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Back in 1994, Rev. Kan. John Ciarlò described Valletta’s Collegiate Church dedicated to the Shipwreck of St Paul in Malta, as “a Hidden Gem”, in an effort to portray the unique treasures that lie within. Much on the same lines is the recent release from Miranda Publishers. Following the success of previous publications about St John’s Co-Cathedral and the Mdina Cathedral, Miranda entrusted photographer Daniel Cilia, an avid follower of the annual February celebrations, with the challenge.
The end result: collected in two hard-back books is some exquisite photography of fine art treasures within the Church but also an immortalisation of various singular moments of this national winter celebration as it happens in Valletta. 176 pages and more than 500 pictures supported with writings from Robert Cassar and Ray Bondin.
redwhite spoke to Daniel Cilia about this latest production. He described how his personal love to this event did help him think of innovative ways in which to capture moments.
“Also since the books (especially the feast one) were done on a number of years it helped me get photos of the ones I had missed the year/s before.”
In his photography, Cilia works in ‘previsualising’. He thinks of new perspectives for a shot before it actually happens as in the case where he climbed up one of the old lamp posts (now replaced) in St Georges Square, to shoot the statue as it passes in front of the main door of the Grandmasters’ Palace. When such experimentation works, it does make all the difference.
The project started off in 2007, yet unfortunately that year the procession got cancelled because of rain. Most of the shots were snapped in 2008 but since publishing was being postponed, some shots were updated with new ones from the years after.
In the meantime, Cilia worked on the layout, choice of photos and design through a continuous discussion with Eddie Aquilina from Miranda. When asked what makes him opt for a book rather than an exhibition, Cilia told us:
“Well I like to exhibit my work, yet its always so sad when one has to put down an exhibition. I like to say that a photographic book is a bit like a portable exhibition which never finishes to be seen.”
The book is on sale from major bookshops at the price of €100. Whilst we encourage the purchasing of such exceptional projects, it is sad to note that such a price deserved a better printing finish. This is underlined further as no printer is indicated anywhere on the books. Another dent is the choice and use of typography. Further research into the selection of type could have boosted the aura of this excellent work in documentation. | <urn:uuid:aa52b57c-fb2a-440b-ac6f-13d02a2f2947> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://redwhitemt.com/2012/danielcilia/ | 2013-06-20T02:22:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970743 | 566 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tax day is less than two weeks away, and if you’re like the rest of the world, you’re realizing that you’re not as financially organized as you thought you were. Well, let us help you make the 2014 tax season a little easier. Download these apps, and maybe you’ll actually look forward to hearing from Mr. Tax Man next year!
SplashMoney is helpful because of all the accounts it works with. It even works with multiple currencies, if you’re a frequent world traveler. It’s designed to help you with your personal finances on the go, and because it works well on iPads, iPhones, and desktop computers, you’ll be able to check in frequently.
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Mint helps you keep track of your finances all year by working with you to provide a budget. I will then warn you if you’re getting close to exceeding your suggested spending limit on a certain items. You can hook it up to your checking accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, and investments so you see the big picture.
Since you’re going to be using your iPad so often to keep an eye on your finances, you better protect it iPad with the RokShield v3 iPad Mini case. The case includes a kickstand, you’ll be able to use it in bed, on a desk, on a coffee table…anywhere!
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Super Value Mini Mart 1481 Route 22, Brewster, NY10509 The Super Value Mini Mart is a family-owned convenience store that shares a building with Auto Technic car repair shop.…More This particular quick stop grocer can be found on Route 22 between Milltown Road and Overlook Lane. Products include coffee, snacks, pastries, sodas and much more. It also sells motor oil, windshield wiper fluid and has a self-service gas station on the premises. Super Value is currently running a special where you can buy a dozen roses for $9.99. Stop in for full details.
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This particular neighborhood U-Haul dealership is located in the Mystic Gas Station on Rte. 22, near the corner of…More Doansburg Rd. The U-Haul rental trucks provided here feature easy load access, high visibility mirrors and gentle ride suspension. Its services include truck and trailer rentals, as well as moving supplies, which can also be purchased on its Web site. In addition, 24-hour drop service is also available.</p>
Xtra Mart 30 Main St, Brewster, NY10509 Xtra Mart operates 49 stores in the state of New York. Its lone Brewster location can be found at the corner of North…More Main St. and Michael Neuner Dr., right next door to Williams service station. Items for sale consist of coffee, newspapers, lottery tickets, snacks, and plenty of other essential products. There are also four premium gas pumps, a vacuum, and an air pump on the premise. Check the Web site for monthy specials and for more information.
Mahopac National Bank 1441 Route 22, Brewster, NY10509 Mahopac National Bank was established in 1927 and has grown into 15 branches across the Hudson Valley region, with five…More locations in Putnam County alone. This particular branch can be found near the corner of Route 22 and Milltown Road, right across the street from the Shell gas station. Services include personal checking and savings accounts, online banking, CDs, mortgages and loans. It also has a wide variety of business services, which consist of lending, cash management, deposits and more. | <urn:uuid:77488a04-3bf2-4a73-b00e-a398c4423bb9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://southeast.patch.com/search?keywords=Gas | 2013-06-20T02:14:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94464 | 1,858 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The most prevalent software architecture style is still "The Big Ball of Mud." Restructure101 is a superb weapon in our continuing battle against architecture entropy.
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This fragility in the code structure would likely have caused a maintenance overhead as Spring Security evolved, so the decision was made to restructure the code for the 3.0 release to give us a stable base for future development.
I'll plug the one commercial tool I've used extensively that doesn't appear on enough lists: Structure101. To me, this is the MUST HAVE tool if you're analyzing and restructuring a large, complex body of Object-Oriented software (and no, I don't work for them).
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I was using IDEA and Eclipse to analyze the dependencies in my code. However, I now use Structure101 because it has way more in this area, all wrapped in an easy-to-use and understand interface.
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I recently made major changes, removing unused functionality and products, and the collaboration perspective was used extensively. I highly recommend it to anyone else doing similar work. Paddling left and right was particularly useful. I saved a huge amount of manual work by using this perspective.
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At first I thought a Structural Analysis tool was a 'nice to have' but as I use Structure101 its value has increased to the point where it's a 'must have', same as an IDE.
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University of Kent
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I would argue against using the term 'reverse engineering' for Headway . To me, reverse engineering is salvaging some sort of design from code. What Headway offers in my opinion is a visualization of the code itself. It just so happens to use reverse engineering techniques to achieve this - however this is arguably an implementation detail. UML reverse engineering 'may' offer to help discover the intent of the original designer, whereas Headway tells it like it is i.e. it provides an implementation view rather than merely an abstract design model. | <urn:uuid:fcc7abc5-e940-4840-bfd7-3ca0b96bf069> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://structure101.com/about/testimonials.php | 2013-06-20T01:58:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933986 | 2,652 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Young injures back in collision
First baseman listed as day-to-day with lower back pain
ST. LOUIS -- Nationals first baseman Dmitri Young left Sunday's game against the Cardinals because of a left lower back strain. He is listed as day-to-day.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, Cardinals third baseman Scott Rolen hit a ground ball near the third-base line. Rolen beat Ryan Zimmerman's throw to the bag, but collided with Young at first base. Young was leaning toward the line as he was trying to get the ball. Young remained in the game until it was delayed by rain in the top of the fifth inning.
Young expects to get treatment for his back on Monday and hopes to start against the Dodgers on Tuesday.
"I didn't know [I was hurt] until I took a couple of steps," Young said. "There was nothing to describe. Rolen ran into me. I went for the ball. I must have been on the line, and there was a collision. I moved to the far side of first."
This is Young's second injury this season. He played through a sore Achilles tendon during the early part of May.
The Nationals' hottest hitter, Young entered Sunday's action leading the team in batting average (.302) and on-base percentage (.391). Over his last 11 games, he went 17-for-31 (.548) with a home run and nine RBIs.
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ATLANTA -- A year after the federally funded program started taking applications, HomeSafe Georgia came under fire for failing to help more families fight foreclosure. But just two months later, the department tasked with running the program says things have changed.
"The news coverage quite honestly has been great. That's certainly helped get the word out," said Phil Foil, the deputy commissioner for the Department of Community Affairs.
In April, HomeSafe Georgia promised to bump up its marketing campaign and ease the rules on who could qualify. Why? In the first year of the program, it received about 6,000 applications.
Only about 900 people in that stack qualified. In just two months since then, the DCA told 11Alive it has received more than 2,300 applications. Four hundred of those have already been approved, helping to dole out $11 million to families in need.
David Thorton was one of those recently approved. He stood in line at the World Congress Center the summer of 2010 along with thousands of others hoping to get his mortgage refinanced. He waited in line more than 48 hours only to be told there was nothing the banks could do. He had just about given up hope when he heard about HomeSafe.
"Oh, you don't know the days and nights that I've not slept because this is my home," Thornton said. "When they said I was approved, I was shouting."
HomeSafe has already hired eight new employees to keep up with the ever increasing case load and plans to hire several more.
"We are actually working Saturdays now, and we are getting ready to add a night shift into our processing area," Foil said.
They've also partnered with nonprofits like D&E Group to spread the word, and give homeowners one-on-one assistance. D&E holds boot camps every Thursday to help homeowners find the right program, whether it's a remodification or mortgage assistance.
"We'll work all the options to see what we can get you," said Keisha Harris, D&E's COO.
Harris says getting the paperwork in order and understanding the process and programs can make all the difference. She also applauds HomeSafe for using the criticism it faced wisely, to make improvements.
"We're now getting clients results within a month," Harris said. "They've even extended the guidelines or opened the guidelines so more people can be approved."
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That dissonant sound is very similar to the unvarnished conflict in real-time life that involves unforseen dental work and keeping up with 31 days blog posts. I'd planned a post yesterday on the intricate naming system we have for animals on our farm. I wanted to introduce you to milk goats named Cherry Cola
and Sprite; pigs named Turnip Green, Sambo, Shaliquehandra and Kavaseeay and cows named Wanda, Lorna, Gloria and Victor. I didn't have a picture to share, but we once had a well-named Banty rooster named Supersonic.
All my planning went the way of hours in a dental chair. Real, unvarnished life sometimes means Open Wide, this is going to pinch...
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$2bn in building work lodged or under construction in SA, Premier Jay Weatherill says
- From: adelaidenow
- January 29, 2013
MORE than $2 billion of approved projects or applications for development have been lodged across Adelaide, the State Government says.
Premier Jay Weatherill said about $300 million of works had been approved, $500 million were well underway and there were another $200 million worth of applications recently lodged.
Mr Weatherill said CBD planning reforms and public investment had sparked the show of confidence by the private sector.
However, two surveys released yesterday found business confidence was low in the state.
A quarterly Business SA survey showed 39 per cent of businesses felt poor economic management by the Government would be the major constraint on business in 2013.
A National Australia Bank survey for December 2012 found business confidence in South Australia was the second-worst in the nation.
Opposition treasury spokesman Ian Evans called on Mr Weatherill "to explain why South Australia is performing so badly when compared to other states".
Mr Weatherill said he did "not accept" that confidence was low.
He said private developers "are seeing the State Government step up and maintain its infrastructure spend, they're seeing a permissive planning regime, they're now backing South Australia by investing in SA".
Mr Weatherill said a CommSec report showed SA's population had grown and employment figures showed labor force participation had risen.
THE owners and operators of a southern suburbs supermarket have been fined $200,000 for breaching national food standards.
PARENTS chose to drop their children at school this morning - rather than let them travel alone - amid fears of a serial predator trying to abduct children.
JAMES Gandolfini, best known as mob boss Tony Soprano in the hit TV series The Sopranos, has died in Italy at the age of 51.
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November 10, 2010
Posted by scott at November 10, 2010 12:30 PM
Not all the iPhone users I know are girls, and said "not all" better not show up at my house in a miniskirt. Capice?
Source: C-Section comics.
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from San Jose, CA United States
Current Setup: Proto Matrix Rail CP dovetail minidrop CP ASA on/off CP 14" 2-piece
I've tried several different barrels: J&J Ceramic for my spyder, this CP for my proto matrix rail (PMR), and a stiffi on my friend's PM6.
All I have to say is WOW!! with this barrel you most definitely get the most bang for your buck. Although the stiffi on my friends PM6 was slightly more accurate, it was twice the price of my CP 2-piece barrel. The cost-benefit ratio of this CP barrel CP is absolutely worth the price.
Also, the CP barrel is very quiet. although sound isn't crucial in speedball, I like it because I also play scenario events. If you are looking for a barrel that provides accuracy, quietness, and consistency, and at a reasonable price, this is definitely the way to go.
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Antique Sterling Silver Cigarette Case SKU: 104 - For Sale
Antique Sterling Silver Cigarette Case SKU: 104
Handsome monogrammed sterling silver cigarette case from the early 1900's. It has a gold wash inside and an arm to hold the cigarettes in place. Good for bills and credit cards too. It is marked sterling with a trident B hallmark and #32. This case looks polished so it does have a high sheen. 4" x 3 5/8"
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Western Bee Supplies, Polson, Montana
Here's my recent experience with Western:
I always wanted to run 8-frame hives. They’re lighter weight for my lousy back and wrists, and they allow the bees to expand vertically a bit more.
I checked the local(ish) suppliers, and none of them mentioned having any 8 frame ware. Kelley’s had some advertised, but the shipping from Kentucky was way too expensive. Western Bee Supplies in Montana had great prices and good-looking products, but also didn’t mention 8-frame items anywhere on their website. So I gave up and just ordered 10-frame components from Western.
Then, a day after my order arrived, I noticed that Western had changed their website and all of a sudden on the home page they mentioned that they’ve been making 8-frame ware for 30 years! And they said — explicitly — that they offered tele-covers in the 8-frame size. So I called them up to ask if I could trade in my new 10-frame covers and screened bottoms for 8-frame ones. (I figured Bob and I could just cut down the hive boxes ourselves, because we didn’t want to pay the postage to send them back.)
No, Western said, our website is mistaken: we can’t make telescoping covers in the 8-frame size because we don’t have the tin. (They have since updated their website to reflect this unavailability.) Fine, I said: Send me the telescoping covers without tin and Bob and I will buy our own tin at Home Depot and attach it.
Vicki at Western Bee reluctantly agreed, although she did inform me that since all 8-frame ware has to be custom made, they could not guarantee any delivery date and it would be a while because there was a big order to fill ahead of mine. She also took the trouble rather grumpily to point out that THIS is why my insistence on 8-frame ware is so impractical, and why hardly anyone uses it.
“I think more people are using it these days,” I offered meekly.
“No, they’re not!” Vicki was emphatic. “I’ve been in the business for 19 years and I can tell you that 10-frame is the standard everywhere and it hasn’t changed.” I figured if I kept the argument going any longer I might not get my new tops and bottoms til 4th of July, so I backed down politely and expressed gratitude.
Then I waited. And waited. Bob cut the 10-frame boxes down to 8-frame, and put new dovetail corners in. The bees were ready to come home, so he also made temporary tops and bottoms for the hives and we set things up.
Now comes the package from Western. And, guess what… instead of each telescoping cover coming with two long pieces for the 19 7/8 inch side and two short pieces for the 13 3/4 inch side, each cover came with four short side pieces. (See photo). So we have to raid Bob’s shop again for wood, to make up the missing long pieces. Grrrr.
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Ever try to find your stroller among a sea of nearly identical strollers (think amusement park, train ride at the zoo, play areas in the mall)? It’s kind of like fishing the right black travel suitcase from bag claim at the airport—nearly impossible unless you’ve tied a bright pink ribbon on the handle. I’ve got a better solution for you than that hot pink ribbon: BabiePlates, the latest must-have baby product from Sweden!
BabiePlates are personalized with a name or phrase (my personal favorite: GO BYU!) and birth date. Or instead of a birth date you can add baby’s picture, one of BabiePlates newest features. (Their other new feature is safety reflector foil.) I ordered one for our daughter and couldn’t wait for it to arrive. When our BabiePlate finally arrived it was even better than pictured. It was made with close attention to detail and quality (hence the 2- to 3-week wait) and I knew I had found that latest stylin’—and personalized—must-have baby gift.
Our BabiePlate currently has a place of honor on a shelf in my daughter’s room. I have yet to pimp her ride since she’s usually doubling with her brother—I now need to order him one too! Though the most popular use for BabiePlates is on strollers you can also put them on a bedroom door, wall, or shelf, or attach them to motorized toys, wagons, or go carts. I’ve heard even some companies are putting their logos on BabiePlates—a fun idea if you want to spread the word about your business in a fun, unique way. BabiePlates are a great accessory no matter how you use them!—Emily
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Hi there, hello.
I'm new to this world of blogging. Strangely I am a registered bonafide (albeit, extremely lazy) poster on several blogs.... but for some reason I still feel very, very new to this world of blogging.
So why am I here? A fair question. I'm here because I bake. I'm here because I cook. I'm here because my friends and family need a wee break from me talking their ears off about the subjects, and will soon be begging me to stop foisting my carb-loaded addiction onto them. I figure you're only here (yeah you) because you chose to be here, so I don't feel quite so bad about typing your eyes out over the subject of food. Now that sounds disgusting. Don't try and picture it - it's too too horrible.
I'm currently challenging myself to perfect all manner of baked goods, as well as some that are not baked. For instance just two days ago after a several year long search I feel I have finally found the perfect pie crust (thank you Tartine!). Now that that search is over (PHEW!!) I am off to conquer sourdough croissants, pecan pie fillings, caramel and marinara sauce. Among other things.
I am also considering challenging myself to attend pastry school in San Francisco for four long and horrible months (just kidding- sheesh people, that was a joke). And after that I will consider challenging my sister to start a farm to raise goats and chickens to supply the bakery I'm considering challenging myself to open with eggs, milk and cheeses (who's up for a goat cheese-making challenge??).
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Do you like to "bring it" to every shift as a Restaurant Manager? Then you’re the perfect restaurant manager professional to join this award-winning management team! This incredible high volume company is in search of an exciting Restaurant Manager professional whose goal is to offers a unique dining experience to its guests.
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A 15-year-old student was arrested after threatening to shoot up Parlier High School.
Police arrested him on terrorist threat charges.
The teen was already on probation for weapons charges.
Officers did not find any guns at the boy's home, but they did find a hunting knife.
David Cerda with the Parlier Police Department said, "We have a zero tolerance policy regarding school threats. In light of all the school shootings, school violence, you certainly have to take precautionary measures and take every threat serious."
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MIAMI -- It took an embarrassment like this for someone employed by the Orlando Magic to admit the truth. Not surprisingly, it was Stan Van Gundy who saw the light and told it like it was.
"Against a good defensive team we have trouble a little bit," Van Gundy said outside the visiting locker room after the Heat delivered an October surprise in the form of a jarring 96-70 victory over Orlando. "We don't have -- and this isn't to put down anybody in our locker room -- but we don't have the great one-on-one players.
"I mean, we don't have [Dwyane] Wade and [LeBron] James and Paul Pierce and Kobe Bryant. And so for us to play well offensively, we have to get great ball movement. We really have to execute and move the ball. And yeah, we struggled to do that against a very good team in Boston and we struggled to do that again tonight."
|The Magic need to find a great shot creator to pair with Dwight Howard. (Getty Images)|
And worse, they were a team that had somehow forgotten all about that.
"Shell-shocked" was how Howard described it.
"The atmosphere kind of got some guys flustered," Howard said. "I got on guys after the game. I told them, 'If we want to be a championship team, this was not a championship effort.'"
The reality hit Howard and Van Gundy like Vince Carter going down like a ton of bricks. (More on him later.) The NBA has changed dramatically since the Magic got escorted out of the playoffs by the Celtics with barely a spasm of resistance. In this NBA, the championship contenders have multiple stars -- the Big Four in Boston; Kobe, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum and appropriate role players in L.A.; and of course, the Supertwins and Chris Bosh in Miami.
The Magic came out last night with Howard. That was it. Without Howard (8-for-15 for 19 points, all in the first half) and Ryan Anderson's five garbage-time baskets, Orlando was 8-for-46.
"Again, here we are against a very good defensive team and we've just got to be a lot better at being able to move the ball and make passes," Van Gundy said. "And we weren't able to do that."
The Magic signed Quentin Richardson and Chris Duhon this past summer. Some 200 miles to the south, Van Gundy's former boss, Pat Riley, moved heaven and Earth and LeBron. With Bryant still well-supported and in his prime, and with the Celtics obviously still being the Celtics, this is not a good time to be the same old Magic.
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"Passing's a major problem with our team, it really is," Van Gundy said. " ... Look, their defense was very good. But I think when the defense is good, that's when our passing problems become evident."
Then Van Gundy used the word "horrendous" to describe it. He wasn't calling out anyone in particular, but when the passing is horrendous and your team has five assists, the first place you look after the game is in the point guard's locker. That is where the assembled media not enjoying another LeBron-Wade joint press conference found Jameer Nelson, who is Exhibit A for what will keep Howard and the Magic from their ultimate goal.
"We didn't execute anything," said Nelson, the point guard who was supposed to execute it. "The one thing we had going was Dwight scoring down low. None of our pick-and-roll game worked. Nothing worked other than going to Dwight. ... We have such great 3-point shooters and you have to deliver the ball on time and on target. We didn't do that at all, myself included. Nobody's exempt from this."
And he's right; it wasn't all Nelson's fault. Those great 3-point shooters were 4 for 24 Friday night -- 0 for 9 in the third quarter, when Orlando was 2 for 20 from the field as a six-point deficit turned into 24. The Magic had seven field goals in the second half, when Howard was rendered ineffective by foul trouble and by Miami's three 3-pointers in rapid succession -- one by James and two by Wade -- that blew the game open at the start of the third.
That display, the first startling signs of LeBron and Wade starting to click, didn't impress Howard.
"Because they made some wide-open threes?" Howard said. "Wide-open threes?"
Which brings us to Carter, who is supposed to be Orlando's go-to guy when Howard isn't. Carter was 1 for 5 for four points in 13 minutes, coming back only briefly after getting his shot blocked and crumpling to the court late in the second quarter. Van Gundy described the incident by saying Carter "sort of got hit."
"It felt like the entire team landed on the back of my head," said Carter, adding that the pain went "down my neck, hit my chest and went right to my lower back."
And that's Exhibit B. The Magic have lived and died by the 3-point shot in their runs to the NBA Finals and conference finals in the past two years. They've gotten by with shaky point-guard play and with Howard not always being as assertive as he should be -- and not having the post moves his critics have yearned for him to find.
Now, Howard has both. He said during the summer it was going to be no more Mr. Nice Guy, and he was right; Howard came out with a vengeance Friday night, and also with an assortment of footwork and Tim Duncan-like bank shots no one had seen before. And it all goes back to Van Gundy's comment about not having a great shot-creator to pair with him. All of this work Howard has put in -- on his moves and on his attitude -- will be wasted if the Magic don't find someone like that.
It is no wonder that Howard quietly put together a wish list of players he wanted Orlando to acquire during the summer. At the top of it was Chris Paul, who is staying in New Orleans for now, and Carlos Boozer, who went to Chicago. Howard will say all the right things and lash out in a losing locker room for as long as it takes. But on this night, the first important test for Orlando since the debacle against the Celtics, he was all alone.
"This was a wakeup call for us," Carter said.
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Women Justices Speak at Buckeye Girls State
Dublin Jerome High School student Alison Trianfo wants to be a prosecuting attorney advocating for children’s rights when she gets older.
Trianfo will be a senior next year and said it was an honor and a privilege to be one of about 125 students to participate in a question and answer session with Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and Justices Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, Judith Ann Lanzinger and Yvette McGee Brown during Buckeye Girls State (BGS).
“The program was amazing. I’m so honored to have the opportunity to be able to listen to the justices talk,” Trianfo said. “They were very inspiring, and it was nice to see they were real people, too. I mean they’ve demonstrated such poise and leadership in their positions, and it was great to see that they are people just like us.”
Buckeye Girls State is a weeklong program, held at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, that educates girls in good citizenship while helping them learn the mechanics of city, county, and state government through a non-partisan approach.
The justices spoke to the students about the judicial system and how they became Ohio Supreme Court justices. The justices also answered several questions from the girls about the court system, being a women leader and balancing their lives.
“If we can do it, you can do it. You’ve learned more about us. You know what our stories are and you can see, number one we’re ordinary people with ordinary talents and maybe a little extraordinary drive and we happen to be in extraordinary positions,” Chief Justice O’Connor told the girls.
BGS is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary of Ohio. It’s one of the largest Girls States in the nation with around 1,000 students participating each year. This was the first time in the program’s history that all of the women on the Supreme Court participated in BGS.
This program was titled “The Power of One” and was modeled on a program the justices participated in last year to celebrate Rosa Parks Day.
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"About a dozen rescuers from stations 171 and 175 were called up to rescue the victim," said Kelley Donaldson, a spokesperson for the RCFPD.
"She walked herself out half the way, and we went in with an all-terrain vehicle to bring her to safety."
Communication between the rescue crews and the command center was difficult through the canyon, according to Battalion Chief Eric Noreen.
"With the jagged ravines throughout the canyon area, lack of line of sight makes it difficult to talk to one another," Noreen said.
"We have to stage a repeater that carries the signal through the canyon area."
Noreen continued to say that there have been several fatalities in this area in the past and that firefighters have been out there at least six times this year rescuing people who have been hurt or were in some kind of dangerous situation.
"The woman had minor injuries from a fall while hiking," Donaldson said.
"We had no complications or access issues getting to the victim."
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Dress up any shirt with this Brooks Brothers® College Stripe tie. Men's silk tie features a traditional striped background in the school colors with the school name classically embroidered above the tip. This tie adds the perfect finishing touch to your look for daytime or evening. Tie is 3/4'' wide and 58'' long. Dry clean.
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We've slipped briskly into winter from which we may never recover. OK, that may be a little dramatic. Winter is drama to me with all her extremes and inconsistencies. We will recover. We are in the thick of it, but we will recover. The cold seems to steal words from me so here are a few images from my backyard. | <urn:uuid:c0c69664-1d7e-4a69-a7f2-15723178b285> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.elisainreallife.com/2013/02/winter-is-drama.html | 2013-06-20T01:44:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982647 | 70 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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|Releases: Sep 07, 2005|
|Developer: MIS Utilities|
Network Asset Monitor allows you to make up a network inventory. This program gives you possibility to get quick and full information about operational system, service pack, hotfixes, hardware, installed software and running processes on remote PCs. You can get screen shot from remote computer and send message to remote PC. Also you can create reports about hardware, installed software, and running processes on computers in your local network.
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Subject Search Spider 5.01 - A personal information retrieval intelligent Web engine that automates searching for information on the Internet. Its reports include both links ranked by relevancy and text extracts from the pages that are found by a powerful built-in search engine. | <urn:uuid:0533a109-eea7-4e7d-b18f-f9ecc96fcd16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download/Network_Asset_Monitor_25580_p/ | 2013-06-20T01:59:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.841741 | 164 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It's not often the world gets a new corner to explore but the relatively unknown Quirimbas Archipelago is rapidly becoming Africa's hottest beach destination. Seclusion, a laidback rhythm of life, a rich marine world and crystal clear water - these are just a few of the draw cards of a Quirimbas island holiday.
The archipelago is made up of 27 coral islands strung along Mozambique's northern coast from Pemba to the Tanzanian border. Many are uninhabited, and Quirimbas accommodation is limited to a handful of luxurious lodges and romantic beach bungalows, so it's easy to find an empty stretch of beach all to yourself.
Coconut palms and powder-white beaches line small private islands like Vamizi, Quilalea and tiny Medjumbe Private Island. Add to this bucketfuls of luxury and a fantastic range of activities - from thrilling scuba diving to peaceful dhow cruises - and you're looking at the perfect off-the-beaten track escape. We'd also highly recommend a visit to Ibo Island with its crumbling old Portuguese villas, historic fort and silversmiths crafting intircate jewellery.
A previously inaccessible destination, this has now changed with the introduction of regular flights that have opened up this magical world and made it easy to experience a fantastic safari and beach holiday combining the Qirimbas with top reserves in either East or Southern Africa. Browse our range of popular itineraries or contact one of our well travelled Africa Safari Experts to tailor-make a Quirimbas island holiday just for you. | <urn:uuid:ad7c3683-215b-49de-83b6-5fe400fb6edf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.go2africa.com/location/6518/why-go/quirimbas | 2013-06-20T01:52:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922224 | 337 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
If you have a group of rocks as a landscape feature in your yard, you can show it off with appropriate plantings. Here are some ideas for what to plant, plus tips for planting near the rocks:
Choose plantings that show off the group of rocks. Plant low-growing plants like alyssum, bleeding hearts (Dicentra), catmints (Nepeta), stonecrop (Sedum) and hens and chicks (Sempervivum), Corsican mint, lungworts (Pulmonaria) and other pretty little plants that will splash the group with bits of color but stay low enough that the rocks will remain visible. If you plant shrubs behind the group of rocks, use dark green evergreens like false cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana Gracilis’) and interesting deciduous shrubs like Harry Lauder’s walking stick (Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’) with its twisty branches. Redtwig dogwood’s (Cornus stolonifera) red branches will look good in winter when snow adorns the rocks, if you live in a snowy area.
When siting rocks on a slope, make planting pockets. If you have a slope or berm, you can make very attractive arrangements of rocks that provide spaces for alpines or other small or cascading plants. Let’s say you’ve installed two large rocks about two feet apart at the base of a slope. If you then fill the space between them with a smaller rock that’s slightly lower, you can fill the space behind the smaller rock with good garden soil and set in an alpine or other small plant. You can stagger rocks this way up the slope, making small, level planting areas behind them as you go. The effect, when planted with alpines, is beautiful. Avoid the thought of topping the slope or berm with a dominant rock. It’s much better to choose a plant with a horizontal habit. For a large slope or berm, Viburnum plicatum tomentosum ‘Mariesii’ comes to mind.
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I know it’s terrible to even mention Christmas before Thanksgiving, but I want to share this craft with you guys asap in case you want to bust one out before Santa makes his appearance.
My all time most favorite Christmas movie in the history of ever is Elf. Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart, and Zooey Deschanel seriously MAKE this movie. Not only do I watch it at least 20 times in the month of December, I also quote this movie year-round, pretty much daily.
How could I not create a sign with the most epic phrase from the best Christmas movie of all time? (Sorry Miracle on 34th Street and A Christmas Story.)
Just reading this quote sends me in to a fit of giggles. This movie kills me. It was this quote or “I love smiling. Smiling’s my favorite… ‘Make work your favorite’”. I may have to do one that says “We elves try to stick to the 4 main food groups: candy, candycanes, candycorn, and syrup.” Oh-mah-gosh, I can’t even type because I’m giggling just thinking about this movie.
All those who can’t get enough of Buddy the Elf, please raise your hand.
