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|October 21, 2012
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|Huge Dragon (Metal)
|Hit Dice:
|20d12+200 (288 hp)
|+8 (+8 Dex)
|120 ft. (60 ft. with 60-ft. enhancement bonus)
|Armor Class:
|58 (-2 size, +8 Dex, +32 natural, +10 insight), touch 26, flat-footed 50
|Base Attack/Grapple:
|Tail +28 melee (5d6+15)
|Full Attack:
|Bite +28 melee (4d6+10) and 2 claws +28 melee (3d6+5) and tail +28 melee (5d6+15)
|15 ft./10 ft.
|Special Attacks:
|Breath Weapon, Roar of Time, Time Snap, Aura Sphere, Earth Power, Flash Cannon, AncientPower, Temporal Strike +10, Delaying Strike, Time Sync, Greater Delay
|Special Qualities:
|Flow of Time, Anull, Walk the Aeons, Fast Healing/6, Moment Stop, Foresight, Time Travel, Plane Shift, Pressure, Steel Pokémon Traits, Dragon Pokémon Traits, damage reduction 20/-
|Fort +22, Ref +20, Will +22
|Str 30, Dex 26, Con 31, Int 14, Wis 31, Cha 14
|Multiattack (1 HD), Improved Multiattack (3 HD), Combat Reflexes (6 HD), Hold the Line (9 HD), Awesome Blow (Variant) (12 HD), Ability Focus (Roar of Time) (15 HD), Deep Breath (18 HD)
|The peak of a sacred mountain
|Solitary (only one known to exist)
|Challenge Rating:
|Quadruple standard
|Lawful neutral
|21-25 HD (Huge), 26-30 HD (Gargantuan), 31+ HD (Colossal)
|Level Adjustment:
A mighty metallic dragon appears before you, glaring questioningly at you with piercing red eyes. Its chest is embedded with a diamond that pulsates with an odd energy.
The Pokémon revered as the deity of time in the land of Sinnoh, Summary::Dialga is an incredibly powerful dragon with power over time. It's said that Dialga's heartbeats are what drive the flow of time onward, and that time began to flow when its heart beat for the very first time.
Combat Edit
Unlike Palkia or Giratina, Dialga has very little in the way of spell-like abilities. But it doesn't need them. Dialga is the embodiment of time, and therefore, it has virtually all of the abilities of a time walker - only to a ludicrous degree. It also carries a couple of highly dangerous time-bending abilities.
Dialga's natural weapons are considered to be adamantine for bypassing damage reduction. They can affect incorporeal creatures as though they were magic weapons.
Breath Weapon (Su): Dialga can breathe an 80' line of temporal fire once every 1d4+1 rounds. This deals 2d4 force damage per hit die, with a Ref save (Constitution-based) for half damage. Failing the save by 5 or more renders a victim paralyzed for 1d4 rounds. The sample Dialga deals 40d4 damage with a DC of 30. This is a [Dragon] effect.
Roar of Time (Su): Dialga's signature move, this attack inflicts tremendous damage at the price of utter exhaustion. As a full-round action, Dialga may let loose a mighty roar that rends the very fabric of time, dealing 4d12 typeless damage per Hit Dice Dialga has to everything within 60 feet of it. Foes may make a Reflex save to halve the damage. After using Roar of Time, Dialga is so exhausted that it skips its next turn, as if dazed. On its turn after that, Dialga is exhausted, and on the turn after that, it's fatigued. Dialga loses its Flow of Time bonuses for the entirety of these three rounds (plus for one round afterwards), and also loses the use of its Annul, Temporal Strike, Delaying Strike, Greater Delaying Strike, and Moment Stop abilities. On the fourth turn after a Roar of Time attack (one turn after the fatigue goes away), Dialga has recovered from its massive expenditure of power, regaining all of the abilities it lost; however, Dialga can still only use Roar of Time once every two minutes. The sample Dialga does 80d12 damage with its Roar of Time, and the save DC is 24; the save DC for Roar of Time is Charisma-based (enhanced by Ability Focus). This is a [Dragon] effect.
Roar of Time is a very dangerous attack; 80d12 is more damage than any 20th-level character can handle, especially since there's no way to resist it (except for a successful Reflex save). Try not to let the whole party be within 60 feet of Dialga at any time, or you're going to be TPK'd. If you can somehow bait Dialga into only smiting one of your party (or, better yet, a summoned creature) with Roar of Time, though, you'll be okay. Dialga's not that stupid, though, and will try to make sure that when it uses Roar of Time, a huge portion of its opposition will be obliterated. After all, it's quite vulnerable during the first eighth of the cooldown time.
Time Snap (Sp): Dialga's other signature move, and one that isn't seen very often. As a 2-round action that requires it to sacrifice hp equal to 25% of its maximum upon initiation, Dialga can attempt to sink even deeper into the flow of time to drastically enhance its combat effectiveness. Dialga must concentrate intensely on this move to make it work properly, so anything that could interrupt the casting of a spell can cause this move to fail. (Dialga can just try again, but it must lose hp equal to 25% of its maximum each time, and cannot attempt it at all if it is at less than 25% of its maximum hp.) This is the equivalent of a 9th-level spell. If Dialga manages to perform this ability successfully, then at the end of the second round, it will gain a +12 enhancement bonus to its natural armor and each of its ability scores that lasts for the remainder of the encounter. Dialga cannot attempt to perform this move if it is not in the flow of time (which means that it's unusable for 4 rounds after a Roar of Time.)
Aura Sphere (Su): Once per minute, Dialga can briefly expand its aura. All within 30' are automatically struck and take 1d6+1 Force damage per level; however, this is a [Fighting] effect. There is no way at all to avoid this effect, although the rare resistance or immunity to Force damage can still apply to the damage. In a Contest, this always gets a minimum of one point.
Earth Power (Sp): One of Dialga's few spell-like abilities, this is a flame strike from below rather than from above. Instead of divine energy, half of the damage is a [Ground] effect. (Actually, the whole move is a [Ground] effect, not a [Fire] effect, even though half of the damage is fire damage.) Dialga's caster level is equal to its Hit Dice (20th). Save DC is Charisma-based. Dialga may use earth power 5 times per day (once per 4 Hit Dice).
