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By Ed Duffy
This one's actually been open for a few months now. But, if you haven't been there yet, it's still new to you right? Rescued Hearts Unique Boutique is located at 3314 Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs.
Rescued Hearts is a "unique boutique" in that the proceeds from the thrift and consignment shop are used to support a number of local animal rescue operations.
From their FB "about" page: "Rescued Hearts Unique Boutique is a new kind of community store. We feature new and gently used clothing, furniture, jewelry, antiques and artwork, books, pet supplies, household items and especially animal-themed products. We also network with artists and crafters who want to donate their talents to help animal welfare groups. We will host events to provide them with a new venue for their products, while they help us save animals as well. All profits from Rescued Hearts Unique Boutique will be distributed on a monthly basis to a select number of deserving local groups and causes. We will also host adoption fairs for the groups we support. Come to Rescued Hearts Unique Boutique to shop in an atmosphere that is comfortable; where it's bright, clean, and enjoyable to shop. We are selective in what we sell so that our customers know when they come to Rescued Hearts Unique Boutique they will find an ever-changing selection of good quality merchandise at reasonable prices."
www.facebook.com/pages/Rescued-Hearts-Unique-Boutique. They're open from 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Thursday and from 10am to 6pm Friday and Saturday.
They also invite you to attend a Wine Tasting Fundraiser on March 9th (Details Here)
7 Flames Coffee and Tea is now open at 4730 Barnes Rd in Colorado Springs. The shop is run by Keith and Eava Currence, founders of Spiritual Restoration Ministries. Net proceeds from the coffee and tea shop go to "Saving Lives Here and Around the World".
from the website: "This new model for the coming generation, is a christian center designed to reach out to the local community in relationship with a House of Prayer, church congregation and 7 Flames Coffee & Tea. By providing a welcoming local gathering spot where teens, adult and families can come together as a part of their every day lifestyle they can feed both soul and spirit in an interactive environment. They are dedicated to sharing the revelation of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit pm the street where people live.
Keith Currence is an ordained pastor and Eava Currence an ordained Prophet through Throneroom Trust Ministries in Kaduna, Nigeria and it's founder Apostle Emanuel "
You can reach 7 Flames Coffee and Tea at 719-573-0413, visit them on the web at www.7FlamesCoffee.com or on Facebook at Facebook.com/7flamescoffee.
Press Release - City of Colorado Springs
The City of Colorado Springs is now accepting applications to serve on the City Planning Commission.
The City Planning Commission is a nine-member body appointed by City Council to review various land use development applications and proposals. Some applications are decided at the City Planning Commission level while others proceed onto City Council for final approval. Planning Commission meets the third Thursday of each month in the City Hall Council Chambers. The meetings start at 8:30 a.m. and continue until all items are heard.
You may also fill out the Application for Appointment to a City Board, Committee or Commission, which can be found at www.springsgov.com by adding “Boards and Commissions Application” in the search engine. (The application cannot be submitted online at this time. Please send to the email or physical address above.) For questions or more information, please call (719) 385-5453.
Thermochromic Inks Help Launch “Unbottle the Fun” Campaign
COLORADO SPRINGS (Merit Media Relations) - Chromatic Technologies Inc. (CTI), the specialized inks company whose innovative offerings are seen on consumer products around the world, continues to carry its message in Australia. Specially marked bottles of Fanta™ beverages in Australia reveal an invitation to customers through temperature changes on the label wherein consumers were invited to join in an interactive campaign offering valuable prizes.
During November and December 2012, labels on Fanta Orange™ bottles contained thermochromic ink which revealed a challenge to consumers to perform a “Funstigator” task such as “High-five someone wearing orange,” “Pretend you’re a ninja” or “Do the robot.” The core activity of the summer campaign was a FANTA Funstigator gaming application available on the FANTA Australia Facebook page at www.facebook.com/FantaAustralia and as a smartphone app from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Through the FANTA Funstigator app, users could take on Funstigator challenges as well as send them to their mates, scan characters from packs, all the while earning points and competing for a range of prizes. The FANTA Unbottle the Fun campaign was supported across multiple touch points including specially marked FANTA bottles, cinema, mobile and digital media. The promotion used different activation temperatures for the thermochromic inks based on whether the bottle was sold in the refrigerator section or the ambient shelf. On the refrigerated bottles, the blue thermochromic inks would clear out as the beverage is consumed. When the product is pulled from the refrigerator at 8° C. (46° F.) the inks were fully colored, hiding the message behind. On the flip side, the bottles sold at room temperature were utilizing thermochromic ink set to be fully colored at 29° C. (84° F.) and relied on the heat of the consumers’ hands to clear and reveal the message.
Having the ability to set specific temperatures for the two retail settings gave each Fanta fan the chance to participate in the promotion regardless of how they buy the product.
“FANTA is about bringing more fun to people’s lives,” explained Delia Maloney, Flavours Marketing Manager, Coca-Cola South Pacific. “We were excited that innovation of thermal inks allowed us to put our packs at the heart of our ‘Unbottle the Fun’ campaign this summer. From fridge or ambient, the thermal inks revealed different ‘Funstigator’ challenges that invited our teen audience to add a little fun to their day-to-day.
Colorado Springs (VisitCOS.com)- Exciting news developed from The Mining Exchange today with the brand new downtown boutique hotel attaining the coveted Four Diamond Rating from AAA. Fewer than five percent of nearly 31,000 properties approved by AAA achieve this prestigious distinction. The surprise inspection came over a month ago with the approval process of AAA board pending until today. “We are so excited to be given this rating, especially in light of fact we haven’t been open for a year yet,” explains Shelby Pywell Yarbrough, General Manager. “Our incredible staff is the reason we are able to attain this award,” she continues.
Owner, Perry Sanders adds, “Although we designed this property to ultimately be a 5 diamond property, to get 4 diamonds right out of the gate, without our spa, permanent fitness center or Gold Room being open, is very gratifying.” More luxurious enhancements are set to be in place for this boutique hotel that all of Colorado Springs needs to be on the lookout for!
About The Mining Exchange
Framed in European style and housed in an exquisitely restored historic edifice in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs, The Mining Exchange, A Wyndham Grand Hotel elegantly fuses old world charm with modern amenities and exceptional service to create a world-class hotel experience. Complemented by exquisite cuisine and décor that marries contemporary chic with sophisticated style, business and pleasure travelers alike will trade stress and tension for relaxation and renewal in this stunning haven of well-being. Part of the prestigious Wyndham Grand Collection, The Mining Exchange, A Wyndham Grand Hotel opened on May 9, 2012 and features a combination of 117 rooms and suites, a full service award winning restaurant, Springs Orleans, lobby bar, boardroom, ballrooms and large private courtyard. Visit www.miningexchangehotel.com for more information.
AAA is the only rating system that conducts on-site professional evaluations guided by member priorities. With more properties than any other rating entity, AAA is the only rating system that covers the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. For 77 years AAA has used professional inspectors to conduct in-person property inspections and publish the results, on a system of One to Five Diamonds, to guide member travel decisions.
AAA Colorado has more than 560,000 members and is an advocate for safety and security for all travelers. As North America's largest motoring and leisure travel organization, AAA provides more than 53 million members with travel, insurance, financial and automotive related services, as well as member exclusive savings.
Press Release (City of Colorado Springs)
Two new bicycle corrals are now installed in Downtown Colorado Springs at Tejon and Colorado and Tejon and Cache la Poudre. Funded by the Bicycle Tax and Sustainability Funds, these new on-street corrals allow for safe and convenient parking of up to 10 bicycles at each corral. The on-street locations free-up sidewalk space and encourage riders to stop and shop in the areas near the corrals.
The new corrals are public-private partnerships. The City provided the equipment, and adjacent business will be providing routine maintenance.
“Adding free bicycle parking gives people more transportation options to shop, dine, and enjoy Downtown,” said Anthony Pratt of City Public Works.
“It is a priority for us to pilot different concepts in our urban spaces that support multi-modal transportation throughout our community, and our hope is this pilot proves successful enough to expand the program to a third location in the near future,” said Nick Kittle, head of Administrative Services and Innovation.
Thanks to the partners who worked hard to make this project a reality:
· Anthony Pratt and Kristen Bennett: City Public Works/Transit Services Division
· Nick Kittle: Administrative Services and Innovation
· Jake Butterfield: City Parks Department
· Greg Warnke: Parking Administration Manager
· Alex Horaz and Dave Chadwell: Tao of Metal
· Dero Bike Rack Company
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|September 29, 2012 07:02 AM EDT||
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, September 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Farmasia Sdn. Bhd., and Pro Bono Bio Group plc ("PBB"), today launched FLEXISEQ, an exciting and innovative product that provides pain relief, and improved mobility, through cutting-edge nanotechnology. FLEXISEQ is a drug-free, topically applied gel, specially formulated to combat joint pain, in particular that associated with osteoarthritis ('OA').
FLEXISEQ contains a unique technology known as Sequessome Technology™, which consists of nanostructures that cross through the skin barrier after the gel's topical application. On reaching the inside of the joint, the Sequessome™ nanostructures help to lubricate the joint, reducing pain and increasing mobility. This new technology was developed by Pro Bono Bio, an international healthcare company backed by British and Russian expertise and investment.
The Malaysian launch of FLEXISEQ was held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, and drew over a hundred eminent doctors, surgeons, experts and other significant players from the Malaysian medical industry. The event was chaired by Datuk Dr. Syed Abdul Latiff Alsagoff, a noted Malaysian orthopaedic surgeon, and Mr. Michael Earl, Chief Operating Officer of PBB, spoke about PBB's development of FLEXISEQ.
In the short time since the introduction of FLEXISEQ in Malaysia in June 2012 it has already been extensively used by leading orthopaedic specialists in both the government and private sectors.
Dr. Ozlan, a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Kuala Lumpur, was one of the first medical practitioners in Malaysia to use FLEXISEQ gel on more than 20 patients. Dr. Ozlan commented "FLEXISEQ is exciting as it can be used safely as a first line treatment to combat joint pains; especially those associated with osteoarthritis. Many patients will benefit as it is clinically proven to be as effective in reducing joint pain and enhancing joint mobility as many commonly used Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug medications, but because it is non-pharmaceutical, it does not have the side-effects commonly found with these oral medications. There is currently no other product available on the market that is as effective without the worrying side effects."
Dr. Ozlan continued "FLEXISEQ is unique, easy-to-use, and most importantly is safe. I can see the multicultural and active Malaysian market benefiting from the product as joint mobility is extremely important in everyday solat, the visiting of temples such as Batu Caves, the performing of Hajj which is fast approaching and of course our favourite pastime….golf!"
About Farmasia Sdn. Bhd.:
FARMASIA Sdn Bhd, the local Malaysian distribution company, whose major business includes the distribution of medical supplies to government and private health institutions.
About Pro Bono Bio Group plc
Pro Bono Bio Group plc ("PBB") is an international healthcare company, which partners with leading scientists, eminent physicians and specialist service providers, to ensure we have access to the best talent available to develop products that target key unmet medical needs.
Pro Bono Bio launched its first medicine, FLEXISEQ in 2012 in Germany. Dermatology products, ROSSOSEQ™ and EXOSEQ™, are scheduled to launch later this year.
For more information regarding the availability of FLEXISEQ, please contact:
Farmasia Sdn. Bhd.
Sales & Marketing
Ms Zohrah Al Aidruss
Accounts & Orders
Ms Zuraida Mansur
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In FX's new Cold War-era spy drama The Americans, viewers may actually find themselves rooting for... the Russians. At least that's what producers hope for.
FX reveals premiere date for The Americans
The Americans stars Felicity's Keri Russell and Brothers & Sisters' Matthew Rhys as married KGB sleeper agents stationed in Washington, D.C., whose entire lives in America have been carefully crafted - even down to the two children they have together - in order to protect their true identities. Despite their shady dealings and ultimate goals to topple the American government, viewers may find themselves sympathizing with the couple since, at its core, the show is a family drama.
"We want you to root for the KGB," series creator Joe Weisberg told reporters Wednesday at the show's winter TV preview panel, gesturing to Russell and Rhys. "Don't you want these guys to succeed in whatever they're doing? They're going to try to undermine the U.S. government. We know that's not going to work out too well for them." Still, the producers hope that when we see the FBI side of the story, we'll also root for them.
Justified alum Margo Martindale returns to FX for The Americans
The story is actually inspired by the 2010 arrest of 10 alleged "deep-cover" agents gathering intel for Russia, but the producers felt moving the story back to the Cold War era created more excitement. Plus: Given the 30 years since the Cold War, the producers hoped the time was ripe for viewers to be able to actually sympathize with Russell and Rhys' agents. "If you tried to tell a story like this about Al Qaeda now, it'd be completely impossible," Weisberg says. "Nobody would be prepared to hear it. I think it would've been the same way about the Soviets or the KGB 10 years after the Cold War... I think enough time has passed now that people will be willing to open their hearts and see them as people we can understand."
So, who will you be rooting for? Hit the comments with your thoughts!
The Americans premieres Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 10/9c on FX.
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Mike Fasano's ambitions to represent Pasco in Congress appear to be dashed.
New political boundaries taking shape in Tallahassee include a new Pasco-centered congressional district that includes portions of northern Pinellas and Hillsborough. That would normally benefit the popular longtime state lawmaker.
The problem for Fasano? The district includes the home of a well-liked incumbent whose name is political gold around these parts: Gus Bilirakis.
"If a seat is drawn to where Congressman Bilirakis would be seeking re-election, I would not right now seek that seat," Fasano, R-New Port Richey, told the Times. "But that can change over the next few weeks or month or so."
Bilirakis plans to run for the new District 12, which isn't entirely new territory. He currently represents much of west Pasco, along with a strip of northern Pinellas and Hillsborough. He would lose a swath of eastern Hillsborough while picking up the balance of Pasco.
"I look forward to representing the entire county and all of its citizens," Bilirakis, R-Palm Harbor, said in a statement.
Bilirakis' father Mike Bilirakis served in Congress from 1983 to 2006. Until it was redrawn in 2002, his district included much of central and east Pasco, and many residents there are still familiar with the Bilirakis name.
Fasano ally Rep. John Legg — a member of the state House leadership who played a key role in drawing the new maps — said the district was a compromise. He would have preferred a district similar to an earlier proposal that combined Pasco and Hernando. Those two counties, he said, share the Suncoast Parkway and are both booming suburbs and water donors.
"I'm a little disappointed in the final product versus where we were," said Legg, R-Port Richey.
Fasano, who has removed himself from the redistricting process, said "there's no question" the two counties have more in common than what Pasco shares with its neighbors to the south.
Two-thirds of the new district's voters live in Pasco, with 18 percent in Pinellas and another 15 percent in Hillsborough. The seat's also solidly red, with 40 percent of voters registered Republican and 35 percent registered as Democrats. It went for Rick Scott by a 9-point margin in the 2010 governor's race.
The congressional map was approved by the House on Friday. The Senate is likely to consider it early this week, and legislative leaders don't expect any changes. It would then go to Scott for his approval.
If the earlier Pasco-Hernando seat had survived, many observers expected Fasano to challenge freshman U.S. Rep. Rich Nugent, of Brooksville. The new map puts Nugent in another district, though he doesn't get a free pass. His seat also includes U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns of Ocala, a 12-term incumbent with $2.4 million in the bank.
But Stearns said in a statement that he has not decided if he would campaign for the new Hernando-to-Ocala district. He is also considering a run in District 3, an adjacent North Florida seat with 70 percent of the voters he already represents.
Nugent said he is willing to take on a veteran Republican like Stearns to stay in Congress.
"The bottom line is, I hope that doesn't happen," Nugent said. "The ball is now in Cliff's court. I told him that I'm running. I was very plainspoken about it. I understand it's a tough decision for him, but at the end of the day we hope he makes the right decision, to run in District 3."
Nugent handily won his current district in 2010 by quietly filing at the last minute at the request of Brooksville Republican Ginny Brown-Waite, who said health problems kept her from seeking another term. That move angered some Republicans, including Fasano, who could have considered running for the open seat.
Is Nugent relieved that a potential challenge from Fasano was thwarted?
"Mike Fasano doesn't scare me in the least," he said. "We were prepared to go head to head if that's the way they'd drawn the maps."
Fasano's plans aren't chiseled in stone. For one thing, after Scott signs Florida's congressional map, it must still be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice to see if it complies with federal voting rights laws. Any changes could have ramifications on the new Pasco seat.
Plus, any citizen could challenge the districts in federal court, though that process might stretch beyond this year's qualifying period and affect the 2014 election.
There's also the chance that Fasano could run for the District 12 seat if U.S. Rep. C. W. Bill Young retires and Bilirakis opts to run in a Pinellas-based district. But many politicos say that scenario is unlikely.
But history shows that even the most likely scenarios can change. Thirty years ago, then-House Republican leader Curt Kiser was thought to be a lock for a new Tampa Bay Congressional district. He was upset by a little-known Tarpon Springs attorney. His name: Mike Bilirakis.
Absent a run for Congress, Fasano could be eyeing a return to the state House. With Legg campaigning for the Senate, Fasano could run for an open west Pasco-based House seat that is closely divided between Democrats and Republicans. (Pasco's other two House seats are almost certain to re-elect future House speakers Will Weatherford of Wesley Chapel and Richard Corcoran of Trinity.)
Currently, the House District 46 race includes Pasco Republican Party vice chairman Jim Mathieu and Michael Kennedy, a Hudson Republican who has reported no fundraising activity. County Commissioner Ann Hildebrand has also been mentioned as a possible candidate.
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There are many reasons I hope Barack Obama wins on Tuesday. But here’s a less obvious one: the recriminations will be more interesting.
If Obama loses, I suspect the dominant critique will be that he never said what he’d do in his second term, at least until it was too late. Like Bill Clinton in 1996, he tried to paint his Republican opponent as an extremist who would eviscerate the government programs middle-class Americans love. But unlike Clinton, who promised a “bridge to the 21st century”—i.e., government help in surviving the dislocations caused by globalization—Obama hasn’t identified himself with any forward-looking agenda more substantive than his one-word campaign motto: “Forward.” If Obama loses, Democrats will claim Romney won because he had a plan, any plan, and that with it he stole the mantle of hope.
But while Democrats will turn on Obama, they won’t despair about their party. It will be too easy to pawn off the loss on Obama’s bad strategy and, of course, the lousy economy and to believe that Hillary Clinton can mount a restoration in 2016. A few moderate Democrats may say Obama should have tacked more to the center, as the Democratic Leadership Council did after Democratic losses in the 1980s. But the party’s DLC wing barely exists anymore. And its basic arguments no longer hold.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the DLC warned that Democrats were losing national elections because the public distrusted them on national security and racially saturated culture-war issues like welfare, the death penalty, and affirmative action. But welfare, the death penalty, and affirmative action have largely disappeared as top-tier issues, and national security no longer is a GOP strength. The DLC also warned that if Democrats didn’t move to the center, they’d never be able to contest the South and West. But chunks of the South and West have shifted toward the Democrats anyway: the former because of northern in-migration and the latter because of Hispanic immigration. And they’ll likely shift even more by 2016.
In other words, the Democrats won’t erupt in civil war if Obama loses, because Democrats believe demographic change is on their side. If Romney loses, by contrast, the recriminations will be more profound for the exact same reason. That’s not to say that if Romney wins centrists will suddenly become a powerful force in the GOP. From Hurricane Sandy to Chris Christie’s response to Hurricane Sandy, the Republican right is already readying its alibis. And more generally, conservatives will be able to say, correctly, that they never loved Mitt Romney in the first place. They’ll console themselves with the belief that in 2016 they’ll have a crop of more genuinely conservative contenders—from Marco Rubio to Paul Ryan to Chris Christie—who at least theoretically stand a better chance of winning swing votes.
So, yes, conservatives will remain ascendant. But the chances of a DLC-style ideological insurrection from the party center will still be higher in the GOP than on the Democratic side. For one thing, if Hurricane Sandy does help tip the election toward Obama, it won’t only be because at times of national catastrophe the president seems above reproach. After all, Hurricane Katrina didn’t exactly help George W. Bush. If Sandy helps Obama it will be in significant measure because he—and Democrats more generally—are identified with a competent, well-resourced federal government, which is something Americans periodically remember that they actually need.
At least some prominent Republicans would recognize that Romney lost the Hispanic vote because he was pushed far to the right on immigration during the primaries.
If Romney loses, it will also be hard for Republicans to escape the fact that their inability to win Hispanics represents a mortal threat to their political future. The GOP put virtually every major Republican Hispanic office-holder on stage at this year’s convention, but it didn’t matter. And even if they put Rubio on the ticket in 2016, it still won’t matter all that much, so long as Hispanics feel the GOP’s policies are anti–Hispanic immigrant.
If Romney loses, at least some prominent Republicans will recognize that he lost the Hispanic vote because he was pushed far to the right on immigration during the primaries. And they’ll demand that the next GOP nominee avoid that trap, which will put them in conflict with the party’s activist base. As one GOP strategist told the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein this August, referring to the Romney campaign’s bid to win the White House on the back of the white Anglo vote alone, “This is the last time anyone will try to do this.”
When it the DLC was first launched, after Walter Mondale’s defeat in 1984, it tried to disempower its party’s grassroots base via stealth. It helped create “superdelegates,” which gave elected politicians a greater say in picking nominees. Democrats also altered their primary schedule to give more weight to the South, a region considered more hospitable to centrist presidential contenders. But it was only after Michael Dukakis lost in 1988 that a group of Democratic operatives and politicians, led by a young governor from Arkansas named Bill Clinton, frontally challenged the party’s liberal wing.
Even if Romney loses, the GOP may still be one election defeat away from that kind of ideological confrontation. But Romney’s defeat would bring the showdown closer as more and more Republicans ask themselves this simple question: if our party, as currently constituted, can’t beat an incumbent who has presided over the worst economy that most American voters have ever experienced, then whom exactly can we beat?
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Tara and Franklin are still waiting for the King and then they (Bill, Lorena, and the King) come in. Tara is shocked by the fact that Bill has come in with them. Bill asks why Tara is there and Franklin says that she is his and that she wants to be with him (despite the fact that she is tied up). Franklin and the King retire to his study and Tara asks Bill what is wrong with him. Lorena "agrees" with Tara and says that his behavior has been somewhat erratic. She asks him to help her and he says no and then walks away.
In the study the king is looking at pictures and Franklin wants cash payment, but he refuses to and says he will put it in his trust because the last time he paid in cash he ended up getting into a lot of trouble. The King asks why he is dragging yet another girl around with him and Franklin tells him that this one is "spectacularly different". The king wants him to get Sookie, but finds out that she is already in Jackson. Lorena is still on Bill about being together and he tells her that she played herself into a corner and closes his bedroom door in her face. Sookie and Alcide are speeding off because things went horribly wrong at the party/initiation they were at. Sookie wants to talk to the King and Alcide won't allow for that to happen. Eric has been brought to Russell and he wants to hunt for Bill because they "believe that he has been selling vampire blood". Russell brings out Bill and Bill has already told Russell everything since he has pledged his allegiance to him as his king. Bill comes out and is a little shocked in a cocky way that Eric would try to set him up for that. This is also when Eric learns that Sookie is no longer his. Eric decides to confess to selling the blood, but for his queen and asks what he is going to do because if the magistrate finds out he will kill his progeny. The king says that they will figure something out and asks that he sleeps there.
Sookie awakens to Alcide arguing with Debbie. She shows up to supposedly "save his life" and Sookie comes out. Debbie gets really angry and jealous because she assumes that they are sleeping together. She gets angry over the idea of him having sex with her in her house and thinks to herself about how she slept with all kinds of men in their house. Sookie says that she slept with multiple men and tells her that she made the choice to leave a good man for those slobs. Franklin has Tara tied to the bed and she is wearing a fairly prudent sleeping gown. He is obsessed and creepy and doesn't allow her any control. He brings up the fact that she got a text and gets really jealous. He asks who Lafayette is, jumps on her and chokes her. She tells him that Lafayette is her gay cousin and tells him to tell her she's okay and to "trust me, mothafucka". Franklin is a bit like a child in the regard that he needs her to watch him do cool things and will do it again just for her to be able to watch and give him the verbal pat on the back.
Jason walks into the police department and says hello to Kevin and Kenya and then grabs a donut. They want to know why he is there and he says that he is at work. He says he is ready for his first day and Andy takes him to give him a desk. Jason wants to be out on the field, but Andy tells him that he is in charge of the phones. Sam is helping his family move in and he notices that his brother is a bit rough with his father. His brother is bitter and it seems like there may be a good reason for that. That's how it feels. Sam isn't comfortable with the disrespect, but that is just how they are. Terry pulls up and he has items in his truck bed. Sam asks if that means that he will be moving in with Arlene and he says that it is what he is doing. Sam is happy and congratulates him. Terry is so happy that something normal is happening to him. Sam tells Arlene that he is happy for her and she says that she is not feeling very well. Sam is very creeped out by his father, but offers him work any way. Then he brings his brother to the bar.
