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The Great Kiss Off - Hilarious!
The Great Kiss Off - Hilarious! funny, video, hilarious, humor, kiss, teen, girls, janitor A kindly janitor must deal with an unruly group of middle school girls determined to leave their mark. His politeness backfires which escalates the feud until someone goes too far.
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Why Do We Kiss? An Answer to an Ancient Question
Kissing is one of those things that is ingrained in us, and yet, we never ask - why? Kissing is as natural as breathing - kissing the head of your baby, kissing your romantic partner, kissing your mother on her forehead - all these are types of kissing with completely different agendas.
Send An Affectionate Kiss to Someone You Love Today
When you really care about someone, a kiss, whether given on the lips, a cheek or on the back of a hand - is the best way to show it. So, here I am sending you a few charming kisses, to show my affection and appreciation. I hope you enjoy these sweet moments.
12 Beautiful Facts About the Charming Act of Kissing
Philemaphobia – the fear of kissing A first kiss can be a source of anxiety, but for some people, the idea of kissing is so scary, it constitutes an actual phobia. source 6. It's good for you In recent years, several studies found that kissing is beneficial to our health.
10 Shocking Facts About Kissing!
Kissing is one of the most intimate and loving gestures we as humans can give one another; it holds a world of meaning in one simple action. Yet despite of how important kissing is in our life, you might be surprised to discover some new facts you never knew about this loving gesture.
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The Lion Hug and Kiss - Adorable!
If you thought big cats don't feel love and affection, just watch as these young baby lion cubs come give a Park Worker hugs and kisses on his last day with them! The Lion Hug and Kiss - Adorable!
Funny Prank: A Sign It's Time For a Kiss!
Who knew, one only needs to be holding a "Kiss Me" sign to get all the girls and... others... Funny Prank: A Sign It's Time For a Kiss! funny, prank, gag Who knew, one only needs to be holding a "Kiss Me" sign to get all the girls and... others...
Have You Ever Wondered Why We Kiss Under the Mistletoe?
During Christmas, it's a time-honored tradition to kiss your significant other under a sprig of mistletoe, but have you ever wondered where the tradition comes from? This fascinating TED Talk will ensure that you wonder no more.
Watch a Man Cuddle and Kiss His Huge Pet Lion
Frikkie Von Solms isn't your ordinary pet owner. His "pet" and best friend happens to be a 560lb (254kg) lion named Zion. The native South African has spent the past 11 years raising Zion, after re..
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Moments Like This WIll Make Your Day Brighter!
Take a look at this adorable video: Let's Share a Kiss... family, moments, kiss, cute overload, brighten Moments like this will brighten up your day.
Kiss Corns and Calluses Goodbye with This Great Guide
Corns and calluses are skin anomalies that arise as a result of the thickening of the outer layer of skin on your feet. In medical terms, they are referred to as hyperkeratosis, and usually develop..
23 Places I'd Love to Find Myself On New Year's Eve
Viceroy Hotel - Bali H/T: distractify.com 23 Places to be in for New Year's amazing, travel, places, kiss, new year, 2015 Why not start your new year in one of these gorgeous places and make that new year's kiss infinitely more magical?
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Break These Rules & You Can Kiss Your Friends Goodbye...
Is there any topic on the planet that causes more tension between individuals than money? It has been claimed that money is the root of all evil, and that certainly seems to be the case when yet an..
These Animals Know How to Show Affection!
We did not invent the kiss, simply elaborated on it. But the significance of the kiss is not lost on our animal friends, as they kiss one another in a show of love and friendship. Prairie Dogs Kissing source unknown "Awww... Get off!"
Have You Heard This Joke? Shenanigans in a Dark Tunnel
Then a loud kiss and an equally powerful slap are heard. When the train exits the tunnel, the rich man is holding the side of his face in agony, while the poor man is grinning uncontrollably.
Love is Beautifully Captured in These Historic Photos...
A photo of a goodbye kiss taken in Los Angeles on September 6th, 1950, as American soldiers began their long journey to the front line of the Korean War. 2. American soldiers get their last kiss on a ship before being deployed to Egypt. 3. A sailor kisses a nurse in New York's Times Square.
Keep Your Lips and Hugs to Yourself Human! Hilarious
As every pet owner knows, there are few things more fun than pampering, hugging and kissing our beloved dogs and cats. However, cats, and even dogs, don't always love this weird human custom.
This Joke Starts With a Girl About to Jump Off a Bridge
While he doesn't want to appear insensitive, he also doesn't want to miss an opportunity, so he asks, "Well, before you jump, why don't you give me a kiss?" She does, and it is a long, deep, lingering kiss. After she's finished, the tough, hairy biker says, "Wow!
These Lipstick Paintings Are Painstaking & Totally Unique
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Have You Ever Seen Hound Dogs So in Love Before?
Have a look at this romantic collection of dogs kissing like there's no tomorrow. Love is in the air today! Kissing Dogs Compilation cute, funny, video, dogs, kissing Dogs are among the most affectionate creatures out there, and they're never too shy to express their romantic feelings...
The Nun Was the Most Beautiful the Cabbie Had Ever Seen
"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me." She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that: #1, you have to be single and #2, you must be Catholic." The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!" "OK," the nun says. "Pull in to the next alley."
Joke: I've Never Done This Before...
Everyone begins to panic except for the boy who sheepishly turns to the woman and says, "I hate to trouble you miss, but we might die and I've never kissed anyone." The woman is at first taken aback but after a moment realizes she might as well make the kid happy in their final moments.
CUTE: Get Ready for Easter with These Adorable Bunnies
The white one did NOT expect this kiss Kissing bunnies! 4. Sacred geometry Bunnies lying down together 5. Are they OK? They Ran Out of Batteries... 6. This bunny was saved from a cat on Easter! Seemed fairly appropriate that I would save this from a cat on Easter. 7.
When Animals Love, We Get Wonderful Moments Like These
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The U.S. farming population is growing older, but a young UCSC alum—founder of Lonely Mountain Farm—is bucking the trend
By Peggy Townsend
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Kenny Baker (Kresge '07, cultural anthropology and environmental studies), who started Lonely Mountain Farm, sells in Bay Area farmers' markets. (Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta)
Kenny Baker walks barefoot past a cluster of newly planted fruit trees and a field of squash nearly ready for harvest.
The fact that Baker, a farmer, is unshod is unusual. But what's even more noteworthy is his age. While the population of U.S. farmers grows older — the average age is now 57, according to the Department of Agriculture — Baker is just 29.
"It's really challenging," admits the cultural anthropology and environmental studies major as he stands on the rich, alluvial soil of his Corralitos land. "It's not easy to start the first generation of a farm."
Still, Baker, a 2007 graduate of UC Santa Cruz's Kresge College, is not the kind of guy who gives up.
Baker's introduction to farming came when he was still attending UCSC. He got a job at a cut-flower farm and found himself falling in love with the work. After a stint with Happy Girl Kitchen, where he spent his days buying produce from area farmers and absorbing their knowledge, he decided to go out on his own.
"I had a bit of cash saved up and I bought a 1963 John Deere tractor and just went for it," Baker says.
Baker located a seven-acre parcel of land to lease and named his operation Lonely Mountain Farm after a hill that is home to a clan of dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien's famous trilogy. (I'm kind of a Lord of the Rings nerd," he admits.) Then, he got to work.
He tilled the soil, dug trenches, and piped water to the plot. He planted potatoes and beans — crops that had a long shelf life and also filled a market niche. Daily, he fought the unreliable tractor and weeds that rose among the seedlings he planted.
"I was completely flailing around," he says.
"Even in the best conditions, starting a farm is a struggle," says Nesh Dhillon, director of Santa Cruz Community Farmers' Markets where Baker now sells his harvest. "It's weather-dependent, and an organic farm means you can't just solve a problem by putting something on it."
Still, Baker persevered and, four years later, he is selling crops that range from Native American Hidatsa Shield beans to Delicata squash and heirloom tomatoes in four Bay Area farmers' markets. He also is cultivating an additional plot of land his parents bought and where he now lives with his girlfriend, Molly Davenport, and his sister and his brother-in-law, Dawn and Tim Sternadel.
Still, life on the land is not easy. At 6 a.m. Baker makes himself a cup of coffee and goes out to feed the goats, peacocks, and horses that populate his farm. By 7, he's headed for his greenhouse where he figures out the day's agenda based on what he finds. His 10-hour days are filled with weeding, irrigating, planting, harvesting, and dealing with whatever problems arise.
"He's got such drive and desire," says Baker's mother, Kelly, a fifth-grade teacher in Southern California. "He believes in what he does. He's driven by the cause … of fresh, organic, local food."
Baker gives a tour of his newest farm property as bees dance amid rows of golden sunflowers and his two dogs, an Australian shepherd named Oso and a border collie named Cubby, scramble through acres of tilled soil. There's a large barn, a gypsy wagon he built by hand to serve as a farm stand, an old yellow school bus he uses to haul crops. There is talk of his sister's recent wedding on the farm, and dinners he and his housemates have together most nights: squash stuffed with rice, chard, and goat cheese; big salads; Jerusalem artichokes sautéed in olive oil.
In time, Baker hopes this acreage, which nestles between two swells of land, will not only grow a rich variety of crops but also serve as an educational venue for kids, hold a goat-cheese production area and a small kitchen, and possibly host events.
"I think I have a good vision," he says. "I can look into the future and see a result."
That's what keeps Baker going. That's what keeps his bare feet firmly planted on the land.
Lonely Mountain Farm sells its produce at the Downtown Santa Cruz, Sunnyvale, Campbell, and Live Oak farmers' markets. Visit Lonely Mountain Farm on Facebook.
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WallGoldfinger D.C. rep firm merges with second firm, expands
High-end custom furniture maker WallGoldfinger's Washington, D.C., representative group, Design Products, Inc., has grown to include two new experienced members.
WallGoldfinger makes high quality, technology driven, custom furniture and reconfigurable product lines for the contract furniture market, including for the nation's government and military leaders, Fortune 500 businesses and more across the nation and across the world. Operating out of a state-of-the-art factory in Randolph, Vt., the New England manufacturer has sales representatives across the country.
Design Products, based in Alexandria, Va., is a more than 50-year-old company and one of the oldest independent sales representative groups in the nation. Principal Alisa Lange joined the company in 1990 and purchased it in 2001. She has been representing WallGoldfinger since 2013.
In April, Design Products merged with The Rep Group, resulting in the addition of Julian McMichael and Mark Elledge as new partners to Lange.
The new company will retain the name of Design Products, Inc.
McMichael graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in architecture. He has since worked for a general contractor, at a furniture dealership and at an international design and architecture firm before starting his own manufacturers' representative firm, The Rep Group, with Elledge in 2015.
Elledge has worked in the contract furniture market since 2008, first as a project manager for a furniture dealership and then in sales.
Lange is beyond excited to see the Design Products team grow with such experienced new members, she said.
"Julian and Mark bring not just experience but also excitement. They have tremendous furniture knowledge, know the industry and share the Design Products' mission to provide educated, technical expertise to our clients," Lange said. "They will certainly assist me in meeting the demand from our territory for the amazing lines we represent."
Additional members of the Design Products team are associates Bob O'Neil and Shannon Lunney, who have both been with the company for many years.
"Alisa and her team have done an amazing job for us over the years. We also know there is potential to grow our sales in the D.C. market with a larger sales representative force to help meet demand," said WallGoldfinger Chief Executive Officer John Wall. "We're thrilled to welcome Julian and Mark and have their experience representing WallGoldfinger."
"You can already feel the energy of this team. It will be exciting for all to see what the year ahead brings," Wall added.
Contact Design Products Inc. at 703-836-7123 or on the web at www.designproductsinc.com or through WallGoldfinger's representative page at www.wallgoldfinger.com/reps. Contact WallGoldfinger at 802-483-4200.
Pictured are Alisa Lange (top left), Julian McMichael (top right), Mark Elledge (middle left), Shannon Lunney (middle right) and Bob O'Neil (bottom).
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Dedicated Web servers deal with specialized tasks processing Web requests from clients and serving Web pages and are tuned accordingly. The Compaq ProLiant DL320, the Dell PowerApp.web 120, the HP Netserver LP 1000r, and the IBM x330 were all submitted to us with Windows 2000. These servers come out of the box preconfigured: Just add your Web pages and go.
We asked each company to equip its server with a Gigabit Ethernet card to eliminate any network bottlenecks that might occur with built-in 10/100 Ethernet ports. In fact, we were being overly cautious: None of the throughput scores saturated the built-in 100-Mbps NICs. We double-checked this by running a few spot tests using the 100-Mbps interface, and sure enough, the results were the same as for the gigabit interface. So for Web serving at least, the standard 10/100 Ethernet connection should prove more than adequate.
We also asked each company to equip its server with 1GB of 133-MHz ECC (error correction code) SDRAM. We chose this configuration to even out any disk subsystem issues; with 1GB, all of our test files could be cached to RAM (rather than being swapped to disk), effectively removing the hard drive from the equation. Our tests showed which servers have the best-optimized processor and memory subsystems.
We performed the same NIC and Windows 2000 optimizations on all of the servers, so we were surprised that the 933-MHz HP server outperformed the 1-GHz machines on the dynamic and e-commerce and tests at loads of 16 clients or more. Some added overhead from each unit's management package may have played a part in the results.
Each single-processor server came with 1GB of RAM and one hard drive preloaded with Windows 2000 Server and IIS 5.0; PC Magazine Labs installed Service Pack 1 if it was not already loaded. We arranged the clients into two identical 30-node subnets attached over 100-Mbps Ethernet and used two Extreme Networks Summit 48i 10/100 switches, configured into two virtual LANs, to connect the clients, the server NICs, and a WebBench controller machine. We used Windows 2000's TCP/IP stack for the networking protocol. Thus, each server was connected to a 60-node private LAN, with a mix of Windows 98 SE clients.
WebBench 4.0.1 lets us measure the performance of Web servers as they handle requests from clients. We tested the servers using the static, dynamic (simple CGI), and e-commerce test suites. To configure the servers, we loaded content files on each of their hard drives and created a 128-bit SSL certificate for each server in Windows 2000. We set the operating system's performance option as well as file and print sharing to be optimized for applications. The IIS logging and visit logs were off, and we set performance to 100,000-plus hits a day. The site was not indexed; there was no application protection on static content directory, and the CGI-BIN directory was set as a virtual directory for dynamic content.
The static tests serve static HTML Web sites, including HTML code and GIF files.
During the dynamic tests, the client asks the server to run a CGI application that lives on the server. This application (the dynamic executable) creates HTML response data, which the server returns to the client. The executable adds an extra load to the processor and memory subsystem. Dynamic requests make up about 20 percent of the Web requests in the dynamic tests, while the other 80 percent are static requests.
The e-commerce tests use a mix of 8 percent secure requests (those involving SSL) and 92 percent nonsecure requests, which is a fair representation of the traffic at a typical e-commerce site.


