Make sure you mark Nov. 11 on your calendar. That's now a "free fishing day" in New York State. No license is required and it's a great opportunity to reach out and take a vet fishing. Remember you do have to abide by the fishing regulations wherever you are going to wet a line.
Winds are continuing on the local front today which created a mess of the water conditions in the lower Niagara River. If the shore casters can locate a little clean water along the shoreline, you might have a chance at catching a trout. For sure the land-bound fishermen will be fishing before the boaters in the lower Niagara River. Just prior to the winds, action in the lower river was good for trout. Steelhead were hitting MagLips and beads for boaters and shoreline anglers were tossing spoons, spinners, jigs, eggs or egg imitations to take fish. Along Artpark, steelhead are available, but the lake trout have been very aggressive. Remember that lake trout season is closed and fish should be released quickly and unharmed. Downriver, bass are still hitting swimbaits on a consistent basis.
In the upper Niagara River, the muskellunge fishing action the past week improved for Capt. Chris Cinelli of Grand Island as he saw fish up to 51 inches come to his boat the last several days. The big one was caught by Ray Dietz of Youngstown. He also caught a 48-inch fish the same day. In the Tim Wittek Memorial Catch and Release Musky Tournament run by the Niagara Musky Association last Sunday, first place when to Anthony Scime of Tonawanda with a 46-inch fish that was caught on a Red October Baits tube. Second place went to John Miller of Lackawanna with a 42-inch fish, also caught on a Red October Baits tube. Third place went to Hans Mann of Alden with a 35.5-inch musky and caught on a Red October Baits tube for a sweep of the winners. A total of 19 anglers competed in the "iron man" contest. Musky fishing will stop for now until the water can clear.
In Lake Ontario, water was high and stained in many of the streams but that didn't stop people from trying to catch both salmon and trout according to Karen Evarts at The Boat Doctors in Olcott. There were plenty of fish around. A fresh batch of silver kings came into Olcott and headed up to the dam and many of the smaller streams to the east and to the west are also holding fish because of the recent rains. We heard 12 Mile Creek had some fresh salmon in it. Egg sacs, beads, jigs tipped with wax worms or spikes were all catching salmon and trout. Bait or lure colors keep changing from day to day because of the unpredictable water conditions. Green and orange egg pattern flies have been taking some fish, too. Pier action has been spotty. If you see any illegal fishing activity going on, call the toll-free hotline at (844) DEC ECOS and report it with as much information as possible. You can remain anonymous.
The regular big game season opens in the Southern Zone next Saturday, Nov. 17. It might not be a bad idea to wear an orange hat when you go fishing. Pressure on the streams will probably be less due to the opener. Good luck out there and stay safe.
Danny Jankowiak of Buffalo took this steelhead in the lower Niagara River on a jig.
Ethan Bronschidle of Newfane with a respectable Coho salmon.
Gianni Etopio of Youngstown caught this salmon in a favorite Niagara County stream.
Michael Cardamone of Lewiston with a brown trout off the NYPA Fishing Platform.
Paul Carlone of Hamburg caught this lower river lake trout while he was fishing for steelhead.
Ray Dietz of Youngstown caught this 51-inch musky on Monday in the upper Niagara River fishing with Capt. Chris Cinelli of Grand Island.


Introduction. The article presents one of the Ukrainian verb facets, that of the close connection between the implicit and explicit components of the dynamic multi-level aspectology category, that is the decisive influence of the aspectual-relevant class incorporating the verb lexeme, on the verb aspect peculiarities. The chief approach to the description of aspectuality regarded by Lyons as objectivist had been created by Maslov and Wendler in the mid 20th century being later established by the aspectuality studies of the late 20th- early 21st century, in the so called "binary" aspect theory. It proves the necessity of applying aspectual analysis for the whole number of meanings and all contexts of the verb since aspectual classes (lexical component of aspectuality) and the category of aspect (grammatical component of aspectuality) are not aimed at a verbal lexeme in general but at each lexical-semantic variant of the lexeme. Ignoring this factor, in our opinion, results in cute polemics over numerous aspectual issues which originated through the attempts to force the aspect into rigid category framework, beyond the influence of various triggers on the aspectual significance of the verb.
Purpose. Through all this, the article is aimed at applying the objectivist approach to describing the verbal aspect that enables, with the appropriate research instrumental means, to create a real and detailed, though not schematic, aspectual "picture" of a poly-semantic verbal lexeme. Рurpose of the article specification of the invariant of the aspects semantics, categorical status of the verbal form in the grammatical system of modern Ukrainian language.
Methods. Integrated аspect diagnostics as integration methodology, which involves the purposeful use of logical, component, word-forming, oppositional and distributive analysis, selection of the corps of fragments discourse.
Results. The aspect not belong to the word changes, nor to the classification categories. From the positions of the traditional division he has only representations, correlated with their manifestation. The aspects is a category of special, mixed, or rather, conglomeration type. Through all this, the article is aimed at applying the objectivist approach to describing the verbal aspect that enables, with the appropriate research instrumental means, to create a real and detailed, though not schematic, aspectual "picture" of a poly-semantic verbal lexeme.
Originality. Objectivist approach to aspectuality category in the Ukrainian is most generally outlined that proves the necessity for further linguistic investigation of coordinating grammar and vocabulary in the realm of the Ukrainian verb. That is just the problem of connection of the aspectual behavior in verbs to the peculiarities of their lexical meaning, and, eventually, to the evidently specified extralingual situations that appears to stay under consideration.
Conclusion. Aspectual studies being generally orientated in an objectivist way, together with the immediate consideration of the aspect influencing the grammatically specified lexical phenomena, like the aspectual regarded verbal classes, are new to the Ukrainian lingual studies, though quite natural in the process of investigating formal grammatical and functioning grammatical traits of the Ukrainian verbal aspect. Analysis the aspect associated with the discovery of a specific specificity of the species behavior of the verbs in view of various factors of influence: paradigm, syntagmatics, pragmatics.


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Oh I love this video and the song is perfect. Take me away. That is what your paintings do for me. Take me away to another place, another time, where there is a "Happy Heart" and so much sunshine. Thank you FiFi. I love it as always.
I adore this song! Perfect, so perfect. My fingers are crossed!!
Love this song and would love to win....Great blog.
I just find this song so sing-a-long I couldnt stop. Seems the boys who work on the marina where I live also thought I couldnt stop. Cheeky guys I'm sure they meant it as a compliment. - maybe champagne classes for them not the tea cups?
Great song - so much life. Do you think they make a parachute for two? Oh and enter my name too please.
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I am old but that song is great.
Fifi, great song and just what I need to start the day.
Hope I am entered 19 times in the giveaway.
I love Natasha and this video has such an important message. Thanks for posting this, it is a great way to start my day!
Just visiting after a long leave from Blogland. Your paintings are awesome as usual. I came back just in time for a giveaway, alright!!
Your cards are adorable. I would love to win them, but I won several giveaways before Christmas so I feel like I should give others my chance. Thank you, though, as they are wonderful!
One of my favorite songs! I walked 3 miles in the fog this morning and wished I had a pocket full of sunshine with me!
Great song and video ~ thank you Fifi.
Visiting you, always brightens up my day.
Hi Fifi dear, I just wanted to extend a giant thank you your way for your recent visits to Chronically Vintage.
I appreciate you comments so much, and really hope that your year is off to a sparklingly fantastic start, and that each of the days that follows will continually be even more amazing for you than the last!
Hi Fifi, I love that song. I have to remember that I have a pocket full of sunshdine too!