Tara is still tied up trying to get out while he sleeps by use of her mouth. Sookie is taking off nail polish and hearing Alcide's thoughts. He says that things are getting too deep and that he needs to contact his packmaster and then comes in and tells Sookie he is going to run a few errands. She asks him what a packmaster is and he is upset that she was listening in. He says that it is against the law to tell her anything about anything! He tells her that the packmaster is the alpha and keeps them all alive because most do not have the sense that is needed to live like anyone else. Sookie convinces him to take her with him. Jason is bored at work and building chains out of paper clips and drinking coffee. He goes crazy because he has ADHD. Tara has freed herself from the ties and starts to run. She gets out of the castle and then gets chased by werewolves. The werewolf that gets her is Cooter. Lafayette has taken Tommy under his wing a bit and is telling him about cigars. Jesus shows up (for those that don't remember, he is the nurse of Lafayette's mother) and he thinks that Jesus is there to tell him about his mother dying. That is not the case as he really went by to see him. Lafayette gets weird and thinks someone has told him about his business. Jesus tells him that he just wanted to ask him out on a date. He is working and can't go with him but he decides to hang until he is done work.
Alcide and Sookie have met up with the packmaster and he worries that he will be punished for bring a human into the business. She tells him that it is not his fault because they only wanted to tell him what they saw. The pack master already knows about it and they ask if he has a plan. The plan is to do nothing and tell no one because of the king. The king has had werewolves working for him for centuries and there is nothing that they can do. Alcide is shocked, but Sookie can read the master's mind. The master is scared and he has no one to help him. He even considers just fleeing. Sookie tells him to leave his master alone as he is scared. Alcide is told to obey. Jason has been regulated to washing cars and he sees a beautiful woman that he remembers from the night of the massive party and decides to steal a cop car and pull her over for speeding. She calls him out on not being an officer and is very vague with him and then drives off. He seems to be intrigued.
Jessica is having a problem with Arlene not looking her in the eye. She also notices that Hoyt is there with another girl. Jessica looks hurt and Tommy asks her what is wrong and she says that her ex is there. Tommy tries to calm her down and gets a call from his father. His father is demanding that he get home and he says he won't be because he is working. Franklin and Tara are back in the bedroom and Franklin is having a bit of a hissy fit/temper tantrum. He doesn't understand why she ran away and why she is scared. He tells her he ties her up to keep her safe. He begins sobbing like a baby and tells her that she has no idea how much she hurt him. She apologizes and says it is her fault because she is confused and asks that he forgives her. She tells him that she's scared of the other vampires and he says that he won't let them touch her.
Russell talks to Bill about the papers he saw with the geneology of the Stackhouse's. Bill has circled certain names, according to him but Bill denies having seen it. Cooter comes in and asks if he could talk to him. Andy tells Jason that he has to take the physical exam and the written exam. Lafayette and Jesus are playing pool and getting to know one another. They have a nice conversation with flirtation and sweetness. Sam is walking through and his brother asks if he can stay with him tonight for brother time. Sam wants to know what is going on and his brother says nothing is going on and that Joe Lee is just a prick. Cooter walks into Bill's room and Bill demands he gets out. They get into a bit of a disagreement and Cooter is quite the bully with his information. He tells him that everyone knows that Bill is on the king's "shit list" and he also tells him that Sookie is in Jackson doing it with a werewolf. Bill snaps and demands he know where she is and they end up getting into quite the fight. Bill seems to be winning and Cooter definitely gets his butt beat. When the security guard comes in to check on him, Bill shoves his face into the silver plating on the door.
The girl that Jason wanted to talk to and invited to the bar shows up and she decides to leave. She says that she shouldn't be there or near him because it just isn't right. Jason asks that she take a little walk with him at least. They hold hands and go for a walk and then they end up kissing at the river. He asks if she is happy out in the woods and she says maybe so. They seem to be bonding and thinks there is something going on between them. She worries that he will care about why she can't be around. He is upset that they can't be together but they end up getting together despite that even if it is just for "right now" like she claims. Eric tells Russell that he can help him with something, but he says that he should let Talbot show him around. Lorena shows up and she is shocked that he is there. Talbot tells her that it is boys only and Eric asks that he show him everything.
Sam and Tommy are watching the animal channel and their father comes banging on the door completely wasted and demanding that Sam give him back his "boy". He gets physically violent with him and Sam throws him off of him asking him who he thinks he is banging down the door like he did. He demands that he go home and his father tells him that he owns Tommy. Sam says he's not going anywhere and that he doesn't own anything--he lives in the house he owns and if he doesn't leave he won't be living anywhere. His father apologizes saying that he can't think straight due to being liquored up. He says that he needs to learn responsibility and that it'll be better in the morning. When he leaves Sam asks what it was about. Tara is at the kitchen table and crying because she can't eat day lilies. He snaps and tells the guard to go tell Talbot he doesn't want the salad and to also not come back because she belongs to him. Tara tells him they need to talk. She tells him that she's really into him, but he needs to remember that she is human and has needs like food. He wants to take her out and he wants to turn her into a vampire after that. He asks her to be his vampire bride and she panics inside.
Eric and Talbot are looking around the house and looks at random art. Talbot shows him a crown that is viking. Eric is angry because it seems that the king killed his family. We have now learned that Eric is part of viking royalty. While Eric is having relations he hears screaming and finds that his family has been attacked. His mother, little sibling and his father have been attacked by werewolves and a mysterious man. The last wish of his dying father was vengeance and he has been reminded of this. Eric says that it is beautiful. Sookie wakes up and goes to the living room to find that Bill is there. He demands that she needs to go and be taken away so that she can be saved. Cooter, Russell, and the guard show up to go get Sookie and Bill. When Cooter goes to grab her she gets angry and defensive and throws her hand into his head. That is when she does the jolt thing that lights up and knocks the average person or dog on their butts. The king laughs and says that it is fantastic that she can do that. Share this article with your friends | <urn:uuid:aa13b0b0-a9e9-4a58-ae0b-60123d1b4086> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tvrage.com/True_Blood/episodes/1064943573/recap | 2013-05-24T02:35:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132729/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.995541 | 2,590 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
CLEVELAND - It's good when a teenager wants to work out and stay in shape, but parents need to pay attention to how they're achieving their goals.
A new study finds more and more teens appear to be turning to muscle-enhancers to get the look they desire.
University of Minnesota researchers looked at more than 2,700 middle school and high school students.
They examined the students' eating and exercise habits, along with use of protein powders and steroids.
It turns out 90 percent of the boys in the study exercised to increase their muscle mass or tone, but more than a third of them used protein powders and shakes, 6 percent reported using steroids, and another 10 percent said they used some other muscle enhancing substance.
Twenty-one percent of the girls in the study admitted to using protein powders or shakes, about 5 percent used steroids, and about 6 percent say they've used some other muscle enhancing substance.
Researchers say sports physicals may be the place for health care providers to discuss the dangers of using these substances with athletes.
Kate Patton did not take part in the study but is a registered dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic.
"Educate them on what the protein sources are in their diet because you do get protein, not just from meat and dairy and animal products and eggs, but you're also getting them from whole grains, starches give you a little bit of protein, vegetables give you a little bit of protein," said Patton.
Complete findings for this study are in the journal “Pediatrics.” To read the study, go to pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/11/14/peds.2012-0095.abstract?sid=df454dc2-c818-480d-98ae-c779ea498fc1 .
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Trial and Error
There is a reason why many people say, "Experience is the best teacher." It's true.
In Sunday's blog I wrote about making fish and chips for this web site. One important decision was the choice of fish. I grew up in New England. We had North Atlantic cod, a delicious white fish with a flaky, firm flesh. A little research revealed that the North Atlantic cod population collapsed in the 1990s due to over fishing. There are now restrictions prohibiting its catch. The population has, so far, failed to recover. It used to be the most abundant fish in the Atlantic Ocean.
I now live in Southern California. North Atlantic cod, even if fishing were allowed, would be an expensive item, flown in from the East Coast. The Pacific Ocean supports species of cod as well. And so I drove down to the fish market near the wharf at the other end of the city. The market had in stock black cod. Wikipedia says black cod is a Southern-Pacific fish.
When asked by the sales clerk how I might be helped, I explained I was doing a fish and chips video for a TV show. (That always carries a little weight, as they think they are dealing with a celebrity chef—if they only knew.) I told them I wanted a firm white fish and I suggested the black cod. The clerk agreed that it was an excellent choice, as it is the specie most often used by the local restaurants for making fish and chips. I bought four pounds, more than I needed, to experiment. It was expensive, but I get a decent professional discount.
I was not impressed. The flavor is almost good enough. It lacks the sweetness of North Atlantic cod, but it doesn't have the oiliness that I find offensive in some fish. The real problem is the texture. It is not firm and flaky. It is a soft, wet fish. Worse, it releases juices after cooking. The juice quickly turns the crisp batter coating into a soggy blanket.
A little more research indicated that Alaska pollock, which is a close relative to Atlantic cod, would have been a better choice. It swims the Bering Sea and the population is large. Although the fish doesn't live for long, its reproductive pattern is prolific. The fish is so abundant, it is considered an important specie to support the Pacific fishing industry.
The next time I drive down into the city, I'll look for Alaska pollock. I might even be able to order it at a fish market closer to home. Even better, there is a young man here in the trailer park who works as a driver for a fish distribution company. Perhaps he can recommend a good store, or even do a home delivery.
Finally, having come out of a vacation away from cooking, I am again working on videos, especially to complete the TV shows. I'm almost aching to finish them. The beginning of each season leaves me feeling like I am facing such a daunting task. I have two of the final 15 shows finished, with a third in the computer and needing to be edited.
Someone gave me an idea. "I'd love to see what you would do with Coq au Vin," which is chicken cooked in red wine. I've made it before. Most recipes don't include serving it over a bed of egg noodles, but that's how I usually serve it. So I plan to start with a show on Pasta From Scratch. I already have a video on YouTube, but it isn't long enough to fill a 30-minute show. I'll need to video it again and do a little stretching. The original video is under 15 minutes, so some very inventive stretching will be necessary. I enjoy a good challenge (as long as it's not 15 TV shows to video and edit) and if I can't stretch it enough, I'll finish it with Coq au Vin. But I'm hoping to get two video projects out of it.
A Vacation (sort of) Comes to an End
For the past few weeks I've been taking time off from cooking for this web site and for my TV show. I have enough projects in the vault to fulfill all my uploads through the beginning of July. So, there hasn't been any pressure.
The past few weeks, though, were hardly a vacation. I spent a few days each week pulling up a very aggressive crab grass that invaded my lawn. I filled three plastic trash bags each week. There isn't an easy way to remove the crab grass. Grab it with your hands and pull. Unless it is deeply established (mine wasn't), it usually pulls up by the roots. But my hands were a mess—broken nails and a few bleeding cuts.
I don't have conscientious neighbors. The people across the street have a yard that is nothing but crab grass, which they don't mow until after it goes to seed. When they do cut it down, they use a string trimmer, which scatters the seeds everywhere. All it takes is a little wind and the seeds are in my yard. I've been pulling up crab grass from my front yard for nearly 20 years. The side and back, however, have remained relatively clean. That is, until…
The lady in the home on the other side of mine went into the hospital for several weeks. She's fine now, but her live-in boyfriend did nothing to maintain the yard while she was away. It was a veritable factory of weeds, all producing virulent seeds. My lawn was inundated.
As it stands now, my yard is more bare dirt than grass. I bought an expensive bag of grass seed ($35). It is pure Bermuda grass. Although it is invasive, it puts down a nice carpet of grass that is not easily invaded by weeds, if maintained. And so I've begun the process of re-seeding the yard. Hopefully it will be back to normal in a few months.
As for the vacation coming to an end, yesterday I did two videos. I made fish and chips, using an interesting recipe from America's Test Kitchen. I have mixed feelings about their recipes. On the one hand, the recipes are tested and they usually produce good results. On the other hand. they have huge kitchens with high-end luxury appliances and a seemingly endless supply of equipment.
Almost every paragraph contained the words, "Cover a baking sheet with several layers of paper towels." In all, you need at least three. How many people have three baking sheets in their cupboards? Although it might seem like bragging, I have four. The lousy ones I keep for my own use. The really nice looking ones I save for videos and photography. Actually, every November/December the local warehouse store stocks baking sheets and/or pans for the holiday baking season. I usually buy one and toss my worst looking sheet in the recycling bin.
I also did a short video on making your own salad dressing. The other day I was in the grocery store and I couldn't help noticing a woman standing in front of the shelves of bottled salad dressing. She looked like a deer in the headlights. It's easy to feel overwhelmed with all the possible choices. But, really, few of them are any good. They don't use extra virgin olive oil. One in particular is mostly water, with some sort of emulsifier to thicken the water and make it act like oil. The second ingredient is sugar, followed by salt, and then canola oil.
Homemade salad dressing is easy to make, and you can control all the ingredients. Water? Why? It has no flavor. Use juice—apple, lemon, or pomegranate, etc. Vinegar? Rather than the white distilled vinegar, try apple cider vinegar or tarragon vinegar. And, of course, the best oil is extra virgin olive oil. With a little thought, you can create some delicious salad dressings.
Yesterday's recipes and videos will be published here and on YouTube in coming weeks.
The Importance of Research
I don't just grab a pot and start cooking with the video camera turned on. And I don't just research half a dozen recipes. The problem with being in the public eye is that if I were to ignorantly split an infinitive, a tidal wave of corrections would surge my way. ["To split" is an infinitive and putting an adverb, "ignorantly," in between is splitting an infinitive.]
Case in point: On Sunday I published my recipe PDF and YouTube video of Lamb and Eggplant Shepherd's Pie. Besides the fact that it is as different from traditional shepherd's pie as crêpes suzette is from a flaming Boeing 787 Dreamliner lithium-ion battery, some people take issue with the word shepherd. This is not the first time this debate has arisen. I refer back to my recipe and video for Welsh Shepherd's Pie.
The argument goes something like this: Shepherds herd sheep; therefore, shepherd's pie is always made with lamb or mutton. If the pie is made with beef, it is cottage pie. There are those in England who will swear this differentiation goes all the way back to the time when King James wrote the Bible. (I know, I know.)
I did my research before publishing my recipe, but I don't like to appear to be too much of a know-it-all in my videos. So I don't go into the background much. The term cottage pie first appeared in the English language late in the 16th century. The food was a way for simple folk, who lived in cottages, to use up the leftovers from the Sunday roast, if they could afford one. Cottage pie used any meat, but mostly mutton or beef. Fewer than 100 years later the term shepherd's pie entered the vernacular. It could also contain beef or mutton. The two names have since been used synonymously to refer to the same pie. Until…
Somewhere in the late 20th century a differentiation became popular. Shepherd — sheep — lamb — pie. Cottage — beef — pie (although no one seems to have an explanation of why cottage refers to beef—do cottagers herd cattle?) This differentiation is new, despite the fact that there are those who will declare it goes back to when Moses and Aaron built the biggest—and most dangerous—battery of their day (which eventually electrocuted poor Uzzah when he reached out to prevent it toppling off the wagon). Size does matter.
Of course, I truly am no know-it-all. Someone recently corrected my pronunciation of briouat, which I mistakenly pronounced BREE-ou-AHT. According to the person who formerly lived in Morocco and ate them often, they are something like BREE-wah or bree-WAH (I don't know if the stress is on the first or second syllable). I did look up the pronunciation on the Internet, but found nothing (and my antivirus software blocked one web site from attacking my computer). My little food encyclopedia doesn't contain the word either.
And in one of my earliest videos, homemade mascarpone, I pronounced it MAHS-car-pone rather than MAHS-car-POH-nay. (It was still closer than how an Italy-trained chef and teacher pronounced it—MARS-cuh-pone.) Live and learn.
So, if you want to put cooking videos on the Internet, be sure to do your research, because someone will always be there to point out where you went wrong.
Sunday 5.12.13 — Mother's Day
These Old Computers
My two desktop computers are getting old and nearing the end of their life expectancy. I usually run them for five years. I plan to build new ones this fall. I have owned many computers since buying my first one in 1983 and during that time I never needed to replace the motherboard (system board) battery. Yesterday morning this computer (on which I keep my web site files) had difficulty booting and when it finally started up, the date was reset back to December 1, 2006. That is typical of a dead mobo battery.
I don't know why, but I had a new battery, still in its package, in my desk drawer. Replacing it was quick and easy. Just to make absolutely certain the problem was the battery and not something else, I checked the old battery in a battery tester. As dead as Marley's ghost.
Not done yet. As a final proof, I shut down the computer again, waited about 30 seconds, and then started it up again. It booted normally. All systems "Go." People who build their own computers assemble these little collections of tests to check everything. This is also why I only build computers in identical pairs. With twins, I can switch parts between computers when I suspect a component might be failing.
What will I build for my next computers? In the past, I tried to balance cost with capability. A former friend of mine, who taught me how to build my own computers, is heavily into gaming. He would always insist I build the fastest computers I could afford and fill them with the maximum memory and the finest video cards. In other words, he would try to talk me into building the computer he would build if he had the money.
I am not into gaming. I build productivity rigs—workhorses that run typical office software for writing, photo editing, and maintaining a web site. The most this rig does is crunch through video clips to render a finished video for YouTube or my TV show. For that, I switch from XP to Windows 7 (this computer is a dual boot rig). Still, it takes almost three hours to encode a high def video for YouTube. Actually, a gaming rig might not be a bad idea.
Do you admit your age? I confess that I was 22 for nine years. In reality, I will be 62 years old this summer. Hardly decrepit, but no spring chicken either. Figuring a computer lasts five years, I will be 67 when I need to build another pair. Will I feel like building my own computers at that age? Will the desktop platform finally disappear by then, yielding to tablets and laptops and smart monitors? Will I have the presence of mind to attempt such a project? Might this next pair of computers be the final ones I will ever build? Possibly, but not certainly.
Therefore, I have plans to build real "dream machines" this next time around. Money is no object, sort of—I won't build a pair of Crays. I do plan, however, to purchase the best microprocessors. That one computer chip will cost over $1,000 each—and I'll be buying two. Crazy? Probably, but again, these will probably be the last computers I'll build. I might as well pull out all the stops and go balls out on this one. In the meantime, I've been watching the prices. I think retailers are expecting the Ivy Bridge CPU chip in September and they are therefore trying to squeeze as much profit as possible out of existing hardware until then. The Sandy bridge chip went up $50 in price. The motherboard I want increased by $125. Hmmm.
I'll be blogging more about the computer build in coming months. Meanwhile…
My latest cast iron cookware hopes fell flat. There was no skillet, just Dutch ovens without lids. And, finally, I'm nearing the end of my time off from cooking. I'm thinking of attempting a Gâteau Marjoraine. Insane, I know—but so was the Gâteau Paris-Brest. And speaking of bike races, the Amgen Tour of California begins today. I'll be watching.
I heard from my friend who works at the charity thrift store. The good news: A set of used cast iron cookware was donated. The bad news: She set it aside for me, but someone found it and moved it to the expensive not-so-thrift store. Would a tag saying, "Hold for Dennis" have helped? Maybe. Maybe not. Nonetheless, later this morning I will drive down to the store and look at the pans.
If they are a brand I don't especially want, I won't buy them unless they're dirt cheap. I can purchase a new Lodge Logic 12-inch (30cm) skillet for less than $16 online. I won't pay more than $5 in a thrift store. On the other hand, if it's a Griswold (highly unlikely), I'll pay a little more. Griswolds are more collectable. If there is any oxidation (rust), I'll walk away.
And so, if the pan(s) need restoring like the little skillet I bought earlier, I might have before-and-after photos after all. I might even do a video. Meanwhile, I've been trying to season an aluminum pan as an experiment, and failing.
Here's the back story: Many years ago (more like decades) I purchased an expensive large sauté pan at a store that sold quality cookware, among other kitchenware. I was in the store looking at gadgets and I saw a booth where a vendor was promoting their pots and pans. The pan in question is an 11-inch skillet with glass lid, made in Germany by Berndes. They are still available on Amazon for $110 each (MSRP $300). The promotion price at the time was much lower. An added incentive was a free 8-inch skillet (Amazon $67, MSRP $160) with purchase. So I bought one.
It was a good and reliable pan for several years. However, like any nonstick cookware, the coating didn't last forever. After many years of use the coating started to peel off and I needed to decide what to do. Recycle or restore? (The smaller skillet is perfect for crèpes, which is the only food I make in it, and therefore the coating is still in excellent condition, because I rarely make crèpes.) I decided to experiment. I sanded off all the coating and undercoating until I got down to the aluminum. It was a lot of work, but since then, the pan has served adequately as a bare aluminum skillet. Naturally, food sticks, but if used with liquids, such as when braising or making sauces, the pan works satisfactorily.
Still feeling a sense of accomplishment at having successfully restored an old cast iron skillet last week, I decided to test the same procedure (see my 5/1 blog entry below) on the Berndes sauté pan.
The results were not encouraging. Unlike on the cast iron skillet, after several times in the oven the coating was spotty. The flax oil didn't adhere to the aluminum as smoothly as to the iron. Yesterday morning I fried an egg in it to test its nonstick properties, if any. There was a small amount of sticking—more than in a properly seasoned cast iron skillet—but not so much as to make the pan unusable. Conclusion: You can't season an aluminum pan the same as a cast iron pan. The metals are too different, I suppose.
I sprayed the pan with oven clean, wrapped it in plastic (but only for a few minutes because oven cleaner damages aluminum), and scrubbed off all the seasoning when it looked dissolved. It needed some sanding because of the oven cleaner. It isn't any worse, but I'm not sure what I'll do with it. It works, but it's ugly. I'll probably toss it in recycling if I buy a large cast iron skillet at the thrift shop.
Enjoying Some Time Off
Other than the tiramisu I made two weeks ago (the recipe and video will be published here and on YouTube in coming weeks), I've been doing very little cooking, other than to eat. I tried to fulfill a request for Sloppy Joes, but so far I haven't come up with a variant that I feel would surpass the originals or be interesting enough to attract attention. One issue I will gladly point out: Most of the recipes call for adding ketchup to the ground beef. Really? Where I grew up we used spaghetti sauce. I haven't totally given up on the idea—it still churns in the back of my mind—but I am setting it aside for the time being.
Another request I received was for Chicken Kiev. I know even less about this food. It sounds intriguing. Hammer a chicken breast into a flat patty, wrap it around a lump of cold, seasoned butter, seal the edges, and then roll it in egg and then in bread crumbs. Fry until the chicken is cooked and golden. When pierced on the plate, the chicken is supposed to gush its hidden treasure of melted butter. America's Test Kitchen published a recipe that looks doable. The only variation that comes to mind—and the recipe definitely needs one—is to prepare some sort of reduction sauce, maybe with chicken stock and Marsalla, for garnish. Given that Kiev is Russian, Marsalla might not be the best choice. Maybe another liquor, but the only one that comes to mind is cognac and that's French.
Other than that squirt of melted butter and the boost to your circulatory system's cholesterol, I can't say I know what the attraction might be. However, with a side of rice and sautéed Brussels sprouts to sop up the butter, I can see where it might be a delicious plate of food. I've considered other possible fillings, such as béarnaise or hollandaise (which would break and curdle while the chicken is cooking) or seasoned mascarpone (which would melt into an oil). No, I think the people in Kiev knew what they were doing when they selected butter.
Another food that has been under consideration is fish & chips. I love good fish & chips, and I haven't eaten it in quite a while. The only time I eat tarter sauce is with fish & chips and the only time I will eat ketchup is on french fries. I have my limitations. With some former friends, we tried a few of the local restaurants down in the city before settling on the one with the best fish & chips.
You need good white fish for proper fish & chips. I grew up in New England and therefore the best fish is Atlantic cod. Try to find that in Southern California. Is it even available, anywhere? During the 1990s the Atlantic cod population collapsed due to overfishing and the specie has failed to recover, despite a cessastion of fishing. I might make a trip to the fish markets down in the city to see what they stock and recommend.
In case some of you might be wondering: No, the fire down in Ventural County is not affecting us up here. Late yesterday, when the winds shifted, we could see some of the smoke well off the coast, out over the ocean. Other than that, there has been no effect. We are concerned, though, because fire season typically doesn't start until late July-early August. It's starting early this year. We've had less than 50% of our normal annual rainfall for the past two years; so vegetation up in the mountains is tinder dry right now. I bought two extra flashlights this year for when the power goes off. The transition lines to our area are up in the mountains.
Yesterday I stacked 15 Lazy Man Meals in the freezer; so there will be even less cooking. As the weather warms up, and it has been quite warm the past two days, I feel even less like cooking. However, we're expecting a few days of very light rain—not enough to make a difference—so with the cooling I might feel like doing some cooking. I might even bake bread again.
Like pretty near all humans, occasionally I experience a brilliant vision of 20/20 hindsight. Such was the case this week.
In my last blog of April I wrote about an old cast iron skillet I picked up at a charity thift store. During the early part of this week I worked through the steps of restoring it. First, I removed all the burn plastic stuck to the bottom. Then I sprayed it several times with oven cleaner, with plenty of scrubbing in between, to remove all the old black seasoning, and everything else that contributed to the hard black and brown crust inside the pan.
As I mentioned on Sunday, the burnt plastic chipped off the outside bottom without too much effort. The old seasoning took a lot longer. I didn't count how many times I sprayed it with oven cleaner and then let the pan sit for a few hours. Each spraying took off layers of old polymerized oil and grease. I was happy to see, when I finally reached the metal, that the iron was not pitted with rust. In fact, there was no rust anywhere on the pan, inside or out.
