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Day of the dead. Dia de Los Muertos, Nov. 1 and 2
Day of the Dead is an interesting holiday celebrated in central and southern Mexico during the chilly days of November 1 & 2. Even though this coincides with the Catholic holiday called All Soul's & All Saint’s Day, the indigenous people have combined this with their own ancient beliefs of honoring their deceased loved ones. https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...-graveyard.jpg They believe that the gates of heaven are opened at midnight on October 31, and the spirits of all deceased children (angelitos) are allowed to reunite with their families for 24 hours. On November 2, the spirits of the adults come down to enjoy the festivities that are prepared for them. https://cms-assets.tutsplus.com/uplo...revew-dead.jpg In most Indian villages, beautiful altars (ofrendas) are made in each home. They are decorated with candles, buckets of flowers (wild marigolds called cempasuchil & bright red cock's combs) mounds of fruit, peanuts, plates of turkey mole, stacks of tortillas and big Day-of-the-Dead breads called pan de muerto. The altar needs to have lots of food, bottles of soda, hot cocoa and water for the weary spirits. Toys and candies are left for the angelitos, and on Nov. 2, cigarettes and shots of mezcal are offered to the adult spirits. Little folk art skeletons and sugar skulls, purchased at open-air markets, provide the final touches. http://travelblog.viator.com/wp-cont...ty-540x405.jpg Day of the Dead is a very expensive holiday for these self-sufficient, rural based, indigenous families. Many spend over two month's income to honor their dead relatives. They believe that happy spirits will provide protection, good luck and wisdom to their families. Ofrendabuilding keeps the family close. http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibti...-muertos_0.jpg http://www.mexicansugarskull.com/sup...odhistory.html |
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8 Excuses for Not Having Sex That is soooo 2016
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...4efdb2ec95.jpg Now that the perennial not-in-the-mood excuse of “Not tonight, honey. I have a headache” has become little more than a joke punchline, we came up with some more current replacements. Here’s what people have been hearing — especially middle-aged people — circa 2016: 1. “I could never sleep with a Trump supporter.” Yes, this is a real thing. It may even been our very own Noah Michelson, the Voices editorial director here at HuffPost, who started it. As Michelson wrote last August, “I’ve been trying to brainstorm specific ways ... for each of us to help fight this certain and specific brand of evil now facing our country and I finally think I’ve come up with a halfway decent idea: Let’s agree we won’t sleep with anyone who is a Trump supporter. Not now, not for the next three months ― hell, I’m willing to say never again if you are.” Michelson admitted that the idea isn’t exactly original ― the Greek playwright Aristophanes had it a few thousand years ago ― but, Michelson added, “it’s [still] a damn good one.” Desperate times require desperate measures, am I right? 2. “You follow Anthony Weiner on Twitter.” Guilt by association is a powerful anti-aphrodisiac. http://www.usapoliticstoday.com/wp-c...6530146629.jpg 3. “Sorry, but I need to binge-watch Netflix.” Who wants Monday morning to come around and you’re the only one in the office who hasn’t caught up? Don’t be the person who tells everyone not to spoil it for you. Nobody likes that person. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0990edc33bc9e |
500,000 Baby Turtles to be Released to Help Save Vulnerable Species.
Armed guards reportedly protect the animals’ nesting sites. Conservationists have a reason to shell-abrate. On Saturday, environmental authorities and community caretakers in Peru released almost 17,000 newborn yellow-spotted Amazon River turtles into the wild. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the animals as vulnerable on its Red List of Threatened Species. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam...xlarge-169.jpg This was the first in a series of three releases Peruvian authorities have planned, CNN reported. By mid-November, they hope to release more than 500,000 of the turtles, known locally as “taricaya,” into the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, a protected area in northeastern Peru’s Amazon River basin. Adult taricaya lay their eggs on riverbanks in the area, where they are exposed to predators and poaching. To ensure that the vulnerable eggs are protected, community members and employees from Peruvian government agencies, including the National Service of Protected Natural Areas, remove and care for them until they hatch. http://www.aquaexpeditions.com/wp-co...2/image001.jpg The river turtles were frequently imported and sold as pets during the 1960s, Ohio’s Akron Zoo explains on its website. The Yekuana Indians and some other indigenous groups have also used the turtles and their eggs as a source of food, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Armed guards protect the turtles’ 12 main nesting sites from poachers, the National Zoo says. http://baby-animals.net/wp-content/g...y-tortoise.gif https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...199c49db05.jpg |
Hilariously terrible real estate photos.