Flash Cannon (Sp): This is an empowered fireball with the damage cap removed. Instead of fire damage, it deals light damage, and is considered a [Steel] effect. Dialga's caster level is equal to its Hit Dice (20th). Save DC is Charisma-based. Dialga may use flash cannon 5 times per day (once per 4 Hit Dice).
AncientPower (Su): Once per three rounds, Dialga can telekinetically launch up to 3 chunks of stone within 100 feet. These are launched as ranged attacks at separate targets, and, if at least as large as a Medium character, deal 6d6 damage each. Furthermore, upon activation, Dialga gains a +1 enhancement bonus to natural armour and to all ability scores for the next five minutes. Using AncientPower while the bonus is still in effect improves the bonus by 1 (to a maximum of +6 total for natural armor and each ability score) and resets the duration - Dialga knows to throw random rocks around every minute or so just to keep the bonuses at the maximum. This is a [Rock] effect.
Flow of Time (Ex): Dialga and time are practically synonymous. Dialga is perpetually in a flow of time state, as a time walker, level equal to its HD. Dialga never exits the flow of time unless it uses Roar of Time, which forces it out of the flow of time for 4 rounds after being used. Due to the Flow of Time, Dexterity and Wisdom scores are 8 more than their equivalents in its two counterparts (reflected in its statistics block; Dialga's 23-point mental score is Wisdom, which is boosted by 8 by its Flow of Time ability), and it may reroll one die roll per round.
At 30 HD, Dialga's Flow of Time bonuses to Dexterity and Wisdom become +10 each, and it makes the second roll of any dice it rerolls with a +10 competence bonus.
Annul (Ex): Dialga knows how to channel the healing powers that time blesses it with to an amazing degree. At the end of any round in which Dialga has not used its reroll for the round, it heals a number of hit points equal to 5 + its Wisdom modifier. This is in addition to its fast healing. The sample Dialga heals 15 hp with Anull.
Fast Healing (Ex): Dialga's control over the flow of time continuously repairs its wounds. Dialga has fast healing equal to its HD/3. (The sample Dialga has fast healing/6.)
Fast Movement (Ex): Dialga has it within its power to seemingly slow down time around it, yet still remain going at the same speed. Dialga has a +10 ft. enhancement bonus to its speed for every three of its Hit Die. The sample Dialga has a +60-ft. enhancement bonus to its speed. (Unlike Palkia and Giratina, though, Dialga is unable to fly.)
Temporal Strike (Ex): Dialga has the ability to make one attack it makes in any given round a temporal strike by slashing through the temporal existence of a creature instead of its physical existence. This attack has a distortion bonus equal to half Dialga's Hit Die (rounded down), applied to both attack rolls and damage rolls. A temporal strike ignores all effects that grant miss chances, such as concealment. Additionally, on a successful temporal strike, the target becomes fatigued for a number of rounds equal to the distortion bonus. If a fatigued character is struck by Dialga's temporal strike ability, then they do not become exhausted, and the duration of the fatigue overlaps. This works in all respects like the equivalent ability of a time walker. The sample Dialga has a +10 distortion bonus to temporal strikes. Dialga can make a temporal strike, delaying strike, and greater delaying strike all in the same round; however, only one of each of these three kinds of attacks can be made per round, and they must each augment a different attack in Dialga's full attack routine.
Delay: Time is something that is rarely noticed, until you lose some of it. Dialga has the ability to make a single attack per round into a delaying strike. If this attack lands, then no damage is dealt; instead, the target of the attack drops one place in order of initiative. Dialga can make a temporal strike, delaying strike, and greater delaying strike all in the same round; however, only one of each of these three kinds of attacks can be made per round, and they must each augment a different attack in Dialga's full attack routine. Because it deals no damage, the delaying strike cannot be an awesome blow.
Time Sync (Ex): Time is something that nothing can hold off, no matter how resolute it may be. Dialga can make one attack each round as a melee touch attack. This attack can also be a temporal strike, delaying strike, or greater delaying strike.
Walk the Aeons (Ex): Dialga has it within its power to comprehend time on many different levels, allowing it to move with precision that few can comprehend. Dialga adds its Wisdom bonus as an insight bonus to its AC.
Moment Stop: Dialga may not have the quickest reactions, but it can take steps in between the passage of one moment and the next. Dialga has the ability to take one additional 5 ft. free step, move its speed, or move four times its speed as an immediate action that does not actually count against the total immediate actions or swift actions it can take in a round. If this ability is used after an opponent has moved to a square where they threaten Dialga, but before the opponent makes an attack, then the opponent counts as having used his move action for the turn unless he has the Spring Attack feat and his total movement doesn't exceed his total speed. Dialga can only use a given variant of this ability once every 1d4 rounds, and can only use one moment stop ability per round.
Greater Delay: Dialga can rip apart a being's timeline in and of itself, making them forget that time is even flowing for long moments. Dialga has the ability to make a single attack per round into a greater delaying strike. If this attack lands, then no damage is dealt; instead, the target must make a Will save (DC 10 + half Dialga's Hit Die + Dialga's Wisdom modifier) or skip their next turn. Dialga can make a temporal strike, delaying strike, and greater delaying strike all in the same round; however, only one of each of these three kinds of attacks can be made per round, and they must each augment a different attack in Dialga's full attack routine. Because it deals no damage, the greater delaying strike cannot be an awesome blow.
Renewal (Ex): Dialga has an extremely tight grip on the reins of time (well, it doesn't have opposable thumbs, but... never mind...) Once every 5d4 rounds, as a free action, it may focus and release in the blink of an eye, regaining a number of hit points equal to its Wisdom modifier × its Hit Dice. Dialga may take this free action and heal itself at any point - even a mere instant after it's taken enough damage to fall unconscious or die. The sample Dialga regains 200 hp from Renewal.
Foresight (Ex): Dialga is so incredibly aware of the flow of time that it can comprehend moments and events before they even come to take place. Dialga may act normally in a surprise round, no matter the circumstances, and is never caught flat-footed. It also receives its Wisdom modifier as an insight bonus to attack rolls and saving throws.
This ability is the time walker's "foresight" ability, and should not be confused with the spell or the Pokémon move that shares the same name.