With all the old seasoning removed, the pan got a final scouring with soap and water and I dried it with paper towels. I then heated the oven to its lowest temperature, 175°F (79°C), and placed the pan inside for 20 minutes to make certain there wasn't even a tiny bit of water anywhere.
Out came the the flax oil from the refrigerator and the pan was given a good coat of oil, inside and out, and then the excess oil was wiped off with clean paper towels, leaving only a thin film on the surface. I returned the pan to the oven, cranked up the temperature to its highest setting, 550°F (288°C), and when the oven reached temperature I set a timer for one hour.
After one hour, the oven was turned off and the pan was allowed to cool in the oven. When cooled, the process of oiling, wiping, heating, and cooling was repeated again, and again, and again. The pan ultimately received eight coats of seasoning, with a further two on the inside. It looks new again, although the inside does show a little wear. This is, after all, a used skillet.
In the meantime, I did a little more research. This comes from sherylcanter.com. She is credited with having come up with the science that demonstrates the value of flaxseed oil over all other edible oils when seasoning cast iron. I mentioned omega-3 fatty acids in my last blog. There is more—something called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), of which flaxseed oil is 57%. By comparison, canola oil is 10% ALA. It's that ALA stuff that polymerizes, crosslinking radicals (or something like them) into the hard coating that protects the cast iron pan and gives it a decent non-stick cooking surface.
Late yesterday afternoon I put the pan through its first test. I heated it to about 325°F (163°C), put a dab of butter in the pan, let it melt, and then broke an egg into it. Eggs seem to always stick the most when the pan isn't right. The egg turned over with virtually no sticking at all. I cooked the other side, plated it, and ate. The pan wiped out with a paper towel and it looks perfect.
Now, where does the hindsight come in? Why oh why did I not think to take before and after photographs of my pan so that I could show you the difference? Maybe next time, if I ever find a good cast iron pan again. (Marilynn knows I am looking for them. Hopefully she'll set one aside if one is donated to the charity thrift store.)
The important point is that I now have a fully restored vintage cast iron skillet. And if there is a second point, I now know how to get the best results when seasoning a pan. It's a slow process. Plan on three days of cleaning and seasoning, maybe longer if you don't have the time to do three to four coats in the same day. If you are going to have cast iron cookware in you kitchen, you might as well take the best care of it and hand it down to your children or grandchildren. When properly maintained, the pans can last for many generations. | <urn:uuid:8b2f75b8-8688-4f75-b0de-c70076b10606> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.white-trash-cooking.com/blog.html | 2013-05-24T02:40:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132729/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973658 | 5,864 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
What is best in life? Gear, plain and simple. As part of the upcoming stat-system revamp, we plan to introduce a new tool that will let World of Warcraft players know exactly where they stand in comparison to other players: the Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number.
With this new system, you’ll no longer have to wonder about your perceived or actual worth as a player. Your Equipment Potency EquivalencE Number, automatically derived from the quality of the gear you currently possess, will be placed on your character sheet and in the Armory, and also displayed over your character’s head in-game as an easy-to-read bar-like object that steadily grows as you acquire loot. Thanks to this new system, no one will be able to ignore the fruits of your long, hard journey toward gear perfection.
How Your Number Is DeterminedEdit
Here's how it will work: With every new piece of gear you obtain, your number will grow; if you attain a high enough number, you'll graduate to the next tier (more on that below) and gain access to exclusive rewards. If you’re looking to boost your number even more, activities such as earning raid and Arena achievements or realm-first titles will help you get it up, and you'll also begin receiving in-game mail with exciting offers for additional ways to enhance it.
Player Potency TiersEdit
To complement this system, we plan to use an updated version of the phasing technology introduced in Wrath of the Lich King to automatically place players in segregated tiers based on their number. Each tier will comprise all players within a certain number range, and players will only be able to group with, talk to, or see other players in the same tier as themselves. To ensure players with a smaller number will not be shafted by this new system, we plan to introduce a wide variety of new solo content for less well-equipped players.
Those with sufficiently large numbers can earn in-game rewards such as a permanent bonus to "need" rolls, the ability to cut to the front of the queue in the Dungeon Finder, a larger ignore list, a much shorter dungeon deserter debuff, or -- if your number is exceedingly impressive -- a new non-combat pet, Binky the Mechano-Rooster.
As your number grows, the game world will tailor itself to you in other subtle ways: as the pool of players you interact with becomes more and more exclusive, you’ll no longer need to stand still in prominent locations quite so often to allow others to inspect your gear; you’ll have fewer time-wasting calendar invitations to sift through; and your friends list will become increasingly more manageable, reducing needless scrolling time. Any negative repercussions of these changes will be offset by the satisfaction you’ll receive knowing your equipment is significantly more impressive than average.
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Neon Trees and Owl City
|Time:||7:30 PM until 10:00 PM|
|Date:||Sunday, April 14|
|Location:||Cintas Center Arena|
Tickets are $35 each and available for purchase in person at the Cintas Center Box Office and from Ticketmaster.
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David Walters is one of the few artists whose every release is reliable. The Echelon Effect has a clearly identifiable sound, and has stuck to it consistently. (The final installment of Seasons might be considered an exception, save for the fact that it is part of a larger body of work.) While The American Dollar might be the closest relative, The Echelon Effect has a better sense of melancholy gratitude - a sadness that something has ended, but a gladness for having had the experience.
This sense comes into play with the timing of the latest release, arriving right at the end of summer vacation. One might ask, “Wouldn’t any album played at this time be identified with the end of the season?” This author’s response is that of 50 albums previewed in the last two weeks, this is the one that best matches the mood of forthcoming withdrawal. As I left the beach in my rear-view mirror earlier this afternoon, driving into the remnants of Hurricane Isaac, a few sunbeams struggled to send lines from distant clouds to the horizon. The Echelon Effect’s music – melancholy, but not mournful, euphoric, but restrained – was the perfect soundtrack for my mixed emotions.
Since every listener places the sheet of experience over music, it’s important to note the artist’s intentions. Field Recordings is about flying, and the samples are provided with the permission of Soundrangers. One can easily intuit the arc of a flight, given the instrumentation: the dawn, the takeoff, the soaring heights, the return to earth.
“Intro” and “Tracking Aeroplanes” mark the early morning hours, the check-in, the consultation of weather conditions. Piano tones waft through the air like morning gulls. Sweet ambient drones roll like mist. Glockenspiel notes fall like good news: the flight will go on as scheduled. When the guitar enters, the excitement is palpable. The military drums at the end feel like lifting wheels.
“Antenna” and “Call to Ground” provide the impression of passing through cloud cover. Mystery is still apparent, a pregnant anticipation. The tracks drift together like colliding clouds. Percussion is held back until the final two minutes, possibly signifying the rise above the white and grey. And then “Outer Marker”, the set’s finest track, in which the drums and glockenspiel cavort with birds in the low heavens, sunlight sparkling off the plane’s metal wings.
A bit of friendly taunting is present in the last title: “The Brightest Star You See Is My Wingtip Over Your Home”. But even the best pilot must land sometime. Even if the artist is in the clouds and the listener is in the sky, the final impression is the same: open-eyed wonder and a desire to recapture the experience. And so the music wraps around, the last track feeding back into the first, suggesting that the memory has been looped in anticipation of the next flight. (Richard Allen) | <urn:uuid:d6e8be6a-418f-4a2f-abde-9a8301d698f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://acloserlisten.com/2012/09/09/the-echelon-effect-field-recordings/ | 2013-06-18T04:40:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925043 | 647 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Simon Baruch(1840 - 1921)
Home State: South Carolina
Command Billet: Assistant Surgeon
Branch of Service: Medical
Unit: 3rd South Carolina Infantry Battalion
Before the Antietam Campaign:
Born in Prussia (later part of Poland), he came to the US in 1855 and worked in a relative's store in Camden, South Carolina. In 1860 he attended the South Carolina Medical College and then the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. He graduated with an M.D. in early 1862 and accepted a commission as Assistant Surgeon of the 3rd South Carolina Battalion on 4 April of that year. The Battalion saw their first action near Yorktown and fought at Second Manassas before going on the Maryland Campaign.
In the Antietam Campaign:
On 14 September 1862, the Battalion and the rest of Draytonís Brigade, part of Longstreetís Command, were thrown into Foxís Gap on South Mountain by General D.H. Hill in a desperate defense against the assault of Federal General Renoís IX Corps. The Battalion was severely damaged that day, suffering about 50% casualties, providing strenuous work for the surgeons in treating those wounded men who were not left behind on the battlefield.
The remainder of the War:
The following July they were at Gettysburg, where Baruch was assigned to McLawsí Division hospital in the Black Horse Tavern. Baruch and the other hospital staff remained behind with the wounded when the Confederate Army retreated on 4 July 1863, and surrendered to the Federals at 7 a.m. on the 5th. He continued to treat the wounded there for about six weeks, and was then imprisoned at Fort McHenry in Baltimore. He was paroled in October and returned to his unit in December.
At some point following, probably in the Spring of 1864, Baruch was relieved or resigned his commission on account of health, but he was back in service by summer and after August served as (full) Surgeon for the duration with the 13th Mississippi Regiment.
After the War:
After the War, he returned to Camden and was in practice as a physician for the next 16 years. Apparently not content with his rural practice or the trends in modern medicine, Dr Baruch moved his family to New York City in 1881, where he practiced on West 57th Street and became a force in the public health causes of bathing and hydrotherapy.
References, Sources, and other notes:
Details of Baruch's history from Ward1, and his NY Times obituary of 4 June 1921. The portrait of Simon above is from the collection of the Camden Archives and Museum. It was used on the cover of the Ward book. Legend has it that Belle Wolfe, later Simonís wife, painted him in 1862. Perhaps this is that piece.
More on the Web:
See more about Simon Baruch in a post on behind AotW.
|Birth Date: 07/20/1840 Place of Birth: Schwersenz, PRUSSIA |
College: Medical College of Virginia Graduating Year: 1862
Death Date: 06/03/1921 Death Place: New York City, NY
1 Ward, Patricia Spain, Simon Baruch: rebel in the ranks of medicine, 1840-1921, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994 [AotW citation 1111]
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Tool Crib Station
Automate attended or unattended cribs or build a runner system
- Automate your existing tool room, crib, or store
- Issue/return tools without an attendant
- Capture transaction before unlocking door to crib
- Use at remote locations in a "runner system"
Tool room automation
You can quickly and easily convert your manual tool crib to a virtual dispensing machine, with AutoCrib Tool Crib Station. Just designate an existing tool room, tool crib or stores area as a tool crib, using AutoCrib Software. Install an AutoCrib Tool Crib Station at the crib window — and now, tool crib attendants or users perform the data entry using a touch screen. After the user selects the desired items, a receipt with bin locations is printed to assist the attendant or user in locating the items within the secured area.
Tool requests at remote locations
You can also place Tool Crib Stations at various locations or remote work cells throughout a plant to create a "runner system". Users enter tool or supplies requests at the Tool Crib Station. The central tool crib prints out the order, and issues and delivers the requested tool by a runner (at lower cost), while keeping the operator at his work center.
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Knicks Let Lin Go and Draw the Line at the Wrong Time
After days of contradicting sourced reports served to make Jeremy Lin's future a dizzying unknown, Howard Beck of The New York Times has offered a fairly definitive end to all of the speculation: The internal deliberation in New York over the choice to match Lin's offer sheet is reportedly now over, meaning that the one-time king of the basketball world will soon be a Houston Rocket.
The Knicks are not expected to announce their decision until this evening, and there is still a chance — albeit incredibly small — that it could be reversed. But as of 4 p.m. the decision had been made and was considered final by those with knowledge of the deliberations. Indeed, the deliberations were said to be over.
The Knicks have first-refusal rights on Lin and by rule have until Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time to either match the offer or let him walk.
Yet that seems like an incredibly—and increasingly—slim possibility. There may be time left for New York's decision-makers to stumble back to reason, but if the circumstances and finances aren't likely to change in the hours to come (and they aren't), then we shouldn't expect the Knicks' decision to, either.
The "poison pill" that Daryl Morey built into the Houston Rockets' offer sheet to Lin has apparently served its purpose; rather than match the Rockets' formal offer, the Knicks have reportedly elected to let Lin walk, a decision that will cost the Knicks in every conceivable way. Much will be made of what New York has lost in marketing alone, but we shouldn't at all understate what it's lost in the basketball realm; Lin was the Knicks' best shot at offensive cohesion and one of the few up-and-comers on an otherwise ancient roster.
Even if the Knicks do have Raymond Felton and Jason Kidd to initiate their offense (a considerable upgrade over the non-Lin Knicks point guard contingent last season), passing up on Lin is an almost incomprehensible decision given New York's cavalier spending. Player contract values had largely been inconsequential to James Dolan up to this point, and yet with his team as a virtually certain luxury taxpayer for the foreseeable future, this was the moment at which he apparently decided to get stingy.
That's ultimately Dolan's call to make, and yet one can't help but see how this particular decision seems to be borne of a very different philosophy from that which put together the rest of the Knicks roster. While that in itself isn't a problem, this is an odd—and counterproductive—time to develop a financial conscience; with the Knicks locked into some huge deals over the next few seasons, the awarding of Lin's early Bird rights was a squandered gift that allowed New York to compete with the rest of the free-agent market via salary cap exception. It could be quite some time before the Knicks are logistically able to acquire a player of Lin's caliber, and with so many things on New York's roster either lacking or uncertain, the idea that Dolan and the Knicks would pass on Lin because of a slightly inflated and thoroughly back-loaded deal is baffling.
The third and final year of Lin's new contract—worth $14.8 million—may be far greater than what the Knicks ever wanted to pay for the young point guard in a single season. But that bit of unreasonable salary (in an expiring year, no less) would otherwise seem to make for a reasonable concession given Lin's talent and potential, which is to say nothing for his earning potential. Lin may prove to be no more than a very solid pick-and-roll player, but that alone is highly valuable on this team, as demonstrated in the gains that Tyson Chandler, Amar'e Stoudemire, Steve Novak and the recently departed Landry Fields saw when Lin was on the court.
He's simply a better complementary player than whatever else the Knicks will be able to manage through meager cap exceptions in the current era. This was practically New York's last chance to "add" a very effective player thanks to an almost unnavigable salary gridlock, and though no one has any bearing over how Mr. Dolan spends his money, this new-found financial conservatism has dealt the Knicks a heavy blow.
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The Room:Inspired by the original Penn Station, the bi-level dining room has soaring arched ceilings made of bricks in a variety of earth tones, and a giant clock. Black and white retro photos from as far back as El Morocco line the walls, and a massive wine wall displays highlights from the 450 bottle list.
The Food:The Tao boys let Tourondel do what he does best: creative steakhouse fare. Meats include bone-in filet mignon, Porterhouse and cote de boeuf, along with a selection of eight sauces and fifteen sides including Dirty French Fries, Grilled Radicchio with Stilton and balsamic and Green Spinach Fondue with fontina and nutmeg. Fish options like Papilotte of Black Bass with shiitake coconut-lime broth and Dover Sole are also on the menu, as are innovative sushi choices and raw bar offerings. Entrée prices range from $32 to $55.
Drinks:Apart from the impressive wine list, drinks include the “Arlington Club” made with Woodford Reserve bourbon, Campari and bitters, “Careless Whisper’’ with Grey Goose limon vodka. Grapefruit, elderflower and cranberry, and “Sage Advice’’, a shaken mix of Glenmorangie 10 year old scotch, Cointreau, grapes and sage.
Crowd:Expect the nightlife loving Tao following, foodies following Tourondel and Upper East Side neighbors, eager for local action. The real question will be if he can pack the large room in an area of town that's not really known for it's nightlife. If the hordes that roll into Lavo every night are any indication, this shouldn't be a problem, even though it is further uptown.
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Penny Arcade Organizes Toy Drive for Seattle Children's Hospital
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 25, 2003 - 23:27
Penny Arcade has partnered with the Seattle Children's Hospital and Amazon.com for "Child's Play." With the help of the Children’s Hospital, Penny Arcade created an Amazon Wish List for the sick kids at the hospital. Every single contribution will help out the Children’s Hospital and the 190,000 kids they treat each year.
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Years of repeated accusations of human trafficking, slave labor and deplorable working conditions by multiple unrelated workers sounds like more than just a coincidence but demands a trial. Don't let Typhoon settle out of court. Bring the charges and make the evidence public in court. Get out of the papers and on with the trial.
Tough situation all around. I'm not sure how effective lawsuits will ultimately be or even how much $$ the lawyers will add to the final bill. It sounds like it might be time to drain the pool, lock the clubhouse door and mow the lawns themselves. Nothing builds community like sweat equity. Hopefully something positive comes out of this for the paying HOA members like Leland.
If Portland Water didn't require Tom Klutz to mind a budget on the Water House, what's to say he won't have to on the next pet project, The Pump Station: http://www.portlandonline.com/water/index.cfm?a=341972&c=39678&nocache=1
Keep Portland Mediocre
Just another pot stirring Canzano article. IMHO the NFL wants the die hard fans at the games and the families with children to stay home. The inclusion of the half time show and requirement that new stadiums have vast parking lots for tailgating supports this idea. The NFL likely recognizes that 1% of viewership is inside the stadium and the remaining 99% of fan base is watching on tv or online.
Didn't Kimberly Schneider Branam just get a 93% raise from the PDC?
Janie-- It looks like the article you reference states the opposite; Whether the Gov raided the Schools budget to grow DHS.
Is Bruce Wood next in line for UR money for his Eagles Landing development in Happy Valley?
It doesn't seem like there are enough jobs let alone wages to support these lifestyle developments. The if you build it, they will come model doesn't seem to pencil out anymore.
We will see what happens but Cho doesn't inspire much confidence from me. He appears too analytical and structured to deal with the recent onslaught of injuries. He's a planner, and there is nothing wrong with that, but the NBA is a game of diminishing assets. Sometimes, you've got to be willing to roll the dice. I'd rather have KP all day.
I've got a few of the Adidas Techfit compression shirts and I love them. The powerbands are a fantastic addition that really pull your alignment together.
That's not entirely accurate. New fees and property taxes will most certainly be passed along to renters in the form of higher rent and lower concessions. Many renters may not fully understand that but most landlords do.
Why did this article get taken off the most commented list so quickly from the main page?
I'd bet 3-1 that KK shutters locations (Orenco Station?) in 2011 and 5-1 KK files for BK in 2011.
Why does a town of 11,000 need a City Manager anyways? I would think the Mayor would be able to wear a few hats.
Mark Edlen can't pencil out deals in the private sector. Gerding Edlen just gave back the keys to the 539 unit Bellevue Towers.
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You are about to enter another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of beer pong and handle pulls. A journey into a wondrous land of sex, drugs and dubstep. Welcome to Isla Vista.
Let me address the elephant in the room here: Yes, college is just like it is in the movies. There are tons of drunk, hot girls walking around in bathing suits, crazy parties everywhere, girls lezzing out and even fat nerdy kids getting laid by girls who totally look like Mila Kunis and living happily ever after. Just kidding about that last part; those kids actually go home and beat off to Mila Kunis.
Making that transfer from high school to college truly is a game-changer. I was 17 years old when I started college, and within the first week I went from barely making it to first base to laying the pipe like a plumber on crack. College is the sexual renaissance of every adolescent’s dreams. From that first, frustrating boner as a little kid to this morning’s wood, sexual expression is the first language we learn to speak. It’s all around us, especially in a place like I.V. There are essentially 20,000 kids squished into a square-mile playground. It’s like Chuck E. Cheese’s for college students, minus the random baby turd in the ball pool, plus the passed-out dude in the bathroom who managed to throw up everywhere except in the toilet.
There is a sexual revolution going on out there. As you are reading this, three girls just had a threesome, nine bros went to a day rager and all got laid and by the time you get to the period of this sentence, some girl on DP just got DPed by two dudes … and I can’t seem to stop watching. Don’t judge me.
Living in I.V. has been a very rewarding college experience. I can drink a fifth of Jim Beam and still be standing after playing four games of Snappa in a day. I can twist The Loop into a figure eight and do The Great American Challenge by myself because I feel like being patriotic on a Monday morning. I now know that the clitoris is like a unicorn. You have to close your eyes and believe it’s real.
It didn’t take long to understand what my first roommate said about standards: They go right out the window. Get used to throwing your beer can on the floor, pissing outside, eating sofa pizza and making out with sofa pizza. And take it from me, sex on the beach is like sandpaper on your dick and girls are just as horny as guys no matter what society says.
Gentlemen, this year is a year of reckoning. It is about experiencing everything you can. Make all the terrible decisions, party the night before your midterm, stay up all night writing a ten-pager, smoke that herb, pull that handle, sink that pong, go streaking through I.V., talk to that girl you think is super cute and put yourself out there. What’s the worst that could happen? She tells you to fuck off? Big deal, now you have 9,999 other girls to talk to.
If you’re going to come to Santa Barbara, then fucking bring it. Don’t be static. Be dynamic. You got a 4.2 G.P.A. in high school? I don’t give a shit. That’s what my BAC was last weekend.
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Invite a friend
Fishermen's Memorial State Park Farmers Market
Fishermen's Memorial State Park in Narragansett will host a Farmers Market on Sundays from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. through October.
For more information about this market and the local farms participating visit: http://www.farmfresh.org/food/farmersmarkets_details.php?market=7.
|Where||Fisherman's Memorial State Park and Campground 1011 Point Judith Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882|
|Next on||This event is over.|
|Time||9:00 am–1:00 pm|
|Who to bring||Everyone|
|Price||free to attend/some costs apply|
More About Fisherman's Memorial State Park and Campground
Located on Point Judith Road, Fisherman's Memorial State Park is a popular site for campers in the summer. The campground offers a playground, basketball and tennis courts and several open fields, along with amenities like public restrooms and dumpsters. A variety of camping plans are available and detailed fully on the park's website. A farmer's market is also held at the park on Sunday mornings. | <urn:uuid:a44787fc-82fe-45bc-bf4a-40ef1b6a3a72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://narragansett.patch.com/events/fishermens-memorial-state-park-farmers-market-c7471824 | 2013-06-18T05:19:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894837 | 253 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
(CNN) – Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson, who have all expressed skepticism about the party's health care reform plan, were summoned to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office Wednesday to get a sneak peak at his health care bill.
Reid spokesman Jim Manley said Wednesday the senator invited these three moderate Democrats into his office to give them the "particulars on the bill."
All have been withholding support on voting to start debate - and the fact that Reid is giving the three their own special briefing, before the broader Democratic meeting at 5 pm Wednesday, is a signal of their power.
Assuming no Republican senator joins Democrats in voting to end debate, Reid needs all 60 senators in his party's caucus to vote in favor of a so-called "motion to proceed."
If any Democrat votes no on proceeding to debate, Reid's health care bill will go down before it starts.
A source familiar with Nelson's thinking reminded CNN Wednesday that has historically supported beginning debate, and does not believe that has anything to do with whether he will support a final bill. Landrieu told CNN she is leaning toward a "no" vote on the motion to proceed.
Manley says Reid still believes the Senate will vote on the motion to proceed this Saturday. | <urn:uuid:efd6bee0-8803-4a3c-ad6b-0942d099d37c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/18/lincoln-landrieu-nelson-meeting-with-reid/comment-page-1/ | 2013-06-18T05:39:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962515 | 264 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Greetings from RajaMICE, a Jakarta-based Professional Exhibition and Conference Organizer.
It is with great pleasure and honor to inform you that RajaMICE is organizing Indonesia Travel and Holiday (ITHF) 2012. This year, ITHF will be held in 2 major cities in Indonesia, The 9th ITHF will be held at Expo Centre LG Floor – Mall Of Indonesia Jakarta from 1 – 3 June 2012, and The 3rd ITHF Surabaya will be held at Expo Centre 6th Floor – Tunjungan Plaza Surabaya from 8 – 10 June 2012. As the largest consumer travel and holiday fair Indonesia (ITHF 2012) will feature the most complete and comprehensive travel needs with extraordinary travel bargains. Advancing from last event which draw over 36,000 holiday seeker, this year ITHF Jakarta 2012 is expected to attract over 40,000 quality visitors.
ITHF is the Best Indonesia Leading Exhibition based on holiday & travel activities, with the major objective to boost domestic and international tourism. ITHF is organized by RajaMICE.com that focusing on MICE activities and in cooperation with The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Indonesia, and over the last 3 years (6 times running) ITHF has a total 250.000 visitors and IDR 150 Billion transactions. Our last 7th ITHF 2010 event 6th – 9th Oktober 2011 , at Grand Indonesia Exhibition Center, Jakarta key fast as follow:
Total Attendance : 50.000 Visitor Total Sales : Rp 50 Milyar (USD 50 Million) Total Air ticket Booking : 10.000 segment Total Companies : 230 Total Booth : 153
Ari Darmawan (Mr.) Event Officer [p]+62 21 8690 6471 [e]
Website : www.indonesiatravelfair.com
JAKARTA OFFICERuko Permata 7E, Jl Curug Raya KalimalangTel : 6221 8690 6471 ext 122Fax : 6221 8690 5677
RajaMICE.com is a leading travel-based Professional Exhibition Organizer (PEO) that constantly adapting our products and services according to the expectations and wishes of our clients. We have also been serving the needs of corporations, incentive houses. more info
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These will be the easiest cookies you’ll ever make.
Only 6 ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. Plus Butterfingers.
A lot of Butterfingers.