I showed Buddy my new art, and he loved it so much he sent me a picture of him posing with the sign! Can you believe it? I cannot believe he actually posed with MY ART and sent me a picture. Check out this awesomeness. I am totally famous now.
Thanks Buddy! You rock. I’m glad you love it.
What fun is a brag post about having your art in a picture with Buddy himself if I don’t even share how I made it? Hold on tight and enjoy this amazing tutorial. This tutorial was created using the brand new Silhouette Portrait, but you can easily use this same tutorial by creating an image in a Word type program, printing it up on your printer, then tracing it onto vinyl and cutting it out with a pair of scissors.
Also, if you decide you want a Silhouette wait until this Friday for some awesome Black Friday deals.
I scrounged through my garage and found a piece of MDF leftover from installing these shelves. It was 11″ wide and about 3′ tall. I measured to 16″ long and cut the board down to a more manageable size. The final sign is 11″ x 16″. There’s no rhyme or reason to this size. It just looked like a good size. Oh, and I gave it a quick coat of white spray paint after I cut it.
Once you have your board, now you can log into your Silhouette software and create your image. I always set the height and width the size of my project, then create my sign. THEN, I set the actual size of the vinyl and move my words around to fit within the vinyl paramaters. This way your project is the perfect size.
Here are the screenshots of the project along with the exact fonts I used for each word. I download lots of free fonts, so you may have to google to find these exact fonts.
Once your project is designed it’s time to cut! For this project I am using some red and gold premium vinyl. (Again, don’t buy any until Friday when I post the Black Friday Silhouette promotion.)
Load your vinyl and cut out your words. I wanted to show you this cool cutter I always use when doing vinyl projects. It is a Fiskars Paper Trimmer 12 Grey and I’ve had it for probably 12 years. (PS, I threw in an amazon affiliate link there.)
It cuts a perfect right angle, so it’s great if your vinyl isn’t square on the end. It’s hard to load vinyl into the Silhouette if it isn’t exactly square, so I use this 12″ cutter.
I used the paper cutter to cut all the words apart so I could lay them evenly out on the board. I always lay out all the words for a project before I start peeling and sticking just to make sure it all fits and looks good.
Because I’m neurotic I hate the idea of wasting transfer paper, so I will use a small piece and do one section at a time. I can reuse the small piece of transfer paper several times before it isn’t sticky anymore. For this project I used 2 small pieces total.
Another tip when creating a sign is to alternate sticking words at the top, then at the very bottom. I stuck the words “the best” first, then stuck the words “to hear” second. Then I went back to the top and stuck the words “way to” followed by “for all”. By alternating back and forth you can more easily determine if you are getting your words evenly spaced.
Once the words were placed it still seemed unfinished because of the raw edge around the board. That was remedied by painting two coats of metallic gold paint around the edge.
This was just the punch the sign needed to give it a finished look.
It seemed appropriate to put it on the piano since it’s about singing. Now we can sit around and sing Baby It’s Cold Outside while pretending we are Jovy and Buddy in the shower (it’s not what you think. This movie is PG).
And here’s a close up in case you want to see what the vinyl looks like up-close-and-personal. The Silhouette cuts a really sharp edge.
If you like this art don’t forget to pin it! Your friends and followers will thank you.
*In an attempt at full disclosure, Silhouette sent me the Silhouette Portrait (which I will review for you Friday), red premium vinyl, and gold premium vinyl to try out. All opinions are my own. I am not paid to blog about any Silhouette projects but I do receive free product from them.
*Don’t forget to come back any time Friday after 12:01am for a ton of really amazing Silhouette Black Friday deals. To receive any discount you will need to use a special code which is “hoh4ever”.
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TITLE 83: PUBLIC UTILITIES
CHAPTER I: ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION
SUBCHAPTER e: WATER UTILITIES
PART 600 STANDARDS OF SERVICE FOR WATER UTILITIES (GENERAL ORDER 24)
SECTION 600.30 APPLICATION OF RULES
Section 600.30 Application of Rules
a) Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, this Part sets forth the minimum general requirements and shall apply to any public utility defined as such by the Illinois Public Utilities Act, which is now or hereafter may be engaged in providing public water service and which comes under the jurisdiction of the Commission.
b) This Part shall supersede any rate, rule, regulation or condition of service which any water utility presently has on file with the Commission. Any rate, rule, regulation or condition of service which fails to meet the minimum general requirements in this Part shall be considered null and void and the utility shall refile such rate, rule, regulation or condition of service to conform with the provisions of this Part. | <urn:uuid:cc63a8c2-9489-40a4-a646-2dcd372f9233> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ilga.gov/commission/jcar/admincode/083/083006000A00300R.html | 2013-06-20T01:53:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884289 | 213 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By Barb McKay
It was recognition that was long overdue, but on Jan. 27, the Canadian government honoured the members of the elite Second World War military unit known as the Devil’s Brigade.
Charles Mann displays the Award of Excellence presented to him last month by Defence Minister Peter McKay and Veterans Affair Minister Steven Blaney for his work with the Devil's Brigade (Barb McKay photo)
Charles Mann, of Kincardine, was one of just a few remaining veterans of the First Special Service Force (FSSF) who travelled to
Paloma Aguilar, press secretary for Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay, told The Independent in an email that during the awards presentation MacKay recognized service and sacrifice of the FSSF members.
The award was presented jointly by MacKay and Veteran’s Affairs Minister Steven Blaney. Aguilar noted that the awards were established because “the example of co-operation and excellence established by the First Special Service Force has been particularly inspirational to the Special Operations Forces of both the
Mann, an original member of the FSSF, received an Award for Operational Excellence that read, “In recognition for extraordinary accomplishments and dedication to operations during the Second World War, their significant contribution to the Allied victory in
Mann said he was pleased when he learned that the Devil’s Brigade was to be recognized by the Canadian government.
“It was quite a pleasant surprise,” he said. “I’m very honoured that my regiment and representatives were honoured. There are not too many of us left from the Canadian side.”
Prime Minister Stephen Harper came out of caucus to greet the veterans. Mann said that Harper took the time to speak with the group and a few of the former Black Devils had their photos taken with the Prime Minister, MacKay and Blaney.
The Devil’s Brigade, a named coined by German forces, were also known as the Black Devils; an elite, secretive commando force established in 1942. The force, a combination of the First Canadian Special Service Battalion (800 members) and U.S. Army volunteers (1,000 members) underwent rigorous unconventional training, including martial arts and ski training, to prepare them for fighting behind enemy lines in winter conditions.
Charles Mann, second from left, and fellow Devil's Brigade members chiat wtih Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Peter MacKay after receiving awards Jan. 27. (PMO photo/Jason Ransom)
The original goal of the joint force was to land in occupied
From there, the elite regiment made the long trek to
Mann said the regiment caught the German troop of 200 men by surprise and defeated it in just two and a half hours. There were further successful missions, but in December 1994 the Canadian and
Mann said the question he most often receives about the Devil’s Brigade is how the Canadian and American troops managed to get along.
“We were like brothers,” he said. “We’re very closely bonded, even today.”
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Mau Sahib is located in Jalandhar District
. It is about 10 km from Phillaur
Major point of attraction here is the Gurdwara Patshahi Panjvin (also called Gurdwara Mau Sahib), which was built to commemorate the marriage of Guru Arjan Sahib with Ram Devi. The marriage is believed to have been solemnized in what is thought to be the present Bhora (basement) of the structure. | <urn:uuid:9987d4d7-2f8c-4f68-b2d8-160b8073ea44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.india9.com/i9show/Mau-Sahib-61563.htm | 2013-06-20T01:51:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981076 | 94 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Maintenance For Commercial Flat Roofing
Do you have a flat or metal roof?
At Iron River Construction we specialize in the maintenance and repair of existing commercial flat or metal roofs. Impressive advances in roof coating technologies have given us the tools we need to reliably extend the life of your present commercial roof without expensive tear offs and replacements. Your existing commercial roof is a source of cost savings over time for your business. Minimize these costs with a program of timely inspections and maintenance performed by those who know. Iron River Construction specializes in commercial roof restoration that won’t break your roof repair budget either. Many of the commercial buildings are constructed with metal roofs – comprised of clip lock trim deck or similar profiles. As expected, these roofs are exposed and susceptible to the elements resulting in expansion and contraction, acidity and weathering. Eventually, they can succumb to significant damage if not maintained properly. Commercial roofing requires the expertise of a company skilled in commercial roof restoration and roof repair.
Commercial Pitched Roofing and Commercial Flat Roofing are, more often than not, some type of shingle or metal installation. Commercial flat roofs present many obstacles you will not find on a pitched roof simply because of their design. Building ventilation system, large AC units, many more pipes extending from below all add up to more detail work on commercial roofing, than you would find in residential.
In commercial roofing, asphalt based applications should be considered as being unstable materials and are often excluded from warranty coverage. For this reason, you need to trust your contractor, and be convinced that he knows what he is doing up there. Very few people actually go up on their roofs, and even when they do, they are not sure what to look for. So make sure you have a professional roofer that has at least 10 years of commercial roofing experience- not roofing in general, but 10 years of commercial roofing experience. This will save you time and energy over several things, and help to ensure that you will truly be getting your money’s worth. 952-442-1762commercial roofing Minneapolis, Storm Damage Company Minneapolis | <urn:uuid:17eddf69-36fc-4c66-a1d3-4255138b1210> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ironriverco.com/maintenance-for-commercial-flat-roofing/ | 2013-06-20T02:09:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953945 | 432 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Green Tip: Wormshop
November 5, 2012, 11:04 am
An upcoming Master Composter/Recycler family oriented vermicomposting workshop will give kids the chance to explore the wonderful world of worms!
Families will assemble and take home their own fully functional worm bin ready to turn organic kitchen waste into a rich garden amendment. Registration is now open for this family wormshop, suitable for children ages 5 and up. A $35 per family materials fee covers cost of bin and redworms. Pre-registration is required.
Workshop date and location: Sat., November 10, 10 a.m. - noon. Held at C.A.S.E.E., Room 202, 11104 NE 149th St. Brush Prairie, WA 98606 How to register: Online at http://tinyurl.com/95mxkwt
For more information: email@example.com Phone: (360) 882-0936 x 224 On the web at: www.columbiasprings.org/mcr
The Master Composter/Recycler Program at Columbia Springs is funded by Clark County Environmental Services. Columbia Springs provides environmental education opportunities for the community and students of all ages. On the web at www.columbiasprings.org | <urn:uuid:5e81f9b2-0be2-4156-a28a-2e12ab92065e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kink.fm/11/05/12/Green-Tip-Wormshop/landing_inessa.html?blockID=644821&feedID=9695 | 2013-06-20T01:57:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.84248 | 271 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Boston, MA (Sports Network) - The Boston Red Sox named Greg Colbrunn as the club's new hitting coach on Wednesday.
The 43-year-old Colbrunn spent the past six years with the Yankees' Single-A Charleston affiliate, serving five seasons as the team's hitting coach from 2007-09 and 2011-12, and one campaign as the club's manager in 2010.
Colbrunn played 13 years in the big leagues and won a World Series with the Diamondbacks in 2001. He hit .289 with 98 homers and 422 RBI in 992 career games with the Expos (1992-93), Marlins (1994-96), Twins (1997), Braves (1997-98), Rockies (1998), Diamondbacks (1999-2002, '04) and Mariners (2003) while appearing primarily at first base.
"Greg's success as a hitting coach and his experiences as a Major League player make him a strong addition to the Red Sox coaching staff," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. | <urn:uuid:1b42c5ff-62bc-4e9d-8396-18d7f3877834> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kmtr.com/sports/mlb/Boston%20Red%20Sox/story/Red-Sox-name-Colbrunn-hitting-coach/jtnoSdTpz0uGDkrbnCQYJw.cspx | 2013-06-20T02:00:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966936 | 206 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I met up with a couple friends to check out the opening of VanDusen Botanical Garden's new Visitor Centre designed by Perkins + Will. We found some fantastical Amanita Muscaria mushrooms beside the car and
poked at them a bit (some were already broken). The "spots" on top of that little one at the bottom of the photo
were aligned in a band across the top which was weird. And I'll be honest, the more I thought about these mushrooms for the rest of the night, the more they creeped me out. I think it's the way their thick stem grows
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We are familiar with the many legendary generations of the musical Bach family. Our next composer, the uncategorizable Gabriel Kahane (b. 1981), knows a thing or two about a musical heritage. The son of Jeffrey Kahane, Gabriel knew no musical boundaries while growing up in a home where the sounds of Bach and Hindemith mingled happily with Joni Mitchell and jazz. As a singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and composer who moves easily between indie-pop and classical influences, Kahane is already an important figure in the future of American music.
His 2009 Django: Tiny Variations on a Big Dog was instigated by his father’s request for a concert etude with the name Django in the title. That etude developed into this brief set of variations.
The Django of the title is the family dog, who was named after the immortal jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. The music puckishly evokes doggyness, jazziness, and rigor. The tale is in the titles. The theme is followed the first variation “Dog Run (Passacaglia).” Next comes “Night Watch (Episode)” in which the performer is instructed to play “as a dog pads around in the dark.” The third melancholy variation is called “The Water Bowl is Empty – Canine Empathy (Relational).” Jeffrey Kahane has described “Mechanized Django (moto perpetuo)” as being some of the most difficult bars of music he has ever learned and the music carries all the terrors of a Ligeti etude.
In the final variation, “SPCA Blues (Namesake),” the score instructs “swing ‘em eighth notes” – that special musical feel without which… it don’t mean a thing. | <urn:uuid:395a4d08-4801-4bbd-8c38-26cdb8be669a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/django-tiny-variations-on-big-dog-gabriel-kahane | 2013-06-20T02:16:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948656 | 386 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Hear about Georgia Law's advocacy program from moot court and mock trial participants.
Try criminal and civil mock cases as a member of Georgia Law's Mock Trial teams. Participants deliver opening statements, conduct witness examinations and present closing arguments in the presence of a judge and jury.
UGA's Mock Trial program receives strong support from faculty members and Mock Trial alumni who dedicate long hours to bench practice rounds, critique student arguments and offer suggestions for improvement. This level of support truly benefits students and helps them to develop the courtroom skills they will need during their legal careers.
Membership on the Mock Trial teams is reserved for 2nd and 3rd year law students.
1st year students have the opportunity to participate in the J. Ralph Beaird Closing Argument Competition during the spring semester of their 1st year.
Georgia Law's Mock Trial teams have competed and won several prestigious tournaments, including:
National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Competition
American Association for Justice National Student Trial Advocacy Competition
Quarterfinalists: 2001, 1998, 1997
Regional Champions: 2002, 2001, 1998, 1997 (first and second)
William W. Daniel National Invitational Mock Trial Competition
Semifinalists: 2011, 2006, 1998
Texas Bar Association National Trial Competition
National Semifinalist: 2009
Regional Champions: 2012, 2009 (two teams), 2008, 2006 (two teams)
Regional Finalists: 2003, 1997, 1990
Buffalo-Niagara National Mock Trial Competition
Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition
National Champion: 2006
National Finalist: 2003
National Semifinalist: 2005
Regional Champion: 2009, 2003
Regional Finalists: 2006, 2005
South Texas National Mock Trial Challenge
Quarterfinalists: 2013, 2012
Best Advocate: 2013, 2012
For a complete history of Moot Court and Mock Trial wins visit the winning reputation page.
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= Local News & Traffic by zip code.. Mapped!
Virender Ajmani over at Mibazaar.com has created a cool mashup that lets you find local news based on your U.S. zip code. This map definitely fits the mashup definition. It combines the following:
Google Maps + Yahoo! Geocoding + Google RSS News Feeds + Yahoo! Traffic
To get started, simply enter your U.S. zip code to gather news headlines from Google News (Use 77058 if for an example). For most major cities there is a traffic map toggle that you can turn on that pulls in Yahoo! Traffic data. Once again Virender has created a great Google Maps mashup! Check out more of his creations linked from the left side of this map. | <urn:uuid:6fbbe8bc-57f0-4918-a88e-b27bad6c17d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mapsmaniac.com/2006/04/google-news-google-maps-yahoo-traffic.html?showComment=1145299440000 | 2013-06-20T01:53:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.859187 | 163 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Islamic Extremists Want to Eliminate Christians From Iraq
Ongoing violence against Christians in Iraq has produced an accelerated exodus of believers recently and numbering in the hundreds of thousands over the last 10 years, said Open Doors USA officials.
Members of the Orange County, Calif.-based organization that provides help to persecuted believers in Jesus worldwide say that while the world’s attention has shifted to such countries as Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the mass movement of Christians in Iraq continues unabated.
Before the Gulf War in 1991, the number of Christians was about one million, stated Open Doors in a news release. “That number fell to an estimated 850,000 in 2003 at the start of the U.S.-led invasion that ended the Saddam Hussein regime. Since then the numbers have plummeted.
“At the beginning of the summer, Open Doors estimated the number of Christians remaining in Iraq at 345,000. However, the number decreases every month,” officials stated.
“It is an estimation; some even think there are less Christians left in the country than that,” another Open Doors member said.
Bassam Isho, 30, who was killed by unknown gunmen on Oct. 1 is considered a martyr by Christians in Mosul. The gunmen entered the restaurant where Isho worked and opened fire, killing him instantly, according to Open Doors.
During the same week, two more Christians were killed in Kirkuk. It is this type of violence, including the continuing harassment from Muslim extremists that has many Christians in Iraq seeking refuge.
"Iraqi Christians feel that the government fails to give them the security and freedom to worship in peace," Open Doors USA spokesman Jerry Dykstra told The Christian Post. "Countless Christians have been threatened, robbed, raped, kidnapped or killed."
"I think we need to pray that the Christians who have fled the country or live in the Kurdish area can come back home in the near future – with complete freedom of religion," Dykstra said. "We need to keep the pressure on the U.S. government to speak out for minority faith groups in Iraq. Just because the U.S. troops are leaving, does not mean we can ignore the ongoing violence and lack of protection of Christians inside Iraq."
The anniversary of one of the bloodiest attacks on the country’s dwindling Christian community is on Oct. 31, Dykstra said. Last year, 58 people were killed when Islamic extremists assaulted a Syrian Catholic Church in Baghdad.
“The attacks on Christians continue and the world remains totally silent. It's as if we've been swallowed up by the night,” AsiaNews quotes one anonymous Christian as saying.
Dr. Carl Moeller, Open Doors USA President/CEO, has labeled the attacks against Christians in Iraq as “religicide.”
“Christians in cities like Baghdad and Mosul are gripped by terrorism. They are fleeing in droves. Their families are threatened. Extremists want to eliminate Christians from Iraq,” Moeller said.
Christians are leaving the south and center of the country and attempting to build new lives in the far north, according to Open Doors.
“But today not only are Christians fleeing from the far southern cities of Baghdad and Basra, they also are moving from the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul that not long ago had large Christian communities,” Open Doors officials state. “The Iraqis who leave their cities often flee to the relatively secure and most northern Kurdish part of Iraq. That’s why a vast majority of Iraqi Christians now live in this part of the country. Many of them are now Internally Displaced Persons.”
Open Doors estimates the number of IDP to be at least 186,000.
The number of Christians moving into the Kurdish areas such as Ankawa is growing, but they are also struggling with the effects of displacement. Loss of income, high unemployment, adequate housing, schooling for children, and medical care are some of the problems coming as the result of the exodus into new areas.
“Because many of the Iraqi Christians that have fled Mosul or Baghdad speak Arabic, they often have no access to a Christian community that speaks their language as in the north traditional Chaldean or Assyrian languages are spoken,” said an Open Doors worker who is a specialist on Iraq.
Open Doors helps train Iraqi church leaders, including methods of delivering Bibles and Christian literature to the Christians in the country. The ministry also facilitates the translation of the Bible into Kurdish dialects. Additionally, the group supports Christian refugees with loans and grants to start small businesses, and says it has proven to be an effective tool to encourage them to stay in Iraq.
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Jim's Gems: Over the Mountain
June 2, 2010
All of us face challenges on a daily basis. How we approach those challenges might have a lot to do with the outcome. The following might be of some guiding influence so read on.
When we look at a mountain from a distance, it looms very large. It can be difficult to imagine how we could ever scale it.
Yet when we go right up to the foothills of the mountain, we're likely to find, if we look hard enough, a trail winding up its side. It then becomes clear that by taking one step after another, we can indeed make our way over that mountain.
Any challenge can be viewed in much the same way. When it is a distant concept, the challenge can seem insurmountable.
Yet when we get to the point where we're ready to take the first step, that challenge becomes less intimidating. Once we start working our way through, step by step, we begin to know that we will indeed make it to the other side.
Is there a challenge you've been avoiding because it seems too large and intimidating? Go ahead, step right up to that challenge, and you'll quickly see that it's not really as difficult as you had imagined.
Working through challenges can add significant value to our world and can greatly improve the quality of our life. Go ahead, dive right in, and you'll know without a doubt that you can do it.
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“Do you shake today?”
If your answer is No, you are really out!
If your answer is Yes, you are in! So cool! So cool!
This is “Lucky Craps” that everybody love to it and shake it!
No any idea? Look at Craps!
Some need to make decision in the life, study and work, but listen to him/her, You or me? Everyone debate the issue. Do not feel annoy now and please take it out. Let it make your decision,
Hundreds of life views shake the future
There are all kinds of scene: Sweet household scene, romantic dating scene, pure campus scene, scene of bar,the king laughed scene…take it out and shake it, let the excited the rotation of the electromagnetic heart with jump. What should you do when the crap slowly stop, SHH… you know it!
Beautiful 3D cartoon picture!
The cute the style of cartoon, mix a lot of 3D element together and let the picture look more vivid and stereoscopic. The vivid of 3D craps show different patterns and different effect; All kinds of styles vessels have different flowers and materials with different scene; Funny 3D finger with the process of wave will have a lifelike movements and expressions.
The nice music scene!
For all kinds of scene music make you enjoy the experience of hearing shock! Exciting, sounds of nature, humorous, soft, turn on the music! Let us dance with music
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I just absolutely love every style off UGG that is out there. I have tall, short, and am waiting to purchase the Bailey Button. I like the short best for days that I don't want to tuck my jeans into them. They're also perfect for traveling whether it be a road trip, or heading through the airport because they're so comfy and easy to slip on and off. I would definitely recommend ANY of these boots!! | <urn:uuid:daf73084-1669-455a-9bcf-d727c4b1d67f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.swell.com/Girls-UGG/Womens-View-All-Footwear/UGG-CLASSIC-SHORT-BOOT-2?cs=CO | 2013-06-20T01:47:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96877 | 112 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
| Lalrindika Ralte |
Gangtok/ Margao: East Bengal struggled hard to break down a resilient United Sikkim FC (USFC) before scoring a 1-0 victory with a freakish goal seven minutes before the final whistle, on Thursday here, at Paljor Stadium.
A fierce free-kick from second half substitute Lalrindika Ralte in the 83rd minute ricocheted off a United Sikkim defender and flew past goalkeeper Yoon Tae for the only goal in a game of overwhelming dominance for East Bengal.
Hampered by niggling injuries to its key players, United Sikkim could not repeat their counterattacking performance like it did against Salgaocar in the first match and was bogged down in its own half against Trevor Morgan’s boys. Clearly playing for a draw, the home side was contended in beefing up its defence, rarely got a glimpse of its opponent goal but also blocked the goal view for East Bengal.
The defensive tactics frustrated East Bengal players till the solitary goal, with a huge slice of luck, came along its way. Friday’s victory ensure that the Calcutta club maintain their 23-match unbeaten run and the first full three points in I-League.
Meanwhile in Margao, Churchill Brothers Sports Club tore into ONGC with a 5-0 demolition at the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, on Thursday.
Lebanese striker Akram Moghrabi scored a hat-trick while Brazilian striker Roberto Mendes da Silva and Lebanon defender Bilal N also added their names to the impressive scorers list.
Churchill were favoured to win this clash but nobody expected them to win so easily especially against a team that had caused considerable problems to Pune FC in their opening match.
Akram was the hero of the match right from the start as he opened the scoring in the 17th minute Steven Dias’ short corner saw the Lebanon striker leap impressively to head the ball past the ONGC goalkeeper.
In Pune, Nishiguchi Daisuke, who until recently played in the Moldovan league scored a brace and set up the winner as Pune FC defeated Mumbai FC 3-2.
Daisuke scored on either side of the half after Mumbai FC had taken the initiative and the halftime lead to leave home team scurrying before the parity was restored. Daisuke was again in the middle of action when he moved up from the right before sending a minus for Jeje Lalpekhlua to score the winner in the 71st minute.
The win boosted Pune FC to six points from two matches, while Mumbai FC slumped to their second straight loss and are yet to open the account.
Pune FC dominated for most part but, a few gaps they left allowed Mumbai to sneak into the match after having conceded the goal early in the match. Midfielder Chika Wali played a defence-splitting through ball on the right flank just as Daisuke times his run well before firing the goal around Mumbai goalkeeper Kunal Sawant, who had advance too much ahead to leave a gap between him and the goal. (AGencies | <urn:uuid:eb5707b3-2e9e-4629-a82e-0001beddc43d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.telegraphindia.com/1121012/jsp/sports/story_16081513.jsp | 2013-06-20T01:47:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970953 | 657 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
So we’re not releasing our new album just yet… More news on that soon.
In the meantime we do have a party coming up June 1st to celebrate the re-release of our 2009 out of print S/T. We will be playing the entire album!
Hope to see you there!
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BLUE MAN GROUP EXPERIENCE:
Opened: November 17, 1991
How Long is Blue Man Group: 2 hours with 1 intermission
Blue Man Group Director: Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink
Blue Man Group Scenic Design By: Kevin Joseph Roach
Theatre: Astor Place Theatre
Theatre Location: 434 Lafayette Place, New York, NY
The Blue Man Group is a creative theatrical performance that is performed all over the world. The Blue Man Group is based off a whimsical percussion that began with three friends on the streets of New York in the 1980’s and has grown to hundreds of cast members performing worldwide in cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago, Berlin, Oberhausen and Las Vegas. The Blue Man Group differ from city to city based on cultural differences and size of the theatre.
The Blue Man Group consists of three, enigmatic bald and blue characters that attack all of your senses throughout the performance that is carried out with ordinary percussion instruments. Blue Man Group use bizarre combinations of strings, drums, tubes, airpoles and more miscellaneous items such as the shaker gong and the gyro shot. Audience members sitting close to the action sometimes get splattered by the different media used from the show! This creative, artistic show is a must see for all ages.
The Blue Man Group has made several TV guest appearances over the years including Live with Kelly and Regis 4 times and The Tonight Show with Hay Leno 17 times. Blue Man Group have also performed music for movies and TV shows and in 1999 their debut album ADUIO was nominated for a Grammy. Buy your Blue Man Group tickets today and experience the excitement of the Blue Man Group up close and personal!
Blue Man Group 3 3
Blue Man Group - Good, but not great I had pretty high expectations going to see the Blue Man Group and they were not all met. There were some great parts, but there were a few segments that were kind of slow and took a long time to develop. Overall I give it a 3 out of 5 Star rating. June 22, 2011
In base theatre better than tour I have seen the Blue Man Group three times. Once in Chicago, once in Las Vegas and once on tour. Out of the three the performance of the one at the theatre in Chicago was the best. The Las Vegas one was good too, but the tour lost some of the magic. The one in Chicago was awesome because it is a smaller more inmate then the other two. Also since they have a long term lease on the theatre and they are they only ones that performer there they made the space all theirs. The one in Vegas was great it was back when they used to be at the Luxor. So I can't say anything about their new digs Venetian. But this show was most special to be because I proposed to my wife back stage after the show with the cast and crew. The tour I feel is still good but loses some of the magic. So I recommend if you see them go to one of their base theatres in Chicago, New York, Las Vegas, Boston, or Orlando. July 1, 2011
Non-stop entertainment Saw BMG in Chicago for the 1st time. Theater is small and every seat is a good seat. Their performance was awesome -- such creativity!! This 3 man group is adept at musical and acting skills. Their facial expresssions "speak" volumes. The crew and additional musicians concocted segment after segment of "colorful" entertainment. There is no intermission -- show lasts for about 2 hrs. Children (ages 10 and up) as well as adults are kept in rapt attention, looking forward as to what the group will do next. BMG interacts well with audience and selects a couple of people to go on stage with them -- this makes the show even more hilarious. Tickets arent't cheap, but you certainly get your money's worth! Go to see them at least once! January 8, 2012 | <urn:uuid:677cfc27-3faa-4923-94a5-0d3f149cc27d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ticketcity.com/theatre-tickets/las-vegas-shows/blue-man-group-tickets.html | 2013-06-20T01:46:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968824 | 816 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
- Robust, olive-like flavor
- Smooth texture
- First product to receive D.O. distinction in Spain
- Raw sheeps milk
- Gluten free
- Size - 1.1 lb/17.6 oz half wheel
Roncal (Erronkariko gazta in Basque) is a hard, creamy sheep's milk cheese. It is made in one of seven villages in the Valle de Roncal of Spain. Roncal enjoys PDO status.
Roncal easily crumbles when cut, and has a robust, slightly sharp flavor and a smooth texture. Each handmade half wheel has within it the secret of its artisan production.
The labor and customs have been handed down from parents to children for more than eight centuries. This raw milk sheep’s milk cheese is ripened slowly over the course of several months to develop a rustic, nutty and olive-like flavor and a moist, smooth texture.
The cheese comes from one of seven little villages nestled in the Roncal Valley of Navarra – deep in the Spanish Pyrenees. Medieval records dating back to the 13th century refer to this venerable cheese. The townspeople worked together to drive their herds to the high country in the spring. While the shepherds tended them, the ewes would be milked and Roncal cheeses would be formed and set aside to cure.
When autumn was on the horizon, the shepherds of the villages would lead their sheep back down to the protected valley, bringing to market the cheese they made. Hundreds of years later when their product became celebrated throughout Spain and even Europe, some people with foresight protected the integrity of their product by being very first to receive a D.O. in Spain. Denomination of Origin guarantees highest quality and traditional methods.
Raw sheep's milk, salt, animal rennet, cheese cultures. Gluten Free.
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The printing press was not included in the sale of Tracy Press Inc. and its three newspapers — the Tracy Press, the Patterson Irrigator and the Press-Banner in Santa Cruz County — in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of California in Sacramento.
On Oct. 10, Chief Judge Christopher M. Klein approved a purchase bid of $425,000 by Will Fleet and Ralph Alldredge.
John Wilson, pressroom foreman, said Tuesday, Nov. 20, that the final printing day was “sad and somber” for him and his three employees.
After the final printing run, the press was dismantled Friday, Nov. 16, and taken by truck from the Tracy Press, 145 W. 10th St., on Monday, Nov. 19.
“Friday, when the guys came to get their checks, I think that’s when reality set in for everyone,” said Wilson as he stood in the empty press warehouse. “I tried to keep it humorous to keep from getting too awfully depressed, but then you walk into this and it’s very depressing.”
