Posted: September 19, 2016 | Author: Inga | Filed under: Books, News | Tags: Agatha Christie, Best Selling, Witches |
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images, And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
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Posted: September 17, 2016 | Author: Inga | Filed under: Calendar, Lunar, News | Tags: harvest moon |
I found it interesting that there is still so much confusion about what Harvest Moon means. Many sites including NASA seem to think it is just the full Moon in September but it isn’t quite that simple. In a terribly oversimplified explanation what you are seeing is the solar calendar (the months) and the lunar calendar not lining up very well. The following text is from the Farmer’s Almanac:
The Harvest Moon is the one that occurs the closest to the Autumnal Equinox so this year it occurs in September, although occasionally this title can be bestowed upon the October full Moon. From 1970 to 2020 this happens twelve times and, in fact, will happen in 2017. The 2016 version of the Harvest Moon comes six days prior to the Autumnal Equinox, although it can occur as early as September 8 (as in 2014) or as late as October 7 (as in 1987).
Source article: http://farmersalmanac.com/astronomy/2016/09/12/harvest-moon-2016/
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Posted: September 10, 2016 | Author: Inga | Filed under: Spinning and weaving | Tags: LOL memory, Moon, nasa, Science |
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Learn about core rope memory and how it’s a part of both weaving history and scientific history. Without weavers, we couldn’t have gotten to the moon!
Read more at the Source: Weaving History: How Weaving Took Us to the Moon | Weaving Today
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Posted: August 5, 2016 | Author: Inga | Filed under: Dogstuff, News | Tags: dog, gobi, runner |
An extreme marathon runner met a stray dog with whom he formed an “unbreakable bond” during a 250-kilometre (155 mile) race in the Gobi desert in China. Dion Leonard, 41, said he hoped to raise the funds that will allow him to be reunited with the dog, named Gobi, who joined him during the annual 4 Deserts Race Series in March.
Mr Leonard, from Edinburgh, developed a particularly close bond with Gobi. He told The Independent: “At the start of Day two, Gobi was on the start line next to me looking up at me.
“This was the first contact I had with her and as I ran off the line I noticed her by my side.
“I didn’t speak much to her that day thinking she wouldn’t stay with me, but at the finish line she followed me into the tent and we slept next to each other. That was it then.”
Read more at the Source: Man who befriended stray dog during extreme desert marathon launches reunion appeal | Home News | News | The Independent
See some very cute pictures or donate at Dion’s CrowdFunder Page
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Posted: July 27, 2016 | Author: Inga | Filed under: Movies, News | Tags: aliens, Cameron, Weaver |
Aliens celebrated its 30th Anniversary at San Diego Comic-Con 2016 and Producer Gale Anne Hurd, Director James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn and others were on hand to discuss the film and to reflect on how the film industry has changed from the 80’s to today. I’m not sure I could count how many times we’ve bought this film let alone watched it. I mean with any Cameron you have the original release in the theater, then VHS, then DVD, then the boxed set, then the Director’s Cut with additional scenes, now BluRay, and I’m sure there will an anniversary set with interviews and commentary coming soon. If they print it, we’ll buy it!😉
Here is the complete collection of Alien’s 30th Anniversary Interviews:
Hurd & Cameron
Weaver & Paxton
Henrickson & Reiser
Biehn & Henn
I love this anecdote, Henn, who left acting and is now a fourth grade teacher, mentioned that a lot of her student’s parents show up to parent/teacher conferences with DVD’s for her to sign.*
*Link: spinoff comicbook resources
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Posted: July 24, 2016 | Author: Inga | Filed under: News | Tags: animals, vaquita |
From VlogVaquita: The day has finally come. Every type of gillnet is permanently banned in the vaquita’s range. There will never again be a legal gillnet in the upper Gulf of California. On 7/22/16, Presidents Obama and Peña Nieto had a meeting to discuss relations between the US and Mexico. In the press release following the meeting, it was announced that the gillnet ban would be made permanent to protect the vaquita:
“Both Presidents committed to intensify bilateral cooperation to protect the critically endangered vaquita marina porpoise, including through the following actions:
- Mexico will make permanent a ban on the use of gillnets in all fisheries throughout the range of the vaquita in the upper Gulf of California;
- Both countries will increase cooperation and enforcement efforts to immediately halt the illegal fishing for and illegal trade in totoaba swim bladders;
- Both countries will redouble efforts, in collaboration with international experts, to develop alternative fishing gear to gillnets that does not result in the entanglement of vaquita and establish “vaquita-safe” fisheries; and
- Both countries will establish and implement a long-term program to remove and permanently dispose of illegal and derelict fishing gear from vaquita habitat in the upper Gulf of California.”
You can read the entire press release here, which contains other announcements not related to the vaquita.
This is a major victory.
Click the link to read more… The gillnet ban is permanent!
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Posted: July 17, 2016 | Author: Inga | Filed under: Books, Coaching, News | Tags: Amazon Reviews, Coaching, One Minute Manager, Who Moved My Cheese |
I was on Amazon buying a Kindle version of The One Minute Manager because it is an excellent book and in the ribbon of “suggestions” below I noticed a link to Who Moved My Cheese which was written by one of the authors. Spouse-man got a copy of it once from work along with the rest of the IT dept and it was a harbinger of bad things coming. I clicked it, curious to read what others thought of it and I saw these reviews, they might be the best I’ve read. I hope you enjoy them too…
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