No chilling the dough, no waiting around.
Cookies in 15 minutes flat.
Perfect for those of us lacking any sort of cookie patience.
Or any patience, for that matter.
When I want a cookie, I want a cookie NOW.
They’re thick, puffy, oozing with crispy, sticky Butterfingers.
They stand the real cookie test: remaining super soft and chewy, even the next day.
They are one of my most requested cookie recipes and could not be easier!
Makes 2.5 dozen cookies. Cookies remain fresh in an airtight container for 1 week. Cookie dough and baked cookies freeze well, up to 2 months.
- 1 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter, softened
- 1 large egg*
- 8 fun sized butterfinger candy bars, chopped
- Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in small bowl and set aside. With an electric mixer, beat sugar and butter until creamy. Beat in egg until just combined.
- Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in butterfinger pieces by hand. The dough will be very thick. Drop by slightly rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool and enjoy!
*if dough seems too dry, mix in 1 extra egg.
Recipe source: sallysbakingaddiction.com
© Sally’s Baking Addiction. All images & content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If you want to republish this recipe, please re-write the recipe in your own words, or link back to this post for the recipe.
I love how perfectly round they bake up, each and every time!
If you like these cookies, you’ll enjoy some of my other favorites too! | <urn:uuid:8ff16c87-5272-48aa-8587-af6ab22dcca2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2012/01/23/butterfinger-cookies/ | 2013-06-18T05:33:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896263 | 473 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
So, what could you do with the old scanner part of a cheap multifunctional scanner/printer combo? I decided that I could turn it into a multitouch touchscreen with the addition of just a few extra components and a bit of programming.
So, how did I arrive at such a crazy idea? Well, they say that inspiration can come from the weirdest places. The inspiration for this project came when I was cleaning the desk I use for hacking. It was, as usual, riddled with parts and broken devices, amongst others an Epson Stylus SX125 multifunctional printer. I bought it to (ab)use the printer parts for some other experiment, and while the scanner hardware still was intact, the controller board that controlled both the printer and the scanner probably wasn't going to do much anymore.
The scanner is a big part to stow away somewhere, but it still contained useful parts like the stepper motor, so I decided to dismantle it. One of the parts that came out was the scanner head. This is a LIDE-like scanner which has a few advantages. Old scanners use a small color line-CCD and a lot of heavy optics to scan and a CCFL to illuminate the document-to-be-scanned, making for a heavy and bulky scanner. Instead, this scanner uses a black&white line-CCD the same width as the document, some tiny optics and a multicolor LED to iluminate the document.
I recently learned a line-CCD isn't too hard to read out. It basically acts as a huge analog shift-register: you make a pin high to tell the CCD to 'take an image' and then you run a clock signal to another pin. Every time the next clock pulse arrives, the CCD will send out an analog value representing the light level falling on the next pixel. Because a CCD is a dynamic element, you can't lower the clock signal too much and if you stop reading frames from it, the device will take a while to 'start up' again.
As soon as I had the scanner head in my hands, I knew I oughtta hack it. I'd never interfaced a microcontroller with so many light sensors before, and I thought it would be a good excuse to put off cleaning the room for another time.
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|Food Basics: Family Fun DVD
Learn how to get the whole family involved in meal preparation and do so in ways that are fun instead of frustrating.
|K - 2||DVD||$59.95|
|All about Families DVD
This program helps youngsters understand the concept of families.
|K - 2||DVD||$49.95|
|A Kid's Guide to Families DVD
Inspire your students to be proud and helpful family members and teach them how they can better contribute to the smooth flow and operation of their households.
|6 - 8||DVD||$49.95|
|When Mom and Dad Divorce DVD
This program helps children explore and accept the feelings that arise when divorce occurs.
|3 - 5||DVD||$69.00|
|Scared Silent: Child Abuse DVD
Every day, parents cross the line that separates discipline from child abuse. Oprah Winfrey introduces three incidents where parents crossed that line.
|9 - 12||DVD||$79.95|
|Working Parents VHS
Many parents enjoy the challenge and excitement of having a career, but they also want to be an integral part of their children¹s childhood. This video addresses achieving that goal through a balance of work and family
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I'm really confused now. After my first post about the girl at my husband's work, I took it as being jealous on my side. That's why I deleted the post, for feeling stupid at not trusting my husband.
However. Yesterday he lightly shared that he got a hug from her. ???? I was like: "why?" He said "just because, I don't know" YEAH RIGHT. Anyway, I asked then who else got a hug for no apparent reason, and his answer was no-one else. Well that's just lovely. So I sit and look at him and can't believe he thinks that's fine. I'm analyzing myself and thinking, ok, so it was some sort of joke probably, not worth to pick a fight over. Chill.
Today, as a consultant, I travel everywhere to my clients. It so happened that today's client was 5minutes from my husband's work. I've been meaning to go there since they moved to this new place, so I told him this morning to expect me if I still have time. So when I was finished with my client, I phoned him to ask if he can spare a few minutes, yes, ok then, put the kettle on, I'm on my way. "We can have a quick break at your courtyard, then I'm off to get the kids"
So I come there, he's waiting outside, which is fine. Then, as I enter the building, he says, not here, I thought we could go to the coffee shop." I said "I don't really have time for all that, waiting for the waiter and so on, let's just hang out here" So he takes me directly to the courtyard, and I'm like "what about the coffee darling?" So he says oh, but is so uncomfortable, that I told him I'd wait in front. The coffee machine is in the open plan office, where the girl also sits. I haven't met her, and frankly didn't want to, because then I'd have a face in my head. But seeing that he took so long, I decided to join him and greet his collegues. They were all friendly, she (there's only one hispanic she) didn't even look up.
To the men out there, I know a wife pitching up at work can be uncomfotable. However, my husband is spontanious and wacky, took me on a tour and let me meet everyone the previous time. He's not shy, although he is in a managing position, I always felt welcome. Still, I told him in the morning, and phoned before to make sure he's fine with it.
So when I emailed him afterwards about how unwelcome he made me feel and asked him what was going on, he said "I don't know"
That's it....what's going on? I don't think it's still me being paranoid, something's definitly up, I would appreciate ideas on how to handle this. Our sex life isn't good, it's great. averaging on 5 times a week. He is turning 40, but seriously, that shouldn't be an issue, or could it?
Lol Wisp! I can be *****y, but that's a bit too much for me!
Chris "And increase it to six times a week." ROFL
About confronting her, I don't really want to make a fuss at his work enviroment. Her I'm not worried about, she can do what she likes...it's him who's not keeping his end straight.
I've had my share of flirty men, sometimes I smile, sometimes I laugh, but before it goes to the next sentence I make it clear that I'm "not for sale". That's what he didn't do/aren't doing. I don't like that. He's acting guilty and not saying anything. I'm not talking about this subject, I'm waiting for him to respond. At the moment he took my silence as "she's pissed" and went to his friend's house. I'm fine with that, as it's a friend from church and it's probably a good idea, seeing that I don't want to handle this issue quite yet.
We've had fights before, but never more serious than who's turn it is to buy milk. This one is tough.
Saying or doing the wrong thing might cause heavy scars...I don't want this. I really thought we were doing great.
A "change" - up or down - in your sex life is a red flag. If 5 a week is the norm, then that's cool. If he's suddenly more interested at home, it could mean that he's getting worked up elsewhere but still choosing to come home to you - for now. That was my experience. Wife flirting or "something" online - got her all excited at home. Was a lot of fun until you realize why you're getting so "lucky."
The office behavior - not sure. I don't like my wife coming around where I work. We just don't really have visitors. Its rare and seems awkard. And "I don't know" could just mean that he doesn't know how to explain this to you without hurting your feelings.
Now - her not looking up - I think you're dead on correct.
Maybe I missed something in the previous post, but how is he not "keeping his end straight"? he admitted that she gave him a hug (not "we hugged" or "I hugged her"), took you to the office. OK, maybe the logistics of coffee didn't work out, but did he hesitate when you said you would swing by?
There's no smoke here. if there is, it's with her, not him.
No need to confront her. Just introduce yourself to her and look her in the eyes.
I suggest you tackle your H head on. From what I read you suspect he his hiding something and there may be more happening than meets the eye.
Prepare for the worst and be joyful if is better than expected.
PS: I have been present when an H walked in to the reception area of his wife's company and loudly asked in his wife’s presence to be introduced to the man she was sr***g. It was most effective. The OM I ascertained was the one that quickly bolted and fell going through the turnstiles.
Ok, the previous post I shared my concern regarding this new girl at his workplace, who he can't stop talking about. Because we have an open trusting relationship, he thinks it's ok to share the flirty things they do with me. She makes him coffee although she's his equal (in work status), he comments on what she's wearing. She wore a safari dress yesterday (he told me that too) and do I really want to know this. When I got irritated a few days ago, he told me not to be jealous, or he won't share anything anymore. What on earth? So it's really fun flirting at the office, but who's supposed to draw the line? Obviously the married one.
He's been gone now for 2 hours. I'm not a nagger, so I'm not calling. So I'm just writing this down...what are they talking about? Why can't he talk to me? We've always been open, this is completely out of whack. I'm taking Wisp's advice on facing him head on with this. But if he still says it's nothing, I'll have to believe him, I'm not yet up to that one, because although I'm blonde, I'm not stupid.
Maybe I should not start there. I will start on how this makes me feel, not about if its something or not, just how I'm feeling right this moment. I've never doubted this man before, he's a church-going straight and narrow guy, turned into a suspicious weird acting one. It's just freaking me out about now. Do you know people that changed so dramatically?
A good way is to talk directly but not confrontationally to your H. Men do not do subtle.
This statement is true. I figured that out last night when he came back. We were silent at first, I was waiting for him to start talking, make an excuse or something. Eventually I started with," s do you want to talk about something?" He said he was at a friend, talking about non-relationship things. "What's your problem, because I can see you are troubled" This was my turn, so I told him how I felt. He wanted to stop and say it means nothing, but I told him to shuush, it's my turn. I told him directly that this is not the way I want to feel. Our marriage is sacred and should be protected. This girl is getting the wrong impression, which is hurting me.
He clicked. He asked forgiveness for his actions at my visit. Yes, he was uncomfortable with me being there, he felt his image go down the drain. Not being ashamed of me, but ashamed of himself. He promised to leave her alone regarding non-work stuff. Any comments about her looks or whatever stops now.
We slept in silence, because I felt his remorse, but still felt hurt. Today I'm better, and won't hold this against him, but I'm glad that I have the whole day before I have to talk to him. I'll go jog or something to get my head clear. This was tough on my system. Thanks for the ideas and support. We're getting over this one, all that needs to happen is my ego should have to handle it.
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December 21, 2006
Forgotten offensive lineman
Quick, name the four seniors who have made the most starts in their LSU football career.
The first two are pretty easy - defensive backs LaRon Landry and Jessie Daniels. The third one may take just a little thought - wide receiver Dwayne Bowe.
However, the fourth player has been under the radar throughout his Tigers career.
That individual is guard Brian Johnson, who will be making his 28th collegiate start when LSU takes on Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.
"It's been everything I wanted," said Johnson, concerning his LSU career. "I've played with a great group of guys."
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Cranky Pat’s is getting a little taste of South by Southwest.
Fresh off another round of shows at the annual bash in Austin, Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons will return home for two shows April 5 and 6 at the Neenah venue they’ve become well-acquainted with over the years. They’ll be joined April 5 by Madison-based PHOX, another act back in Wisconsin after a run of performances at South by Southwest.
Local musician Christopher Gold of the Dirty Rotten So & So’s will open the April 6 show with a solo set.
Tickets for each night are $10 and can be purchased at Cranky Pat’s or by calling 920-725-2662.
Here’s the video for PHOX’s “Slow Motion,” off of their latest EP “Confetti.”
And, for good measure, here’s a clip of Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons doing “I’ve Been Accused” at an AXS event at South by Southwest earlier this month.
For more information on the shows and to see what else Cranky Pat’s has to offer in the coming weeks, check out www.crankypats.com.
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There has been a small change of plan for Episode 17 of The Writer and the Critic. Ian and Kirstyn's special guest, Robert Shearman, has decided to wantonly abandon Perfume by Patrick Süskind as his book of choice for next month, and instead shack up with the newly released Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander.
Look, there's a cute little baby deer on the cover. Baby deer are called fawns. In animated films, the mothers of baby deer are often tragically killed, resulting in lifelong psychological scarring and abandonment issues for unsuspecting young audiences and baby deer alike.
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The iRobot® Roomba® 650 does the vacuuming for you. Roomba removes dirt, dust, and much more while automatically adjusting to clean carpets, hardwood, tile, and linoleum floors as it moves through your home. Roomba 650 has superior hair handling ability; the robot’s AeroVac Technology maximizes air flow, pulling debris off the brushes and into the back of the bin. The innovative composition of the robot’s longer-lasting brushes allows it to handle fibers such as hair more effectively, making maintnence quicker and easier than ever.
Using iAdapt Responsive Cleaning Technology, the robot thoroughly vacuums the entire floor, including hard-to-reach spots under furniture.
Roomba’s on-board-scheduling lets the robot clean when it’s most convenient for you, even when you’re not home and the included Virtual Wall® keeps Roomba confined to only the areas you want it.
This model includes a 12 month limited warranty for the robot and a 6 month limited warranty for the included battery.
Product Features 3-Stage Cleaning with AeroVac – Roomba 650 uses a powerful 3-stage cleaning system to pick up an amazing amount of dirt, pet hair, and other debris. A spinning side brush cleans along wall edges to loosen dirt and dust. Then, Roomba’s counter-rotating brushes act like a broom and dustpan to pull debris from the floor. Finally, the powerful AeroVac vacuum sucks the dirt, hair, and debris from the brushes into the back of the large-chamber bin.
Dirt Detect™ – Roomba uses acoustic sensors to locate dirt so Roomba can perform a concentrated cleaning on the areas of your home that need it most.
iAdapt Responsive Cleaning Technology – iAdapt is iRobot’s advanced system of software and sensors that allows Roomba to clean more of your room, more thoroughly. Roomba covers every section of your floor multiple times, cleaning areas you can’t easily reach including under furniture, around everyday obstacles, along walls and under cabinets. It automatically adjusts to different floor types and avoids stairs, drop-offs, and tangles from loose cords.
Virtual Wall – Included Virtual Wall keeps Roomba cleaning where you need it and blocks off-limit areas.
On-Board Scheduling – Roomba can be scheduled to perform up to seven cleaning sessions per week, even when you’re not home.
What’s In the Box? • 1 iRobot Roomba 650 Vacuum Cleaning Robot (with 1 Robot Battery, 1 AeroVac Filter, 1 Side Brush, 1 Bristle Brush, 1 Beater Brush)
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• 1 Brush Cleaning Tool
• Owner’s Guide & Documentation
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3-stage cleaning uses the spinning side brush, counter-rotating brushes, and AeroVac vacuum to thoroughly clean your floors
Roomba self-adjusts between floor types, providing an optimized cleaning for each surface.
Virtual Walls emit an infrared beam that blocks Roomba from entering off-limit areas
Roomba gets into hard-to-reach places including under and around furniture
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|Infrastructure - HKIA Passenger Throughput and Aircraft Movements Continue to Grow in April 2012|
Both passenger numbers and aircraft movements at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) registered significant year-on-year growth in April 2012, increasing by 7.8% and 4.8% respectively compared to the same month last year. In April this year,
HKIA handled 4.9 million passengers and 29,025 aircraft movements, including peak daily traffic exceeding 1,000 flights over the Easter holiday period. Cargo throughput, however, remained slow and was slightly down by 0.8% to 327,000 tonnes for the month.
Hong Kong residents were the main drivers behind the growth in passenger traffic with a 16% growth over April 2011 levels. Routes to and from Japan, South East Asia and the Chinese Mainland performed particularly well.
While exports grew by 2% in April, the decline in cargo volume was primarily due to a 5% year-on-year drop in imports together with a 3% decrease in transshipments. Cargo activity with South East Asia outperformed other key regions.
Commenting on the traffic performance, Stanley Hui Hon-chung, Chief Executive Officer of Airport Authority Hong Kong, said, "While we are pleased to see the continued growth in passenger volume and aircraft movements, air traffic performance in the coming months may be under pressure given the uncertain economic outlook. Despite the short-term uncertainty, we remain optimistic of the long-term growth and development of the airport."
In the first four months of the year, passenger traffic saw an annual increase of 8% to over 18.4 million people. Air traffic movements grew by 6.2% to 114,205 compared with same period last year. A total of 1.3 million tonnes of cargo was handled during the period, down 1.3% from the same period last year.
On a rolling 12-month basis, HKIA has served 55.3 million passengers and handled 340,440 aircraft movements, both increasing year on year by 6.6%. Cargo tonnage dropped 5.4% to 3.9 million tonnes over the same period.
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Christmas is celebrated on the 25 December (7 January for Orthodox Christians).
Christmas is a Christian holy day that marks the birth of Jesus who Christians believe to be the Son of God.
Advent is the period which leads up to Christmas. It starts on the Sunday nearest to November 30th.
Many Advent customs involve counting the days until Christmas begins.
Some churches have an advent wreath with five candles, one for each of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas Day and one for the day itself.
The full story of Jesus' birth and the events surrounding it can be found in the Bible in the book of Matthew, Chapters 1 and 2, with a slightly different account in Luke, Chapters 1 and 2.
These two gospels tell slightly different accounts because they each wrote for a different audience. Matthew wrote for the Jews, Luke wrote for the non-Jews (Gentiles), so they emphasized different things.
'Nativity' is the word often used for the story of Jesus' birth. Both gospel accounts are used to piece the story together. This is a summary of the nativity story:
- Jesus was born to a woman called Mary who was engaged to Joseph, a carpenter, in the town of Bethlehem.
- Before Jesus was born, Mary was visited by an angel who told her that she would give birth to a baby and that the baby would be called Jesus, also sometimes known as Emmanuel, which means 'God with us'
- Jesus was born in Bethlehem because Joseph and Mary had gone there to take part in a census as this was. Joseph's home town.
- According to tradition when Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem the local inn was already full with people returning for the census. The innkeeper let them stay in the rock cave below his house which was used as a stable for his animals. It was here, with the animals, that Mary gave birth to her son and laid him in a manger.
- Luke and Matthew both tell of visitors to the baby Jesus. In Matthew's account, wise men visit Jesus. They had followed a star that led them to Jesus and they presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. These were signs of kingship and holiness. Luke tells how humble and poor shepherds were led to Jesus by an angel. For Christians this shows that Jesus came for all people of all races and backgrounds.
- Matthew's account goes on to tell of Joseph being warned in a dream to escape to Egypt with Jesus and Mary as King Herod was going to be looking for the child to kill him. So during the night, they left Israel and started out on the journey to Egypt where they remained until after Herod's death.
How Christians celebrate Christmas
The story of Jesus' birth (the nativity) is often retold by children through 'Nativity Plays'
Church services often include carol singing - these are happy songs which tell the Christmas story.
Some Christians start Christmas Day with a midnight communion service (midnight mass).
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Each year, thousands of people with life-threatening diseases affecting bone marrow function, such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, aplastic anemia, and genetic and immune system disorders, are in need of a bone marrow (or stem cell) transplantation. In many cases, the bone marrow transplant represents a patient's only chance at survival and may even offer a cure. Learn how to register as a bone marrow donor.
Wish fulfillment organizations offer children and adults with a chronic or advanced condition, such as cancer, the chance to take a break from the challenging experience by allowing them to have their wishes and dreams come true. Such dreams—big or small—may include taking a family vacation, attending an event, purchasing a desired item, or meeting someone special. Whatever the wish, wish fulfillment organizations aim to help people with advanced illness enrich the quality of their lives and create meaningful memories.
An illness such as cancer can be one of the most stressful events a person experiences. The stress of cancer and its treatment may be increased by other cancer-related stresses such as family, work, and financial concerns, as well as everyday stress that was present before the cancer diagnosis.
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ASCO member Evan J. Lipson, MD, launched a website that offers people with cancer and their families an opportunity to record and preserve audio interviews as a way to share their personal stories with others. Here, Cancer.Net talks with Dr. Lipson to learn more about why he created this website, SeizetheDays.org.
Many young adults who have a parent with cancer feel torn between their focus on establishing themselves in the world and their duty and desire to help a parent who is facing a serious illness. While caregiving can be a rewarding way to reconnect with parents, it can also change a phase of life that is typically marked by exploration and freedom.
A person with cancer may have more than one option for treating the disease, and it may be difficult to choose among them. In making this choice, patients often ask for the opinions of family members. And, in some cases, family members may disagree with each other and with the patient, creating conflict when they need each other’s support the most. This is particularly complex when the patient is a child or an adult who is medically unable to make decisions. This article provides suggestions on how to keep the lines of communication open and work together to make treatment choices.
If you are parenting young children while caring for a parent with cancer, you know firsthand the practical and emotional challenges. Here are a few tips to help you juggle your responsibilities and reduce your risk of burnout.
Cancer is the leading cause of death for adolescents and young adults age 15 to 39. An estimated 70,000 people in this age group are expected to be diagnosed with cancer in the United States each year. And, while much progress has been made in the fields of cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, survival rates in 17 of the 23 types of cancers in older adolescents and young adults have not improved since 1990 and, in most of these, since 1975.
To improve cancer care for people in this often-overlooked age group, LIVESTRONG and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) have partnered to launch Focus Under Forty. It is an education curriculum for doctors, designed to build awareness and provide training to address the challenges in treating older adolescent and young adult patients with cancer.
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There are fewer better complements to a Canadian summer evening than sitting on the front porch absorbing the mournful Catholicism of a Graham Greene novel.
Did I say complement? Perhaps I meant antidote. For if the embarrassing neediness of the Canadian need for summer evenings ever needed anything, it is Greene’s lugubrious fidelity to the torments of Christian joy.
How many fewer illusory expectations would we have as a country, after all, if we made a national habit of reminding ourselves of the character Scobie’s wise observation in The Heart of the Matter that Heaven must remain “rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death”? How much more maturely would we accept the inevitable failures of those expectations if we kept in mind Maurice Bendrix’s axioms in The End of the Affair that “happiness annihilates us; we lose our identity” and “as long as one suffers, one lives.”
As Canadians, our identity is as a winter people. Even as urbanites, we accept the painful limitations of our natural snow-bound state. To paraphrase William Faulkner’s triumphantly morose description of the black matriarch Dilsey: We endure. Or at least we do until we feel summer peeking over the roof top; or we move to Vancouver, in which case we become a giddy, happy-clappy, sun-burned simulacrum of our amusement-obsessed cousins to the south.
There is nothing entirely wrong with a touch of across-the-fence emulation once in a while. We are not condemned by geography and climate to be entirely serious. We need not all be Norwegians (as I am). But absent spiritual reminders of the sort that spill from the pages of Greene’s great novels, prolonged fantasy becomes desperate falsehood and, worse, bifurcation. We forget who we are without any hope of becoming the other. Outcomes range from the cartoonish to outright delusions disguised as charades.
An example of the latter, I am very sorry to have to report, is found in the subject matter of the blog my long-time colleague and good friend Peter Menzies’ posted yesterday. As a deeply rooted and proud Calgarian, Mr. Menzies feels an annual compulsion to promote the mythology that the Calgary Stampede is a wondrous, home grown occasion for good old summer fun.
Of course it is nothing of the sort. It is the epitome of what historian Eric Hobsbawm called invented tradition. It was transplanted into the northern soil of southern Alberta by an American huckster high on the fumes of pulp fiction portrayals of a Wild West that had died before he was born. Indeed, Guy Weadick was chased out of Calgary by horrified frontier aristocrats determined to save their budding metropolis from ignominious identification with the retrograde fantasy that the Stampede’s promoter was peddling.
Their instincts for self-preservation were sane. The truth of the Stampede that contemporary Calgarians will admit only among themselves is that it is the best time of year to be out of town, if only to avoid the totalitarian ethos of enforced hilarity that takes over the entire burgh for 10 long days in July. The civic mood arising from Stampede is a cross between an over eager cruise ship social director handing out hallucinogenic drugs to increase the giggle factor, and practical joking during the forced death march to Bataan.
It is not just that grown men willingly appear in public wearing abysmal cowboy drag, or that everyone from accountants to school secretaries temporarily adopts a gratingly affected and wholly inexplicable Texas inflection in their speech. Nor is it that the perpetuation of Stampede is a leading factor in preventing Calgary from ever achieving the urban sophistication of, well, Montreal. No. What makes it so appalling is its neediness to indulge to wretched excess because of the manic compulsion to have so-called summer fun.
Don’t misunderstand. I love Calgary. I spent many happy years living there, and it will always be a town remembered fondly. I cite the Stampede not because it is unique but because it makes the perfect general argument for the sobering benefits to be had spending a summer evening on the front porch with a novel’s worth of Graham Greene’s mater dolorosa dourness.
Imagine even thinking of going outside sporting a cock-a-doodle cowboy hat after reading this early passage from The End of the Affair:
I realized I had (taken) the wrong umbrella for it sprang a leak and the rain ran down my macintosh collar and then I saw it was Henry . . . he had no umbrella and in the light of the lamp I could see his eyes were blinded with the rain. The black, leafless trees gave no protection: they stood around like broken water pipes and the rain dripped off his stiff dark hat and ran in streams down his black civil servant’s overcoat.