Time Travel (Su): Dialga has incredible powers of time. It can cast a gate (travel version) as a supernatural ability at will, except it links to the same place and plane, in a different time period. It can also cast Foresight (the spell, not the class feature) at will, and always has an additional standard action available, much like the old Haste granted.
Plane Shift (Sp): Used as the spell, caster level equal to Dialga's HD, usable 3 times/day.
Pressure (Su): Anyone who makes an attack against Dialga must make a Will save vs. DC 22 after the attack is resolved. If they fail, they become fatigued for 3 rounds. If already fatigued, they become exhausted instead. This does not stack with fatigue from a Temporal Strike; it overlaps. This applies to any harmful ability, whether it be a regular attack, a spell, a supernatural ability, or anything else that targets Dialga or includes it in the area of effect. The save DC is Charisma-based.
For reasons that will never be explained, Cranidos, Rampardos, Reshiram, Zekrom, White Kyurem, Black Kyurem, and some specimens of Pinsir are immune to this. Scholars and loremasters, if they even know of this, would be puzzled for many years.
Aside from the improvements mentioned above, Dialga starts to gain spell-like abilities as it increases its Hit Die:
Time Hop, gained at 23 HD, has 30 points available + 10 per Hit Die beyond 23rd per day.
Time Stop, gained at 26 HD, may be used once per day plus 1 additional time per day for every 4 Hit Dice beyond 26th.
Turn Back the Pendulum, gained at 32 HD, may be used once per day plus 1 additional time per day for every 6 Hit Dice beyond 32nd.
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It has been a loooong time since I've shared a recipe, or at least it feels that way. When Trader Joe's didn't have what I needed to make a lentil curry dish for lunch this week, I was forced to go against the list.
Regular readers probably know that I'm a stickler to my store list. My handy-dandy list limits impulse buys, ensures I remember (most) things, and keeps me from wandering around like a lost and very confused child. Yes, the list is a must, so you can imagine how devastating it can be when my little TJ's is missing 3 of the 5 ingredients I need for a recipe.
I improvised. TJ's – 1, Tiff – 0. But my improvisations helped me make something awesome. TJ's – 1, Tiff – 1. It's a tie; I'll leave it at that.
Tuscan Tomato Rice Bowl
- 5 servings of brown rice
- 3 cups low-sodium veggie broth (best if it's got a fair amount of tomato in it)
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 small onion, diced
- small handful of grape or cherry tomatoes, chunked/diced/whatev
- 1/2 cup fresh, thinly sliced basil
- 1 bag fresh spinach (looking back, I think I'd buy a frozen box of it next time)
- 1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 3 oz sliced, sun dried tomatoes NOT in oil (I used 5/6 the full 3 oz. I ate 1/6 in a sandwich. Recommended!)
- Cook rice according to package directions in broth. Meanwhile, prepare other ingredients.
- Heat oil in pan. Add onion and saute until soft.
- When rice as 10 minutes remaining, gradually fold or stir in spinach. It will wilt and cook down significantly.
- To onions, add fresh tomatoes and basil. Cook and stir 3 minutes or so, then remove from heat.
- When rice is done cooking and needs to rest, stir in any remaining spinach, chickpeas, and sun dried tomatoes. Then stir in the onion, basil, and tomato mixture. Let all ingredients cool slightly. Serve into 5 containers for a week of awesome lunches.
This comes to approximately 310 calories per serving if you divide it into 5 servings. It really depends on which ingredients you choose, but that's about what mine equaled.
Note 1: I would have loved to have added a little more fresh spinach and some toasted pine nuts. However, I cook on a budget. I also cook simple meals. I think you all will appreciate both aspects. If not, go buy yourself some pine nuts. I bet they're lovely.
Note 2: I would have also loved to add feta cheese. That's no surprise. I'm also keeping an eye on calories, and I think many of you will appreciate that as well. If not, go buy yourself some feta. I bet it's lovely.
By the way… I named this "Tuscan" because of this funny "news" article from The Onion:
Area Woman Will Eat Anything With 'Tuscan' In Name
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, NJ—Veterinary assistant Lauren Millardi, 27, will eat any dish prefaced with the word "Tuscan," sources reported Monday. "Tuscan shrimp, Tuscan garlic chicken, it doesn't matter," said Millardi's boyfriend, Tim Vernacini. "I'm not really sure if she even knows what makes food Tuscan, but there's something about that region-specific culinary modifier that she finds inordinately appetizing." Vernacini added that Millardi likely would have loved the 2003 movie Under The Tuscan Sun had it not failed to meet her strict film criterion of having taken place between the years of 1743 and 1919.
This dish would actually be much more "Tuscan" if it included white beans and orzo instead of chickpeas and rice. Close enough though, right?

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Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony was stripped of duties Thursday. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
The archdiocese of Los Angeles apologized Thursday night and stripped retired Cardinal Roger Mahony of all public duties for allegedly covering up years of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
In a move that came hours after the release of personnel files detailing years of alleged abuse by Los Angeles priests, Archbishop José H. Gomez announced Thursday night that Thomas Curry, Mahony's longtime top aide, was also resigning as regional bishop of Santa Barbara.
The files indicated that Mahony and other top archdiocese officials maneuvered behind the scenes for years to protect molester priests.
Mahony will "no longer have any administrative or public duties," Gomez said in a statement.
NBC 4 of Los Angeles reported that as Mahony's vicar for clergy, Curry assigned priests and deacons and was responsible for promoting "spiritual and physical well-being" for all priests and deacons in the archdiocese.
Mahony was head of the Los Angeles archdiocese from 1985 to 2011, when Gomez succeeded him.
"I find these files to be brutal and painful reading," Gomez wrote in a letter to parishioners. "The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil. There is no excuse, no explaining away what happened to these children."
NBC Los Angeles: An ex-Mahoney aide, Santa Barbara bishop resigns amid church abuse probe
"We need to acknowledge that terrible failure today," he wrote.
Gomez said the church would "immediately report every credible allegation of abuse" and promised to support victims of priests' abuse.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Emilie Elias ordered release of the personnel files a week after internal church records revealed striking evidence of a coordinated campaign to shield priests accused of abuse.
The new files are especially damaging because they include the names of the accused priests, which the archdiocese — the largest Catholic diocese in the U.S. — had fought to protect.
Release of the files is expected to end years of legal battles over whether to identify the priests, the Los Angeles Times reported.


