31 Halloween Movies we love!

Since October has 31 days, here's a list of 31 Halloween movies we like to watch

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So long September

We finished a full month of homeschooling! So far, this 2016-2017 homeschool year has been a good one. The kids are starting to do anything humanly possible to NOT start their school day. Or, once started, anything to avoid finishing it. It's been a challenge some days, but overall, we're covering a lot of ground.

The kids need to work on sticking with chores. Those have been falling back into my lap. I'm guessing, they realized, they will get done whether by them or me. I found these cute little chore pics on Pinterest. I printed out a few sets and laminated them. I'll be making a chore section for Chris with pay the bills as a permanent chore :)

Balsamic Pot Roast in the crockpot

3lb beef roast
1 1/2 c. beef broth
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. balsamic vinegar
1 Tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
3 cloves garlic, pressed
1 lb baby carrots
5 radishes
1 medium onion, diced
2 lbs baby red potatoes, quartered
In a small bowl whisk together beef broth, brown sugar, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, salt, red pepper flakes.
Place beef roast in crock pot. Top with carrots, potatoes, radishes, onion, and garlic. Pour liquid mixture over the beef, vegetable mix.
Cook on low for 6-8 hours.


I'm using a frozen piece of meat.





This is going to be delicious


 

October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month

October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, and there’s no better way to celebrate than by bringing home a furry friend from your local shelter.

Our first family dog Kelsie was a shelter dog. She was returned to the ASPCA 3 times before finding her forever home with us.

She was the greatest dog ever. She loved every kid like she was their mother, very protective. When I first met Chris, she was very protective of him. She would jump on any and everyone, very wild and energetic. Even into her old age, she would still bark at any and everyone who walked by our house.

She lived to be 15 years old. Our hearts are broken and our house is a lot emptier now that she's gone.

Halloween Magazine Art

http://www.jennyknappenberger.com/10-halloween-art-lessons-for-kids/

We made magazine strip art this afternoon. I think it was relaxing for them. They were unplugged from Roblox and Minecraft for about 2 hours! I did print out the halloween figures and I found another set of smaller halloween coloring pages over at http://www.mamasmiles.com/printables/



I did notice, searching back for that last link, she has the haunted house peek in the window project. We did that the last two Halloweens, so we tried this with the magazines instead. The month hasn't even begun yet and we still might make it.


October 29, 2014 Haunted house

National Coffee Day

I'm a newbie when it comes to all things coffee. I started drinking coffee 3 years ago. That's right, we've been homeschooling for three years and that's when I started drinking coffee. At my former job people would rave about the fancy coffee machine. I used it for tea or hot chocolate. I was missing out all those years!


Several business have been advertising a free small coffee for today. It's a rainy day here and I'm not heading out for just a small cup of coffee.




September 29 is coffee day

Fall stovetop simmer potpourri

I just found some bruised apples in the refrigerator. I was inspired to make a stove simmer. It's a cold rainy day here in Baltimore and I'd love nothing more than to lesson plan all day. I know that's not going to happen, but I can hope!

I started to boil about three cups of water
Once it was bubbling, I added the following
I peeled the apple and cut it into big chunks
I peeled the oranges and cut those into thirds
I found a stick of cinnamon and peeled it apart a few times
I added in cloves to make me feel like I was making a witches brew
I turned the fire down and let it simmer

National Drink Beer Day

National Drink Beer Day is a real day. Welcome to America!

http://beerhunter.com/

http://beerhunter.com/beerhistory.html

World’s first baby born with new “3 parent” technique

A Jordanian couple has been trying to start a family for almost 20 years. Ten years after they married, she became pregnant, but it ended in the first of four miscarriages.

In 2005, the couple gave birth to a baby girl. It was then that they discovered the probable cause of their fertility problems: a genetic mutation in the mother’s mitochondria. Their daughter was born with Leigh syndrome, which affects the brain, muscles and nerves of developing infants. Sadly, she died aged six. The couple’s second child had the same disorder, and lived for 8 months.

Using a controversial “three-parent baby” technique, the boy was born on 6 April 2016. He is showing no signs of disease.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2107219-exclusive-worlds-first-baby-born-with-new-3-parent-technique/

Mexican Jumping Beans

WHAT'S INSIDE???                                          
This amazing little, live bean, the size of your fingernail, has been entertaining and fascinating both young and old alike for more than 50 years, proof enough that they are harmless, yet entertaining natural wonders. It is a member of the TORTRICADAE family. This family is somewhat of a curiosity. A moth, of the Genus and Species Larva, TINEOIDEA/ LASPEYRESIA SALTITANS lays its egg in the flower tree called EUPHORBIACEAE SEBASTIANA PAVONIANA, found only in Mexico. The flower then forms a seedpod around the moth egg. This seedpod serves as a temporary home for "JUMPING BEANDITO".