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The funniest thing I saw in Ottawa last week wasn’t on screen, in a theatre or even cartoons. They were the festival posters plastered on buses, mounted on walls and bannered all over intersections in downtown Ottawa.
HBS Marketing created this clever print ad campaign for the Ottawa International Animation Festival — which perfectly sums up my own philosophy of life. Click on images below and above to view at full size.
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President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Mark Emmert told CBS Sports Monday that the NCAA would have launched its own investigation into Penn State if former Director of the FBI Louis Freeh’s investigative report had not been made available.
Emmert told CBS that the investigation would not have waited for the conclusion of legal proceedings in relation to the case, and that the hypothetical investigation would have taken a year.
Freeh and his investigators were hired by the Penn State Board of Trustees in November to conduct an investigation into university officials’ handling of reports that former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was abusing boys.
Based on the findings of Freeh’s report, the NCAA handed down “unprecedented” sanctions to the university, including a $60 million fine and a four-year ban on bowl games.
The John Curley Center for Sports Journalism will bring a number of panelists to State College to examine the NCAA and its recent actions in a session titled “The Future of the NCAA and Its Membership” on Oct. 3. The session will be held at 7 p.m. at The State Theatre.
The discussion will surround the most recent actions that the NCAA has taken, including the sanctions levied against Penn State by the NCAA on July 23.
According to CBS, Emmert also said he never again plans to use the authority he used in the case regarding Penn State.
Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society and director of the Curley Center Malcolm Moran will moderate the panel’s discussion.
“We wanted to find the best possible way to advance conversations about what has happened [at Penn State] and what the implications are,” Moran said.
Moran said that the members of the panel have all had extensive experience — whether they were a part of the NCAA decision-making process, or covered the events as they unveiled.
“Everybody on the panel brings a specific expertise to the commission of the NCAA and the politics and everything about how it works,” Moran said.
Moran said he is really confident that the panel will have an interesting discussion.
In order to advance the conversation, Moran said focus needs to be placed on the big picture, or national significance in regard to what has happened at Penn State.
“We in this community have looked at things a certain way because we live in this community[…]this panel will look at the implications of the sanctions in a national sense,” he said.
Moran said this viewpoint is particularly valuable because the panel can look at what is being discussed nationally.
Executive Director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Amy Perko said her role is to promote national policies and practices to ensure that intercollegiate athletics are operating within the academic mission of the universities they are a part of. There are a number of policies that her organization is trying to advance, she said.
“We see the current environment that there is a sense of urgency on the part of national leaders to try to improve the outcomes as well as the integrity of intercollegiate athletics,” she said, adding the current environment is “ready for change.”
She said the Penn State case is not the only situation that showcases the need for change.
“What happened to Penn State is one of a number of situations that have occurred over the past two years that have presented challenges for college sports,” she said.
She said intercollegiate athletics are an environment that is ready for change, citing that there have been more “significant challenges” over the past two years than in the past two decades.
She said that meaningful dialogue that advances the conversation about ideas about change is important.
This type of discussion coincides with the purpose of the Curley Center.
Moran said part of the mission of the Curley Center is to provide leadership and discussions about relevant events that have to do with sports and journalism.
“In addition to providing classes and programs for students in the sports journalism program, the idea always was to have topical discussions as often as possible throughout the school year,” John Curley, visiting professor and founding co-director of the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism wrote in an email. | <urn:uuid:18eb893f-6b37-46a0-8608-029c613915c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/09/25/NCAA_Panel.aspx | 2013-06-18T04:40:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972178 | 877 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
7:30 pm, Sunday, December 9, 2012 -- Associated Press
Bryce Scott hit a 3-pointer with 3 seconds remaining to give Lafayette a 72-70 victory over Sacred Heart in a nonconference game Sunday.
The Leopards (4-8), who led 34-31 at halftime, overcame a brilliant second half by Shane Gibson of the Pioneers (2-6), who scored 25 points...
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It teaches music reading, all music fundamentals and finger techniques for learning to play the piano.
Each of the 6 course books and their CD's are divided into 20 weekly lessons.
The beginning book and its two accompanying CD's (Preparatory Level) are $29. That's less than $1.50 for each lesson. If you use the same book and CD's again for a second child, it's basically free for the second child.
The Course goes step by step through the music fundamentals. The degree of difficulty in each course level corresponds closely to the same level in other recognized piano courses. The Lesson Plans provide hints to parents on how to encourage practice and how to assess progress.
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Quays is out of the ground
27 Mar 2012
MAB Corporation has started building The Quays, its new 617-apartment, twin-tower development on the corner of Docklands Drive and Harbour Esplanade.
MAB has again teamed up with builder Brookfield Multiplex and plans to complete the building late next year.
MAB chief operating officer David Hall believes The Quays will become an iconic address largely because of the lifestyle and social facilities it offers residents.
The ground floor features a health club and swimming pool, while residents will have their own club featuring a library, business centre, private dining room and cinema.
The podium will be crowned with an expansive roof-top garden adjacent to a tennis court, club house and barbecue facilities.
Mr Hall said more than 70 per cent of apartments had been sold.
“Buyers are attracted to the waterfront location and striking architecture on offer,” Mr Hall said.
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Writer/Director Courtney Hunt (Frozen River) at work on next movie, for Focus Features
Posted May 17, 2010
WAM Films’ Stephanie Danan and Alain Chabat producing
CANNES, May 15, 2010 – Academy Award-nominated writer/director Courtney Hunt (Frozen River) is planning her next movie at Focus Features. The untitled project, to be produced by Wam Films’ Stephanie Danan and Alain Chabat, is based on the 1999 French-language feature film Ressources humaines (Human Resources) directed by Laurent Cantet and written by Mr. Cantet with Gilles Marchand. Worldwide rights to the new film will be held by Focus. The announcement was made today by Focus CEO James Schamus.
Ms. Hunt is already at work scripting the adaptation, to be set in contemporary America while following the original feature’s template. The drama will chart the professional and personal interactions between a new arrival at a factory, charged with making personnel changes, and the working-class people there with whom the recent business school graduate has had a long history – one which is unlikely to circumvent the current economic realities. With cuts to be made, can any choice be the right choice?
Focus senior vice president, production Kahli Small is supervising the project with Focus director of production development Samantha Taylor Pickett for Focus president of production John Lyons.
Mr. Schamus said, “In Frozen River, Courtney Hunt, with extraordinary empathy and skill, depicted the lives of real Americans rarely shown in Hollywood movies – all the while keeping audiences riveted. We’re proud to join her on her latest project, and we’re pleased to be collaborating with our longtime friends at Wam Films.”
Ms. Hunt’s 2008 feature debut as writer/director, Frozen River, earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won the Best Film prize from the Gotham Awards; the film’s star Melissa Leo received Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actress, among other honors.
Ms. Danan and Mr. Chabat are producing partners in the Los Angeles-based Wam Films, a subsidiary of Mr. Chabat’s France-based production company Chez Wam, which produced Focus’ current release Babies. Wam Films is in post-production on A Thousand Words, starring Eddie Murphy for director Brian Robbins.
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New City, New York Personal Injury Lawyers
Neimark & Neimark LLPThe Neimark Building
37 Congers Road
New City, New York 10956
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Law Firm Overview FREE CONSULTATIONAt Neimark & Neimark LLP in New City, New York, our personal injury attorneys handle a wide range of injury claims including slip and fall, products liability, construction accidents, medical malpractice, and more.
At Neimark & Neimark LLP has helped people since 1976 in New York get medical treatment and financial support when they have been injured by the negligent behavior or wrongdoing of others. Our New York personal injury lawyers zealously advocate on your behalf with a focus on your overall well-being. We support your return to health by insisting on the responsible party’s accountability through the civil justice system.
Each New York personal injury lawyer at our office is knowledgeable about the facts and circumstances of each and every case the firm is handling. We work together to make sure that no stone is left upturned and you get justice. We are familiar with all types of injuries and we know how to achieve the maximum possible recovery through settlement or trial. Our forward-thinking, practical approach has allowed us to recover tens of millions of dollars for our clients.
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Areas of Law Description
Neimark & Neimark LLP serves clients in the following areas of practice:
- Personal Injury
Any type of bodily injury can cause major disruption in your life. Even injuries that may appear minor can lead to missed work, multiple surgeries and thousands of dollars in medical bills. You may be entitled to damages if your injuries were caused by the negligence or wrongful act of another person.
- Dog and Animal Bites
New York dog bite law is complicated. If the dog has never bitten anyone else before, the owner may only be liable for medical and veterinary costs. To win additional damages, you need representation from an experienced New York dog bite lawyer. The attorneys at Neimark & Neimark have a thorough understanding of dog bite litigation and we know how to help you get properly compensated for your animal attack injuries.
- School Accidents
When you send your children to school, you expect that their safety will be guaranteed. But school injuries are common, and are often due to negligence in staff supervision or inadequate maintenance of school facilities. Whatever the reason for your child’s school accident, our attorneys at Neimark & Neimark help you get appropriate compensation.
- Work Accidents
State law provides benefits to workers who are injured in the course of performing their jobs. But receiving the amount of compensation you require can be challenging. At Neimark & Neimark, we understand how the New York workers’ compensation system works and we know how to guide your claim to a successful settlement.
- Camp Accidents
Summer camp is a fond memory for many people, and passing on the annual tradition can be rewarding for both you and your child. But injuries are common at camp, and a beautiful summer experience can be ruined when your child is the victim of a preventable accident. The attorneys at Neimark & Neimark help you get compensation for summer camp injuries, helping your child recover physically and emotionally.
- Train Accidents
New York railroad accidents caused more than a thousand injuries in 2010. Your train injury case is handled very differently depended on whether you were a worker, passenger, pedestrian or automobile driver. The attorneys at Neimark & Neimark have a thorough understanding of railroad law and know how to help you get compensation for the injuries you received in a train accident.
- Municipal Liability
Municipal governments are responsible for maintaining safe conditions in the public environment. While you have up to three years to pursue most ordinary injury lawsuits in New York, you have only 90 days to file an injury claim with a municipality. Our attorneys can determine whether you have a valid municipal liability case, and we act swiftly to make your claim for damages.
- Auto Accidents
Neimark & Neimark takes great pride in providing comprehensive assistance every step of the way in auto accident lawsuits. A New York auto accident attorney from our law firm can help you recover compensation for damaged property, medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and more.
- Slip and Fall
Neimark & Neimark's New York slip and fall attorneys can protect your interests if you have sustained an injury after slipping on someone else's property. Our team takes slip and fall accidents very seriously and works with you to ensure you receive the medical care and financial compensation you need to fully recover from your accident.
- Construction Accidents
Construction sites are very dangerous and have a high frequency of accidents. Most often it is the workers who are injured, though pedestrians may also be hurt by falling objects. Whether you are a construction worker or a passerby, the owners and contractors of a construction project may be liable for your injuries.
- Trip and Fall
Trip and fall accidents can be extremely dangerous for those who unexpectedly catch their feet on uneven surfaces.
If you tripped and were injured as a result of your fall, you may be able to receive compensation for lost wages, pain and suffering, medical bills and other losses.
- Medical Malpractice
The lawyers of Neimark & Neimark hold healthcare providers accountable when they fail to meet acceptable standards of care in their industry and consequently cause you harm. We believe that healthcare providers must be held responsible for breaches in care that greatly damage the health of patients who trust and depend on their ability to perform their jobs well.
- Products Liability
When you purchase a consumer product, you have the right to expect that you will not be harmed by using it. However, thousands of people are injured in the United States each year by dangerous or defective products. The attorneys at Neimark & Neimark have an in-depth understanding of New York product liability law, and we know how to help you get compensated for your injuries caused by an unsafe product.
- Birth Injury
Tragically, birth injuries account for a large percentage of medical malpractice cases in New York and throughout the country. Because of the delicate nature of delivery, doctors and nurses need to be acting at maximum competency when delivering a child. Unfortunately, that is not always the case and sometimes children are injured as a result.
- Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy and other birth injuries are often preventable but sometimes occur as a result of medical errors. When a physician’s negligence causes birth injury, the result can be devastating for families. By consulting experienced malpractice lawyers at Neimark & Neimark, you can find out about the prospects of pursuing a medical malpractice lawsuit to recover compensation.
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Accident, Personal Injury
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Mumbai, July 17 (IANS) Actor Aman Verma, best known for his cameos in movies like "Baghban" and "Baabul", says that he opts for roles with many shades.The 40-year-old will be next seen in "Haare Ka Sahara", a family drama based on social issues and says that his character goes throug various phases."... I am the only character who starts from being good, turns into grey, finally beocmes completely black only to realise his falling and then he comes back to being white (good) again. There are a range of emotions. The change in the character appealed to me," Aman told IANS.The film's star cast also includes Ashmit PateL, Sara Khan and Shakti Kapoor.Talking about the story, he says that "the film shows a story about how a family breaks up when an outsider enters it"."It's not a very tough role. It is the story of any family which could be based in Delhi or Mumbai. I didn't have to do anything much," he added.A known name in Indian television industry, he did significant roles in "Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi", "Sujata" and "Viraasat".Off late he made an appearance in "Na Aana Is Des Laado" and played a negative character called Bhanu Pratap.
According to a source, real cops have come to the actor and complimented him about his character
Sushant Singh Rajput and Parineeti Chopra come together in YRF's next - the quirky titled 'Shuddh Desi Romance'
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Flags protest ‘miss the point’ - McCann
SOCIALIST activist Eamonn McCann led a demonstration with regard to the ongoing loyalist flag protests at 5pm last Friday afternoon at the city’s Peace Bridge.
Asked for his opinion on the current situation, Mr McCann told the Sentinel: “We are here to let people take a stand against what is happening with the so-called flag protests.
“It is simply not enough to say that these people are Neanderthals or sectarian. I think the flag protests represent something-they represent an anger and discontent amongst people, that if you like, represent the bottom half of the Protestant community. The point we are making here is that, not that the people in the streets have no reason to feel alienation and anger but that this is the wrong way to go about it and it is addressing the wrong problem.
“The truth of the matter is that they are talking about being left behind, about poverty, about employment about poor educational opportunities-but all those things are happening in the Catholic community as well. And, there is no solution to these problems in one community that would not be a solution also in the other community.
“In other words if people say we want our grievances remedied, they are overdue, this makes no sense. Take for example cuts in benefit, which will affect an awful lot of the people out with Union flags, they are clearly working class, decent people. Indeed some of them have been interviewed on TV and are people who are being treated very badly by society.
“If you talk about benefit cuts, cuts in services, talk about lack of educational opportunities, does anybody seriously imagine that you can get a package of measures that can alleviate those things in the Protestant community alone. Nobody can seriously believe that. So, my argument would be that there is not any reason to protest, but that it is counter-productive for people to go out with flags representing one community and say, we are suffering and we want it solved. It is completely missing the point about society in Northern Ireland.”
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When: Now through October 31st, 2009
Where: Lowe Chiropractic & Wellness 10306 Shelbyville Rd
What: Examination and X-rays (if needed) for only $49 (normally $338.oo)
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Offer valid for new patients only, may not be applied to any existing balance. A no risk offer, because… you have the right to rescind within 72 hours any obligation to pay for services rendered the same day in addition to free or discounted services.
Dr. Patrick Lowe is a Louisville Chiropractor at Lowe Chiropractic & Wellness. Their office serves Middletown KY, Anchorage KY, Crestwood KY, PeWee Valley KY and Louisville’s East End. Dr. Lowe and his team treat people with bulging or herniated discs, degenerative disc disease, sciatica, and neck pain. Lowe Chiropractic offers Non-surgical spinal decompression. www.lowechiro.com
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1 means it rarely happens or is very very mild
10 means it is Severe or Constant
___My hands feel like I am wearing invisible gloves on them or my feet feel like I am wearing invisible socks on them.
___I feel like someone is stabbing me with a thousand pins or needles.
___I am sensitive to being touched, causing sensations of burning, freezing or electric shocks.
___I am tormented by numbness, tingling or loss of feeling in my arms, hands or legs
___My hands go weak, I drop things.
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12-29-2003, 11:02 PM
Well heres my camera its well worth my 340 buxs..........:cool: :cool:
12-29-2003, 11:03 PM
12-29-2003, 11:04 PM
3 and the last one !
tommorou if i dont have anything to do im ganna go out and shoot some pics of t.dot if i get a chance !
12-29-2003, 11:05 PM
What Do u Guys Think ??
12-30-2003, 12:58 AM
you need to change your light setting
unless you have yellow indoor lights, that is too much yellow
i have the same camera as you but mine is 2.0mp
12-30-2003, 01:00 AM
my light bulbs arent clear they got that white stuff on it
or that or that they arent strong enought !
12-30-2003, 08:34 PM
The 1st and 2nd shot are out of focus or they have motion blur... Try setting your white balancing so you wont get the yelllowish mood as much
12-30-2003, 11:13 PM
that is the word
i'll post pics of my gt3-r in a sec
12-31-2003, 12:01 AM
i fixed the whitening problem look at it now !
ill make a new thread with my porsche gt1 pics ! :cool:
12-31-2003, 03:31 AM
well heres my adjustments what do u think ! :cool:
12-31-2003, 04:20 AM
looks a lot better
my pics didn't have enough light
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Actually, not to be picky, but borax is not sodium bi-carbonate, that's baking soda. Borax is sodium borate (not that I knew that off hand
I'd say try it, nothing to lose really. They're both fairly common laundry additives so it's not a crazy idea... I don't know that they both work the same way (I have a feeling washing soda would be more effective) but it's worth a try.
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Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa had a sharp message Friday for the world's political leaders: Get ready for more dangerous and "unprecedented extreme weather" caused by global warming.
Making preparations, they say, will save lives and money.
These experts fear that without preparedness, crazy weather extremes may overwhelm some locations, making some places unlivable.
The Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new special report on global warming and extreme weather after meeting in Kampala, Uganda. This is the first time the group of scientists has focused on the dangers of extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, droughts and storms. Those are more dangerous than gradual increases in the world's average temperature.
"We need to be worried," said one of the study's lead authors, Maarten van Aalst, director of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre in the Netherlands. "And our response needs to anticipate disasters and reduce risk before they happen rather than wait until after they happen and clean up afterward. ... Risk has already increased dramatically."
The report said "a changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of extreme weather and climate events, and can result in unprecedented extreme weather and climate events." And it said that some — but not all — of these extreme events are caused by the increase of man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
"We face many challenges in the future," another study lead author, Chris Field of Stanford University, said in a news conference. Those include floods, drought, storms, and heat waves. Field said scientists aren't quite sure which will be the biggest threat to the world because disasters are weather extremes interacting with economics and where people live. Society's vulnerability to natural disasters, aside from climate, has also increased, he said.
Field told The Associated Press in an interview that "it's clear that losses from disasters are increasing. And in terms of deaths, "more than 95 percent of fatalities from the 1970s to the present have been in developing countries," he said.
Losses are already high, running at as much as $200 billion a year, said Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University, a study author.
"Global warming is increasing the risk of disaster and already makes dealing with several types of disaster, like heat waves, more difficult. The risk will become greater as the future gets hotter," he said.
Science has progressed so much in the last several years that scientists can now attribute the increase in many of these types of extreme weather events to global warming with increased confidence, said study author Thomas Stocker at the University of Bern.
Scientists were able to weigh their confidence of predictions of future climate disasters and heat waves were the most obvious. The report said it is "virtually certain" that heat waves are getting worse, longer and hotter, while cold spells are easing.
What that means is the nasty heat wave that used to happen once every 20 years by mid-century will be once every five years and by the end of the century will be an every other year scorcher, Field and Stocker said.
The report said there is at least a two-in-three chance that heavy downpours will increase, both in the tropics and northern regions, and from tropical cyclones.
The 29-page summary of the full special report — which will be completed in the coming months — says that extremes in some unnamed regions at some point in the future can get so bad that they may need to be abandoned.
Unless the world changes the way it deals with vulnerability disasters and climate change, "there's going to be an increasing number of places where dealing with these disasters is going to be more and more difficult," van Aalst said in a telephone interview. And in those cases, sometimes the most sensible option, he said, "may be to leave those places."
Such locations are likely to be in poorer countries, he said, but the middle class may be affected in those regions, which aren't specifically identified in the report. And even in some developed northern regions of the world, such as Canada, Russia and Greenland, cities might need to move because of weather extremes and sea level rise from man-made warming, van Aalst said. In places like van Aalst's native Netherlands, citizens will have to learn how to handle new weather problems, in this case heat waves.
Scientists emphasized that governments have to be more prepared.
"Governments are not doing a good job now protecting us from disaster in the current climate," Oppenheimer said.
And it's not just the big headline grabbing disasters like a Hurricane Katrina or the massive 2010 Russian heat wave that studies show were unlikely to happen without global warming. At the Red Cross/Red Crescent they are seeing "a particular pattern of rising risks" from smaller events, van Aalst said.
Of all the weather extremes that kill and cause massive damage, he said, the worst is flooding.
There's an ongoing debate in the climate science community about whether it is possible and fair to attribute individual climate disasters to manmade global warming. Usually meteorologists say it's impossible to link climate change to a specific storm or drought, but that such extremes are more likely in a future dominated by global warming.
The panel was formed by the United Nations and World Meteorological Organization. In the past, it has discussed extreme events in snippets in its report. But this time, the scientists are putting them all together.
The next major IPCC report isn't expected until the group meets in Stockholm in 2013.
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Balloon shops are full of hot air over the limited availability of helium — or at least, they'll have to be if they want to keep supplying their customers with the air-filled decorations.
Jeanne Campbell, owner of Party Novelties, said suppliers have been warning her for years that the commodity is becoming a limited one.
“This is the crunch, I think” the shop owner said.
She recently received an email from her gas suppliers, stating she would only be able to get a certain amount on a monthly basis.
The number was calculated based on her average annual usage. Campbell said she is lucky to be getting even that; Others are being completely cut off. While it's better than nothing, it will still be a challenge for her to get by on what she is now being supplied with, especially during the busy summer months.
“If I run out before the end of the month, I don't get more,” she said.
So far, the helium shortage hasn't effected how she does business.
“The cost of helium keeps increasing,” she said. “I haven't passed it on to the consumer yet.”
Campbell said she's hoping it doesn't come to that point.
“Hopefully someone can figure out something else that floats,” she said. “Helium is a big part of decorating. What's a party without balloons?”
Luckily, there are alternatives. Campbell said it is possible to make elaborate arrangements with air-filled balloons — something she called “doable,” but a lot more work.
While there are ways to work around the decorating dilemma, the global helium shortage does present other problems.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the biggest user of helium. The gas is used to cool the superconducting magnets on MRI machines, according to chemicool.com.
This could become problematic in other cities, but according to Health Science North spokesperson Dan Lessard, it's not a concern locally.
“No issues here,” he stated.
François Caron, a Laurentian University chemistry professor, said there is really no need to worry about the shortage yet.
“The reserves around the world are fairly large,” he said.
According to media reports, the world's largest stores of the non-renewable resource are kept in Amarillo, Texas, at the US National Helium Reserve.
“The experts warn that the world could run out of helium within 25 to 30 years, potentially spelling disaster for hospitals, whose MRI scanners are cooled by the gas in liquid form, and anti-terrorist authorities who rely on helium for their radiation monitors, as well as the millions of children who love to watch their helium-filled balloons float into the sky,” the indepdent.co.uk story stated.
Campbell said her suppliers are suspecting the limited quantities of helium will be effective until at least September. Hospitals will continue to get priority until then, “rightfully so,” she said.
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NTSB Identification: FTW93LA004.
The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 47162.
Accident occurred Friday, October 02, 1992 in HUGHES, AR
Probable Cause Approval Date: 06/30/1993
Aircraft: CESSNA 150F, registration: N8119F
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators may not have traveled in support of this investigation and used data provided by various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
DURING A LOCAL AREA FLIGHT THE ENGINE BEGAN TO RUN ROUGH, SO THE PILOT ELECTED TO EXECUTE A PRECAUTIONARY TO A FARM ROAD. DURING THE LANDING ROLL THE AIRPLANE VEERED OFF THE ROAD AND ENTERED A FRESHLY PLOWED FIELD. THE NOSE GEAR SANK INTO THE SOFT EARTH AND THE AIRPLANE NOSED OVER TO THE INVERTED POSITION.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: THE LOSS OF CONTROL DURING THE LANDING ROLL. A FACTOR WAS THE PARTIAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER.
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KiwiSaver providers need to improve their members' understanding of the savings scheme before the Government auto-enrolls workers into it, says a financial literacy expert.
Adult literacy and numeracy training service Workbase said many people lack the knowledge they need to make informed choices about KiwiSaver providers and are faced with complex investment terms and concepts. "It's probably why people end up [staying] with default providers," said Workbase chief executive Katherine Percy.
Percy said default KiwiSaver providers had a "moral obligation" to ensure the public has the right information when making decisions.
"New Zealanders are being popped into those schemes and they need to have information about them ... there are many things [providers] could do to try to build customers' and potential customers' understanding rather than assuming everyone has a high level of knowledge about investing," Percy said.
As well as providers playing their part, Percy said workers themselves should also try to improve their understanding of the savings scheme.
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$212k for Michael Jackson's 'Holy Grail' glove
Worn for the TV unveiling of his iconic Moonwalk dance in 1983, it sold to a Hong Kong buyer
The "Holy Grail" of Michael Jackson memorabilia has sold in Hong Kong for $212,000, along with 80 other lots of the singer's memorabilia.