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RIS Muslim Convention Concludes in Toronto
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The 15th Annual Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention (RIS) concluded on Sunday evening in Toronto with speakers advising the convention attendees to look to their religion for guidance and to work on strengthening their relationships.
"Our hearts have to be connected to each other, and our hearts have to be connected to Allah," said Shaykha Muslema Purmul.
"We have to know what our religion teaches us because that becomes our power base and that is indeed our empowerment," said Dr. Aisha Al Adawiya.
"You know what to do, you have excellent leadership," she added. "I can only encourage you now to get out and do what you do."
A capacity crowd of over 20,000 people attended the convention, held in the heart of downtown Toronto over the Christmas holiday weekend.
The theme of the annual event was 'Promise of God: Conditions of Revival' and was addressed by renowned Muslim scholars and leaders from around the world.
The current challenges facing Muslims in the West and around the world were tackled throughout the weekend sessions.
"I want to be able to get to a point in our community where we can have uncomfortable conversations about race," said well-known American activist Linda Sarsour about the issue of racism in American society that was hotly debated on the floor of the convention and on social media.
"We need to be humbled enough to realize we don't know everything," Sarsour advised.
"We need to bridge the gap between activists and scholars. We need to speak the same language and make it accessible – spirituality plus activism."
"Don't say 'racism must end' instead say 'we must end racism'," advised Imam Siraj Wahhaj in his closing remarks to the convention.
Many of the speakers urged the audience to become civically engaged and work to develop better relationships.
"We do not act as victims," said British activist, Salma Yaqoob. "We are agents of change, powered by our relationship with Allah."
"We have to love one another and we have to genuinely care for one another," added Imam Zaid Shakir.
"We hope and we work – that's who we are, that's what we do," he continued. "And we do it in the good times and the bad times; or what we perceive to be good times and what we perceive to be bad times."
The Convention is being followed by the RIS Knowledge Retreat, which began on Monday and will run until Friday.
According to the RIS organizers, the weeklong retreat "gives seekers of knowledge an opportunity to study traditional Islamic sciences, in the contemporary context, with some of the leading scholars of our time."
Canada is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations with a population of 35 million.
While the majority of Canadians are Christians, the country has no official religion and support for religious pluralism and freedom of religion is an important part of the country's political culture.
Muslims are the fastest growing religious community in Canada, according to the country's statistical agency, Statistics Canada.
Canada's Muslim population increased by 82 percent over the past decade to more than 1 million in 2011. Muslims now represent 3.2 percent of Canada's total population.
This January 29th, let's commit to the road ahead
Today marks an occasion that forever changed our community and our country. Today marks the "National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia" and the sixth anniversary of the attack on Janurary 29th, 2017, that took the lives of six worshippers. As we reflect
Canada's first Mosque opens its doors to shelter Edmonton's vulnerable citizens
As a part of the Extreme Weather Response activation, the Al Rashid Mosque will reactivate its winter shelter and open its doors to provide a safe and warm space for Edmonton's most vulnerable citizens. The activation of Al Rashid's shelter takes effect on Saturday, January 28, 2023, and
Friday reflection - Can we be at home in different places?
By Muneeb Nasir Where are you from? This is the question that I am frequently asked by people and they are expecting me to say India or Pakistan or from Asia. They're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from that region in the


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Riverdale Season 2 Episode 12 : Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine
: As preparations for her confirmation ceremony get underway, Veronica becomes concerned that Archie, who's agreed to be Hiram's "intern," may be learning too much about her family's secret business dealings. Jughead and FP lead the charge after an incident at Pickens Park leads to increased tensions among the Serpents. Meanwhile, Chic helps Betty deal with her inner darkness, while Archie finds himself in over his head after a high-stakes poker game with Hiram's shady inner-circle goes awry.
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Вольдемар Саввич Шайтан () — советский учёный-гидротехник, , доктор технических наук. Участник Великой Отечественной войны.