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So I have resisted saying anything about the Chick-fil-A scandal until now, but not because I don't have an opinion… I guess I've just been waiting to see how long this non-story could hang on buried in the flabby, sweaty armpit that is the August news cycle.
If you've been living under a rock, Dan Cathy, the COO of Chick-fil-A and the son of founder S. Truett Cathy, told The Ken Coleman Show and Biblical Recorder where he stands on the issue of marriage and, by extension, the issue of gay rights.
"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than You as to what constitutes a marriage'. I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about."
"We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. … We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that," … "(w)e intend to stay the course. We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles."
This led to strong reactions on both sides of the issue, including from Boston mayor Tom Menino, who stated very clearly that Chick-fil-A was not welcome in his city because of its executive board's cultural views. Most notably on the supporting side, former Arkansas governor and Southern Baptist minister Mike Huckabee suggested that people should record and photograph themselves going to Chick-fil-A in support of their owners' views during what he called Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, which took place last Wednesday, August 1.
The controversy here, in my opinion, lies not in the Cathys' positions on an extremely polarizing political wedge issue but in the fact that their views determine which special interest groups they give money to. In this country, anyone is free to espouse any political position, no matter how bigoted, but when money is involved, the only recourse of those who do not agree is to avoid providing the financial support any political group needs to spread its message.
The saddest part of all this is since Chick-fil-A is HUGE in the capital-S South, most stores were overrun with supporters on Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, far more supporters than counter-protesters. Most of the patrons appeared to be white Southern Baptists 35 to 65 years of age, the demographic most likely to support banning same-sex marriage by statute or amendment and least likely to embrace this country's long history of inclusion, diversity, and church-state separation. Supporters posted photos and videos of themselves going to Chick-fil-A on sites like Twitter and Facebook leading those of us Americans for whom homophobia is and always has been grossly unpalatable to wonder why we even know these people, why we have to share the same country.
They choose bigotry over love, big business over common sense, and – perhaps most outrageously – organized religion over their own flesh and blood.
Notice I didn't say they chose God over their own flesh and blood; no god ever worth his letters would let his adherents behave the way these people have. The position chosen by the supporters of Chick-fil-A is not about God at all, no matter what they may say; it's about fear, ignorance, insecurity, and self-hatred. It's based on a criminally widespread belief among these slack-jaws that they are inherently superior to others who are different in any way. That right there is the very definition of bigotry.
After a few days, I'm sure this stink will die down like every other demoralizing bit of news about the state of LGBT rights (or lack of) in the United States, but one question in my mind won't: why were there so many thousands of these so-called Christians seen at Chick-fil-A on a day's notice instead of at, say, a homeless shelter or soup kitchen? Because, you know, Jesus actually did go out of his way to make mention of that.


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January 16, 2013 Daily Astro-LOA Flash: Asteroid 3811 Karma is conjunct the Draconic South Node until early February – perfect support for amping up awareness of your path. How? Start by noticing where you are headed and how you feel about it. Are you engaging in fresh new starts or hashing out old concerns? Living repeating patterns in health, relationship, career, or entering new territory? Visualize your journey now the way you want it to be. Ask: What has changed since April 2012? What hasn't? What's next?
I'm bumping this post below to put some attention on asteroid Karma again, and give us all a chance to see what's changed since the last Karma/South Node (tropical) conjunction. Your thoughts are welcome! Note: the Draconic South Node is always on the Zero Degree Aries Point (0 Libra). Read more about that here . . .
Asteroid 3811 Karma is a main belt asteroid discovered Oct 13, 1953 by Liisi Oterma, a Finnish astronomer at Turku Astronomical-Optical Institute. She discovered over 200 asteroids and three comets, an inspirational women.
In the astrological chart it can be related to 'consequences', not in an 'ouch' way, but as in results. It's interesting because 'Karma' is conjunct the South Lunar Node (tropical) at 6 Gemini this week. My take on the daily Astro Flash March 30, 2012:
. . . Through meditation and stillness, the old event comes to life with new meaning. You can vision it differently now, with creative outcomes and fortunate connections. The key is not to dwell; appreciate the beauty and move on.
I've gotten a lot of emails and posted questions on this asteroid so I thought I would muse a bit about it here.
Those who have my book Astrology and Aptitude – How to Become What you are Meant to be can read a short delineation. One way to get to a deeper understanding of 3811 Karma it to look at the origin of the word Karma. It is Sanskrit, from KARMAN or KAROTI, which means "to do" or "to work". KARMA is a word and we attach meaning to it in the context of what we know, the usual being gleaned from Hindu or Buddhist "consequences of a person's actions. Fate. Destiny. . . reaping what you sow."
But, the word originally referred to the simple act of doing. In taking of action we have the RESULT, the consequences which will change our destiny (what we are creating in our lives.) NOTE: Karma isn't the destiny, it is the action that leads to our 'path' as we walk it. We are deliberate creators. We decide. And with each thought, new worlds come into being.
In this sense, asteroid 3811 Karma is, by house, sign, aspect and transit, about 'doing that which must be done.' In the chart there is a kind of fulfillment, a 'rightness' when we activate that area of life. When the asteroid is activated in synastry (by another person's placements) it can be that "the work or actions" of another trips our destiny switch. Being around that person when they are 'doing' their Karma could at times bring an epiphany or turning point. A realization. It's a two way link that joins action with revelation.
Has anyone seen this in chart comparisons or by transit?
My natal Karma is 22 Gemini conjunct Mercury in the midst of my Gemini stellium so it's hard for me to put my finger on it. I do to myself often things like, 'I have to write! I have to teach!' Perhaps there is something of the 'doing' that motivates my Mercury energy. I know a lot of clients and friends, and readers, that have personal planets very close to my Karma/Mercury. Interesting!
In a quick look at synastry charts I noticed that Amelia Earhart (who I did intensive research on for a case study many years back) had Neptune at 21 Gem 33. I was doing at lot of work (Karma) on her mysterious (Neptune) disappearance . . . The town where I have worked harder in my life than anywhere in the past for 20 years has Jupiter exactly opposite my Karma! And BIG results!
Looking at synastry contacts is very interesting. As in, 'Will they be 'hard work'? lol Seriously, as deliberate creators, we wouldn't want to think that!