When the early May rains start, the seedpod matures, splits into three parts and falls to the ground. The egg turns into a caterpillar which then consumes the seed inside. The jumping movements are the caterpillar's movements to get to the edible seed. Eventually, the caterpillar will spin a silk cocoon which causes more jumping. It will then go dormant for a short time. It is not dead. Instead, it is going through metamorphosis. It will turn into a tiny, harmless moth that does not pose any danger to either clothes, plants or humans. You can actually watch the small moth emerge. If you should be so lucky as to see a moth hatch, do not worry. It will not harm a thing and it hates the taste of clothes. The moth does not require food. Point it South and let it go, PLEASE!!!! A happy bean prefers to rest in a cool, dark place when it is not jumping. They also love to travel, so take them along in your shirt pocket. The warmth of your heart will make them bounce. Occasionally, they do like a little drink. So be kind and give them a light mist once a week. They are ideal pets since they don't need to be walked, fed or brushed. PS, They jump best to music!

Hey kids, play our online puzzles and test your skills.
Four different puzzles, one of each Beandito. Time yourselves and challenge your friends.

THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROVES OF THE IMPORTATION OF JUMPING BEANS INTO THE UNITED STATES, STATING THAT THEY POSE NO DANGER WHAT SO EVER TO OUR PLANT LIFE, MATERIAL GOODS (CLOTHES) OR HUMANS, AND THAT THEY ARE NON-TOXIC.
POISON CONTROL CENTERS LIST THE BEANS AS HARMLESS, STATING THAT THE ONLY DANGER IMPOSED BY THE BEAN IN CASES OF SWALLOWING ONE, ARE FROM THE GERMS THAT MIGHT BE FOUND ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE POD, AS WITH ANY ITEM WHICH IS SWALLOWED.


http://jbean.com/
Henry brought these mexican jumping beans home today from AWANA. I used to have jumping beans from Ocean City, MD when I was a little younger than he is. I kept mine in my jean drawer and put it on the window sill. Never had a moth.
I just heard them pop and noticed the http://jbean.com/ website on the case.


Henry's beans look like these. We thought they got smashed in his bag.
http://jbean.com/pages/puzzles.html
http://jbean.com/pages/freegame.html
The MJB website has games.. Henry's case says, Chiquita Beandita.
They have little stories http://jbean.com/pages/story.html
I'm totally showing his these games. This was an awesome prize! I think, the girls will like a jumping bean, too.
 Chiquita Beandita, the renegade. Never afraid to make a mistake, is the renegade. Not one to dress like an ordinary bean, she likes to put on a show. Her Jumping Beandito footwork is pretty amazing. It is said that she studied Flamenco. Her main job as a Beandito is to teach others how to be strong, persevere and never, never be afraid of failure.

Vlogoween Cootie Catchers

I guess the children love making youtube videos. We're preparing 30 crafts for Vlogoween. Today I found these cute cootie catchers. http://www.easypeasyandfun.com/halloween-cootie-catchers/ The pumpkin and vampire designs are free and for $3.99 you can purchase the other patterns. I don't have a color printer, so I opted for the free choices; the kids can color them and they'll never know otherwise.

10 New uses for those obsolete wired headphones

iPhone 7 is here and the drawer full of useless headphones, is too

1. ear canal muffs
2. chicken leash
3. playing with your cat
4. hypnotizing someone into buying your iPhone 6s
5. upcycled necklace
6. techie tie
7. a garotte
8. clothes line
9. hair extensions
10. tie down your mattress

Which is the deadlier planet: Mars or Venus?

What Are the Six Tastes in Ayurveda?

Ayurvedic medicine -- also known as Ayurveda -- is one of the world's oldest holistic (whole-body) healing systems. It was developed thousands of years ago in India. It is based on the belief that health and wellness depend on a delicate balance between the mind, body, and spirit.


What Are the Six Tastes in Ayurveda?

To find out exactly how much of each taste you should eat, you'd have to visit an Ayurveda practitioner for a personal assessment, but here are some typical foods categorized by taste to give you an idea of what's often incorporated into a meal or diet, according to Shah:

Sweet: sweet corn, sweet peas, sweet potatoes

Sour: lemons, limes, yogurt, tomatoes, kimchi

Salty: seaweed (the only naturally salty food, Shah says, but anything you sprinkle salt on counts as salty)

Pungent: black pepper, jalapeños, paprika, ginger, hot sauce

Bitter: kale, arugula, spinach, dandelion leaves, grapefruit

Astringent: pomegranate seeds, broccoli, cauliflower, turnip

Dyslexia and visual thinkers

My child has a totally different way of seeing the world! He thinks in 3D Pictures.
Stop for a moment and look up from your computer. All around you are things that were designed by someone. Even the webpage in front of you was designed. Your computer was designed. The room you are sitting in, the clothing you are wearing? Everything was designed, and chances are they were designed by a person with the gift of being able to think visually.


Some people are able to imagine something in their minds that has not yet been created. They are able to envision a better way of doing things. They are able to envision an object and change the size, shape and color using the power of the 3D workstation called the imagination. The people who designed the objects all around you were often called bad students, day-dreamers and doodlers. They are the visual thinkers.

What if your child is a visual thinker? Only 10% of the population have the power to think visually, rather than to think with words. The people with the most powerful of visual minds often have an imbalance when it comes to standardized learning situations. The visual mind swirls with colors, ideas, music, art, and creativity and drives the visual thinker into a state of constant creativity and movement. Standardized systems of learning try to conform the child and make efforts to normalize him through medication, punishment, and control so he will not be a disrupting in the classroom.

The visual thinker learns differently, and if you ask me, I would tell you that they can not be taught, they must discover. They struggle with the lifelessness of flat pages, the discomfort of the desk, the buzz of the florescent lights, dullness of flat words on a page, and concepts void of emotion, dimension and wonder. They will ponder the mysteries of measurement and time, but their minds go blank when sitting at a desk staring at repetitive lists of math facts. They create works of art and new inventions from items rescued from the trash can, but can't hold a pencil correctly when asked to write down their spelling words. They can tell the most amazing stories and their words will take you to far off lands and fill the air with magic and mystery, but if asked to put a sentence on paper, they might just cry. They are brilliant, they are amazing, they are curious and brave... until they are forced to conform to a way of learning designed for children who have no dancing, no questions, no music and no colors in their minds.

The majority of students will be content to follow the instructions, fill in the blanks, and make their lists on paper, but the visual thinker was not created for desks, for charts, for lists, for textbooks, for flash cards, for teachers, or for chalkboards... they would dance on the desk, challenge the teacher, they would add color to the chart, they would roll up the chart to make a telescope or a musical instrument, they would stack the text books and build houses for invisible people, they would turn the flashcards in to a magic trick and turn the chalkboard into a work of art that belongs in a museum. They are constantly in search of the third dimension, the music and the movement.

The visual thinkers of the world were created to be the designers, inventors, the artists, the musicians, the sailors and explorers. We say they have a problem with obedience and respect or we call it Dyslexia, Asperger's Syndrome or ADHD. We try to tame them. Honestly, we have failed them.If a child is failing in his classroom, it is the classroom that failed the child, the child is not the one with a problem just because he learns differently.

The child must be set free to be the inventor, the artist, the dancer. So who will teach the inventor? Who will train the artist? The child must become his own teacher, and his parents and teachers must become his students, to learn from him, to understand him, to realize that he has within him the power to become great. We need to learn, to discover how to help him become who he was meant to be. We must accept that it may never happen in a desk, in a classroom and behind a pile of textbooks, even if you give the child medication and take away his crayons. Do you want to be the one to take away Albert's compass, Benjamin's kite, or Leonardo's paintbrush or little Thomas Edison's mirrors?

What is the solution for the child who fails in the classroom? Set him free from the classroom. Ask the child what he wants to learn about. Ask the child what he wants to do. Take the child to the book store, take the child to the art store, take the child to the beach, the forest, the ruins of a castle. Give him pets and let him catch lizards. Read to him until he learns to read to himself. Search for learning materials that captivate the visual mind, things like compasses, clay, mirrors and paintbrushes. Let him sail, play instruments, and dig in the dirt. Let him take things apart and give him colored pencils. Let him watch people at work doing all different things in the world, take him to the kitchen, take him to an art studio, take him into factories and show him how to use sewing machines, instruments, scroll-saws, and tools. Let her dance.

Someday you will look around the world and see things that were designed by someone great - your child. You will hear music that composed by someone great - your child. You will read books written by someone great - your child. You will try new recipes invented by someone great - your child. You will use computer programs designed by someone great - your child. Your child, the one who wouldn't sit still, who couldn't memorize math facts, who choked on spelling words, who danced on her desk, who failed in the classroom, who later designed a miracle and learned to tame lions... because she had a parent who set her free to be herself. Because he had a father who gave him tools instead of flashcards. Because she was set free to become who she was designed to be. He was given the love, acceptance, support and trust. She was free to dance, sing and draw.