Starting this week, printing operations are being outsourced to the Galt Herald, just south of Sacramento.
Fleet said the Tracy Press will still be delivered on Fridays, and the size and format of the paper will remain the same.
He resigned as publisher of the Fresno Bee effective Oct. 31 and will serve with Alldredge as co-publisher of the three newspapers under the new company name Tank Town Media.
Alldredge is also publisher of the San Andreas-based Calaveras Enterprise.
The Galt Herald, owned by the Herburger family, also prints the Enterprise.
“We are pleased to partner with our friends at the Galt Herald,” Fleet said. “Both Ralph and I have known the Herburger family for many years.”
The sale of Tracy Press Inc. by members of the Matthews family — which acquired the Press in 1943 — was finalized on Nov. 12.
According to Wilson, the printing press was sold during a separate auction to a bidder in Newport Beach, who specializes in reselling used printing presses.
He said it’s increasingly difficult to maintain the economic viability of operating a printing press. He cited several reasons, including increased costs related to environmental and government oversight of the printing process.
“I have five or six agencies I have to answer to, because in California things are so heavily regulated,” he said. “Many years ago, the Bay Area had 12 to 15 printing presses, and now there are maybe two. Downsizing and consolidation are not new things in the printing industry.”
According to an article in the Press on Oct. 26, 1912, the first printing press — a Model Five Mergenthaler Linotype — was delivered to the Press that week. The following week, once the equipment was installed, the Press was printed Nov. 2 in the city of Tracy for the first time.
The first issue of the Tracy Press was published April 2, 1898.
In 1961, Wilson said the Tracy Press was one of the first companies in California to install an offset printing press, a three-unit Goss Suburban. It was able to print a 20-page publication — eight pages in color and 12 all-black pages.
Ten years later, a five-unit Goss Community press was installed. More units were added to the press, which raised its capacity to the current-day 48-page publication — a possible 16 color and 32 black pages. The Goss Community press installed in 1971 was the 29th press of its kind sold in the world by Goss.
On the press in use until Nov. 16, Wilson said that it took just under two hours to print the Press’ circulation of about 20,000 papers.
With more than 50 years at the Press, Wilson said he remembered the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2011, as resulting in one of the busiest printing days.
“Everyone came out with a special edition that day, including the Tracy Press,” he said. “Things were really busy that day, and everything seemed to move so fast. It was an interesting time to be working (on the press).”
The press also printed about 30 publications — mostly ethnic publications — for various groups in the Central Valley.
Wilson, who plans to retire Dec. 1, said he is trying to use his connections in the printing industry to find two of his workers a job at a press in the Bay Area, while the third worker has already moved on to a press in Manteca.
The workers will be cleaning the press warehouse until their last official day Dec. 1.
“These are good guys who work hard and have been good to me, so I want to see them get something good,” he said.
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11:22 PM EST, November 23, 2012
MISHAWKA - It's a good thing we're heading into a weekend, because shoppers who spent all day and in some cases all night at the stores after Thanksgiving need some rest.
But was the Black Friday rush enough to give retailers the confidence they need this holiday season?
“We've actually been really busy. This is supposed to be one of the number one gifts this year,” said Jessica Waller, who was selling Pop-Up-Pals slippers at a kiosk inside the University Park mall.
Black Friday brought her dozens of new customers, lured to the mall by once-a-year deals at the national chains.
“We've been here for about two weeks and I was actually talking to one of the other associates about how you see a lot of people walking around without bags, and then today everybody has got bags,” said Waller.
A lot of those shoppers also stopped by Ten Thousand Villages, a fair trade store, where the staff tries to avoid making too big of a deal out of the day after Thanksgiving.
“People are coming and buying a few things and getting ideas, and trying to sort of think things through a little, maybe more than some years, said Shirley Hagye, store manager.
She’d like to consider this just the start of a weeks-long shopping season.
Not far away, at Taste of Asia, where you'd think hungry shoppers would want to stop for some chow mein, owner Bill Kellems knows what to expect and it's never good.
“It is slow, very slow,” he said in between orders.
Kellems said each year he sees about a 50% drop in sales on Black Friday, probably because shoppers are going to chain restaurants or drive-thoughs between stores.
“It's unusual, but that's what we get,” he said.
Good thing there are 364 other days to do business.
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Cantor, Charles R. (1976) A possible explanation for the nuclease limit digestion pattern of chromatin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 73 (10). pp. 3391-3393. ISSN 0027-8424 http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:CANpnas76
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The general pattern of DNA fragments in the limit digest of nuclease-treated chromatin could arise from a single, unique nuclease-susceptible site per nucleosome. If DNA binds to the histone core of the nucleosome along a circularly re-entrant path, the location of the DNA entrance and exit can occur at any of a number of distinct sites. This very specific type of heterogeneity together with the natural 10-fold periodicity of DNA B can account for the observed digestion pattern. Such a general picture of the nucleosome structure could also easily explain how nucleosomes might move along the DNA. This type of structure should be easy to distinguish experimentally from more conventional explanations of the origin of the limit digest pattern of chromatin.
|Additional Information:||© 1976 by the National Academy of Sciences. Communicated by Jerome Vinograd, July 26, 1976. I am grateful to Gary Felsenfeld for stimulating my interest in the problem and to Robert Stroud and David Pulleyblank for several extremely helpful discussions. This work was supported by the Fairchild Scholar Program of the California Institute of Technology. This is Contribution no. 5375 from the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.|
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Ugh. While it is pretty, it’s also pretty sad that they’ve copied an entire concept straight off from Stefan Sagmeister’s Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far and just made it rather bland. It’s the blanket statement of “exceptional” that ruins it — different alone doesn’t make something great.
Interestingly, it make me think of one of Sagmeister’s maxims: “being not truthful always works against me.” They should have listened instead of merely looking and copying.
I read a text and then I see how the author uses emphasis and usually they do this with changing the emphatic word into bold — probably because emphatic sound like fat and the bold letters have more flesh on their bones. Every time my mind goes “no no no!” and I try to change it into italics because bold means there’s this weight shift and the eyes focus and never really leave the bold area. Three lines bellow and the eyes still move upwards.
I sigh and often say things like this to myself: “don’t they know this? Don’t people read typography books about these sort of things?” These questions are most often hindsight rhetorical because no, most people don’t do that and they don’t care. And I sound both like an ass and a loon.
“But I care,” I whisper, “even if I’m alone in doing that.”
Written and designed by Emmi Salonen, and published by Index Book, Common Interest: Documents explores document design and format solutions in the fields of arts, culture, academia, public sector and charities. Displayed, handed out or sold in art galleries, at cultural events and at other public places, these designs are widely accessible by everyone.
A book about document design. It screams “need!”
Peter Saville on Swedish Kulturnyheterna Nov 12th.
Oh, how I wish I could have been there when he talked in Gothenburg.
I love those screenprinted packages, and I really do wish I could continue doing them, but it’s hard to justify the cost and labor involved with those, particularly when it becomes harder and harder with each passing day to sell a CD copy of anything—screenprinted or otherwise.
Which is sad. Even if I myself is a bit guilty to this — waiting for the vinyl and such — I do love the well-made CD-packaging just as much as the vinyl covers. Sometimes even more as there might be a good and thick and wonderful booklet with the CD. A fold out lyric-sheet isn’t really the same thing.
Nice things should continue. Unfortunately the damn real world gets in the way. This is sad. But you tried Ryan. I think that counts for a lot.
Hug Mug is a cacao bean shaped mug designed to keep your hands warm while drinking. It creates the ultimate experience of warmth and coziness and the openess of the mug allows the aroma of the chocolate to be thoroughly enjoyed.
-> Price: $8.90
Design by Max Brenner
“Sadly,” my walls are mostly covered with bookcases so I don’t have much space for posters. But damn, I wish I had this on the wall. Need to find a space for space! (Sorry.) I want all the posters. Especially this, Pluto and Mercury.
Yes, Pluto is still a planet!
What is knäckebröd* in English? I have no idea what so ever. Do you even have it? No clue about that either, it’s this hard thin bread that’s crunchy. Ah, read on the box: crispbread. And oh, what a box! Vilmas Knäckebröd has wonderful boxes, but this one’s even better than their usual. I mean: crispbread in a Hellraiser puzzle box**?! Fuck! Yeah!
*) Spisbröd for the Northern folks.
**) Not really a puzzle though. You just open it.
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By Melissa Korn and Leslie Kwoh
Darla Moore and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday were named the first two women ever admitted to the 80-year-old Augusta National Golf Club, following growing criticism over the last decade about the club’s all-male membership. In accepting the invitation, Moore said it was a “very happy and important occasion” to be able to join her “many friends” who are already members of the organization.
Here’s a bit more about Moore.
She’s not a total surprise:
Moore, age 58, is a longtime friend of Hootie Johnson, former chairman of Augusta. They both graduated from the University of South Carolina and worked together on a $300 million fundraising campaign for their alma mater in the late 1990s, according to Associated Press in 2002. While she would joke with Johnson about becoming the club’s first female member, even back then, she was “too much of a friend” to push the issue, Moore’s father told the AP. Friends told the AP Moore didn’t play much golf, though her husband — investor, Richard Rainwater — played every day.
But her acceptance of the offer might be a bit of a reversal:
When asked whether she would accept an invitation to join August about a decade ago, she told The Wall Street Journal, “I’m as progressive as they come. But some things ought not to be messed with.”
She’s a banking legend:
Moore rose up the ranks at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) in the 1980s, a pioneer of debtor-in-possession financing used in bankruptcy proceedings. She’s been called the “Queen of DIP.”
She’s married to a billionaire:
Her husband, Richard Rainwater, founder of Rainwater Inc. is a regular on the Forbes list of billionaires (net worth: $2.3 billion as of March 2012). A graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Rainwater managed the investment portfolio of the Bass family in the 1970s and 1980s before starting his own fund in 1986, according to CNBC. In 2009, he was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative neurological disease, according to Fortune. The typical life expectancy is less than five years, his doctor said, according to Fortune. As of last November, he required 24-hour care.
She’s known for her fearless personality:
Fortune magazine, in featuring her on its cover in 1997, called her “The Toughest Babe in Business.” After marrying Rainwater, she took charge of his company and nearly tripled his net worth in just three years with her aggressive deal-making. “I’ve harassed guys all my life,” Moore told Fortune.
Moore is vice president of Rainwater Inc. In 2002, Moore founded the nonprofit Palmetto Institute, a nonpartisan think tank aimed at improving economic growth in South Carolina. She currently serves as chair of the organization. Moore also serves on the board of trustees of the NYU Langone Medical Center and the national board of directors of Teach for America.
Moore previously served on the boards of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Hospital Corporation of America, The South Financial Group, MPS Group and the National Advisory Board of JP Morgan, among others.
She’s given generously to higher education:
Moore has pledged $70 million to her alma mater, the University of South Carolina, since 1998. The university’s business school was renamed the Darla Moore School of Business after her initial $25 million gift. Despite that, Gov. Nikki Haley removed Moore from the university’s board of trustees last year, replacing her with a campaign donor, according to local TV station WISTV.) She also donated $10 million to Clemson University’s School of Education in 2003. The school was renamed the Eugene T. Moore School of Education in honor of her father, a teacher and principal.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
The Animated Movie Guide
Fellow blogger Jerry Beck recently came out with THE ANIMATED MOVIE GUIDE and I have to say I think it’s indispensable to any animation researcher. Over the years, Jerry has developed a solid reputation as a cartoon historian , validated by his appearances on the Looney Tunes and Disney DVD’s. This book brings together capsule reviews of every animated feature released in the United States along with cast and crew information. I’m not that fond of the cover. The design is nice, the choices fairly logical and the colors are pretty. There’s nothing bad about it at all but for some reason, it seems to render the book invisible to me. When I first saw it on the shelf, I looked past it several times before recognizing it. On the inside, many of the reviews are illustrated with small black and white still shots but there’s a really cool color section in the center made up mostly of rare lobby cards, some of which I’ve posted here. One of the first things I do with any book like this is to look up favorite and/or obscure items I’m familiar with to see if they’re present. It took me a minute to find KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE, one of my all-time favorite animated features, but that turns out to be because Jerry has logically segregated features that didn’t receive actual theatrical release. SHAME OF THE JUNGLE was right where it should be (The American version of this European Tarzan parody could be termed the first SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE movie, featuring as it does the voices of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Christopher Guest and Brian Doyle Murray). ALAKAZAM THE GREAT!, an early fave of mine and one of the first animated Japanese features to be released in this country was present and accounted for as was THE MAN FROM BUTTON WILLOW and SHINBONE ALLEY. I did NOT find any mention of THE WEIRD ADVENTURES OF MUTT AND JEFF AND BUGOFF, the cold war spy spoof that my friend Derek Tague and I had just been discussing. Let’s not be picky, though. What IS in this book is a nearly perfect blend of facts, reviews and trivia that ultimately tells the tale of feature length animation one picture at a time. Not to pat myself on the back but I knew quite a bit about animated features going in to this tome but I learned a heck of a lot more before I finished it. Bravo, Mr. Beck! | <urn:uuid:9d1a24fc-474a-44cc-8cf9-64b3c1768080> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2006/03/animated-movie-guide.html | 2013-05-20T22:38:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964643 | 538 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Distance Learning | News
U Cincinnati Expands Online Programs with Blackboard
The University of Cincinnati has deployed content management system Blackboard 9.0 for its new lineup of online certificate programs.
In addition, it is using a pair of F5 BIG-IP 3400 load balancers, eight Citrix XenServer VM application servers with 12GB RAM, and a four-node Oracle RAC cluster. Each node is a Dell R710 server with 100GB RAM. An EMC Symmetrix SAN is being used for databases, and EMC NS-480 SAN for course materials.
The Ohio school has expanded its distance education programs in the areas of education, criminal justice, and human services, beginning with this fall semester. According to the university, enrollment is up 9.8 percent, at 3,915 enrollees.
The College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services has launched new online certification programs for up-and-coming teachers. Courses range from gaining skills to cope with school bullying to helping students trying to learn English as a second language.
The Carl H. Lindner College of Business has started an online graduate certificate in marketing. Students have their track of study choice: practice building, corporate marketing, creative services, or technical sales.
In addition, over the summer, the College of Medicine, College of Allied Health Sciences, and Carl H. Lindner College of Business launched a new online Master of Health Administration program.
The University of Cincinnati has more than 41,000 students, 16,000 employees, and an annual budget of more than $1 billion.
For more information, visit uc.edu.
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I guess the picture is self explanatory.. it’s just like when SP1 came out. If the Product team announces something the whole community blogs about is as well but there is really no point in blogging about it again now is there? I know, I did in the past as well but I can’t imagine people not being subscribed to their blog these days right? ;)
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My husband started Votrient Saturday to treat Stage IV Clear Cell RCC and I wanted to see if anyone else has taken it. If so what side effects have you seen? Thanks
Norvasc, then Lisinopril, then Cardizem. I had worst edema on Norvasc 10mg. Although I am back on Norvasc, now I take 5mg twice a day, vice all at once in the morning. Now I am back to normal BP with 120/80.
Thanks Capn. Was the edema limited to you feet/ankles and did it resolve completely after changing meds?
Yes on both counts.
i have just seen this reply from you...so sorry for not answering sooner...
first want to thank you for pointing my issue out...
its been a battle with this UI for months now after haveing 4 operations to get rid of it...hes finally doing better!...we are pretty sure it has nothing to do with Votrient...but more due to the catheter he had to use after his nephrectomy...but hes doing good...nerally done with his first cycle of 3 months takeing votrient...his hair all over the body has trurned grey and he his haveing high blood pressure...and just wnated to ask what everyone who is haveing this problem...which drug are u takeing for it??? so far his BP is usually around 150/105...while takeing his drug for high BP...he also is experiencing pain at the soles of his feet...anyone else have this???
his cough is gone!!!! thank GOD! ...and it has never returned again since on Votrient! soon going on his first check up...CT SCAN of lungs to see if the lymph nodes have decresed...but since he isnt coughing...its a good sign??? right???....
thank you yet again for your help =)
Hi Aldiyana, i just posted an update on mom with her bp issues also. She was at one time on Metoporal (spelling?) 100 mgs at night and catapress .2 mgs 3 times a day. This seemed to finally get her pressure down but it has now dropped too low a few days ago. They now put her back on 50 mgs. of Metoporal and .1 mg of catapress 2-3x a day. Her headaches returned so we don't know if this is enough for her. But it has been almost two months and we have yet to get her pressure figured out yet. She gets very bad migraines with some of them but when the pressure was lower they went away so they don't think it is the Votrient causing the headaches perse. I hope it works out but they might have to give a beta and channel blocker together. Praying for good scans for you guys as well. By the way, my moms belly pain and her bad cough and the rough time she had breathing did stop as well a week after the Votrient started. I hope that is good news as well. Take care and hope this helps.
My father was diagnosed with kidney cancer of stage 1 RCC in my high school graduating summer. At that time,my family especially my mother felt all the way darkness in her life. In China, maybe this bad news meant that I could loss my dear father when he was only 45 years old and I could not get to my college as both of them needs a lot of money. But we still did not faced with the worst situation, the following two years the cancer got to the lungs one of the adrenals, and now the bones after the nephrectomy.One and half years , Sunitnib faided just goes like my guess and now I plan to start with Vortrient which may ease the crazy cancer cell. Anybody who wants to know the side effects or the effect of Sunitinib can contact Tracychen002@hotmail.com
I wish our experience wil give you courage.
Jean, sorry to hear that your dad didnt do eight with the first treatment. Votrient might be Bette although not sure it works on the bones. Did they offer him radiation for the bones? Is there any hope of going into a trial for Nivolumab or MDX/BMS? They call it by all different names. You might be able to look into where you live. I pray well goes well and he is at a good hospital where they have alot of expertise with RCC.
my mom 80 started Votrient about ten days ago. Her blood pressure shot up to 200/110 and that is with already taking the meds for it before she started. They lowered the dose to 200 and now back to 400 but it looks like that will be the max for her. They have her on norvasec 5 mgs am/pm and metoprolol and lysinipril. Her pressure still remains high. She has water retention in ankles, headaches, leg pains, some loose stools and no appetite. A bit difference from being on homeopathy for almost a year and looking and feeling great! Such a shame. One thing she noticed is that her sugar levels are lower and she has not needed to take her insulin some days. I have not heard of that before. We don't see the doctor until the 17th. But her gp she has been in to see but he hasn't taken any blood tests so worried about that. I sure hope with all of these side affects the meds prove useful to her.
Ange, what's the news on how Mom is doing? When will Dr. Motzer's input be accessible? How are you getting on yourself? When you have a moment, how about that photo - is Jaden too shy for you to put that pic of you with him up again - it was so sweet?
On another thread, Pink Sugar has just posted:
"I am the clinical trial you mention. I had a nephrectomy last June and started on the trial in September. The decision was a bit of a no brainer for me. I came to the conclusion that if the RCC ever comes back, I want to know I did everthing possible to prevent it. I have just had my week 16 check up and have had to stop the drug for a week due to side effects.
I started on 600mg daily for 2 months. I developed Nausae,diarrohea, sore mouth and altered taste. hand and foot redness and very sore finger tips, and my hair is growing through white, I increased to 800mg but as side effects did not reduce had to go back to 600mg. I take drugs for the blood pressure, but most of the other sympyoms have abated. The main one that still longers is diarrohea. My apetite is back, thy slaon and get my eye lashes and eyebrows dyed. I e hand foot thing has gone, my mouth is back to normal although the taste is still not great.
Yes, I lost weight, feel the fatigue lol but what a great excuse for a cat nap! I guess I am just slower than normal...
I still work.
I would not want to influence your decision, I meet other people on the trial, (all men) and none of them have had severe side effects, in fact most of them talk about very few and quickly passing ones. The only thing we all have in common is that we all have white hair. Luckily for me, I visit the beauty therapist and get the lashes and eyebrows dyed. The rest I wuite like.
When you are reading the incidence of side effects you must bear in mind that anything anyone reports gets noted as a possible side effect. If one person dies of a stroke, it has to go onto the statistics, even if it ended up being proven as an related event.
You get really closely monitored and no doctpr is going to allow you to keep taking a drug if it is doing you more harm than good.
However, only you can decide what is best for you. I wish you well, good luck!"
Pink sugar, you seem to be very unlucky in suffering much more severe side-effects than most people on your trial (and most people under Votrient treatment). Do you know if the doctors know whether there is any gender difference in response to the drug?
You said that going into the trial was a no-brainer, but there is no evidence that the drug has any effect in preventing recurrence and since no other drug has been found to have, it seems very unlikely that it would.
Did your doctors suggest increasing the dose to lessen the side-effects??? It's generally thought that both efficacy and side-effects actually increase with increased dosage! You've dropped back to 600mg. If you keep getting bad side-effects, you should maybe drop down to 400mg. - many seem to do very well on that dose level and also shrug off most of the side-effects. That may be worth discussing with your medical advisers.
On reporting: do you know the procedures for appraising side-effects, Statesside? (I'm in the UK). I would think that after gathering info. on side-effects that might, or might not, be due to the drug, care would be taken to try to establish whether or not they are due to it. Most drug info sheets attempt to classify side-effects in terms of frequency of occurrence, and there are also sites which indicate whether some experiences are possibly due to the drug but where the jury is still out. Can you (or others here) tell me how this problem is dealt with in the US, i.e. avoiding having experiences wrongly attributed to the drug when they may have another cause? Presumably great rigour is necessary, since it will be very much in the manufacturer's interest to try to find a different cause, to exculpate their own product.
Hello all, TW. I am sorry for the lack of update. It is not for the sake of trying. I have posted lenghty replies only to get lost in error land. Most times i cannot even get on. Well, we have had the flu for two weeks now so there went my ambition to keep trying to post.
Mom is doing a little better with the pressure. They added a 5 mg pill in the am and pm an upped one of the two others she takes in the morning. Leaving out the names now because i am tired and can't remembr off hand. But it is the one that CaptMike mentioned with the N. She has swelling ankles on and off, fatigue, lack of appteitie or taste, voice goes in and out. But the symptoms are tolerable and come and go, they are not present all the time. She does have to figure out her pressure though as it is still a bit too high, but not as bad as before. She see her oncologist for the first time on Thursday but has been phoning him regularly when issus come up. And he is speaking with Dr. M from sloans i believe. Her belly pain has gone away and the cough she had also slightly has gone away and she says her breathing is better a bit. We have to check into the bp meds she has taken for a few years, we found out it causes the breathing issues as she has been out of breath since before the rcc and her heart is fine. The lysinipol is the one that causes issues and i know i don't have the name right. If anyone is on it and has breathing issues, dizziness etc, it can be the reason as a good friend was on it she said she suffered like mom and they changed it and in two week was feeling better. But check with the doctor on that.
No pic yet. I guess i have a phobia about putting pics up. But i will work on it. LOL!
TW, i always enjoy your posts and would not like it very much if you shyed away! You are a very intelligent man, a lawyer, and you say things matter of factly but it doesn't mean you are insulting anyone. Sometimes when peope have bad days or are not themselves they can see things differently, but i appreciate all you do and your posts are very valuable to us so please, keep them coming. I posted on your bog as well.
For everyone one out there fighting the good fight, keep on going, be positive and strong and let's make each day a good one. Don't forget to smile and remember that we are here for each other. Prayers for everyone and big hugs! xxoo
So annoying that when talking about disease 'progress' is good but 'progression' is bad! Thanks for the update on Mom - it sounds to me as if she will get good results and the side-effects will be manageable, with care, and it sounds as though she is geeting the level of care she needs. If there's a useful working relationship beteen her front line doctor and Dr. Motzer that's great. You're always there for her but I guess you'll not be physically with her with the 'flu'. Sorry to hear that you, Henry and Jaden are all down with it - please say hi to everyone for me and tell them I hope all are in better health soon. Make sure you don't rush your fences in trying to get fully back to things - I've seen the cost all too painfully (we've discussed ME/PVFS and fibro in the past).
I suppose there will be a lot of viruses doing the rounds at present. The hospitals I will be in, in the next couple of weeks, have both had several wards closed due to norovirus - the 'winter vomiting virus' - not what one fancies on top of cancer! I called to confirm that my golf Winter League was on this morning and not affected by snow and was told 'yes, although it's raining'. It's about a forty minute drive there; I got delayed by a heavy nose-bleed and called when part way there to say I would be a little late. The organiser told me that since we'd spoken the snow had come on and the whole course was white and unplayable and I might as well head back home, as I did. I'm looking out of the window now and it's started here. We're told to expect it will get sharply colder in the next few days and may be about -10C inland tonight with consequent dangers on icy roads. Having never needed to visit doctors or hospitals until recently, I'm suddenly discovering the possible real problems when one needs to! I hope your Family isn't too affected in that way.
Your Mom and I seem to be having very similar responses to Votrient, although I'm presently spared the fatigue and loss of appetite and taste and also the edema due to BP med is only slight and varies, like hers. She strikes me as very courageous and I so hope she continues to improve. Do you think she might need an appetite stimulant at some stage? However, if her sense of taste recovers maybe that will solve that problem. I was delighted to hear her cough is improving and her that her breathing can be improved by a change of BP meds - that seems to be a bit of an art and getting the meds right can be very helpful.
The point about your Mom's sugar levels is interesting and is, perhaps, worthy of further enquiry? With that extra dimension of diabetes, careful management is obviously necessary but it's good to hear that the change is in the right direction at the moment.
I hope you'll all take due care in getting over the 'flu' and that you'll eventually get brave enough to put up a nice family pic for us!
TW would hate to say that a nose bleed is good, but in this case it was. It saved you a trip on a cold snowy day. How are you doing now? Did you find out if your plateletts are lower? Mom's are a litle lower than the lowest on her tests. The doctor said her blood work was fine which surprised me. He also said her first check up was good but to see if she can get a handle on the pressure so she can take at least 600 mgs. He said her chest seems to sound better than the last visit and she is coughing less and able to get around more. I can only hope and pray the meds are wworking. She has been getting nose bleeds but light though daily, water retention in feet, no taste in food though she does have an appetite but stops eating because the food tastes like metal. She has some fatigue and at times headaches and daily lose stools on and off. Immodium ad has helped her today. Her eyes seem to bother her and she does have some swelling there too. Her pressure stays up a bit but am not sure if it is the wrist cuff so i ordered the arm one for her. At the doctors office her presssure was 126/78 which was great, at home it is about 165/88 so don't know if it is right. Over all she says she is ok, although i dont' like the way she looks since she is on the meds. Her scan will be in March sometime. When do you get yours? I hope you are doing ok. Love to all! PS i hate the new boards, wasting alot of time doing nothing...
Can't agree more with you about the boards, Ange. Last night I gave up after a while - couldn't get on at all. I think there was probably a bout of unannounced maintenance work going on. For me this morning, though, with only 7 members online (you'll all be asleep in the US?) it's working fine.
I have a CT with contrast in two days time, then a physio appt next morning; following week bloods at GP and on Friday (Feb 1) will see Angela, my onc, and get the scan results and the bottom line on what's happening.
I'm glad to hear how well your Mom is doing - she really does have what it takes, doesn't she! I think you're right about the home monitor, given the excellent measure at the doc's office and I'll be interested to learn what figures she gets with the arm cuff monitor.
As regards the food, tell her to try using plastic cutlery - I read recently that, as against normal metal cutlery, it helps to reduce that metallic taste in the mouth. Must be worth a try?
Not wanting to worry her, or you, but I'm a little concerned about her eyes. There is an unpublicised adverse effect with Votrient that merits further enquiry. Rather than bother you with details, may I suggest that you get Robert Motzer's input on the matter? Can you tell me a little more about the way in which her eyes are being affected and also why you say you don't like the way she looks? I hope there's no problem and that she and I both continue to do well on Votrient.
TW I wilto suggest themplasric cutlery and hope that works. With her eyes it can be confusing. She had cataract surgery two years ago and at times she said she saw blurry. They gave her drops to put on and that helped for a while. Now she is seeing blurry and they want her to clean out her eyes somehow, don't know how they do it but will do it when th cold weather dies down. But her else's have been swollen all around since she is on the meds, don't know if it is wrated retention or even from the new by meds. What was the report About? When we go to th me doctor on Friday we will see if the swollen eyes are water or not, the I can field out questions to dr. M. So far thouturner Doctor says she is doing ok. while she was on on,y homeopathy foAlthea year she looked fantastic. She ate, gained weight and you wouldn't know she was sick at all. She haa sister and more energy and go to the myself. One month on Votrient and she looks sick, tired, losing weight no desire to do anything, swollen and just looks like all the life is draining out of her. I do pray that the meds are helping and this is all worth it. Bjust is I see a terrible difference between the homeopathic meds and the allopathic ones. Mom also said it is a big difference in how she feels and looks.
i pray all goes well with your scanJust to to be clear, your scans are this week Friday but in a week from Friday you get the results? How are you feeling! I know things are working for you, I think you can tell. And probably for mom too as her breathidal really improve. We just need ther press pressure and wareference toon squared away. Have you lost any weight TW? I miss our little private chats. Please say hello to the family for me. Oh, did you get my email a few weeks back where I explained about the sacomatoid changes n the new path report from dr. M? Also that it is still unclassified, but they believe it is RCC but that is all they have. Her slides also tested positive for two other things but wasn't table to research it yet as I didn't get my hands on the full reports. feel good, be good and chat soon!
Well, mom has been on 400 mgs of votrient for about a month now. She has had high blood pressure and they changed and added new meds for her but it remained high. She has a severe sinus infection at the moment. But her ankles continued to swell. She went to the doctor and since her last ECG a few weeks ago this new ekg showed a skipped beat in her heart. Her stomach sonogran now shows a tiny blockage in her aorta which was not there 5 weeks ago on her last petscan and she had a bit of blood when she urinated with no UTI that showed up, she also now has some sort of blockage in her belly. Could be stool but not sure since she has had the runs ob and off for a while. They changed her pressure meds and we hope it helps. She is not feeling too good with the Votrient and they might be thinking about changing it, which i hope they don't unless we find it is not helping the growths. Mom is very depressed because she did so well all year on the homopathic meds but now since Votrient she feels very bad, not herself... :( Please add her in your prayers.. i will do the same for us all! xxoo
I keep your mom in my prayers. And it's discouraging to hear all she's going through. Let's hope and pray they are growing pains in the Votrient fight. Perhaps it's a bumpy road start to be followed by smooth paved highway..
I know how much you believe in homeopathic meds for good reason. But do you think her mental set is accepting Votrient or has she mentally convinced herself it won't work? The mind is a strong tool that can work for and against you. Have you convinced her that you believe in Votrient? I believe that would be an absolute necessity based on how close the two of you are. I'm not trying to put my voice in something that's none of my business, but drawing for straws trying to help. . .
Keep the faith. Think of you and your mom lots.