Биография
Родился 14 ноября 1912 года в Одессе. В 1936 году окончил гидротехнический факультет Московского инженерно-строительного института.

Перед началом Великой Отечественной войны работал в становище Ваенга (ныне г. Североморск) вольнонаёмным инженером-гидротехником, строил причалы и другие гидросооружения военной базы Северного флота. 3 июля был мобилизован. Служил в звании лейтенанта на должности командира технического взвода 30-й авиабазы ВВС Северного флота. Обеспечивал выполнение боевых заданий 5-й минно-торпедной авиадивизии и других морских авиачастей, действовавших по потоплению кораблей немецкой северной эскадры, по охране и проводке транспортных судов с военными грузами от союзников. В 1944 году откомандирован в Ваенгу и назначен главным инженером гидротехнического участка военно-строительных работ № 1 ОВСУ «Северстрой», которыми руководил вплоть до демобилизации в конце 1946 года. Кандидат в члены ВКП(б) с 1944 года.

После войны работал научным сотрудником НИИ гидротехнических сооружений, оснований и фундаментов (НИИ-100) по морскому строительству, затем трудился во ВНИИ ВОДГЕО руководителем лаборатории инженерной гидравлики, консультантом. В 1990 году вышел на пенсию.

Умер в Москве 11 апреля 1997 года. Похоронен на мусульманском участке Даниловского кладбища рядом с членами семьи.

Научная деятельность
В 1951 году защитил кандидатскую диссертацию «Экспериментальное исследование взаимодействия волн с массивовой наброской», в 1972 — докторскую диссертацию «Крепление земляных откосов сооружений и берегов водохранилищ: исследование и проектирование железобетонных и каменнонабросных креплений».

Автор более 200 научных работ, в т. ч. шести монографий, нескольких изобретений и ряда нормативных документов в области гидротехнического строительства, гидравлики различных инженерных конструкций, воздействий штормовых волн и льда на преграды и др. Занимался проектированием и являлся главным инженером строительства нескольких гидротехнических объектов. Создатель волновой теории разрушительного воздействия шторма на берегозащитные сооружения. Итоговый научный труд «Protection of Earth Slopes of Hydraulic Structuгes» опубликован в 1997 году в Роттердаме.

Награды и звания
 Орден Отечественной войны 2-й степени (1985)
 Орден Красной Звезды (1945)
 11 медалей (в т. ч. «За оборону Советского Заполярья» и «За победу над Германией»)
 Ветеран Краснознамённого Северного военно-морского флота
 Ветеран военного строительства
 Ветеран труда

Семья
 Отец — Савва Фёдорович Шайтан (1882—1966), караим. Электротехник, служил в Одесской земской управе. Участник Первой мировой войны, старший унтер-офицер, поддерживал телефонное сообщение между отдельными частями на передовой. Кавалер Георгиевского креста 3-й и 4-й степеней. С 1940 — старший инженер военного отдела Управления промкооперации при Исполкоме Мособлсовета. Награждён медалью «За доблестный труд в Великой Отечественной войне» (1947).
 Мать — Алида Карловна Шайтан (ум. 1953)
 Жена — Дия Васильевна Шайтан (ум. 1992). Дети:
 Дина Вольдемаровна Морозова (Шайтан; род. 1941) — кандидат технических наук, доцент, преподаватель Московского политеха.
 Константин Вольдемарович Шайтан (род. 1949) — доктор физико-математических наук, профессор кафедры биоинженерии МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова.
 Внук — Алексей Константинович Шайтан (род. 1984), доктор физико-математических наук, доцент кафедры биоинженерии МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова, член-корреспондент РАН.
 Сестра — Зигфрида Саввишна Шайтан (ум. 1977)

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A story I finished exactly a year ago was just published in Faraway journal. (PDF and website). This story was very loosely inspired by the first time I saw the Squirrel Nut Zippers at the Independent -- although I doubt that today I could trace a single word in the story back to the source. The most pleasant surprise of my writing career: the publication is accompanied by an original artwork by Gay Degani, inspired by my own story! It goes together perfectly with the world I was envisioning. So cool.


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Identical movie soundtrack from a film that I can't wait to see!! This film promises to be a family-friendly, music-filled film!! With some off my favorite actors!! The music alone has me looking forward to September 5th!! The first song on the soundtrack sampler I was hooked! This album has a very Elvis feel to it. I LOVE ELVIS!!
The IDENTICAL tells the compelling story of twin brothers unknowingly separated at birth during the Great Depression. DREXEL HEMSLEY becomes an iconic 50's rock 'n' roll star, while RYAN WADE (Blake Rayne) struggles to balance his love for music and pleasing his father. The Reverend Wade (Ray Liotta) and his wife (Ashley Judd) are sure their adopted son has been gifted and called by God to be a preacher. But Ryan challenges his parent's vision for his life, and unflinchingly chooses to launch his own music career with his best friend (Seth Green). Encouraged by his wife (Erin Cottrell) and employer (Joe Pantoliano), Ryan embarks on an unpredictable, provocative path – performing the legendary music of Drecel Hemsley in sold out venues all across the country. As the brothers destinies tragically collide, Ryan discovers that Drexel is his identical twin which leads him to question everything he's ever believed about God, family, and his own identity.
I received a signed copy of the Identical Original Motion picture soundtrack sampler. This sampler features 12 of the 20 original songs by Jerry Marcellino and Yochanan Marcellino from the film. Including "Your Love's Keepin' Me Tonight," "City Lights," "Angel of Mine," "Everybody Knows It" and "Nashville Tonight."
I love the songs on this CD. City Lights is the first song on the CD and it gave me goosebumps. Elvis lives!! "Your Love's Keeping Me Tonight," has to be one of my favorites on the CD. "Burnin' Rubber." Well, that one had both 3 year old Alice and I boppin' and signing LOUD in the car. The last song on the CD "One Child" is instrumental and it's beautiful!!
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If you meet the work requirements of the Social Security disability program, you may be eligible for disability benefits if you have been diagnosed with alcoholic liver disease (cirrhosis) or non alcoholic cirrhosis.
Cirrhosis is most commonly caused by alcoholism, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and fatty liver disease. For the purposes of a Social Security disability, it does not matter what has caused the cirrhosis. Social Security disability focuses on the functional limitations caused by your cirrhosis when they make their determination.
In order to evaluate the severity of an individual's cirrhosis, disability examiners use the criteria outlined in impairment listing: 5.05 -Chronic liver disease. The Social Security disability handbook known as the blue book has impairment listings for all body systems. The listings provide the criteria needed to meet or equal the severity requirements of Social Security disability and SSI.
The listing states that there must be a diagnosis of chronic liver disease along with other related conditions such as varices, ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatorenal syndrome, hepatopulmonary syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy, or end stage liver disease. Listing 5.05 covers all of the above conditions providing the testing, symptoms, and signs needed to establish the severity of an individual's liver condition.
1. Symptoms may include, but are certainly not limited to, itching, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, or sleep disturbances. However, the symptoms of chronic liver disease may not have a strong correlation to the severity of the liver disease and functional ability.
2. Signs may include but are not limited to enlargement of the liver and spleen, jaundice, peripheral edema, and altered mental status.
3. Laboratory findings may include increased liver enzymes, increase in serum bilirubin, increased ammonia levels, decrease serum albumin, and abnormal coagulation studies. Social Security will accept liver biopsy results but they will never send a person for the biopsy because it is an invasive procedure. They will send a person to CT scans, MRI, or to an ultrasound to show the size and consistency (fatty liver, scarring) of the liver and to document ascites.
If cirrhosis or another related liver condition has prevented you from working, it is likely that you may have had multiple tests already. If you have not had recent testing, Social Security may send you for testing to help document your disability case. If they send you to testing they will pay for the testing.
Even if you do not meet or equal the criteria outlined in listing 5.05, you may still be able to be approved for disability benefits provided your cirrhosis causes you significant limitations. If you are unable to meet the demands of any of your past work and your residual functional capacity is so restrictive that when your age, education, and the transferability of your job skills are considered they preclude any other kind of work, you may be eligible for disability benefits.
Cirrhosis is a liver disease that is mostly commonly caused by hepatitis C or alcoholism, though it does have other causes, such as prolonged exposure to drugs and toxins. Cirrhosis happens when the tissues of the liver are replaced by scar tissue and nodules that are created when damaged tissue is regenerated. This causes fluid retention in the abdominal cavity, blockage of the flow of blood to the liver and ultimately, loss of liver function. Confusion and coma can result, as well as esophageal bleeding. Cirrhosis can be life threatening. In advanced stages, a liver transplant may be necessary. The liver is the largest organ in the body and is necessary for ongoing body function. You cannot live without a healthy, functioning liver. It is estimated that 27,000 people a year die from cirrhosis, making it the tenth leading cause of death. Cirrhosis has a ten-year mortality rate of around 50 percent.
There are several signs of the disease, though some people may not exhibit any signs or symptoms at all. Nausea, fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite and exhaustion may plague some sufferers. Others may experience abdominal pain, nail changes, jaundice, gallstones, a musty odor in their breath, weight loss or 'spider veins' appearing on the skin. As the disease progresses there may be more signs and complications, such as itching, trouble concentrating, sensitivity to medications, easy bruising and bleeding and liver tumors.
Clinical, laboratory and radiologic tests, as well as an ultrasound, can help determine cirrhosis of the liver, but if those data do not diagnosis, a liver biopsy may be needed. A liver biopsy consists of the doctor taking a liver sample with a needle and studying it under a microscope for a wide variety of signs of liver cirrhosis. The most common way to determine cirrhosis is by liver biopsy.
Cirrhosis of the liver cannot be reversed, though there are many treatments and lifestyle changes available to delay further complications. Antibiotics will be prescribed if there is infection. Laxatives may help constipation. Other medications may help itching and other symptoms of cirrhosis. Patients will be advised to eat a healthy diet, abstain from alcohol and acetaminophen and to restrict their salt intake.
When the liver becomes so damaged that it stops working properly, a liver transplant may be needed. A liver transplant is a when the patient gets their liver removed and replaced with a healthy, functioning liver. Liver transplants are improving with new medications, though survival rate is still only around eighty percent.