Jackson's most famous white glove, studded with rhinestones, was worn by the singer when he first unveiled his famous Moonwalk onstage in 1983.
The glove smashed its pre-sale estimate of $30,000 and was won by Hoffman Ma, 36, a Hong Kong businessman.
"It's the Holy Grail of Michael Jackson gear," said auctioneer Darren Julien of Julien's Auctions to the UK's Mirror newspaper.
The glove is completely different from others Jackson wore during the same period - a cream leather, off-the-rack golf glove with an interior label reading "Made In Korea". Uniquely, the glove is left-handed.
According to Jackson's 1988 biography Moonwalk, he hadn't time to prepare a proper dance routine for his appearance on the TV special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, taped on March 25, 1983.
Instead, Jackson quickly prepared a routine for his performance of hit single Billie Jean in his kitchen the night before in a last-minute burst of late night inspiration.
Jackson's moves included running a comb through his hair with his right hand; which is likely why this glove is left-handed unlike the other studded gloves he had worn over the previous decade.
The Motown 25 appearance also marked the TV debut of his iconic Moonwalk dance.
Also at Julien's, a strap and zipper laden black jacket worn by Jackson during his 1989 Bad world tour brought £135,000, over 20 times its estimate.
Other lots in the sale included handwritten lyrics, signed sketches by the singer, stage costumes and a set of fangs prop from Jackson's legendary Thriller video.
They were mostly snapped up by buyers from Japan and Hong Kong, according to the Mirror.
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The Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa, from Routledge, is the first to address inward investment in land and its impact on water resources in Africa, where the amount of under-utilized land has attracted the attention of risk-taking investors. The successful implementation of investment strategies in African agriculture could determine the future of more than one billion people at risk from climate change, population growth and food insecurity.
Edited by Tony Allan, Professor Emeritus, King's College London and SOAS; Martin Keulertz, PhD researcher at King's College London; Suvi Sojamo, PhD researcher at Aalto University and Jeroen Warner, Assistant Professor, Wageningen University – the handbook offers a holistic analysis of land and water grabbing as well as addressing several major themes including politics, economics, environment and the history of land investments.
A diverse range of essays have been assembled:
Chinese engagement in African agriculture: fiction and fact - Deborah Bräutigam
The political economy of land and water grabs - David Zetland and Jennifer Möller-Gulland
Green and blue water dimensions of forign direct investment in biofuel and food production in West Africa - Fred Kizito, Timothy O. Williams, Matthew McCartney and Teklu Erkossa
Claiming (back) the land: the geopolitics of Egyptian and South African land and water grabs -Jeroen Warner, Antoinette Sebastian and Vanessa Empinotti.
Foreign direct investment and food and water security
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights issues related to inward investment in land but...
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Abstract art is genius.
You say that life is boring without war?
I state fact, truth, and progress.
Free thought will challenge your bias.
You say balance means war and peace?
I say peace and progress, with a side of reason equals life.
These ideas are involuntary.
For imagine a history without oppression.
Without tyranny, massacres, and Hitler’s
Today, we would all be like Hawking!
These ideas are abstract.
Its genius, but futuristic
Therefore, I’m left behind.
It has been nearly three months since a forgetless memory.
But time resembles only yesterday.
Am I Faulkner’s heir, you ask?
No. Only a gumdrop angel who wants to be found.
My focus wanes, but I shall continue.
You say your benefits are earned through blood.
I agree. But ponder over sights you’ve dreamed of seeing without sorrow.
And imagine the beauty.
Too soon? I have assumed.
Because I’m left behind.
Left behind! Left behind!
The answer is the lover within the Rhine.
I have spoken to soon, but you know it’s true.
What’s mine is yours and yours is mine.
You deny, so I am left behind.
Robert Alexander Deason Peace
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Winter is already creeping up on us this year and we thought we'd take a look at what can be expected for the next couple of months. As has been reported in recent months, La Nina is stregthening and the Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a warmer and drier winter for the southeast United States. “La Niña is in place and will strengthen and persist through the winter months, giving us a better understanding of what to expect between December and February,” said Mike Halpert, deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center.
La Niña is associated with cooler than normal water temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, unlike El Niño which is associated with warmer than normal water temperatures. Both of these climate phenomena, which typically occur every 2-5 years, influence weather patterns throughout the world and often lead to extreme weather events. Last winter’s El Niño contributed to record-breaking rain and snowfall leading to severe flooding in some parts of the country, with record heat and drought in other parts of the country. Although La Niña is the opposite of El Niño, it also has the potential to bring weather extremes to parts of the nation. | <urn:uuid:44e242ee-a587-4988-886c-a01f8746730a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=winter2010lanina | 2013-06-18T05:39:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963039 | 235 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT ST LUCIE, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Findings. The City Council does hereby find: (a) Based upon the data and analysis presented to and considered by the City Council, the following conditions exist within the Area: 1. Aggregate assessed values of real property in the area for ad valorem tax purposes have failed to show any appreciable increase over the 5 years prior of the finding of such conditions; 2. Deteriation of site or other improvements; and 3. Inadequate and outdated building density patterns.
(b) The notices required by Section 163.346 Florida Statutes have been timely published or mailed in accordance with said statute. (c) Action must be taken immediately to prevent further blight and deterioration and to protect and enhance public expenditures previously made in the Area.
(d) The Area could, through the means provided in the Community Redevelopment Act, be revitalized adn redeveloped in a manner that will vastly improve the economic and social conditions of the community.
(e) The preservation or enhancement of the tax base from which a taxing authority realizes tax revenues is essential to its existence and financial health; that the preservation and enhancement of such tax base is implicit in the purpose for which a taxing authority is established; that tax increment financing is an effective method of achieving such preservation and enhancement in areas in which such tax base is declining; that community redevelopment in such areas, when complete, will enhance such tax base and provide increased tax revenues to all affected taxing authorities, increasing their ability to accomplish their other respective purposes; and that the preservation and enhancement of the tax base in such areas through tax increment financing and the levying of taxes by such taxing authorities therefore and the appropriation of funds to a redevelopment trust fund bears a substantial relation to the purpose of such taxing authorities and is for their respective purpose and concerns.
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Even Defense Spending Can be Cut
With the fight over sequestration continuing and both parties navigating the legislative waters of trying to overturn various parts of the Budget Control Act, the coming “cuts” to the growth of spending at the Department of Defense (DoD) have come increasingly under close examination by Members of Congress, especially Republicans. While every department in the federal government should be taking at least a haircut (and others should be eliminated entirely), the DoD is a unique department for two reasons: first, many Republican politicians simply see defense spending as untouchable, something grassroots conservatives often disagree with. The second reason defense spending is unique is that military defense of the country is actually a constitutional responsibility of the federal government, and as such sequestration’s cuts could have a negative impact on the defense of our nation.
However, in an interview with CBS News caught by Right Scoop, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has highlighted some spending at the Pentagon that even the most ardent defender of the DoD should support eliminating. This spending includes a study on aliens and on-base micro-breweries, as well as the removal of skunks from golf courses on bases. Oh, and a caffeine intake iPhone application and Twitter slang.
According to CBS, Coburn has a report coming that will show $85 billion could be cut from the Pentagon over ten years. This is in addition to other reports Coburn has released with more significant reforms to defense spending, such as reformation of the contracting system. While $85 billion is not a massive amount of money compared to our debt (over $16 trillion) or the budget of the Pentagon (over $500 billion), neither is $8.5 billion annually something to ignore. As the debate over sequestration continues, credit should be given to Coburn for finding ways to cut defense spending that will not harm America’s ability to defend itself. | <urn:uuid:5012efcb-b54c-4876-9d1a-7ac1c829ca58> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.teapartypatriots.org/2012/09/even-defense-spending-can-be-cut/ | 2013-06-18T05:39:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963438 | 389 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
"If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini and don't take it off until you're 34." This is Nora Ephron, reminding us that now— right now—is the peak naked moment of our lives, the highest point on a steep slope of sagging. I remembered this rule when my email dinged with a dinner invitation. The invite contained details about the host (a friend of a friend), the cuisine (Indian) and the attire (none). A nude dinner party.
I was petrified. I am an enthusiast of other naked activities—skinny dipping, showers, sex. But unlike dinner, those all start with ‘s.’ This seems important. Also, they all involve doing something. A lengthy swimming career taught me that many people are attractive naked not because of their bodies’ particulars, but because of the way those bodies move. It’s why the prettiest people are not always the most sought after. Movement is important. When stationary, my lower body looks like a bean bag chair.
Looking at her breasts six inches from the bread, I lost my appetite.
But I wondered. Nudity is something I can deal with. Perhaps I am a closet nudist. Perhaps nudism is my new untapped outlet, ready to occupy the empty space in my life between knitting and Netflix.
I rang the bell, and a geeky, middle-aged man in bifocals stuck his head around the door. Richard. He pointed to a stack of towels next to the door. The only rule of nudist events is that you sit on a towel. These were hand towels; I was expecting beach.
I was on Richard’s email list because I’d heard that a computer programmer arranges all-expense-paid trips to Florida and the Caribbean for nudist rookies. Richard, the programmer, is a sort of ringleader for New York City nudists, making frequent trips to naturist resorts in Tampa, Palm Springs, St. Maarten's and Maine, bringing along groups of four-to-30 people.
Behind him, another naked man with long brown hair sat with a laptop at the kitchen table. Richard informed me that the female guests were running late. I wondered if stripping with two strange men in a strange apartment was unwise. I scanned. They seemed passive, and I decided they probably wouldn't attack me. On the wall, a digital picture frame flashed group shots of smiling naked people. They didn’t look like they’d been attacked recently. I went into the bathroom, stripped, and took out the beach towel I'd brought from home.
I emerged and gingerly sat down on the towel on the couch, legs tightly crossed. Naked dinner is sort of like public speaking: it takes a couple minutes to win over the crowd, except you’re the crowd. Richard told me about his gig as an extra on Fur, reenacting famous Diane Arbus portraits, while I struggled to find a flattering or comfortable upright couch position. Richard didn’t hold back: one leg out to the side, balls in full view. It wasn’t lewd. When you look at Richard, you understand why he's naked: He looks like he should be naked. Dressed, he would be a 2.5; naked, he's a 7.0. He's rotund-yet-firm, tan everywhere and fully comfortable in his nudity. He says he spends most of his home-time in the buff.
The rest of the guests blew in, three late-twenties women, a masseuse and two teachers, who stripped in front of the door and plopped down on the couches and floor. And a 30-ish Asian guy, who announced his recent victory on Pants Off Dance Off, a program on the Fuse Network that TV Guide called “the dumbest show on television.” Contestants have three minutes to strip while dancing in a three-foot-square box. We watched the episode clip. He is indeed very talented at stripping in a three-foot-square box. I relaxed. When other naked people are calm, you're calm.
My earlier theory that moving is a pivotal part of nudity is all wrong. Moving while naked is a pain in the ass. It’s hard to get off a low couch while adhering to society’s Keep Your Legs Closed Always rule. But I made it to the dining room table, and dinner proceeded much like any other--chitchat about work, discussion of how cool it is to win $200 for three minutes of stripping in a box. There was no sexual vibe. Through three courses of Indian food, I found that my need to check out men’s packages had passed in its entirety, and that skin is just another set of clothes. People carry themselves differently when naked; it’s more authentic. You can read who people are at a glance. I imagined the heavily makeup’ed fashionistas of my Upper East Side neighborhood melting down under these conditions, their coiffed facades broken, their personalities unable to function in the harsh light of reality. There’s something very real about naked dinner.
New York City is one of the worst places on earth to be a nudist. The exposure laws are strict, and there’s one nude beach for eight million residents. Richard says he leads trips because he has the money, and because otherwise people would never learn how comfortable naturism is. There’s no sex involved on his part.
His dinner guests seemed free, getting a dopamine high off the rarity of what we were doing. I was not high. My hand hurt because I could not stop gripping my towel. I sat on it, or held it in my hand, or carried it around the apartment, clutching it like child’s security blanket. As long as I held it, everything would be okay. Couldn’t. Let. Go.
Also. Couldn’t. Eat. There are two types of people: those who look better dressed (Gwyneth Paltrow), and those who look better naked (Pamela Anderson), and one of the former was sitting directly across from me, a thin bank teller who was quite foxy clothed. But naked, she was thin and somehow unappetizing, and for reasons I can’t articulate, looking at her breasts six inches from the bread, I lost my appetite. I felt guilty about this.
After dessert, people lounged on the couches for a while, then pulled on their clothes in the entryway. I’ll save you suspense: I did not become a card-carrying nudist. I politely declined Richard’s invitation for a trip a sunny resort somewhere down south, and happily escaped to the bathroom, because getting dressed is a private activity.
Never was I so excited to see my bra.
Arianne Cohen's work has appeared in The New York Times, O, New York, Marie Claire, Popular Science, Fast Company, Nerve.com and the New York Times Magazine, among others. She is author of the upcoming The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from On High (Bloomsbury, June 2009), the definitive book about the tall life. She was, at one point, one half the country’s tallest couple with her 7’2” partner. You can stalk her via ariannecohen.com. | <urn:uuid:b92370cd-5e4d-4281-9a12-6f25731c1d15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/11/11/hold-the-dressing.html | 2013-06-18T05:27:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966779 | 1,567 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Supporters of Elizabethtown Independent Schools can help teachers and students feel the love at Saturday’s fundraiser.
The Elizabethtown Educational Foundation hosts the event from 7 to 10 p.m. at Pritchard Community Center. The Event 2013 allows the foundation to pay for classroom grants for schools in the district.
This is the second year for the fundraiser, and this year’s theme is “Feel the Love.” Attendees can wear red or vintage prom attire, and can enjoy a DJ, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar while learning about recent school accomplishments.
Foundation board member April Jackson said while the event allows them to assist teachers with classroom projects, it really gives the community a chance to recognize the schools and the students.
“It’s basically a celebration of our school system,” Jackson said.
The foundation money from the fundraiser and donations from EIS staff and community members to cover grant requests they receive from educators. The foundation has received 30 grant applications this year, requesting more than $42,000 for projects.
Last year the event raised more than $30,000, so it’s something the foundation wants to see continue.
“We were thrilled to put that money back into our classrooms,” Jackson said.
The Event is sponsored by First Citizens’ Bank, E-town Swim & Fitness, E’town Exterminators, Hardin Memorial Health and XBS. Tickets are $35 and are available at the EIS Central Office, each of its schools and at the door.
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Angry Hanham residents prepare for fresh battle over Tesco plans
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to stop Tesco from trying again to build a superstore on a derelict patch of land in Hanham.
The supermarket chain wanted to build a new store on the former Kleeneze site behind the High Street. But councillors threw out the scheme in December 2009 after an outcry by local residents.
Tesco has now submitted new plans – this time with a smaller, single storey supermarket which is closer to the High Street. They are also allowing a firm to remain on site and making provision for two new industrial units.
One of the reasons the last scheme was turned down was because the site is zoned for industrial use.
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Mother of three Abbey Davies, 45, is a swimming teacher who lives in Anstey's Drive, a small cul-de-sac which would be used as an access to the new store.
She said: "If this store goes ahead, then it will just mean an accident waiting to happen.
"There are four schools which are very close to the site and we will get articulated lorries driving down my road and New Walk which are just not meant to take big vehicles.
"The roads around here are already jammed with traffic so the idea of more people coming here is just going to mean gridlock."
She said the planning application was submitted on May 10 but the council did not send out letters to residents about the planning application until the end of the month.
She said: "We think the council is trying to get this pushed through because we have just not had a proper chance to make our views known."
Vivianne Williams, 55, a nurse at Frenchay Hospital who also lives in Anstey's Drive, said: "I don't want to live opposite a Tesco store, no one would. The noise, pollution and extra traffic is going to be awful.
"I bought my house only a year ago after I was assured that Tesco would not try again to build a new store – and now this.
"They say it's a smaller store than last time but it's still about the same size as the one in Keynsham."
Margaret Berry, whose husband Patrick campaigned against the previous Tesco scheme and died earlier this year, said: "Tesco have said there will be about 4,000 cars a day to the new store, yet there will only be 228 car parking spaces.
"I dread to think what the traffic would be like – Memorial Road where I live is already a very busy road which young children use everyday to walk to school."
The residents have already received the backing of Kingswood Tory MP Chris Skidmore who is carrying out a survey in the village to gauge people's reaction to the latest plans.
He said: "Unlike supermarkets on the edge of the ring road, we face the prospect of lorries coming through unmapped roads which are not suitable for such big vehicles.
"There is also the question of Hanham's capacity to cope with a new supermarket such as this.
"I know a lot of people want to see something done with this derelict site and it would mean about 160 new jobs for the area but I just think this site is inappropriate for this use."
He said if planning permission is granted, then conditions should be imposed to lessen the impact of the new store.
A South Gloucestershire Council spokesman said: "The council strongly encourages people to submit comments during the formal 21 day consultation period.
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My wife and I were looking for a Costa Rican experience that would give us exposure to both the natural beauty Costa Rica offers and a true picture of the "pura vida" that is part of the lives of the native Costa Ricans. While searching the internet, I found the Bahia Rica web site and its offer for a very reasonably priced vacation that was an intriguing mix of kayaking and learning Spanish. We decided to go with this interesting mix, and we could not have made a better choice.
I had some Spanish in high school and college (40 years ago) and my wife, Eva, was a beginner. So a class with two students at different levels of speaking ability would be a challenge for any teacher. But Vicky (Vigdis) and Marjorie (a native Costa Rican) did an amazing job of making the learning experience substantial and fun for both of us. Our classroom, under the canopy of trees next to the sea, was clearly the most beautiful classroom either of us had ever experienced. How many classrooms are shared with howler monkeys, a raccoon, hummingbirds, and colorful butterflies? We got many chances to practice our Spanish outside the classroom. We spent an afternoon walking around the town of Paquera with Marjorie, practicing Spanish the entire time. We also went on kayaking adventures with our Costa Rican guide, Juan Jose. Although he spoke only minimal English, he was able to communicate quite effectively with us.
My wife and I are no spring chickens, and we had no kayaking experience. But we were able to go on 4-hour kayaking adventures to both a mangrove swamp and to an island with a colony of spider monkeys. Our guide, Juan Jose, was patient, thoughtful, and a lot of fun. Our time with the spider monkeys left us with some unforgettable memories (see the pictures).
This vacation is not for the faint of heart. There are 258 steps between the open porch setting where we had our meals and our lodging up the hill nestled in the jungle canopy. We shared the lodge with a small group of sports fisherman. There was one shared bathroom. So if you are looking for a luxury resort experience, you might want to look further. But the beauty of the setting was incredible, and the facilities were clean and comfortable. And the care for us was beyond our expectations.
We enjoyed our meals on an open porch dining area below, where Vicky prepared excellent meals. She took extra efforts to accommodate our sensitivities to gluten, and every meal was both nutritious and delicious. Perhaps the best part of every meal was the camaraderie we shared. The fisherman would describe their exciting adventures with Thomas. We would look at pictures they took of some of the amazing fish they caught and released. Because we were a small group, we got a chance to interact more with each other. One night, Thomas and the fishermen took us to a restaurant on the other side of the peninsula. We were glad that we were not the ones driving those roads. But the restaurant setting high on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean was memorable.
Vicky and Thomas are both originally from Norway. A marine biologist, Thomas has a deep understanding and respect for the fish he helps catch (and release). Meals on the porch always involved an interesting mix of English, Spanish, Norwegian, and French. (The wife of a Canadian guest often conversed with Eva in French). Vicky was an amazing multitasker, able to organize excursions, prepare meals, and carry on relaxing conversations all at the same time. Both Vicky and Thomas worked very hard (and successfully) to make our experience and the experience of the other guests the "pura vida" that we will remember as long as our minds are still lumping on all 4 cylinders.
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Spacecraft reveal new anatomy around a black hole
Scientists chose to study the black hole that lies at the heart of the Markarian 509 galaxy.
October 3, 2011
A fleet of spacecraft, including the European Space Agency’s (ESA) XMM-Newton and Integral, has shown unprecedented details close to a supermassive black hole. They reveal huge “bullets” of gas being driven away from the gravitational monster.
Active galaxy Markarian 509 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope's WFPC2. Credit: NASA/ESA/J. Kriss (STScI)/J. de Plaa (SRON)
The black hole that the team chose to study lies at the heart of the galaxy Markarian 509, 500 million light-years away in space. This black hole is colossal, containing 300 million times the mass of the Sun and growing more massive every day as it continues to feed.
Markarian 509 was chosen because it is known to vary in brightness, which indicates that the flow of matter into the black hole is turbulent. The radiation from this inner region then drives an outflow of some gas away from the black hole.
The black hole was monitored for 100 days. "XMM-Newton really led these observations because it has such a wide X-ray coverage, as well as an optical monitoring camera," said Jelle Kaastra from the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, who coordinated an international team of 26 astronomers from 21 institutes on 4 continents to make these observations.
During the campaign, the galaxy surpassed itself; instead of the usual 25 percent fluctuations in its brightness, it leapt up in the soft X-ray band by 60 percent, indicating that a major disturbance occurred in the gas flow to the black hole's deadly clutches.
The resulting observations have shown that the outflow consists of giant bullets propelled at millions of kilometers per hour. The bullets are stripped away from a dusty reservoir of matter waiting to fall into the black hole. The surprise is that the reservoir is situated more than 15 light years from the black hole. This is further than some astronomers thought was possible for the wind to originate.
"There has been a debate in astronomy for some time about the origin of the outflowing gas," said Kaastra.
The dusty gas reservoir takes the form of a doughnut-shaped torus that surrounds the black hole. Matter spirals in towards the black hole, creating an accretion disk in which the gas behaves like water spiraling down a plughole.
The observations also show that the accretion disk features a “skin” of gas with a temperature of millions of degrees. This is where the X-rays and gamma rays come from to drive the more distant gas outwards.
In addition to XMM-Newton and Integral, they used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Chandra and Swift satellites, and the ground-based telescopes WHT and PARITEL. Together the instruments gave them unprecedented wavelength coverage — running from the infrared, through the visible, ultraviolet, X-rays and into the gamma-ray band.
"The results underline how important long-term observations and monitoring campaigns are to gain a deeper understanding of variable astrophysical objects,” said Norbert Schartel from ESA. “XMM-Newton made all the necessary organizational changes to enable such observations, and now the effort is paying off." | <urn:uuid:8957b49f-a3b1-48b9-9c57-b53599540800> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2011/10/Spacecraft%20reveal%20new%20anatomy%20around%20a%20black%20hole.aspx | 2013-05-19T03:14:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931255 | 711 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Question: How can nations unite to battle climate change?
Felix Kramer: I sometimes wonder why the world can’t unite the way you see in movies when you… when there is an asteroid heading toward the earth and we know it’s coming in a few years we all get together somehow or when we’re about to be invaded by some aliens the world cooperates and we have that kind of an asteroid heading toward us. It’s called climate change or global warming or global weirding, which is what some people talk about, extreme temperatures and the world is changing and we need all to get together on this and we don’t and we don’t declare an end to business as usual. The biggest challenge at this point is for people to realize that the next generation is going to be living in a very different world and if we don’t’ get together and do something about it we will be committing a great crime to our descendants by plundering the world and by not fixing it and we still have time to do that, but the time is running out.
Question: Do you think that the government should focus or prioritize certain R & D projects?
Felix Kramer: For a long time everyone said, “Let’s promote all alternatives.” “Let’s not lose the chance that maybe some good technology will turn out to be much more promising than we thought.” “We can’t afford to pick winners.” But in fact, we’ve been picking winners for years. For centuries the US government has been… We started financing Samuel Morris’ telegraph and ever since then we’ve been pouring money into technologies. Aerospace helped the computer industry grow and radio technology and now a lot of people are starting to realize that it’s time to pick winners. We don’t have the resources to support everything and electricity has emerged as that kind of a solution, which is… which solves many, many problems and exists… and using existing technology. We have to put the pieces together differently. That means we don’t have to wait for breakthroughs. All the breakthroughs are welcome when they happen, but we can get started and go very far with today’s technology, so there seems now finally to be a recognition that this a time to choose one primary route for transportation in particular and that is electrification.
Question: How can we overcome the huge costs of creating sustainable energy is America?
Felix Kramer: It’s a big question when whether we will declare business as usual and if we did we would say it’s time to spend the money to make this transition as rapidly as possible. Some people have estimated it would cost 600 billion dollars to rapidly accelerate the growth of the electrification of transportation. That happens to be the same amount of money we send overseas every year for imported oil, so it sounds like a lot of money, but we’ll be way ahead of the game if we do it and if it involves spending a little more on electricity and if it involves a complicated system where people who need to drive for work are subsidized and where we have maybe a… what’s called a fee based systems where the big heavy vehicles are highly taxed and the more efficient vehicles are less taxed. There are a lot of solutions here, but we have to have the will to do it and to say we can’t be afraid of calling for a gas tax. We can’t be afraid of saying that some things are going to have to change. | <urn:uuid:49c83990-fb88-486c-a287-edeb80569e88> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bigthink.com/videos/the-disaster-movie-approach-to-fuel-efficiency | 2013-05-19T03:21:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960529 | 743 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Brace Hemmelgarn-US PRESSWIRE - Presswire
Chicago White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy still hasn't decided whether to hire an agent or represent himself in contract negotiations with teams this winter.
Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Jake Peavy is still considering whether to hire an agent or represent himself in negotiations for a new contract this winter, according to Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune. At the moment, he's considering agents John Boggs and Jeff Berry in addition to the possibility of representing himself.
Recently, Peavy first voiced the idea of possibly representing himself in contract negotiations with teams this winter instead of hiring an agent. The White Sox still hold a club option on the pitcher for next season, but it's worth $22 million with a $4 buyout, so the general expectation is that the team will decline.
Coming off a pretty impressive season, Peavy will likely be able to command significant interest this offseason despite being a 31-year-old with one healthy season in the past four years. Over 31 starts in 2012, he's posted a 3.37 ERA with 186 strikeouts and 48 walks in 211 innings, numbers that any team would be pleased with. | <urn:uuid:5da7364e-1f4f-46df-860b-92fd12cda148> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chicago.sbnation.com/2012/10/1/3440616/jake-peavy-free-agent-white-sox/in/3204407 | 2013-05-19T03:21:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958145 | 242 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Skip to comments.GOP official: Include Palin, Perry in straw poll [Ames, Iowa Republican straw poll]
Posted on 07/21/2011 3:58:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Link only due to copyright issues: http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/07/21/scheffler-include-palin-perry-in-straw-poll/
I hardly think the nomination of anyone is going to hinge on this straw poll. Iowans think way way too highly of themselves. I’m not saying the caucuses are unimportant... but this straw poll... essentially meaningless.
IMHO, Bachmann will take votes from Palin. This is because a lot of people will think, well, Palin hasn’t even declared yet.
This will make Romney’s totals look larger.
I pretty much agree with that. All this does is allow some candidates whose campaigns are already terminally ill to stick around a little longer.
I don’t know. It made Huckabee a contender in ‘08. Ames will narrow down the field this time. If Pawlenty doesn’t perform well, he’s out. If Bachmann doesn’t crush, her momentum will be slowed. If Paul doesn’t do well, it will crush his supporters. If Palin or Perry show up well in the straw poll (15%+) without being in the race, then there will be more calls for both to enter the race.
Don't you have that backwards? If anything happens it will be that Palin may take votes from Bachmann. Bachmann is a declared candidate who is out there working for her votes. She can hardly be accused to taking votes from Palin.
Declare and then you can be included. That goes for Perry AND Palin.
I’d love to know what either of them are waiting for. Other than the enjoy the free media without having to campaign or spend any money.
What’s wrong with that? Sounds like a good plan to me, so long as Palin actually announces. If she doesn’t plan on running, she should have said so a long time ago. Perry, on the other, I think is legitimately not sure. There is nothing wrong with being unsure about whether to run considering that’s a pretty big decision and it doesn’t seem like he had thought about it before the last couple of months.
Aren't straw polls, by definition, meaningless?
I don’t think Perry has any compelling desire to be president. If he did, he has hidden it for a long time.
I think if he gets in, it will be because he’s been pushed and prodded into entering the race and he has probably needed to be shown he’ll have the financial backing to run successfully if he gets in.
As I’ve said before, I think he represents the best chance for uniting the party even though I have my reservations about how well he might do if he were to win the election. I have little doubt that, if he gets in, he’ll be one of the last ones standing for the nomination, if not the nominee himself. And he’ll be a strong opponent against Obama. He’s shown he can throw some punches on the campaign trail. He definitely won’t be a wimp like McCain or Dole.
All that said, he’s a pure Texan and I think he’d prefer to live inside a chemical plant in Port Arthur before he’d live in DC, but he’ll do it if he feels his country needs him to do it.
Palin can’t do anything until the statue of limitations in Alaska runs out - do believe it is the 26th or 27th.
2 candidates for “comprehensive immigration reform” No thanks.
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My aim with these articles is to raise awareness of how beneficial music can be to all of us. This was highlighted when I sat in on the 'Music in Mind' group, led by Eva here at Hillingdon Mind. I noticed that service users who are usually shy, or sometimes withdrawn and not able to voice their feelings, were able to express themselves and feel included. It was as if the music channeled through to some sort of inner happiness.
Something I always encourage with my clients, is to write down their thoughts. This process can be so therapeutic, so healing. Feelings and thoughts can come out as lyrics, poems, stories, or in a diary or journal form. It's the transition from head-space to paper, and being able to view thoughts from a different perspective that seems to have so many benefits. It can be a relief.
With this in mind I wanted to get some musicians input into this area, to raise awareness, and to inspire people to get writing and to listen to and play music. It can help with a variety of mental health conditions. It can help anyone.
There is a level of understanding that comes with an ability to look inwards. Realisations come from the awareness of internal conflict and bringing unconscious thoughts into the conscious, which in turn awakens the mind and changes our perspective on life. John Frusciante’s life is based around the creation of music with an extensive back catalogue of solo releases. John is a man who actively explores looking inward, observing thoughts, and letting go. He states that there are some key aspects that maintain a healthy mind-state: meditating, reading, writing, and music.
I spoke to John about these elements and how music can bring a host of benefits to our mental health and well being. I asked John firstly about writing thoughts down:
It’s been really good for me. I think it’s being able to see the mind from an exterior position. It’s another one of the issues that come up especially with people who have mental imbalances: that you’re trapped in your mind; there’s no escape. It’s like being imprisoned. You’re inside yourself, you’re inside your body, your thoughts are inside your mind- you can’t escape. Your thoughts aren’t just moving along in some kind of cosmic orbit, they’re determined by your surroundings and your conditioning. The realisation of the inability to escape from it, not being able to step out of your mind- the more you think about it, the more overwhelming it can become- especially when you’re not happy with the thoughts that are in your mind, you’re not happy with your surroundings, and you’re not happy with the way people have treated you.
The thought that you can’t escape from within yourself is really terrifying. To be able to examine your thoughts when you write them down is really illuminating because you can read them back to yourself 5 minutes later, and have a completely different reaction to it than you had when you were thinking the thought. It becomes much easier at that moment to look at what you’ve written and say: ‘well that’s true from one angle but I can also see it from this position.’ Your emotions are directly tied to your thoughts and you had no ability to be able separate them. Then you read it a couple of days later and you’re in a different mood, and by looking at it from this exterior position you’re able to mentally put it in it’s place in a clearer way. By the brain taking in those same thoughts but in a completely different emotional context, you’re able to establish some sort of separation between your thoughts and your emotions; which if you don’t ever write anything down and don’t ever look at yourself from the outside, you’re incapable of doing.
I’ve resolved so many issues of my childhood from writing- page after page, when I was all revved up about them. By writing about them and reading them back to myself, somehow in that process I accomplished a lot of the same things that could potentially be accomplished by going to a therapist every week for years. I found it within myself to forgive people that I’d always resented, I’d always felt like a victim because of, and through writing them down I was able to see the balance of it all, and to not blame that person for their own actions but to realise that the way they treat people is the result of the way people treated them. There’s no more point in being resentful of another person for something they’ve done then there is of being resentful of life itself- which to me doesn’t really make any sense. The brain that’s making that statement ‘I resent life itself’ is only here by virtue of that brain, so who’s the ‘I’ talking? The ‘I’ talking is nature itself. If you’re attaching importance to the opinion that life is f****d, you’re automatically giving credence to life because life is the thing that’s talking and saying what you think. Something’s built into our characters, we all think a lot of what we ourselves think! Each person thinks their opinions are very true and valid. It’s a built-in thing of our character. But I think to do that with your thoughts is really important [to write them down]. It’s really bad to get lost inside yourself.
I spoke to John about being trapped in a distorted headspace with thoughts spinning around…
It’s a really interesting tendency on the part of people- is that they like being twisted. There’s a part of you that becomes comfortable there and you don’t wanna be released. I get like that when I’m in a bad mood about something and somebody tries to cheer me up, but I don’t want them to cheer me up. It’s like I’m happier being miserable than I am being happy. There are certain situations where somebody who would rather stay in their misery might be superior in their relationship to life than somebody who’s constantly trying to maintain a position of happiness- in that, there could potentially be a kind of emptiness. Sometimes people who go through life sad are some of the deepest people.
I can’t imagine it [writing] not being good for anybody. I used to be superstitious about writing down my thoughts, I only would write down poetry. When I started writing down ordinary thoughts, I couldn’t believe what a difference it made. Sometimes you might write the same thing all the time ‘I’m so sad, I’m so miserable…’ I’ve written those same entries in my notebook so many times- the same exact words. There’s a feeling of getting it out. There are times when just the act of writing it itself ends up bringing you to a new perspective. Sometimes it’s not even reading it back; as you’re writing it the train of thought is different as it’s more moderated. When you’re thinking things, your thoughts have the ability to go at this incredibly fast pace, much faster than we speak or can write, so sometimes the process of writing is also a process of slowing down the thought stream to where you’re thinking at a slower pace. You come to conclusions by thinking slower that you could when you’re thinking faster.
I talked to John about how music influences mind states:
‘Everything that happens has a big influence on the state of mind. Our senses are constantly being bombarded with all kinds of things that are making a constant change to what goes on inside of us. We have so many tendencies that have been put in place by things that have happened to us in life, and everything that happens to us to some degree affects our tendencies in the future and affects our state of mind. To me what I’m noticing more with music- that separates it from incidents that happen- that change somebody’s state of mind, is that it seems to come through another channel besides the five senses. When the music is being created, the ideas enter the musician from an unknown source, through a channel that there’s no medical term for, no biological term, no psychological term for. There’s some channel that the ideas come through and the sense of musical balance that the musician employs in order to organise the ideas. That’s also something that there’s also no word for. It’s all the unknown, and a person that has a good sense of musical organisation has no idea where that sense came from. Partially it may come from loving and listening to music and really appreciating the balance and organisation of music that’s so cosmic, but there’s a lot of people who appreciate it that don’t have a sense of it, of how to manipulate that organisation, how to take control of it.
I would say that in the creation of music, where the ideas are coming from- why one idea means a great deal to me and another idea means nothing to me- and that there’s some sort of mental criteria to distinguish between these two things; it’s not something that anybody has grasped in any way. And then in the reception of music, I don’t believe it’s just the notes, chords or melodies in themselves (although there’s a lot to ponder just in those- why they affect people in the way they do). I also think that what’s underestimated when people are judging music is that you are hearing the intention of the composer or musician or the band or whatever. I believe that there’s a sort of 6th sense when we’re hearing music and some people have this. For some people this sense is clearer than for others.
You can hear when someone is doing something for reasons such as personal gain or ego gratification, and when the intention is to purely explore this wondrous thing which is the nature of music as it’s presented to us by the laws of the cosmos. If you put some crap, some commercial band who’s only doing it because it’s how they make their living and they get a certain amount of ego gratification from it- if that same band played a Fugazi song, it wouldn’t mean the same thing as what it means to somebody who needs to hear Fugazi to feel good. It’s not a matter of the song, it wouldn’t matter how well it was played; we’re hearing something behind the music. We hear the psychological state of the people who are playing or composing it, and I feel that something else comes through into the listener besides what’s apparent to the senses. I feel really sure of that. | <urn:uuid:d98bcfaa-9718-46bd-8b29-000a97eef722> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://invisible-movement.net/articles/2008-press/hillingdon-mind-interview | 2013-05-19T03:13:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970148 | 2,302 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Trad on GTH pants:
A word of warning, though. While you can, and should, wear these trousers with a sport coat, they are not to be worn to work. These are occasion trousers and with that comes the responsibility of time and place. The time is summer. The place is near water and within arm’s reach of a G&T. Going sockless helps, and a half lined navy blazer in linen keeps you respectable, while the dash of Ray-Ban aviators kicks you into the classic GTH look. True devil-may-care attire always requires forethought.
The same advice could be said for GTH shorts, though you have more leeway in what to pair them up with – in my case I often go with a white linen button-down or polo shirt sans sport coat.
Where to find: Ralph Lauren, Rugby, and Gant (Rugger or Bastian) are good places to check. Engineered Garments will also usually have a few in its spring/summer collections as well, and from this current season I just received an exceptionally great pair in a red/white/blue floral print.
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Welcome to the new Ramada Queens. This is a newly constructed property that was built and opened in 2008. A 100 percent smoke-free building featuring 64 beautifully appointed non-smoking guest rooms. All rooms have free high speed Wi-Fi/wireless internet access, refrigerator and in room coffee makers. All rooms also feature 32 inch Flat Screen TV with 5 HBO Channels, CNN, ESPN and more. Complimentary Hot Continental Breakfast is served each morning from 6am to 10am. The hotel is conveniently located 10 minutes from John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. Public bus line Q-3 is available from Terminal 4 at JFK Airport and stops right in front of the hotel. NYC Transit F Line Train is 2 blocks from the hotel and will take you to midtown Manhattan in a matter of minutes. Located just minutes from Queens College, St. Johns University, Citi Field Stadium new home of the NY Mets and the Arthur Ashe Stadium, home of the US Open Tennis Tournament. Points of interest such as The Bronx Zoo, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, also known as Flushing Meadows Park, Queens Museum of Art and Radio City Music Hall are also conveniently located near the property. Limited On-site parking on a first come first serve basis. Additional parking is available across the street from the hotel in a fee-based lot. Sorry, No Pets Allowed. If you need to cancel your reservation, you must do so by 3 PM local hotel time 24 hours prior to arrival date or your credit card will be charged for one nights stay. | <urn:uuid:2d6910b2-4fe4-4b7c-809a-7be377d10370> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://my.yapta.com/Hotels-in-Queens.9398 | 2013-05-19T03:23:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956284 | 317 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A bad case of the Humans
Posted by Paul Mason on September 23, 2008
Let’s imagine your name is Gaia, you’re a planet and you have a bad case of the humans. For many years you lived in symbiosis with humans, but then they evolved exogenetically, adapted in ways you were unprepared for and started to multiply in extraordinary numbers. Suddenly, the delicate balance of bacteria in your ecological gut got out of whack and now you have a bad case of gas, greenhouse gas! And no Rennie tablet is going to get you out of this one.
The single most influential contributing factor to climate change is Human overpopulation.
The good news for you (Gaia): The human birth rate is going down
The bad news for you (Gaia): The death rate is going down too
The really bad news for you (Gaia): A subpopulation of Humans, most notably Politicians and Economists, are encouraging the rest of the population to have babies, babies and more babies because they want money, money and more money…
Being Mother Earth, you can be prone to the occassional natural disaster and angry tempest which somehow keeps things in check. The Humans at various times have been keeping themselves in check too. Their greed and excessive conflict over resources has led to genocide, war, famine and disease. In recent times, they have even managed to surpass these constraints on their population growth and as Mother Nature, it’s got you pretty worried–you were kind of attached to the biodiversity that the Humans will take with them as they die on their own effluent.
So as Mother Nature, what can you do?
Well, the truth is, you’re not mother earth, you are human.
And here’s something you can think about:
Your last greenhouse emission
In Australia, as with many other countries, an increasing number of people are choosing to be cremated. Did you know that it takes over 6 hours on a giant gas stove to cremate a single body? Blurk!!! Think of the CO2 guys!!! …and, your ashes will do absolutely nothing for the cylce of life on this planet! In India, they don’t use gas, instead people save up money to buy enough logs to burn someone’s corpse. The really wealthy use lots and lots of dead trees. Not only does this release vast amounts of CO2 and contribute no nutrients to the soil (or the River Ganges), it also destroys the very trees that are needed to convert the CO2 back into good old oxygen!!! But even traditional casket burials are destructive. In Africa, vast amounts of pine forests are being cut down to accomodate for the rising numbers of AIDS victims who have wooden coffins for their burials.
SO HERE IS A PROPOSAL
Les Tombes Arborees
- Get buried in a bio-degradable coffin
- To save on space, decide to be buried vertically.
- Plant a tree over your dead body and be the nutrients for another living organism – it will be your life after death! Just think how much more beautiful it would be for your friends and relatives to water your chosen tree than to have them spread dead flowers onto a concrete slab. Furthermore, these trees will be protected because they mark graves, so no company/corporation will ever be allowed to cut them down for money!!! Become a tree in your after-life!
Don’t lay me in some gloomy churchyard shaded by a wall
Where the dust of ancient bones has spread a dryness over all,
Lay me in some leafy loam where, sheltered from the cold
Little seeds investigate and tender leaves unfold.
There kindly and affectionately, plant a native tree
To grow resplendent before God and hold some part of me.
The roots will not disturb me as they wend their peaceful way
To build the fine and bountiful, from closure and decay.
To seek their small requirements so that when their work is done
I’ll be tall and standing strongly in the beauty of the sun.
England has two consecrated woodland burial grounds: http://woodlandburialtrust.com/
“Death does not just exist. In order to have coherence and to find its
place, it has to be integrated into a wider scheme of things.”
Dancing on the Grave: Encounters with Death
Barley, Nigel. (1995) John Murray: London.
Anthropologist Nigel Barley has studied the burial rituals and funeral ceremonies of a vast number of cultures and found the above quote to be the rule. Death must be coherent with the cultural understanding of the world. If an action is not coherent with our cultural understanding of the world it is seen as irrational.
Our cultural understanding of the world is more comprehensive than it has ever been before. And yet, never before has our relative inaction in response to this cultural knowledge been so poor. Returning humans to the cycle of life in their afterlife through woodland burial is a timely response to global environmental issues and our current understanding of the world. It coheres with ecological reasoning and is symbolic of a vital paradigm shift in contemporary culture.
In some cultures, most famously Ancient Egypt, families would virtually financially ruin themselves in order to deal with the death of just one person. Other cultures such as the nomadic peoples of southern Africa, simply pull down the roof of their dwelling onto the body and move on, while the wrapped bodies in Torajan (Indonesian) houses are used as shelves. There are some insightful reflections on how the treatment of death is culturally constructed- e.g. the wailing practises in Zambia. What is interesting to me, is very much about how these traditions came about.
Knowing what we now know, what is the legacy we want to leave behind as a culture? New-age movements so very often hold traditional tribal and nomadic cultures in great esteem, but are we willing to take our respect for living in harmony with the planet to the grave? Let’s hope so!
Only when the last tree has died and
The last river has been poisoned and
The last fish has been caught,
Will we realise that
We cannot eat money”
19th Century Cree Indian
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between133,000 and 134,000 people die in Australia each year (one death every 3 minutes and 57 seconds as compared to one death every 3 minutes and 54 seconds only a year ago). Imagine for a moment, the incredible amount of CO2 released each year if we simply multiplied 133,000 deaths by the amount of CO2 released by burning each corpse for 6 hours!
Plant a Tree
He who plants a tree
Plants a hope.
Rootlets up through fibres blindly grope;
Leaves unfold into horizons free.
So man’s life must climb
From the clods of time
Unto heavens sublime.
Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree,
What the glory of thy boughs shall be?
He who plants a tree
Plants a joy;
Plants a comfort that will never cloy;
Every day a fresh reality,
Beautiful and strong,
To whose shelter throng
Creatures blithe with song.
If thou couldst but know, thou happy tree,
Of the bliss that shall inhabit thee!
He who plants a tree,–
He plants peace.
Under its green curtains jargons cease.
Leaf and zephyr murmur soothingly;
Shadows soft with sleep
Down tired eyelids creep,
Balm of slumber deep.
Never hast thou dreamed, thou blessed tree,
Of the benediction thou shalt be.
He who plants a tree,–
He plants youth;
Vigor won for centuries in sooth;
Life of time, that hints eternity!
Boughs their strength uprear;
New shoots, every year,
On old growths appear;
Thou shalt teach the ages, sturdy tree,
Youth of soul is immortality.
He who plants a tree,–
He plants love,
Tents of coolness spreading out above
Wayfarers he may not live to see.
Gifts that grow are best;
Hands that bless are blest;
Plant! life does the rest!
Heaven and earth help him who plants a tree,
And his work its own reward shall be.
by Lucy Larcom
Born March 5, 1824; Died April 27, 1893
The above has been inspired by my friend and mentor, Professor Roger Short,
who is currently working to make Woodland Burials a reality in Australia.
SO WHAT IS YOUR SAY? AS A MEASURE OF INTEREST, WILL YOU PLANT A TREE WHEN YOU DIE?
Professor Roger Short faces head-on the problems of the human population explosion, a degraded environment, the HIV pandemic and poverty. Professor Short is a highly respected reproductive biologist whose research interests span topics as broad as the evolution of sexuality, novel ways to prevent HIV infection and the discovery that melatonin can prevent jetlag. He helped to cross a camel with a llama to produce the first ‘cama’ and discovered that elephant ancestors lived in water. Professor Short was on the Population Panel of the Wellcome Trust from 1996 – 2000 and acted as a consultant to the Global Programme on AIDS of the World Health Organisation in Geneva designing strategies for the integration of HIV prevention and family planning programmes. | <urn:uuid:2e20ef55-5066-4552-8a0d-075cf87956f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/09/23/a-bad-case-of-the-humans/?like=1&_wpnonce=036ab75418 | 2013-05-19T02:45:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935801 | 1,999 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
"[...] the concept of the object that alone has sense for me rests on the fact that, although I am conscious of myself in the 'I think' as spontaneity, I am also conscious of myself as nonproductive, that is, if you will, as finite. I could only be productive as pure 'I' if a determinate content of consciousness was given through my pure apperception. I, therefore, depend on a given manifold and must 'think' this, that is, I must unite [syntithenai] this given manifold in a consciousness that is conditioned by the thoroughgoing unity of all consciousness."
Klaus Reich, The Completeness of Kant's Table of Judgments (Stanford, 1992), p. 29.
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Jan 21, 2013, 2:17 PM EDT
Mustachioed Baltimore swim legend Michael Phelps was excited to see the Ravens heading back to the Super Bowl after avenging last year’s AFC Championship loss to the Patriots, and told Yahoo!Sports that linebacker Ray Lewis was at least partly responsible for Phelps returning to the pool for the London Games.
“I think he’s probably the most inspirational person I’ve ever met in my entire life. A lot of people don’t know this, but he was one of the biggest reasons why I came back for four more years. Just some of the things that we have talked about, and he’s helped me get through, I can’t be more happier.”
So we can all happily thank Lewis and his famous dance for our opportunity to enjoy six more medals from Phelps, who won numbers seventeen through 22 this summer to became the most decorated Olympian in history. U-S-A! U-S-A!
- Oxbow upsets Orb in Preakness
- Live Extra: Watch Game 3 between Sharks, Kings
- NBA: Pacers top Knicks, punch ticket to conf. finals
- MST: Carpenter wins pole for 97th Indianapolis 500
- PHT: Red Wings even up series with Blackhawks
- PBT: Pacers may not have Hill for Game 6
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LAS VEGAS, USA: PlasmaTech Inc. has executed an Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement relating to its acquisition of substantially all of the intellectual property of RF Wireless Solutions, LLC, a privately-held developer, designer and manufacturer of wireless equipment and solutions.
With this acquisition, PlasmaTech owns fully-developed, advanced radio frequency (RF) wireless technologies, devices and related equipment backed by over 80 copyrights. These integrated solutions deliver some of the fastest, most secure and reliable transmission of wireless data communications available in the industry.
Since 2005, RF Wireless's products have demonstrated success in applications for international and domestic industrial, government and commercial customers. RF Wireless's Diamond Sentry Platform is the first fully integrated equipment to combine various technologies such as ZigBee/802.15.4, cellular, Wi-Fi and Ethernet and Satellite connectivity into a single unified system for WAN, LAN and PAN Security.
PlasmaTech President, Marvin Williams, noting that the acquired portfolio of technologies is highly adaptable to both legacy systems and the most sophisticated emerging IP protocols, said management of the Company foresees potential for future growth in a variety of vertical industries. Williams called the transaction “a major turning point” for the Company, indicating that the acquisition will equip PlasmaTech with valuable core competencies and intellectual properties.
“By combining existing product lines with OEM relationships, access to capital markets and management resources, PlasmaTech will be in a prime position to exploit market opportunities in the global $120 billion wireless access card reader market. We have devoted substantial effort in seeking out the acquisition of a business to enhance shareholder value and believe this acquisition to be an unparalleled opportunity for PlasmaTech,” Williams said.
The products included in the acquisition are designed to equip security solution service providers, automation specialists, and data and IP service providers with the tools to build previously limited and unimaginable, multi-revenue producing networks that deliver high-speed, state-of-the-art data transmission, card access control and video surveillance services offering maximum reliability utilizing RF instead of wires.
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Articles Tagged with the word ‘region’
13 Dec 2010
One man's mission to protect and restore his local environment. Rabary DesirÈ has been honoured for his remarkable forest conservation achievements by Seacology
09 Jun 2010
An international youth group travelled to Acre in Brazil, to give a voice to some of the initiatives helping to protect the Amazon rainforest
15 Jun 2009
Working with the Papua New Guinea Government and Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo and Conservation International, residents have recently created the first national conservation area.
27 May 2009
A £2million fund has been opened today, providing grants of between £100,000 and £500,000 to new projects that can demonstrate significant carbon savings
31 Jan 2009
Over the past 15 years, Spain's Navarre region has undergone an energy transformation.
31 Dec 2008
Lord Coe met with the Members of Youth Parliament (MYPs) from across the West Midlands including the four members from Shropshire.
31 May 2008
Thousands of volunteers get together to restore, beautify and improve waterways and other public areas.