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Bengals Baseball Ranked in Preseason, first game Monday
Posted by hannahadams on January 24, 2023 in Blogs, Featured, Hannah's Blog, Latest News, Local News, LSUE Bengals, Sports News, What's Hot, What's New
Photo Courtesy of LSUE Bengals Athletics
LSU Eunice Baseball is ranked number three in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Preseason poll, it was announced on Monday.
The Bengals enter their 21st season under the direction of Jeff Willis. LSU Eunice begins its 2023 campaign with a home series against North Lake College beginning on Friday, January 27.
The Bengals will play four teams ranked in the NJCAA Baseball Division II preseason Top 20 including home dates against 12th ranked Kellogg Community College (February 17-19) and 10th ranked Murray State College (March 3, 5).
LSUE will play number 6 Kirkwood on March 10 at the March Madness Tournament in Millington, Tennessee as well as a March 24th Road doubleheader at No. 15 Hinds Community College.
LSUE begins the season with a 14-game homestand to begin the spring with consecutive series against North Lake College (January 27-29), National Park College (February 3-5), Monroe College (February 10-12) and Kellogg. The Bengals will then hit the road, playing 15 of its next 20 games away from the Cajun Prairie. Home dates for the remainder of the season include contests against Centenary College JV (March 21), Delgado Community College (April 7-8), South Arkansas Community College (April 11), Panola College (April 17), Tyler Junior College (April 22-23) and Wharton County Junior College (April 25).
The Bengals will serve as the host of this year's Region 23 Tournament, taking place at Bengal Stadium May 15-19. The winner will receive an automatic berth into the NJCAA Division II World Series in Enid, Oklahoma on May 27-June 3.
LSUE finished the 2022 season with a 40-17 record, playing in the Region 23 Championship game for the 14th time in the program's 20 years under head coach Jeff Willis.
Patrick Vienne, an All-Region 23 selection last season, returns to front the pitching staff. Vienne led the nation in wins with an 11-1 record, becoming the first rookie pitcher in program history to notch a victory in his first eight appearances. The offense welcomes back two regular starters, Parker Coley and Alexander Saunier.
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The tests apply only to significant surfaces.
ISO 3160-2:2015 applies to all gold alloy coverings specified in ISO 3160-1.


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Home » History » Obituaries » Lennox Eales
MB ChB Cape Town(1940) MRCP(1947) MD(1954)FRCP(1960) FRS(SA)1979
04 April 1918 – 05 January 1990
Lennox Eales was born in Plumstead, South Africa. His father William Clarence Eales was a university lecturer and his mother Hilda Mary, née Webber, was the daughter of a businessman. His early education was at Rondebosch Boys High School and he went on to the University of Cape Town to study medicine. He graduated with first class honours, pursuing his clinical studies at Groote Schuur Hospital, and was awarded the university gold medal and the university council scholarship. After completing his internship at the Groote Schuur, where he was house physician to J F Brock, he enlisted in the South African Medical Corps and saw active service for five years in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy, rising to the rank of captain.
After the war he was awarded a Nuffield Dominion medical fellowship which enabled him to come to Britain and take up a post as postgraduate research assistant at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith. He obtained his membership of the College in 1947 and was appointed clinical and research assistant to Clifford Wilson at the London Hospital.
In 1949 he returned to Cape Town to take up a post as first assistant to J F Brock and in 1952 was appointed lecturer in the department of medicine at the University of Cape Town, and specialist physician at the Groote Schuur Hospital. He became deputy director of the University/CSIR clinical nutrition unit, which was headed by Brock, and in 1956 was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship which allowed him to spend a year at Stanford University, USA, where he continued his research into renal disease. On his return in 1957 he was promoted to associate professor and appointed director of the newly created UCT/CSIR renal metabolic research group. He was elected to the fellowship of the College in 1960 and in 1964 was appointed professor of clinical medicine at the University of Cape Town, a post he occupied for the next 19 years. He became director of the UCT/MRC porphyria and renal metabolic research group in 1967, which later became the UCT/MRC porphyria research unit.
Len Eales excelled in every sphere of academic medicine. He set great store on clear, logical thinking in clinical practice and his incisive approach to difficult diagnostic problems resulted in his opinion being sought by colleagues practising all over South Africa. His knowledge of his field extended well beyond that of the ordinary clinician; he revelled in complex chemistry, biochemistry and physiology. For him metabolic pathways, water, electrolyte and acid/base balance were a source of delight to be shared with his colleagues and students. This enthusiasm, logical approach and ability to synthesize complex information, made him a great teacher.
Eales' research in the field of porphyria gained him international recognition. He published his first paper in this field as a fifth year medical student and he went on to become a world authority on the clinical and laboratory features of variegate porphyria in general and of the acute porphyria attack. The first and second international conferences on porphyria, organized by Eales and held in Cape Town in 1963 and 1971, attracted the world's most distinguished researchers in this field. Len Eales published more than 160 papers and edited or contributed to many books. Most important of all was his ability to stimulate and train a large number of young biochemists and physicians, many of whom are still working as nephrologists or in the field of porphyria.
Eales received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including the silver medal of the Medical Research Council of South Africa. He was elected a life fellow of the University of Cape Town in 1963 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa in 1979. In 1985 his friends and students honoured him with a festschrift on porphyria, published as a book by Clinics in Dermatology.
Len Eales' health began to fail in the late 1960s. Typically, he bore this with great fortitude. He seldom complained, even when a bad fall resulted in a fractured femur he hid his pain and entertained those visiting him in hospital with 'lectures' on porphyria, the history of the second world war, or the cultivation of proteas and ericas. Sadly, his illness prevented him from enjoying his hobbies after his retirement in 1983, but he remained an avid reader; the history of the second world war and ancient history being his favoured topics.
Eales loved nature. As a young boy he enjoyed fishing in Kalk Bay, and as a young man he excavated historic pre-bushman caves in the mountains above the Bay. His later hobbies included developing a protea plantation at the family home in Pringle Bay where he collected and propagated rare and endangered species of this national flower.
Len Eales married Irene Gee in 1946. They had three children: Peter Lennox, Patricia Anne and Margaret Jane. Irene's quiet but intense devotion and care for Len served as an inspiration for all who knew them.
Lennox Eales made an indelible impression on medicine in South Africa, his influence being felt not only in Cape Town but in porphyria laboratories throughout the world.
S Benatar, S Saunders, R Kirsch
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Courtesy of Royal College of Physicians London, Munk's Roll Volume IX, page 144)
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James Scott Robson
Brian Hugh Bartlett Robinson
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Bent Block
Category: Communities Project
460-462 N. Main Street
Built in 1886, from 1890 to 1954 the upper floors were home to the Oshkosh Business College. Founded in 1867, it taught penmanship, telegraphy and bookkeeping to future railway express agents and station masters. As time passed, stenography and typewriting became more prominent. Courses in advertising, banking and commercial law were added. In the 1920s the Business College had sports teams, sometimes in conjunction with the Normal School.
The Bent Block, like Market Street, also housed intriguing basement business space accessed by an areaway in the sidewalk on the Merritt Street side of the building. Basement businesses were very common in the downtown business district where every part of a building's space was utilized. Covered over today by newer sidewalk, prismatic or pavement lights in iron frames flush with the sidewalk surface are still visible. The presence of pavement lights and coal holes always indicate hollow space underneath the sidewalk.
The entrance to this subterranean business space as of recently reflected the best example known in Oshkosh of how elaborate these spaces were constructed. The areaway had a central platform where one could walk down in two different directions on the Merritt Street side of this building. Effective were large pavement lights flush with the sidewalk above, which drew light to these otherwise hidden, underground spaces. Descending to the entrance of the buildings basement business, large windows in the foundation of the building brought light and ventilation to the basement space.
A business was not always listed in the city directory as being in the basement and for the years 1895-1922, basement businesses were hard to trace for this building, however, beginning in 1891-1942, a variety of businesses are recorded as occupying his basement space from C. & J. H. Miracle, barber shop, 1891-93; Salvation Army, no date only a photograph c. 1890's; Marvin Small, sign painter, 1924-26; Clarence Marx & Weatherwax, billiards, 1928-30; Clarence Marx, restaurant, 1932, Aunt Bess (Bessie Neubauer) Restaurant, 1934-42. The "Hub" a teenage club started as a gathering place in 1944 according to Oshkosh resident Audrey Gorwitz was one of the last known entities to occupy this intriguing basement space.


Do you ever feel worthless, and feel like the whole world is against you? Do you ever feel like the universe goes "Hey, I have a list of 20 uncool things to throw to someone. Lets throw it on this girl!" And I am that girl. Do you ever feel like giving up because you know you've had enough already? Do you ever feel like disappearing from the world and watch everyone live their life happily without you?
I'm tired of feeling like nobody needs me. I'm tired of feeling sad everyday. I'm tired of experiencing a wonderful day, actually thinking it would all end well, just to know that there's always a certain person that will destroy such a beautiful day. I'm actually tired of going through the same routine everyday. Wake up, shower, eat, have a great day, go home, get scolded at, over think about life, cry to sleep. Its what happens maybe not everyday, but most of the time. Can that routine just be like: wake up, shower, eat, have a great day, sleep with a smile. I have always wanted to end each day happily, no frustrations, but no. There's always someone or something that will keep turning my huge grin into a frown and make me feel worthless and eventually just make me cry to sleep.
Why can't people see the positive things a person had achieved? Why does society focus on the negatives? Its quite odd that the people who should be supporting you since Day 1 are the ones who make you feel like you're not enough; make you question your worth. I am tired of trying my best, (and actually accomplishing such achievements) just to know that what I have been doing is not enough. I am tired of living with so much expectations. Expectations that don't even make you a better person. Expectations that will make you feel so small and will make you just want to sleep all day so that no one would bother you. I tried. I tried being the best for everyone, but I guess everyone just doesn't see all my efforts. I know I have achieved great things, but I wish you could see it. I wish you could appreciate at least 1/16 of my achievements. It would be nice to hear a "Hey, good job!" or "You did this? Wow!" but no. It's always "That? You're proud of that little thing?" or "Fix your life." Not to brag, but hey, I'm a good kid you know. I don't do illegal things, I stay in school, my grades are pretty okay, and I'm not a bad person. But why can't you see the good in me? Why can't you make me feel like I'm actually special; like I am important?
But life is like that. And I can't change it. But I can always hope for things to get better. Although, I hope you realize I'm trying. I hope you realize I am trying to be the best to make you all proud. I am.
I like city lights, the stars, and windy night walks. I like going on adventures and experiencing one of a kind things. I like being emo and forgetting about everything in the morning. I like staying up late and thinking about everything. Hello, this is my life.