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The best places in Hawaii to visit in 2018
The new year brings new Hawaii adventures to some of the best towns in the Islands worth visiting right now.
Christine Hitt,
Every year, certain towns catch our attention—there's either something new, such as a hotel opening where there normally aren't hotels, or it's suddenly trending. Often passed up for its more popular neighbors, these towns should be on your radar for 2018, and are worth a longer stop or even a stay.
1. North Kohala, Big Island
The view of Pololu Valley from the trail.
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Highway 270 dead-ends in North Kohala, so most people bypass this charming little corner of the Big Island, but that would be a mistake. Hawi and Kapaau are two of the cutest towns—full of quaint cafes and trendy boutiques. This part of the island is steeped in history, being where King Kamehameha the Great was born and raised, and a festival takes place in his honor every June near his roadside statue in Kapaau. Where the road ends, Pololu Valley can be found, with its black sands and green mountains, stunning every visitor who stops at its lookout. The hike to its beach is roughly 20 minutes per way, where you can picnic amongst unspoiled nature.
2. Pahoa, Big Island
The colorful, small town of Pahoa.
Photo: Megan Spelman
Pahoa is unlike any other town you're going to find in Hawaii, partly due to the number of hippies who have moved in and due to its remote nature, secluded by acres of rain forest and lava flows. The best location to stay if you're visiting the volcano is Pahoa's district of Puna, which has a number of Airbnbs such as cabins, treehouses and yurts that are as unique as the people who live here. The town's popular Tin Shack Bakery and healthy Island Naturals Market and Deli will satiate your hunger, and the coastal Red Road route will put a smile on your face as it takes you under rain forest canopies to the town of Kalapana, where the lava ocean entry last occurred. Swing by on Wednesday nights for Uncle Robert's night market, and you'll fall in love with the community.
3. Napili, Maui
The white-sand beach of Napili Bay.
With bustling Kaanapali to the south and ritzy Kapalua to the north, Napili has the best features of both towns, making it one of our West Maui favorites. It has the beautiful, large and swimmable bay, hidden from the road, so it won't be as packed as Kaanapali Beach. There are also abundant oceanfront vacation rentals to choose from, and the luxurious Napili Kai Resort is a regular destination for families who return year after year. Don't miss the farmers market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and Gazebo Restaurant for breakfast at Napili Shores. The beach, bay and prime location will keep you from wanting to go anywhere else.
4. Kakaako, Oahu
Salt in Kakaako houses cafes, shops and restaurants.
Photo: Aaron Yoshino
Right outside of Waikiki, Kakaako is the new cool-kid hangout in urban Honolulu, with Instagram-friendly and eye-catching murals, neighboring coffee shops, popular restaurants and trendy bars. You really can't go wrong with any of the places brimming with locals here, but a few of our favorites include Highway Inn and Moku Kitchen for lunch or dinner, Bevy for after-dinner handcrafted cocktails, Honolulu Beerworks for craft beer in its outdoor beer garden (watch it come to life on weekends), and the Brewseum to view its World War II memorabilia collection and to order its Pilot Pale Ale.
5. Kapolei, Oahu
Surfers enter the water at White Plains Beach.
Photo: Emily Bragg
Embassy Suites and Hampton Inn & Suites opened in Kapolei near the city's mall along with dozens of new restaurants and shops, giving budget travelers a reason to stay on the west side of Oahu. Best for visitors who are trying to avoid Waikiki and downtown Honolulu, Kapolei has a water park and three public beaches: White Plains, Nimitz Beach and Ko Olina Lagoons (we recommend Lagoon 4, and go early or prepare to wait for parking). All of them are family-friendly, and White Plains' gentle waves are fun for kids wanting to play in the shorebreak and for beginner surfers who want to fine-tune their skills. If you're looking for more challenging surf, the 30-minute drive to the North Shore is a piece of cake from here.
6. Lanai City, Lanai
Hotel Lanai lit up at night.
Photo: Grant Kaye
It's one of the smaller Islands in the chain, but that doesn't mean it should be overlooked, because you'll be missing out on fun off-roading activities to sights rarely seen (read about them in our January/February 2018 issue). Most times you'll even have them all to yourself. There are two hotels on the island, the Four Seasons Resort Lanai and the more affordable Hotel Lanai, but budget travelers should also consider camping at Hulopoe Beach. Walking around Lanai City's town square—a simple loop up one street and down another—reminds anyone who visits this small town, where everyone knows everyone, that less really is more. Looking for breakfast? Go to local favorite Ginger Cafe. Coffee? There's no Starbucks, so try Coffee Works. Need to pick up essentials? Richard's Market should have anything you're looking for. The simplification of choices will have you leaving Lanai feeling de-stressed and refreshed.
7. Moloaa, Kauai
Moloaa's hidden beach.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss, but, in the case of Moloaa, you're really missing out if you don't take this detour. There's not much to see from Kuhio Highway, except lots of green shrubbery and trees, typical of the drive toward Hanalei on the north shore of Kauai, but turn right onto Koolau Road, past Anahola and you'll find a couple other treats. Moloaa is home to The Palmwood, a chic bed-and-breakfast guesthouse located on a 5-acre estate, and Moloaa Bay at the end of the road, which was one of the locations used by "Gilligan's Island." Its rolling hills and green ridges envelop you as you travel down its road, giving you the sense that you're escaping to an untouched tropical paradise. It is why, after all, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg chose a location nearby as his Hawaii retreat.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have honoured the memory of Armed Forces men and women who died serving their country by hosting a Buckingham Palace tea party for their children
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry have honoured the memory of Armed Forces men and women who died serving their country by hosting a Buckingham Palace tea party for their children.
William, Kate and Harry welcomed around 850 children and teenagers to the Queen's famous London home for the Party at the Palace event.
The sprawling garden was transformed into an open-air festival for the guests, who brought a surviving parent or guardian
Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, and Prince Harry Children Party at Buckingham Palace Photo (C) ANDREW PARSAONS, PA
Entertainers included the ventriloquist Nina Conti, daughter of actor Tom Conti, singer Jess Glynne and Britain's Got Talent-winning magician Lance Corporal Richard Jones.
After enjoying the live performances, the youngsters were wowed when RAF parashooters landed in the garden.
At the party, the children got involved in activities including face painting and plate spinning.
Kate arrived wearing a dress by Chloe, an outfit she wore during her tour of Canada when she took Prince George and Princess Charlotte to a children's party.
The Duchess of Cambridge stunned in the lacy cream ensemble, with a matching skirt and belt.
Prince Harry let out his inner child as he was taught how to spin plates properly by one of the other adults.
Kensington Palace said: 'Their Royal Highnesses have arranged the event as a way to acknowledge and honour the fact that a number of young children have had to come to terms with the loss of someone very close to them at a young age, having lost a parent in armed service to the country.'
The Duchess helped them to launch a water balloon from a large slingshot.
She grimaced as she let the elasticated sling go but opened her mouth in delight as the balloon burst.
Prince Harry smiled on as one of the children's entertainers punched the air.
In a speech, he told the crowd: 'We're here to celebrate you'.
Catherine Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, and Prince Harry Children Party at Buckingham Palace
Kate took the time to meet many of the children who attended the garden party and was pictured shaking hands and talking with the youngsters.
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Posted by Clothes In Books on May 29, 2016
'It looks to me like a badly-skinned whale,' said Larry, peering at it closely.
'You can't possibly wear that, Mother,' said Margo, horrified, 'why, it looks as though it was made in nineteen-twenty.'
'What are all those frills and things for?' asked Larry with interest.
'Decoration, of course,' said Mother indignantly.
'What a jolly idea! Don't forget to shake the fish out of them when you come out of the water.'
'Mother, it's awful; you can't wear it,' said Margo. 'Why on earth didn't you get something more up to date?'
'When you get to my age, dear, you can't go around in a two-piece bathing suit. . . you don't have the figure for it.'
'I'd love to know what sort of figure that was designed for,' remarked Larry…