I am having problems with my feet. I already had a couple of pressure points on the "baby toes" that caused pain, but since I started Votrient I have 4 to 5 new spots have appeared-- turning into corns and all are VERY painful. Cute shoes are out of the question and I am reduced to wearing flats, gym shoes, or my leather clogs which are a little wide at the toe. If I can get my foot in a particular shoe, my toes hurt like heck when I step down. I can't get my foot in some shoes at all. When I mentioned this to the oncologist he said it's not the medication.
I never had this problem before the medicine. One night, I missed the Votrient and guess what I had in the morning... no foot pain. I took the meds later that night and what did I have the morning after that? Foot pain.
Still a small price to pay though.
Yes, a small price if the drug is doing what we hope for.
We do know that Votrient has fewer nasty side-effects than most/all other current treatments for RCC, though not for everyone - we're all different. However, it's a very new drug and, as such, the full AE profile isn't yet fully established. For instance, I've had an increase in pains in joints affected by arthritis (consequent upon old sporting injuries). After enquiry on KIDNY_ONC, I've found others have had the same experience, even though it's not mentioned in the drug leaflet. apparently TKIs can cause arthralgia (joint pain) and myalgia (muscle pain) but it's probably not a big deal in the order of things.
More importantly, there are really serious, though rare, side-effects that manifest in eye problems (e.g. loss of peripheral vision or blurry vision) that can presage major brain damage. This isn't generally disclosed but probably should be for the sake of the very few patients who might come to display this response.
Phoenix, are you sure it's the Votrient that's having this effect (your evidence does seem to bear it out, though)? Are you on any other meds that might be causing or exacerbating it? I'll continue to avoid "cute shoes" for now - I'm in scandinavian soft slippers most of the time, or trainers, roomy, steel-capped workboots or, not often lately, golf shoes but I don't picture you in any of those.
Hi Alice, thanks for it all! Mom knows I fully back Votrient, i fought like heck to get it for her when the doc wanted to start with Sutent. But i am kind of worried about it. She also is having trouble with her eyes after reading the post by TW. But she had that before we started too so i am not sure what is happening. I am really bumbed out as I have been having my own health issues and being i have my 9 year old home schooling and he has asthma, it is hard to get to mom to comfort her. I just hope this all clears up. If it is the Votrient then i feel this is my fault because i insisted she be on it with the hopes of it being less harmful than the others. She is really down and said she feels she won't get any better. I am behind her all the way letting her know how others are doing on the Votrient (including John) and telling her the good responses and to keep her chin up. It is just that her pressure won't go down even more so since they changed her pills again. She had the body pains but she hasn't complained about it lately. It is just a sad thing to watch and may i say i hate the C word! Thanks for everything..
Ange, as I think you'll have concluded, I've been very anxious about you all. I'm relieved to gather that Mom's eye problems are not new and therefore not a contra-indication for her carrying on with the Votrient, assuming other issues don't interfere with that. I'm less happy that her BP is not being better controlled (and my own seems to be spiralling out of control at the moment - something we'll review on Friday).
I'm convinced that you've made the best decisions and also that you're in expert hands (although even the very best don't know enough about this complicated malaise). A lot of people are doing very well on Votrient but we're all different and I'm sure you'll be very carefully guided by your medics as to how to proceed.
I hope a way can be found to keep your Mom on the Votrient, if it seems to be having real benefits, by managing side-effects better and finding ways to lift her low mood.
I have one question/suggestion right now. There's a bit in the Hippocratic oath that translates from the Greek as 'abstaining from doing damage' - similar to the oft-quoted Latin dictum "primum non nocere" - 'first do no harm'. One thing that can, I believe, be safely said about homeopathy is that it will do no harm - so long as it doesn't make someone turn their back on allopathic medicine. So my question is: have your Mom's current RCC experts told her not to take any homeopathic remedies and if so on what grounds? I wonder whether, unless they have suggested convincing reasons for not doing so, she should go back to the homeopathic approach, IN ADDITION TO the meds she is now on.
P.S. you won't be surprised that Mrs. Brown's Boys has been sweeping the board in awards!
I am not surprised at all that she is sweeping up the awards! I only wish i would get that station so i can watch the shows. As it is now i am subject to watching partial shows on youtube. :( when i watch that show all of my cares go out the window and i laugh until i hurt, a good hurt! ;)
Well, it seems like the PA at mom's new docs office gave us wrong information. When my sister called the doctor back to clarify the instestine blockage and the possible aorta blockage her doctor said there was none of either and was a bit surprised at the questions. It seems that the PA who first checked mom told her all of that. I personally would not have let the PA check mom, especially when the doctor is there, this is just an office not a big medical clinic, i mean come on. Anyhoo, there is no blockage anywhere and perhaps the doctor was just feeling some stool left over, sorry for the gross description but want to claify this. I was under the impression this was an effect from the Votrient so it had me very concerned.
Her pressure is amazingly still high after taking 4 pills a day for bp. Her leg swelling is going down since they changed meds for bp. Her eyes seems to be down as well, maybe the anitbiotics are helping the sinus infection. About her eyes though i am not sure. They seem to swell up all around them and she gets a headache near her temple. Can you please elaborate on the eye issues while on Votrient, or do you have a link? I would be interested in reading it. Thank you.
I appreciate all of the concern. My sister in law is half way through her chemo treatments then she will go for a test to see if it worked. I hope and pray it did, i didn't realize she is so young, only 46 now and about 43 when she first found the uterine cancer the first time. Sad to watch her go through this and the fear of the not knowing is very painful, which i am sure everyone on these boards go through, even the caregivers. I know i go through it. We all have to be positive and have a fighting spirit, because we certainly are not giving up by any means.
As Hamlet would say... "to be or not to be, that is the question." Right TW? LOL
Yeah! Go for "To be" !!
Do you know what BP meds your Mom is on?
I don't want to cause unnecessary worry but I'll dig out the info on that particular Votrient s-e and post it.
I wonder whether the Office got wires crossed and gave information relating to another patient - stranger things have happened.
I have been on Votrient for four months since my last mets to my lung. Briefly, 53 years old, 2004 diagnosed with RCC and removal of my left kidney. In 2009 had mets to my lung with a wedge removal followed by 12 months of Sutent. 2012 two mets to the lung, radiofrequency ablations to both and now on Votrient. Oncologist says we will stay on the drug as long as we are cancer free. Next scan in March.
Minimal side effects compared to sutent. Mainly fatigue, sore feat and some manageabl GI upset. Oh, and my hair is going white. For now we are coloring it but I will probably let it go if we remain on the drug. Very hopeful the drug works, but I know the future is not if we have another mets, but when.
Hi All.. I am a newbie here... I got diagnosed with RCC last Feb, 2012... Had surgery mid March, 2012... Stage 3 - large tumor, and with invasion in to the Renal Vein. Surgery went well, no lymph nodes removed... All was fine until October scan showed small spots in left lung, too small to treat... yesterday spots in both lungs and are growing... Suggested Votrient to start soon. Hope it works... and hope I can afford it.. we will see...
FYI, on the BP drugs, I was on Metroprolol after surgery and it induced major pain in both knees. Dr said not related, stopped taking the drug and pain went away in about a week... So this is a "new" side effect of the Metropolol. Thought I would mention this in case this helps.
My BP was 120 / 70 two days ago with no drugs of any kind, but goes up and down... likely I will get a different BP drug when I start the Votrient...
I wish all of you well...
Ron - California
Votrient was good to my husband to start with and from what I am told a lot of people have much success with it long term. I hope it works for you and gets those lungs cleared of spots soon. He also had very little side effects on it. The worst was being tired and that is awesome compared to a lot of other drugs.
Keep us informed of how it works for you and I'll keep you in my prayers.
2/18/12-DX with Stage IV RCC that had Metastacized to his Lungs
3/15/12- Husband had left radical nephroectomy
5/3/12- Started Votrient
8/5/12- Scans showed a reduction in size of lung nodules
10/19/12-Scans showed reduction in lung nodules had doubled in size and he had new spots as well
10/27/12-Started on Afinitor (he had his worst side effects on this)
1/10/13-Hospitalized due to Malignant Pleural Effusion. Came off of Afinitor and 2 spots on his righ lung had doubled in size.
1/19/13-Started Inlyta (he goes back to the doctor this week for blood work but won't have scans for at least another month, the only side effect he has had is extremely tired. Let's hope it stays that way).
First, I wish the best of luck to Ron and Karen's Husband. I was interested to hear about the knee pain you suffered Ron. I've had knee and thumb joint pains increased by treatment, I believe. However, whether that has been caused by Votrient or by the BP med I was on (Amlodipine) I'm unsure. Your BP sounds perfect now, but if the Votrient works for you I think you're pretty well certain to need one or more BP meds again.
Jeff, I got this scan report yesterday:
CT Thorax & abdo & pelvis with contrast
CHEST: The lungs are clear. No mediastinal, hilar or axillary lymphadenopathy. Normal bony appearances.
ABDOMEN AND PELVIS: Compared with the previous CT and PET CT scans of Septembe 2012, there remains an abnormality present in relation to the right anterolateral abdominal wall in keeping with the known FDG avid metastasis. This measures approximately 40mm x 22mm but is now hardly enhancing peripherally and appears rather indistinct.
The necrotic aortacaval node remains also present and has not significantly changed. No other interval change."
1. What does "appears rather indistinct" amount to?
2. If the periphery is "hardly enhancing", does this mean I'm heading for the entire tumor becoming necrotic?
3. To what extent will the necrotic tissue be resorbed? Or will it just sit there, inert, and, if so, does it constitute a hazard of any kind?
4. My CTscans have been reported in only 2 dimensions, my PET/CT in three - why is this? How do they map? Presumably the longest axis in each is the read for the same aspect? But does the shorter measurement in the CT correspond to the second or the third PET/CT measure given?
5. My pathology is highly aggressive. It's chromophobe, turned "predominantly sarcomatoid" and "extensively necrotic" but there's no reference to necrosis in the above report, save for the larger of two compromised lymph nodes. Any idea why that would be?
6. We have no baseline measures as at the time I started on Votrient, the CT previous to the current one was on 4th September, the PET/CT on 27th September and I started Votrient on 9th November. We feel sure that the ab wall tumor grew between 27th Sept and 9th Nov but what would be a plausible estimate of how much?
To summarise, the tumor was indiscernible when the previous met was removed on 30th March, was 25 mm x 18 mm on 4th Sept, 50 mm x 25 mm x 43 mm on 27th Sept and 40 mm x 22 mm on 24th Jan. It's shrunk but what would be your guess as to the size it had reached by the time I began the Votrient? [My primary was estimated at 70-80 mm in mid Oct 2011 and by 5th Dec at nephrectomy was 90 mm. My first met was invisible on 5th Dec 2011, 10 mm by end of Feb and 25 mm at op on 30th Mar. so each tumor has been very fast-growing] Obviously, we're keen to try to figure out how much the tumor has shrunk on the Votrient treatment.
Any expert light on the above issues would be gratefully received.
Hi I'am new to this site. A brief history. Had Right kidney taken out sept 2011 two seperate tumor on the kidney 10x9 and 9x 7cm. Survalliane scan august 2012 months later found 5 nodules left and right lung. Put trail whitch was sutent (4 weeks on and 2 weeks off)and everolimus (5 weeks on and 1 week off). Handled sutent find skin dryed out. Everolimus Very bad mouth ulcers left with scars in mouth. being on it for 5 month months Dr not happy with results some nodules shrinking other growing. Starting votrient feburary. I have being lucky I play golf, ride my bike and walk the the dog. I am also working full time. I live in Tasmania, Australia.
After sunitinib and everolimus, you should find pazopanib a cake-walk - much gentler side-effects. I've just played Carnoustie, this morning in balmy conditions over 40 degrees - F. of course! - but it may be a bit warmer there. Is there still a lot of damage in evidence from the bush-fires, or is all back to near normal now? Hope you weren't affected.
Hi, Bush fires still burning about 5 miles from where we live in the bush land around Mt Wellington, where they cant get fire crews in. The fire in Dunally destroyed over 100 properties but lucky no one die from the bush fire. A volunteer fireman died from heart attack while fighting the fires poor fellow. There is a lot of smoke around had gale force winds saturday which did not help.
I play golf at Claremont Golf Club which is right next to the Cadbury chocolate factory the smell can be quite nice going down the 1st fairway. Played saturday in the gale force winds temp was 25 celuis roughly 80 f.
I start on pazopanib on tuesday and have a blood tests at 2 weeks and 4 weeks to see how my bloods are going. I am going to take the 800ml dose at night to see how that goes. Any other advice on this tablet would be appreciated. Thanks for the reply Texas_ wedge.
Your bushfires are long out of the news here in the UK now (all about NHS problems and New England snowstorms at present) so I'm sorry to hear you still have that problem.
I envy you your first fairway experience at Claremont - at Carnoustie the major smell we get treated to (aside from seaweed at times) is burning rubber from a nearby location - the opposite end of the spectrum from chocolate in the way of fragrances!
Good luck on the Votrient. Taking it at night sounds quite a good idea because it will enable you to easily stick to having it on an empty stomach. However, just a passing thought: I take it at around 6 p.m. which suits my daily pattern well. I can't say for sure that it's the cause but I do sometimes find that an hour or two after taking it I get a disturbed gut and some flatulence which is relieved by having a meal. So, I try to eat fairly soon after the 1 hour has elapsed following my daily dose (800mg). With luck, if you're going to take it just before going to bed you'll simply sleep through any such effects and not be bothered. As I said above, I think you'll find the side-effects won't be too bad.
Thank's for the advice. I started on votrient tuesday night 800mg. Felt fine in the morning rode my push bike to work about 20 km round trip. Had long weekend last weekend for Regatta day had gastro for most of it a bad strain is going around a lot of nursing homes and a few wards at the hospital have gastro at the moment. Managed to play golf on the monday, weather was beautiful shot 80 had 7 on the 17 with a duck hook of the tee. Handicap down to 12.4 best I have ever being.
I don't envy you the smoke + winds but I do envy you the golf - don't know when I'll be playing again - it's been snowing continuously here for at least six hours now and looks likely to carry on for many more. The day I shoot 80 with a 7 at Carnoustie I'll give up - meaning I'll quit while I'm ahead!
Keep us posted on your Votrient experience. Some side-effects show up rapidly and may indicate a good response. Others can take quite a while to build up. I have a touch of diarrhoea today, after three months on it. Mind you, that might be affected by a new blood pressure med added into the mix. Also I had an anomalous response to a workout yesterday - finished a short rowing machine session with a sprint, breathing very hard and then checked my pulse a few minutes later. I expected it to have dropped from, probably, 140-150 to, say, 105, so I was staggered to find it was 43. It was back to a typical 57 this morning and I was relieved that my BP has fallen today to about 135/85, which delighted me. However, I think it goes to show that with the targeted therapies + the ancillary drugs that may be necessary (e.g. to control blood pressure) careful monitoring is essential because events are very unpredictable.
Liver enzyme levels are also crucial and I hope your oncologist will be checking you carefully in a couple of weeks time, and then again in another couple of weeks, to measure your reactions and side-effects. You're obviously off to a good start and I hope Votrient does a good job for you.
Hi, Being on votrient for nearly a week, still going ok, BP was 130/80 Heart Rate 57. I have a really good good oncologist and and the 2 blood test are to check the Liver enzyme levels and thyroid. Golf was a disaster today found every tree on the course.
Hi, being on votrient about a week, has anyone had thier creatinine levels raise while on votrient.
What change have you seen? (My guys use the more informative clearance rate, rather than serum level, and mine has been moving around between about 105 and 112, currently 109, relative to a normal range of 62 - 106 umol/L. which is nothing to get het up about. We'd expect it to be higher at age 70 and because I take more exercise than most people.)
You probably don't have a problem but you can always ask your doctors and I, for one, always encourage everybody to ask all the questions they need to, or even just want to.
Oh my... guess I opened my big mouth a bit too soon... I have been seeing a Cardio Doc as part of my preparation for the Votrient.. So, yes, my heart is a tad less than 100%... Treadmill test this week... geeesh... And yes, my heart does skip a beat every now and then....
So, what does the Doc prescribe..?? Yup Metropolol... when I mentioned the pain.. she looked at me as stated.. "It does not do that... Must be something else"... I promptly gave her one of those "looks"... she mumbled a bit and said.. well... if it is a problem there are other drugs...
Yes, I can be a ahem bugger at times... seems like it brings me joy to irritate the Doctors a bit... :)
And I now have a copy of my recent medical records.. about 500 pages worth..!!
Stay well everyone..!!
Ron - I don't want a pickle... jus wanna ride my motor sickle...
Just a quick update on mom. Since starting 400 mgs of Votrient in mid December 2012. Her blood pressure shot up very high 200/130. She was already on bp meds but it was very controlled with a small dose before the Votrient. She also had the runs quite a bit which has left her severely dehydrated. Her thyroid TSH is at 8 so slighty out of whack for which they gave her synthroid. She is not taking it at the moment because that also makes her ill. For the thyroid she is balancing with homeopathi meds currently. Getting back to her blood pressure, she tried several different bp meds and taking at one point three different ones together. One gave her serious migraines so they swithced to catapress .2 mgs. After a week on it the headaches went away but then her pressure dropped way too low and she was dizzy and the pills put her to sleep so she was sleeping all day long. The doctor cut the catapress to .1mg 2-3x a day but mom has developed the headache again so we don't know how her pressure is fearing. We had a home cuff monitor and i purchsed the arm version. Both of these were wrong and gave a much higher reading. We took both machines to the doctor and when tested the cuff gave a reading of 167/85 with a pulse of 45, the arm band gave a reading of 157/80 and pulse 53. Her actual pressure was 116/63 and pulse 60. So you can see how it was way off. They are arranging for a nurse to come to the home to take her pressure a few times a week. Which hopefully will start on Tuesday.
Besides this mom doesn't have an appetite and lost 11 pounds in two weeks. i sure hope she has good scans on the Votrient because she was doing very well before she started and you wouldn't have known she was sick, in less than two months she looks like she is ready to give in. She also lost her voice and is not strong on her feet. Mom is 80 it is true, but she was a fun loving 80 year old without a wrinkle and had more energy than me at 50 and was very active in all ways. But i am very happy to hear about the progress others are making with Votrient....
Any word on when any of the new drugs will be available? I though the tibo (is that the name?) would be ready to be approved in July of this year.
Hi , I'm just new to this site, and I am wondering if anyone has had the same symptoms as my mom. she has renal cell carcinoma in the right kidney with small tumors in both lungs, she started on votrient 2 weeks ago and has had some wierd syptoms since then , she has a weak feeling in both her legs and yesterday her temp went to 95 f. she had chills and felt extremely cold, she has high blood pressure and is on meds for it , so she didn't take any pills(votrient) this morning , she goes for blood work today , I am wondering if anyone else has experienced anything of this type and how it worked out , i think we should go to the hosp but she can be pretty stubborn.
Sounds like a fairly serious side-effect, calling for prompt attention. Her reaction won't help her BP either. I think it was sensible for her not to take her daily dose of Votrient today. I'd want her to either go to the hospital or call her oncologist asap.
My husband Bob was diagnosed in Sept 24 2012 with stage 4 renal with mets the bone. He was started on votrient, but had to stop because of surgery. He restarted Nov 7. All was well until the end of the year when he started having neurological changes-tremors, troubling getting his words out. Had an MRI of the brain and an ultrasound of the carotoid arteries done and everything came back clear. He then had a new onset seizure on the 28th, just as we were leaving radiation. No answers have been given for this, we have completed all the tests. Completely frustrated. No history of seizures in his family. I know that one of the severe side effects are for TIAs, but aren't seizures in the same body system?!
Sorry for the complications. No Tia's or tie's (transient ischemic attacks/transient ischemic episodes) is short duration vascular blood flow that is interupted in the brain. May be from blockage or bleeding or arteriol spasm. The area of brain tissue supplied by this flow suffer anoxia and symptoms occur. If the blood flow is not quickly restored, permanent damage can occur. Usually considered a stroke or cerebral vascular accident. (cva). A seizure is from mis directed electrical signals. Often overloading the brain circuitry. Both can be treated medically and at times surgically. Seizures result from something creating the misfiring. With late onset seizures, you look for the cause. Maybe injury, tumor or similar pathology. Some drugs can create the misfiring and resultant seizures. The system is under great stress. Here is hoping that it is only a tempoary problem.
Hi All..! I am now only a few days on the Votrient... let the fun begin..! So far not bad... today I have high blood pressure.. Just waiting to call the Dr to get some BP drugs.. Hope this is the worst of it.. we will see..!
Be Well all..!
Ron - I don't want a pickle.. jus wanna ride my motor sickle...
Hi All..! I forgot to ask.. my blood pressure goes up and down like crazy at times.. Is this unusual..? I can tell my BP is high.. the headache and I can feel it in my chest... Not sure what to make of it... Yes I will be calling my Cardio Doc in an hour when the office opens...
Ron, can you give some figures? I have been asking your question for quite a while but don't have an expert to ask. I'll be intrigued to hear what your cardiologist says (assuming he has a plausible answer).
Does anyone know of a reputable manual or monograph on the subject costing less than 100 bucks? I know of one comprehensive work but it's so expensive and, from a glance at the table of contents, I don't think it would necessarily even answer my key questions. Also it will be far behind the latest research findings.
My BP fluctuates wildly, virtually all of the time, so the idea of assessing one's situation on the basis of a single reading appears to be arrant nonsense, unless I'm completely out of line (and you say you're the same as I). My BP can easily shift 20 points in 5 minutes, sitting in the same position without doing anything meantime other than, possibly reading. I have begun to suspect that 'taking one's blood pressure' is a spurious concept. Ambulant monitoring represents a move in the right direction although it won't, of course, explain fluctuations, merely, possibly, give some sense of the amount of fluctuation under varying conditions.
Tes, my BP is weird... here are my last handful of readings from the last 2 days at different times during the day..
146/90 156/92 142/99 156/94 132/89 143/94 148/95 150/90 136/88 149/81 139/81 165/101 145/91 133/88 The one I bolded was a tad scarey...
Time for the Votrient for the day...
Hi , My BP increased from 130/80 to 160/99 after 3 weeks having a week break from votrient platlets way down. My thyroid has decreased function so now one tablets for that. Dr put me one a different BP tablet which is more suitable for one kidney. Also my creatinine level went 130 my DR thinks it was rampimil the BP tablet causing creatinine to go up. Having ultrasound tomorrow on my remaining kidney to check it out. And nuclear med gated heart to see how that is going.
How did the US scan go? Are things more comfortable now that you're off the Ramipril?
55 lbs sure is a big loss! What time of day is your boy-friend taking his Votrient and is he ensuring that he follows the instructions to only take it 2 hours after a meal and 1 hour before eating, so that it's taken on an empty stomach? By the way, a lot of people do fine on a lower dose and that way can reduce the side-effects a lot.
Hi hon sorry am still learning the navigation here... He is taking it around 7P.M Yes he is taking it 2 hours after a meal and one hour before eating anything... They just reduced the dose from 4 to 3 because of the side effects - Jan to be exact. They did another Scan in Jan and the tumors have grown and spread a little between Dec and Jan. He was taken off the meds several times, trying to allow him to recover from things and putting him on again. They said thats when the cancer grew. Because he was not consistantly taking the meds... | <urn:uuid:3659c554-79dc-4c90-aeb6-80502d0e529b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://csn.cancer.org/node/239956?page=2 | 2013-05-20T22:32:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981366 | 11,664 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
We’re kicking off the new year with classes the first week of February.
We’ve resolved to help you make bicycling safe, comfortable, and fun again. Whether you are riding for sport, transportation, or just plain fun, CyclingSavvy will give you tools and confidence to ride any street (or path) safely and comfortably.
Note that you can take each portion of the program separately, but in succession. For instance, in February you could take Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling and at the next scheduled workshop take the on-bike portions.
Truth & Techniques of Traffic Cycling
February 3rd, 6-9PM
Location: Northway Christian Church (map)
Learn the truth and techniques of traffic cycling. Through guided discussion with video and animation, this classroom-based session familiarizes students with bicycle-specific laws, traffic dynamics and problem-solving strategies. Students discover that bicycle drivers are equal road users, with the right and ability to control their space.
This session is available á la carte for $30. You may take it as a stand-alone class.
Train Your Bike
February 4th, 8-11 AM
Location: Northway Christian Church south parking lot (map)
This session is conducted in a parking lot. It consists of a set of progressive drills designed to increase students’ control and comfort handling their bikes in various situations. Drills include:
- Start/Stop, Power Pedal & Balance Stop
- Snail Race, Slow-speed Balance
- Drag-race, Gears & Acceleration
- Ride Straight, One-handed
- Shoulder Check
- Object-avoidance Handling, Weave, Snap
- Turning: Slow-speed Tight Turns, High-speed cornering, Emergency Snap-turn
- Emergency Braking
This session is available á la carte for $30. You may take it as a stand-alone class. In three short hours, you will learn to command your bike with precision and confidence.
After the Train Your Bike session the class will ride to lunch before beginning the Tour of Dallas.
Tour of Dallas
February 4th, 12:30-4 PM
Start/end: Northway Christian Church south parking lot (map)
This class requires completion of the first two sessions. It will begin after a group lunch.
This session is an experiential tour of Dallas roads. The course includes some of the most intimidating road features (intersections, interchanges, merges, etc.) a cyclist might find in his/her travels. The students travel as a group, stopping to survey and discuss each exercise location. After observing the feature, discussing the traffic dynamics and the best strategy for safe and easy passage, the students ride through individually and regroup at a nearby location. This session is designed to give you the confidence and skills to handle any situation you might encounter.
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Patrick Murphy, a former congressman from Bucks County, announced his candidacy for attorney general today buttressed by the endorsements of dozens of party and union leaders.
In a phone interview, the Democrat, who was the first Iraq War veteran to serve in Congress, contended that his legal and military backgrounds along with his up-bringing as the son of a police officer make him “uniquily qualified to serve as attorney general.’’
Mr. Murphy ousted Republican Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick from a suburban Philadelphia House seat in the Democratic wave of 2006. After two terms in Congress, however, another political tsunami, the GOP tide of 2010, allowed Mr. Fitzpatrick to recapture the seat. In Congress Mr. Murphy championed the end of the military’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell regime for gay members of the armed services. He sponsored legislation to provide scholarships for children of police offiers and other public safety personnel killed in the line of duty. Along with Sen. Bob Casey and Rep. Chaka Fattah, he was one of the few members of the state’s Democratic hierarchy to back President Obama over Hillary Clinton in the state’s 2008 presidential primary.
As a U.S. Army lawyer, Mr. Murphy served tours of duty in Bosnia and in Iraq before turning to politics. He is a graduate of King’s College in Wilkes-Barre and Widener Univesity law school.
Asked about the timing of his relatively early entrance in the race, he said, “When I ran for Congress, I went through three pairs of shoes. I’m sure I’m going to wear out a few sets of tires as I get out to all 67 counties.’’
Mr. Murphy offered few specifics in outlining his goals for the new office. A statement accompanying the znnouncement he cited the broad, non-controversial goals of combatting white collar and street crime while rooting out public corruption.
A long list of officials endorsing the campaign included county Executive Dan Onorato, Reps. Jason Altmire, D-McCandless; Tim Holden, D-Schuykill; and Chaka Fattah, D-Philadelphia; and state Reps. Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill; and Chelsa Wagner, D-Beechview; and more than a dozen county Democratic chairs.
No Democrat has been elected attorney general since the post was made an elected one in the Constitutional revision of 1968. Gov. Tom Corbett bucked the Democratic landslide of 2008 to win a second term in the office. After he was sworn in as governor, Mr. Corbett chose Linda Kelly a former colleague in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Western District of the state as his replacement. Ms. Kelly pledged not to run when the term expires next year.
Two other Democrats are already in the race: former Lackawanna prosecutor Kathleen Granahan Kane, and Dan McCaffrey, the brother of state Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffrey, who ran for Philadelphia DA in 2009. Lynne Abraham, the former Philadelphia district attorney, is also reported to be considering the statewide race. | <urn:uuid:4db400b6-b536-4954-9c33-27bd56531d16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://earlyreturns.post-gazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:murphy-to-announce-for-ag&catid=53:post-gazette-staff&Itemid=34 | 2013-05-20T22:12:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964048 | 660 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Working effectively in an IT environment
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From the official document:
- "This unit defines the competency required to work effectively within the IT environment of an organisation by researching and assembling information about the organisation's IT systems, equipment, software, policies and governance arrangements."
Basically, that means ... (translate above into plain english)
You can read more about this unit on the National Training Information Systems Official document for ICAW2001A.
This unit is a pre-requisite for the following qualifications:
How this unit will help you
After learning and applying the skills required by this unit you'll be able to demonstrate your skills in:
|1. Identify IT in an organisation and related relevant policies and procedures||
|2. Identify IT equipment, software and operating systems used by the organisation||
- translate the above elements and performance criteria into plain english and summarise here...
Ideas for learning the required skills
It is critical that you have some hands on experience. A great start would be a virtual machine. Watching videos pertaining to a specific device or course. Reading on the subject can only help understand it.
Ideas for demonstrating this unit
The best way to demonstrate these skills is ...
If you are demonstrating this unit as part of a formal course, you might find that the unit is graded (meaning you can not only demonstrate your competence, but can also gain a credit or distinction). Your facilitator may already have set criteria that your college uses. If not, here are some ideas for possible credit/distinction activities that you can discuss with your facilitator:
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Don Heinzman named city’s Volunteer of the Month
Don Heinzman has been named the city of Elk River’s Volunteer of the Month for March.
Heinzman, retired editor of the Star News, chairs the Beyond the Yellow Ribbon program in Elk River. He is a board member and past president of the Elk River Rotary Club, helped organize and is a charter member of the Three Rivers Community Foundation and is a charter board member of the Elk River Boys and Girls Club. He also is a founding member of the Elk River Citizens League, served on the Community Education board, is a Chamber of Commerce member and is involved with the Friends of the Oliver Kelley Farm.
“In his spare time, he volunteers for CAER (the Elk River-based food shelf),” Mayor John Dietz said in recognizing Heinzman at the March 19 City Council meeting.
Heinzman thanked the City Council for the honor. “Elk River has been a good community for me and Liz Ann (his wife) and we’ve always wanted to give back to the community,” he said. | <urn:uuid:6a9d7c90-3b77-4263-9c85-2f211a7ac541> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://erstarnews.com/2012/03/20/don-heinzman-named-citys-volunteer-of-the-month/ | 2013-05-20T22:05:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976993 | 230 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Action to improve infant and young child feeding in nutrition and child health programmes
A mother prepares porridge from
soy-fortified bulgur in Guatemala
Proceedings of meeting1
Over 50 researchers, programme implementers, infant feeding experts and representatives of WHO and UNICEF headquarters departments and regional offices gathered in Geneva in October 2008, to discuss how to fill the gap between the progress that has been made in defining principles for appropriate feeding for infants and young children from 6 to 23 months and translating these into specific policies and programmes.