This article was written by Sarah J. Brown, a visual thinker with Asperger's Syndrome. She failed 3rd grade because she spent too much time doodling and daydreaming. When she was 13 her parents chose to homeschool, because the school system was failing her. Sarah is the inventor of Dyslexia Games, a learning program for children with dyslexia, ADHD and Autism who need a learning program that uses art to teach reading, writing and spelling.



www.dyslexiagames.com

Five wild lionesses grow a mane and start acting like males

By Karl Gruber
This lion king (pictured above) is a queen. And she’s not the only one.

Five lionesses in Botswana have grown a mane and are showing male-like behaviours. One is even roaring and mounting other females.

Male lions are distinguished by their mane, which they use to attract females, and they roar to protect their territory or call upon members of their pride. Females lack a mane and are not as vocal.

But sometimes lionesses grow a mane and even behave a bit like males. However, until now, reports of such maned lionesses have been extremely rare and largely anecdotal. We knew they existed, but little about how they behave.

Now, Geoffrey D. Gilfillan at the University of Sussex in Falmer, UK, and colleagues have reported five lionesses sporting a mane at the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana’s Okavango delta.

Gilfillan started studying these lionesses back in March 2014, and for the next two years he focused on recording the behaviour of one of them, called SaF05. She had an underdeveloped mane and was larger than most females.

“While SaF05 is mostly female in her behaviour – staying with the pride, mating males – she also has some male behaviours, such as increased scent-marking and roaring, as well as mounting other females,” says Gilfillan.

“Although females do roar and scent-mark like males, they usually do so less frequently,” he says. “SaF05, however, was much more male-like in her behaviour, regularly scent-marking and roaring.”



A likely explanation is an increased level of testosterone as these lionesses mature, says Luke Hunter, president and chief conservation officer at the global wild cat conservation organisation Panthera.

In lions, testosterone directly affects the development of manes. Castrated males, for example, lose their ability to produce testosterone and promptly lose their mane, too.

In 2011, a captive lioness called Emma at the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa developed a mane. Tests revealed high levels of testosterone due to a problem in her ovaries, and once they were removed she reverted to a typical lioness.

The idea that testosterone is implicated in the Botswana lionesses is also backed by observations of their reproductive success, says Kathleen Alexander at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

“While some of the maned lionesses were observed mating, none of them became pregnant, suggesting they are infertile, a known consequence of high levels of androgens such as testosterone in females,” she says. “The behavioural changes suggest this is likely the case.”

Hunter suspects this explanation applies to the animals studied by Gilfillan and his colleagues. “Given all five known maned females come from the Okavango region, there must be a genetic component in this population underlying the phenomenon,” he says.

“I don’t think this is anything to be concerned about,” says Hunter. “Although the females are apparently infertile, they otherwise appear to live long, healthy lives. And from a conservation perspective, there is nothing to suggest the pattern is increasing or will ever be anything more than a rare, local phenomenon.”

No one seems to be studying the exact genetic and hormonal causes of this phenomenon at the moment. “I guess there are just one or a few genes altered,” says Vincent Savolainen at Imperial College London, who had a student briefly work on the possible causes. “I believe some masculinised genes have been documented in domesticated cats – it would be good to look into this, especially given that the cat genome is available as reference.”

Could the masculinised females in fact be a boon to the pride when it comes to competing with other prides? It’s possible, it seems.

Gilfillan says he once saw SaF05 bring down a zebra. “A neighbouring pride stole the zebra from SaF05, but in return SaF05 killed two of their cubs.”

Cub-killing behaviour is rare in females but common in males.

Journal reference: African Journal of Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/aje.12360

Inspiring Miscarriage Tattoo

I think this is beautiful. I really hope sharing this article and tattoo idea helps others out there suffering through a loss.

From Woman's Day

After Joan Bremer posted a photo of her newest tattoo to Imgur, it quickly went viral-and we can see why. While most tattoos have hidden meanings, Joan's tells the story of something that isn't usually talked about: About seven weeks into her pregnancy, she began to experience bleeding and cramping. Joan soon realized she was having a miscarriage.

"All of my tattoos represent a time or event in my life," Joan told WomansDay.com. "Even though this was a personal tragedy for us, I still wanted to be able to mark it in some way."

Joan says she had already told her friends and family that she was expecting a baby, so it made sense that she allowed them to share in the burden of her loss. The one single line represents an umbilical cord while the two hearts are mother and baby.

"My husband and I do like to think it represents the baby that we will always carry in our hearts even, while moving forward in our life as a couple and hopeful family," said Joan.

Her tattoo, by Joey at California Electric Tattoo, is inspiring women across the internet to chime in with their own stories of loss.