Thoughts? Where's your asteroid Karma, and where is this Draconic South Node – 0 degrees of Libra – in your chart? Check the tutorial and ask if you need help!


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – UMBC women's basketball freshman forward Sara Tarbert (Delta, Pa./Kennard-Dale) and men's basketball freshman guard Rodney Elliott (Baltimore, Md./John Carroll) were nominated for the 2013-14 America East Basketball Fans' Choice Players of the Year, as announced by the league office on Wednesday.
A winner will be named for both men's and women's basketball. Voting for the 2014 America East Basketball Fans' Choice Players of the Year will go until Tuesday, March 4 at 3 p.m. and can be done on the America East Facebook Page. The winner will be announced that afternoon via release at AmericaEast.com.
Tarbert has paced the Retrievers' offense on the season, averaging a team-best 13.7 points per game, while also adding 6.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists. The rookie has led UMBC in scoring in 16 of its 27 games, including 21 double-digit scoring games. Tarbert leads all AEC freshmen in scoring and rebounding, ranking in the top-six in the league in both categories, while also tying for third in the conference in double-doubles on the season with five.
Tarbert, who is the fifth-highest UMBC scoring freshman in program history (369), has pulled in a program-record and league-best five America East Rookie of the Week honors. The freshman is currently in the midst of an 11-game double-digit scoring streak.
Rodney Elliott's five America East Rookie-of-the-Week honors to date have surpassed former record-holder Chauncey Gilliam, who earned the weekly award four times in the 2008-09 campaign. The Baltimore native is now sixth in the conference in scoring at 14.7 points per game and is now averaging 15.1 points per game (third) in America East contests. The point guard is fourth in the league in assists per game (3.6), seventh in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.0), and tenth in field goal percentage (44.7%) and steals per game (1.2).
Elliott just became UMBC's second Division I player ever to record 400 points, 100 rebounds and 100 assists in a season. He has scored 412 points, which is third all-time amongst all UMBC freshmen in single-season scoring with at least a pair of games left on the schedule.
He will likely by the first freshman to lead UMBC in scoring since Rich Giddens, who averaged 15.5 points per game (434 total points) in 1997-98.


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Seeing news about upsetting events — like terrorist attacks, mass shootings, and natural disasters — can make kids worry that something similar could happen to them or their loved ones. It also can make them fear some part of daily life (like thunderstorms) that they never worried about before.
Parents can help kids deal with these disturbing stories and images. Talk together about what they watch or hear and put frightening information into a reasonable context.
Depending on their age or maturity level, kids might not yet understand the differences between fact and fantasy.
But by the time they're 7 or 8, what kids see on TV can seem all too real. For some, coverage of a sensational news story is internalized and becomes something that might happen to them. A child watching a news story about a bus bombing or a shooting in a crowded public place might worry, "Could I be next? Could that happen to me?"
Natural disasters can be personalized in the same way. Kids who see footage of floods from a hurricane far away may spend a sleepless night worrying about whether their home will be OK in a rainstorm.
TV and the Internet "shrink" the world and bring it into our homes. With a focus on violent stories, the news can make the world seem more dangerous to kids than it really is.
To calm children's fears about the news, parents should be prepared to deliver the truth, but only as much truth as a child needs to know. The key is to be honest and help kids feel safe. There's no need to go into more details than your child is interested in.
Although it's true that some things — like a natural disaster — can't be controlled, parents should still give kids space to share their fears. Encourage them to talk openly about what scares them.
Older kids are less likely to accept an explanation at face value. Their budding skepticism about the news and how it's produced and sold might mask anxieties they have about the stories covered. If older kids are bothered by a story, help them cope with these fears. An adult's willingness to listen sends a powerful message.
Teens also can be encouraged to consider why a frightening or disturbing story was on the air: Was it to increase the program's ratings or because it was truly newsworthy? In this way, a scary story can be turned into a worthwhile discussion about the role and mission of the news.
It's always important to keep an eye on kids' TV and online viewing habits so you know what they hear and see. Other tips:
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Image above: Traditional Indian farmer facing drought conditions. From (http://english.globalgujaratnews.com/article/saurashtra,-kutch-worst-hit-by-rain-deficit/).
Summary of the Summary
We are five years into a severe global food crisis that is very unlikely to go away. It will threaten poor countries with increased malnutrition and starvation and even collapse. Resource squabbles and waves of food-induced migration will threaten global stability and global growth. This threat is badly underestimated by almost everybody and all institutions with the possible exception of some military establishments.
Uber-hedge fund manager Jeremy Grantham has released another important discussion. Grantham, a self-described "die hard contrarian," is one of the few leading financial figures who gets both global warming and growing food insecurity, two cornerstones of Climate Progress analysis.
The yield per acre for wheat in England, France, and Germany and the yield for rice in Japan. These top-producing countries for the two most important cereals for direct human consumption have failed in the last 10 or more years to increase productivity.
I'm going to excerpt his analysis, which comprises the entire quarterly newsletter from the former Chairman and now Chief Investment Strategist of GMO Capital, which has more than $100 billion in assets under management. Grantham's work makes very clear that the global economy is a Ponzi scheme.
In Grantham's blunt 2Q 2010 letter (see "Grantham: Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes"), he wrote;
"Global warming will be the most important investment issue for the foreseeable future."Then in his January 2011 newsletter he wrote about "Things that Really Matter in 2011 and Beyond": "Global warming causing destabilized weather patterns, adding to agricultural price pressures." Later that year, he wrote another blunt analysis "Time to Wake Up: Days of Abundant Resources and Falling Prices Are Over Forever."
In his new discussion, he warns we are in a "chronic global food crisis that is unlikely to fade for many decades, at least until the global population has considerably declined from its likely peak of over nine billion in 2050." Why? "There are too many factors that will make growth in food output increasingly difficult where it used to be easy":
- Grain productivity has fallen decade by decade since 1970 from 3.5% to 1.5%. Quite probably, the most efficient grain producers are approaching a "glass ceiling" where further increases in productivity per acre approach zero at the grain species' limit (just as race horses do not run materially faster now than in the 1920s). Remarkably, investment in agricultural research has steadily fallen globally, as a percent of GDP.
- Water problems will increase to a point where gains from increased irrigation will be offset by the loss of underground water and the salination of the soil.
