this and that

It seems that any pet I get is either black, white, or both. Not sure why, its just the way I role I guess.

Besides that, my day was full of this and that, mostly love and hate.

Typically Id use Google Chrome, but it wouldnt let me play Dr. Mario for some reason...so I used Firefox. I started blogging on my other blog and got about 2000 words on there when I had to leave my internet source.

Unfortunately I was using Windows. Today, it made me hate it more. While I was on the way back here (Adams grandmas house) Windows decided to restart for God knows why (last time I checked it already updated) and, of course, closed every program without asking me.

I logged back on and Firefox restored about 500 of my words on my blogger. Good Firefox. But damn thats a lot missing.

Now this is why I love blogger. It saved my draft all the way up to the 2000th word. WIN!!!

And Its still love/hate between Dr. Mario. BLEH.

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My Problem With Biracial Identification

Husband and I have decided to make our family consist of bio kids and adopted kids.  Our bio kids, no doubt about it, will be biracial.  Our adopted kids may or may not...who knows?  I personally would prefer it but it isnt that big a deal to me.

What made me bring this up is a whole heap of things talking about black identity and this crazy biracial problem with identifying with a race blah blah blah.  Let me be forward.  This is stupid.  Husband has it in the back of his head but I started researching now so Im at least somewhat familiar with it when the time comes.  When I started researching adoption in the US, I saw that it could be tricky especially because wed prefer an orphan/foster child.  It seemed like a lot of the younger children had needs beyond what we could handle or in sibling groups with older children (which we dont know if we could handle...maybe in the future.)  That settled it.  We would either fost adopt a young child/baby or go international.  In the end, we will probably go with fost adopt but this didnt stop me from looking into international.  After all, there are cases of parents that were likely to have rights terminated that turned their lives around and got their children back.  I can see how fost adopt can lead to some major heartbreak.

If I had the room, money, and if husband would let me, this would be what our family would look like. Large and full of children with varying races.

In my search for international, I checked out China due to the mass amount of orphans there.  I also checked out Korea which I read had more boys than girls.  There are heritage camps just so these children can know their culture.  Fantastic!  As I started looking back into domestic adoption, I saw that a lot of black/biracial children were being adopted by white parents.  They also felt social identity was a huge part of adoption and thus tried very hard to bring culture to their children.  There is a huge problem with this.

Black kids...lets talk about black people.  Black people in the US are, in general, a mix between a bunch of African people at least and usually have at least a teeny bit of something else (Native American or white) in them.  Personally I identify myself as black mixed.  This is because my Native American, black, and white ancestors dont go that far back.  A good handful of my family, including my mom, could easily blend in with snow.  People can tell that my hair isnt as kinky and my face has Native features.  My hair is longer with a mixed texture.  Most of my hair curls with very few ringlets.  

Back to black people.  There are a bunch of people in Africa, all with different cultures.  To say that you are learning about black culture is just plain stupid.  Black culture is American culture.  Unless you know your African tribes, you can only go back to slavery times (AKA the start of America.)  So please tell me...what culture exactly are you teaching your black/biracial children?  Is it not just American culture?

Two very different tribes.  Where ya from?  How do you know?

You can also say the same for white children.  When I say white, I mean pale-skin-multi-ethnic type children.  In other words, if you adopt a child from Russia, they have a culture to learn.  If you adopt a Spanish child, they have a culture to learn.  Adopt a child who was born from a family of predominantly Irish people, they have a culture to learn.  If you adopt an American "Caucasian" child, their culture starts right here in America when people started coming here on boats.  

Now since black people have this American culture and white people have this American culture, guess what black and white kids have?  Well you know...American culture!  Teach em about AMURIKUH!

By all means learn about your children.  Kinky, curly hair is much different than straight hair.  Thick, Mexican hair isnt like thin, European hair.  Hell it seems even thin, Asian hair isnt like thin, European hair!  Must be easy with boys but girls...we like to look pretty.

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dealing with the devil

well not really.

So I finally got almost all the operating systems I wanted.

I put in one called Wolvix into my laptop. Yes I chose it cause of the name...I like wolves. They are my favorite animal =]

big mistake? Maybe haha.