"Miscarriages are super, super common. It's time to end the stigma surrounding them and talk more about it when we talk about reproduction," commented kellyography, an Imgur user.

According to the Mayo Clinc, about 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. However, many miscarriages occur before a woman even knows she's pregnant.

"So many people have reached out and said that they have had miscarriages, but never talked about it," said Joan. "Being able to talk about it, share with other women, and hear other people's experiences has been extremely healing for me."

Joan and her husband plan to keep trying to conceive after her body heals. She one day hopes to give birth to a rainbow baby.

Netflix October 2016 Movie and TV Titles Announced

Netflix October 2016 Movie and TV Titles Announced

We are anxiously waiting for Haters Back Off on October 14th.

All Netflix October 2016 titles and dates are subject to change.



AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1


A Cinderella Story (2004)
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Blue Streak (1999)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief (2008)
Fairy Tale: A True Story (1997)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
Ghost Town (2008)
Grizzly Man (2005)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Millennium (1989)
Murder Maps: Season 2 (2015)
My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree (2016)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Oriented (2015)
Patton (1970)
Picture This! (2008)
Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997)
The Queen of the Damned (2002)
Quiz Show (1994)
Robotech (1985)
RV (2006)
Saving Mr. Wu (2015)
Snake Eyes (1998)
Snow Day (2000)
Sphere (1998)
Three Kings (1999)
Titanic (1997)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Uninvited (2009)
Unsealed: Alien Files: Season 4
Without a Paddle (2004)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 3

Dheepan (2015)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 4

American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5)
Chevalier (2015)
Dartmoor Killing (2015)
The Flash: Season 2
The Grinder: Season 1

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 5

Arrow: Season 4

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 6

iZombie: Season 2

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 7

13TH (2016) ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Dinotrux: Season 3 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Ranch: Season 1 Part 2 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Russell Peters: Almost Famous  NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Siege of Jadotville (2016) ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Supernatural: Season 11

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 8

The Originals: Season 3
Vampire Diaries: Season 7

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 9

Kuromukuro: Season 2 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Love Between the Covers (2015)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 12

Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (2016) NETFLIX ORIGINAL

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 13

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Season 1
Mascots (2016) ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL


AVAILABLE OCTOBER 14

Haters Back Off!: Season 1 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Project MC2: Season 3 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo­Qiang (2016) ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15

Being George Clooney (2016)
Chapo: el escape del siglo (2016)
Glitch: Season 1 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Power Rangers Dino Super Charge: Season 1: Part 1

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 16

Dark Matter: Season 2

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21

Black Mirror: Season 3 (Part 1) ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Containment: Season 1
Joe Rogan: Triggered ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show: Season 3  NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Word Party: Season 2 NETFLIX ORIGINAL

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24

Doctor Foster: Season 1

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 25

Big Eyes (2014)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 26

Jesus Camp (2006)
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 28

7 años (2016) ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Into the Inferno (2016) ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Skylanders Academy: Season 1 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park: Europe ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 29

The Fall: Season 3 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 31

Chewing Gum: Season 1 ­NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Katie Prager passes away five days after husband

I love a great love story; and I'm glad these two were able to fall in love and feel love these last few years.

Katie passed away, just five days after Dalton.

They were born with the genetic disorder that attacks the lungs and also affects the digestive system and multiple other organs. They met through a mutual friend, and were married five years ago.

Both received lung transplants but developed complications including lymphoma.

American Visionary Art Museum Lumin-Eeries Lantern workshop

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/american-visionary-art-museum-tickets-26908891218


Join us for another freaky Free Fall Halloween Celebration at AVAM!

5-7pm: Free "Lumin-Eeries" Lantern-Making Workshop!
Monsters & their Mummies are invited to create their own eerie luminary lantern. BYO Glass Jar (any size w/ label removed). All materials: glue, paper, googly eyes & bling provided. ALL AGES family workshop in our Sculpture Barn & Face Painting too!

5-7pm: Free Museum Admission! Explore AVAM's latest original mega theme exhibition: Yummm! The History, Fantasy, and Future of Food, & tour the rest of our wonderland campus.

5:30pm: Join AVAM & Race Pace Bicycles for the first ever "Ride of Frankenstein" pre-Flick bike ride. Meet at 5:30pm at Race Pace Bicycles (1410 Key Hwy), then pedal through the historic neighborhoods & parks of Federal Hill, ending at AVAM around 6:30pm – just in time for you to visit the museum & catch the free Flick From The Hill screening of Young Frankenstein at 7pm! Bring your own bike, or rent one from Race Pace Federal Hill (please call ahead to reserve as supply is limited: 410-986-0001); helmets, lights & locks are strongly suggested. COSTUMES ENCOURAGED!

7pm: Free Fall Flick: Young Frankenstein (1974)! Bring a blanket and get cozy on Federal Hill, as our critically acclaimed outdoor movie series, Flicks From The Hill, makes a special, one night only October appearance. Costumes encouraged! (Movie rain location: inside AVAM's Jim Rouse Visionary Center, 3rd floor)

Free Fall Baltimore Black Cherry Puppet Workshop

FREE FALL BALTIMORE
at BLACK CHERRY!

​Join us at Black Cherry to celebrate FREE FALL!
Three Sundays of FREE performances and puppet making in the garden! October 9, 16 & 23

Puppet shows will be at 1pm and 3pm

​Drop by the garden to make your own puppet to take home
anytime between 1:30pm-3pm

http://blackcherrypuppettheater.weebly.com/upcoming-events.html



Black Cherry Puppet Theater presents three Sundays of free performances for the entire family from some of the finest puppeteers from Baltimore and the region, as well as puppet making workshops.
Performances featuring different shows each week are at 1:00 and 3:00.
Drop in PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOPS are from 1:30 until 3:00 each day in Black Cherry's Garden.
No tickets are needed for these events. Just come early to the show to ensure the best seats.
Check out www.blackcherry.org or like us on FaceBook to find each week's performances.

FAQs

Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
These events are for the entire family.

What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
There is street parking in front of the theater.

What can/can't I bring to the event?
Patron's are welcome to bring and enjoy a picnic lunch in our garden.

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email us at info@blackcherry.org, like us on FaceBook or check www.blackcherry.org for more info.

GoPro captures shark encounter with a kayak

Drew Trousdell became visibly concerned after the first violent tug on his paddle as he kayaked outside the surf recently in Florida’s Matanzas Inlet.

What could it have been but a shark?

Troudsdell picked up his pace, determined to reach the shore as quickly as possible.

But the shark kept pace, biting Trousdell’s paddle again and again. At one point the predator appears to have gone after the back of the kayak.

Trousdell, who captured the footage with a GoPro mounted on the bow of his vessel, made it to shore and later discovered that he was fortunate not to have been capsized during the tense encounter.

The shark is difficult to detect at full speed in the YouTube video, but stop-motion screen shots beginning at 1:07 reveal the shark’s head and body partially out of the water as it lunges after the paddle. Bite marks on the paddle are visible at the end of the video.

Matanzas Inlet, south of St. Augustine in St. Johns County, is a narrow channel connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the south end of the Matanzas River.

George Burgess, a renowned shark expert from Florida Museum of Natural history, told GrindTV that the shark was most likely a blacktip shark.

“It’s a fish-eating shark that no doubt interpreted the splashing of the paddle tips as movements of normal prey species,” Burgess said. “At this time of year the mullet ‘run’ is underway with thousands upon thousands of these estuarine/lagoonal species departing the shallows through inlets to mass up along the beaches prior to moving offshore to spawn.

“Sharks, tarpons, jacks, barracudas, porpoises and other larger predators take turns on this rich resource.  Surfers – and yes, kayakers – take a risk when sharing these waters during the annual mullet run. We had four bites this past Sunday in Volusia and Brevard counties, all on surfers.


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Happy Fall! Free Maryland Zoo Admission

Free Fall Baltimore 

Come visit The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore on Wednesday, October 5 to help kick off Free Fall Baltimore! The Zoo is open from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. Free admission offered at The Zoo's Main Gate, no ticket needed.


We try to make it to this event every year. Just pack a lunch and wear comfy shoes.




http://www.marylandzoo.org/

Jello no bake CRUST directions

We have been busy busy these last two weeks and according to my calendar there's no slowing down anytime soon. Roaming through the cabinets, I found some apple liqueur and now, I'm ready to make a pie!
 I have apples, lots of apples. I also have a few jello no bake pie crust mixes. I'm not a fan of pie crust, I usually buy the oreo premade pie crust.

If you ever end up with just the packet of jello pie crust dry mix and its been eons later here's the directions
2 tbs sugar
5 tbs melted butter or margarine
mix in a pie plate until crumbles are moistened
press into the pie plate

pour in cheese cake mixture and refrigerate

3 phrases all introverts should use

These 3 phrases reflect basic emotional needs: the need to feel supported, the need to celebrate our accomplishments, and the need to be appreciated.

1. "Let me help you with that"
2. "I'm impressed"
3. "Thank you"

Hawaii's Overflowing Lava Lake

Kilauea volcano has expelled more magma than usual, creating spectacular displays of lava lakes, creating several kilometers of new land, and lava overflowing into the Pacific Ocean. The rising lava lake level can be seen from the nearby Jagger Museum at the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, especially at sunset and night when the lava lake gives off an incandescent glow.