Participants recognised that there are not enough examples of well-documented, largescale programmes that have successfully improved feeding practices in children 6-23 months of age and resulted in improved health outcomes. Therefore, there are important weaknesses in the evidence base for effective actions. Nevertheless, the evidence is strong to support the following conclusions:
- Recommendations for optimal infant and young child feeding include that infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health, and thereafter, they should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while breast feeding continues up to 2 years or beyond.
- The Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, endorsed by WHO Member States and the UNICEF Executive Board in 2002, provides the overall framework for actions needed to protect, promote and support appropriate feeding practices in infants and young children 0-23 months of age.
- The Planning Guide that accompanies the Global Strategy is intended to assist country teams to develop national plans of action to improve child nutrition. The Guide outlines what needs to be done to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. However, it should be updated to give further clarity on what is needed to strengthen complemen tary foods and feeding practices in children 6-23 months of age.
- Acknowledging the critical contribution of continued breastfeeding to child nutrition, the meeting focused mostly on evidencebased and feasible options to improve the quality of complementary foods and on caregivers' practices to enhance their intake.
- Appropriate nutrition in children 6-23 months of age requires interventions across the life span, from pregnancy into the first 2 years of life. They include support for maternal nutrition2, early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, and the introduction of adequate complementary foods at 6 months with continued breastfeeding for 2 years of age or beyond. Influencing appropriate feeding practices is as critical as influencing avail ability and use of adequate foods.
- Quality counselling of mothers and caregivers, and appropriate behavioural change communication to other family and community decisionmakers, are essential for improving infant and young child feeding practices. They should be at the centre of any strategy to improve infant and young child nutrition.
- Similarly, strategies should maximise the utilisation of locally produced foods in any given setting, and consider the promotion of additional products only if they can fill a critical gap in nutrients in an acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe way, as a complement to continued breastfeeding and the local diet, not as a replacement.
- Where locally available foods alone will not satisfy nutritional requirements, various types of products offer promise. They may include centrally produced fortified foods, micronutrient powders, and lipid-based nutrient supplements. Further research and carefully monitored applications at scale are needed to generate more evidence on which product is best for which circumstance, how best to promote their correct utilisation, and their contribution to improving nutritional, developmental and health status in different circumstances.
Effective programme design and delivery
1Strengthening action to improve feeding of infants and young children 6-23 months of age in nutrition and child health programmes. Geneva, 6-9 October 2008. WHO, UNICEF. Report of Proceedings. Available from WHO website or direct link: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241597890_eng.pdf
2Although not addressed at this meeting, other practices, such as delayed umbilical cord clamping to enhance newborn body iron stores and micronutrient supplementation and nutrition during pregnancy, are also very important for young child nutrition.
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First Great Seal Committee July/August 1776
"Resolved, That Dr. Franklin, Mr. J. Adams and Mr. Jefferson, be a committee, to bring in a device for a seal for the United States of America." July 4, 1776, Journals of Continental Congress
For the design team, Congress chose three of the five men who were on the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. Although these distinguished committee members were among the ablest minds in the new nation, they had little knowledge of heraldry. To help convey their vision, they chose the artist Pierre Eugène Du Simitière to work with them.
The four men consulted among themselves between July 4 and August 13, then each brought before the committee a suggestion for the design of the Great Seal.
Benjamin Franklin's proposal is preserved in a note of his own handwriting:
"Moses standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby causing the same to overwhelm Pharaoh who is sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his Head and a Sword in his Hand. Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Clouds reaching to Moses, to express that he acts by Command of the Deity.
Thomas Jefferson also suggested allegorical scenes. For the front of the seal: children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. For the reverse: Hengist and Horsa, the two brothers who were the legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in Britain.
John Adams chose the allegorical painting known as the "Judgment of Hercules" where the young Hercules must choose to travel either on the flowery path of self-indulgence or ascend the rugged, uphill way of duty to others and honor to himself.
Du Simitière designed a proper heraldic seal,
"The shield has six Quarters... pointing out the Countries from which these States have been peopled."
The shield is bordered with the initials for "each of the thirteen independent States of America."
In Du Simitière's second design (below) the one submitted to Congress the Soldier was replaced with the Goddess of Justice. Also, the anchor was removed, so the Goddess of Liberty's left hand is "supporting the Shield of the States."
The above realization drawn in 1856 by Benson J. Lossing has an error. The initials of the states are supposed to surround the shield, not the seal, as Lossing showed. He also drew the below realization of the committee's reverse side.
The Reverse Side of the Great Seal
"Pharaoh sitting in an open Chariot, a Crown on his head and a Sword in his hand, passing through the divided Waters of the Red Sea in Pursuit of the Israelites: Rays from a Pillar of Fire in the Cloud, expressive of the divine Presence and Command, beaming on Moses who stands on the shore and extending his hand over the Sea causes it to overwhelm Pharaoh."
On August 20, 1776, the same day Congress received the committee's report, it was "Ordered, To lie on the table." In other words, Congress was unimpressed by their design.
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Hospice Care and Share Thrift Shop - Naropa Day of Service and Learning Site
Schedule for the Day:
8:30–9:00 a.m. Community Sitting Practice Nalanda Events Center
9:00–9:45 a.m. Speakers Nalanda Events Center
(Phil Battos , Master of Ceremonies, Todd Kilburn, Naropa University; Megan Frewaldt, student at Naropa University; Joan Raderman, Founder and Executive Director of Circle of Care)
9:45–10:15 a.m. Grab-and-Go Lunch Nalanda Events Center
10:15 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Travel to Project Sites Bus maps provided
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Hospice Care and Share Thrift Shop Service Project
Volunteers will meet with the volunteer coordinator at the beginning of the time to learn about the hospice philosophy and HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield counties and go over some safety hints and an overview of the projects for the day. Volunteers will do several projects: processing and sorting donations, floor work (making the sales floor look nice, restocking), and if they are willing, some light custodial (washing the fingerprints off the windows and doors).
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Medina Journal-Register — Village of Albion
Police executed a bench warrant against Edwin Allen Jr., 35, Albion.
Denise R. Vanwagner, 60, Medina was charged June 13 with petit larceny.
A 16-year-old Albion girl was charged June 13 with second-degree harassment.
Kayla L. Crawford, 19, Greece and Anthony C. Moracco, 20, Greece and a 17-year-old boy from Batavia were charged June 13 with unlawful possession of marijuana.
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Nate Silver first attracted attention two election cycles ago with the launch of his fivethirtyeight.com website (538 is the number of electoral votes in the United States.) He makes clean charts, which I like a lot. Since that time, he has earned a platform on the New York Times website, which goes some way to explaining the vitriol hurled at him during the just-concluded election season by the right wing. Being in the national conversation is convenient when one has a book coming off the press – and I write this admiringly, as I believe Silver’s popularity and influence further the cause of anyone in favor of the data-driven mindset. Surely, the predictive success of his model, as well as those of a number of copycats, has resoundingly humbled the pundits and tealeaf readers, who talked themselves into ignoring the polling data.
The book is titled The Signal and the Noise (link). As explained by Silver, these terms originated in the electrical engineering realm, and have long served as a metaphor for the statistician’s vocation, that is, separating the signal from the noise. Imagine making a long-distance call from California to Tokyo. Your voice, the signal, is encoded and sent along miles of cables and wires from one handset to the other, picking up interference, the noise, along the way. The job of electrical engineers is to decipher the garbled audio at the other end, by sizing and removing the noise. When the technology fails, you have a “bad connection”, and you can literally hear the noise.
It is in the subtitle—“why so many predictions fail – but some don’t”—that one learns the core philosophy of Silver: he is most concerned with the honest evaluation of the performance of predictive models. The failure to look into one’s mirror is what I often describe as the elephant in the data analyst’s room. Science reporters and authors keep bombarding us with stories of success in data mining, when in fact most statistical models in the social sciences have high rates of error. As Silver’s many case studies demonstrate, these models are still useful but they are far from infallible; or, as Silver would prefer to put it, the models have a quantifiable chance of failing.
In 450 briskly-moving pages, Silver takes readers through case studies on polling, baseball, the weather, earthquakes, GDP, pandemic flu, chess, poker, stock market, global warming, and terrorism. I appreciate the refreshing modesty in discussing the limitation of various successful prediction systems. For example, one of the subheads in the chapter about a baseball player performance forecasting system he developed prior to entering the world of political polls reads: “PECOTA Versus Scouts: Scouts Win” (p. 88). Unlike many popular science authors, Silver does not portray his protagonists as uncomplicated heroes, he does not draw overly general conclusions, and he does not flip from one anecdote to another but instead provides details for readers to gain a fuller understanding of each case study. In other words, we can trust his conclusions, even if his book contains little Freakonomics-style counter-intuition.
Performance measurement is a complex undertaking. To illustrate this point, I list the evaluation methods deployed in the key case studies of the book:
- McLaughlin Group panel predictions (p. 49): proportion of predictions that become “completely true” or “mostly true,” ignoring predictions that cannot be or are not yet verifiable
- Election forecasts (p. 70): proportion of Republican wins among those districts predicted to be “leaning Republican” (underlying this type of evaluation is some criterion for calling a race to be “leaning”)
- Baseball prospect forecasting (p. 90): number of major-league wins generated by players on the Top 100 prospect list in specified window of time; the wins attributed to individual players are computed via a formula known as “wins above replacement player”
- Daily high-temperature forecasts (p. 132): average difference between predicted temperature (x days in advance) and actual temperature relative to “naïve” methods of prediction, such as always predicting the average temperature, or predicting tomorrow’s temperature to equal today’s
- Rainfall forecast (p. 135): how close to, say, 20%, is the proportion of days on which it actually rained, among those days when the weather service forecasts 20% chance of rain
- Earthquake forecast (p. 160): whether an earthquake in the predicted range of magnitude occurred in the predicted range of time at a predicted region of the world, or not (this is a binary outcome)
- GDP growth forecast (p. 182): the proportion of times in which the economist’s prediction intervals contain the actual GDP growth
- Chess (Ch. 9): winning games
- Poker (p. 311): amount of earnings
- Long-range global temperature forecast (pp. 398, 402): actual trend against predicted trend. (Note that this is the same method as #7 but with only one prediction interval.)
If you are thinking the evalution methods listed above seem numerous and arbitrary, you’d be right. After reading Silver’s book, you should be thinking critically about how predictions are evaluated (and in some cases, how they may be impossible to verify). Probabilistic forecasts that Silver advocates are even harder to validate. Silver tells it like it is: this is difficult but crucial work; and one must look out for forecasters who don’t report their errors, as well as those who hide their errors by using inappropriate measurement.
Throughout the book, Silver makes many practical recommendations that reveal his practitioner’s perspective on forecasting. As an applied statistician, I endorse without hesitation specific pieces of advice, such as use probability models, more data could make predictions worse, mix art and science, try hard to find the right data, don’t just use readily available data, and avoid too much precision.
The only exaggeration in the book is his elevation of “Bayesian” statistics as the solution to predictive inaccuracy. What he packages as Bayesian has been part of statistical science even before the recent rise of modern Bayesian statistics. (The disagreement between Bayesians and non-Bayesians is over how these concepts are utilized.) Silver’s exposition focuses on probability updating in sequential decision-making, which is understandable given his expertise in sequential settings with a rich tradition of data collection, such as baseball and polling. (At one point, he makes an astute comment about data analysts selecting more promising settings in which to work.) The modern Bayesian movement is much broader than probability updating, and I’d point you to Professor Andrew Gelman’s blog and/or books as a place to explore what I mean by that. It must be said, though, that the technicalities of Bayesian statistics are tough to convey in a mass-market book.
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Soul Culture Journal - Spring 2009
GuruDevMessage From the Master – Spiritual Life Excerpt from the Book ‘Kriya Yoga’; Ch 4 – The Theory of Kriya Yoga pg 87-89 Transforming Others through Love
Paramahamsa PrajnananandaExcerpt from the Book ‘River of Compassion’ - Chapter 7 - The Company You Keep pg 168 -172 An Excerpt from the ‘Book Path of Love’ CH 9. Cultivating Love pg 76-79
ScripturesThe Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 18, Verse 10) Patanjali Yoga Sutra 50
Greetings to all:
April 1-5, 2009 the Retreat on Higher Kriyas was held at the Mother Center.
Shri Lahiri Mahasaya used to say that a disciple should spend at least a few days each year in the company of his or her master. This unique retreat at the Miami Ashram is a rare opportunity to not only be in the presence of our divine master, Paramahamsa Prajnananandaji, but also to learn and deepen your practice of the higher Kriyas. Kriyavans will have the opportunity to learn and practice the advanced Kriyas, obtain clarification about the techniques, as well as receive spiritual teachings and gain insight into the deeper wisdom hidden in scriptural texts.
We also celebrated Easter holiday is April. Below is Guruji’s Easter message:
In Truth There is Unity
Loving and Divine Soul,
On the occasion of Easter and Good Friday I pray to God and masters for all of you. These days are considered holy and spiritually significant. Beginning with the Last Supper, then on Good Friday, and Easter Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, people try to remain in Christ consciousness and intensify their deep love for God. Jesus, in his short span of life, just over thirty years, and teaching for only three years, has inspired and motivated people to the spiritual path, even 2000 years later. His teachings are beautiful, metaphorical, and at the same time, practical. His life was filled with love, compassion, and service.
During human civilization many incarnations, prophets, saints, and sages have enriched human life. Nevertheless, many people are not able to understand their teachings and accept that although God is one, there can be many paths to know and love God. There are apparent and visible differences and diversities, but many people become fanatic and dogmatic. In the past it was not easy to communicate due to distance and apparent differences, but now in modern times with information technology we can easily communicate and have dialogues and spread the message of unity easily. We must relinquish apparent differences through understanding and love. The Mahabharata says:
naiko munir yasya vacah pramanam
dharmasya tattwam nihitam guhayam
mahajano yena gatah sa panthah
– Mahabharata, Vanaparva, 3:12:315
"There are many Vedas and other holy books, law books. There is not a single holy man who has the same view as another. The secret of dharma, spirituality, is hidden. That is the path directed by the realized."
When people realize the ultimate truth, differences disappear; there is only unity. This experience of truth needs sincere and committed practice for inner transformation. Practical spirituality results in the manifestation of love, tolerance, and compassion towards God's creation. This is the time to engender peace and harmony by eliminating apparent differences.
Jesus, the prince of peace, led an exemplary life of sacrifice to redeem human misery. He is still watching each one of us to see whether we have understood His message and brought it into our lives. This is the time to love Him with prayer, meditation, and selfless service.
On this holy occasion I perceive His presence in every breath, and I humbly request you all to pray and meditate with love and devotion. Do not waste time. Try to change your lives.
Again, I am praying for all of you.
There was a special lecture series given in Los Angeles:
The Sheila Kar Health Foundation hosts a continuing event on stress reduction featuring Spiritual Master Paramahamsa Prajnanananda who will talk on:
through Meditation & Spirituality
Paramahamsa Prajnananda is a realized monk and author of several original and translated spiritual books. Through his profound and extensive knowledge of the scriptures, he skillfully interprets ageless philosophies in context to modern science and technology. His wisdom and divinity impart knowledge, peace, and calmness, and bring out the Godliness in all.
In May Mother’s Day was celebrated. Below is Guruji’s Mother’s Day Message:
Loving and Divine Soul
On this Mother's Day, I bow to God as the Divine Mother. I bow to Mother Mary as a personification of divine motherhood on this earth. I bow to all the female saints that humanity has been gifted with. I bow to my master as my spiritual mother. I bow to all mothers, not only in human forms, but in all forms of creation. And above all, I bow to the mother who with so much love and care brought me to this world, trained me, and taught me a lot in the journey of my life. Happy Mother's Day to you all.
I remember a beautiful verse in Sanskrit that describes the noble nature of human beings, especially mothers:
chinnam chinnam punarapi punah svadu chaivekshu-kandam
dagdham dagdham punarapi punah kanchanam kanta-varnam
pranante'pi prakriti-vikritir jayate nottamanam
"Again and again you rub the sandalwood on the stone, it produces only a fragrant paste. Cut the sugar cane again and again, it provides only sweetness. Burn again and again a piece of gold, it always shines. In the same way, when noble people are put into different situations, they do not change."
When I read this verse, I always remember my childhood and my mother. As little children we troubled our mothers so much, but she showered love, affection, compassion, and smiles in return. As a child I did not realize her greatness, but when I grew up, I saw the beauty of motherhood. It is really difficult to understand a mother's greatness in her love and sacrifice. On this special day, I adore all the mothers, including the mother earth. Let us all be good children, humble and disciplined, active and creative; let us reflect the mother's beauty in all our actions.
Please meditate nicely. Contemplate the beauty of the mother. Inherit the goodness of the mother, as a child inherits the wealth of the parents.
Again, I am praying for you all.
Also in May were the Birthday Celebrations for GuruDev Paramahamsa Hariharananda.
Gurudev Baba Hariharananda's Birthday
Loving and Divine Soul
On this special day, Gurudev's 102nd birthday, I send my love, best wishes, and oneness to all of you. I pray to God and beloved Gurudev to bless each of us and the entire creation with peace, bliss, and joy.
It is said that God is the father and the guru is the mother. Through their love, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness, they create a new life for every seeker. We are all human beings, but Gurudev said we are not just human beings, but God in human beings. We have God-like potential — love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness — but these qualities must manifest in our thoughts, words, and actions.
God made us in His image. God gave us five powerful sense organs, not for our downfall or destruction, but for our evolution and realization. To achieve evolution, we must discipline our sense organs, otherwise there will be trouble and difficulty in every footstep. Gurudev often quoted a beautiful verse from the teachings of Shri Adi Shankara:
mina hatah pancabhireva pancha
ekah pramadi sa katham na hanyate
ya sevate panchabhih eva pancha
– Viveka Chudamani of Adi Shankara
"The deer, the elephant, the moth, the bee, and the fish: These five meet their end when they are attached to a sense object. Attachment to just one sense object causes a lot of trouble. What about a person who has five powerful sense organs?"
Gurudev taught us to use our eyes to seek the beauty of God in every name and form, to use our ears to remember God's presence in every sound, to be grateful for God's loving presence when our tongue tastes delicious food. Similarly, let our hands be always ready to love and serve, because God is everywhere. If we live in God consciousness during every breath, our lives will be beautiful. Yesterday Gurudev was physically present, teaching beautiful things in a loving way. With the passage of time he changed from form to formless. His teachings are here. Our evolution depends upon how much we practice. Let us love God and try to transform ourselves. Let each sense organ be a door to the divine temple of God's universe, as well as a door to perceiving divinity in the body temple. Let our eyes be the door to see the presence of God without and within.
On this special day, I request that each one of you meditates nicely and truly changes your life. Time is passing; let us make the best use of time.
Again, I am praying for you all.
dvandvatitam gaganasadrisham tattvamasyadilakshyam
ekam nityam vimalam acalam sarvadhi – sakshi-bhutam
bhavatitam-trigunarahitam sadguram tam namami
“He who is the source of all bliss, the source of eternal happiness, personification of wisdom, beyond all duality, formless, whose attention is always on the divine. Thou are that. Guru is one, eternal, pure, steady. Witness in consciousness in all, beyond all thought and beyond the three qualities of nature I bow to that sat guru. I bow to my guru and God, who is pure, eternal, beyond all forms – pure consciousness. I bow to my guru. “
Spiritual Life - July 2009 issue of Sthita Prajna
Without spirit you have no existence, anything you are doing is done by the soul only. If the soul is not with you then you are doing nothing. What will be your soul perception? – that you will be perfect, you will not be rude, you will never get irritation, you will feel liking for every human being, you are the divine in every moment and you are perceiving the inner self. God is always with you, so every moment you should watch him.
There is an invisible counterpart in your each body part. Without invisible body you are nothing. The invisible body is always functioning so everybody should earn more spirituality. You should be humble, you should be kind, loving and you should be divine every moment, because your quality is the same quality of God. You have God- like potential, potential for purity, potential for perfection, potential for love; it’s the life of God.
We are doing our actions in the world only with intellect, and not by truth, not by spirit, not by sincerity, not by love. Is it not? If you cannot change yourself, then you have no spirituality. God is with you every moment and is giving you the opportunity to know thyself. Presume not God to scan, you are to perceive God; you are not to perceive just a form of God, you are to perceive everything is God.
What is your aim? Who are you? The proper expression of spirituality, will give rise to the real knowledge to mankind, by which they can come to know the divine. What is in Patanjali that is in Hariharananda, which is in Veda that is in Hariharananda, and what is in the Bhagavad Gita, in the Bible, in Torah, that is in Hariharananda.
How to remove your mind, thought intellect, ego and how to transform it? But by the practice of Kriya Yoga, you can explain it, that you can go beyond your mind, thought, intellect ego by practice of Kriya Yoga. Ask your conscience: “Who are you?” if you don’t ask your conscience, if you don’t remain alert, then you cannot progress.
Once thee lived a rich man who was very charitable and lived a strict disciplined life. As he was getting older he decided he did not need his wealth as it would only create trouble and quarrels after his death and distributed it to needy people, keeping what he thought was enough for him.
But in course of time, as fate would have it, he became extremely poor. But he was not unhappy. Once day the wife said, You have become old and are not able to work for a living, So why don’t you go to the king to get some money.” He said that he would not be. The wife said, “If you do not like to take something for free, you could exchange some of the fruits of your meritorious actions for some money.”
This idea appealed to the husband and he set out on foot to go to the king. The wife packed a few chapattis in a piece of cloth for him to eat on the way. He walked the whole day and in the evening he sat down under the shade of a tree to eat.
A hungry dog with a few puppies approached him. The dog was very weak. She looked like she did not have food for a few days but was still trying to feed the puppies. He felt sorry to see this condition and thought I can go hungry for a day and fed the dog with his meal. The dog was happy and he was satisfied.
Next morning he reached the palace of the king. When the king found out what he came for, he asked the man if he could describe some of his good deeds. The man refused and said one should not boast of one’s good deeds.
Then the king called a soothsayer and asked him what action of the man he should exchange for some money. The psychic said the best act performed by the old man was to fee the hungry dog at the expense of himself going hungry. By feeding the mother dog, the man also saved the puppies from death.
Satisfied, the king asked the psychic what the worth of that action would be. “Your whole kingdom Majesty” replied the psychic “would not be worth the merit of his act, as this man gave everything that he had.”
Chapter IV – The Theory of Kriya Yoga pg 87 - 89
HOW TO SWITCH OFF YOUR MIND
Concentration of mind requires two things: (1) good environment and (2) removal of objects of distraction. A quiet place is not always required for meditation. When a person practices kriya yoga, he can switch off his five sense telephones and can get quietness or calmness wherever he is.
The activity of the lungs and heart is caused by physiological changes of a biological and biochemical nature. These activities are controlled by the life force, i.e. prãna, which is the electrical power in the sensory-motor nerves. The storehouse of prãna is in the brain, but it is guided from the medulla oblongata to the vagus nerves and other cranial nerves, which then give direct power to the heart, lungs, diaphragm and every part of the body; the cells, molecules, tissues and atoms.
The gross body is always feeling, “I am all in all, the invisible body is nothing to me,” but when a person comes to a divine environment, the Master teaches physiology and psychology side by side. He will learn that the knowledge body has thorough control over the mind and according to the guidance of a real kriyã yogi, he will learn, that the physiological forces are controlled by the three super powers: dharana, perception and conception of the soul; dhyana, the formless stage or adhyatma avasthã in which there is no mind, intellect, ego or thought and samädhi, the merging in soul. Then he can perceive that the invisible body is the real conductor of the visible body. Psychological forces are the force of soul that is the invisible and real ‘ I’ (Purusa) and physiological forces are the force of the visible and unreal ‘I’ (prakrti). So, by the guidance of a good Master, if a man practices kriyã yoga, then he can control his lungs and heart and can withdraw his mind from the external world.
WHAT KRIYA YOGA CAN GIVE YOU
Each person has some control over his breath and lungs, but no control over his heart. Controlling the lungs by the philosophical kriyã yoga technique, without pressing the nose or creating any disorder in the heart, a person gradually controls his tissues, molecules, muscles and atoms. The heartbeat and breath become weaker and slower. By the help of this, we can withdraw all thoughts and anxieties from the mind and brain and can get coolness in the brain. For example, when a pet dog runs for a long period, its tissues, muscles and molecules become tired, the dog takes rest and its mind becomes extremely cool; it sleeps immediately. Similarly, by the kriyã yoga technique we can make our brain and mind stuff free and with this single- minded state we can work perfectly.
Kriya yoga is based on physiology, psychology, astrology and philosophy. Its power is a great mystery. It places value on the mundane and the spiritual world equally. Kriya yoga power enables a person to get success in any field. It gives him all- around development. To the person remaining in the family and in the world, kriya yoga can give extreme inner peace, divineness and repose.
The tremendous power that is remaining within a person is the Lord’s own power of creation. By that power anyone can perceive God, even through his delusion, illusion and error. The realized Master can awaken the kundalini sakti(Serpent Power) during the time of initiation. That is called saktipata. The student will get constant awareness of the Soul in him. That power gives skill and success in any field of research and beautiful tact in the practical life.
People get extreme energy and sound health because of the scientific nature of this technique. They take sufficient oxygen, which is the nutrition of the brain, lungs, heart and the whole system. The impure blood is purified by the oxygen. Kriya yoga can heal a sick mind and a sick body. If anyone eats any germ, he can digest it. He can get sound health by kriya yoga. Kriya yoga gives long life, peace, prosperity, fame and salvation. Educated and illiterate, men and women, boys and girls above thirteen years, rich and poor,. employers and employees can practice this kriya yoga to get balance of mind, prompt understanding, ready wit, amity, affection and oneness. Balance of mind is controlled by the lungs and heart and by deep breathing.
Ignorance and knowledge are both coming from the heart center. If we cannot control our breath, the heart and lungs, then we cannot switch off our mind stuff from our brain. But if we can control our breath by kriya yoga, we can go into divineness and can reach vijnanamaya kosa. So, the heart center is called vijnanamaya kosa.
In the yoga scriptures it is said:indriyanam manannathah. Manannathastu maruta maruta-stu laya-natha sa laya-na dam asritah. It means that the master of our five sense telephones is mind and the master of mind is deep inhalation. Through this we can switch off our mind center and we can switch on our knowledge center. Mind gives ignorance. Mind cannot judge anything. Mind brings destruction, so the mind is blind. Knowledge, however, leads to calmness and perfection; knowledge leads one’s life from darkness to light. When the air (inhalation) is controlled, then we get the vacuum stage. When a person remains in the vacuum stage, he hears divine sound that is the talk of God. He can even feel the truth, emptiness and divine vibration all over the universe. He can see illumination everywhere; at that time he gradually goes from the dorsal center to the vacuum, i.e. cervical center. From the cervical center begins the real abode of the invisible God. That is called anandamaya kosa. If a person can remain in that center, then he can feel extreme detachment in the midst of attachment.
From Sthita Prajna
Once Buddha was in a village sitting under a tree talking with some disciples. A very excited and angry man approached him. Buddha smiled and said, “My friend, do you want to say something?” The man was too angry to speak and spat on the face of Buddha and left.
Buddha cleaned himself with a piece of cloth and continued his talk. Ananda, a prominent disciple of Buddha, could not bear it. He said, “What are you doing? This man insulted you for no reason.” Buddha said, “Ananda, Sit down and listen to the talk.”
In the meantime the man who insulted Budha was undergoing an inner transformation. He was thinking, “How strange it is! That man did not get angry even when I spat on him. There was no reaction from him. One who is so completely egoless must be a great man.” The man repented for what he did and the next morning he set out in search of Buddha. He did not find him under the tree. He asked someone about his whereabouts and was told he had left for another village. So the man went to the next village to apologize.
Buddha was once again sitting under the shade of a tree surrounded by his disciples. The man came and holding the feet of Buddha and crying bitterly begged his forgiveness. Buddha looked at him and said, “My brother, Get up. Why do you cry? What happened to you?”
The man said, “Please forgive me.”
Buddha said, “You have not done any wrong to me. Why should I forgive you?” The man said “I spat on your face in a fit of anger yesterday in the other village.” Buddha said, “It is not the same village or the same tree or the same people. What is past is gone. Why do you carry yesterday into today? I left it then and there. I never accepted what you did and I sent my love to you."
By your love and behavior you can bring about transformation in others- to forget and forgive is a great gift. If someone has done something wrong to you don’t bring up that memory again and again.
Chapter-7 The Company You Keep Pg 168-172
Two Flowers from the Same Tree One evening in Benares, the holy city on the banks of the Ganga, a swami and some Indian and Western disciples proceeded from the house of Shni Lahiri Mahasaya to the ashram of a renowned monk. When the ashram door opened, the visiting monk said, “We have come to see Thakur” (the founder of the ashram was popularly known by that name). But they were told that Swamiji was in seclusion and would not see anyone.
Then the monk said, “Please go to your Gurudev and inform him that Narayan of Karar Ashram is here.” Within a few minutes they returned, carrying garlands of flowers to honor the visiting monk and took him and his entourage to their Gurudev. It was a great joy to the devotees of both when these two spiritual souls embraced each other. One was Shri Thakur Sitaram Das Omkarnath, and the other was Swami Hariharananda Giri (whom the other called “Narayan of Karar Ashram”).
These two spiritual leaders had the same ancestors, but their families had been separated for three generations. After a few minutes of formal talk, Shri Sitaram Das Omkarnath said, “Narayani, I have a long-cherished desire. I know you from your early age, your renunciation, sadhana and spiritual practice, and your achievement of nirvikalpa samadhi, the pulseless and breathless state. I heard that you can go at will to that last stage and I, along with my disciples who do not believe it, want to witness it. Will you please fulfill my wish?” When this conversation was translated in English to Mr. Jos Ide of Belgium, a disciple of Swami Hariharanandaji, he objected, as it was getting late. After nirvikalpa samadhi, one loses normal body consciousness for a time, and the group still had to walk back. However, Shri Sitaram Das Omkarnath invited them to stay overnight at the ashram. Swami Hariharanandaji then sat for meditation and, with a few deep breaths, slowly entered into the state of samadhi where there was no detectable sign of breathing or heartbeat. He remained in this state for more than half an hour, his body radiant with divine illumination. Everyone present there touched this great yogi and bowed reverently at his feet. His disciples then massaged his feet, palms, and chest to help him regain normal circulation and breathing. Thakur Shri Sitaram Das Omkarnath was immensely delighted, and he offered sweets, fruit, and hot milk to all. He wanted them to stay for a few days, but they declined.