31 Mar 2008
The Good Karma Drive team have embarked on a quest to change a corner of the world by raising awareness of the need for good education for marginalized children in North India.
17 Sep 2007
Slow Fish 2007, a fair organised by Slow Food, took place in Genoa earlier this year. Held for the third time, this biennial international event is dedicated entirely to the world of fishing.
13 Mar 2007
Sarah Wilkinson explores how a non-profit, grassroots organisation in the town of Orange, in the northeastern state of Massachusetts, is benefiting its community while also helping to regenerate its economy.
07 Mar 2007
We celebrate the recent birth of two litters of white lions, looking at the story behind these revered animals
29 Nov 2006
Tomorrow's England is a project to turn major global issues into garden fence talk' where the likely impacts of climate change can be investigated, region by region or even town by town.
21 Dec 2005
Women in the Essaouira region of rural Morocco have been given a new lease of life, while preserving the country's oldest' of inhabitants, thanks to a co-operative run exclusively by women.
02 Dec 2005
China is in a position to become the world leader in wind power, according to a Greenpeace report released in October. By 2020, Guandong province could produce enough energy from wind turbines to meet the equivalent of Hong Kong's total current electricity supply, says the Wind Guandong report.
30 Dec 2001
In the five years of its existence, Al-Jazeera has become the most watched satellite channel in the Arab world and has infuriated every government from Libya to Kuwait. What draws the viewers is news and political debate of a kind that the Arab world had never seen until the channel started in 1996.
30 Dec 2001
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Chocolate in the Baptismal Font: Things that Happen When Women Are Ordained
Over the weekend, I spent a few delicious hours watching episodes of the BBC's The Vicar of Dibley, including the Christmas special from several years back where Geraldine** (Dawn French), the eponymous vicar, receives two surprise gifts from her parishioners in honor of her 10-year-anniversary at shepherd of St. Barnabas.
1) A chocolate fountain and
2) a visit from the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Overcome by the thoughtful gesture from her congregation — and her all-consuming ardor for chocolate — Gerry dives head-first into the chocky-font. Unfortunately for vicar, her full-immersion by chocolate comes just moments before the (very convincing look-alike) Rowan Williams enters the parlor to greet her.
Mother Geraldine is one of my all-time favorite television characters. Apart from her regularly hilarious antics, she also has a beautiful pastoral touch and way of communicating the grace and mercy of the gospel with honesty, passion and great humor — not unlike many of the women clergy I am blessed to know and have known over the years.
While women clergy are a given part of the life of the church for many of us, their presence in the Great Conversation remains a point of contention and controversy for not a few of our brothers and sisters in Christ. I was reminded of this Monday while reading the latest blog entry from our God's Politics contributor Nadia Bolz-Weber, pastor of the House for All Saints and Sinners church in Denver.
On Sunday, Nadia, an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, received an email inquiry from a friend of a friend informing her of some less-than-love coming her way from her more conservative cousins in the Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) who are aghast at something that went down at House for All's post-Easter Vigil party a while back.
As part of their celebration of Jesus' resurrection, House for All's Easter party included a three-tiered chocolate fountain set up in the church's baptismal font.
"My name and church are being tossed around by some LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod – they don’t ordain women) types (again) as an example of all the horrible things that go wrong when women become pastors," Nadia explained. The woman who sent the email was kind, Nadia says, "She wanted to hear from me about why we would do this rather than joining the others in rending their clothes and gnashing their teeth about it."
Here's what Nadia said in her response to the chocolate-in-the-baptismal-font inquiry:
Having buried the Alleluia on Transfiguration Sunday and entered into the 40 days of Lent (remembering our mortality and sin)…as a community we walk through the paschal mystery of the Three Days. We gather to remember the night our Lord was betrayed unto death and yet washed the feet of those whom he loved, and having Friday experienced the death of God on the cross on which hung the savior of the whole world, we gather on Holy Saturday to tell one another the great salvation history of God and God’s people. We finally finally finally enter the church singing Alleluia and baptize the catechumens as a celebration of the great and glorious resurrection of Jesus. For us there is no better symbol of Easter – nothing says “He is risen” like a chocolate fountain in the baptismal font. It is a celebration of pure joy and not one we would ever suggest is right for all churches but for us it is life.
Not unexpectedly, some critics dived at the chance to use HFASS's chocolate fountain (if not head-first into it, like Mother Gerry) to indict its pastor for ... well, for being a woman. One such critic's blog, dedicated to "defending truth and contending for the Faith while carrying the Light of the Gospel into a world shrouded in darkness," alerted its readers about Nadia's "creeping unnoticed into the Lutheran Church."
The blogger described Nadia as, "The tattooed, female, pro-sodomy, emergent, foul-mouthed, feminist, Lutheran pastor who has Martin rolling in his grave."
While I'm fairly certain Martin Luther was not referring neither to women priests nor chocolate fountains when he famously entreated his nervous friend Philip Melanchthon to loose up a bit, I believe his words are apropos to this would-be doctrinal donnybrook:
If you are a preacher of mercy, do not preach an imaginary but the true mercy. If the mercy is true, you must therefore bear the true, not an imaginary sin. God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, says Peter (2 Peter 3:13) are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign.
It suffices that through God's glory we have recognized the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world. No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day. Do you think such an exalted Lamb paid merely a small price with a meager sacrifice for our sins? Pray hard for you are quite a sinner.
Nadia concluded her response to the email inquiry by saying:
I offer you this as you are a friend of a friend. But I am called by the gospel and am in no way answerable to those in the LCMS who would deny the gifts of the Holy Spirit.Pax,NBW
Amen, sister. May you and yours sisters (and brothers) in ministry continue to fulfill your calling and vocation as lightbearers of the Gospel, boldly bringing its message of grace and mercy to all sinners and saints.
And may your chocolate fountains ever runneth over.
**P.S. Did you know that French's character Geraldine in The Vicar of Dibley is based, in part, on our very own Joy Carroll Wallis? True story. Sojourners CEO Jim Wallis' better half was one of the first women priests (and the youngest) ordained in the Church of England. When the producers of Dibley were looking for real-life women vicars to inform the on-screen life of their Geraldine, they came to Joy for guidance about how to make Dibley's vicar more realistic.
Cathleen Falsani is Web Editor and Director of New Media for Sojourners. She is the author of four nonfiction books, including the memoir Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace, and her latest, BELIEBER!: Fame, Faith and the Heart of Justin Bieber. Follow Cathleen on Twitter @GodGrrl | <urn:uuid:d34967be-b739-4df8-a39a-93698be0609c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/02/14/chocolate-baptismal-font-things-happen-when-women-are-ordained | 2013-05-19T03:13:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954132 | 1,489 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Bing will now allow Pinterest users to pin images directly from the image search results to their boards, the company announced today.
“Last fall, we hosted a group of lifestyle and design bloggers at the Bing headquarters to better understand their search and social media habits,” explained Bing program manager Chen Fang in a blog post. “What we discovered is a community that does more than its fair share of image searches, with much of it tied to Pinterest. They shared some of the hassles they face, and that finding efficient ways to hunt down original, high-resolution images and filtering image results were some of their pain points.”
Bing’s Pin to Pinterest feature automatically detects and links back to the original source of the image to save time for the pinner and to ensure proper attribution. The button is already pre-loaded into the search engine and does not require users to install a bookmarklet.
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"The show is ill in the fact that it captures how brutally unbearable privileged white women are but its way too self-aware and indulgent in the fact that they are applying old archetypes and tupperware party social dynamics to the free clinic. The show fails because it puts motifs before an actual thesis and openly seeks to be a show we’ve seen before for a new generation. I love Judd Appetow for it because its such a puppeteer move and he’s gonna get paid, but anyone involved who wants to see it as anything more than a calculated show looking to fill the void left by Sex and the City is a fucking liar. 30 Rock says more about our generation as the Thursday replacement for Seinfeld than Girls says about anything. Watch Veep, that shit is setting every thing on FIRE. Liz Lemon was the new Elaine but now Elaine is the new Liz Lemon all over again. I love this game."
The world’s best pop culture blogging NYC chef is now doing Girls recaps. (via shanio)
I agree in the sense that Veep is the better show. I disagree in the sense that a dude doesn’t identify with the characters in Girls, and therefore it must be crap. I’m not sold on the show. It’s so on the nose, but also pretty fucking on the nose. So I’m not terribly surprised that people outside of the specific demographic being portrayed find it hideously self indulgent and out of touch. But let’s also lighten up for a quick sec here, clearly these scenes are a caricature! The humiliation/denigration has to palpable, to make you physically uncomfortable, in order to really see how fucking idiotic these people are and how much crap these girls permit. I’m not gonna say that I don’t really trust a man’s review of this show, but I am gonna say that this show wasn’t really made for him. This is not some generation-defining satire, it’s a profile a niche world. | <urn:uuid:a9240327-b516-4bba-918e-0eed93fa2db2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thecallup.tumblr.com/post/21731501355/the-show-is-ill-in-the-fact-that-it-captures-how | 2013-05-19T02:52:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939125 | 432 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
While the provincial health department has failed to create awareness about breastfeeding, the World Breastfeeding Week 2012 looks to take charge instead.
The federal government created the ‘Protection of Breastfeeding and Child Nutrition Ordinance’ in 2002 to ensure adequate nutrition for infants and young children by promoting breastfeeding. The ordinance was also aimed to regulate marketing of breast milk substitutes. It was further stated that each province form a committee on this, but officials and local organisations did not take any step in this direction.
However, World Breastfeeding Week 2012, themed ‘Understanding the past, planning the future’, kicked off across the province on Monday. Throughout the week, the provincial health department and partner organisations will conduct advocacy programmes in Jalozai and Togh Sarai camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), run campaigns across different media platforms and conduct workshops at teaching hospitals.
At a seminar, UNICEF health and nutrition specialist Dr Abdul Jamil said that special programmes will be conducted in 13 districts of the province, where female health workers will go to houses and create awareness for mothers. Dr Jamil explained that breastfeeding for the first six months after birth directly increases a child’s immunity level. Data suggests that 60% of children in the province are not breastfed properly.
According to the 2008 National Nutrition Survey, 17% children in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) were malnourished and 47% of people in the province were undersized due to a lack of proper nutrition.
The awareness programmes will be conducted in Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Kohistan, Bunir, Mardan, Charsadda, Peshawar, Swabi, Hangu, DI Khan, Lakki Marwat, Nowshera and Swat.
“The surfacing of new polio cases shows that children who are not breastfed have low immunity levels, making them more susceptible to diseases,” said Dr Jan Baz Afridi, deputy director of the Expanded Programme for Immunisation in K-P said.
Mother and New Born Child Health Provincial Coordinator Dr Khyal Afridi said clinics have been established inside houses for midwives. However, he declined to comment on the absence of the breastfeeding committee for K-P.
The UNICEF World’s Children Report 2011 states that out of 136.7 million babies born worldwide, only 32.6% were breastfed exclusively in their first six months. Despite compelling evidence about the importance of exclusive breastfeeding* and sustained efforts to encourage it, progress remains patchy. Global rates for exclusive breastfeeding for infants under six months crept up from 32% in 1995 to 39% in 2010.
The situation is not that different for Pakistan. Exclusive breastfeeding rates increased from 26% in 1995 to 36% in 2006-07, indicating only a slight improvement.
Each year, Pakistan witnesses preventable deaths of 432,000 children under five years of age. In K-P alone, 100 out of every 1,000 children die before their fifth birthday. Of these, 76% die in this first year of life due to preventable diseases like diarrhoea and pneumonia.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 28th, 2012.
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Dec. 13, 2012
An internship is similar to test driving a car. It offers you a chance to see if a particular career path is for you or if a specific company is the right fit for you. It also gives the company a chance to evaluate new personnel with meaningful assignments—something they can’t do with just an interview and resume.
Sandyn Wright, a senior entrepreneurship major was all too familiar with the expectations of landing an internship. He knew it was a necessary step in landing his dream job. As a former Marine he was well acquainted with the way government agencies operated and he wanted to gain access to one of the agencies and their internship program. It took six months of intensive interviewing for Wright to land a position and he is currently working at FDA’s White Oak, Md campus.
Wright pursued his internship and used the resources that were available to him. One of those resources came to be by an Executive Order signed by President Obama in 2010 titled “Recruiting and Hiring Students and Recent Graduates.” This Executive Order established two new programs and modified another. The internship program is one of the programs that together form the Pathways Programs.
“My time in the Marines gave me a glimpse into the way a government agency operates,” said Wright. “I am quite comfortable in that environment. But what I liked most about this opportunity is I might be considered for a career position if they are pleased by my job performance. If I work hard, I may just earn a full time position at the agency—an agency I respect—with responsibilities that I am prepared to do.”
Wright was selected from a pool of approximately 300 applicants many of whom were graduate students. He believes that his answers during an interview where he had to analyze a case study and share his thoughts gave him the edge.
“I think I articulated the answer they wanted but I went on to spark a dialog among the interviewers. I posed questions to them and brought forth a thoughtful dialog. It is something people do on teams all the time, I think they appreciated it.”
In his internship he has the chance to shadow some of the agency’s administrators and incorporate classroom material into the position.
“We were analyzing a problem using MS Excel and the next day I was in Professor Bardossy’s stat class there it was—the formula we used to figure out the problem at the FDA. It is great to see the real-world in the classroom. ”
Dean Darlene Smith agrees that internships provide opportunities for students to grow and discover their managerial talents.
“The reality is internships are the fast-track to full time employment,” said Darlene Smith, dean of the Merrick School of Business. Students who participate in an internship are gaining relevant work experience. Even if it is not a full time job they are seeking it helps them build their resume. It tells future employers that this person is employable. Of course one of the questions that we always pose to employers when we meet with them —‘Are you hiring interns?’ I’m so pleased that we’ve put in place the tools to help students with internships; it is up to them to seize the opportunities in front of them.”
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© 2003 Steffen Reichle (1 of 1)
Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Bolivia
IUCN (Red List) status: Least Concern (LC).
This species occurs in the Andean foothills in the southwestern portion of the Amazon basin, in Bolivia. It is known from Yacuma, Beni, Cochabamba, Chapara and Santa Cruz, and is likely to occur more widely. It has been recorded from below 400m asl.
Habitat and Ecology
It is a subterranean species in lowland tropical rainforest. It is adaptable to secondary habitats, and its breeding habits are unknown.
It was once thought to be extinct (Wake, 1993), but there have been some records from forests since then confirming its continued survival.
The type locality has been converted to agricultural fields, but elsewhere in its range the habitat remains relatively undisturbed.
It occurs in Carrasco, Madidi and Amboro National Parks.
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Somerset Hill Poster Bed with Canopy (California King)
Item: 324-H49W, 324-F49W, 324-R49, 324-C48, 324-528
W 84-3/8 | D 95-3/8 | H 93-1/2 in.
W 214.31 | D 242.25 | H 237.49 cm.
Slat Height: 10-1⁄8 in. / 25.72 cm.
- Three slat support system with adjustable center supports
- Two padded rattan panels
- Posts have removable cap for use with canopy
- Flat Cut Mahogany veneers
- Clove finish
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http://www.democraticunderground.com...ss=439x1427946Drale (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-06-11 07:51 PM
Republicans, U.S. Chamber ‘crash’ Obama Twitter Town Hall
When the White House announced that President Obama would hold a "Twitter Town Hall" in July by answering questions posed through the social media site, Republicans in Washington jumped at the opportunity, inundating the platform with questions, snarky comments and calls for action.
The president answered a series of questions, not all of them total softballs, including one from Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who posted dozens of questions for Obama on his page.
"After embarking on a record spending binge that left us deeper in debt, where are the jobs?" Boehner asked.
God I hate Boner, honestly if I saw him walking down the street, I would punch him in the face and consequences be damned.
:D I guess obama had no answer.
Wow..............SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-06-11 08:18 PM
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4. Like a bunch of school bullies crashing a birthday party
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Discovered in the depths of Instagram comes this question generating photo of a prototype for what appears to be a programmable, fully automatic water dispersing device for a Hario V60 setup—the V60 Coffee Maker. We want to know more!
Is this something to look forward to in 2013? Does it have a scale? Does it have a timer? Does the base rotate? Will it meet Scott Rao’s approval? Is it fake? Is it the iPhone 6? Will the “v60″ type be kerned on production models? Will it compete in the Brewers Cup? Will Crossland sue? So many questions and so few answers.
I’ve got an email in to Hario for comment, or a cease and desist. Until then, enjoy letting your imagination run wild. If anyone out there has any more details, please share.
Thanks for all the tips. The mystery has been solved with a bit more digging. It retails for about $165USD and also comes in “wine red.” It doesn’t seem to be available outside of Japan right now, but you can (try to) read more about it here.
At every coffee event I attended this year, the Hario booth always had some of the most lust-worthy products on display. The highlight of their product line was always the newly released V60 Drip Scale. In a departure from Hario’s specialization in glass, this scale represents the companies continued focus on the growing coffee market. The scale includes the simple but brilliant addition of a built-in timer, which may not be new, but it’s the first time I’ve seen one specifically made for coffee brewing.
The scale is beautifully designed and upon its release became one of the nicest looking available on the market. It has a small footprint (140mmX190mm), but is still large enough for a Chemex. Its clean lines, touch sensitive buttons and unique shape are finished in a lovely matte black that looks great, but emphasizes finger prints.
The scale has a 2kg (2000g) maximum capacity with 0.1g increments up to 200g and 0.5g increments up to 500g. After you reach 500g, the scale only measures in 1g increments. Powered by two AAA-batteries, the scale automatically turns off after 5 minutes of inactivity, so a mid-pour shut-down should never be an issue. The display is clear the scale measures accurately, but it’s not as fast as I’d expect for the price ($70).
What makes this scale different than others available, is that it was specifically designed with coffee brewing in mind and includes a timer right beside the weight display. This may seem like a trivial addition, but once you’ve used it, you’ll wish every scale had this feature. Best of all, you no longer need to lay your smartphone below a stream of water (freeing it up to take photos for Instagram).
Hario also designed a clear acrylic pourover stand and drip tray that pairs perfectly with the scale. While it’s obviously designed with the V60 in mind, any pourover cone from Kalita to Melitta would work just as well.
The scale and stand are sold separately from each other, and the stand isn’t necessary to enjoy the scale. The clear acrylic is easily scratched with cleaning and also costs nearly as much as the already pricey scale ($65). However, if money isn’t an issue and you feel the need to brew with a stand, go all in like Petraeus.
I’ve always been a fan of Hario’s design and the quality of their products. The new scale and drip stand are no exception, however I do believe they’re priced too high when compared to other quality scales on the market (i.e. Jennings CJ4000). That said, once design is factored into the equation the new Hario scale has little competition and will look better on your counter than most options available.
Sometimes I dream about coffee and sometimes people make dreams come true. This morning I woke up and found this video of an adorable robot brewing a Hario woodneck—pausing for the bloom and all. If this doesn’t make everyone smile and forget about bat guano coffee, the world is lost.
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London. Nearly half of all voters want Britain to leave the European Union, according to a new ICM poll for The Sunday Telegraph. Asked if they wanted the UK to remain part of the EU, 46% of respondents asnwered "no".
Washington. US officials opened an investigation Saturday into a rush-hour collision between two commuter trains that injured 70 passengers and severed a key rail link in the northeastern United States, AFP reports. | <urn:uuid:6356ec51-d022-4772-8c23-3dc8e190981c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n240984 | 2013-05-19T03:15:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93793 | 88 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Ten Reasons To Buy A Luxury CarHannah Elliott, 02.27.09, 04:00 PM EST
Buying a luxury car can be worth it if you care about the latest technology and comfort.
The luxury car market is hurting along with the rest of the auto sector, with sales at record lows. But luxury automakers are still hoping their history of solid engineering, performance and brand cachet will convince tentative buyers it's worth it to shell out the extra thousands to buy their cars.
Like any other vehicle purchase, however, it depends on what you need--and on how much you care about your image, of course. Not everyone who owns a Porsche 911 or Audi R8 cares about their superior handling--some just want to be seen driving them.
"It's about emotional connections that people can make with a brand and how it makes you feel," says Wes Brown, a principal consultant at Los Angeles-based consumer-research firm Iceology.
But there's more to luxury cars than prestige. Premium cars offer the most advanced safety options and best entertainment technology on the market, not to mention some of the plushest interiors and most options for customization.
It's not that vehicles from midrange brands like Ford Motor
Tough Times for Luxury
Despite the appeal, it is not the best of times for luxury carmakers. Last month, Acura's sales dropped 29.7% from January 2008; Audi, 26.4%; BMW, 15.5%; Cadillac, 42.5%; Land Rover, 34.4%; Mercedes-Benz, 42.9%; and Porsche, 36.1%, to name a few. Ultra-premium brands like Bentley and Ferrari fared even worse, down 74.4% and 52.4%, respectively. It's the first time a downturn has so deeply affected America's luxury segment, says BMW North America President Jim O'Donnell.
"This is the first time, I would say, since 1931 there was such a recession, because there were always areas of the country that [kept luxury cars] popular," O'Donnell says. "Now, everywhere has been affected."
O'Donnell says luxury brands will rebound quicker than the rest, however, thanks to financially healthier dealerships, better leasing and certified pre-owned programs and loyal customers. In some respects, he's already being proved right: Jaguar posted a surprising 17.6% sales gain last January from the same period a year earlier. And Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz each gained 0.1% of market share in 2008.
"I think that in the bad times, people go to authentic and credible brands," says Geoff Day, a spokesman for Mercedes. "That's why we benefit," he adds, where the non-luxury market does not.
More Luxury, More Safety
Luxury cars also benefit because the brands excel when it comes to safety--and have enough credibility for consumers to splurge on new innovations. Electronic stability control, blind-spot warning systems and anti-lock brake systems (ABS) all found their way into the general car market after their introduction in luxury vehicles.
These days, 71% of new vehicles that come standard with stability control, traction control, ABS, side-front airbags and curtain airbags cost $30,000 or more (luxury cars, essentially), according to Consumer Reports. Forty-four percent of the vehicles chosen as top safety picks by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have an estimated base price of at least $30,000.
Premium automakers also differentiate themselves by focusing on high performance. Of 353 new models evaluated by Consumer Reports, only six with at least 300 horsepower cost under $30,000. Fifty-two have at least 300 horses under the hood and cost more than $30,000. Leading them are BMW's M line, which includes models offering 400 and 500 horsepower.
"I think [luxury automakers] have to differentiate with something that is really, truly functional or safety-oriented," says Jake Fisher, senior automotive engineer from Consumer Reports, "rather than the argument that 'I'm buying this kind of car because I really want it.' "
Image Counts for Something
Raw performance and safety aside, the intangible value of status does add to the worth of a luxury vehicle. Researchers at Consumer Reports may not put any stock in brand names, but anyone concerned with keeping up with the Joneses does.
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"Some people want the latest and greatest of whatever," says Jeff Bennett, an automotive marketing professor at Northwood University in Midland, Mich. "It's about having the money to buy it. It's about being able to say, 'Hey, this is how successful I am.' "
With conspicuous consumption seen as gauche at the moment, many in the luxury auto market say buyers are focusing on their core models, however mundane they might be when compared with the higher end. BMW's 128i coupe, for instance, does not have the standard adaptive xenon headlights, high-performance brake control and V8 engine of the much more expensive M3 coupe. The price difference between the two is $30,000.
Fortunately, however, this is what forces luxury automakers to offer down-to-earth amenities like all-wheel drive in order to remain distinctive and practical, Fisher says. And that is what makes luxury cars worth more than just the prestige. | <urn:uuid:26765e08-cb67-4c0f-8341-f55d5b62ccde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/27/luxury-expensive-cars-lifestyle-vehicles_luxury_cars.html | 2013-05-19T03:15:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961757 | 1,113 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Ford Cortina
Goodwood will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ever-popular Ford Cortina at this year’s Revival (14-16 September) with a display of the original Mark I models, proudly lined-up outside the RAC Earls Court exhibition site.
Throughout the 1960s the Cortina competed with BMC’s Austin Morris 1100/1300 range (also celebrating its 50th anniversary this year) to win our affections and become Britain’s best-selling car. BMC won the sales battle in the 1960s, but during the ‘70s and beyond, the Cortina went on to become the Nation’s favourite car, right up until the model’s demise in 1982, when it was replaced by the modern `jelly mould’ Sierra.
In all, the five generations of Cortina sold over one million examples, with each successive model proving more popular than its predecessor. Today though the Mark I is arguably the most fondly remembered and sought-after Cortina model, especially in its exciting Lotus guise, many of which successfully raced at Goodwood in the 1960s. An example of the distinctive white and green Lotus Cortina Mark I will be displayed at the Revival, along with a scarce Crayford Convertible, Goodwood’s ‘Glamcabs’, and more commonplace 4-door and Estate models. Look out too for a stunning recreation of the stillborn Saxon coupe derivate.
Incidentally, the Ford’s model name was inspired by the Italian ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo, the location of the 1956 Winter Olympics. As a publicity stunt, Ford drove several Cortinas down the bobsled run at the resort, a practice that became known as Cortina Auto-Bobbing! | <urn:uuid:6a2ba4ae-e098-4a76-b794-e4ebb3741487> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.goodwood.co.uk/revival/news-and-coverage/articles/the-ford-cortina.aspx | 2013-05-19T03:13:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383160/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941323 | 375 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |