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Merry Brides: DIY Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

merrybrides:

Guest Blogger: Ashley English

Using a mere four ingredients, these yummy Peanut Butter cups would make an inexpensive yet decadent wedding favor for your guests. Put a few chocolates in a cute box, tie a ribbon around it and viola instant smiles on your guests face. Don’t forget to make some…

Who needs a wedding? These sound like tasty nom noms for at home too!

(Source: zazzle.com)

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thegreenwolf: Dear SCAdians interviewed in “Reclaiming the Blade”: This is what a solid blow to the leg with a sword does. It nicks bone, or just shears on through. These are femurs, the biggest bone in the human body.  If you get hit in the leg hard enough to not be able to stay on both feet, you are NOT going to go down on your knees and keep fighting. You are most likely going to go straight down the ground, and either bleed out almost immediately from a severed artery, or your opponent is going to deliver a killing blow even before that can happen. So while I get that the SCA swordfighting rules say “if you get hit in the leg, fight on your knees”, please do not claim that this is reflective of a real fight with real swords. Especially do not say this on film in a documentary that is meant to dispel myths about medieval European swords and swordplay. Lupa PS I realize this movie came out a few years ago and the SCA bit has been roundly debunked as far as historical accuracy there and elsewhere. However, I just watched it myself tonight, and that bit was rather jaw-dropping. (Photo source: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/visby.htm) That leaves me wondering about armor. Studded leather? Perfect sense. Mail? Probably that too. Plate armor over that stuff…? How much protection would you get? Still have the sword go through to bone? Or such a hard whack the bone shatters? Or a damn good bruise?

thegreenwolf:

Dear SCAdians interviewed in “Reclaiming the Blade”:

This is what a solid blow to the leg with a sword does. It nicks bone, or just shears on through. These are femurs, the biggest bone in the human body. 

If you get hit in the leg hard enough to not be able to stay on both feet, you are NOT going to go down on your knees and keep fighting. You are most likely going to go straight down the ground, and either bleed out almost immediately from a severed artery, or your opponent is going to deliver a killing blow even before that can happen.

So while I get that the SCA swordfighting rules say “if you get hit in the leg, fight on your knees”, please do not claim that this is reflective of a real fight with real swords. Especially do not say this on film in a documentary that is meant to dispel myths about medieval European swords and swordplay.

Lupa

PS I realize this movie came out a few years ago and the SCA bit has been roundly debunked as far as historical accuracy there and elsewhere. However, I just watched it myself tonight, and that bit was rather jaw-dropping.

(Photo source: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/visby.htm)

That leaves me wondering about armor. Studded leather? Perfect sense. Mail? Probably that too. Plate armor over that stuff…? How much protection would you get? Still have the sword go through to bone? Or such a hard whack the bone shatters? Or a damn good bruise?

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cognitivedissonance: abokononist: occupyallstreets: NYPD Loses OWS Trail After Video Evidence Proved They Made False Arrests Hundreds have been arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests, but photographer Alexander Arbuckle’s case was the first to go to trial – and after just two days, the Manhattan Criminal Court found him not guilty. Arbuckle was arrested on New Year’s Day for allegedly blocking traffic during a protest march. He was charged with disorderly conduct, and his arresting officer testified under oath that he, along with the protesters, was standing in the street, despite frequent requests from the police to move to the sidewalk But things got a little embarrassing for the NYPD officer when the defense presented a video recording of the entire event, made by well-known journalist Tim Pool. Pool’s footage clearly shows Arbuckle, along with all the other protesters, standing on the sidewalk. In fact, the only people blocking traffic were the police officers themselves. His lawyers said the video proving that testimony false is what swayed the judge, and the verdict a clear indication that the NYPD was over-policing the protests. Read More Weird. If you’re shocked, you’re not paying attention. So that officer’s being charged with perjury then, right???

cognitivedissonance:

abokononist:

occupyallstreets:

NYPD Loses OWS Trail After Video Evidence Proved They Made False Arrests

Hundreds have been arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests, but photographer Alexander Arbuckle’s case was the first to go to trial – and after just two days, the Manhattan Criminal Court found him not guilty.

Arbuckle was arrested on New Year’s Day for allegedly blocking traffic during a protest march. He was charged with disorderly conduct, and his arresting officer testified under oath that he, along with the protesters, was standing in the street, despite frequent requests from the police to move to the sidewalk

But things got a little embarrassing for the NYPD officer when the defense presented a video recording of the entire event, made by well-known journalist Tim Pool.

Pool’s footage clearly shows Arbuckle, along with all the other protesters, standing on the sidewalk. In fact, the only people blocking traffic were the police officers themselves.

His lawyers said the video proving that testimony false is what swayed the judge, and the verdict a clear indication that the NYPD was over-policing the protests.

Read More

Weird.

If you’re shocked, you’re not paying attention.

So that officer’s being charged with perjury then, right???

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ktempest: icecreamsocialistslut: See also: Wiscon.  People can’t tell Tempest from Sparkymonster some years, ffs I’m looking forward to another year of being Nalo Hopkinson or Nora Jemisin or Octavia Butler! I have noticed that this is just plain a “girl problem” in the open source world (<2% women). People confuse my friend Penelope and I. We’re both just “that girl with ridiculously long hair” (we can both sit on our own hair). Somehow, the fact that only one of us is in a wheelchair doesn’t keep people from mixing us up. 

ktempest:

icecreamsocialistslut:

See also: Wiscon.  People can’t tell Tempest from Sparkymonster some years, ffs

I’m looking forward to another year of being Nalo Hopkinson or Nora Jemisin or Octavia Butler!

I have noticed that this is just plain a “girl problem” in the open source world (<2% women). People confuse my friend Penelope and I. We’re both just “that girl with ridiculously long hair” (we can both sit on our own hair). Somehow, the fact that only one of us is in a wheelchair doesn’t keep people from mixing us up. 

(Source: black-girl-problems)

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[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.”

“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org. (via vaginawoolf)

We were told our English Lang GCSEs were often about sport or politics because boys often underperformed in that exam. I can’t even fathom the number of things wrong with this kind of thinking.

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i don’t understand how this is “unconscious” they saw numbers of both males and females and only made adjustments for the males. that is pretty damn blatant and conscious to me.

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(Source: fairtest.org, via ungemmed)

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