We desperately need to have amazing content for virtual reality to go mainstream. And you can create it today. There are several ways how to do it. One way of doing this is by using computer software (Unity, Unreal or Cryengine) to create it. Created content is imaginary and is usually used to build VR games. But what about if we want to capture the real world? In this blog post, we will look at some of the VR capture methods that will allow you to bring the real world into virtual reality.
360 videos are created by filming all 360 degrees of a scene at the same time. Users can view the video from any angle. Turn and move the device and the 360-degree video will follow, creating an immersive "virtual reality" type experience. 360-degree video is typically recorded using either with a special rig of cameras or using a dedicated camera that contains multiple camera lenses embedded into the device. The resulting footage is then stitched to form a single video. This process is done either by the camera itself or using specialized video editing software that can analyze common visuals and audio to synchronize and link the different camera feeds together.
Captured content can be separated into either monoscopic or stereoscopic 360 content. Stereoscopic 360 content allows you to have a 360° overview of the environment and creates the 3D effect with objects close by. Monoscopic 360 content lack the 3D effect but is much easier to produce and easier to distribute.
Light fields are a relatively simple concept and are not that new, but their actual implementation is extremely hard to pull off. A 'light field' (a.k.a. 'plenoptic function') is really just all the light that passes through an area or volume. Physicists have been talking about light fields since at least 1846. Lytro really popularized the idea by developing the world's first consumer light field camera back in 2012. A Light Field can be captured using an array of multiple cameras as well as a plenoptic device like the Lytro ILLUM, with an array of microlenses placed across its sensor. The core principle in both cases is that the Light Field capture system needs to be able to record the path of light rays from multiple viewpoints.
With Lytro Immerge Light Field camera, the light rays' path is captured via a densely packed spherical array of proprietary camera hardware and computational technology. In its spherical configuration, a sufficient set of Light Field data is captured from light rays that intersect the camera's surface. With that captured Light Field data, the Lytro Immerge system mathematically reconstructs a spherical Light Field Volume, which is roughly the same physical dimension as the camera.
Volumetric VR gives you the a feeling of reality. Users see scenes with three-dimensional humans — who actually look like real people — but they can also physically walk around these "characters" and watch them from any angle. Unlike film, there are no "takes" or "shots" in VR that are edited in post-production — it's much more fluid as the viewer is the one framing the scene and choosing their own perspective. In that sense, the viewer takes that role from the director, which opens up entirely new possibilities for storytelling and acting. One of the companies working in this area is 8i.
While traditional approaches to VR content turn cameras outward, 8i turns the cameras inward. 8i uses off-the-shelf high-definition cameras to record video of a real person from various viewpoints. Then it uses its own software to capture, analyze, compress, and recreate in real-time all the viewpoints of a fully volumetric 3D human. You can see an example of such capture below.
The captured volumetric video can also be used for AR. In the clip below you can see how Microsoft captured holograms that can then be viewed through their Hololens.
The fundamental principle used by photogrammetry is triangulation. By taking photographs from at least two different locations, so-called "lines of sight" can be developed from each camera to points on the object. These lines of sight (sometimes called rays owing to their optical nature) are mathematically intersected to produce the 3-dimensional coordinates of the points of interest. A somewhat similar application is the scanning of objects to automatically make 3D models of them. Some programs like Photoscan, or 123D Catch have been made to allow people to quickly make 3D models using this photogrammetry method. It should be noted though that the produced model often still contains gaps, so additional cleanup with software is often still necessary. Microsoft is also making their own play in this area.
Photogrammetry is already used in different fields, such as topographic mapping, architecture, engineering, manufacturing, quality control, police investigation, and geology, as well as by archaeologists to quickly produce plans of large or complex sites and by meteorologists as a way to determine the actual wind speed of a tornado where objective weather data cannot be obtained. It is also used to combine live action with computer-generated imagery in movies post-production. Photogrammetry was used extensively to create photorealistic environmental assets for video games.
What to do with the captured material?
Let's assume you're interested more in 360 video and photogrammetry as these technologies are already available to the public today and don't require a steep learning curve. Once you recorded and post-edited a 360 video you can then publish it on an online video platform like YouTube or you can build an interactive VR story on a platform like Viar360. Interactive stories give the viewers ability to move from one 360 video to another and this way control how the story unfolds. If you have used photogrammetry to capture a 3D model with one of the 3D scanning apps, then you can take that model and place it into a CGI environment with game engines like Unity or Unreal. In the second half of 2017, you'll be able to merge your videos recorded with your 360 camera and 3D models captured with your 3D scanning app in Viar360. But lets leave this for another time.


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Mississippi officials demand forceful push to toughen up animal cruelty laws
Published 5:28 am Tuesday, November 14, 2017
By Clara Turnage, The Natchez Democrat
NATCHEZ — Changing the dogfighting and animal cruelty laws in Mississippi will require a forceful, statewide push for legislative action, officials said Monday morning.
The discovery last week of a suspected dogfighting farm in Adams County prompted the meeting of approximately 20 city and state representatives.
Mayor Darryl Grennell called the meeting after Tommie McQueen, the owner of the property where 56 dogs were found, was released on a bond of $60,000.
The meeting included the mayors of Natchez and Ferriday, representatives of the Adams County Sheriff's Office, the Natchez Police Department and the Adams County Board of Supervisors as well leaders from local humane societies and local judges.
Julia Breaux Melancon, Louisiana state director and Mississippi legislative director for the Humane Society of the United States, said the laws surrounding animal cruelty in Mississippi are incredibly lax.
A misdemeanor animal cruelty charge in Mississippi can mean up to six months in prison and a maximum $1,000 fine. Mississippi law has no felony-level animal cruelty charge.
Breaux Melancon said the laws surrounding dogfighting, too, should be stronger.
Under Mississippi dogfighting laws a convicted person can be held no more than three years in the state penitentiary and face fines of no more than $5,000.
Louisiana law tops out dogfighting fines at $25,000, Breaux Melancon said.
The lack of stronger legislation surrounding animal cruelty and dogfighting is problematic not just because it allows criminals who subject animals to inhumane situations to walk free after a mere year in county jail, but because dogfighters in neighboring states could be drawn to Mississippi in order to face lower penalties.
Breaux Melancon said prior to Louisiana updating its animal cruelty law in 2010, she saw several cases wherein a dogfighter from Texas would travel to Louisiana so that, in the event he or she was caught, they would face lesser penalties.
Breaux Melancon said she believes that could be the case in Mississippi, too.
"You're going to get a flood of people to come in for dogfighting, and they're going to do it here because the risk is a slap on the wrist," she said. "This case is kind of a tipping point for you all in Mississippi. You can say, 'We've woken up and this is a problem.'"
Grennell asked Breaux Melancon what steps he and other citizens should be taking to get actual change in the state.
"This is the start," Breaux Melancon said. "Then get your legislators here. Until they see that their constituents, their voters, think this is a priority, this falls on deaf ears."
Grennell said Monday's meeting, which was closed to the public, was intended to gather thoughts and to form a plan to change Mississippi laws, but that he wants the Adams County community to become involved in the effort soon.
Grennell said he is in the process of organizing a second meeting, this one open to the public, in early December where he will "talk to our legislative delegation and demand that we have change."
Sen. Bob Dearing, D-Natchez, attended the meeting Monday and warned about the difficulties in passing animals rights legislation.
Dearing said he has been a long-time activist for animal rights, but that actually passing laws on the matter is more difficult than it seems.
In 2011, Dearing successfully introduced a bill that would add cats to the standing animal cruelty law. Before that addition, Dearing said virtually no protection for cats existed in Mississippi. Adding that legislation, he said, became moored in a series of compromises just to get it through the House of Representatives.
"It took five years," Dearing said. "The law we passed was not a strong law. In fact, it's a weak law. But at the time, it was the best law we could get."
This time around, Dearing said he wants to pass something stronger, and he said he thinks the case in Natchez could be the incentive to make it happen.
Instead of a maximum $5,000 fine, Dearing said he wants to push for a maximum $50,000 fine. Instead of a up to three years in a state penitentiary, he said he would like a law that set a minimum five-year sentence and a maximum of 10 years.
Sixth Circuit Court District Attorney Ronnie Harper said the plan has a single, but large problem.
"It's the hardest thing in the world to get those people to do anything up there," Harper said. "You better be prepared to go to the capital building or you won't get to first base on this."
Former Natchez Mayor Tony Byrne said the problem is not as simple as convincing senators and representatives of the severity of the issue — it is overcoming well-funded lobbying firms and political agendas, too.
Byrne worked with Dearing in 2011 to get cats added to the animal cruelty bill and said he understands how difficult passing this legislation can be.
Byrne said the biggest "enemy" of animal rights legislation is Farm Bureau, an insurance company that has dozens of lobbyists in Jackson.
"When you go up there, expect Farm Bureau to fight you tooth and nail," Byrne said. "If you don't think Farm Bureau is powerful, you're wrong. If you don't think they have enough money up there to kill anything with animal cruelty, you're wrong. The enemy right now is Farm Bureau."
Grennell said he wants Adams County to lead the charge in overcoming the bureaucracy surrounding animal rights in Mississippi.
Aside from coordinating with other cities who similarly would like to see a change in animal cruelty legislation, Grennell said he needs the public to come out and support animal rights as well.
"I want as many people as possible," Grennell said. "Come out and show concern about what's happening. When it's time to go to the capitol, I hope they're lobbying and protesting in support of changes to policy."
It is important to keep in mind Breaux Melancon said, that the risk of setting animal abusers free extends beyond repeated abuse to a dogs or cats.
"People don't understand the connection between animal violence and human violence," she said.
Since January 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has kept a registry of animal cruelty in America. The FBI's statement on the registry suggests animal cruelty is considered a precursor to other, often larger crimes.
Breaux Melancon called animal violence a "canary in a coal mine," an indicator that the person involved does not care about life, human or non-human.
Not treating these crimes seriously, she said, is dangerous.
New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, Museum of Mississippi History…