Impressive aerial images reveal the Earth as you've never seen it before

Stunning aerial images reveal the Earth as you've never seen it before



The Arlit Uranium Mine (pictured)  is located in Arlit, Niger. French nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons are dependent on the uranium extracted from the mine – more than 3,400 tonnes per year



The Mir Mine is an inactive, open-pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 1,722 feet (525 m) deep and has a diameter of 3,900 feet (1,200 m), making it the second largest excavated hole in the world. Active for 44 years, the mine had an output of 10 million carats of diamond per year during peak production in the 1960s




Center pivot irrigation is used throughout the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin of Saudi Arabia. Water is mined from depths as great as one kilometer (~3,000 ft), pumped to the surface, and evenly distributed by lines of sprinklers that rotate 360 degrees around a central motor




Waste ponds are seen at the Neves-Corvo Mine in the Castro Verde Municipality in Portugal. Zinc and copper and the primary resources extracted from the mine and the byproducts of that extraction is sent to these basins. Typically, once waste materials are pumped into a tailings pond, they are mixed with water to create slurry

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The coal terminal at the Port of Qinhuangdao in China is the largest coal shipping facility in the country. From here, approximately 210 million tonnes of coal are transported to power plants throughout southern China every year. In 2015, new data revealed the country has been burning up to 17 per cent more coal each year than previously disclosed




Fruit trees swirl on the hills of Huelva, Spain. The climate here is ideal for this growth with an average temperature of 17.8° C (64° F) and a relative humidity between 60 per cent and 80 per cent


The Port of Hamburg - known as Germany's 'Gateway to the World' - is located on the Elbe River in Hamburg. On an average day, the facility is accessed by 28 ships, 200 freight trains, and 5,000 trucks. In total, the port moves 132.3 million tonnes of cargo each year - that's roughly 1/3 of the mass of all living human beings


Radiating streets that surround the Plaza Del Ejecutivo in Mexico City, Mexico. In total, the city is home to nearly nine million residents




Jeongwang-dong is an industrial sector in the city of Ansan, South Korea. The Korean government intensively drove a plan to develop the modern city, particularly in this area, with an emphasis on manufacturing. The striking blue colour that you see here results from the use of aluminum roofing, which is used for its low cost and longevity


Evaporation ponds are visible at the potash mine in Moab, Utah. The mine produces muriate of potash, a potassium-containing salt that is a major component in fertilisers. Salt is pumped to the surface from underground brines and dried in massive solar ponds that vibrantly extend across the landscape



Selkirk Yard is a freight railroad yard located eight miles south of Albany, New York that serves as a gateway to points east of the Hudson River, including New York City. Using computerized controls, the yard can process more than 3,200 cars per day



The Jwaneng Diamond Mine in Botswana is the richest diamond mine in the world with an annual output of as much as 15.6 million carats (2006). Mine richness takes into account the rate of diamond extraction combined with quality of the diamonds that are mined (sale price per weight




Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. The airport is well-known for the approach to Runway 10, seen at the bottom of this Overview. Here arriving aircraft must have a 3° glide slope, flying at a shockingly low altitude over people relaxing on Maho Beach, to land safely



The Grande Dixence Dam in the canton of Valais in Switzerland is the tallest gravity dam in the world with a height of 935 feet (285 m). A gravity dam resists the horizontal thrust of the contained water, in this case the Dixence River, entirely by its own weight. The Grand Dixence took 14 years to construct and contains approximately six million cubic meters of concrete



The largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world is located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, US. The boneyard – run by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group – contains more than 4,400 retired American military and government aircrafts



Colourful, metal-roofed industrial buildings line the coast of Tokai, Japan. The city's economy is dominated by a massive steel mill - a portion of which is seen at the bottom of this Overview. Nippon Steel, the company that owns the mill, has an annual production of more than 47 million tons of steel across its various facilities



Frankfurt Airport is the busiest airport in Germany, averaging 1,365 flights per day and 65 million passengers per year. With more than 70,000 employees, the airport is also the single largest workplace in the country



Tahoe Keys is an incorporated community in El Dorado County, California. Built in the 1960s, the community consists of more than 1,500 homes built on a series of canals that connect to Lake Tahoe




A cloverleaf interchange is constructed on the outskirts of Doha, Qatar. The objective of a cloverleaf is to allow two highways to cross without the need to stop traffic



This Overview captures salt evaporation ponds in San Francisco, California. Here, water is channeled into massive basins where it begins a transformation into brines. Over five years, the brines evaporate, concentrate, and travel several miles before they are collected as pure salt crystals. The massive ponds get their vibrant red colors from Dunaliella algae

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Floating farm could grow food on empty cargo ships

Design student Philippe Hohlfeld, from London's Royal College of Art (RCA), has devised a way to stop this empty space going to waste. Grow Frame is a collapsible hydroponic farm that could grow vegetables inside the empty containers during the weeks-long sea voyage.