Mother snorted indignantly and swept upstairs to try on her costume. Presently she called to us to come and see the effect, and we all trooped up to the bedroom. Roger [the dog] was the first to enter, and on being greeted by this strange apparition clad in its voluminous black costume rippling with frills, he retreated hurriedly through the door, backwards, barking ferociously. It was some time before we could persuade him that it really was Mother, and even then he kept giving her vaguely uncertain looks from the corner of his eye. However, in spite of all opposition, Mother stuck to her tent-like bathing-suit, and in the end we gave up.
commentary: The TV programme The Durrells delighted my Sunday evenings recently: a series freely adapted from this book and two others by Gerald Durrell. Although I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, the series was also closely connected with a previous BBC film-length version – one that featured in a blogpost I did a while back on best book-to-TV adaptations. The new one has the same writer, and concentrates on the same aspects of the book – I'm guessing Simon Nye has been trying to get the series made ever since the original in 2005.
I said then: It is always hard to remember that Gerald's annoying and unconventional big brother Larry is actually the august author Lawrence Durrell of Alexandria Quartet fame.
And I also said: This is one of the rare cases where I like the adaptation better than the original book.
Both films are incredible adverts for the isle of Corfu, which surely must have gained in tourist traffic from them – the island looks gorgeous.
Anyway, the book is always enjoyable, though as someone who is not interested in wildlife I find I can skip quite a lot of it. It is very funny, and full of great anecdotes – Gerald is a bit vague about the exact nature of the book, but the word is that it is very strongly fictionalized: he strung together his stories as it suited and made a fine tale out of them. He liked a big moment, a social event, and made the most of them.
And the family are excellent, a most unusual picture of young people for either 1956 or 1936.
'It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.'
'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!'
'Well we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.
Later, when he is drunk in bed and his mother comes in to help he says to her 'You're a horrible old woman… I'm sure I've seen you somewhere before.'
Meanwhile Lesley goes around firing off guns, and Margo enjoys her mangled aphorisms, such as ' you only die once' and 'a change is as good as a feast' while looking for romance.
The most startling thing about Gerald, to modern eyes, is that the great wildlife conservator is always keeping his finds in small cages, and at one point takes baby magpies (magenpies) from their nest - it is rather discomfiting.
I'm interested in the idea that Mrs Durrell implies that Margo wears a 2-piece bathing suit. That would be pretty advanced for the time – though they did exist, contrary to what some sources claim. The bikini, when described as such, is definitely a post-war phenomenon, but the picture above shows Jane Wyman, the movie actress, at the age of 18 in LA., in 1935
The other picture is an advert from the NY Times – it's from 1916. Much earlier than the date of the book, but the point seems to be that Mrs D's swimsuit is terribly old-fashioned.
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Lucy R. Fisher 29 May 2016 at 11:07
A girl in a GA mystery poses for an artist in a bathing suit which she refers to as a "kestos and pants affair". A "kestos" was a bra - brand name?
Clothes In Books 29 May 2016 at 12:07
Apparently the first bra with separated cups, and briefly became so popular it became the generic name for a bra - cf hoover in the UK. Which mystery?
Could it be Murder at the Vicarage? Sorry, it's gone.
Oh it could be - there was certainly a lot of outraged discussion by the parish ladies as to what his models wear. I will check it out!
Daniel Milford-Cottam 31 May 2016 at 10:37
The Crooked Wreath by Christianna Brand, according to Google Books, which also tells me the wearer couldn't have concealed a "hipper-dromic syringe" in her "kestos-and-pants affair"
Clothes In Books 3 June 2016 at 11:44
Oh well done Daniel! A little extra research has informed why I'd never heard of it: I know it as Suddenly at His Residence. And must re-read...
I have to admit my ignorance, Moira; I didn't know that there was an adaptation of this novel. But I can certainly see why with that lovely setting. You picked a great snippet to share, too; the wit comes right through. And what a swimsuit!! Hard to believe people actually wore them, isn't it?
It's a funny, charming book made into funny charming TV programmes - sometimes that's what we all need isn't it?
Mac n' Janet 29 May 2016 at 14:59
We saw the earlier tv film and loved it, my husband liked the book as well as Lawrence's Alexandria Quartet too. Hope to see the new series as well.
Oh it sounds like you will definitely enjoy the new series - I hope it turns up soon...
Simon 30 May 2016 at 07:27
I loved the Durrell books as a child, & enjoyed the TV series. What bizarre language in that NY ad: 'The specially shop of originations'.
One thing I find as I look through old illustrations and adverts - mangling language is by no means the new thing we think it is!
Col...Colman...col2910 30 May 2016 at 08:16
Saw some of the recent TV series as my wife was watching it. Not a massive fan I'm afraid. I do like Keeley Hawes though.
I will take that at face value - she is a great actress! I wouldn't have thought of her for the role (too young?) but she is excellent in it.
I'm always facinated when TV/Movies do adaptions of stuff that has already been 'fictionalised' to a certain extent. It's one layer of fiction on top of another layer of fiction, and you're left wondering which is real and which is invention. On top of this, what do the real people who have been fictionalised feel about their fictional avatars? When the James Herriot books came out, and all the subsequent adaptions, I understand that the real life original of Siegfried Farnon became quite annoyed at his portrayal as a wild eccentric (even though his friends and family felt it was an accurate picture!)
I saw the previous TV version of the Durrell book way, way back in the mid-80s (it featured Brian Blessed), and that steered me towards reading the original books. The current series looks very good, but somehow I can't muster up the time and energy to watch it. I didn't know which version you were talking about when you mentioned the 2005 film, so I looked it up and was shocked to discover that I had completely forgotten that one! It's a bit unnnerving that I can remember the one from 1987 and not the one from 2005!
I know -it's weird isn't it? Adapters must feel more free in this case, where it's clear that Durrell has changed things to suit already. (I think of this with the current TV adaptation of Love Nina - where one character from the 80s set book, now grown-up, has a role as an actor in the series.)
I'm the opposite - I don't remember the Blessed version at all. I think I wasn't keen on what I thought of as animal books/films - but then had a child who loved animals and discovered Durrell with him, and saw there was more to them...
Margo actually wrote her autobiography - "Whatever Happened to Margo?" - but I haven't read that in a LONG time.
So what DID become of her? It must be weird for her and Lesley to be the unknown siblings. I'm not surprised she wanted to tell her story.
Sara O'Leary 12 June 2016 at 21:16
I was curious too. Here's a nice thing about her: http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/features/snapshotsofthepast/1205051.last_of_the_originals/
Was interested to read that this adaptation shared a writer with the film...it felt tonally so much the same, although slightly prettied up somehow. Plan to go back and re-watch the film sometime soon. And did pick up a copy of My Family and Other Animals. My son looked at it and then asked somewhat dubiously: "so did Larry ever publish any books?"
Oh that's a nice article - Bournemouth is just down the road from me, which adds to the joy. She sounds lovely doesn't she? We keep the DVD of the film-length version in the house for comfort watching...
TracyK 5 June 2016 at 18:34
This sounds like an interesting book, although I would probably never read it, just because of my current backlog. The family dynamics in that extract are fun.
It's a funny enjoyable book - but not really in any of your areas of interest. But if you see it at the sale...
The Passing Tramp 6 February 2018 at 17:59
One of my cousins married a Bonwit!
Clothes In Books 6 February 2018 at 22:35
Of the shop family? Such connections! You might have got lovely swimwear at a discount...
Christine 24 June 2018 at 19:06
One of my favourite books when I was a teenager and I still love it. I really don't care how true to life it is - or isn't,
I didn't read it as a child, but it was a favourite on my son's and I read it then and loved it. And how can it possibly matter that he polished up the stories? Good for him for entertaining generations of us.
Stubblejumpers Cafe 9 November 2018 at 16:41
My introduction to Larry Durrell was in the diaries of Anais Nin, back in the 1980s, and I discovered Gerald's very entertaining books in the past decade, so was drawn to The Durrells in Corfu, the TV series. I find it hilarious. This winter I read an account of Larry's first marriage, written by his daughter; he doesn't come off too well, there, for his treatment of his wife. -Kate
Clothes In Books 13 November 2018 at 10:13
I know - it always seems so odd that Larry from Gerald Durrell's books is the very intellectual remote writer of the Alexandria Quartet. The whole family is endlessly entertaining..