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Yoda, I agree completely.
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By the way, for those irritated over The Life Aquatic, you can blame me, I had it as my 3rd best film of the decade.
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I really dug that film. But I was always a Joan Allen fan.
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This is one of the first movies that converted me from being a "huge movie fan" to sliding down the rabbit-hole of cinema. Maybe the first, I think I've often said it was the first.
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No, it's not so much any of that as women constantly telling me that mens' genitalia are "gross" and other similar adjectives. And I mean, LOTS of women, I've probably had that exact conversation...
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Damn thing could go off any second!
To be fair to myself, because that's absolutely...
To be fair to myself, because that's absolutely how I feel, I work with dozens of women I am friendly with and several of my closest friends are women and they basically all sing the same refrain all...
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Oh, Fandango is a wonderful little thing, fun and charming and magical.
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I also read the novel. But one should watch the movie all the way through. There is some real payoff including the scene that makes me cry every time.
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I know I'm way behind but this is another of my pet all-time favorites.
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First of all, sorry, somehow I missed this whole...
First of all, sorry, somehow I missed this whole thread and I declare that there's gold in them thar hills.
Angel is a favorite of mine. Really a lot in this movie to like.


This volume presents six articles describing theoretical and experimental research of interest in optics. The articles review applications of the Wigner distribution function in optics and optoelectronics, examine the mathematical foundations and the applicability of Kramers-Kronig relations to data inversion in linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy and explore concentration and anisotropy fluctuations. Chapter four reviews the field of fibre-optical soliton communication systems, and includes discussion of periodic amplification, timing jitter and its control and time-division multiplexing. Chapter five focuses on theoretical aspects of the local field electrodynamics in mesoscopic media. The final chapter reviews experiments and theories concerning the time it takes for a photon or an electromagnetic wave packet to tunnel across a barrier.


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Study: Environmental Toxins Associated with Diabetes
Like many complex diseases, diabetes results from the interplay of genetic and environmental factors. To examine genetic risk factors, scientists pore over the human genome sequence. Environmental factors have been trickier to pin down because there is no way to evaluate them comprehensively.
Now, researchers at Stanford University present what they call an environment-wide association study (EWAS) or a systematic examination of the contributions of hundreds of factors in the development of Type 2 diabetes. This "enviromics" approach, which mirrors genome-wide association studies, harnesses high-speed computers and publicly accessible databases.
The first-of-its-kind study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), appears in the May 20, 2010, issue of PLoS One.
The authors examined 226 separate environmental factors like nutrition and exposure to bacteria, viruses, allergens and toxins. They found that certain factors, notably a pesticide derivative and the environmental contaminant PCB, were strongly associated with the development of diabetes. Other factors, including the nutrient beta-carotene, served a protective role.
The scientists describe their work as a demonstration that computational approaches can reveal as much about environmental contributions to disease as about genetic factors. They posit that the technique could be applied to other complex diseases like obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular disorders.
The authors acknowledge that many challenges remain, including the fact that, unlike the genome, "the environment is boundless."
Patel CJ, Bhattacharya J, Butte AJ (2010) An Environment-Wide Association Study (EWAS) on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10746.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010746.
Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which played a leading role in supporting the research, is available to comment on this article.
To schedule interviews, please contact the NIGMS Communications Office at 301-496-7301 or info@nigms.nih.gov.
In addition to NIGMS, the work was supported by NIH's National Library of Medicine and National Institute on Aging.
NIGMS is a part of NIH that supports basic research to increase our understanding of life processes and lay the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. For more information on the Institute's research and training programs, see http://www.nigms.nih.gov.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation's Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
Study: Chemical Exposure at Work Linked to Parkinson's
Three Separate Studies Now Connect Autism with Genes
New Study Predicts Success Rate for Alcoholism Medication
Environmental Toxins Making Children Chronically Ill
New Study Disproves Highly Touted "Depression Gene"
Largest Ever Study of Military Suicide Begins
Overweight Girls Who Lose Weight Reduce Adult Diabetes Risk
Shocking Study: 19% of Young Adults have High Blood Pressure


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The entry of taxi hailing services in Kenya has been quite interesting, seeing the disruption these services have brought in the marketplace. Uber, which is by far the most popular of these services took the market by storm and the competition it presented led to taxi drivers taking to the streets to complain. These services have also been a challenge for the Kenya Revenue Authority which has been looking to collect value-added tax. Uber and other taxi-hailing services have continually insisted that they are software companies and not transport companies.
The Kenya Revenue Authority has now stated that the burden of paying value added tax will no longer rest with the taxi hailing services but with the owners of the vehicles. The move which may prove unpopular with traditional taxi operators comes as a major reprieve for the cab hailing service providers. Quoting KRA's commissioner in charge of domestic taxes, local paper Business Daily says that taxi hailing services do not offer taxi services but provide a platform or an app that assists taxi operators in their activities. As such, VAT can only be charged by the supplier of taxi services effectively transferring the burden of payment to the owners of the vehicles. The paper further says that the threshold for VAT payment by taxi companies is KES 5 Million. In a previous media session, Uber's General Manager forEast Africa said that Uber drivers were independent contractors and as such handle their tax matters independently.
In the case of Uber, the passing of VAT payments to the owners will further place pressure on earnings. The company slashed prices of rides by nearly 35%, a move its drivers protested. Uber still maintained its cut from driver earnings at 25%, the highest in the market.This announcement means that total earnings by both drivers and owners may further diminish reducing the lucrativeness of the services. It will be interesting to see how the company handles this matter, which is likely to create a rift with its drivers and partners.