SO it has a generic boot like this


minus all the nice colors haha...and a lot more words.

then it took me to a screen like this



Then took me to this



Then took me to a very plain grey screen that just said Wolvix.

-_-

yeah I couldnt shut it down. All it hat was the time and ways to get to different work stations

so I searched the internet...found a command...but didnt know how to get to command prompt. I found that by accident and finally

shutdown -h now

aaahhh

then my computer turned off =]

wonder what the - means. I know in BASH command lines you also use - letters to kill other things. haha

ie my most used one in ubuntu

killall -q firefox

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Facebook It really IS depressing!

I didnt want to believe it when I stumbled upon an article stating that social networks like Facebook are depressing.  Well, I vowed to take the day off.  I have logged on to play my games and usually went and did something else (like look up raw food recipes that husband will enjoy.)  I kind of read a picture or two but once I caught myself, I would immediately leave.  So how has my day been?  Fucking fantastic.  I mean...holy cow.  Now I realize that the articles were right.

According to some research by some people that I dont remember because I originally thought it was bullshit, most Facebook/social network users post their success.  When we see how successful they are, we start beating ourselves up for stuff.  Most people post happy things.  We see how happy they are and wonder why were not happy.  That makes us even more depressed.  For the people that post depressing things...well you know...its depressing all by itself.  I realized this was very true.  I have wanted a baby for a while and most of my Facebook news feed is plastered with babies and how happy people are.  It is also plastered with weight loss stories and here I am, hating myself for my weight and eating problems.

Now the interesting part is, I decided to use my free time to use Stumble Upon to stumble....babies.  I didnt feel bad then.  I used to feel horrible stumbling on the "babies" section but today I felt just fantastic.  Cute baby here, cute baby there....

Then I played the Sims.  Im on a challenge using mods.  The family can only have children with family members because...you know...its the best bloodline.

Today is a fantastic day.  Enough said!

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That Dungeon with a Dragon in it

There really shouldnt be any excuses on why I havent posted.  I mean...I just didnt!  I guess Im a rebel huh?  Camera is still MIA and phone is still an asshole.

But Saturday, I did have a reason why I didnt post.  Husband was hosting a weekly Dungeons and Dragons game at our house.  We have been playing 4th edition which...well he is still learning how to be a good DM.  Recently he has decided to take a step back and focus more on school.  In other words, he doesnt really have time to do any story progression.

My character in this game is Kiki (like Kikis Delivery Service of course.)  I totally dig redheads so most of my D&D characters sport red hair.  Kiki started out as a half elf summer druid but made her way into an ardent.  Originally, she joined the quest because her homeland was being destroyed by magic energy which naturally pissed her off.  She was originally accompanied by a bear named Cid that we used and abused.  Cid has been set free to live as a normal bear.

One of the guys has wanted to play Advanced D&D (D&D 2.0...were actually taking a few steps backwards here) and took over on Saturday.  AD&D has a hell of a lot more RPG in it than 4.0 so my character has quite the back story here.  Her name is Sivalri (which I have not taken from any other game.)  She is also a half elf but is completely different.  Her mother was kidnapped and raped by a dark elf and managed to escape (or so everyone is told.)  Her mother raised her but was hanged for doing so (as she was told when her mother kept her locked in the house.)  When she was 13, she became an orphan.  To make money, she became a bard (a class I have never played before, making it more interesting.)  At the age of 15, she met a warrior which brought her to a cleric.  Silvari is on this quest to, essentially, bring back the middle class.  The poor are very poor which has created more poor orphans while the rich are in control of all magic which could help everyone out in the long run.  Silvari has brown hair and green eyes with darker skin.  

And so now you know why I may not post on weekends.  

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TED aligns with Monsanto halting any talks about GMOs food as medicine or natural healing

TED aligns with Monsanto, halting any talks about GMOs, food as medicine or natural healing


If your like me and have been following the Ted talks over the years you might have heard of some odd stuff going on, nowa days its seems like the monsanto mentality has taken over.
If you have a moment, take a look at this article delving into the hidden secretes of Ted talks.
THANKS NATURAL NEWS!! 