- Persistent bad farming practices perpetuate land degradation, which will continue to undermine our longterm sustainable productive capacity.
- Incremental returns from increasing fertilizer use will steadily decline on the margin for fertilizer use has increased five-fold in the last 50 years and the easy pickings are behind us.
- There will be increased weather instability, notably floods and droughts, but also steadily increasing heat. The last three years of global weather were so bad that to draw three such years randomly would have been a remote possibility. The climate is changing.
- The costs of fertilizer and fuel will rise rapidly
On paper, though, the energy problem can be relatively easily addressed through very large investments in renewables and smart grids. Those countries that do this will, in several decades, eventually emerge with large advantages in lower marginal costs and in energy security. Most countries including the U.S. will not muster the political will to overcome inertia, wishful thinking, and the enormous political power of the energy interests to embark on these expensive programs. They risk being left behind in competiveness.The devastating food crises to come will, however, largely affect the United States indirectly, through much higher prices and the terrible global instability they causes. He notes that:
For Fortress North America (ex-Mexico), or what we might call Canamerica, these problems are relatively remote. When corn crops fail we worry about farmers' income, not about starvation. In the long run, the truth is that Canamerica seen as a unit is in an almost unimaginably superior position to the average of the rest of our planet. Per capita, the U.S. alone has five times the surface water and seven times the arable land of China! And Canada has even more.But the staggering immorality of our food, energy, and climate policies will become increasingly indefensible. As but one example:
Despite corn being almost ludicrously inefficient as an ethanol input compared to sugar cane and scores of other plants, 40% of our corn crop – the most important one for global exports – is diverted away from food uses. If one single tankful of pure ethanol were put into an SUV (yes, I know it's a mix in the U.S., but humor me) it displaces enough food calories to feed one Indian farmer for one year!
To persist in such folly if malnutrition increases, as I think it will, would be, to be polite, ungenerous: it pushes the price of corn away from affordability in poorer countries and, through substitution, it raises all grain prices. (The global corn and wheat prices have jumped over 40% in just two months.)
Our ethanol policy is becoming the moral equivalent of shooting some poor Indian farmers. Death just comes more slowly and painfully.The whole discussion — "Welcome to Dystopia! Entering a long-term and politically dangerous food crisis" – is a must read. Below is just the discussion on climate change.
Once again, why single out Indian farmers? Because it was reported last month in Bloomberg that the caloric intake of the average Indian farmer had dropped from a high of 2,266 a day in 1973 to 2,020 last year according to their National Sample Survey Office. And for city dwellers the average had dropped from approximately 2,100 to 1,900.
The negative effect of climate change on grain production
I used to think that "climate change" was a weak, evasive version of "global warming" but not anymore, for weather extremes – drought, floods, and bursts of extreme heat – have turned out to be more devastating for food production than the steady rise in average global temperatures. Droughts and floods were off-the-scale awful three growing seasons ago, and I forecasted some improvement. But with impossibly low odds – based on the previous weather distribution pattern – severe weather events kept going for two more growing seasons. Just as with resource prices, detailed last year, when the odds get into the scores of thousands to one, it is usually because the old model is broken.
So in the resource case, the old model of declining resource prices was broken and a new, very different era had begun. Similarly, the odds of three such disastrous years together are just too high to be easily believed and the much safer assumption is that the old weather model is broken and a new era of rising temperature and more severe droughts and floods is upon us.
All-time heat records in cities across the world are falling like flies and the months of March through May this year were the hottest in U.S. history. As with the equally unpleasant fact of rising resource prices, this new, less desirable climate has to be accepted and adjusted to. Once again, the faster we do it, the better off we will be. Several industries like insurance are already deep into the study of the new consequences.
Farming must also adjust, and not just to the rising prices. With skill, research, and, above all, trial and error, farmers will adjust the type of crop and the type of corn seed they use to the changing weather. And I have no doubt that they will mitigate some of the worst effects of increased droughts and floods. But the worst shock lies out quite far in the future: grains have developed over many thousands of years in an unusually moderate and stable climate (moderate, that is, over a scale of hundreds of thousands of years); and selective breeding of the last few hundred years also was done in that moderate environment. Grains simply do not like very high temperatures.
By the end of the century, the expected rise in temperature globally is projected by the IPCC to reduce the productivity of grain in traditional areas by 20% to 40% – numbers so high that the heart sinks given the other problems. Yes, northern climates will benefit (so Canada once again looks like a good ally) but more world-class grain land will be lost than is gained. And do not for a second think that the scientists can be dismissed as exaggerators in the pay of evil foundations as right-wing think tanks would have you believe. The record so far has been one of timid underestimation.
Much the majority of scientists hate being in the limelight and live in dread of the accusation of the taint of exaggeration, so severe a crime in the academic world that it is second only to faking data. What the timid scientists forget (this is all driven by career risk just as with institutional investing) is that in this unique case it is underestimating that is dangerous! To put the science clearly in the public domain – a task so far totally failed at – is left to a brave handful of scientists willing to be outspoken.
Talk privately to scientists involved in climate research and you find that they believe that almost everything is worse than they feared and accelerating dangerously. A clear example is in the melting of the Northern ice, now down in late summer by 30% from its recent 30-year average to 2005. It is at a level today (and last month was the least ice cover of any June ever) that was forecast 15 years ago for 2050! Dozens of ships last year made commercial voyages across the Northern waters where none had ever gone before 2008.
A dangerously reinforcing cycle is at work: the dark ocean absorbs heat where ice reflects it, so the water warms and more ice melts. Other potentially more dangerous loops might also start: the Tundra contains vast methane reserves and methane acts like supercharged CO2. It warms the air and more Tundra melts and so on.
For agriculture, which is very sensitive indeed to temperature shifts, it has become a very dangerous world. There is now no safety margin to absorb unexpected hits as we are seeing in the global crisis playing out in the Midwest today.


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A video I created as a summer student at NYU using 5-inch tape reels and a very heavy recorder with a bulky camera. Editing resources were extremely crude. I've cleaned it up a bit, but the quality suffers from thirty years of sitting in a crate.
Music by Saint-Saens. My world.