LRS-A series laser machines represent a further development in laser machines of LRS series.
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In the regime of contour cutting and marking the control systems of the machines enable the operator to define with high precision complex trajectories of the beam by means of image files of DXF format. To conduct welding operations in the automated mode the control system pre-sets the trajectory by reference points.
The shaped trajectories can be stored, edited and processed with defined modes of laser operations. The forming of work orders, choice of modes and operational parameters of the machine are carried out employing specially designed software and a tactile screen.
The vertical shift of the laser is provided in the machines of LRS-A series.
In combination with a periscope adapter turning the laser beam, this makes possible the treatment of flat vertical and slant surfaces, as well as cylindrical one.
Complex operations of high precision are performed manually using a binocular microscope combined with a focusing optical system. The microscope is equipped with eye protection means. The image of the laser processing zone is displayed on a TV screen, which enables the operator to control the process of work while conducting technological operations without a microscope.
The multifunctional character of the machine increases the efficiency of exploitation of the equipment because a single machine of LRS-A series can replace several special-purpose machines. Easy and fast equipping of these machines with additional items and devices (periscope adapter, rotary actuator, accessories for cutting, fiber-optic system of beam delivery for work with large objects, etc.) considerably widen their application scope.
Technological capabilities (in the case of steel): melting depth at welding – up to 3 mm; speed of seam welding with 50% overlapping – up to 0.4 m/min; layer thickness of one-pass cladding – up to 0.5 mm; speed of cutting 3 mm thick sheets – up to 0.6 m/min.
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Genetically-modified (GM) foods and food ingredients have infiltrated our food supply, tainting what was once healthy. While agri-businesses continue to claim they are safe, increasing amounts of research demonstrate that GM foods are harmful to human health, damage ecosystems, cause financial calamity for many farmers, and release trans genes that could randomly transfer to other life forms in the environment with the potential for disastrous consequences. A growing body of research links genetically-modified food consumption with sterility, allergies, infant mortality, organ defects, childhood illnesses, and cancer.
Alfalfa—Not in the habit of eating alfalfa? You could be unknowingly eating this food in your beef and dairy products. Used by dairy and beef farmers as feed for cows, genetically-modified alfalfa is common in both beef and milk products.
Aspartame—Not only is aspartame a well-established neurotoxin (brain and nervous system toxin), this laboratory-derived ingredient is made from aspartate, phenylalanine, and menthol, all of which are commonly sourced from genetically-modified ingredients.
Beef—Not only does most beef contain genetically-modified alfalfa, it also contains GM corn and soy, which becomes part of the meat. If you're eating beef, choose only organic beef that is grass-fed.
Canola Oil—Ninety percent of canola is genetically-modified to withstand the herbicide glyphosate (Round-Up).
Corn and Corn Starch—Almost all corn is genetically-modified, making this once healthy food a suspected cause of organ damage. Like corn, the starch extract of this GM-food is found in almost all processed and packaged foods. If you like battered and deep-fried foods of almost any kind, you're getting lots of this ingredient and lots of genetically-modified corn. Corn starch is commonly-used to make deep-fried foods crispy.
Keep reading to discover the common beverage that is frequently contaminated with GM ingredients…Enzymes—Unfortunately many enzymes used in food production are derived from GM ingredients. Some of these processes include: preventing egg products from deteriorating, removing bitter substances from beer, improving the clarity of fruit juices, clotting milk to make cheese, increasing the rising speed of bread dough, and many others. GM enzymes are also used in the manufacture of many supplements. Check out the excellent book Genetic Roulette for more information about GM enzymes.
Flaxseeds/Flaxseed Oil—Even flax has been contaminated with genetically-modified seed. Be sure to choose only certified organic flax and flax oil.
High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)—Because high fructose corn syrup is made from corn which is almost entirely genetically-modifed this ingredient is a serious threat to health. Research links it to weight gain and diabetes.
Ice Cream—Ice cream typically contains multiple genetically-modified ingredients, including high fructose corn syrup, corn starch, and milk which contains bovine growth hormone (rBGH). If that still doesn't sound too bad to you, keep reading to learn more about rBGH in milk products.
Infant Formula—Do the corporations behind frankenfoods have no ethics at all? Even infant formula is contaminated with frankenfood ingredients like soy and milk. Yes, milk typically contains genetically-modified ingredients (keep reading!).
Margarine and Shortening—Made from genetically-modified canola or vegetable oil blends, margarine and vegetable shortening are not the healthy foods many people believe them to be.
Non-organic and Synthetic Vitamins—You've read about enzyme supplements, but other nutritional supplements are commonly made from genetically-modified ingredients. Choose ones that are made from natural (not synthetic) nutrients and organic ingredients.
Papaya (Hawaiian)—Papayas from Hawaii are largely genetically-modified. They contain genetic material from the Ringspot virus.
Sausage—Most sausages contain ingredients derived from genetically-modified corn, including: corn syrup or corn syrup solids. Choose only organic sausage free of these ingredients and preservatives.
Soy and Lecithin—Most soybean crops are grown from genetically-modified soy, which has been linked to a host of health problems, including cancer. Lecithin, which is a product made from soy, is also contaminated with harmful trans genes and used in many processed and packaged foods as a thickener. Choose only certified organic soy. Ideally, choose certified organic soy that has been fermented (like miso).
Keep reading to discover which genetically-modified sweetener the average person consumes 52 pounds of each year…Squash—Many varieties of squashes have been created with genetically-modified gene sequences and are best avoided unless they are certified organic.
Sugar Beets—Sugar beets are used to make about 35% of the global supply of white sugar. Consider that the average person consumes 150 pounds of sugar each year. That works out to over 52 pounds of genetically-modified sugar on average. That's not only a lot of sugar, it's a lot of genetically-modified organisms, and potentially a large amount of the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) which is used on many sugar beet farms.
Tomatoes—Since the release of Flavr Savr tomatoes, the first genetically-modified tomatoes, many more frankentomatoes have been released on an unsuspecting public. These tomatoes contain a DNA sequence that has been reversed to prevent softening and allow for a longer shelf-life, and therefore more money for the agribusinesses that sell them. Research shows that they have lower nutritional value than their organic counterparts.
Vegetable Oil—Most "vegetable oil" blends are derived from genetically-modified corn, cotton, canola, or soybean oils. These are four of the most heavily genetically-modified crops, making foods made with vegetable oil among the worst frankenfoods.
*Sources: Top 20 GMO Foods and Ingredients to Avoid by Dr. Edward F. Group, DC, ND, DACBN, DABFM.
Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Food by Jeffrey M. Smith.
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I'm surprised to see squash and tomatoes on the list as they are so relatively easy to grow yourself from heirloom seeds and, if they take in a particularly ideal environment, can produce enough to feed an army. Thanks for this valuable article, Michelle.
Companies don't care what so ever what foods can kill people. It's only the bottom line that matters. And they make enough money to make sure the government regulators are in their pockets.


