss insurance firms can set up branches and trade in the UK, and UK firms can do likewise in Switzerland.
Meanwhile, the road traffic agreement aims to ensure that carriage of goods by road will remain exempt from authorization for journeys between the two countries and in transit.
In addition, mutual access for the carriage of goods and passengers by road will be maintained and administrative expenses will be kept low, the Swiss Finance Ministry said in a statement.
The timing of the introduction of the two new agreements depends on whether the UK and the EU are able to come to an agreement on the UK's departure from the EU.
In the event of a non-deal Brexit, the agreements will come into force on March 30th – the day after the UK leaves the EU.
The UK and Switzerland have already signed several post-Brexit agreements including one of citizens' rights and another on trade.
The agreements are necessary as Swiss–UK bilateral relations are currently based on agreements between the Switzerland and the EU. These will cease to apply with Brexit.


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Coughlin, There are quite a few threads on here about collapsing the spaces between lines. The Polycom phones will not leave the spaces.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Polycom Side Car Setup.
Is there a way to add EMPTY place holders in the HUD so I can get information to appear on different pages on the Polycom side car?
Currently, Polycom phones default to collapsing lines. As a workaround, you can reach out to your account manager to see if a custom config file is available for your specific phone model and situation.
When will this issue be addressed?
Hi Jeff, this is not on the roadmap at this time. If that changes, I'll update this thread.


Wacko Maria provide us with this Fatigue Jacket (Type-2) in Khaki as part of their latest delivery, a military-inspired silhouette made in Japan from ripstop cotton and pre-washed for an added vintage effect. It has a flat hem, a concealed button placket and button-tab cuffs. The front features four 3D pockets and small brand prints to the chest and hip; a large Guilty Parties callout features on the reverse.


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Kylie Jenner sells spare home and vacant lot in Hidden Hills
Mark David
Ultra-famous reality television personality and cosmetics tycoon Kylie Jenner, at 21 years old already well on her way to being what Forbes somewhat controversially called the "youngest-ever self-made billionaire" on the planet with an estimated net worth in the $900 million range, sold the smaller of her two spacious homes in Hidden Hills, Calif., in an off-market deal for $6.7 million and, so swears real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak, the buyer is a wealthy but otherwise low profile "apartment mogul."
Jenner, the youngest of the relentlessly publicized Kardashian/Jenner clan and a powerhouse social media influencer — she has an astonishing 115 million Instagram followers and Snapchat's stock plummeted by almost $1.5 billion dollars earlier this year after she tweeted she no longer used the app, purchased the property in May 2016 for $6.025 million. Listing details from the time show the 7,040-square-foot, vaguely Cape Cod-style residence is secluded at the tail end of a quiet cul-de-sac and semi-private driveway on almost 4.5-acres with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
Presumably the always impeccably maquillaged makeup maven made a variety of upgrades and sundried customizations to the property, but at the time of her purchase the sprawling residence comprised a double-height foyer with a climate-controlled wine cellar tucked awkwardly under the stairs; adjoining formal living and dining rooms, the former with a fireplace; and a "great room" that encompassed an informal dining area, a family room with fireplace and huge, double-island kitchen with marble countertops and top-end designer appliances. Each of the five guest bedrooms was designed with a private bathroom and the main-floor master suite included a sitting area and fireplace, a private patio, two fitted walk-in closets and a stone-tiled bathroom with steam shower and soaking tub.
Picturesquely positioned amid pastoral views of the surrounding rolling hills, the property's outdoor living and recreation options include a spacious covered patio with wet bar and built-in grill, lush sweeps of croquet accommodating lawn and a solar-heated swimming pool and spa.
Young, immensely rich and a bit itchy-footed when it comes to her residential circumstances, Miss Jenner has already bought and sold a number of ever-larger multi-million dollar homes in L.A's well-to-do far-western suburbs. In March of 2015 she splashed out $2.6 million for a not quite 4,900-square-foot house in a guard-gated Calabasas development that she sold just over two years later for $3.15 million to hair extensions entrepreneur Nikki Eslami and in June 2016 she shelled out $4.5 million for an almost 5,600-square-foot house in Hidden Hills — it's directly next door to the one she just sold — that she quickly and lucratively unloaded just over a year later for $5.275 million to professional ice hockey player John Schiavo.
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For now, at least, Jenner and her already world-famous baby, Stormi Webster, reside in a more than 13,000-square-foot Hidden Hills mansion with a total of eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms that she scooped up in the fall of 2016 for $12.05 million. Jenner also owned the 1.37-acre vacant parcel next door that she picked up in October 2017 for $5 million, quickly decided she didn't want, put up for sale in late August (2018) at $5.55 million and quickly sold, per online resources, for $5.35 million.
Other members of the Kardashian/Jenner family who own Hidden Hills estates include matriarch/momager Kris Jenner who late last year splashed out $9.925 million on a brand-new, nearly 9,500-square-foot mansion that is almost directly across the street from a multi-acre compound owned by Kim Kardashian and Kayne West who are still in the throes of a $20 million renovation on the then newly built French Country mansion they bought more than four years ago for close to $23 million.
Listing photos: Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices (via Zillow)
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