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SEE IT: 102-year-old woman, born before women had the right to vote, pledges Arizona’s delegates to Hillary Clinton
She lived through a century before seeing this historic moment. At the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, 102-year-old Geraldine (Jerry) Emmett excitedly announced that Arizona cast 51 votes for Hillary Clinton, after spending decades in political activism. https://m.hrc.onl/secretary/05-feed/...omen/Jerry.png Born six years before women had the right to vote, Emmett lived to see a special part of history at the Democratic National Convention, as Clinton became the first female Presidential nominee of a major party. *If SHE does not inspire you to vote, absolutely nothing or no one will. |
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President Barack Obama hugs First Lady Michelle Obama in the Red Room of the White House while Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett smiles prior to the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) reception. March 20, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) |
132 year old Lake Superior shipwreck found in 'beautiful shape'
http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/...che=vrnrvlhlya After 132 years, a long-lost shipwreck has been located at the bottom of Lake Superior, and it appears to be impeccably preserved. Over the summer, a five-man team, including a diver and historian, located the J.S. Seaverns freighter that sank in Canada near Michipicoten Harbor, Ontario, in 1884, along with piles of unbroken dishes and other century-old items, the Duluth News Tribune reported last week. Dan Fountain, who helped find the ruins described the wreckage as being “in beautiful shape.” http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/...2500b0c2bc.png “The upper cabins are somewhat broken up ... [but] the hull itself seems to be totally intact,” he told the News Tribune. Outside, the ship’s helm wheel leans against what Fountain described as the starboard side of the wreck. In the ship’s kitchen, also known as a galley, there are stacks of plates on shelves. In another area they’re seen piled up, appearing completely intact. “The Seaverns sank in rather benign conditions,” Fountain told Sudbury.com. “It was a calm day, it wasn’t a violent wreck. It went down rather smoothly, apparently. ... It settled on an even keel on the bottom.” http://wwtv.images.worldnow.com/images/12449648_G.jpg * How awesome is this?! I collect old nautical items, some of my treasured pieces are from sunken vessels from all over the world such as planks turned into my desk, a pen holder made from sunken sea chest etc..... |
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President Barack Obama, Ruby Bridges, and representatives of the Norman Rockwell Museum view Rockwell’s "The Problem We All Live With," hanging in a West Wing hallway near the Oval Office. Bridges is the girl portrayed in the painting. June 15, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) |
This Display Of Bravery And Skill Is What Female Surfers Have Been Fighting For
https://41.media.tumblr.com/05d05657...kiyvo1_500.jpg In powerful, sometimes violent waves, six women faced off Friday during the World Surf League’s first big-wave surfing competition for women at Jaws, a famed surf break on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Female surfers have been fighting for years to be included in contests like this, but organizers previously said conditions for big-wave surf contests were too dangerous for women. But Friday’s display of strength and bravery in waves of up to 30 feet prove that, just like male athletes, women are a force to be reckoned with. The women expertly charged the dangerous swells, showing grace and intense control on the waves. Only three contestants made it to the finals, because a violent sneaker wave rose suddenly during the event, injuring three competitors. Paige Alms won the contest. But all six athletes made history as the first female big-wave surfers to compete in an official World Surf League event since the league was founded in 1976. https://67.media.tumblr.com/286e374a...9yzeo1_500.gif “We’re making dreams a reality,” Alms told The Huffington Post after her win. “To all the little girls out there, you can live your dreams if you work hard and stay focused.” * ^5 Paige! err I mean Hang Ten! |
Default Emergency Preparedness: Make a Kit and a Plan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLa...&v=wpDeSfIarSY This video is put out by a Southern California energy company (SDGE), but these are useful tips no matter where you live. |
Such a bad week for so many of us, we need to have a good laugh. So, tag I'm it.