    "Grow Frame tackles the challenge that half of all containers going to China are empty. And that means, right now, 13 million containers annually are traveling around with just air. And when I heard about that I thought 'no, that's not a problem, that's an opportunity'," Hohlfeld told Reuters.

    "Every container is 12 square meters of land, and they're basically free. And free real estate in the world is really hard to come by, and especially in the countries where they end up in China and Japan and south-east Asia, that land would be really expensive and is at a premium."

    Each plant is grown in small individual plastic bags containing all the water and nutrients needed to feed the plant during the trip.

    The mini farms would cultivate vegetables using battery-powered LED lights that can be adjusted to provide precisely the right spectrum of light for optimal growth. Hohlfeld said the energy efficient lights and the battery would hold enough power for the duration of the voyage; for example, for the approximately three weeks it takes for the vessel to travel from the UK to China.

    To keep the climate inside each container as natural as possible, Hohlfeld said he's planning to grow mushrooms alongside leafy vegetables to help balance the mini ecosystem.

    "I'm growing cabbages, spinach, lettuces and bean sprouts. All these plants create oxygen, as we know, and it's really good in nature because it balances with animals. But in the container it could be a problem; so I'm introducing mushrooms which turn the oxygen back into CO2 because they respire the same way that we do. And that way the whole system keeps itself in check," he said.

A key design consideration of Grow Frame was for it to collapse to a fraction of the size so as not to take up valuable space when the container was transporting goods.    

    "I thought about an autonomous process that works in an enclosed environment over three weeks and that brings a real benefit to China and that can be as collapsible as possible; so it can be as small as possible," Holhfeld said, adding that he now hopes to turn his proof-of-concept design into a working prototype that could be tested on the open seas.

    Holhfeld is now looking for funding to help turn the concept into a reality. He estimates it would cost around £9,000 ($12,080 USD) to develop and manufacture the first frames, and a further £6,000 ($8,050 USD) to pay for a shipping trial. But the potential profitability of the reusable system would quickly recoup the initial costs, he said.

China launches second space lab module

China have launched their second spacelab today, Tiangong-2, at 14:04 UTC on September 15th 2016. The Long March 2F rocket successfully took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China. Tiangong-2 is an improvement on the Tiangong-1 spacelab and will be visited by the manned space flight Shenzhou 11 in October of this year.

A 17-year-old has committed doctor-assisted suicide

A 17-year-old has committed doctor-assisted suicide in Belgium, the first minor to do so under rules adopted in 2014 allowing euthanasia for people of all ages, the head of the national committee for euthanasia said on Saturday.

Belgium legalized euthanasia for people with "constant and unbearable physical or mental suffering that cannot be alleviated" in 2002. It expanded its euthanasia law to cover all children under the age of 18 in 2014. In order to be euthanized, children must be able to understand what it means and get consent from their parent or guardian and "death must be expected in the near future."

Belgium is the only country in the world that allows euthanasia without age restriction. Euthanasia laws vary by country. Laws in Belgium, the Netherlands, Colombia and Luxemburg allow mercy deaths for adults, which usually means a doctor administering lethal doses of barbiturates. The Netherlands allows it for children older than 12. Switzerland, Germany, Japan and Canada, doctor-assisted suicide, where people take the final action themselves, is legal.

In the ten years to 2013, the number of euthanasia cases in Belgium rose from about 1,000 to 8,752, according to official records. To undergo euthanasia, the minor must also be in a "terminal medical situation with constant and unbearable physical pain which cannot be assuaged and that will cause death in the short term", the law says.

Dalton Prager 'Fault in Our Stars' Husband Passed Away

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Dalton and Katie, aka "The Real Life Fault In Our Stars" as dubbed by CNN are needing your help. Both with Cystic Fibrosis, both received double lung transplants, both battled Lymphoma. Dalton battled Bowel Perforation/resection and now with severe pneumonia intubated and on the ventilator in St Louis. Katie in End Stage Renal Failure now on hospice in Kentucky.  

Dalton went to Heaven yesterday, September 17, 2016 at 12:56pm. He fought so hard but his organs failed him. Please help us with the remainder of his expenses and funeral costs. We all miss him so much already. He is now pain free and can breathe freely for the first time ever. God Bless you all. Hug your loved ones and tell them you love them often.

Its National Cheeseburger Day today Sept. 18th