Shri Thakur Sitararn Das Omkarnath was born in the year 1891 on the western bank of the Ganga in the village of Dumurdaha, district of Hooghly, Bengal. His childhood name was Prabodh Chandra Chattopadhyay, the divine child of Pranahari Chattopadhyay (popularly known as Han Doctor) and Malyavati Devi. He lost his mother at the age of five. Human destiny is exhausted by either enjoying it, for better or worse, or transcending it through sincere meditation and prayer. Prabodha Chandra was preordained to be a householder. He married Siddheswari (also known as Kamala) in 1914, but in the year 1930, he lost his wife.
On January 14,1911, a householder guru, Shri Dasharathi Deva, initiated Prabodha Chandra. He developed his spiritual practice with great strength of mind. He learned the preliminary technique of Kriya from Ramdayal Mazumdar, a householder disciple, and great yogi and scholar of scriptures, who authored the interpretation of the Holy Gita in three volumes and wrote an introduction to the Gita. He was also the editor of the Bengali journal Utsav. He was a very close associate of Pandit Panchanan Bhattacharya, the founder of Arya Mission Institution.
In 1930, after surgery on his leg, Prabodh Chandra became partially disabled by nerve damage. When he heard about the great householder-sage Shri Bijoy Krishna of Howrah, who was extremely popular among spiritual seekers, Prabodh Chandra visited him and received his blessings. It was a natural coincidence that both Swamiji and Sitaram Das Omkarnath were graced by Shri Bijoy Krishna, and that both followed the path of Kriya. In 1936, Prabodh Chanidra took the vows of sannyasi (monks’ vows), but with the approval of his guru, Swami Dhrubananda Giri, he did not change his name. The name, Sitaram Das Omkarnath, means “the servant of Sitaram, God and Lord of Om.”
Sitaram Das Omkarnath’s own spiritual discipline was to observe silence for long periods of time. Although he taught meditation to a few people, he mostly taught chanting, singing God’s name, and writing the name of God continuously in a notebook. He authored numerous books in Bengali which were translated into a variety of languages. Being a Vaishnava (worshipper of Vishnu), he came to Puri frequently. At the back of Karar Ashram he had a small cottage where he meditated, and where he had many spiritual experiences. In 1948, he established a beautiful ashram in Puri, known as Nilachala Ashram. He traveled all over India, propagating the love of God, establishing Vedic schools, renovating old temples, and opening charitable hospitals.
Swami Hariharananda was very dear to him. They were cousins from the same family who both embraced the path of renunciation, and this was a great bond between them. Sitaram Das Omkarnath was sixteen years older than his cousin, whom he loved and assisted in many ways, affectionately calling him “Narayan of Karar Ashram”
Many of the books published by Sitaram Das Omkarnath’s organization mention the name of Brahmachari Rabinarayan, or Swami Hariharananda as he was later called. When Shri Daya Mata, the president and sanghamata of SRF and YSS visited Puri, she had the deep desire to meet the renowned, holy personalities of the city. Swamiji took her and others to many places in Purl, including a visit to Thakur Sitaram Das Omkarnath. He left his body at the age of 91 on the 6th of December, 1982, in a sitting position in full consciousness. The simplicity of his teaching and activities were appreciated by everyone.
A few of Sitaram Das Omkarnath’s teachings are as follows:
- Mam Namaskuru (“Bow to me”) is the essence of the Gita.
- Everything in the world is transitory, only God is eternal.
- God is, and people get God—realization even now.
- Morality and spiritual food are essential for spiritual life.
- Mind becomes tranquil with the increase of good qualities.
- Practice perceiving God’s presence everywhere.
- The principal duty of the householder is to treat the guest as God.
- Youth is an auspicious period for spiritual practice.
- Do not waste time in vain.
- Do not blame others and do not listen to others blaming people. If you do so you will receive their negativity.
- There is nothing greater than listening to the divine sound and experiencing the inner light. Through this, one will attain Self-realization.
Sitaram Das Omkarnath sent many of his devotees to Swami Hariharananda to learn Kriya Yoga. These saints were two beautiful blossoms from the same family tree, and they attracted millions of true seekers with their spiritual fragrance.
CH 9. CULTIVATING LOVE Page 76-79
8. Aathava jada laabha santosha sapanehu nahi dekhayi paradosha
Always be happy and content and even while you dream, do not blame or find fault in others.
In the Bhagavad Gita (IV.22) it is said,
ca kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate
“Those who are content with anything that comes automatically, who are free from the dualities of life (the pairs of opposites such as pleasure and pain), and from envy, who are steady in both success and failure, are never entangled in delusion while performing actions.”
A state of equanimity should be maintained in both pleasure and pain. Pairs of opposites, such as success and failure, pleasure or pain, summer or winter, are the law of nature. Some people complain that they pray all the time to God, and He does not seem to hear them. Because they fail to receive an immediate answer, they stop praying altogether, filled with despondency. This is like doing business with God. You do not get a return for your investment, so you cancel the deal. Learn to welcome opposites. On the road to spirituality this is called forbearance. When pleasure comes, welcome it. When pain comes, also welcome it. Welcome success as well as failure with the same balance of mind. A lover of God is deeply aware that everything happens because of the grace of God. Remember that every beginning has an end.
When the Mahabharata war was over, the Pandavas finally became kings and their problems were solved. Krishna came to his aunt Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas, and took his leave saying, “I will go now. You have become the Queen Mother, rest and be happy.” Kunti, full of tears, replied, “Krishna, please do not leave us. I will welcome any number of problems in life if you stay. I would much rather be unhappy and have you among us.”
Most people think of God only in difficult times.
Saint Kabir said,
jo sukh me sumirankare dukh kaha ki hoye
“Everyone remembers God in adversity, no one does so in prosperity. One who does not forget God even while enjoying a happy moment, will not suffer as much in times of trouble. Love God in every situation.”
Maintain a state of equanimity. Winter does not last forever. Any problem gets solved in time. If it does not, accept it and try to overcome it. Remember that the purpose of life is to love God, and manifest that love in everything you do. Be free from the dualities of nature; the pairs of opposites like good and bad, pleasure and pain, heat and cold. Do not be affected by blame or praise. Even great Souls like Jesus and Krishna were blamed and misunderstood during their lifetime. If someone says something bad, let them pollute their tongue but do not pollute your ear. Mahatma Gandhi was shot to death and as he was dying, he uttered the following words, “Hey Ram”, “Oh God”.
Life should be full of love and God-consciousness. Let your life be full of love, no matter what others do or say around you.
We are human beings. We all have our faults. When you point a finger at another you are pointing three fingers at yourself. A good friend helps us to see our mistakes in a kind and clear way. But friends who praise and flatter us, do not help us to correct our mistakes and grow. A person who loves God, will realize his own mistakes through introspection and become strong enough to overcome them. If someone points out what you have done wrong, be grateful to them.
Avoid conflict and arguments.
vade vade vardhate vaira vahni
The fire of enmity increases with arguments.
ksama sästra kare yasya durjanah kim karisyati
One who is protected by an armor of forgiveness, cannot be touched by a wicked person.
atrune patita vanhi svayameva vinasyati
When a burning splinter falls on dry grass, which acts as fuel, it catches fire and burns, but if it has no fuel, it goes out on its own. Conflicts are quarrels only when you reciprocate.
mauninam kalaham nästi
Observing silence can free you from many negatives.
In the Bhagavad Gita (X:38) the Lord extols silence as Himself.
maunam caivasmi guhyanam
Silence is an art of living, an art of learning and an art of exploring the source of peace through experiencing Divine Love. Silence, through love, is the best art of communication. Nature speaks in silence. The sun and the moon radiate the light of love and knowledge in silence. Silence is divine.
Entering into the Temple of Silence, in the innermost chamber of one’s own self, one’s heart is filled with love and devotion. God’s love is manifested more in our life during silence. We get more charged with energy, when we sleep in the lap of the Divine, during the calmness of the night. Similarly silence brings vigor and vitality in every aspect of life.
But unfortunately, man is not able to recognize the true value of silence and wastes a lot of time and energy. Silence increases real creativity and skills in life. Meditation is the real way of walking on the Path of Silence, inside and outside. Inner silence is possible when we have control over our tongue, while talking and eating which is a part of self-control.
Enter into the Temple of Silence, sit in front of the altar of peace, offer to the Divine the flower of love and enjoy ecstatic, perennial joy. For this you require nothing, but your strong desire. Nothing can obstruct you, if your wish is great enough. Once you enter the Temple of Silence, then your life becomes transformed with spiritual beauty and radiance.
Observing silence is a good spiritual practice in the Path of Love. There is ample opportunity to be silent. Mahatma Gandhi observed silence on every Monday. When I was around twelve years old, I read a lot of books on Gandhi and was greatly influenced by him. From the age of thirteen onwards, I started fasting and observing silence on Sundays. It is a good practice to have a fixed period of time to observe silence. This gives you control over the tongue. When someone makes a hostile comment, do not reply immediately.
Once Buddha was standing in front of a rich man’s house, begging. The lady of the house was calling him a parasite. Buddha did not reply but he did not leave either. Finally, in exasperation, the lady came out to give him alms, just to get rid of him. Only then did Buddha speak, with a smile he asked, “What would you do if I refuse your gift?” Surprised, she answered, “I will take it back.” Then he said, “If I refuse to take the words that you have uttered, would you not have to take them back too?” The lady realized the impact of her words and was transformed. When someone is angry, do not reply immediately. Later, when that person becomes more reasonable and is ready to listen, then you can make your point.
Only weak people quarrel. A person who quarrels within, quarrels externally. One, who has conflict inside, creates conflicts outside. If someone is trying to harm you, keep your distance from them. Closeness to such a person is only a source of conflict.
The man of renunciation, the wise man, whoe doubt is cut away is full of goodness and neither hates disagreeable action , nor is he attached ot auspicious action.
Every person is endowed with triple qualities of nature; sattva (spiritual), rajas (material), and tamas (laziness), but in different proportions. To be active on the spiritual path, you must sincerely try to overcome the plurality of rajas and tamas – restlessness and idleness. When you become established in sattvic nature, life is full of illumination.
Those who are spiritual have steadiness of mind. They are free from all doubt and duality. They constantly search for God in every breath. They are liberated souls. If they encounter troubles when working, they are not disturbed, unhappy, or annoyed; they maintain equanimity.
Equanimity comes only through regulation of breath. By breath regulation you achieve self regulation. While performing any action, a spiritual person is thinking of the almighty Lord, trying to be compassionately detached.
Rajas is the state of intense worldly activity that leads to anxiety, tension, and restlessness. Tamas is doubt, laziness, and dwindling nature. Those who are free from rajas and tamas, who are proceeding toward sattva, calmness, and spirituality, meditate sincerely and follow the teachings of their guru preceptor, the spiritual guide. They follow the master one hundred percent. They become more introvert and calmer. Restlessness disappears. Their minds are settled by breath control.
True spiritual seekers develop strong determination and willpower through regular meditation and spiritual practices. They lead lives of extreme detachment, just like the soul This is the sign of liberation. Free from desire and craving, in the state of constant God communion, they are ever free, liberated, and in sa (soul) consciousness.
To spiritual people, happiness and unhappiness are equal. They are steady in their dispositions and alert during every breath. They are free from duality and absorbed in the imperishable soul and the supreme Almighty Father. The ideal renunciant is established in God consciousness, free from doubt, delusion, and degeneration. Through regular practice of meditation they become ever more deeply absorbed into this divine state.
Tat –jah – born from that
Samskara – impression
Anya- samskara- other impression
Pratibandhi – preventor, stands as an obstacle, hurdle
Impression from that (wisdom, ritambhara prajna) eliminates or prevents all other impressions.
Commentary of Shri Lahiri Mahashaya:
When the effect/impression of the wisdom due to Samadhi arises, it is impossible for all other impressions to exits.
Samskara or impression is a beautiful concept that every seeker should be aware of. Any activity, thought, ideas or happening leaves an impression in the brain or the store house of memory. When these repeatation of specific activity, then the impressions becomes stronger. These impressions create likes and dislikes. This is ignorance. This is bondage.
- tat-jah samskara – impression of direct experience of truth
- anya – samskara – impression through sensory and mental perception.
When this state of meditation or samadhi recurs, then it leaves an impression of all pervasive pure consciousness, which grants peace, bliss and joy.
This impression is completely different from other impressions which are described in previous sutras. The impression of pure love and cosmic consciousness swallows up all other heterogenous impressions of the path.
Anya- samskara – all other impressions stored in one’s life are bondage, ignorance and darkness. This is aham or ego. But pure knowledge is eko’ham – I am the one and the same. When this impression arising out of repeated experience of pure consciousness, filled in truth (ritambhara prajna), one is free from all other distracting and disturbing impressions.
Example is better than precept. Light is an obstacle of darkness. Love is obstacle of hatred. When one is again and again entering into this state of experience, one is free from the past, free from all distractions and impressions. This is the state of unity, perfection is love, entering the kingdom of heaven or merged in cosmic consciousness and wisdom.
Remember that you are protected by the grace of God and Masters.
Be humble and eliminate distracting ego, stubbornness and ignorance.
Cultivate love, devotion and deep concentration. Maintain implicit faith in the path and in the words of the scriptures and the Masters.
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Happy New Year!
The two newest posts below are our last ones for 2006. Here's a "Happy New Year" from all of us at Legal Blog Watch and best wishes to all for a prosperous -- and prolific -- 2007!
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Lifestyle: House Hacks – Life Around The Home
In the past couple of House Hacks, we have looked at various ways of adding mood to any room, with lighting on our first week and artwork last week. Here’s another simple way to help create mood in any of your rooms.
Whether you have that elusive green thumb or not, a carefully positioned plant in a room adds character and surprisingly enough makes a dull, boring room… well, feel a little more alive. In the past, I’ve bullied most of my mates into buying plants, and they agreed once planting was in place how different their rooms felt. I’ve even managed to turn some mates into Planting Whores who can’t stop buying and tweaking them! I get the obligatory text pics flooding in, asking ‘Tynan, would this look nice in my sitting room?‘ or wherever.
So here are some tips and suggestions that will be perfect for those of you who are petrified of the responsibility of keeping anything alive in your home other than yourself.
First off, I can’t recommend enough the use of amazing artificial plants. Not only do you never have to worry about them, but they never change so always look fresh, alive and perfect in the home. The trick here is to stay away from the tacky, crappy ones you get in some stores that are practically luminous and look like they are made from that horrible toweling material… vile things! Go for simple green plant with little to no flowers for that natural look.
Ikea (yes, yes; my Mecca) has a superb range with plants available for a few euros each. The FEJKA range and FEJKA type 2 is a good place to start. At € 5/6 each, all you simply have to buy is a nice pot (plant pots start from 40 cents in Ikea and work upwards). These are ideal for worktops, shelves, bathrooms… pretty much anywhere, and the more you have the better. I have several of these scattered around my home.
For the larger variety of artificial plants, something like this works in the corner of a room. For only €15, it’s a nice piece and looks real. Again, the trick here is to get a nice pot, and you can even put soil in and around the plant to make it look even more real. Don’t be afraid to invest in a few of these and scatter them around. What’s great about these plants is they work both indoors and outdoors, so if you have a patio area and don’t want to have to garden, well, shove a few of these in pots and Bob’s your uncle. Instant life with no maintenance.
I’m also a big fan of real plants. It really doesn’t have to be a scary thing; these days, keeping plants is made as simple as possible for you. You can even use something like the Nektarin range of self-watering pots, so that fear of over-watering or forgetting to water your plants is gone! These pots are available in a range of colors and sizes. They have water tanks built into the base, so once a month or when the indicator tells you it’s empty, you top it up using the funnel, and it automatically waters the plant. Genius, eh? They start at €6. I find Ikea is definitely the cheapest place to get them.
This opens up a world of different size plants that you can get. Don’t be afraid to get large, tall plants for your home too; with some lighting behind them they can look especially awesome at night.
With real plants, you pretty much just pick and choose what you like. It’s all down to personal taste. Don’t be scared of smaller plants either, even if you can’t get a self watering pot; easiest rule to remember is once a week, half a pint of water will be sufficient for most small to medium plants. In the winter-time, this probably could be done every two weeks, but if it is a practically warm time, you may have to increase this to twice a week. Once the soil isn’t too wet or dry – just damp to the feel – that’s the ideal amount. People tend to over-water plants and that’s why they die. Stick to this rule, and you should be fine.
So get out there, get some plants and add some life to you home! It’s the simplest way to add character to a room, and you will instantly notice a difference. | <urn:uuid:4f6a3f7e-0c48-456e-95da-7cb12a88c863> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ramp.ie/index.php/lifestyle/house-hacks-life-home/ | 2013-05-20T22:31:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955968 | 966 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Those working in science are accustomed to receiving emails starting with "dear sir/madam, please look at the attached file where I'm proving einstein theory wrong". This time it's a tad more serious because the message comes from a genuine scientific collaboration... As everyone knows by now, the OPERA collaboration announced that muon neutrinos produced at CERN arrive to a detector 700 kilometers away in Gran Sasso about 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected if they traveled at the speed of light (incidentally, trains traveling the same route arrive always late). The paper is available on arXiv, and the video from the CERN seminar is here.
OPERA is an experiment who has had some bad luck in the past. Its original goal was to study neutrino oscillations by detecting the appearance of tau neutrinos in a beam of muon neutrinos. However due to construction delays their results arrive too late to have any impact on measuring the neutrino masses and mixing; other experiments have in the meantime achieved a much better sensitivity to to these parameters. Moreover, the "atmospheric" neutrino mass difference, which enters the probability of a muon neutrino oscillating into a tau one, turned out to be at the lower end of the window allowed when OPERA was being planned. As a consequence, a fairly small number of oscillation events is predicted to occur on the way to Italy, leading to the expectation of about 1-2 tau events to be recorded during experiment's lifetime (they were lucky to already get 1). However they will not walk off the stage quietly. What was meant to be a little side analysis returned the result that neutrinos travel faster than light, confounding the physics community and wreaking havoc in the mainstream media.
I'm not very original in thinking that the result is almost certainly wrong. The main experimental reason, already discussed on blogs, is the observation of neutrinos from the supernova SN1987A. Back in 1987, three different experiments detected a burst of neutrinos, all arriving within 15 seconds and 2-3 hours before the visible light (which agrees with models of supernova explosion). On the other hand, if neutrinos traveled as fast as OPERA claims, they should have arrived years earlier. Note that the argument that OPERA is dealing with muon neutrinos while supernovae produce electron ones is not valid: electron neutrinos have enough time to oscillate to other flavors on the way from the Large Magellanic Clouds. One way to reconcile OPERA with SN1987A would be to invoke a strong energy dependence of the neutrino speed (it should be steeper than Energy^2), since the detected supernova neutrinos are in the 5-40 MeV range, while the energy of the CERN-to-Gran-Sasso beam is 20 GeV on average. However OPERA does not observe any significant energy dependence of the neutrino speed, so that is an unlikely explanation either.
From the point of view of theory the chances that the OPERA result being true are no better as there is no sensible model of tachyonic neutrinos. At the same time, we've been observing neutrinos in numerous experiments and in various different settings, for example in beta decay, from terrestrial nuclear reactors, from the Sun, in colliders as missing energy, etc. Each time they seem to behave like ordinary fermions obeying all rules of the local Lorentz invariant quantum field theory.
We should weigh this evidence against the analysis of OPERA which does not appear rock solid. Recall that OPERA was conceived to observe tau neutrino appearance, not to measure the neutrino speed, and indeed there are certain aspects of the experimental set-up that call for caution. The most worrying is the fact that OPERA has no way to know the precise production time of a neutrino it detects, as it could be produced anytime during a 10 microsecond long proton pulse that creates the neutrinos at CERN. To go around this problem they need a statistical approach. Namely, they measure the time delay of the neutrino arrival in Gran Sasso with respect to the start of the proton pulse at CERN. Then they fit the time distribution to the templates based on the measured shape of the proton pulse, assuming various hypotheses about the neutrino travel time. In this manner they find that the best fit is for the travel time is 60 nanoseconds smaller than what one would expect if the neutrinos traveled at the speed of light. However, one could easily imagine that the systematic errors of this procedure have been underestimated, for example, the shape of the rise and the fall-off of the proton pulse have been inaccurately measured. OPERA does a very good job arguing that the distance from CERN to Gran Sasso can be determined to 20 cm precision, or that synchronizing the clocks in these two labs is possible to 1 nanosecond precision, but the systematic uncertainties on the shape of the proton pulse are not carefully addressed (and, during the seminar at CERN, the questions concerning this issue were the ones that confounded the speaker the most).
So what's next? Fortunately OPERA appears to be open for discussion and scrutiny, thus the issue of systematic uncertainties should be resolved in the near future. Simultaneously, the MINOS collaboration should be able to repeat the measurement with similar if no better precision, and I'm sure they're already sharpening their screwdrivers. In the longer timescale, OPERA could try to optimize the experimental setting for the velocity measurement. For example, they might install a near detector on the CERN site (where there should be no effect if the current observation is due to neutrinos traveling faster than light, or there should be a similar effect if there is an unaccounted for systematic error in the production time). Or they could use shorter proton pulses, so that the neutrino production time can be determined without statistical gymnastics (it appears feasible - the LHC currently works with 5 ns bunches). I bet, my private level of confidence being 6 sigma, that the future checks will demonstrate that neutrinos are not superluminal... in the end the character from the original book turned out to be 100% human. But, of course, the ultimate verdict belongs not to our preconceptions but to experiment. | <urn:uuid:2d84e2d5-59d0-40dd-9416-6babe2a041f0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2011/09/phantom-of-opera.html?showComment=1316846717349 | 2013-05-20T21:57:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943017 | 1,328 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Last week we announced the landmark launch of PC Gamer Digital, and today we're excited to let you know that Episode 2 is now available on Steam - you don't want to miss it! In the second episode of PC Gamer Digital, you'll climb into the ethereal world of BioShock Infinite for a self-guided, 360-degree tour of Columbia, go behind the scenes of upcoming free-to-play shooter Tribes: Ascend, discover the cerebral tactics of Frozen Synapse, and much more!
Purchasing PC Gamer Digital Episode 2 also scores you the Killer Exclusive hat in Team Fortress 2. (It's extremely sexy!)
If you haven't checked out Digital yet, it's a brand-new interactive environment which houses all-original games coverage and strategy guides from the editors of PC Gamer. There's nothing else like it, so if you want to really know what it is, we highly recommend that you grab the free base application (which includes Episode 0 with free content) to experience the future of games coverage for yourself. PC Gamer Digital is currently only available in the US, but we're working through legal stuff and load testing as quickly as possible so that we can launch elsewhere - we'll let you know as soon as we have an international release date. For answers to more questions, give our announcement FAQ a glance.
Here's a little more about what you'll get in Episode 2:
BioShock Infinite - Step into Columbia's Downfall
You've seen the trailers, but you've never seen BioShock Infinite like this. Experience the beauty and discord of Columbia as you explore 360-degree panoramas with commentary informed by Creative Director Ken Levine.
PCG Plays: Frozen Synapse - Tactical Showdown!
This week, we're playing Frozen Synapse, an elegant game of tactics and psychology from indie developer Mode 7 Games. Not only that, PC Gamer's Evan Lahti got to test his wits against one of the game's creators, Mode 7 co-founder Ian Hardingham. See how he fared!
Tribes: Ascend - Interview with Todd Harris
We visited indie developer Hi-Rez Studios to talk to Executive Producer Todd Harris about Tribes: Ascend, which promises to bring back the large-scale, kinetic CTF action the series pioneered, as well as introduce new facets, not the least of which is a free-to-play model.
StarCraft II - Protip: The Baneling Bust
Are your Zerg rushes running up against pesky buildings? Damn industrious jerks. Learn how to clear the path with a tactic that's as explosive as it is gooey: the Baneling bust.
Video Settings Explained: Part 2 of 2 - Advanced Settings Demystified
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Continuity can set a house apart – whether it's a theme or one particular colour scheme that is repeated throughout all the interiors.
In this Balinese-inspired country house, both the theme and the colour palette extend to the bathrooms.
Designer Mark Wilson of Masonry Design Solutions says the house was designed to impart the sense of laid-back luxury enjoyed by guests at a boutique resort hotel. And the master suite was no exception.
"From the freestanding hand-carved marble tub and matching basins to the private garden and terrace, this suite was designed to provide an exotic, tranquil retreat," Wilson says. "But, the sculptured tub most definitely remains the pièce de résistance."
Both the walls and the floor feature porcelain travertine tiles in a calming off-white colour that further enhances the sense of escape.
The white tiles and the CaesarStone Osprey vanity top are contrasted by a dark chocolate-stained American white oak vanity unit and shelving.
"The dramatic contrast provided by these two colours gives the space a very contemporary look and a distinctive resort feel," says Wilson.
Other modern treatments include the suspended mirrors, which appear to float a few centimetres in front of the wall. The designer also introduced niches in which to display decorative items.
"Even the towel ladder sits in a recessed area, so the line of the wall retains its sleek, smooth look," says Wilson.
Functionality has not been at the expense of aesthetics, however. The toilet is hidden behind the wall backing onto the vanity unit. The shower is also behind this wall, but accessed from an opening between the vanity and tub. The shower wall features niches and shelves to store accessories and products.
Sliding doors open up the bathroom to a private terrace and landscaped garden.
Balinese lantern pendants and dark wood shelving reinforce the resort ambience of this master suite, in a new country house designed by Mark Wilson of Masonry Design Solutions. The vanity unit also features dark-stained American white oak, which is paired with a CaesarStone Osprey benchtop. To create a floating effect, the symmetrical mirrors are suspended a few centimetres in front of the wall. | <urn:uuid:ecddee69-88c8-4ce2-9904-ec32951ab0b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://trendsideas.com/Shop/PreviewBook.aspx?book=745&article=14960®ion=4 | 2013-05-20T22:33:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935275 | 502 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Fountain, Alvin Marcus, 1899-1989
Fountain, Alvin M.
VIAF ID: 23432659 (Personal)
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After days of cold, rain, & generally unpleasant weather spring seems to have finally arrived. The temperature today is in the mid 60's (with forecasts of 70's for later in the week) under bright sunny skies.
Yesterday's gloominess kept many people indoors but today the village is almost bustling with folks. Almost. It's still quiet compared to July & August.
I spoke with Dallie about an hour ago. She is in good spirits, on her way to see the orthopedic surgeon once more, hoping he thinks her wrist will mend without surgery. We hope so as well. | <urn:uuid:90ac886e-f767-4f00-85d9-463aacbbfeef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com/2005/03/finally.html | 2013-05-20T22:14:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982249 | 122 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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National Civil Society Oil and Gas Conference
Venue: Boma Hotel, Nairobi Kenya.
The extractive industry includes the development and exploitation of natural resources including renewable (water, forestry, wildlife, and fisheries) and non-renewable natural resources (coal, oil, gas and minerals). Recent discoveries of commercially viable petroleum, coal and other mineral deposits have been reported. How these resources are accessed and developed will present either a blessing or a curse to the country. The greatest gainers or losers will be the host communities in the regions where these resources are found.
To enhance good governance in the oil and gas development sector, many countries in the world are introducing laws and regulations that require:
- Mandatory publication of natural resources agreement/contracts say on mining, oil and gas,
- Regulatory agencies and companies improve the accessibility and comprehensiveness of information and reporting,
- Introduction of mandatory transparency reporting by companies and regulatory agencies,
- All companies operating in their territories to make public all information relevant to revenue transparency.
EITI has set rules and requirements that detail what candidate countries must do to join, achieve and maintain compliance with the initiatives global standards for reporting extractive revenues. The rules also include provisions designed to ensure effective participation of civil society organizations.
Kenya needs to promote openness and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sector by becoming an EITI candidate. The government needs to voluntarily allow the country become an EITI candidate so as improve its local, national and international credibility and affirm its commitment in fighting corruption by publicly stating its intention to implement EITI while working with the civil society through an established multi-stakeholder group.
However for this to happen, civil society organizations and the public need to know what EITI is and how to participate effectively in EITI process. To this end, WWF in partnership with CANCO, KOGWG and TI has organized a one-day conference with the theme of “Towards enhancing greater transparency, accountability and good governance in oil and gas development (exploration and production) in Kenya” to be held at the Boma Hotel.
PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN KENYA
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We meet at the end of another challenging year of your company, which has been moving ahead confidently on the road to progress, prosperity, growth, expansion and development. In line with its forward-looking vision, your company has been growing remarkably well, successfully achieving its various targets over the past four decades. The year gone by saw the company’s growth scale new levels as we continued to march towards achievement of new goals and realization of new dreams. During the year, we set certain objectives, goals and targets, and achieved them with relative ease despite several challenges on our way. The year saw the company expand, sectorally and geographically, to add many new projects across diverse verticals.
SUSTAINED REVENUE AND GROWTH
The growth of any company is manifested best and most in its numbers. The year 2010-11 saw the company achieve a major landmark in this regard, crossing the ` 1,650.00 crores revenue mark during the year. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that your company has approx. ` 5,850.00 crores worth of orders in hand, of which around ` 1,200.00 crores will be completed this year.
Your company will be adding another ` 1,500.00 crores worth of orders to its portfolio, making it a whopping ` 6,000.00 crores orders in hand by year end. Notwithstanding the challenging environment in the construction industry, your company continued to sustain its growth levels of the last several years.
MOVING FAST ON BOT TRACK
As we continued to expand our position in the traditional sectors of growth within the construction industry residential, commercial, industrial, hotels, etc. Our focus shifted increasingly to the BOT space. Your company, on the platform of its solid foundations and intrinsic strengths, is well-positioned to grasp the opportunities in the BOT space and is moving fast on the BOT track.
We have already bagged a prestigious BOT (Build Operate Transfer) Project at Kota, Rajasthan, comprising a bus terminal with commercial complex, valued at ` 72.00 crores to be licensed for 40 years. The company is also in various stages of negotiation for other BOT projects, which we feel shall augment our revenues manifold, going ahead.
NEW FORAYS, NEW GOALS
Undoubtedly, the company’s growth over the years has been remarkable, enabling us to set the pace for future progress. However, we do realize that the key to the sustained progress of a company is dependent as much on its ability to de-risk as on its strengths and capabilities. In line with this philosophy, and in an effort to continuously leverage the opportunity matrix across new lines of business, it has been your company’s consistent effort to move into new areas of business and set new goals to take it to the next level. Our plans to foray into construction of power projects – a highly lucrative business opportunity in my opinion, are aimed at making the most of the potential in this field. We are currently in discussion for pre-qualification with a number of players and see Annual Report 2010-11
Annual Report 2010-11 in this business a huge growth opportunity for your company. Another area of future growth, I personally feel, lies in water and sewage treatment projects. At present, Residential and commercial contributes 47% of the company’s order book while the infrastructure segment contributes 11%. A crash in the real estate market in 2008-09 resulted in muted order inflow for the company. With this in view, the company has identified JNNURM funded urban infrastructure projects as the next driver of growth. On the basis of Union Government initiatives and our own research, we believe the sewage treatment sector will provide a boost to our bottom line. We were a part of the Sonia Vihar water treatment project and have a number of other such projects in the pipeline. The company is currently scouting for potential acquisition target with capabilities in implementation of water & sewage treatment projects. We are now also looking at a higher degree of engagement in Inorganic Growth through acquisition or joint venture opportunities in urban infrastructure segment and real estate, which will provide synergy to existing business and enable us to generate higher returns.