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OHara maple syrup festival

OHara tapped trees in maple forest

We decided to take a trip to the OHara maple sugar festival and see what it was all about, and let me tell you, it can be described in one word, maplelicious... thats a word, right?
In goodol Madoc is where you can find this feast of all things maple. Hankering for some pancakes laced in syrup, you gotem. Drizzed maple syrup candy-pops made over snow, gotem. Maple butter, candies, and syrup for sale, you betcha!. It all starts off on a horse drawn ride through the maple forest, then, a trip back in time through an old pioneer house to show you the instruments used to collect sap. They also have old knickknacks for sale, everything from quilts to cast iron hooks.

OHara pioneer house

OHara maple syrup festival

I just love these old pioneer houses, any log homes for that matter. These modern homes with steel beams and fake formaldehyde filled flooring just feels.... blah.
Ive always wanted a fireplace like this, just right there, no safety, keeps ya on your toes I suppose, lol.
The house was filled with treasures from yesteryear; wooden water buckets, snow shoes, old fashioned saws, candy presses, and all sorts of tools that were essential to life back then. To be honest, alot of the stuff they had there I would prefer to what we have today. Plastic this and plastic that, I see why they were healthier then my generation.

Old fashioned maple syrup supplies- OHara

I couldnt help but turn this photo in a vintage like feel. The wooden piece beside the wooden buckets was used to make candies, I think thats what the piece at the far left is too. There is a large screw beside the candy box that was used to drill the trees for sap and the wooden taps ( to the left of the screw ) were used to collect the sap from the trees, all of which dripped into wooden buckets. Wood, wood, wood,  does a body good.

Old fashioned snow shoes

For some reason whenever I see stuff like this I always want to try it out; it takes every ounce of my strength to not ask, I know they never would let me, and I know I shouldnt because Id probably break them, but I want to, oh lord how I want to.

OHara Maple butter

 I always thought maple butter was maple syrup and butter mixed, and since I gave up butter, I never tried it. Turns out, its just maple syrup made in a specific, scientific like way. Its almost like soft maple candies, but smoother, more spreadable. In fact, right now I am eating this on a piece of bread with a mug full of how water and maple syrup -Canadian to the bone.

OHara water mill

They have this neat watermill and log building, Im not sure if its functional but I will definitely be coming back to see this place in the summer as there are a bunch of festivals and things going on when the warmer weather arrives; fingers crossed the mill flows.

Pioneer cemetery

Along the drive there was this old pioneer cemetery intermixed among the trees. Ive never seen anything like this, some of the plots go back to the 1800s

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aquaponics cheap eats – growing your own

it’s fun growing some of your own daily food needs using a smart aquaponic garden.

we feel like urban food rebels eating fresh yummy nutritious food that we grow using our own software code all the time.

see more  food we have grown and eaten here ….

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Aquaponics to fight crime
The training provided covered topics areas such as system design, layout and maintenance, fish health and care, plant nutrient requirements and water quality.

By SUE-ANN WAYOW

IN an effort to fight crime and encourage persons to become more self sufficient, the government yesterday launched an aquaponics project in La Romaine,San Fernando...MORE

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Food out of water
Mainstream aquaponics faces economic and environmental challenges
By Zak Weinberg

Aquaponics systems depend on fish and plants co-existing.
Mickey Mouse has never been known for his green thumb, but a ride dedicated to aquaponics at Disney’s Epcot Center (surely a death-defying thrill) highlights the public curiosity for this growing trend. While an increasing number of people take an interest in aquaponics as a way to grow crops and fish — and Longmont is seeing the opening of a 7,400-square-foot aquaponics store — industry professionals continue to wrestle with...MORE

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Small Home Aquaponics Setup
I wanted to share with others who may be interested in aquaponics our first small home set-up that my husband designed. We just turned it on yesterday. There are a few small bugs to work out but it works like a charm. Of course we havent added any plants yet but I hope if there is anyone else out there doing this they jump in and offer any information and experiences they have found worthy to share. If you have ever had a successful fish aquarium you can do this...MORE

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Aquaponics Is Growing Farms in the Most Unlikely Places
 
By Ben Richmond
The world is growing and growing ever more hungry, and there isn’t a single, perfect way to get more food. The changing climate and a projected water crisis cloud the future of agriculture, but the sting of food shortages is already with us, catalyzing riots and political unrest in places like Turkey, Syria and Egypt.