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Film reviews and commentary for those who love the movies.
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Bond, James Bond PT2: Maurice Binder
Maurice Binder (August 25, 1925 – April 4, 1991) was a film title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films including the first, Dr. No, in 1962 and for Stanley Donen's films from 1958. He was born in New York City, but mostly worked in England from the 1950s onwards. The Bond producers first approached him after being impressed by his title designs for the 1960 Stanley Donen comedy film The Grass is Greener. He also worked with Stanley Donen in Charade and Arabesque, both with music of Henri Mancini (Pink Panther).
Binder created the signature gun barrel sequence for the opening titles of the first Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962. Binder originally planned to employ a camera sighted down the barrel of a .38 caliber gun, but this caused some problems. Unable to stop down the lens of a standard camera enough to bring the entire gun barrel into focus, Binder created a pinhole camera to solve the problem and the barrel became crystal clear. Binder described the genesis of the gun barrel sequence in the last interview he recorded before his death in 1991:
"That was something I did in a hurry, because I had to get to a meeting with the producers in twenty minutes. I just happened to have little white, price tag stickers and I thought I'd use them as gun shots across the screen. We'd have James Bond walk through and fire, at which point blood comes down onscreen. That was about a twenty-minute storyboard I did, and they said, This looks great!"
At least one critic has also observed that the sequence recalls the gun fired at the audience at the end of The Great train Robbery (1903)
Binder is also best known for women performing a variety of activities such as dancing, jumping on a trampoline, or shooting weapons. Both sequences are trademarks and staples of the James Bond films. Maurice Binder was succeeded by Daniel Kleinman as the title designer for 1995's Golden Eye.
Prior to Golden Eye, the only James Bond movies for which he did not create the opening title credits were From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), both of which were designed by RobertBrownjohn.
Binder shot opening and closing sequences involving a mouse for The Mouse That Roared (1959), a sequence of monks filmed as a mosaic explaining the history of the Golden Bell in The Long Ships (1963), and a sequence of Spanish dancers explaining why the then topical reference of nuclear weapons vanishing in a B-52 mishap shifted from Spain to Greece in The Day the Fish came Out. He designed the title sequence for Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) that featured an orgy (the only one in the film). He took three days to direct the sequence that was originally supposed to take one day.
Binder also was a producer of The Passage (1979), and a visual consultant on Dracula (1979) and Oxford Blues (1984).
Binder's visual style and eroticism has made an indelible mark on Bond Films. His work was more organic in the way movement was portrayed, as opposed to the CGI look of later Bond films. Binder's creative genius gave us the flavor and mood of the story that was about to unfold before us.
Binder, who never married, but loved his career, photography and women, died of lung cancer in London at 65 years of age.
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Sizzlin' Summer Series with Mark Driscoll, Robert Madu, and Lisa Harper!
Sizzlin' Summer at James River Church is always incredible! In this 2018 series, we are honored to hear from special guest speakers Rich Wilkerson Jr., Jeremy Foster, Robert Madu, Mark Driscoll, and Lisa Harper. We know God will use this series to encourage you in your faith and draw you closer to Him like never before!
In this message, Pastor Mark Driscoll from The Trinity Church in Scottsdale, AZ shares a powerful sermon titled, "Jesus Still Washes Feet." Join us as we read John 13:1-11 and examine the love and willingness to serve that Jesus Christ had for Judas Iscariot. Our prayer is that this message would open your eyes to the love Jesus has for all people and the cleansing forgiveness and grace that is offered to those who believe in Him!


I think about this all.of.the.time. Authenticity to ourselves requires a great deal of thought and care and vulnerability, all commodities that can rarely be found online and are probably best practiced in close circles of trust. I often have conversations with other bloggers about how they walk the fine line between positivity and aspiration and have found that – for most of us – it's a line that shifts with the morning tide.
How can we share the good without acknowledging the bad? And how can we acknowledge the bad without giving it weight, permission to tip the scale into our thoughts and fears and focus?
We do our best. We filter a bit and then unfilter a bit more and we aslkdfjoiajowi and delete and then have long conversations about how private we want to be about our kids or our businesses or our dogs or our spouses and then we accidentally break the rules because their story spilled over into ours and couldn't be separated. Physics or something.
And we readjust out of frustration or fear until we decide yes, this feels right. This is balance. And then the weight of something new – time or change or interference – tips us a bit and we're back to wherever we were a few everythings ago.
We know in our hearts that perfection doesn't exist, that images are slivers and sound bytes do little to capture the essence of our lives. But sometimes we need the reminder. Sometimes the filters everyone else use look more light-filled than our own, and sometimes we try to recalibrate to match. We open our eyes to what we don't have, and we blind ourselves to what we do.
But the tricky thing about light, of course, is that its waves either absorb or reflect. And so do people. We can absorb the good and the real and the honorable, and we can reflect the same. We can tell the truth that yes, things kind of fell apart today*, but we can also dig for the gems that lie beneath the rubble. It takes a bit more work and sweat on our brows, but it's sure to wash off the layers of facade along the way.
What lies beneath, of course, is authenticity. It's just us, seeking the good and the hard – perhaps coming up short on some days, overflowing our cups on others.
p.s. *My fall-apart moment today was when this one sliced my eyelid with the corner of her diaper cream tube, in case you're curious. ;) What was yours?
This is something I think about a lot – and I love the way you captured that kind of teetering limbo and indecisiveness with your words and those perfect pictures. Lovely, truly.
This post is spot on. I blog anonymously, without even a pic, and I've been debating changing this, because while on the one hand, I am concerned with narcissism, vanity, and I most of the time I just have ideas that I want to express that have nothing to do with my life. On the other hand, there is Brene Brown (author of Daring Greatly) who notes that you have to be willing to put yourself out there, and make yourself vulnerable. Of course, the more you share of yourself, the more openings you give others to hurt you. So I might share more about myself for that reason, oddly enough.
This post, btw, is very well written. I love the way you express ideas. Very solid craftsmanship!
Very true that the goal is to create an authentic connection. I sometimes lose track of that. I think connection has to build organically over time, and it's a little harder to do that online. I often wonder about how seeing an image of someone on a screen leads to easier objectification/dehumanization of that person, and how you have to actively work against that tendency. Okay, I will end that thought here, but you have really generated a lot of ideas with this post. Have a lovely day!
Hopefully third time's a charm. I found a mouse in my apartment after a really lovely evening with friends… and as not tragic as that sounds, it totally broke me. It's like all of the stress from the past few months came rushing out… I'm still overwhelmed and anxious, and well, reading your post this morning was a really welcome addition to my day.
Oh love – I totally hear you. Isn't it funny the things that truly break us? It doesn't take much when the water level's already high. :) Sending you good vibes (and a virtual mouse trap!)!
Beautifully put. How do you present your "authentic" self to a virtual audience? How do you squeeze a real body of flesh into pixels and hope others will feel your heat? Le sigh.
Maybe we should expect less of online communication and accept its limitations. We can fill in the gaps with face-to-face encounters and the rest of real life. Thank you again for your words. They're very comforting and encouraging.
I appreciate your honesty and openness.