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SATURDAY NIGHT: NON-STOP BHANGRA (San Francisco)
If you live in the Bay Area and actually dance, then Saturday night you must get down to the Rickshaw Stop for NON-STOP BHANGRA. If you've never heard of Bhangra, shame on ya, but you actually have: think of the beat in Missy Elliot's 'Get Yer Freak On', that's bhangra. If you hear bhangra and you don't automatically move, then you are missing the dance gene in your body.
NONSTOP BHANGRA: Voted Top 5 Global Nights, SF Bay Guardian 2005
NonStop Bhangra(9)
Saturday, Jan. 28th
Rickshaw Stop
155 Fell Street (between Van Ness & Franklin)
San Francisco
Time: 8:00pm-2:00am
Bhangra Lesson w/Vicki Virk: 9:00pm
Cover: $10/advance; $15/door
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Featuring: DJ's Jimmy Love,(NSB Resident), Earflaps(Katfive), JT(Explizit Dholies)...
Live: Dholrhythms Dance Troupe, Ferhan Qureshi(Tabla), Explizit Dholies(Dhol), Christo(Visuals, Future Primitive);
Also Featuring: Marcus Murray(Live Painting)
*Voted Top 5 Global Nights,SF Bay Guardian, 2005
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*Also Featured in SF Chronicle, SF Weekly, Nitevibe, Flavorpill.
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Saraplik Wine Rack
Furniture Design Focus: Saraplik Wine Rack
A Good Furniture design example, the Saraplik is a creative Wine Rack design. Saraplik was designed in 2010, and here is a how it is described by its designer: Like a little cute creature, the Saraplik is an interesting wine rack that could also be used as a bookshelf or object storage, its organic design makes it unique and easy-going, the design was inspired by 1960s sci-fi style.
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'Bonnie & Clyde' review: Beguiling retelling
Bonnie & Clyde: Drama. By Adam Peck. Directed by Mark Jackson. Through Sept. 29. Shotgun Players, Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. 70 minutes. $20-$35. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org.
Two actors weave a mesmerizing spell on an almost bare stage in the Shotgun Players' "Bonnie & Clyde." Yes, we already know how the story of the legendary outlaws will turn out. Foreknowledge doesn't detract from but contributes to the tension and even suspense in the play that opened Friday at Shotgun's Ashby Stage in Berkeley.
Playwright Adam Peck and the inventive director Mark Jackson rely on the story's familiarity to fill in the past and short future as they focus on the outlaws' last days on the run. Performers Megan Trout and Joe Estlack inhabit their present and fantasy worlds with a magnetic concentration that makes one at least momentarily forget Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in the iconic Arthur Penn film - no small feat.
Movement passages alternate and sometimes overlap with dialogue scenes as Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow hole up in a rural Louisiana barn. Peck's script, developed in England in 2010, homes in on their emotional state and details, poignant and tawdry, of what they suspect is the end of their story. Both are nursing gunshot wounds. Both are exhausted, edgy and proud.
Estlack's solid Clyde, macho with a feminine edge, is the more distracted of the two, his mind seemingly consumed with hopeless plans, premonitions and seething anger at the corporate powers that have stolen the American dream. Trout's yearning Bonnie, fiercely invested in not revealing any weakness, taunts and tempts him, reads newspaper accounts and dreams of celebrity. They bicker - he's still jealous of the husband she left; she demands that they be buried side by side. They make love, sort of. They climb the walls. They play beguiling games of fantasy hopscotch.
Loud drones and bright lights shining through the broad slats of Robert Broadfoot's oddly pristine barn set signal sharp shifts in reality. The eloquent movement segments - devised by Jackson, the actors and choreographer Kimberly Dooley - draw us inside their heads.
A vivid mimetic routine encapsulates their lives up to this point - in dead-end jobs (Trout's hash-house waitressing is an epic-in-an-instant), falling in lust, shootouts and on the run. Sharp jazzy period dances illustrate Bonnie's former dreams of name-in-lights show-biz success. A ballroom dance duet establishes their bond. Estlack's ever-more-detailed forebodings spell out their fate in remarkably effective terms, enhanced by Trout's bullet-riddled writhings and graphic archival projections.
The play is no more true to the facts than the movie, but many of the "facts" remain in dispute anyway. One thing known, though, is that by this point Parker had lost the use of one leg. But the play is less an attempt to retell history or legend than a meditation on the underlying humanity of these figures, in words and movement. Two of Parker's poems, printed in the program, dovetail with the stage action to enlarge its impact.
"Some day they'll go down together," Parker wrote in limerick format, "they'll bury them side by side./ To few it'll be grief,/ to the law a relief/ but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde." In many ways Peck's play seems like a small contribution to the legend as recounted in decades of songs and films. But it's a tight and compelling one. Just the feverish throb of crickets in Matt Stines' sound design draws us inexorably into this world.
Robert Hurwitt is The San Francisco Chronicle's theater critic. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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ZZ Top Singer Billy Gibbons Says No Amount of Money Would Lead Him to Shave
ZZ Top has made a lot of great music over the years, but in some circles they're as well known for their image as their songs.
Both Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill have sported beards that drop down to the chest area for years, and the look of the two musicians out front has definitely caught the eyes of many for years.
Singer/guitarist Billy Gibbons says there have been offers, most notably from Gillette in 1984 who stated they would give Gibbons and Hill $1 million to shave off their beards in a commercial, but they've turned down every one.
Gibbons tells BraveWords.com, "No dice. Even adjusted for inflation, this isn't going to fly. They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film … a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation."
So ZZ Top, with beards intact (with the exception of beardless drummer Frank Beard), will rock on as hirsute as ever. The band just released the four-song 'Texicali' EP earlier this month, and a still-untitled studio album produced by Rick Rubin is expected to follow. Audiences are currently being treated to the new single, 'I Gotsta Get Paid.'


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The library concepts needs fixing. It is hard to write a library with code that can be reused outside the Arduino world.
The idea of the sketches leaves me puzzeled too. Who came up with the wondrous idea, that any additional file used needs to be copied (<-- no joke ) into the sketch directory? A reusability nightmare!
Who came up with the wondrous idea
This is so broken in so many ways...
Perhaps you should try the AVR Studio C approach and then you won't have to deal with Arduino IDE.
Anyway, the two locations suggested in different places do confuse me.
it would be very helpful to simply implement cooperation with an external editor in a better way.