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Die RIAS-Ente war ein in der DDR-Propaganda der 1950er Jahre gängiger Begriff gegen den West-Berliner Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor (RIAS). Von der amerikanischen Besatzungsmacht in Berlin betrieben, sendete er ab den späten 1940er Jahren regelmäßig Nachrichten, die ihm von Bürgern der jungen DDR zugespielt wurden. Sie wiesen auf Missstände in der Lebensmittelversorgung im Osten hin, beschrieben die Kennzeichen von Militärfahrzeugen und nannten Namen von Mitarbeitern des Staatssicherheitsdienstes. Ob und wieweit diese Meldungen stimmten, müsste von Fall zu Fall geklärt werden. Die regierende Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) sah in diesen Sendungen einen Generalangriff auf den sozialistischen Aufbau und begann etwa ab 1952 damit, über die DDR-Presse jede einzelne Meldung des RIAS als Lüge hinzustellen – als Zeitungsente. Im Jahr 1955 startete die Staatssicherheit die "Aktion Enten", um gezielt Informanten des RIAS auszumachen und vor Gericht zu bringen. In einem Fall erging ein Todesurteil.

Entenkarikaturen und "Aktion Enten"
Parallel zu von der Parteileitung angeordneten Karikaturen und Witzen wie zum Beispiel "Es gibt Huhn, wenn du 'ne Ente willst, mußt'n RIAS anstellen." suchte die DDR-Justiz nach Wegen, RIAS-Hörer vor Gericht zu bringen. Ein Verbot, "Feindsender" zu hören, wie in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus praktiziert, fand sich in den geltenden Gesetzen nicht. Ersatzweise zog sie den Artikel 6 der DDR-Verfassung "Kriegs- und Boykotthetze" heran. Dabei spielte das bloße Hören des RIAS bei der Argumentation der Staatsanwaltschaft in mehreren Strafprozessen, insbesondere Spionageprozessen eine zentrale Rolle. Im Februar 1955 startete der Staatssekretär für Staatssicherheit Erich Mielke zur Vorbereitung eines Schauprozesses die "Aktion Enten", "um nicht nur die Agenturen des RIAS zu zerschlagen und sie ihrer gerechten Bestrafung zuzuführen, sondern durch richtige politisch-operative Maßnahmen dem RIAS einen solchen Schlag zuzufügen, der es möglich macht, diesen amerikanischen Sender vor dem gesamten deutschen Volk und der Weltöffentlichkeit als Spionagezentrale des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes zu entlarven."

Den meisten der 49 Festgenommenen der "Aktion Enten" wurde nachgewiesen, dem RIAS Informationen aus der DDR übermittelt zu haben, etwa über die Achsenzahl eines Spähwagens. Unter den fünf für den Schauprozess Auserwählten befanden sich der 29-jährige Ost-Berliner Dekorateur Joachim Wiebach und der RIAS-Rundfunksprecher Richard Baier. Allerdings sollte es in ihrem Prozess vor dem Obersten Gericht der DDR am 24. Juni 1955 keine Rolle spielen, ob die "Spionage" nun im RIAS zu wahren oder zu Falschmeldungen, eben "Enten", geführt hatte. Im Rahmen der Vorbereitung des Schauprozesses informierte Klaus Sorgenicht, Leiter der Abteilung Staats- und Rechtsfragen im ZK der SED, den Generalsekretär der Partei, Walter Ulbricht, über die von seiner Abteilung vorgesehenen Zuchthausstrafen für jeden Angeklagten. Bei Wiebach ersetzte Ulbricht "lebenslängliches Zuchthaus" durch die Worte: "Vorschlag: Todesurteil" und unterschrieb mit "Einverstanden / W. Ulbricht". Damit standen bereits vor Eröffnung des Prozesses die Urteile fest. Das Todesurteil gegen Wiebach wurde am 13. September 1955 in der Zentralen Hinrichtungsstätte der DDR in Dresden mit dem Fallbeil vollstreckt.

Literatur
 Jörg-Uwe Fischer: Die Rias-Ente – eine Spurensuche. In: info 7 – Medien, Archive, Information, Heft 1/2013, S. 61 ff.

Weblinks

 Falco Werkentin: RIAS-Prozess. In: Kurt Groenewold, Alexander Ignor, Arnd Koch (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Politischen Strafprozesse, Online, Stand: Juli 2017.

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News Commentary Other Views
Endia Martin's death continues to affect many who knew her – and some who didn't
By Suzanne McBride
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Endia Martin | Sun-Times file photo
Endia, Jeremy, Christian, Kejuan.
Those are the four names my friend Sharon Holmes posted recently on Facebook. All four had been Holmes' students when she taught at Tilden Career Community Academy, and all four are dead.
Holmes has been thinking especially about Endia Martin, who was just 14 when another teenage girl fatally shot her one day after school let out in April 2014. The girl is expected to be sentenced this week in juvenile court.
"I always think about Endia this time of year, what she would have done, what she could have become. And it makes me sad. She really was a good kid," Holmes says.
Then she pauses and begins to name other students with ties to Tilden who have been killed in the last few years; Holmes counts eight students in all from a school with fewer than 300 students.
When that many of their classmates die, Holmes said, "the kids become desensitized because they learn or internalize that 'our lives don't matter that much.'"
For Holmes, it became too much, and she left the Back of the Yards school in 2016.
She returned in June 2017 to watch Endia's classmates graduate; the school awarded Endia an honorary diploma, which her parents and brother were on hand to receive.
"I felt bad that I left. I really did like that group. I felt like I was really bonded to them," says Holmes, who now teaches humanities at GCE Lab School. "But I couldn't stay – all those kids dying and getting shot."
Holmes suspects she had secondary trauma; and she felt inadequate because she couldn't give her students all that they needed.
"What didn't they need? The needed someone to listen to them, to kick their butts . . . to pat them on their backs when they did well. They needed guidance, life skills . . . They just needed so much, and I had only so much to give. I was just exhausted."
Now Holmes is angry. This is what she wrote about Endia, Jeremy, Christian and Kejuan after participating in last month's march against violence in Washington, D.C.:
I taught all of them. AT THE SAME SCHOOL! They are all gone now. Guns really do kill people.
Don't tell their classmates not to march. Don't tell them not to speak up because no one is listening anyway. Don't tell them not to vote because their votes don't matter. Don't tell them they don't have PTSD because they are used to it. Don't tell them they don't need/deserve mental health services because Black/Brown people are strong enough to handle everything without help.
Something has got to give.
Krista Wortendyke understands that anger, that frustration. Though she never knew Endia, the teen's death has had a major impact on Wortendyke, who was a teaching artist at Tilden at that time and is now the arts coordinator at Senn Fine Arts Magnet High School.
"Everything that I've made since (2014) has been influenced by her death," says Wortendyke, who saw the grief and sadness up close. She started working on a journalism project with Endia's classmates within days of her murder.
"It's really crazy because I never met her . . . the impact she had on the kids that I worked with obviously had an impact on me."
In the months after Endia died, Holmes and Wortendyke saw how the students grappled with their feelings. The girls and boys would write "Endia's World" on their notebooks, on their arms, around school. A few made videos and music that they posted online.
Four months after her funeral, two young men – friends of Endia – organized a party at a South Side park. They invited their classmates and other young people to "just come out and show respect again for Endia. Turn up the right way."
Holmes and Wortendyke were at that party in August 2014. And they were at Tilden's prom last year, the prom Endia would have attended as a graduating senior. Being there was closure for Wortendyke: "I needed to finish that story for myself – what happened with those kids . . . how they proceeded."
The ripple effect of Endia's death extends farther than many realize. But does it extend to the rest of us, even those whose lives seem far removed from the violence?
These killings – more than 100 so far this year in Chicago — "have real consequences, a real impact on people in ways that you can't even imagine. I think that's my biggest lesson in all of this," Wortendyke says.
"You can always make it about someone else or somewhere else . . . that happened on the South Side or in a different neighborhood," Wortendyke says. "But does that absolve you of responsibility? At what moment do we take responsibility for this?
"It does affect everyone, even if we pretend that it doesn't."
Suzanne McBride is chair of the Communication Department at Columbia College Chicago and an editor at the Sun-Times.
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It was a typical afternoon; pita pizzas in our oven, the sky outside growing dusky, and us four kids gathered in our den to soak up our week-daily episode of Emergency!. Since the fateful day some months before, when our dad first introduced us to this seventies' TV series about the heroic work of firefighter paramedics, our fanhood had accelerated full-throttle.
Emergency! had already added greatly to our library of quotes, pictures, story inspirations (some of my inklings now included firemen and/or paramedics), musical themes to whistle, and eventually would go to theme my older sister's eighteenth birthday bash and be the inspiration for our blog title.
But on this particular afternoon, we were still just in the infant stages. We were just then watching the second season for the first time, and had come around to "Saddled." Most of the episode had run its well-written course, a conglomeration of heroism and humor, and it was getting around to the final big rescue: a schoolbus full of children and their driver had crashed through a guardrail above a hill, rolling to totter on a ridge halfway down.
So, around 4:40 pm our time, Roy DeSoto, helmeted and gloved, drops down through a broken window on the upturned side of the bus.
So the red-headed Irishman, the wonderful, married, dry-witted counterbalance to Johnny's endearing dramatics, reassures the kids and heads for the front of the bus, to be joined by his younger partner a few minutes later.
Pinned beneath the twisted dashboard is a young nun.
"Rampart Emergency, this is Squad 51," and so on. Internal injuries and a prolonged period of untangling her from the bus's wreckage are enough to keep us riveted.
And then Sister Barbara, eyes watering from her intense suffering, mouth trembling, looks at Roy, who has been gently reassuring her.
Both the firemen, worn out from watching her suffer and from their efforts to dig her out as the children were evacuated, move to look around and locate the purse.
Roy looks through the purse and gives the rosary to Johnny, who puts it in Sister Barbara's hand.
Roy glances at Johnny as he opens the prayerbook. There is none of the trademark banter, annoyance, or contention in their shared look. The moment is filled with solemn, holy realness—the reality of death, of human need, and of God.
And so, at an emotional pinnacle of a widely popular seventies' TV show, Roy DeSoto read aloud the Memorare.
It was an incredible moment because the show that we already admired so much had been touched by Heaven, and we knew it. Within the story, God had found an open connection, if ever so briefly, with the lives of Roy DeSoto and Johnny Gage. Under the Virgin Mary's eyes, Johnny had held a rosary, and Roy had read the Memorare, praying to his Mother. And whether or not they knew it, they had both been seen and heard by the God of all creation; the same God Who desperately loves the Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, and people of other or no religion at all, the people that He alone created.
For those of us who were looking, God had revealed Himself in the chronicles of Station 51 and Rampart General. He had given the writers the grace to write it, and the actors to nail acting it, whether they knew it or not. Each of them were children dear to His Heart, and He used even this small way to show His love through their lives.
That was the day when Emergency! proved it had more to offer than just well-crafted humor, characters, and drama. It had courage.
While this episode probably ranks as the most awesome instance I've seen, there are several others containing prayer and mentions of God. The theme that there's a place where medicine stops and God takes over is a repeated one at Rampart.
This Presence of God in the story is enough to carry Emergency!'s value much higher than it could possibly be if it were just a well-written TV show. However brief, however tiny the moments, it serves as a shrine of the Kingdom of God in this world, shedding a positive light on faith; whether it is Dr. Kell Brackett encouraging worried parents to pray, Dixie reminding a control-stressed Kell that he isn't God, Roy and Johnny being asked to pray for an injured little girl, or Sister Barbara and her rosary. Even if only in its small ways, this show fulfills this truest potential of every story, and in doing so, makes me very proud to be a fan.
And even though it's probably doubtful that all of the screenwriters, directors, and actors on set were Catholics, it seems that when it came to finding one of His gentle ways of reaching out to us, God didn't mind using them at all.
Clare-Therese is a Catholic teenager and homeschool student from Alabama, with a special devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She enjoys multiple forms of creative writing, including poetry, short stories, novels, and articles, and she and her sister, Mary-Faustina, also run a joint blog chronicling their adventures and musings called The Best Thing Since D5W. Clare-Therese is also the blessed daughter of the two best parents on earth and sister of the three awesomest siblings ever, who still love her despite her taxing habits of over-complicating things that should be simple, knocking over cups of ice water she leaves on the floor, choosing episodes of two of her favorite TV shows (the old cop show Adam-12 and old firefighter show Emergency!) for her family movie turns instead of actual movies, and waiting until the final days of graphic design to finish her submissions for The Fellowship of The King, which she co-founded.
I do totally concur about the wonderful feeling one gets when a favorite TV series suddenly does "one better", and strikes a poignant, seemingly heaven-sent chord for us Catholics. I remember my own excitement over the "Kung Fu" episode "The Chalice", which features his encounter with Franciscan monks. As you say, God certainly doesn't mind one little bit using non-Catholics to reach out to us, and touch them in the process. I should very much like to see the episode "Saddled" in "Emergency", and it sounds deeply touching and impactful.