READY TO FACE FUTURE CHALLENGES
As we face the future, we do so with the knowledge that we are fully capable of addressing all challenges, on the back of our robust strengths on which we have built the foundation for our sustained progress. So let us be more aggressive in incorporating expansion possibilities in our growth plans. And let us ensure that our strategies and our actions will enable us to always LIVE THE FUTURE! I am confident that we can count on your continued support and commitment to achieve greater heights in the years ahead. On this positive note, let me take this opportunity to express my heart-felt gratitude to all our patrons, shareholders, financers, bankers, stake holders, employees and also to record our sincere appreciation for the co-operation extended by the Central & State Governments, other statutory authorities and others associated with your company.
Chairman & Managing Director | <urn:uuid:aa41d0e2-c09e-4da3-99c3-f1f09aec5c54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.acilnet.com/newacil/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=147 | 2013-05-20T22:12:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947562 | 1,044 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Al Sokaitis, the former men's basketball coach for UAF who tried to bring minor-league basketball to Anchorage, on Thursday was named head coach of Post University, a Division II school in Waterbury, Conn.
Sokaitis brings more than 20 years of college-level coaching to the job, including an eight-year run at UAF.
Sokaitis resigned from UAF in 2004 after leading the Nanooks to four winning seasons, a pair of Great Northwest Athletic Conference titles, a trip to the NCAA Division II Sweet 16 and the 2002 championship at the Top of the World Classic, where the Nanooks were the lone Division II school in an eight-team field otherwise filled by Division I teams.
Sokaitis has earned coach-of-the-year honors 11 times in his career that includes coaching basketball programs at Western State College, UAF, University of Southern Maine and North Adams State College.
In 2008, Sokaitis was the head coach of the Alaska Dream, an Anchorage team affiliated with the ABA, but the team folded after playing three exhibition games in Fairbanks.
Post University competes in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference where they went 9-9 (13-17 overall) last season. | <urn:uuid:4453d916-85e1-4841-9e93-468f05d7d8d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.adn.com/2010/05/13/1277371/sokaitis-to-coach-d-ii-post-university.html | 2013-05-20T22:08:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974663 | 256 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Humor Wonk's Talents Shine at CNN
Jarrett Bellini, SOC/BA ’01, is applying his skills of humor and video production to create a popular weekly column on CNN.com, appropriately titled Apparently This Matters. From “The Lobster iPhone Case” to “The Puppy Room,” Jarrett offers humorous observations of some of the most obscure and unique treasures hidden within the internet. In order to find such distinctive material for his column, he says he spends a lot of time online, of course, but has specific sites he frequents to search for ideas that are both “relevant and ridiculous.”
In addition to his weekly column, Bellini is using his degree in visual media as a senior producer for original video production on CNN.com. He credits this success mostly to his involvement on campus at AU, including writing for The Eagle and performing with AU’s Mission: IMPROV-able, the university’s own improv troupe. Jarrett says extracurricular activities helped develop his unique form of writing and comedic talent. When asked what prompted the specific path of humorist writing he amiably said, “CNN has some of the best political and international journalists on the planet, but I’m not one of them. This is how I contribute. I don’t know how to write without using humor.”
Although he is now entering his ninth year at CNN, Bellini clearly remembers walking through the door on his first day as a young video journalist, determined to one day write and produce for the major news organization. It took eight years of hard work but he has finally achieved this goal, and he hopes to stay right where he is for nine more years.
His advice to current students hoping for similar success is to “get involved with any of the media outlets offered at AU; the newspaper, the radio, and the TV station. It is a small school so students are able to have more responsibility and creativity to find their own voice and build their own work. And most importantly, stay on top of technology because it changes almost every hour.” | <urn:uuid:e3936eac-680f-4f14-bc93-f339bd12a862> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.american.edu/soc/success/detail.cfm?newsID=B300A090-D37F-56EB-EB04FE35632EE7A7 | 2013-05-20T22:39:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970732 | 439 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
China's appliance retailer, Gome, said that its first-half net profit fell 49.6%. Net profit for the six months ending June had dropped to 580 million yuan (approx. US$84.9 million), after its revenue fell 17.73% to 20.46 million yuan over the same period.
The company, which has 779 stores in China, said it had closed 110 low-efficiency stores, and opened 30 new stores in tier one and two cities, in the first half of the year.
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The Associate of Applied Science degrees in Crime Scene Investigation and Law Enforcement
Administration are offered through a partnership agreement between Arkansas State University
and the Criminal Justice Institute of the University of Arkansas. Students must be currently
employed by a law enforcement agency to participate in either of these degree programs
and be fully admitted to both Arkansas State University—Jonesboro and the Criminal Justice
Institute using the admissions process for each institution. The general education component of
the program will be provided by ASU—Jonesboro and all students must comply with the state
guidelines concerning freshman assessment and course placement in English, Mathematics,
and Reading. Courses offered and completed through the Criminal Justice Institute will apply
only toward the associate of applied sciences degree and will not be accepted by Arkansas
State University as satisfying requirements for any other associate or baccalaureate degree.
It is the responsibility of the student to request credit for the Criminal Justice Institute courses
and submit the proper documentation prior to or during the student's first enrollment at ASU.
Partnership agreement tuition discounts for these programs may be applied at Marked Tree
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Tens of thousands of chanting supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rallied outside his presidential palace Thursday in an exuberant alternative inauguration for a leader too ill to return home for the real thing.
Backers wearing T-shirts with the slogan "I am Chavez" waved flags while upbeat music from Chavez's last presidential campaign blared from speakers, proclaiming: "Chavez, heart of the people!"
The government organized the unusual show of support for the cancer-stricken leader on the streets outside Miraflores Palace on what was supposed to be his inauguration day. With Chavez out of sight in a Cuban hospital fighting a severe respiratory infection more than a month after cancer surgery, his swearing-in ceremony has been indefinitely postponed, despite opposition complaints.
"We came to show support, so he knows his nation is with him," said Anny Marquez, a secretary and voluntary member of a civilian militia that Chavez has built in recent years. "We're with him in the good times as well as the bad."
The government invited leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean to add political weight to the inauguration without an inauguree, while the domestic opposition demanded details about Chavez's state and called the delay of the formal swearing-in a violation of the constitution.
Presidents attending from allied countries included President Jose Mujica of Uruguay, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro, whom Chavez designated his chosen successor last month, hosted a televised meeting with visiting leaders to discuss the Chavez-launched Petrocaribe program, through which the OPEC nation provides fuel under preferential terms to allies. Maduro said heads of state, foreign ministers and other officials from 19 countries had come to Caracas.
Maduro said the leaders would go to the presidential palace in the afternoon for the "main event." He said earlier that even though it wasn't an official swearing-in, Thursday's event still marks the start of a new term for the president following his re-election in October.
"A historic period of this second decade of the 21st century is starting, with our commander leading," Maduro said.
But glaring above all in the at times surreal event was Chavez's absence from the balcony of the presidential palace where he has so often spoken for hours to similar crowds, chiding his opponents and called for a socialist revolution.
As in past rallies before the president himself, Chavez's face beamed from shirts, signs, banners and murals. Some danced to music blaring from speakers mounted on trucks. Nearly everyone wore the color of his Bolivarian Revolution movement as the swelling crowd grew into a sea of red and spilled from the main avenue onto side streets.
The crowd chanted: "We are all Chavez!"
It was the first time in Venezuela's history that a president has missed his inauguration, said Elias Pino Iturrieta, a prominent historian. "Perhaps it's the first chapter of what they call Chavismo without Chavez."
The Supreme Court on Wednesday backed the plan to put off the inauguration indefinitely, saying the president could be sworn in before the court at a later date.
Chavez has been fighting an unspecified type of pelvic cancer since June 2011 and has undergone repeated surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The government said in its last update on Monday that Chavez was in a "stable situation" while being treated for a severe respiratory infection. The government has hasn't said how severe his "respiratory deficiency" is.
Hundreds of National Guard troops and police stood guard on street corners while hip-hop artists performed on stages set up along the avenue leading toward the presidential palace. Many in the crowd held up posters reading: "Now with Chavez more than ever."
"We're Chavez. Chavez is now an ideology," said Elio Silva, a member of the radical Tupamaro grassroots group who traveled five hours by bus for the event. He wore a black beret with a single star, a style once worn by Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Silva said he holds out hope that Chavez is recovering, and said he is sure that whatever happens in the weeks to come, "it will all be democratic."
Vendors sold caps and shirts with images of Chavez. Some wore felt hearts in the colors of Venezuela's flag pinned to their shirts, with pictures of Chavez pasted atop the hearts.
In a remark that echoed the sentiments of many in the crowd, teacher Marcelo Villegas said: "Unfortunately, Chavez can't be with us today. But we the people represent Chavez. He is and always will be our leader."
Associated Press writer Vivian Sequera contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:ee0ff998-384b-4ee1-9b7a-615c336ccb6d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.daily-jeff.com/ap%20international/2013/01/10/thousands-hold-symbolic-inauguration-for-chavez | 2013-05-20T22:15:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968029 | 967 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Definitions for huddler
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
hud•dleˈhʌd l(v.; n.)-dled, -dling
(v.i.)to gather or crowd together in a close mass:
They huddled around the stove to get warm.
to crouch, curl up, or draw oneself together.
to confer or consult.
(v.t.)to heap or crowd together closely.
to draw (oneself) closely together, as in crouching; nestle (often fol. by up).
to put on (clothes) with careless haste (often fol. by on).
(n.)a closely gathered group, mass, or heap.
a close gathering of football players behind the scrimmage line to hear instructions for the next play.
a conference, esp. a private one about a serious matter.
Origin of huddle:
1570–80; hud- (weak grade of root found in hide1) + -le
a member of a huddle
a person who crouches
"low huddlers against the wind"
One who huddles.
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Ministry of Sound’s record label was first established in 1995 with the release of “The Annual”, a compilation album of various dance music tracks mixed by UK DJs Boy George and Pete Tong. The Annual went on to sell over 160,000 units and p..
Kontor Records is a record label based in Hamburg. It is one of the most successful electronic music labels in Germany. Well-known musicians signed to this label include ATB, Tiësto and Scooter.
Armada Music in an independent Dutch Record Company and was founded in June 2003 by Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron, and David Lewis. "Armada" was formed by utilizing the first two letters in each of the founding members' names. The appro..
An independent record label based in an old factory which is located near Frankfurt, Germany. Mostly commercial hit releases, everything from techno, electro to house.
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Diarrhea occurs when you have loose, watery, or frequent bowel movements. It is a common problem with many causes. Most cases of diarrhea clear up on their own. But certain cases may need treatment. Be sure to see your health care provider if your symptoms do not improve within a few days.
Treatment of diarrhea depends on its cause. Diarrhea caused by bacterial or parasite infection is often treated with antibiotics. Diarrhea caused by other factors, such as a stomach virus, often improves with simple home treatment. The tips below may also help relieve your symptoms.
Drink plenty of fluids. This helps prevent too much fluid loss (dehydration). Water, clear soups, and electrolyte solutions are good choices. Avoid alcohol, coffee, and tea. Also avoid soda, fruit juice, sports drinks, and milk. These can make symptoms worse.
Suck on ice chips if drinking makes you queasy.
Return to your normal diet slowly. You may want to eat bland foods at first, such as rice and toast. Also, you may need to avoid certain foods for a while, such as dairy products. These can make symptoms worse. Ask your health care provider if there are any other foods you should avoid.
If you were prescribed antibiotics, take them as directed.
Do not take anti-diarrhea medications without asking your health care provider first.
Fever of 100.4°F (38.0°C) or higher
Worsening diarrhea or diarrhea for more than 2 days
Bloody vomit or stool
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This room overlooks the city. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite channels are offered for your entertainment. You can request an in-room massage. A minibar and a coffee/tea maker are supplied. The private bathroom has a jetted bathtub with a handheld showerhead, as well as bathrobes and slippers. Complimentary bottled water, a safe, and a separate sitting area are among the conveniences offered.
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Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
The aorta, the largest artery in the body, carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
The aorta rises out of the left ventricle of the heart (the ascending aorta) and then curves down like an upside-down U (aortic arch). It passes through the chest cavity and the abdomen, ending where it branches into the iliac arteries, which provide blood to the pelvis and legs. Multiple branches come off the aorta throughout its course to supply blood to the various organs in its proximity.
The aorta, like all blood vessels, requires nutrients and oxygen for its survival. Blood vessels are constantly being injured and repaired, absorbing and secreting nutrients and chemicals through junctions in their walls.
Physicians classify the aorta and its branches based on their location within the body. The thoracic aorta is the portion of the aorta in the chest (or thorax), which includes the ascending portion, the arch, and the descending portion of the aorta. This section feeds blood vessels in virtually every structure in the upper body, including the brain, arms, lungs, and diaphragm.
The abdominal aorta is the portion of the aorta that passes through the diaphragm into the abdomen. This section feeds blood vessels to the abdominal organs (stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, and bowel). The abdominal aorta eventually branches into the iliac arteries, which provide blood to the pelvis and legs.
The wall of the aorta contains three layers: the intima, media, and adventitia. The layers have significance both in the aorta's function and the pathology that is found when a disease process interferes with the makeup of the wall.
- The intima is made up of cells that line the blood vessel (endothelial cells), creating a smooth surface for the blood flow. This prevents clots (thrombi) from forming along the surface.
- The media is made up of smooth muscle cells that are flexible, allowing the aorta to expand and contract. It is this layer that provides the muscle and strength to the wall of the artery.
- The adventitia provides more strength to the vessel.
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Don’t tell me this is unseasonal. This is actually perfect timing.
Ginger is magical, and therefore transcends all seasons.
When your stomach is doing somersaults better than you can (What? I’m not a good gymnist!), you don’t care what the heck the weather is like outside. You are tired of downing pepto mismo like it’s almond milk. You just want to go back to your old self so you can do yoga, eat peanut butter, and stalk dessert flavors on Pinterest like a normal person.
Because that is what normal people do! That was not a question. I have my glimmers of normality sometimes and therefore would know how normal people act. So there.
So here I am, wallowing on the couch in the discomfort of my stomach’s uncoordinated somersaults when something occurs to me: I don’t have to take this anymore.
Isn’t ginger supposed to be good for you stomach? Sure! Why not? What is the best way to eat ginger AND solve a sweet tooth food blogger’s cold? Cookies! Come to think of it, “cookies” could’ve been the answer to any question I could’ve asked.
I’m sorry you’re sick, honey. What will make you feel better? Cookies! Why aren’t you working on the math packet you’re supposed to be doing? Cookies! Why do you insist on wearing yoga pants in public? Cookies!
But I digress.
Okay, so there is a teensy weensy little bit of oven time required for this recipe, but it’s only 10 minutes. I am a total wieny when it comes to heat (yeah, I said it), but even I can handle ten minutes of oven time.
But if you can’t hadnle the heat, get out of the kitchen… while your significant other (love you Mom!) fans you and feeds you these ginger cookies he/she baked for you as you are perched on the couch. Or the lawn chair in the front yard.
Hey, who knew ginger was such a summer-friendly cookie after all?
The World’s Healthiest Ginger Cookies (Vegan, Gluten Free, Grain Free, Sugar Free, Low Carb, Low Calorie)
I absolutely love these cookies, and scarfed down almost the whole batch after shooting pics. I only needed one tablespoon of almond milk to get a cookie dough consistency, but you may need to add more or even less. Take caution in adding more almond milk though, because if you add too much, the cookies will crumble and fall apart after baking.
Adapted from my The World’s Healthiest Cookie
Makes about 10 cookies
Serving size: 1 cookie
Fat: 5 grams
The World’s Healthiest Ginger Cookies
(Calculate with applesauce)
Serving size: 1 cookie
Fat: <0.5 grams
2 Tablespoon coconut flour
2 Tablespoon applesauce or mashed banana
stevia or other sweetener, to taste (I use 1-2 packets)
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ginger powder
1 Tablespoon almond milk
Preheat oven to 350F.
In a small bowl, mix coconut flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon, and salt. Add in applesauce or mashed banana and stir. Add in almond milk and until fully incorporated. Drop dough by tablespoon or teaspoon, depending on how big you want them, on a parchment lined baking sheet. I used a silicone mat. Flatten the dough into cookie shapes and bake in the oven at 350F for 10 minutes. Let cool before scarfing them all down.
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Anganwadi workers' pay may go up again
New Delhi, Apr 25: The Planning Commission is thinking of raising the remuneration of Anganwadi workers, who currently earn Rs.3,000 a month.
"We need to dignify the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) workers. They are paid very low remunerations," Syeda Hamid, member of the commission, told IANS late Monday.
"There was an increase recently, when their remuneration was doubled from Rs.1,500 to Rs.3,000. We are thinking of increasing it further," Hamid said after releasing a book, The Integrated Child Development Scheme: A Flagship Adrift.
Several other changes in the scheme are being planned for the second year of the 12th Plan (2013), she said. "Transforming the Anganwadi into a creche, and fulfilling nutrition needs will be the focus of the changes we are planning."
"Serving hot or, at least, locally-cooked food will be another focus," she said, adding that the packaged food being given at several centres was not up to the mark.
Hamid said the commission's aim was to converge ICDS with other government programmes and focus it on overall health and nutrition. Elements of promoting sanitation and clean drinking water were also being added to the scheme, she said.
The book, which Hamid released, has been written by K.R. Venugopal, a retired civil servant. It is based on a social audit of the scheme in Anantpur, Andhra Pradesh. The dry agrarian district is one of the least-developed areas of the southern state.
Venugopal, who was present at the book release function, said packaged food meant for Anganwadis in the district was being sold in the market and was good enough only for feeding cattle.
"We found that the packaged food, which is transported some 400-500 km from Hyderabad to Anantpur, is being sold in the market... people say it is very nutritious, but for cattle," he said.
He said the social audit of ICDS showed that Anganwadi jobs were being "sold" for Rs.30,000 in Anantpur. In some districts of the state, the price went up to Rs.70,000 and Rs.100,000, he said.
"ICDS needs to be rejuvenated and reinvented. Lot of changes are needed and social audits will show the way ahead," he said.
He even suggested raising the Anganwadi workers' remuneration to Rs.10,000.
ICDS is a flagship scheme which aims at improving the nutritional and health status of children aged uo to six years, reducing mortality, morbidity and malnutrition and enhancing the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education. IANS
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Another Man's Cage: 25. Chapter Twenty-Five--Carnistir
I am the shadow.
I am the darkness.
I crouch in Atar's cabinet and close my eyes. Becoming invisible is like pulling a black sheet over yourself: First, you are overwhelmed with darkness, but then you realize that you can peer between the threads in the cloth and see nearly as well as before, although no one can see you. Unfortunately, all there is for me to see is the oaken inside of Atar's cabinet, but I lean forward until my hands bump the doors and nudge one open, just a crack, so that I can see them sitting around Atar's worktable, which has been cleared for the occasion.
Amil is offering Oromë a glass of wine. Atar is sitting in his desk chair, which he has slid over to the worktable for the meeting, but he is reclining on its back legs like my brothers are not allowed to do. Amil glows with soft pride. She is joyous, I know, to have a Vala in our home. She prays to them sometimes, when she thinks no one is looking.
But from the shadows, I see her.
Atar has made himself look relaxed but he festers, like flesh wounded and further insulted with infection, and I find it hard to look at him. He is trying to be angry but the anger can't break through the bewilderment swarming around him like a black cloud of bees. As Amil sets a goblet of red wine in front of Oromë—her eyes lowered in piousness—Atar lets the front legs of his chair bang back to the floor. His hands splay upon the tabletop. "You are telling me that I have two sons now who will amount to naught in the forge?"
"Fëanáro!" Amil hisses, but Oromë sets his big hand over hers. Never would I have thought that Amil's hands could be seen as delicate, but beneath Oromë's, her hand might belong to one of the china dolls that she is commissioned to make sometimes for the lords' children in Tirion.
Oromë's voice is low, like the wind winding around the corners of the house at night, and he speaks with slow patience. "I cannot speak for Canafinwë, but young Turkafinwë has been given a gift that lies beyond that which can be bound by walls," he says.
I squeeze my eyes shut and drink of Oromë, but nothing comes to me but light. Such is all I ever see of the Valar: billions of particles streaming endlessly away from them, colorless, as though they are immune to the emotions that tint ours—blue like my cousin, green like Turko. They feel emotions, yes, but it changes the speed and density of the light, not its color. I close my eyes and deepen my concentration.
I should pity him, for he has lost so much, but he is shamelessly impetuous.
The voice of Oromë in my head is like the thunder of rocks, and I have to squeeze my inner eyes shut tighter to keep hold of his voice. With my renewed concentration, Oromë's thoughts turn, and I know that he is becoming aware of me, and I quickly open my eyes to the darkness, feeling his light streaming off of me like water from the oily back of a seabird.
"It is strange to me," Atar is saying, in a gentler voice to please my mother, "that my wife and I are both craftspeople, yet none of our sons show even a glimmer of such gifts."
"Your children's spirits are not as their bodies, built from what is given by you and your wife at their conception," says Oromë. "It is Eru who gives each new child his spirit, and so they will be what Eru makes them. Do not grieve, Curufinwë."
"I do not grieve," Atar replies, "for each of my sons is dear to me in a way that can be claimed by no other. But I never imagined that I would father four children and still be teaching those who belong to others."
Silence falls over the room, but many things churn beneath it, things I am not yet skilled enough to perceive. I sense that Atar and Amil have much that they wish to say, things that may hurt each other, but Oromë acts as a dam in a creek and subdues their words for a time, although with his strong hands removed, the dam may weather, and they may burst forth later. Oromë chooses his words carefully: "Turkafinwë is your son, Curufinwë, and in the end, it is your choice if you allow him to ride with me. I merely wanted you to know that I would have him, if you desired."
Atar sits for many long minutes before he speaks. "I would deny my sons no happiness, nor would I deny the intentions of Eru. If you wish it, then Tyelkormo may ride with you when he pleases."
Turko is standing in the field beside the house, his quiver strapped to his back, shooting arrow after arrow at the lumpy red and blue target that he has leaned against a tree. I let my feet slide through the grass in parody of the wind, until even the keen ears of my hunter-brother cannot hear me. His quiver is filled with arrows, and his arm no sooner releases one and it is cocked back to grab another, each motion identical to the last until it reminds me of one of the devises that Nelyo likes to build from scraps of metal where each part is perfectly balanced and swings endlessly in perpetual, fluid motion.
Atar gave each of us only three arrows with which to practice our archery—he says that we are less likely to be careless about recovering them if we only have three—and Turko has far more than three arrows in his quiver now and many more arrayed in a neat cluster at the center of the target. I am close enough to smell his scent like leaves washed in rainwater, remaining downwind so that he still cannot detect me, and I see the arrow flash from the quiver in a blur of silvery steel and vivid red. They are Atar's arrows that he uses, and all of us—even Nelyo—are forbidden to touch much less use Atar's arrows.
There is a thrush on my brother's shoulder, and when I shift in the grass, it catches my motion in its eye and rises, twittering, to the tree overhead. Turko's hand pauses in mid-draw, and without turning, he speaks. "Carnistir? Why do you come here?"
Without waiting for me to answer, he whistles to the bird
—come back, little bird, come back, for it is only my brother and he means you no harm—
and it flutters back from the tree and alights again on his shoulder. He turns from me and draws back the arrow. Thwack. It imbeds itself in the wooden target amongst a peppering of its red-fletched brothers.
"You are using Atar's arrows," I say.
"I am." He draws another and fires. Thwack.
"He might kill you, Turko!" He snorts. "I would miss you. I think I like you the best of our brothers." He does not answer. I size up his arm—he wears a short-sleeved tunic and his muscles ripple like waves beneath his skin—wait for him to draw back the arrow, and chomp on the back of it.
"Ai!" His hand releases the arrow, and it flies into the tree branches. The bird on his shoulder takes flight in a flurry of tiny wings, quickly becoming a lost speck in the sky over the field. I do not let go and my brother's taste floods my mouth—dust seasoned with the salt of his sweat—until he turns and throws me to the ground, pinning me with his knee on my chest.
"What did Atar say about biting?" he shouts.
The same thing I imagine he'd said about using his arrows, but I do not say that. The cool grass prickles my back through my tunic; Turko's hands are clamped on my shoulders with iron strength, hard enough to hurt, and I whimper.
He pushes my shoulders harder into the ground for an instant, and his anger stings me. My eyes shut, and I feel his hands release me. Shame trickles from him, for he has hurt me unwittingly, as though someone removed from his mind and unaware of the love of brothers that exists between us shoved his hands hard into my shoulders. I rise from the ground, latch my arms around his neck, and kiss his tight, dry lips. "That's better," he says. "Kisses, not biting, right?"
Atar has forbidden me to bite, although I have found that no one protests tiny nips if they are quickly followed by a kiss. I was a bit too enthusiastic, a few weeks ago, in expressing my love for Atar, and when he shifted at the wrong moment right as I nipped his ear, my teeth closed on the cartilage at its tip hard enough to draw blood. It tasted like the metal Amil sometimes uses to make statues. My own blood tastes the same way, although that makes sense, seeing as everyone tells me that I am of Atar's blood. "I can see your blood in him," grandfather Finwë said once, after I'd screamed in protest of being picked up by his wife Indis and ran to Atar instead. Atar didn't seem to like the comment much.
Turko leaves me to retrieve the spent arrows. He hoists himself into the tree with graceful ease, and moment later, the arrow he misfired into its branches clatters to the ground. "They had counsel with Oromë about you!" I shout into the tree. I cannot see him in its thick branches, but I can hear the scratch of his boots against bark.
"You should call him 'Lord Oromë,'" Turko calls down to me. "He is one of the Valar."
"Lord Oromë, then. They were talking about you!"
"It does not matter." Like a stone, he drops from the tree, landing only inches away from me, and when his feet collide with the ground, they hardly make a sound. Louder is the sound of his body falling through the air, as though the air protests at having to part so suddenly to accommodate him. He begins to shove Atar's arrows back into the quiver. It is also Atar's quiver, I realize—in awe of my brother's audacity—beautifully tooled leather with the Star of our House inlaid with tiny rubies and diamonds. "I care not about theses strange gifts I have been given." He waves his hand. "I am going to be Atar's apprentice."
Given his unflinching skill with the bow, I failed to remember the wound on his hand until I notice that a tail of bandage has pulled loose by the tree branches and flutters when he waves his hand. The wound—although hidden from my eyes—is a token, just like the stone my oldest brother wears around his neck or the golden bands on my parents' fingers. I stare at the bandage until Turko tucks away the loose end. His blue eyes on mine are as cold as knives.
He stoops and continues gathering arrows. He is noisy inside, a cacophony of thoughts each asserting itself, trying to be heard over the others. He is angry but not at me. The wound hurts, but it is not a pain of flesh but of spirit. I sense thoughts of Atar, and they shout louder than the others.
He grabs the tip of one of the arrows, and I see him flinch as it opens the flesh on his finger, but his hands flash to fill themselves with spent arrows, ignoring the new injury. He shoves the arrows into my hands. "Here. Put these away," he says, and I place them one-by-one into the quiver. His blood is left on some of the shafts, and it colors my hands. He shoulders the quiver, and once his back is turned, I suck my fingers and taste the red upon them.
It tastes like metal. Like Atar.
The house is cool and quiet, and Turko and I are creeping up the stairs to our rooms when I hear Macalaurë behind us. "There you are!" he says, and Turko scurries away quickly to put away Atar's quiver before Macalaurë sees it, but I trip on the steps and cannot regain my footing fast enough, and I am scooped into Macalaurë's arms and smothered with his frazzled grayness that is like an old, worn blanket.
"I have been looking everywhere for you," he says. "It is nearly supper and look at you! Filthy!"
My two older brothers and my parents could find dirt on a raindrop. Turko and I are never clean enough to suit them. I squirm in his arms—Turko must have escaped his notice—but his grasp tightens around me. He sniffs behind my ear. "Ugh! Filthy!" he reiterates. "You smell like a dirty hound."
I clamp my teeth onto his wrist, less in a gesture of love than to make him loosen his hold on me. "Carnistir! Stop! Or I shall tell Atar," he threatens, carrying me into our parents' suite and taking me to Atar's bathroom. As we pass through the bedroom, I see Atar's quiver leaning against his armoire, precisely where it was this morning. I sense green under the bed and give Turko—who I know is watching—the scariest stare I can muster.
Macalaurë carries me into the bathroom and stands me beside the washbasin, yanks my shoes from my feet, and strips me down to my underwear. He soaks a cloth in the water and rubs it cold on my skin, ridding me of dirt and sweat, and I whimper as my flesh rises into cold-bumps. "What?" he says, not bothering to conceal his impatience.
"Atar is preparing supper and asked me to make you presentable." A snippet of song zips through his thoughts, and he pauses momentarily to contemplate it, and it is tucked away beneath the more pressing matters on his mind, where he will use it later. "I like it less than you do," he tells me, dousing the cloth back into the washbasin and scrubbing at my chest and belly with cool water. Hot tears blur my vision and course down my face.
"Carnistir, please…." He plunks the cloth back into the washbasin and, as he poises it over my arms, notices for the first time the cold-bumps on my skin and collects me in an embrace. I try to wriggle away from him, but he is too big and strong for me, and after a moment, I settle into his arms to be bathed in the warmth of his body. His hair tickles my neck, and I turn my head to nibble on it. Macalaurë's hair is the color of chocolate, and I always expect it to taste that way and am always disappointed to find that it tastes blandly organic, like licking unfinished wooden furniture: It tastes like hair. With exaggerated stealth, he shifts and reaches for Atar's comb sitting on the washbasin, as though he thinks that moving with such extra care will escape my notice, and plunges the comb into the tangle of my hair.
I feel several strands pop free of my scalp, and it hurts! I scream, and he tries to jerk to comb away, but it is embroiled now in my hair, and more strands are pulled from my head. The dull gray that is Macalaurë begins to churn and foam like an angry sea, and when he tries to untangle my hair from the comb, I bite his arm as hard as I can, grinding my teeth into his wrist until I can feel the ridges in the bone through his skin. He yelps and shoves me away, and I scamper into the corner of the bathroom, jumping into Atar's bathtub to get as far from my brother as I can manage.
"You hurt!" I shriek, thrusting an accusing finger in his direction. The comb is still caught in my hair and bumps against my shoulder.
Jaw set, Macalaurë hurls the washrag to the floor and flounces from the room, and I hear him calling for our brother Nelyo, who has been given the day off from chores to study.