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Liferay CE Akismet
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Lincoln in the Bardo
A Novel
By George Saunders
Narrated by George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Various, Carrie Brownstein, Don Cheadle, Lena Dunham, Bill Hader, Kirby Heyborne, Keegan-Michael Key, Julianne Moore, Megan Mullally, Susan Sarandon & Ben Stiller / 7 hours 24 minutes
The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented.
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"Saunders' first novel has a steep entry curve. It's not a novel that reveals itself quickly and easily, but if you give it your attention, if you burrow deep into the book, you'll be eminently rewarded. There is a richness and depth of humanity here. There is the strange and wonderful. There is love and grief and mystery all brought together in the story of Abraham Lincoln's dead son, the Civil War, and what may happen to us all after we leave the mortal coil. It's a beautiful and moving book that will stay with you for a long, long while."Jason Vanhee, University Book Store
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns, alone, to the crypt several times to hold his boy's body.
From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.
Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?
The 166-person full cast features award-winning actors and musicians, as well as a number of Saunders' family, friends, and members of his publishing team, including, in order of their appearance:Nick Offerman as HANS VOLLMAN
David Sedaris as ROGER BEVINS III
Carrie Brownstein as ISABELLE PERKINS
George Saunders as THE REVEREND EVERLY THOMAS
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Where have we been?? The summer has been a bummer here in Lucindaville. Most of July was spent without electricity or telephone service. A surge in the electricity fried the stove. There was a plumbing problem. My phone was out so much my phone bill was just under $3. The phone company wanted ANOTHER phone number to reach me. Seriously, if I had another phone that worked, I wouldn't be calling frantically. If I had cell phone service I wouldn't need this crappy land line.
We are spending 720 million dollars a DAY in Iraq and Afghanistan, countries most people in Congress couldn't find on a blank map! Maybe if we had a weeks worth of that funding we could get reliable phone service and electricity to WEST VIRGINA! But I digress...
During these travails, my friend Ann, who had to postpone her trip to visit, merely delayed it and decided that misery would love company. She ventured out not knowing what she might find or NOT find, but she came prepared with tequila which needs neither a stove nor electricity.
By the time she arrived, the refrigerator was working and she stocked it Simply Limeade and the cocktail making ensued. Ann developed a classic down and dirty margarita. She was aided by glasses that had been in my family for a hundred years. I checked and they hold 10 ounces. So the next time your electricity goes off, of you lose phone service, of your stove blows, or frankly, you just need a drink without much thought, give this margarita a try. Our orange liquor of choice is Grand Gala. It is inexpensive and had a bite. It often gets criticised for its bite, but I love that in a margarita.
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Measure 2 ounces of tequila and 1 ounce of orange liquor in a 10 ounce glass. Fill with cold Simply Limeade.
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged African leaders to respect the rights of their gay and lesbian citizens. Some African nations have treated gays like "second-class citizens or even criminals", the UN chief declared Sunday at the opening of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
"Let me mention one form of discrimination that has been ignored or even sanctioned by many states for far too long, discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. This has prompted some governments to treat people as second-class citizens, or even criminals. Confronting this discrimination is a challenge. But we must live up to the ideas of the Universal Declaration. ... The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a promise to all people in all places at all times."
Same-sex acts are currently illegal in at least 38 of 54 African countries. Four nations—Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan—boast the death penalty for gays or same-sex activity. South Africa and Seychelles are the only African nations that protect LGBT rights. South Africa is also the only African nation to guarantee marriage equality.
In recent months both the United States and the United Kingdom have warned they would use foreign aid to push for decriminalization of same-sex relations across the socially conservative continent. Africa boasts two-thirds of the world's HIV/AIDS cases. Many experts believe the prohibitions against homosexuality discourage many HIV positive gay African men from seeking treatment.
The African Union summit opens as tensions and violence are escalating across the continent. Nigeria has been rocked by terrorism and sectarian violence that has killed hundreds. The growing tension between Sudan and South Sudan and the war in Somalia are also expected to be major discussion points.


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This is the first podcast in our new Velocity Podcast Series that will keep our conversations that we start at the Velocity conference going throughout the year. We will be talking with conference committee members, speakers, companies, and attendees. So check back weekly for a new podcast.
I recently spoke with Steve Souders for our Velocity Podcast Series. Steve has been to all the Velocity conferences around the world and has a unique perspective on WPO, DevOps and anything related to performance, optimization and making things run faster. During our conversation, Steve touched on many of the issues performance engineers are faced with on a daily basis.
One of the themes you will pick up on in our conversation is that Steve repeatedly says "even faster" when talking about quality and improvements everyone could make to their web properties. I got the drift that web sites can always improve by being able to monitor and measure better. More, better, faster keeps you competitive.
This video is 00:29:31 minutes long so if you want to jump to specific answers, the questions and responses are found here:
- Current state of the Performance and Operations market. Starting at 00:00:36
- Terms, semantics and DevOps, are we splitting hairs? Starting at 00:04:42
- What do performance people do on a daily basis? Starting at 00:08:00
- Do you need to tradeoff anything to get better performance? Starting at 00:10:43
- Are most websites acceptable when it comes to speed? Starting at 00:13:53
- Measuring slowness — clarified and demystified starting at 00:15:10
- Where do you find performance monitoring tools? Starting at 00:17:36
- How do you know if you have a fast enough web site? Starting at 00:20:28
- Does Mobile disrupt your quest for high performance? Starting at 00:23:34
- Does HTML5 add any more complexity challenges to high performance web sites? Starting at 00:25:03
- Wrap up and discussion of Velocity Conference starting at 00:26:16


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"Fashion Show" is a track for fashion show!
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The financial woes continue for "Octomom" Nadya Suleman.
Suleman is back on government assistance, five months after coming off welfare and eight months after she filed for bankruptcy, TMZ reports.
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The mother of 14 — including her famous octuplets, who will turn 4 later this month — first went on welfare in March, according to TMZ, but she was able to start supporting herself in July, partially as a result of money she made posing nude and doing pornography. But in October, Suleman entered rehab for addiction to Xanax, and those bills have landed her back on the dole.
Suleman will receive nearly $3,000 a month for food and emergency cash, plus Medi-Cal benefits to help with mental health and dental bills, according to TMZ.