How Do You Say Shaolin in Sign Language? ... Meet the interpreter who has signed for the Wu-Tang Clan, Killer Mike, and the Beastie Boys.
Not much to add; the story mostly speaks for itself. Via Media dis & dat.
Actually, I'll add one thing. The awesomeness here isn't that a Sign Language Interpreter thought to interpret live rap performances. I expect that goes on quite a lot, maybe more than the article would suggest. What made me smile is how the performers themselves are first amazed and transfixed, then so respectful of the interpreter's skill and professionalism.
YouTube clip via bunnika's tumblr.


Jan enjoying the celebration and activities.
Hmm, looks like Jan wants a turn.
Look out! Jan's playing games again!
Keeping the residents entertained can sometimes be challenging but races designed to re-enforce hand-eye coordination and balance combines physical therapy with fun and a little bit of competition.
The race involved balancing pancakes on a spatula, being wheeled to the other side of the room and flipping the pancakes to fill a plate.
Rumor has it that Jan won the race. Was there any doubt?
No… don't panic – just a silly play on words (Kendra, is so clever) to describe mom's latest artistic creations. Enjoy.
I got to talk with mom on her birthday. I was so happy to be able to wish her another Happy Birthday – especially knowing that mom is doing SO much better for this 77th birthday than last year at this time and trying to celebrate 76.
Mom reported that she was spending a quiet day after all of the "on-the-go" holiday running around. She told me all about the little things her friends have been dropping off and all of the cards people have been sending. Though my gift did not get to her in time for her birthday, mom was thankful when the warm fuzzy goodies arrived.
Of course, we spent time talking about the Packers and how great their season shaped up. We're both looking forward to cheering them on during the playoff games (and hopefully beyond that).
As I watch the Packer season come to a close, I am yet again reminded of where we all were last year at this time. Never in a million years did I think that mom would still be here (and doing as well as she is), yet alone make it through another entire Packer season. I am relatively certain that last year's final Packer games are not easy for mom to remember.
I am so glad she is still of sound mind and able to really enjoy this one. I hope they go all the way – for mom!
"Go Pack Go!" song by 2 members of the Madison band Garbage(Butch Vig and Duke Erikson) with another guy Chad Zaemisch. They go by "6 Packers" for this one-off song.
Mom has reached another momentous milestone and has graduated from being restricted to her wheelchair while alone to being able to use her walker without supervision!


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Two new hurdles make the initiative petition process more stringent in Oklahoma
Lawmakers pushed through two bills as part of Republican backlash to voter mandates on Medicaid expansion, medical marijuana and criminal justice reform.
Kayla Branch
kayla@readfrontier.com
Buttons and flyers from the Yes on State Question 805 campaign were handed out at events last year. SQ 805 failed during the November 2020 elections. KAYLA BRANCH/THE FRONTIER
State lawmakers have pushed through two bills adding additional hurdles to the initiative petition process as part of a Republican-backed response to successful citizen-led ballot measures on Medicaid expansion, medical marijuana and criminal justice reform.
Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 947 into law last week requiring state question organizers to include a fiscal impact statement for voters to read in future ballot language. If a proposal would affect the state budget, the statement must identify a potential funding source.
The Legislature also finalized amendments to House Bill 2564 this week, which sets out a detailed procedure for recounting state question ballots.
It's currently illegal to recount votes on state questions, though Oklahoma's voting machines have a nearly nonexistent margin of error, state Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax explained to lawmakers earlier this year.
The bill would allow for an automatic recount of extremely close elections and for the governor and attorney general to request a recount. The bill will now be sent to Stitt's desk for approval.
"This is nothing more than a way of showing people that we are going the extra step for transparency purposes and to have more confidence in the election process," said Sen. Marty Quinn, R-Claremore, one of the bill's authors, during a previous committee meeting.
At least 30 bills filed this legislative session aimed to make the state question process more stringent. But Rep. John Pfeiffer, R-Orlando, said he's not surprised most of the bills failed or were delayed during the legislative process.
Many of the bills had similar language. Three different bills dealt with fiscal impact statements and eight bills would have required more than a simple majority of voters to approve a state question. About 20 bills that would have amended the state's constitution have been delayed until the 2022 legislative session.
This included one of Pfeiffer's bills that would have dramatically changed the state's initiative petition process by requiring campaigns to get a percentage of signatures from all five congressional districts rather than from anywhere in the state.
Any bills to change the state constitution would also require approval from voters in a statewide election, which isn't possible between now and the next legislative session anyway, Pfeiffer said.
"This is still a topic that's very important to my constituency," he said. "So we're going to continue to move forward and represent our folks and continue working on it next year."
Organizers with various civic engagement groups believe legislators have sought to change the state's initiative petition process in response to the narrow passage of State Question 802 last summer, which required Oklahoma to expand Medicaid. Most Republican lawmakers were strongly opposed to expansion and are still undecided on how the state will fund $164 million in expansion costs.
The push to substantially revise the state's initiative petition process came after five years of sweeping policy changes led by voters in the state's metropolitan areas, which has worried rural lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Legislature.
Pfeiffer, along with several other lawmakers, said the current process allows for rural voters to be overruled by urban voters on huge policy issues like Medicaid expansion, medical marijuana and criminal justice reform.
Some Republican lawmakers argued that it is too easy to get a state question onto a ballot and that outside interests are influencing Oklahoma voters.
But it's already unlikely for a state question to get on a ballot, according to a review by The Frontier, and organizers said some of the proposed changes would have made it nearly impossible.
Sundra Flansburg, an organizer with the civic engagement group VOICE, said the group was "somewhat relieved" that so few of the proposed measures made it through.
She said citizens have tended to use the initiative petition process only after trying for years to get the Legislature to act on important policy issues. Instead of helping citizens exercise their rights, she said, lawmakers tried to make it more difficult.
"We would greatly prefer that our representatives devote themselves to listening and responding appropriately to our interests," Flansburg said. "When they don't, however, the citizens of Oklahoma have shown that we will use our tools."
Lawmakers target Oklahoma's initiative petition process after uptick in successful state questions.