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Riders on the storm (The Doors)
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Took the recoil pad and buttstock off my mossberg 12 gauge tonight. I do not like the 14 " Length of Pull (LOP) ... I think I have the perfect little saw in the storage room to cut 3.5 inches off the stock. The stock is black snythetic. Want to put a stubby vertical forend on it later.
Stroll in the park, right? I will comment after I have completed the modifications. |
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March 20, 2011 "Despite security concerns, the President decided to walk into the street to wave to people gathered outside the Cidade de Deus favela community center in Rio de Janeiro. As he was walking, a young boy reached out of a closed door and the President reached over to give him a fist bump." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) |
Supermoon begins tonight! Not another one until 2034
http://www.photopills.com/sites/defa...moon-cover.jpg On Nov. 14, skywatchers will be treated to a supermoon so big and bright that it’s being billed as a “super-dupermoon” or an “extra-supermoon.” Supermoons aren’t especially uncommon, but this will be the nearest that a full moon has come to Earth since January 26, 1948. The full moon won’t get this close again until November 25, 2034. The term supermoon refers to a full moon that occurs when our planet’s natural satellite is at its closest point to Earth in its elliptical orbit. Astronomers call that point perigee, and so “perigee moon” is another term for supermoon. (The point at which the moon is most distant from Earth in its orbit is known as apogee.) A supermoon can appear up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than an apogee full moon, according to NASA. The effect is most pronounced when the moon is viewed near the horizon. http://blogs-images.forbes.com/trevo....jpg?width=960 This supermoon is one of three to occur during the last three months of 2016. There was a supermoon on Oct. 16, and there will be another on Dec. 14. But this one coming up will be the most special of the lot ― so try not to miss it. What’s the best way to see the supermoon? “Just find a dark area clear of trees,” Dr. Noah Petro, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, told The Huffington Post in an email. “Anytime after dark is good and once the moon is up. There is no prime time when people have to do it, but the moon has to have risen for people to see it! : )” http://en.es-static.us/upl/2014/08/s...ography-sq.jpg *Super stoked! I hope ALL of us have clear skies tonight to see this thing of beauty. |
Christian mom blogger is dating soccer star Abby Wambach
When I read that Abby Wambach is with a Christian mom blogger, the voice inside my head screaming the words, “Please let it be Anna Duggar,” was so loud that I think I have a few more cracks on my skull. But it’s not Anna Duggar. http://a4.espncdn.com/media/motion/E...W_p1_REV-1.jpg Glennon Doyle Melton, an activist, Christian mom blogger and author of bestsellers like Love Warrior (not to be confused with the memoir I keep waiting for, God Warrior), announced in a Facebook message that three months after divorcing her now ex-husband Craig Melton, she has found herself in love with two-time Olympic gold medal-winning soccer star Abby Wambach. Glennon spends most of her post gushing from every orifice and pore about her potent love for Abby. Glennon has never felt a love like this. Glennon writes that her ex Craig is cool with it, he’s dating too. Their children are cool with it too and call Abby M&M, “because she looks tough on the outside but inside she’s really mushy and sweet.” Glennon says that everyone in her life, including members of her church, love Abby too. Glennon doesn’t say exactly when Abby first started kicking Ben Wa Balls into the goal on her crotch (I obviously know how lesbian sex works), but she makes it clear that she now knows the meaning of love. She is fully coochmatized and loving it. http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo...vchristian.jpg *What a beautiful couple |
Walnut goes on final walk with dad and hundreds of friends.