A man has been charged with the murder of a woman in Co Down.
The 52-year-old victim was found dead in the village of Portavogie on Saturday morning and the man is due to appear in court today, Monday.
Several hours after the discovery of the body, a 25-year-old man was taken to Musgrave police station for questioning.
He is due to appear at Downpatrick Magistrates Court.


The legends say that Cayden Cailean never meant to become a god. As a hired sword working out of Absalom, Cayden was renowned for taking on any job, so long as the cause was just and the coin was plentiful. One night, in an intoxicated stupor, a fellow drunk dared him to take on the Test of the Starstone. He accepted, and somehow, 3 days later, Cayden Cailean emerged from the Starstone's sacred cathedral as a living god. Amazed that he passed the tests and unable to remember how he did it, he continued in his godly life much as he did when a mortal — fighting for just causes, enjoying various alcohols, and doing only what he wanted to do. This simple philosophy appeals to many mortals both high and low, and adventurers, philanthropists, revelers, and freedom fighters all claim him as their patron god. In art, Cayden Cailean appears as he did in life, as a bronze-skinned man carrying a tankard of ale in one hand. Some depictions of the Drunken Hero display broken shackles about his wrists, representing Cayden's escape from the concerns of mortal life.
Members of Cayden's faith make excellent guides and explorers, quick to smile at danger and always willing to have fun even in the direst of circumstances. His festive temples resemble common ale halls and attract members of all social classes. Formal raiment is a simple brown tunic or robe with a wine-red stole bearing his ale-mug symbol (adventurer-priests of the faith sometimes carry a magical stole that doubles as a rope). He has few buildings that function only as temples; most are actual alehouses bearing a shrine to him above the bar. His simple holy text is the Placard of Wisdom, condensing his divine philosophy into a few short phrases suitable for hanging on the wall.
The faithful of Cayden Cailean often carry tankards with them for luck, or pause before a particularly dangerous or stressful task to pour a splash of ale out upon the ground. He often shows his approval through the discovery of a fresh bottle of wine, but in cases where a mortal has instead drawn his ire, such found bottles invariably taste of vinegar or raw sewage.


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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
Atheism, inspirational, science
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation is that good for the world?
Atheism, Child-abuse, Children, Feminism, Hell, Religion, Religion-and-children, Rhetorical-questions, Sexism, women, Women-and-religion
And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
Atheism, Belief, faith, Principles, Reason, Religion, Scepticism, science
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that gaurds the door,and this dragon is religion
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Absurdities, Atheism, Atrocities, Barbarity, Injustice, Religion, Skepticism
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
Atheism, Biology, God-delusion, science
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.
Atheism, Cosmic-sadist, death, Everything, life, Religion, Theology, Universe
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.
Atheism, Religion, science
For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.
Atheism, Atheist, Philosophy, Reason, science
Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Agnosticism, Atheism, Belief, Rationalism, Rationality, Religion, science, Superstition
For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.
6th-sense, Acumen, Apologetics, Apologist, Atheism, Atheist, Christian, Christianity, Comprehension, Creation, Demanding, Disappointment
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Atheism, god, Religion, science
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
Atheism, death, inspirational, life
It means that your birth, with all your particulars, is a wildly improbable event, and hence precious. You won the sweepstakes by being born at all. Think of all the wallflower sperm and egg cells. You made it, buddy. Whew! What a staggering wonder! What a thing to rejoice in! The lottery wasn't fixed! God didn't rig it! You won fair and square! What a miracle!
Atheism, life, Miracle
To hate man and love god seems to be the sum of all creeds.
Atheism, Religion, Truth
The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.
Apologetics, Atheism, Atheist, Beginning, Belief, Cause, Conflict, Creation, Definition, Heritage, Information, Origin
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said.
Atheism, inspirational


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Porters vs Stouts
As we approach the Fall season, we thought it would be fun to look into the difference between Porters vs Stouts, as they are traditionally thought of to be colder weather beers. Keep in mind that we supply some of these beers right now, and will be carrying more as the season progresses. Cheers!
"Let's just say this right off the bat: trying to understand the difference between a porter and a stout in today's craft beer world can be a pretty dizzying experience. That's because over the past ten years or so, in many craft circles, the names have been used pretty interchangeably when categorizing darker beers. It's this occurrence that caused us to want to understand the different nuances between these two types of beer, because more often than not, someone will tell us they prefer one to the other or a recipe will call for one specifically, and yet it's pretty hard to find a person who actually knows the difference.
To truly understand the difference between these two dark beers, we have to go back to where it all started in the first place: England. Out of the rowdy pubs of London in the eighteenth century emerged the porter, a dark, medium-bodied beer which had lots of malty goodness that was balanced by quite a bit of hops. Earliest reports of the beer's creation claim it was initially invented by a barman in the pub, made by blending lighter, hoppier beers, with older aged ales – sort of like the Suicides you made at the soda fountain when you were a kid. The result was a drink that took off, and eventually brewers reverse-engineered the mix and started brewing porters, no mixing at the bar needed.
As more brewers across England made porters, experimentation naturally followed. Brewmasters would tweak recipes, add different ingredients and boost the alcohol content, and thus the stout was born. That's right, all a stout technically is, is a stronger – or stouter – version of a porter. In fact, its original name was "stout porter."
The stout really took off when a brand named Guinness became a household name and many people fell in love with the creamy, luscious libation they started assuming came with drinking a stout." vinepair.com
"Roasted barley became a permitted ingredient in beers in the United Kingdom (which still included Ireland at this time) in 1880, with the passing of the Free Mash Tun Act. However, there was no rush to start using it: one writer in 1885 insisted that roasted barley did not give as permanent a colour as roasted malt, and "the flavour is also very inferior; and the aroma can bear no comparison." Guinness in particular does not appear to start using roasted barley in its stouts until around 1930.
The First World War, and the high taxes and restrictions on beer that it brought, did terrible and permanent damage to the strengths of beers in the British Isles, and by the 1920s porters were down on average to around 3.6 per cent alcohol by volume, and stouts to only 4.7 per cent or so. Guinness Extra Stout, which had been around 7.7 per cent alcohol in the 19th century, was down to 4.4 per cent in the 1930s.
When the "small brewer revolution" started in Britain and the United States in the 1970s, there was more than 250 years of different styles and strengths of stout and porter to choose from, and different brewers picked different sorts to recreate. The result is that, in some cases, some brewers now brew "porters" that are stronger than their stouts. The need to categorise beers for brewing competitions in the U.S. has meant a plethora of micro-managed style descriptions, few of which, however, have any historic validity.
The answer to the question: "What's the difference between a stout and a porter" is that originally a stout was simply a strong version of porter: today the difference is whatever you want it to be." beerconnoisseur.com
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