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Landon Brown: Bobby Brown's Son Talks Whitney's Death, Tabloid Tales & Missing Bobbi Kristina
jmurray
Bobby Brown's oldest son Landon Brown got a crash-course in fame in 2008 when the National Enquirer posted a story with a headline that read: "Stepson: Life with Whitney Houston Was A Nightmare." The tabloid spoke to Landon about growing up with stepmom Whitney Houston as a part of an interview following his appearance on the MTV reality show "Rock the Cradle" – a competition series where the children of real-life rock stars vied for a recording contract.
The article used the 25-year-old singer/songwriter's quotes to question Whitney's parenting skills, claimed she kept him away from his sister, Bobbi Kristina, and alleged physical abuse on behalf Whitney's mother, Cissy Houston.
After the National Enquirer issue was released, Landon spoke to yours truly in an exclusive for AOL Black Voices on June 13, 2008 to set the record straight. Now, five years later and just one year after the death of the iconic 'And I'll Always Love You' singer, Landon said the tabloid interview is still the first thing you see if you Google his name.
Landon Brown
"I was a newbie to the media then and didn't understand the way they could distort your words to make a story more interesting," he told AlwaysAList.com, in an exclusive new interview. "I told a story about my childhood being tough, because I didn't get to spend as much time with my sister as I wanted to. I said that the people around Whitney kept me from her claiming she needed room to breathe. Whitney wanted nothing more than for me to be a big brother to my sister! It sounds ridiculous for someone to be in love with my father, but want to keep his son away from his daughter."
Whitney read the National Enquirer interview and phoned Landon to ask why he said those things. It's a phone call he said he will never forget!
"You know that terrible feeling like your heart just dropped to your ankles? That's how I felt when she called me about the interview! I had to explain to someone who treated me like her own that I didn't realize someone would flip my words to make a story juicy," he said.
The Grammy-winning superstar understood tabloid culture very well, having been the subject of many National Enquirer cover stories throughout her career. Whitney told her stepson she was accustomed to the methods of gossip hounds and completely comprehended how Landon ended up in that predicament.
Landon Brown reading the National Enquirer story in 2008
"Before I could finish explaining, she laughed and said she understood," remembered Landon. "She told me that 'it happens' and 'it'll happen again one day.'"
Despite the press reports, Landon said Whitney was a great stepmom who treated him like he was her biological son. "She treated me like her own son and constantly told me how much she respected my mother," he expressed, before adding: "But Whitney wanted me to call her mom!"
Landon remembered an incident when Whitney and his mom, Melika Williams were together and he felt awkward about calling both of them "mom" while they were in the same room. Landon's obvious avoidance of referring to Whitney as his "mom" hurt her feelings.
"I playfully called her 'lady.' I was like, 'Hey lady, you want some cake?' I just wasn't sure if I should call them both mom or if that would make my mother feel a lil uncomfortable. I thought it was nothing until she called me later that night after the festivities asking why I didn't call her mom. I was a lil shocked. I thought it was a strange moment, but nothing she'd remember. I felt like a jerk! I still didn't know what I should've done in that situation, but for some reason I felt wrong. I know it really hurt her when my sister called shortly after asking what had I done cause [Whitney] was upset. I explained what happened and my sister laughed at me and told me you should've just called her mom you know you have more than one! That made me really feel terrible that my youngest sister saw the answer so clearly! I love my mothers and my siblings and I would never want to be the guy to slander their names."
But Landon realized he would never get a chance to call Whitney "mom" again after getting an unforgettable phone call from his dad on Feb. 11, 2012."
I was in Arizona having a conversation with Columbus Short when I got a call from my father telling me that Whitney was gone," he recalled. "He sounded like he didn't have many words to offer me at the time. It was like he was still trying to believe she was gone. He told me to get to my sister immediately, but I was so far away. By the time I got back, there wouldn't be any way to find her. Her phone was cut off and the people that protect my sister do a very good job of it."
[pullquote_left]"A year has passed and I still haven't heard from her!" – Landon confessed about his sister, Bobbi Kristina.[/pullquote_left]Landon attended Whitney's funeral with his dad at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Unfortunately, do to a disagreement with Whitney's family, Bobby and his children did not stay for the homegoing service. He has not had contact with his sister, whom the family affectionately calls Krissy, since then.
"A year has passed and I still haven't heard from her," he confessed. "Before Whitney died, she was the only way I would know where they were. When I heard she passed away I was hurt, but my mind immediately went to my sister. No matter how close I thought me and Whitney were, she was my sister's best friend! Only my sister could tell me what that hurt feels like. The last time I spoke to Whitney she told me to protect my sister. Kind of feels like I failed that mission because it has been a year without being able to let her cry on my shoulder."
Landon, LaPrincia, Bobby, Alicia, Cassius & Bobby Jr.
Landon believes that his sister is strong and has the spiritual foundation that her mom taught her to draw from.
"Sometimes Whitney would call me late at night and we'd be on the phone until 4am venting to each other. She would always quote scriptures that helped with my problems and always wanted to keep me perseverant," he reminisced. "I know it isn't too late for me to be the family that Krissy can count on! Whitney would want that."
Bobbi Kristina acknowledged on Lifetime's "The Houstons: On Our Own" that she "loves her dad," but chooses not to communicate with him at this time. She confessed to having issues with Bobby's new wife, Alicia, who he wed this past summer in Hawaii.
"My father could best describe their relationship," offered Landon. "But what I can say is he has a special place in his heart for his daughters. My sister is healthy, living life, smiling, and enjoying herself. My father is the rock of this family! He's the best father, and everyday he is trying to be a better one!"
Landon's daughter Nilaan Brown & sister Bobbi Kristina
In addition to having two moms, Landon also has two dads. His stepfather is actor Carl Anthony Payne, best known for his roles on "Martin" and "The Cosby Show."
Now a father himself of a three-year-old daughter named Nilaan, Landon plans to live his life in the spirit of his late stepmom.
"Whitney was an amazing person who lived life to the fullest despite any obstacle! She left us knowing that the way we use our time is important. No regrets! Working hard and having a good time. Keeping those close to us aware that they are close to us. Making our positives and negatives a blueprint for the next generation to build a better foundation," he closed.
Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston, Landon Brown, Bobbi Kristina, Fonzi Thornton, Cissy Houston & Luther Vandross
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Strong Samson got his strength from the Lord. This craft kit is a fun addition to a lesson on Samson. A 3D craft kit with yarn strung through the centre of the pillar pieces allowing the pillars to fall and be re-stacked.


The goldenrod crab spider is the most abundant of all the flower spiders. This is in part due to abilities it has acquired through adaptation.
One of these adaptations is the two sets of enlarged front legs. This allows the spider to walk sideways and backward as well as forward. It does not need to turn its back from a predator to escape. The crab spider can also use these legs to grasp its prey, paralyze it by an injection of venom and liquify and consume its meal without the bother of spinning a web to catch it.
In order to actually ensnare its prey, the spider must rely on another specialization. It has the ability to change colors and blend in with the flower it is hunting from. The spider remains still and unseen, waiting to ambush an unlucky insect that choses the wrong flower to pollenate.
This color change may require several days before taking effect once the spider moves to another variety, so it prefers to hunt from a particular type of flower.
The spider's color-changing talent is not only beneficial as a means of catching prey, it is also helpful to avoid becoming prey to predators such as birds.
The golden crab spider is just one example of the many creatures which have adapted to flourish on this earth.
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I like "adaptation," as it speaks to the non-supernatural essence of life. Well done, thank you.
Excellent series of photos of them. I see a lot of them here on wildflowers and always enjoy seeing them. We had one in residence in a flower bed a few years ago on some yellow tupils and she stayed over a month. Sure was hard to find we we wanted to see her! She spent the nights inside a flower.
Thanks for the reply! I would love to do more pieces like this, but shooting subjects this small pushes the boundaries of my skills and the camera I now own. It would be great to be able to slap a macro lens on and really explore the world of small things.
I'm glad you liked this post. I hope you get a chance to see a crab spider in action. They are really fun to watch.
I just realized this is only my 2nd post featuring an animal (both were arthropods). Up to this point I have concentrated on plants and fungi. I guess because they are less likely to spook when you are trying to take their picture.
Nice post! You may be interested to know that your 'wasp' photo is actually a Dipteran mimic (fly mimicking a wasp) probably of the genus Monoceromyia.
Many thanks for bringing this error to my attention.
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