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cps...12174_walk.jpg Walnut met his dad, Mark Woods, when he was just a puppy, and the pair was best friends from the very beginning. The whippet lived a happy and loving life with his dad in England, but at 18 years old, his health was rapidly declining. His family had to make the tough decision to have him put down. http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/c...99_walnut1.jpg Woods was heartbroken at the thought of losing his beloved best friend, and he decided that before Walnut passed, he wanted to take him on one last walk — and he wanted the whole world to join them. "Sadly I am having to have Walnut euthanized on Saturday 12th November and so we will be having a last walk together on his beloved Porth Beach at 9:30 a.m.," Woods wrote on Facebook last week. "I would love it if dog lovers/owners and friends would join us for a celebration of Walnut." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/d...xylf-large.jpg Thousands of people shared the Facebook post, all wanting to give Walnut the best final send-off a dog could ask for. Walnut's family hoped that at least a handful of people would show up — and were shocked at just how many people actually came. On Saturday at 9:30 a.m., hundreds of people showed up on Porth Beach to walk alongside Walnut as he took in the sights and smells of his favorite place in the world one last time. *So very, vert sweet. Every now and then, humans exceed their reputation. RIP Walnut. Good boy good boy! http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/w/h/whipet.jpg?2 |
Meet the Astronaut to Becomes the Oldest Woman in Space
She’s also the first woman to serve as commander of the International Space Station. Peggy Whitson Ph.D. http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/73b64251f2...g-a-gy70hn.jpg At 56, astronaut Peggy Whitson is quite a bit younger than John Glenn was when ― in 1998 ― he became the oldest human to ever travel in space at age 77. But on Thursday, Whitson will set her own record when she rockets off the planet to become the oldest spacewoman ever. And it gets even better. Whitson will turn 57 in February while she’s orbiting on the International Space Station, reports the Associated Press. Previously Barbara Morgan held the distinction of oldest woman in space with her 2007 trip at 55. “I think it gets easier as you get older,” Whitson told the Des Moines Register. “You know what to worry about and what not to worry about. You prioritize your effort. It’s the ‘work smarter, not harder’ that with experience is much easier to do.” http://www.auntminnie.com/images/con..._41_37_706.jpg In 2007, Whitson became the first woman to serve as commander of the space station and also was the first — and so far only — woman to head NASA’s male-dominated astronaut corps. No other woman has spent more time in space. http://www.universetoday.com/wp-cont...03/whitson.jpg *What a miss smarty-pants (in a good way) |
Gwen Ifill interviewed by Julian Bond: Explorations in Black Leadership Series
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Heaven took an angel home that's for sure..RIP.
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Learn How To Cook Thanksgiving Dinner With A Drone
Whether you SHOULD do it is another matter entirely. https://media.giphy.com/media/AKyYv1nemEvg4/giphy.gif If expediency is more important than neatness, drones might be the perfect tool for making Thanksgiving dinner. The key word is “might.” Autel Robotics, a drone maker based in Bothell, Washington, recently posted a video showing what happens when a chef uses a drone to make various holiday side dishes. As the footage above shows, a drone can indeed be used as a cooking tool. But the verdict is still out on whether it should be. Take a look at how it works, dish by dish: The blades on the drone propellers can be used to peel potatoes before boiling them. https://media.giphy.com/media/9b3xt93dSIRzi/giphy.gif *oh heck, all we really need is a Super Bass-o-matic https://media.giphy.com/media/l0HlLW...ized-large.gif |
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Ellen DeGeneres Receives Medal of Freedom from President Obama
“Ellen counters what too often divides us with the countless things that bind us together,” Obama said in awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. http://cdn.pinknews.co.uk/images/201...t-22.48.36.png Ellen DeGeneres on Tuesday was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, alongside 20 other artists, athletes, scientists and philanthropists. President Barack Obama ― who had to stop mid-address because he was “getting kind of choked up” ― bestowed the award on the television host for her unwavering ability to make “you laugh about something, rather than at someone.” He praised DeGeneres’ historic bravery for publicly coming out of the closet nearly two decades ago, putting her career in jeopardy. “It’s easy to forget now, when we’ve come so far, where now marriage is equal under the law, just how much courage was required for Ellen to come out on the most public of stages almost 20 years ago. Just how important it was not just for the LGBT community, but for all us to see somebody so full of kindness and light. Somebody we liked so much, somebody who could be our neighbor or our colleague or our sister challenge our own assumptions. Remind us that we have more in common than we realize, push our country in the direction of justice. What an incredible burden it was to bear, to risk your career like that. People don’t do that very often.” *Oh my goodness, the Obamas are the classiest, most down to earth people who have ever resided in the White House. They will be missed so much. 'Michelle 2020' |
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