Irritating Macalaurë is immensely pleasurable for some reason, like watching a pending storm ruffle a flat, boring summer sky. There is a tingling pressure in my belly, and I realize that I have to pee, so I do it in the bathtub, soaking my underwear, just to hear what Nelyo will say to Macalaurë.
I hear Nelyo's heavy footsteps growing nearer, interspersed with Macalaurë's pattering ones. "The little imp is unbearable," Macalaurë says, and Nelyo shushes him. "He will hear you," Nelyo says, and Macalaurë retorts with "I care not."
"That is precisely why he acts the way he does. Because you 'care not.'"
Nelyo is irritated at Macalaurë, at having been interrupted. Turko and I have been forbidden from trying to get Nelyo to play with us on certain days of the week. Amil says that he is preparing hard and cannot be disturbed. I wonder, sometimes, for what he is preparing that could make him ignore his brothers.
Nelyo comes into the bathroom. He is barefoot and wearing a loose tunic over worn trousers. His hair is secured at the nape of his neck in a sloppy knot, and his lips are dotted with ink. He sees me crouching in the bathtub in my underwear with a comb caught in my hair, and the irritation prickling his color is smoothed by sympathy. "Carnistir," he says, "little one," and, stooping next to the bathtub, reaches to lift me under my arms. The hot, acid smell of urine hits us both then, and he grimaces and turns his face away. Pee is pattering into the bottom of the bathtub from my dripping underwear.
"He is soaked!" Nelyo shouts to Macalaurë, who is hovering in the doorway.
"Soaked? There was no water in the bathtub—"
"He has wet himself, Macalaurë." Nelyo stands abruptly and retrieves one of Atar's red towels, monogrammed in gold with the Star of our House at the corner.
"Well, he hadn't done that when I left to get you a minute ago!"
"Did you think to ask him if he needed to relieve himself first?"
"He's four years old, Nelyo! I didn't still pee in my pants at that age; neither did you, and neither did Tyelkormo!"
Nelyo gives Macalaurë a cold look and turns to peel my soaked underwear from my body and envelope me in the fluffy warmth of Atar's towel. He wraps me too in his arms as he pats me dry. Nelyo has the same gift as does Atar: the ability to make me feel as though I am a pea being folded inside a pod, hidden and protected from the cruelty of the world beyond. I snuggle into his neck and hear myself mew in contentment.
"How do you do that?!" Macalaurë rages, and I hear him storm from the room.
Nelyo kisses the top of my head, and I reciprocate by kissing his neck, adding the tiniest of nips when I know by the rumble of laughter in his throat that he won't notice.
Clean, dried, and dressed in fresh clothes, I am carried on Nelyo's hip to the dining room.
On the way, we meet Annawendë. In Formenos, the apprentices dine with us every night, since they don't have quarters of their own, like they do in Tirion. Her face and hands are pink from being scrubbed clean, and the scent of soap lingers around her in a flowery aura. She has put on a dress for dinner, and I think—as I always do—that Annawendë looks funny in a dress, when I am much more accustomed to seeing her in a tunic, trousers, and a smith's apron, almost as funny as if Atar took to flitting about in gowns.
"Maitimo!" she says, when she sees my brother. She pats my hair as a way of greeting, but her eyes are on Nelyo, and her smile is wide enough to show her teeth at the top and bottom. They lean in to kiss, beginning with a chaste peck on the lips and returning for a second kiss, lingering until I grow impatient, lean over, and bite Annawendë on the shoulder.
It is a most satisfying bite. Her flesh is softer than my brothers' or Atar's, and the silk of her dress slips against my teeth. The smell of flowers overwhelms me.
She pulls back, and Nelyo bobbles me for a second, startled. "What is the matter?" he asks.
"Your brother! He bit me!" she cries, rubbing her shoulder.
I try to smile at Nelyo, to assert my innocence, but I feel the whisper of a silk thread against my teeth and clip my mouth shut before he sees it too. Too late. His fingers worm past my lips, pry open my teeth, and close on the offending strand, producing it with indignant triumph and a stern, "What is this?"
Tyelkormo would point out that it is a string and probably get into trouble for his insolence. I stare at it in silence and feel my lip begin to tremble. Nelyo prickles with irritation, and looking into his bright, angry eyes is nearly as difficult as staring at a white-hot piece of metal in Atar's forge. Tears sting my eyes, and I let a sob erupt from my throat, burying my face in Nelyo's shoulder so that I don't have to see his anger anymore.
My ploy sways Annawendë first. "Oh, Maitimo, do not make him cry. It was not so hard a bite…."
Amil is so interested in my brother's goings-on with Annawendë that my early weeks in Formenos were spent following them about, hiding in draperies and behind statues, trying to determine what Amil found so fascinating about them. Watching Nelyo with Annawendë was almost as boring as watching Nelyo sit alone in the library for hours, reading. Their conversations were dry—usually about metallurgy or chemistry—and never lasted long before they started kissing. And once they started kissing, that was all that they did until something interrupted them. I don't see how something so boring could occupy a person for so long. The only time they became even slightly interesting—and even "slightly" is a stretch, mind you—was on the rare occasions that Atar and Amil were both gone from the house, and Nelyo would take Annawendë to his bedroom, and they wouldn't even bother with the dry conversation before commencing to wrestle around on his bed. Of course, they kissed through the whole ordeal, and I don't think Nelyo had put forth his best effort because Annawendë often bested him, and as big and strong as is my brother, he should have been able to win easily every time.
Annawendë wins this time too, and her pleading eyes make my brother turn to me and offer reluctant forgiveness. "I ought to tell Atar," he says, but his voice is irresolute, and I know that my transgression will remain a secret between the three of us.
Atar is setting supper on the table when we enter. Vorondil and Amil's apprentices are already seated, eagerly eyeing the breadbasket in front of them. Atar comes to greet us, but when he leans in to kiss my forehead, he sniffs hard and looks queerly at Nelyo. "He smells too clean. And didn't I send Macalaurë to ready him so that you could study?"
"Yes, but Carnistir had a little accident, and I came in to help."
The answer pleases Atar, and he kisses me. "Well, these clothes are far too clean to feed him in. He'll have them ruined within five minutes."
Atar takes me into the kitchen, and I am stripped again and dressed—again—in one of Macalaurë's filthy old forge tunics. Amil could never get all of the soot streaks from the front, and there are yellowish sweat stains under the arms. Despite the stains, the tunic is clean and smells of fresh, soapy water, but beneath, the acrid stench of the forge lingers like a monster beneath the pleasant surface of a lake. I hate these garments, and I have taken to gnawing on the collars of them, hoping that if I fray them too badly, then I might be excused from wearing them, but all that it's gotten me so far is a stern chastisement from Atar and a few loose strings that tickle my neck. Nonetheless, as I am carried about on Atar's hip while he finishes the supper preparations, I put the collar into my mouth and grind it between my back teeth as hard as I can, feeling the tired strings wear further.
Nelyo comes into the kitchen to help Atar finish supper. He goes to the oven and removes a roasted pheasant. I am not fond of pheasant; even when Atar cooks it, it tastes like the leather of Turko's dirtiest riding boots. I must have made an unpleasant noise because Atar turns from the reddish sauce that he is stirring on the stove and gives me a stern look.
"You need to eat, little one. I'm starting to feel too much of those ribs." He tickles my belly, and I giggle. He turns back to the sauce, whisking it rapidly, and to Nelyo, he says, "A message came today from Verkaturo."
Nelyo does not look up from the pheasant, but his voice is interested. "Oh?"
"Wolves have been coming down from the north; there has been a serious loss from some of the sheep herds." Atar pours the red sauce from the saucepan into a bowl. "He has asked me to go with him and his sons tonight, to hunt these wolves and hopefully minimize the town's losses. You know they must have wool for the winter. I am aware that you are busy, Nelyo, but he asked if you would come along with us."
"Of course, I will." There is a pause as Nelyo transfers the pheasant onto a serving plate. When he speaks again, his words are careful and deliberate. "Did you ask Macalaurë?"
"You don't think he'd want to go, do you?"
"I cannot say, but I think he might like to be asked."
"I shall ask him then."
Atar and Nelyo carry the last of the supper—and me—into the dining room. Everyone has arrived and the noise rises to the ceiling, where everyone's voice bangs together like bells clanging. Macalaurë must have eventually located Turko because Turko is wearing a clean tunic and his hair has been tugged into a semblance of order. Amil is seated with Findekáno, and they are both powdered with stone dust and smile with the tired contentment of a productive day. Nelyo sets the pheasant at the center of the table, and Atar hands Amil the carving knife and fork. "Please, beloved wife mine, show us your exceptional skill," he says, bowing to her—a bit awkwardly because I am still perched on his hip—and she laughs as she stands to begin cutting neat slices from the bird, while we walk to Atar's seat at the head of the table.
It is Atar's turn to feed me—and while I think I love my father more than anyone else in the entire world—it is the one time I'd rather sit with Amil because she is more forgiving if I do not finish my entire supper. Also, if I arrange my face correctly, she will not attempt to overfeed me. Not Atar: Eruhantalë is no sooner finished and he is piling my plate with vegetables and a thick slice of pheasant. Before I can even murmur a protest, he says, "I do not want to hear a complaint from you until all of that is finished."
"Can he complain if he eats it all?" Turko chirps, earning a frightening look from Atar that makes him fall silent and turn back to his own hearty slice of pheasant. Not that he minds; Turko likes pheasant and makes a grand show of chewing it enthusiastically and a bit noisily.
I sigh and contemplate my plate. There is pheasant and carrots and a big crusty roll and a tureen of cheese soup. I like none of it, and with Turko across from me, I cannot even switch my wine glass with his when his is empty without Atar noticing.
"Eat your soup," Atar tells me, setting down his cutlery so that he can fold my reluctant fingers around my spoon. I poke the surface of the cheese soup, which is beginning to harden into a skin. Cheese soup always reminds me of the water in swamps.
Atar is watching me carefully to make sure I don't use any of my usual tricks. I decided that, if I must eat it, then I might as well not prolong my misery by eating it slowly, so I stab my spoon into the bowl, swirl the soup around (to get rid of the film on top) and shovel four spoonfuls into my mouth in quick succession. By the time the fourth passes my lips, I realize that the soup is still scalding hot and my mouth is burning. I open my mouth, hoping to cool it off some, and hot soup trickles down my chin, but I have taken too much, and the pain quickly becomes unbearable, so I scream and soup sprays from my mouth and across the table, soaking Turko, and liberally splashing Vorondil and Atar on either side of him.
Atar leaps from his chair so fast that it is knocked backward, and all the noise in the room abruptly dies. I feel tears on my face and begin to cry. The inside of my mouth burns, and I can feel the skin peeling away and hanging in little streamers from the roof of my mouth. Turko, blinking through the soup caught in his eyelashes, is the only one who realizes what has happened and shoves a mug of water in my direction. I drink from it, while Atar offers Turko and Vorondil napkins and chides me, "You're supposed to test it first, little one, to make sure it's cool enough."
I make myself cry harder, until Atar removes the soup from my plate and says, "Fine, Carnistir, finish your carrots and your pheasant and you may be excused."
"I—I can't," I sob. "It hurts too much!"
Actually, the water has soothed the burns just fine, and I could eat if it was something I liked, such as pudding or banana bread. But Atar does not know that, and he scrapes my untouched supper onto his own plate with a sigh. "Your mother will give you a bit of lembas in milk after supper," he says, and when he looks away, I allow myself to smile because lembas is one of the better-tasting things my mother makes and, mixed in milk, it is nearly impossible to taste at all.
After supper, Amil takes Turko, Findekáno, and me into the parlor to read us a story while Atar and my two oldest brothers get ready for their hunt. I wait until Amil becomes distracted by one of Turko's incessant questions and slip from the room unnoticed.
I follow my feelings of my brothers until I find them in Macalaurë's bedroom. The door is half-closed, and it is not hard for me to slip into the room and slide under Macalaurë's bed unnoticed. Nelyo is braiding Macalaurë's hair away from his face. Hunting wolves can be dangerous, and they are both dressed to suit. Their long-sleeved tunics are heavy and tucked into leather bracers at their wrists. They each wear leather gloves with the fingers removed to protect their hands and high, heavy boots over their breeches. Two woolen cloaks are draped over Macalaurë's chair, for nights in Formenos are cold, even in the summer.
Macalaurë is jittery, and Nelyo has to keep telling him to hold still. "Maybe I should have pled out of this," Macalaurë says. "He wouldn't have questioned me if I said I had too much work to do. I guess I was just honored that he even thought to ask…."
I saw Macalaurë when Atar asked him to accompany them, and his gray color faded momentarily beneath sparks of excitement like fireworks against the night of Telperion. "I'd love to!" he gushed, and fairly raced up the stairs when Atar sent him away to get dressed.
"I do not see why you find it so incredulous that you should be asked to go along," Nelyo says. "You will be forty in just a few months. You are nearly grown, Macalaurë."
"Yes, but I am neither skilled with the bow nor a strong rider. I hope I do not weaken the group."
"Don't be silly. You shall do no such thing. You are too harsh on yourself, Macalaurë; that is your only problem. If you stopped constantly judging yourself by Atar's example, then you might realize that you are a decent bowman and a decent equestrian. If we all found self-worth only in equaling Atar's achievements, then our society would despair and fall to ruin."
"But how can I not!" Macalaurë says miserably. "I am his son! Are not sons supposed to follow in the footsteps of their fathers?"
"When he goes where we cannot, then there is no way we can follow. We will never surpass him, Macalaurë. Námo prophesied that much, long before we were born. Atar is the greatest of our people, and ever shall he remain, and no might or magic from either of us can change that. We can only strive to meet our own expectations, and delight in the fact that we are named in Atar's house and hence share in the blood of greatness."
Macalaurë sighs and Nelyo ties the end of his braid and pats him on the shoulder. "There. You are finished and ready to claim your title as Canafinwë Macalaurë, Slayer of Wolves in Northernmost Formenos."
"I suppose I shall be happy if I wake up alive in my bed in the morning," said Macalaurë, "and if I don't shoot you again by accident or any of our companions. As long as I don't make a fool of myself."
Nelyo kisses Macalaurë's hair. "You shall not do that, little brother, so do not fear."
I wait for Nelyo and Macalaurë to leave to retrieve their bows and knives from Nelyo's bedroom and dart down the stairs to wait in the foyer. Atar appears first, scowling at his bracer and twisting it around his wrist, and he is nearly upon me before he sees me and stops. "Little one! Aren't you supposed to be reading a story with your mother?"
He picks me up. He smells of dusty wool and pungent leather. I lay my head on his shoulder and say, "I had to pee."
"Good. You do that in the lavatory and not in your pants, right?"
When Atar is content, like he is now, I wish that he would hold me forever. He is a warm fire on a cold night, the kind you stretch towards without fearing the bite of a spark on exposed skin. I put my thumb in my mouth—it sates the temptation to bite—and snuggle against his shoulder until my brothers arrive: Nelyo, loud and confident, and Macalaurë, his voice kept low to hide the way that it trembles just barely. I am kissed farewell by each in turn and then set on the ground, whimpering, cold, and bereft.
"Go to your mother," Atar says, stooping beside me. I lurch and lock my arms around his neck. Being set aside by Atar is worse than stepping from a warm bath and into the cold air. He hugs me and kisses my cheek, but I find my arms abandoned once more at my sides, and I am staring at his knees. "Poor little one," he says, patting my hair. "I will be back."
They leave then, letting in a rush of cold air through the front door, and I stare long at the heavy oaken door after Macalaurë closes it behind them. I want to cry, but no one is around to hear my sobs, so they would be futile. I sigh instead and go to the window to part the curtains and watch for three silhouettes of horses and riders to gallop past on their way to the town. The knock of their hooves on the ground remind me of the wooden chimes in Atar's garden.
"There you are!" Turko is almost as good as I am at walking silently, and so enraptured was I by the horses' hoofbeats that I failed to hear him come up behind me. His arm circles my neck, and I am squeezed in the crook of his elbow until my head feels warm and fuzzy. "Amil has been looking for you," he says, and I wiggle until he lets me go.
"I had to pee," I tell him.
He snorts. "Not a likely story, Carnistir. You wanted to spy, didn't you? You always pee in your pants."
He laughs, and I wait until he turns to kick him as hard as I can in the backside. Granted, that is not very hard, but he turns in anger anyway, and soon, we are chasing each other through the house, pealing laughter through our rage.
Turko is faster than me, but I am smaller, and I dart underneath furniture and wait for him to squeeze after me before slipping out and running into the next room. "You little fool!" he yells when he gets stuck under Atar's desk, and I laugh and duck easily from beneath and race from the room. I hear him struggling to free himself, and I slip behind a curtain and whisper the incantation to keep the lump of my body from being seen.
I am the shadow,
I am the darkness….
The curtain collapses around me, as though I am not there.
I stoop and listen for his footsteps. It does not take long before he is pounding down the hall after me, shouting insults that he learned from our brothers and that would get him into serious trouble if Amil overheard. When his shadow flashes past the drapes, I leap out and tackle his feet, sending him sprawling face-first into the floor and tearing the curtain rod from the wall.
He knocks his nose hard, and when he comes up, blood covers the bottom of his face and drips onto the front of his clean tunic, and he is already bawling. "I hate you!" he screams, striking me with a bloodied fist between the shoulder blades, hard enough to make me start crying too. Soon, we are wrestling on the slippery, hardwood floor, tangled in the curtain, crying and striking at any little bit of tender flesh that the other reveals. Turko is much stronger than me, but he is less ruthless. The actions of my body seem to precede any thoughts I may have, any mercy I may show, and I commit acts that horrify me even as I am doing them. I bite his fingers when he tries to slap my face and yank out hunks of his blond hair in my fists. He pushes me onto my back, looming over me like a predator about to bite the throat of its prey, and I kick him between the legs as hard as I can, fortunately missing any tender flesh and hitting the inside of his thigh instead. It is enough to dissuade him, however, and he falls backward, howling, and I hear Amil shouting our names as she runs down the hall.
Amil tears us apart and forsakes me to cuddle Turko, although I can see why, because blood is smeared all over his face now, and he is curled in the fetal position with his hands cupping himself between the legs, sobbing. (Maybe I did hurt him a little bit? I wince and press my own knees together.) Amil is using her skirt to clear the blood from Turko's face, but he must have hit his nose hard on the floor, because more is trickling and pooling on his upper lip. I kick free of the curtain and stand behind him before stooping to hug him around the neck. "I'm sorry," I say.
"Get gone, you stupid little twit!" he yells, and Amil scolds, "Tyelkormo!"
We are carried/led to the sitting room, where Turko is given a genuine handkerchief to put over his nose and we are seated on opposite sofas while Findekáno sits in the armchair and watches us with smug superiority over one of Atar's books that he is always reading. Amil paces before us and asks us what happened, and with our chests hitching, we both fight to explain and paint the other in the more dismal light, until we reach the conclusion of our story and both stare at the other, full of the shameful realization that what began as play escalated to rage for no reason at all.
"You both have to learn to control those tempers," Amil warns. Turko and I exchange looks; under Amil's scorn, we are made allies once more. Many times we have both heard her say the same thing to our father. "Now, Tyelkormo, I want you to apologize to your brother and give him a kiss goodnight."
"Goodnight? But it is only—"
"Do not argue with me, Tyelkormo!" The anger in Amil's voice makes him choke into silence. "I am tempted to tell your father about this, as it is, and you will both rue the day that I do so, for he will punish you as I will not. Now, do as I say, Tyelkormo."
Turko stands and crosses the room to give me a delicate hug and a kiss on the lips. I smack my kiss extra loud and squeeze my arms around his neck. "I'm sorry, Carnistir," he says, and I echo: "I'm sorry, Turko."
I am left under Findekáno's watch while Amil takes Turko to wash and go to bed. I could easily escape, I think, failing to realize that Findekáno will watch me with a vigilance even Atar rarely musters, forcing me to sit obediently on the couch and stare at the paintings on the walls. Amil is gone no more than ten minutes, and upon her return, she lifts me and carries me to the room that she shares with Atar, where I sleep on a cot they'd set up in the front room. She is hasty in dressing and washing me for bed—she skips the bath, which is surprising and dismaying in that it means she must really be angry with me—and tucks me into bed. She kisses my forehead. "Why can't you be good like your two older brothers, Carnistir?" she asks.
It is a fair question, I think. "Being good," in the sense that Amil expects it, seems unattainable to me. Most of the time, I do not understand how I come to anger people so easily; it seems a natural reaction to my presence. Nelyo and Macalaurë always know how to respond to make people happy. I sigh, and her hands on my face soften, and she kisses my lips and whispers, "Good night, little one. I love you."
I mumble a response, and she leaves. It is still an hour before my bedtime, and I am not sleepy, so I lie on my cot and imagine my father and my brothers in the wild, hunting wolves. Only, in my imaginings, Atar is not mounted and does not use a bow and arrow. In their place, he wields a sword like the one he uses when sparring with my brothers, a long strand of silver, catching Telperion's light and sending it back as brightly as if his blade was aflame with silver fire. He cuts through wolves with the ease of destroying excessive underbrush, twisting and bringing the silver fire upon them, again and again, until they lie at his feet in a pile of red-smeared pelts. His movement is beautiful, like the dance of a bright light on water.
Far off, I imagine that I hear a wolf howl, in mourning for its kin, perhaps, which lie dead at my father's feet.
Dreams come upon me.
I see Macalaurë first, and maturity has set in his features, and he moves with a certainty and grace that escapes him now. On his arm is a beautiful maiden with silver streaks in her ebony hair, and they both wear white, and joyful tears brighten both of their eyes.
Nelyo embraces Macalaurë first. His red hair is braided more beautifully than I have ever seen it before, and he weeps as he holds our brother longer even than Atar. Turko, nearly grown, is behind him, and at first, I think the little black-haired boy must be me, but the boy's features are porcelain-pale like Atar's, and he holds the hand of a stormy-eyed youth with coarse black hair becoming undone from the braids that seek to tame it. That is me, I realize! How I will look when I am older! I wonder who the little boy is. Maybe it is Nelyo and Annawendë's son, although he looks as I picture Atar must have when he was just a little boy, before grandmother Míriel became foreverdead.
When Macalaurë steps into Turko's arms, the picture fades and changes. Turko is hunting in the forest with a big dog, yelling for me to hurry and follow him. "Slow git!" he shouts. His hair flutters behind his head like a golden banner. "You would have us go home, shamed and empty-handed!" Then I am being handed a red-haired baby who wails in my arms. That must be Nelyo's son, I think. He is newborn—damp still—and his eyes are very bright, like Atar's. Then, Amil riding through the gates, heading back to Tirion from Formenos, and Turko is beside me—grown into a man, with broad shoulders and long legs—with his hand over the bottom half of his face to subdue sobs that might belong to a little boy.
Then the images pass too quickly for comprehension, and there is blood and fire and madness, and I hear myself cry out in my sleep, but the dreams hold me tighter and I feel Him there, whispering in my head like an icy wind. I am fighting creatures with shapes like ours—but their features have been twisted grotesquely—and they are dying on my sword.
Carnistir, you have been taught to show mercy to the children of Yavanna, but you would slay my children?
Laughter. I cry out and buck my body against the blankets on my cot, but like chains, they hold me there.
No mind, I shall make more.
Shall I take you to your brother now?
How beautiful, that the eldest son of Fëanáro should become one of my own.
Would you let him die so easily on your sword?
Are you sure you wish to seek him? Knowledge of his torment will make it yours to bear as well. Better you should languish in ignorance, like Macalaurë.
Your brother shall bring me the King of my children. Beautiful, beautiful spawn of Fëanáro.
Then, there is Nelyo.
I scream, but he does not hear me. The room is dark, but in dreams, my eyes need not to struggle to see him. I stand only a few feet from him, but when I reach out, I realize that I cannot move. Never can I move. I can only watch. Witness.
The walls are close about us, cold, black stone dripping with slime. Nelyo is chained to that wall, with his arms held in shackles over his head, holding his arms stretched above him to the point of pain, his tendons standing out like wires on his thin arms. His arms struggle ceaselessly against the metal that binds him, but it is hard, black steel the likes of which I have never seen, and it cannot be broken. He crouches, his head limp against his chest, as though asleep, but I can see his pulse beating at his throat and know that he does not find rest here. He is naked, and his knees are drawn close against his chest, covering his private parts and protecting the soft vulnerability of his belly. The room is cold, and he shivers, but when I see inside his head, I know that it is fear—not cold—that makes his body tremble.
His red hair falls over his face. It is matted with blood, and when he shifts, I see a long, skinny cut on his cheek. It is sticky and healing, but dried blood dirties his face. His silver eyes open, and they are afraid.
Nelyo! I scream; I sob, and he looks towards me.
Carnistir, be gone from here! You cannot help me.
Pray that my death is fast.
At that moment, a hand encased in black steel gauntlets seizes my brother by his throat and drags him to his feet, and I erupt from sleep and into Atar's arms.
He is just returned from his hunt, for it is deep night, and he smells of wind and leather and blood. I try to fall into his light, but the image of Nelyo—naked and scared—haunts me. Atar is speaking to me, words of comfort, but I cannot hear them for the echo of Nelyo's voice: Pray that my death is fast.
Atar's words—tremors in the air around my head, the reality of the world I cannot quite reach—at last come to me like a whisper in a vision. Of what did you dream?
Through my tears, I speak one word, a word whose meaning I do not know but that resounds in my head like a dying heartbeat, with the harsh unloveliness of a hammer being driven into flesh.
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Jurassic Park (1993)
Jenna: Jurassic Park is a movie that I should let my brother tell you all about, he has so many dinosaur toys. He has a big plastic tub full of dinosaurs. Some of them make noise. There are so many stuffed into the tub that if you walk up to it and kick it one of the dinosaurs inside will roar back at you.
But I am better at remembering the story so I will still go first. There is this rich old guy who is building an amusement park on an island. It’s kind of supposed to be like Disneyland only with real dinosaurs instead of the robot kind.
After one of the worker people gets eaten by a velociraptor this lawyer guy thinks that the park isn’t safe. So the old guy asked a dinosaur scientist, Dr. Grant, and a guy who likes math and dresses in all black, to visit the park and make sure the dinosaurs won’t eat the kids.
At first Dr. Grant didn’t want to go, but the old guy offered him some money so he could keep on digging up dinosaur bones, so he changed his mind.
They take a really neat helicopter to the island. I don’t really know how all the people were going to get to the park if you have to take a helicopter. I don’t know anyone who has one. Maybe they were planning on building a bridge later.
When they get there they meet up with the old guy’s grandkids. Dr. Grant doesn’t like kids, he prefers dinosaur fossils.
They watch a movie about how they make the dinosaurs. They make them from bugs that get trapped in tree sap a long time ago. Daddy says they had dinosaur DNA in them.
Everything is going good until they take the park tour. That’s when the fat computer guy shuts down the fences that keep the dinosaurs from eating you. (He wanted to sell the stuff they make the dinosaurs from, I think they call them embryos, to another guy so he can make his own.) The dinosaurs escape from their cages and eat the lawyer guy.
The rest of the movie the dinosaurs chase Dr. Grant and the kids all over the island.
Ethan: I really like this movie. I have seen it over 10 times. My sister won’t watch it with me anymore.
My favorite used to be the T-Rex. They are good at eating people and tearing open cars. They can run fast too. The T-Rex almost caught the people in the Jeep. But it was raining real hard and the T-Rex probably slipped in the mud.
But then I saw the velociraptors. They are my new favorite. They can open doors they are so smart. I asked Daddy if they could open my bedroom door. He said they aren’t very good at opening round door knobs because they don’t have thumbs, so I’m not worried anymore.
The velociraptors aren’t afraid of the T-Rex, in the movie they jump on the big T-Rex and scratch him with their big claws. They also like to chase the kids around in the movie. They almost caught the kids, but they hid in a big kitchen with mirrors and stuff and the velociraptors got confused.
There is this one dinosaur that spits poison at people. You can’t see ‘cause the spit is in your eyes, then dinosaur attacks and eats you. I have this toy but I was mad when it didn’t really spit, it just made noise.
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Ek Spy Ki Love Story
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Ek Tha Tiger
Director: Kabir Khan
Cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Ranvir Shorey, Girish Karnad,
There are two conflicting factors in Ek Tha Tiger: Salman Khan's overriding principle of silliness and Kabir Khan's intrinsic liking for seriousness. But so overwhelming is bhai's past aura that serious keeps threatening to slide into silly, and the moment you give in to that in-between space, the film becomes something you can enjoy. Most of the time.
Tiger (Khan) is a RAW agent. We know this because he strides up and down the road leading to the imposing buildings in Lutyens, Delhi which presumably host the spy headquarters. He has conversations with his boss (Karnad) about mundane things like dal and profound things like love. He also, when it is required, zips off to exotic foreign locations to save India from the dastardly moves of Pakistan's ISI, where he indulges in long rooftop chases, gunfights, and manly banter with his colleague (Shorey), who is his wingman.
Everything goes well till Tiger meets stunning Pakistani lass Zoya (Kaif) who has free access to the home of a Dublin-based mad Indian scientist (Seth), who may or may not be up to any good. If Kabir Khan had been left to his devices, we would have known more about what the scientist did. Or did not do. But this ultimately is a Salman Khan film, so what we get is poor Seth to appear like a tiny blip, and then disappear, unexplained, the moment his function is fulfilled. Which is just an excuse to get Tiger and Zoya, who introduces herself as a university student but who clearly has other skills, to meet.
The proceedings take you straight into Yashraj territory. The spy and the show girl are languidly romantic, exchanging notes about meteor showers and stars. They sing and dance, displaying spygiri, Yashraj style, where romance is king, and Tiger is Veer and Zoya is Zaara, thinly disguised.
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Lively and fresh with a vibrant pink hue, Eden Sparkling is a premium sparkling wine created for women and is perfect for celebrating summer’s special occasions.
“We produced the wine in response to customer’s asking for a New Zealand Muscato. We had Italian and Australian, but wanted to offer them a NZ-version. We use Muscato and other varieties in Eden
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The origins of Eden Sparkling lie in the vineyards of Gisborne, where the region’s rugged, raw beauty produce some of the best grapes in the country.
Using only the best grapes, Eden Sparkling is expertly blended to create an intense floral, citrus and strawberry aroma. The fruity aroma is matched by a palate of sensational flavours that show purity
and freshness with a mix of natural acidity and sweetness.
Lower in alcohol at 6.5% ABV, Eden Sparkling is perfect for summer brunches, lazy Sunday afternoons or while enjoying a barbeque with friends.
In a move that is being becoming increasingly popular with sparkling wine makers worldwide, Eden Sparkling is fitted with a new innovative re-sealable top that stops the bottle from going flat once it is
Safe and easy to use, the top, called the ‘Zork’, completely reseals the bottle and keeps the wine’s fizz for up to 10 days. And don’t worry – the delightful ‘pop’ a bottle of sparkling makes when opened
to mark the beginning of a celebration is still there.
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