But countries from Bangladesh to Yemen, and cities from Berlin to Tucson, are employing an ancient farming technique

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Lenzs law and my experiments with it

In these videos I use an aluminum pipe with a neodymium magnet to demonstrate Lenzs law.

If youd like to pick up some neodymium magnets to try this neat experiment out for yourself, I have found a great link for inexpensive magnets with free shipping on amazon, which I will post below.

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dealing with an angel

or not haha. well maybe

So before I did wolvix I did a system called DreamLinux.

It is a sister to Ubuntu (Debian both being the mother system) but a lot like mac...so I thought Id give it a try.

Again it had a really gay and ugly boot screen...generic

but when everything was done it looked like this




not bad.

It has a little icon for the internet that looks like Safari but its really Firefox lol.

Random.
aaaahhh

I also ran Fedora with KDE and with Gnome

It was orgasmic

working on Mint...not that anyone cares

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like youd know dude

Starting with today...my teacher for Psych 305 was talking about how men were the leaders of the house so they were used in commercials to promote sort of a..."Im telling you to do this cause Im a man" sort of thing even on a tampon commercial. Well she was like "cause youd know dude."

XD

And last night my Anthro teacher was talking about how a science person would view a philosopher. Its like they cant feel or see their theory. "Its like imagining pleasure...like mental masturbation."

XDD

Ugh I was walking home and it was lonely and cold. My fingers were freezing and I think I started having a panic attack. I hurried home but...i didnt want to really be there. Id rather be going to Adams bed...warm and cozy.

on my way home from the dark bus stop I walked alone. A man jumped out of the bush. He grabbed me and tried to rip off my shirt. I tackled him to the ground and tied him to a pole. I found a large knife in his pocket. I smiled and slipped off his pants. I shoved his pants in his mouth so he wouldnt scream. I wandered around the avenue and found a branch and placed it in between his legs. I picked up his testicle and slowly cut his skin. I pushed his testicle to the ground and gave it a quick whack with the blade. He tried to scream. I closed up his scrotum and did the same on the other side. WHACK. I pulled out my stapler and stapled his scrotum closed. I put his pants back on and walked away.

This is why I shouldnt walk home alone. I get crazy thoughts like this.

=]

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我與Aquaponics 魚菜共生 Why do I start Aquaponics

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????????????????????????MRI scan?????????????7cm??????????????????????(?????)?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????:"??????????????????????"???????????????????...

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????28cm??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

?????????"?????"?????"????"???????????????(?????????5cm?????)???????????????????????????

????????????????????: ?????????! ??????James????????????Aquaponics??????????????Friendly Aquaponics??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!!!

 

????????Aquaponics???????????Aqualculture(????) ?Hydroponics(????)????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????

?????????????: ?????????????????2%??????????????70%??(?????????????????)????????????????????2008????????????USDA????????Aquaponics??????????????????????????????????????????!

2011?????????????????????????????????????????????????????2012??????????????????????????????????????????????????!

?????????????????????2011??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????(???30?)???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????!

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Local community makes UH D.C. exhibit shine

Local community makes UH D.C. exhibit shine

July 6, 2012  |  Tracy Matsushima  |  0 Comments

The University of Hawai?i has welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to its exhibit tents during this year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Visitors have tried hula, lauhala weaving and taro pounding. They also learned about navigating by the stars, lomi lomi, aquaponics and taro patches.
The exhibit, however, has been about more than the University of Hawai?i. It has been about the community working together.
UH M?noa alumnus Rick Barboza co-owns Hui K? Maoli Ola, one of the largest Native Hawaiian plant nurseries in Hawai?i. The company transported the taro patch exhibit and aquaponics plants free of charge. 

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Is Aquaponics the Way We’ll Farm In the Future?

• On July 3, 2012
• By Meleah
• In Fertilizer, Indoor Gardening, Organic Gardening, Sustainable Agriculture, Veggies

Aquaponics has been on my “Must Learn More About This” list for a long while. So when I found out Garden Fresh Farms in nearby Maplewood was giving free tours of their aquaponics facility, I signed right up to go. The tour was scheduled for the middle of a week day and Maplewood is a pretty long drive out of the Twin Cities, so I didn’t expect much of a crowd. Whew! I was so wrong.

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Discover Aquaponics

Posted on July 3, 2012 in Neighborhood News by Isaac Gonzalez
Tags: aquaponics, sol collective

Sol Collective’s Liberation Permaculture is pleased to present “Discover Aquaponics”, as part of our ongoing monthly skill share series. Come learn about growing fish and vegetables together in a recirculating, environmentally-friendly, do-it-yourself system.

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Aquaponics – Growing Plants from Seed

Posted on July 4, 2012

I had heard about aquaponics from some gardening friends and the idea stayed with me long enough to do something about.
This long cold Melbourne Winter has been an opportune time to assemble a wonderful collection of posts about my experiences with an aquaponics method for food production. These will be published in an almost sequential order over the next couple of years…
If you want to learn more about aquaponics and how to go about doing this for yourself, I can recommend the following resources that were a benefit to me:

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Vertical farm in abandoned pork plant turns waste into food

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  Greens growing on floating beds in an experimental aquaponics farm in a project called The Plant in Chicago on June 21, 2012. Photo courtesy: AFP

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by Mira Oberman
CHICAGO, July 6, 2012 (AFP) - Urban farming is being taken to new heights in an abandoned Chicago pork processing plant where environmentalists hope to "get off the grid" by using the waste from one crop to feed and power another.
Schools of tilapia swim in water cleaned by the roots of leafy greens that feed on the nitrogen and other nutrients in the fish waste.
A bakery will later move in that will be able to use mash from the brewery upstairs to fire its oven.

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From Slaughterhouse to Aquaponics Farm

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Peer Foods, former owners of a meatpacking and slaughterhouse business abandoned a factory in the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. Plant Chicago recently bought the facility and started to restore it. Using a complex interrelated system, The Plant will create 125 jobs in the particularly economically distressed Back of the Yards Chicagoan neighborhood.

Not only is The Plant creating new job opportunities and restoring a prominent building, the whole organization will be self sufficient in energy needs.
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Summer progress! PortFish Aquaponics Model 3

  June 30, 2012 | Aquaponics, Journal

PortFish Model 3 Aquaponics System continues to move forward. The greenhouse frame is now constructed, and our vision is coming to life!



Check out the latest collection of progress photos in our Facebook gallery.
 Please like us while you’re there, too!
Check out the aquaponics page to see the floor plan and other details about the project.
Want to learn more about aquaponics and have some spare time to lend a hand?
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Aquaponics and the Homeless

Hi,

Over the past several years, Ive read about a variety of aquaponics endeavours (like this one) that have sought to provide aquaponically-grown food to homeless people.

With the short growing cycles involved, it seems like a no-brainer....in terms of food production.

With some more integrations (a la Microponics), it has even greater potential.......particularly if
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Aquaponics And Conventional Agriculture

Aquaponics differs in many ways from conventional agriculture and other kinds of factory farming.

I have made a chart of the differences between aquaponics and conventional agriculture:

Conventional Agriculture	Aquaponics
Conventional Agriculture	Aquaponics
Grows crops in soil.	Does not grow crops in soil. Grows crops in recirculated fish waste water, either on its own with the crop plants suspended at the surface in plastic net pots on floating polystyrene rafts, or suspended in the flowing water by an intert growing media fill such as expanded clay balls (Hydroton or Hydroleca brands) or pea gravel.
Uses artificial fertilizer from a natural gas (methane) or methane from oil refining feedstock.	Does not use artificial fertilizer. Nitrates dissolved in the recirculating fish water from the intensive fish farm, flowing through the grow beds or floating raft deep water containers fertilize the plants. The source of these nitrates is the ammonia excreted by the fish in the intensive tank-based fish farm part of the aquaponic recirculating aquaculture system. Aquaponics uses liquid organic fertilizer sourced via the solids removal and mineralization section from the fish excreta. Fish excrete ammonia through their gills and a certain amount is also dissolved

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Scrutiny reveals troubled Sweet Water

July 2, 2012

By Michael Timm

A $250,000 public loan supported Sweet Waters outdoor expansion. Former employees have criticized Sweet Water management for past failures. —photo Monica Ray

Sweet Water Organics, the Bay View aquaponics farm, is a media darling. But scrutiny of the local startup business, which angles to be a leader in a globally emerging urban agriculture industry, reveals a darker tale.

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